I think so,

yeah.

No, we just keep telling people, look.

Voters vote, polls don't vote.

And we just spoke, actually, with former Speaker Newt Gingrich on the show.

That's going to air tonight on The Daily Wire's live election coverage that starts at 6 p.m. Eastern.

And he was surprisingly frank about his...

Maybe not

It's a one-stop shop tomorrow night.

It really is.

And as I walked into the studio this morning, it's just like a construction site.

We've been working on the entire set and studio for the last two or three weeks.

We've had planning meetings every day.

So this is going to be a show where you tune into Daily Wire.

You don't have to go to any other network.

Where do you think tomorrow night's going to go?

What, if anything, do you see that suggests maybe Republicans are getting hot at the end?

I think the – this sounds like a negative, and I'll put it this way.

I had Kat Kamek on the show, Republican congresswoman, yesterday, and I asked her, hey, what's the vibe check? How are you feeling? And she started with, well, you know, and I thought that's not good.

And then she said, you know – Um, it can't get any worse, and it feels like we kind of bottomed out last week, and now it feels like we're realizing, hey, we've actually all got to come together.

We can do this thing.

And that's not exactly a reason for a lot of optimism of saying, well, it can't get worse, but I do think there's something to that.

And there is this...

if Democrats are going to get hot at the end, what would they get hot at the end over? What's going on in the real world that Democrats could say, see, it's all breaking our way? Not in terms of the campaign, but kind of the outside stuff.

all this crap from from hassan piker and you know i think that that is again a tactically smart but i agree with you i think they're gonna have a very difficult time disavowing many of their prior crazy beliefs but they're hoping that everybody sort of glosses over it they're they're that everybody sort of ignores it that it goes away for them and you could see a world in which they nominate somebody for the presidency who's able to kind of like gloss over the top of it i don't think it's aoc but you could see somebody like a west moore being able to sort of evade that some of those more more dicey issues for them like trans

Do you think they even need to fully disavow all of this stuff? I just can't help but wonder how many within the Democratic base have a hankering for them to disavow or if they're just saying, oh, well, yeah, we all got caught up in stuff.

No big deal.

And I just wonder how many of these Democratic lawmakers are going to say, screw it.

I'm not going to give any ground on this.

I'm not going to show any weakness.

I agree with what you're saying, Ben, that I think this one has more legs because I think the class warfare, there's more for them to go on than the racial grievances in woke one.

And, and definitely, you know, I would say it's the biggest action flick that any conservative studio has ever put out by far.

Where... do the midterms stand?

Yeah, it's been really interesting.

I think given the last three or four months, you would have expected Republicans to have lost a ton of ground on the generic ballot with regard to the midterms.

But if you actually look back, the week before the war in Iran started, Democrats were at like 47.5%, Republicans in the high 43s.

Despite the last three or four months of inflation going back up and the war getting worse and people not being happy with the war once it ended, Democrats have only gained about half a percent in the generic ballot.

And so I'm still maybe delusionally optimistic that given the lack of momentum for the Democrats, given the apparent ceiling that we're seeing, given these new socialist candidates that are going to give the Republicans people to point to and make this race about, that things... maybe won't be as bad as a lot of Republicans are racing for.

I'm always the delusional optimist, though.

I think this is a change in one of the American parties, and I think that unfortunately capitalism may end up being a monopartisan affair faster than we could even

Where... do the midterms stand?

Yeah, it's been really interesting.

I think given the last three or four months, you would have expected Republicans to have lost a ton of ground on the generic ballot with regard to the midterms.

But if you actually look back, the week before the war in Iran started, Democrats were at like 47.5%, Republicans in the high 43s.

Despite the last three or four months of inflation going back up and the war getting worse and people not being happy with the war once it ended, Democrats have only gained about half a percent in the generic ballot.

And so I'm still maybe delusionally optimistic that given the lack of momentum for the Democrats, given the apparent ceiling that we're seeing, given these new socialist candidates that are going to give the Republicans people to point to and make this race about, that things... maybe won't be as bad as a lot of Republicans are racing for.

I'm always the delusional optimist, though.

I think this is a change in one of the American parties, and I think that unfortunately capitalism may end up being a monopartisan affair faster than we could even

Yeah.

And so I think there's, there's a reflecta- a reflexive nature to if it's good for the billionaire class, it must be bad for me.

I think that's part of it.

I do think that there is more awareness now of people being concerned about, um, the impact of technology.

There were those viral stories of these Bitcoin mining facilities in Texas, where, you know, there was an, an increase in, uh, people coming down with chronic migraines, people coming down, uh...

There were higher rates of stillborn births.

There were negative impacts for farm animals in the town.

Yeah.

When did you really start feeling like a dad, and is there a moment that you can point to that, like, kinda stands out?

Once I felt, uh, my first son kicking.

Um, I would like to say, "Oh, like, the second we had the pregnancy test," it, it didn't feel real at first.

The first moment that I felt my son kicking was this moment of, "Oh, my goodness." It was, like, real.

Oh, that's a human life in there.

And of course I know life begins at conception.

I, I know that, like, in my head, but in my heart it was that feeling of, "Oh, my goodness, I just felt my son." And it was this, like, beautiful mix of excitement and nervousness but also this realization of purpose, and that was the coolest moment of just feeling my purpose now on this earth is not just to serve God and serve my wife but to protect these kids and, and, and raise them well, and it was that moment for me.

Hmm

So can you give me some details on this apparent gigantic terror plot, a drone plot against people who are attending the UFC fight on the White House lawn on Sunday that was uncovered by the FBI?

Yeah.

It- it's worth pointing out, a lot of times people hear about these plots or these alleged plots, and they think, "Oh, was this thing actually gonna happen? Was this actually serious, or were these just a few guys sitting around a campfire spewing out stupid ideas and getting caught?" This one seems very, very serious and very credible.

So, uh, what we have here is about 20-plus individuals in a series of signal chats plotting out a plan to attack the UFC, uh, event this past Sunday at the White House.

Um, one of those individuals, his mother became so concerned by what she was seeing from her son that she contacted federal authorities, and they immediately came in and began investigating.

So it looks like there was not, like, an informant or a, or a federal agent of some kind in these chats spreading this plan.

This was actually something where the, the suspect's mother turned him in.

Now, as always, the, the first place that people go is, what are the politics of the people who are attempting to carry out this plot? What, what do we know at this point about why they wanted to do this, who they were targeting? What was the goal?

... belief in Donald Trump?

I think that's, th- the answer to that is just, it's the results.

Um, I think they're waiting to see the results, and right now they still...

In the MAGA crowd, I think a lot of them do still have faith in President Trump.

And you look at Venezuela, for example, before the conflict, the polling showed that the majority of Americans were not in favor in the, uh, of the idea of intervening, and then after the intervention you start to get the results coming in, and they say, "Hey, maybe President Trump is different.

Maybe President Trump is not, uh, incapable of avoiding forever wars, and he can actually get in and get out." And so you saw the polling increase after the fact in Venezuela, where they said, "Maybe that was a good idea." And I think with Iran, until you actually see the, the long-term closure and you see the results, I, I think you're gonna s- have the majority of Americans saying it's a bad idea because there's still this hangover from Iraq and Afghanistan.

And, uh, one of the things I hear from a lot of MAGA voters is, is, "Trust the process." And they're saying, "Well, we're just gonna believe that President Trump knows things about the situation that, that we maybe don't." And Trump has been really brilliant, I think, in the messaging of paniccins, of framing anyone who doesn't trust his way of thinking as, "Well, you're just panicking, and you're not having enough faith, and haven't you learned by now that, that I can do things differently than my predecessors?" And that works when the results are there, but I, I do think that there are going to be folks in the MAGA, uh, movement that things start to fray a bit, where they say, "Hey, I'm not a paniccin because I don't really see a light at the end of the tunnel here.

But-

What exactly is being alleged here?

So just to catch everyone up, this indictment centers on Dr. David Morens, who spent 16 years as a senior advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

That's the department that Anthony Fauci served as director of for nearly 40 years.

This is someone who worked side by side with Dr. Fauci day in and day out throughout the height of the COVID-19 pandemic until he left in 2022.

Uh, that's the same year Fauci left.

Now, the Justice Department is accusing Dr. Morens of using his position to deliberately conceal information and falsify records to, in their view, suppress alternative theories about the origins of COVID-19.

He's charged with one count of conspiracy against the United States, two counts of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations, and two counts of concealment, removal, or mutilation of records.

What exactly is being alleged there?

What do we know now?

Well, according to authorities, the California native had a deep hatred of President Trump a- and really his entire administration.

Just before opening fire, Cole reportedly sent his family a manifesto referring to himself as the, quote, "friendly federal assassin." At least some members of his immediate family, uh, were concerned and contacted law enforcement, but by then it was too late.

The New York Post has since obtained that manifesto, and as expected, it is full of anti-Trump rhetoric.

He starts by apologizing to his family before making clear that he had compiled a specific list and r- with rankings of White House officials that he planned to kill, while saying, quote, "I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done." And to that point, Cole includes a number of references to, uh, Trump-era policies and actions, including ICE detention facilities, civilian casualties of war in Iran, and even, uh, drug smugglers who had been killed, he refers to them as fishermen, uh, by the Navy off the coast of South America.

Later on, Cole says that he did not plan to explicitly target those in attendance, that includes our Daily Wire team, uh, but would still shoot them because they, quote, "chose to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit." So by all accounts, this does appear to be yet another example of anti-Trump political terrorism.

We're not gonna stop being out there.

However, many on the right, as I, I'm sure you've seen, were quick to question why the main entrance of the hotel was not more secure, especially given the growing number of attempts we've seen on President Trump's life.

Where do things stand now?

Right.

It was another rollercoaster 48 hours for sure.

So heading into the weekend, there was quite a bit of optimism from the White House that a permanent deal was imminent.

Iran had reopened the Strait of Hormuz, gas prices started to tumble to pre-war levels, and Wall Street surged.

The Nasdaq and S&P 500 each hit all-time highs, and the Dow closed at its highest mark since February, so the vibes were high.

But on Saturday, Iranian state media abruptly announced that they were closing the strait once again, blaming the ongoing US blockade, which they called, quote, "banditry and maritime piracy." In their words, any vessel attempting to pass through would be considered to be, quote, "cooperating with the enemy." And within hours, they began once again firing missiles at numerous vessels, including those from India, France, and Britain, and they did strike at least one.

Let me turn back.

Are we going to win by out-breeding the left?

We are, Michael.

Uh, that is the pace that we're on right now.

And first, I have to get the promo out of the way.

Like you said, Wired In Live, The Daily Wire's doing a live news show Monday through Thursday 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time.

Uh, tune in if you're, if you're saying, "Hey, I w- I wish there was more live coverage happening when I'm driving home from work," so tune in every day at this beautiful set.

Uh, but beautiful set, and also let's talk about beautiful sex, the kind that produces babies.

I mean, how many conservative families do you know where-One or all of the kids goes woke.

In any case, Cabot, tell [laughs] what can, what can viewers expect to see from Wired In Live every afternoon?

afternoon?Yeah, we've had the li- the, uh, Morning Wire News Show for about four years now.

That just goes in the morning.

That's 15 minutes, and our audience kept saying, "Hey, we need something later in the day.

We want something live so it's fully, uh, up to date on everything going on.

I wanna be able to put something on while I'm driving home." Uh, and so we started doing these live broadcasts during the election and, uh, during the inauguration, and now we're doing them four days a week.

Um, essentially, you know, it's, it's a traditional live news broadcast.

Okay, so where can people see it? When can people see it? And what do you expect to cover today?

Now, the White House is yet to acknowledge those remarks, but he could be referring to Kharg Island, which is home to much of Iran's oil infrastructure, and it's worth noting online prediction markets currently have the odds of US boots on the ground in Iran at 60% by April 30th.

30th.Now I know, uh, some, uh, people might roll their eyes when they hear that.

They don't really care about prediction markets, but they have been remarkably accurate at predicting all sorts of geopolitical events in the past year, including the initial start of the war itself.

So it is worth keeping an eye on.

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What is the latest on the economic fallout in the US?

Yeah, this won't be news to, uh, most folks listening, but gas is going up fast.

Right now, the national average is $3.94 a gallon.

At the start of the war, it was $2.98. That represents the largest one-month increase in gas since Hurricane Katrina.

The bottom line is higher gas prices equals higher inflation, and that means not only higher prices, but higher interest rates.

Before the war, the expectation was that the Federal Reserve would, uh, continue cutting rates throughout the year.

But given all of this economic uncertainty, the Fed is now expected to go the other way and actually raise rates.

What did we see there?

We want to get to those, of course, but first, let's start with the latest from Iran.

Well, the bombardment continued all weekend long.

The White House says we've now hit more than six thousand targets across the country, sinking more than sixty-five naval vessels, and that Iran's ballistic missile attacks are now down ninety percent from the start of the war, while drone attacks are down ninety-five percent.

And over the weekend, the US, for the first time, targeted Kharg Island.

That is a critical land mass in the Persian Gulf through which about ninety percent of Iran's oil supply passes.

President Trump said those strikes focused only on military targets like air defense systems and underground storage facilities for mines, but he also threatened to destroy, in the future, the island's oil infrastructure if the Iranians maintain their blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

For their part, the Iranians said, quote, "If this happens, all oil and gas infrastructure in the region in which the US and its allies have interests will be set on fire and destroyed."

Prices today are still far below what they were in the Biden administration, where they were begging, bartering, and bribing Iran to, to behave better.

What did we hear from him?

Yeah, as we've talked about on the show, Trump has been traveling the country in recent months, uh, really working to convince the American people that he is making progress on the economy.

While the president himself won't be on the ballot again, uh, he's essentially campaigning for Republican control of the Senate come November.

An Iowa Senate seat is gonna be up for grabs, so these speeches are basically campaign stops and tell us a lot about the message we're gonna hear from the GOP over the next nine months.

Hmm.

Remember, the EU is furious with Trump over his hardball tactics on Greenland, NATO funding, the war in Ukraine, and tariffs.

He's essentially told them, "We're the number one economy.

You need us.

the different focuses, but there's probably some nervousness about access to data that the, the US government has, correct?

Yeah, there is, and, uh, the White House has assured people, "Look, the data we're giving is, uh, uh, it either has nothing to do with privacy..." They said, "We're not gonna violate anyone's privacy with the data that we're giving out." So it's, again, it's things...

weather patterns, it's geological surveys, things like that.

Uh, one of the big data sets is actually the ocean floor, so they're just giving them all the data we have that we've gotten from mapping the ocean floor, things of that nature.

But they are assuring people, "Hey, we're not giving out any sort of private information because that would, uh, potentially fall into the hands of the Chinese or Russians, so anything we're giving out, uh, i- is nothing that people would be worried about getting out."

Hm.

The world's first nuclear fission reactor is there in Oak Ridge.

I talked to a number of scientists and also a number of political figures, senators, congress members, the energy secretary, Chris Wright.

So why don't you tell me about Manhattan Project 2.0? What is this?

Yeah.

So over the last few years as AI has burst on the scene, uh, nationwide, most of the development has actually been happening in the private sector, in Silicon Valley.

Companies we all know, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google.

But the Trump administration is really big that this whole thing is a national security issue similar to the nuclear arms race or the space race in the '50s and '60s.

And they're adamant that, hey, if we fall behind here to China, to Russia, uh, you know, any other country, it's going to have the same impact as if we had not been the first to create nuclear weapons in the 1940s.

So they're calling this the new Manhattan Project, uh, basically to create this sense of urgency that, hey, we cannot let other countries get ahead of us here.

What, what's the blowback been like?

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... because the student was smiling to the camera, giving them the middle finger.

The student was clearly very proud.

They walked away and gave this dorky high five to one of the other leftist creeps that was standing behind cheering it on, so I don't know if doxing is the right accusation there.

And then there were the number of kids saying they were gonna come to the event or the number of kids cheering on this student and, uh, Ben, there were a good number of conservative students there.

There were a good number of nice, politically agnostic kids in the middle.

Not a single one of these crazy leftist students showed up.

Uh, what do you make of the phenomenon?

So, Cabot, we'll get to the Xi meeting, but first tell us about the latest deal brokered yesterday.

Yeah.

President Trump arrived in South Korea looking to finalize the framework of a trade deal that's now been months in the making.

So, for context, over the summer he threatened to impose those 25% tariffs on all South Korean goods coming into the US and he let them know that if they wanted those rates lowered, they would have to make massive investments in the American economy, and now they have.

On Wednesday, they followed through in a big way, finalizing a deal that will send $350 billion stateside over the next decade.

Among other things, that deal will include the purchase of about $50 billion in Boeing aircraft manufactured in the US, there's a multi-billion dollar partnership between the Korean Air Force and US defense contractors, and new partnerships between US and Korean rare earth mineral companies.

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