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(upbeat music) - Kamala Harris sidesteps Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and picks Minnesota's Tim Walz as her running mate. - He's got DC experience with the ranking member on the Veterans Affairs Committee, but also experience as a governor. - Why is her choice prompting celebration from both Democrats and Republicans? - I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Vickley with Georgia Hal. It's Wednesday, August 7th, and this is Morning Wire. (upbeat music) - Elon Musk's ex and video platform rumble have both filed lawsuits against an advertising group, they say colluded to financially cripple them. - It's users like you, people of all backgrounds and opinions who make ex indispensable. You deserve an open platform where your views can be expressed without restriction and without fear. - And protests and riots continue across several cities in the UK, with most of the anger centered on mass migration policies and a string of violence. - So how is it all these immigrants are coming over? 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(upbeat music) - Following weeks of speculation, Kamala Harris has made her pick for VP, tapping Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. - Here with more on the controversial pick and how both sides are responding is Daily Wire's senior editor, Cabot Phillips. Hey, Cabot, so both tickets now set and there's a lot of buzz about this new edition. First, how did we get to this point? - Well, the pick certainly came as a surprise to many in Washington. Remember, Walz only recently started appearing on VP short lists and for most of the last two weeks was an afterthought compared to swing state Democrats, Josh Shapiro and Mark Kelly and popular Kentucky governor Andy Beshear. According to numerous reports, the Harris campaign was put off by Governor Shapiro's fairly blatant lobbying for the spot and there were also concerns among Democrats over whether him being Jewish and fairly supportive of Israel would turn off voters on the left. According to the Harris campaign, Walz sealed the deal after a one-on-one interview at the VP's residence where the two hit it off. Harris was reportedly impressed by his progressive record as governor and also in Congress. And one more thing that's interesting, the campaign really gave him credit for popularizing the quote, "weird" messaging against Trump and Vance that quickly caught on among Democrats nationwide. Here's Vice President Harris at a rally in Pennsylvania last night where she was joined by her new running mate. - I set out to find a partner who can help build this brighter future. (audience cheering) A leader who will help unite our nation and move us forward. So Pennsylvania, I'm here today because I found such a leader. (audience cheering) Governor Tim Walz of the great state of Minnesota. - All right, so we'll get to his record. But first, tell us some more about Walz. Yeah, he's got an eclectic background for sure. Walz served in the National Guard for over 20 years while working as a high school teacher and football coach at one point living in China where he taught English classes. His first real political experience came during the 04 presidential election where he was a campaign organizer for John Kerry. Two years later, he ran for office for the first time winning a congressional seat in a rural Republican-leaning house district in Minnesota. He served six terms there before being elected governor in 2018 and then reelected in 2022. The Harris campaign says they are confident he'll help them appeal to those all-important Rust Belt voters in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. And he definitely has this sort of folksy appeal on the stump, but there are plenty of reasons this is a risky pick. - Right, and that brings up his record as governor that's getting so much attention now. - Right, a lot of attention. A number of Democrats yesterday, including Nancy Pelosi, attempted to paint him as a moderate, more centrist legislator, but that is simply not the case. He has routinely ranked among the most liberal governors in the country and is certainly further left than anyone else on that VP shortlist. Among other things, he pushed for Minnesota to become a sanctuary state where illegal immigrants would be free from deportation. He signed legislation that allowed illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. He signed laws supporting transgender surgeries for minors and opposed measures that would protect babies who survived botched abortion attempts. He also controversially implemented a widely criticized COVID hotline that allowed Minnesotans to report neighbors, businesses, and churches that were not following the state's strict lockdown procedures. And here he is speaking about socialism in a clip that is sure to appear in a number of Trump TV ads in the coming months. - Don't ever shy away from our progressive values. One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness. Just do the damn work. - For their part, the Trump campaign was quick to point out that walls oversaw some of the worst writing in American history throughout 2020. Remember, large swaths of the Twin Cities were destroyed by Black Lives Matter riders who inflicted more than half a billion dollars in damage. Republican lawmakers in the state were begging governor walls to deploy the National Guard, but he resisted for days saying the riders needed space to demonstrate and that quote, "An armed presence where we just had a police killing "could be a catalyst for more unrest." Here's JD Vance to that point, reminding voters of Kamala Harris' role in fundraising for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which helped bail some of those BLM riders out of jail. - They make an interesting tag team because of course, Tim Waltz allowed riders to burn down Minneapolis in the summer of 2020, and then the few who got caught, Kamala Harris helped bail them out of jail. - Now it is worth noting, progressive lawmakers and activists were just thrilled by this pick and pointed to walls as policies and quotes as a reason to support him, but it's unclear how that will play with the electorate more broadly. Republicans say once voters learn more about his record, they will be turned off. - We'll have a real sprint now from both sides to try to define this new Democratic VP pick. Captain, thanks for reporting. Any time. (upbeat music) - New federal lawsuits say advertisers representing major companies colluded to force tech platforms to censor more content. - Elon Musk's ex and video sharing site Rumble sued the World Federation of Advertisers in separate lawsuits filed in federal court in Texas on Tuesday. The suits said WFA violated antitrust laws by organizing boycotts designed to make companies like X change their policies to censor more content, citing misinformation and other harms. Daily wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiac has been following closely. Luke, what's going on here? - Hey Georgia, these suits make a compelling case that the global alliance for responsible media or GARM, a group formed by the WFA to prevent advertisers from subsidizing the production of misinformation, facilitated collusion. Here's ex CEO Linda Yacarino. - I was shocked by the evidence uncovered by the House Judiciary Committee that a group of companies organized a systematic illegal boycott against X. It is just wrong. No small group of people should be able to monopolize what gets monetized. - Almost every major ad buying firm is owned by one of six multinational firms known in the advertising world as the big six. Whatever little competition there was went away with the emergence of GARM, which counts all six as members. The suits say that to be a member of GARM you had to agree to its policies about not advertising on supposedly harmful platforms or news outlets. Here's the thing. The companies with these advertising contracts included many that were direct competitors with one another. Removing advertising from a major platform like X would ordinarily not be in their interest because it would put them in a disadvantage against their competitors, the lawsuit said, unless they had a pact with their competitors to do the same thing. - So GARM basically operates like a cartel. They go to X and they say unless you change your policies basically all of your advertisers are going to boycott you. - Yeah, that was the purpose of GARM to say yes, we speak for basically every single advertiser. But emails obtained by the House Judiciary Committee suggest that oftentimes instead of being a mouthpiece for what clients want it, it seems to tell them what to do. And the definition of misinformation often amounted to platforms that were conservative. The rumble suit names Group M, one of those big advertising firms in addition to WFA. In emails with GARM Group M discussed how it used rules about misinformation as a pretext to financially harm outlets whose ideology it disagreed with. One Group M executive said it put the daily wire on a quote exclusion list, categorized as conspiracy theories. Another Group M executive wrote of Breitbart, quote, we hated their ideology. So we watched them very carefully and it didn't take long for them to cross the line. - So companies hire GARM to buy ad spots for them and then GARM gets to decide where they can't advertise even if they wanted to? - Exactly, quoting one of the lawsuits. In a competitive market, each social media platform would set the brand safety standards that are optimal for that platform and for its users and advertisers would unilaterally select the platforms on which they advertise. But collective action among competing advertisers to dictate brand safety standards shortcuts the competitive process. The Sherman Act does not allow this. - Well, this is the second big antitrust case to make the news this week involving online media. Luke, thanks for reporting. - Any time. - That was investigative reporter Luke Rosiac. Rioting and racially charged clashes continue to sweep through cities in the UK. - Joining us to discuss is Guy Dam Pier, a senior researcher at the London-based Legatum Institute. Guy, thank you for joining us. We've reported on the initial rioting but the situation has continued to really spiral. It's also born of something years in the making. So what is happening now in the UK? - The UK is on fire at the moment and in the end, it's immigration and policing policies which are to blame. So a 17 year old born in Britain to Rwandan refugee parents took a taxi to a Taylor Swift themed dance class for Little Girls in Southport, which is a relatively pleasant town near Liverpool. He went on a stabbing spree armed with a curved knife and left eight children and two adults seriously injured, some of whom are still in hospital and he killed three girls. Bebe King was six, LZ.Stankham was seven and Alistair Silva Agua was nine. We don't yet know why he did it. As he was underage, he couldn't be named at first. So Rumus World was an Islamist. Maybe he was one of the illegal immigrants who arrived on small boats across the English Channel. People didn't know, so a crowd gathered outside a local mosque and their protests tend to do a riot. Police officers were attacked. Police abandoned the seven fire and things were thrown at the mosque. The next day, more protests in London, Hartlepool, all the shots. On the Friday, another protest, which ended with Sunderland Police Station being burnt down. And on Saturday, riots in Leeds, Hull, Belfast and Liverpool. Shocks in the library burnt down. Irish nationalists actually traveled up from the Irish Republic and joined with Ulster loyalists Ian Belfast. And although they're usually fierce enemies, they actually joined forces and fought the blitz. Then on Sunday, rioters in Roderham set a hotel which is used to house asylum seekers on fire and more mobs ran pages through Middlesbrough, Bolton, Tamworth and other places. And the anger over the study morphed into a wider anti-immigrant sentiment. - And what have we learned about who all is involved here and what's driving them forward? - So the authorities initially playing misinformation. There are also some claims to the Russians were behind it. That's definitely not true. Or that the anti-Islam English defense league was involved, even though that group has been defunct for a decade. The new Prime Minister Kierstam has now released a series of video messages in which he calls the protesters far-right thugs. The question is, are they? The riots were definitely violent and there was definitely racism, but there were no obvious leaders. There was no organisation coordinating things. On the contrary, most of them seemed to be locals and lots of women were present, sometimes even children. So it's impossible to say right now, but it does feel like an organic movement built on rage. The British public have voted over and over again for less immigration, only to get more of it. And now some of them seem to be lashing out. - Yeah, apparently so. Now we've seen a violent response to these protests and riots. What is the latest on that front? - Right, we've seen a sort of second series of clashes. So Muslims have started to form mobs of their own and in Birmingham, which is Britain's second biggest city, some of them went on the hunt. There's footage online which shows them attacking whites at random, trying to break into a pub, waving Palestine flags, wearing ballot clavas with sticks and knives. They threatened journalists on camera making gun gestures. They stuck knives in the wheelers of cars that were carrying journalists. And all through this, the police were nowhere to be seen in stark contrast to some of the other riots. And a lot of people are complaining that the government is going soft on these Muslim rioters, but hard on them, with the police operating a two-tier approach. Meanwhile, a lot of Muslims very understandably feel under threat and unless the government can take the temperature down, there is a real danger that the riots will continue all week long. - Well, already shocking events playing out there in the UK. Let's hope things don't deteriorate even further. Guy, thank you so much for joining us. - My pleasure. Thank you very much for having me on. - Thanks for waking up with us. We'll be back tomorrow with more of the news you need to know. Attention night elves and social butterflies. Are you tired of choosing between a great evening out and a productive next day? Let me introduce you to Zibiotics pre-alcohol. Here's the scoop. It's not dehydration causing your sluggish mornings, but a toxic byproduct created when your body breaks down alcohol. 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