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05 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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The Cyber Week sale ends Monday, December 8th. When it's gone, it's gone. Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe and join right now. Netflix and Warner Brothers announce a blockbuster deal. Republicans score a massive win in the Supreme Court. And Marco Rubio declares an end to the NGO industrial complex. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. Georgia's off today. It's Friday, December 5th.
This is Evening Wire. In a massive merger, Netflix announced today that it's acquiring Warner Brothers, including its film and television studios HBO Max and HBO. Daily Wire Entertainment reporter Amanda Harding reports.
The total value of the deal is nearly $83 billion. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos touted the deal in a statement saying, quote, our mission has always been to entertain the world.
By combining Warner Brothers' incredible library of shows and movies, from timeless classics like Casablanca and Citizen Kane to modern favorites like Harry Potter and Friends, with our culture-defining titles like Stranger Things, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and Squid Game, we'll be able to do that even better.
In a major win for Republicans, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Texas could forge ahead with its newly redrawn congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms. Daily Wire political reporter Cameron Arcand has more.
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Chapter 2: What blockbuster deal did Netflix announce with Warner Bros?
But Mamdani said Thursday that he'd put an end to the sweeps. The self-described democratic socialist Mamdani insists the current policy has failed because it does not connect homeless New Yorkers to the housing that they so desperately need.
He added, quote, "...what we have seen is the treatment of homelessness as if it is a natural part of living in this city, when in fact it's more often a reflection of a political choice being made."
Some of the fraudsters in the massive Minneapolis-Somali welfare fraud scandal allegedly have close ties with Ilhan Omar. One of the convicted fraudsters, Salim Ahmed Saeed, allegedly was a member of Representative Omar's inner circle. Omar held events, including her 2018 campaign victory party, at the Safari restaurant.
Saeed owned that venue and used it to enrich himself with welfare funds meant to feed children in need. Omar also introduced the legislation during COVID that was abused by her constituency. But Omar blames the lax safeguards against fraud for COVID emergency relief. The U.S. is overhauling how it distributes foreign aid. Daily Wire foreign affairs reporter Cassie Akiva has the story.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Thursday that they would prioritize direct investment in partner nations and eliminate waste by bypassing the, quote, NGO industrial complex. Rubio unveiled the new policy during the signing of a $2.5 billion health cooperation framework with Kenya. The U.S.
will provide up to $1.6 billion over the next five years to support priority health programs, while Kenya will increase domestic health spending by $850 million to foster its health self-reliance. Rubio said that the previous system funneled aid through NGOs that absorbed funding through overhead and administrative costs while limiting the host country's control.
We would go to a country and say, we're going to help you with our health care needs. Then we would drive over to northern Virginia somewhere, find an NGO, one of these organizations, give them all the money, tell them, go to this country and do their health care program for them. That NGO would then take about some percentage of that money for their overhead and administrative costs.
And by the time it got down to it, the host country had very little influence. It was sort of imposed on them. And only a percentage of the overall money ever actually reached the patients and the people on the ground. This episode is sponsored by the University of Austin, Texas. You know college is broken.
Activist professors, seminars that feel like struggle sessions, $80,000 a year to hear Hamas chants on the quad while being told America is evil in class. So what's the alternative? It's called the University of Austin or UATX. At UATX, students are in small seminars taught by great professors. They read the great books of Western civilization to learn from them, not tear them down.
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Chapter 3: How did the Supreme Court's ruling impact Texas congressional maps?
Olivier told The Daily Wire in an interview, quote, This is a really important case, for Christians specifically, because I noticed that all around the country, there's always an exercise of free speech that does not seem to be cracked down on the way that Christians' free speech is nowadays.
California has opened a tip line to report federal officers like ICE agents, a move that comes as Democratic leaders in the state attempt to thwart Trump's immigration agenda. Daily Wire senior editor Virginia Kruda has more.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the tip line on Exxon Wednesday, asking people to send in tips if they believe a federal agent is abusing their power or acting unlawfully. The webpage specifically names ICE, Border Protection, and the National Guard as examples of entities that could be reported to the state.
GOP Assemblyman James Gallagher turned the tip line back on Bonta, however, writing, quote, As KCRA reported, Bonta is facing scrutiny for using roughly $500,000 in campaign dollars for legal assistance as part of a federal bribery case probe.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, widely recognized as a leading figure in AI, gives credit to President Trump for saving the AI industry. Daily Wire reporter Breka Stoll reports.
Wasting no time addressing American energy, on the very first night of his presidency, President Trump declared a national energy emergency. He stated, an affordable and reliable domestic supply of energy is a fundamental requirement for the national and economic security of any nation. Jensen Huang told Joe Rogan that Trump's actions so far have saved the USAI industry.
The fact that he came into office and the first thing that he said was drill, baby, drill. His point is we need energy growth. Without energy growth, we can have no industrial growth. I got to tell you flat out, if not for his pro-growth energy policy, we would not be able to build factories for AI.
And another week, another crazy robbery case. This time the thief swallowed the item, but the police were able to retrieve it, quote, naturally. Here's Daily Wire's senior editor, Joel Needler. Police in New Zealand said today that they've recovered a Fabergé egg pendant that's worth some $19,000, and that was inspired by James Bond.
It was stolen six days before, with the suspect being accused of swallowing it. Officials say the piece was retrieved Thursday night and released a photo of it being held by a gloved hand. Police said in a statement, quote, no medical intervention was required and the pendant passed naturally. Not exactly an appetizing thought there. All right, there's your drive home updates.
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