Hello everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America show Midday Update for Monday, May 4th. May the

4th be with you. Happy Monday, folks. I hope you all had a great weekend. Let's start out today's midday update with sending a prayer to America's mayor, a friend of the Great America show, and was a great friend of the great Lou Dobbs. Mayor Rudy Giuliani hospitalized over the weekend in Palm Beach, Florida with a horrible case of pneumonia.

The mayor was placed on a respirator over the weekend.

Some really great positive news to report the 81-year-old former mayor of New York,

breathing on his own right now, still in the hospital, but off the ventilator and breathing on his own.

So we're sending prayers to

America's Mayor Rudy and his family that he pulls through. And we need him in this fight, folks.

The more of us, the better. But Rudy has been a vocal voice dating back to the 2020 stolen election.

He hasn't let us fall off the pedal. So prayers to Rudy and his family.

President Trump over the weekend sending a warning message to the folks over in Germany.

It will be nice.

Warning the U.S. will cut much further than the 5,000 troops that he's already ordered to be

withdrawn as Chancellor Merch tries to walk back his criticism of Iran's military operations.

That's right, folks, not looking good for Germany.

German Chancellor Frederick Marse said that he must accept that President Donald Trump

does not share his opinions in order to work with the United States within NATO,

but stressed that there was no link between their rift and planned troop withdrawal.

Of course not, right?

Because he wants to minimize it as much as possible. Merch dismissing suggestions that his criticism

on the U.S. war planning in Iran had sparked Washington's Friday announcement that the U.S.

would reduce its military presence in Germany's largest European base by 5,000 soldiers,

and repeated his commitment to the Transatlantic

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