Mid-Day Update: September 22, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including the swift return of Jimmy Kimmel to ABC after his controversial comments regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Nicolás Maduro's outreach to Trump and Marco Rubio's speech at Kirk's memorial.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America Show Midday Update from Monday, September 22nd. |
| 0:05.0 | Woke wins again apparently. ABC is caving after just a few days. |
| 0:10.0 | Jimmy Kimmel was set to return after just a mere six-day suspension after his Charlie Kirk assassination comments. |
| 0:17.0 | ABC announcing this afternoon the swift return of late night host Jimmy Kimmel, just six days after suspending him for making those false comments. ABC announcing this afternoon the swift return of late night host Jimmy Kimmel |
| 0:21.7 | just six days after suspending him for making those false comments linking the assassination |
| 0:26.5 | of Charlie Kirk to the MAGA movement. The person arrested for the assassination of Charlie |
| 0:31.3 | Kirk, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, has been described by family as a leftist who was living |
| 0:36.4 | with his transgender boyfriend. |
| 0:38.7 | In the wake of the tragedy, Kimmel wasted, of course, no time exploiting the national mourning |
| 0:42.6 | for political points. On September 15th, during his monologue, Kimmel lied that the suspected |
| 0:48.4 | killer was part of the MAGA movement, just days after Charlie was assassinated. The body |
| 0:53.6 | wasn't even in the ground |
| 0:54.6 | yet, and he was out there spewing more lies. The backlash was swift and intense with FCC |
| 0:59.8 | chairman Brendan Carr stepping into pressure ABC to take action against the false claims. And two days |
| 1:06.3 | later, ABC announced an indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kim alive, which was on September 17th. |
| 1:11.6 | The move, of course, sparked massive protests by Hollywood elites and prominent Marxist Dems |
| 1:16.0 | across the spectrum, and on Monday, today, ABC announced that he would be returning to air |
| 1:21.2 | on Tuesday. The network also claimed that his statements were ill-timed, ignoring that they |
| 1:27.2 | were entirely false, saying, |
| 1:29.2 | quote, last Wednesday we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further |
| 1:33.8 | inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because |
| 1:39.5 | we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy and after those conversations, |
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