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President Trump ramps up tariffs on Canada and eyes new action in the Red Sea. So far, it hasn't happened. Might happen, but we take care of things. If something like that happens, we take care of it.
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We have the latest on the president's aggressive foreign policy moves.
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I'm Daily Wire Executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Wednesday, July 22nd. This is Morning Wire.
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The Democrats 11th hour replacement for Graham Platner is locking into place, and both the choice and process are prompting controversy.
Ben Domenech
If you think at least part of Platner's meteoric rise to success was because
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of his charisma and his personality, Jackson doesn't have that. The FCC is poised to make a major ruling on ABC's daytime talk show the View.
David Bozell
If they're not listed as a bona fide news program by the fcc, there's a strong possibility the ABC probably has to kick the View to a streaming platform.
John Bickley
Plus, the dozens of new charges against Andrew and Tristan Tate are unsealed.
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President Trump is making a series of bold moves on the international stage, including in the Middle east and in regard to Canada.
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Joining us now to discuss is Daily Wire opinion editor Ben Domenech, host of the Big Ben Show. Ben, thanks for coming on.
Ben Domenech
Good to be with you.
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So we've got a lot of updates on foreign policy, but first, let's talk about up north we have a new wave of tariffs that Trump levied on Canada. Tell us about those.
Ben Domenech
So the way that the administration is framing these, and Treasury Secretary Scott Besant was advocating for them the most publicly, is that they are in response to Canada's unwillingness to come to the table and negotiate. The way that he put it was that every other nation around the world has responded to tariff action on the part of the United States by negotiating in one part or another. And yet when it comes to. And yet the two nations that have not are Canada and China. And so because of that, because of the treatment of dairy products, of American alcohol, of a number of other products as well, that they're sensitive to, the president has levied these 50% tariffs. Now, the public framing of this is that it's in response or following from his truth social post, complaining about the horrible smog that came down from the Canadian fires, something that we saw previously in 2020. The President himself in the Oval Office said that's not the case. And in fact, this was something that was in response to these other, you know, different signals that Canada was sending. And I think that it's really about bringing them to the table. Considering that you're dealing now with Mark Carney, though, it is a bit amusing that they were both together, of course, at that World cup final. And I'm sure that Donald Trump did not tip his hand, just given the fact that they seemed very friendly at that moment.
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Yeah. So is this just tough negotiating, or are we looking at potentially a lasting realignment with Canada? Also, how much leverage does Canada actually have in these negotiations?
Ben Domenech
I don't think that they actually have a lot here. And Canada. Part of this is motivated by the fact that Canadian politics has been rocked by a number of different statements from the president, you know, going back to him, you know, entertaining the idea of making them a 51st state, the way that he's had a confrontational relationship, both, of course, with Justin Trudeau and now with with Carney. Though there seemed to have been a little bit warmer relations with Carney up to this point. I think that the truth of the matter is they want to force them to the table to. To negotiate and work out some new deal. Whether they go along with that or not depends, I think, a lot on the domestic politics and the way that they frame the situation, given that so many Canadians have a negative view of the United States at this moment.
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Yeah. Now, we've also been closely monitoring everything in the Middle east, of course, and the US Is now blockading an existing Iranian blockade. Tell us about that.
Ben Domenech
So there's a situation here that I think is going to incredibly be very complicated going forward. You know, essentially this is about control. It's about whether you have the control of both of these lanes. And now, you know, we see activity in the Red Sea as well, related to the Houthis that are, you know, essentially serving as an Iranian proxy that is also rising to the level of the administration taking further action. The real debate that's going on within the administration right now is about what they do next in response to the deaths of numerous servicemen, including three, of course, over the weekend, that you see these, this situation where the President now has to basically make a decision. Does he ramp up in the con in the context of trying to exacerbate the situation potentially in ways that could include more aggressive response? The irgc, there's even been talk in Washington of whether they should finally target the IRGC headquarters, which is not something that they've done, even though they're capable of doing it within Iran, or whether this is a moment in which he needs to pull back in order to avoid risking further loss of life and further negative actions against America's allies in the region.
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Now, is there concern in Washington that the Red Sea could become the next or an additional major front in the broader conflict?
Ben Domenech
Yes, this is because the Houthis, who have frankly gone up against American power recently and had some success, you know, are now acting as proxies for Iran's interests and trying to control that lane as well. The, the way that that is, is done, of course, is, is by exacerbating the situation, making it one where, uh, ships can be harassed. We saw two ships turn back today that were trying to traverse it because of those, uh, threats. Uh, and the thing is that the, the Houthis are not something so powerful that they can't be destroyed by the American military. But it's a question of whether the President is interested in doing that, whether he wants to ramp up or continue what has been essentially a campaign of pin prick strikes, of very localized strikes against Iran, where in a lot of situations they could anticipate them in advance, move their people out of the area and be prepared to respond afterwards with their own increasingly skilled tactics that have penetrated our defense, forced us back from some of our forward bases, you know, and put us back in places like Jordan where they're continuing to fire missiles at us.
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Well, it's becoming an extremely complicated situation. Ben, thanks for reporting.
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Great to be with you.
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Rates may apply After Graham Platner pulled out of the main Senate race amid sexual assault allegations, Democrats rolled out an unprecedented nomination process. Now that process and the man poised to replace Platner, former state Senator Troy Jackson, have come under intense scrutiny.
John Bickley
Joining us now to discuss is Steve Robinson, editor in chief of the Maine Wire. Steve, thanks for coming on.
Steve Robinson
Thanks for having me.
John Bickley
So it looked like there was going to be, you know, a crowded battle for this Democrat Senate seat in Maine, but it was almost over before it began. Why did so many candidates suddenly cut bait and rally behind Troy Jackson?
Steve Robinson
Well, I don't know if those candidates rallied behind Troy Jackson. What really happened is some good old fashioned union organizing was put to the test with the caucus committee style approach that the main Democratic Party kind of invented on the fly to choose who Graham Platner's replacement was going to be. This was a process where all of the people in each county got to vote to send a certain number of delegates to what was going to be a convention, and 600 or so county delegates would then vote on who the actual nominee was going to be. What happened over the weekend is Troy was so masterful at organizing his people to turn out that he won well over 90% of the delegates. So there's no question that this was an inside process. And I think the other candidates looked at the writing on the wall and said, yeah, I mean, this has been rigged from the start in Troy's favor. There's no sense even trying to force a convention or a CNN debate.
John Bickley
So any outward support for him was really just giving up and seeing that this process is basically fully cooked.
Steve Robinson
Yes, I think that's what you're seeing from the other candidate. But I think secretly, privately, they're all kind of miffed at how the delegate process turned out. They apparently used some unnamed software vendor to hold these county caucuses remotely. And there's lots of concern and chatter from activists about getting the ballot for the wrong county or not being able to participate in the caucus at all. So we end up with moving from a primary election where they had a record turnout of Democrats and independents now, to just a couple thousand party diehards deciding who the candidate is going to be.
John Bickley
Who would you say are the biggest winners and losers from Platner's collapse?
Steve Robinson
Well, I would have to say Troy Jackson is certainly a winner in that. Now he gets to be the nominee. The unions, arguably, Graham Platner was so wounded by the time he did drop out that Susan Collins could be considered a loser. Although I think that once people have enough time to scrutinize Troy Jackson, they'll see that Susan Collins is the odds on favorite to win this election with Jackson as the nominee.
John Bickley
Yeah, you've reported on him for years now. And dug in more to his record and some of the controversies around Troy Jackson. Can you tell our listeners about that? What have you learned about him?
Steve Robinson
So Troy Jackson is positioning himself as an outsider. That's what he did for his gubernatorial campaign. Everyone in Maine really laughs if you've been following Maine politics because he's been in elected office office for 26 years now. That's when he first ran for the state legislature. And when he first ran from for the state legislature, he was conservative, he was pro life, he was pro gun, he was a Democrat. Yes, but he was conservative on a lot of the issues. And over time, to survive and to work his way up to ultimately being the Senate President in 2023 and 2024, he had to become much more of a strident leftist. He ends his legislative supporting late term abortion, supporting the most, you know, stringent gun control regimes that Maine has ever seen. On all these issues, he's gone very, very far to the left. But he also has some personal controversies. One that we've reported on at length involves a home that he purchased in Augusta and he used an FHA loan to do it. He kind of did something similar to what Letitia James was investigated for, where he used an FHA loan, got the property, and that mortgage agreement contained an occupancy clause, so he was required to make it his primary residence. So at the same time, he told the ethics commission that he was a resident of Allagash so that he could run for office. He was telling the bank that he was a resident or would become a resident of Augusta. So there's a conflict there. But he hasn't been investigated, to my knowledge, for what appears to be mortgage fraud.
John Bickley
All right, well, we'll watch with interest this weekend on how this official nomination process is handled. But as you said, it's already wrapped up at this point. Steve, thank you so much for coming on.
Steve Robinson
Thanks, guys.
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The FCC is poised to make a major ruling on whether or not the left leaning program the View qualifies as news programming bringing major broadcast implications.
John Bickley
Joining us now to discuss is David Bozell, president of the Media Research Center. David, thank you for coming on.
David Bozell
No problem. Appreciate it.
John Bickley
So we've been tracking this story, but not as closely as you guys. You guys have actually been involved in this FCC ruling. You provided some evidence about the views, bias or not. Can you, can we start there? What, how have you guys gotten involved in this case?
David Bozell
We gave the FCC 2000 plus pages of all the egregious bias up to and including reminding the FCC that the Views executive producers said they would not invite the President of the United States. You know, by way of contrast, they had President Biden on. I mean they had 130 liberal guests last year to two conservatives. One was Marjorie Taylor Greene who had a bone to pick with the President United States at the time. And the other one was Cheryl Hines, who was the wife of RFK Jr. So not really conservative politically, but just the wife of a cabinet member.
John Bickley
Right.
David Bozell
So when you have 130 guests, liberal guests, to two so called conservative guests, the disparity is right there for everyone to see. So we just want to remind the FCC of all these facts and figures.
John Bickley
Now there are reports that the, the FCC is gearing up to make a ruling about the View pretty soon. Yeah, we don't know exactly when that's coming down. What did you know, lead up to this investigation to begin with?
David Bozell
ABC owned by Disney, they are granted a taxpayer provided subsidy, basically called a bandwidth subsidy. And of course they pay for it, but the bandwidth is the taxpayers to own. So we provide that to them basically with no competition, kind of on a no bid contract basically in return, the VUE and all of ABC is supposed to air program that quote, acts in the public interest and that requires them to have some semblance of balance, particularly in its guests that they bring. But you just can't throw out invective, you know, like ICE wants to murder people or ice. You know, I, I, when I go into a neighborhood and I see American flags, I want to run away. That's not balanced at all. So they've, ABC is trying to petition the FCC and say that the View is, is a quote, bonafide news program. The bonafide news program designation would allow the View not to have to, you know, entertain a semblance of balance. It just quote, reporting what the news is of the day in their opinion. So like in my opinion, the Media Research center and anyone interested in balancing the airwaves, we kind of win either way, guys. If they're going to be designated as a bona fide news program, I'm going to enjoy watching the small army of lawyers stand behind these, these ladies and have to issue retraction after retraction after rejection. Because what they say is just be on the pale most days. If they're not, if they're not listed as a bona fide news program by the fcc, there's a strong possibility the ABC probably has to kick the View to a streaming platform.
John Bickley
Well, so major implications if they are stripped of this, they would have to be removed.
David Bozell
Yep, I would. I would suspect so.
John Bickley
And in terms of the power of the fcc, I mean, they have full authority to do this.
David Bozell
Can.
John Bickley
Will there be any, you know, legal moves made by abc?
Steve Robinson
If.
David Bozell
I'm sure they'll appeal to any court that they can find that the FCC doesn't have jurisdiction over this. Of course the FCC does. But again, the FCC is kind of just operating by the letter of the law. When Jimmy Kimmel was flagged for his insidious comments about Charlie Kirk and that MAGA was somehow responsible, the affiliates of abc, that's what they were responding to. They were saying, wait a minute, we can't air Jimmy Kimmel because they were convinced that he was not acting in the public interest. Thereby they would be in violation of a congressionally mandated statute. So this is all in a byproduct of ABC basically trying to air whatever it wants, whenever it wants and however it wants to say it. And the FCC is saying, look, look, we are congressionally bound to enforce this public interest statute on you, and you've got to play by some semblance of rules.
John Bickley
Well, a fascinating decision coming down very soon. Like you said, either way, it's gonna. It's gonna change things a lot.
David Bozell
Yeah.
John Bickley
The view in an ABC thing, I
David Bozell
call it the cackle, not the view. Sorry I had to throw that in there.
John Bickley
Thank you so much for joining us.
David Bozell
No problem, guys.
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Another story we're tracking. The new charges against the Tate brothers have been released. Culture reporter Megan Basham has the details.
Megan Basham
So Tristan and Andrew Tate are now facing a combined 59 charges involving seven different victims, so far, more extensive than was previously known. They have been arrested by u. S. Marshals in Miami at the request of British authorities, and they're facing extradition to the UK now, just to detail a few of those charges, if we turn first to Andrew Tate, who is facing 42 allegations that include 10 counts of rape, multiple accounts of human trafficking and assault, controlling prostitution for financial gain, and 19 offenses involving indecent images of a child and extreme pornography. If we turn to Tristan Tate, he is facing 17 charges, including five counts of rape, sexual assault, human trafficking, and bodily harm. Now, their attorney is framing this as a political prosecution. He says his clients deny any wrongdoing and this is simply because of their political views. And certainly the Tates have tried to lean into that, doing a lot of interviews with dissident right wing podcast influencers and people like that, But I don't think that's going to be effective, even as they are trying to hint that maybe the State Department won't cooperate with the UK Request for extradition. I think it's very unlikely that Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, is going to want to have anything to do with the Tates or to provide them any sort of shield against charges like this, particularly because we are talking about pornography charges and involving children.
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Date: July 22, 2026
Hosts: John Bickley & Georgia Howe
Notable guests: Ben Domenech, Steve Robinson, David Bozell, Megan Basham
This episode of Morning Wire tackles a range of hot-button issues dominating politics, media, and culture. The main themes include President Trump's bold foreign policy moves and trade war tactics, Democratic Party upheaval in Maine, a pivotal FCC ruling that could spell the end for ABC’s "The View" on broadcast TV, and explosive criminal charges against the Tate brothers.
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[10:07–14:51]
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| Segment | Time | |-------------------------------------------|-----------| | Trump’s Tariffs & Foreign Policy | 02:25–07:57| | Maine Senate Nomination Turmoil | 10:07–14:51| | The View & FCC Ruling | 14:53–19:39| | Tate Brothers’ Charges | 19:42–21:14|
The episode is direct and hard-hitting, reflecting both the Daily Wire’s critical stance toward establishment media and partisan politics. Conversation features pointed critiques, insider perspectives, and dry humor, especially when guests like David Bozell are given the floor.
This episode delivers comprehensive analysis of high-stakes news: the fate of a major TV talk show, a chaotic Senate race, presidential power plays, and the legal perils of notorious internet figures. For listeners looking for a mix of investigative breakdown, media criticism, and sharp commentary, this episode distills the essential facts and the broader currents shaping America’s political and cultural landscape.