The Great America Show - October 23, 2025


Mid-Day Update： October 23, 2025

Hosted by
John Fawcett Lou Dobbs
Mentioned
Sam Harris Terry Rozier Raphael Warnock John Ossoff Chauncey Billups John Fetterman Joseph Nacella Chuck Schumer Donald Trump Ron Johnson Todd Young Kash Patel Miami Heat Gambino
Mid-Day Update： October 22, 2025 Mid-Day Update： October 24, 2025

Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

166.89

Word count

1,034

Sentence count

52

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

sentences flagged


Summary

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A government shutdown that has now entered its 23rd day continues to rage on, and Democratic leaders continue to block a Republican-led bill that would have provided a short-term fix to reopen the government through November 21st. Meanwhile, the FBI continues to investigate a massive sports gambling ring.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, October 23rd.
00:00:05.040 Happy Thursday, folks.
00:00:06.780 Essential workers are being left unpaid after Senate Democrats kill another bill.
00:00:12.260 That's right, the Democrats are at it again, blocking a Republican-led attempt to provide,
00:00:17.120 are you ready for this, folks, essential government workers with paychecks
00:00:20.940 amid this ongoing 23-day Chuck Schumer government shutdown,
00:00:25.520 calling the bill overly selective and incomplete.
00:00:28.660 That bill proposed by Senators Ron Johnson and Todd Young of Indiana
00:00:33.520 failed in a 54-45 vote, where 60 votes were needed to advance the bill over the threat of a filibuster.
00:00:40.780 Only three Democrats, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Raphael Warnock, and John Ossoff of Georgia,
00:00:47.800 voted with the Republicans.
00:00:49.520 Now, it's worth noting Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff are up for re-election in the Georgia Senate,
00:00:55.280 where they may not hold their seats, so I guess they're trying to play it safe, see what happens.
00:01:01.300 Now, in addition to compensating federal employees and military personnel during the current shutdown,
00:01:06.560 the bill would also extend relief to future instances where funding bills aren't in effect.
00:01:12.440 Get this, folks, essential federal employees have been asked to continue working
00:01:16.180 since the government entered shutdown on October 1st,
00:01:19.140 after lawmakers failed to pass their spending legislation to begin the 2026 fiscal year.
00:01:24.320 Republicans have advanced a short-term spending extension that would open the government through November 21st.
00:01:30.380 Democrats have repeatedly rejected that proposal, though,
00:01:32.860 demanding that Congress first consider an extension to the expiring COVID-19 supplemental funding
00:01:39.300 for Obamacare health insurance subsidies.
00:01:43.120 COVID-19, folks, we're entering 2026.
00:01:47.700 Remember when COVID happened?
00:01:49.840 Yeah, we're in 2026, and they still want the COVID-era supplemental funding for Obamacare.
00:01:56.020 Republicans who maintain that health insurance subsidies are unrelated to the government's short-term funding needs
00:02:00.780 have rejected those demands as out of hand.
00:02:03.380 Democrats in the Senate have voted now 12 times to defeat the stopgap bill.
00:02:09.200 The shutdown looks poised to continue with no resolution in sight,
00:02:13.000 prompting lawmakers to worry about key areas they feel shutdowns will be affected more acutely.
00:02:18.840 You know, things like our air traffic controllers,
00:02:21.760 the people who are guiding planes to take off and land,
00:02:25.380 and through the sky.
00:02:26.300 Those folks who aren't making millions of dollars a year,
00:02:30.640 who are now being forced to go out and get supplemental jobs
00:02:34.420 while the Marxist Democrats play games,
00:02:37.920 and then go to work the next day exhausted and tired,
00:02:41.200 looking at screens all day.
00:02:43.040 Yeah, those are the folks that the Democrats don't care about paying.
00:02:47.300 As I say, folks, the Marxist Dems don't give a damn about each and every one of us.
00:02:51.780 Speaking of the Marxist Dems and their corruption,
00:02:54.440 the Democrat National Committee, more commonly referred to as the DNC,
00:02:58.760 is still struggling to repay Kamala Harris's campaign debt
00:03:02.560 almost a year after the 2024 election.
00:03:05.980 The amazing thing about it is that it's a reminder that the Harris campaign
00:03:08.960 had a war chest of more than a billion dollars.
00:03:13.100 It's a massive sum for a political campaign,
00:03:15.340 and yet she still lost and still incurred millions of dollars in campaign debt. 0.90
00:03:19.400 I guess it's really a testament to what absolutely awful candidate she was, 0.84
00:03:22.840 and she still is.
00:03:24.780 Now, if she runs again in 2028,
00:03:26.320 she'll probably be torpedoed by the Democrat voters during the primary, 1.00
00:03:29.940 as she was the last time around.
00:03:32.560 Harris's campaign still millions of dollars in debt.
00:03:35.820 She made a handshake deal with the National Party after Donald Trump defeated her,
00:03:39.560 under which the DNC agreed to cover over $20 million
00:03:42.920 in campaign expenditures and outstanding bills.
00:03:46.820 Democrats can't even pay their own personal bills,
00:03:48.800 yet they want to talk about funding governments and budgets there.
00:03:52.620 Maybe they should take care of their own budgets first.
00:03:54.780 Turning now to some crime news,
00:03:56.360 FBI Director Cash Patel this morning announcing the arrest of more than 30 people across 11 states,
00:04:02.280 including NBA Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups,
00:04:06.020 who was the head coach last night for the Trailblazers in their loss against the Minnesota Timberwolves,
00:04:10.460 also arrested Miami Heat player Terry Rozier,
00:04:13.700 who was on the bench last night in their game against the Orlando Magic,
00:04:19.120 but two active members of the NBA.
00:04:20.960 They were arrested as part of a takedown of a massive sports gambling ring,
00:04:25.520 which included a poker scheme and a sports rigging operation.
00:04:30.000 The poker scheme, you ready for this, folks?
00:04:31.720 Now, I play a lot of poker, and I have never heard of this before,
00:04:34.740 because it's absolutely like 25th century technology.
00:04:39.060 The poker scheme is an X-ray table to read cards face down,
00:04:43.880 wireless devices, and chip tray analyzers all tied to the Italian mafia La Cosa Nostra.
00:04:51.320 U.S. Attorney Joseph Nacella said they used self-shuffling machines
00:04:55.500 that had been secretly altered in order to read the cards in the deck,
00:04:59.820 predict which players at the table had the best poker hand,
00:05:02.440 and relay that information to an off-site operator.
00:05:07.200 Defendants use other cheating technologies, such as poker chip tray analyzers,
00:05:11.060 which is a poker chip tray that secretly reads cards using a hidden camera,
00:05:16.080 special contact lenses or eyeglasses that can read pre-marked cards,
00:05:20.920 and as I said, that X-ray table that can read cards face down on the table.
00:05:25.060 The Bonamo, Gambino, and Lucchese and Genovese crime families,
00:05:28.780 those are names of the past, folks, also involved.
00:05:32.100 Terry Rozier allegedly used an insider NBA information scheme
00:05:35.980 to tip off friends for sports bets.
00:05:39.680 Terry Rozier, that NBA player for the Miami Heat,
00:05:42.800 also faked an injury to leave a game reportedly early
00:05:46.480 to make sure the bets paid out, hitting the under.
00:05:49.940 I wish I could say I'm surprised,
00:05:51.700 but I think each and every one of us who have watched sports over the last few years
00:05:55.360 have realized things have seemed a little strange, at least myself.
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00:06:09.240 I'm John Fossett with this Midday Update.
00:06:10.860 Have a great day, everybody.