Morning Wire - Trump Cancels Execution Livestream & Foreign Doctors Spark Safety Concerns? | 10.16.26

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Starting point is 00:00:49 President Trump pulls the plug on live streaming the Fort Hood firing squad. I really don't care how he goes as long as he goes. And I think that the death penalty is a very worthy way of going. I'm DailyWire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howell. It's Friday, October 16th. This is Morning Wire. Foreign-trained doctors are flooding some U.S. hospitals through visa programs. Our reporters spoke to doctors who warn their new colleagues are putting patients at risk. And are adolescent girls done with the LGBT craze?

Starting point is 00:01:30 New data shows a big reversal in attitudes. 14 and 50 year olds who are in ninth grade, there's a much larger decline in identifying as lesbian gay or bisexual. Plus, tragic news out of Oregon after a shooter opens fire at an elementary school. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. One of the easiest ways to save time during a busy week is to automate the little things. Whether that means ordering groceries, scheduling household deliveries, or handling two areas, in one trip. Saving a few minutes here and there can make a real difference. We all have our own time-saving hacks for everyday life, but if you're a business owner, how can you save time hiring?

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Starting point is 00:02:59 will no longer be live streamed. Here with more is our White House correspondent, Mary Margaret Ola-Han. for coming on. Thanks for having me. So this proposed live stream has caused a lot of controversy, and we'll get to that. But to start, can you remind our audience what Nadal Hassan did in the first place to be, you know, on death row? Yeah, so this guy was a army psychiatrist who unfortunately opened fire in 2009 on his fellow citizens and soldiers killing 13 people and wounding, I believe, more than 30 others. He subscribed to radical Islamist beliefs and was trying to kill people out of concerns of protecting

Starting point is 00:03:39 his Muslim brethren over in the Middle East and that was why he committed this act of terror. It's commonly remembered as a Fort Hood massacre and it took place in Texas. So a really tragic incident and something that he is known to be a terrorist for. Now we know the live stream has been canceled now according to Trump's latest announcement

Starting point is 00:04:02 but the execution is still supposed to happen on schedule. What prompted Trump to reverse Hegss announcement? Are the two still in lockstep, or does this signal some sort of division? Well, yes, so President Trump announced yesterday that they were canceling the live stream, and this had caused a lot of controversy because there were plenty of people who actually, I would say, agree with the president on many things that were still troubled by the prospect of this live stream. Catholic bishops, for example, had said, this is not a proper use or a proper way for America to show its might.

Starting point is 00:04:37 This is actually the kind of thing that barbaric nations do. And so there were plenty of people who had argued that this was really inappropriate to live stream and execution in 2026. Now, you also have people who were saying that this was a good thing, that it would intimidate our enemies, and it would intimidate people from committing similar acts. And the president said that himself yesterday. Actually, he said, I do think this would have shown

Starting point is 00:04:59 other countries that we mean business and showing our enemies that this is what will happen if they try and commit such acts of terror. But he agreed that this was just not an appropriate move. So I think there's a lot of people, especially religious Americans, who might rest easier now, knowing that this was not something the administration was promoting. How much did polling play into President Trump's decision to cancel this? As a country, we're roughly divided on the death penalty, but the polling showed about 80% of Americans did not want it to be live streamed. Did the president see those polls and make a decision based on that?

Starting point is 00:05:33 Well, he would probably tell you the polls had nothing to do with it. But I think that you could also make quite a good argument that they did. Look, the president and his team, they do pay attention to polls. We know that from much of our reporting over the last several years, even before the president took office. So absolutely, the White House pays attention to these polls. They understand the importance of paying attention to American sentiment. And on this issue, I think we can all agree the public was not ready for a live streamed execution.

Starting point is 00:06:02 So it will not be happening. We also have the election, of course, coming up less than three weeks now. I am sure that was a factor. Does that seem to be, you know, buzz on the ground, a major factor playing into this? This is sort of a distraction maybe for the president and the GOP. Yeah, I think many people would probably agree that at this point in time, if there's something that's this unpopular and is causing so much controversy, not necessary to lean into it. But I should also note John and Georgia that Vice President Vance right after it was announced that this execution would be live streamed, Vice President Vance very quickly threw cold water on it by saying that he would not be watching it.

Starting point is 00:06:38 And he suggested that it might not even take place. So I think that was kind of a quick signal from Vance, who, you know, a reporter had asked him if he was planning to watch it as a Catholic. Vance had really signaled very quickly that he had no interest in that and that he wasn't sure if it would even take place. And I think that was a signal from the administration that not everyone was on board. necessarily, and there would be further conversations. All right, so as we said, this is still scheduled to take place at the same time and place. Remind us again, what is the date that this is going to take place in time? Yeah, so he's scheduled to be executed on December 3rd at 1 p.m.

Starting point is 00:07:10 and Pete Heggseth has said that this will take place at the exact same time that the Fort Hood shooting took place in 2009 to commemorate that day. Well, a horrific attack, and what turned out to be a pretty polarizing initial announcement that the president has now reversed, Mary Margaret, thank you so much for coming on. Thanks for having me. Now, I've discussed this sweater before. It's new from Quince last spring, and it's so lovely. It is so soft and cozy. But it also has a great weight to it.

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Starting point is 00:10:06 and now you have talked to some concerned doctors who are experiencing this firsthand. What did they tell you? Well, they told me they're really concerned about patient safety. I spoke to doctors who are training to be surgeons in Tennessee. And while they described older immigrant doctors as great mentors and highly qualified, they said some of these newer residents appear dangerously unprepared. Now, one resident said that he is literally spending every shift keeping a fellow resident from killing Tennesseans accidentally. He added that he's experienced a bunch of near misses. Now, when it comes to credentials, there have been a number of cheating scandals and other. countries. The U.S. MLE is the U.S. medical licensing exam, and you have to pass this to obtain a medical license. It's administered worldwide for doctors who want to practice in the U.S. In 2024, there was a WhatsApp group leaking upcoming test questions in Nepal, and that resulted in a shockingly high-scoring cohort, actually the highest in the world that year. Those students' scores were invalidated, and, you know, the fact remains that a lot of countries have far less

Starting point is 00:11:08 secure testing when it comes to this U.S. Mali. Many countries take this test still on pen and paper. And there was also a separate case involving alleged fake medical credentials in India. The doctors I spoke to also warned about how this test is very outdated in some other countries. And we're talking about a 10-year-old test. So even an honest student there, they're going to be 10 years behind in medical knowledge. Now, the doctors you've spoken to, are they actually seeing substantial knowledge gaps in their peers? Yeah, they say this is very prevalent. They told me that there have been instances where these residents didn't recognize medications they were attempting to prescribe. They ordered the wrong drugs or struggled with procedures in a way that someone could have been injured if it hadn't been for a more senior doctor stepping in and intervening. There was also a gap they saw with technological proficiency. They said that some residents really struggle with electronic systems. One resident told me, quote, they don't even have an American high schooler's computer competency just. just to operate the computer, much less to go through a complex electronic medical record.

Starting point is 00:12:13 Wow. So what about English language proficiency? What level of English do you need to practice here? Yeah. So medical residents in the U.S., they have to meet proficiency levels for English. But these doctors told me that the bar is probably not high enough because they're seeing some grads struggle to explain basic treatment plans with patients, communicate with nurses, or coordinate with lab or imaging personnel. So it's a communication breakdown. not just with the patient, but also on the back end with medical personnel. And they stress that these errors, they're typically just not going to happen with American residents. Now, you previously reported on here that some hospitals are recruiting almost 100% foreign-trained resident doctors. Why are they choosing them if they come with some of these challenges and

Starting point is 00:12:57 risks? Well, I mean, there's the obvious financial incentive here. Some of these doctors are going to accept lower pay than an American doctor would. Some hospitals are also using residency programs to fill staffing gaps. Medicare helps fund residency positions, and residents can sometimes do up to three times the work of some physician assistants or nurse practitioners while earning less than half of what they make. Also, this was very interesting. The doctors I spoke to really challenge this narrative that there's such a big doctor shortage that we need to be recruiting abroad, particularly when it comes to staffing rural hospitals. For one thing, they argued that medical schools are failing to recruit qualified students from rural communities.

Starting point is 00:13:37 who, you know, they say, are more likely to return home to practice, even if that means accepting a slightly lower salary. So how does this tie in, you know, with this larger crackdown on H-1B visas from the Trump administration? Well, VP Vance, he's really focused a lot on H-1B and J-1 visa programs, but he's generally targeted technology companies and universities. He says that these visa programs are being exploited to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign employees. And the VP stressed that the H-1B program was intended to bring in highly specialized talent for jobs that American workers could not fill, but he now sees it as rife with fraud and abuse. Well, it'll be interesting to see if there is a crackdown in the medical sector. Amanda, thanks for reporting. You're welcome. After years of increases, new data finds a steep drop-off in teens identifying as LGBTQ. The reversal is especially pronounced among girls, and it's prompting a debate over what's driving the chain.

Starting point is 00:14:37 Daily Wire Culture reporter, Megan Basham, joins us now with the details. So, Megan, where did this study actually come from? Yeah, Georgia. So this study comes from Gene Twangy, and she's a psychology professor at San Diego State University. And she's also the author of the book Generations, The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, GenX, Boomers, and Silence. Now, what she did was she examined the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey, and that started asking high school students. students about how they describe their sexual orientation, starting back in 2015. Now, from that point through 2021, the share of teens that were identifying as lesbian,

Starting point is 00:15:20 gay, or bisexual, continued to rise substantially. But after 2021, that's when it started to fall. So here's what Twingy told me. You really see the big change between 2023 and 2025 in those times. identifying as LGBT. And what's interesting in this case is there's not a lot of change among the 12th graders, 17 to 18 years old. There's a much larger change among the youngest students in the survey. So the 14 and 15 year olds who are in ninth grade, there's a much larger decline from 2021 to 2025 in identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Now, she added that the increase in

Starting point is 00:16:05 identifying as bisexual was always much larger among girls and boys. So the decline has therefore also been much larger among girls and boys. But the numbers really are pretty stark here. So among ninth graders overall identification as lesbian, gay, or bisexual fell from 17% in 23 to only 11% in 2025. So, you know, nearly cut in half. And much of that is bisexual orientation. which among those same ninth grade girls was cut in half from 26% in 2021 to 13% in 2025. So Twenge described all of this as when she looked at the younger teen, their pattern. She said it looks like a free fall. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:52 Now, there's been a lot of speculation about social contagion and the role that plays in LGBT identification, particularly with transgender identification. Did Twangy connect this downward trend to any larger cultural, or political shifts? Well, you know, she told me, John, that it's very hard to pinpoint because one thing she noted was that along with being concentrated among girls and younger teens, it also didn't impact the full array of LGBTQ identification equally. She said that this was specifically about the L, the G, and the B, fewer teens identifying

Starting point is 00:17:28 as lesbian, gay, and bisexual, and not so much about trans where she didn't really see that much movement in the numbers. to those who suggested, as you did, that maybe a change in political power impacted that, she says she's not sure because she saw these trends starting before the end of the Biden administration. And, you know, she made a reasonable point that if these trends were based on national politics, why would it be impacting younger teens so much more than older teens? Megan, thanks for reporting. Yep, my pleasure.

Starting point is 00:18:00 Another story we're tracking, tragedy struck the city of Bend, Oregon on Thursday. A shooter opened fire at an elementary school before being shot dead by an armed bystander. At least three children and one adult were killed in the shooting, which took place at Silver Rail Elementary School. Local police held a press conference yesterday in which they provided some of the tragic details. Officers at the scene located five people who had succumbed to their injuries, including the suspect. The deceased at the scene include three children, ages five, eight, and eleven, and one teacher. one seven-year-old child and one 54-year-old teacher were transported by Benfire to St. Charles Bend with critical injuries. Law enforcement says the 16-year-old male suspect's rampage was cut short by an armed civilian with a concealed carry permit.

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