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You had to transfer those voters, however, to candidates that they didn't like, but there's something beyond that. Our change is coming to the president's approach to immigration in Iran. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, November 10th, and this is Morning Wire. A Chinese spy scandal shakes the world's leading AI and computing company, sparking an investigation and a response from Trump. And a new report uncovers a troubling use of taxpayer money targeting voters in California. We found them targeting groups specifically for, let's just say, certain interests that align with heavily democratic voters. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. Most people don't plan to skip lunch and spend the afternoon snacking, but meetings run long. Arons take longer than expected, and suddenly, whatever's within reach becomes the meal. That's where our sponsor, Leighne, from Brickhouse Nutrition comes in. 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President Trump's latest 60-minute interview offered a window into how he's processing Republicans midterm losses and what comes next. Joining us now is Ben Dominic, opinion editor at the Daily Wire and co-host of the District Club podcast. So Ben, a lot to unpack from this interview. Let's start with Iran. Trump acknowledged that the war likely hurt Republicans politically, but he's saying that it was justified. First, let's just listen to that. If you had it to do again, would you do it? In my answers, and I'm fat, I guess, because you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. I think historically, this will be a very good decision. Is it a good decision for today and tomorrow? Maybe not, but I have to go with what's right for our country. Now, this, of course, ties in with JD Vance's very viral tweet addressing Republicans' losses. What should we make of Trump's response there? Well, I think the President is really unshakable in his belief. He's been very consistent on this point really throughout this process and throughout the election. I mean, he believes that the Iran War was worth it, that it was timed according to the intelligence that he received, that he believes it's very much worth it to have temporary pain at the pump in order to prevent the Iranian government from having a nuclear weapon. The person trying to create separation from that policy is the Vice President, and he has his own political future to think of when it comes to that. I'm not sure that he's going to be able to do so, especially because of the backlash that some of some people have brought to that very viral tweet, but I think the President is clearly staking out his position that, you know, the Vice President may be free to sort of disagree with him on this point, but he is very solidly convinced that he did the right thing and that he'll be vindicated by history. Now, another major headline from this interview was the point when President Trump admitted his deportation policy could have been too tough. First, here's that exchange. So you think your deportation policy went too tough? I think it might be too tough, yeah. What would happen? What does the deal look like with the Democrats? Ultimately, that hurt me. Well, the deal would be we would work something out. What's the response been to that? Well, I think that actually it's the kind of thing that is a perfect example of where the Republican Party finds its divides today. There are a lot of people who are saying this is the last thing that we want from the next two years of the Trump administration is a cave to a new Democratic majority on any of these points, but there are people on Capitol Hill, as there always are, within the Republican Party, who would like to see some kind of large or grand deal made on some of this. And Dick Durbin, including the Democratic Senator who is currently retiring from Illinois, was out there today just saying that he very much wants to see some of these things put into practice. If Trump listens to that, it would definitely go against the interests of his base and the priorities of Republican voters who certainly showed that they are not interested in backing off of a tough on illegal immigration policy. It'd be really hard to see that happening. Now Trump pointed to strong job numbers and the stock market suggesting he didn't effectively tout his wins over the course of the selection campaign. Was this indeed a messaging problem or something deeper? I think it's a lot deeper than that. The cost of living scenario wasn't great before the Iran War started and the Iran War did not make things better. When it came to the pressure that people felt from energy prices, from the prices of other goods as well, it was seriously a drag on the idea that the Donald Trump economy this time around was going to be as gangbusters as it was in his first term. I think though that one of the things that he can point to is that Republicans never figured out a way to talk about affordability and prices in a way that connected with voters. And certainly that was something that dragged down a lot of different candidates around the country, not just the decision to go to war. Yeah, we saw Democrats really lean into the affordability messaging and very effectively. Yes, they did. And that's the thing that I think is going to be interesting going forward. Democrats as much as they profited from the ability to lean in on affordability and promise the American people that they would turn things around. They're actually counting on the president to do that more than their own actual Congress that they've elected. You know, the Democrat majorities in the Senate and the House are not likely to be able to deliver on a lot of things that they promised to the American people. And because of that, they're going to have to find ways to work with the White House in order to point to anything that resembles a success when it comes to the cost of living. All right, Ben. Thanks so much for reporting. Great to be with you. For generations, female athletes have fought for the right to compete on a fair and level playing field. Today, those opportunities are being threatened again. Athletes like Sophie Cunningham are speaking up and reminding the WNBA of a simple truth. Biological differences matter in sports and women deserve competitions, teams, records, scholarships, and athletic spaces of their own. Concerned women for America is the largest Christian women's policy organization in America. 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So Huang sent out an email to employees on Sunday in which he acknowledged being unfaithful to his wife. And he said that he's fully supportive of this independent investigation. But he did not name the woman Alice Wong. So obviously no relation there. But she's a former executive at Wattam and Vidya's customers. And US officials believe that she was recruited by the CCP specifically to gather information on Nvidia and its advanced AI chips that you talked about there and passed that until along to Beijing. And in fact, it was surveillance of her communications that initially tipped off our national security officials to the affair between these two individuals. Now Nvidia's board says that it doesn't have any reason at this point to believe that national security was compromised or that any company secrets were passed along to Beijing. But they do say that independent directors are going to oversee this investigation. And Huang is going to stay on as CEO as that investigation proceeds. But China is denying any spying. So this was what the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. The so-called Chinese spy allegation is groundless. It is nothing but a smear against China. So how did this woman Alice Wong get on US officials radar to begin with? Why were they monitoring her texts? Yeah, that's interesting, Georgia, because Alice Wong was actually a senior executive at mega speed, which is a Singapore based company that buys those Nvidia chips. And it puts them in data centers and it rents out their computing power. So mega speed bought more than $4.8 billion worth of Nvidia chips over two years. So it's executives had reason to be regularly in contact with Nvidia. So federal officials were already looking at whether mega speed had helped Chinese customers get access to advanced chips that the US restricts from being shipped to China. Mega speed has previously said that there was no evidence that it illegally shipped chips there. So the two big questions here, one, whether restricted chips did end up in China. And then two, what information, if any, Alice Wong obtained through her relationship with Jensen Huang and whether those that information about Nvidia may have been then passed on to Beijing. But obviously this complicates Nvidia's relationship with the Trump administration that approved sales of Nvidia's really crucial H200 chips to China. The New York Times reported, I think it was about a week ago, that Trump was briefed on intelligence about Alice Wong last year and chose not to act on it. So he was asked Sunday whether he wished that he had acted on that information. The president defended Huang. I have not spoken to about it. I just know he's a fine person, but you never know what he's going on. I'm sure I hope everything's fine. He's done such an incredible job, and so I would certainly hope that he's a fine person in my opinion. In hindsight, you wish that you had acted on the intelligence when you were briefed about this fine? I don't think so. I think he's an honorable guy. I think he probably has an excuse for it. But that said, House Republicans have already requested Huang to appear on November 18 for a closed door briefing on security protocols and to ask about his relationship with Alice Wong. Hopefully we'll get more clarity from that. Megan, thank you so much for reporting. Get my pleasure, John. A new investigation from City Journal found California has been using taxpayer money for advertisements encouraging Californians to vote, but those advertisements might have been more targeted than meets the eye. Joining us now is investigative reporter Kenneth Schrupp. Kenneth, thanks for coming on again. Thank you. It's my pleasure. What did you find during your investigation and who was California targeting with these ads? Looking to a few counties across California, what we found was results that appear to be discriminatory just on the face. We found them targeting groups specifically for, let's just say, certain interests that align with heavily democratic voters, those include at least this is what the city and county of Riverside and the county of San Diego targeted. It was terms like gangster rap, freestyle rap, African-American studies, Native American studies, and they're using this to target people for voter turnout advertisements. Can you just explain this process? They had targeted ads that were going specifically to people who may be searched those terms. Is that how they found them? So these were from an ad database published by Metta. Metta runs a running ad database of who's spending what, especially on political elections. They tell you what tags or interests ads are being targeted at. So these ads were targeted at users whose interests were these various search terms. Now, one of the really interesting aspects was that they seem to have a focus on people speaking other languages. So what demographics? I mean, we can assume some things from gangster rap. But what other demographics did California pay attention to along the lines of other languages? Right. So in Riverside County, which was, you know, narrowly between Trump and Harris in 2024, they put a lot of their money into specifically Spanish-speaking households, which in Riverside County went very large swing for Kamala Harris. So they're Spanish. And then in other counties, there are other languages as well, including Filipino and Chinese. Now, how much money were they spending here? And did you get a chance to talk with anyone involved since publication of your report? So we did send out a request for comment with several days of no response from them. So unfortunately, we weren't able to get anything for the story. But the amount of money that we're talking about for these projects, it is not especially huge amount of money. We're talking about thousands, not millions of dollars. But at the end of the day, it's the putting the thumb on the scale that we're trying to uncover here, right? These are supposed to be neutral non-partisan county offices, but it seems to be more run like a partisan party turnout operation. Now, of course, they may argue that they were targeting people who tend to vote less or who may need additional materials or a same language materials if they maybe don't speak English. How do you distinguish legally between outreach to maybe a low propensity voter and an attempt to seek certain types of voters? You know, I think we're asking the wrong question here. I think the question is, why are taxpayers having to spend money to turn out people for an election that they're really not interested in? We should be having voters who are engaged and want to be voting rather than having what seems to be a partisan turnout operation one way or the other. Now, your article mentioned that all of this might have actually been driven by a series of lawsuits. Can you unpack that for us? Yeah, that's right. The ACLU had actually sued Riverside County and as part of a settlement to avoid, I suppose, a larger case, the county had agreed to focus on more voter elections outreach for Latino and I believe Spanish-speaking communities. And whether or not that was really the main reason or they had other reasons for doing this, the fact remains that this is very balanced in a certain partisan way that isn't exactly what we would consider to be neutral. Now, you mentioned that this spending was in the thousands, not necessarily in the millions. How much did this affect the election? Practically. Have you done any calculations? Practically. It was a landslide. I wouldn't say it really swung things one way or the other. But for me, it's more about looking at the intent and the general shaping of the system and California, every single arm of government from the neutral nonpartisan registrar of voters to the education system is used to support progressive candidates. And it's not happening just in California. Parker Thayer came out with a great report on this just a few days ago. It's actually what inspired me to look here in California. He found the exact same pattern happening in Harris County in Texas. It looks like the attorney general there is going to step in for the discrimination. But still, in California, it looks like we're not going to have that kind of action or change. All right, Kenneth, thanks so much for looking into it and great reporting. Thank you. Thanks for waking up with us. 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