The Great America Show - October 07, 2025


Mid-Day Update： October 7, 2025


Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

149.59323

Word count

901

Sentence count

88

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

3

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Summary

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A Democratic senator's attempt to expose Pam Bondi as corrupt blows up in his face when she hits him with some devastating news. President Trump asks about invoking the Insurrection Act. FBI Director Cash Patel is springing into action after learning that Joe Biden s FBI spied on 9 GOP senators.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Tuesday, October 7th.
00:00:05.240 Sparks are flying on Capitol Hill today.
00:00:07.560 Pam Bondi was up there testifying before the Senate Judiciary hearing.
00:00:12.260 And boy, was she having some fun.
00:00:14.700 A Democratic senator's attempt to expose Pam Bondi as, quote, corrupt, 1.00
00:00:19.120 blew up in his face when she hit him with some devastating news.
00:00:23.500 You guys all know Senator Blumenthal, right?
00:00:25.820 Danang Dick, who was in the military and inflated his story.
00:00:31.280 Well, he, as I said, accused Pam Bondi of being corrupt.
00:00:36.460 She had some words to him, and if he had any memory of his corruption and his lying,
00:00:42.420 take a listen to this conversation here.
00:00:44.880 It's an interesting one.
00:00:46.520 I do have a question.
00:00:49.000 In the merger that took place...
00:00:53.820 Which merger? You've listed many.
00:00:55.600 Lobbying American Express, GBT.
00:00:59.300 I understand that Brian Ballard, long-time backer and head of the law firm where you work,
00:01:08.220 was instrumental in lobbying the Justice Department to drop that lawsuit.
00:01:14.900 It was dismissed.
00:01:16.140 So it's not subject to a court review.
00:01:19.460 What conversations did you have with Mr. Ballard?
00:01:21.820 Senator Blumenthal, I cannot believe that you would accuse me of impropriety when you lied about your military service.
00:01:35.300 I am not asking you...
00:01:35.940 You lied.
00:01:36.520 You admitted you lied to be elected a U.S. senator.
00:01:40.080 I'm asking you about conversations with Mr. Ballard.
00:01:41.300 How dare you?
00:01:42.040 I'm a career prosecutor.
00:01:43.380 Don't you ever challenge my integrity.
00:01:47.000 I have abided by every ethics standard.
00:01:50.080 Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial as Attorney General.
00:01:55.420 And anything with my former firm, Ballard Partners.
00:01:58.640 Rough day for Senator Blumenthal, who's a known liar, getting the beatdown from none other than Pam Bondi.
00:02:06.100 Speaking of the DOJ, FBI Director Cash Patel is springing into action after learning that Joe Biden's FBI
00:02:12.620 and Junkyard Jackal Special Counsel Jack Smith spied on nine GOP senators during his, quote, investigation into January 6th.
00:02:22.400 You know, the J6 fraud scam. 0.99
00:02:25.080 Operation Arctic Frost, which was taxpayer-funded, launched in April of 2022.
00:02:29.940 It seized government-issued cell phone belonging to Trump and Pence while conducting a barrage of interviews across the country.
00:02:36.220 And now it turns out that Jack Smith tracked the private phone calls of a few GOP senators.
00:02:43.480 Senator Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Ron Johnson, Josh Hawley, Cynthia Loomis, Bill Haggerty, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Toomberville.
00:02:52.300 Also added in there was Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
00:02:57.900 Jack Smith was going completely rogue.
00:02:59.960 It was far worse, folks, than we originally had suspected.
00:03:02.400 And as the news comes out, I suspect it's only going to get worse.
00:03:07.240 President Trump was asked this afternoon about invoking the Insurrection Act because Chicago and Portland are getting a little bit out of hand.
00:03:17.140 Marxist governors and Marxist mayors of those territories don't care about ICE, don't care about the federal agents who are being sent in there.
00:03:23.880 Quite frankly, they don't want them in there.
00:03:25.720 Here's President Trump when asked about invoking the Insurrection Act.
00:03:28.380 Mr. President, can we talk about Portland for a second?
00:03:31.000 Are you planning to invoke the Insurrection Act?
00:03:34.080 And that would be a very long-standing war of law that's been on the book.
00:03:40.100 Yeah, well, it's been invoked before, as you know.
00:03:43.320 If you look at Chicago, Chicago is a great city where there's a lot of crime.
00:03:47.560 And if the governor can't do the job, we'll do the job.
00:03:50.040 It's all very simple.
00:03:52.340 They probably had 50 murders in Chicago over the last five, six, seven months.
00:04:00.620 Many people were shot.
00:04:02.160 And then the governor gets up and he says, well, we can handle it.
00:04:04.740 They can't handle it.
00:04:05.480 They don't know what they're doing.
00:04:06.960 The mayor is grossly incompetent.
00:04:08.620 He's at a 4 percent approval rating in Chicago.
00:04:12.020 He's at a 4 percent lowest approval rating, lower than even de Blasio had, which is hard to believe in New York.
00:04:17.940 But I thought de Blasio would always maintain that record.
00:04:21.100 But the Chicago guy is even lower.
00:04:23.460 So I think that we want safe cities.
00:04:28.260 If you look at D.C., you would right now, Mark, you could go out, take your family out to dinner.
00:04:33.780 You could walk right down the middle of the city.
00:04:35.840 There is no crime in D.C.
00:04:39.480 When I got here, this place was a raging hellhole where people would come from Canada. 1.00
00:04:45.300 That people would come from other places and end up getting shot. 0.96
00:04:48.660 Nobody's being shot.
00:04:50.360 The National Guard's been unbelievable.
00:04:54.000 I mean, they are strong, tough guys.
00:04:56.540 You know, I think it's time for President Trump to go ahead and invoke that insurrection act
00:05:00.380 and tell these governors and these mayors to stop playing politics with the lives of American people.
00:05:05.260 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern time for The Great America Show.
00:05:08.520 We'll be joined by the great Roger Stone to take all of this up and much, much more.
00:05:12.860 And how James Comey is being treated versus how Roger was treated.
00:05:16.800 They're both charged with the same thing.
00:05:18.560 Roger's house was swarmed by FBI agents at 6 o'clock in the morning
00:05:21.500 while James Comey will be turning himself in peacefully and quietly tomorrow afternoon.
00:05:26.580 We'll see you at 6 p.m. Eastern for The Great America Show.
00:05:28.620 I'm John Foster with this midday update.
00:05:30.640 Happy Tuesday, folks.
00:05:31.400 Happy Tuesday, folks.