Mid-Day Update: Aug. 30, 2024
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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The Great America Show's John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody I'm John Falstit with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, August 30th. |
| 0:05.0 | Failed Rhino presidential candidate and former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie has led himself a new job. |
| 0:11.0 | And no, he's not taking over a spokesman for Ozempeck. |
| 0:13.4 | Christie believe it or not will be teaching a course at Yale titled quote |
| 0:17.0 | how to run a political campaign. |
| 0:19.2 | The new course will be available at Yale's Jackson School of Global Affairs, undergraduate, and graduate students. |
| 0:25.0 | Christie's decision to teach a class on how to run a political campaign is quite amusing, |
| 0:29.0 | considering the former governor dropped out of the 2016 and 2024 Republican primaries |
| 0:34.6 | after failing to run a successful campaign. In 2016, Christie received 0.18% of the vote |
| 0:41.0 | in the Republican presidential primary, and in 2024, he received a whopping 0.63%. |
| 0:48.1 | And President Trump has asked the federal courts to intervene in Alvin Bragg's hush money case |
| 0:52.0 | following the Supreme Court's presidential |
| 0:53.9 | immunity ruling. In Thursday's filing, Trump's lawyers said moving the case to |
| 0:58.0 | federal court following his May 30th conviction will give him quote an |
| 1:01.7 | unbiased forum free from local hostilities to address those issues. |
| 1:06.7 | If the case is moved to federal court, Trump's lawyers wrote that they will seek to have the verdict |
| 1:10.6 | overturn and the case dismissed. |
| 1:12.8 | Trump's lawyers also say ongoing proceedings will continue to cause direct and |
| 1:16.4 | irreparable harm to President Trump, the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential |
| 1:20.7 | election, and voters located far beyond Manhattan. Be sure to join. for Jim has launched an investigation in the New York Judge Juan Murchin's daughter, who is raked in almost |
| 1:34.5 | a hundred million dollars off the Trump New York case. |
| 1:37.6 | I ask Jim what he says to the critics who say this is only just another strongly |
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