Chapter 1: What is the current status of the government shutdown vote?
The House votes today on whether to reopen the government. Democrats release a Jeffrey Epstein email referencing Trump. And an AI-generated song tops the music charts for the first time. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Wednesday, November 12th, and this is Evening Wire. The deal to end the shutdown is now in the hands of the House.
Chapter 2: What did Democrats reveal about Jeffrey Epstein's emails referencing Trump?
Voting is underway on the clean CR that would fund the government through January 30th and certain programs, including SNAP, for the entire fiscal year. The vote is expected to pass the House and head straight to the president's desk, meaning we could have only hours remaining in this record-setting government shutdown.
While the shutdown appears poised to end, the fallout remains, especially for air travelers.
Chapter 3: How has the AI-generated song topped the music charts?
According to FlightAware.com, 980 flights have been delayed, while 893 were canceled as of midday today. Airlines for America president and CEO Chris Sununu urged lawmakers to reopen the government as the air travel industry prepares for record Thanksgiving travel in just two weeks.
The White House is pushing back with force after House Democrats released Jeffrey Epstein emails mentioning the president. In the message, Epstein described Trump as, quote, the dog that hasn't barked, referring to a victim they say spent time with him, later confirmed to be Virginia Giuffre. She has since publicly cleared Trump of any wrongdoing.
Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt accused Democrats of fabricating a, quote, fake narrative, saying Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago years ago for harassing women.
When Joe Biden was sitting in there, the Democrats never brought this up. This wasn't an issue that they cared about because they actually don't care about the victims in these cases. They care about trying to score political points against President Trump. As we have, of course, seen with this government shutdown, there are no coincidences in Washington, D.C.
And it is not a coincidence that the Democrats leaked these emails to the fake news this morning ahead of Republicans reopening the government.
Republicans call the release a smear tactic as pressure grows for Congress to make Epstein's full files public. Another Kennedy has popped onto the political scene. President John F. Kennedy's grandson, Jack Schlossberg, kicked off his congressional campaign by putting his cousin, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on blast, accusing him of spreading deadly misinformation.
He claims to defend what he calls the real Kennedy legacy. The 32-year-old Democrat is running for retiring Congressman Jerry Nadler's Manhattan seat.
My name is Jack Schlossberg, and I'm running for Congress to represent my home, New York's 12th congressional district, where I was born and raised, where I took the bus to school every single day from one side of the district to the other.
Venezuela has announced a massive mobilization of its military in response to the increased U.S. military presence in the Caribbean Sea, including the arrival of America's largest warship. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pearce has the story.
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Chapter 4: What impact will the government shutdown end have on air travel?
Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has the latest.
Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, whom we've had on the show, just introduced the bill. Foreign nationals are currently barred from donating to political campaigns directly, but they can contribute to other election activity, like voter registration, ballot collection, and get-out-the-vote efforts.
This bill would close those loopholes, as well as funding for state-level ballot measure campaigns. Those include policy debates ranging from abortion to marijuana. At least nine states have already restricted foreign funding for state-level ballots, but no action has been taken at the federal level.
A landslide in China has destroyed the 2,500-foot-long Hongqi Bridge just months after it opened. The bridge, which links the Tibetan Plateau to China's heartland, was completed earlier this year and spans nearly half a mile across a river gorge. Dramatic video from the scene shows rock and debris cascading down the mountainside, crushing the bridge.
Luckily, local police had closed the bridge to traffic on Monday after cracks appeared in the rock face above. No casualties have been reported, but a key piece of Chinese infrastructure has been left in ruin. Violent riots erupted outside a Turning Point USA event at UC Berkeley this week, and now the FBI is looking into it.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the investigation on X and blamed the violence squarely on Antifa. Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon gave an update on Fox News.
There'll be a full federal investigation. We've already sent two letters to Berkeley and to the police to preserve their documents so we understand how we came to this horrific situation to make sure it never happens again.
The investigation is being led by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, which focuses on international and domestic terrorism. Two people were arrested after a fistfight broke out between one of the agitators and a man wearing a red Turning Point USA t-shirt. One person has been charged with battery.
The Department of Homeland Security has captured over 150 illegal alien sex offenders in Florida in a move they call Operation Dirtbag. Secretary Noem appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss the operation. These individuals were sex offenders, but not just sex offenders. They targeted children.
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Chapter 5: What allegations are being made regarding the release of Epstein emails?
So sexual assault, battery, attempted homicide, these 150 individuals will be gone off of our streets. Our kids will be safer. And this partnership with Governor DeSantis in Florida is a model that we want to replicate across the country. These individuals should have never been in our country to begin with.
The fact that they were sexual deviants and perverts and now we've gotten them off of our streets, it's remarkable and we need to do more of it. The success of the operation is being credited in part to the cooperation of governors like Ron DeSantis. Meanwhile, several Democrat governors like Illinois' J.B. Pritzker are actively hampering the administration's efforts in cities like Chicago.
California has illegally issued thousands of commercial trucking licenses to foreign-born applicants. That's according to the Department of Transportation.
Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell has more. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Wednesday that California admitted to issuing 17,000 non-domiciled CDLs to, quote, dangerous foreign drivers. The secretary said in a statement, quote, after weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed.
Now that we've exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Duffy added that the administration will continue to pressure California over the issue until the state proves it has removed, quote, every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semi-trucks and school buses.
The Transportation Department says all holders of illegal CDLs from California have received notices that their licenses will expire in 60 days.
President Trump has declared victory in Chicago over immigration enforcement and crime mitigation. Daily Wire immigration reporter Jenny Ter has the details.
The president posted on Truth Social Tuesday night, writing, "'I am proud to announce that Chicago, Illinois, despite all of the radical opposition and obstruction we have from the mayor and the governor, has seen car theft, shootings, robberies, violent crime, and everything else drop dramatically.'"
Since DHS began operations in Chicago, shootings have been down 35 percent, robberies are down 41 percent, and rates of carjackings have been cut in half. Despite protests from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor Pritzker, citizens of Chicago have enjoyed a safer city since the crackdowns on crime began in September.
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