The Great America Show - March 18, 2025


Tuesday Headlines： March 18, 2025


Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

169.02274

Word count

825

Sentence count

55

Harmful content

Hate speech

3

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Summary

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SpaceX has finally gotten to the stranded astronauts and they are headed back to Earth. President Trump calls for the impeachment of a judge who ordered the return of two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for over a month. President Trump is in talks with Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Tuesday, March 18th.
00:00:05.100 Happy Tuesday, folks. I hope you're all having a great day, enjoying this beautiful weather wherever you are in America,
00:00:10.760 or for all the folks who join us internationally around the world, I hope your days are going exceedingly well.
00:00:18.500 Homeward bound for those stranded NASA astronauts as they departed the space station for Earth.
00:00:23.860 Both NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were on their way home Tuesday after being stranded on the International Space Station for 286 days, folks.
00:00:35.820 Their return isn't thanks to no small part to a combined effort and ambition of President Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk to go and get them.
00:00:44.000 The pair decided, that's Elon Musk and Donald Trump, to accelerate the astronauts' return and laid the blame for their troubles on the tardy Biden administration.
00:00:51.820 You folks remember that Joe Biden turned down Elon Musk going to get them over the summer.
00:00:58.920 You know, just after Elon Musk endorsed Donald J. Trump for president, Musk said, that's fine, I'll send the SpaceX and we'll go get them back very, very soon.
00:01:07.580 Biden, of course, declined because it would be seen as a win for the Trump administration, or the incoming Trump administration, that had not won the election yet,
00:01:15.480 and Elon Musk, who had endorsed President Donald J. Trump at that time.
00:01:18.700 The replacement crew's brand new SpaceX capsule still wasn't ready to fly, so SpaceX decided to sub it with the used one, hurrying things along by weeks.
00:01:28.380 Hurrying things along by weeks, folks.
00:01:31.160 UPI is reporting that the pair of astronauts that are on this SpaceX Dragon are accompanied by NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian astronaut Alexander Gorbanov all aboard the shuttle with them.
00:01:44.960 The SpaceX Dragon is expected to splash down off the coast of Florida tonight, just before 6 p.m. Eastern time.
00:01:53.400 Following the months of delays in Trump's last month asking ally and SpaceX CEO Musk to go get them,
00:01:58.900 Williams and Whitmore are being delivered back to their starting point and back to their families.
00:02:04.380 And President Trump in negotiations with Vladimir Putin today.
00:02:08.320 President Trump reportedly speaking with Russian President Putin about ending the war in Ukraine this afternoon, according to the White House.
00:02:15.500 The call began at 10 a.m. Eastern.
00:02:17.900 Reports from the White House say it went well.
00:02:20.900 Pretty decently long phone call comes after Trump said last night that many elements of a final agreement have been agreed to,
00:02:28.320 but much still remains, President Trump says, thousands of young soldiers and others are being killed.
00:02:34.320 Each way brings 2,500 soldiers dead from both sides, and it must then end now.
00:02:39.720 President Trump says he looks forward to making peace with the two nations and ending this war once and for all.
00:02:47.440 President Trump unloading on that Marxist Dem judge.
00:02:51.500 You know, the one who wanted to keep the Trende Agua migrants in this country, he said return those planes. 0.98
00:02:58.740 Well, President Trump is now calling for the impeachment of that judge.
00:03:02.020 U.S. District Judge James E. Bosberg was the man.
00:03:05.860 Here's the post from President Trump on Truth Social.
00:03:08.500 Quote, the radical left lunatic of a judge, troublemaker, and agitator who has sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama was not elected president.
00:03:17.620 He didn't win the popular vote by a lot.
00:03:19.540 He didn't win all seven swing states.
00:03:22.460 He didn't win 2750 to 525 counties.
00:03:26.540 He didn't win anything.
00:03:28.180 I won for many reasons and an overwhelming mandate, but fighting illegal immigration have been the number one reason for the historic voter turnout. 0.95
00:03:36.880 I'm just doing what the voters wanted me to do.
00:03:39.440 This judge, like many of the crooked judges I am forced to appear for, should be impeached.
00:03:44.220 We don't want to vicious, violent, demented criminals, many of like them, deranged murderers in our country.
00:03:50.400 Make America great again.
00:03:52.600 Now, you may recall that judge ordered those planes to be turned around once they were over international waters.
00:03:58.580 President Trump is telling illegal immigrants to self-deport using the CBP Home app in a new video that's being released.
00:04:13.220 You may remember the March of Stems with the CBP One app where they allowed the migrants to come into the country. 1.00
00:04:19.700 President Trump now giving the illegals an option to deport via a very, very similar app before they're faced with the reality of deportation from the country.
00:04:31.480 President Trump giving the opportunity to do so.
00:04:34.440 Folks, please be sure to join us each and every day, twice a day for The Great America Show and The Great America Show Midday Updates,
00:04:40.960 where we bring you all the best headlines, the latest headlines, and the things that you need to know about what's going on in this country and what's going on around the world.
00:04:49.780 I'm John Fossett with this Midday Update.
00:04:51.680 Have a great Tuesday, folks.