Tulsi Gabbard leaves the office of the DNI last night for one final time, and as her final day as Director of National Intelligence, she dropped yet another bombshell release of never-before-seen documents exposing Dr. Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress and providing millions of taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research that led to the COVID19 pandemic. Meanwhile, Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority has announced that all ships of the Strait of Mersuz have to pay insurance approved by Tehran, despite the agreement to allow completely toll-free shipping in the strait. The U.S. military is back on its feet going after drug smuggling boats in the Indo-Pacific, and 3 people have been killed in an attack on a boat carrying drugs in the Eastern Pacific. Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to renew a ceasefire in southern Lebanon after a flareup overnight between the two, as a memorandum of understanding between the U. S. and Iran faces its new tests. President Trump is traveling to Camp David today.
00:00:00.000Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, June 19th.
00:00:04.900Happy Friday, folks. Hope you had a great week and you're ready for the weekend as much as I am.
00:00:09.240But first, let's get to some news of the day.
00:00:11.400Well, Tulsi Gabbard exited the office of the DNI last night for one final time.
00:00:17.120And as her final day as director of national intelligence, she dropped yet another bombshell release of never before seen documents.
00:00:24.580once again exposing Dr. Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress and providing millions of taxpayer
00:00:30.600dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research that led to the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:00:37.480According to hundreds of reviewed emails, Gabbard says, Fauci engaged in fraud and cover-up actions
00:00:42.500within the IC community, the intelligence community, directly contradicting his sworn testimony before
00:00:47.840Congress, denying that he ever discussed any sort of COVID-19 issues with the IC.
00:00:54.440He says Fauci's taxes were straight from the deep state playbook for the COVID pandemic.
00:00:58.820Dr. Fauci, as head of the NIH and the infectious diseases, provided millions in taxpayer-funded
00:01:04.300dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at, you're ready
00:01:09.500for this folks, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is now widely viewed as a source of
00:01:15.560the unintentional, they call it, lab leak that sparked the pandemic.
00:01:20.340Yet, Dr. Anthony Fauci still continues to wander the streets, do whatever he wants,
00:01:26.860not brought into Congress, not brought up on any sort of DOJ investigation.
00:01:31.500I think it's all highly concerning for the American people,
00:01:36.580as we still don't have any answers to the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:01:41.240Turning now to the Middle East, according to U.S. officials,
00:01:43.620Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to renew a ceasefire in southern Lebanon
00:01:47.460after a flare-up overnight between the two
00:01:49.360as a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran faces its new tests.
00:01:54.480This is reportedly what led to the U.S. talks with Iran and Switzerland being postponed.
00:01:58.680Vice President J.D. Vance, who is leading the talks,
00:02:01.120canceled his planned departure to head to Switzerland last night.
00:02:04.120President Trump is traveling to Camp David today.
00:02:07.100The ceasefire was announced this morning with the Israeli Defense Forces.
00:02:10.360the IDF, said it killed dozens of Hezbollah fighters in response to four Israeli soldiers
00:02:15.120being killed. Meanwhile, Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority has announced that all ships
00:02:20.440of the Strait of Mammuz have to pay insurance approved by Tehran, despite the agreement to
00:02:26.880allow completely open toll-free shipping in the strait. All vessels must hold a valid insurance
00:02:32.960policy approved by the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, according to a new release memo
00:02:38.460from the authority. This is in direct contradiction to President Trump's ceasefire deal, which they
00:02:45.740literally just signed the other day. So we're going to have to wait and see what happens on
00:02:51.700that front. And if Iran is not going to hold up their end of the bargain, you already know what
00:02:58.300President Trump said he's going to go ahead and do. Now that hopefully that's all wrapped up over0.80
00:03:02.560there, back here at home, the U.S. military is back on its feet going after those drug smuggling
00:03:10.000boats in the Indo-Pacific. The U.S. military attacked a boat last night, smuggling drugs in
00:03:16.620the Eastern Pacific, killing three people as the Trump administration wages its months-long war
00:03:22.340and its campaign against these drug traffickers in Latin America. The latest attack brings the
00:03:27.760number of people have been killed in boat strikes with the U.S. military to at least 211 since the
00:03:32.800Trump administration began targeting those narco-terrorists in early September. You would0.76
00:03:38.020think, folks, that these people would have gotten the hint by now. You would think that they would
00:03:41.400have figured it out by now that we have a new president and he's not going to tolerate the
00:03:46.620drug smuggling anymore. He's not going to tolerate the flooding of our streets by these narco-terrorists0.99
00:03:53.740who think they're going to bring in whatever they want to this country.1.00
00:03:56.820So, as we say, great on the Trump administration.
00:04:01.060The Department of Justice today announcing that they're launching an investigation into the MLB
00:04:05.600filing the San Francisco Giants Pride Night controversy.
00:04:09.840As you folks know, this is Pride Month through all those who celebrate.
00:04:14.180MLB teams across the country seemingly forced into their pride nonsense on the fans and on the players.
00:04:23.740making them wear rainbow-colored hats and different variations of things to show their support,
00:04:29.580even if they're not supporting it, even if their religion is against it.
00:04:34.200Now the Department of Justice wants some answers into what is going on.
00:04:38.480The controversy came after the MLB warned three San Francisco Giants players, Landon Rope, J.D. Brockburg, and Ryan Walker,
00:04:46.700about writing Bible verses over their Pride Night caps.
00:04:49.680In a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Assistant Attorney General,
00:04:53.740Harmeet Dillon says the DOJ is referring the league to its Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ford says that the moment was painful for many LGBTQ fans, especially in a city with deep ties to the LGBTQ plus history. Imagine that. It was painful for those people to see a Bible verse. Pretty crazy, right?
00:05:17.660So we hope the Trump administration gets to the bottom of this and rights the wrongs of these three great American players.
00:05:25.520Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night for The Great America Show, 6 p.m. Eastern Time, Rumble, YouTube, Twitter, wherever you guys join us.
00:05:31.740We'll see you tonight. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update.
00:05:35.180Happy Friday, folks. We'll see you later.