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Show Rewind 7-24-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Live from the state Capitol.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: Good Morning, six three and Christopher Thompson with us. How
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  Speaker 3: are you doing this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Kelly, I'm good. Ready for a Friday?
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  Speaker 5: All right? We got a lot to get to today.
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  Speaker 5: Jim Dementtal be on.
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  Speaker 3: The show updates regarding Russell Fry. You know what, before
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  Speaker 3: I even get into that other thing, let me just
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  Speaker 3: ask you right off the top of your head. Any
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on the announcement yesterday from one Farm mcgubina Mark
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  Speaker 3: Sandford on his entry into the Senate race.
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  Speaker 6: Not a surprise based on that poll, Kelly that you
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  Speaker 6: told us about yesterday, which showed a huge gathering of
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  Speaker 6: Low country voters were undecided despite giving a being given
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  Speaker 6: a long list of names. They were waiting to see
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  Speaker 6: another man enter the field. And I mean we talked
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  Speaker 6: about this when the primary was held in the first
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  Speaker 6: congressional district. How many votes he got when he had
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  Speaker 6: been out of the race for more than a month. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I mean he's yeah, he's and you know, in spite
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  Speaker 6: of his baggage, he carries a lot of weight when
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  Speaker 6: it comes to talking about the finances of this country
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  Speaker 6: and you know the the doom and gloom about the
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  Speaker 6: rising debt.
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  Speaker 3: I won't say the man's name because most people in
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  Speaker 3: this state would know who I'm talking about. But he
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  Speaker 3: had a falling out with Mark Sandford back when he
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  Speaker 3: was still the governor, literally about that scandal with his
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  Speaker 3: girlfriend and the Appalachian Trail. That was the falling out point.
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  Speaker 3: And he texted me last night that he's supporting Sandford,
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  Speaker 3: and I said, despite your per I mean, he had
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  Speaker 3: a personal beef with him about that. That wasn't like
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  Speaker 3: he read it in the paper. It was Sandford lied
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  Speaker 3: to him specifically about that stuff. And he said, look,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's got flaws. He's got his, I've got mine, But
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  Speaker 3: I think he's right on policy when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: the economy, and that's the number one issue, and I
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  Speaker 3: want Mark Sandford to win. I was like, hmm, that
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  Speaker 3: I had not anticipated, because he has long bemoaned Mark
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  Speaker 3: Sandford kind of lying and backstabbing him.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Sandford lied to his entire staff, He didn't tell
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  Speaker 6: anyone what he was doing, lied to his family, lied
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  Speaker 6: to everyone until he had that ugly press conference where
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  Speaker 6: he told way too much about his personal life. But yeah,
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  Speaker 6: Sandford still carries a lot of weight in this state.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I haven't had a chance to check this morning.
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  Speaker 3: It's like we're getting polls on the hour, but I
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen if there's been any updated polling since he announced,
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  Speaker 3: because that came out about what like one o'clock yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was pretty early in the afternoon. I can't
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  Speaker 6: imagine anybody's put a poll in the field yet.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, factoring him into it.
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  Speaker 3: So at this point it would seem I'm just going
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  Speaker 3: to make an before we even get any real polling
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  Speaker 3: that right now, it's still going to be Ralph Norman
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  Speaker 3: and Darlene Graham are going to be that top tier.
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  Speaker 3: They could be interchangeable, but then you're gonna have to see.
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  Speaker 3: I think Mark Sanford is probably going to be kind
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  Speaker 3: of a loan in that number two tier, and then
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  Speaker 3: the previous number two tiers with Mark Lynch and who else?
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  Speaker 3: Do we have somebody else in there? And the number
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  Speaker 3: the number two Buckner and yeah, I'm gonna put them
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  Speaker 3: in a different tier. Hey, Duke Buckner and the other crew,
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  Speaker 3: the Peter, Paul and Mary or whatever their names were.
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  Speaker 4: The guy who's still living in Charlotte.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the guy who's still living in Charlotte. Those people
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  Speaker 3: will be on a different tier.
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  Speaker 5: I'm interested.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be talking to Alan Wilson on Monday,
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  Speaker 3: I think, because they announced yesterday that he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be hosting like some sort of are they calling it
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  Speaker 3: a debate or it's like.
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  Speaker 4: A moderate thing, I'm not really, Yeah, some kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of a forum, which is different than a debate, And
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  Speaker 3: so he's doing that, and then like literally the next
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  Speaker 3: night it's like Gray TV's having their debate. Yes, have
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  Speaker 3: we figured out who's attending who's not attending yet?
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  Speaker 4: They haven't announced that.
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  Speaker 6: I don't even think they've announced a location yet, only
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  Speaker 6: that they're having the debate.
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  Speaker 4: All right, August third.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I think it's either August second or August first.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get clarification on that in at just a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Allan will be hosting something in Lexington with the whatever
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  Speaker 3: candidates are invited. I don't know if they're all invited.
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  Speaker 6: They're calling it a senate. Stump stop the stump stop.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, August first, that's okay, it is August first, yes,
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  Speaker 3: So it's like he's pre empting the debate and that
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  Speaker 3: one's that one's in conjunction with the Republican Party because
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  Speaker 3: Drew Machissic's involved with that as well. So that's a
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  Speaker 3: it's not like it's Allen's out on his own doing
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  Speaker 3: something here. He is in conjunction with the Republican Party
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  Speaker 3: and having the Senate stump stomp or.
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  Speaker 5: Whatever those whatever stump stop that one three times fast.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well let's see maybe you know what.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, we'll take a break here, I'll come back. We'll
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  Speaker 5: play a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Of the interview with Jim Dementt, who I think I
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  Speaker 3: think might be influencing some people. When you hear his endorsement,
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  Speaker 3: I found it to be a very compelling argument. We'll
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  Speaker 3: play that and more. It is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: At one time, Senator Jim DeMint was rated by the
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  Speaker 3: Heritage Foundation as the most conservative senator in America, and
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  Speaker 3: he left that to go on later on to become
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  Speaker 3: the president of the Heritage Foundation. He's still one of
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  Speaker 3: the great conservative influencers in America. And it's a pleasure
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  Speaker 3: to welcome Jim DeMint back to the show.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Oh Kelly, You're more than gracious. Still great
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  Speaker 7: to be in the fight though, and I always love
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  Speaker 7: the chance to talk to your listeners. You've got a
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  Speaker 7: great show now in Columbia and Charleston, so great progress.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, we're now covering the Low Country at ninety
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  Speaker 3: four to three WSC, so that's exciting for us as well.
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  Speaker 3: Candidates are filing this week to run for the Senate.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't even found out exactly everyone who's running, but
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  Speaker 3: you've already come out with an endorsement.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I sure have, Kelly. A lot of people don't
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  Speaker 7: really understand the nature of the Congress, particularly the Senate.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of folks will say that they vote conservative,
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  Speaker 7: and maybe they do, but they don't have any impact
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  Speaker 7: on shaping the legislation before they vote. And that's really
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  Speaker 7: what you need. That's what the people like Rick Scott,
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  Speaker 7: Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, they're pushing against the
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  Speaker 7: Republican leadership. There's one person I've seen over the last
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  Speaker 7: five or six years in the House who are willing
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  Speaker 7: to stand up against the Republican leadership, even against Trump.
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  Speaker 7: It's necessary to get better legislation, and that's Ralph Norman
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  Speaker 7: and I know some others who are running are going
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  Speaker 7: to say they're going to vote right, They're going to
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  Speaker 7: vote with Trump. You find out from Ralph he's not
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  Speaker 7: afraid of anyone. I mean, he's a big Trump supporter
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  Speaker 7: as am I. But when the big beautiful bill came
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  Speaker 7: through and it didn't have enough tax cuts mostly it
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  Speaker 7: just didn't have enough spending cuts, Ralph held that bill
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  Speaker 7: up along with Chip Roy and a few others until
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  Speaker 7: they got the spending cuts that they had been promised.
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  Speaker 7: And during that Trump called Ralph and told him to
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  Speaker 7: back off and vote for the bill, and Ralph just said,
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  Speaker 7: mister President, we're going to make it better. And he did,
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  Speaker 7: and once he got the changes, he got it passed.
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  Speaker 3: We're speaking with Jim Demnt, the former Senator from South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like we still have some work to do
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  Speaker 3: in the Senate on the leadership side. Do we replace
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  Speaker 3: John Thune? Do we help coach him up? What happens here?
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  Speaker 7: Well, John has potential, but he's just worked behind Mitch
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  Speaker 7: McConnell too long. You know, I never heard the speech,
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  Speaker 7: Kelly where the leader gets up and says, listen, this
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  Speaker 7: is going to be tough guys, but we need to
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  Speaker 7: stand together. We need to go out there and do
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  Speaker 7: this for the country, and even though it may hurt
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  Speaker 7: some of you the election, we've got to do this together.
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  Speaker 7: I never heard anything like that. It was just always
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  Speaker 7: if we had a few senators who were afraid to
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  Speaker 7: vote on this, we just wouldn't bring it up. And
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  Speaker 7: that was the Mitch McConnell's style. And unfortunately John Thune
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  Speaker 7: had worked too many years behind him. What he needs
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  Speaker 7: is a team of people around him who were willing
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  Speaker 7: to fight for what is right and to make things
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  Speaker 7: actually happen.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Dementz on the phone with us this morning. There's
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  Speaker 3: other things that you fight for as well, like right
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  Speaker 3: here in South Carolina, you continue to fight for school choice.
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  Speaker 7: Kelly, I'm glad you brought that up, because in Washington
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  Speaker 7: it's hard to make any positive move forward. But at
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  Speaker 7: the state level, there are many things that we can
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  Speaker 7: do that make a big difference, and school choice is
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  Speaker 7: one of them. And I helped start Palmeta Promise Institute
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  Speaker 7: Ellen Weaver and I did, and now Ellen's Superintendent of
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  Speaker 7: Education and Wendy Damern is running Palmeta Promise and she's great.
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  Speaker 7: The legislature still needs to be pushed. It's open for
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  Speaker 7: fifteen thousand students this year. A lot of those are
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  Speaker 7: lower income or special needs or military. But if we
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  Speaker 7: can ever get a situation in South Carolina where the
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  Speaker 7: money on public education follows the students, we will have
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  Speaker 7: better and better schools and students have more opportunity. And
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  Speaker 7: so I'm going to keep working for that. And this
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  Speaker 7: is something that we can get done at the state level,
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  Speaker 7: as well as a better tax system, more energy competition,
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  Speaker 7: more healthcare competition. There's so much we can do here
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  Speaker 7: in addition to getting better roads that it just needs
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  Speaker 7: some people pushing for and that's what we're doing at
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  Speaker 7: Palmeta Promise.
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  Speaker 3: We ended up going about twenty minutes with Jim yesterday
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  Speaker 3: on the podcast. You can get the entire podcast, and
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  Speaker 3: he really does rake some of the South Carolina leaders
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  Speaker 3: over the calls on that one as well. That's on
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  Speaker 3: the National Briefing podcast and you spell that like my
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  Speaker 3: name nash Ional the National Briefing And maybe we'll play
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  Speaker 3: some more of that later on in the show. In
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  Speaker 3: the meantime, the Democrats are walking back their whole voter
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  Speaker 3: id situation. We'll talk about that and more coming up
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  Speaker 3: on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Christopher Thompson and I were here last Friday
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  Speaker 3: morning and we were responding to the President's speech, and
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  Speaker 3: we were both, I would say, a little disappointed in
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  Speaker 3: how it came off. And you know, the idea, he
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  Speaker 3: does have a lot of data on voter fraud and
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  Speaker 3: Chinese influence, and there was a multitude of different things
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  Speaker 3: he was talking about, what was going on in Michigan.
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  Speaker 5: He had all kinds of but it just felt a
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  Speaker 5: little flat, didn't.
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  Speaker 6: It got a little too deep in the weeds when
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  Speaker 6: you should have just really highlighted two or three key points.
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  Speaker 3: I also felt like he kind of chopped his own
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  Speaker 3: knees by letting the media know in advance that he
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  Speaker 3: was going to be talking about voter ID and they
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  Speaker 3: kind of didn't cover it. And so it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: believe that that was just a week ago because everything
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  Speaker 3: has changed in just the last few days. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what we're going to find out in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's going to be a lot more than
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  Speaker 3: sixty six hundred illegals were on the voter rolls.
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  Speaker 6: Because it wait with Kelly, that was a software issue.
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  Speaker 6: That was a software issue. We're not really trying to
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  Speaker 6: allow illegals to vote in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 5: I know that, I know that that's that's that's so true.
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  Speaker 3: But it's interesting to me, Christopher that they're now in
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  Speaker 3: this very bad position of it. Before this week it
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  Speaker 3: was there is none. Now it's a little bit. This
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  Speaker 3: is James Carvell and by the way, his podcast is
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  Speaker 3: getting weirder because it's on YouTube.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: He's literally lying in his bed as he's talking to
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  Speaker 3: some guy who's also I think in his kitchen.
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  Speaker 5: It's a very odd podcast.
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  Speaker 3: But again James Carveld is still brilliant, just a weirdo
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  Speaker 3: talking about, you know, the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 8: But I don't know if we're not better off. Said okay,
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  Speaker 8: we'll take that because for whatever reason it ship polls.
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  Speaker 9: At seventy five percent. But and I don't like when
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  Speaker 9: we say, look, I'm not it's a very minor problem.
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  Speaker 8: But you know, you gotta admit it fairly exists, and
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  Speaker 8: it's just it doesn't make any sense having said that
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  Speaker 8: we are not going to win the war against some
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  Speaker 8: kind of ID.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think about that, Christopher, Well, it's it's
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  Speaker 4: more than that. It's eighty three percent.
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  Speaker 6: According to the Hugh Research Center, eighty three percent of
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  Speaker 6: US respondents said they favor voters to show some form
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  Speaker 6: of government issued ID. Eighty three percent. So he's he's
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  Speaker 6: undercutting himself there.
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  Speaker 5: But even it's seventy five.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever he says, you know, it's he's right that, at
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  Speaker 3: least on that issue, the Democrats are screwing themselves because
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  Speaker 3: Americans want to have to show ID whether and we
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  Speaker 3: can make a push. I think we can make a
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  Speaker 3: strong case, and maybe I will make that strong case
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  Speaker 3: later on in the show for in person.
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  Speaker 5: Voting as opposed to mail in ballots. But at least
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  Speaker 5: show you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't have to make a copy of your ID and
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  Speaker 3: mail it in with your ballot or something to that
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  Speaker 3: extent would secure the elections a little bit more. Again,
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  Speaker 3: if you're a Democrat, love to hear from you. Why
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  Speaker 3: would that be a problem, Because what you're saying is
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  Speaker 3: democracy is so important. If it's that important, it's worth
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  Speaker 3: getting off your couch and making a copy of your ID.
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  Speaker 3: It's worth getting it right. It's worth protecting everybody's vote,
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  Speaker 3: because what happens when you get illegals voting.
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  Speaker 5: Now you're admitting there is voter fraud. It's just a
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  Speaker 5: little bit, it's just a thiffer.
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  Speaker 3: Well, how much can you tolerate? How much of a sliver?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, how many bank robberies do we have?
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  Speaker 5: Not many?
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's like less than one billionth of American
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  Speaker 3: people have ever.
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  Speaker 5: Robbed a bank.
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  Speaker 3: Yet we enforce that, we make sure that people stop
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  Speaker 3: doing that, and there's very few people committing voter fraud.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well, let's shore it up.
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  Speaker 3: Let's make sure that my vote is not neutralized and
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  Speaker 3: your vote's not neutralized by somebody who's not supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be voting. That's my position on it. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: Christopher's position. Sure, I think that's most people's position. I
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  Speaker 3: would love for somebody to give us a talkback saying
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  Speaker 3: that's not their position, that they think that we need
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  Speaker 3: to just figure out ways to make it more open.
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  Speaker 5: I've heard this argument.
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  Speaker 3: I've never heard anybody tell it to my face, though,
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  Speaker 3: that the idea is it's too hard to vote as
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  Speaker 3: it is, we need to make it even easier for
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  Speaker 3: people to vote, and if there is some voter fraud,
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  Speaker 3: it's minimal, and who cares, it's just a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: all right. You can use a talkback feature for that
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  Speaker 3: or any of the things that we're discussing. Might get
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  Speaker 3: to That new poll coming out of a new Hampshire
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  Speaker 3: that is shockers. And we got other things to get
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  Speaker 3: to as well. This is South Carolina's morning.
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  Speaker 2: now Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 5: Six point thirty three.
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  Speaker 3: And I am that if you're a school child, you're
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  Speaker 3: probably not up right now, but you will be soon enough.
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe, Christopher, how quickly summer is ending. I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking in the Midlands. We've got Richland one and Richland
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  Speaker 3: two will be back in school in two weeks, oh wow.
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  Speaker 3: And down in the low Country and Lexington County in
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  Speaker 3: most other places three weeks. So summer is quickly coming
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  Speaker 3: to an end. Was it always like that in South Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: Because I grew up in Connecticut and we used to
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  Speaker 3: not go back to school till after labor day.
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  Speaker 6: Well there, Yeah, it hasn't always been that way, but
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  Speaker 6: essentially these days, after the fourth of July, it's all downhill.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, summer's coming to a close quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Well, as we prepare to go back to school, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be different this year than it's ever been.
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  Speaker 3: Headline at the Post and Courier as AI seeps into
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  Speaker 3: the classrooms, Charleston School District prepares teachers for what's next. Now,
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  Speaker 3: it's a very long story that we'ves quite a tale
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  Speaker 3: about how every body's trying to be mindful that AI
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  Speaker 3: is changing everything. They're trying to implement it carefully. I
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  Speaker 3: did appreciate that the word gradual, I don't think. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that any of this is possible. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think it's possible to be gradual with AI. I think
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  Speaker 3: that it's taking over at a rapid pace, and like
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  Speaker 3: a fire could be used for good, it could also
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  Speaker 3: be used for bad. And so the district down in
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  Speaker 3: Charleston has already signed a contract with something called Magic
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  Speaker 3: School AI, a generative AI tool used to create and
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  Speaker 3: assess assignments and give students real time feedback.
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  Speaker 5: That sounds pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Other large school districts including Greenville and Oor Counties, are
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  Speaker 3: also signing contracts with Magic School AI. So this is
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  Speaker 3: going to be the first year I think where AI
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  Speaker 3: is really going to be implemented in most schools.
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  Speaker 6: Implemented, yes, but can you control it? Especially with the
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  Speaker 6: older kids, Kelly. They know all ready that they can
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  Speaker 6: write an essay or a paper much more easily by
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: using AI. And we're already hearing reports that adults their
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: creativity is being tamped down by the use of AI.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Why would I write something if I can get AI
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: to do it much better, So adults are already being affected,
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: their creativity being affected. You certainly don't want to affect
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: kids' creativity when it's still forming, when it's still in
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: their formative minds. And that's that's my main concern with
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: using AI in school.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Sure there are.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: Benefits, but well you've got to watch out for what
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: might happen to these kids if you know they wind
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: up just simply become becoming reliant on AI.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you make some strong points, Christopher, because as a child,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: you're trying to wire your brain for the rest of
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: your life. Adults, we still have the ability. I know
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: that there was for many. I guess most of history
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: we thought that your brain was kind of formed and done.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: By the time he's you know what, thirty, I guess
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: would be the time most people figured that it was over.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: But it's not true. You're seeing now in brain science
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: they're able to actually shift your mind is late as
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: your sixties and seventies, you can still change how you
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: think about things. You can still learn new skill sets
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: and all that sort of stuff. It's harder the older
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: you get, and the most meaningful time of brain development
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: is while you're in school. I've heard from a lot
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: of people who talk about this idea that well, the
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: future is going to be completely different, it's going to
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: be run by AI, and so kids today need to
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: learn how to work with that moving forward. But I
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: think you make some strong points, Christopher, that the creativity
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: and other things, just the ability to critically think, might
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: be going away.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: I know people now, Kelly, who are in office, you know,
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: in the office work, they won't even write a single email.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: They will simply put the topic up and say, AI
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: create something, and that's that's how they do everything.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, as.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: Adults, we're completely losing our capacity to write for ourselves
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: sometimes to even think for ourselves. What does AI think
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: about this?
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Okay, so that's what I believe now. And you certainly
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: don't want to see kids become too reliant on it
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: and you know, lose their ability to reason before they
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: get it even get out in the real world.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Can't we just limit it to making funny videos? I
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: wish we could just do that anyway. If you have
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: some thoughts on as we get ready for back to school,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: If you're a parent, what are your thoughts on using
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: AI in the school districts?
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: How are you do you have a plan on how
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: to try to make.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Your kids still be creative, still engage in critical thinking,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: those types of things. We'd love to hear about it
• 19:45
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• 19:48
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• 19:50
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• 19:53
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• 19:58
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• 20:04
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• 20:07
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• 20:13
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• 20:16
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• 20:18
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• 20:20
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• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Now. The LA Times has.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: A story today homelessness has increased in Los Angeles, dealing
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: fresh setback to Mayor Karen bass. I was a supporter
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: of Spencer Pratt.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: I have the hat to prove it. I got a
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Pratt hat. I didn't know he had merch that was
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: available all over the country.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: If you made I think it was a one hundred
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: dollars donation, they would send you a Pratt hat.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: And so I made a hundred dollars donation and got
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: my Pratt hat, and also felt like he was ripped
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: off in the election, as do a lot of other people.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: But that's neither here nor there.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I can't fix that, we can't relitigate it, we can't
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: go back and do whatever. But now the people of
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles are less left with bad and badder for
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: their options. If homelessness is an issue to you, I
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: would think that it would be if you've seen the
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: videos of skid Row, and that's an actual designation in
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Skid Row is not like just a rock band from
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: the eighties.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Skid Row is an actual place in Los Angeles where
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: they kind of just throw their homeless people. It's right
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: literally right next to the arts district in downtown Los Angeles,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: but it's it's filling up at a rapid pace, which
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: you know when Karen Bass has been making her speeches,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: whether she's on Fox News or wherever she goes, and
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: she talks about how, yeah, for the first time ever,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: we're seeing a decrease in the homeless or if she
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: didn't even call them homeless, the unhoused population. Well, according
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: to the La Times quote, LA's unsheltered homelessness population has
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: gone up seven point nine percent after two years of decreases,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: according to people familiar with the numbers presented by the
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and a closed door briefing.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: So she's lying, she'll continue to lie. Nadia Rayman is
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: the other lady who is running now for the nomination,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: and again in LA it's weird to have a thing
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: called the jungle primary, so they don't do it by parties.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: So Ramen is a Democrat socialist going against a Democrat
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: and Karen Bass she points out this is Ramen speaking
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: that it's disappointing but not surprising. The city must do
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: something better, results driven, transparent, and centered around the people
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: that were trying to help, not the bureaucracy, she says,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Which is so funny because Ramen's plan, if you've heard that,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: is to build more homeless encampments. And one of the
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: things that Spencer Pratt was making a big deal is
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: we've got to get them away from the general public.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: And Ramin's plan is to literally put them like right
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: across the street from.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Schools, in every park, on every corner.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, and you know, if you've seen these reports out
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: of the Los Angeles media market, they do. I mean,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: obviously Fox and Newsmax and others will run parts of
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: those stories. But it is shocking the type of I mean,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: and it's hard to shock me. I lived in New
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: York City for many years, so it's hard to shock
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: me when I see videos like this. But they are
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: shocking what these people are doing on the streets. We'll
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: just say they're attempting to procreate on the streets, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: they're using the streets as if it was a urinal
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: or and or a just a you know, some sort
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: of porta potty. But they're just doing it at you know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: noon on a Tuesday, in front of traffic and everybody else,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: tourists and tourists. Well, thankfully they're not really visiting the
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: skid Row section as much as the maybe the people
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: of skid Row would like them to visit. But it's
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: beyond bizarre that Nadi Iraman would think that that type
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: of behavior, which you can't stop, apparently in La, you're
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: infringing upon their whatever rights it is that they have
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: to defecate on the streets, that she wants that across
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: the street from schools.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Spread it around, Spread the love.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Maybe you know what, maybe that's the campaign.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson may have just landed on the new ad
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: slogan for Nadi your amen, spread the love, Spread the
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: love with Nadi ir Amen. Or choose Kiaren Bass who
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: has increased homelessness by another seven percent this year while
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: telling you that it's on the decrease. Again, none of
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: this is shocking because they're liberals. They're inviting drug addiction,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: they're inviting homelessness, they're inviting all of this. And then
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: when it happens, They're like, well, that's not my fault. Absolutely,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: it's your fault. Thoughts on homelessness in LA or just
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: how I think we do a pretty good job here
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina. I mean both Charleston and Columbia. I
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: think are doing a pretty good job, although there is
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: room for improvement. If you've got thoughts on how we
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: can make that a better situation, love to hear your
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: thoughts on the talkback feature. South Carolina's Morning News is
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: on shocking news for Kamala Harris.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: She got that yesterday? Does she have a comment about it?
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: We'll give you these shocking news and all kinds of
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: other stuff.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Is South Carolina's Morning News rolls on.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash seven.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Oh three and shocking news for Kamala Harris.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Is it shocking? Though? I don't know.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson will give his analysis in just a second.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: As we see that despite leading all the polls pretty
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: much since the ending of the campaign last in November
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: of twenty twenty four, she has been the front runner
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: continually in just about every poll, but now in the
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: last month or two she has started to drop and
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: That dropping continues with a new poll out of New
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Hampshire that shows president or excuse me, former Vice President
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris has dropped another five percentage points. She is
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: now and what they what the kids would call d
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: al And I'll tell you that the first word is
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: dead and the last word is last, so she is just.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Like a rock falling.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: But again, this is just the New Hampshire poll, right, Christopher, Right,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: So I'm wondering, why are they not polling in South
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Carolina yet for the Democrat nominees, because didn't they get
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: their their big push throughs that they're going to be
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: the first The Democrats are going to do it first
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: here in South Carolina and they're.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: Going to Is that official now? I meant they're campaigning
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: for it, but I'm not sure. As the National Democrat
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: Committee decided, I.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Thought that James Clyburn had made that a thing. Maybe
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: I'll have to go back and check on that, but
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: you would think because again, the the argument of Clyburn
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: and so many other Democrats had been who gives a
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: rip what Iowa and New Hampshire thing?
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: They're all white, so the Carolina is much more representative
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: of the Democrat.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Party exactly exactly.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: But if you're going by whitey, surprisingly a non whitey
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: is the front runner, and that would be AOC. So
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: according to the new poll, uh, again, this is likely
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Democrat primary voters in New Hampshire, twenty two percent said
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: AOC is their top choice, number two, Pete Boudajeg number three,
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: and it's a huge drop. So it's twenty two percent
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: for her, twenty one percent for Pete mayor Pete then
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: all the way down to nine percent for third place.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: How the heck does this happen? Mark Kelly, Mark Kelly's
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: above Gavin Newsom. M. Yes, Gavin Newsom has fallen another
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: seven percentage points. He's now in fourth at eight percent.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: And I don't think Bernie Sanders is even running, let's
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: hope not, but he's at six percent, and then Kamala
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: in DL with five percent.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Is this a surprising turn of events to you, Christopher
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: A little bit?
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: I mean AOC hasn't officially declared, but she's all but
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: flirting with it. But there are a lot of others
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: in that poll who are flirting a lot harder.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Gavin.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: Look Gavin Newsom, for example, he's been barn storming the country.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: He's on every outlet you can possibly imagine, day in
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: day out, hammering Trump and talking about the fact that
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: the country needs better what we had what Rocanna?
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Rocanna didn't even show up in this.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Reuben Diego and Andy Basheer, who have all been here
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: in the last couple of weeks, you know, establishing campaign
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: fronts in South Carolina.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're way down the list.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, you've got a lot of people who are
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: actively campaigning to be the Democrat candidate, who are way
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: behind someone who hasn't even declared yet.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: And you know, it's it's maybe a little bit difficult
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: for Christopher Thompson and myself to do this because we
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: are not Democrats. So again, this is just amongst Democrats.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: This is not how you and I feel. This is
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: how democrats feel. It's kind of like when Kamala Harris
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: came to South Carolina. I'm not talking about the more
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: recent stops. I'm talking about back in twenty twenty. And
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: you know, I said, this is a very unattractive candidate,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: not an unattractive person, just an unattractive candidate. Word salads
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: galore doesn't make sense, nonsensical statements left and right, awkward laughing,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: really had nothing to run on, you know, as a
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: former district attorney and a couple of years as a senator,
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: she had accomplished basically nothing.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Why would anybody vote for her?
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: And then I was, I guess encouraged that the Democrats
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: around the country said we don't like her, and they
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: got She pulled out of the primary very early, never
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: got an electoral vote. Then it was a surprise, you know,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: gm her down our throats. I think that was Joe
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Biden's final defiance of Obama when he endorsed her quickly.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: So that when Barack Obama basically he was pushing for
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Mark Kelly back in those days in twenty for the
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four election, he wanted Mark Kelly out of Arizona.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: That was a non starter because the Democrat machine had
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: to move and say, how can we kick a black
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: female off of the ballot.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: Well, they're kicking her off right now.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: So this is another poll showing that Kamala Harris continues
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: to drop. But to your point, Rocanna not doing well.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: I guess I'm thinking that the New Hampshire Democrats must
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: be more moderate. I'm guessing I've been to New Hampshire.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know what they're like. I know Mitt Romney
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: did well when he lived in New Hampshire, but I'm
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I'm surprised that somebody like wes Moore doesn't pop up.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Wes Moore governor.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I like governors for president better than I like senators,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: because the governor actually has to manage something. So the
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: governor of Maryland. I don't agree with his policies, but
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: I can see where he's in a tract of candidate.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: He's a young man, full with energy. Yes, he has
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: some scandals with the medals and all that sort of stuff,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: but I don't think most voters are even aware of that,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: and I don't think that that will.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: Become a big issue because he'll be able to get
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: out in.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Front of it. I'm spright he didn't even show up. Wow,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom, like, you're to your point flirting so hard,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: and the more he flirts, the worse he does.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: He should just shut up.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: Either that or move to the Northeast and campaign there
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: exclusively for the next two years. Yeah, well he's got issues, Kelly.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: That what's that old saying when they tell you who
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: they are, you need to listen. The fact that they've
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: got AOC top of mind right now, that tells you
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: where the party's going and where's.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, do what do we know about Pete's policies
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: other than he is obviously very pro LGBTQIA. Other than that,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: do I know anything about Pete as far as like,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: does he where is his stance on socialism? Where's his
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: stance on capitalism? I don't really know anything about Pete,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: but I think that to your point, they like the
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: socialists and they also like LGBTQIA in New Hampshire. This
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: is again the Democrats speaking, not Christopher Thompson or Kelly Nash.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Our opinion means nothing in that poll. But anyway, some
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: shocking news there for the former vice president. We'll see
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: how she responds to that. And boy boy, we got
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: some more news coming out about the South Carolina Senate primaries.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that and more on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Seven fourteen and I just looked it up. So South
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Carolina was moved to the first state in the Democrat
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: primary in twenty twenty four because Joe Biden said, we
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: got to do what James Clyburn wants. Now, Crystal Spain,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: the chair of the South Carolina Democrat Party, is talking.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: Here to CNN.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: I go to CNN when I need Democrat information because
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: they're about as pro Democrat as you can get. And
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: she says, we're trying to tell the history of South
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Carolina in this process, how our voters have always gotten
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: it right. In other words, the people who win the
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: South Carolina Democrat primary most often go on to be
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: the nominee. Not that they win the presidency, but they
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: pretty much are exclusively going to win the Democrat primary.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: They're battling it out right now. Apparently, I think it's
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: happening like today. They're trying to figure this out.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: It's Nevada who is battling South Carolina.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Well, so this is the way. They have two different scenarios.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: That what I'm seeing, Christopher, And you pronounce it Nevada,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: which is probably the proper way. I like to pronounce
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: it Nevada. I don't know why, but it feels better
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: to me to say Nevada. But you're right, I believe
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: the proper pronunciation is Nevada. Would lead the calendar, followed
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: by South Carolina, Michigan, New Hampshire, and then another southern state,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: most likely Virginia. They want Nevada, Nevada because it's got
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: a lot of Latinos and that and the other one.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: It's South Carolina, followed by Nevada, Nevada, New Mexico, Michigan,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: and New Hampshire. And it says moving New Mexico, which
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: has a sizable Latino population, into the early window is
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: a consolation prize to the Latino community. So they're trying
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: to figure out how to map this for twenty twenty eight,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: and they're having meetings. I guess right now the Democrats
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: are up in the DC to try to figure this out,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: right like right now.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: So do I care if South Carolina goes first.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: I don't, and I wouldn't care in the Republican primaries either.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I just think it's important that we're one of the
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: early states because I do think that South Carolina is
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: a good representation of the country in the sense that
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: we do have a wide, diverse population, and even though
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: we're a small state, we're little over five million people,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: I think you can get a pretty good snapshot of
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: what the country is thinking by looking at South Carolina.
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: I like for us to go first, just because of
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: the fact that it gives us a lot of attention
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: in the media all focuses on South Carolina politics. It's
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: a lot of fun to see, you know, the national
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: pundits reflecting on Okay, who's saying what and why? And
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: you know, why does South Carolina field this way? I
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: really don't always get it right.
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Was amazing if in retrospect. So here we are at iHeart.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I'm Graystown Boulevard in Columbia, and I remember when Barack
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Obama came here in two thousand and eight, and there
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: was a guy who we used to have on our
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: sister station, The Beat, which is a hip hop station.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: His name was DJ Frosty, and DJ Frosty came in
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: early that day because Barack Obama was going to be
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: here and he I don't think that Obama was considered
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: the front runner yet. I think at that point it
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: was still a Hillary. But he wanted to meet Obama
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: and he got Obama to do liners for his show.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: So it was amazing.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: If you listened to The Beat back in like twenty ten,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: twenty eleven, you would hear huh, this is Barack Obama.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: I'm getting down with DJ Frosty on the bait.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I was like, why gosh, you got the President of
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: the United States doing liners for the hip hop station
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: that was creaz So you're right, Christopher. We do get
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: a lot of attention. We get a lot of people
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: coming into the studios. We'll be talking to I guess
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: if the Democrats want to bring their people by, we'll
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: talk to them. Sure, I'll push back on their policies,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: but I'm always happy to meet them. And we'll obviously
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: be talking to the Republican candidates as well. So looking
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: forward to that as we get closer to twenty twenty eight.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Right now, we're talking about what's going on with the
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: primaries here in South Carolina. The special primary for Senate.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Will be covering some of that next on South Carolina's
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Morning News.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: As we rolled towards this special primary to nominate a
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: GOP candidate in the Senate, I had not considered this.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: This is this is literally the worst day of the
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: year to have a special election. According to the Charleston
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: County School district as it is the first day of
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: school in Charleston County hikes, and I think the person
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: running the elections says, I don't think a majority of
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: the schools are going to be available. It's a logistical
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: challenge already to be in schools when there's school's happening,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: but with it being the first day of classes, it's
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: going to be a very chaotic day for the school
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: as it is. Introducing an election into that would only
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: pose more challenges of not just security, but also voting
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: and the confusion it would be during drop off pickups,
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: the traffic throughout the day. So it's going to be
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: I hadn't considered that.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: There will, Kelly, there will have to be a lot
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: of alternate voting locations being used in some of these
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: cities where school is in session.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: And then we got Mark Sandford, also in the Charleston
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: area announcing yesterday that he's in And I mean, it's
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: just we're starting to pick up theme around here now.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: I also see that the Internet is continuing to do
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: its work regarding the candidacy of and I still am
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: not clear is her.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Name Darlene Graham or Darlene.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Graham Nordon I'm seeing it referenced in two different ways
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: by all media outlets.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: No one has concluded. Has she come out and said
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: my name.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: I don't know that she has.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: We need like an eminem rap hi, my name.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Is hi, my name is even.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: That's become controversial because many feel like she's running on
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: the Graham name instead of using her married name.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: If look, I don't fault you for doing that. If
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: that's actually a strategic move on your part, I don't
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: think it's a bad move. Security is strength. Pack has
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: announced a nine hundred thousand dollars investment to support Darlene Graham.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Nine hundred thousand dollars. Now, Nick Reynolds reporter, I think
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: he's at the State might be at the posting courier. Gosh,
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Nick, if I'm blowing that and you're listening
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: se State House reporter with the posting courier, Okay.
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: He says.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: This is the pack that formerly did independent expenditures on
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: behalf of Lindsay Graham, operated by his longtime communications director.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: They ended June with fifty five thousand dollars in cash
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: on hand, wondering where those extra dollars came from. Wow,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: so they went from fifty five thousand dollars cash on
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: hand to putting nine hundred thousand dollars towards the nomination
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: of Darlene Graham. Later on, he says in response to
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: where the money came from, a spokesperson for the Pack said,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: when the President of the United States gets behind a candidate,
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: it's no surprise that donors across the country want to
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: be a part of this effort. So there's I guess
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: we've clarified that there's just independent donors who want to
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: stroke checks to help Darlene Graham, and the best way
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: to do so, I guess is through the Pack, not
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: directly to her. Maybe she doesn't have that set up yet.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: I'm not really sure there is also, though, as the
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Internet does its work, we had heard yesterday I think
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: it was that Darlene had donated. No, it was two
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: days ago. And when we had CJ. Westfallen, was it
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: two days ago? He is the chair of the Dorchester
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: County Republicans, and he was pointing out that she's only
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: made one campaign contribution that he's aware of, to Katrina Sheely,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: and apparently Katrina Sheeley tried to clean that up a
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: little bit and said it happened in twenty twenty before
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: the whole Sister Senator's scandal, so to speak. Well, the
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Internet went and did its work, and now we have
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: somebody has posted. Darlene Graham posted two campaigns. One would
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: have been on March ninth, twenty twenty four hundred dollars.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: The other one was October nineteenth, twenty twenty three, four
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: one hundred dollars, both to Katrina Sheely. Obviously, the Katrina
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Sheey thing was happening in twenty twenty three with the
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: sister senators. So I don't know if that fact into
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: your opinion on Darling Graham, the fact that she is
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: supporting Katrina Sheely in the middle of the I want
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: to stop the six week abortion band in South Carolina,
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: which was overwhelmingly supported in this state by conservatives. I
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: don't know if that factors into your decisions at all,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: but at least that is out there now. So a
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: lot to and we have we still have more candidates
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: to come. I'm told there's more people filing today.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean Russell Fry hasn't filed yet.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, funny brought that up. I was in communications
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: with one of his people yesterday, there is a shout
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: he is filing today, is what they told me. And
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: he's coming to Columbia. So there, I'm softly anticipating a
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: possible he's going to swing by the studio. Okay, good,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: possibly today at some point. So Russell Fry, if you're
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: driving in right now listening to us, you are invited
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: and we look forward to hopefully having you on the show.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: Will air that on Monday.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: All right, lots to get to still, this is South
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: Carolina's morning news.
• 41:58
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• 42:03
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• 42:07
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• 42:13
  Speaker 2: NOW Kelly Nash.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Seven thirty five. As you get after it. On a
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Friday morning, we were celebrating yesterday that the state House
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: had finally approved at least a portion of the budget.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: I don't know what's going on here, Christopher.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: We have many discussions still to come regarding the ear marks.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: I see that the Harvey Peeler obviously sent it not
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: a fan of the ear marks. I said that Chairman
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Banister came up with an idea that I think is
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: worth trying, where they're going to kind of put them
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: all into a we're going to vote.
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: On each well, I guess they're not going to.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: It's going to be a committee is going to decide
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: whether or not each one is worthy and then put
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: them all into a group. I'll call it a slush fund,
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: and then eventually they'll vote on the slush.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: Fund that Kelly. That sums it up pretty well.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: And there's also this discussion about one hundred and fifty
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: million dollars that the South Carolina taxpayers are supposed to
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: add to the Scout Motor's site. And Scout Motor is
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: going to be in Blythwood. The We're already in for
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: one point three billion dollars and there's apparently our commitment
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: because of inflation, needs another one hundred and fifty million
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: dollars to finish this project. So I don't even know
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: what they're voting on. Are you telling me that we're
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: going to spend not that this would be unheard of
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: that the South Carolina government will invest one point three
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: billion dollars and then just let it be a hole.
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: In the ground.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: Well, I think the Senate wanted a study of exactly
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: what went wrong there, and they want to see that
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: study before they will vote another dollar towards Scout Motors.
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: So that's that's the hold up there.
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: They're going to have a legislative audit review.
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Scout is pushed back and said, well, look, you're not
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: the only ones paying more because we had committed to
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: two billion dollars, but in order to get this thing open,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: it's now because of inflation, Thank you, Joe Biden. It's
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: going to go up to three billion dollars that they
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: have to pay. It's not inflation on our end that
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: it's cost overruns. They had numerous issues with preparing that site,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: and that's what senators are trying to get to the
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: bottom of is exactly why those issues occurred and why
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: we didn't see them coming. So the taxpayers, instead of
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: being at one point three billion, would be at one point.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: Four five billion dollars.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: You know, this is one of those things where it's
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: just so frustrating because but at the same time, I
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: love it. I love the competition between states and cities
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: and whatever to try to get business.
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: I just think that we approach it the wrong way.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: And you know, that was one of the arguments that
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman was making when he was running for governor
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: is that our state House continues to make horrible deals
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: when it comes to business that shortchange the taxpayers, that
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: didn't really apparently land with enough people.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: Obviously. I think Alan Wilson is making a similar argument.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: We need to have actual business people, not attorneys for
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: our legislators if they're going to be involved with cutting deals.
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: It is a big deal anytime you land a major
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: car manufacturer. I mean, look at Volva in the low Country,
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: look at BMW in the Upstate. Now the Midlands has
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: its piece, but you know, at what costs? And as
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: Ralph Norman pointed out, who was competing with us for
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: Scout motors and how much did we overspend to land Scout?
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: And side note, Scout is a at least in this capacity,
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: an EV right, this is an electric vehicle, that's what
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: they're looking at. Yes, so in the future of evs
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: not so bright today. This is like you've you've gone
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: all in on a on some sort of free agent
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: and the free agent stock is dropping.
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: So I don't know.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: We'll see how the State House decides to handle that issue,
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: and we'll keep you up to date on that. If
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: you have thoughts, please use the talkback feature that's on
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app with South Carolina's morning news.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 46:13
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• 46:19
  Speaker 2: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Now, Kelly Nash.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: All right, if you go to truth Social and follow
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump there, you'll see that he's now posting videos
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: and photos with himself and O'tani yesterday with the Dodgers,
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: and very excited. I guess to meet Otani. He's a
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: I guess he's still a big baseball fan.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: I guess.
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: I mean he read a couple of things out of
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: baseball history yesterday and said what I don't, I'll just
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: move on.
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: Really, that's great.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: The other thing that Donald Trump has announced on truth
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: Social is that any damage that Iran causes two ships
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: will now be paid paid for with Iranian money that
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: the US already holds. I'm wondering how long till we
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: get some sort of district court judge to overrule the.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: President on that, a Biden appointed judge.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody, somebody somewhere is going to say you can't
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: use the Iranian seized assets to pay for damages on
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: US ships or anything like that. But I think that's
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: a great idea. But we were we're going into night.
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: We just had thirteenth night. I think it was on targets.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: But it appears to people far above my pay grade
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: that it looks like we're starting to actually increase the strikes,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: that we have more jets in the air, we have
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: more planes covering things, we have helicopters, and apparently those helicopters,
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: those apaches are.
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: Being used because.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: And again I'm not that close of an Iranian conflict watcher,
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: it appeared that for several nights the drones were not
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: being sent up by the Iranians. They were just going
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: all ballistic missiles. And what has been spentated is that
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: several of the Gulf nations had been using some sort
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: of jamming devices to stop those drones from being able
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: to get up in the air. It appears that the
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: Iranians have now figured out a way around that and
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: last night they began using those drones. Yeah, those drones again,
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: and apparently the apaches are a great distraction. They can
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: move the drones around, they can knock them out of
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: the sky. There's all kinds of benefits to the apaches,
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: so they're now putting that bump over our bases. However,
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I'll also point out, you know, I'm not going to speculate.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: You can speculate all you want. It seems as if
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: all of the European dignitaries were ordered to leave Iran
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: by there people. So like France said, we're pulling all
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: of our dignitaries out. Germany says, we're pulling all of
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: ours out. Do they know something that's coming now that
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: they don't want any of their people in Iran for
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: any reason? Moving forward? Possibly, I would like to see
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: us ramp it up. I don't like these little tic
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: tac attack that we've got going on. I would like
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: to see a major destruction happening in Iran.
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: And Kelly now Iron's open up a new front with
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: their attacks, the Houthis attacks. But you might as well
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: say ran in the Red Sea on a couple of
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: Saudi Arabia tankers there, Yes.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: And there was speculation that they were actually going to
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: do a ground assault on Kuwait and they and there
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: was a bunch of explosions happening on the Kuwaiti border yesterday,
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: So not sure if that was US military forces helping
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: to defend Kuwait what happened there. But the Iranians are
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: they're not surrendering, and they're not going quietly into the
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: night and there. And they may say that they want
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: to sign a peace deal, but they'll sign, you know,
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what they sign. They want to take
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: over the world. I'm thinking and hopeful that Trump is
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: now understanding that and he will up the attacks. Let's
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: unleash the Department of War on Iran. That's my stance.
• 49:56
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• 49:58
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• 50:01
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the low Country.
• 50:04
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• 50:07
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• 50:11
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• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Now Here's Kelly Nash.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: It's amazing that it was just a few months ago
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: that some lunatic named Cole Allen stormed into the White
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: House Correspondence Association dinner and tried to assassinate the President
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: and anybody else on the staff that he could get to.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: Anybody in the administration that's who he was targeting. We
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: don't really know anything about Cole Allen still, I mean,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: all these months later, we don't know anything really about
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: that guy other than he was an award winning school
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: teacher in California. Tonight they're going to have that White
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: House Correspondence Association dinner. Now they've moved it from the Hilton.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: They're going to the Waldorf Astoria, which is ironically the
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: old Trump International Hotel in DC. So he'll get to
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: be back on his old stomping grounds. But again, what
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: a brave president this guy is. How many times have
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: they tried to kill this guy, like seven eight times?
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: Now he is?
• 51:08
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's scary the reports that you see every
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: day Secret Service, and I give the I give the President,
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: I give every politician these days, and that includes the judiciary.
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: The fact that they're being they're under attack on social
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: media so much, but some of these threats are physical
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: threats to harm them, and they're they're continuing to be
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: out there, they put their families out there. It's it's tough.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: And you remember Trump that night, it was a Saturday
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: night that had happened. Uh, when they cleared the ballroom, obviously,
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: and he was immediately.
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: Like, you know, he was talking like, we're going to
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: finish it up right now.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go on, let's keep doing, We'll keep going.
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: What's the problem. Yeah, what's the problem. There's a guy
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: trying to kill you, that's the problem.
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, we caught the guy. Let's go.
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no need to hold back.
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: So I've got jokes.
• 51:55
  Speaker 5: Come on. He did have probably great baby, he said.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: It probably worked out to his benefit because he was
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: going to go so hard at the press, and so
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: maybe he's going to dial it back a little bit tonight.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: They're also going to be honoring Secret Service Officer Victor
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: Gonzalez tonight, who is the guy who actually stopped the suspect.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: I guess he tackled them. And they're going to do
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: some other things with students and things of that nature.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: And can you imagine how tight the security's going to
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: be tonight.
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: And it was smaller guest list too.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, well, one of the people who's going to be
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: there is our John Decker. We're going to talk to
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: him coming up in the next hour. And we've got
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: plenty more things to get to as well. Thanks for
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: starting your day as we launch into the weekend Friday
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: morning style, South Carolina's Morning.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: News by from the state Capitol.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: And it's an awkward time to be a Democrat because
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: now they have to walk back what they've been saying
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: for decades. There's literally no signs of any illegals ever
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: voting in any elections ever. Well, that ended this, That
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: performative art piece had to end this week when the
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: New Jersey governor announced that there was over sixty six
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: hundred illegals registered to vote in the state of New Jersey.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: This after well, you know what, Christopher, let me play this.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: This is a guy who I think most of you
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: are familiar with, Michael Smyrn Khanish, and he fancies himself
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: as a well thought out center type of person. He's
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: actually center left. But here he is on his show yesterday.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: He's talking to a security expert on elections. I don't
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: know what that means. David Becker and Smerconish is talking
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: about the fact that, yeah, I probably got to change
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: everything I've been thinking insane.
• 53:45
  Speaker 11: Mark Wayne Mullen had already put a version of that
• 53:48
  Speaker 11: on the record two hundred and fifty thousand non citizens
• 53:51
  Speaker 11: registered in just four states, one hundred and ninety thousand
• 53:55
  Speaker 11: in California, I'll underscore this, thirty five thousand in New Jersey,
• 54:00
  Speaker 11: fifteen thousand in Nevada, and fourteen thousand in Pennsylvania. And
• 54:05
  Speaker 11: in our conversations about that statement by the President and
• 54:09
  Speaker 11: from Mark Wayne Mullen, you may remember me referencing initially
• 54:14
  Speaker 11: something that came out in January of twenty twenty six
• 54:17
  Speaker 11: in the New York Times under the headline initial review
• 54:20
  Speaker 11: finds no widespread illegal voting by migrants, puncturing a Trump claim.
• 54:27
  Speaker 11: It's one of those articles that I held and tucked
• 54:29
  Speaker 11: aside because I knew we'd be coming back to it.
• 54:32
  Speaker 11: I think that the political consequences of this are significant.
• 54:35
  Speaker 11: I'm obviously not defending it either. I'm just sitting here
• 54:39
  Speaker 11: looking to you as the expert, and wondering do I
• 54:41
  Speaker 11: need to modify what I've been saying in this microphone,
• 54:44
  Speaker 11: which is this really doesn't happen.
• 54:47
  Speaker 12: I think it's important to note this is extremely rare.
• 54:50
  Speaker 12: It is not widespread. We know this from the data,
• 54:53
  Speaker 12: and it's not just me saying it. It's not just
• 54:55
  Speaker 12: Governor Cheryl saying this. It's the Trump Department of Homeland
• 54:58
  Speaker 12: Security that says this. They released data and part of
• 55:01
  Speaker 12: their document dump on Thursday before the President's speech that
• 55:05
  Speaker 12: confirmed they have reviewed sixty eight million voter records and
• 55:09
  Speaker 12: compared it to this incomplete DHS data set. And yet
• 55:14
  Speaker 12: even though that DHS citizenship data is incomplete, they confirm
• 55:17
  Speaker 12: ninety nine point ninety six percent of those sixty eight
• 55:20
  Speaker 12: million where documented citizens according to the data DHS had.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: So he wants me to not trust Mickey Cheryl or
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: Mikey and don't trust him, trust the Department of Homeland Security. Okay,
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: I will Department of Homeland Security. And that data dump
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: said there was roughly a quarter of a million illegals
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: in the Republican states. You notice he said sixty eight
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: million voters. He didn't say two hundred and twenty million voters.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: Because we don't know what they're they won't give us
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: their voter rules. In the Democrat states, we don't know,
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: for a we don't know exactly what's going on in
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: New Jersey. We don't know exactly what's going on in California.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: But what they've already figured out. Again, going back to
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: what Mark Wayne Mallin said is he's got information on
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: thirty five thousand illegals in New Jersey. Mickey Cheryl gave
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: up sixty six hundred of him this week. And I
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: when I said, when she gave that up, that is
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: her attempt to try to get out in front of
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: a much, much bigger scandal. I have no doubt that
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: we're going to be adding zeros to that sixty six
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: hundred throughout the next couple of weeks and months.
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: So with that being said, Kelly, do they then revise
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: their argument that it doesn't happen?
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: I mean that expert says no, Joe.
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: He says it's small. Now, it's small.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: It's before it was like you said none, sure, Now
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: it's just very small.
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: It's minuscule. It's it's like one percent tops.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: Well, how much how much of the uh you know
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: of our democracy do you want to give away? Are
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: you wanting to give away one percent of it? Is
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: it two percent? What is the number that you're comfortable
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: with saying? Oh okay, well that amount of fraud? Because
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: it's like when you talk about tax dollars and they
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: talk about fraud and taxes and all this sort of stuff. Well,
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know what you pay annually, but
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: let's just say we're all paying roughly thirty percent of
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: our income to go to some sort of taxes, either
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: at the federal or local level. Now, are you cool
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: with the fact that, let's just say you make one
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: hundred grand a year, that's thirty thousand dollars that you
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: paid into it. Then you find out later on that
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: five billion dollars was lost to fraud. Well, that's all
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: of my tax money, all of Christopher's tax money, is
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: all of it's pretty much the entire city of Columbia's
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: tax money was just thrown away in some sort of
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: fraud scheme. But it's so small, it's just a small percentage.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Well then why am I even paying exactly? And why
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: am I even voting? If you're just neutralizing it when
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: you have an illegal vote. This is when you want
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: to protect democracy, you have to use voter IDs, and
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: this Save America Act Christopher is one of the most
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: important pieces of legislation that we've ever had. By the way,
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: this is James Curvell yesterday on his podcast.
• 58:02
  Speaker 8: But I don't know if we're not better off, said, Okay,
• 58:06
  Speaker 8: we'll take that because for whatever reason, this ship polls
• 58:10
  Speaker 8: at seventy five percent. And I don't like when we said, well, look,
• 58:13
  Speaker 8: I'm not it's a very minor problem.
• 58:15
  Speaker 9: But you know, you got to admit it. It barely exists.
• 58:19
  Speaker 8: And it's just it doesn't make any sense having said that,
• 58:24
  Speaker 8: we are not going to win the war against some
• 58:27
  Speaker 8: kind of id.
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: That's right, you're not.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: And with that in mind, if I was Donald Trump
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: this morning that was said yesterday, I would rename the
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: Save America Act to the James Carvill Voter Ide Act,
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: or maybe even change it to the Bill Clinton Voter
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: Ide Act, because he was big on that as well.
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: There was plenty of Democrats back in the day who
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: thought that it was an important thing to make sure
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: that democracy was protected by voter identification. And I don't
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: know what happened in the last fifteenth Well I kind
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: of have an idea.
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: What happened in the last ten or fifteen years.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, in order to win elections, we needed to
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: kind of flood the zone with illegal.
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: Which is just what they did in the last administration.
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: Now they've got to put that to good use and
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: make sure they're allowed to vote.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be a waste? What a great waste if
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: all this taxpayer money was spent to get these illegals
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: in and put them up at nice, three, four or
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: five star hotels, feed them, give them health care, and
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: then they didn't even get a chance to vote. What
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: a loss that would be. And Christopher, did you say,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: we have people on the talkback feature we do?
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: Here?
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: We go, Hey, Kelly, uncle Boudro here listen.
• 59:27
  Speaker 13: Since I do stand up comedy, I find myself interacting
• 59:30
  Speaker 13: with a lot more leftists than I otherwise would, and
• 59:35
  Speaker 13: I always like to tell them, I say, you know,
• 59:37
  Speaker 13: we really need that voter id show that you know,
• 59:40
  Speaker 13: Trump supporters and the maga Republicans can't cheat.
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: That's a good point.
• 59:45
  Speaker 13: Then I watched the gears in their head just get
• 59:47
  Speaker 13: stuck and grind. They have no idea how to respond
• 59:51
  Speaker 13: to that. It entertains me.
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: As well as should. That is a great point.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: And again that's part of the reason I would date
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: it the James Carvel Voter Ide Act, because remember when
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: Trump said he was upset early on with the Save
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: America Act because a lot of Republicans were calling it
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: the Save Act, and he was.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: Like, no, no, no.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: I want it to be called Save America Act, so
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: that they have to come out and say they're again
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: saving America. And apparently that's not a problem for Democrats.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: They will call it the Save America Act and then
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: tell you that it sucks. But to James Carvel's point,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: Americans overwhelmingly want to show ID to make sure that
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: my vote is protected.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: We don't want to throw it away. He had the
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: stat wrong on Kelly. It's eighty three percent of Americans
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: in the last few research poll said they want voter ID.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: Well, maybe the tide is turning that this little crack
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: in the damn from Mickey Charell up in New Jersey,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: We're going to start seeing more and more pressure put
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: on politicians on the left to ensure that the elections
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: are actually fair. I hope so, I hope that that's
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: something good that comes out of it. Will be covering
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: that and other stories. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: Yesterday had the pleasure of welcoming back to the show
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: the former great senator from South Carolina, former president of
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: the Heritage Foundation, and one of the still most active
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: and great influences on conservative politics across the country from
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: the upstate of South Carolina.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 7: Jim Dementz, Oh, Kelly, you're more than gracious. It's still
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 7: great to be in the fight though, and I always
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 7: love the chance to talk to your listeners. You've got
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 7: a great show now in Columbia and Charleston, so that's
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 7: great progress.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, we're now covering the Low Country at ninety
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: four to three WSC, so that's exciting for us as well.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: Candidates are filing this week to run for the Senate.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: We haven't even found out exactly everyone who's running, but
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: you've already come out with an endorsement.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 7: Well, I sure have, Kelly. A lot of people don't
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 7: really understand the nature of the Congress, particularly the Senate.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 7: A lot of folks will say that they vote conservative,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 7: and maybe they do, but they don't have any impact
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 7: on shaping the legislation before they vote, and that's really
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 7: what you need. That's what the people like Rick Scott,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 7: Mike Lee, Kit Cruz, Ron Johnson, they're pushing against the
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 7: Republican leadership. There's one person I've seen over the last
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 7: five or six years in the House who are willing
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: to stand up against the Republican leadership, even against Trump.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: It's necessary to get better legislation. And that's Ralph Norman.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 7: And I know some others who are running are going
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 7: to say they're going to vote right, They're going to
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 7: vote with Trump. What you'll find out from Ralph he's
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: not afraid of anyone. I mean, he's a big Trump supporter,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 7: as am I. But when the big beautiful bill came
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 7: through and it didn't have enough tax cuts mostly it
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 7: just didn't have enough spending cuts, Ralph held that bill
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 7: up along with Chip Roy and a few others until
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 7: they got the spending cuts that they had been promised.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 7: And during that Trump called Ralph and told him to
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 7: back off and vote for bill, and Ralph just said,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 7: mister President, we're going to make it better. And he did,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 7: and once he got the changes, he got it passed.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: We're speaking with Jim Demnt, the former Senator from South Carolina.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: It sounds like we still have some work to do
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: in the Senate on the leadership side.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: Do we replace John Thune? Do we help coach him up?
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: What happens here?
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 7: Well, John has potential, but he just worked behind Mitch
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 7: McConnell too long. I never heard the speech, Kelly, where
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 7: the leader gets up and says, listen, this is going
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 7: to be tough, guys, but we need to stand together.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 5: We need to go.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 7: Out there and do this for the country and even
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 7: though it may hurt some of you in the election,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 7: we've got to do this together. I never heard anything
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 7: like that. It was just always if we had a
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: few senators who were afraid to vote on this, we
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 7: just wouldn't bring it up. And that was the Mitch
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 7: McConnell's style, and unfortunately John Thune had worked too many
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 7: years behind him. What he means is a team of
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 7: people around him who were willing to fight for what
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 7: is right and to make things actually happen.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: Jim Dement is on the phone with us this morning.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: There's other things that you fight for as well, like
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: right here in South Carolina, you continue to fight for
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: school choice.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Kelly.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 7: I'm glad you brought that up, because in Washington it's
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 7: hard to make any positive move forward. But at the
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 7: state level, there are many things that we can do
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 7: that make a big difference, and school choice is one
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 7: of them. And I helped start pal Meta Promise Institute
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 7: Ellen Weaver, and I did, and now Ellen's Superintendent of Education,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 7: and Wendy Damern is running Healmeta Promise and she's great.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 7: The legislature still needs to be pushed. It's open for
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 7: fifteen thousand students this year. A lot of those are
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 7: lower income or special needs or military. But if we
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 7: can ever get a situation in South Carolina where the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 7: money on public education follows the students, we will have
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 7: better and better schools and students have more opportunity. And
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 7: so I'm going to keep working for that. And this
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 7: is something that we can get done at the state level,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 7: as well as a better tax system, more energy competition,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 7: more healthcare competition. There's so much we can do here
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 7: in addition to getting better roads that it just needs
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 7: some people pushing for and that's what we're doing at
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 7: Palmata Promise.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: All Right, you can hear the entire interview with our
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: former Senator Jim Dement on the National Briefing podcast that's
• 1:05:19
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• 1:05:25
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: Democrats are performative in nature. They're here to strike emotions.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: They very bad at logical arguments, but they are very
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: good at getting emotions out of you. And part of
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: that is the fact that you got to look good.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: Looking good is not easy. Looking good is not inexpensive,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: as we probably remember. I think most of us are
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: old enough to remember. Bill Clinton was held up airport
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: traffic with air Force one while you got a two
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars haircut once I was in Los Angeles International Airport.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat running for president, was
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: paying four hundred dollars per haircut in two thousand and seven,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: and at one point used more campaign funds one two
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars to fly the stylist to meet
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: him in Iowa.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: To his credit, Kelly, he had great hair.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 5: He did he did well.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: Now the latest to join this club of people who
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: are paying lots of money in order to look good
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: is John Ossoff. According to campaign finances, John Ossoff spends
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: more money on his makeup, his makeup than AOC and
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: Rashida Talib combined. Wow, this guy likes to look good.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: So he has hired a stylist, a makeup expert apparently,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: and she lives in the Atlanta area, which is good,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: so he doesn't have to cover airfare and she comes
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: in and so far he has spent well. His most
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: recent one was nine hundred dollars for makeup in order
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: to get ready to do a TV campaign. Nine hundred
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: dollars now laid.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: Maybe you know something I don't.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: How much does it cost you typically if you're gonna,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: like even for a wedding, Like, what do they spend
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: on hair and makeup? I also doesn't have any hair really,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: so it's all makeup. But this seems insane to me.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: Christopher, that's a lot of money that But I you know,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 6: it's all about looks, as you pointed out, and Kelly,
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  Speaker 6: we mentioned the New Hampshire poll earlier. He was listed
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  Speaker 6: in that poll of possible Democratic contenders for the next
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  Speaker 6: presidential election. He's been everywhere. He's been blanketing the media
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  Speaker 6: in the last couple of weeks. Is he a shadow
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  Speaker 6: candidate for president?
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  Speaker 3: I I'm going to tentatively throw out there that John
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: Ausoff is in the hot seat to retain his seat
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  Speaker 3: in the Senate. I think that in Georgia because you
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: have so much money behind well, it's not behind the
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  Speaker 3: Georgia nominee for governor. He is the money behind himself.
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  Speaker 3: He is stroking check after chick after check. He's rising
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  Speaker 3: the profile of the Republican Party. The Republicans I think
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  Speaker 3: have learned a lot in Georgia since twenty twenty and
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  Speaker 3: I would not be surprised although early polling shows us
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  Speaker 3: Off not with a comfortable lead, but a slight lead.
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  Speaker 3: It would be not surprising to me if John Ossoff
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  Speaker 3: loses his seat this year.
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  Speaker 6: So you're saying he's campaigning hard for his own seat,
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  Speaker 6: he might.
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  Speaker 3: Be trying to be the next president in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: eight as well. We've seen that play out as But
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  Speaker 3: I think that John Assoff's in trouble right now, and
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  Speaker 3: so he needs every ounce of makeup he can get,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: and maybe he gets a hair transplant or something to
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  Speaker 3: try to get that John Edward's hair. Maybe, so Bill
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: couldn't had pretty good hair. If I remember back in
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: the day, in the day, did you see that video
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  Speaker 3: of him walking around with Hillary the other day?
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  Speaker 6: Oh it's I mean, everyone ages at a different pace,
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  Speaker 6: but yeah, he he doesn't look good.
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  Speaker 3: But speaking of pace, he was like eight paces behind her,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: Like what was that about. I've been out with many
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  Speaker 3: walks with my wife. I've never been eight behind.
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  Speaker 6: Her and dressed like a one hundred year old at
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 6: the beach, she and she was dressed like the hamburglar.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 6: Hillary was the hamburglar. He's dressed like in a blouse
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 6: or something.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what was going on with those two,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: but there's the Clinton's on vacation in some foreign port
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: of call. All right, when we come back, somebody who
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  Speaker 3: is going to be at tonight's White House Correspondence Association dinner.
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  Speaker 5: What's it going to be like? We're gonna get the
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  Speaker 5: preview with our own John Decker.
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  Speaker 2: Next, this is South Carolina's Morning News on one O
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  Speaker 1: Now Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 11: Thanks Kelly for articulating how we need the save America AC.
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  Speaker 9: I really enjoyed that segment.
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  Speaker 11: Y'ata run for.
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  Speaker 1: Us Senate yourself because you sounded better than most politicians
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  Speaker 1: on the issue.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks again, having a good weekend, guys.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you Dustin.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate you using the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 5: I could never run for senate. Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: The closet that I have is so filled for my
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: early years just overflow. Tonight is going to be a
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: big night to the White House Correspondents.
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  Speaker 5: Then they're going to have it.
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  Speaker 3: They've moved it from what was a twenty six hundred
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  Speaker 3: person ballroom down to a thirteen hundred person ballroom. I
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: don't even know if they're going to use all thirteen
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  Speaker 3: hundred seats, but it's going to be. This is going
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  Speaker 3: to be the first one, obviously since the assassination attempt.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm told that we now have on the phone
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  Speaker 3: our White House correspondent John Decker, Good morning, how are you.
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  Speaker 10: I'm doing great, hope you're having a great Friday so far.
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  Speaker 5: So far. You're going to be going to this thing.
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  Speaker 3: I can imagine that they're telling you you've got to
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: get there real like, you got to go probably right
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  Speaker 3: about now to get through security.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, there is enhanced security, as you can imagine for
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  Speaker 10: tonight's dinner, and with good reason, given what happened at
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 10: the dinner that took place in late April. And you know,
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  Speaker 10: I mean, it's also a smaller venue, a smaller number
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 10: of people attending, one thousand versus twenty five hundred, And
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 10: it's going to be interesting to see the differences between
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 10: this evening's dinner and the dinner that took place in
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  Speaker 10: late April, for sure, And.
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  Speaker 3: I remember Donald Trump, saying that it might have worked
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: out well for him in the sense that he had
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: some really vicious material that he was going to use
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: on the depress that night.
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  Speaker 5: He might have dialed it back for tonight.
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  Speaker 10: And I don't think he's dialed it back. I think,
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  Speaker 10: you know, he's been working on enhancing that speech, and
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  Speaker 10: I would be shocked surprised if he doesn't use this
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  Speaker 10: opportunity with all those journalists in the room, with all
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 10: those White House correspondents in the room, to trash the media.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 10: That is what I'm expecting to come from the president
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  Speaker 10: speech tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Talking with John Decker, our White House correspondent. As someone
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: who's in the media, I'm sure you probably have some
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: friends that work at some of these outlets, whether it's
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: The Times or CNN or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: Do they ever talk to you privately about that.
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  Speaker 10: About what the attacks on their news organizations?
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  Speaker 5: Sure?
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  Speaker 10: No, I think that you have to have a thick skin.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, that's the bottom line. You have to have
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 10: a thick skin if you're going to cover the White House.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 10: Sometimes you get incoming in a phone call, you know,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 10: no one ever sees or hears. Sometimes it's coming from
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 10: the President himself. So regardless of that, you just have
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 10: to go about doing your job and not being not
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 10: be concerned about, you know, those types of criticisms that
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 10: might be leveled your way.
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  Speaker 3: And John Decker, they've moved the venue, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: was the Hilton, which is I think the same place
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  Speaker 3: that Reagan had an assassination attempt. They're moving into the
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  Speaker 3: Waldorf for a story tonight.
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  Speaker 9: Is that correct, That's right?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, So it's I mean, I've gone this is this
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  Speaker 10: is going to be the thirty first year that I'm
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 10: attending this dinner and it's always been held at the
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  Speaker 10: Washington Hilton, and the reason for that is because of
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  Speaker 10: the extremely large ballroom that it has. You know, it
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 10: can accommodate twenty five hundred people. This event, this evening
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  Speaker 10: will be at the waldorfice story, as you just mentioned,
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  Speaker 10: and you know, you can't get simply dropped off at
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  Speaker 10: the door of the hotel when you are attending it
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  Speaker 10: because of the enhanced security. There's a security perimeter that's
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 10: several blocks long. So that's something that any guests have
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 10: to be prepared for this evening.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine being you're not going to the dinner,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: but you're just staying at the wall door for astoria.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: That's going to be insane.
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  Speaker 10: I mean there are people that certainly, you know, fit
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  Speaker 10: that category. Yeah, I think it would be you know,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 10: interesting if you're just a hotel guest and all of
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 10: this is going on. But the ballroom itself, where it's
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 10: taking place, is a little bit It's like got a
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  Speaker 10: separate wing, so you know, you don't have to contend
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  Speaker 10: with some of the things that you had to contend
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  Speaker 10: with when the dinner was held at the Washington Hilton.
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  Speaker 3: And I understand that the cocktail hour has been either
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: removed or diminished in some capacity.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, there's no you know, cocktail reception. So that is
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  Speaker 10: something that's always been a part of the Correspondent Center,
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  Speaker 10: but that will not be present this evening.
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  Speaker 3: Well, John Decker, I hope you have a great time tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Do you you get to eat at this thing? You're
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: gonna get a belly full?
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  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, I think it's what is it?
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 10: It's uh, it's steak and lobster. How about that puts
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 10: for dinner tonight, Josh.
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  Speaker 5: I wish I wish you tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Well, John Decker, thank you appreciate you I hope you
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  Speaker 3: have a safe night but also a fun night tonight.
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  Speaker 10: Oh absolutely, we'll talk soon. I'm sure I'll tell you
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  Speaker 10: all about it. Thanks so much for having me on today.
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  Speaker 5: Looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 3: That's John Decker and uh yeah, steak and lobster. Not
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: a bad way to go, Christopher. We should be so lucky.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: More with South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Next, This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O
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• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: Now, Kelly Nash.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: Just got off the phone with our White House correspondent
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: John Decker getting ready for tonight's White House Correspondence dinner.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: He mentioned that it is on from the twenty five
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  Speaker 3: hundred seats or so at the Hilton down to the
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: thousand seats tonight at the Waldorf Astoria. Obviously, Christopher Thompson,
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  Speaker 3: that's going to have some traffic concerns because the Waldorf
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: story is on a main road, and so they're going
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: to need a couple of blocks for security. It's going
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: to be a huge inconvenience, as we mentioned, for the
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: hotel guests. I'm wondering if Donald Trump will take advantage
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: of this opportunity to point out that his new ballroom
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: would have nine and ninety nine seats in it.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 6: Well, that was that's where the ballroom idea started, didn't
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 6: it immediately after the assassination attempt? And he said, you
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 6: know what, there got to be safer ways to do this.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 6: Why don't we do it right on the White House campus.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking that he had started this plan before them,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: because again that was just in April. That could have
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: been the actual assassination attempt. But to the bigger point,
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  Speaker 3: it's always been a problem. The old East Wing had
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: a ballroom that held about two hundred and fifty people,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: and according to people who went there, it wasn't a
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: comfortable two fifty and it was leaks and it was
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: all of a mess. This is going to be state
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: of the art and obviously security not going to be
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: a problem there. And it's not an inconvenience for the
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: people of DC because you have to get onto the
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: White House grounds and that's where it'll all take place.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 5: So once you're in on the grounds, you should be
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 5: good to go.
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  Speaker 6: So Trump has also been fairly critical of those outdoor
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: dinners under the tents at the White House because that's
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 6: where they have to do the bigger ones. Yeah, he
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 6: thinks that's classless. He wants everything indoors.
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  Speaker 3: I was fortunate enough to go to one of those
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  Speaker 3: last summer, thanks to Congressman Joe Wilson for getting me
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: and my wife in on that. But it was filled
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: with nats and nastiness, but it was a lovely time.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: I was thrilled to be at the White House. But
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: it would have been better for his air conditioned and indoors,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: no question about it. All right, more coming up on
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  Speaker 1: The Midlands to the low Country.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 5: What a week it's been in South Carolina.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: Apollos And yesterday we get Mark Sandford back into the fight.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: How about that.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 6: It didn't come all that long after he got out
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 6: of the first congressional district race.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: That's right, and he's his a whole issue I think
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: is just going to be how can we stop the debt?
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: He's all about, he said. He pointed out in this thing.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: Every one hundred days, we had a trillion dollars to
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: the debt. That is an unfathomable amount of debt, and
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 3: he says it's going to crush the American dream for
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: everybody moving forward. So that's his number one issue. We've
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: got other people running. We're gonna hopefully we're going to
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: talk to Russell Fry at some point this afternoon, and
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: he's supposedly filing today here in Columbia, so he'll be
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: nearby the studios and we can play that back. You know,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: I'll get it up as the podcast. If he comes
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: in for the weekend, we'll have him on the air Monday,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: if that's the case. Still trying to work with Darlene
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: Graham's people. I'm not getting a whole lot of feedback
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: right now. And although she got a lot of money,
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 3: we talked about that earlier. The pack came up with
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: what nine hundred thousand.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 6: Dollars to support her yesterday Lindsey Graham's former security pack.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, and according to the reporting from I think it
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: was the Posting Courier, they only had fifty five thousand
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: dollars as of June. But once the president threw his
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: name behind Darling Graham. Suddenly they were their coffers were
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: flooded with people who couldn't wait to support her.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: So she's still a mystery candidate until she gets in
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 6: front of your microphone or some cameras.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: And if you missed our interview with Ralph Norman, that's
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: up on the National Briefing podcast. You can get parts
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: of that as well as Christopher does a great job
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: putting together South Carolina's Morning News podcast. Just look for
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning News on the iHeartRadio app that'll be
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: up in about thirty minutes after the show.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: Kelly, have a great weekend.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: You know what, It's gonna be a little cooler, maybe
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: a little bit wetter, but hopefully we'll have a great
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 3: weekend and we can all reconvene Monday morning just after
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  Speaker 3: six till then. Thanks for starting your day with South
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