Trump Presses Zelensky & Biden’s Immigration Ignorance | 12.9.25

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Speaker 3 President Trump leans on Russia and Ukraine for a swift deal as Zelensky meets with European leaders in London.

Speaker 4 There are some things which we can't manage without Americans, things which we can't manage without the Europe.

Speaker 5 And that's why we need to make some important decisions.

Speaker 4 Will new allegations of corruption against Ukraine affect the peace talks?

Speaker 3 I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, Tuesday, December 9th, and this is Morningwire.

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Speaker 4 A major hearing on Capitol Hill this week on fraud within the government. We talked with Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Roziak, who's testifying before the Senate.

Speaker 3 And a new memo reportedly shows that former President Biden ignored warnings about the chaotic implications of his immigration agenda.

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Speaker 4 Ukraine's President Zelensky met with European leaders on Monday to rally support for the war. Meanwhile, the New York Times published an explosive report on Ukrainian corruption.

Speaker 3 Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about the latest on Ukraine. So, Tim, President Trump has been mediating peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
Has he made any progress?

Speaker 3 Where do things stand now?

Speaker 8 Yeah, there has been some progress over the past few weeks, but talked at the moment are stuck.

Speaker 8 President Trump seemed a bit frustrated on Sunday when he suggested President Zelensky had ignored the latest iteration of the plan.

Speaker 5 I'm a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn't yet read the proposal. That was as of a few hours ago.
His people love it, but he has it. Russia's fine with it.

Speaker 5 Russia's, you know, Russia, I guess, would rather have the whole country when you think of it. But Russia is, I believe, fine with it.

Speaker 8 Zelensky did talk a bit about the current framework on Monday. He said the disagreement is over the Donbass region in Ukraine's east.

Speaker 8 The Trump administration reportedly wants Ukraine to hand over control of the rest of the Donbass to Russia, which already controls most of it.

Speaker 8 In return, Ukraine would get security guarantees and financing to help rebuild.

Speaker 8 But Zelensky doesn't want to give up that land, or rather, he says he can't, because the Ukrainian Constitution won't allow it.

Speaker 3 Now, Zelensky is quite reliant on the U.S. to continue this war.
So, what's his alternative?

Speaker 8 Well, Zelensky wants to freeze the conflict along its current lines, and he isn't the only one not really happy about the way the negotiations are going. European leaders are frustrated, too.

Speaker 8 Zelensky was in London yesterday, and he met with the E3, or the top leaders in Europe, UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Speaker 8 Here's Starmer laying out Europe's position on the negotiations.

Speaker 11 The principles remain, the principles that we've been raised on for a very, very long time, which is that we stand with Ukraine

Speaker 11 and if there's to be a ceasefire, it needs to be a just and lasting ceasefire.

Speaker 8 Mers was the most vocal about disagreements with the US.

Speaker 11 We are still and remain strongly behind Ukraine and giving support to your country because we all know that this the destiny of this country is the destiny of Europe.

Speaker 11 I'm skeptical about some of the details which we are seeing in the documents coming from US side, but we have to talk about that.

Speaker 3 So Europe is siding with Zelensky here.

Speaker 3 Now, I want to also ask you about some New York Times reporting that has alleged some serious corruption from the Zelensky administration and some people around him siphoning off millions from U.S.

Speaker 3 aid to enrich individuals. How is that affecting the negotiations?

Speaker 8 Right. The Time report essentially says that Zelensky's administration has stonewalled oversight and slashed regulations that were intended to curb corruption.

Speaker 8 Now, the government says these reforms were necessary for quick action after Ukraine was invaded, but the costs have been astronomical.

Speaker 8 According to the Times report, anti-corruption authorities say Zelensky's inner circle has siphoned off $100 million from Ukraine's state-owned nuclear power company alone.

Speaker 8 But while the Times report is new, Ukrainian corruption really is not.

Speaker 8 And European officials seem to think that their overriding interest still lies in backing Ukraine against Russia, even if a lot of that money lines the pockets of corrupt officials.

Speaker 8 Here's NATO Secretary General Mark Ruda last week complimenting Zelensky on anti-corruption efforts.

Speaker 11 I think the Ukrainian president is taking all the necessary steps to root out corruption.

Speaker 8 Now, this may become more of an issue once the war is ended and Reconstruction starts.

Speaker 8 After the immediate threat of the Russia invasion is dealt with, Europe and the United States may have a lot more to say about how that aid money is being spent.

Speaker 3 Well, this has been a concern from Americans from the very start. Tim, thanks for reporting.

Speaker 8 Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3 Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Roziak will testify to the Senate on Wednesday as an expert on what he calls the government's longest-running, largest, and most corrupt DEI program.

Speaker 4 The Senate Small Business Committee oversees the Small Business Administration and its government-wide minority contracting program called 8A or set-aside contracting.

Speaker 4 Luke, you're getting prepared to testify. It's very exciting.
First, how did this come about? It's actually years in the making, right?

Speaker 6 Hey, John. Yeah, I mean, I guess it was about 15 years ago.

Speaker 6 I remember sitting in a cafe doing some computer programming on my laptop and a well-dressed black man was sitting next to me and he looked over at my screen and he said, I see you're programming in C ⁇ .

Speaker 6 Do you want to come work for me? And the problem was I was not programming in C ⁇ . I was programming in a different language that looks nothing like it.

Speaker 6 And I remember thinking, like, what is going on here?

Speaker 6 Why, why is this guy, he doesn't even know what programming is, but he wants to hire me off the street when I'm not even a real computer programmer. I kind of dabble in it on the side.

Speaker 6 But for all I know, he was ready to task me with building some sensitive government system.

Speaker 6 Cause I said, you know, what's going on? He said, well, it's... It's eight A contract.
I mean, I just get the contract and then I basically find random people to do the work.

Speaker 6 So, you know, I didn't take the job. Instead, I, as an investigative reporter, looked into ADA and what I found is that that's pretty much par for the course.

Speaker 4 Incredible. So, this is the same program that James O'Keeffe recently exposed a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 12 So, the new contract is basically close to 100 million.

Speaker 5 What's the percentage that HGI will retain from that 100 million?

Speaker 12 And you pay these

Speaker 14 centers to do the job. And so, it's really minimal work.

Speaker 12 And honestly, that's just

Speaker 12 in reality. That's what's happening.

Speaker 4 So explain this to us. What exactly is going on here?

Speaker 6 Well, if you're a racial minority, the government can give you a contract without trying to find the best price or the best person.

Speaker 6 More than 5% of all federal contracts are reserved for these special companies that have pre-designated minority or disadvantaged status.

Speaker 6 And you look at the women-owned companies, I mean, a lot of times it's really just a man who has a company and he puts the company in his wife's name.

Speaker 6 I mean, there's not really any way to prove otherwise, and they probably got a shared bank account anyway. So it's almost impossible to police.

Speaker 6 The program was created way back in 1978, mostly to help black people. But now we have a much more complex ethnic situation in America.

Speaker 6 And you have a situation where, for example, people from the country of India get preference for contracts, even though they have a higher median income than white people.

Speaker 6 They're overrepresented, obviously, in fields like IT, which, by the way, didn't even exist prior to civil rights.

Speaker 6 But, you know, one of the things I'm going to tell the Senate is that the scandal here is a little different than people might think.

Speaker 6 I mean, it is a DEI program, but really what it is at its core is it's a loophole exploited by the government and big corporations.

Speaker 6 You heard Accenture mentioned in that video to circumvent competitive bidding.

Speaker 4 All right. So your position is that the government wasn't being tricked.
They were actually in on the grift.

Speaker 6 Yeah, pretty much. I mean, they just wanted to get money out the door to a regular firm quickly without doing the paperwork.

Speaker 6 And so this minority contracting program was a convenient mechanism to do this. But the problem is we have competitive bidding for a reason.

Speaker 6 I mean, is steering money to particular firms with no sort of assessment of whether it's the best price or these are the best people to do the work. This is like something out of Russia.

Speaker 6 It enables corruption and it inflates the cost of everything because you have these middlemen skimming off the top. But, you know, we've all kind of known that this has been going on for years.

Speaker 6 I mean, it's really a swampy thing where both sides were looking the other way. Native Americans, but also Alaskan natives, can get even bigger contracts with no competition.

Speaker 6 And so for years, the head of appropriations in the Senate was a Republican senator from Alaska. And nobody was allowed to point out that this program was just being shockingly abused.

Speaker 4 Well, the hope is we may be in a different environment now, especially with the Supreme Court putting limits on how the government can use race.

Speaker 4 So this hearing on Wednesday will be chaired by Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa. She invited you to testify, correct?

Speaker 6 Yeah, Joni is really one of those people who have been in the trenches fighting against government waste since before it was cool. She's chair of the Senate Doge Caucus.

Speaker 6 And if Congress winds up killing the A-day program after half a century, it'll truly be a sign that the swamp is being drained.

Speaker 4 Well, Luke, good luck. We'll all, of course, be watching here.
And I should note that the Daily Wire will be streaming the event live on our platform.

Speaker 12 Great to have you on.

Speaker 6 Thanks, John.

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Speaker 4 A new report reveals that former President Biden was told that he could have stopped illegal immigration, but chose not to during his tenure in the White House.

Speaker 3 Here with more on that and other immigration news is Daily Wire immigration reporter Jenny Tare.

Speaker 3 So, Jenny, first off, what do we know about this new reporting about what was going on behind the scenes with President Biden?

Speaker 10 It's a really shocking report from the New York Times that President Biden was warned actually before he even assumed office while on the campaign trail that some of his policies that were really open to illegal immigration would lead to political chaos.

Speaker 10 And that's exactly what happened. We saw that unfold at the border and we saw it become a top issue for voters in the next election, which many attribute to President Trump's victory.

Speaker 10 So what happened was there were a number of memos, meetings, where aides and experts brought up this issue and warned the Biden team that his policies needed to be stricter or else the border would descend into what we saw, which was millions of illegal immigrants coming across in an absolute free-for-all.

Speaker 3 Have we heard from any Biden officials about any regrets or is there anything on the record of that nature?

Speaker 10 Right.

Speaker 10 So of course, after the fact, we're learning that now all of these former officials are saying, well, there were a lot of mistakes made on the Biden team and Biden himself who knowingly went against this advice and said, you know what, I'm going to still go with my guts here, which is to take away things like asylum restrictions, remain in Mexico, which kept people in Mexico rather than releasing them into the United States after they crossed illegally, which really disincentivized more to cross.

Speaker 10 And we saw, obviously, the numbers pick up. We saw 8 million illegal immigrants cross into the country.
Many largely were released.

Speaker 10 We saw poor vetting because Biden wanted to do things in a very quick, expeditious manner. And that led in terrorists.
That led in traffickers. That let in cartel members.

Speaker 10 That led to chaos across the country, like in Aurora, Colorado, where we had Train De Aragua taking over apartment complexes.

Speaker 10 We had communities like Springfield, Ohio that were reeling from this crisis.

Speaker 10 So yes, the Biden administration officials, there's some of them that have come out and told the New York Times that in fact, there were mistakes made and Biden should have been tougher on this.

Speaker 3 Now, the other major immigration story that broke over the weekend was an illegal immigrant male who stabbed another citizen on a Charlotte train.

Speaker 3 That's the second Charlotte train stabbing we've seen. What took place?

Speaker 10 Right. Like you said, the second stabbing, this is four months after that Ukrainian refugee was killed brutally on her way to work.
This was a separate stabbing.

Speaker 10 So now we have this illegal immigrant who was twice deported from the United States, once under Biden and once under Trump.

Speaker 10 He snuck back into the country without being detected by border agents and he wound up in Charlotte. He already had a rap sheet when this happened.
He was intoxicated on the train, allegedly.

Speaker 10 He got into an argument with a man who was sitting on the train, another passenger who was trying to get him to stop yelling in his face drunkenly.

Speaker 10 And that's when he decided to to stab this man brutally and then run off the train.

Speaker 10 Later, we learned actually that this individual not only shouldn't have been in the country, but also was banned from the Charlotte public transportation system before this happened.

Speaker 10 So it's a really just shocking story.

Speaker 10 And it continues to show exactly why President Trump really deployed a lot of law enforcement resources to the area because there was a rise in crime because of incidents like this.

Speaker 10 And then of course, the twofold issue of crime and illegal immigration, which we see perfectly showcased here.

Speaker 3 Alarming stuff. Jenny, thank you so much for reporting.

Speaker 10 Thank you.

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