The Great America Show - March 13, 2025


Thursday Headlines： March 13, 2025

Hosted by
Lou Dobbs John Fawcett
Mentioned
Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Chuck Schumer Vladimir Zelensky John Thune Jeffrey Epstein Ron Paul Tom Homan Bordersar
Wednesday Headlines： March 12, 2025 Trump’s Leadership： Shifting the Narrative on Ukraine

Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

168.44

Word count

1,169

Sentence count

69


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

A government shutdown is officially in effect as the Senate refuses to act on a Democratic Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded past September 30th. President Trump threatens a 200% wine and spirit tariff on European wine and spirits. President Trump signs an executive order this week cracking down on radical activist judges.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, March 13th.
00:00:05.340 Happy Thursday, folks. I hope your days are off to a great start.
00:00:08.140 If they're just getting started, if they started early, I hope they're going even better, as always.
00:00:13.140 Senate Majority Leader John Thune calling the Marxist Dems bluff.
00:00:17.500 Vowing to move forward on the Trump-backed House-passed funding plan.
00:00:21.740 Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer, that Marxist, announced this week that
00:00:24.880 after a lunch with his fellow Democrat Marxist caucus,
00:00:28.540 he would reject a House-passed government plan to keep the government funded past his Friday deadline
00:00:33.600 through the end of the fiscal year, which is September 30th.
00:00:36.980 Quote, funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but the Republicans choose a partisan path.
00:00:43.120 Drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input from the Congressional Democrats.
00:00:48.340 This was according to Chuck Schumer on a Senate floor speech.
00:00:51.360 Quote, because of that, because of the Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke closure on the House CR.
00:00:57.000 Of course, legislation in the Senate requires 60 votes to invoke the closure,
00:01:01.880 a necessary step in ending debate and advancing the bill to the floor.
00:01:05.520 Now, as I said, Senate Majority Leader John Thune is calling Schumer's bluff.
00:01:09.340 Doesn't care.
00:01:10.520 He moved forward on Wednesday evening to schedule the vote to invoke closure on Friday.
00:01:15.380 Thune has 53 Republicans to Schumer's 47 Democrats,
00:01:18.660 although Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he will oppose the CR.
00:01:22.780 Therefore, eight Democrats will be needed to invoke cloture to fast-track the bill for passing.
00:01:28.780 Now, the relatively clean CR is only 99 pages, folks.
00:01:32.860 This is a new one.
00:01:34.240 We haven't seen a bill that short in a very long time.
00:01:36.540 It includes minimal modifications to current spending levels,
00:01:38.880 including a $485 million spending bill for immigration and custom enforcement, ICE,
00:01:45.640 requested by President Trump's Bordersar, Tom Homan, to facilitate his continued deportations.
00:01:51.600 Now, outside of those minor modifications,
00:01:53.520 Democrat overwhelmingly supported these spending levels in December,
00:01:57.200 although freezing current spending levels throughout an entire fiscal yield
00:02:00.440 would be a monumental achievement for the Republicans, especially for the spending hawks.
00:02:04.620 The Marxist Dems will own, will own, folks, this government shutdown,
00:02:09.920 as they have in the past, but this one falls solely on them.
00:02:13.880 The Republicans are united once and for all.
00:02:16.840 This one's on the Marxist Dems.
00:02:18.960 And to mess around and find out,
00:02:21.140 Trump is threatening Europe with a 200% wine and spirit tariff.
00:02:25.760 Consequences are looming for trying to resist President Trump's bid
00:02:28.940 to rebalance the United States' economic relationship with the rest of the world
00:02:32.480 to a more rational footing.
00:02:33.820 He signaled on Thursday threatening a mega 200% tariff on European alcohol.
00:02:39.340 President Trump, in a truth social, saying,
00:02:42.080 quote,
00:02:42.320 The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the world,
00:02:47.800 which was formed with the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States,
00:02:51.220 has put a nasty 50% tariff on whiskey.
00:02:54.260 This tariff is not removed immediately.
00:02:56.300 The U.S. will shortly place a 200% tariff on all wine, champagnes, and alcohol products
00:03:02.380 coming out of France and other EU representative countries.
00:03:06.400 This will be great for wine and champagne business in the United States.
00:03:10.620 President Trump putting America first, folks.
00:03:13.260 It's a big problem that we are a consumption economy.
00:03:17.780 It's a big problem that we haven't had a surplus in trade since 1975, folks.
00:03:22.420 We're running an over-trillion-dollar deficit.
00:03:24.960 We rely on all these other nations to import.
00:03:27.060 When we are the number one GDP country in the world,
00:03:29.780 there's no reason we should have a four times higher deficit in trade than the next country,
00:03:35.280 which is China, folks.
00:03:36.760 So, President Trump doing all he can to bring America back to the front
00:03:41.140 and bring American jobs back to this country.
00:03:45.520 President Trump signs an executive order this week cracking down on radical activist judges
00:03:49.380 and far-left groups abusing the courts,
00:03:51.940 and he's demanding to pay court costs to stop frivolous injunctions
00:03:55.900 costing taxpayers millions and millions of dollars.
00:03:59.780 This anti-democratic takeover is orchestrated by a form of shopping organizations
00:04:03.820 that repeatedly bring meritless lawsuits used for funding and political grandstanding
00:04:08.400 without any repercussions when they fail.
00:04:11.180 Taxpayers are forced not only to cover their costs and their antics
00:04:14.000 when funding and hiring decisions are enjoyed,
00:04:16.440 but most needlessly wait for government policies they voted for.
00:04:19.940 Moreover, this situation resulted in the Department of Justice,
00:04:22.640 the National Chief Law Enforcement Agency,
00:04:25.140 dedicating substantial resources to fighting frivolous suits
00:04:27.760 instead of defending public safety.
00:04:30.280 This effective administration of justice in the federal courts
00:04:32.740 depends on mechanisms that deter frivolous litigation
00:04:35.420 and protect parties from unwanted costs
00:04:37.240 and streamline judicial processes.
00:04:39.500 Folks, we saw it all throughout President Trump's campaign
00:04:41.780 when they used lawfare against President Trump
00:04:44.580 to try to get him off the ballot,
00:04:46.320 to try to get him out of there.
00:04:48.400 We paid for it, folks.
00:04:50.040 The American people.
00:04:51.120 We paid for it all.
00:04:52.320 And there was no repercussions ever levied on any of these people.
00:04:56.680 And over in Russia, Vladimir Putin says he is in favor,
00:05:00.300 ready folks, in favor of a 30-day ceasefire,
00:05:02.760 but it must lead to long-term peace.
00:05:05.240 He warns he has serious questions for President Trump on how it would work.
00:05:09.780 Folks, Donald Trump only wants peace.
00:05:13.600 Vladimir Putin says, quote,
00:05:14.900 Vladimir Putin says he wants this long-term peace.
00:05:35.480 Now, it's going to be on Zelensky,
00:05:37.540 who's been hesitant to any long-term peace deals or anything like that,
00:05:42.640 stoking the fire continuously today,
00:05:44.640 saying he will not recognize any Russian territory in the region
00:05:48.740 that they've taken back.
00:05:50.420 So, this sits on Vladimir Zelensky,
00:05:54.300 not so much Vladimir Putin.
00:05:56.260 And President Trump is fueling rumors
00:05:58.000 about impending Epstein files released with a major announcement.
00:06:01.900 President Trump says he will deliver a major speech
00:06:04.100 at the Justice Department on Friday,
00:06:06.100 fueling rumors that pedophile Just Jeffrey Epstein's files
00:06:08.800 could be released.
00:06:11.320 The speech is being billed as, quote,
00:06:12.940 remarks about restoring law and order, according to Axios.
00:06:16.160 Now, it's unhighly unusual for a president to deliver a speech at the DOG
00:06:20.400 as the agency strives to remain independent from the White House,
00:06:23.760 so it must be big, big news.
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00:06:49.620 I'm Jon Fossil with this midday update, folks.
00:06:51.920 Happy Thursday.
00:06:53.020 As always, I hope your days are going exceedingly well.