Mid-Day Update： October 8, 2025
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Summary
Latest episode of The Great America Show: A Mid-Day Update for Wednesday, October 8, 2019. President Trump calls for the imprisonment of Governor J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson for their role in making Chicago a very unsafe place. Former FBI Director James Comey pleads not guilty to lying to Congress.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, October 8th.
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President Trump's crackdown on crime in America continues.
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FBI Director Cash Patel and Deputy AG Todd Blanchard in Chicago this afternoon
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addressing some law enforcement as President Trump is calling for the imprisonment
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of Governor J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson for their role in making Chicago just a very, very unsafe place.
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President Trump posting on Truth Social, quote, Chicago mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.
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Cash Patel laying out some of the crime numbers they have in Chicago, and it's a lot worse than I thought
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There's allegedly 110,000 gang members on the streets of Chicago.
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They've had 1,200 shootings and 360 homicides this year alone.
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We are taking the juggernaut that is demolishing the weaponization of law enforcement and bringing it to places like Chicago.
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When I was there today with Todd, we learned that the Chicago city streets have 110,000 gang members.
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They had 1,200 shootings this year alone, 360 homicides.
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When politicians choose to side with those metrics and not their citizenry,
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thank God we have President Trump and this Department of Justice and this FBI going in there and crushing violent crime.
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President Trump sent us into these cities quietly to set the stage, to set up for the National Guard,
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to see the success that we saw in Washington, D.C., in Memphis.
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The FBI has been leading the charge in every single one of these streets because we know how to gather ground-level intelligence
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and we know how to put handcuffs on the bad guys, and we know that we have the backing of this administration.
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And most importantly, the agents at the FBI know that they have the backing of the American people and their government.
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And as I always say here, folks, on The Great America Show, where is the people's right to live in a safe city?
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Where is the people's right to not have to worry about getting shot by a stray bullet?
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Where is the people's right to be able to go outside and not have to worry about any crime in their city?
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That's the question I asked J.B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson.
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And it's now been a week since the Chuck Schumer-Hakim Jeffries government shutdown.
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Right. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi making her media rounds to gloat and brag and do whatever she's got to do.
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Continuing the Marxist Dem plan and the Marxist Dem trend of face-planting on national television
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when trying to lie about the government shutdown and why it still shut down and who shut it down.
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Take a listen to Pelosi. Now, it's unclear if she was sober or on any sort of alcohol this early in the morning,
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Just, I mean, I understand what you're saying about where the differences are, and they are very big.
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They are voting yes on what we say here in Washington, a clean CR,
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a bill to keep the government running for seven weeks, and Democrats are voting no,
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and for the reasons you just said. So how are they shutting down the government?
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So let's not stipulate to that. It's not a clean CR. What do they have in it?
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Of course, Pelosi, not really knowing where she even is,
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can't really explain why the Democrats wanted to shut down the government
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and why the Democrats are playing games with the lives of the American people.
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Doesn't make much sense to me. Probably doesn't make any sense to you.
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And maybe some good news coming out of the Supreme Court in the next few days.
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A report released this afternoon found that Republicans can pick up
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an additional 19 congressional district if the Supreme Court were to void
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The Supreme Court will rehear Louisiana v. Callias,
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a case that could result in the elimination of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,
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a provision that bars racial gerrymandering when it dilutes minority voting power.
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However, this is coming up either this week or next week in the Supreme Court,
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so the Republicans could possibly pick up another few seats,
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which would probably help their chances coming into the 2026 midterm elections.
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But never underestimate the Republicans' possibilities to screw something up
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And former FBI Director James Comey turning himself in today in federal court,
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This, Comey, seems to all of us, is more than just guilty of lying to Congress.
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I guess we'll have to wait and see what Pam Bondi does,
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and if she decides to bring some federal charges against him
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for all the bad malice he's done to President Trump
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on behalf, of course, of the deep state operation they've been running
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for the last 10 years, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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beyond laughable, I think, for all of us who have witnessed
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Folks, please be sure to join us tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern Time
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That's 6 p.m. Eastern Time for The Great America Show.
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and we're covering it all tonight on The Great America Show.