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Show Rewind 10-13-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're back at it for Tuesday, the 13th,
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  Speaker 2: and not as scary as Friday the 13th, but good
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  Speaker 2: morning to you, Christopher.
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  Speaker 3: Morning. Yeah, I hope most of our audience is back
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  Speaker 3: with us after celebrating Columbus Day yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Was there a big celebration in Columbia?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think so either. It's funny how It
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  Speaker 2: didn't feel like a holiday at all.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: But I guess, what, schools were closed yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: I think so. At least some were.
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  Speaker 2: At least some were. Yeah, that's one of those ones
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  Speaker 2: where I'm sure that a lot of the teachers didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to tell the kids why they had the day off.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, no, no, no. By the way, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk a little bit later on about what's going
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  Speaker 2: on in York County, but that was an unbelievable development
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  Speaker 2: yesterday in York, and we'll get into that with their
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  Speaker 2: libraries and All that sort of stuff. But I saw
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  Speaker 2: that congratulations to South Carolina in general as the school
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  Speaker 2: report cards are coming out for the 2026 school year.
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  Speaker 2: And fantastic. 357 schools in our state earned a good rating.
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  Speaker 2: This is the most we've had, I think, in our history.
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  Speaker 3: That's fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So Ellen Weaver doing a fantastic job. We had 491
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  Speaker 2: schools that were rated average. and only 103 received a
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  Speaker 2: below-average rating, and 24 were rated, I guess, at the worst,
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  Speaker 2: which is unsatisfactory. So we're working on those 24 and
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  Speaker 2: the 103, so we have a little bit of work
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  Speaker 2: to do still. Look, I don't want to say a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. We still have a lot of work to go, right,
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  Speaker 2: because we want to be one of the best states.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll also point out that the way the federal–
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  Speaker 2: For years, the way they've rated the school system has
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  Speaker 2: been designed to glorify, I'll call it woke culture and
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  Speaker 2: things of that nature. And that's why you see states
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  Speaker 2: like my home state of Connecticut and Massachusetts and those
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  Speaker 2: people doing much better than states that typically are south
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  Speaker 2: now of Virginia. Virginia to me is now. Completely a
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  Speaker 2: northern state. But if you're behaving in a certain way,
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  Speaker 2: you are rewarded by the Board of Education and the
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  Speaker 2: Education Department, I should say. And if you're just focused
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  Speaker 2: in reading, writing, arithmetic, the three R's, then they don't
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  Speaker 2: like that. And they think you don't have a well-rounded education.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want them to have a well-rounded education. I
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  Speaker 2: want them to learn what you need to learn in
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  Speaker 2: order to maintain a household, balance a checkbook, understand the
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  Speaker 2: history of the United States. That really is pretty much
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  Speaker 2: all I need from the school system.
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  Speaker 3: Get out and be proficient citizens.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Know your role. Know your duties.
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  Speaker 2: Do they even teach civics courses anymore?
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  Speaker 3: I think they're, I mean, you still have to take
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  Speaker 3: American government. I know that. Do you?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I am stunned at the amount of people who literally
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  Speaker 2: don't know that there are three branches of government.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One of the great audio clips I thought, or video clips,
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  Speaker 2: I say great. Probably one of the worst video clips
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  Speaker 2: I probably should say was there was, I think this
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  Speaker 2: was in Virginia or maybe North Carolina. And there was,
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  Speaker 2: this was like at the state house and they had a,
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe it was at the Congress. I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: I just remember there was a police chief and they
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  Speaker 2: were asking him, which branch of government do you think
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  Speaker 2: you're in? And he didn't even know that there were
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  Speaker 2: three branches. This guy was a sitting sheriff. And then
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  Speaker 2: he said, I guess I'm in the judicial. Oh. It
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, my gosh, bro. You're the chief of
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  Speaker 2: police or whatever. This is horrific. But, yeah, we need
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  Speaker 2: to do a lot better job of teaching our children
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  Speaker 2: those types of things.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot less about, you know, how many genders
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  Speaker 2: are there. Or actually just do a good job and
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  Speaker 2: say there's two. And you should know. Go back to
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  Speaker 2: Kindergarten Cop. Remember in Kindergarten Cop, the little kid telling
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  Speaker 2: Arnold Schwarzenegger, boys have penises, girls have vaginas. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: That's a simple way to learn.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, kindergarten student. Appreciate that. I wish more people
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  Speaker 2: could learn from him. But anyway, yeah, so we got
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  Speaker 2: a full morning coming down. And of course, we'd love
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  Speaker 2: for you to have your say on it. I will
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  Speaker 2: start the show by saying this, though, Christopher. I was...
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  Speaker 2: I was excited for a moment, and then as I feared,
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  Speaker 2: I woke this morning to have my dreams of Darlene
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  Speaker 2: Graham sitting here in the studio dashed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. I remember she got in touch with you,
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  Speaker 3: or her people got in touch with you after the debate, right?
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  Speaker 2: Several times, several different folks, and then yesterday I was
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  Speaker 2: dealing with one of her campaign people, and it was.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was so close. It was like, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I forget what time it's supposed to be. Like 1.30
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow afternoon, she's going to be in the studio. Because
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  Speaker 2: he said something about calling in. I said, listen, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to take the call. However, I want
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  Speaker 2: to give her her best opportunity. And microphones sound better
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  Speaker 2: than telephone calls, especially if we're going to do like
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  Speaker 2: a 15-minute, 20-minute podcast. You want that to be in
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  Speaker 2: studio on microphones.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, we agree. We're going to be there. Fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't put it on social media yesterday because I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking, there's always a shot. And I woke up
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  Speaker 2: this morning and I got a text last night at
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  Speaker 2: like 10 o'clock. Things are shifting. Could we still do
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  Speaker 2: a call tomorrow? We'd like to get into the studio
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  Speaker 2: at some point, but I'm like. You only have one
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  Speaker 2: chance to make a good first impression. I'll take the call.
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  Speaker 2: I will take the call. And by the way, if
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  Speaker 2: you guys have questions that you haven't heard her answer,
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear them. You can let me know
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  Speaker 2: at Kelly Nash Radio on X or Facebook or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly, one of the things we said after Lindsey Graham
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  Speaker 3: passed and after Darlene was put into office, we said
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  Speaker 3: the strength would be the fact that they were keeping
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  Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham's staff with her.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Are you starting to second guess that?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I'm not. I mean, I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: a secret that I don't think that she is a
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  Speaker 2: very good candidate. And I say that about a lot
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  Speaker 2: of candidates. It's not like I'm just exclusively picking on her.
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  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, you know what? We'll take a break
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  Speaker 2: because we're running late. When we're coming back, Christopher and
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  Speaker 2: I will discuss how good of a candidate is Darlene Graham.
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  Speaker 2: And then maybe get your talk back. Maybe you've got
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  Speaker 2: some insights before we even get into that. Let us know.
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  Speaker 2: Use the talk back feature on the I Heart Radio app.
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  Speaker 2: It's 609.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we were just talking, Christopher Thompson and myself,
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash, about the Darlene Graham candidacy. And, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that it's a secret that not only I,
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  Speaker 2: but I think a lot of Republicans are, we'll say,
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  Speaker 2: underwhelmed with Darlene Graham as a candidate. And that's based
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  Speaker 2: off of several things. One, just when you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: a candidate, typically... You're looking for somebody who has a
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  Speaker 2: lot of charisma. And again, not insulting Darlene Graham. I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying she does not have a lot of charisma. She
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  Speaker 2: is obviously not well versed in, we'll say, national security.
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  Speaker 2: She's openly admitted that's not my thing. She does not
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  Speaker 2: seem to have a lot of energy for getting out
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  Speaker 2: and meeting the folks, as Bill O'Reilly would have said.
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  Speaker 2: She's not able, apparently, to fundraise at a high level,
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  Speaker 2: we'll say. There's just a number of things that make
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  Speaker 2: her not a good candidate. But that's my assessment. Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to speak for you. What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we were talking about her staff, which was largely
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  Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham's staff. And we thought that would be a
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  Speaker 3: strength of her candidacy going in. The fact that she
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  Speaker 3: was keeping Lindsey Graham's staff, who did a great job
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  Speaker 3: for him. I see what you're saying. They're protecting her
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  Speaker 3: from the public, from public exposure. But I think at
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  Speaker 3: some point... People want to see their kids. They want to,
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  Speaker 3: as you put it, the folks want to meet her.
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  Speaker 3: The folks want to be in touch with her. The
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  Speaker 3: folks want to hear her reassuring voice telling them, if
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  Speaker 3: you elect me, everything's going to be okay. And they're
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  Speaker 3: not getting that.
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  Speaker 2: No. I believe... Look, my honest assessment is she's still
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  Speaker 2: going to win. That's my honest assessment. I do believe
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  Speaker 2: she's going to win. But that is based off of
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  Speaker 2: a couple of very... Close factors. One, how big is
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  Speaker 2: the write-in Ralph campaign? That is a serious threat to
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  Speaker 2: her right now. The Ralph Norman wing of the party,
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  Speaker 2: which I guess I would have considered myself one. I
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  Speaker 2: am a Ralph Norman supporter from his Senate race. I
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  Speaker 2: voted for Alan Wilson in the governor's race, but Ralph
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  Speaker 2: Norman was my number two choice. I just feel like
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  Speaker 2: If that takes two or three points away from Darlene Graham,
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  Speaker 2: then she's done. Depends on how big that gets. Also,
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  Speaker 2: how big is the support for the Libertarian Casey Whitener?
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  Speaker 2: If that's some sort of a protest vote that gets
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  Speaker 2: like 4% or 5% instead of the 1% or 2%
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  Speaker 2: that the Libertarians typically get, then that would do her
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  Speaker 2: in as well. But when you look at pretty much
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  Speaker 2: from the ag commissioner all the way up to the governor,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like all of those people at statewide levels
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  Speaker 2: seem to have about a 10 point or more lead.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard for me to imagine there's going to be
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  Speaker 2: enough people that would take the time to vote all
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  Speaker 2: Republican except in that one race and then write in
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  Speaker 2: something or not vote or just vote a different, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a different way. And I think that most people who
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  Speaker 2: are going to vote for Darling Graham, I shouldn't say most,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to put words in anybody's mouth. If
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  Speaker 2: you guys, there's got to be some people that are
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  Speaker 2: strong supporters of Darling Graham, because we heard from you
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  Speaker 2: during the primary.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people were upset that we were too critical,
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  Speaker 2: too harsh on her, they thought. And I thought I
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  Speaker 2: was just giving fair assessment at the time. I was
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  Speaker 2: not trying to sway your vote. I was just pointing
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  Speaker 2: out certain things where she was not showing up at
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  Speaker 2: these events or whatever. In this instance, I think that
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  Speaker 2: there's the majority. My guess would be the majority of
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  Speaker 2: people that are going to vote for Darlene Graham are
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  Speaker 2: going to do so to stop Annie Andrews. The number
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  Speaker 2: one reason you're voting for Darlene Graham, I think, at
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  Speaker 2: this point is because you are anti-Democrats. You don't want
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats to have power of the Senate. That's the
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  Speaker 2: best campaign issue I think that they have right now
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  Speaker 2: because the Democrats are on the verge of taking the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: I think most Republicans believe that they're going to take
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  Speaker 2: the House. If they lose the Senate, the country goes
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  Speaker 2: into a two-year cycle of impeaching every single member of
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  Speaker 2: the cabinet. Um, it'll be chaos and it also sets
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  Speaker 2: them up very strongly for a presidential run that will
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  Speaker 2: be as extremely to the left as possible. Um, that's
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  Speaker 2: the way I see it. And so I think with
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  Speaker 2: all that riding on it, most South Carolinians are like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to see that socialist crap. So we're
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  Speaker 2: going to just, we're going to just ride or die
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  Speaker 2: with Darlene Graham. But, you know, for all the people
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  Speaker 2: that are attacking her, I don't have like a real
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  Speaker 2: rebuttal to, um, seats are not given. Um, They're not
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  Speaker 2: supposed to... My best rebuttal to that is she earned
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  Speaker 2: it in the primary. I mean, that's... It is what
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  Speaker 2: it is. We had an opportunity to vote for Ralph
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  Speaker 2: or whoever. You could have gone for Mark Sanford. You
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  Speaker 2: could have gone for a bunch of people. But you
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  Speaker 2: went for Darlene, and she won in a... Not only
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  Speaker 2: did she come in number one in the big primary,
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  Speaker 2: but then in that two-week primary runoff, she beat Ralph
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  Speaker 2: Norman head-to-head. Right. So we had our opportunities, for those
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  Speaker 2: of you who think that she was just handed the seat. Now,
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  Speaker 2: she was handed... somewhat of an incumbency and handed an
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  Speaker 2: amazing staff. The staff of the Lindsey Graham had acquired
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  Speaker 2: was one of the best in the country and they
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  Speaker 2: did a great job. I'm not just talking about the
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  Speaker 2: campaign people. I'm talking about the actual people who kind
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  Speaker 2: of manage his office are really special people and have
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  Speaker 2: been for a number of years. And they did their
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  Speaker 2: best to get her elected. And I think that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to pull it off. I really believe it. Whether
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  Speaker 2: she comes on my show or not is irrelevant almost.
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  Speaker 2: Although I do see that she's trying to shore up
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  Speaker 2: the more conservative wing of the party to try to
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  Speaker 2: get some energy there. Cause right now there's no energy.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a total flat line from the right wing.
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  Speaker 2: It seems on the Graham campaign.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why I would ding that staff because if
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  Speaker 3: once they saw Annie Andrews with this media blitz and
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  Speaker 3: this blitz has been going on for what a month
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  Speaker 3: and a half now, at least somebody should have reacted
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  Speaker 3: at some point. And if, if you can't put Darlene
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  Speaker 3: Graham out there as a quote unquote good candidate, then,
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  Speaker 3: then you can at least package her in a TV role,
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  Speaker 3: 30-second sound bites, whatever. You can package her and at
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  Speaker 3: least make her look attractive for 30 seconds and get
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  Speaker 3: her out there. It just looks like she's been in
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  Speaker 3: a bunker for the last month and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Please see my previous comment about not good fundraiser.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. No money for those TV spots.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the packs are coming in, and the packs are
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  Speaker 2: going to do what the packs are going to do.
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  Speaker 2: I saw where Elon Musk has spent like a reported
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  Speaker 2: like $ 300 million in this campaign cycle.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I wish he had sent 10 or 15 of it
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  Speaker 2: to Darlene. That would have been a big help. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have hopefully some of your talkbacks on that. Maybe, again,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to criticize Christopher or myself for being
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  Speaker 2: too harsh, love to hear it and hear why. If
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  Speaker 2: you are excited to vote for Darlene Graham, we'd love
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  Speaker 2: to hear that. If you're still considering another candidate, but
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  Speaker 2: you consider yourself a right-leaning person, we'd love to hear
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  Speaker 2: from you as well. The talkback feature on the iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 2: app is just as simple as hitting that microphone at 621.
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  Speaker 2: Up on a tight break, I will tell you, though,
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  Speaker 2: you should go to our friend Scott Besson's ex-account and
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: see the letter that he sent to Elizabeth Warren, just
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: some of the highlights. I've received your October 7th letter,
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  Speaker 2: which adds to the mounting body of evidence of your
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: complete paucity of knowledge about financial markets.
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  Speaker 3: And she sits on the finance committee, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And he says, unfortunately, it's difficult to treat your concerns
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  Speaker 2: as sincere as the federal fund rate climbed from near
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  Speaker 2: zero to its highest level in 22 years with inflation
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  Speaker 2: hitting a 40-year high, all the while you're cheerleading the
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  Speaker 2: Biden administration's reckless spending. While you voted for a $ 5
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: trillion tax hike on everyday Americans, the Working Families Tax
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  Speaker 2: Cuts have delivered for families now an 11% rise in
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  Speaker 2: tax refunds from the year previous. And he goes on
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  Speaker 2: and on. And then it finally ends his last statements. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: my offer of a foreign exchange for dummies tutorial still stands.
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  Speaker 2: And if you receive a passing grade on the Yale metric,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: not that Harvard curve, I would be happy to include
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: a fixed income for dummies book as well. Happy Indigenous
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  Speaker 2: Peoples Day in advance. He is such a smart aleck.
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  Speaker 2: I love that guy. All right, speaking of foreign exchange
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  Speaker 2: and whatnot, the real reason behind the Ilhan Omar raid yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: that is a little bit shocking. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about that and other things coming up on South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: Morning News at 629.
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  Speaker 8: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 8: Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: And I am Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. Yesterday I
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  Speaker 2: was talking about, in real time as it was happening...
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  Speaker 2: The raid on Ilhan Omar's house, and I said I'd
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  Speaker 2: never believe the story about her brother being her husband
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  Speaker 2: because it doesn't give her any advantage or give him
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  Speaker 2: any advantage. If you're already a U.S. citizen, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: a sibling or a spouse, it's treated the same way.
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  Speaker 2: So I've never believed that story. Now, I think we
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  Speaker 2: have more insight as to what the alleged fraud is,
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  Speaker 2: and it's coming to us from a citizen journalist. So
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  Speaker 2: this is like a Nick Shirley type of person. This
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  Speaker 2: is a woman who lives in Minnesota named AJ Kern,
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  Speaker 2: who has been posting on her YouTube and her TikTok
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  Speaker 2: and all these types of things for years, her investigations
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  Speaker 2: into Ilhan Omar. Now, One of the things that Ilhan
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  Speaker 2: Omar has said is, A, this is a fascist regime.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump is out to get me. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I will not be silenced. She posted something like that
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  Speaker 2: yesterday on her ex account as the raid was happening
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  Speaker 2: at her home. But here's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: A.J.
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  Speaker 2: Kern has some documentation that is very damning, I'll say, and.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I think this is what we're being based off of.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: The first thing you need to know, when we start
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: talking about this, I understand it sounds very conspiratorial. It
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: sounds out of left field. The idea that a sitting U.S.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: House member may not, in fact, be a citizen. Wouldn't
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: you have to check that just to, I mean, even
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: qualify to become a A congressperson? This is A.J. Kern
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: with the Secretary of State in Minnesota a couple of
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: years ago.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: So how do you verify their citizenship if they're foreign-born?
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: That's outside of our realm. There's no authorization in the
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: statutes for us to follow, you know, double-check on people,
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: verify their status and things like that. They sign the affidavit.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: That's the certification statement, and that's just the way it
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: is right now. There is no law that requires us,
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: and in fact, we would... Because there is no law
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: telling us to do that, we would be violating the
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: laws by checking up on people. We don't verify everybody
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: is a citizen.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: So we don't verify that everyone who runs for office
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: is a citizen, according to the Secretary of State for Minnesota.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: And it would be against the law for us to
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: actually investigate that. Got it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Have they read the Constitution?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: But then they would say that the states control the elections.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: So if we want illegal aliens as our representatives, that's
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: within our purview. Then Ilhan Omar's narrative has been this.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: In 1995, she and her family immigrated to the United States.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Her father, obviously, leading the way. Fantastic. And then a
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: few years later, because you have to wait five years
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: in order to apply to become a citizen, in 2000,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: when Ilhan was 17 years old, her father applied for citizenship.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: and listed his daughter as a dependent, as she would be,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and everything's on the up and up, unless she wasn't 17.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: The reason we say that is because for the first
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: four years that she's been serving in Congress, if you
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: went to her congressional record and talked about, like, her
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: personal history, it listed a birth date of 1981. meaning
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: she would have been at minimum 18, possibly 19 years
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: old in the year 2000. Now she's not a minor.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Then she has to be treated as an individual applying
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: for citizenship. You don't get to just come in when
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: he gets to come in. So the premise here now is,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: thanks to the investigative work of A.J. Kern, and you
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: can see all this on my YouTube videos and whatnot today.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I've taken some of those screenshots off of the congressional records.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: They changed her birth record about two years ago to
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: try to clean it up. Because if she was 18
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: or 19 years old, then she's never been a citizen.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: And now, unfortunately for her, she would have to apply
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: for citizenship and If she had done it at 18, yes,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: it would have been a lot more legwork. But there
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: would be no record to say you're anti-American. You're actually
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: on the record right now as an anti-American person. I mean,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, this is a speech she
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: gave last year. I'm an American migrant. I'm in the U.S. Congress.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: But I am a Somali girl.
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: A girl with your lineage, a girl with your language,
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: a girl with your religion that was a young child
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: taken from her home country that misses her country and
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: wishes to live there.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I am doing all I can to share with its people.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: She's a Somali first kind of gal. That's anti-American. Yeah,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: that's anti-American. She's an anti-American House member right now. And
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: those those would have to be considered in her application.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: So we're actually in a very bizarre situation, Christopher, where
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I've never heard of this, where a sitting U.S. House
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: member may end up being deported. Wow.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: And.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: She's going to say it's political. She's already said it's political.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: But she's invited it. I mean, she's invited the scrutiny.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: She's invited everything.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: You're right. She did say investigate me.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Your wishes are command. So that is a
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: bizarre story. If you have thoughts on that or maybe
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: the Darlene Graham story we were talking about earlier or
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: the fact that South Carolina education system seems to be
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: exploding with good news these days, that and more, just whatever.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Just hit that microphone on the talkback feature on the
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. It is 640.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: South Carolina suffers from a voting public that is at
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: best lazy and at worst dumb. They vote for name
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: recognition and don't do any research.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: This is the reason we've.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Got Darlene Graham over somebody that is actually qualified.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: This is Wayne. I listen to you guys on the
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: iHeart app. I voted for Darlene Graham because Trump endorsed her.
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: I was really hoping that she was going to be
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: a better campaigner. I'm disappointed with her campaign. However, I
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: will be voting for her in November because we cannot
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: have a Democrat in office in South Carolina. If I'm
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: really being honest... The most qualified person on that stage
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: was probably the libertarian candidate.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: All right, Wayne. We've heard from Wayne before. He's good.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I like Wayne. Wayne should have his own show, possibly.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I wasn't sure who the first guy was. Did he
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: give a name, Christopher? He did not. He did not.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: But I think he is expressing the frustration that you
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: hear a lot if you're talking to conservatives in South
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Carolina about where we're at right now in the Senate race. And,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: you know, again, we're hoping to have Darlene Graham in
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: the studio. That doesn't seem like it's going to happen
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: today now, but we are holding out and I guess
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: we might be getting a phone interview with her. If
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: you have questions you want me to ask, let me know.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: You can either use the talkback feature or hit us
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: up on social media. We'd be happy to Try to
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: get a question in front of her that you think
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: is important for her to answer.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: All right, I just wanted you to hear this clip
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: because it's my favorite clip of the day. This is
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: a Democrat named Jamie West running for office in Indiana,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: sitting down with the local news and explaining a little
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: bit about the politics and the difference between MAGA and Republicans.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Because there's Republicans who.
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: Actually get it.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: You know, there are good Republicans out there.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: But then there's these MAGA's who are just racist and.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Aren't very intelligent at all. They call you names.
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: They don't share a nephew trying to blow my head off.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: But, you know, what are you going to do? Well,
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: that brings us to your opportunity to say just a
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: few last words to to the voters today.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: We have guns, too.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I love this interview. This is fantastic. Jamie West, Democrat,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: proud Democrat out there. I think she might have been
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: hitting the sauce a little bit before that interview.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: It sounded like it, yeah.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: The sheriff's son threatened to blow her head off, she claims,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: and then counters, well, we got guns, too. It's escalating
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: quickly in Indiana. For those of you who thought that
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the Midwest was a little calmer. Maybe not so much.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: So we'll keep an eye on that Jamie West race
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: out there in Indiana.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Indiana.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: And maybe we'll have more clips. More of your talkbacks
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: as well. Always appreciate getting your insights on what's happening
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: in your world. Just use the microphone on the iHeartRadio app. 654,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson, back in just a moment.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: All right, good morning. Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. I'm
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: looking at the new White House spokesperson, Katie Zachariah, I
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: think is her name. She'll be debuting this morning at 9.30,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: so if you want to get your first glimpse of her,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: you go ahead and put on, I guess Fox News
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: will probably be carrying that live, whatever she's got to say. Also,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: happy 251st birthday today to the U.S. Navy. That is fantastic.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Since 1775. How many men and women have been a
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: part of the U.S. Navy and helped keep America safe.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I love that. I also just got a text here
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: from Susan McPherson, who is a great friend of the show,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: reminding me that Military Appreciation Day is coming to the
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: South Carolina State Fair, Monday, October 19th, Tuesday, October 20th,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and Thursday, October 22nd. Active and retired military and their dependents,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: along with proper military identification, will be admitted free. So
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: that's fantastic news as we try to celebrate the military
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: members here in South Carolina. And looking down to Mount Pleasant, Christopher,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: there's a story here. This is on Count On 2
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: talking about Mount Pleasant has got a town council meeting
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: scheduled for 6 o'clock tonight. And on the docket, should
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: they have a 120-day moratorium on data centers? According to
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: some people there, they'd like to have the ability to
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: kind of assess surrounding land uses, neighborhoods, recommending zoning amendments
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: to the town council. I am against this. And the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: reason I'm against this is because I think that's what
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: you would do once a data center applied for zoning
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: in your community. That's when you'd start doing your due diligence.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: You don't even know what you got till you got it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: But if you're saying for six more months, we're not
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: even going to receive the applications. I think that's a mistake.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds a little preemptive, but I don't know.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: What are they hoping to learn in the next 120
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: days if no one's going to apply for a data
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: center anyway while they're in a moratorium?
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Well, it just says that they're very concerned. Look, everybody's
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: very concerned, right? That's, I think, a given. On all
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: sides of this equation, everybody's concerned about data centers. What
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: they're saying is that, quote, the ordinance states that town
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: staff and planning commission would use this time to determine
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: where data centers could be compatible and surrounding land uses
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: and neighborhoods, and then to recommend any zoning amendments to
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: the town council. Town officials have indicated that review is
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: intended in part to distinguish large scale data centers from
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the smaller facilities and that may not have the same
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: impact on surrounding communities if approved. The moratorium would give
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: the town time to evaluate those differences before considering any
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: future applications. Now, I don't get a whole lot out
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: of what I just read.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: No, I didn't either.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: That sounds like gobbledygook to me. But that's at least
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: what they're telling the media down in the Lowcountry. If
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you're going to the town council meeting in Mount Pleasant
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: tonight and you want to represent me, you could say,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash says no, no on the moratorium. Review the
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: applications as soon as you get them. Or maybe you're
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: representing somebody else and you're saying, absolutely, I want a
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: year-long moratorium or I want a decade-long moratorium or we
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: just never want them here. You let your voice be
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: heard at the town council meeting. That's part of the
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: fun of being a citizen in the U.S. You can
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: go and express yourself. And I hope a lot of
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: people do go and express themselves tonight down at the
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: town council meeting. But if you've got thoughts on data centers,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: you've got thoughts on the U.S. Navy celebrating its big birthday,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: you've got thoughts on the White House getting another spokesperson, whatever.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Or you want to talk about what we were talking
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: about earlier with Darlene Graham, Annie Andrews, all those things.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: You want to talk about the drunk Democrat we played
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: for you earlier in the show.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Whatever.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Use the talkback feature. We'd love to hear from you.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break. It is 7.07.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: And I'm Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. Headline in the
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Post and Courier, South Carolina report cards surge again with
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: 90% of schools average or above. Now, this is a
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: big step up. If you look at 2022, as far
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: as excellent schools, we went from 259 that year. We're
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: now up to 320. If you look at the same period,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: unsatisfactory schools, we had 74 then, which obviously too many,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: down to 24 today are unsatisfactory. Still too many. We'd
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: like to have zero. But there's 1,295 public schools, and
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: we're now down to just 24 of them being unsatisfactory.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So they have made huge, huge moves at the Department
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: of Education today. And, you know, Ellen Weaver had a
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: press conference yesterday here in Columbia was talking about when
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: we support the teachers, we put our tools into the
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: teachers toolboxes that enable them to teach our high quality
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: instructional materials with impact. That's going to benefit the students.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: It's really no more complicated than that. I'll also point out, though, Christopher,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: one of the things that Ellen Weaver did that at
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: the time seemed almost controversial, but it really should have
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: never been, was the idea that if you're not reading
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: and writing at a third grade level in third grade,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: you're not going to go to fourth grade.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there are way too many horror stories
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: about kids getting to middle school, high school even, and
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: not being proficient readers. And instead of giving everyone a
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: pass and saying, okay, well, you know, you've aged out
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: of this grade, we're going to go ahead and move
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: you up. you've got to be able to prove that
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: you can do it in order to move ahead.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: So I guess we implemented that a few years ago,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and we've held back a bunch of kids who weren't
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: reading at a third grade level.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's tragic at the time, but you're winding
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: up doing the kid a great favor by not advancing
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: them until they're ready.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of like, is it a tragedy
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: when you have to go get, you know, some sort
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: of treatment for cancer? Yeah, nobody wants it. Until they
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: really want it because you don't want to die. When
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: you're talking about education, if you're not, all the studies
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: have shown if you're not reading at a third grade
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: level in third grade, if they advance you to fourth grade,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: you are going to start falling way behind. Third grade,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, that's the magic year where it all
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: has to click. And if it's not clicking, you're just
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: going to be in a world of hurt for the
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: rest of your quote-unquote academic career. You're lost. Yeah, which
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: more than likely will become coming to an end before
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: your 18th birthday. A lot of kids lead to dropping
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: out at that point, and then it's just a lifetime
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: of misery because now you're a high school dropout, and
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: what are you going to accomplish in this world? And that,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: at the time... Was that the George Bush no child
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: left behind BS that we started doing in like 2002
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: or whatever it was, 2003? That idea seemed horrible from
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: the get-go. And the fact that we are in South
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Carolina finally implementing just common sense that if every study
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: shows that third grade is the magic year, then don't
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: advance them past the third grade. until they can read
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: at a third grade level. And she, she said that the, uh,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: we're going to keep holding back third graders who fail
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: the end of the year state exam SC ready, which
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: has led more students repeating the third grade. Uh, this,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: the last year we had the most ever third graders
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: held back in our state's history, but the scores are
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: starting to rise. They're getting better. And you would think
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: that like, whether you're a, somebody who's a, theologian who
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: talks about Jesus said, build your foundation on the rocks,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: or if you're just a construction builder talking about foundation
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: is everything. And if you can't read, then you can't
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: have a solid foundation for learning. You need to understand
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: how to read in order to get wisdom into your mind.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: And we have way too many people now in their
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: thirties and forties who have been failed by the system,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: who don't know how to read even at a third
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: grade level at this point, even though they're 30 years
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: old or whatever. And so, We probably owe you all
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: an apology for letting you go through the system. You
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: slipped through and it wasn't kind by any stretch of
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: the imagination to let you get a high school diploma
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: or anything like that. You were failed by the system.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: You should have been held back. You should have been
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: forced to learn how to read. And it's disguised as kindness.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: It's disguised as compassion when we let people continue to
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: progress because you don't want to embarrass them or humiliate
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: them when it's the exact opposite. And again, congratulations, Ellen Weaver.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: We've made some big strides in the last three years.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I think we're going to make many more as we
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: move forward.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Thanks to our teachers, too. I mean, we've invested in
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: them and they've invested more in our kids.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: That's taxpayer money. We ponied up big time when we
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: were way behind the rest of the curve in the
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: rest of the southeast.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: And, you know, look, if you've ever talked to a teacher,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: and I've talked to lots of them, none of them
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: got in it to be rich. If you have the
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: heart of a teacher, you're doing it because you love children.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: You know you're not getting rich, but like to Christopher's point,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: you're now making a livable wage. And so hopefully that
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: takes a little bit of burden off of them. But, yes,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: thank you to the teachers. Thank you to the people
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: that are making the hard decisions. And, you know, I'm
• 35:06
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  Speaker 2: and I'm looking forward to many more– I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to South Carolina being the number one state in the
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  Speaker 2: country at some point. I think we could do it.
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  Speaker 8: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560
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  Speaker 1: Hi there.
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  Speaker 2: This is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. And narrative is always,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: always important. And so it's very interesting. The narrative that
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: most media outlets have always pushed regarding Donald Trump is
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: that he is a pawn of Putin's, that Donald Trump
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: will do the bidding of Putin no matter what. And
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: so this story aligns perfectly with that narrative. Or if
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: the narrative is Donald Trump will always put Americans first.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: And Donald Trump's number one concern has been and always
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: will be the welfare of U.S. citizens. This story also
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: aligns perfectly with that narrative. And I'm talking about the
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: deal that he announced that he's cut with Putin regarding 300,000
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: metric tons of diesel. That's about 2.25 million barrels. I'm
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: going to bring that into the U.S. markets and more
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: to come. He's hoping to drive down the costs of
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: diesel because, again, diesel is what not only is it
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: a major fuel source, it's the number one source for
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: how we get our food and lots of other things.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: So that is a big source of inflation for the
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: American public. So it helps out truck drivers. It helps
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: out farmers. It helps out everybody.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: The Treasury has now also issued a temporary license-lifting sanction
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: on Russian diesel exports until April. The volume is small, blah, blah, blah.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: But again, if you're thinking this helps Putin fund his war, yes, yes,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: it does. That's why Zelensky's very ticked off. Could this
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: help them actually overtake the Ukraine? It could. I don't
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: know that it will, but it could. But again, Donald
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Trump's number one concern, I think, is always going to
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: be the United States. And if the Ukraine falls, sorry
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: to see it go. I think that's the way Trump
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: looks at it. Don't want it to go. Don't want
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: it to happen. But I've got to look out for
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: the U.S. people before I look out for the Ukraine. So, Christopher,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: any thoughts on this narrative? Because there's two different ones
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: being pushed forth.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: I don't think it helps Darlene Graham's campaign at all
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: because Darlene Graham, one of her signature moves was to
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: get her brother's sanctions bill past Congress. She did that.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: And now this just what this erases that this goes
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: back on that. How do you justify that with what
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: we just passed?
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: You just justify it because I'm Donald Trump and I'm
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: doing it. Yeah, that's.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: That's part of the problem. You know, as long as
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham doesn't have to answer to it on the
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: campaign trail, which, you know, I guess with her handlers
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: right now, she's not answering to much. I guess you're okay. But,
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't see how this helps her campaign.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Again, if I'm the Graham camp, I would say, clearly,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: this is not my wish. This is not what I
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: want to happen. I'm for sanctioning the crap out of Russia.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump is saying, I would love to hurt Russia,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: but I want to help Americans more. And if I
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: can get your food costs down by 8%, 10%, I'd
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: rather do that.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all right. I mean, she's not going to
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: be able to sell that, but maybe Trump and the
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: rest of the Republicans can, and maybe this pushes Republicans
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: across the finish line when it comes to the midterms.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Be interesting to see what y'all are thinking about this.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Are you excited, especially if you're a farmer, that your
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: diesel costs are going to be dropping here in the
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: not-too-distant future? Are you excited as a truck driver? Are
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: you excited just as somebody who goes in grocery shopping
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: that your costs should be dropping here in the not-too-distant future?
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Or do you align with, hey, you know what? Screw Russia.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I'd rather pay higher costs if I can put Russia
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: out of business, if I can punish Putin. What do
• 39:25
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• 39:27
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• 39:30
  Speaker 2: It's 727.
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 39:35
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• 39:37
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Elon Musk. We were talking about him being the biggest
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: single donor in this political midterm cycle that we're in.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: It's around $ 300 million now. But he's got problems. I mean,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: he's got problems.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Are we talking personal or political?
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Both.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: But on the personal side, he's got his ex-wife coming
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: out and saying that Elon attempted to cut his trans
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: daughter off on health care once they came out as trans.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: So he's being sued for that. According to TMZ, this was.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: This was a violation of their agreement. And because you're
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: upset that our son is now a daughter, you still
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: don't have the right to cut them off from health care. OK,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: there's that issue. There's also his. Now, by the way,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Elon Musk, this guy is just what is he just
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: trying to populate the earth? So he's got how many
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: kids now? He's got like 15 children, I think. And
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: he's got some with Justin Wilson. That's the one that
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: has the trans child with him. But there's also five
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: others with that person. That was his first wife.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: A lot of baby mama.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Grimes was a, I guess that's the musical name of somebody.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: That's the one that got all the weird names, right?
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: So you've got Techno Mechanus, Dark Citadel, XAE, A12. Exa,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: these all children made with Grimes. Then you got Siobhan Zillis,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Neuralink executive. He's got four kids, including the twins Strider
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: and Azure Arcadia Selden. And finally, Ashley St.
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: Clair.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Now, Ashley St. Clair had been a right wing, we'll
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: say influencer and, you know, attractive young lady who is
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: making YouTube videos and talking about conservative things, pro guns,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: pro this, pro whatever. Um, that gets her into Elon Musk's, uh, purview.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: And then he met her in 2023 and they have
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: a kid in 2024 and they're broken up by 2025. Well, yesterday,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: this lady, Ashley, who has been going further and further left,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: if you see any of her interviews or social media posting,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: she's on CNN and she has this shocking development.
• 42:03
  Speaker 11: Are you a democratic socialist?
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: Are you one of the communists?
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: Are you?
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: So I am a dues-paying member of.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: DSA, but I— Oh, you're a DSA member? Yeah.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Recently?
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: A little bit ago.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Oh. You're a dangerous leftist radical.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella— Now.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: She's saying Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao and laughing
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: because that was the phrase used by the Charlie Kirk killer.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Wrote it on one of the bullets, right?
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, this woman is.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: She's gone off the rails.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I am now a dues... I didn't even know that
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: they had dues.
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: This is.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: That sounds very capitalist, to have to pay dues to
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: the socialists.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Well, what about me? I identify as a dues-paying person.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Do I really have to pay the dues? That is crazy, though.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, for Elon Musk, what kind of a child
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: is this going to turn out to be? This is
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: going to be somebody who hates Elon Musk. He continues
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: to father children with women who apparently hate him and
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: hate his lifestyle. And we're going to see more and
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: more of this happening, it would appear, as he continues.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Put it away. Stop trying to populate the earth, especially
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: with these young women who, I mean, Ashley St. Clair
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: is like 30 years younger than him. She was like
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: 24 at the time and he was like 54 or something.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's ridiculous. But bad decisions lead to bad results.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: And now you're going to have a DSA member in
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: your family by your child. So I don't know. Could
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: you be any worse at picking women? I don't know.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Or maybe they're bad at picking men. Although the report
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: was that she got, by the way, he's saying that
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: she didn't get it. But they're saying that she gets $ 20, 000
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: a month plus a lump sum of $ 20 million. So
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: it paid to have a child with Elon. Yeah. I mean,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: if I could, I would. Anyway, what are your thoughts
• 44:03
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• 44:06
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• 44:11
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• 44:18
  Speaker 4: It sounds like the women that Elon Musk is having
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: sex with are smarter than he is.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: That's not far off the mark.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: That's the talkback feature. Thank you for chiming in. We
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: were talking about Elon Musk and his ex-girlfriend and the
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: most recent of the many long lineage of baby mamas
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: yesterday announcing on CNN that she's in fact a dues-paying
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: member of the Democrat Socialists of America. So she has
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: completely flipped from when she was a conservative Democrat social
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: media personality who used to appear on Fox news on
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: the regular. Uh, she's now a CNN MS now type
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: of gal. And, uh, as a joined the DSA and
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: is a very well, it seems like when they have
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: a lot of money, a lot of people loves, you know,
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: if everybody else is suffering, I'm okay. As long as
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: I'm cool with my.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Money, they're negotiating very good exit packages.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: The ladies are doing a great job with Elon. Um,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: So the story yesterday, Christopher, out of Georgia, I think
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: it was, where we had the roller coaster incident. I
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: don't understand how does somebody fall out of a roller coaster?
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Are we going to find out that they weren't strapped in,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: or are we going to find out that that is
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: a malfunction of the roller coaster?
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: If you've seen the pictures, it's obviously not a small man.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: And I just, you have to assume. that he didn't
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: get strapped in properly. Whether the straps fit him or not,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: whether the restraint fit him or not, I don't know.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: But that is absolutely frightening.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: And for those of you who haven't heard, I think
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: the roller coaster is called Goliath?
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: And they ended up stopping it. By the way, the
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: people that were on that ride, they're going to be traumatized,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: I would imagine, the rest of their lives just walking down.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: They had to use some sort of emergency stairs to
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: get down from like 200 feet up in the air
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: that like no safety railings or anything like that. It
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: was crazy looking. But to see another person die and
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: the way this individual died was horrific. And the description
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: I heard was that he hit the car three times.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you see him. If you've seen the pictures, he's
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: flipping over. He's going from the back of the train
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: to the front and flipping over people as he flies out.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: And the victim was found on a roof is where
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: they ended up finding his. And again, going 70 miles
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: an hour.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Apparently his family was watching as this happened from the ground.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Horrific. At the same time, this is a month after
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: they had to close X2 roller coaster in California. They
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: have a hundred, a hundred people are now suing because
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: they've suffered traumatic brain injuries while riding the roller coaster.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: A 100 people. Now this is, are all of them legit?
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe not. Maybe some people heard something, but that's not
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: like the sort of thing that just happens out of
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: the blue where somebody says, you know what I'm going
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: to say? I'm going to say I got a TBI
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: over here. Yeah. What the hell were they doing on
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: that roller coaster?
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: I don't, I, and I used to love roller coasters,
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: but I think we've probably gone a little bit too
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: far and maybe it's technology. Maybe, you know, the scientists
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: are feeling like these days they can push the envelope
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: and they can design things that we didn't have the
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: ability to design back in the days when we were
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: designing wooden roller coasters and you could only do so much.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: But it sounds like we've gone too far the other
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: way now.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: So I guess they're closing roller coasters all across the country.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: They shut down nine yesterday.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: I would be very hesitant. Just, I don't even like
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: roller coasters, but now that this has been introduced, I
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: really don't like roller coasters.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: I Kelly, I have a feeling, especially seeing the pictures,
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: we're going to find that this guy may have been
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: a little too large for the seat and for the restraint.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: And that's, you know, we have one of those like you,
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: cause I know there used to be, I haven't been
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: to a theme park in a decade or more, but
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: it used to be, you had to be this tall
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: to ride. Is there like a, if you weigh more
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: than this type of thing, I don't know.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: And how would you like to be the probably teenage
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: attendant who has to tell somebody, hey, you're too large.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: You can't do this. You'd probably be intimidated.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: I would think that if I was a, you know,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: a theme park or something, I would have an actual
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: scale that you have to step on in order to
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: get through the gate. The gate doesn't open unless it
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: comes in at under 250. The gate doesn't go up.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Can't get on. Sorry, big boy.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: You're going to get sued at that point for public embarrassment.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: The ride is only safe. It's not my fault that
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: you're big.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Well, I agree with you, but I just have a
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: feeling somebody would push back on that.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, of course. Of course.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: People push back on anything and everything. I'm surprised we
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: haven't had, like, you know, little people suing that, hey,
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: you should make the rides so I can get on them. But,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: you know, we live in a very litigious society today.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to take a break and be
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: back with more 747.
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Hi there. Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson checking out some
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: of the breaking news and other news of the day.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Tish James facing a new push to boot. Cornell people
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: and get rid of that probe over alleged bias. More
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: and more coming out about that Cornell 7 thing. First off, ironically,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: there was not 7 involved. That's the first thing that
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: I found shocking. As you start reading through the court
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: documents and you start seeing what the allegations were and
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: you see the text messages. And for those of you
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: who had not seen the text messages, I think the
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: one that was kind of the most shocking was was
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: that the young lady in question received a text from
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: the guy who she was there to meet that night.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: And he said something about, my memory's kind of fuzzy,
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: things got out of hand, but you're an amazing person.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: I hope you're not catching as much heat from this
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: as we are. We've been trying to shut down any
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: stories we've heard, but again, I'm sorry. And then she responds, again,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: to the guy that she's going to accuse of being
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: the gang leader in this gang assault situation. Aw, Jonathan,
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: I really appreciate this text. My memories are super clouded too,
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: but I think we were all too blanking drug and high.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: And I am getting a little heat from the FiFi
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: girls who can't get my name out their mouth, but
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: that's to be expected. At the end of the day,
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: the sexual stuff was not illegal. And honestly, I really
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: like being with you and Matt. So anything anyone has
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: to say about that is out of their jurisdiction. I
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: don't think that we should feel any shame For this part,
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: because remember our body, our choice.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: That's pretty damning.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then in the police statement that she gave,
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: and then people were wondering why should they, they didn't
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: prosecute because she says in the police statement that I was,
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: I consented. Okay. I mean, that's what the, that's what
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: the cops were saying. What do you want us to do?
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: You're saying in the, in the, and she edited it
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: like 10 different times. She kept saying, can I get
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: it back? Hang on a sec. I get it back.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Can I get it? And then she signed her name
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: and said, this is my best memories of what happened.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: And they're like, well, it says here that you're saying
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: you gave an okay to the first two guys. And
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: then when the guy one fell asleep, you and guy
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: three knocked on the door and you let him in
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: and you engaged with him. You're just going through the list.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: And we don't see anywhere here where you said you
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: asked them to stop. Actually, it says when you asked
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: them to stop, they said, okay. And then they told
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: you you could sit there because you said you were
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: tired at 525 in the morning and that you could
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: stay here as long as you wanted until you were
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: able to go home. And she was like, yeah, that's
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: what happened. And then two years later brings a lawsuit.
• 52:15
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Wrong, but not illegal.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, wrong on so many levels. Everybody's wrong. Everybody
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: here was a mess and disgusting. And there's a drug
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: culture and drinking culture that's way out of control and
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: a sexual culture as well. Um, but it's, that's going
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: to be a hard, that, that story is getting harder
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: and harder to make into a, she was a victim
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: type of deal, but we'll see what the courts have
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: to say. Big Tish is still on the case at 755.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Hi there, Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson together. It's 8.03 and
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: big news out of York County. I'm going to play
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: an excerpt of the, this is the York County Library
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  Speaker 2: Board voting to overrule the library staff when it comes
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: to five, what they described as sexually explicit books. We'll
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: talk about that more in just a second, but you
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: can hear the debate that they were having.
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  Speaker 5: The committee emphatically states that simply referencing, establishing, or mentioning
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: a character's sexual orientation or LGBTQ identity does not constitute
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: sexual conduct under any part of the library's collection development.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore, I move that this board also reject the staff's
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: recommendation and the vote be moved. Because we are.
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: Going against the advice of our professional librarians who follow
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: the policy to be approved.
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  Speaker 11: We do have the ability for the parent or guardian
• 53:53
  Speaker 11: to get an unrestricted minor card or minor, if they
• 54:00
  Speaker 11: so wish, and that child can check out any book
• 54:03
  Speaker 11: in this entire. Okay, all in favor of the motion
• 54:09
  Speaker 11: as it stands, say aye. Aye.
• 54:12
  Speaker 9: Opposed?
• 54:13
  Speaker 6: Nay.
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  Speaker 2: All except one. So they overruled the librarians. So the
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: librarians wanted the five books. Now, I haven't seen a
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: lot of stories on this. I looked it up to
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: find out what were the books that were actually being removed.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: The most graphic seems to be a book called Sold
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: by Patricia McCormick. It describes a 13-year-old being sold into
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: an Indian brothel, and it describes in graphic details what
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: it's like for her to be assaulted by men over
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: and over and over and over again, and then being
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: drugged and assaulted and related physical violence. And it does
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: talk about her genital damages that were done. And again,
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: why would we want that in a school library? The
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: other books are People Kill People. That includes a sex
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: assault and sexual activity amid a primary focus on gun violence.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: The Poet X covers teenage sexual awakening, including some things
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: I don't even feel comfortable saying on the radio, knowing
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: that everybody's over the age of 18 listening to us.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: 19 Love Songs by David Levithan features the romantic and
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: LGBTQ stories with some sexual references. That's probably the most
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: mild of the books. And when Aiden became a brother,
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: and this is a children's picture book describing what it's
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: like for a child to transition. So again, it's a
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: children's picture book. Why would any of these be in
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: the school library to begin with?
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: I'm not even sure what the controversy is because they
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: said these books aren't being banned. They're just being.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Moved and being moved out of the York school library.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: And they pointed out if the books, if kids wanted
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: access to these books, it put it, they were able to,
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: the parents were able to sign off on an all
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: access card.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: That's what the guy was saying. Yeah. But, but that's
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: that he was making the argument in order to keep
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: those books here.
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what they're doing in the library
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: in the first place, but at the very least, they
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: should have been behind a shelf where if you had
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: that access card, if a parent had deemed that so
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: necessary that their kid sees it, at least the parent
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: had signed off on it.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: And these books are available at the library. Yeah. I
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: would think, maybe I'm wrong. maybe you all have a
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: different opinion that if you're talking about a school library,
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: these are books that we believe will educate you on
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: important matters. Sexual activity is not an important matter.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: Not to a five or six year old.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: No. I, and I would argue that the, the sex
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: ed classes or whatever. Yeah. Uh, I guess they still
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: do those things. Um, Those are probably, when I was
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: a kid, it was very much, what is those, like
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: the overhead projector, and they would put a slide on it,
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: and you had like the gym teacher teaching you or whatever.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: And then here's how a baby's made, and you've got
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: this thing, and you're shooting into it. It's like, okay.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: And then we'd all giggle, and that'd be the end
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: of it, because I think by 14, we already knew
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: more than they were teaching us, quote unquote. But these
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: books are glorifying sexual behavior. And obviously come from a
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: perception of this is a, well, it depends on which
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: books we're talking about, but a lot of them are
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: talking about this is a good thing. Somebody's able to
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: discover the real you. The real me was never a girl.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: I was always a boy. I was just trapped in
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: a girl's body. So celebrate with me as I, as
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: a 12-year-old, discover I'm actually a boy.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: I'm a brother, not a sister.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: Yes. And that is not a healthy message to teach anybody.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: The things about exploring LGBTQ romances as an eighth grader
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: is not a healthy story. It's not a subject matter
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: that an eighth grader should even be exploring. You're talking
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: about mutual touching and things of that nature, why are
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: we putting that in a book for a kid in
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: the school library? Again, if the parent wants it, you
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: can buy it anywhere or you can get it in
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: most of your public libraries, which we can debate that later.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: But at the school library, I would want books on
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: stuff that the school is studying. And at no point
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: should they be studying gender, dysphoria, any of these things.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: None of that, I think, should be at the school library.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: York County is fairly conservative. How did these books even
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: get approved?
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Well, as the guy was saying, we when they came
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: out with their policy at the what are they called again?
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: So this isn't even the school board, right? This is
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: the school library board going against. the professional librarians. And
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: you heard the librarian saying, according to your policy, even
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: if we're describing the sexual nature of a person, as
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: long as we're not describing the sex act in the book,
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: then it is within policy. And then the guy was saying, yeah,
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: but so they, I guess they're going to have to,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: in order to stay in alignment there, because like that
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: guy said, we are inviting a lawsuit. Now, if we're
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: voting to ban this book, because our own policy says
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: that just because we're talking about the boy became a
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: girl or the girl became a boy that we didn't
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: actually think of that through enough, I guess. And now
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: that we see it in a book, we don't want,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: we don't want our seven-year-olds looking at that in the
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: school library. Um, So they're going to have to rewrite
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: their policies.
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: Sounds like it.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: And I would just say, you know, very few books
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: should be in a school library that have anything to
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: do of a romantic nature, of a romantic nature or
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: of a sexual activity nature. Unless you want to make
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: it very textbook-ish. This happens. A, create and make it
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: like a, you know, we're doing some sort of calculus.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: X plus Y equals Z. But I don't know. Maybe
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: you people think that we should have more of this
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: type of stuff in the school library. I'm very impressed
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: with the York County Library Board, which I had never
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: heard of, voting to overrule the library staff to remove
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: five sexually explicit books from the children's section. And whether
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: or not there was an availability for the parent to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: give some sort of all access card or not, I
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: just don't think it should be in the school library. Again,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: public town library, we can have a different debate on that.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: Any of your thoughts on any of these subject matters?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: We've been talking about a whole bunch of stuff this morning.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Use that Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. It's 8-11.
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  Speaker 8: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: Good morning, guys.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: It's Steve from Mount Pleasant. It's very typical of educators
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: to presume to know better how to educate other people's children.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 6: So this doesn't really surprise us, I don't think.
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  Speaker 4: But.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 6: none of this has anything to do with education. And
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 6: it all has to do with sexual indoctrination. And it's
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 6: extremely creepy.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the talk back, Steve, in Mount Pleasant. He's
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: obviously responding to our previous story that we were just
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: talking about up in York County, where the library board
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: overruled the librarians. Regarding five books that they were in
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: the school library and said that they were too sexual
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: in nature for the kids to have access to. And
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: to Steve's point, I yes, absolutely. I don't think that
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: the schools have any business teaching about sexual. I don't
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: want to say behavior. Because, again, there is a role
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: for understanding human health and human, you know, how do
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: we recreate each other? How does that happen? How does
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: the baby arrive? I understand that for whatever reason parents
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: decided to put that on schools decades ago. I wish
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: they hadn't. But I guess that probably started happening in
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: the 50s, right? But that's for a certain age. Yeah, that's, again,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: for high schoolers usually or at least eighth grade, I think. Um,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: but I, I mean, I, I, I, I would be
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: fine if they just removed all of that and just said,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: we're just going to teach science. We're just going to
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: teach math. We're just going to teach English. We're going
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: to teach history and we're not going to teach a
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: fake form of history. We're going to teach real history. Uh,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: and we're just going to use the textbooks that, uh,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: that are not changing. You know, we're not going to
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: rewrite the start of the United States did not start
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: in 1619. As some of the textbooks now say, we're
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: not going to say that the goal of the United
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: States was specifically to enslave a people group. We're not
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: going to. And if you're going to talk about slavery,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: you're not going to leave out the part where it was,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: in fact, Africans selling Africans into slavery or that the
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: Middle East was heavily involved in that trading as well.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many, you know, if you want
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: to get into slavery, there's lots of different things that
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: need to be discussed. If you're going to talk about
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: it and actually give an accurate description of what happened
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: The accurate description is not that the United States invented
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: slavery in order to oppress black people, which is apparently
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: what they're teaching now. But it's an indoctrination, as he said.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: And so I appreciate the talk back. Let's take a look, Christopher,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: at what's going on in Iran today. Trump last night
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: saying perhaps we've gone too far, at least when it
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: comes to taking out the leaders in Iran. He said...
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: They don't have any boats. They don't even have any leaders.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: And that's the problem. We might have gone too far
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: with the leaders because we don't know who the hell
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: that we're dealing with anymore. Nobody wants to be the
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: president of Iran. They have these roll calls. Who would
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: like to be the president? And nobody puts their hands up.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: We're having a hard time figuring out who the hell
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: to deal with, to be honest with you.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 9: So.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, yes, that seems to be a problem if
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: you don't know who you're dealing with. But you are
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: dealing with the IRGC. I mean, you're just not negotiating
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: with the IRGC.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: The IRGC, by the way, yesterday also, according to the UK,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: they say the UK says the RAF Fairford terror plot
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: was highly likely coordinated by the IRGC. The British prime minister,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: Andy Burnham, announced Monday that the September terror plot was
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: was most likely and I would say highly likely to
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: have been coordinated with the IRGC. And we are not
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: going to tolerate these threats on our soil. We will
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: crack down on Iran's use of chemical or criminal networks
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: using our full range of powers to target them and
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: their funding streams. And we will bring further sanctions to
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: restrict the capacity of Iran and the IRGC to do
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: us or anyone else harms. The remarks come as the
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: United States, Britain and other allies condemned Iran in a
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: joint statement. Now, I'd love to see the UK step up.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's talking tough. It'd be great to see
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: the UK actually do something.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: Well, they have different leadership now, so maybe they will.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: But I mean, we can't have our aircraft in harm's way.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: And if they're not going to step up, we did
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: the right thing by removing them.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely. But you're not seeing much on Iran in
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: the media anymore, right? Because we're not doing any military strikes,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: and while they're flailing around, they do have their– what
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: is it? The Houthis, I think, are attacking lately.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia, yeah.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: And that is reason for concern. Again, if you can
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: finally shut down Iran, I think you're going to– well,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: I think we're already seeing the effect of the Triple
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: H kids, the Hamas, Hezbollah, and– Houthis have their pace
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: of attacks has slowed down as the funding is dried up.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: I think that they're going to be in a bad
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: way here if they can't suddenly start selling some oil
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: again in order to fund this terrorist activity. So it
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: seems like they're flailing in there on their last legs,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: which that would be a godsend if the Triple H
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: kids are no longer able to attack, whether it's Saudi
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Arabia or Jordan or the UAE or whatever. Israel or
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: anybody else in that area.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: Let's hope Trump made that clear to Xi when he
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: was in the White House the other day. And let's
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: hope Trump has made that clear to Putin too.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: Although Trump did say yesterday, he does not, what does
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: he say? Trump does not believe that China and Russia
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: are helping Iran quote at all with this war. So that's,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: that's the president's statement. Maybe you disagree with the president.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: We've disagreed with him on a number of things that way.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: No one can ever say that we're totally, uh, Trump sycophants.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: We are MAGA. We are Make America Great Again, but
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that we're all Trump all the time.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: We are all about making America great again, and I
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: hope you are as well, as we'd like America to
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: be the best possible version of itself. And there's lots
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: of ways to get to it, but we need to
• 1:07:10
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• 1:07:12
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  Speaker 2: All right. Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. I know Republicans
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: right now are feeling in a big way. It seems
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: like it's all doom and gloom. So let me try
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: to give you a little bit of positivity here. I
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: still believe that Darlene Graham is going to win the
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: South Carolina Senate race. So we're going to hold there.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: I believe, looking at the polls now, that Tallarico is
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: 12 days off for whatever the reason was. has significantly
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: hurt him. If you look at a new UMass YouGov poll,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: he is in a dead tie with Ken Paxton and
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: only 7% undecided. I would assume most of those people
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: will break to the candidate who didn't take 12 days off.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: So I think we're going to hold Texas. You look
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: in a state like Maine and suddenly the lady who
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: has been under polled every single year that she's run
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: for office by at least five points is now in
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: a statistical dead heat with the Maine Democrat. You look
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: in Michigan, it appears that that Michigan race is falling apart.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: He's now down to a one point lead. It all
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: across the board. In the Senate, things are going well.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: I'll also point out that in 2024, 2025, Republicans, now again,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: our state doesn't register voters by party, but they do
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: in 31 states. And so if you look at how
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: we've done in those states, Arizona, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, all registered a minimum of 100,000
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: more Republicans than Democrats. That's fantastic news.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: That's huge.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. If you look at fundraising, we mentioned Elon Musk
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: has been a big contributor to this thing. But cumulatively,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: The Republicans have outraised the Democrats by like $ 200 million.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: They are crushing it. And if you look at just
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: the actual Democrat National Committee, remember, they were thinking about
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: selling their headquarters. That's how broke they were. The Republicans
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: have roughly $ 233 million on hand. So at every level,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: the Republicans are doing way better than had been expected
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: in the middle of this midterms. Again, based off the
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: fact that the Democrats are so crazy right now. If
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: the Democrats were normal, they'd be crushing the Republicans in
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: this midterm. But they're trying to clutch defeat from the
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: jaws of victory, and I thank them for that. We'll
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: take a break and be back with more. It's 8.30.
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  Speaker 8: Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: The live stream event of... Our lifetimes. I can't imagine
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  Speaker 2: anything that's been more controversial than this. Even more controversial
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  Speaker 2: than when Mike Tyson fought the YouTuber. This is a
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  Speaker 2: very controversial idea of live streaming the execution of a
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  Speaker 2: traitor to the United States. Nadal Hassan was in the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: military and serving at Fort Hood when he went on
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  Speaker 2: a killing spree, killing 13 and injuring 32 others and
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  Speaker 2: was sentenced to death. Pete Hegseth announced last week that
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  Speaker 2: that was going to be live streamed as a way
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  Speaker 2: of showing that Americans deliver on their executions. Well, since then,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people have had, as you might imagine,
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  Speaker 2: differing opinions on that. And the latest to add his
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  Speaker 2: comments on that is Speaker Mike Johnson, who said, I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't watch it. But again, that's for other people to decide. However,
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of colleagues that have concerns. Their
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  Speaker 2: concern would be that if you create a video that
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  Speaker 2: could become a recruiting tool for future terrorists. That's the
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  Speaker 2: same thing we were talking about last week.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Mike Johnson's listening to South Carolina Morning News. Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 3: He might be.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Speaker. It sounds like this caught Donald Trump and Marco
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  Speaker 3: Rubio unawares also.
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  Speaker 2: According to one report, Donald Trump is now reconsidering whether
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  Speaker 2: to allow a live stream of the execution, telling a
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  Speaker 2: confident outside the administration it might not happen. Trump, Vice
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  Speaker 2: President J.D. Vance and Hegseth have not publicly commented about
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  Speaker 2: whether or not it's going to happen since last week.
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  Speaker 2: But again, Hegseth's statement. It needs to be a public
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  Speaker 2: execution because people need to understand that there's serious consequences
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  Speaker 2: for these types of things. We'll certainly open up the
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  Speaker 2: Talkback feature on this one again. I had a guy
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  Speaker 2: at church the other day tell me how much he
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  Speaker 2: couldn't wait to see it. Loves it. Can't believe that
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  Speaker 2: we've waited all these years to see something like this
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  Speaker 2: because he thinks that we've been too soft. Pete Hegseth
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  Speaker 2: made the statement that we need a quiz. They said
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  Speaker 2: the last time we've actually executed any member of the
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  Speaker 2: U S military. Um, well, the last time we executed
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  Speaker 2: a member of the military would have been 1961. And
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  Speaker 2: that was, uh, for an offense that happened when, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he was serving in Austria and he molested and attempted
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  Speaker 2: to murder a teenage girl. And, but that was in
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  Speaker 2: the fifties. And then, um, I guess Eisenhower was the
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  Speaker 2: president at the time. He said, yes, absolutely, he should
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  Speaker 2: be executed. And then Kennedy was the president when it
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  Speaker 2: actually happened, and they hung him. That was not public.
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  Speaker 2: The last public execution would have been 1935, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was. But we've had people saying, Hegseth said that
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  Speaker 2: they used to execute people, not all the time, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: but World War II, he said, I like that World
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  Speaker 2: War II mentality. That's the last time that the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: actually won a war was when he had a killer mentality.
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  Speaker 2: And we need to get back to having a killer mentality.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with the killer mentality part. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: know what the benefit is to the general public to
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  Speaker 2: see it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. Glenn Beck said they should be all
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  Speaker 3: female firing squad and the bullets should be coated in
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  Speaker 3: bacon grease. I mean, just to take it one step farther. But, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you. I think this would be used
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  Speaker 3: against us. I think it goes against what the world
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  Speaker 3: knows us as. Yes, we have capital punishment. You can
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  Speaker 3: argue that. But this is going a step beyond that.
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  Speaker 3: And it is. It sounds barbaric. It sounds like something
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  Speaker 3: Iran would do, not something the United States would do.
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  Speaker 2: And we've had– I think we had a talk back
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  Speaker 2: last week, didn't we, about somebody saying make it a pay-per-view. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And then he said he would pay for it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if it's $ 19 or whatever, I guess Trump
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  Speaker 2: would probably make it $ 17. 76 because that's his favorite number.
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  Speaker 2: A $ 17. 76 pay-per-view. Could we pay off the national debt?
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  Speaker 2: How many people would watch this? I don't know. Will
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  Speaker 12: This is Frank from Columbia. I'm all for televising it
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  Speaker 12: under the execution under normal circumstances, but I think the
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  Speaker 12: visual of gunning down a.
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  Speaker 1: Dude that's in a wheelchair... is.
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  Speaker 12: Going to do more damage than good.
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  Speaker 1: He's in a wheelchair, so we're either.
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  Speaker 12: Going to shoot at a guy in a wheelchair, or
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  Speaker 12: we're going to put him on a backboard tied to
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  Speaker 12: a post.
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  Speaker 2: Either way, it looks bad. Thank you, Frank, for your
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  Speaker 2: talkback off the iHeartRadio app. Did we hear where Frank
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  Speaker 2: was from? Did I miss that? Was he from Columbia?
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  Speaker 3: He's from Columbia, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Frank in Columbia, for using the
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  Speaker 2: talkback feature. And, you know, yes, I would point out
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  Speaker 2: that It sounds as if Frank is making the argument
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  Speaker 2: that if the Nadal Hassan was not in a wheelchair,
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  Speaker 2: that if he was capable of walking in, of course,
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  Speaker 2: when you're. doing a firing squad, at least what I've
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  Speaker 2: seen from like the Pink Panther movies, is that they
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  Speaker 2: usually offer you a final cigarette and then they tie
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  Speaker 2: your hands behind your back and kind of tie you
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  Speaker 2: to a pole before they shoot you so you don't
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  Speaker 2: move at the last second. So you're going to see,
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  Speaker 2: if they were to watch it, you're going to see U.S.
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  Speaker 2: military service members pointing rifles at a unarmed man who
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  Speaker 2: is tied to something, whether he's To me, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make him a more sympathetic figure that he's in a wheelchair.
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  Speaker 2: He's in a wheelchair because of his own choosing. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he did that to himself. He did it along with
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  Speaker 2: injuring 32 others and killing 13 others. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the guy's a monster who deserves to die. And he's
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  Speaker 2: also a traitor to the country. But to the bigger picture,
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  Speaker 2: I think that it actually does become propaganda for the left.
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  Speaker 2: And I say the left, meaning the far, far left,
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily. Well, some of them are in America. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Like I would say, Hassan Piker is part of that
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  Speaker 2: radical movement that would be playing that as a way
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  Speaker 2: of recruiting people to come against the United States. I
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  Speaker 2: don't like it. I don't I wouldn't want to see it.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think that not not because I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to see it. I just don't think that it's
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  Speaker 2: going to do us any good to have it out there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we can accomplish the same thing minus
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  Speaker 3: the public spectacle by simply carrying out the death penalty
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  Speaker 3: in private.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, I don't know, maybe if Hegseth is
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  Speaker 2: adamant about showing the repercussions, you could show, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the stretcher when they're carrying him out, have
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  Speaker 2: like a blanket over his body and then just his
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  Speaker 2: face and say, this is what happens to traitors or
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  Speaker 2: something to that extent, if that's the goal. But the
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  Speaker 2: actual execution, I think it It's painful. It's painful. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to see anybody die, even monsters like this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to watch the act of them dying.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe some of you are different on that. I am
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  Speaker 2: not with that. But anyway, again, talkback feature, so cool.
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  Speaker 2: Very appreciative of you using that and getting in touch
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  Speaker 2: with us. We'll take a break. It's 848.
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  Speaker 8: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 7: I think what we're going to see in the midterms,
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  Speaker 7: to be honest with you, is a big blue wave.
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  Speaker 7: as much as I hate to say that, but it's
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  Speaker 7: Trump and the administration's fault. I mean, he broke every
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  Speaker 7: single promise he made. He didn't even fulfill the immigration
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  Speaker 7: promise fully. I mean, this is straight-up betrayal, and it's
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  Speaker 7: coming back at him.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, help me understand this.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Anita from the Midlands.
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  Speaker 10: Why is the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Getting diesel from Russia?
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  Speaker 6: But if other countries trade with Russia, we want to
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  Speaker 6: penalize them.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you to both of you for your talkbacks.
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  Speaker 2: And for the first one, talking about the blue wave, possibly.
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily subscribe to that theory right now, as
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  Speaker 2: we were talking earlier about some of the polling data
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  Speaker 2: definitely starting to move towards the Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: You've written off the House, it sounded like.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but not necessarily a wave. I mean, the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: just need to pick up a couple of seats, really,
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  Speaker 2: because the Republicans are defending like 17 seats or something.
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  Speaker 2: So it's tough to hang on to all of that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I do think that they'll probably win the House,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that the Senate is definitely winnable for
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans. I don't know what he's talking about as
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  Speaker 2: far as a full betrayal from Donald Trump. I think
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump has done a lot of his promises, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that Congress has obstructed a lot of what
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  Speaker 2: Trump has been trying to accomplish that would further his promises.
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  Speaker 2: And for Alicia... Again, we talked about this earlier this morning.
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  Speaker 2: So Trump, the narrative with Trump is either he's a
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  Speaker 2: bootlicker to Putin or he is a total America first
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  Speaker 2: guy and he doesn't care about the other countries. I
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  Speaker 2: subscribe to the theory that he's more about America first
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  Speaker 2: and he doesn't care about the Ukraine or other countries.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he likes to help other countries. He'd like
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  Speaker 2: to solve wars. But if he has an opportunity right now,
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  Speaker 2: they're ballparking. He can get 20 cents a gallon off
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  Speaker 2: diesel prices. with this move. And so that's, he's going
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  Speaker 2: to try to prioritize the farmers and the truck drivers
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  Speaker 2: and overall food prices for the U S citizens. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I, whether he's a very conflicted person, he's not
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  Speaker 2: somebody who's easy to understand, but that's where I think
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  Speaker 2: Trump is.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow after six.