Trump’s New Right-Hand Man & Violent Political Rhetoric Amps Up | 11.9.26

A key staffing shakeup at the White House could signal a more aggressive strategy from the president. "It's a great fighter. He's been with me right from the beginning." I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley. It's Monday, November 9, and this is Morning Wire. "Prominent voices on the left are facing rare backlash from advertisers as violent rhetoric picks up post-election." Elon Musk is a traitor to the West. We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall, and you should be held to the same standards. And Poland declares two national days of mourning after a terror attack in Krakow. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire, stay tuned with The News You Need to Know. Freedom isn't guaranteed. Right now, it's very survival is in question. We're seeing free speech-violated, religious freedom trampled, biological truth rejected. Alliance defending freedom is taking on these threats in courtrooms across the country. 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He has one of the president's earliest supporters after taking the job, he recalled, going down the golden escalator alongside Trump in 2015. So he's been there since the beginning. He has a consistent voice on the immigration question on calling for more deportations. So if you know, you sort of figured that the president was going to shake something up after the after the blue wave, this is a simple play to the base, Steven Miller is popular. And now Suzie Wiles, who's also been an incredibly popular figure in Trump world, has started catching strays in recent weeks. She was, of course, the mastermind behind president Trump's 2024 victory. But because she has this kind of lengthy career, she worked as a lobbyist, she had a variety of clients. When people were looking for someone to blame, she became the establishment figure they blamed. This really does signal as well to a certain extent where the administration is heading and thinking in terms of 2028, because Steven Miller is a very strong ally of vice president JD Vance. While they're incredibly close, they agree on pretty much every issue. So he's one of the several figures within the Trump administration who's probably very happy about Miller's ascendance, another one being war secretary Pete Hagseth, who has made it clear very early on and immediately after the appointment was announced that he and Miller were quote in lockstep on the immigration issue. And he took to ex to celebrate Miller's appointment by tweeting Patriots in control. Now about Hagseth, there's a lot of pressure on him. The Democrats are ramping up efforts to impeach him. They're threatening to do that immediately. Could Miller's relationship with the defense secretary end up helping sort of protect him in the days to come? Yeah. I think absolutely. So just to back up there for a second, a lot of people have been talking about impeaching Pete Hagseth, most recently outgoing Republican Congressman Thomas Massey. Also, it's Massey in this group of Democrats who want to impeach him broadly for the war in Iran. The name is that Pete Hagseth, I mean, on behalf of the president, has been illegally waging the war in Iran because they never, the Trump administration never got congressional approval. Unclear how well that charge would stick because, of course, the, you know, the president is obviously also waging the war. Pete Hagseth is serving at the pleasure of the president. So I certainly think the question is not whether or not he'll get impeached. He's almost certainly going to get impeached us if not before the 120th Congress is gabbled in that almost certainly after when Democrats have this crazy majority in the House, the question is, will Trump fire him? And I think that on this level, having someone like Miller, even more in Trump's ear than he was before saying, don't worry about it, Mr. President, don't let the Democrats get to you very much in that kind of wartime fighter mentality that that Miller and Hagseth both represent. But if the president's looking for another scapegoat, if getting rid of Susie Wiles doesn't seem to do the job, thinks the Iran war was the reason they lost the election, who better to let go, who better to pin the blame on than the already unpopular face of an increasingly unpopular war. For sure. Tim, thanks so much for coming on anytime, guys. There's a special kind of frustration that comes from being kept awake by someone who's sleeping perfectly soundly. I can remember going with my in-laws on a skiing trip before I had actually married my wife, and I had to sleep out on the couch. The couch next to me was my little brother-in-law. 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No results vary, risks and benefits at springsleep.com. Violent political rhetoric from the left, including comments targeting Elon Musk and Charlie Kirk have prompted companies to begin pulling their advertising dollars. Here with more is Daily Wire Culture Reporter, Megan Basham. So Megan, let's start with the controversy that's gotten the most attention from advertisers at least. This is former Bravo TV personality podcast host, Jennifer Welch. What did she say, and why is it causing so much fallout? Yeah, Georgia. Welch and her co-host Angie Sullivan were reacting to a social media comments and posts celebrating the election wins that Democrats had last week. On their podcast, I've had it. And one post referenced digging up Charlie Kirk so they could assassinate him all over again, and this was their reaction. No more Sunday school homophobes. No more mega church Sunday school homophob. Dead morose says we're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again. No comment. No comment, no comment on that. So obviously that was far from just disagreeing with Kirk's political positions. And major advertisers immediately announced that they were going to cut ties with the program. They weren't going to sponsor it anymore. Last time I checked, we were up to about nine companies that said they were cutting ties with the program. And in the middle of this, Welch and her co-host posted an apology to Instagram in which they said that there is nothing funny about gun violence and they announced that they were making a donation to a gun control organization. But you know, a lot of people said that's not really an apology. You are actually making a partisan political statement even without apology. And then right on the heels of that on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, Dave Chappell put on a show and he made a joke in which he said that it makes him happy that Charlie Kirk was murdered. I mean, look, ever since they had Charlie Kirk that murdered, I feel better. So not really surprising that Erica Kirk called those comments beyond disgusting. Indeed. A lot of people might say, look, this is shocking, but we're talking about a provocative podcaster and a comedian known for, you know, being edgy. Is it fair to take the temperature of rhetoric on the left from personalities like this? Yeah. You know, John, I think even with public figures who are expected to be a little bit provocative, there's still limits, especially for someone like Welch who is a regular panelist on CNN. He's also been profiled in outlets like The New York Times, yes, as a serious political punter. And I think it's also important to note that this trend of left-wing figures seeming to embrace political violence. It hasn't been just limited to comedians or podcasters. Scott Galloway is a professor at New York University and California Governor Gavin Newsom also appointed him to the Board of Regents at the University of California. So he's certainly someone who's considered a mainstream established academic. And last week during an interview with tech journalist Cara Swisher, he seemed to endorse the idea of executing Elon Musk. Elon Musk is a traitor to the West. We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall. This is a traitor to the West. And you should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West. And then another comment on Musk was considered, you know, less violent, but certainly disgusting and also being pointed to as extreme. I had a Tesla, great car. You started on Twitter, so I sold it, not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story. And then a further piece of context here, John, is that polling has increasingly shown that the left is getting more comfortable with political violence. So just a couple of data points here. Last year, Yuga found that 25% of Americans who describe themselves as very liberal and 17% who describe themselves as just liberal said that violence is, quote unquote, sometimes justified to achieve political goals compared to just 9% of conservatives who said the same. And then in August, a University of Chicago poll found that 44% of Democrats said that the use of force is justified to remove Donald Trump from the presidency. So I think we can say that it's an ongoing problem. And in fact, our own Michael Knowles testified before Congress about it last year. Now, back to Galway, has Governor Newsom addressed the comments he made and then further, what about other Democratic leaders? Have they, have any prominent voices addressed to their should pal or Welch? No, Georgia. And I spent a lot of time looking. I could not find any of them addressing it. And that actually also includes CNN, New York Times, and some of these other legacy outlets that frequently utilize Welch as a commentator. Well, maybe in the next few days, they're going to feel some pressure to address it. Megan, thanks for reporting. Yep. My pleasure. A terror attack in Poland made international headlines this weekend with six people confirmed dead and three more found dead at the suspect's family home. This kind of mass shooting is extremely rare in Poland, and it's happening at a time of growing political tensions in the country. Here to discuss that and more is Victoria Code's national security expert at the Heritage Foundation. So Victoria, let's start with what happened and what we know about what led to this attack in Poland. This is really an awful thing, and I was in beautiful Kraków literally three weeks ago. It's the heart of Poland. It's where their main cathedral is, it's where all their kings are buried. It's just, it's a very, very special city. And what's really shameful, it appears to have been an unhinged individual who also killed members of his family before he went on this, this rampage and immediately tasks governments that, oh, this has to be a right way. So I think it's really unfortunate that the current government of Poland tried to politicize it so quickly. Now, last week we reported on that tumultuous political situation in Poland. When you remind us exactly what's happening, it's a little convoluted, but it's a really explosive situation there. It is. And bear in mind, Poland has remained adjacent to the EU, but a little bit separate. They still have their own currency. There's a lot of money. They have not gone on the euro. They've pursued a bilateral security relationship with the United States rather than going into a more EU-oriented relationship. So they're really trying to maintain their independence because they're a little bit between Germany and Russia, countries with which they have had a checkered past. So historical memory is strong there and they want to be a strong united Poland. They're the ones who want to put it in for truck. They want an American base on their soil. And as I said, the Prime Minister Donald Tusk is much more EU-oriented. He wants to take the country in a more left-leaning direction. Their president, Carolyn Oroski, is much more pro-US, much more conservative. He wants Poland to be independent, strong, yes, very much connected with its Baltic and Nordic neighbors, but maybe a little bit less beholden to Brussels. And to be clear, we still don't know the motives yet of this attacker, correct? No. Who are casting these dispersions are the people in Donald Tusk's government? Has the writing seen in Europe broadly speaking quieted down or still going strong? Oh no, it's definitely still going strong. We had 50,000 people on the streets of Paris on Saturday night. And bear in mind, we're coming up on November 11th. That will be an independent stay in Poland on November 20th. There have been calls for pan-European riots on the level that we saw a couple of weeks ago in Paris. So this is very much ongoing. And there's no resolution in sight, John. I mean, what are we supposed to do? These countries don't have the money to placate the protesters. And the protesters don't have the services they think they're entitled to. And as we've reported, they don't really have the policing resources to calm the chaos at this point. No, no, they don't. And in Poland, in particular, all of the policing, all the security forces are under the prime minister. The president doesn't have any really security forces that are independent to him. And so that's part of that tension there. And in France, for example, they've been trying to send in their version of the National Guard. But that doesn't really exist. Victoria, thank you so much for coming on. Thank you, guys. Thanks for waking up with us. And to remind you in just two days, confession is hitting theaters. That's right. Wednesday at 7 p.m. Confession will be available at select theaters across the country. You can only book your tickets through the Daily Wire website, so check it out today. To enjoy the show, add free and join our mission, become a member at DailyWire.com. We'll be back this evening with more news you need to know. I cannot feel anything here. They take me out of my bed, and they brought me here, and they tell me nothing. Well, have I done? Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity. That is all I know. They have to deal with so many enemies of the state, all of whom claim their innocence. Who protest? Who cry? There are no answers here, other than the ones they put in your mouth. Your break. Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people. 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