Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Friday, January 2nd.

Happy Friday, folks, and more importantly, happy New Year. I hope your New Year's are off to a great start.

And you got your resolutions in and you're ready to tackle 2026 like we did in 2025.

Let's get to some news. President Trump announcing in a message on his truth social that the U.S. is ready to

intervene to rescue any anti-regime protesters in Iran should the government attempt to brutalize

them. President Trump was responding to the eruption nationwide protests against the terrorist

regime in the country that began last week. The protest came after the real drop to $1.42 million per U.S. dollar,

and the Iranian regime ousted central bank chief,

a sign that the Supreme Leader of the Aetollah Khomeini was dissatisfied with his performance.

All report this week suggests that the Iranian regime has yet to shut down the Internet,

as it usually does during protests,

is reportedly in part by shutting down businesses and government offices in affected provinces,

including the capital of Tehran.

President Trump writing on Truth Social,

if Iran shoots or violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom,

the United States will come to their rescue.

We are locked and loaded and ready to go.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Not sure how that's going to play out with the American voters going into Iran, but I guess

we're going to have to wait and see.

Didn't vote on the favorable side when President Trump launched strikes in Iran on behalf of Israel,

but we'll just have to wait and see what the polling shows. President Trump took about 11 months,

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