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John Bickley
Hours after a quote, productive call with Putin, President Trump hosts Zelensky in hopes of hammering out a war ending deal.
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Cabot Phillips
This was the most difficult one, but we're going to get it done.
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John Bickley
I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Monday, December 29th. This is Morning Wire.
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Tim Pierce
A new investigative report on massive fraud in Minnesota daycares prompts a congressional probe and and demands for Governor Walz to resign.
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There's a little nickname for him going around Minnesota. He's the fraud father.
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Cabot Phillips
And that's exactly what it is.
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John Bickley
And the Trump administration cracks down on criminal illegals and terror threats. As major cities ramp up security for New Year's Eve celebrations.
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Cabot Phillips
That's what we want.
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Tim Pierce
Thanks for waking up with MORNING Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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Tim Pierce
President Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin and hosted Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, hoping to finalize a peace deal to end the war.
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John Bickley
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here with the highlights of this high stakes. Sit down. Hey, Cabot.
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Cabot Phillips
Hey, John.
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Kevin
I know you missed me. Merry Christmas.
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John Bickley
I don't know how I've made it through, Kevin. So let's start with an overview of where things stand coming into this meeting. What do we need to know coming into this?
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Kevin
So quick refresher. Last month, after weeks of negotiating, the US came to Ukraine with the outlines of a 28 point peace plan. That draft included an immediate ceasefire, but also major concessions from Ukraine. Putin understandably expressed openness to that agreement, saying it could pave the way for peace. But Zelenskyy and the EU were appalled. Over the last month, they have really pushed the White House to eliminate a number of those original concessions and ultimately have whittled the draft down to a 20 point plan, which still leaves the door open for the ceding of some Ukrainian territory, but offers a lot stronger security guarantees from the West. Ahead of the sit down, Zelenskyy said the deal is, quote, 90% ready, but did make clear that he needs support from the US to give him leverage with Putin.
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John Bickley
Right, this brings us to Putin. Where is he in all of this?
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Kevin
Well, he sent a message of his own in the hours before the meeting, hammering Kiev with one of the largest airstrikes from Russia in months that killed four, wounded dozens of others and knocked out power to a third of the city. And in his effort to try and get the countries talking again, Trump did hold an impromptu phone call with Putin on Sunday right before sitting down with Zelensky. He described the call as, quote, good and very productive. Russian officials say the two men did agree that a long term peace deal is preferred to a temporary ceasefire while a longer deal is ironed out. Putin also reportedly made clear once again that he won't leave Ukraine empty handed, saying he would only sign on to an agreement that includes Ukrainian territories in the Donbass region. Trump has repeatedly expressed anger with Putin in the past, essentially calling him two faced when it came to negotiations, but on Sunday had this to say when asked if he thought that Putin was serious about peace.
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Cabot Phillips
I think he is. I think they both are.
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Kevin
Now remember, Zelensky has vowed to never give up land to Russia, but it did offer a new compromise, the idea of turning some Ukrainian land in the east into a demilitarized zone. As an apparent show of good faith to Trump's, Linsky also expressed a new willingness to hold nationwide elections. That's something the White House has long called for. And much of Sunday's meeting was also spent discussing Ukraine's post war rebuilding efforts. The deal currently on the table would include hundreds of billions of dollars, almost a trillion dollars in U.S. investments there, including new rare earth mineral partnerships. And it is worth noting, while Trump at times expressed optimism on Sunday saying a peace deal is in the, quote, final stages, he was also very open about the fact that it's all taking much longer than he imagined. At one point he told the press that he Initially thought ending the war would be no harder than peace deals he struck with other countries. And now, instead of promising to end the war imminently, as he's done repeatedly in the past, Trump had this to say when asked if he would give the two sides a deadline.
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Cabot Phillips
I don't have deadlines. You know what my deadline is? Getting the war.
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Kevin
Trump later said the war would either end or, quote, go on for a long time. So we might be in the final stages of negotiations, but there's no way of knowing just how long this could all drag out.
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John Bickley
All right, now, this meeting comes just days after President Trump waded into another conflict abroad, this one in Nigeria. What did we see there?
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Cameron Arcan
Right.
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Kevin
For years now, Islamic State terrorists have been operating with impunity throughout Africa, especially in Nigeria, slaughtering thousands of innocent Christians in the process and drawing outrage from the White House as those attacks escalated. Last month, President Trump ordered the Pentagon to launch surveillance flights over the country to identify potential ISIS targets there. And on Christmas Day, he followed through. More than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched from a navy ship in the region, striking two ISIS camps, killing, quote, multiple terrorists, according to the Pentagon. Writing on Truth Social, Trump said, quote, I have previously warned these terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay. And tonight there was. Merry Christmas to all, including the dead terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues. So a really vintage Trump statement there. Pentagon officials say the strikes were carried out in coordination with the Nigerian government. And according to Trump, this is just the start. He says there will, quote, be more to come.
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John Bickley
Well, another overseas situation to keep an eye on for sure. Kevin, thanks so much for reporting.
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Kevin
Absolutely.
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John Bickley
Of rampant fraud across dozens of Minnesota daycares have stirred controversy online and even attracted the attention of federal lawmakers and the FBI.
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Tim Pierce
Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about the reports of fraud that continue to come out of Minnesota. So, Tim, where are these latest revelations coming from?
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Nick Schreif Shirley
So this investigation into Minnesota daycares that's racked up tens of millions of views online was done by independent journalist Nick Schreif Shirley. His investigative video is over 40 minutes long. And from the time it was posted on the day after Christmas to Sunday, it had amassed well over 80 million views, not including the views it's gotten from being re aired on places such as Fox News and the mega virality is well earned. Shirley claims that he uncovered over $100 million in fraud being run through fraudulent Somali run businesses. To take just one example, Shirley and his co investigator David found a child care center that has received millions of taxpayer dollars. But nobody has seen the children allegedly cared for there. Here. Shirley and David talking to a man who lives near the center.
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Cabot Phillips
This year they got 1.9 million. Last year they got 1.5 million of your tax money for 99 children.
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Nick Schreif Shirley
We just want to know where are the kids?
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Cabot Phillips
Right. Where are the children? I don't see them. I've been here since 2017. I haven't seen anybody like that child.
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Kevin
And so you've never seen a child.
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Cabot Phillips
Here for eight years? Nope, not at all. And how does that make you feel.
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Cameron Arcan
Knowing that this place is receiving $1.9 million?
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Cabot Phillips
Disgusting. I mean, what the hell, they steal the money. That's a federal grant too. That's, you know, if they get caught for that's a federal offense. I know, I studied law.
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Nick Schreif Shirley
This has all led to more pressure on Governor Tim Walls. Many noted online that in 2023, Walls actually led a push to surge over $300 million in state funding to child care providers. And it's anyone's guess how much of that actually ended up lost as fraud. Elon Musk with his 230 millionx followers has already called for Walls to resign.
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Tim Pierce
Right. And well, and he's not the only one. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has also called for him to step down. And we're also seeing more attention on this from Washington. Correct?
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Nick Schreif Shirley
Yeah. This fraud is drawing a lot of eyeballs. Estimates are that something like $9 billion in federal welfare has been lost to fraud, specifically in Minnesota's Somali community. Here's GOP Senator Ron Johnson on Fox News on some of the actions he is taking.
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Cabot Phillips
We need to put all kinds of pressure on the state agencies to give us their records. I'm chairman of the permanent subcommittee investigations. This will be a primary focus of ours. We're already reaching out to Nick, Shirley and David and other people who can provide testimony for this. But we also need documents. So you know these agency heads who funnel these, the federal money to the state agencies. They have to demand that the state agencies are transparent. And unfortunately, particularly in Democrat controlled states, they're not. I've got subpoena power. I will use that subpoena power to obtain these records. Cuz we have to get to the bottom of this, understand, Somalia's just been in this country a few years. They're amateurs when it comes to fleecing the federal government. And let's face it, the federal government is probably the easiest consumer, the easiest payer to fleece, and states do it time and time again. So this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Nick Schreif Shirley
The FBI is on this as well. FBI Director Cash Patel said on Sunday that the FBI is aware of recent social media reports in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs. And the White House is bringing attention to the scandal, too, with posts over the weekend From Vice President J.D. vance and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez. D. Reamer More than that, several federal departments have already taken steps to investigate fraud in Minnesota and potentially cut off taxpayer money from the federal government.
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Tim Pierce
Well, the scale of this is absolutely staggering. Tim, thanks for reporting.
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Nick Schreif Shirley
Thanks for having me.
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Tim Pierce
While Americans took time to unwind over the last week and unplug from the news cycle as much as possible, the Trump administration remained very active. Along with its aggressive foreign policy and national security moves abroad, at home it continued its immigration and anti terror operations.
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John Bickley
Joining us now with the latest on that and more is Daily Wire political reporter Cameron Arcan. Morning, Cameron. Hope your Christmas was as blissful as mine.
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Nick Schreif Shirley
Thank you.
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John Bickley
So we wanted you to help catch us up on a few things. Let's start with reports about the Trump administration and some major cities working to prevent potential terror attacks ahead of New Year's Eve. What's the latest there?
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Cameron Arcan
Right. Our listeners will remember that we reported on the FBI thwarting a series of New Year's Eve terror attacks that a radical leftist group was planning to carry out. The group called itself the Turtle Island Liberation Front, and it posed a very serious threat. Members of the group had already begun testing pipe bombs and one of those indicted sent messages to other members saying things like, I identify as a terrorist and I'm a Hamas fan girl. Now at the same time, director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been ramping up her warning about the threat posed by terror actors, something that's really been heightened since the Bondi beach massacre in Australia and the attacks on US Service members in Syria. Now, here was Gabber during a speech in America Fest on this earlier this month.
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Cameron Arcan
In the wake of all of that, major cities around the world, including here in the US have altered and even canceled New Year's Eve celebrations due to security concerns.
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John Bickley
Right. What cities have we seen make changes because of this?
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Cameron Arcan
Well, Chicago is one. They've ramped up their security measures. State and local officials released a joint threat assessment last week warning that crowded celebrations such as the annual New Year's Eve fireworks at Navy Pier could be, quote, attractive targets for either domestic or foreign terrorists. Now, they plan to go ahead with these events, but it will be increasing security in the area and we'll be actively monitoring for potential attacks with drones or vehicles to ram crowds, they said. Now, New York has also been put on notice. An FBI threat assessment for the massive Times Square New Year's Eve celebration raised red flags. Now, the assessment noted that the city is symbolically a, quote, aspirational target for would be terrorists and warned specifically about vehicle ramming attacks. Now, officials say the largest concerns are about potential lone wolf actors as well as small organized groups. So expect to see even more security this year for that.
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John Bickley
Right now, related on some levels to this is the administration's continued efforts to crack down on criminal illegal immigrants. That includes those on terror watch lists or suspected violent gang members. What have we seen from the administration on immigration over the last few days?
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Cameron Arcan
Sure. So, yes, while most of us were taking it easy, I certainly was not. The agency continued to arrest people in the country illegally who are facing additional charges or convictions for other serious crimes. Now, the Daily Wire heard directly from the Department of Homeland Security. Assistant secretary Trisha McLaughlin had this, let's call it a holiday message about what the department was up to over the last week. She said, quote, while families across the country joined together for Christmas celebrations, ICE continued delivering the American people the greatest gift of all, getting criminals out of our neighborhoods and protecting our families. She went on to specify that on Christmas Eve and Christmas, the officers arrested, quote, gang members, murderers, drug traffickers and violent thugs. Now among those was a Mexican national who crossed the border illegally and was convicted for criminal homicide, third degree murder and criminal conspiracy to commit criminal homicide in Pennsylvania. Another, an individual from Cuba was convicted for homicide and drug trafficking. In Florida, a Somali national was also arrested. He was convicted in New York for a laundry list of crimes, including a DUI and possessing a stolen vehicle.
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John Bickley
All right. So clearly ICE not taking the holidays off like you said. Now our immigration reporter Jenny Terr has been documenting the assaults on ICE that have really ramped up over the course of the year. There's some new data on that, correct?
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Cameron Arcan
That's right. The center square recently reported that there were 238 assaults on ICE officers from January 21st of last year through November. The previous year there were just 19 in the same period. So that's a stunning 1,153% increase in assaults on ice.
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John Bickley
And despite all that, they've kept up their operations even over the holidays. Cameron, thanks so much for reporting.
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Cameron Arcan
Thank you.
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Tim Pierce
Thanks for waking up with us. And some programming notes for this week week. We're not going to be releasing evening wires, but we will release another regular episode on Tuesday and original content for the rest of the week. We'll be back tomorrow morning with the news. You need to know.
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