Tuesday Headlines： March 4, 2025
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Summary
Trump is set to speak before a Joint Session of Congress this evening, marking his first address since returning to the White House. President Trump is expected to talk about what he s done since taking office in January 2019, and his agenda for the next four years. The New York FBI field office head is stepping down, and James Danaehy is being forced out after his office was revealed to be hiding thousands of Epstein documents.
Transcript
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Tuesday, March 4th.
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Happy Tuesday, I hope your days are all off to a great start.
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President Trump is set to speak before a joint session of Congress this evening,
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marking his first address since returning to the White House.
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This will be the first speech of its kind Trump has made during his second term in office.
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Traditionally, of course, presidents deliver an annual report to Congress
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informing them about the state of play in the United States,
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including goals, accomplishments, and plans for the year ahead.
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Usually this occurs within the first few months or a first year and is broadcast to the entire nation.
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This is what is known as the State of the Union.
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Trump is expected to talk about what he's done since taking office in January
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The event tonight will technically not be a State of the Union address.
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In January, House Speaker Mike Johnson invited President Trump through a letter addressing the president,
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saying it's his, quote, distinct honor and great privilege to invite you to a joint session of Congress
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on Tuesday, March 4th, in the Chamber of the United States House of Representatives
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to share your America First vision for our legislative future.
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So it's unclear how many Democrats will be going, if any.
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These Marxist Dems have been having a very tough time with President Trump and his agenda,
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So unclear on how many Marxist Dems will be protesting and not attending,
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but we'll keep you up to date as we learn more info here on The Great America Show.
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President Trump has paused all military aid, including weapons in transit to Ukraine,
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after Vladimir Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, says the end of the war with Russia
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That pause will hold all military aid that's currently in transit.
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Earlier this week, Trump says he had absolutely had it with Zelensky,
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digging his heels in and refusing to come to the table to a peace agreement with Russia.
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Zelensky does not want peace with Russia, and President Trump has absolutely had enough of it.
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Folks, it's completely unclear what Vladimir Zelensky wants for his country moving forward.
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He's called for peace for years now, that he wants this war to end.
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He gets Vladimir Zelensky and Vladimir Putin on the same page to end this war.
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And then when it comes time to sign the agreement, Zelensky wants nothing to do with peace.
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So Zelensky's got to reevaluate what exactly he wants here,
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because patience is running out on the American side.
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Donald Trump, as I said, has had enough of this man who clearly doesn't want peace.
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And the New York FBI field office head, forced out days after his office,
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was revealed to have been hiding thousands of Epstein documents.
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James Danaehy is the assistant director in charge of that FBI field office.
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He was told this week that it was his time to go.
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that I, quote, needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did,
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He says, I was not given a reason for this decision, he says.
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I think we all know the decision and the reason why he's being asked to go.
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They're ruining every fabric down to the last one.
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So great on Kash Patel and his FBI for doing all they can to keep the transparency alive
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And the Senate has finally confirmed Linda McMahon to be the next education secretary,
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the secretary of Department of Education, I should say, by a vote of 51 to 45.
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McMahon set to take over this morning in her official role as secretary of education.
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And folks, it's everyone's favorite time of the year.
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It's a time when we've got to get the spending bills through.
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So spending bill text is expected to be finalized over this coming weekend,
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GLB congressional leaders are aiming to release the text of the government funding stopgap,
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that he wants a clean continuing resolution through the end of September.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said in recent interviews that he would heed the directive
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and not seek to codify cuts made in Trump's Department of Government Efficiency
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until the fiscal year of 2026, beginning in the fall.
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Tom Cole, Congressman Tom Cole, who's the House Appropriations Chair,
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said that the package will have a number of additional funding requests from the administration,
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including several defense requests to soften the blow of flat spending.
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Trump signed off on the mostly clean stopgap funding gap through September
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during a meeting with Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune last week.
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Folks, please be sure to join us each and every day,
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