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Chapter 1: What are the current tensions between India and Pakistan?
Attacks between India and Pakistan continue to escalate, causing fears of an all-out nuclear war.
There can be no winners in a nuclear conflict.
And President Trump prepares for a major overseas foreign policy trip.
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Thursday, May 8th, and this is Morning Wire.
Democrat-led states over their climate agenda saying they're choking energy production and threatening national security.
California is setting such strict fuel economy standards, you know, it's a de facto ban on gas-powered cars.
And the next evolution of TV ratings has arrived, and sports is the overwhelming winner. We break down the data on viewing trends.
Streaming now is almost 40% based on the latest report, with broadcast and cable adding up to close to 50%.
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Chapter 2: How is President Trump approaching his foreign policy trip?
Here to break down the president's diplomatic efforts and the brewing conflicts is Daily Wire's senior editor, Kabat-Phillips A. Kabat. So let's start with what's happening with India and Pakistan. Very concerning there. Get us up to speed here.
So the two countries, each with large nuclear arsenals, have long been bitter rivals, feuding over everything from disputed borderlines to religion. But in the past week, we've seen just a dramatic escalation that has the two now on the brink of all-out war. In late April, a group of Islamic militants crossed from Pakistan to Indian-controlled Kashmir and slaughtered 26 tourists.
India accused the Pakistani government of being involved in that attack and responded Wednesday with military strikes on Pakistan's heavily populated Punjab region, killing more than two dozen and injuring 46 others. India says that they targeted, quote, terror camps. Pakistan says they killed civilians, including worshippers at two mosques.
And now the world is holding its breath to see if and how Pakistan is going to respond. For more on how serious this situation is, I spoke with Professor Anthony Glees, security expert from the University of Buckingham.
Pakistan's authorities are also saying that in the Punjab, a mosque was attacked. And that is like a red rag to a raging bull when bearing in mind what happened. Islamists, so extreme Muslims might make of the situation. Both populations, the Indian population, demand retribution, and the Pakistani population are now demanding retribution.
For their part, the Trump administration has largely avoided taking a side. Keep in mind, both of these countries are considered US allies. The White House simply said that they will engage the two to find a, quote, peaceful solution. Here's Glees on what a peace could look like.
The best thing that would happen would be that India would say, our honor is satisfied. We've taught the Islamists well. who we believe are being nurtured and cherished by Pakistan. We taught them a lesson they won't forget. We're not going to take this any further. And Pakistan will say we will try to gain something back from India, but we at the moment are going to... consider our position.
We may attack in the future. It will be at a time and a place of our choosing, but we're not going to get into tit for tat.
Pakistan has said they are mounting a military response to India strikes. It remains to be seen if that's just saber rattling or a true declaration of war. While we wait to find out, the Middle East and really the whole world is holding its breath.
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Chapter 3: What legal battles are Trump and Republicans engaging in over climate laws?
What they're trying to accomplish is rein in states trying to dictate interstate commerce. We have a constitution. In the constitution, it specifically and solely delegates the power to regulate interstate commerce to the Congress of the United States of America, not to California, not to New York, only to Congress.
Each of these DOJ lawsuits focuses on the Clean Air Act, which the Trump administration says the states have violated with their attempts to punish emissions. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement, quote, these burdensome, ideologically motivated laws and lawsuits threaten American energy independence and our country's economic and national security.
So she's framing this as a pretty dire issue. How are these states responding?
They're pushing back. Hawaii Attorney General Ann Lopez said in a statement that the federal lawsuit filed by the DOJ attempts to block Hawaii from holding the fossil fuel industry responsible for deceptive conduct that caused climate change damage.
Hawaii Governor Josh Green went a step farther and suggested that climate change exacerbated by fossil fuel companies is responsible for the 2023 Lahaina wildfire that killed 102 people. For context, Hawaii's utility company said that the fire was actually caused by electrical equipment damaged by high winds.
But officials from these states have all made accusations against fossil fuel companies, such as harming industries like tourism and agriculture through pollution and climate change.
So really vilifying these companies. So what's happening on the political side?
Right. This is actually something that has gotten a lot of bipartisan agreement. Last week, 35 Democrats voted with House Republicans to take away an exemption for California from the Clean Air Act. The waiver originally applied to pollution, but under the Obama administration, it expanded to cover vehicle emissions. Morning Wire spoke to Steve Malloy.
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Chapter 4: How is live sports programming affecting TV ratings?
He's the founder of Junkscience.com and served on the Trump EPA transition team. Here's what he said about the California waiver.
Because California is such a large car market, car makers don't make California cars and cars for the other 49 states. They just make one type of car. So California wants to be able to drive gas powered cars out of existence in favor of EVs.
That waiver now may be on life support since it appears to be so unpopular in Congress.
Well, and unpopular with voters, too. Tim, thanks for reporting.
Thanks for having me on.
Nielsen ratings have long been a guide to help gauge TV viewership, but new technology is delivering more accurate information. What it shows is that live sports programming absolutely dominates the market.
Crane & Company co-host David Cohn joins us now to break down the numbers. Hey, David. So Nielsen finally using this new way of analyzing the metrics and drawing in more data. It's really having some amazing results.
What are we seeing? Yeah, this is certainly a game changer for the TV ratings industry. And the context here is that it has become increasingly more difficult to track how people are engaging with their content with cell phones and tablets and computers and smart TVs and such. But there is new technology and it's far more accurate.
And the big switch to this new technology happened in January when Nielsen received accreditation for it. And they're calling this measurement technology Big Data plus panel. So what this does, it takes viewership data from cable and satellite set top boxes and combines that with smart TVs. And that is called automatic content recognition.
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