Mid-Day Update： August 29, 2025
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Summary
Trump strikes back at 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, Biden extends her protection for another year, Ernst decides not to run for re-election, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook files a lawsuit to block President Trump from firing her, and more!
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, August 29th.
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President Trump striking another blow against his 2024 presidential rival,
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even as she considers another desperate bid for presidency.
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President Trump has reportedly revoked Kamala Harris' Secret Service protection earlier this afternoon.
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Harris previously received six months of protection after leaving office in accordance with federal law.
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Joe Biden, however, extended her protection by additional year for undisclosed reasons.
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How unsurprising that the Biden administration and his handlers would make a mockery of the law once again.
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If you want security, get your own security and pay for it yourself.
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The taxpayer dollars are not being spent to protect you, Kamala.
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Sorry, you're not president of the United States.
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The great state of Iowa will have a chance to upgrade its congressional delegation next year,
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though the White House understandably wanted to play it safe.
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It's being reported that Iowa Senator Joni Ernst will not seek re-election for that seat in the Senate.
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A source telling CBS that Ernst has told people close to her that she intends to only serve two terms
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The news will come as a disappointment to the White House as President Trump has urged Ernst to run again for the Senate.
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The reason for this is the incumbency is a powerful asset and there's no stomach for a nasty primary.
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However, there is tremendous potential for true MAGA candidates to emerge.
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This is necessary considering Ernst's deviations from the America First agenda.
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And one of the hardest working men in D.C., of course second to President Trump,
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, an acting national security advisor,
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announced on Friday that Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vogt
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will oversee the final closeout of U.S. Agency for International Development,
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marking the accumulation of months of cuts and restructuring under President Trump's administration.
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He told me to give one to a friend, at Russ Vogt, so I did.
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Since January, we saved the taxpayers tens of billions of dollars,
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and with a small set core programs moved over to the State Department,
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Russ is now at the helm to oversee the closeout of the agency that long ago went off the rails.
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The coming close to USAID comes after DOGE, the famous Elon Musk project,
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found billions and billions of dollars being wasted through this program.
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and we should expect it to come to an end in the next few months once and for all.
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Federal Reserve Chairman, hopefully not for much longer,
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Jerome Powell, is continuing to allow Lisa Cook to have access to her office
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and her electronics despite President Trump ordering her firing.
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President Trump on Monday evening fired Biden-appointed Federal Reserve Governor,
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Lisa Cook, as she fights her mortgage fraud allegations.
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However, Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit to block President Trump from firing her.
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Cook admitted that she had manufactured documents
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and hinted at a clerical error that's behind her mortgage fraud allegations.
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So she's been fired by President Trump for being unethical,
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yet Jerome Powell allowing her to still access her office,
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her electronics, and possibly classified information?
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It seems there may be cause now for President Trump to look at firing Jerome Powell,
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who's only got a few months left in office anyway,
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but I think it goes without saying he deserves it for all the bad stuff he's been doing
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to President Trump and this country, as a matter of fact,
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over the last year or so with his interest rate gains,
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although after mounting pressure and an interest rate cut,
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which is expected to come this September, we shall see.
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Border czar Tom Holman on Friday said that the Trump administration
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has located nearly 30,000 of the 300,000 missing children
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that the Biden administration lost track of at the border
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and left with unvetted individuals to be exploited.
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That's right, folks, human traffickers, human smugglers,
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Out of the 300,000 children, I looked at the numbers just yesterday,
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Well, President Trump's committed, we're not going to stop
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until we find every one of them or at least run every lead down
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because the last administration wasn't even looking for them.
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So as far as with Chicago, Chicago's coming along with every other sanctuary city.
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President Trump is committed that we're going to focus
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and prioritize sanctuary cities because that is where the problem is.
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We know for a fact they're releasing public safety threats to the streets every day
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rather than handing them over to ICE so we can deport them.
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Folks, please be sure to join us tonight for The Great America Show,
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