Riots Rock France & Trump Launches Super Intelligence Force | 10.5.26

Morning Wire

The episode covers President Trump's announcement of a new Super Intelligence Force led by DNI Jay Clayton, framing AI as a critical national security priority ahead of the midterms. Hosts analyze Trump's

Key takeaways

• President Trump appointed DNI Jay Clayton as AI czar for a new Super Intelligence Force, treating artificial intelligence primarily as a national security issue vis-à-vis China.
• The task force includes FTC Chairman Andy Ferguson and defense undersecretaries, with a strict 120-day deadline to deliver a comprehensive report to Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

Main topics

• Super Intelligence Force & AI Policy
• Midterm Campaign Strategy & Polling

Notable quotes

"Just get out and vote. If you do that, we're going to win and we're going to win big. And we're going to shove it up their a**."

Conclusion

The episode provides a multi-front analysis of current political and legal developments, emphasizing strategic GOP

Transcript preview

Speaker 4 (0:00) Okay, first, before we give you the facts of the day, Run, Hide, Fight! Infidels is streaming now only on Daily Wire. It's an ode to the great action movies of the 80s and 90s. There's even a love story which nobody expected. And you can support Daily Wire's mission to continue making movies that people actually want to watch. Go check it out. Speaker 6 (0:21) President Trump unveils the new superintelligence force and hits the campaign trail. Speaker 1 (0:26) Just get out and vote. If you do that, we're going to win and we're going to win big. And we're going to shove it up their a**. Speaker 6 (0:34) I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Monday, October 5th. This is Morning Wire. Speaker 4 (0:47) France is on fire as riots lead to the arrest of some 5,000, quote, teens. What's fueling the fiery chaos? Speaker 2 (0:55) It's completely lawless. This is what happens when you have a society which has treated children like adults, and I would argue adults like children. And Speaker 6 (1:03) Trump weighs in on the Cornell 7 case as New York's governor appoints a controversial prosecutor to take over the investigation. We talked to a legal expert about the latest developments. Speaker 4 (1:13) Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. Speaker 4 (1:20) President Trump created quite a buzz over the weekend with his announcement of the new superintelligence force and some, quote, crude language on the campaign trail. Joining Speaker 6 (1:29) us now to discuss is our D.C. Bureau Chief Tim Rice. Tim, thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me, guys. So we're going to get to the Ohio speech. But first, the AI issue has become, you know, a dominant theme in D.C. in the last couple of weeks. Last week, Trump had that meeting with the tech CEOs. to discuss the future of the technology and sort of self-policing. Now we have this new superintelligence force. What do we know about that? Speaker 5 (1:56) Yes, the president announced it a couple of days ago and announced yesterday that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would be leading the superintelligence force as the administration's AI czar. So... really important, I think, to just stop right there and consider that. That, you know, there's all the speculation of who the AIs are would be. Would it be Scott Bessant? Would it be somebody from outside the administration? Somebody from the industry? And instead, the president picked the director of national intelligence, which I think is a strong signal of how he and his administration are thinking of this problem as a national security issue, right? Specifically with regards to the AI kind of cold war with China. So, in addition to Clayton, The FTC Commission Chairman Andy Ferguson is on the task force and under several undersecretaries of defense and the director of the Office of Personnel Management. So they have 120 days, so about four months, to investigate the trials, the perils, but also the potential, the promise of artificial intelligence and deliver a report to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. So a sign, again, that the White House is not backing down from its full-throated and fast embrace of AI, not backing down. backing away from the president's rhetoric, which says, you know, we can't pause, contrary to what the AI industry CEOs are saying. We have to keep going full speed ahead. But, you know, clear sign that the White House is listening, hearing the concerns of the American people and of, frankly, a lot of Republicans in Congress who are saying, we understand the national security logic here, but it's also important that we figure out what's actually going on. Speaker 6 (3:30) Right, become a major campaign issue, actually. Speaker 5 (3:33) Yeah, that's absolutely right. And that kind of gets us into Trump's big speech in Ohio over the weekend, which AI and data centers were one of, well, let's say one of many subjects that the president broached. It was, look, it was at this point, I don't think anybody's surprised. It was, we can go through all the platitudes, not a traditional campaign speech, not what you would expect to see from a president whose Speaker 6 (3:55) party was this far behind in the polls in the Speaker 5 (3:58) midterms. It was a Trump speech, right? It was, he did the weave, he hit on all of his issues. issue areas that he likes to hit on. He occasionally mentioned Vivek Ramaswamy and the other candidates in Ohio and, you know, elsewhere on the ballot, but it was mostly just the Trump show. I actually think, you know. We don't do a lot of criticizing the mainstream media on this show, or at least I don't. But all the crass language was, oh, no, you know, the president said ass. Okay, fine. It wasn't. The headlines are making it seem