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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

Voters in 15 states are headed to the polls or to caucuses Tuesday, in what is arguably the most important day in the 2024 presidential primary season; that is, Super Tuesday. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia are all holding primaries. Caucuses will be held in Alaska and Utah. Ryan Walker, Heritage Action for America executive vice president, says that when you look at the states that have already held primaries, “Nikki Haley has not garnered more than 40% of the vote.” So, Walker says he will be watching to see whether the former South Carolina governor can go beyond that threshold in states voting Tuesday. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation, of which Heritage Action for America is the grassroots arm.)Former President Donald Trump has already clinched GOP primary and caucus victories in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, Idaho, and Missouri. Haley won the D.C. primary over the weekend.Trump got a boost in media coverage ahead of the Super Tuesday voting when on Monday the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in his favor and against Colorado’s efforts to remove his name from the ballot there citing the “Insurrection Clause” of the 14th Amendment. The ruling clears the way for Trump to earn more delegates on Tuesday ahead of the GOP convention in mid-July. “A state cannot decide if a former president, or a former candidate, is allowed to be on the ballot, especially if they have not been convicted of a crime,” Walker said. Walker joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what issues are driving voters to the polls on Super Tuesday, and what the results could mean for determining who ultimately will be the GOP nominee for president. Enjoy the show!

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that former President Donald Trump couldn’t be removed from the 2024 primary ballot in Colorado. Jarrett’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/04/breaking-supreme-court-rules-9-0-that-trump-cant-be-removed-from-colorado-ballot/Vice President Kamala Harris calls for ceasefire between Israel and HamasNikki Haley defeats former President Donald Trump in D.C. GOP primary on SundayA newly released poll from the Strada Institute for the Future of Work and the Burning Glass Institute provides some grim information about college graduates. Report: https://stradaeducation.org/report/talent-disrupted/Haiti’s state of emergencyRelevant 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

Americans with investments in the “Big Three” financial companies—BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard—may see their money “voting” for things they don't believe in, warns the top lawyer at Strive Asset Management, the firm founded by former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.“I think, for a long time, we've been really focused on, where is money in politics, right?” Alexandra Gaiser, the general counsel at Strive, tells “The Daily Signal Podcast” in an interview at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in February. “So, you have all sorts of campaign finance restrictions.”Gaiser joins the show to explain how Stive works. Enjoy the show!

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: As we head into the weekend, there will not be a partial government shutdown after both the House and Senate voted to pass a continuing resolution on Thursday.Closing arguments are held in the case that will determine if Fani Willis is disqualified in her case against Trump. The Supreme Court agreed this week that it will hear former President Donald Trump’s immunity case. The Georgia House of Representatives has passed a bill in response to the tragic murder of Laken Riley. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/28/laken-riley-georgia-house-advances-immigration-enforcement-bill-illegal-alien-murders-coed-jog-sanctuary-city/  Alexei Navalny’s funeral was held today two weeks after the Russian opposition leader died in an Arctic penal colony. 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

An Indiana pastor has launched an effort to connect Christian leaders across the country and root out the influence of a "woke" Christianity that undermines the biblical and traditional doctrines of the faith."We've got 500 pastors that have signed this statement across all sorts of denominational lines, committing themselves to really sound biblical teaching as a primary doctrine and to help eradicate wokeism from the American pulpit," Lucas Miles, pastor of the Nfluence Church in Granger, Indiana, and leader of the Nfluence network, tells "The Daily Signal Podcast."Enjoy the show!