The Great America Show - April 17, 2025


Thursday Update: April 17, 2025


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6 minutes

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160.26497

Word count

1,000

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60

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A new CNBC poll shows President Trump with a +7 net approval rating on his policy of deporting illegal aliens from the United States. President Trump announces the cancellation of more than $2.5 million in grants to Harvard University. World Health Organization announces its negotiations have been completed on a final draft of a proposed international legal document to govern pandemic response in May, and President Trump details the latest productive trade deal with Japan and Mexico.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, April 17th.
00:00:05.140 Happy Thursday, folks.
00:00:07.140 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week announced the cancellation of more than $2.5 million in grants to Harvard University.
00:00:15.740 This says tensions between the school and the Trump administration continue to grow.
00:00:20.580 The Department of Homeland Security said in a Wednesday press release that Noem unveiled
00:00:24.620 the discontinuation of two grants from the Department at Harvard's worth more than $2.5 million.
00:00:30.880 DHS also noted in a press release that the secretary requested
00:00:34.320 detailed records on Harvard's foreign student visa holders, illegal and violent activities, in a letter.
00:00:41.740 Harvard bending the knee to the anti-Semitism driven by its spineless leadership fuels a cesspool of extremist riots
00:00:47.720 and threatens our national security, Noem said in a statement that she released also on Wednesday.
00:00:53.640 Quote, with an anti-American pro-Hamas ideology poisoning its campus and classrooms,
00:00:59.240 Harvard's position as a top institution of higher learning is a distant memory.
00:01:04.280 Americans demand more from universities entrusted with taxpayer dollars, she added.
00:01:09.040 Now, this isn't the first.
00:01:10.700 It won't be the last.
00:01:12.140 Columbia University, the other Ivy League school, that's having a little problem with public funding
00:01:16.460 and probably will continue to have issues over the next few years.
00:01:20.940 A new CNBC poll shows President Trump with a plus-seven net approval
00:01:26.680 on his policy of deporting illegal aliens from the United States.
00:01:31.540 Now, that's not the only one, folks.
00:01:33.440 That's CNBC.
00:01:34.360 That's a far-left poll.
00:01:36.980 In a CNN poll, a majority of voters favor deporting illegal immigrants from the United States
00:01:42.140 despite ongoing leftist narratives suggesting otherwise,
00:01:46.020 particularly when it comes to the recently deported El Salvadorian National,
00:01:50.080 that MS-13 gang member whose Democrats are desperately trying to bring back to the country.
00:01:55.500 The one that a senator from Maryland went over to try to go bring back to the country?
00:02:00.700 You can't make this stuff up, folks.
00:02:02.160 Now, this poll, this latest data, comes from CNN, as I said,
00:02:05.700 which found that 56% support deporting an estimated 11 million illegal aliens residing in the United States.
00:02:13.600 This is significantly up from the 38% who said the same thing in 2016.
00:02:19.560 A lot has happened since 2016, but the American people are tired of it and fed up, as they should be.
00:02:26.380 The World Health Organization announced this week that its negotiations had been completed
00:02:32.080 on a final draft of a proposed international legal document to govern pandemic response.
00:02:39.540 This is set to be voted on by the World Health Assembly in May.
00:02:43.200 Go figure, folk.
00:02:44.060 Negotiation on the drafting of the pandemic agreement took years
00:02:47.260 and often heeded debates as the WHO negotiators pressured countries
00:02:51.520 to agree to provisions to share medical technology with poor countries
00:02:55.480 at discounted prices and accepted international authority on public health policies.
00:03:01.540 Drafters have not yet apparently agreed on what kind of international legal documents they will agree upon,
00:03:07.000 covenant and treaty, or other formats at the press time.
00:03:10.260 WHO Director Tedros Adhanan has been campaigning
00:03:14.120 for adopting an international law on pandemic law
00:03:17.460 following his agency's catastrophic failure to properly address the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic
00:03:23.420 when it began spreading out of the Chinese city of Wuhan, of course, in 2020,
00:03:28.220 blaming much of the failure on countries not properly sharing scientific data
00:03:31.760 and technological advancements.
00:03:35.100 Go figure that, folks.
00:03:37.000 This is the man who was responsible for the wording and the pandemic,
00:03:42.060 and now he wants everyone to sign a treaty, and he wants to be in charge.
00:03:45.800 Well, the good news is, is President Trump withdrew us from the WHO.
00:03:50.880 So, we'll have no part of that.
00:03:53.480 Good luck, Mr. Tedros, on your nonsense.
00:03:57.860 President Trump details the latest productive talks with Japan and Mexico
00:04:02.200 and promises fair deals for everyone.
00:04:05.580 Hmm, not bad.
00:04:07.240 President Trump tweeting out,
00:04:08.380 quote, I had a very productive call with the president of Mexico yesterday.
00:04:11.000 Likewise, I met with the highest level Japanese trade representatives.
00:04:14.200 It was a very productive meeting.
00:04:16.540 Every nation, including China, wants to meet.
00:04:19.220 President Trump, of course, meeting with the Italian Prime Minister of Italy today.
00:04:23.580 In his Liberation Day tariffs, 0.51
00:04:25.020 President Trump announced a 24% reciprocal tariff on Japanese trade,
00:04:29.500 20% reciprocal trade tariff on the European Union.
00:04:32.540 However, President Trump has paused those tariffs on the EU, Japan,
00:04:36.140 and dozens of other countries for 90 days.
00:04:38.440 That, of course, last week,
00:04:39.520 as the trade negotiations begin to unfold.
00:04:42.860 Going back to that southern border, folks,
00:04:44.940 we've got some more good numbers.
00:04:46.720 Believe it or not, folks,
00:04:47.720 it turns out enforcing the southern border and enforcing Border Patrol
00:04:51.160 and a secure border has good consequences.
00:04:54.540 94% drop in apprehensions of illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States.
00:05:01.300 The apprehensions of migrants by Border Patrol agents fell to approximately 263 per day
00:05:06.380 during the first two months of the Trump administration
00:05:08.340 for more than 4,600 per day during the same period under the Biden administration.
00:05:15.500 Elections have consequences, folks.
00:05:18.200 Turning now to some big tech news.
00:05:20.020 A federal judge has ruled that Google illegally monopolized some online advertising technology markets,
00:05:26.480 dealing a significant blow to the tech giant's main reserve source.
00:05:30.640 Bloomberg is reporting that U.S. District Judge Leone Brechema
00:05:34.460 has delivered a mixed ruling in an ad tech anti-trust case against Google,
00:05:39.080 finding that the company violated antitrust law in markets or advertising exchanges
00:05:43.360 and ad server tools used by websites to sell ad space.
00:05:47.300 However, the judge did not find Google to be a monopoly in the markets for tools
00:05:52.080 used by advertisers to buy display ads.
00:05:55.920 We'll keep you updated on how the end of that case goes
00:05:58.980 and if Google, the monopoly of Google,
00:06:02.280 will be forced to break up at least some of the company.
00:06:05.180 Folks, please be sure to join us today and each and every day
00:06:07.620 for The Great America Show and The Great America Show Midday Updates.
00:06:11.080 I'm John Fossett with this midday update.
00:06:13.420 Happy Thursday, folks.