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John Bickley
Republicans in the Senate Homeland Security Committee vote to hold Dr. Fauci in contempt and now have a copy of his cell phone.
Senator Josh Hawley
This is the kind of thing that ought to be open and available for inspection when you have an investigation with potential criminal ramifications, as this one does.
Host/Interviewer
What's next for Dr. Fauci? And will the Justice Department pursue criminal charges?
John Bickley
I'm Daily Wire Executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Friday, August 7th. This is Morning W.
Host/Interviewer
President Trump gets a big win in a federal court on his plan to deport hundreds of thousands of Haitians.
Senator Ron Johnson
President Trump was trying to clean up that mess. He got elected to clean up that mess. You have Democrats sabotaging those efforts.
John Bickley
And Trump dismisses media claims that the US has depleted its missile supplies and vows to hunt down leakers.
Tim Rice
We have plenty.
John Bickley
We have a lot of ammunition, more
Tim Rice
than we could ever use.
Host/Interviewer
Thanks for waking up with morning. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt. Now they say they have access to a copy of his iPhone.
John Bickley
Joining us now to discuss the fate of Dr. Fauci is one of the senators on that committee, Senator Josh Hawley. Senator, thank you so much for joining us.
Senator Josh Hawley
Thank you for having me.
John Bickley
So we watched this rather tense voting session yesterday, which you spoke at first. Why did you vote to hold Dr. Fauci in contempt?
Senator Josh Hawley
Well, because you can't have it both ways. You can't come to the committee and claim a full immunity of a pardon that Joe Biden gave him and then also say, but I'm not gonna answer any questions. The law on this is very clear. If you've got immunity, you have to answer questions. Every prosecutor in America knows that Fauci wanted to have it both ways, cuz he didn't wanna answer questions about why, for example, he got rich during COVID using taxpayer money. The guy needs to be held accountable for all of the terrible things he's done and that list is long.
John Bickley
Now, Democrats, like Senator Blumenthal made the argument that Fauci's lawyer should have been allowed to speak at the hearing last week and then also yesterday. Why do you believe his lawyer did not deserve to be heard?
Senator Josh Hawley
Well, his lawyer is not a witness. And this goes back to the point that you can either take immunity and answer questions or you can give up your immunity and claim the Fifth. You can't do both. You know, when was the last time that a courtroom witness was able to claim immunity but then say, but I'm not going to answer any questions when I get out of the stand? The answer is never. We never allow that in a court of law. Dr. Fauci has a full and total pardon from Joe Biden, an auto pen pardon. But let's just for the purposes of discussion and say that it's valid. That means he should have to answer questions. He took the fifth 111 times. It was a joke.
John Bickley
Now, Republicans have gained access to a copy of Dr. Fauci's cell phone that was acquired by a Senate panel chaired by Ron Johnson. We're going to talk to him next. In fact, how was that obtained and how significant is that development?
Senator Josh Hawley
Well, I think it could prove to be quite significant. It was obtained pursuant to a valid subpoena, as I understand it, from the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which is just an investigatory arm of the Senate. And the truth is, is that, listen, this is all public information, and this is Dr. Fauci's phone. As a government employee, this is the kind of thing that ought to be open and available for inspection when you have an investigation with potential criminal ramifications, as this one does. All of this could have been averted, I might add, if he would just have answered questions, which he still refuses to do.
Host/Interviewer
Senator Hawley, has this been a bipartisan effort to get Fauci to speak, or are you seeing this divide between party lines?
Senator Josh Hawley
I don't think the Democrats have any interest in this. They've had every opportunity for a solid year now to participate in this investigation, to try to get evidence from Dr. Fauci. They have tried to stop us at every turn. And yesterday when we voted, they all voted no on doing anything to hold Dr. Fauci accountable. I think that tells the tale.
John Bickley
Senator Rand Paul has said all along that he believes Dr. Fauci has engaged in criminal behavior. He's recommending the Justice Department take action. Do you believe that we will see an actual criminal investigation by the doj?
Senator Josh Hawley
Well, I certainly hope so. I hope that they will start with prosecuting the contempt resolution that we passed yesterday in the Senate committee. I hope they'll go after him hard for that and I also hope that they'll look at the fact that he used federal employees and federal resources to get cash prizes for for himself. A million bucks in cash prizes during COVID I can tell you the law already prohibits the use of federal resources or federal employees to solicit funds like that. He did it over and over and over.
John Bickley
Senator, thank you so much for coming on.
Senator Josh Hawley
Thank you for having me.
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John Bickley
So big story out of Hollywood this morning. The Daily Wire has just released the trailer for one of its biggest films yet, Run Hide Fight Infidels, and it's already generating plenty of controversy. It's not hard to see why when you see the trailer. The movie, which I've seen some of you know, pulls no punches and a lot of things explode and lots of heads will probably explode as well. Jonathan Majors leads the film. Dallas Saunier produces it. The film certainly makes no apologies about what it is a hard hitting action movie that tackles a very controversial subject. Run Hide Fight Infidels is streaming exclusively on the daily wire starting September 16th. The trailer is rolling right after this episode, so go check it out. President Trump got a big win in federal court this week which ruled that his administration can remove temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians. Meanwhile, Republicans in the Senate Senate continue to push for more progress on the president's immigration agenda.
Host/Interviewer
Joining us now is Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a Republican and member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Senator Johnson, thanks for coming on.
Senator Ron Johnson
Thanks for having me on.
Host/Interviewer
Now before we get into the immigration topic, we wanted to follow up with you about something we just discussed with your colleague Senator Hawley. The Senate panel, you, chair has gained access to Dr. Fauci's cell phone. What are your plans for that?
Senator Ron Johnson
Well, first of all, we need to pull the information off. We need to protect people's personal information. But we'll be as transparent as possible. I'll be working very closely with Senator Paul and his staff. We both got the device and again we want to be transparent. Just like Senator Paul made the Fauci diaries available, I think we need to do the same thing with his phone, text messages, that type of thing. And of course we're going to be looking for discrepancies and you know, for example, where he's had maybe text messages FOIA and presented them. Did he provide all of them? Could there, you know the additional information around the phone conversations in late January 2020, early February where all the COVID up around his funding of gain of function research and the change of opinion from man made to had to spring from nature and man made was a conspiracy theory. So again there's many things we'll target, dates, individuals. It's going to take some time. We're not going to release this overnight because we have to be careful.
John Bickley
Have you seen Democrats express interest in learning anything from Foushee's cell phone up
Senator Ron Johnson
until the beginning of the contempt hearing? No, I do know that the the minority staff from the permanent subcommittee investigation came and looked at the phone for about 20 minutes and left. That's according to my staff. I've been investigating these things for six years and the only reason the investigations may be one sided is because Democrats have shown whatsoever in digging into what happened during COVID with the injection or just the miserably failed response.
Host/Interviewer
Now to the immigration front, this ruling on protected status for Haitians has been a long time in the making, a major priority for President Trump. Why does the administration see this as such an important step when you grant
Senator Ron Johnson
temporary protective status, the first word that is temporary and unfortunately what has happened for way too many years is that the way it's been handled, they really ought to call it permanent and it shouldn't be permanent. Again, we're a very compassionate country. We open up our, our borders to people who are, you know, having conflicts in their countries. But when, when those conflicts end or when it's safer to return. I said safer. Nothing's absolutely safe. You know, it's time for those people to return and for that temporary status view revolt.
John Bickley
So there has been some major progress made in terms of the priorities of the Trump administration on deportations. There's also been a lot of setbacks. What have you seen from your perspective and your roles, your various roles in the Senate on the immigration front? Do you see progress?
Senator Ron Johnson
Well, I saw the Biden administration and with support of their congressional delegation in Congress here, throw open the borders and allowing millions of people to fund this country. Some of those individuals were members of violent gangs, drug, human sex traffickers, members of transnational criminal organizations. They created a huge mess. And now when President Trump is trying to clean up that mess, he got elected to clean up that mess. You have Democrats sabotaging those efforts. So I think it's been more than regretful that the Democrats aren't willing to cooperate and clean up their mess.
John Bickley
Final question. What would you say is the Senate's should be at least the Senate's biggest priority in the coming weeks?
Senator Ron Johnson
Well, right now, we're trying to make sure the government doesn't shut down. You know, we have requests before us in terms of a military supplemental. We have the finest among us in harm's way. Generally. We provide those to, you know, military members the support they need. Unfortunately, we can't do that on a, on a bipartisan basis. So we're looking at budget reconciliation from that standpoint. But long term, we've got to reduce spending and get the debt and deficit under control. That's got to be the biggest priority long term.
Host/Interviewer
Senator, thank you so much for coming on today.
Senator Ron Johnson
Have a great day.
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smissing reports that U.S. munitions stockpiles are at dangerously low levels and says that treasonous leakers are being hunted down.
John Bickley
Joining us now to discuss these military stockpiles and the dispute over them is Tim rice, Daily Wire D.C. bureau Chief, welcome back on Tim.
Tim Rice
Thanks for having me, guys.
John Bickley
So there are a lot of conflicting claims about this issue. It's a big one. First, which specific U.S. munitions are we talking about?
Tim Rice
Yeah. So at issue here are two types of things. There are the army tactical missile system munitions and precision strike missiles. So these each cost about $1 million to make. And reportedly the military has depleted nearly 80%, what's, what's called the terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or thaad missile interceptors and about half of its Patriot interceptors. So really we're talking, if these reports are true, about everything that you need to wage the kind of war that we are waging in Iran. Long range missiles, short range missiles, different types of interceptors to intercept different types of missiles from Iran itself or its terrorist proxies like Hezbollah in Lebanon. 80% of anything in the military stockpile being depleted is obviously a logistical problem, especially as President Trump continues to threaten that perhaps we're going to ramp up hostilities. And of course, all military technology takes time to make because there's quality control and it's expensive. But this is the stuff that really takes time, really takes a lot of money. So this is all really bad. If this is true.
John Bickley
Right. And that's a big if. And this is the battle that's being waged publicly now by President Trump. He's disputing these claims. We've looked at these reports. They are, they're often citing unnamed sources. Whether or not we've consistently seen this, though, that there's certainly a depletion of stockpiles, the degree to which they are depleted. Why does this public battle matter so much?
Tim Rice
Yeah, it's a great question, John, because to your point, right, obviously to a certain extent the stockpiles have been depleted. So the reason this matters is again, partially because the president is continuing to try to rally the American public around this ongoing war, potentially, which is, which is going to potentially escalate soon as, as we get closer to the midterm elections. But the other, of course, right, is a national security reason. He, of course, is getting at something real, which is that we don't want the United States does not want the Iranian government to think that we're not prepared, especially if we do launch another attack. So the president has denied these reports. He said that he is going to stop the leaks. He's frustrated with the leaks. He's going to root out, as Georgia said, the treasonous leakers. But he has gone on the record as saying that the United States has, you know, in a very Trumpian statement. He didn't name any specifics, but he said, you know, the United States has plenty of missiles and all the armor and armaments and things that we need. The President also quashed rumors that he had a tense conversation with Pete Hegseth about this before or after last week's Cabinet meeting at Camp David. There were other reports again from the treasonous leakers that the President confronted Hegseth about this, essentially saying, you know, how could you have let it get this bad? The President is now separately saying that he stands by Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth is doing a heck of a job. This conversation didn't happen. And of course, that gets back to the original claim. Why would the President have been yelling at Pete Hegseth for letting the stockpiles deplete if the stockpiles have not actually been depleted?
John Bickley
So yet another series of media reports refuted by the President. You did mention possible ramping up of the engagement. Again, where are things now on the ground in Iran?
Tim Rice
Well, you know, we're recording this now. By the time anyone's listening to it, it'd probably have changed 16 times. Where we are right now is there are some reports that the United States and the Iranians are maybe going to reach a second memorandum of understanding, the MoU, which of course was the name given to what people were sort of colloquially calling the ceasefire and the peace deal about a month ago. I think the main thing to keep an eye on, though, as all of this diplomatic back and forth is playing out in the press, is Iran has been attacking Iran and its proxies have been attacking American targets and allies increasingly in the past couple of weeks. This is, of course, the reason that the President has been hinting at or outright threatening that we might resume missile strikes on Iran. So that really, ultimately, at this point, more than any potential new deal or conversation or backroom, you know, exchange, all of which I'm sure are happening and will, of course, play an important part in resolving this conflict one way or the other. What really matters right now is will Iran keep striking Americans and American allies, and how will the United States States respond?
John Bickley
Well, Tim, as always, a lot of moving parts in this Iran story. Thanks so much for reporting for us.
Tim Rice
Anytime, John.
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This episode zeroes in on three major storylines:
The episode is marked by a strong tone of skepticism toward Democratic officials and mainstream media reporting, reflecting The Daily Wire’s perspective.
Segment Starts: 00:34
Senator Josh Hawley Interview
Senator Ron Johnson Interview
Segment Starts: 07:18
Segment Starts: 12:14
Tim Rice, Daily Wire DC Bureau Chief Interview
On-the-Ground Update (Iran & U.S. Tensions):
[02:06] Sen. Josh Hawley:
“You can't come to the committee and claim a full immunity of a pardon that Joe Biden gave him and then also say, but I'm not gonna answer any questions. The law on this is very clear.”
[03:11] Sen. Josh Hawley:
"He took the fifth 111 times. It was a joke."
[08:54] Sen. Ron Johnson:
"...only reason the investigations may be one sided is because Democrats have shown [no interest] in digging into what happened during COVID..."
[09:27] Sen. Ron Johnson:
“When you grant temporary protective status, the first word that is temporary…They really ought to call it permanent and it shouldn't be permanent.”
[12:58] Tim Rice:
“80% of anything in the military stockpile being depleted is obviously a logistical problem.”
[13:58] Tim Rice:
“He said...the United States has plenty of missiles and all the armor and armaments…He’s going to root out, as Georgia said, the treasonous leakers.”
Run Hide Fight Infidels Trailer:
Meta Glasses Demo:
Dramatic Excerpts:
| Segment | Time | |---------|------| | Dr. Fauci contempt, phone seized | 00:34–06:19 | | Sen. Ron Johnson, phone plans & immigration | 07:18–11:31 | | Military stockpiles/propaganda war | 12:14–16:43 | | Notable film & AI tech plugs | 06:19–11:34 | | Dramatic propaganda audio | 17:03–19:11 |
This episode presented a combative Republican narrative on Covid-era accountability, government transparency, and border security, combined with skepticism towards legacy media and Democratic opposition. The ongoing “propaganda war”—both in politics and culture—was a consistent subtext, culminating in both policy analysis and dramatized audio vignettes depicting broader ideological conflict.
For those interested in the latest right-leaning perspectives on Senate investigations, immigration enforcement, and military affairs, this episode offers a fast-paced, direct look at the week’s top political battles.