The Great America Show - March 17, 2026


Mid-Day Update： March 17, 2026

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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

167.73

Word count

988

Sentence count

54

People

Hosts:
John Fawcett
Also mentioned:
Donald Trump Kristi Noem Joseph Robinette Biden Corey Lewandowski Jamie Raskin Brian Murphy Dick Durbin Pam Bondi RFK Jr.

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

2

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Latest episode of The Great America Show: A Mid-Day Update for March 17, 2019. Kristi Noem referred to DOJ for criminal investigation over alleged perjury tied to her claims that Donald Trump approved a $220 million ad campaign featuring her riding a horse, top congressional Democrats refer the Homeland Security Secretary to the DOJ over, "knowingly making false statements under oath to Congress." Iran continues to roll on, President Trump says it's coming to an end, and the price of oil continues to rise. A federal judge blocks the CDC from vaccinating our kids.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Tuesday, March 17th.
00:00:05.020 Happy Tuesday, folks, and more importantly, happy greatest day of the year for us Irish folks.
00:00:11.520 Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of those who celebrate, and even if you don't,
00:00:15.680 today we're going to give you permission to go out and have yourself a nice ice-cold Guinness after work.
00:00:21.200 You all work hard and you certainly deserve it.
00:00:23.440 Now, let's get to some news of the day, why don't we?
00:00:25.920 Kristi Noem has been referred to the Justice Department for her criminal investigation over alleged perjury tied to her claims that Donald Trump approved the $220 million ad campaign featuring her riding a horse.
00:00:38.400 Top congressional Democrats referred the outgoing Homeland Security Secretary to the DOJ over, quote, knowingly making false statements under an oath to Congress.
00:00:47.700 Noem testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month that President Trump had known and approved the lavish ad.
00:00:54.360 Days later, President Trump told reporters that he had not approved the commercial.
00:00:58.300 Within 24 hours of Dome's testimony, she became the first cabinet casualty of Trump's second term.
00:01:04.420 She and her rumored lover, Corey Lewandowski, are set to officially depart Homeland Security on March 31st.
00:01:10.180 Now, people familiar with the case, the referral to the DOJ, says it's a pretty weak case,
00:01:16.980 but said the questions on the advertising contract would be the stickiest.
00:01:21.360 So I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
00:01:23.100 And it's the regular Democrat culprits who are going after her, Jamie Raskin and Senate Democrat Whip Dick Durbin, telling Pam Bondi, quote, we have low expectations that you will pursue this matter given your partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice.
00:01:39.820 If they want to see weaponization, they should just go back and look at what Joseph Robinette Biden did the last four years.
00:01:47.900 Now, the war with Iran continues to roll on, although President Trump says it's coming to an end,
00:01:52.500 as I think he's seen enough between the poll numbers and the price of oil
00:01:56.880 and the issues that, quite frankly, we have here at home.
00:02:00.680 President Trump speaking about it, saying as soon as this thing's over,
00:02:04.720 oil prices are going to come down very, very quickly.
00:02:07.840 Take a listen.
00:02:08.360 When this is over, oil prices are going to go down very, very rapidly.
00:02:14.480 So is inflation. So is everything else.
00:02:16.540 But frankly, much more important than short term, even long term oil prices.
00:02:23.120 You can't let the most violent, vicious country in the last 50 years have a nuclear weapon.
00:02:32.940 Because the Middle East will be gone. Israel will go first without question. 1.00
00:02:39.360 And they'll certainly take a shot at us before we get our act together and say we got to take them out.
00:02:46.540 You can't let Iran, who's truly a nation of great terror and power, look what happened. 1.00
00:02:55.980 In the last two weeks, they weren't supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East.
00:03:01.880 Those missiles were set to go after them.
00:03:05.060 And I think it's all best we trust President Trump when he says he's going to do something that he doesn't.
00:03:09.780 So we'll have to wait and see.
00:03:11.500 But I'm pretty confident gas prices will be coming down very, very shortly.
00:03:15.860 Another day and another rogue judge doing what they do best, going rogue.
00:03:19.920 A federal judge this week temporarily blocked Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.'s changes to childhood vaccine schedules.
00:03:28.300 U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who was a Biden appointee, issued a preliminary injunction
00:03:32.820 and invalidated RFK's junior key vaccine advisory panel after he replaced all 17 people who previously made vaccine recommendations.
00:03:41.300 judges murphy's order comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the american academy of pediatrics
00:03:47.100 and several other groups so a biden judge looking to intervene with maha making america healthy
00:03:56.200 again um giving our kids 10 15 however many vaccines they want to like a federal judge
00:04:03.620 knows what the heck they're talking about when it comes to vaccinating our children folks this is
00:04:08.880 exactly what we've been witnessing all throughout Trump's first administration and now his second
00:04:14.180 administration with these rogue judges doing all they can to try to stifle his administration. 1.00
00:04:20.440 It's a damn, damn shame. Woke New York City spent approximately $81,000 per person last year 0.99
00:04:28.500 on services for homeless people. This leads to some obvious questions. Why are there still
00:04:34.800 homeless people in new york city how does the city spend this kind of money and still have a
00:04:39.140 homeless problem also would it not been better just to give 81 000 to each homeless person
00:04:44.300 on the condition that they just get the heck off the streets couldn't that have worked better at
00:04:49.720 the end of the day that's right new york city 81 000 per person on homeless services last year
00:04:55.260 amounting to a whopping 368 million dollars in total bills according to a new state report
00:05:02.020 spending on the city's homeless service shelters street homeless solutions more than tripled over
00:05:08.940 the last six years from 102 million in 2019 for about 28 000 per unsheltered homeless person
00:05:15.040 according to this report this cost per person was roughly equivalent to the city's median
00:05:20.100 household income as of the 2024 census at 81 228 that's what happens in liberal new york city folks
00:05:29.860 And they get federal tax dollars, too.
00:05:32.420 So make sure you're calling your members of Congress and your members of Senate
00:05:35.520 and letting them know you don't want another dollar going to New York City.
00:05:40.480 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night, 6 p.m. Eastern time
00:05:43.820 for The Great America Show, Rumble, YouTube, Twitter, wherever you guys join us.
00:05:47.160 We'll see you there tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern.
00:05:48.680 I'm John Fawcett with this Midday Update.
00:05:50.900 Have a great day, everybody.
00:05:52.300 Happy St. Paddy's Day.