Date: December 8, 2023
Host: Jim Schneider
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Crosstalk and the Friday News Round-Up, your source for news stories that impact you. Here’s a sample of what Jim presented for listeners:
–A 53 year old Israeli taxi driver who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th has been murdered. His body is still held by Hamas in Gaza.
–IDF soldiers on Tuesday recovered one of the largest stockpiles of weapons belonging to Hamas, again showing how Hamas uses Palestinian citizens as human shields.
–A compromise 900 billion dollar defense bill doesn’t contain any restrictions on paying for military members traveling to get an abortion, nor does the bill block coverage of transition surgeries for transgenders and hormone treatments.
–The Israeli security minister says his ministry is now approving up to 3,000 gun applications per day.
–The Biden administration is considering getting behind new restrictions on who can seek asylum and an expanded deportation process to secure new aid for Ukraine and Israel in the supplemental funding bill.
–A young, male, African migrant expressed his gratitude to President Biden for the opportunity at a better life in the U.S. Jim provided the audio.
–President Putin of Russia arrived in the Middle East where he’s meeting with the leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to shore up support from the major oil producers.
–The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill to reform FISA.
–The U.N. Human Rights Bureaucracy released a scathing report last month slamming America as a bastion of horrors.
–Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy will be retiring from Congress at the end of this year.
–Representative Marjorie Taylor Green has introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.
–In a report on the status of their investigation released Tuesday, House Republicans claim that the Department of Justice is preventing two, would-be whistleblowers from testifying in the Biden impeachment investigations.
–Banks filed at least six reports concerning Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings that flagged President Joe Biden’s home address in Delaware and raised concerns about criminal activity involving money laundering or human trafficking, according to a U.S. Senator who investigated the first-family’s finances for years.
–Hunter Biden has been indicted on nine charges including 3 felonies for allegedly failing to file taxes, evading an assessment and filing a fraudulent form.
–FBI Director Christopher Wray was grilled in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday with Senator Ted Cruz questioning Wray about the actions he was taking at the FBI, noting that he was concerned about how the DOJ has become deeply politicized under Attorney General Merrick Garland and that the FBI has become so as well. Jim provided audio from the exchange.
