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Show Rewind 10-6-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560
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  Speaker 2: AM WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
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  Speaker 3: And good morning to you. It is about three after six.
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  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson, how are you today? I'm good. It's a
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  Speaker 3: big day. It's debate day.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: We get the debate. I don't think anybody cares about.
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  Speaker 3: This is not the debate that anybody wants. Nobody's looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to this one. This is for the governor, and
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  Speaker 3: Alan Wilson will be taking on Jermaine Johnson. Now, you
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  Speaker 3: as a sports guy probably were aware of this. I
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  Speaker 3: was reading, I think it was the Post and Courier,
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  Speaker 3: talking about where you can watch it. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to watch the debate tonight, it's on
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  Speaker 3: the Gray Media Station. So here in Columbia, that's WIS.
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  Speaker 3: In Charleston, it's Live 5. But You know, there's a
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  Speaker 3: whole bunch of other stations throughout the state that you
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  Speaker 3: could watch it on if you're listening somewhere else on
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  Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app, which we are thankful for. But they
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  Speaker 3: described Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: I know where you're going, Kelly, and I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: He was a basketball star. I didn't know he was 6'7, either.
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  Speaker 4: I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: He apparently, I just looked it up, he was apparently
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  Speaker 3: the captain for the College of Charleston when he played,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it was, 15 years ago or something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then he played for like six years... for some
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  Speaker 3: team overseas.
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  Speaker 5: Um, I knew he had played for the CFC. I
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  Speaker 5: did not know he was six, seven big man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Big man. I hope Alan doesn't make him angry.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to make, you won't like him when
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  Speaker 3: he's angry. Uh, so, uh, but they did talk about
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  Speaker 3: how he was outspent by, I guess, Billy Webster in
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  Speaker 3: Mullins McCloud. Now I can't believe that Mullins McCloud outspent anybody.
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  Speaker 3: I saw like three signs from that guy. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, if you're a Mullins McCloud fan in the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Columbia area, those three signs are still up. Could somebody
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  Speaker 3: come and get the Mullins McLeod signs, please? We certainly
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  Speaker 3: appreciate you cleaning up after your mess here. But when
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  Speaker 3: we go into this debate, if you're advising Alan Wilson,
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  Speaker 3: what are you thinking here?
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  Speaker 5: Don't make any mistakes. That's all you need to do.
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  Speaker 5: And just do everything you did during the primary. And
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  Speaker 5: that was, I mean, he was perfect. masterful during those
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  Speaker 5: debates because everybody else on stage was getting into dust
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  Speaker 5: ups and he was making the case to voters all
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  Speaker 5: right here's why i'm going to make government more affordable
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  Speaker 5: here's where or the economy more affordable here's how i'm
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  Speaker 5: going to make government more accountable you know here's what
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  Speaker 5: i'm doing to better your lives and the others were
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  Speaker 5: constantly back and forth with each other alan wilson was
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  Speaker 5: really the only one who talked to voters on that
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  Speaker 5: at least on the republican side on the debate stage
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  Speaker 5: and he made a great case.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting to me. The Post and Courier article says
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  Speaker 3: Wilson's strength on stage, his experience and pedigree might be
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  Speaker 3: perceived as a weakness.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Why would that be? He has experience and pedigree. Why
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  Speaker 3: would that be considered a weakness? Well, I guess maybe
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  Speaker 3: if you're looking as a we're looking for political outsiders,
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  Speaker 3: but this guy can't be considered an outsider. He's been
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  Speaker 3: a rep now for. what, like 10 years or something?
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  Speaker 4: A while, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's not a political newcomer either. He's not
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  Speaker 3: an outsider, but I think that the Johnson campaign is
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  Speaker 3: going to have more of an uphill climb because it
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  Speaker 3: says in this story that Johnson's plan is to make
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  Speaker 3: the case that Wilson isn't capable of doing any of
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  Speaker 3: these things, making things more Affordable for families, profitable for businesses,
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  Speaker 3: holding people at the top accountable. Why wouldn't he be
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  Speaker 3: capable of doing that? I mean, he's he's a as
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  Speaker 3: the attorney general, he's doing that. He is holding people
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  Speaker 3: accountable when it's brought to his department. Then there's like
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  Speaker 3: this idea of like what? You don't think he can
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  Speaker 3: navigate the halls of the statehouse? What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Because he works next door and he hasn't been in
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  Speaker 3: the statehouse like on the regs that he can't somehow
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  Speaker 3: navigate his way to the actual chambers and make his case?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's going to be a tough sell for Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: Goodness gracious.
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  Speaker 5: But we're ramping back up, Kelly. I feel like we
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  Speaker 5: put politics on the back burner as soon as the
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  Speaker 5: Senate runoff was over. And we haven't talked about the
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  Speaker 5: governor's race in a while. This tonight puts politics back
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  Speaker 5: front and center in South Carolina from here until, until
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  Speaker 5: election day in November.
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  Speaker 3: If you're following me on social media, particularly on X,
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  Speaker 3: I do most of my political stuff on X, but
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  Speaker 3: this morning we're trying something new. So we are streaming
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  Speaker 3: the show, uh, as best we can through X Facebook
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  Speaker 3: and YouTube, uh, live as it happens. But on X yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: I pointed out that, uh, The Johnson campaign was celebrating
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  Speaker 3: his biggest quarter ever. And congratulations, he got $ 700, 000 in
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  Speaker 3: that quarter. And that's, you know, for him, that's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: That's his best quarter ever. And I pointed out that
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  Speaker 3: Joe Cunningham, when he was running for governor in 2022,
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  Speaker 3: also had his best quarter in this quarter. But Joe
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  Speaker 3: Cunningham raised double what Johnson raised. So they're acting as
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  Speaker 3: if there's all this, like, the heat is behind Johnson now.
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  Speaker 3: Huge momentum. Yeah, huge momentum. You're doing half of what
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  Speaker 3: Joe Cunningham did, and Joe Cunningham got spanked. So I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, you know, again, it's hard to make the
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  Speaker 3: argument if you're in the Democrats right now, at least
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  Speaker 3: in this race. It doesn't look like it's within reach.
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  Speaker 3: And to your point, Christopher, yeah, as long as Alan
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  Speaker 3: Wilson doesn't make any major faux pas— And says something
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  Speaker 3: along the lines of, that's not my thing. Whatever the
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  Speaker 3: thing is, it better be your thing. I think he'll
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  Speaker 3: be fine. But we'll be watching tonight on all the
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  Speaker 3: great TV stations. I think that starts at 7, if
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  Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken. um let me just take another quick
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  Speaker 3: look at that and see if i can see it
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  Speaker 3: uh i i'm not seeing it posted here in the
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  Speaker 3: story but i believe it's 7 p.m 7 to 8
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  Speaker 3: 7 to 8 okay so there you go you got
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  Speaker 3: the big governor's debate tonight uh we'll have a recap
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  Speaker 3: of that tomorrow if you have any previews for that
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  Speaker 3: and you'd like to share with us or any of
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  Speaker 3: the stories that you think we should be getting to
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  Speaker 3: this morning you can hit us up on the talkback
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  Speaker 3: feature or you can use our email addresses we're starting
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  Speaker 3: to do that now i noticed more and more so
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  Speaker 3: i'm kelly nash at iheartmedia.com and Sports at 560.
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  Speaker 4: Sports at WVOC.com.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Sports at WVOC.com if you want to get
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  Speaker 3: a hold of Christopher. His email is a lot easier
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  Speaker 3: than mine. You got to spell out my whole name
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  Speaker 3: and iHeartMedia. Yours is just sports at WVOC.com. I would
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  Speaker 3: probably just send it to Christopher because it's a lot easier.
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  Speaker 3: I'm lazy that way. Anyway.
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  Speaker 4: I'll forward it.
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  Speaker 3: Or share it on the air. Christopher could share it
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  Speaker 3: on the air. We've got that and more coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for starting your day with South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we told you yesterday before we went off the
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  Speaker 3: air in the 8 o'clock hour that there was going
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  Speaker 3: to be a big day at the Supreme Court. It
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  Speaker 3: didn't go well. That's all I'm going to say. We're
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  Speaker 3: in trouble, America. America, we are in big trouble if
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  Speaker 3: this goes the way it looks like it's going to go.
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  Speaker 3: So as you all know, there's what we would consider
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  Speaker 3: three libs on the court, and those libs vote as
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  Speaker 3: a block. So it's really up to the other five. Now,
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  Speaker 3: inside that five, there is one or two who appear
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  Speaker 3: to be, we'll just say, in the middle. I'll just
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  Speaker 3: use that phrase because they can go either way. But
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  Speaker 3: you have some that are pretty consistently going to interpret
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  Speaker 3: the Constitution the way most of us would agree that
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  Speaker 3: it should be interpreted. Yesterday was a court case brought
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  Speaker 3: by the state of Colorado that wants to, excuse me, Boulder, Colorado,
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  Speaker 3: that wants to sue Exxon and some other local regional
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  Speaker 3: power outlets based off of what they're saying is climate
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  Speaker 3: change being caused by them, which sounds insane at the
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  Speaker 3: face level. However, again, you knew you already had three
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  Speaker 3: that you had lost. Alito recused himself because he said,
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  Speaker 3: I own a bunch of oil stocks, so I would
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  Speaker 3: not be a fair juror in this case. So now...
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  Speaker 3: you just, okay, we're down to eight. Okay. We're still
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  Speaker 3: doing okay. We just need everybody to vote the right way.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: But in the middle of it yesterday outcomes, you want
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  Speaker 3: to guess who it was? Oh, I'm not hearing you
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  Speaker 3: for some reason.
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  Speaker 4: John Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: John Roberts is, uh, let me just read this chief justice.
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  Speaker 3: John Roberts appears skeptical. He suggested that, uh, The two
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  Speaker 3: deputy U.S. solicitor generals who argued on behalf of the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration in support of the energy companies that it
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  Speaker 3: was not uncommon for a lawsuit to be based on
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  Speaker 3: conduct that incurs outside of the state but has broad, quote-unquote,
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  Speaker 3: effects within the state asked Harris what makes this situation
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  Speaker 3: different from those other cases in which the court allows
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  Speaker 3: the lawsuit to proceed in the court. Harris answered that
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  Speaker 3: unlike those lawsuits, Colorado would then ban the production of
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  Speaker 3: fossil fuels anywhere and everywhere in the country. That is
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  Speaker 3: their stated goal. Ban all fossil fuels. Roberts said that's
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  Speaker 3: a question of relief for Colorado. It does not, in
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  Speaker 3: my view, go to the question of whether or not
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  Speaker 3: Colorado can bring this lawsuit.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 5: So they haven't decided anything yet other than they may
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  Speaker 5: still hear the case.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, as of this moment, it appears that we're
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  Speaker 3: going to get a 4-4 tie. And if we get
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  Speaker 3: a 4-4 tie, then Colorado not only will get to
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  Speaker 3: hear the case, but then they're probably most likely, according
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  Speaker 3: to the SCOTUS blog, going to put some sort of
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  Speaker 3: injunction on the energy companies inside the state of Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: Now you ask later on, I don't ask, Judge Clarence
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  Speaker 3: Thomas asks, well, let me ask you a question. What
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  Speaker 3: would stop Colorado then from suing all the large retailers
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  Speaker 3: that use 18 wheelers to deliver the stuff to them?
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  Speaker 3: And according to the guy representing Colorado, nothing. Actually, that'd
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  Speaker 3: probably be next.
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  Speaker 5: Yikes.
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  Speaker 3: Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked, well, could we then just
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  Speaker 3: expect that Colorado is going to try to pass a
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  Speaker 3: law that will cap greenhouse gas emissions in the other
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  Speaker 3: 49 states, such as South Carolina? The attorney for the
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  Speaker 3: state of Colorado agreed that would probably be likely next.
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  Speaker 3: These people are trying to dismantle the United States, and
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  Speaker 3: they're telling you that they're doing that. And John Roberts
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  Speaker 3: is waffling on it. Yeah, but, you know, in the
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  Speaker 3: way I interpret it, it seems like they have an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: They should have an opportunity, shouldn't they?
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  Speaker 5: One state can control the energy of everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole 50-state union. This is— we are teetering on
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  Speaker 3: disaster with this SCOTUS court, but— We will keep our
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  Speaker 3: eyes on that if you have ideas and thoughts about this.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you're a lawyer and you're listening going, well, let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you a great argument to use up there
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  Speaker 3: that will sway John Roberts. Is the answer, should we
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  Speaker 3: make it a tax, John? Going back to his Obamacare days.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Again, just use the talkback feature or our
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  Speaker 3: email addresses. We'd love to hear from you this morning
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  Speaker 3: on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 2: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a half-full kind of guy. A lot of people
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  Speaker 3: are half-empty kinds of folks. I like to look at
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  Speaker 3: the bright side of things, if possible. Now, it starts
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  Speaker 3: off kind of sad news here in South Carolina. We,
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  Speaker 3: the Palmetto State, lead the nation in something that probably
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  Speaker 3: isn't very good. I'm talking about foreclosures. According for a
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  Speaker 3: new report that came out looking at August, there was
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  Speaker 3: a foreclosure filing for every 1,547 housing units, there was
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  Speaker 3: a foreclosure, which makes it the highest foreclosure rate in America.
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  Speaker 3: It's a 41% increase from the same month last year. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the counties that are leading the way, not really big
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  Speaker 3: dollar counties. That's Dorchester, Kershaw, Chester, and Florence counties. Those
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  Speaker 3: are the hotspots for foreclosures. Now, again, you can interpret
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  Speaker 3: this a number of ways, but the Realtor Association, is
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  Speaker 3: that what it is? They're saying that this is different
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  Speaker 3: than what we were seeing back in like 08, 09. People,
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  Speaker 3: this is, I'm just reading this quote from one of
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  Speaker 3: the guys here, this Nick Kershaw, Cremetis, the CEO of
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina Realtors, say people naturally hear foreclosures and have
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  Speaker 3: flashbacks to the Great Recession, but the current landscape is
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  Speaker 3: completely different. We had a systemic crisis driven by subprime lending,
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  Speaker 3: and homeowners were drastically underwater at that time. Today, the
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  Speaker 3: lending standards are incredibly strict. We are nowhere near the
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  Speaker 3: 2008 numbers, and we don't have the fundamental flaws in
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  Speaker 3: the market that caused them. He argues that what's actually
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  Speaker 3: happening is we did not get foreclosures that we would
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  Speaker 3: have normally received in 2021, 22, and 23. maybe even
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  Speaker 3: parts of 2024, based off the fact that we were
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  Speaker 3: artificially keeping people afloat with pandemic relief money. So we
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  Speaker 3: were very low with foreclosures there. Now, again, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: half full kind of guy, Christopher. You know what I hear?
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  Speaker 3: Buying opportunities, right? This is an investment opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there are people who love to snap up foreclosure bargains.
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  Speaker 3: Correct. So if you're one of those people listening to us,
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  Speaker 3: Remember your friends Christopher and Kelly. We told you about
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  Speaker 3: this opportunity right here. Maybe cut us a little something-something
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  Speaker 3: on the side. Cheer the wolf. Exactly. All right. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's the latest update on the housing numbers here in
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina. Love to hear your thoughts on that or
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  Speaker 3: other stories. Use the Talkback feature off the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there. Kelly Nash. Christopher Thompson is 633. And if
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  Speaker 3: you were to look over at, uh, one of our
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  Speaker 3: social media pages, you might see this video. This is
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  Speaker 3: Mark Wayne Mullen. He was on a podcast earlier this week. Uh, well,
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  Speaker 3: I guess it would have been Sunday and he was
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  Speaker 3: talking about terrorists and he was talking about the problem
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  Speaker 3: with the Biden era policies and how we ended up
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  Speaker 3: with so many people, just illegal aliens, obviously in our country.
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  Speaker 3: But how many terrorists have we caught since then? The
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  Speaker 3: number is 2,210 terrorists have now been caught inside the
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  Speaker 3: United States. We're not checking who you are.
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  Speaker 6: We're just assuming that's why they lost 450,000 kids underneath
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  Speaker 6: the Biden administration too that we're now trying to locate.
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  Speaker 3: Unbelievable. But 2,210 terrorists.
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  Speaker 1: Now, these aren't individuals.
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  Speaker 3: You guys all know this.
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  Speaker 6: There's a difference between a suspected terrorist or a terrorist
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  Speaker 6: watch list. These were terrorists. Oh, my God. 2010 in
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  Speaker 6: the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? No, that was a number as
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  Speaker 3: of as I.
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  Speaker 6: Was coming up the steps today. They wanted me to
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  Speaker 6: say 20 over 2200, but it was 2000. That's pretty specific.
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  Speaker 3: 2210. So these are people who are known terrorists who
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  Speaker 3: were let into the country under Biden. Christopher, how stunned
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  Speaker 3: are you to hear this? As stunned as those hosts
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  Speaker 3: were to hear it. I mean, that that number's. why
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  Speaker 3: would you let that go on?
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  Speaker 5: Why would any administration, Democrat or Republican, why would you
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  Speaker 5: let that go on, knowing the damage that could be done?
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  Speaker 3: And we've often speculated that there were people that we
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  Speaker 3: didn't know who they were. Mark Wayne Mullen making the
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  Speaker 3: case that they probably didn't know who these people were,
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  Speaker 3: but they, if you had done even a cursory background
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  Speaker 3: check on these people, you would have seen that they
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  Speaker 3: were convicted terrorists coming from other countries into the United States.
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  Speaker 3: And so at no point was the Biden administration, what's
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  Speaker 3: his name? The guy who's running for governor out there
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  Speaker 3: in California, that guy. Becerra? Yes. Becerra talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the borders closed. They had all these people coming over saying,
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  Speaker 3: we're doing everything possible to make sure to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: ensure the safety of the United States citizens. No, they
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  Speaker 3: were not. And the fact that there was 2,200 plus,
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  Speaker 3: I'll just use what his staff asked him to say,
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  Speaker 3: more than 2,200 terrorists, not suspected terrorists, not people who
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  Speaker 3: have ties to Al Qaeda, people who actually performed acts
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  Speaker 3: of terrorism that the United States government confirmed were living
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  Speaker 3: inside the United States. and have now been removed thankfully
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  Speaker 3: by ice. So when they start giving you this pushback
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  Speaker 3: on ISIS, just targeting, you know, anybody who looks Brown
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  Speaker 3: or Muslim or whatever, understand that they are looking for bad, bad, bad,
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  Speaker 3: bad hombres to paraphrase Trump and 2,210 of them are
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  Speaker 3: known terrorists. How many more suspected terrorists are we talking about?
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  Speaker 3: And then the number that kind of just floated away
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  Speaker 3: there didn't even really grab anybody's attention. 850,000 children missing.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know where they are.
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  Speaker 4: Just lost. Lost in the system.
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  Speaker 3: We knew that they came into the country. We just
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  Speaker 3: didn't track them very well. And now we don't know
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  Speaker 3: where they're at. And we're just hoping for the best.
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  Speaker 7: That.
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  Speaker 3: When people say, well, Trump can't keep blaming Biden for,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: you know, the problems of two, you know, a year
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: and 10 months ago. I don't think that we're... I
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: don't know how long any of us have to live,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: but I don't know that we recover from the Biden
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: damage in our lifetimes. And I'm talking to you if
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: you're like 30. If you're 30, I mean, it'll be 40,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: 50 years before we get through this. You might have
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: terrorists striking us in 15, 20 years that were let
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: in by the Biden administration. This is insane. Why would
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: anybody do it?
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: And Kelly, we talk all the time about the, the,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: the scary tactics or the scary proposals that are being
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: made by the far left, the Democrats, socialists, sure. The
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: mainstream Democrats, they preach, they want to go back to
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: the Biden days. They want to, that's the good old
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: days to them. So, so if you're scared by the socialists,
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: look at what the mainstream Democrats are offering you. They are,
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: they want to go back in time to, you know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Losing kids and letting terrorists run free in this country.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden is the moderate. Joe Biden was the moderate.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: That is, as Christopher says, the standard bearer for what
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: a modern, moderate Democrat looks like. Joseph Pops Robinette Biden.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: My gosh. they're a scary group of people, those Democrats.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: What do you think? Let us know on the Talkback feature.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Off the iHeartRadio app, we'll take a break. It is 638.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I know you're concerned about the southern border, but what's
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: going on at the northern border between the United States
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: and Canada? What are we, what is happening up there
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: and hardly ever gets in the news? Well, if you
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: were to Google U.S. northern border, you would see that
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: we just arrested Senegalese. terrorists last week. But more importantly,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: to your point, sir, and thank you for using the
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: talkback feature, by the way, to get in touch with
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: South Carolina Morning News. I'm Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson here.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: We're looking we're talking about Mark Wayne Mullen's announcement over
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: the weekend that there's been two thousand two hundred and
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: ten known terrorists that were let in during the Biden
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: administration that have been arrested here in the United States
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: in the last year and a few months. These are
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: not people who are suspected terrorists or who have ties
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: to terrorism. These are people who've actually committed acts of
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: terrorism against the United States and some of our allies
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: around the world, and they were allowed across the border
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: and into the United States, which is a rather shocking number.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I would think Democrats would be condemning that and getting
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: the microphones to call that out. However, if you were
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: to look at the northern border, as you say, that's
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: probably going to be more porous. There's no walls, basically.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: There's some natural barriers that make it difficult. Obviously, lakes
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: make it somewhat difficult unless you're able to get a boat.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: But when you look at how many we've put up there,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: we have 21,471 CBP agents working the northern border, which
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: is great. We can tell you that they're averaging right
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: now for this year, they're averaging, well, it's been 563
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: to 645 arrests per month. That's what they're making on
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: the northern border. So they're doing their best to keep
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: us safe there. I know a lot of people would
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: point out that the number one, well, maybe not the
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: number one way, not when Biden was in office, but
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: another big way that people get into the country is
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: through a visa of some kind, and then they just
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: overstay it, and then they become an illegal that way.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Then they hide out and do DoorDash until they get caught.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: And then they do DoorDash. That's right. That was the
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: guy down in Austin, Texas that Christopher's referencing, the man
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: who said– his lawyer said he had a work visa.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? He had no idea who
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: these people were that were chasing him. They're just unmarked
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: black SUVs. They could have been some sort of terrorist activity.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: He had heard about the terrorists, and he was afraid,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: as a good American– Oh, that's right. They actually contacted
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: him last year and told him that your visa has
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: now been expired and you didn't show up for your
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: court date and you've already been expelled from the U.S.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: since you didn't show up for the court date. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: he knew all that. Then he got pulled over and
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: then he said, I'm not leaving. And he took off.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Kind of like paraphrasing Leonardo DiCaprio in that movie when
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: he grabs the microphone and he was like the Wolf
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: of Wall Street. I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving! And
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: he made a run for it. He ended up getting
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: shot in the back. And then they tried to make
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: it seem as if the CBP people and the, by
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the way, the Austin Police Department was involved with that,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: that they were way out of line, that they were
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: just threatening American lives. When in reality, this is an
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: illegal alien who's running from the law. We have no
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: idea what he's doing in the country at this point,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: other than he says, I was a DoorDash agent. I
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: don't know that. How do we know? We don't know.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: If you don't follow law instructions, then we don't know
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: what you're doing. You could be hiding all kinds of things.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: But thankfully, that guy's off the streets.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: And that story died as soon as Austin police came
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: out with the official story. narrative about what happened that morning.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you, Christopher Thompson, not letting it die.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Reminding us of it yet again, because these are coming
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: to the stories. As you say, the narrative goes away.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: And yet the truth of the matter is it's really
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: bad because of Democrats. There you go. That's the answer.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: You know, one of those races we're not looking at
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: very closely, but maybe we should be looking at a
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: little more closely down in the first district. Jenny Costa
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Honeycutt bringing in a pretty big name yesterday. This is
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: the real Brandon Gill from Texas.
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: I'm very proud to be here to support Jenny Honeycutt.
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: If you are here, get out and vote. Make sure
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: that we get Jenny across the finish line so that
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: we can save this country.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: And make sure that South.
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: Carolina has good, solid representation here.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Now that's a bigger name than the... Pretty much anybody's
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: coming for Darlene Graham at this point.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: John Thune.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, John Thune's coming, right? It's this week, but I
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: don't think it's going to be a public thing. I
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: think that the John Thune thing is just dealing with
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: like a fundraiser. So Brandon Gill coming in for Jenny Honeycutt.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I think that this race probably not going to be
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: that close. I noticed the Democrats, the energy seems to
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: have been leaving that race. that race. They had originally
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: thought that they were going to do something there, but
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I think now that they're smelling possibly the opportunity to
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: flip a Senate seat, that's where the energy is going.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: So Nancy LaCour getting less support from the party.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: It's tough when you're like a New Yorker trying to
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: flip a South Carolina house seat and don't, I mean,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's impossible, but, But Jenny Costa-Honeycutt seems
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: like a pretty qualified candidate, and she's getting the backing
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: right now. If you have thoughts on that or anything,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: let us know on the iHeartRadio app. Use that talkback feature.
• 25:23
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• 25:29
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• 25:37
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• 25:40
  Speaker 3: 7.03 with Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson. Yesterday, Brett Baer delivered...
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Rather shocking news, but he did it the way, well,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: you know, Brett Baier does, very measured.
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: Declassified records reveal the Biden-era FBI tracked the movement of
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: then-former President Trump's family and logged his allies' phone numbers.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: It was part of the.
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: Bureau's classified documents investigation. Documents released by the White House
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: indicate the probe directed by then special counsel Jack Smith
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: tracked the travel of Melania and Barron Trump. It also
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: reinforced and monitored calls from Trump aide Susie Wiles, White
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: House chief of staff, to lawyers, campaign advisors, and journalists.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, very, very casually just announcing that the Biden-era DOJ was...
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Tracking the movements of a freaking high school student and
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Barron Trump, the former first lady and the number one
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: candidate to replace Joe Biden. Just casually, just to mention that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Is that concerning to anybody, any of the Democrats, that
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: the Department of Justice was tracking Donald Trump's movements and
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: actually monitoring his phone calls, and not just his phone calls,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: but his top aides, including Susie Wiles? Maybe nobody's reporting
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: on this because it also said, just very off the cuff,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: and journalists. They were actually monitoring journalists. We heard that
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: years ago from, what was her name, Susan Atkins, over
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: at CBS News that she came home one night. She
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: was writing a story, if I remember right, about Obama.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: And she came home at like one in the morning
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: and her laptop was turned on. And she said, I
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: don't remember leaving my laptop on. And she saw the
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: mouse moving and she saw them changing the story that
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: she was submitting the next day to CBS News. Who
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: is they? We don't know. But she was fired shortly
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: thereafter because Somebody, somebody in the government didn't like what
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: she was reporting. So when we start talking about a
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: free press and we talk about Trump, get rid of
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: fake news. We want him out of here. The news
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: is at this point, in my estimation, compromised. The national
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: news media is compromised by the Department of Justice, or
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: at least was during the Obama administration. And we now
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: have declassified documents that show that the FBI was actively
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: engaging with coercion and monitoring of journalists and the dang
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Trump family. Now, this is how much different is it
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: than this? Let me just go ahead and play this clip. So, again,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: they were monitoring the movements of Melania Trump and Barron Trump.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: That's according to the FBI.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Hoping to learn what?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Who knows? But let me just play you this little
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: news clip. You and I talked about this yesterday, but
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: this is from the same show last night.
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: 34-year-old Wan Ying Zhang, also known as Heather, is a
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: Chinese national posing as an Irvine real estate agent. Now,
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: according to the feds, Zhang and an accomplice flew from
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: Las Vegas to Seattle last year, rented a car. then
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: hid outside to photograph and videotape the president of Taiwan's son,
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: wife and child. Zhang tells her contact in Beijing in
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: real time, quote, saw him. It's the young one.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I am video recording now.
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: She also provided their license plate numbers. Unknown to saying, however,
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: a neighbor's security camera captured the entire surveillance effort on camera.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Do we have Surveillance cameras from the neighbors of Mar-a-Lago?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Because she's facing 10 years in federal prison for filming
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: the son of the Taiwanese president, who's a grown man,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: by the way. He's like 35, and he's got a
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: wife and child. She filmed him and got his license
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: plate number and sent it to her handlers. That's the
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: exact same thing that they were doing with the Trumps. Sure.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: we have federal agents that are facing 10 years in
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: prison right now? Are the Democrats... If there's a... There's
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: never been a shortage of Democrats looking for microphones to
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: get on. Will any of them condemn the actions of
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: the Biden era DOJ? Will any of them say that?
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Just say what it is. That is the weaponization of government.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: When you talk about that, you accuse Trump of doing
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: what you in fact have already done. And I don't
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: mean you as a journalist. I mean, the party, the
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Democrat party has weaponized our government against our political leaders.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: This is banana Republic stuff. And somebody on the left
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: needs to be calling it out. Somebody. I don't know
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: who that somebody is going to be. I'm looking forward
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: to somebody stepping to a microphone today and saying, you
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: know what, Joe Biden, that was wrong. Start talking. Call
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: them out for it. Christopher, will we get that message today?
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Doubtful. Doubtful we will.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, you talk about tracking political enemies
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: and not just a political enemy, but as you mentioned,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: the top candidate for that next presidential election. Who is
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: going to be your opponent in that next presidential election?
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you, do you think that a Democrat
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: would condemn if we found out today that somehow Donald
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Trump was monitoring the activities of Gavin Newsom and his
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: high school age child?
• 30:58
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. They'd be quick to the microphone.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: It's very quick. Very quick. All right. Now we'll see.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: We're just putting the shoe on the other foot and
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: seeing how they'd respond to that. What do you think?
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Let us know on the talkback feature. We'd love to
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: get your insights. It is now 708 from.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: The Midlands to the low country. This is South Carolina's
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: morning news.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: You know, it's as if people think that if you
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: have a college football program, you just have unlimited amounts
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: of money. And Christopher, I'm sure you were paying close
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: attention yesterday to all those different reports coming out about
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Shane Beamer and his future in South Carolina seeming pretty
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: assured right now.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Well, there haven't been many different reports.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: It's all essentially the same thing, that economics are going
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: to be forcing South Carolina to keep Shane Beamer.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: And I think that was it CBS that interviewed one
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: of the top donors who said, basically, look, if you
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: fire Shane Beamer, you got to pay him the 20
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: plus million dollars. But then you're also going to have
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: to pay out the entire staff, basically. So now you're
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: looking at like a 40 plus million dollar buyout. On
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: top of the fact we just getting done paying off
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Will Muschamp. On top of the fact that we're still,
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I think we're still paying off maybe some of the guy,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Paul Manera, who came in to be the baseball coach.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: He got like $ 2 million or something to go away.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: It's just millions upon millions. And again, when it's not
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: your money, you're like, I just want a good product.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: And by the way, you're still paying players. You'll have
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: to rebuild your roster too with a new coach. And
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: you'll probably have to do that. And there's the $ 350
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: million renovation going on at Williams-Brice Stadium. I had thought
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: that perhaps that would be the compelling factor, the fact
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: that the university is $ 350 million riding on this stadium
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: being sold out. Now, they technically were sold out the
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: other day, but there was a lot of missing fans.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that the concession stands were a little lighter
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: than normal, which is probably a big-dollar ticket item. And
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: maybe the.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: The Gamecock gear that they sell at that store right
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: outside of Williams-Brice, I don't know what that's called, but
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: you know the store I'm talking about. It's just to
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: the left there on George Rogers Boulevard. I'm sure that
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: those sales were way off. As I would imagine, a
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: lot of Gamecock gear is probably not selling like they
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: had anticipated, especially with the big switch to Nike. It's
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: been an underwhelming year. And when I look at the
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: rest of the season, Christopher, am I wrong in assuming
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: that Maybe Arkansas, maybe Clemson. Those two we might be
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: favorited in, although I'm not expecting it at this point,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: that every other game we're probably going to be the underdog.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: Maybe Oklahoma too, depending on how the rest of their
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: season goes. But yeah, it's tough from here on out.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: That's the SEC, but somebody was making the point yesterday
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: that it's all about dollars. Well, some of these teams
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: that are spending less than South Carolina this season have
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: already beaten the Gamecocks, Mississippi State for one.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: So we need to do a better job, full stop,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: on football. And they were talking about basketball. They were
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: looking at Lamont Harris' contract. He's owed tens of millions,
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken. And he's got a sub-500 record.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: So it's been South Carolina athletics has not been going
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: the way you would want the flagship for the state
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: of South Carolina's university to go. And apparently we've got
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: ourselves in a quagmire where we can't get out of it.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: We're stuck. Now, again, firing a coach doesn't answer anything, right?
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: No.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: It's always who's next. Yeah.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: You better have somebody in your back pocket if you're
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: even thinking about that.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: And Shane Beamer is a very attractive candidate for the
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: job in the sense that you know, I know Gamecock
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: fans always felt slighted, like nobody wanted to be here.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: It was where either coaches came to die or, or
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: somebody might want to try to get a, you know,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: like they would, the people being interviewed were basically saying, well,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to be there for 10 years. I'm
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: going to do it for three or four, then jump
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: to the next market. Kind of like, You know, when
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: you're like a local TV person and you're like, well,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I'm working in Charleston now, but I'm working in Columbia now,
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: but I want to be in Charlotte or Atlanta or
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: something like that. And a lot of Gamecock fans are like, why?
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Why would somebody not want to stay here? And now
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: you got a guy who wants to be here for
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: the rest of his life and has had some success.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, let's not forget two years ago, we were
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: very successful. Well, it's been on and off that and
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: a lot more off lately. And that's what's got fans concerned.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: The other concern about spending money on a possible payout
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: is the statehouse was very, I mean, they really criticized
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: that move the last time around with Will Muschamp and
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: his buyout.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: You've got to be concerned about what legislators are thinking because, unfortunately,
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: they control a lot of the purse strings around here.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: It is a state university. It is South Carolina University.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: and the Statehouse is going to have their say on
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: that as well. But if you've got thoughts on whether
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: or not we should be trying to make a move
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: and coach either at football, basketball, how's baseball looking? Do
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: we know yet? We've got all kinds of sports. I
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: know equestrian. We are dominating in the equestrian field. So
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: go Gamecocks. We'll take a break. Be back with more.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: It is 718.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: So Alan Wilson, the attorney general for South Carolina and
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: a Republican nominee for governor, sent a letter to Flock
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Safety asking for answers about the company's privacy and safety
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: policies after concerns about how the technology and data is
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: being used. And he points out the fact that there
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: are millions, I think, now of flock cameras across the country.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: I was interested in a Live 5 news report talking
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: about Mount Pleasant. And so it says, Mount Pleasant police
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: are defending the town's use of their flock license plate
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: reading cameras as town council takes a closer look at
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: the technology. So everybody's concerned. By the way, also, I
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: should mention Jermaine Johnson. apparently siding has the same basic
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: position of Alan Wilson, it seems, when it comes to
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: flock safety. He's very concerned about it as well. But
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: back to Mount Pleasant, where they have 20 permanent flock
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: cameras and two portable cameras, according to the police chief,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: and they capture images. They got a lot of them,
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: apparently 2.6 million images in the last 30 days. The
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: department says that those searches are tied to investigations and
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: that this is a great way to help solve a
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: child abduction and emergencies and things of that nature. 40
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: cases have resulted in arrests of a variety of criminal offenses.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: So everybody would celebrate that. Sure. The question is, this
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: is the headline, are the cameras creating a pattern of life?
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: And he says, we've gotten into a digital age where
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: we're talking about establishing a pattern of life, some legal
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: language used as a mosaic of camera systems that creates
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: a pattern of life. The fourth amendment plays an important
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: role in how police will use technology. And he expects
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: the courts, potentially the U S Supreme court to further
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: address the issue. Uh, he says there is a balance
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: between using the surveillance as a form of guardianship and
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: protecting people's constitutional rights. If you put a camera on
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: every single corner, nobody wants that. Then it's a police state.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: There's a balance. Okay. Okay. I'll go with that. The
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: thing that kind of stood out to me in this, uh,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: as they're talking about this idea of using the cameras,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: but town also has a public transparency portal showing which
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: agencies have access to the cameras and which agencies Mount
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Pleasant searches. Arnold said, ice does not have access and
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: we will not be sharing any information with ice FBI
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: and DEA has access. And that is limited to circumstances,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: but the is Mount Pleasant like a ice-free zone. I mean,
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I know that they're more liberal, obviously, when you look
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: at like the voting histories of Charleston County. But is
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Mount Pleasant that far left? that the people are anti-ice?
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: That's, I hadn't heard that, but that's, that's a bit
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: of a surprise if that's true. Why wouldn't you, if
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: you had important information that the government was seeking when
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: it comes to finding, for example, at that store you
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: had last hour, Terrorists are running wild right now because
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: the Biden administration lost track of them. If we had
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: a known terrorist living in Mount Pleasant, you wouldn't want
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: to pass that information along to ICE?
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Apparently not. Apparently, listen, if you live in Mount Pleasant,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: did you know that they were not sharing information with ICE?
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: That seems like a problem to me. As you said, Christopher,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: whether it's a terrorist or if it's just somebody who
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: we know is a a pedophile that's in the country
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: illegally or whatever, or if Mount Pleasant police took them
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: into custody, do they also have a policy where they
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: don't share it with ICE? Like, this is a known
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: illegal alien that we've just abducted or brought into custody
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: because of whatever. We're not going to turn them over?
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Is that what the people of Mount Pleasant want? Does
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: that make Mount Pleasant a sanctuary city? Interesting. Interesting. Interesting.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: I didn't realize the appetite for the libs was that
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: strong down there. But if that's the case, I'd like
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: to hear about it. Use the talkback feature. We'll take
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: a quick break. Be back with more. It's 728.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: You know, we were talking earlier about the terrorists that
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Mark Wayne Mullen said we've arrested inside the country. Known terrorists,
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: people who have actually committed acts of terrorism in other countries.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: either against the United States or some of our allies,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: and it's over 2,200 at this point that they've arrested,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: that was during the Biden era that they came in.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: And I made the statement that it's going to take
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: years for America to kind of revive itself after what
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: the Biden administration did to the United States. Now, here's
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: another thing. We're living, you know, as we go into
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: this election season, people are talking about affordability. I understand
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: that you're frustrated because the Iran war has driven up
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: oil prices, and it has, and you can't minimize that.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: That is a legit fact. But a big part of
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: the reason that you're frustrated is because everything's changed so
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: rapidly when it comes to expenses. Think about this Bureau
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: of Labor statistic that came out the other day. So
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: if you were to look at costs in January 20th, 2021.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: That's the day that Joe Biden took office. So Joe
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Biden was in office from January 20th, 2021 to January 20th, 2025.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: In that window, the average household expenses raised $ 14, 351 a year.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: That's the money that it cost by January 20th, 2025
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: to to have the exact same lifestyle that you were
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: having just four years earlier. Very few people received a $ 14, 351
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: raise in that four-year window. In other words, you are
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: way underwater compared to where life was during the first
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Trump administration, even when things were getting bad during COVID,
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: that first wave from March till he left office in
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: January of 2021. It is impossible to imagine that prices
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: would ever return to the pre-Biden era. The fact that
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: it's slowed down significantly and inflation hovers at 3% to
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: 4% right now is still too high. But you were
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: pummeled by the Democrats. It's not just Joe Biden's policy.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: It was the Democrats' policies that pummeled the American public.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: And I'm afraid, Christopher, that what we're going to see
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: is the Americans are just forgetting about that window. And
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: they're just going to say, well, it's not better now.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Let's give the Democrats a try.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: That's that's what's being I mean, give the Democrats credit.
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: They are not sitting on their hands and just thinking, OK, well,
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: this is a an off year midterm election. Everything's going
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: to come to us. We win automatically because that's what
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: history says.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: They are.
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: Fiercely debating on the issue of affordability and i'm just
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: not sure we've heard enough arguments from republicans like what
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: you're saying.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah i mean because nobody wants to hear it's biden's
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: fault right that's that's the whole thing they don't want
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: to hear that but it is biden's fault you know
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: i mean if if if you're i mean if you're
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: a typical household i think that they the spending went
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: up from, it was like $ 52, 000 a year to $ 66, 000
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: a year to maintain a median household. So the median
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: household went from $ 52, 000 a year of expenditures on what
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: we would just call core needs to 66,000. That is
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: an unbelievable increase that it alters life for a long
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: time because your wages aren't going to catch up to
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: that for, I don't know how long, It takes a
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: long time to get that kind of a raise. And again,
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: we are... I say we. We are not doing enough
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: to drive down costs, in my estimation. And there's... The
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: answer for Republicans is more competition, lowering the bureaucracy and
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: encouraging more competition. That's what gets everything better. We're not
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: doing enough. We've done some, not enough in my estimation.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: But the idea of giving it back to the people
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: who literally just made life unlivable for so many Americans
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: is unfathomable to me that people have that short of
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: a memory. So we're reminding you of this. Do I
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: need to remind you about the ridiculousness where they just
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: made up stuff regarding masks and they made up stuff
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: about social distancing and they implemented school shutdowns, knowing again,
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: go look at Fauci's diaries. He knew he was hurting children.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: He knew it. Now I don't, I don't give Trump
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: a pass on that, but so did Biden. So did everybody.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: They knew it was a bad idea and they said,
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: let's do it anyway. It's part of the great experiment,
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: by the way, you know what? Oh my gosh. I
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: almost forgot about this. We have a story we can
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: get to next. This is scary. This is COVID era
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: stuff that was breaking news yesterday. We'll get into that
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: in just a moment. But if you want to have
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: thoughts about just the cost of living, what should the
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: Republicans be saying? What should their message be? Or perhaps
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: you're just like, I'm one of those people who are
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: probably going to give a Democrat a shot just because
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: I'm just so frustrated with how the Republicans have been
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: running things. Let us know on the Talkback feature. We'll
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: be back with that other story that just popped into
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: my mind. It's now currently 737.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: Boy, I was on the air yesterday for a station
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: out in the Midwest when the story kind of just
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: started breaking about a Russian scientist, I guess we'll call her.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Somebody was working at what was supposed to be a
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: lab designed to help fight infections died.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: In Siberia, which is, you know, for us, it's in
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: the middle of nowhere.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of middle of nowhere for Russians,
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: isn't there?
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Um, but it appears according to some reports that she
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: died relatively quickly, meaning like over like a three or
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: four day window of what is being described as the plague.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: And none of us have ever experienced, has anybody died
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: in America of the plague in like a hundred years?
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. Um, but they're bringing it back.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Apparently the Russians are working on that. Um, are they
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: working on it as they would say in order to
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: help prevent it? or are they working on it to
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: help spread it? It seems more likely that the Russians
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: would be using chemical warfare. I would think that, you know,
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: after four plus years of this war and one and
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: a half million Russians dying that Vladimir Putin, not that
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: he gives a rip about the one and a half
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: million dead, but he certainly cares about the morale of
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: his country. And he cares about winning this, uh, war
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: with the Ukraine, which was supposed to have been over
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: quicker than we were supposed to defeat Iran. Um, And
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: now he's got one and a half million dead. I
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: wouldn't put it past him to be coming up with
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: some chemical warfare. She allegedly broke a test tube and
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: contracted it and died. Now, this morning, the World Health
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: Organization is out with a statement. Always love to hear
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: from the who. They said that they are now in
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: contact with Russian health officials over the death of a
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: researcher at the Plague Research Institute in Siberia from an
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: unknown pneumonia. They say the public health risk appears to
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: be low. It appears to be low. Again, the World
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Health Organization has gone both ways on these types of deals.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: It's either you're too concerned or you're not concerned enough.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: They never say, no, that's the right level of concern.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: There's no middle ground there.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: There's no middle ground for the— I would say we should
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: be concerned. If they're working on developing the plague, why
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: would they have the plague? What is the purpose? It's
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: not as if people around the world are dying of it.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: We're not looking for a cure for the plague. So
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: why are they messing with it? What is the point?
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know that anybody's had an answer yet as
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: to what she was actually working on. And if this
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: story isn't true, how did the Russians let it get out?
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Because it's coming from Russian sources. So, again, and if
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: you're a Russian journalist, I was just talking about how
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: the Biden-era DOJ was putting pressure on our journalists, according
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: to declassified information this week from the FBI, but imagine
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: the pressure they put on the Russian journalists.
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: Report at your own peril.
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: It's called falling out a window if you get it wrong,
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: or perhaps just getting touched by something that has a
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: little chemical agent on it. And next thing you know,
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: your face explodes. So the rush, whoever the Russian journalists
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: are that are reporting on this are very brave people. Um,
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: but yeah, Christopher, I'm, I'm concerned about the plague.
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: I'm, I'm as concerned as I would be considering the
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: fact that we haven't heard about the plague in recent times.
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think the 1920s were the last time
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: we had to deal with it in America. But you
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: get a Russian agent or a Chinese agent that starts
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: fooling around with this kind of thing, yeah, that's cause
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: for concern. I'd be very concerned if I was Ukraine
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, yeah. The state media agencies added no
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: new cases of infectious disease have been reported among the
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: plague institutes. Is that the name of it? I work
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: at the plague institute? Goodness gracious. In the past 10 days,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: the Institute did not find any emergency situations involving pathogenic microorganisms.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: Testing of the deceased patient's contacts have revealed two cases
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: of COVID-19 and two more cases of rhinovirus infection, although
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: it's unclear if either have been linked to her death. Well,
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: I don't think that it lasted long. I don't think
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: it's like she was like, oh, I just broke this
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: test tube. Let me go to a picnic. I think
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: she probably knew she was in a world of trouble.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: That's probably why she checked herself into a hospital ASAP,
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: and then they couldn't do anything to save her, and
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: she was dead, I think, within 48 hours, wasn't she?
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: Yikes.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: So that is dangerous stuff coming out of Russia. Let's
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: take a break. It is 748.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: And good morning. Kelly Nash here. It's 753. We were
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: talking earlier about how the Republicans haven't done enough, in
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: my estimation, to drive down costs. And I guess that
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: has inspired a talkback, huh, Christopher?
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: So why would you not vote for Annie Andrews?
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: And that's the entire talkback. Well, thank you for your talkback.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: And I guess we'll find out the answer to that
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: question a little bit later on today. I tentatively have
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: set for today. sometime midday, we're supposed to be interviewing
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: Annie Andrews, and we will put that out a little
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: bit later. If it comes to pass, as I'm expecting
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: it to now, we'll put that out as the National
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Briefing Podcast later on this afternoon. Again, you spell that
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: like my name, N-A-S-H-I-O-N-A-L. The National Briefing Podcast on the
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app should have about a 15-minute interview with Annie
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: Andrews or so a little bit later on today, and
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: then we'll take some of that tomorrow and we'll play
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: that back here on South Carolina's morning news. And who knows?
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Maybe Annie will persuade me today. Christopher, what do you think?
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: I doubt that, but I'll be curious to see how
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: the conversation goes.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: And I will be respectful. I am going to be respectful.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: I want her to feel comfortable and I want, I
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: want y'all to hear her real solutions and what I
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: think of her real solutions. That's what we're going to
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: work on today. Again, Annie Andrews, special guest a little
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: bit later on today on the national briefing podcast. And
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: then tomorrow again, on South Carolina Morning News. It is 7.55.
• 52:45
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• 52:52
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• 53:01
  Speaker 3: At 8.03, this is Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson. Christopher,
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: you are from the Lowcountry originally, correct? Not originally, but
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: I lived there for a while. When you were a child?
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: And what part were you in? We were in North Charleston.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: You were in North Charleston. So to me, I don't
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: understand the math on this, but Sunday they got 3.64
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service. And
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: they say that that breaks the previous daily rainfall record,
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: which was 2.51 inches set in 1893. So you beat
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: it by more than an inch for the day. Now,
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: I don't understand how that's possible because later on in
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: the story, it talks about how back in 2015, the
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: city saw 13 inches of rain over three days. That
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: would seem to be mathematically, you would have had to
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: have gone over four inches every day or at least
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: one or two of those days. But and then it
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: goes on to say massive flooding in coastal central South
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: Carolina this week caused by a stall up front dumped
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: as much as 25 inches of rain over five days
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: in some areas. But Sunday was a record breaking day
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: for the low country. And it's interesting that that comes
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: the day before last night's meeting. Now, I don't have
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: any reports on the meeting out of Somerville. But this
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: is one of those interesting proposals. So in Somerville, currently
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: on your property, the way the town laws are set up,
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: you can only cover 30% of your lot. And a
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: lot of homeowners are upset about it. They're like, this
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: is my lot. I can't build a garage. I can't
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: build an outside thing to store my tools or things
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: of that nature. And so they're considering a move. that
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: would allow Somerville residents to go up to 50% of
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: their lot could be covered. But that has now pushed
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: a big pushback. These people are saying we can't already
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: handle the stormwater that we have. It's causing massive flooding
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: as is. And if you were to now allow people
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: to cover 50% of their lot instead of just 30%,
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: that would make it even worse in our neighborhoods. Thoughts
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: on that, Christopher? Well, it's, I mean.
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: It's a legitimate point.
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: I mean, we hear all the time, a lot of
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: our flooding concerns have nothing to do with global warming
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: or any of that. It's the fact that we've covered
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: up planet Earth with so much cement.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a true point. But I'm also somebody
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: who believes if it's your property, you should be able
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: to do with it what you want. But then I
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: also recognize that you can't do anything you want with
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: your property. For example, you couldn't start painting curse words
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: on your house. I don't imagine. Maybe you could. I
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: don't know. Would the town police call you out for
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: using foul language on your house? Although if they're going
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: to do that, by the way, they should go to
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: Myrtle Beach and just arrest half the tourists for their T-shirts.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: For God's sakes. I can't believe what's going on with
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: the T-shirts these days. But, you know, I tend to
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: side with the homeowners who say we have a problem. Now,
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: one of the people points out that we haven't really
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: upgraded our any of our infrastructure when it comes to, like,
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: getting water out of here in about 100 years. It
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: was like the 1920s was the last time that they
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: had some sort of upgrades. These are the types of
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: things that don't get any recognition. People want to build
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: new roads. They don't want to fix the old roads.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: When you build a new road, everybody can celebrate it.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: When you fix the old one, not so much. When
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: you're talking about sewer systems, nobody finds that sexy. That's
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: not sexy.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: Until yours doesn't work.
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: Yes. And right now they're apparently having a problem in Somerville.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: Grace McGuire, who's lived there for 27 years, says that
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: she's watched flooding become worse and worse in the neighborhood,
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: including on the streets that she says had not previously
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: been a problem. She recalled a rainstorm last year where
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: the neighborhood's front entrance was blocked. She said the Congressional Boulevard,
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: a main road into the neighborhood, has been closed by
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: vehicles that can't pass and the water keeps rising. And
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: it seems like every year it gets worse. Of course,
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: we are getting more. I don't think anybody would argue
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: that we're not having climate change. We are having climate change.
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: The question for the left is, can you somehow demonstrate
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: that it's caused by man knowing that we've had climate
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: change for literally the entire time that Earth has existed?
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: It has gotten warm and it has gotten cold. It
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: has gotten warm. That's why you had an ice age
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: and that's why you had a liquid age. Because at
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: one time, the earth was frozen. Another time, it was
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: so hot, the entire thing was water. That's why we
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: have Red Bank here in South Carolina, which is 100
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: plus miles from the ocean. And it's got seashells all
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: over it because that's where the ocean used to go.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: So for me, that's always been the hard point for
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: them to try to make is that somehow this generation
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: is making it differently. I just assumed that climate change
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: was always going to happen. And that human beings figure
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: out ways to alleviate the problems of climate change because
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: we have more and more technology to break through and
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: we can make our lives comfortable and we can figure
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: out how to garden. We can garden in the middle
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: of a desert. Palm Springs, California is one of the
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: most lush communities in America and it's right in the
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: middle of the desert. So we can figure out how
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: to do stuff. It's the libs who are like saying, no, no, no,
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: but then you're going to affect the salamanders and you're
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: going to do this and you're going to do that.
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: If that's the way you feel, that's the way you feel.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: I'm certainly not going to argue out of that right now.
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: But back to Somerville. Yeah. I would say that they
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: should be investing heavily in getting rid of the stormwater
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: before they start allowing people to build out on their properties.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Be interested in knowing what you people think, especially in
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: the low country. Use the talkback feature to get a
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: hold of us. We'll take a break. It is 8.09.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the low country, this is Somerville.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: Carolina's Morning News.
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: And good morning to you. Kelly Nash here with Christopher Thompson.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: And the media, mainstream media, loves to give you the
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: very glum news. Whenever they can, they love to get
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: on there with very sour puss faces and say, man,
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Americans are struggling under rising gas prices again as we
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: set new record highs for yet another month. I wonder
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: if we're going to see glee as they report the
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: new gas prices. I'm looking at this story from ABC
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: News 4. here in South Carolina headline. And they should,
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: I want them smiling ear to ear when David Muir,
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: whoever the news anchor of choices is on the mainstream media,
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: South Carolina gas prices fall 21 cents in a week.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: This is the biggest drop we've had in long, long time,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: long time. And then go ahead and take a look
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: at just the national average. National average has dropped 12
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: and a half cents this week. Are we going to celebrate?
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: Where's my party horns? Now, obviously, we're not back to
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: where we were. But everything takes a little while. So
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: if you're looking at the Strait of Hormuz, and that
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: is everybody knows now, the Strait of Hormuz is what's
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: been the problem. It's a global commodity. They shut it down.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: We had about 18 million barrels a day coming through,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: 17 to 18 million barrels a day were coming through
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz. You take that off the world supply,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: and even though the United States is independent energy-wise, they
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: do sell it globally. So as the price goes up,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: of course, our prices go up. But guess what? According
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: to the Wall Street Journal, last month, or excuse me,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: last week, it was 17 million barrels a week is
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: what was coming through the Strait of Hormuz before the war.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: Last week, they got 10.3 million barrels through. So we're
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: about three quarters of the way back to where we were. 10.3
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: million barrels were passed. Now, what does Iran say? The
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: IRGC says, lies, it was just a couple of hundred thousand. Well,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: the oil prices tell us otherwise. And they're not looking
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: to drop oil prices. They're not looking to raise them either.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: It's just a commodity. It really doesn't have feelings. The
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: people trading in oil don't have feelings. They just trade.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: So they see more oil coming onto the market. The
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: prices go down. Less oil on the market. The prices
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: will go up. So the fact that we lost in
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: South Carolina, we dropped, what was it again? 21 cents
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: for the week is what oil gasoline prices are down.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: So now we're down well below $ 4 a gallon here
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina. National average is still above $ 4 a gallon.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: Thank God we don't live outside of South Carolina. It
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: says right here, the nationwide average is 430 per gallon Monday.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: But I guess you got to factor in California, which
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: is at like $ 7 a gallon. So can you imagine
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: living there?
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: And then getting taxed on top of that.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I think I think there's like, you know, three
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: dollars of that is probably taxed. But this is great news, Christopher.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: And we should be trumpeting that. And I don't again,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 5: it's that goes back to your conversation in the last
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: hour where Republicans just aren't getting the message out about affordability.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 5: They know affordability is the key issue, whether it's, you know,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: kitchen affordability, household affordability or. healthcare affordability. They know those
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: are the major issues. They're just not capitalizing on it.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: I like to look at myself as a reality chiropractor.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: I've used that in the past because often the media
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: will make you believe something is one way when in
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: reality it is not. And so when they continue to
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: talk about the rising costs of this, that, and the
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: other thing, sometimes they're not being accurate. And so you're
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: out of whack. So I got to come in like
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: a chiropractor and I readjust you. Now you see the reality.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: The reality is gas prices are dropping and they're going
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: to continue to drop as we get more and more
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: oil out. And it seems as if The U.S. blockade
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: is working, and it's working in earnest. And we figured
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: out a way how to stop the Iranians from getting
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: to those oil tankers. And so the reality is your
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: gas prices are now below $ 4 a gallon in South Carolina,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: and they'll probably be below $ 3. 50, I would imagine, within
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: the next 30 days. So let's celebrate that, South Carolinians.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: If you've got thoughts on that, use the Talkback feature.
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  Speaker 3: It is 818.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 1:03:41
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• 1:03:48
  Speaker 7: So I'm a lifelong Republican. I voted for Trump three times.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 7: But these past couple years between the Epstein files, between
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 7: all of his corruption, between the Iran war, between doing
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: whatever the hell Israel tells us to do, has really
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 7: got me considering voting for Annie Andrews because the Trump
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 7: vote was supposed to be against all that stuff.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: Thank you for the talkback. Do we know where he
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: was from or no? It doesn't say. Okay. Well, thank
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: you for using the talkback feature. I will point out
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: that I don't know what more Trump could have done
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: regarding the Epstein files. We've released literally millions and millions
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: of files.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: And I'll refer you to Dan Bongino. Dan Bongino made
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: a career out of saying there's something in those Epstein files.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: And then he got into office and saw the Epstein
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: files and said, I was wrong. There's nothing in the
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: Epstein files that proves anything. So everybody has had a
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: look at him. And nobody has seen anything. Now, if
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: you think that there's more being hidden, there's nothing else
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: that I can say to you. Now, you talk about
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: the Iran war. I will grant you that we didn't
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: exit as well as we should have. I will also
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: point out, though, that the stated policy of Iran can
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: never have a nuclear weapon. That was pretty clear. That
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: was not. Now, perhaps if you're alluding to the fact
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: that maybe Israel gave us some intel that was not accurate.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: Maybe that happened. Maybe it wasn't the right time to strike.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: It seems, though, that they were pretty weak as a
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: regime at that point. So I agreed at the time
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: to go in. I thought that was a brilliant move, actually,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: to take out that nuclear development that they were on.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: Sixty percent enrichment, even by their own admission, they were
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: at 60 percent, which is You need like four percent
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: if you're trying to make nuclear power, which they were not.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: They have no nuclear power capabilities. They were trying to
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: make nuclear weapons. So that was a good move. And
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: I think most Trump supporters would recognize that that was
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: a good move. You can, again, have problems with the
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: way we're getting out. But going in, I think, was
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: the right move. And I think most MAGA people would
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: say so. Then you just threw out the name, the
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: word corruption. What corruption are you talking about? I mean, again,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: the most investigated person possibly in American history. Al Capone
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: didn't get looked at as closely as Donald Trump, and
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: they've not found any corruption. So we're still waiting on
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: the corruption. That word gets thrown out a lot, but
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: there's no there there.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: Trying to weed out corruption and fraud and waste and
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: everything else that's going on with people misusing American tax dollars.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: I would, again, if Trump is up to something corrupt,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: I'll be screaming for his, you know, impeachment as well.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: We have another one, Christopher. Hi, guys.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 11: This is Bob from Mount Pleasant. I share your frustration
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 11: about Denise Graham. I've seen one television ad in the
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 11: last few months, one for Denise Graham. I've seen dozens
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 11: of for Annie Andrews. I haven't seen one negative ad
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 11: against Annie Andrews. So Denise Graham has proven herself to
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 11: be a totally, totally inept campaigner.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: And I think, I think we're going to lose this election.
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  Speaker 3: That's Bob.
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  Speaker 4: That's Bob.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: That's Bob.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: Don't get his name wrong.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: Bob, you're, you are correct that we are frustrated. Christopher
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: and I are frustrated with It's not Denise.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: It's Darlene.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, you've had to at least seen a road
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: sign or something, right? Aren't they down there? I know
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: I see them all over the Midlands. They've got the
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: little sign. It's basically just the name Darlene. And then
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: Graham is a little bit smaller from what I remember.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: But the name Darlene is kind of written out. Maybe
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: it's too fancy. Maybe they should have made that a
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: little less fancy. But yeah, we were talking yesterday about that.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: It appears from art, she's kind of in the Gamecock
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: camp in the sense that they don't have enough money
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: to do what they want to do. That seems to
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: be where they're at right now. They don't have enough
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: money to run the TV ads and the billboards and
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: all the stuff that Annie Andrews is doing. And I
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: don't know where the PAC money is. And it feels
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: as if I don't know. By the way, I'm not
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: saying that Annie Andrews is going to win. What I
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: am saying is she has a legitimate shot. And I
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: will be interviewing Annie Andrews today. We'll have that podcast
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: out a little bit later on today on the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: Just look for the national briefing. That's like my name, NASH.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: The national briefing with Annie Andrews later on today, and
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: then we'll play it back tomorrow as well here on
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning News. We'll take a break. It is
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  Speaker 3: now 829.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there. Hope you're having a great start to your day.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: This is Kelly Nash, and I am so thankful that
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: the United States learned... The painful lesson that Joe Biden
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: was teaching us about open border policies. And one of
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: those lessons, and there's several lessons in there. We were
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: talking about the 2,210 known terrorists that we've now arrested.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: inside the United States so far, according to Mark Wayne Mullen.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: But also when you invite people to your border, chaos reigns,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: bad things happen. And I don't know why the UK
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: has refused to learn this lesson because There's a Tony
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: Blair's right hand man, a guy named Alistair Campbell and
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: a centrist Tory figure named Rory Stewart have a podcast
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: in England or in the UK called The Rest is Politics.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: And they were talking to somebody named Shabana Muhammad. And
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: according to Shabana. Their calculations are now over 95% of
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: the women who are coming into the UK are being
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: sexually assaulted before they get there.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: 95%.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: In other words, once you make up your mind that
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: you're going to try to go to England, just accept that.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: You're going to be raped. You're not getting out of that.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: On top of it, they continue to find thousands of
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: dead bodies. Many, many people are dying. Here's another one.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: This one happened just a couple of days ago. Another
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: seven washed up on the beach, including a pregnant woman.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, when you think that the open border policy
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: is welcoming and it's a great it's a humanitarian effort,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: it's the exact opposite. And it's like kind of like
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: most liberal policies are the exact opposite of how to
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: fix a problem. You know what I'm saying? So like
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: when you say we have a drug problem in a city,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: the right answer is cut off the drugs to the city.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: That's the right answer. The left's answer is let's find
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: ways to make sure that they can shoot up drugs safely.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: Hand out free needles, etc.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: We're going to make the problem worse, in other words.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: When you say homelessness is a problem, the answer is
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: arrest them, force them into mental health clinics if that's
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: the problem, figure out a way to get them off.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: They cannot be in the way of business and society
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: in general. But that's not the way the left looks
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: at them. The left calls it like outdoor camping. No,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: people are illegal. They set up, you know, in L.A.,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: obviously they have Skid Row, which is blocks upon blocks
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: of homelessness. But you can go to Portland, you can
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: go to Chicago, you can go to Boston, you can
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: go to numerous liberal cities and see that they encourage this.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: that this is just an alternative lifestyle to them. The answer,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: like when you want to raise more money, like if
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  Speaker 3: you're serious about trying to get more money into our
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  Speaker 3: coffers as the United States Treasury, the answer is usually
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  Speaker 3: lower taxes. That seems to be the opposite, right? You
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  Speaker 3: would think, well, I should raise taxes, you know, go
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  Speaker 3: from 30 percent to 40 percent. And then we'd have
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  Speaker 3: more money. But the opposite is always proven to be true.
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  Speaker 3: That when you lower taxes, what happens is production rises
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  Speaker 3: as people have more incentive to start building things and
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  Speaker 3: they keep more of their money. And that's, I mean,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: go back to when I was a kid, the guy
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  Speaker 3: named Arthur Laffer and the Laffer curve. You can see
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  Speaker 3: how he demonstrated that, that if you're at 0% tax rate,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: you're going to bring in nothing. And if you're at
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: 100% tax rate, you're also going to bring in nothing.
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  Speaker 3: So you got to find that sweet spot. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what Americans are always dickering around with is, is it,
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  Speaker 3: is it? The high end, should it be 34%? Should
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: it be 38%? Should it be 29%? Where do you
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: get it to be the most? Usually if you drive
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  Speaker 3: down the tax rate, you're going to bring more money
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  Speaker 3: into the treasury, but that's not what they want. They
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: want to punish people. They're always trying to do class warfare.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: They want to encourage chaos. That's why they encourage the homelessness.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: You know, you've spent something like $ 500 billion in California
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: battling homelessness, and you've got the worst homeless problem you've
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  Speaker 3: ever had. They battle drug addiction, and yet here they
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: are with more drug addicts than they've ever had. They
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: make things worse, and I'm appreciative of this person. Again,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: what's their name again? Shabana Muhammad, or Mahamud. Mahmoud, I'm sorry,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: who is reporting the fact that 95% of women are
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 3: being raped on their way into either England, France, that area.
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  Speaker 3: It's just, they call it the rape trail.
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  Speaker 4: That is horrific.
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  Speaker 5: And, you know, people just looking for a better way
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  Speaker 5: of life. And these are people who are coming here
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  Speaker 5: illegally or coming there illegally?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Okay. Yeah. They're taking boats and those boats are
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: not built to do these types of things. And so
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: they capsize and then they're trying to hot foot it
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: or whatever. And they're, you know, they're obviously being taken
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  Speaker 3: there by handlers who know the route and those handlers
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  Speaker 3: allow people, they're just taking cash donations. Oh, you're, you
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: want to be with her? Okay, here, give me some
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: money to have at it, Hoss. I mean, it is
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: barbaric and inhumane to say that what we're going to
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: do is open up the borders. That's what Joe Biden did.
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  Speaker 3: That's the Democrat policies. I'll remember, what's your name, AOC
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: standing at the border, fake crying. Remember that? You should
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: be fake crying for the people who are trying to
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: get here, the migrants. That migrant caravan gotten any closer?
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen an update on it in.
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  Speaker 4: A few days. A little bit, I think.
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  Speaker 5: Mark Wayne Mullen has said, uh-uh, and not happening.
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  Speaker 3: We got to get that message to them. You're not
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: going to get in. You can come all the way
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: you want, but you're not getting in. Nobody's coming in.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: If you make that crystal clear to them, you're going
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: to discourage them from coming, and that will actually keep
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: them safe. That's my thoughts. What do you think? Let
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: us know on the Talkback feature. It's 840.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm reading the headline in the Post and Courier.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why. It just... Feels like they don't
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: want this. A conservative-backed action film was filmed at a
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: defunct South Carolina college. It got state tax credits. That
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: sounds bad. By the way, it's Ben Shapiro and his
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: Daily Caller. They filmed a movie called Run, Hide, Fight Infidels.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: And this is, if you listen to Ben Shapiro's description
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: of it, it's basically... Kind of like, what was that
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: movie in the 80s? Like Red Dawn, one of those
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: types of movies where you have the bad guys kind
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: of coming into a town or whatever. In this instance,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: it's supposed to be a college. It's supposed to be
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: set in Virginia. But in reality, it is the now
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: defunct Limestone University here in South Carolina. And they paid
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: to rent that campus. Now, we don't know what they paid.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: According to the film group here in South Carolina, Uh,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: they did spend a lot of money according to the
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: film commission enough to get the, it had to be
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: in excess of a million dollars in order to qualify
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: for the tax credits. So we know that they spent
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: over a million dollars filming here in South Carolina. Uh,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: it's apparently it's a film that I guess you have
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: to be a subscriber to their website in order to
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: see it. Uh, and it basically is a, got a
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: guy who's a professor or somebody who comes in, he's
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: giving a speech about how, Muslims are trying to take
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: over America. And then, you know, that's controversial to the
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: kids at the at the fake college. And then in
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: the middle of all that, they actually launch an attack
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: on the college. And then the kids have to figure
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: out how to run, hide, fight infidels.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 4: That does sound a lot like Red Dawn.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Except this time instead of what that was, the Chinese,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: wasn't it? If I remember right, maybe it was the Russians.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 4: I think it was the Russians.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: The Russians in that one. This time it's just going
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: to be the radical Islamists. So anyway, congratulations to South
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: Carolina landing some extra movie business. And I know Tim
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: Scott has been pushing for this. Not that movie in particular,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: but he said part of my life was changed by
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: working in a movie theater. And I'd like to try
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: to get more movies shot in South Carolina. So he's
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: got a bill up there to try to help incentivize
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: future productions in our state, which I think would be great.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: If you have thoughts on that or other things, you
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: can let us know on the Talk Back feature. We'll
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: take a break at 847.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 3: As we get ready to wrap up the show, I
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  Speaker 3: guess people will be keeping their eyes on France today.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: Massive protests have broken out in France. And, I mean,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 3: they've already had, I think, 5,000 arrests today. That's pretty massive.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: And there's about 90,000 people in the streets. And they're
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: saying that the biggest protests have not yet arrived, that
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: they're expecting over 240,000 or excuse me, 260,000 more to
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: flood the streets. And this is not just in Paris.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: This is in, I guess, a lot of the suburbs
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: and towns throughout France. And it's basically students. Now, this
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: is one of those weird things where when I first
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: saw it, I thought, finally, finally, the French have had enough.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 3: But they haven't had enough. To quote one of the signs,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: everybody hates the police. We have too many cops.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 4: That's what they're protesting?
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: Yes. We're very upset that the police are continuing to
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: arrest people. One of the students said, we hope now, finally,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: they'll start listening to us at our government. We don't
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: want cops. So this is a very bizarre move, but
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  Speaker 3: apparently the will of the people in France has been broken,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: at least the younger generation. These are basically high school
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: and college-age kids that have taken to the streets. I
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: don't know what to say about them. So far, let's see,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: hundreds of high schools have now barricaded today, forced to
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: close as pupils protest against their own teachers. crumbling buildings
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: the overcrowded classes well they're overcrowded because you've got thousand
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: excuse me millions of illegals in your country let's see
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: they're they're going to be protesting I'm assuming all week
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: this is not something you just fire up for a
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: one-day-only type of event. This is going to be going
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: all week in France. But again, thousands have already been arrested,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: and we're not even to the main parts of the protests.
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  Speaker 5: They should be asking for more law enforcement to help
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 5: with all these illegals who are flooding into the country.
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  Speaker 3: You would think. But again, this shows you how culture
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: can be swung. And once the culture swings, it's hard
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: to get it back. These people, they're protesting that they're
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: not being treated bad enough. That's what they're protesting. We
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: want more illegals to come in and steal our jobs
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: and lower our quality of life. And that's what we
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: want more of, not less of it. So we're going
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: to protest the only thing that's standing between us and
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: complete chaos, the police and you know, just law enforcement
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 3: in general. I don't understand how people have these mass delusions,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 3: meaning entire population sects are won over. But when you
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: see them, they're all like holding up their signs, you know,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: blank the police and poof. So 90,000 of them right
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: now on the streets going to swell to 260,000 before
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: the day's over, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: And they'll be kept safe while they protest by?
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  Speaker 3: I guess. They're upset that the police are wearing riot gear. Well,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: they're fearful of their lives. Anyway, we'll keep our eyes
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: on that and other things, and then be back tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: morning just after 6 with South Carolina's Morning News.