The Daily Signal - Biden Signs Border Executive Order, Hunter in Court, Modi Wins Re-Election | June 4

Starting point is 00:00:00 Feeling festive. Catch classic holiday favorites like Home Alone, the Santa Claus and Die Hard, along with holiday episodes from Family Guy, Abbott Elementary, and more with Hulu on Disney Plus. From festive Disney flicks to binge-worthy Hulu originals, Hulu on Disney Plus is your home for the holidays. Celebrate the season with Hulu, available on Disney Plus in Canada. I'm Brian Gottstein, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Tuesday, June 4th. Here are today's headlines. Joe Biden signed an executive order today that would shut down asylum requests

Starting point is 00:00:50 and allow for turning people away at the border once the number of illegal aliens trying to cross at official ports of entry reaches an average of 2,500 a day. According to NBC News, the order will kick in immediately because the number of illegal aliens trying to cross already exceeds that number. The border will reopen when the daily number of encounters drops below 1,500. people. According to NBC, a senior administration official said that individuals who cross the southern border unlawfully or without authorization will generally be ineligible for asylum, absent exceptionally compelling circumstances. The executive order includes exceptions like if the asylum seeker has an acute injury. Republican senators at a press conference on Tuesday

Starting point is 00:01:38 said that the move was no more than a political ploy to obscure the fact that over eight million illegal aliens have entered the country since Biden became president. Texas Senator Ted Cruz questioned the timing of the move, saying, when he signs this executive order, the only question anyone should ask is, why didn't you do this in 2021? Why didn't you do this in 2022? Why didn't you do this in 2023? Why didn't you do this last month or the month before or the month before? How many dead bodies is enough? Another Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn questioned whether the Biden administration is actually going to enforce the order. He said that Biden has issued 94 executive orders since he's been president of the United States,

Starting point is 00:02:24 but he's waited until today to actually do what he calls effective action to the border. And my question to him is, why did you wait until now if you're serious about doing it? And the simple answer is he's not serious about securing the border. According to Axios, some prominent Democrats distanced themselves from, from Biden's order. Senators John Tester, Tammy Baldwin, Jackie Rosen, and Bob Casey decided not to attend Biden's event announcing the order. These Senate Democrats are in competitive election races and poll better than the president. The opening testimonies in the criminal trial of President Biden's son Hunter began on Tuesday. Hunter Biden has been accused of illegally purchasing

Starting point is 00:03:08 and possessing a firearm while being addicted to drugs. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. His defense attorney said at the time he purchased the firearm, he wasn't using drugs or alcohol and hadn't been a user up to that point. The attorney said Biden was pushed into a gun sale by the salesperson at the gun store. Among the witnesses testifying at the trial will be three women who were romantically involved with Biden, including his ex-wife. A new lawsuit alleges that Vermont blocked two families from fostering children despite the state's foster care system crisis.

Starting point is 00:03:44 This is because the families hold traditional religious views on gender and sexuality. This is from an exclusive report by the Daily Signals Mary Margaret O'Lehann. Brian and Caitlin Wadi and Michael and Rebecca Gantt accused the Vermont Department for Children and Families of mandating and, quote, ideological position at the expense of children in a lawsuit that they filed on Tuesday. Both Brian Wadi and Michael Gant are pastors. The Daily Signal is first reporting the existence of the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Vermont. The filing states, although the Waddies and the Gantz have adopted five children between them,

Starting point is 00:04:24 the department has determined they're unfit to foster or adopt any child solely due to their religiously inspired and widely held belief that girls cannot become boys or vice versa. Now, Vermont applies this policy whether applicants want to. to adopt their grandchild, provide respite care for an infant for just a few hours, or foster a child who shares all of their religious views. The filing says that Vermont would prefer children to have no home than to place them with families of faith with these views. Vermont foster officials have described a desperate need for emergency foster homes as recently as December 19th.

Starting point is 00:05:00 The crisis has become so extreme, particularly due to children being taken from their parents because of the opioid epidemic, that some children in need of homes have been forced to stay in hospital emergency rooms or police departments. When the Wadi's sought to renew their foster care license in 2022, the lawsuit says one caseworker described them as amazing and said she probably could not handpick a more wonderful foster family. The lawsuit states when the Wadis shared that they were Christian and they could not say or do anything that went against their faith-informed views about human sexuality, the state revoked their license to adopt. Similarly, the Department for Children and Families asked the Gantz to take in an emergency placement that involved a baby

Starting point is 00:05:46 about to be born to a homeless woman who was addicted to drugs. Before the Gants could agree to do so, the Department sent out an email letting families know that they must accept the state's views on gender ideology. Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday during the Justice Department's annual oversight hearing. Garland said at his opening statement that he supports the Justice Department's work to uphold the rule of law. Republican senators grilled Garland during the hearing. Florida Representative Matt Gates challenged Garland when the Attorney General said that the idea of collusion between the White House and District Attorney Alvin Bragg in the New York trial of former President Donald Trump was a conspiracy theory.

Starting point is 00:06:32 From Colin Rugg on X, we have this. that the Department of Justice is communicating with these state and local prosecutions against Trump, you can clear it all up for us right now. Will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the department and Alvin Bragg's office and Fannie Willis House's office and Leticia James' office? The offices you're referring to are independent offices of state? I get that. I get that. The question is whether or not you will provide all of your documents and correspondence.

Starting point is 00:07:04 That's the question. I don't need a history lesson. Well, I'm going to say again, we do not control those offices. They make their own decisions. The question is whether you communicate with them, not whether you control them. Do you communicate with them and we provide those communications? You make a request, we will refer it to our office of legislative affairs. But see, here's the thing. You come in here and you lodge this attack that it's a conspiracy theory that there is coordinated lawfare against Trump. And then when we say, fine, just give us the documents, give us the correspondence, and then if it's a conspiracy theory, and then if it's a conspiracy theory, that there is a conspiracy theory, and then if it's a conspiracy theory, that it's a conspiracy theory, and then if it's a and then if it's a conspiracy theory, that will be evident. But when you say, well, we'll take your request,

Starting point is 00:07:39 and then we'll sort of work it through the DOJ's accommodation process, then you're actually advancing the very dangerous conspiracy theory that you're concerned about. Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi on Tuesday won re-election. Modi's Hindu nationalist party failed to secure a majority on its own, however, as it had in previous elections in 2014 and 2019. so he'll have a coalition government through the National Democratic Alliance. This will be Modi's third term in office marking a decade in power for the conservative Indian leader.

Starting point is 00:08:13 Today's victory is a victory for the world's largest democracy, Modi said. And that'll do it for today's episode. Thanks for listening to The Daily Signal's top news. If you haven't gotten a chance, be sure to check out our morning show right here in this podcast feed, where we interview lawmakers, experts, and leading conservative voice. Join us tomorrow morning for the Daily Signal interview edition. Also, make sure you subscribe to the Daily Signal wherever you get your podcasts and help us to reach more listeners by leaving a five-star rating and review. We read all of your feedback.

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The Daily Signal - Biden Signs Border Executive Order, Hunter in Court, Modi Wins Re-Election | June 4

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