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[0] As the national debate over vaccine mandates heats up, the FDA has approved the Pfizer vaccine for children as young as five.
[1] But other countries are taking different approaches, from vaccinating toddlers to reserving vaccines only for adults.
[2] We'll talk about the various ways countries around the world are handling this important public health decision.
[3] I'm John Bickley with Georgia Howe.
[4] It's Friday, November 26th, and this is Morning Wire.
[5] The now infamous Steele dossier, which was at the core of, of many allegations against the Trump campaign has been largely discredited.
[6] How did the legacy media get the Russian collusion story so wrong?
[7] And are the many false reports now being corrected?
[8] And it's open season on crypto holdings, with some politicians viewing the new currency as an untapped revenue stream.
[9] Meanwhile, other lawmakers are pushing back, saying new laws regulating cryptocurrency are a violation of citizen privacy.
[10] We'll discuss the battle over cryptocurrency and why some investors see it as a bulwark against out -of -control inflation.
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[18] As some countries roll out COVID vaccines for children as young as two and three years old, others are holding off.
[19] Here to discuss how various governments are handling vaccines for children is Daily Wire's Charlotte -Pens Bond.
[20] So Charlotte, where does the U .S. stand when it comes to vaccinating kids?
[21] Yes, so earlier this month, the CDC recommended the Pfizer -Bio -and -Tech vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11 years old.
[22] This came after the FDA authorized the emergency use of the vaccine for that same age bracket.
[23] kids can get two shots separated by three weeks, but the dose is much smaller, just one -third of the amount being given to adults and teens.
[24] Now, this has prompted some pushback from parents who aren't sure if they want their kids vaccinated yet, especially for kids who have natural immunity from already having the virus.
[25] And CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, has said she thinks kids should keep wearing face coverings in school even after they've received a COVID -19 vaccination.
[26] So right now, we are going to continue to recommend masks in all schools for all people in those schools, and we will look forward to scaling up pediatric vaccination during this period of time.
[27] So it's hard to say what the incentive is for many parents who would rather wait to see more data.
[28] Dr. Marty McCarray of Johns Hopkins University seem to support parents who are looking for more research.
[29] Here's the deal with kids.
[30] First of all, we've only ever studied 1 ,500 kids in that 5 to 11 age group.
[31] So when people say they want to see more data, they have all the right to say that right now.
[32] Now, we do think it can be helpful in preventing COVID, which in a kid with a risk factor, the answer in my book is, go ahead and get the vaccine.
[33] That is a kid's obese or has some comorbid condition.
[34] And a kid who's already had COVID, no. There's no scientific basis for vaccinating somebody with natural immunity.
[35] And for everyone else in between, I would say it's, you know, it's a close risk benefit ratio, but maybe one dose may be reasonable.
[36] But we aren't seeing this kind of push for kids to get the vaccine everywhere in the world.
[37] Tell us about how other countries are approaching this.
[38] Yeah, so a lot of countries cut it off around the 12 -year -old mark.
[39] The EU says it's looking into the use of the Pfizer vaccine for kids 5 to 11, while the UK says kids 12 to 15 should get one dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
[40] Some countries have started to provide vaccination to kids who are younger, though.
[41] Chile approved vaccinating 6 -year -olds, and the UAE said in August it would begin its campaign for kids' ages.
[42] 3 to 17.
[43] China also approved vaccination for kids as young as 3 years old.
[44] Columbia and Argentina are doing the same, and rollouts in Venezuela and Cuba include kids as young as 2.
[45] But some countries are holding back to see just how it goes over here in America.
[46] Australia's head medical officer recently said that the country was going to wait and watch the U .S. process before it goes forward with vaccinating younger kids, meaning it's unlikely for kids who are ages 5 to 11 in Australia to get the vaccine before January.
[47] Beyond that, Mexico, has said, it's not planning to vaccinate anyone under 18 years old, other than kids with risk factors.
[48] Well, we're going to be watching to see how this develops around the world, especially as more treatments and vaccines become available.
[49] Charlotte, thanks for reporting.
[50] That's DailyWire's Charlotte Pence -Bond.
[51] Coming up, new information about the steel dossier leads to major revisions by the legacy media.
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[55] For more than two years, the mass news media reported unfounded allegations of Donald Trump's ties to Russia as though they were fact.
[56] Now that the 2020 election is long past, some outlets have begun examining the false statements they once reported.
[57] Here to discuss what the news media got wrong as Daily Wire Media reporter, Ben Johnson.
[58] So, Ben, the news media have begun revising the story on the Steele dossier, which was the main focus of their reporting for two years.
[59] First, lay out for our listeners what the Steele dossier is.
[60] Sure, the Steele dossier's opposition research that was financed by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
[61] The DNC funneled the money through a series of front groups to former British spy Christopher Steele.
[62] He hired a Russian citizen living in the U .S. named Igor Danchenko, who was recently indicted for lying to the federal investigators about his sources.
[63] Its allegations were sometimes salacious, like the infamous claim about a video showing Donald Trump cavorting with Russian prostitutes, but it also alleged a vast conspiracy between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign to defeat Hillary Clinton.
[64] BuzzFeed published the dossier in its entirety, just 10 days before Donald Trump was set to take office, saturation coverage immediately ensued.
[65] What specific facts did the media report that turned out to be false.
[66] Well, the most significant error was overreaching on alleged collusion between Trump and Vladimir Putin.
[67] Robert Mueller's 2019 report failed to substantiate the collusion narrative.
[68] A specific story claimed that Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, had a clandestine meeting with Russian agents in Prague.
[69] Cohen, who's an inveterate Trump critic, has always said the report is false, but some sources said they found cell phone records proving he was in Prague.
[70] It did turn out to be unfounded.
[71] Maybe the worst overstatement came in the way the media vastly inflated the dossier's credibility.
[72] For example, CNN's Allison Comerata told Congressman Jim Jordan, your intel community has corroborated all of the details in there.
[73] We now know virtually none of the dossier has been verified and much of it has been disproved.
[74] And CNN even got the facts wrong while claiming to set the record straight.
[75] In an article posted on his website last Thursday, CNN admitted, quote, five years later, the credibility of the dossier has been significantly diminished.
[76] In fact, federal sources shredded the credibility of the dossier years ago.
[77] Inspector General Michael Corowitz concluded in his December 2019 report the dossier had, quote, zero corroboration.
[78] And we now know that three years earlier, before Trump even took office, an Obama administration assistant attorney general named Bruce Orr expressed doubts about the source of the report, pointing out that the primary subsource lived in Washington, not Russia.
[79] Its claims are about as close to being falsified.
[80] as any allegation can be.
[81] So federal agents harbored significant questions about the dossier all along, but they said nothing to correct the reporting.
[82] How did the media assert that the dossier had been verified?
[83] In part, it came through leaks from the intelligence community, but the biggest factor was likely the media's antipathy toward Donald Trump.
[84] At least one reporter cited the Trump campaign's denials as giving credence to the allegations.
[85] Bill Gruskin, who's a former dean at the Columbia Journalism School, wrote in the New York Times recently, quote, when a well -known liar tells you something that's false, the instinct is to believe that it might well be true.
[86] Needless to say, that's not the way corroboration usually works.
[87] So a lot of these reports turned out to be misinformation.
[88] How are the major outlets handling this fact?
[89] To their credit, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and CNN have all written a few articles reporting on many of their errors.
[90] For instance, Gruskin admits, quote, many of the dossier's allegations have turned out to be fictitious, were at best unprovable.
[91] But even now, some of the most partisan hosts are holding on to the dossier and revising their role in reporting on it.
[92] For example, in December 2018, MSNBC's Nicole Wallace said of the dossier, quote, to date, none of it has been disproven and whole big parts of it are holding up.
[93] Now she's saying even the indictment of Igor Danchenko for lying only proves that some parts of the dossier are still being vetted.
[94] You peek over in right -wing media, and they are still taking a victory lap and feeling avenged around the dossier being full.
[95] further vetted.
[96] I mean, it was most people covered it as sort of unvetted, but something that was out there.
[97] Other people went farther than that.
[98] So some are clinging to the bitter end.
[99] Well, the more that's come out on this dossier, the worse, all the reporting we saw for years looks.
[100] Yeah.
[101] Thanks for walking us through all that, Ben.
[102] Anytime.
[103] That's Daily Wire reporter, Ben Johnson.
[104] With the federal government pursuing numerous waves of spending, some legislators are looking to tighten control on the growing cryptocurrency market, seeing it as a potential stream of tax income.
[105] However, some politicians are pushing back.
[106] Here to tell us more is Daily Wire's Ian Howarth.
[107] So, Ian, give us an overview of the situation.
[108] Well, the last time we spoke about cryptocurrency on Morning Wire, we discussed the battle going on in Congress when it comes to taxing crypto via the infrastructure bill.
[109] More specifically, the bill changed the definition of broker in the eyes of the IRS to include those who handle digital assets like Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
[110] Since then, the infrastructure bill has been signed, and legislators are moving to try and undo the changes to try and ensure that the, quote, digital asset ecosystem can continue to grow and flourish.
[111] Okay, so who's pushing for these changes?
[112] There's a few people, and one prominent figure is Senator Ted Cruz, who expressed concern about the crypto -related implications of the bill back in August.
[113] He said that it might force every person who uses cryptocurrency in some way to basically function as a financial institution, which would mean that they would have to provide consumer information to the IRS.
[114] Now that the bill has been signed into law, Cruz drafted legislation to repeal the, quote, overly broad and poorly crafted provision from the infrastructure package that create new reporting requirements for many participants within the blockchain industry.
[115] Cruz has also argued that while Congress is enthusiastic about taxing crypto, they really don't know much about it.
[116] I doubt there are five members of the United States Senate that could tell you what the hell of bit coin is.
[117] And then their Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden and Senator Cynthia Lummis, a Democrat and Republican, respectively, who reportedly have plans to try and reverse the crypto -related provisions in the infrastructure bill.
[118] They seem to be looking to exclude individuals who are developing blockchain technology from having to report information about their users to government entities like the IRS.
[119] And so why the sudden interest in cryptocurrency among lawmakers.
[120] Well, cryptocurrencies have been growing in popularity for a long time and have grown from complete obscurity to having a total global market capitalization of over $2 .6 trillion.
[121] Bitcoin alone represents $1 .14 trillion of this, and the sheer value of cryptocurrency is raising eyebrows in the federal government, especially as they look to raise funds for the waves of spending we've seen in recent months.
[122] And a lot of this popularity is only increasing as the federal government appears to be looking to get an insight into everyone's finance.
[123] finances.
[124] One of the core features of cryptocurrency that makes it so popular is the fact that it's comparatively anonymous.
[125] And so crypto is emerging as an attractive alternative for those who are worried about privacy.
[126] And then there's another key factor, which is that cryptocurrencies are decentralized.
[127] So as we face skyrocketing inflation, the idea of a currency that can't be manipulated by the government is becoming even more important for a lot of people.
[128] Right.
[129] It's going to be fascinating to see where the legislation lands in the world of cryptocurrency.
[130] Ian, thanks.
[131] Absolutely, thanks, Georgia.
[132] That's Daily Wires, Ian Howard.
[133] Other stories we're tracking this week?
[134] The Waukesha Christmas Parade suspect has been charged with multiple counts of first -degree intentional homicide after allegedly deliberately driving an SUV into the parade crowd on Sunday.
[135] A total of six people have died from the incident, including a child, and 62 people were injured.
[136] The suspect's bail has been set at $5 million.
[137] An impeachment investigation by the New York State Assembly of former Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo found, quote, overwhelming evidence that the former governor engaged in sexual harassment.
[138] The report released Monday found that Cuomo was, quote, not fully transparent about the number of nursing home residents who died from COVID -19 and that he allegedly violated state ethics laws by using state staff and resources to produce and promote his memoir.
[139] And the Biden administration asked a federal court Tuesday to immediately lift a court order blocking the OSHA vaccine and testing mandate for private businesses.
[140] In response, the Daily Wire submitted a legal filing that was joined by over a dozen co -signers suing the administration over the mandate.
[141] The legal filing accuses the administration of attempting to, quote, create procedural chaos by skipping ahead of necessary procedural rulings and orders in the case.
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