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--:-- Georgia Howe: Good morning, I'm Georgia Howe. John's off this morning. It's Friday, November 7th. And this is Morning Wire.
--:-- Georgia Howe: President Trump leans on lawmakers to end the country's longest government shutdown as Americans brace for travel chaos. As we come into Thanksgiving, if we're still in the shutdown posture, it's going to be rough out there. Really rough.
--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe. John's off this morning. It's Friday, November 7th. And this is Morning Wire.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi finally hangs it up after decades of pushing a progressive agenda in the halls of Congress. And Border Patrol sets a new record for illegal crossings.
--:-- Georgia Howe: For the first time in my career, we're actually seeing a whole-of-government approach. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: As the government shutdown continues, Donald Trump puts new pressure on Republican leaders to invoke the nuclear option to bring an end to the stalemate. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has more from Washington.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So Cabot, the shutdown drags on and now more Americans are starting to feel the impact. What's the latest?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, as we approach the 40-day mark, this is now the longest government shutdown in history. Now, for many folks in the first month, if you weren't a federal employee or tourist in D.C., you may not have felt any noticeable impact on your day-to-day life, but that could change by the end of this week with significant impacts coming to air travel.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Remember, air traffic controllers have been working without pay for over a month now. That has resulted in serious staff shortages that are getting worse by the day. And many of those who are on the job have been working long shifts six days a week.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: As a result, starting this morning, the FAA will begin requiring at least 40 airports to cut back on their flight offerings. In total, the FAA says they are reducing overall flight capacity by 4% today and then eventually working up to 10% across what they call high traffic areas. That is going to impact hundreds of thousands of travelers and put even more pressure on lawmakers to get a deal done.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So to that point, are we any closer to getting a compromise? Well, Republicans are holding firm, saying that they will not agree to a budget that offers billions of taxpayer dollars for health care subsidies that eventually will make their way to illegal immigrants.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: For their part, Democrats on the Hill huddled for a luncheon Thursday afternoon to discuss that offer and their broader strategy. Daily Wire congressional reporter Amber Jo Cooper was on the ground in D.C. Here's what she had to say about where things now stand.
--:-- Amber Jo Cooper: Yeah, we're hearing that a new deal was offered to Senate Democrats on Thursday. And while we don't know much of the details, a Senate source familiar with negotiations told me that there's going to be another vote today that could potentially reopen the government.
--:-- Amber Jo Cooper: The Senate's expected to hold a procedural vote on the House past continuing resolution, and they're hoping to amend it and push the date out a bit and add a three-bill spending package, also known as a minibus. I'm told that the minibus includes three full-year funding bills for agriculture, FDA, military construction VA and the legislative branch.
--:-- Amber Jo Cooper: Now there a chance that this could get blocked by Senate Democrats today They need 60 votes to push it forward which means that they need at least five Democrats to join Republicans to reopen the government
--:-- Amber Jo Cooper: Now looking big picture following Tuesday election results, Democrats certainly feel confident that they are winning the messaging battle and that they now have the momentum and importantly, the leverage when it comes to the shutdown.
--:-- Amber Jo Cooper: So they're unlikely to rush to make concessions at this point, given that reality.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, let's talk about President Trump. He's been weighing in recently. Where does he stand on all this?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, in the early days of the shutdown, the White House was clearly confident that Democrats would bear the blame among voters. But following the sweeping success for Democrats at the polls this week, Trump was seemingly a bit spooked. He met with GOP leaders on the Hill this week and made clear that he felt the shutdown hurt them down ballot.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And as a sign of that concern over how this is all playing, Trump then went a step further, urging party leaders to eliminate the Senate filibuster and use that elimination to force an end to the shutdown themselves.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Here's Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olhan with more on the White House's strategy.
--:-- Mary Margaret Olhan: He has been talking on this vein of thinking since Wednesday, the day after the elections, when he had all these Republican senators to breakfast and he told them that the shutdown did in fact impact the elections and that Republicans were not viewed favorably, which is a shift in messaging from what the White House has been saying, because all along, So far, we've been hearing that, you know, Democrats are the reason for the shutdown and Americans should be mad at Democrats.
--:-- Mary Margaret Olhan: And I think they were really hoping that this was the way it would be perceived. So this is sometimes referred to as the nuclear option because it would be a very big deal to abolish the filibuster. Walk us through what it would mean exactly.
--:-- Mary Margaret Olhan: Well, for context, while legislation technically only needs a simple majority to pass the Senate, because of the filibuster, you actually need 60 votes to really get legislation to the floor even for a vote. Both Democrats and Republicans have considered nuking it, aka the nuclear option, as they call it. But ultimately, they've stopped for fear of how it would be used against them once they inevitably lost power.
--:-- Mary Margaret Olhan: But now President Trump is calling for just that. The Democrats will exercise their rights and it will be done in the first day they take office, regardless of whether or not we do it. The Democrats want to end the filibuster. Don't you understand that, Republicans? Now, at the moment, a number of Republicans in the Senate have come out publicly saying that they will never vote to end the filibuster.
--:-- Mary Margaret Olhan: But we'll see if that changes as Trump continues his pressure campaign and this shutdown drags on.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Well, it would be a major change to how American politics proceeds. Cabot, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Absolutely.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: After several decades in Congress and two stints as the Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi announced she's not running for re-election. Daily Wire political reporter Cameron Arcand joins us now to discuss.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: So, Cameron, a major announcement yesterday that we wanted to spend some time today unpacking. Why do you think Nancy Pelosi decided to announce her retirement now?
--:-- Cameron Arcand: Well, good morning. I mean the timing of this comes right after the Prop 50 election that we saw earlier this week It had been reported for weeks now that she was debating whether or not she would run for re So this did not come as a surprise in terms of timing here, but this does give room for people who could potentially be her successor in her San Francisco-based district to launch their campaigns and really kick it off.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: She has been such a looming figure in California politics and in national politics as well that this is no surprise that she would want to give people time to essentially lay the groundwork, especially in the Bay Area.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: Now, she was obviously a polarizing figure, many on the left idolizing her, people on the right, including Donald Trump, not really a fan. What has the response been to this announcement?
--:-- Cameron Arcand: Well, the response has been exactly what you would expect with such a distinct figure that you just mentioned.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: Here's the clip of Nancy Pelosi announcing that she's retiring.
--:-- Nancy Pelosi: There has been no greater honor for me than to stand on the House floor and say, I speak for the people of San Francisco. I have truly loved serving as your voice in Congress, and I've always honored the song of St. Francis, Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: And here's President Trump reacting to the news.
--:-- Donald Trump: I thought she was an evil woman who did a poor job, who crossed the country a lot in damages and in reputation. I thought she was terrible.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: President Trump told Fox News that she had lost the grip on the party over time, which to a degree, this was becoming very notable toward the end of her time that we're seeing here in Congress.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: Remember some of the divide that she had between her and the squad with AOC and that faction of her political party. Now, Hakeem Jeffries is currently the minority leader, and he has been the one for some time to kind of navigate some of those inter-party battles.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: But Nancy Pelosi has still played a major, major role in influencing the political scene not only on Capitol Hill, but also as a whole. Keep in mind, she was the person who behind the scenes was pressuring President Joe Biden back in 2024 to drop out of the race.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: She was the person orchestrating a lot of that. So she really did play a major role.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: Now, of course, on the Democratic side in Congress, we're seeing a lot of people share memories of her and just saying that they're going to embrace her last year there.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: Now, what comes next for her district in San Francisco? Presumably we will have a progressive come to take her place.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: Now that is going to be open season in the Bay Area for her seat. We've already seen people like California State Senator Scott Wiener, who is a major socially progressive activist in the Bay Area, jump in.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: We've seen AOC's former chief of staff. We've also seen some hints that her daughter, Christine Pelosi, has been floated as a pick. I was reading that in The Hill today.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: I've also seen Pelosi also potentially maybe looking at a San Francisco County supervisor potentially be tapped to be her successor as well.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: I'd really be keeping a close eye on what the tech world is doing and also who people like Governor Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris would endorse in this race.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: Well, no doubt it's an end of an era. Truly. And I mean, I think what we're going to see now is this passing of the torch in the Democratic Party.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: We saw it last year with the 2024 election, Biden passing it off to Kamala Harris for the nomination. We're soon going to see that in the House, even more obviously so, because Pelosi has been there still, even with Jeffries at the helm.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: And we'll see how her influence being removed from the Capitol in a very direct way will be influencing the party for years to come.
--:-- Georgia Howe: All right. Well, Cameron, thank you so much for reporting.
--:-- Cameron Arcand: Thank you.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Federal border authorities saw another month of historic lows at the border. For more on what's driving down illegal crossings is Daily Wire immigration reporter Jenny Tehr.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: So, Jenny, we're now nine months since Inauguration Day. What do things look like at the border?
--:-- Jenny Tehr: Right now it a complete difference from what we saw under the Biden administration Right now we just saw the lowest October on record of illegal crossings with just 30 of those.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: I just spoke with Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks about this. He said that they're seeing real success at the border and that it really shows that while there was a lot of talk about Congress needing to act, it really happened with just a stroke of a pen when President Trump came into office again.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: He also said that while we haven't yet achieved operational control at the border, we're much closer than we've ever been. Listen to what he had to say.
--:-- Mike Banks: You know, people ask me all the time and I will tell you, two days ago, 100 people crossed the border, 102 to be exact. Take that down from 10 to 12,000 a day, you know, during the prior administration. I understand that that is not operational control. Operational control is going to be when we can apprehend anything that enters this country and have zero gotaways.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: And we're closer than we've ever been, but we're not even close to being done. Counter to all the rhetoric that we heard for four years saying that there had to be new laws passed, not one single new law has been passed regarding immigration.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: And not one single dime of new money had been given to the United States Border Patrol. And look what we've done in nine months.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents are back on the front lines of the border and doing the jobs that they've wanted to do. And they're also now freed up to help ICE across the country with mass deportation raids.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: Now, I'm glad you brought up deportation raids because I know you spoke with an ICE agent this morning who was attacked by an illegal immigrant while he was assisting on an arrest in Texas. What did he say?
--:-- Jenny Tehr: Right. So this is just one agent as part of that thousand percent increase in assaults that we've talked about here many times as part of the Trump administration's effort.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: This is just coincided. It's been a dueling crisis that they're trying to crack down on illegal immigration. But they've found that they are encountering more brazen targets and, of course, rioters and agitators who are trying to seize on this moment.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: So the agent I spoke with just recently was attacked by an illegal immigrant. He had multiple convictions. He sexually assaulted a child, had multiple DUIs, convicted for child fondling. He also illegally reentered the United States at a point.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: This illegal immigrant tried to run from the officer. And what ended up happening is he really tried to fend him off and did so with the strength of a metal coffee cup that was full of hot coffee that he threw at the officer.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: That led to about 13 stitches in his upper lip. I saw what it looked like. It was basically cut in half. And he also has bruising to the face. He's got second-degree burns on his body.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: This is what they're facing right now. Now, is it normal for them to face this much resistance to arrest, or is this kind of behavior ramping up? This seems to be the new norm with a ramping up of this, of course.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: Like you just said, this agent in particular had just rejoined the force in September. He left ICE a while ago. He decided to come back because the Trump administration has been trying to recruit more officers and they've actually been trying to find retired ones to rejoin because they've gotten so much funding from the one big, beautiful bill.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: So that's how this guy got back on the job just a few months ago. And this is what it's become. Listen to what he had to say about that change.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: It's a lot different than the job I left. Everybody's running. Everybody's fighting.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: I would like the rhetoric to cool down a little bit.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Jenny, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: Thank you.
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