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Show Rewind 8-06-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
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  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and
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  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there, good morning, Hope. You guys are having a
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  Speaker 3: great start to the day. Christopher Thompson with us, and
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  Speaker 3: we are getting ready. I guess another event tonight, this
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  Speaker 3: time down in Charleston is what do they call them?
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  Speaker 3: The Senate stumps? And this is the one that they're
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  Speaker 3: having what do they call it? The Right the Rifle Club?
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  Speaker 3: Is that where this is apening tonight and they're not
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  Speaker 3: getting all of them? If I remember right? No, they
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  Speaker 3: who's Darling Graham is not coming tonight again, she is not.
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  Speaker 4: And they in fact listed the GOP, the South Carolina
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  Speaker 4: GOP listed a series of rules, I guess because she's
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  Speaker 4: not going to be there, saying there will be no
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  Speaker 4: substitutes or stand ins. If a candidate fails to appear,
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  Speaker 4: the original program will proceed with the remaining candidates. The
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  Speaker 4: candidate who does not appear can provide a video of
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  Speaker 4: their stump speech to be sent out to attendees during
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  Speaker 4: the event, but no stand ins. You can't have somebody
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  Speaker 4: talk for you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they did that once. A thing.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say. It was like in hilton Head
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  Speaker 3: that they did that. No, it wasn't hilton Head, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was in the low Country, though it was. It
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  Speaker 3: was for the I remember the two people from the
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  Speaker 3: first district showed up. I'm drawing a blank right now
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  Speaker 3: on names. It's early and I had a rough night's sleep.
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  Speaker 3: But the but then I do remember that they sent
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  Speaker 3: out somebody to represent I think Alan Wilson and somebody
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  Speaker 3: to represent whoever was running against Alan Wilson back then.
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  Speaker 3: But they they were talking at an event, and I
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  Speaker 3: remember thinking, it's so weird that you would have like
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  Speaker 3: somebody speaking on your behalf. Actually, Alan Wilson had the
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  Speaker 3: Lieutenant governor nominee go down there, Mike Wickenbach, Okay, but
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  Speaker 3: it was somebody some I don't know, state senator or
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  Speaker 3: somebody showed up for why, Christopher, my brain is not
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  Speaker 3: working this morning. Who was running against Hellen Wilson. Was
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  Speaker 3: it Ralph Norman back? Yes, well, or you're about Pamela Avitt.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe it was Pamela That's who it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was Pamela Evitt in a runoff okay, and Pamela
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  Speaker 3: Evitt had a state senator show up and say some
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  Speaker 3: inflammatory things and I was like, gosh, that didn't go
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  Speaker 3: as well as hope. No, if you're going to send
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  Speaker 3: a stand in, they should be kind of like affiliated
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  Speaker 3: to you, like in a way where they're going to
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  Speaker 3: actually be working for the office, not just somebody who's
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  Speaker 3: a big fan of yours. But yeah, tonight, big night.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to seeing if anything comes out of this.
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  Speaker 3: This is again Alan Wilson is the host tonight. Charleston
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  Speaker 3: Rifle Club doors will open tonight I think at five
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  Speaker 3: point fifteen, six point thirty to eight o'clock and then
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  Speaker 3: after eight o'clock you can meet and greet the candidates.
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  Speaker 3: And we've got eight people up. Russell Fry, Gail for
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  Speaker 3: Rails is making another appearance. And this is the order
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  Speaker 3: in which they're speaking. So it's Russell, Glenda Gaile, Mark McBride,
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  Speaker 3: Duke Buckner, Mark Lynch, Ralph Norman's coming back, Sam Sheppard
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  Speaker 3: and Mark Sanford.
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  Speaker 5: And that's that's the lineup tonight. No Danny Ford on
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  Speaker 5: that list. What a surprise.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you fought so hard, bro, why would you
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  Speaker 3: not be coming.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, unless he just didn't want to participate
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  Speaker 4: in any Republican Party event at this point.
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  Speaker 5: That's gonna help. That's a good show. I'm speculating here.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder well, I don't want to wonder too much
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  Speaker 3: about Danny Ford right now. I don't think it's really
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  Speaker 3: going to be very productive for any of us to
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  Speaker 3: invest a lot of energy trying to speculate as to
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  Speaker 3: why he's in this and you know, fighting so hard
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  Speaker 3: and suing the GOP and all those types of things.
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  Speaker 3: So perhaps some day he'll tell us in a book
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  Speaker 3: or docuseries that we can watch on Netflix.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting to note, yesterday the Supreme Court ruled didn't really
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  Speaker 4: rule on the merits of his case, just said it
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  Speaker 4: would cause too much confusion at this point to take
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  Speaker 4: him back off the ballot again.
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  Speaker 5: So he's he's on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I kind of feel like Judge Cobel had
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  Speaker 3: said basically that the rule in itself was confusing.
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  Speaker 5: So the word confusion has been used a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And so again this is a lesson for not
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  Speaker 3: just the GOP, but I think it's a lesson for
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina lawmakers because we've had numerous state Supreme Court
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  Speaker 3: decisions going against the state because they'll say that your
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  Speaker 3: whatever the law is that you passed.
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  Speaker 5: Is too ambiguous. It's not.
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  Speaker 3: It leads to confusion, it can be interpreted multiple ways.
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  Speaker 3: And so again I don't do I think that the
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  Speaker 3: lawyers who are stocked at the State House do this
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  Speaker 3: intentionally to try to help themselves.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, I do. I think that they intentionally write
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  Speaker 5: the laws.
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  Speaker 4: This so Kelly, I think I think Drew mckisson's going
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  Speaker 4: to make the case again that this is another This
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  Speaker 4: propels South Carolina closer to closed primaries, to let the
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  Speaker 4: parties make all the rules and the state essentially stays
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  Speaker 4: out of it until we get to the general election.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not saying I'm against that, because again
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  Speaker 3: I was making the argument yesterday. I think it was
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  Speaker 3: yesterday that about you know, Bernie Sanders hijacked the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 3: I think that the Democrat Socialists should have been forced
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  Speaker 3: if you don't agree to the Democrat platform, then you
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  Speaker 3: should have to go start your own party. Now I'm
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  Speaker 3: hearing rumors that Tucker Carlson's in the midst of doing
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  Speaker 3: something similar, But it's going to be a fringe Republican
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  Speaker 3: insiders club that he and Marjorie Taylor Green and what's
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  Speaker 3: his name from Kentucky and of just Thomas Massey, Yeah, Massy,
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  Speaker 3: that crew. They're all up there, you know, scheming right now.
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  Speaker 3: How can we launch this thing that would be inside
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  Speaker 3: the Republican Party. I think that the Republicans should block it.
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  Speaker 3: Like if you don't agree to everything on our platform
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  Speaker 3: and again in the platforms, like you know, we're very
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  Speaker 3: pro life, we are strong military, whatever the thing, we
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  Speaker 3: want to shrink, the size of government. We want to
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  Speaker 3: just come up with you these are your platform issues
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  Speaker 3: and don't make it too specific, But do you agree
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  Speaker 3: to all of this?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, then you can be a Republican. But if you
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  Speaker 3: start saying, like if on the left side you're saying
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  Speaker 3: you want to erase borders, you want to end prisons.
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  Speaker 4: Abolish the police, abolish the Supreme Court, abolish the presidency.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you actually fundamentally want to throw out the Constitution
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  Speaker 3: and get a do over, then you shouldn't be allowed
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  Speaker 3: to be a Democrat. Because the Democrats, again I don't
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  Speaker 3: like their party per se, but at least they were Americans.
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  Speaker 3: They just didn't agree with the way we're going to
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  Speaker 3: solve the problems. But they've been hijacked by the DSA
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  Speaker 3: and now they've got a cancer inside their own party.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of which, maybe I think I have time. All right,
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  Speaker 3: we'll do it when we come back. Well, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to try to play you. I have the two little
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  Speaker 3: audio clips of the mindset of an actual These are
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  Speaker 3: actual DSA members. Why do they think the way they think?
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  Speaker 3: It might be a little bit surprising to you. We'll
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  Speaker 3: try to get to that and more on South Carolina's
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  Speaker 3: Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the low Country.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC and ninety
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  Speaker 1: four to three WSC.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: And after we got off the air yesterday, they called
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  Speaker 3: the race for Abdul l Sayed, who then called anybody
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  Speaker 3: who calls him by his full name racist, which is ironic.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, well either way, but the Democrat socialism is
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  Speaker 3: rising in America.
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  Speaker 5: It's on the move.
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  Speaker 3: And I found two people who I think give us
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  Speaker 3: a great example into the insight of the people who
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  Speaker 3: are supporting it. The first one, this guy appeared I
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  Speaker 3: think Monday night at the Saint Paul City Council meeting.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's dressed head to toe. You cannot see him.
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  Speaker 3: He's got sunglasses on, but he's got like head coverings.
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  Speaker 3: He's got gloves on. He ironically in Saint Paul introduces
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  Speaker 3: himself as Lenin.
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  Speaker 6: My name's Lenin. What we're all participating in here is
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  Speaker 6: a settler colony on stolen land. This is a government
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  Speaker 6: that represents the settlers and the capitalists and the other
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  Speaker 6: neoliberal fascists that live amongst us. Why are they brutalizing
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  Speaker 6: all of these innocent, beautiful people. What this government, what
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  Speaker 6: the system exists to do, is to enforce private property.
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  Speaker 6: If these people think that they can just go live
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  Speaker 6: in the park, no no, no, that'll bring all our
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  Speaker 6: property values to So what can we do besides they
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  Speaker 6: can plead your mothers for a little bit of humanity.
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  Speaker 6: I think we should take away the weapons from the
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  Speaker 6: armed group of thugs that they use to brutalize all
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  Speaker 6: of us.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, they love it.
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  Speaker 3: So that is the first wave of the DSA that
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  Speaker 3: guy represents. When you hear people talk about why they
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  Speaker 3: want to defund the police, that is a big part
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  Speaker 3: of it the police are used to enforce private property rights.
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  Speaker 3: Why is it that you get to own a home
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  Speaker 3: and some other people don't. Why is it that you
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  Speaker 3: get a bigger voice as a homeowner in the community
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  Speaker 3: over the homeless person who lives in the park, and
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  Speaker 3: then you're trying to kick the person out of the park.
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  Speaker 5: That seems inhumane to them.
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  Speaker 4: Thoughts, Christopher Achille, I think that's that is as scary
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  Speaker 4: as it can be. And no wonder Democrats are scrambling
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  Speaker 4: right now. I mean, you saw Chuck Schumer yesterday. He
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  Speaker 4: was asked about the Democrats big ten oh lsa ed one,
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  Speaker 4: what do you think? And he ran away from the microphone.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know what to do right now because they're
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  Speaker 4: confronting this cancer within their own party.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 3: It is nonsensical lunacy because well, you know what, I know,
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  Speaker 3: we're on a tight schedule here, so I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: play part two the other one. But here's a little preview.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody who's supporting them as black. That is the ironic
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  Speaker 3: thing about the Democrat Socialists right now are polling below
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  Speaker 3: five percent with black Democrats, below five percent with black Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: In other words, there's no Democrats that are black that
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  Speaker 3: actually support the Democrats socialists. So it's pretty much the
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  Speaker 3: bourgeoisie of the white folks who want to teach everybody
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  Speaker 3: else how to run the country. So Lennon was lead off,
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  Speaker 3: We'll go next to New York and talk to a
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  Speaker 3: Democrat socialist, as South Carolina's Morning News rolls.
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  Speaker 2: On live's from the state Capitol.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of mornings ago, I was describing how the
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  Speaker 3: taxpayers are being abused in the United States, specifically because
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  Speaker 3: of fraud, and I use the word larges, and I
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  Speaker 3: received a text message from Joe Wilson who said, larges
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  Speaker 3: is the French for creating dependency for reliable voters, not
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  Speaker 3: the compassion is Republican support promoting jobs for meaningful life.
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  Speaker 2: That is a.
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  Speaker 3: Great definition, Thank you, Congressman. At the same time, we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about the larges of the Democrat socialists and they
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  Speaker 3: want to create a class dependent upon government. Now I
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  Speaker 3: was talking about the first class, the one who wants
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  Speaker 3: to end the property rights who that's why they want
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  Speaker 3: to defund the police. Now, this was done by Nick Shirley.
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  Speaker 3: He was in New York interviewing, and you have to
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  Speaker 3: see the video. I would encourage you to go look
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  Speaker 3: at Nick Shirley's YouTube page to see the two women
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  Speaker 3: that he's talking to. They are in fact enjoying a
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  Speaker 3: bagel and a macha while explaining that they can't afford
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  Speaker 3: a bagel and a macha.
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  Speaker 7: But right now, we're currently in late stage capitalism and
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  Speaker 7: that's affecting everybody. The cost of a bagel should not
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  Speaker 7: be seven dollars, the cost of a mancha should not
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  Speaker 7: be ten dollars. So much of America is living paycheck
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  Speaker 7: to paycheck on minimum wage, and minimum wage is no
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  Speaker 7: longer even covering the cost of life like necessities like
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  Speaker 7: rent and groceries. And that's clear that capitalism isn't effective
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  Speaker 7: in our daily lives anymore.
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  Speaker 8: And what would be your solution?
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  Speaker 7: What mom Donia is doing right now is really great,
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  Speaker 7: like trying to encourage like rent stabilization, even making like
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  Speaker 7: the bus fares free, trying to control the price of
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  Speaker 7: groceries like those are the things that we can do
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  Speaker 7: that are small but have a huge impact on people's
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  Speaker 7: daily lives.
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  Speaker 6: And how come we're starting to see this rise of
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  Speaker 6: democrats socialism.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I think it's because people are finally like
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  Speaker 7: realizing that capitalism isn't working anymore, especially late stage capitalism,
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  Speaker 7: Like people know that they're paying most of their paycheck
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  Speaker 7: on their rent and their groceries, and then they're no
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  Speaker 7: longer able to have a fun bagel or go out
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  Speaker 7: and get a drink with their friends because a beer
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  Speaker 7: is twelve dollars. And I also think that with the
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  Speaker 7: rerise of the Internet, people are able to see how
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  Speaker 7: this is working. For countries in Europe.
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  Speaker 2: Would you rather have capitalism or communism?
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  Speaker 7: They say in the Communist Manifesto that communism is primed
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  Speaker 7: for countries like England America, and I think the Netherlands
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  Speaker 7: as it was, you know when they wrote it in
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  Speaker 7: the eighteen hundreds. So when they implemented it in Russia
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  Speaker 7: and China, they bypassed the sort of systems of industrialization
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  Speaker 7: needed to make communism effective. And so I think that
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  Speaker 7: we've never seen communism work. We've never been able to
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  Speaker 7: see it work in systems where it's applicable.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So she is correct that we've never seen
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  Speaker 3: communism actually fully implemented because it always collapses in the
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  Speaker 3: socialist phase. The Soviet Union never got to full communism,
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  Speaker 3: Cuban never got to full communism. That you can't get
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  Speaker 3: there because it's a it's a system that collapses upon
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  Speaker 3: itself once it runs out of money, and it runs
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  Speaker 3: out of money because during the socialist phase, people stop
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  Speaker 3: working because there's no incentive to work. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: at no point in the Communist Manifesto, which obviously she's
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  Speaker 3: never read, do they even reference any countries. I do
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  Speaker 3: love the fact that today the buzzword amongst all the
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  Speaker 3: hipsters is late stage capitalism. That phrase was invented literally
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  Speaker 3: at the end of World War One to describe why
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  Speaker 3: capitalism was about to collapse. So it's over a hundred
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  Speaker 3: years old. We've been talking about late stage capitalism, but
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  Speaker 3: it just became a hot new buzzword in the last
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  Speaker 3: two or three years for the hipsters in New York
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  Speaker 3: and these other places. It's to prove that it's not working.
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  Speaker 3: It actually does work well. And as she was talking
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  Speaker 3: about the percentage of Americans, they're all living paycheck to paycheck. Well,
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  Speaker 3: yes we do, because we tend to live beyond our means.
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  Speaker 3: But you could be making three hundred grand and living
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  Speaker 3: paycheck to paycheck, but so many Americans are actually making
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  Speaker 3: me wage. Less than one percent of Americans make minimum wage,
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  Speaker 3: less than one percent, vast majority of them under the
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  Speaker 3: age of twenty. Also, when you I just for fun,
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  Speaker 3: just for funsies, I decided to google how many Americans
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  Speaker 3: are making under twenty dollars an hour. Turns out that's
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  Speaker 3: a minority, to a very I mean, it's like twenty
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  Speaker 3: one percent of Americans make less than thirty that twenty
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  Speaker 3: dollars an hour paycheck, and overwhelmingly sixty eight percent of
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  Speaker 3: those don't have high school degrees, and about seventy five
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  Speaker 3: percent of them live in states like South Carolina, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all these more affordable places. Nobody in New York's making
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  Speaker 3: twenty dollars an hour. And as she sits there sipping
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  Speaker 3: on her macha and eating her bagel, explaining that nobody
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  Speaker 3: can afford a bagel and a macha. It's just this
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  Speaker 3: is a mindset, Christopher, where they look. They look at
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  Speaker 3: social media, which I call fake book, and see people
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  Speaker 3: living amazing lives. They're very you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: it's very These pictures and videos are really well groomed
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  Speaker 3: to make whoever's posting them look like they're living in an
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  Speaker 3: amazing life and they think that it's communism or socialism
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  Speaker 3: is going to just fix all the problems.
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  Speaker 5: Kelly, did she say never Lands instead of Netherlands?
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  Speaker 2: She may have.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, she looks like she's about twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: She's not the most educated person in the world. It
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  Speaker 4: didn't sound like.
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  Speaker 5: But arrogantly confident in their ignorance. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And what happens is they go and they hear a
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  Speaker 3: mom Donnie. They go and they hear Abdul el sayed.
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  Speaker 3: They go and they hear these aoc who are good
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  Speaker 3: communicators and attractive people, and they tell them that the
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  Speaker 3: problems of their lives, whatever they are, are directly caused
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  Speaker 3: by capitalism, and they buy the argument. These are the
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  Speaker 3: people we need to reach because they are the future, right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Whitney Houston saying it. We're gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: suffer with it, the children of their future. We didn't
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  Speaker 3: teach them well, and pretty soon they're going to be
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  Speaker 3: leading the way, all right. We got to take a
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  Speaker 3: break at six thirty at South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash and.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning to you. Six point thirty five.
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  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson sent an email to me just a moment ago,
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  Speaker 3: and Christopher, this is a poll that you found. What
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  Speaker 3: did you find most interesting about that poll?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's I mean it dovetails with what you just
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  Speaker 4: said about the fact that the young people are so
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  Speaker 4: enamored by this Democrat socialist movement. Fifty three percent of
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  Speaker 4: gen Z view socialism favorably.
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  Speaker 3: You know, inside that article that you sent, it showed
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  Speaker 3: that if you lived through any part of the Cold War,
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  Speaker 3: then you are much more likely to look at socialism
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  Speaker 3: in a negative light because we actually saw it, you
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: know when you for those of you who don't remember
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan standing at the Berlin Wall talking about it.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, we have a perfect example of what is
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: the socialist what is the socialist society versus capitalist society?
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Look at we did it in an actual city. It's
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: called Berlin. You can go there and or right now
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: you just look on the internet and look at the lifestyle.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: So the people who lived in East Berlin versus those
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: who lived in West Berlin.
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  Speaker 5: And there's a.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Wall in the middle of a city and it's everything's
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: the same, except one's being run by socialists, one's being
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: run by capitalists. And the people in West Berlin prospering,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: living well, clean parks, safety, the people in East Berlin
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: begging for freedom, getting shot by the cops as they
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: try to escape to the west. And finally, you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: when Ronald Reagan had Thankfully, we were able to because
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: we were in an arms race.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: And that's usually what will happen in these types of situations.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: It's us versus the.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Soviet Union, and we're we're out spending them because we can,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: because we're we can always come up with more money
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: if we need to, and we can outwork you because
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: in a socialist society there's no incentive for the people
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: to work.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: So we say, oh.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: We're going to defend freedom and we're going to be
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: able to make money, so we work harder, and we
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: won the arms race. And then is the as it's
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: collapsing in the Soviet Union. He points to Berlin and
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: he says, mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And it
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: was a couple of years later. I guess what was
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: it nineteen ninety that they finally.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Tore it down. You wouldn't even see it right now.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: You go there and it's like, oh, East Berlin, Weslin
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: is Berlin. But for those of us who remember it
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: in the eighties and the seventies and the sixties, it
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: was horrific what was happening just on the other side
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: of a wall. And this is what they want to
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: bring to our entire country.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: And gen Z who doesn't remember that history and apparently
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: hasn't studied that history. They're just caught up in the
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: rock star moment of some of these rising stars within
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: the Democrat Party, the AOCS, the Bernie Sanders. Not sure
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: sure how he has managed to stay in that realm,
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: considering you know, how old he is, but nonetheless there
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: he is in the middle of all that, and you've
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: got the rising candidates like what we just saw in
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Michigan yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: We have not done a very good job of teaching history,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: teaching how socialism can't work. We also haven't done a
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: great job of presenting opportunities to young people or letting
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: them understand. You know, I think it was Edison that
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: said that opportunity is missed by most because it comes
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work. But
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: on the other side of that work is prosperity. Freedom,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: the ability to own a home, the ability to have
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: a vehicle, the ability to marry, make children, live a
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: life of eventually leisure. I mean, Dave Ramsey is the
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: one who says, you want to live like no one
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: else does today, so you can live like no one
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: else does tomorrow. Meaning if you work your tail off
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: in your late teens, early twenties, even maybe into your thirties,
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: by the time you're into your forties, you probably are
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: going to be comfortable, depending on how what kind of
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: decisions you make financially. Again, you can't do that in
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: a socialist society.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: You can't.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: It's just impossible. And again, capitalism is the only way
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: to drag the world out of poverty. The World Bank
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: talks about that, how when nations apply capitalist principles, it
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: drags the entire population from you know this primitive barely
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: getting by, barely having enough food to eat, to Oh
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: we have enough food to eat. Oh we can actually
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: have climate control inside our homes. This is the only
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: thing that works. I mean, I wish that there was
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: another way.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: There's not.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Capitalism is the only way. So we got to do
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: a better job of teaching our kids about that. And
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: like you said, Christopher, it's scary how many kids don't
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: know about the Cold War. All Right, we're gonna take
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: a quick break. It is now six forty on South
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Carolina's Morning News.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning with Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: Nash and Good morning, six forty five.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: There's been a ethics complaint filed against one of the
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: big bird names in South Carolina politics.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to talk about that in just a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Carolina's Morning News on one O three point five FM,
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  Speaker 1: five sixty AM WVOC and ninety four to three WSC
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Now Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: So yesterday, ethics complaint filed by a doctor here in
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: I'll be honest.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: When I looked at her, at first, I thought I
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: was looking at doctor Annie Andrews. Her name is doctor
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Andrea Lamont. I'm going to play a clip of her
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: video that she posted.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: This would be a medication that would be affordable to
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: families across South Carolina and shows effectiveness in many domains. However,
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: on the last day of the Legend, Slate of session.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: The last day when this bill could advance, it was
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: June twenty fifth, if you want to go back into
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: the tape, June twenty fifth, twenty twenty six, the House
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: Majority Leader, Representative Davey Hyatt, who is from House District four,
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: made a procedural motion, which.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Means he used his leadership.
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: Authority to make a motion to commit this bill to
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: the House Agricultural, Natural Resources, and Environmental Affairs Committee.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: So instead of.
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: Taking the vote to move it to the Governor's desk
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: and sign into law a bill that the vast majority
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: of South Carolinians and their elected official support, he decided
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: to send it to the Environmental Committee.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: She goes on, I mean, it's a fifteen minute video,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: but when you look at her complaint, she also points
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: out that his son is a lobbyist who has a
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: financial interest in making sure that it stays as a
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: prescription medication rather than an over the counter medication, and
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: he apparently, according to her complaint, never filed that information.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Well, Kelly, as you've pointed out, this is really not
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: about ivermectin a as a drug. It's more about a
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: battle between the Freedom Caucus and South Carolina Republican leadership.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: That also probably plays into it. But now you have
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: an official complaint being filed with the Ethics Commission and
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: we'll post that up on social media if you want
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: to see more about it. So it'll be very interesting
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to see how they move forward with this, and I'm
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: assuming would be an ongoing investigation into Davy Hyatt, but
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: that's always fun. Hey, Look, we like to keep our
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: politics spicy, and so they are getting extra spicy this morning.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: As you know, again, he's one of the biggest names
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina politics right now, so that is a
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: rather dramatic turn of events I would imagine in his life.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: So well, we'll see how it again plays out. All right,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: we've got to take quick break, be back with more.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Thanks for starting your day with South Carolina's morning news.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina, Monvo c Columbia and ninety four
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  Speaker 1: to three WSC Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash, good morning to you.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Hopefully you're having a great start to the day. I'm
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: trying to learn how to run the board, so it
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: might sound a little weird here, but thank you Christopher
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Thompson for showing me what I was supposed to do.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Christopher is going to take some time off.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Next week, I am, and then you're going to take
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: the next week off. Yeah.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: So but you know, this will be my first time
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: running this board by myself. So this is scary stuff
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: as we try to figure it all out.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: In the meantime.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Speaking of scary stuff, I was talking before the top
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: of the hour about a lady, Hey, lady, Doctor Andrea
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Lamont has filed an ethics complaint or is it called
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: the complaint against Representative Davey.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Hyatt, and.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Basically what she's done she sent this to the South
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Carolina Ethics Commission.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: We have a copy of it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Here, and in it she says that his son, a
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: guy named Lander Hyatt, is the registered lobbyist employed by
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Parker Polk Consulting and is listed specifically as the lobbyist
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: for Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America aka PHARMA. And
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: again if that one of their clients, I guess at
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Pharma is ivermectin. And so she points out that it
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: had passed the ivermectin was going to become over the counter.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: It was overwhelmingly passed I think one hundred to nine
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: in the House and then thirty eight to three in
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: the Senate, so it's it was going to be all
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: you need now basically is the second reading, I think,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: and then it's going to go to the Governor's and
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: then we're set. On June twenty fifth, twenty twenty six,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: the final day of the session, Representative Davey Hyde and
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: his capacity as Majority Leader, made a procedural motion to
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: commit the bill to the Agriculture and we she talked
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: about that earlier, and then the House adopted that motion
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: by a vote of fifty eight thirty seven, effectively preventing
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: the bill from ever reaching the Governor's desk before the
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: end of the session, requiring it to start all over
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: in a subsequent session if reintroduced. And then she talks
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: about again goes back to farmers. She talks about in
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: her complaint that it appears that he's never disclosed that
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: his son had financial interests in ivermectin, but although not
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: directly right, he is a he doesn't directly benefit, but
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: kind of indirectly, I guess would be the She goes
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: on to say something about the appearance of impropriety or whatever.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: She's now just all she's doing is asking for them
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: to take up an investigation. Public lobbying records indicate that
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Representative Hyatt has previously participated in legislative matters affecting the
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: industries for which his son is serving as a registered lobbyist,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: including legislation relating to hemp and hemp derived products. These
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: prior instances suggest that the circumstances surrounding this House bill
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: were not isolated. In further support review by the Commission
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: regarding whether recusal or disclosure obligation were implicated. The appearance
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: of impropriety is heightened by his leadership position, which affords
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: him unique procedural authority, and so she respectfully requests that
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: the State Ethics Commission except An investigate the complaint determined
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: whether he violated the Ethics Reform Act by failing to
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: recuse himself from House built for zero four to two
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: and related pharmaceutical regulation matters in light of his son's
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: registered lobbying for pharma. So, Christopher is do you think,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: just based off the surface, that the House leader should
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: have recused himself because of his son's relationship as a
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: lobbyist for the thing?
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: It sounds like he should have. I mean, it would
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: be automatic if that were Davy Hyatt's job in the
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: real world.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: Yes, if he was in fact the lobbyist.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well if you worked for then the pharmaceutical injuries,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: what is Davy Hyatt's job in the room?
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: He didn't run for reelection. I'm trying to remember what
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: he does on the side.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: His real wasn't wasn't he in fact a pharmacist? He
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: might they owned a pharmacy. I thought you might be
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: right there at one point. I don't know if that's
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: what they're doing now. And also, you know, if he's
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: not running for reelection.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: He owns a printing company. He now owns a printing company, well,
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: good for him.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: And again, if he's not running for reelection, I'm not
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: sure what can be done here, if anything.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: That's the question, unless you're talking about setting a precedent
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: for future or if you're just talking about simply trying
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: to come to grips with you know, this was a
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: score that was being settled. Is you know what we've
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: heard is that you know, the Freedom Caucus was upset
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: because of the Republicans got upset that the Freedom Caucus
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: was running candidates against Republicans.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, this has been the claim that some in the
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: House are upset that House Freedom Caucus members actually supported
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: primary challenges to these people who they thought they would
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: use the phrase rhinos, and so they then supported people
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: that they thought were more conservative in primaries, and then
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: this would be payback because the Freedom Caucus, I think j.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Kil Martin was the main voice and pushing this to
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: try to get it across. But again they didn't take
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: it out against them originally because you heard the vote
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: was overwhelmingly supportive of it. The original vote one hundred
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: to nine in the House, so there wasn't any pushback
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: on it originally. But then for it to come back
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: in the House adopt a motion fifty eight thirty seven
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: to instead of pass it now put it back into
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: a committee.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: No, you killed the bill. You have killed the bill,
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: and you I mean I would look.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: I know a lot of Republicans who are in the
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: House actually listen to our show, which is awesome.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: And if you're one of those people who switched your vote,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't want to say switched it
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: you instead of deciding to pass it, which you had
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: originally done one hundred to nine. If you're one of
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: those hundred people who voted for it and then decided
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: to vote to put it to a commission again instead
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: of actually just send it on to the governor. I'd
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: love to hear from you. We have a talkback feature
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: so you don't even have to call. You can just
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app or For
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: some reason, my email is now becoming a very popular thing, Christopher.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know, are we listed. Is our emails out
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: there like for everybody? I guess probably so.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: So.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: I got a ton of emails lately, not just from
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: people who work at the state House, but also just
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: listeners are now emailing me.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Again.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I'd prefer you to use the talkback feature. It's so
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: much more interactive when we put you on the show.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: But you know what, Christopher, we're going to pause on this.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: If people have thoughts on it, great, But I am
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: going to read an email that was written about you
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: and I. Oh, they're talking about me and you, and
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: they're sending it to me to try to get a
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: response from you. So we're going to do that. We'll
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: do it live. I'm not even going to tell you
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: what it is. We're going to take it in real time.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: People This is exciting. We're dancing on a tight wire.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: We're going to find out what happens when Christopher responds
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: to one of our listeners.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: And again, the talkback feature is the best way.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: On the iHeartRadio app to get in touch with South
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Carolina's Morning Oh, I got to push the buttons, don't
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: I that's right, I pointed to Christopher like I was
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: going to be out, but no, I have to push
• 32:53
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• 33:06
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• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: I am white knuckling it as I try to figure
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: out how to run all this equipment. Whie was so
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: much easier when I had Christopher Thompson running.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Yet I'm here. It's like I'm on training wheels. We're
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: just trying something. Kelly, you can do anything.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: But you remember when you first learned how to ride
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: a bicycle, how you were just scared to death. Even
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: as soon as they took the training wheels off, it
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: was like, oh my gosh. Anyway, all right, I'm trying
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: to figure it all out. But in the meantime, I
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: have received an email, and I mentioned before the break
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: it involves you. It says, good morning, mister Nash. When
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: you read this, I guess it was sent last night
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: by somebody named cb CB like you know, Citizens Band
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Radio Breaker one nine Breaker one down there, CB buddy.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: It says you and your cohort were discussing.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: And either this week or last week, and your cohort
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: said that if it helps children, this is good. I
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: could not disagree more. He goes through a long list
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: of things, and he's a father of three daughters, he
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: has six grandchildren. And then I won't go through all
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: of it, but he says, we're going to end up
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: giving up all of our liberty in order to try
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: to keep kids safe. And then he says when the
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: DSA takes over, which they will, many Americans will be
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: in trouble for having the wrong bumper stickers on their
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: cars and other things. We already see the flot cameras
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: being abused. By the way, I'll point out WIS Television
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: this morning has a new story not in South Carolina,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: but in Mooresville, North Carolina. Yesterday they arrested another deputy.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: This is a woman, a woman, and what's her name?
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Elizabeth Snowman has been arrested for accessing the flot cameras
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: thirty one times, according to the police chief, there in
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: an attempt to track her boyfriend's ex wife.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: I have no idea why you.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Would track your boyfriend's ex wife, but not a very
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: pleasant mugshot of her. But anyway, with the flot cameras,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: any thoughts on we're giving up too much liberty in
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: the name of trying to help protect children. He points
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: out that we've you know, traditionally, we just watch our children.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: We don't need flock cameras to watch our children.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Well, let me say, first of all, Ceebe sounds pretty
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: invested in the fear factor, which, okay, I'll give him that.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: I don't know that we're going to be really worried
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: about our bumper stickers. But I would say this, Cebe,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: if you had your if it was your two year
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: old that was in that Atlanta back seat over the
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: weekend and you got carjacked and the police found your
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: two year old alive and safe within fifteen minutes due
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: to flock cameras, you probably change your mind. A bit, however,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Kelly said, having said that, my mind is also starting
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: to change because we're seeing way too many of these
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: stories of flock camera abuses. If they are not going
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: to be more sound regulations put into place about how
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: these flock cameras are handled, then I might start to
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: lean Cbe's way a little bit more. I'm all for
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: anything that makes law enforcement more effective. I'm always going
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: to be pro law enforcement, but boy, this is we're
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: seeing more and more stories of this being abused.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: And then CB challenges me, oh on a different topic,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: and so he says, by the way, I'd like to
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: know your reason for liking Ralph Norman. I'm not a fan,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: but I'm always open to hearing others information. All right, Well,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: look to be clear, I like Ralph Norman. I like
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: a number of the candidates. I like Mark Sandford. We
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: talked about that the other day. I like Russell Frye,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: A big fan of I'm a big fan of a
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: lot of them. I'm a big fan of most Republicans
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: who run for office because you're, you know, a man
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: in the arena.
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: I like that.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: I like that people are willing to put themselves out
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: there and run for office. As far as why I
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: by the way, I'm not supporting anybody, like I'm not
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: publicly endorsing anybody, but specifically on Ralph Norman. I think
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: that what we're seeing like right now, like to like
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: this week, what you're seeing is a direct response to
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: what Ralph Norman did last year. So I'm talking about
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: this idea, the Medicaid expansion, the work requirements, that was
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman getting that put into the Big Beautiful Bill.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: He would not pass it because originally because Donald Trump's
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: original Big Beautiful Bill was calling for those you know,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: expansions on work requirements, we're going to be further down
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: the line. I think they actually were going to be
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: implemented when Trump was out of office, which Ralph Norman said,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: that's a non starter for me. I need this to
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: happen now, and so here it is. I think they
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: passed it literally like last June, and here we are
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: now talking about the fact that there's a lot of
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Americans who are going to have to start providing eighty
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: hours a month of either job training or volunteerism or
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: showing that you're looking for work or some or actually
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: working in order to qualify for these benefits. I think
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: that that's a great thing. He showed that he is
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: willing to stand up to the president and help challenge make.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: The president's bills better. That's why I like Ralph Norman.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Now I hope that doesn't come across as a total
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: endorsement of Ralph, although I do like Ralph, but that
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: was one of the reasons I like Ralph.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Seventh, great to hear from CB. Yes, thank you CB
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: for participating. I'm guessing that our emails are out there, Christopher.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: That's I think that it's in the open. It's in
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: the public. I had not anticipated that that would be
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: the way that a lot of people would communicate with this.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: I again, I defer to the talk bag feature so
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: we can get you.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: On the air. I'd rather hear your voice on the air.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: Use that off.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: The iHeartRadio app so easy and free to download, and
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: then once you have it, you make us one of
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: your favorites, kind of like your old school radio stations.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Get a preset there, and then you can hit the
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: microphone button and talk right at Christopher and myself. This
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: is South Carolina's morning news. And I got to remember
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: to push the button again and I got to slide
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: the thing. Oh my gosh, this thing, Christopher. We have
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: the most ridiculous mouse in America. But we finally got
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: it in place.
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  Speaker 5: All right. South Carolina's Morning News.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Good live from the State Capitol.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: And good morning to you. Seven twenty seven. And I
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: see that the state newspaper reporting. They don't give us
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: any details in this, but it says that the State
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: House is poised, and I wish they would cite who
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: is telling them this. I like the know that we
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: are apparently going to put a cap on what you
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: can pay a school superintendent when they depart from the scene.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: And this is one of those problems that we've had
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: here in the low Country and Charleston and the Midlands.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: All over the Midlands, Lexany, Richmond five, Richland two, Richland
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: one have all made massive payouts to their departing superintendents
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: because things change. So you have a school board, and
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: the school board is elected to represent the people. And
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: when the people say I want my school board to
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: do this and implement that, whatever that is. If the
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: superintendent who was hired by the previous school board is
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: not willing to adjust to the new sets of rules.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: What has been happening is, well, then we have to
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: pay them to go away, and you have to you
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: have the previous contract and some sort of craziness involved
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: in there, where you know, in like some instances, you're
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: looking at like a half million dollars going to these
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: people to walk away.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: The golden parachute. The golden parachute.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: So Ellen Weaver has been working very hard, and it
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: says that under this proposal, which is apparently on the
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: verge of passing mutual separation agreements, cannot exceed one year
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: set or the remainder of the contract value, whichever is less.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: I like that as a state law. I like that too.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, if you're a CEO of a major private company,
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: sure you're going to have a golden parachute built in.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: You're gonna have all kinds of contract incentives and things.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: We're talking about taxpayer dollars that should be going to
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: our kids that are instead being spent just to pay
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: these people to go away.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Shouldn't happen specifically for not doing what the voters want
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: them to do exactly. This is a yeah. So this
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: is a great idea. I salute our State House. If
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: they are in fact about to pass this, that's a
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: good thing. And I salute Ellen Weaver for working so
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: hard behind the scenes to make this happen. And I
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: think South Carolina taxpayers and ironically the students are going
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: to be in a better place because of it. All right,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: take a quick break, be back with more in South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina's Morning News.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with It's Killy nash Hi.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: There. You might have heard in the South Carolina News
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: update they were talking about what's going on in Spartanburg County. Now,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: typically Christopher and I focus most of our attention on
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: the Midlands and the Low Country because that's the two
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: markets we're in. But we are South Carolina this Morning News,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: and I think that this is.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: A fascinating story.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: And for those of you who didn't hear it, or
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: perhaps didn't quite grasp everything that was being said, there
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: was a hearing last night in Spartanburgh where, according to
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: the folks, at the last time we had this many
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: people present in our hearing room was the merger and
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Abandonment hearing for Dominion Energy and SEENG in twenty eighteen.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: According to the Commissioner Justin Williams, what's going on is
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: there's a place called the Laura Holdings and they're one
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: of those data centers, and they're building it in the Upstate,
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: and they're listening to what Donald Trump said, and they're
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: listening to what a lot of community members have said,
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: which is, we don't want these data centers to be
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: a draw on our utility. So they said, fine, we
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: will build our own energy plant. The question that becomes,
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: do they then need to go through all the bureau
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: you know, bureaucratic stuff that you would normally have to
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: go through if you were trying to build an energy plant.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Now there are multiple outlets, apparently according to the PSC
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: that do have their own private energy sources that did
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: not need this. However, those were at seventy five watts
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: or less seventy five megawats. Pardon me, this is a
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: four hundred and fifty megawatt natural gas plant. But again
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: the lawyers are saying, none of this is going to
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: the public. They're not going this is this is not
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: even going to be available on the grid. All four
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty megawatts of this natural gas plant are
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: designed specifically to run our data center. Should they be
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: under the bureaucratic authority of the state of South Carolina
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: for a private industry.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, Kelly, you're putting me in a dangerous place. I'm
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: about to ask for more government regulation. But I know,
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: I know, and it sounds ridiculous on the face of it,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: but I'm all right, So what if one of these
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: data centers comes in and says, well, yeah, we're going
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: to power ourselves just like Trump wanted, and we're going
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: to build our own nuclear plant. Shouldn't that be regulated?
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: Shouldn't the state have some say over You know, I'm
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: not saying the state should be able to tell them
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: exactly what they can do with their power and how
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: they use it, but you know, maybe for the safety
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: of the community that lives around that power plant, shouldn't
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: we at least have some type of safety regulations put
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: into place.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Some would argue that in the best interest of a company,
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: they would already have safety measures in place because they
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: don't want to kill any of their own employees who
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: would be closest to said power plant.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: True, but then you look at something like silfab for example,
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: that you know was constantly, constantly endangering the community until
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: they finally had to shut it down, and they're still
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: discussing exactly how that plant can continue to operate.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Again, this is an interesting argument, and that's why I
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: bring it up. I'm just wondering how people feel about it.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: What if you know, how many acres do they own?
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: I wonder I don't know that it's reported in the story.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: How far from the general public is this thing going
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: to be? I mean, I know it's a two point
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: eight is it two point eight billion dollars that they're
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: spending to make this place? There's been a lot of
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: money up there in the Upstate. They're going to hire
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: a bunch of people. The question becomes, like, you say,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: is it endangering anybody in the general public? If they
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: could prove, hey, look we've got you know, five miles
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: between us and the general public, there's nothing that could
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: go wrong. It would actually kill them. Maybe they don't
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: have to be subject to it.
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: More power to them, literally the.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Bar all right, But I still think you know it's
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: and this is this is not just Spartanburg. This is
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: going to face every community in the in the weeks
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: and months to come. Yes, because these data centers are
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: trying to get everywhere.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, and so that's that's the big question that a
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: lot of South Carolinians are wrestling with today. How much
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: how much government control do you want? How much private
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: manufacturer control do you want? Do you feel comfortable with
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: this idea of Okay, you didn't want them to take
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: your energy, so they're going to create their own energy. Uh,
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: it's just a lot to wrestle with. So it's a
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: fascinating story. We'll see how it's playing out in the upstate.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: But last night was the kickoff with the first hearing.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: All Right, it is now seven thirty nine. You're starting
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: your day with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: seven four.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: I hope you're having a great day.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: Florida continues to lead the nation when it comes to
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: conservative policies, and they just won a this was an
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Atlanta yesterday. US Court of Appeals in the Eleventh Circuit
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: vacated a district court's statewide injunction that was blocking Florida
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: from their twenty twenty three Protection of Children Act. And
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: what that was or is and it is now going
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: to be fully enforced. Is it bans any restaurant bar
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: whatever from allowing children, anyone under the age of eighteen,
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: from coming in and seeing a drag show. Now, this
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: was a lawsuit was brought by a restaurant chain called
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Hamburger Mary's, which apparently has drag performers serving hamburgers or something,
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: and they thought that this would put them out of business.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: The judge says basically that we are going to stand
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: by Florida Supreme Court precedent defining lewd behavior. So if
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: you were servers are lude in any way, then you
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: will be in trouble. But as long as you're not lude,
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: you should be okay to serve even children because you
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: look like clowns. I don't know who wants to bring
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: their kids to see the clown show, but if they do,
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: I noticed. I asked, are there any other states that
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: have current bands on drag shows? And so so far
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: there's Tennessee, Arkansas, North Dakota, and Texas and Montana. Like
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Montana specifically just bags bands drag performers from reading books
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: in schools to the kids. Texas implemented the adult oriented
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: public performances where miners might have access to it. So,
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: for example, it was a couple of years ago we
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: were doing the whatever it was called, the famously Hot
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: drag shows or something here for Gay Pride Month, and
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: I remember seeing some photos of the drag performers, like
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: right on Main Street in Columbia, and they're, you know,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: there's like little, you know, eight nine year old kids
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: there and there these people are clearly performing in what
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: I would describe as a sexual nature, which made me uncomfortable.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: We do not have any restrictions currently in South Carolina. Now,
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: we have two laws that have been proposed or bills,
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: I should say, thirty three eighty one, the Defensive Children's
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: Innocence Act, would make any business hosting a drag show
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: qualify as a sexually oriented business. And Bill seven thirty
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: three seeks to prohibit state agencies like schools or anybody
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: getting public funded money from using their funds to host
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: drag story hours, drag shows for minors, et cetera.
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, main Street.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: I mean it's if you're an eight or nine year old,
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: you probably got brought there by your parents. So I'd
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: say there's some freedom to walk away. If you're in
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: a public library or a school, you're a captive audience.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: There's nothing you can do. So, I mean, Florida is
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: certainly on the right track. I'm not sure how big
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: a problem it is because of the all the controversy
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: that surrounded this case a couple of years ago. But
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: if states need to do more, more power to them.
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: I'm all for protecting children, I really am, and I
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: think that we have had a problem since I was
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: a kid in the seventies. The innocence of the children
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: goes way too early. We expect them to assimilate. Quote
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: I'm just now I'm using a word that for some
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: reason triggers people on the left. We're asking them to
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: assimilate to adult situations at ages way too early for this,
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: even pre puberty. You're asking nine, ten, eleven year olds
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: to not be stigmatized by some sort of sexually oriented performance.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: Even though an adult may look at it as comical,
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: it's it's something different to a twelve year old. So
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: I'm all for enforcing these types of laws, but maybe
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: you have different opinions or agree again. Use the talkback
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: feature on the iHeartRadio app to get in touch with
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's morning news.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: point five FM, five sixty AM WVOC and ninety four
• 51:15
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• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Now, Kelly Nash.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: You know, we keep being told that the elections are
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: so safe, nothing's ever could possibly go wrong with the elections,
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: and then today Cash Bettel, he classifies more information that
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: shows that on July twelfth, twenty twenty one, under the
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: Biden administration, they declined to prosecute a man who admitted
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: to the FBI that he had hacked the Maricopa County
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: election office and had obtained the records of six hundred
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: and thirty three thousand voters in that area. Now, using
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: this ability of his he could he did We don't
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: know if he did anything with it, but he could
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: to hamper the ability of those six hundred and thirty
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: three people, excuse me, six hundred and thirty three thousand
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: people to have their ballots cast in the future. Again,
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: why did the Biden administration decide to not prosecute, especially
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: after he had.
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: Admitted to it.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: No answers are given, what number is going to be
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: too much for them? We were told the number that
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: came out of New Jersey was just a few, and
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: now it's how many on this one.
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: It's six hundred and thirty three thousand people in Maricopa County.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Now do we know if their voters had a problem
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: casting ballots in the future or whatever. We don't know.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: We just know that a man did do it. They
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: actually have his name in the story, and then for
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: whatever reason, they didn't prosecute. At the same time, China
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: now has two hundred and twenty million of them.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
• 52:51
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• 52:57
  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: Now, Kelly Nash Golda be.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: A big day, Ran Paul and his crew voting on
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: the contempt of Congress vote for Tony Fauci. I don't
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: see how they don't find him in contempt again, that
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: has nothing to do with a pardon from the president,
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: because his own notes that he wrote show that he
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: was lying to Congress in real time. And I think
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: things got worse for Anthony Fauci yesterday as the.
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: Department of Health and Human.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Services apparently had already obtained a copy of his iPhone
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: and they sent that to Ron Johnson yesterday. So Johnson
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: is the what is he the chair of the Homeland
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation. So now he's got the
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: iPhone and apparently more information about Anthony Fauci prepared to
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: be released, whether it's today or in the not too
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: distant future. But I think, just based off of what
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: they've already got on Anthony Fauci, what was presented was
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: it last week?
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: Now it feels like a year ago.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: But whenever that whole thing went down with the unpleading
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: the Fifth one hundred and eleven times, I can't even
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: confirm what color the carpet is that guy. His own
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: notes from that time, contrasted with his testimony at the time,
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: I think is more than enough to get him a
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: contempt of Congress charge today.
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: What do you think?
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, Kelly, A lot of legal experts say, just
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: the fact that he gave an opening statement then pled
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: the Fifth that was enough to open him up to
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: anything else with regards to criminal charges.
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: So at the very least contempt.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, so then then does it because according to
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: Rand Paul, he says, I'm pretty confident we're going to
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: get that contempt of Congress vote, and then I want
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: to refer it to the Department of Justice. At that point,
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: that's when it gets really kind of murky, because he
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: does have a pardon for any you know. I don't
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: remember exactly how Biden worded it, but it was basically
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: for any crime that you may have committed up until
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. No problem, no problem.
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: But his opening statement came in twenty twenty six, So
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: again that opens the door to you know, anything he
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: said in that opening statement opens the door up to
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: charges against him his past. I mean, I understand what
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: the pardon says, but these legal experts seem to think
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: that because he spoke once before he started pleading the
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: fifth that opens the door to other charges.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: So okay, So Fauci was given a full, unconditional pardon
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: for any and all actions taken between January first, twenty fourteen,
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: and twenty nineteenth, twenty twenty five.
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: I guess where I.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: Would disagree with these legal scholars that are saying he
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: may be subject to because he did give an opening
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: statement in twenty twenty six. Again, the thing that you're
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: gonna nail him on is the crime that happened in
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, twenty twenty one. And it's like if
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: oj Simpson was still alive and he came out and said, oh,
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: I totally hacked her to death. Well, yeah, but you've
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: already been found not guilty, so it doesn't matter. You
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: get the pardon now. So I feel like, you know,
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: Tony Fouci could come out and go, I totally planted
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: the COVID vaccine. Yes, I funded it, Yes I spread it.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: Yes it was also I could test my mRNA theories.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: I wanted to see if Murna would work. That was
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: the whole point of this thing. And now, because Joe
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: Biden gave me the full pardon for any crimes I
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: committed between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty five, I'm admitting
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: to it in twenty twenty six, but there's nothing you
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: can do to me. That's where I think myself and
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: the legal scholars would break. Although I don't expect him
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: to say that. I think his own notes kind of
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: showed that he did do that.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: And he's such an egomaniac it's hard to believe he's
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: not to fight tooth and nail once a contempt charge
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: is leveled against him.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: He can't.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: I'm surprised he could sit on his hands and plead
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: the fifth that long as long as he did, because
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, we've seen his notes, we've seen his personal journal.
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: He loves to talk about himself, and if he's not
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: talking about himself, he loves others to be talking about it.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: Do you think he's still keeping notes on himself right now?
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: Not on a government computer. That was a very.
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: Ill advised idea, Tony. You're supposed to be a smart man, Tony,
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: that was not very smart. But we will be watching
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: those proceedings this morning with great interest to see if
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: they do, in fact get a contempt charge on Tony Fauci.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: All right, more to come. This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the low country. This is South
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Carolina's morning news on one O three point five FM
• 57:54
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• 58:00
  Speaker 2: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: And I want to say thanks to my friend John.
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: He is a very smart man. John's a very smart man,
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: and I think he's retired now, but an attorney for many,
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: many years, and he disagrees with this strategy of the Republicans.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: And is it a strategy I don't even know this
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: idea of prosecuting or trying to get prosecution against Anthony Fauci.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: Today is the contempt vote in Congress, and then later
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: on if that does pass, then the referral to the
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: Justice Department to decide whether to pursue a criminal prosecution,
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: which again I think that there's no chance that there's
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: an actual conviction or anything because of the pardon it
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: was given to him. But he writes that the Republicans
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: have much larger issues to spend their energies on. This
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: is not moving the needle for the upcoming election. In fact,
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: it may move the needle in the wrong direction make
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: certain people look bad. So, Christopher, any thoughts on that
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: that perhaps we're not helping ourselves with the midterms by
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: prosecuting Tony.
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: Fauci, Well, who looks bad? I guess.
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: I guess the point your friend John is making, Kelly
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: is that Fauci's already made himself look bad, so the
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: Republicans just need to get out of the way and
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: move on to other things. I understand that argument. I'm
• 59:23
  Speaker 4: not sure a contempt of Congress charge is necessarily a
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: bad thing. I couldn't see it blowing up in the
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: in the Republicans' faces if they just simply level it
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: and then leave it at that.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the idea of you know, Fauci is not Biden
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: in the sense that the prosecutor what was his name?
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: Who is that his name?
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: Or her?
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: Was that his name? He said that, you know, nobody.
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: Would prosecute this guy because he's a sympathetic old man
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: has a bad memory.
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: That's not Fauci. Fauci's not sympathetic.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: He's old, he's eighty five, but he doesn't seem like
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: he's lost his memory at all. And he's a defiant
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: eighty five year old man. But to the bigger picture,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: are we picking on somebody? I would argue that there's
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: a lot of Americans, a lot who were personally hurt
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: by what happened in the COVID pandemic brought on by
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: Tony Fauci's recommendations to shut down cities and towns, and
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: then the fake mask mandate, the fake separation, that this
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: idea of distance, which in his own notes he points.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: Out this total bs there's.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: No science that's ever been created that showed that you
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: could stand six feet apart and it would do a
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: damn thing. I mean, they tried it in nineteen eighteen
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: with the flu. It didn't work, People died, People were
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: gonna die because of COVID. Then the bigger question is
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: did Tony Fauci fund the COVID gain of function research?
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: It seems like he did. And if he funded this
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: through the Wuhan Lab, whether it was intentional or or
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: an accident, then there he has to pay a price.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: And I think just maybe the Republicans are going to
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: botch this and not be able to paint the picture
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: the right way. Tony Fauci is an actual monster. He's
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: a monster who helped in some part, I don't know
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: what part, but helped in some part unleashing the worst
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: virus of my lifetime.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: I wasn't here for polio.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't experience the polio stuff, and thank
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: god somebody was able to fix that. We don't have
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: a cure for COVID right now. There's still there's gonna
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: be another one hundred thousand people dropped dead this year
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: because of the COVID vague or not the vaccine, but
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: the actual COVID. And they're vaccinated and they're still dying,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: or they're not vaccinated and they're dying. We don't have
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: a cure. We don't have a cure for a lot
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: of things. But Tony Fauci was a part of this
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: and lied about his participation in it. And whether or
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: not it helps in the mid terms hurts in the midterms.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: I don't want to say I don't care, because I
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: certainly do care, but I also think that at some
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: point you just have to do the right thing. I'll
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: also point out that it was the Biden administration that
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: got Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro into prison based off
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: of their contempt of Congress charges.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: Kelly, I agree with you. I don't want to see
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: Congress get bogged down into a long investigation. And I
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: mean that we've certainly got bigger fish to fry, like
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: the Save Act, for example, the Save America Act, that
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: should be top of mind with Republicans right now. But yeah,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: he doesn't deserve to go unpunished. And Democrats are arguing
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: right now, well, if Republicans stick with this plan, no
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: scientist is ever going to want to take that job again.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: I don't ever want a scientist like Anthony Fauci in
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: charge of our nation's health protocols.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's again you make a great point. Tony Fauci
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: was a dangerous man who has given too much power
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: and got more dangerous once he got more power. And
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: unfortunately at that age old saying about total power totally
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: corrupts or whatever. I mean, that's that's what, that's why
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: we have all these checks and balances, supposedly, But then
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: when you get into emergency situations, and again I'll point
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: to you know, some maybe abuses by Trump with the war.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: Was it an emergency? Did we need to go right now?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: Could he have gotten a vote of Congress, all those
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: types of things. We're supposed to be slow and methodical
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: for a reason. But then when you get in what's
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: obviously the pandemic is an emergency, so we surrendered, waive
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: too much power, I would suggest, and freedom and freedom
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: to Fauci and Burks if you remember the scarf lady
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: and and these, you know, people who literally at this point,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: we can now look back, if you'd like to a
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: lot of people don't want to do it, look back
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: and show that it had very little effect, because you
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: can look at the countries that didn't close down, and
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: they had basically the same death rates as the people
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: that were on complete shutdown, and then you can't factor
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: in what kind of mental health crisis started. How many
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: suicides were start you know, came from this alcoholism, drug abuse,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff that came out of the
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: fact that they were in isolation. I don't know that
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: we'll ever have a firm grasp on that, but to
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: your point, Christopher, something needs to somebody should do something
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: to that guy.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be talking about this months from now,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: allah the Epstein files, but yes, Thestein.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: Something needs to be done. And then move on the Democrats.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: I think totally botched that the Epstein Files, although the
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: Republicans had their fair share of that nightmare as well.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: All right, it's eight nineteen. We got to take another
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: break on South Carolina's morning news.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: Fly from the state Capitol.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: For those of you listening and thinking, wow, Kelly got
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: really good at running the board. I only did it
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: for the seven o'clock hour. Christopher's back at the helm
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: and it's much smoother.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: All all you have to do is follow Kelly on
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: some kind of social media and you'll realize one thing
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: very quickly, Yeah, Kelly can do anything.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, you literally can't do anything.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: So you're very nice, said, you know who else can
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: do anything? It seems as our Attorney General, Alan Wilson.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: Tonight again back to being a moderator in the low
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: Country Charleston. You get eight candidates coming out to speak
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: to you. You get this is the speaking order that
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: it's going to go in tonight, Russell Fry, Glenda Gale Parker,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: then Mark McBride, Duke Buckner, Mark lynch Ralph Norman, Sam Shephard,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: and it wraps up with the I guess hometown hero
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: in some people's eyes, Mark Sanford.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: This was done by drawing, Yes, random drawing.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: Doors will open tonight at five fifteen. They go and
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: give their stump speeches starting at six point thirty, and
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: then the whole event will be over at eight and
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: then between eight and eight forty five there's a candidate
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: meet and greep. It all happens at the Charleston Rifle
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: Club tonight with Alan Wilson as your moderator.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: If dark because they say no candidates can have fill ins,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: and but you can send down a video of your
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: stump speech.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: It doesn't say if Darling and Graham is going to
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: send it. I don't know. Yeah, that's a good question.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: But all right.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: You know, Christopher, you mentioned something to me in the
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: break earlier, and we maybe should address that. We'll talk
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: about a.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 5: Brew Is it a brewing controversy? I don't know.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: We'll tell you what happened. Christopher brought it to my attention,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: and we'll bring that up next on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with It's Kelly Nash.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: So apparently you people love emailing me.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: I get lots of emails all of a sudden, now,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: so here's one from Dan. I would say yes to
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: pursue the contempt of Congress charges against Fauci, and if
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: criminal events are found, referred to the DOJ. Otherwise, why
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: bother Like all the other windmills that the Republican Party
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: has chased over the years, I'll remind you of lock
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: her up. Fauci should be stripped of his wealth, fame,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: and freedom. He killed a lot of people. All right,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: thank you, Dan. I also got an email here last
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: night promoting a new television spot that's going to go
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: like I'm trying to imagine I'm assuming that because they
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: give you the actual script of the TV spot, and
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: I'm assuming that the man has a very.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: Low voice and he talks like this.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: Career politician Russell Fry rejected by President Trump. Fry selfishly
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: put himself before President Trump and the MAGA movement. His
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: empty seat could hand AOC and the woke liberals in
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: DC power and Fry hurt hardworking South Carolinians voting for
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: increasing the gas prices by seventy percent and nearly one
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: billion dollar tax paid it funded bailout, putting himself first,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: empowering the woke DEI liberals, hurting South Carolina taxpayers. Russ
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: needs Fried for failing President Trump, who paid for by
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: security of strength.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 5: Security strength.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: Also on social media this morning, posting where's the security
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: strength to tweet?
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 5: Here we go?
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: Nobody in South Carolina wants to say this out loud,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: So here it is. Russell Fry didn't earn that seat.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: Trump gave it to him in twenty twenty two, just
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: pulled him out of nowhere, made him a congressman overnight,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: and then they go on and on and on. Look,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: first off, that's a complete lie. Russell frye didn't just
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: get pulled out of nowhere. He'd already been serving here
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina for a while. I'll also point out
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: that in twenty twenty two, there was a boatload of
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: people running for that seat, including the former mayor of Myrtle.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 5: Beach, Mark Ryde. Yeah, he was in that primary.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: There was a guy named Spencer Morris, Garrett Barton, Ken Richardson,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: Barbara Author, and of course the incumbent Tom Rice, who
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: was on the wrong side of Trump because he wanted
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: him impeached. But yeah, he won that. He didn't even
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: have to go to a runoff. Russell Fry won that seat,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: so he worked very hard to win that election and
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: then of course crushed the Democrat. But security strength, to me,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: I know, you can't coordinate with packs, legally impossible. But
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: if I'm Darlene Graham, I understand that this is my brother's.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 5: Pack and it's hers. Now.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: The biggest complaint by South Carolinian Republicans against Lindsey Graham
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: by far, the number one thing is he was too
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: too close to the military apparatus. Security is strength is
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: that apparatus by which they would So this is your
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: biggest weakness. You should try to distance yourself from this pack.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: The fact that they're coming out and attacking Russell Frye
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: makes me think that Russell Frye is in second place.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: That's Kelly. That was my question to you is why
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: are they going after fry and not Ralph Norman. But
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: obviously they think Russell Frye is Darlene's Graham's biggest competitor.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: And if I'm Darlene Graham, I don't want to be
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: linked to that because again, Lindsey Graham was a very
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: popular senator, but he only typically got around fifty six
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: to fifty eight percent of the Republican primary vote. He
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: was always pretty heavily contested, and it didn't matter, by
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: the way, if there was like that year that Jonathan
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: Rush and I hosted the big thing where we had
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: Nancy Mace and Lee Bright, there was like eight or
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: nine people that came to primary him. He got like
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: fifty six percent of the vote. And then the next
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: year or you know, six years later, it was one
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: person primary to him and he got like fifty six
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: percent of the vote. There's like fifty six percent of
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: South Carolinians like Lindsey Graham on the GOP side, and then,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: of course, because once you get into the general you're
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: going to win because about sixty percent of South Carolinians
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: are Republicans. But the that is that was his biggest liability.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a weakness, but it's a liability, the idea
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  Speaker 3: that people don't like the fact that he was so
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  Speaker 3: quote unquote strong on the military aka also known as
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  Speaker 3: a warmongerer. That's and even Donald Trump joked about it
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  Speaker 3: at the man's funeral.
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  Speaker 5: He never met a worried in love. You don't want
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  Speaker 5: to be associated with that.
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  Speaker 3: You want to This is when they asked her the
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  Speaker 3: other night, like where do you separate from Lindsay? And
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  Speaker 3: she said, I'm the filibuster. You should say, I am
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  Speaker 3: not as pro military. I am not as aggressive militarily
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  Speaker 3: as Lindsay was. Something to that extent would help you
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  Speaker 3: in this primary. You want to in order to be
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  Speaker 3: the senator, you got to win the primary. And if
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  Speaker 3: you know that the biggest liability that your brother had
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  Speaker 3: was that and now you're getting closer to it, that
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  Speaker 3: is going to turn voters off. And I'm just saying
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  Speaker 3: that is a political analyst. I'm not I'm not pulling
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  Speaker 3: for you, nor am I pulling against you. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: saying this seems crazy to me.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen some of her social media messaging since then
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  Speaker 4: point out the fact that she feels she differs from
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  Speaker 4: her brother in that he was so focused on foreign
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  Speaker 4: policy and she's more focused on South Carolina pocketbooks. But
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how much that sticks when you've got
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  Speaker 4: security of strength. I mean, they texted or they tweeted
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  Speaker 4: out one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, at
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  Speaker 4: least eight tweets about Russell Fry yesterday, Wow, yesterday alone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now they got the TV ads starting today, I think so.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're they're all in for Darley and Graham,
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  Speaker 3: and I mean that's great. Do you got a candidate
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  Speaker 3: that you want to support. That's fantastic. I also understand
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  Speaker 3: that negative ads work. For whatever reason, I'm hoping that
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  Speaker 3: we're starting to see a diminishing return on negative ads.
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  Speaker 5: I hate negative ads.
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  Speaker 3: I would much rather hear why your candidate is so great,
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  Speaker 3: especially someone like Darlen Graham. Why is she so great?
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  Speaker 3: Because as far as we all know, we don't even
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  Speaker 3: know her.
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  Speaker 5: She's a blank slate. Yes, and that was the.
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  Speaker 3: Thing about Obama years ago that you know, I remember
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  Speaker 3: Rush Limbaugh talking about that ad nausea.
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  Speaker 5: Who is this guy?
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  Speaker 3: What we could tell was he seemed like a Marxist,
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  Speaker 3: but he really didn't have a whole lot to base
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  Speaker 3: that on, so you could project onto him whoever you
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  Speaker 3: wanted him to be. Now, he did become more of
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  Speaker 3: the guy I really thought he was in his second term.
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  Speaker 3: The first term was bad enough. The second term is
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  Speaker 3: where he really escalated the Marxist rhetoric and all that
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  Speaker 3: sort of stuff. But either way, I'm not saying Darling
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  Speaker 3: Grims are anything. I'm just saying, we don't know who
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  Speaker 3: she is. You should invest in promoting her. I would
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  Speaker 3: think telling us why she's qualified, talk more about her
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  Speaker 3: history here, talk about more about, you know, how she
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  Speaker 3: looks at policies, those types of things. But again, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not running anybody's campaign. I've already I've criticized several of
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  Speaker 3: the candidates in their campaigning strategies so far.
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  Speaker 5: All right, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna stop with that. We'll get to more local news.
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  Speaker 3: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: It was twenty two years ago, Christopher that pork and barrel.
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  Speaker 3: The two pigs were brought to the State House. I
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  Speaker 3: see Nick Reynolds has posted over at the Posting Courier
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  Speaker 3: that today at ten am, we're just over an hour away.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Sandford will reappear with a pair of pigs today
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  Speaker 3: at the South Carolina State House. Just as the legislature
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  Speaker 3: was then attempting to kick the can down the road
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  Speaker 3: on deficits and spending, so too is Washington today. Accordingly,
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  Speaker 3: we need folks in DC who will not only vote right,
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  Speaker 3: but dig in their heels by resisting Washington's unending appetite
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  Speaker 3: for more of what we earn and more of what
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  Speaker 3: our children might earn. It strikes me that my parents'
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  Speaker 3: generation left us a better America than the one they inherited,
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  Speaker 3: and at least we can do is give our children
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  Speaker 3: more than a gift of indebtedness and a less affordable
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  Speaker 3: shot at the American dream. So he's he's bringing the
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  Speaker 3: pigs back.
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  Speaker 4: Today, Kelly, I've had a lot of praise for Mark
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  Speaker 4: Sandford's campaign to this point. I think this the original
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  Speaker 4: stunt had some shock value. I think doing it again
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  Speaker 4: is just it's not the right move.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Look, we were talking in the was
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  Speaker 3: it the six o'clock hour. We were talking about how
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  Speaker 3: many kids, I say kids. Gosh, some of these people
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  Speaker 3: are in their thirties that are pro socialism now and
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  Speaker 3: the reason, or we'll just say that, one of the
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  Speaker 3: factors seems to be if you were alive during the
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  Speaker 3: Cold War, you are far less likely to appreciate socialism.
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  Speaker 3: How many people, how many voters have no idea about
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  Speaker 3: Mark Sandford bringing because.
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  Speaker 5: It's twenty two years ago.
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  Speaker 3: True, So I mean you could be thirty years old
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  Speaker 3: and have no recollection of this. Okay, well this might
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  Speaker 3: be an appeal to the younger voters. It should, I
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  Speaker 3: would assume get some media attention today.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it'll get media attention, especially if the pigs do
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  Speaker 4: what they did last time, which was poop all over
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  Speaker 4: his jacket. I mean that was the image that everyone
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  Speaker 4: came away with. Okay, I get the I understand what
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  Speaker 4: he's doing and you know what he's holding. But every
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  Speaker 4: every report you saw afterwards said and the pigs were
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  Speaker 4: busy doing their business all over Sandford the entire time
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  Speaker 4: he was holding in them in front of all these cameras.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe we can make sure, maybe have diapers on it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you learn from the past and
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  Speaker 3: you modify your plans.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just not sure he needs this stunt. I know,
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  Speaker 4: he's going around in an old truck, you know, with
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 4: the check engine light on. He's got symbolism for everything.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure he needs all this. His message is
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  Speaker 4: already resonating. I don't know that you need, you know,
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  Speaker 4: all this imaging on.
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  Speaker 5: Top of that. Well, it is tough to get traction.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we're we're talking about, you know, these packs
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  Speaker 3: and what they're spending and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough to get traction. So I I look, you
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  Speaker 3: gotta do what you gotta do. Yeah, he feels like
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  Speaker 3: this is gonna help. Like I said, it certainly should
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  Speaker 3: get some media attention. And if you want to be there,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to see do the pick Biggs repeat
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  Speaker 3: their performance again. It's supposed to start at ten am
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  Speaker 3: at the State House. Thoughts you might be interested in that.
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  Speaker 5: All right, it's getting started right now.
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  Speaker 3: I see the uh rand Paul making his opening statements.
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  Speaker 3: And more than a million Americans died from COVID, many
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: of them died alone. Workers were forced to choose between
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: a mandate and a job they needed. Businesses closed and
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  Speaker 3: never reopened. Children lost years of school they will never
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  Speaker 3: get back. Americans lost the freedom to work, worship, and
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  Speaker 3: decide what went into their bodies. Nothing we can do
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  Speaker 3: today can undo those losses. But silence does not honor
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  Speaker 3: them either. That's part of the opening statement that Ran
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  Speaker 3: Paul's making. As they decide whether or not to hold
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress.
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  Speaker 4: The Democrats are attempting to delay. One Democrat just asked
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  Speaker 4: that they delay their vote until they can talk to
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  Speaker 4: constitutional experts about the Fifth Amendment. Senator Blumenthal just brought
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  Speaker 4: up emotion, saying they shouldn't consider this until Anthony Fauci's
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  Speaker 4: lawyer has had a chance to speak since he was
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  Speaker 4: thrown out of the hearing last week. That theatrics continue.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a dog and pony show all
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  Speaker 3: day up there in DC, and then tonight don't forget
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  Speaker 3: in the low country. You're gonna have Alan Wilson hosting
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  Speaker 3: the US Senate stump stop. And we mentioned Mark Sandford
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  Speaker 3: is going to be at the State House in just
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  Speaker 3: over an hour ten o'clock with the Pigs, but he'll
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  Speaker 3: be back down in Charleston tonight. He'll be going in
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  Speaker 3: the final slot. So it's Russell Fry, this is the
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  Speaker 3: speaking order, Russell Fry, Gail for Rails, Mark McBride, Duke Buckner,
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  Speaker 3: Mark lynch Ralph Norman, Sam Shepard, and Markford. And again
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  Speaker 3: those doors are going to open tonight for people in
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  Speaker 3: Charleston five point fifteen. Uh, it gets under way at
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  Speaker 3: six point thirty. I think it's a first come, first
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  Speaker 3: serve deal. They should be wrapping it up around eight
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  Speaker 3: and then between eight and forty five eight and eight
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  Speaker 3: forty five. If you want to meet some of the
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  Speaker 3: candidates and ask them questions yourself, that'd be great, and
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  Speaker 3: they have that meet and greet. By the way, record
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  Speaker 3: it and then send it if you get some good stuff, sure,
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  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson and I would love.
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  Speaker 5: To air it. Absolutely. Did you get did you get
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  Speaker 5: a gotcha? Question?
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  Speaker 3: In and by the way, speaking of we mentioned Darlene Grim.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know. We have not heard if she's because
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  Speaker 3: the according to the rules, you can't have somebody fill
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  Speaker 3: in for you. However that if you can't make it,
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  Speaker 3: they do invite you to send a five minute stump speech.
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  Speaker 5: I guess, so perhaps we'll see if she sends something
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  Speaker 5: in perhaps you will get that tonight. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And we don't know anything more about Danny Ford other
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  Speaker 3: than he's on ballots in.
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  Speaker 5: Some places, most places, most places, all right, so we'll
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  Speaker 5: keep an eye on that as well.
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  Speaker 3: Don't see him scheduled to talk to the folks in
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  Speaker 3: Charleston tonight. But whatever happens tonight and today in Congress,
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  Speaker 3: all that, we'll recap it all again tomorrow mornings. We
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  Speaker 3: reconvene just after six am on South Carolina's Morning News