The Great America Show - January 09, 2026


Mid-Day Update： January 9, 2026


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

139.23564

Word Count

725

Sentence Count

62


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with This Great America Show, midday update for Friday,
00:00:03.760 January 9th. Happy Friday, folks. The Somalian issue ain't going away. These folks are in big
00:00:10.080 trouble. There was a hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill. We found out 78% of Somalian immigrant
00:00:15.680 households remain on welfare even after a decade in the United States. This is a statistic that
00:00:22.480 ignited a fierce debate on Capitol Hill and reopened the debate over immigration, welfare
00:00:26.460 dependency, and political accountability. Folks, the Somali issue is not going away,
00:00:34.100 and the Democrats better stop playing games because we're going to get to the bottom of the
00:00:39.140 fraud. The man who's been tasked with getting to the bottom of the fraud is none other than
00:00:44.520 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. He's reportedly now investigating top four money
00:00:51.560 wiring services for participating in the Somali fraud. They're also going to look now to cut off
00:00:58.880 any foreigner who's on any sort of government subsidy to send, which they shouldn't be on in
00:01:04.200 the first place, but they're now going to cut off these folks from wiring and sending any kind of
00:01:10.340 money abroad, any kind of money overseas to anywhere in the world. This is Scott Bessent spearheading
00:01:16.800 this massive effort to try to just cut down and get rid of this waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:01:24.460 Vivek Ramaswamy, who's running for governor of Ohio, finding himself in a little bit of trouble lately,
00:01:28.660 and no, it's not for his comments saying that Americans are lazy. It's something worse.
00:01:34.920 His family bodyguard arrested federal drug trafficking charges. Justin Salisbury, 43-year-old,
00:01:43.060 arrested after authorities conducted a search warrant at his home and discovered meth pills
00:01:47.160 and traces of fentanyl. Yep. Congrats, Vivek Ramaswamy. Seems you got your head on just where
00:01:55.260 it needs to be. So chaos may be ensuing in Minneapolis and Portland, where Portland, we saw two shot last
00:02:03.520 night as they tried to ambush and run over more federal agents. Chicago, of all places. Imagine that.
00:02:10.500 Chicago is trying to get ahead of the curve. Chicago's police superintendent, Larry Snelling,
00:02:16.380 issuing a blistering warning to the radical activists and anti-border enforcement agitators.
00:02:21.700 His message was clear. If you play stupid games with law enforcement, you will most certainly win
00:02:27.180 stupid prizes. Take a listen to his press conference this week, letting folks know,
00:02:33.080 leave these ICE agents, these federal agents to do their jobs.
00:02:37.260 Federal agents, ICE, HSI, are officers. They are agents of law enforcement.
00:02:51.600 If you box them in with vehicles, it is reasonable for them to believe that they are being ambushed
00:03:01.960 and that this could end in a deadly situation. And it's reasonable for them to use force based
00:03:13.160 on those conditions. Do not box in any law enforcement officer. You are breaking the law when you do
00:03:24.040 that. And you are putting yourself in danger. Following law enforcement agents around. The question is,
00:03:37.840 why? What do you plan on doing? It's also reasonable for them to believe that you're eventually going to do
00:03:46.660 harm to them. If you ram any vehicle, especially that one that contains law enforcement agents, and that's any law enforcement,
00:04:01.000 local, state, federal, county.
00:04:03.040 And you do this intentionally. This is considered deadly force. Deadly force is anything that can cause great bodily harm or death.
00:04:14.940 But when you plow into a vehicle that contains law enforcement agents, you're using deadly force.
00:04:27.360 That sounds like a F around and find out, folks. I guess you're going to have to wait and see if these folks want to continue to play these games
00:04:35.500 and continue to vilify and go after our federal agents and try to burn down our cities.
00:04:42.020 We're not going to tolerate it anymore, folks. The summer of love ain't happening. The winter of love is not happening.
00:04:47.900 2.0, just not happening. Please be sure to join us tonight, folks, each and every night while I'm at it,
00:04:53.960 6 p.m. Eastern time for The Great America Show. Rumble YouTube, Twitter. Tonight we're going to be joined by
00:04:58.020 preeminent pollster Rasmussen Reports. This is Mark Mitchell. He's got some real good poll numbers for President Trump
00:05:04.900 to kick off the new year. That's tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern time for The Great America Show.
00:05:09.140 I'm Jon Fossett with this Midday Update. Once again, happy Monday, folks.