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--:-- Georgia Howe: President Trump returns from his momentous Middle East summit after securing a peace deal in Gaza and strengthening ties with global leaders. They all wanted to see this happen. That's the amazing thing. Everybody came together at this point. If you go back six months or seven months, you would have said a thing like this is impossible. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, October 14th, and this is Morning Wire.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Just weeks from the election, Democrat Zoran Mamdani is hit with new accusations, but will it be enough to give Andrew Cuomo momentum in the key mayoral race? Reports show his campaign received more than 170 contributions from addresses outside of the U.S. amounting to more than $13,000. And the Trump administration faces off with the courts as it moves to send in the military to quell riots in Portland and Chicago.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: President Trump ended his historic peace trip to the Middle East with a short stint in Egypt where he led a roundtable on the future of Gaza. Here to talk about that and more is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So Tim, after Trump gave his speech in Israel, he jetted off to Egypt where he met with other global leaders to discuss the future of Gaza. What did they decide?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Right. So as we covered, Trump began his trip in Israel to meet with hostage families and Israeli leaders and to declare an end to the war. But Egypt is where the president needed to cement the peace in the Middle East he's been after. Trump went to the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. That's where Israeli and Hamas negotiators hammered out a ceasefire agreement last week. On Monday, nearly three dozen world leaders joined Trump to welcome the Gaza peace plan. The main players here were Trump and the leaders of Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here's footage released by the White House of all four of them sitting and signing the Gaza peace plan. One of the major goals of this process has been to normalize relations between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. But the diplomatic situation is still tricky. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited to attend this summit, but officially he said he had to decline because it was too close to the Jewish holiday. But unofficially, there was a report out in The Guardian that said Turkish President Erdogan refused to land his plane in Egypt if Netanyahu was present So it seems like there still a lot of work to do in massaging those relationships
--:-- Tim Pierce: Well as you said it a process Now this was a 20 plan that Trump presented, and the first few items have been completed, although there are still some bodies of the deceased that need to be repatriated back to Israel. But moving forward, what does future peace in Gaza look like?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Right. There are still a lot of questions to be answered and some issues where it seems like the two sides are still not fully in agreement upon. But Trump's message in Egypt was that they have already achieved the impossible. Together we've achieved what everybody said was impossible. At long last, we have peace in the Middle East. And it's a very simple expression, peace in the Middle East. And we've heard it for many years, but nobody thought it could ever get there. And now we're there.
--:-- Tim Pierce: For now, the search for the bodies of the still missing hostages will continue as humanitarian aid will now flow into Gaza. Here's Trump. War in Gaza is over. Humanitarian aid is now pouring in, including hundreds of truckloads of food, medical equipment and other supplies, much of it paid for by people in this room. Civilians are returning to their homes. The hostages are reuniting. And now the rebuilding begins.
--:-- Tim Pierce: According to Trump, the money and manpower needed to rebuild Gaza will come mostly from Arab countries. The president says he's already talked to a few willing benefactors. I'm pleased to announce that numerous countries of great wealth and power and dignity have come forward to me just today and over the last week to say they want to help in the reconstruction of Gaza, putting up whatever money is necessary. And the money is, of course, it's a lot of money, but it's not much compared to the value or the wealth of these tremendous countries. And they are ensuring stability and success in the Middle East.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, under the Trump peace plan, the enclave is supposed to be administered by a mix of Palestinian and international technocrats, all led by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. And their work would be overseen by a board chaired by Trump himself. But that would require Hamas to give up all future involvement in the governance of Gaza, which the terror group has not committed to do yet. The plan also requires Hamas to completely disarm, which, again, it has not committed to do. But those are the prerequisites for a viable path for a Palestinian state.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So it sounds like Trump needs to marshal a bit more support to put pressure on Hamas to agree. Yeah, like maybe what happened last week when Egypt and Qatar reportedly squeezed Hamas to agree to the initial stage of the deal.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, right after that meeting in Egypt, President Trump flew back to D.C. where he's hosting an event for Charlie Kirk. Tell us about that.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Yeah, later today, the president will posthumously award Charlie Kirk the highest civilian honor in the United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Kirk was very close to the president and many in his administration. So this should be a difficult but also a really meaningful time for the White House and the president to honor their close friend. Erica Kirk is expected to be there to take the award for her late husband. Well, looking forward to that. And Daily Wire's Mary Margaret Olehan is going to be on the ground reporting for us.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Tim, thanks for reporting. Thanks for having me on.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: The high-profile race for mayor of New York City is just three weeks away. And new controversy has erupted involving the leading candidate, far-left Democrat Zoran Mamdani. Joining us to discuss is Miranda Devine, columnist at the New York Post and host of the PodForce1 podcast.
--:-- Miranda Devine: Thanks for coming on. Great to see you again. Pleasure, John. Good to see you too.
--:-- Miranda Devine: So we just had news break from the New York Post that Mamdani's mayoral campaign took in potentially $13,000 in illegal foreign donations from various donors. Does this seem to have any merit? There's been this sort of stench of foreign money around Mamdani for some time. The Act Blue Democrat fundraising platform is being investigated for being a sort of a front for foreign money to be parceled up and disguised as if it was straw donors. What are the implications of this? Do you think Mamdani will be held to account or will this affect the race at all?
--:-- Miranda Devine: I doubt very much. I mean, Democrats all over the country have been caught red-handed doing all sorts of nefarious things, threatening to murder their Republican foes and nothing happens to them. So on the other hand, we had Donald Trump being indicted and charged last year during his campaign. And there's something on the nose about three weeks before an election about intervening in a sort of a legal sense, which I think would backfire in New York, which is 70 percent Democrat. Right. So that might actually work to Mondani's advantage.
--:-- Miranda Devine: We've also just seen Mandani's wife on social media openly mourn the death of a Palestinian influencer, a man referred to as Mr. F.A.F.O. He celebrated the October 7th terror attacks. What have we seen there?
--:-- Miranda Devine: Yes. And look, I mean, repellent, but not surprising. This is an influencer who is a Hamas guy. And for Mamdani's wife to be openly celebrating him on social media just shows how clueless they both are about the optics of celebrating the murderers of so many Jews on October 7 in a very Jewish city. And particularly at this time when the hostages are coming back, when Donald Trump has managed to pull off this immense peace deal, it seems churlish. And it really shows you how Mamdani and his entire family are so unsuitable for any kind of leadership role, let alone in America's greatest city.
--:-- Miranda Devine: What do you expect in the next few weeks in this race? Are there any signs of Sliwa dropping out, any movement from Cuomo, or does Mamdani basically have this wrapped up?
--:-- Miranda Devine: Well, Cuomo has surged in the polls most recently, and that's because he's benefited almost entirely from Eric Adams dropping out. Curtis Sliwa is at 15%. In a very Democrat city, he really hasn't managed to make a mark, and there's a lot of push for him to pull out. And so that it's just a Cuomo versus Mamdani race. Cuomo's now at about 33%. Mamdani's at 46%. So with Sliwa in the race, there's really no hope. Cuomo, he's starting to up his game a little bit. It's really up to Cuomo in the next three weeks. Is he going to be able to convince Sliwa to drop out? Is he going to be able to put some more energy and pep into his campaign? Well, we'll see if any more October surprises crop up in these final weeks.
--:-- Miranda Devine: Miranda, joy to have you back on. Thank you so much. Thanks, John. It was a pleasure.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Trump administration is trying to send in the military to quell riots in Portland and Chicago but the efforts have been held up in the courts due to ongoing lawsuits What does this all mean for the Trump administration push to further its deportation efforts Daily Wire immigration reporter Jenny Tehr joins us now to break it all down
--:-- Jenny Tehr: So, Jenny, first, what can you tell us about where things stand with the deportation efforts and crackdowns?
--:-- Jenny Tehr: Right. So currently, the Trump administration is trying to carry out its mass deportation effort in places like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois, where sanctuary laws have protected illegal immigrant criminals for just too long. And in doing so, they've gone out into some pretty unfriendly environments. So the Trump administration has asked to send in troops to these areas, some of them from out of state. Now, this has led to some lawsuits from both the state of Oregon and the state of Illinois. They don't want this deployment. They believe it's unconstitutional to not only send their own state National Guard in, but also to send National Guard from other states like Texas and California.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: Now, currently, judges in these cases have said that the Trump administration cannot send in the National Guard soldiers, that this case still needs to be heard, and that there's not yet really any justification, they believe, to send in the National Guard. The Trump administration says that there absolutely is justification because of, like I said, these assaults, these attacks. There's been a bounty placed on the head of the Border Patrol operation. Now, in their efforts to continue this mass deportation, the Trump administration is using other resources in the meantime. They're taking Border Patrol agents off the border. They're continuing to pull them for these efforts, both the northern and southern borders.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: They're also pulling ICE agents from other areas of the country that aren't as bogged down by illegal immigration and illegal immigrant crime. I've talked to a number of sources who have been part of these deployments. They're using all the manpower that they can to continue to not only make arrests, but to also provide security to their fellow federal law enforcement officers, which is kind of what the troop deployment is intended to do.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: Now, a major side effect of the massive surge in illegal immigration was the huge number of unaccompanied minors that entered the country that have since basically gone off the grid. We don't know where thousands or hundreds of thousands of children went. And the Trump administration has now inherited that problem. I understand they are making some efforts to track down those children.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: When children come across the border unaccompanied, without parents, without adults who claim them, they're sent to HHS, which is tasked with finding their sponsors in the United States. Under the Biden administration, the process for finding these people and actually vetting them was very lax. I recently spoke with John Fabricatore, who's tasked with addressing this issue at HHS for the Trump administration. He said that they're changing this process and making it stronger tenfold.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: What that means is not only finding some of these children who went missing, they're also making sure the children who are let in are going to the right people because many of these children ended up in the hands of traffickers who use them for forced labor, who use them for sex trafficking, tragically. So the Trump administration is vetting them through DNA testing if they're claiming to be family. HHS officials are going to the homes of these children, of the sponsors, and they're making sure that the sponsor is a safe person to place these children with. On top of that, they're also making sure that these sponsors and anyone in the household is background checked, which is surprising that none of this was done under the Biden administration.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: And they're also asking them to provide a proof of income to show that they can support these children. It's a tragic story of what happened under the Biden administration and what the Trump administration is trying to undo.
--:-- Jenny Tehr: Well, absolutely enormous crisis. Jenny, thanks for reporting. Thank you. Thanks for waking up with us.
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