The Daily Signal - Harris’ Plan to Tackle Inflation, Israeli Strikes in Gaza and Beirut, Doug Emhoff’s Ex-Girlfriend Claims He Slapped Her | Oct. 24

Starting point is 00:00:01 Harris tells CNN she has a plan to tackle inflation. I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daylucingville top news for Thursday, October 24. Kamala Harris answered questions at a CNN town hall last night. The event was hosted by CNN's Anderson Cooper. The Daily City of Bill's Tyler O'Neill wrote a great fact check on that town hall. So let's go ahead and dig into some of these statements that were made. Cooper and members of the audience both ask Harris different questions about key policy issues. including two of the issues that are top of mind for most voters, the economy and immigration. In regards to the economy, Harris said that she will address inflation by cracking down on price gouging. One of my aspects of doing what we need to do to bring down the cost of living for working people and the middle class in America is to address the issue of grocery prices. Part of my background and how I come to it is probably a new approach grounded in a lot of my experiences as a former attorney general,

Starting point is 00:01:10 where I took on price gouging. And part of my plan is to create a new approach that is the first time that we will have a national ban on price gouging, which is companies taking advantage of the desperation and need of the American consumer and jacking up prices without any consequence or accountability. Now that more than 10 million illegal aliens have entered the country under the Biden-Harris administration, Cooper asked Harris why more was not done soon. to stop the flow. 2022, 2023, there were record border crossings. Your administration took a number, hundreds of executive actions.

Starting point is 00:01:50 It didn't stem the flow. Numbers kept going up. Finally, in 2024, just in June, three weeks before the first presidential debate with Joe Biden, you institute executive actions that had a dramatic impact, really shut down people crossing over. Why didn't your administration do that in 2022, 2022, 23? First of all, you're exactly right, Anderson. And as of today, we have cut the flow of immigration by over half. In fact, the numbers I saw most recently illegal immigration is low...

Starting point is 00:02:21 Hold on me finish. Let me. Let me. Let me. Why not do it in 2022, 2020? Because we were working with Congress and hoping that actually we could have a long-term fix to the problem instead of a short-term fix. You couldn't have done one and the both of the same time?

Starting point is 00:02:32 Well, here's the thing. We have to understand that ultimately this problem is going to be fixed through Congressional action. During the event, Harris touted some of the support that she has received from Republicans, such as former Wyoming Republican representative Liz Cheney. Harris said that she thinks some Republicans are choosing to support her because of legitimate fear based on Donald Trump's words and actions. Previous members of the administration from Ronald Reagan to both Presidents Bush, to Donald Trump even, have endorsed my candidacy. And the reason why, among them is a legitimate fear based on Donald Trump's words and actions that he will not obey

Starting point is 00:03:17 an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. He himself has said he would terminate the Constitution of the United States. Harris's claim here traces back to a post that Trump wrote on truth social in December of 2022. In that post, Trump wrote in regards to the 2020 presidential election, a massive fraud of this. mistype and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great founder did not want and would not condone false and fraudulent elections. Trump later clarified that he would not try to terminate the Constitution and blame the fake

Starting point is 00:03:59 news for trying to convince the American people that he wanted to do so. You can read more about last night's town hall by checking out Tyler's fact check in today's show notes. Israel is continuing in an aggressive campaign against Hamas and Hezbollah. Today, Israel carried out a strike that hit a school, turned into a shelter in Gaza. Multiple outlets are reporting that that strike killed at least 17 people. Israel says it was targeting Hamas militants inside the building. Newsweek reports that 13 of those killed were minors. Israel also carried out strikes in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. CNN reports that one person was killed. on the strike and six buildings were destroyed. IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said that Israeli forces gave evacuation orders to Beirut residents near where the strikes were being carried out. Israel says that they were targeting buildings that were being used to finance Hezbollah's tear activities. The Heritage Foundation's Vice President for the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy,

Starting point is 00:05:02 Victoria Coates, joined the Daily Thuddle podcast on Tuesday. And if you caught that conversation, you'll remember that Victoria said that Israel's aggressive. campaign against Hamas and Hasbalah is likely to continue through the election. Specifically, Victoria said that she noticed a change in strategy after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the U.S. over the summer. His calculus has really changed. They've become much more forward-leaning. It's when all of these high-value assassinations have started, much more aggressive forays into

Starting point is 00:05:36 Rafa, which is what flushed Sinwar out of the tunnels, much more aggressive. aggressive attacks on Lebanon as well. So I think what he heard, and I would assume from both, especially Vice President Harris and from former President Trump, has made him feel like he wants to get as much as he can get done before the U.S. election and then either deal with what's coming in a Harris administration or hand President Trump as clean a slate as possible. These most recent strikes in Beirut and Gaza come the same week that U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, is in the Middle East and is working to restart those ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas. While this close to an election, now is when skeletons, whether real or fake, have a way of coming out of closets.

Starting point is 00:06:25 And a pretty large skeleton has just toppled out of the closet of Doug Emhoff. Emhoff is, of course, Kamala Harris's husband. married since 2014. But one of Emhoff's ex-girlfriends has come forward with a claim that Enhoff once slapped her so hard she spun around. The Daily Mail broke the news on this story. The girlfriend has asked to remain anonymous, but she claims that the slapping incident happened during a trip to France in 2012. The woman told the Daily Mail that Emhoff is being held up to be the antithesis of who he actually is. And this is utterly shocked. A spokesperson for M. Hoff has denied the allegation. She or P. said this report is untrue and that any

Starting point is 00:07:12 suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false. That's according to semaphore. The Daily Mail reports that neither Emhoff nor the Harris campaign nor the White House have responded to request for comment on the incident. And speaking of allegations, the Guardian reports that a former model says Trump groped and sexually touched her in an incident in Trump Tower in 1993. She claims to have met Trump through Jeffrey Epstein. The model says that she believed the incident represented a twisted game between Trump and Epstein after Epstein suggested that they go visit Trump in Trump Tower that day. Trump's campaign press secretary Caroline Leavitt has denied the claim. she said these accusations made by a former activist for Barack Obama and announced on a Harris

Starting point is 00:08:04 campaign call two weeks before the election are unequivocally false. It's obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign. Now let's hit our news flash for today. First up, concerns that North Korea is sending troops to Russia to fight against Ukraine were further confirmed today. South Korea's defense ministry told NBC news that North Korea, is sending about 12,000 troops to Russia. The move is seen as a strengthening of the alliance between Russia and North Korea. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says North Korean soldiers are fair targets and the Ukrainian military will defend themselves against North Korean soldiers the same way they're defending themselves against Russian soldiers.

Starting point is 00:08:52 Next up, the Biden-Harris administration made plans to drop thousands of illegal aliens in Tennessee. But the plans were thwarted. The Daily Caller News Foundation reports that immigration and customs enforcement had plans to transport potentially thousands of single adult migrants from out-of-state detention facilities and release them into Tennessee in coordination with nonprofit groups. The plan was derailed following pushback from Tennessee's governor and U.S. senators. Speaking of immigration news, a court has ruled that the government cannot cap the number of asylum claims that can be made in a day. In other words, the government can't close the border once a certain number of illegal aliens

Starting point is 00:09:36 arrive to claim asylum. U.S. Customs and Border Protection adopted a metering policy in 2016, but rescinded it in 2021 under the Biden administration. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a two-to-one decision that federal immigration requires border agents to inspect all asylum claims. In other words, the law does not allow a meteoring system on the number of claims that can be considered. Expect to hear more about this case in the coming weeks and months as the next president considers how they will address the issue at the border. Trump's running mate J.D. Vance has published an op-ed for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette,

Starting point is 00:10:19 criticizing Harris and her allies for what he calls anti-Catholic bias. Vance slammed Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer for a recent social media video in which she appears to mock the Eucharist. In the video, Whitmer is wearing a Harris Wall's hat and feeds a Dorito chip to Liz Plank, who is kneeling in the video as if receiving communion. Vance also criticized Harris for skipping the annual Catholic Charities fundraiser event earlier this month and sending a video message instead. You can check out that full op-ed from Vance in today. show note. And with that, that's going to do it for today's episode. Thanks for joining us here for the Daily Signals, Top News. You can join us back here again tomorrow morning as the Daily Ciddle's Robb is sitting down with Dan Fluitt to discuss his new book, Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws.

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The Daily Signal - Harris’ Plan to Tackle Inflation, Israeli Strikes in Gaza and Beirut, Doug Emhoff’s Ex-Girlfriend Claims He Slapped Her | Oct. 24

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