Mid-Day Update： October 9, 2025
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Summary
A midday update on the government shutdown, a call from President Trump about the hostages being released, and a possible trip to Egypt with President Trump tomorrow. Also, a look at the latest on the Iran hostage situation.
Transcript
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, October 9th.
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While the government may be shut down because of Hakeem Jeffries and because of Chuck Schumer
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and because of their games they're playing with the American people,
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune announcing this morning that he will not help the Democrats
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bail themselves out of this mess, shooting down speculation that Republicans would deploy
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the so-called nuclear option to break the funding stalemate.
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Now, the idea has gained traction on social media, particularly among Democrats
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who already support getting rid of the 60-vote threshold needed for legislation.
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The nuclear option found a new footing when a sliver of GOP lawmakers,
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including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Senator Bernie Moreno, suggested that it should be an option on the table.
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Thune, when asked about it, says he has no plans to get rid of it and says he had no pressure from the White House.
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Now, while the Marxist Democrats are, you know, taking their time off and relaxing
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and cutting paychecks from the American people,
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President Trump and his administration are a full force work ahead.
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This morning, President Trump hosted a cabinet meeting where he delivered some remarks to the American people
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and he had some wise words to say for the radical left lunatics
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So we're here this morning for a cabinet meeting as my administration continues to deliver for the American people,
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despite the radical left lunatics that shut down our government.
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You have Democrats that they've lost their way.
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We don't even know who to deal with over there.
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We are we have no idea who we're dealing with over there.
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It's like they have no idea what they're doing.
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Republicans have voted repeatedly to pass a clean, nonpartisan bill to reopen government
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We're not going to do anything only good for health care.
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We're really, I think, become the party of good health care.
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They want to try and get everyone thinking about health care.
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Now, last night, President Trump also hosting a roundtable for some journalists.
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The most transparent president this country has ever seen,
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making himself available to every single media facet possible.
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President Trump announcing that they have a deal between the Israeli government and Hamas.
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President Trump now says he may head to Egypt for that signing of that peace deal.
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Take a listen to President Trump about the hostages who are going to be released very, very soon.
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You know, last night we reached a momentous breakthrough in the Middle East,
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something that people said was never going to be done.
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We ended the war in Gaza and really, on a much bigger basis, created peace.
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And I think it's going to be a lasting peace, hopefully an everlasting peace.
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We secured the release of all of the remaining hostages,
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and they should be released on Monday or Tuesday.
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I'd rather not tell you what they have to do to get them.
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but we are getting the hostages back on Tuesday, Monday or Tuesday.
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And we're working on the timing, the exact timing.
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We're going to go to Egypt, where we'll have a signing, an additional signing.
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We've already had a signing representing me, but we're going to have an official signing.
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President Trump not just making America great again, he's making the world great again.
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Creating peace deals throughout the world so that they're there after President Trump is gone.
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I've never seen anything like it in my life, folks.
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This is the greatest president this country has ever seen.
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Tomorrow morning, President Trump heading to Walter Reed Medical Center,
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giving them some planned remarks that he had on the schedule.
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President Trump will also be partaking in his yearly checkup and yearly physical.
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I'm letting you folks know so that in case you hear it on CNN or Fox News
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that President Trump is in Walter Reed Medical Center and there's something wrong with him.
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This is a planned checkup that President Trump has had on the books.
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It was one that Joe Biden never really had on the books
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and never made transparent with the American people.
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I'm sure we'll get a good report back that President Trump is in great health
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Folks, please be sure to join us tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern Time for The Great America Show.
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That is 6 p.m. Eastern Time for The Great America Show.
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Our guest is preeminent pollster Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports.
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Mark's got some new numbers for us on what the American people are saying
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and what the American people are saying about this government shutdown.
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Are they blaming President Trump, Jeffrey Schumer?
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We're going to take all that up tonight with Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports,
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6 p.m. Eastern Time for The Great America Show.