The Great America Show - August 06, 2026


Mid-Day Update: August 6, 2026


Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

171.84

Word count

888

Sentence count

75

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, August 6th.
00:00:04.460 Happy Thursday, folks. Some massive news just moments ago coming out of the U.S. Senate.
00:00:08.920 I think it's something you folks are all going to be very, very pleased with. Take a listen.
00:00:14.140 Seeing no other motions, the question is on reporting of an original resolution regarding contempt of Congress.
00:00:18.920 The clerk will call the roll.
00:00:20.060 Senator Johnson.
00:00:20.960 Yes.
00:00:21.820 Senator Lankford.
00:00:22.820 Aye.
00:00:23.820 Senator Scott.
00:00:24.680 Yes.
00:00:25.740 Senator Hawley.
00:00:26.500 Aye.
00:00:27.520 Senator Moreno.
00:00:28.160 On behalf of the millions of people harmed by Anthony Fauci, resoundingly yes.
00:00:32.400 Senator Ernst.
00:00:33.380 Aye.
00:00:34.420 Senator Moody.
00:00:35.500 Aye.
00:00:36.580 Senator Peters. 0.96
00:00:37.360 No.
00:00:38.540 Senator Hassan.
00:00:39.380 No.
00:00:40.440 Senator Blumenthal.
00:00:41.440 No.
00:00:42.440 Senator Fetterman. 0.66
00:00:43.480 No.
00:00:44.460 Senator Kim. 1.00
00:00:45.480 No.
00:00:46.640 Senator Gallego.
00:00:48.140 No, by proxy.
00:00:49.540 Senator Slocken.
00:00:50.460 No, by proxy.
00:00:51.780 Senator Paul.
00:00:52.500 Yes.
00:00:52.820 Mr. Chairman, on the vote of those present, the yeas are eight, the nays are five.
00:00:59.980 On the vote by proxy and for the record only, the yeas are zero, the nays are two.
00:01:03.800 On this vote, the yeas are eight, the nays are five, and the motion is agreed.
00:01:07.100 That contempt of Congress, of course, for none other than Anthony Fauci.
00:01:11.400 Rand Paul is bypassing the Senate Democrats and bringing this straight to the DOJ.
00:01:15.480 He doesn't care to hear from them.
00:01:16.520 It's a serious crime which can result in years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
00:01:21.780 You know, the contempt of Congress that they got Peter Navarro with.
00:01:25.760 So Anthony Fauci should soon start answering some questions.
00:01:30.380 Now, the Senate Homeland Security Select Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
00:01:34.000 has obtained a copy of Anthony Fauci's COVID-era iPhone
00:01:37.620 as it continues to investigate the federal government's handling after the pandemic,
00:01:42.900 before the pandemic and during the pandemic of Anthony Fauci and his past lives.
00:01:47.200 Senator Ron Paul confirmed, revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services provided a copy of the phone to the committee.
00:01:54.440 Hopefully, the device will get taken apart this week or early next week to figure out what's on it, find his text messages.
00:02:02.020 This comes after a contentious Senate hearing last week where Fauci refused to answer any question and evoked his Fifth Amendment right more than 100 times
00:02:09.820 as Senate Republicans grilled him over COVID pandemic and many of his lies over the years.
00:02:15.420 Now that contempt vote passing today, Fauci may be screwed.
00:02:20.220 President Trump holding a campaign rally last night, man, doesn't seem to sleep or give up, continues to work day in and day out.
00:02:28.680 He's still reminiscing on the election results from Tuesday's election where you have a self-proclaimed communist Marxist who won the Senate primary there for the Democrats,
00:02:40.220 who will now go up against Mike Rogers in the general election in November.
00:02:44.560 However, President Trump reiterating once again, communism is the greatest threat to our country in its history.
00:02:50.580 That includes World War I and World War II, says President Trump.
00:02:54.340 Take a listen.
00:02:55.280 Let's just listen to the official platform of the deranged communists.
00:02:59.020 These are the people running and they're trying to run as a big danger to a country whose agenda is now being championed by the Democrat members of the United States Congress.
00:03:09.060 They have officially endorsed defunding the police, defunding the United States military, abolishing and giving up prisons.
00:03:18.620 They do not want prisons because nobody deserves to be in prison, even a person that's killed 10 people.
00:03:27.800 Abolishing ICE, they don't want ICE. ICE are among our greatest patriots. Remember that.
00:03:32.400 while president trump was rallying up some great americans and some troops in
00:03:40.020 las vegas nevada jd vance was on a little media tour of his own on fox news last night
00:03:46.260 also talking about the rise of socialism in america jd vance says the base of the democrat
00:03:52.160 party today is downwardly mobile hyper progressive well-educated people who were sold a bill of goods
00:03:59.520 by universities that have a lot of debt they just don't show it take a listen a lot of young
00:04:07.440 americans were sold a whole promise at the elite universities in our country and that promise
00:04:14.880 is that they were going to be able to go to college get a degree and everything was going
00:04:19.300 to work out fine for them i think in reality actually a lot of universities sold these kids
00:04:23.900 a bill of goods they gave them a lot of debt they did not give them useful skills or a useful
00:04:28.580 credential and a lot of these kids are very angry but that really is if you look at the data laura
00:04:33.140 the base of the democratic party today is downwardly mobile hyper progressive well-educated
00:04:40.540 people people i think who were sold a bill of goods by universities have a lot of debt but not
00:04:45.700 a good job to show for that's the good old communist marxist socialist scam folks that
00:04:51.480 these kids were sold and somehow fell for what i like to call the good old banana in the tailpipe
00:04:58.400 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night,
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00:05:06.900 I'm Jon Fossett with this Great America Show midday update.
00:05:09.140 Enjoy the rest of your day, folks.