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Show Rewind 7-29-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Live from the State Capitol.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be a busy morning if you're in the
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  Speaker 3: Columbia area. The road closures start at eight am. Hampton
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  Speaker 3: between Sumter and Marion, Washington between Sumter and Bull, Marion
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  Speaker 3: between Hampton and Lady. No parking permitted. Pretty much till
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  Speaker 3: after noon today we got the most of Main Street,
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  Speaker 3: including the twelve hundred block of Hampton, Assembly Street, east
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  Speaker 3: side of the curb, eleven hundred block of Sumter. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's just going to be chaos as the pretty much
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the eyes of the world are going
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  Speaker 3: to be on Columbia, South Carolina today as there's a
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  Speaker 3: massive event for Lindsey Graham that will feature a flyover
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  Speaker 3: at eleven am from the Fighter Wing based at McIntyre
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  Speaker 3: Joint National Guard Base. After all this takes place today
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  Speaker 3: mid morning to early afternoon. I guess I should say
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  Speaker 3: they will then transport Lindsay back to Center South Carolina
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  Speaker 3: for his final resting place. It's going to be an
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  Speaker 3: emotional day. Christopher Thompson.
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  Speaker 4: It was an emotional day yesterday on Capitol Hill, both
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  Speaker 4: in the Capitol and at the National Cathedral where the
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  Speaker 4: President gave a touching eulogy stuck to the script.
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  Speaker 3: For the most part, Yes, for the most part.
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  Speaker 4: Which you know, when the President goes off script, it
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  Speaker 4: usually gets kind of hairy. But yeah, it was nice touch.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of good speeches in honor of our senator yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a snippet of he talked for about fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 3: I got this down to about a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Ben Zi rose from a small town in rural South Carolina,
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  Speaker 5: place he loved so much to become a constant fixedure
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  Speaker 5: of American politics at the highest level.
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  Speaker 1: He was a man who gave.
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  Speaker 5: America the full measure of his good and mighty heart
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  Speaker 5: until that heart itself just gave out. Lindsay first stormed
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  Speaker 5: into Washington with the Republican Revolution of nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 5: becoming the first Republican to win his House district in
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty years.
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  Speaker 4: That was Lindsay.
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  Speaker 5: His impassioned defense of a wonderful person, a great gentleman.
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  Speaker 5: Justice Kavanaugh, ended a disgraceful attack on this very good
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  Speaker 5: man and gave us one of the greatest moments the
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  Speaker 5: Senate has ever seen.
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  Speaker 4: I believe it.
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  Speaker 5: Was Lindsay's perhaps finest hour. But no matter how heated
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  Speaker 5: things got in Washington, virtually everyone Republican or Democrat liked Lindsay.
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  Speaker 5: Well not everybody, but it sounds good.
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  Speaker 3: Not everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Reunited with his parents and reunited with his Lord, Lindsay,
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  Speaker 5: we love you, God bless you, and you were very
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  Speaker 5: very special.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes he was.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 3: We have controversy today, Christopher. As we heard in the
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  Speaker 3: Fox News update, they are renaming Joint based Charleston in
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  Speaker 3: honor of Lindsey Graham. And I see this is a
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  Speaker 3: quote from Ed Sutton, Charleston Democrat state Senator. Air force
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  Speaker 3: veteran says that this is a quote. Senator Graham was
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  Speaker 3: a tremendous advocate for the South Carolina's military community. He
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  Speaker 3: deserves to be honored. However, renaming Joint based Charleston without
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  Speaker 3: the local input is the wrong approach. A more fitting
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  Speaker 3: tribute would be naming the new Coastguard facility in North
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  Speaker 3: Charleston after Graham, especially given his recent work to secure
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  Speaker 3: the major federal investment for the Coast Guard bission there.
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  Speaker 3: That would honor his legacy without erasing Charleston's military tradition.
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  Speaker 3: In no way do I feel like Charleston's military tradition
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  Speaker 3: has been erased at all. I have no idea what
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  Speaker 3: State Senator Ed Sutton from Charleston is talking about.
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  Speaker 4: Kelly. I'm not sure either. If it were named after
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  Speaker 4: someone already, like a strong Thurman, perhaps then yeah, you'd
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  Speaker 4: be racing history. It's just Joint Base Charleston right now.
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  Speaker 3: And previous part of that was Charleston Air Force Base,
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  Speaker 3: and Lindsey served for thirty three years and between the
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  Speaker 3: Air Force and the Air National Guard that was his branch.
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  Speaker 3: So I have no idea. Is this a democrat just trying.
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  Speaker 4: To stir up trouble, stir up trouble, get a little attention.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe, So I really have no a race Charleston's military tradition,
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  Speaker 3: no clue what that even means. Maybe you guys have
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on that. I don't know, Maybe Christopher Thompson and
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand because there's some sort of speak there
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  Speaker 3: that we're missing out on. You can listen know on
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  Speaker 3: the talkback feature that's on the iHeartRadio app, and no
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  Speaker 3: updates on the AM transmitter. There is an update, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're back on When did that come down.
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  Speaker 4: Well. I talked to our engineer late yesterday afternoon and
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  Speaker 4: then double checked it this morning when I came in.
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  Speaker 4: It's on the backup, but it's on.
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  Speaker 3: Well and so on the backup. Does that mean we
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  Speaker 3: don't have full power?
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  Speaker 4: I' I'm not sure, but I mean I got it
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  Speaker 4: in various places in Columbia today.
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  Speaker 3: I did see a bunch of empty computer boxes and
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  Speaker 3: stuff thrown in the trash when I came in this morning,
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  Speaker 3: so I knew somebody was working hard around here. They
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  Speaker 3: got The engineers have their hands full right now at
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  Speaker 3: iHeart in Columbia and in Myrtle Beach, and in Florence
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  Speaker 3: and in Charleston. They're working very hard at iHeartMedia these days,
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  Speaker 3: as are we. This is Christopher Thompson Kelly Nash together
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're all talking about Lindsay Graham here in South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina today. But this morning eight thirty, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: get crazy up in the Senate. Tony Fauci is coming
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  Speaker 3: to town. And this is Senator Bernie Moreno, who is
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  Speaker 3: on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. So he
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  Speaker 3: will have an opportunity to talk with doctor Fauci, and
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  Speaker 3: the question is is what exactly are you want to
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  Speaker 3: talk to him about.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I want to know if he thinks it was
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  Speaker 6: worth it to meet Kardashian. And he destroyed the lives
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  Speaker 6: of millions of Americans. He was the reason I ran
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  Speaker 6: for office. His policies where he treated Americans, so this
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  Speaker 6: is like Librats was totally and utterly disgusting. And I'm
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  Speaker 6: going to see if he has even the courage to
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  Speaker 6: just apologize to the American people before they put us through.
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  Speaker 6: He damaged a lot of lives. I mean, he affected
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  Speaker 6: kids in a way that will never get their childhood back.
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  Speaker 6: That he put mental illness in a lot of people
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  Speaker 6: who now are scared about all kinds of things. And
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  Speaker 6: he did incredible harm in the country. And he suffer
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  Speaker 6: the diaries. The guy did not suffer a low ego.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he thought he was the sexiest man alive.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 6: I think he's one of these guys that chased wisdom
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  Speaker 6: his entire life. Unfortunately, God didn't give him speed.
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  Speaker 3: I've never heard that phrase before. He chased wisdom, but
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  Speaker 3: God didn't give him speed. This is this could be
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  Speaker 3: this could be a very monumental testimony today. I mean
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  Speaker 3: you got Rand Paul Is the Leader, Ron Johnson, James Lackford,
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  Speaker 3: Rick Scott, Josh Holly, Bernie Moreno, Joni Ernst, and Ashley
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  Speaker 3: Moody for the Republicans. Now you would expect on the
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  Speaker 3: left it's gonna be a little bit easier. Margaret Hassan
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  Speaker 3: from New Hampshire, Blumenthal from Connecticut, Andy Kim, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 3: uh Slotgin, Gosh Slotgin in Galago. Part of the he
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  Speaker 3: was in the seditious sixth, wasn't he. But then there
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  Speaker 3: is John Fetterman. I'm wondering how aggressive fetterment will be today.
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  Speaker 4: And Kelly, as you pointed out yesterday, for all the
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  Speaker 4: talk about Hollywood and how enamored Anthony Founci was with
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  Speaker 4: his own fame and making all these media appearances, you
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  Speaker 4: hope the focus today is more on you know what
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  Speaker 4: else he had to say in that diary about exactly
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  Speaker 4: how the virus came to be and and why we
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  Speaker 4: were getting two different messages, one publicly from him and
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  Speaker 4: one privately as he was talking to government officials behind
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  Speaker 4: the scenes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the thanks to the hard work of Rand Paul.
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  Speaker 3: We now have the Fauci Diaries, and again I would
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  Speaker 3: encourage everybody to go to Rand Paul's website and go
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  Speaker 3: into what's called the Reading Room. There's about a thousand
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  Speaker 3: pages in there from Fauci's personal notes as well as
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  Speaker 3: email correspondence that he had with certain people. And it
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  Speaker 3: becomes overwhelmingly obvious that the quote unquote science was telling
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  Speaker 3: him in January of twenty twenty, this is a lab
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  Speaker 3: leak in January of twenty twenty. Now in March of
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty, when they decided to shut the country down,
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  Speaker 3: and he was a big part of that, and he
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  Speaker 3: then later on lied said I didn't recommend that to anybody. No,
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  Speaker 3: we can see where you actually called, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: mayor of New York City at the time, the governor
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  Speaker 3: of New York the governor of California, and talked about
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  Speaker 3: how this would put pressure on other places to force
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  Speaker 3: them to close down as well. So you wanted a
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  Speaker 3: closure of the country. You also knew at that point
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  Speaker 3: that it was ten of your twelve scientists told you
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  Speaker 3: it's coming probably from the lab. It looks like it
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  Speaker 3: has to have been man made, that that protein spike,
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  Speaker 3: which you know, I never would have known anything about
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  Speaker 3: protein spikes and things of this nature without the coronavirus
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  Speaker 3: as we used to call it, But now that we
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  Speaker 3: are all kind of somewhat familiar with it, we now
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  Speaker 3: know that according to ten of the twelve scientists, they said,
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  Speaker 3: this looks man made, and it looks like it just
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  Speaker 3: escaped a lab. It doesn't come from a wet market
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  Speaker 3: like that. And Fauci then lied and said, it looks
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  Speaker 3: like it's a natural occurrence. It's rare, but it happens.
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  Speaker 3: And for whatever reason. I really want to know why
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  Speaker 3: did he want to protect the Wuhan lab so much.
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  Speaker 4: That's a great question, and hopefully that's one of the
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  Speaker 4: questions we hear ask today. Yeah, I'm wondering what Fauci's
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  Speaker 4: approach will be. I mean, he's obviously got to be
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  Speaker 4: stunned by I don't think he expected and they didn't
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  Speaker 4: alert him to the fact that these diary readings or
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  Speaker 4: these diary entries were going to come out publicly, So
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  Speaker 4: he's probably still in a state of shock.
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  Speaker 3: How humiliating.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and now he's you know, he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: on the defense today no matter what but how forthcoming
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  Speaker 4: will he be? Do you keep a diary?
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  Speaker 3: I don't have a diary.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that because the only thing that I
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  Speaker 3: would think that would happen would be after I die.
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  Speaker 3: I could be humiliated.
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  Speaker 4: I don't. I want to take those with me. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: some people journal for reasons, you know, they they feel
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  Speaker 4: like they you know, some kind of cathartic experience. It
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  Speaker 4: gets it out and you know, then they can move on.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's softly dangerous as a government official to
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  Speaker 4: do it, especially if you're misleading the public while you're
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  Speaker 4: doing it.
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  Speaker 3: That is so c man. You hit the nail on
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  Speaker 3: the head Christopher Thompson. So again, we'll be watching that
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  Speaker 3: this morning. It starts about eight thirty, they say, with
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  Speaker 3: rand Paul on the gavel. All right, thoughts on that
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  Speaker 3: or other things. It's the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for starting your day with South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: So the Democrat Socialists of America we all heard we
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  Speaker 3: started talking about this. Conservative talk show hosts began talking
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  Speaker 3: about the DSA platform several months ago, as they started
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  Speaker 3: promoting it more heavily on their website and encouraging people
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  Speaker 3: to go and look at it. And then this past weekend,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was Martha McCallum or somebody, I forget,
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  Speaker 3: Shannon Breem somebody had the co chair of the DSA
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  Speaker 3: on and she went through basically, just what is on
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  Speaker 3: the platform, is this true? And one of them is
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  Speaker 3: to basically remove the Supreme Court, like we don't need
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  Speaker 3: a Supreme Court anymore, and so just basically remove one
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  Speaker 3: of the branches of government, just get rid of it.
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  Speaker 3: And the DSA is all in favor of that. And
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  Speaker 3: now I'm I'm getting a little afraid that Americans may
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  Speaker 3: be lining up with that new Gallup poll came out yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: They've only been doing this since two thousand, so I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what the Gallup poles of the eighteen hundreds
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  Speaker 3: or the nineteen hundreds would have said, But starting in
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  Speaker 3: two thousand, they started taking a Gallop pole on the
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  Speaker 3: nation's approval ratings of the US Supreme Court. And according
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  Speaker 3: to Gallup, they've never seen anything this low. Currently, only
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  Speaker 3: thirty three percent of Americans approve of the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 3: That is shocking and a I think that's a seven
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  Speaker 3: point drop since last year, most of it being driven
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  Speaker 3: by the Republicans souring after Donald Trump lost a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of rulings.
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  Speaker 4: And I, Christopher, you know, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I'm wondering, they're not happy with the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 3: but they're happy that it's there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm hoping, I would hope.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kind of like I don't like Congress per se,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm happy that we have one.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean you mentioned one branch. They want two branches.
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  Speaker 4: They want the presidency eradicated too, and they want the
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  Speaker 4: Senate done away with. They want one unicameral legislature. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: It would basically make it mob rule. Yeah, it sounds
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  Speaker 3: like it that this is if you're looking for a
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  Speaker 3: way to actually expedite your decline to third world status,
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  Speaker 3: the DSA platform is a perfect roadmap.
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  Speaker 4: It's we have a roadmap already, it's called the Constitution,
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  Speaker 4: and it's worked pretty well so far.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm saying, if you're trying to get us to
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  Speaker 3: third world, yeah, us no idea.
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  Speaker 4: I get it. But if they want a roadmap, they
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  Speaker 4: need they don't need to look very far.
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  Speaker 3: Well, again, the DSA does not like America. They don't
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  Speaker 3: like they don't like the founding of America. They don't
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  Speaker 3: like freedom, they don't like entrepreneurship, they don't like people
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  Speaker 3: getting rich. They don't like capitalism. They don't like you
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  Speaker 3: having choice and healthcare. They don't want you to have
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  Speaker 3: anything that they can't put their boot on your neck.
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  Speaker 3: That is what the DSA is all about. That's Mom, Donnie,
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  Speaker 3: that's AOC, that's Bernie Sanders, that's the mayor of c
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  Speaker 3: atle that's the mayor of Chicago. These people want to
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  Speaker 3: destroy your lives. That's how they feel happy about themselves.
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  Speaker 4: It's not the way we want to go. That's certainly
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  Speaker 4: not in the in the year we're celebrating two fifty
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  Speaker 4: and to hear this guy and to hear it gained popularity,
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  Speaker 4: it's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, this, I'm afraid. What we're seeing is we're reaping
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  Speaker 3: what we've been sowing in our education system for decades now. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 3: I graduated school in the eighties before the rapid decline
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  Speaker 3: of what seems to be the education system in America.
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  Speaker 3: But when I talk to people under the age of
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  Speaker 3: forty who haven't taken the time to self educate. They
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  Speaker 3: seem to have no understanding of the history of the
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  Speaker 3: United States, why we're great, what American greatness even is.
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  Speaker 3: Like I remember Obama making that statement, why is America
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  Speaker 3: so great? Pretty sure people have gona think that they're
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  Speaker 3: pretty great too. I got American, I got you know,
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  Speaker 3: Ghana exceptionalism. It has nothing to do with the people
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  Speaker 3: that are born here, nor is it having anything to
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  Speaker 3: do with the actual land that we live on. It
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  Speaker 3: has to do with the Constitution. It has to do
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  Speaker 3: with the freedoms that were given to us by God.
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  Speaker 3: Rather than saying that some sort of government entity, who
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  Speaker 3: was that that was just recently arguing that somebody I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to remember who it was, it with some maybe, uh,
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  Speaker 3: what's that guy's name from New Jersey or whatever. I'm
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  Speaker 3: drawing a blank on his name. But one of the
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  Speaker 3: senators is like, you really think that the power is
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  Speaker 3: given to you by God and not the law the Yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: I think that. Anyway, we're going to hopefully continue that
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  Speaker 3: tradition of keeping our keeping our freedoms that were given
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  Speaker 3: to us by God, as opposed to erasing the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 3: Now at an all time low with the people, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll keep a close eye on that. This is South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina's morning.
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  Speaker 2: Now Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: And things move quickly around here. I've got to give
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  Speaker 3: a programming note, and this is for Christopher as well
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  Speaker 3: as for all of y'all, just confirm that we are
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  Speaker 3: going to have Joe Wilson in the studio this morning
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  Speaker 3: at about eight thirteen ish or so to talk about
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  Speaker 3: what's going on. Is he and a bunch of other
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina representatives are fighting to get Charleston to host
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  Speaker 3: a major, major event. It's been a battle with a
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  Speaker 3: lot of other lawmakers on that one. We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: And also coming up at eight oh three ish or so,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna have Rory O'Neil checking in just before the
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  Speaker 3: Fauci testimony today. So we got a busy morning going on.
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  Speaker 3: And I see that the Wall Street Journal has a
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  Speaker 3: new story out this morning talking about the fact that
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  Speaker 3: Tehran just as disagreeable as ever. The Oman had proposed
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  Speaker 3: that they could help share in the managing of the
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  Speaker 3: straight Horror moves. If you look at a map and
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  Speaker 3: look at Oman, that is basically it's called the Gulf
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  Speaker 3: of Oman, which is basically almost the entrance to the
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  Speaker 3: Strait of Horn moves. Then moving up on what I
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  Speaker 3: will describe as the west side would be United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain.
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  Speaker 3: Then at the very north you get Iraq, and then
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  Speaker 3: all along the east side it would then be Iran. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Iran has a lot of miles on the Gulf, the
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  Speaker 3: Persian Gulf, and whatever they have about it looks like
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  Speaker 3: about thirteen hundred miles. Those other four countries they make
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  Speaker 3: up the other thirteen hundred on the other side, Iran said, no,
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  Speaker 3: we are not sharing the straight of Horror moves with anybody.
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  Speaker 3: This to me, Christopher, seems as if Oman and these
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  Speaker 3: other countries UAE, you know, do we go as far
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  Speaker 3: as partnering with Iraq to say, listen, guys, you need
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  Speaker 3: some military equipment to fight off Iran. We can help.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we've got a vested in Everyone has a
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  Speaker 4: vested interest in keeping the straight open. But Iran knows
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: that's its only playing card right now.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and as they continue to cut off the oil
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: for what is it about twenty percent of the world
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: that is having very negative consequences for the UAE, Qatar,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Bahrain and Iraq. And I'm sure that they would love
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: to have this thing reopened. And it also affects, you know,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: to an extent, China, who imports a mass amount of
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: their oil from this region. And so maybe who knows,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: you know, politics make strange bedfellows. Maybe China wants to
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: come on and help us force Iran to open this thing.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: We keep hearing that they're at least back channeling Iran
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: to say let's get to the negotiating table. But Eran
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: launched more strikes last night.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: They I don't know, they keep what is that old phrase,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: when somebody tells you who they are, believe them. They
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: don't care about peace or even prosperity. You cannot negotiate
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: with these people, the people who are in charge, not
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: the ninety million people who live there, but roughly two
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: hundred thousand or so that are calling the shots. Those
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: people have to go. They must be pummeled. And I
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: don't know how far the US population has an appetite
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: for US to get involved with this, but again I
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: think your only two options are you go all in
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: and kill all two hundred thousand of them, or you
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: just walk away and say, ohale, prices are going to
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: be higher the Persian Gulf, and you know, the straight
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: of horror moves. All that is just up to who
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: those people who live there, and you're all going to
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: have to figure it out amongst yourself. And if oil
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: prices are higher for the world the or higher for
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: the world, all right, Christopher's as to agree with me,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: So we will take a break. And now it is
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning News.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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• 20:11
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• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: And I guess some people would describe me as a
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: carpet bagger, having left New England years ago and lived
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: in New York City for many years, and then finally
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: decided when I had an opportunity to pick anywhere in
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: the world that I could live because I still had
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: a year left on my contract at Universal back then,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I chose Charleston, South Carolina. That's where I wanted to live,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: and that's where I moved in two thousand and three,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: and I've been very happy with my choice ever since.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson, I've only been here for twenty three years.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: You've been here your entire life, have we not?
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: My entire life? Actually was born in Atlanta, Oh, I
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: didn't realize that. And I grew up in Charleston. I've
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: lived here in fifty years, or for fifty years.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Fifty years have we seen anything like what we're seeing today?
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: For Yeah, I mean, I mean, there have been big
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: state funerals that strom Thurman comes to mind. It wasn't
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: all that long ago that we've We've had a couple
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: of high profile funerals, but I mean, this will be
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: a big deal just because you know, there's more attention,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: there's more social media, I mean, and and Lindsey Graham
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: touched so many lives, not just here in South Carolina,
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: but he was a high profile senator for anyone across
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: the country would recognize his name.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you saw that at the National Cathedral yesterday,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: all the heads of state that showed up to pay
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: their tributes, their respects. So coming up in the next hour, well,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: we'll have plenty of things to talk about. But one
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: of them, by the way, is a New York poll
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: that just dropped that is jaw dropping in my opinion.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: But we have more than enough candidates now for a
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: baseball team, maybe even a football team. And there was
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: a I mean, at the last minute, there was one
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: surprise entry for me who got into the race, and
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: there was another one even more shocking Christopher. And I'm
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: sure you've probably seen this by now. We'll have to
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: reveal who was denied entry into the race. There's also
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: been some updates regarding Darlene Graham. By the way, I
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: received my first direct mail piece from Darlen Graham yesterday. Ah,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: and it's a nice family photo of her on the
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: beach with the husband. I know a lot of people
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: ask about that he's in the photo with the kids.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: But yeah, yesterday was chaos at the last minute as
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: people were filing to replace Lindsey Graham. That is a fun,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: juicy story that we'll get into just after the top
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: of the hour. Thanks for starting your day with South
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Carolina's morning News, Live.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: From the state Capitol.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Boy.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I hate hearing the folks out on Isle of Palms
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: and Mount Pleasant. I guess about twenty thousand people lost
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: their power. I hope that's back on quickly, if not
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: already pretty hot day coming up with a lot of humidity.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Not a good day to be without air conditioning, that's
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: for sure. There is a ton of activity. I mean,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: we've been talking about Lindsay Graham's a big service last
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: night or yesterday up in the National Cathedral. Today obviously
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Columbia and then back to Pickens County. But if you
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: look at the activity that was taking place in Columbia
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: yesterday with people trying to replace Lindsey Graham. Now we
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: already know his sister, Darlene Graham is running. I was
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: just reading an ABC news for in Charleston that somebody
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: who is not authorized to speak for the governor says
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: that I guess off the record, although I'm reading it
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: in the news that he had never contemplated that she
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: would run for the seat.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Joined the crowd.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Obviously. It seems like she and Ralph Norman are the
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: front runners at this point. I am supposed to be
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: talking with Russell Frye. I believe tomorrow we're gonna have
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: him join the show. He's also I would put in
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: that kind of the top tier of the candidates. And
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: then I mean Mark Sandford obviously in the top tier
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: of candidates, and we had him on earlier this week.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: If you haven't heard that interview, we have that podcast
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: out on the National Briefing podcast. You can look for
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: that on the iHeartRadio app. But they was like just
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: a flurry of activity in the last few hours and stuff.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: So we already had Mark Lynch, the guy who had
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: primaried Lindsay Graham.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: He's in.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: We have him on earlier. I think that was last week.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Duke Buckner, We've talked about him. He's in. He's the
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: guy who always is going against James Cliburn. Mark McBride,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: former mayor of Myrtle Beach, is running. Darius Mitchell, resident
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: of Columbia, who calls himself quote the hip hop Republican,
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: is running.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: He didn't get in. Oh really, Darius Mitchell. They're saying that, Yeah,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: eliminated by party rules.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, when did that happen? Because Channel four reported
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: this this morning. So yeah, they're a little bit behind
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: down there, and I think so Clark Nielsen, businessman who
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: does not currently live in South Carolina.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: He'll Charlotte eliminated out.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Glenda Gail Parker, retired Air Force officer who moved to
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Myrtle Beach, calls herself a conservative independent who leans Republican,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: supports high speed rail.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Gail for rail. Is that the slogan? Yes, that's their slogan.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Sam Shepard, biomedical engineer and entrepreneur, lives in Lexington County,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: said he's focusing his campaign on cutting taxes in federal spending.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: And at the last second, danny Ford, who had been
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: running for was it the AG Commissioner?
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Correct?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: And he is from central South Carolina, which is where
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: we're having all that activity today. And former Clemson University
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: football coach Danny Ford apparently as his father he is.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: He got in I guess like at about eleven thirty
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: yesterday morning.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Out they removed him. Now, yes, how could they remove
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: them at party rules? Because they were ruled that he
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: both he and Darius Mitchell Mitchell ruled to have not
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: voted in two of the last three state Republican primaries.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: How is he qualified to run for the AG commissioner
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: and not qualified to run for this?
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: I you know, these are new rules that the Republicans
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: are operating under and there are still questions about why
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Darlene Graham's in.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Well, I was going to say all over social media
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: people are very ticked off that they ruled she is
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: in when she didn't vote in two of the last
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: three although they're going to count the special primary. I
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: guess as that. I guess that's how they're doing because
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: they didn't go with a waiver, if I understand correctly.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: But so she's in.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: The guy who was the the ag commission running for
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: the egg commissioner is now ruled out, according to Christopher Thompson,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: and at the last minute, according to Will Folks at Fitznews,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: a man who came in and declared himself to be
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: the living son of God, Jesus Christ, attempted to file
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: and they would not allow him, even though he was
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: there in time and apparently had the cash. Jesus Christ
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: is now out as well, although I see on social
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: media a rite in campaign has been started for Jesus Christ.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: They want Jesus Christ to win the Senate seat.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: This is getting crazier by the moment.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: So, okay, so the headline had said twelve, but you're
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: saying we're down to ten.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: No, it's nine. It's not. Yeah, Ford, Mitchell and Nielsen
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: are all out.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, so three of the twelve have been removed. Wow,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: all right, So I guess it's manageable at nine. So
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: we have enough for a baseball team.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Well, we have enough for a baseball team, But as
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: you've pointed out more than once, Kelly, we also have
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: enough to almost guarantee a runoff. Yeah.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I don't see there's any possible way anybody gets above
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: fifty percent and then we'll come the runoff. Now, the
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: interesting thing is early again, and all of it's early.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: This whole thing is going to be over in a
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: couple of weeks. But early indications are that it is
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: between Ralph Norman and Darlene Graham. Does Darlene Graham have
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the advantage because she has such a strong team and
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: that it's Lindsey Graham's team if it goes to the runoff.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: I had always credited Alan Wilson as having the advantage
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: if he got into a runoff against Pamela Evitt, based
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: off the fact that he has had such a strong
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: team and he's been networking throughout the state for all
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: these years.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I think the team will help Kelly, but I think
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: I would think Ralph Norman could probably claim the same thing,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: especially since he's just coming off the governor's race.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: He did do He did well in the governor's race,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: but what it was, about seventy percent or so of
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: his support was basically around that rock Hill. We'll we'll
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: just call it the the upper part of the state
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: because it's it kind of goes down through York County
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: and stuff. He did not do very well in the
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: low country. Ralph Norman did not in the last election
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: for governor. We'll see if he does have name recognition
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: now because of that. Darlene Graham has the I guess
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: the sympathy vote and or just a fantastic team. Lindsay
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Graham's team is top notch, and if they're all pulling
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: for her and working that, I would think that would
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: be an advantage for her as well. I don't know,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: maybe you all got thoughts on that we got I'm
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: running a little bit long. It is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: All Right, so a lot of conservatives around the country
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Tree Republicans are excited about a new poll that came
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: out from Red Oak Strategic. Now I'll caution you that
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: this is a right leaning polling company, super Pack. Now,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: they found out that the Bruce Blakeman, who I've never
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: even heard of, Bruce Blakeman, he's listed here as some
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: sort of Nassau County executive. He is within four points
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: of Kathy Hokel to be the next governor of New York.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Forty seven forty three is the vote totals right now
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: in this again right leaning pollster's opinion, ten percent of
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: the voters still undecided. The things that make it a
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: little more interesting because again I'll just caution people, if
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: you go back to twenty twenty two and Kathy Hokeel won,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: leez Elden was a great candidate for the Republicans because
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: he he's just an attractive candidate. I'll just say that
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: leez Elton is very well spoken. You see that when
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: he's on Congress or you know, giving congressional testimony. He
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: does a fantastic job. And he lost by five points
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: to Kathy Hokeel. And again, when you look at the
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: state of New York, it's about ninety five percent votes
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: read except for the island of Manhattan and the five boroughs.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: It is as blue as it can get. And then
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: there's a couple of other blue counties like near Albany
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: and stuff. But he lost by five. This guy, Blakeman,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: would be even closer if this poll is accurate. The
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: other thing about it that's exciting is the fact that
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: he is. This guy is stockpiling cash. Apparently he has
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: now raised eleven million dollars in the last few weeks,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: and so the momentum is all with this guy. And
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: we've been hearing about the Democrats having problems raising money,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: and then amongst the pollsters when they went to the Independent,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: he's winning fifty four to thirty three with the Independence
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: right now, so only the far left wants Kathy Hokel
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: and I wonder if that is waning a little bit
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: because she has been blocking some of Mom Donnie's plans. Hmmm,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: So is she going to lose the momentum unless she
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: goes complete socialist because Mom Donnie and Hokul are not
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: not getting along very well right now, as he wants
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: more and more stuff, and the only way he can
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: get it is if she raises taxes on everybody in
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: New York and she continues to say, I'm not going
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: to do that, So I don't know.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: It's it could Could New York be turning red?
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: That's that's all. That's a mouthful that That is one
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: of those prayers that you put up there and go,
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: there's no way, there's no possible way.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: But maybe think think at least.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: And does Donald Trump help or hurt if he goes
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: in in campaign for this guy I don't know Blackman. Again,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: they describe m as a Nassau County executive who is
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Jewish who has made combating anti Semitism supporting law enforcement
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: the major themes of his gubernatorial campaign. Again, if you're
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: living in New York City, you would think that somebody
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: supporting law enforcement right now would be a plus, because
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: it is getting worse by the minute in New York
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: City when it comes to crime. But that's neither here
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: nor there. We're saying our prayers for New York to say,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: and it will also be saying our prayers for the
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: family and friends of Lindsey Graham as we say goodbye
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: to him a little bit later on this morning in
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: our capital and then later on up in Pickens County.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Thanks for getting your day started with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Dash So.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: I don't watch MS now Thankfully, I used to work
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: in a studio with Jonathan Rush, who loves watching MS
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: thirteen now the gang Loving Station drives me nuts. My
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: blood pressure goes through the roof. But the guy who
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: is listed there is the senior national security reporter is
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: a guy. I think his name is pronounced David Road.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: It might be Roadie or Roddy. I'm rohde. I'm not sure, Christopher,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: have you ever heard of David Road?
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Non I don't watch as it as a matter of so.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: You and I agree it's bad for our heart to
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: watch MS thirteen now the gang Loving Station. Anyway, he
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: is the senior National Security reporter who previously worked for Reuters.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: While working for Reuters, he took a trip to China,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: which is paid for by China. He wrote an article
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: called will Made in America Sell in China? Now that
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: article is still online, it no longer has his name
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: attached to it. Reuters removed his name for some reason,
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: but you can find the archived versions of it.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: It is very.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: China friendly well, now, just the news with John Solomon
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: revealing that David Road, again the senior National security reporter,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: has had numerous things paid for by the Chinese government.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: And he suddenly proached on it exactly.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to get to one of parts of the
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: columns he was talking about how great China is. Unlike
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: the United States, where free market advocates to ride the
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: role of government, the Chinese state has played a central
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: role in creating, supporting, and expanding businesses here. In addition
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: to privatization, cheap government loans and massive government funded infrastructure
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: projects are driving China's boom. The Chinese government also requires
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: foreign companies to create joint ventures with the Chinese firms
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: that fairly or unfairly allow for the local companies to
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: learn valuable manufacturing and business practices. Look, David, I could
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: have told you in twenty eleven what the Chinese were
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: doing was ripping off intellectual property. That's not partnering, that's
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: them stealing. That's what they do in China. He continues
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: to be employed by MS thirteen now again as the
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: national security guy, but he is.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: I hope they keep him away from China stories.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just unbelievable. But it's kind of like
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: when what's his face? The guy who's now in all
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: the trouble, who was running for governor of California used
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: to be a House member, was sleeping with the Chinese spy.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Fangfang was her name.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: How is it?
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I can remember Fang Fang, but I can't remember the
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: now disgraced congressman who had to resign in shame later on,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: but he was still on like the Foreign Affairs Intelligence Committee.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Eric Swallwell.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Swallwell, I mean, you're sleeping with a Chinese spy and
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: you don't even have the Democrats don't even force you
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: off the committee, never mind out of Congress. This guy
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: is the head of the MS thirteen now gang loving
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: stations national security reporter who's basically getting paid for it
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: directly by the Chinese government. This is insane what's happened
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: in America. I hope somebody at MS thirteen now is
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: cracking down on this guy now that John Solomon has
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: cracked the story. I doubt it, but I'll keep watching.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: And when I stay watching, the story not MS thirteen Now.
• 37:13
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• 37:15
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• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Now Kelly Nash.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: Kelly has stepped away from his microphone for the moment.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Good time to remind everyone. If you are in the
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Columbia area this morning on into this afternoon, know that
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: the many streets are closed in anticipation of the Lindsey
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Graham procession, of course, which starts at the State House
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: and then works this way. Or there's Kelly Nash, he's
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: coming back. We were worried we missed you.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I must I missed out on you.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: I'm so I'm sorry to say what happened to me?
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: I thought I had a little bit longer there, but
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: apparently not. So you were talking about the State House
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: in the processions.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: Yes, which just making sure everyone knows if you're in
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: the Columbia area, there are going to be streets closed,
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: the parking is going to be limited. There is a
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: lot going on, and if you don't have to be
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: in that area in between the State House and First
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Baptist Church, you're probably not going to want to be.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: No, no, it's going to be interesting though, with the
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: flyover taking place. I think that's at eleven o'clock this morning,
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: and again a ton of people will probably be there, Christopher,
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: and it is first Come, first Serve. They're saying, first Baptist.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: What time do the doors open at ten? I think
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: so ten o'clock this morning, and so the flyover I
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: think is at about eleven, and they are encouraging people to,
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: you know, pay your salutes to Lindsay Graham as they
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: make their way from the south side of the State
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: House on down to the church. Yesterday, Donald Trump had
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: some words to say about Lindsay Graham. I've edited it
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: down to about a little over a minute, even though
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: he did speak for about fifteen minutes or so.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: Lindzy rose from a small town in rural South Carolina,
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: place he loved so much to become a constant fixture
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: of American politics at the highest level. He was a
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: man who gave America the full measure of his good
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: and mighty heart until that heart itself just gave out.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Lindsay first stormed into Washington with the Republican Revolution of
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: nineteen ninety four, becoming the first Republican to win his
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: House district in one hundred and twenty years. That was Lindsay,
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: his impassioned defense of a wonderful person, a great gentleman.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: Justice Kavanaugh ended a disgraceful attack on this very good man.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: And gave us one of.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: The greatest moments the Senate has ever seen.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: I believe it.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: Was Lindsay's perhaps finest hour. But no matter how heated
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: things got in Washington, virtually everyone Republican or Democrat, liked Lindsay. Well,
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: not everybody, but it sounds good not everybody. Reunited with
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: his parents and reunited with his Lord. Lindsay. We love you,
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: God bless you, and you were very very special.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Genuine affection for Lindsey Graham.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's hard to believe the two had as
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: big a feud as they had at one point, but
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: actually several I mean they broke up several times and
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: then got back together.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: And he talked about Lindsay was a ferocious fighter. He
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: would not back down on things, and that's part of
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: the reason people loved him. You know, he was a
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: He also told the story about his dad, and you know,
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: you got to be able to make people like you
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: enough that they want to come back to the bar,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: but you got to be strong enough to make sure
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: that the bar survives. So he was a great combination
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: of the both. I was. I posted a quick video yesterday.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: I was driving in northeast Columbia and I got a
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: little emotional there, you know, as I'm thinking they're having
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: this procession today for Lindsey Graham. Yesterday it's going on
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: at the National Cathedral, and somebody still has their Lindsay
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Graham for Senate sign out, and I'm thinking, my gosh,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: they're going to bury him tomorrow. That's it's it boggles
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: the mind.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Does it say Lindsey Graham per Senate or does it
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: just say Graham for Senate.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: It's Lindsey Graham for Senate, Okay.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: And the Darling and Graham.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: By the way, I did see a news report Darling
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Graham's TV ads begin on Thursday in most part most
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: markets in South Carolina, so I guess we'll start seeing those.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: I got my Darling Graham direct mail piece first, one from.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Her campaign or from the pack you know, I don't.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: I didn't look and check to see, but I mean.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: I've seen one from the super Pac the security, the
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Lindsay Graham super pack. I have not seen anything from
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: her yet.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Now the one that you got, did it have a
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: picture of her in her entire family on the beach?
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure because that's what because that's what I
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: looked at, and there's two sided obviously, but I was like, oh,
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: there's got a picture of her. And you know, I
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: didn't read it. Like most pieces of mail, I don't
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: read it. And then I just flipped it over and
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: I saw that it did have a picture of her
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: husband and children, and I guess maybe one of them
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: is married or something to that extent, because it looked
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: like a slightly extended family. So I just said, oh,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: there we go.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: Darlinge.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Graham is definitely all in. I understand they're having some
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: fundraisers with K Street people this week, so but you know,
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: we'll keep our eyes on that. And again I'm reaching
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: out to the Graham campaign. They asked for a little
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: grace in this time of morning. Hopefully maybe next week
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: we can get her on. That would be awesome. I
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: got Russell Fryes calling in tomorrow. I believe we've had
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: a couple on. Ralph Norman's already been on Mark Sandford
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: was just on and some others. So we're trying to
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: make our way here on South Carolina's Morning News, giving
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: you as best as we can an overview of the campaigns.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: And I don't know, maybe we'll hear from Jesus Christ.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: He was denied.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: If you'd missed that story earlier, Jesus somebody naming themselves.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, who did declare themselves the only son of
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: the Living God, was at the the voting office yesterday
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: trying to declare his candidacy, but he was denied. So
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: there was that story as well. A lot to get
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: too still on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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• 43:30
  Speaker 2: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Now Kelly Nash.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: So it's interesting that the Democrats socialists are moving so quickly.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: We talked about the co chair being on Fox News
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: over the weekend talking about, Yeah, we want to get
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: rid of most branches of government. We're going to get
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: rid of the Supreme Court. We're going to get rid
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: of the presidency. We're going to get rid of the Senate.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: We want to get rid of all that. There's also
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Mamdani in New York City. Now, the great lie that
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: socialists always tell you is it's just the elite, that's
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: all we want. We just want them, and whether they're
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: saying we want their heads, which is what was the
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: case in like with Mao and others, in this instance,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Mam Donni started gradually, we're just going to tax the
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: richest of the rich, to be the dead, the people
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: with the five million dollars and more homes. Well, it
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: turns out not so much. According to the New York Post,
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Mom Donnie sent out nine one hundred and sixty thousand
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: of these bills. Now. Interestingly enough, in the New York
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: City area there's only about one million residential tax lots.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: In other words, if you own property in New York City,
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: you're getting whacked right now. This is the great lie. So,
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: like the headline or the cover of the New York Post,
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: has taxed the rich question mark. Some of these people
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: that are getting these letters from Mamdani talking about an
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: increase in their taxes, they're living in literally eleven hundred
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: square foot homes.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: You're the rich, that's not a mansion.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Eleven hundred square foot homes. Now, originally it said it
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: was going to be thirty one thousand homes. That's it,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: just thirty one thousand, and so if you're in a
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: city of well there's a million people who actually own
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: homes here, Okay, well that's just the upper upper upper rich.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Then you find out it's nine hundred and sixty thousand.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: It's literally just about everybody who owns anything. And if
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: you look at like they're in the post, are talking
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: about certain things like on Staten Island. Now, Staten Island
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: is not even I don't even know how Staten Island
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: is considered New York City. If you've ever been to
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Staten Island, it doesn't feel anything at all like New
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: York City. But it talks about some of the streets
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: there where the average home price on those streets is
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: five hundred to eight hundred thousand dollars. They all got hit,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: they're all getting taxed, they all got and again it
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: was supposed to be a pied de terire text. This
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: is just for the people who have second homes that
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: was scrapped. It's everybody is going to be getting they're
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: trying to raise billions and billions of dollars in taxes
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: in order to give severe discounts at grocery stores or
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: something to that extent. This is the great lie of socialism.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: It's not going to affect you. It's only gonna help you. Now,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: if you actually are a productive member of society, socialism
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: will always hurt you. It's gonna hit you, and it's
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: gonna hurt like hell mam. Donnie is revealing it a
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: lot quicker than I had assumed. Again, maybe that's part
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: of the polling that we were talking about with Kathy Hockel.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: And the Democrats are continuing to They're they're just imploding
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: right now with this Democrat socialist movement.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: But redistributing our wealth. Yeah, the question is to whom.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: If I'm the middle class and you're taking it from me,
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: who are you giving it to? Anyway, that's going on
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: in New York. What's going on in South Carolina. We'll
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: take another look at that in South Carolina's morning news from.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: The Midlands to the low Country.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
• 47:06
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• 47:10
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• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Posting Courier has an interesting op ed piece in there
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: this morning talking about smaller communities being scammed at the
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: government level. Talks about the Surfside beach in Oray County
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: Municipality built out of five hundred and forty nine thousand
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: dollars by scammers who were able to impersonate legitimate contractors
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: doing utility work. This also follows up or was the
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: I guess predated what happened in Lawrence County who lost
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: one and one and a half million dollars by paying
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: fake invoices after a county employee believed that the emails
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: were in fact being sent by a South Carolina construction company,
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: and the Posting Couriers research says that what's happening is
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: one in four of South Carolina two hundred and seventy
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: one municipalities fail to actually properly keep their books and
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: so because of that, we're getting built at the local
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: level out of tens of millions of dollars. And I'm
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: not The op ed seems to be calling for the
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: state government to step in into a better job of
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: monitoring the local government's finances, which no, I just think
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: that the people who live in this town, have to
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: do a better job of hiring people to look out
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: for their books.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: We're electing leaders, Kelly, whichever the case. But yeah, no,
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: it's up to you and it's your taxpayer dollars that
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: are at stake.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Yes's and again I would say the same thing. If
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: the state of South Carolina is failing to do its
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: job to protect our money, I would not want more
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: federal input on how the state runs its money. I
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: always think that the government is best the closer it
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: gets to the people, because you're the people who can
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, you can actually go and talk to your
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: elected officials in Surfside Beach. You can go and talk
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: to these people. It's not like they're they're hard to find.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: You can say, hey, listen, what are we doing, who
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: are we hiring? How did we fall for this? The
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: FBI says this is going all across the country and
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: right now small towns are losing about two billion dollars
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: a year in scams.
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: Well, as you pointed out last week in that story
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: that I think again was in the Posting Courier, there
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: are a lot of towns the state does require you
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: do it, audit every year and come up with a
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: balanced book before you get any taxpayer dollars coming back
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: to you. And there are a lot of towns out
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: there who aren't even doing that.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Again, the Post and Curer reporting one out of
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: every four South Carolina municipalities fail to keep their books properly.
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: That's incredible. I mean to fix your books, for God's sakes.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: Check with your local if you live in a small town,
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: check with your mayor or somebody. How are our books are?
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: Are they up to snuff? Put some pressure on these people.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: You want to make sure your towns are run smoothly.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: We'll be back with more, including a preview of the
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: Fauci testimony, next on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Live from the state Capitol.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash, and.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: I'm told we have Roory O'Neil with us. Good morning, sir,
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: Hey there, Kelly, Good morning.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: It's going to be a huge day in DC with
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: Tony Fauci testifying in front of Congress.
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: Huh right, He's before a Senate committee that is chaired
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: by Senator Rand Paul who has made COVID nineteen and
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: its origin his mission really to get to the bottom
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: of it. And we're going to hear from doctor Fauci
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: again after his pardon by President Biden, and that pardon,
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: a preemptive pardon, covers everything up to the date of
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: the pardon. So today's testimony is going to be very
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: important if there are more lies in today's testimony that
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: could cause new problems for the doctor.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Are we expecting the Democrats to try to protect him
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: as much as possible as you know, norma.
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, right, all these tend to go along party lines, right,
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: and you can sort of ignore some of the questions
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: and pay attention to the other ones. But yeah, I
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: think that that's something.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: To look for.
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: Some questions about whether or not doctor Fauci perhaps pleads
• 51:17
  Speaker 7: the fifth and doesn't really say much of anything at all.
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: We're going to find out in just a few minutes.
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: This hearing starts at the bottom of the hour. And
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: again we've seen fiery exchanges between doctors Paul and Fauci
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: in the past, so this could get interesting today.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so this committee that Ran Paul is the
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: chair of. You know, we were playing some clips earlier
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: from Bernie Moreno, who wants to ask him, was it
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: worth you know, all the fear and destruction you did
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: in order to meet Kim Kardashian. Rick Scott's on there,
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: Josh Howlly's on there, Joni Ernst is on there. But
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: also on the other side. Again, it's an all star
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: lineup of people who would like to protect him, like
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: part of the Seditious Six with Slopkin and Galie, Iago Andy,
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: Kim Blumenthal from Connecticut. But John Fetterman, I'm wondering how
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: hard John Fetterman will go today.
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: No, that will be interesting to see.
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
• 52:12
  Speaker 7: You know, we've seen Senator Fetterman sort of take a
• 52:14
  Speaker 7: much more moderate, moderated, bipartisan approach to things just recently,
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: you know, departing from President Trump and now supporting the filibuster,
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: having a change of opinion there. But yeah, that could
• 52:27
  Speaker 7: be an interesting question period. And again let's see if
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: Fauci says anything at all. You know, that still is
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: out there as a possibility. I just want to see
• 52:36
  Speaker 7: doctor Fauci. You know, we haven't really seen him much.
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: He last testified back in twenty twenty two. He's now
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: eighty five years old, and he suddenly could be a
• 52:45
  Speaker 7: much more sympathetic looking figure as he sits behind that table.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: I haven't checked, Kelsey. I wonder if there's an odds
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: on does he wear a mask? Well today triple mask
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: at Fauci.
• 52:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sure a bet on that for some reason.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: Somebody's going to have that.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Well, this is going to be a historic d I mean,
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: obviously here in South Carolina we're burying Lindsey Graham. But
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: this Faucci thing, like you say, if he lies despite
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: the pardon, he could end up going to jail well.
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: Right, And it's because the pardon doesn't cover everything, right,
• 53:20
  Speaker 7: it doesn't cover state crimes, it doesn't cover civil protections that,
• 53:23
  Speaker 7: it doesn't cover congressional investigations. As we see, you know
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: he's here now. You know, doctor Fauci resigned in a
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: retire rather in twenty twenty two as well, so you
• 53:33
  Speaker 7: know he's only appearing at this hearing because of a
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: subpoena that was issued by Senator Paul Great stuff.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: Rory certainly appreciated. And what do you think is he
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: going to plead the fifth.
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: I don't think he's going to plead the fifth, No,
• 53:46
  Speaker 7: but you know, let's see how careful the testimony is
• 53:49
  Speaker 7: again because either the diary pages, to what he said
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: in press conferences, to what he said under oath, to
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: what he says today. All that stuff has to line
• 53:58
  Speaker 7: up otherwise he could find himself new trouble.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, thank you so much, Rory O'Neil, appreciate you. And
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: we'll all be watching Anthony Fauci today on the stand
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: more with South Carolina's Morning News. I understand we have
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: the Congressman Joe Wilson ready to come in talk about
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: I he's fighting hard for Charleston today. We'll get into
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: that next.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: All right, and I'm I think this is the first
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: guest that we've had in the studio while we're live.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: And I got to figure out which Mikey's on as
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: A two or three. Say good morning Joe Wilson.
• 54:29
  Speaker 8: Good morning, Joe Wilson, Member of Congress from South Carolina.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And the reason I wanted you to come in.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: I knew you were going to be in town for
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: the funeral today for your great friend Lindsey Graham. But
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: you have been fighting so hard for the city of
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: Charleston to host a big security event. Can you talk
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: about that.
• 54:45
  Speaker 8: Indeed, And first of all, I was so grateful to
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: be with Swim and Sherry Biggs yesterday to represent the
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: House at the funeral at the US Capitol.
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: And that also as part.
• 54:54
  Speaker 8: Of that, I've been working to have the Owasation securing
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: cooperation in Europe having their Parliamentary Assembly and Charleston on
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: July five to nine, twenty twenty seven, and I next year,
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: and i'd been working with Senata Graham, and I sadly
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: when he passed away, I got in touch with President
• 55:14
  Speaker 8: Trump that the Parliamentary Assembly, which would bring three hundred
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: parliamentarians from fifty five countries to Charleston to South Carolina. Sadly,
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: there was an an effort to sabotage that and move
• 55:27
  Speaker 8: the Assembly to Serbia, to Belgrade, Serbia, and so, and
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: my view is that it needs to be in Charleston.
• 55:37
  Speaker 8: It's a great venue showing for our love and affection
• 55:42
  Speaker 8: of Senator Graham, as we saw with President Zelenski and
• 55:45
  Speaker 8: Prime Minister net Yahou yesterday.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: And if I understand correctly, and we're not going to
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: name names here, but sadly, this effort to move it
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: from Charleston, South Carolina to Serbia is not necessarily being
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: led just by the Serbs. There's actually US legislators involved.
• 56:01
  Speaker 8: It's just very perplexing to me, and I was insulted
• 56:04
  Speaker 8: for the people of South Carolina. Initially, I was told
• 56:07
  Speaker 8: that Charleston couldn't handle this because there was not sufficient catering.
• 56:11
  Speaker 8: And my immediate response was, wait a minute, we have
• 56:13
  Speaker 8: an ocean of swimp and grits y. One of the
• 56:17
  Speaker 8: catering centers culinary centers of the world is a place
• 56:21
  Speaker 8: called Charleston, South Carolina. Then they told me, well, you
• 56:24
  Speaker 8: don't have on staffing. When I got to the Hague
• 56:27
  Speaker 8: for this year's conference, I found out all the staffing
• 56:31
  Speaker 8: are unpaid volunteers, and the Citadel has many unpaid volunteers
• 56:35
  Speaker 8: who be eager to participate, and then if they don't
• 56:39
  Speaker 8: within walking distance to the Gilliard Center that we already
• 56:42
  Speaker 8: have on hold the convention center. There are eleven thousand
• 56:45
  Speaker 8: students at the College of Charleston.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: So is it now down between Belgrade and Charleston?
• 56:50
  Speaker 8: In between Belgrade and Charleston. And what I'm really hoping
• 56:54
  Speaker 8: is that people find out the absurdity of not having
• 56:58
  Speaker 8: it in the United States and having it in Serbia
• 57:03
  Speaker 8: because they are able to cater and have staffing. They
• 57:06
  Speaker 8: even have interpreters. And I explained to people that I
• 57:11
  Speaker 8: was told we didn't have interpreters in My immediate response
• 57:14
  Speaker 8: was what Kelly Nash would expect. They didn't laugh. I said,
• 57:17
  Speaker 8: are you telling me America doesn't have interpreters? And then
• 57:20
  Speaker 8: I found out the interpreters are provided by OSSEE, and
• 57:24
  Speaker 8: so over and over again. Every time somebody comes up
• 57:26
  Speaker 8: with an excuse to not come to the United States,
• 57:30
  Speaker 8: I am very eager to point out that that's not true.
• 57:33
  Speaker 8: It's very hard for me to say other terminology, but
• 57:37
  Speaker 8: it's not true.
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: We're talking with Congressman Joe Wilson, who represents me in
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: the Columbia area but is fighting so hard for Charleston, which,
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken, is where you were born.
• 57:47
  Speaker 8: That's my birthplace. I know the capability, ironically, Kelly, where
• 57:52
  Speaker 8: the convention center is, where all the beautiful five star
• 57:55
  Speaker 8: hotels are. I had a newspaper out there when I
• 57:58
  Speaker 8: was in high school, delivering the the Evening Post, and
• 58:01
  Speaker 8: so I know the area. I know how easy it
• 58:03
  Speaker 8: would be and how wonderful it would be for parliamentarians
• 58:07
  Speaker 8: from fifty five countries to come to South Caroline to Charleston,
• 58:12
  Speaker 8: and they'd be bringing staff, they'd be bringing media. They
• 58:15
  Speaker 8: I've already had a number of ambassadors in Washington tell
• 58:17
  Speaker 8: me they were going to accompany the delegation from their
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: home country from all over the world, from Vancouver to Vladivostok.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: And if we're fortunate enough to get this for Charleston,
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: it would be taking place next July fifth through the ninth,
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: a year from now.
• 58:34
  Speaker 8: And so hey, as they tell me that you're going
• 58:36
  Speaker 8: to have a year to get catering together, I can
• 58:38
  Speaker 8: do that.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 58:40
  Speaker 8: I even know the caterers, and hey, and after we
• 58:44
  Speaker 8: have the swimping grits, I can't wait to show them
• 58:46
  Speaker 8: what the sheet crab soup. And so hey, all is.
• 58:51
  Speaker 8: This is so insulting to the people of South Carolina
• 58:56
  Speaker 8: of the United States, And so I'm going to keep
• 59:00
  Speaker 8: because I know what I'm doing is right. And I
• 59:02
  Speaker 8: spoke with the President sadly, it was the day after
• 59:06
  Speaker 8: the morning after Senator Graham passed away, and we were commiserating,
• 59:10
  Speaker 8: and I mentioned to him that I was putting this together.
• 59:13
  Speaker 8: It would be a forum for the President also to
• 59:17
  Speaker 8: be there to speak to parliamentarians from fifty five countries.
• 59:21
  Speaker 8: And then also I had an ulterior motive. I was
• 59:24
  Speaker 8: hoping the new governor of South Carolina, who I think
• 59:26
  Speaker 8: maybe Alan Wilson would be able to welcome the delegatecy.
• 59:30
  Speaker 8: I've been working on this for three years.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: So again, Joe Wilson fighting so hard for Charleston. It
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: obviously would have a huge economic economic impact just over
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: that period of time, but also raises the profile of
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: the city of Charleston globally. And You've been such a
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: strong voice on this, partly based off the fact that
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: you are I think, are you the co chair of
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: the Helsinki Commission.
• 59:53
  Speaker 8: I'm the co chair and then it alternates between Senate
• 59:56
  Speaker 8: and House January one, I'm chairman now, I was legation
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: chairman to the Hague. And the bottom line, I just
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 8: Lindsey Graham was such a strong supporter of working together
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 8: with me on this issue, and I'm so hoping and
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 8: I have introduced a resolution with forty one co sponsors,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 8: and this would include a former chairman of the Foreign
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 8: Affairs Committee, Greg Meeks, who was born in rock Hills,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 8: South Carolina. Additionally, I've been working with Connison. Jim Clyburn
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 8: is bipartisan. All the members of the delegation except for
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 8: one I have signed on in the House, and then I'm.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: Very everyone but one in South Carolina. Yes, do we
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: want to say the one? No? Oh my gosh, this
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: is crazy.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: Well again, when will this be decided? How will we
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: When will we find out if Charleston won over Bosnia
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: or whatever?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 8: Be well that Bozi is next door, Hey, and I'm
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 8: glad you brought that up. There's a conflict between Serbia
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: and Bosnia, also and Herszegovina, and also Northern ed Mono
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 8: Negro and Kosovo. We don't need to go to where
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: it's a country that's actually controversial. We need to be
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 8: a place where it's love and peace and security. Is
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 8: called Lindsey Graham's Holy City of Charleston.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: When will this be figured out? It may take time,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: It still may take me.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 8: But hey, want I want to make the American people
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 8: when they find out, Hey, we're in competition with Serbia,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 8: the American people are going to ninety nine percent. I'm
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 8: going to be in the United States.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: I can't believe that Belgrade could possibly beat Charleston for anything.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 8: Well in particularly, and it's really said, I am being
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 8: very polite on this. There's undue Russian influence there. Serbia
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 8: still buys oil and gas from Russia. Their oil company
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 8: in Serbia recently has been sold to war from Putin.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 8: They have their communications as provided by the Chinese Communist Party,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 8: and they were so thoughtful sending a delegation to Tehran
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 8: on the unfortunate passing of Dictator Komane, and so there's
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 8: a relationship to the dictators around the world.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, Congressman, we certainly appreciate making time for
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: us today on this busy day, and again our sympathies
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: go out to you and everybody who loved Lindsay Graham
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: and knew him personally. And we will be back more
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: Well, it's great to have Congressman Joe Wilson visit us
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: briefly this morning as he's making his way down to
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: the proceedings for Lindsay Graham. It brought me a program
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: from yesterday's festivities, and more importantly, he is fighting hard
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: for the city of Charleston. You people in listening at
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: ninety four to three WSC, you need to know that
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: Joe Wilson is He was just telling me as he
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: was leaving. He was on like Radio Free Europe yesterday.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: He's taking it to He's taking it to the them
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: over there. He wants them to know that Charleston. When
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: we first read this story in the paper, Christopher and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: it said that the reason they didn't want it in
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: Charleston was they didn't have enough catering. I was stunned
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: that anybody could even come up with an excuse that poor.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, Charleston is known worldwide as one of the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: best cities for food and for foodies in the in
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: the entire world. And for someone to say, yeah, we
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: may not have enough, that's ridiculous.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: We're gonna have more than enough food in Charleston. Yeah,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: and the hotels are expanding, so you're gonna have plenty
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: of hotel rooms. You've got great conference settlers, You've got
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: it is. Charleston is a legit world It's a gem.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: This is one of those This is one of America's
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: gems that we would love to put on full display
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: and have the eyes of not only the America media
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: on it, but more importantly, I think the European media
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: would be on the eyes of Charleston next July. And
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know what that does for tourism,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: but it just certainly raises the profile. And rightfully so,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: Charleston has worked very hard to get to where they're at.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: And that's the reason I moved from New York City
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: to Charleston was because I couldn't believe what a gem
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: of a city it was. And that was twenty three
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: years ago and it's only gotten better since.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. And I used to work in convention catering down
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: in Charleston, and did you well it was but these
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: were smaller organizations that we were dealing with. But I mean,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: Charleston has the capacity to do a lot and certainly
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: would make this particular convention. I mean, it would be
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: a worldwide success and that would only generate more attention
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: for South Carolina in general.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: And the fact, well, Joe's in the parking lot. He's
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: not listening right now. Roger Wicker was the guy who
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: was leading it against us. He's a senator, so he
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: can stop anything and everything. I can't believe that Wicker
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: would do that. I also can't believe that there was
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: one of the South Carolina delegation that apparently is not
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: going to co sponsor it, and apparently is. He's an
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: upstate congress person. So it's no nobody from the low Country. Okay,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: he doesn't listen to this show.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: It's that Greenville Charleston rivalry, you know what, Maybe that's
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 4: what it is.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: Probably just just hate non Charleston. Could you hate him
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: because you can't beat him?
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: Nothing wrong with Greenville, No, no.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: No, it's I love going to the mountains. I am
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: a fan. My sister in law lives in the Upstate.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: I love going up there as well. Nothing's like Charleston, though.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: That is a very unique, special place, the Holy City.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: So anyway, we'll take a quick break, be back with
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: more on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 6: Good morning, guys.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 9: I just wanted to find out if you guys have
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 9: talked about Mark Sanford running for the Senate.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: I gotta be.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: Honest with you.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 9: I saw an interview and he looked pretty dang humble
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 9: considering what he's been through and considering his track record.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 9: I think I'm going to vote for him as a
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 9: most to anybody else on the ticket. What do you
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 9: guys think? Love to hear from you.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Roy, I appreciate the talk back on
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app. And yes, we have spoken with Mark Sandford.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, we had him on earlier
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: this week. I have a podcast with him where we
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: speak for I think fifteen or twenty minutes about his candidacy,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: what brought him back, how he was completely in his
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: mind out of politics, and all that sort of stuff,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: what he's been up to.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: You can get all.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: That if you look for the National Briefing and you
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: spell National like my name Nash. The National Briefing, it's
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: a morning podcast, typically goes about ten minutes. Sometimes we
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: do special editions, like we had one this week with
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: Alan Wilson.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: We've had.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman was on there, and Mark Sandford was one
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: of them on those special edition National Briefing podcast. But
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: I don't typically say whom I'm going to vote for,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: but I will say that I was very impressed with
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: Mark Sandford.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: He has certainly not lost any votes. I mean he's
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: you know, look at the he was out of that
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 4: first congressional district race for over a month, I think,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: and still wound up getting what eight percent of the vote.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a popular guy down there. He is.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: I think most of his personal baggage probably is in
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 4: our rearview mirrors at this point. I mean, that's the
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: major isn't that The major criticism of Mark Sandford these
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: days is you know what happened when he was governor,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 4: and you know he briefly abandoned ship. And that's one
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: of those things.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: Though for the people who that's the issue, they're not
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: going to let that go. That's kind of like saying,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: you know, asking his wife, did you let it go? No,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: she's never and she divorced him and she got married
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: to somebody else and she's moved on with her life.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of people who feel like, I have
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: divorced him and I am not coming back to him.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to trust him. And that's just where
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: they're at, and you're not going to win those people
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: back over.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: I guess not. I don't know. It's the country's changed
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: quite a bit since then. South Carolina has changed quite
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 4: a bit since then. It looks like it feels like
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: we we managed to overlook a lot of things we
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: don't like about our politicians in order to elect them.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: So I'm not sure that I don't think the climate
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: is as harsh for Mark Sandford as it might have
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: been even five years ago.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: Well, and then the other thing that works in his
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: favor is our downfall our national debt, and there's a
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: lot there's very little discussion in the national scene, I mean,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: and I tried to get Mark Sandford to say something
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: about Lindsay Graham and the approval of the spending packages,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: because Lindsay Graham, by the Heritage Foundation, I think, had
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: like a lifetime score of around sixty something because he
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: was not a fiscal conservative. Mark Sandford is a legendary
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: fiscal hawk, and he will be pushing the president, who, again,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is not a fiscal conservative, has never been
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: in in his private life or his public life, and
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: I'm not expecting him to change. But again, that's why
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: Congress is supposed to control the per strings, and I
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: would like to see Congress rise up and take more
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: a of a leading role, which is what they're supposed
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: to be doing, and controlling what kind of spending we
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: have in this country. They have failed. We're now averaging.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: Sandford said it was a trillion dollars of debt every
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: hundred days. I was I'm apparently going to be a
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: part of a panel for Gray Media, which is going
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: to be pre recorded, and I'm not even really sure
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: how this is going to work, but I was supposed
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: to ask questions, and so one of the questions I
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: was working out is what does that actually look like
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: per taxpayer per day? And right now we're running a
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: national debt at about fifty dollars per taxpayer per day.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: So every day you and I Christopher go another fifty
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: dollars in the hole, which is an unbelievable figure when
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: you think about it, because we send so much of
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: our money to DC.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: And especially when we we see programs we don't necessarily
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: agree with that are getting funded by Congress, new programs
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 4: that pop up, and we're pulling our hair out, saying,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: wait a minute, in my household, we can't we can't
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: afford to spend money on new things. We're still trying
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 4: to pay for the things, the basic services we need
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 4: every day. But Congress goes and spends willy nilly.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: Very willy nilly. But again, what that lane that we're
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: talking about with the fiscal conservative that's also going to
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: be pretty absorbed by Ralph Norman. So Ralph Norman Vsus
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: Sandford is that's a big one depending on how people
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: break there. I'm not sure which lane Russell Fry is
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: going to be feeling. And I'm not even sure, like
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: what does the Darlene Graham voter look like?
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: We have no idea.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: She's winning in the polls, but we're not sure, like
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  Speaker 3: why other than her brother had the seat, So I
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  Speaker 3: don't and she wants to be different than her brother,
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  Speaker 3: she said, So if you like Lindsey Graham as a senator,
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  Speaker 3: you might not like Darlene Graham as a senator.
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  Speaker 4: So, but we don't know. She's a history right now,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: is a mister. We don't know the first thing about
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  Speaker 4: her beliefs and what she plans to do as senator.
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  Speaker 3: And after today I will circle back and start trying
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  Speaker 3: to work with the campaign again to try to get
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  Speaker 3: her on because so many of you want to hear
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  Speaker 3: from her. We're working on that as well. Lots of
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  Speaker 3: lots to cover. I mean, how many we got nine
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  Speaker 3: candidates now nine nine have been approved to run twelve.
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  Speaker 4: Wanted to run, yeah, thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: Don't forget Jesus Christ tried to file at the last
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  Speaker 3: story yesterday. Some guy calling himself Jesus Christ tried to
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  Speaker 3: run for the Senate yesterday and was denied at the
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  Speaker 3: last second.
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  Speaker 4: But I do have residential issues. You know what, maybe
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  Speaker 4: this is not my home.
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  Speaker 3: He kept saying that. All right, we got bor to
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  Speaker 3: cover on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you've ever been to Macbee, it's probably because
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  Speaker 3: you went to McLeod Farms to get a peach. It's
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  Speaker 3: a one traffic light town in almost the middle of nowhere,
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina. Yesterday, the mayor surrendered to sled along with
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  Speaker 3: the former police chief, former captain, numerous officers. This is
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  Speaker 3: a turned out to be quite a scandal that investigative
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  Speaker 3: reporter Jody Barr started breaking back in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: This sum I cannot believe this. Apparently these officers, under
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  Speaker 3: the direction of the mayor, this is the allegation. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: they'll stand trial for this, were directed to just write
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  Speaker 3: numerous tickets for going through a traffic light, even though
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  Speaker 3: people weren't going through the traffic light. The tickets ranged
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  Speaker 3: from two hundred to four hundred and forty dollars. The
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  Speaker 3: mayor is pushing. They got screenshots of the text messages
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  Speaker 3: where the mayor is pushing like so on this one.
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  Speaker 3: This is a text message between I guess the mayor
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  Speaker 3: and one of the police officers. How many have we
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  Speaker 3: got today? He said fifty fifty tickets had been issued
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  Speaker 3: in a one traffic light town. The mayor responds, is
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  Speaker 3: seventy possible, And then before he could respond, he said,
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  Speaker 3: how many did we get at four forty? And the
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  Speaker 3: guy said, I believe so, So he's responding to the
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  Speaker 3: the seventy possible. Then about an hour later, how many
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  Speaker 3: did you finish with? I'm at fifty nine right now
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  Speaker 3: about to get my sixtieth as we speaks. All four
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  Speaker 3: forties only ten All else were at two thirty two fifty?
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  Speaker 3: Can you get to sixty two?
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  Speaker 4: Get it?
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  Speaker 3: How much can you go?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I got to sixty four, mayor. Damn, I love this job.
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  Speaker 4: So they were trying to get money to pay for
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 4: a new patrol cars, new equipment, but they are actually
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  Speaker 4: taking taxpayer dollars in two different ways, because at the
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  Speaker 4: same time they were ticketing people who drove through, they
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  Speaker 4: were also asking for huge federal loans.
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  Speaker 3: On one day, July fifth, nine tickets for over twenty
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  Speaker 3: one thousand dollars were written.
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  Speaker 4: How did they think they were going to get away
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  Speaker 4: with this? Eventually everyone, I mean, people were aware anyway
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  Speaker 4: you couldn't speed through that town. It became known as
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  Speaker 4: a speed trap. But then, you know, I think people
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  Speaker 4: started gradually saying, wait a minute, this is pretty suspicious.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't doing anything wrong. Yeah, and enough people came forward.
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  Speaker 3: And once enough people started contacting the news or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: Jody Barr ran with it, and he's got people saying,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: you know, police officers were telling him. Yet we were
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  Speaker 3: required minimum ten tickets a day, and we were usually
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: chastised if we got less than fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: At the same time, the town wanted one hundred and
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: seventy eight thousand dollars in federal loans. So that's what
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 4: greed'll do to you. They were raping taxpayers in two
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  Speaker 4: different ways.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And how many of these people lived in Macbee
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  Speaker 3: or just around it. I mean, it's not like that's
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  Speaker 3: like a place you just go to, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I went there once just to go to McLeod Farms,
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  Speaker 3: which is a beautiful farm thing. If you get to
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: go and have the peaches there, that's a lovely day.
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  Speaker 3: But wow, an unbelievable thing that this is now being
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: spread through some of the national posts. Little old magbe
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: South Carolina making the national news today. All right, we'll
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  Speaker 3: be back for another break. It is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 3: Now Kelly Nash, thank you South Carolina. Focusing on Lindsey
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: Graham today, but the eyes of the nation are focusing
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: on DC and the testimony of Anthony Fauci. Ran Paul
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 3: just giving his opening statements.
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  Speaker 10: Presidents, governors, mayor's school boards, corporations, and Congress all bear
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 10: responsibility for the decisions they made. The COVID lockdown, however,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 10: could never have been inflicted without you aiding and abetting.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 10: The children lost education, Small businesses built over a lifetime disappeared,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 10: Patients delayed cancer screenings and other medical care. Families were
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 10: separated from dying relatives. Workers were ordered to accept a
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 10: medical procedure or lose their jobs. Worship, assembly, employment, education,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 10: and travel were restricted in the name of science. Well,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 10: you did not impose every restriction. You used your public
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 10: authority to justify them.
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  Speaker 3: And I imagine it's going to be a long day
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: for Anthony Fauci.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, goodness, great, and he deserves it. He absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I was thinking of this yesterday when I
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: was a young person. I remember all the Libs yelling
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: Bush lied, people died. Could we not just change the
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: name from Bush to Fauci?
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  Speaker 4: I don't see why not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, definitely there was an increase in depths not
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: caused by COVID, but caused by depression, loneliness, drug eddy, alcoholism.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: It all skyrocketed during that era because Fauci was lying
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 3: about a lot of different things. And today will be
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: a very interesting hearing. I hope they get to the
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: bottom of some of this.
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  Speaker 4: And how can you pardon somebody preemptively when you haven't
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 4: charged him for a crime yet.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: Biden knew, he didn't know much, but he knew that one.
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  Speaker 3: All right, guys, I hope you have an awesome day.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be back tomorrow morning. Christopher Thompson, Kelly Nash, South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina's morning news