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--:-- John Bickley: It's Wednesday, June 12th, and this is Morning Wire. I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley.
--:-- John Bickley: Newly released video from January 6th shows Democrat House Leader Nancy Pelosi taking partial responsibility for the Capitol breach. They clearly didn't know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.
--:-- John Bickley: Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- John Bickley: Hunter Biden was found guilty on all three federal charges brought against him in a Delaware courthouse on Tuesday. The felony conviction stemmed from lying on a form while purchasing a firearm, and each carries a potential sentence of 25 years in prison, though few expect such a harsh penalty.
--:-- John Bickley: Here to join us to discuss the conviction of the troubled first son is Daily Wire contributor David Marcus.
--:-- David Marcus: Hey, John. So how long was the jury out and was this conviction more or less expected?
--:-- John Bickley: Morning, John. The jury deliberated only for about three hours, some of it Monday afternoon, the rest on Tuesday morning, and they did not require a lunch break as they brought back three guilty decisions by late morning. There wasn't a lot of shock over the verdict. The evidence was very compelling.
--:-- David Marcus: One juror told Fox News that nobody in the room believed the defense team's story that Hunter Biden was at 7-Eleven at five in the morning to buy donuts, not to buy drugs, especially after Hunter's own book described this 7-Eleven as a regular haunt for crack dealers.
--:-- John Bickley: Town Hall's Mia Kaffel spent much of the trial in the courthouse and talked about the moments she thought had the biggest impact.
--:-- Mia Kaffel: The most compelling witness for the prosecution was Zoe Keston, Hunter Biden's ex-girlfriend. They went on this cross-country spending spree, buying crack, smoking crack. The jurors heard about Hunter learning to cook crack at the Chateau Mourmand and all of these sordid details of their exploits and sexcapades.
--:-- John Bickley: The defense was trying to tug at their heartstrings that this was a man in the throes of addiction when you see that he was not living a destitute life he was living a life of luxury I don't think that resonated with the jurors.
--:-- John Bickley: Joe Biden changed his plans in order to return to Wilmington on Tuesday after the verdict was read What was the reaction from him and the White House?
--:-- John Bickley: Within minutes, Biden released a statement saying he loved his son and was proud of him, that many families suffer with addiction, and also that he respects the result of the legal system, with one caveat, which was that Hunter could appeal.
--:-- John Bickley: The president gave scheduled remarks Tuesday afternoon at, of all places, an event on gun safety. These included specific remarks about increasing penalties for people who dangerously mishandled guns or obtained them illegally, as here. They're weapons of war. And by the way, it's time we establish universal background checks and require the safe storage of firearms.
--:-- John Bickley: He did not mention Hunter's case. In addition, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre abruptly canceled her scheduled press conference. And Biden did change his plans to return to Delaware and be with his family, who had spent much the last two weeks in court.
--:-- John Bickley: Another detail noticed up close by Caffel.
--:-- Mia Kaffel: And what reaction did we see more broadly across the political spectrum? and how might this impact the politics of this election?
--:-- John Bickley: Special Counsel David Weiss stressed that this conviction was a result not of Hunter's addiction, but rather of his illegal choices while in the throes of addiction.
--:-- John Bickley: Democrats are going to want to frame this as evidence that Merrick Garland's Department of Justice shoots straight and is unbiased, especially in defense of their prosecutions of Donald Trump.
--:-- John Bickley: Also, Hunter is not done. He's facing a tax evasion federal prosecution in California in September.
--:-- John Bickley: Trump supporters will argue that these cases are very different and that, in fact, the most serious charges against Hunter Biden were allowed to lapse.
--:-- John Bickley: And that just a year ago, he was minutes from a sweetheart plea deal that would have put all of this behind him. This trial would not have taken place had that widely ridiculed deal been allowed to slip through.
--:-- John Bickley: There's still very much an argument to be made here that Hunter was the beneficiary of some special treatment by his dad's Department of Justice.
--:-- John Bickley: Finally, what have we heard so far from Donald Trump about the Hunter verdict?
--:-- John Bickley: There was a statement from Trump campaign press secretary Caroline Levitt saying that the trial was only a distraction from the, quote, Biden family criminal enterprise, end quote.
--:-- John Bickley: This echoes language that we've heard from House Republicans, including some Trump will meet with this week, about how they are continuing to investigate potential influence peddling and money laundering allegations against Joe Biden himself.
--:-- John Bickley: We now have these dueling convictions, John, between the Trump and Biden camps, and it is sure to set up one of the most anticipated subjects and dynamics of the first presidential debate, which somehow is now just a bit over two weeks away.
--:-- John Bickley: Yeah, that debate's coming up fast. Historically so, in fact.
--:-- John Bickley: Yeah. Dave, thanks for joining us.
--:-- David Marcus: Thanks for having me.
--:-- John Bickley: Newly uncovered video footage shows former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accepting partial blame for the January 6th Capitol breach.
--:-- John Bickley: Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about this new J6 footage.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Hey, Tim. So what do we know about this tape?
--:-- John Bickley: So in total, the new footage is about 45 minutes long, and it was filmed by Pelosi's daughter, a filmmaker who made a documentary about Pelosi for HBO.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Republicans got the video from the streaming service. It caught the immediate reactions of congressional leaders to the chaos that day. One of those reactions being Pelosi taking responsibility for an unprepared Capitol Police force Here the clip We have responsibility Terry We did not have any accountability for what was going on there and we should have This is ridiculous You going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they already breached the inaugural stuff Should we call the Capitol Police? I mean, the National Guard? Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?
--:-- Tim Pierce: They thought that they had sufficient resources. There's not a question of how they had, but they don't know.
--:-- John Bickley: This is a tough look for Pelosi, who has spent years denying Republican questions about Capitol Hill security.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Right, and it hits on a major accusation that's been leveled in the past against her about failing to take action to secure the Capitol.
--:-- John Bickley: What has the reaction to the video been so far?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Well, Pelosi went on MSNBC on Monday after this clip was released and accused Republicans of attempting to rewrite history with the footage.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here's some of that. The fact is that the president of the United States, the former president, and his toadies do not want to face the facts. They're trying to do revisionist history on January 6th. But we cannot let us be dragged into their, again, false impression of what happened that day.
--:-- Tim Pierce: They know what happened that day. Now, Republicans want to know how this video, again, taken by Pelosi's own daughter, was never aired by the Democrat-led House Select Committee on January 6 after it spent two years and millions of taxpayer dollars on its investigation.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here's Congressman Barry Loudermilk, who has led the GOP audit of Pelosi's January 6 committee on Real America's Voice on a Tape.
--:-- Barry Loudermilk: Yes, she should take responsibility, but it doesn't answer the questions that we've been after. Why were they caught flat-footed? What was the failure? And why did not her select committee investigate that failure?
--:-- Barry Loudermilk: It turned into simply a committee to tie Trump into all these failures instead of looking at the failures within the Capitol.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, regarding J6, we're also expecting a Supreme Court ruling soon that could have a big impact on the cases of those convicted of crimes related to the riot.
--:-- Tim Pierce: This case, Fisher v. United States, involves three defendants who have been charged with multiple crimes related to January 6th, but this challenge focuses on one in particular, a count of obstruction of an official proceeding.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The defendants argue that the legal statute doesn't prohibit their alleged conduct, so it doesn't apply. A district court agreed with them before the D.C. Circuit reversed that decision.
--:-- Tim Pierce: We should have the final ruling in the case from the Supreme Court later this month. If the justices side with the defendants, the decision would impact many cases associated with January 6th, most prominently that of special counsel Jack Smith's case against Trump.
--:-- John Bickley: We'll see what the court decides a major decision there.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Tim, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Good to be on.
--:-- John Bickley: Apple announced this week an ambitious move to bring AI software to billions of their devices by the end of this year. The announcement sparked immediate controversy.
--:-- John Bickley: Here to discuss the groundbreaking development is Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, it's interesting. To this point, Apple has sort of been on the sidelines when it comes to AI development.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: While competitors like Google and Microsoft spent billions in recent years developing their own AI platforms, Apple had really yet to publicly join that arms race.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: But that changed in a big way this week, with the company announcing the rollout of Apple Intelligence, which they say will bring personalized AI to their more than 2.2 billion devices worldwide.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: But it's worth noting, instead of developing their own programs from scratch, Apple is partnering with OpenAI to integrate the now ubiquitous chat GPT with iPhones and other devices
--:-- Cabot Phillips: As Apple CEO Tim Cook put it the AI will analyze every user personal data and habits to offer personalized AI It has to understand you and be grounded in your personal context, like your routine, your relationships, your communications, and more.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: All right, so what exactly will this look like?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Well, according to Apple, the AI software will be embedded in virtually every single function of your iPhone, combing through your conversations, social media activity, Google searches, et cetera, to optimize your daily life.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: That means suggesting responses to texts and emails, analyzing your daily commute, work routine, exercise schedule, the list goes on.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: It'll also revolutionize the Siri feature, offering users the ability to not just ask questions verbally, but type queries directly into their iPhone, which will then be answered by ChatGPT.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: For more, I spoke with Chris Alexander, the chief analytics officer at Pioneer Group and co-founder of Lever AI.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: There can be a lot of utility because it may notice you're never productive at this time of day. Maybe this is when you should take lunch or, you know, you make more errors after you've been sitting for X amount of time.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: You know, it's going to be able to figure those kinds of things out in time and help optimize virtually every aspect of your life.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, some folks might be uneasy about AI software being downloaded onto their personal devices.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: To that point, Apple and other tech companies have actually been fairly open about the fact that this is the future. And essentially, it's coming whether you like it or not.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, there are plenty of folks who've raised concerns about artificial intelligence being integrated into virtually all of our devices.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Talk to us about that aspect.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So the big concern for many people is how it could influence everything from culture and language to politics.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: We've talked a good bit on the show about the apparent left-wing bias present in most AI software, including ChatGPT.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And now that program is going to make its way onto the devices of a billion plus people, answering questions for them, directing them to certain news outlets or apps, even helping them decide which restaurants they eat at.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Here's Alexander speaking to those concerns.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: You have what's called a black box, and those are the algorithms and the rules by which the artificial intelligence operates. And those are, you know, an industrial secret. They don't publish those. That is literally the secret sauce.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: What's in there, you know, what will happen with your Apple device is whatever a Silicon Valley software engineer thinks the world is supposed to be, you're going to see that.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, there are obviously privacy concerns here, which Apple did try to get ahead of, stressing that you can opt out of the features and also attempting to assure users that most of the AI processing would take place on their specific device and not be sent out into the cloud.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: But there are still, again, plenty of folks unnerved by the move.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Chief among them is Elon Musk, who called it a, quote, security violation and claimed it's, quote, patently absurd that Apple is not smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that open AI will protect your security and privacy.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: He even went so far as vowing to ban Apple devices from its companies for employees and even visitors, saying visitors with an iPhone will have to hand over their device for storage in a Faraday cage.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: That's a box that essentially blocks wireless signals.
--:-- John Bickley: A lot of trepidation about AI's role going forward.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Cabot, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Anytime. Thanks for waking up with us.
--:-- John Bickley: We'll be back this afternoon with more of the news you need to know.
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