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Show Rewind 9-28-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody put me out of program. I am back. We've
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  Speaker 2: got another opportunity to have an awesome week, and I
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  Speaker 2: hope we're ready to take advantage of it. Good morning,
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson.
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  Speaker 1: Morning.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready. You are ready. I'm ready. And we've got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of news to get to. We'll be talking
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  Speaker 2: about the Trump ad that aired yesterday. We'll be talking about,
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  Speaker 2: do we have a Lindsay Clancy copycat happening in South Carolina?
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  Speaker 2: So many stories to get to. I think the one
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  Speaker 2: that everybody... maybe it's just my timeline, Christopher, was the
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  Speaker 2: news of the Gamecocks yesterday and Dylan Stewart. Did that
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  Speaker 2: catch you off guard or were you surprised at that?
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  Speaker 3: No, not really. I mean, Shane Beamer was forced to
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  Speaker 3: act after what happened Saturday night. I don't think he
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  Speaker 3: knew everything that had gone on when he was leaving
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  Speaker 3: the field Saturday and had that press conference. But by yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: he had a pretty good idea of everything Dylan Stewart
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  Speaker 3: had done, the totality of his actions. And Something had
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  Speaker 3: to be done. Star player or not, highest paid player
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  Speaker 3: or not, you can't let somebody on your team behave
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Key penalties, punching an opposing player, getting into it with
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  Speaker 3: multiple coaches on the sideline, including Beamer.
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  Speaker 2: The fellow who played for Alabama, I forget his name,
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  Speaker 2: the tight end, I saw some video of him Sunday
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  Speaker 2: morning where they were talking to him after the game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, that guy just seems like a big, happy-go-lucky fella.
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  Speaker 3: He was laughing about it. He said, actually, Stewart punched
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  Speaker 3: me three times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all saw one, but he punched me three times.
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  Speaker 2: And what did you say to him? I was saying,
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  Speaker 2: you're a great player, man. He didn't want to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: But he is a great player. That's the, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that is the tragedy of this all. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to say it's a tragedy because Dylan Stewart
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  Speaker 2: still has his health and blah, blah, blah. However, he
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  Speaker 2: has a unique special gifting to be able to get
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  Speaker 2: to the quarterback and stop runs and do all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of amazing things that even in the, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: the latest levels of college football, he ranks top tier
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  Speaker 2: and he's throwing it away because of a bad attitude.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's and for him to be making the money that
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  Speaker 3: he's making right now, you know, which is he's making
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  Speaker 3: in college more than most of us will make in
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  Speaker 3: a lifetime, right?
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  Speaker 2: Do we have a good estimate as to what he's making?
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  Speaker 3: Probably 2 to 2.5 million. Those are estimates.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Do we think... I mean... Was he making that
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  Speaker 2: his freshman year?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: And his freshman year is when you started seeing some
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  Speaker 2: of the... I mean, the most famous one would be,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, against the Ole Miss quarterback. Was it Jackson
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  Speaker 2: Dart or whatever? He was doing the shotgun thing, pumping it.
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  Speaker 2: That was egregious at best. Yes. But he's had... a
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  Speaker 2: lot of issues when it comes to discipline. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the thing that's, I guess, I don't know, maybe more
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  Speaker 2: surprising than anything is I know we were excited to
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  Speaker 2: get him. He's an incredible talent, incredible, but Shane Beamer
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  Speaker 2: has really prided himself on building a culture. And it
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  Speaker 2: would seem as if Dylan Stewart is, the opposite of
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  Speaker 2: the culture he's been trying to build. And he's been
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  Speaker 2: that way for three.
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  Speaker 3: Years, which I think is another reason why Beamer felt
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  Speaker 3: like he had to suspend him yesterday, because it was
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  Speaker 3: just going against everything. Beamer's built that program on and
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  Speaker 3: that programs, you know, teetering on the edge right now.
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  Speaker 3: And you certainly can't allow your star player to.
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  Speaker 2: Push it over the edge, but it makes it much
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  Speaker 2: more difficult to win when you don't have that star player. True. He,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we saw in the, uh, The previous game,
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi State, first play in, he affects the game. He
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  Speaker 2: only played, I think, 15 snaps, which is unbelievable in
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  Speaker 2: that game, and then didn't want to come out of
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  Speaker 2: this game. So some bizarre happenings. But, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: anybody's capable of having an attitude adjustment. Maybe you've been
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  Speaker 2: in your life where you had a bad attitude or
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  Speaker 2: a wrong attitude, and somebody was able to speak to you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who could speak to him. Maybe somebody
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  Speaker 2: like a Melvin Ingram person. could come back and talk
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  Speaker 2: to him. Someone who's had great success, not only with
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  Speaker 2: the Gamecocks, but at the professional level and understand somebody
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  Speaker 2: who knew Shane Beamer and understands that he's trying to
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  Speaker 2: look out for, for your best interests and the team's
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  Speaker 2: best interest. And those are not like mutually exclusive. They
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  Speaker 2: usually line up pretty well because in life, if you
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  Speaker 2: have a bad attitude, that will hold you back on
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  Speaker 2: just about everything.
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  Speaker 3: Even with all the talent and his build, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: NFL teams will take it. When they're going to spend
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  Speaker 3: that much money on a player, they will take a look.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they examine character as well as athletic ability
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  Speaker 3: when you get to that level.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw a couple of posts. One was from,
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  Speaker 2: what's his name? Now I'm trying to play. Debo Samuels.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Debo Samuels. One of the Debo's.
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  Speaker 2: Debo Williams, maybe. Debo Williams was saying nobody's bigger than
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  Speaker 2: the team. Nobody. And that's a great reminder that you're
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  Speaker 2: not bigger than the team. But then there were some
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  Speaker 2: other NFL players and stuff that were just commenting on this.
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  Speaker 2: And then I saw Todd McShay making the point that
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  Speaker 2: you were making. He's like, he's my third on the
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  Speaker 2: board going into this weekend. That was the third player
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  Speaker 2: I had being drafted in the upcoming NFL draft. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where he's going to be. First round, second round,
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  Speaker 2: third round. But he's definitely taking a big drop. based
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  Speaker 2: off of this weekend's performance. And it's all head. It's
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  Speaker 2: not physical.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. I mean, again, a team, an NFL team is
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  Speaker 3: not going to invest that much money in a top
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  Speaker 3: round draft pick unless they know there he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be on the field and constantly working for the team
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  Speaker 3: instead of against the team.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know Christopher Thompson's got his ear to the
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  Speaker 2: ground and nobody will get you more Gamecock coverage than him.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're happy to have, uh, the access that
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson grants us. And we'll keep up to date
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  Speaker 2: on that story. And like I said, we've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of local news and national news to cover. We'll
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  Speaker 2: break all of that down, plus your talkbacks. Whatever you
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  Speaker 2: want to get on the air this morning, it's as
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  Speaker 2: easy as using the microphone on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: It is 6.09.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the tongues are wagging all over the state. The
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are about to seize the Senate.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Look at Annie Andrews within the margin of error, according
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  Speaker 2: to the Trafalgar Group. It's very tight. 43.4 for Darlene Graham, 42.3
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  Speaker 2: for Annie Andrews, 5.9% other. I guess that would be
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  Speaker 2: the constitutionalist and the libertarian that are running and or
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  Speaker 2: just write-ins for Ralph Norman. And then you have 8.5% undecided.
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  Speaker 2: And then you go inside and you say, well, what
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  Speaker 2: is this like? What is the plus, minus, all these
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  Speaker 2: types of things? You had 1,087 respondents. They all had
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  Speaker 2: to be likely general election voters. Response rate, 5.4%. Margin
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  Speaker 2: of error, 2.9%. They have a 95% confidence level in this.
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  Speaker 2: The Trafalgar Group is saying it's within the margin of
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  Speaker 2: error now. And with that, it's pretty much already over, Christopher.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats have claimed victory.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about that, but it's time for
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  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham to start serious campaigning. And that includes getting
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  Speaker 3: some ads out there.
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  Speaker 2: I have to point out, though, every freaking Democrat for
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  Speaker 2: the last 25 years has ended up with about 40
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  Speaker 2: to 45 percent of the general election. This is not
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  Speaker 2: a shock in the least. By the way, Lindsey Graham
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  Speaker 2: was much, he actually was underwater. He was losing in
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  Speaker 2: his race to Jamie Harrison. Losing at this point. So
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  Speaker 2: for people to say, oh my God, I've never seen
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  Speaker 2: anything like it. Go look at the dang polls from
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  Speaker 2: 2020 then. This is not a shock in the least
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  Speaker 2: to me. Annie Andrews has 42%. And guess what she's
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  Speaker 2: going to end up with? About 45%. That is what
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  Speaker 2: she's going to lose by nine points. That's going to
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  Speaker 2: be the final. Well, maybe eight because you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get 2% go for the others. Ralph Norman will get 5,000
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  Speaker 2: morons who want to write his name in as making
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  Speaker 2: some sort of statement. And then everybody else is going
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  Speaker 2: to fall in line at the last moment and go,
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  Speaker 2: what the freak am I doing? Because a vote for
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  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews is a vote for more abortion, more illegal aliens,
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  Speaker 2: more transgendered lunacy. These are not the values that Americans
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  Speaker 2: and or South Carolinians align with. So for when I
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  Speaker 2: see these. Polls and people are going crazy on it
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  Speaker 2: right now. They're absolutely losing their minds this morning. Annie
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  Speaker 2: Andrews has already won the race. We don't stand a chance.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like Gamecock Nation just completely falling apart. You
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  Speaker 2: see this poll, it's like you just got a 31-point
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  Speaker 2: defeat from Alabama and you had to bench your star player.
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  Speaker 2: This is how we're feeling about this poll. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: shocked at all. But you're right, Christopher. Better campaigning is required.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's time to pick up the pace a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're approaching October this week and really haven't
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  Speaker 3: seen a big push from Darlene Graham yet. I know
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  Speaker 3: she's been busy in the Senate. I know she's been
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  Speaker 3: around the state a little bit, but Annie Andrews is
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  Speaker 3: blanketing the airwaves with ads right now. It's time to
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  Speaker 3: start reminding South Carolina of who the Republican candidate is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And what's at stake? And I mean, it's it's really
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  Speaker 2: this it. I'm not a big fan of negative campaigning.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not, but in this instance, Darlene Graham has very
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  Speaker 2: little to run on. She's been in office now for like, what,
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  Speaker 2: 10 weeks or something? Can't really build a record in
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  Speaker 2: 10 weeks. There's a lot of negative vibes towards her
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  Speaker 2: by the MAGA base. And when I say the MAGA base,
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  Speaker 2: the MAGA base is turning on MAGA So that's not
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  Speaker 2: going to help right now. But I would just simply
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  Speaker 2: run ads tying her, and I say her, Annie Andrews, directly,
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  Speaker 2: directly to the DSA because that's who's getting empowered. It's
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  Speaker 2: not your mom and dad's Democrats. It's this group, the nuts,
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  Speaker 2: the lunatics, the communists. These are the ones that get
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  Speaker 2: empowered just based off of numbers. whether any Andrews wants
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  Speaker 2: to vote independent and I want to work across the aisle,
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  Speaker 2: you won't have that opportunity to work across the aisle
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  Speaker 2: because you will either do as the Democrats tell you
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  Speaker 2: to do, or they'll park you in the corner. You'll be,
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  Speaker 2: you'll be playing just as much for the Democrats as
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  Speaker 2: number six will be playing this weekend. They will just
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  Speaker 2: not allow you to be on a committee. You will
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  Speaker 2: not have the opportunity to shape any kind of legislation.
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  Speaker 2: And then you're going to be in that position where
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  Speaker 2: if you vote against it, I mean, the Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: nutty enough that they'd start censoring their own members for
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  Speaker 2: not getting in line. You're going to have to get
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  Speaker 2: in line if you want to have a voice at
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  Speaker 2: all with the Democrats moving forward. And that voice will be, first,
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  Speaker 2: impeach Donald Trump. Secondly, imprison all of the people who've
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  Speaker 2: ever worked for Donald Trump. And third, make sure that
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  Speaker 2: we pack the courts, make sure that we can seize
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  Speaker 2: power forever. That's the Democrat playbook. It's not a surprise.
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  Speaker 2: It's not disguised. That's who they are. But yeah, please
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  Speaker 2: start running those ads, Graham campaign. Please remind people of
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  Speaker 2: how dangerous Annie Andrews is not just based off of
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  Speaker 2: her own personal feelings, but how dangerous she is because
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  Speaker 2: she's a part of the most dangerous party we've ever
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  Speaker 2: seen in America. We've never seen a party this dangerous
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  Speaker 2: because they actually do have 40 to 45% of the
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  Speaker 2: American population is going to vote Democrat, no matter who's
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  Speaker 2: put out there. Even when it's somebody like Hassan Piker,
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  Speaker 2: even when it's somebody like AOC, even when it's somebody
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  Speaker 2: like Ilhan Omar, even when it's like, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: list goes on and on of crazy radicals at the
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  Speaker 2: top of the Democrat party, including some of the old
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  Speaker 2: school guys like Steny Hoyer, who's completely nuts. So please
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  Speaker 2: run those ads. Christopher and I can only carry so
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  Speaker 2: much water. And we'll take a break. But if you
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  Speaker 2: have thoughts on that new Trafalgar poll that just came out,
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  Speaker 2: let us know. We'd love to hear your– maybe this
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  Speaker 2: is a wake-up call. Maybe you're looking at this going,
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember Lindsey Graham being this close. I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember seeing, you know, just a point and a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more separating the two. Let us know. Use that
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  Speaker 2: microphone on the talkback feature. It's now 620.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News. Hi there.
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash looking at the– The problem in Iran, what
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  Speaker 2: is going to happen? Donald Trump said yesterday, we're not
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  Speaker 2: cutting any deals right now. We're not doing it. We're
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  Speaker 2: not going to make it. Apparently, oil prices jumped up
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  Speaker 2: 1% based off the fact that he says we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to cut a deal to open up the Strait
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  Speaker 2: of Hormuz. It's a mess. However, for those of you
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  Speaker 2: looking for good news, we can talk about the fact
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  Speaker 2: that inflation apparently is completely out of control. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if the president's numbers are correct, and who
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  Speaker 2: he's hearing this from, I don't know. 318% inflation is
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  Speaker 2: the number that he used.
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  Speaker 3: In Iran?
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And as he said, in other words, their money
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  Speaker 2: is now useless. And I mean, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it's 300%, but I do know that when you can't
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  Speaker 2: import goods... and export your goods, things become a problem.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Scott Besson said yesterday that the Iran economy will crash
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  Speaker 3: within the next two weeks. They've got one delivery of
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  Speaker 3: oil going to China, which, you know, again, I hope
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  Speaker 3: the president brought that up to Xi in the White
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  Speaker 3: House last week, but Iran's making a delivery of oil
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  Speaker 3: to China and that's it. Scott Besson says that's all
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  Speaker 3: they have left.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. I mean, it's rather unbelievable to see that that's
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  Speaker 2: where they're at, where they have One tanker, and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's all we got. The guy who's the spokesperson for
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  Speaker 2: their parliament tweeted out, U.S. Gaslighting Bureau, I guess that's
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  Speaker 2: the presidency, says Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz,
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  Speaker 2: but the market price is a big premium, $ 35 over
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  Speaker 2: the pre-invasion and $ 50 using dated actual. So either the
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  Speaker 2: market's dumb or or the U S narrative laundromat is
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  Speaker 2: faking it free dollar vending machine in the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 2: Go grab it. I'm not really sure what he means
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  Speaker 2: by the free dollar vending machine and Hormuz for believers
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  Speaker 2: go grab it. But, um, I can tell you that
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  Speaker 2: obviously this guy is paid, literally paid to try to
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  Speaker 2: make you think one thing. Um, and that is that
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  Speaker 2: Iran is in control. Um, We obviously have a vested
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  Speaker 2: interest in making you believe that the U.S. is in control.
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  Speaker 2: But if you look at the actual exports, you can
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  Speaker 2: see that about 40 to 50 percent of the pre-strike
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  Speaker 2: exports are getting out. And Iran yesterday issued another warning
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  Speaker 2: to ships, you have to use the pre-approved lanes that
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  Speaker 2: we have decided or else you'll face attack. Well, they're not.
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  Speaker 2: They're using the one that's furthest away from you and
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  Speaker 2: being protected by the U.S. military. And that's why oil prices,
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  Speaker 2: in my estimation, are artificially inflated because the market is
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  Speaker 2: factoring in the idea that some of these ships are
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  Speaker 2: going to get hit. So far, we haven't had any hit.
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  Speaker 2: And the amount of oil actually in the market would
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  Speaker 2: justify a dropping of the price. But I also understand
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  Speaker 2: risk and the market's going to factor that in. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you get markets artificially inflated. You get bubbles like I
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  Speaker 2: think we're seeing with the AI tech right now. That's
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  Speaker 2: an artificial bubble. Oil prices right now are artificially high
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  Speaker 2: in my estimation. But I can't bring them down. I
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  Speaker 2: can't restore confidence. Only the president and the U.S. military
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  Speaker 2: can do that. I wish we had a more accelerated timeline,
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  Speaker 2: but we do not. It seems like you said Scott
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  Speaker 2: Besson is saying that we're going to crush that economy,
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  Speaker 2: and we are. And what happens after it collapses, Christopher?
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  Speaker 2: Any ideas?
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  Speaker 3: No ideas whatsoever. But you're right. I wish we had
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  Speaker 3: an accelerated timeline because— I mean, every time people go
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  Speaker 3: to the pump, they get that rude reaction. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: all right, who's to blame for this? And I'm worried
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  Speaker 3: about that hangover lingering into the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio yesterday reminding people that even if we get
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  Speaker 2: completely shellacked in the midterms, 100% of Congress goes to
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats. 100 seats in the Senate and 435 in
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  Speaker 2: the House. Guess what's not changing? The presidency. And Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump has the authority under U.S. law to continue this indefinitely.
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  Speaker 2: And they can try to stop it all they want,
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  Speaker 2: but we've already had the rulings. And so he is
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to bomb the snot out of these
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  Speaker 2: people when and if he feels like it's necessary. So
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  Speaker 2: it's not ending anytime soon. Let's just put it that way.
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  Speaker 2: It's 631.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: This is disappointing to read that a historically black university
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: called Virginia State University changed the rules for their campus
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: on August 6th. And they're now being sued by the
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: federal government because the changes take all Christian groups, any
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: student-led Christian group, and basically strips them of their autonomy.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: They have all been absorbed now into something called Campus Ministries,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: which is run by the school. And it'd be one thing,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: first off, it'd be wrong if they did it to
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: all religious groups. But instead, they just did it to
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: the Christian groups. You have a Muslim group or groups
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: on campus, and then you have some other fringe groups that,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: say that they're of some sort of religion, which are
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: not acknowledged by us as actual religions, but they have
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: complete autonomy to do whatever they want. And so now
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: that they're under the guidance of the administration of the campus,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: all of their events have been canceled. They're not able
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: to actually have meetings. They're not able to actually give
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: discussions about Christian values on VSU's campus simply because they're Christian. However,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: if they're Muslims, they're still having their meetings. They're still
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: having all of their stuff. And so as one of
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: the lawyers involved, the First Amendment clearly establishes the right
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: of all student organizations to associate around shared beliefs, not
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: letting the government pick and choose which get preferable treatment.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: And the university has not answered for any of this
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: as of Friday. So I don't know if they're going
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: to answer today as to what's going on over there,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: but it's pretty obvious that the Christian faith is the
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: one that's under attack at college campuses, Christopher.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: And that sounds like a pretty easy lawsuit for some
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: judge to decide.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: You would think, but for whatever reason, I hold my breath.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I hold my breath, and I wonder how will they
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: jump through, again, the mental gymnastics that some of these
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: attorneys and leftists have to do in order to justify
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: their positions. You know, if you're a Christian, you believe that, A,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: there's one way to the Father, and that's through Jesus.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: That's what he claimed. And you believe that you have
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: the answer. This is the answer to life's problems is Christianity.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: And they're not stifling anybody else's answers. Other religions that
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: claim to have the answer or answers, they're free. As
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: this points out, there's Hindus on that campus that have groups.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: There's Buddhist groups that are on that campus. They're free
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: to meet, assemble, have all kinds of discussions. I would
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: say then just by banning the Christian group, you have
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: basically proven what their claim is. That it is the answer.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: And that is the powerful weapon that would set people free.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: And if you allow people to be free, there's no
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: need for you. So you don't want that to happen.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: That's the way I interpret it. How do you interpret it?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Let us know on the Talkback feature. That is the
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: microphone that you see on the iHeartRadio app. We'll take
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: a break at 639.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 21:17
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• 21:26
  Speaker 2: What is going on with our mothers in America? Here
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina, we had an arrest Saturday. Spartanburg County
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Sheriff's Department says that 35-year-old Taylor Gosnell has been arrested
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: for two counts of attempted murder. They were called to
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the home by the ex-boyfriend, who I think is the
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: father of at least one of the two children. And
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the six-year-old was described to have injuries so horrific from
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: a knife that they may need to amputate the arm.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: The other one was cut as well. investigations determined that
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Gosnell has attacked her own children with a knife and
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: a blunt object.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: And then abandoned them, right? Left them there.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Yes. So is there something going on with the mental
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: welfare of mothers? But I looked it up, Christopher, in
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: that like no single official total count of convicted of
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: child murder from moms has happened. But it says annual
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: experts report that about 200 women died kill a child
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: in the United States every year. I've never heard that.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: I didn't know it was that high.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Um, if you look at like just child abuse and
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: when they rate it, um, and again, this is child abuse.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: This is not attempted murders or murders. This is, believe
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: it or not, more women are convicted than men of
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: individually abusing their child. Um, it's like 40 of the
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: two of the cases, uh, Most are together, mom and dad,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: are abusing. However, mothers acting alone accounted for 37% of
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the cases and the fathers acting alone was 25% of
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the cases. I would have thought that the men were
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: the ones more likely to abuse the children, not the moms.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: But there is something seriously wrong in America. And we're
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: getting people saying that there's copycat killers now. And I
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: see three different cases right now where they're saying, one
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: lady is Casey Anthony. Another one is some lady out
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: in Idaho. You've got another lady in Indiana. Joshua Deal
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: was killed. So, I mean, it just goes on and on.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Has this been glorified? Is there something wrong with our system?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: You've got insights as to what's going on. Or is
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: it that we're just now more aware of it because
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: of the Internet? And, you know, I wouldn't have heard
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: of a local case in Indiana 15, 20 years ago.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have heard that a mom tried to kill
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: her kids by doing the exact same thing, strangulation and
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: jumping out the windows. I wouldn't have heard that. But
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: it seems very copycat-ish to us now.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: All right, I want to salute when I think I
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: see something good from government. And the Isle of Palms
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: has come up with an idea that I think... When
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: you live in a neighborhood like the Isle of Palms,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: that's big dollars. And one of the problems that big
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: dollar communities have is it's very difficult to attract people
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: to do certain jobs because they're not going to make
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: enough money to live there. So the Lenz Foundation of
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the Isle of Palms has launched a new affordable housing
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: program specifically for first responders. I don't know how much
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: detail they can give you on this one. Like, how
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: do I know If that's what they're actually doing, what
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: happens if they no longer are doing the first responder's job,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: but they take a job doing something else? Do they
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: have to give up their housing? I'm not really sure
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: how all of this works, but I think it's a
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: fantastic idea that I would love to see executed, Christopher.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you see a lot of that these days with
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: law enforcement, with teachers who get breaks in certain areas
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: in order to teach. I mean, it's a good idea.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: It's a good incentive.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't need a police officer living an hour
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: from their job.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: No.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: You want them in the community. And so you got
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to do some stuff if you have a high dollar
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: neighborhood to incentivize them. And I think that this is fantastic.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: So.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to more details on that coming up. We'll
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: be keeping our eyes on that and all the other
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: local stories here on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: We've got another great week of opportunities here in front
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: of us and still reliving the weekend. Did you happen
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: to see any NFL games yesterday? If you did, there's
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: a high likelihood that you saw this ad from Donald Trump.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: This is the final battle.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists, Marxists,
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media,
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: and we will liberate.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: America from these villains once and for all. Hear, hear.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Everybody should cheer that on, except I'm not cheering it on.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: And the reason I'm not cheering it on is because
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: of the words that were at the very bottom of
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: that advertisement. Paid for by the U.S. government.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that took a lot of people by surprise.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: The U.S. government is taking a political side here?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, you didn't have to do that. I mean, A,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: MAGA Inc. could have easily covered the cost of that ad. Easily.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: And I think it's an important message.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Or, or.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: you could have run previous presidents. I put this together
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: literally in 10 minutes this morning.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Still, we struggle to live in a way that will
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: please a just God.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: This is not just.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Another nation that we live in.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: It is the.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Noblest effort at self-government and continuous change.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: The world has ever known.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Here, people from every continent and every country come believing
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: that they can build a new life for themselves and
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: a better future for their children. America embodies the idea
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: that a nation can be built by the people of
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: every other nation and still be a beacon of hope
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: and inspiration to the world and still prove that out
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: of all that diversity can become a deeper strength and
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: unity founded on the ideals that we celebrate on the
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: 4th of July.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: The old ideas are new again because they're not old.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: They are timeless. Duty, sacrifice, commitment, and a patriotism that
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: finds expression in taking part and pitching in.
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: tyranny of a king. With the privileges of a few
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: or the rule of a mob, they gave to us
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: a republic, a government of and by and for the people,
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: We have never relinquished.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: Our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: the fiction that all society's ills can be cured through
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: government alone. our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: on hard work and personal responsibility. These are constants in
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: our character.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: It certainly would have been ironic if Donald Trump had
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: paid to run Barack Obama's ad. And Barack Obama is
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: making a conservative point there, which is what we had
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: always said, is that liberals need to disguise themselves as
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: conservatives in order to get elected. Donald, I don't think
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: that Barack Obama necessarily agrees with everything he was saying,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: but that's what he was saying, that you don't get
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: by in America by being lazy. You have to put
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: your butt to the grindstone and do something. But freedom
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: is given to us by God. That what we celebrate
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: is something unique and nobody else in the world has it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: That's what Bill Clinton was talking about. That the United
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: States is one of one. There is no other nation
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: like the United States. And for people to just treat
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: it frivolously as if there's just, you know. just give
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: it away to everybody. No, you can't do that. And
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: you're going to water it down. You're going to ruin it.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be for the people who paved the way.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Our ancestors who, whatever they looked like, black, Latino, white,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I'm sure there was gay people involved there. I mean,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: there's nothing unique about this population group except right now
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: we're suffering what would seem to be a mass psychosis
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: that America wants to become like these liberal European nations
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: that are falling apart. Any ideas on this, Christopher? Any
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: thoughts that you'd like to add?
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure why it's said that. paid for by
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: the U.S. government because that got all the attention yesterday.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: You missed the message because you're looking down and thinking,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: wait a minute, this is Donald Trump with a political ad.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Why is the U.S. government paying for this ad?
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: The White House spokesperson said it's an important message and
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: that all Americans should feel patriotic. I don't disagree.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: No, I don't.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I don't disagree either. But it felt political. And that's
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: that's what That's what aroused the controversy, and that's what
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: distracted from the message.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Well, that's why he's going to lose. I mean, Donald
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Trump is losing, and he's going to lose this case,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: and he's going to lose a lot more if he
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: continues to behave this way. You cannot use U.S. taxpayer
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: dollars to try to influence elections. Period. Full stop. Because
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: it's going to go the other way. President Gavin Newsom, AOC,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: or whoever the next lunatic from the left ends up
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: in the office... is going to be using our tax
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: dollars against us. They're going to be talking about the
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: value of diversity in the sense of transgenderism and how,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: you know, we're all created equal and have the right
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: to explore that and find out who we really are.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: In God's eyes, we aren't just who we were assigned
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: at birth by some random doctor. We are who we
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: are inside. And we should all be exploring that at
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: all times. And why do we have speed limits? And
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: why do we have anything? They're going to sow chaos, division.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: using our own money against us. They're already using our
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: own laws. The freedom of speech is being abused in
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: this country, and we should do something to clamp down
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: on that. But this is not the way. Trump made
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: a huge mistake by running that ad over the weekend.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Huge mistake. And I hope that it doesn't come back
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: to bite us in the butt. But maybe you people
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: think I'm wrong. Maybe you think that that is, like
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: the White House spokesperson said, an important message. And yes,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: the tax dollars should be used to pay for something
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: like that. You have no fear of it coming from
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: the left? Okay. Love to hear your thoughts on it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Or if you agree with us, that's a mistake. Trump
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: made a mistake. And by the way, there's nothing wrong
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: in saying that Donald Trump made a mistake. He's not perfect.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: He is not the perfect creation. So let us know
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: what you think about that using the Talkback feature. We'll
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: be back in a moment. It's 710.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: We were talking about that Donald Trump ad, which was
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: pretty obviously a pro-MAGA ad that ran during the Super Bowl.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: And I think that was a mistake because it was
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: paid for by you, the taxpayer. And I certainly would
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: not want my tax dollars used by a Democrat president
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: to enforce their imagery. and remind us of, you know,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: whatever their great accomplishments are or what their pledges are
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: to make America better by their estimation. I wouldn't want it.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: It wouldn't be right. And it's not right that Donald
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Trump did it. Donald Trump makes mistakes. Another thing that
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: people are talking about when you're talking about the Donald
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Trump mistakes is, did he pick bad candidates to run
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: in primaries? A lot of people talking about Ken Paxton.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Ken Paxton is in a fight it would seem uh
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: i still think he'll win but thank god the democrats
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: i actually would i would i would have more concern
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: if it was uh what's her face uh jasmine crockett
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: i think jasmine crockett would actually beat him i don't
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: think because jasmine crockett can get back to her roots
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: in the sense that she really did go to a
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: normal baptist church she didn't she wasn't you know, when
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: you've got James Tallarico's pastor coming out and saying, number
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: one issue for us is abortion, and it should be
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: allowed right on up to the point of delivery, and
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: he's going to fight for that. Well, that's your pastor?
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: That's your pastor. And also, we officiate, we're the home
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: of gay marriages in our church. That's what, that's, okay,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: so he's under some sort of cult. He's not in
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: a church, and his whole campaign has been based off
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: the fact that I'm a strong Christian just like you.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: And it's just that a lot of Americans misinterpret the Bible.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: They don't understand what the Bible is talking about and
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: that there's six genders and that there's God's non-binary and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: If he wasn't a complete lunatic, I think he'd be
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: running away with this right now. Ken Paxson is a
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: very flawed candidate. Very. Then you look at, you know,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: in our home state, a lot of Republicans are upset
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: with what appears to be To them, Donald Trump hand-selecting
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham. And, you know, the $ 827, 000 spent the Friday
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: before the primary in order to get calls and text
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: messages out, in order to swing that her way. They
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: don't like it. And some of them are rebellious enough
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: to say we're going to, quote, unquote, teach the Republicans
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: a lesson. You're not teaching Donald Trump any lessons, by
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: the way. If all of his candidates lose, they all lose.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: He did primaries in Kentucky, obviously, against Thomas Massey. He
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: did them against Bill Cassidy in Louisiana. He did them
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: against the state Senate leader in North Carolina. Donald Trump
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: picks the people he wants. Nothing wrong with that. I mean,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: everybody should cheer on who they can. But I think
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: that Donald Trump would have been better served sitting Republican
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: primaries out. If you want to endorse somebody and just say,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: that's my guy or my gal, and let it stand,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: then let it stand. But when you start throwing money
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: into races like he's done, now he's got to bail
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: these people out. There's a big story, I think this
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: is in The Hill, talking about how many millions and
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: millions and millions of dollars that the Republicans are throwing
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: now into races that typically were not that competitive. Does
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: that take our eye off the ball in the races
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: that are competitive?
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Absolutely it does. Yeah, I mean, that's one of the
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: issues that Trump and the Republicans are facing. is that
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: they're having to give up on some that could have
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: been closer to pivot to these races where Trump has
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: picked a winner, and now he's got to make sure
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: he shores up their campaign.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Since Labor Day... Reuters' analysis of Super PAC money shows
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: $ 496 million has been spent since Labor Day, which feels
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: like last weekend. $ 496 million. Overall, we've had $ 1. 56 billion
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: spent by PACs right now.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: And we haven't seen the blitz yet. It's coming.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Well, get ready for it because the Republicans have booked
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: $ 890 million in advertising in the next three weeks. Wow.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: And the Democrats have 600.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Ad Impact is reporting what number for the Democrats? 666.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Somebody should have taken a million off just so it
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: doesn't say 666. But the Democrats are coming at you
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: with 666 in the next three weeks. Maybe that says
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: a lot about their party. I don't know. You read
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: into it what you want. But yeah, we're going to
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: get a lot more advertising. But the Republicans are going
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: to outspend the Democrats by a lot, at least at
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: the PAC level, over the next few weeks. So you
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: should start seeing more Darlene Graham here. You should start
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: seeing more Ken Paxton down in Texas. You should start seeing...
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just going to be flooding the airwaves
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: and your inboxes, whether it's emails, text messages and or
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: just the old fashioned snail mail at the house. You're
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: going to get a lot more of this stuff here
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: in an attempt to save the Republicans bacon. But. Again,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: I would have, if Donald Trump had been listening to
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: me months ago, I would have said, you know, endorse
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: who you want to endorse, but don't spend a nickel
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: on it. If the people want that person, they'll pick them.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: If they don't want that person, that's good to know.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: And we'll just stick with the rhino. Is that what
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: you call them? The rhino. The rhino is far better
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: than a socialist. And that's what we're up against right now.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: So thoughts on that. Use the talkback feature. We'll take
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: a break. It's 720.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: All right, very mixed feelings about this story that I'm
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: reading in the Post and Courier regarding an upstate lawmaker,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Representative Stephen Frank, Republican Greenville, has not paid fines he
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: owed for filing three campaign finance disclosures in late 2024.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: They have now had an ethics committee vote this week
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: to publicly reprimand him. So he's being publicly reprimanded, which
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: I think is the equivalent of nothing, but that's okay.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: The thing that bothers me about it is, one, there
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: is no teeth in anything that they do, although they
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: are discussing the ideas that in the future lawmakers could
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: have money taken out of their tax returns when they
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: file if they don't pay their fines. He has... initially,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: he had met with them to get his fines reduced
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: from $ 10, 300 to $ 2, 100. Frank was citing his wife's hospitalization
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: and surgery as reasons for the late filing. He also
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: mentions in here that he thought that he had filed
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: the other form on time, although it was deemed late.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: I need to point out that this guy, Stephen Frank,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: is part of the House Freedom Caucus. And it seems
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: as if there's two different levels of critiques that happen,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: that the House Freedom Caucus is targeted far more often
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: than just the run of the mill Republican in the
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: state house. They might say the run of the mill
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Republican would say it's because the freedom caucus people are
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: reckless or whatever. It just doesn't seem to align. And
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: I'll also point out that having seen firsthand the hoops
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: that people have to jump through in order to run
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: for office, we are intentionally making it difficult for just
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: regular citizens to get involved with the public process, Christopher.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand these filings they have to do. I mean,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: we deserve as taxpayers and as residents, we deserve to know,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: you know, where a candidate is getting his or her
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: money from. But some of these regulations, I mean, and,
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: you know, if you're at the local level, you don't
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: have staff. It's not like you're running for U.S. Senate
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: and you've got staff to handle all that for you.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: You don't have staff to say, all right, let's You know,
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: let's put somebody on this for a day and let's
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: make sure we've got all our I's dotted and all
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: our T's crossed and everyone knows exactly. And we filed
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: on time. And I mean, I understand. Now, if this
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: guy got three different warnings and, you know, still didn't
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: come through and hasn't paid a dollar, even though he
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: was negotiating his fees down or his fines down, maybe
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: he deserves what he's getting.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe so. But the bigger picture still remains that the swamp,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: which is in Colombia, does not want you to run
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: for office. They do not want you. They don't want
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: your input because you are an outsider. And so they've
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: made unnecessarily high demands. we'll call it a wall for
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: you to climb over in order to get into their club.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: And there'll be a group of people that
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: will help you get through that. They'll guide you through
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: that if you're going to be new to the process,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: but you'll also have been selected by the parties. The
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Republicans and the Democrats search out for candidates that they like,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: and then they back them. And then they say, we're
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: going to help you get through this process. For the
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: rest of us, good luck. And it's a basically you
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: can't win situation because you're damned if you do and
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: you're damned if you don't. It's like the IRS is
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: set up a system, you know, just for the rest
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: of us, where I've seen numerous experts point out that
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: 100% of American tax returns are in violation because the
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: law is designed that when they want to target you,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: they can target you. And if you did this, then
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: you're in violation of that. But if you did that,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: then you're in violation of this. And that's just the
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: way the game is played in America. If Columbia wanted to,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: and I say Columbia, if the state of South Carolina
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: lawmakers wanted to prove that they were serious, they would
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: start cleaning this stuff up and make it a lot
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: easier for just some run-of-the-mill citizens to start running for
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: office without having to jump through all these hoops. That's
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: what I'm thinking. What are you thinking? Talkback features open 731.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: So Donald Trump is not going quietly into the night
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: and just allowing... Whoever he decides is fake news to
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: cover him with insider information, so to speak. Todd Blanche
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: yesterday appearing on ABC's This Week with Martha Raddatz and
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: says it's a privilege to be in the White House
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: for anybody. And he's responding to the idea that Donald
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Trump kept CNN off of Air Force One. for the
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: trip to Tennessee. Now that, by the way, one of
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: the greatest flyovers in history, that was fantastic.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Pretty cool stuff.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Uh, Donald, if you haven't seen that video, it's all
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: over social media, Trump's, uh, air force one flyover. Fantastic. Uh,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Tennessee had a fantastic game with Texas. I mean, it
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: doesn't get much more American than that. And, um, but
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: CNN not allowed on the plane for that moment. Um, Okay.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, and the Air Force One restrictions came at
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: the end of the week that saw the U.S. District
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Judge grant a temporary restraining order to restore access to
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: the White House for Politico, CNN, and MSNOW. And that
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: has happened. They have access to the White House and
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: the press briefings and all that sort of stuff. But
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Todd Blanch making a big distinction that this is the
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: president's plane. It's like saying you're going to let him
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: on You know, sometimes the president may have a journalist
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: in the in the limo with him in the beast.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: He doesn't let everybody in on the beast. Obviously, the
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: plane can't carry all members of the White House press corps,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: but some are allowed. CNN has traditionally been allowed, but
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: not always. And so we're Blanche also making the point
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: that CNN seems to go out of their way to
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: make this country look bad and weak in the eyes
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: of our friends. Foreign leaders, foreign governments, citizens around the
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: world hear what's happening with this administration. We want it
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: to be accurate, not fake.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: It's like Rory O'Neill told us last week. I mean,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: you and I could get a day pass and probably cover,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: maybe even be in the room somewhere when a White
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: House briefing was held. But it doesn't give us the
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: right to go everywhere the president does. That's usually reserved
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: for a pool. And that pool is that's put together
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: because they don't have room for everyone. So a pool
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: of reporters gets to go into the Oval Office. Not everybody.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: A pool. A pool gets to go on Air Force One.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Not everybody. There's not enough room.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Weren't we talking last week about like Trump TV or
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: something like that?
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: You said that they launched something where, I mean, you
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: don't even have to be in the pool anymore. You
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: can just sit there and watch it on your computer
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: and you'd know exactly what Trump was saying. and you
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: can report on the facts of his speech.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can just literally run it. Here it is.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: And if you were like MS Now and you want
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: to debunk, as what they always talk about, we're not
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: going to give him a platform to spread lies, okay?
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: We're going to fact-check him.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you fact-check him in real time. Let him sit
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: there and give his speeches every day, and then you
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: can have somebody on your air going, that's fake, that's baloney,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: here's what really happened. Okay, I mean, and some people
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: would be enthralled to watch that. But Donald Trump is.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: There's never been a president like him in the sense
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: that you've got this much access. He says whatever's on
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: his mind. And sometimes I wish you'd shut up, but
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: he doesn't. He just keeps talking and talking and talking.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: And it's not as if CNN, MS Now, and Politico
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: don't have access to hear what he's saying. They're just
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: ticked off that they're not in the actual room while
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: it's happening. And they also want to change the narrative
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: by asking their gotcha questions. which Trump has proven very
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: adept at just sidestepping and saying, that's fake news. I'm
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: not going to answer that. We're not going to answer.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: And you simply say, I'm not answering hypotheticals because that's
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: usually what they're asking is hypotheticals. So anyway, if you
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: have feelings on that, let us know. Use the talkback feature.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: It is 740.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
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• 47:48
  Speaker 2: So in the Post and Courier, they're talking about... I
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: think this is the first time in many years that
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: the Democrats have fielded an entire slate, meaning every district
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: will have a Democrat running in it. So that's like 137.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: And so that's impressive for them. Congratulations on being able
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: to get together 137 people. Now, if you are wondering
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: how well they're expected to do, that's another thing. They're
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: not expecting a whole lot. As a matter of fact,
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: the supermajority that is being currently held by the Republicans,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: they're not even giving them a shot at breaking that.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: They would need seven seats. They say that there's six
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: competitive seats. The six competitive seats are, do they give
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: the names of them? Let's see. They got Representative Fawn
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Petalino versus Democrat Michelle Demery. Okay, these are districts. They
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: give you the numbers. I'm not sure exactly where these are.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: That's 64. 92 is state rep Brandon Cox versus Democrat
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Byron Walters. 98 is state rep Greg Ford versus Democrat
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Sana Satani. 102 is state rep Harriet Holman versus Democrat
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Montez Aiken. 116 is state rep James Teeple versus Democrat
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: Clay Middleton. And 122 is Republican Bill Hager versus Democrat
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Corey Williams. Those, even if they lost all six, Republicans
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: are still in the super majority. And Drew McKissick pointing
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: out that they think they actually have a shot of
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: flipping one. There's a young lady named Spencer Wetmore. She's
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: down on Folly Beach. She announced she's not running. And
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: so that House is— that District 115, that's up for grabs
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: right now. And according to the Democrats and the Republicans,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: there's a shot, a good shot, that the Republicans are
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: going to win that one back. So even if they
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: lost all six but picked up another one, or if
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: they didn't win it, it doesn't matter. The supermajority stays
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: with the Republicans.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: That tells you where we are right now. I mean,
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: the Democrats are still trying to crack the supermajority, much
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: less a majority. It's just— it' s never going to happen in
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: our lifetime. But— you know, there is that divide between
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: House Republicans, as you pointed out in the last half hour,
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: House Republicans and the Freedom Caucus, which, you know, almost
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: creates a second aisle. There's Democrats, there's Republicans, and then
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: there's the Freedom Caucus. Yeah.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: I wish more people who are in office thought more
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: like the Freedom Caucus, but they don't. They feel, again,
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: my distinction between conservatives and Republicans or Republicans want things
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: to stay the same, wherever they're at, just keep it there.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Conservatives want to make it more conservative, meaning more freedom
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: for the people, less government regulation and Democrats want more
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: government regulation, less freedom for the people. That's the way
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: I look at the differences. And of course the socialists
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: want to just take away the free market and all
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: that other stuff. So, but here in South Carolina, uh, But,
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: you know, and it's interesting because, Christopher, you look at
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Georgia and you look at North Carolina, those states have
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: become kind of purple states. But South Carolina continues to
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: stay red, which is a good thing.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Let's hang on.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Let's hang on. Fight hard for your GOP.
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Take a break.
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: 748.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, we've got a– we had a beautiful weekend. It
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: was absolutely gorgeous.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, it was.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, I– I can't remember a better, like, two
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: days in a row. Was Friday nice? I think Friday
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: was pretty good, too.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we didn't have to dodge lightning or
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: storms or anything else.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: It was great. And just the sky was perfectly blue.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: And it wasn't baking. It wasn't so humid that you
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: couldn't stand to be outside. I mean, it felt great.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: So we've got through that. Celebrate that. And then you
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: have a fresh week of opportunities. Hopefully you're hitting the
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: ground running. Coming up in the next hour, we've got
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that we want to get to.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: Child care vouchers are expiring here in South Carolina. Maybe
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: get back to the Ethics Committee and what's going on
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: here in South Carolina. Spartanburg County Data Center, that vote
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: that they had, was it illegal? Uh-oh. Did we have
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: an illegal vote in South Carolina? We're going to talk
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: about that. And Christopher Thompson, I'm going to put you
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: on the spot because I follow Gamecock football. Yes, you do.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: I watch it. I cheer for it. I don't understand it.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: You may not be the only one. But now I
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: certainly do not understand the opening odds for this weekend.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: Maybe you can give us a little insight as to
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: what the odds makers are saying about South Carolina versus Kentucky.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: It is baffling to me. Maybe we'll talk about Clemson.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: I think they have Miami next, right? They do. That
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: is a big hill to climb.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: Fourth-ranked team in the country.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Yikes.
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: That and more, plus your talkbacks off the iHeartRadio app.
• 52:51
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• 52:53
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• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Monday. I love Mondays. I know a lot of people
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: hate Mondays. I love Mondays because it's an opportunity for
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: us to get together and chit-chat about the things that
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: we like talking about here. It's news of the day.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: And Christopher Thompson, even though they think they got this right,
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: the way they did it, probably, it sounds very wrong
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: in the posting career. I'm talking about Spartanburg County Council.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: And what they did here, Christopher, is they carved out
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: a little special because they had originally put a blanket
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: ban on all data centers. Then they amended it so
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: that it would only be that they could have data
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: centers in industrial parks if they were under 65 megawatts,
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: which I think is a reasonable compromise. However, according to
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: numerous people that were at the meeting, they didn't see
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: that vote. That what happened was, The way it's described
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: here is that people were told, okay, that's the vote.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: We've put a total ban on it. That's it. It's over.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: It's over.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: You can go home now. But then they had another meeting. Now,
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: according to one of the guys, now this is a Democrat,
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: so take it with a grain of salt, although I
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: think his name is, is his first name Clemson? Clemson Turrigano.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: who's running as a Democrat for the District 33rd Statehouse seat,
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: says they were at the meeting until it ended. I
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: was out in the parking lot for no more than
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: seven minutes after they adjourned, and I saw the rest
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: of them walking out. So if they had another meeting,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: it was damn fast.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: So they had a top-secret meeting after everybody left the room?
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: That's the allegations. Yeah. The press secretary or excuse me,
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: longtime press attorney Jay Bender said this is an illegal
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: meeting unless it was preceded by a notice. A reconvening
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: is itself a meeting and that would have required a notice.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: The county council has violated the law by taking action
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: in an illegal meeting. It's unclear exactly how quickly the
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: council members were called back when reached. DeShields, who's one
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: of the council members, said otherwise. I'd rather not comment.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: That's not a good look.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not a good look for Spartanburg. Again,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: I think you came to the right conclusion, but if
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: you did it in this fashion, first off, it's cowardice.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: You didn't want to have the vote in front of
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: the people. You're not willing to stand behind your vote,
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: then you shouldn't have the vote. But secondly- of short-sightedness
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: is this? When everybody gets up and says, oh, that's the, okay,
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: blanket ban. That's what they did. They did what we
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: wanted them to do. And then they get up and
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: they walk out. And then seven minutes later, they see
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: you all walking out to your cars and they're like,
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: great job. Fist bump. Yeah. And then they open up
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: the paper the next day and it says they passed.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. What is this?
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: Knowing all of the scrutiny that's being paid to Spartanburg
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: County right now, when it comes to data centers and
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: they still thought they would slip this in. Oh, yeah,
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: by the way, we did this while you were out.
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: That's that's that's dumb. Well, but can it be fixed?
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Can they go back and have a public meeting next
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: week and say, all right, we screwed up. Here's what
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: we meant to vote on publicly. But, you know, you
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: guys left the room and we just decided to do
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: this on our own. But now we'll hold the public vote.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Here it is.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Can they fix it that way?
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: I guess that's what, I mean, in the Post and
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: Courier story that I'm reading, I don't see what's going
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: to happen here. What's the fix? I just see the
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: reporting of what happened or alleged to have happened. Like,
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: here's a word I'm not even familiar with. Is it
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: pronounced scriveners?
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Asked about the discrepancy, county spokesperson Scotty K. Blackwell attributed
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: the version that council passed to a scrivener's error.
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Well, that's usually if you've got a comma or a
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: decimal point in the wrong place, and it was a
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: legitimate error in the way you wrote it down. That's
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: completely different than holding a vote when people leave the
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: room on something that they didn't think you were voting
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: on when you left.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Just continuing with the statement, after inviting back into chambers
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: the media who were on site and in accordance with
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: With the rules, counsel reconsidered their vote. Blackwell said in
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: an email that counsel would formally readopt the online version
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: of the ordinance from its October meeting. She said Fox
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: Carolina and WSPA were there in the chambers. No news reports, however,
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: mentioned the reconsideration. So if Fox Carolina and WSPA were
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: in there, according to the Post and Courier, neither one
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: of those outlets reported it.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: The whole thing sounds dodgy.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, it sounds dodgy. Again, I just also want to
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: be clear. Most of this coming from Democrats. So if
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Democrats are the ones alleging it, then I always have
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: to have, do I believe it? Do I not believe?
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: So that's this morning's report. Let's see how it plays
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: out over the next several hours. If we get updates
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: from WSPA, like here's our report. What are you talking about?
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: This is the report that we gave. This is Fox
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Carolina's report. Maybe it was on the up and up.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe it is something shady. To Christopher's point, I think
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: you should do it. I think now at this point,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: every one of the council members ought to just post
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: on social media, I voted for this carve-out. Here's why
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: I agree with this position. And then just let the
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: chips fall where they may. But you're never going to
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: pass a vote or block something and act as if
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: people didn't know you did it. Somebody voted for this.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: Somebody changed it. And if the people of Spartanburg didn't
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: want you to do this, they will hold you accountable.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: You will lose reelection, but you're not going to hide
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: your votes for God's sakes. Not in today's era, at least.
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break. If you've got thoughts,
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: hit us on the talk back feature eight Oh nine.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: From the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: With Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson, Democrats love passing legislation. Gosh,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: they're addicted to it. Thankfully, a lot of the stuff
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: that Democrats pass is just, you know, malarkey, to use
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden's phrases. They don't actually have any teeth. They
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: don't actually accomplish anything. But it allows them to feel
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: good and go back and tell their people, look at
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: how we're fighting. So, Bob Ferguson is the governor of
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: Washington State. He and the Democrats were very proud of themselves.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: Six months ago, they passed a law. The state of Washington,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: it is illegal for an ICE agent to wear a mask.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: If you wear a mask, you are in big trouble
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: in the state of Washington, warns Bob Ferguson. And they
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: have the audacity of running a thing this weekend called
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: Democrats Deliver. ICE agents banned from wearing masks in Washington.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: The reality is, yes, you passed a law. You did.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: Senate Bill 5855 was signed into law March 19th. And
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: it does outlaw ICE agents, well, not just specifically ICE agents,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: any law enforcement from ever wearing a mask. But knowing
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: that there's a supremacy clause, but knowing that if you
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: actually tried to implement this with your local cops, your
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: local cops would actually be arrested, they had to figure
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: out a way to pass a law that would not
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: be enforced because they know it can't be enforced and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: not get their own cops arrested. So what they did
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: is they put all of the pressure on whom? The
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: actual illegal aliens. It's up to the illegal aliens to
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: enforce this law.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: So.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: The way that's supposed to work in Washington State, if
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: you are arrested by a masked agent, before you're deported,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: I guess, you're supposed to bring a lawsuit when you
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: have no standing because you're not a citizen. So six
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: months into this thing, every ICE agent is still wearing
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: their masks.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: And no illegal alien is sued?
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: They don't have an opportunity to. They're arrested and deported
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: before anything else like that could happen. So, but they're
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: still running on this. What a joke. This is, this
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: is the kind of, you know, horse and pony shows
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: that Democrats like to put on for people. And Bob
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: Ferguson looks deadly serious in this photo. I am standing
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: up for Washingtonians. What a clown show. What a clown show.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: But again, we're lucky that this one doesn't have any
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: teeth in it because if they had their way, they
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: would pass a federal law that said ice agents probably
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: not only have to de-mask, they actually have to post
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: their home address on so that the radicals can come
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: and firebomb their homes or something. Self-docs. Yes. Good word
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: for it. We're self-docsing. By law, you must self-docs. Wear
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: your home address on your shirt or something like that.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: So anyway, but I just find that very funny. So
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: there you go. Washington State accomplishing nothing but patting itself
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: on the back. We'll take a break. If you've got
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: thoughts on this or other stories, hit us up on
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: the Talkback feature. It's 817.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News. So.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: The MTV VMAs, Christopher was shocked to find out that
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: Madonna won.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: I thought this was like a headline from the 1990s.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: I'll admit I'm not up on pop music.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think Madonna's actually... involved in pop music anymore.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly how this all came to be,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: but she was the most nominated artist of the night.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: And she ended up walking away with, I think seven,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: do they still call them the moon man awards? She, she,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: her speeches are incoherent. She's now at the point, she's like,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: she's only, I want to say only 68 physically. She
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: looked fine. I mean, if she's sitting, But when she
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: started walking, she appeared to be hammered out of her
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: gourd or unable to just stand on her own. It
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: could be because she's teetering on massive high heels or something.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: She used to dance in those things nonstop, but maybe
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: she's at the age where she can't do that anymore.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: But she was at one point. Do I have that
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: little clip that I was playing a minute ago? This
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: is this is a little clip of Madonna actually asking
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: for help to stand up while, you know, giving getting
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: her award.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: So far away. Get over here.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: She's just bobbling around.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: My microphone is too short.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: And I don't dare play any more of it because
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: she curses about every 30 seconds, even though this was
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: on CBS. And some of the fans who are music fans, apparently,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: were very upset. I'll just, who the blank schedules the
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: VMAs to run right after a football game?
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because that football game featured the Cowboys in Rio
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: de Janeiro yesterday, and it ran late.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: Versus the Ravens.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: You know who schedules it after a Cowboys game? People
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: who are hoping for some ratings. That's when you schedule
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: things after a football game, especially America's team. I don't
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: like the Cowboys. I'm a Giants fan. But I understand
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: that the Cowboys get big numbers when they're on television. So, yes,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: scheduling after a Cowboys game is the best lead-in possible.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: You're not going to get anything better than that. And
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: so you ran a little late. OK, guess what? You're this.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: I will be fascinated by the numbers that the VMAs
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: get based off of this big shift.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, we used to we talked about how 60
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: minutes is in a bit of a resurgence. At one time,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: it was must watch TV. One reason why is because
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: it always came after CBS's big football game of the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: week on Sunday afternoon.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: I know we have to take a break here, but
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: I do want to mention. One of my favorite things
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: about the John Madden, I think it was a John
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: Madden special that they did once, was talking about how
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: he and Pat Summerall, when they were doing these games,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: they had to do a promo for Murder, She Wrote.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: And because there's a comma, Pat Summerall, it would accentuate
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: it specifically to make John Madden laugh. And so you
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: would hear these things like, don't forget your local news
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: following this game. And then after that, it's 60 Minutes
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: and then Murder. She wrote.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: And it worked every time.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: You would hear John Madden just died in the corner.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, I miss those days. Anyway, congratulations, Madonna. Who
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: paid for these awards? I don't know. But congratulations. She
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: upset Taylor Swift and Ella Langley and all the other
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: artists last night. But she is apparently back in a
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: big way. We'll take a break. And if you've got
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: thoughts on the VMAs or anything else, let us know
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio Talkback feature. It's 826.
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  Speaker 2: I am very thankful that I don't know anyone currently
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: going to Cornell University. AOC was just at Cornell University
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: over the weekend, and this was the introduction to the
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: house person.
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  Speaker 4: Disposable.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: We have a responsibility to stand in solidarity with oppressed
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: peoples everywhere.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: Student activism is not dead.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Long live student resistance, and long live.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 7: The student intifada. Thank you.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: Just for one.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: Second, I'd like you guys to repeat after me from
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: the river to the sea And so you've got these
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: students calling for the extinction of the Jewish race You've
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: got the student Antifata being cheered on by white women
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: and And then out comes AOC, who agrees with them
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: and says that Cornell University is currently engaging in censorship.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Where was the censorship? You literally are calling for the
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: murder of millions of people.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: To cheers in the room.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. Here we stand as anti-imperialists. They say nobody,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: I like that, nobody is disposable except the Jews. The
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: Jews seem to be pretty disposable to this group of people.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: And AOC is running with this. This is not shocking, obviously.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: The Democrats are all in on this idea that all
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: of the world's problems can be blamed on this little
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: tiny nation called Israel. And they'll do anything they can
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: to distort the facts and to make you think that
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: one thing is happening when in reality it's another. I
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: don't understand how... we have this mass delusion happening in
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: America where so many people continue to call it. They
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: insist on calling what's happening in Palestine, a genocide. When again,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: the landmass of Palestine has grown and the population of
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: Palestine has grown. We had the numbers last week talking
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: about how it's less than 1% of their population has
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: been killed in battles. And it's, it's, I don't want
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: to say only a few hundred civilians, but, But when
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: you're talking about a genocide, you're talking about in order
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: to have a genocide in Palestine, you would need to
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: like 100x that. You would need to start slaughtering large
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: swaths of the civilian population, which is not... happening. And
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: the exact opposite is happening where Israel is actually sending
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: out text messages, dropping flyers, to let them know this
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: is where we're bombing. This is where it's going to happen.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: It'll happen tomorrow at noon. And guess what the Hamas
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: kids do? They grab a bunch of babies and women
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: and they march them into that building specifically to be killed.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: So it's almost like you got to head fake them.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: You got to tell them we're going to bomb here
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: and then bomb somewhere else. If you don't want to
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: kill civilians, it's a, it's a, it's a ludicrous thing.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: And to have it just spreading all across American campuses
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: is heartbreaking.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: Cornell has a lot of headaches right now, and I
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: don't know why you'd want to send your kid there.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw the story. It reappeared
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: over the weekend about this woman who was gang raped, drugged,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: coursed into using drugs and then gang raped by a
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: group of fraternity kids. And she's filed a civil suit now.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: And it turns out Cornell expelled a couple of the
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: kids and then made the others that were involved write essays.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: In order to stay on campus. That was their punishment.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're very broad-minded over there.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: Apparently so. Yeah, just, you know, what did you learn here?
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: What were the tough lessons you learned from your, I
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: don't want to use that word, but it starts with
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: an R. When you did that to that young lady,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: don't worry about her. I mean, she's got her own
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: lessons to learn. What did you learn? It's unbelievable that
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: these people are allowed to teach our children. And they
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: are children. By the way, you know, you come into
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: college as an 18-year-old. You think that you're an adult.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: And in the eyes of the law, yes, you are
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: an adult. But you are very impressionable. And I always
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: point out to the fact that you can't rent a
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: car until you're 26 because the car rental business recognizes
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: that people who are under the age of 26 still
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: take incredible risks. Just their ability to understand risk-reward is
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: not completely there yet for the majority of them, the
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: vast majority. obviously there's some people who are super intelligent,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: super mature for their age, probably more females than males
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: at that point, but either way, but Cornell is doing
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: irreparable damage to the next generation as is Princeton, as
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: is Harvard, as is Brown, as is, you can go
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: on and on. If you want to come on down,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: you know, you want to leave the Ivy league, you
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: want to come on down here and just start pointing
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: at Duke. You want to point at Emory. We got
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of universities down here that are doing
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: the same thing, but it's, it's a, It's a tragedy
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: what's happening in this country, and nobody can get it
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: back in check, it seems. Although the Trump administration continues
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: to bring lawsuits, I hope they'll watch this video from
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: the weekend and bring more lawsuits. We need more lawsuits.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: Whatever.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: I don't like lawsuits, and yet here I am going
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: for more lawsuits.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: And if you're a parent and you heard either of
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: those two stories about this gang rape or about this
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: cheerleading squad talking on and on about killing Israelis, why
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: would you send your kids there?
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Well, because you think that this is
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: the only options that you have. If you've got a
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: highly intelligent child and that highly intelligent child wants to
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: be the best at, insert their profession, something that needs
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: higher education, law, doctors, architect, whatever, you feel like, well,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: the best chance they have is to go to Brown
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: or Cornell or Princeton or Emory or wherever. And It's
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: unfortunate that this woke mindset has taken over these campuses
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  Speaker 2: and is doing incredible damage, incredible damage. So that was,
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  Speaker 2: and I wish this, you know, hey, look, I'm actually
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  Speaker 2: kind of happy AOC didn't distance herself from that because that, again,
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  Speaker 2: reaffirms what we've been saying about her the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: She is calling for the extinction of a population group.
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  Speaker 2: When you say from the river to the sea, that
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  Speaker 2: means the river is the beginning of Israel all the
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  Speaker 2: way to the sea. That means that's all their homeland.
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  Speaker 2: You want it gone. You're not offering an alternative. Are
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  Speaker 2: you saying that there's another Arab state that you should
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  Speaker 2: give up? Are you saying that Jordan should be the
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  Speaker 2: new home of the Jews? Are you saying Egypt will
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  Speaker 2: be the home of the Jews? Where do the Jews go?
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  Speaker 2: Palestine has always had a border. Not always, but since 1948,
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  Speaker 2: they had a border. And then it grew. It actually
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  Speaker 2: got bigger because the Israelis gave up part of the
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  Speaker 2: West Bank. But that's not here nor there, nor the
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  Speaker 2: fact that they continue to feed them and bring in
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  Speaker 2: medicine and all that stuff. You continue to call it
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  Speaker 2: a genocide. I'm all worked up. If you're worked up,
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  Speaker 2: use the talkback feature. It's 839.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all got the facts way wrong about Palestine. There's been
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  Speaker 1: over 20,000 children alone that have been killed.
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  Speaker 3: Over 70,000 people killed.
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  Speaker 2: In total have been killed in Gaza alone.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know where you're getting your numbers, but
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  Speaker 3: they're completely wrong. All you got to do is do
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  Speaker 3: a Google search and they'll tell you the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, is this guy ignorant? I hate to
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  Speaker 2: call a callback ignorant, but those are the correct numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Line them up. 20,000 children have died in Palestine.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: That is less than a fraction of 1% of the
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  Speaker 2: children have died. Take a look at a real genocide
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  Speaker 2: in your lifetime. 1994, Rwanda, 68% of the children slaughtered.
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  Speaker 2: That's a real genocide. When you're talking about less than
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  Speaker 2: 1% of the population, that is not a genocide. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: look at what's happened with the population. When you look
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  Speaker 2: at the actual population, Here we go. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to go all the way back to 2015 because that's
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  Speaker 2: when actually the population started booming in Palestine. Just look
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  Speaker 2: at 2023.
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  Speaker 5: 5,409,000.
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  Speaker 2: Next year, 5,495,000. So they're up. Then look at 2025.
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  Speaker 5: 5,589,000.
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  Speaker 2: Last year was their biggest population growth in the history
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  Speaker 2: of Palestine. That is the opposite of a genocide. And
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  Speaker 2: when you talk about 20,000 children killed, of course that's
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  Speaker 2: a tragedy. Who do you blame for that? If you're
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  Speaker 2: blaming the IDF who's telling us we're going to bomb here,
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  Speaker 2: please do not put anybody here. And then you find
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  Speaker 2: dead children there. Who did it?
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  Speaker 1: Who did it?
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  Speaker 2: It is not the IDF that is killing any of
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  Speaker 2: these children. I'm not going to say there's no accidents.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, there's probably been some accidents. The United States
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  Speaker 2: have killed some people accidentally. Even the Biden administration accidentally
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  Speaker 2: killed U.S. workers when they tried to do a strike back. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: accidents happen in the military. However, 20,000 dead children is
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  Speaker 2: a tragedy. The overwhelming majority of those children are killed
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  Speaker 2: by the Palestinians. The Palestinians are murdering their women and
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  Speaker 2: their children. That's why it's an atrocity. But it is
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  Speaker 2: not a genocide. If you want to look at another one,
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  Speaker 2: take a look at what happened in Cambodia. That's in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of our lifetimes. Cambodia was a tragedy. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: five percent of the population was killed in a one
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  Speaker 2: year period by Pol Pot. That's one point one million
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  Speaker 2: people killed in a year. 1.1 million people, that's 25%
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  Speaker 2: of the population. You'd have to do something similar. If
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to kill 25% of the Palestinians right now,
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  Speaker 2: the death total would be somewhere between 1.3 and 1.5
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  Speaker 2: million people. Then you can talk about a genocide. When
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about 100,000, if you're talking about 150,000, then
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  Speaker 2: you're not.
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  Speaker 3: You're not in a genocide, a tragedy, but not a genocide.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: If the Israelis wanted a genocide on the Palestinians, it
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  Speaker 2: would have already happened. This is four years into this thing.
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  Speaker 2: This is, this is not new. A matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: it's decades into this thing. What are we talking about?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we can go back to 2004 or 2024
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  Speaker 2: and say, that's when it really started. You can go
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  Speaker 2: back into 2020 and say, that's when it really started.
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  Speaker 2: You can go back to 2016 and say, that's when
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: it's like the, every election year, these people launched some
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  Speaker 2: sort of bizarre attack on Israel. But, It's a response,
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  Speaker 2: and what Israel has been saying is we are going
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  Speaker 2: to stop this once and for all. And if you
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  Speaker 2: disagree with it, that's fine. But you can't make up
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  Speaker 2: your own facts. You can't say that because 20,000 children died,
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  Speaker 2: it's a genocide. That's not a genocide. And again, how
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  Speaker 2: do you explain for the Israelis giving them more land mass?
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  Speaker 2: How do you explain for them turning that over? How
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  Speaker 2: do you explain for them sending in medicine? How do
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  Speaker 2: you explain for them sending in food? How do you
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  Speaker 2: explain for them leaving the greenhouses? These things were provided
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  Speaker 2: by Israel to the Palestinians. Those were gifts to the Palestinians.
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  Speaker 2: How do you explain the Palestinians when they have an
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  Speaker 2: actual peace opportunity? Bill Clinton has talked about it ad nauseum.
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  Speaker 2: We want peace. Israel says we want peace. We are
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  Speaker 2: willing to give up land. We are willing to give
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  Speaker 2: up money. We're willing to give up things in order
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  Speaker 2: to live in peace. And they said we don't want peace.
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  Speaker 2: We want the eradication of the Jewish race. That's all
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  Speaker 2: we want. That is all we want. There is a
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  Speaker 2: genocide or a wannabe genocide. It's against Israel. And the
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  Speaker 2: fact that you continue, people continue to just loop this
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  Speaker 2: thing the wrong way is unbelievable to me. The facts
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  Speaker 2: are so obvious. Their words are obvious. They're telling you
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  Speaker 2: what we want. From the river to the sea is
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  Speaker 2: the new chant. They want to kill all Jews on
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  Speaker 2: the earth, period, end of sentence. That is what they want.
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  Speaker 2: And anybody who wants to go with the Antifada, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to globalize the Antifada. That is the killing of
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  Speaker 2: the Jews. That is what they're calling for. We've got
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  Speaker 2: proud students saying it right now, this weekend, and... We're
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  Speaker 2: going to globalize the student Antifada. The students want to
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  Speaker 2: now kill the Jews. If I'm a Jew sitting on
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  Speaker 2: that campus, how do I feel today? Scared as hell.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I feel. There is a genocide that is
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  Speaker 2: in the brewing, and it is not happening against the Palestinians.
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  Speaker 2: It's happening against the Jews. And for people who want
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  Speaker 2: to just combobulate the numbers, this is lunacy what we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing here. You're seeing evil and calling it good, and
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  Speaker 2: you're seeing good and calling it evil. That is what's
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  Speaker 2: happening in America today. My God, I ran late, Christopher.
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  Speaker 2: It's 849.
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  Speaker 1: From the midlands to the low country, this is South
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  Speaker 2: Well, it'll be a day of licking our wounds, Christopher Thompson,
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  Speaker 2: for all the Gamecock fans on social media. Goodness gracious.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a brutal couple of days for Gamecock fans,
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  Speaker 3: no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: And not looking much better when I look at the
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: social media outlook for the next few hours at least.
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  Speaker 2: They are just brutal. We're getting brutalized by our own
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  Speaker 2: fan base now. So we'll get through this, though, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll get back together tomorrow morning and talk about the
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  Speaker 2: news of the day here on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great Monday.