Morning Wire - Ukraine Drone Attack & Immigration Backlash | 6.3.25

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

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Backlash to liberal immigration policies fuel yet another shift to the right in Europe. It's a good empowering of the whole MAGA project in the Central and Eastern Europe. A conservative victory in Poland comes as France is rocked by riots. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, June 3rd, and this is Morning Wire. The fallout from the Colorado terror attack continues as more details emerge about the victims and the illegal immigrant suspect. He would not have been here and should not have been here if we were actually enforcing our immigration laws. And the Trump administration pauses most operations at the Department of Labor's highly controversial job core.

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from the heartlands to the coast. We're helping to fuel America's energy advantage, building a brighter future right here at home. Visit chevron.com slash America to discover more. As Ukraine and Russia meet this week for peace talks, a growing list of European countries have elected right, wing leaders amid growing anti-immigration sentiment. Daily Wire senior editor, Cabot Phillips, has the latest from Europe.

So, Cabot, let's start with the war in Ukraine. Where do things stand now? Yeah, in the last 24 hours, we've learned a lot more regarding the details of Ukraine's surprise attack on Russia this weekend. And it's really a stunning operation. The Ukrainians managed to smuggle scores of attack drones across the border, where they were launched from wooden sheds mounted on the backs of large moving trucks. And because those drones originated within Russian territory, they were largely able to bypass Putin's extensive air defense systems.

They targeted five separate air bases and knocked out dozens of the country's most important planes. According to some estimates, Ukraine successfully destroyed up to one third of Russia's strategic bomber fleet. And the strikes come at a crucial time. Remember, the two countries met yesterday for a set of formal peace negotiations in Istanbul. Now, how will this attack affect the prospects for that? Well, it remains to be seen, but the attack certainly sent a message both to Ukraine's allies and adversaries. On one hand, it comes as Western support for Ukraine's war effort continues to wane. Zelensky was on a Sunday that the operation was partially intended to restore confidence

among their allies, that his country was still capable of holding Russia off. And the timing, just hours before those talks began, is no coincidence. It's sort of Zelensky's saying to Putin, are you sure you don't want a ceasefire? But when those talks concluded after just 90 minutes Monday, little progress had been made. Moscow finally presented their terms for peace, and they're likely going to outrage Zelensky. Among Putin's demands are that Ukraine recognize all of Russia's territorial gains, that they shrink the size of their military, change their official language to Russian, and agreed to long-term neutrality, aka no future membership for NATO.

President Trump last week said Putin had two weeks to come to the table for good faith peace talks, We'll see how he responds to this proposal. Now, let's talk about Ukraine's neighbor, Poland. They just had some major elections. What happened? Yes, they did. Over the weekend, Poland elected right-winger Carol Narwaki to the presidency. Many have compared the 42-year-old who had no prior political experience to Donald Trump.

He and other cabinet members openly supported Norwalki's campaign, and he embraced similar nationalist rhetoric on the trail. Even adopting Trump's campaign slogan, except in this case, it was Poland first instead of America first. Among other things, Norwalkie campaigned on a promise to withdraw from the EU's migration pact, which he said flooded the continent with illegal immigrants. He is staunchly pro-life against gay marriage and is called for a return of Christian values to public life in Poland. And importantly, he signed a pledge to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO in the future. And like Trump, he has accused Zelensky of not showing enough gratitude for the support

his country has given Ukraine for their war effort. Now, Poland is just the most recent European country that is elected a right. right-wing leader. What are some of the others? Yeah, a clear trend developing here. In the last year, conservatives have made just historic gains across the continent, largely by promising to crack down on legal immigration from the Middle East and Africa. First in Austria, the country's right-wing Freedom Party won control of parliament. It was the first time a hardline conservative party has done so since World War II. And then in Germany, conservatives made historic gains with the right-wing AFD party surging. And then last week, Portugal's right-wing Chega Party scored a number of

number of victories to become the country's leading opposition party. And now, even some left-wing politicians in Europe are adopting a more conservative tone, especially on immigration. British Prime Minister Kier-Starmer, for example, is turning heads this month with a promise to, quote, significantly cut down on immigration over the next four years, restrict new visas for skilled labor, and even penalize companies who hire foreign labor. Here he is decrying the, quote, one-nation experiment in open borders. The experiment is over. We will deliver what you've asked for time and again,

and we will take back control of our borders. Look, that's a quote you would expect to hear from Donald Trump, not from the left-wing Prime Minister of England. And then elsewhere in Paris this week, we've seen mass rioting following a big soccer victory. That has sparked renewed conversations there about law and order, and again, immigration. We'll see how that impacts the political conversation

in France, but across Europe, right-wing gaining ground. Well, France's conservative leader, Marine Le Pen, was surging before they barred her from running. Cabot, thanks for reporting. Absolutely. You didn't get here by accident. You got here because a man, a real one, raised you right. Honor him this Father's Day with Jeremy's Razors. With five stainless steel blades, a precision trimmer for clean lines, anti-corner.

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including a federal hate crime. Muhammad Sabri Solomon is being held in Boulder County Jail on a $10 million bond. Here to tell us more about what the FBI called a targeted attack in Colorado is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce. So, Tim, what is Solomon charged with? Yeah, he's in trouble with both state and federal prosecutors.

On the state side, he's been hit with 16 counts of attempted first-degree murder, as well as criminal use of an incendiary device and crimes against the elderly. Federal prosecutors have charged Solomon with a hate crime. A special agent in charge of the FBI's Denver office said the Bureau is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism. It is clear that this is a targeted act of violence in the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism. As for the latest information we have, thankfully, none of the people injured in the attack have died. Solomon himself was treated for burn injuries at a hospital before he was booked.

Police say Solomon received those injuries using a makeshift, flamethrower and Maltov cocktails to attack demonstrators. Now, police were reluctant on Sunday to release a motive. Do we know anything about it at this point? We do. He directly said in an interview with the FBI that he wanted to kill, quote, Zionists. Law enforcement also says he screamed,

free Palestine during his assault. Add that, of course, to the demonstration targeted in the attack, a weekly march in support of the hostages held by terrorists in Gaza. The FBI said that Solomon had planned this attack for at least a year and targeted what he called a Zionist group. Colorado's Democratic governor Jared Polis called it a targeted attack on the Jewish community. Now, there's also an immigration angle to this case, correct? Yeah, and that was highlighted by President Trump yesterday. Solomon is an Egyptian national. He entered the U.S. in 2022 on a visa that then expired the next year. He was able to get a temporary work permit from the Biden administration, but that too expired in March this year. Trump said in a social media post yesterday that Solomon

came in through Biden's ridiculous open border policy, which has hurt our country so badly. The president went on to say that this is yet another example of why we must keep our borders secure and deport illegal anti-American radicals from our homeland. Well, this isn't the only incident of its kind, though, even recently. Right. And this is a trend that law enforcement and lawmakers on both sides of aisle have warned about. There was, of course, the attack outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in D.C. The two victims, Yaron Lashinsky and Sarah Milgram, were both staffers at the Israeli embassy and were soon to be engaged. In that attack, too, the suspect shouted, free Palestine afterward, according to the police. That chant was also a big rallying cry for campus protesters and

rioters who took over campuses across the country after the October 7th attack. It's been a top priority for Trump to crack down on students who committed illegal activities or threatened Jewish students and a crackdown on university administrators who seemed to enable or at least did little to stop that conduct. Well, a very ugly trend. Tim, thanks for reporting. Thanks for having me. The Department of Labor last week said it was pausing most operations at the Job Corps, a $1.7 billion program that trains high school dropouts on residential campuses across the country. The program has operated since 1964, but for decades it's been accused of fraud and even violence. Joining us now is Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke who's followed the program for years now.

Hey, Luke. So what's the latest on the Job Corps? Hey, John. So shutting this program, at least temporarily, is a big win for fiscal hawks. The Job Corps was spending an average of $80,000 a year per student, training them to go on to earn an average of about $16,000 a year. So that's more than Harvard to essentially get the minimum wage. At one campus run by a company called Odle Management Group LLC, the cost was $764,000 per graduate. Now, the Job Corps operates about 130 campuses across the country where troubled young adults are paid $1,200 plus living expenses to take classes towards their GED or training in the trades. Most of these campuses are run by companies whose staff are paid bonuses based on how many people they recruit and how many get a job afterwards.

But as you've reported, there's been evidence going back decades that money was corrupting the process, correct? That's right. I mean, contractors were faking job statistics to make it look like the training worked, and they were looking the other way at criminal behavior on campus, because if they expelled students, they'd get less revenue. Now, the Trump administration has terminated all contracts with those companies. About a fifth of campuses are operated by the Department of Agriculture, and those will remain open. So this is really targeted towards preventing contractors from abusing the taxpayer and using at-risk youth as a cash cow. Still, there are 25,000 people getting training at Job Corps facilities, and most of them will be sent home this month.

Now, this has led to criticism that vulnerable youth are going to be deprived of needed services. Job Corps does train in several trades where America really needs more workers. What's the response to that? You know, it does pose interesting questions, given the Trump administration's boosting of the trades over elite colleges, a desire for more U.S. manufacturing, and the need for low-income Americans to take over work that was previously done by illegal immigrants. But the truth is these campuses were often bad places. Discipline data shows that there were 500 sex assaults and 5,000 violent assaults in the last three years alone.

That includes a 16-year-old transgender runaway who was ordered to live with a 23-year-old man who was later arrested for raping her in their dorm room. A third of students are expelled, a third just abscond, and a third graduate. Now, to enroll, you're required to be on welfare, a refugee, a high school dropout, illiterate, or a victim of sex trafficking. things like that. So this program appears to be more focused on directing funds to people from sort of the margins of society, even including criminals, rather than actually building up the trades. Exactly. My hunch is we'll see the Trump administration push to have high schools reorient to focus on vocational tech.

That would accomplish Job Corps' goals at a much larger scale. Think about those schools you hear about where literally zero percent of students are proficient in math. Instead of pretending we're preparing those kids for college, they can, could be put on a path from ninth grade onwards to make a good money only a few years into the future? So likely a lot of outcry against this move, but mostly from companies that stand to profit. Meanwhile, it'll be fascinating to see if the shop class makes a comeback in high school. Luke, thanks for reporting. Thank you.

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