The Great America Show - May 25, 2023


The Great America Show Mid-Day Update - May 25, 2023


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

155.53252

Word Count

350

Sentence Count

27


Summary

The corrupt Department of Justice continues to overcharge January 6th defendants. 62-year-old Richard Barnett, a retired firefighter from Arkansas, the man photographed with his feet on Nancy Pelosi s desk, was today sentenced to 4.5 years in prison.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I'm Lou Dobbs with this great America Show News update.
00:00:03.520 Governor Ron DeSantis' 2024 announcement, a technical disaster.
00:00:08.880 The governor live on Twitter with Elon Musk and they crashed the site's platform Twitter spaces
00:00:14.860 with only 700,000 listeners tuned in. Not a good start at best for Governor DeSantis.
00:00:22.720 The corrupt Department of Justice continues to overcharge January 6th defendants.
00:00:27.880 62-year-old Richard Barnett, a retired firefighter from Arkansas,
00:00:33.820 the man photographed with his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk,
00:00:37.600 today sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
00:00:41.360 This is the reaction of Barnett's attorney, Joseph McBride.
00:00:45.560 It's very unfortunate. I'm of the opinion that Richard Barnett should not have received any more jail time
00:00:51.980 for the crimes that he was convicted.
00:00:53.540 If you take all the allegations as true, he was not violent on that day.
00:00:58.940 He didn't hurt anybody on that day.
00:01:01.080 He put his feet up and now they want him to do almost five years in jail.
00:01:04.900 It's a travesty. It's very unfortunate.
00:01:07.980 He's 63 years old at this point and he may not make it out of there for a nonviolent crime.
00:01:14.480 You hate to see it.
00:01:15.360 That's unfortunately the reality of the situation.
00:01:18.620 We fought our hardest and our best to make sure that this didn't happen,
00:01:22.140 but it was under very unfair circumstances and we have to live with the result for the time being.
00:01:27.600 And foreign workers taking American jobs at a record high.
00:01:32.200 The number of foreign nationals holding jobs in the United States
00:01:35.580 has hit the highest level since the Labor Department started keeping track of those jobs in 1996.
00:01:42.220 Under Joe Biden, more than 18 percent.
00:01:46.440 30 million foreigners holding those American jobs.
00:01:50.220 Please join us today on The Great America Show.
00:01:52.880 Our guest is Congressman Ben Kline.
00:01:55.440 We take up the latest on Speaker McCarthy's negotiations with Biden on the debt ceiling
00:02:00.560 and, of course, the House investigations of corruption throughout the Biden regime.
00:02:06.840 A reminder to join us each and every weekday on The Great America Show.
00:02:10.960 This is the Lou Dobbs Great America Show update.