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Show Rewind 10-19-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. I am here. I have made it into
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  Speaker 3: the studio. Let me try to get my headphones in here.
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  Speaker 3: And good morning, Christopher Thompson. How are you? I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: You were there for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I was doing the National Briefing podcast, and then I
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  Speaker 3: got that sort of uploaded already. And then I had
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  Speaker 3: to go do the other thing down the hall and
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm back. All right. And how was the couple
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  Speaker 3: of days off? Not enough time, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: Not enough, but it was very nice.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: It was a surprise my wife had planned for me.
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  Speaker 4: No idea where we were going. Clues along the way,
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  Speaker 4: starting in Charlotte Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 3: So you left here and went to Charlotte Wednesday?
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  Speaker 4: I knew we were flying somewhere Thursday morning. Had no
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  Speaker 4: idea where.
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  Speaker 3: So where was it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I got one clue on Wednesday night, and then
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  Speaker 4: the rest... staggered over the course of the flight and
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  Speaker 4: wound up in Martha's Vineyard.
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  Speaker 3: Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever been there? No.
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  Speaker 4: It was someplace we had both always wanted to go.
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  Speaker 4: And it just, it was gorgeous this time of year.
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  Speaker 4: It was off season, so it was not crowded, but
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  Speaker 4: it was beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't been to Martha's Vineyard since I was like 10.
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  Speaker 3: So I have very small memories. I remember something about
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  Speaker 3: the ferry ride. Yes. And I don't remember the gorgeous
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  Speaker 3: houses or anything like that. And we didn't stay there.
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  Speaker 3: Is there like a hotel where you can stay on
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  Speaker 3: the vineyard?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's only 100 miles across, but it's a
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  Speaker 4: pretty big island. And there are a couple of different
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  Speaker 4: provinces where you can stay.
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  Speaker 3: Remembering my childhood, we probably would have booked like a, well,
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  Speaker 3: like a Howard Johnson's in like Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and
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  Speaker 3: then tried to drive up there and act like we
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  Speaker 3: were locals.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we did essentially, but it was nice. It
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  Speaker 4: was beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful, man. Well, congratulations on that. Your wife is a
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  Speaker 3: lovely lady and a thoughtful person to put that together
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  Speaker 3: for you.
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  Speaker 4: Jennifer is great. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Now, did you ruin the trip by trying to watch
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  Speaker 3: some of that crazy college football?
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  Speaker 4: OK, I did. She she indulged me. So we did. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And I saw plenty of it on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Did you really? Yeah. That is a I I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure every year it feels historic, but that kind
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  Speaker 3: of felt historic.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, that's never happened before. As far as
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  Speaker 4: the polls go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: In the 90 year history of the AP poll, we've
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  Speaker 4: never seen that much chaos in the top 10.
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  Speaker 3: So we are now living in a legendary time. We are. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize that we, it felt historic, but I
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  Speaker 3: didn't think that it actually was. But now thank you
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  Speaker 3: for confirming my feelings on that. That was, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I came in, I went to the Italian Festival Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: did some stuff down there. And good morning if John
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  Speaker 3: Pincelli's listening. I enjoyed a game of bocce ball with him. Nice.
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  Speaker 3: And listened to some great Italian opera singers.
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  Speaker 4: I hope you ate.
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  Speaker 3: We did a little bit, not as much as I
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  Speaker 3: would have probably wanted to, but probably enough for my body.
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  Speaker 3: And then after that, I came back to the studio
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  Speaker 3: to record some stuff. And I very rarely turn the
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  Speaker 3: television on in the studio. But I figured, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: while I'm here recording stuff, let me just mute it
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  Speaker 3: and watch some college football. And it was near the
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  Speaker 3: end of the Florida-Tennessee game. Oh, and it was like
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  Speaker 3: right before Arch Manning hit like a 64 yard pass
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  Speaker 3: to put him up. And then they scored the touchdown
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  Speaker 3: to be down three or whatever it was. And I
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  Speaker 3: was like, wow, this is a really exciting game in
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  Speaker 3: Florida and Texas, Texas. I mean, yeah. And then he
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  Speaker 3: says it was almost as if on cue. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you were watching it, but the guy, the
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  Speaker 3: announcer said, once they got the ball back with like
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  Speaker 3: two minutes left, you know, Jesse Palmer or whatever saying,
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  Speaker 3: And this is a world of time with three timeouts.
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  Speaker 3: And Arch Manning told us this week he wanted this
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  Speaker 3: scenario because he choked last week against Oklahoma. And so
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  Speaker 3: he wants redemption, the game on the line, the drive
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  Speaker 3: for the win. And he's exactly gotten what he's wanted.
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  Speaker 3: And it was like the first or second play, you know,
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  Speaker 3: pressure coming from the right side. Manning doesn't see it.
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  Speaker 3: He's sacked and he's fumbled the football. And Florida's going
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  Speaker 3: to win the game.
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  Speaker 4: Announcers chaos announcers jinx i.
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  Speaker 3: Was like oh my gosh this is horrible but uh
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  Speaker 3: yeah big weekend coming up in columbia we've got the
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  Speaker 3: state fair continuing to roll on but then introduce the
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  Speaker 3: chaos of tennessee versus south carolina on saturday what i'm
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  Speaker 3: i mean that is going to be a traffic apocalypse.
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  Speaker 4: Probably yeah but but people are used to it by
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  Speaker 4: now there's usually at least one home game for south
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  Speaker 4: carolina during the state fair do we do that on
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  Speaker 4: purpose i There's really no way to avoid it. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the SEC gives you the schedule and you just you
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  Speaker 4: deal with it.
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  Speaker 3: We couldn't tell them that we would like to have
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  Speaker 3: two weeks of of not home games. It seems like
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  Speaker 3: we do have two weeks sometimes where we don't play
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  Speaker 3: at home. It's just the way the schedule works. They
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  Speaker 3: couldn't do it in mid-October for us. Or maybe some
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  Speaker 3: people like it and they feel like it's like the
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  Speaker 3: Red River rivalry and like we're at this Texas State Fair.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the same, but it maybe it makes it
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  Speaker 3: feel bigger. Well, anyway, I guess we'll be kicking off
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  Speaker 3: best Gamecock coverage. What is like 1230 that day?
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's coming up quick.
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  Speaker 1: Big, big game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, with Tennessee beating Alabama this weekend, or if
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  Speaker 3: you beat Tennessee, I don't know. Does that make us
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  Speaker 3: a ranked team? Florida beats Texas. I'm doing Gamecock math.
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  Speaker 3: If we beat Florida and Florida beat Texas, we're better
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  Speaker 3: than Texas. If we beat, we're almost as good as
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  Speaker 3: Kentucky because we had to take them to overtime. So
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  Speaker 3: whoever Kentucky beats, we would have beat too. This is
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  Speaker 3: just the way we do math.
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  Speaker 4: The transitive property of college football.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So now we should have beat Alabama, but Tennessee beat them.
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  Speaker 3: So we should have beat them, but we didn't for
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  Speaker 3: whatever reason. But we were good enough to beat them.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see if we can beat Tennessee this coming Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: And if we do, we should probably be in the
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  Speaker 3: top 10. That's just the way we're looking at it here.
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  Speaker 4: All right. By the way, just a note. I was
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  Speaker 4: probably the only one on Martha's Vineyard who was dialed
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  Speaker 4: into the boiled peanut eating contest. Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: That, you know, people talk to me about that all weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I bet.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, this is a very little deal. And
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  Speaker 3: people on Thursday night, I was getting sympathy messages. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, how do you people even know about it?
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  Speaker 3: I think they were doing, not that Rick Henry did great,
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  Speaker 3: but Rick got like 10 and I had eight, I think.
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  Speaker 3: And I think he was taking a victory lap on WIS.
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  Speaker 3: Like I crushed Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Wait, will you get To paraphrase, what's his face? Abdul-Akhbar Rahman.
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  Speaker 3: Get my name out your mouth. Anyway, no, that was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun to kick off the State Fair
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  Speaker 3: on Thursday. And we're very happy to be back on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: A lot to get to today. I came in on
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  Speaker 3: Saturday to get the breaking Ilhan Omar news on the air.
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  Speaker 3: And so if you haven't heard that, we'll bring you
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  Speaker 3: up to speed on that. We had, I think, Scott
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  Speaker 3: Bessant with an amazing interview with Kristen Welker yesterday. We'll
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  Speaker 3: get to that. We've got a bunch of local things.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's getting ready to come to Clemson. He's not
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  Speaker 3: coming to Greenville. He's actually coming to Clemson. We'll give
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  Speaker 3: you the latest on that. And, of course, your talkbacks.
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  Speaker 3: You have thoughts on whether it's Gamecock athletics. You want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about what's happening with the world of politics, news,
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  Speaker 3: or any of the things that we get to today.
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  Speaker 3: Please use the talkback feature. That's the red microphone on
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: And good morning. Kelly Nash here with Christopher Thompson. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just reading this story, the headline in the Post and
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  Speaker 3: Courier this morning. $ 1. 2 million in property tax vanishes when
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  Speaker 3: North Charleston apartment complex becomes tax exempt. And so the
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  Speaker 3: Montauk at Park Circle complex is now supposed to provide
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  Speaker 3: affordable rental housing under what's described as a controversial state
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  Speaker 3: law that allows such deals. The school budget taking the
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  Speaker 3: bulk of the hit. My wife, who is about to
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  Speaker 3: come off of the Richland 2 school board, she did
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  Speaker 3: not seek re-election, thank God. That will end in November.
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  Speaker 3: But she constantly makes this point that when you cut
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  Speaker 3: deals for, specifically, she's pointing to like businesses. So like
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  Speaker 3: if you're looking here in the Midlands, Scout Motors business deal,
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  Speaker 3: that is going to bring in a ton of new students.
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  Speaker 3: But the schools, because of the deal that they gave
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  Speaker 3: to Scout Motors, will not receive any more money because
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  Speaker 3: Scout Motors will not be contributing in any way to
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  Speaker 3: the school districts, which normally a business would. That's where
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  Speaker 3: the business taxes are coming from. So in this one here,
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  Speaker 3: you see the chief financial officer for the Charleston County
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  Speaker 3: School District say, This may be the most substantial loss
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  Speaker 3: in our county. The revenue loss alone is $ 675, 000 a year.
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  Speaker 3: Large rental properties in South Carolina going tax-exempt under the
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  Speaker 3: new 2020 law change, which is meant to encourage affordable housing.
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  Speaker 3: So this is one of those deals, Christopher, where people
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  Speaker 3: come up with an idea that they think is fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: What if we could take middle of the road housing complexes, rentals.
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  Speaker 3: And if we were to say to the owners of them, hey,
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  Speaker 3: if you make them a little less for the rent,
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  Speaker 3: then we can get lower income people into there. So
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  Speaker 3: we'll be able to You'll be at 100 percent capacity,
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  Speaker 3: which you're probably not now. That will help alleviate the
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  Speaker 3: housing shortages that in the long term could drive down
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  Speaker 3: housing costs for all of us in the, well, in
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  Speaker 3: this instance, the Charleston area. And in order to do that,
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  Speaker 3: we will just make you tax exempt. So you're saving
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  Speaker 3: one point two million dollars a year. And then the
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  Speaker 3: guys or gals or whoever in charge of these facilities say,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, that's not a bad idea, but they
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  Speaker 3: don't factor in the fact that you're now screwing the
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  Speaker 3: teachers and the school district.
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  Speaker 4: Unintended consequences. And yeah, all of a sudden these schools
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  Speaker 4: are flooded with kids where they're not getting a single
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  Speaker 4: new tax dollar for.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, to your point, usually low income housing comes
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  Speaker 3: along with kids. That's not something where it's typically a
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  Speaker 3: single adult or a dual income family for no. Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: So you're right. It adds to the strain and it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't add to to the support system. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what they're going to do in Charleston County about this.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know. They said that this has been
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  Speaker 3: they've been complaining about this. for years at the statehouse
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  Speaker 3: and several of the lawmakers have quote-unquote decried it but
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  Speaker 3: we have not had any legislation um to fix it
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  Speaker 3: and i this is one of those things well why
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  Speaker 3: not is we have a lot of smart people there
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  Speaker 3: they can't figure this thing.
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  Speaker 4: Out just as we're making gains as you pointed out
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  Speaker 4: last week in education and then suddenly this flies right
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  Speaker 4: in the face of that because Yeah, you're going to
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  Speaker 4: have classrooms that are bigger. You're going to have teachers
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  Speaker 4: that are overwhelmed with a number of students they didn't
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  Speaker 4: plan on and without the resources. The schools won't have
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  Speaker 4: the resources because they're not getting a single new tax
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  Speaker 4: dollar for these pupils.
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  Speaker 3: They talked to a guy named Hunter Gibson with Standard
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  Speaker 3: Capital Partners, who is using these tax breaks around Greenville. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this is to build a new 120 apartment complex in Greer.
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  Speaker 3: And he says, look, I'm not a Boy Scout. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a capitalist. If they're going to give me a small
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  Speaker 3: profit and help the community at the same time, great.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm interested in the profit. And again, I'm all
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  Speaker 3: about capitalism. I absolutely am. And he's absolutely right. The
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  Speaker 3: capitalist is not— supposed to be concerned with the welfare
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  Speaker 3: of the community. The capitalist is supposed to be worried
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  Speaker 3: about his business. Now, thank God there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: capitalists who also have concern for the community. And it's
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  Speaker 3: two separate things. It's I want my company to make
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  Speaker 3: the most money. And then I personally will contribute to
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  Speaker 3: the community, some sort of charitable outreaches and those types
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  Speaker 3: of things. But it's not the job of the business.
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  Speaker 3: And so what happens is you're kind of in a
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  Speaker 3: catch-22 situation. Do you want the business, which will help
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  Speaker 3: the community, or do you want to help the people
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  Speaker 3: who are less fortunate? Oftentimes, you're able to help the
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  Speaker 3: people that are less fortunate because these people want to
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  Speaker 3: be living in good neighborhoods or they want their community
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  Speaker 3: to be better, so they actually invest in it through nonprofits.
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  Speaker 3: But in this instance, when the government takes over both
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  Speaker 3: sides of the equation— I think we typically get screwed over,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's what you're seeing here. But if
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  Speaker 3: you have thoughts on this idea about making low-income housing
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  Speaker 3: tax-exempt and that sort of stuff, let us know. Use
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  Speaker 3: So I just got a text. I'm not completely sure
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  Speaker 3: of what's happening here, Christopher. And you might be because
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  Speaker 3: you are usually better prepared than I am. Apparently today
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  Speaker 3: at River Bluff High School at 11 a.m., we're having
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  Speaker 3: a debate between Congressman Joe Wilson and his Democrat opponent.
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  Speaker 3: And I got to look that guy's name up again
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  Speaker 3: because I had it a minute ago. I had never
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  Speaker 3: heard of him previously. But they're having it at River
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  Speaker 3: Bluff High School. And each campaign, according to this, Zion
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  Speaker 3: Khalifa is the other fellow. Zion Khalifa's campaign put this up.
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  Speaker 3: We've secured it. Sign up online. The Congressional District 2
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  Speaker 3: debate is Zion Khalifa versus Joe Wilson takes place at
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  Speaker 3: River Bluff High School in Lexington, Monday, October 19th from
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  Speaker 3: 11 till noon. The Khalifa for Congress campaign has 100
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  Speaker 3: seats to grant its supporters. Wilson also gets 100 seats,
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  Speaker 3: I guess you could ask, through that campaign. And then
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the seating there will be taken over
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  Speaker 3: by high school students. So first off, River Bluff High School, really, congratulations,
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  Speaker 3: because they continue to give their students access to the
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  Speaker 3: way government works. I think it's exciting for the kids. Um,
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  Speaker 3: not all kids. A lot of kids are probably like, whatevs,
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  Speaker 3: but I would love it. You know, when I was
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  Speaker 3: a kid, I would have been interested in seeing a
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  Speaker 3: congressional debate in person or yeah, a congressional debate. Um,
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  Speaker 3: we've had the governor's forum at their school that was
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  Speaker 3: on a weekend, but a lot of high school students
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  Speaker 3: showed up for that as well at river bluff. But, uh, the,
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  Speaker 3: I've never heard of a debate happening during the middle
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  Speaker 3: of a school day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think I have either. We used to
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  Speaker 4: host candidates back in high school, but it was during
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  Speaker 4: the day, and it wasn't a debate format. It was just,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they came and saw you. They would spend
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  Speaker 4: more time with the seniors because they knew they were
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  Speaker 4: eligible to vote.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them, yeah. I missed out on voting in
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  Speaker 3: my senior year. I think you and I talked about this,
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  Speaker 3: that in my senior year, I was just, well, actually,
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  Speaker 3: because 1984 would have been the beginning of my senior year,
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  Speaker 3: but I wasn't 18 yet. I had to wait until 85,
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  Speaker 3: and dang it, I missed it. I could have voted
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  Speaker 3: for old Ronald Magnumus Reagan, but I missed out. My
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  Speaker 3: first one was H.W., Where did you go to high
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  Speaker 3: school again?
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  Speaker 4: Down in North Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I wanted to give an opportunity to give you
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  Speaker 3: a shout out there for you.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out Stahl High School, home of Tim Scott.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. I think I heard that story before. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And what was your mascot?
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  Speaker 4: The Warriors.
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  Speaker 3: You are a Warrior. Yeah. And back then, that would
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  Speaker 3: have been when that song from Scandal was so hot.
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  Speaker 3: I am the Warrior.
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  Speaker 5: I am the Warrior.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys probably played that at your pep rallies
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  Speaker 3: or whatever. So big day today. And if you're anywhere
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  Speaker 3: in Lexington area and you want to go see a
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  Speaker 3: congressional debate in person, I guess hit up your favorite candidate,
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  Speaker 3: Khalifa or Wilson. You have 100 tickets for each campaign
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  Speaker 3: for today's debate starting at 11 a.m. And I'm assuming
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  Speaker 3: there'll be some local media there. So maybe we'll get
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  Speaker 3: some clips of that for tomorrow. We'll take a break
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: and be back with more in just a moment.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: Morning News.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: I am feeling so much better today because Christopher Thompson
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: is here to help run this thing and make sure
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: it runs smoothly. And Christopher, thank you for being here.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: I'm doing my best, pal.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: You're doing a fantastic job. And I have another question
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: for you.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Technically, this is like a little bit behind the scenes.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Do we have a dump button in case it's needed?
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Okay. I'm pretty sure there's no cursing in this video,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: the part that I'm going to play, but I'm not 1,000%
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: sure of that, so that's why I asked that question.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: By the way, somebody saw me at the Craig Morgan concert,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: and I spoke to a lot of WVOC and WSC
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: listeners on Thursday night, which was great to meet a
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: lot of you, and thank you for coming up and
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: introducing yourselves. Uh, the, one of the guys said that
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: when I give the time, I'm off by maybe a
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: couple of minutes at some point. And I was like, really?
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: So I'm wondering if the, he actually asked the question,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: maybe you're on some sort of time delay, which made
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: me start thinking, you know what? Maybe I should stop
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: giving the time.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: So, well, the iHeartRadio app is a little off.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Okay. So maybe that's what it is. So thank you
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: for listening. And I will not give the time. I
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: will just just, you know, assume that you have a
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: clock radio or, you know, on your car, you can
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: see the time. And so I'm just going to leave
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: it with that right now.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Here's Kelly Nash somewhere in time.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Exactly. Now, this is Dr. Annie Andrews somewhere in time.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: And that somewhere would have been 2024, I believe, leading
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: into another election. And she is very upset. that we have,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: and I say we, she identifies the problem as white women.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: There's a white women problem in America. And this is
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: part of the video that she posted discussing the problem
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: with white women. Oh, let me get the volume up.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: In 2016, 47% of white women voted against a white
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: woman for president and instead voted for Donald Trump. In 2018,
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: 48% of us voted for Republicans. In 2020, 53% of
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: us voted for Republicans.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Sounds like white women are getting better.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: In 2022, 55% of us voted for Republicans. So there
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: is a problem with white women. So what do we
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: have to do? We have to get outside of our
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: social media bubbles because we all agree that we want
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: to send Vice President Kamala Harris to the White.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: House as president in November. Is that what we agree?
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: But if we're going to do.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: That, we have to take these videos, take the posts
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: that resonate with us and share them outside of our
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: social media bubble. Share them with people who are not
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: so online, those people who still touch graphs every once
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: in a while. For me, it's all about our kids.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: I know that President Kamala Harris will continue progress on
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: gun safety. fight climate change as the existential crisis that
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: it is. She will work to preserve our democracy. She
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: believes it is important to lift children out of poverty.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: She will strengthen, not attack, our public education system. She
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: will continue the work that has already begun to lower
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: prescription drug prices and make health care affordable for every.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Child in this country. All right. So I think we've
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: heard enough that she is loving Kamala Harris's candidacy at
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: that point. She aligns perfectly with Kamala Harris. And so
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: for anyone who who says she's a moderate, Kamala Harris
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: was never considered a moderate, even by Democrats. So she
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: is not a moderate.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: No, that flies in the face of everything she's been
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: telling us the last few months.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: And President Kamala Harris's campaign, which shockingly didn't end with
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: her presidency, was not that long ago. So if there
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: has been a metamorphosis, you would have to ask yourself, why?
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: What changed in her world Since 2024 to 2026, other
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: than she smells a real opportunity to deceive middle of
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: the road voters into voting Democrat in South Carolina. Other
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: than that, if you just say, who is she? What
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: does she want? She wants more limitations on your second amendment.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Maybe a lot of you want that as well. She
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: wants more government intervention on the costs of health care,
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: which we know are driving up the health care costs.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: She wants more government public schools, less school choice. She's
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: against the answers that most Republicans believe are the solutions.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: And the only reason we're not getting better results is
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: because we don't have enough of a buy-in from our
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: local government. That's who she is. And I said I
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: didn't think there was any swears because when I was
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: listening to the beginning of it, she does drop some
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: curse words at the beginning of it. I noticed that
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: that became a thing like in 2023, 2024. Democrats started
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: cursing in their social media videos to try to give it,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I guess, more of an authentic vibe.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: How can you be talking about kids and bettering kids'
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: lives and curse at the same time?
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: These are the deep probing questions.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: People come to their own conclusions. And I'm not saying
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: don't vote for Annie Andrews or don't even. I'm just
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: saying this is who she really is. If that's who
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: you really want, if you want somebody to grow the
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: size of government, that's what she's about. She's telling you
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: that right there. All of Kamala Harris's prescriptions. Remember, and
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: if you want to tie it even further back, Kamala
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Harris asked, and I'm sure it was before this interview
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: or this posting came, on The View. What would you
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: do differently than Joe Biden? I can't think of anything.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: I can't think of anything. His answers were great. Joe
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Biden was running the perfect government, according to Kamala Harris.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: That's one of the big reasons people didn't vote for.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: That's another reason I don't think you're going to want Dr.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Annie Andrews. My thoughts, what do you think? Use the
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: With Christopher Thompson, I'm Kelly Nash. I received an email
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: over the weekend. People think enough to send us emails, Christopher.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: This is from Joyce, who says, Am I justified in
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: my outrage over Dr. Annie's TV commercial showing her in
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: a hospital wearing scrubs and a white coat and stethoscope
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: when she hasn't practiced medicine for about three years at
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: this point? Of course you're justified. But again, this is
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: the game of not just the left, that's a game
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: of all politicians to try to make themselves appear one
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: way or another. I also point, I put up a
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: tweet yesterday and this was, now this is a little
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: more confusing. So Keisha Lance Bottoms is the former Atlanta
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: mayor running for governor. She is the Democrat nominee versus
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Rick Jackson. And the tweet says, Bowie County has a
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: message for you, Rick Jackson. They don't want you or
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: your data center in their community. Now let's get a
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: little snippet of that video that she posted. Here's our community. Community,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: do y'all want a data center in Bowie County? Mr. Jackson,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: you now have your answer. Okay. Now the problem with
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: that video, Christopher, is there's no Bowie County in Georgia.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: So I'm Did the Democrats actually go ahead and stage
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: a video and not actually bother to research if there's
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: a Bowie County in their state? It appears that what
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: they're actually doing is there's a Bowie County in Texas,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: and they're taking their videos and then just asking him
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: to alter them and address it to Jackson in Georgia. Whoops.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: That's a big whoops.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, who are you representing there, Keisha Lance Bottoms?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Is it Texas or is it Georgia? It's ridiculous.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: All right, we will be covering the latest in France
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: as it is continuing to escalate. The protests are... By
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: some assessments, completely out of control now. We'll give you
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: some examples of what's going on in France and some
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: of the new twists and turns introduced by private companies.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: We got that. And, of course, your talkback's coming up
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio app. Get to it. Use that microphone button.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson. It's together again on South Carolina's
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Morning News.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: With Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson, and you heard in
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: the news update the pushback on Trump and the sanctions
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: relief for Russia. I think it was a shocking moment
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: for Kristen Walker yesterday on Meet the Press as she
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: had her special guest, South Carolinian Scott Besant. And Scott
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: dropping a couple of facts on Kristen that I think
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: she probably didn't know. Maybe you didn't know either.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: I hear you blaming President Biden, but President Trump has
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: been in office now for 636 days. At what point
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: does the administration take responsibility for the economy and say
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: this is the Trump economy?
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: We will own the economy. We have so far this year,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: we've got a million private sector jobs. We've never had
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: this many people working in the U.S., The net worth
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: of American households are the highest that it's ever been. So, Kristen,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: let's be clear here. This is an energy supply side shock.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: We will get to the other side of this. This
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: is one factor.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: Even President Trump has said this is his economy. Let
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: me ask you, you're Treasury Secretary, but you there are
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: pushing for even tougher sanctions.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: We did the toughest sanctions.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: Okay, but why lift them now? What has Putin done
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: to deserve sanctions relief now? That's my question.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: That's not true. No sanctions were lifted on Friday. No
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: sanctions were lifted.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: What?
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: There was a law that was supposed to put more
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: sanctions in place, and the president effectively waived that.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: No sanctions were lifted.
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: Will they be lifted?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: The only thing that has been lifted is the diesel embargo.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: And, you know, I will point out, the U.K.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: In May waived their embargo on diesel and jet fuel
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: made with Russian crude. The Europeans are financing the Russian
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: war machine.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: The U.S.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Imports $ 4 billion of Russian products, $ 1. 8 billion of that
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: is fertilizer. The Europeans import more than 10 times that.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: So no sanctions were lifted last week, despite the mainstream narrative.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: The only thing that happened was Trump decided against implementing
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: the Lindsey O'Graham sanction plan. that would have brought even
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: tougher sanctions. And he did so. And again, I've disagreed
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: with Trump on this one. I don't think it's actually
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: going to lower the costs of diesel. But that's that's
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: his goal is to lower the cost of diesel. But
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: these same strict sanctions that you all were loving on Thursday,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: still there on Friday. So is that is that were
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: you surprised that Kristen Walker didn't know that? A little.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And, you know, this is something we talked about
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: is we hashed out when the news came out. Wait
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: a minute. How does this play into the sanctions? And
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: turns out it doesn't so much.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And again, his point of the Europeans and he
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: specifically I don't know if we got it in that
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: clip or not, but he specifically pointed to the UK,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: France and Spain and Germany. They're the ones who have
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: been consuming the most. by far Russian oil more than
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: 10 X, what we're going to start bringing in. So,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: and they've been doing this for like a year now.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: So it's not as if we're the ones funding the war,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: they're funding the war. And I, I have to, this
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: is the part where it gets difficult because people don't
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: want to hear cause and effect. The cause is, was
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: you have to go all the way back to the
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Obama administration and the plan that they put in place
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: to end Iran's opportunity to get a nuclear weapon. That
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: was a crappy deal. Who says it was a crappy deal?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Trump, of course.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Trump says it. But who else says it? The International
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Atomic Agency is the one that was saying it. They
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: were the ones that were tasked with actually investigating and
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: making sure that Iran was within the limits of what
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: they were supposed to be doing. And since 2018, they've
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: been complaining that they don't have access to the sites.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: By 2023, they were complaining openly in the media. Like,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: you could read this in European papers. You could read
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: it in certain American papers. They were saying there are
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: levels of nuclear, we'll call the word dust, but that
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: we could detect nuclear activity in the air that is
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: way out of alignment with what Iran should be doing,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: and they are not allowing us to go in and
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: investigate their sites. So going back to the original Obama deal,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: it never had teeth. There were no repercussions. All they
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: could do is complain that we can't see it. And
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: it appears that they're building a nuclear weapon. Again, this
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: is an international agency. This is not the United States.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: This is not Israel. This is an international body saying it.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: And so Trump. felt as if if they're complaining, we
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: need to make a move to make sure that they
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: don't get a nuclear weapon. That is what's caused the
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: oil costs to go up. Everybody recognizes that. But was
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: it a war of choice or was it a war
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: to prevent a nuclear holocaust? That's the decision that a
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: lot of Americans have to make. And I don't know
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: that Trump did a good enough job or the administration
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: did a good enough job of explaining that that's where
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: we were when they made that decision. But, you know,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: if you look at the National Briefing Daily podcast on
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: YouTube or Facebook today, you will see that I have
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: the documentation there of all the complaints being made by
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: the IEC and other outlets there. that the Iranians are building,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: in their estimation, nuclear weapons, and nobody was stopping them. So, again,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: that's what caused this war. The war has driven up
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: the oil costs. The oil costs are the only thing
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: that are driving what appears to be inflation at this point.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: But the rest of the economy seems to be rock
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: solid by most people's assessments, Christopher. I'm very afraid that
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: the Americans don't have the appetite to hear any of that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: They just want to fix the problem quickly.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: But if this does wind up fixing the problem, because
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: now we're hearing stories that Putin's agreed to come to
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: a summit with Trump to discuss ending the Russian Ukraine war.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: If that ends, I know that doesn't impact what's going
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: on in the Middle East, but it's something that's always
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: been on Trump's, but not necessarily the back burner. I mean, what,
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: That was his claim. He was going to end the
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: war on day one of his term. If he can
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: manage to do that by enticing Putin to come to
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: the table and talk about ending the conflict there, would
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Americans feel differently?
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: And is the vote already baked in? I mean, today
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: is early voting in South Carolina. I didn't even know
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: we had a No Kings protest Saturday. How many people
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: were at that? But again, the early voting's already begun.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: We're like two weeks away now or whatever from the midterms.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, we're pushing up against it really quickly. I
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: don't know if anybody's going to change their vote at
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: this point. But I just wish that human beings... we're
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: able to process lots of data and recognize cause and effect.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: And if you're saying that we have a great economy,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: except for the oil prices, which are driving up the inflation,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: and that will be fixed once we fix the Iran problem,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: we're almost there, it would seem. I wish we had
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: done it quicker, but it didn't work out that way.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: So any thoughts on that? Hit us up on the
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Talkback feature, and I won't give the time.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: All right. Last week, we had the breaking news that
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: President Donald J. Trump was coming to South Carolina. Obviously,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: this is to boost the Darlene Graham campaign. And she
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: will be with him, it appears, at the big event. Now,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: we had not yet heard where it was going to be. Originally,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: it was announced he was going to Greenville. Then we
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: heard on Friday that he was coming to Clemson, but
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: we did not have a location. Now we have the location,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: and it will be the, I guess, T.ED. Don't call
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: it TED. T.ED Garrison Arena in Pendleton. Doors are expected
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: to open at 3.30. Trump will speak at around 7.00.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Tickets are free and available through the Greenville County Republican
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Party website. I looked up the TED Garrison Arena, which
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: has seating, according to this, for about 3,000 people. It's
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: also where they do livestock shows. So maybe not the
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: most glamorous setting for the president. He's probably used to
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: more marble floors than dirt floors.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: But only 3,000 people seated. That place is going to
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: be packed.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: And I think I'm wondering, will they put seats like
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: in the dirt floors? But it's all coming together very quickly.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is doing everything humanly possible to try to
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: help candidates. Now, some of them, some of these problems
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: are brought on by Trump.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: And a lot of people would point to this campaign
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: here as something that Trump brought upon himself. Obviously, Ken Paxton.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: what's happening in North Carolina, Roy Cooper's running away with it,
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: what's happening in Georgia. There's several races where Trump has
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: really put his thumb on the scale and affected it
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: in the primary section, and then you ended up with
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: candidates that maybe weren't that Appealing to the hardcore right.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a little flawed.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And so now he's out there trying to like,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: you know, vote like I'm on the ballot. You got
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: to vote. But unfortunately, right now, Trump is polling at
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: like 30 percent with popularity. So if they vote like
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: you're on the ballot, then they're going to lose. They
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: got to vote like they got to vote like El
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Sayed is on the ballot. Vote like Elizabeth Warren's on
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: the ballot.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Or Trump was on the ballot two years ago.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Let's get that guy back. Yeah, let's get that guy back.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: So I don't know. Are you planning on making the
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: trip up there? That is for most of us. That's
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: quite a trip up to Pendleton. But and again, this
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: is a very clear, obvious strategy now of the campaign
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: is to just energize the base. And I actually agree
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: with this strategy completely. I was talking about this, I think,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: when you were away, Christopher, when you look at midterm elections,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: you're looking at when we call it a turnout election.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Often it's 50 percent of registered voters show up. And
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: in many cases, less than 50 percent of the registered
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: voters actually voted midterm elections in South Carolina. So it's
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: about getting the base to the polls. The Democrats are
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: doing a great job of getting their base all fired
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: up to make history in South Carolina. This is their
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: one opportunity where they really feel like it. And I'm expecting,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: if you identify as a Democrat, probably 90% of them
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: are coming out. Now, if 80% of the Republicans show up,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: you're going to crush the Democrats. But if 40, 50,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: 60% show up, it's a race or we lose.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: I keep seeing statements from pollsters saying that Trump supporters
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: are not answering these calls. Trump supporters are not taking
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: the bait on doing these polling questions. So they're being
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: completely underrepresented in the polling numbers that we've seen.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: And the question then becomes, will they go? Yeah. Or
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: will they vote third candidate? And speaking of that, I
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: did get a text earlier here. So we are going
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: to be speaking with Ralph Norman's number one surrogate.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: DeMint. He's going to call in about 802, 803 this morning.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about the Right in Ralph campaign, see what
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: his thoughts on that are. And maybe you want to
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: hear that because there's a bunch of you who've been
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: telling me the Right in Ralph is the way to go.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: So we'll see. Does Jim DeMint agree with that? Again,
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: his number one surrogate. We'll talk to him after 8. Meantime,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: if you've got talkbacks, use the talkback feature on the
• 37:39
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• 37:40
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• 37:46
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• 37:47
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• 37:55
  Speaker 3: So I know a lot of Americans just focus on America,
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: and you might not be seeing what's happening in France,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: but just so you know, there's been, since these protests started,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: they were protesting initially the quality of the school buildings
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: in France. They say that the French government has not
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: invested enough into the buildings, that some of them are dilapidated,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: so on and so forth. Okay. How would you protest that?
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: You get us sticks and signs, put them together and,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: you know, rebuild our schools, make them better, blah, blah, blah.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: That's what you would expect to protest. What it became
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: was we're burning down hundreds of schools. So they've burnt
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: down a lot of the schools throughout France. Now they're
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: attacking public buildings. For example, one of them was a
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: 19th century city hall. That's been burnt to the ground.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: They're burning anything and everything. The left is completely out
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: of control. Or are they? My argument has always been
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: that it doesn't matter what you call the left, if
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: you call them Democrats or socialists or whatever, that they
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: love to introduce violence and chaos into society so that
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: they can then say, hey, we can make it stop.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Just give us power. They have a centrist government. I
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: know Macron seems like a leftist to us. But there
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: is a leftist running. He was in the parades with
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: these people. He was condemned by several high profile right
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: wing and centrist politicians in France on Saturday and Sunday.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: And he said, my message is clear that we need
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: to do more for the people, not less. And I
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: condemn the violence as well.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Didn't sound like he was.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: It doesn't sound like it. And by the way, there
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: have been dozens of sexual assaults at these events and
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: You've got one girl who lost an eye. You've got
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: another boy who lost his hand. It is a very violent, bloody,
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: ugly scene overwhelming France right now. And as I, I
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: think as of this morning, we're at over 2,800 people arrested.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: So this is massive what's happening. And Donald Trump responded
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: over the weekend, shut your borders before it's too late.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: You're losing your country.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: It is a mess.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Macron says we need to listen to the young people
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: who are obviously experiencing anguish right now. Okay, listening is
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: one thing. Letting them burn down every building in sight,
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: that's another.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Yes. You're not helping the school conditions by burning down
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: the schools.
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: No.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: But maybe they didn't teach them that in school. So
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: I guess the French have only themselves to blame for this.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: But if you have thoughts on that story or others,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: hit us up on the iHeartRadio app.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 40:47
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• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Hi there, this is Kelly Nash. Christopher Thompson and I together,
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: I was just looking it up. The number of immigrants,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: new community members in France, who are going to the
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: public schools. So the big complaint about the French, or
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: from the French... was that the quality of the school
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: buildings themselves has been suffering, and they're not up to snuff,
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: and so they took to the streets to protest. That's
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: what this all was about. If you look at the numbers,
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: France hosts approximately 443,000 to 445,000 students that are not French,
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: making up about 15% of the total student body. These
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: are people who are not contributing to the tax base.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: They're not paying for the schools. The French people are
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: paying for the schools. And so do you think that
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: if you have 445,000 people in the schools and their
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: parents are not contributing, that that would have a negative
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: effect on the quality of the building? Sure. Of course
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: it would.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: They've got nothing invested. They don't have any ties other
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: than they're visiting. And when you're visiting, you don't really care.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: In 2025, there was 52,000 newly arrived migrant children in
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: K through 12, 52,000 just last year alone. And this
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: is putting an unimaginable burden onto the French school system.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: If the French were serious about fixing their problems, they
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: would take a France first policy and they wouldn't allow
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: these migrants. But they have a suicidal empathy is a
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: hot term these days where It's like, oh, we feel
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: so bad for them because they're from a third world
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: country and they just want a better life. And if
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: we just give them this, you're taking away from your
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: own children. You're taking away from your own families in France.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: And now, I'm sure there's a combination of migrants in
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: these protests, but mostly run by French people. And the
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: French people are just saying, do more for us. They
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: don't know what they are actually asking other than we
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: just want a better... lifestyle for our children. We want
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: better buildings. The kids were upset. The teachers are upset.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Everybody's upset, but they, none of them want to identify
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: the problem. When you have, when you're pushing a half
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: million people, students that you're covering the cost for, that's
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: the problem. When I look in Chicago, every now and again,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: you'll see a video go viral where there'll be some
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: inner city mom who unfortunately is usually a single mom, granted,
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: And she'll say, like, my two or three kids are
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: not getting the same benefits that illegals are getting in Chicago.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: I'm not getting the benefits that the illegals are getting.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: They're getting put up in nice hotels. They're getting their
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: health care paid for. They're getting phones. They're getting cable TV.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: They're getting all these things. But we're not getting it.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: And that's a suicidal empathy from the city of Chicago,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: whether it's Brandon Johnson or go back to Lori Lightfoot,
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: the former mayor. They put their lower class people, and
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: I don't mean class meaning how much class does somebody have.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: I mean lower income. How's that? Lower income families are
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: being stretched and stressed. Because the quality of their life,
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: which was already crap, when you're at the bottom ring
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: of the ladder, your lifestyle is not going to be
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: that great. It's going to be okay in America. You
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: should be able to survive in it. But we're making
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: it worse. It's noticeably worse for those people. And they
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: are ticked. Will that be enough for them to start
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: voting Republican? Probably not. But that's why they're ticked.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Macron says he doesn't understand why the French are
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: doing this to France. As you pointed out, it's not
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: the French. It's people who are here with nothing invested
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: in their community, nothing at all to care about other
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: than let's create some chaos.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: And for those of you who believe in the radical Islam,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: this would be right up their alley.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Come in.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Drain the resources, and then be instigators. They're probably whispering
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: in their ears, look at how, man, conditions around here
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: are deplorable. Really? Compared to where you're from, they're deplorable?
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Speaking of people coming from deplorable conditions,
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: I think we'll talk a little bit about Ilhan Omar
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: and her predicament as it just continues to escalate with
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: the latest news on that coming up. And again, not
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: giving you the time.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's morning news on one oh three
• 45:40
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• 45:42
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• 45:50
  Speaker 7: Do you think the Democrats confuse the two words democracy
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: and hypocrisy? Because if you flip out the word democracy
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: with the word hypocrisy, every time they use it, you
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: get a true statement.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: Carl from Charleston being funny. Yes, they're fighting for hypocrisy.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: That is the Democrat platform.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: Not bad.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Ilhan Omar, high-profile Democrat House member. Obviously, it was a
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: week ago today that her house was raided right around
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: this time. And now the attorneys have shifted a little
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: bit on Friday as to what they're arguing. They're not
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: arguing that she's an illegal alien. They've stopped that. Now
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: they're arguing that her special privileges as a member of
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Congress have been violated. They wrote a letter on Friday
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: explaining to the Justice Department that she was supposed to
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: have had any accusations were supposed to have been presented
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: to her Like Hakeem Jeffries first. And that was violated.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: And so that's from a 2007 case which held that
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: criminal investigation of a sitting member of Congress, the executive branch,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: can't review information as well. So there's the other problem,
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: according to them, that perhaps J.D. Vance and or Donald
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: Trump saw this. Although I think both have already said
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: we didn't see it. We've just asked the Justice Department
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: to look into it. And they also go on to
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: say that the HSI agents were supposed to notify Omar
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: and the House of Representatives Office of General Counsel before
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: the execution of a search warrant, a step that Omar's
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: lawyers say never took place. So they're now down into
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: the ticky tacky weeds of the case. But the bigger issue,
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: did Ilhan Omar and her father lie on the application
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: to become a U.S. citizen? And I think you've probably
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: heard it by now, but just in case you haven't.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: She was allegedly born in 1981, which would have put
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: her at 18 or 19 years old in 2000 when
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: her father applied for citizenship and listed her as a minor.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: She was put in as a citizen because her father
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: was able to pass the background check. They never did
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: a background check on Ilhan Omar. She never went through
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: any of the tests. She's never done any of the
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: things needed to become a citizen other than have the
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: privilege of her father being a citizen. or becoming a citizen,
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: a naturalized citizen. Of course, he will lose that privilege
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: if it's shown that he was knowingly lying on the
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: birth certificate because he listed her as 82.
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds like if they're going after this on
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: a technicality, it sounds like they're almost waving the white
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: flag and saying, you know what, we did screw up.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: Let's try and get this kicked out another way.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: Well, in 2019, her primary opponent was the first to
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: bring it up and point to the fact that All
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: the congressional records say she was born in 1981, which
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: means in 2000 she was not 17. So she's lying.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: She should have never been made a member of Congress.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: She should have never been made a U.S. citizen. And
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: then four months after those accusations, you can see where
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: they started changing the birth date on the congressional records.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: That's not the first time that her, you know, her
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: aides have changed things for her benefit. But now that
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: the U.S., Department of Justice is looking into it, it
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: has become a serious issue. I've always believed that they
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: believe that she was a big part of that $ 250
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: million fraud called feeding America, feeding our future. She was
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: the one who helped coauthored the bill. And then ironically,
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: maybe just bad timing for her. The number one abusers
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: of that program happened to be the Somali community of
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Minneapolis who many of whom were listed as personal friends
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: of hers, whose homes she would visit, whose businesses she
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: was constantly seen at. Those were the people who took
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: the bulk of the $ 250 million of the money. Many
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: of those dollars have now been traced back to Somalia.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Some of those dollars have been traced to terrorism. So
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: in essence, the U.S. taxpayer helped fund terrorism. but they
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: can't seem to be able to directly tie it to her. Again,
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: this is the Al Capone situation where we know that
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: they're doing something wrong, but we just can't prove it.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: But if we can prove anything's wrong with them, then
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: we can get them on that technicality. And so, yes,
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: it looks as if, and by the way, if you
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: didn't hear the news over the weekend, New York Times
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: reported on Saturday, it was in fact Ilhan Omar's sister's phone.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: that gave up the goods. It was Ilhan Omar's phone
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: apparently was clean, maybe bleach bit, whatever, got the Hillary
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: Clinton treatment. But it was Ilhan Omar's sister, who I'm
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: now referring to as Fredo. Fredo didn't clean it up.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: And that's what led to a justice writing out the warrant,
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: saying there's enough on that phone to prove that they
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: were lying about their status, apparently. So, and again, if
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: the New York Times is reporting it, And by the way,
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: CNN reporting on Saturday, even if they did lie, it's
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: going to be very difficult to, you know, kick out
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: a sitting member of Congress. And I'm imagining Trump going, really?
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: It's going to be difficult. Well, let's see what happens.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: We'll take a look at it.
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: Did you see Tom Homan on Fox News yesterday? He
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: was asked, is this simply a matter of immigration fraud
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: or is there a tie to the Somali fraud? And
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: Homan kind of smirked and said, the FBI knows.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: The FBI knows. They're looking into it. All right, we'll
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: take a break and get some of your talkbacks. We've
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: got some more lined up and ready to go next.
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: Brian from Sumter here.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: Please do not compare Ilan Omar to Al Capone.
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: He was a good red-blooded American who actually helped a
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: lot of people with soup kitchens.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: Okay. Well, you know, Ilhan Omar's people would say she's
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: helping out a lot of Somalians right there.
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: That's true. She's got a charitable part of her heart, too.
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: It's just not for the people of America. Well, are
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: they citizens?
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: I guess some of them are citizens up there in Minnesota,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: but they appear to be more in love with Somalia,
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: and that's the problem. She described herself. As a Somalian
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: girl who misses her homeland. And I'm saying, then let's
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: help her get home. Why are you people obstructing Ilhan
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: Omar in her dream to get back to Somalia? Let's help,
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: not hurt. All right. We'll get more of your talkbacks.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: Thank you for that great one there about the Ilhan Omar.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: And if you have other thoughts, we'll get to that.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Coming up next, Jim DeMint and the Right in Ralph campaign.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: We'll be talking to him coming up in just a
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: second with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: And former Senator Jim DeMint has asked your grace, your apology,
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: his apologies. He's a come upon something, so he has
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: to push his appearance back till tomorrow morning show. But
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: in the meantime, we can go a little bit further
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: with the France chaos. I do like this. They have
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: a new story this morning at Fox News. The who's
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: who inside France's chaos, Inc. So as not a surprise,
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: a lot of the chaos that we see is by design.
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: A guy named Vijay Prashad celebrated the unrest with a message. Paris,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: New Delhi, Buenos Aires, following a line from the British
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: punk band The Clash, let fury have the hour and
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: anger be the power. So who is this guy, Prashad?
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: What is going on? Well, Prashad is the executive director
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: for Tri-Continental Limited. What is Tri-Continental Limited? That's the organization
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: put together by Roy Singham. Who's Roy Singham? Roy Singham
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: is the American, born in Connecticut, of all places, my homeland,
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: who became a billionaire and moved to China in order
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: to help fund communist movements. He's the guy who's got
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: the Code Pink group, which his wife leads, and he
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: has stated his mission. His mission is to turn the
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: United States communist. He feels as if he can get
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: the United States to go communist, then all other countries
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: around the world would fall in line. And eventually, if
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: you were to get 8 billion people into a communist regime,
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: it would be a world power and there would be
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: no more starvation. I mean, if you're looking at it
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: on the positive side, he would say there'd be no
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: more starvations, there would be no more health issues, it
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: would be a Shangri-La. But you need all $ 8 billion
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: because if you have anybody practicing capitalism, that throws a
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: kink into it. The kink is that people are attracted
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: to the idea of getting rich. Under communism, nobody's rich.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: You just get enough to get by. And I'll say
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: that that's even debatable. Ask the Soviet Union in the
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: 1980s if they were getting enough to get by. Many
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: of them didn't. They would say yes, but they starve
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: to death, so they can't say yes at this point.
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: What is the name of this company again?
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: The name of the company that this guy, Prashad, is
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: the head of is Tri-Continental Limited.
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: How vague.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, this is the communist tycoon Neville Roy Singham, the
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: guy who lives in China now, and runs all that. Now,
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: they have Fox News' investigation, along with French authorities... have
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: found 54 different organizations involved in planning, planning these sudden,
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: just where'd they all come from? All these people, depends
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: on who you're talking to. The French government says 540,000 approximately.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: The organizers of it say it's about 800,000 people. Where
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: did all these people come from? How do they know
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: where to go? How do they get the signs?
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: Blah, blah, blah.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: Well, according to this, there's 54 separate organizations and movements
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: who've all joined together. Now, of that, 16 are student
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: or youth organizations, including communist youth groups and a Muslim
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: student associations. However, the other 38 are all adult-led communist groups,
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: labor unions, political parties, and revolutionary left organizations. In other words,
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: it's the far left, whether they're young or old. Doesn't matter.
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: There's no right-wingers involved in this. This is all left-wing
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: chaos brought on by design. And as they say, our
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: goal is to mobilize a broader political struggle against capitalism.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: You must end capitalism. And you'll see, if you look
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: at some of the photographs of the protesters, they're wearing
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: Russian sickles. I should say Soviet Union sickles. They want...
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: communism across the globe, and they're trying to bring it
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: to France right now. And they hide it in this
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: message of fight— what does it say? Fight for our future,
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: not their wars. In other words, if you were to
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: just take the money that you're using on wars and
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: just spend it on the schools, everybody would be far
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: better off. It depends on what you consider a war. Like,
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: is what's happening in Iran, is that a war? Or
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: is that a stopping a global nuclear holocaust? For those
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: of them on the left who feel like, well, you know,
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: climate change is an existential threat. You know, it's a
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: quicker existential threat, a nuclear weapon. That's a much quicker threat.
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: So this is not an organic movement that just sprung
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: up because people were so, as the narrative points out,
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: so sick of the school conditions in France.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: No.
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: They saw an opening here and they took it.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: And look, they're spending literally millions and millions of dollars.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: For those of you who want to say, well, what
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: if we were to invest? This is what Singham and
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: his crew is investing in. They're flying in people to protest.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: For example, the communist youth of Greece. They've paid for
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: roughly 700 people from Greece to come in and be
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: a part of this. La Jeunesse Communiste, a group coordinating
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: communist youth activism that's visible in the French demonstrations. All
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: of their meetings and everything is paid for, catered food,
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: all that's coming from Singham. The Raised Fish Revolutionary Communist,
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: another student youth organization that works to connect high school
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: and university protests together. All of their stuff is being
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: paid for, including the buses. I mean, the list goes
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: on and on and on of groups. Again, there's 56
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: of them here, and all of them are being paid
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: for by Singham, who is apparently into this thing for
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: at least eight figures, maybe nine. He might be over
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: $ 100 million in his attempt to take over France, but
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: he's a good guy, right, because he wants communism. That's
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: a great guy. He's like the Dr. Evil of communism
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: over here, and everybody's celebrating him on the left. Like
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: he's doing such wonderful work for us. And here we
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: are with, you know, the people being sexually assaulted, the
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: people losing their eyes and their hands and other things. And,
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: of course, the thousands, excuse me, billions of dollars in
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: damage done to the properties where you're never going to
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: get these schools rebuilt, not in the next year or two.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: So these kids will not even have schools to go
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: to in France. But what does that lead to? It
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: leads to more unrest. And the more unrest there is,
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: the more opportunity there is for the left to say,
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: look at what a mess this is. Won't you elect
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: us to fix the problem? That's their goal always and forever.
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: That playbook has never changed. All right. If you've got thoughts,
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: use the talkback feature. I think we have a few
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: lined up. We'll get to that next.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Morning, Jeff.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: This is Berger, your favorite cargo pilot.
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: Quick question.
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  Speaker 8: With everything going on in France, how can the NFL
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 8: still have a football game over there next week?
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know, Christopher. Do you know any
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: more insights on the NFL playing in France next week?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: Well, they gave the standard blanket statement yesterday saying that
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: everything is a go as far as the Steelers and
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: Saints play next Sunday. And everything they say right now
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: is a go. They've got their advanced teams over there.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: Security teams are over there. None of their practice sites
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: or anything to do with the game has been disrupted.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: So they say that game is still on for now,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: but they say they always end it with, but we're
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: monitoring the situation.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: Maybe communists like football. Maybe. I don't know.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: And I guess I wouldn't have it at a high
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: school stadium. I wouldn't practice there because that seems to
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: be a target for the groups. And it's not just
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: the youngsters, as we were pointing out earlier. I'm reading
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: an interview in something called Breakthrough News, which appears to
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: be a pro-communist publication here in the United States. And
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: on Friday, they interviewed Jody Evans. Jody Evans is the
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: wife of Singham. The guy who we were just talking about,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: Roy Singham, the guy who is the billionaire who had
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: moved to China and has been funding a lot of
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: these organizations that are trying to push communism. And she says,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: look for more, look for more chaos. And she wants
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: to invite us all. Well, I guess anybody who's a
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: communist to a big event that she's planning. Now, she's
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: the head of Code Pink. And Code Pink is going
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: to be having a, what does she call it again?
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: I know it's in November 12th. They're going to be
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: in D.C. And they want, she's not saying it, but
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: you know she wants fire. She wants fire in the streets.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: Whether it's Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, they've been
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: lying to us about these countries. They keep telling us
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: that those countries are evil, that they are the enemy.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: Who's really the enemy are the billionaires in America that
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: are making their money off of war. They're making a
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: killing on killing. I'm asking her if I had the opportunity.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: Are you telling me that there's the North Koreans, the Russians,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: the Chinese, the Iranians are not in the war business?
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: Is that what you're telling me? Again, if you have
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: a worldwide communist dictatorship, I understand. She's correct. There would
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: be no more war because all 8 billion people would
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: be oppressed and under the same flag.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd be under that government's thumb.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: There would be no more protests. There would be no
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: more war.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: A.K.A. Tiananmen Square.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: And when you look at the Tiananmen Square protest and
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: how the people and again, it's hard for us to
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: imagine because if imagine a U.S. soldier confronting somebody protesting
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: this government, even if they were protesting the U.S. military,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: taking a tank and running them over. or getting out
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: and bashing their heads in with the butt end of
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: a rifle or just shooting them multiple times and slowly
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: to watch them die. That's what the Chinese soldiers were
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: doing in Tiananmen square. Why were they doing that? Because
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: they're brainwashed because they believe that China, the communist regime
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: is more important than even their mothers and fathers and
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: brothers and sisters, because that's how they've been raised. And
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: if once you prioritize the state over your family, These
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: are the types of things that you're willing to do.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: And that's not a new thing. We've seen that. Everybody
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: likes to point at Hitler. Go ahead and look at
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: Mussolini and fascist Italy. Look at any country where you
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: get a strong person with authority. basically unchecked power, which
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: is what communism is, unchecked power. For those of you
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: who are at the No Kings rally, what you're apparently
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: aligning with is actual kings. You're aligning with, like, when
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: you look at Kim in South Korea, or in North Korea,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: you're looking at a king. When you look at Xi
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: in China, he is a king by your standards. Nobody's
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: there to properly check him. He can brutalize people, and
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: he is brutalizing millions and millions of his own And
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: there's nobody to say, stop it. Nobody there to say,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: stop it. That's what you're going for. But anyway, they're
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: going to be having one of these rallies here in
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: the United States in November. And they're looking at bringing in, well,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: we're here to protest the 2000 lobbyists. Okay. There's a
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: lot of people who would say I'm for that, correct?
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: It's like saying I'm protesting the lawyers. Everybody's going to
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: be in on that, but it depends on what is
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: your goal. And if your goal is to turn us communist,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: which is, that is the stated goal here. I would
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: have to say beware. Be very cautious of who you
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: align with because these people are dangerous. And I'm wondering
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: how much chaos we're going to have in D.C. I
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: don't think we're going to have much. I don't think
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: Trump will tolerate it. I think that he will have
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: the National Guard ready or some form of force will
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: be meeting them there so it doesn't get up and
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: out of control. Maybe Nancy Pelosi will call for the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: extra security this time.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 4: That's all we need.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: That's all we need. All right, we'll take a break.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: Be back with more of your talkbacks next.
• 1:05:15
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  Speaker 3: Breaking news on South Carolina Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson posted at 8.15 this morning That is, I
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: can't give time anymore on this show, so very recently. Headline,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: how much did Darlene Graham pay in income tax? The
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: state has been looking into this, and they want you
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: to know she's a liar. We caught her. We finally
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: caught her. She is busted, according to the state newspaper.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: I've struggled for years just like everyone else does. I'm
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: about affordability because I know how it feels to work
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: paycheck from paycheck, Graham told reporters on August 10th. But
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: how much did Darlene Graham really make? She's rich, I
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: told you. She's rich beyond your wildest imagination. Between 2021
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: and 2025, her salary steadily increased. Well, not steadily. It
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: actually went back in 2024 slightly. But anyway, that's beside
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: the point. It went from $ 105, 000 a year in 2021,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: all the way up to $ 140, 000 last year. Okay.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: Where's the controversy, but I mean, that's, they're.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: Saying that's rich. Oh, oh, rich at a hundred. And
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: by the way, does her, does her husband work? It
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: says from 2023 to 2025, Graham's husband reported his business
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: income on the federal income forms as $ 4, 500 in 2023, uh, $ 2, 791
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: in 2024 and $ 1, 768 in 2025. So apparently it's almost
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: a single family income, which is ironic because if you
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: were here last week, I know Christopher was on vacation,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: but we were mocking the whole ad campaign that was
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: coming out of Annie Andrews saying that Darlene Graham was
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: making money off China and because her husband is beholden
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: to China because he works for a toy company in Columbia,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: South Carolina, where some of the parts come from China.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: So that's like, again, if you've ordered anything from Amazon,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: then you too are beholden to China.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: It's true.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: So, but yeah, I don't think that Darlene Graham would
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: be considered rich by most people's standards. And she paid,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: her fair share of taxes. As a matter of fact,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: last year, she paid $ 21, 703 to the federal income and
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: about $ 7, 900 in state income. In other words, she paid
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: about $ 30, 000 of the $ 141 in income tax. And of course,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: people are saving for their retirements if they're being responsible.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: They've also got student loans to pay off for their
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: kids and other things like that. So she is not
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: a rich woman, but the state newspaper implying otherwise here.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: that she doesn't know what it's like to look for
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: discounts and coupons. She has no idea. She's just floating cash.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: She's just flush with cash.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: That's a stretch. And we knew her income going into
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: this because that's a state agency, right? So her income
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: was known. In fact, they tried to make that an
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: issue early in the Annie Andrews campaign.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: Another thing that's interesting is apparently on her tax returns,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: she has used the last name of Graham for the
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: last five years at least.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: What?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: Yes. So again, I know there are some traditional females
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: who don't like that, that Darlene Graham, I guess, apparently
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: didn't take Nordone as her official last name, but Graham
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: is what it is. And clearly in 2020, or whatever
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: the year was, she was not planning on running for
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: office or at least not running for the Senate seat.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: You know, you don't know what's in somebody's mind, but
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: at least for years, she's not been using Nordone. And
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: so there's maybe a settlement to that issue as well.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: But thank you to the state newspaper, who I'm sure
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: has been working diligently to get this report out at 8.15
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: this morning. And so now we here at South Carolina
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: Morning News, happy to report it to you. We report,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: you decide. Is this a scandal or is it just
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: what you kind of had expected? As Christopher points out,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: her salary had been published for at least 10 years
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: now in the newspaper, if you wanted to look it
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: up at any point. We'll take a break and be
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: back with more in a moment.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: With Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson, Christopher, Friday, the judge
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: ruled that the Murdoch folks, the defense team, can use
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: the remaining DNA evidence. Obviously, there's only a very limited
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: amount of DNA evidence, and they've already tested some of it,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: and they know that it's not related. to any of
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: the Murdoch family members. They're going to test whatever's left.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: This is the defense team. And then now they have
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: to share whatever information they get, but they're hoping that
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: this will somehow prove that Alec Murdoch did not kill
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: Maggie and his son. What do you think of this ruling?
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: Well, I think there's, they're grasping at straws, but I mean,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 4: that's what you do. If your client has been convicted
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: once already, and then you get a retrial and I mean,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: you're going to try everything you can, and apparently this
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: is related to Cousin Eddie and possible drug deals, and
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 4: was there somebody else there in addition to Alec Murdoch?
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: I feel like the end of the Florida State-Miami game,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: where they just chucked it up a couple of times, right?
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: And by the way, was that a catch? A lot
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: of people were caught. If you haven't seen the end
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: of the Florida State-Miami game, I can't believe that Miami
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: is the number one team in the country after that
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: performance against a very poor Florida State team. But that's
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: neither here nor there. We're back to Alec Murdaugh. Now,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: they'll have another hearing, I guess, November 13th in Lexington,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: and then we're not going to hear anything. We go
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: into a dark period until I think April is when
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: the actual trial would begin. But to your point, I
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: kind of specifically remember– The prosecution making the point that
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  Speaker 3: neither Pawpaw or Maggie had any defensive wounds. To the police,
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  Speaker 3: there was nothing that showed that they put up any struggle.
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  Speaker 3: That's why they were specifically focused on people that they knew.
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  Speaker 3: So it doesn't, I don't want to say it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: matter whose DNA is under her fingernails, but that wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be enough to make anybody think, well, that person did
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  Speaker 3: it because she never knew. Saw it coming, it sounds like.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like it, yeah. But again, if he's your client,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to do everything you can. And if there's
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  Speaker 4: any kind of evidence still out there, they're going to
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  Speaker 4: pursue it. You know, this is strange because we just
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  Speaker 4: heard over the weekend about there may be evidence to O.J.
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  Speaker 4: Simpson and possible drug dealers, mafia dealers. hiding his bloody clothing.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe even it was their clothing and they did the
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  Speaker 4: crime for him back in the day. And they know
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  Speaker 4: where the murder weapon is. I mean, people until a
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  Speaker 4: murder is solved, people will go to any extent to
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  Speaker 4: find out exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 3: I hadn't heard this about OJ. Are you, is the,
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  Speaker 3: the story that OJ may have hired people to do it,
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  Speaker 3: or is it that they were just doing it and
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  Speaker 3: then they somehow lucked into it being OJ Simpson?
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  Speaker 4: I think it was the, the New York times has
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  Speaker 4: got an investigation and they have shown that there may be,
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  Speaker 4: they may, there may have been a mafia person involved.
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  Speaker 4: The brother of an, a possibly an accomplice of OJ
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  Speaker 4: Simpsons claims he returned with bloody hands. The brother returned
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  Speaker 4: with bloody hands on the night of the murders and
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  Speaker 4: that he may have also known where the, apparently he
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  Speaker 4: was carrying a heavy bag containing a mysterious object. and
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  Speaker 4: may have been hiding the murder weapon.
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  Speaker 3: And this is a New York Times?
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  Speaker 4: This is a New York Times study.
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  Speaker 3: This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the
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  Speaker 3: New York Times has nothing else to do.
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  Speaker 4: Well, OJ's gone for a little while now, so I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sure it matters.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, everybody is... Why doesn't the New York Times,
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  Speaker 3: if they're going to just do investigations like that, go
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  Speaker 3: back and talk about the starvation of the Ukrainians by
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  Speaker 3: the Soviet Union and how your reporter at the time
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  Speaker 3: said that they were getting more than enough food. Why
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  Speaker 3: don't you investigate that? But that's neither here nor there,
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  Speaker 3: nor is the O.J. Simpson case.
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  Speaker 4: I know. It's fascinating. But again, if you're Dick Harpootlian,
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  Speaker 4: that's your job. It's to exhaust every possibility in the
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  Speaker 4: hopes that you can prove your client is innocent.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is, it feels like a colossal waste of
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  Speaker 3: time and taxpayer money as we go through this again.
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  Speaker 3: for what appears to be no possible reason. You're hoping
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  Speaker 3: that there's going to be DNA that says, what, it's
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  Speaker 3: a Mexican drug lord? If it was a Mexican drug lord,
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  Speaker 3: let me just put it this way. I'll play prosecution.
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  Speaker 3: If it's a Mexican drug lord's DNA or a gangbanger's
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  Speaker 3: DNA underneath her fingernails, I would then make the argument
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  Speaker 3: that you invited them to your house because you're a
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  Speaker 3: drug dealer and or a drug addict and that You
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  Speaker 3: were introducing to her to them under social conditions and
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  Speaker 3: she just touched their arm in some way. That's what
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  Speaker 3: I would argue. But not that they killed her. You're still.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you not hear the shots? Why did you
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  Speaker 3: drive off the property at record speeds right as the
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: shooting had happened? There's no way to explain these things
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  Speaker 3: other than you're involved. You did it. But good luck.
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  Speaker 3: chasing that down Mr. Harpootlian. Go get him, Poot. We'll
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  Speaker 3: take a break and be back with more, including your thoughts.
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  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 5: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: This is one of those stories I may bring back
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow because I find it so fascinating, and we're hitting
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: it near the end of the show today. Maybe we'll
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: do it earlier in the broadcast tomorrow. There's a guy
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: named Aaron Day. And Aaron Day runs something called Stark
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: Freedom PAC, and he does not hide what his PAC
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: is about. His goal is to find what he describes
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: as vulnerable Republicans and run PAC money not for the Democrat,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: because he says typically somebody who would be aligned with
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: a Democrat— excuse me, a Republican— would not switch to the Democrat,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: no matter how moderate they are. So what he tries
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: to do is find third-party candidates, which he can then build,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: as he describes, very inexpensive AI ads and run them
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  Speaker 3: on social media. And he says that he's having a
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  Speaker 3: lot of success. And in case you're wondering, South Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: he's got one running here. He's spending about $ 800, 000, I think,
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  Speaker 3: to help Casey Whitener. And he says, again, Annie Andrews,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: most people in South Carolina wouldn't vote for her. But
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  Speaker 3: I can get enough Republicans to say Casey Whitener is
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  Speaker 3: a good candidate to get Annie Andrews elected. His goal
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: is to get Annie Andrews elected. But he knows that
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: we can't convince you to vote for her. So we
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  Speaker 3: have to go with the third party candidate. He creates
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  Speaker 3: these AI like songs like he's the video that I
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: saw is like a third. You know, it's like a
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  Speaker 3: two or three minute record. And it's a video talking
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: about how Darlene is weak and, you know, Casey Whitener
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  Speaker 3: says no more and she's going to fix the swamp
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: and blah, blah, blah. But again, in the interview, he
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 3: doesn't even hide it. Day's ads are unique to each
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: race and must have peppy AI music critiquing the GOP
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: candidate in South Carolina. They're knocking Darlene Graham for her
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 3: pro-war votes and boost the libertarian Casey Whitener in New Hampshire.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: They're hitting Sununu for supporting the Wall Street bailout in Texas.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: They're targeting Ken Paxton for being a mouthpiece for D.C.
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  Speaker 3: They dubbed Brown the voice of Texas. I don't know
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: who Brown is, but Brown is apparently in the race
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: as well. And they want to try to make sure
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: that they can help Telefrico.
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  Speaker 4: These AI-created ads, I have a feeling somewhere down the
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: pike we're going to have to have some stricter rules
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 4: about these. Because, I mean, we've seen their impact right
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 4: now just in the last few months in the governor's race.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: than in the Senate race, but for somebody to come
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 4: from outside and create ads, who doesn't even know the candidates,
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  Speaker 4: who just says, all right, I'm going to pick a
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: winner and a loser here, and I want the winner
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  Speaker 4: to ultimately be a Democrat, so I'll go after the Republican.
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  Speaker 4: That's scary stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he says, I hate Republicans. I hate the fact
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: that they're pro-war. I hate the fact that they want
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: a wall. I hate the fact that they are not
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 3: giving tax breaks to the poor. They need to help
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: the poor, the libertarians. don't help the poor either, but
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: I will support the libertarian knowing that they can't win.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: So that's what he does. He tries to divide the vote.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: He's putting it out in the open and he's saying
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: that he's already had success in 2016 doing this before
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: he even had the access to the AI videos that
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: just supporting third party candidates was enough to mess up
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: some of these campaigns. If you care so much about
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: the poor, spend some of that money on the poor.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 3: Now you're making too much sense. Stop making sense. By
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: the way, it is a very catchy Casey Whitener song.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll put it up if you want to hear it,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: but it's very catchy. AI very good with the catchy melodies.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 3: We'll take a break and be back with more.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 5: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I already got several people asking, can we
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: see these Casey Whitener ads? I'm trying to get it
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  Speaker 3: up on my Facebook page right now, Christopher. So, again,
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  Speaker 3: the one that I'm sharing, I found it to be
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  Speaker 3: very catchy. It's a very catchy song that the AI
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: computer came up with. And then it's got, you know,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: a whole bunch of... slams on Darlene Graham and Casey
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: Whitener says no more. But again, the guy behind it
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: all says, I don't expect Casey Whitener to win, nor
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: would I even support her policies. I want Annie Andrews
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  Speaker 3: to win because she is all the things that he
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: wants pro abortion and, you know, higher taxes, all those
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: types of things. That's what he's looking for. But he,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: he's trying to affect this.
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  Speaker 4: Just as the right in Ralph segment of the population
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 4: is trying to affect the election.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: That they are. I don't know if they know what
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: they're doing. We're going to talk tomorrow now in the
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: 8 o'clock hour to former Senator Jim DeMint, who is
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 3: the number one surrogate for Ralph, who has some thoughts
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: on this write-in Ralph campaign. In the meantime, have a
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  Speaker 3: great day.