Show Rewind 05-01-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jesus right. Hell yeah, says America and jen for regious.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
One nation, and.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yes it is wrong.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
And Good morning to you. Welcome into a Thursday. It's
the first day of the month of May. Sixteen minutes
half for six. I'm Gary David, Good morning to you,
Good morning to you. Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Feels like it feels like June outside the Yeah, well
what does that ball me?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Ball me to say the least. Yes, very balmy. Oh,
I don't know. Maybe we'll get summer over early this year,
and we get it early, then they have no Wait,
didn't we have a long spring last year? Though that
it did warm up for a while, and then of
course it did. Yeah, it seems like that was the case,
wasn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah. Yeah, Well we're gonna get what we're gonna get. True. Yeah,
there you go, all right, things good in your neck
of the woods. Everything's good so far, beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Okay, it's it's Thursday. Let's see. So it's a workday
to day over the state House. And then you got
three days next week and then that's it, rights it.
We are one week away from a wrapping up this session.
So the final frenzy over at to Gervaian Maine. What
is it looking like? Well, they seem let's get right

(01:36):
to it. They run down the big stories of the
hot topics. They seem to be dead set to Republicans
on passing some sort of tax reform legislation. And let's
one of the ideas. Here is a plan that would
the lower rates, but still twenty four percent of us
would wind up paying more money, at least initially. Now,

(02:01):
this after the first rollout of that flat tax at
three point nine to nine percent, showed that pretty much
well of the vast majority of middle class taxpayers will
wind up paying more than they're paying right now. And
once that was revealed, well, they had to go back
to the drawing board. And then they had three options
they were presented about a week ago, and this was

(02:21):
the I guess the the most palatable one. Will they
will they get this done or not? Uh, they're not
going to go up on this. Apparently they want to
get something done in this session. They got just a
few days left to do it. So we'll run down.
What the thinking is over there right now? But rich
View High School yesterday student hit with an air gun? Palette,

(02:44):
What else do we know about this? Did he come
rot on campus? Was it a shot? I mean, those
things go pretty far. Was it something well somebody else? Yeah?
On campus? Okay, don't go that far. We know there
was a student in a in a car hit by
a you know, a pellot from an air powered gun.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh the student was in a car. Uh yeah, right, okay.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
I think you I think I've got that right, regardless
of the student's Okay, but it did. It did lead
to a to a to a shutdown and a lot
of consternation, needless to say. Meantime over in that neck
of the woods, Uh, Blithwood last night at a town hall,
it was pretty packed and Blithewood leaders have decided now
because of the recent violence in that in that small town,

(03:34):
but they're gonna they're just gonna call off any summer
events that they had planned, not gonna do them.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Wow. Yeah, that's well and.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Until unless they can add additional security measures.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Pretty disappointing for a town that's continuing to add new
citizens who, yes, I'm sure want to experience everything Blathwood
has to offer.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, so that'll be one thing. In less they can
a couple of the funds to enhance security, that's one
thing that won't be happening this summer. Goly Man again,
a few roots for for for all right. One of
those injured in that shooting over the weekend in Myrtle Beach,
one of the eleven injuries, one is remains in critical condition.

(04:19):
Of that update yesterday, again, the injuries to the other
ten are deemed to be non in life threatening.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
The UH.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
The alleged shooter, of course, was was shot and killed
by Myrtle Beach Police an officer UH. In the final
days of this session, there's a push on in Alan Wilson,
our States Attorney General, has been pushing this for a
while now, UH to pass a bill designed to speed
up the process of getting subpoenas to track child predators online.

(04:49):
The way the current process works right now, having to
rely on the on the federal government, this can take
weeks or months, which is delaying these investigations. We've talked
with him about this before. I'm not sure just why
even debate this, Just get it done. Who could be
against this? Well, hopefully they will get that done before
they wrap things up next Thursday. Enough to kill more

(05:10):
than a quarter million adults. That's what sheriff's office over
to Calhoun County says after a thirty nine year old
Columbia man charged with traffick in fentanyl. And it doesn't
take a lot twenty eight grams or more. Actually, in
this case, it was a lot more than That was
five hundred and twelve grams of fentanyl found in his car. Yeah,

(05:31):
enough to kill two hundred and fifty six thousand adults. Wow.
Published report says that one of those four men accused
by Nancy Mace of rape and other crimes against women
has been fired by the investment firm that employed him.
John Osborne of John's Island reports. So I was let

(05:52):
government position as a managing partner at Good Growth Capital.
Oh came and this is which guy, John Osborne?

Speaker 1 (06:01):
No, I mean which? Oh? This is one of the
four or the four? Okay?

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Or of the four? Okay?

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Well we wait the news of an investigation on that
and see where things go.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
My mind got confused. I was thinking one of the
four guys that she had a recent verbal altercations. Yeah,
I was thinking all right, I know about two. What
about the other Okay, yeah, no, yeah, that four, that
number still just too as far as we know, right, Yes,
a big deal. It finally got done. It was supposed
to get done or remember more than a month ago,
but it dissolved in that White House meeting between Trump

(06:36):
and Vladimir Zelenski. Well it's done now, the US and
Ukraine signing a deal that gives the US access to
Ukraine's vast mineral resources. Okay, rather than just continue to
give them money and weapons, now we get reimbursed by
being able to tap into their mineral resources. So it's
a win win for both countries. And it just took

(06:56):
a little while longer to get done. No response yet
from the Russians on this. You would think that's yeah,
it's a win win because now that we have investments
over there, we're more interested in protecting that area.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Exactly, Senat Republicans just by the whisker voting down a
Democrat resolution yesterday there would have blocked global tariffs that
Trump has announced that forty nine votes, you got a
tie break of there at the VP. Who's by the
way in the state today over in Charleston, Will to
keep the tariffs in place. Kamala Harris coming out with

(07:31):
the long knives last night, going after Trump. Needless to
say is she emerges from Hibernation to make a big
speech out in San Francisco. Where does she go from here? Well,
that remains to be seen. More damning revelations or at
least allegations against the Maryland man, you know, the Maryland man,
Brigo Garcia. This from well, another immigrant who apparently was

(07:55):
at one time married, or at least it was dating
the woman that our brigogar is married to now. And
he tells the tale that well, Democrats aren't going to
want to hear. This is a big deal and it
continues to be another win here. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Company breaking ground yesterday on its third factory in Arizona.

(08:17):
This this is something that should have been happening a
long time ago. We got to start producing these chips.
We can no longer rely on Taiwan to produce the
vast majority of the world's chips, especially not when the
Chinese are you know, got designs on that island nation.
So that's good news there. Harvard releasing their report on
anti Semitism and Islamophobia on campus. Is they try to

(08:39):
make amends with the Trump administration over there lacks efforts
to enforce all this. Meantime, there is a bipartisan bill
in Congress that is targeting anti semitism on college campuses. Yeah, right,
and three Democrats asking to be removed from the resolution
to impeach Donald Trump. At least two of them said

(09:00):
they this wasn't exactly what they thought it was going
to be, and this is probably not a good strategy.
All right, friends, we got that more coming your way
here on this It is the Thursday morning, May first
edition of Columbia's Morning News and it is great to
have you with us.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
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Speaker 3 (09:36):
Six forty two. The time now and welcome to a Thursday,
and welcome to the month of May. I'm Gary David
with Christopher Thompson and the team that's just mentioned. We
appreciate you being here. So conventional wisdom is and historically
data has shown the past a guide to the future
or not this time around. So midterm elections on the
twenty twenty six midterms. Now, let's flashback to the twenty

(10:02):
eighteen midterms. So two years into Donald Trump's first first
term in office. It was a disaster. Okay, it was
a blue wave, a blue wave, but remember four years
later we didn't get the anticipated red wave that we
thought we'd get during the midterms during Biden's term. But

(10:26):
typically we at least see the party out of power
make gains, if not take over at least one of
the chambers.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
So with that as a backdrop.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
What do we expect for twenty twenty six, especially right
now when there's so many people freaking out over tariffs
and the economy and this and that and all concerns.
You know, low polling numbers for really everything but immigration
for this president, although you know the Democrat party pulling
numbers are even worse. Looking ahead to twenty twenty six,

(11:03):
do we expect a repeat of what we normally see?
Do we expect a repeat of the blue wave of
twenty eighteen? Well, new poll was released Tuesday, Now I
got to tell you this is this was a poll
that was commissioned by the National Republican Congressional Committee the
n RCC. So with that as a as a backdrop there,

(11:25):
it well shows that we may see a different, different
result next year. According to the memo they released with
a poll, unlike in twenty seventeen, voters today are turning
away from Democrats field leadership and are rallying behind Republican
solutions on the issues that matter most. Okay, well, this

(11:45):
is again this is Republican you know, talking point stuff here,
all right. So on the gen what they call a
generic ballot, you know, overall when it comes to the House,
Democrats are one point ahead of Republicans according to this poll,
one point. But to contrast, now, in April of twenty seventeen,

(12:10):
the Democrat Party had a six point lead on the
generic congressional ballot. However, across the thirteen Democrat held districts
which Trump won last November, Republicans are actually leading the
generic ballot by two points, the poll found interesting. The

(12:30):
poll also showed that seventy two percent of voters view
the Democrat Party unfavorably. Would ask who cares about people
like me. Voters ring both parties at forty seven percent,
So it was a draw, but that's a thirteen point
improvement for Democrats since twenty seventeen.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Now, again, this was the poll commissioned by the National
Republican Congressional Committee. Okay, and I'd be skeptical if it
was a Democrat sponsored poll and showed Democrats in the lead.
So you know, you have taken with a grain of salt.
But maybe it's just not so much the strength of

(13:11):
a Republican party but the disaster that is a Democrat
party right now, for example, not on the congressional ballot.
But you know, in twenty twenty eight, I mean, we
saw Kamala Harris last night make her re entry into
public life with that speech in San Francisco. I think

(13:34):
most people think that Kamala Harris will not run for
president again.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
That she's a glutton for punishment. If she does, kind
of hope she would. Actually Tim Walls is making headlines.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Walls is talking.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
I'm not sure if he's doing himself any favors.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
What was he said? I was the VP pick to
talk code to white guys. He was the code talker
for the code talking didn't work out very well. Yeah,
then you got this Gina Romando. You may say who,
Gina Romando?

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Who? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (14:07):
J who?

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Gina was the Oh, she held a position in the
Biden administration a prior lifetime was the governor Rhode Island.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
What role is she?

Speaker 3 (14:22):
I can't remember what role she held, but anyway, she
was part of the Biden cabinet. Gina Romando at least
considering a run in twenty twenty eight, former Secretary of Commerce.
That's right, talking to David Axelrod. I've dedicated fifteen years
to public service. Oh okay, thanks for you, and I

(14:43):
think if it as a big way for me to
serve again, including running, I'll do it. Okay, you're digging
deep in the barrel here. If you got Gina Romando
talking about running for president, I don't think she showed
up on anybody's top ten list. Even Stephen A. Smith
made the top ten list. Gina, Yeah, nowhere to be found.

(15:07):
And while I don't think he's talking about running for president,
he's at least talking for running for office again. Oh yeah,
this would be a senten seed. Yeah. I thought it
was three strikes.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
You're out.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Well, apparently not. For Beto O'Rourke. You remember Beto.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh? Yes, Oh, Beto ran against Ted Cruz.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yes, so Beto talk about a appropriating a culture. Beto's
like the poster child for that. Said he would be
open to launching a new Senate campaign in the midterms. Wow, okay,

(15:47):
I hope he does. You lost three straight times, buddy.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Why don't he and Stacy Abrams put together some kind
of political consulting firm.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
That would be great and they would ensure that Democrats
would lose every stinking time.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
But there say this for them, they're at least successful
at getting people to put up money to run them again.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
They can get you to part with your money in
a heartbeat, buddy. They are very good at that. So
they go Gina Romando, who yeah, Gena Romando for President,
Beto o'rouric for Texas Senator. Yeah, they're scrape at the
bottom of the barrel over there. So maybe it's not
much as much about Republican strength as it is Democrat
weakness heading into the midterms.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
It's seven fifteen. Good morning to you.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
It's Thursday, first day of May, and a reminder here
in South Carolina, thanks to Helene, Today not April fifteenth.
Today is the deadline to file your income taxes, both
state and federal. You got fifteen more days.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
To get it done if you haven't done it by now.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
But you know as well as I do, there are
folks out there right Oh gosh, I got any of
my taxes?

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Man, Today's the deadline.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, Speaking of taxes, the countdown is on over the
state House. There are now counting today what four days
left in the section right?

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Today, next, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, so four working days. Session
ends in a week, and Republicans are trying to save
some face when it comes to taxes. All the hullabaloo
of cutting folks taxes and then the announcement a couple
of weeks back of a flat tax, which hey, listen,
you know I understand the fairness of the flat tax.

(17:44):
Right now, you've got somewhere around forty four percent of
people who file taxes in the state who don't pay
any state income tax with the system under right now, Okay,
they were working to get it from six point two
down to six percent, and then comes the stunning announcement
a few weeks ago, this flat tax and a rate

(18:05):
of three point nine to nine percent. Question remains, do
they not do their due diligence on that or did
they and thought, well, nobody will notice the fact that
that plan would would have been pretty much every middle tax,
middle class tax payer in this state would wind up
paying more taxes, at least initially.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
The goal was to get it down eventually to two
point four to nine percent if revenues kept coming in,
but that was a big if. Then there was a
presentation a week or two back by the bean counters
and they laid out a couple different optional options that
they could look at, and of a three, only the

(18:48):
third was somewhat palatable. Well, here's the new idea right now,
this new plan that's been approved by the House ways
and means committit. They did this yesterday. It would be
a two tier system. The first thirty thousand dollars of
a person's taxable income would be taxed at one point
nine nine percent, which is great if you don't make

(19:10):
over thirty thousand dollars a year. Of course, if you
don't make over with thirty thousand dollars year, that's not
so great. Now, once you hit that threshold at thirty
k your tax rate wind go up to five point
thirty nine percent lower than it is right now. Okay,
so that's a that's a starter. The move would bring

(19:32):
the state's effective tax rate down to two point six
percent from two point seven percent. Okay, But again here's
the rub. About one out of every four taxpayers in
the state would actually pay more money under this plan too.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, then scratch that, right. I mean, you can't sell us, hey,
we're going to lower the tax rate and then say
but on the other hand, most of you will pay more.
That's that's not going to work with the voters.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Well, not most, but what out of four substantial number?

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Right, of course, we voters don't have any say in this,
at least not until the midterms. Well, okay, so the
first the first idea was a was a total nutcase idea.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
That's where most would have paid more.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yes, most would have paid more into the initial plan.
Now the other part of this, and this again is
a big if. But under this plan, again this assumes
that enough revenue is generated. This plan, does, proponents say,

(20:45):
give a pathway to us getting to an eventual zero
percent income tax rate, that, as a posting courier rights,
an eventual zero percent income tax rate that will immediately
lead to a tax cut for a majority of the
state's taxpayers.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Well, okay, I get it.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
I get it, because right now we got taxpayers, maybe
forty four percent who weren't paying anything. Okay, all right,
but again here's the rub. Right now, about forty five
percent of all state revenues come from income taxes. So hey,
I'm all about any kind of plan that reduces the

(21:24):
amount of taxes we're paying. I'm all about any plan
that would maybe one day get us to a zero
percent effective tax rate when it comes to state taxes.
But when you know close to half of the revenues
we get right now come from income taxes, how do
you make that work? Well, other states are making it work,

(21:50):
right and the latest to make a move to get
to this point, not that they're doing it right now,
but they've got the plan in motion to get it.
There's Mississippi, And if I recall correctly, mister Thompson, when
Mississippi does go to that zero percent tax rate, there'll
be the ninth or the tenth state. We always think

(22:13):
of Florida. Everybody talks about Florida. Well, guess what, they're
not the only ones. Mississippi comes online. It'll be I
think that it's the tenth state in the country that
has zero percent state income taxes. So it can be done.
But in the meantime, the state's got to figure out
how to get to you know, forty five percent of

(22:36):
revenues without any income tax. Is that a higher sales tax?
It's gonna be. It's gonna be a higher something. Okay,
it's not like suddenly, you know, we just we just
got a free pass on taxes and we don't pay
any more for this or that. Because of that, we're gonna.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Have to Well you could if you cut spending, but
we well, but that's that's not gonna happen either.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
So but you again, with just four working days left
in the session and the amendment over there that says
you come back in a special session afterwards, the only
thing you can deal with is the budget. The still
Republicans are held ben getting this thing done and in
effect for the for twenty twenty six. But again, this

(23:25):
is just now was approved by the House Ways and
Means Committee yesterday, so it's just coming out of committee
on the House side.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Just coming out of committee. And yet it was a
priority to begin the session.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Right, yes, now, Again, the flat taxing was kind of
a late entry here, but the whole idea of reducing
taxes was a priority, another priority issue at at the
beginning of the session. You're right, I don't know in
four working days can you get it to a full
floor vote on the House.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
And then oh, I think you got to get the
Senate to agree to it, too, right, And do you
want to rush through a plan like this? Well that
that's right. What between taxes and the gains they're making
on education, We've got to be careful. We've got to
watch out for Mississippi. Right, it's you know, very soon
the cry throughout the United States may be, you know,

(24:13):
thank god for South Carolina, otherwise we'd be last.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, all right, Mississippi's making things happen. They are under
Republican leadership, of course. Okay, Well, you're right. I mean,
let's let make this the Obamacare thing, you know, let's
just pass it and then we'll see what's in it.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
I think they thought they were going to do that
the first time around, and we didn't know what was
going to be in it.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Seems that way, doesn't it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
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Speaker 3 (24:46):
It is seven forty and good morning to you for
Thursday May the first. Oh, I'm sorry, I just get
distracted there for a second, this whole Bill Belichick thing.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Man, what the world? My goodness, it has been the
circus that I don't think unc anticipated. I think, yeah,
they didn't know they were hiring her too. Wow. So
it was a CBS interview.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Right where CBS Sunday Morning. She like shut down the
line of questioning on how they met or whatever.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
And yeah, she was sitting there in the corner, and
according to the interviewer, she was frequently a part of
that interview. Now she's soon.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
Does she thinks she's Pete Hegxsath's wife or.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
What she's apparently running some of his social media? Oh? Sure, Yeah,
she says she's CEO of a company that he that
is associated with him. But nobody can find any evidence
of that incorporation. Wow, And he has now asked UNC
to include her on certain emails regarding marketing in the like,

(25:54):
even though she does not have an official position with
the university.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
This is not going to end well for Belichick. I
don't know that it will, dude.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Man.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
On the other hand, you talk about tarnishing your legacy.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
Man.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
On the other hand, it may help him relate a
little bit more with kids that he hasn't dealt with
in a while because she's about their age.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah, probably want to relate more to her than him. Yeah,
just saying anyway, So sorry, I got to I just
saw that pop up on the screen again. This whole
thing is that, The whole thing is crazy, man. Yeah,
how did you do it? She been in the beauty
contest yet because she was in a well, the miss
main contest up against a guy and some other girls.
I don't know anyway, okay, uh back to reality. I

(26:42):
forgot where were going now, I'm not sure? Oh oh
oh I remember. Okay, So so the tariffs, Yeah, it's
the tarffs. By the way, if you haven't noticed, the
stock market is quietly you know, coming back and doing
its thing. All right, we had our moment of you know,
this guy is fun, this guy is falling, and now
it's not. They were getting back to market fundamentals. Now,

(27:04):
you know, if a company is not doing well, it
stock goes down. If it is, stock goes up, as
opposed to the knee jerk reaction to well what's going on.
But still although we don't have any deals yet, when
it comes to tariffs, okay, Democrats on Capitol Hill put

(27:25):
forth a resolution that would have blocked these tariffs. Remember
their argument is only Congress can do this, President camp
by executive order. Well, center Republicans narrowly defeated that. Yesterday,
the vote was forty ninety nine. Of course the JD

(27:47):
Vans has the tie breaking vote. Well, the vote a
couple of weeks ago was forty nine forty nine after
they approved a resolution that would have thwarted Trump's doing
post tariffs on Canada. But that measure actually, well, the
Canadian measure passed fifty one forty eight.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Four Republicans have voted for that one.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Remember that you had Collins Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and ran
Paul uh But this time the vote was tied forty nine,
forty nine, and the vice president makes the tie breaking vote. Okay,
so they just narrowly blocked that thing. But while no
deals have been announced she had. Of course, Trump is

(28:30):
backtracked on you know, the biggie here recently was the
automotive tariffs in reducing those which that order was signed
what Tuesday, I guess it was same day he went
to Michigan to celebrate his first one or days in office.
So last night you got the words Oulid Queen, the

(28:52):
former Vice president Kamala Harris back on the on the
stage and among other things, accusing Trump of suing absolute chaos,
saying we're seeing the wholesale abandonment of American ideals. Hm,

(29:17):
you can make an argument that well, under Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris's regime that we saw a wholesale abandonment
of America's ideals. That one cuts both ways, certainly, But
here we go again. There was nothing new in this speech.
Harris accused Trump of advancing an agenda of a narrow,

(29:37):
self serving vision of America, threatening to bring a constitutional
crisis to that. Are we still on that? Excuse Trump
of bringing chaos to the country through his tear off
policy and accused him of being responsible for the greatest
man made economic crisis in modern presidential history.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Well, okay, so I know she's got to keep her
name out there. This is part of the political process,
but this feels like a speech that would have been
better given going into next year's midterms.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
I mean, it would serve the Democrats better. And she
may make it again in a year, I don't know,
but it just it feels a little early. I mean,
when when most people read the name Kamala Harris, they're
still thinking about her getting scorched in the last election
to Trump, right, and this instead of sounding like, oh,
there's some there's some sound political reasoning about the way

(30:39):
the country said it. It's just there's sour grapes from
the from the woman who just lost to Trump.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, and again, it's not like her party is seen
as the you know, the the night shining armor coming
to the rescue right now, that there not. I mean,
the thing she said last night, this Democrat Gala, she'd
have been better off saying those like in an interview

(31:05):
before the election last year.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
True.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
No, Well, she didn't do any of those interviews, did she. Well,
she did a couple and they were disasters. They weren't
really interviews either. I mean, can you going on the view.
That's not an interview, right, I mean, really, come on
doing the podcast whatever that what is that daddy something whatever?
Call me daddy, call me daddy. Yeah, whatever that podcast is,

(31:32):
that's numbering an interview. But yeah, so yeah, it's it
comes off with sour grapes of course. So chaos, constitutional crisis,
absolute absolute chaos. I'm sorry, not just chaos, absolute chaos.
It's called her daddy, by the way. That's I knew

(31:52):
that didn't sound right, Oh, her daddy. Yes, So I
have questions about that. Never never mind. All I know
is Kamala Hair showed up on there. She did. She
didn't connect her of it. Yeah, she didn't connect with
voters last year. I don't know why she thinks this
message is going to connect this time around. That's all

(32:13):
she's got, man, because again, she doesn't bring answers. She
didn't bring answers in that you know, one hundred plus
day campaign to be president she had didn't have answers.
Then she didn't have answers when she was vice president
for four years. Needed at her boss and you know, so,
why do you think she's got answers?

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Now? It don't worry.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty AM WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
It is fifteen minutes after eight o'clock and good morning
to you. It's the Thursday May first edition of Columbia's
Morning News. I've said this before. We're just not used
to well, people like Donald Trump being in charge of

(33:10):
the nation. The sum was a shock to the system,
and I think we could I don't know, would you
do this, mister Thompson or not. You know, we got
to chaste it this first time around. But this time around,
in the first one days, the first first one hundred
days eight years ago, pales in comparison to this one.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
In a lot of ways. Well, I probably most presidents,
if they had it to do over again, would do
just what Trump is doing, and that is, you know,
use that that honeymoon to your advantage and do everything
you wanted to do as quickly as you can.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
And I thought at first it was just that we
had gotten used to four years of doing nothing Joe Biden.
But no, it's not that we are We are not
used to presidents throwing their weight around like Donald Trump
has done.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
I think they I think they divined that the term
bully bully pulpit was you know it was that term
came about because of Donald's It's been off for a
long time. But but you know, things are happening results,
He's getting results. For example, Okay, four years of Joe

(34:33):
Biden Kamala Harris allowing the conflict in Ukraine to not
only fester but to grow, and how many people dead,
how many lives destroyed, how much property damaged? And Joe
Biden left office with aside from you know, just stroking

(34:57):
massive checks to Ukraine and that was pretty much about it.
Oh and sending some a lot of weapons and including
toward the end of his four years the type of
weaponry that really got the attention to Moscow and could
have really ratcheted things up. But here we go yesterday
that that agreement.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Has now been finalized.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Okay, it took a little longer than thought, the agreement
that would have been finalized a month or more back,
but then things went sideways at that White House visit
between Trump and Zelenski. But that agreement was signed yesterday.
So rather than just you know, stroke in checks to Ukraine,

(35:43):
we now have a way to get that back. So
the deal giving us access to the vast mineral resources
that are in Ukraine. And Okay, if you're like me
and you didn't even realize that Ukraine had vast mineral
resoce versus, go ahead and raise your hand right now.
I think we're all raising our hands. But now we
know it, and now we've have access to them. So

(36:09):
this enables us to continue to offer support military aid
to Kiev, but to actually get something back for it.
And yes, now that the United States has access to
these minerals, we have a much more vested interest in

(36:30):
the continued independence of Ukraine. So this is a clear
signal to Russia, clearer than any of it that's been
sent so far, that the United States is committed to
a peace process there. All right, I know we're a

(36:51):
long way away from that happening, but I mean, there
was not even an inkling of you know, toalking about
talking about thinking about planning a meeting to have you know,
some some talks about peace under the Biden administration. Okay,
so the mineral deal is done. Something else happened this week,

(37:17):
and that was the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company breaking ground.
This was two days ago on its third factory in Arizona.
We've talked about this time and time again that you know,
Taiwan is cornered the market on producing chips.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
That's something that got brought up during COVID, Yes, exactly,
Lindsey Graham brought that up over and over again.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
You remember, Yeah, why were cars so outrageously expended? Why
could you not find a new car in a lot somewhere. Well,
it's because we couldn't get these chips from Taiwan thanks
to COVID. And I'm sorry, you don't make new cars
without computerized stuff in him these days. There were other
factors too, but that was a biggie. Why why you

(38:10):
couldn't get your your young son that Hey is all
the rage video game for Christmas? Because there were no
chips available. Well that should have alerted us right then
and there. Yeah, and what would happen if the communist
Chinese took over Taiwan and cornered the global market on

(38:32):
these chips? They had held all the cards.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
I mean this good luck.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
You're not gonna buy anything electronic today. They didn't have
a chip in it. So now we've got our not first,
not second, but third production facility in Arizona.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
This is back.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
We got a lot of US money in this comes
from the chip And now I will give Joe Biden
credit for this. In Congress they get they got the
Chips Act done under Biden's watch. That was vital that
had happened. So yeah, we're putting a lot of money
into this, billions of dollars. But this is important. You know,

(39:18):
this had to happen. But it's again another example of
Trump and his policies luring foreign businesses to invest in
the United States. I'm gonna make a bold prediction here.

(39:42):
I don't know what the timeline is going to be
on this, but at some point in time, you know,
this teriff war is going to end, Okay, let's hope. Yeah.
And it might even end to where there's still some
nations charging US tariffs and we're not charging them what
they're charging us. It might happen and the Democrats going
to go, well, that was a total disaster. That was
a waste of time. How much money. Do we lose
on that deal, Donald Trump and not realize that the

(40:07):
other part of this strategy worked. That is to get
foreign manufacturing private companies to invest in the United States,
to bring jobs here, to bring manufacturing here. And how
important that is. This is why Trump was in Michigan

(40:31):
the other day in Warren, Michigan and Gretchen we're right
there with him, I mean, hugging the dude, right, You
think she's happy?

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Absolutely? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Trump is bringing back auto manufacturing jobs to Detroit. Hyundai's
doing it, Honda's bringing a line back from Mexico to
produce cars on a one of their lines here in
the States. Others are talking about it. This is the
other This is the other part of the equation that

(41:04):
doesn't get near the attention that it should. But but
it's happening. But in particular, this UH, this chip story,
this is this is this is so crucial, even if
it didn't create a single American job. I'm i'm i'm, i'm,

(41:27):
I'm all in with this investment. It should be the
United States of America that controls the chip production in
this world, not Taiwan. I got nothing against Taiwan, but
considering the UH the politics of that part of the world.

(41:48):
And it's not like we just realized, Hey, the Chinese
got Yeah, they got aims. You know, they've got goals.
When it comes to Taiwan again, can you imagine the
scenario if the Chinese went in there and took over everything.
The world is at their mercy, you know, forget the idea.
Well this was once hours and it should be ours again.
I have nothing to do with it. They want the chips.

(42:14):
So this is big.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
It is important anywhere anytime, take your infot to go.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
I listened to you on iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
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Speaker 3 (42:40):
Hey forty one our time Now final thoughts here in
the moment or two. But first up, as I mentioned,
let's talk about how you can help out the kids
over Camp Chemo this weekend. We're joined by Larry Blosser,
who is a volunteer with the Three Rivers Region PORSA
Club of America. Larry, good morning, Good to have you
with us, Buddy.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
Hi, Gary, thank you for taking our call and hearing
about our event this weekend.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
Absolutely, no, first of it is it's Porsche, right, how
you said Porsche?

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Yeah, the people that don't, the people that don't own one,
call it Porsche. The people that do call it Porsche.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Well I call it Porsche, but unfortunately I don't own one.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Dog gun it. Can you help me out that, Larria?
All right?

Speaker 3 (43:20):
So you guys have been this club has been helping
Camp Chemo for a long.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Time, right, yes we have. This is actually our fortieth
year of holding this car show to benefit the kids
of Camp Chemo, and we gary aff for forty years
of giving. That tells you how serious we are about
supporting this wonderful organization.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Absolutely, thank you for that. So this is the twenty
twenty five Speed and Beauty Benefit car show and community festival.
Sounds like fun man, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
That's that's exactly what it is. And we're doing it
at the historic Columbia Speedway and last year was our
first year in life. Last year this will be a
dazzling display of automotive excellence and hopefully the biggest and
best car show we've seen in Colombia yet. That's kind
of our goal will Actually we'll have exotics like Lamborghini, mclauren, Ferrari,

(44:09):
along with Mercedes, Benz, BMW and of course some high
end porches and I.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Don't guess I could put my Honda in there, could I?
You can?

Speaker 4 (44:19):
It'd be a wonderful donation to Camp Chemo. But don't
expect an award.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Well, right, exactly, so you do. I mean there are
awards for the for the car and bikes too, right.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
Yeah, actually, I'm glad you said that. This is our
first year, we're actually going to have a group for
or a group for motorcycles, and we'll have three awards
exclusively for the best show bikes in Colombia.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Okay, great, But is it not just for people who
want to enter their vehicle?

Speaker 1 (44:45):
Boy?

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Car shows are a big deal, and you're not going
to find any better looking high end cars. Are you're
going to find this weekend? Buddy?

Speaker 4 (44:53):
Yeah, that's exactly right. As a matter of fact, for
those of you that want to show off your cool ride,
cars and coffee, our show will give you a chance
to win a beautiful award and possibly even some cash
for a prize while making a contribution to Camp Chemo.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
All right. So now it's this weekend, right, it's Saturday, is.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
There, right? May fourth? No, it's Sunday. It's Sunday, May fourth,
and it's from twelve to four o'clock.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Okay, so if you want to enter your car, you
still got a chance to do that, Is that.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Right, Larry?

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Yeah, there's two ways you can do that, Gary. Number
one is you can go to our website. Now, this
is all letters Three Rivers Region PCA dot org. That's
Three Rivers Region, PCA dot org. And for thirty dollars
you can register online. But after Saturday at four o'clock,

(45:45):
we're going to turn that off. But you'll still be
able to just drive in Sunday between ten and twelve
and you can just kind of do like a late
registration and that's forty dollars and you can get in
the show that way with your car, okay.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
And I think it's like five bucks for folks who
want to come out and see these beautif cars. I mean, gosh,
you can't find a better deal than that.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Huh yeah, that's exactly right. Kids under twelve are free
and there will be free parking. So the twelve dollars
is essentially we're asking for that as a donation to Campemo.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
All right, terrific.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Well, Larry, thank you so much for all you're doing
for the kids at Camp Chemo and have been for
all these years. And we look forward to a big
weekend this weekend, buddy, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Man, thanks a lot, Gary, have a good one, thank you.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
All right.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
So that's this Sunday noon to four at the historic
Columbia Motor Speedway.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Yes it is Porsche.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Not Porsche. I No, I don't know one.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Neither do I.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
I've done it. Okay, final final thoughts here, get to it.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
There.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
We've talked so much about the priorities that haven't been
accomplished here at the State House in this session, but
there's something else that hasn't gotten quite the attention that
it should. And for the life of me, I don't
know why this is a problem, why it's not already
been done. And I think it will get done. I
hope it will. And this is something the AG has
been pushing for a while, and that is a piece

(47:04):
of legislation that would speed up the process to get
sub penis to go after these online child predators. We
had a g Wilson on several weeks back, and he
talked about this that right now, you know his office
and his office is the main prosecuting arm for for yeah,
pedophiles and sex of online sex offenders and everything else.

(47:29):
In order to try to track down where these you know,
these computers are, these IP addresses, they got to go
through the federal system and that takes time, it can
even take months. Meanwhile during that time, who knows what's
going on with these individuals. So he've been pushing trying
to get get passed over the state House a bill

(47:50):
that would would expedite the process to get in these subpoenas.
Seems like a no brainer to me. Get this done
in maybe days, not weeks or months.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
I'm not sure what would be controversial about this.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Private privacy concerns from a few members of the House apparently, Okay, well,
let's hope they get this done. It's under debate in
the House. I like to get that done. You never
do know, do you? The news that a Columbia man
has been arrested out on I twenty six a traffic stop.

(48:26):
What was inside that car over in Calhoun County five
hundred and twelve grams of fentanyl? Which the sheriff Thomas
Summers says, is enough fentanyl to kill two hundred and
fifty six thousand adults.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
And so here's, you know, straight from the Crooks are
Stupid files. Here's this guy riding around with five hundred
and twelve and a half grams to be exact sentinel
on I twenty six and he tools to a construction
zone doing eighty miles an hour.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Oh one bag or whatever he's got it packed in
pops as he hits a bump and he's dead. Sure,
he's dead.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
You're carrying something that they could kill two hundred and
fifty six thousand people and you're speeding to a construction
zone doing eighty Wow. Actually happy he was. So it
turns out Harvard releasing their report on anti Semitism and
Islamophobia on campus, the President apologizing for the moments when

(49:40):
we failed. Now you failed, you feeled miserably. Now, none
of this happens if the Trump administration hadn't come down
on him, of course, they would not have done this
on their own. Meantime, there's a bipartisan group of senators
working on not one, but two bills aimed at addressing
the rise of anti Semitism on college campuses. Tim Scott

(50:01):
is one of the sponsors here. That needs to happen.
You know, I can tell you what we're looking at
another summer here. Well, already the Democrat leaders are already
trying to ramp up their base to get out there
and be disruptive. You know, we've been hearing it from
what we heard it from old JB.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
JB.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Pritzker, the Illinois governor. Don't give Republicans a moment, a
peace disrupt calling from mass demonstrations. So here we go
with that again. But in the meantime, the uh, the
idea of impeachment again, We've mentioned the other day that
a Michigan Democrat proposed an impeachment somebody we'd never heard of. Yeah,

(50:42):
shre Thindendar to say his name. This is a guy
who's in trouble in his home district. So he's trying
to you know, matter of fact, did I did you
see this? That he has apparently taken out billboards, multiple
bill multiple billboards to promote this. And guess who's paying
for those billboards?

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Tax? Yes? Yes, how do you pull that off? Well?

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Three Democrats have been asked to be removed from that resolution.
So they're not all agreeing. Here a couple of them
saying one says that he removed his support because of
a mistaken assumption about the proposal. I'm not sure what
that mistaken assumption was, but anyway, there it was. So

(51:27):
yah know, Democrats, who normally are pretty good at walking
in lockstep with one another, we're seeing that start to
frame