Mid-Day Update： May 4, 2026
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A message to NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, President Trump sends a warning to Germany, Iran strikes back at the U.S. in the Strait of Hormuz, and the Pope meets with the Italian Prime Minister in Rome.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, May 4th.
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May the 4th be with you. Happy Monday, folks. I hope you all had a great weekend.
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Let's start out today's midday update with sending a prayer to America's mayor,
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a friend of the Great America Show and was a great friend of the great Lou Dobbs.
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Mayor Rudy Giuliani hospitalized over the weekend in Palm Beach, Florida with a horrible case of pneumonia.
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The mayor was placed on a respirator over the weekend.
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the 81 year old former mayor of new york breathing on his own right now still in the hospital but
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off the ventilator and breathing on his own so we're sending prayers to america's mayor rudy
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and his family that he pulls through and uh we need him in this fight folks the more of us the
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better but rudy has been a vocal voice uh dating back to the 2020 stolen election he hasn't let
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us fall off the pedal so prayers to rudy and his family president trump over the weekend sending a
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warning message to the folks over in Germany. It will be nice. Warning the U.S. will cut much
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further than the 5,000 troops that he's already ordered to be withdrawn as Chancellor Mertz tries
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to walk back his criticism of Iran's military operations. That's right, folks, not looking good
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for Germany. German Chancellor Frederick Mars said that he must accept that President Donald
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Trump does not share his opinions in order to work with the United States within NATO,
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but stressed that there was no link between their rift and planned troop withdrawal.
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Because he wants to minimize it as much as possible.
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Merch dismissing suggestions that his criticism of the U.S. war planning in Iran
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had sparked Washington's Friday announcement that the U.S. would reduce its military presence in Germany,
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and repeated his commitment to the transatlantic alliance.
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Merch had questioned whether President Trump had an exit plan for the Middle East
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and said that the u.s was being embarrassed in their talks with iran trump later called mertz
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an ineffectual leader he says he's accepted that the american president has a different view on
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these issues other than the german issues but that doesn't change the fact that he remains
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convinced that americans are important partners to us yeah of course he's trying to mince words
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as president trump is calling him out on his bs trump says this is only the beginning of the
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withdrawals and there will be much much more now earlier today u.s forces sank six iranian small
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boats near the strait of harmuz this is part of president trump's project freedom u.s central
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command announced the engagement with these bomber boats that the iranians use iran usually
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deploys 20 to 40 small boats when harassing vessels on the strait this operation they were
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able to take out six of them very quickly. The head of USENTCOM, the commander, says we have an
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enormous amount of capability and firepower concentrated in and around the strait, including
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864 Apache and MH-60 Seahawk helicopters that were used just this morning to eliminate those
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six Iranian small boats that have been threatening successfully commercial ships. So Iran is going
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to continue, I think, to meet their fate as they show no signs of slowing down with their
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Now, speaking of the conflict with Iran, it's definitely strained the relationship between
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the United States and President Trump and the Vatican and the rest of the Italian government,
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led by Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney, who's become a grave disappointment in this war.
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President Trump feuding, of course, with the Pope, pretty much telling him to mind his
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own business because of course this is none of his business um this war he should really worry
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about his uh catholic church and he should worry about the vatican of course he's protected behind
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walls now in an attempt to rebuild ties with the italian allies we're sending over secretary of
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state marco rubio to uh visit rome and some officials this week and to meet with the uh pope
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to try to salvage some of that president trump sent rubio may 7th and may 8th uh where he'll
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meet with as i said various leaders in italy as well as the pope um not clear if they'll be able
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to reconcile as the pope has hardly been able to contain uh minding everyone else's business
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but his own but if anybody can do it it's certainly marco rubio who's been delegated to do just about
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every single job you could possibly think of in this country secretary of state marco rubio
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