The Great America Show - November 13, 2025


Mid-Day Update： November 13, 2025

Topics
government shutdown and Senate inquiry
Hosted by
John Fawcett Lou Dobbs
Mentioned
Donald Trump John Fetterman Jack Smith Kevin McCarthy John Thune Jim Geordi Jim Jordan Ron Paul
WOW! The Democrats got STEAM ROLLED as the Government is back open for business! YIKES! Jack Smith's SECRET Meeting Revealed as he Colluded with FBI to illegally spy!

Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

186.14

Word count

938

Sentence count

67

Harmful content

Hate speech

3

sentences flagged


Summary

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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.