Morning Wire - Evening Wire: LA Riot Fallout & US-China Trade Talks | 6.9.25

Episode Date: June 9, 2025

Evening Wire: Los Angeles picks up the pieces after a weekend of violent riots, Russia launches a massive retaliation attack on Ukraine, and the Senate re-works Trump’s big, beautiful bill. Get the facts first on Evening Wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Los Angeles reels after a weekend of violent riots. Russia launches a massive attack on Ukraine and the Senate reworks Trump's big, beautiful bill. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Monday, June 9th, and this is Evening Wire. After a weekend of destructive anti-ice protests in L.A. County, President Trump sent in the National Guard and warned that hundreds of Marines stand ready to assist if needed. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the latest. federal officials are calling out state leaders. This morning, DHS urged California governor Gavin Newsom

to call off their rioting mob, accusing him of siding with foreign criminals. The statement follows numerous confrontations between anti-ice protesters and law enforcement centered in the city of Paramount. Newsom, for his part, is pushing back against the criticism, going so far as the dare borders our Tom Homan to arrest him. He's a tough guy. Why doesn't he do that? He knows where to find me. So Tom arrest me. Let's go. Newsom claims Trump overstepped by deploying the National Guard during anti-ice riots. The governor says local law enforcement didn't need help. Newsom accused Trump of manufacturing chaos and vowed he won't stop standing up for California.

The governor is now in Los Angeles overseeing the response and urging calm. Hulman clarified that there is no active discussion about arresting the governor. I said, well, no one's about the law. If they cross the line, committed a crime, absolutely they can. So it was no discussion about resting in Newsom. And so, you know, what he's done, he's failed that state. He waited two days of that city burning and people getting hurt. Officials being assaulted before he made any declaration of an unlawful assembly.

Today, the LAPD is cleaning up at their headquarters after protesters targeted the building last night. The PD deployed tear gas downtown as demonstrators through objects and lit fires near the West First Street building. Police also declared an unlawful assembly, warning that agitators had splintered across the city. The chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Jim McDonald, says rioters were taking deadly action against his officers. We had individuals out there shooting commercial-grade fireworks at our officers. That can kill you. We are overwhelmed as far as the number of people out there engaged in this type of activity, and the type of things that they're doing, they'll take backpacks,

and the backpack will have a cinder block in it. They have a hammer, and they'll break up the cinder block and use that, pass it around to throw it off. to throw at cars and throw at other people. Meanwhile in San Francisco, 60 people were arrested overnight as a solidarity protest spiraled out of control. Officers in riot gear faced glass bottles, barricades, and anti-police chants as they clashed with rioters near the Transamerica building. Two officers were injured and public transit was disrupted. What began as a, quote, peaceful rally quickly descended into a chaotic brawl in the city's financial district.

Trump's travel ban blocking citizens from 12 countries from entering the U.S. takes effect today. President Trump issued the ban last week in response to the terror attack committed by an Egyptian national in Boulder, Colorado. Today I am signing a new executive order placing travel restrictions on countries including Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya, and numerous others. The strength of the restrictions we're applying depends on the severity of the three. threat posed. The list is subject to revision based on whether material improvements are made, and likewise, new countries can be added as threats emerge around the world. Citizens of those countries who have already been issued U.S. visas will be unaffected by the ban and are still permitted to travel to the U.S.

Russia launched its biggest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the war with almost 500 individual strikes. The Ukrainian Air Force reported 479 Shaheed drones and 20 missiles were sent into their airspace overnight by Russia. Ukraine says it shot down the bulk of the onslaught, but an airbase was hit and appears to have been the primary target. The strike was a direct response to Operation Spiders Web, a covert Ukrainian mission that wiped out a significant portion of Russia's strategic bombers on June 1st. Top U.S. and Chinese officials are meeting in London in an attempt to hash out trade tensions. Daily Wire senior editor, Cabot Phillips, has more. The talks come as rare earth shortages, threatened global supply chains, and tariffs remain in legal limbo.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besson and Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnik are leading the American delegation. President Trump has threatened to label China a currency manipulator, while Beijing pushes for eased export controls. In recent weeks, Chinese exports to the U.S. have taken a dive, plunging 35 percent in May, the sharpest drop since COVID. Meanwhile, Chinese exports surged to Southeast Asia and Europe, raising concerns stateside of tariff dodging. U.S. imports to China also fell shrinking the bilateral trade surplus. Israeli defense forces have intercepted a freedom flotilla crewed by Greta Thunberg and other pro-Palestinian activists on route to the Gaza Strip. The activist said she was going to break the blockade around the war-torn territory and bring

humanitarian supplies, though the ship contained less than a truckload. In a pre-recorded statement Thunberg claimed to have been kidnapped by the IDF and urged supporters to advocate for her release. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces or forces that support Israel. I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible. The Israeli foreign ministry gave their own statement writing on social media, quote, all the passengers of the selfie yacht are safe and unharmed. They were provided with sandwiches and water. The show is over. Trump's spending bill is heading to the Senate,

where Republicans plan some adjustments to key provisions. Daily Wire Deputy Managing editor Tim Rice has the details. The big, beautiful bill narrowly passed the House last month, carried by a single vote, and has divided the Republican caucus in both chambers. Some fiscal hawks want to reduce or even eliminate the state and local tax or salt deductions, which have fewer supporters in the Senate. Medicaid reform, including additional work requirements, is also a pivotal issue. Other regulatory policies and line items not directly related to the budget, including a controversial 10-year ban on state regulation of AI, may be heavily modified or even omitted from the Senate version of the bill due to the upper chamber's budget rules.

And a runaway pet zebra was captured in Tennessee on Sunday. Ed the zebra was located grazing in a pasture outside Christiana in central Tennessee after evading authorities for more than a week. His escapades went viral on social media and he turned into a meme. Ed was airlifted to a nearby animal trailer via police helicopter. Those are today's drive-home updates. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories,

including the chaotic riots in California, Trump and Musk's ongoing feud, and Simone Biles lashing out at Riley Gaines. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.