Mid-Day Update: August 22, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including President Trump out on patrol, the Supreme Court's ruling on NIH grants linked to DEI policies, James Comey's classified leaks, and the latest with the controversial Alligator Alcatraz facility for illegal aliens.
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| 0:00.0 | Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original |
| 0:05.2 | from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth |
| 0:10.2 | Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, |
| 0:15.5 | set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie, |
| 0:22.1 | a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing |
| 0:26.5 | together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the |
| 0:31.7 | impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong |
| 0:38.2 | and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, |
| 0:41.3 | Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated |
| 0:44.0 | than she ever planned. |
| 0:45.8 | She's in over her head and head over heels. |
| 0:48.5 | Listen to Rich Girl Summer, now on Audible. |
| 0:51.2 | Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer. |
| 0:53.8 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, August 22nd. |
| 0:58.8 | President Trump was on patrol last night, the U.S. Park Police at one of their facilities, |
| 1:04.0 | one of the highest crime areas in Washington, D.C. after riding around the streets, |
| 1:07.6 | amid his federal takeover of the city, President Trump had some choice words to say for those folks who are defending the streets of |
| 1:14.7 | Washington, D.C. Take a listen. |
| 1:16.5 | The crime numbers are way down. I'm looking at. You saw some of the stats that just |
| 1:20.3 | read them out to me inside. The numbers that we haven't seen here ever, actually ever. |
| 1:27.3 | And I think it's probably right now, to me, I feel |
| 1:31.2 | very safe now, and I'm hearing people are very safe, but I know within two weeks it's going |
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