The Great America Show - July 07, 2026


Tuesday Headlines： July 7, 2026


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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

169.32

Word count

871

Sentence count

64


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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Tuesday, July 7th.
00:00:04.860 Happy Tuesday, folks. I hope you're all having a great day and enjoying the beautiful weather outside.
00:00:10.800 Just moments ago, the United States ramping up the powerful airstrikes against Iran.
00:00:16.320 Once again, the latest military strikes come in retaliation for the Iranian attack vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:00:22.820 Earlier this afternoon, Tehran struck three ships, including a Qatari natural gas vessel.
00:00:28.460 The U.S. called Iran's attacks on the commercial vessel transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, a clear violation to that ceasefire.
00:00:36.940 The Central Command released the following statement, saying they've begun launching a series of powerful strikes against Iran to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crews who are innocent civilians in international waterway.
00:00:52.600 The U.S. strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on those three commercial vessels.
00:00:58.040 Iran's demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire.
00:01:04.420 According to Axios, a senior American official told them that the targets were attacked,
00:01:09.700 including Iranian air defense systems, coastal surveillance systems, and ground-to-air missiles,
00:01:15.040 launch sites for anti-ship cruise missiles, drone launch sites, and Iranian port facilities.
00:01:20.840 And so the fighting continues to go.
00:01:25.460 President Trump over in Turkey this afternoon, meeting with President Erdogan of Turkey,
00:01:30.560 announcing a sort of, I guess, refreshed relationship with the nation.
00:01:35.820 President Trump announcing he's removing all sanctions off the nation of Turkey.
00:01:40.640 Take a listen.
00:01:41.540 I can tell you, we're going to be taking the sanctions off.
00:01:44.660 Okay?
00:01:45.260 I don't want him to waste his time answering that question because we're working very closely with Marco Rubio, very famous man, great secretary of state and with Scott Bessett and with Pete and everybody else.
00:02:00.840 We're going to be taking the sanctions off.
00:02:02.400 It's time to do that.
00:02:05.640 Okay.
00:02:08.080 We don't want to sanction friends.
00:02:09.960 It's very simple.
00:02:11.060 There's plenty of people we can sanction and we are sanctioned.
00:02:13.680 We don't want to sanction friends.
00:02:16.060 And because of the president, you know, we have a very good relationship with the new leader of Syria.
00:02:23.360 And he's done an amazing job.
00:02:24.980 In a year and a half, he's pulled the whole country together.
00:02:27.580 And I have a very great relationship with him.
00:02:29.920 And somebody said, well, he's pretty rough to put him there.
00:02:33.020 I approved him along with the president.
00:02:35.180 We were the two that really wanted him.
00:02:37.340 And he's done a great job.
00:02:39.280 He's done a great job.
00:02:40.280 He's pulled it together.
00:02:41.780 Not an easy job.
00:02:42.920 President Trump also expressing a great deal of frustrations with NATO, even going as far as saying he may consider removing some troops from Europe.
00:02:53.120 He hasn't been happy with NATO since the start of the scuffle over in Iran and Europe completely taking a hands-off approach when we really need them the most.
00:03:01.920 Take a listen to President Trump and his scathing remarks on NATO.
00:03:05.700 Are further troop drawdowns in Europe likely? And are you satisfied with the progress that NATO allies have made?
00:03:10.560 Well, we're going to see. I was very disappointed with NATO.
00:03:13.820 And frankly, if it weren't held in Turkey, where my friend happens to be a very strong leader, a very strong person,
00:03:23.440 it's possible that I wouldn't have attended.
00:03:27.180 I felt I had to attend because of the fact that, you know, I know he's gone all out.
00:03:31.940 It was a big thing to have NATO come to Turkey or any place else. It's a big thing.
00:03:35.880 but we weren't treated well because we did something in iran we don't need anybody's help
00:03:42.520 i didn't even want the help but before i asked they said they wouldn't be there and
00:03:48.720 we've invested trillions of dollars in nato why to protect european countries and
00:03:56.620 others canada etc but to protect people countries from generally speaking it used to be the soviet
00:04:04.660 Union. Now it's Russia. And I say that's fine. But you would think that they'd be very willing to
00:04:13.080 do something to help us. And they really weren't. In the case of the United Kingdom,
00:04:19.840 the prime minister, I guess he's no longer there. Maybe because of this. It was a very
00:04:24.400 unpopular thing he did. He said, no, we'll help after the war is over. I said, I don't need that
00:04:30.640 kind of help we didn't need any help at all and in a way i was testing people i was testing to
00:04:35.960 see whether or not they'd be there because i've long said that we helped them but i'm not sure
00:04:40.480 that they'd be there for us and italy turned us down and germany turned us down and france turned
00:04:46.140 us down and it's okay but you know why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars
00:04:53.740 and they're not there for us we've always been there for them we've been there for them but
00:04:58.880 they haven't been there for us. Folks, please be sure to join us
00:05:01.000 tonight and each and every night for The Great America Show.
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00:05:05.020 there. I'm John Fossett with This Great America Show
00:05:06.720 Midday Update. Have a great day, everybody.