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Show Rewind 9-21-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there was a small window over the weekend, just
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  Speaker 2: a tiny fraction of time, where I, Kelly Nash, I
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  Speaker 2: know Christopher Thompson's above this, but I am not. I
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  Speaker 2: am below this, where there was a little window where
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  Speaker 2: all was right in my world, and it was like
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  Speaker 2: there was a rain delay in Clemson, there was a
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  Speaker 2: lightning delay happening at Williams-Brice, and I was Sitting there
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  Speaker 2: with some of my fellow Gamecock fans, and it was
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  Speaker 2: the Tigers are down to North Carolina's on like the
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  Speaker 2: seven-yard line. There's like seven minutes left in the football game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, that's a wrap. You're just trying to
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  Speaker 2: rile people up right off the start. And then I'm
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  Speaker 2: sitting down, and the Gamecocks get off to not that bad.
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  Speaker 2: The greatest start because they left some points on the
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  Speaker 2: board there. But it was a really good start for
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina football. And Williams-Brice Stadium is rocking. And Christopher
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  Speaker 2: and John Whittle were talking before. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the keys to victory. Get off to a quick start.
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  Speaker 2: Get the crowd engaged. They were very engaged. And then
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  Speaker 2: the guy sitting next to me checked his phone and goes,
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  Speaker 2: Clemson won. I was like, what? How did they do that? Well,
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  Speaker 2: at least we got this game. And then the third
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  Speaker 2: quarter arrived. What a weekend, Christopher. Yeah. You mentioned the
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  Speaker 2: weather delays.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how old is that getting for fan bases
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  Speaker 3: at South Carolina and Clemson and really across the Southeast?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Alabama had it, Presbyterian, Western Carolina. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there were delays everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: We have enough money in college athletics, it would seem,
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  Speaker 2: where every SEC and ACC program should have a dome
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  Speaker 2: on it by next year. Oh, no, no, no. We
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  Speaker 2: need a dome by next year.
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  Speaker 3: All right, a retractable dome maybe, but football's made to
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  Speaker 3: be played outdoors.
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  Speaker 2: Put the retractable dome on it. Make it Jerry's World.
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  Speaker 2: We need that. We can't be having these delays. It
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  Speaker 2: was ridiculous. It wasn't even raining at Williams-Price, but within
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  Speaker 2: that eight-mile radius, there had been a lightning strike. And
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  Speaker 2: so we sat there in the sunshine getting sunburned talking
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  Speaker 2: about why it's in a weather delay. That was crazy.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So that's how that's how my weekend went. Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: I hope yours was well. It was good. Yes. Thank you. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the story that's kind of floating under the radar.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we're I mean, it's not under the radar.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean to act as if the media is
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  Speaker 2: not talking about it. The media is talking about it,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't think it's giving it. It's really it's
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  Speaker 2: due diligence is this idea that Trump is meeting the
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  Speaker 2: with Gulf nations to decide there's like two options apparently
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  Speaker 2: left on the table. We are going to annihilate Iran
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  Speaker 2: or we're just walking out. Those seem to be the
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  Speaker 2: two options that he's discussing with the other Gulf leaders. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad he's meeting with them because this really does
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  Speaker 2: affect them. And if you see us go in and
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  Speaker 2: just blow Iran to hell, then you know that that
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  Speaker 2: was checked off by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Probably Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody just saying we're just tired of them. If we
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  Speaker 2: walk away, it's their mess to deal with. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to figure out how to open up the
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  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz. How do you feel about this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Saudi Arabia is already getting big hits from the Houthis.
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  Speaker 3: So they probably are hoping the United States does step
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  Speaker 3: it up at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Well, or, or the, I mean, the other option is like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we've had enough of these people. Could you just back off?
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  Speaker 2: And then, then they'll back off. Cause I mean, I,
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  Speaker 2: I imagine that they, it's like the mob, they are
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  Speaker 2: the mob. And so if you just back, if you
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  Speaker 2: just give them what they want, which is unfettered access,
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  Speaker 2: let them sell their oil, let them keep funding terrorism,
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  Speaker 2: let them do their thing with the triple H guys, then,
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  Speaker 2: then everything will just go back to where it was.
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  Speaker 2: And then they'll start slowly rebuilding their nuclear program, their
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  Speaker 2: ballistic missile program. And in another 10 or 15 years,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be back in the same spot that we're in
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  Speaker 2: right now. And that is the easy answer, in all honesty.
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  Speaker 2: Trump has already gone a lot farther, obviously, than any
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  Speaker 2: other president. But the easy answer could have, should have,
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  Speaker 2: would have been back in the day, say, hey, after
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  Speaker 2: we've already bombed the crap out of them, thank you
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  Speaker 2: to the Israeli intelligence. We knew when to strike and
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  Speaker 2: all that. The Israelis would love us to take out
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  Speaker 2: You don't even have to meet with the Israelis. No.
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  Speaker 2: You already know where they're at. You know what they're
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  Speaker 2: going to say.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But it's really about meeting with... I mean, we're having
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  Speaker 2: meetings with Iraq. Who would ever thought that the president
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  Speaker 2: of the United States would be talking about any military
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  Speaker 2: strategic moves with Iraq? That's insane. That was never in
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  Speaker 2: the forecast. But he's saying, look, this is going to
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  Speaker 2: affect you probably more than it'll affect us. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if we do this... understand that they are not going
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  Speaker 2: to go quietly. They're going to start launching whatever they
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  Speaker 2: got left at all y'all. It is not going to
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  Speaker 2: hit us. It's going to hit you and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to hit your pipelines. And we don't think, obviously we
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  Speaker 2: don't think Russia will get that involved because Russia's right
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  Speaker 2: now currently on fire after the Ukrainians had a drone strip,
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  Speaker 2: multiple drone strikes inside Moscow. And then you've got, you know,
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  Speaker 2: China and how far does China want to get in
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  Speaker 2: on this? I don't imagine they want to get in
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  Speaker 2: on it. Xi is canceling meetings now and he's a little,
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  Speaker 2: he's either sick or some say he's nervous. I guess
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  Speaker 2: we can interpret that a little bit later on as well.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, this is a massive story that really,
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  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, you know, everything's got an algorithm. I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking about that the other day, you know, like algorithms,
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  Speaker 2: they screw everything up. But even when we were kids,
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  Speaker 2: remember the old phrase, if it bleeds, it leads. And
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  Speaker 2: so there was always an algorithm. And so that's how
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  Speaker 2: we end up with these stupid stories. Like if I
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  Speaker 2: go to the New York Post today, it's probably day
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  Speaker 2: four of somewhere in the top 30 stories or whatever
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  Speaker 2: will be the story about the woman who was caught
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  Speaker 2: by her husband having intimate relations with the family dog.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: That story will not go away. They talk about that
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  Speaker 2: all the time on the New York Post. But the
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump story, meeting with the Gulf nations to decide
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  Speaker 2: whether or not to end a civilization, it's like story
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  Speaker 2: number nine. Whether or not the Giants are going to
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  Speaker 2: beat the Chargers or whatever, or Rams, that's pretty high
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  Speaker 2: up there.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Kelly, I'm going to put on my political
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  Speaker 3: hat for a minute now. If this conflict were to end,
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  Speaker 3: if the United States walks away, A, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be seen as political given the midterms are on the horizon. B,
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  Speaker 3: what does it do for the midterms if that decision
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  Speaker 3: is made? Do Americans look at it and say, OK,
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  Speaker 3: this conflict was worth it because at least we eliminated
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  Speaker 3: the nuclear threat for a little while?
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  Speaker 2: Or do they look at it as, well, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: We just kicked the can down the road. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: think it depends on your political prism. It's really about
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  Speaker 2: what do the independents think on that. I think most Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: certainly not all, I've talked to a bunch of Republicans
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  Speaker 2: who are very ticked off that were involved in this.
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  Speaker 2: But I think most Republicans recognize that they were in
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  Speaker 2: a position, like Bill Maher was saying, yeah, they were
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  Speaker 2: about to get a nuclear weapon, which they've always told
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  Speaker 2: you their goal was to kill Israel. kill Americans, and
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  Speaker 2: then take over the world. That is their stated goal.
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  Speaker 2: It's in their constitution. They've been saying it since 1979.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we're going to do. Now, they almost
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  Speaker 2: were in a position to be able to put that together.
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  Speaker 2: So most people who are just saying go, oh, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: if everybody recognized that they were in that position, then
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  Speaker 2: it was certainly worth it to do that. However, was
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  Speaker 2: it worth it to try to keep the straight open?
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  Speaker 2: That's debatable. Obviously, we knew that they were going to
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  Speaker 2: do it and we had plans in place. People who
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  Speaker 2: say that Trump didn't have plans in place are idiots
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  Speaker 2: because that's not even his plan. That's the military's plan.
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  Speaker 2: What do we do if this happens, if that happens?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not just about Iran. That's with every country
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  Speaker 2: on earth. What if the UK turns into a socialist
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  Speaker 2: communist country? How do we respond? Where do we attack?
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  Speaker 2: All these types of things. They've got plans for everything.
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  Speaker 2: The plan's have not gone as well as we would
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  Speaker 2: have hoped. Didn't work out exactly. Kind of like Gamecocks defense.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't go as well as hoped in that third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: But we had plans. Somebody's still hurting. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to burn. I mean, it's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be up there with that LSU loss from a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago, but it's a pretty bad loss. But I
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  Speaker 2: think that, again, I've always felt like Trump needs to
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  Speaker 2: finish this. But I know a lot of Americans don't
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  Speaker 2: want that. And then if you finish it, then there's
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  Speaker 2: another problem that a lot of people don't want to talk.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like if I just stick with Gamecock football,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people talking about fire Shane Beamer. That
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  Speaker 2: creates another problem. Who replaces them? What is the direction?
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  Speaker 2: What is recruiting like? All that. If you end up
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  Speaker 2: blowing up the IRGC, there is a power void. That's
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  Speaker 2: a vacuum. And it'll be filled by somebody. The U.S.
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  Speaker 2: will try to install somebody. We had the Shah of
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  Speaker 2: Iran for a number of years. Didn't end well. What
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  Speaker 2: do we do here? Do we just allow for free
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  Speaker 2: and fair elections and see what they come up with,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that there's a number of radical people, that there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a strong man trying to rise to
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  Speaker 2: the top? Do we allow him to do that, or
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  Speaker 2: do we have now all of a sudden we're engaged
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  Speaker 2: in political assassinations and all kinds of chaos? It's just
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  Speaker 2: a quagmire, unfortunately. You get stuck in these things. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Most fascinated to see what decision comes out of it,
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  Speaker 2: because then you'll know whatever we're doing, that is supported
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  Speaker 2: by the majority, maybe not all, but the majority of
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  Speaker 2: the Gulf nations. This is their will, and we're just
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  Speaker 2: executing on it. So I think it's good that we're
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  Speaker 2: building that. And we don't really care what Israel says
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  Speaker 2: right now, which is another good thing. to not care
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  Speaker 2: what they think about this, because we've already done what
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  Speaker 2: you wanted. Now we're trying to figure out what they want.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're going to have to take a break because
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  Speaker 2: we have gone way late on this first break. But
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  Speaker 2: if you have thoughts on Israel, Iran, whatever, Gamecocks, Tigers,
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  Speaker 2: All of it. Use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: So if you live in the low country, I guess
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  Speaker 2: you got a mailer recently from Clemson. This is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: What is it called? The yellow-legged hornet that is invading
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  Speaker 2: our state, especially in the low country, and they kill
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  Speaker 2: the bees. And it sounds like a horror movie. The
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  Speaker 2: hornets will come down on a bee and they will
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  Speaker 2: decapitate it, take its wings off. And then what does
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  Speaker 2: it eat? It eats like the wings and then eats
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  Speaker 2: the abdomen. So nasty. Yuck. And the University of Clemson
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  Speaker 2: has been studying these things. And I guess they've been
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  Speaker 2: migrating north out of Savannah. Yeah. And they're starting to
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  Speaker 2: kill the bee population here in South Carolina. So they're
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  Speaker 2: saying if you see a hornet's nest. Now, this is
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  Speaker 2: not a typical hornet's nest. They got a picture in
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  Speaker 2: the Post and Courier of one. That is otherworldly. It's
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  Speaker 2: about the size. It's the first one that they build.
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  Speaker 2: They say will be about the size of a basketball.
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  Speaker 2: And once they fill that thing up, then they go
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  Speaker 2: to a second nest. which will then be about the
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  Speaker 2: size of a beach ball.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like a big burlap bag that's been woven
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  Speaker 3: into the trees.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's huge. It's so gross. And I'd be
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  Speaker 2: so tempted with a shotgun to blow that thing out
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  Speaker 2: of the sky. But of course, you can't run fast enough. Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And Clemson is saying, don't even contact like professionals on
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  Speaker 2: this one. Contact them. They say, we want to know
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  Speaker 2: about every single one of these nests because we need
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  Speaker 2: to As he described, this is great. Brad Cavan, the
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  Speaker 2: program coordinator at Clemson, says the Lowcountry's battle against the
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  Speaker 2: yellow-legged hornet is similar to fighting Satan. Ooh. Fighting Satan.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, if we want to save the bees, which
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  Speaker 2: everybody does because we can't have food and stuff if
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  Speaker 2: we don't have the bees. And these things are making
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  Speaker 2: the bee population go away. So we need to take
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  Speaker 2: these things down. So yeah, if you see one of
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  Speaker 2: these nests, don't mess with it, contact Clemson. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that there's numerous ways of doing that, but you
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  Speaker 2: look at your mailers if you've got one at the house,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, Christopher, we've got the yellow legged wasp in
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  Speaker 2: our state and I don't want it here. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want it here either. All right. So thankfully it's not
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  Speaker 2: in the Midlands as far as we know, but You know,
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  Speaker 2: they migrate, so they could be coming our way as well.
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  Speaker 2: So keep an eye out for that freakish-looking burlap-looking nest.
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  Speaker 2: All right, 620 now.
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  Speaker 2: Art is a weird thing in the sense that it
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  Speaker 2: usually won't exist unless society makes a decision to support it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, musicians get to a level where they
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  Speaker 2: can become very rich. But if you're talking about like
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  Speaker 2: painting and plays, for the most part, that art doesn't
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  Speaker 2: exist unless there is some sort of decision made at
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  Speaker 2: a town level or a state level to get behind it.
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  Speaker 2: And so here in South Carolina, we have an arts
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  Speaker 2: commission that funds a lot of the art and Right
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  Speaker 2: now at their August board meeting, they announced that no
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  Speaker 2: person or entity that receives grant funding from the commission
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  Speaker 2: shall promote any ideology without regard to what that ideology
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  Speaker 2: might be. I hate to say this, but that almost
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  Speaker 2: seems impossible. How can you have art without any ideology?
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  Speaker 3: Is this directly related to what we had the story
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  Speaker 3: last month, the Greenville men's gay chorus and.
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  Speaker 2: Spartanburg's Proud Mary Theater. Right, right. Correct. And so this
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  Speaker 2: is their way of trying to get out of funding
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  Speaker 2: something that doesn't meet most of South Carolinians community standards. Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Without coming out and saying that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a slippery slope. I don't know how you
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  Speaker 3: would define art any other way.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the commission's communication director tells the Post and Courier,
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  Speaker 2: because there's not a quorum, it will not be a
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  Speaker 2: public meeting. The September 17th meeting was virtual and not
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  Speaker 2: open to the public. The September 15th letter to the
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  Speaker 2: organization referred grantees to the resolution drafted by the commission's
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  Speaker 2: attorney and adopted by the board after a closed executive session.
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  Speaker 2: So now we're into this legal debate about whether or
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  Speaker 2: not the public had an opportunity to get involved with
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  Speaker 2: this and It wasn't open and blah, blah, blah. But
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  Speaker 2: I would think that the bigger question would be, should
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  Speaker 2: the South Carolina Arts Commission make it clear as to
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  Speaker 2: what we as state taxpayers, what are we willing to fund?
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  Speaker 2: And understanding that art is subjective, that I'm not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: going to think some things are art that other people
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  Speaker 2: think is amazing and vice versa. They may not like
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  Speaker 2: what I like. And that sometimes art rubs people the
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  Speaker 2: wrong way, especially if it's a political nature. But oftentimes,
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  Speaker 2: in this instance, we're talking about promoting sexual lifestyles, we'll say.
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  Speaker 2: You know, is that something that the South Carolina— I think
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  Speaker 2: that the Art Commission needs to come out with some
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  Speaker 2: sort of standards and say, let the people in South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina maybe even vote on it. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: put it to a vote, if you're going to take
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  Speaker 2: a stance, we only support nuclear families or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: The art that we're going to pay for does this.
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  Speaker 2: Or can't be anti-nuclear family, can't be glorifying the idea
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  Speaker 2: of having two moms or two dads or something to
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  Speaker 2: that extent. I mean, would I, I'm up for that.
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  Speaker 2: And if I lose that vote and some people say,
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  Speaker 2: if the majority of South Carolinians are like, no, we
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  Speaker 2: want to support that. Okay. Then, then that's, it is
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  Speaker 2: what the public wants it to be. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that they can do it behind closed doors and say,
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  Speaker 2: we're just going to support this and not support that.
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  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts, Chris?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're not banning the art. You're just simply saying
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  Speaker 3: taxpayer dollars won't be going to fund it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to raise your own dollars and, and
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  Speaker 3: celebrate whatever you want to celebrate, that's, that's your job.
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  Speaker 3: And you can certainly do that. And if it's open
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  Speaker 3: to the public and the public attends, then you've got support.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, these are taxpayer dollars that are being used.
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  Speaker 3: And you're right, Kelly, a majority of people in this
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  Speaker 3: state probably are not in line with that way of thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll use the talkback feature to see if any
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  Speaker 2: of you want to agree or disagree on what the
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  Speaker 2: SC Arts Commission should be doing moving forward. And we'll
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  Speaker 2: take a break for the news at 6.30. From the midlands.
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  Speaker 6: To the low country, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: This is Steve from Gilbert. Why do you never see
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: a Republican trying to act like a Democrat, but the Democrats...
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Try to act like Republicans. Watch out. Wolves in sheep's clothing.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: All right, Steve from Gilbert, South Carolina. By God, good morning. 636.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: And this is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. And, you know,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the great Rush Limbaugh used to say all the time
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: that a Democrat has to lie to win an election.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: They cannot run on what they actually want to do.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: So they have to lie about it in order to
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: win most Americans. Of course, there's always going to be
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: a fringe group of Americans who hate their country and
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: want to see it fundamentally changed and turned into one
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: of these other types of countries. But for most Americans,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: they want better schools. They want great roads. They want
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: a strong military. They want a strong border, healthy food available.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You don't want the, you know, the whole Maha thing
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: had to come around because we had too many pesticides,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: according to a lot of people. But that's kind of
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: what they want.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: So that's why the Democrats make the mad dash to
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: the middle just before November.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's not what they want. You know, they
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: want socialism. They want, and again, I'm not faulting them.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I just wish that they would run on what they wanted.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: If a Democrat told you, and they did it calmly
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and plainly, like, What we believe is that there is
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: too much money in a concentrated few hands. A lot
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: of people would buy that. A lot of people would say,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I agree. And we think that in the best interest
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: of America, we should take the money from those people
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: and distribute it amongst the rest of us. And you
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: and I and everybody are probably included in that group
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: of people who would receive some money from that people group.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: That would resonate with a minority of people. I think
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: the majority of Americans would recognize if we do that,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: then you disincentivize the people that are the creators. The
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: people who are making the money are the ones who
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: created the value. I think it might be... I'm just
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: talking about legally. I think it's legally impossible to make
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: money if you're not providing some value. If you're not
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: offering goods or a service... at a value, I don't
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: know how you make money. And there's probably somebody who
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: can prove me wrong on that, but for the most part,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: that's how economics work. You're just gaming the system at
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: that point. If you figure out a way to make
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: money without contributing. Yeah, and when I say provide value,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: like what we do on this show is we try
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: to give you news and information in a way that
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: is– you want to engage with it. You want to
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: be a part of this. You like waking up with
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Kelly and Christopher, and you think that this is an
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: interesting show. And then the way– so we're providing value
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: to you free as a free service of iHeart, and
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: then we make money on the back end by– Our
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: advertisers now have access to what I would say are
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: some of the most valuable people in South Carolina. The
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: people who choose to engage with News Talk Radio are
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: usually some of the highest intellects, biggest money earners, small
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: business owners, people who make decisions. Those are the people
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: that you want, and they're also engaged with the content.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: So we are providing value. Now, we don't get to
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: keep all that money. We're just a cog in the wheel.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: So iHeart gets money out of it because... They're the
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: ones who fronted the money. So yes, iHeart makes more
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: money than Christopher Thompson and Kelly Nash. That's just the
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: way it should go. That's the way economics works. But
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: there's a group of people who don't like that, that
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: they say, well, if Kelly and Christopher provided this value,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: we should get all of the money and iHeart should
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: get nothing other than their reimbursement for building the studios,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: getting the FCC licenses, putting up billboards, taking out TV advertisements,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: whatever they've done to promote the show. Other than that,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: they should get nothing. There should be no profit. Well,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: why would they do it? Why would a pharmaceutical company
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: come up with a new drug if they couldn't make
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: money off of it? I mean, none of it makes
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: any sense. So their arguments seem to fall apart. And
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: then we have multiple nations that we can point at,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: some of them just 90 miles off our shore in Cuba,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: but all across the world, Venezuela and many others, where
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: people have tried these types of politics and it fails. So, yeah,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: to our friend from Gilbert's point, they lie. And they
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: say that they want the same things that you want,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: better schools, better medicines, better health and all that sort
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: of stuff. And that there is just as patriotic as
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: you are, which they are not. And and so then
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: some people fall for it. And unfortunately, we're in a
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: cycle where it appears that a bunch of people are
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: going to fall for it, at least in the House.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: And if they fall for it in the House, then
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: we're in two years of impeachment mode. So it could
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: be ugly. So there's still hope. Keep hope alive. Never
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: give up. We keep fighting till the end. Fight, fight, fight,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: as Donald Trump said. It is 641.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: 560 AM. WVOC, Columbia and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Pat LaVey, the surviving son of the Shah. has been
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: living in exile. The people of Iran support him. The
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: people that are not Islamists want him. Big rally in
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Toronto just took place of supporters of Paklaveh. The people
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: want to be armed.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I wish I knew who that was and where your
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: talkback is from, but you're right about Pahlavi. He is
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the son, the eldest son of the former Shah of Iran,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: and a lot of people are rallying about him. They've
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: been talking about that guy since, I think, early 2000s.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: They started really rallying around the world, the former Iranians
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: or Iranian expatriates who were living in other countries talking
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: about him. I'm not sure what the on-the-ground vibe is
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: for him, but you would think if you've got a
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: lot of expats talking about him that there'd probably be
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: in that group of an estimated 80 to 85 percent
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: of Iranians who don't like the regime, that they would
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: like this kind of guy. Maybe not him particularly, but
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: this type of a guy, someone who is a non-Islamist,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: someone who is maybe Muslim in nature. I don't even
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: know what he is religious wise, but saying we're going
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to separate the government from the religion.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I'm sure any of them who have been around for
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: a while are nostalgic for a time when they weren't,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: you know, under the eye of the IIRG, the IRGC,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: and everything that brings with it, from the restrictions to
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: the economic destruction, etc.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, but great insight there on your talkback, and we
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: certainly appreciate it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: All right, in case you just needed a quick reminder
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: to be thankful you're not in prison right now, the
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: father of Sailor Hayes, who's accused of letting the nonverbal
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: autistic five-year-old wander off and die. He's in jail with
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: another gentleman who is, I think, 35 years old. Bradley
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Hillard is charged with the death of a two-year-old. And
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: these two are cellmates. And apparently they've been fighting. And
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: so now they've both been charged. I mean, I can
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: only imagine what it's like being in a prison cell
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: with somebody like this, but it's, It's just chaos. And
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: so more chaos ensues. You can read about that story
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: if you're interested. They're currently in Georgetown. But we'll get
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: back to some real news coming up in just a
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: moment on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: All right, this is Kelly Nash at 703. I did
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: a podcast this morning for the national briefing available on
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app talking about did Donald Trump actually just
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: end the free press in America? It was much weeping
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: and gnashing of teeth over the weekend starting Saturday after
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: he announced he did not want CNN, MSNOW, or Politico
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: to have access to the White House. And here's one
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: of the reporters literally crying Saturday morning.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: I arrived here, as I do many days of the week,
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: many weekends, and I walked through. I attempted to scan
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: my badge.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: It did not work.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: Of course, after President Trump made clear that he wants
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: to ban MSNOW, CNN, and Politico, yesterday our journalists were
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: able to stay here working on the White House grounds.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: There's no crying in journalism, Akilah Gardner. Um, and of course,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama has to get in on this and he can't,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: He couldn't even, I mean, think about it. Barack Obama's
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: got quite the imagination, but he can't even imagine this.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: My imagination could not foresee some of the stuff that's
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: going on right now.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I believe there was just an announcement that the.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: White House decided, you know what, CNN, MSN, MSNOW, you
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: just can't come to the White House press briefings anymore
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: because you're giving.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: The current president unfavorable coverage. I'm trying to.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Think what would have happened if I had said, you know.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: What, Fox News, you're out of here.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: It's unimaginable.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: It's unimaginable. It's literally unfathomable to Barack Obama, the greatest
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: president who ever lived, according to Barack Obama. Except he
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: did it. I mean, that's the thing. I couldn't even
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: imagine doing it. Except I tried it in 2009. Yes,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: you did. Judicial Watch has the e-mails. Showing that in 2009,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: and by the way, that was published in 2011. But
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: in 2009, Barack Obama was not happy with the coverage
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Fox News was providing. And he said, get them out
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: of here. I don't want them. They're just a tool
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: for the far right extremists. And you tried banning them. Now,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I will credit CNN. CNN at that time said, this
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: is wrong. Look, if you're going to have interviews for us,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: and others, you need to give Fox News access. And
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: if you don't do it, CNN, ABC, CBS, all the
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: alphabets came together and said, we're not going to allow you,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama, to bulldoze the media. And they joined together
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: as a force and they stopped him. Now, I'll also
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: point out that I'm pretty much done crediting CNN because
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: shortly thereafter, here's Brian Stetler he's pontificating about, you know what?
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Fox News is a tool, and this is 2023 under
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: the Obama, excuse me, under the Biden administration. Let's get
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: rid of Fox News. As Fox radicalizes and as it
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: becomes even more and more of a political tool, Zerwick,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: you wrote a column recently for The Sun about this,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: saying Fox should be viewed as a political tool.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: And that raises a question.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Should it be a part of the White House press pool?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: And all of this to say, the press pool is irrelevant.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: It does not serve any purpose. Some guy named Fatty
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: something or other, literally first name was Fatty, in like
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: 1895 became the first ever White House reporter, just self-described
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: because he stood there at the North Portico every day,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: day and night, said he's going to talk to everybody
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: who goes in and goes out. And then other reporters
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: started trying to pick up that beat and do the
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: same thing. And then it was Woodrow Wilson who literally said,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: You know what? These are useful idiots. We should use them.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Feed them. Wine and dine the useful idiots of the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: mainstream media. Again, 1913. Then we can tell them what
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: to say. And if they want the free food and
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: drinks and beverage and access to the White House and
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: all the glamour and glitz that comes with it, they'll
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: say what we tell them to say, and Americans will
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: buy it. Now, Woodrow Wilson, very smart man, did not
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: agree with him politically, but a genius. He recognized how
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: to use the media. We've had presidents bending over backwards
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: trying to help the media in order to Get favorable coverage.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Richard Nixon is the one who covered up the White House,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: first the swimming pool and then built out the White
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: House press briefing room trying to get them to like him.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: They didn't like Richard Nixon even before they knew about Watergate.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: They didn't like Richard Nixon. Never got any favorable coverage.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: You're not going to get favorable coverage as a Republican.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: And but you're not going to break any stories in
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: the White House press.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Pool.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: That's not where journalism happens. That's you asking a question
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: that everybody's already heard a thousand times, and then you
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: try to reimagine it in a new and unique way
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: that makes the president look even stupider. That's all this is.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: And I'll also point out there's 49 seats that go
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: into the White House press pool every day. So even
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: if you give each one of these outlets three seats,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: you just lost nine. There's 40 other reporters asking the
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: same stupid questions that nobody's watching. Just trying to get
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: their own airtime.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Not necessarily the president's answer or the press secretary's answer,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: just their airtime.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Correct. That is all this is. The real journalism happens
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: behind the scenes. That's where the questions of people around
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: the White House are asked. That's where stories are created.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump has been, without question, even Caitlin Collins says,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's the most accessible president in any of our lifetimes.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: He'll take a two-minute press conference meeting and turn it
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: into 45 minutes of going back and forth with reporters.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: And so when you reimagine what he says and you
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: say what he meant when he said this, how this
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: could be looked at in a very fascist way or whatever,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: that's why he's so infuriated. I told you what I meant.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not hiding anything. We had a callback earlier where
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: the person was saying Democrats are always lying about. Donald
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Trump's not lying. When he tells you I want Greenland,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: he wanted Greenland. Guess what he got this past weekend?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: He got Greenland. So Donald Trump tells you what he wants,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: and then he tells you why he wants it, and
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: then he goes and he gets it. And in the meantime,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: we've got idiots on the left, like I forget the congressperson,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: saying Donald Trump is committing violence against buildings because he's
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: trying to redo the East Wing. That's violence against buildings.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Other people would just call it a makeover. But he
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: calls it violence. He's a violent fascist who wants to
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: destroy our history by creating a ballroom. You are not
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: serious people. And if the media wants to report that,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: you're not a serious journalist. Ultimately, Donald Trump's going to
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: lose this. He's going to get sued. He knows it.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter because nobody gives a crap what CNN, MSNOW, Politico,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: or Fox, or Newsmax, or OAN is reporting from that time. branch.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what you say, because we just heard it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: We don't need you to interpret it for us. Just
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: put a camera up. That's all you need. A still
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: shot and let the microphones on. And the spokesperson will
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: say what the spokesperson says. There's never been a good
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: question that I'm aware of asked of a spokesperson on
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: either side. There's never been a great question of a
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: president that made me go, oh, wow, that's a really
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: probing question. It doesn't happen. So this whole fake charade
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: of people just clutching the pearls. Oh my gosh, he's
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: such a fascist. He just ended the media. There's literally,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not even exaggerating, 1,355 credentialed media members. 1,355. Do
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: you think the fact that we just lost three changes anything?
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: It doesn't. You still have a free media. They're not
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: a very good media, but you have a media. So-
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: There you go. If you want to cry over the
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: loss of the media, cry, but you didn't lose anything
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: this past weekend. And by the way, the three that
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: you lost are coming back very quickly. Very quickly, they'll
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: be back in the White House. All right, we'll take
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: a break. It is 7-11.
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: I am reading this story in the state newspaper, and
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: it's tied into Lexington, South Carolina, and it sounds like
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: a movie. And I'm wondering, does anybody in Lexington, South Carolina... No,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Samir Al-Sheikh, 74 years old. Does anybody know this guy?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Because apparently, according to the state newspaper, he split his
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: time between Lexington, South Carolina and Los Angeles, which is
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: a very bizarre way to split your time. But he
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: came to America under false pretenses, according to the district attorney, U.S.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: attorney's office, because he didn't talk about the fact that
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: he liked to torture people. And in 2018, when he
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: applied for his visa to come to the U.S. as
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: a lawful permanent resident, he did not. He concealed the
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: acts of torture and violence that he committed at Adra Prison.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: And apparently they brought out a number of witnesses who
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: suffered under this guy. And the descriptions in the state
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: newspaper are so horrific, I don't even want to talk
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: about them on the air. But like, for example, one
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: of them was, They just put you basically in like
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: handcuffs and hang you from the ceiling. And the guy
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: said he was left there for days and his arms
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: felt like they were going to fall out of his body.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: I can imagine. I mean, this is horrific what this
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: guy did. So he has now been sentenced to like
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: 60 years without the possibility of parole. In other words,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: he's a life sentence because I think he's like 70
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: something is what I just said. So, but. But Lexington,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: South Carolina, it just seems so random. Yeah, why would
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: he pick there to live?
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: I get that he was splitting his time with L.A.,
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: but I'm not sure why he decided Lexington County was
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: the place to hide. And he was hiding, in a sense.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be, I mean, I would love to have
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: some insights. If somebody in, I mean, we have a
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: big audience. Somebody in Lexington, are you listening? Have you
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: ever met this guy? What was he like? Did he
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: ever slip up and tell you that he was friends
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: with Basar Al-Assad or anything like that? Yeah, he was
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: a governor of a province there in Syria for a while. Yeah,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: because it said that after he left the prison, he
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: was appointed governor of the Syrian province of some unpronounceable name,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Deir el-Suzar, in 2011. And 2018 is when he decided
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: to try to move to the U.S. And I wonder
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: what made him decide to move here. Did he read
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: the writing on the wall that Bashar al-Assad was going
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: to probably be persona non grata pretty soon and He
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: actually lasted longer than I had anticipated, to be honest
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: with you. If you go back to, you know, Assad
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: using the chemical weapons and originally I almost believed Obama.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I almost believed him when he said, well, have you
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: ever used a chemical weapon on his own people? That'd
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: be a red line for us. I don't know what
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: a red, I thought I knew what a red line was.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: It turns out it meant that we're going to do nothing. But, uh,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: at the time I kind of believed it. And then
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: we had all this proof that Assad was using chemical weapons, but, uh,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I know Congressman Joe Wilson keeps a close eye on,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: he's very into that sort of stuff. And it's great
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: that we have Congress people and we had Lindsey Graham
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: that was into that. So we have in South Carolina,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: we have some people who really, this is like what their,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: a number one job is. And so maybe Joe Wilson,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: if he's listening, he could tell us a little bit
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: more about what's happening with this guy and how did
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: he end up in Lexington of all places. It's so
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: random that, and that is Joe's district would be Lexington
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: as well. So, But, yeah, I'm just, if anybody knows
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: that guy, would love to hear some stories about it
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: because I think that this would be a great Netflix movie,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: and maybe we can all get rich on that. Can
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: we all make a movie together? Let's do it. Let's
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: do it, SC Morning News crew. All right, it is
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: time for a break at 719.
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• 37:42
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• 37:50
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Darius. And who else we have there? Steve, Billy,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: several on Facebook, reaching out to me at Kelly Nash
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Radio with your thoughts and ideas. Appreciate those. And also
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: use the talkback feature if you can, because we prefer
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: to get your voice on the air. One of the
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: more frustrating things for me, Christopher, is politicians acting as
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: if they have an ability to do something wrong. which
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: is physically impossible. Physically impossible? Yeah, physically impossible. Like, for example,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: the idea that you could somehow prevent the spread of COVID,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: that was technically impossible. As long as there's wind and
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: human beings, that is going to spread. And we saw
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: that long before airplanes existed. You can go back to
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: 1918 and look at the flu and how it went
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: around the world. And killed hundreds of thousands, if not
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: millions of people, because the statistics were not very accurate
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: back in those days. But, you know, and we tried
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: the exact same thing with social distancing. And we had
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: it as far back, excuse me, so aggressive that you
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: had a San Francisco police officer, not surprising that even
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: then San Francisco was liberal, kill a person for not
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: wearing a mask. Because out of an abundance of caution,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: we have to kill you. So that's how they treated
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: it in 1918. But, you know, you come up with
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: these executive orders that are impossible to follow. So Friday,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom issued his executive order, and he's calling that
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: if you're going to develop AI in California, that one
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: of the things that you're going to have is a
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: kill switch, so that if it gets out of hand,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: we just push the magic button. And even the most
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: afraid of AI, what's that guy's name? Dario, I'm trying
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: to remember that guy's name. Dario Amodi, the CEO of Anthropic.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: said it's physically impossible to have that. It doesn't exist.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: It can't be created. AI can't figure out a way
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: to shut off AI. But now Gavin Newsom and his supporters,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: people like Ted Lieu, the dopiest, act as if, well,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: now this is responsible governance because we're ordering a kill
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: switch be implemented. It's not possible.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: They argued about this in Congress last week. And Rand Paul,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: who's normally, you know, a bit of an alarmist about
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: certain things, he said that that's not going to work.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. It's I can't even it's so stupid.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: I have nothing to compare it to. It's like just
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: saying we're going to shut off the power to the world.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: You don't have that ability. But just because you put
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: in an executive order and then there's people, you know,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: mainstream media acting as if Gavin Newsom just did something.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: You didn't do anything. Will he have the switch at
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: his desk? Yeah, it was like Donald Trump with his
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Coke button. With his Diet Coke button. Yeah, it just
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: presses the button. I, as Gavin Newsom, have said AI
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: has gone too far and just hit the button. Boom,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: it's all over. I just shut it down. I took
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: care of that for you, California and planet Earth. It's
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: just so ridiculous. If you have thoughts on that or
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: other things, maybe we'll go a little bit deeper with
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: the AI talk because everybody's talking about it. If you
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: want us to get into that or other subjects, please
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: feel free to use the talkback feature. Or like I said,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: you can hit me up at Kelly Nash Radio on
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: social media.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: It is 729.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: Morning News.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: All right. The chairman of the Chinese Democratic Party. Goodness gracious.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: That'd be a. That'd be a scary party to be
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: the head of, I would think, is saying that President
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Xi has suffered a mini stroke during the summit last
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: week and was forced to depart on a special plane.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot of people saw that video, Kelly,
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: last week. It was hard to tell what was going
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: on because they were focused on the Indian president. And
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: you heard something in the background. He glanced over and
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: said something like, is he OK? And then you just
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: saw a commotion in the background. You couldn't tell exactly
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: what was going on.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously. We'll never know what happened, will we? Probably not.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: The Chinese are never going to tell you nothing. But
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: we do know that he was scheduled to appear at
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: some event that evening and didn't show. And numerous, we'll say,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: social media journalists said that he left on a quote-unquote
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: special plane early yesterday. And this was at the BRICS
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Summit hosted by India. I think he was supposed to
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: actually do something with Putin at some point and was
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: unable to attend that as well. Now, the question becomes,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: will he be doing anything this week? I know that
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Scott Besant met with his Chinese counterpart, started that yesterday.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: This is all supposed to come together, I think, Thursday
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: of this week. But look, if the dude had a
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: mini stroke, I don't think he's coming. What do you think?
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Doesn't sound like.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: It, no.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're acting as if we're moving ahead. According
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: to this, Donald Trump's top trade official, Jameson Greer, will
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: be at J.P. Morgan's Chase headquarters in New York, a
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: prelude to the planned White House meeting on Thursday of
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: the leaders of the world's two biggest economies, both sides
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: trying to look to ease tensions on trade, technology, and
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: other strategic concerns. It sounds as if China's got a
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: much bigger problem as if their leader is going into
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell mode. If that's what's happening, if we have
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: to act as if everything's well when all is not well. Now,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: will we get a proof of life video sometime this week?
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: We didn't get that from Mitch McConnell. We got a
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: photo at one point and now we've had videos of
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell and some are still wondering, is he alive? Right.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, you hear reporters yelling at him and Mitch
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: McConnell is just frozen in place.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: And thankfully, I don't want to say, I don't want
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: to diminish the role of a senator, but thankfully he's
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: not the president.
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: And thankfully, and if you were living in a socialist,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: which is what the Chinese actually are, they're not communist,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: but they wish they were, but a socialist environment where
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: the leader of the communist party in China is Has
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: the power. There are no king's rallies in China because
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: he would all be wiped out. If you tried to
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: have a no king's rally, Xi would let you know
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: that that was not accepted. That guy is very important
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: to everything that happens in China, including what kind of
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: deals they're going to cut.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: And so now the State Department is studying every one
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: of his deputies and saying, okay, which one takes the
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: power if he's out?
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely. Yes. So there's this is going to be
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: a huge week. I feel like this is one of
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: those weeks because we've got we mentioned it to start
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: the show. Maybe we should go back and revisit this
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: a little more in depth. You've got Trump meeting right
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: now this week, early this week with leaders of Gulf nations.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: You saw he cut short his weekend, came back to
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: the White House. There was also Bibi Netanyahu was supposed
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: to be in Texas this weekend, cut that off, turn around,
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: went right back to Israel. And then there was reports.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: I tweeted it out on my account Saturday night. I'm
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: like a lot of people. I sit in misery for
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: a while looking at Gamecock Twitter. And when I say
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Gamecock Twitter, I don't mean the actual official Gamecock Twitter.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: I mean all the people that I follow who are
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Gamecock fans and just watching them go back and forth.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: And I made myself miserable looking at that. And then
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: I said, I got to go look at some other news.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: And so I have a list of conservative news outlets
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: that I look at. And it was talking about President
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Trump left Camp David early Saturday evening to return to
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: the White House. Iran has issued a code 100, which
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: it's its highest alert level for all armed forces. This
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: was around 10 p.m. on Saturday night. We also know
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: that Bibi Netanyahu cut off his trip and went back home.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: And at the same time. U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: strategic bomber, which they say was completely loaded with munitions,
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: took off from an Air Force base in England. So
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: it looked Saturday night like things might be escalating quickly.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know if somehow things got changed or whatever,
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: but I mean, this is going to be, I think,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: a huge week in America, in Iran's future, and possibly
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: China's future. So a lot to keep an eye on,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: which we're doing here. And if maybe you've got some
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: insights or thoughts on it, please use the Talk Back feature.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break. It's 739.
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 46:46
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• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Fresh new week of opportunities and Christopher Thompson. Last week,
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: we got a couple of talkbacks on the talkback feature
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: off the I heart radio app where people were complaining
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: that Darlene Graham was not out in about, but that
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: changes this morning. We're about 45 minutes away from an
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: eight 30 event this morning at the lizards thicket, West
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: main street in Lexington. Now she'll be there with Alan Wilson.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: And that's a, That's the first most recent one, obviously.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: And then she's not done after that. She's apparently going
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: to head to the upstate for a Republican women's luncheon.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: She'll be eating well. She's got the lizard's thicket for
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: breakfast and then the Republican women's luncheon. I'm not sure
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: exactly where that is in the upstate. It doesn't say
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: so in the story that I'm reading. And I don't
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: think that Alan Wilson attends that one as well. So
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: people who want to ask questions, and I'm sure the
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: press will be there.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: So we'll get to see more of Darlene Graham on
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: her feet today.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Well, I think Republicans were upset that, you know, they
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: see so much of Annie Andrews right now. A, she's
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: blanketing the state campaigning, but B, she's got ads running
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: everywhere too. And, you know, first the one where she's
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: a doctor and then the one where she's sitting with
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: her dad talking about family values and, and they were wondering,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: all right, what about darling Graham? Well, Graham was in
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: the Senate last week. The Senate was in session, so
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: she couldn't make any campaign appearances and she has not
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: started her campaigning yet, but it's coming.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And so we've got early voting a little less
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: than a month from now. So like we were talking
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: about last week, I believe that Annie Andrews campaign strategy,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: not that she shared it with me, but I would
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: think that as you're talking about this little window where
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: she can kind of go unchecked with independent voters, she's
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: trying to build a lead up where hopefully they'll pay
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: attention to her. and think, okay, she's mainstream. I can
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: trust Annie. She seems like a likable person. And then
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: the early voting starts October 19th, and she can bag
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: a lot of that early voting with Democrats, obviously, and
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: hopefully some independents for her. And then as it gets
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: really into the heat of the race in the middle
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: of October, end of October, early November, that she knows
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: that the lead, whatever lead she's able to build up
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: is not going to sustain. The question is, is, can
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Darlene catch her before the actual election day? It's an
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: interesting strategy.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: And I would like to see the Graham campaign get
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: a little more aggressive. And I think maybe we're starting
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: to see that today, but a little more aggressive with their,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: you know, media messaging, we'll say. buy some ads on
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: college football games and NFL games and things of that nature.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: So I'm curious, is any Andrew's money going to run
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: out before she gets to November? I don't believe so. Although,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: you know, look, they, they really believe Tallarico's got a
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: shot and they're, they're, Very hopeful that Al Sayed has
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: got a shot up in Michigan. They're very hopeful up
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: in Maine that they've got a shot. They've got to
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: hang on to that one. They've got to win Maine.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: But if they could win in South Carolina, if they
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: get any polling in the next month that shows that
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: she's got a shot, they're going to just throw a
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: ton of dough at this thing. True. I like that
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: because I don't think that she can win. I still
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: believe she's an eight-point underdog at this point. And it's
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: hard to make that up. And, again, I'll just remind
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: you when you're talking to your friends, a vote for
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews is a vote for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Warren and the most radical ones that are at the
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: top of the party because they are the ones who
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: get the power if the Senate was to go blue.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: So just something to think about. We've got to take
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: a break.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: It's 748.
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: All right, a little bit tight on time, so I'll
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: just kind of briefly go over what I think a
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: lot of people will be talking about today. Clemson. Clemson
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: has got a big game this week, Christopher, and it's
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: a Friday night game at, what, 1030 at night? That
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: is a crazy time to start a football game on
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: the East Coast. Now, again, they're playing out on the
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: West Coast, but they are going into that game as
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: a slight favorite, according to DraftKings.com. one-and-a-half-point favorites. And then
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: if you look at the South Carolina Gamecocks, not so good.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: At eighth-ranked Alabama. Yes, they enter, I think, at like
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: 14-point underdogs or something like that. It is not an
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: easy schedule for the Gamecocks, and that's a Saturday night game.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: So Friday night football, if you're willing to stay up late,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: and that is late, late. I mean, typically, what is it,
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: about three hours for a football game? Is that about right? Yeah,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: that's three and a half, usually. Three and a half. Yeah,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: West Coast game.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, the ACC, with its border-to-border... Yeah. And then
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: you've got these Friday night contracts, which I think they
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: were fools to agree to.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: But nonetheless, there they are. Yeah, it's tough. Clemson doesn't
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: have one every year, but they've got one this year.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: And what a road trip. And to your point, if
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: it's a three and a half hour game and it's competitive,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: if you're a Clemson fan, you're going to have to
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: stay up to like two in the morning. if there's
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: no weather delays and if it doesn't go into overtime,
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, again, a one and a half point spread
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: means it's a very competitive game that you're heading into
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: this Saturday. Yeah. This Friday, I should say Friday night,
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: 10 30. What a weird, I can't remember ever staying
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: up and watching a football game on a Friday night
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: like that. That's just so out of the, but I
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: guess everything's changing in college sports. So we'll see if
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: maybe Congress can step in with the Save College Sports
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Act that they're working on. Getting closer. Getting closer. Won't
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: solve everything. Can they save the Gamecocks? We need a
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: bill for that. Save South Carolina football. All right. It
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: is 755. Back with more after the top of the hour.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Christopher, I feel like the ACLU just wants to
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  Speaker 2: be a problem. I really feel this way about these people.
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  Speaker 2: What do they do now? Well, they're bringing a lawsuit
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  Speaker 2: against— who are they bringing it against now? South Carolina? They're
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: bringing it against the whole state, I guess? You know,
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: the South Carolina Elections Commission, about a year ago, had information, insights, apparently,
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  Speaker 2: that the then-director, Howard Knapp, may be involved in some
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: illegal activity. That was the suspicion. That was being turned
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  Speaker 2: over to SLED. They didn't feel comfortable with him. They
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: had a three, and now it was the three to
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  Speaker 2: two vote. It was pretty tight, but they decided to
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: fire him after a five-hour meeting behind closed doors. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the ACLU, that was last year. He's out on a $ 75, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 2: I forget the woman that was with him involved in this.
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  Speaker 2: There was another lady who, I remember she was charged
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  Speaker 2: with like, I think they called it wiretapping or something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she had left a recording device. She brought in a
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  Speaker 2: phone or something in there and was illegally recording people.
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  Speaker 2: But either that's neither here nor there. The point being
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  Speaker 2: that they didn't want to put that in the public.
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  Speaker 2: And so what they put in the meeting for the
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  Speaker 2: public to know is that personnel matters would be discussed
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  Speaker 2: behind closed doors. And that's fine if it's just personnel matters.
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  Speaker 2: But according to the ACLU, they're suing because it should
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  Speaker 2: have been known that who the personnel was when it's
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  Speaker 2: such a high ranking official. So if you want to
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  Speaker 2: meet about the director, then you need to put that
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  Speaker 2: in there. We're going to discuss the director's future, which
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  Speaker 2: obviously would have set off all kinds of bells. There
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: would have been all kinds of media scrutiny and all
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. And obviously they knew that they
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  Speaker 2: had a problem or they suspected they had a problem,
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: which is why they were going to have that meeting
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  Speaker 2: behind closed doors. And ultimately SLED did charge Howard Knapp
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  Speaker 2: with several crimes. And so why the lawsuit now? What
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  Speaker 2: good is going to come from this? Do you think
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have more open meetings about people that
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  Speaker 2: might be being arrested?
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  Speaker 3: Well, for starters, if it's personnel matter, you're allowed to
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  Speaker 3: do that behind closed doors. And it sounded like this
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  Speaker 3: started as a personnel matter. Once it reached the level
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  Speaker 3: of criminal charges, SLED got involved and it was all
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  Speaker 3: made public.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, you're right. This is rehashing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: nothing at this point. And it also alleges in their lawsuit,
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  Speaker 2: the ACLU of South Carolina alleges that the election commission
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  Speaker 2: did not provide proper notice about the contents of what
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  Speaker 2: that closed door session would contain, nor did it give
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  Speaker 2: NAP a chance to conduct an adversarial hearing in public
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  Speaker 2: and were polled about their decision before the public vote
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  Speaker 2: was held. In other words, the commission was like, are
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  Speaker 2: you going to vote against them? You are? Okay. And
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: you're going to vote against them? Okay. And I'm going
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: to vote against them. So you two don't matter. We're
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: going to go out there. We're going to vote to
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  Speaker 2: fire him right now, which they're saying you shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: done that. It should have been a big surprise to everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It also alleges that Dennis shed the former chairman of
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  Speaker 2: the election commission contacted members before the meeting and urged
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  Speaker 2: them to take adverse quote, adverse employment against Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Knapp.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Is that how you say fired him in a lawsuit?
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  Speaker 2: Adverse employment? Yes, adverse employment. Again, if Dennis Shedd, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know this, but it would sound as if
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  Speaker 2: he was saying, hey, he's stealing money. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: what he was charged with, right? I think that the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate charge was that he was stealing money. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: adverse employment would be a good recommendation if that was
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  Speaker 2: the case. Now, again, he's assumed innocent until proven guilty. And, again,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: courts take forever to go through these things. So I
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: know he was in court last month, I think it was.
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  Speaker 2: He's out on a $ 75, 000 bond right now. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll find out if he was guilty or not. But
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  Speaker 2: they had enough reason to– SLED had enough reason to
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  Speaker 2: believe that he was doing this. To charge him. SLED
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  Speaker 2: doesn't just jump out there and say, rumor's an innuendo,
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  Speaker 2: now you're under arrest. They usually have something a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more substantial than that. And so whatever that substantial
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  Speaker 2: evidence was probably was coming from the people voting on
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  Speaker 2: whether or not he should have adverse employment. Adverse employment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was accused of embezzlement and misusing what— wasn't
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  Speaker 3: he misusing a car?
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  Speaker 2: I think some sort of vehicle and that's, you know,
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: that's one of those tic-tac things I think where it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: he probably wasn't supposed to use the car to go
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  Speaker 2: to like a, you know, a family vacation or something.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the idea that even if it's just a
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: couple of hundred or a couple of thousand dollars that
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  Speaker 2: you were charging to the taxpayers or to the commission
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  Speaker 2: for lunch or dinners that weren't official business, that, that,
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  Speaker 2: that gets into that serious business type of thing. So, Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what happens with him. But again, the ACLU
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  Speaker 2: just wants to make South Carolina taxpayers pay for more
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  Speaker 2: lawsuits and drag us through this. This is not a
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  Speaker 2: fight worth having for the ACLU, unless your only goal
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  Speaker 2: is to just be disruptive and annoying. So if that's
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  Speaker 2: your goal, as always, commission accomplished, ACLU.
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  Speaker 3: Did they think because we're so concerned about election integrity
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  Speaker 3: that we're going to pay more attention to this lawsuit now?
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  Speaker 3: Because this has nothing to do... With election integrity.
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  Speaker 2: Not anymore. No. Of course. Yes, you're right, Christopher. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Again, the ACLU seems to just want to
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  Speaker 2: be a thorn in people's sides. I mean, I love
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  Speaker 2: the name of it. We're fighting for civil rights. Great.
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  Speaker 2: We're fighting for transparency. Fantastic. There are certain things that
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  Speaker 2: are stupid, and this is stupid, and you're annoying us now.
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  Speaker 2: So just chill on all that ACLU, but they won't.
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  Speaker 2: If you have thoughts on that lawsuit here that's going
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: to be bogging us down in the courts for a while,
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: or any other thing. We've got a lot of other things.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: We're talking about Iran. We're talking about China. We're talking.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: Did she have a stroke? My goodness. Are we going
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  Speaker 2: to absolutely obliterate Iran this week? That meeting's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Plenty of other things as well. It's 809.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: If you can remember the year 2022 in August of
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: that year, things got really ugly. at Mar-a-Lago on August
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: the 8th. Now, leading up to that, there was some
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: communication problems, apparently, because Donald Trump's people turned over, I
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: think it was in May of 2022, like 300 classified documents. Oh,
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: we didn't realize that you wanted those? Here you go.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: Then they came and they met with him. And he said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: is there more that you would like? And he said,
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  Speaker 2: help yourselves to whatever documents you think that I shouldn't have.
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  Speaker 2: Although he reiterated in that meeting, as the president, I
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  Speaker 2: have already declassified all of these. But if you'd like
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: to take some more, feel free. And they said, no, sir,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: just put a lock on the doors. Okay. So they
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: pulled a lock on the doors. So after all of that,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: 30 FBI agents come to the house and raid the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: property and And they found a grand total of, I believe,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: how many was it? Let's see if I could find
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: it again. Because it was like a shockingly little amount of,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: you know, what they classified later as top secret. They
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: went through 33 boxes, but I think they found like
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  Speaker 2: 13 documents. And so that was the whole thing. Okay.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: So ultimately, all said in total was 300 documents. But
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: that big FBI search, it was 11. I'm sorry, 11 documents.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: classified documents were found, according to the New York Times
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  Speaker 2: in August of 2022. Now, all of that was a
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  Speaker 2: big brouhaha. And obviously, to anybody who has any shred
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  Speaker 2: of decency, even if you hated Donald Trump, you would
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  Speaker 2: know that this was wrong, that this should have never happened.
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  Speaker 2: And you need to look no further than how Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden was treated when he had hundreds of classified documents
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  Speaker 2: out by the The Mustang? It was a Corvette or
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, whatever the vehicle is he likes
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  Speaker 2: to drive, I think it's a Corvette. Whatever it is,
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  Speaker 2: he had hundreds of those. And I wouldn't want the
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  Speaker 2: FBI to raid his house over that. Nor should he
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  Speaker 2: have ever had them because at no point was he
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  Speaker 2: ever the president at that point. And if you go
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  Speaker 2: back to when he took those things, he was a senator.
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  Speaker 2: He was not even the vice president when he took them.
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  Speaker 2: So that's, again, neither here nor there. But you know
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  Speaker 2: that that was unfair. Anyway, John Brennan is in a
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  Speaker 2: getting into a boatload of trouble over this and apparently,
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  Speaker 2: and his attorneys have been informed that there's two different
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  Speaker 2: investigations happening at the exact same time. One is more
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  Speaker 2: broad and one is a little more focused as to
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  Speaker 2: his involvement in this. And look, I'd, I'd be honest
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  Speaker 2: if I was John Brennan, I'd be very nervous right now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's already lost his clearance security, which is
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: not a really big deal. But the fact is it,
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  Speaker 2: You knew that the Steele dossier was fake. You knew
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: that because you wrote about it being fake. And then
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: you pushed that narrative that it was real. And then
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: you were able to get warrants based off of known
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  Speaker 2: fake evidence. That's a big problem. And then the fact
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: that you were also involved with the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation...
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: That is another problem for you. You've got this guy
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: should have all kinds of legal problems. And I think
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: that now you've got an administration that is like, you
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: know what? Nobody's really done this before. But if you're
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: going to drain the swamp, this is how we got
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  Speaker 2: to do it. It starts injustice. That's not a bad
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  Speaker 2: place to start.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I think that John Brennan is lawyering up as best
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: he can right now. But this does seem to align
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  Speaker 2: with what many of Americans have felt for a long
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: time was a long-running conspiracy to weaponize intelligence and law enforcement,
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  Speaker 2: not only against Donald Trump, but even against just regular Americans.
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  Speaker 2: So you've seen this play out for generations, it feels like,
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  Speaker 2: but it's really come to a head under Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And so... We're going to see what they can do.
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  Speaker 2: I mean– and he's still on MSNBC or MSNOW or
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  Speaker 2: whatever it's called.
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  Speaker 3: There's no scenario where we should see armed agents storming
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  Speaker 3: the place where a former president lives. That looks like
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  Speaker 3: something you'd see at a banana republic, not here.
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  Speaker 2: I do like the fact that they had to get, like,
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  Speaker 2: permission from the Secret Service.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, guys, we're going to try to look tough with
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: our weapons and stuff. Don't shoot us, though, because that
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: would be really bad. Yeah, it would have been bad.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: You could have had a bloodbath there. Sure. Federal agent
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: versus federal agent. Goodness gracious. But yeah, that was a
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: total clown show put on for one reason, which was
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: to eliminate the number one candidate even after the 2020 debacle.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Even after, I'll say, Donald Trump's miscues and suing to
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: try to get those votes back. That should have been
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  Speaker 2: handled in 2020 before the election, not after the election.
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  Speaker 2: But Donald Trump was still the frontrunner for the presidency.
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  Speaker 2: And Joe Biden, the Democrats, they knew it and they
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: tried to eliminate Donald Trump every way they could. They
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: indicted him like over and over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: And they spread lie and lie and lie about him
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: at a at a national level with all the authority
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: of the White House and the FBI behind it. And
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: it was all a lie the entire time. And now
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: it's I like the look, Donald Trump. He's not going
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: to let these things go. A lot of other people
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: would have let it go and say, hey, it all
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: worked out in the end. I'm the president. We're moving on.
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  Speaker 2: But not Donald Trump. And I think that that's important
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: because it might fix the problem for future presidents. for
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: future Republicans, because it doesn't seem to be a problem
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: for Democrats. But for future Republicans, I appreciate the effort
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: that's going into this. So it'd be interesting to keep
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: an eye on John Brennan. If you've got thoughts on Mr.
• 1:05:14
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  Speaker 8: Brian from Sumter here. The ACLU has always been a
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 8: thorn in the side of normal people.
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  Speaker 1: They take on the worst cases.
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  Speaker 8: They are so leftist and so communist that it's not funny.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think I've ever seen them once take up
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  Speaker 8: for conservative values or anything like that. It's always been
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 8: some type of leftist propaganda that they take up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm Brian. I appreciate it. Thank you. And
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  Speaker 2: I agree that they are comical almost, uh, to the
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: point of making me sad is how much they want
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: to sue. What would seem to be just normal behavior
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: out of government and, or just the general population. But I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm wondering, I feel like Christopher, I remember them suing
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: on behalf of some right-wing causes in the past. Um,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: and it's, you know, it's always surprising and it gets
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: them a lot of attention. Uh, But, oh, my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: I just put in ACLU defending right wing. First one
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: that comes up. Are you freaking kidding me? Which one?
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: They defended some neo-Nazis. And that's considered defending the right wing.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: Come on. And also Ku Klux Klan members. Get out
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: of here. That is not right wing. That's lunatics. And
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: you shouldn't be defending the Ku Klux Klan or the neo-Nazis.
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  Speaker 2: Did AI give you that answer? I guess it would be, yeah,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: AI overview. But anyway, look, I think I remember them
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: defending the NRA once or something like that. So there
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: are some examples, but there's just few and far between.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: By the way, I also just got a text message
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: from Joe Wilson. Indeed listening. Greetings from the New York
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  Speaker 2: General Assembly with the President of the United States. You
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: and Christopher, voices of common sense as I am in
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: communist craziness. So thank you, Congressman Wilson, for listening. We
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: appreciate you and everybody else who listens. And thanks for
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: all the talkbacks as well. Use that on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: It's 827.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if you saw the 60 Minutes
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  Speaker 2: special with Mr. Clancy. That was a heartbreaking look into
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: a real tragedy and tragedy. I got to salute the guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he, if you didn't see it and we
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: all know what happened to his three kids and there was,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that there was a moment when the
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: youngest looked like he may make it the baby. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He was alive when he got to the hospital and
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: he talks about, I thought he was going to make it.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: And then the doctors kept them alive, but they, they
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  Speaker 2: basically let him know it wasn't going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he said that, uh, He apologized to the, I mean,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: I want to cry just thinking about it. He apologized
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: to the baby for not defending him and he died
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: in his arms. And then he goes on to say,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: I had to forgive her. She talked about, it was
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: like in a dream and how you feel when you
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: wake up from a dream and your memories are a
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: little confused. And that's how Lindsay felt at the time.
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  Speaker 2: And I had to forgive her for my own sanity.
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  Speaker 2: She would, it would have eaten me alive if I
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: hadn't forgiven her. And then he goes on and talks
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: about how he sees all these headlines. At first, it was,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: you know, baby murderer and all that sort of stuff.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: And then it changed. And he was talking. about how TikTok,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: these people see, they get their, that is their news source.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: It's just people commenting on TikTok. They're not even commenting
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: on the news. They're just telling you the news and
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: then commenting on it. Their version of the news.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he says it's deeply harmful. Yes, it is deeply harmful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it started a lot of online rumors about his
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: involvement and how he treated his wife and wound up
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: tossing blame his way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there are probably millions of Americans who think that
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  Speaker 2: this guy murdered his children and then framed his wife
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: for it. Even the defense wouldn't dare dream up that
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: after having all of the evidence point to her, including
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: her own words. But more importantly, you know, text messages,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: search images, all of it goes back to his wife
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  Speaker 2: did it. So no sane person thinks that he did it.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could make an argument that he wasn't
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: supportive enough of her, although everybody would point out he
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: did everything he could include to have extended time off
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  Speaker 2: from work in order to stay home with her, to help,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: got hired a nanny, did whatever he could. Um, and
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: now people don't like him because he's moved on and
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: is married again and starting a new family, going to
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: start a new family. And, you know, his, his new
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: wife is talking about how difficult this has been. I
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: can't even imagine how difficult it's been. I can't either. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, again, salute to 60 minutes. They're, they're
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  Speaker 2: getting back to being the new show that was interesting
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: to Americans and didn't come off with a necessarily, uh,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: left or right leaning bias in the past. Although I'm sure, look,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: Don Hewitt was a liberal, but he did a good
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  Speaker 2: job of hiding it. And I'm sure all those reporters were,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: Mike Wallace, the whole crew, they were all leftists, but
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: they did a great job of hiding it. And they
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: understood the importance of journalism and the idea. And that is,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: we were talking earlier about, you know, did Trump end
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: the free press by kicking three news organizations out of
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  Speaker 2: the White House press briefings? Of course not. That's a
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous statement for anybody to make. You're going to have
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  Speaker 2: complete access to the president from a lot of liberal outlets, too.
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  Speaker 2: If you want the New York Times, the list goes
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  Speaker 2: on and on. There's going to be 40 other reporters
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  Speaker 2: in the room just for the press briefings. Never mind
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  Speaker 2: how much access he gives when he's walking to the
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  Speaker 2: helicopters and all these other things. He's just very frustrated
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: because he tells you what he's thinking, why he's thinking
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: what he's thinking. And then the press takes it and
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: twists it. But 60 Minutes has been horrible for a
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: decade or more. It's been a horrific disaster of a
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: news program and the ratings reflect it. And, you know,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: what's his name? Scott Pelley threw a hissy fit when
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: they hired a new director for the show. And Barry
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Weiss took over as director. CBS and she's the one
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: who made that decision. And he was like, you're murdering
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: 60 minutes. This is the best 60 minutes has been
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: in a decade or more. And Scott Pelley is not
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: missed for one second. His he's he I think has
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: been exposed as a fraud. For people who thought that
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: Scott Pelley was journalism, that he was the voice of truth,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: now you see what truth really looks like. We've had
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: back-to-back weeks of good shows at 60 Minutes that actually
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: showed truth. They've made interviews that were not edited like
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: that freaking ridiculous Kamala Harris interview that they did. Where
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: they left out key moments where she just went off
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: the rails. Exactly. Exactly. So I am very excited that
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: we have... I don't know if it's great journalism back,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: but we have a pretty good news outlet again in
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: 60 Minutes. And so I celebrate that and I encourage it.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: And I'm hoping that the CBS affiliates here are very thankful.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: That's what here locally, it's WLTX. And down there, is
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: it Live 5 in Charleston? Celebrate that. Let them know
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: that you appreciate the fact that you got some great news,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: national news stories and international news stories. I hope that
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  Speaker 2: that continues. So if you have thoughts on the 60
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  Speaker 2: Minutes interview, boy, that was powerful.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's... Hopefully none of us ever have to go through
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: what he went through. But if we ever do, just
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: think about the grace in which he's handled it. And
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: then the other stuff with the gosh, the tick tock
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: news crap. That's unbelievable that there are women just yelling
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: murderer at him when he knows the truth. And he's
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: forgiving the woman who did who took his three children. Oh,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: my gosh. All right. We'll take a break. If you
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• 1:13:44
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  Speaker 2: All right. I got the email a little while ago.
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  Speaker 2: I missed it. We mentioned that for those of you
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: who were upset last week that Darlene Graham was not
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: out and about meeting people, she is today. And as
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, about 15 minutes ago is when
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: that event started over at Lizard's Thicket in Lexington. And
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: that's on the 621 West Main Street. I don't know
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: when that'll go to, but that is a double whammy
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: because you also have Alan Wilson there. And he'll only
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: be at that event. Then later on today, after breakfast
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: at the Lizard's Thicket, she travels to the Poinsett Club
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: in Greenville. I bet you that's very Tony. probably a
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: ritzy place. Yeah. Gosh, yes. Greenville, this is the, I
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  Speaker 2: think the South Carolina Republican women or the, what is
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: it called? The, yeah, the upstate Republican women for luncheon.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: The ladies who lunch will have Darlene Graham as their
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: special guest today. But Christopher, you brought up the point
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: when we mentioned that earlier today, that the ad campaigns,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: the blitzes from the Annie Andrews side has been Pretty
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: intense to get this campaign season kicked off. And I
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: saw a story that started about three days ago. A
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  Speaker 2: new PAC called, I don't know if it's a new PAC.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: I'm not familiar. With Fresh Start South Carolina. Fresh Start
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina has just dropped a $ 2. 5 million ad buy
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: for Dr. Annie Andrews. I do like the fact that
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: if you dig a little bit deeper... I like this.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: The beneficiary of the group's spending is exclusively Dr. Annie Andrews,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: who has explicitly stated that her campaign rejects corporate PAC money.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: Fresh Start South Carolina operates strictly as an outside spending group,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: independent of the candidate's official campaign. Isn't that what all
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: PACs do? Yes, they have to. Yeah. So, no, you
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: don't reject. I would like for her to come on
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  Speaker 2: out and condemn this group of Fresh Start South Carolina
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: for spending $ 2. 5 million, which is pretty much untraceable at
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: this point. We don't know who's making these donations, George
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: Soros or whomever. in order to try to win a campaign.
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  Speaker 2: If you reject it, reject it. If you don't, if
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: you reject it for Darlene, then you're not really being
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: honest about it, are you?
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  Speaker 3: But she is blanketing the airwaves right now, and she's
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: going to need that money down the stretch, Annie Andrews is,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: because she's thrown so much at the beginning of this
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: campaign cycle, taking advantage of the fact that Darlene Graham
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: was in this, not only a heated runoff.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: But the original.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: Senate election on the Republican side, the primaries. I mean,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: it's been two boom, boom, back to back after she
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: just got into office. And then she's still trying to
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: deal with the Senate as she campaigns back here in
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Democrats certainly smell blood in the water because, I mean,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham, although she has the last name, Graham is
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: pretty much a political unknown in this state, as is
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews. So they have no name recognition on their own.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: And so it's really whatever the parties can create for
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: them here in the next few days. I mean, we
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: got early voting starting less than a month from now,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: October 19th. So here we go.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Get ready. You're about to get blitzed. Okay. It's a
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  Speaker 2: quick break and back with more. It's eight 47 live.
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  Speaker 1: From the state Capitol.
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  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: We did it. We own Greenland. We just bought it.
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  Speaker 2: It's over. Congratulations, USA. Go get some ice, extra ice
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: in your drinks to celebrate the purchase of Greenland. Actually,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: we didn't pay a thing, apparently. According to Reuters, Denmark, Greenland,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: and the United States will sign a deal tomorrow that
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: will put basically Greenland under the control of NATO, which
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: means us, because we run NATO. So the United States
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: now has military access that they've been trying to get forever.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: Trump said on Friday, it gives us permanent control. He
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: says things like that, and you're like, nothing is forever, Donald. But,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, for the foreseeable future, that's fantastic news because
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: we have been very concerned about China. I guess less
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: so now with Russia as Russia continues to struggle with
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: the Ukraine. But any enemy of the United States, it
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: would have been a better route for them to come
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: from the north. Because Canada serves as no buffer. You
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? So a tremendous defense asset right
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: off the bat. Yes. We're doing our part to help
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  Speaker 2: them too. I'm sure. Yeah. I'm sure. I mean, are
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: we defending Greenland? I don't think anybody would ever attack Greenland.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's 80% uninhabitable. It has no known assets
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  Speaker 2: really that they push out to the world. But it
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  Speaker 2: is stunning. If you look it up, what is Greenland
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: known for? World's largest island. It has an Inuit culture.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Danish autonomous territory. Stunning Arctic nature. And the
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: ironic Greenland named, it was named after Eric the Red,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: a Viking. He named Greenland as a promotional stunt to
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  Speaker 2: attract early settlers from Iceland. Like the people who were
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: in Iceland going, this is miserable. Wait a minute, what
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: is this new place? Greenland? Oh, I should go there.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: And it's way worse with the weather. But again, as
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  Speaker 2: far as a military setup location, if we could have
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: a military base there, or you don't even need a
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: base per se. You just need to be able to
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: shoot Rockets out of the sky. You need to be
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: able to stop any ships that are coming through that area. And, Kelly,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: there is oil there. I don't think we're touching that.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: I don't think we're touching it. My understanding is this
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: is straight-up NATO. And so... Again, we're not paying a nickel, apparently,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: for this either, which is ticking off some of the
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  Speaker 2: people in Greenland. Wait a minute. I thought you were
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: buying us. Aren't we all supposed to get like checks
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: like the Americans? Aren't the checks getting $ 5, 000? Maybe Trump
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: could figure out a way. If you can vote and
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: get every House and Senate seat to go Republican, we'll
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: give you $ 5, 000 each. But as of right now. No,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: you don't get that. You're still under the control of Denmark,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: but NATO will be overseeing the security of Greenland moving
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: forward as of tomorrow when they sign that deal. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about it back here on SC Morning News.