Wednesday Headlines: February 26, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including, the stripping of security clearances from a D.C. law firm linked to Jack Smith, the House's passing of Trump's budget proposal, significant issues within the bill, and the identification of leakers within the Department of Homeland Security
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawc with this Great America show Midday Update for Wednesday, February 26th. Happy Wednesday, everybody. I hope your days are off to a great start, and we're almost at the weekend. |
| 0:10.5 | President Trump signing a slew of executive orders this week, particularly yesterday. We're expecting more today around 3 p.m. |
| 0:17.4 | Some of his executive orders yesterday, just totally brilliant. One of them, President Trump |
| 0:22.4 | stripping the security clearances for employees at a high-powered D.C. law firm that gave |
| 0:27.2 | Jack Smith $140,000 in pro bono legal services. Imagine that, folks. Private law firm having |
| 0:34.1 | security clearances. The clearances were for folks at Covington and Burlington. It's a top D.C. |
| 0:39.7 | law firm who gave Jack Smith that pro bono, you know, free legal advice to go after President Trump. |
| 0:48.0 | But we don't really know. The reason for the legal services was not immediately clear. |
| 0:52.0 | It was previously reported that Jack Smith's prosecutor |
| 0:54.3 | sought legal counsel from this high-powered D.C. law firm, as Trump's new DOJ was set to take |
| 1:00.3 | over. So, I'd love to know, maybe in some foyeros or something like that, you know, what they |
| 1:07.4 | were looking for? What were they scared about? What were they looking to do? |
| 1:15.4 | One former senior White House officials said AIDS inside the White House and across various federal agencies were intensely worried about the possibility that the incoming Trump administration |
| 1:20.0 | would prosecute anyone deemed as having to antagonize the president-elect. Additionally, |
| 1:25.7 | several prominent white-collar lawyers across Washington |
| 1:28.2 | have fielded calls in recent weeks from government officials, including investigators from top |
| 1:33.1 | officials at Smith's office, who were concerned they could be targeted by the incoming Trump |
| 1:39.3 | administration. What can they be so worried about? They were just doing their jobs, weren't they? That's what they told us, right? They were, you know, just doing their job and there was nothing to worry about. But it's not exactly the case. We were lied to, I think, and the truth is eventually going to come out, and we're going to find out just who the bad actors were and what they were up to. |
| 2:02.2 | And the House of Representatives yesterday, last night, late last night, passed the Trump-backed budget |
| 2:08.2 | proposal 217 to 215-250, Thomas Massey voting no on it. President Trump calling it a big, |
| 2:14.5 | beautiful bill, $4.5 trillion in tax breaks, $2 trillion in spending cuts. |
| 2:22.5 | House Speaker Mike Johnson had almost no votes to spare in his backbones as the GOP majority |
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