The View Faces Termination, Tate Charges Revealed & Trump Takes Swings | 7.22.26
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00:43If something like that happens, we take care of it.We have the latest on the president's aggressive foreign policy moves.I'm Daily Wire, Executive Editor John Bickley, with Georgia Howl.It's Wednesday, July 22nd.This is Morning Wire.The Democrats' 11th hour replacement for Graham Platner is locking into place.and both the choice and process are prompting controversy.If you think at least part of Platner's meteoric rise to success
01:15was because of his charisma and his personality, Jackson doesn't have that.The FCC is poised to make a major ruling on ABC's daytime talk show The View.If they're not listed as a bona fide news program by the FCC,there's a strong possibility the ABC probably has to kick the view to a streaming platform.Plus, the dozens of new charges against Andrew and Tristan Tate are unsealed.Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire.Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.A devout Orthodox Jew invited about a dozen friends to pray in his home.
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02:29including in the Middle East and in regard to Canada.Joining us now to discuss is Daily Wire Opinion editor Ben Dominic, host of The Big Ben Show.Ben, thanks for coming on.Good to be with you.So we've got a lot of updates on foreign policy, but first, let's talk about up north.We have a new wave of tariffs that Trump levied on Canada.Tell us about those.So the way that the administration is framing these and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was advocating for them the most publicly,
02:57is that they are in response to Canada's unwillingness to come to the United States.table and negotiate. The way that he put it was that every other nation around the world has respondedto tariff action on the part of the United States by negotiating in one part or another,and yet when it comes to, and yet the two nations that have not are Canada and China. And so becauseof that, because of the treatment of dairy products, of American alcohol, of a number of other productsas well that they're sensitive to.The president has levied these 50% tariffs.Now, the public framing of this is that it's in response or following from his true social
03:37post complaining about the horrible smog that came down from the Canadian fires, somethingthat we saw previously in 2023.The president himself in the Oval Office said, that's not the case.And in fact, this was something that was in response to these other, you know, differentsignals that Canada was sending. And I think that it's really about bringing them to the table,considering that you're dealing now with Mark Carney, though it is a bit amusing that they were bothtogether, of course, at that World Cup final. And I'm sure that Donald Trump did not tip his hand,just given the fact that they seemed very friendly at that moment. Yeah. So is this just tough negotiating,
04:16or are we looking at potentially a lasting realignment with Canada? Also, how much leverage doesCanada actually have in these negotiations?I don't think that they actually have a lot here.And Canada, part of this is motivated by the fact that Canadian politics has been rocked bya number of different statements from the president, you know, going back to him, you know,entertaining the idea of making them a 51st state, the way that he's had a confrontationalrelationship, both, of course, with Justin Trudeau and now with Carney, though there seemed tohave been a little bit warmer relations with Carney up to this point.
04:51I think that the truth of the matter is they want to force them to the table to negotiate and work out some new deal.Whether they go along with that or not, depends, I think, a lot on the domestic politics and the way that they frame the situation, given that so many Canadians have a negative view of the United States at this moment.Yeah. Now, we've also been closely monitoring everything in the Middle East, of course, and the U.S. is now blockading an existing Iranian blockade.Tell us about that.So there's a situation here that I think is going to be very complicated going forward.You know, essentially this is about control.It's about whether you have the control of both of these lanes.And now, you know, we see activity in the Red Sea as well related to the Houthis that are, you know,
05:36essentially serving as an Iranian proxy that is also rising to the level of the administrationtaking further action.The real debate that's going on within the administration right now is about what they do next.in response to the deaths of numerous servicemen, including three, of course, over the weekend,that you see this situation where the president now has to basically make a decision.Does he ramp up in the context of trying to exacerbate the situation potentially in ways that couldinclude more aggressive response to the IRGC?There's even been talk in Washington of whether they should finally target the
06:16IRGC headquarters, which is not something that they've done, even though they're capable of doing itwithin Iran, or whether this is a moment in which he needs to pull back in order to avoid riskingfurther loss of life and further negative actions against America's allies in the region.Now, is there concern in Washington that the Red Sea could become the next or an additionalmajor front in the broader conflict? Yes, this is because the Houthis who have frankly gone upagainst American power recently and had some success, you know, are now acting as proxiesfor Iran's interests and trying to control that lane as well. The way that that is done, of course,is by exacerbating the situation, making it one where ships can be harassed. We saw two ships
07:06turn back today that we're trying to traverse it because of those threats. And the thing isthat, you know, again, the Houthis are not something so powerful.that they can't be destroyed by the American military.But it's a question of whether the president is interested in doing that,whether he wants to ramp up or continue what has been essentially a campaign of pinprick strikes,of very localized strikes against Iran,where in a lot of situations they could anticipate them in advance,move their people out of the area,
07:37and be prepared to respond afterwards with their own increasingly skilled tacticsthat have penetrated our defenses,forced us back from some of our forward bases,you know, and put us back in places like Jordanwhere they're continuing to fire missile set us.Well, it's becoming an extremely complicated situation.Ben, thanks for reporting.Great to be with you.
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10:18and the man poised to replace Plattner, former state senator Troy Jackson, have come under intense scrutiny.Joining us now to discuss is Steve Robinson, editor-in-chief of the Maine Wire. Steve,thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me. So it looked like there was going to be a crowded battlefor this Democrat Senate seat in Maine, but it was almost over before it began. Why did so many candidatessuddenly cut bait and rally behind Troy Jackson?Well, I don't know if those candidates rallied behind Troy Jackson.What really happened is some good old-fashioned union organizing was put to the testwith the caucus committee-style approach that the main Democratic Party kind of invented on the fly
10:58to choose who Graham Platner's replacement was going to be.This was a process where all of the people in each county got to vote to send a certainnumber of delegates to what was going to be a convention.and then those 600 or so county delegates would then vote on who the actual nominee was going to be.What happened over the weekend is Troy was so masterful at organizing his people to turn outthat he won well over 90% of the delegates.So there's no question that this was an inside process.And I think the other candidates looked at the writing on the wall and said,
11:32yeah, I mean, this has been rigged from the start in Troy's favor.There's no sense even trying to force a convention or a CNN debate.So any outward support for him was really just giving up and seeing that this process is basically fully cooked.Yes, I think that's what you're seeing from the other candidate.But I think secretly or privately, they're all kind of miffed at how the delegate process turned out.They apparently used some unnamed software vendor to hold these county caucuses remotely.And there's lots of concern and chatter from activists about getting the ballot for the wrong countyor not being able to participate in the caucus at all.
12:09So we end up with moving from a primary election where they had a record turnout of Democrats and independence now to just a couple thousand party dieharts deciding who the candidate is going to be.Who would you say are the biggest winners and losers from Platner's collapse?Well, I would have to say Troy Jackson is certainly a winner in that now he gets to be the nominee, the unions.Arguably, Graham Platner was so wounded by the time he did drop out that Susan.Collins could be considered a loser, although I think that once people have enough time toscrutinize Troy Jackson, they'll see that Susan Collins is the odds-on favorite to win thiselection with Jackson as the nominee. Yeah, you've reported on him for years now and dug in moreto his record and some of the controversies around Troy Jackson. Can you tell our listeners
12:59about that? What have you learned about him? So Troy Jackson is positioning himself as an outsider.That's what he did for his gubernatorial campaign. Everyone,in Maine really last, if you've been following Maine politics, because he's been in elected office for26 years now. That's when he first ran for the state legislature. And when he first ran for thestate legislature, he was conservative. He was pro-life. He was pro-gun. He was, you know, a Democrat,yes, but he was conservative on a lot of the issues. And over time to survive and to work his way up toultimately being the Senate president in 2023 and 2024, he had to become much more of a stridentleftist. He ends his legislative career supporting late-term abortion, supporting the most,
13:50you know, stringent gun control regimes that Maine has ever seen. On all these issues,he's gone very, very far to the left. But he also has some personal controversies.one that we've reported on at length involves a home that he purchased in Augusta, and he usedan FHA loan to do it. He kind of did something similar to what Leticia James was investigated for,where he used an FHA loan, got the property, and that mortgage agreement contained an occupancyclause, so he was required to make it his primary residence. So at the same time, he told the EthicsCommission that he was a resident of Alagash so that he could run for office. He was telling thebank that he was a resident or would become a resident of Augusta. So there's a conflict there.
14:36But he hasn't been investigated, to my knowledge, for what appears to be mortgage fraud.Well, we'll watch with interest this weekend on how this official nomination process is handled.But as you said, it's already wrapped up at this point. Steve, thank you so much for coming on.Thanks, guys.The FCC is poised to make a major ruling on whether or not the left-leaning program,The View, qualifies as news programming, bringing major broadcasts.implications. Joining us now to discuss is David Bozell, president of the Media Research Center. David,thank you for coming on. No problem. Appreciate it. So we've been tracking this story, but not as
15:12closely as you guys. You guys have actually been involved in this FCC ruling. You providedsome evidence about the views, bias or not. Can we start there? How have you guys gotten involvedin this case? We gave the FCC 2,000 plus pages of all the egregious bias.up to and including reminding the FCC that the views executive producers said they would not invite the president ofstates by way of contrast they had president bideon i mean they had 130 liberal guests last year to twoconservatives one was marjorie chaylor green who had a bone to pick with the president of united states atthe time and the other one was Cheryl hines who was the wife of rfk juniors so not really conservativepolitically but just the wife of a cabinet member right so when you have 130 guests
16:01liberal guests to two so-called conservative guests, the disparity is right there for everyone to see.So we just want to remind the FCC of all these facts and figures.Now, there are reports that the FCC is gearing up to make a ruling about the view pretty soon.Yeah.We don't know exactly when that's coming down.What did, you know, lead up to this investigation to begin with?ABC owned by Disney.They are granted a taxpayer-provided subsidy.
16:31basically called the bandwidth, a bandwidth subsidy. And of course, they pay for it, but the bandwidthis the taxpayers to own. So we provide that to them, basically with no competition, kind ofon a no-bid contract, basically. In return, the view and all of ABC is supposed to air program that,quote, acts in the public interests. And that requires them to have some semblance of balance,particularly in its guests that they bring, but you just can't throw out invective,you know, like ICE wants to murder people.Or when I go into a neighborhood and I see American flags, I want to run away.That's not balanced at all.
17:14So ABC is trying to petition the FCC and say that the view is a, quote, bona fide news program.The bona fide news program designation would allow the view not to have to, you know,entertain assemblance of balance and just quote reporting what the news is of the day in their opinion solook at my opinion the media research center and anyone interested in balance and the airwaves we kind of win either way guysif they're going to be designated as a bona fide news program i'm going to enjoy watching the smallarmy of lawyers stand behind these these ladies and have to issue retraction after retraction afterrejection because what they say is just beyond the pale most days. If they're not, if they're not listedas a bona fide news program by the FCC, there's a strong possibility the ABC probably has to kick
18:07the view to a streaming platform. Well, so major implications if they are stripped of this,they would have to be removed. Yep. I would suspect so. In terms of the power of the SFCC, I mean,They have full authority to do this.Will there be any legal moves made by ABC if they rule against things?Oh, yeah, of course.I'm sure they'll appeal to any court that they can find that the FCC doesn't have jurisdiction over this.Of course, the FCC does.But again, the FCC is kind of just operating by the letter of the law.
18:39When Jimmy Kimmel was flagged for his insidious comments about Charlie Kirkand that MAGA was somehow responsible,The affiliates of ABC, that's what they were responding to.They were saying, wait a minute, we can't air Jimmy Kimmel because they were convinced that he was not acting in the public interest.Thereby, they would be in violation of a congressionally mandated statute.So this is all in a byproduct of ABC basically trying to air whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and however it wants to say it.And the FCC is saying, look, we are congressionally bound to enforce this public.It's a statute on you, and you've got to play by some semblance of rules.
19:24Well, a fascinating decision coming down very soon.Like you said, either way, it's going to change things a lot for the view in ABC.I call it the cackle, not the view.Sorry.I'd throw that in there.Thank you so much for joining us.No problem, guys.Another story we're tracking.
19:43The new charges against the Tate brothers have been released.Culture reporter Megan Basham has the details.So Tristan and Andrew Tate are now facing a combined 59 charges involving seven different victims, so far more extensive than was previously known.They have been arrested by U.S. Marshals in Miami at the request of British authorities, and they're facing extradition to the U.K.Now, just to detail a few of those charges, if we turn first to Andrew Tate, who is facing 42 allegations, that includes 10 counts of rape, multiple accounts of human trafficking and assault, controlling prostitution.for financial gain and 19 offenses involving indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.If we turn to Tristan Tate, he is facing 17 charges, including five counts of rape,sexual assault, human trafficking, and bodily harm. Now, their attorney is framing this as a
20:35political prosecution. He says his clients deny any wrongdoing, and this is simply because oftheir political views. And certainly the Tates have tried to lean into that doing a lot ofinterviews with dissident right-wing podcast influencers and people like that. But I don't thinkthat's going to be effective, even as they are trying to hint that maybe the State Department won'tcooperate with the UK request for extradition, I think it's very unlikely that Marco Rubio,Secretary of State, is going to want to have anything to do with the Tates or to provide themany sort of shield against charges like this, particularly because we are talking aboutpornography charges involving children. Thanks for waking up with us. Before we
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