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[0] I'm Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howl.
[1] It's Wednesday, March 8th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[2] Mexican authorities arrested a suspect late Tuesday, allegedly tied to the kidnapping of four Americans last weekend that left two dead.
[3] Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Brandon Dre.
[4] The suspect Jose Guadalupe N is a Mexican national in his early 20s.
[5] When he was detained, he was guarding a small wooden house outside the city of Matamoros, where cartel members held the Americans.
[6] Authorities have not confirmed if he is involved with the cartel suspected of kidnapping the U .S. nationals.
[7] According to Mexican officials, when they discovered the victims kidnapped by the gunmen, two of them, Cheyed Woodard, and Zendell Brown were deceased.
[8] Investigations and efforts to capture those responsible are ongoing.
[9] President Biden's polarizing nominee to head the Federal Communications Commission has withdrawn from consideration amid significant backlash and Democrat Senator Joe Manchin's announcement that he would not backer.
[10] The Daily Wire's Tim Meads reports.
[11] Gigi Sun, the former Obama official, would have been the first openly gay FCC commissioner.
[12] She backs the controversial idea of net neutrality and had been vying for the job for 16 months.
[13] But in a statement Tuesday, Manchin dealt a significant blow to her chances, saying, quote, especially now, the FCC must remain above the toxic partisanship that Americans are sick and tired of.
[14] And Ms. Sond has clearly shown she is not the person to do that.
[15] Sun withdrew within hours of mention statement.
[16] Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who's been one of the more outspoken critics of Sun's nomination, declared her withdrawal a major victory for bipartisanship, stating the FCC is not a place for partisan activists.
[17] Free speech is too important.
[18] Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized Fox News for airing newly released footage from the January 6th riots on Tucker Carlson's Monday evening show.
[19] Here's McConnell late Tuesday afternoon.
[20] It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that's completely had variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at Capitol thinks.
[21] Fox News host Tucker Carlson responded to his Democratic and Republican critics on Tuesday evening.
[22] All sharing the same outrage.
[23] And from this, we learn two things.
[24] One, you're getting close to what they really care about.
[25] And you have to ask yourself, why?
[26] Why is it so important that they would degrade themselves by telling such obvious lies and calling for censorship?
[27] Why?
[28] What are they trying to protect?
[29] That might be worth exploring, and we plan to.
[30] And the second thing that we learned from this is that they're on the same side.
[31] The Senate Majority Leader joins the Senate Minority Leader, Tom Tillis, Mitt Romney.
[32] They're all on the same side.
[33] So it's actually not about left and right.
[34] It's not about Republican and Democrat.
[35] In the world of sports, we have the latest research.
[36] regarding the saga of one of the world's best tennis players.
[37] Novak Djokovic.
[38] Kranen company co -host David Cohn reports.
[39] Novak Djokovic has once again been denied entry into the U .S. due to his refusal to be vaccinated against COVID -19.
[40] The number one player in the world requested a medical waiver to participate in the Miami Open as well as the Indian Wells Masters, but was turned away by Homeland Security.
[41] Now, this comes after Djokovic was forced to miss the U .S. and Australian opens last season, two of the four major tennis tournaments.
[42] Moderna, one of the largest vaccine makers, is one of the official sponsors of the U .S. Open.
[43] Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent a letter to President Biden this week, urging the president to allow Djokovic into the country in order to compete.
[44] The Department of Justice released its findings in its civil rights investigation into the Louisville Police Department following the death of Brianna Taylor in 2020.
[45] Daily Wires, Tim Pierce, joins us now to walk us through the report.
[46] The DOJ investigated Louisville Metro Police for two years and now alleges that the city's officers regularly, quote, engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives people of their rights under the Constitution and federal law.
[47] Those findings claim the LMPD uses excessive force, relies on invalid search warrants, discriminates against black people, and unlawfully stops, detains, and arrests individuals during routine traffic and street stops.
[48] The DOJ report also claims that some officers have videotaped themselves throwing drinks at pedestrians from their cars, insulted people with disabilities, and called black people monkeys, animal, and boy.
[49] The DOJ also announced that it will be reviewing the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department's use of force and de -escalation policies in the wake of the killing of Tyree Nichols.
[50] Well, those are your drive -home updates this afternoon.
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