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[0] The Democratic National Convention culminates with Kamala Harris accepting the nomination that was Joe Biden's just a month ago.
[1] America, we are not going.
[2] I'm Daily Wire, editor -in -chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe.
[3] It's Friday, August 23rd, and this is Morning Wire.
[4] An urgent Homeland Security Alert reveals that tens of thousands of migrant children have disappeared under the Biden -Harris administration's watch.
[5] The signs, in many cases, point towards Charlie.
[6] child and sex trafficking.
[7] Thousands of children hand it off to the wrong people.
[8] I don't believe 85 ,000 is correct.
[9] I believe it's a much larger number.
[10] And the UK's new social media law is now sending people to jail, while the European Union tries to force Elon Musk to censor ex -users.
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[21] The final night of the Democratic National Convention crescendoed with Kamala Harris taking the stage to accept the party's presidential nomination.
[22] Joining us to discuss is Daily Wire, senior editor and host of Election Wire, Cabot Phillips.
[23] Hey, Cabot, so what did we hear from Harris last night?
[24] Well, she definitely wanted us to hear her joy.
[25] That is a theme the Democrats have pushed all week with speakers referencing what they called her contagious laugh.
[26] and it was clear she was trying to project a casual friendly demeanor, at least at the start of her speech.
[27] As far as substance goes, Harris repeatedly stressed her commitment to saving democracy and free and fair elections in November.
[28] Now, her critics were quick to point out the fact that for all the talk of democracy, she was not democratically elected as the nominee and was effectively handed the nomination by her boss after the voters had already elected him.
[29] So that really did hang over the entire speech and the entire week for that matter.
[30] Yeah, truly historic moment for that reason.
[31] Yeah.
[32] Now, as for her speech, it was designed to be a sort of reintroduction of Harris to the world, even though she has been the VP for the last four years and a senator several years before that.
[33] Despite that eight plus years in the spotlight, the primary focus was her experience as attorney general in California.
[34] And though her record was that of a typical California progressive, something that she's touted, in the past.
[35] Last night, she instead painted herself as a more tough on crime, tough on the border law and order prosecutor.
[36] Here she is claiming that she's the one who is a border hawk, while Trump supposedly does not care about the nation's security.
[37] After decades in law enforcement, I know the importance of safety and security, especially at our border.
[38] But Donald Trump believes a border deal would hurt his campaign.
[39] So he ordered his allies in Congress to kill the deal.
[40] Well, I refuse to play politics with our security.
[41] Now, Republicans, of course, have hammered Harris on her historically bad record as the so -called borders are, Biden's point person for handling the crisis.
[42] And it bears repeating, we have seen more illegal immigrants streaming over the southern border during the Biden -Harris administration than at any point in the country's history, at least 10 million in less than four years.
[43] Right.
[44] Some estimates even far higher.
[45] Now, the economy is also a massive hurdle for her due to the crushing inflation while she's been vice president.
[46] How did she address that?
[47] Yeah, Harris spoke in generalities as opposed to specific policy proposals, portraying herself as a change agent in terms of economic policy.
[48] And as president, I will bring together labor and workers and small business owners and entrepreneurs and American companies to create jobs.
[49] to grow our economy and to lower the cost of everyday needs like health care and housing and groceries.
[50] And we will end America's housing shortage.
[51] Former President Trump posted on social media during that moment saying, quote, why didn't she do something about the things of which she complains?
[52] And that really is the message we've heard repeatedly from Republicans who say, you know, if you can fix all of these problems, why not do it now?
[53] you're already in charge.
[54] Harris also made sure to hammer the issue that she and her party have arguably focused on the most abortion, blaming Trump for state -level laws passed since Roe was overturned.
[55] And understand he is not done as a part of his agenda.
[56] He and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion, and enact a nationwide abortion ban with.
[57] or without Congress, simply of their minds.
[58] Now, again, it's important to note here that Trump has repeatedly said he does not want any national law on abortion.
[59] He wants this to remain a state -level issue.
[60] Yeah, as we've reported in the past, like we've noted this week, Trump has been brought up far more than the economy or immigration and even abortion.
[61] Yeah, a lot more.
[62] What did we hear from Harris about her opponent?
[63] Well, it wasn't joyful.
[64] That is for sure.
[65] She painted him as, Stop me if you've heard this, a grave danger to democracy.
[66] She also used the lawfare prosecutions against him.
[67] Here is a taste of some of her attacks.
[68] In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.
[69] Consider not only the chaos and calamity when he was in office, but also the gravity of what has happened since he lost the last election.
[70] He sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol where they assaulted law enforcement officers.
[71] Consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers at the Capitol.
[72] consider the power he will have, especially after the United States Supreme Court, just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution.
[73] Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.
[74] While she did go low again and again against Trump, she also tried to go high, layering her big speech with a message of unity, and most emphatically, the need to, quote, move forward, which has become a sort of mantra for her campaign.
[75] Everywhere I go, I see a nation that is ready to move forward.
[76] I see an America where we hold fast to the fearless belief that built our nation and inspired the world.
[77] That here, in this country, Anything is possible.
[78] And America, where we care for one another and recognize that we have so much more in common than what separates us.
[79] Following the address, Trump summed up the speech with this message on his truth social app.
[80] Quote, she's done nothing for three and a half years but talk, and that's what she's doing tonight.
[81] She's complaining about everything but doing nothing.
[82] She should leave the speech right now, go to Washington, D .C., close the border, allow fracking in Pennsylvania and other places, and start doing the things she's complaining about aren't done.
[83] So the DNC has wrapped.
[84] The Democrats have their nominee.
[85] Now the question is, how does Team Trump regain the narrative after a week dedicated to Kamala Harris?
[86] Well, as Tim has said, they plan a full -on campaign blitz post -DNC, so we'll soon see how they choose to respond.
[87] Kevin, thanks for reporting.
[88] Anytime.
[89] The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General issued an urgent management alert this week, warning that many of the unaccompanied alien children who are being allowed into the country are missing after the government sent them to live in the homes of poorly vetted, so -called sponsors.
[90] This is the latest in a series of disclosures painting the Biden -Harris administration's border policies as anything but compassionate.
[91] We're joined now by Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Roziak, who's been pursuing these heartbreaking details.
[92] Hey, Luke, so what new info have we learned here?
[93] John, of 30 ,000 cases where DHS had specific reason to think these children were missing, nine times out of ten, they didn't even try to look for them.
[94] In one case, a girl was sent to live with a couple, and the female sponsor told a DHS officer that our husband was having sex with the girl.
[95] Still, nothing was done.
[96] Nothing done at all.
[97] No. So these are children sent by the U .S. government to live in the homes of sponsors who are typically other illegal immigrants and who don't have to be related to them, is that correct?
[98] Yes, the Department of Health and Human Services has primary responsibility for these kids, but the only follow -up they do after they're delivered to a sponsor is a single call 30 days later to check on the kid.
[99] According to data, appained by the New York Times, by that time, one in three sponsors can't or won't say where the kid is.
[100] In some cases, the kids are being used as cheap farm labor or sold into sex work.
[101] Some government employees who signed up to work at the centers where these kids are processed, thinking they'd be helping reunite families, concluded that the government was doing something closer to human trafficking.
[102] There's a lot of spin around immigration, so it's worth listening at length to the people who saw it on the ground.
[103] Here are some of those whistleblowers.
[104] Some of these IDs were false.
[105] I brought that up to the upper management team, and I was told we were not there to investigate the sponsor, that we were there to reunify the child to the sponsor.
[106] So I had a couple of times where the child was crying, saying, I don't want to go.
[107] I don't know this person.
[108] I've never seen them in my life.
[109] And my coworker would say, we have to give them over.
[110] It's company policy that we can't bring a child back because the contract can be lost.
[111] There was actual reports within the companies where these kids were calling the government phone that we had and say, I'm being treated bad.
[112] I'm being forced to work.
[113] Some kids would even go as far as to say I'm being raped.
[114] I'm being made slept with multiple men.
[115] And I wasn't allowed to have access to the phone outside of work.
[116] So knowing that you're taking documentation that can potentially put this kid in harm's way and you keep telling them and you keep telling them and nothing is being done, it weighs very heavy, you know.
[117] Very heavy.
[118] Very hard to listen to, say the least.
[119] It really is heartbreaking.
[120] The IG report says 450 ,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children were settled in the U .S. in the last five years, about 120 ,000 a year over the last three.
[121] At that rate of one -third going missing, that's 150 ,000 missing children.
[122] Even so, the Democratic Party 24 platform released this week doubles down on the idea that there should be this loophole where kids can come into this country as long as they show up at the border without parents.
[123] You know, what's happening in these kids is not just a scandal.
[124] It's a tragedy.
[125] Luke, thanks to you.
[126] And more importantly, these whistleblowers who are trying to make sure they aren't swept under the rug.
[127] Of course.
[128] That was Daily Wire investigative reporter, Luke Roziak.
[129] The first prison sentences under the UK's new social media law have started to be handed down.
[130] At the same time, the European Union is trying to force Elon Musk, to censor ex -users.
[131] Critics warn we could be seeing the death of free speech in Europe.
[132] Daily Wire reporter, Megan Basham, is here now with more.
[133] So, Megan, let's start with what's going on in the UK.
[134] There have been several days of protests and riots there stemming from anger over mass immigration.
[135] How does free speech play into that?
[136] So just to give you some quick context, these riots broke out in late July after three young girls were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift -themed dance class by a 17 -year -old.
[137] Well, rumors quickly spread that the assailant was an illegal immigrant.
[138] It turns out that the teen was a British citizen, but the rumor had already spurred a massive protest.
[139] The UK government then attempted to tamp down on rioting by cracking down on online speech.
[140] So just a sampling of what's been going on.
[141] A 55 -year -old woman, Bernadette Spofford, was arrested for sharing the viral yet false claim that the children were stabbed by a Muslim asylum seeker.
[142] In actuality, as we said, he was born in the UK to Rwandan immigrants.
[143] and Spofferth deleted her post about an hour later.
[144] The free speech advocacy group representing Spofferth is arguing that she didn't knowingly disseminate wrong information, but this does raise the question of whether being allowed to be wrong is a part of free speech.
[145] And then in an unrelated prior case, a 34 -year -old man received a three -month jail sentence for sharing what authorities are calling a derogatory meme about migrants in a Facebook group.
[146] Another man, age 30, received an eight -month prison sentence after he was caught on camera, making racist gestures and shouting racist comments, and then that video was then circulated on social media.
[147] So overall, there's been at least a dozen arrests for social media posts during these protests.
[148] And now the British government is even threatening to extradite U .S. citizens for online speech, seeming to approve of these protests.
[149] So this was what UK police commissioner, Mark Raleigh, said last week when a reporter asked him about high -profile figures in other countries like Elon Musk, voicing disapproval for online speech crackdowns.
[150] Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law.
[151] You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred.
[152] There are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material.
[153] All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on.
[154] the streets, and we'll come after those individuals, just as we will physically confront on the streets, the thugs and the obes who are taking, who are causing the promise for communities.
[155] So now what you're hearing are some First Amendment scholars like attorney Jonathan Turley, arguing that the U .S. needs to pass legislation immediately to make it clear that we will not allow other countries to violate American citizens free speech rights.
[156] Now, on what grounds can the EU censor Elon Musk in the U .S.?
[157] Well, right, that's the big question and the big controversy, they're attempting to invoke the new EU Digital Services Act.
[158] That act went into effect in February, and EU digital enforcers say X has to ban speech that they classify as disinformation or incitement to hatred.
[159] Just before Musk interviewed Donald Trump on his platform, EU Commissioner Terry Breton sent Musk a letter warning him that the amplification of harmful content could risk falling afoul of that Digital Services Act.
[160] So in In response, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, who was the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, sent an explosive letter to Breton.
[161] He said this, in light of your recent threats of reprisal toward X -Corp, an American company for facilitating political discourse in the U .S., we write to demand that you stop any attempt to intimidate individuals or entities engaged in political speech in the United States, and you take no action to otherwise interfere in the American democracy.
[162] democratic process.
[163] And worth noting that the Trump campaign also responded to the EU.
[164] They said this, the European Union should mind their own business instead of trying to meddle in the U .S. presidential election.
[165] Well, if a political candidate is not permitted to speak to voters, you've really lost your entire democracy.
[166] Megan, thanks for reporting.
[167] Anytime.
[168] Thank you for waking up with us.
[169] We'll be back this afternoon with more news you need to know.
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