Mid-Day Update: January 9, 2026
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest news items of the day, including U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant's investigation into money wiring services linked to Somali fraud, congress debating immigration after a shocking statistic was revealed, Vivek Ramaswamy's bodyguard arrested on drug trafficking charges, and Chicago’s police superintendent’s stern warning to radical activists regarding law enforcement.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show. Midday update for Friday, |
| 0:03.7 | January 9th. Happy Friday folks. The Somalian issue ain't going away. These folks are in big |
| 0:10.0 | trouble. There was a hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill. We found out 78% of Somalian immigrant |
| 0:15.7 | households remain on welfare even after a decade in the United States. This is a statistic that ignited a fierce debate on Capitol Hill and reopened the debate over immigration, |
| 0:26.6 | welfare dependency, and political accountability. |
| 0:29.6 | Folks, the Somali issue is not going away, and the Democrats better stop playing games |
| 0:36.6 | because we're going to get to the bottom of the fraud. |
| 0:40.0 | The man who's been tasked with getting to the bottom of the fraud is none other than |
| 0:44.5 | U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. |
| 0:48.2 | He's reportedly now investigating top four money wiring services for participating in the Somali fraud. |
| 0:56.5 | They're also going to look now to cut off any foreigner who's on any sort of government subsidy |
| 1:01.8 | to send, which they shouldn't be on in the first place, but they're now going to cut off |
| 1:07.3 | these folks from wiring and sending any kind of money abroad, any kind of money |
| 1:11.9 | overseas to anywhere in the world. This is Scott Besson spearheading this massive effort to try to |
| 1:20.5 | just cut down and get rid of this waste, fraud, and abuse. Vivek Rameswami, who's running for |
| 1:26.0 | Governor of Ohio, finding himself in a little bit of |
| 1:28.0 | trouble lately. And no, it's not for his comments saying that Americans are lazy. It's something worse. |
| 1:34.9 | His family bodyguard arrested federal drug trafficking charges. Justin Selsbury, 43-year-old, |
| 1:43.1 | arrested after authorities conducted a search warrant |
| 1:45.0 | at his home and discovered meth pills and traces of fentanyl. |
| 1:50.0 | Yep, congrats of Vivek Rameswamy. Seems you got your head on just where it needs to be. |
| 1:56.0 | So, chaos may be ensuing in Minneapolis and Portland, where Portland we saw two shot last night |
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