Actress Dies at 36 & The War On Drugs Escalates

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**Georgia Howe** (0:34)
President Trump pushes back on media narratives about US foreign policy moves and lays out key priorities.

**John Bickley** (0:40)
Is the US shifting its policy on North Korea? And will US troops begin carrying out operations on land against traffickers in Latin America?

**Georgia Howe** (0:48)
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, August 18th, and this is Morning Wire.

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More details emerge surrounding the shocking death of young actress Hayden Panettiere.

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I felt like I was walking blind and there was nobody there that was really able to support me in the way that I needed to be supported.

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And a pivotal week in the disturbing Lindsay Clancy trial.

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She can be in and out of psychosis, but she did murder three children. The courts do not ever have to allow her to leave out of the mental health facility.

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**Georgia Howe** (2:45)
President Trump held an at times contentious press conference in the Oval Office yesterday in which he addressed various foreign policy concerns.

**John Bickley** (2:52)
Joining us now is our White House correspondent, Mary Margaret Olohan. Thanks for coming on.

**Mary Margaret Olohan** (2:56)
Thanks for having me.

**John Bickley** (2:58)
So the president addressed a lot yesterday, but perhaps most importantly, he was asked about several theaters of geopolitical tension. First, what did we hear from the president on where things stand in the conflict with Iran?

**Mary Margaret Olohan** (3:11)
So yes, the president addressed a lot of the drama that's been going on with Iran, with Gaza, with Jared Kushner. He specifically talked about how Jared Kushner held his direct high stakes diplomatic talks in Egypt with Hamas leadership before he went to Jerusalem for hours of negotiations with Netanyahu.
The central roadblock here is this major dispute over timing. Israel wants Hamas to fully disarm before troops withdraw while Hamas insists on an Israeli military exit before they lay down any arms. And Trump has expressed a lot of frustration with the stalled timeline while he's backed Kushner's push to see this measurable disarmament progress within 30 to 90 days, but Kushner's really made it clear that the international funding for rebuilding Gaza will remain strictly blocked until Hamas is completely disarmed. Now no final deal has been signed, but negotiators have agreed to establish working groups on disarmament, oversight and public health logistics. So that's kind of where we're at right now.

**John Bickley** (4:11)
So there was a sense that there was progress from these meetings.

**Mary Margaret Olohan** (4:15)
Yeah, I think you could say that. There's a little bit of progress, but as we have seen over and over and over with these situations, there's a lot of details, a lot of haggling and slow, slow progress over the course of a period of time.