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Show Rewind 7-28-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Live from the State Capitol.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you hear that in the top of the hour
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  Speaker 3: news break that today is the big day at least
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  Speaker 3: up at the National Cathedral. They'll be having the ceremony
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  Speaker 3: for Lindsey Graham there. Christopher Thompson, good morning to.
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  Speaker 4: You, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Morning Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: I imagine it'll be an emotional day for a lot
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  Speaker 3: of South Carolinians. The President is expected to speak down there,
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  Speaker 3: and they're going to have a some sort of video
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  Speaker 3: tribute to Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be a very emotional day.
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  Speaker 5: No doubt about it. Sean Hannity also speaking.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't hear that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, Hannity got the call. Yeah. So I'm wondering
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  Speaker 5: if that will be a part of Sean's show this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Probably, I would have to imagine, So, I mean think
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  Speaker 3: so if the ceremony goes off at two o'clock at
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  Speaker 3: the National Cathedral, I don't know how long it's going
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  Speaker 3: to roll. But Hannity goes live if I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 3: three to.
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  Speaker 5: Six so on Fox News on TV that night. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure between the two we'll get a healthy dose
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  Speaker 5: of his tribute to Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so if you're not able to, I'm assuming
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  Speaker 3: Fox will carry a lot of this live today at
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  Speaker 3: two o'clock. I would assume maybe not go wall to
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  Speaker 3: wall coverage, but there'll be a bunch of cut ins,
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  Speaker 3: I'm assuming from the National Cathedral. But then tomorrow he
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  Speaker 3: comes to Columbia and I was seeing some of the
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  Speaker 3: security measures that they're putting in place downtown getting ready
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  Speaker 3: for that, as they're expecting some rather large crowds to
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to be able to get into the church,
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  Speaker 3: but you'll be able to see the procession as it moves.
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  Speaker 5: Kelly, I got a call from someone, a member of
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  Speaker 5: that church by the way, last week who said they're
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  Speaker 5: pairing a sinkhole in front of the church, and apparently
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  Speaker 5: there's some ways around that. I guess the best way
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  Speaker 5: is to park in that parking garage that's adjacent to
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  Speaker 5: First Baptist Church and go in that way. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: there may be some hurdles, additional hurdles if you're getting
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  Speaker 5: into the church just to walk in the front door.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I had not heard about that. Yeah, so well,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for that update. Christopher Thompson, very valuable. That
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  Speaker 3: is the news you can use if you plan on
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  Speaker 3: trying to attend the service tomorrow here in Columbia for
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  Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham. And then it's going to be a busy
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  Speaker 3: day because I if I'm remembering right, and you might
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  Speaker 3: have it in front of you, that's going to start
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  Speaker 3: I think around ten forty five ish or something, is
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  Speaker 3: what I read, and then they're going to have a
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  Speaker 3: afternoon service. They described it as up in Pickens County
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  Speaker 3: and that's basically for family and friends only, right, But
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  Speaker 3: that I mean, that's just to go from Columbia to
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  Speaker 3: Pickens County. That's a couple of hours. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: you got all this going on in the interim, so
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be some exhausted members of the Graham
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  Speaker 3: team and family tomorrow. Today is not going to be
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  Speaker 3: easy on them either, so.
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  Speaker 5: You know, and by the way, they're in the middle
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  Speaker 5: of a campaign, and.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to just pivot to that. Dar Graham
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  Speaker 3: is asking for grace and a little more time to
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  Speaker 3: discuss the issues of what's coming up in this campaign.
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  Speaker 3: And again, early voting starts like next.
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  Speaker 5: Week, right, that's right, next Wednesday, so.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have a lot of time unfortunately, and there's
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  Speaker 3: a big fast turnaround going on now. Yesterday I spoke
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  Speaker 3: with Mark Sandford. We're going to play parts of that
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  Speaker 3: coming up a little bit. Also, we're getting ready for
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  Speaker 3: what are they calling it again, the Senate stumps. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: and our first one will be in Columbia this well,
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  Speaker 3: actually at Lexington this weekend Saturday, and then I think
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  Speaker 3: August sixth is the next one that's in Charleston, So
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  Speaker 3: we'll be talking a little bit more about that. But
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot to get to this morning, and if
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  Speaker 3: you've got thoughts that you want to get on the
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  Speaker 3: air whatever, we'd love for you to use the talkback feature.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe some stuff that we haven't gotten to in the
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  Speaker 3: past couple of days that you think, Hey, you guys
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  Speaker 3: need to be talking about this. Let us know if
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  Speaker 3: we're missing something. Use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 3: Just a reminder, we're still off the ear assuming until
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  Speaker 3: further notice. On the AM.
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  Speaker 5: The cleanup continues. The restoration continues where the fires were
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  Speaker 5: at the WVOCAM transmitter. This is in Colombia. Yes, the
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  Speaker 5: FM signal still works. The iHeartRadio app still works, but
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  Speaker 5: we are working hard to get that AM transmitter back
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  Speaker 5: up and operate.
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  Speaker 3: So if you hear somebody saying that we're off the air,
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  Speaker 3: it's just on the AM signal.
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  Speaker 5: And just in Columbia.
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  Speaker 3: Just in Colombia, we're still rocking strong down on FM
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  Speaker 3: ninety four point three WSC Charleston and FM one O
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  Speaker 3: three point five FM in Columbia WVOC. This is South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash and.
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  Speaker 3: Good Morning six twelve. Yesterday spoke with our Attorney General,
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  Speaker 3: Alan Wilson, who is going to be hosting these Senate
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  Speaker 3: stumps is what they're calling them, and started with the question,
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  Speaker 3: why are you hosting these Senate forums?
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  Speaker 6: I am trying to do everything that I can to
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  Speaker 6: provide venues and forums for the voters to be able
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  Speaker 6: to learn about all of these new candidates for the
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  Speaker 6: US Senate so they can make an informed decision on
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  Speaker 6: one of those two election days. I'm going to need
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  Speaker 6: a strong partner to run with in November.
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  Speaker 3: This is South Carolina's Morning News. So we are in
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  Speaker 3: Columbia and we are in Charleston. We got two area
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  Speaker 3: locations for the listeners, and we got one this Saturday
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  Speaker 3: for people in the Columbia area.
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  Speaker 6: That's right Saturday, August the first, that's this coming Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: We'll be in Lexington County at Riverbluff High School at
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  Speaker 6: eleven thirty am. We have a handful of these candidates
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  Speaker 6: already confirmed. We're still waiting on confirmations from some of
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  Speaker 6: the others. But I will be hosting a form where
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  Speaker 6: you will be able to get to hear from some
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  Speaker 6: of these candidates and what their plans are if they're
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  Speaker 6: elected to the US Senate. And the second date will
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  Speaker 6: be August the six, so it'll be down in Charleston
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  Speaker 6: at the Rifle Club and that is from six to
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  Speaker 6: seven thirty at the Rifle Club in Charleston on August six.
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  Speaker 3: And I see on the Facebook page from the South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina GOP that they're asking people RSVP by emailing team
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  Speaker 3: at segop dot com. So again, OURSVP by emailing team
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  Speaker 3: at scgop dot com. I don't know how this even
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  Speaker 3: started with you, but years ago you started this thing
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  Speaker 3: where you were basically having one on one conversations with
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  Speaker 3: presidential candidates when they were running in the primaries in
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, and you did a fantastic job with that.
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  Speaker 3: This is going to be a little bit different though,
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  Speaker 3: because it's not one on one. It's like controlled chaos.
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  Speaker 6: These will not be debates. I'm not going to have
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  Speaker 6: everyone up there on stage. There will be sanctioned debates
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  Speaker 6: for the US Senate. These are going to be basically
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  Speaker 6: opportunities for me to ask questions on behalf of the crowd.
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  Speaker 6: And obviously we will take questions from the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: Is this like a Phil Donahue thing where you're going
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  Speaker 3: to be reaching out with the microphone or.
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  Speaker 6: We will probably take questions that I will ask. I
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  Speaker 6: will be the one facilitating the questions. We won't be
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  Speaker 6: having the pill Donahue or the Herado Rivera where you
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  Speaker 6: get into a shouting match or someone gets up there
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  Speaker 6: and filibuster is a question because we want to move
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  Speaker 6: when we have each of these candidates for such a
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  Speaker 6: short period of time, and you know in the past
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  Speaker 6: or a people that get up there and they talk
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  Speaker 6: for five minutes and somewhere buried in there is a question.
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  Speaker 6: We need to be able to give people the questions
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  Speaker 6: quickly and give as much time as possible to the candidates.
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  Speaker 6: And so my intent will be to have a conversation
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  Speaker 6: that will allow you to hear from the candidate for
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  Speaker 6: the Senate more than the person asking the question.
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  Speaker 3: The first one, again, is this Saturday. Like you said, Allan,
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  Speaker 3: this thing is moving very quickly. So Saturday morning at
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  Speaker 3: eleven thirty, you're going to get a bunch of candidates
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  Speaker 3: at the River Bluff High School. And again you should
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  Speaker 3: respond by sending an RSVP to team at scg op
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  Speaker 3: dot com. And then you're going to have another one
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  Speaker 3: in Charleston.
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  Speaker 4: When is that again?
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  Speaker 6: That is August six, from six to seven thirty at
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  Speaker 6: the Rifle Club, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And again, if you want to go to the
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  Speaker 3: one in Charleston, you want to email Team T E
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  Speaker 3: A M at scg op dot com. So, uh, hopefully
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  Speaker 3: you get an opportunity to see some of these people
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  Speaker 3: up close and personal. And uh, you know, at this
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  Speaker 3: point they don't even know exactly who's coming to these events.
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  Speaker 3: But Christopher Thompson, it is a very tight window.
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  Speaker 5: And Kelly, there is still a filing you can file
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  Speaker 5: right up until what today, I believe, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Is it five o'clock, noone noon noon today, So we're
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  Speaker 3: on the clock. We have less than six hours and
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  Speaker 3: then we will finally know for sure who's in. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: filed yesterday, as far as I know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think so, but I wouldn't expect anyone else
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  Speaker 5: to file. I would think the field is pretty crowded
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  Speaker 5: as it is.
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  Speaker 3: I saw Mark Sandford filed I think yesterday, yes And
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  Speaker 3: when he was filing, you know, there's video, there's the
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  Speaker 3: local media is waiting for these people to come off
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  Speaker 3: the elevators, and then they walk into the office and
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  Speaker 3: one of the fellas who got off the elevator with
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  Speaker 3: him is what is it from the posting courier, Nick Reynolds,
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  Speaker 3: and and so some of the local reporters were having
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  Speaker 3: fun with that, and Nick pointed out that he had
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  Speaker 3: gotten there late and ended up just inadvertently in the
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  Speaker 3: elevator holding the door for Mark Sandford to get it.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, you know, hey, what am I going
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  Speaker 3: to do? He shut the door in his face.
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  Speaker 5: Of course not so get the scoop on the ride
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  Speaker 5: down or right up maybe so maybe.
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  Speaker 4: Good for you, Nick. Anyway, we'll have more on that.
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  Speaker 3: And of course I did have a conversation with Mark
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  Speaker 3: Sanford yesterday that we'll play that a little bit later
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  Speaker 3: on in the broadcast. But anything you want to say
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  Speaker 3: about any of the stories we're talking about, you can
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  Speaker 3: use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks for
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  Speaker 3: starting your morning with South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, it is getting very ugly on the Democrat side
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  Speaker 3: of things. If you look at Wow, I can't believe
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  Speaker 3: they got him saying this because he's literally paraphrasing Lennon.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about the Abdul l said, who's the Michigan
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  Speaker 3: front runner right now for the Democrat ticket to be
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  Speaker 3: the next senator from the state of Michigan. Talking about
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  Speaker 3: John Fetterman on a conference call, he said, quote, I
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  Speaker 3: have no problem getting people to primary losers like Fetterman,
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  Speaker 3: no problem at all. Ideally, you just need to put
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  Speaker 3: one ogre on a pike and everyone else will get
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  Speaker 3: the message. All of a sudden, everyone will start sounding
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  Speaker 3: a lot different in this party. That's what Wow. Yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 3: put one ogre on a pike. Now, last night over
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  Speaker 3: on CNN, Abby Phillips was having a discussion. This is
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  Speaker 3: almost the exact same discussion about how the DSA is
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  Speaker 3: becoming a problem.
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  Speaker 7: Ninety nine days from the big terms, Democrats are facing
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  Speaker 7: a reckoning disavow and disown the Democratic Socialists of America
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  Speaker 7: or embrace policy positions like these endorsed by the DSA's
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  Speaker 7: co chair.
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  Speaker 8: Abolish the Senates, true, okay, replace the Presidency and Supreme
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  Speaker 8: Court as we now know them. Abolish borders and give
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  Speaker 8: amnesty to anyone currently in the US illegally as a
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  Speaker 8: long term plan.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: Defund the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely, Abolish prisons at least in large part.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Again, as part of a long term program. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 8: So no prisons, government or public ownership of most large corporations.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 10: You know what was really interesting is that, you know,
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  Speaker 10: this is a person that has their own views, their
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  Speaker 10: own platform, and you know, I think everybody has their
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  Speaker 10: own positions, but I find it really interesting that Conservatives
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  Speaker 10: actually want to try to go and talk about this
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  Speaker 10: when they literally had Project twenty twenty five. Oh, in
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  Speaker 10: the last election, Project twenty twenty five, which was uniquely
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  Speaker 10: calling for the cutting of the Civil Rights Act, the
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  Speaker 10: Voting Rights Act, and many different things. What I know
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  Speaker 10: is that the Democratic Party is a big tent Party.
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  Speaker 10: We've got folks like Joe Manchin, folks like zoraon Mam Donnie,
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  Speaker 10: and you would have.
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  Speaker 7: To acknowledge and Democrats ran against Republicans on Project Project
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  Speaker 7: twenty twenty five. It's your acknowledging. It's going to be
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  Speaker 7: a problem.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, look, I don't support those things, but the
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  Speaker 10: point is is that we need to talk about the
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  Speaker 10: things that people in elected office are doing.
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  Speaker 3: All Right. That guy, by the way, I don't even
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  Speaker 3: know who he is, Isaiah Mark, who is that dude?
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  Speaker 5: I don't support those things, but we need to talk
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  Speaker 5: about them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're a big ten party.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, when he said that the Project twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five called for the gutting of the Voting Rights Act,
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  Speaker 3: that's demonstrably false. But you know, if it had, Republicans
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  Speaker 3: would be against it. You know, I'm trying to think
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  Speaker 3: of somebody hijacking a party and then you not disavowing
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  Speaker 3: them and saying that we're a big ten party. For example,
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  Speaker 3: when I was doing my podcast this morning, I was thinking, Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: you know what if there was a wing of the
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party that started calling themselves the originalists, we want
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  Speaker 3: the party to be like the country was in seventeen
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  Speaker 3: seventy six, meaning only white men can vote, only white men,
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  Speaker 3: property owners can vote, no women allowed to vote. Blacks
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  Speaker 3: obviously back in enslavement. If there was somebody calling for
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  Speaker 3: some sort of movement like that in the inside the
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party, I am very confident that we would say
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  Speaker 3: get the hell out of here, I would hope. So
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  Speaker 3: when you hear what the Democrat Socialists she just and
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  Speaker 3: again she's not some lady with a platform, she's not
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  Speaker 3: a podcaster. She is the co chair of the Democrat
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  Speaker 3: Socialists of America. She when you say I am a
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  Speaker 3: DSA member like AOC says that's what she believes. When
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  Speaker 3: you hear what abdul l Sayid said, this is what
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  Speaker 3: they believe. The ending of the borders of the United
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  Speaker 3: States of America. Of course anyone living here illegally would
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  Speaker 3: now be. You can't kick him out. There's nothing to
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  Speaker 3: kick him out of. There's no more borders. You want
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  Speaker 3: to quote unquote defund the Pentagon, you have no more military.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess we're just expecting the largesse of China
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  Speaker 3: and Russia and everybody to be very kind to us
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  Speaker 3: moving forward. You would think that even a Democrat would say, well,
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  Speaker 3: I want to fight for the Ukraine. I want the
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  Speaker 3: military to do that. But not according to the Democrat socialists.
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  Speaker 3: When you hear them say we want to get rid
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  Speaker 3: of prisons, I mean, this is the not just the
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  Speaker 3: fundamental changing of America, this is the erasure of America.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the DSA is calling for and for. If
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  Speaker 3: you're a Democrat and you're not beyond outraged and saying
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  Speaker 3: they're hijacking our party, we got to kick him out.
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  Speaker 3: We can't even let him in our primaries, that's what
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  Speaker 3: you should be saying. But instead this guy says, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: we're the big ten part and he pointed out we
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  Speaker 3: have people like Joe Manchin and Zorhan. Mom, Donnie, you
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  Speaker 3: don't have Joe Manchin anymore. Joe Manchin said, he's out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And they're enamored with these high profile and the
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  Speaker 5: AOC for example, she's winning right now, she's gaining in popularity,
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  Speaker 5: so they think, all right, well, let's pin our hopes
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  Speaker 5: on her, let's pin our hopes on all these leftists,
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  Speaker 5: far leftists, socialists, And that's where it's taking the party.
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  Speaker 5: I watched that interview with Shannon Breem, that DSA CoA chair.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Shannon Breen gave her every opportunity to explain
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  Speaker 5: her way out of this, and she just kept going, Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: abolish prisons. Well, yeah, murderers might be on the street,
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  Speaker 5: but we probably won't have as many murders because everyone
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  Speaker 5: will be in a better position financially.
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  Speaker 4: It's like a.
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  Speaker 3: Hard core libertarian. I lean libertarian. I am not a
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  Speaker 3: full fledged libertarian in the sense that like you'll see
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  Speaker 3: interviews with hard core libertarians and they'll say something like,
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  Speaker 3: all drugs legal all the time, to all ages, what
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  Speaker 3: you know, heroin for eight year olds?
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  Speaker 4: Sure, why not?
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  Speaker 3: Who are we to say that they can't do it? Well,
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  Speaker 3: we're society, that's who we are, right, you know, prostitution.
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  Speaker 4: Running a muck in the streets.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, let anybody do what anybody wants all the time.
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  Speaker 3: That's a hard core libertarian, and thankfully Republicans distance themselves
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  Speaker 3: from that kind of insanity. The Democrats, you're being hijacked
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  Speaker 3: right now, and you're losing that battle because as a
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  Speaker 3: political outsider, that's always been where the heat is, that's
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  Speaker 3: always where the momentum is going to go with the
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  Speaker 3: political outsider. They need to do a better job of
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  Speaker 3: stepping up and distancing themselves this big tent party. That's
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  Speaker 3: just the line of crap. And anybody who's a Democrat
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  Speaker 3: not disavowing the DSA, then I guess your silence is
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  Speaker 3: violence towards our constitution. That's what I'm saying to Democrats
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  Speaker 3: who are not speaking out against the DSA, your silence
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  Speaker 3: is violence towards the constitution.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm thinking. What do you think?
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: And use the talkback feature at South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, the news is starting to try to report
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: a little bit about Tony Fauci.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: CBS News last night.
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  Speaker 11: Newly released diary entries by doctor Anthony Fauci or shedding
• 16:44
  Speaker 11: light on his soaring notoriety during the COVID epidemic. The documents,
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  Speaker 11: released by Republican Senator Ran Paul include Fauci's reflections about
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  Speaker 11: being invited to a list parties, calls with Barbara streisand
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  Speaker 11: but also some uncertainty about the origin of COVID, whether
• 17:00
  Speaker 11: it started in a wet market in China or linked
• 17:03
  Speaker 11: from a Wuhan lap.
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  Speaker 3: And that's all they gave you. And that's all they
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: gave you. Now, what I think you're going to see
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: the media do in a further attempt to cover up
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: for Tony Fauci, is focus on the fact that there
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: are a lot of diary entries. And by the way,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: you can see all of Tony Fauci's diaries thanks to
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: the hard work of Senator Rand Paul who was able
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: to force them to turn this over and he's published
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: it all at Paul dot Senate dot gov slash reading room.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: There's over a thousand pages, many of which I think
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: it's over five hundred pages are from Tony Fauci's personal diaries.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: They're going to focus on the fact that Tony Fauci
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: is obviously obsessed, overwhelmingly just enthralled with celebrity status.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no doubt. I mean that's all he talked about.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Is I was unsenn today, I was with Jake Tapper
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  Speaker 5: last night.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, But I think the point that most Americans should
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: be concerned about, that they're not really talking about, is
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: his open lying if you go back to his diary
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  Speaker 3: entries from January of twenty twenty. Now, remember, in January
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: of twenty twenty, most Americans hadn't even heard of the coronavirus,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: as they started calling it sometime in February. On an
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: email excuse me, and a post in I think it's
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: January twelfth. No, I'm sorry, January twenty six, he's talking
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: about meeting with twelve scientists, and in that meeting, ten
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: of the twelve scientists told him it had to be
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  Speaker 3: man made. It's impossible to come from a wet market.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: So he knew on January twenty six, twenty twenty, this
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: thing was created in the Wuhan lab. He knew that,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: and yet he continued to lie and lie and lie
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: because for whatever reason, he didn't want to make the
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Wuhan Lab look bad. Now, I guess at this point
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: we could speculate it's because Tony Fauci was involved with that.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: We can also speculate that because when you look at
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: like what the Ran Paul points out, fo Chi's Fauci's
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: side hustle. He received millions in prize money from American institutions,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: but the largest single cash award to Tony Fauci came
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: from a foreign institution that wired directly into his account.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Tony Fauci missed a public servant. I'm here for the
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: good of everybody. That's all I care about is making
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: sure that everybody lives long, in healthy lives. He got
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: nine hundred thousand dollars from China. Why why did Tony
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Fauci get a nine hundred thousand dollars wire transfer? Was
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: it to shut his mouth? Was it because he was
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: actually involved in this? That's what it would seem. He
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: hasn't said otherwise. All he's been saying is it's a
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: conspiracy theory. But now we know it's not a conspiracy theory.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: When when he went on and told Newt Gingrich and
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: other people that it was a conspiracy theory that these
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: the thing was coming out of a lab and not
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: from a wet market, that has already been debunked by
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: whom not your scientists. Ten of the twelve told you
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: it's impossible for this thing to have come from a
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: wet market, and you knew that, and you chose to
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: believe the two who said no, I think it's possible,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: and then tell the other ten that they're the conspiracy theorists.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: And then he's sending emails saying, read this, then destroy it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: He's sending emails he a government official to another government
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: official saying, read this, then destroy it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: And then in twenty twenty two he's talking about how
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: I never told anybody to shut anything down.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Well, in your emails, you did.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: In your emails to whether you're talking about Newsom in California,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: you're talking about Cuomo up in New York, you're talking
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: about the mayor of New York City. You were sending
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: emails saying, based on my upcoming television appearance, I'm going
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: to say it tonight, you should get out in front
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Do the right thing.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Shut the schools, shut the bars, shut the churches, the synagogues. No,
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  Speaker 3: but he goes anywhere, and.
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  Speaker 4: Then he brags about it later on.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and the people they were thanking me because I
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: was saving lives. You were killing people. People died in isolation.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: People I know, people I know senior citizens who could
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: not see their children, their adult children. They were not
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: allowed to have contact with their adult children because of
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: your stupid orders, and they died alone. And I hope
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: American never forgets what Tony Fauci did to this country.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: He talked about his legacy in this diary. Your legacy
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: is going to be a disaster. Then, I'm not saying
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: it's going to be Fauci is like synonymous with Hitler,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: but I am going to say that I wouldn't want
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: the last name Fauci for the next fifty years. That's
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: a bad last name to have right about now, Tony
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Fauci is a liar who destroyed large swaths of America.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: The damage that you did to the scholastic system, the
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: kids that were stuck at home, the people who wore masks,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: and the psychological damage that was done them, and you're
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: mocking them. You're literally mocking them in your emails to
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: your friends about their wearing the mask. We saw that
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: on display when you went to the Washington Nationals game
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: and you wore the mask to throw out the first pitch.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Then you go and sit in the crowd with your
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: two friends and you take off the mask to chit chat,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: proving once again that you knew masks did nothing. But
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: now we know that you also put that in your notes.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Thank you to rand Paul for getting this out to
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: the public. But I am. I am furious about this that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: I knew it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Now that I'm seeing it, I'm even angrier.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: I don't know why, but I knew it all along.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Tony Fauci is a big liar who did nothing but
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: destroy America for several years. And then who is it
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: that he was excited about? Not Barbara Streisch, I know
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: that one excited him, but I think it was Julia Roberts.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Julia Roberts called me your a hero? Can you believe
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: that I am Julia Roberts hero? Oh my god? Shut up? Ah,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: all right, if you want to read more of the
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Fauci things, you can go to Paul dot Senate dot
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: gov slash reading room. We'll get the day back on
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: the good foot. We're gonna get happy again. Coming up,
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  Speaker 3: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Now, Kelly Nash.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: You know everybody's talking about AI, everybody's talking about robots,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: everybody's talking about what will the future hold? And Sean
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Hannity's going to be talking about that as well in
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: just a second with the Morning Minute, because uh, you
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: know this is Christopher. Is a crazy time in the world,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: isn't it.
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  Speaker 5: It is no doubt.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, we we're seeing AI jump forward in leaps
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: and bounds, and at the forefront of that is a
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: man who warned us against this it would be elon musk.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: But now he's making money from it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Well, you know he said it. How did he say it?
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Something about you know, you can only hope against it
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: long enough. At some point you have to have to
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: recognize that that door is going to be opened, and
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: are are we going to be a part of it
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: and try to use it for good? Are we just
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: going to allow it to go off the rail? So
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: he's trying to control AI as best he can, but
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I'm not You know that story last week it was
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: we were talking about what happened with chat GPT getting
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: out of the digital sandbox and launching attacks on competing
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: AI companies. That was bizarre. We've also had these stories
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: where the people went and unfortunately did There are things
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: with AI that are not so nice either from.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: The Midlands to the low country.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: And waiting in the wings to join us. The former
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: governor of the great state of South Carolina, and I
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: believe the last man to enter into our current Senate race,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Mark Sandford. We're going to play our interview with Mark
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Sandford coming up after the top the hour news.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: So stand by for that.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: And you know, maybe I'm gonna delve into this Teddy
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Roosevelt proposal from years ago. Maybe maybe it's time to
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: bring back some more Teddy Wow, the Teddy Roosevelt, the doctrines.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: We'll look at that and more. This is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 3: Morning News.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Live from the State Capitol.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: And good morning, about three after seven o'clock. Hope you're
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: getting a great start to your day. Yesterday got a
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: phone call from the former governor of South Carolina and new,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: brand new candidate.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: To run for the Senate seat.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: As we talked about the passing of Lindsay Graham and
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: all the ceremonies happening today, Mark Sandford. I started recording
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: right after I said something about you know, I hope
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: you're doing great or whatever, and he said, not as
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: good as you in there.
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: How about that?
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Come on, and only.
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  Speaker 3: One of us has a chance of being the next
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Senator from South Carolina.
• 26:03
  Speaker 12: Well, all in want of it has a well acclaimed
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: you know, radio show in podcast thing going.
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: So you know, we get all levels out.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: You were a little bit later than some of the
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: other candidates getting in. Was there a reason why you
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: waited just a couple of days longer?
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: Well, there's a little bit of fear interrepidation, so it
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: goes with this. But really you talk about a daunting
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: task in terms of time to begin to build a
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: team and get organized.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Had you in your mind kind of decided that you
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: were going to be done with politics until this opening
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: appeared totally, you know.
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: I should ask me two weeks ago was this even
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: a remote possibility? I would have sort of laughed, and
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: you would have laughed too. But this whole thing has
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: come up out of left field. But we are where
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: we are, and I believe so strongly and my fears
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: on the financial trajectory of our federal government that I've
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: gotten into this.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Say, yeah, we're talking with Mark Sandford. You have always
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: been a legendary fiscal hawk. There has been nobody sounding
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: the alarm louder than you when it comes to the
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: national debt. And when you go to your page, Mark
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Sandford dot com, you give the record of results, and
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: you've got an impressive history on cutting spending. At the
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: same time, when you look at your issues page, there's
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: more issues than just the national debt and the deficit
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: and all this sort of stuff, which again is crushing.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: And when you look at Mark Sandford dot com you'll
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: see how it factors into defense, healthcare, social security, immigration,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: so on and so forth. When I look at the
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Heritage Foundation and their rankings, one of the things that
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: a lot of South Carolinians had pointed out was that
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham usually came in with a moderate score. He
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: wasn't considered very conservative. I think this lifetime average was
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: like in the sixties or something. He got like a
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: seventy six for the last session. What about you as
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: a senator would be maybe the same name as Lindsay
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Graham and or different than Lindsay Graham.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I mean he certainly got, you know, big shoes
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: to fill in terms of representing the state. I mean,
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: you know, if you look back since nineteen fifty four,
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: they've been two senators, and Strong in his way and
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: Lindsay in his way. I think certainly did there, you know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: perform their role in watching out for the state, and
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: it would be no different for me. I'm not unaware
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: of the responsibility to go with representing a certain part
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: of the country. And again I think I've demonstrated that
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: in working governorship and work in Congress. But the reason
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: I'm talking about the dead is all this other sort
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: of fade away. If you don't get that part right,
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: I would see the point that the responsibility to go
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: with the office. I'm not in any way unaware of those. Yes,
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: I think I would be a good steward in the office,
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: but I would as well be an incredibly mighty advocate
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: on behalf of people pocketbooks and wallets that have been
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: forgotten about it in Washington, d C.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: All right, there's a part of the interview with Mark
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Sandford from yesterday. It went about maybe close to fifteen minutes.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: You can get all of it on my podcast, The
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: National Briefing. I put that up on my Facebook page,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Christopher and I'll tell you and typically I don't get
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: a whole lot of traction on Facebook, just honestly. I mean,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I get a couple of comments here, a couple of likes,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: couple of I think I probably get more people telling
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: me I'm a blowhard than anything on Facebook. But the
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: interview with Mark Sandford, I just looked at it right now,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: has one hundred and ninety six comments.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Wow already. Yeah, and it just went up yesterday.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. People are passionate on both sides of him. Some
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: people cannot stand this guy. They talk about him as
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: he's a trader to the state, he abandoned his post,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: he's a loser, he did this, that and the other
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: other people are like best thing that could ever happen
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: to us. Fiscal conservative is going to save the democracy,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: all this sort of the stuff.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: So, I mean, I.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Can't remember a guy who is more of a lightning
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: rod than Mark Sandford.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: And that bodes well for his candidacy because there are
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: a lot of candidates. I mean, this is a crowded field,
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: and you've already got a lot of candidates that people
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: either don't know about or they're lukewarm toward. At least
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Sandford is drawing some fire. Whether it's good or bad.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: I think I haven't heard any negatives about Ralph Norman
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: other than his age. But I think he's got a
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: very passionate base as well.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, no doubt.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Russell Fry seems to be picking up even more steam
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: as we talk. And again the alleged front runner, what
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: do we have five hours left for Trey Goudi to file?
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: If he's going to file, you got to do.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: It before that was one poll Keilly and I don't
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: think he's going to be a late entry.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll be watching. Christopher Thompson will be on it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: If it happens breaking news, Christopher Thompson will be first
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: to report it. Yeah, until noon till day is when
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: you have to file if you want to be in
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: this Senate campaign. And again we'll have a quick turnaround
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: on that as early voting starts next week in South
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Carolina to decide who the next senator is. All right,
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: more to come, you know, I am going to talk
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: about the Teddy Roosevelt propos not even a proposal, the
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: actual policy that was implemented back in the early nineteen
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: hundreds here in America, and then why we changed it
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: and all that sort of stuff. It's kind of fascinating
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: as to what it's led to. We'll get into that
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: and more as we take a roll through the morning
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: All Right, So the chant on a lot of not
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: just US campuses, but a lot of just Western cultural
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: you know, population centers, whether you're talking about London, Munich, wherever.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: The last couple of years had been globalized the Intafada,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: and a lot of people on talk radio stations like
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: this had been warning that that's a very danger Juris
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: slogan because the Entifada is actually calling for war against
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Christians and they want to globalize it. And well, yesterday
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: we kind of saw the fruition of that is starting
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: to come home to roost. As Friday you had a
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: a la a la akbar chant going on as you
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: got a guy stabbing two people, one in the back
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: with a knife, which he left in the back, and
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: then they saw a Jewish guy leaving a synagogue and
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: stabbed him with a screwdriver on the Upper West fifty
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: seventh Street or Upper West Side, I should say. Then
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: the next day in Germany you had a guy who
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: had already been arrested for hate crimes against Jews. And
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: this is bizarre that in Germany the prosecutors were upset
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: that he had only gotten a year sentence, so they
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: were appealing to the judge to increase the length of
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: his sentence. Apparently under German law, when you appeal a sentence,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: they let you go wow. And so that guy, while
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: out waiting to find out what his final sentence would be,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: rented a van, used it to run over a bunch
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: of people at a gay pride parade, then got out
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: with a machete and started hacking away. He ended up
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: being shot dead at his apartment a little bit later on.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: And then yesterday morning, in I think it was Paris,
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: you had another a la a la akbar chant going
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: as the guy went and stabbed three women, including a
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: pregnant woman, on the streets of Paris. So they are
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: globalizing the entafada. Years ago, Teddy Roosevelt had a change
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: to immigration policy in nineteen oh seven. We've already outlawed
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: polygamy in this country. What he said and what became
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: the law beginning in nineteen oh seven was if you
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: subscribed to the belief in polygamy, you cannot become a
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: US citizen. That was the and that was the way
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: it was interpreted from nineteen oh seven till nineteen fifty two.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: And in nineteen fifty two Congress changed it and said
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: you just can't say it's the belief in polygamy. That
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: was specifically targeted at Muslims because the Korean says that
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: the men can have up to four wives. That was
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: his way of saying that the Muslim faith is a
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: dangerous faith to Western culture. He talked about it in
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: his book from nineteen sixteen, Fear God and Take Your
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Own Part.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: That was so teddy.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Roosevelt back in the early nineteen hundreds was concerned that
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: radical Islam was going to take over Western culture if
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: we weren't careful. Well, nineteen fifty two we changed the
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: law to say you actually have to be practicing polygamy,
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: not just believing in it. And well, now here we
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: are in the year twenty twenty six and the entafada
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: is coming to our country.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's too late to.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Go back and change the law back to the nineteen
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: oh seven, the nineteen fifty two era. It's tough to
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: figure out ways to stop this radical Islam that is
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: now sweeping not just America, but the Western culture in general.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: Roosevelt had a lot of beliefs about immigration and about
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: how you should come into this country ready to assimilate,
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: that you don't carry your old ways into the new country.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: You come to America, you speak English. You there are
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: no such things as this hyphen American or that hyphen American.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: You come to America, you are an American, and you're
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: expected to engage in these beliefs rather than bring your
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: old country's ways with you.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: And you know to that point, my grandfather is from Italy.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: He did not like the Italian American Club. I played baseball.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: I played for the Lions Club. By the way, we
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: were very good at the Lions Club when the town
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: championship one year in East Hartford. But the one of
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: the teams that we used to play against was the IAC,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: the Italian American Club.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: He didn't like that.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: He did not like that the Italians were signaling themselves
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: out as we are a people group. He was like,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: you're Americans. And you know, his parents wouldn't let him
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: speak Italian in the house. They said you're going to
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: be an American. You're not an Italian child, You're an
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: American child, and you want to assimilate into America. I
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: love the speech that Gene Simmons was a speech. But
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Geen Simmons was talking to Dan Rather one day talking
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: about why he changed his name to Gene. He said,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: because my name is Jewish and it sounds like you're
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: coughing up, you know, fur balls trying to say my name.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: And I wanted to make my name as easy as
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: possible for Americans to say, because I could not believe
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: how gracious they were in allowing me to have all
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: the privileges of the native born Americans because we would
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: swear an allegiance to their country. They were going to
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: let me. So why wouldn't I just change my name
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: to make it easy for the Americans? So I became Gene.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: And I appreciate Gene simmons patriotism. I believe that he's
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: a great American patriot, and we are a very welcoming country.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: If you want to fit in, if you want to
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: disrupt what we have going on here, I don't have
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: any tolerance for that. Christopher. I don't think you do either. Yeah.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not saying you can't bring some of
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: your heritage with you. I mean, you know, cooking and
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: other custom but you assimilate into what Americans think and believe.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: That's that's part of the role of when you come
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: in to our country, when we welcome you in, when
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: you take the oath of citizenship, that's what you're doing.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: You are taking on the role of an American citizen.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Teddy Roosevelt had some clever ideas on how to
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: try to stop it. Unfortunately Congress so changed it in
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: nineteen fifty two. If you have thoughts on that or
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: maybe the interview would do with Mark Sanford used the
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: talk back feature and let us know on South Carolina's
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Morning News.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: And as I look around some of the local media
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: in Charleston and Columbia, one of the I'll say, above
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: the fold. That's the phrase they used to use when
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: you used to get a newspaper. You know, you have
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: the fold, and if you had your story above the fold,
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: that meant it was big, big news. We don't have
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: folds anymore, but we do have you know, headlines that
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: are kind of more prominent than others. I've noticed several
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: television stations in Charleston and Columbia. I'm reading this from WOLO,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: that's our media partner station here in Columbia. The headline
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: the number one story, Jermaine Johnson to hold special lieutenant
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: governor announcement this week.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: He's been teasing that for over a week now, So
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: all right, the announcement's finally coming.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: I yes, I can't believe that this is that big
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: of a news. He's going to have a press conference,
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: what was it Thursday at the State House eleven o'clock
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: in the morning. How many people are going to be
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: tuned in to find out who got the nod to
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: come in as the first runner ups in the governor's race.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean it is news in a sense that
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: you know, it's we're all wondering, all right, who will
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: be his partner going up against the Republican duo. So
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: it is new in a sense, do you think?
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: And this is just Christopher Thompson, well educated, well informed
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: person on the political scene, speculating And I don't even
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: know if I can get them to speculate. I'll try, Okay,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: do you think that there are people in the Democrat
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Party who were offered this position and said, nah, I'm good.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: Maybe yeah, I mean, it wouldn't surprise me. It doesn't
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: do much for your political future if you're on that
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: losing ticket. But I don't know. And you know, a
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: lot of speculation has revolved of around former Republican state
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: Senator Katrina Sheeley. I don't know if she's seriously being
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: considered or not, but there's certainly been a fair share
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: of speculation on social media about it.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: I boy, would that help the Democrats if Katrina Sheeley
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: popped up on their ticket?
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: I think it probably hurts her more than it helps him.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's you know, for all the talk about
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: her thoughts about abortion, and you know she was she
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: was not necessarily pro choice, but she was very much
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: in favor of a woman being in charge of the
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: choices that women make about their bodies. I just think
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: this would take her in the opposite direction because she
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: had some conservative bent to her otherwise. And you know,
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: if she gets on the Democrat ticket, it just you know,
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: you can talk about a balance ticket, okay, but I
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: think people would just immediately say Okay, that's that's her
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: true calling. She was a Democrat all along.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm just looking at Henry McMaster and his
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: runs for either a lieutenant governor or governor, and I
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: guess basically the governor's position would be the one that's
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: most applicable. Though he did beat Bacari Sellers, and that's
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: back when we used to elect lieutenant governors independently. Yeah,
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: so McMaster vers Bacari Sellers, that was a he fifty
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: eight to forty two type of thing. McMaster versus James E. Smith,
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: that was his closest one as far as at the
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: governor's level. Smith got forty six percent. McMaster fifty three,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: so again handily won won by over almost two hundred
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: thousand votes. McMaster versus Joe Cunningham, who I thought was
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: going to do better because Joe Cunningham a pretty attractive
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: candidate as far as how he speaks and presents himselves,
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: and blah blah blah got his tush handed to him
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: fifty eight to forty one. There was one percent for
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: some guy named Bruce Reeves in that election. That's why
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: it wasn't fifty eight forty two. But yeah, I again
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: I think in this state. I've seen a lot of
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: polling coming out for what's her face, Ay Andrews, and
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: she's pulling it, and they have her beating everybody on
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: the Republican side, and she's maxed out at about forty
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: five percent.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: And that's what I'm saying to everybody.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: I believe the polls in the sense that that's as
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: much as a Democrat is going to get in this
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: state is about forty five, maybe forty six percent. You're
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: never going to get over fifty. In other words, to
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: quote what's his name or what even you can quote
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: what's her name, Rocky's wife? Why am I drawing a
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: blake on Adrian?
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, your Adrian.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: You can't win rock you can't win Democrats. So it'll
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: be interesting to see who signs up to be the
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: first loser in the governor's race along with what's his face?
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Here from Richland County Sirmaine Johnson. Jermaine Johnson, thank you
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: for correcting me. That'll be happening Thursday at eleven. I'm
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: sure we'll give you an update here on South Carolina's
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: morning News.
• 42:30
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• 42:45
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• 42:47
  Speaker 3: And I am so thankful to Christopher Thompson is here
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: because he is the calm, cool, collected and someone with
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: the insights as to what's actually happening. I tend to
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: fly off the handle. So I'm going to fly off
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: the handle. And you tell me, Christopher, if I'm completely
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: out of line or where I'm.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: Out of line, all right, I might agree with you.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: My understanding is that the that the president came to
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: a settlement with the IRS after the IRS did not
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: protect his returns and leaked them to the press, and
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: that settlement was a one point eight billion dollar anti
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: weaponization fund that the president was going to use to
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: basically make whole people who had been in his opinion
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: and a panel that he was going to put together
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: their opinion that people had been injured by law fair
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: under the Biden administration and the Obama administration basically, and
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: that this one point eight billion had to be spent
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: during his presidency. If it was not spent, whatever was
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: left over at the end of his presidency would then
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: be returned to the Treasury. But that is a settlement
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: between the President and the IRS.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: Is that your understanding of it?
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: That is my understanding.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, And there was a huge pushback on the idea
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: about this anti weaponization fund, and so then.
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: That was I think the pushback specifically was about it
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: being used to defend those who had been a part
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: of the January uprising.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but again it's the that is where the
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: pushback came. Yes, but it is the agreement between the
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: IRS and the president. So when they blocked the one
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: point eight billion dollar anti weaponization fund, alls the president
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: has now received is a written apology from the IRS
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: for leaking his information. And I see today that. Yes,
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: last night, John Cornyn told reporters that unless Todd Blanche
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: signs a document saying that they will never bring up
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: this anti weaponization fund again, he will block Blanche's nomination
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: and it won't get out of committee. And so he
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: want and he's not specific although he's alluding to he
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: might want the president's signature on that as well, but
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: I think he might think that if Blanche signs it,
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: that'll be enough. What do you what do you suggest
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: happens for the president who again, by all accounts. The
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: IRS acknowledges they were wrong, The Justices admit that they
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: were wrong. The President says I was injured by this.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Everybody agrees. What does he get? Then?
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: Does he?
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Could he take the one point eight billion dollars and
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: then just hand it out to whomever he feels like
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: giving it to.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think the settlement was originally written
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: that way, but I'm not sure how Cornyn can challenge
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: it anyway.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: Well, that's all he's just saying. I'm just telling you,
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to sign it. Hey, he's not going
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: to get out of committee. We're going to kill Todd
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Blanche's career. Donald Trump, You're screwed. I don't care. I'm
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: not running for office. I already lost. So I'm just
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: going to be this guy who doesn't allow you any
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: of the settlement.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: And in the meantime, the Blanche appointment gets hung up,
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: and nomination gets hung up and everything else, and the
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: Senate gets hung up.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: God, this guy's infuriating. There are so many guys like
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: this in the Senate.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: It's like, you know, I was talking about this yesterday. Typically,
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: we look at the tradition of voting in America, and
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: we see that if a party has the presidency, the House,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: and the Senate the last one hundred years, it's almost
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: one hundred percent of the time that in the midterms,
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: whoever has all of that loses the House in the Senate,
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: that's almost one hundred percent of the time because whether
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: it's consciously or unconsciously, Americans vote in a way to
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: kind of give stalemate to the way government operates. In
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: this instance, we might win, the Republicans might win because
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: we're stale mating ourselves. We are the Democrats. At this point,
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: it's unbelievable how we have zero ability to even pass
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: the Save of America Act where eight out of ten
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: people want it. John Cornyn is frustrating. That's the word
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: of the day. Frustrating. But again, for those of you
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: who don't want him to have the one point eight
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: billion dollars, I would I mean to give out to
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: basically people he found to be offended by the or
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: not offended injured by the lawfair, what is your remedy?
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Then that's all he wanted was a personal apology and
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: to help other people. Now does he just take the
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: one point if he was a greedy person, like they say,
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: he take that one point eight billion dollars, put it
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: in his pocket and go on vacation or something.
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: But yeah, but the bunny didn't specifically go to him
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: or his sons, who also had their their tax information
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: put out there. It went to this fund which was
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: going to be doled out by a five member commission
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: appointed by Todd blanche Yes, and now we can't even
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: get that far.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: So right now, Donald Trump got nothing right even though
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: he according to the IRS, we screwed Trump and they're
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: not gonna okay, maybe you guys have thoughts on that.
• 47:47
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• 47:50
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• 47:52
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• 47:55
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• 48:01
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• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Now Kelly Nash.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: And yesterday we were responding to the President's Friday night
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: address at the White House Correspondence Association dinner, and Christopher
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: and I both kind of not very impressed with the
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: comedic timing, although I did appreciate the Barry Weiss joke.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: I thought that was funny.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: I thought the Robert Kennedy joke was pretty funny. The
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: one where it got everybody talking is the Caitlyn Collins joke.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: And Caitlyn Collins last night went on to the Daily
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Show with John Stewart to talk about it and said,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: when he's insulting me, he's criticizing me. I think these
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: in those moments, it's important to remember what put me
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: back into this work and the non answers that we
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: get and the answers that we get. But I want
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: to just focus on he's insulting me? Is he insulting
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: her by comparing Katelyn kom Ones to Dylan mulvany. That
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: was the joke that they're the same there, they look
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: the same. How could that possibly be an insult when
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: alls I've been told is Dylan Malvany is a beautiful woman.
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: That was your that was your spin on things, Caitlyn Collins.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: Caitlyn Collins says she was insulted that she was compared
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: to Dylan Malvany. Why if you are if you believe
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: that Dylan Malvany is a beautiful woman, and I believe
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Trump even prefaced it by saying Caitlyn, you should smile more.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: You're a beautiful woman, and then compared you to Dylan mulvaney,
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: who the rest of us in Reelsville recognizes as this
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: man pretending to be a woman dressed as a woman.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you acknowledge her as a woman. So what
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: where is the insult.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: I'm waiting for the trans community to come out against
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: Caitlyn Collins today and say you shouldn't have been insulted.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: You should be glorified to be compared to such a
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: gorgeous woman as Dylan malvany.
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: Christopher, your making a face. Yeah that's not translating to radio,
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: but yeah, I don't And if I'm Caitlin Collins, that's
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: not the direction I would have chosen to go in anyway.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: There's plenty of other options that she could have out there,
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: but you know, you got to try to make some
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: buzz while you can. So there's that's her hot take.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: What are your hot takes? Let us know on the
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: talkback feature off the iHeartRadio app at South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 50:24
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• 50:29
  Speaker 2: four to three WSC now here's Kelly Nash.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has a leaking problem. Somebody in his administration
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: is leaking stuff about Iran, and he needs to clamp
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: down on this. I mean, it's getting ridiculous as to
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: the kind of information that is. Either it's either accurate
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: information or it's just designed to weaken military presence in
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: the region we're talking about, you know, certain generals are
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: saying that we're running low on ammunition, those types of things.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: We've also got private quote private Iran leaks coming out
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: of the Oval Office. According to the Wall Street Journal,
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: they're talking about some of the things that he's saying
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: behind closed doors. I don't know how hard is it
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: for the Trump administration to figure out who's leaking these things.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: There's only so many people that can be in these rooms.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: I would think they've got to figure this thing out
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: because it's getting dangerous for the United States military. It's
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: getting dangerous for US as a global leader. It's getting dangerous.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: And Christopher, when we come back, I think we're going
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: to talk about an even more shocking leak. I mean, yes,
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: the Iranian leaks are crazy as far as what's going
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: on with our military, But the other things that they're
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: leaking about him personally.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: To me, it's unbelievable.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable insights into the president have now been leaked into
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: the public arena, so much so that they're using them
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: as videos to threaten members of his family.
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: You've also got Fox News Radios Jared Halpern, who was
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: on that trip to Michigan with the President. He's coming
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: up at eight oh three with.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: You Yeah so and again big rally yesterday in Michigan.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: We'll see what Jared Halpern's interpretation of that was.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: How did he do?
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: From what I could see, it looked pretty good. It's
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: weird because he's at a rally just before the Democrats
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: have their primary. I mean, Mike Rogers is already the
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: nominee for the Republicans, but we're trying to get more
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: support from Mike.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: Let's go, Mike.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: We gotta wain.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: We got to beat whoever it is that's coming out
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: of the Democrats, whether it's the socialist or the lady
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: with the fake accent. If you haven't heard that video,
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: we'll play a little bit of her as well. That's comical.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: She's like an SNL bit unto herself on South Carolina's
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: Morning News.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Live from the state Capitol.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: All right, and good morning. It's a free after eight o'clock.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: Good morning, This is Kelly Nash. I got Jared Halpern
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: on the phone. Good morning, sir.
• 52:57
  Speaker 13: Good morning to you.
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: This is our first conversation.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: So it's an honor to have you on South Carolina's
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: Morning News.
• 53:03
  Speaker 13: Thank you for having me.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: Yesterday you were in Michigan with the President of the
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: United States. How did that trip go?
• 53:11
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, listen, He's going to do more of
• 53:14
  Speaker 13: these trips, I think is he gets closer and closer
• 53:17
  Speaker 13: to midterm elections. Obviously, going to a place like Michigan,
• 53:21
  Speaker 13: he is able to talk about tariffs kind of with
• 53:25
  Speaker 13: the community where they are pretty popular, these auto workers,
• 53:29
  Speaker 13: these automakers who have benefitted from kind of forcing foreign
• 53:35
  Speaker 13: car makers to produce more of those vehicles here in
• 53:39
  Speaker 13: the US. And so he went to the General Motors
• 53:42
  Speaker 13: Proving Grounds, which is in Milford outside of Detroit, a
• 53:47
  Speaker 13: really cool facility where they test all of the cars.
• 53:50
  Speaker 13: They have all of these different types of terrain and tracks.
• 53:54
  Speaker 13: And the President along with the press, took in four
• 53:58
  Speaker 13: drag races, corvettes going again and stuff against each other,
• 54:01
  Speaker 13: an electric hummer going against an escalate. I was impressed
• 54:05
  Speaker 13: by how quickly both of those get up to top. Sure,
• 54:09
  Speaker 13: so that was fun. And then the President again giving
• 54:13
  Speaker 13: what was supposed to be kind of economic driven remarks.
• 54:17
  Speaker 13: Obviously with the President not always off prompter, and so
• 54:22
  Speaker 13: it was kind of wide ranging, much more of a
• 54:25
  Speaker 13: campaign style speech, where again he talked about the economic
• 54:29
  Speaker 13: benefits as he sees the tariffs in his economic policy,
• 54:33
  Speaker 13: talked about kind of the contrasting of Republicans against Democrats.
• 54:38
  Speaker 13: But you know, this is a place where if the
• 54:41
  Speaker 13: message is going to resonate, it would have to resonate
• 54:44
  Speaker 13: in a place like Michigan. You have an open Senate race,
• 54:47
  Speaker 13: you have a number of close house races. It is
• 54:50
  Speaker 13: a state really that is critical to which party is
• 54:54
  Speaker 13: going to control Congress for the final two years of
• 54:57
  Speaker 13: President Trump's term. And so I would anticipate the President
• 55:01
  Speaker 13: probably will not be a stranger in the great state
• 55:05
  Speaker 13: of Michigan between now in.
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: November, we're talking with Fox News.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Is Jared Halpern, who was with the President in Michigan yesterday,
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: the polls that I've seen, maybe you've seem different. It
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: appears that if Mike, well, Mike Rodgers is the GOP nominee.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: But it appears that if the traditional Democrat and I'm
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: drawing a blank on her name, right, Hiley Steen, Haley Stevens,
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: the one with the fake voice. I don't know if
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: you've seen that video of her speaking normally and then
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: now she's talking like she's all Michiganda, but that's not
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: really who she really is. But her she would actually
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: probably beat Mike Rogers according to the polls, where the
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: Democrat socialist Abdul l said would actually lose to him.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: So we're in a kind of a weird thing where
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: where we don't want the Democrat socialists to win, but
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: that would actually be the best chance for the Republican to.
• 55:53
  Speaker 13: Win, you know. I think regardless, it's going to be
• 55:57
  Speaker 13: a close race. Mike Rodgers lost the Senate race two
• 55:59
  Speaker 13: years ago in a very close election against a more
• 56:03
  Speaker 13: sort of mainstream establishment type of Republican, and so I
• 56:07
  Speaker 13: think the conventional wisdom is that Hailey Stevens would fare better.
• 56:12
  Speaker 13: I think a lot of the Democratic leaders in the
• 56:14
  Speaker 13: state believe that as well. Governor. The governor, Gretchen Whitmer,
• 56:18
  Speaker 13: who is very popular in the state, endorsed Hailey Stevens
• 56:23
  Speaker 13: in the primary, which was a bit of a surprise
• 56:25
  Speaker 13: Oftentimes governors will kind of stay out of primary races.
• 56:29
  Speaker 13: Kind of see how that plays out, but clear that
• 56:32
  Speaker 13: she believes that Hailey Stevens has a better chance against
• 56:35
  Speaker 13: Mike Rogers. But you're right, it is going to be
• 56:38
  Speaker 13: a close race, I think, regardless, there is a lot
• 56:40
  Speaker 13: of name recognition for somebody like Mike Rogers served in
• 56:43
  Speaker 13: the US House for a number of years before running
• 56:47
  Speaker 13: for Senate two years ago, losing in a pretty tight
• 56:50
  Speaker 13: race running again now and we'll see how that plays out.
• 56:53
  Speaker 13: I think that was another reason you saw President Trump
• 56:55
  Speaker 13: make that trip up to Michigan. Michigan has a very
• 56:58
  Speaker 13: late primary. That primary is in August. Early voting is
• 57:04
  Speaker 13: now under way, and so it is one of the
• 57:07
  Speaker 13: last kind of contests we'll see if the ascendancy of
• 57:13
  Speaker 13: the Democratic Socialists, the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party,
• 57:17
  Speaker 13: can knock off, to your point, a more establishment kind
• 57:20
  Speaker 13: of mainstream Democrats. This will kind of be the final
• 57:22
  Speaker 13: test now of the strength of the DSA.
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they if they win there with Abdula Lsae,
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: there's no stop in the Bernie Bros.
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: They are going to roll.
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: I think that's right.
• 57:33
  Speaker 9: I mean and listen.
• 57:34
  Speaker 13: I think a lot of it is kind of built
• 57:36
  Speaker 13: upon the same thing that propelled Donald Trump, you know,
• 57:40
  Speaker 13: ten years ago, against a slew of more conventional mainstream Republicans.
• 57:45
  Speaker 13: I was covering politics then. I remember the handringing about
• 57:48
  Speaker 13: what's it going to mean if Donald Trump wins? Are
• 57:51
  Speaker 13: we going to be able to win any races as Republicans?
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 57:53
  Speaker 13: And obviously we know how that turned out, But it
• 57:56
  Speaker 13: is certainly a kind of popular extent, a kind of
• 57:59
  Speaker 13: the system isn't working, a frustration that kind of manifests
• 58:05
  Speaker 13: itself into oftentimes unconventional candidates, and you're seeing that play
• 58:09
  Speaker 13: out now on the Democratic side in the same way
• 58:12
  Speaker 13: that it has played out over the last decade or
• 58:14
  Speaker 13: so in some conservative circles.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: Jared Halpern, we certainly appreciate making some time for us
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: here on South Carolina's Morning News and wish you an
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: awesome day over at Fox.
• 58:23
  Speaker 13: Thank you very much, have a great day.
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: You as well.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: Hope to have him back on soon in the meantime, Yes,
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: it is the outsiders that usually have a better shot
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: at winning. And to his point, Donald Trump did run
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: as an outsider, and we have seen Barack Obama run
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: as an outsider. We saw Bill Clinton call himself an outsider.
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: You want to be on the outside and come in
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: and change things. The difference being with the Democrat Socialists,
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: as we've already heard from the co chair of the party,
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: they don't want to just change things. They want to
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: end things. They want to end things like the Senate,
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and borders. So it's a
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: little bit different this time around. Anyway, we'll be back
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: with more. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: Just before the top of the hour, I was talking
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: about how Donald Trump has a leak problem, and we
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: were talking about the you know, the private conversations he's
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: allegedly having with generals being put in the media and stuff.
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: But it's far worse than that. The TASNIM News Agency,
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: which is apparently the basically this is the you know,
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: it's like the Democrat Party using our media. The TASNEM
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: News Agency is affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: has published an AI generated video Monday which talks specifically
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: about quote now I can't translate it. The Daily Mail
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: is the one who published this. Milania's obsession with fashion
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: has become her biggest weakness. According to the narrator of
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: the video, she has a special interest in luxury department
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: stores on Fifth Avenue, and they start naming some of
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: the addresses of Bergdoff, Bergdorf, Goodman and others. These places
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: could be suitable for operations by our global freedom fighters.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: It then goes on to note that Milania has changed
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: her code name with the Secret Service. She's now using
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: Muse instead of the traditional code name Mockingbird. Also, the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: hospitals in the areas are always contacted before she arrives,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: so that the Secret Service can make sure that if
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: there's an incident, they will have her blood types and
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: other things. Standing by. Knowing that we have freedom fighters
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: working in all of these hospitals would be a great
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: way of eliminating the first Lady. The AI generated video
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: goes on to not only list places that she likes
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: to shop, it also talks about in order to contaminate
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: her clothes. One of our agents can use the nerve
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: agent VX. Now I don't know what that means, what
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: VX is, but according to them in the video, this
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: will kill her within two to eighteen hours. It then
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: goes on to name three of Milania's personal stylists by
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: name and says offering them large sums of money could
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: tempt these individuals.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: This is just the beginning.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: The video concludes, adding Baron Trump, just wait for us
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: your next and the video ends with both of them dead.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: It's frightening, Kelly, what politicians and our elected officials are
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: facing these days in terms of world threats, and we
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: always see it ramp up during a conflict like this.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: I mean the George W. Bush and his family faced
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: the same thing after nine to eleven, I mean where
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: they were constantly up and down the steps to the
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: bomb shelter because they didn't know what was coming next.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 5: But yeah, to go this deep into millennia of Trump
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 5: and her personal uses of stylists and you know, I mean,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: she's always going to have security around her, but is
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: it ever enough? Well in the fact, and sorry, this
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 5: comes on the heels of you know, JD. Vance, the
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: Vice president. There was apparently a leak in his Secret
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: Service detail about his travel plans, his travel schedule. That
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: investigation's underway right now. There are already too many leaks
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: happening at the top in a time when we can't
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: afford it.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: And the story in the Daily Mail mentions that they
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: currently have several billboards throughout Tehran talking about death not
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: to Donald Trump, but the entire first family. So these
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: people are savages. They want to murder women and children,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: and they would love to start with Milania and Baron Trump.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: That's where they go now. The indication is being given
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: by some in Tehran that this is the reason that
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has backed off the last few nights that
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: they have won. This is the point where Donald Trump
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: needs to open hell on Tehran.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's been president now for what six years overall,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: this is not the first time he or his family
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: have been threatened. I doubt he's made a military decision
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: based on a threat from a country exactly.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: I don't think that he would be cowering to this.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: But the fact that they're using this to say that
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: the reason he's backed off the last few nights is
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: because we're now naming his wife and his child, And
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: we now know the code name that she uses with
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: the Secret Service. We know the names of her stylists,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: and we know her shopping habits, and we know the stores,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: and we know that we can get to her. We're
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: using these types of agents on these types of clothes,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: and we know people who work in the hospitals, specifically
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: these hospitals. This is scary stuff. But if I was
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, I would unleash hell all over them. I
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: would show no mercy on Iran today. But again, that's
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: how I would handle it. How would you handle it
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: if somebody started threatening your family?
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: That way?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: Interesting to contemplate. Thankfully, neither one of us, Christopher or
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: myself or probably you, will ever be in that position.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: But just stuff to think about. As we continue on
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: Well, well, well, we started listening to it yesterday. Seventy
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: hours of audio recordings made by the then former Vice
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: president in twenty seventeen, Joe Biden were made public yesterday.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: And I'm not going to play him because it's almost incoherent.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: I will play you with snippet this is CBS news.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: How do you say her name?
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: The lady who is the White House Correspondent Association president
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: until the other night Weaija Jang, I think is how
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: you say her name?
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: Anyway?
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: She is the CBS White House correspondent. This was her
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: report last night, well Matt.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 14: The newly released audio shows that in twenty seventeen, when
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 14: former President Biden was writing a memoir, he told his
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 14: ghostwriter on several occasions that he had classified documents in
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 14: his possession. Biden can be heard saying, I just found
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 14: all the classified stuff downstairs, in reference to volumes of
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 14: notes Biden kept in his home. He also said some
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 14: of this may be classified, so be careful. Biden, who
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 14: fought for years to keep these recordings private, would later
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 14: publicly criticize President Trump for his handling of classified documents.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: We have the pot being called black right there. But
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: more importantly, I think that what is of greater interest
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: is not just the fact that Joe Biden had the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: classified documents that he literally just found downstairs, and that
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: he was willing to share them with a ghostwriter who
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: clearly does not have classified and Joe Biden couldn't declassify
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: this unlike what the president can do. As the vice president,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: he didn't have that power. More importantly was the fact
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: that going back to twenty seventeen, Biden is showing very
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: very clear signs of cognitive decline. There is a there's
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: a moment on that tape where he doesn't say anything
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: for about two minutes. He just sits there for about
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: two minutes, and then the guy who's the ghostwriter says
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: something to him, and he's like, are we Oh, okay,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: I'm back. And then there's another point where he's trying
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: to discuss something and then he gets himself off track
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: and he says, this is confusing me. And then an
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: assistant has to come in and I remember, sure, you
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: were talking about this, that and the other thing. So
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: going back to twenty seventeen, almost well, it is nine
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: years ago now, Joe Biden was in a state of
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: cognitive decline and that would have been obvious to anybody
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: who worked with him. So that the lie the Weekend
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: at Bernie's with Biden began literally nine years ago.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 5: Kelly, it's sad to listen to, but and remember, this
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 5: is a ghostwriter, this is this is someone who's aiding
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 5: Joe Biden in writing a book. This is not a
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 5: deposition where you're you know, you're almost coached sometimes to
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 5: say I can't recall or I don't remember this is
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 5: this is different.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is him trying to sell some books. Yeah,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden like, hey, you know, I got some classified information. Pal,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: let's get that out there into the book. Maybe we
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: can make some money off of it. I don't believe
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: that any classified information ended up in the book, if
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: I understand the reporting on that correctly. Robert her though,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: hur not h R. He's the guy who is the
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: special counsel who in twenty twenty four said that, look,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: I can't prosecute this guy. There's no jury in the
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: world that would want to send a guy like this
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: to prison. He doesn't know what he's talking about, basically,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: and he was raked across the carp Are you kidding me?
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: This is the sharpest tack out there. There's nobody smarter
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: than Joe Biden. Go back to twenty seventeen and listen
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: to him for seventy hours struggle to get through these
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: interviews for somebody else to write his book. Now again,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: it's a ghostwriter to your point, which means that Joe
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: Biden claims he wrote it himself, but the ghostwriter wrote
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: it after suffering through this interview with Joe Biden again
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: the seventy hours. I'm not going to listen to all
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: seventy hours, but the stuff I've heard is painful. That's
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: why I played her version of it. But it's nice
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: to see CBS at least reporting on the fact that
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden was dolling out classified documents to whomever could
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: possibly pay him a nickel. Coming up next, the current
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: Attorney General for the state of South Carolina, Alan Wilson,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: will join South Carolina's morning.
• 1:08:11
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina's Morning News on one O three point five FM,
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  Speaker 2: Now Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: There is going to be a ton of coverage on
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  Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham today at the Capitol, then tomorrow down here
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  Speaker 3: at the State House, and then ultimately in Pickens County
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  Speaker 3: late tomorrow afternoon. In the interim, South Carolina is scrambling
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  Speaker 3: to replace Senator Lindsay Graham, who's going to get it well.
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  Speaker 3: Today at noon is the last opportunity you have to
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  Speaker 3: file if you want to run to be the next
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  Speaker 3: Senator for South Carolina as a Republican and over. Starting
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  Speaker 3: this weekend, we're going to be doing these things called
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  Speaker 3: the Senate stumps. Alan Wilson, the current GOP nominee for
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  Speaker 3: governor and the sitting Attorney General for the state of
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, is going to be the moderator for that.
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  Speaker 3: I got Alan on the phone yesterday, why are you
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  Speaker 3: Why are you hosting these things?
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  Speaker 6: I am trying to do everything that I can to
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  Speaker 6: provide venues and forums for the voters to be able
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  Speaker 6: to learn about all of these new candidates for the
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  Speaker 6: US Senate so they can make an informed decision on
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  Speaker 6: one of those two election days because I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: need a strong partner to run with in November.
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  Speaker 3: This is South Carolina's Morning News. So we are in
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  Speaker 3: Columbia and we are in Charleston. We got two area
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  Speaker 3: locations for the listeners, and we got one this Saturday
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  Speaker 3: for people in the Columbia area.
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  Speaker 6: That's right Saturday, August the first. That's this coming Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: We'll be in Lexington County at Riverbluff High School at
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  Speaker 6: eleven thirty am. We have a handful of these candidates
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  Speaker 6: already confirmed. We're still waiting on confirmations from some of
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  Speaker 6: the others. But I will be hosting a form where
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  Speaker 6: you will be able to get to hear from some
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  Speaker 6: of these candidates and what their plans are if they're
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  Speaker 6: elected to the US Senate. And the second will be
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  Speaker 6: August six. It'll be down in Charleston at the Rifle
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  Speaker 6: Club and that is from six to seven thirty at
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  Speaker 6: the Rifle Club in Charleston on August six.
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  Speaker 3: And I see on the Facebook page from the South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina GOP that they're asking people RSVP by emailing team
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  Speaker 3: at SCGP dot com. So again, RSVP by emailing team
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  Speaker 3: at SCGP dot com. I don't know how this even
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  Speaker 3: started with you, but years ago you started this thing
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  Speaker 3: where you were basically having one on one conversations with
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  Speaker 3: presidential candidates when they were running in the primaries in
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, and you did a fantastic job with that.
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  Speaker 3: This is going to be a little bit different though,
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  Speaker 3: because it's not one on one. It's like controlled chaos.
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  Speaker 6: These will not be debates. I'm not going to have
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  Speaker 6: everyone up there on stage, so there will be sanctioned
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  Speaker 6: debates for the US Senate. These are going to be
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  Speaker 6: basically opportunities for me to ask questions on behalf of
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  Speaker 6: the crowd. And obviously we will take questions from the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: Is this like a Phil Donahue thing where you're going
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  Speaker 3: to be reaching out with the microphone or.
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  Speaker 6: We will probably take questions that I will ask. I
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  Speaker 6: will be the one facilitating the questions. We won't be
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  Speaker 6: having to Phil Donahue or the Herado Rivera where you
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  Speaker 6: get into a shouting match or someone gets up there
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  Speaker 6: and filibuster is a question, because we want to move
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  Speaker 6: when we have each of these candidates for such a
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  Speaker 6: short period of time, and you know in the past
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  Speaker 6: there are people that get up there and they talk
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  Speaker 6: for five minutes and somewhere buried in there is a question.
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  Speaker 6: We need to be able to give people the questions
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  Speaker 6: quickly and give as much time as possible to the candidates.
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  Speaker 6: And so my intent will be to have a conversation
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  Speaker 6: that will allow you to hear from the candidate for
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  Speaker 6: the Senate more than the person asking the question.
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  Speaker 3: The first one again, is this Saturday, Like you said
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  Speaker 3: to Helen, this thing is moving very quickly so Saturday
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  Speaker 3: morning at eleven thirty, you're going to get a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of candidates at the River Bluff High School. And again
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  Speaker 3: you should respond by sending an RSVP to team at
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  Speaker 3: scgop dot com. And then you're going to have another
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  Speaker 3: one in Charleston.
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  Speaker 4: When is that again?
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  Speaker 6: That is August six, from six to seven point thirty
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  Speaker 6: at the Rifle Club.
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  Speaker 3: And again you would email team at SCGOP if you'd
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  Speaker 3: like to go to the one in Charleston as well.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna see I we can squeeze in
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  Speaker 3: a little snippet of our interview with former Governor Sandford
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  Speaker 3: coming up. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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  Speaker 2: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: Now Kelly Nash currently just on what three point five
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  Speaker 3: the AM transmitter here, but thank you to the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 3: four three WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 4: In the meantime.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, the former governor of South Carolina Mark Sandford called
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  Speaker 3: in talking about his new campaign to run for the Senate.
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  Speaker 3: I started the recording right after he. You know, I said,
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  Speaker 3: I hope you're doing great, and he said, well, not
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  Speaker 3: as good as you.
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  Speaker 9: I'm hanging in there.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, man, only one.
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  Speaker 3: Of us has a chance of being the next Senator
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  Speaker 3: from South Carolina.
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  Speaker 12: Well, all in want of us has a well acclaimed
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  Speaker 12: you know, radio show in podcast thing going, so you know,
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  Speaker 12: we get all levels out.
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  Speaker 3: You were a little bit later than some of the
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  Speaker 3: other candidates getting in. Was there a reason why you
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  Speaker 3: waited just a couple of days longer.
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  Speaker 9: Well, there's a little bit of fear interrepidation, so it
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  Speaker 9: goes with this.
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  Speaker 4: But really you.
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  Speaker 9: Talk about a daunting task in terms of time to
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  Speaker 9: begin to build a team and get organized.
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  Speaker 3: Had you in your mind kind of decided that you
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  Speaker 3: were going to be done with politics until this opening
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  Speaker 3: appeared totally, you.
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  Speaker 9: Know, I should ask me two weeks ago was this
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  Speaker 9: even a remote possibility. I would have sort of laughed,
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  Speaker 9: and you would have laughed too. But this whole thing
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  Speaker 9: has come up out of left field. But we are
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  Speaker 9: where we are, and I believe so strongly, and my
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  Speaker 9: fears on the financial trajectory of our federal government that
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  Speaker 9: I've gotten.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking with Mark Sandford. You have always been
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  Speaker 3: a legendary fiscal hawk. There has been nobody sounding the
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  Speaker 3: alarm louder than you when it comes to the national debt.
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  Speaker 3: And when you go to your page Mark Sandford dot com,
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  Speaker 3: you give the record of results, and you've got an
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  Speaker 3: impressive history on cutting spending. At the same time, when
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  Speaker 3: you look at your issues page, there's more issues than
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  Speaker 3: just the national debt and the deficit and all this
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  Speaker 3: sort of stuff, which again is crushing. And when you
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  Speaker 3: look at Mark Sandford dot com you'll see how it
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  Speaker 3: factors into defense, healthcare, social security, immigration, so on, and
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  Speaker 3: so forth. When I look at the Heritage Foundation and
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  Speaker 3: their rankings, one of the things that a lot of
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  Speaker 3: South Carolinians had pointed out was that Lindsey Graham usually
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  Speaker 3: came in with a moderate score. He wasn't considered very conservative.
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  Speaker 3: I think this lifetime average was like in the sixties
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  Speaker 3: or something. He got like a seventy six for the
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  Speaker 3: last session. What about you as a senator would be
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  Speaker 3: maybe the same as Lindsay Graham and or different than
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  Speaker 3: Lindsay Graham well.
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  Speaker 9: I mean he certainly got, you know, big shoes to
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  Speaker 9: fill in terms of representing the state. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 9: if you look back since nineteen fifty four, they've been
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  Speaker 9: two senators, and Strong in his way and Lindsay and
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  Speaker 9: his way. I think certainly did there, you know, perform
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  Speaker 9: their role in watching out for the state, and it
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  Speaker 9: would be no different for me. I'm not unaware of
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  Speaker 9: the responsibility to go with representing a certain part of
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  Speaker 9: the country. And again, I think I've demonstrated that in
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  Speaker 9: working governorship and work in Congress. But the reason I'm
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  Speaker 9: talking about the dead is all this other sort of
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  Speaker 9: fades away if you don't get that part right. I
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  Speaker 9: would feed the point that the responsibility to go with
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  Speaker 9: the office. I'm not in any way unaware of those. Yes,
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  Speaker 9: I think I would be a good steward in the office,
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  Speaker 9: but I would as well be an incredibly mighty advocate
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  Speaker 9: on behalf of people's pocketbooks and wallets that have been
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  Speaker 9: forgotten about it in Washington, DC.
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  Speaker 3: And we had about fifteen minutes with the former governor
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  Speaker 3: Mark Sandford. If you'd like to hear all of it,
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  Speaker 3: you can look for it. I've posted it on my
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  Speaker 3: social media pages at Kelley Nash Radio and Christopher Thompson
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  Speaker 3: and I were talking about that earlier. I've not received
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  Speaker 3: as much feedback on a conversation as that one because
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  Speaker 3: Mark Sandford is basically a very divisive person in this state.
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  Speaker 5: Apparently, christ well, a lot of people remember the way
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  Speaker 5: you know, he operated. I mean, people remember the trip
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  Speaker 5: to Argentina and the Appalachian Trail. But I think I
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  Speaker 5: think he's put a lot of history in between himself
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  Speaker 5: and that, including you know, a separate trip to Congress
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  Speaker 5: and ran for several seats since then. My only question
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  Speaker 5: about Mark Sandford at this point is, you know, are
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  Speaker 5: you in it to win it? Because you know, he
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  Speaker 5: was again running for Congress down in the low Country
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  Speaker 5: and then suddenly stepped out of the race and really
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  Speaker 5: didn't give much of a reason why other than he
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  Speaker 5: said he was through with politics. So I know you
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  Speaker 5: asked him about that. It's just it it makes you wonder.
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  Speaker 5: You don't want somebody you're going to elect who then decides,
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  Speaker 5: you know, a couple of years in well, this isn't
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  Speaker 5: really for me anymore.
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  Speaker 3: I hadn't considered him, you know, kind of mid term,
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  Speaker 3: you know, resigning. But I also recognize there are the
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  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman crew believe, and I say crew, I shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: say anybody in an official capacity. What I'm seeing from
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  Speaker 3: the Ralph Norman followers is that they believe he's just
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  Speaker 3: trying to spend up whatever money he has left in
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  Speaker 3: his campaign fund to employ some of his former you know,
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  Speaker 3: the people who are good to Mark Sanford in his career.
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  Speaker 3: He's got this money that's been left over in a
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  Speaker 3: campaign account. That's all this is about. They want him
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  Speaker 3: to get out and endorse Ralph Norman. That's where That's
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  Speaker 3: where they are.
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  Speaker 5: So there are questions about his amitment, just in different ways.
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  Speaker 3: In different ways exactly, I believe after speaking with him,
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  Speaker 3: and again, like I said, I went about fifteen mens
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  Speaker 3: with him, I think he's completely earnest in this since
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  Speaker 3: it's an opportunity that no one expected to be presented.
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  Speaker 5: He has been energized, Kelly since he decided to enter
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  Speaker 5: this race, even before he filed yesterday. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 5: been all over the campaign trail these last few days,
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  Speaker 5: so I'll give him credit for that. He seems to
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  Speaker 5: be fully in it to win it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was trying to get him to say
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  Speaker 3: he would be a big difference between him and Lindsey
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  Speaker 3: Graham as far as the fiscal policy, because Lindsay Graham
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  Speaker 3: usually came down as a very moderate person on physical policy.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously that would not be Sandford's position. His number one
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  Speaker 3: issue and almost his only issue, is cutting the national
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  Speaker 3: debt and the deficit and all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But if you want to hear the whole thing, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, it's on my social media pages, or just
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  Speaker 3: look for the National Briefing on the iHeart Radio app.
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  Speaker 3: All right, back with one more break. This is the
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina Morning.
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  Speaker 1: News from the Midlands to the low Country.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning US on one O three
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  Speaker 2: point five FM at five sixty am WVOC and ninety
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  Speaker 2: four to three WSC. Now here's Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: Short time ago, I got an email from Taylor Reedy,
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  Speaker 3: who is the communications director for Lindsey Graham, basically talking
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  Speaker 3: about the funeral services tomorrow. It's first come, first served
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  Speaker 3: at the First Baptist Church tomorrow. Doors will open at
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  Speaker 3: ten am, the service will begin at noon. That is
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  Speaker 3: a clear bag policy in order to get in. Also,
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  Speaker 3: the funeral services will begin with a final visit to
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  Speaker 3: the State House at ten forty five. The public is
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  Speaker 3: invited to pay their respects along the procession route making
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  Speaker 3: their way to First Baptist and there will be a
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  Speaker 3: flyover an F sixteen flyover via the one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: sixty ninth Fighter Wing for McIntyre Joint National Guard Base
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  Speaker 3: at approximately eleven am. So I've posted this up on
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  Speaker 3: our social media pages. I'll get it up on all
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  Speaker 3: of them. Christopher, I hope you have an awesome day.
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  Speaker 5: I hope you do as well. Kelly, thank you and
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  Speaker 3: We'll see you all tomorrow morning for South Carolina's morning
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