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Chapter 1: What happened during Trump's meeting with the UK Prime Minister?
Trump hosts the British Prime Minister for an Oval Office meeting centering on peace in Ukraine.
You've created a moment of tremendous opportunity to reach a historic peace deal.
I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Friday, February 28th, and this is Morning Wire. Recall effort against California Governor Gavin Newsom gains momentum as the fallout from the wildfires grows. Governor Newsom and Karen Bass let us all down.
And struggling Hollywood is dialing back the wokeness in an effort to win back viewers.
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President Trump vowed Thursday to push ahead with tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and European nations as he hosted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest. Hey, Cabot. So Trump hosted French President Macron Monday, as we discussed, and now it's time for Britain's leader. What was the focus of their visit?
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Chapter 2: Why is there a recall effort against California Governor Gavin Newsom?
Chapter 3: How is Hollywood responding to viewer demands?
And struggling Hollywood is dialing back the wokeness in an effort to win back viewers.
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President Trump vowed Thursday to push ahead with tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and European nations as he hosted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House.
Chapter 5: What tariffs is President Trump planning?
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest. Hey, Cabot. So Trump hosted French President Macron Monday, as we discussed, and now it's time for Britain's leader. What was the focus of their visit?
Well, the heart of things focused on Ukraine. Speaking ahead of their Thursday meeting, Starmer said, quote, my concern is if there is a ceasefire without a backstop, it will simply give Putin the opportunity to wait and to come again. For his part, Trump says that this new minerals deal with Zelensky will serve as a de facto security guarantee. Here he is during Thursday's meeting.
President Zelensky is coming to see me on Friday, Friday morning. And we're going to be signing really a very important agreement for both sides because it's really going to get us into that country. We'll be working there. We'll have a lot of people working there. It's a backstop, you could say. I don't think anybody's going to play around if we're there with a lot of workers.
More broadly, Trump argues that if Europe is worried about Ukrainian security, then they need to step up their own defense spending. He's called for NATO members to raise defense spending to 5% of their GDP. Stormer responded this week by announcing they'd be increasing their spending to 2.5% of their GDP by 2027 and then 3% by 2025.
And while Starmer has made clear in the past he's not a big fan of Trump, he turned on the charm Thursday, saying Trump was the only reason peace in Ukraine was possible and offering him an invitation from King Charles. Have a listen.
This is a letter from His Majesty the King. It's an invitation for a second state visit. This is really special. This has never happened before. This is unprecedented. I think that just symbolizes the strength of the relationship between us.
The two also reportedly discussed tariffs. Starmer, like the rest of the world, is looking to avoid Trump's threat of tariffs. But the president said he's not going to budge unless the UK and others lower their own tariffs. He said Thursday that reciprocal tariffs will officially go into effect on April 2nd.
Remember, that policy will create customized tariffs for each country we trade with based on the rate they charge us.
Now, on the topic of tariffs, the president also made some news regarding Mexico and Canada yesterday. What's the latest there?
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Chapter 6: What is the controversy over the Epstein documents?
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The handling of the recent wildfires that devastated much of the Southern California coast is calling into question the leadership of the state's elected officials. The governor faces another serious recall effort and many are calling for the mayor to step down.
Daily Wire contributor Micah Parker has the story. So Micah, the fallout continues politically in your state. First, what's the status of this new recall effort against Newsom?
Hey, Georgia. So yeah, in battle, Governor Gavin Newsom was officially served recall papers a few weeks ago by a bipartisan group called Saving California amid mounting frustration over the wildfire crisis. The group pushing for the recall held a press conference Wednesday where Hollywood heavyweight Mel Gibson actually showed up. Here he is harshly criticizing the governor and L.A.
Mayor Karen Bass.
We deserve much more and much better. And there is absolutely no adequate excuse the governor or mayor can make for this gross mismanagement and failure to preemptively deal with what they knew was coming. Was it incompetence? Was it indifference? Complacency? Carelessness?
Yes.
Was it negligence? Absolutely.
Now, Gibson's involvement adds national attention to this recall effort, and it's going to be interesting to see if other Hollywood figures follow. Adding to Newsom's criticism, Chevron also just announced it's moving its headquarters to Texas after 140 years. Saudi California's hostile business climate. So that's another wrench to throw in the governor's troubled tenure.
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