00:00:00.000Hello everybody, I'm John Foss with this Grand America Show midday update for Monday, July 27th.
00:00:05.260Happy Monday, folks. I hope you all had a great weekend and your weeks are off to a great start.
00:00:11.200A lot of news to get to that happened over the weekend, a lot of news happening today.
00:00:15.800Some big news out of the cash-strapped Democrat National Committee,
00:00:20.240parting ways with its own D.C. headquarters,
00:00:22.940putting it up as collateral to secure a massive $15 million loan
00:00:26.900as the party struggles financially ahead of the critical 2026 midterm elections.
00:00:32.600According to newly reported D.C. deed records, detailed by notice,
00:00:36.380the DNC put up its physical headquarters in the southeast Washington,
00:00:40.680partially owned by the committee, up in security for a loan it took out last year.
00:00:45.420The DNC secured the $15 million line of credit in October of 2025
00:00:49.600to help finance off-year elections and prepare for the 2026 midterm elections.
00:00:54.560It's reportedly the largest off-year loan committee's history.
00:00:59.100Federal Elections Commission's records confirm that the DNC received $15 million in the loan during the current election cycle.
00:01:06.460The committee's credit agreement describes a security-revolving credit facility with a New York-issued bank.
00:01:14.300Now, the funny part about it all, the DNC did not explicitly identify its headquarters as collateral in its monthly or loan-related filings with the FEC.
00:01:47.700Spending $200,000 a year on flowers and highlighters
00:01:51.760Acting DNI Bill Pulte on Sunday evening announced that he's fired more deep state intel officials.
00:01:58.100This is Pulte's now fourth round of firings since becoming acting director of national intelligence.
00:02:03.440Our team has smartly and carefully reduced the size of the ODNI, refocusing ODNI on national security, the law, and the statute.
00:02:13.040As of this evening, we just finished a fourth round of thoughtfully, but measured layoffs.
00:02:18.040Thank you. Bill Pulte writing on X. Last month, Pulte fired over 50 career state Intel officials. The deep state firings have begun is how Pulte started with those rounds of firings posting on social media.
00:02:33.800CBS News previously reported that Pulte fired six political intel staffers, sent 45 others to home agencies. CNN reported that Pulte fired six appointees that were chosen by Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte, as you remember, has been put there to clean house and to try to get that thing back to normal.
00:02:54.400as they could. Brand new polling out shows the majority of the U.S. and Americans believe that
00:03:01.900the United States must finish the job in Iran. Nearly 20% of the world's oil, plus a fifth of
00:03:07.720the global natural gas fertilizers that grow our food, the raw materials behind plastics and
00:03:12.620everyday consumer goods, passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran, of course, has blocked ships,
00:03:18.220launched attacks on cargo vessels, deployed mines, demanded payments for ships that trying to pass
00:03:23.260through when iran shuts down that waterway americans pay more for gas for groceries and goods
00:03:29.320the rest of the world is suffering as well do you agree with the following statement iran should not
00:03:35.500be allowed to block attack mine or extort ships in the strait of harmuz 72 percent of people say
00:03:42.540they agree with that statement well just 17 and a half disagree another 11 don't know the survey
00:03:49.180also asked respondents if they believe the u.s should finish the job with iran saying iran has
00:03:54.200consistently threatened the u.s safety pursuing a nuclear program with the stated purpose of
00:03:58.600destroying israel and causing mass destruction to the united states if we don't finish the job now
00:04:03.240the united states may have to further take military action months or years from now0.98
00:04:07.500decisions about specific military actions are for the president commander-in-chief to make
00:04:11.940but on the underlying goal do you agree or disagree with the following statement
00:04:15.640and that the United States must finish a job once and for all to protect the United States
00:04:19.840and our allies, which means ensuring Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon
00:04:24.020and can no longer threaten American lives.
00:04:27.260Overall, 62% agree that the U.S. must finish a job
00:04:30.740and ensure Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
00:04:35.080There's also no split in the conservative movement on the issue
00:04:38.820with self-described conservatives agreeing by a margin of 82 to 10