Transcript of Evening Wire: Trump’s ‘12-Out-Of-10’ Xi Meeting & More Louvre Suspects Nabbed | 10.30.25

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President Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea last night. The hour and a half discussion touched on several important topics, including of semiconductors, rare earth minerals, Ukraine, and fentanyl. Here's the President on Air Force One early this morning.

We're going to issue a statement on some of the details. But overall, I guess on the scale from zero to 10, with 10 being the best, I would say the meeting was at 12: 00. I think it was at 12: 00. We have a deal. Now, every year we'll renegotiate the deal, but I think the deal will go on for a long time, long beyond the year.

We'll negotiate at the end of the year, but All of the rare earth has been settled, and that's for the world, worldwide. Former military diplomat to Asia, Brent Sadler, had this assessment on Fox this morning.

Both sides clearly wanted the same thing, a positive beginning to a new phase of these negotiations. I think it was helpful that they included more than just economics in these negotiations because there's quite a lot of issues that are weighing in on this bilateral relationship.

Just days before meeting with Trump, Xi Jinping unveiled China's new five-year plan designed to compete against the US. Daily Wire senior editor, Khabit Phillips, has more.

The plan, presented to the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, emphasizes the country's ambitions in technology and manufacturing. Alluding to Western dominance in these fields, Xi said, The balance of global power is undergoing profound readjustment, and breakthroughs in a new phase of technological revolution and industrial transformation are accelerating. Addressing recent US trade policies, she added Unilateralism and protectionism are raising their heads, and the threats from hegemony and power politics are escalating. Meanwhile, Trump has announced that he's directed the US Department of War to resume testing its nuclear arsenal for the first time in decades. The President referenced other countries' nuclear tests in a post on Truth Social, and said he'd instructed the Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis. This comes on the heels of Russia's flagrant tests of nuclear capable missiles and torpedoes. If completed, these would be the first American nuclear weapons tests since 1992.

Hurricane Melissa has passed through the Bahamas and is barreling toward Bermuda. The storm claimed at least 30 lives as it swept through Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Melissa has been downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 105 miles per hour.

The defense minister of Pakistan just threatened to send the Taliban back to the caves. Peace talks collapsed yesterday following a wave of violence along the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Dozens of soldiers and civilians were killed in recent attacks by terror groups, which Pakistan says are being sheltered by the Taliban. After a tenuous ceasefire and later peace talks fell through, Pakistan's defense minister said on X, Pakistan does not require even a fraction of its full arsenal to completely obliterate the Taliban regime and push them back to the caves for hiding.

Tentative peace has settled back over Gaza after Israel's retaliatory airstrikes against Hamas. Here's Daily Wire reporter, Tim pierce.

Israel's military said on Thursday that the terror group is handed over the bodies of two more hostages, though the bodies have not yet been analyzed. Hamas handed what it said were the bodies of two hostages over to the Red Cross. The remains were then escorted into Israel and taken to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine for identification. Since the ceasefire went into effect roughly three weeks ago, Hamas has turned over the bodies of 15 hostages. Thirteen more remain to be recovered. According to the terms of the ceasefire, all hostages were supposed to be returned in a matter of days. Israel has said that Hamas's failure to follow through on its has been a breach of the ceasefire's terms. Five more arrests were made last night in the Louver heist, bringing the total to over a dozen now. According to authorities, some of the suspects in detention have at least partially confessed to the crime. The jewels, however, valued at over $100 million, have not yet been recovered. Officials are asking the public to continue submitting tips.

After several lawsuits, artificial intelligence platform, Character AI, says that it's going to ban users under 18 from chatting with its AI-generated characters or chat bots. Daily Wire Assistant Editor, Andy Valdes, reports. The announcement comes after multiple lawsuits were filed against Character. Ai, alleging the chat bots pushed children into sexual conversations and even led to one teen's suicide. Beginning on November 25th, those under 18 will not have access to the platform's chat bots. Until then, teens will be limited to two hours of chat time with the AI-generated characters. The most concerning lawsuit against the company was filed by the family of a 14-year-old from Orlando, Florida. His family said he started using character. Ai and grew attached to the chatbot, with conversations turning romantic and sexual, leading ultimately to his seclusion and tragic death.

Speaking ahead of Vice President Vance at a Turning Point USA event on Wednesday, Erica Kirk told a crowd of students that her late husband, Charlie, learned how to have courage by starting his day with three simple questions.

What is something I can do for someone today? What is something I can do add value to the world today? How can I honor God today? Those were the three questions combined with the words he saw every single morning. To me, seeing that, seeing on his desk, That was him suited up with the armor of the Lord every day. And what I'm realizing with that is those were the action points of how to have courage. Ask yourself those three questions every single day. And I promise you, you will get courage. Because what death amplifies even more is that you only get one life. I want to remind you that God has created you for greatness. Senator Ted Cruz says he was not among the Republicans targeted and tracked by Biden's FBI, but only thanks to his wireless service provider, AT&T. Daily Wire senior editor, Virginia Kruta, has story. Fbi Operation Arctic Frost was used to spy on a number of Conservatives and even elected Republicans, including US senators. Ted Cruz of Texas was one of nine whose phone records were subpoenaed by Biden's DOJ in an effort to investigate the January sixth riot on Capitol Hill.

But AT&T had refused to turn over his information.

The senator joked on his podcast, The Verdict, that he was initially offended when he thought that he'd been left off the list. But then he learned what had actually happened. How did I get lift out of this list?

Like, what did I have to do?

I was literally standing on the Senate floor on January sixth, objecting and leading the fight.

I had brought together 11 senators to stand together in fighting for an election commission to assess the evidence of voter fraud.

Well, it turns out the reason I was not on the list is apparently all eight of those senators, their cell phones are with Verizon.

The evidence had come out Verizon had handed over their cell phone information.

Well, my cell phone is with AT&T. I didn't know it at the time, but I found out late last week that Jack Smith sent a subpoena to AT&T, demanding my cell phone records, and AT&T told him to go jump in a lake.

Republican Get Out the vote activist Scott Pressler is optimistic that New Jersey could go red next week. Daily Wire political reporter Cameron Arcan has more. Republican Jack Ciuderelli is running against Democratic Congresswoman Mikey Sheryl in the race to succeed outgoing Democratic governor Phil Murphy. This is an economic election, Pressler told the Daily Wire. The voters in New Jersey are being crushed by property taxes. They're being crushed by electricity taxes. Pressler noted that while much of the cycle's focus has been on the Virginia gubernatorial election and the New York City mayoral race, New Jersey has come into focus in the waning days of the campaign, as Americans realize a Republican may take the governor's mansion. Democrats are finally realizing Jack is poised to become the next governor, Pressler said. I think the thing that is different as well as the national attention New Jersey is getting, when it wasn't really getting months ago, when we were banging on every door and shouting to people, New Jersey is 100% in play.

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger came out with some rare commentary this week, denouncing current governor, Gavin Newsom's proposed ballot measure to gerrymander the state. Daily Wire senior editor, Joel Needler reports.

At a campus event, the actor and former governor said, It doesn't make any sense to me that because we have to fight Trump, we become Trump. Two bad behaviors don't make a right. California's Proposition 50, dubbed the Election Rigging Response Act, would redraw a line so as to reduce the impact of conservative voting blocks in the state, focusing on heavily Latino areas that broke for Trump in 2024. The act came in response to a Texas decision to redraw their map and triggered an arms race across the country of both red and blue states to pass redistricting measures.

On Wednesday, a police commander in Portland accused federal forces in the city of inflaming anti-ice protests. Daily Wire immigration reporter, Jennie Tear, has more. Commander Franz Skoneg testified during a federal bench trial on President Trump's authority to deployed National Guard to the city. The commander said the federal forces use of tear gas was startling and went against state and federal law. He also claimed that the tear gas was used against nonviolent demonstrators at an ICE facility. That ICE The facility has been rocked by protests for months, which the Department of Justice have said involve violence and threats of violence directed at federal law enforcement. Since Trump took office in January, ICE agents have faced a more than 1,000% increase in assault.

A torn-down statue has been resurrected in DC. Protesters toppled the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike and set it on fire back in June 2020 in the wake of George Floyd's death. But the National Park Service reinstalled the statue this week. That's in keeping with an executive order from President Trump entitled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History. The Park Service says that restoring the statue, the only one to a Confederate general within DC, falls under its current mandate to, Beautify the Nation's capital and restore pre-existing statues.

Members of Congress will come together this evening not to debate or campaign, but to publicly pray for America. The House Freedom Caucus and the Family Research Council will host a first-ever National call to prayer titled Congress Prays for America. It will unite members of Congress, Christian leaders, and Americans across the country. Members will pray for an end to political violence, pray for the President, for Congress, and for people impacted by the ongoing shutdown, as well as for peace and protection in Israel.

All right, those are your drive home updates today. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire. Com. And in case you missed it earlier today, we covered some major stories, including Trump's big sit down with China's Xi Jinping, a blistering Congressional report on Biden's presidency, and the growing push for Canada's euthanasia program to include miners. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of MorningWire.