Mid-Day Update: October 8, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including President Trump's recent statements regarding Chicago's safety, the ongoing government shutdown, the implications of Nancy Pelosi's comments, and potential changes in congressional districts following a Supreme Court case.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Wednesday, October 8th. President Trump's crackdown on crime in America continues. FBI director Cash Patel and deputy AG Todd Blancher in Chicago this afternoon, |
| 0:13.5 | addressing some law enforcement as President Trump is calling for the imprisonment, Governor J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson for their role in making Chicago |
| 0:22.0 | just a very, very unsafe place. President Trump posting on truth social quote, Chicago mayor |
| 0:27.6 | should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers, Governor Pritzker, also. Cash Patel laying out |
| 0:33.6 | some of the crime numbers they have in Chicago, and it's a lot worse than I thought, and probably |
| 0:38.8 | most of you thought, there's allegedly 110,000 gang members on the streets of Chicago. |
| 0:45.1 | They've had 1,200 shootings and 360 homicides this year alone. |
| 0:48.9 | Take a listen, FBI director, Cash Patel. |
| 0:51.4 | We are taking the juggernaut that is demolishing the weaponization of law |
| 0:55.1 | enforcement bringing into places like chicago when i was there today with todd we learned that the |
| 0:59.2 | chicago city streets have 110 000 gang members that's right you heard me right they had |
| 1:04.6 | 1,200 shootings this year alone 360 homicides when politicians choose to side with those metrics and not their citizenry, |
| 1:13.6 | thank God we have President Trump and this Department of Justice and this FBI going in there |
| 1:17.2 | and crushing violent crime. And President Trump sent us into these cities quietly to set the stage, |
| 1:22.0 | to set up for the National Guard, to see the success that we saw in Washington, D.C., in Memphis. |
| 1:26.8 | The FBI has been leading the charge in every single one of these streets |
| 1:29.6 | because we know how to gather ground-level intelligence, and we know how to put handcuffs on the bad guys, |
| 1:34.5 | and we know that we have the backing of this administration, and most importantly, the agents at the FBI know |
| 1:39.1 | that they have the backing of the American people and their government. |
| 1:42.6 | And as I always say here, folks, on the |
| 1:44.3 | Great America show, where is the people's right to live in a safe city? Where is the people's |
| 1:49.1 | right to not have to worry about getting shot by a stray bullet? Where's the people's rights |
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