Evening Wire: New Russiagate Evidence & Illegal Vape Crackdown | 7.23.25

Tulsi Gabbard declassifies new evidence in the Russiagate hoax.

Brian Koberger is sentenced after coming face-to-face with victims' families.

And the Olympics Committee bans men from competing in women's sports.

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

It's Wednesday, July 23rd, and this is EveningWire.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified the findings of a never-before-seen 2020 congressional investigation on RussiaGate.

The investigation found that the Obama-era intelligence report claiming that Vladimir Putin wanted to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election was based on questionable information and violated intelligence gathering standards.

Gabbard addressed the new evidence at the White House press briefing today.

First, Putin's principal interests relating to the 2016 election were to undermine faith in the U.S.

democratic process, not show any preference of a certain candidate.

In fact, this report shows Putin

held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it after the election to weaken what Moscow viewed as an inevitable Clinton presidency.

In the January 2017 intelligence community assessment that President Obama ordered, John Brennan, who was CIA director at the time, and the intelligence community intentionally suppressed intelligence.

Senator Marsha Blackburn of of Tennessee also weighed in on the new evidence against Obama, telling Morningwire that she wants anyone found guilty to face the full consequences.

The fact that DNI Gabbard released 100 documents that shows that the Obama administration was involved in this,

that

there was this plan that they all moved forward with.

Everyone knew Hillary Clinton, it appears, that Hillary Clinton was having this dossier prepared and you know it just shows you their hatred for President Donald Trump and they were going to do whatever they felt was necessary to block him

and so they moved forward with this plan I guess thinking no one would ever find out and of course now everyone is found out.

Those that are guilty should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Brian Koberger, who admitted to killing four University of Idaho students, faced the families of his victims before being sentenced today.

Families of the victims delivered emotional impact statements describing the devastating aftermath of the November 22 stabbings.

Surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen called Koberger a hollow vessel.

He chose destruction.

He chose evil.

He feels nothing.

He tried to take everything from me.

My friends, my safety, my identity, my future.

He took their lives, but I will continue trying to be like them to make them proud.

Koberger pleaded guilty earlier this month, avoiding the death penalty in exchange for four consecutive life terms, plus 10 additional years.

Koberger remained stone-faced throughout the hearing.

His plea deal waives any right to appeal.

A New York man has been indicted for building and planting explosive devices across Manhattan.

55-year-old Michael Gann allegedly crafted at least five IEDs and stashed them on Soho rooftops.

He also threw one on a subway track.

One of the devices held 600 times the legal explosive limit.

The feds say Gann searched chlorine bombs and dynamite online and even posted cryptic threats on social media.

Thanks to quick work by the FBI and NYPD, no one was hurt.

But Gann now faces up to 40 years in prison.

The illegal immigrant charged with the shooting of a border patrol officer earlier this week was, in fact, vetted under the Biden administration, but only via Zoom.

He was then released under Biden's border policy in 2023.

21-year-old Miguel Mora Nunes never showed up for court, was ordered deported, but stayed, and racked up numerous arrests.

Now he's accused of opening fire in Fort Washington Park, only to be shot and caught later at a Bronx hospital.

The officer is recovering.

The Trump administration is launching a new investigation into Harvard University's compliance with federal visa rules.

Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the latest.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a letter to the university's president demanding records tied to the Exchange Visitor Program.

The program issues visas for international students, professors, and researchers.

Rubio says the probe is needed to protect national security.

The move follows a series of legal clashes between Harvard and the administration over the university's international enrollment and federal funding.

A federal judge has blocked past attempts to bar Harvard from the visa program, but affirmed the government's right to investigate.

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In an interview with CNN this week, anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil repeatedly refused to condemn Hamas.

And the Trump administration says it's yet more proof that he's a terrorist sympathizer.

Here's Khalil, who had been championed by left-wing Democrats, being questioned by Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown.

Do you specifically condemn Hamas, a designated terrorist organization in the United States, not just for their actions on October 7th?

I condemn the killing of Orpel of all civilians, full stop.

But what

I don't want to get into is,

no,

I am very clear with condemning old civilians.

I'm very straight in my position in that

part.

But it's disingenuous to ask about condemning Hamas while Palestinians are the ones being starved now by Israel.

Khalil became a cause celeb among the left when the Trump administration moved to deport him after he helped lead disruptive anti-Israel protests at Columbia University.

Khalil filed a $20 million claim against the Trump administration this month, claiming he had been falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted, and smeared as an anti-Semite.

As Khalil and some humanitarian groups claim Israel is to blame for mass starvation in Gaza, a new video suggests otherwise.

Daily Wire reporter Cassie Akiva explains.

In the footage, Hamas terrorists are seen feasting underground while Gazans go hungry.

The Israeli foreign ministry says that the footage shows Hamas terrorists are, quote, boasting about full meals in their tunnels, far from the suffering above.

The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says Hamas is blocking food aid in a power struggle with the U.N., demanding control over distribution.

They say Hamas is stealing and reselling supplies and even killing 12 of its aid workers to intimidate locals.

The Department of Health and Human Services has found systemic disregard for sanctity of life in the organ transplant system.

Daily Wire reporter Amanda PrestiGiacomo has the details.

HHS announced an initiative to reform the organ transplant system following an investigation that revealed organ procurement that began even when patients showed signs of life.

The investigation examined cases where organ procurement was authorized but not completed.

More than 100 cases showed patients with neurological signs incompatible with organ donation.

Almost 30 patients may not have been deceased when organ procurement began.

HHS Secretary Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.

called the findings horrifying, and he said organ transplant organizations will be held accountable.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration is warning about illegal Chinese vaping products entering the U.S.

Commissioner Marty McCary said cracking down on illegal vapes is a top priority for the agency.

The agency plans to confiscate and seize more illegal vape products.

Many of these products appeal to children and teens through bright colors and fruit and candy-based flavors.

Some are disguised as smartphone cases, highlighters, or handheld video games to hide the vapes from parents.

McCary told ABC News that 85% of vapes sold in stores are illegal.

There is no approved vaping product in the United States that has a video game.

There is no approved vaping product in the United States that has one of these cutesy, fruity flavors.

85% of the vaping products sold in the vape stores are illegal, according to the FDA's list.

The U.S.

Olympic Committee has banned men from competing in women's sports.

Daily Wire reporter Mareta Lordy has more.

The Olympic Committee says it held a series of respectful and constructive conversations with federal officials after Trump signed the Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports order back in February.

While the decision doesn't necessarily keep men from other countries out of women's sports, the committee says it would work with international groups to provide safe and fair environments for women.

The 2028 Summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles under Trump's watch, while the 2026 Winter Games will be hosted by Italy.

President Trump has just secured a massive $550 billion trade deal with Japan, saying it will create hundreds of thousands of jobs.

On Truth Social, the president called it the largest deal ever made and said there has never been anything like it.

Japan will now open their country to trade in things such as cars, trucks, rice, and agricultural products.

They will also pay 15% reciprocal tariffs to the U.S.

The deal marks the first time that Japan has opened its market to the U.S.

and comes just two weeks after Trump announced 25% tariffs on the country.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besson had this to say.

And Netflix has decided not to renew Harry and Megan's $100 million deal.

The news comes after official figures showed that Megan Markle's show, With Love, Megan, failed to rank among the platform's top 300 most-watched titles between January and June of 2025.

It earned even lower views than the couple's 2022 docuseries Harry and Megan, and IMDb gave the series an embarrassing score of 3.2 out of 10.

Netflix still plans to release the second season of the show, but that will be the last.

All right, those are your drive-home updates.

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And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories, including Trump going scorched earth on Obama, Congress moving to question Ghelane Maxwell, and the fallout from Hunter Biden's F-bomb-filled interviews.

Thanks for tuning in, and we'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morningwire.