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.
00:00:00.000Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Tuesday, March 18th.
00:00:05.100Happy Tuesday, folks. I hope you're all having a great day, enjoying this beautiful weather wherever you are in America,
00:00:10.760or for all the folks who join us internationally around the world, I hope your days are going exceedingly well.
00:00:18.500Homeward bound for those stranded NASA astronauts as they departed the space station for Earth.
00:00:23.860Both 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.
00:00:35.820Their 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.
00:00:44.000The 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.
00:00:51.820You folks remember that Joe Biden turned down Elon Musk going to get them over the summer.
00:00:58.920You 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.
00:01:07.580Biden, 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,
00:01:15.480and Elon Musk, who had endorsed President Donald J. Trump at that time.
00:01:18.700The 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.
00:01:28.380Hurrying things along by weeks, folks.
00:01:31.160UPI 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.
00:01:44.960The SpaceX Dragon is expected to splash down off the coast of Florida tonight, just before 6 p.m. Eastern time.
00:01:53.400Following the months of delays in Trump's last month asking ally and SpaceX CEO Musk to go get them,
00:01:58.900Williams and Whitmore are being delivered back to their starting point and back to their families.
00:02:04.380And President Trump in negotiations with Vladimir Putin today.
00:02:08.320President Trump reportedly speaking with Russian President Putin about ending the war in Ukraine this afternoon, according to the White House.
00:02:17.900Reports from the White House say it went well.
00:02:20.900Pretty decently long phone call comes after Trump said last night that many elements of a final agreement have been agreed to,
00:02:28.320but much still remains, President Trump says, thousands of young soldiers and others are being killed.
00:02:34.320Each way brings 2,500 soldiers dead from both sides, and it must then end now.
00:02:39.720President Trump says he looks forward to making peace with the two nations and ending this war once and for all.
00:02:47.440President Trump unloading on that Marxist Dem judge.
00:02:51.500You know, the one who wanted to keep the Trende Agua migrants in this country, he said return those planes.
00:02:58.740Well, President Trump is now calling for the impeachment of that judge.
00:03:02.020U.S. District Judge James E. Bosberg was the man.
00:03:05.860Here's the post from President Trump on Truth Social.
00:03:08.500Quote, the radical left lunatic of a judge, troublemaker, and agitator who has sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama was not elected president.
00:03:17.620He didn't win the popular vote by a lot.
00:03:28.180I won for many reasons and an overwhelming mandate, but fighting illegal immigration have been the number one reason for the historic voter turnout.
00:03:36.880I'm just doing what the voters wanted me to do.
00:03:39.440This judge, like many of the crooked judges I am forced to appear for, should be impeached.
00:03:44.220We don't want to vicious, violent, demented criminals, many of like them, deranged murderers in our country.
00:03:52.600Now, you may recall that judge ordered those planes to be turned around once they were over international waters.
00:03:58.580President Trump is telling illegal immigrants to self-deport using the CBP Home app in a new video that's being released.
00:04:13.220You may remember the March of Stems with the CBP One app where they allowed the migrants to come into the country.
00:04:19.700President 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.
00:04:31.480President Trump giving the opportunity to do so.
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00:04:49.780I'm John Fossett with this Midday Update.