00:00:00.000hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us on yet another
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00:00:24.800we wrap up tonight's show and there's a little bit of news to get to it's not as busy as a normal
00:00:29.420news day under the trump administration but there is a decent amount of news to get to today
00:00:35.400uh and we're getting to it all so we appreciate like i said you joining us live tonight
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00:00:46.400concerns as we always try to get to them uh before the end of the show so big news today
00:00:53.440was coming out of the House of Representatives moments ago,
00:00:57.860Speaker Mike Johnson deciding that he was going to let
00:01:01.660the members of Congress head out on vacation a little bit earlier.
00:01:08.020Thursday's schedule of votes tomorrow have been canceled.
00:01:11.500Lawmakers will now wrap up tonight's votes and leave Washington
00:01:14.460for recess lasting until the November midterm elections.
00:01:19.120So last I checked, the only time you got out amount of time off like that was really if you're a schoolteacher, you get off the summers.
00:01:26.960Well, members of Congress, it turns out, have it a little bit better.
00:01:30.860They make less than schoolteachers, do less work than schoolteachers, get more time off than schoolteachers, and make more money than schoolteachers.
00:01:40.340So who has it better than these people?
00:01:45.260Bill Belugian over at Fox News is the first one to report the announcement saying Mike Johnson has canceled these votes and they'll head off on their research.
00:01:52.280Now it comes after more than 100 Democrats called on Johnson to scrap the recess and stay over the A.I. crisis.
00:01:58.980Now, as we talked about yesterday, this is the Democrats in their latest scam hoax.
00:02:04.960President Trump will say hoax and then the media goes crazy.
00:02:08.620You're always calling it a hoax again, but it is a hoax because these people didn't care about AI until it seems like a few weeks ago because they have absolutely no plan to run on.
00:02:17.700This is typical Democrat playbook stuff, right?
00:02:21.440We have nothing to run on, so let's manufacture a crisis, and then we'll run on that crisis.
00:02:26.380They used COVID, inflate, I mean, everything.
00:02:32.300So they want to stay in Congress now to work on AI because now all of a sudden they give a damn about AI.
00:02:40.560They care about America. By the way, half of these people, I would say, don't even know what AI is.
00:02:45.520So kind of funny, kind of right. Now, the House already has slashed its September schedule earlier this month,
00:02:51.200canceling the weeks of September 21st, September 28th.
00:02:54.440After a brief return this week, following the long August break, members now get another vacation.
00:03:00.880The last voting day before the election day will be tonight.
00:03:05.720The House is scheduled to return to Washington, D.C. on Monday, November 9th, the week following election day, which is on November 3rd this year.
00:03:14.680Now, with the CR in place, Congress is scheduled to take this break and just do nothing.
00:03:26.460They go home to their home districts and they do work, but we know what they do.
00:03:29.960I mean, I've worked in Congress, so I can tell you their district days are absolutely nothing.
00:03:37.580It's a joke. This is essentially a vacation.
00:03:41.200Now, between November 9th and December 11th, lawmakers are going to have to pass either all 12 remaining fiscal year 2027 spending bills,
00:03:50.120which they can be working on right now instead of on a vacation for all the federal programs or enact another CR temporarily extending the federal programs again,
00:03:58.480or risk yet another government shutdown so it's the 11th hour bullshit that they continue to do
00:04:03.900let's take a vacation and then we'll uh we'll punt and we'll deal with this i don't know when
00:04:09.180it comes back around and and uh we'll just do another continuing resolution because we're not
00:04:13.680capable of doing uh individual spending bills by the way which every speaker of the house candidate
00:04:18.340ran on that they were going to do individual crs of course they didn't now the path congress
00:04:23.580pursues moving forward may depend on whether control of the house and the senate chambers
00:04:27.460changes after the election. Congress might pass all 12 fiscal year 2027 spending bills before the
00:04:34.300year ends to give the incoming Congress a clean slate to start their work. But if the control of
00:04:39.760both the House and the Senate flip, lawmakers may hold off on finalizing that 2027 spending bills
00:04:45.400to give Congress the opportunity to rewrite the spending bills in the new year. In other words,
00:04:49.120let the Democrats, I don't know, call the shots. Should they win the House? And by the looks of it
00:04:56.560right now, it's like, really, what are the Republicans doing? Now, regardless of their
00:05:02.280little vacation that they'll be taking after having the whole summer off, American taxpayers
00:05:06.080are still paying these members their full salaries, base pay of 174 grand a year, plus
00:05:11.540leadership stipend, generous benefits, good health care, usual perks that help many of them get
00:05:17.960richer while in office. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans punch a clock, get two weeks of
00:05:22.300vacation and if they're lucky maybe get a bonus at the end of the year maybe it's a total joke
00:05:31.360folks that we continue to see this go on in congress a total joke now i did a little bit of
00:05:39.760math before the show because i'm just curious because i wanted to see what a day day rate would
00:05:45.080be for these members of Congress. So, so far, they've been in session, so in Washington, D.C.,
00:05:53.26088 days so far this year. Now, after they come back from recess November 9th, they'll do about
00:05:59.40020. It'll probably be cut down to even less, but we'll use the conservative number of 20,
00:06:04.24020 total days. So that puts it at 108 days for the year that they work. I think the average
00:06:11.080American works like 220 days a year, something like that. So 108 days, now they're already
00:06:19.200less than half that 220. Okay. So if you take those 108 days and you get divided by the $174,000
00:06:27.840a year that they make, they make about 1600 bucks a day for working in Washington, DC.
00:06:34.740Now, I don't know about you guys, but I think that's a pretty darn good day rate to sit on your rear end all day and meet lobbyists and go out to nice dinners and expensive dinners and not have to do a darn thing.
00:06:49.420I think that's a pretty darn good deal.
00:06:53.420And these people wonder, they wonder why they have the lowest approval rating of any political chamber in Washington, D.C.
00:07:03.540They wonder why they're hated by each and every American.
00:08:36.980We're taking a quick break here, less than 60 seconds.
00:08:39.300When we return, J.D. Vance is making his final pitch.
00:08:44.160I guess you can call it an elevator pitch on why the Republicans need to hold control.
00:08:49.940I'd be happy if, I don't know, they all went away somewhere and stayed on a permanent vacation.
00:08:56.040We're also going to take up the House resolution that was passed this afternoon about President Trump.
00:09:02.220They're still coming after him. The House has also voted to hold a billionaire in contempt of Congress.
00:09:07.920We've got some latest poll, latest polling for 2028 and what the numbers are showing there on who the American people are looking for.
00:09:16.020Charlie Kirk's family making some moves. We're going to tell you all about that and much, much more on the other side of this quick break.
00:09:22.980So please stay with us. The Great America Show continues in just moments.
00:09:25.920We'll be right back in less than 60 seconds.
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00:09:51.660So the House this afternoon, before they go on their nice little vacation, has rebuked President Trump over the Iran war.0.53
00:09:58.720Once again, a large number of GOPers joining on with the Marxist Dems because they're tired of it.0.53
00:10:08.240The legislation was introduced by far-left Marxist Rep. Seth Moulton, co-sponsored by 14 of his fellow Marxist Dems, passed by a vote of 220 to 204 with seven Republicans, joining on with 213 Democrats.
00:10:24.740The other opponent was independent congressman Kevin Reilly, who caucuses with the GOP.
00:10:29.540Eight GOPers were absent for Tuesday's vote, as the New York Post has pointed out to us.
00:10:34.500It's likely the last congressional action that will get voted on unless they decide to add some votes tonight and maybe impeach, what's his name, Pete Hegseth before they go on vacation.
00:10:48.060Who knows? Who knows what these people, they're the most impossible people to gauge.
00:10:52.860Those seven GOP-ers, Tom Barrett of Michigan, Warren Davidson of Ohio,
00:10:57.440Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, who, by the way, is married to,
00:11:01.060Julie Heinrich at Fox News, who hates President Trump, never a Trumper,
00:11:06.300Thomas Massey of Kentucky, as you expected, Nancy May, South Carolina,
00:11:10.760Marionette Miller-Meeks of Iowa, and Zach Nunn of Iowa are those who voted.
00:11:17.240Now, four of these GOP-ers, Miller-Meeks, Nunn, Fitzpatrick, and Barrett
00:11:20.520are in competitive races two of them are rebels from iowa so that's i guess a little bit
00:11:24.920understandable um massey mason davidson all well known for bucking trump and gop house leadership
00:11:30.900on a variety of critical issues um but i i think the general consensus and by the way they may be
00:11:37.900doing trump a favor uh by doing this vote the american people want this thing wrapped up i mean
00:11:43.800it's not just Democrats and Republicans. It's no secret that it's been horrible for President
00:11:50.680Trump's poll numbers. It's no secret that this war has been horrible for America.
00:11:55.060Now, whether it needed to be done or didn't need to be done, that's a different story.
00:12:00.900If you're going to go in and get it done, you go in, you do the job and you get out.0.71
00:12:05.760Not the long war doctrine. So it does have to be wrapped up.0.73
00:12:13.800Irrespective of a vote, whatever Congress wants to do, it does need to be wrapped up.
00:12:19.100And it's for the country and it's for President Trump and it's for 2028 and it's for 2026.
00:12:29.200It's, you know, for the betterment of this country.
00:12:33.020So they may have been doing President Trump a favor by pushing through that vote.
00:12:37.600Now, the House also this afternoon voted to hold billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress for defying his subpoena from the House Oversight Committee.
00:12:45.400Department of Justice will now mull whether they pursue criminal prosecution.
00:12:49.340The oversight panel had sought testimony as part of his investigation and their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein under the Biden administration.
00:12:56.900The DOJ secured the convictions of Peter Navarro and Stephen Bannon, excuse me, who refused to testify for the House January 6th committee.
00:13:06.360Both of them spent time in prison over the matter.
00:13:14.320Now I think it's time that we hold these people to the same standard.
00:13:22.320You don't want to show up for your testimony.
00:13:25.080You will be held in contempt of Congress.
00:13:28.500You will follow the same set of laws that each and every American is afforded.
00:13:34.580The amount of money you have in your bank account, the amount of money you have in your network should not dictate how you were treated in the eyes of the law when you break the law, Leon Black.
00:13:47.840And we all want to know about Jeffrey Epstein.
00:15:53.340I thought to myself, this person needs to be checked into a mental hospital, not given a seat in Congress.0.95
00:15:59.800So to the American people, I'd say send these people packing, put them in the mental hospital.
00:16:04.500Do not put them in Congress, because even if you don't agree with us on every policy issue, at least we're motivated by common sense and American interests.0.67
00:16:12.660They're just motivated by left wing interest groups and radicalism.
00:16:16.640And they're going to do a very bad job if we give them power.
00:16:19.360mental institution i think is far too kind these people need to be um put in solitary confinement
00:16:26.880like they did to the january sixers now dance well like i said i've done i think he's done an
00:16:32.680admiral job uh has been put in charge of president trump's task force to fight the fraud
00:16:38.740the waste fraud and abuse he's having a little bit of a hard time though with this
00:16:43.600because the Democrats just so happens where the fraud is most rampant won't help them fight the
00:16:49.820fraud. The biggest problem with finding fraud is is actually that the states where it's worst
00:16:55.500are also the states that have the least willingness to cooperate with what we're doing.
00:17:00.140So when you look at some of the bigger ticket items for fraud, you know, you're looking at
00:17:03.740Medicare fraud in California, people who are illegal, people who aren't even like human
00:17:09.780beings. They're just like a completely made up shell of a person. But unfortunately, the state
00:17:17.480of California is not actually helping us fight back against that particular fraud. Or we know
00:17:22.020that there are hundreds of thousands, maybe more illegal aliens in Illinois, New York and California
00:17:28.380who are on Medicaid. That obviously is billions and billions of dollars to provide health care
00:17:34.100to those people. So the basic fraud that exists is the big programs in states that have allowed
00:17:42.940themselves to be overrun by illegal immigration. Another very good example, and this was shocking
00:17:47.840to me when we came in and started doing this work, is the way the SNAP program, this is the
00:17:53.380food stamp program that ensures that low-income Americans have access to food that they need.
00:17:57.780Obviously, one of the most important things that we do in the federal government is make sure that
00:18:02.240you know, poor kids can eat. But that program is rife with fraud in part because the way it works
00:18:08.360is, you know, California bills us once a month for the cost of their SNAP program. It's seven
00:18:15.120or eight or nine billion dollars, depending on the month that we're talking about. So what happens
00:18:19.020is the federal government wires nine billion dollars to California, no questions asked.
00:18:24.220So it's not an exaggeration to say that we have no ability to know who is even on the SNAP program,
00:18:30.240whether they're a real human being, whether they're a legal resident of the United States
00:18:34.280of America. And when we go to the big blue states and say, why don't you help us just
00:18:38.700confirm basic eligibility? We get totally pushback. We get no cooperation on this basic
00:18:45.000fact of good governance confirming eligibility for federal programs. So my guess is that if
00:18:50.640the number is $700 billion, a few hundred billion of that is in the blue states and
00:18:56.460we could deal with it just by checking eligibility criteria. We're working on innovative ways to
00:19:01.440force that, but it's actually legally much harder than it should be to force the blue states to
00:19:06.500comply with some basic anti-fraud initiatives. Would you look at that? The Democrats don't want
00:19:14.660to help get to the bottom of fraud. I wouldn't believe it if it wasn't coming out of his mouth
00:19:19.080directly and it wasn't on record. We're live tonight for the Great America Show, folks. Please
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00:25:04.380It doesn't matter, like, if they get paid or not.
00:25:06.600You ever see when the government's shutting down and they send their letters to the, I guess, whatever, the Treasurer Department, whatever it is, the Accounting Department at Congress?
00:25:18.240I will not take it while Americans are not getting paid because the government shut down as they're like stock portfolios trading at 150% on the year, making Warren Buffett look like a homeless guy.
00:29:27.240So it was around the time of the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:29:29.440Tony Bobulinski came out about the laptop.
00:29:31.780Anyway, the email comes out that's 10% for the big guy.
00:29:36.440And Jackie Heyrick replies, I think the email is from Mike Emanuel, replies to the email and says, I can confirm that the big guy is not Joe Biden.
00:29:51.620Now, without talking to anybody, my boss, Lou, anybody, I respond back to this email because this was something I followed for a while and absolutely obliterated this woman, asking her what the hell she was talking about.
00:30:02.300She didn't know what she was talking about.
00:30:03.860Tony Bobulinski had just done a press conference where he confirmed 10% was the big guy.
00:30:09.080And now, prior to that, we had no other idea who the big guy was.
00:30:13.900But Jackie Einrich wanted to be the savior of the day and exonerate Joe Biden when she wasn't.1.00
00:30:20.780The woman was just a total fool and a liar and a Democrat and a Trump hater.1.00
00:30:26.740And by the way, I sent it into President Trump.1.00
00:30:30.340i sent him the emails that i still have to let him know who she is and i sent him to will
00:30:37.260scharf when he was there with president trump give me a break president trump did a great job
00:30:42.580as the iranian ayatollah is now 72 with 72 virgin goats in the lake of fire i mean finish the job
00:30:49.480or get out that's that's where we've got to be with this ali khan says midterm concerns i feel
00:30:57.840like there's sabotage others there's way more than that alley michael babcock huge blue wave
00:31:04.620coming to the iran debacle and bad economy here at home gas groceries mortgage rates so many more
00:31:09.660all going up no good yeah the the the mortgage rates is something that's uh something that's
00:31:16.480not going to get done overnight and that's um you know something from years of fixing that needs to
00:31:24.560be done but the gas prices absolutely and the grocery prices absolutely and and you know many
00:31:29.880other prices that have gone up um electrical you know plummet whatever absolutely right i think
00:31:37.220the people and this is just me looking from the outside
00:31:39.860this is just me looking at it from the outside
00:33:21.720I mean, I hope the Republicans hold, but it's a hard case to make.
00:33:28.160It's a really hard case to make when you've got to justify Iran, when you've got to justify gas prices, when you've got to justify the price of everyday needs.
00:33:37.660You know, when you ran just months earlier or years earlier, I should say, uncutting these costs.
00:33:43.540So not easy, folks. It's not easy, but we can only do what we can do at this point.
00:33:50.980I think people are going to vote the way they vote, and they're going to go one way or they're going to go the other.
00:33:59.020And I don't think there's really much more of the needle to be moved at this point.
00:34:06.160That's just my two cents. That's my take on it. I don't know.
00:34:09.360hopefully it is and hopefully the Republicans
00:34:11.840can hold on but you know the end of the