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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Jesus fry hell yeah, Scene America and Jery Holland.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
For sa F Nation god.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
L and yes it is wrong. This is Columbia's Morning
News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one O
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hey, let's do this thing right. It's Friday. Let's do
this thing and get to the weekend. Good morning, sixteen
after six o'clock Friday morning, April the twenty fifth. Good
to have you with us, and hope you're doing well
this morning. Wake it up to a little bit of
a foggy scene.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Is that in your head or outside of your head?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Both?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Okay? Both? Because I felt it right. Yeah, good morning
to you, sir. Morning.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
That is the voice there of Christopher Thompson. I'm Gary David.
Appreciate you that the FOG's not like it's not tear
the town fall.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
No, we've had worse.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh yeah, visibility about three miles downtown, about one mile
over in the lakes, and a little worse over towards Saluta.
You got zero visibility there. You can't see your thing apparently,
but anyway that'll burn off out of here. We don't
have any alerts or anything like that today. So let's
get this. Let's look at this party started, shall we.
Did you stay up watching the Draft last night?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I watched a good bit. Yes, what did did I say?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
One hundred and twenty five thousand people in Green Bay
for that thing?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It was I mean absolutely they had. They had a
huge tent right outside of lambeau Field and then you know,
just people spread out everywhere and you're talking about a
football crazy town anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh my goodness, Yes, so yeah it was. I mean
it was impressive.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I still think Nashville was more exciting to look at,
just because of all the neon and the lights, and
I mean people had the streets filled for blocks. But
this was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What an incredible cultural event that has become, right, it
has whould have thought, Yeah, sent around and watch a
guy that you booth and just call out a bunch
of guys' names for hours on h It.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Doesn't seem like it would be exciting, but they've really
jazzed it up. They've got live music, they've got celebrities,
and it's yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Pretty cool, pretty cool. I know there are some storylines
coming out of last night. You'll get to that. A
few coming up, Yeah, just just a few rundown big stories,
hot topics. What's going on here? Well as the time
as we're running out on this session over the State House,
his time running out of the private school vouchers, one
of the big ticket items, one of the priorities going
into this session back in January. Well, the cent aside
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as well, they've again delayed any action on this.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
We'll get into it and let you know why and
what is next or or not next.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
For all of this, I sometimes wonder if we deemed
something to be a big priority for the State House,
if we're dooming it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, they were the ones that deemed it that way. Well, true,
all right, maybe they doomed it because yeah, you're right,
it seems like the big ticket item. Now there'll be
this mad rush at the end of the session. They'll
get some things done. Certainly, they didn't waste any time.
They're going ahead, and the Senate been passing themselves in
eighteen thousand dollars annual pay raise. They got that take
care of me, got priorities in all right. Meantime, the Senate,
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they've got their plan for teacher pay raises, and of course,
needless to say, the House has their separate plan. What's
different and might it hold things up? I don't think
it'll hold it up, but you know, again, it's just
one of these days. We're gonna tell you know what,
the House and the Senate have identical ideas on a bill.
Don't hold your breath. Yeah, one of these days we're
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gonna say, Hey, the House and Senate got everything done.
They're gonna go home two weeks early and save the
taxpayers money. You know, there are states where the legislative
session is a whole lot shorter than ours, I mean
a whole lot shorter, and they get things done. Maybe
we should consider that here. Anyway, now, they just gave
themselves a big raise. Make them work a few extra days.
This story out of Sumter County, the Feds charging three
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men in Sumter County with thirty million dollars in international
money laundering. Apparently set up shop and a couple of
businesses served as fronts. Wow kind of sex. Since we've
been talking a lot about casinos here recently, and these
are gambling bills that are over the state House. How
(04:22):
about this story hackers threatening to release blueprints of the
Cataba Nations Two Kings casino, including details on restricted areas
like Chipbault location and surveillance camera placement.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Now that casino is not built yet, but they're threatening
to release the blueprints before they start building or I
guess that has construction started.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh, hasn't it. I don't know. They've got a temporary
casino at any rate. Now now, yeah, they're working on it.
It's not done yet.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's a huge security breach.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Right wow. RFK Junior doctor os will be in the
state today. They will be in Charleston addressing a legislative
insurance meeting in downtown Charleston later on today. I'm sure
we'll get a whole lot out of that. Jamie Harrison
crawls out a hole, the former d NC chair and
in one time US Senate Canada want to be from
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South Carolina before he got trounced by Lindsey Graham and
wasted a whole bunch of Democrat Donor Bunny. He's he's
calling out republic Wow. What Jamie Harrison is calling out
Republicans and says he's got continuing confidence in the future
of the Democrat Party, which didn't fare very well under
his leadership as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee,
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did it now, Yeah, we had another earthquake? Was he
yesterday morning? We had this one. Yes, it was very early,
about one sixteen in the morning. Again a tremor. It
was a two point three bigger than some not as
big as a few others. Actually, one of the local
TV stations did an interview with a seismologist who has
maybe an explanation for why that area over towards Elgin
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Over in Kershaw County has seen so much of this activity.
Speaking of activity, judges continue to block Trump executive orders.
Now you've got a federal judge in DC blocking gett this,
get a portion at least of Trump's executive order on
election integrity, you know, telling you you got to prove
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that you're a US citizen in order to vote. Yes,
a federal judge has just blocked that, or at least
parts of it. Another judge blocking a Trump order that
would pull federal funding from sanctuary cities. By the way,
that judge and Obama appointed judge in California has deep,
deep ties. It has given a ton of money to
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the Democrat Party. More judge news that magistrate former magistrate
in New Mexico that we talked about. He resigned his
position after it was discovered that he and his wife
or letting a trend to argue what gang member live
in their home. Well, now they're in more hot water.
Is the have shown up and that Judge Joe Kanno
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and his wife Nancy taken into custy yesterday. Yeah, you're
harboring a fugitive and a gang member, all right. Latest
Pete Hegzeth controversy associated Press with a story claiming that
Hegzeth had an unsecured internet line set up in his
office in order to connect to signal and other outside
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to apps unsecured. That's that's the claim, which is well
a lot worse than this other story they've been floating
around the last day or two, which was ridiculous that
Hegzeth had ordered a makeup studio on the Pentagon. Okay,
apparently it was just a there was already one there.
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They just did a few little things to it. It's
crazy home sales taking ahead March home sales dropping to
the slowest pace since our financial troubles back in two
thousand and nine. Okay, there you go. And while our
state House continues to try to figure out will they
or won't they get a private school vouncher? Thing done?
(08:10):
Texas has passed the nation's largest universal education savings account program.
That's a billion dollar program that would allow taxpayer funds
to support private school tuition and homeschooling expenses. So Texas
got it done? Why can't we?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And this can't be true. Stacy Abrams rumored now to
be considering once again running for governor of the Peach State,
and no doubt, once again ramping up a bunch of
election denials along with fundraising and then some fundraising too. Okay,
all right, she just won't go away. Friends, We got that,
(08:50):
We got more. Cover your way here on this the
Friday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
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Speaker 1 (09:15):
Thank good morning to tell you it is six forty
three Friday morning, April twenty fifth. We appreciate you joining us,
all right. So we had another earthquake yesterday morning. Thomas
just mentioned this in the update. It was a two
point three mag quake hitting ay Elgin just after one
o'clock yesterday morning. There have been nearly one hundred of
these since late twenty twenty one. Now the paces seem
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to have slowed a bit, but we're still getting this
is well. This is the sixth confirmed earthquake of this
year and we're not quite through the fourth month yet.
So News ten sat down with a seismologist with the
University of South Carolin Lineup. Surprised this question hadn't been
(10:02):
asked yet. Why exactly? I guess it has been, but
we haven't had an answer to that. Well, this guy,
Daniel Frost is his name. He and another researcher from
Georgia Tech have been studying the swarm of quakes that
we've got and fortunately none of them have been big
enough to cause any problems. Our most powerful were on
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the same day in June June twenty ninth of twenty
twenty two. To that day, a three point five and
a three point six, which were the two biggest to
hit our state in about ten years or so. Since
twenty fourteen. There was a four point one in McCormack County.
I'm trying to remember when it was. Oh goodness, this
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has been a long time ago. I remember late on
a Friday night, relaxing in the lazy Boy that one hit.
Felt one in the election area. This is probably fifteen
fifteen years ago or so. Do you remember did you
feel that one? I remember, I had no idea what
it was. It was just kind of like an almost
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an electrical kind of vibration. Was what was that?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I mean, I felt them. I've felt one in the morning,
not terribly long ago, but I don't remember the one
you're talking.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, that one was. I don't remember whether it was.
It was a fairly sizable one and it wasn't even
close to where I was, That's why. But I remember
that one. I went time. I very felt one. So
so what might be causing all of this? Well, according
to Frost, he says, we're seeing a lot of this
around that particular area in Elgin because that part of
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the state is along a two hundred plus million year
old fault system. He says it's simply reactivating. But why now, Well,
that's what they're trying to figure out. A possibility is
that fluids from the watery river getting into the fault.
If there's water in the fault, then the fault slides
more easily. So maybe that's the reason why they don't
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know that yet, but they're trying to figure that out.
He does say, however, and they do other seismologists, that
if you live out in that area, don't freak out.
Doesn't appear that this swarm that we've been experiencing is
at all indicative of a bigger one coming, so that
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these fault lines in that area of the Midlands not
big enough to produce the earthquakes much stronger than the
ones they whether we've been getting that was always okay,
we get all these is a big one coming, he thinks.
Not nice as if you ask about like Charleston, well,
that would be a whole different answer. Of course, that
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massive quake all those years ago. I remember we talked
about this one time that if a quake like that
hit Charleston again today, how how expensive and how deadly
it would be. It'd be huge. So let's hope that
doesn't happen, by the way, since we're talking little mother
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nature here, and I don't guess we're gonna get a
chance to see this, and we certainly didn't last night
because the clouds. Maybe tonight, but there's a rare astrological
phenomenon that could be seen last night by some possible
tonight called the smiley face moon. I have never heard
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of this one. It's a it's a waning crescent moon,
and then above it, to the left and the right
you can see Venus and Saturn.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh, okay, I get it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, so the Yeah, I saw a picture of this
and it looks like a smiley face with the sky.
Pretty cool. I've never heard about this, and it, uh,
it doesn't happen very often, and it won't happen again
until probably November of twenty twenty six. They say, Okay,
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that's pretty cool, the smiley face moon. And I just
wonder if I happen if I didn't know about this
and happened to look up and see that. Well, it's
I haven't seen the picture. It's it's pretty obvious it's
a smiley face. Look at that, all right? Better, I
don't know tonight we're gonna stay cloudy, so probably not
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much of a chance to see the smiley face moon
around here.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Dog gone it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Have you ever noticed that always happens whenever we have
one of these things, they say, oh, look up at
this guy to see something or another.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's always cloudy, cloudy or foggy.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Always never fails. I've gone it.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
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once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Good morning, it's sixteen after seven, it's Friday, April twenty fifth.
Good to have you with us. I am Gary David,
he is Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Warning sir and the air.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
They're at it again, the activist judges. You know, Congress
can't act quick enough Republicans and Congress can act quick
enough on this piece of legislation that they've they've introduced
that would would keep these federal judges who who are
in charge of a certain chunk of the country from
making rulings that affect everybody else. I mean that should
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be the uh, that's the Supreme Court. He does that,
not these federal judges. Well, here we go with Judge
Coleen or Colleen Colewort totally. Okay, it's a hyphenated last name,
so you know this is a Democrat, right, I'm sorry.
Do we know of a Republican with a highendated last name.
I'm sure there are a few. You can pretty much
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bet your bottom dollar when when you see somebody with
a highended last name, they're a liberal. Okay, it just
seems to always be that way. Well, anyway, Judge Cole
could tell it, whatever her name is, DC Judge blocking
at least some of Trump's executive order on voting. Remember
what the president wanted to do here was to just
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ensure just just you know, just just ensure that anybody
who votes in a federal election in this country actually
be a US citizen. What's wrong with that? Huh? It
doesn't say that in some of these blue cities where
they allow this to happen, that it applies there. Just
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on a federal level. If you're going to vote for
you know, Senator president whatever, any kind of federal election,
let's just let's just make sure that people voting are
actually US citizens. Well, let's just just shot down some
of those provisions, not all but some of them. Her
(17:02):
claim is that the Constitution and trusts Congress and the states,
not the president, with the authority to regulate federal actions. Okay,
this is an argument that's been made, especially at the
state level, and it's true.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, So why can't Republicans in Congress exactly take a note? Okay,
So the Supreme Court just said, or the courts just said,
we can do this, we should do this, we will
do this. Do it.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I mean again, if they said the president can't but
we can, why don't we write.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You control both houses of Congress just do it. Well anyway,
so there's that one. Now we had actually have had
what now he had a judge in Maryland, judge in
New Hampshire shooting down additional orders related to DEI in
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k through twelve public schools. That happened yesterday. And then
we had a judge issue going to junction against the
White House from trying to pull federal funding from local
governments in sanctuary with sanctuary city policies. Sixteen cities and
counties filed lawsuits after Trump issued this executive order. Again,
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you want to be a sanctuary city, go ahead, We're
not going to help you.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
The lawsuit that was filed argue that the order violated
the separation of powers. And again here we go, infringe
on the power of the purse granted to Congress. Again,
same question, right, yeah, Congress, do something.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
If the court says the president can't do it, but
you can, then you should.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Now, while the first judge I mentioned who blocked to
parts of the election Integrity initiative was a Clinton appointee,
this judge a Barack Obama appointee, who, by the way,
we should mention you know this.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I know this.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
A lot of people don't realize this how political these
judges are. It is. It's politics. Well, this guy who
blocked the h the attempted to block money to sanctuary
cities has deep, deep, deep Blue ties, Judge William Oric,
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District Court of Northern California. That's all you need to
know right there, right, Okay, let's see this. According to
donation records in the FCC database, Oric has donated close
to one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars Democrat candidates and
committees throughout the years donated Obama, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton,
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Bill Clinton. Die Fi I made two donations as well
to the Obama Victory Fund, one for twenty three hundred dollars,
one for almost thirty thousand dollars in two thousand and eight,
has contributed more than fifty thousand to the DNC. All
the list goes on and on. Besides his financial contributions,
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a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire reveals that he served as
a co chair of the Bay Area Lawyers to Elect
John Kerry back in two thousand and three, two thousand
and four, and the Bay Area Lawyers who Like Barack
Obama and six through eight on. He introduced Kamala Harris
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as a then district attorney candidate in California back in
two thousand and nine. These judges, and not just the
Democrat judges, the Republican judges too. These are people that
are way in deep in politics. So it's it is
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what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
But there are workarounds.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
There are workarounds. Yes, Congress can get off their duffs
and do something, because again, what's the common denominator here
in these two lawsuits and these two rulings. It's not
up to the President to do that. It takes Congress
to do that. Okay, there's your marching orders right there.
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What are we waiting on, John Thune? What are we
waiting on? Mike Johnson? Just do it? Forget, you know,
forget right now for trying to pass the legislation that
keeps these judges. May be able to do this, that
would be nice. But in the meantime, take care of
these issues. Make sure the people who are voting in
elections are US citizens now. The sanctuary city policy and
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pulling and funding important, but it pales in comparison to
the idea that there could well be people voting in
federal elections that shouldn't be, that aren't given the right
under our constitution to do so. So, hey, Congress, you're busy.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
The world is calling Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, United States, and
we'll take you there.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
At a critical time in our world's history.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
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Speaker 1 (22:25):
All right, seven forty two now on a Friday morning.
So it's become pretty clear now that the Democrats and
the media are not going to stop on the incessant
attacks on Pete Heggzath and uh, well, I think maybe
probably what this is going to mean is that not
only will Hegzath, but Trump himself uh be that much
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more hardened in their reaction. And you know, this is
the sort of thing that when you keep going out
of time and time and time and time again, and
you've you claim this, you claim that some of it
may be true, some of it maybe not. I mean,
I don't know. Uh, I just I get the impression
now that Trump's gonna go. You know, I'll show you
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I'm not getting rid of this guy. So here's the latest. Now,
let's let's let's recap for a second. We had the
the signal app them that that that message chat where
you know, a liberal so called journalist, a hack somehow
gets involved and included in this, in this in this chain,
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let's see. Then we had reports that he had been
including what his wife, his brother, and his attorney in
some messages that were said to be sensitive, if not
classified in nature. We had the really oddball story that
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claimed he had spend forty thousand dollars to install a
makeup studio with the Pentagon.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, that's the outlier.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
That is not right. To do that was just bizarre.
I mean, why why even go there. We've seen these
various reports that say, why why his wife is always
with him? Why is that? And we know that, we've
seen the pictures. I mean, she has been in some
meetings with foreign you know, leaders and dignitaries and such,
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and you're thinking that's weird. And then there's the coming Wow,
she's always around because she's trying to She's like his
pr person, she's like his handler almost. She's trying to
kee him in lying, keep him from drinking, keeping from
looking at other girls. Blah blah blah blah blah. Well, now,
the Associated Press, the latest here is that Hegzath had
an Internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon security protocols that
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were set up for his office. No firewall, no firewall
in order to use the signal messaging app on a
personal computer. Again, two people familiar with the line telling
the apick no firewall in order to use the signal
messaging app on a personal computer. Again, two people familiar
with the line telling the AP. Here's what we do know.
There are people inside the Pentagon, and this should be
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it should have been expected, I guess from the get
go that this was a let's face it, it was
an unconventional pick. Okay, it was unconventional. A lot of
it was just like, this was a guy who had
military experience, a guy who'd been on the front lines,
a guy who had the backs of our servicemen and women. Okay,
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that should not have been an unconventional at all, but
a guy who never had any experience in leading an
organization anywhere close to the size and importance of something
like the Pentagon, the Department of Defense. So it was
an unconventional pick. And yeah, we should have known from
the get go that the bureaucrats inside the Pentagon were
going to be resentful of this. And that's obvious because
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there are there are anonymous sources left and right these
and this is just the latest.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
But he's helping them.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
It seems that way, doesn't that.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he's showing over and over again
he's not ready to run the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And I just and again, because of the timing of
these stories, you're like, wait, dude, man, get it straight.
But again, this particular dirty internet line they call this
what it people call it? You know, it's not as
though this was just installed yesterday. This is apparently, according
to the story, at least been there since he moved in.
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But it's a line that connects directly to the public Internet,
where the user's info and websites access don't have the
same security protocols that the Pentagon requires. Is this how
this this message thing got got hacked into? It certainly
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could expose hacking and surveillance. Uh, well, have we I know,
I know we I know we got a reaction from
Hegxeth about the makeup studio. I haven't seen reaction from
Hexath yet about this particular story.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
What's he gonna say?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah? I know. Well, as of just this past Wednesday, JD.
Vance told reporters that he himself had confidence in Hexath
And what I'm saying know the president does, and really
the entire team does. The regardless, the deep state inside
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the Pentagon is not gonna stop. The Democrats aren't gonna
stop until this guy's out. However, the more it piles
up on him, I just I just had this sense
that the more Trump was gonna say, huh, I'm keeping
the guy.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Everybody likes his philosophy, everybody respects his military service. Can't
he be the spokesperson for the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I think that we mentioned this, we talk about this yesterday.
I think that would have been the smart pick initially. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I mean, he's he's proving it over and over again.
He's not cut out to be the secretary. So so
move on and and if you like him that much,
keep him in the administration, but find him something else
to do where he doesn't screw up.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Well, there's the light. And again you would if this,
if if this story is true, and again you think
it'd be pretty easy to find out one way or
the other. Uh. But but if it's true that it
would just be mind boggling that the guy with his
his military experience would possibly and will possibly do that.
(28:42):
And then why why, why why would you do that?
I don't know. Well, that's uh, that's uh. That sums
up this week in the life of Pete hags f
What does next week bring? Huh.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
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 fifteen after a.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Good morning to you and a happy Friday. It's the
twenty fifth of April. Good to have you on board.
We mentioned earlier this morning, very early this morning, the
Texas the Senate Texas has voted to accept revisions from
the House to what's known as Senate Bill Too, which
clears the way now for Governor Greg Abbott to sign
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into law the largest universal education savings account program in
the country. It's a billion dollar program that will allow
taxpayer funds to support private school tuition and expenses for homeschooling.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
No issues with their constitution apparently not.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I'm sure it'll be challenged. The of the American Legislative
Exchange Council said this Texas has delivered a resounding victory
for students, families, and the American principle of self determination.
Simple yet powerful belief that money should follow the child
rather than be trapped in the system. Okay, and this
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is the biggest, is not the only one. Texas now
becomes the sixteenth state to implement a universally essay, which
is a part of a burgeoning movement among red states
to expand parental control over education. What a concept. Huh?
(30:43):
So Texas just got this done now Here in South Carolina. Well,
going into the session, we were told one of the
big priority items was to well fix what they got
wrong last year when it came to vouchers allowing Paris
to send their kids to private schools. Last year, it
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was passed, it was signed, and then the lawsuits ensued
and the state Supreme Court shot it down, saying, oh,
the way you're trying to do this is unconstitutional. So
it's back to the drawing board. In this session, they
were gonna get it done.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And here we sit with just six working days left
in the regular session, and guess why it ain't done yet. Well,
we'll it get done. I mean time short here. Now,
if you'll recall, the Senate has their idea how to
do this. The House has their idea how to do this.
The Senate idea is to use money from the education
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lottery to fund this program. There were concerns that, well,
you know, I mean we're seeing you know, less and
less money flow into that system, which is historically what
happens in states that have lotteries like this. That was
their idea. The House, on the other hand, their idea
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was last year's idea with some vague some vagaries in there.
You know, it's it's not general fund it's this or
it's that or But it was basically the same thing
they had last time. Their hope was that now with
a new Chief Justice and John Kidridge, that the Supreme
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Court would look more more kindly on this time around.
Pretty big gamble there, especially, you know, I mean, do
you do you want to really pull the tail on
that on that tiger there? Do you want to waken
up that that sleeping bear? I mean, come on, if
you want to get a slap right back down again,
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just say yeah, Well, we think that the makeup of
the court now we're gonna basically do on the same
moment we threw them last time. They got accepted this time. Well,
but as it sits right now, this bill is in
a conference committee, and the chairs of the two chambers
education committees and staff from the Department of Education has
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spent weeks trying to come up with a compromise. Well,
the Senate has once again delayed any kind of vote
on this. They didn't have enough in the Chamber yesterday
to make this happen. Democrats are Lockstock and Barrel opposed
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to this, So now twice in the last two weeks
they've been able to delay a vote delaying progress, and
it happened again yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
So they walked out specifically so there wouldn't be a.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Quorum, right, yeah, but not only that, there were several
Republicans who were absent and not in the chamber, so
there were not enough senators there in order to continue
to meet. So they were done six working And again,
I mean, I think it'd be pretty logical to think
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that what's gonna happen next week and then the week
after that in the final week of the session, as
Democrats will again walk out and hopefully there are enough
Republicans who decide to show up and stick around to
try to at least get a vote on this thing.
But will they get it done? They found time to
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raise their pay. They got that done, passing an eighteen
thousand dollars annual pay raise. Okay, they had had a
raise since what the nineties? Right?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Okay, well still not actually a salary raise, but a
stipend stip and raise, Yeah, with which you can do
whatever the heck you want to do. Right, you want
to use that money to take a vacation, Well, go ahead.
They did pass a thousand, not a month increase back
about ten years ago. But Nicki Haley shot that one down.
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So anyway.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Oh and by the way, the teacher salary issue, the
sentence budgets has locked in raises for teachers. But guess what,
lo and behold it's different than the House plan. Again,
another thing that everybody agreed needed to get done. Well,
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are there enough differences in these two plans they won't
be able to work this one. I got an inkling
that they'll they'll find a way to work this one out.
This has been a governor priority now for a while.
We've made some strides. I think they'll probably get that done.
But again, just just enough in there in the details
to be different between the two plans. It's gonna take
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some hammer out. And if I had to bet, I'd
bet they'll get that one done. And we're gonna sit
around here. I don't know, taking up this about your
program again in January? Is that possible? Could that happen?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
You could?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Good? Yeah, you know again, I had a list one time.
I have to go find that again. There are a
lot of states that have legislative sessions that are a
whole lot shorter than ours. Matter of fact, I think
there's one state that only meets every other year, and
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they somehow are able to get things accomplished.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Well, it's the most amazing part is always the priorities,
the highest priorities seem to still being wrestled with as
we get to the end of these sessions.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
That seems to be the case year after year after year,
doesn't it. Yeah, okay, well maybe those surprises next year
they'll get something done. Right off the bat, there's a
lot they a lot they do, but a lot of
it's not really noteworthy or newsworthy. Year about it. We've
had multiple Democrat politicians talk about it.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
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Speaker 1 (37:21):
Some time for our final thoughts, and we got some
Doozies in here today, friends, starting at home. Jamie Harrison,
speaking of Doozies, the former Democrat National Committee chair of
the failed senatorial candidate who was very successful in pocketing
a whole bunch of money from Democrat donors and then
(37:41):
wasting it in a blowout loss to Lindsey Graham a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Do you do you have the Stacy Abrams story next
on your stack? Because it seems like you could pair
these stories together.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
We could go ahead and do that if you.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Sorry to interrupt, Just everything you're saying, I'm thinking, all right,
is he talking about Jamie Harris Stacy Abrams both?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
When he comes to Jamie though he was at a
question and answers event over at to Savage Craft, Aale
works two nights ago, told the folks there that he
was writing a book that would be good, shared a
few anecdotes and moments from the twenty twenty four election.
(38:25):
He had, well, nasty things to say about the Republicans,
things like bottom line, stupid and boneheaded politics. Then says
he has continuing confidence in the future for the Democrat Party. Well,
that may be a valid outlook now that he is
no longer the chair of the DNC, because remember Jamie
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presided over the disastrous twenty twenty four election for the Democrats.
You'll lost it all, man, You'll lost it all. Okay,
I don't know what what he's doing. He's probably, I
guess some liberal think tank thing. Now, I don't know
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what Jamie's doing now, but we wish him the best. Okay.
So Stacy, yes, she just won't go away. It's like
that rash, it keeps coming back. Stacy Abrams. No bigger
election denier than Stacy who is not once but twice
run for governor of Georgia and failed miserably and both
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times said that it was stolen from her. The Atlanta
General Constitution reporting that she is reportedly considering launching a
third campaign. Okay, so maybe she's in the mindset that, well,
I can't beat I can't beat Brian Kemp. He's beatn
me twice, but that's been somebody else up. Next time,
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maybe I can beat them. Remember in both of those
losses in twenty eighteen and in twenty twenty two, she claimed,
and I should mote without evidence. Let's see the twenty
eighteen was a stolen election, widespread voter suppression, and actually
said that in both of them. Okay. The one thing
(40:15):
that State SAP seems to be doing very good at
doing is is raising money for.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Well for what herself. Her own campaign seems that way.
RFK Jr.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
And Doctor Oz speaking in Charleston this morning at the
National Council of Insurance Legislators. So I got to say
about that this former judge in New Mexico who resigned
his position after it was discovered that he and his
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wife had been harboring a guy who's believed to be
a member of the notorious Venezuelan trend Agua gang. Now
his bigger problems on his hands. Federal agents raided their
home yesterday and took both the judge and his wife
into federal custody. So this is not an area of
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New Mexico that I says has been a hotbed of
illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Human smuggling has been going
on for years and years and years. Is this maybe
why here's here's a judge there.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
You got a judge that was looking the other way,
and you assume he was He and his family were
getting paid for their effort.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
There's no way this guy didn't know. Right, as the
Fed say, the this suspected TDA member was wearing all
the right clothing, had all the right tattoos, all of
that end of the country illegally. A couple of years ago,
because of overcrowding, he was let go, given a nose
to a peer he didn't, so there was a warrant
(41:56):
for hum for his deportation. And all along, dude's been
hanging out of this judge's house. Apparently the wife had
hired the guy to do some work around the house
and for some reason liked him so much she invited
him just to stay on.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Okay, yeah, my guess is we're going to find that
it was somehow profitable for the judge and his family.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Yep, so the two former judge and his wife facing
charges of evidence tampering. M okay.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
March home sales not good sales of previously owned homes,
and March sale fell nearly six percent from February. Inventory
was up nearly twenty percent from a year earlier, and
home sales dropping to its lowest pace, their lowest pace
in two thousand and nine, when we had some some
serious economic issues. So that's that's not happening.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
I mean, we'll see prices start to come down a bit,
making things a little more affordable.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Maybe. I don't know, it's hard to think. Logic doesn't
seem to be prevailing in some of these markets these days.
It's crazy. I don't know, and we haven't mentioned this,
but I saw this couple of days ago. You probably
are aware, hopefully this story out of Minnesota. We're a
(43:16):
guy who worked in the Tim Walls. You remember Tim
Y did he what did he do? He was he
ran for something? Yeah, oh yeah, he wanted to be
a vice press. That's right along with a Kamala Harris. Yeah, okay, yeah,
that guy that Tim Walls Elmer Fudd. My wife thinks
he looks just like Elmer Fudd and acts like him too.
(43:37):
You put the little funky hat on him, he's Olmer Fudd.
So a guy who worked in the Walls administration was
arrested after vandalizing Tesla's. So, okay, we got Tim Walls,
who's been going after Elon Musk and making fun of
(43:58):
Elon Musk now for a while all over Tesla's taking
jabs out of an Now a guy who works in
his administration. So you know, I'll do you one up, man,
I go out and vandalize the Teslas. And he did,
and he got caught, but he's not going to be prosecuted.
The Minnesota prosecutor Hitaman County Attorney Mary Moriarty, declined to
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bring fellony charges due to what she called public safety
and recidivism rates. This is a guy who analyzed six
different Tesla vehicles. She sought to explain why she would
not charge them with a felony, saying this, if defendants
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go through the traditional system and they have a felony
conviction on their record, they're much more likely to come
back and commit a new crime. That is, because a
felony conviction destabilizes their lives. They may lose their jobs,
lose their housing, and it could just lead to future
criminal activity. All right, So this specific case, I guess
we're to believe, according to Moriarty, that if she were
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to charge this guy with a felony, if we went
to prison, when he got out, he'd become a mass murderer.
Maybe I don't know, But what does it say about
any other criminal committing any other crime, maybe even murder?
Is that your take there too, Mary Moriarty? We can't
lock this person up because it would destabilize their lives
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and they come back and commit future criminal life it
I don't want to live in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Who can't you make that argument about it?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Right? Wow? Okay, so dude will not be uh not
not to be punished with a felony for his crimes,
All right, Jesus fry hell yeah, Scene America and Jery Holland.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
For sa F Nation god.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
L and yes it is wrong. This is Columbia's Morning
News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one O
three point five FM and five sixty AM. W vocne.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hey, let's do this thing right. It's Friday. Let's do
this thing and get to the weekend. Good morning, sixteen
after six o'clock Friday morning, April the twenty fifth. Good
to have you with us, and hope you're doing well
this morning. Wake it up to a little bit of
a foggy scene.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Is that in your head or outside of your head?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Both?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Okay? Both? Because I felt it right. Yeah, good morning
to you, sir. Morning.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
That is the voice there of Christopher Thompson. I'm Gary David.
Appreciate you that the FOG's not like it's not tear
the town fall.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
No, we've had worse.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh yeah, visibility about three miles downtown, about one mile
over in the lakes, and a little worse over towards Saluta.
You got zero visibility there. You can't see your thing apparently,
but anyway that'll burn off out of here. We don't
have any alerts or anything like that today. So let's
get this. Let's look at this party started, shall we.
Did you stay up watching the Draft last night?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I watched a good bit. Yes, what did did I say?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
One hundred and twenty five thousand people in Green Bay
for that thing?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It was I mean absolutely they had. They had a
huge tent right outside of lambeau Field and then you know,
just people spread out everywhere and you're talking about a
football crazy town anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh my goodness, Yes, so yeah it was. I mean
it was impressive.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I still think Nashville was more exciting to look at,
just because of all the neon and the lights, and
I mean people had the streets filled for blocks. But
this was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What an incredible cultural event that has become, right, it
has whould have thought, Yeah, sent around and watch a
guy that you booth and just call out a bunch
of guys' names for hours on h It.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Doesn't seem like it would be exciting, but they've really
jazzed it up. They've got live music, they've got celebrities,
and it's yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Pretty cool, pretty cool. I know there are some storylines
coming out of last night. You'll get to that. A
few coming up, Yeah, just just a few rundown big stories,
hot topics. What's going on here? Well as the time
as we're running out on this session over the State House,
his time running out of the private school vouchers, one
of the big ticket items, one of the priorities going
into this session back in January. Well, the cent aside
(02:36):
as well, they've again delayed any action on this.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
We'll get into it and let you know why and
what is next or or not next.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
For all of this, I sometimes wonder if we deemed
something to be a big priority for the State House,
if we're dooming it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, they were the ones that deemed it that way. Well, true,
all right, maybe they doomed it because yeah, you're right,
it seems like the big ticket item. Now there'll be
this mad rush at the end of the session. They'll
get some things done. Certainly, they didn't waste any time.
They're going ahead, and the Senate been passing themselves in
eighteen thousand dollars annual pay raise. They got that take
care of me, got priorities in all right. Meantime, the Senate,
(03:17):
they've got their plan for teacher pay raises, and of course,
needless to say, the House has their separate plan. What's
different and might it hold things up? I don't think
it'll hold it up, but you know, again, it's just
one of these days. We're gonna tell you know what,
the House and the Senate have identical ideas on a bill.
Don't hold your breath. Yeah, one of these days we're
(03:39):
gonna say, Hey, the House and Senate got everything done.
They're gonna go home two weeks early and save the
taxpayers money. You know, there are states where the legislative
session is a whole lot shorter than ours, I mean
a whole lot shorter, and they get things done. Maybe
we should consider that here. Anyway, now, they just gave
themselves a big raise. Make them work a few extra days.
This story out of Sumter County, the Feds charging three
(04:01):
men in Sumter County with thirty million dollars in international
money laundering. Apparently set up shop and a couple of
businesses served as fronts. Wow kind of sex. Since we've
been talking a lot about casinos here recently, and these
are gambling bills that are over the state House. How
(04:22):
about this story hackers threatening to release blueprints of the
Cataba Nations Two Kings casino, including details on restricted areas
like Chipbault location and surveillance camera placement.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Now that casino is not built yet, but they're threatening
to release the blueprints before they start building or I
guess that has construction started.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh, hasn't it. I don't know. They've got a temporary
casino at any rate. Now now, yeah, they're working on it.
It's not done yet.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's a huge security breach.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Right wow. RFK Junior doctor os will be in the
state today. They will be in Charleston addressing a legislative
insurance meeting in downtown Charleston later on today. I'm sure
we'll get a whole lot out of that. Jamie Harrison
crawls out a hole, the former d NC chair and
in one time US Senate Canada want to be from
(05:16):
South Carolina before he got trounced by Lindsey Graham and
wasted a whole bunch of Democrat Donor Bunny. He's he's
calling out republic Wow. What Jamie Harrison is calling out
Republicans and says he's got continuing confidence in the future
of the Democrat Party, which didn't fare very well under
his leadership as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee,
(05:37):
did it now, Yeah, we had another earthquake? Was he
yesterday morning? We had this one. Yes, it was very early,
about one sixteen in the morning. Again a tremor. It
was a two point three bigger than some not as
big as a few others. Actually, one of the local
TV stations did an interview with a seismologist who has
maybe an explanation for why that area over towards Elgin
(05:58):
Over in Kershaw County has seen so much of this activity.
Speaking of activity, judges continue to block Trump executive orders.
Now you've got a federal judge in DC blocking gett this,
get a portion at least of Trump's executive order on
election integrity, you know, telling you you got to prove
(06:18):
that you're a US citizen in order to vote. Yes,
a federal judge has just blocked that, or at least
parts of it. Another judge blocking a Trump order that
would pull federal funding from sanctuary cities. By the way,
that judge and Obama appointed judge in California has deep,
deep ties. It has given a ton of money to
(06:41):
the Democrat Party. More judge news that magistrate former magistrate
in New Mexico that we talked about. He resigned his
position after it was discovered that he and his wife
or letting a trend to argue what gang member live
in their home. Well, now they're in more hot water.
Is the have shown up and that Judge Joe Kanno
(07:06):
and his wife Nancy taken into custy yesterday. Yeah, you're
harboring a fugitive and a gang member, all right. Latest
Pete Hegzeth controversy associated Press with a story claiming that
Hegzeth had an unsecured internet line set up in his
office in order to connect to signal and other outside
(07:27):
to apps unsecured. That's that's the claim, which is well
a lot worse than this other story they've been floating
around the last day or two, which was ridiculous that
Hegzeth had ordered a makeup studio on the Pentagon. Okay,
apparently it was just a there was already one there.
(07:48):
They just did a few little things to it. It's
crazy home sales taking ahead March home sales dropping to
the slowest pace since our financial troubles back in two
thousand and nine. Okay, there you go. And while our
state House continues to try to figure out will they
or won't they get a private school vouncher? Thing done?
(08:10):
Texas has passed the nation's largest universal education savings account program.
That's a billion dollar program that would allow taxpayer funds
to support private school tuition and homeschooling expenses. So Texas
got it done? Why can't we?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And this can't be true. Stacy Abrams rumored now to
be considering once again running for governor of the Peach State,
and no doubt, once again ramping up a bunch of
election denials along with fundraising and then some fundraising too. Okay,
all right, she just won't go away. Friends, We got that,
(08:50):
We got more. Cover your way here on this the
Friday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Give yourself an edge every morning with the info you
can count on Columbia. Is I gotta know what's happening?
On one O three point five FF on five sixty
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FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Thank good morning to tell you it is six forty
three Friday morning, April twenty fifth. We appreciate you joining us,
all right. So we had another earthquake yesterday morning. Thomas
just mentioned this in the update. It was a two
point three mag quake hitting ay Elgin just after one
o'clock yesterday morning. There have been nearly one hundred of
these since late twenty twenty one. Now the paces seem
(09:39):
to have slowed a bit, but we're still getting this
is well. This is the sixth confirmed earthquake of this
year and we're not quite through the fourth month yet.
So News ten sat down with a seismologist with the
University of South Carolin Lineup. Surprised this question hadn't been
(10:02):
asked yet. Why exactly? I guess it has been, but
we haven't had an answer to that. Well, this guy,
Daniel Frost is his name. He and another researcher from
Georgia Tech have been studying the swarm of quakes that
we've got and fortunately none of them have been big
enough to cause any problems. Our most powerful were on
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the same day in June June twenty ninth of twenty
twenty two. To that day, a three point five and
a three point six, which were the two biggest to
hit our state in about ten years or so. Since
twenty fourteen. There was a four point one in McCormack County.
I'm trying to remember when it was. Oh goodness, this
(10:48):
has been a long time ago. I remember late on
a Friday night, relaxing in the lazy Boy that one hit.
Felt one in the election area. This is probably fifteen
fifteen years ago or so. Do you remember did you
feel that one? I remember, I had no idea what
it was. It was just kind of like an almost
(11:11):
an electrical kind of vibration. Was what was that?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I mean, I felt them. I've felt one in the morning,
not terribly long ago, but I don't remember the one
you're talking.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, that one was. I don't remember whether it was.
It was a fairly sizable one and it wasn't even
close to where I was, That's why. But I remember
that one. I went time. I very felt one. So
so what might be causing all of this? Well, according
to Frost, he says, we're seeing a lot of this
around that particular area in Elgin because that part of
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the state is along a two hundred plus million year
old fault system. He says it's simply reactivating. But why now, Well,
that's what they're trying to figure out. A possibility is
that fluids from the watery river getting into the fault.
If there's water in the fault, then the fault slides
more easily. So maybe that's the reason why they don't
(12:06):
know that yet, but they're trying to figure that out.
He does say, however, and they do other seismologists, that
if you live out in that area, don't freak out.
Doesn't appear that this swarm that we've been experiencing is
at all indicative of a bigger one coming, so that
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these fault lines in that area of the Midlands not
big enough to produce the earthquakes much stronger than the
ones they whether we've been getting that was always okay,
we get all these is a big one coming, he thinks.
Not nice as if you ask about like Charleston, well,
that would be a whole different answer. Of course, that
(12:49):
massive quake all those years ago. I remember we talked
about this one time that if a quake like that
hit Charleston again today, how how expensive and how deadly
it would be. It'd be huge. So let's hope that
doesn't happen, by the way, since we're talking little mother
(13:12):
nature here, and I don't guess we're gonna get a
chance to see this, and we certainly didn't last night
because the clouds. Maybe tonight, but there's a rare astrological
phenomenon that could be seen last night by some possible
tonight called the smiley face moon. I have never heard
(13:37):
of this one. It's a it's a waning crescent moon,
and then above it, to the left and the right
you can see Venus and Saturn.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh, okay, I get it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, so the Yeah, I saw a picture of this
and it looks like a smiley face with the sky.
Pretty cool. I've never heard about this, and it, uh,
it doesn't happen very often, and it won't happen again
until probably November of twenty twenty six. They say, Okay,
(14:17):
that's pretty cool, the smiley face moon. And I just
wonder if I happen if I didn't know about this
and happened to look up and see that. Well, it's
I haven't seen the picture. It's it's pretty obvious it's
a smiley face. Look at that, all right? Better, I
don't know tonight we're gonna stay cloudy, so probably not
(14:37):
much of a chance to see the smiley face moon
around here.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Dog gone it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Have you ever noticed that always happens whenever we have
one of these things, they say, oh, look up at
this guy to see something or another.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's always cloudy, cloudy or foggy.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Always never fails. I've gone it.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
three point five FM on five sixty AM w VOC,
once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Good morning, it's sixteen after seven, it's Friday, April twenty fifth.
Good to have you with us. I am Gary David,
he is Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Warning sir and the air.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
They're at it again, the activist judges. You know, Congress
can't act quick enough Republicans and Congress can act quick
enough on this piece of legislation that they've they've introduced
that would would keep these federal judges who who are
in charge of a certain chunk of the country from
making rulings that affect everybody else. I mean that should
(15:33):
be the uh, that's the Supreme Court. He does that,
not these federal judges. Well, here we go with Judge
Coleen or Colleen Colewort totally. Okay, it's a hyphenated last name,
so you know this is a Democrat, right, I'm sorry.
Do we know of a Republican with a highendated last name.
I'm sure there are a few. You can pretty much
(15:54):
bet your bottom dollar when when you see somebody with
a highended last name, they're a liberal. Okay, it just
seems to always be that way. Well, anyway, Judge Cole
could tell it, whatever her name is, DC Judge blocking
at least some of Trump's executive order on voting. Remember
what the president wanted to do here was to just
(16:16):
ensure just just you know, just just ensure that anybody
who votes in a federal election in this country actually
be a US citizen. What's wrong with that? Huh? It
doesn't say that in some of these blue cities where
they allow this to happen, that it applies there. Just
(16:40):
on a federal level. If you're going to vote for
you know, Senator president whatever, any kind of federal election,
let's just let's just make sure that people voting are
actually US citizens. Well, let's just just shot down some
of those provisions, not all but some of them. Her
(17:02):
claim is that the Constitution and trusts Congress and the states,
not the president, with the authority to regulate federal actions. Okay,
this is an argument that's been made, especially at the
state level, and it's true.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, So why can't Republicans in Congress exactly take a note? Okay,
So the Supreme Court just said, or the courts just said,
we can do this, we should do this, we will
do this. Do it.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I mean again, if they said the president can't but
we can, why don't we write.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You control both houses of Congress just do it. Well anyway,
so there's that one. Now we had actually have had
what now he had a judge in Maryland, judge in
New Hampshire shooting down additional orders related to DEI in
(17:57):
k through twelve public schools. That happened yesterday. And then
we had a judge issue going to junction against the
White House from trying to pull federal funding from local
governments in sanctuary with sanctuary city policies. Sixteen cities and
counties filed lawsuits after Trump issued this executive order. Again,
(18:22):
you want to be a sanctuary city, go ahead, We're
not going to help you.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
The lawsuit that was filed argue that the order violated
the separation of powers. And again here we go, infringe
on the power of the purse granted to Congress. Again,
same question, right, yeah, Congress, do something.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
If the court says the president can't do it, but
you can, then you should.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Now, while the first judge I mentioned who blocked to
parts of the election Integrity initiative was a Clinton appointee,
this judge a Barack Obama appointee, who, by the way,
we should mention you know this.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I know this.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
A lot of people don't realize this how political these
judges are. It is. It's politics. Well, this guy who
blocked the h the attempted to block money to sanctuary
cities has deep, deep, deep Blue ties, Judge William Oric,
(19:29):
District Court of Northern California. That's all you need to
know right there, right, Okay, let's see this. According to
donation records in the FCC database, Oric has donated close
to one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars Democrat candidates and
committees throughout the years donated Obama, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton,
(19:52):
Bill Clinton. Die Fi I made two donations as well
to the Obama Victory Fund, one for twenty three hundred dollars,
one for almost thirty thousand dollars in two thousand and eight,
has contributed more than fifty thousand to the DNC. All
the list goes on and on. Besides his financial contributions,
(20:14):
a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire reveals that he served as
a co chair of the Bay Area Lawyers to Elect
John Kerry back in two thousand and three, two thousand
and four, and the Bay Area Lawyers who Like Barack
Obama and six through eight on. He introduced Kamala Harris
(20:34):
as a then district attorney candidate in California back in
two thousand and nine. These judges, and not just the
Democrat judges, the Republican judges too. These are people that
are way in deep in politics. So it's it is
(20:57):
what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
But there are workarounds.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
There are workarounds. Yes, Congress can get off their duffs
and do something, because again, what's the common denominator here
in these two lawsuits and these two rulings. It's not
up to the President to do that. It takes Congress
to do that. Okay, there's your marching orders right there.
(21:23):
What are we waiting on, John Thune? What are we
waiting on? Mike Johnson? Just do it? Forget, you know,
forget right now for trying to pass the legislation that
keeps these judges. May be able to do this, that
would be nice. But in the meantime, take care of
these issues. Make sure the people who are voting in
elections are US citizens now. The sanctuary city policy and
(21:44):
pulling and funding important, but it pales in comparison to
the idea that there could well be people voting in
federal elections that shouldn't be, that aren't given the right
under our constitution to do so. So, hey, Congress, you're busy.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
The world is calling Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, United States, and
we'll take you there.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
At a critical time in our world's history.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
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Speaker 1 (22:25):
All right, seven forty two now on a Friday morning.
So it's become pretty clear now that the Democrats and
the media are not going to stop on the incessant
attacks on Pete Heggzath and uh, well, I think maybe
probably what this is going to mean is that not
only will Hegzath, but Trump himself uh be that much
(22:51):
more hardened in their reaction. And you know, this is
the sort of thing that when you keep going out
of time and time and time and time again, and
you've you claim this, you claim that some of it
may be true, some of it maybe not. I mean,
I don't know. Uh, I just I get the impression
now that Trump's gonna go. You know, I'll show you
(23:15):
I'm not getting rid of this guy. So here's the latest. Now,
let's let's let's recap for a second. We had the
the signal app them that that that message chat where
you know, a liberal so called journalist, a hack somehow
gets involved and included in this, in this in this chain,
(23:37):
let's see. Then we had reports that he had been
including what his wife, his brother, and his attorney in
some messages that were said to be sensitive, if not
classified in nature. We had the really oddball story that
(23:58):
claimed he had spend forty thousand dollars to install a
makeup studio with the Pentagon.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, that's the outlier.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
That is not right. To do that was just bizarre.
I mean, why why even go there. We've seen these
various reports that say, why why his wife is always
with him? Why is that? And we know that, we've
seen the pictures. I mean, she has been in some
meetings with foreign you know, leaders and dignitaries and such,
(24:29):
and you're thinking that's weird. And then there's the coming Wow,
she's always around because she's trying to She's like his
pr person, she's like his handler almost. She's trying to
kee him in lying, keep him from drinking, keeping from
looking at other girls. Blah blah blah blah blah. Well, now,
the Associated Press, the latest here is that Hegzath had
an Internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon security protocols that
(24:52):
were set up for his office. No firewall, no firewall
in order to use the signal messaging app on a
personal computer. Again, two people familiar with the line telling
the apick no firewall in order to use the signal
messaging app on a personal computer. Again, two people familiar
with the line telling the AP. Here's what we do know.
There are people inside the Pentagon, and this should be
(25:14):
it should have been expected, I guess from the get
go that this was a let's face it, it was
an unconventional pick. Okay, it was unconventional. A lot of
it was just like, this was a guy who had
military experience, a guy who'd been on the front lines,
a guy who had the backs of our servicemen and women. Okay,
(25:35):
that should not have been an unconventional at all, but
a guy who never had any experience in leading an
organization anywhere close to the size and importance of something
like the Pentagon, the Department of Defense. So it was
an unconventional pick. And yeah, we should have known from
the get go that the bureaucrats inside the Pentagon were
going to be resentful of this. And that's obvious because
(25:56):
there are there are anonymous sources left and right these
and this is just the latest.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
But he's helping them.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
It seems that way, doesn't that.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he's showing over and over again
he's not ready to run the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And I just and again, because of the timing of
these stories, you're like, wait, dude, man, get it straight.
But again, this particular dirty internet line they call this
what it people call it? You know, it's not as
though this was just installed yesterday. This is apparently, according
to the story, at least been there since he moved in.
(26:34):
But it's a line that connects directly to the public Internet,
where the user's info and websites access don't have the
same security protocols that the Pentagon requires. Is this how
this this message thing got got hacked into? It certainly
(26:54):
could expose hacking and surveillance. Uh, well, have we I know,
I know we I know we got a reaction from
Hegxeth about the makeup studio. I haven't seen reaction from
Hexath yet about this particular story.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
What's he gonna say?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah? I know. Well, as of just this past Wednesday, JD.
Vance told reporters that he himself had confidence in Hexath
And what I'm saying know the president does, and really
the entire team does. The regardless, the deep state inside
(27:39):
the Pentagon is not gonna stop. The Democrats aren't gonna
stop until this guy's out. However, the more it piles
up on him, I just I just had this sense
that the more Trump was gonna say, huh, I'm keeping
the guy.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Everybody likes his philosophy, everybody respects his military service. Can't
he be the spokesperson for the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I think that we mentioned this, we talk about this yesterday.
I think that would have been the smart pick initially. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I mean, he's he's proving it over and over again.
He's not cut out to be the secretary. So so
move on and and if you like him that much,
keep him in the administration, but find him something else
to do where he doesn't screw up.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Well, there's the light. And again you would if this,
if if this story is true, and again you think
it'd be pretty easy to find out one way or
the other. Uh. But but if it's true that it
would just be mind boggling that the guy with his
his military experience would possibly and will possibly do that.
(28:42):
And then why why, why why would you do that?
I don't know. Well, that's uh, that's uh. That sums
up this week in the life of Pete hags f
What does next week bring? Huh.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
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 fifteen after a.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Good morning to you and a happy Friday. It's the
twenty fifth of April. Good to have you on board.
We mentioned earlier this morning, very early this morning, the
Texas the Senate Texas has voted to accept revisions from
the House to what's known as Senate Bill Too, which
clears the way now for Governor Greg Abbott to sign
(29:32):
into law the largest universal education savings account program in
the country. It's a billion dollar program that will allow
taxpayer funds to support private school tuition and expenses for homeschooling.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
No issues with their constitution apparently not.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I'm sure it'll be challenged. The of the American Legislative
Exchange Council said this Texas has delivered a resounding victory
for students, families, and the American principle of self determination.
Simple yet powerful belief that money should follow the child
rather than be trapped in the system. Okay, and this
(30:23):
is the biggest, is not the only one. Texas now
becomes the sixteenth state to implement a universally essay, which
is a part of a burgeoning movement among red states
to expand parental control over education. What a concept. Huh?
(30:43):
So Texas just got this done now Here in South Carolina. Well,
going into the session, we were told one of the
big priority items was to well fix what they got
wrong last year when it came to vouchers allowing Paris
to send their kids to private schools. Last year, it
(31:06):
was passed, it was signed, and then the lawsuits ensued
and the state Supreme Court shot it down, saying, oh,
the way you're trying to do this is unconstitutional. So
it's back to the drawing board. In this session, they
were gonna get it done.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And here we sit with just six working days left
in the regular session, and guess why it ain't done yet. Well,
we'll it get done. I mean time short here. Now,
if you'll recall, the Senate has their idea how to
do this. The House has their idea how to do this.
The Senate idea is to use money from the education
(31:45):
lottery to fund this program. There were concerns that, well,
you know, I mean we're seeing you know, less and
less money flow into that system, which is historically what
happens in states that have lotteries like this. That was
their idea. The House, on the other hand, their idea
(32:05):
was last year's idea with some vague some vagaries in there.
You know, it's it's not general fund it's this or
it's that or But it was basically the same thing
they had last time. Their hope was that now with
a new Chief Justice and John Kidridge, that the Supreme
(32:28):
Court would look more more kindly on this time around.
Pretty big gamble there, especially, you know, I mean, do
you do you want to really pull the tail on
that on that tiger there? Do you want to waken
up that that sleeping bear? I mean, come on, if
you want to get a slap right back down again,
(32:49):
just say yeah, Well, we think that the makeup of
the court now we're gonna basically do on the same
moment we threw them last time. They got accepted this time. Well,
but as it sits right now, this bill is in
a conference committee, and the chairs of the two chambers
education committees and staff from the Department of Education has
(33:11):
spent weeks trying to come up with a compromise. Well,
the Senate has once again delayed any kind of vote
on this. They didn't have enough in the Chamber yesterday
to make this happen. Democrats are Lockstock and Barrel opposed
(33:33):
to this, So now twice in the last two weeks
they've been able to delay a vote delaying progress, and
it happened again yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
So they walked out specifically so there wouldn't be a.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Quorum, right, yeah, but not only that, there were several
Republicans who were absent and not in the chamber, so
there were not enough senators there in order to continue
to meet. So they were done six working And again,
I mean, I think it'd be pretty logical to think
(34:06):
that what's gonna happen next week and then the week
after that in the final week of the session, as
Democrats will again walk out and hopefully there are enough
Republicans who decide to show up and stick around to
try to at least get a vote on this thing.
But will they get it done? They found time to
(34:26):
raise their pay. They got that done, passing an eighteen
thousand dollars annual pay raise. Okay, they had had a
raise since what the nineties? Right?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Okay, well still not actually a salary raise, but a
stipend stip and raise, Yeah, with which you can do
whatever the heck you want to do. Right, you want
to use that money to take a vacation, Well, go ahead.
They did pass a thousand, not a month increase back
about ten years ago. But Nicki Haley shot that one down.
(35:04):
So anyway.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Oh and by the way, the teacher salary issue, the
sentence budgets has locked in raises for teachers. But guess what,
lo and behold it's different than the House plan. Again,
another thing that everybody agreed needed to get done. Well,
(35:28):
are there enough differences in these two plans they won't
be able to work this one. I got an inkling
that they'll they'll find a way to work this one out.
This has been a governor priority now for a while.
We've made some strides. I think they'll probably get that done.
But again, just just enough in there in the details
to be different between the two plans. It's gonna take
(35:49):
some hammer out. And if I had to bet, I'd
bet they'll get that one done. And we're gonna sit
around here. I don't know, taking up this about your
program again in January? Is that possible? Could that happen?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
You could?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Good? Yeah, you know again, I had a list one time.
I have to go find that again. There are a
lot of states that have legislative sessions that are a
whole lot shorter than ours. Matter of fact, I think
there's one state that only meets every other year, and
(36:29):
they somehow are able to get things accomplished.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Well, it's the most amazing part is always the priorities,
the highest priorities seem to still being wrestled with as
we get to the end of these sessions.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
That seems to be the case year after year after year,
doesn't it. Yeah, okay, well maybe those surprises next year
they'll get something done. Right off the bat, there's a
lot they a lot they do, but a lot of
it's not really noteworthy or newsworthy. Year about it. We've
had multiple Democrat politicians talk about it.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
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Speaker 1 (37:21):
Some time for our final thoughts, and we got some
Doozies in here today, friends, starting at home. Jamie Harrison,
speaking of Doozies, the former Democrat National Committee chair of
the failed senatorial candidate who was very successful in pocketing
a whole bunch of money from Democrat donors and then
(37:41):
wasting it in a blowout loss to Lindsey Graham a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Do you do you have the Stacy Abrams story next
on your stack? Because it seems like you could pair
these stories together.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
We could go ahead and do that if you.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Sorry to interrupt, Just everything you're saying, I'm thinking, all right,
is he talking about Jamie Harris Stacy Abrams both?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
When he comes to Jamie though he was at a
question and answers event over at to Savage Craft, Aale
works two nights ago, told the folks there that he
was writing a book that would be good, shared a
few anecdotes and moments from the twenty twenty four election.
(38:25):
He had, well, nasty things to say about the Republicans,
things like bottom line, stupid and boneheaded politics. Then says
he has continuing confidence in the future for the Democrat Party. Well,
that may be a valid outlook now that he is
no longer the chair of the DNC, because remember Jamie
(38:46):
presided over the disastrous twenty twenty four election for the Democrats.
You'll lost it all, man, You'll lost it all. Okay,
I don't know what what he's doing. He's probably, I
guess some liberal think tank thing. Now, I don't know
(39:07):
what Jamie's doing now, but we wish him the best. Okay.
So Stacy, yes, she just won't go away. It's like
that rash, it keeps coming back. Stacy Abrams. No bigger
election denier than Stacy who is not once but twice
run for governor of Georgia and failed miserably and both
(39:30):
times said that it was stolen from her. The Atlanta
General Constitution reporting that she is reportedly considering launching a
third campaign. Okay, so maybe she's in the mindset that, well,
I can't beat I can't beat Brian Kemp. He's beatn
me twice, but that's been somebody else up. Next time,
(39:53):
maybe I can beat them. Remember in both of those
losses in twenty eighteen and in twenty twenty two, she claimed,
and I should mote without evidence. Let's see the twenty
eighteen was a stolen election, widespread voter suppression, and actually
said that in both of them. Okay. The one thing
(40:15):
that State SAP seems to be doing very good at
doing is is raising money for.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Well for what herself. Her own campaign seems that way.
RFK Jr.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
And Doctor Oz speaking in Charleston this morning at the
National Council of Insurance Legislators. So I got to say
about that this former judge in New Mexico who resigned
his position after it was discovered that he and his
(40:50):
wife had been harboring a guy who's believed to be
a member of the notorious Venezuelan trend Agua gang. Now
his bigger problems on his hands. Federal agents raided their
home yesterday and took both the judge and his wife
into federal custody. So this is not an area of
(41:16):
New Mexico that I says has been a hotbed of
illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Human smuggling has been going
on for years and years and years. Is this maybe
why here's here's a judge there.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
You got a judge that was looking the other way,
and you assume he was He and his family were
getting paid for their effort.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
There's no way this guy didn't know. Right, as the
Fed say, the this suspected TDA member was wearing all
the right clothing, had all the right tattoos, all of
that end of the country illegally. A couple of years ago,
because of overcrowding, he was let go, given a nose
to a peer he didn't, so there was a warrant
(41:56):
for hum for his deportation. And all along, dude's been
hanging out of this judge's house. Apparently the wife had
hired the guy to do some work around the house
and for some reason liked him so much she invited
him just to stay on.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Okay, yeah, my guess is we're going to find that
it was somehow profitable for the judge and his family.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Yep, so the two former judge and his wife facing
charges of evidence tampering. M okay.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
March home sales not good sales of previously owned homes,
and March sale fell nearly six percent from February. Inventory
was up nearly twenty percent from a year earlier, and
home sales dropping to its lowest pace, their lowest pace
in two thousand and nine, when we had some some
serious economic issues. So that's that's not happening.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
I mean, we'll see prices start to come down a bit,
making things a little more affordable.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Maybe. I don't know, it's hard to think. Logic doesn't
seem to be prevailing in some of these markets these days.
It's crazy. I don't know, and we haven't mentioned this,
but I saw this couple of days ago. You probably
are aware, hopefully this story out of Minnesota. We're a
(43:16):
guy who worked in the Tim Walls. You remember Tim
Y did he what did he do? He was he
ran for something? Yeah, oh yeah, he wanted to be
a vice press. That's right along with a Kamala Harris. Yeah, okay, yeah,
that guy that Tim Walls Elmer Fudd. My wife thinks
he looks just like Elmer Fudd and acts like him too.
(43:37):
You put the little funky hat on him, he's Olmer Fudd.
So a guy who worked in the Walls administration was
arrested after vandalizing Tesla's. So, okay, we got Tim Walls,
who's been going after Elon Musk and making fun of
(43:58):
Elon Musk now for a while all over Tesla's taking
jabs out of an Now a guy who works in
his administration. So you know, I'll do you one up, man,
I go out and vandalize the Teslas. And he did,
and he got caught, but he's not going to be prosecuted.
The Minnesota prosecutor Hitaman County Attorney Mary Moriarty, declined to
(44:22):
bring fellony charges due to what she called public safety
and recidivism rates. This is a guy who analyzed six
different Tesla vehicles. She sought to explain why she would
not charge them with a felony, saying this, if defendants
(44:43):
go through the traditional system and they have a felony
conviction on their record, they're much more likely to come
back and commit a new crime. That is, because a
felony conviction destabilizes their lives. They may lose their jobs,
lose their housing, and it could just lead to future
criminal activity. All right, So this specific case, I guess
we're to believe, according to Moriarty, that if she were
(45:05):
to charge this guy with a felony, if we went
to prison, when he got out, he'd become a mass murderer.
Maybe I don't know, But what does it say about
any other criminal committing any other crime, maybe even murder?
Is that your take there too, Mary Moriarty? We can't
lock this person up because it would destabilize their lives
(45:27):
and they come back and commit future criminal life it
I don't want to live in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Who can't you make that argument about it?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Right? Wow? Okay, so dude will not be uh not
not to be punished with a felony for his crimes,
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