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Chapter 1: What lawsuit did the DOJ announce against Maine?
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a lawsuit against the state of Maine for defying Trump's transgender ban on males in women's sports.
Chapter 2: How is Maine accused of discriminating against women?
The state of Maine is discriminating against women by failing to protect women in women's sports. Pretty basic stuff.
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, April 17th, and this is Morning Wire. A new report exposes glaring media bias in its coverage of two illegal immigrants in Maryland, one deported by the Trump administration and the other convicted of murdering a Maryland mother of five.
Chapter 3: What are the details of the Maryland illegal immigrant case?
The person took my daughter so violently and so gruesomely and so graphically. These are the kind of criminals President Trump wants to remove from our country.
And new studies have thrown into doubt everything we thought we knew about ADHD.
Chapter 4: What new revelations are there about ADHD?
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Sign up and join the over 14 million all-time customers who have already saved and invested over $25 billion with Acorns. Head to acorns.com slash wire or download the Acorns app to get started. After a months-long standoff, the Trump DOJ has filed a civil lawsuit against Maine's Department of Education over its transgender sports policies.
Here to discuss is Daily Wire reporter Mairead Elordi. So, Mairead, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this lawsuit yesterday. What are the details of the suit?
Hey, Georgia. So the suit says that Maine is openly and defiantly flouting federal anti-discrimination law by allowing males and girls sports. It says that girls are being displaced from podiums. They're losing opportunities for advancement to regional and national competitions and missing out on critical visibility for college scholarships and recognition.
Bondi said at the press conference that Maine officials, specifically Democratic Governor Janet Mills, forced the DOJ's hand here.
We don't want to be suing people. We want them to comply with the law. And that's what we're doing. We have given them opportunity, Maine, and opportunity over and over again. The Department of Education, HHS, they went and sat down with them in person, multiple meetings, and got nowhere.
Governor Mills famously got into a public spat with President Trump. Mills said she wouldn't stop allowing males in girls' sports and told Trump she'd see him in court. And that's exactly where this has ended up.
So what exactly is the administration seeking in this suit?
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Chapter 5: What is the response from Governor Mills regarding the lawsuit?
That was White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt yesterday before she introduced the mother of Rachel Morin. Rachel was a mother of five from Maryland who was brutally raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant from El Salvador.
The moment comes as a new study by the Media Research Center found a glaring bias from legacy media in their coverage of the story versus their coverage of an illegal immigrant deported by the Trump administration. Joining us to discuss is Tim Graham, Newsbusters executive editor and director of media analysis at the Media Research Center. Hey, Tim, thanks so much for talking with us.
Sure.
So look, we wanted to talk about your new report looking at the media bias in terms of the coverage of two different individuals from Maryland. That's Maryland mother Rachel Morin, whose illegal immigrant rapist and murderer was just convicted this week. We also have the story of the so-called Maryland father, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He's an illegal immigrant with alleged ties to MS-13.
What did you find in terms of the media's approach to these two stories?
So we have added up about 65 minutes on ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted to the guy they call Maryland Man, the Maryland Man. Well, he's actually, he's an El Salvadoran. He's an illegal alien who's been living in Maryland for a decade, but he was deported. Compare that to then the trial that just went on in Maryland with Rachel Morin, a mother of five who was murdered by an illegal alien.
And so you have 65 minutes on the illegal alien mistakenly deported. You have zero seconds on the Rachel Morin trial. You know, I looked at this on PBS NewsHour today. went into Nexus, put in the words Rachel Morin, and you get zero. And for us, what it means is, the definition of news is, if it's negative about Trump, it's a big story. If it sounds like a Trump talking point, it is forgotten.
It is ignored. They didn't want to talk about Lake and Riley, Jocelyn Nungere. Yes, when you have illegal immigrants, rape a woman, or in Nungre's case, a 12-year-old girl, and then murder them. You can't say, you know, we don't cover... rapes and murders. You're not going to say that. It's a matter of who is the rapist and the murderer that somehow turns it into a zero second story.
And the family really believes that they can say this is the Biden administration failing to control the border. And once again, it's not just a Trump talking point. It's an anti-Biden talking point.
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Chapter 6: How does media bias manifest in reporting illegal immigrant cases?
So we have the media angle on this, and then there's the political side of it. We have Democrat Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen. He's traveling down to El Salvador to advocate for Abrego Garcia's release. Have we seen mention from the senator of the rape of Marin? Has he taken any action in the past related to her case?
I believe that Marin's family has said they've never been in contact with Senator Van Hollen. This is the way media bias compounds upon itself. Because the Washington Post, is the Washington Post going to ask Senator Van Hollen a question about this?
Are any of the local media here in the DC area, the DC NPR station, is anyone going to ask him the question about what he has done or whether he's been in contact with the Marin family? And just, yes, the extreme solicitude that you're going to actually fly to El Salvador like you are the most righteous person and then utterly ignore the rape and murder of a constituent of yours.
It's mind-boggling, but that's the way that media bias compounds.
Now, you mentioned NPR there. Trump is pushing to defund NPR and PBS. Do you think this is a good, healthy step for the country, or is this an attack on the independence of journalism?
decades now, I have taken it upon myself to document the horrible bias on PBS and NPR. We've been very active on that. We were there with Newt Gingrich in 1995 when he talked about zeroing it out. It is so long overdue. It is an outrage that conservative taxpayers should have to send money to Washington so they can be smeared as little Hitlers.
We are long past time for the federal money to dry up for public radio and TV. And if they want to make this sort of outrageous liberal content, they should get more outrageous liberal donors like George Soros to pay for it.
And their coverage just adds more fodder to those calling for their defunding. Tim Graham, thanks so much for joining us.
My pleasure. Thanks.
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