The Daily Signal Podcast

President Joe Biden discussed some of the biggest issues on the minds of Americans, from border security to abortion and the economy, in his State of the Union address Thursday night. But what issues did Biden ignore that he should have talked about?Were there any unifying moments? And how did members of Congress in the audience respond to the president in his fourth such address? Cody Sargent, communications director for Heritage Action for America, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about the biggest moments of the night. (Heritage Action for America is the grassroots arm of The The Heritage Foundation, which is the parent organization of The Daily Signal.)Enjoy the show!

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union address this evening, during which he “will announce that he’s directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a port in the Mediterranean, on the Gaza coast, that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters,” according to a senior administration official. Fred Lucas reports that famed psychiatrist Dr. Jordan Peterson warned Congress about the potential “superstate,” in which collusion between government and corporations could be “eliminating the private sphere.” Former President Donald Trump wants to debate President Joe BidenRepublican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation on Wednesday aimed at protecting both in vitro fertilization, or IVF, doctors and patients.https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/07/jordan-peterson-warns-congress-we-are-in-danger-of-eliminating-the-private-sphere/ Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcastsSign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

Dr. Eithan Haim was completing his surgical training at Texas Children’s Hospital in the spring of 2023. On a Friday morning in June, just before graduation, a knock came on Haim's door. “I open it, [and] standing outside there are two federal agents with [the Department of] Health and Human Services,” Haim recalls.The surgeon says he was told he was under investigation in a case involving medical records. Just one month earlier, Haim had worked with journalist Christopher Rufo to blow the whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston and its gender treatments for minors. In 2022, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, took steps to ensure that hospitals in Texas weren't performing such procedures. As a result, the Texas Children’s Hospital announced that it had stopped doing the gender procedures on kids; inside the hospital, Haim says, he was seeing a different story. The hospital “took away all the public-facing indications that the program was still active,” Haim says, adding that “the hospital is telling the public this program no longer exists, but within the hospital, they're prioritizing it to the highest level.""So the directors of the program that supposedly did not exist were speaking at the hospital's most prestigious lecture series seven months after that statement [in which] they said they were shutting it down," the surgeon says.Haim joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why he is so passionate about defending minors from these dangerous medical procedures and standing against what he sees as the federal government's intimidation tactics. Enjoy the show!

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Nikki Haley is officially exiting the raceRFK Jr. says his presidential campaign has qualified for Nevada’s general election ballot this November.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently announced he would be stepping down from his longtime leadership post after the election, officially endorsed Donald Trump today.New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that she will deploy nearly 1,000 New York National Guardsmen to patrol and monitor the New York City Subway.Relevant LinksListen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcastsSign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

A Christian who faced persecution for her faith in Communist Romania in the 1980s and barely survived an assassination attempt orchestrated by dictator Nicolae Ceausescu warns that the undermining of parental rights in the U.S. today echoes Ceausescu's totalitarian government."It's the same system that the socialists use in order for parents to be put in jail that the students, kids, will be taught in school to report their [parents] to school," Virginia Prodan, a human rights lawyer who grew up in Communist Romania but came to the U.S. after President Ronald Reagan secured her release, tells "The Daily Signal Podcast."Enjoy the show!

Super Tuesday is underway throughout the countryThe U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked a Texas law on Monday that gives Texas law enforcement officers the ability to arrest illegal aliens entering the country from Mexico. Liver Cancer in Teens, Reduced Sexual Function, Lack of Consent: Internal Docs Reveal Experimental Nature of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/05/liver-cancer-teens-reduced-sexual-function-lack-consent-internal-docs-reveal-experimental-nature-gender-affirming-care/REPORT: Teachers Unions Quietly Spend Millions on GOP Primaries in 32 States: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/04/report-teachers-unions-spend-millions-gop-primaries/On Monday, Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed what she labeled “anti-immigrant legislation.”Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced she will not seek re-election Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcastsSign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda