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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Jesus right, hell yeah, same America and Jerry Hollin
for Regious one Nation God.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And this is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
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Speaker 4 (00:30):
Good morning and welcome into a Thursday, the twenty sixth
day of the month of June seventeen, after six up
and at him hitting the ground running love this morning
news back on the radio. It's great to have you
with us. I'm Gary David, Christopher Thompson. Good morning to.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
You, sir, checking in with you. How are you. I'm good, good, good.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Losing power last night flickered, flickered, Yeah, yeah, blicker.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
The great thing about that storm last night is Mother
Nature telegraphed it. I mean we had our As you
watched that thing slowly, you.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Had plenty of time to get out of the water
in Lake Murray. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
I mean that thing was just crawling across the state
from the northeastern corner.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Unusual direction on this one.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Yeah it was. But yeah, we had plenty of warnings,
so that was the good part.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
We were out at the comedy show at the Old
mill last night. Should do once a month.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Were you on stage? No, no, have I missed something?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
No no, no, no, no no no, we were spectators.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
You're not doing stand.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Up part okay, although I will tell you it's one
or two.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I probably done a better job. But that's that's usually
very good.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Actually okay, but yeah, the lights kind of flick it
off there a couple of times while one of the
comedians was on stage, and he was he was pretty
adept to deal. You know, if you're a committe you've
got to be able to do that, right. But yeah,
so we did lose. We had a number of power
out it just about seven thousand plus in Lexington County.
I know that were others scattered about the Midlands and
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I think most of them all back on now. So
not expecting anything quite as as severe today. And yeah,
the cool down is on right, what ninety five heated
decks of only one hundred and one today and tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Well we'll Carolina.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, yeah, all right, rundown, big stories, hot topics. Do
we have stuff to talk about today? Yes, we do.
The State Supreme Court. A couple of stories out of
our High Court yesterday. Number one, well at least at
least hit with a pause here the uh, the legislators
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pay raise they voted for themselves. West Climber sued the
senator from the Upstates, saying it was unconstitutional, and the
Supreme Court yesterday laying out an injunction putting a hold
on that pay raise. Was supposed to go to effect
next week, but at least for now it's not going anywhere.
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Remember our constitution to say in black and white, yeah,
you couldn't vote yourself a pay raise, but it doesn't
become effective until after the next election cycle.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
And this is not what they did.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
It sounds like we're going to have a lot of
discussion using terminology.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
What did they mean by oh, we're gonna go back rays?
What does the word ann mean and all that?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Versus per diem versus a supplement. Yeah, yeah, it's we're gonna,
We're gonna it's it's going to be not necessarily an
argument about the.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
More about the terminology than the methodology.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Let me ask you this, Uh, is there a single
member of the State House who actually gets a payroll
check from the people of South Carolina for their service?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yes, I mean, I mean this is your check for
they get stipends, they get per diems, right, they get
all this stuff.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Right, They're paid a certain amount of money for their service.
It's a little bit okay, But then they are also
get money to be in Colombia while they're.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Here, which is where all this is coming from.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
The meal and hotel money. And then they get money
to operate their offices.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Right.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
So yeah, that's that's going to be the big argument.
What did the legislature mean and what does the constitution say?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
In other words, the taxpayer are gonna have to pooney
up some more money to help them defend themselves for
their raise, right, Okay, you got Oh, this will be
a popular decision. Yeah. The High Court also ruled for
the first time summaries of complaints against sitting judges can
be made public. Well, it should have always been that way,
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now it will be. They also they had a busy
day yesterday. Man, the arguments they have heard in the
last day or two over the redistrict team. Remember this
is Republicans were accused by the NAACP of drawing lines
to discriminate against black folks, and the Republicans respond, we
didn't do that, We're just discriminating his Democrats, right, we
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want Republicans to win. Well, this is the argument they
have over the state Supreme Court. So they've heard arguments
on that once again. Of those folks that were struck
by lightning over in Lake Murray day before last, it
turns out five people were actually admitted to hospitals, not
just a quick visit, but actually admitted. But again, are
those injuries life threatening? Some good news about education in
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our state more third readers of pastor reading test good.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
The numbers still aren't fantastic, but they're making progress. So
there's the good news bad news act.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
That's a change that came in the way we were
teaching reading, which you know, we were teaching kids to
memorize words instead of showing them how to actually read them.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, we were giving them a fish instead of teaching
them how to fish. Well, bad news for taxpayers richly
one passing the budget and that does include a tax increase,
and some folks a little confused over now are five.
You know, Lexington County went through the reassessment here recently
and some folks, well me included, got some shocking reassessments
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on their property value. But over now R five well,
that happened there, you know, because brought us in Lexington
County of course, the district. Well, they reduced the militar rate,
but not enough. So people thinking, well, okay, my taxes
are going to go down or at least stay the same. No,
they're not, because they didn't reduce the militaryate enough, which
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by the way, state law says they should.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Anyway, aikin County.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Wow, the coroner's office there saying they accidentally sent a
body to be cremated that wasn't supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Shosh goodness all right.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
On the attack on the Iranian nuclear facilit we're told
Pete Hegzeth we'll hold a Pentagon briefing at eight o'clock
this morning. We'll be watching that. Hegz Eth going after
the media over the leaked assessment of the strikes. Now,
not the media's fault.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
They didn't. They didn't leak the news, they just reported it.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
No, the administration's talking about they can find who leaked this,
they will be prosecuted to the strongest penalties allowed by law. Well,
there's your problem right right there. Yes, I'm calling this treason,
and yeah it is. We're talking about you know, wartime
stuff here Now, as we mentioned yesterday, the Iranians saying that, yeah,
our re extorcise were badly damaged. So that we have Israel, Iran,
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and the US all saying the same thing. Does that
give you pause? It should? Okay, We've got more to
talk about on that front. The reaction continuing to pour
in from this victory in New York City for the
Democrats by a socialist Zoren.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Mom, Donnie, I'm not sure established establishment Democrats know what
to do.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
With this news, really, don't it? Said Chuck Schumer to
the hospital for a little while yesterday. I mean, come on,
I think he was dehydrated. Maybe he's drinking too much.
Now maybe he is well. Suddenly the socialist wing of
the party is all sorts of excited.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Oh, I'm sure they are.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
And now they're talking more about AOC for president and
how this Yeah, this is this isn't it?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Okay, Plus we'll talk about that oversight investigation into the
auto pen. Got a few things to pass along on
that front this morning as well, and more on this.
It is the Thursday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
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Speaker 4 (09:08):
Come now six forty two lost to the shuffle and
all the events. As of late, there is some questioning
going on up on Capitol Hill. The househover Side Committee
has subpoenaed a number of folks on the Biden administration
trying to get to the bottom of the whole auto
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pin thing here, and it's intensifying. Former top aid near
At Tandon, she was the former White House Staff Secretary,
telling uh lawmakers on the committee in a closed door session,
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did yes, she in fact had authorized auto pen signatures. Okay,
they're they're totally you know, they're legally been used by
the presidents. Okay, she authorized these signatures, but she was
not clear on who ultimately approved the use of them.
Tandems saying that she had limited interactions with the President
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Biden and she was going by an approval process that
she testified left her uncertain about who was giving the
final green light on whether or not the auto pen
could be used for this signature or that signature, and
so on and so forth. She told lawmakers that what
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she would do is she'd send the decision memos to
members of the president's inner circle, but had no visibility
at all into what happened between sending them out and
getting them back with final approval. She did not know
who was seeing these authorizations, who was approving them, just
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that they would come back with a final approval.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Well, could that could be any chief executive in any office.
I mean, if you're lower down, you don't necessarily get
an insight into the decision making process. You send up
a memo, it comes back with a stamp of either
yes or no.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
True.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
But but this isn't any old office setting here exactly,
and we know that this particular chief executive was not
on top of his game, right And Tannet, who remember
Tannet was the White House staff secretary again, who says
she had limited interaction with her boss, deny any allegations
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of a cover up regarding his mental condition. When asked
if there was an effort to disguise the conditions, she responded,
absolutely not.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Now who believes that? And I wonder I didn't see
the testimony.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I wonder how much interaction she had at the beginning
of his term and if that changed right by his
final two years got her under right.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Now more interesting is the fact that also invited to
to talk to the the the the committee was Anthony Bernall. Now,
Anthony Bernall was assistant to the President and senior advisor
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to the first Lady Jill Biden. He uh didn't show up.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
He was.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Well, he's supposed to appear to actually today, but James
commannounced yesterday that he's refusing to uh to come by
and say hi, hmmm.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
The White House has waived of executive privilege on this,
so James Comer says, this abund abundantly clear that Anthony Bernall,
Joe biden so called work husband, never intended to be
transparent about that. Joe Biden's cognate declined the ensuing cover
up that, with no privilege left to hide behind, mister
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Bernall is now running, scared, desperate to bury the truth.
Now I find this interesting in that again Bernal his position,
at least part of what he did was he was
the again the work husband for Joe Biden as her
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senior advisor or whatever the role was.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Jill.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I wonder if Anthony could have testified now now, though
not be compelled to test. Let's go to the subpoena
route now, I wonder if Jill was in on that
loop here with the autopen thing. Huh right, don't we
all want to know that? You know, when the White
House Secretary we just referenced sent these authorisations up to
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whomever for approval, was Jill Biden in that chain, I
gotta tell you, I believe she was.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Or other members of the family. I mean, the family
certainly was the one who kept him in the race
for twenty twenty four and there was certainly a reason
for that. They were benefiting from it, right, whether it
was Jill or someone else.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Well, of course a hunter was definitely benefit of keeping
him out of jail, right, which we got to get
out of jail free card anyway before was all over.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Again, these are questions that the American people, whether they're
whether they are Republican, Democrat or whatever, we do, deserve
answers to this. This cannot happen again. And to think
that were those that thought this should and could go
on for another four years, stunning.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
We got a lot to go over today.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
A lot of Supreme Court State Supreme Court decisions being
handed down yesterday, some permanent, some at least temporary. We'll
be talking about that now. It impacts well you and me.
We've also got a presser coming up at eight o'clock
Pete hegseeth. We'll be keeping an eye on that later
on this morning, and talking about the back and forth
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yesterday over the.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Bomb damage of assessment. We're do things.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I mean, do we really have a crystal clear picture
of the success of that mission this past weekend or not.
So we'll be chatting about that as well and more.
Thanks for joining us. It is the Thursday edition of
Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
They openly talk about defunding the police, not cooperating with
ice agents, free everything, free grocery stores, free bussing and
mass transit, free food, clothing, healthcare, housing for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
It is seven sixteen, Good morning, and good to have
you along. It's the Thursday morning edition of Columbia's Morning
News for June twenty six. They voiced there Mike Lawler,
who is a congressman from the state of New York.
And of course he's referring today being the socialist wing
of the Democrat Party and in particular to the guy
who Morton like is going to be the next mayor
of New York City. Zran, mom, Donnie, after the debacle
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that is choice ranked voting led to his victory of
the Democrat primary on Tuesday. I thought it was only
choice ranked voting in the next round. I thought he
got enough votes to where they didn't have to go
to that is that, I think?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Oh okay, yeah, regardless, So a new day dawning. Now, Okay,
Eric Adams is the current mayor, and he says he's
going to run as an independent.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I guess now the latest now is Andrew Cuomo is
not going to run.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Is whatever that weird party he was going to say
he was going to run on their ticket.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Yeah, it didn't sound like it the other night. I
think he was fairly discouraged.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
So yeah, well, so there's a chance that could be
Eric Adams, probably not. There's probably zero chance that will
be a Republican, so that the odds are that this
Democrat socialist who stands for all those things you just
heard mentioned, free everything, basically will be the next mayor
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of New York City. And wow, the wing of the
Democrat Party, they are taking a victory lap like you
hadn't seen it a long time. Man, they are all
kinds of excited.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Well, they haven't had much of a chance to take
a victory lap lately.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
So on his part, Mom Donnie, Yesterday, in an interview
with Jimsaki was asked, do you think this, this platform
you ran on would work for other candidates in other
parts of the country. Absolutely, he says, yeah. I think
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ultimately this is a campaign about inequality.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
That's what put Chuck Schumer into the hospital. That's that's
why Chuck Schumer showed up at the hospital.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Absolutely. So somebody please show me how this works. Show
me how free childcare for all, How free transportation in
the form of buses, How free this, free that, free
and free that. And you're gonna afford all this free stuff?
(19:04):
How by raising taxes on those horrible rich people Wall Street,
by the ways, you know, the traders, the investors and
the companies are freaking out of this, needless to say.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
And so now you.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Have the specter once again being banded about, and the
talk ratcheting up about the potential for Alexandria Ocassio Cortez
to run for president in twenty twenty eighth, Corbin Trend,
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who is AOC's former spokesperson, saying, the win for Mandami
just continues to open more doors. It just broadens her horizons,
referring to Alexandria Cassio Cortez, Well.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
I wouldn't disagree there. I mean, like we said the
other day, I mean, she literally was the face of
his campaign. I mean, as much as you saw him,
you saw her, So you got to give her a
lot of credit.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But we are talking New York City now, Okay, right,
Number one, I don't believe the Democrat nominee his assertation
that that same platform could work all across the country. Well,
in some big cities, some big blue cities to a degree, yeah,
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but all across the country. I mean, come on, let's
be real here.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
I know what you're saying, But what have we been
saying the last couple of weeks that the Democrat Party
is floundering, that they are desperate for a leader that
they would take anything to get a victory over Trump
at this point. And my guess is, you know, as
much as you saw the Democrats squirming yesterday, and I
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saw an interview with Hakeem Jeffries, he was he was
asked to explain how that that philosophy could play in
other parts of the country, and he was flowergasted. All
he said was, well, you know, we all feel the
same way about, you know, certain issues, and he couldn't.
There's no way to transfer that to other cities. But
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it's obvious that they're just desperate for any kind of
win they can get, Yeah, and any kind of leadership
they see.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
James Carbo called it a potentially damaging event for the
Democrat Party. On me, anything potential about it. I think
it's as damaging as damaging can be. Well, that's what
you're gonna have. I mean, you're going I mean, the
Republicans have seen the same thing. You're going to have
the establishment fighting desperately back. But it feels like the
left wing has the momentum right now.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Mondami in this same interview yesterday with a Jensaki, Donnie
says he will push for an eight hundred percent hate
crime funding increase. This a ployed to try to attract
New York City's Jewish population to vote for him. Now, okay,
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how rich is this? This is a guy, as James
Carville pointed out, has yet to walk back his own
calls now for a global infantantam we're into fauna. He's
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refused to disavow that phrase globalize the into fauna, which
of course is a call for violence. This is a
guy who, in an interview back in December, said that
if he were the mayor of New York City and
if Benjamin Netanyah who visited the city, that he would
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have him rested. Okay, this is a guy whose wife.
Let's talk about her for a second. Rama. Duaji Syrian
Born is apparently an artist. I don't know if she's
on the along lines of her Biden type artists or
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you know better than that, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
She's an illustrator originally from Damascus.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Her art work is primarily done in black and white,
with the focus often being on political messages, and in
one of her most recent illustrations, it highlighted Israel's deliberate
starvation of Palestinians and Gaza, she wrote, as I was
making this, Israel has been bombing Gaza NonStop. Other works
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in her portfolio have focused on the iced attention of
Mahamud Khalil. These are the these are are are activists,
may be of the worst kind.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
This is this is his wife.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
This is the new face of the Democrat Party, which actually,
I mean, if you saw him, think about it.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
You know, if this is good news for conservatives, Oh, absolutely,
it is great news for conservatives.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
It exposes you know, what's been the growing segment of
that of that party for a long time. Yeah, I
mean that there's a reason, you know, eighty something year
old Bernie Sanders became something of a media sensation among Democrats.
It's it's not that that they like his look or
his style. It's that they like his way of thinking,
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I'll give you free stuff, I'll figure out how to
make everything free for you, and that's what they want.
That's that's what is appealing to that party right now.
It ain't Bernie, Okay, So the fallout there continues.
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Speaker 4 (25:26):
Right seven forty at about twenty minutes, give or take.
Those things are never on time. But although Pete Heggseth
runs a pretty tight ship when it seems like when
it comes to these pressers, so at about twenty minutes or.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
So, he knows TV, he knows the windows and your
head exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah, I mean the military guy. Military people like to
be on time. Okay, Well, he's going to hold a
pressor at the Pentagon what the President has called described
as a major news conference. Exactly what we'll find out
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don't know. But there's still great concern about how successful
that attack over the weekend was. Now I know what
the President said, I know what Hexath has said, I
know what that leaked assessment said, which now we're hearing. Well,
that was a very preliminary report with low confidence, the
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one that said it would set the program back months.
But that was about it. So that's a whole another
storyline with all of this. Who leaked it? If they
find out to what extent would to be prosecuted, will
be on a charge of well treason, this is a
wartime act here, right, Well, so that's all that's, you know,
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the side story to the rest of this. Yesterday the
word was the United States, the Israelis, the Iranians all
agreed that the site of the nuclear capabilities had been obliterated.
That the Iranians agreed to that, and you know, we
talked about that yesterday morning.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
I was like, Okay, you know, there's a.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Big red flag right there when we start believing what
they're saying.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Right, So, if you might have heard Fox earlier mentioned
well now it sounds like Tehron's saying something totally different, right,
that's part for the course, Yeah, that this the attack
was a failure, that the Iranians have successfully won this thing.
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They're claiming complete victory, YadA, YadA, YadA. So no, you
you can't. I was, honest to goodness, I was stunned
how many news articles we're being run and how many
talking heads we're talking about.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Yeah, the Iranians agree, it's completely obliterated. Come on, so
which is it now?
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Heg Seth has been and I think we'll get more
of this today going after this this league report, and
quite honestly, the President on social media.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Last night used to use this this this tack.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
To fight back against that report, saying that these patriots
referring to the pilots of the B two bombers, were
very upset that after thirty six hours of flying dangerously
through animate territory, they landed. They knew the success was legendary,
and then two days later start reading fake news by
seeing it in the failing New York Times. Nobody's no, no, no, no,
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No one's questioning the uh, the military who carried out
this strike.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
No, but they've turned it into that. That's that's been
the spin. Yeah, that's that's been the spin. You know,
they're defending the pilots.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
And quite honestly, there's no way these B two bomber
pilots could know what the results of this were. Now,
Hegxeth yesterday, I believe I'm paraphrasing everybody basically said yeah,
if you want to know what the damage was here,
then you do need the big old shovel and dig
deep down into that site, saying that there was no
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way this leaked report could be accurate. Well, you know
that cuts both ways. It also means that unless you
get a big old shovel and dig deep down to
that site, that we don't know what the damage was.
I want to believe, very very much. I want to
believe that this was a total success. I want to
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believe that that site and the other nuclear capabilities the
Iranians have was obliterated. Now you got Tulca Gabbert who
just back in March said they didn't have they weren't
eywhere close to nuclear capability. Now the D and I
saying new intel shows these sites were destroyed. But yeah,
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then you had the President yesterday in the Hague at
the NATO summit talking about the intelligence, calling it very inconclusive,
saying the intelligence says, we don't know. It could have
been very severe. That's what the intelligence suggests. But then
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the next breath saying there was obliteration.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Okay, collar off the air just pointed out, look, if
you're questioning the success, how do we to cease fire
just a couple of days later.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Well that's a good point too, right, And we discussed
this yesterday morning. Even if it was not a resounding success,
even if those sites aren't a literated the message has
been sent quite firmly by the United States to the
the Iahtola.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Who was in hiding?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Who's yeah, who nobody has seen nowadays. Maybe he was
in that site. Well, yeah, the Iranians have gotten the message.
And whether or not these nuke sites were obliterated, yeah,
they're standing down here in a hurry. Oh they're not done.
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Quinnipiac just released a poll yesterday on this. Forty two
percent of US support these strikes, fifty one percent oppose them.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah, that split along party lines.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Eighty one percent of Republicans support, seventy five percent of
Democrats opposed. Could we for once, for the love of God,
you know, we're talking about the potential of the Mullahs
in Iran having a nuclear way up. And don't even
talk to me about them being adherence to the mutually
assured destruction idea, because these are religious zealots who will.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Stop at nothing.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
And for them, you know, if if they start something
like that and they get new, well, well, you know,
good for them. They're on their way to you know,
all the all the virgins and whatever, you know, their
next afterlife.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
These people do salots.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
And again it depends these these surveys these pulls. Again,
it depends on the terminology, right, And while the numbers
are negative and Trump's underwater when it comes to the strikes,
then you turn around and ask a question about the ceasefire,
and suddenly the numbers are through the roof positive.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Right, you don't get to a cease fire. There's not
a strike last Saturday, exactly. Okay, you don't get there.
And so here we go. The percent of voters in
this Quinnipiac poll calling the US too supportive of Israel
is at an all time high. This posts been asking
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this question. That's twenty seventeen. So yeah, the uh so,
there's there's a there's there's a lot, a lot of
different angles to this story. And if if you disagree
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with me on my assessment here, I'm what I'm saying
is it's too early to know that. You cannot convince
me that it a matter for just a couple of
days that we can know the extent of the damage
to that site. If it was all above ground, it'd
be a lot, you know, he'd be pretty obvious. But
because it's not, I'm not buying. I want it to
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be true, but I'm not buying it yet. Okay, it
can take weeks even in normal circum dances for total
assessment as a result of something like this, and because
we're talking about an underground facility, there's no week of
that in a matter of days, much less weeks.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
It's my take. Agree or disagree, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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Speaker 5 (34:29):
It's a sixteen.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
It's Thursday, June twenty sixth It's good to have you
here in the final hour of the program this morning.
Just spent a number of minutes during the break there
listening to Pete haggs Eth and thank you for getting
that press conference off on time as we thought he
probably would. I didn't see all of it, but this
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is a guy who's not happy with the media. Most
most of what he had to say was to call
out the media for you know, fake news and and.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
For not so is he's saying the leak is fake,
that that the media created this story.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Well, what he's what he's saying is what he said
was that again, as we talked about earlier, that was
an initial report, that even in the report itself it
said they had very low confidence that it was just
an initial report. There would be weeks before they really
knew that it was not done in conjunction with the
(35:28):
intelligence agencies, That there were a lot of lynch pins
in the report, that we assume this happened or that happened,
and if it didn't, well the whole report falls apart.
I mean, his his his beef of the media was
that this is you took a you know, a just
what some source picked and choosed and leaked to you,
(35:52):
and you ran with it without trying to get rid
to the bottom of the story of what that report
really said.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yeah, Now the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Kine
is speaking and say he apologized at the outset for
saying I'm sorry for as long as this is going
to take a long time. But he's I'm not sure
what he's laying out right now, but some of the
operations and.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
How they take but which is all well and good.
I mean, the question is is what's the damage.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
And how much of that report was true? If the
media got it wrong, how do you know, well, and
I don't think we do, no.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
But based on again, anybody in their right mind, you
can't go with any sort of report a day and
a half after an airstrike as having all the information
necessary to make an informed decision on whether or not
it was successful or to what degree it was. And again,
in this instance, we're not talking about, Hey, you can
(36:56):
just look at some satellite images, because we're talking about
hundreds of feet underground where these centrifugas are or were. Yeah,
you know where this enriched uranium was or used to whatever.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
I mean, I've seen some of those satellite photos since
the bombing, and they.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Don't show me anything. Yeah, it looks the same as
it did before. Sometimes I ask which ones the before
and which one's the aff? Right? I mean, yeah, four
is always on the left and the AFF is always
on the right. Should be.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
But you know, I'm looking at that and I'm thinking, well,
wait a minute, the one on the left looks worse.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Right, So you know again, really, I mean the bottom
line and all this is with any degree of certainty,
I don't think we really know yet what the extent
of the damage was. Okay, we know what the UN
has said, I mean, everybody is saying even the Iranians
set it but backtracked on it, that the damage was
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substantial and it's really setting back the program. But we
don't know to what degree. Anyway, so that press is
going off for a while. We'll kind of keep an
eye on it when we can.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
I think you'd be hard pressed to find anybody in
the media, including Fox News, who if they had gotten
a hold of that assessment, wouldn't immediately gotten on the air,
because I mean, it's it's the first view of how
we did. So you know, if you want to be angry,
ultimately you should be angry whoever leaked it.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Well, what I want to know is, Okay, how many
sources you're basing us on? Is it one person? I'm
not a journalist, Okay, I didn't go to Jay school. Well,
but I think we all know that you you don't
run with a story based on what one person told you.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
I thought this was an intelligence report. I mean, intelligence
reports are generally not written by one person. It's a compilation.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
No, But the point that Seth was making is that
whoever leaked this just leaked out the nuggets that they
wanted to put out to the media to give a
certain picture that was not flattering to the Trump administration
or to the United States.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
And again there that's not the media's problem, that's your
administration's problem.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
But I'm saying if you take that information that leak,
that these little pieces of these little nuggets of information
from a report, and you just take it from one person,
I mean, heck, I've been around enough news people in
my life to know that you're not till if you're
not running with a sports story on what this one
person just said this happened.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
No, you're going to verify that with some other source. True, Okay,
do we know they didn't? Well, that's what I that's
what I want to know.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Yeah, you know, do they verify with somebody else or
is it just one leaker or.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Was there more than one name on that particular report.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
But it wasn't even the report itself, it was just
what they what they leaked from the report.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
They didn't.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
They didn't leak the part that well, this is with
the low confidence. You know, the report itself says that
this is with low confidence, very initial. It's a day
and a half later. There's no way to know until
at least weeks, but they didn't leak that part and
the media didn't ask that question, I guess is the
point he was trying to make, So any who.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
That briefing goes on.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
I didn't really need to spend this seconment talking about
all that, but there we go. Do you want to
mention the State Supreme Court, which had a busy day yesterday,
and we may get into more of what they had
to do, but it at least wanted to focus on this,
at least briefly here in this segment is that they
issued an injunction that puts a halt to this pay
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raise for legislators. Remember this was a single year. This
wasn't a permanent pay raise. It was just a one
year pay raise. But the court at least while the
lawsuit plays out, the lawsuit that was filed by West Climber,
the Irock Hill Senator, that it is unconstitutional the way
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they did it. He's not arguing that they maybe didn't
deserve a raise, they haven't had one in a long
long time, but it's how they went about doing it. Remember,
because the constitution is very specific here in our state, Yes,
legislators can bote themselves a pay raise. However, it can't
go into effect until after the next election cycle, which
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isn't until next November, so it shouldn't be going into
effect until well the twenty twenty seven session.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
So is this a pay raise? Is this an upping
of their salary? Or is this simply giving them more
money to operate their offices and pay expenses. So this
is the argument, right, That's not my argument, but that's
the argument you're going to see in court. This is
all going to come down to wording. What does the
Constitution say versus what did this particular bill say.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
Yeah, but they voted this and for themselves to start, well,
the immediate is supposed to go on to effect next
week as a.
Speaker 6 (42:06):
Matter of fact, and now none of them are getting
paid until this gets worked out, right, So now it's
all on hold, which is interesting because so many of
them ran away from this. Anyway, once it hit the media,
once everybody knew, okay and the public is not happy
with you voting yourselves a pay raise, then they all
started to go, oh, I don't want that.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
I'm not accepting that.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
And in the meantime, by the way, just so you know,
both the House and the Senate have retained private council.
The House is paying attorneys a rate of four hundred
and fifty dollars an hour for partners over at Maynard
Nexon and three hundred and twenty five bucks an hour
for associates. Don't have the figure out what the senators
(42:49):
are paying, but they've retained council as well. So how
many hours can these attorneys rack up.
Speaker 5 (42:57):
On this case? Then will be paid for by guess who? Yeah,
you would be.
Speaker 6 (43:03):
Saying people who pay that pay raise when if it
does become official.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
Yeah, yeah, whichever way it goes, we get stuck with
the bill.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
I won't give up the ship talking about what matters.
Speaker 6 (43:12):
This country is too great to throw over to communism.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
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Speaker 5 (43:33):
Alrighty, our final thoughts at eight forty on a Thursday morning.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
Right, we just really scratched the surface in the last
segment about some of the State Supreme Court action yesterday,
talking about them putting a putting a pause, hitting the
pause button on these congrat legislative pay races. At least
of those lawsuit plays out, So that was one of
the big items, big stories coming out of the court.
(43:58):
They have also now ruled that for the first time,
summaries of complaints against sitting judges in our state and
the action is taken against them will be made public.
This order coming down from the High Court in our
state yesterday. So we'll get the summaries of the complaints,
the actions that we're taken, but we still won't know
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who the judges are.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
I understand how that's supposed to help. It's supposed to
make us feel more confident in the judiciary. But without
the names, I'm not sure that carries as much impact
as they think.
Speaker 5 (44:38):
I agree with that.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Why not release the names? I guess they're they feel
like they got good reasons not to do that. But
at least, you know, up until now, we don't know
anything about this.
Speaker 5 (44:57):
We had no clue. This will be a new This
will be a new topic here on the program moving forward.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
It will right, wow, this this complaint was made against
a judge. We don't know who, but still can you
believe that?
Speaker 6 (45:11):
And it may create and they may not have seen
this coming, but it may create some speculation about then
who that judge is. Well, it may not be that
hard to figure out based on how much we're told
about why these judges are being disciplined.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
And for other judges who are not subject to complaints.
Quite honestly, if you're a judge, you're probably getting a complaint.
You know, you're somebody's not happy with what you're doing.
But for judges who aren't getting complaint out and now
they're going to be looked at them, could could have
been you are you? Are you that judge? Anyway, So
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that were really coming down yesterday. Also, the court is
hearing arguments again on the redistricting. Okay, this one was
this was the last redraw. Every state goes through this
the party in power once. So SINCEUS numbers come out,
they redraw, and you know, both parties do it the
(46:08):
same way. They both want to, you know, redraw things
to their liking for their benefit. But in this particular case,
the NAACP argued that in the redrawing lines between District
one and six, that this was intentionally done by the
Republican Party in order to uh disenfranchise.
Speaker 5 (46:29):
Of black folks.
Speaker 4 (46:32):
Well, the counter argument from the GOP in our state was, no,
this was intended to disenfranchise Democrat voters. They just put
it right. But you know what, that's the truth. I
give them credit for not trying to, you know, spend
it because any time I redistrict being happens in a state,
(46:53):
the party in power is doing just that. They're trying to,
you know, disenfranchise voters of the other party, whether it
be Republicans, Democrats or whatever. Okay, so yeah, Jerry Mannering,
It's real. It happens all the time. Aikin County, Oh Boy.
(47:14):
The Corner's office there says it recently made a mistake.
TV stations and Augusta reporting that a body was released
on Monday by a staff member of the Acin County
Corner's Office into the custody of a funeral home for
the purpose of cremation.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
The corner there.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
Now says the body was misidentified by the staff member
and should not have been cremated. How does that.
Speaker 6 (47:50):
Happen and how do you turn around and explain it
to the family exactly? But it's a wonder it doesn't
happen more often.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Yeah, I guess so, m Yeah, imagine that. Huh.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
We mentioned yesterday the vice mayor of a small city
in Los Angeles County, who this is Cynthia Gonzalez, who
in what she had to say the other day basically,
I mean, I'm high you and read it any other
way than she was encouraging violent criminal gangs in the
(48:30):
area to protect their turf against ICE agents.
Speaker 5 (48:35):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (48:38):
Among other things, she said, you guys tag everything up,
claiming hood. Now your hood's been invaded by the biggest
gang there is. They ain't a peep out of you.
And I was stand up and protect your turf from
these federal agents.
Speaker 6 (48:51):
Now that we've allowed you to graffiti the entire town. Yeah,
now step forward and claim it.
Speaker 5 (48:57):
Yeah exactly. Well.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
Uh, now the police union in LA is uh demanding
her resignation, and she should she should be fired.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (49:14):
I mean, it's it is. It is unbelievable how far
the left will go. I mean, you're calling on violent
street gangs. Now you should be trying to put in
jail and deport if they're here illegally. You're calling on
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them to rise up against Ice.
Speaker 6 (49:36):
Well, she's already admitted she's the town's lost control anyway,
So I guess she figures, well, might not use it
to their advantage.
Speaker 5 (49:43):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (49:47):
Gavin Newsom's office being uh ripped for a video they
put out. Of course, you know, California is in a
fight with the Trump administration over well everything, but in
this particular case, after Lenda McMahon, the US Education Secretary,
announced that California had violated Title nine by allowing trans
to compete in girls sports, Newsom's office puts out a clip,
(50:13):
a video clip from many, many years ago of McMahon.
Remember she's the wife of Vince's McMahon of WWE. So
in one of their skits, you had what's his name?
He we wound up being a politician, mayor in Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (50:31):
At one time.
Speaker 4 (50:33):
I think he still is, uh I think a kine
yes right, yeah, he said he's a mayor of a
small town in Tennessee, Glenn Jacobs. But there's a clip
of him body slamming her.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (50:44):
Newsom's office.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
Sends out that clip, okay, again, responding to her responding
to the state for allowing men to play in women's sports.
And somehow they thought it was a smart idea to
send out a clip of a very large band body
slamming a woman.
Speaker 6 (51:03):
Let the big ban not to mention that was a
character she was playing versus yeah, real life competition.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
Real let's stay at LA, shall we? The union that
recently pushed to get the nation's highest minimum wage for
LA hotel and airport employees, which by the way, twenty
two to fifty an hour, now says it needs to
be thirty thirty bucks an hour. Needless to say, hotel
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employees groups and others say this threatens to trigger an
economic tsunami. Wait to get a little of what happens
in New York City if this socialist winds up being mayor,
do you think he was stop at thirty bucks an hour? Doubtful?
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And it didn't happen here, but it could have and
one day it probably. Paly Will, an asylum seeker in
the UK, successfully staving off deportation by arguing that if
he was sent back to his home country of Tajikistan,
am I saying.
Speaker 6 (52:15):
That right, I don't know where that is, let's somewhere
over there.
Speaker 4 (52:22):
That if he was forced to go back, he would
be forced to shave off his beard, And the UK said, okay, yeah,
you can stay.
Speaker 5 (52:36):
Rather than endure that hardship.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
Yes, the Tajikistan's government has enforced an unofficial no beard
policy for men as part of an ongoing campaign to
prevent citizens from becoming rat I radicalize, that is, and
enjoining Islamic extrememist organizations. So you can't have a beard.
It's like the Yankees used to be in New York.
You know, you couldn't wear a beard. And this guy said, yeah,
(52:58):
it's a hardship because I have to shave my face. Okay, okay,
you can stay
I'm Jesus right, hell yeah, same America and Jerry Hollin
for Regious one Nation God.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And this is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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Speaker 4 (00:30):
Good morning and welcome into a Thursday, the twenty sixth
day of the month of June seventeen, after six up
and at him hitting the ground running love this morning
news back on the radio. It's great to have you
with us. I'm Gary David, Christopher Thompson. Good morning to.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
You, sir, checking in with you. How are you. I'm good, good, good.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Losing power last night flickered, flickered, Yeah, yeah, blicker.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
The great thing about that storm last night is Mother
Nature telegraphed it. I mean we had our As you
watched that thing slowly, you.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Had plenty of time to get out of the water
in Lake Murray. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
I mean that thing was just crawling across the state
from the northeastern corner.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Unusual direction on this one.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Yeah it was. But yeah, we had plenty of warnings,
so that was the good part.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
We were out at the comedy show at the Old
mill last night. Should do once a month.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Were you on stage? No, no, have I missed something?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
No no, no, no, no no no, we were spectators.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
You're not doing stand.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Up part okay, although I will tell you it's one
or two.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I probably done a better job. But that's that's usually
very good.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Actually okay, but yeah, the lights kind of flick it
off there a couple of times while one of the
comedians was on stage, and he was he was pretty
adept to deal. You know, if you're a committe you've
got to be able to do that, right. But yeah,
so we did lose. We had a number of power
out it just about seven thousand plus in Lexington County.
I know that were others scattered about the Midlands and
(02:03):
I think most of them all back on now. So
not expecting anything quite as as severe today. And yeah,
the cool down is on right, what ninety five heated
decks of only one hundred and one today and tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Well we'll Carolina.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, yeah, all right, rundown, big stories, hot topics. Do
we have stuff to talk about today? Yes, we do.
The State Supreme Court. A couple of stories out of
our High Court yesterday. Number one, well at least at
least hit with a pause here the uh, the legislators
(02:41):
pay raise they voted for themselves. West Climber sued the
senator from the Upstates, saying it was unconstitutional, and the
Supreme Court yesterday laying out an injunction putting a hold
on that pay raise. Was supposed to go to effect
next week, but at least for now it's not going anywhere.
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Remember our constitution to say in black and white, yeah,
you couldn't vote yourself a pay raise, but it doesn't
become effective until after the next election cycle.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
And this is not what they did.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
It sounds like we're going to have a lot of
discussion using terminology.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
What did they mean by oh, we're gonna go back rays?
What does the word ann mean and all that?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Versus per diem versus a supplement. Yeah, yeah, it's we're gonna,
We're gonna it's it's going to be not necessarily an
argument about the.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
More about the terminology than the methodology.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Let me ask you this, Uh, is there a single
member of the State House who actually gets a payroll
check from the people of South Carolina for their service?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yes, I mean, I mean this is your check for
they get stipends, they get per diems, right, they get
all this stuff.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Right, They're paid a certain amount of money for their service.
It's a little bit okay, But then they are also
get money to be in Colombia while they're.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Here, which is where all this is coming from.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
The meal and hotel money. And then they get money
to operate their offices.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Right.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
So yeah, that's that's going to be the big argument.
What did the legislature mean and what does the constitution say?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
In other words, the taxpayer are gonna have to pooney
up some more money to help them defend themselves for
their raise, right, Okay, you got Oh, this will be
a popular decision. Yeah. The High Court also ruled for
the first time summaries of complaints against sitting judges can
be made public. Well, it should have always been that way,
(04:40):
now it will be. They also they had a busy
day yesterday. Man, the arguments they have heard in the
last day or two over the redistrict team. Remember this
is Republicans were accused by the NAACP of drawing lines
to discriminate against black folks, and the Republicans respond, we
didn't do that, We're just discriminating his Democrats, right, we
(05:04):
want Republicans to win. Well, this is the argument they
have over the state Supreme Court. So they've heard arguments
on that once again. Of those folks that were struck
by lightning over in Lake Murray day before last, it
turns out five people were actually admitted to hospitals, not
just a quick visit, but actually admitted. But again, are
those injuries life threatening? Some good news about education in
(05:26):
our state more third readers of pastor reading test good.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
The numbers still aren't fantastic, but they're making progress. So
there's the good news bad news act.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
That's a change that came in the way we were
teaching reading, which you know, we were teaching kids to
memorize words instead of showing them how to actually read them.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, we were giving them a fish instead of teaching
them how to fish. Well, bad news for taxpayers richly
one passing the budget and that does include a tax increase,
and some folks a little confused over now are five.
You know, Lexington County went through the reassessment here recently
and some folks, well me included, got some shocking reassessments
(06:12):
on their property value. But over now R five well,
that happened there, you know, because brought us in Lexington
County of course, the district. Well, they reduced the militar rate,
but not enough. So people thinking, well, okay, my taxes
are going to go down or at least stay the same. No,
they're not, because they didn't reduce the militaryate enough, which
(06:34):
by the way, state law says they should.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Anyway, aikin County.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Wow, the coroner's office there saying they accidentally sent a
body to be cremated that wasn't supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Shosh goodness all right.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
On the attack on the Iranian nuclear facilit we're told
Pete Hegzeth we'll hold a Pentagon briefing at eight o'clock
this morning. We'll be watching that. Hegz Eth going after
the media over the leaked assessment of the strikes. Now,
not the media's fault.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
They didn't. They didn't leak the news, they just reported it.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
No, the administration's talking about they can find who leaked this,
they will be prosecuted to the strongest penalties allowed by law. Well,
there's your problem right right there. Yes, I'm calling this treason,
and yeah it is. We're talking about you know, wartime
stuff here Now, as we mentioned yesterday, the Iranians saying that, yeah,
our re extorcise were badly damaged. So that we have Israel, Iran,
(07:41):
and the US all saying the same thing. Does that
give you pause? It should? Okay, We've got more to
talk about on that front. The reaction continuing to pour
in from this victory in New York City for the
Democrats by a socialist Zoren.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Mom, Donnie, I'm not sure established establishment Democrats know what
to do.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
With this news, really, don't it? Said Chuck Schumer to
the hospital for a little while yesterday. I mean, come on,
I think he was dehydrated. Maybe he's drinking too much.
Now maybe he is well. Suddenly the socialist wing of
the party is all sorts of excited.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Oh, I'm sure they are.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
And now they're talking more about AOC for president and
how this Yeah, this is this isn't it?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Okay, Plus we'll talk about that oversight investigation into the
auto pen. Got a few things to pass along on
that front this morning as well, and more on this.
It is the Thursday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
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Speaker 4 (09:08):
Come now six forty two lost to the shuffle and
all the events. As of late, there is some questioning
going on up on Capitol Hill. The househover Side Committee
has subpoenaed a number of folks on the Biden administration
trying to get to the bottom of the whole auto
(09:29):
pin thing here, and it's intensifying. Former top aid near
At Tandon, she was the former White House Staff Secretary,
telling uh lawmakers on the committee in a closed door session,
(09:50):
did yes, she in fact had authorized auto pen signatures. Okay,
they're they're totally you know, they're legally been used by
the presidents. Okay, she authorized these signatures, but she was
not clear on who ultimately approved the use of them.
Tandems saying that she had limited interactions with the President
(10:10):
Biden and she was going by an approval process that
she testified left her uncertain about who was giving the
final green light on whether or not the auto pen
could be used for this signature or that signature, and
so on and so forth. She told lawmakers that what
(10:37):
she would do is she'd send the decision memos to
members of the president's inner circle, but had no visibility
at all into what happened between sending them out and
getting them back with final approval. She did not know
who was seeing these authorizations, who was approving them, just
(10:57):
that they would come back with a final approval.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Well, could that could be any chief executive in any office.
I mean, if you're lower down, you don't necessarily get
an insight into the decision making process. You send up
a memo, it comes back with a stamp of either
yes or no.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
True.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
But but this isn't any old office setting here exactly,
and we know that this particular chief executive was not
on top of his game, right And Tannet, who remember
Tannet was the White House staff secretary again, who says
she had limited interaction with her boss, deny any allegations
(11:37):
of a cover up regarding his mental condition. When asked
if there was an effort to disguise the conditions, she responded,
absolutely not.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Now who believes that? And I wonder I didn't see
the testimony.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I wonder how much interaction she had at the beginning
of his term and if that changed right by his
final two years got her under right.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Now more interesting is the fact that also invited to
to talk to the the the the committee was Anthony Bernall. Now,
Anthony Bernall was assistant to the President and senior advisor
(12:23):
to the first Lady Jill Biden. He uh didn't show up.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
He was.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Well, he's supposed to appear to actually today, but James
commannounced yesterday that he's refusing to uh to come by
and say hi, hmmm.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
The White House has waived of executive privilege on this,
so James Comer says, this abund abundantly clear that Anthony Bernall,
Joe biden so called work husband, never intended to be
transparent about that. Joe Biden's cognate declined the ensuing cover
up that, with no privilege left to hide behind, mister
(13:16):
Bernall is now running, scared, desperate to bury the truth.
Now I find this interesting in that again Bernal his position,
at least part of what he did was he was
the again the work husband for Joe Biden as her
(13:45):
senior advisor or whatever the role was.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Jill.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I wonder if Anthony could have testified now now, though
not be compelled to test. Let's go to the subpoena
route now, I wonder if Jill was in on that
loop here with the autopen thing. Huh right, don't we
all want to know that? You know, when the White
House Secretary we just referenced sent these authorisations up to
(14:17):
whomever for approval, was Jill Biden in that chain, I
gotta tell you, I believe she was.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Or other members of the family. I mean, the family
certainly was the one who kept him in the race
for twenty twenty four and there was certainly a reason
for that. They were benefiting from it, right, whether it
was Jill or someone else.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Well, of course a hunter was definitely benefit of keeping
him out of jail, right, which we got to get
out of jail free card anyway before was all over.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Again, these are questions that the American people, whether they're
whether they are Republican, Democrat or whatever, we do, deserve
answers to this. This cannot happen again. And to think
that were those that thought this should and could go
on for another four years, stunning.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
We got a lot to go over today.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
A lot of Supreme Court State Supreme Court decisions being
handed down yesterday, some permanent, some at least temporary. We'll
be talking about that now. It impacts well you and me.
We've also got a presser coming up at eight o'clock
Pete hegseeth. We'll be keeping an eye on that later
on this morning, and talking about the back and forth
(15:41):
yesterday over the.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Bomb damage of assessment. We're do things.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I mean, do we really have a crystal clear picture
of the success of that mission this past weekend or not.
So we'll be chatting about that as well and more.
Thanks for joining us. It is the Thursday edition of
Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
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Speaker 2 (16:15):
They openly talk about defunding the police, not cooperating with
ice agents, free everything, free grocery stores, free bussing and
mass transit, free food, clothing, healthcare, housing for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
It is seven sixteen, Good morning, and good to have
you along. It's the Thursday morning edition of Columbia's Morning
News for June twenty six. They voiced there Mike Lawler,
who is a congressman from the state of New York.
And of course he's referring today being the socialist wing
of the Democrat Party and in particular to the guy
who Morton like is going to be the next mayor
of New York City. Zran, mom, Donnie, after the debacle
(16:56):
that is choice ranked voting led to his victory of
the Democrat primary on Tuesday. I thought it was only
choice ranked voting in the next round. I thought he
got enough votes to where they didn't have to go
to that is that, I think?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Oh okay, yeah, regardless, So a new day dawning. Now, Okay,
Eric Adams is the current mayor, and he says he's
going to run as an independent.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I guess now the latest now is Andrew Cuomo is
not going to run.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Is whatever that weird party he was going to say
he was going to run on their ticket.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Yeah, it didn't sound like it the other night. I
think he was fairly discouraged.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
So yeah, well, so there's a chance that could be
Eric Adams, probably not. There's probably zero chance that will
be a Republican, so that the odds are that this
Democrat socialist who stands for all those things you just
heard mentioned, free everything, basically will be the next mayor
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of New York City. And wow, the wing of the
Democrat Party, they are taking a victory lap like you
hadn't seen it a long time. Man, they are all
kinds of excited.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Well, they haven't had much of a chance to take
a victory lap lately.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
So on his part, Mom Donnie, Yesterday, in an interview
with Jimsaki was asked, do you think this, this platform
you ran on would work for other candidates in other
parts of the country. Absolutely, he says, yeah. I think
(18:33):
ultimately this is a campaign about inequality.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
That's what put Chuck Schumer into the hospital. That's that's
why Chuck Schumer showed up at the hospital.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Absolutely. So somebody please show me how this works. Show
me how free childcare for all, How free transportation in
the form of buses, How free this, free that, free
and free that. And you're gonna afford all this free stuff?
(19:04):
How by raising taxes on those horrible rich people Wall Street,
by the ways, you know, the traders, the investors and
the companies are freaking out of this, needless to say.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
And so now you.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Have the specter once again being banded about, and the
talk ratcheting up about the potential for Alexandria Ocassio Cortez
to run for president in twenty twenty eighth, Corbin Trend,
(19:49):
who is AOC's former spokesperson, saying, the win for Mandami
just continues to open more doors. It just broadens her horizons,
referring to Alexandria Cassio Cortez, Well.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
I wouldn't disagree there. I mean, like we said the
other day, I mean, she literally was the face of
his campaign. I mean, as much as you saw him,
you saw her, So you got to give her a
lot of credit.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But we are talking New York City now, Okay, right,
Number one, I don't believe the Democrat nominee his assertation
that that same platform could work all across the country. Well,
in some big cities, some big blue cities to a degree, yeah,
(20:37):
but all across the country. I mean, come on, let's
be real here.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
I know what you're saying, But what have we been
saying the last couple of weeks that the Democrat Party
is floundering, that they are desperate for a leader that
they would take anything to get a victory over Trump
at this point. And my guess is, you know, as
much as you saw the Democrats squirming yesterday, and I
(20:59):
saw an interview with Hakeem Jeffries, he was he was
asked to explain how that that philosophy could play in
other parts of the country, and he was flowergasted. All
he said was, well, you know, we all feel the
same way about, you know, certain issues, and he couldn't.
There's no way to transfer that to other cities. But
(21:22):
it's obvious that they're just desperate for any kind of
win they can get, Yeah, and any kind of leadership
they see.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
James Carbo called it a potentially damaging event for the
Democrat Party. On me, anything potential about it. I think
it's as damaging as damaging can be. Well, that's what
you're gonna have. I mean, you're going I mean, the
Republicans have seen the same thing. You're going to have
the establishment fighting desperately back. But it feels like the
left wing has the momentum right now.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Mondami in this same interview yesterday with a Jensaki, Donnie
says he will push for an eight hundred percent hate
crime funding increase. This a ployed to try to attract
New York City's Jewish population to vote for him. Now, okay,
(22:17):
how rich is this? This is a guy, as James
Carville pointed out, has yet to walk back his own
calls now for a global infantantam we're into fauna. He's
(22:39):
refused to disavow that phrase globalize the into fauna, which
of course is a call for violence. This is a
guy who, in an interview back in December, said that
if he were the mayor of New York City and
if Benjamin Netanyah who visited the city, that he would
(22:59):
have him rested. Okay, this is a guy whose wife.
Let's talk about her for a second. Rama. Duaji Syrian
Born is apparently an artist. I don't know if she's
on the along lines of her Biden type artists or
(23:20):
you know better than that, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
She's an illustrator originally from Damascus.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Her art work is primarily done in black and white,
with the focus often being on political messages, and in
one of her most recent illustrations, it highlighted Israel's deliberate
starvation of Palestinians and Gaza, she wrote, as I was
making this, Israel has been bombing Gaza NonStop. Other works
(23:51):
in her portfolio have focused on the iced attention of
Mahamud Khalil. These are the these are are are activists,
may be of the worst kind.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
This is this is his wife.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
This is the new face of the Democrat Party, which actually,
I mean, if you saw him, think about it.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
You know, if this is good news for conservatives, Oh, absolutely,
it is great news for conservatives.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
It exposes you know, what's been the growing segment of
that of that party for a long time. Yeah, I
mean that there's a reason, you know, eighty something year
old Bernie Sanders became something of a media sensation among Democrats.
It's it's not that that they like his look or
his style. It's that they like his way of thinking,
(24:45):
I'll give you free stuff, I'll figure out how to
make everything free for you, and that's what they want.
That's that's what is appealing to that party right now.
It ain't Bernie, Okay, So the fallout there continues.
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Speaker 4 (25:26):
Right seven forty at about twenty minutes, give or take.
Those things are never on time. But although Pete Heggseth
runs a pretty tight ship when it seems like when
it comes to these pressers, so at about twenty minutes or.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
So, he knows TV, he knows the windows and your
head exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah, I mean the military guy. Military people like to
be on time. Okay, Well, he's going to hold a
pressor at the Pentagon what the President has called described
as a major news conference. Exactly what we'll find out
(26:06):
don't know. But there's still great concern about how successful
that attack over the weekend was. Now I know what
the President said, I know what Hexath has said, I
know what that leaked assessment said, which now we're hearing. Well,
that was a very preliminary report with low confidence, the
(26:33):
one that said it would set the program back months.
But that was about it. So that's a whole another
storyline with all of this. Who leaked it? If they
find out to what extent would to be prosecuted, will
be on a charge of well treason, this is a
wartime act here, right, Well, so that's all that's, you know,
(26:56):
the side story to the rest of this. Yesterday the
word was the United States, the Israelis, the Iranians all
agreed that the site of the nuclear capabilities had been obliterated.
That the Iranians agreed to that, and you know, we
talked about that yesterday morning.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
I was like, Okay, you know, there's a.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Big red flag right there when we start believing what
they're saying.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Right, So, if you might have heard Fox earlier mentioned
well now it sounds like Tehron's saying something totally different, right,
that's part for the course, Yeah, that this the attack
was a failure, that the Iranians have successfully won this thing.
(27:43):
They're claiming complete victory, YadA, YadA, YadA. So no, you
you can't. I was, honest to goodness, I was stunned
how many news articles we're being run and how many
talking heads we're talking about.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Yeah, the Iranians agree, it's completely obliterated. Come on, so
which is it now?
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Heg Seth has been and I think we'll get more
of this today going after this this league report, and
quite honestly, the President on social media.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Last night used to use this this this tack.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
To fight back against that report, saying that these patriots
referring to the pilots of the B two bombers, were
very upset that after thirty six hours of flying dangerously
through animate territory, they landed. They knew the success was legendary,
and then two days later start reading fake news by
seeing it in the failing New York Times. Nobody's no, no, no, no,
(28:53):
No one's questioning the uh, the military who carried out
this strike.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
No, but they've turned it into that. That's that's been
the spin. Yeah, that's that's been the spin. You know,
they're defending the pilots.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
And quite honestly, there's no way these B two bomber
pilots could know what the results of this were. Now,
Hegxeth yesterday, I believe I'm paraphrasing everybody basically said yeah,
if you want to know what the damage was here,
then you do need the big old shovel and dig
deep down into that site, saying that there was no
(29:29):
way this leaked report could be accurate. Well, you know
that cuts both ways. It also means that unless you
get a big old shovel and dig deep down to
that site, that we don't know what the damage was.
I want to believe, very very much. I want to
believe that this was a total success. I want to
(29:49):
believe that that site and the other nuclear capabilities the
Iranians have was obliterated. Now you got Tulca Gabbert who
just back in March said they didn't have they weren't
eywhere close to nuclear capability. Now the D and I
saying new intel shows these sites were destroyed. But yeah,
(30:16):
then you had the President yesterday in the Hague at
the NATO summit talking about the intelligence, calling it very inconclusive,
saying the intelligence says, we don't know. It could have
been very severe. That's what the intelligence suggests. But then
(30:36):
the next breath saying there was obliteration.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Okay, collar off the air just pointed out, look, if
you're questioning the success, how do we to cease fire
just a couple of days later.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Well that's a good point too, right, And we discussed
this yesterday morning. Even if it was not a resounding success,
even if those sites aren't a literated the message has
been sent quite firmly by the United States to the
the Iahtola.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Who was in hiding?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Who's yeah, who nobody has seen nowadays. Maybe he was
in that site. Well, yeah, the Iranians have gotten the message.
And whether or not these nuke sites were obliterated, yeah,
they're standing down here in a hurry. Oh they're not done.
(31:32):
Quinnipiac just released a poll yesterday on this. Forty two
percent of US support these strikes, fifty one percent oppose them.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah, that split along party lines.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Eighty one percent of Republicans support, seventy five percent of
Democrats opposed. Could we for once, for the love of God,
you know, we're talking about the potential of the Mullahs
in Iran having a nuclear way up. And don't even
talk to me about them being adherence to the mutually
assured destruction idea, because these are religious zealots who will.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Stop at nothing.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
And for them, you know, if if they start something
like that and they get new, well, well, you know,
good for them. They're on their way to you know,
all the all the virgins and whatever, you know, their
next afterlife.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
These people do salots.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
And again it depends these these surveys these pulls. Again,
it depends on the terminology, right, And while the numbers
are negative and Trump's underwater when it comes to the strikes,
then you turn around and ask a question about the ceasefire,
and suddenly the numbers are through the roof positive.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Right, you don't get to a cease fire. There's not
a strike last Saturday, exactly. Okay, you don't get there.
And so here we go. The percent of voters in
this Quinnipiac poll calling the US too supportive of Israel
is at an all time high. This posts been asking
(33:09):
this question. That's twenty seventeen. So yeah, the uh so,
there's there's a there's there's a lot, a lot of
different angles to this story. And if if you disagree
(33:29):
with me on my assessment here, I'm what I'm saying
is it's too early to know that. You cannot convince
me that it a matter for just a couple of
days that we can know the extent of the damage
to that site. If it was all above ground, it'd
be a lot, you know, he'd be pretty obvious. But
because it's not, I'm not buying. I want it to
(33:55):
be true, but I'm not buying it yet. Okay, it
can take weeks even in normal circum dances for total
assessment as a result of something like this, and because
we're talking about an underground facility, there's no week of
that in a matter of days, much less weeks.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
It's my take. Agree or disagree, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
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Speaker 5 (34:29):
It's a sixteen.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
It's Thursday, June twenty sixth It's good to have you
here in the final hour of the program this morning.
Just spent a number of minutes during the break there
listening to Pete haggs Eth and thank you for getting
that press conference off on time as we thought he
probably would. I didn't see all of it, but this
(34:51):
is a guy who's not happy with the media. Most
most of what he had to say was to call
out the media for you know, fake news and and.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
For not so is he's saying the leak is fake,
that that the media created this story.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Well, what he's what he's saying is what he said
was that again, as we talked about earlier, that was
an initial report, that even in the report itself it
said they had very low confidence that it was just
an initial report. There would be weeks before they really
knew that it was not done in conjunction with the
(35:28):
intelligence agencies, That there were a lot of lynch pins
in the report, that we assume this happened or that happened,
and if it didn't, well the whole report falls apart.
I mean, his his his beef of the media was
that this is you took a you know, a just
what some source picked and choosed and leaked to you,
(35:52):
and you ran with it without trying to get rid
to the bottom of the story of what that report
really said.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yeah, Now the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Kine
is speaking and say he apologized at the outset for
saying I'm sorry for as long as this is going
to take a long time. But he's I'm not sure
what he's laying out right now, but some of the
operations and.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
How they take but which is all well and good.
I mean, the question is is what's the damage.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
And how much of that report was true? If the
media got it wrong, how do you know, well, and
I don't think we do, no.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
But based on again, anybody in their right mind, you
can't go with any sort of report a day and
a half after an airstrike as having all the information
necessary to make an informed decision on whether or not
it was successful or to what degree it was. And again,
in this instance, we're not talking about, Hey, you can
(36:56):
just look at some satellite images, because we're talking about
hundreds of feet underground where these centrifugas are or were. Yeah,
you know where this enriched uranium was or used to whatever.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
I mean, I've seen some of those satellite photos since
the bombing, and they.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Don't show me anything. Yeah, it looks the same as
it did before. Sometimes I ask which ones the before
and which one's the aff? Right? I mean, yeah, four
is always on the left and the AFF is always
on the right. Should be.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
But you know, I'm looking at that and I'm thinking, well,
wait a minute, the one on the left looks worse.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Right, So you know again, really, I mean the bottom
line and all this is with any degree of certainty,
I don't think we really know yet what the extent
of the damage was. Okay, we know what the UN
has said, I mean, everybody is saying even the Iranians
set it but backtracked on it, that the damage was
(37:50):
substantial and it's really setting back the program. But we
don't know to what degree. Anyway, so that press is
going off for a while. We'll kind of keep an
eye on it when we can.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
I think you'd be hard pressed to find anybody in
the media, including Fox News, who if they had gotten
a hold of that assessment, wouldn't immediately gotten on the air,
because I mean, it's it's the first view of how
we did. So you know, if you want to be angry,
ultimately you should be angry whoever leaked it.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Well, what I want to know is, Okay, how many
sources you're basing us on? Is it one person? I'm
not a journalist, Okay, I didn't go to Jay school. Well,
but I think we all know that you you don't
run with a story based on what one person told you.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
I thought this was an intelligence report. I mean, intelligence
reports are generally not written by one person. It's a compilation.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
No, But the point that Seth was making is that
whoever leaked this just leaked out the nuggets that they
wanted to put out to the media to give a
certain picture that was not flattering to the Trump administration
or to the United States.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
And again there that's not the media's problem, that's your
administration's problem.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
But I'm saying if you take that information that leak,
that these little pieces of these little nuggets of information
from a report, and you just take it from one person,
I mean, heck, I've been around enough news people in
my life to know that you're not till if you're
not running with a sports story on what this one
person just said this happened.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
No, you're going to verify that with some other source. True, Okay,
do we know they didn't? Well, that's what I that's
what I want to know.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Yeah, you know, do they verify with somebody else or
is it just one leaker or.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Was there more than one name on that particular report.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
But it wasn't even the report itself, it was just
what they what they leaked from the report.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
They didn't.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
They didn't leak the part that well, this is with
the low confidence. You know, the report itself says that
this is with low confidence, very initial. It's a day
and a half later. There's no way to know until
at least weeks, but they didn't leak that part and
the media didn't ask that question, I guess is the
point he was trying to make, So any who.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
That briefing goes on.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
I didn't really need to spend this seconment talking about
all that, but there we go. Do you want to
mention the State Supreme Court, which had a busy day yesterday,
and we may get into more of what they had
to do, but it at least wanted to focus on this,
at least briefly here in this segment is that they
issued an injunction that puts a halt to this pay
(40:39):
raise for legislators. Remember this was a single year. This
wasn't a permanent pay raise. It was just a one
year pay raise. But the court at least while the
lawsuit plays out, the lawsuit that was filed by West Climber,
the Irock Hill Senator, that it is unconstitutional the way
(41:02):
they did it. He's not arguing that they maybe didn't
deserve a raise, they haven't had one in a long
long time, but it's how they went about doing it. Remember,
because the constitution is very specific here in our state, Yes,
legislators can bote themselves a pay raise. However, it can't
go into effect until after the next election cycle, which
(41:26):
isn't until next November, so it shouldn't be going into
effect until well the twenty twenty seven session.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
So is this a pay raise? Is this an upping
of their salary? Or is this simply giving them more
money to operate their offices and pay expenses. So this
is the argument, right, That's not my argument, but that's
the argument you're going to see in court. This is
all going to come down to wording. What does the
Constitution say versus what did this particular bill say.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
Yeah, but they voted this and for themselves to start, well,
the immediate is supposed to go on to effect next
week as a.
Speaker 6 (42:06):
Matter of fact, and now none of them are getting
paid until this gets worked out, right, So now it's
all on hold, which is interesting because so many of
them ran away from this. Anyway, once it hit the media,
once everybody knew, okay and the public is not happy
with you voting yourselves a pay raise, then they all
started to go, oh, I don't want that.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
I'm not accepting that.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
And in the meantime, by the way, just so you know,
both the House and the Senate have retained private council.
The House is paying attorneys a rate of four hundred
and fifty dollars an hour for partners over at Maynard
Nexon and three hundred and twenty five bucks an hour
for associates. Don't have the figure out what the senators
(42:49):
are paying, but they've retained council as well. So how
many hours can these attorneys rack up.
Speaker 5 (42:57):
On this case? Then will be paid for by guess who? Yeah,
you would be.
Speaker 6 (43:03):
Saying people who pay that pay raise when if it
does become official.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
Yeah, yeah, whichever way it goes, we get stuck with
the bill.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
I won't give up the ship talking about what matters.
Speaker 6 (43:12):
This country is too great to throw over to communism.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
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Speaker 5 (43:33):
Alrighty, our final thoughts at eight forty on a Thursday morning.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
Right, we just really scratched the surface in the last
segment about some of the State Supreme Court action yesterday,
talking about them putting a putting a pause, hitting the
pause button on these congrat legislative pay races. At least
of those lawsuit plays out, So that was one of
the big items, big stories coming out of the court.
(43:58):
They have also now ruled that for the first time,
summaries of complaints against sitting judges in our state and
the action is taken against them will be made public.
This order coming down from the High Court in our
state yesterday. So we'll get the summaries of the complaints,
the actions that we're taken, but we still won't know
(44:21):
who the judges are.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
I understand how that's supposed to help. It's supposed to
make us feel more confident in the judiciary. But without
the names, I'm not sure that carries as much impact
as they think.
Speaker 5 (44:38):
I agree with that.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Why not release the names? I guess they're they feel
like they got good reasons not to do that. But
at least, you know, up until now, we don't know
anything about this.
Speaker 5 (44:57):
We had no clue. This will be a new This
will be a new topic here on the program moving forward.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
It will right, wow, this this complaint was made against
a judge. We don't know who, but still can you
believe that?
Speaker 6 (45:11):
And it may create and they may not have seen
this coming, but it may create some speculation about then
who that judge is. Well, it may not be that
hard to figure out based on how much we're told
about why these judges are being disciplined.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
And for other judges who are not subject to complaints.
Quite honestly, if you're a judge, you're probably getting a complaint.
You know, you're somebody's not happy with what you're doing.
But for judges who aren't getting complaint out and now
they're going to be looked at them, could could have
been you are you? Are you that judge? Anyway, So
(45:46):
that were really coming down yesterday. Also, the court is
hearing arguments again on the redistricting. Okay, this one was
this was the last redraw. Every state goes through this
the party in power once. So SINCEUS numbers come out,
they redraw, and you know, both parties do it the
(46:08):
same way. They both want to, you know, redraw things
to their liking for their benefit. But in this particular case,
the NAACP argued that in the redrawing lines between District
one and six, that this was intentionally done by the
Republican Party in order to uh disenfranchise.
Speaker 5 (46:29):
Of black folks.
Speaker 4 (46:32):
Well, the counter argument from the GOP in our state was, no,
this was intended to disenfranchise Democrat voters. They just put
it right. But you know what, that's the truth. I
give them credit for not trying to, you know, spend
it because any time I redistrict being happens in a state,
(46:53):
the party in power is doing just that. They're trying to,
you know, disenfranchise voters of the other party, whether it
be Republicans, Democrats or whatever. Okay, so yeah, Jerry Mannering,
It's real. It happens all the time. Aikin County, Oh Boy.
(47:14):
The Corner's office there says it recently made a mistake.
TV stations and Augusta reporting that a body was released
on Monday by a staff member of the Acin County
Corner's Office into the custody of a funeral home for
the purpose of cremation.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
The corner there.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
Now says the body was misidentified by the staff member
and should not have been cremated. How does that.
Speaker 6 (47:50):
Happen and how do you turn around and explain it
to the family exactly? But it's a wonder it doesn't
happen more often.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Yeah, I guess so, m Yeah, imagine that. Huh.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
We mentioned yesterday the vice mayor of a small city
in Los Angeles County, who this is Cynthia Gonzalez, who
in what she had to say the other day basically,
I mean, I'm high you and read it any other
way than she was encouraging violent criminal gangs in the
(48:30):
area to protect their turf against ICE agents.
Speaker 5 (48:35):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (48:38):
Among other things, she said, you guys tag everything up,
claiming hood. Now your hood's been invaded by the biggest
gang there is. They ain't a peep out of you.
And I was stand up and protect your turf from
these federal agents.
Speaker 6 (48:51):
Now that we've allowed you to graffiti the entire town. Yeah,
now step forward and claim it.
Speaker 5 (48:57):
Yeah exactly. Well.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
Uh, now the police union in LA is uh demanding
her resignation, and she should she should be fired.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (49:14):
I mean, it's it is. It is unbelievable how far
the left will go. I mean, you're calling on violent
street gangs. Now you should be trying to put in
jail and deport if they're here illegally. You're calling on
(49:35):
them to rise up against Ice.
Speaker 6 (49:36):
Well, she's already admitted she's the town's lost control anyway,
So I guess she figures, well, might not use it
to their advantage.
Speaker 5 (49:43):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (49:47):
Gavin Newsom's office being uh ripped for a video they
put out. Of course, you know, California is in a
fight with the Trump administration over well everything, but in
this particular case, after Lenda McMahon, the US Education Secretary,
announced that California had violated Title nine by allowing trans
to compete in girls sports, Newsom's office puts out a clip,
(50:13):
a video clip from many, many years ago of McMahon.
Remember she's the wife of Vince's McMahon of WWE. So
in one of their skits, you had what's his name?
He we wound up being a politician, mayor in Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (50:31):
At one time.
Speaker 4 (50:33):
I think he still is, uh I think a kine
yes right, yeah, he said he's a mayor of a
small town in Tennessee, Glenn Jacobs. But there's a clip
of him body slamming her.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (50:44):
Newsom's office.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
Sends out that clip, okay, again, responding to her responding
to the state for allowing men to play in women's sports.
And somehow they thought it was a smart idea to
send out a clip of a very large band body
slamming a woman.
Speaker 6 (51:03):
Let the big ban not to mention that was a
character she was playing versus yeah, real life competition.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
Real let's stay at LA, shall we? The union that
recently pushed to get the nation's highest minimum wage for
LA hotel and airport employees, which by the way, twenty
two to fifty an hour, now says it needs to
be thirty thirty bucks an hour. Needless to say, hotel
(51:36):
employees groups and others say this threatens to trigger an
economic tsunami. Wait to get a little of what happens
in New York City if this socialist winds up being mayor,
do you think he was stop at thirty bucks an hour? Doubtful?
(51:56):
And it didn't happen here, but it could have and
one day it probably. Paly Will, an asylum seeker in
the UK, successfully staving off deportation by arguing that if
he was sent back to his home country of Tajikistan,
am I saying.
Speaker 6 (52:15):
That right, I don't know where that is, let's somewhere
over there.
Speaker 4 (52:22):
That if he was forced to go back, he would
be forced to shave off his beard, And the UK said, okay, yeah,
you can stay.
Speaker 5 (52:36):
Rather than endure that hardship.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
Yes, the Tajikistan's government has enforced an unofficial no beard
policy for men as part of an ongoing campaign to
prevent citizens from becoming rat I radicalize, that is, and
enjoining Islamic extrememist organizations. So you can't have a beard.
It's like the Yankees used to be in New York.
You know, you couldn't wear a beard. And this guy said, yeah,
(52:58):
it's a hardship because I have to shave my face. Okay, okay,
you can stay
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