Mid-Day Update： January 2, 2026
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
180.94327
Summary
Trump issues his first vetoes of his second term, Iran strikes back at the Iranian regime, and Nick Shirley exposes massive fraud at Somalian-run daycare centers in Minnesota. Great America Show midday update for Friday, January 2nd, 2020.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, January 2nd.
00:00:05.200
Happy Friday, folks, and more importantly, Happy New Year.
00:00:08.400
I hope your New Year's are off to a great start and you got your resolutions in
00:00:11.120
and you're ready to tackle 2026 like we did in 2025.
00:00:17.500
President Trump announcing in a message on his Truth Social
00:00:20.640
that the U.S. is ready to intervene to rescue any anti-regime protesters in Iran
00:00:25.900
should the government attempt to brutalize them.
00:00:28.900
President Trump was responding to the eruption nationwide protests
00:00:31.780
against the terrorist regime in the country that began last week.
00:00:35.100
The protests came after the real drop to $1.42 million per U.S. dollar
00:00:39.280
and the Iranian regime ousted central bank chief,
00:00:42.640
a sign that the supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, was dissatisfied with his performance.
00:00:47.400
All reports this week suggest that the Iranian regime has yet to shut down the Internet,
00:00:54.800
is reportedly in part by shutting down businesses and government offices
00:00:58.020
and affected provinces, including the capital of Tehran.
00:01:03.580
Not sure how that's going to play out with the American voters going into Iran,
00:01:19.860
but I guess we're going to have to wait and see.
00:01:22.640
It didn't bode on the favorable side when President Trump launched strikes in Iran on behalf of Israel,
00:01:28.840
but we'll just have to wait and see what the polling shows.
00:01:34.560
but President Trump has finally issued his first vetoes of his second term.
00:01:38.820
And like most things involving President Trump,
00:01:43.520
including some you might not normally expect pushback from.
00:01:46.400
The Miccosukee Reserve Area Amendments Act is a bill aimed at expanding the land set aside
00:01:51.780
for the Miccosukee tribe inside the Everglade National Park
00:01:55.140
by officially including a section known as the Oskaloa Camp.
00:02:01.020
The residential community in that area was constructed in 1935 without authorization in a low area.
00:02:10.880
None of the current structures in that Oskaloa Camp area are over 50 years old,
00:02:15.420
nor do they meet the other criteria to be considered for listing as the National Register of Historic Places.
00:02:20.920
Now, President Trump getting some pushback from some on the right,
00:02:25.940
The second veto bill was the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act.
00:02:30.200
While it's a bill designed to make it easier for rural Colorado communities
00:02:33.440
to complete a long-planned water pipeline project
00:02:36.300
that will facilitate drinking water to people in the Arkansas River Valley,
00:02:39.780
President Trump's issue with that was the price tag and the repayment plans for this project.
00:02:46.400
It was originally authorized in a bill signed by President Kennedy in 1962,
00:02:51.360
For decades, it was unbuilt largely because the ABC was economically unbuyable.
00:02:57.460
More than $250 million already spent towards that project.
00:03:03.960
The bill was backed and pushed by Colorado Rep.
00:03:06.460
Lauren Boebert, normally a staunch Trump supporter,
00:03:09.020
who seemed incensed by President Trump's veto and vowed that this fight isn't over.
00:03:14.780
We'll have to wait and watch what happens with Lauren Boebert.
00:03:17.260
Is she going to be the next Marjorie Taylor Greene?
00:03:20.800
Guess we're just going to have to wait and see.
00:03:22.920
Independent journalist Nick Shirley took over the news cycle and shamed legacy media
00:03:29.600
which uncovered more than $110 million in alleged taxpayer-funded fraud
00:03:33.780
at the Somalian-run daycare centers in Minnesota.
00:03:36.460
He's already garnered over 132 million views on his work.
00:03:41.620
Now, exposing the truth has put Shirley in danger for sure.
00:03:44.900
He revealed that he's receiving many death threats and warnings that he'll be, quote,
00:03:49.360
Sinister reference being assassinated following his documentation of empty daycares,
00:03:53.660
raking millions of dollars from the government, I might add,
00:04:01.160
Shirley responded that the legacy media will go insane over what is coming next.
00:04:10.540
Now, it seems the legacy media is still busy trying to dig up any kind of dirt they can on Shirley
00:04:17.640
Congressman Eric Swalwell, famously known for sleeping with a Chinese spy,
00:04:23.660
who's running also for governor of California as his main domicile is in Maryland.
00:04:27.900
That's a whole different story, part of his mortgage fraud scam,
00:04:30.900
announcing this week that he plans to go on the offense against federal agents in California,
00:04:35.600
charging them of crimes and preventing them from driving in the state.
00:04:39.980
He says if he's elected governor in November, quote,
00:04:41.940
what I'm going to do is make sure that they take off their masks and show their faces,
00:04:47.580
and if they commit crimes, they're going to be charged with crimes.
00:04:51.580
I also think that if the governor has the ability to issue driver's licenses to people in California,
00:04:56.660
if you're going to wear a mask and not identify yourself,
00:04:59.260
you're not going to be eligible to drive a vehicle in California.
00:05:02.540
Yet they still allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's license,
00:05:05.220
and anyone who wants to wear those ridiculous COVID masks can go ahead and still do so.
00:05:09.180
So, folks, if you're joining us from California,
00:05:12.060
and we do have a big, big portion of you guys in California,
00:05:15.720
you guys got to get the word out or risk losing your state any further than what you have with Gavin Newsom.
00:05:22.700
Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each year and night at 6 p.m. Eastern time
00:05:25.820
for The Great America Show, Rumble, YouTube, Twitter.
00:05:28.240
Wherever you guys join us, we'll see you there at 6 p.m. Eastern for The Great America Show.