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Episode Date: March 8, 2024

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This episode is brought to you by Fume. Kick your bad habits today by going to tryfume.com slash wire and you'll get 10% off with promo code wire. That's tryfum.com slash wire. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Friday, March 8th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. A bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S. gains unanimous support in Congress. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 50 to zero to advance the

measure that would ban the widely popular app from app stores in the U.S. unless it's sold off from Chinese-controlled parent company BiteDance. TikTok urged its 150 million U.S. users to contact their congressmen to protest the crackdown on the app. Congressional offices were flooded with calls up to 20 a minute. Some even had to shut down their phone system. Washington State Representative Kathy McMorris-Rodgers supports the ban. It is foreign adversaries that are using apps to collect

to manipulate, to surveil on Americans through the data that they are collecting. And we had a classified hearing yesterday, and we're moving quickly on the floor because of the national security threat that's posed by these apps. This is not a ban. This would be a choice for TikTok, whether or not it remains controlled by the CCP through Bidance, or if it decides to divest and to continue to be operational in the United States of America. But it's their choice. The bill has widespread bipartisan support and will likely be voted on next week. A gold star father was arrested last night for yelling out during President Biden's State of the Union speech. Take a listen.

Year before I took office, murder rates went up 30%. 30% they went up. The biggest increase in history. Steve Nekui, who lost his son, Lance Corporal Kareem Kikui, yelled out, quote, remember Abbey Gate and 13 Marines. Abigate is the location where an explosion killed 13 Marines during President Biden's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Nekuie was removed from the gallery, arrested, and charged with misdemeanor protest. He and other Gold Star families say they have waited three years for the president to take responsibility for their children's tragic deaths and address the failed withdrawal.

Morning Wire spoke to several Gold Star families before Biden. in speech. So it was okay for all of our kids to die and all the other kids wounded and all the other people that were shot and killed that day and blown up. That was all okay. That was acceptable. How was that acceptable? How is that a success? It wasn't a success. But for the work that our kids did before they died, that was the only successful. I had nothing to do with them because everybody at DOD and the state and the White House, they all let everybody down. We just got three more gold star family. It's not too wrong. Five. The two seals and the three army that we've lost now because of the incompetence of this bumbleau buffoon that's in the White House.

And I'll call it like it is. I don't care. You know, you've got Austin, you've got Millie, you've got McKenzie. And I'll even go down Lieutenant Colonel Whitehead, who is now a colonel. And Captain Ball's who's now a major. None of them turns are their stripes. Everybody got thrown out. A Washington State trooper has been killed by a man who entered the U.S. illegally.

Daily Wire's senior editor, Joel Needler, has more. 27-year-old officer Christopher Gad was inside his patrol vehicle on the shoulder of a Seattle freeway when he was hit by a speeding car. The suspect, Raul Benita Santana, has been charged with vehicular homicide. According to arrest documents, the suspect admitted to smoking marijuana and having a beer before he drove the vehicle. Santana has been arrested for domestic violence in the past, but law enforcement officers were not allowed to ask about his citizenship status because Washington is a sanctuary state. Officer Gad leaves behind a wife and a two-year-old daughter. Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste remembered Officer Gad whose father is a Washington State Patrolman and sister is a Texas

State Patrol officer. Chris's passing is a devastating loss to his family who knows all too well about the risk of public safety service. That was one of the things that his wonderful wife wanted me to know that as a family, they accepted the risk that comes along in serving in this profession. I'm deeply moved by that. Deeply moved by that. A United Airlines flight departing from Houston's Bush International Airport was forced to make an emergency landing Monday night after flames appeared to shoot out from the rear of the left engine. The 21-year-old Boeing 737 was 15 minutes into a trip to Fort Myers, Florida, when flames engulfed the left-side engine and the body of the air.

aircraft began to shake. A passenger captured the harrowing incident on video. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, we realize something outside. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident. An independent lab says it has found cancer-causing material and several popular acne treatments. Connecticut-based lab Valasheur says it's found high levels of benzene in proactive Claricill Target Brands Up and Up and Walmart's Equate brand acne treatment. The lab has informed the FDA and asked them to recall the products. In a statement, Claricill's parent company said their products are safe, quote, when used and

stored as directed. A 21-year-old college student has defeated a 10-term state representative in a North Carolina primary. Wyatt Gable is a college junior who says he was motivated to run because of how he was treated during the pandemic after refusing to be vaccinated. He reached out to his representative and never got a response. Now he has unseeded that same representative, 81-year-old George Cleveland. Here's Gable on why he ran.

The biggest thing for me was my first year at ECU, you didn't get vaccinated for COVID, which I did not. You had to get tested every week. And if you didn't get tested, they turned off your IDs. So, you know, I couldn't get food at the dining hall, things like that. And then the real big one was like, you know, you got to wear your mask, bus, class, where you go, but then you can go to the basketball game where there's 4,000 people and you don't have to wear one.

Gable will face a Democrat in the November election but says he's ready to put in the necessary work to win. And a Long Island, New York native, became the first American female to sail solo around the world. 29-year-old Cole Brower completed the 26,000 nautical mile race in 130 days. Brower began the global solo challenge in Spain back in October. 16 skippers started the race last year. Brower was the youngest and the only female. By the end, more than half of the others had dropped out. She took second place in the race, being bested only by a French sailor. The 5-foot-2, 100-pound Brower popped a giant bottle of champagne and celebrated with family and well-wishers when she reached land again.

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