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Iran Ceasefire & Trump Legal Wins | 6.24.25
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President Trump announces a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, Iran’s face-saving response suggests a deeper weakness, and Trump’s agenda scores some big wins in the courts. Get the facts first with Morning Wire. - - - Today's Sponsors: Chevron - Build a brighter future right here at home. Visit https://Chevron.com/America to discover more. EarnIn - Type in Morning Wire under PODCAST when you sign up for EarnIn today by downloading in the Google play or Apple app store. Balance of Nature - Go to https://balanceofnature.com and use promo code WIRE for 35% off your first order as a preferred customer PLUS get a free bottle of Fiber and Spice. - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy
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John Bickley
President Trump announces a complete and total ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
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Georgia Howe
I think the president really hit the reset button and said, look, let's actually produce long term peace for the region.
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Cabot Phillips
And the US Thwarts Iran's missile attack against a military base in the Middle East. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, June 24th, and this is Morning Wire.
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John Bickley
Iran saves face with a symbolic attack. But is it now isolated from the rest of the world?
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Binom Ben Taliblu
They want to be seen as achieving parity. Almost an eye for an eye.
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Cabot Phillips
And anti Trump activists have had a mixed track record in using the courts to halt his agenda.
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Tim Pierce
California could seek emergency relief in the Supreme Court.
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Georgia Howe
That's something that's increasingly happening.
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John Bickley
Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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John Bickley
After Iran launched unsuccessful retaliatory strikes against the US On Monday, President Trump announced that Iran had agreed to a ceasefire to end the war with Israel. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest on the conflict. Hey, Kabbat. So a whirlwind day yesterday. Catch us up to speed?
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Vice President Vance
Yeah. A major breakthrough Monday, John, as President Trump announced that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire agreement that was proposed by the US Writing in a truth social post, the president said, quote, congratulations to everyone. It has been fully agreed to between Israel and Iran, Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire. I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage and intelligence to end what should be called the 12 Day War. This is a war that could have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle east. But it didn't and never will. An hour after that post, Iranian officials confirmed that they had agreed to the deal, which they said was brokered by Qatar and again proposed by the US Shortly after that announcement, Vice President Vance appeared on Fox where he spoke to the lasting impact of this diplomatic breakthrough.
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Georgia Howe
I actually think when we look back, we will say the 12 Day War was an important reset moment for the entire region.
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Vice President Vance
Now, one of the big questions throughout this entire conflict has been if the US Would pursue a regime change in Iran. Here's Vance on that front.
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Georgia Howe
Well, I think what the President is saying very clearly, Brett, is if the Iranian people want to do something about their own leadership, that's up to the Iranian people. What the American national security interest here is very simple. It's to destroy the nuclear program. That's what we've done.
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John Bickley
As we said at the top, the ceasefire came after a chaotic day yesterday in the Middle east with Iran launching retaliatory strikes that were not successful. Tell us about that.
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Vice President Vance
Yeah. On Monday afternoon, the Iranians launched their long awaited response to Saturday strikes. Firing missiles at the Al Udid Air Base in Qatar. That's America's largest military installation in the Middle East. It's the same one you'll remember that Trump visited just last month. They also launched a separate barrage against American installations in Iraq. But ultimately, all of those missiles were intercepted by US And Qatari air defense before reaching their target. And importantly, no casualties and no damage reported. Iranian state media released a statement Monday confirming their deployment of what they called, quote, destructive and forceful missiles, saying, we warn our enemies that the era of hit and run is over, but there was a reason to believe that they weren't actually trying to inflict real damage with those strikes.
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John Bickley
Yeah. Tell us more about that dynamic.
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Vice President Vance
Yeah. More than meets the eye, John. So remember back in 2020, after the US killed General Soleimani, Iran warned Iraq ahead of time that it was about to launch a strike on the US Base there. That allowed time for American troops to seek shelter and prepare defenses. And ultimately no service members were killed, and the US did not respond with further strikes. And according to President Trump, the same thing happened yesterday. Writing on Truth Social, he said, quote, I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost and nobody to be injured. Based on multiple reports, Iranian officials said the regime wanted to save face with their own people and the rest of the world by launching a symbolic counter strike. But they wanted to avoid inflicting casualties. And it must be noted that Iran was really running out of options yesterday. Their missile stockpiles are reportedly dwindling. Their military and nuclear facilities have been decimated, and their allies have not exactly come to their aid. To that point, Iran sought support from their longtime ally Russia on Monday, sending their foreign minister to Moscow. But while Putin slammed Trump's strikes as, quote, absolutely unprovoked, importantly, he stopped well short of offering the Iranians any form of outright support at least publicly, the president said he was confident Iran has, quote, gotten it all out of their system, adding, quote, congratulations world. It's time for peace.
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John Bickley
Quite a day.
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Vice President Vance
Yes, it was.
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John Bickley
Kevin, thanks for reporting.
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Vice President Vance
Absolutely.
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Cabot Phillips
All eyes are on Iran's response after the US Devastated its nuclear facilities over the weekend.
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John Bickley
Joining us to discuss is Binom Ben Taliblu, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy's senior Iran program Director. Ben, thank you so much for coming on.
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Binom Ben Taliblu
Good to be back with you.
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John Bickley
So Monday we saw retaliatory strikes from Iran, and then President Trump announced a ceasefire. So do you think this is it or will we see more from Iran?
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Binom Ben Taliblu
If I had to be a betting man, this looks like a January 2020 redo where the Iranians again are trying to find a way to save face without losing their head. In this case, they had something very valuable taken away from them, the crown jewel of their nuclear program, the four zero fuel enrichment facility by the U.S. so they're looking to respond in kind. They're looking to respond against military assets. And they have targeted at least two different facilities, one in Iraq, one in Qatar using their precision strike short range ballistic missiles. But the reason this also looks and smells and feels like a January 2020 redo, is that Iran's overt missile barrage in January, which was lethal and was designed to draw blood, but also create the space for de escalation on the other side, was Paired then with some kind of private diplomatic outreach that forewarned about these strikes. And reportedly it's not confirmed, but reportedly the Iranians again married their ballistic missile strike, which was limited, but with that diplomatic outreach again. So the Islamic Republic success strategy. This is how a conventionally weak state that has a high ideational impulse manages to regulate competition against much more powerful adversaries. And that is with a knife and a handshake. In the cosmology of conflict, in the political lexicon of violence that the Islamic Republic has, they have this thing from the Iran Iraq war called responding in kind. They want to be seen as achieving parity. So sometimes in the west we talk about escalate to de escalate. This is escalate to achieve parity. Almost an eye for an eye.
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John Bickley
Do we expect other actions from proxies connected with Iran or Iranian extremists? Do we have any sense on the ground of anything in the works?
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Binom Ben Taliblu
Potentially, I would say this. The proxy threat in the region and the terror threat against targets far away, such as in the US Homelander on the European continent, those are things the national security establishment, the Justice Department, need to be cognizant of and focusing on humming like a motor in the background at all times, at times of peace and at times of war, because this is an adversary with a high ideational interest in exporting the revolution and trying to extend this long arm of terror into Western democracies, taking advantage of everything from immigration issues to working with transnational criminal syndicates, to wanting to take apart and maximize the existing cleavages in American society for them to land blows at those they want to. But now, again, this is a time of war. And the reason I would say that proxy action would not be as important as direct action is that the Islamic Republic wants to be seen as responding to the strike that the US had. This is again just as much about status for this regime as it is about security.
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John Bickley
Stepping back, what do you think this has done in terms of Iran's relationships with its allies in the region? Has it weakened those relationships or strengthen them?
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Binom Ben Taliblu
I think this is real proof that the Islamic Republic does not really have allies in the traditional sense. The Islamic Republic had one state ally in the region, that was the Assad regime in Syria. And you saw how quickly that collapsed. Despite the cost in terms of blood and treasure and even reputation that the regime had sunk into trying to bail out the butcher of Damascus for so long and intervening so decisively along with the Russians in the Syrian civil war. The Islamic Republic fundamentally, is alone. And that's almost at this point in time, ironic because they've built up so much of their foreign and security policy in the region towards achieving some sort of outcome that would isolate Israel rather than isolate itself.
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John Bickley
Final question, what are Iran's priorities now? What's its primary goal in the days ahead?
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Binom Ben Taliblu
The Islamic Republic has to make itself look like it's in control. All authoritarian regimes have breath but no depth. So while Israel and America were really delivering blows to Iran's missile, military and nuclear programs, the Islamic Republic was trying to bloat itself up to make up for those blows. And really focusing on the images following the shooting is going to be critical to understand what the Islamic Republic thinks of itself and how it feels and how confident it feels. Once the shooting stops, we'll see what.
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John Bickley
Steps Iran takes next. Binom, thank you so much for joining us.
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Tim Pierce
Thank you.
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John Bickley
The Trump administration won a legal victory over California Governor Gavin Newsom. Last week, the 9th Circuit Court lifted a lower court order that blocked Trump's orders to the California National Guard.
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Cabot Phillips
Here to talk about that decision and other lawfare the president is facing is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce. So, Tim, first off, what did the courts decide?
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Tim Pierce
Well, it's a win for the president and a good sign for the administration's case, but it's still not the final word. You'll remember that Governor Newsom challenged Trump's ability to deploy the National Guard. So the latest here is that the 9th Circuit lifted a lower court's temporary restraining order off the Trump administration. The order had returned control of California's National Guard back to Newsom without issuing a final ruling. The 9th Circuit found that the Trump administration was likely to succeed on the merits of the case. That is, Trump's National Guard order satisfied the legal threshold under Section 10 of the US Code. And the court sided with the administration that local law enforcement failed to contain the violence against federal agents and property. But Governor Newsom has claimed some small victories, too. The court disagreed with the Trump administration that the president's order is not subject to judicial review. After the decision, Newsom posted on X quote, the court rightly rejected Trump's claim that he can do whatever he wants with the National Guard and not have to explain himself to a court. And in another win for Trump, the Supreme Court granted an administration request to allow it to deport illegal aliens to third countries or a country that is neither the United States nor the immigrant's home country. That ruling was 6:3, with the dissenters all from the courts liberal. The decision lifted a lower court order that required the federal government to hold any alien in the US who could not be deported explicitly to their home country. This ruling from the Supreme Court is good news for the administration that wants to use every tool it has to speed up deportations.
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Cabot Phillips
Now these are just two legal cases facing the Trump administration. And some members of the GOP had put together some sort of plan to assist the president with all of these cases. What's the status of that?
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Tim Pierce
Well, it may be dead. Senate Democrats have worked to strip out as many provisions as they can from Trump's one big beautiful bill. One of the quirks of the process that Republicans are using to get around the Senate's 60 vote threshold to pass the bill is that the Senate parliamentarian gets to cut provisions she says aren't budget related. Well, one of those provisions would have restricted federal courts from issuing these sweeping injunctions against nationwide policies. The Trump administration has run into that on numerous occasions where courts have taken a case that involves a few plaintiffs and used it to block federal policy. Now Democrats appear to have won a procedural battle to get Republicans fixed for that. Nixed from the one big beautiful bill.
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Cabot Phillips
Well, just goes to show the devil is in the details with these big bills. Tim, thanks for reporting.
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Tim Pierce
Thanks for having me on.
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John Bickley
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