00:00:00.000Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday,
00:00:03.760August 7th. Happy Friday, folks. Some big news today. Todd Blanche wins enough votes for the
00:00:09.520Senate confirmation, some unlikely holdouts, and then, of course, some likely holdouts.
00:00:15.040Senator Bill Cassidy this afternoon announcing he will vote yes to confirm Todd Blanche as
00:00:19.740Attorney General. Blanche now, of course, has enough votes to be confirmed by the Senate after
00:00:24.740Cassidy making this announcement. He says that he'll be criticized for this vote, but what else
00:00:30.320is new? The choice is not between perfection and Mr. Blanche. It's between Mr. Blanche and another
00:00:35.380acting attorney general who may not run the department effectively, whatever that means.
00:00:40.940Now, Cassidy's announcement comes after RINO Senators Collins and Murkowski announced that
00:00:45.500they would oppose Blanche for various reasons. Murkowski of Alaska on Friday announced she would0.65
00:00:51.300oppose Blanche and Collins earlier in the week. Murkowski said the weaponization fund handling
00:00:57.080the release of the Epstein files and sweeping immunity protections granted to President Trump
00:01:02.020and his family are a few reasons why she will be opposing Blanche. Those folks in Alaska,1.00
00:01:07.240I think now need to get serious and find themselves a new senator because she's not1.00
00:01:12.340quite cutting it anymore. An absolute joke of a senator. This woman has lost her mind.1.00
00:01:19.140Collins, who's up for re-election in just a few short months. We'll see what happens with her1.00
00:01:25.800over there. John Thune, who can't seem to rally his caucus, get any bills passed,
00:01:31.300pass any sort of America First MAGA agenda. President Trump, in a recent interview this
00:01:36.480afternoon, was asked if he wants Thune to continue on into another term. Here's what
00:01:41.840the president had to say. Do you want Thune to serve another term as leader? Do you think,
00:01:45.460would you support him well i don't want to get into that necessarily but why a lot of people are
00:01:49.800thinking about this is a big issue i get along with him it's unfortunate that he doesn't have
00:01:55.860the vote but you actually get along with him uh i do but you clearly disagree i mean you have big
00:02:00.420disagreements i do i do have disagreements i believe strongly in terminating the filibuster
00:02:05.180and by the way getting save america act approved immediately and about 400 other things in every
00:02:13.420hour of every day boom boom boom you get whatever you want you get democrats would do it too though
00:02:18.140right they'd get well they're going to do that they're going to do that if they get in they're
00:02:21.700going to do it very quickly i mean you're wrong on that we'll see they're going to do that so fast
00:02:26.140and i say as long as we all know that they're going to do it i'm so shocked to hear you but
00:02:32.680as long as i know that they're going to do that you do it i would do it whether they did it or
00:02:36.700not i would we would get in the next two and a half years we would get things that nobody ever
00:02:41.560Trump, though, we would be in office for the next 100 years. And I'll tell you what, if they get in,
00:02:48.420I may be the last Republican president. I think it's about time, President Trump,
00:02:54.180be very frank that John Thune has not done his job, has not fulfilled the expectations
00:02:59.620of what a Senate majority leader should be for a party in control. President Trump taking the
00:03:06.760fight himself on birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court, of course, earlier0.96
00:03:10.840this year, failed to do anything about it, telling all illegals they're welcome to come
00:03:15.600in this country by the dozens, by the thousands, by the tens of thousands, by the millions.
00:03:21.100President Trump signing an executive order cracking down further because of the Supreme
00:03:25.860Court's failure to do so. Take a listen to his remarks from the Oval Office.
00:03:30.020We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright. It was close, but
00:03:35.580A very, very unfortunate decision. So we're making adjustments because it's very unfair.
00:03:43.800This was done for a different reason. This was done right after the Civil War.
00:03:48.020This was for the babies of slaves. And what's happening now, people are building businesses around it from wealthy people are building businesses around birthright citizenship.0.72
00:04:01.120That's not the way it's supposed to work.