Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) fired back at critics after she was caught on camera at an eclipse-viewing event telling students that the moon was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-congresswoman-tells-students-the-moon-is-made-of-gas-and-it-gets-worse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made of gases</a> — and she blamed Republicans and their &#8220;lust for stupidity&#8221; for focusing on her obvious error.
During the event, Jackson Lee told students, &#8220;You’ve heard the word ‘full moon.’ Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases. And that’s why the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon? Are the gases such that we could do that? The sun is a mighty powerful heat, but it’s almost impossible to go near the sun. The moon is more manageable.&#8221;
Jackson Lee claimed in an X post that she had been referring to the sun at the time, saying, &#8220;Obviously I misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters. What can I say though, foolish thinkers lust for stupidity!&#8221;
She then pivoted to attack Republicans, adding, &#8220;They should be focusing on issues like prenatal care, building more affordable housing, and more reduction of student loan debt as President Joe Biden is &#8230; Also, I care more about these children who would not have experienced the eclipse in this enthusiastic manner. And, I care more about protecting the rights of women and children than engaging in this kind of senseless dialogue!&#8221;
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Also, I care more about these children who would not have experienced the eclipse in this enthusiastic manner. And, I care more about protecting the rights of women and children than engaging in this kind of senseless dialogue!
&mdash; Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) <a href="https://twitter.com/JacksonLeeTX18/status/1777747903542350001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;She was on both the House Science and Space committees. Seriously. She represents a city that is one of the homes for NASA. It&#8217;s called &#8216;space city&#8217; for a reason. Vote better, people,&#8221; Robert Patrick Lewis pointed out.
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She was on both the House Science and Space committees. 
Seriously. She represents a city that is one of the homes for NASA. It&#39;s called &quot;space city&quot; for a reason.
Vote better, people. <a href="https://t.co/pav1CuqAEO">https://t.co/pav1CuqAEO</a>
&mdash; Robert Patrick Lewis (@RobertPLewis) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertPLewis/status/1778076038289125488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Just when I thought this story could not possibly get any better …&#8221; Josh Hammer added.
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Just when I thought this story could not possibly get any better …
😂 <a href="https://t.co/zuNCtgXD8R">https://t.co/zuNCtgXD8R</a>
&mdash; Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1778045355076022573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Sheila Jackson Lee said that the Moon is made up of gases but we can live on it because the gases are &#8216;manageable.&#8217; Now she claims she was talking about the Sun, which would mean that she thinks we can live on the Sun,&#8221; The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh posted. &#8220;So her excuse is that she didn&#8217;t mean to say that dumb thing. She actually meant to say a much dumber thing. Either way this woman has the IQ of a strawberry.&#8221;
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Sheila Jackson Lee said that the Moon is made up of gases but we can live on it because the gases are &quot;manageable.&quot; Now she claims she was talking about the Sun, which would mean that she thinks we can live on the Sun. So her excuse is that she didn&#39;t mean to say that dumb thing.… <a href="https://t.co/iquRHyNQIo">https://t.co/iquRHyNQIo</a>
&mdash; The Honorable Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1778027426510999711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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House Judiciary Committee Votes On Articles Of Impeachment

Sheila Jackson Lee Knows Just Who To Blame After She Claims Moon Is Made Of Gases

Moon

NASA

Politics

Science

Sheila Jackson Lee

Space

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top military official denied reports this week that Russia is looking to create a nuclear weapon designed to be used in space.
The remarks come after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) brought attention to the matter last week by warning that a foreign adversary was working on creating a &#8220;destabilizing&#8221; weapon and urged President Joe Biden to declassify the intelligence surrounding the weapon. Subsequent reporting said that the potential weapon would be used to knock out satellites critical to U.S. national security.
&#8220;Our position is clear and transparent: We have always been categorically against the deployment of nuclear weapons in space and we are still against it,&#8221; Putin claimed.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that Russia does not have the weapon and that the U.S. knew that Russia didn&#8217;t have the weapon, which is something that President Biden has already acknowledged.
Speaking at an event at the Munich Security Conference last week, the commander of Germany’s Military Space Command, Major General Michael Traut, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/commander-of-germanys-military-space-command-warns-about-potential-russian-space-weapon">said</a> that the weapon posed a serious risk to everyone.
“If somebody dares to explode a nuclear weapon in high atmosphere or even space, this would be more or less the end of the usability of that global commons [of orbit],” said Traut. “Nobody would survive an action like that — no satellite, either Chinese or Russian and American or European. If somebody calculates rationally, nobody would employ such a weapon in space.”
Lt. Col. “Tony” Vincent, an active duty scientist in the United States Air Force (USAF) who is currently the Director of Advanced Physics Courses at the Air Force Academy, wrote in a September 2022 piece about the dangers that are posed by a nuclear weapon being detonated in space.
Vincent <a href="https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/getting-serious-about-the-threat-of-high-altitude-nuclear-detonations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> what happened when the Atomic Energy Commission, in collaboration with the Defense Atomic Support Agency, detonated a nuclear weapon in low Earth orbit back in the Summer of 1962:
<blockquote>The test was codenamed Starfish Prime and it revealed an unfortunate lesson: Even one high altitude nuclear detonation is particularly effective at destroying satellites. Not only were satellites in the line of sight destroyed, but even satellites on the other side of Earth were damaged and rendered inoperable. Starfish Prime damaged or destroyed roughly one third of all satellites in low Earth orbit at the time.</blockquote>
Vincent said that commercial satellites need to become hardened against radiation to avoid being susceptible to a nuclear space weapon but cautioned that while the cost to do so has fallen, “this practice historically drives the component price up by roughly factors of 10 to 100 while potentially increasing size and mass of the total payload.”
He warned that there were two primary reasons that a country would want to use a nuclear weapon in space: to devastate America’s economy and/or to disrupt the U.S. military’s space-based assets that it uses for command and control.
“A nuclear explosion in space disproportionately hurts the United States as the largest single investor in space capabilities,” he wrote. “The United States nets almost $200 billion per year of real gross output from its space assets. Even though military satellites are designed to withstand a harsher charged particle environment, radiation hardening is not a magic cloak of invincibility. Military space assets will be degraded over time from the artificially amped radiation belt created from the nuclear detonation, meanwhile commercial satellites in low Earth orbit will be the first to fail from continually passing through these particle hot spots. Most satellites with a line of sight to the nuclear detonation will be destroyed from the resulting x-rays. Military space capabilities for command and control along with reconnaissance assets may still function for a period following the detonation, but the economic impact of degraded informational space products will be immediate.”
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Vincent further wrote that the threat that a nuclear space weapon could be used is higher than what most people likely think because a nuclear detonation in space against infrastructure would not necessarily mean that the U.S. would respond with a nuclear strike against the aggressor:
<blockquote>Once an adversarial nation with a disadvantage in space capabilities detonates a nuclear weapon in this domain, there is no benefit to respond with a similar attack. This act would further degrade space-based assets…
The attacked nation, then, must consider responding with conventional or nuclear weapons on Earth. Targeting cities and military installations with nuclear weapons is not an in-kind response to the initial action of nuking space and represents another significant escalation in the conflict. Space assets are not on par with human lives. Further, the attacking nation will also have nuclear weapons in reserve, and with the right mix of forces can hold targets at risk. Therefore, the attacked nation would have to weigh escalating to nuclear weapons use, knowing that it would invite a nuclear response on targets in the homeland. The obvious response is to signal that the use of nuclear weapons in space would be treated as a nuclear attack on Earth, but an adversarial nation could consider such a threat non-credible.
A nation may also be deterred from acting because every nation in the world is dependent upon space products to some degree. Therefore, using a nuclear weapon in space would be “self-harm.” However, as the history of war reveals, nations choose self-harm, such as when they collapse their own bridges and burn fields, to prevent an invader from gaining ground. Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of threat escalation, so the use of one is a sign of desperation with diminishing alternative options.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-intel-republican-warns-russian-space-weapon-may-blind-u-s-economy-and-military">House Intel Republican Warns Russian Space Weapon May ‘Blind’ U.S. Economy And Military</a>

RUSSIA-UKRAINE-CONFLICT

Russia Claims They Are Not Working On A Nuclear Space Weapon

Air &amp; Space

Mike Turner

Nuclear Weapons

Russia

Vladimir Putin

World

The commander of Germany&#8217;s military Space Command warned late last week that the purported nuclear weapon that Russia is considering developing for use in space would render space unusable, potentially forever.
Speaking at an event at the Munich Security Conference, Major General Michael Traut weighed in on the recent revelation about the weapon by the U.S. last week.
&#8220;If somebody dares to explode a nuclear weapon in high atmosphere or even space, this would be more or less the end of the usability of that global commons [of orbit],&#8221; said Traut. &#8220;Nobody would survive an action like that — no satellite, either Chinese or Russian and American or European. If somebody calculates rationally, nobody would employ such a weapon in space.&#8221;
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH), who drew public attention to the matter last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/turner-on-why-he-sounded-alarm-on-russian-space-weapon-biden-hiding-inaction-like-with-chinese-spy-balloon">said</a> during an interview over the weekend that part of the reason that he decided to call attention to the classified issue was because he was concerned that the administration was trying to cover-up their inaction on the issue in the same way that they tried to with the Chinese spy balloon.
Lt. Col. “Tony” Vincent, an active duty scientist in the United States Air Force (USAF) who is currently the Director of Advanced Physics Courses at the Air Force Academy, wrote in a September 2022 piece about the dangers that are posed by a nuclear weapon being detonated in space.
Vincent <a href="https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/getting-serious-about-the-threat-of-high-altitude-nuclear-detonations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> what happened when the Atomic Energy Commission, in collaboration with the Defense Atomic Support Agency, detonated a nuclear weapon in low Earth orbit back in the Summer of 1962:
<blockquote>The test was codenamed Starfish Prime and it revealed an unfortunate lesson: Even one high altitude nuclear detonation is particularly effective at destroying satellites. Not only were satellites in the line of sight destroyed, but even satellites on the other side of Earth were damaged and rendered inoperable. Starfish Prime damaged or destroyed roughly one third of all satellites in low Earth orbit at the time.</blockquote>
Vincent said that commercial satellites need to become hardened against radiation to avoid being susceptible to a nuclear space weapon, but cautioned that while the cost to do so has fallen, “this practice historically drives the component price up by roughly factors of 10 to 100 while potentially increasing size and mass of the total payload.”
He warned that there were two primary reasons that a country would want to use a nuclear weapon in space: to devastate America’s economy and/or to disrupt the U.S. Military’s space-based assets that it uses for command and control.
“A nuclear explosion in space disproportionately hurts the United States as the largest single investor in space capabilities,” he wrote. “The United States nets almost $200 billion per year of real gross output from its space assets. Even though military satellites are designed to withstand a harsher charged particle environment, radiation hardening is not a magic cloak of invincibility. Military space assets will be degraded over time from the artificially amped radiation belt created from the nuclear detonation, meanwhile commercial satellites in low Earth orbit will be the first to fail from continually passing through these particle hot spots. Most satellites with a line of sight to the nuclear detonation will be destroyed from the resulting x-rays. Military space capabilities for command and control along with reconnaissance assets may still function for a period following the detonation, but the economic impact of degraded informational space products will be immediate.”
Vincent further wrote that the threat that a nuclear space weapon could be used is higher than what most people likely think because a nuclear detonation in space against infrastructure would not necessarily mean that the U.S. would respond with a nuclear strike against the aggressor:
<blockquote>Once an adversarial nation with a disadvantage in space capabilities detonates a nuclear weapon in this domain, there is no benefit to respond with a similar attack. This act would further degrade space-based assets…
The attacked nation, then, must consider responding with conventional or nuclear weapons on Earth. Targeting cities and military installations with nuclear weapons is not an in-kind response to the initial action of nuking space and represents another significant escalation in the conflict. Space assets are not on par with human lives. Further, the attacking nation will also have nuclear weapons in reserve, and with the right mix of forces can hold targets at risk. Therefore, the attacked nation would have to weigh escalating to nuclear weapons use, knowing that it would invite a nuclear response on targets in the homeland. The obvious response is to signal that the use of nuclear weapons in space would be treated as a nuclear attack on Earth, but an adversarial nation could consider such a threat non-credible.
A nation may also be deterred from acting because every nation in the world is dependent upon space products to some degree. Therefore, using a nuclear weapon in space would be “self-harm.” However, as the history of war reveals, nations choose self-harm, such as when they collapse their own bridges and burn fields, to prevent an invader from gaining ground. Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of threat escalation, so the use of one is a sign of desperation with diminishing alternative options.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-intel-republican-warns-russian-space-weapon-may-blind-u-s-economy-and-military">House Intel Republican Warns Russian Space Weapon May ‘Blind’ U.S. Economy And Military</a>

RUSSIA-US-NUCLEAR-POLITICS

Commander Of Germany’s Military Space Command Warns About Potential Russian Space Weapon

Germany

Outer Space

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) said on Sunday that he believes the Biden administration will begin to take the threat of a Russian space nuclear weapon more seriously now that it has been exposed to the public.
Turner made the remarks during an NBC News interview with Kristen Welker on &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; when asked about his decision last week to release a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-republican-urges-biden-to-declassify-new-intel-on-destabilizing-foreign-military-capability">statement</a> calling attention to a new &#8220;destabilizing foreign military capability.&#8221;
&#8220;The threat is very serious,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Everyone who&#8217;s looked at it used the same language that I have, that it is a very serious threat. And I&#8217;m very glad that the administration is beginning to take action. We met with Jake Sullivan, and he began to lay out a plan that hopefully would begin to address this. I understand that Secretary Blinken here at Munich met with leaders from China and India, according to how the New York Times is reporting. That certainly would be an important big step to try to avert this.&#8221;
Welker then claimed that President Joe Biden said last week that the threat was not a nuclear threat. What Biden actually <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-says-no-nuclear-threat-us-russia-considers-potential-space-weapo-rcna139239">said</a> was that the threat did not present a nuclear threat &#8220;to the people of America or anywhere else in the world&#8221; because the purported weapon is designed to be used only in space to destroy satellites.
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&#8220;I can’t confirm or deny this,&#8221; Turner said. &#8220;What I have called for is for the administration to declassify this. And my concern is that this is kind of like the Chinese spy balloon, and the – the administration is kind of hiding perhaps some inaction. But as this becomes more and more public and the administration grapples with what we&#8217;re dealing with, I think they are going to be taking it seriously. I think they will be taking action. And that, obviously, is the goal.&#8221;
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WATCH: House Intel Chair <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeTurner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMikeTurner</a> (R-Ohio) sounded the alarm about a national security threat related to a Russian anti-satellite weapon.
President Biden has said the threat isn’t nuclear. 
Turner: “I can’t confirm or deny this.” <a href="https://t.co/iCxlz3KYI8">pic.twitter.com/iCxlz3KYI8</a>
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Biden Impeachment Resolution

Turner On Why He Sounded Alarm On Russian Space Weapon: Biden Hiding Inaction Like With Chinese Spy Balloon

Congress

Meet the Press

NBC News

A Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee said on Sunday the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-official-explains-the-threat-of-a-russian-anti-satellite-nuclear-weapon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">space weapon</a> that Russia is trying to develop could &#8220;blind&#8221; the U.S. economy and military.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6347159910112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Fox News anchor</a> Maria Bartiromo on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; about the potential impacts of the threat that engulfed much of Washington in the past week.
&#8220;If this weapon is allowed to fully deploy, it could completely blind our economy. It would take out our GPS,&#8221; Waltz said. &#8220;It could blind our military. It is incredibly serious. It&#8217;s a weapon of mass destruction, not just us — countries all over the world.&#8221;
The issue came to light in the past week when House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-republican-urges-biden-to-declassify-new-intel-on-destabilizing-foreign-military-capability" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a statement calling on the Biden administration to declassify intelligence about a &#8220;destabilizing&#8221; military capability from a hostile foreign power.
In the ensuing days, the White House conceded Russia had been working on an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/politics/white-house-russia-anti-satellite/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-satellite capability</a> but stressed that it had not been deployed. And Turner has faced blowback for going public after the panel made some details available to all House members.
Waltz said Turner was &#8220;very frustrated after sending multiple classified letters to the administration asking, &#8216;What are you going to do to stop this threat, to deal with this threat?'&#8221;
He said, &#8220;And it won&#8217;t surprise you: we got radio silence. So the committee voted unanimously, Republican and Democrat, to say, you know what, all members need to be aware. This threat is so serious, so grave, all members need to be aware.&#8221;
Waltz conceded a &#8220;kind of blow up&#8221; but emphasized that it is being taken seriously as the &#8220;director of national intelligence and the national security adviser were on the Hill the next day giving us a strategy and telling us what they&#8217;re going to do about it.&#8221;
The &#8220;fear,&#8221; Waltz added, is that Russian President Vladimir Putin &#8220;has calculated we are far more dependent on space than he is, so that perhaps this would be at his advantage or that he could use it as a serious deterrence to keep us from doing what we need to do.&#8221;
Bartiromo pointed out that some of Turner&#8217;s critics have suggested the chairman was angling to gin up support for more aid to Ukraine, which has stalled in Congress. Waltz dismissed the idea that Ukraine funds or FISA surveillance reauthorization were motivating factors for the chairman.
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&#8220;It had nothing to do with Ukraine. It had nothing to do with FISA,&#8221; he said. &#8220;FISA, actually, the 702 Section of that informs all kinds of intelligence. Without getting into details, there was some new information that confirmed some things that we had suspected.&#8221;
Waltz added, &#8220;And it was the radio silence, the appearance that the administration was sleepwalking as this threat continued to grow. That&#8217;s what really drove it. And, again, it was a unanimous vote — all sides, from the committee.&#8221;

Rep. Michael Waltz

House Intel Republican Warns Russian Space Weapon May ‘Blind’ U.S. Economy And Military

House Intel Republican Warns Russian Space Weapon May 'Blind' U.S. Economy And Military

Mike Waltz

National Security

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) on Thursday defended his decision to release a public statement calling for the Biden administration to &#8220;declassify all information&#8221; related to a threat from a hostile foreign power.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-republican-urges-biden-to-declassify-new-intel-on-destabilizing-foreign-military-capability">statement</a> from Turner generated shockwaves through the media on Wednesday for several hours as little was known about the threat.
&#8220;The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence worked in consultation with the Biden Administration to notify Congress of this national security threat,&#8221; Turner said in the statement on Thursday. &#8220;In addition, language in the bipartisan notification issued by the Chair and Ranking Member to all Members of the House was cleared by the Administration prior to its release.&#8221;
The statement said that the House Intelligence Committee had voted 23 to 1 to make this information available to members of Congress and that the Biden administration had confirmed that they believed the threat was &#8220;serious.&#8221;
Reports surfaced on Wednesday evening saying that the weapon that the Russian Military is working on, which has not yet been fully developed, is a nuclear weapon designed to be deployed in space with the intention of wiping out entire Western satellite networks and knocking out communications and military targeting systems.
ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-plans-brief-lawmakers-house-chairman-warns/story?id=107232293" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the nuclear weapon would not be deployed against targets on Earth and is only designed to target satellites in space.
A source familiar with the intelligence told the network that the development was “very concerning and very sensitive” and was a “big deal.”
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The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/us/politics/intelligence-russia-nuclear.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the weapon was still being developed and had not yet been deployed into space. The information is so sensitive that “it could not be declassified without cutting off its source,” the report said.
Members of Congress who saw the intelligence told various publications that the threat was extremely serious, but it was not something that the U.S. public should be worried about at the moment.
“We are going to work together to address this matter, as we do all sensitive matters that are classified,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Wednesday afternoon. “But we just want to assure everyone steady hands are at the wheel.”

Meet the Press – Season 76

House Intel Chair Defends Statement Warning Of ‘Destabilizing Foreign Military Capability’

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro sat down with SpaceX and X owner Elon Musk in Krakow, Poland, for an exclusive in-depth discussion hitting numerous issues.
Before Shapiro and Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-slams-dei-during-discussion-with-ben-shapiro-could-come-out-of-a-george-orwell-book">took the stage</a> together at the European Jewish Association (EJA) conference in Krakow on Monday, the two had their own separate discussion covering a range of topics from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agendas in business to space exploration and religion. The 50-minute Shapiro-Musk sitdown was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-with-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released on DailyWire+</a> on Wednesday. 
During the conversation, Shapiro zoned in on the current business climate in the West, and Musk revealed what he views as the biggest obstacles standing in the way of companies’ success. The two then discussed the increasing leftist push for companies to go along with DEI. 
“One of the things that you and I had been discussing a little bit offline is the fact that DEI effectively is a conspiracy theory in which there&#8217;s a cadre of powerful people who are at the top and they control everything else that&#8217;s happening,” Shapiro said. “And because those powerful people are at the top, they are exploiting everybody else and they have to be taken down more than one peg. And that conspiracy theory aligns very closely with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.” 
“I think DEI is very extremely anti-Semitic in its core,” Musk replied. “And it&#8217;s just generally anti-meritocratic, which I think is very dangerous. You want to have a society where you succeed based on your skills and hard work, and that’s it. And it doesn&#8217;t matter about your race, gender, creed, religion, nothing. You know? Just, are you good at your job? Do you work hard? Do you have high integrity? Nothing more.”
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Shapiro also asked the billionaire entrepreneur about his concern for declining birth rates around the world, especially in the West, and how much he thinks religion plays a part in people’s choice about having children. 
“The birth rate tends to correlate with the degree to which someone is religious, the degree to which they have the least amount of education, and basically the poorer someone is, the less educated someone is and the more religious they are, the more kids they will have,” Musk said. 
“So I&#8217;m going to make the case to you on a religious level that the only one of those things that is possible to have in the West and not get rid of all the glories of the West is a belief in a higher power or inner religious belief,” Shapiro responded. “I mean, like I&#8217;m doing pretty well, and I have four kids.” 
Shapiro closed out by asking Musk about an “experience that defines” him, and Musk discussed his ideas on philosophy, God, and the meaning of life.  
“In order to [understand the meaning of life] you have to expand the scope and scale of consciousness and get out there and explore the galaxy and then you can better understand the meaning of life,” Musk said.

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The U.S. government is not being fully transparent about what it knows about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFOs</a>, according to a journalist who just wrote a book on the topic.
Garrett Graff, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ufo-inside-garrett-graff-book-review-c2e901ce3b2d45ef5484c6be16da0cdc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">author of</a> &#8220;UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government’s Search for Alien Life Here — and Out There,&#8221; shared insights into his work as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBm_EbQLcII" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during an interview</a> on NBC News Now with host Chuck Todd.
&#8220;There is something real here,&#8221; Graff said. &#8220;There are things out there in our airspace that we do not understand what they are and that those could represent exquisite new adversary technology, but they could also represent science that we don&#8217;t understand&#8221; in areas such as meteorology or astronomy.
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/vermontgmg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@vermontgmg</a> says he&#39;s convinced the government is &quot;covering up some level&quot; of its knowledge of UFOs — but not &quot;meaningful knowledge of alien spacecraft; alien visitors.&quot;
&quot;I just don&#39;t see the extraordinary evidence or the fingers of a cover-up if that was the case.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Ms6HNIywJX">pic.twitter.com/Ms6HNIywJX</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1731358988912959704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I believe that &#8230; the government is covering up some level of its knowledge and understanding about what some of those things are both in in terms of what chunk of that is our government&#8217;s own secret development programs — you know planes, drones, new technologies that we&#8217;re working on — as well as what we&#8217;re sensing and detecting of advanced adversary technology being tested against U.S. forces or around U.S. airspace,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;What I&#8217;m unconvinced of,&#8221; Graff added, &#8220;is that the government is covering up meaningful knowledge of alien spacecraft, alien visitors, extraterrestrial contact — I just don&#8217;t see the extraordinary evidence or the fingers of the cover up that one would expect if that was in fact the case.&#8221;
Todd pressed Graff to comment on the recent strides by the U.S. government to publicly address unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) as reports of mysterious sightings grow and to <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3249303/usdis-ronald-moultrie-and-dr-sean-kirkpatrick-media-roundtable-on-the-all-domai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">engage with the scientific community</a>.
Graff described there being a &#8220;shift&#8221; since 2017 — when The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made waves</a> with a report on the Pentagon&#8217;s secretive efforts to study UFOs — in which &#8220;serious people are talking seriously about this in the national security circles in Washington and on Capitol Hill.&#8221;
In recent months, there has been a push on Capitol Hill, led by a bipartisan group of House and Senate members to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-bureaucracy-top-house-ufo-investigator-cautions-disclosure-legislation-may-be-a-dud-offers-additional-pathway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enact legislation</a> to force more disclosures as part of a broader defense bill for the coming year. One of those lawmakers, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), was also a guest on the program with Graff. &#8220;Our public wants to know what&#8217;s going on,&#8221; the congressman said.
But part of the &#8220;challenge&#8221; of identifying UAPs, Graff explained, is establishing a &#8220;baseline&#8221; with the help of sensors and other instruments for what may be zipping around the Earth on a typical basis. He did not completely rule out the prospect of extraterrestrial crafts, positing that they may be &#8220;passing all around us all of the time and we don&#8217;t have the technology adequate to notice&#8221; — considering factors such as size and movement speeds across a vast expanse.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/north-korea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">North Korea</a> launched what it claimed was a spy satellite into orbit on Tuesday, an operation that drew a rebuke from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> and alarm from U.S. allies in the region.
State-run media reported a Chollima-1 rocket launched from North Korea&#8217;s west coast and it &#8220;accurately&#8221; placed the Malligyong-1 reconnaissance satellite into orbit, per South Korea&#8217;s <a href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20231122000600315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yonhap News Agency</a>.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un himself reportedly observed the launch, which followed two failed attempts earlier this year. Pyongyang cast the latest operation as being part of its &#8220;legitimate&#8221; right to strengthen &#8220;self defense&#8221; and vowed more satellites would follow in &#8220;a short period of time.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> issued a statement saying the United States &#8220;strongly condemns&#8221; North Korea&#8217;s use of ballistic missile technology in &#8220;brazen violation&#8221; of multiple United Nations (UN) Security Council resolutions.
National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson added that the launch &#8220;raises tensions&#8221; and &#8220;risks destabilizing the security situation in the region and beyond.&#8221;
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South Korea&#8217;s military said it detected the launch from the Tongchang-ri area in the evening local time and that the rocket flew over waters west of the border island of Baengyeong, <a href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20231121010052315?section=nk/nk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which according to Yonhap</a>, came hours before a 10-day launch window North Korea gave to Japan as a safety warning.
South Korean officials believe North Korea was able to make progress with the help of Russia after the technical issues mired the prior two launches this year, as reported by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/world/asia/north-korea-russia-rocket-launch-spy-satellite.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
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North Korea has fired what it claims is a military spy satellite, the South&#39;s armed forces said on Tuesday, hours after Japan confirmed that Pyongyang had warned it of an imminent launch ➡️ <a href="https://t.co/D5pSChSekv">https://t.co/D5pSChSekv</a> <a href="https://t.co/5ztZVX3NYA">pic.twitter.com/5ztZVX3NYA</a>
&mdash; AFP News Agency (@AFP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1726998518467101054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Japan as well as South Korea had <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/japan-warns-north-korea-after-getting-notice-of-satellite-launch?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressed</a> North Korea to halt the launch. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned North Korea against the use of ballistic missile technology in violation of U.N. resolutions and said it would pose a &#8220;serious threat that affects the safety of our people.&#8221;
Indeed, following the launch on Tuesday, the Japanese government issued a J-Alert missile warning urging residents in Okinawa to take shelter for a short time, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-spy-satellite-japan-5e16266707e0e4034eca022fde44ffa7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted the Associated Press</a>.
Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/japan-warns-north-korea-after-getting-notice-of-satellite-launch?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that officials in South Korea&#8217;s capital of Seoul believe North Korea&#8217;s satellite would be relatively primitive, but the report said it could help foster &#8220;target lists&#8221; as North Korean continues development of missiles meant to carry nuclear warheads.  Meanwhile, South Korea is <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-11-06/south-korea-plans-to-launch-its-1st-military-spy-satellite-on-nov-30" target="_blank" rel="noopener">planning to launch</a> its first home-built satellite to assist with surveillance efforts at the end of November using one of SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 rockets, with more to follow.
President Joe Biden and his national security team are &#8220;assessing the situation in close coordination with our allies and partners,&#8221; Watson said in her statement on Tuesday.
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The U.S. urges &#8220;all countries to condemn this launch and call on [North Korea] to come to the table for serious negotiations,&#8221; she continued. The door has not closed on diplomacy but Pyongyang must immediately cease its provocative actions and instead choose engagement. The United States will take all necessary measures to ensure the security of the American homeland and the defense of our Republic of Korea and Japanese allies.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/spacex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpaceX</a> made headway in the second test flight of its Starship rocket despite the demo on Saturday ending with explosions.
The spacecraft, which one day may take humans back to the Moon and possibly to Mars with the help of reusable rockets, successfully took off without a crew from the coast of southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> and separated from its booster.
Though the vehicle and its booster <a href="https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-test-flight-launch-37c0893ddf605270b16a33ae64d69a85" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly exploded</a> one after the other in the minutes that followed over the Gulf of Mexico, meaning SpaceX did not reach its goal of having the Starship reach orbit and then splash down into Pacific Ocean, the company said the test will provide &#8220;invaluable data&#8221; to help it continue perfecting the model.
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&#8220;Starship successfully lifted off under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster and made it through a successful stage separation. The booster experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly after its boostback burn following the successful stage separation while Starship&#8217;s 6 second stage Raptor engines fired for several minutes as the Ship climbed to an altitude of ~150 kilometers,&#8221; SpaceX said in a <a href="https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
&#8220;With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multiplanetary,&#8221; the company added.
This weekend&#8217;s launch appears to have been a marked improvement over SpaceX&#8217;s test flight in April, which resulted in an explosion when the ship and booster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spacex-provides-details-on-its-massive-rockets-explosion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed to separate</a>.
“They have fixed issues identified in their first flight and got further than ever before with this type of vehicle,” said Phil Larson, a White House space adviser during former President Barack Obama’s administration who later helped with communications at SpaceX, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/science/spacex-starship-launch.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The New York Times</a>. “The magic of engineering is that it is all about learning, iterating the design, and reflying again soon.”
Still, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) <a href="https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1725926691074150467" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a statement that described what transpired during the test on Saturday as a &#8220;mishap,&#8221; though the agency stressed that the &#8220;anomaly&#8221; did not lead to any reports of injuries or public property damage.
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Just inspected the Starship launch pad and it is in great condition! 
No refurbishment needed to the water-cooled steel plate for next launch.
Congrats to <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Spacex</a> team &amp; contractors for engineering &amp; building such a robust system so rapidly! <a href="https://t.co/py5m1uhtEi">pic.twitter.com/py5m1uhtEi</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726328010499051579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The FAA will oversee the [SpaceX-led] mishap investigation to ensure SpaceX complies with its FAA-approved mishap investigation plan and other regulatory requirements,&#8221; the FAA added.
In a <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726328010499051579" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> to X on Sunday, Musk said the Starship launch pad was in &#8220;great condition&#8221; after he inspected it and noted that no refurbishment was &#8220;needed to the water-cooled steel plate for next launch.&#8221; He also congratulated the SpaceX team and contractors for &#8220;building such a robust system so rapidly.&#8221;

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SpaceX Finds 'Success' In Explosive Second Rocket Test Flight

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> spacecraft crashed into the moon over the weekend, days before scientists had planned to land the craft there to test landing technology and search for water. 
The Luna-25 lander was supposed to be the first Russian craft to reach the moon since the 1970s, but Russian scientists lost contact during the mission, and it crashed, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russias-moon-mission-falters-after-problem-entering-pre-landing-orbit-2023-08-20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Roscosmos, Russia’s state space corporation. 
&#8220;The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,&#8221; Roscosmos said. 
A commission has been formed to investigate what led to the crash of the Luna-25, which is just the latest Russian space mission to go awry. The last Russian moon exploration took place in 1976 when Luna-24 was launched. 
Russia’s space corporation <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-luna-25-spacecraft-crashes-moon-lunar-south-pole-rcna100839" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had hoped</a> that Luna-25 would prove the country was “capable of delivering a payload to the moon” and “ensure Russia’s guaranteed access to the moon’s surface.”
Luna-25 was supposed to land on the moon’s south pole, where no other spacecraft has ever made a landing. Some say the area may be home to precious elements and frozen water. 
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“The first goal is to find the water, to confirm that it is there &#8230; to study its abundance,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-united-states-space-race-moon-launch-roscosmos-nasa-china-vladimir-putin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Olga Zakutnyaya, who works at Moscow’s Space Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences, earlier this month. 
Russia has faced technological and financial challenges in recent years, problems that have only been exacerbated by the cost of its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">war with Ukraine</a> and the massive economic sanctions placed on it by Western countries over the invasion. 
&#8220;It is so sad that it was not possible to land the apparatus,&#8221; said Mikhail Marov, a 90-year-old physicist and astronomer who worked in the Soviet space program decades ago. “This was perhaps the last hope for me to see a revival of our lunar program.&#8221;
Russia may work with China on future space missions, with plans for Lunar-26, Lunar-27, and Lunar-28.
An Indian spacecraft, the Chandrayaan-3, will attempt to land on the moon on August 23, a mission the Russians were competing against. India would be the fourth country to have a craft land on the moon, following the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China. A previous spacecraft from India crashed into the moon in 2019.

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Since the deadly fires in Maui broke out last week, exacerbated by a dry summer season and driven by hurricane-force winds, a number of conspiracy theories have been floated as to the root cause of the devastation.
<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/15/maui-wildfires-spark-conspiracy-theories-about-space-lasers-oprah-land-grabs-and-suspicious-trees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One such theory</a> tied television super host Oprah Winfrey to the deadly blaze even as she has visited shelters, donated her money and time over the last week and promised to continue to do so.
Winfrey, as some have pointed out, has personal ties to Maui — she owns some 2,000 acres on the island and resides there part time — and has promised a large donation &#8220;once all the smoke and ash has settled and we figure out what the rebuilding is going to look like.&#8221;
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Oprah Winfrey, who owns 2,000 acres of land on Maui and lives there part time, says she is going to make a major donation towards recovery efforts “once all the smoke and ash has settled and we figure out what the rebuilding is going to look like.” <a href="https://t.co/5tqoSh41xL">pic.twitter.com/5tqoSh41xL</a>
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But Matt Wallace noted that although Winfrey&#8217;s land was threatened, it was not burned — and he saw a parallel to the 2017 Montecito fire that forced the veteran TV host to evacuate but ultimately left her property unscathed.
&#8220;IN THE LAST FEW YEARS SHE HAS GONE FROM ABOUT 100 ACRES OF LAND IN MAUI TO OVER 1000 ACRES!&#8221; Wallace claimed. &#8220;Then All of A Sudden Out of Nowhere A Fire Comes And Destroys Many Homes Near Her But Her Land Remains Untouched! SOUND FAMILIAR?!?!?!&#8221;
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⚠️ Oprah Winfrey Has Been Buying Up Land in Maui Like Crazy ⚠️
🚨 520-acre plot for $3.89 million (2023)
🚨 330 acres for $2.47 million (2023)
🚨 Two 10-acre swaths of land for $100,000 each (2022)
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS SHE HAS GONE FROM ABOUT 100 ACRES OF LAND IN MAUI TO… <a href="https://t.co/a6kIrnJWh0">pic.twitter.com/a6kIrnJWh0</a>
&mdash; Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1690881619391840256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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He alleged that basically the same thing had happened in 2017, saying that Winfrey had continued to buy up land after the fires and mudslides damaged properties near hers.
As for the means by which the fires were started, a direct energy weapon (DEW) — commonly referred to as a &#8220;space laser&#8221; — was the most common suggestion among conspiracy theorists.
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Maui wildfires spark conspiracy theories about space-lasers, Oprah land grabs, and suspicious trees <a href="https://t.co/ikhuskmH8z">https://t.co/ikhuskmH8z</a> <a href="https://t.co/qTaFBaexjg">pic.twitter.com/qTaFBaexjg</a>
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&#8220;This was a direct energy weapon assault on the people. And I say that because my friend in Hawaii showed a laser beam coming out of the sky directly targeting the city,&#8221; one person claimed.
TV host Ben Hansen criticized the conspiracy theories, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s a shame that some people feel the need to hoax or participate in what I call &#8216;fraudulent reattribution&#8217; by linking old media to recent events (i.e. the Maui fires being caused by space lasers). It&#8217;s deceitful &amp; distracting to the story of real families mourning their loss.&#8221;
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It&#39;s a shame that some people feel the need to hoax or participate in what I call &quot;fraudulent reattribution&quot; by linking old media to recent events (i.e. the Maui fires being caused by space lasers). It&#39;s deceitful &amp; distracting to the story of real families mourning their loss.
&mdash; Ben Hansen (@BenHansen00) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenHansen00/status/1691693407121666559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Maui fire is tragic. Thus far the leading hypothesis on social media as to the cause of the fire is a space-based laser weapon from China or Oprah. God help us all,&#8221; Dan Collins added.
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The Maui fire is tragic. Thus far the leading hypothesis on social media as to the cause of the fire is a space-based laser weapon from China or Oprah. God help us all. <a href="https://t.co/V1vZwvieyM">pic.twitter.com/V1vZwvieyM</a>
&mdash; Dan Collins (@DanCollins2011) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCollins2011/status/1691020514989363200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/only-fraction-of-dead-maui-wildfire-victims-identified-as-remains-fall-apart" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wildfires in Maui</a> devastated the historic city of Lahaina and claimed over 100 lives. The death toll is expected to rise as hundreds are still missing. President Joe Biden, after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reporters-have-questions-about-maui-wildfires-biden-smiles-waves-and-skips-town" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bumpy few days</a> during which he claimed to have &#8220;no comment&#8221; on the rising death toll, has promised that the federal government will offer every possible assistance Maui might need.
&#8220;Every asset they need will be there for them,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;And we&#8217;ll be there in Maui as long as it takes.&#8221;
Thus far, experts believe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-footage-shows-downed-power-lines-possibly-caused-maui-wildfires" target="_blank" rel="noopener">downed power lines</a> started at least one of the fires — which then raged out of control after hurricane-force winds sent sparks flying.

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