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--:-- Georgia Howe: Backlash to liberal immigration policies fuel yet another shift to the right in Europe. It's a good empowering of the whole MAGA project in the Central and Eastern Europe. A conservative victory in Poland comes as France is rocked by riots.
--:-- John Bickley: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, June 3rd, and this is Morning Wire.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The fallout from the Colorado terror attack continues as more details emerge about the victims and the illegal immigrant suspect. He would not have been here and should not have been here if we were actually enforcing our immigration laws.
--:-- John Bickley: And the Trump administration pauses most operations at the Department of Labor's highly controversial Job Corps. It's a $1.7 billion program with a 38% graduation rate.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: As Ukraine and Russia meet this week for peace talks, a growing list of European countries have elected right-wing leaders amid growing anti-immigration sentiment. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest from Europe.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So Cabot, let's start with the war in Ukraine. Where do things stand now?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, in the last 24 hours, we've learned a lot more regarding the details of Ukraine's surprise attack on Russia this weekend. And it's really a stunning operation. The Ukrainians managed to smuggle scores of attack drones across the border, where they were launched from wooden sheds mounted on the backs of large moving trucks.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And because those drones originated within Russian territory, they were largely able to bypass Putin's extensive air defense systems. They targeted five separate air bases and knocked out dozens of the country's most important planes.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: According to some estimates, Ukraine successfully destroyed up to one third of Russia's strategic bomber fleet. And the strikes come at a crucial time. Remember, the two countries met yesterday for a set of formal peace negotiations in Istanbul.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, how will this attack affect the prospects for that? Well, it remains to be seen, but the attack certainly sent a message both to Ukraine's allies and adversaries.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: On one hand, it comes as Western support for Ukraine's war effort continues to wane. Zelensky was on his Sunday that the operation was partially intended to restore confidence among their allies that his country was still capable of holding Russia off.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And the timing just hours before those talks began is no coincidence. It's sort of Zelensky saying to Putin, are you sure you don't want a ceasefire? But when those talks concluded after just 90 minutes Monday, little progress had been made.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Moscow finally presented their terms for peace and they're likely going to outrage Zelensky. Among Putin demands are that Ukraine recognize all of Russia territorial gains that they shrink the size of their military change their official language to Russian and agree to long neutrality aka no future membership for NATO.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: President Trump last week said Putin had two weeks to come to the table for good faith peace talks. We'll see how he responds to this proposal.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, let's talk about Ukraine's neighbor, Poland. They just had some major elections. What happened?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yes, they did. Over the weekend, Poland elected right-winger Karol Narwaki to the presidency. Many have compared the 42-year-old who had no prior political experience to Donald Trump.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: He and other cabinet members openly supported Norwalki's campaign, and he embraced similar nationalist rhetoric on the trail, even adopting Trump's campaign slogan, except in this case it was Poland first instead of America first.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Among other things, Norwalki campaigned on a promise to withdraw from the EU's migration pact, which he said flooded the continent with illegal immigrants.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: He is staunchly pro-life, against gay marriage, and has called for a return of Christian values to public life in Poland. And importantly, he signed a pledge to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO in the future.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And like Trump, he has accused Zelensky of not showing enough gratitude for the support his country has given Ukraine for their war effort.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, Poland is just the most recent European country that has elected a right-wing leader. What are some of the others?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, a clear trend developing here. In the last year, conservatives have made just historic gains across the continent, largely by promising to crack down on legal immigration from the Middle East and Africa.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: First in Austria, the country's right-wing Freedom Party won control of parliament. It was the first time a hardline conservative party has done so since World War II.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And then in Germany, conservatives made historic gains with the right-wing AFD party surging. And then last week, Portugal's right-wing Chega party scored a number of victories to become the country's leading opposition party.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And now even some left-wing politicians in Europe are adopting a more conservative tone, especially on immigration. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, for example, is turning heads this month with a promise to, quote, significantly cut down on immigration over the next four years, restrict new visas for skilled labor, and even penalize companies who hire foreign labor.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Here he is decrying the, quote, one-nation experiment in open borders. The experiment is over. We will deliver what you've asked for time and again, and we will take back control of our borders.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Look, that's a quote you would expect to hear from Donald Trump, not from the left-wing prime minister of England.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And then elsewhere in Paris this week, we've seen mass rioting following a big soccer victory. That has sparked renewed conversations there about law and order and, again, immigration.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: We'll see how that impacts the political conversation in France, but across Europe, the right-wing gaining ground.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Well, France's conservative leader, Marine Le Pen, was surging before they barred her from running.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: Cabot, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Absolutely.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: The man suspected of attacking a demonstration for Israeli hostages in Colorado has been hit with multiple charges including a federal hate crime Mohammed Sabri Solomon is being held in Boulder County Jail on a $10 million bond.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So, Tim, what is Solomon charged with?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Yeah, he's in trouble with both state and federal prosecutors. On the state side, he's been hit with 16 counts of attempted first-degree murder, as well as criminal use of an incendiary device and crimes against the elderly.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Federal prosecutors have charged Solomon with a hate crime. A special agent in charge of the FBI's Denver office said the Bureau is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism.
--:-- Tim Pierce: It is clear that this is a targeted act of violence, and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism.
--:-- Tim Pierce: As for the latest information we have, thankfully, none of the people injured in the attack have died.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Solomon himself was treated for burn injuries at a hospital before he was booked. Police say Solomon received those injuries using a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to attack demonstrators.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, police were reluctant on Sunday to release a motive. Do we know anything about it at this point?
--:-- Tim Pierce: We do. He directly said in an interview with the FBI that he wanted to kill, quote, Zionists.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Law enforcement also says he screamed free Palestine during his assault. Add that, of course, to the demonstration targeted in the attack, a weekly march in support of the hostages held by terrorists in Gaza.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The FBI said that Solomon had planned this attack for at least a year and targeted what he called a Zionist group.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, called it a targeted attack on the Jewish community.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, there's also an immigration angle to this case, correct?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Yeah, and that was highlighted by President Trump yesterday. Solomon is an Egyptian national. He entered the U.S. in 2022 on a visa that then expired the next year.
--:-- Tim Pierce: He was able to get a temporary work permit from the Biden administration, but that too expired in March this year.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Trump said in a social media post yesterday that Solomon came in through Biden's ridiculous open border policy, which has hurt our country so badly.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The president went on to say that this is yet another example of why we must keep our borders secure and deport illegal anti-American radicals from our homeland.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Well, this isn't the only incident of its kind, though, even recently. Right, and this is a trend that law enforcement and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have warned about.
--:-- Tim Pierce: There was, of course, the attack outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in D.C. The two victims, Yaron Lashinsky and Sarah Milgram, were both staffers at the Israeli embassy and were soon to be engaged.
--:-- Tim Pierce: In that attack, too, the suspect shouted, free Palestine afterward, according to the police.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Free, free Palestine! That chant was also a big rallying cry for campus protesters and rioters who took over campuses across the country after the October 7th attack.
--:-- Tim Pierce: It's been a top priority for Trump to crack down on students who committed illegal activities or threatened Jewish students, and to crack down on university administrators who seemed to enable or at least did little to stop that conduct.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Well, a very ugly trend.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Tim, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Thanks for having me.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Department of Labor last week said it was pausing most operations at the Job Corps, a $1.7 billion program that trains high school dropouts on residential campuses across the country.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: So, Luke, what's the latest on the Job Corps?
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Hey John, So shutting this program at least temporarily is a big win for fiscal hawks. The Job Corps was spending an average of $80,000 a year per student, training them to go on to earn an average of about $16,000 a year.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: So that's more than Harvard to essentially get them minimum wage. At one campus run by a company called Odell Management Group, LLC, the cost was $764,000 per graduate.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Now, the Job Corps operates about 130 campuses across the country where troubled young adults are paid $1,200 plus living expenses to take classes towards their GED or training in the trades.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Most of these campuses are run by companies whose staff are paid bonuses based on how many people they recruit and how many get a job afterwards.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: But as you've reported, there's been evidence going back decades that money was corrupting the process, correct?
--:-- Luke Rosiak: That's right. I mean, contractors were faking job statistics to make it look like the training worked. And they were looking the other way at criminal behavior on campus because if they expelled students, they'd get less revenue.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Now, the Trump administration has terminated all contracts with those companies. About a fifth of campuses are operated by the Department of Agriculture, and those will remain open.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: So this is really targeted towards preventing contractors from abusing the taxpayer and using at-risk youth as a cash cow.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Still, there are 25,000 people getting training at Job Corps facilities, and most of them will be sent home this month.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Now, this has led to criticism that vulnerable youth are going to be deprived of needed services. Job Corps does train in several trades where America really needs more workers.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: What's the response to that?
--:-- Luke Rosiak: You know, it does pose interesting questions, given the Trump administration's boosting of the trades over elite colleges, a desire for more U.S. manufacturing, and the need for low-income Americans to take over work that was previously done by illegal immigrants.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: But the truth is these campuses were often bad places. Discipline data shows that there were 500 sex assaults and 5,000 violent assaults in the last three years alone.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: That includes a 16-year-old transgender runaway who was ordered to live with a 23-year-old man who was later arrested for raping her in their dorm room.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: A third of students are expelled, a third just abscond, and a third graduate. Now, to enroll, you're required to be on welfare, a refugee, a high school dropout, illiterate, or a victim of sex trafficking, things like that.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: So this program appears to be more focused on directing funds to people from sort of the margins of society, even including criminals, rather than actually building up the trades.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Exactly. My hunch is we'll see the Trump administration push to have high schools reorient to focus on vocational tech. That would accomplish Job Corps' goals at a much larger scale.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Think about those schools you hear about where literally 0% of students are proficient in math. Instead of pretending we're preparing those kids for college, they could be put on a path from ninth grade onwards to make good money only a few years into the future.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: So likely a lot of outcry against this move, but mostly from companies that stand to profit.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Meanwhile, it'll be fascinating to see if the shop class makes a comeback in high school.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Luke, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Thank you.
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