Mid-Day Update: March 17, 2026
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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John breaks down the biggest news items you need to know about, including the referral of Kristi Noem to the Justice Department over alleged perjury, the ongoing war with Iran, and a federal judge's intervention in vaccine schedules.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great American Show Midday update for Tuesday, March 17th. |
| 0:05.0 | Happy Tuesday, folks, and more importantly, happy greatest day of the year for us Irish folks. |
| 0:11.5 | Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of those who celebrate. And even if you don't, today we're going to |
| 0:16.2 | give you permission to go out and have yourself a nice iceld Guinness after work. You all work hard and you |
| 0:22.3 | certainly deserve it. Now, let's get to some news of the day, why don't we? Christine Ome has been |
| 0:27.1 | referred to the Justice Department for her criminal investigation of an alleged perjury tied to |
| 0:32.5 | her claims that Donald Trump approved the $220 million ad campaign featuring her riding a horse. |
| 0:38.4 | Top congressional Democrats referred the outgoing Homeland Security Secretary to the DOJ over, |
| 0:43.1 | quote, knowingly making full statements under oath to Congress. |
| 0:47.7 | Noam testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month that President Trump had known and approved the lavish ad. |
| 0:55.4 | Days later, President Trump told reporters that he had not approved the commercial. Within 24 hours of Dome's testimony, |
| 1:00.3 | she became the first cabinet casualty of Trump's second term. She and her rumored lover, |
| 1:05.6 | Corey Lewandowski, are set to officially depart Homeland Security on March 31st. Now, people familiar with the case, the referral to the DOJ, says it's a pretty weak case, |
| 1:17.0 | but said the questions on the advertising contract would be the stickiest. |
| 1:21.3 | So I guess we'll just have to wait and see. |
| 1:23.5 | And it's the regular Democrat culprits who are going after her. |
| 1:29.3 | Jamie Raskin and Senate Democrat whip Dick Durbin telling Pam Bondi, quote, we have low expectations that you will pursue this |
| 1:35.0 | matter given your partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice. If they want to see weaponization, |
| 1:41.8 | they should just go back and look at what Joseph Robinette Biden did the last four years. |
| 1:47.8 | Now, the war with Iran continues to roll on, although President Trump says it's coming to an end, |
| 1:52.4 | as I think he's seen enough between the poll numbers and the price of oil. |
| 1:57.4 | And the issues that, quite frankly, we have here at home, President Trump speaking about it, saying |
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