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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alright Jesus er right, yeah, SAT America and Jerian for
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
And good morning to you. It's sixteen minutes after six o'clock.
Welcome to another Monday. Yes, oh you know we should
be happy we get another Monday to go here. Huh.
It's the twenty eighth and nearly the final day. Just
a few more days left of the Monday April. Good
to have you with us. I'm Gary David Christopher Thompson.
Good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
If it's going to be a Monday, like Tyler said,
it's going to be a beautiful win it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, go ahead and take the day off, okay, see
you enjoy it. Yeah, you take it off after nine. No, no,
I you missed. You didn't stick around for the rest
of that. Take the day off after nine? A thing?
What I want to talk to you anyway? I was
talking to you over there. Oh oh all right the way, Yeah,
we got stuff we got again.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I was at the door.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
That was your week. Yeah, I noticed that they want
to hit you on the way out.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How was your weekend? Brother?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Well, it would you know? Nice? With the Gamecack baseball
team being out of town, I took a break and
saw the Fireflies play a doubleheader in baseball. So but
I did that with my family for fun and not
for work. Nice. Yeah, how about you worked in the
yard I'm guessing did.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
A little bit of stuff Saturday morning, I mean very
little bit. And then the rest of the weekend, Man,
it was like sit by the pool, nice, I mean,
do nothing. I mean maybe the most relaxing weekend I've had.
And I don't know when since you moved, probably certainly,
certainly since then, yes, certainly since then. Didn't do anything else, man,
So yeah, walk the river walk the Columbias I did.
(01:53):
We didn't realize it's been a while, so we've been
down to the West Columbia River Walk. It's still basically
the whole thing is basically still shut down from Helene.
I didn't realize that there's a little small portion open,
but it's not even a walk. It's like you can
see from there to there. That's it.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I think people who visit from out of town are amazed,
though at how much we have now as opposed to
you know, the just bits and drabs, dribs and drabs
here and there, and now they you know, I mean,
it's you can walk just about anywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah along the river.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I prefer the West Columbia side, just because there's at
the river level. Yeah, you know, but that's why it's closed,
because that's at the river level. A lot of I
just didn't realize that they're still waiting on FEMA to
approve stuff where they can do work. Wow, okay, Well
the dog didn't like that. He was very confused. That's
his favorite place to go. He's like, why anyway, Well, uh,
(02:47):
here comes a brand new week. What is staring us
on the face. Let's get right to it. The rundown,
the big stories, the hot topics, some of what's happened
in the last couple of days as we last left you,
and I was not not a weekend to be on
oce In Boulevard and Myrtle Beach. Huh. One teenager shot
and killed, eleven injured, all told, an officer involved incident.
(03:11):
When it comes to the shooting and killing you a
Bennetsfield teenager, now that's not that eleven people were injured
because of an officer involved shooting. They just, you know,
it's Myrtle beach.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Man scary stuff, and that's you know, it's the right
of passage if you lived in this state. But the
most we used to see was a fistfight, if you know,
people brushed up against each other the wrong way. There
were there were no thoughts of guns back then. No,
it's happening about close to midnight Saturday night, right, yeah, wow, Okay,
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it's yeah, it's It's a whole new world, isn't it.
We've got to disturbing news of a band director, the
band director at Fairfield Central High School who was arrested
on Friday, charged with sexual battery with a student. Okay,
booked was I think has been since released on bond.
(04:05):
I've seen twenty nine year old band director.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Wow. Okay. Another soldier in training at Fort Jackson has died,
the Army releasing this information yesterday. This makes goodness sakes.
How many deaths have happened just in the last couple
of years. Have been a number of them, And really,
I mean, if you stop and think about it, I
(04:31):
guess it's not It shouldn't be terribly surprising. Unfortunately, you
have some trainees. I'm not saying this is the case here,
but I mean you get trainees of all sorts, right,
some some are physically ready for it and some aren't.
So unfortunately, these sorts of things are gonna happen. We
don't know what happened here yet, but just another death
of a trainee. Before the post. We mentioned late last
(04:53):
week that Dylan Rufe was seeking a new trial that's
since been shot down. But his his his attorney, who
was somewhat well known. Mat fact is that John Monk
of the State Paper Rights, he called him legendary David
Brooke acknowledging that he made numerous mistakes while do the
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defense team during that trial back in twenty sixteen and
twenty seventeen that ended up with a death penalty for
Dylan Roof.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well, what's David brook got to lose at this point
by saying that he's trying to help Dylan Roof's cause
and he's well, he's trying to he's trying to advance
the cause of no death penalty death period, right, And
I mean at this point he's known as the leading
expert and he's not going to hurt his reputation by saying, yeah,
I screwed up here and there.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Okay, well, there you go. James Clyburn taking a listening
tour in a well, a key part of Nancy Mace's district.
I guess she's thinking, well, if she won't meet the people,
then I will that. Well, before redistricting, that was probably
part of those were parts of his district, right, true, Yeah,
but remember he was all in on that. So anyway,
(06:00):
Weather saying that the coastal areas of our state are
at a high risk of wildfires at spring and summer. Yeah,
we have not had near the amount of rain that
we need, whether it's been dry and the humny levels
have been low, so don't be surprised. How about this
the arrest on Friday and Milwaukee of a judge, another
Democrat appointed judge, accused of helping an illegal evade authorities.
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This is a Circuit judge court judge Hannah Dugan accused
of escorting a man and his lawyer out of her
courtroom through a jury door last week after finding out
that immigration authorities were seeking his arrest. Well, the man
was taken into custy by ice. And now she has
been as well.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Where the Internet lost its mind over that. And I mean,
I know it's shocking, but you when a judge is
breaking the law you wanted to be shocking.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, yes, it is the law. By the way, that
the judges are supposed to be upholding. Gives Democrats another
rallying cry here. I'm not sure it's a good one
for the Democrat Party. I'm pretty sure it's not. But
let them go ahead and do it if they want to.
By the way, speaking of judges, that Clinton appointed judge
we talked about last week, Colleenkohlar Kotelli who knocked down
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the part at least parts of Trump's plan to you know,
make people prove their American citizens in order to vote,
agreeing late last week with plaintiffs that that executive order
could hurt the Democrat Party. The Trump's executive order, Yeah,
in other words, just making sure people are US citizens.
That could hurt the Democrat Party. You get it right.
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Big arrest in Colorado Springs. More than one hundred illegals
arrested at a massive underground night club raid. You had well,
apparently TDA and MS thirteen terrorists. According to Pam Bond
arrested in some military members as well. Colorado has become
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a hotbed for these illegal gangs to operate. As you
well know. You remember the story of that apartment building
last year that was taken over by trend to arguo. Right,
Trump floating an income tax cut to ease the tariff
impact and geared it middle income Americans. But you know,
(08:27):
first one hundred days, we're hitting that point now and
a new poll from ABC showing that Trump claiming he
has the lowest hundred DA approval rating in eighty years.
Eighty years. They say, you know, with all that he
has done, I'm not surprised, to tell you the truth.
But what happens if you give it some time. Remember
Reagan's economic policies were not at all popular during the
(08:51):
first really year or so of his first term, but
that changed in a hurry. Something else changing the amount
of money the tariffs are delivering record high revenue fifteen
billion dollars since these tariffs went into effect. So we'll
get to that more coming up here on this It's
the Monday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News, and it's
always great to have you with us.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Your world happens here, But let me be clear and
updated accordingly.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
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Speaker 3 (09:35):
Six forty two the time. Now, good morning, getting up
and getting rolling here on a Monday, as the twenty
eighth April, and it's good to have you with us. Yeah.
They had the White House Correspondent Association dinner over the weekend.
What a whole lot of coverage of this this time around. Now,
of course, the Trump was at the Vatican for the
Pope's funeral over the weekend. I don't think he was
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gonna tend anyway, was he regardless? Trying to remember well,
but they had their little party anyway. Interestingly enough, some
of the major awards that were handed out Saturday night
were two journalists, maybe using the term loosely here, for
(10:16):
their coverage of Joe Biden. For example, you had a
print award handed out to the Associated Press for their
coverage of the Biden White House's alteration of official White
House transcripts you had a writer for Axios get an
(10:37):
award for the coverage of Joe Biden's mental decline. Funny
how now they're almost celebrating it right after denying it
for so long. Well, then after the fact, pretty much
for the most part, they finally started talking about it.
They finally told the truth after the fact, and now
(10:58):
they're getting awards for it. Nice. Nice. Okay, Now we
also do we have a myster apparently have a mystery
solved here. According to the New York Times yesterday, the
Times writing about this, this crash in d C where
(11:23):
the Blackhawk helicopter collided with that plane a couple of
us back in January, right, yeah, January. Okay, So this
incident which I took the lives of sixty seven people,
could easily have been avoided, according to this New York
Times report. According to it, the captain of the pilot
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of the black Hawk, Captain Rebecca Lobatch and we've knew
this part of it, that she was getting her annual
flight evaluation. The flight instructor or co pilot Chief horn
Officer Andrew Lloyd Eves was that was sitting beside her. Now,
according to the Times report, when air traffic controllers who
(12:07):
were in contact with the black Hawk said there was
an airliner nearby. The two acknowledged the message and requested
to fly by. Visual separation was we got eyes on it,
and we're not gonna you know, you don't need to
route us around. We see it. Whatever, we're going to
stay away from it. It's a common practice. But the
(12:30):
times riding the black Hawk was fifteen seconds away from
crossing paths with a jet when the flight instructor told
Captain Lowbatch that he believed that air traffic control wanted
them to turn heron to the left. That would have
opened up more space between the two. But for whatever reason,
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low Batch did not did not heed the instructions of
the air traffic controller or the flight instructor. Now why
he didn't just grab a hold of the you know,
the controls and do it himself is is not not
not asked, I guess. But her failure to heed the
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instructions of her of her instructor, her head instructor there
led to this, uh, this collision. As a side note,
the time is pointing out this has nothing to do with,
of course, what happened. But still low Batch was a
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white house military Social Aid in the Biden administration. Now,
before you know this, this was a woman who had
some five hundred hours a cockpit time in a black Hawk.
So it's not this is not a you know, let's
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just hire a woman to do this and throw her
up there and how to do it. And she's not qualified. No,
it's very qualified. But why she did not heed the
instructions of a ATC and of her instructor The time
supports has led to that that collision again took the
lives of sixty seven people. It could easily have been avoided. Now,
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of course, since that, we have found out from the
NTSB that just what the last couple of years there
have been eighty five eighty five near missus at Reagae National.
This happens, it seems like on almost a daily basis.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Playing a couple of congressmen and women were on what
they bumped wings the other day.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, and yeah, this is the airport that did most
politicians use flying it out of DC, which makes it
all the more curious that somehow somebody hasn't cracked out
on this yet. Eighty five near messes and I don't
remember the time period now, but I want to say
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it's just been over the last three or four years.
It's just that that's just nuts. Could have been avoided.
According to this New York Times report, which we had
heard inklings of that if the support is accurate, then
in fact, that's exactly what what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
It's fifteen minutes after seven o'clock and good morning. Tell
you appreciate you joining us. Monday, April twenty eighth, Well
it was at the Democrat Party has a new thing
to be upset about. Here the arrest on Friday of
this judge of Milwaukee. This is Circuit Court judge Hannah Dugan,
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a judge accused of helping any legal alien avoid ice.
Is ramping up the the war between the Trump administration
and locals. Let me go on holding said we're gonna come,
We're coming to get you, and if you want to
aid in a bet, then look out because the law
was on our side. And in this case it's a judge.
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So what happened here is this judge was accused of
escorting a man and his lawyer, a man here illegally
in this country, a man with an ICE detainer. But
he shows up in her courtroom and she escorts this
guy and his mouthpiece out through the jury door last
week after she learned that Ice was looking to arrest
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him and take him into custody.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
This is a judge, let me see, I don't know
that that should be all that surprising. I mean, we've
had mayors, we've had sheriffs, so this is just the
next stage.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah, but a judge who has sworn to up hold
the law, not not just the law, you like the
law period. You don't get to pick and chew. Sorry,
it's not the way it works. And so this judge
is taken out in hand or at least one handcuff.
It looked like just one handcuff, not too but regardless,
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and uh, and then the Democrat Party is beside itself.
You have crossed a red line here with this one. Really,
what does the average American think about something like this?
The average American who you know, if you, if you
involved yourself with something like this, you could be arrested
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to and you should. But you know that just judge
do this too, But yet she chose to flout the law,
breaking it and is gonna well, it's not like this
judge's gonna get locked up, you know, for any period
of time here, But at some point you've got you
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gotta you gotta set an example. Right. She had a
brief appearance in a federal court. Friday was then released
from custody her charges of concealing an individual to prevent
his discovery and arrest and obstructing or impeding and proceeding.
You know, I have to wonder now if if somebody
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came into her courtroom charged with the same sorts of
things and was convicted, and she was the one who
was supposed to pronounce sentence, what would she do not,
not not not if it were an illegal involved, but
just to anybody other than illegal involved, Right, would be
really cool? Is that? I don't know if this is
the case, and I'm probably not. Would be looked back
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at her history and see if she's had any cases
like this in front of her bench, and how she
may have ruled, and what sentence she might have proclaimed
here in something like this.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Well, here here's what bothered me. And this was more
not necessarily about her, but about the Democrats' response over
the weekend. Yes, and it just blew up.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
It was Friday afternoon, and you and I disagreed a
bit about you know, Trump and the records that he had,
you know at mar a Lago. Did We didn't disagree
about the way the Feds stormed the place, and but
we we disagreed about whether Trump should have been prosecuted.
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And at the time, all the Democrats were screaming, no
one is above the law. Well none of them were
saying that on Friday afternoon, when this judge got it,
suddenly was it wasn't about the law anymore. It was about,
oh Trump is, you know, taking judges in. What's next.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Well, he's probably gonna send this woman to that President
El Salvador.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
He's destroying democracy and all that the usual nonsense. But
I never heard one person say no one is above
the law, you know, this weekend the way they were
chanting it when to defend Trump getting busted for having
the records illegally at mar Alago.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Right. Tony Evers, the Democrat to Governor Wisconsin, in his statement,
he accused the Trump administration of repeatedly using quoting dangerous
rhetoric to attack an attempt to undermine our judiciary at
every level. Now we have the judiciary undermining the system
of law at every level when it comes to illegal immigration.
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But let's ignore that and let's just focus on what
the Trump administration has just done with this judge. I
guess hmm, okay, well, yes, you're right. The Democrat response
to this, well, Jamie Raskin, it's remarkable the administration would
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dare to start arresting state court judges. Now, I don't
know if he in the plural meant it was referring
to that judge in New Mexico who got arrested last week.
Remember that one the judge harboring at trenda Agua gang
member who was also you know, Ice was looking for
and there he was hanging out living with a judge
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and his wife in New Mexico, which, by the way,
Pam Bondi late last week telling us that that this this, uh,
well it was one and just one. It was actually
three illegals who were involved in that led to that
arrest that in New Mexico, judge three, not just one,
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just there were three and the one had the images
of a decapitated man on his cell phone. These are
not good These are bad people. But in this weird
thing they're doing here, the Democrats are willing to look
past all of that. For whatever reason, I just don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
They're they're just probing, trying to find the vulnerability of
Donald Trump with the American.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
People, and they really think this is it.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I don't again, we bought this up Friday. I don't
know why you're not full scale at the economy this point,
because that's where Trump's weakness is, apparently in the poll numbers.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, the poll's not good for the economy right now
for Trump.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
But instead they're waving this flag and saying, see, he's
taking care of judges who are protecting illegals. What's wrong
with that?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Again, to show you the folly of their line of reasoning,
you've got Greg Landsman, who's a Democrat from Ohio, saying
they arrested a judge. They can no longer claim to
be a party of law and order. Wait a minute,
reseat here. You arrested a judge who was breaking the law.
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Who was breaking the law, had no respect at all
for law and order. It's what god are arrested to
begin with. And you're going to accuse the Republicans now
of not being able to be the party of law anyway.
But this is that weird, you know, like Bizarro universe
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kind of you know, alternate line of thinking that is
prevailing amongst the Democrat Party right now. And it's just
it's really it's really weird, man. It truly is the
old back when it was funny started that lives Bizarro world,
you know. I mean, this is where we're living right now.
It was just a little ahead of his time.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Every day, every hour, re hour. I like to stay
inform everything you need to stay informed.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
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Speaker 3 (23:40):
It's great to have you with us on a Monday morning.
April the twenty eighth is now seven forty one. I'm
Gary David. That there is Christopher Thompson. Good morning morning
to you sir. You know in land of our conversation
last half hour about the judge in Milwaukee who got
to hauled off in cuffs for eight and in a
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betting the well, it wasn't a very long escape that
illegal that she escorted out the jury room door trying
to avoid an ICE detainer of being served on him.
He was a brief chase and he was taken in
by felleral authorities. But you know that story, the enduring story.
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We've been talking about now for weeks, about the weird
position the Democrat Party has put themselves in by defending
people like this. Do you think that's a good idea
when you hear stories like this one? I mean, as
you heard over the weekend, the arrest, the announcement yesterday
by the FEDS more than one hundred illegal immigrants detained,
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a massive raid at an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs that,
according to the FEDS, was frequented by trenda argo on
MS thirteen terrorists. One hundred and fourteen illegal immigrants at
that venue, lots of drugs and who knows what else,
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and apparently some military too. That's Colora. That's where the
Air Force Academy is, right, Colorado Springs. Yeah, I believe so,
I think so.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Now, no one's here to say that they were in
some kind of hoots or whatever, but I mean, Colorado
has become I don't know why, but Colorado has become
a hotbed for this sort of activity for whatever reason.
In this particular raid, Ice did have the cooperation of
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the El Paso County Sheriff's office and the Colorado Springs
Police Department. Now that would have happened in a lot
in some places, certainly, but in this case they did,
probably because Colorado has figured out we got a problem here.
The acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency had said
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previously that to that state, the Rocky Mountain State had
become ground zero for some of the most violent criminals
in America, including the leadership of trend to Agua. And
you had the local sheriff blaming all this on the
state's you know, Democrat leadership. So that, without question, Colorado
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has become a hub for illegal immigration due to the
sanctuary policies of the city of Denver in conjunction with
radical legislation on the state capital, which is affirmed Colorado Secuary.
What did you expect was going to happen? What did
you think would happen? Well, fortunately, there are you know,
local authorities who are are bucking the trend here in
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places like Colorado. Otherwise maybe this doesn't go down. Maybe
otherwise these and not to say that all one or
so one hundred and fourteen I think it was illegals
arrested were all gang members, but we'll find out how
many were I guess or at least alleged. Wow. So uh,
you know. And in light of all that, the Democrat
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Party still wants to side on the on the side
of the people like this. Hmm. What if this judge
from Milwaukee had been involved at all for one hundred
I legal immigrants in this judges corp room and she
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found out that Ice had had detainers for all of them,
could she have escorted one hundred of them outside the
jury door? Unbelievable. Now quickly here on the again on
the topic of judges, because that has become like one
of the big stories is these activist judges. We mentioned
last week about that Clinton appointed judge Colon Coller Coutelli
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who would shot down this executive order that required proof
of citizens ship to vote. In that order, we should
mention that basically what the judges done us agree with
the plaintiffs that an executive order requiring proof of citizens
to the citizens vote would hurt the Democrat Party. Writing first,
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many of the Democrat Party plaintiffs have organizational standing to
this challenge to this provision based on its effect on
their ability to register new voters as members and supports
the Democrat Party. I'm sorry, what what? What new voters
are you talking about here?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Uh huh? The ones who can't prove their citizenship. And
I'm gonna tell you if I hear one more time,
how the Democrat Party bad mouths their own supporters by
by by trying to say they're either they're not smart enough,
or they don't have the resources to get a simple
state issued ID or they can't afford it. I mean,
come on, please, any any legal citizen in this country
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who is so inclined to want to go cast a
ballot it really wants to. They're not too stupid to
figure out how to get a state ID card. And
it's not like they can't afford it. They're pretty cheap.
So if they, you know, they want to, if that's
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a if that's a hoop they gotta jump through. That's
a hoop they gotta jump through because everybody else sure did.
So who are you referring to here about this is
going to hurt the Democrat Party. Who are these new
voters you're talking about? Hmm makes you wonder, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
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 (29:55):
Say fifteen, good morning you good to have you along
for Monday, April twenty eighth to tomorrow marks one hundred
days of the Trump administration. One hundred days at first,
one hundred days, and everybody talks about so often. I
don't know why when did this start? By the way,
with the first one hundred days.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
It goes back.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I mean it's been a while, yeah, And why is
it so important? Well, you know, I mean it sets
it sets the agenda for the rest of the term.
And you know, these days, it's almost as though we're
always in an election cycle. It seems like, yeah, I know,
the midterms aren't until November of twenty twenty six, but
you know, primary season will be cranking up here before
you know it.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
It would's easier to get things done in those first
win hundred days. Yes, I mean, the bloom isn't off
the rose yet. Everything's brand new, even though this is
his second term. You know, you're coming off an election win,
a big election win. Yeah, Congress is on your side
for the most part, but the most part, the voters
are on your side for the most part. And you've
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got carte blanche to do just about anything. And that
never last very long. The honeymoon ends pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yes it does. Did it end quicker though this time around?
I mean, there's so much stuff that's been thrown out
there the first one hundred days. It's crazy and it
wasn't unexpected by any stretch of the imagination. But new
polls are a new poll. This is an ABC News
Washington Post poll claims that Trump's got the lowest one
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hundred day approval rating in eighty years. Interesting enough, of
the previous low approval for a president at her near
a hundred day's office was back in twenty seventeen Trump's
first term. Who's forty two percent? That actually tied the
previous low, which was in nineteen forty five. Nineteen forty five,
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it's been a while, okay, So let's see this approval
rating has Trump at what thirty nine percent? That I
see that number? Okay, all right, a reminder again, most
of this and the polls that we've seen when it
comes to handling immigration, most polls you see the majority
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of Americans approve of what Trump's doing. That Okay, so
it's not that part of it. But it's about like
it is with any president, it's about the economy, always is. Now.
To begin with, he inherited a bad economy, he inherited bidonomics.
But I think a lot of people were thinking, well,
let's just get that part fixed first, and Trump was
(32:42):
having nothing to do with that. He was like, no,
we got ideas, we want to level the playing field.
Here's what we're going to do, and cut out and
headed out and did it.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Which he to his credit, he knows he wouldn't be
able to do it year down the.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Road, right exactly. If we're gonna get it done, you
got to do it now.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, you wouldn't have the support for something that controversial.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
And again, if you're gonna do it, and listen, don't
think for a second that Donald Trump or anybody's administration thought, hey,
we're going to do all of this and people are
gonna love us for it, not initially, and they're not
the calculator risk is well, most importantly, regardless of what
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the people think, the calculator risk is that it all
pays off. We should probably note that last or so
far this month, April's not over yet, US customs do
the collection up more than sixty percent. Okay, this is
These are the collections, the payments made of the good
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time time goods into this country from abroad. This is
what the tariffs are doing right now. April already the
highest monthly revenue haul in terms of dollars in American history,
at least fifteen point four billion dollars worth. Contrasts that
(34:15):
with the month of March six billion dollars worth. So
it's more than doubled, closing in on tripling. That's part
of the equation. Now, Trump's flowing the idea of cutting
income taxes to ease the impact of these tariffs. He
mentioned this yesterday, and the focus would be on people
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making less, not more less than two hundred thousand dollars
a year. Remember Ronald Reagan, in the start of his
first term as president, people were ready to throw this
guy out. Remember his his idea is his trickle down economics.
(35:03):
He took as much heat for that as Trump is
taken for this. I mean, they really wanted to boot
that guy out of office. Well, history has told us that
many of us lived through those years. It turned out
to be a pretty good thing, didn't it. No, no, no, again,
it's this. This is the society which we live, not
(35:25):
just us, but the entire planet. Now, this instant gratification society.
Yet to snap your fingers. It has to be done.
This is not the way the economy works. And we
said this after the election back in November, and even
if none of this terrift stuff had happened, if none
of this had happened, that there was no way. I know,
(35:47):
Trump said it in his braggadocious way that he would
come in and and defeat inflation on day one. Any
bed in their right mind knew that was not gonna happen.
He knew that was not going to happen. That's one
of those things to say on a campaign trail, right,
anybody knows anything at all about economics knew that it
was going to be And we talked about this a
(36:08):
lot before he took over office. You know, inflation is
not going to go away, and they won't. Guess what, though,
it didn't. It didn't take many days. I mean inflation itself.
Inflation from March was at two point four percent. FED
stated goal two point zero percent. So the closer closest
we've been to it since Trump was last in office.
(36:30):
But all the tariff news and all the ringing of
hands and gnashing of teeth has gotten in the way
of that little good bit of economic news. And and again,
had it not been for the tariffs, then the Feds
who probably started cutting rates again. But let's say all
this works. Let's hope it does. Yeah, let's hope it does.
Let's see all this works. Then the words of Chuck
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Schumer yesterday, remember them, Schumer did not rule out impeaching
Trump if the Democrats regained control of the House of.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Senate again, We're going to start that road all over again,
all over again.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
This all started with John Ossoff, you know, one of
those Democrats, Thank you, Georgia, that you put into in
the office a couple of years ago because you didn't
go vote os Off sit at a town hall on
Friday that Trump had committed several offenses that exceeded any
prior standard for impeachment. When asked, do you agree Schumer says, well,
(37:37):
look right now, President Trump is voting the rule of
lawn every way.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Would not rule.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Out attempted to with peach Trump again.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
I don't think Americans sent the stomach for that.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
You'd hope not.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
And one other similarity between this and the Reagan administration.
You know, the fight back then, just as it is now,
is how to balance out these tax cuts. And there
were Republicans then, just as there are Republicans now saying, Okay,
you know, we'll embrace these tax cuts. They'll stimulate the
American economy, but you've got to make some cuts to
(38:13):
go along with those in spending. Otherwise we're gonna blow
up the death sit And not enough people listen during
the Reagan years, and my fear is not enough people
are listening now during the trumpet.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Maybe maybe not, maybe not. That's that's something that needs
to be dealt with. It haven't been dealt with it
a long time, and it just keeps heading in the
opposite wrong direction. Keeping the commitment.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
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Speaker 3 (38:56):
Final foss Now for a Monday morning is hey forty one?
First off, a rare early morning if you want to consider,
you know, a thirty in the morning early. I don't
the time I get up, but a lot of people do.
But Caroline Levin and Tom Holman are holding a press
conference at the White House. Very it looks like, well
(39:16):
Tom Holman's involved, so you know what that's about. It
appears as though Trump is getting ready to side more
executive orders, doubling down and further cracking down on illegal
immigration in this country. Okay, well, we'll be watching for
all the details coming out of this one. Levett is
(39:38):
still still speaking. I see yeah again if you want
to focus on the positives from the first one hundred days,
certainly the president's action on illegal immigration has been a
positive and that positive as far as the polling is concerned. Okay,
we'll see what all comes down on that front today.
(39:58):
Here on the home front, more troubles in Myrtle Beach.
You probably heard the story. It happened near midnight Saturday
night where a teenager from Bennettsville shot dead and an
officer involved shootings on Ocean Boulevard. Eleven other people were
injured in the incident. Now we don't know exactly how
they were injured. This is not eleven people shot by cops.
(40:22):
But yeah, it's a different world, right, a totally different world.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
That's something that you know, if you grew up here
in South Carolina, it's probably something you did at some point.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Absolutely if you in high school, I mean were you
had to go at least once.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
First week in the beach right from summer something.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah, it was not quite first we get the beach yup,
but it was a spring break for I think that
the Myrtle Beach area schools were on spring break last week,
so some of those well here in the Middlands, it
was like the week before. But still okay. The really
sobering news and scary stuff that the twenty nine year
(41:00):
old band director at Fairfield Central High School arrested charge
with sexual sexual battery with a student. Information coming down
on Friday. Wow, a band director. Another soldier has died,
(41:21):
a soldier in training at Fort Jackson. That makes a
number who have died in recent years and uh and
multiple drill sergeants have have died as well.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Yeah, the state newspaper has tried to tie that story
together several times. I don't know. I don't know if
there's a link or not.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
I you know, again, we mentioned this earlier that unfortunately,
because you have people who enter the enter the army
and all branches of service, they headed up basic training
and you know, really different levels of physical and mental readiness.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
It's a shock to the system for some.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yes, it is very much so. So it's almost sadly surprising.
We don't hear about that sort of thing more often.
We don't know yet what happened here, but it happened.
James Clyburn spending some time, has Nancy May has created
a vacuum in the first district by not doing town halls. Well,
(42:14):
I mean she did the one of the gated community
the other day. That doesn't really qualify. So James Clyburn
is spending a little bit of time, was down in
Beaufort a couple of days ago with a town hall
in Mace's district. It's kind of, I guess, highlighting the
(42:35):
fact that their representative is not doing it now. Again,
a lot of Republicans are not doing town halls right
now because, yes, there is a concerted effort amongst the
Democrats to make them look bad.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
And i'd argue this, and I don't say a whole
lot of good about Jim Clyburn, but I'd be willing
to bet there are a lot more folks down there
who have versus respect, may not agree with him, but
have more respect for Cliburn than they do for Mace
because of her antics. Yeah, exactly, Again, nothing to do
(43:11):
with politics. It's a matter of you know, he's, you know,
a dignified guy who has carried himself well in years
and years of public service, and I would argue that
she hasn't well.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
I can't disagree with you on that. But it's hard
to get past the politics of James Cliburn.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
And again, if you can fill all that out the window,
just as human beings, Yeah, okay, maybe so.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
I'm not sure he's ever said anything that I agree
with politically, but there's a difference between how you carry yourself.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yes, agreed. We talked last week about this prosecutor in
Minnesota that refused to prosecute as a felony, a crime
which was a felony, and that was this, uh, this
individual who worked in Governor Tim Wallas's administration who was
(44:09):
damaging teslas. A number of them remember, arrested, and then uh,
well the Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty just let them
off with a slap on the wrist, and she made
some really bizarre thing about well, you know, people that
have felonies on their arrest record there there, it's harder
(44:32):
for them to get jobs. It follows them everywhere they go,
and then that just leads to more crime, and YadA, YadA, YadA,
as though, well, you know what if you can't do
the time right, well she's not done now she's issued.
It was an internal document apparently has seen the light
(44:54):
of day now negotiations policy for cases involving adult defendants.
In it, prosecutors in Hennepon County to consider racial identity
and age as they negotiate plea deals. While racial identity
and age are not appropriate grounds for departures from the
state sentenced guidelines, proposed resolutions should consider the person charged
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as a whole person, including the racial identity and age
blah blah, blah blah blah. Okay, racial disparities harmar community,
lead to distrust, distrust and have a negative impact on communities.
Say again, this is this is the whole.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
This is DEI justice version.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
The justice version of Dee I. Right. It should not matter.
It's gonna be a argument. Well, you know, minorities are
more gonna be carried by cops and this and that
and blah blah blah. But I mean, if if it
has been proven in a court of law that an
individual has committed a crime, their age, the color, their skin,
(45:56):
their background, nothing else should come into play here. You know,
they have totally ripped off the blindfold off off of
Lady Justice here right, you know again, and ironically, we've
come to find out that the man who allegedly stole
(46:17):
Christy Doom's bag in that DC restaurant the other day,
this was at a Hamburger restaurant Easter Sunday, is in
fact a criminal illegal migrants. Jeez oh boy, you couldn't
have written this story any better, huh. The suspect of
Cyril Offender appeared, though not to have targeted Gnome. It
(46:39):
just happened that she was hm wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
Wouldn't you think if you were here illegally and there
are jobs to be had, if you were here illegally,
the last thing you would want, I mean you would
you would think you would walk the straight and narrow
to try and avoid any attention, to try and avoid
interacting with law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
That ain't not the not the not the criminal element.
There will always be criminals m hm
Alright Jesus er right, yeah, SAT America and Jerian for
REU one nation and this is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
And good morning to you. It's sixteen minutes after six o'clock.
Welcome to another Monday. Yes, oh you know we should
be happy we get another Monday to go here. Huh.
It's the twenty eighth and nearly the final day. Just
a few more days left of the Monday April. Good
to have you with us. I'm Gary David Christopher Thompson.
Good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
If it's going to be a Monday, like Tyler said,
it's going to be a beautiful win it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, go ahead and take the day off, okay, see
you enjoy it. Yeah, you take it off after nine. No, no,
I you missed. You didn't stick around for the rest
of that. Take the day off after nine? A thing?
What I want to talk to you anyway? I was
talking to you over there. Oh oh all right the way, Yeah,
we got stuff we got again.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I was at the door.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
That was your week. Yeah, I noticed that they want
to hit you on the way out.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How was your weekend? Brother?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Well, it would you know? Nice? With the Gamecack baseball
team being out of town, I took a break and
saw the Fireflies play a doubleheader in baseball. So but
I did that with my family for fun and not
for work. Nice. Yeah, how about you worked in the
yard I'm guessing did.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
A little bit of stuff Saturday morning, I mean very
little bit. And then the rest of the weekend, Man,
it was like sit by the pool, nice, I mean,
do nothing. I mean maybe the most relaxing weekend I've had.
And I don't know when since you moved, probably certainly,
certainly since then, yes, certainly since then. Didn't do anything else, man,
So yeah, walk the river walk the Columbias I did.
(01:53):
We didn't realize it's been a while, so we've been
down to the West Columbia River Walk. It's still basically
the whole thing is basically still shut down from Helene.
I didn't realize that there's a little small portion open,
but it's not even a walk. It's like you can
see from there to there. That's it.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I think people who visit from out of town are amazed,
though at how much we have now as opposed to
you know, the just bits and drabs, dribs and drabs
here and there, and now they you know, I mean,
it's you can walk just about anywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah along the river.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I prefer the West Columbia side, just because there's at
the river level. Yeah, you know, but that's why it's closed,
because that's at the river level. A lot of I
just didn't realize that they're still waiting on FEMA to
approve stuff where they can do work. Wow, okay, Well
the dog didn't like that. He was very confused. That's
his favorite place to go. He's like, why anyway, Well, uh,
(02:47):
here comes a brand new week. What is staring us
on the face. Let's get right to it. The rundown,
the big stories, the hot topics, some of what's happened
in the last couple of days as we last left you,
and I was not not a weekend to be on
oce In Boulevard and Myrtle Beach. Huh. One teenager shot
and killed, eleven injured, all told, an officer involved incident.
(03:11):
When it comes to the shooting and killing you a
Bennetsfield teenager, now that's not that eleven people were injured
because of an officer involved shooting. They just, you know,
it's Myrtle beach.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Man scary stuff, and that's you know, it's the right
of passage if you lived in this state. But the
most we used to see was a fistfight, if you know,
people brushed up against each other the wrong way. There
were there were no thoughts of guns back then. No,
it's happening about close to midnight Saturday night, right, yeah, wow, Okay,
(03:44):
it's yeah, it's It's a whole new world, isn't it.
We've got to disturbing news of a band director, the
band director at Fairfield Central High School who was arrested
on Friday, charged with sexual battery with a student. Okay,
booked was I think has been since released on bond.
(04:05):
I've seen twenty nine year old band director.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Wow. Okay. Another soldier in training at Fort Jackson has died,
the Army releasing this information yesterday. This makes goodness sakes.
How many deaths have happened just in the last couple
of years. Have been a number of them, And really,
I mean, if you stop and think about it, I
(04:31):
guess it's not It shouldn't be terribly surprising. Unfortunately, you
have some trainees. I'm not saying this is the case here,
but I mean you get trainees of all sorts, right,
some some are physically ready for it and some aren't.
So unfortunately, these sorts of things are gonna happen. We
don't know what happened here yet, but just another death
of a trainee. Before the post. We mentioned late last
(04:53):
week that Dylan Rufe was seeking a new trial that's
since been shot down. But his his his attorney, who
was somewhat well known. Mat fact is that John Monk
of the State Paper Rights, he called him legendary David
Brooke acknowledging that he made numerous mistakes while do the
(05:13):
defense team during that trial back in twenty sixteen and
twenty seventeen that ended up with a death penalty for
Dylan Roof.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well, what's David brook got to lose at this point
by saying that he's trying to help Dylan Roof's cause
and he's well, he's trying to he's trying to advance
the cause of no death penalty death period, right, And
I mean at this point he's known as the leading
expert and he's not going to hurt his reputation by saying, yeah,
I screwed up here and there.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Okay, well, there you go. James Clyburn taking a listening
tour in a well, a key part of Nancy Mace's district.
I guess she's thinking, well, if she won't meet the people,
then I will that. Well, before redistricting, that was probably
part of those were parts of his district, right, true, Yeah,
but remember he was all in on that. So anyway,
(06:00):
Weather saying that the coastal areas of our state are
at a high risk of wildfires at spring and summer. Yeah,
we have not had near the amount of rain that
we need, whether it's been dry and the humny levels
have been low, so don't be surprised. How about this
the arrest on Friday and Milwaukee of a judge, another
Democrat appointed judge, accused of helping an illegal evade authorities.
(06:25):
This is a Circuit judge court judge Hannah Dugan accused
of escorting a man and his lawyer out of her
courtroom through a jury door last week after finding out
that immigration authorities were seeking his arrest. Well, the man
was taken into custy by ice. And now she has
been as well.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Where the Internet lost its mind over that. And I mean,
I know it's shocking, but you when a judge is
breaking the law you wanted to be shocking.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, yes, it is the law. By the way, that
the judges are supposed to be upholding. Gives Democrats another
rallying cry here. I'm not sure it's a good one
for the Democrat Party. I'm pretty sure it's not. But
let them go ahead and do it if they want to.
By the way, speaking of judges, that Clinton appointed judge
we talked about last week, Colleenkohlar Kotelli who knocked down
(07:20):
the part at least parts of Trump's plan to you know,
make people prove their American citizens in order to vote,
agreeing late last week with plaintiffs that that executive order
could hurt the Democrat Party. The Trump's executive order, Yeah,
in other words, just making sure people are US citizens.
That could hurt the Democrat Party. You get it right.
(07:44):
Big arrest in Colorado Springs. More than one hundred illegals
arrested at a massive underground night club raid. You had well,
apparently TDA and MS thirteen terrorists. According to Pam Bond
arrested in some military members as well. Colorado has become
(08:06):
a hotbed for these illegal gangs to operate. As you
well know. You remember the story of that apartment building
last year that was taken over by trend to arguo. Right,
Trump floating an income tax cut to ease the tariff
impact and geared it middle income Americans. But you know,
(08:27):
first one hundred days, we're hitting that point now and
a new poll from ABC showing that Trump claiming he
has the lowest hundred DA approval rating in eighty years.
Eighty years. They say, you know, with all that he
has done, I'm not surprised, to tell you the truth.
But what happens if you give it some time. Remember
Reagan's economic policies were not at all popular during the
(08:51):
first really year or so of his first term, but
that changed in a hurry. Something else changing the amount
of money the tariffs are delivering record high revenue fifteen
billion dollars since these tariffs went into effect. So we'll
get to that more coming up here on this It's
the Monday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News, and it's
always great to have you with us.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Your world happens here, But let me be clear and
updated accordingly.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
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Speaker 3 (09:35):
Six forty two the time. Now, good morning, getting up
and getting rolling here on a Monday, as the twenty
eighth April, and it's good to have you with us. Yeah.
They had the White House Correspondent Association dinner over the weekend.
What a whole lot of coverage of this this time around. Now,
of course, the Trump was at the Vatican for the
Pope's funeral over the weekend. I don't think he was
(09:56):
gonna tend anyway, was he regardless? Trying to remember well,
but they had their little party anyway. Interestingly enough, some
of the major awards that were handed out Saturday night
were two journalists, maybe using the term loosely here, for
(10:16):
their coverage of Joe Biden. For example, you had a
print award handed out to the Associated Press for their
coverage of the Biden White House's alteration of official White
House transcripts you had a writer for Axios get an
(10:37):
award for the coverage of Joe Biden's mental decline. Funny
how now they're almost celebrating it right after denying it
for so long. Well, then after the fact, pretty much
for the most part, they finally started talking about it.
They finally told the truth after the fact, and now
(10:58):
they're getting awards for it. Nice. Nice. Okay, Now we
also do we have a myster apparently have a mystery
solved here. According to the New York Times yesterday, the
Times writing about this, this crash in d C where
(11:23):
the Blackhawk helicopter collided with that plane a couple of
us back in January, right, yeah, January. Okay, So this
incident which I took the lives of sixty seven people,
could easily have been avoided, according to this New York
Times report. According to it, the captain of the pilot
(11:44):
of the black Hawk, Captain Rebecca Lobatch and we've knew
this part of it, that she was getting her annual
flight evaluation. The flight instructor or co pilot Chief horn
Officer Andrew Lloyd Eves was that was sitting beside her. Now,
according to the Times report, when air traffic controllers who
(12:07):
were in contact with the black Hawk said there was
an airliner nearby. The two acknowledged the message and requested
to fly by. Visual separation was we got eyes on it,
and we're not gonna you know, you don't need to
route us around. We see it. Whatever, we're going to
stay away from it. It's a common practice. But the
(12:30):
times riding the black Hawk was fifteen seconds away from
crossing paths with a jet when the flight instructor told
Captain Lowbatch that he believed that air traffic control wanted
them to turn heron to the left. That would have
opened up more space between the two. But for whatever reason,
(12:54):
low Batch did not did not heed the instructions of
the air traffic controller or the flight instructor. Now why
he didn't just grab a hold of the you know,
the controls and do it himself is is not not
not asked, I guess. But her failure to heed the
(13:15):
instructions of her of her instructor, her head instructor there
led to this, uh, this collision. As a side note,
the time is pointing out this has nothing to do with,
of course, what happened. But still low Batch was a
(13:38):
white house military Social Aid in the Biden administration. Now,
before you know this, this was a woman who had
some five hundred hours a cockpit time in a black Hawk.
So it's not this is not a you know, let's
(13:58):
just hire a woman to do this and throw her
up there and how to do it. And she's not qualified. No,
it's very qualified. But why she did not heed the
instructions of a ATC and of her instructor The time
supports has led to that that collision again took the
lives of sixty seven people. It could easily have been avoided. Now,
(14:19):
of course, since that, we have found out from the
NTSB that just what the last couple of years there
have been eighty five eighty five near missus at Reagae National.
This happens, it seems like on almost a daily basis.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Playing a couple of congressmen and women were on what
they bumped wings the other day.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, and yeah, this is the airport that did most
politicians use flying it out of DC, which makes it
all the more curious that somehow somebody hasn't cracked out
on this yet. Eighty five near messes and I don't
remember the time period now, but I want to say
(15:05):
it's just been over the last three or four years.
It's just that that's just nuts. Could have been avoided.
According to this New York Times report, which we had
heard inklings of that if the support is accurate, then
in fact, that's exactly what what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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Speaker 3 (15:34):
It's fifteen minutes after seven o'clock and good morning. Tell
you appreciate you joining us. Monday, April twenty eighth, Well
it was at the Democrat Party has a new thing
to be upset about. Here the arrest on Friday of
this judge of Milwaukee. This is Circuit Court judge Hannah Dugan,
(15:58):
a judge accused of helping any legal alien avoid ice.
Is ramping up the the war between the Trump administration
and locals. Let me go on holding said we're gonna come,
We're coming to get you, and if you want to
aid in a bet, then look out because the law
was on our side. And in this case it's a judge.
(16:19):
So what happened here is this judge was accused of
escorting a man and his lawyer, a man here illegally
in this country, a man with an ICE detainer. But
he shows up in her courtroom and she escorts this
guy and his mouthpiece out through the jury door last
week after she learned that Ice was looking to arrest
(16:41):
him and take him into custody.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
This is a judge, let me see, I don't know
that that should be all that surprising. I mean, we've
had mayors, we've had sheriffs, so this is just the
next stage.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah, but a judge who has sworn to up hold
the law, not not just the law, you like the
law period. You don't get to pick and chew. Sorry,
it's not the way it works. And so this judge
is taken out in hand or at least one handcuff.
It looked like just one handcuff, not too but regardless,
(17:18):
and uh, and then the Democrat Party is beside itself.
You have crossed a red line here with this one. Really,
what does the average American think about something like this?
The average American who you know, if you, if you
involved yourself with something like this, you could be arrested
(17:40):
to and you should. But you know that just judge
do this too, But yet she chose to flout the law,
breaking it and is gonna well, it's not like this
judge's gonna get locked up, you know, for any period
of time here, But at some point you've got you
(18:01):
gotta you gotta set an example. Right. She had a
brief appearance in a federal court. Friday was then released
from custody her charges of concealing an individual to prevent
his discovery and arrest and obstructing or impeding and proceeding.
You know, I have to wonder now if if somebody
(18:23):
came into her courtroom charged with the same sorts of
things and was convicted, and she was the one who
was supposed to pronounce sentence, what would she do not,
not not not if it were an illegal involved, but
just to anybody other than illegal involved, Right, would be
really cool? Is that? I don't know if this is
the case, and I'm probably not. Would be looked back
(18:44):
at her history and see if she's had any cases
like this in front of her bench, and how she
may have ruled, and what sentence she might have proclaimed
here in something like this.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Well, here here's what bothered me. And this was more
not necessarily about her, but about the Democrats' response over
the weekend. Yes, and it just blew up.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
It was Friday afternoon, and you and I disagreed a
bit about you know, Trump and the records that he had,
you know at mar a Lago. Did We didn't disagree
about the way the Feds stormed the place, and but
we we disagreed about whether Trump should have been prosecuted.
(19:24):
And at the time, all the Democrats were screaming, no
one is above the law. Well none of them were
saying that on Friday afternoon, when this judge got it,
suddenly was it wasn't about the law anymore. It was about,
oh Trump is, you know, taking judges in. What's next.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Well, he's probably gonna send this woman to that President
El Salvador.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
He's destroying democracy and all that the usual nonsense. But
I never heard one person say no one is above
the law, you know, this weekend the way they were
chanting it when to defend Trump getting busted for having
the records illegally at mar Alago.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Right. Tony Evers, the Democrat to Governor Wisconsin, in his statement,
he accused the Trump administration of repeatedly using quoting dangerous
rhetoric to attack an attempt to undermine our judiciary at
every level. Now we have the judiciary undermining the system
of law at every level when it comes to illegal immigration.
(20:23):
But let's ignore that and let's just focus on what
the Trump administration has just done with this judge. I
guess hmm, okay, well, yes, you're right. The Democrat response
to this, well, Jamie Raskin, it's remarkable the administration would
(20:43):
dare to start arresting state court judges. Now, I don't
know if he in the plural meant it was referring
to that judge in New Mexico who got arrested last week.
Remember that one the judge harboring at trenda Agua gang
member who was also you know, Ice was looking for
and there he was hanging out living with a judge
(21:05):
and his wife in New Mexico, which, by the way,
Pam Bondi late last week telling us that that this this, uh,
well it was one and just one. It was actually
three illegals who were involved in that led to that
arrest that in New Mexico, judge three, not just one,
(21:25):
just there were three and the one had the images
of a decapitated man on his cell phone. These are
not good These are bad people. But in this weird
thing they're doing here, the Democrats are willing to look
past all of that. For whatever reason, I just don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
They're they're just probing, trying to find the vulnerability of
Donald Trump with the American.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
People, and they really think this is it.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I don't again, we bought this up Friday. I don't
know why you're not full scale at the economy this point,
because that's where Trump's weakness is, apparently in the poll numbers.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, the poll's not good for the economy right now
for Trump.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
But instead they're waving this flag and saying, see, he's
taking care of judges who are protecting illegals. What's wrong
with that?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Again, to show you the folly of their line of reasoning,
you've got Greg Landsman, who's a Democrat from Ohio, saying
they arrested a judge. They can no longer claim to
be a party of law and order. Wait a minute,
reseat here. You arrested a judge who was breaking the law.
(22:36):
Who was breaking the law, had no respect at all
for law and order. It's what god are arrested to
begin with. And you're going to accuse the Republicans now
of not being able to be the party of law anyway.
But this is that weird, you know, like Bizarro universe
(22:59):
kind of you know, alternate line of thinking that is
prevailing amongst the Democrat Party right now. And it's just
it's really it's really weird, man. It truly is the
old back when it was funny started that lives Bizarro world,
you know. I mean, this is where we're living right now.
It was just a little ahead of his time.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Every day, every hour, re hour. I like to stay
inform everything you need to stay informed.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
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and five sixty am doub VOC.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It's great to have you with us on a Monday morning.
April the twenty eighth is now seven forty one. I'm
Gary David. That there is Christopher Thompson. Good morning morning
to you sir. You know in land of our conversation
last half hour about the judge in Milwaukee who got
to hauled off in cuffs for eight and in a
(24:00):
betting the well, it wasn't a very long escape that
illegal that she escorted out the jury room door trying
to avoid an ICE detainer of being served on him.
He was a brief chase and he was taken in
by felleral authorities. But you know that story, the enduring story.
(24:23):
We've been talking about now for weeks, about the weird
position the Democrat Party has put themselves in by defending
people like this. Do you think that's a good idea
when you hear stories like this one? I mean, as
you heard over the weekend, the arrest, the announcement yesterday
by the FEDS more than one hundred illegal immigrants detained,
(24:44):
a massive raid at an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs that,
according to the FEDS, was frequented by trenda argo on
MS thirteen terrorists. One hundred and fourteen illegal immigrants at
that venue, lots of drugs and who knows what else,
(25:06):
and apparently some military too. That's Colora. That's where the
Air Force Academy is, right, Colorado Springs. Yeah, I believe so,
I think so.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Now, no one's here to say that they were in
some kind of hoots or whatever, but I mean, Colorado
has become I don't know why, but Colorado has become
a hotbed for this sort of activity for whatever reason.
In this particular raid, Ice did have the cooperation of
(25:37):
the El Paso County Sheriff's office and the Colorado Springs
Police Department. Now that would have happened in a lot
in some places, certainly, but in this case they did,
probably because Colorado has figured out we got a problem here.
The acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency had said
(26:00):
previously that to that state, the Rocky Mountain State had
become ground zero for some of the most violent criminals
in America, including the leadership of trend to Agua. And
you had the local sheriff blaming all this on the
state's you know, Democrat leadership. So that, without question, Colorado
(26:25):
has become a hub for illegal immigration due to the
sanctuary policies of the city of Denver in conjunction with
radical legislation on the state capital, which is affirmed Colorado Secuary.
What did you expect was going to happen? What did
you think would happen? Well, fortunately, there are you know,
local authorities who are are bucking the trend here in
(26:45):
places like Colorado. Otherwise maybe this doesn't go down. Maybe
otherwise these and not to say that all one or
so one hundred and fourteen I think it was illegals
arrested were all gang members, but we'll find out how
many were I guess or at least alleged. Wow. So uh,
you know. And in light of all that, the Democrat
(27:08):
Party still wants to side on the on the side
of the people like this. Hmm. What if this judge
from Milwaukee had been involved at all for one hundred
I legal immigrants in this judges corp room and she
(27:29):
found out that Ice had had detainers for all of them,
could she have escorted one hundred of them outside the
jury door? Unbelievable. Now quickly here on the again on
the topic of judges, because that has become like one
of the big stories is these activist judges. We mentioned
last week about that Clinton appointed judge Colon Coller Coutelli
(27:55):
who would shot down this executive order that required proof
of citizens ship to vote. In that order, we should
mention that basically what the judges done us agree with
the plaintiffs that an executive order requiring proof of citizens
to the citizens vote would hurt the Democrat Party. Writing first,
(28:18):
many of the Democrat Party plaintiffs have organizational standing to
this challenge to this provision based on its effect on
their ability to register new voters as members and supports
the Democrat Party. I'm sorry, what what? What new voters
are you talking about here?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Uh huh? The ones who can't prove their citizenship. And
I'm gonna tell you if I hear one more time,
how the Democrat Party bad mouths their own supporters by
by by trying to say they're either they're not smart enough,
or they don't have the resources to get a simple
state issued ID or they can't afford it. I mean,
come on, please, any any legal citizen in this country
(29:04):
who is so inclined to want to go cast a
ballot it really wants to. They're not too stupid to
figure out how to get a state ID card. And
it's not like they can't afford it. They're pretty cheap.
So if they, you know, they want to, if that's
(29:25):
a if that's a hoop they gotta jump through. That's
a hoop they gotta jump through because everybody else sure did.
So who are you referring to here about this is
going to hurt the Democrat Party. Who are these new
voters you're talking about? Hmm makes you wonder, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
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 (29:55):
Say fifteen, good morning you good to have you along
for Monday, April twenty eighth to tomorrow marks one hundred
days of the Trump administration. One hundred days at first,
one hundred days, and everybody talks about so often. I
don't know why when did this start? By the way,
with the first one hundred days.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
It goes back.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I mean it's been a while, yeah, And why is
it so important? Well, you know, I mean it sets
it sets the agenda for the rest of the term.
And you know, these days, it's almost as though we're
always in an election cycle. It seems like, yeah, I know,
the midterms aren't until November of twenty twenty six, but
you know, primary season will be cranking up here before
you know it.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
It would's easier to get things done in those first
win hundred days. Yes, I mean, the bloom isn't off
the rose yet. Everything's brand new, even though this is
his second term. You know, you're coming off an election win,
a big election win. Yeah, Congress is on your side
for the most part, but the most part, the voters
are on your side for the most part. And you've
(30:56):
got carte blanche to do just about anything. And that
never last very long. The honeymoon ends pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yes it does. Did it end quicker though this time around?
I mean, there's so much stuff that's been thrown out
there the first one hundred days. It's crazy and it
wasn't unexpected by any stretch of the imagination. But new
polls are a new poll. This is an ABC News
Washington Post poll claims that Trump's got the lowest one
(31:24):
hundred day approval rating in eighty years. Interesting enough, of
the previous low approval for a president at her near
a hundred day's office was back in twenty seventeen Trump's
first term. Who's forty two percent? That actually tied the
previous low, which was in nineteen forty five. Nineteen forty five,
(31:55):
it's been a while, okay, So let's see this approval
rating has Trump at what thirty nine percent? That I
see that number? Okay, all right, a reminder again, most
of this and the polls that we've seen when it
comes to handling immigration, most polls you see the majority
(32:19):
of Americans approve of what Trump's doing. That Okay, so
it's not that part of it. But it's about like
it is with any president, it's about the economy, always is. Now.
To begin with, he inherited a bad economy, he inherited bidonomics.
But I think a lot of people were thinking, well,
let's just get that part fixed first, and Trump was
(32:42):
having nothing to do with that. He was like, no,
we got ideas, we want to level the playing field.
Here's what we're going to do, and cut out and
headed out and did it.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Which he to his credit, he knows he wouldn't be
able to do it year down the.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Road, right exactly. If we're gonna get it done, you
got to do it now.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, you wouldn't have the support for something that controversial.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
And again, if you're gonna do it, and listen, don't
think for a second that Donald Trump or anybody's administration thought, hey,
we're going to do all of this and people are
gonna love us for it, not initially, and they're not
the calculator risk is well, most importantly, regardless of what
(33:32):
the people think, the calculator risk is that it all
pays off. We should probably note that last or so
far this month, April's not over yet, US customs do
the collection up more than sixty percent. Okay, this is
These are the collections, the payments made of the good
(33:52):
time time goods into this country from abroad. This is
what the tariffs are doing right now. April already the
highest monthly revenue haul in terms of dollars in American history,
at least fifteen point four billion dollars worth. Contrasts that
(34:15):
with the month of March six billion dollars worth. So
it's more than doubled, closing in on tripling. That's part
of the equation. Now, Trump's flowing the idea of cutting
income taxes to ease the impact of these tariffs. He
mentioned this yesterday, and the focus would be on people
(34:39):
making less, not more less than two hundred thousand dollars
a year. Remember Ronald Reagan, in the start of his
first term as president, people were ready to throw this
guy out. Remember his his idea is his trickle down economics.
(35:03):
He took as much heat for that as Trump is
taken for this. I mean, they really wanted to boot
that guy out of office. Well, history has told us that
many of us lived through those years. It turned out
to be a pretty good thing, didn't it. No, no, no, again,
it's this. This is the society which we live, not
(35:25):
just us, but the entire planet. Now, this instant gratification society.
Yet to snap your fingers. It has to be done.
This is not the way the economy works. And we
said this after the election back in November, and even
if none of this terrift stuff had happened, if none
of this had happened, that there was no way. I know,
(35:47):
Trump said it in his braggadocious way that he would
come in and and defeat inflation on day one. Any
bed in their right mind knew that was not gonna happen.
He knew that was not going to happen. That's one
of those things to say on a campaign trail, right,
anybody knows anything at all about economics knew that it
was going to be And we talked about this a
(36:08):
lot before he took over office. You know, inflation is
not going to go away, and they won't. Guess what, though,
it didn't. It didn't take many days. I mean inflation itself.
Inflation from March was at two point four percent. FED
stated goal two point zero percent. So the closer closest
we've been to it since Trump was last in office.
(36:30):
But all the tariff news and all the ringing of
hands and gnashing of teeth has gotten in the way
of that little good bit of economic news. And and again,
had it not been for the tariffs, then the Feds
who probably started cutting rates again. But let's say all
this works. Let's hope it does. Yeah, let's hope it does.
Let's see all this works. Then the words of Chuck
(36:51):
Schumer yesterday, remember them, Schumer did not rule out impeaching
Trump if the Democrats regained control of the House of.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Senate again, We're going to start that road all over again,
all over again.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
This all started with John Ossoff, you know, one of
those Democrats, Thank you, Georgia, that you put into in
the office a couple of years ago because you didn't
go vote os Off sit at a town hall on
Friday that Trump had committed several offenses that exceeded any
prior standard for impeachment. When asked, do you agree Schumer says, well,
(37:37):
look right now, President Trump is voting the rule of
lawn every way.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Would not rule.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Out attempted to with peach Trump again.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
I don't think Americans sent the stomach for that.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
You'd hope not.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
And one other similarity between this and the Reagan administration.
You know, the fight back then, just as it is now,
is how to balance out these tax cuts. And there
were Republicans then, just as there are Republicans now saying, Okay,
you know, we'll embrace these tax cuts. They'll stimulate the
American economy, but you've got to make some cuts to
(38:13):
go along with those in spending. Otherwise we're gonna blow
up the death sit And not enough people listen during
the Reagan years, and my fear is not enough people
are listening now during the trumpet.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Maybe maybe not, maybe not. That's that's something that needs
to be dealt with. It haven't been dealt with it
a long time, and it just keeps heading in the
opposite wrong direction. Keeping the commitment.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
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Speaker 3 (38:56):
Final foss Now for a Monday morning is hey forty one?
First off, a rare early morning if you want to consider,
you know, a thirty in the morning early. I don't
the time I get up, but a lot of people do.
But Caroline Levin and Tom Holman are holding a press
conference at the White House. Very it looks like, well
(39:16):
Tom Holman's involved, so you know what that's about. It
appears as though Trump is getting ready to side more
executive orders, doubling down and further cracking down on illegal
immigration in this country. Okay, well, we'll be watching for
all the details coming out of this one. Levett is
(39:38):
still still speaking. I see yeah again if you want
to focus on the positives from the first one hundred days,
certainly the president's action on illegal immigration has been a
positive and that positive as far as the polling is concerned. Okay,
we'll see what all comes down on that front today.
(39:58):
Here on the home front, more troubles in Myrtle Beach.
You probably heard the story. It happened near midnight Saturday
night where a teenager from Bennettsville shot dead and an
officer involved shootings on Ocean Boulevard. Eleven other people were
injured in the incident. Now we don't know exactly how
they were injured. This is not eleven people shot by cops.
(40:22):
But yeah, it's a different world, right, a totally different world.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
That's something that you know, if you grew up here
in South Carolina, it's probably something you did at some point.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Absolutely if you in high school, I mean were you
had to go at least once.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
First week in the beach right from summer something.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah, it was not quite first we get the beach yup,
but it was a spring break for I think that
the Myrtle Beach area schools were on spring break last week,
so some of those well here in the Middlands, it
was like the week before. But still okay. The really
sobering news and scary stuff that the twenty nine year
(41:00):
old band director at Fairfield Central High School arrested charge
with sexual sexual battery with a student. Information coming down
on Friday. Wow, a band director. Another soldier has died,
(41:21):
a soldier in training at Fort Jackson. That makes a
number who have died in recent years and uh and
multiple drill sergeants have have died as well.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Yeah, the state newspaper has tried to tie that story
together several times. I don't know. I don't know if
there's a link or not.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
I you know, again, we mentioned this earlier that unfortunately,
because you have people who enter the enter the army
and all branches of service, they headed up basic training
and you know, really different levels of physical and mental readiness.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
It's a shock to the system for some.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yes, it is very much so. So it's almost sadly surprising.
We don't hear about that sort of thing more often.
We don't know yet what happened here, but it happened.
James Clyburn spending some time, has Nancy May has created
a vacuum in the first district by not doing town halls. Well,
(42:14):
I mean she did the one of the gated community
the other day. That doesn't really qualify. So James Clyburn
is spending a little bit of time, was down in
Beaufort a couple of days ago with a town hall
in Mace's district. It's kind of, I guess, highlighting the
(42:35):
fact that their representative is not doing it now. Again,
a lot of Republicans are not doing town halls right
now because, yes, there is a concerted effort amongst the
Democrats to make them look bad.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
And i'd argue this, and I don't say a whole
lot of good about Jim Clyburn, but I'd be willing
to bet there are a lot more folks down there
who have versus respect, may not agree with him, but
have more respect for Cliburn than they do for Mace
because of her antics. Yeah, exactly, Again, nothing to do
(43:11):
with politics. It's a matter of you know, he's, you know,
a dignified guy who has carried himself well in years
and years of public service, and I would argue that
she hasn't well.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
I can't disagree with you on that. But it's hard
to get past the politics of James Cliburn.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
And again, if you can fill all that out the window,
just as human beings, Yeah, okay, maybe so.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
I'm not sure he's ever said anything that I agree
with politically, but there's a difference between how you carry yourself.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yes, agreed. We talked last week about this prosecutor in
Minnesota that refused to prosecute as a felony, a crime
which was a felony, and that was this, uh, this
individual who worked in Governor Tim Wallas's administration who was
(44:09):
damaging teslas. A number of them remember, arrested, and then uh,
well the Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty just let them
off with a slap on the wrist, and she made
some really bizarre thing about well, you know, people that
have felonies on their arrest record there there, it's harder
(44:32):
for them to get jobs. It follows them everywhere they go,
and then that just leads to more crime, and YadA, YadA, YadA,
as though, well, you know what if you can't do
the time right, well she's not done now she's issued.
It was an internal document apparently has seen the light
(44:54):
of day now negotiations policy for cases involving adult defendants.
In it, prosecutors in Hennepon County to consider racial identity
and age as they negotiate plea deals. While racial identity
and age are not appropriate grounds for departures from the
state sentenced guidelines, proposed resolutions should consider the person charged
(45:19):
as a whole person, including the racial identity and age
blah blah, blah blah blah. Okay, racial disparities harmar community,
lead to distrust, distrust and have a negative impact on communities.
Say again, this is this is the whole.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
This is DEI justice version.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
The justice version of Dee I. Right. It should not matter.
It's gonna be a argument. Well, you know, minorities are
more gonna be carried by cops and this and that
and blah blah blah. But I mean, if if it
has been proven in a court of law that an
individual has committed a crime, their age, the color, their skin,
(45:56):
their background, nothing else should come into play here. You know,
they have totally ripped off the blindfold off off of
Lady Justice here right, you know again, and ironically, we've
come to find out that the man who allegedly stole
(46:17):
Christy Doom's bag in that DC restaurant the other day,
this was at a Hamburger restaurant Easter Sunday, is in
fact a criminal illegal migrants. Jeez oh boy, you couldn't
have written this story any better, huh. The suspect of
Cyril Offender appeared, though not to have targeted Gnome. It
(46:39):
just happened that she was hm wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
Wouldn't you think if you were here illegally and there
are jobs to be had, if you were here illegally,
the last thing you would want, I mean you would
you would think you would walk the straight and narrow
to try and avoid any attention, to try and avoid
interacting with law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
That ain't not the not the not the criminal element.
There will always be criminals m hm
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