The Great America Show - January 14, 2026


Wednesday Headlines： January 14, 2026


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5 minutes

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Word count

974

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78


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Supreme Court strikes back at the radical left with a crushing blow to their ballot harvesting machine. The FBI raids the home of a Washington Post reporter who may have obtained classified documents from a Pentagon contractor. California announces it s withholding nearly $300 million in Medicaid funds from California.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday,
00:00:03.900 January 14th.
00:00:05.040 Happy Wednesday, folks.
00:00:06.960 Well, if you have Verizon, you probably looked at your phone today and you wondered why the
00:00:10.880 heck isn't this thing working.
00:00:12.660 Verizon has experience and is still experiencing a massive outage for users all across America.
00:00:18.720 Hundreds of thousands of customers affected by this outage.
00:00:21.840 It's unclear they're saying what caused the outage, but I think it comes at a highly peculiar
00:00:26.820 time as things with Iran are starting to ramp up a little bit.
00:00:32.720 Tensions are starting to run a little bit high.
00:00:35.800 And a massive win for truth, justice, and the American way this afternoon from the Supreme
00:00:39.720 Court.
00:00:40.560 The Supreme Court this afternoon handing a crushing blow to the radical left's ballot harvesting
00:00:44.780 machine.
00:00:46.080 In a stunning 7-2 decision, the High Court ruled that Republican Congressman Mike Boast of
00:00:50.700 Illinois has legal standing to challenge Illinois' unconstitutional law that allows mail-in ballots
00:00:56.740 to be counted up to 14 days after the election.
00:01:00.020 This ruling reverses the Seventh Circuit and sends back the case to the lower court, where
00:01:04.940 Illinois' late ballot scheme will now be evaluated on the merits.
00:01:09.020 This is a game-changer, folks, and it's one that we've been waiting for for years.
00:01:12.920 Democrats and their media allies have relied on late-arriving ballots to shift the results
00:01:17.920 of election days or even weeks after the polls closed.
00:01:20.960 We've all seen it.
00:01:21.920 We saw what happened on election night in 2020 at 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:01:26.760 We've watched what happened for congressional races this last election back in 2020.
00:01:32.160 Two weeks to call a race.
00:01:33.660 It's unacceptable.
00:01:34.820 We all remember what happened.
00:01:37.180 They're not going to pull the wool over our eyes ever again.
00:01:40.380 The Supreme Court finally opened the floodgates for Republicans to sue the hell out of these
00:01:44.040 people to stop it.
00:01:45.120 But Chief Justice John Roberts, right in the majority, made it clear that candidates have
00:01:50.000 a personal stake in the rules governing their elections.
00:01:53.900 This destroys the liberal argument that Republicans can't sue unless they can prove a specific fraudulent
00:01:58.800 ballot costs them the race.
00:02:02.120 And it may prove a little interesting for President Trump and his election cases that are said to
00:02:07.980 be coming.
00:02:08.380 14 states and Washington, D.C. allow ballots to be counted if they arrive after Election
00:02:13.320 Day, provided that they are postmarked on or before Election Day.
00:02:17.200 The following states that accept ballots that arrive late, as long as they have the valid
00:02:20.640 postmark are Alaska, California, D.C., Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New
00:02:27.560 Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas.
00:02:30.560 They must be received by 5 p.m. the day after the election.
00:02:33.520 Washington, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam
00:02:39.860 also accept late.
00:02:41.680 Now, several states that previously accepted late arriving ballots have recently passed
00:02:45.940 laws requiring ballots to be in the hands of the elected officials by the time the polls
00:02:50.420 close on Election Day.
00:02:52.560 That was Kansas, North Dakota, Ohio, and Utah.
00:02:55.740 In all other states, your ballot must be received by your county election office by the
00:03:00.860 close of polls on Election Day.
00:03:02.560 Imagine that, folks.
00:03:04.460 Imagine that.
00:03:05.780 The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, CMS, announced it's withholding nearly $300
00:03:10.200 million from California after federal auditors have now confirmed that more than $1.8 billion
00:03:17.460 in Medicaid funds have been unlawfully spent on illegal immigrants across eight states.
00:03:24.220 The update was real by Dr. Oz, who issued a blunt warning that the problem is worse than
00:03:30.000 we thought.
00:03:30.560 According to Oz, federal law explicitly prohibits the use of federal Medicaid dollars for non-emergency
00:03:37.020 medical care for illegal immigrants.
00:03:39.740 While states are free to use their own state funds to provide such coverage, they are required
00:03:44.080 to maintain a clear paper trail proving that no federal dollars were used.
00:03:48.620 As a result, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services are now withholding that $300 million
00:03:52.580 from California, which Oz described as the worst offender.
00:03:58.040 The FBI this afternoon raiding the home of a Washington Post reporter who reportedly obtained
00:04:02.460 classified illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor.
00:04:06.240 The feds executed a search warrant at the Alexandria, Virginia home of Washington Post reporter Hannah
00:04:11.820 Nathanson on Wednesday morning as part of the investigation into Maryland's system administrator
00:04:16.260 who was atop security clearance.
00:04:19.000 The FBI seized her cell phones, two laptops, one personal and one work-related, at a Garmin watch.
00:04:25.100 She's reportedly not the subject of an investigation.
00:04:27.460 Now, according to the Washington Post, she was at home at the time of the raid.
00:04:32.020 The contractor who stashed the classified documents at his home, Arela Perez Lugones, is currently
00:04:37.700 in jail.
00:04:39.020 FBI agents reportedly found classified intel reports in his lunchbox and in a basement.
00:04:45.980 Pam Bondi said the search was conducted at the Pentagon's request.
00:04:49.860 Bondi also said that the Trump administration will not tolerate any leaks.
00:04:54.080 Imagine that.
00:04:54.700 Speaking of leakers and tolerating, Marxist-Democrat Senator Alyssa Slotkin said that she's being
00:05:00.400 investigated by federal prosecutors.
00:05:03.100 You remember, she urged members of the military to defy President Trump, her, Mark Kelly, some
00:05:08.820 other Democrat low-level congressman.
00:05:11.160 She's now under investigation.
00:05:12.860 She's a former CIA analyst.
00:05:14.520 She was the organizer of the video, some would call her the ringleader, proudly urged U.S.
00:05:19.580 service members to defy orders from President Trump and Pete Hegseth.
00:05:23.180 Some would even call it treasonous.
00:05:25.720 So, the wheels of justice must keep rolling.
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00:05:37.920 I'm John Fossett with this Midday Update.
00:05:39.800 Have a great day, everybody.
00:05:40.580 Good night, everybody.
00:05:40.600 Good night, everybody.