0:03

He came out and said he was going to go,

0:05

all the time working behind the chain of

0:07

commands back to secure his retirement. Democratic

0:10

BP candidate Tim Walz is under

0:12

fire again for allegedly abandoning his

0:14

men while a family member comes

0:16

out against him. Why

0:19

are several people close to Walz sounding the

0:21

alarm? I'm Daily Wire,

0:23

editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's

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Wednesday, September 4th, and this is Morning

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Wire. The

0:33

full 100 pages of the Covenant

0:35

Shooters journal have finally been made

0:37

public. We analyze what's in the

0:39

document and the controversy over its

0:41

publication. And

0:43

as a South American gang wreaks havoc

0:45

in American cities, new data shows the

0:47

mounting price tag of the border crisis.

0:50

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0:52

of dollars on people who aren't even

0:54

supposed to be here. How

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much has illegal immigration cost American

0:59

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Harris's running mate Tim Walz continues

1:48

to face mounting allegations of stolen

1:50

valor as former colleagues and now

1:52

family members are going public with

1:54

new criticism. Here to

1:56

discuss is Daily Wire senior editor, Cabot Phillips.

1:59

So Cabot, this is a story that does not seem

2:01

to be going away for the Harris-Wals campaign. Yeah,

2:03

if anything, it is only gaining momentum. So

2:05

a quick recap as there are a few

2:07

layers to this story. But

2:14

throughout his political career, he has heavily

2:16

implied, or even outright claimed,

2:18

that he served in combat. There's the

2:20

now infamous clip of him saying he,

2:22

quote, carried weapons of war in war.

2:25

And there are numerous examples of him nodding along

2:27

during interviews as he is introduced as a veteran

2:29

of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. And on

2:32

top of that, when he learned his National Guard

2:34

unit would be deploying to Iraq, Walls

2:36

initially told his men he would be

2:38

shipping out with them, but he instead

2:41

retired, leaving them scrambling to replace their

2:43

senior non-commissioned officer. So how is the

2:45

Harris-Walls campaign responded to these allegations? Well,

2:48

Walls says that his mistaken claims that he

2:50

served in combat were nothing more than a

2:52

grammatical error, as he put it. And

2:55

to the latter accusation, Walls and the

2:57

Harris campaign have vehemently denied that he

2:59

was actually aware of his unit's looming

3:01

combat deployment when he retired. They

3:04

say the timing was nothing more than a

3:06

coincidence. However, a number of high ranking guardsmen

3:08

who served in Walls' unit say that he

3:10

is lying. They went on the record this

3:12

week with Megyn Kelly to reiterate that Walls

3:14

was aware of the deployment before opting to

3:17

retire, and even told them that he was

3:19

going with them. Here's command Sergeant Major Paul

3:21

Herr speaking to that effect. He

3:23

is, again, a liar because he

3:26

told me and other sergeant majors

3:28

in the meetings that you can

3:30

count on me. I will deploy

3:32

with my unit. That's a morale

3:34

crusher. It chews away at

3:37

the fabric of the military and its ability

3:39

to do its mission. It

3:41

may not legally be

3:43

wrong. It is morally

3:45

indefensible. And here's command

3:47

Sergeant Major Tom Barons, the man who stepped

3:49

up to replace Walls when he retired just

3:51

before that deployment. When he quit at May,

3:53

it was like the rumor went across the

3:55

state that he had quit and it was

3:57

like, who the hell does that? I mean,

3:59

it was. It was just unbelievable that a

4:02

CSM abandoned his troops. It's like

4:04

losing the patriarch of the family,

4:07

the quarterback of a football team.

4:09

I mean, literally what this guy did is he

4:11

was like Tom Brady training until the Super Bowl,

4:13

getting to that point and then the Super Bowl

4:15

comes up and he says, you know, you second

4:17

stringer, get out there and play because I might

4:19

get hurt. And it's worth

4:21

pointing out Morning Wire also spoke to Barron's last

4:24

month. Our listeners can find that episode

4:26

from August 17th for a more

4:28

in-depth conversation. Well, and that's not the only

4:30

controversy facing walls at the moment either. Right,

4:32

so this week, the New York Post published

4:35

a series of Facebook comments made by Wallace's

4:37

older brother, Jeff, and they

4:39

are intense. Writing throughout the last

4:41

few weeks, the elder Wallace said he was quote 100%

4:43

opposed to his

4:45

brother's ideology before adding quote, the stories

4:48

I could tell, not the

4:50

type of character you want making decisions about

4:52

your future. He even went so

4:54

far as adding that he was quote, thinking long

4:57

and hard about appearing on stage with Donald Trump

4:59

to offer an endorsement. Now, some

5:01

have responded to these comments by saying the

5:03

opinions of candidates family members shouldn't

5:06

really matter. For that reason, most legacy media

5:08

outlets have not covered this story, but plenty

5:10

of other folks say that it is relevant

5:12

insight and point out that some of those

5:14

same outlets spent years giving airtime to relatives

5:17

of Donald Trump who were willing to denounce

5:19

him. We also saw plenty of the same

5:21

coverage this year as members of

5:23

the Kennedy family appeared on networks throughout

5:25

the election slamming RFK Jr. We

5:28

saw a lot of focus from the legacy media on that.

5:31

So let's get to Wal's counterpart, J.D.

5:33

Vance. What are we seeing from the

5:35

Ohio Senator? Well, first, it remains to

5:37

be seen whether Vance will have a

5:39

net positive or negative impact on this

5:41

race. Republicans say his story

5:43

of overcoming poverty and addiction in

5:45

Appalachia will resonate with those crucial

5:47

rust belt voters. But it's worth

5:49

noting, his favorability ratings are considerably

5:51

lower than Wal's Trump or Harris.

5:54

He's about 10 points underwater right now. The

5:57

Trump campaign argues that's due to overwhelmingly

5:59

biased coverage. from the legacy media, and

6:02

they are taking an aggressive approach in response.

6:04

Rather than avoiding media interviews like Harrison

6:07

Walls, Vance has said yes to virtually

6:10

every invite. Since becoming the nominee, he

6:12

has sat for 94 interviews. Many

6:15

of them it's worth noting on combative networks.

6:18

Campaign also says Vance has asked for

6:20

as many events as possible to include

6:22

Q&A's and press conferences. Later

6:24

this week he will sit down with NPR and

6:26

the New York Times. Well, I don't think we can

6:29

expect a friendly interview there, but it'll be interesting to see

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father. A brief warning to

7:08

listeners, the following may not be appropriate

7:10

for younger years. A

7:13

journal written by the trans identifying

7:15

shooter who killed six at a

7:17

Christian school last year, including three

7:19

children, has been published. The

7:21

publication of the journal by the Tennessee

7:23

Star comes despite a judge ruling that

7:26

it would not be released under public

7:28

records laws. We're joined by daily wire

7:30

investigative reporter, Luke Rosiak, whose public records

7:32

request for the journals was also denied.

7:35

Hey Luke. So what exactly is in

7:37

this journal? About 10 journals

7:39

were found in the shooter's room, but this one

7:41

was found in her car and includes entries up

7:43

to the day of that March 2023 shooting. It

7:47

is what everybody thought it was, the

7:49

depressed musings of a mentally ill woman

7:51

fixated on negative left wing ideas, particularly

7:53

that children are sometimes born in the

7:55

wrong body. It also includes a lot

7:57

of focus on the idea that whites have privilege that.

8:00

should make them feel bad. What's interesting here

8:02

is how hard authorities fought to keep us from seeing

8:04

it, and how a lot of what they said about

8:06

its contents just doesn't seem to be true. As

8:09

people wondered whether this was an act

8:11

of transgender terrorism or at least a

8:13

hate crime against Christians, authorities told the

8:15

media she did not write about specific

8:18

political, religious, or social issues. But that

8:20

turned out not to be true. No,

8:22

virtually the whole thing is about political,

8:24

religious, or social issues. A month before

8:26

the shooting, she drew a diagram with

8:28

arrows between the words brain, white privilege,

8:31

embarrassment. In another section titled

8:33

White Nothingness, she said, poor people resent this,

8:35

my parents aren't rich, yet I still feel

8:37

bad, cursed to be looked down upon. A

8:40

lot of the writing is in the form of letters

8:42

to a black girl who she had played basketball with

8:44

back in middle school, and who in reality barely knew

8:46

her. The shooter fixates on what she

8:49

calls the ground girl, who she yearned for, and

8:51

laments that she did not have the body parts

8:53

to have sex with her. She

8:55

wrote, quote, no brown girls, no love, I

8:57

am nothing. Young love is the most

8:59

beautiful. She also railed

9:01

against politicians and quote conservative religion

9:04

and talked about gay killings and

9:06

LGBTQ rights. One passage

9:08

read, I wish death upon myself

9:11

because the pure hatred of my

9:13

female gender with no rights, anybody's

9:15

country is a dictatorship. Right. So

9:17

a lot of focus on gender

9:19

identity and racial guilt from a

9:21

left wing perspective. Yes. Now

9:23

her diagnosis of autism, which is something we

9:25

wouldn't have known about if it weren't for

9:27

the Tennessee star releasing this is important. A

9:29

large portion of kids who think they're in

9:31

the wrong body are actually autistic. Look,

9:33

this journal is sad to read. You can't

9:36

help but conclude that even if she got

9:38

the sex change operation that she wished for

9:40

happiness would still elude her. Yeah. I

9:43

know the Tennessee star sued under public

9:45

records laws, but a Nashville judge ruled

9:47

that none of her writings would be

9:49

released and even threatened the star's founder

9:51

with contempt of court. Correct.

9:53

Yeah. So there are some strategies to

9:55

try to keep this thing from coming out. Nashville

9:57

PD initially said they would release it.

10:00

but they backtracked after the FBI pressured

10:02

them. That's another notable element

10:04

here. The FBI has no jurisdiction because

10:06

they say it wasn't domestic terrorism or

10:08

hate crime, a decision that implied that

10:11

her motivation wasn't political, even though it

10:13

turns out these writings certainly are. Then

10:16

the effort to conceal this document took

10:18

a really novel approach, claiming the shooter's

10:20

writings are copyrighted. Of course, public

10:22

records laws aren't the only way to get

10:24

a document. The Star acquired this through sources.

10:27

Without the Star, we wouldn't know about

10:29

a number of apparent policy failures. They've

10:31

reported that two psychiatrists knew the shooter

10:33

had homicidal ideation but didn't carry out

10:35

their duty to warrant. They also found

10:37

that the U.S. Department of Education essentially

10:39

bought the guns for her in the

10:41

form of a $700 Pell grant she

10:43

took out in cash for supposed art

10:45

school expenses. It's hard to make policies

10:47

to prevent shootings like this if we

10:49

don't know the facts in the first

10:51

place. Luke, thanks so much for reporting.

10:53

Sure thing. The New

10:55

York Times Massachusetts

10:57

Republicans say their state has spent

10:59

$1 billion on the migrant crisis

11:01

with little explanation on how the

11:04

money was spent. The state

11:06

GOP is now seeking a detailed accounting.

11:09

Here to break down the numbers is

11:11

Daily Wire reporter, Tim Peirce. Tim, so

11:14

what's happening in Massachusetts? The Massachusetts Republican

11:16

Party has now filed an open records

11:18

request to get the dollar figures on

11:20

how much the state has spent on

11:23

illegal aliens. Here's Massachusetts GOP Communications Director,

11:25

Logan Truppiano on Fox News. It's

11:28

very simple information. It's all taxpayer

11:30

funded and it's information

11:32

Massachusetts residents deserve to know.

11:34

The Heliadress School Administration as

11:36

well as the Democratic supermajority

11:38

in Massachusetts has completely botched

11:40

every aspect of the migrant

11:42

crisis in Massachusetts. Republicans

11:44

allege that there is a $1 billion

11:47

hole in the state's budget this year

11:49

due entirely to illegal immigrants. That's what

11:51

the recent open records request was filed

11:54

to prove. All right, so $1 billion

11:56

really unaccounted for. Do we have any

11:58

data on the overall cost? of illegal

12:00

immigrants to U.S. taxpayers. We do, at

12:03

least on a national level. Before I

12:06

get into the numbers though, I should

12:08

mention that analyzing something like this is

12:10

tricky because illegal immigrants are difficult to

12:12

track since they don't often self-identify as

12:14

illegals. Anyway, last year analysts

12:16

at the Federation for American Immigration Reform,

12:18

known as FAIR, studied the net cost

12:21

of taxpayers. They estimated that illegal immigrants

12:23

have cost about $182 billion. Take

12:27

away the estimated 32 billion that they've

12:29

potentially added to the treasury, and you come up with

12:32

a net cost of over $150 billion. FAIR

12:35

conducted the same study in 2017, and

12:38

since then the net cost has grown by

12:40

about $35 billion, with

12:43

most of that being shouldered by state and local

12:45

governments. In addition to the

12:47

cost of all this, there's also an

12:49

intense strain put on communities. We're seeing

12:51

an extreme example of that going on

12:53

in Colorado right now. What

12:55

can you tell us about that situation?

12:58

Right, members of an international gang based

13:00

out of Venezuela have reportedly taken over

13:02

several hotels and apartment buildings in Denver

13:05

suburb. Here's Aurora Mayor Mike Kaufman on

13:07

Fox News. Somebody put a

13:09

mayor and somebody funded it. Whether it's federal

13:11

government or not, we're trying to find out

13:13

who these gangs, in fact,

13:15

kind of pushed out the property management

13:17

through intimidation and then collected the rents.

13:20

We have now ongoing operations

13:22

with a task force, local

13:25

law enforcement, state law enforcement

13:27

partners, and federal law enforcement

13:29

partners, and arrests have been

13:31

made, but these operations are still ongoing.

13:34

The gang members are reportedly affiliated with

13:36

Tren de Aragua, or TDA, and Aurora

13:38

officials have said that those buildings are

13:41

now the scenes of gang-related sex trafficking.

13:44

Mayor Kaufman said that this is a

13:46

direct result of the Biden-Harris administration's border

13:48

policies. I think we're a victim

13:50

of a failed policy at the southern border

13:52

because Venezuela does not cooperate

13:54

with the United States in sharing

13:56

criminal histories. You've had these massive

13:58

waves of migrants across the border that

14:01

asked for political asylum. We're

14:03

not adequately vetted. We're released into the country.

14:06

The city of Aurora, we did everything we

14:08

could to quite frankly keep them out of

14:10

the city because it's not our problem. This

14:12

is a federal problem. This is a problem

14:14

borne by the federal government. And

14:17

in the midst of this takeover by foreign

14:19

gang members, local residents have complained that law

14:21

enforcement has been next to no help with

14:23

the situation. Quite a dangerous situation for local

14:26

residents to be in. Tim, thanks so much

14:28

for reporting. Thanks for having me on. Hey,

14:33

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