The Great America Show - November 13, 2025


Mid-Day Update： November 13, 2025


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5 minutes

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186.13573

Word count

938

Sentence count

68

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Hate speech

3

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The longest government shutdown in the history of this country is finally over and President Trump has signed a bill to reopen the government. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. John Fetterman is in the hospital after a fall near his home in Pennsylvania. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan announces a blistering new inquiry into the Justice Department.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, November 13th.
00:00:05.020 Happy Thursday, folks.
00:00:06.320 Well, the longest government shutdown in the history of this country is finally over.
00:00:11.800 President Trump announcing last night from the Oval Office,
00:00:13.940 well, he signed that bill to reopen the government just past 10 o'clock Eastern time.
00:00:18.980 President Trump calling out the Marxist Dems for trying to extort the American people
00:00:23.260 for one and a half trillion dollars to fund the illegal aliens.
00:00:27.600 Take a listen.
00:00:28.180 The United States in an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens 0.82
00:00:35.640 and people that came into our country illegally from gangs, from prisons, from mental institutions.
00:00:42.800 They wanted to pay them one point five trillion dollars, which would have really hurt our health care businesses
00:00:50.020 and our recipients at levels never seen before.
00:00:53.860 Today, we're sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion, because that's what it was.
00:01:00.460 They tried to extort. The Democrats tried to extort our country.
00:01:04.560 In just a moment, I'll sign a bill exactly like we asked Democrats to send us.
00:01:09.640 All along, many days ago, this cost the country one point five trillion dollars,
00:01:15.640 this little excursion that they took us on.
00:01:17.960 To call it an excursion, I think, is to put it nicely.
00:01:20.580 What the Democrats did was just a disgrace and disjustice to America and all of our government workers
00:01:26.460 who make this country run every single day and make this country great and make this country safe.
00:01:31.500 The Marxist Democrats didn't care about them.
00:01:33.900 They cared about playing politics and they cared about stopping Donald Trump at any cost.
00:01:39.060 It didn't matter who died.
00:01:40.340 It didn't matter who was responsible at any cost.
00:01:43.060 It was all about stopping the big, bad orange man. 0.82
00:01:47.340 And folks, as I've said all along, the Marxist Dems once again lost,
00:01:51.660 and they're going to lose when it comes time for the midterm elections,
00:01:54.400 when the voters go to the polls to vote, and they remember what they did to them.
00:01:58.980 Now, President Trump last night, in his address out of the Oval Office,
00:02:02.140 doubling down, demanding the filibuster be ended by the Senate,
00:02:05.700 because the Marxist Dems are going to do it anyway.
00:02:07.860 Take a listen.
00:02:08.620 We come up to midterms and other things.
00:02:10.640 Don't forget what they've done to our country.
00:02:12.320 You also want to call for a termination to the filibuster so that this can never happen again.
00:02:19.420 If we had the filibuster terminated, this would never happen again.
00:02:23.280 And don't forget, we have another date coming up in the not-too-distant future.
00:02:27.180 We can never let this happen again.
00:02:29.280 And we should be able to pass great, really great legislation.
00:02:33.220 So I say terminate the filibuster because, by the way,
00:02:36.860 the Democrats will do it immediately if they ever assumed office,
00:02:40.140 which hopefully they won't.
00:02:42.620 And that's the message President Trump has been pushing ever since he called for the end of the filibuster.
00:02:47.720 The Marxist Dems are going to do it as soon as they seize power anyway,
00:02:50.780 so the Republicans might as well do it, get a head start, and push through the agenda.
00:02:54.580 But it's going to take John Thune and the rest of his rhinos in the Senate to go ahead and get the votes for that. 0.90
00:03:02.160 Will guys like Rand Paul go for it?
00:03:05.400 Probably not.
00:03:06.340 He's a big tough guy these days, so we'll have to see what happens.
00:03:10.000 Speaking of the Senate, Democrat Senator John Fetterman,
00:03:12.760 who's sort of been the voice of reason through this whole government shutdown,
00:03:15.740 hospitalized earlier this morning after a fall near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania.
00:03:20.760 Fetterman was transported to a hospital in Pittsburgh out of abundance of caution.
00:03:25.040 According to Fetterman's office, the senator had a ventricular fibrillation flare-up
00:03:28.560 that led to him feeling lightheaded.
00:03:31.220 We pray for Senator Fetterman that he heals and is back to work ASAP.
00:03:36.640 And with Congress now open, while the Republicans have been working throughout the whole process,
00:03:41.080 the Democrats are the ones who haven't really been working,
00:03:42.940 House Judiciary Chairman Jim Geordi today announcing a blistering new inquiry
00:03:47.640 into the Justice Department's Inspector General's office,
00:03:50.500 demanding answers about the watchdog's office' direct involvement
00:03:53.440 in the Biden DOJ's highly controversial Arctic Frost investigation.
00:03:58.540 You know, the investigation where Jack Smith ran totally rogue,
00:04:01.660 the junkyard jackal subpoenaing everyone's phones, taking everyone's phones.
00:04:05.700 By the way, we found out today Kevin McCarthy, former House Speaker,
00:04:09.000 was another one who fell victim to Jack Smith's Arctic Frost and the cell phone seizure.
00:04:15.700 Jim Jordan now wants answers, and I think the American people want answers
00:04:19.740 to everything that's gone on during that investigation.
00:04:22.540 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern Time.
00:04:25.620 6 p.m. Eastern Time for The Great America Show.
00:04:28.400 Rumble, YouTube, Twitter, wherever you guys join us.
00:04:30.560 We'll be there at 6 p.m. Eastern Time.
00:04:32.860 We're taking all this up and much, much more with the government reopen.
00:04:35.560 What happens next? Is the filibuster on its way out?
00:04:40.080 How's the whole thing going to play out?
00:04:41.780 Please be sure to join us for that tonight.
00:04:43.960 Only on The Great America Show, 6 p.m. Eastern Time.
00:04:46.800 And please be sure to follow us on social media at The Great America Show.
00:04:50.220 And you can follow me on Twitter at JohnFawcettNY, at JohnFawcettNY on Twitter.
00:04:55.940 We'll see you tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern Time.
00:04:57.840 Sharp for The Great America Show.
00:04:59.140 I'm John Fawcett with this midday update.
00:05:01.420 Have a great day, everybody.