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President Trump addresses the nation in a primetime speech on Operation Epic Fury.
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President Trump
In these past four weeks, our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield. Victories like few people have ever seen before.
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Georgia Howe
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Thursday, April 2nd, and this is MORNING Wire.
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Bev Turner
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President Trump
We have many votes to go through, guys.
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John Bickley
The European Union swerves right, tearing a page from Trump's immigration playbook.
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Georgia Howe
And the Daily Wire wins a landmark free speech case in a lawsuit against the State Department.
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Ben Shapiro
Basic facts were very often being censored as insensitive or as harmful.
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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
The speech comes as political pressure has been mounting for a swift end to the conflict. Joining us now with more is Daily Wire D.C. bureau Chief Tim Rice. Tim, thanks for coming on.
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Tim Rice
Thanks for having me, John.
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John Bickley
So the nation tuning in last night for this big address from Trump, a lot at stake, of course. What did we hear from the president?
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Tim Rice
Yeah, well, the top line is that there were no real surprises. And I say that for two reasons. The first is that, frankly, the president didn't give us any new information about Operation Epic Fury. But the second is that the White House made a big point of prepping the nation for what we were going to hear. As our own Mary Margaret Olihan reported ahead of the speech, officials laid out the goals for the president's speech, which included highlighting the success of the US Military in achieving all of its stated goals prior to the operation and making clear to Americans that the operation has a limited timetable and that, as the president said, there's just two or three weeks left. So Trump did all that. He hit all of those marks, although he did make sure to start by celebrating the historic NASA launch that we saw earlier yesterday.
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President Trump
It will be traveling further than any manned rocket has ever flown and will very substantially pass the moon, go around it and come back home from a distance that has never been done before. It's amazing. They are on the way, and God bless them. These are brave people.
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Tim Rice
When it came to the military goals, Trump said, we've already accomplished most of them. Here he is rattling off some of these achievements tonight.
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President Trump
Iran's navy is gone. Their air force is in ruins. Their leaders, most of them terrorists, regime they led are now dead. Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces. Very few of them left.
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Tim Rice
Now, Trump notably rejected the idea that one of the original goals of this mission was to achieve regime change in Iran. But he did note that regime change has kind of happened along the way unintentionally.
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President Trump
But regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders. Death. They're all dead. The new group is less radical and much more reasonable.
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Tim Rice
And the biggest goal the president stressed is making sure that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Here's the president addressing that point and stating his rationale for finally taking down the Iranian regime.
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President Trump
In June, I ordered a strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer. The regime then sought to rebuild their nuclear program at a totally different location, making clear they had no intention of abandoning their pursuit of nuclear weapons. For years, everyone has said that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. But in the end, those are just words if you're not willing to take action when the time comes.
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Tim Rice
Trump stressed that we've accomplished all of this in just 32 days. What he repeatedly said was a remarkably quick window of time. This was clearly him asking the American people to be a little bit patient for the next couple of weeks as we wrap things up over in Iran. Despite the good news on the energy front, though, he showed that he was all too aware that Americans are very concerned about spiking gas prices.
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President Trump
Because of our Drill A Baby Drill program, America has plenty of gas. Under my leadership, we are number one producer of oil and gas on the planet. Without even discussing the millions of barrels that we're getting from Venezuela. Because of the Trump administration's policies, we produced more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.
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Tim Rice
He also took a moment to address the human cost and honor the fallen American heroes killed thus far in Operation Epic Fury.
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President Trump
We think especially of the 13American warriors who have laid down their lives in this fight to prevent our children from ever having to face a nuclear Iran. We salute them and now we must honor them by completing the mission for which they gave their lives. And every single one of the people, their loved ones said, please, sir, please finish the job, every one of them. And we are going to finish the job.
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Tim Rice
So all in all, last night we saw the President seeking to consolidate his messaging on Iran to put a finer edge on it for what he suggested he hoped would be the final stages of this campaign. We'll now see if that effort helps him win back support in what we're being told is the final couple of weeks.
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John Bickley
Here already a lot of buzz about his speech last night. We'll see where the conversation leads today. Lots of developments expected on the Iran front. Tim, thanks so much for reporting.
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Tim Rice
Thanks for having me.
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Georgia Howe
AI In a dramatic shift to the right, the European Union is cracking down on migration policies.
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John Bickley
Joining us to discuss is GB News host Bev Turner. Bev, great to have you back on. So the EU is adopting policies from the Trump administration that the EU had previously criticized. What's going on here?
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Bev Turner
As you know, the issue of illegal migration in Europe has reached a kind of boiling point. It has been partly political, partly partly ethical, moral, partly human rights issues, which means that subsequent EU leaders have rejected the idea of processing illegal migrants offshore. But we've hit that wall now, John, and it was voted in the EU389 to 206 votes. So it got through pretty easily that they will now be taking illegal migrants from France, Spain, Italy, Germany, not yet the UK of course, and they'll be processing them offshore. And it's interesting that you make the comparison with President Trump because I think there has been a sense of inspiration that you've looked across. We are here in the eu. I'm actually at home in London today. I normally talk to you from D.C. but here in Europe, we're looking across at America now and deciding that we can't wait any longer. There are hundreds of thousands, millions, some would say every year. The numbers are extremely inexact. And it's not just people coming here, it's then when they are told to leave, only about 1 in 5 actually leaves. So that's what's given rise to this decision. It is a change of direction for the EU because European voters have been starting to make their feelings hurt.
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John Bickley
Really does feel like a tipping point here. Now some leaders say they want to avoid what happened during The Syrian Civil War in 2015. Can you explain that point to us?
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Bev Turner
There's about a million people came over to the EU during that period of time and it was a mass influx. And some leaders from Europe, namely Angela Merkel in Germany, were incredibly welcoming and said, our doors are open now in the UK we spend about five million pounds a day. That's about probably six and a half million dollars a day of taxpayers money, accepting illegal migrants in taking them to hotels, allowing them to sit there in genuinely sometimes quite nice hotels, because we have such a huge processing backlog that could be sat on that system for one, maybe two years now. They're not allowed to work in that period of time, so they're given benefits. And in the UK this year, John, we will take, I think it's a 331 billion pounds in tax and we will pay 333 billion in welfare payments alone in the UK. And that is not sustainable for a country. If you said that to President Trump, you're going to give more away in benefits than you'll take in income tax. He'd take a massive pair through the whole financial system, he'd rip it up and he'd start again. And it might just be that what we're seeing in the European EU countries at the moment is a potentially head in hands moment. We've got to do something. We're going to have to process people in African countries, like you said, with
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John Bickley
something that is unsustainable. Eventually you do ultimately reach the end point where it has to change. How are citizens reacting to these new policies from the eu?
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Bev Turner
Welcoming them, genuinely welcoming them. And that's been that distinction, that gap actually between the ruling elites across Europe and the normal man and woman on the street who don't recognize their high streets. Or for instance, here in London, we have Park Road, one of the most expensive areas of London. It has the Lamborghini showroom and the Ferrari showrooms. And in the middle of a patch of land between the two sides of the road is a tented community, a camp, a homeless camp of mainly illegal migrants who are there. So when people are starting to see it, Paris has the same sort of problem. Milan, even Manchester, where I'm from, in the north of England, we have a similar source of problem now. And councils are getting pressure from residents. Voters across Europe are starting to lean towards the political right, voting in people like Georgia Maloney, great friend of President Trump. And so there are politicians now who are saying we have to respond to what the voters want. And this is going to be part of that project, we hope.
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John Bickley
It's going to be fascinating to see how this actually plays out when they enact these policies. Bev Turner, thank you so much for joining us.
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Bev Turner
Pleasure.
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Georgia Howe
The State Department has settled a lawsuit brought by the Daily Wire over government sponsored blacklisting of conservative media during the Biden administration. Daily Wire editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro discusses the case in a new special on the settlement.
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Ben Shapiro
In 2016, the Obama administration created something called the Global Engagement center, which was designed to supposedly fight foreign disinformation or extremism online. That was then used by the deep state over at the State Department in order to basically target, in many cases, conservative outlets, including the Daily Wire. The State Department ended up tossing hundreds of thousands of dollars at a variety of entities whose sole job, it seems, was to label and then discriminate against conservative outlets and recommend them as bad brands or untrustworthy brands.
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John Bickley
Joining us now with the details is Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak. Luke, great to have you back on.
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Luke Rosiak
Thanks for having me.
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John Bickley
So this is a significant victory for free speech here. In fact, I wanted to start by noting that the Daily Wire was not seeking money. This lawsuit was for injunctive relief to preserve the First Amendment. So that said, first tell us about this settlement.
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Tim Rice
Yeah.
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Luke Rosiak
So the State Department's agreement not to suppress domestic media comes after the Daily Wire, joined by the Federalist in the state of Texas, sued the Biden administration State department back in 2023. The global engagement center was originally set up to combat ISIS and Al Qaeda, but it was funding and promoting groups that were obsessed with labeling US Media outlets as untrustworthy. So while the GEC was not supposed to operate domestically, it ended up very much targeting US Media outlets. In fact, it even had an office in Silicon Valley. It was funding groups like the Global Disinformation Index, which said that news outlets like the Daily Wire, the Federalist, Reason magazine, and the New York Post were untrustworthy, which severely undercut their ability to sell mainstream advertisements.
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John Bickley
So in other words, the government was funding these fact checking entities that assign ratings on media outlets?
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Luke Rosiak
Yeah, I mean, they would rate entire news outlets and those ratings were then sold to companies that buy. Advertising is basically a blacklist of who not to do business with. And the idea was that a product was advertised on a news outlet that was toxic. It would be toxic to the product being sold. But a lot of these media outlets that were supposedly so objectionable were actually actually just center right media outlets that were questioning the government's preferred narrative on things Like Covid vaccines or election security.
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John Bickley
Right. Something I can personally attest to as someone who had to deal with all these fact checks for years.
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Luke Rosiak
Yeah. I mean, this even went on during the first Trump administration. A lot of government employees back then really just seemed to operate as if Trump wasn't president at all. That's different now. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has permanently shut down this global engagement center. But the settlement with the Daily Wire is a big deal because it's going to be binding on future administrations because we're a party to a signed agreement. We'd be able to take it to a federal judge in Texas if a future administration violates the agreement. By working with groups that suppress domestic media in the future, the State Department will actually have to submit annual reports to us showing compliance through the year 2036. And they're going to have to also train their employees on First Amendment rights and protections. This is called a consent decree. And I've written about other cases where these agreements have been used by left wing groups to essentially bind Republican administrations on important issues.
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John Bickley
Stepping back, it really is remarkable that the US Government would be involved in determining the trustworthiness of American media outlets. It seems like a textbook First Amendment violation here.
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Luke Rosiak
Yeah, it's crazy what happened. And the lawsuit argued just that, that the government was propping up these outside groups as proxies. To do that would clearly be impermissible for the government. Now, we were represented in this lawsuit on a pro bono basis by the New Civil Liberties alliance, which is fresh off another big First Amendment win in a case called Missouri vs Biden, which prevented the Centers for Disease Control from bullying social media companies to remove speech.
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John Bickley
And we should note that this is the second time in a row that the Daily Wire has prevailed against the federal government in a big case like this.
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Luke Rosiak
Yeah, of course, we sued the Biden administration when it tried to make companies force employees to get Covid vaccines.
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John Bickley
Another big win indeed. Luke, thanks so much for reporting.
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Luke Rosiak
Thanks for having me.
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Georgia Howe
Thanks for waking up with us. And if you're listening to the show now, you can watch for free on Daily Wire. Plus, we'll be back later this evening with more news you need to know.
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