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[0] The DOJ has filed a rebuttal to the Trump team's request for a special master.
[1] What reason did the agency give for opposing the request and what new details were revealed in the filing?
[2] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[3] It's Thursday, September 1st, and this is Morning Wire.
[4] Several prominent children's hospitals are under fire for allegedly performing gender reassignment surgeries on children, a charge they deny.
[5] These doctors and clinicians themselves admit it in these published articles.
[6] It's in the literature.
[7] We look at the evidence for the claims.
[8] And Cuban migrants are arriving at the U .S. border in numbers not seen since Fidel Castro assumed control in the 1950s.
[9] What's causing the spike and what happens once they get here.
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[21] The Department of Justice filed a lengthy rebuttal this week to Donald Trump's request to appoint a special master to oversee the materials seized from his residence.
[22] Here to go through the DOJ filing is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
[23] So, Tim, why is the DOJ opposed to Trump appointing a special master?
[24] Hey, Georgia, I'll get to that.
[25] But first, I want to point out that Judge Cannon, who will preside over the special master hearing later today, gave the Justice Department a 20 -page limit for its filing.
[26] The DOJ asked to extend that, the judge approved, and then the DOJ took full advantage.
[27] The department's filing on Tuesday was 36 pages long and had another 18 pages worth of attachments.
[28] As for the actual contents of the filing, the Justice Department urged Judge Cannon against appointing a special master because the FBI special review team had already separated out potentially privileged materials from the records the FBI was after, and a special master would unnecessarily slow the FBI's investigation.
[29] The DOJ also argued against returning any documents to retrieve during the raid.
[30] asserting that they all fell within the limits of the search warrant, which allowed agents to take materials stored with or alongside classified materials, and because all the records belong to the federal government anyway under the Presidential Records Act, and Trump doesn't have a right to ask for the return of documents that he doesn't own.
[31] So the Justice Department is pushing back on everything that Trump asked for.
[32] Yeah.
[33] Now, what about the raid's timeline?
[34] What did we learn about that?
[35] Yeah, the filing fleshes out some of the details of that as well, or at least gives the DOJ side of the story.
[36] So Trump's team has consistently claimed that Trump was largely cooperative with the FBI in the months leading up to the raid.
[37] But the DOJ says that that's not accurate.
[38] The filing says that when FBI agents went to Mar -Lago in June to pick up classified documents subpoenaed by a grand jury, they picked up the documents and learned that Trump was storing other White House documents in a storage room in Marlaco.
[39] The filing says that Trump allowed the agents to go inspect the storage room, but they were stopped from opening any of the boxes to confirm whether or not they held materials covered under the subpoena.
[40] One of Trump's team, reported to be his attorney and records keeper, Christina Bob, gave the FBI a sworn statement that, to the best of their knowledge, the FBI had everything covered under the subpoena and no more classified documents remained at Mar -a -Lago.
[41] Well, fast forward a few weeks, and the FBI learns that those boxes did, in fact, contain materials covered under the subpoena.
[42] The FBI applies for a search warrant and raids Trump's residence on August 8th and collects what they say amounts to hundreds of documents of classified material.
[43] And so that sworn statement that no more classified materials were left at Mar -a -Lago was...
[44] Yeah, the filing circles back to that and essentially strongly suggest that whoever signed that statement lied.
[45] The filing says that the FBI was able to find twice as many classified documents in the span of a few hours, as Trump's team found over the span of a few weeks.
[46] The filing says that that fact, quote, calls into serious question the representations made in the June 3rd certification and cast doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter.
[47] So a pretty strong condemnation there.
[48] It is.
[49] But that passage wasn't the most viral thing to come out of the filing.
[50] What attracted the most attention wasn't anything in the DOJ's actual response.
[51] It was an image the DOJ released in the attachments.
[52] The image was a photo taken of a stack of classified documents that the FBI agents who searched Mar -a -Lago had apparently spread over the floor and snapped a picture of before packing them back up and toting them out.
[53] The image didn't tell us anything we didn't already know, but it rocketed around social media.
[54] Critics said the photo was a cheap PR stunt.
[55] meant to give a false impression that it was Trump who left the classified documents strewn across the carpet.
[56] Well, it'll be interesting to see if that comes up in the hearing.
[57] Tim, thanks so much for reporting.
[58] Thanks for having me. That's Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
[59] Coming up, hospitals respond to claims that they are performing trans surgeries on children.
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[64] A number of major hospitals have been the subject of protests over the past few weeks over claims that they are performing sex change surgeries on minors.
[65] One of the most prominent allegations spurring the protests involves children's national hospital in D .C., which is being accused of providing hysterectomies to biological girls under the age of 18.
[66] But some media outlets have reported that the claims are unfounded and the hospitals are claiming they're being unfairly maligned.
[67] Daily Wire Culture reporter Megan Basham joins us now to pin down the details on these conflicting reports.
[68] So, Megan, a variety of outlets have recently published evidence that hospitals are performing various transgender surgeries on children.
[69] But legacy media outlets like the Washington Post and NPR have fact -checked those claims as false, saying they're either overblown or completely untrue.
[70] So what's going on?
[71] You know, it has definitely become a very contentious issue in the last several days.
[72] And a lot of this uproar started when the conservative Twitter account, Libs of TikTok, posted an audio recording where she posed as a mom seeking a hysterectomy for her 16 -year -old daughter.
[73] Now, two receptionists at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D .C., said their clinic would perform hysterectomies on underage females as part of their transgender transatlors.
[74] treatment.
[75] So here's some of that audio where Chaya Rychik, the woman who runs libs of TikTok, specifically says she's seeking a hysterectomy for a 16 -year -old.
[76] Okay.
[77] So they do, so they would do it for that age?
[78] Okay, great.
[79] Is it a common procedure that you guys do for that age?
[80] We have all different type of age groups that comes in for the for the gysterectomy?
[81] Yes, now.
[82] Okay.
[83] Just out of curiosity, do you know, like, what's the youngest age you would do it on?
[84] I'm not sure, but I have seen younger kids, younger than the child.
[85] The ender affirming hysterectomy surgery?
[86] Yes.
[87] Now, after the clip went viral, both Facebook and Twitter banned lives of TikTok from their platforms, though Facebook has since reversed that decision.
[88] And in the meantime, The Washington Post, Politifact, and NPR, have published fact -checking stories calling Reichick's claims into question.
[89] They quote, a hospital spokesperson, for instance, saying that these were simply operators who didn't have correct information and Children's National, and I'll just quote, does not and has never performed gender -affirming hysterectomies for anyone under the age of 18.
[90] Richick also posted a story about Boston Children's Hospital providing hysterectomies to 17 -year -old girls and vaginoplasties that is creating female genitals for the same age boys.
[91] The hospital denies it, but archived captures of Boston Children's webpage shows that prior to the libs of TikTok controversy, their site did say that 17 and not 18 was the cutoff age for these surgeries.
[92] Since then, a flood of reporting has come out from mostly conservative outlets detailing trans surgeries on minors.
[93] Now, are Boston Children's and D .C. children's outliers in offering this kind of treatment?
[94] No, not really.
[95] And this discussion is actually much wider than hysterectomies.
[96] To give you one example, performing breast removal.
[97] That's commonly known as top surgery.
[98] That's happening on girls as young as 12 or 13, and it is somewhat common in gender clinics.
[99] And several articles in peer -reviewed medical publications note that, while irreversible treatments like vaginoplasties are unusually, on patients under 18, they do occur.
[100] One article in that journal stated, and again, I'm just going to quote, of the 11 surgeons who had performed vaginoplasti on a transgender female, ages of minors undergoing surgery ranged from 15 to a day before 18 years.
[101] So again, those are minors.
[102] I spoke to Brandon Showalter, senior investigative reporter at the Christian Post, and he's been covering this topic for the last couple of years.
[103] He's done a lot of deep dives into the medical literature, and he's found studies detailing double mastectomies on 65 girls under age 18, along with other trans procedures on children.
[104] These are peer -reviewed medical journals that are trusted in the medical community, JAMA pediatrics, the Journal of Clinical Medicine, the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, where they showed that they did hysterectomies on a group of 15 patients, and the age range listed in that study was 16 to 43.
[105] 16 is a minor.
[106] They are doing these surgeries on people under the age of 18.
[107] That's not in dispute by their own words.
[108] Showalter stressed that the paper trail on this subject is really pretty extensive.
[109] So he feels that major media outlets need to start taking a more serious look at it.
[110] Well, this continues to be an extremely hot topic.
[111] Megan, thanks for the report.
[112] Yeah, anytime.
[113] That's Daily Wire Culture reporter, Megan Basham.
[114] Cubans are migrating to the U .S. at the highest rate since Fidel Castro was in power in 1959.
[115] Migrants seeking asylum say they're escaping political repression under the communist regime and the economic crisis plaguing the island nation.
[116] Joining us to discuss is Charlotte Pence Bond.
[117] So Charlotte, just how many Cuban migrants are we talking about?
[118] Right.
[119] So over 175 ,000 Cuban migrants have been apprehended in the country between October of last year and July of this year.
[120] Now, that's six times higher than what we saw in the last 12 -month time span, according to U .S. customs and border protection.
[121] In November, Nicaragua got rid of visa standards for Cubans to fly into the capital of Nicaragua.
[122] That essentially allowed a lot of Cubans to enter the U .S. through Mexico and Central America, with the majority of them using coyotes or human smugglers to do so.
[123] It's an extremely dangerous journey.
[124] A State Department spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal, the U .S. is very troubled about the of Cuban migrants.
[125] The spokesperson said, quote, predatory businesses are taking advantage of their desperation, charging Cubans and their families exorbitant fees to leave the island.
[126] Now, who exactly is coming over and what's happening with them once they get here?
[127] These are mainly young, single adults, and a lot of them are pretty well educated.
[128] A lot of Cubans turn themselves over to Border Patrol to seek asylum, and then they're usually let go in the U .S. with documentation telling them to come to immigration court.
[129] But there are at least 1 .8 million cases right now that are waiting in immigration court, according to government statistics.
[130] And Cubans are usually getting court dates for 2024.
[131] The lieutenant governor of Florida, Jeanette Nunez, recently commented on the influx of migrants through Cuba.
[132] She said Governor DeSantis would be sending illegal immigrants to Delaware, President Joe Biden's home state.
[133] Her comments faced criticism, but she says they were misrepresented.
[134] We talked about how it was bigger than the Mariel Boat Lift.
[135] And then he asked in terms of the state and what the state is doing.
[136] So it was a general discussion around illegal immigration, not targeted at Cuban migrants that are fleeing a dictatorial regime.
[137] I think I know that best, the daughter of Cuban immigrants.
[138] Now, we've seen waves of Cuban migrants in the past.
[139] How do these numbers compare to what we've seen before?
[140] In 1980, Castro let Cubans leave Cuba and get picked up at Cuba's port of Mario.
[141] known as the Mariel Boat Lift.
[142] At that time, around 125 ,000 people came to the U .S. in that effort.
[143] And an additional 30 ,000 Cubans escaped to Florida on rafts in 1994 when Castro let them leave after there was rioting in Havana.
[144] And of course, there was the recent protesting last year across the country because of the drastic economic situation.
[145] Government authorities cracked down on protesters and actually charged 930 of them and issued prison sentences to 670.
[146] of those.
[147] So even for historical standards, this is a staggering number.
[148] Charlotte, thanks so much for reporting.
[149] Thanks for having me. That was Daily Wires, Charlotte Pence -Bahn.
[150] Other stories we're tracking this week.
[151] The FDA announced Wednesday that it has authorized updated COVID booster shots targeting the highly contagious Omicron variant.
[152] Life expectancy in the U .S. declined in 2020 and 2021, in the steepest two -year drop in almost a century.
[153] In 2019, Americans were expected to live on average until they were 79 years old.
[154] But in 2021, the average American's life expectancy was down to 76.
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