The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS | Musk Closes on Twitter Deal, Paul Pelosi Assaulted, Ukraine Shoots Down Russia’s Iranian Drones, Andrew Cuomo Bashes Biden on Immigration | Oct. 28

Episode Date: October 28, 2022

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:  Elon Musk finalizes his $44 billion Twitter purchase Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi assaulted at home  Ukraine shoots down over 300 of Russia’s Iranian-made drones  Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-NY, bashes Biden’s immigration policies  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm Julian Richards. I'm Virginia Allen. And this is the Daily Signal Top News for Friday, October 28th. Here are today's headlines. Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter was finalized today. And he's already getting down to business. Just yesterday, Musk fired several Twitter executives, including the CEO, the CFO, the top legal and policy executive, and the general counsel. Shortly after this, Musk tweeted,

the bird is freed. The deal is finally settled after months of Musk going back and forth on whether to buy the platform. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was assaulted in their San Francisco home this morning. The assailant broke into their residence and assaulted 82-year-old Paul Pelosi with a hammer. Reports say the attacker was searching for Nancy Pelosi who was not home at the time. Nancy Pelosi's office issued a statement saying her husband was. taken to a hospital where he's expected to make a full recovery. The statement also says the assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation. A Ukrainian military officials said Ukraine has shot down over 300 Iranian-made drones deployed by Russian forces

since September 13th. A spokesperson for the Air Force command of Ukrainian armed forces shared this information in a press briefing today. Per CNN, the spokesman told reporters that Moscow is changing tactics because it doesn't have enough missiles left. He said Moscow is running out of Russian-made-Escander missiles and that other types of missiles are scarce. CNN also reports that the Ukrainian foreign minister said he spoke with his Iranian counterpart earlier today.

The Ukrainian wrote on Twitter that he demanded Iran immediately. immediately ceased the flow of weapons to Russia used to kill civilians and destroy critical infrastructure. Former New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo bashed President Biden's immigration policies on the Cats at Night talk show on Thursday. Cuomo commented on Biden's open border immigration policies and the influx of immigrants sent from Texas to New York City. Cuomo said the federal government is primarily responsible to handle the surge of migrants. He argued it isn't the New York City mayor's problem, adding that Mayor Adams should not be paying $1 billion and figuring out where to put them in speaking about the migrants. Here are some of Cuomo's other remarks he made yesterday per WABC radio. These are not immigrants. These are asylum seekers.

And what happened is President Trump had closed the border to asylum seekers where they had to stay on the Mexico side of the border until their claim. was heard. And President Biden opposed that and he said, I'm going to open the border and they can wait in this country, which had been the longstanding practice. It went on for a couple of years, he opened the border. But they never made preparations for the influx. And now you had this backlog of people who were waiting for the gates to open. The gates open. The crowd comes in. state of Texas was overwhelmed. I understand Governor Abbott's point. State of Florida was overwhelmed.

The border towns, El Paso had went up 40%. And they then sent the migrants north to make their point. But the federal government did drop the ball. When you open the gates, you have to be prepared to deal with the issue. You know, when you change policy, you need the program. for the policy change. It's not just political rhetoric. And that'll do it for today's episode. Thank you for listening to The Daily Signal Top News. If you haven't had the chance already, be sure to check out our morning show right

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