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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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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 3 (00:30):
It's fifteen minutes after six o'clock. Good morning, and welcome
to Friday, eleventh of April.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Good to have you along.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I'm Gary David Christopher Thompson, just fresh off another visit
down to Augustin National.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Good morning the.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
USURP, where the weather was gorgeous, yesterdah, but it was
here too, I'm sure it was there. Yeah. I can't
wait to see what it's like today. Those softened conditions
we little rain rain, ye could be some some some
folks could go loaded. Some folks didn't go low yesterday.
Sounds like a good analysis to me. You should come
with me. I'm there. They won't let me in, will they.
(01:09):
Maybe I could hide you in the back, Okay, I'll
tell me I'm your therapy human. Sure, yeah, absolutely, that'll work.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You know, I don't now again the these alias are
are because these alias in our front yard now are
starting to all the all the the you know, the
beautifulness is evaporating quickly.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, how do they do it over there? How did
they make that happen?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I mean, it's it's all about the weather. And as
we know, we had a you know, kind of a
cold early winter and it didn't quite warm up as
quickly as she usually does. So, I mean, if you
saw the women's amitur last weekend, it was at its
height last weekend. Now, it was still gorgeous earlier in
the week They still look good now, but yeah, it's
it's starting to play it. The colors are starting to
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fade a bit. Yeah, but it's still a pretty scene.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I'm sure it is.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
My wife would and she's she can't care less about
the golf, but she's counter as one of those who
would just love to go to see all that.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
There are a lot of men and women who feel
the same way. It's just the spectacle itself is worth it,
even if you don't like the competition.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
All right, So let's get to it, the run down,
the big stories, the hot topics to kick off of
Friday and get this thing done and get to the weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
What have we got. Well, here at home, we've.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Got a petition from Curtis Loftus, the embattled state treasurer
who's supposed to have a hearing coming up here at
some point. I only have set the date for that yet,
have they The Senate wants to boot him out of office.
He has filed a petition with the State Supreme Court
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asking for this hearing to be put off until the
court itself can weigh in on what he calls significant
constitutional issues. So this after that rare removal on address hearing.
The hearing, by the way, is set for the twenty first. Okay,
so we do have an okay, twenty first, all right, Well,
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so this has been filed with the Estate Supreme Court.
Whether or not they pick a listener or not, or
what they make any action on it, not by then
or it means to be seen. Well, we mentioned a
couple of days ago, so we knew it was coming.
In fact, yes, David Pascoe, the solicitor the first Judicial Circuit,
the Democrat is no longer a Democrat. He is a Republican.
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He made that official yesterday. Switching parties now, he says
he's certainly complic complicated. Contemplating is the word I'm searching
for here. A run for the attorney General's Office. Alan
Wilson expected at some point to announce he's running for
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governor in twenty twenty six, and apparently of Pasco just
you know, a law and order guy just fed up
with a Democrat party. And it sounds like maybe the
final straw was when Joe Biden commuted the death sentences
of thirty seven out of forty federal inmates on death row.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That'll do it to a guy whose job is to
put them there.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, you can no longer in good conscience where the
label of Democrats? So David Pascoe, the longtime Democrat solicitor,
now the Republican solicitor in the first district over the
state House bill moving ahead on the House side that
would allow public school students to express their religious beliefs
at school events. Can you imagine imagine having to actually
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have this as a law.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
But we do.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
This includes prayer, and again, as Thomas mentioned, as long
as the school itself doesn't endorse the message itself. And yes, Katie,
it was telling you. The mayor of Blithewood is proposing
a curfew after more teen violence. A lot of concern
about teen violence in the Blithewood area. Of course, the
latest shooting at the waffle house on Blathwood Road this
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past weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And if you've seen the video, that's a large group
out there.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It was a huge group outside a waffle house.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
When you see that shooting or not, you're just that's
that's that's just prime for trouble right there. So a
curfew may be a coming for Blathewood. How about the
the wow? How old is this woman? And she's in
her seventies? I think who fought off an alligator with
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a tomato steak? This alligator coming after her seventy seven
year old husband. How about this lady? Where is this
in Bluffton Diwford County? Yeah? Okay, up or down? And
I haven't even checked this morning, to be honest with you,
what the pre market trading is doing. We'll check that
in a minute or two. But stock's slid yesterday. Get
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the the the up and down of all this Stock's what?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Dow was down?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
What about a thousand points give or take. The S
and P sold off down three point four to six percent.
You know, the Dow dropped one thousand, almost one thousand
and fifteen points, down two and a half percent. After
again the biggest point gain in history. The day before,
China latest on the tariff wars, now announcing their increasing
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tariffs on US imports from eighty four percent to one
hundred and twenty five percent. So the tit for tack
continues between these two superpowers.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
US and them. How how not? How low can it go?
How high can it go?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
House Republicans up on Capitol Hill narrowly passing a budget resolution,
So this big, beautiful bill that Trump's been wanting is
a step closer to happening. They passed that by a
mere two votes yesterday, and there was plenty of speculation
that this would not pass at all, So Mike Johnson
pulled a rabbit out of hat on that one. They've
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also a House Republicans for a second time now passed
a standalone bill that would require proof of citizenship to
vote in federal elections and in addition, imposed voteral purge
requirements on all states. This is the same acts the
safeguard American voter eligibility, passing two twenty to two A
eight actually four Democrats voted along with all the Republicans
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in favor of that, but yeah, the rest of them
did not. Hillary Clinton, by the way coming out of
the wherever she lurks these days to warn women about
that bill, calling it a voter suppression. Oh okay, okay, Hillary.
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The Let's see what activist judges are up to today. Well,
here's one who sided with Trump that anybody in this
country illegally must register with the federal government. The High Court,
the Supreme Court ordering the return of that Maryland man
who was mistakenly deported, a turn of the Trump administration
in word to get him back. Then the White House
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tripping benefits from thousands of illegals on the terror watch
list too. So we got some immigration news to pass along.
And a DoD report. This is diviss Department report back
from twenty twenty two withheld by the Biden administration has
surfaced again and this shows seven US service members who
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competed in the World Military Games in Wuhan, China, months
before that virus broke out here in this country. Seven
of them showed COVID Law nineteen like symptoms and the
Biden administration covered this up, they buried it. But it's
coming back to life once again and daylight savings time.
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Will it go away one of these days? Or are
we just about changing the clock go away, whether it's
regular time or savings time, whichever. Well, Ted Cruz has
been at the forefront of this for a while now,
and hearing yesterday Cruise saying there was a general consensus
among his colleagues that we should stop changing the clock,
and he says, to adopt permanent daylight saving time. Will
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this ever happen or not? Are we any closer to
it or not? Well, we'll keep an eye out meantime.
The clock's tacking that and more coming up. It is
the Friday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News. And thank
you so much for being with us every.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Day, every hour. Real I'd like to stay informed.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Everything you need to stay informed.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
One O three point five FM and five sixty am
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and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM
and five sixty am doub VOC.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Six forty one. The good Friday morning. Yeah, it's April
the eleventh. Good to have you with us as always.
I'm Gary, he's Christopher. This is Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I don't know that this would have changed the outcome
of anything. Chances are probably pretty good it would not have.
But still we now know that the Biden administration sat
on a report It was released in twenty twenty two
that indicated that some of the two hundred and sixty
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plus members of a US delegation that traveled to Wuhan,
China in twenty nineteen. In October of twenty nineteen for
the Military World Games, I didn't know such a thing anyway.
I think they were held that year in Wuhan, China.
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As a matter of fact, nearly ten thousand athletes and
staffers from more than almost one hundred and ten countries
were in Wuhan from October eighteenthrough October twenty eighth of
twenty nineteen, and participants from various nations Canada, France, Germany, Italy,
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Luxembourg were reported to have gotten ill with something. What
it was at the time, but they were at least
COVID like symptoms and more than likely were COVID coincidence,
probably not they were in Wuhan, China for crying out loud. Well,
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we didn't know much about this then, but consider there
were nearly ten thousand individuals from all over the world
who traveled to Wuhan at the time this virus was well,
this was October twenty nineteen. It was I mean, I'm
trying to think of the time, like because for here,
it wasn't until maybe February and into March where we
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knew we had a problem in our hands.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
And it was March madness. They started calling off basketball tournaments. Dad, Yeah,
how bizarre that was. But this had already this People
were already getting sick in China before that. As I recall,
even you go back to October of twenty nineteen, there
are already people getting sick. The rest of the world
just wasn't really aware.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Of it because you know, the Chinese they set on
it too, right, This could have been one of the
let's face it, this could have been one of the
things that led to the spread of this virus worldwide.
All these athletes and staffers, nearly ten thousand from all
across the world were in Wuhan as this virus was
making the rounds. Again, had we known, could it have
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changed the outcome? I don't know, Probably not, but still
but there was a report written in twenty twenty two,
in December twenty twenty two that showed this some of
the two hundred and sixty three members of the US
delegation did catch something that was COVID nineteen, like at
least the symptoms were symptomatic of COVID nineteen.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Biden sat on this again. This was really after the fact.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Okay, I get it, and by December of twenty twenty two,
we were, you know, on the other side of this thing.
Well most states were, not all, but most but they
were over it. But they just hadn't realized it yet.
Didn't want to admit him. But there was even an
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act passed by Congress, the twenty twenty two National Defense
Authorization Act. It included a requirement that Lloyd Austin, who
was the Defense Secretary, submit to Congress a report on
those games, detailing the number of athletes and staff who
attended and became ill, the results of any blood testing
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done on American participants, the number of home station Pentagon
facilities of participating members that experienced outbreaks in early twenty twenty,
and whether or not the Pentagon discussed the illnesses surrounding
the games with other militaries. That was by an act
of Congress and the Biden White House saddleness. Now, John
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Kirby suggested at the time that there was no knowledge
or revedence of any kind of infection at all. This
report says otherwise nobody was tested. Again, we didn't know
what was going on right then. I get it, and
it wouldn't have changed the outcome. But it's just another
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way that the Biden White House attempted to cover up
something here by not releasing this report, even though by
a Congression mandate they were supposed to. They were supposed
to answer certain questions about illnesses surrounding that game, and
that report stayed buried. A lot stayed buried during that time.
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There's still a lot we don't know. But that's just
another of the things that should have been none that weren't. Again,
but had we had we own had the Chinese been
forthright to begin with, because this was already issue, This
was already an issue for them in late twenty nineteen,
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and we were starting to hear rumblings certainly later on
that year. But had the Chinese been forthcoming, which of
course they never are, Number one of those games might
not have existed. They might have called them off. And
you gotta wonder when there are nearly ten thousand people
from across across the planet there.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Maybe it is Wuhan, Maybe it doesn't spread as quickly,
maybe it doesn't spread period, maybe it maybe it wouldn't
have maybe it doesn't leave their shore.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's not on Biden. Of course, this was when Trump
was president at that time. But that's again another black
mark against the Chinese government who we're used to all that.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Fifteen minutes after seven o'clock and uh, good morning to
you for Friday, April the eleventh day two of the Masters.
Christopher Thompson with more reports this afternoon from the greens
and fairways of Augusta National where you said it was
beautiful yesterday. It was gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, curious to see what it looks like today with
the rain we had overnight and I'm not sure what
the forecast is. There was yesterday there was a chance
of showers even after nine o'clock this morning in Augusta,
so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Well, I know we got maybe we could do have
a chance of a maybe a shower storm popping up
late day here, and we could see some dusty winds
here up to maybe twenty five to twenty six miles
an hour, so it could play havoc with some of
those those shots at Gusta National Day as well.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Really firmed up yesterday late in the day.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Big crowds, I guess expected.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
As always, there will be a sizable contingent of patrons there.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Patron, that's right. Patrons.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
They're not spectators, are not fans, they're not golf enthusiasts,
they're patron that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I can't say back nine. You say second nine. I
did not know that. Really, you don't say rough you
say second cut.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Did Yeah, I've heard yeah, yeah, so it's second nine
not back nine.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Is there's own little world over there. Well, they get
the rules, they set the rules, that's right. Yeah, bide
by them or you will be banned forever. Yeah, maybe
one day. Get over in there. Some interesting political news
across the state developing yesterday. One thing we knew was
going to come down, but we'll get to that in
a minute. But this now we know, and you give
us the date, Yeah, April twenty first, So in ten days,
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this effort by the senators in our state, or at
least by some of them one in particular, to remove
Curtis office from office. This is not your typical you know,
you think of impeachment, You think of a situation where
the House would would hold hearings basically acting like a
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grand jury, and it would indict an individual like we
see at the national level, like Democrat to the Trump
a couple of times and then turn it over to
the Senate in order to be judge and jury.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Well, this is not that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
This is an action to remove you know, a constitutional
office in our state using an article in the state Constitute.
Now Curtis Loftis has been of course fighting back all
along on this.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
This again all.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Stems from the missing that wasn't really missing because it
never existed one point eight billion dollars. So the announcement
yesterday that the Loftis has filed a petition with the
State Supreme Court to put a hold to enjoin this
Senate hearing until the court can weigh in on a
again on a significant constitutional issue or issues, he says.
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So this very rare removal of address hearing is set
for April twenty first, in ten days. Do we know
what the issues are, well, specifically constitutional issues. Specifically, I
don't know that we know that. What we do know
is what Loftis has said. And well, he says he
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wants the court to step in and to clarify whether
or not the Senate is authorized to overturn a state
of lefe using this provision. I haven't looked this up.
This is Article fifteen, section three of the state Constitution.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I've looked that one up.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Okay, Well, there's a constitutional issue right there.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
That's the issue. This sentence stated procedures here, but the
hearing allow no witnesses to be called, no objections to
be made by the parties, and don't even establish requirements
for a quorum of members to be present. Well that
sounds like a like a kangaroo court right there. It Wow,
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So no witnesses will be called, no objections made, and
doesn't matter how many members are there. Okay, they could
be just lurry groups for all we know. Right, you
may not tell anyone else what's going on.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Maybe not.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Lofta says, the injunction is to ensure fairness, transparency and
adheres to the rule of lawn. He has been maintaining
all along that all this is is politically motivated, and
that again the Senate is trying to do away with
a statewide constitutional officer and office because they'd like to
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make this a position that's not appointed or elected by
the people, but you know, anointed by the by the
legislature basically you know, have to be nominated by the
by the governor of course, but still, he said, this
is all a power grab. So who's who's going to
represent the other side? Well, I mean, he'll present this
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case to the Supreme Court. Will the Senate be represented
there by someone arguing he's got to represent them?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Ry someone arguing that in fact, the Senate does have
those rights or does have those powers.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I would imagine they've got to put up some sort
of a defense here, right, I guess Wow, Okay, And
again it's got to happen pretty quick, because we're days
away from this hearing, kangaroo court whatever you want to
call it there if they take it out, if they
take it up now. As expected, and we talked about
this a few days back. We knew that the David
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Pasco was going to make a significant address, and we
knew he was going to make it at the Dorchester
County Republican Party gathering yesterday afternoon, and he did just that.
So it was what we thought it would be. Pasco,
who's always been a Democrat, longtime first Circuit solicitor, is
changing stripes. Pasco is now a Republican, which again shouldn't
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be shocking considering his background. And he said that one
of the final straws for him was when Joe Biden
commuted the death sentences of thirty seven of the forty
federal inmates that were residing on death row.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He said, I could no longer in good conscience where
the label of Democrat. I'm pro life, and I've earnestly
put evil men on death row.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
He says, I was going to say, I, you know,
I don't know what. I don't know how he feels
about abortion, for example, because I'm thinking, you know, what
are the big differences in this state between Democrats and Republicans.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
That's one of them.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That is one of them. He just said he's pro life.
But you know, I don't even know how how much
we scrutinize that particular office and the candidates for that
office as far as politics go. We just want to
know he's hardball law and order. Yes, and if you've
been solicitor to that long, you probably are, and you've
probably got bonafide credentials, and it's probably it probably is.
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It's probably hard to go around as a Democrat and
then do and and and operate in that office, or
or beat an attorney general for that matter.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, and that's the office that he's no doubt. Well,
you know seeking here.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Alan Wilson hasn't announced yet, but widely expected he'll.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
He'll he'll run for governor.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I'm not saying every Democrat is soft on crime.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
But well no, I mean the Carpooling wasn't soft on
crime right when he was a prosecutor, certainly. But Pasco
went on to say that the Democrat party has become
too soft on crime, saying it's become a party that
embraces progressive extremes on prosecutorial policies, that's the problem, disregards
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the dangers of crimes committed by illegal immigrants, and prioritizes
radical agenda over public safety.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Said like a true republic.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
So yeah, no, no, no big surprise there that Pasco
is a changed Party's that announcement officially made yesterday. All right,
so a couple of interesting tidbits here on the politics
in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
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Speaker 3 (25:04):
Seven forty two and good to have you along for
a Friday morning. We appreciate that it's April the eleventh
and today in un let's a little over ten hours
now the state we'll put to death by the firing squad.
There the second man condemned, convicted of murder. This time
it's Michael Maddy. Six o'clock this afternoon, the scheduled time
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for his execution. So there's a lot of buzz a
month or two back when we use that method for
the first time in this state, and first time I've
been using the country in what fifteen sixteen years or so.
No national buzz over this one, but again a similar story,
bad childhood and all. He's exhausted his appeals, well except
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for with the Governor Graham Clemency. Not a snowball chance,
not gonna happen, not going to happen, by the way,
on the other coast, l A A judge this morning,
we will consider the uh, the new La DA. Remember
George Gascone got unceremoniously booted back in November, thank goodness.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
But the new uh, the new DA.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Nathan Hawkman, he's not a fan at all of of
Gascone's motion to re sentence Eric and Leulman Indez. So
the new UH, the new DA, there is requesting that
be with drawn. So hearing today at ten o'clock, l
A time on that one. Have you have you been
at all wrapped up and all that? Never never from
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the start?
Speaker 4 (26:37):
I watched TV.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Movie, We watched a documentary about that a couple of
months ago. And you know, again, it's a similar story
to what we're talking about here, well not similar, but similar,
bad childhood and all that. But it isn't it's it's
it's fascinating all these years. I mean, these guys have
been in jail, they killed their parents in nineteen eighty nine,
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and just in the last what year or so, suddenly
the whole nation is because somebody made a Netflix documentary
about it.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
But their family has stepped forward, right, I mean, yes,
they have family they support releasing them. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Now that's that's a hard that's hard to wrap your
head around the fact that they killed members of the
family and now other family members are stepping up saying
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you know, we love you, we support.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
You, we want you to be free. M Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
The New Day Day in Town is not inclined to
agree with them, So we'll see what happens here them.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
If you care, remorse is the key there. Yeah, he
says they haven't shown any exactly what he said. For
all the good things they've done behind bars, they haven't
shown any remorse, no remorse.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Hearing yesterday the Senate Commerce Panel, chaired by head Cruise,
where Crew said there's a general consensus now amongst his
colleagues that we should stop flipping back and forth in
our time around here. There's time to stop changing the clocks.
How long has this conversation been going on? And I
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always that it gets ramped up again around the time
twice a year when we change the clocks. I know,
but this has been well, let's see the uh, the
Senate actually I think they passed a bill. Marco Rubio
put one up right, there's a couple of sessions ago,
I think, but the House never took it up.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
We've got it up several times, just never gets the
never gets out of committee.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
I don't think. No, it doesn't seem to.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
No. Actually the Senate did pass just say that. It's
twenty twenty two. Rick Scott, he put forth a bill
to create permanent daylight saving time that was passed unanimously
by the Senate in twenty twenty two, but the House
didn't take it up. Well, and if you do, you
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go standard time permanently, daylight savings time permanently. You got
people on both sides arguing, you know, two different ways
as to which is better. I mean, they had interesting
to some of the folks they talked to yesterday. They
had a guy they're representing the golfing industry, the golf
Course Owners Association, who favor permanent daylight savings time, stays
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light later, get in more rounds later in the day.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
They like that.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
You had a doctor sleep specialist who testified. Seems like
she's on the other side. She thinks we should stay
on just regular time, says the daylight savings, time message
or circadian rhythms and this and that, I don't know.
Is apparently a powerful lobby out there. It is just
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the the clock changer's lobby. Is that a thing these days?
I don't know how to change my clocks, call somebody
to have them come in. I don't know what the
hold up is.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
How many clocks are out there that still need to
be changed?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Well, I keep finding more and more in my house.
I actually found one of the other day, and oh
you didn't change this one?
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Ah, dog on it.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's easy to do well most of the time.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I think you've got an old fashioned clock. It is.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah, if you got one of these digital jobs, especially
in your car. Sometimes I would get a little more
the cars, the biggest turtle. Yeah, clocks in the house
and never take them off the wall and put them
back up and get them to fall down.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
That's my big concern, of course. Even the microwave though
in the stove. I mean you just you hit clock,
you hit time, bet beep beep, and you're done.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
But I mean, can we can we put this to
an end already? I mean, let's just just pick one
and just go with it. Flip a coin, do something
for crying out loud. Yeah that that well, it's nice
in the fall, you get the extra hour there, right,
And that's not where I mean. The real health problems
come in the spring when we lose that hour. No, anyway,
So they had another hearing about it yesterday. I can't
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tell you this other than the cruise saying there's general
consensus among his colleagues we need to do something. And
it would allow what they're talking about, wood allow states
if they didn't want to get involved, to say in
never mind.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
But who would do that, right? We?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Of course, we passed legislation here a couple sessions ago
to ditch the time change, but only if you know
it's done on a national basis, because you don't want
to be that really weird Arizona thing, right. No, Yeah,
you're on a different time everybody else.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
If 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 3 (31:47):
It is sixteen minutes, half eight o'clock into the final
out of the program this morning for Friday, April the eleventh,
Dude got it done again. Man, I don't know how
he does it, but the I don't know behind the
the the glasses and the almost uh impish, cartoonish character
kind of look. House Speaker Mike Johnson, Man, is this
(32:08):
guy like a beast or what? He just doesn't doesn't
appear to be one. He got this bill to the
House yesterday.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Well, I'm not sure you can chalk all that up
to him. It sounds like the President has been meeting
with behind the scenes, with a lot of these folks.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
But maybe that's Mike Johnson's genius. Just shut up and
get out of the way. Yeah, maybe you know, I
mean fa Remember this was a guy who who ever
heard of him before? Yeah, they needed somebody. Let's get
that guy from Louisiana. And well he's he's had some
had some big wins, his House Speaker. But this is
(32:44):
Trump's big, beautiful bill that passed by the by just
the the hair on their u whatever, what is the
saying whatever? Two sixteen two fourteen, Okay, it passed and
you had I think you had a couple of what
four Democrats go along with this thing?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Four?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
It had not been for that this bill didn't make
it so well without getting deep in the weeds. This
you don't have to get deep in the weeds. There's
a big problem with this bill. Yeah, it doesn't save
enough money, right, And this was the reason why they
general consensus was it wouldn't pass the House because their
savings versus what the Senate was looking at was they
(33:29):
were in two different universes. The House wasn't going to
cut near enough spending. Now, when it was all said
and done, between Johnson and John Thune, the cedimatority leader,
they were able to commence enough House members to commit
to a one point five trillion in spending cuts, which
is a far cry more than what originally this bill included.
(33:51):
But funny to hear, you know, Chuck Schumer for example,
now talking about his quote they closed their eyes and
voted for a bill knowing, damn well, it will explode
the deficit by fifty two trillion dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
That's from a Democrat, Okay, but that's what it'll do.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Actually, And here's the problem is, you know, I've been
skeptical of the things Trump, a lot of what Trump
has done so far, but I've been willing to go
along because of the way he was voted in, and
the mandate he came with, and the ability he had
to say from day one, all right, this is what
I'm going to do, A B and C. He doesn't have.
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He used all of his goodwill in his first administration
when it came to willing nelly spending and blowing up.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
The deaf sit.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I'm not on board for a second term of that.
He's already done it for one term. It's time to
get our spend. There's no reason to have Elon Musk
working his tailoff twenty four hours a day trying to
find all these ways to save money. If we're just
going to go out and blow it in the next breath,
that's dim crat thinking. That's not Republican thinking.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Do you think we'll ever get on the president who's
willing to not do this? Though?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I mean this, This has been a hallmark of all
presidencies for as long as you can remember. I'd say
you're making excuses.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Yeah, but it's but it's what's what it's been. I
don't know that we ever get a president that says
we got to bring this in. Well, here's or Congress
is we got to bring this in. Here's a good
way to start. You've got to you've got a nerd
who's telling you you can save this much money here
and this much money here. All right, put that money
to good use, save it, save it or well yeah,
(35:30):
because listen, we're cut the spending. We can't even begin
to get close to cutting the deficit spending. And until
we can do that, we're not going to get we
can't begin to reduce the the death this country.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
What close to what? Thirty seven trillion dollars?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Now? Okay, Well, the House goes on a two week hiatus.
Now is there easter break? The break there? The Senate
breaks what next week? I guess it is. So it'll
be a while before they get together to see what
they can can come up with Hill On. This meantime,
the House did vote for a second time to pass
a standalone buil that would require proof of citizenship to vote.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
In federal elections.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Hello, what a hot country where you have to actually
get a bill passed through Congress that requires that you
prove you're a citizen of this country before you can
vote in a federal election. This is the Safeguard American
Voter Eligibility Act, the SAVE Act.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
There were four.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
I think I mentioned a minute ago four about Ford
Democrats voting for the budget bill. No, that's not true.
It was for Democrats voting for this bill. Case Oi
Quaar Texas, Golden Main and Gloosen camp Perez of Washington,
whoa a member of the House from Washington, voted for
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this unbelievable Now is already illegal for anyone now a
US citizen to vote in federal elections, It has been
since nineteen ninety six. But those who put this bill
up have argued it's necessary migrants from voting in elections.
And we were seeing I mean, those just claiming that
they were so scrutinumbers handed out to lots of illegal
(37:07):
aliens by the Biden administration.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Did these people vote or not?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Hillary Clinton comes out of whatever rock she's hiding under
to warn women about this bill. Says it's gonna somehow
make it harder for women to vote, that it could
effectively disenfranchise women whose married names don't match the names
on their birth certificates. Really, so, I guess in Hillary's viewpoint,
(37:38):
this is all about Republicans trying to trying to suppress
the vote of the Philly suburban soccer mom.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
That's a stretch.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Well it's Hillary, right, So she says, are you a
woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress's
considering ability can make it much harder for you to
vote your rep.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
This is not a drill.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Unbelievable. Women who get married have to go through this
dance anyway. If not for that, for everything else, right,
you've been there, You've done that. But keep this in
mind that all but four Democrats, all but four, voted
against a bill that would keep illegal aliens from voting
(38:26):
in this country, all but four. And they can say
what they want to say. We know what this is
all about. We know it's about a power grab by
the Democrats thinking these folks will vote for them. I
don't know you, no, I mean folks who have come
(38:47):
to this country legally turn their backs on Democrats in
a major way last November because of this, in part
the economy big part of it too, but in part
because of just this right here, that that party was
willing to allow people to come here and not jump
through the hoops that they had to jump through, and
(39:09):
that in some cases and in some municipalities, actually give
them a right to cast a vote. It's illegal in
federal elections now, but it's not. In some municipalities it's allowed. Okay, Well,
so all but four Democrats voted against you having to
show proof your citizen in order to vote. Crazy, I know, right,
(39:30):
and it's not crazy. That's the Democrat Party of twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I won't give up the ship talking about what matters.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
This country is too great to throw over to communism.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I love it. One O three point five FM and
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Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one O three point
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Speaker 3 (40:00):
For our final thoughts on a Friday morning at eight forty.
Good morning to you. Well, let's start at home. Amongst
the goings on in the state House yesterday, a bill
advancing that would allow public students in schools, public students,
public school students the ability to express their religious beliefs
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at school events, including praying.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Oh my goodness, they're gonna let these kids pray at schools.
That's been the big argument for years. All right, if
you're going to have a you know, a prayer around
the flagpole, and you know, is it school recognized. Is
it school organized? Where is that free speech?
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Right?
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Well, this bill would would allow these things to happen,
these things prayer, as long as the school doesn't endorse
the message. The legislation, the sponsors say, aligned state law
with the recent Supreme Court ruling that case about the
football coach up in Washington State who would pray with
(41:10):
his kids on the game on the field after games,
and that he got fired for it. Remember the Supreme
Court ruling that that was speech protected by the First Amendment.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I was just trying to think back. You know, the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes, that's been a very popular organization
for years.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
I am shocked that, you know, leftists and atheists and such.
Oh wait, hang on, I'm not saying all leftists or
atheists I'm just saying leftists and atheists are an uproar
over you know, school buildings, auditoriums and such being used
for religious services on Sundays. Quite honestly, you know, I mean,
(41:52):
I thought they've been screaming at the top of their
lungs over that, but they haven't been. So I mean,
just a master is there. Just imagine a country that
our founding fathers say, based on on on God principles.
Now you've got a pass legislation that says, yeah, a
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kid can pray in school, or a group of kids
can pray in school, as long as the school doesn't
endorse the message. The mayor of Blythwood is proposing a curfew,
and it sounds like it might be high time. There
have been a couple of incidents late nights in Blithwood,
(42:35):
the latest being what happened was this past weekend at
a waffle house that was a massive group of young people.
And you get that many together in one setting, you know,
it's a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
And it was Do we know was that prom night
or was that just a weekend thing?
Speaker 4 (42:56):
I don't know. Is it's not I mean otherwise quite
prompt season yet?
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Oh? Yeah yeah? Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:03):
It's almost over? Oh yeah, once my kids got to ask,
I'm pay attention to such things.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
I just I just wonder, and why the were police
called before that? I mean a crowd that big. I mean,
if you've seen the video, there's all kinds of kids
running with this.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
It's not like it was in a public park or so.
This is a waffle house parking lot.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Yeah, and they weren't all eating, so you know, why
not clear them out of there?
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Of course they're just going to go someplace else.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
Sure, Yeah, well it sounds like it's high time and
a lot of a residents agree that a curfew is
is going to be needed there.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
And that's that's another mayor, you know, like our sheriff
taking your shot at parents, saying you're ultimately responsible, right
if your kid is out that lag causing trouble.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Yeah, the mayor pro tem there, Donald Brock, saying any
solution must involve all relevant parties. And yeah, relevant parties
includes parents, right, Yeah, doubt Futures had two fifteen this
morning after losing one thousand yesterday one thousand and then some,
so the prior day gains that again, the emotions of
the market come into play here. Trump announced the nine
(44:10):
day pause, the emotions took over, and the markets all
the now it's biggest single point gain day ever, close
to three thousand points. Lost a third of that yesterday,
and you know, maybe we'll kind of stabilize things here
a little bit. Read right around thirty nine to forty
thousand for a few days.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
At least.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
We've got one hundred and forty five percent tariff on
goods from China. China has responded, raising tariffs on US
to one hundred and twenty five percent. This is quickly again,
tell you this is this is becoming the big story. Okay,
it sounded more and more like at least with other countries,
there's some room to go to negotiate the big wars
between the US and China China. This morning, is Fox
(44:51):
just reported saying, Okay, that'll be the ceiling for us,
you know, one hundred and twenty five percent, where we're
not going to continue to play the tit for tat
on that corporate bankruptcies. We were mentioning Publisher's Clearinghouse a
little earler this morning following at Chapter eleven bankruptcy corporate
bankruptcy bankruptcies amongst US companies Q one of this year
increasing to the highest level since twenty ten. Now before
(45:16):
I'm sure, because yeah, that's Donald Trump's economy for you.
Wait a minute, this is Q one. Okay, These companies
didn't didn't get on the virgil or go into bankruptcy
in a matter of two months.
Speaker 4 (45:27):
This has been brewing for a long time.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
And yeah, the pandemic comes into play and SODA's bidnomics.
So highest level of bankruptcies for US companies in fifteen years.
Doze continuing the work it was set out to do. Now,
Doze says they've discovered let's see here, toddlers, people not
(45:53):
yet born, and people one hundred and fifteen years or
older walked off with nearly four hundred million dollars in
unemployment insurance benefits.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
One individual claiming the birth year of twenty one fifty
four picked up a cool forty one thousand dose says,
was that a joke? I mean, did they just put
that down as a joke? And then we're shocked to
find out they got to check in the mail for
forty one Great?
Speaker 4 (46:21):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (46:22):
And I assume most of this is automated, So how
does a computer see that and still continue to churn
out money?
Speaker 4 (46:28):
Yeah, I don't know. You're gonna break it down.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
There were twenty four thousand, five hundred people over the
age of one hundred and fifteen, right, they collected fifty
nine million in benefits. Twenty eight thousand between the ages
of one and five picked up a quarter of a
trillion dollars worth of benefits and yeah, nine seven hundred
(46:52):
people with birth dates over fifteen years in the future
claimed sixty nine million. Do you think the systems broke? Okay,
I'm not saying here that, yeah, these are people you
know in the government that are just you know, trying
to rip us all off. I'm saying the systems broke.
Whatever system you have in place don't work. It don't work.
Crazy and kudos to the woman in Buford, Marion Roser,
(47:20):
who fought off an alligator with a tomato steak to
get this thing off of her husband, a seventy seven
year old man who was bitten by this gator in
the right leg and one of his arms. Hers here,
here's I'm yelling, grabs a damato steak and starts poking
(47:40):
the gator in the eyes. Brave woman there, man and smart. Yeah,
probably saved her husband's life, So congratulations and kudos to her.
Iliciously. Hell yeah, America and Jerry Holly for regious formation
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 3 (00:30):
It's fifteen minutes after six o'clock. Good morning, and welcome
to Friday, eleventh of April.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Good to have you along.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I'm Gary David Christopher Thompson, just fresh off another visit
down to Augustin National.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Good morning the.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
USURP, where the weather was gorgeous, yesterdah, but it was
here too, I'm sure it was there. Yeah. I can't
wait to see what it's like today. Those softened conditions
we little rain rain, ye could be some some some
folks could go loaded. Some folks didn't go low yesterday.
Sounds like a good analysis to me. You should come
with me. I'm there. They won't let me in, will they.
(01:09):
Maybe I could hide you in the back, Okay, I'll
tell me I'm your therapy human. Sure, yeah, absolutely, that'll work.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You know, I don't now again the these alias are
are because these alias in our front yard now are
starting to all the all the the you know, the
beautifulness is evaporating quickly.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, how do they do it over there? How did
they make that happen?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I mean, it's it's all about the weather. And as
we know, we had a you know, kind of a
cold early winter and it didn't quite warm up as
quickly as she usually does. So, I mean, if you
saw the women's amitur last weekend, it was at its
height last weekend. Now, it was still gorgeous earlier in
the week They still look good now, but yeah, it's
it's starting to play it. The colors are starting to
(01:53):
fade a bit. Yeah, but it's still a pretty scene.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I'm sure it is.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
My wife would and she's she can't care less about
the golf, but she's counter as one of those who
would just love to go to see all that.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
There are a lot of men and women who feel
the same way. It's just the spectacle itself is worth it,
even if you don't like the competition.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
All right, So let's get to it, the run down,
the big stories, the hot topics to kick off of
Friday and get this thing done and get to the weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
What have we got. Well, here at home, we've.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Got a petition from Curtis Loftus, the embattled state treasurer
who's supposed to have a hearing coming up here at
some point. I only have set the date for that yet,
have they The Senate wants to boot him out of office.
He has filed a petition with the State Supreme Court
(02:42):
asking for this hearing to be put off until the
court itself can weigh in on what he calls significant
constitutional issues. So this after that rare removal on address hearing.
The hearing, by the way, is set for the twenty first. Okay,
so we do have an okay, twenty first, all right, Well,
(03:04):
so this has been filed with the Estate Supreme Court.
Whether or not they pick a listener or not, or
what they make any action on it, not by then
or it means to be seen. Well, we mentioned a
couple of days ago, so we knew it was coming.
In fact, yes, David Pascoe, the solicitor the first Judicial Circuit,
the Democrat is no longer a Democrat. He is a Republican.
(03:27):
He made that official yesterday. Switching parties now, he says
he's certainly complic complicated. Contemplating is the word I'm searching
for here. A run for the attorney General's Office. Alan
Wilson expected at some point to announce he's running for
(03:48):
governor in twenty twenty six, and apparently of Pasco just
you know, a law and order guy just fed up
with a Democrat party. And it sounds like maybe the
final straw was when Joe Biden commuted the death sentences
of thirty seven out of forty federal inmates on death row.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That'll do it to a guy whose job is to
put them there.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, you can no longer in good conscience where the
label of Democrats? So David Pascoe, the longtime Democrat solicitor,
now the Republican solicitor in the first district over the
state House bill moving ahead on the House side that
would allow public school students to express their religious beliefs
at school events. Can you imagine imagine having to actually
(04:35):
have this as a law.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
But we do.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
This includes prayer, and again, as Thomas mentioned, as long
as the school itself doesn't endorse the message itself. And yes, Katie,
it was telling you. The mayor of Blithewood is proposing
a curfew after more teen violence. A lot of concern
about teen violence in the Blithewood area. Of course, the
latest shooting at the waffle house on Blathwood Road this
(05:02):
past weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And if you've seen the video, that's a large group
out there.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It was a huge group outside a waffle house.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
When you see that shooting or not, you're just that's
that's that's just prime for trouble right there. So a
curfew may be a coming for Blathewood. How about the
the wow? How old is this woman? And she's in
her seventies? I think who fought off an alligator with
(05:32):
a tomato steak? This alligator coming after her seventy seven
year old husband. How about this lady? Where is this
in Bluffton Diwford County? Yeah? Okay, up or down? And
I haven't even checked this morning, to be honest with you,
what the pre market trading is doing. We'll check that
in a minute or two. But stock's slid yesterday. Get
(05:56):
the the the up and down of all this Stock's what?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Dow was down?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
What about a thousand points give or take. The S
and P sold off down three point four to six percent.
You know, the Dow dropped one thousand, almost one thousand
and fifteen points, down two and a half percent. After
again the biggest point gain in history. The day before,
China latest on the tariff wars, now announcing their increasing
(06:23):
tariffs on US imports from eighty four percent to one
hundred and twenty five percent. So the tit for tack
continues between these two superpowers.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
US and them. How how not? How low can it go?
How high can it go?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
House Republicans up on Capitol Hill narrowly passing a budget resolution,
So this big, beautiful bill that Trump's been wanting is
a step closer to happening. They passed that by a
mere two votes yesterday, and there was plenty of speculation
that this would not pass at all, So Mike Johnson
pulled a rabbit out of hat on that one. They've
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also a House Republicans for a second time now passed
a standalone bill that would require proof of citizenship to
vote in federal elections and in addition, imposed voteral purge
requirements on all states. This is the same acts the
safeguard American voter eligibility, passing two twenty to two A
eight actually four Democrats voted along with all the Republicans
(07:22):
in favor of that, but yeah, the rest of them
did not. Hillary Clinton, by the way coming out of
the wherever she lurks these days to warn women about
that bill, calling it a voter suppression. Oh okay, okay, Hillary.
(07:48):
The Let's see what activist judges are up to today. Well,
here's one who sided with Trump that anybody in this
country illegally must register with the federal government. The High Court,
the Supreme Court ordering the return of that Maryland man
who was mistakenly deported, a turn of the Trump administration
in word to get him back. Then the White House
(08:09):
tripping benefits from thousands of illegals on the terror watch
list too. So we got some immigration news to pass along.
And a DoD report. This is diviss Department report back
from twenty twenty two withheld by the Biden administration has
surfaced again and this shows seven US service members who
(08:34):
competed in the World Military Games in Wuhan, China, months
before that virus broke out here in this country. Seven
of them showed COVID Law nineteen like symptoms and the
Biden administration covered this up, they buried it. But it's
coming back to life once again and daylight savings time.
(08:56):
Will it go away one of these days? Or are
we just about changing the clock go away, whether it's
regular time or savings time, whichever. Well, Ted Cruz has
been at the forefront of this for a while now,
and hearing yesterday Cruise saying there was a general consensus
among his colleagues that we should stop changing the clock,
and he says, to adopt permanent daylight saving time. Will
(09:21):
this ever happen or not? Are we any closer to
it or not? Well, we'll keep an eye out meantime.
The clock's tacking that and more coming up. It is
the Friday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News. And thank
you so much for being with us every.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Day, every hour. Real I'd like to stay informed.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Everything you need to stay informed.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
One O three point five FM and five sixty am
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and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM
and five sixty am doub VOC.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Six forty one. The good Friday morning. Yeah, it's April
the eleventh. Good to have you with us as always.
I'm Gary, he's Christopher. This is Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I don't know that this would have changed the outcome
of anything. Chances are probably pretty good it would not have.
But still we now know that the Biden administration sat
on a report It was released in twenty twenty two
that indicated that some of the two hundred and sixty
(10:30):
plus members of a US delegation that traveled to Wuhan,
China in twenty nineteen. In October of twenty nineteen for
the Military World Games, I didn't know such a thing anyway.
I think they were held that year in Wuhan, China.
(10:52):
As a matter of fact, nearly ten thousand athletes and
staffers from more than almost one hundred and ten countries
were in Wuhan from October eighteenthrough October twenty eighth of
twenty nineteen, and participants from various nations Canada, France, Germany, Italy,
(11:13):
Luxembourg were reported to have gotten ill with something. What
it was at the time, but they were at least
COVID like symptoms and more than likely were COVID coincidence,
probably not they were in Wuhan, China for crying out loud. Well,
(11:36):
we didn't know much about this then, but consider there
were nearly ten thousand individuals from all over the world
who traveled to Wuhan at the time this virus was well,
this was October twenty nineteen. It was I mean, I'm
trying to think of the time, like because for here,
it wasn't until maybe February and into March where we
(11:58):
knew we had a problem in our hands.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
And it was March madness. They started calling off basketball tournaments. Dad, Yeah,
how bizarre that was. But this had already this People
were already getting sick in China before that. As I recall,
even you go back to October of twenty nineteen, there
are already people getting sick. The rest of the world
just wasn't really aware.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Of it because you know, the Chinese they set on
it too, right, This could have been one of the
let's face it, this could have been one of the
things that led to the spread of this virus worldwide.
All these athletes and staffers, nearly ten thousand from all
across the world were in Wuhan as this virus was
making the rounds. Again, had we known, could it have
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changed the outcome? I don't know, Probably not, but still
but there was a report written in twenty twenty two,
in December twenty twenty two that showed this some of
the two hundred and sixty three members of the US
delegation did catch something that was COVID nineteen, like at
least the symptoms were symptomatic of COVID nineteen.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Biden sat on this again. This was really after the fact.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Okay, I get it, and by December of twenty twenty two,
we were, you know, on the other side of this thing.
Well most states were, not all, but most but they
were over it. But they just hadn't realized it yet.
Didn't want to admit him. But there was even an
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act passed by Congress, the twenty twenty two National Defense
Authorization Act. It included a requirement that Lloyd Austin, who
was the Defense Secretary, submit to Congress a report on
those games, detailing the number of athletes and staff who
attended and became ill, the results of any blood testing
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done on American participants, the number of home station Pentagon
facilities of participating members that experienced outbreaks in early twenty twenty,
and whether or not the Pentagon discussed the illnesses surrounding
the games with other militaries. That was by an act
of Congress and the Biden White House saddleness. Now, John
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Kirby suggested at the time that there was no knowledge
or revedence of any kind of infection at all. This
report says otherwise nobody was tested. Again, we didn't know
what was going on right then. I get it, and
it wouldn't have changed the outcome. But it's just another
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way that the Biden White House attempted to cover up
something here by not releasing this report, even though by
a Congression mandate they were supposed to. They were supposed
to answer certain questions about illnesses surrounding that game, and
that report stayed buried. A lot stayed buried during that time.
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There's still a lot we don't know. But that's just
another of the things that should have been none that weren't. Again,
but had we had we own had the Chinese been
forthright to begin with, because this was already issue, This
was already an issue for them in late twenty nineteen,
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and we were starting to hear rumblings certainly later on
that year. But had the Chinese been forthcoming, which of
course they never are, Number one of those games might
not have existed. They might have called them off. And
you gotta wonder when there are nearly ten thousand people
from across across the planet there.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Maybe it is Wuhan, Maybe it doesn't spread as quickly,
maybe it doesn't spread period, maybe it maybe it wouldn't
have maybe it doesn't leave their shore.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's not on Biden. Of course, this was when Trump
was president at that time. But that's again another black
mark against the Chinese government who we're used to all that.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
If 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.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Fifteen minutes after seven o'clock and uh, good morning to
you for Friday, April the eleventh day two of the Masters.
Christopher Thompson with more reports this afternoon from the greens
and fairways of Augusta National where you said it was
beautiful yesterday. It was gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, curious to see what it looks like today with
the rain we had overnight and I'm not sure what
the forecast is. There was yesterday there was a chance
of showers even after nine o'clock this morning in Augusta,
so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Well, I know we got maybe we could do have
a chance of a maybe a shower storm popping up
late day here, and we could see some dusty winds
here up to maybe twenty five to twenty six miles
an hour, so it could play havoc with some of
those those shots at Gusta National Day as well.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Really firmed up yesterday late in the day.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Big crowds, I guess expected.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
As always, there will be a sizable contingent of patrons there.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Patron, that's right. Patrons.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
They're not spectators, are not fans, they're not golf enthusiasts,
they're patron that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I can't say back nine. You say second nine. I
did not know that. Really, you don't say rough you
say second cut.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Did Yeah, I've heard yeah, yeah, so it's second nine
not back nine.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Is there's own little world over there. Well, they get
the rules, they set the rules, that's right. Yeah, bide
by them or you will be banned forever. Yeah, maybe
one day. Get over in there. Some interesting political news
across the state developing yesterday. One thing we knew was
going to come down, but we'll get to that in
a minute. But this now we know, and you give
us the date, Yeah, April twenty first, So in ten days,
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this effort by the senators in our state, or at
least by some of them one in particular, to remove
Curtis office from office. This is not your typical you know,
you think of impeachment, You think of a situation where
the House would would hold hearings basically acting like a
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grand jury, and it would indict an individual like we
see at the national level, like Democrat to the Trump
a couple of times and then turn it over to
the Senate in order to be judge and jury.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Well, this is not that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
This is an action to remove you know, a constitutional
office in our state using an article in the state Constitute.
Now Curtis Loftis has been of course fighting back all
along on this.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
This again all.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Stems from the missing that wasn't really missing because it
never existed one point eight billion dollars. So the announcement
yesterday that the Loftis has filed a petition with the
State Supreme Court to put a hold to enjoin this
Senate hearing until the court can weigh in on a
again on a significant constitutional issue or issues, he says.
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So this very rare removal of address hearing is set
for April twenty first, in ten days. Do we know
what the issues are, well, specifically constitutional issues. Specifically, I
don't know that we know that. What we do know
is what Loftis has said. And well, he says he
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wants the court to step in and to clarify whether
or not the Senate is authorized to overturn a state
of lefe using this provision. I haven't looked this up.
This is Article fifteen, section three of the state Constitution.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I've looked that one up.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Okay, Well, there's a constitutional issue right there.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
That's the issue. This sentence stated procedures here, but the
hearing allow no witnesses to be called, no objections to
be made by the parties, and don't even establish requirements
for a quorum of members to be present. Well that
sounds like a like a kangaroo court right there. It Wow,
(20:34):
So no witnesses will be called, no objections made, and
doesn't matter how many members are there. Okay, they could
be just lurry groups for all we know. Right, you
may not tell anyone else what's going on.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Maybe not.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Lofta says, the injunction is to ensure fairness, transparency and
adheres to the rule of lawn. He has been maintaining
all along that all this is is politically motivated, and
that again the Senate is trying to do away with
a statewide constitutional officer and office because they'd like to
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make this a position that's not appointed or elected by
the people, but you know, anointed by the by the
legislature basically you know, have to be nominated by the
by the governor of course, but still, he said, this
is all a power grab. So who's who's going to
represent the other side? Well, I mean, he'll present this
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case to the Supreme Court. Will the Senate be represented
there by someone arguing he's got to represent them?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Ry someone arguing that in fact, the Senate does have
those rights or does have those powers.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I would imagine they've got to put up some sort
of a defense here, right, I guess Wow, Okay, And
again it's got to happen pretty quick, because we're days
away from this hearing, kangaroo court whatever you want to
call it there if they take it out, if they
take it up now. As expected, and we talked about
this a few days back. We knew that the David
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Pasco was going to make a significant address, and we
knew he was going to make it at the Dorchester
County Republican Party gathering yesterday afternoon, and he did just that.
So it was what we thought it would be. Pasco,
who's always been a Democrat, longtime first Circuit solicitor, is
changing stripes. Pasco is now a Republican, which again shouldn't
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be shocking considering his background. And he said that one
of the final straws for him was when Joe Biden
commuted the death sentences of thirty seven of the forty
federal inmates that were residing on death row.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He said, I could no longer in good conscience where
the label of Democrat. I'm pro life, and I've earnestly
put evil men on death row.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
He says, I was going to say, I, you know,
I don't know what. I don't know how he feels
about abortion, for example, because I'm thinking, you know, what
are the big differences in this state between Democrats and Republicans.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
That's one of them.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That is one of them. He just said he's pro life.
But you know, I don't even know how how much
we scrutinize that particular office and the candidates for that
office as far as politics go. We just want to
know he's hardball law and order. Yes, and if you've
been solicitor to that long, you probably are, and you've
probably got bonafide credentials, and it's probably it probably is.
(23:37):
It's probably hard to go around as a Democrat and
then do and and and operate in that office, or
or beat an attorney general for that matter.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, and that's the office that he's no doubt. Well,
you know seeking here.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Alan Wilson hasn't announced yet, but widely expected he'll.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
He'll he'll run for governor.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I'm not saying every Democrat is soft on crime.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
But well no, I mean the Carpooling wasn't soft on
crime right when he was a prosecutor, certainly. But Pasco
went on to say that the Democrat party has become
too soft on crime, saying it's become a party that
embraces progressive extremes on prosecutorial policies, that's the problem, disregards
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the dangers of crimes committed by illegal immigrants, and prioritizes
radical agenda over public safety.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Said like a true republic.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
So yeah, no, no, no big surprise there that Pasco
is a changed Party's that announcement officially made yesterday. All right,
so a couple of interesting tidbits here on the politics
in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
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Speaker 1 (24:45):
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Speaker 2 (24:47):
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and Christopher Thompson on one three point five FM and
five sixty am WVOC.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Seven forty two and good to have you along for
a Friday morning. We appreciate that it's April the eleventh
and today in un let's a little over ten hours
now the state we'll put to death by the firing squad.
There the second man condemned, convicted of murder. This time
it's Michael Maddy. Six o'clock this afternoon, the scheduled time
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for his execution. So there's a lot of buzz a
month or two back when we use that method for
the first time in this state, and first time I've
been using the country in what fifteen sixteen years or so.
No national buzz over this one, but again a similar story,
bad childhood and all. He's exhausted his appeals, well except
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for with the Governor Graham Clemency. Not a snowball chance,
not gonna happen, not going to happen, by the way,
on the other coast, l A A judge this morning,
we will consider the uh, the new La DA. Remember
George Gascone got unceremoniously booted back in November, thank goodness.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
But the new uh, the new DA.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Nathan Hawkman, he's not a fan at all of of
Gascone's motion to re sentence Eric and Leulman Indez. So
the new UH, the new DA, there is requesting that
be with drawn. So hearing today at ten o'clock, l
A time on that one. Have you have you been
at all wrapped up and all that? Never never from
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the start?
Speaker 4 (26:37):
I watched TV.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Movie, We watched a documentary about that a couple of
months ago. And you know, again, it's a similar story
to what we're talking about here, well not similar, but similar,
bad childhood and all that. But it isn't it's it's
it's fascinating all these years. I mean, these guys have
been in jail, they killed their parents in nineteen eighty nine,
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and just in the last what year or so, suddenly
the whole nation is because somebody made a Netflix documentary
about it.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
But their family has stepped forward, right, I mean, yes,
they have family they support releasing them. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Now that's that's a hard that's hard to wrap your
head around the fact that they killed members of the
family and now other family members are stepping up saying
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you know, we love you, we support.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
You, we want you to be free. M Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
The New Day Day in Town is not inclined to
agree with them, So we'll see what happens here them.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
If you care, remorse is the key there. Yeah, he
says they haven't shown any exactly what he said. For
all the good things they've done behind bars, they haven't
shown any remorse, no remorse.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Hearing yesterday the Senate Commerce Panel, chaired by head Cruise,
where Crew said there's a general consensus now amongst his
colleagues that we should stop flipping back and forth in
our time around here. There's time to stop changing the clocks.
How long has this conversation been going on? And I
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always that it gets ramped up again around the time
twice a year when we change the clocks. I know,
but this has been well, let's see the uh, the
Senate actually I think they passed a bill. Marco Rubio
put one up right, there's a couple of sessions ago,
I think, but the House never took it up.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
We've got it up several times, just never gets the
never gets out of committee.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
I don't think. No, it doesn't seem to.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
No. Actually the Senate did pass just say that. It's
twenty twenty two. Rick Scott, he put forth a bill
to create permanent daylight saving time that was passed unanimously
by the Senate in twenty twenty two, but the House
didn't take it up. Well, and if you do, you
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go standard time permanently, daylight savings time permanently. You got
people on both sides arguing, you know, two different ways
as to which is better. I mean, they had interesting
to some of the folks they talked to yesterday. They
had a guy they're representing the golfing industry, the golf
Course Owners Association, who favor permanent daylight savings time, stays
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light later, get in more rounds later in the day.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
They like that.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
You had a doctor sleep specialist who testified. Seems like
she's on the other side. She thinks we should stay
on just regular time, says the daylight savings, time message
or circadian rhythms and this and that, I don't know.
Is apparently a powerful lobby out there. It is just
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the the clock changer's lobby. Is that a thing these days?
I don't know how to change my clocks, call somebody
to have them come in. I don't know what the
hold up is.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
How many clocks are out there that still need to
be changed?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Well, I keep finding more and more in my house.
I actually found one of the other day, and oh
you didn't change this one?
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Ah, dog on it.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's easy to do well most of the time.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I think you've got an old fashioned clock. It is.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah, if you got one of these digital jobs, especially
in your car. Sometimes I would get a little more
the cars, the biggest turtle. Yeah, clocks in the house
and never take them off the wall and put them
back up and get them to fall down.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
That's my big concern, of course. Even the microwave though
in the stove. I mean you just you hit clock,
you hit time, bet beep beep, and you're done.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
But I mean, can we can we put this to
an end already? I mean, let's just just pick one
and just go with it. Flip a coin, do something
for crying out loud. Yeah that that well, it's nice
in the fall, you get the extra hour there, right,
And that's not where I mean. The real health problems
come in the spring when we lose that hour. No, anyway,
So they had another hearing about it yesterday. I can't
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tell you this other than the cruise saying there's general
consensus among his colleagues we need to do something. And
it would allow what they're talking about, wood allow states
if they didn't want to get involved, to say in
never mind.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
But who would do that, right? We?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Of course, we passed legislation here a couple sessions ago
to ditch the time change, but only if you know
it's done on a national basis, because you don't want
to be that really weird Arizona thing, right. No, Yeah,
you're on a different time everybody else.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
If 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 3 (31:47):
It is sixteen minutes, half eight o'clock into the final
out of the program this morning for Friday, April the eleventh,
Dude got it done again. Man, I don't know how
he does it, but the I don't know behind the
the the glasses and the almost uh impish, cartoonish character
kind of look. House Speaker Mike Johnson, Man, is this
(32:08):
guy like a beast or what? He just doesn't doesn't
appear to be one. He got this bill to the
House yesterday.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Well, I'm not sure you can chalk all that up
to him. It sounds like the President has been meeting
with behind the scenes, with a lot of these folks.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
But maybe that's Mike Johnson's genius. Just shut up and
get out of the way. Yeah, maybe you know, I
mean fa Remember this was a guy who who ever
heard of him before? Yeah, they needed somebody. Let's get
that guy from Louisiana. And well he's he's had some
had some big wins, his House Speaker. But this is
(32:44):
Trump's big, beautiful bill that passed by the by just
the the hair on their u whatever, what is the
saying whatever? Two sixteen two fourteen, Okay, it passed and
you had I think you had a couple of what
four Democrats go along with this thing?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Four?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
It had not been for that this bill didn't make
it so well without getting deep in the weeds. This
you don't have to get deep in the weeds. There's
a big problem with this bill. Yeah, it doesn't save
enough money, right, And this was the reason why they
general consensus was it wouldn't pass the House because their
savings versus what the Senate was looking at was they
(33:29):
were in two different universes. The House wasn't going to
cut near enough spending. Now, when it was all said
and done, between Johnson and John Thune, the cedimatority leader,
they were able to commence enough House members to commit
to a one point five trillion in spending cuts, which
is a far cry more than what originally this bill included.
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But funny to hear, you know, Chuck Schumer for example,
now talking about his quote they closed their eyes and
voted for a bill knowing, damn well, it will explode
the deficit by fifty two trillion dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
That's from a Democrat, Okay, but that's what it'll do.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Actually, And here's the problem is, you know, I've been
skeptical of the things Trump, a lot of what Trump
has done so far, but I've been willing to go
along because of the way he was voted in, and
the mandate he came with, and the ability he had
to say from day one, all right, this is what
I'm going to do, A B and C. He doesn't have.
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He used all of his goodwill in his first administration
when it came to willing nelly spending and blowing up.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
The deaf sit.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I'm not on board for a second term of that.
He's already done it for one term. It's time to
get our spend. There's no reason to have Elon Musk
working his tailoff twenty four hours a day trying to
find all these ways to save money. If we're just
going to go out and blow it in the next breath,
that's dim crat thinking. That's not Republican thinking.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Do you think we'll ever get on the president who's
willing to not do this? Though?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I mean this, This has been a hallmark of all
presidencies for as long as you can remember. I'd say
you're making excuses.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Yeah, but it's but it's what's what it's been. I
don't know that we ever get a president that says
we got to bring this in. Well, here's or Congress
is we got to bring this in. Here's a good
way to start. You've got to you've got a nerd
who's telling you you can save this much money here
and this much money here. All right, put that money
to good use, save it, save it or well yeah,
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because listen, we're cut the spending. We can't even begin
to get close to cutting the deficit spending. And until
we can do that, we're not going to get we
can't begin to reduce the the death this country.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
What close to what? Thirty seven trillion dollars?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Now? Okay, Well, the House goes on a two week hiatus.
Now is there easter break? The break there? The Senate
breaks what next week? I guess it is. So it'll
be a while before they get together to see what
they can can come up with Hill On. This meantime,
the House did vote for a second time to pass
a standalone buil that would require proof of citizenship to vote.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
In federal elections.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Hello, what a hot country where you have to actually
get a bill passed through Congress that requires that you
prove you're a citizen of this country before you can
vote in a federal election. This is the Safeguard American
Voter Eligibility Act, the SAVE Act.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
There were four.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
I think I mentioned a minute ago four about Ford
Democrats voting for the budget bill. No, that's not true.
It was for Democrats voting for this bill. Case Oi
Quaar Texas, Golden Main and Gloosen camp Perez of Washington,
whoa a member of the House from Washington, voted for
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this unbelievable Now is already illegal for anyone now a
US citizen to vote in federal elections, It has been
since nineteen ninety six. But those who put this bill
up have argued it's necessary migrants from voting in elections.
And we were seeing I mean, those just claiming that
they were so scrutinumbers handed out to lots of illegal
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aliens by the Biden administration.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Did these people vote or not?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Hillary Clinton comes out of whatever rock she's hiding under
to warn women about this bill. Says it's gonna somehow
make it harder for women to vote, that it could
effectively disenfranchise women whose married names don't match the names
on their birth certificates. Really, so, I guess in Hillary's viewpoint,
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this is all about Republicans trying to trying to suppress
the vote of the Philly suburban soccer mom.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
That's a stretch.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Well it's Hillary, right, So she says, are you a
woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress's
considering ability can make it much harder for you to
vote your rep.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
This is not a drill.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Unbelievable. Women who get married have to go through this
dance anyway. If not for that, for everything else, right,
you've been there, You've done that. But keep this in
mind that all but four Democrats, all but four, voted
against a bill that would keep illegal aliens from voting
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in this country, all but four. And they can say
what they want to say. We know what this is
all about. We know it's about a power grab by
the Democrats thinking these folks will vote for them. I
don't know you, no, I mean folks who have come
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to this country legally turn their backs on Democrats in
a major way last November because of this, in part
the economy big part of it too, but in part
because of just this right here, that that party was
willing to allow people to come here and not jump
through the hoops that they had to jump through, and
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that in some cases and in some municipalities, actually give
them a right to cast a vote. It's illegal in
federal elections now, but it's not. In some municipalities it's allowed. Okay, Well,
so all but four Democrats voted against you having to
show proof your citizen in order to vote. Crazy, I know, right,
(39:30):
and it's not crazy. That's the Democrat Party of twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I won't give up the ship talking about what matters.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
This country is too great to throw over to communism.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I love it. One O three point five FM and
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Speaker 3 (40:00):
For our final thoughts on a Friday morning at eight forty.
Good morning to you. Well, let's start at home. Amongst
the goings on in the state House yesterday, a bill
advancing that would allow public students in schools, public students,
public school students the ability to express their religious beliefs
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at school events, including praying.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Oh my goodness, they're gonna let these kids pray at schools.
That's been the big argument for years. All right, if
you're going to have a you know, a prayer around
the flagpole, and you know, is it school recognized. Is
it school organized? Where is that free speech?
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Right?
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Well, this bill would would allow these things to happen,
these things prayer, as long as the school doesn't endorse
the message. The legislation, the sponsors say, aligned state law
with the recent Supreme Court ruling that case about the
football coach up in Washington State who would pray with
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his kids on the game on the field after games,
and that he got fired for it. Remember the Supreme
Court ruling that that was speech protected by the First Amendment.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I was just trying to think back. You know, the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes, that's been a very popular organization
for years.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
I am shocked that, you know, leftists and atheists and such.
Oh wait, hang on, I'm not saying all leftists or
atheists I'm just saying leftists and atheists are an uproar
over you know, school buildings, auditoriums and such being used
for religious services on Sundays. Quite honestly, you know, I mean,
(41:52):
I thought they've been screaming at the top of their
lungs over that, but they haven't been. So I mean,
just a master is there. Just imagine a country that
our founding fathers say, based on on on God principles.
Now you've got a pass legislation that says, yeah, a
(42:13):
kid can pray in school, or a group of kids
can pray in school, as long as the school doesn't
endorse the message. The mayor of Blythwood is proposing a curfew,
and it sounds like it might be high time. There
have been a couple of incidents late nights in Blithwood,
(42:35):
the latest being what happened was this past weekend at
a waffle house that was a massive group of young people.
And you get that many together in one setting, you know,
it's a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
And it was Do we know was that prom night
or was that just a weekend thing?
Speaker 4 (42:56):
I don't know. Is it's not I mean otherwise quite
prompt season yet?
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Oh? Yeah yeah? Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:03):
It's almost over? Oh yeah, once my kids got to ask,
I'm pay attention to such things.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
I just I just wonder, and why the were police
called before that? I mean a crowd that big. I mean,
if you've seen the video, there's all kinds of kids
running with this.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
It's not like it was in a public park or so.
This is a waffle house parking lot.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Yeah, and they weren't all eating, so you know, why
not clear them out of there?
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Of course they're just going to go someplace else.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
Sure, Yeah, well it sounds like it's high time and
a lot of a residents agree that a curfew is
is going to be needed there.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
And that's that's another mayor, you know, like our sheriff
taking your shot at parents, saying you're ultimately responsible, right
if your kid is out that lag causing trouble.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Yeah, the mayor pro tem there, Donald Brock, saying any
solution must involve all relevant parties. And yeah, relevant parties
includes parents, right, Yeah, doubt Futures had two fifteen this
morning after losing one thousand yesterday one thousand and then some,
so the prior day gains that again, the emotions of
the market come into play here. Trump announced the nine
(44:10):
day pause, the emotions took over, and the markets all
the now it's biggest single point gain day ever, close
to three thousand points. Lost a third of that yesterday,
and you know, maybe we'll kind of stabilize things here
a little bit. Read right around thirty nine to forty
thousand for a few days.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
At least.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
We've got one hundred and forty five percent tariff on
goods from China. China has responded, raising tariffs on US
to one hundred and twenty five percent. This is quickly again,
tell you this is this is becoming the big story. Okay,
it sounded more and more like at least with other countries,
there's some room to go to negotiate the big wars
between the US and China China. This morning, is Fox
(44:51):
just reported saying, Okay, that'll be the ceiling for us,
you know, one hundred and twenty five percent, where we're
not going to continue to play the tit for tat
on that corporate bankruptcies. We were mentioning Publisher's Clearinghouse a
little earler this morning following at Chapter eleven bankruptcy corporate
bankruptcy bankruptcies amongst US companies Q one of this year
increasing to the highest level since twenty ten. Now before
(45:16):
I'm sure, because yeah, that's Donald Trump's economy for you.
Wait a minute, this is Q one. Okay, These companies
didn't didn't get on the virgil or go into bankruptcy
in a matter of two months.
Speaker 4 (45:27):
This has been brewing for a long time.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
And yeah, the pandemic comes into play and SODA's bidnomics.
So highest level of bankruptcies for US companies in fifteen years.
Doze continuing the work it was set out to do. Now,
Doze says they've discovered let's see here, toddlers, people not
(45:53):
yet born, and people one hundred and fifteen years or
older walked off with nearly four hundred million dollars in
unemployment insurance benefits.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
One individual claiming the birth year of twenty one fifty
four picked up a cool forty one thousand dose says,
was that a joke? I mean, did they just put
that down as a joke? And then we're shocked to
find out they got to check in the mail for
forty one Great?
Speaker 4 (46:21):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (46:22):
And I assume most of this is automated, So how
does a computer see that and still continue to churn
out money?
Speaker 4 (46:28):
Yeah, I don't know. You're gonna break it down.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
There were twenty four thousand, five hundred people over the
age of one hundred and fifteen, right, they collected fifty
nine million in benefits. Twenty eight thousand between the ages
of one and five picked up a quarter of a
trillion dollars worth of benefits and yeah, nine seven hundred
(46:52):
people with birth dates over fifteen years in the future
claimed sixty nine million. Do you think the systems broke? Okay,
I'm not saying here that, yeah, these are people you
know in the government that are just you know, trying
to rip us all off. I'm saying the systems broke.
Whatever system you have in place don't work. It don't work.
Crazy and kudos to the woman in Buford, Marion Roser,
(47:20):
who fought off an alligator with a tomato steak to
get this thing off of her husband, a seventy seven
year old man who was bitten by this gator in
the right leg and one of his arms. Hers here,
here's I'm yelling, grabs a damato steak and starts poking
(47:40):
the gator in the eyes. Brave woman there, man and smart. Yeah,
probably saved her husband's life, So congratulations and kudos to her.
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