The Great America Show - May 11, 2026


Mid-Day Update: May 11, 2026


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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

169.32036

Word count

911

Sentence count

57


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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Foster with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, May 11th.
00:00:04.940 Happy Monday, folks, and I hope all the wonderful mothers out there had a terrific Mother's Day.
00:00:11.040 You got to spend the day with your family, your loved ones, and all that good stuff.
00:00:15.180 So, let's get back to work, why don't we, right? Let's start the week out.
00:00:18.860 President Trump this morning from the Oval Office with some bad news for Iran
00:00:23.940 says that the ceasefire that's currently in place is on grave, grave life support.
00:00:29.540 Let's take a listen.
00:00:30.400 For the time being, the ceasefire remains in place.
00:00:33.260 It's unbelievably weak, I would say.
00:00:37.320 I would call it the weakest right now.
00:00:40.800 After reading that piece of garbage they sent us, I didn't even finish reading it.
00:00:45.100 They said I'm not going to waste my time reading it.
00:00:47.600 I would say it's one of the weakest right now.
00:00:50.580 It's on life support.
00:00:51.620 They understand.
00:00:52.400 These are all medical people.
00:00:54.780 Dr. Oz, life support is not a good thing.
00:00:57.120 Do you agree?
00:00:57.760 Back prognostic.
00:00:58.500 I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support where the doctor walks in and says,
00:01:04.680 Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living.
00:01:11.420 I think this week, folks, it's going to prove critical on where we move on this Iran issue.
00:01:17.780 And if Iran wants to exist, I guess they're going to have to make that decision.
00:01:23.180 In other foreign policy news, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a labor leader in big, big trouble.
00:01:30.540 He's still the prime minister as of this second, but he's facing major crises after the Labor Party's disastrous results in last week's local elections.
00:01:39.780 The elections in Scotland and Wales, Reform UK surging, labor getting hammered in many places.
00:01:46.260 Now dozens, around 40 members of the Labor Party are openly calling for him to quit.
00:01:51.860 There's talk of leadership, challenge, or even a civil war inside the party, folks.
00:01:57.200 Starmer gave a big make-or-break speech today where he took responsibility for the losses and promised bolder action.
00:02:04.340 He said incremental changes won't cut it and vowed to fight to prove the doubters wrong.
00:02:08.840 Many see it as an attempt to reset and survive.
00:02:12.260 He's defiant for now and he says he'll deliver change, but his position looks very shaky.
00:02:16.880 Rivals like Wes Stirling and others are reportedly eyeing bids as pressure is mounting and it's mounting fast.
00:02:24.660 People are tired of it, folks. People are tired of the direction of the UK.
00:02:29.860 People are looking at London right now and they're imagining that this is what the rest of the world can turn into
00:02:37.280 if we allow our states, our countries to go the way that the UK is going.
00:02:44.940 So I give him maybe a month or two before I think he's shown the door.
00:02:50.080 Turning out of some news back home after that massive blow last week to the Virginia Marxist Dems,
00:02:56.980 Virginia Dems are now openly floating a scheme to purge the entire state Supreme Court
00:03:01.960 after it dared to strike down their rigged gerrymandering power play.
00:03:06.360 And now just days after that massive victory for election integrity by that 4-3 ruling
00:03:11.640 that the democrats sleazily redistricted even though they weren't supposed to it was
00:03:16.240 unconstitutional from the start democrats are scrambling for revenge so what is their latest
00:03:21.880 authoritarian brainstorm you may ask well i'm gonna tell you they want to lower the mandatory
00:03:28.220 retirement age for judges from 73 to 54 exactly the age of the youngest sitting justice and force
00:03:35.680 every single justice off the bench immediately this would hand the democrats controlled legislature
00:03:41.300 to the power to pack the courts with their hand-picked cronies who will immediately rubber
00:03:46.300 stamp the illegal congressional map that Democrats tried to ram through. Imagine this, folks. The
00:03:52.460 Marxist Dems constantly want to talk about the Republicans. They've been talking about
00:03:57.080 gerrymandering of late, but they're literally floating, firing every single person on their
00:04:04.260 supreme court just folks just so they can cheat lie and steal you literally cannot make this stuff
00:04:13.040 up but the democrats are in dire need right now and they're in dire desperation um as the midterm
00:04:19.240 elections fast approach and joe biden he's been kind of quiet lately but he's speaking up a little
00:04:25.320 bit now biden is vowing to fight trump's doj to prevent the release of 70 hours of audio tapes
00:04:31.300 of the former president's conversations with his ghostwriter.
00:04:34.840 Last year, he was reported that the DOJ was preparing to release the damning audio of Biden's interview
00:04:38.740 with former special counsel Robert Herr.
00:04:41.200 The department is also going to release 2017 audio recordings of conversations
00:04:44.760 with his ghostwriter in which he discloses classified information.
00:04:49.760 Biden is expected to intervene, according to Politico.
00:04:52.500 The judge says Biden has until Tuesday to respond.
00:04:55.600 I thought it was Donald Trump who was retaining classified information.
00:04:59.240 I thought it was Donald Trump who was storing signed letters in his boxes at Mar-a-Lago from other world leaders and all that classified information.
00:05:09.140 Turns out it was Joe Biden.
00:05:10.980 I guess we're going to have to wait and see.
00:05:13.020 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night, 6 p.m. Eastern time for The Great America Show.
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00:05:18.560 We'll see you tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern.
00:05:20.020 I'm John Fawcett with this Midday Update.
00:05:22.040 Happy Monday, folks.