The Daily Signal - Biden Breaks Record for Embassies Evacuated, the Father of Laken Riley Speaks | March 19

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Starting point is 00:00:37 Here are today's headlines. Former Donald Trump advisor Peter Navarro reported to a federal prison in Miami on Tuesday, where he will begin a four-month sentence. According to NBC News, Navarro held a press conference in a strip mall parking lot down the street from the facility. He said that the case that put him in jail was deeply troubling, not just for himself, but for constitutional government, via NBC. One of the big stories is about what is really an unprecedented assault on the constitutional separation of powers and the doctrine of executive privilege is as a critical tool dating back to George Washington of effective presidential decision making. And when I walk in that prison today, the justice system, such as it is, will have done a crippling blow for the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege.

Starting point is 00:01:51 The second and related story has to do with the emergence of lawfare and the partisan weaponization of our justice system. that's prison. That's where they take your freedom. But as hard as it will be on me and as hard as it will be on anybody who is in there is harder on their families. And this is who those Democrats have heard. Navarro was convicted of contempt of Congress

Starting point is 00:02:28 for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House Committee investigating January 6th. Navarro made a final appeal to change this decision but a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia ruled, according to NBC, that Navarro had not shown that his appeal presents substantial questions of law or fact, likely to result in reversal, a new trial, a sentence that does not include a term of imprisonment, or a reduced sentence of imprisonment that is less than the amount of time already served, plus the expected duration of the appeal process.

Starting point is 00:03:01 The appeal was ultimately shut down Monday by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, in a so-called in-chambers decision written by a single justice. Former President Donald Trump said on social media today that he may have to mortgage or sell properties at low prices to secure a bond to cover a 454 million civil fraud judgment in New York. Nobody has ever heard of anything like this before, Trump said on a social media platform, truth social, I would be forced to mortgage or sell great assets,

Starting point is 00:03:34 perhaps at fire sale prices. Trump also lambasted the judge who ruled against him in the fraud case. Judge Ngaran actually wants me to put up hundreds of millions of dollars for the right to appeal his ridiculous decision. In other words, he is trying to take my appellate rights away from me, Trump wrote. Nobody has ever heard of anything like this before. According to the Hill, part of the problem for the former president is that Trump can't put up property for collateral as part of the bond.

Starting point is 00:04:04 While it is my understanding that the Trump Organization is in a strong liquidity position, it does not have $1 billion in cash or cash equivalence, Trump's lawyers wrote to the New York Court, according to the Hill, adding, as a result for a company such as the Trump Organization, which has most of its assets invested in real estate, obtaining a bond for $464 million is a practical impossibility. As a gang war rages through Haiti, President Joe Biden last week dispatched a Marine Corps special unit to protect the evacuation of non-emergency personnel,

Starting point is 00:04:40 as well as fellow Marines from the U.S. Embassy in the nation's capital, Porto Prince. With that evacuation of the embassy in Haiti, the Biden administration has presided over more evacuations of U.S. embassies, a total of 11 than any other presidential administration in U.S. history. This comes from a report by the Daily Signals, Tony Kennett. Since Biden took office in January 2021, his State Department has partially or fully evacuated 11 U.S. embassies via what are known as authorized or ordered departure directives. President Barack Obama presided over the second-most embassy evacuations of any administration with a total of eight over two terms, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Central African Republic,

Starting point is 00:05:27 and South Sudan, or about one a year. Donald Trump presided over three partial evacuations in his four years as president. Authorized departure advisories consist of the State Department suggesting that diplomats, their families, and other Americans leave the country in question, often through special travel arrangements made by the department. Ordered departures are directives from the State Department for all Americans in non-essential embassy staff to leave the country in question immediately. Military protection was required to ensure that Americans were essential.

Starting point is 00:05:59 escorted safely in the evacuations of America's embassies in Afghanistan, Haiti, and Sudan. The father of slain nursing student Lakin Riley is speaking out about his daughter's murder on the campus of the University of Georgia. In an exclusive interview with NBC News that aired Monday, Jason Riley said, I wish I could have been there to protect her. This comes from a report by the Daily Signals, Virginia Allen. Police say that an illegal alien from Venezuela killed Laken, 22, a nursing, student at nearby Augusta University by bludgeoning her to death February 22nd on her former campus in Athens, Georgia. I cry every day, her father told NBC News, Priscilla Thompson. I wake up

Starting point is 00:06:43 every day thinking, you know that I can call her, and I can't. He described his daughter as an angel who enjoyed running marathons. She dreamed of being a nurse and working with children, he said. We were looking forward to seeing her graduate next year, he said. She was so full of life. I just hate that she was taken so early. Lake and Riley went out for a jog on her former campus February 22nd but didn't return home. After a friend called police,

Starting point is 00:07:09 her body was found in a wooded area behind Lake Herrick on the UGA campus. Authorities concluded that she died of blunt force trauma to the head. Jose Antonio Ibera, an illegal alien from Venezuela, was arrested and charged with Riley's murder.

Starting point is 00:07:25 Ibera first crossed into America illegally in 2022, officials said, He was arrested last year in New York on charges of child endangerment, but was released before U.S. immigration and customs enforcement could ask local law enforcement to hold him. NBC's Thompson asked Riley's father if he thought a difference in immigration policy would have made a difference for Lakin. We have no idea if that would have changed anything, but he's here illegally, Jason Riley said of Ibera, but I do know that he might not have been here had we had secure borders.

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The Daily Signal - Biden Breaks Record for Embassies Evacuated, the Father of Laken Riley Speaks | March 19

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