First Thing Today with Joe Thomas
Oct 22, 2026 · 55 min · 36 segments
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We were finding out Wall Street Journal says they have whistleblowers and or leakers within the administration that tell them that Elon Musk was the one that shut off the battlefield, or I guess geofenced the battlefield uses of Starlink.

And how many times has President Trump had a phone call with Vladimir Zelensky that's gotten him in trouble? He said yesterday, I'm getting tired of Ukraine getting all this stuff from us and us not getting anything in return.

I presume because the question was, whose side is he on? It seems like the press seems to think he has picked a winner in Putin.

But The president was buttonholed on it yesterday during the press gaggles that he holds routinely around the Oval Office.

So that's a part and parcel of what we're going to get into this morning, midterms, two weeks away.

And then what will we do? What will we do? and the GOP campaigning on France as a cautionary tale, which I don't think is unfair, but we can discuss as well.

Alberta has voted to table the idea of declaring themselves independent from Canada.

75% of voters with 84% of the voting areas counted support the idea of remaining in Canada.

Steve Witkoff met with Russian president, will meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg today to present an updated proposal aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.


Meanwhile, the story I told you, Wall Street Journal reporting that Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of military-grade versions of Starlink used by Ukrainian drones last week, disrupting operations against Russian forces.

The restrictions unilaterally declared by Musk on October 14th limited the drone's speed and capabilities during offensive and defensive missions.

The journal leaves it questionable whether the administration knew he was going to do that or not.

President Trump's administration also has reported that it has revoked 300,000 U.S. visas just during the first year and change of the second term, State Department said Tuesday.

As the federal crackdown continues on immigration fraud, the number showed an acceleration in the pace of visa revocations in the past week.

We were finding out Wall Street Journal says they have whistleblowers and or leakers within the administration that tell them that Elon Musk was the one that shut off the battlefield, or I guess geofenced the battlefield uses of Starlink.

And how many times has President Trump had a phone call with Vladimir Zelensky that's gotten him in trouble? He said yesterday, I'm getting tired of Ukraine getting all this stuff from us and us not getting anything in return.

I presume because the question was, whose side is he on? It seems like the press seems to think he has picked a winner in Putin.

But The president was buttonholed on it yesterday during the press gaggles that he holds routinely around the Oval Office.

So that's a part and parcel of what we're going to get into this morning, midterms, two weeks away.

And then what will we do? What will we do? and the GOP campaigning on France as a cautionary tale, which I don't think is unfair, but we can discuss as well.

Alberta has voted to table the idea of declaring themselves independent from Canada.

75% of voters with 84% of the voting areas counted support the idea of remaining in Canada.

Steve Witkoff met with Russian president, will meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg today to present an updated proposal aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.


Meanwhile, the story I told you, Wall Street Journal reporting that Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of military-grade versions of Starlink used by Ukrainian drones last week, disrupting operations against Russian forces.

The restrictions unilaterally declared by Musk on October 14th limited the drone's speed and capabilities during offensive and defensive missions.

The journal leaves it questionable whether the administration knew he was going to do that or not.

President Trump's administration also has reported that it has revoked 300,000 U.S. visas just during the first year and change of the second term, State Department said Tuesday.

As the federal crackdown continues on immigration fraud, the number showed an acceleration in the pace of visa revocations in the past week.
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