Thursday Headlines: March 20, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including Ukraine's significant drone attack on a Russian airfield and the implications of President Trump's negotiations for a ceasefire. Also, a financial crisis in Los Angeles could be leading to potential layoffs of thousands of municipal employees, and the fallout from Anheuser Busch's withdrawal from the San Francisco Pride sponsorship. Additionally, Planned Parenthood's decision to sell its Soho building and Governor Tim Waltz's controversial comments regarding Tesla's stock.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America show Midday Update for Thursday, |
| 0:04.1 | March 20th. Happy Thursday, folks. The weekend is almost here. Ukraine. Seems like they don't want |
| 0:09.7 | a peace deal. They don't want to ceasefire with Russia. Continuing their bombings, Ukraine has bombed |
| 0:15.2 | the Russian airfield 435 miles from front lines where Russia houses nuclear bombers in their largest drone attacked |
| 0:22.4 | yet, folks. |
| 0:24.0 | The strike ignited a massive explosion and sent huge blast of fire in the air at Angles |
| 0:27.7 | 2 Air Force Base in Russia. |
| 0:30.6 | Now, it's unclear what Zelensky's motive is here. |
| 0:35.1 | President Trump has been working on a ceasefire deal with Vladimir Putin, |
| 0:39.0 | but it doesn't seem like Zelensky wants that at all. According to Reuters, Russia's defense |
| 0:44.6 | ministry said air defenses had shot down 132 of the Ukrainian drones over the Russian regions. |
| 0:50.8 | So as of right now, it's unclear what Vladimir Zelensky wants, but he's playing with fire. |
| 0:56.3 | Just a few miles to the east or to the west, whichever way you decide to travel. There's some |
| 1:01.6 | problems here at home. The city of Los Angeles is bracing for layoffs of thousands of municipal |
| 1:06.7 | employees due to, ready folks, a budget crisis that is said to be inevitable as the city is |
| 1:12.5 | reeling from recent wildfires and still preparing to host the 2028 elections. |
| 1:18.8 | The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the financial problems exploded into a full-blown |
| 1:22.6 | crisis this week with the city's top budget official announcing next year's shortfall is now just shy of a billion |
| 1:29.0 | dollars making layoffs nearly inevitable. The city administrator and advisor to the city council |
| 1:34.0 | says they need to start focusing on cost-cutting measures, including potential reduction of size |
| 1:38.7 | of workforce to bring in the budget for 2025 and 2026. It seems laying off employees in Los Angeles. It's just |
| 1:46.6 | the small piece, just the tip of the iceberg of their problems that they have in that |
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