Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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A series of orchestrated and well-funded No Kings protests take over major cities on both coasts and some devolve into violence.
Who's behind the protests and how are officials responding to the rioting?
I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Monday, March 30th. This is Morning Wire.
As U.S. troops amass in the Middle East, new reports suggest a ground operation could be in the works. Will President Trump order boots on the ground? And what form might that take?
I think the president's been very clear about this, that we're not interested in being in Iran a year down the road, two years down the road. We're taking care of business. We're going to be out of there soon.
And what can travelers expect at the airport this week after another House vote and Trump's order to pay TSA?
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Chapter 2: What are the key issues behind the 'No Kings' protests?
And at times, as Georgia mentioned, it's become a little bit comical. For example, when you have no kings protests in places like London, where the protesters do rather famously have a king.
Right. So I wanted to drill down on the immigration focus for a moment of some of these protests that have turned into riots. There, it seems like we're increasingly seeing criminal behavior under the banner of No Kings, like we saw this weekend, correct?
Yeah, that's absolutely right, John. Just to give you one example, in Portland this weekend, hundreds of protesters broke into an ICE facility. Some of the things that happened once they were through the gates is that the crowd threw projectiles at federal agents. They tackled at least one officer.
Protesters were also seen scaling the building, kicking out a security camera, spray painting graffiti everywhere. including threats like death to ICE scum, other vulgar messages like that. And you can see a little bit more of that mayhem here.
Chapter 3: How are officials responding to the recent protests?
And then, meanwhile, Fox News obtained footage of an ICE protester spray painting Kill ICE in Los Angeles in broad daylight.
An alarming direct call for violence that unfortunately we're getting used to hearing these days. Now, in a lot of this protest footage, we see flags, communist flags, foreign regime flags, the Iranian regime, the Palestinians. That's prompted more questions about who's really behind all of this.
We've talked about the funding behind this movement before, but remind our listeners, who exactly is bankrolling no-kicks?
Yeah, John. So No Kings kind of presents itself as a grassroots organic movement. But if you look beneath the surface, as a number of outlets, including The Daily Wire, have done, what you find is really a well-funded, well-organized network of organizations that are drawing from an established ecosystem of left-wing groups.
The Soros-linked foundation Indivisible, for example, is a major funder and organizer. There are also other Soros-backed organizations like the 50-51 movement, MoveOn.org. No Kings protests have also been linked to labor unions like the AFL-CIO and the Federation of Teachers.
So I would guess that a big reason that you're starting to see those groups mobilize right now is because, of course, we have midterm elections coming up.
Yeah, elections and nice weather have a funny way of coinciding with these protests, that there's nothing funny about the trend towards violence among some of the groups involved. Megan, thanks so much for reporting.
Yeah, my pleasure.
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Chapter 4: What military actions are being considered in Iran?
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As President Trump weighs whether to deploy ground troops in Iran, new details have emerged regarding a mysterious security breach on a military base within the United States.
Wired and live host Cabot Phillips joins us now to break it all down. So Cabot, we're starting to get a better idea of what a ground operation in Iran could look like. What are we hearing?
Yeah, as we speak, the latest deployment of U.S. Marines has just arrived to the region, bringing the total number of U.S. service members in this conflict up to 50,000, about 5,000 to 7,000 of whom are ground troops. And The Wall Street Journal reports the Trump administration is currently considering deploying 10,000 more ground troops in the coming weeks.
This comes as negotiators from Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia met in Pakistan for new discussions on Sunday. Pakistan offered to host negotiations between the U.S. and Iran as well. though the two countries still have not sat down. The State Department is also urging citizens to leave Iraq immediately amid Iran-backed terror threats in the country.
Now, the White House has repeatedly stressed that President Trump has not yet made up his mind about deploying those ground forces, but that the Pentagon is ready if the order is given, and that's where these plans come into play.
Defense officials have made clear that any such operation, though, would not be a full-scale, years-long invasion like we saw in Iraq or Afghanistan, but a much more limited, weeks-long effort.
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