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This week, we are looking back at five of our, and your, favorite episodes from 2022.

Aug. 26, marked one year since an ISIS-K suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. service members and about 200 Afghans outside the international airport in Kabul.

Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, one of the 13 service members who died, was only 20 at the time of the fatal attack. His widow, Jiennah Crayton, also known as Gigi, gave birth to the couple’s first child, a daughter, less than a month after the bombing.

His son Rylee was “fun,” Jim McCollum says.

“He was genuine, real,” McCollum says. “He had a huge heart, very compassionate, but you had to know him to see that side of him, because he was also very abrasive.”

“We have pictures of him at about 3 years old, 2 or 3, in a diaper, in his sister’s boots, no pants, with his gun and his dog out playing Army, Marine, whatever, protecting the family,” McCollum says of his son. “Just loved it. He was very fascinated with the military his whole life.”

One year after the terrorist attack that killed his son and 12 other service members, McCollum says he doesn’t want to talk with President Joe Biden about the attack or his handling of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan:

I’m highly disappointed. If you could sit down and have a discussion and know that it was sincere and that somebody was going to listen to you, it would be different. But so far the government, they’ve been less than honest with me, and it’s all lip service and just standard routine. They’re just going through the motions.

McCollum joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the life and legacy of his son Rylee, his 1-year-old granddaughter Levi Rylee Rose, and how the Biden administration handled the exit from Afghanistan.

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This week, we are looking back at five of our, and your, favorite episodes from 2022.

How did corporate media become so biased and corrupt, and why isn’t it being held accountable? 

Corporate media exists “to support corrupt regimes,” Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, says.

She is optimistic because “a lot of people have lost trust in corporate media in recent years, [and] that’s a good thing,” Hemingway says. “It’s bad if people believe the propaganda.” 

Hemingway joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the state of the media today and to share her reaction to President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

 

Also on today’s show, Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., explains what he saw in Ukraine a week before Russia invaded. 

We also cover Biden’s first State of the Union address.

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This week, we are looking back at five of our, and your, favorite podcasts from 2022.

Thirty years after his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas continues to have a profound influence on American law and culture—evident again with last week’s landmark rulings.

A new book, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” gives readers access to hours of the exclusive content from the justice himself. Building on the success of a PBS documentary by the same name, the book chronicles Thomas’ amazing life and includes unreleased conversations with his wife Ginni Thomas.

Filmmaker Michael Pack, who produced the “Created Equal” documentary, and Mark Paoletta, a personal friend and lawyer who worked with Thomas during his Supreme Court confirmation, join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share their favorite stories and what you’ll find in the book.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Wednesday with President Joe Biden at the White House before delivering an impassioned address to a joint session of Congress. This was the first time Zelenskyy had left Ukraine since Russia launched its military invasion of Ukraine just over 300 days ago.

The timing of the Ukrainian leader's meeting with Biden was no accident, says Victoria Coates, a senior research fellow in international affairs and national security at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is Heritage's multimedia news organization.)

"I think the whole point was to force through the $1.7 trillion omnibus; that's the president's kind of last hurrah of gigantic spending, before [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi gives up the gavel," Coates says.

Coates says Zelenskyy's visit was "a Biden show," but the Ukrainian president should "embrace American conservatives" as potentially his most important allies in Washington.

Zelenskyy headed home to Ukraine with a commitment from the Pentagon for a missile defense system known as the Patriot. But, Coates says, Biden should have given Ukraine the defensive support long ago, but instead used the promise of the Patriot system as a tool to bring Zelenskyy to America to push Democrats' massive spending package through Congress.

Coates joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about the role America should play in Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine.

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

• The Senate passes a $1.85 trillion spending package. 
• The federal government leaves a hospital in Yuma, Arizona with a $20 million bill for illegal aliens.
• The Kremlin issues a warning following Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy’s visit to the U.S. 
• The life expectancy for Americans born in 2021 hits a new 25-year-low.
• A massive winter storm is sweeping across the U.S. and disrupting Christmas travel.

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Chinese-owned TikTok has made headlines over the past few weeks as bipartisan support grows to ban the popular app.

A bipartisan, bicameral trio of lawmakers introduced legislation Dec. 13 aimed at banning TikTok nationwide. The next day, the Senate unanimously passed another bill that would ban the app on government devices. 

Brendan Carr, a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission, has been one of the most outspoken critics of TikTok and particularly highlights two national security concerns related to the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

"One has to do with all of this sensitive, private, nonpublic data that has been accessed from inside Beijing. So for years, TikTok officials told regulators like me and told Congress, 'Don't worry about it, none of this data is stored inside China,'" Carr says. "Well, over this past summer, there was a bombshell BuzzFeed News story that showed those representations had been nothing other than gaslighting. BuzzFeed News got a hold of internal TikTok communications that showed, in fact, quote, 'everything is seen in China.'"

"The second is, once they have that, they can use it for foreign influence, for espionage, other types of campaigns. And in fact, we're already seeing that," Carr warns.

Carr joins this episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss a potential TikTok ban in America, how the U.S. government would be able to enact and implement a ban, and how parents can protect their children. 

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

• Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky visit with President Joe Biden and is speaking to Congress
• The continued debate on the omnibus spending bill
• The White House weighs in on Title 42 
• Elon Musk’s hunt for a new Twitter CEO 

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The Biden administration "intentionally unsecured" the southern border because “they see a perceived political benefit from open borders,” according to Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 

Morgan, now a visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, says President Joe Biden has what he needs to secure the border. (The Daily Signal is Heritage's multimedia news organization.)

Biden just needs to “reach up on the shelf and take off the Trump-era border security plan that we had, dust it off, and implement it,” Morgan argues.

With the uncertain future of Title 42, a public health measure that allowed the Border Patrol to quickly expel illegal aliens during the COVID-19 pandemic, Morgan says, the Biden administration must stop “rewarding illegal immigration” and move to “secure our borders.” 

Morgan joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why the Biden administration has misused Title 42 and what will happen to America if the president doesn't take strong action to secure the border. 

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

• The text of the massive omnibus revealed in the early hours of Tuesday morning
• The different earmarks included in the omnibus spending bill
• Supreme Court halts Title 42 from being lifted
• 11 Conservative groups are urging Kristi Noem to condemn a transgender health summit and launch an investigation

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As the clock ticks toward the new year, Congress is racing to pass funding for the government for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 

"Well, I was a no vote last week. I think we need to be doing our work. It's amazing to me that the Democrats have been in control of the White House, the House, and the Senate," Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., says about the "omnibus" spending package. 

The Senate and the House last week advanced a "stopgap bill" last week that continues to fund existing programs and would give Congress until Friday at midnight to finalize a spending bill. The measure passed 71-19 in the Senate; it passed 224-201 in the House.

"Since January of last year, they've not passed a budget," Hern says. "They've not done appropriations in regular order. They have no one to blame but themselves for the almost $5 trillion in spending added to our debt in the last 23 months.:

"Here we are at the very end of the funding, which was supposed to be done by Sept. 30, [and we] keep kicking the can down the road," says Hern, who was unanimously elected last month as chairman of the Republican Study Committee. 

Hern joins this episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the gigantic omnibus spending bill, some of the Republican Party's top priorities for 2023, and how conservatives can navigate with slim control of only one chamber of Congress. 

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