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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I Jesus right he yeah, SA America and.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
For one nation.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
In your name, and this is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Morning to you, welcome in. It's Tuesday, January twenty eighth.
Just about done with this first month of the new year. Wow,
that was quick. Huh, sixteen after six I appreciate you
waking up with us, or maybe enough for a while.
Like me, I'm Gary David. An hour early this morning,
I woke up.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
What what got you up that early?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I had no idea. It's like I went to bed
at earlier last night, just woke up and got up.
I'm talking about sleep that didn't work out? Yeah, why
bother that? Why sit there and just waste time in bed? Right?
Just get him and be productive. I guess. Well, I'm
not sure it was productive, but I got up anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Good for you?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
All right? That the voice there, mister Christopher Thompson came
wing to you, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm fixated on with the voice of Tyler. Ryan was
telling it rain if it's warm, yeah, we'll take it.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah. Well you don't agree. Well, no, but the well yeah,
rain later in the week, yes, yeah, it was good.
Not today? Yeah, no, oh, you know I'll take the
rain in the warm absolutely, yeah right.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I mean he's talking seventy and rain.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well Friday, could the National Wet Service is thinking maybe
his heightst Warman seventy five yes, wow, but yeah, rain likely,
but yeah, I'll tell you I'll take that and a
heart beat man. To quote the late great G Gordon, Lady,
we are stacked in packed today. Friends. Okay, we got
a bunch here. Let's quickly move through the rundown because
(01:51):
it'll take a while here. Lead story you heard Thomas
mention and just a tragedy. This goes back in number
of years when Gavin Guffey at seventeen years old killed himself.
Guffy the son of Brandon Guffey, a state representative. This
(02:14):
is one of these sextortion schemes and a twenty four
year old Nigeria now has been extradited from Nigeria brought
here to Columbia and he faces life in prison for
this sextortion scheme. He's posing as a as a as
a girl and the process was able to get some
(02:36):
you know lewd photographs from Gavin Guffey and then was
using them to extort him.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Good for our governments for working on getting that thug
out of there right and here where he'll face punishment.
And this is something our generation never faced. I mean, no,
this is a this is a New Years social media thing.
But it happens, and it happens all too often.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yes, it does. Unfortunately, so, uh, life in prison. Let's hope. Uh,
let's hope. That's that's that's that's what we see come
out of all this. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I guess the agreement was, well, we'll send him to you,
but you can't. You can't put him to death, right, Okay,
the next best thing, it's put him behind bars for
the rest of his days.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
All right. We have a South Carolinia in the cabinet,
Scott Bessen confirmed yesterday, the billionaire investor. Interesting dude, first
openly gay treasury secretary in this country and a guy
who was once a uh well a donor and a
supporter of folks like George Sorows, but no longer. Now
(03:39):
he's uh, he's all aboard the Trump train has been
for a bit. Uh. This is a this is an
important role we have a very important thing that the
Treasure Secretary needs to shepherd through Congress in this sometime
in this this year, and that is, you know, not
letting these tax cuts, these Trump era tax cuts sunset
and expire. Big deal. And Bessen will be a tasked
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with leading that charge. Well, it's getting interesting early. Nobody
has declared yet to run for governor in South Carolina,
but Nancy Mace is making a lot of noise. As
we talked about a couple of days ago, she told
the Associated Press that she was considering running for governor. Well,
she's making a tour across the state, so obviously she
(04:23):
is going to run for governor, right.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And that's the perfect way to describe it. She made
a lot of noise yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, she did make a lot of noise, and in
most of that noise was directed at her most formidable opponent,
who is not yet announced either, that is Attorney General
Alan Wilson.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
She made a little bit of noise at John Monk
of the State.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
John Monk of the State newspaper, who asked her about yeah,
does she does he support these J six pardons? She says, wait,
you're part of the legacy media, right, you're a dying breed.
Did I get that quote right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I mean she went on to name everything on her resume.
You know, I've been attacked, have been raped, and by
the way, your legacy media. I mean it was she
was just checking off boxes yes and never answered the
question no.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Making a lot of noise exactly. Okay, that's what Nancy
Mace does best.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Who but if she keeps doing that, who will take
her seriously as a candidate.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Well, I'm already having a hard time doing that from
the get go. That's just me, though, Wilson. Meantime, a
part of what some nineteen states attorneys say attorneys general,
I always get that. I always think that should be
attorney generals, But it's attorneys general. Okay, that's the way
it's supposed to be said. Who are warning Costco they
(05:38):
may want to rethink this. Costco recently coming out doubling
down on their DEI policies. Uh, These attorneys general calling
on Costco to end on all unlawful discrimination discrimination that
is imposed through these policies. Okay, Alan Wilson signing out
of that one right there. Meantime, our current governor Henry
(05:59):
McMath says he's not talked to President Trump about deportation
operations yet, but says we here in South Carolina will
do whatever we are asked to do. We got more
news on that front coming up. Our state's Department of
Education is well had a lawsuit filed against it, says
it has been censoring a racially inclusive has been censoring
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that is racially inclusive education for all public school students,
and the claim is that's an in violation of the
US Constitution. This lawsuit filed by the Legal Defense Fund
just yesterday. Now, I don't know that we're here here yet,
but in some parts of the state, the Low Country
in particular, the price of eggs now is hit as
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high as nine dollars a dozen. Nine dollars a dozen. Wow.
You go back to December of twenty twenty three, a
dozen great eggs sold for US for four point fifteen
a dozen that same are now nearly nine bucks. Of course,
bird flu is to blame.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And you see certain grocery stores saying they can't keep
them on the shelves.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, they're having a hard time keeping them. Yeah, and
don't expect this to change anytime soon. Apparently, all right, boy,
I don't even know where to begin. When I talk,
you know, you go to what is happening with the
Trump administration. The announcement yesterday morning that Trump is reinstating
with back pay thousands of military members who were discharged
(07:26):
for refusing the COVID shot. He is signed an executive
order to begin creation and construction of an iron dome
over this country, much like the one that exists in
the Israel. Defends Secretary Pete Hegzeth arrived at the Pentagon
on his first full day of work, laying out his priorities. Meantime,
(07:46):
the Justice Department has fired or Trump has fired prosecutors
in the DOJ who helped prosecute him, and a number
of senior aides for the US Agency for International Development
placed on leave this over what appears to be an
(08:08):
alleged effort to thwart some of the president's new executive orders.
At least fifty six of these senior officials on leave already. Meantime,
we got more news to talk about on the immigration front,
Trump moving to deport nearly one and a half million
migrants that were admitted under Biden's parole programs. Selena Gomez
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with her now infamous meltdown over deportation of illegal aliens,
and Tom Holman's response to that was certainly notable.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
She rates that pretty quick or she deleted it pretty quickly.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, and she didn't even have her fax right. Of
course she's a celebrity. Of course she didn't have her
facts right. Okay, today's Tuesday, tomorrow. What we got RFK
Junior tomorrow right, full Senate confirmation hearing in vote. Then
Tulca Gabett on Thursday. Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana guy
who has such a way with words, well pretty straightforward
(09:02):
when he said the Gabbard, he says he thinks she's
in the most danger of not getting confirmed by the Senate.
And wow, what a crazy day yesterday with this release
of this Chinese AI app, Deep Seek, the tech stocks tumbled.
In Vidia, I'm just about set a record for how
much their stock lost yesterday. I don't know too much
(09:22):
of that. I do want something, but not too much, thankfully.
But what is this Chinese AI app? And it's apparently
already getting hacked. But this startup isn't a game changer?
Well we know it's controlled by the Chinese government because
it won't answer basic questions about like you know, t
in them and square and things like that. All right,
we'll get to that. More coming up. Yes, there's more
(09:44):
on this the Tuesday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Thank you for being with us, the hottest talk.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
The reason I'm calling here. I believe that we're all
laved here working for the government.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
One on three point five FM and five six AM
w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David
and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM
and five sixty am w VOC six.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Forty two and more Antelia for Tuesday, January twenty eighth.
How quickly they forget, although in this case it wasn't
a question of forgetting, it was a question of not
even really bothering to notice. So, you know, a week ago,
we had, I mean just all these pardons. You know,
it started with with Joe Biden, and well I started
a while back with Joe Biden. But then you know,
(10:34):
on his literally on his way out the door, you know,
probably heading to the podium of the Trump inauguration. Yeah,
he pardons his entire family and then quickly followed up
then by Trump pardoning some fifteen hundred or so. Not all,
but but but most of all of the of the
j six participants. Maybe Trump should have waited a little bit.
(10:59):
Let's the media stew on the Biden partons, because if
nothing else, he gave them cover to forget about those
and talk about his But did they even talk about
Joe's The media research centers got the numbers, and it
won't shock you. We're talking about the three letter networks here, ABCCBSNBC.
(11:22):
Let's see here, during a forty eight hour period after
Trump's inauguration, those three networks spent a total of forty
six minutes and thirty two seconds talking about Trump's partons
forty six minutes, thirty two seconds. Joe Biden's pardon of
his family members got three minutes and thirty two seconds
(11:46):
worth of coverage. Yeah, so thirteen times more coverage was
given to the Trump's partons and we're to Biden's. Okay,
I know that doesn't shock you, right, No, not at all.
Both were newsworthy events. Absolutely, I'm not, you know, knocking
(12:12):
them for spending so much time on the Trump partons,
But my goodness, did the Biden partons even exist? For ABC,
NBC and CBS not much, not much. We were talking
about this yesterday morning. I think at the same time segment,
how when it comes to the economy, some people are
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going to be unfortunately disappointed when you know, things don't
turn around right away. I'm liking it to, you know,
trying to turn the Titanic, maybe even after it actually
hit the iceberg. Well, Democrats understand this, of course they do.
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Elizabeth Warren one of a number of Democrats now slamming
Donald Trump for not making good on his promise to
immediately lower food prices. Truth of the matter is, he
probably shouldn't have said immediately. There's no way you're going
to do that immediately. He knew it, you know it,
(13:15):
I know it, Elizabeth Warren knows it. But hey, why
did a good crisis go to waste? Huh? So? Yeah,
here comes a letter from Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats
addressed to Trump, accusing him of backtracking on a campaign
promised to lower supermarket bills starting on day one. You
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repeatedly promise you'd lower food prices immediately if elected, but
during your first week of office, you've instead focused on
mass deportations and pardoning. January sixth, attackers reads the letter. Okay, well,
(13:57):
I would say, Elizabeth, golly, y'all the folks who've got
to send us mess to begin with, you didn't get
us out of it. But on the street, on Main Street,
what a folks think, what a businesses think? Well, the
new survey from the National Association for Business Economics the
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majority of their members eighty two percent now putting the
probability of a US recession at twenty five percent or
lower over the next year. That's right, twenty five percent
or lower. This is quite a big increase from this
just this past October, when only fifty six percent thought
the probability of the US recession was at twenty five
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percent or lower. So, you know, just Donald Trump winning
the election changed a lot of minds. Now we'll see
how it goes. But again, it's good to have some
faith back restored for our businesses, especially our small business
owners who've been through the ringer now for quite some time,
(15:05):
starting with COVID. So that's good news.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
There. You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
three point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
It's coming up on sixteen minutes after seven o'clock. Good morning,
and good to have you along for Tuesday, January twenty eighth.
We'll make no mistake about it. While she says she's
four to maybe eight weeks away from deciding whether or
not to do it, Nancy Mays is going to mount
a run for governor of South Carolina. Her actions over
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the past couple of days would certainly indicate that. Making
the Rounds held a presser yesterday she was in town
here head of a Richland County Republican meeting, and well,
I'm saying she's traveling the state next couple of weeks
to explore the potential. Okay, and then everything after that
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made it pretty obvious she has all all designs on
running for governor. As we mentioned this in the rundown,
she was, uh, well, Nancy May makes a lot of noise,
no matter what it is, no matter what the topic is,
she makes a lot of noise.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And because of that, and I questioned this a couple
of weeks ago, it's why would she want to step
off the national stage where she's on Fox News every
week and you know it's a bigger position with more
leadership potential than being the governor. But I think she
gets a bigger spotlight where.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
She is and she enjoys that spotlight.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yes she does.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
So yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
But hey, you know what I well, she uh, as
you mentioned, she was was checking off all the boxes. Yes,
today she had some words with John Monk over the
state newspaper.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Well, he asked about pardoning January sixth, folks, and she
went into her you know, her rape story, her being assaulted.
I mean, she was just going through her entire resume
of the things that she talks about whenever she does
get the national spotlight and didn't answer the question.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Didn't answer the question, and told Monk that he was
part of the legacy media which is dying. That part's true,
so answer the question. Well, she did not answer the question. Now,
I did see some data last week, and I haven't
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seen the poll yet, but apparently it's been some polling
that maybe it's internal. I'm not sure that of. You know,
here's what up until Mace starting to make noise on this.
You know, Alan Wilson, most people think he'll he'll he'll
make a run. Pamela Abbott, Hey, listen, I like Pam Evitt,
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you know I do. But I think that's a challenge
right there. How many South Calians can pick pamel Evit
out of a crowd.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
She would definitely have to elevate her profile.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, it'd be tough, smart, smart woman, good business person,
but doesn't really have that that that level of you know,
a notoriety or people just don't really know much about her. So,
but the polling that I have seen, uh some data
(18:45):
last week was indicated that, yeah, Alan Wilson, Nancy Mace
or the top of the heap. So Mace is going
to come after Wilson right away, and she did that yesterday,
saying that Wilson has no business and even thinking of
running for governor. She says, says he's not done anything
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for women and girls. Hmm uh, well, I think he's
signed onto a number of things, like you know about
men and women's sports and such. She says, I will
take him out. I will personally make sure that he
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is never governor of South Carolina. Now that that sounds
personal right there to me, doesn't I'll take him out.
She's not even said she's going to run for governor yet.
But still she'll she'll take him out, she says, and
personally make sure he's never governor of South Carolina. Okay, Well,
the response from Wilson's press secretary, any statements that he
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hasn't protected children or victims of sex crimes is blatantly false.
And yes, it is blatantly now you know again in
total transparency here you know, I'm I'm I'm friends with
Alan Wilson. Uh, that doesn't get in the way of
(20:16):
of you know, the way I see this ray shaping
up here. But but Nancy Mace is she's a wild card.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Yeah, forget Alan Wilson, take him out of the equation.
Nancy Mace has always been looked at, well, she's crazy,
but she's Charleston's crazy.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I don't which is a whole nother kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
By the way, I don't know that the I don't
know that the state of South Carolina is ready for
her and ready for her tactics. And I mean, if
this is how her campaign is starting, if this is
how she's launching, good luck.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Well she's seeking and without this she's dead in the water.
And that's the approval of the endorsement of Donald Trump.
So she's well, she's always been somewhat trumpy in anyway
in her approach, but she's going to try to amplify
that and magnify that now to get Trump's attention.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And again, I don't understand. You have a much better
chance of it staying in Washington, I would think, I agree.
Maybe maybe she looked over and saw Marjorie Taylor Green
and thought, all right, well, she's already cornered the kookie
on southeastern congress women. So maybe I've got to go elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Oh. I don't know, man, I don't know. Well, whenever
I think of Nancy Mace's governor, and I mentioned this
the other day, I just think of, you know, Mark
Sandford taking the pig to the steps of the state House,
you know, a stunt. Yeah, And I don't know that
that's what we need here in South Carolina. Again, she
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she'll certainly have her her supporters, no doubt about that,
But I don't know outside of Charleston. And remember, it
wasn't that long ago before they redrew the lines. Wasn't
the case in twenty twenty four, but in twenty twenty two,
I mean it was you weren't real sure she was
gonna make it so, I you know, so even in
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her home district there, certainly she has her attracted out. Again,
that was a more Democrat. It's a it used to
be a heavier leaning Democrat district than it is right
now with a redraw of course. But yeah, I don't know.
I don't, I don't. My sense is is that across
the state and listen, you know, this is what we do. Okay,
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we're involved in this. We watch it. You do too,
But you know, the average South Carolinian, other than the
fact they may see her on TV every now and then,
do they really know much about Nancy Mace.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
The problem she's a smart woman and she's accomplished a
great deal in a short time.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I'm not gonna take that away from her now.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
The problem is every time you do hear about Nancy Maces,
she's playing this character instead of you know, talking about
policy or making you know, these making any inroads into
what South Carolinians need or want.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
We'll have to do this, We'll have to go back
and look and see. Okay, what what bills has she
gotten through in Congress? You hear about her all the time,
but do you hear about her for that reason. Well,
we're we're a long ways out, but this gooop Patrol
campaign is going to be ramping up quickly. It would
appear talking.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
About gotta keep talking, the good job, the stuff that matters.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I think I've been listening to y'all in the eighteen
year plus.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
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Speaker 4 (23:56):
It's seven forty one. Good morning and good to have
you a long for Tuesday, January twenty eighth. Week a
two back, we were talking about some talk over the
state House of increasing the of the liability laws so
when it comes to bars and restaurants overserving individuals who
then go out and get in accidents and hurt or
maybe even kill someone. And I was curious at the time, Well,
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we how does this work, because you know, we already
have a party of lawsuits when that sort of thing happens. Unfortunately,
we have one of the worst d u I death
rates in the country. Well, a state representative of MIKEA.
Caskey is joining us now representing the eighty ninth district
over in Lexington County, and we hope to get an
update from you, sir on this. Thanks for joining us
this morning. We appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Oh, good morning Gary, thank you for the invitation.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
To be with you. Absolutely so, how do we already
it's you know, you can sue a bar or a restaurant
for overserving someone. What exactly in this legislation would how
would it change that, how would it strengthen that?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Or you could make a pretty good case that our
laws are already pretty good at being able to sue
someone in the event that you were injured because someone
was overserved. And in fact, the argument that we're dealing
with is that our laws are too good, if you will,
because there's too much litigation on that front. And combined
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with the change in our law back in twenty seventeen
that required bars and restaurants who serve alcohol after five
PM to carry a one million dollar policy that the
insurance world is saying, look, we can't stay in business
doing this. They're exiting the market or at least driving
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up premiums to unsustainable levels according to a lot of
bars and restaurants, and so the concern in the fight is,
how do we fix this whole system so we continue
to balance people people's ability to be made wholes they're
an injured victim. Will also make sure that we protect
our small businesses.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And it's got my other question, because yeah, that has
been We've had a lot of establishments go out of
business as a result of that twenty seventeen law, which
I guess was obviously not the intent, but that's the result.
And it seems like, yeah, at first glance, as I
was looking over this, that this would even you know,
make it more difficult than the stay in business. But
you say it's to kind of tie that up a
(26:22):
little bit, So maybe we're going the other way from
what well I.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Think, Yeah, Well, what we're trying to do is make
sense of all the noises that's out there right now.
Because what happened was last year the House passed a
bill that addressed some of this. The Senate never took
it up. But what we did pass between both bodies
was to have a study committee. What else can you
do in a legislature other than pass a bill to
(26:46):
have a study committee. Yeah, but as we've gone through
that study commit committee process, and the Speaker most disappointed
me to it was to find out a lot of
things that are a little bit unsettling, if I'm being
honest with you, particular with respect to what do we
actually know about our situation in the state right now.
The Department of Insurance collects a lot of information, not
(27:07):
all that's particularly useful when you want to ask questions like, hey,
what is the rate of bars closing? Is that higher
or lower than normal? And that pictures a little unclear.
The Department of Revenue can give you some information about
liquor liability or excise me, liquor licenses, and that tells
a tough picture. And then you hear from local bar
and restaurants and they're telling you about premium skyrocketing, and
(27:30):
it's really hard to make sense of where things are.
But we do know a couple of things. Department Insurance
has got to get better at doing their jobs. We've
got to tighten our DUI laws, and then we've got
to figure out a way to balance the concerns again
between the injured victim and the small business. And fortunately,
there's some other states that have I mean, fortunately is
(27:50):
the wrong way to frame it. But Alabama, Vermont, DC
they've experienced a similar thing, but they seem to have
found a way out of it. And that's really where
the conversation is now, is what out of what out
of there can we take a lesson from to improve
our situation.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Yeah, certainly we don't want to let anybody off the
hook when they're guilty of having done this. But sometimes
maybe it seems like maybe it goes a bit too far.
But so is in Study Committee right now. This is
what's working on. I mean, what happens from here? Do
you think?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Do you think we have at least one more I
anticipate today this afternoon will be the last Insurance Study
Committee meeting. I've seen the draft report, which isn't terribly exciting.
It's really minutes of the meetings we've had over the fall,
and from here the respective chambers will sort of huddle
up and figure out how they want to approach this issue.
(28:45):
I anticipate the Senate will move forward with a bill
that tends to be broader in scope than just the
alcohol liability issue, and I think that the House will
will look to put together some legislation that is again
focused really on the intersection of the insurance companies the
Department Insurance and our local bars and restaurants. And I
(29:09):
think it's probably just because of the way the two
bodies tend to think about things, and the House is,
you know, here's the problem. Let's get a government solution.
Or if the government's going to have a solution, it
should be as narrowly tailored as possible. Right, And sometimes
there are friends in the Senate they like to think
real big and so that's not always as practical.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
So it's a balancing act, obviously with well obviously severe
ramifications for on both sides of this. All right, good, well,
thanks for clearing that up. I appreciate that because I
think I was looking at this the wrong way maybe
when I first heard of it. But we'll stay in
touch and figure out where things go from here. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Absolutely appreciate the opportunity. Happy to come back anytime.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
We'll certainly do that. Represented Michael Caskey shedding a little
more light on that. So it's a study committee and
we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Sixteen minutes after eight o'clock and morning to you. Okay,
total confession time here, but one of the few times
in my life I don't even know where to be at.
How do you keep up? I had this conversation with
Kelly Nash this morning before he came on the air.
He said, Man, there was so much news coming out
of the White House. I can't even keep up with
(30:32):
it all. It's kind of hard to keep up with it.
You talk about a flurry of activity, Man, wow, but
yesterday alone, well let's start here, uh, Trump reinstating thousands
of military members who were kicked out for refusing the
(30:53):
COVID shot. Now, this would have not this never would
have happened, and Trump not won this election. So all
these folks who have sacrificed not only them but their
families to serve our country, and some with years and
(31:15):
years and years of experienced in the military forced to
leave because they didn't want to take a COVID shot. Well,
COVID used to have a case pop up here and there.
I know, but COVID has been gone for a.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
While now, and at a time where we're having trouble
meeting our recruiting numbers.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
And this is something that Joe Biden would have never
envisioned doing. Why not? Why not? So he signed that
executive order yesterday. Again, this is another campaign promise, you know,
promises made, Promises capped. Now, there were a number about
(31:56):
twelve hundred all told who reports were able to to
secure exemptions, but Pentagon record show that three thousands. I
want to give you exact numbers because it's important. Three thousands,
seven hundred and seventeen marines, one thousand, eight hundred and
sixteen soldiers, and two thousand and sixty four sailors were
(32:17):
discharged for refusing that vaccine. So reinstated, apologized to said
Pete Heggsath yesterday, the new Pentagon secretary. They will be reinstated,
reinstituted with pay and rank. Thank you. Someone may say
(32:40):
I'm not going back anyway, I mean whatever, but still uh.
Trump also signing an executive order yesterday to construct an
iron Dome for the US, called it a top priority.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Remind you of Ronald Reagan sweeping into office and talking
about Star Wars, right, remember that, and immediately the Soviet
Union took notice.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Again. Trump had said that this was a project that
was on his radar, and we're gonna do it. Interesting left.
Trump even reference Ronald Reagan, saying that, yeah, yeah, the
whole star way was he was interested in doing that
during the Coldord, but we didn't have the technology. Well
we do now you've seen it. You've seen it at
(33:33):
action in Israel and it works amazingly well, so an
iron dome. There's that. Uh. Trump is also signed an
executive order addressing transgender troops and DEI in the military.
One directive of the orders was potentially banning transgender service members.
(33:57):
Trump did ban them from serving when he president back
in twenty seventeen. That was repealed, of course, by Joe
Biden in twenty twenty one. What else, Oh, Lawyers, prosecutors
inside the Department of Justice who were involved in Trump prosecutions,
they're looking for new jobs today as they've been let go.
(34:21):
At least fifty six senior officials in the top Usaid
Development Agency this is the US Agency for International Development
placed on leave yesterday as an investigation going on into
alleged efforts by these individuals to thwart Trump's the orders. Okay,
(34:46):
Trump's executive arder last week directed a sweeping ninety day
pause on most US foreign assistants. That's handed out to
the State Department. But there's an investigation going on that
some were trying to work around that. Okay, dude ain't playing, man,
(35:07):
dude is not playing. And when it comes to the border,
not playing that. We are seeing now more and more
of these ICE raids in big blue cities all across
the country. DHS announcing that ICE can deport foreuns who
are allowed under one of Biden's parole programs. Now, so
Trump making a move. That's about one point four million
(35:28):
migrants who were admitted under Biden's parole program. ICE is
looking for them, and of course they're first up, first
order businesses to remove the criminal, illegal element. And Tom
(35:49):
Holman speaking of people, he ain't playing, Tom Holman, you
gotta love this guy. This Seleni Gomez video comes out.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
She's crying and she's a well known public figures, so
she got a lot of attention. Sure yeah, and she's Hispanic.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Yeah. And you could barely make out a word she
was saying because she was bawling so hard about families
and kids being removed home. I'm so sorry. I wish
I could do something.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Well Home people, She said, my people, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yeah, home and having none of that, saying, well, we're
her her tears for the hundreds of thousands of US
who Americans who have died from fentanyl coming across that border,
saying he's met with hundreds of angel moms and dads
(36:35):
separated from their kids because they buried them after they
were killed by illegal aliens. We got a half a
million children who are sex trafficking into this country, separated
from their families, put in the hands of criminal cartels,
and the Biden administration couldn't find over three hundred thousand.
Where are the tears for them? Yeah, don't play this
(36:56):
game with Tom Holman. Don't even think about it. By
the way, the numbers don't lie. Numbers in from Sunday
from border patrol, fewer than six hundred people crossed illegally
on Sunday, Fewer than six hundred. Even in the final
days of the Biden administration, after they supposedly cracked down,
(37:20):
the numbers were between twelve hundred and fourteen hundred per day,
So they've been cut in half. Matter of fact, first
three days of the Trump administration you had about the
same number you had and maybe one day under the
Biden White House. And oh, by the way, we were
liking it, Harry int and over at CNN, their senior
(37:42):
data reporter detailing yesterday how significantly Americans have shifted towards
trusting Republicans over Democrats when it comes to immigration. Said,
you go back to April twenty seventeen, Democrats held an
eleven point advantage over Republicans when it came to gration. Today,
(38:03):
Republicans hold a twenty two point advantage over Democrats when
it comes to immigration. So, yes, we already knew this
because the American people spoke at the ballot box on
November fifth, in the week's leading up to it. We
don't need your analysis, Harry, but that's fine, we'll take it.
Thank you. Where this spirit of America lives off day
(38:24):
every day we've spoke each other and where we're coming
from and.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Learned from each other. One O three point five FM
and five sixty am w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning
News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one O
three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
It is eight forty and this is this is gonna
be one of those days there's gonna be stuff left
on the cutting room floor. I apologize for that, but hey,
let's uh, let's quickly run down some some closing thoughts
here this morning. First up, I mean hats off kudos
to the FED authorities who were able to track down
the person they say is responsible for the suicide death
(39:07):
of seventeen year old Gavin Guffey. You remember this case
or not, but this states back twenty twenty two, when
Gavin Guffey at seventeen committed suicide. He was a victim
of sex stortion. His father is State Representative Brandon Guffey,
(39:30):
and I can't begin to imagine the grief that his
parents will feel for the rest of their lives. But
they were able to track down a now twenty four
year old from Nigeria who was posing online as a
female and convinced Gavin Guffey into sending pictures and use
(39:56):
them to extort him, and go as far as to
include that's saying the thing that threats of exposures will
only hurt him but would end his father's career. So
this Nigerian now has been extradited. He was in a
courtroom here in town yesterday and he is facing life
in prison.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
He kept up the messaging after after yes, it is
a suicide. I mean he was trying to milk the
family for anything he could.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Yeah, and this was not the only time he did this.
His cell phoned that they got a hold of had
the names of ten other alleged sextrs and victims, six
of whom were miners. Wow, South Carolina has, oh, somebody
(40:50):
in the cabinet. Scott Bessant was confirmed yesterday as Treasury Secretary. Interesting, dude, Bassant,
uh will be the first openly gay person in the
role of Treasury secretary. And this is a guy that
was once a supporter and a donor to George Soros.
(41:14):
Here what you mean, the devil himself. Well, he's had
a change of heart over the years and he's yeah, yeah,
and his UH is his big time on the on
the Trump train. Now he's got a very important role
because as Treasury Secretary, he'll be tasked with shepherding through,
(41:38):
you know, getting these Trump tax cuts which are set
to expire at the end of the year, to get them, well,
not expire at the end of the year. We need
that to happen big time. Now, I don't pretend to
know to be an expert on such things. But boy,
it was crazy yesterday to watch Wall Street, not the Doubt.
(42:00):
The Dow was up, the SMP was down, some of
the Nasdaq. It was a blood bath yesterday. This all
because China released a new app, a new AI app
called deep Seek. This is a company apparently it's been
around for about a year, and it quickly claimed the
(42:24):
top spot as the number one free app in Apples
app Store. They head of open aiyes Chat GPT. They
claimed they developed this in just a month or so
at very little cost, so they claim, And this just
(42:46):
set the tech world on us here yesterday again for
no other reason than the fact here that we've been
trying to work to stay ahead and get ahead in
this arena. Now, I don't think you can believe the
Chinese and what their claims are and how quickly developed
this and for how cheaply they did it. But it
(43:08):
caused a pig melt down on the on the tech
stocks in the NASDAC yesterday. But I don't know if
you've seen this thing. People were asking you questions about
the Chinese government. Now ooh, we got tight.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Lip then whip CNN square.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
Yep, no answer, no answer, got no answer for you there. Yeah.
So well, apparently the problem was they claim in a
paper there wrote last month and they trained this thing
with less than six million dollars worth of computing power
from what it claims were two thousand in Vidio chips,
(43:45):
which is, if true, incredibly cheaper than what has been
sunk into things like chat GPT, and that just it
sounded like a game change at the Wall Street. Wow,
they can do whoa in vidiostoc trup like what seventeen
percent yesterday? I think the guy that controls the CEO
(44:10):
of eighteen billion dollars on paper in one day.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Yeah, wow, I mean that's that's one of the big
questions right now. It's okay, if you get these AI programs,
you know, how are they trained?
Speaker 4 (44:27):
And what results are you gonna get?
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
And what results are you gonna get? And do you
owe anything to you know? McCartney. Paul McCartney brought this
up the other day. You know, he's asking Great Britain
to protect the Beatles and his products against AI using
it to train because who's to say, you know, they
can't ingest you know, sixty or seventy Lenna McCartney songs
and then write songs like McCartney. I'm sure, sure, I'm
(44:52):
sure it's possible. So he's asking for protection from the
government against AI using his products, his licensed product to train.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
Well, you know what, this cow's out at the barn
now man, And I, for one, I have very little
faith at all that any government, any well seeking government,
can rein it in. We're in a whole new world now,
a whole new world. And two California Democrats yesterday unveiling
(45:21):
a bill did they say would allow insurers and policyholders
affected by the LA fires to sue major oil corporations.
This is so California. They say that the old companies
must atone for the fires and stabilize California's faultering insurance
(45:42):
mar because they blame climate change on big oil, and
because of that they've got all these.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Wild That's a roundabout approach.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
Right, totally ignoring their lack of preparation in anything else.
But no, let's blame it on big oil. Let's sue
them courts.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Fine,
I Jesus right he yeah, SA America and.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
For one nation.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
In your name, and this is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Morning to you, welcome in. It's Tuesday, January twenty eighth.
Just about done with this first month of the new year. Wow,
that was quick. Huh, sixteen after six I appreciate you
waking up with us, or maybe enough for a while.
Like me, I'm Gary David. An hour early this morning,
I woke up.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
What what got you up that early?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I had no idea. It's like I went to bed
at earlier last night, just woke up and got up.
I'm talking about sleep that didn't work out? Yeah, why
bother that? Why sit there and just waste time in bed? Right?
Just get him and be productive. I guess. Well, I'm
not sure it was productive, but I got up anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Good for you?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
All right? That the voice there, mister Christopher Thompson came
wing to you, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm fixated on with the voice of Tyler. Ryan was
telling it rain if it's warm, yeah, we'll take it.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah. Well you don't agree. Well, no, but the well yeah,
rain later in the week, yes, yeah, it was good.
Not today? Yeah, no, oh, you know I'll take the
rain in the warm absolutely, yeah right.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I mean he's talking seventy and rain.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well Friday, could the National Wet Service is thinking maybe
his heightst Warman seventy five yes, wow, but yeah, rain likely,
but yeah, I'll tell you I'll take that and a
heart beat man. To quote the late great G Gordon, Lady,
we are stacked in packed today. Friends. Okay, we got
a bunch here. Let's quickly move through the rundown because
(01:51):
it'll take a while here. Lead story you heard Thomas
mention and just a tragedy. This goes back in number
of years when Gavin Guffey at seventeen years old killed himself.
Guffy the son of Brandon Guffey, a state representative. This
(02:14):
is one of these sextortion schemes and a twenty four
year old Nigeria now has been extradited from Nigeria brought
here to Columbia and he faces life in prison for
this sextortion scheme. He's posing as a as a as
a girl and the process was able to get some
(02:36):
you know lewd photographs from Gavin Guffey and then was
using them to extort him.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Good for our governments for working on getting that thug
out of there right and here where he'll face punishment.
And this is something our generation never faced. I mean, no,
this is a this is a New Years social media thing.
But it happens, and it happens all too often.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yes, it does. Unfortunately, so, uh, life in prison. Let's hope. Uh,
let's hope. That's that's that's that's what we see come
out of all this. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I guess the agreement was, well, we'll send him to you,
but you can't. You can't put him to death, right, Okay,
the next best thing, it's put him behind bars for
the rest of his days.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
All right. We have a South Carolinia in the cabinet,
Scott Bessen confirmed yesterday, the billionaire investor. Interesting dude, first
openly gay treasury secretary in this country and a guy
who was once a uh well a donor and a
supporter of folks like George Sorows, but no longer. Now
(03:39):
he's uh, he's all aboard the Trump train has been
for a bit. Uh. This is a this is an
important role we have a very important thing that the
Treasure Secretary needs to shepherd through Congress in this sometime
in this this year, and that is, you know, not
letting these tax cuts, these Trump era tax cuts sunset
and expire. Big deal. And Bessen will be a tasked
(04:02):
with leading that charge. Well, it's getting interesting early. Nobody
has declared yet to run for governor in South Carolina,
but Nancy Mace is making a lot of noise. As
we talked about a couple of days ago, she told
the Associated Press that she was considering running for governor. Well,
she's making a tour across the state, so obviously she
(04:23):
is going to run for governor, right.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And that's the perfect way to describe it. She made
a lot of noise yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, she did make a lot of noise, and in
most of that noise was directed at her most formidable opponent,
who is not yet announced either, that is Attorney General
Alan Wilson.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
She made a little bit of noise at John Monk
of the State.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
John Monk of the State newspaper, who asked her about yeah,
does she does he support these J six pardons? She says, wait,
you're part of the legacy media, right, you're a dying breed.
Did I get that quote right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I mean she went on to name everything on her resume.
You know, I've been attacked, have been raped, and by
the way, your legacy media. I mean it was she
was just checking off boxes yes and never answered the
question no.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Making a lot of noise exactly. Okay, that's what Nancy
Mace does best.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Who but if she keeps doing that, who will take
her seriously as a candidate.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Well, I'm already having a hard time doing that from
the get go. That's just me, though, Wilson. Meantime, a
part of what some nineteen states attorneys say attorneys general,
I always get that. I always think that should be
attorney generals, But it's attorneys general. Okay, that's the way
it's supposed to be said. Who are warning Costco they
(05:38):
may want to rethink this. Costco recently coming out doubling
down on their DEI policies. Uh, These attorneys general calling
on Costco to end on all unlawful discrimination discrimination that
is imposed through these policies. Okay, Alan Wilson signing out
of that one right there. Meantime, our current governor Henry
(05:59):
McMath says he's not talked to President Trump about deportation
operations yet, but says we here in South Carolina will
do whatever we are asked to do. We got more
news on that front coming up. Our state's Department of
Education is well had a lawsuit filed against it, says
it has been censoring a racially inclusive has been censoring
(06:22):
that is racially inclusive education for all public school students,
and the claim is that's an in violation of the
US Constitution. This lawsuit filed by the Legal Defense Fund
just yesterday. Now, I don't know that we're here here yet,
but in some parts of the state, the Low Country
in particular, the price of eggs now is hit as
(06:43):
high as nine dollars a dozen. Nine dollars a dozen. Wow.
You go back to December of twenty twenty three, a
dozen great eggs sold for US for four point fifteen
a dozen that same are now nearly nine bucks. Of course,
bird flu is to blame.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And you see certain grocery stores saying they can't keep
them on the shelves.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, they're having a hard time keeping them. Yeah, and
don't expect this to change anytime soon. Apparently, all right, boy,
I don't even know where to begin. When I talk,
you know, you go to what is happening with the
Trump administration. The announcement yesterday morning that Trump is reinstating
with back pay thousands of military members who were discharged
(07:26):
for refusing the COVID shot. He is signed an executive
order to begin creation and construction of an iron dome
over this country, much like the one that exists in
the Israel. Defends Secretary Pete Hegzeth arrived at the Pentagon
on his first full day of work, laying out his priorities. Meantime,
(07:46):
the Justice Department has fired or Trump has fired prosecutors
in the DOJ who helped prosecute him, and a number
of senior aides for the US Agency for International Development
placed on leave this over what appears to be an
(08:08):
alleged effort to thwart some of the president's new executive orders.
At least fifty six of these senior officials on leave already. Meantime,
we got more news to talk about on the immigration front,
Trump moving to deport nearly one and a half million
migrants that were admitted under Biden's parole programs. Selena Gomez
(08:28):
with her now infamous meltdown over deportation of illegal aliens,
and Tom Holman's response to that was certainly notable.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
She rates that pretty quick or she deleted it pretty quickly.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, and she didn't even have her fax right. Of
course she's a celebrity. Of course she didn't have her
facts right. Okay, today's Tuesday, tomorrow. What we got RFK
Junior tomorrow right, full Senate confirmation hearing in vote. Then
Tulca Gabett on Thursday. Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana guy
who has such a way with words, well pretty straightforward
(09:02):
when he said the Gabbard, he says he thinks she's
in the most danger of not getting confirmed by the Senate.
And wow, what a crazy day yesterday with this release
of this Chinese AI app, Deep Seek, the tech stocks tumbled.
In Vidia, I'm just about set a record for how
much their stock lost yesterday. I don't know too much
(09:22):
of that. I do want something, but not too much, thankfully.
But what is this Chinese AI app? And it's apparently
already getting hacked. But this startup isn't a game changer?
Well we know it's controlled by the Chinese government because
it won't answer basic questions about like you know, t
in them and square and things like that. All right,
we'll get to that. More coming up. Yes, there's more
(09:44):
on this the Tuesday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Thank you for being with us, the hottest talk.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
The reason I'm calling here. I believe that we're all
laved here working for the government.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
One on three point five FM and five six AM
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and five sixty am w VOC six.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Forty two and more Antelia for Tuesday, January twenty eighth.
How quickly they forget, although in this case it wasn't
a question of forgetting, it was a question of not
even really bothering to notice. So, you know, a week ago,
we had, I mean just all these pardons. You know,
it started with with Joe Biden, and well I started
a while back with Joe Biden. But then you know,
(10:34):
on his literally on his way out the door, you know,
probably heading to the podium of the Trump inauguration. Yeah,
he pardons his entire family and then quickly followed up
then by Trump pardoning some fifteen hundred or so. Not all,
but but but most of all of the of the
j six participants. Maybe Trump should have waited a little bit.
(10:59):
Let's the media stew on the Biden partons, because if
nothing else, he gave them cover to forget about those
and talk about his But did they even talk about
Joe's The media research centers got the numbers, and it
won't shock you. We're talking about the three letter networks here, ABCCBSNBC.
(11:22):
Let's see here, during a forty eight hour period after
Trump's inauguration, those three networks spent a total of forty
six minutes and thirty two seconds talking about Trump's partons
forty six minutes, thirty two seconds. Joe Biden's pardon of
his family members got three minutes and thirty two seconds
(11:46):
worth of coverage. Yeah, so thirteen times more coverage was
given to the Trump's partons and we're to Biden's. Okay,
I know that doesn't shock you, right, No, not at all.
Both were newsworthy events. Absolutely, I'm not, you know, knocking
(12:12):
them for spending so much time on the Trump partons,
But my goodness, did the Biden partons even exist? For ABC,
NBC and CBS not much, not much. We were talking
about this yesterday morning. I think at the same time segment,
how when it comes to the economy, some people are
(12:33):
going to be unfortunately disappointed when you know, things don't
turn around right away. I'm liking it to, you know,
trying to turn the Titanic, maybe even after it actually
hit the iceberg. Well, Democrats understand this, of course they do.
(12:54):
Elizabeth Warren one of a number of Democrats now slamming
Donald Trump for not making good on his promise to
immediately lower food prices. Truth of the matter is, he
probably shouldn't have said immediately. There's no way you're going
to do that immediately. He knew it, you know it,
(13:15):
I know it, Elizabeth Warren knows it. But hey, why
did a good crisis go to waste? Huh? So? Yeah,
here comes a letter from Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats
addressed to Trump, accusing him of backtracking on a campaign
promised to lower supermarket bills starting on day one. You
(13:37):
repeatedly promise you'd lower food prices immediately if elected, but
during your first week of office, you've instead focused on
mass deportations and pardoning. January sixth, attackers reads the letter. Okay, well,
(13:57):
I would say, Elizabeth, golly, y'all the folks who've got
to send us mess to begin with, you didn't get
us out of it. But on the street, on Main Street,
what a folks think, what a businesses think? Well, the
new survey from the National Association for Business Economics the
(14:21):
majority of their members eighty two percent now putting the
probability of a US recession at twenty five percent or
lower over the next year. That's right, twenty five percent
or lower. This is quite a big increase from this
just this past October, when only fifty six percent thought
the probability of the US recession was at twenty five
(14:43):
percent or lower. So, you know, just Donald Trump winning
the election changed a lot of minds. Now we'll see
how it goes. But again, it's good to have some
faith back restored for our businesses, especially our small business
owners who've been through the ringer now for quite some time,
(15:05):
starting with COVID. So that's good news.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
There. You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
three point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
It's coming up on sixteen minutes after seven o'clock. Good morning,
and good to have you along for Tuesday, January twenty eighth.
We'll make no mistake about it. While she says she's
four to maybe eight weeks away from deciding whether or
not to do it, Nancy Mays is going to mount
a run for governor of South Carolina. Her actions over
(15:43):
the past couple of days would certainly indicate that. Making
the Rounds held a presser yesterday she was in town
here head of a Richland County Republican meeting, and well,
I'm saying she's traveling the state next couple of weeks
to explore the potential. Okay, and then everything after that
(16:07):
made it pretty obvious she has all all designs on
running for governor. As we mentioned this in the rundown,
she was, uh, well, Nancy May makes a lot of noise,
no matter what it is, no matter what the topic is,
she makes a lot of noise.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And because of that, and I questioned this a couple
of weeks ago, it's why would she want to step
off the national stage where she's on Fox News every
week and you know it's a bigger position with more
leadership potential than being the governor. But I think she
gets a bigger spotlight where.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
She is and she enjoys that spotlight.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yes she does.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
So yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
But hey, you know what I well, she uh, as
you mentioned, she was was checking off all the boxes. Yes,
today she had some words with John Monk over the
state newspaper.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Well, he asked about pardoning January sixth, folks, and she
went into her you know, her rape story, her being assaulted.
I mean, she was just going through her entire resume
of the things that she talks about whenever she does
get the national spotlight and didn't answer the question.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Didn't answer the question, and told Monk that he was
part of the legacy media which is dying. That part's true,
so answer the question. Well, she did not answer the question. Now,
I did see some data last week, and I haven't
(17:45):
seen the poll yet, but apparently it's been some polling
that maybe it's internal. I'm not sure that of. You know,
here's what up until Mace starting to make noise on this.
You know, Alan Wilson, most people think he'll he'll he'll
make a run. Pamela Abbott, Hey, listen, I like Pam Evitt,
(18:10):
you know I do. But I think that's a challenge
right there. How many South Calians can pick pamel Evit
out of a crowd.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
She would definitely have to elevate her profile.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, it'd be tough, smart, smart woman, good business person,
but doesn't really have that that that level of you know,
a notoriety or people just don't really know much about her. So,
but the polling that I have seen, uh some data
(18:45):
last week was indicated that, yeah, Alan Wilson, Nancy Mace
or the top of the heap. So Mace is going
to come after Wilson right away, and she did that yesterday,
saying that Wilson has no business and even thinking of
running for governor. She says, says he's not done anything
(19:07):
for women and girls. Hmm uh, well, I think he's
signed onto a number of things, like you know about
men and women's sports and such. She says, I will
take him out. I will personally make sure that he
(19:30):
is never governor of South Carolina. Now that that sounds
personal right there to me, doesn't I'll take him out.
She's not even said she's going to run for governor yet.
But still she'll she'll take him out, she says, and
personally make sure he's never governor of South Carolina. Okay, Well,
the response from Wilson's press secretary, any statements that he
(19:55):
hasn't protected children or victims of sex crimes is blatantly false.
And yes, it is blatantly now you know again in
total transparency here you know, I'm I'm I'm friends with
Alan Wilson. Uh, that doesn't get in the way of
(20:16):
of you know, the way I see this ray shaping
up here. But but Nancy Mace is she's a wild card.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Yeah, forget Alan Wilson, take him out of the equation.
Nancy Mace has always been looked at, well, she's crazy,
but she's Charleston's crazy.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I don't which is a whole nother kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
By the way, I don't know that the I don't
know that the state of South Carolina is ready for
her and ready for her tactics. And I mean, if
this is how her campaign is starting, if this is
how she's launching, good luck.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Well she's seeking and without this she's dead in the water.
And that's the approval of the endorsement of Donald Trump.
So she's well, she's always been somewhat trumpy in anyway
in her approach, but she's going to try to amplify
that and magnify that now to get Trump's attention.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And again, I don't understand. You have a much better
chance of it staying in Washington, I would think, I agree.
Maybe maybe she looked over and saw Marjorie Taylor Green
and thought, all right, well, she's already cornered the kookie
on southeastern congress women. So maybe I've got to go elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Oh. I don't know, man, I don't know. Well, whenever
I think of Nancy Mace's governor, and I mentioned this
the other day, I just think of, you know, Mark
Sandford taking the pig to the steps of the state House,
you know, a stunt. Yeah, And I don't know that
that's what we need here in South Carolina. Again, she
(21:54):
she'll certainly have her her supporters, no doubt about that,
But I don't know outside of Charleston. And remember, it
wasn't that long ago before they redrew the lines. Wasn't
the case in twenty twenty four, but in twenty twenty two,
I mean it was you weren't real sure she was
gonna make it so, I you know, so even in
(22:17):
her home district there, certainly she has her attracted out. Again,
that was a more Democrat. It's a it used to
be a heavier leaning Democrat district than it is right
now with a redraw of course. But yeah, I don't know.
I don't, I don't. My sense is is that across
the state and listen, you know, this is what we do. Okay,
(22:39):
we're involved in this. We watch it. You do too,
But you know, the average South Carolinian, other than the
fact they may see her on TV every now and then,
do they really know much about Nancy Mace.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
The problem she's a smart woman and she's accomplished a
great deal in a short time.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I'm not gonna take that away from her now.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
The problem is every time you do hear about Nancy Maces,
she's playing this character instead of you know, talking about
policy or making you know, these making any inroads into
what South Carolinians need or want.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
We'll have to do this, We'll have to go back
and look and see. Okay, what what bills has she
gotten through in Congress? You hear about her all the time,
but do you hear about her for that reason. Well,
we're we're a long ways out, but this gooop Patrol
campaign is going to be ramping up quickly. It would
appear talking.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
About gotta keep talking, the good job, the stuff that matters.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I think I've been listening to y'all in the eighteen
year plus.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Right one on three point five FM at five sixty
am w VOC, this is Columbia's Morning News with Gary
David and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five
FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
It's seven forty one. Good morning and good to have
you a long for Tuesday, January twenty eighth. Week a
two back, we were talking about some talk over the
state House of increasing the of the liability laws so
when it comes to bars and restaurants overserving individuals who
then go out and get in accidents and hurt or
maybe even kill someone. And I was curious at the time, Well,
(24:19):
we how does this work, because you know, we already
have a party of lawsuits when that sort of thing happens. Unfortunately,
we have one of the worst d u I death
rates in the country. Well, a state representative of MIKEA.
Caskey is joining us now representing the eighty ninth district
over in Lexington County, and we hope to get an
update from you, sir on this. Thanks for joining us
this morning. We appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Oh, good morning Gary, thank you for the invitation.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
To be with you. Absolutely so, how do we already
it's you know, you can sue a bar or a restaurant
for overserving someone. What exactly in this legislation would how
would it change that, how would it strengthen that?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Or you could make a pretty good case that our
laws are already pretty good at being able to sue
someone in the event that you were injured because someone
was overserved. And in fact, the argument that we're dealing
with is that our laws are too good, if you will,
because there's too much litigation on that front. And combined
(25:21):
with the change in our law back in twenty seventeen
that required bars and restaurants who serve alcohol after five
PM to carry a one million dollar policy that the
insurance world is saying, look, we can't stay in business
doing this. They're exiting the market or at least driving
(25:42):
up premiums to unsustainable levels according to a lot of
bars and restaurants, and so the concern in the fight is,
how do we fix this whole system so we continue
to balance people people's ability to be made wholes they're
an injured victim. Will also make sure that we protect
our small businesses.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And it's got my other question, because yeah, that has
been We've had a lot of establishments go out of
business as a result of that twenty seventeen law, which
I guess was obviously not the intent, but that's the result.
And it seems like, yeah, at first glance, as I
was looking over this, that this would even you know,
make it more difficult than the stay in business. But
you say it's to kind of tie that up a
(26:22):
little bit, So maybe we're going the other way from
what well I.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Think, Yeah, Well, what we're trying to do is make
sense of all the noises that's out there right now.
Because what happened was last year the House passed a
bill that addressed some of this. The Senate never took
it up. But what we did pass between both bodies
was to have a study committee. What else can you
do in a legislature other than pass a bill to
(26:46):
have a study committee. Yeah, but as we've gone through
that study commit committee process, and the Speaker most disappointed
me to it was to find out a lot of
things that are a little bit unsettling, if I'm being
honest with you, particular with respect to what do we
actually know about our situation in the state right now.
The Department of Insurance collects a lot of information, not
(27:07):
all that's particularly useful when you want to ask questions like, hey,
what is the rate of bars closing? Is that higher
or lower than normal? And that pictures a little unclear.
The Department of Revenue can give you some information about
liquor liability or excise me, liquor licenses, and that tells
a tough picture. And then you hear from local bar
and restaurants and they're telling you about premium skyrocketing, and
(27:30):
it's really hard to make sense of where things are.
But we do know a couple of things. Department Insurance
has got to get better at doing their jobs. We've
got to tighten our DUI laws, and then we've got
to figure out a way to balance the concerns again
between the injured victim and the small business. And fortunately,
there's some other states that have I mean, fortunately is
(27:50):
the wrong way to frame it. But Alabama, Vermont, DC
they've experienced a similar thing, but they seem to have
found a way out of it. And that's really where
the conversation is now, is what out of what out
of there can we take a lesson from to improve
our situation.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Yeah, certainly we don't want to let anybody off the
hook when they're guilty of having done this. But sometimes
maybe it seems like maybe it goes a bit too far.
But so is in Study Committee right now. This is
what's working on. I mean, what happens from here? Do
you think?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Do you think we have at least one more I
anticipate today this afternoon will be the last Insurance Study
Committee meeting. I've seen the draft report, which isn't terribly exciting.
It's really minutes of the meetings we've had over the fall,
and from here the respective chambers will sort of huddle
up and figure out how they want to approach this issue.
(28:45):
I anticipate the Senate will move forward with a bill
that tends to be broader in scope than just the
alcohol liability issue, and I think that the House will
will look to put together some legislation that is again
focused really on the intersection of the insurance companies the
Department Insurance and our local bars and restaurants. And I
(29:09):
think it's probably just because of the way the two
bodies tend to think about things, and the House is,
you know, here's the problem. Let's get a government solution.
Or if the government's going to have a solution, it
should be as narrowly tailored as possible. Right, And sometimes
there are friends in the Senate they like to think
real big and so that's not always as practical.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
So it's a balancing act, obviously with well obviously severe
ramifications for on both sides of this. All right, good, well,
thanks for clearing that up. I appreciate that because I
think I was looking at this the wrong way maybe
when I first heard of it. But we'll stay in
touch and figure out where things go from here. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Absolutely appreciate the opportunity. Happy to come back anytime.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
We'll certainly do that. Represented Michael Caskey shedding a little
more light on that. So it's a study committee and
we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Sixteen minutes after eight o'clock and morning to you. Okay,
total confession time here, but one of the few times
in my life I don't even know where to be at.
How do you keep up? I had this conversation with
Kelly Nash this morning before he came on the air.
He said, Man, there was so much news coming out
of the White House. I can't even keep up with
(30:32):
it all. It's kind of hard to keep up with it.
You talk about a flurry of activity, Man, wow, but
yesterday alone, well let's start here, uh, Trump reinstating thousands
of military members who were kicked out for refusing the
(30:53):
COVID shot. Now, this would have not this never would
have happened, and Trump not won this election. So all
these folks who have sacrificed not only them but their
families to serve our country, and some with years and
(31:15):
years and years of experienced in the military forced to
leave because they didn't want to take a COVID shot. Well,
COVID used to have a case pop up here and there.
I know, but COVID has been gone for a.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
While now, and at a time where we're having trouble
meeting our recruiting numbers.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
And this is something that Joe Biden would have never
envisioned doing. Why not? Why not? So he signed that
executive order yesterday. Again, this is another campaign promise, you know,
promises made, Promises capped. Now, there were a number about
(31:56):
twelve hundred all told who reports were able to to
secure exemptions, but Pentagon record show that three thousands. I
want to give you exact numbers because it's important. Three thousands,
seven hundred and seventeen marines, one thousand, eight hundred and
sixteen soldiers, and two thousand and sixty four sailors were
(32:17):
discharged for refusing that vaccine. So reinstated, apologized to said
Pete Heggsath yesterday, the new Pentagon secretary. They will be reinstated,
reinstituted with pay and rank. Thank you. Someone may say
(32:40):
I'm not going back anyway, I mean whatever, but still uh.
Trump also signing an executive order yesterday to construct an
iron Dome for the US, called it a top priority.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Remind you of Ronald Reagan sweeping into office and talking
about Star Wars, right, remember that, and immediately the Soviet
Union took notice.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Again. Trump had said that this was a project that
was on his radar, and we're gonna do it. Interesting left.
Trump even reference Ronald Reagan, saying that, yeah, yeah, the
whole star way was he was interested in doing that
during the Coldord, but we didn't have the technology. Well
we do now you've seen it. You've seen it at
(33:33):
action in Israel and it works amazingly well, so an
iron dome. There's that. Uh. Trump is also signed an
executive order addressing transgender troops and DEI in the military.
One directive of the orders was potentially banning transgender service members.
(33:57):
Trump did ban them from serving when he president back
in twenty seventeen. That was repealed, of course, by Joe
Biden in twenty twenty one. What else, Oh, Lawyers, prosecutors
inside the Department of Justice who were involved in Trump prosecutions,
they're looking for new jobs today as they've been let go.
(34:21):
At least fifty six senior officials in the top Usaid
Development Agency this is the US Agency for International Development
placed on leave yesterday as an investigation going on into
alleged efforts by these individuals to thwart Trump's the orders. Okay,
(34:46):
Trump's executive arder last week directed a sweeping ninety day
pause on most US foreign assistants. That's handed out to
the State Department. But there's an investigation going on that
some were trying to work around that. Okay, dude ain't playing, man,
(35:07):
dude is not playing. And when it comes to the border,
not playing that. We are seeing now more and more
of these ICE raids in big blue cities all across
the country. DHS announcing that ICE can deport foreuns who
are allowed under one of Biden's parole programs. Now, so
Trump making a move. That's about one point four million
(35:28):
migrants who were admitted under Biden's parole program. ICE is
looking for them, and of course they're first up, first
order businesses to remove the criminal, illegal element. And Tom
(35:49):
Holman speaking of people, he ain't playing, Tom Holman, you
gotta love this guy. This Seleni Gomez video comes out.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
She's crying and she's a well known public figures, so
she got a lot of attention. Sure yeah, and she's Hispanic.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Yeah. And you could barely make out a word she
was saying because she was bawling so hard about families
and kids being removed home. I'm so sorry. I wish
I could do something.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Well Home people, She said, my people, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yeah, home and having none of that, saying, well, we're
her her tears for the hundreds of thousands of US
who Americans who have died from fentanyl coming across that border,
saying he's met with hundreds of angel moms and dads
(36:35):
separated from their kids because they buried them after they
were killed by illegal aliens. We got a half a
million children who are sex trafficking into this country, separated
from their families, put in the hands of criminal cartels,
and the Biden administration couldn't find over three hundred thousand.
Where are the tears for them? Yeah, don't play this
(36:56):
game with Tom Holman. Don't even think about it. By
the way, the numbers don't lie. Numbers in from Sunday
from border patrol, fewer than six hundred people crossed illegally
on Sunday, Fewer than six hundred. Even in the final
days of the Biden administration, after they supposedly cracked down,
(37:20):
the numbers were between twelve hundred and fourteen hundred per day,
So they've been cut in half. Matter of fact, first
three days of the Trump administration you had about the
same number you had and maybe one day under the
Biden White House. And oh, by the way, we were
liking it, Harry int and over at CNN, their senior
(37:42):
data reporter detailing yesterday how significantly Americans have shifted towards
trusting Republicans over Democrats when it comes to immigration. Said,
you go back to April twenty seventeen, Democrats held an
eleven point advantage over Republicans when it came to gration. Today,
(38:03):
Republicans hold a twenty two point advantage over Democrats when
it comes to immigration. So, yes, we already knew this
because the American people spoke at the ballot box on
November fifth, in the week's leading up to it. We
don't need your analysis, Harry, but that's fine, we'll take it.
Thank you. Where this spirit of America lives off day
(38:24):
every day we've spoke each other and where we're coming
from and.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Learned from each other. One O three point five FM
and five sixty am w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning
News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one O
three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
It is eight forty and this is this is gonna
be one of those days there's gonna be stuff left
on the cutting room floor. I apologize for that, but hey,
let's uh, let's quickly run down some some closing thoughts
here this morning. First up, I mean hats off kudos
to the FED authorities who were able to track down
the person they say is responsible for the suicide death
(39:07):
of seventeen year old Gavin Guffey. You remember this case
or not, but this states back twenty twenty two, when
Gavin Guffey at seventeen committed suicide. He was a victim
of sex stortion. His father is State Representative Brandon Guffey,
(39:30):
and I can't begin to imagine the grief that his
parents will feel for the rest of their lives. But
they were able to track down a now twenty four
year old from Nigeria who was posing online as a
female and convinced Gavin Guffey into sending pictures and use
(39:56):
them to extort him, and go as far as to
include that's saying the thing that threats of exposures will
only hurt him but would end his father's career. So
this Nigerian now has been extradited. He was in a
courtroom here in town yesterday and he is facing life
in prison.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
He kept up the messaging after after yes, it is
a suicide. I mean he was trying to milk the
family for anything he could.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Yeah, and this was not the only time he did this.
His cell phoned that they got a hold of had
the names of ten other alleged sextrs and victims, six
of whom were miners. Wow, South Carolina has, oh, somebody
(40:50):
in the cabinet. Scott Bessant was confirmed yesterday as Treasury Secretary. Interesting, dude, Bassant,
uh will be the first openly gay person in the
role of Treasury secretary. And this is a guy that
was once a supporter and a donor to George Soros.
(41:14):
Here what you mean, the devil himself. Well, he's had
a change of heart over the years and he's yeah, yeah,
and his UH is his big time on the on
the Trump train. Now he's got a very important role
because as Treasury Secretary, he'll be tasked with shepherding through,
(41:38):
you know, getting these Trump tax cuts which are set
to expire at the end of the year, to get them, well,
not expire at the end of the year. We need
that to happen big time. Now, I don't pretend to
know to be an expert on such things. But boy,
it was crazy yesterday to watch Wall Street, not the Doubt.
(42:00):
The Dow was up, the SMP was down, some of
the Nasdaq. It was a blood bath yesterday. This all
because China released a new app, a new AI app
called deep Seek. This is a company apparently it's been
around for about a year, and it quickly claimed the
(42:24):
top spot as the number one free app in Apples
app Store. They head of open aiyes Chat GPT. They
claimed they developed this in just a month or so
at very little cost, so they claim, And this just
(42:46):
set the tech world on us here yesterday again for
no other reason than the fact here that we've been
trying to work to stay ahead and get ahead in
this arena. Now, I don't think you can believe the
Chinese and what their claims are and how quickly developed
this and for how cheaply they did it. But it
(43:08):
caused a pig melt down on the on the tech
stocks in the NASDAC yesterday. But I don't know if
you've seen this thing. People were asking you questions about
the Chinese government. Now ooh, we got tight.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Lip then whip CNN square.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
Yep, no answer, no answer, got no answer for you there. Yeah.
So well, apparently the problem was they claim in a
paper there wrote last month and they trained this thing
with less than six million dollars worth of computing power
from what it claims were two thousand in Vidio chips,
(43:45):
which is, if true, incredibly cheaper than what has been
sunk into things like chat GPT, and that just it
sounded like a game change at the Wall Street. Wow,
they can do whoa in vidiostoc trup like what seventeen
percent yesterday? I think the guy that controls the CEO
(44:10):
of eighteen billion dollars on paper in one day.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Yeah, wow, I mean that's that's one of the big
questions right now. It's okay, if you get these AI programs,
you know, how are they trained?
Speaker 4 (44:27):
And what results are you gonna get?
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
And what results are you gonna get? And do you
owe anything to you know? McCartney. Paul McCartney brought this
up the other day. You know, he's asking Great Britain
to protect the Beatles and his products against AI using
it to train because who's to say, you know, they
can't ingest you know, sixty or seventy Lenna McCartney songs
and then write songs like McCartney. I'm sure, sure, I'm
(44:52):
sure it's possible. So he's asking for protection from the
government against AI using his products, his licensed product to train.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
Well, you know what, this cow's out at the barn
now man, And I, for one, I have very little
faith at all that any government, any well seeking government,
can rein it in. We're in a whole new world now,
a whole new world. And two California Democrats yesterday unveiling
(45:21):
a bill did they say would allow insurers and policyholders
affected by the LA fires to sue major oil corporations.
This is so California. They say that the old companies
must atone for the fires and stabilize California's faultering insurance
(45:42):
mar because they blame climate change on big oil, and
because of that they've got all these.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Wild That's a roundabout approach.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
Right, totally ignoring their lack of preparation in anything else.
But no, let's blame it on big oil. Let's sue
them courts.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Fine,
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