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[0] New data shows that a large number of criminals, including dozens on the terror watch list, are trying to enter the U .S. at our southern border.
[1] And border security is quickly rising to the top of Americans' concerns.
[2] We know that individuals are coming across in the FBI's terror screening database.
[3] We've had over a million godaways in the last 19 months.
[4] So how many illegal aliens on the FBI's watch lists have got through?
[5] I'm Daily Wire editor -in -chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe.
[6] It's Friday, September 23rd, and this is morning.
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[8] The former CEO of Google is sounding the alarm, warning that the U .S. is falling behind China in critical technology areas that could cripple our economy and devastate our military operations.
[9] And as we enter the midterm election home stretch, we take a look at the most hotly contested races for the House and Senate and who's predicted to win them.
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[19] Through August, U .S. Customs and Border Patrol officials have nabbed 78 people on the FBI's terror watch list.
[20] Here to talk about the alarming number and new data suggesting immigration is a growing concern among Americans is DailyWire reporter Tim Pierce.
[21] So, Tim, new numbers on immigration were released this week.
[22] What did they show?
[23] Hey, John.
[24] Yeah, Border Patrol agents have arrested more suspected terrorists this year than in the past five years combined.
[25] But even that comparison is underselling it.
[26] The number of suspected terrorists arrested entering the country illegally, 78, is actually triple the number arrested by the Border Patrol in the previous five years combined.
[27] Wow.
[28] That number is also likely undercounting it a bit because it doesn't include any of the gotaways who were never intercepted by border enforcement.
[29] officials estimate that there were half a million gotaways this year and roughly 800 ,000 since Biden took office.
[30] That 78 is also in addition to hundreds of other suspected terrorists that were taken into custody at ports of entry along the United States, northern and southern borders.
[31] Now, we also got new numbers on encounters at the border.
[32] What were those?
[33] Yeah, we've shattered that record this year and it keeps climbing.
[34] The Department of Homeland Security released data this week showing that the number of encounters between Border Patrol agents and migrants at the U .S. southern border eclipsed 2 million for the first.
[35] time ever.
[36] And we still have a month left in the fiscal year.
[37] That follows last fiscal year's record -setting 1 .7 million encounters.
[38] And it's not just suspected terrorists attempting to enter the U .S. with the current flood of illegal immigration.
[39] Many migrants are committing or have committed crimes.
[40] The Heritage Foundation's Mark Morgan, who was acting Customs and Border Patrol director under Trump, spoke to Morning Wire about that.
[41] From 2011 to 2022, we have on record 261 ,000 criminal illegal aliens committed 433 ,000 crimes, including 800 homicides, 800 kidnappings, and 5 ,000 sexual assaults.
[42] Here's the kicker.
[43] That was the state of Texas alone.
[44] As we've noted, a few red state governors have really forced this issue into the national spotlight by busing and flying migrants into sanctuary cities.
[45] This is obviously a hot campaign issue in an election year, and it's really gotten Americans' attention, correct?
[46] Yeah, data shows that starting last week, internet activity around the border and immigration surged into the top ten of news and election issues following the arrival of migrants at Martha's Vineyard and Vice President Kamala Harris's home in D .C. And it's pushing abortion out of the spotlight.
[47] That data, coming from Axios, suggests that Americans care a lot.
[48] So much, in fact, that concerns over immigration are drowning out the alarms Democrats have raised over abortion since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June.
[49] Democrats have relied heavily on abortion this election season to motivate their base and attack pro -life Republicans as extremists.
[50] As interest in the border has been rising, the data shows that interest in abortion -related topics has been falling.
[51] All right, so that could be a good sign for Republicans as we move into the final stretch of midterms.
[52] Yep.
[53] Tim, thanks for reporting.
[54] Thanks for having me. That was DailyWire's Tim Pierce.
[55] Coming up, Google's former CEO sounds the alarm.
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[61] Google's former CEO, Eric Schmidt, is sounding the alarm about the U .S. falling behind China in key digital areas.
[62] A new report from a think tank that Schmidt chairs warns that the U .S. is losing the technology race.
[63] And it could lead to massive supply chain disruptions.
[64] Here to give us more insight on the findings in this report is Daily Wire Culture reporter Megan Basham.
[65] So, Megan, the headlines surrounding this report sound pretty dire.
[66] Is this really something average Americans need to be concerned about?
[67] Well, yeah, according to the report and one expert I spoke to, it definitely is.
[68] So this report was compiled by a think tank called the Special Competitive Studies Project.
[69] As we noted in the intro, it's chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
[70] Well, what it found is that the U .S. U .S. is falling behind China in what it calls three key technology battlegrounds.
[71] Those are microelectronics, 5G connectivity, and artificial intelligence.
[72] It warns that as a result of China's advancement, the U .S. has become economically dependent on China.
[73] So if the Chinese Communist Party decides to, quote, turn off the technology tap, they say it would leave America's military crippled and could plunge us into an economic depression.
[74] crippling the American military and an economic depression that's unsettling.
[75] Yeah, it is.
[76] To give a little more insight into that, I reached out to Joshua Steinman, who was a senior advisor on the National Security Council during the Trump administration.
[77] He now runs an industrial cybersecurity firm, and he says this is not just a national security risk, but could have real impact on kitchen table issues.
[78] Minerals are a critical part of manufacturing digital goods, and the reason we are, why is that essentially everything today that has a computer screen or a digital input device or runs on a computer is made up of small computer chips.
[79] In some cases, these are manufactured by companies that you've heard of like Intel.
[80] In other cases, they're very small commodity chips.
[81] So everything from, you know, that very expensive coffee mug that's connected to your phone via Bluetooth that you can buy to your personal computer and cell phone, to the thermostat that's connected to the internet.
[82] They all require computer chips.
[83] Those computer chips require advanced materials beyond silicon.
[84] And the supply chain of those minerals is critical because they are so widely used.
[85] They're in nearly every consumer and industrial product that we have.
[86] And without them, that entire supply chain collapses.
[87] Essentially, Steinman says it would be like what we've seen with Russia, cutting off gas supplies from Europe, but on a much bigger scale.
[88] Now, a lot of the coverage out there seems to suggest that this is new information to the administration.
[89] Is that accurate?
[90] No, Steinman stressed that it's not.
[91] We've known about all this for at least four years, but I'd say that the signs have been there for over a decade, if not longer.
[92] And so the Special Competitive Studies Report that we're talking about is really just an encapsulation of everything that people have been discussing in these circles, the circles of intersecting foreign policy and technology and national economy circles, both in Washington and in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, really for the past decade.
[93] All right.
[94] So we're facing some potentially severe consequences here.
[95] What is the solution to this?
[96] Well, both Steinman and the report stressed that it's really national self -reliance.
[97] The Chips Act, which recently passed, is designed to create incentives for companies to mine for the minerals needed for computer chips domestically.
[98] And we also, they say, need to develop and manufacture these technologies here in the U .S. Steinman says that's significant.
[99] But he also points to a few other remedies.
[100] I think that keeping President Trump's tariffs in place is incredibly important.
[101] because the American people and especially policymakers and lawmakers need to recognize that in many cases, the manufacturing of these goods and services in China is absolutely state subsidized.
[102] He stressed that regulatory overreach has pushed the U .S. into relying on China too much for our technology, and he says that needs to change immediately.
[103] All right, well, it's a sobering report and something that we'll continue to monitor.
[104] Thanks for reporting, Megan.
[105] My pleasure.
[106] That was Daily Wire Culture reporter, Megan Basham.
[107] With the 2022 midterms less than seven weeks away, the race for control of the House of Representatives is hitting the home stretch, with a set of 30 toss -up races poised to tip the balance, according to new power rankings from Fox News.
[108] The latest numbers show a range of possible outcomes with the best -case scenario for Republicans being a 40 - or so seat majority next year, while the Democrats, if they sweep all 30 toss -up races, could just manage to hold on to a two -seat majority.
[109] Here to talk about all of this and take a dive into a few of the notable races is columnist David Marcus.
[110] Morning, Dave.
[111] So is this battle for the House tightening up?
[112] Morning.
[113] It is to some extent.
[114] The power ranking from Fox was the first that gives Democrats a chance at holding on to control in the people's body.
[115] But they'd have to run the table.
[116] To the extent that the GOP advantage is narrowing, the question is less, who will have control, and more how big or possibly small that Republican majority will be.
[117] So let's take a look at a few of the toss -up races that can decide this whole thing.
[118] Where are we seeing these contests, and do we have a sense of which way they're trending now?
[119] Well, we have a pretty good example in Indiana's first congressional district, where incumbent Democrat Frank Mervin is fighting to keep his seat against Jennifer Ruth Green, a former Air Force officer who's now an education advocate.
[120] Green describes herself as black, pro -Trump woman and veteran.
[121] And though she didn't specifically have the former president's endorsement, she's backed by Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley.
[122] Mervyn won this in 2020 with a 17 -point advantage.
[123] So it's a little strange that it's a toss -up.
[124] But look, it's a working -class district, not a lot of college degrees.
[125] It's really the prototype of long -standing Democrat districts that the GOP is hungrily eyeing now.
[126] But there are some candidates in these toss -up races that are more closely associated with Trump, more in line with the populist wing of the party.
[127] These are candidates that even Democrats have supported in primaries, believing it will actually give them easier opponents, right?
[128] Yes, and one of these is New Hampshire won, which is the Granite State's sole seat.
[129] Here, a 25 -year -old former Trump official Caroline Levitt won her primary against a candidate backed by the GOP establishment, and she'll face off against incumbent, Chris Pappas, a GOP pickup here wouldn't just ensure GOP control of the House.
[130] It would also impact what that majority looks like.
[131] Leavitt has not committed to supporting Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, and should she win, would likely be a part of what some call the MAGA squad in Congress.
[132] So there's a few things at stake here.
[133] Are there likewise toss -ups that could put more, for lack of better term, moderate Republicans in the caucus?
[134] Yes.
[135] In Kansas's third congressional District Republican Amanda Atkins is running again against incumbent Cherise Davids, who won that matchup by 10 points in 2020.
[136] Now, there's been significant redistricting that makes this a much more competitive race in 2022.
[137] Unlike Levitt, Atkins is steering clear of relitigating the 2020 election, is really focused on kitchen table issues like inflation and economic growth.
[138] So is the bottom line here that Republicans are still feeling good about taking the House, given that Democrats need to pull basically an inside straight to hang on, or is some actual nervousness starting to sit in?
[139] Conventional wisdom is still very much that the GOP takes the House and that McCarthy winds up speaker.
[140] But yes, two months ago, Republicans were more confident of a giant red wave, which still could happen, but perhaps seems a little less likely now.
[141] What will be interesting is the composition of a potential GOP majority.
[142] That really could range from a comfortable establishment majority for the leadership or a small one that would give more power and greater voice to the more radical elements of the party, who, in fairness, do represent the views of a ton of Republican voters.
[143] It's going to be really interesting to see how this all shapes up.
[144] Thank you for joining us today, David.
[145] Thanks for having me. That was Daily Wire contributor, David Marcus.
[146] Other stories we're tracking this week.
[147] Japan's prime minister said Thursday, individual visitors will be allowed to enter, and the country will reinstate visa waivers.
[148] This comes as the country's deadliest wave of the pandemic recedes.
[149] It also comes at a time when the yen has slumped to its lowest level when compared to the U .S. dollar.
[150] Senator Marcia Blackburn of Tennessee has called on the FDA to investigate the use of puberty blockers on children experiencing gender dysphoria.
[151] Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has agreed to testify in front of the January 6th Committee.
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