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[0] We always have and will be and have been vigilant here when it comes to making sure that we are protecting our homeland.
[1] The FBI is investigating a group of Uzbek nationals who were smuggled into the U .S. by a man with ties to ISIS.
[2] We have the details on the alarming report and the government's response.
[3] I'm Daily Wire, editor -in -chief John Bickley, with Georgia Howe.
[4] It's Wednesday, August 30th, and this is Morning Wire.
[5] The National Archives have confirmed that they have over five, thousand emails in which then Vice President Joe Biden allegedly used aliases to hide collaboration with his son.
[6] I believe it's pretty clear Joe Biden has a Hillary Clinton email problem.
[7] Could a new lawsuit pressure the archives to release those records?
[8] And a Daily Wire investigation found that the face of social emotional learning or SCL in schools has a troubling history when it comes to teaching children about relationships and sex.
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[12] The FBI is scrambling to track down a group of migrants after a smuggler with ties to ISIS helped a group of Uzbek nationals cross into the U .S. from Mexico.
[13] Here to discuss is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presti Giacomo.
[14] So Amanda, this is a troubling report that broke earlier this week.
[15] What do we know about these Uzbek nationals?
[16] Hey, Georgia.
[17] So the FBI is still working to identify and assess all of the Uzbek nationals who were brought into the U .S. with the help of this ISIS -linked smuggler.
[18] And there's also an additional 15 or so of these migrants who have been tracked down.
[19] They're currently under continued observation by the FBI.
[20] We also know that all of these migrants asked for asylum and they were granted entry into the U .S. and given a court date.
[21] Keep in mind that it's been estimated that only about half of all migrants show up for those court appearances.
[22] What we don't know is also pretty troubling.
[23] we don't have an exact number of migrants who were able to cross our southern border with the help of this particular smuggler.
[24] And we don't know when this happened other than it occurred sometime this year.
[25] So all we know right now, we don't know the number.
[26] We just know that sometime in 2023, some Uzbek nationals crossed the border and were released into the country.
[27] That's right.
[28] Now, what do we know about the smuggler who helped facilitate this?
[29] What are his ties to ISIS exactly?
[30] Well, he is a Turkish national and is believed to be sympathetic to the ISIS cause.
[31] although not exactly a member, more like an independent contractor who works with the group.
[32] A new report from CNN said it's currently not believed that this smuggler or his network were getting these migrants to our southern border at the behest of ISIS.
[33] So that's a good sign, but remember, not all these migrants have been tracked down yet, so this will have to unfold further.
[34] The U .S. was able to have this smuggler and some members of this network arrested with the help of Turkish authorities.
[35] Now, on a broader note, this report really underscores the national security risk, an unsecure border, or even an overwhelmed border, can present for the U .S. We know cartel -linked smugglers do this sort of thing every single day.
[36] White House press secretary Corrine Jean -Pierre was pressed about this incident during a briefing on Tuesday by Fox News as Peter Ducey, and here's how she responded.
[37] You said that there's no sign of a plot, but isn't it true that the U .S. has to be right with preventing terrorists?
[38] attacks 100 % of the time.
[39] They only have to be right once.
[40] So let's be very clear.
[41] This is a White House that is committed to making sure that we are protecting our homeland and also protecting the American people.
[42] And we are thankful.
[43] We are grateful for our law enforcement who acted very quickly here and they had disrupted.
[44] They successfully disrupted the smuggling network.
[45] When Jean -Pierre was directly asked if the government has tracked down all of these migrants, She deflected, seemingly confirming the report that we still don't know where some of these migrants are.
[46] This incident comes as border security is climbing the charts as a top issue for Americans.
[47] Here's GOP presidential candidate, Senator Tim Scott, driving home this broader border issue at the GOP primary debate last week.
[48] Six million illegal crossings since President Biden has taken office and 200 people on our national security.
[49] watch lists have been caught at our border.
[50] How many have not been caught?
[51] Well, the border continues to be a huge issue and now not just in border states.
[52] Amanda, thanks for reporting.
[53] You're welcome.
[54] The National Archives has located over 5 ,000 records and emails with pseudonyms allegedly used by President Joe Biden when he was vice president.
[55] Republicans say he used those aliases to hide his involvement in his son Hunter's foreign business dealings.
[56] Daily Wire report, Tim Pierce is here to discuss what the archives found and what it means for the president.
[57] So, Tim, first off, what do we know about these records so far?
[58] Not much yet.
[59] Journalist John Solomon and the Southeastern Legal Foundation have pursued these records since 2021, but progress has been slow because of statutory weight periods.
[60] And according to SLF, the archive's own reluctance to move forward.
[61] On Monday, the SLF filed a lawsuit that accused the archives of dragging its feet and asked a federal judge to step in and force it to hand over records.
[62] related to three email addresses.
[63] Those addresses fall under the names Robin Ware, J .R .B. Ware, and Robert L. Peters, all suspected aliases of President Biden when he was vice president in the Obama administration.
[64] As part of the lawsuit, SLF included a letter it received from the archives in June 2022 that recognized thousands of records connected with those three email addresses.
[65] The archive said it searched Biden's vice presidential files and uncovered, quote, approximately 5 ,138 email messages, 25 electronic files, and 200 pages of potentially responsive records.
[66] Now, how much trouble could the president be facing here?
[67] Well, if it turns out that these are his aliases, he could be in a lot, depending on how they were used.
[68] Solomon has been on this from the beginning, and he says that the emails show that the president was using the pseudonyms to coordinate with Hunter.
[69] Here he is on Real America's voice on Tuesday.
[70] This is a Hillary Clinton problem.
[71] Joe Biden was conducting government.
[72] business on a private email server.
[73] And some of the emails that I've been able to get, which you don't get from the archives, but we got some sources from the Hunter Biden laptop from other foias and other agencies.
[74] They showed some really troubling trends.
[75] One of those is Joe Biden at times was foreign sensitive foreign policy information to his son.
[76] And we do have examples of those addresses included on emails with Hunter Biden.
[77] In one instance, in May 2016, a Biden staffer sent a copy of the vice president's schedule to Robert L. Peters as well as to Hunter Biden.
[78] That schedule included a phone call between the vice president and the president of Ukraine.
[79] Also at that time, Hunter was sitting on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
[80] The president is currently facing allegations of deep corruption in Ukraine, such as receiving millions of dollars to use his position as head of U .S. policy in Ukraine to protect Burisma from government investigation.
[81] Here's Congressman James Comer talking about that email earlier this month with Fox's Maria Barteromo.
[82] And this email ties Joe Biden and Hunter Biden into this corruption scheme without a shadow of doubt.
[83] This was 100 % government business.
[84] Again, the Democrats in the White House have claimed that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden had a wall, a firewall between their business affairs.
[85] Now, speaking of Comer, House Republicans are interested in these records as well.
[86] Have they secured any at this point?
[87] Yeah, Comer and his House investigators requested these records from the archives earlier this month, but they haven't gotten any further than Solomon and SLF.
[88] The problem for Comer's investigation, though, may be more from Delaware U .S. Attorney David Weiss's special counsel investigation.
[89] Comer's team is still waiting to see how Attorney General Garland's decision to make Weiss a special counsel will affect their own investigation into the Biden family's foreign business deals.
[90] Less than two weeks after a judge throughout U .S. Attorney Weiss's blanket immunity for Hunter Biden, he gets appointed special counsel and supposedly in the eyes of the Department of Justice is now the lead investigative agency with respect to Hunter Biden.
[91] The House Oversight Committee, for all practical purposes, has been the special counsel over the past six months, and we'll continue to do our work and continue to be transparent with American people about the evidence that we're uncovering every day.
[92] So Weiss could potentially make the case that this information can't be released yet because it's part of an ongoing investigation, correct?
[93] Yeah.
[94] All right.
[95] Well, Tim, thanks so much for reporting.
[96] My pleasure.
[97] Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, is a wildly popular education theory being rolled out in K -12 education.
[98] Proponents of SEL say students thrive when education focuses on the whole child, including their identity and moral development, not just academics.
[99] Critics say SEL encourages inappropriate interactions between school staff and students.
[100] A quick note to listeners, the following segment may not be appropriate for younger ears.
[101] Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Roziak uncovered some problematic details about an SEL nonprofit called AHA Santa Barbara.
[102] The nonprofit's been praised by Prince Harry and Megan Markle for its effect on youth mental health and its founder currently has the number one nonfiction book in Canada.
[103] Hi Luke.
[104] So first, what does this group AHA do?
[105] AHA is a poster child for social emotional learning.
[106] It raises money from rich people in California and contracts with schools to hold these talk circles where kids talk about their feelings with adults.
[107] The acronym stands for attitude, harmony, and achievement.
[108] And the founder, Jennifer Freed, is this sort of new -age self -help guru.
[109] She's a psychologist, but she's also an astrologist, and she's very focused on sex.
[110] Okay, so her background is not entirely a clinical or educational one, but she's founded this group and gained some name recognition.
[111] Yeah, she's become somewhat of a celebrity, even teaming up with actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
[112] AHA runs a group for teen girls that it tells parents it's called relationship wisdom.
[113] Here's Freed talking about it.
[114] I had just finished my PhD in psychology, and what my dissertation of 400 pages was on was teen girls and sex.
[115] It led me to realize what's missing in education is for girls and guys, I created this program called sexual wisdom.
[116] This is what we do with the teens.
[117] Once we've heard from them all their basic misconceptions about sex and that it's like guys only want girls that have completely shaved pubs and they find us disgusting unless we're bare, you know, then we go, okay, how's that working for you?
[118] Right now, redesign your first sexual experience.
[119] Where would you be?
[120] Who would it be with?
[121] Who would know about it?
[122] Who wouldn't know about it?
[123] You just really get into all the possibilities of what could make it the most incredible initiatory experience you could ever have.
[124] Okay, so Freed is openly talking about coaching kids into sexual experiences.
[125] What does she say her goal is with this?
[126] That 400 -page dissertation says she wants to be a, quote, priestess, ushering, quote, young teens through the, quote, religious experience of sex.
[127] For her dissertation, she interviewed four girls about their sexual experiences as young teens with older boys, and every one of them outlined child abuse or rape, sad situations that they wished never happen.
[128] But she just kept pushing them to say how great sex is.
[129] Now, youth psychologists are required to report crimes to authorities, correct?
[130] Yes, but she says in her dissertation that she opposes some mandatory reporter laws, writing, quoting here, I believe that legislating sexual activity among minors may prevent crucial dialogue between youth and adults.
[131] One teen described being raped by a 19 -year -old when she was 15 and crying afterwards.
[132] Freed asked her, quote, and did you enjoy the sexual relationship?
[133] Or how was it for you?
[134] I mean, were you aware of your own design?
[135] Was he a good lover?
[136] The teen said she wished she waited until she knew herself better to have sex, but Freed suggested that having more sex was a good way to get to know yourself better.
[137] She acknowledges in her dissertation that all the teens she interviewed regretted having sex at a young age, but she said that they were just lying because Western culture told them to.
[138] And so she concluded that what they really meant is the opposite, and that therefore her research showed the importance of having more social -emotional learning, more sex positivity in schools and elsewhere.
[139] And that's exactly what's happened in the years since.
[140] Now, you reached out to Freed about her writings and teachings.
[141] Did she respond to your questions?
[142] She just said she's complied with all laws.
[143] Now, the way I first heard about this group is I wrote about a case where a teacher nibbled on a high school student's ear in class while making growling noises and touched her butt.
[144] The victim told me that she was in the AHA SEL program and that Freed told her not to press charges.
[145] The teacher's wife was actually on the board of one of AHA's donors.
[146] the girl said Freed wanted to hold a restorative justice session instead of taking it as a court.
[147] She didn't listen and the teacher was convicted and fired.
[148] Freed denied doing that as well.
[149] A lot of questions to be answered about this organization.
[150] Yeah.
[151] Meanwhile, parents may want to keep their ears open for social, emotional learning.
[152] That's Daily Wire investigative reporter, Luke Roziak.
[153] That's all the time we've got this morning.
[154] Thanks for waking up with us.
[155] We'll be back later this afternoon with more news you need to know.