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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It is six sixteen and good morning to you. It
is a finally Friday, the sixth day of the month
of June. Good morning to you. I'm Gary David, welcoming
you in this morning. Christopher Thompson would like to welcome
you in as well.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Does it just seem like a long week because we
had Mourial Day last weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I was about to make that same observation.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, four day weeks are better than five day weeks
in general.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes they are. Yeah. I think you won't find too
many people to disagree on that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
That's not startling news.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But there you go. It has been a long week
for and I don't know, I mean, the last seems
like a year or so in my life at least,
it's like I wake up and it's Friday already. Not
this time, Nope, not this time.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It was slow to arrive.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
This week, Yes it was. It is June sixth. I
don't know how much. Well, as I said, I got ready,
I was getting ready to say, I don't much how
much coverage you'll see today of this, And I glance
up to my screen and there's Fox News covering and
thank you see eighty first anniversary of D Day. And
I know I say this every year, with this country
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in its current form, have the guts to do what
this country did eighty one years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And that was such a gutsy call. I'm one man
really making such a gutsy call. Dwhite Eisenhower, who could
have scrubbed the mission. Yeah, yeah, had actually written a
letter explaining why he scrubbed the mission and instead went
with his gut.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The number of veterans who were there that day who
are making the trip today every year gets smaller and smaller.
There's now if it called the Best Defense Foundation. They
started organizing trips back in two thousand and four. It's
not the only group, but for their organization, last year
they took fifty veterans to Normandy. This year it's twenty three. Wow. Yeah,
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there's not many left from that the greatest generation.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I've got a friend who's over there right now, do
you really?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You sent us pictures yesterday from Omaha Beach and I
was so jealous.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay, so on my bucket list, man, Yeah, me too.
One of these days, one of these days. Okay, well,
let's get to it. The rundown, the big stories, the
hot topics on this eighty first commemoration of D Day.
By the way, quick traffic note, I don't know if
Tumbo we mentioned this a minute ago or not we did. Okay,
how do you know what I'm going to say?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Because I know you we worked together long enough. I
know we're Oh, he was.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Gonna make the buyon ramp on the twenty was closed
this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
No, I didn't know you're gonna mention that it was.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
It wasn't, but it was uh yeah, new new uh
broad of a row bridge opening up at what seven
o'clock this morning?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's I think that's what Tumbleweed said.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, okay, I need you'd be on top of that. Yep.
So there's a there's a new traffic flow, a new pattern.
Maybe maybe confusing, but I guess that's that's been a
long time of coming there, man, that project at that
that part of the malfunction judging the project. So there
are may going to happen. Uh, some teachers are gonna
have to wait a little while longer for their bonus
over the l R five a computer breach report that
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could affect pay for for teachers and for other staff members,
and yet including well a retention bonus that was supposed
to be paid out today it was not gonna happen.
It's gonna happen maybe sometime next week thanks to this
computer breach.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
They're hitting the pause button in Florence on a one
point six billion dollar EVY battery cell plant, Japanese battery maker, UH,
telling state officials they're going to put a hold on this.
This is the plant that's supposed to employ some sixteen
hundred people on the concerns well market uncertainty over the
whole ev thing here. And he is South Goronina pretty
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heavily invested in the whole EVY idea. I got hats
off to ISTV. They have done a lengthy piece on
the death of Logan of Federico. This is the North
Carolina co ed who is down here in Columbia was
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shot and killed by a guy who should even have
been on the streets to begin with, And their focus
is could were errors made that allowed this guy to
be on the streets and if so, what errors were they? Yes,
there were, and there were may get into some of
that post and Courier se Democrats struggle with direction and
leadership after a rough twenty twenty five State House session.
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Apparently there are a lot of the growing calls that
Democrats are not happy with a Todd Rutherford as the
leader of their party over the State House. And this
has been We've been talking about this for quite some time.
We'll get to the latest on that. This at a
time when the state legislative panels set to here ethics
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complained against the Freedom Caucus leader, the first chair of
the Freedom Caucus, Adam Morgan. Complaints been made, but to
get read of a hold of the thing, we'll look
into some of those allegations. The Spirit was in the
sky yesterday, Spirit Airlines officially launching their flights out of
Columbia Metropolitan Airport. You know the big press er and
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gate party yesterday morning. Spirit will be flying NonStop out
of Columbia to Newark, to Orlando and a Fort Lauderdale
that discount rates. The service to Newark and Fort Lauderdale
actually starts today. We talked about this story with the
Born United, a company here in the state that has
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been producing shirts using well what Bucky says is the
image of their beaver, and they had issued a cease
and assist, but the company did not cease and desist.
They kept making them. Now a lawsuit's been filed. Now
a Low Country state lawmaker, Senator Tom Fernandez. This turns
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out he's a co owner of at least one of
their branches, about a forty nine percent owner of the
branch up in Myrtle Beach. He's calling BUCkies a bully
and claims what they're doing is not knocking off BUCkies.
Oh well, wonder about that. Okay, have you seen the
logo I have? Looks just like the BUCkies logo beaver
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to me exactly. Then again, I don't know. Drama, Yeah,
just a little bit. And you knew it was going
to come down to this, right, the back and forth
between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. We'll probably talk about
this on several occasions. They got a whole book over
here about this all just one day yesterday. The things
(07:03):
that flew around on social media, the accusations, uh and
and you know, I mean topp with with Musk claiming
that the Epstein files were never released in full because
Donald Trump's name is in there, which is well something
that many Republicans are saying as a step too far
for Musk. But you know, I'm looking at all this
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and then I see this article this morning that is
popped up on Politico says the White House aids are
signaling a possible deton with Musk. I mean, okay, we'll
see the auto pen We got some news talk about
on that front. How many of those pardons were actually
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signed by hand by Joe Biden. Turns out looks like
just one. And the Supreme Court unanimously agree. And a
unanimous Supreme Court decision these days is a rarity, right,
but unanimously agreeing against verse a reverse discrimination standard in
a heterosexual one's lawsuit. This is the case out of Ohio.
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The woman claims she was fired or not given a
promotion because she was not gay, and the Supreme Court
of the Land has unanimously sided with her about that.
We'll get to that, and we'll get to more coming
up here on this. It is the Friday edition of
Columbia's Morning News. It is great to have you with us.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
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Speaker 4 (08:46):
I hope President traulpon Elan worked this out and it's reconciled.
I think that's for the good of the country, the
good of the party. But this legislation is a good
piece of legislation. That's why I supported it, and I
think it'll pass.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It is six point forty three. Good morning. As if
we didn't have enough, I'm already with this one big
beautiful bill. Boy. That was a Jim Jordan there, the
Ohio congressman, hoping this all gets worked out. I mean,
this ratchet up to it again. This has been building
for a couple of days since Elon Musk came out,
as you recall, and you know, blasted the bill. He
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was upset, you know, all the work that his Doge
committee did to try to save money. He looked at
this as a slap in the face with how much
again this this bill will add to our nation's debt
and you just had the I think we said this
yesterday long before we left the air. Okay, at what
point in time is this thing just totally blow up? Yep,
(09:38):
And it happened, and it happened yesterday, and I think
this spectaculary Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I think the thing that's most distressing to Republicans is
Number one, you realize how valuable both these men were
to the last election. I mean, I'm not sure Trump
wins without Musk. Musk said yesterday one of his post
yah you and the one without me. I don't think
Musk was the only reason Trump one, but it made
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it much easier, certainly. And the other thing that's confusing
is you tend to agree, well, if people are looking
at it analytically, they tend to agree with both. There
are aspects of the big, beautiful bill that are perfect
and that you want to have passed, but it also
requires more financial responsibility.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And yeah, you knew this, you know, I don't know.
I had this sense when this whole thing first started up,
you know, with this relationship between these two, that yeah,
at some point in time, it was going to come
crashing down and it was going to be ugly with
a capital U G L Y no you get two
major ego, yes exactly, but you know again, yeah, it
(10:53):
starts with you. You wouldn't one without me, uh blah
blah blah blah blah. And then of course it ratches
up to the point to where musk It puts out
a post and saying that to Donald Trump is in
the the Epstein files, and that's the real reason why
they're not been made public. Have a nice day, DJ
t okay already this morning, Uh, there are reports that
(11:21):
you know, some sort of taunt is is on the
way here.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well, how many feuds has Donald Trump been in where
there was eventually something settled and then Trump is, you know,
right back to being their best friend again.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It happens a lot. This was this one got ugly
fast though. But what what was what was behind interesting
piece I was reading this morning. This is making the
comment this is more than just you know, the break
on the big beautiful Bill White House insiders saying that
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from us. The straw that really both the camel's act
was what happened recently when when his pick for NASA administrator,
a pick that had already gone through sending confirmation areas.
I believe right then the President decided to withdraw it,
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and it was it was odd because remember it was, well,
you know, now that we've done a little more looking
into some associations, we're gonna withdraw this pick. It was
a Jared Isaacman, who is an ally of Musk, and
of course, you know Musk and all the space stuff,
you know. Yeah, I mean he took this very personally. Apparently,
I think.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We we think so much, and certainly Tesla was in
the news so much the last couple of months because
of all the protests, we tend to forget about SpaceX.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, and so this was part of the conversations going
back and forth. Yesterday. At one point Musk posted the
news you know, okay, he was going to immediately retire
his Dragon spacecraft, which is the only way we have
to get to astronauts back and forth right now to
the National Space Station unless we do what we used
to do, and was rely on the Russians to do
it for us, which probably ain't happening right about now.
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He later went up on his social media platform X
and said that okay, now we're not going to retire,
but still so that was part of it. But insiders
telling the Daily caller that Musk had been asking for
too much and we're to talking about Doge now, okay,
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that he'd been trying to act like a second president,
that he was being told no a lot, and he
was getting increasingly irritable over time. That some of the
big asks that Musk was wanted, he had suggested specific
leaders for the IRS, the CIA, and of course nasays, we.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Know, now this is the administration spin.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
This is the administration spin.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You wonder if Musk's spin would be the same, but
it wouldn't surprise me all that much. I mean, get
cater to on the campaign trail, you get treated like
a king because they want your support, They need your support,
both monetarily and whatever you bring to the table vote wise.
And then the election comes and you're not quite as
valuable anymore, even though you're still prancing around the Oval office.
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So you know, of course, of course, you know you're
gonna probably get the stiff arm a little bit more than.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You're used to. Well, yeah, and again this is the
problem we see too often in politics. You know somebody
who's a big donor. Okay, usually it's okay, well i'll
tell you what I'm going to nominate you for ambassaard
at a wherever somewhere far away, somewhere, far far away. Yeah, thanks,
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thanks for what you've done. Now get out of the way.
We're gonna send you halfway across the world.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
We really just wanted your money, exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
But reports for these insiders that Musk was regularly arguing
with the director of the White House Personnel Office, but
he also had feuds over policy issues. He was apparently
kept away from a state department by Marco Rubio, his
access to the Pentagon was limited, and he didn't like this.
So there apparently is more to the story here than
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just a big, beautiful bill. And we'll have more on
this to come this morning. On this the Friday morning
edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
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 2 (15:32):
It's good to have you with us this morning. Welcome
to Friday, June sixth I am Gary, he is Christopher.
This is Columbia's Morning News and it is Friday. Best
news all day right there, right, absolutely, Okay, big story
today of course, the meltdown reaching mega proportions between Elon
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Musk and Donald Trump. You know, I noboy's taking the
high road here, but if anybody's taking a higher road
on this, it seems to be Trump bust to us. True.
I mean, Musk has gone low low low. Well, well,
we'll have more to talk about on that that big
story as the morning progresses. Needless to say, it is
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top of mind today here at home, though, there is
some consternation over at the State House amongst Democrats. A
Post and Curry with a lengthy piece that democrats well.
The headline se Democrats struggled with direction and leadership after
rough twenty twenty five State House session. I don't know
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what made this session any rougher for Democrats than any
other session over there.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I don't know. And you knew it was coming when
the Republicans won a super majority in both houses vote you.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Exactly, so it was you know it was gonna be well, okay,
we'll show up and say you're here, and that's gonna
be about it. You don't gonna get anything accomplished. Yeah,
well you almost wonder at sometimes what's the point. But anyway,
they're there to be the opposition party.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I mean some some Republicans have been criticized because they
gave Democrats some spots on some sub committees as leaders.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Led to another one of the many riffs between the
Republicans over there.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
But Republicans could have completely shut the Democrats out, and
instead they've been allowed at times to help lead and
at times to offer advice before bills came to the floor.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So why would they do that? And the hint may
lie here in this story. Todd Rutherford, who has been
the Minority leader now since twenty thirteen, so a dozen years.
Among the criticisms by some is that he's a little
too friendly with Republicans, a little too reluctant to oppose them. Well,
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it may be him being too friendly with Republicans that, yeah,
maybe got some of those positions granted to the Minority
Party when they didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Have to be Yeah, you've got to go along to get.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Along, yeah, which is something we don't hear a lot
about in politics these days, do we. Well, they talked
to a lot of very important members of the Democrat
Party in this lengthy interview with the Posting Courier, and
the folks they talk to nobody seems to be happy
with Rutherford's leadership, or maybe lack thereof, saying he has
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failed to build a credible opposition strategy against Republicans For
the last number of years. Heather Bower felt like she
was unsupported the Columbia Democrat, which she pushed to bring
articles of impeachment against Curtis Loftus. Others say they think
the caucus is too disorganized under Rutherford, saying he oftentimes
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comes to the House floor without any kind of coherent
strategy to counter GOP talking points on the legislation that's
being discussed on that particular day. Bower in her interview
of the Posting Courier, saying, you know, I'm still pretty new,
but people have been up here for a while and
the caucus are like that this is the worst it's
ever been. Our leaders should have our back and this
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is not what's going on. You even had Guildacob Hunter,
who was the Minority leader for a couple of years
back in the late nineties to about two thousand, who
spoke to the outlet and said, there are a number
of us who have had that question about whether or
not he's lost his ability to lead their caucus. For
a number of years. They've had that question.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
She says, I'm not one to defend Todd Rutherford, but
he's in a tough position now. They anybody else can
do any better, but they would know better than anyone
as far as lack of strategy, maybe maybe that's the case.
Lack of support, maybe that is the case. But what's
the guy to do. I mean, he's literally at it
a disadvantage everywhere he turns. And that's again, that's the
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only way he's been able to, you know, get a
voice out there every now and then and get Democrats
appointed to you know, subcommittee chairs is by getting along, right.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Not everybody they talked to was critical of Rutherford, though
at least one, Roger Kirby from Lake City. We're not
the majority. We don't get to set the calendar, we
don't get to set hearings out of committee. We don't
have the benefit of any of that. We're just reactive,
just Biden necessity, he says. And he's back in Rutherford.
He likes the job he's doing. And again he points out,
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as you said, the Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers.
Now in the House it's eighty eight Republicans and thirty
five Democrats. What are you going to do with that? Well,
there's enough rumbling from enough you know, well known democrats
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over the state House to where maybe a dozen years
is enough.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
When do they vote? When I thought so that the
next vote would be at the start of the new session.
Yeah right, okay, Yeah, So I don't know why rumble now?
Well probably at this point, might as well wait until January.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah. Last this past session, the margin of victory for
Rutherford to maintain that spot was nineteen thirteen, so it
was close, and he's been challenged before his challenges, he'll
be challenged again. I don't know exactly what Democrats are
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looking for. What do you really hope to accomplish? There
is no answer right now.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
The way the state is organized politically, you know, the
best you can do is get an occasional descending voice
out there, and like Rutherford has done, you know, occasionally
head up a committee, a subcommittee, not a major committee,
but a subcommittee at least.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Quite honestly, I mean, for my humble opinion, for a
minority leader to be effective especially is down as Democrats
are in this state when it comes to the numbers
over there. That's pretty much a full time job, man. Yeah, right,
And we know that Todd Rutherford, his full time job
is making a lot of money being a defense warrior, right,
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like so many of them are over there. This is
a yeah, good luck on that one. Meantime, on the
other side of the aisle, the feuding Republicans continue to
fits news reporting that the Legislative Ethics Committee at the
House side is scheduled hearing this month looking to take
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action on the complaint filed against former State Rep. Adam Morgan,
who was the first chair of the Freedom Caucus, accused
of using campaign funds for purposes unrelated to the campaign,
uh impermissible contributions from campaign funds to another candidate, excessive
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contributions of the candidates, failure to include all private income
on statements of economic interest. You know, maybe that's maybe
that's the Democrats best best option, Their best strategy is
to do whatever they can do to further divide Republicans
who are already doing a good job of dividing themselves
over there.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Feels like it, doesn't it. Yeah, anywhere anytime, take your
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Speaker 2 (23:36):
The seven forty. Good morning, Good to have you along. Okay,
there's man. The more you hear about this, the worse
this story gets. A little over a month ago, as
you know well, Logland Logan Federico uh was down here
from North Carolina visiting friends. She was at a home
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in the Old Shandon neighborhood and just a wrong place,
wrong time ended her life when in attempt at Berkeley
a home invasion, Alexander Dickey shot and killed her. This
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is a guy who was on quite the crime spree
that night and that weekend. You recall the story, and
you'll recall that this guy had a lengthy rap sheet.
Should we recap that quickly here? I think we should.
And Cynthia Beasley, as I mentioned over I as TV
did a good job in chronicling this. And wait, wait,
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wait for the punchline, so to speak. If I'm getting
ready to tell you now bothers you terribly, and it
will We'll wait till you wait till you hear the
rest of the story here. So this guy Alexander Dickey
eleven years ago. This had been when he's like nineteen
years old, arrested but behind bars, charged with two counts
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of first degree burglary for the record, a sentence that
carries a minimum minimum prison sentence of fifteen years. The
maximum sentence allowed his life in prison. Two counts of
first degree burgley. He should have been behind bars until
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twenty twenty nine, four years from now. That was in
August of twenty fourteen. A couple months later, in October,
while he was still at the Election and County Detention Center,
Detention Center records show that Dicky has served warrants for
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a third first degree burglary charge from Election and Police,
So August four two counts of first degree burglary. A
couple months later, a third count is lodged against him
while he's still incarcerated and the attentions that awaiting trial.
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Then in November of twenty fourteen, he pleads guilty to
second degree nonviolent burglary as opposed to first degree burglary.
His sentence of ten years suspended during probation, so he's
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back out on the streets.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
So again he's wheeling and dealing in court.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh yeah, I mean his lawyer was getting the job done. Man.
Four months later, March twenty fifteen, he's back in court.
Guess what the other two burglary charges the first two
that he was in court that he was arrested for.
It was the third one that he pleaded guilty to
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a second degree nolod burglary. Okay, March twenty fifteen, is
in court to face sentencing for the other two charges.
According to court records, one of those two was dropped
for the other. He pleaded guilty to a first defensive
third degree burglery. Now okay, even though he'd pleaded guilty
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to burglary just months before. And guess what, dudes back
out on the streets. And apparently he was either on
his best behavior for a number of years where he
just didn't get caught. But in twenty twenty three, he
was back in court again and again pleaded guilty to
another burglary, originally charged a violent second degree burglary. Instead
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he pleads guilty to a first defense third degree burglary
for a second time. A first offense third degree burglary
is the second time he's pleaded guilty to one of
those first defense?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What is that because of the time, and.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, what happened is this and here's where we get
to what's really going to upset you. Rick Hubbard, the
Eleventh Circuit Solicitor, said, when his office prosecuted Dickie in
twenty twenty three, Remember this is for a charge he'd
already pleaded guilty to years back, So second time he'd
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been here with his charge. Yet he's charged with a
first offense charge. Why because, Hubbard says, when they prosecuted
him in twenty twenty three, they weren't aware of his
previously his previous burglary arresting convictions. What, okay, they've been
a few years back. I get it. We're talking twenty fourteen,
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you know, nine years before. But is our record keeping
that bad? Well there's the rub, right, Hubbard says, had
they known this, they would have, yes, definitely prosecuted his
case as a first defense, and he would have likely
received a longer sentence. He spent some time behind bars,
but not a lot. So Yeah, why didn't the solicitor's
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office know that this guy had been charged and convicted
a prior burglary as well. Hubber says it's because Ricky's
rap sheet was incomplete. Our record keeping is that bad? Yeah, yeah.
Whenever someone's arrested and facing prosecution, Yeah, of course, prosecutors
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go back and see, okay, they get any other directions
look at the rap sheet. Well, when somebody's arrested and fingerprinted,
those fingerprints are sent to SLED, and a spokesperson that
Beasley spoke to over it does SLED said the when
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they get fingerprints, and that triggers them to attach a
new arrest to us subjects criminal history. SLED apparently did
not receive fingerprints, they say from the twenty fourteen burglary
first degree arrest, never got them. In twenty twenty three,
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this guy's criminal record, his rap sheet from SLED was
more than a dozen pages long, but not one burglary
charge was listed. They say they never got the fingerprints.
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Lexand County Sheriff's Department and their PIO out of Myrick said,
those prints from August at twenty fourteen, we're taken and
we're submitted to SLED. But it turns out only one
of his seven charges from that day is listed on
this criminal record. What happened. Nobody seems to know this
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guy should have been behind bars. Yeah, and what's more,
you know that litany of charges that he was facing
we just went through, and somehow, each and every time,
this guy was able to weasel out and either spend
no time behind bars or just a little bit before
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he was out again.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
So the system failed the number of times.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
The system failed a number of times. And now a
twenty two year old college co ed is dead.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
And it makes you wonder if those fingerprint prints had
been filed, if his rap sheet were complete, would he
have been out anyway?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Well, yeah, you got to wonder that too, right, Well,
never know, No, we all.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Completely unacceptable. Somebody somewhere dropped the ball, and a young
woman with a whole life ahead of her his dead
as a result. And how many other times has this
sort of thing happened? How many other people are walking
the streets right now they should be behind bars because
somehow some records not complete or some fingerprint wasn't sent
or received. No, no, can you imagine being the parents
(32:21):
of this young woman as awful as what happened is then,
and then to find out this on top of.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
That, well, her Dad's been pretty outspoken to the media,
and I bet he'll I bet this won't be the
last we hear of him on this.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Oh no, no, no, he's already commented on this, and
yeah he's he's going to keep commenting, and I don't
blame him.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
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 2 (32:53):
Sixteen minutes after eight o'clock a his Friday morning, June
the sixth, Good morning to you. Appreciate you being along
for the ride, well the state no matter what you're doing.
This more so, this was years ago. Got a tip
from as Alan Wilson actually said, you got to see
(33:14):
this movie. Man, It's called Idiocracy, and it was hysterical.
This was this was a number of years ago that
it was about a political system. It was about the
United States in the future, but things that evolved so much,
(33:34):
especially in our political system, that you know, uh, the
President's State of the Union address resembled more of a
WWE SmackDown event. And man, as time passes by, I
see politics is getting more more and more just like
(33:55):
that movie Idiocracy Crazy. Well, yesterday was entertaining, wasn't it.
And you just kind of I mentioned this earlier. I
mean when when when you saw Elon Musk and Donald Trump,
you know, come together here during the campaign, and you
knew these two big egos were going to clash at
(34:18):
some point in time, and then the administration began, the
doze effort was underway, and you know, they seemed like
they were together all the time, and you kept I
kept thinking, Okay, at some point in time, you know
some something, something not good is gonna happen here. You're
Elon Musk. You know, you're one of the world's richest,
if not the right richest individual in the world. Right.
(34:42):
I don't know what that would feel like, you know,
I really don't, But that's got to be some kind
of kind of head trip, man, some kind of power trip.
You gotta tell you, you can do anything you want.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
To do well ego trip, yes, And power within his
own companies certainly, and power within the business community certainly.
But Trump's power is on a whole other level, right,
I Mean, that's the thing You've got. You've got money
and technology and you know everything, Elon Musk brings to
the table, and then you've got Trump, who's the most
(35:13):
powerful man in the world.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, but when you're used to that kind of power
and you wild that kind of influence, and now you
look up and you go wow. You know, just that
long ago I was loved by the Democrat Party, and
now look at me. I am held up in reverence
by the Republicans and by Donald Trump, the President of
the United States. He was one of the great stories
of the last election. Yeah, you got to think to yourself, no,
(35:37):
no matter, it's hard to think, well, I shouldn't have
some power over here too. We talked about this earlier. Insiders.
White House insiders were saying a big part of what
just happened was not just the big, beautiful bill and
the fact that that Musk and his Doge team had
worked to try to cut costs and this bill just
increases them again. But that, yeah, Elon Musk maybe got
(35:59):
a little too big for bridges. And this wouldn't be
the first time this has happened. No where, somebody makes
a massive contribution to someone's election, and then the fight
becomes how much access did that get me? How much
influence do I wield? I should build a lot. Man,
I give you a lot of money. Most I help
(36:19):
you get elected, do you know, must just saying if
it hadn't been from me, Donald Trump wouldn't be pressent. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Well, most politicians, you know, once they clear that hurdle
of getting elected, that that person who made the contributions
is suddenly a whole lot less valuable.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Well sure, yeah, just get used up, right, But you
got you gotta know, you gotta know that's going to happen.
It's part of the game. Elon Musk wasn't willing to
do that. I don't guess it doesn't sound like the
White House insider saying that, Yeah, yeah, he was. He
had certain ideas, you know, he wanted he wanted an
(36:56):
input into who should lead the CIA, who should lead
various under other agencies. And you know, he just about
got his his ally as his friend who he handpicked
the lead NASA, until he didn't when that crashed and burned,
and that was still and I'm starting to now wonder
if if that this whole you know, few that was
(37:19):
starting to kind of starting to see the beginnings of it,
if they didn't have something to do with Trump all
of ad because it was really weird, like last week saying, well, okay,
you know, we've decided to rescind that nomination. I think
it had already gotten through the Senate, had at least
through through committees, and Trump pulled it back and so
I'm not going to do it. And some reference to well,
(37:43):
now that we've done further vetting or whatever and seen
some of his associations, and you wonder if he just
wasn't pushing Musk with that one. I don't know, but
that may have been the final and the final thing
for Musk. And then he explodes and he's criticizing the
bill and you know a lot of people are with
him on that one, you know, with raising the debt
and you know, calls to eliminate the debt ceiling.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Oh, I think he's absolutely and I think a lot
of senator Republican senators are on his side there.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
They seem to be. But was that all it was
about or was it about him getting told no and
his ego couldn't take it? That's what White House insiders
are saying. So now you got you know, this devolves
yesterday into well, you know, the cherry on top is
Musk saying yeah, this is why the White House didn't
(38:31):
release the Epstein files because Donald Trump's in there. Okay, well,
we start off the morning by telling you that political
is reporting there was a phone call schedule for today.
They're going to try to put all this behind him,
or at least talk about trying to put it behind
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him or whatever.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
It sounds like Musk was hoping that was going to happen,
and now Trump is taking that back, saying I don't
have any reason to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah, so Fox mentioned this, where what is reporting now
that now this is not gonna not gonna happen. This
thing is just again you talk about two egos as
big as these two. It was involved, you know, it
was that was there's only there's only room, only enough
room in the room for one of those egos. True.
I mean, let's let's be honest here.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
And I saw more than one Republican refer to this
on TV yesterday as that you know, it's it's like
watching mom and dad fight. It's uncomfortable and you know
you're not going to win no matter what happens.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah, there's never a winner there. I don't know. Did
you see the movie Idiocracy? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, man,
I'm a right. Is it starting to like like look
a lot like that? It feels a little like it, Yes,
just a bit.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
And we had to We've had people reach out today
on on Facebook messengers saying there, this, this whole thing
could be just a ploy to lull the Democrats into thinking, Okay,
they've got an opening here and the and Musk and
Trump team up and pounds. I don't know, I don't
know that I've heard that said. Yeah, it could be true.
(40:07):
It doesn't feel like it is. I don't get that feeling.
But you know what, you never really do know anymore,
do you?
Speaker 2 (40:18):
No? You don't you? In the meantime, I mean, Musk's
businesses are taken, they're taking a bath. I mean the
Tesla stock was down fourteen percent yesterday when all this wow.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
And in the meantime, we've got a government to operate,
including a government that's poised to make a major decision
on its financial future. And here we are talking about
you know, mom and dad fighting.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Yeah, Well, who knows how far this is going to go?
Is the war awards over yet? I suspect at some
point they'll have a discussion. It might even be publicly known.
But if nothing else, there are there are people inside
the White House that are that are urging, certainly Trump
and others I'm sure trying to get ahold of Uscat
(41:03):
Let's let's let's ride you this thing down a little
bit here, okay.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
And must note he's seen Trump long enough to know
that if he just says one nice thing about Trump,
he'll be right back in. Trump's good gut. I you
have to do his praise Trump and you're instantly boom,
You're back in.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
He'll be surprised to see that happen. Keeping you informed.
Dad's up to date now now more than ever, I
like knowing what's happening in the world.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
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and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five FM
and five sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Hey, thanks for being here. It is Friday, June sixth.
It's the eighty first anniversary of a D Day and
some of those brave young souls that were there eighty
one years ago today are back on the beaches at Normandy.
(42:00):
Unbelievable one hundred and two years.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Old, and we talk about this every year on December seventh.
You know, it just seems like we're losing the final
members of those who experienced those world events.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Jack Stowe is ninety eight years old, says he lied
about his age back in nineteen forty one after Pearl Harbor,
fifteen years old, joined the military. Actually he was younger
than that. He claimed he was fifteen to join the military. Wow,
(42:44):
if you're you know, you would think the Europeans would
remember this day. The French do, especially in that part
of France, of course, but well, Europe is forever in
our debt. You wouldn't know it. But even in this
country we I think, like my kids generation, they're only
(43:05):
aware of D Day, not because they were taught about
it in school, but because of saving private Riot, you know,
I mean, really the Best Defense Foundation has been organizing
trips to Normandy and flying these veterans there since two
thousand and four. Last year they took fifty. This year
just twenty three. There aren't many left. Okay, foul thoughts here.
(43:31):
You heard Thomas mention. This aesc which is a Japanese
battery maker who has invested one point six billion dollars
into an EV battery cell plant over in Florence's pause construction.
This is the plant that's supposed to employ some sixteen
hundred people. They'll be making eventually, it's hoped, battery sales
(43:55):
for BMW, but for now they bought it to a
screeching halt because of the uncertainty in the market. This
is a big deal for South Carolina because we've been
all in on this EV thing. We've already promised to
pay more than two hundred and fifty five million dollars
(44:16):
to help them build that plant. Okay, so we've got
some skin on that there.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Game.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
We talked the other day about this company that's based
down in the Low Country in Summerville and Goose Creek,
Born United, that is in a spat with BUCkies over
a copyright infringement. They have taken well what certainly appears
to be the BUCkies beaver Oh and put them in
(44:43):
things like you know helmets, you know, army helmets and
tote sixteens and then this and that, and they got
to cease and desist, but they did not cease and desist,
and now there's a lawsuit. Turns out that one of
the owners at least owns. One of their branches is
State Senator Tom Fernandez, and he's calling BUCkies a bully,
(45:09):
saying that it's not the BUCkies logo. It's creative, it's different,
and it's protected. Yeah, it's protected all right, yeah by BUCkies.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
It looks pretty similar to BUCkies. And as you pointed
out the other day, BUCkies is not the only logo,
no or trademark that they've infringed upon.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
A number I mean of Disney characters.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Which it's hard to believe they haven't heard from it.
What doesn't Disney Disney own Star Wars now too, so yeah, right,
they got Star Wars stuff too, So it's a wonder
they haven't heard from anyone besides BUCkies.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
But my guess is they will well now now with
this story up breaking nationally. Yeah, I'm sure they will,
look there.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
You know, sure corporations are big and powerful and wield
their influence, but you know there are rules for a reason.
If I've spent years cultivating a certain logo and stand
behind it, and Bucki's has got a pretty good reputation
right now, the last thing I want is another company
being able to hop on board and ride off my
(46:10):
coad tak.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
You better bet if you try to steal my logo,
I'm coming after you exactly. I don't have a logo.
Well if you did, but didn't, nobody want it anyway,
So a big deal. So uh apparently now where it is,
And this is one of the big stories this week,
was you know the president that he wants to investigate
you know, who was involved here in the final year
(46:31):
or so of the Biden administration, who was calling the
shots here. Well, now it's been revealed in reports that
of those pardons that Biden issued this last few months
in office, only one was signed in hand or or
buy hand, I should say, And that was the one
(46:52):
for for dear old Hunter. M hmm. The rest were
all used signed with with with the auto pen. Again
maybe at his direction or was it? Who knows. The
US Supreme Court, in a rare unanimous ruling, especially in
(47:12):
a case like this, finding that a lower court standard
against the possibility of reverse discrimination was wrong. Lower courted rules, yeah,
it has no such thing as her first discrimination. High
Court says, yeah, you got that wrong. There is And
this allows Marlene Ames now to argue her case with
(47:34):
a new standard of discrimination at that court that got
it wrong. She says her employer discriminated against her because
she's a straight woman, and her case made it to
the Supreme Court. She accused her employer, the Department of
Youth Services of Ohio, of a reverse discrimination or discrimination
period what a gay supervisor passed her over for a
(47:57):
promotion and gave the job to another gay woman instead.
She also claimed that she had been demoted with a
pay cut in favor of a gay man. She'd been
there for twenty years and even Katanji Brown Jackson went
with the majority of this one. How about that? Okay? Yeah, meantime,
(48:20):
there's this ridiculousness. This is in Canada where a school
board distributed the teachings of a faculty member who was
hired through a race based initiative to tell staffs that
families family, that word, that concept, that reality is a
(48:43):
product of white supremacy. I mean, you can't make this
stuff up, right, You really can't. If your households like
mine and mister Thompson's, I know you're pretty much daily
have somebody dropping a package on your front door, right
(49:03):
and usually it's from Amazon. Well, now Amazon is apparently
building where they're calling Humanoid Park here in this country
to try out robots which could spring out of its
vans and drop your package on the front doorstep. Well,
I don't know how long this might take to happen
or whatever it does, but the first time that happens
in my house, that's could be kind of a freaky
(49:24):
moment to see a robot at this robot at the
front door. Yeah, and maybe it won't matter, because who
knows what might happen with this story from Aci Weeather
actually sightings in India and Australia reigniting fascination with a
deep sea creature called the oar fish. Two separate incidents
(49:45):
this week, the rare deep sea or fish washed up
on beaches, one in India, one in Tasmania. And this
is stirring ancient legends and online speculation. There are some
cultures that believe the or fish are harbingers of natural disasters.
You see the picture of the thing. It's massive, No,
(50:06):
it's like thirty feet long. What does it look like
a whale? Or it almost looks like a almost like
a big like a pike or a garfish or something.
They're really they're really large. And these things, you know,
typically you're you know, thousands of thousands, thousands of feet
of water. The doomsday fish is what they call them,
Oh great brink of all that
Honor Jesus.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
America and.
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For formation.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It is six sixteen and good morning to you. It
is a finally Friday, the sixth day of the month
of June. Good morning to you. I'm Gary David, welcoming
you in this morning. Christopher Thompson would like to welcome
you in as well.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Does it just seem like a long week because we
had Mourial Day last weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I was about to make that same observation.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, four day weeks are better than five day weeks
in general.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes they are. Yeah. I think you won't find too
many people to disagree on that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
That's not startling news.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But there you go. It has been a long week
for and I don't know, I mean, the last seems
like a year or so in my life at least,
it's like I wake up and it's Friday already. Not
this time, Nope, not this time.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It was slow to arrive.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
This week, Yes it was. It is June sixth. I
don't know how much. Well, as I said, I got ready,
I was getting ready to say, I don't much how
much coverage you'll see today of this, And I glance
up to my screen and there's Fox News covering and
thank you see eighty first anniversary of D Day. And
I know I say this every year, with this country
(01:36):
in its current form, have the guts to do what
this country did eighty one years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And that was such a gutsy call. I'm one man
really making such a gutsy call. Dwhite Eisenhower, who could
have scrubbed the mission. Yeah, yeah, had actually written a
letter explaining why he scrubbed the mission and instead went
with his gut.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The number of veterans who were there that day who
are making the trip today every year gets smaller and smaller.
There's now if it called the Best Defense Foundation. They
started organizing trips back in two thousand and four. It's
not the only group, but for their organization, last year
they took fifty veterans to Normandy. This year it's twenty three. Wow. Yeah,
(02:25):
there's not many left from that the greatest generation.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I've got a friend who's over there right now, do
you really?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You sent us pictures yesterday from Omaha Beach and I
was so jealous.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay, so on my bucket list, man, Yeah, me too.
One of these days, one of these days. Okay, well,
let's get to it. The rundown, the big stories, the
hot topics on this eighty first commemoration of D Day.
By the way, quick traffic note, I don't know if
Tumbo we mentioned this a minute ago or not we did. Okay,
how do you know what I'm going to say?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Because I know you we worked together long enough. I
know we're Oh, he was.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Gonna make the buyon ramp on the twenty was closed
this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
No, I didn't know you're gonna mention that it was.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
It wasn't, but it was uh yeah, new new uh
broad of a row bridge opening up at what seven
o'clock this morning?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's I think that's what Tumbleweed said.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, okay, I need you'd be on top of that. Yep.
So there's a there's a new traffic flow, a new pattern.
Maybe maybe confusing, but I guess that's that's been a
long time of coming there, man, that project at that
that part of the malfunction judging the project. So there
are may going to happen. Uh, some teachers are gonna
have to wait a little while longer for their bonus
over the l R five a computer breach report that
(03:35):
could affect pay for for teachers and for other staff members,
and yet including well a retention bonus that was supposed
to be paid out today it was not gonna happen.
It's gonna happen maybe sometime next week thanks to this
computer breach.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
They're hitting the pause button in Florence on a one
point six billion dollar EVY battery cell plant, Japanese battery maker, UH,
telling state officials they're going to put a hold on this.
This is the plant that's supposed to employ some sixteen
hundred people on the concerns well market uncertainty over the
whole ev thing here. And he is South Goronina pretty
(04:11):
heavily invested in the whole EVY idea. I got hats
off to ISTV. They have done a lengthy piece on
the death of Logan of Federico. This is the North
Carolina co ed who is down here in Columbia was
(04:32):
shot and killed by a guy who should even have
been on the streets to begin with, And their focus
is could were errors made that allowed this guy to
be on the streets and if so, what errors were they? Yes,
there were, and there were may get into some of
that post and Courier se Democrats struggle with direction and
leadership after a rough twenty twenty five State House session.
(04:54):
Apparently there are a lot of the growing calls that
Democrats are not happy with a Todd Rutherford as the
leader of their party over the State House. And this
has been We've been talking about this for quite some time.
We'll get to the latest on that. This at a
time when the state legislative panels set to here ethics
(05:15):
complained against the Freedom Caucus leader, the first chair of
the Freedom Caucus, Adam Morgan. Complaints been made, but to
get read of a hold of the thing, we'll look
into some of those allegations. The Spirit was in the
sky yesterday, Spirit Airlines officially launching their flights out of
Columbia Metropolitan Airport. You know the big press er and
(05:37):
gate party yesterday morning. Spirit will be flying NonStop out
of Columbia to Newark, to Orlando and a Fort Lauderdale
that discount rates. The service to Newark and Fort Lauderdale
actually starts today. We talked about this story with the
Born United, a company here in the state that has
(05:58):
been producing shirts using well what Bucky says is the
image of their beaver, and they had issued a cease
and assist, but the company did not cease and desist.
They kept making them. Now a lawsuit's been filed. Now
a Low Country state lawmaker, Senator Tom Fernandez. This turns
(06:20):
out he's a co owner of at least one of
their branches, about a forty nine percent owner of the
branch up in Myrtle Beach. He's calling BUCkies a bully
and claims what they're doing is not knocking off BUCkies.
Oh well, wonder about that. Okay, have you seen the
logo I have? Looks just like the BUCkies logo beaver
(06:43):
to me exactly. Then again, I don't know. Drama, Yeah,
just a little bit. And you knew it was going
to come down to this, right, the back and forth
between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. We'll probably talk about
this on several occasions. They got a whole book over
here about this all just one day yesterday. The things
(07:03):
that flew around on social media, the accusations, uh and
and you know, I mean topp with with Musk claiming
that the Epstein files were never released in full because
Donald Trump's name is in there, which is well something
that many Republicans are saying as a step too far
for Musk. But you know, I'm looking at all this
(07:24):
and then I see this article this morning that is
popped up on Politico says the White House aids are
signaling a possible deton with Musk. I mean, okay, we'll
see the auto pen We got some news talk about
on that front. How many of those pardons were actually
(07:45):
signed by hand by Joe Biden. Turns out looks like
just one. And the Supreme Court unanimously agree. And a
unanimous Supreme Court decision these days is a rarity, right,
but unanimously agreeing against verse a reverse discrimination standard in
a heterosexual one's lawsuit. This is the case out of Ohio.
(08:06):
The woman claims she was fired or not given a
promotion because she was not gay, and the Supreme Court
of the Land has unanimously sided with her about that.
We'll get to that, and we'll get to more coming
up here on this. It is the Friday edition of
Columbia's Morning News. It is great to have you with us.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
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Speaker 4 (08:46):
I hope President traulpon Elan worked this out and it's reconciled.
I think that's for the good of the country, the
good of the party. But this legislation is a good
piece of legislation. That's why I supported it, and I
think it'll pass.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It is six point forty three. Good morning. As if
we didn't have enough, I'm already with this one big
beautiful bill. Boy. That was a Jim Jordan there, the
Ohio congressman, hoping this all gets worked out. I mean,
this ratchet up to it again. This has been building
for a couple of days since Elon Musk came out,
as you recall, and you know, blasted the bill. He
(09:17):
was upset, you know, all the work that his Doge
committee did to try to save money. He looked at
this as a slap in the face with how much
again this this bill will add to our nation's debt
and you just had the I think we said this
yesterday long before we left the air. Okay, at what
point in time is this thing just totally blow up? Yep,
(09:38):
And it happened, and it happened yesterday, and I think
this spectaculary Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I think the thing that's most distressing to Republicans is
Number one, you realize how valuable both these men were
to the last election. I mean, I'm not sure Trump
wins without Musk. Musk said yesterday one of his post
yah you and the one without me. I don't think
Musk was the only reason Trump one, but it made
(10:06):
it much easier, certainly. And the other thing that's confusing
is you tend to agree, well, if people are looking
at it analytically, they tend to agree with both. There
are aspects of the big, beautiful bill that are perfect
and that you want to have passed, but it also
requires more financial responsibility.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And yeah, you knew this, you know, I don't know.
I had this sense when this whole thing first started up,
you know, with this relationship between these two, that yeah,
at some point in time, it was going to come
crashing down and it was going to be ugly with
a capital U G L Y no you get two
major ego, yes exactly, but you know again, yeah, it
(10:53):
starts with you. You wouldn't one without me, uh blah
blah blah blah blah. And then of course it ratches
up to the point to where musk It puts out
a post and saying that to Donald Trump is in
the the Epstein files, and that's the real reason why
they're not been made public. Have a nice day, DJ
t okay already this morning, Uh, there are reports that
(11:21):
you know, some sort of taunt is is on the
way here.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well, how many feuds has Donald Trump been in where
there was eventually something settled and then Trump is, you know,
right back to being their best friend again.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It happens a lot. This was this one got ugly
fast though. But what what was what was behind interesting
piece I was reading this morning. This is making the
comment this is more than just you know, the break
on the big beautiful Bill White House insiders saying that
(11:58):
from us. The straw that really both the camel's act
was what happened recently when when his pick for NASA administrator,
a pick that had already gone through sending confirmation areas.
I believe right then the President decided to withdraw it,
(12:18):
and it was it was odd because remember it was, well,
you know, now that we've done a little more looking
into some associations, we're gonna withdraw this pick. It was
a Jared Isaacman, who is an ally of Musk, and
of course, you know Musk and all the space stuff,
you know. Yeah, I mean he took this very personally. Apparently,
I think.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We we think so much, and certainly Tesla was in
the news so much the last couple of months because
of all the protests, we tend to forget about SpaceX.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, and so this was part of the conversations going
back and forth. Yesterday. At one point Musk posted the
news you know, okay, he was going to immediately retire
his Dragon spacecraft, which is the only way we have
to get to astronauts back and forth right now to
the National Space Station unless we do what we used
to do, and was rely on the Russians to do
it for us, which probably ain't happening right about now.
(13:07):
He later went up on his social media platform X
and said that okay, now we're not going to retire,
but still so that was part of it. But insiders
telling the Daily caller that Musk had been asking for
too much and we're to talking about Doge now, okay,
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that he'd been trying to act like a second president,
that he was being told no a lot, and he
was getting increasingly irritable over time. That some of the
big asks that Musk was wanted, he had suggested specific
leaders for the IRS, the CIA, and of course nasays, we.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Know, now this is the administration spin.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
This is the administration spin.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You wonder if Musk's spin would be the same, but
it wouldn't surprise me all that much. I mean, get
cater to on the campaign trail, you get treated like
a king because they want your support, They need your support,
both monetarily and whatever you bring to the table vote wise.
And then the election comes and you're not quite as
valuable anymore, even though you're still prancing around the Oval office.
(14:17):
So you know, of course, of course, you know you're
gonna probably get the stiff arm a little bit more than.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You're used to. Well, yeah, and again this is the
problem we see too often in politics. You know somebody
who's a big donor. Okay, usually it's okay, well i'll
tell you what I'm going to nominate you for ambassaard
at a wherever somewhere far away, somewhere, far far away. Yeah, thanks,
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thanks for what you've done. Now get out of the way.
We're gonna send you halfway across the world.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
We really just wanted your money, exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
But reports for these insiders that Musk was regularly arguing
with the director of the White House Personnel Office, but
he also had feuds over policy issues. He was apparently
kept away from a state department by Marco Rubio, his
access to the Pentagon was limited, and he didn't like this.
So there apparently is more to the story here than
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just a big, beautiful bill. And we'll have more on
this to come this morning. On this the Friday morning
edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
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point five FM and five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It's good to have you with us this morning. Welcome
to Friday, June sixth I am Gary, he is Christopher.
This is Columbia's Morning News and it is Friday. Best
news all day right there, right, absolutely, Okay, big story
today of course, the meltdown reaching mega proportions between Elon
(15:53):
Musk and Donald Trump. You know, I noboy's taking the
high road here, but if anybody's taking a higher road
on this, it seems to be Trump bust to us. True.
I mean, Musk has gone low low low. Well, well,
we'll have more to talk about on that that big
story as the morning progresses. Needless to say, it is
(16:14):
top of mind today here at home, though, there is
some consternation over at the State House amongst Democrats. A
Post and Curry with a lengthy piece that democrats well.
The headline se Democrats struggled with direction and leadership after
rough twenty twenty five State House session. I don't know
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what made this session any rougher for Democrats than any
other session over there.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I don't know. And you knew it was coming when
the Republicans won a super majority in both houses vote you.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Exactly, so it was you know it was gonna be well, okay,
we'll show up and say you're here, and that's gonna
be about it. You don't gonna get anything accomplished. Yeah,
well you almost wonder at sometimes what's the point. But anyway,
they're there to be the opposition party.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I mean some some Republicans have been criticized because they
gave Democrats some spots on some sub committees as leaders.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Led to another one of the many riffs between the
Republicans over there.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
But Republicans could have completely shut the Democrats out, and
instead they've been allowed at times to help lead and
at times to offer advice before bills came to the floor.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So why would they do that? And the hint may
lie here in this story. Todd Rutherford, who has been
the Minority leader now since twenty thirteen, so a dozen years.
Among the criticisms by some is that he's a little
too friendly with Republicans, a little too reluctant to oppose them. Well,
(17:43):
it may be him being too friendly with Republicans that, yeah,
maybe got some of those positions granted to the Minority
Party when they didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Have to be Yeah, you've got to go along to get.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Along, yeah, which is something we don't hear a lot
about in politics these days, do we. Well, they talked
to a lot of very important members of the Democrat
Party in this lengthy interview with the Posting Courier, and
the folks they talk to nobody seems to be happy
with Rutherford's leadership, or maybe lack thereof, saying he has
(18:18):
failed to build a credible opposition strategy against Republicans For
the last number of years. Heather Bower felt like she
was unsupported the Columbia Democrat, which she pushed to bring
articles of impeachment against Curtis Loftus. Others say they think
the caucus is too disorganized under Rutherford, saying he oftentimes
(18:41):
comes to the House floor without any kind of coherent
strategy to counter GOP talking points on the legislation that's
being discussed on that particular day. Bower in her interview
of the Posting Courier, saying, you know, I'm still pretty new,
but people have been up here for a while and
the caucus are like that this is the worst it's
ever been. Our leaders should have our back and this
(19:05):
is not what's going on. You even had Guildacob Hunter,
who was the Minority leader for a couple of years
back in the late nineties to about two thousand, who
spoke to the outlet and said, there are a number
of us who have had that question about whether or
not he's lost his ability to lead their caucus. For
a number of years. They've had that question.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
She says, I'm not one to defend Todd Rutherford, but
he's in a tough position now. They anybody else can
do any better, but they would know better than anyone
as far as lack of strategy, maybe maybe that's the case.
Lack of support, maybe that is the case. But what's
the guy to do. I mean, he's literally at it
a disadvantage everywhere he turns. And that's again, that's the
(19:49):
only way he's been able to, you know, get a
voice out there every now and then and get Democrats
appointed to you know, subcommittee chairs is by getting along, right.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Not everybody they talked to was critical of Rutherford, though
at least one, Roger Kirby from Lake City. We're not
the majority. We don't get to set the calendar, we
don't get to set hearings out of committee. We don't
have the benefit of any of that. We're just reactive,
just Biden necessity, he says. And he's back in Rutherford.
He likes the job he's doing. And again he points out,
(20:22):
as you said, the Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers.
Now in the House it's eighty eight Republicans and thirty
five Democrats. What are you going to do with that? Well,
there's enough rumbling from enough you know, well known democrats
(20:43):
over the state House to where maybe a dozen years
is enough.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
When do they vote? When I thought so that the
next vote would be at the start of the new session.
Yeah right, okay, Yeah, So I don't know why rumble now?
Well probably at this point, might as well wait until January.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah. Last this past session, the margin of victory for
Rutherford to maintain that spot was nineteen thirteen, so it
was close, and he's been challenged before his challenges, he'll
be challenged again. I don't know exactly what Democrats are
(21:28):
looking for. What do you really hope to accomplish? There
is no answer right now.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
The way the state is organized politically, you know, the
best you can do is get an occasional descending voice
out there, and like Rutherford has done, you know, occasionally
head up a committee, a subcommittee, not a major committee,
but a subcommittee at least.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Quite honestly, I mean, for my humble opinion, for a
minority leader to be effective especially is down as Democrats
are in this state when it comes to the numbers
over there. That's pretty much a full time job, man. Yeah, right,
And we know that Todd Rutherford, his full time job
is making a lot of money being a defense warrior, right,
(22:10):
like so many of them are over there. This is
a yeah, good luck on that one. Meantime, on the
other side of the aisle, the feuding Republicans continue to
fits news reporting that the Legislative Ethics Committee at the
House side is scheduled hearing this month looking to take
(22:32):
action on the complaint filed against former State Rep. Adam Morgan,
who was the first chair of the Freedom Caucus, accused
of using campaign funds for purposes unrelated to the campaign,
uh impermissible contributions from campaign funds to another candidate, excessive
(22:53):
contributions of the candidates, failure to include all private income
on statements of economic interest. You know, maybe that's maybe
that's the Democrats best best option, Their best strategy is
to do whatever they can do to further divide Republicans
who are already doing a good job of dividing themselves
over there.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Feels like it, doesn't it. Yeah, anywhere anytime, take your
infote to go. I listened to you on iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2 (23:36):
The seven forty. Good morning, Good to have you along. Okay,
there's man. The more you hear about this, the worse
this story gets. A little over a month ago, as
you know well, Logland Logan Federico uh was down here
from North Carolina visiting friends. She was at a home
(23:57):
in the Old Shandon neighborhood and just a wrong place,
wrong time ended her life when in attempt at Berkeley
a home invasion, Alexander Dickey shot and killed her. This
(24:19):
is a guy who was on quite the crime spree
that night and that weekend. You recall the story, and
you'll recall that this guy had a lengthy rap sheet.
Should we recap that quickly here? I think we should.
And Cynthia Beasley, as I mentioned over I as TV
did a good job in chronicling this. And wait, wait,
(24:43):
wait for the punchline, so to speak. If I'm getting
ready to tell you now bothers you terribly, and it
will We'll wait till you wait till you hear the
rest of the story here. So this guy Alexander Dickey
eleven years ago. This had been when he's like nineteen
years old, arrested but behind bars, charged with two counts
(25:07):
of first degree burglary for the record, a sentence that
carries a minimum minimum prison sentence of fifteen years. The
maximum sentence allowed his life in prison. Two counts of
first degree burgley. He should have been behind bars until
(25:28):
twenty twenty nine, four years from now. That was in
August of twenty fourteen. A couple months later, in October,
while he was still at the Election and County Detention Center,
Detention Center records show that Dicky has served warrants for
(25:50):
a third first degree burglary charge from Election and Police,
So August four two counts of first degree burglary. A
couple months later, a third count is lodged against him
while he's still incarcerated and the attentions that awaiting trial.
(26:13):
Then in November of twenty fourteen, he pleads guilty to
second degree nonviolent burglary as opposed to first degree burglary.
His sentence of ten years suspended during probation, so he's
(26:33):
back out on the streets.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
So again he's wheeling and dealing in court.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh yeah, I mean his lawyer was getting the job done. Man.
Four months later, March twenty fifteen, he's back in court.
Guess what the other two burglary charges the first two
that he was in court that he was arrested for.
It was the third one that he pleaded guilty to
(26:58):
a second degree nolod burglary. Okay, March twenty fifteen, is
in court to face sentencing for the other two charges.
According to court records, one of those two was dropped
for the other. He pleaded guilty to a first defensive
third degree burglery. Now okay, even though he'd pleaded guilty
(27:21):
to burglary just months before. And guess what, dudes back
out on the streets. And apparently he was either on
his best behavior for a number of years where he
just didn't get caught. But in twenty twenty three, he
was back in court again and again pleaded guilty to
another burglary, originally charged a violent second degree burglary. Instead
(27:47):
he pleads guilty to a first defense third degree burglary
for a second time. A first offense third degree burglary
is the second time he's pleaded guilty to one of
those first defense?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What is that because of the time, and.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, what happened is this and here's where we get
to what's really going to upset you. Rick Hubbard, the
Eleventh Circuit Solicitor, said, when his office prosecuted Dickie in
twenty twenty three, Remember this is for a charge he'd
already pleaded guilty to years back, So second time he'd
(28:22):
been here with his charge. Yet he's charged with a
first offense charge. Why because, Hubbard says, when they prosecuted
him in twenty twenty three, they weren't aware of his
previously his previous burglary arresting convictions. What, okay, they've been
a few years back. I get it. We're talking twenty fourteen,
(28:44):
you know, nine years before. But is our record keeping
that bad? Well there's the rub, right, Hubbard says, had
they known this, they would have, yes, definitely prosecuted his
case as a first defense, and he would have likely
received a longer sentence. He spent some time behind bars,
but not a lot. So Yeah, why didn't the solicitor's
(29:06):
office know that this guy had been charged and convicted
a prior burglary as well. Hubber says it's because Ricky's
rap sheet was incomplete. Our record keeping is that bad? Yeah, yeah.
Whenever someone's arrested and facing prosecution, Yeah, of course, prosecutors
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go back and see, okay, they get any other directions
look at the rap sheet. Well, when somebody's arrested and fingerprinted,
those fingerprints are sent to SLED, and a spokesperson that
Beasley spoke to over it does SLED said the when
(29:48):
they get fingerprints, and that triggers them to attach a
new arrest to us subjects criminal history. SLED apparently did
not receive fingerprints, they say from the twenty fourteen burglary
first degree arrest, never got them. In twenty twenty three,
(30:13):
this guy's criminal record, his rap sheet from SLED was
more than a dozen pages long, but not one burglary
charge was listed. They say they never got the fingerprints.
(30:36):
Lexand County Sheriff's Department and their PIO out of Myrick said,
those prints from August at twenty fourteen, we're taken and
we're submitted to SLED. But it turns out only one
of his seven charges from that day is listed on
this criminal record. What happened. Nobody seems to know this
(31:02):
guy should have been behind bars. Yeah, and what's more,
you know that litany of charges that he was facing
we just went through, and somehow, each and every time,
this guy was able to weasel out and either spend
no time behind bars or just a little bit before
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he was out again.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
So the system failed the number of times.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
The system failed a number of times. And now a
twenty two year old college co ed is dead.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
And it makes you wonder if those fingerprint prints had
been filed, if his rap sheet were complete, would he
have been out anyway?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Well, yeah, you got to wonder that too, right, Well,
never know, No, we all.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Completely unacceptable. Somebody somewhere dropped the ball, and a young
woman with a whole life ahead of her his dead
as a result. And how many other times has this
sort of thing happened? How many other people are walking
the streets right now they should be behind bars because
somehow some records not complete or some fingerprint wasn't sent
or received. No, no, can you imagine being the parents
(32:21):
of this young woman as awful as what happened is then,
and then to find out this on top of.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
That, well, her Dad's been pretty outspoken to the media,
and I bet he'll I bet this won't be the
last we hear of him on this.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Oh no, no, no, he's already commented on this, and
yeah he's he's going to keep commenting, and I don't
blame him.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
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Speaker 2 (32:53):
Sixteen minutes after eight o'clock a his Friday morning, June
the sixth, Good morning to you. Appreciate you being along
for the ride, well the state no matter what you're doing.
This more so, this was years ago. Got a tip
from as Alan Wilson actually said, you got to see
(33:14):
this movie. Man, It's called Idiocracy, and it was hysterical.
This was this was a number of years ago that
it was about a political system. It was about the
United States in the future, but things that evolved so much,
(33:34):
especially in our political system, that you know, uh, the
President's State of the Union address resembled more of a
WWE SmackDown event. And man, as time passes by, I
see politics is getting more more and more just like
(33:55):
that movie Idiocracy Crazy. Well, yesterday was entertaining, wasn't it.
And you just kind of I mentioned this earlier. I
mean when when when you saw Elon Musk and Donald Trump,
you know, come together here during the campaign, and you
knew these two big egos were going to clash at
(34:18):
some point in time, and then the administration began, the
doze effort was underway, and you know, they seemed like
they were together all the time, and you kept I
kept thinking, Okay, at some point in time, you know
some something, something not good is gonna happen here. You're
Elon Musk. You know, you're one of the world's richest,
if not the right richest individual in the world. Right.
(34:42):
I don't know what that would feel like, you know,
I really don't, But that's got to be some kind
of kind of head trip, man, some kind of power trip.
You gotta tell you, you can do anything you want.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
To do well ego trip, yes, And power within his
own companies certainly, and power within the business community certainly.
But Trump's power is on a whole other level, right,
I Mean, that's the thing You've got. You've got money
and technology and you know everything, Elon Musk brings to
the table, and then you've got Trump, who's the most
(35:13):
powerful man in the world.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, but when you're used to that kind of power
and you wild that kind of influence, and now you
look up and you go wow. You know, just that
long ago I was loved by the Democrat Party, and
now look at me. I am held up in reverence
by the Republicans and by Donald Trump, the President of
the United States. He was one of the great stories
of the last election. Yeah, you got to think to yourself, no,
(35:37):
no matter, it's hard to think, well, I shouldn't have
some power over here too. We talked about this earlier. Insiders.
White House insiders were saying a big part of what
just happened was not just the big, beautiful bill and
the fact that that Musk and his Doge team had
worked to try to cut costs and this bill just
increases them again. But that, yeah, Elon Musk maybe got
(35:59):
a little too big for bridges. And this wouldn't be
the first time this has happened. No where, somebody makes
a massive contribution to someone's election, and then the fight
becomes how much access did that get me? How much
influence do I wield? I should build a lot. Man,
I give you a lot of money. Most I help
(36:19):
you get elected, do you know, must just saying if
it hadn't been from me, Donald Trump wouldn't be pressent. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Well, most politicians, you know, once they clear that hurdle
of getting elected, that that person who made the contributions
is suddenly a whole lot less valuable.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Well sure, yeah, just get used up, right, But you
got you gotta know, you gotta know that's going to happen.
It's part of the game. Elon Musk wasn't willing to
do that. I don't guess it doesn't sound like the
White House insider saying that, Yeah, yeah, he was. He
had certain ideas, you know, he wanted he wanted an
(36:56):
input into who should lead the CIA, who should lead
various under other agencies. And you know, he just about
got his his ally as his friend who he handpicked
the lead NASA, until he didn't when that crashed and burned,
and that was still and I'm starting to now wonder
if if that this whole you know, few that was
(37:19):
starting to kind of starting to see the beginnings of it,
if they didn't have something to do with Trump all
of ad because it was really weird, like last week saying, well, okay,
you know, we've decided to rescind that nomination. I think
it had already gotten through the Senate, had at least
through through committees, and Trump pulled it back and so
I'm not going to do it. And some reference to well,
(37:43):
now that we've done further vetting or whatever and seen
some of his associations, and you wonder if he just
wasn't pushing Musk with that one. I don't know, but
that may have been the final and the final thing
for Musk. And then he explodes and he's criticizing the
bill and you know a lot of people are with
him on that one, you know, with raising the debt
and you know, calls to eliminate the debt ceiling.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Oh, I think he's absolutely and I think a lot
of senator Republican senators are on his side there.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
They seem to be. But was that all it was
about or was it about him getting told no and
his ego couldn't take it? That's what White House insiders
are saying. So now you got you know, this devolves
yesterday into well, you know, the cherry on top is
Musk saying yeah, this is why the White House didn't
(38:31):
release the Epstein files because Donald Trump's in there. Okay, well,
we start off the morning by telling you that political
is reporting there was a phone call schedule for today.
They're going to try to put all this behind him,
or at least talk about trying to put it behind
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him or whatever.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
It sounds like Musk was hoping that was going to happen,
and now Trump is taking that back, saying I don't
have any reason to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah, so Fox mentioned this, where what is reporting now
that now this is not gonna not gonna happen. This
thing is just again you talk about two egos as
big as these two. It was involved, you know, it
was that was there's only there's only room, only enough
room in the room for one of those egos. True.
I mean, let's let's be honest here.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
And I saw more than one Republican refer to this
on TV yesterday as that you know, it's it's like
watching mom and dad fight. It's uncomfortable and you know
you're not going to win no matter what happens.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah, there's never a winner there. I don't know. Did
you see the movie Idiocracy? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, man,
I'm a right. Is it starting to like like look
a lot like that? It feels a little like it, Yes,
just a bit.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
And we had to We've had people reach out today
on on Facebook messengers saying there, this, this whole thing
could be just a ploy to lull the Democrats into thinking, Okay,
they've got an opening here and the and Musk and
Trump team up and pounds. I don't know, I don't
know that I've heard that said. Yeah, it could be true.
(40:07):
It doesn't feel like it is. I don't get that feeling.
But you know what, you never really do know anymore,
do you?
Speaker 2 (40:18):
No? You don't you? In the meantime, I mean, Musk's
businesses are taken, they're taking a bath. I mean the
Tesla stock was down fourteen percent yesterday when all this wow.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
And in the meantime, we've got a government to operate,
including a government that's poised to make a major decision
on its financial future. And here we are talking about
you know, mom and dad fighting.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Yeah, Well, who knows how far this is going to go?
Is the war awards over yet? I suspect at some
point they'll have a discussion. It might even be publicly known.
But if nothing else, there are there are people inside
the White House that are that are urging, certainly Trump
and others I'm sure trying to get ahold of Uscat
(41:03):
Let's let's let's ride you this thing down a little
bit here, okay.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
And must note he's seen Trump long enough to know
that if he just says one nice thing about Trump,
he'll be right back in. Trump's good gut. I you
have to do his praise Trump and you're instantly boom,
You're back in.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
He'll be surprised to see that happen. Keeping you informed.
Dad's up to date now now more than ever, I
like knowing what's happening in the world.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
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Speaker 2 (41:40):
Hey, thanks for being here. It is Friday, June sixth.
It's the eighty first anniversary of a D Day and
some of those brave young souls that were there eighty
one years ago today are back on the beaches at Normandy.
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Unbelievable one hundred and two years.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Old, and we talk about this every year on December seventh.
You know, it just seems like we're losing the final
members of those who experienced those world events.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Jack Stowe is ninety eight years old, says he lied
about his age back in nineteen forty one after Pearl Harbor,
fifteen years old, joined the military. Actually he was younger
than that. He claimed he was fifteen to join the military. Wow,
(42:44):
if you're you know, you would think the Europeans would
remember this day. The French do, especially in that part
of France, of course, but well, Europe is forever in
our debt. You wouldn't know it. But even in this
country we I think, like my kids generation, they're only
(43:05):
aware of D Day, not because they were taught about
it in school, but because of saving private Riot, you know,
I mean, really the Best Defense Foundation has been organizing
trips to Normandy and flying these veterans there since two
thousand and four. Last year they took fifty. This year
just twenty three. There aren't many left. Okay, foul thoughts here.
(43:31):
You heard Thomas mention. This aesc which is a Japanese
battery maker who has invested one point six billion dollars
into an EV battery cell plant over in Florence's pause construction.
This is the plant that's supposed to employ some sixteen
hundred people. They'll be making eventually, it's hoped, battery sales
(43:55):
for BMW, but for now they bought it to a
screeching halt because of the uncertainty in the market. This
is a big deal for South Carolina because we've been
all in on this EV thing. We've already promised to
pay more than two hundred and fifty five million dollars
(44:16):
to help them build that plant. Okay, so we've got
some skin on that there.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Game.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
We talked the other day about this company that's based
down in the Low Country in Summerville and Goose Creek,
Born United, that is in a spat with BUCkies over
a copyright infringement. They have taken well what certainly appears
to be the BUCkies beaver Oh and put them in
(44:43):
things like you know helmets, you know, army helmets and
tote sixteens and then this and that, and they got
to cease and desist, but they did not cease and desist,
and now there's a lawsuit. Turns out that one of
the owners at least owns. One of their branches is
State Senator Tom Fernandez, and he's calling BUCkies a bully,
(45:09):
saying that it's not the BUCkies logo. It's creative, it's different,
and it's protected. Yeah, it's protected all right, yeah by BUCkies.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
It looks pretty similar to BUCkies. And as you pointed
out the other day, BUCkies is not the only logo,
no or trademark that they've infringed upon.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
A number I mean of Disney characters.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Which it's hard to believe they haven't heard from it.
What doesn't Disney Disney own Star Wars now too, so yeah, right,
they got Star Wars stuff too, So it's a wonder
they haven't heard from anyone besides BUCkies.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
But my guess is they will well now now with
this story up breaking nationally. Yeah, I'm sure they will,
look there.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
You know, sure corporations are big and powerful and wield
their influence, but you know there are rules for a reason.
If I've spent years cultivating a certain logo and stand
behind it, and Bucki's has got a pretty good reputation
right now, the last thing I want is another company
being able to hop on board and ride off my
(46:10):
coad tak.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
You better bet if you try to steal my logo,
I'm coming after you exactly. I don't have a logo.
Well if you did, but didn't, nobody want it anyway,
So a big deal. So uh apparently now where it is,
And this is one of the big stories this week,
was you know the president that he wants to investigate
you know, who was involved here in the final year
(46:31):
or so of the Biden administration, who was calling the
shots here. Well, now it's been revealed in reports that
of those pardons that Biden issued this last few months
in office, only one was signed in hand or or
buy hand, I should say, And that was the one
(46:52):
for for dear old Hunter. M hmm. The rest were
all used signed with with with the auto pen. Again
maybe at his direction or was it? Who knows. The
US Supreme Court, in a rare unanimous ruling, especially in
(47:12):
a case like this, finding that a lower court standard
against the possibility of reverse discrimination was wrong. Lower courted rules, yeah,
it has no such thing as her first discrimination. High
Court says, yeah, you got that wrong. There is And
this allows Marlene Ames now to argue her case with
(47:34):
a new standard of discrimination at that court that got
it wrong. She says her employer discriminated against her because
she's a straight woman, and her case made it to
the Supreme Court. She accused her employer, the Department of
Youth Services of Ohio, of a reverse discrimination or discrimination
period what a gay supervisor passed her over for a
(47:57):
promotion and gave the job to another gay woman instead.
She also claimed that she had been demoted with a
pay cut in favor of a gay man. She'd been
there for twenty years and even Katanji Brown Jackson went
with the majority of this one. How about that? Okay? Yeah, meantime,
(48:20):
there's this ridiculousness. This is in Canada where a school
board distributed the teachings of a faculty member who was
hired through a race based initiative to tell staffs that
families family, that word, that concept, that reality is a
(48:43):
product of white supremacy. I mean, you can't make this
stuff up, right, You really can't. If your households like
mine and mister Thompson's, I know you're pretty much daily
have somebody dropping a package on your front door, right
(49:03):
and usually it's from Amazon. Well, now Amazon is apparently
building where they're calling Humanoid Park here in this country
to try out robots which could spring out of its
vans and drop your package on the front doorstep. Well,
I don't know how long this might take to happen
or whatever it does, but the first time that happens
in my house, that's could be kind of a freaky
(49:24):
moment to see a robot at this robot at the
front door. Yeah, and maybe it won't matter, because who
knows what might happen with this story from Aci Weeather
actually sightings in India and Australia reigniting fascination with a
deep sea creature called the oar fish. Two separate incidents
(49:45):
this week, the rare deep sea or fish washed up
on beaches, one in India, one in Tasmania. And this
is stirring ancient legends and online speculation. There are some
cultures that believe the or fish are harbingers of natural disasters.
You see the picture of the thing. It's massive, No,
(50:06):
it's like thirty feet long. What does it look like
a whale? Or it almost looks like a almost like
a big like a pike or a garfish or something.
They're really they're really large. And these things, you know,
typically you're you know, thousands of thousands, thousands of feet
of water. The doomsday fish is what they call them,
Oh great brink of all that
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