The World and Everything in It: July 25, 2023

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

A second IRS whistleblower, a Democrat, testifies about the Hunter Biden case. Is Congress closing in on the White House?

NICK EICHER, HOST: Also today an anti-trafficking group has been accused of kidnapping children in Ghana, but there’s much more to this.

And, recruiting young people to join the U-S armed forces is full time work, and then some.

AUDIO: We're looking at it as a multi-year issue, not as a one-year, temporary issue.

And a court ruling in the U.K. reveals an faultline in the LGBT movement. Commentary from WORLD Opinions’ writer Carl Trueman.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, July 25th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

REICHARD: Now news with Kent Covington.

SOUND: [Israel protest]

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Israel » Protesters continued to cram the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Monday as Israeli lawmakers approved a key portion of a controversial overhaul of the courts.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation immediately after the vote …

NETANYAHU: [Speaking Hebrew]

He called the move “a necessary democratic step,” arguing that judges have become too powerful, assuming the authority to toss out any government decision they deem unreasonable.

Critics call it a power grab by Netanyahu and his allies in Israel’s Parliament.

Louisiana youth trans protections » In Louisiana, a bill that would protect minors from transgender procedures will likely head to the governor’s desk very soon. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has more.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: The state Senate passed the bill on a vote of 29-10 mostly down party lines.

It would prohibit hormone treatments, puberty-blocking drugs for kids and performing transgender surgeries on children.

The measure is heading back to lawmakers in the House for approval of minor amendments, including pushing back the effective date of the law to Jan. 1st of next year.

The House will almost certainly pass the bill. But Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards opposes it and has not yet said whether he would veto the act.

If he does, lawmakers could convene a special session to try to override the veto.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Texas river barrier » Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had a pointed response to the Biden administration Monday after the Department of Justice sued his state.

“Texas will see you in court, Mr. President.”

The DOJ filed suit to try and force the state to remove a floating barrier that Texas officials placed in the Rio Grande to discourage migrants from trying to cross the river.

Abbott said Monday:

ABBOTT: All the Biden administration has to do is to enforce the laws already on the books that prevent people from crossing between the ports of entry.

Abbott said until then, Texas “will be stepping up to do so.” And he vowed to fight the lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court.

The White House has called the floating barrier unlawful and dangerous.

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre:

JEAN-PIERRE: This governor has done over and over again is treated this situation we are seeing at the border in an inhumane way. 

Abbott says Biden’s policies have put many migrants in danger by incentivizing them to make the perilous journey to and across the border.

Ukraine strikes » Russia says Ukrainian drones are now targeting Moscow. A drone attack apparently struck Monday near the building that houses the Russian Defense Ministry.

Drones also hit an ammunition depot in Russia-occupied Crimea.

The attacks come a week after Russia began bombing the Ukrainian port of Odesa.

Greece fires » In Greece, thick clouds of smoke are choking out the sun as emergency crews battle wildfires across the country, more than 80 of them in total.

Roughly 20,000 people have been forced to leave their homes on the island of Rhodes and other islands.

MITSOTAKIS (Greek): We estimate that we will have a de-escalation of the heatwave, but it is certain that over the next few days, over the next few weeks, we must all remain on constant alert.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says a brutal heatwave is expected to loosen its grip in the days ahead, which may help firefighters.

IRS no more in-person visits » If there’s a knock at your door today, it will not be the taxman. WORLD’s Anna Johansen Brown explains.

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN: Effective immediately, the Internal Revenue Service is ending its decades-old practice of making unannounced visits to homes and businesses, except in very rare, “unique circumstances.”

Instead, agents will mail letters to people to schedule meetings.

The policy shift is meant to help keep workers safe and to combat scammers who pose as IRS agents.

The IRS also never initiates contact by email, social media, or text messages. It will never call demanding immediate payment or personal information, or leave threatening voicemails.

So if you receive such a message, it’s a scam.

For WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: digging into whistleblower testimony about the investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes. Plus, Recruiting the next generation of armed service members. 

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Tuesday the 25th of July, 2023.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

First up: the Hunter Biden investigation re-examined.

Last week, two IRS whistleblowers testified before the House Ways and Means Committee. Their testimony reinforces concerns that the Department of Justice investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes wasn’t on the up and up.

WORLD’s Clara York has the story.

CLARA YORK, REPORTER: The whistleblowers who testified Wednesday said their five year investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes was unlike other cases they’ve worked on -- and not in a good way.

GARY SHAPLEY: That’s correct, it was the pattern that really drove me to come forward of the deviation from normal investigative processes.

That’s special agent Gary Shapley, speaking to the House Ways and Means Committee. Sitting beside him was Joseph Ziegler, another special agent previously known as Whistleblower X. The two men have spent the past five years investigating Hunter Biden's suspicious business activity, but they say the Justice Department interfered with their work. House Republicans asked questions about the Biden family from several angles, but the agents stuck to their transcripts of submitted evidence.

Shapley and Ziegler presented several concerns about Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss and assistant U.S. attorney Lesley Wolf, both of whom worked for the prosecution. Shapley said Wolf refused to secure search warrants even though she admitted they had probable cause. The first one she denied was a search of one of Joe Biden’s residences. She said “optics” were a key factor in turning down the warrant. Later that year, Ziegler wanted another search warrant to comb through Hunter’s storage unit of documents in Northern Virginia, and he said he met the standards for probable cause in this case too. But Wolf again refused. Here’s Shapley, Ziegler’s supervisor:

SHAPLEY: The circumstances being achieved and knowing the evidence was there, I don't know how she could have not allowed us to execute that search warrant.

Instead, according to Ziegler, Wolf tipped off Hunter’s attorneys about the storage unit. The special agents still do not know what happened to the unit or the documents.

And speaking of documents, the whistleblowers said they could have used the FBI’s 10-23 form that contained unconfirmed tips about Hunter Biden’s alleged financial dealings. FBI Director Christopher Wray, after much negotiation and a threatened contempt of Congress charge, allowed the House Oversight Committee to view the document last month. IRS investigators never got that chance. Here’s Ziegler:

JOSEPH ZIEGLER: There's things that are contained on that document that could further corroborate other information that we might be having an issue corroborating because it could be regarding a foreign official.

Timing was also an issue. The DOJ typically shelves sensitive investigations 60 days before a national election to avoid the appearance of trying to influence voters. But Shapley said his requests were “slow-walked” as early as April of 2020, more than 200 days before the presidential election.

Another problem Ziegler and Shapley presented was that the DOJ was not clear about who had jurisdiction to press charges. Here’s where it gets a little technical. Tax crimes are prosecuted in the state the defendant filed taxes in while the crime was committed. The prosecution planned to charge Hunter for crimes in tax year 2014-2015, when he filed in DC. He failed to report roughly $400,000 of income from Ukraine-based company Burisma, escaping $125,000 in taxes.

But in October 2022, Shapley was shocked to learn that DC U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves saw the recommended charges but declined Delaware Attorney Weiss’s request to file in the District of Columbia. Weiss told the investigative team, including Shapley and Ziegler, that his hands were tied. He said he requested special counsel authority but the DOJ denied it.

SHAPLEY: During that meeting the United States attorney said that he wasn't the deciding person. he said it right out.

But earlier in June of this year, Weiss wrote to Congress that he was the deciding person – and that he had the authority to charge wherever he wanted. After Ziegler’s and Shapley’s testimony went public, Weiss changed his story again. He clarified in a letter to Congress that he had talked to his supervisors about possibly receiving the special status, but that he didn’t necessarily have it at the time.

The statute of limitations expired one month later, so now the IRS can’t prosecute those crimes.

SHAPLEY: The American public deserves to hear why he allowed 2014 and 2015 DC charges to expire. No number of carefully worded denials or evolving half-truths can overshadow this stark fact.

During Wednesday’s hearing, committee reactions fell along partisan lines. Republicans claimed the DOJ’s delays amount to an obstruction of justice. They accused President Joe Biden, Hunter, and other members of the family of exchanging political favors for money. Democrats accused Republicans of hypocrisy for not being equally diligent over past investigations into Trump family finances. They also pointed out that Hunter has repaid some of his back taxes. During his opening statement, ranking member Jamie Raskin speculated investigators like Shapley and Ziegler cannot possibly see the whole picture and so questioned the credibility of their testimony.

JAMIE RASKIN: Today we get to witness MAGA Republicans take the side of IRS agents from the deep state against a Trump appointed US attorney and a rich guy exercising his second amendment rights, but now facing federal gun charges and tax charges that they would call in any other circumstance purely technical.

But the whistleblowers steered away from political questions. Ziegler, who is married to another man, introduced himself as a Democrat who did not vote in the 2020 election so that he could remain objective. He insisted politics took the back burner in his investigation. And now, politics should take the back burner in the interests of ensuring that justice can be served.

ZIEGLER: I do not want my colleagues at the IRS, FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies to go through my frustrating journey and that of our team. I believe such a path will strengthen the public's confidence in their institutions and their fair and equal treatment of all Americans under the law. 

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Clara York.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: identifying human trafficking.

The BBC reported a few weeks ago that a U.S. based charity that investigates human trafficking went too far.

In 2022, in an operation in Ghana, the BBC reported that the International Justice Mission led law enforcement to remove four children from their homes after mistakenly identifying them as victims of trafficking.

NICK EICHER, HOST: But IJM says that the media have misrepresented its work in Ghana and is downplaying serious child labor law violations.

What’s happening below the headlines, and what does it mean for those working to rescue children from modern-day slavery?

Joining us now are WORLD’s Compassion beat reporter Addie Offereins and our Global Desk deputy chief, Onize Ohikere.

REICHARD: Addie, what is International Justice Mission and what does it do?

ADDIE OFFEREINS: International Justice Mission or IJM is a Christian anti-trafficking organization that works in 17 countries. So its founder believed that the best way to fight human trafficking is to strengthen justice systems in countries where law enforcement is often just standing by and letting trafficking happen. So they work with local authorities to investigate, take perpetrators to court, and rescue victims. And I think it's important to point out here that while IJM provides information, does investigations, it doesn't make the final call to conduct a raid like the one in the article. That's ultimately up to law enforcement. So they're the one that needs to actually decide we need boots on the ground here. 

REICHARD: The BBC article talks about IJM’s investigation in Ghana. What was going on there?

OFFEREINS: The organization began investigating the Lake Volta Region in 2013, because of reports that many children were being forced to work in horrific conditions on the lake. And just a little bit of context about the area, so this is the largest manmade lake in the world. And when it was created, it flooded a forest and has since become the center of Ghana's fishing industry. And it's estimated that about 20,000 children work in the industry on the lake. And so since 2013, IJM has released several reports and there's been some other independent research done that has revealed that children under 10 are forced to perform dangerous tasks on the lake, they're often diving overboard to untangle fishing nets that get caught in the trees under the water. And they're doing so often under threat of violence or the withholding of food. And so IJM's most recent report that's set to be released soon has concluded that 38% of children are likely trafficked and 45% are at least in exploitive labor conditions on the lake.

REICHARD: As we mentioned earlier, the BBC accuses IJM of wrongly removing children from their homes. What’s behind the claim?

OFFEREINS: The rescue mission in question was called Operation Hilltop, and that occurred last September when IJM provided authorities with information about one likely case of trafficking and then three that were unclear. And so police, Ghanian police removed the four children from their families, including an 11 year old girl and arrested two of her uncles on charges of human trafficking. And so the children stayed in an IJM shelter for four months, while Child Welfare investigated and assessed the families. And they concluded there actually weren't cases of trafficking and so they released the children and released the uncles as well. And so the IJM Ghana director told me that Ghanaian social welfare workers wanted to assess the families make sure it was safe for the children to return. And she pointed out that even if all four weren't necessarily cases of trafficking, IJM still has the responsibility to give law enforcement information about what could still be exploitive labor conditions that are putting children at risk, and still violating Ghanian child labor laws and keeping children out of school, which is illegal in Ghana between a certain age bracket.

REICHARD: I want to turn to you now, Onize. Is the Western media missing any nuance in reporting this story?

ONIZE OHIKERE: I believe there's some nuance that could explain why there's tension between some locals and groups like IJM. So two years ago, CNN published a somewhat similar report on how child slavery is visible, and in plain sight in the Lake Volta Region. That sparked a response from Samuel Okyere, he's one of the researchers Addie spoke with, along with Betty Krosbi Mensah. She's a member of parliament whose constituency is along the lake region. And she also spoke in the BBC documentary. So they both argue that Western organizations don't necessarily get the local dynamic. So for instance, fishing is in the lifeblood of these communities. So parents pass on the skills to their children. They also highlighted the extended family system that makes it somewhat normal to find children living with aunties or grandparents. That's a different family dynamic from what you would find in the West. But even if that's the case, you know, it still leaves the problem of child labor, and risks of trafficking in some of the cases that IJM dealt with, for instance. So you know, you have these traditions that are passed on, but that doesn't automatically mean that there aren't problems within the system.

REICHARD: So what do locals or African researchers see as a holistic solution?

OHIKERE: You know, so I've seen that some some of them have pointed to the fact that there, well, they see a disconnect between the policies and the on the ground experiences of the children who are working. So many of them are calling for more focus on solutions that make these children you know, less susceptible to trafficking or forced labor. That's more of a secondary approach, but looking at, you know, more social intervention programs like free education access, feeding programs, even skill acquisition programs, and for their families, economic empowerment programs, that gives them more stable or reliable income sources, so they don't have to force or rely on their children as another source of income.

REICHARD: Addie, how is the BBC report likely to change IJM’s work in Ghana, if at all?

OFFEREINS: IJM did conduct an internal review after this report came out. But outside of IJM, there have been some calls for parliamentary review in Ghana of the work that organizations like IJM do, whether their methods are effective, whether they might be unintentionally hurting some of these communities. But really, it remains to be seen if that will change their work in a substantial way.

REICHARD: Addie Offereins is WORLD’s Compassion beat reporter, and Onize Ohikere is deputy chief of the Global Desk. Thank you both!

OFFEREINS: Thanks for having me.

OHIKERE: You're welcome, Mary.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Aaron Bartholmey is quite the collector.

AARON BARTHOLMEY: I grew up going to flea markets with my grandpa.

Over 30 years he bought all the graphite pencils he could find, as he tells his local TV station, WHO Channel 13 News.

BARTHOLMEY: I love the history behind them. The old businesses, the small town advertising, just some of the history that you can find on these things is really interesting to me.

Going by the size of the collection, he’s clearly very interested. So much so, he figured it was some kind of record. Which in 2020 was just over 24-thousand pencils, according to Guinness. So he pulled together some friends and together they counted 69,255.

BARTHOLMEY: It's kind of funny, because it started out as it was just a small thing to collect.

Those are the warning signs.

And it’s not as though he’s just keeping these to jot down a note. None of the pencils is sharpened.

So the whole thing seems, you know, pointless.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Or sketchy.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, July 25th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: be all that you can be. Remember that? 

REICHARD: Oh yeah.

EICHER: Yeah, probably just Mary and me.

Welp, the U.S. Army is dusting off that old slogan from the Reagan years, hoping to attract more young people to the ranks. But recruiting numbers are down. Way down. And it’ll probably take more than an old ad campaign to turn it around. WORLD reporter Todd Vician has more.

AUDIO: [Sound of recruits doing calisthenics and Army sergeant calling out orders]

TODD VICIAN, REPORTER: It was only 9 a.m. on a recent Friday outside Austin, Texas, but temperatures had already climbed into the 90s.

About 20 young men and women gathered in somewhat uniform lines on a grassy area near baseball diamonds and soccer fields. They were there to learn how to stand at attention and maintain their composure with a drill sergeant yelling in their faces. They also had to throw a 10-pound ball over their heads, testing the muscles that soldiers use when lifting someone over an obstacle in combat.

AUDIO: [Sound of recruits training]

These are new recruits, recent high school graduates hoping to “be all they can be” in the Army or Army Reserve. This summer, each recruit will ship off to basic training. Some left just two weeks after that morning session.

The military devotes millions of dollars and manpower each year to recruiting. Recruiters aim to convince America’s youth they can achieve their personal goals while serving a greater good. But this year, the military won’t persuade as many potential recruits as it needs to.

WICKER: Although the military has experienced intermittent recruiting problems in its history, today’s challenge is unprecedented.

That’s Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi.

WICKER: The previous low watermark for recruiting occurred in the late 1970s when the services collectively achieved 90 percent of their goals.

In March, he described the historic nature of the problem during a Senate hearing.

WICKER: This year, if trends continue, our armed forces are projected to achieve roughly 75 percent of active duty recruiting goals. The three largest services will all miss their individual recruiting objectives, and the Army will miss the target for the third time in five years.

The causes of the recruiting woes vary: Competition from businesses offering high starting wages and benefits, several years of closed high school campuses during COVID, and fewer youth qualified or even interested in military service. About 75 percent of enlistment-eligible youth nationwide have little to no knowledge about the military, and only 9 percent say they are interested in serving, the lowest in more than a decade.

The American military missed its recruiting goal by the largest margin ever last year, but not everyone is calling this a crisis. Here’s Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall.

KENDALL: We have knobs that we can turn, if you will, that can increase our recruiting, and we're looking at it as a multi-year issue, not as a one-year, temporary issue. I think we’re going to work our way through this and the shortfall that we’re having is not too troubling.

Service leaders say politics and gender ideology are not a significant detractor for potential recruits. But Republican Senator and former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville disagrees. During the same March Senate hearing, Tuberville read excerpts from a Navy training module that suggested sailors could get in trouble for expressing traditional religious views on marriage, abortion, and gay rights.

TUBERVILLE: The Navy spending millions of man hours on training that blatantly calls many of its service members abnormal and then being surprised that recruiting numbers are down would be like a college football coach walking into a recruit’s house and calling the mom’s wallpaper ugly. I mean it just doesn't work. I know a little bit about recruiting and I think we’ve got to do a lot better job than that.

Even when recruits want to serve, many of them don’t meet the physical fitness or aptitude requirements. If an applicant has had any previous trouble with the law or illegal drug use, recruiters have to navigate a lengthy waiver process.

Recruits need medical waivers for issues like broken bones, flat feet, and asthma. But increasingly, they cover mental health conditions and the drugs used to treat them.

Air Force Master Sgt. Christopher McKinney recruits along Interstate 35, northeast of San Antonio. He says the most common need for the waivers he requests are related to behavioral health.

MCKINNEY: One of the biggest hurdles is ADD and ADHD medicine. Usually when you go out to a school and you’re talking to a group of kids and you’ve got them sold on the Air Force, they’re looking forward to bigger and better things. And then you have one of them who would probably be an extremely good fit for the Air Force, they tell you, ‘Hey, I’m currently taking medication for ADD or ADHD’ or ‘I’m on depression and anxiety medication.’ And you have to look at them and tell them, ‘Hey, otherwise you would be qualified, but I can’t get you in right now.’

While the services spend millions each year on advertising and branding efforts, recruiters will tell you the most effective efforts are still in-person conversations.

AUDIO: [Doorbell ring, student entering office]

McKinney divides his time between high school visits and his cramped cubicle in a strip mall. Last year was his first full year of recruiting. He enlisted 47 new airmen. But as Air Force leaders realized they would miss their mark of 35,000 recruits this year, they raised McKinney’s goal. This summer, his goal is to find 15 recruits in just three months.

The youthful-looking father of four is used to the pressure to perform, but even he admits this year’s pace is exhausting.

MCKINNEY: That's my baseline that I'm expected to meet, and if we base it off those numbers, those would have been the best numbers that I ever achieved. And I’ve been close and I’ve grinded and I’ve tried to get there. I’ve been close to that number, but I don’t know. We’ll give it all we’ve got.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Todd Vician in San Antonio, Texas, home to basic training for the Air Force and the Space Force.

EICHER: To read more on this, check out Todd’s piece in WORLD Magazine, cover date July 12th.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Tuesday, July 25th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Up next: the hidden fault line among LGBT activists.

A court ruling in the U.K. illustrates this well, as WORLD Opinions writer Carl Trueman explains.

CARL TRUEMAN, COMMENTATOR: The recent legal victory in the United Kingdom for the LGB Alliance is most interesting, both from a general political perspective and a more narrow Christian viewpoint. The case was instigated by Mermaids, a British organization committed to promoting transgender children’s rights. Mermaid’s objection to the LGB Alliance was that the Alliance rejects the ideology of gender that underlies the transgender movement, including treatments for children. Mermaids was therefore challenging the action of the U.K. government in granting the LGB Alliance charitable status, similar to tax-exempt status for non-profits in the USA.

The court’s ruling against Mermaids is one more sign that transgender power in British culture may now be in decline. Only time will tell on that, but the ruling gives some ground for hope.

The case dramatizes what has been clear for some time about the LGBTQ scene: the T and the Q are at obvious odds with the LGB, at least as traditionally understood. That’s because those who are transgender or queer often act as if biological sex differences don’t matter, while those who are lesbian, gay, or bisexual assume biological sex is fundamental. Gay men are not sexually attracted to women pretending to be men, nor lesbians to men pretending to be women. This fault line was hidden for the longest time, given the need for a united front against a society perceived to be dominated by white male heterosexuality.

But the trans issue is now dividing the LGBTQ alliance. In many places this year, Pride Month was a little more muted, and some members of the gay community have blamed the trans issue, with its implications for children and parental rights. As gay journalist Andrew Sullivan explained in the UK’s Spectator, “The core reason for the backlash is pretty simple: The attempt to indoctrinate children in gender ideology and to trans them on the verge of puberty has changed the debate.”

Yes, the ambitions of the transgender movement are deeply problematic for LGBTQ groups as a public relations issue. An alliance built on little more than the belief that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is beginning to show obvious signs of weakness.

And yet, while the ruling for the LGB Alliance is welcome, a case can be made that the trans-rejecting L, G, and B are themselves caught on the horns of a very real dilemma. This is because they simultaneously assert and deny the importance of biological sex. After all, once one decides that the sexed nature of the body is critical to who one is and who one desires and yet has no relevance to what one wills to do sexually, then one is ironically opening the way for the transgender ideologues who grant no significance to biology.

It is not enough for the LGB community to distance itself from the T and the Q. It has to disband itself if it is to be consistent on this. Biological sex is either significant or it isn’t. It really is that simple. There is no third way. And trans-rejecting gays and lesbians need to decide one way or the other.

I’m Carl Trueman.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: An update from the campaign trail. How is the 2024 presidential field shaping up?

And, the story behind a faith-based program teaching young athletes how to play the world’s most popular sport. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

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