President Biden for the most part survives his high-stakes NATO press conference, whistleblowers say 85,000 “unaccompanied minors” have disappeared under the Biden administration, and a bill passes the House rebuking Biden’s controversial rewrite of Title IX. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] President Biden survives his high stakes NATO press conference, but not without some missteps. I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President until I think she was not qualified to be president. Will it be enough to help him hold on to the nomination? I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Friday, July 12, and this is Morning Wire. Whistleblowers say that 85,000 unaccompanied minors have disappeared after the Biden administration placed them with so-called sponsors. Despite raising case after case of trafficking, HHS ORR leadership and the contractor allowed children to be trafficked on their watch, and the taxpayers continue to fund it. And the House passes a bill reviewing Biden's controversial rewrite of Title IX after several courts rule against it. We talk to a legal expert about why she expects the administration will double down on its trans agenda. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. 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The stakes could not have been higher, especially since about an hour before at a NATO event. Biden accidentally introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinski as President Putin before trying to clean it up. Here's that moment. - Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin. (audience applauds) President Putin is gonna be President Putin. President Volinski. - In fairness, Putin is actually alive, unlike the subjects of previous Biden gas, but it was not the overture he wanted to, he was big, or should I say big boy moment. That was at about 5.30 p.m. The presser was scheduled for 6.30 and started an hour late. The optics really weren't good, and that was before it even began. - Yeah, you think they would've wanted everything to go as planned, and that certainly not would happen at the start. So when it did finally begin, how cogent did the president seem? - He opened with prepared remarks on the NATO summit, read from a teleprompter, and he had a few stumbles, but nothing major. The real test was when he had to respond to questions without any words being fed to him. After announcing that he had been given a list of reporters to call on, he took the first question and referred to Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump, which the NBC reporter called out at the end of the presser as well. Here's some sound of that. - Respectfully, earlier you misspoke when your opening answer is referred to Vice President Harris as Vice President Trump. Right now, Donald Trump is using that to mock your age and your memory. How do you combat that criticism from tonight? - Listen to him. - All of the early questions were focused on Biden's fitness for office, as well as that of Kamala Harris, and most observers felt that there were no major deaths. Biden was able to answer the question spontaneously, that sometimes in ways that were a bit confusing, but he managed to get through it. Although at the end, he slowed down and we saw him get very angry when talking about gun control. - We're sitting around. More children are killed by a bullet than any other cause of death. The United States of America. What the hell are we doing? - Then he was asked directly if he would step down, if his staff showed him data that Kamala would do better in polls against Trump. Here's how he replied to that. - No, unless they came back and said, there's no way you can win. Me. - No insane death. No poll sense death. - Yeah, notable moment there. Is there any immediate sense as to whether this performance was enough to stave off the pressure on him to step down? - I mean, this felt like a push and that was reflected pretty widely in the responses. This was not really a game changer either way, but of course, had it been a disaster, this would have become a very different situation. Whether this will slow down the members of Congress and other officials who have been coming out to tell him not to run, that remains to be seen, or if potentially any of those doubters change their mind and get back on board with Biden, the waters are still very, very choppy and the focus on his fitness is not going away. It was telling that there was really no news in this press conference beyond how Biden seems physically and mentally. He and his abilities are the story and that doesn't seem likely to change anytime soon. And that's something that might not be sustainable. - Yeah, that really is the question in the end. So we also saw some reporting that indicates some of the calls for Biden to drop out or are actually coming from inside the White House. What did we learn about that yesterday? - The New York Times reported and it was partially confirmed by NBC News that according to three anonymous sources, there are longtime Biden aides who do not think the president has a path forward to beat Donald Trump or even to be the nominee. There was also reporting on Thursday that Democrats are testing Kamala Harris' poll numbers, another indication that at least some are willing to move on from Biden, as well as a comment from longtime Democrat strategist James Carville that Biden stepping down is inevitable. So not a bad night for the president, but this scandal is far from over. - Yeah, that seems like a pretty safe guess at this point. Dave, always appreciate it. Thanks for coming on. - Thanks for having me. - Hey guys, producer Brandon here. Men's closets produce for a radical reinvention and Rome has stepped up to the plate. 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"Once these children leave here, "they are no longer your responsibility." - Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiac was in the Senate hearing room and joins us now. So Luke, this is an incredibly disturbing headline. Tell us what did you learn from attending the Senate investigation? - Hi, Georgia. Distraught federal employees described what they're calling, quote, "tax pair-funded child slavery" that delivers kids directly to gang members who may use them for forced labor or sex trafficking. After the so-called kids in cages, PR crusade during the Trump years, the Biden administration wanted to place kids as quickly as possible to avoid those same optics. Unfortunately, that meant scrimping on security and background checks, often placing minors with unvetted and often unrelated adults. Employee training materials from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement show that sponsors are often, quote, "exempt" from fingerprint-based FBI national criminal background checks and many of the people being given kids were, quote, "onrelated" and had, quote, "no preexisting relationship" to these children. Here's what two of the whistleblowers told Senator James Langford of Oklahoma. A lot of times the names and phone numbers and addresses of sponsors the child is supposed to ask for is being handed to the children by cartel members so that they are processed into a trafficking situation once they get released from ORR to that sponsor. - But ORR is not evaluating that. - Not in a meaningful way. - Right. What we have said repetitively is the federal government is the last mile delivery in human trafficking because right now Javier Presera is facilitating the delivery for the end for these children. Am I wrong on that? - No, Senator, sadly you are correct. - Terrelly Rodos, the HHS senior manager at the end there, was placed under investigation and removed from her job after identifying cases where children were sent to live with known gang members and trying to stop those placements. She said one 16-year-old girl named Carmen was placed with somebody who he said was her brother only for him to post pictures online of him touching her sexually, along with child pornography. In another case, the government placed more than 300 kids at the home of one purported sponsor. Deborah White, the woman who you heard earlier said getting rid of DNA testing removed the only barrier to child trafficking since the adult sponsors are typically themselves illegal immigrants with little documentation. HHS has never even met these sponsors. It just has them text an image of some foreign birth certificate. The only follow-up they ever did on kids was a phone call 30 days later. And at that point, more than 85,000 kids couldn't be located. Their sponsors were unable to explain where they were or to put them on the phone. And the missing number now could easily be 250,000. - Wow, so the government though theoretically has a database of where these kids were last seen as well as the names and addresses of the adults they were placed with. So are any of these being treated as missing kids? - No, and that's shocking when you think about what would happen under normal circumstances. If an American parent or foster parent lost their kid, child protective services would put you in jail. But HHS's position is as soon as these kids leave their custody, they're not their problem. And child protective services is run by states. The feds who have the data on these kids have refused to release it to them, claiming it's to protect the privacy of illegal immigrant adults. So CPS is unable to work these cases. One final note, the legacy press clearly wants to bury this story. After the hearing, reporters were invited to a follow-up discussion with the whistleblowers. I was one of only two reporters to show up. - 85,000 missing kids is a crisis. Luke, thanks for reporting and continuing to bring attention to this issue. - Thank you. (upbeat music) - In late April, the Department of Education enacted a sweeping new Title IX rule that expands the definition of sex to include gender identity. Since then, five different federal courts have ruled against the new policy, most recently just last week. Daily Wire Culture reporter Megan Basham spoke to Heritage Foundation's senior legal fellow Sarah Portial Perry about why the Biden administration has continued to face defeat over Title IX. - Hey Sarah, thanks so much for joining us. So for those who may not have been following these developments, how specifically is the Biden administration's interpretation of Title IX different from how past administrations have interpreted it? And also what practical changes did its new Title IX rule accomplish? - Well, probably the biggest change was the fact that they've expanded the definition of sex as we've understood it always to be male and female, but the Biden administration expanded it to include sexual orientation and gender identity. And that gender identity expansion is proving very problematic for them because we understand that under Title IX, this entire paradigm was women's equality in education. It was the crown jewel of the women's liberation movement and really guaranteed sort of educational success and career success for women. So expanding that notion of sex to include gender identity is the biggest change, but they've also included preferred pronouns and a Title IX harassment violation based on whether or not you misgender someone. And that's for a teacher or a student. They've also eliminated due process protections for any student who is charged or alleged to have conducted in sexual assault or sexual misconduct on college campuses. So significant changes and so far they have seen nothing but a series of losses in federal court. - Okay, so to talk about those losses, obviously there are a number of groups who've been suing to block the rule from taking effect, including Alliance Defending Freedom and Moms for Liberty. What legal reasoning did the most recent court offer in ruling in their favor? - Yeah, it's actually very significant because this is now the fifth federal court to either strike down the informal guidance on a Title IX, which is sort of the preview of how a government agency is going to make a rule and then three federal courts have actually struck down the final rule itself. It violates the First Amendment because as I mentioned before, this is misgendering and unconstitutional speech codes in public classrooms. It never actually defines gender identity and it violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which is the governing rule by which every executive agency and the federal government must actually interpret and apply their own rules. - So last question on this for now, given the string of losses for the Biden administration, do you expect them to continue trying to enforce this rule? - I do and here's why the Biden administration has made the transgender rights issue sort of their penultimate campaign aim. President Biden has called transgender rights the civil rights issue of our era. I don't think he is willing to cut across his hard left progressive base. And I think based on what we're seeing so far in terms of his struggling poll numbers, he has up to this point been able to rely on a very hard left progressive base, especially so on LGBTQ rights. That's an issue I think we're likely to see him double down on. - Thank you so much for joining us Sarah and for offering some perspective on where Title IX goes from here. - Thanks for having me. - Thanks for waking up with us. We'll be back this afternoon with more news you need to know. (upbeat music) (ding)
President Biden for the most part survives his high-stakes NATO press conference, whistleblowers say 85,000 “unaccompanied minors” have disappeared under the Biden administration, and a bill passes the House rebuking Biden’s controversial rewrite of Title IX. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.
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