Evening Wire: Russiagate Referral & Federal Reserve Review | 7.21.25

The DOJ receives DNI Gabbard's Russiagate criminal referral, the Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia saga continues, and the Treasury Secretary calls for a review of the entire Fed. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley.
It's Monday, July 21st, and this is Evening Wire. The DOJ has confirmed it's received a criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, which accuses Obama-era officials of manufacturing the Trump-Russia narrative.
Over the weekend, Gabbard released documents she says show, quote, overwhelming evidence of a conspiracy within the Obama administration to undermine President Trump. The DOJ offered no comment beyond confirming receipt of that referral.
Meanwhile, Senator Chuck Grassley plans to declassify parts of a 2018 DOJ report tied to Hillary Clinton's email investigation. Overnight, Russia continued its deadly assault on Ukraine, launching hundreds of missiles and drones at major cities.
Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more. Kiev and Kharkiv were among the city's hit and large-scale attack.
Two people were killed, one of which was a 12-year-old girl. At least 15 others were injured.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the attacks struck residential buildings, the entrance to a subway station, and even a kindergarten. Zelensky is urging world leaders to increase pressure on Moscow, calling the assault an attack on humanity.
Meanwhile, analysts say Russia continues to draw on troops from impoverished regions and allies like North Korea, while sparing its elite populations from frontline duty. Meanwhile, more countries are joining Trump's pressure campaign on Russia.
After Trump gave Russia 50 days to make peace, the U.K. launched its own 50-day drive to make certain Ukraine is armed to the teeth.
The U.K. is dropping another 54 million into the fight and over 6 billion just this year.
Germany is also set to deliver five Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine this week. U.K.
Defense Secretary John Healy didn't mince words, saying, quote, now's the time to crush Putin's will with steel, missiles and unity. Trump set the deadline.
Now the West is delivering the pressure. Kilmer Abrego Garcia will remain in U.S.
custody for now. The so-called Maryland father has been granted a 30-day reprieve from deportation under a rare agreement with the Trump Justice Department.
It follows months of legal back and forth, including his deportation to El Salvador in March and return in June. A federal judge is still weighing whether to block ICE from removing him again.
Morning Wire spoke to Tennessee Star reporter Tom Papert, who's been following the saga. He says to expect some legal seesawing before the trial, likely set for January.
This week will likely tell the tale of what will happen to Abrego Garcia. If U.S.
District Court Judge Zinnis issues an order restricting ICE from detaining Abrego Garcia anywhere but Maryland, then you will likely see a very rapid appeal from the Trump administration to reverse this, which could give them the right to deport him once he is in ICE custody.

An off-duty customs and border patrol officer was shot in the face during an attempted robbery in New York City over the weekend. The officer returned fire striking one of the alleged attackers in the leg.
The two suspects are both illegal Dominican migrants who had several previous run-ins with the law. One of them has even been deported previously.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the officer who's now in stable condition at the hospital and had this to say on the attack. One of our own that has been attacked and has been harmed dangerously by violent criminals that have been run loose here in New York City, but also in this country as a result of sanctuary city policies and the policies of the Biden administration.
There's absolutely zero reason that someone who is scum of the earth like this should be running loose on the streets of New York City. Both alleged attackers are in custody.
Customs and Border Patrol arrested several suspected illegal immigrants outside of a Sacramento Home Depot on Thursday, three of whom are convicted felons. Border Patrol El Centro Sector Chief Gregory Bovino referenced the raid in a pro-ICE video posted to Instagram on Thursday.
There's no such thing as a sanctuary state. We are here conducting this Title VIII mission.
We've already arrested at least eight individuals for being in this country illegally, one of whom is an aggravated felon. That aggravated felon appears to have charges related to fentanyl trafficking and one individual arrested for impeding and or assaulting a U.S.
federal officer. Police say the man who allegedly rammed his car into a crowd of people in Los Angeles over the weekend is a convicted felon out on parole.
In 2020, Fernando Ramirez was convicted of felony battery and felony domestic battery in 2022. In addition to those charges, he has 11 more criminal cases ranging from misdemeanors to felonies.
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See mintmobile.com. Harvard University is back in court today fighting the Trump administration.
Daily Wire investigative reporter Mairead Olorty has the details. The university argues the administration illegally cut $2.6 billion in federal funding.
If Harvard wins, the ruling would reverse funding cuts and freezes imposed by the administration. A federal anti-Semitism task force said Harvard tolerated anti-Jewish harassment.
The task force requested that the university make changes tied to academics, admissions, and campus protests, as well as end certain diversity and gender programs. The federal government cut the school's funding after Harvard refused to make changes to its policies.
The administration argues the government has wide discretion to end contracts and grants for policy reasons. The pope is calling for the end of what he called barbarity after Israel struck Gaza's only Catholic church.

Israel has apologized for the strike and said it was a tragic accident.

Yesterday, Pope Leo XIV read the names of those killed in the strike and expressed his

deep sorrow.

We pray for these victims.

And I'm particularly close to their families and all of the parishioners.

And I'm also close to all those who continue to be affected by the attacks on civilians in Gaza. We need to stop immediately these barbaric acts of war.
The Pope asked countries to observe humanitarian law and to protect civilians. He also asked for prohibition of collective punishment, of indiscriminate use of force and force displacement of the population.
An Israeli missile hit the Catholic Church and killed three people Thursday morning. Ten others were injured, including the parish priest.
In economic news, the Treasury Secretary is calling for a review of the entire Federal Reserve. Secretary Scott Bessand said the review needs to examine the success of the Fed.
President Trump has criticized the Fed for not lowering interest rates and renovation plans costing billions of dollars. Besant did not say if he thought the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell should be fired.
He said he thinks the Fed's economists are stuck in a certain mindset, especially when it comes to tariffs. I think that what we need to do is examine the entire Federal Reserve institution and whether they have been successful.
Has the organization succeeded in its mission? If this were the FAA and we were having this many mistakes, we would go back and look at why has this happened? All these PhDs over there, I don't know what they do. I don't know what they do.
This is like universal basic income for academic economists. The U.S.
has decided that it's not letting up on the August 1st deadline for 30% tariffs on the European Union. Howard Lutnick, the U.S.
Commerce Secretary, said he's confident that a trade deal can be struck with the EU but stood firm on the deadline. That's a hard deadline.
So on August 1st, the new tariff rates will come in. These are the two biggest trading partners in the world talking to each other.
We'll get a deal done. I am confident we'll get a deal done.
In sports related news, the Cleveland Guardians have responded to President Trump's suggestion that they re-adopt their prior name, the Cleveland Indians. The baseball team's president, Chris Antonetti, says he understands the decision to change the name was controversial, but he maintains the team has had the opportunity to build the brand as the Guardians over the past four years and that the future of the team excites him.
Trump said in a Truth Social post Sunday that the Guardians should change their name back to the Indians in order to honor the team's historic past. The team changed their name to the Guardians in 2020 in an effort to minimize racial stereotypes after George Floyd's death.
WNBA players are going on an equal pay crusade. At the All-Star Game on Saturday, players wore matching t-shirts that said, quote, pay us what you owe us.
According to them, the shirts were inspired by recent collective bargaining negotiations, but social media users pointed out that the shirts didn't make sense as the WNBA is not able to sustain operations from its own profits. The Daily Wire's own Jake Crane called wearing these shirts when you have to be subsidized wild.
Despite this, WNBA player Kelsey Plum said in a post-game interview that the moment was powerful. As players, we didn't know that that was going to happen.
So I think it was kind of like a genuine surprise. But the T-shirt just united front was determined this morning.

And in Coldplay's first show since the viral kiss cam moment, frontman Chris Martin gave a warning before beginning the use of their cameras. We'd like to say hello to some of you in the crowd.
How we're going to do that Is we're going to use our cameras

And put some of you on the big screen. So please, if you haven't done your makeup, do your makeup now.
The band did not address the viral clip that exposed an affair between astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his head of HR. Kind of a missed moment there.
All right, those are your drive home updates today. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories, including new revelations about the 2016 Trump-Russia probe, President Trump's legal action against the Wall Street Journal,

and the amnesty bill being pushed in Congress.

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