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Show Rewind 7-21-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: If you're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean golllee it. We said it yesterday that the political
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  Speaker 2: landscape had changed from the time we started the show
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  Speaker 2: to the time we've ended the show, and of course
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  Speaker 2: had changed even more when we were off the air.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, Christopher Thompson. How are you this morning?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good? How about you?
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Head is spinning, yeah, I mean it is getting now.
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  Speaker 2: So Nancy Mace has announced she has no interest. Darlene
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  Speaker 2: Graham has said that she is all in quote unquote
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  Speaker 2: now was she quoting mister Fry because he said the
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  Speaker 2: exact same thing about two hours earlier?
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  Speaker 3: Didn't so they're all everybody's all in. We're talking about
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  Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham's open Senate seat.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And I learned something new yesterday that her name
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  Speaker 2: is not Darlene Graham nordone. That was I was corrected
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  Speaker 2: by Judy Gatson on WIS Television, who says that she
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  Speaker 2: is personally confirmed that she never took the name nordone.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what, So we've been miss saying she
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  Speaker 2: married to a mister Nordone, but she is not, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: So now I need. When I'm looking at stories here,
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  Speaker 2: most of them are starting to change it to just
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  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it makes sense if you're running for office and
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  Speaker 3: you're running on your brother's coattails to continue to use
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  Speaker 3: the name Graham.
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  Speaker 2: And she was on Was she on with Hannity last night?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't see that. Did you get a chance to.
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  Speaker 3: I saw bits of it, Yes, a recorded interview. She
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  Speaker 3: has done virtually, No, I don't. I don't know of
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  Speaker 3: any local press that she's done.
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  Speaker 2: I spoke with a young lady yesterday who used to
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  Speaker 2: do Lindsey Graham's press stuff. We'll say she's the one
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  Speaker 2: who used to when I used to have Lindsay Graham
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  Speaker 2: on my show with Jonathan. She was the lady who
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  Speaker 2: kind of coordinated that. So when I reached out to
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  Speaker 2: her when that press release was dropped yesterday and I said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: don't forget about your friends over here in radio, and
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  Speaker 2: she said, you guys have been very good to us
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  Speaker 2: in the past, and we certainly respect you guys and
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  Speaker 2: are going to do our best to get her on
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  Speaker 2: with you very soon. But my feeling was it's probably
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  Speaker 2: not going to be this week, so it'll probably be
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  Speaker 2: in a week or two. I am speaking today for
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  Speaker 2: a podcast, and Christopher, I have to get from you
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  Speaker 2: a list of questions you would like answered from one
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  Speaker 2: Mark Lynch, because I'm going to be talking to him
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  Speaker 2: this morning after the show and we'll make a podcast
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  Speaker 2: of that, and then we'll put that up and play
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  Speaker 2: some clips of it tomorrow on the show. We're also
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  Speaker 2: going to have who else am I talking to?
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  Speaker 3: Duke Buckner?
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  Speaker 2: I do not have Duke Buckner as of yet. I
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  Speaker 2: do have Ralph Norman and well, I can't say the
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  Speaker 2: other person because they're not in the race right now,
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  Speaker 2: so we're not sure if that other individual is gonna
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  Speaker 2: get in the race. They're there, what do they call it,
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  Speaker 2: putting your toe in the water. They're testing the water
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  Speaker 2: and they were listening to us yesterday and found some
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  Speaker 2: of the talkbacks interesting. Isn't it funny you people have
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  Speaker 2: no idea how important you are because you are, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: like the tip of the spear, the conservative spear. This
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  Speaker 2: is the very tip listening to w SC Charleston, w
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  Speaker 2: VOC Columbia and candidates are actually listening to this show
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  Speaker 2: and this station to hear what you people are thinking,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that that probably weighed in a little
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  Speaker 2: bit for miss Mace. She heard not a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of love coming down the coming down the hot line.
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  Speaker 2: Others are hearing mixed messages from you. Others are hearing
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  Speaker 2: can't wait for them to get in, so they're all in.
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  Speaker 3: So this mystery potential candidate does this last name rhyme
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  Speaker 3: with the Banford.
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  Speaker 2: No, that is not the one. That is not the one.
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  Speaker 2: Although I did hear from somebody from from his camp
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  Speaker 2: will so to speak, not in an official capacity. They
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  Speaker 2: are we'll say friends with I don't think that they're
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  Speaker 2: acting on behalf of a supposed Sandford campaign. Now, what
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  Speaker 2: would you think that to me? If Sandford throws his
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  Speaker 2: hat another ring at this point, I would be surprised.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like the race is full enough. But again,
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  Speaker 2: he does have some money left over and he could
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  Speaker 2: how many more opportunities are there going to be? Right?
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  Speaker 3: And he did officially change his campaign account to Sandford
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  Speaker 3: for Senate.
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  Speaker 2: I believe you're the first to have caught that, well.
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  Speaker 3: Know Meg Canard of the APT Yeah, she reported that.
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  Speaker 3: But so I mean that the possibilities there for him
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a what and you pointed it out yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I think they have until is it a week from today?
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  Speaker 3: A week from today? Yeah, filing starts today, ends next Tuesday,
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  Speaker 3: and then of course the primary August eleventh, So it
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  Speaker 3: is a quick I just I Kelly, I'm still my
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  Speaker 3: head is still spinning about the fact that Darlene Graham's
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  Speaker 3: even in this race.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and you said it was a pre recorded interview,
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  Speaker 2: which means that she must have done it, probably before
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  Speaker 2: the announcement, probably so, and so this is again she
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  Speaker 2: was sworn in, was it last Wednesday? It's a it's
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  Speaker 2: been a whirlwind for it has not even been a week.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that she's been a senator. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: as you pointed out, just going to be a placeholder.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I am. I'm just finishing up Lindsay's term.
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  Speaker 2: And somehow with well.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think she ever said that, but we all
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  Speaker 3: thought that, I mean, that was the assumption.
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay, we'll rephrase it. When she was presenting herself,
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  Speaker 2: she was presenting herself as it's an honor for me
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  Speaker 2: to finish Linda. I'm going to finish for Lindsay. He
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  Speaker 2: started everything for me. I forget exactly how she phrased it,
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  Speaker 2: But at no point did she say and then I
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  Speaker 2: would like to explore the possibility of continuing. She never
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  Speaker 2: said that. It wasn't until Donald Trump said I spoke
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  Speaker 2: with her and I want her to run.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody saw that coming, Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 3: And it's she's got no political background other than you know,
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  Speaker 3: campaigning for her brother. It's we still we don't know her.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know her view. I mean, is she just
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  Speaker 3: going to be a clone of Lindsey Graham?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there there is going to be. I'm sure who
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  Speaker 2: was it? Somebody I follow on X who is I
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  Speaker 2: think in some sort of political position here in uh,
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina, And I'm trying to remember his name right now.
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  Speaker 2: But they they pointed out that they're calling for an
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  Speaker 2: investigation into her right now. They want to know how
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  Speaker 2: qualified is she to even run because we had talked
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  Speaker 2: about the will Folks story that she hadn't voted in
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  Speaker 2: two of the last three primaries. But they're going to
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  Speaker 2: give her, apparently a little break because she did vote
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  Speaker 2: in one of the runoffs, which which helped in a
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  Speaker 2: special primary. So they're going to say that count is
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  Speaker 2: two of the three. So again not very politically active,
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  Speaker 2: it would seem. But again, we don't know anything about
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  Speaker 2: her at this point. It's just all speculation. And we had,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, assume she was just going to run
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  Speaker 2: and or excuse me, sit there and just kind of vote.
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  Speaker 2: Like Lindsay said, when she was appointed, I said, you
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get any closer to appointing Donald Trump as your
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  Speaker 2: senator because that's what I imagined she was going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Now I don't know. Now she's off on her own.
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  Speaker 2: We'll figure we'll figure all that out. We got so
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  Speaker 2: much to get to. What are you thinking about all this?
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  Speaker 2: Let us know? Use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: It's South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is South
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  Speaker 1: NOW Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: So the posting Courier has attention grabbing headline this morning,
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  Speaker 2: a South Carolina city could have five million dollars more
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  Speaker 2: in its coffer if it just did its audits. And
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  Speaker 2: it's not alone. Now the story starts off by saying
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  Speaker 2: that the South Carolina State Treasurer is currently withholding nine
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  Speaker 2: point two million from at least sixty towns in cities
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  Speaker 2: that have failed to submit their annual audits. The worst
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  Speaker 2: would be Lancaster, South Carolina, who is currently held back
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  Speaker 2: about five million dollars. Up next would be Cottageville, and
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  Speaker 2: again they're only at one hundred and thirty thousand, so
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  Speaker 2: obviously Lancaster is wow, five million dollars. Now, they quote
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  Speaker 2: the mayor of Lancaster in the story, Democrat Alston Davini,
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  Speaker 2: and this guy, are you kidding me? Dude? This guy,
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  Speaker 2: this is literally what he says in the newspaper. Mayor Devini, Well,
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  Speaker 2: when we hired a guy and the guy couldn't do it,
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  Speaker 2: and so we hired another guy and he kind of
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  Speaker 2: struggled to get boots on the ground to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: These are reputable firms telling us that they can't find auditors.
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  Speaker 2: Who is buying that story?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no one. The Posting Courier has done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: They're doing a series on small towns and cities like
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  Speaker 3: Lancaster that just simply there's no accountability in regards to
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  Speaker 3: news coverage or you know, nobody's talking. So these small
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  Speaker 3: towns operate in a vacuum and they can do whatever
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  Speaker 3: they want. And in this case, you would think the
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  Speaker 3: state would come down a little harder on these guys,
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  Speaker 3: especially with the knowledge that you know there's money at stake.
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  Speaker 3: You can get money, you can get access to money
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  Speaker 3: from the state if you simply do your job and
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  Speaker 3: fill out your paperwork.
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  Speaker 2: And this is another quote, it's kind of rich when
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  Speaker 2: you know the legislature and the treasurer can't find two
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars referring to the one point eight billion accounting
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  Speaker 2: error scandal from two years ago, as we I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like maybe most South Carolinians don't understand what
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  Speaker 2: happened there. But it wasn't as if they had one
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  Speaker 2: point eight billion extra in an account that they're lost
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  Speaker 2: one point and they didn't lose it. It was it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to explain it. Again, but that is not a real statement.
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  Speaker 2: They can't find the one point eight billion dollars. That's
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  Speaker 2: you're just making excuses. Yeah, so yeah, exactly to handle
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  Speaker 2: your business, mayor all, you got to do it. And
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  Speaker 2: you're telling me that two quote unquote reputable firms whose
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  Speaker 2: job it is is to do audits. Couldn't figure out
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  Speaker 2: how to do your audit. Come on you, you clearly
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  Speaker 2: are failing to do your job. And whoever you if
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  Speaker 2: you name them, how about that? Why don't you put
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  Speaker 2: the names of the companies that you hired? But you
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  Speaker 2: don't start off by saying we got behind when we
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  Speaker 2: quote hired a guy and the guy couldn't do it,
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  Speaker 2: and so we hired another guy and he struggled to
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  Speaker 2: get boots on the ground to get it done. These
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  Speaker 2: are they're not reputable firms. They and if they are
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  Speaker 2: reputable firms, you should destroy their reputation right now. Our
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  Speaker 2: city hired them. We had five million dollars waiting on
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  Speaker 2: this and they failed us. That's who We're gonna blame
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  Speaker 2: these people, But you're not naming them. It's like some
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  Speaker 2: sort of shadow people who came and did these audits
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  Speaker 2: that couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: And five million dollars. I mean, you're talking about towns
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  Speaker 3: and cities the size of Lancaster and Cottage that's big money.
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  Speaker 3: That's huge money.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Lancaster is at five million, Cottageville in the Low
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  Speaker 2: Country is only at one hundred and thirty thousand. And
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  Speaker 2: they're in second place. OK so they're I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: still for them. I'm sure they could certainly use the money. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: but five million for a town like Lancaster, that's probably
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  Speaker 2: like a I don't know, eighth of the budget, maybe
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  Speaker 2: even more, I don't know, but but yeah, get your
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  Speaker 2: books in order. Stop pointing fingers at other But again,
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  Speaker 2: that's the Democrat way. It's not my fault. It's not
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  Speaker 2: my it's the other I think the other guy from
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  Speaker 2: Cottageville was saying something about it was the previous administration,
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  Speaker 2: which sounds so mamdanniish. I don't know anything about Cottageville,
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  Speaker 2: but I know that you know, when you say it's
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  Speaker 2: the other guy's fault, the guy was here that I'm replacing.
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  Speaker 2: That's you know, everybody can say that, but you can
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  Speaker 2: say I came in and we had some book counting
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  Speaker 2: regularities and we're currently working on them. We're hopeful to
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  Speaker 2: have that handled here in the next sixty days or something.
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  Speaker 2: But it is his fault. It's it's the former mayor,
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  Speaker 2: it's the former administration. So okay, well, so you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to fix it. Is that what you're saying? We
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  Speaker 2: need a year for you to fix your books. Get
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  Speaker 2: just get an audit done. Don't use those two companies
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  Speaker 2: that mayor Devini says they couldn't get boots on the
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  Speaker 2: ground or whatever. Anyway, do you have thoughts on those
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  Speaker 2: stories or others? You're getting your day started with South
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 4: Now Kelly nash So.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, Donald Trump surprised Mark Carney by announcing that we
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  Speaker 2: were putting a fifty percent tariff on about twenty billion
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  Speaker 2: dollars worth of products that comes out of Canada. It
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  Speaker 2: sounds like it's a combination reasoning here. One would be
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  Speaker 2: quote to level the playing field on dairy cars and
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  Speaker 2: auto parts and alcohol. He said. The other part is
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  Speaker 2: he's very ticked off that they're not managing their wildfires
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  Speaker 2: and Americans are experiencing We'll just say, sad Air Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: any thoughts on this idea that we're going to just
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  Speaker 2: whack them again with fifty percent tariffs?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the whole tariff war between Trump and these countries,
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  Speaker 3: including our allies is sometimes hard to figure out, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: hard to navigate.
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  Speaker 2: Do you agree that Canada should do a better job
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  Speaker 2: of protecting themselves and us from these wildfires?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we've got wildfire issues of our own, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it is he Trump genuinely feel like Canada's
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  Speaker 3: falling down on the job.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, because ten years ago Mark Karney or whoever
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  Speaker 2: was in charge it wasn't Markarney at the time, changed
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  Speaker 2: the way they manage their forests. And so even in
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  Speaker 2: Canada you have like the native tribes are very ticked
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  Speaker 2: off at the government because they said that they're no
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  Speaker 2: longer going to invest in removing the debris controlled burns,
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  Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff. We're just gonna let nature
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  Speaker 2: do what nature wants to do.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they should talk to Karen Bass in La and
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  Speaker 3: see what her policies are on wildfires and handling fires.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then you have to one up it and drain
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  Speaker 2: the reservoirs to make sure that there's no water available.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's the last what three or four years.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like in the summertime, we've been getting these
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  Speaker 2: fires where I can remember standing outside in front of
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  Speaker 2: my church in Columbia South Carolina on a Sunday and
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  Speaker 2: almost like choking a little bit, and they're like, that's
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  Speaker 2: coming from Canada. It's like, what this is insane? And
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure we've all seen the photographs now, like in
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  Speaker 2: Philadelphia and DC and like in Cleveland, they're saying, it's
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  Speaker 2: like unbearable right now, what's this wildfire? Lack of preparing
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  Speaker 2: for forest fires, preparation for your forests. And Mark Karney
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  Speaker 2: continues to say it's the US's fault that we're having
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  Speaker 2: these wildfires because we're not serious about climate change and
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  Speaker 2: if we were more serious, but we were serious under
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden, but it wasn't enough for him. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see. By the way, none of
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  Speaker 2: this will have anything to do with the defense industry
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  Speaker 2: or anything that's key to the security of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: According to the Trump administration, it goes into effect in
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  Speaker 2: thirty days, so you won't see anything for a little
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  Speaker 2: while and Carney can negotiate his way out of it.
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  Speaker 2: At this point. This is South Carolina's morning news from the.
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  Speaker 4: Midlands to the low Country.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
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  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty am double UVOC and
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  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC.
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  Speaker 4: Now here's Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna put this in the you think file. The
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  Speaker 2: State Department announces that the seventy year campaign of subversion
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  Speaker 2: has been being run inside the United States by the
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  Speaker 2: Cuban regime and some of the groups that are now
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  Speaker 2: directly linked back to the Communists of Cuba include and TIFA,
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  Speaker 2: Code Pink, and the Democrat Socialists of America.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Kelly, I'm shocked that Cuba still has that much influence.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think I look at it more like
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  Speaker 2: a money laundering machine. It's probably Russian money has been
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  Speaker 2: filtered through the Cubans to just ninety miles off the
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  Speaker 2: shore of Miami and you can get it in here.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, Code Pink, Antifa and the DSA. Now they're
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to treat Antifa like the the mob.
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  Speaker 2: It's just an idea. There's no real mob, right, Antifa
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  Speaker 2: is not a There's no organizational structure for Antifa, yet
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  Speaker 2: somehow they always seem to have bricks available on the
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  Speaker 2: corner when they're ready for an Antifa march. No, but
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  Speaker 2: no organization, there's nothing to it. It's just a thought,
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  Speaker 2: it's an idea. It's just like the mob. But the
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  Speaker 2: Mob does seem to have had some effect here in
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  Speaker 2: the United States. So if it is like the Mob,
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  Speaker 2: it's doing a great job. Code Pink Crazy. They're the
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  Speaker 2: ones who just went to Havana a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: ago or maybe a couple of months ago now, and
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  Speaker 2: they were staying in like the only nice hotel that
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  Speaker 2: Havana has. And then when he went outside, it was
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  Speaker 2: like nineteen what fifty two or whatever it is with
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  Speaker 2: all those vehicles and everything.
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  Speaker 3: The cars that still run in Cuba.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, and they're like trying to and they showed
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  Speaker 2: I did see what's his name, Nick Shirley went down
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: to Havana and he was showing a guy they're so
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: tight on oil right now. He's literally using a soda
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: bottle to fill his kit. That's all he can get,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: just enough to get from here to there. So again,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: if that's to your point, Christopher, I'm surprised to have
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: any money. I'm surprised to have any influence. I'm surprised
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: anybody would want us to be anything at all like Cuba.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yet Bernie Sanders keeps telling.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Us got the greatest healthcare and they've got a reading
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: program and people love it. They love it in Havana,
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: they loved it before Havna became Cuba. You know, communists,
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: that was a great place to go. Anyway, there's your
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: update for the day. You think that it's a bunch
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: of communists that are running the DSA, Code Pink and Antifa,
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: all right, more coming up. If you've got thoughts on that,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: maybe you know a group here, maybe we can link
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: them directly to the Democrat Party.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if we could do that as well.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: It is South Carolina's Morning.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: News, live from the state Capitol.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: You know, my mom always used to say, if you
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: need an answer now, the interer is no. Christopher Thompson,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: do you have that same upbringing.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I've heard something similar.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, if you need an answer now, the answers no.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: So Down in North tar the Charleston County Transportation Sales
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Tax project is looking for a last second change. It's
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: scheduled for a vote today and what will happen is
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: the transportation sales tax referendum planned for the November ballot,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: which will ask voters to support a twenty five year
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: half percent sales tax that's just half a penny raise. Wow,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: you'all spend a lot of money. It's just a half
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: a percent sales tax increase will raise four point two
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: five billion dollars according to this that's a lot of
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: dough from half a cent each. And what they want
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: to do, according to the this is in the posting courier,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: is they want to get a sound wall for the
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Northwood Estate's neighborhood. They say they've been looking for that
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: sound wall for the past fifteen years and it would
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: be a great boost for the South and district or whatever.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: But as some people have pointed out, who's this being quoted?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: North Charleston Councilman Brandon Hudson, who represents the the neighboring
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Park Circle area, said, these last minute change to our
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: sales tax project list seems to undermine months of work
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: because you're going to have to budget out twenty million
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: dollars out of this thing towards this, he says, the
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: projects that we've already approved have been vetted and prioritized
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: by the staff. The city Council was not involved in
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the potential changes to the project list. This is one
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: of those things that politicians love to do, right. They
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: just try to slide something in last second, and then
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: they'll point to all the good, but they very rarely
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: will point to what is going to have to be sacrificed.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And so this is not an opportunity for the The
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: people may think they're voting on one thing, when in
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: fact they're voting on another. And I just hate to
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: see politics work this way, Christopher.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: And the other thing that you mentioned is how long
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: this tax will last, Because, as we've seen, every time
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: a tax is implemented, it gets to the end of
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: its rain and suddenly they say, well, well let's try
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: and extend that. Let's ask voters to ex no tax ever.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Sunsets ever. They always find a way, Kelly, to stick
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: it to us once again, and they'll come up with
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: a whole new list of projects and say, well, we
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: can't pay for these with government funds, but if you'll
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: give us a halfpenny more, look at what we can
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: do for you. And then and then the reshuffling begins again.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: There is obviously a place for government in our lives,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: and we need it, and so Christopher and I are
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: not far right wing kooks who want to abolish all government. No. However,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: there are also projects that can and should be handled
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: by local neighborhoods. There's projects that canon should be handled
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: by municipalities, and it expands out from there. But for
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: the people in Charleston County, just be aware that this
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: is a reversal of what had been proposed earlier. And
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: today is again Charleston County Council will have their final
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: vote today on the sales tax referendum, and they're trying
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: to switch what they had been talking about, according to
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: some of the county council members, and some of them
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: are rightly indignant about it. We've already done all this work, sure,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, if.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Your project suddenly gets axed at the last second, yeah,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: you'd be upset exactly.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: So again, politics at work, it's never pretty. It's how
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the sausage is made. If you've got thoughts on that
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: story or others, hit us up on the talkback feature
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: off the iHeartRadio app at South Carolina's Morning News.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Big day for day for Shane Beemer and I guess
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: who else. Nick Harber's going to be there. I'm Leonora's sellers.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing it's SEC media Days and they'll be on
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: stage somewhere just before three o'clock, I'm told correct. Christopher
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Thompson's sports director. Man, with all the facts, what else
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: are they going to be talking about other than are
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the Gamecocks going to save Shane Beemer's job?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I think that will probably be the big question. I mean,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: there are a few other questions that Gamecock fans and
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: probably the media in general have won. What will Kendall
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Brill's impact be. He's the new offensive coordinator for South Carolina.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: The game Cocks hope to see an improved offense in
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, So how will that offense look? Darien Stewart.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: The health of the game Cocks big star on the
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: defensive side of the football is you know his back
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: was out at the end of last year. Is he
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: fully recovered? Will he play in that opening game against
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Kent State? Will he play this season? I think Shane
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Biemer has said time and time again he thinks he'll
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: have him back, but there are still questions until we
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: see him on the field. But yeah, the big question
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: will be how do you improve upon four wins last year?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: And we just have a moment here. But you know
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: what I thought was just like online fodder. You're telling
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: me that Greg Sanke is saying that this rumor might
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: be real about the SEC.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean there have been discussions he acknowledged it yesterday,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: discussions going on behind the scenes about the SEC possibly
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: going it alone. I mean, the conference has a lot
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: of issues with the NCAA and college football in general,
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: with everything from enforcing eligibility rules to you know, the portal,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: to you know, expanding the playoff. Greg Sankie thinks sixteen
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: teams is enough and doesn't want to see it go
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: any farther. And he's, you know, as much as they
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: love touting national championships and you only get those when
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: you play everybody else in the country, He's prepared, he says,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: to go it alone if he doesn't see major changes made.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Where the best I'm telling you, we're leaving and we're
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: gonna impose anybody wants to play us. It's a it's
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: a fifty percent tariff. You're gonna have to pay the
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: tariff if you want to.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Play the best trump in college foot.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if he was, because this sounds a
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: little bit like something Trump would do. Oh, we're leaving.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: We're gonna leave if they don't figure out a way
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: to kiss our butts a little bit better.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Well, Sankie says, it's not a leverage. He's not using
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: this as leverage. But yes, there have been discussions.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: It's not a leverage thing now, No, no, no, of
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: course not. We're just thinking about leaving NCAA football. That's unbelievable.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: What a massive update. So well, Christopher Thompson will be
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: all over that story and others, and of course you
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Clempson fans, He's got you covered as well, what's going
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: on with the acc and whatnot. But sec to possibly
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: even just entertain the idea of leaving the NCAA is shocking.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: To Maybe you're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Kelly Nash.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: You know, I've been disgusted to hear Democrat leaders and
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: others in the media continued to describe what's happening in
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Iran as a war of choice. Now, last night was
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: nine ten of the attack consistently from the United States.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I continue to hope we ramp it up But in
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: the meantime, let's reiterate how we got here. This is
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama twenty fifteen, bragging about the new deal he
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: had just signed with Iran.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: The underground facility of Ford Out is converted into a
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: research facility and no longer will have in it centrifugias
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: that could be used to create nuclear weapons.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: No centrifusions. That's fantastic. Four Dow is off the map
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: as of twenty fifteen, and that's going to take It's
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: going to be like that for a while. According to Obama,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: who tells the reporter, she said, well, how are we
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: going to make sure of that.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: We create then a verification and inspection mechanism across the
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: entire nuclear production chain that is unprecedented, more rigorous than
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: anything that has ever been negotiated. Wow, in the history
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: of nuclear non proliferation, greatest in history.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: What we have done is.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: For the first ten years essentially restricted run's capacity not
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: just to weaponize nuclear power, but we severely constrain any
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: nuclear program, peaceful or militarized.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: So for the next ten years, rest easy, Planet Earth
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: that there's going to be nothing happening with nuclear energy,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: nuclear weapons, nuclear anything, inside the radical Islamic state of Iran.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Flash forward ten years to twenty twenty five. This is
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: ABC News.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: The US Nuclear Watchdog says uranium is being enriched to
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: sixty percent at four DOHO, about ninety percent is needed
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: for modern nuclear weapons.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: If your goal is to eliminate the nuclear program, you
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: have to eliminate four DOUGH.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Iran has repeatedly denied having a nuclear weapons program. To
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: take out the facility with a conventional bomb, Israel needs
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: the help of the US. It needs a large bunker
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: buster like the GBU fifty seven, which can only be
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: dropped from a USB two spirit stealth bomber.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: So, Christopher, that sounds pretty easy to understand if you
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: put it together that way, that the Obama Deal did nothing,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: and that four DOW was now being used with centrifuges
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: with enriched uranium, and according to the United Nations, the
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: only way to stop it is the United States needed
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: to use the We're the only country on earth that
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: had those bunker busters and so and our jets had
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: to be the ones to do it. That's how we
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: got here.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, Kelly, I agree with you so far, But what
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: in all this have we done? To take out Iran's
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: nuclear capability, because that was the primary goal when this
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: whole conflict started, But we haven't heard much about that since.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: My understanding is that the nuclear program was pretty severely damaged,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: at least in the initial twenty twenty five attack. Twenty
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: twenty six, we did even further damage to it and
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: deterred them even more because they were already we had
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: the satellite imagery that they were trying to rebuild what
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: we had already destroyed. But more importantly, they were also
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: than had changed their strategy to build out the ballistic
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: missiles program to deter anybody from trying to stop them,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: and they were getting to the point where as we
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: can see even last night they hit who Iran, They
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: hit two tankers last night with missiles. They are hell
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: bent on blowing up anything and everything around Iran. And
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: so for the good of the world, the UN asked
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: us to do this. And now that everybody's acting as
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: if well Trump just had a bad round of golf
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: and said, f it, I'm gonna go ahead and bomb
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Iran tonight.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: No, yeah, I don't think anybody thinks that. But you know, again,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: the goal was to take out the nuclear capabilities of
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: a terror nation, and then suddenly the Straight of Horror
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: moves became the focus.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Again, I don't think that's a surprise. That has always
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: been their trigger thing. That was what they had, was
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the Straight of Horror moves. So now some people have
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: suggested we should just walk away and so let the
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: world deal with that, and I don't know that I'm
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: opposed to it. I do recognize that it will cause
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: severe gas spikes moving forward, because again, twenty percent of
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: the world's oil goes through the Straight of Horror moves.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Could we walk away, Yes, we could at this point
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: because the nuclear program has been pretty severely diminished at
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: this point, and it would take minimum ten years, I
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: would think for them to get back to where they were,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: maybe even fifteen or twenty years. So for the foreseeable future,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. They will continue
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: to reign terror around the Middle East as long as
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the IRGC is there. But this idea that the Trump
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: administration just made this flippant decision to go in, No,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: it was not a war of choice. It was we
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: need the world needs us, your welcome world, and all
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: you do is sit there and tinkle and moan about
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: the fact that again, it's when you think about the IRGC,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: it is a radical form of Islam. It's not all Muslims,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: because they're beheading Muslims, they're killing Muslims. The Iranian IRGC
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: hates anybody who does not worship Allah the way they
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: want it worshiped, the way they want him worshiped. And
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: so when you don't fall in line with them half
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: of the Muslims, they're trying to kill all of the Christians,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: all of the Agnostics, all of the atheists. They want
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: you either dead or in slaved. That's the future for you.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: If the IRGC gets their way and they're not negotiating,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: they're not like, oh okay, well we'll take a cash
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: buy out and just forego the twelfth Demond. That's not
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: the way they look at the world. So stop negotiating,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: go kill them all.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Well, that's that's the next option is do you finish
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: the job or do you walk away? And that's that's
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: something I think we're expecting Trump to say in the
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: upcoming days. Is you know what the plan is. Yes,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: we've been bombing every night for what ten straight nights now, Yes,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: but now's the time to either, you know, make a
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: concerted effort to end this conflict, finish the finish the job,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: or as you pointed out, maybe just walk away. But
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: you know you're gonna have this problem again in ten
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: years or so.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now, well, you know what's interesting to think about, Christopher.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Would it be politically the right move for Trump to
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: just say, you know what, We've done all we can
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: for the world. We're gonna walk away. We've got plenty
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: of our own oil. You saw whale went up over
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: ninety dollars a barrel yesterday and then came back down
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: as the United States started filling their reserves. We have
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: more than enough oiale for ourselves. We can help parts
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: of the world, and so we're just gonna let whoever
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: wants to deal with that, you deal with that. If
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: you want to get the straight open, great. If you
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: maybe he want us to send you some military equipment,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: we'll send it to you, but we're gonna get out
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: of it. We're no longer there. I think that would
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: actually probably help him. He could have done that months ago.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: I think it would have helped him. Then. When I
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: say help him, I mean win the mid terms. But
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: he doesn't I think Donald Trump does the thing that
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: people I don't think understand about Trump. Trump really loves
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: America and really wants the long term prosperity long after
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: he's gone, and he's never running for office again. But
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: he won't be on the earth in thirty years. But
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: he knows that we all know that he's eighty. He's
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: not gonna be here at one hundred and ten. But
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: he wants the future generation of Americans to do well.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: And he believes he's building a foundation of greatness, this
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: golden era that he's talking about that he's trying to
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: launch right now to the great chagrin of the DSA
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: and the Democrat Party in general. That is his act
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: of service to the country. And I think that he's
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: maybe miscalculated how much the American people are with him
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: on this one. I'm with him, but I don't know
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: that many more Americans really want him to just go
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: in there and finish the job. I would like to
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: see us finish the job. I would like the Iranian
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: regime to be completely gone.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: That's my take, as long as it didn't lead to
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: an extended conflict.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I don't think that it has to.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I think that he could wrap this up in three
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: or four weeks. There's a again, one hundred and eighty
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: thousand people that have to die. Ninety million don't have
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: to die. One hundred and eighty thousand, dude, that's the IRGC.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Kill those one hundred and eighty thousand, and Iran is
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: free to do whatever they want. But the ninety million
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: that are left, the overwhelming majority of them do not
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: want this type of dictator. And so with that in mind,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: if you've armed the right people, which I trust both
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: the Masade and the CIA know who the right people are,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: we should be good moving forward. It's not going to
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: be easy. It's not going to be pretty. It's not
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: the snap of a finger. The other option is we
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: pointed out walk away. What would you like to see
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: us do. Should we walk away now and let the
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: world deal with it, or would you like us to
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: try to finish the job. Let us know. On the
• 34:24
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• 34:26
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• 34:32
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• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash, you know we've been operating here in South
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Carolina without a finalized state budget for twenty days. At
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: this point, it's not a government shutdown per se. It's
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: right now. I guess we're kind of in a continuing
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: resolution type of vibe. They're still trying to figure out
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: a way to pay the budget, and we've talked about
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: how if they don't, there's the effects to the teachers
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: and the state employees that had been expecting raises and
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: so on and so forth. WLTX has a story as
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: well today talking about Medicare and Medicaid. So they had
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: been they need money and right now, according to the
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: way the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: said that the Medicaid reimbursement rates and services we expected
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: or we need one hundred million dollars to maintain that.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Our proposal also included fifteen million dollars to cover increased
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Medicare premiums for people eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Right now, a spokesperson says, we're already into our reserve
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: funds and we're now exploring optional services, contractual arrangements, and
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: reimbursement rates. But again, Christopher, the State House failing to
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: handle its business, putting real South Carolinians in some sort
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: of bad situation.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Well, there are three senators and three House members who
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: have been working on this for a couple of weeks now,
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: and it sounds like every time they make some progress,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: a deal falls apart. And it sounds like it's the
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: House and the fact that they are just hanging on
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: to these earmarks because they feel like they've got some
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: legitimate money that should go to you know, towns and
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: communities in the state.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I almost feel like we're going back to our last story.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: It feels like we're negotiating with the IRGC there, like
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: you think you have a deal, but you never have
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: a deal.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like it, although they've said they've been
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: closed a couple of times, and you know, the Senate,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: for its part, once that homestead exemption. I think bottom
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: line is I think you've got to at this point
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: scratch a line through both and say let's try this
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: again next year. You'll have a new governor. At that point,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: you'll have a new legislature. You know, if these ideas
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: aren't going to come together between the House and the Senate,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: scratch them. Get the rest of the budget together, which
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: includes those employee pay raises, which includes more money for
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: the teachers. The districts are already having to pay out.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, the teachers have already been told they're getting
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: these raises. So right now the districts are paying their
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: share while the state, you know, Dilly's around and tries
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: to figure out exactly how they're going to budget.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We again, we were talking about it just earlier.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: There is a role for government, and there are certain
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: obligations that they are expected to meet, and for whatever reason,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: it feels like so often the state, the towns, the
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: federal government, they get i don't know, distracted from what
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: their main jobs are and then they want to worry
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: about these other things. This is covering the Medicare and
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Medicaid programs. Look, I'm not a big fan of socialized medicine.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of a lot of these things.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: But this is where we're at. This is what the
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: people have expected now for dec aids, this is where
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: they're at. And you have to sign up for Medicare
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: right like when you're sixty five, like you're forced to
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: sign up for these types of programs and otherwise you're penalized,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: and the medicaid is for the people who actually need
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: more help, people like going into some sort of you know,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: convalescent home or something to that extent. So you're penalizing
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: the the most vulnerable people in our society. The people
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: who actually need the help are the ones that are
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: being hurt. We're not talking about the Somalians that are
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: frauding these programs. We're talking about the actual South Carolinians
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: that need the help. Your lack of action is now
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: affecting them and putting them But maybe right now again,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: according to the agency, they're going through their reserves, they're
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: exploring other options. It hasn't affected them yet, but of
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: course they're reading this, they're hearing this. They're nervous, and
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: these people are put You're putting undue stress into the system. Legislators.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: You need to get your acts together. If you don't agree,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear from you. If you do a
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: greahousehole like hearing from that, you go go team. You know,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Kelly and Christopher, we like those talkbacks, but we also
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: like hearing maybe we missed something. Let us know. The
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app in South Carolina's Morning News.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC Columbia and
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Now, Kelly Nash.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: You know, in South Carolina, we have pretty much Republican
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: control of everything, and yet we still have these problems.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: But they're negotiating amongst themselves, and Christopher you pointed out
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: it's really about the pork that the House wants. They
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: want to have all these abilities to come home with
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: big checks and present them. But if you look at
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: the federal level, it must be I can't even imagine
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: what it's like to negotiate with Democrats because they have
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: a lot of power. And so, according to this story,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: the Republican lawmakers are trying to get a continuing resolution
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: that would extend the government funding at current levels until
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: December fourth. And the reason they want that is because
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: right now, the federal government runs out of money on
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: October first, right in the middle of the midterms, and
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: so if we could push it past the midterms, then
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't hopefully be such a sticking point. Now they
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: have put nothing into this. The Republicans have put nothing
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: into that, as pointed out by far left nut job
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: from my home state of Connecticut, Rosa Delora, who looks
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: like Danny DeVito and the penguin, and she's got the
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: purple hair, and she's eighty three years old and she's
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: been representing New Haven since like nineteen ninety one or something.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: So anyway, she points out that quote, Republicans have put
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: forward a plane bill absent any controversial riders and containing
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: most of the standard authorities that we enact in the
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: stopgap measures, which is a welcome change. However, Comma, I
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: will block it. Now, why does she want this is
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: what is her actual bone of contention. It is, quote,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: we do not want a government shut down, but at
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: a minimum, we need border patrol funding removed. This is
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: where that's where she's at. We're willing to shut the
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: government down at a minimum to end border patrol. That's
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: the very plain, sane position of the Democrat Party right now.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Kelly, is she not seeing any of the polls that
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: show that Americans are in favor of border Maybe not
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: border patrol policies. They can be controversial times, but as
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: far as border patrol itself, in closing the border and
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: enforcing border laws. Most Americans are overwhelmingly in favor.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Then again, not the campus of Yale. The campus of
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Yale where Rosa Delora gets most of her support, they
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: are wide open. We need it wide open, and so
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: we're gonna shut the government down, hopefully for her. She
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: wants to do it right in the middle of the
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: midterms in October. By the way, I almost kind of
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: hope that happens. The Democrats keep trying to help Republicans
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: win an election that they should not win, and so
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: I hope that they're successful in shutting the government down
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: for a period of time. I'm every that all of
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: their wildest socialist dreams come to pass in the next
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: couple of months, so that Americans hopefully can wake up
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: and go, oh, they weren't lying to me. This is
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: what they want. They do want to get rid of
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: the Senate. They do want to defund the police. They
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: do want to get rid of prisons in America. This
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: is where the Democrat Party has gone to. Anyway, just
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: thought you might find that story interesting. Everybody. If you do,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: let us know, I'm the talkback feature. If you don't
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: say what you'd like this to talk about, it's South
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Carolina's Morning News.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning Use on one O three
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC and ninety
• 43:05
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• 43:08
  Speaker 4: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: It's like, it's like they did. They just don't want
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: to pay attention. The mainstream media does not want to
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: pay attention. Donald Trump brings forth thousands of documents showing
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: that China has actually infiltrated our elections. Couldn't care less.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Rand Paul continues to bring forth damning documentation against the
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Biden administration and how they how they ran the country
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: during the COVID. I don't know. I don't want to.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I don't want to say anything inflammatory, but anyway, here's
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: what I'll say that the the latest documents that ran
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Paul put up show that one of the key advisors
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: to Anthony Fauci was supposed to be landing in the
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: United States from China. This was in February of twenty
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: twenty one. He was landing in New York and the
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Customs and Border Patrol agents had already let everybody know
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: we are going to take him aside and we are
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: going to question him about some of the biological samples
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: that this guy was bringing back from China over and
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: over and over again. However, according to the documentation, once
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: the FBI heard about it, the FBI under the Department
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: of Justice was told do not let them talk to him.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much more damning that can be
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: when you've got the Department of Justice and the Federal
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Bureau of Investigation actively stopping an investigation into who might
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: be bringing COVID into the United States or who knows
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: what else exactly. And you know, Ran Paul has pub
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: published all this stuff. You can go to his website,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: you can go to his Twitter account whatever. I like that.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: He's calling it the reading room. But the only people
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: it are people like you and I, Christopher. Nobody in
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: the mainstream media wants to talk.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: About this, but because in their minds it's a dead story.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I still we don't even know, Kelly,
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: the damage. I don't think we're going to know the
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: damage that that whole shut down over COVID caused to
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: our society for years to come. Not to mention the
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: fact that, you know, there are people who come forward
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: every day who say that they've been impacted negatively by
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: taking the vaccine. So, I mean, there is still so
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: much to discover and so much to learn about how
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: we reacted to COVID and what we did at the
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: government level to cover it all up. And I applaud
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Ram Paul for doing this. Yeah, Ran Paul is not
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: letting it go.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: I hope that Americans will remember what it was like
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: with Biden and control now. I live in Richland County,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: which is a stone's throw from Lexington County, but a
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: world of diffaference when you get went. Where I lived,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: we had very strict mask regulations. I was my favorite
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: was I work out at a Planet Fitness and because
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: of the the mask regulations, they said you could go
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: to the gym and you didn't have to wear the
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: mask while working out, but you had to wear a
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: mask to enter the gym before you got to the
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: gym floor, which is I'm not exaggerating three steps. It's
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: three steps from the time you walk through the door
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: to the scan to where you're on the gym floor.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: One day, I forgot my mask in the car and
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: they threw me out.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: They were like, we're not getting fined. I'm like, this
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: is legit insane. This mask is doing nothing. Everybody knows it.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: My favorite description of a cotton mask was it's like
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: putting a chain link fence up in front of your
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: yard and saying that should inter the ants. This is
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: but how did Wuhan the Wuhan virus? How was it
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: put together? Did the Unite States play a factor in
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: actually creating COVID? More and more documentation makes it appear that, yeah,
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: Anthony Fauci was involved with this, and nobody wants to
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: talk about the fact that we may have contributed to
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: the biggest global pandemic in one hundred years and it
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: was our own government doing it behind and again they'll say, well,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump was in office. That's the point. When Donald
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Trump talks about the elections being not necessarily rigged, but
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: influenced by China while he was in office and he
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: won those elections, that's furthering the point. He's telling you
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: that it's not a Democrat Republican thing. It's a big
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: uniparty thing. It's a deep state thing. And it's shocking
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: to me that we can't get more traction with these
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: types of stories.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: Christopher, even if you're not interested in COVID anymore, you
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: certainly don't want to see this happen, you know, years
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: down the road for America to be impacted like that. Again,
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: for us to go to a grocery store and see
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: lanes with footprints, you have to stay in this lane
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: in order to shop. You can only be on alternate
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: lanes while you're grocery shopping. Or the funerals where people
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: were socially separated, you couldn't sit with your relatives. You'd
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: be at least six feet apart. I mean, nobody wants
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: to go back there. Again.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: It was lunacy. It did nothing to help us, by
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: the way. I mean, you can look at that, you
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: can look at the statistics. It changed nothing as far
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: as like we weren't safer or anything. So again, it
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: was a big lie. Maybe we launched it. Maybe the
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: United States was involved in launching COVID, and the people
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: who launched it should be held responsible. Which is very
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: ironic that Joe Biden gave Fauci a pardon for what
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: What is he pardoning him for? I guess that'll remain
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: to be seen. But anyway, if you want to go
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: to ran Paul's reading room and read all that stuff,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: it's on his social media pages. If you want to
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: hear other things we got, We're covering it all here
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Live from the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's Warning News.
• 49:01
  Speaker 9: With Kelly Nash already being on legitimate disability and below
• 49:05
  Speaker 9: the poverty line, the Medicare and Medicaid does help me out.
• 49:13
  Speaker 9: It keeps me afloat, even though I get down to
• 49:16
  Speaker 9: just about nothing every month.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Well, certainly appreciate your talk back, Thanks for starting your
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: day with the South Carolina Morning News. And we were
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: talking about that earlier, Christopher, that the idea that the
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: state of South Carolina is now still twenty days past
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: having a budget, we're possibly looking at just like a
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: continuing resolution, which would kind of undermine some of the
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: state programs. You were talking about how the school districts
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: are paying the teacher increases out of their own.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, teachers were promised raises, so they'll get them,
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: but the school districts will have to pay them on
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: their own. And you know, some school districts are loaded
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: with cash reserves, but other smaller districts and poor areas
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: or not.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: And more importantly to that woman's point, we were referencing
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: the fact that the State of South Carolina Medicare and
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Medicaid programs are now dipping into reserve funding to try
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: to keep this thing afloat because there's extra costs this year.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: And well, we as a state are getting bigger and
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: we're getting older, and.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: We were supposed to cover that in the budget. And again,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: it's not as if we're the State of South Carolina
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: is short on money. They just need to approve what
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: they're going to spend it on. And they continue to
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: fool around and talk about we got to get these
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: earmarks paid for. No, you don't just pay for what
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: we expect you to pay for. And stop it with
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: all the pork. My gosh, we're supposed to be Republicans.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: We're supposed to be Republicans around here. Christopher is very frustrating.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: All right, more of your talkbacks, and I think I'm
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: going to give you my clip of the day. Coming
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: up next on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: Medicaid, the Clean Air Acts.
• 51:05
  Speaker 9: They know that when black Americans exercise political power, they
• 51:09
  Speaker 9: deliver progress for every American.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: This is AOC going into black preacher mode in Memphis,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Tennessee over the weekend. If you missed it, it's one
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: of the worst impressions of what a black minister would
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: sound like. But then she does. She gets into basically
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: sec coverage.
• 51:27
  Speaker 7: Kentucky behind Alabama, behind Mississippi, behind Georgia.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: Behind South Carolina.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Behind Hey, we got our shout out. This is unbelievable
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: that she's created another accent. The accents continue to come
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: out of AOC's I wonder how she would feel if
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: some like JD. Vance or some you know, national white
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: politician decided to go to the Bronx and come up
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: with an affected Latino accent and start using their phrase.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: She's referring to some of the other congresswoman's as sister,
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: sister this, and sister that, and let me tell you,
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: let me tell you, brothers and sisters, if you can
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: feel the power of the Democrats socialist movement. Golly, she
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: makes me just gag.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: Reminds you of Hillary Clinton and Selma Alabama. I ain't
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: no ways tired.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: And she's always got hot sauce in her purse. Has
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: anybody spot checked her on that since she made that
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: bold claim never leaves home without hot sauce. Hillary Clinton,
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: goodness gracious. But as long as the people keep falling
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: for it, they'll keep doing it. All right, thanks for
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: starting your morning with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: All right, another busy day around DC as it always is.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: And joining us on the phone, Rory O'Neill, we're getting
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: ready for I guess Pete Hegseth to do some testifying
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: today about the Pentagon funding.
• 52:53
  Speaker 10: Huh, right, he'll be up against the Appropriations Committee today.
• 52:57
  Speaker 10: He'll be joined with the Chairman of the Joint Chief
• 53:00
  Speaker 10: said that the Secretary of Agriculture is up there as
• 53:02
  Speaker 10: well as part of this hearing. Because this supplemental request
• 53:07
  Speaker 10: is about eighty seven billion dollars. Sixty seven billion of
• 53:11
  Speaker 10: that is to go to the Pentagon to help fight this.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: War in Iran.
• 53:15
  Speaker 10: The other twenty billion to do programs like provide relief
• 53:19
  Speaker 10: for farmers and help tackle the Ebola outbreak.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Do we have any insights, Rory on like how depleted
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: are our ammunition piles at this point? Are we are
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: we getting low?
• 53:36
  Speaker 10: Well, it depends on the weapon. I think it's going
• 53:39
  Speaker 10: to be the Secretary's answer, and I'm sure he'll be
• 53:41
  Speaker 10: asked that, and I'm sure he'll say, I'll give you
• 53:43
  Speaker 10: an answer. And the closed door briefing, I don't want
• 53:45
  Speaker 10: to say in public, you know exactly what our supplies are,
• 53:48
  Speaker 10: but you know, we've seen that some of these defensive
• 53:50
  Speaker 10: weapons systems have really been depleted and used by Ukraine
• 53:56
  Speaker 10: and used by our allies all across the Middle East
• 53:59
  Speaker 10: to shoot down some of these drones and other missiles
• 54:02
  Speaker 10: that had been launched by Iran. I saw some stat
• 54:06
  Speaker 10: early on in this that, you know, it takes a
• 54:08
  Speaker 10: two million dollar American rocket to shoot down a thirty
• 54:11
  Speaker 10: thousand dollars drone that's launched by Iran.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: And that's bad math, absolutely bad math. I'm sure somebody
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: somewhere with a big brain is trying to figure out
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: how to create a thirty thousand dollars drone that can
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: take down a thirty thousand dollar drone.
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: Well, I think that that is part of the equation.
• 54:28
  Speaker 10: I think that's what Ukraine has learned how to do,
• 54:31
  Speaker 10: by the way, and now we're asking them for a
• 54:33
  Speaker 10: lot of help.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: And actually we saw, you.
• 54:35
  Speaker 10: Know, just a week or so ago, the US deploy
• 54:38
  Speaker 10: those remote operated drone vessels like Ukraine has so successfully
• 54:43
  Speaker 10: done to tackle or to take on the Russian navy
• 54:46
  Speaker 10: and the Black Sea. Now, for the first time we
• 54:48
  Speaker 10: saw American Navy used drones in attacks that took out
• 54:53
  Speaker 10: a submarine facility there in Iran.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if the Ukraine hacked that code to do that,
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: that would have been in no small part due to
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: the funding of the United States to keep them afloat. Yeah.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 55:06
  Speaker 10: Look, and that part of Ukraine was a big technology
• 55:09
  Speaker 10: hub as well. You know, that's where they made all
• 55:11
  Speaker 10: the rocket motors for the Russian rockets. There was a
• 55:15
  Speaker 10: huge aviation sector in Iran or a big tech sector
• 55:19
  Speaker 10: where that's why they've been so smart to trying to
• 55:22
  Speaker 10: counter some of these Russian weapons, which, by the way,
• 55:26
  Speaker 10: are the drones in particular are made by Iran that
• 55:29
  Speaker 10: are then bought by Russia that are used to attack Ukraine.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember, I remember thinking that at the beginning
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: of this conflict with US and Iran, part of the
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: benefit would be the fact that those Iranian drones couldn't
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: be shipped to Russia anymore because they were going to
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: need them for themselves. So that certainly was a double
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: edged help for the Ukraine. In the meantime, the State
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: Department's got a new warning out for Americans traveling abroad.
• 55:54
  Speaker 10: Man this was interesting, certainly caught my eye yesterday when
• 55:57
  Speaker 10: the State Department put out this worldwide advisory for American
• 56:01
  Speaker 10: travelers or those Americans who are living overseas. It says
• 56:05
  Speaker 10: that due to heightened tensions in the Middle East, the
• 56:08
  Speaker 10: security environment quote remains complex with the potential for unforeseen
• 56:14
  Speaker 10: escalation unquote. So the advisory goes on to recommend that
• 56:18
  Speaker 10: people make sure they're up to date with all the
• 56:20
  Speaker 10: State Department social media pages. You know, if you go
• 56:22
  Speaker 10: to the State Department website, you can actually get alerts
• 56:26
  Speaker 10: for specific countries that you may be traveling to or
• 56:29
  Speaker 10: loved ones are there for this summer. So make sure
• 56:31
  Speaker 10: that you are tuned in and not completely tuned out
• 56:35
  Speaker 10: just because you're on your summer holiday.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: That could be very valuable information. Have you had a
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: chance to peruse that at all or the like any
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: countries like outside of Israel or something like that where
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Americans may normally travel that all of a sudden they
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: are popping up on this list.
• 56:48
  Speaker 10: Well, now, in this case, it's worldwide, So that's why
• 56:51
  Speaker 10: it's so remarkable that we've seen this kind of alert.
• 56:54
  Speaker 10: But they do do alert. So say there's an incident
• 56:57
  Speaker 10: god pribated in France or something or Italy, you can
• 57:00
  Speaker 10: if you're plugged in and you're on the State Department
• 57:03
  Speaker 10: list for those countries, you'll get notifications because they'll know
• 57:07
  Speaker 10: an American is there. Also good that the State Department
• 57:10
  Speaker 10: knows and American is there, as they might need to
• 57:13
  Speaker 10: evacuate people, you know.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: In short notice.
• 57:15
  Speaker 10: So it's always good to have your name sort of
• 57:18
  Speaker 10: circulating with the State Department when traveling overseas, especially in
• 57:22
  Speaker 10: some of those sketchier countries, but you know, France and
• 57:25
  Speaker 10: Italy and stuff that's pretty mainstream.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but becoming an at risk nations because they're closer
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: than we are. So, Rory O'Neil, you've provided some fantastic
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: information this morning. Certainly appreciate it.
• 57:37
  Speaker 10: Hey, mission accomplished then, Hey, thanks.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: All right, I have to talk to you soon. Rory
• 57:42
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• 58:02
  Speaker 4: Now, Kelly Nash.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: You know everything can change so quickly if you think
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: about it. It was about ten days ago. Everything was
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: on track. Lindsey Graham was going to coast to victory,
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: no problems, no fuss, no must with that seat. Suddenly
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: he's passed. His sister is brought in. She's going to
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: be the placeholder. Yesterday she announces she's running for his seat.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: We also got yesterday Representative Russell Frye says he's running.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Ralph Norman says he's running. Duke Buckner says he's running.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Mark Lynch says he's running. There's now we did hear
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: from Nancy May says she's not running. There's still a
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: couple of other names, like you mentioned, Mark Sandford, Pamela Evatt,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: There's just a few other names that may be still
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: getting into this race. But as you said, today is
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: the first day, Christopher.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: Today's the filing filing opening, and it's it ends a
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: week from today, so it's a very compressed window. And
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: from there boom the primary August eleventh.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: And there is an early voting window.
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: I think it's Wednesday through Friday week prior to the primary.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know how many people will take advantage of
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: that any you know, traditionally there's very low percentages on
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: voter turnouts for special primaries like this, but this is
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: such a high profile case. I'm wondering where we're going
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: to go with this.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: You would hope the turnout would be a lot bigger
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: than it normally would in an election in August, just because, Yeah,
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: there's so much at stake. And Kelly, we haven't even
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: gotten into you mentioned earlier this morning Darlene Graham and
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: whether she is a viable GOP candidate based on their
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: new restrictions involving her past voting record. What about Russell
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: Fry Now he's apparently going to run for his House
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: seat and the Senate at the same time. If he
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: were to win the Senate race, then we'd have to
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: turn around and hold a special election for his seat
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: at a time when Republicans can't afford to lose a
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: single vote in the House.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of complexities going on here, And like
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: I said, this is all within the last what ten
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: days or so, Right, If you go back ten days ago,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: life was easy, breezy. If you're in the GOP. We
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: got this handled in South Carolina. Now, by the way,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: I still think we've got it handled. Even if Russell
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: Fry was to win, I think that whoever wins the
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: nomination will probably I don't want to say easily defeat
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews, but should win by five or more points
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: would be my estimate. Then if Russell Fry needs to
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: be replaced, I am rather confident that that will go Republican.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: Same with Ralph Norman. Now, either he's going to move
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: on to be the nixt senator or he's retired, and
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: so what's his name from the state House. He's running
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: for that seat, and so I don't imagine there'll be
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: any problems winning there, although that would probably be the
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: most competitive because as you get closer to Charlotte, you
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: get more Democrat influence closer you get to the big
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: cities like that.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: So the wild card and all this is Darlene Graham,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: just because no one expected her name to be on
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: this primary ballot.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: I have not checked Calse yet to see what they've
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: got her at, but that will be you know, again,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: you come in with the president's endorsement, and some would
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: say he actually kind of pushed her into the race.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, we're going to try to talk
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: to her. I know we've we've we spoke with her
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: team yesterday. So hopefully we're gonna have Darlene Graham on
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: the show very soon.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: And Kelly is Lindsey Graham's team her team now, because
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: I mean that was that was one of the things
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: that was I mean, he had a massive staff and
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: they were all loyal to him for I mean they
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: were people, there were people that were involved with him
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: from when he was in the House. Yes, I mean
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: people stuck with him, and he had a loyal and
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: a very high functioning staff. If they stick with it,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: if they stick with her, you know, that could turn
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: the tide a bit.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: But an interesting thing that people might not know is
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: that the staff that you're referencing is his Senate staff.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: They are not allowed by law to be involved with
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: a campaign. Sure, so when I go to speak with
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: Darlene about campaign issues, I actually have to go through
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: a different person. So like Abby's the one who controls
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: what happened with Lindsay and stuff. When it came to
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: policy issues, so I have to talk to her for that,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: but I have to get this new spokesperson for their
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: campaign thing. It's kind of like, you know, I'm trying
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: to get a hold of Russell Fry's campaign person, which
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: we're having a little difficulty connecting with him right now.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: But like we're gonna have Ralph Norman on later on
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: this week, Ralph Norman, the first half of the interview
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: will be about what's going on in the House, but
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: in order for the second half to continue, I have
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: to align that with another person just by to follow
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: the laws these again, can we get more bureaucracy?
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know, bureaucracy and politics?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: Do we have enough yet? Anyway, this is We're going
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: to keep an eye on that and if you've got
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: a favorite going into it or maybe like we said,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: Mark Sandford, Pamela Evitt, others not in. Is there some
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: names that you'd like to see we already got five.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: Would you like to see somebody else involved? Listen know
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  Speaker 4: Now, Kelly Nash.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: You know, we are a very big military state, South
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: Carolina is, and with that in mind, maybe more attention
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: than some other states on this idea that the law
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: requires that for active duty members and overseas citizens that
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: they receive the ballots be sent out to them forty
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: five days before an election. However, as the South Carolina
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: Election Commission Executive Director Conway Belangia says, we can't do
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: that because of this primary that we've got coming up.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: And so I guess they announced that they now have
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: an agreement with the Department of Justice that the state
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: will under this agreement, absentee ballots will be sent to
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: the active duty service members and others by August first.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: Now August the closing is of the twenty eighth, Is
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: that right for the filing? Yes, so they have till
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: next Tuesday, and then by next Thursday, I think, is
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: the first we have to mail these ballots out. That's
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: going to be quite the turnaround. It is, because we
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: got to find out still even who's on the ballot,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: so it's not like they can pre print them. Now
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: we think we know but we don't know until we know.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: So right now, five have publicly said that they're going
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: to run. But once they get all the names, the
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: people who pay the fees, so on and so forth,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: those names will then be put on ballot. But if
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: you mail them out August first, Christopher, I mean, I mean,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: I'm still getting birthday cards, you know, a month and
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: a half after my birthday.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: You wonder, Kelly, why we can't make it possible for,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: especially for our military men and women serving overseas, to
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: simply vote electronically.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: It would seem like there is a secure internet thing
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: that they could use. I don't even know what that
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: thing is called, but maybe a military member could share
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: it with us. But there are secure things that people
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: use where you can't get into it that we have
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: to change with the times, I guess, I guess so,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: but this I wouldn't imagine that. What is it going
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: to take to get to Europe? I mean, and well,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: unless I guess they're not using the United States Postal Service,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: are they? They're going to just use the military to
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: deliver military ballots I guess to Germany or wherever else.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: So perhaps that's a quicker way of doing it, but again,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: I have mailed things. Matter of fact, about three weeks ago,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: my wife told me I didn't see it, but we
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: got one of our Christmas cards that we had mailed
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: out returned in July. Yeah, it was like right before
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: we went away for the fourth of July. Wow, so
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: it took a little while. So I don't know. Do
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: we call those people and say, we really did mail
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: you a Christmas card? I don't know, But I mean,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: the USPS has been having a lot of problems lately,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: and I don't know. Again, if you're just someone living
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: overseas and ex pat as they say, I wouldn't expect
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: you to be able to participate in this special primary,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: just based off the way the mail works. But anyway,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: they're going to try to comply with that. So if
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: you know somebody living overseas, tell them that the ballots
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: are by lag going to go out on the first
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: and they got to get them back by what date? Again,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: is it h the twenty eighth? I think, so, don't
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: fool around. When you finally do receive it, just immediately
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: put it right back, put your ex right on it,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: turn it around, mail it and maybe, just maybe you'll
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: have a voice in the primary, which in most instances
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: decides who's actually going to win the state wide seats.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: But that's what's going on with that. What's going on
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• 1:07:30
  Speaker 8: Hey, guys, forgive me if you've already talked about this,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 8: But in the twelve hours or so immediately after Lindsey
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 8: Graham's death, I kept hearing it reported that he had
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 8: had an exciting phone call with President Trump where he
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 8: had found a way to pass the Save America Act.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 8: Has this all been combined in this new Russian sanctions
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 8: bill or has it just kind of gone away?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: My understanding is that whatever that, if that actually took place,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: because again you only have Donald Trump saying it, we
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: don't know. Apparently he never Lindsay Graham never shared with
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump what that was going to be, how that
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: would work. Because as of right now we're talking about,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: you know, the GOP is crapping themselves over the shutdown
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: collide with the Save America Act. Donald Trump is ticked
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: off about it. There's been no updates on that as
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: of yet. But that's a great question. And thanks for
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: using the talkback feature and encourage everybody to use the
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: talkback feature to get to us. I want to let
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: you know I did receive an email just moments ago.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: It's interesting because it still says from the office of
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Lindsay Graham, but then when you go to the header,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: it says from the office of US Senator Darlene Graham.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: The press release, and it's talking about the funeral services
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: which are going to take place first at the US
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: Capital that is closed to the public, and that will
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: then go to the Washington National Cathedral funeral services or
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: invitation only, and that will take place Tuesday. I guess
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: that's a week from today, and then he flies to
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: South Carolina. The funeral services will begin with a final
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: visit to the South Carolina State House at approximately ten
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: forty five on Wednesday, July twenty ninth. The public is
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: invited to pay their respects along the procession route. The
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: funeral procession begins on the south side of the State
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: House to the north side via the West Walkway. His
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: remains will then be carried by the South Carolina State Guard.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: There will be a presentation of law enforcement from agencies
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: across South Carolina on the north steps of the State House.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: There will be a brief pause followed by an F
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: sixteen flyover from the one hundred and sixty ninth Fighter
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: Wing from McIntyre Joint National Guard Base at approximately eleven am.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: They will then proceed down Main Street to First Baptist
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: Church of Columbia. Seating at the First Baptist Church is
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: first come, first served. That could be chaos, Yes, do
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying? How many people want to
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: be there for that?
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: There will be long lines and early lines for that one.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: No cuts, no back cuts, no holdies. The funeral service
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: will then be followed by a private family burial up
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: in Pickens County. So that's the email that I just
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: got regard from Again, this is now from the office
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: of Darlene Graham, although it still says it's from the
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: office of Lindsay Graham. So it'll be a sad day,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, no doubt about it. But I know a
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: lot of South Carolinians would like to be there on
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday for that, And again ten forty five is when
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  Speaker 2: it'll start at the State House. But if you want
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  Speaker 2: to be at the First Baptist Church, I think you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to get there a lot earlier than
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  Speaker 2: ten forty five. Although they don't give us any details,
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  Speaker 2: it's like when the church would open or anything like
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  Speaker 2: that at this point. So maybe if you're a First
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  Speaker 2: Baptist member, maybe it's maybe you get a little shot
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  Speaker 2: at it. Some pews reserved for the members. That's right,
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  Speaker 2: it could be put your brass plaque on it. That's
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  Speaker 2: my seed, that's my family seat. Anyway, that's the latest
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  Speaker 2: on Lindsay Graham, and again thanks for your talk back
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  Speaker 2: regarding that. You can use it on the iHeartRadio app
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  Speaker 2: with South Carolina's Morning News by from.
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  Speaker 4: The State Capitol.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: So, just watching the Epic Times, which is for those
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  Speaker 2: of you who don't know the background on them. They
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  Speaker 2: are founded by people who were suffering under the Communist
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  Speaker 2: Party in China, and so the original mission of the
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  Speaker 2: Epic Times was to expose how bad communism is. Socialism
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  Speaker 2: is all that sort of stuff. This is a brief
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  Speaker 2: part of their update.
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  Speaker 11: Exposed researchers from universities including Purdue and West Point examine
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  Speaker 11: more than two hundred and twenty apps designed for military users,
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  Speaker 11: from banking and study tools to national guard apps. They
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  Speaker 11: found some apps included software from the Chinese company Huawei,
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  Speaker 11: while others contained code link to the Russian out of
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  Speaker 11: housing platform at YANDEX.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I need to hear anymore.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's Kelly. That's scary enough right there.
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  Speaker 2: That is unbelievable that we have in our hands of
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  Speaker 2: US military members Chinese and Russian code inside the apps,
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  Speaker 2: inside military apps found inside. That's the headline, Chinese Russian
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  Speaker 2: code found inside US military apps.
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  Speaker 3: And it was college kids that.
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  Speaker 2: The researchers that Purdue and West Point. Wow are the
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  Speaker 2: ones who found this. Wow again, the Internet has changed everything.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that your mom and dad never had
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  Speaker 2: to worry about. This is something that previous generations of
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  Speaker 2: soldiers never worried about, previous government administrations never had to
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  Speaker 2: worry about. But the Internet has changed everything. And with
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  Speaker 2: AI and all this stuff that's rapidly changing the face
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: of everything. One of them is the Chinese and the
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  Speaker 2: Russians are doing a great job. I hope we are too.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I don't know what we've got go.
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  Speaker 2: They never tell us what we've done to them, But
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  Speaker 2: I hope that we're not only keeping pace, but outpacing
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  Speaker 2: them when it comes to hacking their stuff. But wow,
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  Speaker 2: to be in US military apps with the Chinese and
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  Speaker 2: Russian codes. Shocking update there from the epic times. All right,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be back with more.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: You remember a few years ago, Robert Hurr. H u
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  Speaker 2: R was the special counsel who said that, yes, there
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  Speaker 2: was proof that Joe Biden, while as the Vice president,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: mishandled classified information, but he wouldn't prosecute him because, you know,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: he was a sympathetic elderly man with a bad memory,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: and the Biden administration took great exception. He's the sharpest
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  Speaker 2: man on earth. Well, since then, the Heritage Foundation has
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: been suing the United States Department of Justice to try
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: to get the actual audio from those interviews released, because
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  Speaker 2: apparently the Biden administration admitted to altering the transcript of
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden's testimony to the Special Council to make him
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: quote appear less incompetent end quote. That's what. Yes, they
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  Speaker 2: admitted to that. So yesterday a three judge panel, one
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: Obama appointee, the other a Trump appointee, and a two
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  Speaker 2: to one decision. The one who dissented was a Biden appointee,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: but two to one voted that yes. The American people,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: how do they write it? The public has a weighty
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: and significant interest to shining a light on the Special
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: Council's investigation of a former vice president for allegedly mishandling
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  Speaker 2: and disclosure of classified information. It added that the requested
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: materials will allow the public to assess whether the Special
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  Speaker 2: Council properly hnd this investigation and whether his conclusions were justified.
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  Speaker 2: The Biden team is beside themselves. You can't expose Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly, I'm not. I'm not sure that any audio could
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  Speaker 3: be more damning than that debate performance. But I'm willing
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  Speaker 3: to listen now.
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  Speaker 2: And and this interview, by the way, that we're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: this is not actually the Robert Her interview. This is
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: gonna be the audio tapes of what was the guy's
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  Speaker 2: name who was writing the Biden book, Mark Zwana Zitzer
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  Speaker 2: or whatever his name is, that these are the conversations
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: that Joe Biden had with Mark Zwannitzer while writing his
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: book getting ready to run for president and basically disclosing
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: all kinds of classified information at the time, and that
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: is what got him investigated by Robert her And now
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: we're gonna hear what those conversations with Mark zhon, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I guess after any reactions are needed to keep any
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  Speaker 2: classified information that still needs to be classified, there's I
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  Speaker 2: guess probably some classified information that they'll say this shouldn't
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: have been this part should not have been allowed in
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  Speaker 2: the public at that time. It's been declassified since then.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: But as the vice president, Joe Biden constantly used America
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: as a just a get rich quick scheme. I mean
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: that the whole you know, his son Hunter and aka
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: the Big Guy were working together as a tandem and
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: nothing more more obvious than what actually happened in the Ukraine.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: For those of you who forgot, Joe Biden's son was
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: appointed to an energy board with zero experience outside of
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: hitting bongs and heroin pretty hard. He was supposedly going
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  Speaker 2: to be He was making something like two hundred and
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars a year to sit on a board
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  Speaker 2: where he knows nothing. And when there was an investigation
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: launched by the new prosecutor in the Ukraine, Joe Biden
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: to the Ukraine with what was supposed to be a
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: billion dollars in aid and said, you're not getting the
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: money unless you fire that prosecutor who's investigating my son,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: and then bragged about it on stage. And what do
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  Speaker 2: you know, son of a bee, They fired the guy,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: is what he says. And yes, they fired the guy
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  Speaker 2: because the Ukraine needed the money. For all you people
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: who love to fly your Ukrainian flags, remember it was
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden who was against the Ukraines. He was the
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: one who was launching an invasion of Ukraine at that point,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: making sure that his family got paid. I don't like
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  Speaker 2: to say it because he was the vice president. But
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: then when he even said, you know, the guy said, well,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have the power to do that, I said,
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  Speaker 2: call Obama. I told him, call Obama. See if I
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  Speaker 2: got the power. In six hours, I'm getting on a
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  Speaker 2: plane and that billion dollars is coming home with me
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: to the US unless you fire that guy. And that
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: guy was fired, and that's when and then Trump got
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: in trouble. If you remember when they when Zelensky got elected,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: he called them, was talking to him and in the
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: middle of that conversation said, hey, could you do me
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  Speaker 2: a favor. We'd like to know what happened with that
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  Speaker 2: prosecutor because there's a lot of people here who think
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: that was kind of shady the way he got fired
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: in the Ukraine. And Zelenski said, I'd be happy to
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  Speaker 2: look into it. And then that's when somebody who wasn't
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: even on the call, who just heard about it, filed
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: a complaint and they tried to impeach Trump over that.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: It was a perfect phone call, everything was perfect, and
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: yet to try to impeach me. And that's what that's
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: all about. Joe Biden is the crook in this scenario,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: not Donald Trump, not I, not even Barack Obama. I
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: don't even know that Obama knew what Biden was doing.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: Biden has been a bad actor for years, and it's
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: this is not the first thing. Whether you go all
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  Speaker 2: the way back to his first presidential campaign where he's
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: ripping off speeches and then calling the reporters liars who
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: are pointing out you are directly ripping off word for
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: word UK leader's speeches. You're a liar.
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  Speaker 4: Pal.
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  Speaker 2: He's always he was ready to fight all the time.
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  Speaker 2: He was quite fiery, no doubt.
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  Speaker 3: And these tapes of he his biographer interviewing him, that's
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  Speaker 3: what we're going to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the private recordings between ghostwriter Mark Zwanitzer, who I
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  Speaker 2: guess as a ghostwriter, gets no credit for writing the
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden book. Those had been considered privileged. That's what
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: the Biden administration said. They are privileged. You're not allowed
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: to hear them. Well, yesterday in DC two to one,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: the court said, no, sir, the American people deserve to
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  Speaker 2: hear if you are actually sharing classified information to sell books.
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  Speaker 3: Will we actually be listening for the classified information or
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: just to hear how coherent Joe Biden sounds at that point?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think you're going to get it all. Yeah,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: you're going to get it all. And I mean, we
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: just got John Bolton on a one point nine million
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: dollar fine. How much worse could it be for Joe Biden,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: who probably has not a nickel to pay.
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  Speaker 3: I just wrote a new book.
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  Speaker 2: That was a great promo for that. Thank you, Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson, Kelly Nash. Here we'll be back tomorrow morning
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  Speaker 2: on South Carolina's Morning News