Morning Wire - Hunter Biden’s Conviction & Pelosi’s J6 Admission | 6.12.24

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

Hunter Biden gets convicted on all three felony gun charges, a new video shows Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi taking some responsibility for J6, and Apple joins the AI race. Get the facts first with Morning Wire. Balance of Nature: "Get 35% off Your Order + FREE Fiber & Spice Supplements. Use promo code WIRE at checkout: https://www.balanceofnature.com/" Birch Gold: Text "WIRE" to 989898 for your no-cost, no-obligation information kit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Monday afternoon, the rest on Tuesday morning, and they did not require a lunch break as they brought back three guilty decisions by late morning. There wasn't a lot of shock over the verdict. The evidence was very compelling. One juror told Fox News that nobody in the room believed the defense team's story that Hunter Biden was at 7-Eleven at 5 in the morning to buy donuts, not to buy drugs, especially after Hunter's own book described this 7-Eleven as a regular haunt for crack dealers. Yeah. Town halls, Mia Caffaul, spent much of the trial in the courthouse and talked about the moments she thought had the biggest impact. The most compelling witness for the prosecution was Zoe Keston, Hunter Biden's ex-girlfriend. They went on this cross-country spending spree, buying crack, smoking crack.

The jurors heard about Hunter learning to cook crack at the Chateau, Murman, and all of these sorted details of their exploits and sex capades. the defense was trying to tug at their heartstrings, that this was a man in the throes of addiction. When you see that he was not living a destitute life, he was living a life of luxury, I don't think that resonated with the jurors. Joe Biden changed his plans in order to return to Wilmington on Tuesday after the verdict was read. What was the reaction from him and the White House? Within minutes, Biden released a statement saying he loved his son and was proud of him that many families suffer with addiction. And also that he respects the result of the legal system, with one caveat, which was that Hunter could appeal. The president gave scheduled remarks Tuesday afternoon, of all places, an event on gun safety.

These included specific remarks about increasing penalties for people who dangerously mishandle guns or obtain them illegally as here. They're weapons of war. And by the way, it's time we establish universal background checks. and require the safe storage of firearms. We show families responsible if they don't provide those locks on those guns. He did not mention Hunter's case. In addition, press secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre abruptly canceled her scheduled press conference, and Biden did change his plans to return to Delaware and be with his family who had spent

much the last two weeks in court another detail noticed up close by Calfel. And what reaction did we see more? broadly across the political spectrum, and how might this impact the politics of this election? Special counsel, David Weiss stressed that this conviction was a result not of Hunter's addiction, but rather of his illegal choices while in the throes of addiction. Democrats are going to want to frame this as evidence that Merrick Garland's Department of Justice shoot straight and is unbiased, especially in defense of their prosecutions of Donald Trump. Also, Hunter is not done. He's facing a tax evasion, federal,

prosecution in California in September. Trump supporters will argue that these cases are very different and that, in fact, the most serious charges against Hunter Biden were allowed to lapse. And that just a year ago, he was minutes from a sweetheart plea deal that would have put all of this behind him. This trial would not have taken place. Had that widely ridiculed deal been allowed to slip through. Right. There's still very much an argument to be made here that Hunter was the beneficiary of some special treatment by his dad's Department of Justice. Yeah. Finally, what have we heard so far from Donald Trump about the Hunter verdict?

There was a statement from Trump campaign press secretary Caroline Levitt saying that the trial was only a distraction from the, quote, Biden family criminal enterprise, end quote. This echoes language that we've heard from House Republicans, including some Trump will meet with this week, about how they are continuing to investigate potential influence peddling and money laundering allegations against Joe Biden himself. We now have these dueling convictions, John, between the Trump and Biden camps, and it is sure to set up one of the most anticipated subjects and dynamics of the first presidential debate, which somehow is now just a bit over two weeks away. Yeah, that debate's coming up fast. Historically so, in fact. Yeah.

Dave, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Newly uncovered video footage shows former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accepting partial blame for the January 6th Capitol breach. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about this new J6 footage. Hey Tim. So what do we know about this tape? So in total, the new footage is about 45 minutes long, and it was filmed by Pelosi's daughter, a filmmaker who made a documentary about Pelosi for HBO. Republicans got the video from the streaming service. It caught the immediate reactions of congressional leaders to the chaos that day. One of those reactions being Pelosi taking responsibility for an unprepared Capitol Police Force.

Here's the clip. We have responsibility, Terry. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous. You're going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they've already breached the inaugural stuff. Should we call the Capitol Police? I mean, the National Guard? Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?

They thought that they had sufficient resources. Not a question of how they have been, they don't know. This is a tough look for Pelosi, who has spent years denying Republican questions about Capitol Hill security. Right, and it hits on a major accusation that's been leveled in the past against her about failing to take action to secure the Capitol. What has the reaction to the video been so far? Well, Pelosi went on MSNBC on Monday after this clip was released and accused Republicans of attempting to rewrite history with the footage. Here's some of that. The fact is that the president of the United States, the former president and his toadies, do not want to face the facts.

They're trying to do revisionist history on January 6th. But we cannot let us be dragged into their, again, false impression of what happened that day. They know what happened that day. Now, Republicans want to know how this video, again, taken by Pelosi's own daughter, was never aired by the the Democrat-led House Select Committee on January 6th after it spent two years and millions of taxpayer dollars on its investigation. Here's Congressman Barry Loudermilk, who has led the GOP audit of Pelosi's January 6th committee on Real America's voice on a tape. Yes, she should take responsibility, but it doesn't answer the questions that we've been after. Why were they caught flat-footed?

What was the failure? And why did not her select committee investigate that failure? turned into simply a committee to tie Trump into all these failures instead of looking at the failures within the Capitol. Now, regarding J6, we're also expecting a Supreme Court ruling soon that could have a big impact on the cases of those convicted of crimes related to the riot. What can you tell us about the case the court is reviewing? This case, Fisher v. United States, involves three defendants who have been charged with multiple crimes related to January 6. But this challenge focuses on one in particular, account of obstruction of an official proceeding. The defendants argue that the legal statute doesn't prohibit their alleged conduct, so it doesn't apply. A district

court agreed with them before the D.C. Circuit reversed that decision. We should have the final ruling in the case from the Supreme Court later this month. If the justices side with the defendants, the decision would impact many cases associated with January 6, most prominently that of Special Counsel Jack Smith's case against Trump. And we'll see what the court decides a major decision there. Tim, thanks for reporting. Good to be on. Apple announced this week an ambitious move to bring AI software to billions of their devices

by the end of this year. The announcement sparked immediate controversy. Here to discuss the groundbreaking development as Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips. Cabot, it feels like this was only a matter of time for Apple. What did we learn this week? Yeah, it's interesting. To this point, Apple has sort of been on the sidelines when it comes to AI development. While competitors like Google and Microsoft spent billions in recent years developing their own AI platforms,

Apple had really yet to publicly join that arms race. But that changed in a big way this week with the company announcing the rollout of Apple Intelligence, which they say will bring personalized AI to their more than 2.2 billion devices worldwide. But it's worth noting, instead of developing their own programs from scratch, Apple is partnering with OpenAI to integrate the now ubiquitous chat GPT with iPhones and other devices. As Apple CEO Tim Cook put it, the AI will analyze every user's personal data and habits to offer personalized AI. It has to understand you and be grounded in your personal context, like your routine, your relationships, your communications, and more. All right, so what exactly will this look like?

Well, according to Apple, the AI software will be embedded in virtually every single function of your iPhone, combing through your conversations, social media activity, Google searches, et cetera, to optimize your daily life. That means suggesting responses to text and emails, analyzing your daily commute, work routine, exercise schedule. The list goes on. It'll also revolutionize the Siri feature, offering users the ability to not just ask questions verbally, but type queries directly into their iPhone, which will then be answered by chat GPT. For more, I spoke with Chris Alexander, the chief analytics officer at Pioneer Group and co-founder of Lever AI. There can be a lot of utility because it may notice, you're never productive at this time of day. Maybe this is when you should take lunch. Or, you know, you make more errors after you've been sitting for X amount of time. You know, it's going to be able to figure those kinds of things out in time and help optimize virtually every aspect of your life. Now, some folks might be uneasy about AI software being downloaded onto their personal.

devices. To that point, Apple and other tech companies have actually been fairly open about the fact that this is the future. And essentially, it's coming whether you like it or not. Yeah, there are plenty of folks who've raised concerns about artificial intelligence being integrated into virtually all of our devices. Talk to us about that aspect. So the big concern for many people is how it could influence everything from culture and language. It's politics. We've talked a good bit on the show about the apparent left-wing bias present in most AI software, including chat GPT, and now that program is going to make its way onto the devices of a billion plus people, answering questions for them, directing them to certain news outlets or apps,

even helping them decide which restaurants they eat at. Here's Alexander speaking to those concerns. You have what's called a black box, and those are the algorithms and the rules by which the artificial intelligence operates. And those are, you know, an industrial secret. They don't publish those. That is literally the secret sauce. What's in there, you know, what will happen with your Apple,

device is whatever a Silicon Valley software engineer thinks the world is supposed to be, you're going to see that. Now, there are obviously privacy concerns here, which Apple did try to get ahead of, stressing that you can opt out of the features and also attempting to assure users that most of the AI processing would take place on their specific device and not be sent out into the cloud. But there are still, again, plenty of folks unnerved by the move. Chief among them is Elon Musk, who called it a, quote, security.

violation and claimed it's, quote, patently absurd that Apple is not smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that Open AI will protect your security and privacy. He even went so far as vowing to ban Apple devices from its companies for employees and even visitors, saying visitors with an iPhone will have to hand over their device for storage in a Faraday cage. That's a box that essentially blocks wireless signals. So a monumental week for AI, but not everyone is on board. A lot of trepidation about AI's role going.

forward. Cabot, thanks for reporting anytime. Thanks for waking up with us. We'll be back this afternoon with more of the news you need to know. As of 2024, the interest we pay on the national debt has surpassed every budget item except Social Security. That's why concern savers are turning to gold. For over 20 years, Birchgold has helped thousands to protect their savings by converting an IRA or 401k into an IRA in physical gold. They can help you too. Text wire to 9898989.989 to talk to one of Birchgold's experts and claim your free info kit on gold. That's wired to 989898 today.