The Great America Update: December 4, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including the arrest of the January 6th pipe bomber, Brian Cole, who has been charged with the use of an explosive device, the refusal of a federal grand jury to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges, and the ongoing controversy surrounding Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's alleged ties to a massive food fraud scheme in Minnesota.
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| 0:44.6 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America show Midday Update for Thursday, December 4th. Happy Thursday, folks. Well, the wait is finally over. You're probably wondering what the heck I'm |
| 0:50.0 | talking about. Well, after nearly five years, the January 6th pipe bomber was finally arrested |
| 0:55.7 | earlier this afternoon. Brian Cole, 30 years old of Woodbridge, Virginia, was taken into custody |
| 1:01.4 | in charge with uses of an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of |
| 1:06.9 | an explosive materials. Coal planted pipe bombs allegedly, of course, at the RNC and the |
| 1:12.3 | DNC headquarters on January 5th the night before the Capitol riots. At least they call them riots. |
| 1:18.7 | FBI director Cash Patel and deputy director Dan Bongino said during a press conference |
| 1:23.2 | that the FBI solved this case without any new tips or witnesses. |
| 1:28.6 | The FBI identified Cole based on his phone pings and transaction history on his credit cards, |
| 1:33.9 | according to the affidavit. |
| 1:35.4 | The FBI had identified one bank check and an account, six credit cards used by Cole. |
| 1:41.6 | The FBI obtained records to the checking accounts and three credit cards for the time period between January of 2018 to January of 2021. |
| 1:49.4 | Three additional credit cards were obtained for that time period of 18 to January to November of 2025. |
| 1:56.3 | The FBI reviewed the transaction history for all these accounts. |
| 1:59.7 | During 2019 and 2020, Cole purchased |
| 2:02.5 | multiple items consistent with the components that were used to manufacture the pipe bombs |
| 2:07.3 | that were placed at the RNC and DNC. Cole used those accounts to purchase these items from both |
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