The Great America Show - March 21, 2025


Friday Headlines： March 21, 2025

Topics
Department of Education dismantling
Hosted by
Lou Dobbs John Fawcett
Mentioned
Donald Trump Jonathan Burma Musk John F. Kennedy International Airport Daniel Patrick Moynihan Ron DeSantis Mike DeWine Carter
Thursday Headlines： March 20, 2025 The Great America Saturday Show： March 22, 2025

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867

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40

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An FBI agent who opposed President Trump during his first term was arrested and charged for sharing confidential information to write a memoir. After taking a dip, Tesla's valuation has soared back to $44 billion, underscoring a sharp turnaround in the company's fortunes since Elon Musk assumed the role as CEO.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday,
00:00:04.200 March 21st. Happy Friday, folks. We all made it through another week, and it's time for the
00:00:08.440 weekend. President Trump this week signing a highly anticipated executive order calling for
00:00:14.280 the dismantling of the Department of Education. President Trump, who was flanked by school
00:00:18.620 children, lawmakers, parental right advocates, and Republican governors from across the United
00:00:23.160 States, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Trump signed an
00:00:28.320 order declaring that, quote, the experiment of controlling American education through federal
00:00:32.700 programs and dollars and the unaccountability of the bureaucracy that those programs and dollars
00:00:38.380 support has plainly failed our children, our teachers, and our family. When President Carter
00:00:43.660 created the Federal Education Department in 1979, it was opposed by members of his own cabinet as
00:00:49.160 well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York Times editorial board, and the famed
00:00:53.560 Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. History has proven them right. Absolutely right, in fact,
00:00:59.440 President Trump saying in that speech before signing that executive order. Now, this order
00:01:03.720 instructs the education secretary to, quote, maximize extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all
00:01:09.500 necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over
00:01:14.840 education to the states and local communities while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of
00:01:20.380 services, programs, and benefits which Americans rely. Consistent with the Department of Education's
00:01:26.580 authority, the Secretary of Education shall ensure that the allocation of any federal Department
00:01:31.640 of Education funds is subject to rigorous compliance with federal law and administration policy,
00:01:37.740 including the requirement that any program or activity receiving federal assistance terminate illegal
00:01:43.720 discrimination obstructed order under the label diversity, equity of inclusion, also known as DEI,
00:01:50.520 or any similar programs. So in this, President Trump looking to restore power back to the students,
00:01:56.880 back to the teachers, get it out of the damn hands of these federal bureaucrats who have absolutely ruined 1.00
00:02:02.460 our education system in this country. FEMA fraud happening over in California, 20 times more applicants than 0.99
00:02:11.600 homes in the Los Angeles wildfires. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, also known as FEMA,
00:02:17.640 has received 270,000 applications from purported homeowners in the recent LA fires, though only about
00:02:24.600 13,000 homes were destroyed. What's going on in California? It seems maybe they're trying to make up a few
00:02:32.520 bucks off the federal government before the place gets gutted out. Not entirely sure what's happening over
00:02:38.560 there with those folks. And humiliation is seeking in for the Marxist Dems. Having initially tried to
00:02:45.860 black out the deal, and Musk eventually completed his takeover of Twitter back in October of 2022 for
00:02:51.520 $44 billion, since renaming it X, the move was widely derided by leftists and Democrats at the time as a
00:02:59.260 catastrophic mistake, and a sign that Musk was not a business genius so many believed him to be.
00:03:04.600 Many analysts also claimed that Musk had destroyed the platform by ending the company's aggressive
00:03:09.420 censorship regime, allowing conservative voices including the Gateway Pundit and many others back
00:03:14.780 on the platform. Well, we've got bad news. After taking a little bit of a dip, X's valuation has soared
00:03:21.460 back to that $44 billion, underscoring a sharp turnaround in the company's fortunes since Musk has assumed the
00:03:28.340 role as CEO of the company. So those Marxist Dems, they try to destroy everything, but there's certain
00:03:37.080 things that they just can't get their hands around because the people are just a little bit too smart
00:03:41.580 for them. Over on the deep state side, an FBI agent who opposed President Donald Trump during his first
00:03:47.900 term was arrested and charged on Monday for sharing confidential information to write a memoir.
00:03:54.020 The arrest of a 15-year FBI veteran, Jonathan Burma, occurred at John F. Kennedy International Airport
00:04:00.680 in New York this week. He was accused of printing about 130 files of classified FBI documents and
00:04:08.100 messages, later sharing their materials with associates for a book he's writing about his career at the
00:04:12.520 Bureau. Court document claimed that Burma's book draft contained information that obtained through his
00:04:18.540 position as an FBI special agent that relates to FBI's efforts and investigations into the foreign
00:04:23.840 country's weapons of mass destruction programs. This is a man who was going after President Trump for
00:04:29.660 what? Classified documents? What was he going after President Trump for? It's always the Marxist Dems, 0.76
00:04:36.460 folks, who try to blame the Republicans for exactly what they're doing. They never seem to get caught,
00:04:44.080 but the tides may be turning. Turning, hopefully they are. Folks, please be sure to join us today and each and
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00:05:06.780 You can follow me on Twitter at John Fawcett NY. I'm John Fawcett with this midday update. Have a great Friday, folks.
00:05:13.200 Thank you.