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[0] A CDC panel has voted to add COVID vaccinations to a federal children's immunization program.
[1] Many people are concerned that this is enthusiasm that's not supported by clinical data.
[2] What will the move mean for kids and will it impact requirements for public schools?
[3] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[4] It's Thursday, October 20th, and this is Morning Wire.
[5] The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding that the DOJ and FBI, come clean about what he says is voluminous evidence of Biden family criminal conduct.
[6] I think the country understands that there are all kinds of things that need to be lipped into regarding the Biden family.
[7] We speak to Congressman Jim Jordan about whistleblower claims.
[8] And a dark horse candidate running for New Hampshire's first congressional district could become the youngest female House member in American history.
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[20] A CDC advisory panel voted Wednesday to add COVID vaccinations to a federal children's immunization program.
[21] Some medical experts say it could be a major step toward requiring COVID vaccinations for school attendance.
[22] Daily Wire Culture reporter Megan Basham joins us now to discuss what the vote was about and what it might mean for school immunization requirements.
[23] So, Megan, to start, what exactly is the CDC voting on this week?
[24] Because I've seen some reports claiming that they're deciding whether to add COVID vaccines to the list of things that kids need to get before they go to school.
[25] Is that correct?
[26] No, it's not.
[27] Not yet anyway.
[28] So the question that the CDC took up was whether to add COVID vaccines to the vaccines for children's program.
[29] And what that is is a federally funded program that provides vaccinations to kids whose families may not be able to afford them.
[30] So they voted unanimously to do that.
[31] And now what that will do is attach a stronger level of recommendation than simply advising parents to get their children vaccinated for COVID.
[32] I spoke to Dr. Marty McCarrie of Johns Hopkins just before the vote.
[33] Here's what he told me. That's what's got people concerned because it could be a slippery slope and lead to a broad statement that every kid must get this vaccine.
[34] Now, if they decide to go down that path, the COVID vaccine in children would be the first ever vaccine on the child immunization schedule that's not supported by solid evidence in the literature that reduces disease in the community.
[35] So the vote on the immunization schedule question, that is whether the COVID vaccine might be added to that list of school required immunizations will happen later on Thursday.
[36] But this vote suggests that they're likely to approve that.
[37] Now, I've heard from a lot of parents who are alarmed about adding the COVID vaccination, to the schedule for a variety of reasons.
[38] They cite the relatively low risk that COVID poses to healthy kids, as well as the lack of data about some potential complications associated with the vaccine.
[39] Did Dr. McCarrie have any opinion on that?
[40] Yes, he certainly did.
[41] He is adamantly against the idea of requiring children to get the vaccine.
[42] And he says that those concerns about things like myocarditis are very much legitimate.
[43] But he also says that getting the COVID vaccine can be the right choice for vulnerable children.
[44] those who are dealing with underlying issues like, say, leukemia or morbid obesity.
[45] The problem he feels is that too little information about the vaccine has been provided to the medical community.
[46] The little data that exists from human trials has not been made public.
[47] Instead, the company's released a press release simply saying the vaccine was great and that it works.
[48] I asked him why he believes we don't have that data, and his answer was pretty blunt.
[49] They've not given any reason.
[50] But generally speaking, many of us believe that it's because the data are not favorable.
[51] McCarrie also points out that at this point, most children have likely had COVID, yet there's been no serious discussion about natural antibodies from a previous infection.
[52] Now, I know we've had Dr. McCarrie on before, and he's expressed a lot of concern about how something like this could affect public trust in vaccine protocols in general, which could become a major problem.
[53] Yes, very much.
[54] And in fact, so much that I'm just going to let him speak for himself on that.
[55] We have been building public trust for things like the polio vaccine and the MMR vaccine, which saved lives, for 50 years.
[56] And we're going to see a reversal of public trust that we have built for 50 years if they decide to go ahead and add the COVID vaccine to the immunization schedule.
[57] So we'll find out what the CDC decides on Thursday.
[58] But this week's vote could give us a pretty big.
[59] clue about their trajectory.
[60] And in the meantime, we're seeing different states taking different approaches.
[61] California, for example, has a pending mandate for K -12 students.
[62] Mississippi and Florida, on the other hand, have banned requiring COVID vaccination to attend school.
[63] Well, this is definitely something we're going to keep gathering information about for parents.
[64] Megan, thanks so much for reporting.
[65] Yeah, my pleasure.
[66] That was Daily Wire Culture reporter, Megan Basham.
[67] Coming up, we speak to Congressman Jim Jordan about new FBI whistleblower, claims.
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[75] Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter this week to the DOJ and FBI demanding that they come clean to Congress and the American people with respect to the steps that have been taken or failed to take relating to the Hunter Biden investigation.
[76] Joining us to discuss is Congressman Jim Jordan, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.
[77] So, Congressman, let's jump right in here.
[78] Senator Grassley's letter this week to A .G. Garland and FBI Director Ray cites significant evidence from whistleblowers concerning criminal conduct by Hunter and James Biden.
[79] What do we know here?
[80] You know, we've had multiple whistleblowers talk to Senator Grassley's office, multiple whistleblowers come talk to us about just the overall political nature of the Justice Department.
[81] And we know that two years ago this month that the FBI was involved in, based on what whistleblowers have told us, was involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden story just weeks before the most important election we have.
[82] And I would also add this, too, we know about the suspicious activity reports reported 150 of them that the Treasury Department has on some of the Biden business operations.
[83] So all that just underscores how important it was to do the proper investigation, proper oversight.
[84] if, in fact, the American people put Republicans in the majority here in 20 days.
[85] From the reports you've seen and the information you have, how long has there been an alleged effort to cover this up?
[86] Well, you know, I think it goes back to two years ago this month.
[87] I mean, we know that there were 51 former intel officials who signed a letter.
[88] The letter says that the Hunter Biden laptops there in the whole situation had, quote, all the earmarks of Russian disinformation when, in fact, it wasn't.
[89] stream press social media they also pressed the story and kept it from the American people we don't frankly that would have changed the outcome of the election based on on polling recent polling that's been done if people would have known about what was going on there so I want to know where did these 51 intel officials what did they base that on was someone at the FBI telling them that information did the FBI communicate to to them about that was that the reason they all signed this letter which again became the reason that you saw this story suppressed and we know based on what Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent podcast that the FBI talked to Facebook and told them to be on the lookout rink -wink of Russian disinformation.
[90] So I think that's an important element.
[91] It's in fact we get the majority that we need to get to the bottom of.
[92] Now, as a ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, what action can be taken on this issue if you gain the majority?
[93] You know, the executive branch handles the any type of prosecution.
[94] But we do have an obligation under the Constitution to get the facts and the true to the American people.
[95] We have now a Justice Department, whether it's suppressing information regarding the Hunter Biden story, whether it's, you know, the number of whistleblowers have come and told us about the focus on making every case a domestic, violent extremism case, or whether it's the action that the Justice Department in cahoots with the left -wing political organization, the National School Board's Association, when they work together to go after moms and dads and child to speech of parents showing up at school board meetings, on and on and frankly, the Justice Department that is treating pro -lifeers much different than the truth is the attacks on churches and crisis pregnancy centers, nothing comparable to what they're doing to pro -life activists.
[96] All that needs to be looked at, and we plan on doing just that.
[97] Congressman, thank you so much for joining us.
[98] Those guys.
[99] That was Congressman Jim Jordan.
[100] With midterm elections nearly upon us, Morning Wire spoke with a Republican candidate looking to flip a reliably blue seat and become the youngest female member of Congress in history.
[101] Here with more on Caroline Levitt, the Republican nominee for New Hampshire's first congressional district is Daily Wire's senior editor, Cabot Phillips.
[102] So, Cabot, you've been following this race for a little while.
[103] What can you tell us?
[104] Well, it's easy to focus entirely on the Senate and Governor's races, but keep in mind, if you're a Republican wanting to push back on the Biden agenda, you've really got to start by taking the House.
[105] Now, there are plenty of races to follow there, but this one, in particular is really grabbing headlines as the 25 -year -old Levitt has now pulled within one point of Democrat incumbent Chris Pappas.
[106] That is surprising not only because this is a district that's been reliably blue the last few cycles, but also because Levitt was not even expected to get out of the primary in the first place.
[107] Right.
[108] So tell us about the opposition she faced in the GOP primary.
[109] So Leavitt was definitely not the first pick among GOP leadership in Washington, and that led to a grueling primary.
[110] Outside groups spent over a million dollars on ads attacking her, and GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy poured $1 .3 million into her opponent's campaign, clearly viewing him as having a better chance of winning in the general.
[111] Now, it's worth noting that opponent, Matt Mowers, had also been the nominee in 2020 and lost and was also a more senior member of the Trump administration.
[112] But as Levitt told us, despite a fundraising disadvantage to Mowers, a lot of her success can be attributed to what she calls a high -energy grassroots campaign.
[113] We knocked over 70 ,000 doors.
[114] I'm at a different event in a different town every single night.
[115] And I hear directly from voters, inflation is at the top of their minds.
[116] This winter, literally, people are going to have to choose between heating and eating in our state.
[117] Home heating oil has never been more expensive.
[118] It's costing people hundreds, thousands of dollars to heat their homes because of this administration's policies.
[119] So Leavitt is a grassroots candidate, sort of an underdog, and it sounds like that's resonating with people.
[120] What's her platform?
[121] Front and center is the economy, and more specifically, taxes.
[122] Keep in mind, she's running in New Hampshire, which is well known for maintaining much lower tax rates than neighboring states.
[123] As a result, for decades now, Massachusetts residents have been moving to New Hampshire for the cheaper cost of living.
[124] And Leavitt says a lot of New Hampshire natives are worried about maintaining a pro -business environment as the makeup of the state.
[125] is changing.
[126] On social issues, she's very vocal about supporting the police up to and including vowing to protect qualified immunity for officers, which has been very controversial, even on the right.
[127] She's also called for increased border security and a zero tolerance policy for legal immigration and states on her website that she is pro -life, but does stop short of promising to fight abortion on the federal level.
[128] Now, historically, Republicans have been successful in the Northeast when they run on fiscal issues, but pull back.
[129] on social issues.
[130] Is that the template that Levitt's using?
[131] Yes and no. She's definitely more of a MAGA Republican, certainly more than you would typically see from most Republican candidates in New England, who tend to be more moderate.
[132] But the exception there does seem to be abortion, where she's appeared to sort of soften her message.
[133] I've been very clear on where I stand on this issue.
[134] I believe it belongs to the state, and the voters in New Hampshire made their voice clear when we passed the law in last year's legislative question in the new budget signed by Governor Krista Nunu, I won't do anything in Congress to override that law.
[135] Well, definitely a race to watch.
[136] Cabot, thanks for reporting.
[137] Anytime.
[138] That's Daily Wire senior editor, Cabot Phillips.
[139] Other stories we're tracking this week.
[140] High prices for food and energy have caused mass protests around the world.
[141] Data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project says that more than 90 countries are experiencing protests over fuel.
[142] On Tuesday, a California A California jury found 45 -year -old Paul Flores guilty of murdering college student Kristen Smart in 1996.
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