The attempt to forge a lasting peace comes to a head as the U.S. and Iran prepare to meet face to face in Pakistan. I encourage the Iranians to come to the table seriously. We've seen some signs that they're going to do that. Fundamentally, we're in a good spot. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Friday, April 10th. This is Morning Wire. The Artemis II crew is set to splash down tonight. We talked to an astronaut about this final and most crucial phase of the mission. It's always a risk and it's never routine. We treat every flight as critical as the previous flights. And amid calls for sweeping changes to college athletics, President Trump intervenes. $4.1 billion was paid to the students in the form of scholarships and everybody was happy. And now you got yourself a mess. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. 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So that no doubt is keeping the American side very upset as these talks loom. President Trump says that US forces will remain in position and are ready to act if needed. He posted a sort of threatening social media post saying, hey, everyone is still there. Their fingers are on the trigger if you guys act up. So that again is President Trump showing strength ahead of these talks. As you mentioned, they are going to take place tomorrow in Pakistan. Vice President J.D. Vance is going to be leading the US delegation along with Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner. Now we've reported on the show about some of the initial demands from the Iranians, but the White House has made clear that many of them are no-gos. They say that there has been progress on some points, but the biggest for Trump, of course, is completely dismantling Iran's nuclear program, defanging the military, and fully reopening the strait. That would be the big hurdles to get over in Pakistan tomorrow. One of the key players here, of course, is Israel and they've been in this continuous battle with Hezbollah in Lebanon to their north. There was a major development on that front. Where does Israel stand now in all of this? Keep in mind, one of the original conditions for the Iranians in this ceasefire was reportedly that Israel stopped their war on Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Iranians actually re-closed the strait after the Israelis continued bombarding Hezbollah positions. There has been a potential breakthrough. Prime Minister Netanyahu announced yesterday that he had ordered direct negotiations with Lebanon after he says they requested to talk. Lebanese Prime Minister is reportedly calling to demilitarize Beirut. Netanyahu said specifically that the negotiations will, quote, focus on disarming Hezbollah and establishing peaceful relations between Israel and Lebanon. Now the Trump administration remains bullish that they can ultimately reach a deal here. And that's despite the Iranian regime showing consistently they can't be trusted to act in good faith. Why is the Trump administration so confident going into this? Why do they think they can reach a deal? Yeah, there's just no doubt that the Iranians have a long and storied history of not being trustworthy, not being good faith actors in these types of negotiations. All the way back to the 1979 revolution, they've repeatedly broken their word. It's just a fact. We talked to retired Brigadier General Mark Kimmet about his decades of experience dealing with the Iranian regime, and his warning could not have been more blunt. I've seen the Iranians how they negotiate, frankly, since it was the Persian Empire. They're brilliant negotiators. They will pull you in every direction. They will delay. They will deny. They will deceive. And they will typically end up in a better place than you hoped they would be. And as for what Vice President Vance and the rest of the U.S. delegation needs to accomplish for success, General Kimmet says the U.S. needs to stay laser focused on their original objectives. Their sticking point should be their original war aims, the removal of the ballistic missile program, the nuclear program, and the proxy program. Now, look, the Trump administration is no doubt going into these talks with their eyes wide open. They know who they're dealing with on the other side of the table. In fact, Vice President Vance, who's heading up the team, as we said, made that very clear this week. And he also signaled why the White House is so confident that they can force Iran into a deal. If they're going to lie, if they're going to cheat, if they're going to try to prevent even the fragile fruits that we've set up from taking place, then they're not going to be happy. Because what the president has also shown is that we still have clear military diplomatic and maybe most importantly, we have extraordinary economic leverage. So the president has told us not to use those tools. He's told us to come to the negotiating table. But if the Iranians don't do the exact same thing, they're going to find out that the president of the United States is not one to mess around. As we said, so much hinging on these upcoming talks. Kevin, thanks so much for reporting. Absolutely. Raise your hand if you've been putting off a dental cleaning, an annual checkup, or honestly any kind of doctor's appointment. Our sponsor, ZockDoc, is here to help. ZockDoc is a free app and website that helps you find and book high quality in network doctors so you can find someone you love. View thousands of verified reviews and check doctors' real-time availability to meet in person or online and book instantly. Stop putting off those doctor's appointments and go to ZockDoc.com. 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Of course, the G-loading coming through the atmosphere and then finally getting subsonic and the parachute opening sequence starts, which takes a little time. I can tell you from my experience that that was the longest 25 seconds of my life. And then of course, drifting down under parachute, then you land in the ocean and they have to be recovered. So break it down for us a little bit. What exact stages will they have to go through between now and splashing down tonight? Sure. So now they're out in deep space and they've just transitioned from having the lunar gravity be overcome by Earth gravity. So they're approaching the Earth now. They've done a course correction so that they impact the atmosphere at just the right angle, cutting at the edge of the Earth. And once they impact the atmosphere, then the drag of the atmosphere will slow them down, put them deeper into the atmosphere. And as they're slowing down and getting deeper into the denser atmosphere, the G-loading, the acceleration that they feel builds up. It'll build up to about 4Gs. At the same time, there will be literally in a fireball because of the speed, the friction increases the temperature outside to several thousand degrees. So it's heating along with the G-loading and then that slows them down, dissipates all of that energy that they have entering the atmosphere, which they'll be going about 25,000 miles per hour when they hit the upper part of the atmosphere. That's a lot of energy to dissipate. And you said that was the longest 25 seconds of your life. What does that feel like to enter at that speed? Yeah, you finally go through that fireball that I talked about and the high G-loading, then the G-loading starts dissipating, get down to about 2Gs, twice the force of gravity. The fireball dissipates. And in my case, you would hear a Russian wind outside. You knew you were subsonic then. And then that would, shortly after that, the deployment sequence of the parachute would begin. They'll land on target and the Navy will be out there waiting for them. They'll splash down into the ocean. It should be a relatively benign impact to the water. And then if everything goes as planned, they'll just hang out there and wait for the search and rescue forces to get to them, the team, and they'll open a hatch from the outside and help them get out safely on the boat. Now there was a very famous scene in, I think it was Apollo 13, the movie where they seemed like they were really burning up in that ship when they were coming through the atmosphere. Is it physically hot in the ship? Well, Ryan, I don't have experience in, obviously, but I expect, yes. When I came back three times in a Russian Soyuz, we were drenched in sweat. We had been, you're wearing heavy suits for one thing. The ventilation system can't keep up quite with the heat loading that you're going through. And then you have the heating on the outside, which is you're insulated somewhat, but you still get some of that heat transfer into the inside. Yeah, that sounds terrifying. There'll be a little bit of adrenaline flowing. But you're focused on the process, right? You're focused, you're monitoring the systems, you're monitoring your trajectory, you're making sure you're staying on target. So there's that focus. And remember, these guys have been doing this for years, and some of them have even military backgrounds in their background as well. So you're used to spending your entire career in maybe high-stress environments, flying jets and whatnot. So they'll be focused. Once they get to the water and everything is fine, there is a sense of relief, mission accomplished kind of thing. And they'll be a little high-fiving, I'm sure, inside the cockpit. Amazing, amazing. Jeffrey, thank you so much for coming on and explaining all of this for us. You bet, Georgia. Great to be with you today. 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I'm going to say tee things off because it is Master's week, so we'll go with golf for our sport of choice today. But yeah, the college athletic space is a mess right now for a lot of people that are working in it, for a lot of fans that are confused of who's even on the team, because we've started this world now where players are getting paid for their name, image, and likeness, which if you talk to people that are close to the situation, say that's not even really the problem. The problem is the transfer rules. You have people that are in their mid-twenties still playing college sports. It all started with COVID because you got granted that extra year of eligibility because of COVID, but then you kept building upon it. And now you have people in school for seven years trying to milk a doctorate degree and still compete in their sport. So it's not sustainable, and that's what so many coaches and the president have been discussing over the last several years, and now action is being taken. So in Trump's order, he says let college athletes have five years of eligibility, and he now is going to restrict most athletes to one transfer, and you get an additional transfer permitted after earning a four-year degree. So the order is going to seek to ensure that the transfer window does not incentivize interference with athletic seasons or academic year or otherwise undermine the integrity of participation in competition in college athletics, because what did we see this past year with the College Football Playoff? You saw Langkiffin leave his team, went to a different school, because he had to start recruiting these players for LSU and building next year's team while Ole Miss was in the playoff. So it is a total mess. This is what Trump order states. He said, fair competition cannot occur without a consistent set of rules concerning pay for play or player eligibility that cannot be endlessly relitigated in court. So that is meaning you have all these scenarios, and it's still going to become a problem, I think, with this, with these lawyers taking it to court and taking cases, and that's why you have people like Nick Saban saying, we need Congress involved in this too to prevent all these ensuing lawsuits, because that's how we're here in the first place. And for the people that say, hey, look, this isn't that big of a deal, it really is. The financial part of this, the legal aspect of this, super complicated, super costly, and like you said, unsustainable. The NFL has rules that are very clear for both parties on both sides. It's totally unclear right now what can and can't be done. So the big question here, does Trump actually have the authority to do what he's doing? Does this executive order have teeth? Well, he thinks he's going to win over the Supreme Court. So he is confident in the Supreme Court right now, the justices that are serving, that he can push this through without any issues. I've talked to people close to the situation that are very involved in college sports, and they say that things will settle down, but it could be a couple years. A fascinating part of the Final Four coverage this past weekend was seeing John Calipari, who was a coach at Arkansas, a longtime Kentucky coach, go back and forth with Jay Billis, who is a college basketball expert, because Jay was saying, how can you tell these kids you can't transfer and coaches will leave for more money and a heartbeat, but there's some still things to work out there with saying, are you making all these people, these athletes sign contracts and have a clause in there saying, well, if the coach leaves, then you can transfer. A lot to still settle out, but it looks like Trump and his staff, including Nick Saban, all these commissioners and college presidents, are very determined to get something done. And when is this scheduled to go into effect? So the executive order is expected to go into effect August 1st of this year, so that leaves the NCAA the governing body of college sports less than four months to adjust their system. Well, we'll see if this ends up being the fix that a lot of people have been calling for. Lyndon, thank you so much for reporting. Thanks, guys. Thanks for waking up with us. And if you're listening to the show, now you can watch for free on Daily Wire+. We'll be back later this evening with more news you need to know.
