Evening Wire: Why Google Wants to Release 32 Million Mosquitoes & Tulsi’s Replacement Tapped | 6.2.26
6/2/202613 min
Marco Rubio gives updates on Iran, the president taps a familiar name to replace Tulsi Gabbard, and Google is seeking approval to release 32 million mosquitos in California and Florida. Get the facts first with Evening Wire.
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First 90 secondsJohn Bickley· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Marco Rubio gives updates on Iran, the president taps a familiar name to replace Tulsi Gabbard, and Google wants approval to release 32 million mosquitoes in California and Florida. I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickling. Georgia Howe is off on a little mini vacation today. It's Tuesday, June 2nd. This is Evening Wire. [air whooshing] Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on Iran at a heated committee hearing today. Daily Wire foreign affairs reporter Cassie Akiva has the details.
Cassie Akiva0:29
Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeatedly clashed with Senate Democrats during a Foreign Relations Committee hearing Tuesday as lawmakers pressed him on Iran. Here's one heated exchange between Rubio and Senator Cory Booker.
Cory Booker· Soundbite0:44
You have made our adversary in a stronger negotiating position, and now we're begging to get back into a deal that you all trashed- We're not begging ... in the first place.
Marco Rubio· Soundbite0:53
There's no one begging for anything here. The, the Iranians might be begging because their economy's losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day. I don't know where you're getting this perception that Iran is stronger. Iran has no navy left, they've lost a substantial percentage of their defense industrial base, and their economy is far worse today, and I mean far worse today, than it was six to nine months ago.
Cassie Akiva1:11
The hearing turned especially combative when Senator Jacky Rosen accused Rubio of attending a party with President Trump instead of participating in Iran negotiations in Pakistan with Vice President JD Vance. Take a listen.
Marco Rubio· Soundbite1:24
What party was I at? I was at a party?
Speaker 41:27
It's publicly reported, and there's photos there.
Marco Rubio· Soundbite1:28
But what party?
Speaker 41:29
Jacky made the- No, no,