Mid-Day Update: October 31, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including President Trump's call for the Senate to initiate the nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster, amidst the ongoing Schumer shutdown, the FBI's actions regarding the Arctic Frost investigation, the impeachment push against Judge James Boasberg, and a thwarted Halloween terror plot in Michigan.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | com.uk.uk slash Wondery. That's audible.com.com. UK slash Wondery. |
| 0:11.4 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Friday, October 31st. |
| 0:16.8 | President Trump is calling on the Senate to initiate the nuclear option and get rid of the filibuster. |
| 0:22.5 | It's been 31 days since the Schumer shutdown with no end in sight. |
| 0:28.1 | President Trump last night called on Republicans to initiate the nuclear option, get rid of this filibuster once or for all. |
| 0:33.7 | It takes 60 votes to invoke cloture and to end the filibuster. |
| 0:38.5 | President Trump writing on truth social in all caps. |
| 0:41.3 | Quote, because of the fact that Democrats have gone stone cold crazy, the choice is clear. |
| 0:47.0 | Initiate the nuclear option, get rid of the filibuster, and make America great again. |
| 0:51.6 | In a follow-up post on truth social, President Trump said that during his |
| 0:54.6 | trip to Asia this week, everyone kept asking him how the Democrats shut down the government. |
| 0:59.7 | Quote, I just got back from Asia, where I met with leaders of many countries, including China, |
| 1:04.9 | Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, |
| 1:10.1 | Vietnam, and others. |
| 1:11.6 | It was a great honor to meet with them. |
| 1:13.1 | But more particularly, to see that America is respected again. |
| 1:17.1 | Respected like never before. |
| 1:19.2 | Great trade deals were made. |
| 1:20.3 | Long-term relationships now exist and money is pouring into our country because of tariffs. |
| 1:24.5 | And frankly, the landslide results of the 2024 presidential |
| 1:27.8 | election. The one question that kept coming up, however, was how did the Democrats shut |
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