Mid-Day Update: August 18, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including President Trump's meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and European leaders, Trump wants to ban mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines, declaring them corrupt and advocating for a return to paper ballots for secure elections, Texas Democrats return to the state and news about Robert Mueller's subpoena withdrawal.
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| 0:53.9 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawsu. This Great America Show, Midday update for Monday, August 18th. |
| 0:59.1 | Happy Monday, folks. President Trump meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, |
| 1:03.8 | this morning, along with many other European leaders. President Trump told reporters in the |
| 1:08.6 | Oval Office that he's planning to call President Vladimir Putin following his meeting with Zelensky, and he hopes to schedule a trilateral peace summit with himself, Putin, and Zelensky. |
| 1:19.0 | President Trump says if that trilateral meeting happens, it's a pretty sure deal that they'll be able to end this thing once and for all. |
| 1:25.5 | If it doesn't, he's not so optimistic. So we'll have to see how this meeting plays out and if they do wind up convening. Trump says it's very simple. He just wants the killings to stop. Take a listen. We want to get this war ended. That's all I can do. I love the Ukrainian people, but I love all people. |
| 1:45.3 | I love the Russian people. |
| 1:46.3 | I love them all. |
| 1:48.0 | I want to get the war stopped. Thank you. |
| 1:49.0 | Mr. President, was there any aspect of your discussion with Vladimir Putin that left you disappointed? |
| 1:58.7 | Look, we just spoke to, I was just telling the Look, we just |
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