The Great America Show - Mid-Day Update： August 13, 2026

00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, August 13th.

00:00:05.280 Happy Thursday, folks.

00:00:06.980 Two fierce Trump loyalists have emerged as frontrunners to potentially replace outgoing press secretary Caroline Levitt.

00:00:14.320 Trump on Wednesday announced that Levitt would be departing her role as White House press secretary to spend more time with her young children.

00:00:20.580 She will now serve as one of President Trump's top outside advisors.

00:00:24.220 She, of course, was the youngest person to hold the position of White House press secretary,

00:00:27.280 just 27 years old when she took over that role she also has two young children gave birth to

00:00:33.320 the second child in may now just less than a day after the reports that she'd be leaving

00:00:38.500 two front runners have come forward at least in the eyes of the new york post president trump

00:00:44.720 is reportedly looking at alina haba who served as his defense lawyer and former acting attorney

00:00:49.700 for new jersey also looking at breitbart's washington bureau chief matthew boyle those

00:00:56.520 the two names that have arisen as frontrunners for that job. President Trump's State Department

00:01:03.780 acts as Biden-era initiative that sought to spread DEI around the world. Biden-era guidelines

00:01:09.660 order diplomats to push diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility for policies

00:01:14.300 agenda on foreign governments have been scrapped. This policy under the Biden regime spoke about

00:01:19.980 rules, having State Department leaders, quote, race, social inclusion, racial, gender equality,

00:01:26.840 disability, and LGBTQI plus issues with high-level host countries, especially in countries where

00:01:34.420 these issues are problematic. Borders are Tom Homan issuing a blunt message to these woke

00:01:40.040 Democrat-run cities. Many of these Democrat-run cities in states nationwide have been limiting

00:01:45.280 in cooperation with ICE, including denying detainers for criminal illegal aliens.

00:01:50.740 Tom Holman says this is not going to stop them.

00:01:53.880 As a matter of fact, they're only going to ramp it up even more.

00:01:56.440 Take a listen.

00:01:57.560 Shake to your stomach that your government lets you down.

00:02:00.520 The state government lets you down.

00:02:01.740 Look, they put a lot of roadblocks up.

00:02:03.660 They try to make our job more difficult.

00:02:05.160 But the bottom line is, of June of this year, ICE made more arrests than any time in the history of ICE.

00:02:11.040 A historic month in June.

00:02:12.820 What did we do the next month in July?

00:02:14.320 we blew June out of the water. We got another historic record. We're going to keep doing our

00:02:18.920 job. You can make it more difficult. You can impede. You can interfere. But you're not going

00:02:23.520 to stop President Trump from keeping his promise to American people. Most secure border in history.

00:02:29.540 There hasn't been a single illegal alien released into this country in 13 months. And that's going

00:02:34.540 to continue. We have record numbers of arrests and deportations making this country safer again.

00:02:39.220 You're not going to stop us. I just don't understand why this is a partisan issue.

00:02:44.560 Why doesn't law enforcement work with law enforcement to make the public and your community safer?

00:02:49.940 That's your number one responsibility as governor and mayor and city council to make your community safer.

00:02:55.100 Work with ICE. You don't have to be an immigration officer when it comes to public safety threats that are in the country illegally.

00:03:01.680 Work with us.

00:03:02.380 As we all know, the Marxist Dems, the last thing they want to do is work with any government agency that's going to promote truth, justice, and the American way.

00:03:11.000 ICE has averaged over 1,400 arrests per day in June, higher in early July, with hundreds of thousands of deportations already recorded for this fiscal year.

00:03:21.140 A major airport here in America installing dedicated Islamic foot washing basins in the bathrooms?

00:03:27.440 That's right, if you're from the great state of Texas, or more closely, Dallas, Texas,

00:03:35.640 the bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will be getting a makeover.

00:03:40.280 According to public documents, voodoo foot washing stations will be installed in the facility's bathroom

00:03:45.120 to cost about $300,000.

00:03:48.660 That's right, coming to an airport near you, because we must be inclusive, right?

00:03:53.280 after billions upon billions in spending, California's high-speed rail program may run

00:03:59.360 out of money by the end of 2027. You remember that high-speed rail project, Gavin Newsom and

00:04:06.020 his bullet train? Well, they could end up broke at the end of the day, or I should say at the end

00:04:11.700 of the year. The Office of the Inspector General warned that the California High-Speed Rail

00:04:16.000 Authority funds could dry up as soon as December of 2027 unless it secures financing. The authority

00:04:21.800 we need to borrow as much as almost $10 billion over five years to keep the construction on

00:04:28.100 schedule, although it's unclear what the schedule is because it was supposed to be completed already

00:04:33.940 and is billions of dollars now over budget. A federal appeals court just delivered a massive

00:04:40.720 setback to Planned Parenthood and the Federation of America, dismissing the abortion's giant

00:04:47.280 attempt to escape liability in a long-running medicare fraud case that could ultimately force

00:04:53.060 it to repay nearly two billion dollars in taxpayer funds this afternoon u.s appeals court for the

00:04:59.720 fifth circuit dismissed plan parenthood's appeal for lack of jurisdiction which means the scum run

00:05:05.520 organization as i said may be on the line for nearly two billion dollars in repaying taxpayer

00:05:12.000 funds folks please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night for the great america show

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00:05:17.840 We will see you there.

00:05:18.700 I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update.

00:05:21.580 Have a great day, everybody.

The Great America Show - August 13, 2026

Mid-Day Update： August 13, 2026

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