The Great America Show - September 29, 2026


Tuesday Headlines: September 29, 2026

Hosted by
Mentioned
The Great America Sunday Show: September 27, 2026

Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

163.93

Word count

1,155

Sentence count

73


Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Foster with this Great America Show midday update for Tuesday, September 29th.
00:00:04.120 Happy Tuesday, folks. A busy day, an eventful day up on Capitol Hill this afternoon.
00:00:09.220 We thought we were going to get some answers out of the Junkyard Jackal, Special Counsel Jack Smith.
00:00:13.020 You know, the man who persecuted President Trump and anyone who's associated with him just a few years,
00:00:18.560 tried to prevent him from being eligible to run for president.
00:00:22.340 Once he was eligible to run for president, tried to prevent him from winning the presidency
00:00:26.180 and all sort of interference to the highest degree.
00:00:30.320 Well, he was on Capitol Hill this afternoon.
00:00:32.000 We were hoping we were going to get some answers into his election interference case against the American people,
00:00:37.780 his election interference case against President Trump.
00:00:40.520 We got quite the opposite, but we did get some truths out of Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley.
00:00:46.620 We now have two massive revelations.
00:00:48.520 It turns out Jack Smith wasn't just subpoenaing anybody and spying on anybody.
00:00:54.000 It comes out today that nearly 5,000 Americans, ordinary, innocent Americans like you and I, subpoenaed.
00:01:01.080 Their checks were subpoenaed by Jack Smith.
00:01:03.240 Now, these were people who donated an average of $10 to $15 to President Trump's re-election campaign for this most recent election.
00:01:11.760 Jack Smith getting those checks because he says it's part of his integral investigation into President Trump.
00:01:19.060 what the checks of $10 to $15 of ordinary Americans have to do with an investigation, to me,
00:01:24.660 I'm not sure. The only crime those people, in my opinion, committed was that they support
00:01:30.060 President Trump. Now, Jack Smith doubled down in his scam. We're going to tell you about that
00:01:34.900 in just a second. But it also came out today that he monitored the communications of nearly
00:01:39.600 100, nearly 100 communications between White House officials at the time of shortly before
00:01:46.120 january 6th uh and thereafter of president trump's uh the white house and people inside the media
00:01:53.020 cnn to fox news to reuters uh to cbs this is the first we're hearing about this now jack smith
00:02:00.660 doubled down his investigation to president trump says he didn't care who he was a partisan of
00:02:05.400 course uh and says president trump was guilty yeah that's right jack smith declaring president
00:02:10.980 Trump guilty. No jury, no judge. Jack Smith. Our investigation developed proof beyond a
00:02:17.060 reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation. If asked
00:02:24.460 whether to prosecute a former president today based on the same facts, I would do so regardless
00:02:31.640 of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat. The charges against President Trump
00:02:39.140 were the result of the evidence. Grand juries in two separate districts reached this conclusion
00:02:45.160 based on his actions, as alleged in the indictments they returned. Rather than accept his defeat in
00:02:53.400 the 2020 presidential election, President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the
00:02:59.660 results and prevent the lawful transfer of power. After leaving office in January of 2021,
00:03:08.020 President Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago social club
00:03:13.060 and repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.
00:03:20.660 Highly sensitive national security information was held in a bathroom and a ballroom
00:03:26.720 where events and gatherings took place.
00:03:30.220 As with my appearance before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary,
00:03:35.980 I am prepared to answer your questions truthfully.
00:03:39.820 I stand by my testimony before the House of Representatives,
00:03:43.440 and I will not be silenced by continued threats of prosecution from the president or others.
00:03:52.220 Now, there were senators who could hardly hold in their laughter from the scam of Jack Smith and his lies.
00:04:00.060 He lies and he continues to lie.
00:04:02.700 You heard him say they're nonpartisan.
00:04:04.340 This is what Senator Hawley had to say about his so-called non-partisanship.
00:04:09.360 Mr. Smith, I have to start by saying I think that maybe I underestimated you.
00:04:14.960 I underestimated in particular your comedic talent.
00:04:18.440 I've been watching this whole hearing.
00:04:20.280 I've watched everything you said.
00:04:22.360 I noticed that you began by saying I have no partisan loyalty.
00:04:25.660 And you repeated over and over and over.
00:04:27.920 There's nothing in your investigation about politics.
00:04:30.820 That's hilarious.
00:04:31.460 In fact, your investigation was all about politics from day one.
00:04:36.540 Your investigation, so-called, your prosecution, so-called, was nothing other than an attempt to interfere politically in a presidential election in the United States of America.
00:04:47.980 you twice indicted a presidential candidate the leading presidential candidate and a former
00:04:54.940 president of the united states during a presidential election against all justice department policy
00:05:00.260 against all justice department history something never before seen or contemplated in 250 years of
00:05:06.580 this country's history you did it anyway all for the purpose of keeping donald trump off the ballot
00:05:12.720 all for the purpose of denying the voters an opportunity to vote on a former president of
00:05:19.520 the united states and at the time the republican nominee for president we've never seen anything
00:05:24.420 like it in our country's history before if you'd had your way our elections in this country would
00:05:29.020 be like russia's the one they just told oh they had an election sure and they had an opposition
00:05:33.800 sure it's just that putin chose the opposition which is exactly what the biden justice department
00:05:39.300 wanted to do with Donald J. Trump.
00:05:42.740 And that's exactly what you were doing.
00:05:44.400 Smith, one of the greatest schemers of all time.
00:05:47.740 It's now time for Todd Blanchard and the Department of Justice
00:05:50.020 to get their act together and start to investigate what he was up to.
00:05:55.280 Turning now, some news back here.
00:05:56.700 For years, the federal government treated a basic American document
00:05:59.680 like it was a scavenger hunt.
00:06:01.720 Print the form, drive to the drugstore,
00:06:04.180 send her a fluorescent light,
00:06:05.740 take a hostage photo, book an appointment,
00:06:07.380 stand in line, hand a stack of papers to the middleman, do all this nonsense, and then wait
00:06:12.920 a few weeks, months, whatever it may be. But President Trump announcing the launch of America.gov
00:06:20.360 in this portal this afternoon in Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing that
00:06:25.220 Americans will be able to apply for a first U.S. passport entirely online instead of burning a
00:06:31.440 workday in this process that just is unnecessary. The goal, he said, is by the end of 2027,
00:06:37.380 most Americans can apply for a passport or passport card on america.gov
00:06:41.620 with real-time status and an estimated delivery date.
00:06:45.300 That's right, no more drugstore, no more post office lines, none of that.
00:06:49.300 Write online, the convenience.
00:06:51.700 We shall see how it works.
00:06:53.240 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night
00:06:55.040 for the Great America Show Rumble YouTube Twitter.
00:06:57.160 Wherever you guys join us, we'll see you there, 6 p.m. Eastern.
00:06:58.920 I'm John Foss with this Great America Show Midday Update.
00:07:01.840 Have a great rest of your day.