Transcript of Evening Wire: State Freezes Visas & Walz Stares Down Impeachment | 1.14.26

The Trump administration halts visas from 75 countries. Minnesota Governor Walls faces impeachment, and Verizon Wireless experiences massive mobile outages. I'm Georgia Howe with DailyWire executive editor, John Bickley. It's Wednesday, January 14th, and this is Evening Wire. The Trump administration froze visa applications from 75 countries, including Russia, Somalia, and Iran. Daily Wire reporter, Tim pierce, has the latest. The State Department directed consular officers to refuse visas under existing law while the screening and vetting process is reassessed. The visa pause will begin January 21st and continue indefinitely until the full assessment is conducted. Consular Officers have also been instructed to deny visas to applicants likely to rely on public welfare, considering factors such as health, age, English proficiency, finances, and the potential need for long-term medical care. A State Department spokesman affirmed this change, stating, The State Department will use its long-standing authority to deem ineligible potential immigrants who would become a public charge on the United States and exploit the generosity of the American people. Sanctuary cities and states could soon see federal funds dry up. Daily Wire reporters Mark Juhl has the details. The President made the announcement in a speech yesterday afternoon saying localities that do not fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities, so-called sanctuary cities and states, should not expect any funding from the government.

Here's Trump. Starting February first, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities. We're states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens, and it breeds fraud and crime. Trump doubled down when reporters pressed him after the speech. He said that you're going to be cutting off funding for sanctuary cities on February first. That's right. What funding? You'll see. It'll be significant. And in a Truth Social post early this morning, the President reiterated his promise and the February first timeline, calling the sanctuary cities, Corrupt Criminal Protection centers. The White House has not yet released additional details. Iranian state TV aird a threat against President Trump's life today. Daily Wire reporter, Breca Stoll has the latest. The threat featured a photo of the President moments after the infamous assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. But beneath the photo is Persian text reading, This time, the bullet he won't miss. This was broadcast nationwide despite the digital blackout and ongoing citizen protests and originates from a pro-regime rally. This isn't the first time Iran has threatened Trump's life. In 2022, the regime produced a fully animated video detailing how the President could be assassinated at his Mar-Lago golf course in Florida.

Two years later, in 2024, the US also stopped an Iranian-led plot to kill Trump, following the rest of Farhad Shaqiri, who was, according to court documents, tasked by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps to take out the President. Governor Tim Walls is now facing impeachment in his home state. Republican lawmakers in Minnesota have filed articles of impeachment against Walls amid ongoing fraud scandals. State representatives accuse Walls of corrupt conduct and failures of oversight, as federal prosecutors estimate over $9 billion in welfare program fraud in the state. Walls has consistently disputed the scale of the fraud in his state and blamed the Trump administration for politicizing the issue against him. Any vote on impeachment could not occur until the Minnesota Congress reconvenes in February, at which time the State House will be evenly split on party lines, necessitating at least one Democrat defector for impeachment to proceed. The ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis is in hiding after death threats. White House borderar Tom Homan confirmed yesterday that the officer has received an excessive amount of threats against him and his family since Good's death last week. In an interview with the show, Will Caine Country, Homan said this.

I think he's going to wait for this investigation, to paying himself out, and wait for them to come out with the actual facts, what happened. I know for a fact, now he has to be in hiding. I mean, there are wanted posters with his picture, his license plate number, and the death threats against him and his family. Protests following Goods' Death have featured violent language and threats against ICE and top Trump officials. At a recent protest in Manhattan, activists chanted slogans such as Save a life, kill an ICE, and Christie Noem will hang. When asked about Trump's intent for continued operations in Minnesota, Homan said this. We're doubling down in Minnesota. You can protest all you want. You have that Constitution of the right. But when you cross that line of impeding, interfering, and putting hands on an ICE officer, standing between us and the bad guy, they're going to be arrested. We got more resources on the ground to do that. I just started a politic. Just before I walked in, they're saying, ICE has brought chaos. To Minnesota. No, chaos brought ICE to Minnesota. The insolvence antrag is gestellt, and plötzlich, läuft alles im eiltempo.

For unsere protagonistin, beginnt jetzt the Another Minnesota woman attempted to block ICE vehicles with her car in Minneapolis today. Daily Wire reporter, Lyndon Blake, reports. Video showed agents breaking the glass on the passenger side in an attempt to remove her as she continued to step on the gas. Meanwhile, a crowd of about 70 to 80 protesters can be seen throwing rocks at ICE vehicles while wearing black hoodies and masks. Minnesota attorney general, Keith Ellison, stated a couple of days ago that citizens are afraid to go outside. Entire districts have had to cancel school for tens of thousands of students to ensure safety and offer online education because of the students and the parents' fear of coming into the school. Some retail stores, daycares, and restaurants have actually closed because people are afraid to go out and to do shopping, whether they're immigrants or whether they are citizens of many generations. This surge has made us less safe. Dhs Assistant Secretary Trisha McGlacklin responded in a statement accusing Ellison of, quote, prioritizing politics over public safety. The US has begun to evacuate some personnel from the Aloudade Air Base in Qatar as President Trump weighs military action against Iran.

Here with more is Daily Wire Assistant Editor Nathan Gay. Personnel started to leave the base recently as tensions between Iran and Washington continued to escalate. Trump has repeatedly warned the Iranian regime that killing protesters would be a red line and earn retribution from the US. Wait, last week, the Iranian government cut off Internet access in the country and has since reportedly killed thousands of protesters. Tehrana said that any action by the US would trigger attacks against US and Israeli military assets in the region. The US has a major presence at Al-Houdid, which was previously targeted by Iran over the summer during the 12-day war. The New York Post published an eyewitness account from a young Iranian woman based in Tehran, Tuesday, providing a harrowing but hopeful account of what's happening on the ground. Daily Wire reporter, Amanda Presta-Jakamu, has the story. The unnamed woman wrote, I have just heard the news of another death, the fifth in just a few days in my close circle. This time, she said, it was a close friend's cousin. He was at a protest with his wife, and he saw a green light, presumably from a gun laser, that landed on her face.

He thought only of protecting his wife, stood in front of her, and he was shot in the face and killed. Like so many of the dead, the regime is now charging families bullet fees before they will return the bodies. But even amidst the horror, she said, There is a belief that this time it's different. Everyone believes that this time the regime will come to an end. President Trump said this morning that Greenland is non-negotiable for US security. Daily Wire senior editor Joel Niedler has more. The President argued that Greenland is vital for his plans to build a Golden Dome missile defense system for the United States. He also said that NATO would benefit from the US controlling Greenland to ensure Russia and China are kept at bay. Back in May, Trump explained the ambitious project. Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles, even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even if they are launched from space, and we will have the best system ever built Vice President J. D. Vance and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will meet with foreign ministers from both Denmark and Greenland at the White House today to discuss efforts to acquire the large island territory.

Greenland is a self-governing nation within the Kingdom of Denmark, with control over most domestic affairs while the European nation has authority over foreign policy and defense. On Truth Social, Trump wrote that, NATO should be leading the way for us to get it. Then in all caps, if we don't, Russia or China will, and that is not going to happen. Ice recently arrested a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who allegedly took part in a brutal, strangling murder. Daily Wire political reporter, Cameron Arquand reports. The arrest comes as part of an investigation into a violent death that led to the victim being stuffed into a suitcase and buried in a remote part of New Mexico. The alleged Trende Argua gang member is one of 11 people indicted by the Justice Department in December for the case. He is one of seven individuals facing charges for, quote, conspiracy to conduct racketteering murdering activity, murder and aid of racketteering, and drug trafficking conspiracy. Dhs said he crossed the Southern border into the United States illegally in October 2023 during the Biden era, and he had a final order to exit the country in June 2024, just days before the murder occurred.

Cell Service provider Verizon Wireless suffered a nationwide outage today. Confirmed this morning, the tracking site down detector showed nearly 200,000 reports of outages prior to 12: 00 PM. 62% of the outages were regarding mobile phone use. Verizon's engineers reported they are, quote, aware of an issue impacting wireless voice and data services and are working to fix the problem. The Smithsonian has turned over additional records to the White House following threats to its federal funding. Daily Wire Assistant Editor Andy Valdes, has more. In August, the Trump administration directed the institution to provide information on its exhibitions, programs, and archives. After facing resistance, the White House warned it could withhold funding that accounts for roughly 62% of the Smithsonian's budget. The move follows an executive order from President Trump last April that targets what he described as ideological bias in public museums, parks, and monuments. The order argues that these institutions emphasize America's flaws, particularly in the issues of race and gender, rather than a fair assessment of the nation's history. The price of silver has skyrocketed in recent weeks, shattering all time highs amid economic uncertainty. At the time of this reporting, silver is currently trading just north of $90 per ounce, more than triple its price this time last year, surging around 40% in the last month alone.

The US Mint announced yesterday that it has temporarily suspended all sales of silver products amid the massive price uncertainty. Gold is also currently at an all-time high but has remained relatively stable compared to silver. The massive bull run signals that investors are seeking alternative stores of wealth, moving away from the US dollar, possibly due to uncertainty around the future of the Federal Reserve and its chairman Chairman Jerome Powell. Those are your drive home updates this evening. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire. Com. In case you missed it earlier today, we covered some major stories, including President Trump suggesting he may come to the aid of Iranian protesters, inflation holding steady as the administration pushes for affordability, and Congress tossing around a bill that could keep the lights on until October. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of MorningWire.