Mid-Day Update: August 26, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including a recent ruling by an Obama-appointed judge that temporarily blocks the deportation of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Cracker Barrel's rebranding controversy, Kamala Harris's secret deal with the DNC to settle her campaign debts, and President Trump's threats regarding tariffs on countries imposing digital taxes.
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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. |
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| 0:51.2 | Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer. |
| 0:53.7 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America show Midday Update for Tuesday, |
| 0:57.8 | August 26th. An Obama judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting |
| 1:03.1 | MS-13 gangbanger and wife-beater, Kilmar Abrago Garcia, who's set to be sent to |
| 1:10.0 | Uganda. |
| 1:17.7 | U.S. District Court judge Paula Innes, an Obama appointee on Monday, set an evidentiary hearing for this Friday after MS-13 gang member Kilmar-Abrigo Garcia filed a lawsuit to block |
| 1:23.0 | his deportation to Uganda. |
| 1:25.4 | Garcia was set to be deported to the East African country of Uganda |
| 1:28.5 | after a judge released him from a Tennessee prison last week. Abrega Garcia was the illegal |
| 1:33.8 | alien who was residing in Maryland when he was deported to his home country of El Salvador |
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