Monday Update: August 11, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including President Trump's announcement regarding the federalization of D.C. police and the deployment of the National Guard to restore order in Washington, D.C.
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| 0:00.0 | Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original |
| 0:05.2 | from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth |
| 0:10.2 | Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, |
| 0:15.5 | set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie, |
| 0:22.1 | a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing |
| 0:26.5 | together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the |
| 0:31.7 | impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong |
| 0:38.2 | and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, |
| 0:41.3 | Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated |
| 0:44.0 | than she ever planned. |
| 0:45.8 | She's in over her head and head over heels. |
| 0:48.5 | Listen to Rich Girl Summer, now on Audible. |
| 0:51.2 | Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer. |
| 0:53.7 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America show Midday Update for Monday, August |
| 0:58.2 | 11th. Happy Monday, folks. It's Liberation Day in Washington, D.C. President Trump says |
| 1:04.6 | it's time to take back our capital. President Trump announcing this morning in a press conference |
| 1:09.0 | that he's invoking Section 740 of the D.C. Home Act, |
| 1:12.7 | federalizing D.C. police and sending in the National Guard. |
| 1:16.3 | Take a listen to President Trump earlier this morning. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. |
| 1:28.3 | This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. |
| 1:34.3 | We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States. |
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