The Great America Show - July 29, 2026


Mid-Day Update： July 29, 2026


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Length

5 minutes

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166.42

Word count

924

Sentence count

54

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Hate speech

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Wednesday, July 29th.
00:00:04.580 Happy Wednesday, folks.
00:00:05.900 Well, it's, I guess, a somber week in Washington, D.C. for some,
00:00:09.860 as the late Senator Lindsey Graham's body was laid in the Capitol Rotunda,
00:00:15.360 followed by a funeral mass.
00:00:19.400 President Trump had some words to offer on his look back at his relationship with Lindsey Graham,
00:00:25.740 as it didn't start as well as it ended.
00:00:28.920 Take a listen.
00:00:30.000 As you remember, Lindsay and I did not exactly get off to the best of starts, running against each other.
00:00:38.460 Back in 2016, Lindsay said something rather nasty on his flight to becoming the next president of the United States.
00:00:48.440 So naturally, I did something that I shouldn't have done.
00:00:52.200 I shared his personal cell phone number with the millions of people that happened to be watching that particular day
00:00:58.840 I made a speech, a very important speech.
00:01:01.680 And I remember the number 202-228-0292, if anybody wants to give it a shot.
00:01:08.620 His phone exploded.
00:01:11.080 He said, I had that number for 20 years.
00:01:13.000 His phone totally, I don't know what he did with it, but it exploded.
00:01:17.500 That was the beginning of a friendship in a way.
00:01:20.680 But it was Lindsay who had the last laugh because while I blew up his phone for one
00:01:26.720 day we became great friends and Lindsay did not stop calling me for the next 10 years it was not
00:01:33.100 easy I always cherish the memories of our golf games and only because of his really
00:01:41.620 and I will say this memorial service it's so hard to say memorial service for Lindsay it's hard to
00:01:48.160 say but I'll admit that one time Lindsay Graham and Annika Sorensen actually beat me and Gary
00:01:56.360 player together can you believe that Hanukkah played very well that day actually
00:02:00.360 there you have it and coincidentally at the time while that was happening well just a few hours
00:02:07.280 later I guess Iran decided they were going to launch a missile strike on U.S. forces in the
00:02:11.980 Middle East and what U.S. Central Command described as an attempted surprise attack 0.76
00:02:17.000 now all missiles were intercepted CENTCOM saying because Iran can't even tie their own shoes
00:02:23.320 This comes after President Trump called off a nearly two-week-long bombing campaign against Iran while he was continuing negotiations on Friday night.
00:02:32.580 5.45 p.m. Eastern Time, the IRGC forces launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempt to surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East.
00:02:42.280 All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted.
00:02:45.040 U.S. forces remained vigilant and at high state of readiness.
00:02:48.600 This from the U.S. Central Command as they announced it.
00:02:52.420 U.S. forces on Thursday completed 13 consecutive nights of attacks against Iran
00:02:57.360 and their military capabilities in the Strait of Hormuz since fighting resumed earlier this month.
00:03:03.420 I don't know what Iran thinks they're doing.
00:03:06.740 President Trump tweeted out just the other day that we are in very deep talks with Iran.
00:03:11.880 If they don't work out, we'll go back to a very strong military campaign.
00:03:16.240 He further said the attempt at diplomacy will have not much time.
00:03:19.820 He added it either goes fast or not at all.
00:03:22.420 I think Iran sent the message of just exactly what they want when it comes to peace with America and peace with the rest of the world. 0.56
00:03:32.700 Now, Bill Pulte, who unfortunately will be exiting his role at DNI, well, he was still acting DNI at the time, executed his fifth round of deep state terminations on his way out.
00:03:43.740 Pulte writing on Twitter, good news in addition to the historic declassifications and transparency
00:03:48.780 by the president, we are this morning executing a fifth and near final round of terminations
00:03:53.820 and approximately 30% staff reduction from a few weeks ago.
00:03:58.580 He says the intelligence community must work to protect the American people.
00:04:04.520 Isn't that nice for a change?
00:04:06.900 Now, as that happened, it was coincidental, the United States Senate on Tuesday evening
00:04:12.040 voted 51 to 47 to confirm jay clayton as the director of national intelligence to replace
00:04:17.280 tulsi gabbard clayton was the former sec chairman former u.s attorney for the southern district of
00:04:23.520 new york now he takes over uh hopefully uh does a similar job or better job what pulte was doing
00:04:31.560 kentucky governor andy beshear who's a march to stem last night called on senator mitch mcconnell
00:04:36.580 to directly and verbally address the people of kentucky or resign beshear said mcconnell must
00:04:41.800 provide proof of his capacity to serve or resign in a letter to mcconnell he says as governor of
00:04:48.520 the state you serve i'm calling you to directly verbally address the people of kentucky and
00:04:52.540 provide proof of capacity to serve or resign per our research a vacancy in the senate occurs when
00:04:57.940 a senator dies resigns or is expelled by a vote of the senate itself if you're unwilling to
00:05:03.980 voluntarily show that you still have the capacity to serve i will insist at leader thune to fully
00:05:08.300 investigate your condition, report to the American people, and begin the process if
00:05:12.460 warranted. The governor's letter comes after McConnell releases second proof-of-life photo
00:05:17.100 amid his 44-day absence from the Senate. The latest photo is dated from Sunday.
00:05:24.540 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night for The Great America Show,
00:05:27.200 Rumble, YouTube, Twitter. Wherever you guys join us, we'll see you there. I'm John Fossett with
00:05:30.900 this Great America Show midday update. Have a great day, everybody.