The Great America Show - September 03, 2026


Thursday Headlines: September 3, 2026


Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

187.15

Word count

965

Sentence count

45


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, September 3rd.
00:00:04.640 Happy Thursday, folks. Weekend's almost here.
00:00:06.700 Some big news coming out of Fox News just moments ago.
00:00:09.580 Maria Bartiromo, who's a staunch Trump supporter, is out at Fox News and Fox Business after more than a decade.
00:00:16.720 Fox in their very nicely written press statement had just this to say, quote,
00:00:22.060 We thank Maria for her 12 and a half years and wish her the best on her next chapter.
00:00:27.540 Now, it's unclear why Maria Bartiroma has parted ways with Fox News after 12 years,
00:00:31.600 having the highest-rated show on Sunday afternoon,
00:00:36.200 pretty good-rated show in the mornings on Fox Business.
00:00:39.660 Now, Bartiroma has been noticeably absent from her shows over the last couple of weeks.
00:00:44.100 Unclear why.
00:00:46.120 Unclear why she's left.
00:00:47.420 A lot of speculation behind that she may be in line for the next press secretary job at the White House,
00:00:52.760 but nothing confirmed yet.
00:00:53.960 Speaking of, Press Secretary J.D. Vance was behind the podium today, asked many questions, didn't shy away from any, but asked about one of perhaps the most important things upcoming, and that's the midterm elections. J.D. was asked about who people should be voting for and why, and this is what he had to say.
00:01:10.500 My elevator pitch is actually, it's very simple. Do you want to live in a country that has safety and security and prosperity? If the answer is yes, and I think most Americans do, then vote for congressional Republicans over congressional Democrats.
00:01:25.860 On every single issue, the Democrats have taken the side of fraudsters, of criminals and a far left interest groups over the side of the American people.
00:01:35.840 Let me choose just a few issues. OK, so on fraud, we are trying to take money out of the hands of fraudsters so that people who rely on Medicaid or people rely on food stamp benefits.
00:01:45.700 They're able to get what they need because we've ensured that Americans, people's tax dollars actually go where it's supposed to go rather than fraudsters.
00:01:53.680 Democrats have fought for the fraudsters and Republicans have fought for the people who deserve these benefits and the American taxpayers who are paying those benefits.
00:02:02.540 If you look at oil and gas policy, Democrats for a generation have gone to war against energy.
00:02:09.880 We've tried to make it easier to build additional energy capacity, and we've done that for the past 18 months.
00:02:15.320 If you look at crime, we have had, I think, the most successful anti-crime policy maybe in the history of I can't think of a single 18 month period where you've seen violent crime drop so significantly thanks to the work of a single administration.
00:02:32.020 And at every step of the way, the Democrats have fought us to open prisons.
00:02:36.360 They fought us to prevent us from putting people, violent criminals behind bars.
00:02:40.520 They fought us on basic things like funding and supporting law enforcement.
00:02:45.120 but they fought us on giving tax breaks to our police officers.
00:02:49.160 So on every issue where we've been successful in promoting law and order,
00:02:53.640 the Democrats have been for the criminals and we've been for the American people.
00:02:56.900 And finally, just one other very, very important issue,
00:03:00.680 and that's building in the United States of America.
00:03:04.100 This guy, Abdul El-Sayed, he says that he stands for working people.
00:03:07.780 Well, if you stand for working people, then why have you supported the same policies
00:03:12.000 that for 40 years shipped the Michigan auto industry to foreign nations.
00:03:16.960 We are the people who have been fighting for the jobs of Michigan auto workers.
00:03:21.240 We've been the people willing to stand up, both to the big corporations,
00:03:24.880 but the big foreign competitors and say,
00:03:28.160 you are not allowed to steal American industry anymore.
00:03:31.100 So on all these issues, Democrats stand for somebody else.
00:03:34.900 The Republicans stand for you.
00:03:36.300 My argument to the American people is not that you're going to agree with us on every issue,
00:03:39.640 but they're a bunch of crazy people elect the common sense people to washington and we'll keep
00:03:44.780 on doing great work not to top it all off we've heard from the democrats over the course of the
00:03:48.600 last few days weeks months and years about what their plan will be once they take over congress
00:03:53.880 should they take over in congress and of course there is no plan so that should tell you who to
00:04:00.080 vote for here we go again retiring rhino senator tom tillis launched another broadside attack
00:04:06.480 against the trump administration this afternoon this time he's demanding that president trump
00:04:10.660 fire the secretary of war pete hagsett tillis issued this stunning demand following the
00:04:15.440 resignation of army secretary dan driscoll who announced yesterday afternoon that he would be
00:04:20.480 departing that was his final full day at the position after serving for approximately 18 months
00:04:25.660 apparently he and hagsett didn't see eye to eye on some things which has now led to his departure
00:04:32.100 And President Trump this afternoon in a media appearance, issuing one final dire warning to the spineless Senate Republicans as the Critical Save America Act remains stalled in the GOP-controlled Senate under John Thune, of course.
00:04:46.020 President Trump says this will be the last time that Republicans have the opportunity to do such a thing as the midterms are just around the corner.
00:04:54.320 But it seems John Thune couldn't care less because he's not pro-American.
00:04:59.000 folks please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night for the great america show rumble
00:05:02.360 youtube twitter wherever you guys join us 6 p.m eastern time we'll see you there i'm john falso
00:05:06.380 with this great america show midday update have a great rest of your day folks