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[0] Hey, this is Daily Wire, editor -in -chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe.
[1] It's Thursday, May 18th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[2] Three current and former members of the FBI testified in the House on Thursday and accused the Bureau of wrongfully retaliating against them.
[3] Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
[4] Garrett O 'Boyle, Steve Friend, and Marcus Allen told lawmakers that the FBI suspended their security clearances and froze their pay over questions about the Bureau's January 6 investigations.
[5] O 'Boyle and Allen are still employed by the Bureau, but they've been without pay and barred from working for about a year.
[6] They say they've been forced to rely on charity and their retirement savings to stay afloat.
[7] Here's O 'Boyle.
[8] All I wanted to do was serve my country by stopping bad guys and protecting the innocent.
[9] To my chagrin, bad guys have begun running parts of the government, making it difficult to continue to serve this nation and protect the innocent.
[10] But I, for one, will never stop trying.
[11] I'll never forget my oath.
[12] In news reported first by the Daily Wire today, former Biden nuclear energy official Sam Brinton was arrested Wednesday as a fugitive of justice.
[13] This comes months after Britain was fired amid allegations of stealing luggage and women's clothing from airports.
[14] Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Roziak, who broke the story, was at Britain's court appearance today.
[15] He spoke to us moments after the proceeding.
[16] Brinton was arrested last night at his home in Rockville, Maryland.
[17] A neighbor told me that four on -marked police cars went to his house about 10 p .m. and pulled him out.
[18] I just got out of Montgomery County, Maryland courtroom where a judge ordered him extradited to Arlington, Virginia, to face charges of grand larceny related to alleged luggage theft out of Dulles Airport in connection with those fugitive from justice charges.
[19] Nima Momeni, a 38 -year -old man accused of stabbing cash app founder Bob Lee to death back in April, pleaded not guilty Thursday.
[20] Momeni's mother and sister were present in the San Francisco courtroom when the plea was entered.
[21] Momeni's attorney argued her client should be released on bail, but the judge refused bail, saying Momeni is a threat to the community.
[22] Montana has become the first state to completely ban TikTok after Republican Governor Greg Gianforte signed bill into law on Wednesday.
[23] Senate bill 419 is past the House.
[24] The law prohibits app stores from making TikTok available for download in the state.
[25] It comes as state lawmakers accused China of breaching user security.
[26] Here's Republican State Representative Brandon Lur.
[27] TikTok is a national security threat.
[28] This app steals information and data from users and its ability to share that data with the Chinese Communist Party is unacceptable.
[29] TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company, and it's been accused of allowing the communist country access to data on Americans' phones.
[30] Twitter owner Elon Musk is warning that U .S. policymakers should take China's threats of taking over Taiwan seriously.
[31] Musk made the remarks during an interview with CNBC's David Faber.
[32] Musk was asked if he was concerned about the growing belligerence between China and the U .S. The official policy of China is Taiwan should be integrated.
[33] One does not need to read between the lines.
[34] One can simply read the lines.
[35] So I think there's some inevitability to the situation.
[36] That would not be good for Tesla, conceivably, or for any company in the world, frankly.
[37] Yes, for any company in the world.
[38] The Chinese economy and the rest of the global economy are like conjoint twins.
[39] It would be like trying to separate conjoint twins.
[40] That's the severity of the situation.
[41] And Ukraine is claiming that it thwarted 29 out of 30 air strikes sent by Russia early Thursday, leaving one person dead.
[42] However, the Russian government denies those claims and says that it successfully hit key Ukrainian weapons and ammunition depots.
[43] Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
[44] To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire .com.
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