Wednesday Update: August 13, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including another win for President Trump, Trump calling for Hillary Clinton and others to be investigated, and the latest polling for New York City's mayoral race.
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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 Fawcett with this |
| 0:55.4 | Great America show Midday Update for Wednesday, August 13th. Happy Wednesday folks. Another huge |
| 1:01.0 | win for President Trump, a federal appeals court this afternoon reversing a district court's |
| 1:05.8 | order and allowing President Trump to cut billions of dollars in foreign aid payments that Congress |
| 1:10.9 | already approved. A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling |
| 1:16.6 | overruled a lower court's order that originally blocked President Trump from cutting billions |
| 1:20.8 | of dollars to USAID. The three judges include majority Karen Henderson, who was a George H.W. Bush |
| 1:27.4 | appointee, Gregory Katz, who was a George H.W. Bush appointee, |
| 1:28.4 | Gregory Katz, who was a Trump appointee. And of course, the dissident vote, Florence Pan, |
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