President Biden gave an unplanned address to the nation Thursday night after a special counsel report said he won't be charged for mishandling classified documents, but called into question his memory and cognitive ability.

How is your memory?

And can you continue as President?

My memory is so bad, I let you speak.

I'm Daily Wire, Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia How. It's Friday, February ninth, and this is Morning Wire. A skeptical Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on whether Colorado can keep Donald Trump off the state's presidential ballot.

Colorado was way out of line here. It'll probably be eight to one and maybe nine to zero, which is pretty rare these days with a highly polarized court.

And, mandalorian star Gina Corano is suing Disney for wrongful termination with a little help from Elon Musk.

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Special Counsel Robert Hur has filed his report on Joe Biden's handling of classified documents, in which he does not recommend criminal charges, but does acknowledge that the President willfully retained classified documents. But that wasn't all.

The long-anticipated report clears the President of charges for classified materials he mishandled as a US Senator and as Vice President, but it came with some shocking revelations about the President's ability to remember basic facts. Here to help make our way through this is Daily Wire reporter Tim pierce. Hey, Tim. So let's start with this press conference the President abruptly called last night. What did the nation see there?

Hey, John. As you mentioned at the top, this was impromptu, called last second. It was brief, less than 15 minutes And during that time, he emphasized that the special counsel would not bring charges and push back on the claim that he willfully retained the classified documents. Basically, he repeated mostly word for word the statement issued earlier in the day. But where things got interesting and contentious was when he addressed the special counsel's alarming statements about his memory and cognitive decline. In particular, the President focused in on the special counsel, noting that Biden appeared to forget the year of his son's death.

Frankly, when I was asked the question, I I thought to myself it wasn't any of their damn business. Let me tell you something. Some of you have come in. I wear since the day he died, every single day, the rosary he got from Our Lady of Every Memorial Day, we hold a service remembering him attending by friends and family, the people we love to.

Now, when the President opened it up for questions, things were instantly contentious. Tell us about those exchanges.

Right. The initial questions were all about the President's mental decline. During questioning, he was angry, combative, and short at times. He got key details of the report wrong, and then he fought with reporters over his mischaracterizations.

I did not share- With your ghost, right? With my ghost, right? I did not. Guarantee you did not. But the special counsel said it- Well, no, I did not say that. Okay. He did not say that. But, Mr.

President- Let me answer your question.

When asked about what he would have done differently, he appeared to put the blame on his staff.

I did I didn't know how half the boxes got in my garage until I found out staff gathered them up, put them together, and took them to the garage in my home. And all the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked. It was in my house. It wasn't out in Mar-a-Lago, in a public place, and none of it was high-classified.

A note on that, the report included photos of a mangled cardboard box which held highly-classified files in his garage. Also in the press conference, Biden misidentified Abdul Fattah El-Sisi as President of Mexico, not Egypt.

As you know, initially, the President of Mexico, El-Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. I talked to him. I convinced to open the gate.

Then when he had to change topics at the end of the presser to feel the question about Israel and Hamas, his response was slow and halting as he seemed to struggle to transition.

I'm of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in the Gaza Strip has been over the top.

Now, as far as the special counsel's report, what were some key takeaways there?

The report did say that Biden mishandled these classified materials, both as Senator and vice president. But maybe the most substantial bad news for the President was about his mental capacity. A quote that people pointed to was her saying Biden's memory was significantly limited during his deposition with investigators. House GOP leadership put out a joint statement from Speaker Johnson, Steve Scalier, Ease and Elise Stefanek concluding, A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the oval office. Morning Wire also spoke to Senator Marsha Blackburn. Here's what she had to say.

If Biden is too mentally incompetent to stand trial, then he is most definitely too mentally incompetent to be commander in chief.

Now, there were already plenty of concerns about Biden's health, but whatever you thought of Biden's performance last night, you can count on questions about his mental capacity to come up again and again as we get closer to the 2024 election.

Tim, thanks for reporting.

Thanks for having me.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday in Trump versus Anderson, a case about whether or not a state, in this case, Colorado, can keep the leading GOP candidate, Donald Trump, off the ballot.

Here to discuss the case is Daily Wire reporter, Amanda Presta-Jacquomo. Hey, Amanda. Before we really dig into these arguments. Tell us first how things seem to go overall yesterday.

Hey, John. Most legal experts agree that things went really well for Trump. There were even predictions that this could come back 9:0 in his favor. Before arguments took place, though, there did seem to be this expectation that the more liberal justices would lean in favor of Colorado removing Trump from the ballot. But at times, it really felt like the strongest pushback to that proposition came from the liberals on the court, including Justices Kagan and Jackson. Most of the justices did seem uncomfortable with the consequences of allowing Colorado to remove a national candidate from the ballot. Here's Justice Kagan expressing that concern. It sounds awfully national to me If you weren't from Colorado and you were from Wisconsin or you were from Michigan, and it really what the Michigan Secretary of State did is going to make the difference between whether candidate A is elected or candidate B elected. That seems quite extraordinary.

What were the main legal arguments from the Trump side?

They argued that Colorado's rationale for kicking Trump off the ballot, namely Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, doesn't apply to Trump. Attorney Jonathan Mitchell, who argued on behalf of Trump, he noted that Section 3 doesn't mention President, but an officer of the United States. He said that includes appointed officials, not elected officials. Another argument centered around Colorado adding a qualification to Trump by deeming him an insurrectionist and then disqualifying him before the election. Mitchell said that would be a job for Congress, that's spelled out in Section 3, host election, not the job of an individual state before the election. Mourningweyers spoke to Roger Severino, Vice President of Policy at the Heritage Foundation, and here's how he viewed that matter.

The whole Four Seventh Amendment is about Congress and the Constitution limiting the ability of states to act after the Civil War. You can't use this as a backdoor way to say the states have even more power to get ahead of Congress and deprive them of the ability to say who should or should not qualify to be President of the United States.

What about the other side? How did the attorneys for Colorado argue that Section 3 actually does apply to Trump?

Jason Murray, who argued on behalf of these Colorado voters, he claimed that Trump is disqualified from the moment he committed an insurrection, which Colorado determined he had done, and therefore, it doesn't belong on the ballot. He also argued that the nation would be worse off if Congress had to deal with this question of Trump being an insurrectionist or not, post-election versus before the election. Here's a frustrated Justice Kavanaugh suggesting the Colorado team has the cart before the horse.

Some of the rhetoric of your position seems to suggest unless the states can do this, no one can prevent insurrectionists from holding federal office. But obviously, Congress has enacted statutes, including one still in effect, Section 2383 of Title 18 prohibits insurrection. It's a federal criminal statute. If you're convicted of that, you are, it says, Shall be disqualified from holding any office. There is a federal statute on the books, but President Trump has not been charged with that. So what are we to make of that?

Wrapping things up here, did we hear a reaction from either Trump or the White House following arguments?

Yeah. I mean, Trump was very quick to address the public. He gave a press conference immediately following arguments and said that they were a beautiful thing to watch.

I hope that democracy in this country will continue because right now we have a very, very tough situation with all of the radical left ideas, with the weaponization of politics. They weaponized it like it's never been weaponized before.

He also expressed confidence that the court would rule in this favor.

Well, the court reconvenes next week, so we'll see if we end up with a quick turnaround on this decision, like many are hoping. Amanda, thanks for reporting.

You're welcome.

They dehumanized me. Basically, what Disney and Lucas Films said to the rest of everybody by making that statement is, Hey, don't work with this person. And who's not going to listen to Disney, their most powerful entertainment company in the world?

That was actress Gina Corano explaining to Morning Wire why she filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Disney this week. Corano decided to pursue the suit after an offer of legal help from ex-owner Elon Musk.

Here with more is Daily Wire Culture reporter, Megan Basham. So, Megan, Disney fired Corano from the hit Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, three years ago. Why is she pursuing this case now?

Well, a lot of it comes down to that open offer of legal help that Elon Musk had posted on X way back last August. So he said that he would foot the legal bill of anyone unfairly treated by their employer for something they had posted or liked on his platform. And he said there would be, and this is key, no limit to that funding. So Corano, who I will note has starred in Daily Wire Entertainment Films, told me that was the deciding factor for her because potential costs were the primary thing that been holding her back.

I had to completely move my life out of California. Where am I going to put my funds? In trying to battle Disney for years and years, or am I going to just try to restart my life? I had spoken to some lawyers and they said how expensive it was going to be, and I was like, Oh, my gosh, well, I need to get stable and in a safe place first. So after these lawyers emailed me and I started sending them over my stories and getting them really brought up to date of the behind the scenes, they were like, Oh, my gosh. Yes, we want to take this on.

Listeners may recall that she was at the height of her career when she was cut from the hit show, and she says she lost millions of dollars in income as a result. Now she's seeking compensation for that and asking Lucasfilm to recast her.

Do we know if there are any other individuals that are partnering with Musk to go after Disney?

She didn't definitively know of any specific cases right now, but she does sound pretty convinced that there's a lot of potential cases from current and former Disney employees.

For a long time, it's like, Well, Disney, we're Lucasfilm. You should just be honored to be here. That mentality really led into a disrespect of people from every single department, not just actors. We're talking about everybody. There's a problem, and it needs to be fixed, and it's just coming to a head now.

Now, Corona was fired for sharing a meme. Can you refresh listeners on what exactly that meme was?

Yeah, she had posted a screenshot of another social media post that warned that Nazi Germany should be a lesson to curb our political hatred of one another. She asked how dating someone for their political views is different from dating someone for their religious identity. So, Corano told me that the post was wildly mischaracterized by Disney, who called it abhorrent and unacceptable, and it was subsequently mischaracterized by large media outlets like the New York Times. But she believes that the tide is now turning against extreme cancel culture, and she does hope that her suit is going help further bolster free speech protections.

These people are telling such lies. How are they getting away with this? And you're just this one person.

For X's part, the platform's head of business put out a statement this week saying, It is proud to provide financial support for Crono's lawsuit and hopes to see her free speech rights vindicated.

Well, this case could set a very important precedent. Megan, thanks for reporting.

Anytime.

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