"No Trust, No Greatness" - Trump Addresses the Nation | 7.17.26
00:00President Trump addresses the nation in a rare primetime speech about threats to our elections.Tonight, I'm announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical intelligence,revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.I'm Daily Wire, Executive Editor John Bickley, with Georgia Howe.It's Friday, July 17th. This is Morningwire.War Secretary Hegset announces a new testosterone policy for the military.I'm authorizing a new screening program for testosterone deficiency for our service members,ensuring you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best.
00:51We talked to an expert about the merits of the new approach.And the Trump administration moves forward with major reforms of Smithsonian museums after a report finds anti-American bias.They have taken on the mission of being ideological transformers of the country.They view American history not as a triumph, but as a tragedy.Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire.Stay tuned.We have the news you need to know.July is National Grilling Month.
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02:25As he signaled early in the week, the president focused most of that speech on the issue of election integrity.joining us now to discuss is Cabot Phillips host of Wiredon. Thanks for coming on. So a lot of, you know, hype heading into this speech from the White House. What did we hear from the president last night? Well, we were told that he would focus on threats to our elections, particularly from China, and that is exactly what we got. The president started off by comparing the state of the nation under his leadership versus the disaster that Joe Biden handed him, including out of control, legal immigration, radical gender ideology, and crime. He then touted the economic turnaround that he said, he said, he said, hehe says has taken place since his inauguration. But what he came to talk about and what he really broughtthe receipts for was our elections, specifically a campaign by China to undermine him in 2020.The speech focused on what he called five main areas of concern, which he made clear from thebeginning, were not intended to weaken confidence in our elections, but ultimately to strengthen it.First, and perhaps most shocking, he announced for the first time that the U.S. intelligence communityhad identified a sweeping election interference plot by the Chinese Communist Party,
03:34which he says ultimately culminated in the wide-scale hacking of U.S. voter rolls.During the 2020 election cycle, the People's Republic of China carried out what is believedto be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China's illicit acquisitionof 220 million U.S. voter files.that information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and othersensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities,which is exactly what was happening.The president announced that all of the documents related to this plot would be posted on
04:18whitehouse.gov, though it's worth noting, folks will notice many are heavily redacted.From there, he outlined what the CIA believed to be the goals of this Chinese interference.In mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party's policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elementsthat were opposed to the U.S. president in an effort to reduce the U.S. president's votesand make him resign or prevent his re-election.The president then read direct quotes from what he said were CIA documentsoutlining other remarkable steps that were allegedly taken by the Chineseto weaken Trump's standing ahead of the 2020 election.
04:56The strategy included efforts to use Chinese contacts with big U.S. companies to influence U.S. business leaders to turn against the president of the United States of America.The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him as many as they could, and they didn't care what they said.the Chinese government wanted U.S. President to lose the next election.And then in really just a bombshell revelation, he said that the intelligence communityintentionally kept that information of Chinese meddling from him and from Congress.Yeah, those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden.They did not disclose to me as president or to anyone else and to the best of our knowledge.they did not inform Congress.
05:58He went on to read direct quotes from CIA and FBI officialsoutlining their alleged efforts to keep this plot from him,even going as far as editing his daily intelligence briefing,which, as folks know, is meant to keep him abreast of exactly this sort of plot.One email among intelligence analysts admitted that they had, quote,deliberately massaged the presidential daily briefingto withhold information regarding Chinese activities,related to the election.
06:26Another official inside the FBIwrote that she was running, quote,a shadow government, unquote,to keep intelligence about China's election meddlingfrom becoming knownand to keep it away from the honorable press.Other officials who witnessed such effortsperceive the motivations to be blatantly political.
06:49From there, he outlined intelligence assessmentsthat he says cast doubt on the integrityof electronic voting machines that are used in American elections.Tonight we're publishing a series of previously classified U.S. intelligence community assessmentsand other reports proving that our government has long known these machines are extremely exposed to attack.Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure.Now, the president did stop short of claiming that the Chinese or,any other foreign actor played a role in directly influencing the actual vote count during the elections.
07:30But there is no doubt that he provided what appears to be compelling evidence that Beijing workedovertime to influence at least voter sentiment and that the intelligence community, again,intentionally kept those efforts from him. As we expected, towards the end, the president usedthe address to urge Congress to pass the Save America Act, which would, among other things,require voter ID at the polls. To all Americans, I ask you to pick up your phone tomorrow,call your representatives in the House and Senate, and demand that they pass the Save AmericaAct without delay.And one interesting note from last night, while the address just dominated the airwaves,
08:07some legacy outlets actually chose not to air it, saying they did not want to give thepresident a platform to spread misinformation.And he took the opportunity last night to take aim at those outlets.In a rare move, NBC and ABC fake news have both said that they would not.cover this speech. They knew what it was about because of the fact that they don't like the topic,because they know how corrupt our system is and they don't want to reveal it. So a remarkablenight in Washington, we're going to be sifting through these newly declassified intelligence documentsfor many days in the future. And the big question now becomes what sort of pressure that's
08:44puts on lawmakers in Congress to pass the Save America Act? Well, we'll see if this address does endup moving the needle on some of these issues. Kevin, thanks so much for reporting.Absolutely.Every business leader is hearing the same thing right now.Adopt AI, move faster, don't get left behind.But speed isn't the goal.Better decisions are.That's where NetSuite Next comes in.
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09:50A.a.a.m.a.m. Build for every industry, ready for every boardroom. NetSuite.a.m.a.MorningW.org. Or secretary Pete Hexeth announced this week another sweeping change to military policyas he seeks to overhaul the services into a more aggressive battle-ready force. Now, service members,30 and older, will be tested for testosterone levels and offered hormone therapy when needed.Joining us now is Dr. Halim Muhammad, chief medical officer at Game Day Men's Health. Dr. Hal,Thanks for coming on.Thank you so much for having me, guys.So just from medical perspective, first, can you tell us how you define testosterone deficiency
10:27because, of course, it's natural for it to be in a range?And also, how common is it among men of military age?So testosterone deficiency and low testosterone, those are two different things.Low testosterone is the actual number, the lab test, which can range anywhere from 300 to1,200 depending on which lab assay you use.So below 300 is considered low testosterone.testosterone deficiency is the symptoms that you have with it.And it can be fatigue, libido issues, trouble building muscle in the gym,
10:56holding on to adipose tissue, fatty tissue around the belly.Those are all signs of symptoms of testosterone deficiency.So the combination of those two, the lab work, plus the symptoms is what you would call testosterone deficiency.And how common is it?I mean, at age 30, it definitely starts to decline.We see a 1 to 2% decline, and it starts to accelerate as you get older.but it's not really age-related. It's more about, you know, what they're doing if they're not in the gym, if they have a poor diet, if they have poor sleep, which we see in the military as well.Stress levels can definitely lower because cortisol competes with testosterone, and that's very high in our heroes in the military.
11:34Now, what are the risks, though, of supplementing with exogenous testosterone? It's not zero risk. What about things like fertility and maybe even cancers?prostate cancer caused by TRT.That's a myth that's been around since 1941, and it was based on one patient, and that's actually been debunked and removed from the testosterone FDA, the notification on the actual testosterone.So that's no longer true at all.If you're using testosterone without any other supplementation to make sure that your system is still working, yes, there is a risk of infertility.And I definitely don't advise that for our younger population who haven't had children.That's one thing that, you know, when I'm talking to our younger population, I always say, I want to make sure that I allow you to have the same joys of fatherhood that I did.So that's something we're very careful about.
12:27Now, the Defense Department says that this program for testing men for low testosterone and restoring their normal levels is basically just about restoring them to normal health.Where do you draw that distinction between just bringing someone back to their normal healthy levels?and then enhancing them beyond that.We know testosterone can help drive energy, muscle recovery, mood, focus, libido, all of those things.And when it's in a healthy range, men generally feel and perform better.And that matters a lot.The goal is going to be a healthy normal range, not super physiological levels, not performanceenhancing drug levels.
13:06It's for patients who have low testosterone and testosterone deficiency, clinical hypogonadicin.And I think that's where the Department of Defense is aiming for.We're not looking to max out anybody.It's really just to optimize these guys that take care of us,and we need to make sure that they're feeling their best as well.Now, here's a question from my producer, who's himself a veteran.He mentioned that a lot of guys he knows are ordering testosterone onlinefrom some sketchy websites.
13:32Will the testosterone that our troops receive be in any way qualitatively differentfrom the stuff that people are able to access on the Internet?That's part of what I do every single day at Game Day.It's trying to guide these guys to a medically supervised where you have clinician oversight,where you're doing labs.I think 65% of guys with low testosterone don't even get test fit.Some of these guys that are getting testosterone off the internet will never get tested,and that's where the risk comes in, right?
13:58That's where you have erythorcytosis, the increase in red blood cells, you can have riskof stroke and heart attacks like that, or guys who are really pumping up their levels,and that's where you get cardiovascular risk.So when you have a clinician that's monitoring closely that's trained in hormone,health, and it's not going to be every clinician out there. That's where I think our job is to keepthem as safe as possible, and that's why I love what I do every day. All right. Well, Dr. Hal,thanks so much for making time for us today. Thank you so much. The Trump administration is movingforward with reforms at the Smithsonian Institution after a comprehensive White House report found that
14:34the National Museum of American History reframed U.S. history through lenses of grievance, identitypolitics and anti-American narratives.Smithsonian leaders are calling it an attack on scholarly independence.Daily Wire Culture Reporter, Megan Basham, is here now with more on the showdown betweenthe White House and the Smithsonian.So, Megan, this report that came out on the fourth, on the 250th anniversary, has sparkedsome real backlash.It's 162 pages, basically auditing the Smithsonian museums for anti-American themes.
15:07What did they find?Yeah, so there were three key areas.areas of complaint in this report, Georgia. One, they cited historical revisionism that cast the U.S.as essentially villains on the world stage and on the stage of history. And then two, they citeda number of exhibits for inappropriate sexualized material. And then three, they also citedindoctrination into a new set of moral values based on social justice activism and DEI values.So this was how White House Domestic Policy Director, Vince Haley, put it.They've changed the mission at the Smithsonian over the past few years.
15:42They used to be dedicated to telling an inspiring story about American history, but they've traded all that for political activism.And we don't have to guess about that. They put it in their documents.So just to give you a few specifics here, the report found that roughly 20% of that Benjamin Franklin exhibit focuses on enslaved people, basically asking attendees to think about the, quote, women, slaves and indentured servants that made.his discoveries possible.And though there's never been any evidence that Franklin did this, the exhibit even askedvisitors to consider whether he conducted electric shock experiments on slaves.So you had some online arguing that essentially an American history museum took one of America'shistorical heroes and smeared him with baseless accusations.
16:31And there were other similar findings on how other Smithsonian exhibits focus almost solely on the flawsof our founding fathers, rather than on their great accomplishments.On the flip side, an exhibit on the 1960s radical and communist Angela Davis treats her as anunvarnished hero, and that's despite the fact that she argued to abolish police and jailsand was for years on the FBI's Most Wanted list for her involvement in the death of a judge.And then on sexuality, you had exhibits like one titled Girlhood, It's Complicated.And that profiled transgender activist Jazz Jennings, a male who believes he is female, and another one presented a six-year-old girl's diary pages where she fantasized about growing a penis.Immigration-focused displays like the many voices, One Nation display and the Becoming the U.S. exhibit, frame illegal immigration as a civil rights issue.
17:29and they use activist language like undocumented and unafraid and social justicewhile instructing teachers who use Smithsonian curriculum to avoid terms like illegal alien.No doubt the Smithsonian is defending their exhibits.What are they saying?Smithsonian's Secretary Lonnie Bunch says that the White House report is not a fair representation of the museum or its work.He maintains that the institution is committed to nonpartisan independent scholarship.And he really says that all they're trying to do here is tell an accurate story about the complex history of the United States.It scares me when people aren't brave enough to face their history.
18:11Let us understand America.We celebrate, we commemorate, but the goal is to understand.And you can only understand it when you grapple with the complexity of who we once were.Now, the New York Times, the Atlantic and other left-leaning legacy outlets have framed Trump's campaign.here to reform the Smithsonian as an attempt by a president to perform a sanitize. And they say a celebratoryversion of the past that minimizes things like slavery and racial discrimination and some of our othernational flaws. So they released this report. Are they asking for changes to be made? What are the next steps here?Yeah, that is still an open question, Georgia. And that's why the story continues to be live. Because the White
18:52House is promising that they're going to take action on this, though they haven't released a detailed plan yet.But I think some important context is that the Smithsonian occupies a pretty unique position here.It's not a typical federal agency, but it does receive more than a billion dollars in taxpayer funding.Roughly 62% of its budget is federal funding.So the administration has a lot of leverage here through that funding, through reviews,through content oversight, and even potential changes in leadership to enact reforms within the Smithsonian.Well, and in the end, this is a struggle over the lessons the next generation,going to take about this nation and who we are.
19:30Megan, thanks so much for reporting.Yep, my pleasure.Thanks for waking up with us.The reporting that fuels this show is only possiblebecause you tune in every dayand because of our Daily Wire subscribers.To enjoy the show, add free and join our mission,become a member at DailyWire.com.
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