Nashville’s mayor is under federal investigation for obstructing ICE efforts to arrest criminal illegal aliens, Europe’s crackdown on free speech is in focus at the EU-US Forum in Budapest, and the Government Accountability Office faces GOP backlash after undermining Congress. Plus, Elon Musk steps back from DOGE. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.GABB: Sign up today – no contract required – at https://gabb.com/WIREHelix Sleep: Go to https://helixsleep.com/wire to get an exclusive discount.
Chapter 1: Why is Nashville's Mayor under investigation?
Nashville's mayor is under investigation for obstructing ICE.
Now, you can have a woke mayor who wants to cry and whine in his Cheerios about it, but I'm going to say we're going to stand with the president. We're going to stand with Pam Bondi. We're going to stand with ICE. Heck, I'll go out there and I'll help ICE.
What's ICE's message to other blue cities undermining the law?
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As Europe cracks down on free speech, the Trump administration ramps up pressure on leaders across the continent. We have a report from Budapest.
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And Republicans are turning up the heat on Congress's own watchdog agency, accusing the GAO of trying to undermine Trump's agenda.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Nashville's sanctuary policies?
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Trump borders are Tom Homan has been leading ICE raids in cities across the country targeting criminal illegals. But some so-called sanctuary city officials are working to hinder the crackdown.
Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee, announced this week that they've launched an investigation into the office of Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell. They claim that the city officials are actively obstructing ICE. The congressman joins us now. Congressman Ogles, thank you so much for joining us. Absolutely. I appreciate you having me.
So you've announced an investigation this week. What exactly are you looking into?
Yeah, well, so what you've seen across the country is an increased activity and deportations by ICE and Homeland Security. And the mayor of Nashville came out with this executive order, and he's requiring law enforcement to report any interactions with federal, so local law enforcement, with federal law enforcement, But he's also encouraged citizens or civilians to report.
So there's this community oversight board. He said, hey, if you see Metro Police helping law enforcement, federal law enforcement, we want you to file a complaint against them. So when these mayors are making local law enforcement the bad guys, this feeds into that loop where you see more violence against our law enforcement.
And as someone who's on the Homeland Security Committee, I just received a classified briefing. And what I can tell you is that MS-13 and Trinidad and Tobago, they're all over the country. They're in Nashville. They're in our small cities like Columbia and Tullahoma.
So we're seeing this across the country. Nashville, obviously a major focus for you being from Tennessee. Have we actually seen officials in Nashville working against ICE, obstructing ICE to thwart their operations?
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Chapter 3: How is Europe addressing free speech issues?
A senior State Department official told me that the trip is part of the department's effort to fight back against violations of basic natural rights in Europe, especially freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to privacy. In France, they'll be pushing officials on the recent arrest of French politician Marine Le Pen
And in Ireland, they'll be digging into the new European Union law that could be used to censor free speech called the Digital Services Act. As a State Department official told me, it's, quote, obviously being weaponized for political purposes.
That official also reminded me that it's not a coincidence that these kinds of global forces are using similar tactics to those that were used on this side of the Atlantic against President Trump and his supporters over the past eight years.
Pointed reference there. How are European nations responding to this type of scrutiny from the U.S. ?
Well, I'm told that they're really feeling the heat of President Donald Trump's administration. Vice President Vance really laid into the censorship in his remarks at the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, and that laid the groundwork for much more scrutiny of the current situation.
Former Trump senior advisor Jason Miller joined the EU-US summit here in Budapest ahead of the CPAC Hungary 2025, and they really dug into the censorship going on throughout Europe.
Ultimately, when they start putting restrictions on their free speech, then other outlets, whether it be a social media platform, whether it be technology platforms such as Apple or Google or things of that nature, when free speech is suppressed there, then ultimately what's going to happen is many of those same policies will be put in place in the United States.
One example Miller gave is the United Kingdom's request for a backdoor to Apple iCloud's encryption to help the UK government access Apple iCloud user data. We broke the news back in February that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was probing the potential implications of such a request, which raised a lot of red flags.
They say it's only to stop the worst of the worst. It's to stop the bad actors. Well, I can tell you that anyone in the U.S. intelligence side will say that if you open up people's individual iClouds, and again, they come with a very nice, well-presented cover that it's only the bad people that they're looking at.
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