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I'm Georgia Howe with Daily WIRE Editor-in-Chief, John Bickley. It's Thursday, February 15, and this is your Morning Wire Afternoon Update. After a shooting turned a Kansas City Super Bowl victory parade into a tragedy yesterday, police say the shots fired most likely originated from a dispute between several people. As Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves told reporters today, three people are in custody, two of whom are juveniles. Graves also said several firearms were recovered. Police say no links to terrorism or extremism have been discovered. I know there are many more questions that you all want answers to that I may not have answered just yet. It's critical that we protect the integrity of this case so that we can bring justice to the victims, their families, and everyone else involved. One person has been confirmed dead and 23 others injured. Officials say five patients have been discharged after being shot and three others remain in critical condition. The White House confirmed today that Russia has obtained a troubling anti-satellite weapon, but said that it cannot cause physical destruction on Earth and is not currently operational. White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the US is currently gathering information on the emerging tech while consulting with our allies and partners.

Here's Kirby.

President Biden has been kept fully informed and regularly informed by his national security team, including today. He has directed a series of initial actions, including additional briefings to congressional leaders, direct diplomatic engagement with Russia, with our allies and our partners as well, and with other countries around the world who have interests at stake.

The White House intelligence clarification comes after a vague warning Wednesday from the head of the House Intelligence Committee, Ohio congressman Mike Turner. Turner had issued a statement urging the administration to declassify the information so the US and its allies can openly discuss how to respond. Fulton County district attorney Fawnie Willis, who is prosecuting former President Trump and several Others is testifying today in response to allegations that she and Special Counsel Nathan Wade engaged in an improper romantic relationship. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo reports.

Willis has previously acknowledged that she and the special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, have been involved in a romantic relationship. But Willis has insisted that no impropriety occurred, and the relationship started after she hired Wade for the Trump case. In today's hearing, however, Willis' friend testified that Willis started seeing Wade in 2019. That was before she hired him as special prosecutor. Also, during the hearing, Wade claimed he was reimbursed by Willis in cash for those lavish trips they went on together, but does not have bank statements to corroborate the payments. Here's Wade being questioned about those trips.

You purchased all of these vacations on your business credit card, correct? Yes, ma'am. You included those in deductions on your taxes, correct? No, ma'am. No, you did not. That's all I needed.

The judge also called out Wade for dancing around the point when he was asked about how much his firm was paid.

You're saying that the law firm of Nathan Wade did not receive checks from Fulton County government over $300,000 in the year 2022?

That's a different question. A third of the $300,000 came to Nathan Wade.

Again, I'm not asking what went in your pocket. I'm asking, was the law firm of Nathan Wade paid over $300,000 in 2022?

I'm going to have to ask and answer.

I know, but I think we're dancing around the point there. Final time, Ms.

Nersh. That's fine. I can move on, Judge. Thank you.

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A New York judge ruled today that Donald Trump's Hush Money trial will move forward with jury selection starting on March 25th, pushing aside the former President's request to delay it. Daily Wire senior editor, Kabbit Phillips, has more.

Donald Trump appeared at a New York court this morning as part of a case which centers on hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. The new trial schedule, If It Stays the Course, will open just a week after Super Tuesday, creating a significant scheduling issue during a time when the former president will be looking to lock up support as the Republican nominee. Trump's legal team cited the upcoming political schedule in their request for the judge to reconsider the March trial date. Defense lawyer Todd Blanch said, We strenuously object to what is happening in this courtroom. He also stressed that former President Trump is now going to have to spend the next two months preparing for the trial instead of campaigning, saying that it's, something that should not happen in this country. Trump said the following to reporters on his way into the courtroom.

How can you run for election to be sitting in a courthouse in Manhattan all day long? I'm supposed to be in South Carolina right now. I shouldn't be in a courthouse or something that virtually every legal scholar says they don't understand that there's no crime. Even if he was guilty of something, there's no crime.

During an evening address last week, President Joe Biden blasted Special Counsel Robert Herr over a line in his report on the President's handling of classified documents. It stated that President Biden did not remember, even within several years, when his son, Bo, died.

How the hell dare he raise that?

Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, wasn't any of their damn business. But as two people familiar with Herr's five-hour interview with the President tell NBC, the Special Counsel never asked that question. Daily Wire reporter, Tim pierce has the details.

Those sources said it was the President, not her or his team, who first spoke about Bo Biden's death. Biden brought up his son's death while he was being asked about his work in a Virginia rental home from 2016 to 2018 with a ghostwriter who had been helping the President write a memoir about losing his son to brain cancer. According to the report, investigators had a recording from 2017 in which Biden told the ghostwriter that he had found, classified stuff in that home. According to sources, it was during this part of the interview in which the President tried to recall that period of time by discussing what else was happening in his life, during which he appeared confused about when Bo died. Biden had said May 30th, which is correct, but he could not recall the year.

President Joe Biden has received an endorsement from one of the most unlikely places, the Kremlin. In an interview yesterday with journalist Pavel Zerubin, Russia's President Vladimir Putin says his country prefers the more experienced current President over former President Trump. The comments were welcomed by Trump but brushed off by the White House, which urge Putin to stay out of the election. Putin was also asked about speculations around Biden's mental fitness, but he said he did not have the right to comment on the issue, but that he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary during the leaders meeting in Geneva in 2021. Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire. Com. For more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of MorningWire every morning.