The Great America Show - June 19, 2026


Mid-Day Update： June 19, 2026


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5 minutes

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Word count

936

Sentence count

68

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, June 19th.
00:00:04.900 Happy Friday, folks. Hope you had a great week and you're ready for the weekend as much as I am.
00:00:09.240 But first, let's get to some news of the day.
00:00:11.400 Well, Tulsi Gabbard exited the office of the DNI last night for one final time.
00:00:17.120 And as her final day as director of national intelligence, she dropped yet another bombshell release of never before seen documents.
00:00:24.580 once again exposing Dr. Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress and providing millions of taxpayer
00:00:30.600 dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research that led to the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:00:37.480 According to hundreds of reviewed emails, Gabbard says, Fauci engaged in fraud and cover-up actions
00:00:42.500 within the IC community, the intelligence community, directly contradicting his sworn testimony before
00:00:47.840 Congress, denying that he ever discussed any sort of COVID-19 issues with the IC.
00:00:54.440 He says Fauci's taxes were straight from the deep state playbook for the COVID pandemic.
00:00:58.820 Dr. Fauci, as head of the NIH and the infectious diseases, provided millions in taxpayer-funded
00:01:04.300 dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at, you're ready
00:01:09.500 for this folks, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is now widely viewed as a source of
00:01:15.560 the unintentional, they call it, lab leak that sparked the pandemic.
00:01:20.340 Yet, Dr. Anthony Fauci still continues to wander the streets, do whatever he wants,
00:01:26.860 not brought into Congress, not brought up on any sort of DOJ investigation.
00:01:31.500 I think it's all highly concerning for the American people,
00:01:36.580 as we still don't have any answers to the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:01:41.240 Turning now to the Middle East, according to U.S. officials,
00:01:43.620 Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to renew a ceasefire in southern Lebanon
00:01:47.460 after a flare-up overnight between the two
00:01:49.360 as a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran faces its new tests.
00:01:54.480 This is reportedly what led to the U.S. talks with Iran and Switzerland being postponed.
00:01:58.680 Vice President J.D. Vance, who is leading the talks,
00:02:01.120 canceled his planned departure to head to Switzerland last night.
00:02:04.120 President Trump is traveling to Camp David today.
00:02:07.100 The ceasefire was announced this morning with the Israeli Defense Forces.
00:02:10.360 the IDF, said it killed dozens of Hezbollah fighters in response to four Israeli soldiers
00:02:15.120 being killed. Meanwhile, Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority has announced that all ships
00:02:20.440 of the Strait of Mammuz have to pay insurance approved by Tehran, despite the agreement to
00:02:26.880 allow completely open toll-free shipping in the strait. All vessels must hold a valid insurance
00:02:32.960 policy approved by the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, according to a new release memo
00:02:38.460 from the authority. This is in direct contradiction to President Trump's ceasefire deal, which they
00:02:45.740 literally just signed the other day. So we're going to have to wait and see what happens on
00:02:51.700 that front. And if Iran is not going to hold up their end of the bargain, you already know what
00:02:58.300 President Trump said he's going to go ahead and do. Now that hopefully that's all wrapped up over 0.80
00:03:02.560 there, back here at home, the U.S. military is back on its feet going after those drug smuggling
00:03:10.000 boats in the Indo-Pacific. The U.S. military attacked a boat last night, smuggling drugs in
00:03:16.620 the Eastern Pacific, killing three people as the Trump administration wages its months-long war
00:03:22.340 and its campaign against these drug traffickers in Latin America. The latest attack brings the
00:03:27.760 number of people have been killed in boat strikes with the U.S. military to at least 211 since the
00:03:32.800 Trump administration began targeting those narco-terrorists in early September. You would 0.76
00:03:38.020 think, folks, that these people would have gotten the hint by now. You would think that they would
00:03:41.400 have figured it out by now that we have a new president and he's not going to tolerate the
00:03:46.620 drug smuggling anymore. He's not going to tolerate the flooding of our streets by these narco-terrorists 0.99
00:03:53.740 who think they're going to bring in whatever they want to this country. 1.00
00:03:56.820 So, as we say, great on the Trump administration.
00:04:01.060 The Department of Justice today announcing that they're launching an investigation into the MLB
00:04:05.600 filing the San Francisco Giants Pride Night controversy.
00:04:09.840 As you folks know, this is Pride Month through all those who celebrate.
00:04:14.180 MLB teams across the country seemingly forced into their pride nonsense on the fans and on the players.
00:04:23.740 making them wear rainbow-colored hats and different variations of things to show their support,
00:04:29.580 even if they're not supporting it, even if their religion is against it.
00:04:34.200 Now the Department of Justice wants some answers into what is going on.
00:04:38.480 The controversy came after the MLB warned three San Francisco Giants players, Landon Rope, J.D. Brockburg, and Ryan Walker,
00:04:46.700 about writing Bible verses over their Pride Night caps.
00:04:49.680 In a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Assistant Attorney General,
00:04:53.740 Harmeet 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?
00:05:17.660 So we hope the Trump administration gets to the bottom of this and rights the wrongs of these three great American players.
00:05:25.520 Folks, 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.
00:05:31.740 We'll see you tonight. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update.
00:05:35.180 Happy Friday, folks. We'll see you later.