The Great America Show - April 20, 2026


Mid-Day Update： April 20, 2026


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5 minutes

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Word count

952

Sentence count

43

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Hate speech

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The Iranians don't seem to want to make a deal and continue the conflict in their country. FBI Director C.J. Patel sues The Atlantic for $250 million for defamation. Mark Zuckerberg's plan to cut about 10,000 jobs. And some bad news for the woke folks.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, April 20th.
00:00:04.640 Happy Monday folks, I hope you all had a great weekend. 0.99
00:00:07.320 So it seems the Iranians just don't want to make a deal and want to continue the conflict in their country. 0.95
00:00:13.480 The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz escalated once again over the weekend as Iran reversed its reopening of the critical waterway
00:00:20.780 and fired on ships attempting to pass a retaliation after the United States pressed ahead with its blockade of Iranian ports.
00:00:27.640 the strait is closed until the u.s blockade is lifted the irgc said saturday night that warning
00:00:34.100 no vessel should make any movement from its anchorage in the persian gulf in the sea of oman
00:00:38.960 and approaching the strait of harmuz will can be considered as a cooperation with its enemy
00:00:44.260 that of course being the united states of america now also over the weekend the u.s navy fired upon
00:00:50.040 an iran flag tanker in the arabian sea on sunday disabling its engines and then later seizing the
00:00:56.200 vessel tehran officials condemned the caesar as quote armed piracy and they're vowing retaliation
00:01:02.640 now peace talks with iran were expected to begin in pakistan tomorrow but the recent reports of
00:01:08.200 iranian state media have thrown the meetings into doubt now why is this all important and why is it
00:01:13.720 all important right now because the ceasefire ends tomorrow night president trump says the bombs are
00:01:20.580 about to start going off once that ceasefire expires now president trump had said before
00:01:26.240 that he was going to level iran and then they were able to get an 11th hour ceasefire i don't
00:01:31.140 think president trump is going to be as kind um this time around as iran doesn't seem to want to
00:01:37.480 come to the table to talk any kind of peace now the interesting part about it all is that iran
00:01:42.820 had originally agreed i believe last week that they would turn over their enriched uranium to
00:01:48.700 the United States. President Trump says, if we have a deal, we're going to go get it. If we don't
00:01:52.900 have a deal, we're going to get it anyway. Take a listen. When you say that Iran has agreed to
00:01:57.260 turn over their nuclear dust, what does that mean? Are they destroying their nuclear material?
00:02:03.500 They're turning it over. Can you walk us through what that process looks like, sir?
00:02:06.940 We're taking it. Very simple. We're going in. With Iran. We're going in with Iran.
00:02:11.400 Does that mean you guys put them on the ground to get that? 1.00
00:02:13.620 I don't go up once in a row. We'll take it after the agreement is signed.
00:02:18.600 There's a big difference before and after.
00:02:20.840 Be seen. It's before and after.
00:02:23.680 Sir, in the street, are there going to be restrictions?
00:02:25.740 After the agreement is signed, it's a lot different than before.
00:02:28.180 We would have taken it.
00:02:29.860 If we didn't have an agreement, we would take it.
00:02:31.880 But I don't think we'll have to.
00:02:33.700 There you have it, folks.
00:02:34.860 And as always, we continue to wait.
00:02:37.160 FBI Director Cash Patel this afternoon suing The Atlantic,
00:02:40.440 which is a rag of a tabloid news organization, if you want to call it that, for $250 million for defamation.
00:02:49.460 Over the weekend, Cash Patel said he will sue The Atlantic magazine over their latest hit piece.
00:02:53.880 This piece by The Atlantic alleges that Cash Patel has, quote,
00:02:57.260 alarmed colleagues with an episode of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
00:03:03.080 The Atlantic called the suit meritless, saying they stand by their reporting on Cash Patel
00:03:07.200 and they will vigorously defend the Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit.
00:03:12.560 Now the defamation suit against the author of the piece and the Atlantic
00:03:17.820 say they falsely asserted that Patel is a habitual drinker unable to perform the duties of his office
00:03:22.920 in a threat to public safety and is vulnerable to foreign coercion
00:03:26.420 and has violated the DOJ ethics rules unreachable in emergencies
00:03:30.260 and has required the deployment of breaching equipment to extract him from locked rooms
00:03:36.040 allows alcohol to influence his public statements about criminal investigations
00:03:40.560 and behaves erratically in a manner that compromises national security suit also accused
00:03:46.480 the journalists of ignoring information that would have countered their central thesis that
00:03:51.340 director patel is a derelict and erratic leader who abuses alcohol to the point of being unfit
00:03:57.080 for duties and so we wait a verdict and some bad news for the woke folks over at meta also known
00:04:05.260 as Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, as they plan to cut about 8,000 jobs next month, roughly 10% of
00:04:11.900 their workforce, as it ramps up its investment in artificial intelligence. Delayoffs are expected
00:04:17.260 to take place beginning May 20th, with further cuts likely later this year. The scale and timing
00:04:22.840 of additional reductions have not been finalized. The job cuts come as CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeks to
00:04:30.200 embrace the benefits of artificial intelligence meta has reportedly set aside about 135 billion
00:04:36.360 in capital to spend this year as it looks to compete with the rivals including open ai and
00:04:41.780 anthropic i can't say it's a bad thing when the woke meta or facebook lays off people who
00:04:49.920 sought to censor hard-working republicans for the last 10 years good riddance folks folks please be
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00:05:07.920 I'm John Fossett with this midday update.
00:05:09.780 Happy Monday, folks, and I hope your weeks are off to a great start.