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The Great America Show

Monday Mid-Day Update: March 31, 2025

The Great America Show

Fawcett Strategies

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's ongoing witch hunt, the latest CBS poll indicating President Trump's steady approval rating, and the ongoing tensions with Iran and Russia. 

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawc with this Great America Show Midday Update for Monday, March 31st.

0:05.1

Happy Monday, folks. I hope you all had a great weekend. You're ready to start your weeks,

0:08.6

if you haven't got them started already. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hankseth, finding himself under attack.

0:14.5

Once again, you remember in the first Trump administration, the anonymous sources,

0:18.5

we still don't know who those people were, but tons and tons of anonymous sources. Well, anonymous sources telling the Wall Street Journal

0:25.0

that Pete Hakesheth brought his wife, Jennifer Hakeseth, to two meetings with foreign military

0:29.7

officials during which they discussed sensitive information. Now, according to the Wall Street

0:34.1

Journal, and I want to point out, the Wall Street Journal's owned by Rupert Murdoch, the man who also owns Fox News, who also used to employ Pete Hakesheth from multi-million dollars a year.

0:45.5

Sort of interesting that the Wall Street Journal of all people is running stories with anonymous sources.

0:50.7

Anyway, the Wall Street Journal says that Jennifer Hgeset, a private citizen, of course,

0:54.9

was president at a meeting at the Pentagon when Hegset met with UK Secretary of Defense,

0:59.4

John Healy, in early March. Hickset's wife, which they say, was also a president of meeting last

1:04.3

month at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Spouses of high-ranking presidential administration officials

1:09.5

usually have low-level security

1:11.5

clearances at a minimum.

1:13.7

Pentagon declined to the Wall Street Journal whether Jennifer Hagseth has any clearance at all.

1:18.7

Now additionally, a defense secretary can advise guests to meetings with foreign counterparts.

1:23.4

Folks, our good friends, the anonymous sources are back and they're probably here to stay for the next four years.

1:29.1

So we've got to either get used to it or we've got to start fighting these folks because they're going to try to destroy our country and we cannot allow it to happen.

1:37.2

CBS poll says that Signalgate, remember the Signal Gate with Mike Waltz and Pete Hanksett, has failed as Trump maintains a 50% approval rating.

1:47.0

Media attacks on the Trump administration due to the Atlantic's leak of those signal messages

1:50.9

did not seem tied to the evaluation of President Trump's overall approval rating.

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