Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is launching an investigation after the Daily Mail reportedly blew the lid off an air traffic controller cheating scandal. A Marxist judge has ordered President Trump to rehire 20,000 fired workers across 18 agencies. President Trump is reportedly moving forward with plans to retake the Panama Canal. Rachel Maddow has lost a quarter of her TV watching audience since the 2016 election.
00:00:00.000Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, March 14th.
00:00:04.920Happy Friday, folks. I hope your days are all off to a great start and you're ready for the weekend, just as much as I am.
00:00:11.080Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is launching an investigation after the Daily Mail reportedly blew the lid off an air traffic controller cheating scandal.
00:00:20.220Duffy putting all DEI hires at the FAA on notice after this bombshell leaked audio.
00:00:25.780The story that was published this week exposed how a powerful figure in a massive Federal Aviation Workers Association gave test answers to a black and minority candidates ahead of a make-or-break test.
00:00:39.040Now the bombshell report revealed its audio of Shelton Snow of the National Black Coalition of the FAE, the Federal Aviation Employees, promising to give answers in advance before the prospects took the difficult exams.
00:00:52.840Quote, I'm about 99.99% sure that this is exactly how you will need to answer each question, Snow could be heard saying.
00:01:02.400After reading the Daily Mail exclusive, Sean Duffy, I guess he's doing his reading, reposted a story on X and announced a new probe into the diversity, equity, and inclusion DEI practices with inside the FAA.
00:01:14.920Duffy says, quote, I am launching a full investigation into the DEI hiring allegations at the FAA immediately.
00:01:21.000If true, swift accountability will come for those responsible.
00:01:25.360He says nothing in the allegations first reported in the Daily Mail story.
00:01:29.040He say ends with, we need the best and brightest, not buzzword, DEI hires.
00:01:34.360Great on Sean Duffy and great on the Trump administration for doing what they've got to do.
00:01:39.700On a bad note, a Marxist Obama judge has ordered President Trump to rehire 20,000 fired probationary workers across 18 agencies.
00:01:50.460U.S. District Judge James Bradar, an Obama appointee, said the Trump administration cannot conduct massive layoffs without warning the workers.
00:01:58.920Quote, when the federal government terminates large numbers of employees, including those still on probation because they were recently hired or promoted, it must follow certain rules.
00:02:07.340The judge wrote in a 56-page order, quote, some of those rules are intended to help states manage the consequences of sudden and mass layoffs.
00:02:16.320Marxist damn judges with severe, severe Trump derangement syndrome doing all they could to shut down the America First MAGA agenda.
00:02:26.240I'm not entirely sure it's going to last very long with these folks.
00:02:29.260President Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the birthright citizenship fight that he's been taking on.
00:02:36.060Four federal judges have blocked President Trump's birthright citizenship executive order.
00:02:40.340According to President Trump, the order, the 14th Amendment is being misinterpreted by the left and gave citizens to anchor babies, giving them citizenship to stay in this country.
00:02:50.980President Trump asking SCOTUS to stay, the nationwide injunction issued by the federal judges.
00:02:55.980Once again, these Marxist judges doing all they can to try to ruin the MAGA agenda.
00:03:05.800And President Trump is reportedly moving forward with plans to retake the Panama Canal.
00:03:10.100According to newly released documents, President Trump has asked the military leaders to, quote,
00:03:15.560draw up options for a plan that would either see the U.S. partnering more closely with the Panamanian security forces or potentially taking the canal back by force.
00:03:24.080The report states that the U.S. Southern Command is developing potential plans that vary from partnership more closely, as I said,
00:03:31.800or the less likely option that U.S. troops will seize the canal by force, whether military force is used or not.
00:03:38.320The officials added depends on how much Panamanian security forces agree to partner with the United States.
00:03:44.140Trump administration's goal is to increase the U.S. military's presence in Panama to diminish the Chinese influence there,
00:03:50.060particularly across the canal, according to this latest report.
00:03:54.080President Trump campaigned on it, and now he's promises made, promises kept, folks.
00:04:00.440And MSNBC's host, Rachel Maddow, has lost a stunning quarter of her TV-watching audience since the 2024 election.