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Show Rewind 9-2-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Another hot day coming down in the Midlands and the Lowcountry,
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  Speaker 2: all of the South pretty hot today. My name's Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson is with us. Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like everybody is now talking about this Lindsey
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  Speaker 2: Clancy case, and it is... amazing to, I think most
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  Speaker 2: men that you can't get a conviction that we're days
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  Speaker 2: into this thing. And it's like the jury just keeps
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  Speaker 2: going round and round in circles. And here, this could
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  Speaker 2: be one of those stories that I discovered this yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: One of my friends posted it and I said, that
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  Speaker 2: can't be true. So I went and looked it up
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  Speaker 2: for myself. It is true. Um, in, Have you ever
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  Speaker 2: heard of a woman named Constance Fisher?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: We should all be familiar with Constance Fisher.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Kelly, who is she?
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  Speaker 2: She was a mom in Maine who back in 1947,
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  Speaker 2: somewhere in that area, she had three children, very Lindsay
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  Speaker 2: Clancy style, murdered all three of them. She claimed insanity.
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  Speaker 2: She was sentenced to a mental institution. This is where,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this gets really crazy really quick. Her husband
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  Speaker 2: never left her. He visited her all the time at
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  Speaker 2: the mental hospital. She was then released, came home, had
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  Speaker 2: three more children, and then murdered them at the exact
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  Speaker 2: same age that the other three were.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what a tragedy.
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  Speaker 2: This is an unbelievable, and then they didn't even sentence
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  Speaker 2: her to prison for that. They put her back in
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  Speaker 2: a mental hospital. She tried to escape the mental hospital
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  Speaker 2: and ended up dying, drowning in some sort of swamp
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  Speaker 2: as she tried to swim away or whatever. That story
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  Speaker 2: to me, I was like, there's no way that really happened.
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  Speaker 2: But she's got her own Wikipedia page. Wow. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to look that up, Constance Fisher of Maine.
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  Speaker 4: That's disturbing. What's disturbing about this current story, the Clancy story,
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  Speaker 4: is how many women have rallied around Clancy.
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  Speaker 3: She's become a hero.
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  Speaker 2: And what I've seen....
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  Speaker 4: Or I shouldn't say hero, a sympathetic figure.
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  Speaker 2: So here's what I'm thinking is happening. And I'd love
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  Speaker 2: to hear your opinions on the talkback feature. The majority
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  Speaker 2: of the women that I hear talking about this, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's in my own personal life or it's in just
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  Speaker 2: a news outlet, when they ask them, where are you
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  Speaker 2: getting your news from? Most of them are now using
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  Speaker 2: the phrase, and I can't believe that they say this
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  Speaker 2: with a straight face, TikTok.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: And so what most of them feel is if the
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  Speaker 2: man abandoned her, that what happened here is that she
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  Speaker 2: was going through postpartum depression and that he pretty much
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  Speaker 2: just isolated himself in work and he was doing his
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  Speaker 2: thing and she was over here struggling with the kids. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, look, I'm not forgiving her for that, but
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  Speaker 2: she snapped. And he was just trying to medicate her,
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  Speaker 2: just go get some more pills, blah, blah, blah. The
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  Speaker 2: reality of the situation was that he actually did take
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  Speaker 2: extended times off from work after each child was born
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  Speaker 2: to try to help be a part of that. On
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  Speaker 2: top of it, hired... he had a nanny and a
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  Speaker 2: housekeeper for her. She was being taken care of as
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  Speaker 2: best as he could do. Meaning you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: go change the diapers. You don't have to do this
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  Speaker 2: for the kids. We've got somebody here to do that.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to clean the house. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to cook. You just got to worry about your mental health.
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  Speaker 2: And she couldn't handle it. And whether you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what I, the part that I struggle with is in society,
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  Speaker 2: When people do horrific things, why we don't just say
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if they were insane or not. To me,
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  Speaker 2: that's a problem. We've had plenty of veterans who've done
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  Speaker 2: wonderful things for America, come home with post-traumatic stress disorder,
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  Speaker 2: have psychosis situations, and kill their wives or children. They
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  Speaker 2: should go to prison.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: You're not doing anybody any favor. You're not going to
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  Speaker 2: get them back to normal. Nor should they actually go
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  Speaker 2: back to society as proven here by Constance Fisher.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You can be sympathetic to her medical condition without condoning
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  Speaker 4: what Lindsay Clancy did.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And I wish that Americans could just unify around that.
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  Speaker 2: But apparently most Americans are not most Americans. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of Americans have escaped. We'll say the news cycle and
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  Speaker 2: gotten into an algorithm either on X or tick tock
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  Speaker 2: or Instagram or whatever. And they're just– because those things
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  Speaker 2: are algorithmically driven, all they want you to do is
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  Speaker 2: watch their videos.
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  Speaker 4: Here's what you should cheer today or here's what you
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  Speaker 4: should be enraged about today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you've already engaged with that type of content,
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  Speaker 2: then they just continue to spoon feed that to you.
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  Speaker 2: And then that walks you down that path of this–
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on.
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  Speaker 2: That lady was totally screwed. And they won't even expose
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  Speaker 2: you to the actual other sides of the story where
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  Speaker 2: you could see the husband with the nannies and all
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  Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. None of that will be exposed
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  Speaker 2: to you. So you just get that narrative and then
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  Speaker 2: you're like, oh, and it's not just obviously the Lindsay
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  Speaker 2: Clancy story. That thing is, for whatever reason, just become
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  Speaker 2: the biggest story in America today. And we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: The judge keeps telling them, go back, work on it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how you work through that if there's
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  Speaker 2: a group of people that are like, She's completely innocent.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not changing my opinion. And then the rest of
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  Speaker 2: you are like, she's completely guilty, at least of whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And we're not changing our opinion. They've been doing this for, what,
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  Speaker 2: three or four days now. And no one wants to
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  Speaker 2: go through this trial again. No, no. It's brutal. It's brutal.
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  Speaker 2: But that's. That's American justice there. You know what? This
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  Speaker 2: will be a Netflix documentary very soon.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Very soon. Look forward to that. I'm sure, Christopher. You
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  Speaker 2: know what? Maybe we'll talk about speaking of true crime.
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  Speaker 2: We had an arrest, ironically, in Tennessee over a Pawleys
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  Speaker 2: Island death that that thing kind of and they're not
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  Speaker 2: even they're from Virginia. What the flip happened there? We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about that possibly a little bit later on. Also,
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  Speaker 2: Republicans showing signs of life in the midterms. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about that and more. It is 6.09.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: 6.14, and we're in that midterm where typically, historically— If
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  Speaker 2: a president has both the House and the Senate in
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  Speaker 2: the midterms, they get slaughtered. That's just the way it's
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  Speaker 2: always been in America. It should be that way again
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  Speaker 2: this year. And I'll also say, I don't like to
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  Speaker 2: say this, but Donald Trump has done a pretty poor
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  Speaker 2: job of communicating with the U.S. voters. If you look
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  Speaker 2: at his polling, the day of Liberation Day is the
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  Speaker 2: day that the Trump administration approval ratings went in the
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  Speaker 2: toilet and they've stayed in the toilet ever since then.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not judging whether or not the idea of
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  Speaker 2: tariffs was a good idea or a bad idea. What
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying is he didn't communicate it in a way
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  Speaker 2: that gave confidence to the Americans that this was going
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  Speaker 2: to help bring back manufacturing jobs, which he can still
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  Speaker 2: point to and say, look, you can see the companies
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  Speaker 2: are coming back to America. You can see that it's
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  Speaker 2: just not quite fully developed yet um but it also
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  Speaker 2: you know this idea that it's driving up costs that's
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  Speaker 2: the that's the narrative and as everybody talks about the
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  Speaker 2: economy which they talk about in every polling cycle donald
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  Speaker 2: trump's not doing a very good job of communicating otherwise
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  Speaker 2: the republicans continue to do stupid stuff in general just
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  Speaker 2: as a party they've done stupid stuff nationwide They should
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  Speaker 2: be wiped out. However, that might not be the case
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  Speaker 2: as Harry Enten delivers the polling news.
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  Speaker 5: The GOP was underestimated by more than two points in
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  Speaker 5: major statewide races. It's happened a lot recently. Look, in 2002,
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  Speaker 5: it was three points. That was after 9-11. How about
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  Speaker 5: in 2014? It was three points. How about in 2016?
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  Speaker 5: I think we all remember that. Donald Trump shocked the world.
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  Speaker 5: The polls underestimated him by three points in the average race.
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  Speaker 6: Statewide race. How about in 2020?
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  Speaker 5: That was the biggest underestimation of Donald Trump, actually.
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  Speaker 6: Look at that.
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  Speaker 5: It was a five-point underestimation. And then in 2024, the
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  Speaker 5: same thing happened. The polls underestimated Donald Trump's Republican Party
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  Speaker 5: and across the Senate races, those statewide races, by not one.
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  Speaker 6: Not two, but three points.
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  Speaker 5: If the polls underestimate Republicans, remember all that blue that
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  Speaker 5: was on the map before? All that blue went, bye-bye,
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  Speaker 5: see you later, adios amigos. sayonara those democratic chances and
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  Speaker 5: those democratic hopes down there into lake erie look at
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  Speaker 5: this now what we're dealing with if in fact the
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  Speaker 5: polls underestimate the republicans is 53 republican senate seats compared
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  Speaker 5: to 47 republican seats and on the house side what
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  Speaker 5: about this if the polls undershot the republicans by three
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  Speaker 5: points well that's all you need the only thing.
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  Speaker 2: That would make that clip better is if he said
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  Speaker 2: that they go down into lake america uh But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're with the Republicans are within three points in all
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  Speaker 2: of these competitive races. And if they're underestimated by three points,
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  Speaker 2: which is what has been the norm for the last
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  Speaker 2: 25 years, they're going to win those seats. And if
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  Speaker 2: they win those seats, they actually expand their power in Congress.
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  Speaker 2: So they have a shot, Christopher.
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  Speaker 3: That's encouraging.
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  Speaker 4: But you still want and we we watch the news
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  Speaker 4: cycle and we think, all right, what's going to happen
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  Speaker 4: next in between now and November, because there, there's no
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  Speaker 4: longer an October surprise. It seems like every move in
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  Speaker 4: between now and that November election date, you know, something
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  Speaker 4: happens that causes the electorate to say, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 4: Should I vote the Republicans in again? Or wait a minute,
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  Speaker 4: maybe the Democrats have a better idea.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I always say that the Democrats have an
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  Speaker 2: advantage in the sense that human beings, not just Americans,
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  Speaker 2: human beings like to hear. that there's a plan to
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  Speaker 2: solve a problem. And Democrats always have a plan. Now,
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  Speaker 2: all their plans, you would think that it'd be like
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  Speaker 2: the Wile E. Coyote, that we would figure out all
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  Speaker 2: their plans suck, that everything that they've ever tried is
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  Speaker 2: backfires and blows up in our face and we would
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  Speaker 2: stop listening to them. But we continue to go back
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  Speaker 2: to them as a people. I don't, but, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you probably don't either, but most Americans like that
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  Speaker 2: idea of, okay, here's the problem. Here's our solution to
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  Speaker 2: get out of it. The Republican solution is, is really
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  Speaker 2: to just try to shrink government. That's their answer. And
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: it's a harder sell. If we can get bureaucracy out
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  Speaker 2: of the way, you can allow capitalism to pull people
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  Speaker 2: out of poverty, lower the tax rates, let people keep
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  Speaker 2: more of their money. That's empowering to the family. We're
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  Speaker 2: trying to encourage healthy growth financially, spiritually, everything. We just
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  Speaker 2: want you to be able to be you.
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  Speaker 3: Economic liberty.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. But that message is a hard sell because
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  Speaker 2: people are like, yeah. And then there's also the compassion
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  Speaker 2: angle of, well, I'm doing fine. But what about those
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  Speaker 2: who aren't doing fine? And the answer from the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: is going to be let the local communities handle that.
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  Speaker 2: Don't make it a federal issue that there's homeless people.
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  Speaker 2: Don't make it a federal issue that there's people who
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  Speaker 2: don't have enough to eat. Make it a state issue
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  Speaker 2: and or a town issue. I would prefer to actually
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  Speaker 2: make it just a local private charity issue. Because as
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  Speaker 2: you see, whether it's in Minnesota, California, wherever, where all
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  Speaker 2: these mass fraud things are being exposed, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people just didn't even know that that fraud was happening.
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  Speaker 2: That wouldn't happen if we were having a more personal
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  Speaker 2: relationship with those receiving the benefits.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you there.
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  Speaker 4: I also think for the Democrats, it's easier to be
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  Speaker 4: the opposition party. It's easier to be the party that says, no,
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  Speaker 4: this is wrong. We shouldn't be doing this. But when
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  Speaker 4: you ask them for their plans, you pointed out, Kelly,
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  Speaker 4: they have plans. but their plans often don't jibe with
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  Speaker 4: what Americans believe.
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  Speaker 2: Or reality. Or reality. We're going to put $ 1 trillion
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  Speaker 2: extra into the economy, and that's going to drive down inflation. Huh?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: I think I learned that that wouldn't work in about
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  Speaker 2: fourth grade. There's no way you can flood the economy
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  Speaker 2: with more cash and make my money more valuable. You
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  Speaker 2: make my money less valuable. That's just basic, basic, basic economy. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: but there's some good polling news possibly right there. And
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  Speaker 2: maybe we'll be talking to some more pollsters a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later on in the show. We're talking to some now.
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  Speaker 2: It is 620.
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  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're talking in the last segment about the
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  Speaker 2: idea that the Republicans still have a shot in this midterm,
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  Speaker 2: despite kind of blowing the last couple of years here
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  Speaker 2: of opportunities. And the reason, I think, is because the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats continue to focus on extreme stupid stuff. And so
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  Speaker 2: here in California, we see that a judge came out
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  Speaker 2: this week and said that the Department of Justice cannot
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  Speaker 2: sue the state of California for the Trump administration does
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  Speaker 2: not have the authority to stop transgendered athletes from competing
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  Speaker 2: in women's sports. And the U.S. district judge said, and
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  Speaker 2: this is a very odd to me interpretation, perhaps we
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  Speaker 2: can talk to some attorneys later about it, but says
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  Speaker 2: that she dismissed the case after determining that the federal
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  Speaker 2: government had not adequately notified California that its federal funding
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  Speaker 2: could be jeopardized if they continued to allow transgendered girls
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  Speaker 2: to compete on the girls teams. And it seems as
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  Speaker 2: if the Trump administration kind of announced that even before
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  Speaker 2: they got into office, that that could be the case,
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  Speaker 2: that would be the case. And so they've had two years,
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  Speaker 2: but that's not enough time. And if you look at California,
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  Speaker 2: there's a transgendered athlete named A.B. Hernandez, a track athlete
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  Speaker 2: who completely dominated the women's track and field meets this
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  Speaker 2: last season and won everything. You know, all the golds
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  Speaker 2: went to that one person. We've had several girls who
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  Speaker 2: came in second, third, those types of girls. They have
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  Speaker 2: stopped even going to these events now, and they surrendered
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  Speaker 2: their silver medals and whatnot. There's another girl named Lorelei
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  Speaker 2: Barrett in California, who is currently ranked 63rd in the country.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty good for a runner, I would think. Last year,
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  Speaker 2: when he was a boy, he was ranked 30,080. But
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  Speaker 2: he's currently the 63rd best woman. So this is such
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  Speaker 2: a stupid argument that the Democrats, this is a hill
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  Speaker 2: that they want to die on?
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  Speaker 4: Well, most Democrats, it sounded like, had abandoned this argument.
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  Speaker 4: But we saw it pop up again last night in Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 4: Ed Markey, who's 80 years old.
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  Speaker 2: 80.
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  Speaker 4: And who's pushing the idea again of transgender athletes. And
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  Speaker 4: he won it over his much younger opponent. That was
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  Speaker 4: one of the big issues in that race. Markey is
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  Speaker 4: going to die on that hill. And for some reason,
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  Speaker 4: Massachusetts Democrat voters said, yeah, we want another six years
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  Speaker 4: of Ed and transgender athletes.
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  Speaker 2: He's got the young, fresh ideas at 80. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just say what you got to say, I suppose. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll never forget Leah Thomas, the Penn State swimmer
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  Speaker 2: who just was middle of to back of the pack
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  Speaker 2: when it came to men's swimming. And then just came
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  Speaker 2: in and just like started breaking world records as a female,
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  Speaker 2: even though, listen, just in full disclosure, Leah, whatever, I
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  Speaker 2: forget what the male name that Leah had was 15
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  Speaker 2: seconds off their best times as a male. When they
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  Speaker 2: started the quote unquote transitioning, it's still dominated female sports
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  Speaker 2: just because again, muscular weight, just the bone structure, all
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  Speaker 2: of that is an advantage for men when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to physical stuff. And it's blatantly stupid that that's what
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats are fighting over. But Ed Markey, thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate that. It is now 629.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: So yesterday morning, was it around this time, Christopher? I
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  Speaker 2: can't remember. I like to try to keep the segments
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  Speaker 2: in line if possible. I'll be honest with you, I
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  Speaker 2: get distracted and I forget what I said when I
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  Speaker 2: said it. But yesterday, sometime in the morning, is when
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  Speaker 2: we got the audio of Representative Ralph Norman coming out
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  Speaker 2: of the first House session of the new session. And
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  Speaker 2: he came out and had a gaggle of reporters. And
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  Speaker 2: one of the reporters said, what would you tell undecided
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  Speaker 2: voters in South Carolina? And he said, I'd say write
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  Speaker 2: in Ralph Norman. And we took great exception with that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I this is I'm in a weird position because I
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  Speaker 2: can't find it on Bloomberg, but I see multiple outlets,
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  Speaker 2: politics and poll trackers, you know, just numerous outlets saying
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  Speaker 2: and reporters like this guy, Johannes Terrell, saying that Ralph
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  Speaker 2: Norman has told Bloomberg that he will support Darlene Graham
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  Speaker 2: and is not urging a writing campaign for the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senate in South Carolina. Um, I hope that's true and
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  Speaker 2: it'll be, it would be fantastic if the Graham campaign
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  Speaker 2: would reach out to Ralph Norman and try to get
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  Speaker 2: him on board to do something publicly with Darlene. I
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  Speaker 2: think that that would be awesome as well. When you're
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  Speaker 2: going through a healing process, which is what we're going
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  Speaker 2: to try to go through here in the next 40
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  Speaker 2: days or so, um, both sides have to kind of
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  Speaker 2: reach out to each other. And so, uh, according to
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  Speaker 2: numerous reports, um, the Norman people are saying that they
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: never heard from the Graham people, that they would have
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: expected by now, after he tried to reach out to
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: her and wish her congratulations, that they never heard from her.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: So is that a reason that he's still bitter? Bitter
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: enough to have at least suggested the other day that
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: people write his name in rather than vote for her?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I think he's bitter. Maybe that's a little tiny fraction.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I think more... Bigger for him was what would be
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: described as liberal backers who typically go after MAGA candidates
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: and take them out, that they went after him to
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: take him out and not her. He's also upset that
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the president got involved and spent that $ 800, 000 plus on
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: that Friday right before the election on Tuesday. He doesn't
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: like that. There's a lot of things he doesn't like.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: but he apparently did try to call her and he
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: never heard back. And I'm sure, listen, there's a lot
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: of South Carolinians with hurt feelings right now on both sides.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: A lot of people are saying on the Darlene Graham
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: side are saying, you guys are underselling her. You're not
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: giving her an opportunity to grow into the position, blah, blah, blah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: The Norman people are saying you screwed Ralph. You know,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: the establishment came in and chopped him at the knees, blah, blah, blah.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: We need to get these two together. And as, as
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: a leader, uh, Both Ralph and Darlene. Darlene is supposed
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: to be a leader now. She is our senator right now.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: She needs to be a leader and she needs to,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I would suggest, reach out to Ralph Norman and say, Ralph,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: can we cut a video together? Wouldn't that be great?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: You and I together saying we cannot allow the Democrats
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: to have any move in this state. And I said
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: it yesterday. I'll say it again. If you vote Anything
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: other than Darlene Graham, you're going to be helping Annie
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Andrews win. And if you help Annie Andrews win, whether
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: you think she's a, you know, what a milquetoast Democrat,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: she's a middle of the road or whatever, that's not
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: the important thing. What happens at the federal level is
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: the party in power then takes over all the committees,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: and they dictate policy moving forward. And that means you've
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: got– basically you're writing in– if you write in anybody
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: other than Darlene Graham, you're writing in Ro Khanna. You're
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: writing in Bernie Sanders. You're writing in the fine Maryland man.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: You're finding, you know, Chuck Schumer. All these people are
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the ones that are going to run the committees moving forward.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: We can't have that.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Imagine if Donald Trump were able to get a Supreme
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Court nominee or two in the last two years of
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: his term and Chuck Grassley's no longer chairing the Judiciary Committee.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: It's the ranking Democrat. How much tougher would that road be?
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: it would probably become almost impossible.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: And so you make a strong point there as well, Christopher.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: So anyway, again, I'm hopeful that what I'm reading online
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: is true, that Ralph did say that, and that it'll
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: come out in a Bloomberg report sometime today. I haven't
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: found it yet. And that I also would like to
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: encourage the grand people to reach out to Ralph Norman
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and encourage him to come and be a part of
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: something to try to heal South Carolinians right now, at
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: least on the GOP side of things. All right, it's 639.
• 21:37
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• 21:42
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560
• 21:45
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• 21:52
  Speaker 2: So CENTCOM announced yesterday at about noon that they were
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: attacking Iran, and they wrapped that up around 6.30 last night,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: according to their posts. They say that they hit IRGC targets,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: including air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets, facilities, mine
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: lane capabilities, and communication sites. The Iranians counter that they
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: have now hit two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump pushing back on what he calls fake news ABC.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Usually it's CNN, but fake news ABC, according to him, reported,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: and we'll just read it as Trump would say it.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I am not trying to force Iran to the bargaining
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: table as fake news ABC reports. I couldn't care less
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: if they sign a worthless to them agreement. I like
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: our position much better. With almost total control of the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Hormuz Strait and their economy totally collapsing, they're playing out
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: up and fight? That's the question. When are they going
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: to rise up and fight? And I would argue they
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: can't until we give them weapons. I've been saying that.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: For months now.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, you have, Kelly.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I said it when Donald Trump made that midnight post. Remember,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: he came on television at like 1230 and said that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: they had struck and that blah, blah, blah, and he
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: was encouraging the Iranians to get out there and fight.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: But they have no guns. It's like trying, the only
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: people who have the guns in Iran are the military,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: specifically the IRGC, and they will kill you as they
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: continue to play out over and over again. Now, they're
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: also playing up the fact the IRGC, that apparently– now,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: we don't know if this is true or not because
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: you're just getting it from state media– that one of
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the targets that was struck, I would assume by accident,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: if this is in fact real, was a wedding party
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: that was being had, and 50 were killed there yesterday,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: according to them. So they're going to try to milk
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: that for sympathy and say that the Americans are trying
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to kill newlyweds and things of that nature. Innocent civilians. Yes,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: that that's the goal. Obviously, that is not the goal.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: The goal is to get the Strait of Hormuz. The
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: goal had been, we didn't care about the regime change.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: We cared about getting rid of the nuclear weapons. And
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: then we had to start caring about the ballistic missiles.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: And by the way, they did use ballistic missiles again yesterday,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: the Iranians, and they continued to fire all over the place.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: And so thankfully, I think those were all taken out
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: of the sky by Jordan and Bahrain. That was actually,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I should say that was early this morning. that Jordan
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and Bahrain had Iranian missile attacks and drones fired in
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: their directions, but I think the 10 ballistic missiles fell
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: into the oceans. So that's good news. We will continue
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: to keep you up to date on Iran and all
• 24:47
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• 24:50
  Speaker 2: on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 24:56
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• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I know you folks have used the talkback feature and
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: requested that we do talk to Dr. Annie Andrews. Yesterday
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I gave you the sad update that unfortunately somebody on
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: her staff apparently has passed away, so she'll be unable
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: to do our interview this week. We are working to
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: get that happening sometime in the next few weeks. Casey Whitener,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the libertarian, also has agreed to an interview, so we'll
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: have her coming up Now, after the top of the hour,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: remember Fang Fang? There's an update on the Fang Fang
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: story that blows my mind when we connect the dots
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: just after the top of the hour.
• 25:33
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• 25:36
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• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Hello there.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: My name is Kelly Nash. It's 703. Christopher Thompson is
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the details guy, also the sports guy. And, you know, Christopher,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I have to remind myself that as one of the
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: fastest growing states in America, a lot of people may
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: not know about the Carolina-Clemson, you know, history, the rivalry.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: They might not even know that we call it Carolina.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: They thought that that was North Carolina. They might think
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: that USC is on the West Coast. So we have
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: to educate people constantly. We're constantly bringing you up to speed.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: whether it's on that or things like politics, because people
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: tend to get into politics a little bit later in life.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: So maybe in your 20s, you weren't really into it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: And then in your 30s and you start to be,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe have a family or whatever, you own
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: a business, you start saying, well, I wonder how this
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: would affect me. And you start delving into it a
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: little bit. And so you might not be familiar with
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: some of the stories of the past or the even
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: not too distant past. And That's why I have to
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: be careful when I say Fang Fang. For those of
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: us who've been around the conservative news talk cycle for decades,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Fang Fang is a name that we will live in forever.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: She was a very glamorous Chinese college student who ended
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: up seducing Eric Swalwell. And Eric Swalwell and her had
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: a very torrid affair. And then it came out that
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: she was working as a spy for the communists. And
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: one of the things that is really just ticked a
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: lot of, I don't even think just Republicans, I think
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a lot of Americans were ticked off, was that Swalwell
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: never really paid any price for that. That you were
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: literally sleeping with the enemy and continued to maintain your
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: committee assignments, even on things like foreign affairs. That should
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: have never happened. The Democrat leadership should have removed him
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: immediately from that. But that's neither here nor there. He's
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: now the former disgraced House member and former disgraced gubernatorial
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: candidate for California.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: That didn't last long.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: No, that fell apart as more and more women came
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: forward and more and more problems with his campaign finances
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: were exposed. But today, New York Post headline, nonprofit linked
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: to the seductive Swalwell honeypot, fang fang, has CCP ties. Well,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I knew that. and still placing interns in political offices
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: across the U.S. Now, that I didn't know. The Asian
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Pacific American Public Affairs, the APAPA group, is who Fang
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Fang worked for. That's how she got access to the congressman,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: was through that organization. Now, according to recently declassified information,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: we also know, That at least two other politicians were
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: having the intimate relations with Fang Fang is the same
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: time as Mr.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Swalwell.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Now, they don't name they don't name either one of them,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: but they do name they say one of them is
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: now a former Ohio mayor who had a liaison inside
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: his car, which was under electronic FBI surveillance at the
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: time because they suspected him of corruption. So we know
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: that she was sleeping with an Ohio mayor at the
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: same time that she's sleeping with the California congressman. And, okay,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: that's interesting and juicy and would make for a fun little,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: you know, I guess Netflix series.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's your miniseries right there.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: However, as Swalwell told the FBI when he was first
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: confronted with this, that his understanding was that Fang Fang
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: was the head of of the Asian Pacific American Public
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Affairs Group. He said, that's who I understand runs it
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: here in America. Well, true, not true. The guy who
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: actually runs it is Henry Yin, age 79. He's the
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: national chair. Now, here's where it gets really interesting for me.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Henry Yin identifies himself as a senior advisor to Ro Khanna.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Ooh.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Ro Khanna. Now, we talked about it, was it yesterday
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: or the day previous, that the Chinese have a 200,000
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: bot farm designed to scare Americans out of AI. That's
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the main goal. What is Ro Khanna saying about AI
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: right now? Two days ago, Ro Khanna said we should
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: stop it. Just pause.
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: Pause.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Just pause it. We don't know where it's going. We
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: don't know how many jobs we're going to lose because
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: of it. It's just too much. We should probably just
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: pause it, but prioritize American jobs over AI. Do you
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: think that that was actually written by the Chinese for
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Ro Khanna?
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Well, they couldn't have scripted anything any better for him
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: to say, a guy who's running for president.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: In a couple of years.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: And now wants to stop our AI efforts and let
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: the Chinese catch up.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, he didn't say that part.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: Sorry.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: He didn't say that.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: He just said we should stop.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: I put words.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: He would probably suggest that the Chinese would stop as well.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Look, if we stop, they'll stop. And then we can
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: save all the jobs, all the Chinese jobs and the
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: American jobs. Why can't we all just get along? And
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: now I'm quoting what's his name from the 94 riots.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Why can't we all just get along? Well, I just
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: would like to propose this, that Ro Khanna has not
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: had a comment on Henry Yin being one of his
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: senior advisors. If that is, in fact, not the case,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: you should condemn him for saying so. This guy has
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: CCP ties. This guy is an obvious communist. The APAPA
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: should not be allowed in getting anybody into any internships
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: in any congressional offices. That is a full blanket statement,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: full stop. If the intern is coming from the APAPA,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: we should assume that they are under Chinese control and
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: we will not allow them into our offices. I don't
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: know why that's a controversial statement, but apparently it is
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: because nobody in Congress has made a move to stop this.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: So they think that there's up to 14 right now
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Democrats who have APAPA interns. What the flip are they
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: doing there? What the flip? I am baffled and befuddled
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: as to how we just allow our country to be
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: given away to the communists, the socialists, and other revolutionary groups.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: And we're watching it happen in real time, right under
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: our noses. And nobody's even proposing a law that would
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: stop this.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: While you were out a couple of weeks ago, the
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Trump administration and the Defense Department came out and said, look,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: all these universities who have these PACs, treaties, these deals
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: with China to, you know, fund research to, you know,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: had these relationships with Chinese educational institutions, etc. You've got
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: to stop it. The Chinese, the Iranians, the Russians, they
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: were developing all these relationships with our American universities and
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: colleges to where the Trump administration had to say stop. Well,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: now they don't even have to worry about the colleges anymore.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: They were stealing secrets from us, sure. But now they
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: can steal secrets at the government level. They don't have
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: to worry about our trade secrets anymore. Things just go
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: straight to the top.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: What was the name of the Joe Biden thing that
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: they had at like the University of Pennsylvania? That was
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: funded by the Chinese as well. Joe Biden was basically
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: sponsored by the communists. And we as Americans just said, oh,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: we'll turn a blind eye to that. I mean, it's
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: really ridiculous how far we've let them go. And again,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: when Trump says they're laughing at us, I have no doubt.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: They're going to let us do this too? They're going
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: to let us do that? They already caught us, but
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: they're going to let us continue?
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Come on, Americans. Politicians, wake up. It is 7-11.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Perhaps... Somebody has more information than I've been given access
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: to and can clear up some of these questions that
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I have. But all the reporting that I'm seeing out
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: of Pawleys Island is that Georgetown County deputies have arrested
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: the parents of a young girl named Sailor Hayes. She
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: was five years old. The family is from Virginia, and
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: they were visiting Pawleys Island over the weekend. They had
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: rented a home. And sailor was someone who was, um,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: non verbal autistic. And she went missing according to her
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: parents and the police searched and they unfortunately found her deceased,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I guess, Monday morning. She had, it looks, appears they
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: don't have a final saying, but it appears that she drowned, uh,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: near the home. Okay. That's the, that's the outline of
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: the story. Here's where it gets really weird. The parents
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: apparently left Georgetown and didn't go home because they were
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: arrested yesterday in Tennessee. Does anybody know why they were
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: in Tennessee?
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: I don't think anyone knows. I haven't seen an update
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: on the story that says why.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Also, Saylor had a band that was supposed to be
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: worn forever. A tracking device, basically, because she couldn't communicate
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: with anybody. And so that band, according to police, is
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: what they were using to search for her. That was
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: actually back home in Virginia.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: They had forgotten, left it behind when they went on vacation.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: But according to the authorities, you can't take it off
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: unless you cut it. Somebody must have intentionally taken it off.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: That's not like a, oopsie, we forgot to put it on.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: You wear that in the bath, the shower, to sleep.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: You just never take it off is what they're saying.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: So what is the thing? And then also I'll just
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: throw out the, I couldn't help but notice the wife
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: is I think 31 years old. they, they pronounced her
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: name is Jordan, but you spell it G E O
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: R D Y N Jordan, Nicole Hayes, 31, the husband,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: John Herb Hayes, 70. I just had to point that
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: out that that is an.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Odd, that's a pretty big age disparity.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: And so he would have been, I guess, 67 or
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: 68 when his daughter was born. Um, And his wife
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: would have been like 28 or 29 years old. There's
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: just a lot of odd things happening in this story
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: that I keep looking for an update. Why were they
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: in Tennessee? Were they on the run? Did they realize, oh,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the jig is up. We screwed up here. We got
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: to get out of town. I don't know. But apparently,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: according to the authorities, they have them in custody, I
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: think in Tennessee, and they're extraditing them back to Georgetown County,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: according to the sheriff there, Carter Weaver. A sailor was
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: a vulnerable five-year-old child who depended upon the adults in
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: her life for care and protection. She deserved to be saved.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: She deserved to be protected. And so they'll be arrested
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: for that. This is just another odd true crime story, apparently.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: From the Grand Strand.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: They're going through another one right now, too, with the
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: whole Micah Miller issue that's gotten new life via Netflix.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: And you said you watched the first two episodes?
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: I've seen it all now.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, you finished it off!
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I finished it, yes.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: How did you find time in your preparation for the
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: best Gamecock coverage?
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but I found time.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Is it worth watching?
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, I didn't follow the story to begin with
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: all that closely, so I learned a lot. But, I mean, it's, yeah,
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: you get the creeps instantly, and you just, you wonder
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: about that congregation, the church congregation that followed John Paul
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: Miller so willingly.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: This is a pastor who's alleged to have murdered his
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: wife now?
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: Even if you don't believe any of the charges, even
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: if you simply listen to his testimony, you think to yourself, wow,
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: I don't think that's a man of God I could follow.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe I'll have to check that out on Netflix.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: What's the name of it? It's interesting. Death of a
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Pastor's Wife, I think. Okay, that's a good title. That's
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: an attention grabber. All right, well, we've got more attention grabbing.
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  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: So we were talking in the first segment this hour
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: about the Chinese government USA AI battle and how the
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Chinese are trying to slow us down. And a big
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: part of that is trying to scare people. And it's
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: been successful in a number of ways. One of the
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: ways that we were talking about yesterday, Christopher, was the
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: data centers and how I will say exaggerated the fears
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: have become about the overuse of water. and some other
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: things like that. Not to say that people are not
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: having bad experiences at certain locations. And we talked about
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: the ones in Tennessee and Georgia specifically that have, we're
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: just horrible.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: They've gotten more efficient, much more efficient.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: And yesterday, uh, when I posted it up, somebody, uh,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Came back, you know, as a smart butt. And it
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: was actually, I think, paraphrasing AOC, who said something similar. Well,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: if Trump loves the data center so much, why don't
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: we put one up in Palm Beach by his house? Well,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: I looked at it. The CloudSouth data center operates in
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Palm Beach, less than two miles from Donald Trump's home
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: at Mar-a-Lago. So he backed that plan even a couple
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: of years ago, I guess, is when they started building that.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: And obviously, if it's going to get Palm Beach... you know,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: the county council or whatever approved it, then it has
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: to be something that the very wealthy are comfortable with
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: having in their homes. They're not going to allow that
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: up there. At the same time, yesterday, John Fetterman chiming
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: in and he took a screenshot off of a Bloomberg headline.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Trump says, let data reign. And he said, we must
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: win the war for AI supremacy over China. The The formant,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: the anti-argument through misinformation, there's nothing more damaging to the
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Democrats than agreeing with Trump. But on data centers, what's
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: right is right. We need more data centers.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: You think he's going to change parties?
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't because I think that there's certain
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: things about the Republican Party that he couldn't tolerate. I
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: think he would be a great independent. I think Fetterman
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: would be a fantastic independent. I remember Bernie Sanders kind
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: of for a while called himself an independent. Then he
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: launched the I'm a Democrat socialist thing. Right. But he
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: always caucused with the Democrats. I don't know. They might
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: not let Mr. Fetterman play anymore with their reindeer games.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: You're going to go caucus by yourself in the corner there, Fetterman. Anyway,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: there's an update on that. It is 729.
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I read these stories and my head spins. I can't believe.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: By the way, good morning. This is Kelly Nash with
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson, South Carolina's Morning News. The Ninth U.S. Circuit
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Court of Appeals is a clown court. And it's based
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: in San Francisco, but it controls pretty much the West Coast.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: And so now you've got the Idaho Attorney General filing
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: an emergency motion for a stay pending the appeal at
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: the Ninth Circuit. Now, the Ninth Circuit is trying to
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: reverse Roe v. Wade, apparently. And they're saying that the
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: state of Idaho does not have the right to have
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: an abortion law. I mean, this is fantastic. These people
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: are so out of their minds. They're just so power hungry. That, yes,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: we're saying at the Ninth Circuit that the U.S. Supreme
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Court got it wrong.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, the Supreme Court just ruled not too terribly
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: long ago.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: It's a state's decision.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Not according to the Ninth Circuit.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: The Ninth Circuit says, no, Idaho, don't care. You're not
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: allowed to do this. You cannot. You have to go.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: We need you to mirror the California laws. That's what
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: we need in the Ninth Circuit. Who the flip are
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: you people? Who are you people? It's like when you're
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: a kid, remember? Who died and left you king? I mean,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: who are you people? Do you not understand how laws work?
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: You're judges, for God's sakes. The judge that is above you,
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: you got to recognize... I think that's the bigger problem
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: in America, Christopher, is we, for some reason as a society,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: continue to diminish the role of authority in people's lives.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: There is authoritative figures. And as a group, as a society,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: we put power into certain groups. And we say that
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: that guy or gal, that office holds the authority over
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: this segment of society. But when just universally, everybody says, nah, No,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: the general's not the general now. If nobody's going to
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: do what the general says, then are they still the general?
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Or is it just mob rule? It seems as if
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: the Ninth Circuit wants mob rule. But even under that,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: the people of Idaho are... very conservative people usually especially
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: when it comes to this so you would think okay
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: well then the mob would rule and there would be
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: absolutely if they were to rule there would be no
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: abortions there'd be none at all in idaho if the
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: mob ruled but nah this the people of california are
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: going to come in and tell the people of uh
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: idaho let me show you how to do.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: It you've got no right to say anything.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: The attorney general for Idaho is saying that you're ignoring
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Idaho's rich pro-life history and our deeply rooted abortion rights,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: citing the court rulings. And again, the Supreme Court already
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: ruled on this, that it's our right. This is such
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: an unbelievable development. And again, the Ninth Circuit Court is the,
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: by far, it's not even close, right? It's like five
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: to one. How many of their rulings get overruled as
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: opposed to other courts? Now, again, we've mentioned that the
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: first and the second are a little bit crazy. Those
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: are the New England and the New York appeal courts.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: But the San Francisco-based is just loony, totally loony. And also,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: they mentioned this in the story, which I just also
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: find interesting. The Ninth Circuit also is the one. that
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: tried to block the law that would force schools to
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: tell the parents if the child was identifying as a
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: transgender and that the schools could then not only not
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: tell the parents, you can't tell the parents that the
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: kid told you that, but then it was the school's
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: obligation to help them have transgendered surgery unbeknownst to the parent.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: That's where the Ninth Circuit came down on that one.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Which would seem to be against everything that any American
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: would believe. Wouldn't you as a parent, even if you're
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: a liberal who wants to help your child go through
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: that transformation, so to speak, wouldn't you want the school
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: to tell you?
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: Jim just comes home one day as Jane and you're
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: just supposed to, oh, well, the school helped.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: Thank goodness.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Again, I'll point out the DSA, and I'll play that
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: clip maybe later on. I think I still have it
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: saved up here. The DSA, the Democrat Socialists of America,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: have made it part of their stated goals that they
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: don't think you should be allowed to raise your child
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: because you can't. You don't have enough information to raise children,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: and that's why we should basically outlaw parenting in America.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: That's the basic premise. They use some funny language to
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: get you to that, but basically the concept would be
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: We as the state, with the experts, we have the
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: best nutritionists, we have the best scientists, we have the
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: best this, that, and the other thing. What do you have?
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: You have a job. You're overwhelmed as it is. Let
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: us take over for you. We'll take the child. We'll
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: raise the child. We'll turn the child out the best way.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: We're going to outlaw parenting in America. That is the
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: move of the Democrats. Maybe we'll talk more about Ed
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Markey again, because the more I think about that Ed
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Markey win yesterday in Massachusetts, it's just... befuddling that, that,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: that this elderly, I don't know. He's like a social jihadist.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: He's a jihadist against the constitution. And this guy continues
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: to win races again. And you had, and what was
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: the house member's name who ran against him?
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: Seth Moulton, I think.
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: Seth Moulton.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm no Seth Moulton fan, but yeah, He
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: lost by, what.
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: 30 points?
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: He got trounced.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: Because he was saying, maybe we should just come back
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: to the middle a little bit. Just a little bit,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: come back to the middle.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Too mainstream for Massachusetts.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: We got a lot to get to. And if you've
• 48:08
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• 48:10
  Speaker 2: use the talkback feature. It is 740.
• 48:12
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• 48:28
  Speaker 2: I have to just talk a little bit more about
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: this Idaho decision from the Ninth Circuit. Christopher, the U.S.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: District Judge Lynn Windmill, who is from Idaho, by the way,
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: but now serves on the Ninth Circuit, says the U.S.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Constitution protects the right to therapeutic abortions. I would love
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: to see where that is in the Constitution.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't seen it yet.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Therapeutic abortion. And then he goes on. I'm just reading
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: this from the article. The doctor gives abortion doctors carte
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: blanche to decide what presents a non-negligible risk of serious
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: and lasting harm, including the risk of infection from a cesarean.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: If you had a C-section, that might give you an infection.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Better to have an abortion, according to this judge. The
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: attorney general for Idaho says this is a linguistic leap
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: by equating health with life.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: That's pretty good.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: And then they also point out– this is the thing
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: that– when we talk about how liberals will ignore facts,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: here is a fact. This is just raw numbers that
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: you can't debate, OK?
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Before the Roe v. Wade overturn in Idaho, they averaged 18.7
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: deaths per hundred thousand births, women dying 18.7 per hundred thousand.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Once that changed and it was then up to the
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: States and they've really shrunk the ability to have abortions
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: in their States. They're now down to 4.29 deaths per
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: hundred thousand. So in fact, Many more women are staying alive.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: They're healthier today with these abortion policies that Idaho put
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: into place. Went from 18 down to four deaths per 100,000.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: And yet he says, out of an abundance for caution,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: we need to increase more accessibility to the abortions, despite
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: the Roe v. Wade ruling that it's a state's decision.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: He says, no, I know better. Again, liberals can't help
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: themselves from being liberals.
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: So does the Supreme Court again step in or did
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: they just simply reprint that verdict?
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Just mail it to them?
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: Here's what we said a couple of years ago. We
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: are the supreme law of the land.
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: And again, I would love for him to show me
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: in the Constitution the right to a therapeutic abortion, whatever
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: that means, a therapeutic abortion. Anyway, that story just continues
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: to blow my mind. If you have thoughts on that
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: or other things, the iHeartRadio app has the talkback feature.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: We love hearing from you, Christopher Thompson, and I both do.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: It's 748.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 51:14
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• 51:15
  Speaker 2: All right, it is 753, so we're a little bit
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: on a tight schedule here. I know coming up this weekend,
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend, some of you have plans to head
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: to the beaches. A lot of us have plans to
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: be attending football games. And if you're a Clemson fan,
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: you might not be going to LSU. You'd probably be
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: watching that game. So there's a lot of that going on.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: But I did get an email. I thought I'd just
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: mention it to you from a guy named Elvis Tafoya.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Elvis is apparently a listener in West Ashley. Appreciate you listening, Elvis.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Also says, I am the executive director of operations for
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Freedom Watch USA. where our founder, Larry Klegman, is having a...
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not even sure what this means. A citizen's grand
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: jury will be held in downtown Charleston this Saturday, and
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: they're going to be talking about anti-Semitic speech, where it
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: crosses into incitement of violence against the American Jews. And
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: so if you're interested in attending that, I suppose you
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: could just look up Freedom Watch USA. I'm sure they'll
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: promote what time that is and stuff. But That's something
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: else to be doing this weekend if you're interested in that. Christopher,
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: you and I are going to be sweating our butts off.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: It is going to be hot, dangerously hot, it sounds like,
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: on Saturday. So keep that in mind.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: I read a feels-like temperature of 106.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: I've seen 106, 107.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: And I'm wondering what the on-field temperature will be like.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: So I'm concerned about the players. No need to break
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: out the black this weekend.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: Stick to us.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: There's fashion advice. There you go. From Christopher and Kelly
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: to you, it is 755.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 53:01
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  Speaker 6: All right.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash here, joined by Rory O'Neill. Good morning, Rory.
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: Hey there, Kelly.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: Happy Wednesday.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday. I guess it's not a surprise when you
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: looked at the polls heading into last night's primary in Massachusetts,
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: but still surprising to me nonetheless that 80-year-old Ed Markey
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: wins by 30 points over the more moderate Seth Moulton.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: And Markey making the claim that we need the Transgender
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Bill of Rights, we need the abolish ICE. I mean,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: he is as far left as you can go, and
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Massachusetts Democrats are loving it.
• 53:47
  Speaker 6: Well, right.
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: And he had the endorsements of people like AOC and
• 53:51
  Speaker 7: Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: And if you've got that backing among.
• 53:57
  Speaker 7: Massachusetts Democrats voting in a primary, yeah, it was an
• 54:01
  Speaker 7: uphill challenge for.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Moulton, to be sure.
• 54:04
  Speaker 7: But Moulton's argument was, look, I'm 47 years old. Markey
• 54:08
  Speaker 7: has been in Washington since before I was born. He's
• 54:13
  Speaker 7: 80 years old. You know, we could have a Ted
• 54:15
  Speaker 7: Kennedy repeat situation. You remember that years ago, the Democrats
• 54:20
  Speaker 7: had that 60 vote majority in the Senate, the super majority,
• 54:24
  Speaker 7: but only had it for a couple of months because
• 54:26
  Speaker 7: Ted Kennedy then got ill. And after his death, he
• 54:29
  Speaker 7: was replaced by a Republican in the U.S.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Senate, Scott Brown.
• 54:33
  Speaker 7: And that, you know, really sidelined a big part of
• 54:36
  Speaker 7: the Democratic agenda back then. And Moulton's argument was he's
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: been there too long, has the wrong ideas, and this
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: could be another situation with Ted Kennedy. But Democratic voters
• 54:45
  Speaker 7: in Massachusetts weren't buying it, as you said, Markey or
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: Mackey winning by more than 30 points.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Yeah, it's just he destroyed them. One of the
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: things that I saw that was put out here is
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: a whistleblower says that the Postal Service's computer system could
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: crash and jeopardize mail-in voting for the upcoming midterms. What
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: do you know about that?
• 55:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so here's what the whistleblower is saying. They filed
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: a complaint under whistleblower laws saying that the U.S. Postal
• 55:16
  Speaker 7: Service is trying to rush together a new system that
• 55:20
  Speaker 7: scans mail-in ballots as they go out from the Postal Service,
• 55:25
  Speaker 7: essentially saying that the complaint says that if one ballot
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: in a batch doesn't have accurate information from the barcode
• 55:34
  Speaker 7: as it relates to the registered voter, then the whole
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: batch of ballots gets tossed out. So, you know, if
• 55:41
  Speaker 7: my ballot is wrong, sorry, Kelly, you're not getting your
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: ballot either. And that's what the whistleblower is alleging here
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: in a system that really is sort of supposed to
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: be on hold because the courts haven't really settled on
• 55:55
  Speaker 7: this issue of President Trump's involvement here in trying to
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: make sure that mail ballots only get sent to people
• 56:01
  Speaker 7: who are qualified to vote.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, here in South Carolina, we just had a... Court ruling,
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: I think Monday, about saying that our mail-in voting law
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: was unconstitutional. So we're looking at that. I don't think
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: that they're going to affect it before the midterms, but
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: that's an interesting thing. Because I've always said I don't
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: trust the U.S. Postal Service with much of anything anymore.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: So my vote is too valuable to mail in.
• 56:26
  Speaker 7: Well, and there's also this idea, though, too, of like,
• 56:28
  Speaker 7: why is the federal government getting involved, right?
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: This is mostly a state thing.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: Even when you vote for a president, even if you've.
• 56:35
  Speaker 7: Cast your ballot for Donald Trump in South Carolina, that's
• 56:37
  Speaker 7: not a vote for Donald Trump. That's a vote for
• 56:40
  Speaker 7: electors in South Carolina. to go and cast their votes
• 56:44
  Speaker 7: at the electoral college for Donald Trump. So that's why
• 56:47
  Speaker 7: all of this should be more of a state function.
• 56:49
  Speaker 7: So really, I think more so than the points of
• 56:52
  Speaker 7: what the president is trying to do is this whole
• 56:54
  Speaker 7: role of exactly where the federal government stands in elections.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: That is an interesting, I've not heard it you know,
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: presented that way. That is an interesting, I, I appreciate
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: that Rory. That is fantastic insight.
• 57:08
  Speaker 7: All I shoot for is interesting. I gotta tell you,
• 57:10
  Speaker 7: that's all I've hoped for today. That's, that's all I
• 57:12
  Speaker 7: can do.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Mission accomplished. You're off to a great start, Rory. Thank
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: you so much.
• 57:17
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: All right. Have a great day. That's Rory O'Neill. And yeah, interesting. Well,
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: maybe we'll delve into that. The fact that the United
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: States postal service, if it's a state's issue, uh, They
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: shouldn't be involved at all. That's a federal agency. You
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: got to keep them out of the post. You got
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: to keep them out of the elections, Christopher.
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: And interesting that Rory mentioned the electoral college system. We
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: vote for electors, not for the candidates themselves.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: Remember, the Democrat Socialists of America, one of their planks
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: on their platform, abolish the electoral college.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: Well, keep mailing in your ballots there, DSA members. And
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: you've got Ed Markey at the top of the ticket almost,
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: it seems, these days. All right, we've got more to
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: get to. If you have thoughts on any of those things,
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: use the Talk Back feature. We'd love to hear from you.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: It's 808.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Going back to 1890, Congress at that time felt that
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: it would be important to conserve resources historic properties, and
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: or possibly just not have them developed. And that's why
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: they started this easement thing. And so we've been dealing
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: with it, and they keep modifying it through congressional acts.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: And they've been doing that, again, for more than 100 years.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: There is a farmer who kind of I want to
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: say kind of came a little bit of a folk
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: hero about a year ago when he turned down a
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: lot of money to sell his farm in Colorado. He said,
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: I can't do it to the community. I can't do
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: it to my family. They were offering him millions and
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: millions of dollars to buy his 2,700 acres and turn
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: it all into a solar farm. So he talked to
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: a financial planner and they said, you could get an
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: easement on this. So they went and he spent a
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: million dollars, a million dollars hiring dozens of experts, including
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: like mineral geologists, drilling firms, solar engineers, tax attorneys, everything.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: They all came in They came up with the valuation
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: of the property. He submitted that to the IRS. And
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: that was, you know, going to give him massive tax
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: breaks and could even write off possibly some of his
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: income and stuff. Because, again, Congress prioritizes this. They want
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: you to not develop certain lands. He's qualified. Well, apparently not.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: So could it be? That could it be, this is
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: just me being suspicious, that the IRS is still filled
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: with bureaucrats who would love to see the Green New
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: Deal come to pass. And that they are personally ticked
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: off that they did not sell it to a solar farm.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Here's what happened in that area. According to his attorney,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: there's 10 home or 10 estates that applied in the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: last five years for easements. They all spent millions of
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: dollars getting their properties valued. They, again, with the independent experts,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: came up with a valuation of those 10 properties of $ 358. 2 million.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: The IRS didn't send a person to the properties. No
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: one came. They looked on Google Maps and they valued
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: all 10 properties combined at $ 1. 57 million. Wow. 99% of
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: the appraised value gone. no longer eligible for anything. In
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: other words, you're screwed.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: Your land is worthless.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: These are the same people who valued Mar-a-Lago at $ 18 million. Again,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: it's a flipping former like hotel. I mean, this thing
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: is massive, right? It's some of the most valuable real
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: estate in the world. With a straight face, they told
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: the court, Mar-a-Lago, that's worth about $ 18 to $ 20 million.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: And then just for giggles, they brought up a single
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: family home. A single family home with about one one-hundredth
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: of the property size, which sold like a mile from
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: Mar-a-Lago for $ 57 million. And they said, but Trump's Mar-a-Lago
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: is nowhere near as nice as that three-bedroom, two-bath. That's
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: nowhere near as nice. So again, Mar-a-Lago valued somewhere around
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: a half billion dollars. They gave them an $ 18 million estimate.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: So this is something that the IRS does to punish people.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: And again, this guy is now in a world of
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: hurt because he's like, I don't know what to do.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm, he's like 80 years old. Is he
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: going to have to get out there and start working
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: that farm again, trying to figure out how to make it,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: make it go. He might, but I am so tired
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: of hearing about government being weaponized against the citizens. It's
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: supposed to be helping. And instead they're hurting us. And, and,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: My heart breaks for that guy's family. My heart breaks
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: for that entire community. All of those 10 homeowners, or
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: excuse me, estate owners, they're in a bad way because
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: they're now going to have to try to figure out
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: how to get out of this mess. And they're going
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: to have to spend millions in law fees. and all
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: kinds of other things, trying to, again, fight the IRS.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Good luck with that. Anyone who's ever had to fight
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: the IRS knows that's not an easy battle to win.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: They're pretty well stocked with lawyers over there at the IRS.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: Did Colorado wind up placing that solar farm someplace else?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: Do we know?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't say in the story. I mean, again,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: this would be a solar farm that's just trying to
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: buy people's property to put in miles of those almost
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: worthless solar panels that don't do much. But again, that's
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: just an aerial view of the situation. All right, if
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: you have thoughts on that, maybe you've been the victim
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: of weaponization of government against you. I'd love to hear
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: about it on the iHeartRadio app. Use the TalkBack feature.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: It's 817.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: So yesterday in South Carolina, a judge named Jessica Salvini blocked...
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: the lawsuits of former football players Matthew McDoom, Dione Hill,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: and kicker Reese Verhoff. That was a Cincinnati cornerback, a
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin cornerback, and the North Carolina kicker. And she says,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: for those plaintiffs that do not reside in the state
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: of South Carolina, do not currently attend a South Carolina
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: institution and may have only competed in the state against
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: South Carolina educational institutions. The court questions the ability to
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: address any of the requested relief. So basically, the way
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: I understand it, these three players were looking for an
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: angle to get a judge somewhere, possibly because maybe we
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: don't know was Clemson or South Carolina or Coastal or
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: somebody talking to these guys because of the age-based And
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: what did you get? Five years of eligibility is what
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: they said now.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: And so they're saying we only used four. We should
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: get that fifth year. And they were looking to sue
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: to get South Carolina, I guess, at least to come
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: along so far. But South Carolina's appellate court says no. Well,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: she just ruled on on their standing in the case.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: She said they didn't have any because they weren't, you know,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: South Carolina residents who were playing for South Carolina schools.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: She didn't rule on the merits of the case and
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: the merits of the case are That's what's being argued
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: in courtrooms across the country. And Kelly, the one we're
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: going to be watching closely is the courtroom in Baton
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: Rouge tomorrow, because that's where a judge is going to
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: figure out, does the SEC have the ability to enforce
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: rules against its member institutions? LSU, of course, has been
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: the main culprit so far in trying to bring in
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: players who have already played in NFL training camps. who
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: have already signed NFL contracts and wants them to come back.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: The age eligibility issue, there have been a number of
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: athletes who have won in courtrooms saying, all right, well,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: we didn't get the fifth year.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: We want it now. That's one issue.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: But most people, most of the courts have gone with
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: these kids in those cases. On the other hand, the
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: whole issue of NFL players and for that matter, NBA,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: WNBA players coming back to school after having already taken
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: part in some kind of pro activities, that's the case
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: that's getting the most attention. And that will be at
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: least partially decided in a Baton Rouge courtroom tomorrow, whether
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: the SEC has the right to enforce its rules or
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: whether these member institutions like an LSU can sign these
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: men to come back and play college football.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you, Christopher, the original five-year rule that
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: was passed, does that go back? Or is that just
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: from like 2020 on? That's just, I think it was
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: 2022 on. Okay, so it's not as if somebody who
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: was a former basketball player could come back at age 30.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: Well if you if you were able to convince a
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 4: courtroom that you deserve that that you were discriminated against
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: and you deserve that fifth year now mainly we're seeing
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: a lot of the kids who were just outside that
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: 2022 window yeah that are suing to come back and
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: play a fifth year but i don't know why you
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: would want to at 30 but there's the possibility exists
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: if you find a friendly courtroom or a friendly judge.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you could be somebody I'm thinking about
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: basketball players that aren't good enough for the NBA, but
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: you were dominant in college. And then you went and
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: you played in the European league and the Europeans typically
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: don't pay anywhere near what the, what the NIL money
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: would pay nowadays. So I could go from 400 grand
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: a year playing for Barcelona or something. And I could
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: come back and make a million a year playing for
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: Ohio state.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, we've seen a number of kids already
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 4: who have sued saying we didn't have access to NIO money,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: but where's ours. Where's our share of all the money
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: we made for conferences and for universities from TV contracts.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: I didn't have access to MTV till I was a
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: senior in high school. I want to sue for that.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: You should sue your cable system.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Goodness gracious. All right. Well, we're, we're, we thank you, Christopher,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: keeping a close eye on that. I love sports, but
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: I don't love it enough to get into the courtroom
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: aspect of it and I'm appreciative of the fact that
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: you're following it closely.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: Well, isn't it nicer when we decide things on the
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 4: field of competition instead of in a courtroom?
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be nice? I can't wait. It starts this weekend.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: For real, for real. All right. Thoughts on NIL money
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: and all that other stuff? Are we ruining college sports forever?
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: Let us know on the Talkback feature. It's 828.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 6: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: So we were talking earlier about how a lot of
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: the things that Donald Trump has been focused on is
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: more long term benefit to the United States. And unfortunately,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: he doesn't do a very good job of communicating that.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: And so as you go through the temporary pain of
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: that benefit. people just experiencing a little bit of pain.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: And they're like, well, where's the benefit? And it's coming.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: And that's the problem. So here's an interesting one that, again,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: this is one of those things that you might, it
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: might not have ever become obvious until it was too late.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Understanding that China is our enemy. You should not look
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: at China any differently than you looked at the Soviet Union.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: For those of you who are old enough to remember
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: the Soviet Union, we never would have trusted the Soviet
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: Union with anything, anything. But we do trust China. to
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: make a lot of crap for us. And they hate us.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: And they want to overthrow us. Now, that's not a
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: blanket statement on Chinese people. I'm talking about the Chinese government.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: So with that in mind, understand that with this new
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: Trump RX deal that he cut, Again, there's some impressive figures. $ 19. 6
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: billion of U.S. investment has been made in manufacturing here
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: with drug plants since February. Also, People who buy prescriptions
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: through TrumpRx have saved since February roughly $ 700 million. So
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: it's driving down the cost of prescriptions. But again, what
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: is each individual saving? I don't know, maybe $ 30, $ 40
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: a month, but that's great. But the best part of
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: this deal is the stuff that we don't see, which
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: is currently, this is unbelievable, 86% of the medication that
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: we consume in the United States has been currently made
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: in China. The goal is to get it to 100%
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: made in the U.S. So it takes a while, but
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: that 19.6 billion investment in U.S. plants and bringing in
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: the raw antibiotics and the ingredients to start manufacturing all
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: that stuff here in America, that's something that he'll be
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: out of office before we actually recognize that benefit. But
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: that is a fantastic development, Christopher.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 6: No doubt.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: And it's not only financial, and I don't want to
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: put on my tinfoil hat here, but You know, if
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: we're worried about what they're putting into our software and
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: what they're putting into websites and everything else, the concerns
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: about technology in China, shouldn't we be worried about what
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 4: they're putting into our bodies?
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: And, you know, I think we're now at a time, Christopher,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: where more and more Americans are becoming more concerned, not
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: just about the medicines or the supplements, but even the
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: food and what kind of chemicals were put on the food.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: The Maha movement should be a nonpartisan issue. But because
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: it's under the Trump administration, it's become very partisan. But
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: I think Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to some, seems like
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: a lunatic. And he does seem like a lunatic when
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: he starts messing with snakes. I'll be honest with you.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: When I see him grab snakes by the head or whatever,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: that freaks me out. But a lot of the concerns
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: that he has brought forth have been the concerns of
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: a lot of people who are nonpolitical. They just want
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: healthy food. And there's obviously something wrong with Americans. Right.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: We are the most heavily medicated group of people on earth.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: It's like 40% of all prescriptions on earth go to us,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: 300 million, 330 million Americans. There's 8 billion people on earth,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: and yet we consume 40% of the prescriptions. Why? There's
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: either we're over-prescribed or there's something wrong with our food supply.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe a combination of the both.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: And imagine how much money we would save on our
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: healthcare system if we were a healthier society in general.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: Which gets us back to the age old, the profit
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: is not in the solution. You don't want to get
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: a cure for it. You want to just string it along.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: And could we even have a cable news network if
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: we didn't have prescription medications advertising? I don't even know
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: if they would exist. Why not be there?
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 4: Well, Kelly, this all goes back to the polling data
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: we talked about a couple of weeks ago. The fact
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: that Republicans have found one of the big issues going
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: into the midterms is going to be affordable healthcare and
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: attacking healthcare companies for raising the costs of living for
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 4: the average American. And, and with some of the polling
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 4: showed that this was more important to Republicans than the
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: save America act.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: That shows just how much affordability is going to be
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: the key issue going into this election. So anything Trump
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: can do, and you're right, he's got to put a
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: better face on it. He's got to know how to
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 4: sell this story to the American people because he's making inroads.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 4: It's just, I don't know that, I don't know that the,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: the administration is putting it out there with enough of fan,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: enough fanfare for, for the average American to, to take.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 7: It all in.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And, and.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to advise Donald Trump on anything, but is
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  Speaker 2: he 80 years old now? He's not changing anything. He's
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  Speaker 2: done what he's done his whole life. And what he's
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  Speaker 2: done is how he's done. His business is how he
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  Speaker 2: became so successful. So you're not going to say, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 2: you got to change the messaging and all that sort
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. It's not going to happen. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 2: it would be awesome if he did, because there are
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  Speaker 2: so many great things in this administration. If he just
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  Speaker 2: laser focused on the benefits and just bam, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: And stopped worrying about putting up like AI videos of
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  Speaker 2: blowing up Carg Island and things of that nature. he
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  Speaker 2: has a fantastic message to sell the American people, but
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  Speaker 2: unlike Ronald Reagan, who will always be remembered as the
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  Speaker 2: great communicator, that is not what Donald Trump is. Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump is not the great communicator. He's a great negotiator.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great business person. Part of the negotiation is
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he acts crazy and that helps him. Um,
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  Speaker 2: But it does not help you win elections, unfortunately. So
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  Speaker 2: we're dealing with that. But again, just at the bigger picture,
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  Speaker 2: it is fantastic news that we are going to start
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  Speaker 2: manufacturing more and more of our own drugs right here
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  Speaker 2: in the United States. All right, thoughts on that? Talkback
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess they get court started early down in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Tiger Woods has already appeared this morning and changed his
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: not guilty plea to guilty to driving under influence and
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: has been sentenced to five years without a license. So
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  Speaker 2: not really a big deal. He arrived in a chauffeur
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  Speaker 2: driven SUV. I don't know if it's a power play
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  Speaker 2: or not, but riding with him is Vanessa Trump. And
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  Speaker 2: she came into the court with him. I will say that.
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  Speaker 2: Watching him walk into the courtroom, I know he's been
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  Speaker 2: out of the country for a while. It seems like
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  Speaker 2: he's gotten bigger. He's wearing a suit. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: more muscle. He almost had the vibe of, if you
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  Speaker 2: remember in the 90s, Vince McMahon had a court case.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he almost looked clownish with a business suit on
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  Speaker 2: because he was so muscular at the time.
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  Speaker 3: And it's... Roided up, too.
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  Speaker 2: He was definitely roided up. I don't know that Tiger
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  Speaker 2: Woods would engage with steroids or not, but he is
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  Speaker 2: definitely jacked. And he was walking it, and he almost
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit of that McMahon strut, a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of Conor McGregor strut as he walked in there
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  Speaker 2: with Vanessa Trump on his arm. And you remember when
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  Speaker 2: he turned over that Range Rover or whatever, he's walking
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  Speaker 2: away from the cops trying to get the president. I'm
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: on the phone with the president. I'm on the phone
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  Speaker 2: with the president. That was a bad look. It was
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  Speaker 2: a bad look. That was a bad look for Trump.
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  Speaker 2: That was a bad look for Woods. It was a
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  Speaker 2: bad look for everybody. But, I mean, is that even
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  Speaker 2: a punishment, five years without your license?
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  Speaker 4: Well, not when you can afford to hire a chauffeur
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  Speaker 4: every day. It's really not that big a deal for Tiger.
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  Speaker 4: He probably has a driver a lot of the time anyway.
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  Speaker 2: He should have had one that day.
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  Speaker 4: Well, a lot of people wondered. He's had several crashes
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  Speaker 4: now under the influence. A lot of people wondered why
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  Speaker 4: he didn't have a driver to begin with. I think
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  Speaker 4: this was his fourth major accident. And remember the one
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  Speaker 4: that he did in California. He tore up his ankle forever.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to be a permanent injury.
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  Speaker 3: They weren't sure they could save that leg.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, boy, that's a... do I feel sad for Tiger Woods?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe in a sense, but he's also
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  Speaker 2: a billionaire and he still seems to have most of
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  Speaker 2: his health and he still has a very prosperous future.
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  Speaker 2: It would seem if he is a gorse, a golf
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  Speaker 2: course designer, consultant, whatever he, I mean, there's people you
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  Speaker 2: should feel a lot worse for than Tiger Woods.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, agreed.
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  Speaker 4: Although his health, I'd question because he's had so many
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  Speaker 4: back surgeries now. I just, it's, I, I'm glad you
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  Speaker 4: saw him walking with a strut because he, The past videos,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he looks like an old man.
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  Speaker 2: His hair is starting to look like an old man.
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  Speaker 2: And I say that as somebody who's had hair issues
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  Speaker 2: my whole life. But, yeah, he's not going to appreciate
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they got him from behind. The front
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  Speaker 2: he's still got. The back, not so much. All right,
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  Speaker 2: there's the Tiger Woods update. We'll take a break. It
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  Speaker 2: is 847.
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  Speaker 1: From the midlands to the low country, this is South
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  Speaker 2: All right, I just talked about how Tiger Woods pled guilty.
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  Speaker 2: We just saw that happen moments ago. And now I
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  Speaker 2: can tell you that just three minutes ago, a tweet
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  Speaker 2: from James E. Clyburn has arrived. Homeland Security agents who
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  Speaker 2: typically investigate horrid crimes like human trafficking and child exploitation
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  Speaker 2: are now being assigned to Trump's endless crusade. to uncover
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  Speaker 2: purported voter fraud that can be used as a pretext
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  Speaker 2: to suppress votes. And he linked that to a CNN
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  Speaker 2: story where they were saying unnamed sources are saying that
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  Speaker 2: Homeland Security is going to be investigating states or keeping
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  Speaker 2: a monitor on states regarding elections coming up. I'll point
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  Speaker 2: out that all the states that they named are the
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  Speaker 2: states that don't turn over their voter rolls. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: So again, if you're, if, if you are James E.
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  Speaker 2: Clyburn and you are a Democrat and you say that
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  Speaker 2: you actually care about democracy, then you should be celebrating this.
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  Speaker 2: And for you to say that it's used to suppress
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  Speaker 2: votes is a Homeland security going to stand there like
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  Speaker 2: the black Panthers in Philadelphia and, you know, try to
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  Speaker 2: scare people off. No, they're going to look inside. They're
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: going to be behind the scenes, James. And you know
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  Speaker 2: that he also continues, Trump would rather protect his unpopular
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: party from election losses than protect vulnerable women and kids
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  Speaker 2: from predators. Gosh, I want to vomit when I read
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: Can't Homeland Security do both? And isn't voting integrity a
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  Speaker 4: Homeland issue?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But for you to imply that somehow women are going
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  Speaker 2: to be abused and and predators will be able to
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  Speaker 2: just cherry pick kids off the streets now because we
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: want to protect our life. Even even if that was
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  Speaker 2: the case, you as a Democrat could encourage your liberal
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  Speaker 2: states to just turn over their voter rolls. So this
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  Speaker 2: isn't required. You don't, we don't have to have this James,
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  Speaker 2: but the Democrat party is so obstructionist. They will not
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  Speaker 2: let the American people know if there's voter fraud happening.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: And then the, in the CNN story, they do talk
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: about how, because remember it used to be, there are
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: no signs of any voter fraud ever. That had been
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: like the patented, we'll use that forever type of thing.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: But now, uh, they have to, they have to mention, um, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there has been a handful of prosecutions lately, mostly targeting
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: cases of non-citizens who are voting in our elections or
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: even unlawfully registered to vote. Yeah, there are thousands of them,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: thousands that we know of so far. So anyway, a
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  Speaker 2: tweet from James E. Clyburn just moments ago. We got
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  Speaker 2: it to you first on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Way to go, Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: We did it! All right. I hope you guys have
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  Speaker 2: an awesome Wednesday. Christopher Thompson and I will be back
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning to reconvene with South Carolina's morning news.