Evening Wire: DOJ-Maxwell Meeting & Remembering Hulk Hogan | 7.24.25

The Deputy Attorney General meets with Ghelane Maxwell.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia will soon be back out on the streets, and wrestling icon Hulk Hogan passes away.

I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe.

It's Thursday, July 24th, and this is Evening Wire.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met today with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghelane Maxwell.

Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in trafficking girls for Jeffrey Epstein.

The meeting is reportedly to explore her willingness to cooperate and comes amid renewed scrutiny of the Epstein case, as well as calls for transparency.

Legal experts call the face-to-face unusual, raising questions about whether politics or justice is at play.

The DOJ says no lead is off-limits and any sentence reduction would need court approval.

Meanwhile, a House panel has directed its chairman to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton as part of the Epstein probe.

Republican Representative Scott Perry offered a motion calling on the House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer to subpoena a list of people with possible links to Maxwell.

The list reads as follows: William Jefferson Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, James Brian Comey, Loretta Elizabeth Lynch, Eric Hempton Holder Jr., Merrick Brian Garland, Robert Swan Mueller III,

William Pelham Barr, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, and Alberto Gonzalez.

That's the full list, Mr.

Chairman.

The motion passed, but the subpoenas will now need to be ordered by Comer.

A committee aide told the press they'd be issued in the near future.

The DOJ is assembling a strike force to assess the weaponization of the intelligence community after new explosive Russia gate allegations.

Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce explains.

The DOJ announced a new strike force on Wednesday and said it would be tasked with evaluating and assessing evidence related to former President Obama and his administration's efforts to drive the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

According to a press release, the Justice Department intends to explore what legal steps should be taken once the evidence has been evaluated and will be working alongside Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to ensure that nothing is missed.

The news comes after Gabbard detailed more evidence during yesterday's White House press briefing that contradicts Obama-era intelligence reports.

Here's Gabbard on Fox News last night.

The report that we released today, the House Intelligence Committee Oversight Majority Staff report that investigated that January 2017 assessment that President Obama had manufactured with fake intelligence in order to get to the conclusion that he wanted to promote to the American people that Putin had acted in favor of President Trump winning that election in 2016.

The report we released today, line by line, goes through it, dissecting and debunking the knowing falsehoods and lies that were included in that assessment with the specific intent to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump.

For the first time in nearly 20 years, the president visited the Federal Reserve today.

The move comes as Trump intensifies pressure on Fed Chair Jerome Powell and amid a $2.5 billion renovation of the Fed's headquarters.

Trump has repeatedly criticized Powell and even floated firing him despite legal barriers.

He's also been very skeptical of the costly renovations.

I call him too late.

He's always too late.

Every point costs us $360 billion.

Think of that.

And we should be three points.

That's almost a trillion dollars.

Approximately a trillion dollars less.

We should be just with the signing of a peace of bank.

So we'll see what happens.

I mean, you're telling me he's going to quit.

I hope he quits.

I don't know that he's going to quit, but he should quit because he's been very bad for the country.

Powell argues that his removal would be illegal.

Thanks to a pair of judges, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia will be back on the streets.

Daily Wire Deputy Managing Editor Tim Rice has the latest.

A federal judge in Maryland has blocked ICE from detaining the alleged MS-13 member and human smuggler, even as a Tennessee judge ordered his release from jail pending trial.

U.S.

District Judge Paula Zinnis ruled that ICE must give three business days notice before initiating deportation proceedings against the previously deported Salvadoran national, labeled a Maryland man man or Maryland father by supporters and the media.

While the Tennessee ruling sets up Brego Garcia's return to Maryland, his release is on hold as another judge weighs his request for a 30-day delay.

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President Trump scored another win against the Ivy League this week.

The president announced Wednesday night that Columbia University would pay the federal government $200 million in a settlement over its handling of anti-Israel protests.

In addition to the penalty paid to the federal government, Trump says the university would pay $20 million to its Jewish employees who were unlawfully targeted and harassed.

In exchange, the Trump administration will unfreeze federal funding and close down several investigations into the university.

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is warning major colleges across her state to scrap DEI programs or risk losing their taxpayer-funded federal support.

Daily Wire's senior editor Joel Niedler has more.

Blackburn sent letters on Wednesday to the heads of Belmont University, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Vanderbilt University expressing concern over reports that the universities are hiding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs behind sanitized language.

The warning comes after a series of undercover videos show employees at the universities discussing how they will push the liberal orthodoxy despite orders from the Trump administration to halt them.

Here are some clips from the videos.

We're always going to keep doing what we're doing.

The work never stops.

We just change on how we talk about it.

We do have undocumented citizens.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

We don't communicate to anybody externally who's undocumented and who is.

And so, like, yes, we know who it is.

Faculty don't really know.

How could they?

Unless it's indicated in the system somewhere.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dillon says DEI and the government poses major legal and constitutional risks.

In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Dylan said her department is following President Trump's executive order by dismantling DEI programs across federal agencies and pushing back against anti-Semitism.

She cited legal challenges to DEI in states like California and Oregon, which have defied the Trump administration's anti-DEI directive.

With these efforts underway, senators, the goal is clear.

Either DEI will end on its own or we will kill it.

Brian Koberger has reported to prison to serve his four life sentences plus 10 additional years.

He will not have the opportunity for parole.

Koberger waived his right to an appeal as part of a plea deal earlier this month.

Family members gave emotional statements at the sentencing yesterday, but Koberger remained silent, declining to make a statement.

Before handing down sentencing, the judge said it was time to end Koberger's 15 minutes of fame.

Truth be told, I'm unable to come up with anything redeeming about Mr.

Koberger because his grotesque acts of evil have buried and hidden anything that might have been good or intrinsically human about him.

His actions have made him the worst of the worst.

Koberger was in custody at a maximum security prison in Kuna, Idaho, Wednesday afternoon.

Seven suspects have been arrested in a child sex trafficking case.

At least 10 children were held captive for three years in an Alabama storm shelter and severely abused.

The arrested suspects include parents and family members of the victims.

Authorities expect more suspects and victims as the investigation continues.

The Bibb County Sheriff said the Department of Homeland Security is helping with the investigation.

I've been in law enforcement for 33 years, and this is absolutely the most horrible thing I've ever seen when it comes to victimization of children.

And like I say, I know God's forgiveness is boundless,

but if there was a limit to it, I think we reached it.

Aid trucks in Gaza are sitting idle as the United Nations stalls food distribution.

Israel inspected and approved almost 1,000 trucks full of aid.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation reportedly offered to distribute the aid for free, but the UN, for whatever reason, refused.

The news comes as the Israeli foreign ministry released videos showing Hamas terrorists eating full meals in tunnels.

Meanwhile, Gaza residents are reportedly starving.

Gaza received thousands of trucks of aid during the ceasefire earlier this year.

Hamas officials have said they are not responsible for Gaza residents.

Michael Watley, the chair of the Republican National Convention, has decided to leap into the North Carolina Senate race after Laura Trump decided to pass.

He's set to face off against former Democratic governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper, who's likely to kick off his campaign in the next few days.

Laura Trump served with Watley on the RNC as the party's co-chair.

Despite speculation that she was weighing a potential Senate bid, she announced that she was passing on the opportunity.

On X, she said her passion for making America great again burns brightly and that she's looking forward to the future.

Former late night host Dave Letterman has come to the defense of Stephen Colbert and is attacking his former employer, CBS.

The comedian shared a montage of times he roasted CBS on air while still working for them.

It's amazing to me that nobody knows we've been on the air for 10 years.

Nobody knows we're on the air.

No, nobody knows because

the network, which ought to be the source of promotion and pride on behalf of our show, do you ever hear them say, oh, by the way, you know, tune in tonight.

Dave's been on the air for 10 years.

The caption of the video read, you can't spell CBS without BS.

And wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at age 71.

Hogan reportedly went into cardiac arrest at his Florida home.

Paramedics rushed the WWE Hall of Famer to a clearwater hospital this morning where he was pronounced dead.

WWE called Hogan one of pop culture's most recognizable figures, crediting him with helping launch pro wrestling into global fame.

The towering superstar slammed giants, won titles, and headlined countless events.

Last year, he endorsed Donald Trump at the RNC, playing off his signature Hulkamania.

When they took a shot at my hero

and they tried to kill the next president of the United States, enough was enough.

And I said, let Trumpomania run wild, brother.

Let Trumpomania rule again.

Hogan is survived by his wife, Skye Daly, and his two children.

He will be missed.

Those are your drive-home updates.

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And in case you missed it it this morning, we covered some major stories, including shocking findings in the organ transplant system leading to RFK pushing for reforms, Brian Koberger getting sentenced, and anti-immigration protests erupting in the UK.

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