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Ben Shapiro calls for the pardon of Derek Chauvin. Canada, Mexico, and China seek to match Trump's tariffs in an effort to recall LA's mayor gets underway.
I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, March 4th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro has called on President Trump to pardon former police officer Derek Chauvin. Shapiro argues that evidence does not support Chauvin's conviction in the death of George Floyd.
He says that pressure on the jury in the trial, as well as legacy media influence, played a major role in the verdict. Here's Shapiro.
The media decided in the middle of 2020 that they were going to turn a tragic law enforcement stop that ended with the death of a man who had a significant problem with drugs and pre-existing health problems into the raison d'etre of the entire 2020 election. And it led to vast chaos.
It led to, again, the destruction of racial comedy in the United States, $2 billion in property damage, and a guy rotting in prison who the evidence demonstrates certainly was not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in that case. Daily Wire has launched a petition at PardonDerek.com in an effort to rally support for the dismissal of Chauvin's federal charges.
Currently, Derek Chauvin remains in prison where he's serving a 22 and a half year sentence on state charges. President Trump will deliver his joint address to Congress tonight with many special guests in the audience.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has more. Among those hosted by the president this evening will be American schoolteacher Mark Fogel, who was recently freed from a Russian prison after nearly three years in detention.
The parents of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungare will also be in attendance, as the president is expected to call on lawmakers to increase resources for deportation efforts. Riley and Nungare were both brutally murdered by illegal immigrants.
Another special guest of the president will be Peyton McNabb, a former high school volleyball player severely injured by a transgender opponent. Daily Wire editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro and host Matt Walsh will also be in attendance as special guests of House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The address, titled Renewal of the American Dream, starts at 9 p.m. Eastern from the U.S.
Capitol. You can watch the entire thing live on Daily Wire's platform starting at 8.30 Eastern.
Canada, China, and Mexico have hit back after President Trump's new tariffs took effect today. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the latest.
China immediately imposed an additional 10 to 15 percent tariff on goods from the U.S., saying it has raised complaints with the World Trade Organization. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded by imposing 25 percent retaliatory tariffs.
Trudeau did the same, but went a step further and called President Trump's tariffs dumb. In a press conference today, Trudeau says the U.S.
is sabotaging its own agenda and plans to speak with Trump in the coming days. In terms of taking action on fentanyl, we are doing everything that is necessary, and not just for the United States, for ourselves as well, as Canadians are suffering as well from the scourge that is illegal fentanyl.
We have laid out extensive plans, actions, cooperations, including as recently as the past days in Washington. And they have always been very well received.
And the numbers bear that out. The White House says Canada's actions don't go far enough and that Mexico has afforded safe havens to deadly drug cartels.
President Trump responded to Trudeau on social media today. He says, please explain to Governor Trudeau of Canada that when he puts a retaliatory tariff on the U.S., our reciprocal tariff will immediately increase by like amount.
Less than 24 hours after Trump cut off military aid to Ukraine, President Zelensky is saying it's time to make things right. Daily Wire deputy managing editor Tim Rice has the latest.
In a post on X just days after his Oval Office meeting turned contentious, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky acknowledged the meeting didn't go the way it was supposed to, but stopped short of apologizing. Zelensky is urging Trump to restart military aid and says his country is ready to begin negotiations.
The Biden-era mineral deal remains up in the air, though Vice President J.D. Vance says both he and Trump still support it.
Vance says aid could be restored if Zelensky offers a plan for peace. Here's Vance last night on Hannity.
If he called and had a serious proposal for how he was going to engage in the process, look, there are details that really matter that we're already working on with the Russians. We've already talked with some of our allies.
He needs to engage seriously on the details. I think once that happens, then absolutely we want to talk to you.
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Again, that's netsuite.com slash morningwire. A recall effort against LA Mayor Karen Bass is officially underway, with organizers launching a website to gather signatures.
The movement follows severe backlash over Bass's handling of the January wildfires in Pacific Palisades, which burned thousands of homes and businesses while she was in Ghana, despite fire warnings. The petition needs signatures from around 15 percent of L.A.
voters to trigger a special election. A truckload of evidence related to the Jeffrey Epstein case has been delivered to the FBI's headquarters.
That's according to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Bondi had previously accused the New York FBI field office of withholding information after a small cache of documents were released to a group of journalists last week.
Bondi has also tasked FBI Director Cash Patel with answering why the full portfolio of documents were not released the first time. That led to even more lost trust with the public.
Here's Bondi on Hannity last night. It's now in the possession of the FBI.
Cash is going to get me and himself, really, a detailed report as to why all these documents and evidence had been withheld. And, you know, we're going to go through it, go through it as fast as we can, but go through it very cautiously to protect all the victims of Epstein, because there are a lot of victims.
A Senate bill aimed at barring men and boys from competing in female designated school sports failed to advance last night. Not a single Democrat senator voted in favor of the measure.
On this vote, the yeas are 51 and the nays are 45. Three-fifths of the senator's duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative.
The motion is not agreed to. The legislation sought to define Title IX protections based on a person's reproductive biology at birth, aligning with President Trump's recent executive order on the issue.
Democrats call it divisive and a culture war distraction, while Republicans argue the measure ensures fairness in women's athletics. And NASA is set to launch its Sphere X Space Observatory this week, aiming to map over 450 million galaxies and unlock the origins of the universe.
The nearly $500 million mission will use infrared spectroscopy to analyze the formation of galaxies, the distribution of water in the Milky Way, and the early moments following the Big Bang. The observatory will lift off from California on Thursday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Scientists say Sphear X could provide groundbreaking insights into cosmic inflation, which scientists believe shaped the universe billions of years ago.

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go to dailywire.com. In case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories,

including Trump's congressional address, new tariffs, and a crypto reserve.