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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• The FBI visits the home of former Vice President Mike Pence in search for classified documents.
• President Joe Biden will not give a pre-game Super Bowl interview. 
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adds the COVID-19 vaccine to its list of recommended scheduled immunizations for kids and adults. 
• The president of Brazil meets with Biden at the White House. 

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Whether it's a family or a single male, the drug cartels play a role in every illegal crossing into the U.S. at the southern border, former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott says.

“They're either directly paying the cartels or the cartels are controlling their movements for another benefit, meaning to systematically overwhelm Border Patrol, create a gap in the border security, and then bring the narcotics across,” Scott says.   

Scott, who worked in U.S. Customs and Border Protection for three decades, served as the 24th chief of the Border Patrol from Jan. 24, 2020, until Aug. 14, 2021. Through his decades of work on the border, Scott says, he observed that “every single day, almost without exception until January of 2021 [when President Joe Biden took office], the border was getting more and more secure.” 

The cartels are taking advantage of the Biden administration’s border policies, Scott says, explaining that because most illegal aliens coming across the border are released into the U.S. interior, the cartels “push [asylum-seekers] all across at the same time.”

The result, he says, is that “it overwhelms all the law enforcement resources so that [the cartels] can push a second wave through, commonly referred to nowadays as 'gotaways.'"

The gotaways tend to be individuals who are "willing to pay more to not encounter a law enforcement officer,” Scott says, adding, “That's where most of the narcotics [are]. That's where most of the criminal aliens are.”

Scott joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the long-term implications of Biden’s border policies and why Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is allowing the crisis to continue at the southern border. 

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:  

 

• New information has been released about the Chinese spy balloon.
• House Oversight Committee Republicans file a formal request for records and information related to Hunter Biden’s business dealings abroad.  
• The Federal Bureau of Investigation issues a report on “radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology.” 
• Conservative groups call for state legislatures to close loopholes regarding private funding of elections.
• Virginia Republican Gov. Glen Youngkin speaks out against Black Lives Matter content in the state's public schools.   

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https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/09/breaking-fbi-rescinds-radical-traditionalist-catholic-ideology-document-citing-southern-poverty-law-center/ 

 

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U.S. officials revealed a week ago, on Feb. 2, that a Chinese surveillance balloon was flying over the country. Two days later, on Feb. 4, an American fighter jet shot down the spy balloon with a missile. 

Chris Miller, acting defense secretary under President Donald Trump, weighs in on the Biden administration’s decision to shoot down China’s balloon and whether he would have handled the situation differently. 

“That goes back to when was it identified and when did our sensors pick up that,” Miller says of the spy balloon on “The Daily Signal Podcast,” adding: “I was a bad map reader, and people that worked with me in the military will attest to that. But I did look at the track of the balloon, and when it came over the Aleutian Islands [off Alaska], there was a lot of blue space.” 

“There was a lot of doggone ocean where something could have been done,” he says. “I’ve heard that whole [Biden administration] justification: ‘Well, we didn’t want to knock it down because it would’ve fallen on somebody. Could have injured somebody or killed somebody.’ I mean, that’s a valid request.” 

Miller adds: 

Let me give you this one, Samantha: You spent a trillion dollars, $850 billion, [on] defense and we did not have the capability to take control of that doggone balloon and bring it down on our own terms without having to send up a hundred-million-dollar fighter aircraft to shoot a $400,000 Sidewinder missile?

On the podcast, Miller discusses some of Biden’s comments on China during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, his thoughts on how the Biden administration responded to the Chinese spy balloon, and his new book “Soldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield and the Pentagon About America’s Most Dangerous Enemies.”

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: 

• The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability’s hearing with former Twitter executives
• A forum on impeaching Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas
• An update on investigations into Flight MH17
• A document newly uncovered by a FBI whistleblower
• Death toll following an earthquake in Turkey and Syria surpasses 11,000 people

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President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address to Congress and the American people Tuesday night. The president addressed everything from the economy, to medicare, gun control, fentanyl, and big tech during his speech, which lasted just over an hour.

Ryan Walker, vice president of government relations for Heritage Action for America, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to beak down Biden's speech and to add important needed context to some of the claims the president made. 

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Who is attending the State of the Union address tonight 
• List of guests: https://thehill.com/homenews/3839922-here-are-the-guests-invited-to-bidens-state-of-the-union-address/ 
• Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s comments on the debt ceiling debate
• Twitter temporarily suspending Republican Sen. Steve Daines' account. 
• “Trans Lives Matter” protesters in Oklahoma

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President Joe Biden on Tuesday night will deliver his second official State of the Union address since being sworn into office Jan. 20, 2021. 

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the No. 3 House Republican, says the president doesn't have anything to brag about in the speech to a joint session of Congress at the midpoint of his four-year term.

"I think the president has caused significant crises in this country, whether you look at the border crisis, the economic crisis, the inflation crisis, or the constitutional crisis," Stefanik, chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, says. 

"What House Republicans are focused on is our commitment to America, our legislative agenda that we have already hit the ground running to pass on behalf of the American people, standing up for an economy that's strong, a nation that's safe, a future that's built upon freedom, and a government that's accountable," Stefanik says. "So, I hope to hear a lot from the president, but I think he's going to double down on the far-Left, failed policies that have been really hurting hardworking American families."

Stefanik joins this episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss how she would grade Biden's first two years in office, what to expect from congressional Republicans and GOP leadership in oversight of the Biden administration, and what she views as the biggest threat from the Chinese Communist Party. 

Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., also joins the podcast to discuss what she thinks Biden has to brag about during his State of the Union address, Biden's self-inflicted immigration crisis, and whether House Republicans will impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the situation at the southern border. 

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Remains of the China spy balloon are being taken to an FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia.
• New poll Shows most Democrats don’t want Biden to run in 2024. 
• Texas might be suing the Biden administration.
• Illegal migrants are now accepting bus tickets to Canada. 

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Many COVID-19 restrictions and mandates have been rolled back, but the infrastructure remains in place, “ready and waiting for the next declared public health crisis,” Dr. Aaron Kheriaty says. 

Kheriaty, a psychiatrist who directs the Bioethics and American Democracy program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, chose to speak out against the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, That decision cost him his job at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.

Kheriaty says he is concerned that the "pretext of public health and safety has proven to be a good fulcrum, a good lever to get people to do things that otherwise they would be very reluctant to do."

"It's also been an occasion for the accumulation of power, mostly by the executive branch of government," he says.

In his new book "The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State,” Kheriaty details the ways in which governments past and present have used public health crises to gain power.

Kheriaty joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss how, unless placed in check, the government will use public health orders to further its own agenda, whether about COVID-19, climate change, or abortion. 

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