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

• The police body camera footage of the attack on Paul Pelosi has been released.
• Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declares a state of emergency following protests in Atlanta. 
• The FBI arrests three men who are believed to have been planning an assassination attempt on an American journalist. 
• Jeff Zients will be President Joe Biden’s new chief of staff. 
• Ronna McDaniel wins another term as chair of the Republican National Committee.

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One week ago, on Jan. 20, thousands of pro-lifers marched in the nation's capital for the annual March for Life. 

The march was the first since Roe v. Wade was overturned last June because of the decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case. 

"Well, when Roe v. Wade came down in 1973, what that decision did was legalize abortion in all 50 states, and so the march, of course, began as a response to that," Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life, says of why the national march is still important despite the life issue being a state issue.

"But you fast forward 50 years and the overturn of Roe with the Dobbs decision in June doesn't make abortion illegal throughout all the country, and certainly it doesn't make it unthinkable," Mancini says. 

Mancini joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to further discuss the pro-life movement, her message for the marchers in the states, and what she thinks is next for the pro-life movement. 

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The debt ceiling fight continues in Washington, more than a week after the U.S. hit its legislated debt limit of $31.4 trillion. 

"The Treasury Department has hit the federal borrowing limit at $31.4 trillion, and they're going to be able to use cash-management techniques to be able to extend what we call the 'X date' of when they're going to ask for the debt limit to actually be raised, somewhere until later in the summer," says Matthew Dickerson, senior adviser on budget policy at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

"So, the negotiations are starting between Congress and the White House to figure out what are the spending reforms, what are the pro-growth policies that we're going to implement and pair that with the debt limit increase so that we can put the country on a path to a more prosperous future," he said. 

Dickerson joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to further discuss the latest on the debt ceiling debate, whether the U.S. has ever defaulted on its debt before, and a bill recently introduced by 43 House Democrats to eliminate the debt limit entirely. 

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

• A number of Congressional Republicans and Asia policy experts sound the alarm over the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on K-12 education. 
• The Gross Domestic Product for the fourth quarter of 2022 increased at an annual rate of 2.9 percent.
• Former President Donald Trump will soon be allowed back on Facebook and Instagram. 
• The National Archives asks past Presidents and Vice Presidents to check if they have classified documents. 
• Democrats introduce a bill to allow taxpayer funding of abortions. 

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The magic of Disney is fading, according to the president of the Catholic League.

Disney has adopted a woke “idea of diversity, which sounds innocuous on the face of it, [but] is really an agenda to divide people,” Bill Donohue says. “And that's what they're doing. They're dividing people on the basis of family, on the basis of race, on the basis of sex, sexual orientation.” 

Donohue joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss his group's new documentary, "Walt's Disenchanted Kingdom." The film shines a light on how Disney has drifted from its pro-family roots to become a poster child for an agenda that puts radical political ideology before the innocence of children. 

Watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5kj_5Lx9Ho

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

• President Biden’s decision to send 31 Abram tanks to Ukraine
• Two bills introduced by Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz
• Republicans senators weighing in on the debt ceiling fight
• A police officer resigning over his religious beliefs 

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President Joe Biden has had a difficult time explaining the increasing number of classified information documents that have been found at his home and at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank established in coordination with the University of Pennsylvania.

The National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, first flagged the fact that some $60 million in donations from Chinese-connected entities were donated to the University of Pennsylvania for the Penn Biden Center.

The new special counsel named to investigate Biden's alleged mishandling of classified information, Robert Hur, should expand his investigation to include the China connections with the Penn Biden Center, contends National Legal and Policy Center counsel Paul Kamenar told The Daily Signal.

The watchdog group has already provided information to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, as well as to the newly established House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, Kamenar said. But watchdog groups and the press can only request information under the Freedom of Information Act, and at best litigate if agencies don't comply.

Both a special counsel and a congressional committee can compel cooperation.

Kamenar joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the classified documents discovered at the Penn Biden Center and the president's private home in Delaware; the China connection; where Biden's son Hunter fits into all of this; and how the Justice Department, the National Archives and the intelligence community have treated the Biden classified documents case differently than the documents case of former President Donald Trump.

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

• President Joe Biden’s calls for gun control 
• More classified documents found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home
• The DOJ and eight states suing Google
• Sen. Ted Cruz’ Key School Choice Bill That Would Be ‘Most Significant Reform’ Since GI Bill
• Sen. Josh Hawley introduces legislation to ban TikTok

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Americans' lack of historical knowledge is crippling the nation, says Timothy Goeglein, a senior official with the Christian group Focus on the Family. 

In his new book “Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story," Goeglein discusses a survey conducted among public high school students that revealed that only 3% could pass a U.S. citizenship test. Those students surveyed are adults today, Goeglein explains, adding, this means many Americans today “are woefully ignorant of not only our history and culture, but our system of government.”

Goeglein, who formerly served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush, tracks the lack of knowledge of American history back to the late radical historian Howard Zinn’s influence on American history curriculums. Zinn’s “goal was not to teach facts, but opinions,” he says. 

Goeglein joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss why teaching American history is so closely linked to the formation of a flourishing society, and what can be done to restore accuracy and integrity to history classrooms across the country. 

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

• Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries asks Democrat Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of California be added to the Intelligence Committee. 
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announces the state has decided against offering a high school advanced placement course on African American Studies. 
• DirectTV is considering cutting ties with Newsmax
• Monterey Park, California shooter may have been targeting his wife.
• A group called Our Rights DC organized a protest outside the Maryland home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. 

Read more about the protests outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home here: 

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/22/far-left-activists-continue-demonstrations-at-justice-kavanaugh-home/ 

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