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Show Rewind 8-31-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Hi there, Christopher Thompson. How are you today?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: How about you?
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  Speaker 3: Ready for a big week.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I started my weekend, like I said on Friday,
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  Speaker 2: trying to see college football. I only saw a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I did post on my social media page, very disappointed
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  Speaker 2: in Fox Sports. for allowing, I'm sure, the well-intentioned but
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  Speaker 2: misguided folks of Dublin to use Sandstorm and then reference
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  Speaker 2: it as Carolina's song. That is the wrong Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't make that mistake when you're doing a
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  Speaker 3: UNC broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: That was ridiculous. But... You know, congratulations, Bill Belichick. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if the UNC fan base is ecstatic over
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  Speaker 2: the win. It was a big win for them.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, both teams had some opportunities that they left on
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  Speaker 2: the table. But college football is back. And this is
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  Speaker 2: officially week one that we're in right now. So we're
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  Speaker 2: all talking about that. But, you know, as a news
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  Speaker 2: talk station here for the Midlands and for the Lowcountry,
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody... is whether you live in the Midlands
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  Speaker 2: or not, everybody was shocked and saddened to hear about
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  Speaker 2: the Columbia police officer being shot Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 3: First time in over 50 years, Columbia's lost a police officer.
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  Speaker 2: And I know a lot of people, when I brought
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  Speaker 2: that stat up on Sunday, they said, well, wait a second.
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  Speaker 2: What about the young man who got killed? That was
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  Speaker 2: Forest Acres.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Forest Acres is, as they promote themselves, a city within
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  Speaker 2: the city. Mm-hmm. But yes, I would look at that
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  Speaker 2: as a Columbia police officer being shot, although technically not
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  Speaker 2: a Columbia police officer at the time. But Chris DeLong,
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  Speaker 2: age 29, you know, the back story was basically the
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  Speaker 2: woman called and said, you know, I've got an order
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  Speaker 2: of protection against this guy. He's in my house. He's
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  Speaker 2: breaking things. The police come. He'd already left. Officer DeLong left.
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  Speaker 2: gets a description of the vehicle, goes looking for it,
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  Speaker 2: finds it in a park, calls for backup, and then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I guess went to confront them. And that's
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  Speaker 2: when all hell broke loose. And so now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina and Columbia specifically in a state of mourning
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  Speaker 2: over this horrific event. And just a strong reminder for
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  Speaker 2: all of us that every police officer out there is
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  Speaker 2: doing The work that none of us– we wish we
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  Speaker 2: didn't even need this work. We wish that there weren't
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  Speaker 2: homicidal idiots out there, but there are, and there's people
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  Speaker 2: who thieve from us. So usually most Americans– although I
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  Speaker 2: still– I saw over the weekend there was more DSA
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  Speaker 2: people talking about defund the police, and I'm like– How
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  Speaker 2: can you possibly say that the police don't deserve to
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  Speaker 2: be paid? How can you possibly say that society in
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  Speaker 2: any extent would be better if we didn't have these
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  Speaker 2: officers maintaining just, I mean, we're, we're certainly not perfect.
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  Speaker 2: We're certainly not perfectly safe, but we're infinitely better off
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  Speaker 2: than we would be if there was no law enforcement.
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  Speaker 3: But no doubt. I mean, who's going to respond? And it's, it's,
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  Speaker 3: It always seems like these domestic violence cases where it's
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  Speaker 3: one person versus another. When the police wind up getting
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  Speaker 3: involved to protect the one, the police wind up getting hurt.
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  Speaker 3: And who's going to respond to that if the police don't?
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  Speaker 2: Well, and look at in New York, Mamdani, we had,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say a similar situation, but a
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  Speaker 2: somewhat similar situation where a family called because the son
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  Speaker 2: was was out of control. And then he got himself
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  Speaker 2: like a foot long knife and he started swinging it
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  Speaker 2: at his parents. And they called the cops, rightfully so.
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  Speaker 2: The cop came in and you could see on that
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  Speaker 2: body cam footage, this was probably, I want to say
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  Speaker 2: three months ago, they're yelling over and over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: drop the knife, drop the knife, drop the knife. And
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  Speaker 2: the guy's like, blank you, blank you, blank you. And
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  Speaker 2: he's coming towards the cop. And as the cop, the
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  Speaker 2: cop is trying to deescalate it, saying, please just drop
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  Speaker 2: the knife. And he's backing out of the home. And
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  Speaker 2: the guy is still coming at him and eventually gets
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  Speaker 2: within striking range. And the cop shoots and didn't kill him,
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  Speaker 2: send him to the hospital. And what does Mom Donnie do?
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie, first off, says our deepest apologies to the
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  Speaker 2: man who was shot. I, on behalf of the city
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  Speaker 2: of New York, apologize to you. For what? And then
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  Speaker 2: goes on to say, This is another example of why
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  Speaker 2: we need less police and more mental health crisis people.
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  Speaker 2: And they're going to try to argue that again. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure there's some here, you know, the Democrats in the
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  Speaker 2: Columbia area. I'm very excited to see you take to
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  Speaker 2: the local media and talk about how Chris DeLong was
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  Speaker 2: in the wrong, that he escalated the event, and that
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  Speaker 2: what would have been better served is somebody coming out
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  Speaker 2: and going– We understand your problems. You have problems. Let
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  Speaker 2: us help you. That person would have been slaughtered too.
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: When a guy like that is enraged, there's no talking
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  Speaker 2: to him. You're not going to talk him off a cliff. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: it's so frustrating. We can't even agree on how to,
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  Speaker 2: that when somebody's with a gun threatening a woman, that
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  Speaker 2: we should have police there. That's how lost we are?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we are. I think that 99% of
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  Speaker 2: South Carolinians understand it. It's just a couple of local politicians.
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine being a police officer these days. And
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're trained in de-escalation. And as you pointed out,
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  Speaker 3: that New York store, drop the knife, drop the knife, drop.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, over and over and over again, they try.
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  Speaker 3: And then they're confronted with, you know, danger to their
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  Speaker 3: very lives and they're forced to respond.
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  Speaker 2: And, and, and, and in that one, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if the officer was trying to not kill him because
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  Speaker 2: that's what they always say. Like Joe Biden, why don't
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  Speaker 2: you shoot at the kneecap? Joe, seriously, when, when, when
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  Speaker 2: they started coming up with stuff like that, shoot at
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  Speaker 2: the kneecap, come on, man, be real, be, be real
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  Speaker 2: for real. All right. Well, Again, if you have thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on what happened here in Colombia over the weekend, I'd
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  Speaker 2: love to hear about it. We'll be covering some other
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  Speaker 2: things that aren't quite as heavy as that. That is
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  Speaker 2: a weight that's weighing down on all of us today.
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  Speaker 2: But there are other news stories to talk about, including,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard to say, but believable, Iran is
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  Speaker 2: actually less heavy today to me than that. But there's
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  Speaker 2: some huge news over the weekend on Iran and other things,
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  Speaker 2: Venezuela and and, of course, local politics as well. All
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  Speaker 2: of that to be covered this morning. Christopher Thompson there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kelly Nash. It's 6.09.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: That was funny. I know we just got that locally.
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  Speaker 2: The people in Charleston might not have had the same
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: one of those news updates in the middle of a
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: stop set where Trump is saying, well, we've already got
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  Speaker 2: a gulf. Now we've got a lake. We just need
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  Speaker 2: an ocean. I was listening to one guy this weekend.
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: I thought it was funny. He was like, we should,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I'll change it to Lake Dontario. Keep complaining. It'll
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  Speaker 2: be Lake Dontario before you know it. All right. It
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  Speaker 2: is 615. Hi there. I'm Kelly Nash. That is Christopher Thompson.
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  Speaker 2: And if you haven't, you know, a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: unplug completely over the weekend. And I think that that's
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  Speaker 2: a great thing to do. Just get out of the
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  Speaker 2: news cycle. Let yourself get refreshed. But the U.S. and
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  Speaker 2: Iran are trading strikes again. We're back in business, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: For those of you who thought we should be escalating,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the military portion of the war and not
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  Speaker 2: just focusing on economic fury, the U.S. did attack an
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  Speaker 2: area called La Rock Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that would have been Sunday morning, hit two
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  Speaker 2: rocket launchers. And in response... They have now launched at
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  Speaker 2: what they again, the IRGC was hoping to hit some U.S.
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  Speaker 2: forces in Jordan. According to all the reports that we've
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  Speaker 2: seen so far, they've struck nothing that all those stuff
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  Speaker 2: was intercepted and or missed.
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  Speaker 3: But they were trying to they were launching rockets with mines.
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  Speaker 3: They were trying to mine the Strait of Hormuz again.
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  Speaker 3: And we that was a that's the red line for Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, was it last week, Christopher, that we
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  Speaker 2: heard the news that they had been getting about 10
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  Speaker 2: million barrels a day out of the Strait of Hormuz,
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  Speaker 2: which is about half of what they normally would do
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  Speaker 2: on a typical day, but that the U.S. military had
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  Speaker 2: opened up the shipping lane that's furthest from Iran, closest
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  Speaker 2: to the UAE, that one that would— And they were
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  Speaker 2: able to secure it and make sure that nobody was attacked,
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  Speaker 2: that it was mine-free, and that the oil had been
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  Speaker 2: flowing out of there now for several weeks. And so
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  Speaker 2: I guess the fact that it's now public knowledge combined
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  Speaker 2: with the fact that Trump is now, I guess, ordering
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  Speaker 2: the military to start hitting more of their rocket launchers,
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  Speaker 2: the Iranians would seem to be on their last legs.
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  Speaker 3: You would think so, but we've said that before.
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  Speaker 2: We have. And I think any sane, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: they were normal people running this country, they would have,
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  Speaker 2: this would have ended a long time ago, but they're not.
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  Speaker 2: And so again, my thing has always been the IRGC,
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  Speaker 2: which is a very small group of people in comparison
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  Speaker 2: to the leadership of the country. and all that. There's
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  Speaker 2: about 180,000 of them. Those are the ones that are
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  Speaker 2: calling the shots and those 180,000 people need to be
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  Speaker 2: wiped out. And so the fact that we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: continue to neuter them is good, but it doesn't change
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they couldn't care less if all 90
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  Speaker 2: million Iranians starve to death They're not surrendering. So they
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  Speaker 2: need to be taken over. And that reverts back to
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  Speaker 2: our earlier discussions about, do you arm the groups that
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  Speaker 2: are on the ground in Iran that hate this regime,
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  Speaker 2: that are openly protesting and all those types of things,
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  Speaker 2: but just don't have any guns? And or do you
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  Speaker 2: just tell Bibi, go ahead, strike? Because Israel has been
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  Speaker 2: showing a lot of restraint lately. And Israel has the ability,
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  Speaker 2: they know where everybody is. Those Israelis probably have the
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  Speaker 2: best intelligence in the world.
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  Speaker 3: The Mossad is fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And so if you just took them off the leash,
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  Speaker 2: the world probably wouldn't like what they saw, but it
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  Speaker 2: would put an end to it. It would be over,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it would be over relatively quickly if
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  Speaker 2: you just told Israel, go ahead and kill all 180,000.
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  Speaker 2: They'd probably be dead by the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Probably so. And there'd be some backlash, as you pointed out,
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  Speaker 3: but the world would be a better place for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And that's what I'm getting to. I think that
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  Speaker 2: we have weakened the regime about as much as you
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  Speaker 2: can weaken them. We were talking last week about how
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  Speaker 2: inflation for, I think it was the month of October,
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  Speaker 2: was up like 45%. And then again in December of
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  Speaker 2: last year, it was up, which is why the country
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  Speaker 2: felt so ripe for the taking. The people were already
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  Speaker 2: in a starvation mode. You know, if you go back
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  Speaker 2: to 1980, basically when they took over the U.S. embassy
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  Speaker 2: in I forget the name. Was it like the Lanier
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  Speaker 2: or something like that? Whatever their dollar is. It was
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  Speaker 2: 75 of their Lanier's or whatever it's called to one U.S. dollar. Today,
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  Speaker 2: it's two million to a U.S. dollar. That's why nobody
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  Speaker 2: has any money. They're all bankrupt over there. And so
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  Speaker 2: they can't afford food. They can't afford clothing. They can't
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  Speaker 2: afford shelter. The people are miserable. And the people in
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  Speaker 2: charge don't care. They're not even giving you, like, lip service. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at least the Democrats will give you lip service.
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  Speaker 2: Those people are like, starve. Starve in the name of Allah.
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  Speaker 2: Do it for Allah. Everybody wants to die for Allah.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way the leaders feel.
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  Speaker 3: They know they've got that one point. In which they
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  Speaker 3: can get the attention of the entire world, and that
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  Speaker 3: is the flow of oil.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And the fact that we're getting half of it
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  Speaker 2: out already is fantastic. And long-term solution is they're already
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  Speaker 2: building those pipelines outside of the Strait of Hormuz so
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  Speaker 2: that these So whether it's Iraq or whoever, they can
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  Speaker 2: get their oil to the market without even dealing with
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  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz. Iran will be neutered in the
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  Speaker 2: next few years. It's just, do we want to wait
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  Speaker 2: three or four years and or wait to see if
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat president comes alongside and then cuts them another
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  Speaker 2: deal that gives them the world? I'd like to see
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  Speaker 2: Trump finish it and finish it quickly. That's how I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking at it. And again, I think the best answer
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  Speaker 2: is to probably arm the locals second. Israel go in
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  Speaker 2: and do it. I mean, Israel's already got a horrible reputation.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to get any worse. All right. It
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  Speaker 2: is 621.
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  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC,
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  Speaker 2: Just like every morning, we've got so much to get to,
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  Speaker 2: and we will. We'll cover it all, but coming up
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, we're going to talk about Our representative,
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  Speaker 2: James Clyburn, I say ours. He's not actually mine. He
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  Speaker 2: might not be yours either, but he represents South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: And he says that he had been hopeful. Gosh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure many hours of prayer were put in that Clarence Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: this is his quote, quote, I had hoped that Clarence
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  Speaker 2: Thomas would follow the modern underpinnings of the Constitution, but
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  Speaker 2: he has not. done so. In fact, he's decided to
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  Speaker 2: go all the way from an angry leftist to a
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  Speaker 2: very angry rightist. And he compared him to a guy
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  Speaker 2: named Roger Taney. If you don't remember Roger Taney, it's
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  Speaker 2: because none of us were alive when Roger was in
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  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court, which was from like the 1830s to
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  Speaker 2: the 1860s. And Roger Taney's most famous quote that James
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  Speaker 2: wanted to remind us of, no black man has any
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  Speaker 2: right that white man must respect. That's how he feels
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  Speaker 2: about Clarence Thomas. And so what is the solution for
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  Speaker 2: the Clarence Thomas problem? Well, Christopher is going to play
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  Speaker 2: us a clip of that coming up in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully that's what we'd like to call a tease
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  Speaker 2: to get you through the stop set and to the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the hour of the news. And you'll hear
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  Speaker 2: how James Clyburn wants to fix the Clarence Thomas and
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  Speaker 2: the right-wing problem of the Supreme Court. It is now 628.
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  Speaker 7: From the midlands to the low country, this is South
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  Speaker 7: Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's Christopher Thompson. I'm Kelly Nash, 633. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about our representative from South Carolina making some national news,
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  Speaker 2: James Clyburn, wants to somehow fix the Supreme Court problem.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know we had a Supreme Court problem?
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  Speaker 3: I did not. Well, I've heard Kamala Harris reference it before.
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  Speaker 2: It was Chuck Schumer I was listening to or somebody.
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  Speaker 2: One of the big Democrats over the weekend was talking
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  Speaker 2: about how, oh, I think it was Ro Khanna. Ro
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  Speaker 2: Khanna was saying that we have no trust any longer,
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  Speaker 2: that they they have they've undermined themselves, that the American
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  Speaker 2: people no longer have confidence in the Supreme Court because
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  Speaker 2: of the wacky rulings that continue to come out of there.
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  Speaker 2: I would argue that most people do not have a
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  Speaker 2: problem with the Supreme Court, that most people, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they might not agree with every decision. And that would
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  Speaker 2: be true on both sides of the aisle. But we
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  Speaker 2: don't think that there's a that that there's some sort
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  Speaker 2: of problem there. But you were you got a clip
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  Speaker 2: of James Clyburn, huh?
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  Speaker 3: He was on NBC's Meet the Press. Kristen Welker was
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  Speaker 3: questioning him about the makeup of the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 8: Former Vice President Kamala Harris shares some of your criticisms. Clearly,
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  Speaker 8: she's called for expanding the Supreme Court from nine justices
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  Speaker 8: to 13. Do you support adding four more seats to
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  Speaker 8: the Supreme Court, Congressman?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I do. I think that we are in a
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  Speaker 4: position now that calls for some significant actions taken by
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  Speaker 4: the Congress. And we ought to expand. In 13, there's
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  Speaker 4: a pretty good number. A baker's dozen will be a
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  Speaker 4: good number to have on the court. And I would
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  Speaker 4: hope we would get people on the court who will
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  Speaker 4: follow the constitutional underpinnings of this great nation of ours.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I thought that's what we were doing, but again,
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  Speaker 2: he's a house member, so he doesn't get to vote
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  Speaker 2: on these people. Um, obviously we're going to have Annie
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  Speaker 2: Andrews on this week and we'll be talking to her
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  Speaker 2: about who's her favorite Supreme court justice. Um, because that
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  Speaker 2: tells a lot about, you know, you already know what
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  Speaker 2: they voted, how they voted and what their reasoning was.
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  Speaker 2: So what kind of Supreme court justice would you as
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  Speaker 2: a Senator be encouraged to try to get onto the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the bench, however, 13, look, they didn't just
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  Speaker 2: pick that number out of their butt that, that would,
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  Speaker 2: they're assuming that they would have a Senate that they
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  Speaker 2: could control and that they would nominate liberal judges and
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  Speaker 2: you would get four of them and they, that would
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  Speaker 2: give them a seven, six advantage. So it's also the
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  Speaker 2: number of circuit courts that we have in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And I would argue, um, and this is a little
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  Speaker 2: bit in the weeds, I think everybody who listens to
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  Speaker 2: News Talk Radio is aware of the Ninth Circuit, that
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  Speaker 2: the Ninth Circuit is where all the loony rulings come
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  Speaker 2: out of, and that covers everywhere from Arizona up to Washington.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: So the entire left coast of the country is under
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the Ninth Circuit. You also get some loony rulings out
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: of the First and the Second. The First is New England, basically.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: The Second is where you get New York, and that's
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: where you get a lot of the anti-Trump stuff is
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: out of the second. It seems like almost every ruling
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: that's in the ninth, first, and second ends up in
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: front of the Supreme Court. And even when you had
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: a liberal bias on the Supreme Court, they almost overwhelmingly
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: always ruled against the ninth, first, and second courts.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Ninth Circus Court of Appeals is how it's better known as.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: That's what Ross Limbaugh used to call the Ninth Circus. Um,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: but yeah, if they want to go to 13, I'd say, well,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: let's just do it right now. Let's get Donald Trump
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: to nominate four more and we still own the Senate.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: We can do it today. We'll have it. We'll have
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: that wrapped up by lunch.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: No, no, they don't want it yet.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Not yet.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: They want to wait.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: The timing has to be just right.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: They're thinking 2029 would be perfect.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: We got to let somebody like a Gavin Newsom or
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: a Kamala Harris or an AOC pick the four and
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: And then we have to have the, you know, the
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Senate has to be liberal enough to go ahead and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: confirm these whack jobs, these activist judges. And that's really
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: like sometimes I look at. John Roberts as an activist
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: because I just will I will never forget that John
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Roberts and nor will I forgive him. He will remain unforgiven.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Jesus can forgive him, but I cannot for what he
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: did with Obamacare. And for those of you not old
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: enough or maybe not well-versed enough in the Affordable Care Act,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: it was being positioned as not a tax and that
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: it was a penalty if you chose to not pay
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: for health care. And the whole, the only way that
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: the Affordable Care Act worked is if everybody bought into it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: And so their goal was, or they're, The way they
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: made that happen was understanding that young people didn't really
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: feel like spending several thousand dollars a year on what
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: they didn't think they needed. And so Obama and the
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: left said, we'll penalize them when they file their taxes.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: If they don't have health care insurance that they can prove,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: we're going to whack them. And John Roberts said, you
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: can't do that. That's not within the scope of Congress.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: But.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: If you called it a tax and then you could say,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: we're going to give you a tax break. If you
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: get healthcare, then we could rule this as a positive thing.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Never going to forgive him for that. That, that should,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: that was not his role in the government that your
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: role was to just simply judge what the Congress had
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: done or was doing. And he out, he overstepped his
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: bounds and gave us this boondoggle that we're in right now.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: When everybody's upset about their healthcare, they're, What they think
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: they're upset about is the fact that Donald Trump and
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the right did not come along and extend these supplements.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: What they're really upset about is the cost of health care,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: which is risen literally a thousand percent because of what
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: they did on the left. This whole Affordable Care Act
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: is should have been called the Unaffordable Care Act. It
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: drove costs through the roofs and we got worse health
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: care for it as well. But a lot of that's
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: given to us by John Roberts. It's interesting, you know, discussion,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: 13 Supreme Court justices. There is nothing in the Constitution
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: that says it has to be nine. Well, J.D.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Vance and Marco Rubio would probably be happy to appoint
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: those the next ones if they stick with the plan.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Will Democrats still be calling for that if a Republican
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: wins the White House again? I'm guessing not.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: And can you get a, what we would call a,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: an originalist, somebody who's just trying to interpret the constitution.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Can you get them through if it's a left-leaning Senate
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: or are they no longer going to play ball? You know,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: like Lindsey Graham famously said, I'm just here to advise
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: and consent. Are they, are they qualified to be a
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Supreme court justice? Even if I don't agree with their opinions,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I didn't agree with Lindsey Graham on that, by the way,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I thought that, you know, Katanya Jackson Brown was a
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: disaster from the word go. Um, and, He probably shouldn't
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: have confirmed her. The Senate shouldn't have confirmed her. But
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: we got what we got now. And I think that
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: the game in the Senate is changing radically over the
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: next couple of months and years. All right, we'll take
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: a break. It's 641.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: 560 AM. WVOC, Columbia and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Horry County is the home of the new Netflix Death
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: of the Pastor's Wife documentary. This is the guy who
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: is the pastor who is alleged by some to have
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: been involved in murdering his wife, and apparently some new
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: criminal charges are coming out against him.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I saw the first two episodes last night.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Did you really?
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen the finale yet.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I didn't know you were into those types of things, Christopher.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's interesting when it's from your backyard and
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: you know a lot of the players.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: We've got a woman up in North Carolina who's been
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: charged with murdering one of her children, tried to kill
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the second and failed. And her defense is going to
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: be very in line with the Lindsay Clancy strategy. To me,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: it's fascinating how these stories actually capture the public's imagination.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: People are so invested in this Lindsay Clancy story. And
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I looked it up because I'm like, I know that
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of people who unfortunately, who kill
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: their children. And on average, for the last 30 years
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: or so, it's been about 500 children a year are
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: murdered by their parents, which, again, is a horrific number.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: We all remember here in South Carolina, the Susan Smith story,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: which captured so much of the nation's attention. But Whether
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: it's the murdering of your children, again, about 500 a year,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: and that one is a little more even in the
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: sense that it's about 45% of the women do it,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: 55% of the dads do it. murdering your spouses. There's
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: about 1,500 convicted a year. That's a little bit more
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: male-dominant at about 75%, but again, 25%. But every now
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: and again, you get a story like this Lindsay Clancy
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: story where everybody's watching it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know how Elon Musk has the time to
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: do all the stuff that he does, but he just
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: responded to a guy who was actually trying to compliment
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: him by saying, everyone knows the trillion-dollar version of SpaceX,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: but no one remembers Elon's first rocket ship failed three times.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: There's no money to do exactly one more attempt, and
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: he pulled it off. Don't be afraid to fail. Elon
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: responded to that tweet, I remember you trying to talk
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: me out of starting SpaceX. Oh, wow. I mean, mic
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: drop moment. My goodness. But everybody's not for you.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Brace yourself for unadulterated hate speech. Oh, my gosh. From you?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Marco, this is now hate speech. Here we go. Okay.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: The United States is under no obligation to admit or
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: suffer the presence of individuals who subvert our laws and
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: deny our citizens their constitutional rights. Well, thank God a
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: federal judge has stepped in and labeled that as hate
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: speech because we are obligated to suffer. people who are
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: not citizens and are trying to subvert our laws. This
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: is another one of those wonderful, wonderful judges that we
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: were talking about earlier. A federal judge on Friday. Northern
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: District of California. This is a brave, wise individual. Judge
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Noel Wise, living up to his name. Judge Wise, an
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: appointee of Joe Biden, who might be the only non-black
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: female appointed by Joe Biden to a judicial ship. Anyway,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: he says that the Stanford Daily newspaper, which is suing
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, is correct. And he says, quote, in the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: United States, freedom of speech belongs to all people, not
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: just U.S. citizens. This is not the government's ability to
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: take or give free speech. If you are on our soil,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: you have the right to subvert the United States government,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: even if you're not a citizen. And he says this
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: is not just extended to people with student visas and
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: people with green cards. All illegals have the right to
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: free speech. And he says here you can simultaneously hate
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the content of a person's speech and love the country
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: that cherishes the freedom for it. Zealous protection of our
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: constitutional right to free speech is a provocative demonstration of
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: our country's powerful lack of fear. The U.S. needs to
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: tolerate this stuff. And he goes on and he says
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: something about how, you know, these freedoms, according to the
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: United States Constitution, we're all to love these freedoms, even
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: when they make us uncomfortable. I'm wondering if this brave,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: wise judge, literally judge wise, if he feels that way
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: about all of our rights, for example. Should illegal aliens
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: who are currently banned from buying any kind of ammunition
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: and or weapons, should we start a government program that
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: actually arms them? Would he be for that?
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: If they get the First Amendment, why wouldn't they get
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the Second Amendment, too?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Exactly. What is the difference between a U.S. citizen and
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: a non-U.S. citizen? We're obviously seeing this, Christopher. They are
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: pushing for the rights in the left to get non-citizens
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: to vote in our elections. Currently, it's banned in federal elections.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: But there are some exceptions for local and state, most
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: notably California. Currently, non-U.S. citizens are forbidden from holding elected offices. However...
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: We have seen some subvert that. We've seen non-citizens lie
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: about their immigration status and then get elected to, you know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: we had a mayor in the Midwest somewhere. We've had
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: a couple of other non-citizens who actually, while holding office,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: were deported, which is a little bit ironic. Should we
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: give non-citizens U.S. passports so that they can then, too,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: travel freely abroad? I mean, there are so many different
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: things that... They're supposed to be a privilege to being
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: a U.S. citizen. And if you have somehow become a U.S. citizen,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: you recognize that.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: That.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Whether you were born here or you should recognize that,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: that your ancestors, starting in the 1700s, began fighting for
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: these rights, that they believed that these rights were self-evident,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: that all men are created equal. And as Joe Biden says,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: you know the thing. But the problem has become that
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: we have the left wants to Americanize the world. I
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: will push back on that and say that's colonization. You're
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: trying to colonize the world. Ooh.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Throw one of their own arguments back in their faces.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Stop being colonizers, you leftists. Let the people of
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Iran be the people of Iran. Let the people of
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Cuba be the people of Cuba. Let the people of
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Central America be the people of Central America. Don't keep
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: trying to import them into America and then Americanize them
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: with all of our rights and freedoms. Let them change
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: their countries the way they would like their countries changed.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I saw somebody over the weekend talking about They were
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: interviewing Tom Holman and they were saying, would you go
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: back to Haiti? And, you know, our country says it's
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: very dangerous. Do you think that it's right that we
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: deport people to Haiti, which is acknowledged as a very
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: dangerous country? And Tom Holman's like, I'm just doing my job.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: My job says to deport people from Haiti to Haiti.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: If their country is not safe, that's up to them
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: to make it safe. I can't make their country safe.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: By the way, for all you people on the left
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: and a lot of people on the right who don't
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: want to see global expansion of the U.S. policies, you
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: don't like the Donro doctrine. The Donro doctrine would say
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: we should take over Haiti then. We should fix Haiti.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: We should take over Greenland and make Greenland great again.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: We should take over everything in our hemisphere and make
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: it ours. Do you like Lake America? If you have
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: a problem with Trump calling it Lake America, by the way,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I saw a mass protest this weekend. All these leftists
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: bravely deleting Google Maps from their phone because Google Maps
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: gave in, bent the knee, so to speak. Okay, the
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: president says it's Lake America. We're going to call it
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Lake America. I delete Google Maps. Wow, you are so brave.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: What a powerful statement that is. Wow. We just live
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: in some crazy times, Christopher. But yeah, we got a
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: federal judge who I'm sure that if a leftist becomes
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: the president, Judge Wise would be nominated for the Supreme
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Court match.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: One of those 13 seats. Yes.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: All freedoms that Americans have have to be extended to
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: anybody who happens to find themselves, even if they're here
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: for the weekend. Just give them guns and ammo and
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: make them an officer of the court if you'd like.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: And say anything you like while you're here.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, even we're going to subvert the United States military.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: We're going to leak trade secrets. All of that. That's
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: all protected speech according to this moron. All right, maybe
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: you have thoughts on these people. I'd love to hear
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: your thoughts. That's what we're all about. We're here for
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: freedom of speech, even when you disagree with us. You
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: can use the Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. It's 709.
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: So they're back. The boys are back in town along
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: with the gals. I just like the old Thin Lizzy song.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: The boys are back in town. Today they go to
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: the Congress. Mike Johnson will be opening up the first
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: session in five weeks. And according to this story in Politico,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: it seems as if they're getting off the record comments
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: from a lot of Republicans, although they don't say the majority.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: I haven't read that in the story yet. But there
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: are a lot. who want this to be a very
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: short session. They're scheduled to end on October 1st, so
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: basically the month of September. I know today's August 31st,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: but basically they're supposed to be in session for the
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: month of September. They don't want to be there that long.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: What they're hoping, according to this report, is to get
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: a stopgap spending bill sent to the president and then
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: back out of town. That's the goal, according to many
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: of them, because they don't think that they can get
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: anything done between now and then. And it's just going
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: to be a big headache. And we're just going to
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: be knocking our heads against the wall. And so we
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: might as well just go back and campaign. I would
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: suggest to any Republicans who might be listening that the
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: vast majority of voters already feel like when you're back
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: home in the district. I'm not saying that this is reality. Again,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: elections are not about reality. Elections are about what appears
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: to be reality. It appears to most voters that when
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: you're in the district that you're on vacation. That's how
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: they feel about it. They would much rather you be
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: in D.C. having the headaches. And I don't know how
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: many more votes you can win by saying, yes, we're
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: supposed to be in session, but it's It's just not
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: going well. So we thought we'd come back here and
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: show you some love. Christopher, do you have any thoughts
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: on this?
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure which looks better to voters, whether you're
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: campaigning here at home and, you know, trying to entice
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: people to vote for you, or if you're in Washington
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: and deadlocked and we see the deadlock over and over again.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: I thought the deadlock was between the House and the Senate.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Johnson saying they can't even get enough votes in the
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: House to pass what they want passed.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Let's see if Mike Johnson is quoted in here. Agitation
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: for an early exit growing louder if Johnson can win
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: approval for planned this week's Senate passed government funding bill,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: which would then postpone the shutdown until or from midnight,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: which is supposed to be September 30th. We're supposed to
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: shut the government down. So we have a month, less
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: than a month now before we shut down the government again.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: This would push it back to December 11th. The funding
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: patch would also extend the deadline to reauthorize lapsing surface
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: transportation authorities. The GOP leaders plan to put the bill
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: on the floor Tuesday under a fast-track method requiring two-thirds
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: majority vote, and there are reasons to believe it will
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: pass without any drama. Trump and the key congressional Democrats
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: have endorsed the 10-week punt already. So, again, that's the
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: spending punt till December.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I know there was one other plan to put up
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: a bill condemning socialism. in all its forms. They wanted,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: they wanted Democrats on the record before they go back
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: to campaign anymore, condemning socialism in all its forms.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, look, I'm, I'm, I'm as far to
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: the right as 95% of this audience, but I will
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: also point out that you already live in a socialist country.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: So if you, for those people in America who love
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Obamacare and, That is socialism. Those people who like Medicare, Medicaid,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Social Security even. Because when you're looking at Social Security,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people don't even understand that.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: That's not your money. You paid into the Social Security
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: system to cover the people that are currently on Social Security.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: You need the future generations to come behind you in
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: order to fund it. And that's why the problem is
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: it's not like I just put my money in a
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: bank account and it's waiting for me when I get out.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: My money was already spent. And if we don't have
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: enough people coming up behind us or our GDP is
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: not productive enough, then Social Security continues to diminish and
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: diminish and diminish. And that's a form of socialism. So
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: when you say I'm going to condemn all socialism, then
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: you're going to have to rework the entire United States
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: government plan. And again, I'm not against it. I'm just
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: saying you're not being realistic.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure exactly how the bill is worded, but
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: they wanted Democrats on the record before they left Capitol
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Hill as being either for socialism and for the socialist
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: wing of that party or against it. And I think
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: they were also burying in that bill some wording about
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: if you're for this, you also have to be for
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: passing the Save America Act. I mean, they're trying anything
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: they can at this point, the Republicans are, to get
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: the Save America Act across the finish line. And the
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: latest way is apparently, you know, putting this in kind
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: of as a poison pill for Democrats.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Well, the House has already passed, right? Yes, in one
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: form or another.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: But I think the last edition of it was with–
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: wasn't it with the defense appropriations bill? And that didn't
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: get viewed by the Senate. I don't know.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Senate is where– as Ralph Norman said, the
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Senate is where bills go to die.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And people go to sleep.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: And so, again, if you're just trying to do politics,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: and when I say do politics, I mean, how do
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: you get elected and how do you build some sort
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: of consensus? I think you have to stay in D.C.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: I don't think that you can come home and continue
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: to talk to voters and think that that's actually helping you.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I think you need to at least put up the
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: front that we're going to continue to fight. In football,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: as we get ready for college football, you play to
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: the whistle.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: True.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Or in fighting, you keep yourself guarded and you keep
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: swinging to the bell. If you're saying there's weeks left
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: in the session and we're not even going to try anything.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a bad look.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: That's a bad look. That's just the way I look
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: at it. Maybe you have different thoughts on that. Maybe
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: you think they should come home. Let us know on
• 39:01
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• 39:05
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• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I keep thinking this microphone is on and it's not on. Anyway,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson, I got a message here from Congressman Joe Wilson.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson is... correct. We are voting this week on
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: condemning socialism. He will also be pushing for the Graham
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: sanctions bill. So he's not just about the spending. He's
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: also about the Graham sanctions bill, which I think Darlene
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Graham had the honor of introducing that. About a month ago.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Makes sense.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: And so what else did he say in here? Looking
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: forward to beginning today, I'll introduce a vote today condemning
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: anti-Semitism as well with somebody named Virginia Fox. And he
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: also ended that message by saying, you are correct. We
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: should stay and fight. So not all the Congress people,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: not all the House members agree with that Politico story
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: that they should get back and campaign rather than just
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: sit there and knock their heads against a wall. I'm
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: a little bit perplexed on the socialism vote. I just
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: did a quick little Google search on it. Jeff Crank,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Republican Colorado, I believe, is the guy who brought it
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: up last week and pointed out that as of... This month,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: 123 DSA-endorsed candidates have won their primaries. So that could
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: be 123 Democrat socialists. You have Zorhan Mamdani. You have
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: others that are already– Bernie Sanders, I think, is the
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: guy who actually started this really as we're not going
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: to– even though we're a different party than the Democrats–
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I'll caucus with them and I will be a part
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: of them. And then when I run for major office,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I will run as a Democrat, although I consider myself
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: a Democrat socialist. And now you've got a whole long
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: list of people that are in that wing of the party.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: They call it a wing of the party. But again,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: I don't understand how it's a wing of the party.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: I noticed Rahm Emanuel over the weekend, the famed Democrat strategist,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: maybe future candidate.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Who knows?
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Emanuel says, look, enough is enough. We're not that big
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: a tent. If you are a Democrat socialist, form your
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: own party. Mainstream Democrats are getting tired and they know
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: it's going to be a dangerous issue in November. Of
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: being lumped into the same category as these Democrat socialists.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: And they try to call it a distraction. It's not
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: a distraction.
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: No.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: It's an active part of your party. Your party.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Maybe a more popular part of your party than you
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: are right now.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: And if you talk about white supremacy on the right,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: all of us, if there was some sort of move
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: of white supremacists in our party, I think, I'd like
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: to think that we would all condemn it. So far,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: I have not seen anything that would lead me to
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: believe that we are a racist party in any way.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: It's always been the Democrats that were the racists. But
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: in all aspects, we should condemn anything that's even in
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: our party if we don't agree with it. And it
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: seems immoral, like the Democrat Socialists. And I will point
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: out that in 2025, because I thought I remember we
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: already did this. The House of Representatives passed Congressional Resolution
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: 58 denouncing the horrors of socialism in a bipartisan vote
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: on November 21st, 2025, 285 to 98. So 199 Republicans
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: voted for it and 86 Democrats voted for it. 98
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: all Democrats said that they wouldn't vote to condemn socialism.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: But we did this last year. So I guess we're
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: going to bring it back again. I'm not sure, but
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: to me, Again, I think that Americans can stand on
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: their own without having Congress say socialism is bad. We
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: should all be able to explore history and understand why
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: it's bad. It is now 730.
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 43:07
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• 43:09
  Speaker 2: And that was a horrible story. If you heard the
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: bottom of the hour newscast for South Carolina, the shooting
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: and killing of one police officer. But there was another
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: officer involved, and he was in the hospital, but Officer
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: David Dymock has gone home. And so that is good news.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: And I think all of South Carolina joins us in
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: the mourning over Chris DeLong, who was killed in that shooting.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Just another powerful reminder of what these people, men and women,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: do every day in law enforcement. They never know when
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: end of watch comes. might be here. And so, you know,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: thank an officer. If you see one today, thank them.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Thank them for what they're doing. Even if they're giving
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: you a ticket, thank you for your service.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Serving and protecting. Yes. They do that with their lives
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: on the line.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Every single day. All right. What was I looking at
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: here just a moment ago? Oh, that's right. The state
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: of Virginia has.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: The left is relentless. They will not let any opportunity
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: to grandstand go away. So Friday, Friday, the state of
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Virginia removed three Confederate statues. So the statues of Stonewall Jackson,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: somebody named Extra Billy Smith, and physician Hunter Holmes McGuire
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: were removed six years after the civil rights demonstrators in
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Richmond had already taken down the iconic statue of Jefferson Davis.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: These statues have been up there since the early 1900s.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: And the Democrat lawmakers have been trying to figure out
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: a way how to get rid of the rest of them.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: This is like job number one for the Democrats in Virginia.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: How do we get rid of any trace of the
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Civil War heroes on the South? So a guy who
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: actually lost his seat now former Senator or soon to
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: be former Virginia state Senator Adam Eben put into the
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: budget bill and a mechanism that would, if you voted
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: to pass the budget, you were also voting to take
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: these statues down. And I guess some of the Republicans
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: didn't notice that or something. And so they passed the
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: budget bill and they were a little shocked to find
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: out what they had actually voted for was to get
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: rid of the statues. So, Once it's in, it's in.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: And now there it is. Those were taken down on Friday.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: But when you look at Democrats and what they prioritize,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: what is so they'll tell you that the number one
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: thing is affordable groceries or affordable health care or, you know,
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: how we got to get the gas tax down or
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: the gas is priced down or something to that extent.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: They act as if they are concerned with what middle
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: class Americans would be concerned with. But that is not
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: who they are. They are concerned about stupid stuff, like
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: getting rid of stupid statues that, by the way, you know,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: there's a lot. Why did they put up the, that
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: should be a better question. Why did the people of
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Virginia in the early 1900s decide that they wanted a
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: statue of Stonewall Jackson?
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: And then teach lessons about that. Our, our, Kids are
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: so ignorant, not dumb, ignorant on what happened in American history,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: based in no small part by the Democrats trying to
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: whitewash it. They're the ones who say we don't want
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: to talk about slavery. We talk about slavery. We can
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: talk about anything and everything that's happened in the United States.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: But don't whitewash it and make it seem as if
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: those people were all illiterate morons that lived here in
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: the early 1900s. They had reasons. Talk about them. Talk
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: about why did we celebrate certain people who we don't
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: necessarily celebrate any longer? Why do these things happen? That's
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: why I always have a golden rule. Let's never name
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: a bridge after anybody. Because in a hundred years, it
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: might be a problem because what they were doing that
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: was great in 2026 might be considered stupid in the
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: year 2126.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: So anyway.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Congratulations, taxpayers of Virginia. You just spent roughly $ 3 million
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: taking down three statues. I'm sure that you felt like
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: that was a great use of your money. All right.
• 47:44
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• 47:46
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• 47:49
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• 47:51
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• 47:55
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• 47:59
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• 48:07
  Speaker 2: You know, New Hampshire is part of New England, and
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: New England doesn't like Republicans. New Hampshire is one of
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: the more likely places in New England, which is very
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: rare to find a Republican. The last Republican sent to
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: the Senate was Kelly Ayotte. I had forgotten all about her.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: She was there for one term. They're trying to get
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: another one. And Donald Trump just came out over the weekend,
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: I guess it was, with his endorsement of Sununu. Now,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: this is one of those awkward endorsements because, you know,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Sununu ran for president in 2024, and Trump labeled him
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: a loser. You're a total loser. Why would anybody vote
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: for this loser? But now that he's running for the Senate,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: love this guy. This guy's a total winner. We're going
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: to have him. So again, Sununu is in a battle
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: with Scott Brown. And if you remember Scott Brown, he
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: was the Massachusetts guy who kind of rose to prominence
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: because he replaced Ted Kennedy And also was famous or infamous,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: depending on your perspective, because he was the Cosmo Bachelorette.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: of the Month in like 1984, where he posed like
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Burt Reynolds naked on a bearskin rug.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: All right, now you just told me something I didn't know.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. That was kind of how he
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: raised his profile back in the 80s, was he was
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: a good-looking guy with a six-pack who won the Bachelor
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: of the Month for Cosmopolitan Magazine, and then he got
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: into conservative politics, lost a lot of his female following,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: I'm sure, and then won that Ted Kennedy seat back
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: in the day. That, I think, was a one-term and done,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: and then he moved to New Hampshire, and he's been
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: trying to win New Hampshire seats For a while, he
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: is currently a double-digit underdog to Sununu. But over the weekend,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Trump came out with the almost cut-and-paste endorsement. John E.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Sununu has my complete and total endorsement. He will not
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: let you down. Make America great again. Elect John E. Sununu.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Sununu's brother is the former governor of New Hampshire. Currently,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: the polls— which, again, polls are— they can go anywhere and everywhere—
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: It seems as if not only is Sununu a double-digit
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: victor over Scott Brown, but if they're already doing the
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: polling for him versus Pappas, who is expected to be
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: the Democrat, or Pappas, I'm not sure how to say
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: the guy's last name. Sununu and him are basically in
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: a tie, although some have him in a slight lead.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: It's within the margin of error, 45 to 43 type
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: of deal, a little bit of undecided still. But he
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: would be the first Republican from New Hampshire since Kelly Ayotte.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: And I was just looking earlier. New Hampshire, again, since
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: 1990 has only sent four people to the Senate that
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: would have a Republican next to them. They've had four
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: elections in which they did that. And in the House
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: of Representatives, they've only had four. So none of them lately,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: none of them. I think the last one was a
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: guy named Frank Ginta, who won his last election in 2015.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: So it's been a decade since you've had a New
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Hampshire Republican. This is one of those rarities where, you know,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: we're talking about, can you hold the Senate? This would
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: be a huge win. If the Republicans could pick that up,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: that would be a massive win for them and would rattle.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: the Democrats. And I have heard from some people that
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: the Democrats are very concerned about that seat. So we'll
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: see what happens there. It's seven 49 live from.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: The state Capitol.
• 51:52
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• 51:55
  Speaker 5: Mega, mega Mike from goose Creek and the judges ruling
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: that illegals and non residents have first and second amendment
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: rights in this country is consistent with with the clause
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: in the 14th Amendment that allows them to have birthright citizenship.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: All right, Mega Mike, I love the nickname. Thank you
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: for using the Talkback feature. Just to be clear, the
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: judge's ruling in the 13th Circuit earlier, or late last week,
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: was that free speech— is given to all, including non-citizens.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: And so when Marco Rubio was saying that we're going
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: to deport people who are trying to subvert the American government,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: that they can't because they're protected free speech. The Second
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Amendment was me being, I don't know what the word is. Facetious.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: A little facetious. I was probably like, should we now
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: start arming the illegals as well? Do they get all
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: of the, and if that is the case, What's the
• 53:00
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• 53:03
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• 53:07
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• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Hi there. This is Kelly Nash.
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: It's 8.03.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: And on the phone, Rory O'Neill. Good morning, sir.
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: Hey, Kelly, happy Monday.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Happy Monday. Those two words rarely go together, but we'll
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: make them work today. That's right. One of the things
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: that Donald Trump has been talking about is the need
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: for the United States. to win this AI battle because
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: he firmly believes, along with many others, that whoever controls
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: AI really will control the globe moving forward. And what
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: we're seeing in the U.S. is a lot of people
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: who are very concerned about the data centers. They're nimby,
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: not in my backyard. I'm not saying that they're bad,
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: but I just don't want them around me. And if
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: I understand right, you have some insights that perhaps a
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: lot of this is being fueled by the Chinese. Well,
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: at least some of it.
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: And so X Safety, so X, formerly Twitter, has a
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: safety team. And they put out a statement over the weekend,
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: maybe late Thursday, Friday, saying that they had identified a
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: Chinese bot farm. That's essentially computer bases, computer banks that
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: are generating stuff on Twitter or X all the time.
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: And about 200 of those accounts were specifically trying to
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: influence Americans so that they would oppose AI data centers.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: So they would use social media.
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: To hype up the electricity consumption or water demands or
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: the lack of profitability.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Whatever it might be.
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: Stoking your worst fears about AI and just feeding into
• 54:45
  Speaker 6: that as a computer would do just relentlessly. And X
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: says they picked up on this and suspended them.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: And I would assume that it's not. just on X
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: that all social media platforms, meta and whatnot, they're probably
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: getting hammered YouTube as well with these bots that can
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: create content. Yeah, TikTok obviously huge on that one as well.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: But also, last week I was talking on the show
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: about a lot of the people who are trying to
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: get the fear, not necessarily about the data farms as much,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: but just AI in general. There are actually a lot
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: of the big AI corporations who are hoping that the
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: federal government will step in and set a whole bunch
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: of new regulations, basically limiting the amount of competition that
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: we have, making it a barrier that's very hard to
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: for AI companies to get launched moving forward. Right.
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: Well, look, I think that a lot of residents feel burned, right?
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: That their local governments may have failed them, their city
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: council or whatever it manages, their town or county government
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: didn't go into these deals with their eyes wide open
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: when it comes to what the demands of these AI
• 55:54
  Speaker 6: data centers will be. How much water do they need?
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: How much electricity do they need? And does their local
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: grid already support it? And if it doesn't, who's going
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: to have to pay for the upgrades, right? Is it
• 56:05
  Speaker 6: the citizen taxpayer or is that data company getting a
• 56:11
  Speaker 6: sweetheart deal? And I think a lot of residents feel
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: burned on that, that maybe not everyone came to the
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: table with their cards on the table.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you would have this insight. We're
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: speaking with Rory O'Neill, the national correspondent for our show
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: here on South Carolina Morning News. Elon Musk had mentioned
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: in the future that perhaps data centers could be put
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: on the moon because that would eliminate the need for
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: water because they'd be cool all the time. Right. And
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: who cares how much noise they make? They're on the moon.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: So it would be fine. And then I guess it
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: would somehow whatever the AI intelligence was would be beamed
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: back to the earth. Uh, could, I mean, is there
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: the possibility currently even on earth? I mean, we have
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: millions of miles, uh, where nobody lives in the middle of,
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: you know, wherever, could we just put it in the
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: middle of someplace where nobody is and just make that
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: like a massive data farm and send it out to
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: the rest of America? Or is there something that's prohibiting that?
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: Well, I would say it's access to water and electricity
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: now in the middle of nowhere, right?
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: Uh, if you do want to.
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: Put it 500 miles from anyone else, well, now you
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: got to get water and electricity to those locations. And
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: they do occasionally need some employees out there. But I
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: think Elon Musk's idea is not necessarily put data centers.
• 57:30
  Speaker 9: On the moon.
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: I think he would want something in orbit because you'd
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: want to be able to access it from different points
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: 24-7 if it's on the moon. It'd be on the
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: dark side some parts.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: It's on the other side of.
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: The planet, so he wouldn't necessarily be able to receive
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: that information. But, yeah, I think Musk's plan is something
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: more in space that he thinks might be a way
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: to do it. And as he stands up these rocket
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: launch facilities, announcing a $ 100 billion launch complex for Louisiana
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: with Starship, he thinks that he can probably launch some
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: sort of a data center much more affordably if he is,
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: in fact, reaching his objective of launching 30 Starships every
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: day from Louisiana.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: That is crazy. Are you serious? 30 a day? Yeah,
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: that's the ultimate goal.
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: So the $ 100 billion complex has 10 different launch platforms,
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: two launch towers at each platform. And the idea is
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: his schedule would be about 10,000 launches a year. So
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: that's about 30 per day.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: Wow. Rory O'Neill with us on the phone this morning.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: Is there any possibility of putting a data center in
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: the newly deemed Lake America? Can we just.
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: I know the moose might get to it from the
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: other side and try to sink it.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see.
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: The beavers might get involved. But, yeah, that's– look, this
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: is one of those tech hurdles that we'll see if
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: they can overcome it. And I have confidence that they'll
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: figure out a way to make this more acceptable.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: Well, some important reporting there. Thank you, Rory, about letting
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: us know about how the Chinese are trying to influence
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: just the American public. And that's good for us to
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: be cognizant of.
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Kelly.
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: Talk to you soon.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: You got it, my man. Thank you. It is now 8.09.
• 59:18
  Speaker 7: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Christopher, have you heard the– I have not
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: been watching the television news this morning. Do they pronounce
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: it LaRock or Larrick? How do they pronounce that?
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: Well, I noticed Fox News just said– I think they
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: said Larrick.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Larrick.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, something like that. All right, so Larrick. I've seen
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: pronunciations say Larrick.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the thing. This is one of those
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: things where in about a month everybody will know it,
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: I guess, if the hostilities continue there. Otherwise, it will
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: just be forgotten. Rather quickly, LAROC or LARIC or whatever
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: they're calling it is an island that had missile launchers
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: on it for the IRGC. And then last night or yesterday,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: the United States hit it. Now we have reports that
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: two are dead there as well. Trump then went on
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: Truth Social, I guess, early this morning with AI-created videos
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: showing them the United States blowing up Karg Island. The
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Iranians say it's laughable that he would do that. I
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: don't know that it's laughable because it's a very doable thing. Right.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: But why would you show it via AI or some
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: CGI video if you're not really doing it?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: I think the goal is to let them see, okay,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: this is, you know, Karg Island is responsible for 90%
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: of your oil distribution. This is what eight rockets would
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: do to Karg Island. you would no longer have 90% capabilities.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: You would lose pretty much all of your oil distribution
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: would go away and we could do it before lunch. Again,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Trump is trying to put maximum pressure on the IRGC,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: which is running Iran at this point. They've been trying
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: with Operation Economic Fury, which again, most regimes would have
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: caved a long time ago. Look at Venezuela. Venezuela is...
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: partnering with the United States now. Of course, we have U.S.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: businesses investing in Venezuela, but the dictatress, is that what
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: we're calling her, of Venezuela cut a deal with Trump
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: over the weekend. So literally, what is it like? How
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: many barrels again? It's some unbelievable amount.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's going to instantly refill our strategic petroleum reserves.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: And yes, and we're going to have some excess, and
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: maybe that'll drive down oil prices. I noticed that Japan
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: has begun really heavily importing from the United States. Their
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: oil imports from the U.S. are up 17 percent from
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: Kelly, let me correct that quickly. Not instantly, but once
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: the oil fields are set to go, it will instantly
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: refill our– It's going to take a while. We've talked
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: about this. Venezuela's infrastructure was failing, outdated, miserable. So oil
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: companies are going to have to go in there and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: do some work. But once the oil starts flowing, that's
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: when we will, I mean, immediately reap the benefits.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right now we're down 298.7 million barrels. Thanks, Joe Biden.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: So we're down almost 300 million barrels as of August
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: of 2026. This is the lowest level we've had since 1983.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: this Venezuelan deal will bring in 65 million barrels of oil. Huge.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: So that is fantastic news. Now, for those of you
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: on the left who want to say something about we're
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: seizing the oil or what, and I saw a lot
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: of leftist politicians talking that way over the weekend, that
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: is not an accurate description of what's happening. You have U.S.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: companies investing in Venezuela and specifically because Venezuela is now
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: turning over their oil. Why would I invest in your
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: country if there's nothing in it for me? So the
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: fact that the U.S. and the U.S. businesses are getting
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: a return on their investment, that makes sense for Venezuela,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: who desperately needs cash, and it makes sense for the
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: United States, who also needs oil, and the world needs oil.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: But it's not going to be easy. It's going to
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: take time and money and security to make sure these
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: oil companies are allowed to do what they need to
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: do in order to Get the oil fields ramped up
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: and running again.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: Which is why we see oil prices on the rise today,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: not dropping, because that's going to take a little bit
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: of a time. And we also have the new renewed
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: hostilities in Iran. By the way, thank you for the email.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: Somebody named Harry wanted to say, friendly correction, I believe
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: you said undermined rather than the correct past tense of undermine.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: So I don't know if I said undermined it. I
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have. I should know better. I thought I knew better.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: But if I did, I apologize. I don't want to
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: offend anyone's ears except liberals. Harry, I'm sure, is a good,
• 1:04:09
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• 1:04:15
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• 1:04:17
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• 1:04:24
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• 1:04:27
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• 1:04:30
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• 1:04:35
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Kelly, not to correct you, but a few minutes ago,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 9: you said Venezuela's going to send 65 million barrels of
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 9: oil for the petroleum reserves, they actually say it's 65
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 9: billion barrels of oil.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: All right. I appreciate the correction. I should have said
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: billion because 65 million is not very much by U.S. standards. Currently,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: the United States averages about 20 million barrels per day
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: is what we use. So 65 million seems like a lot.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: But it's like, what, a few days of oil in
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: the U.S. So not only do we pump enough to
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: fuel ourselves, we also export about 10 million barrels per day.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: And that is going up. That had been last year's number.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: So moving forward, I'm guessing we're at like 15 to
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: 20 million barrels that we're exporting annually. But again, our
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: reserves are at an– well, not an all-time low, but
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: the lowest since 1983. And so this Venezuela deal where
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: we're going to get $ 65 billion– I should have said
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: billion– is a big deal because we're currently like $ 300
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: million short in our reserves. With that being said, Christopher,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: you brought my attention to a story. Here in the
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: South Carolina Post and Courier talking about how there's two
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: gay organizations in South Carolina that are upset that they're
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: not going to get funding.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: Well, they haven't been told no yet, but the Arts
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: Commission put their funding on hold.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: Proud Mary Theater Company was set to receive $ 2, 063 in
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: grants plus $ 1, 803 in bridge funds for the fiscal year.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: obviously not a great deal of money, but maybe for
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: that organization, it would be. And why would we do that?
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: And I, you know, the story that you sent with
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: the posting and courier quotes a guy, Mr. Parks, who
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: is a, I know, I guess a former legislator. Is
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: he out now? But he was saying something along the
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: lines of, this is the kind of, if you're basing
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: your organization around sexual violence, orientation, most South Carolinians don't
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: want to fund that. That's the type of awards that
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: would get this funding stripped. And Shane Massey happens to
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: agree with that, saying that when they speak to the
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: average South Carolina taxpayers, they're not up for funding any
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: kind of sexual orientation, anything. Like it's our straight soccer club.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: or our transgendered disco club, or whatever. We don't want
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: to build art around sexual identification. Not saying you can't
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: do it. Obviously, you can. And we would encourage, because
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: they mentioned in the story, there's roughly 200,000... When did
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: queer become the term of choice, by the way? That
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: used to be an insult, Christopher.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's LGBTQ... plus, I thought.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: So there's a difference between lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgendered, and queers.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the queer means and are there
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: more gays or not, but according to the Post and Courier,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: who's quoting somebody named Sally McClellan, she said estimates are
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: there's 200,000 queer people in South Carolina, all of whom
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: we believe are taxpayers. Well, fantastic. And I'm glad that
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: they're here in South Carolina. They haven't felt the need
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: to move. I wouldn't see why you would feel the
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: need to move. But if there's 200,000 queer people, as
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: Mary says in this story, who like the Proud Mary
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Theater Company, then it shouldn't be a problem to raise
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: the nearly $ 5, 000 that you're missing.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: It's very similar to the earmark argument we had last
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: week about the fact that South Carolina taxpayers are not
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: only being saddled with the costs of doing business, but
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: we also get socked at the end. of the fiscal
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: year by building a museum in a small town in
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: south carolina that most of us will probably not ever
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: walk into or paving a parking lot in this small town.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: And that's a slippery slope as you said like if
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: you're talking about a museum in a small town would
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: it help the small town to have it sure brings
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: in more people to eat at their local restaurants, traffic
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: tickets go up if it's in McBee. There's all kinds
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: of things that happen when you bring in extra tourism.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: But is that the role of government? Consistently, most Americans
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: look at the roles of government to not include things
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: like that. However, there are a group of Americans, I'd
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: say 30 or 40 percent, who want government to play
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: an active role in our economies that way. I don't
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: happen to be one of them. Maybe you do. Let
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: us know on the Talkback feature. It's 829.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 7: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 7: Morning News.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: This is Richard from Blythewood.
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  Speaker 9: At some point over these next few weeks or a
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 9: couple of months, I'd like to hear from the candidates
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 9: what's the difference between Obamacare and Medicare for All.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: Richard from Blythewood. I love that. Thank you, Richard. I
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: certainly appreciate you taking the time to chime in with
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: us this morning on the Talk Back feature. And we
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: do have Annie Andrews scheduled. I'm going to be doing
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: a podcast with Annie on Thursday. We'll play most of
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: it back on the Friday morning broadcast. And, of course,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: we will be talking about that with Annie. A little
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: bit later on after this week, I'm hoping to get,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: I think her name's Casey Whitener. She is running as
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: the Libertarian. Did I read over the weekend, Christopher, that
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: the Constitutional Party guy dropped out?
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't see it. If he did, I'm not sure.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: I might have misread that, or that might have been
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: from a different state. So my apologies. I think his
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: name is Mark Hackett, if I remember right, is the
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: constitutional party. I'm not aware of any other candidates who
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: have won a primary. You know what I'm saying? There's
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: going to be other people that are calling themselves write-ins
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: that are paying to be on the ballot, but I
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: don't think we'll be interviewing them. We'll only talk to
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: the constitutional party, the libertarian party. the Democrat party and
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: the Republican party again, if they want. I mean, I haven't, uh,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: I haven't reached out yet to, uh, Casey and I
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: have reached out in the past to Darlene. We will
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: try that again, uh, trying to get her on the show.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: And I have not had any, uh, ability to, it
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: seems to contact Mark.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: So I don't think anybody else has either. Yeah.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's they're playing that one really tight to the vest.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: Have you seen though? And, and I saw this again
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: over the weekend, there is still some lingering bitterness between
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: the Graham and Norman camp. And I'm not sure we've
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: had that healing moment quite yet. You see, you see
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: a number of Norman people online saying they are willing
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: to either vote for Annie Andrews or write in Ralph
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: Norman in protest of Darlene Graham winning that special runoff. I, yeah.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: And I, You know, we had Alan Wilson on, was
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: it Thursday or Friday we had him on? And he
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: was talking about the healing process that takes, this was
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: a particularly bitter battle that we had in South Carolina.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: And it might not be this week or next week
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: or even next month. But we need you all to
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: come back together in November. We definitely need you all
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: to vote if you're planning on keeping Republican control. Now,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: I did a longer version of this on my podcast
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: this morning. It's about a 13-minute version today. Typically, it's
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: about 10 minutes if you listen to the national briefing
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. But it was talking about, is
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: a Lib— Or is a rhino better than a lib?
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: Because that's the term that a lot of people like
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: to use as a way of insulting Republicans. You're a rhino.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: And what does a rhino do? And I couldn't find
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: anybody more liberal, more of a quote-unquote rhino than Susan Collins.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: Susan Collins is the biggest current rhino in office, according
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: to the way they're graded at the Heritage Foundation. But
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: she still votes with the president about 75% of the time.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: Compare that to the most conservative Democrats who vote with
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: the president about 35% of the time, or somebody like
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren who votes like 4% of the time, or
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders about 8% of the time. So yes, a
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: rhino is better, infinitely better, more than half the time
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: than any liberal would ever be. And so when we're
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: talking about, you know, sitting it out or, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some people keep talking about we're going to let people
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  Speaker 2: learn their lessons. The Republicans are going to have to
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: learn a lesson. We're going to vote in Annie Andrews.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you understand how power works. You don't
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  Speaker 2: just learn a lesson in six years and that's the
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  Speaker 2: end of it. Democrats don't let those things go. So
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  Speaker 2: you're not just going to knock an incumbent out. If
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  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews is your senator, she's probably your senator for life.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably the way it's going to go.
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  Speaker 3: Incumbency is a very, very strong force to have to
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  Speaker 3: overcome at the ballot box.
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  Speaker 2: And we're currently almost split 50-50 in this country. But
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  Speaker 2: the energy in this country is with the far left.
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  Speaker 2: So you need to be cognizant of that and do
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  Speaker 2: everything you can to vote in moderates, anyone who leans right.
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  Speaker 2: The furthest away from the Democrat Socialists you can get,
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  Speaker 2: by my estimation, the better. So, again, I understand that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of feelings were hurt. Um, I didn't get
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  Speaker 2: my way in that campaign, but that's okay. I don't,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we all have a voice. We all have
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  Speaker 2: a vote. We used our vote. We didn't win the election.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine. This happens every year. By the way, I'll
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  Speaker 2: also point out again, for most of you who got
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: hurt feelings, you would have had hurt feelings because Lindsey
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: Graham was going to win too. You didn't like him either.
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  Speaker 2: So Lindsey Graham typically wins by about 10 points. Um,
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  Speaker 2: And he typically wins his primary race. If you just
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: go back through his Senate campaigns, he typically wins somewhere
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: around 55% to 58% of the vote. That's a Lindsey
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: Graham typical primary. And it doesn't matter if you have
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: 400 candidates in that primary against him, like we did
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  Speaker 2: in 2014, or if you have one. There's going to
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  Speaker 2: be about 46% of the Republican Party in South Carolina
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: who didn't like Lindsey Graham. Guess what? That same group
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  Speaker 2: doesn't like his sister. So there you go. We got
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  Speaker 2: what we got. This is our ride or die now.
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  Speaker 2: Now you all got to get on board. You might
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: not want to get on board today, and that's okay.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: Let your hurt feelings be hurt. I tried to give
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: you the 24-hour rule, Christopher. Yes, you did. You were
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: the one who actually reminded us of that, and I
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: think that that's a great rule. Once you get through
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: that mourning process or your anger or whatever it is,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: recognize that when you compare a Republican to a Democrat,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: you're infinitely better. If the goal is to shrink government,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: that's what a conservative does. If it's to maintain the
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: status quo, that's what a Republican will do. If it's
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: to shrink freedom, that's what Democrats and Democrat socialists do.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're cool with shrinking your freedoms, vote Democrat
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: or allow a Democrat to win. If you just want
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: to hang on to what you got, that's what a
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: rhino would do or a moderate or whatever you want
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: to call them. If you want to expand freedom, that's
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: what a conservative would do. Those are the life lessons
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  Speaker 2: that we all need to learn and get on board
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  Speaker 2: and vote accordingly. It's 841.
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  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 7: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: I just did a little research trying to find Mark
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  Speaker 2: Hackett's website. I still can't find it. The Constitution Party
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: has a website in South Carolina. I think is it?
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: Is it just the, I'm trying to find, it's just scconstitutionparty.com.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot find a private or a, excuse me, a
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  Speaker 2: campaign website for Mark Hackett. But if you look at
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  Speaker 2: the scconstitutionparty.com, welcome an introduction of the website of the
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: Constitution Party of South Carolina, Tim Crane, chairman. You can
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: read what their platforms are. And then here is our nominee,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: Mark Hackett. First thing he puts- Defund Israel, defund Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of where he's at. And so if
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: you're about defunding Israel and defunding the Ukraine, perhaps Mark
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: Hackett is your guy. I don't know a lot of
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: Republicans who are for defunding Israel, but there's some, obviously. Christopher,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: it was week zero in college football. Were you surprised?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at this. I didn't know that Florida
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: State was even playing New Mexico State.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of the ACC schools decided to use
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: week zero to launch.
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  Speaker 2: And they struggled mightily. According to this, New Mexico State
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: was within a touchdown in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it got a little tight. What struck me was
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: the attendance there. If you looked at some of those
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: California games, the Southern Cal game and the Stanford game,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 3: and people were talking about how brutally hot it was,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 3: and I'm thinking to myself, no, wait a minute. In
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: one week's time, it is, I mean, they're calling right now,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: Saturday in Columbia, 97 degrees, chance of showers or storms,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: but it is going to be hot here. Clemson goes
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: down to LSU, which is always brutally humid. It's going
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: to be upper 80s there, but still very hot by
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  Speaker 3: game time, even though it's a night game.
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  Speaker 2: Even though we say the SEC, it just means more,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: it's really the southeast of America where college football means more.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: So the ACC, they need to do a better job
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  Speaker 2: with their programs. You can't have Florida State, who's supposed
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: to be a perennial power, struggling like that against New Mexico,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: for God's sakes.
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  Speaker 3: Florida State's been struggling for a little while now.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but I thought they had kind of righted
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: the ship a couple of years ago.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Not so much.
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  Speaker 3: Not so much.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: Not so much.
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  Speaker 3: That's why their coach is on the hot seat.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: He's always on the hot seat. North Carolina with a
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: big win over TCU.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: How about South Carolina State? 87-0 over Savannah State in
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: Orangeburg Saturday night.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Savannah State is supposed to be
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: any good.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: They're not.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: But whether you're good or not, 80 points and it's
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: not a basketball game, that's amazing. You were excited, I think,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: about the Virginia NC State.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: I was looking forward to the Memphis NC State. UNLV game.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's the one. How'd that one turn out? Well,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: Memphis won.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: A bit of a surprise, but a lot of people
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: think that that might be a playoff spot that goes
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: to one of those two teams.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: And Stanford had their hands full with Hawaii. He was
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: trying to make a comeback. They pulled that one out 37-27. So,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: week zero's in the books. We're getting ready for week
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: one this week with both Clemson and South Carolina playing, obviously,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: a home game for South Carolina. Big deal in Columbia.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: It's now 8-49.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 7: Live from the State Capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: We had a lot of fun this morning, Christopher and I,
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  Speaker 2: and we certainly appreciate you spending part of your morning
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  Speaker 2: with us. We will be back tomorrow morning just after
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: 6 o'clock. And again, more talkbacks, more interviews, all of
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: that as we cover anything that's happening in South Carolina
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: and basically around the world with South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day. And thanks for getting it started
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