During his Middle East trip President Trump says he may be close to making a deal with Iran on nuclear weapons, the Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship and nationwide injunctions, and football coaching legend Nick Saban has been tapped to bring order to big money college sports. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.American Investment Council: Learn more about the American Investment Council and private equity at https://investmentcouncil.org
Chapter 1: Is the U.S. close to a nuclear deal with Iran?
President Trump reveals the U.S.
is close to a nuclear deal with Iran. This is a very, very nice step, and there's a violent step. The violence like people haven't seen before. I don't want to do the second step.
What other developments came out of the president's Middle East tour?
I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Friday, May 16th, and this is Morning Wire.
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments challenging birthright citizenship. What are the wider implications of the case?
We've got judges co-splaying as presidents. Look, judges aren't presidents. They're not politicians. They're not there to make executive decisions.
And Trump drafts coaching legend Nick Saban to bring some order to big-dollar college athletics.
You know, when President Trump spoke at, you know, commencement at Alabama, you know, he said, all my friends are saying college football is really messed up. You know, let's get together so I can figure out or we can figure out, you know, how to fix it.
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Chapter 2: What developments emerged from Trump's Middle East visit?
They would agree to hand over existing stockpiles of enriched uranium, only enrich uranium to low levels consistent with civilian use, and allow third-party inspectors to supervise their entire nuclear process. In exchange, they want the U.S. to lift all economic sanctions, which really have just hobbled the entire Iranian economy for decades now.
President Trump has also said he wants to see them cut funding to those terror groups they support, but it's unclear right now if that part will be included in the final deal. But for Trump, the top line of the deal is clear. Have a listen. It's not like I have to give you 30 pages worth of details.
There's only one sentence, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
Now, there certainly are critics of this agreement. They say there's no way to make sure that Iran will actually hand over all of its nuclear materials. And we just don't know if they'll even allow nuclear inspectors to look at all of their facilities.
And it's worth noting, many Republicans do want a deal, but not one that allows Iran to continue enriching any uranium, even low levels for civilian use.
To that point, 52 GOP senators and nearly 180 GOP House members signed a letter this week to President Trump saying, quote, the scope and breadth of Iran's nuclear buildout have made it impossible to verify any new deal that allows Iran to continue enriching uranium. So we'll have to see if the White House draws a red line on enrichment or allows those lower levels to take place.
Now, why is Iran willing to make this deal now?
Yeah, if you ask the White House, they say it's proof that President Trump's peace through strength approach is working. And it's really striking if you listen to Trump's message to the Iranians on this deal. He told them we can go two ways, either the nice way or the not nice way, aka the military approach.
Now, the backdrop to all of this is President Trump has been in the Middle East for the past few days. What else has been going on?
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship case?
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in a case challenging President Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship. The pivotal case calls into question whether lower courts have the power to block executive branch actions.
Joining us to break down the case is Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olihan. Hey, Mary Margaret. So tell us about the president's efforts to end birthright citizenship.
Well, good morning, John. And yes, the court took up this case in April and it hinges on three lower court cases issuing nationwide injunctions blocking Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship. Now, Trump's executive order interprets the 14th Amendment to deny automatic citizenship to children who are born in the U.S.
if their mother was unlawfully in the country or if their father isn't a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. The order is currently on hold while the Supreme Court considers it, and the Trump administration is arguing that the lower courts exceeded their authority. Here's U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer speaking on this topic.
Since January 20th, district courts have now issued 40 universal injunctions against the federal government, including 35 from the same five judicial districts. This is a bipartisan problem that has now spanned the last five presidential administrations. Universal injunctions exceed the judicial power granted in Article III, which exists only to address the injury to the complaining party.
So let's start with the left side of the court. Where do the liberal justices stand on this issue?
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Chapter 4: How is Nick Saban involved in reforming college sports?
We are not claiming that because we're conceding that there could be an inappropriate case. Only a class, only one class. Can I hear the rest of his answer?
Meanwhile, Justice Kagan pointed out that many lower courts are ruling against Trump's executive order. This is not a hypothetical, she says. Every court is ruling against you.
All right, now what about the conservative justices? Do they seem open to the administration's arguments?
Well, some of them seem skeptical, but Justice Clarence Thomas pointed out that the United States, quote, survived until the 1960s without nationwide injunctions. Here's Justice Thomas on that point.
We survived until the 1960s without universal injunctions.
That's exactly correct. And in fact, those are very limited, very rare. Even in the 1960s, it really exploded in 2007. In our petition in Summers Against Earth Island Institute, we pointed out that the Ninth Circuit had started doing this in a whole bunch of cases involving environmental claims.
Trump himself sounded off from the Middle East, saying in a Truth Social post, and I'm quoting here, birthright citizenship was not meant for people taking vacations to become permanent citizens of the United States of America and bringing their families with them all the time, laughing at the, quote, suckers that we are.
The United States of America is the only country in the world that does this. For what reason? Nobody knows. But the drug cartels love it.
A very consequential case in the hands of the high court now. Mary Margaret, thank you so much for reporting.
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