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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alrightesus right, yeah, Sames of America and for Regius one
nation under god Ina.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is wrong.
Speaker 3 (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 2 (00:29):
It is almost wow, almost seventeen minutes after six o'clock.
We're a little late getting to the party here. Good morning,
welcome to it. Though. It's Tuesday, April fifteenth, April fifteenth, eh,
fifteenth of April, tax day for most not for us,
for most of us, most of the rest of the cut, well,
the rest of them, well, most of the rest of
the cut, not for South Carolina. You don't have to,
(00:52):
I mean you can go ahead. I went ahead and
took care of the heck with it, man, I.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Mean, why wait? And then I'm afraid I'd forget in
April fifteenth, this tax day. If I go intil another deadline,
I'm thinking I may not remember that deadline.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, this is all news to you. Yeah. Because of
Hurricane Helene, the filing deadline for taxes if you're a
South Carolina resident is May one this year, not April fifteenth.
As if a couple of weeks is gonna make that
much of a difference anyway. But hey, and we mentioned
this yesterday. I'm just still stunned. That's not there was
(01:26):
There wasn't there was a more set about this, you know,
leading up to this date. And I'm gonna start really
talking about this again till like a couple of days ago.
The yeah, there is that, that that little reprieve. But yeah,
I went ahead and get it over with. Man, you know,
just deal with it. But uh but but yeah, if
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you're not ready yet, no sweat. You got until May
first here in South Carolina, So good for you. You've missed
a buttoned up over there. You've probably been done since like.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well it's not like I do it. I mean, it's
too complicated for me, so we turn it over to somebody,
and yet it's done.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah. Yeah, I've been. I'm doing the same for years now. Now.
I helped my kids were theirs the other day. M h.
I still do because they're simple, you know, relatively simple.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And with the free programs now it's just it's a breeze.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh you can go. You can go to your county
library and you know they'll do it for nothing for
you if you like so uh yeah, uh, tax day,
but not really for us here in in South Carolina.
All Right, the rundown, the big story is the hot topics.
What's going on? Well, why why do we have Alex
Murdoch news at the top of the stack today. Let's see, Well,
(02:45):
the State Supreme Court has granted the state a little
more time in this Murdoch appeal request.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Murdoch's attorneys have been complaining that the state's been dragging
their feet, but the High Court says, you get a
another one hundred and twenty days when it comes to
serving and filing. A response to this is, this is
the defense's request for a new murder trying to Alan Wilson,
his office prosecuted this case. He's actually gonna be with
(03:13):
us later on this morning. We went to ask him
about that Russell Lafitte, crony of Murdoch banker. Yeah, the
banker is pleted guilty now to helping Murdoch get his
theft of millions of dollars. Remember, he already had a
trial and will sendence to seven years in the federal lockup.
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But he won a new trial last year after already
serving thirteen months and a fed lock up. In Florida.
He's tried, he's convicted, he's spent some time in jail
and been in prison, he's granted a new trial, and
now he just pleads guilty. What okay? Oh and they're
(03:58):
making another movie about all this too? Who who is
making a movie the Murdoch murderers. I think the country's
pretty much moved on from that. I mean we have
here in South Carolina. I think who lose at legs
of the game on that one? I could be wrong.
SLED charging a former Elexingon County councilman and an attorney
with COVID relief fraud, Billy Oswald charged with three counts
of fraud. This related theft of funds from the state's
(04:21):
disaster unemployment Assistance fund. According to Warrens from SLED, there's
a lot of that that went on, as we know now.
Nancy Mace up in the upstate trying to woo the
MAGA crowd, says the Post, incurring their headline. Interesting start
to this story too, by the way they they they're
they're talking to a voter, a Republican small business owner
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who says he he likes a lot about Nancy Mace,
A lot and said you probably vote for for for governor.
But but there's a butt here. This is the butt
we've been referring to. But after seeing Mace's House floor
speech in March, and you know when we she accused
her ex fiance and three others of sex crimes, he
(05:09):
says he'd like her to dial back the drama a
little bit, which is I think the the attitude of
a lot of folks.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I would think so, by the way.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Uh, this in from Fox News. A man who was
charged with making threats to murder Trump also found he
have threatened Mace. This according to a source with knowledge
of the matter, telling Fox News Digital that Mace's office
was informed by Capitol police that this sean monper of
(05:42):
Ironically enough, Butler Pennsylvania made threats against Mace on social
media back in January. How stupid you have to be
to make a threat against somebody on social media? Huh?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And you're asking for the Secret Service or some federal
official to immediately come to your door.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, right, hello, idiot. We mentioned the eight is going
to be with us later on. He is leading a
coalition backing a bill. This is Tim Scott's new bill,
the firmac Financial Integrity and Regulation Management Act. This is
to stop banks from d banking folks. You know, we
saw a lot of that with conservatives, depending on you know,
(06:22):
who you are supporting, were you're a gun owner, whatever.
A lot of folks got d banked, and there's a
move to stop that from happening. More controversy with the
us CE campus and again courtesy of this same group
that Uncensored America, they bring in, you know, speakers who
(06:44):
have extreme views. This time they've got a podcast host
by the name of Myron Gaines who's supposed to speak
later on this month in an event called Why Women
Deserve Life US and students. Are there some faculty lining
(07:05):
up against this one? The homeless problem in the Midlands.
We may get into some of this this morning. There's
been a plan to try to bring it down. You're
never gonna end up it, try to bring it down,
and apparently it's just got made the situation worse. Now
looking at ways to try to reboot that tariff news,
(07:26):
well there's a lot going around there now. News that
the President is considering pausing the auto tariffs. Okay, now
the pause on electronics. Well, there are levees in the
future when it comes to that. So you know, again,
I'm just trying to keep up with it. All has
been a little hard to do. By the way, we
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were just talking about this yesterday, these chips that have
been pretty much you know, Taiwan making all of them. Well,
now news from Nvidia that they are designing factories to
manufacture AI supercomputers entirely in this country. This is a
(08:08):
big chip maker. They will do manufacturing and lots of
it in the US. This is again the other part
of all this strategy from Trump to bring more manufacturing
and more jobs and something like that certainly is vital.
All Right, we got that we've got another judge blocking
a Trump order. What's to do there?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And that team who's alleged to have stabbed and killed
another fellow athlete in Texas, what about two weeks ago?
I guess this is the death of Austin Metcalf who
was stabbed by Carmelo Anthony, not the basketball player, but
a seventeen year old in Texas, a guy facing first
degree murder charges. His bond reduced from a million dollars
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to a quarter of a million, and he was allowed
to leave jail and go home and under house of rest.
And that's got some folks, needless to say, up in
arms Arizona to purge up to fifty thousand, fifty thousand
non citizens from voters' rolls. How many fifty thousand that
(09:14):
and more coming your way here on this the Tuesday
edition of Columbia's Morning News. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I like keeping up with local news that I'm traveling
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Speaker 2 (09:42):
Hey, good marking to you. It's six forty two and
good to have you along. On Tuesday, April fifteenth, tax Day,
but again not pruss in South Carolina. We got the
extension till May one, if you so are so inclined
to take that because of Hurricane Helene. You didn't have
to have damage or anything like that. Just resident of
South Carolina and you get the couple week reprieve. All right, now,
(10:08):
So another lawsuit filed against the Trump administration. But As
I mentioned going into the news update, this is one
that is a conservative you shouldn't have too many issues with.
Quite honestly, the administration accused of breaking the law. Recent
lawsuit filed after the White House took down a website
(10:32):
meant to show us the public how federal funding is
being dispersed to agencies. It's a public spending tracker. This
new lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of violating federal law
when the database overseen by the Office of Management and
(10:53):
Budget the OMB office went dark without explanation. I don't
know why, but as a conservative this this should be
troubling to you. It is to me, as the complaint reads,
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Congress mandated prompt transparency for apportionments to prevent abuses of
power and to strengthen the Congresses and the public's oversight
of the spending process. Absence this transparency, the President and
o MB may abuse their authority over the apportionment of
federal funds without public or congressional scrutiny or accountability. Now
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we don't know that they are, but again, this whole
tracker was set up for a specific reason for transparency.
The argument by this group is a nonprofit protect Democracy
Project says that the apportionment disclosures provide the only public
(12:05):
source of info on DOGE on how DOZE is being funded. Okay,
so they're taking a specific look at Their problem is
how much money you giveing these DOSE people? How much
money is Elon Musk getting here to do the work
that he and his group at DOZE are doing. So
this is their their angle, But from a broader perspective,
(12:26):
my angle is just this, we ought to know. I
don't care who the president is, what parties in power,
We as the public have a right to know what
our tax dollars are being spent on, how they're being
divvied up. This, this sort of thing should be you know,
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this is the sort of thing expect from a Democrat president,
not from a Republican. And it goes again to the
broader issue that we've talked about a lot. You know,
people always want to say, yeah, the crashes want to
spend span, spend span span. Well, guess what so are
the Republicans? And uh, and Trump likes to spend too.
(13:10):
As a matter of fact, so far, Uh, the federal
government is spending you know, more money now than it was,
say a year ago. This time, which is you know,
not not not what we not what we banked on. Right,
But this should come as no surprise because in his
first term Trump did that too, He spent like crazy.
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But this particular lawsuit, of course, their concern is is
how much they were how much money is Doge getting.
They're missing the point here again, this is a tool,
a website that was mandated by Congress, and it has
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gone dark. It went dark back in March, and there's
been no explanation as to why. Okay, so I gotta
agree with them on this one. Maybe not for the
specific reason they were wanting to sue over, but in
the and again in the in the broader sense from
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a thirty thousand foot view, we we should know not
that quite honestly, many of us are taking the time to,
you know, go on a website like this and and
take a gander. And again, if you did, what, Yeah,
what are you gonna do about it? Well, I mean,
could contact your congress person whatever. But this it's it's
(14:44):
it's it's it's a bit. It's very troubling to me personally.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I would think they would want to be as transparent
as possible. I would think so too, because you know,
most most of the news coming out of Doze has
been good, right right, It's been about what they're saving
us and and the waste they've discovered and the in iciencies.
So lay it all out there.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean, you know, as they like to say, you know,
sunlight's the best medicine, right, put it out there, right right,
all of it. I mean, those just got their website
showing what they're well, what kind of savings they've they've
come up with here. Now that's a number, doesn't mean
we've actually saved that much so far, but those are
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the ones the things that they have identified as being
you know, fluff, waste, fraud sometimes you know, just playing
playing fraud. But I don't care how much. I don't
at this point in time. I'm not curious how much
money is though you getting to do this, But where
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is the money going? We ought to know as conservatives,
we should not be happy with this development. So all
the lawsuits against Trump administration, there is one I can say,
oh yeah, with that one.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We were thinking recently maybe we'll have an Easter dinner
out on the back deck. But we're gonna be too cold.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I don't think you're gonna have that's gonna be it's.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Gonna be too hot, you know. Okay, we can't quite
hit that nice middle, you know, that seventy five degree
temperature kind of thing. Although it was it was nice yesterday.
Well it got a little warm yesterday.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Anyway, not as warm as it will be this weekend.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Uh uh no, sir, Well, good morning to you. It
is Tuesday, April fifteenth, sixteen, after seven o'clock and hopefully
you know by now if you're if you're think I
gotta scrab and get my taxes done, well you gotta
reprieve because you're a South Carolinian, because of Helene. So
May one is the actual deadline for us this year.
And that that really wasn't hyped up like it should
have been. Certainly, if you had you know, a CPA
(16:56):
or somebody doing your taxes, they were aware of that.
But if you were, you know, doing it on your
own or getting ready to take the day off, take
a couple of weeks off, especially, and I know a
lot of people I have been this way in the past,
that last minute guy, you.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Know, sure, yeah, especially if you oh yeah right.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Anyway, May one is the deadline this time around for us. Okay,
let's see, how's your four oh one k doing well?
The markets were up yesterday, The Dow was up three
hundred some odd points, the S and P was up.
Pre market trading pretty flat this morning, which is, you know,
not a bad thing, right, we look at this thing
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some mornings last week went oh my goodness, dal futures
are up about nineteen right now. Yeah, you get the
sense that things are quieting down, that the market turmoil
is coming to an end. I'm beginning to wonder now
if the markets are thinking, you know, Trump's going to
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kind of back off of this in some way, shape
or form. Maybe not wholesale, but here and there. For example,
the announcement yesterday by Trump not an announcement but a suggestion, okay,
that he might at least temporarily take the auto industry
tariffs off off this list to give carmakers time to
(18:25):
adjust their supply chains.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I would add a trial balloon. Or is that a
message to the markets?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Both? Probably? Yeah, both Now with the Again the broader
goal in mind here of attracting more manufacturing to the
to the States, that would be a good move, okay,
And again people want to we keep talking about, well,
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this country is charging because as much in a tariffs,
so we should be doing the same thing. Blah blah
blah blah. But the end goal is not only that,
but also to bring more manufacturing jobs to America. And
if you want to do that with the auto sector,
well this is a good way to do it. Okay. Yeah,
you'll wave this tariff up in front of them and
everybody goes, oh, my goodness, the card's gonna Oh this
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is gonna be awful. It's be dreadful, and yeah, it
would be. But then you say, you know what, We're
gonna hold off on that to give you time to
readjust your plans here to go ahead and and and
and ramp up manufacturing here in the United States of America.
I'm gonna bat if that happens. And we've seen this
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already with a couple of car makers. If that happens
on a on a broader basis, that these these auto
tariffs will never happen. And this was the whole point
even if some country is charged against a higher tariff
than we're paying, Uh, then we're charging them that. Well,
mission accomplished. We we brought more manufacturing jobs back to
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the States. We basically reverse NAFTA, and maybe that's the
whole point. So there was that yesterday at least a
suggestion that he might exempt the auto windustry. He had
said back late last month that these would be permanent,
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but nothing's permanent these days. As we know. There's confusion,
of course over the tariffs on electronics consumer electronics. You know,
we talked about this yesterday Friday, that was the pause
on new taxes, and then over the weekend Trump and
others administrations. Yeah, this is just temporary too. So I
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think if you ask me, we have more uncertainty today
than we had back on April third, the morning after
the tariffs, the reciprocal tariffs were rolled out. I think
we have more uncertainty now. Yet the markets are stabilizing again.
It's like jumping into that cold, cold water in a
pool first time, Yuh, you freak out and then you
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get used to it.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I think it's also the fact that they've seen Trump
react to their reactions and they know that if things
get too bad, Trump will pull something.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah. So and it was the it was the the
really the weirdness of the bond markets a few days
ago that led to you know Trump that they when
he saw him at and not time to get too
deep in the weeds on that right now, but that
that was a that was a scary moment I think
for the administration because the bond's got real wonky there
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and that's not something you want to play with here.
Uh so, uh terriff wise, where are we? I don't know,
I mean, does anybody really and we have yet to
hear of the first you know country actually coming officially
to the table. But there's a lot of discussions going on.
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Needless to say, hear about it.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
We wake up the country, talk about it. This is
this is pure evil.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
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Speaker 2 (22:20):
Seven forty two. Now, So the homeless issue Columbia surrounding
areas well, at least with the City of Columbia A
couple of years ago they led out a plan to
try to address the issue. It's back in twenty twenty two,
but it looks like the problem is getting worse, not better.
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Sign of the times. Don't know. They estimate that they're
and we're just talking about the city of Columbia now.
And there are other spots around where you see evidence
of this, I mean a couple of years ago, I
mean before the pandemic. We've always had a homeless issue.
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But I'm going to bet that you have probably come
across the areas that you really didn't suspect that there
was a sizable homeless population camping out. There are a
lot of places around town with this is happening around
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the Midlands.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
It just happens more openly in the city.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Exactly as far as the city is concerned. The latest
data was that the homeless population grew well. The Posting
Career article says, the Midlands homeless population grew from twenty
two percent by twenty two percent is from January of
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twenty twenty three to January of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Now, did it grow that much or are we doing
better job of counting?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Well, that's that's the question. They estimate. There's one thousand,
four hundred and twenty three homeless people living in the area.
Those are those who are unsheltered, living on the streets,
those in emergency shelters, transitional housing. They count them all
and how they come up with this number? Yeah, that's
an estimate.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
And so what are what are they saying? What are
we doing? And what are they saying we're doing? It's
not working.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah. One of the complaints has been that some of
the organizations that work to try to you know, home
these people, to give them a meal inside show. You're
talking about people like the OFUTFICE, like you know, Oliver
Gospel Mission, Transitions, Austin Wolks Society Homeless no More. There
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are those who complain that they're the city is not
bringing folks like this in to the discussion to come
up with ideas. Now uh Maya. Rickaman says that these
providers are coming to the table and maybe they didn't
maybe what they want to include the first time around.
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I don't know if they can actually pinpoint exactly why
their original plan is not working. Now there have been
some improvements. The Rapid Shelter Pallet Home program was part
of the plan in twenty twenty two, and it's uh,
it's now housing some one hundred people.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Can that get bigger? Or can they create another area
like that someplace else?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, that's that's that's the that's always the problem, isn't it.
Where are you gonna put it? And how big will
you allow it to get before everybody else starts complaining
about it? Right? True, some of the shelters and things
that are trying to do a bit moved out of
the downtown area. But that's you're gonna find that. That's
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where a lot of the whole almost folks tend to
tend to gravitate towards.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You can't have all the services downtown and then expect
them to live someplace else or expect them to stay
someplace else exactly. We've tried that. That doesn't work. These
are problems facing every American city these days. And it's
a problem. It's not gonna go away. No, But here's
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here's one reason why we've got to solve it. Because
we're spending all that money on the park downtown, Finley Park,
and that can't that can't become the homeless magnet that
it used to be. Right, Otherwise, we've blown that money
for nothing exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Now. One of the issues moving forward is is that
the city has allocated about a million dollars from its
general fund towards this this issue, but they've also been
relying on two million dollars in the American Rescue Plan funding. Well,
that money goes away at the end of the year.
That's a two million dollar gap. Can they make it up?
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Teresa Wilson, the city manager, was asked in the article,
just said, we'll try. So it's an ongoing issue. I
don't care where you go. You know. Kudos again to
the city for in twenty twenty two rolling out a
planet to try to you know, combat it, try to
make the situation better. So props for that. But what's
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happened is just the opposite, that the problem has gotten bigger,
not better. Now. It begs the question, have they not
instituted a few things in twenty twenty two? How big
might it be now? How bad might it be now?
So maybe it's it's do you know, anytime you get
in this discussion, it's always the same. Ever it says, well, yeah,
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we need to shelter, these folks need, they need places
to go, things to do, but just not here, right
because this is where I live, this is where my
business is. It's understandable.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I mean, we've got way too many neighborhoods downtown that
we've rehabbed that we've spent money on.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
My good the whole North Main Street area right beautiful
what they've done there, And people have spent a fair
share of money, you know, rehabing those homes and making
it into a nice place to live where people want
to be downtown again.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
And you can't ask them to move downtown and then say,
but by the way, you know, we've got this homeless
issue that we just can't figure out. So you're on
your own there.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Right It Really, you know, I hate to say it,
but it seems to me to be an unsolvable issue.
You're never going to solve the issue. You just try
to mitigate it as much as possible.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You're listening to Columbia's morning news on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson bit.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
A sixteen minutes after the ar of eight o'clock and
welcome into a Tuesday, the fifteenth of April. Gary David,
Christopher Thompson has just mentioned the team. This is Columbia's
morning News. Let's get to pen a few minutes, get
caught up on our states at Turning General Alan Wilson,
who joins us right now.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Good morning to you, sir, Hey, Good morning Gary.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
A lot of we spoke several weeks back, and well,
a lot's happened in the last couple of weeks. We
wanted to get caught up on here and I wanted
to start with again a big win of the high
court at the US Supreme Court, and we touched on
this a few weeks back. The big the big win
when it came to the Trump administration being able to
(29:31):
deport violent criminal illegal aliens like Trenda Argua. So and
that's I guess where does that stand right now? I
know that there's more lawsuits being filed. Now, how does
that work when the Supreme Court rules? I guess I'm
(29:53):
just legally illiterate, you know, I mean, I thought once
a Supreme Court ruled on something that was that, but
apparently it's not.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Well, first off, Gary, that was a very profound win
for us because and it's not just about removing.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Violent criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
It's about removing people who the federal government has deemed
as foreign terrorist organizations. This is no different than hasbala
Isis or Osama bin Line and walking the streets of
our country. Just because they're members of a gang don't
mean that they're not a threat to national security. And
obviously the you know, the president has broad authority and
the Supreme Court has recognized the broad authority in the
(30:31):
areas of foreign affairs and national security.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
That was incredibly important.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Listen, eight months ago, there were no Trendy I Ragua
in South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Now they're here, and that is a great concern to me.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
But what this means for us is that the executive
branch of government can actually carry out.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Its functions in protecting the general public.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Every case is going to be different factually, so people
are going to bring lawsuits based on nuanced fact differences
differences in facts rather and so that's what that means now.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And since we last book, we have issue here with
a usc student run over killed in a hit and run,
and the suspect here alleged to have perpetratus was somebody
here in this country illegally right.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
That is correct, And again, the allegations against the individual
is that this person, mister Cruz, who was involved in
that traffic fatality and was charged with a hit and run, obviously,
failure to render a provide information, and driving without a
driver's license, was here illegally, came here in twenty sixteen
as an unaccompanied minor was released to the car and
custody of family members who were also here illegally. Twenty
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eighteen was issued in order of removal by immigration judge
and then went under the radar and was not able
to be found by ICE officials for the last seven
years and then until obviously this incident occurred. Our office
has taken on this case because of the broader implications,
not necessarily the specific facts, but we have ongoing investigations
at the state level regarding matters closely associated with illegal
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immigration and other things going on in the state that
I can't at this time go into, but there will
be an opportunity in the future for us to come
on the show and talk about it. But that is
why we have taken an interest in that particular case.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I was going to ask you the stupid question you
brought up, if or the fact that whatever it is
you're working on, these would be troubling for US South Calinas.
I'm guessing, well, it.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Is obviously I'm limiting.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Yeah, the topic is and again this is something that
I've been concerned about illegal illegal immigrations, not immigration, but
illegal immigration, which is which is enabling people to come
here who are foreign terrorists, who are violent criminal gang members,
who have ulterior motives then seeking a better way of life. Again,
it's not just people from Latin America and Mexico, but
it's people from the Middle East and of foreign foreign
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governments on the other side of the world that are
somehow finding their way at the US Mexico border and
we're able to come in here with that migratory wave.
They're coming in here because they have ulterior motives and
they're they're all over this country and those sleeper sales
are out there, and this is something that is a
great concern to me. The meinal trade gary has been said,
the track human trafficking trade has been said by this
(33:05):
by these policies of the last four years. And I'm
so glad we plugged the holes in the boat. But
now we have to bail out the water.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
And I'm not.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Talking you know, bailing out children who were born here
and have no clue where their country of origins about,
or for people who want a better way of life,
I'm talking about violent criminal, illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
You all have been in front of the State Supreme
Court here recently and you've been granted your office that
is who prosecuted the Alex Murdock murder case. Now they
want a retrial. I guess this is based on the
miss Becky stuff. The former clerk of court in Coldin
County and his hery has been arguing. All have been
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dragging your feet on this case. But you got another
one hundred and twenty days to serve and file your response.
So what's going on with this? Is there a realistic
possibility could be another Alex Mordoch troll in the same case.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Look, you know what, let me explain this. It is
not unusual for the state to ask for state or
for the defense. That's the defense is done in the past,
to ask for extensions on a case. Our appellate team
has a very busy capital docket. You know, we've South
Carolina started executing death row inmates again.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
That has take that takes a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Obviously, the request for an extension is nothing out of
the usual usually four to six extensions are granted on
cases like this. This is a very, very big case,
so obviously our team wanted the additional time to be
able to, you know, make sure we did our due
diligence in presenting our appeal or at least our defense
of the appeal. This is not unusual for this type
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of defense attorneys to try to pound the desk and
throw everything they can at the state, and they're doing
their job. But again, we're going to defend the work
product we're going to in the case, and uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
We'll leave it up to the courts to decide what
they think.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
And I believe we spoke here recently about a couple
of legislative priorities your office have been very involved in
when it comes to protecting our state's children. And there's
a you've been working on. Yeah, some legislators trying to
get it through when it comes to a I uh
and the and the and and predatory uh behaviors with
(35:27):
with with predators when it comes to children our case.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
What's going on here now, absolutely that there's a there's
there's two bills that are going from the Senate to
the House right now, people should call their legislators and
tell them the support.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
They're very easy. One of them is an.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
AI bill that you know obviously protects children from being
exploited using AI platforms. Obviously, taking criminal sexual abuse material
images because c SAM c s a m uh and
and taking an innocent photo of a child and replicating
it engaging in sexual abuse material is is a bill that.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Would tighten that up.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
The other one is a administrative subpoena bill, And basically,
when you know, right now, this bill would.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Make it easier for us to do our jobs.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
And basically the way it makes it easier is, right now,
I have to go to the United States Attorney to
get a subpoena to find out what person is at
an IP address that is going to i'm child porn sites.
This would cut that out and allow me to get
a subpoena directly signed by the state Attorney General, not
by the US Attorney. It would cut out that extra step,
allowing my team to go directly to find out what
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IP address is at what location. So right now, when
you see someone going to looking at child porn, you
see a series of numbers.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
You don't know who those numbers belong to.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
But this allows us to go to the Internet service
provider and find out the name and address and then
we can go get an actual warrant to get that
computer and find out who's looking at child porn.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Well, not much time of necession, so they get that
one done right there. So yeah, contact your up on
that one, all right, Well, a lot to get caught
up on. Alan Wilson, our state Attorney General. As always,
thank you for your time, sir, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
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Speaker 2 (37:01):
Info you can count him on it.
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Speaker 2 (37:21):
Alrighty eight forty. Another reminder again that although it's April fifteenth,
this tax day, it's not for South Carolina. If you
don't haven't done yet, Oh what, wipe the sweat off
your brow and take a big sigh of relief because
thanks to Hurricane Helene, Yeah, she's almost you live in
without taxes in South Carolina. Whether you had any damage
or not doesn't matter. You're being granted a couple week extension.
(37:45):
May first is the deadline for it. Okay, but don't
forget that deadline. I'm still I'm still you know, Yeah,
I am stunned. I was talking to Matt and John over,
preservation specialists on Health of Wellness show a couple of
weekends ago, and they reminded me about that. You know,
I had forgotten about that, and I'm stunned that there was,
(38:08):
you know, leading into tax season that there weren't there. Basically,
there was zero media mentions.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Maybe I mean, well, we are in the media, but
maybe we just weren't looking for I don't know where
they would have targeted the audience message for that. You
would think a news talk station we would have heard it.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yeah, but whatever they actually announced that back last October.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Maybe maybe they were hoping you would forget so they
could get your money a little early.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Oh then maybe yeah, because if you're getting a refund,
you ain't getting your money early. Apparently people are so
I wouldn't know what that's like, but people are are
hopping mad because it's taking like forever in a day.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
And this is state refunds, yeah, all.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Of state and federal Yeah yeah both. Okay, so May
one is the actual deadline here, flks this time around
f y I let mentions in a rundown. The Post
and Courier wrote an article about Nancy Mace. You know again,
she's not announced she's running for governor yet, but she's
doing all the things in indication that she is. So
(39:15):
here's the headline, Mace Woo's MAGA faithful and vote rich Greenville?
Do they want her? Question mark? And it opens up
talking about a voter who was a small business owner
who says he likes he likes the fact that she
flipped the first district from Democrat to Republican. Of course
it was only a Democrat for like two years, but
(39:36):
you know, still likes that she's embraced the MAGA movement
and saying that she would he would probably vote for
Mace for governor. I'm sorry not he she anyway, but
but but after seeing Mace's speech on the House floor,
(39:56):
you know the one I'm talking about, the one accusing
her ex fiance and three others of sexual crimes.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
The one she's being sued over the one she's.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Being sued over. Yes, suddenly this pretty certain Mace voter says, well,
she she'd like to see Mace dial back the drama
saying that women get a bad name and stuff like this,
you know, because we're freaking dramatic, she says. Nancy Mace
is nothing of not freaking dramatic.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, I'm glad that was a woman who said that
a man couldn't get away with saying that, but a
woman can, right right.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
So yeah, I mean, it's it's gonna be. And really,
i mean from now up until well early next year,
it's all gonna be about you know, who can who can,
who can get that Trump endorsement. It's gonna be it's
gonna mean a lot. Look as usual.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
If you follow Nancy Mace's career, this is maybe the
highest profile drama, but this is far from the most.
Oh no, it's I mean, it's it's a trail of it. Yeah,
this is this is her remo. Yeah, this is this
is what you're gonna take if you if you want
her in and if you're I mean, she's got krit
(41:18):
political credentials, but she brings this wherever she.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Goes right now. So which which surprises me that she
hadn't made a mention of this. But Fox News Learning
in the last twenty four hours or so, Yeah, there's
an arrest of a man, Sean Monper of all places, Butler, Pennsylvania.
He was arrested for making threats to assassinate Trump. But
(41:44):
sources tell Fox News Now that that same man also
threatened Mace and that her office was informed back well,
these threats were made against her back in January on
social media. It's April. Now, how does a threat on
social media against a politician, whether being a congresswoman or
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a president, How does that go unnoticed? Whatever it did,
But apparently her office was notified that threats were made
against her on social media back in January.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, that's usually the type of stuff that she would
immediately Yeah, repost.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Controversy over another speaker over at USC later on this
month is a group that brings in controversial speakers, Uncensored America.
We'll be hosting an event with the Fresh and Fit
podcast host Myron Gaines why Women Deserve Less and this
(42:48):
is creating an uproar. Students are calling it the bigotry again.
The organizers say events like these are part of a
larger effort to create uncensored student speech on campuses. Remember
it was the roast of Kamala Harris last year that
sparked all the controversy. Now controversy for a different reason.
(43:09):
Is this what tariffs are all about? The news that Nvidia,
one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Everybody's
heard about their stock, right, maybe you have some of it.
They made an announcement yesterday that they are designing factories
to manufacture artificial intelligence supercomputers and they will be made
(43:30):
entirely in the US. Okay. They're securing over one million
square feet of factory space to manufacture their chips. Chips, right,
chips important, We need those, yeah, in Arizona, and build
supercomputers in Texas, Okay.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
And this is if you've been watching the administration, you
know in the early days, it was all about doge
in how much money they saved. Last couple of day.
Every day you hear at least one Cabinet secretary talking
about how much money these tariffs have brought back to
the United States. That's the point in investment in manufacturing,
that's the point.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
And an area day goes by where we don't see
another example of that happening. And the Vice president did
he break it or not? The trophy.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Most of those trophies come in you're talking about the
National Championship for college football football. Yes, Ohio State was
at the White House yesterday. Most of those trophies are
two pieces. I don't know, it looked like it was
two pieces, but yeah, that one got fumbled.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Yeah it fumbled and it broke. But what a on
social media the reaction from JD. Van's who of course
remember he's from Ohio, and the Ohio Senator all I
didn't want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy,
so I decided to break it. Good response right there.
(45:06):
You know I would have been mortified it been me.
I was just
Alrightesus right, yeah, Sames of America and for Regius one
nation under god Ina.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
It is almost wow, almost seventeen minutes after six o'clock.
We're a little late getting to the party here. Good morning,
welcome to it. Though. It's Tuesday, April fifteenth, April fifteenth, eh,
fifteenth of April, tax day for most not for us,
for most of us, most of the rest of the cut, well,
the rest of them, well, most of the rest of
the cut, not for South Carolina. You don't have to,
(00:52):
I mean you can go ahead. I went ahead and
took care of the heck with it, man, I.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Mean, why wait? And then I'm afraid I'd forget in
April fifteenth, this tax day. If I go intil another deadline,
I'm thinking I may not remember that deadline.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, this is all news to you. Yeah. Because of
Hurricane Helene, the filing deadline for taxes if you're a
South Carolina resident is May one this year, not April fifteenth.
As if a couple of weeks is gonna make that
much of a difference anyway. But hey, and we mentioned
this yesterday. I'm just still stunned. That's not there was
(01:26):
There wasn't there was a more set about this, you know,
leading up to this date. And I'm gonna start really
talking about this again till like a couple of days ago.
The yeah, there is that, that that little reprieve. But yeah,
I went ahead and get it over with. Man, you know,
just deal with it. But uh but but yeah, if
(01:49):
you're not ready yet, no sweat. You got until May
first here in South Carolina, So good for you. You've missed
a buttoned up over there. You've probably been done since like.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well it's not like I do it. I mean, it's
too complicated for me, so we turn it over to somebody,
and yet it's done.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah. Yeah, I've been. I'm doing the same for years now. Now.
I helped my kids were theirs the other day. M h.
I still do because they're simple, you know, relatively simple.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And with the free programs now it's just it's a breeze.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh you can go. You can go to your county
library and you know they'll do it for nothing for
you if you like so uh yeah, uh, tax day,
but not really for us here in in South Carolina.
All Right, the rundown, the big story is the hot topics.
What's going on? Well, why why do we have Alex
Murdoch news at the top of the stack today. Let's see, Well,
(02:45):
the State Supreme Court has granted the state a little
more time in this Murdoch appeal request.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Murdoch's attorneys have been complaining that the state's been dragging
their feet, but the High Court says, you get a
another one hundred and twenty days when it comes to
serving and filing. A response to this is, this is
the defense's request for a new murder trying to Alan Wilson,
his office prosecuted this case. He's actually gonna be with
(03:13):
us later on this morning. We went to ask him
about that Russell Lafitte, crony of Murdoch banker. Yeah, the
banker is pleted guilty now to helping Murdoch get his
theft of millions of dollars. Remember, he already had a
trial and will sendence to seven years in the federal lockup.
(03:37):
But he won a new trial last year after already
serving thirteen months and a fed lock up. In Florida.
He's tried, he's convicted, he's spent some time in jail
and been in prison, he's granted a new trial, and
now he just pleads guilty. What okay? Oh and they're
(03:58):
making another movie about all this too? Who who is
making a movie the Murdoch murderers. I think the country's
pretty much moved on from that. I mean we have
here in South Carolina. I think who lose at legs
of the game on that one? I could be wrong.
SLED charging a former Elexingon County councilman and an attorney
with COVID relief fraud, Billy Oswald charged with three counts
of fraud. This related theft of funds from the state's
(04:21):
disaster unemployment Assistance fund. According to Warrens from SLED, there's
a lot of that that went on, as we know now.
Nancy Mace up in the upstate trying to woo the
MAGA crowd, says the Post, incurring their headline. Interesting start
to this story too, by the way they they they're
they're talking to a voter, a Republican small business owner
(04:46):
who says he he likes a lot about Nancy Mace,
A lot and said you probably vote for for for governor.
But but there's a butt here. This is the butt
we've been referring to. But after seeing Mace's House floor
speech in March, and you know when we she accused
her ex fiance and three others of sex crimes, he
(05:09):
says he'd like her to dial back the drama a
little bit, which is I think the the attitude of
a lot of folks.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I would think so, by the way.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Uh, this in from Fox News. A man who was
charged with making threats to murder Trump also found he
have threatened Mace. This according to a source with knowledge
of the matter, telling Fox News Digital that Mace's office
was informed by Capitol police that this sean monper of
(05:42):
Ironically enough, Butler Pennsylvania made threats against Mace on social
media back in January. How stupid you have to be
to make a threat against somebody on social media? Huh?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And you're asking for the Secret Service or some federal
official to immediately come to your door.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, right, hello, idiot. We mentioned the eight is going
to be with us later on. He is leading a
coalition backing a bill. This is Tim Scott's new bill,
the firmac Financial Integrity and Regulation Management Act. This is
to stop banks from d banking folks. You know, we
saw a lot of that with conservatives, depending on you know,
(06:22):
who you are supporting, were you're a gun owner, whatever.
A lot of folks got d banked, and there's a
move to stop that from happening. More controversy with the
us CE campus and again courtesy of this same group
that Uncensored America, they bring in, you know, speakers who
(06:44):
have extreme views. This time they've got a podcast host
by the name of Myron Gaines who's supposed to speak
later on this month in an event called Why Women
Deserve Life US and students. Are there some faculty lining
(07:05):
up against this one? The homeless problem in the Midlands.
We may get into some of this this morning. There's
been a plan to try to bring it down. You're
never gonna end up it, try to bring it down,
and apparently it's just got made the situation worse. Now
looking at ways to try to reboot that tariff news,
(07:26):
well there's a lot going around there now. News that
the President is considering pausing the auto tariffs. Okay, now
the pause on electronics. Well, there are levees in the
future when it comes to that. So you know, again,
I'm just trying to keep up with it. All has
been a little hard to do. By the way, we
(07:48):
were just talking about this yesterday, these chips that have
been pretty much you know, Taiwan making all of them. Well,
now news from Nvidia that they are designing factories to
manufacture AI supercomputers entirely in this country. This is a
(08:08):
big chip maker. They will do manufacturing and lots of
it in the US. This is again the other part
of all this strategy from Trump to bring more manufacturing
and more jobs and something like that certainly is vital.
All Right, we got that we've got another judge blocking
a Trump order. What's to do there?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And that team who's alleged to have stabbed and killed
another fellow athlete in Texas, what about two weeks ago?
I guess this is the death of Austin Metcalf who
was stabbed by Carmelo Anthony, not the basketball player, but
a seventeen year old in Texas, a guy facing first
degree murder charges. His bond reduced from a million dollars
(08:50):
to a quarter of a million, and he was allowed
to leave jail and go home and under house of rest.
And that's got some folks, needless to say, up in
arms Arizona to purge up to fifty thousand, fifty thousand
non citizens from voters' rolls. How many fifty thousand that
(09:14):
and more coming your way here on this the Tuesday
edition of Columbia's Morning News. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
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Speaker 2 (09:42):
Hey, good marking to you. It's six forty two and
good to have you along. On Tuesday, April fifteenth, tax Day,
but again not pruss in South Carolina. We got the
extension till May one, if you so are so inclined
to take that because of Hurricane Helene. You didn't have
to have damage or anything like that. Just resident of
South Carolina and you get the couple week reprieve. All right, now,
(10:08):
So another lawsuit filed against the Trump administration. But As
I mentioned going into the news update, this is one
that is a conservative you shouldn't have too many issues with.
Quite honestly, the administration accused of breaking the law. Recent
lawsuit filed after the White House took down a website
(10:32):
meant to show us the public how federal funding is
being dispersed to agencies. It's a public spending tracker. This
new lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of violating federal law
when the database overseen by the Office of Management and
(10:53):
Budget the OMB office went dark without explanation. I don't
know why, but as a conservative this this should be
troubling to you. It is to me, as the complaint reads,
(11:16):
Congress mandated prompt transparency for apportionments to prevent abuses of
power and to strengthen the Congresses and the public's oversight
of the spending process. Absence this transparency, the President and
o MB may abuse their authority over the apportionment of
federal funds without public or congressional scrutiny or accountability. Now
(11:38):
we don't know that they are, but again, this whole
tracker was set up for a specific reason for transparency.
The argument by this group is a nonprofit protect Democracy
Project says that the apportionment disclosures provide the only public
(12:05):
source of info on DOGE on how DOZE is being funded. Okay,
so they're taking a specific look at Their problem is
how much money you giveing these DOSE people? How much
money is Elon Musk getting here to do the work
that he and his group at DOZE are doing. So
this is their their angle, But from a broader perspective,
(12:26):
my angle is just this, we ought to know. I
don't care who the president is, what parties in power,
We as the public have a right to know what
our tax dollars are being spent on, how they're being
divvied up. This, this sort of thing should be you know,
(12:48):
this is the sort of thing expect from a Democrat president,
not from a Republican. And it goes again to the
broader issue that we've talked about a lot. You know,
people always want to say, yeah, the crashes want to
spend span, spend span span. Well, guess what so are
the Republicans? And uh, and Trump likes to spend too.
(13:10):
As a matter of fact, so far, Uh, the federal
government is spending you know, more money now than it was,
say a year ago. This time, which is you know,
not not not what we not what we banked on. Right,
But this should come as no surprise because in his
first term Trump did that too, He spent like crazy.
(13:36):
But this particular lawsuit, of course, their concern is is
how much they were how much money is Doge getting.
They're missing the point here again, this is a tool,
a website that was mandated by Congress, and it has
(13:59):
gone dark. It went dark back in March, and there's
been no explanation as to why. Okay, so I gotta
agree with them on this one. Maybe not for the
specific reason they were wanting to sue over, but in
the and again in the in the broader sense from
(14:20):
a thirty thousand foot view, we we should know not
that quite honestly, many of us are taking the time to,
you know, go on a website like this and and
take a gander. And again, if you did, what, Yeah,
what are you gonna do about it? Well, I mean,
could contact your congress person whatever. But this it's it's
(14:44):
it's it's it's a bit. It's very troubling to me personally.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I would think they would want to be as transparent
as possible. I would think so too, because you know,
most most of the news coming out of Doze has
been good, right right, It's been about what they're saving
us and and the waste they've discovered and the in iciencies.
So lay it all out there.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean, you know, as they like to say, you know,
sunlight's the best medicine, right, put it out there, right right,
all of it. I mean, those just got their website
showing what they're well, what kind of savings they've they've
come up with here. Now that's a number, doesn't mean
we've actually saved that much so far, but those are
(15:24):
the ones the things that they have identified as being
you know, fluff, waste, fraud sometimes you know, just playing
playing fraud. But I don't care how much. I don't
at this point in time. I'm not curious how much
money is though you getting to do this, But where
(15:47):
is the money going? We ought to know as conservatives,
we should not be happy with this development. So all
the lawsuits against Trump administration, there is one I can say,
oh yeah, with that one.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
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Speaker 2 (16:13):
We were thinking recently maybe we'll have an Easter dinner
out on the back deck. But we're gonna be too cold.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I don't think you're gonna have that's gonna be it's.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Gonna be too hot, you know. Okay, we can't quite
hit that nice middle, you know, that seventy five degree
temperature kind of thing. Although it was it was nice yesterday.
Well it got a little warm yesterday.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Anyway, not as warm as it will be this weekend.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Uh uh no, sir, Well, good morning to you. It
is Tuesday, April fifteenth, sixteen, after seven o'clock and hopefully
you know by now if you're if you're think I
gotta scrab and get my taxes done, well you gotta
reprieve because you're a South Carolinian, because of Helene. So
May one is the actual deadline for us this year.
And that that really wasn't hyped up like it should
have been. Certainly, if you had you know, a CPA
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or somebody doing your taxes, they were aware of that.
But if you were, you know, doing it on your
own or getting ready to take the day off, take
a couple of weeks off, especially, and I know a
lot of people I have been this way in the past,
that last minute guy, you.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Know, sure, yeah, especially if you oh yeah right.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Anyway, May one is the deadline this time around for us. Okay,
let's see, how's your four oh one k doing well?
The markets were up yesterday, The Dow was up three
hundred some odd points, the S and P was up.
Pre market trading pretty flat this morning, which is, you know,
not a bad thing, right, we look at this thing
(17:40):
some mornings last week went oh my goodness, dal futures
are up about nineteen right now. Yeah, you get the
sense that things are quieting down, that the market turmoil
is coming to an end. I'm beginning to wonder now
if the markets are thinking, you know, Trump's going to
(18:01):
kind of back off of this in some way, shape
or form. Maybe not wholesale, but here and there. For example,
the announcement yesterday by Trump not an announcement but a suggestion, okay,
that he might at least temporarily take the auto industry
tariffs off off this list to give carmakers time to
(18:25):
adjust their supply chains.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I would add a trial balloon. Or is that a
message to the markets?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Both? Probably? Yeah, both Now with the Again the broader
goal in mind here of attracting more manufacturing to the
to the States, that would be a good move, okay,
And again people want to we keep talking about, well,
(18:54):
this country is charging because as much in a tariffs,
so we should be doing the same thing. Blah blah
blah blah. But the end goal is not only that,
but also to bring more manufacturing jobs to America. And
if you want to do that with the auto sector,
well this is a good way to do it. Okay. Yeah,
you'll wave this tariff up in front of them and
everybody goes, oh, my goodness, the card's gonna Oh this
(19:16):
is gonna be awful. It's be dreadful, and yeah, it
would be. But then you say, you know what, We're
gonna hold off on that to give you time to
readjust your plans here to go ahead and and and
and ramp up manufacturing here in the United States of America.
I'm gonna bat if that happens. And we've seen this
(19:37):
already with a couple of car makers. If that happens
on a on a broader basis, that these these auto
tariffs will never happen. And this was the whole point
even if some country is charged against a higher tariff
than we're paying, Uh, then we're charging them that. Well,
mission accomplished. We we brought more manufacturing jobs back to
(19:57):
the States. We basically reverse NAFTA, and maybe that's the
whole point. So there was that yesterday at least a
suggestion that he might exempt the auto windustry. He had
said back late last month that these would be permanent,
(20:18):
but nothing's permanent these days. As we know. There's confusion,
of course over the tariffs on electronics consumer electronics. You know,
we talked about this yesterday Friday, that was the pause
on new taxes, and then over the weekend Trump and
others administrations. Yeah, this is just temporary too. So I
(20:39):
think if you ask me, we have more uncertainty today
than we had back on April third, the morning after
the tariffs, the reciprocal tariffs were rolled out. I think
we have more uncertainty now. Yet the markets are stabilizing again.
It's like jumping into that cold, cold water in a
pool first time, Yuh, you freak out and then you
(21:02):
get used to it.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I think it's also the fact that they've seen Trump
react to their reactions and they know that if things
get too bad, Trump will pull something.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah. So and it was the it was the the
really the weirdness of the bond markets a few days
ago that led to you know Trump that they when
he saw him at and not time to get too
deep in the weeds on that right now, but that
that was a that was a scary moment I think
for the administration because the bond's got real wonky there
(21:34):
and that's not something you want to play with here.
Uh so, uh terriff wise, where are we? I don't know,
I mean, does anybody really and we have yet to
hear of the first you know country actually coming officially
to the table. But there's a lot of discussions going on.
(21:56):
Needless to say, hear about it.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
We wake up the country, talk about it. This is
this is pure evil.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
One O three point five FM and five sixty am
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and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five FM
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Speaker 2 (22:20):
Seven forty two. Now, So the homeless issue Columbia surrounding
areas well, at least with the City of Columbia A
couple of years ago they led out a plan to
try to address the issue. It's back in twenty twenty two,
but it looks like the problem is getting worse, not better.
(22:44):
Sign of the times. Don't know. They estimate that they're
and we're just talking about the city of Columbia now.
And there are other spots around where you see evidence
of this, I mean a couple of years ago, I
mean before the pandemic. We've always had a homeless issue.
(23:04):
But I'm going to bet that you have probably come
across the areas that you really didn't suspect that there
was a sizable homeless population camping out. There are a
lot of places around town with this is happening around
(23:25):
the Midlands.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
It just happens more openly in the city.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Exactly as far as the city is concerned. The latest
data was that the homeless population grew well. The Posting
Career article says, the Midlands homeless population grew from twenty
two percent by twenty two percent is from January of
(23:54):
twenty twenty three to January of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Now, did it grow that much or are we doing
better job of counting?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Well, that's that's the question. They estimate. There's one thousand,
four hundred and twenty three homeless people living in the area.
Those are those who are unsheltered, living on the streets,
those in emergency shelters, transitional housing. They count them all
and how they come up with this number? Yeah, that's
an estimate.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
And so what are what are they saying? What are
we doing? And what are they saying we're doing? It's
not working.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah. One of the complaints has been that some of
the organizations that work to try to you know, home
these people, to give them a meal inside show. You're
talking about people like the OFUTFICE, like you know, Oliver
Gospel Mission, Transitions, Austin Wolks Society Homeless no More. There
(24:47):
are those who complain that they're the city is not
bringing folks like this in to the discussion to come
up with ideas. Now uh Maya. Rickaman says that these
providers are coming to the table and maybe they didn't
maybe what they want to include the first time around.
(25:10):
I don't know if they can actually pinpoint exactly why
their original plan is not working. Now there have been
some improvements. The Rapid Shelter Pallet Home program was part
of the plan in twenty twenty two, and it's uh,
it's now housing some one hundred people.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Can that get bigger? Or can they create another area
like that someplace else?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, that's that's that's the that's always the problem, isn't it.
Where are you gonna put it? And how big will
you allow it to get before everybody else starts complaining
about it? Right? True, some of the shelters and things
that are trying to do a bit moved out of
the downtown area. But that's you're gonna find that. That's
(25:59):
where a lot of the whole almost folks tend to
tend to gravitate towards.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You can't have all the services downtown and then expect
them to live someplace else or expect them to stay
someplace else exactly. We've tried that. That doesn't work. These
are problems facing every American city these days. And it's
a problem. It's not gonna go away. No, But here's
(26:25):
here's one reason why we've got to solve it. Because
we're spending all that money on the park downtown, Finley Park,
and that can't that can't become the homeless magnet that
it used to be. Right, Otherwise, we've blown that money
for nothing exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Now. One of the issues moving forward is is that
the city has allocated about a million dollars from its
general fund towards this this issue, but they've also been
relying on two million dollars in the American Rescue Plan funding. Well,
that money goes away at the end of the year.
That's a two million dollar gap. Can they make it up?
(27:05):
Teresa Wilson, the city manager, was asked in the article,
just said, we'll try. So it's an ongoing issue. I
don't care where you go. You know. Kudos again to
the city for in twenty twenty two rolling out a
planet to try to you know, combat it, try to
make the situation better. So props for that. But what's
(27:26):
happened is just the opposite, that the problem has gotten bigger,
not better. Now. It begs the question, have they not
instituted a few things in twenty twenty two? How big
might it be now? How bad might it be now?
So maybe it's it's do you know, anytime you get
in this discussion, it's always the same. Ever it says, well, yeah,
(27:50):
we need to shelter, these folks need, they need places
to go, things to do, but just not here, right
because this is where I live, this is where my
business is. It's understandable.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I mean, we've got way too many neighborhoods downtown that
we've rehabbed that we've spent money on.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
My good the whole North Main Street area right beautiful
what they've done there, And people have spent a fair
share of money, you know, rehabing those homes and making
it into a nice place to live where people want
to be downtown again.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
And you can't ask them to move downtown and then say,
but by the way, you know, we've got this homeless
issue that we just can't figure out. So you're on
your own there.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Right It Really, you know, I hate to say it,
but it seems to me to be an unsolvable issue.
You're never going to solve the issue. You just try
to mitigate it as much as possible.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
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Speaker 2 (28:52):
A sixteen minutes after the ar of eight o'clock and
welcome into a Tuesday, the fifteenth of April. Gary David,
Christopher Thompson has just mentioned the team. This is Columbia's
morning News. Let's get to pen a few minutes, get
caught up on our states at Turning General Alan Wilson,
who joins us right now.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Good morning to you, sir, Hey, Good morning Gary.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
A lot of we spoke several weeks back, and well,
a lot's happened in the last couple of weeks. We
wanted to get caught up on here and I wanted
to start with again a big win of the high
court at the US Supreme Court, and we touched on
this a few weeks back. The big the big win
when it came to the Trump administration being able to
(29:31):
deport violent criminal illegal aliens like Trenda Argua. So and
that's I guess where does that stand right now? I
know that there's more lawsuits being filed. Now, how does
that work when the Supreme Court rules? I guess I'm
(29:53):
just legally illiterate, you know, I mean, I thought once
a Supreme Court ruled on something that was that, but
apparently it's not.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Well, first off, Gary, that was a very profound win
for us because and it's not just about removing.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Violent criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
It's about removing people who the federal government has deemed
as foreign terrorist organizations. This is no different than hasbala
Isis or Osama bin Line and walking the streets of
our country. Just because they're members of a gang don't
mean that they're not a threat to national security. And
obviously the you know, the president has broad authority and
the Supreme Court has recognized the broad authority in the
(30:31):
areas of foreign affairs and national security.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
That was incredibly important.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Listen, eight months ago, there were no Trendy I Ragua
in South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Now they're here, and that is a great concern to me.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
But what this means for us is that the executive
branch of government can actually carry out.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Its functions in protecting the general public.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Every case is going to be different factually, so people
are going to bring lawsuits based on nuanced fact differences
differences in facts rather and so that's what that means now.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And since we last book, we have issue here with
a usc student run over killed in a hit and run,
and the suspect here alleged to have perpetratus was somebody
here in this country illegally right.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
That is correct, And again, the allegations against the individual
is that this person, mister Cruz, who was involved in
that traffic fatality and was charged with a hit and run, obviously,
failure to render a provide information, and driving without a
driver's license, was here illegally, came here in twenty sixteen
as an unaccompanied minor was released to the car and
custody of family members who were also here illegally. Twenty
(31:35):
eighteen was issued in order of removal by immigration judge
and then went under the radar and was not able
to be found by ICE officials for the last seven
years and then until obviously this incident occurred. Our office
has taken on this case because of the broader implications,
not necessarily the specific facts, but we have ongoing investigations
at the state level regarding matters closely associated with illegal
(31:58):
immigration and other things going on in the state that
I can't at this time go into, but there will
be an opportunity in the future for us to come
on the show and talk about it. But that is
why we have taken an interest in that particular case.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I was going to ask you the stupid question you
brought up, if or the fact that whatever it is
you're working on, these would be troubling for US South Calinas.
I'm guessing, well, it.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Is obviously I'm limiting.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Yeah, the topic is and again this is something that
I've been concerned about illegal illegal immigrations, not immigration, but
illegal immigration, which is which is enabling people to come
here who are foreign terrorists, who are violent criminal gang members,
who have ulterior motives then seeking a better way of life. Again,
it's not just people from Latin America and Mexico, but
it's people from the Middle East and of foreign foreign
(32:44):
governments on the other side of the world that are
somehow finding their way at the US Mexico border and
we're able to come in here with that migratory wave.
They're coming in here because they have ulterior motives and
they're they're all over this country and those sleeper sales
are out there, and this is something that is a
great concern to me. The meinal trade gary has been said,
the track human trafficking trade has been said by this
(33:05):
by these policies of the last four years. And I'm
so glad we plugged the holes in the boat. But
now we have to bail out the water.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
And I'm not.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Talking you know, bailing out children who were born here
and have no clue where their country of origins about,
or for people who want a better way of life,
I'm talking about violent criminal, illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
You all have been in front of the State Supreme
Court here recently and you've been granted your office that
is who prosecuted the Alex Murdock murder case. Now they
want a retrial. I guess this is based on the
miss Becky stuff. The former clerk of court in Coldin
County and his hery has been arguing. All have been
(33:52):
dragging your feet on this case. But you got another
one hundred and twenty days to serve and file your response.
So what's going on with this? Is there a realistic
possibility could be another Alex Mordoch troll in the same case.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Look, you know what, let me explain this. It is
not unusual for the state to ask for state or
for the defense. That's the defense is done in the past,
to ask for extensions on a case. Our appellate team
has a very busy capital docket. You know, we've South
Carolina started executing death row inmates again.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
That has take that takes a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Obviously, the request for an extension is nothing out of
the usual usually four to six extensions are granted on
cases like this. This is a very, very big case,
so obviously our team wanted the additional time to be
able to, you know, make sure we did our due
diligence in presenting our appeal or at least our defense
of the appeal. This is not unusual for this type
(34:49):
of defense attorneys to try to pound the desk and
throw everything they can at the state, and they're doing
their job. But again, we're going to defend the work
product we're going to in the case, and uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
We'll leave it up to the courts to decide what
they think.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
And I believe we spoke here recently about a couple
of legislative priorities your office have been very involved in
when it comes to protecting our state's children. And there's
a you've been working on. Yeah, some legislators trying to
get it through when it comes to a I uh
and the and the and and predatory uh behaviors with
(35:27):
with with predators when it comes to children our case.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
What's going on here now, absolutely that there's a there's
there's two bills that are going from the Senate to
the House right now, people should call their legislators and
tell them the support.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
They're very easy. One of them is an.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
AI bill that you know obviously protects children from being
exploited using AI platforms. Obviously, taking criminal sexual abuse material
images because c SAM c s a m uh and
and taking an innocent photo of a child and replicating
it engaging in sexual abuse material is is a bill that.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Would tighten that up.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
The other one is a administrative subpoena bill, And basically,
when you know, right now, this bill would.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Make it easier for us to do our jobs.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
And basically the way it makes it easier is, right now,
I have to go to the United States Attorney to
get a subpoena to find out what person is at
an IP address that is going to i'm child porn sites.
This would cut that out and allow me to get
a subpoena directly signed by the state Attorney General, not
by the US Attorney. It would cut out that extra step,
allowing my team to go directly to find out what
(36:27):
IP address is at what location. So right now, when
you see someone going to looking at child porn, you
see a series of numbers.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
You don't know who those numbers belong to.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
But this allows us to go to the Internet service
provider and find out the name and address and then
we can go get an actual warrant to get that
computer and find out who's looking at child porn.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Well, not much time of necession, so they get that
one done right there. So yeah, contact your up on
that one, all right, Well, a lot to get caught
up on. Alan Wilson, our state Attorney General. As always,
thank you for your time, sir, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Gary can give yourself an edge every morning with the.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Info you can count him on it.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
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Speaker 2 (37:21):
Alrighty eight forty. Another reminder again that although it's April fifteenth,
this tax day, it's not for South Carolina. If you
don't haven't done yet, Oh what, wipe the sweat off
your brow and take a big sigh of relief because
thanks to Hurricane Helene, Yeah, she's almost you live in
without taxes in South Carolina. Whether you had any damage
or not doesn't matter. You're being granted a couple week extension.
(37:45):
May first is the deadline for it. Okay, but don't
forget that deadline. I'm still I'm still you know, Yeah,
I am stunned. I was talking to Matt and John over,
preservation specialists on Health of Wellness show a couple of
weekends ago, and they reminded me about that. You know,
I had forgotten about that, and I'm stunned that there was,
(38:08):
you know, leading into tax season that there weren't there. Basically,
there was zero media mentions.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Maybe I mean, well, we are in the media, but
maybe we just weren't looking for I don't know where
they would have targeted the audience message for that. You
would think a news talk station we would have heard it.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yeah, but whatever they actually announced that back last October.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Maybe maybe they were hoping you would forget so they
could get your money a little early.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Oh then maybe yeah, because if you're getting a refund,
you ain't getting your money early. Apparently people are so
I wouldn't know what that's like, but people are are
hopping mad because it's taking like forever in a day.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
And this is state refunds, yeah, all.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Of state and federal Yeah yeah both. Okay, so May
one is the actual deadline here, flks this time around
f y I let mentions in a rundown. The Post
and Courier wrote an article about Nancy Mace. You know again,
she's not announced she's running for governor yet, but she's
doing all the things in indication that she is. So
(39:15):
here's the headline, Mace Woo's MAGA faithful and vote rich Greenville?
Do they want her? Question mark? And it opens up
talking about a voter who was a small business owner
who says he likes he likes the fact that she
flipped the first district from Democrat to Republican. Of course
it was only a Democrat for like two years, but
(39:36):
you know, still likes that she's embraced the MAGA movement
and saying that she would he would probably vote for
Mace for governor. I'm sorry not he she anyway, but
but but after seeing Mace's speech on the House floor,
(39:56):
you know the one I'm talking about, the one accusing
her ex fiance and three others of sexual crimes.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
The one she's being sued over the one she's.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Being sued over. Yes, suddenly this pretty certain Mace voter says, well,
she she'd like to see Mace dial back the drama
saying that women get a bad name and stuff like this,
you know, because we're freaking dramatic, she says. Nancy Mace
is nothing of not freaking dramatic.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, I'm glad that was a woman who said that
a man couldn't get away with saying that, but a
woman can, right right.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
So yeah, I mean, it's it's gonna be. And really,
i mean from now up until well early next year,
it's all gonna be about you know, who can who can,
who can get that Trump endorsement. It's gonna be it's
gonna mean a lot. Look as usual.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
If you follow Nancy Mace's career, this is maybe the
highest profile drama, but this is far from the most.
Oh no, it's I mean, it's it's a trail of it. Yeah,
this is this is her remo. Yeah, this is this
is what you're gonna take if you if you want
her in and if you're I mean, she's got krit
(41:18):
political credentials, but she brings this wherever she.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Goes right now. So which which surprises me that she
hadn't made a mention of this. But Fox News Learning
in the last twenty four hours or so, Yeah, there's
an arrest of a man, Sean Monper of all places, Butler, Pennsylvania.
He was arrested for making threats to assassinate Trump. But
(41:44):
sources tell Fox News Now that that same man also
threatened Mace and that her office was informed back well,
these threats were made against her back in January on
social media. It's April. Now, how does a threat on
social media against a politician, whether being a congresswoman or
(42:06):
a president, How does that go unnoticed? Whatever it did,
But apparently her office was notified that threats were made
against her on social media back in January.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, that's usually the type of stuff that she would
immediately Yeah, repost.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Controversy over another speaker over at USC later on this
month is a group that brings in controversial speakers, Uncensored America.
We'll be hosting an event with the Fresh and Fit
podcast host Myron Gaines why Women Deserve Less and this
(42:48):
is creating an uproar. Students are calling it the bigotry again.
The organizers say events like these are part of a
larger effort to create uncensored student speech on campuses. Remember
it was the roast of Kamala Harris last year that
sparked all the controversy. Now controversy for a different reason.
(43:09):
Is this what tariffs are all about? The news that Nvidia,
one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Everybody's
heard about their stock, right, maybe you have some of it.
They made an announcement yesterday that they are designing factories
to manufacture artificial intelligence supercomputers and they will be made
(43:30):
entirely in the US. Okay. They're securing over one million
square feet of factory space to manufacture their chips. Chips, right,
chips important, We need those, yeah, in Arizona, and build
supercomputers in Texas, Okay.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
And this is if you've been watching the administration, you
know in the early days, it was all about doge
in how much money they saved. Last couple of day.
Every day you hear at least one Cabinet secretary talking
about how much money these tariffs have brought back to
the United States. That's the point in investment in manufacturing,
that's the point.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
And an area day goes by where we don't see
another example of that happening. And the Vice president did
he break it or not? The trophy.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Most of those trophies come in you're talking about the
National Championship for college football football. Yes, Ohio State was
at the White House yesterday. Most of those trophies are
two pieces. I don't know, it looked like it was
two pieces, but yeah, that one got fumbled.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Yeah it fumbled and it broke. But what a on
social media the reaction from JD. Van's who of course
remember he's from Ohio, and the Ohio Senator all I
didn't want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy,
so I decided to break it. Good response right there.
(45:06):
You know I would have been mortified it been me.
I was just
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!