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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
And good morning to you. It is sixteen minutes after
six o'clock and welcome to the other side of the week.
Short work week here already passed our home day and
into the back half. Here it's Wednesday, July second. Good
to have you here, sixteen after six. I am Gary David,
he is Christopher Thompson. Morning sir, and we are happy
to have you on board with us this morning. We
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got Tumboid hanging out and Tyler and the whole gang.
So thank you for joining us this morning. As always,
on a day that's gonna I guess something's gonna bring
us a few showers and storms. Huh. Okay, it sounds
like it, and slightly cool TIMPs to cool lure, not
cool but stretched the imagination. But the upper eighties today.
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But if you're missing one hundred degree heated X values,
don't worry. Let'll be back tomorrow. Okay I wasn't, but
thanks thank you. No, nor was I. And if you're
wondering June was it hot? Yes, it was. Matter of fact,
our June temperatures on par with what our July temperatures
normally are, So we got an early start out of
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it this year. No great, Remember when May was very warm,
too warmer than usual, it was closer to being June temperatures.
Does this mean when we get to like August, it'll
be September temperatures.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I doubt that. Probably not, It'll still be August. Yeah,
it'll still be August. We did have a very comfortable spring.
I guess we shouldn't complain.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We should not. No, but we are forty chance, by
the way, that we get a tropical system developed somewhere
near the southeastern coast over the next the number of days, no, no, no,
no risks, no concerns for July fourth weekend, by the way,
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but you know, maybe in the next week we'll be
looking at something. The Pacific has been fairly active as
a Cat three off of the coast of Mako Hurricane FLOSSI,
So they're a little further along and all that than
we are. Okay, Rundown, Big Stories, Hot topics for the
second day of July. Welcome to a Wednesday, on a
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short work week. Sweet no great surprise here over the
State House. The Ethics Committee in the House is investigating R. J. May.
They haven named it. They haven't named him, no, but
let's go. I think everybody knows who it is. They're
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they're not publicly naming him as the one, but most
everybody figures it is R. J. May who is suspended
from the House, who whiz behind bars after his indictment
last May on ten counts of distributing child's sex abuse material.
And here's the kicker. How many lawyers you figure over
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the State House, mister Thompson. A few? A few? Well,
they're retaining outside legal counsel in order to investigate this
unnamed member's alleged conduct. Really, come on, let's say you're
retaining outside legal counsel to defend yourself in this lawsuit
about the unconstitutional pay raise you gave yourself. You get
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outside legal counsel for the Ethics Committee to Why do
you even need outside legal counsel to do this? They
don't want the blood on their own hands. They don't
want to look like, you know, they're acting against one
of their own, so they'll let somebody else do it.
Come on, I mean, if you have an ethics committe,
that's their job is to investigate these things. Right, don't
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let me get two deep into weeds on that. Now,
we'll do that later. Okay. Anyhow, like I said, official, now,
Lindsey Graham gets a challenge from andre Bauer. Yeah, well
we've we've kind of known this. He's been saying. The
website's been set up, so this is no great surprise.
But last night, the former lieutenant governor, it's one on
the Associated Press that he thinks that Lindsay has been
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there too long. I'm guaranteed he said, I'm conservative, and
I don't think he is. Okay, so the gauntlet has thrown.
The race is on, and somehow andre Bauer's got to
come up with a whole bunch of money, because we
know that Graham has a bunch. We'll continue to get
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nuclear power from the VC Summer Nuclear Power Plant, the
part of it that works, the part that's up in
running and has been for a long time, at least
until twenty sixty two. Okay, Feds have extended the license.
It's been approved dominion announcing that yesterday. Now, well, we
ever actually add on finished that ill fated addition from
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a number of years ago that remains to be seen
as the state and the utilities continue to try to
find some private investor to take over that project.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, we finally heard something about those I guess proposals,
and very few of them are viable, right, Yeah, which
is not a big surprise. I mean we thought that
would be a pretty tall task.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean it just is. It is. Glenton
Youngin going to be in town, the Virginia governor and
rising or maybe already risen Republican star, the guy who
took the old dominion state from a blue to red
back in twenty twenty one, maybe presidential candidate. One of
these days, he'll be the keynote speaker at the Republican's
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Silver Elephant gala. Okay, with just a few days away
from July fourth, now it's started to starting to thinking
about back to school end and now the liberal month
away and word that Richland one has more than two
hundred vacant teaching position. Wow. Wow. Yeah was it last year?
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Were they caused a fuss when they started moving teachers
around after the year began. Yeah, they still hold.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
They said they sized up the classrooms and then started
making changes, you know, well into the school year.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah. Well one of the uh, one of the they
think a viable alternative is to bring in more international teachers. Okay,
we've been saying a steady rise in international teachers in
the state. Matter of fact, the twenty twenty three twenty
twenty four school year, we set a record of five
hundred and seventy nine of them. Okay, well, it got
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done yesterday, and it didn't. It didn't mean that the
Vice President had to cast a tie breaking vote, but
the Senate did pass the Big Beautiful Bill? Can we
still call it that? By the way, can we still
call it the Big Beautiful Bill? After Chuck Schumer got
a hold of it and in a moment of just
you know, like adolescent rage, actually officially had the title
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of the bill changed. Okay, well, anyway that they got
it done, how it got there, and again three Republican
senators ran Paul who we knew from day one was
not going to to sign on to this, Tom tell
Us of course, who famously said he couldn't and then
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said he was going to retire after this term, and
Susan Collins a Maine. You expect that from you knew
Collins or mccowski are both were not going to Murkowski
the holdout. They did get it done after she got
to a number of concessions for her home state of Alaska.
They essentially bought her votes.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yes, they did, with a bunch of whaling and phishing
tax credits.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah. Now this is different from the House bell in
a number of ways. And now the House takes a
mad dash to try to get it done by Trump's
self imposed deadline of July fourth, that's this Friday. Of course,
there's a bit of a problem though. Now you've got
to get House members back to DC. And oh, yeah,
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we got nasty weather on the East coast. So even
the House speakers saying, yeah, weather's a problem for this thing,
as they try to get enough back there to get
a vote in by the end of the week. Johnson
himself and Republicans many and not happy with what the
Senator has done to this thing. Jury deliberations will continue
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and the Sean Diddy, puff daddy, whatever you want to
call them. Comb's sex trafficking trial as what four counts
the jury reached verdicts on, but not on the most well,
the count that could send them to prison for life,
and that was racketeering conspiracy. We don't know what their
verdict is on those other four counts, but both sides
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agreeing to send the jury back in deliberate more, wouldn't
you guess? And I'm no lawyer, I don't know, but
you know, if it was the one count that that
trafficking count that could send it or racketeering, consider it
a prison for life. That's the one they couldn't agree on.
But the other four they could. I'm thinking probably guilty
on the other four, you think so? Yeah, right, But
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we don't know yet. Trump says Israel has accepted a
terms for a ninety day ceasefire in Gaza, and this
is scary. The Pentagon is pausing weapons pledged to Ukraine
because of low stock levels. Yeah, we're we're we're we're
running out of weapons here because we've sent so many
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to Ukraine. Do you really want to say that out loud? Well,
they just did. We got that more coven your way
here on this the Wednesday edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Fantastic to have you with it one on.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
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Speaker 1 (09:53):
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Speaker 2 (09:56):
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Speaker 1 (10:11):
It is coming up on six forty three. It's great
to have you with us. It's Wednesday, July this second.
Good morning to you. I'm going to get to this
sense of stuff here in just a second. But first up,
we were talking I think it was in this segment
yesterday morning about a gallop pole and how so many
Democrats are just not proud to be Americans anymore. Well,
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they were okay when Joe Biden was in office, but suddenly,
now that you know, Trump is back in office, they're
suddenly not proud to be American. Okay, bandwagon patriots, I guess.
But we are seeing patriotic pride here ahead of the
July fourth weekend, when we've talked about this the last
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number of weeks, our military branches and recruiting, the latest
of the announcement this week that the Air Force, and
I still truckle when I say this Space Force, it
does doe a little cartoony, it does. But they they
have both met their recruitment goals for fiscal year twenty
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twenty five. Three months early. Yep, remember these every branch
of the military was struggling. They could get close to
their quotas under Joe Biden. And now you know, six
months of Donald Trump back in office and enrollment is booming,
the two services gaining a total of thirty thousand new
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recruits so far this fiscal year, thirty thousand. And if
you think these are just you know, guys and gals
that are you know again, get a job or something
so they join the service, the Space Force get a
load of this. One in five new recruits holds a
college degree. Okay, we know the Army hit his goal
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early last month and exceeded it. So, yes, all the
branches are doing very well and recruiting now that you've
got a Republican back in the White House and you
don't have the services out there marketing themselves by talking
about diversity, equity and inclusion.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
And all that woke stuff. You just said fourth of July.
You're comfortable with that?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah? Okay, I asked, because.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
We got to talk back yesterday not not related to
our show, in another show in our station, and said
that come on guys. You should you should never use
fourth of July. It's independent.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, you know what, I don't think that, you know,
I think we should. I think we could say Independence
Day more often. Yes, yeah, I don't even want to
say it fourth of July.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't think fourth of July is disrespectful. I think,
you know, conservatives looking for another fight like Christmas versus Holidays,
that this is not this, this.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Is not that one.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, all right, I want to make sure you were
comfortable because I say fourth of July and it's I
mean that to me spells independent celebration.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, they're synonymous in my book. Same here. Yeah, okay,
but yeah, I you know, we should probably say Independence
state more often. But that's okay, all right. So the
Donald Trump down in the Florida visiting Alligator Alcatraz yesterday,
and of course you ever present a photo Jenek looking
for the photo up. Christy Domes was right there as usual. Well,
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I mean it is kind of her deal, right, she's DHS. Okay,
Rod DeSantis and Trump, who certainly had their their clashes
when it comes to primaries and such, well they agree
on this. Talking about this yesterday before the twenty twenty
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sixth census redo the rules. Remember under Joe Biden, the
rules changed to allow the Census Bureau to include illegal
immigrants in its count All right, okay, so legally they
can't vote just because they're the census. Of course, they're
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still not here. Legally they can't vote. They're not US
citizens except in some locales. Go figure. But remember the
whole point was if they count in the census, then
it counts in the state's population and accounts the number
of congressional seats they hold in Congress. Well, there is
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a bill coming up that would mandate the Census Bureau
revise a census to only include citizens of both the
Trump and DeSantis or behind this needless to say, every
Republican should be every American should be.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, I don't know what would be controversial about counting
and then saying, Okay, here's the number of voters you have,
here's the representation you get. Yeah, right, that's what the
Constitution says.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yes, if this individual is here, they're not a citizen,
they can vote. They shouldn't be counted in the census
for that purpose, and I would you know, really, the
point may be mood because in the current environment with
what's going on, I don't think you're gonna have too
many illegals sign up on the census, to tell you
the truth, I mean, come on, why would they, Right
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as Desanta said yesterday, if they did a fair census,
California would lose like five seats in the House of Representatives.
This is what we've talked about this quite a bit
since they did this. The Democrats did this under Biden.
They had nothing to do with these illegals going in voting.
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It just had to do with, you know, propping up
these blue states, these sanctuary states like California, so they
didn't lose seats in Congress. That was the whole point.
And you wonder why those states are sanctuary places. I mean,
they welcome these folks because they want to keep their
representation because so many tax paying native born Americans or
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naturalized Americans, folks who came here and did it the
right way, are so fed up with all this that
they're leaving. By the way, that's where I got around here.
As Actually, I think it was Newsweek posting a long
article yesterday about Yeah, Florida is getting a lot of
interest from people from New York and Connecticut right now,
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very real interest in real estate thanks to this, with
what's going on in New York City right now, with
a potential socialist mayor here one of these days. This
is why these states are welcoming the illegals with their
arms open and giving them free stuff to keep their
seats in Congress. Let's redo this. Towe sixth senses absolutely
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that should happen.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am w VOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
This is no longer just a House bill. It's not
a Senate bill.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It's a bill of the people, of the hard working
American people, and we are going to deliver it.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And it is seven fifteen. Good morning, House Speaker. Mike Johnson,
the ball's back in his court. Now, not sure he
wants it. Well, the ball, the ball got changed to
it's yeah, it's a bigger ball. Now, yeah, it's more
like a basketball than a baseball. Now yeah, okay, So
you know, as much turmoil as Mike Johnston went through
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to give this thing to the House, then he vauls
it over to the other Chamber and the uh, the
Senate is hitting back a very nasty return shot here
since we're talking little tennis stuff there from last sports reporting. Now,
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Johnson's got to deal with this, huh. Okay, So the
Senate got it done yesterday, and it did take a
tie breaking vote by J. D. Vans Hey. I asked
this question earlier, and I was serious. I mean, can
we still actually call it the Big Beautiful Bill? Because,
in a moment of infant outrage, Chuck Schumer somehow was
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able to force a name change for this right right
before it passed the Senate yesterday, Schumer raising a point
of order against lines three to five on the first
page where it said that short title this Act may
be cited as one Big Beautiful Bill Act. Schumer argued
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that the title that bill violated a particular subsection of
some Congressional budget Act of anyway whatever. So but we'll
still call the Big Beautiful Bill, right, Yes, sorry, Chuck,
it's big. It's a bill, is it beautiful? Well, let's see,
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the Sinnate made some changes, uh, and it looks like
as far as spending is concern and raising the uh,
the deficit and then hence the debt that the Senate
has added on here. This is this bill will cost
more than the House bill did. And it it came
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with with some some some perks given to Lisa Mkowski
up in Alaska because she was the last holdout here.
I guess that's what I guess. That's the game you play, right,
you want to be the last holdout. I mean, she
was probably salivating at the idea.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It certainly benefited a Alaska in the end.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yes, it did. But together with Susan Collins, who voted
against it, by the way, amendments to Medicaid provisions, clean
energy tax credits Medicaid well, there was an amendment to
raise the fund to fifty billion dollars by raising taxes
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on billionaires. That vote failed, by the way, but Collins
did get more money outed for rural hospitals. Republicans of
the Senate made a last minute alteration to green energy provisions,
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striking a controversial excise tax and giving tax credits to
solar wind projects that began construction that do begin within
a year of this bill's enactment. There were other tax
credits that the Senate changed and again, and remember and
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this is because of the parliamentarian rule that it was
going to require sixty votes. But we and we had
some some Republicans who voted for this in the Senate
to actually, you know, continue to and maybe even increase
free stuff handouts to illegal immigrants in this country. It's just,
it's just it's it's it's sickening. Now.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I don't I don't think that's as big an issue
as it needs to be because clearly that's illegal. Yeah,
and you just have to you know, count on the
regulatory agencies and law enforcement to do the job that
you were hoping to do with this bill. It's not
that big a loss to this bill. There are other
things in this bill that are much worse.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
There are massive medicaid cuts coming out of the Senate
on this one. Matter of fact, these are the largest
custom Medicaid since the program started back in the six
and quite honestly, I'm tired of hearing about this one, because, well.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
You're gonna hear about this went all the way up
until November next.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yure, sure, and you're gonna hear part of the story.
You're going to hear the spin that the Republicans are
cutting medicaid to all these people that According to the CBO,
almost twelve million lower income Americans would lose their health
insurance by twenty thirty four as a results of these cuts. Now,
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wait a minute, the cuts are based on what you're
willing this to do. What work? Well, yeah, there are
the work requirements, work requirements. They came there.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
They kept arguing about the dates that those were going
to effect. But you don't even have to get a job.
If you don't want to work, you can't find work.
You can go volunteer and not even on a full
time basis, on a part time basis, and maintain your requirements.
You can't sit on your sofa eating Cheetos and playing
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video games and drinking beer all day every day and
expect the government, the tax payers to continue to foot
the bill for your medical or your medical expenses.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Well, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Well, the Congressional Budget Office, which is a nonpartisan group,
says there are currently four point eight million, four point
eight million able bodied Americans who choose not to work. Yeah,
how about that. That's that's a big number. And for
those on the left who say we it's just a
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few people, you're singling out a few people.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
No, it's four point eight million. Yeah, it's a bunch. Now,
the the sprint of the finish line, it's Wednesday, Independence Day,
July fourth is Friday. Now, if it's not done by then,
it's not like it won't get done after the fact.
But that that's been that date that Trump put out there,
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and the House has got to quickly reassemble. Reconvenient, it's
road trip time. But problem is weather problems on the
Eastern seaboard. Yes, they may have a hard time getting
their members back to DC to take take a vote
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on this. While the sound clip we played earlier from
the House Speaker Mike Johnson made it sound like it's
our bill, We're going to get it done. He's not happy,
and he said this yesterday. He was not happy with
what the Senate did to their product.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Well, according to one of our candidates for governor, it's
dead on arrival.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well soon to be candidates, I guess, Ralph Norman.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Oh yeah, sorry, yeah, we assume he's going to backdate.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
July twenty seven to tell us. Yeah, your name, but yeah,
but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
There are a couple of hardline conservatives in the Freedom
Caucus who have said no to.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Joeld Ship Roy a definite no, obviously.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
To all this money that is being spent in addition
to what the House had already passed.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now that you brought that up, though, let me let
me segue. Now I don't have time to We'll get
remind me to talk about Ralph Norman and this bill
and his hopes to be governor. Let's let's get back
to that a little bit later on, shall we, because
I don't have time to do it right here. But
thanks for reminding.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Me anywhere anytime, take your infot to go.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I listened to you on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
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Speaker 1 (25:52):
It is seven forty one. Good morning, It's Wednesday, July second.
How the heck are you me? I wanted to get
to this point, but we were right out of time
in the last segment. I find this fascinating. Now if
you're Ralph Norman, who, as we talked about yesterday, has
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announced that he will announce yes or no or run
for governor on July twenty seventh, which means he's going
to say, yes, he's ready for governor. Yeah, you don't
pick some arbitrary date to see I'm going to announce
that I'm not running for governor on this date. So Norman,
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assuming that my theory is correct here, will announce he's
running for governor. Now, as this relates to what's going
to happen over the course the next day or two
upon Capitol Hill and Norman not happy with this particular, big,
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beautiful bill, we wouldn't happen with the before was in
the House. If Norman votes against this, remember Tom tell us, Well.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
They're I mean, they're hoping to make some changes before
it gets to that.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, I don't see how Ralph Norman votes against this
if he wants to run for governor in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well, I mean, I would hope he'd vote his conscience
regardless of And the other thing he knows is and
I assume you're talking about angling for a Trump endorsement.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Well, it's because somebody's gonna get it. Yeah, likely somebody's
going to get it.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I mean, he knows by now, it's the politics of
playing Trump. It's the last person to say something nice
about Trump. We'll get that endorsement. So I don't think
he's necessarily worried about a vote this time around this
year versus what happens next year.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I don't know, man, I'm gonna tell us voted against them.
The sentence that it was coming. Didn't Trump immediately out good,
I'm going to primary. Yeah, didn't.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Didn't sound like Tillis was all that sold on running anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, maybe not. Yeah, It's it kind of puts some
in a tricky situation, though, well, true, I.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Think he's you know, I'm it sounds like even Chip
Roy's thinking, all right, we want to get this passed.
We want to get those tax breaks passed. Yeah, it's
just we've got to see changes before that happens. Here's
what I here's what I think is going to happen this.
I don't think this bill passes before the fourth deadline.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I don't think it does either.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And I think you're going to see some changes that
make the fiscal hawks happy, and then it will pass,
maybe maybe as early as next week.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Well, the fiscal hawks weren't happy with the with the
the House version of the bill, true, but they the
Senate took it and put it on steroids. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
So they held their nose and voted for it the
first time, and now I think there's a little more
pressure to get something done.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You know, everybody keeps saying, well, American's voted for, you know,
everything Trump believed in. Well, Americans also voted for some
fiscal responsibility. After four years of handing out money to
anybody who wanted it, including people who don't belong here,
Americans voted in November for some fiscal responsibility in Washington.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
So that's part of the deal. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Absolutely, those tax breaks, the tax cuts should be permanent.
But there are other things that Republicans can do to
this bill too in order to make it more palatable
and you know, ensure America has a decent financial future.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yep. I'm not sure why this happened this morning, but
on my ex timeline it was filled with Nancy Maystweet's
really and it was all about a big road trip.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
What she been talking about, well, nothing in particular.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
It was kind of like one of those oh stream
of social media messages you'd get from a well, quite honestly,
from a teenager. It was about the big road trip
and there's Mason, about three or four of her the
girl friends, and oh not, they're piled into a van.
I guess she was heading back to DC to make
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a vote, right for this big beautiful bill, all right,
And it was just like a series of picture or something.
I just thought to myself, I don't think she's running
for governor.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Maybe she's trying to make herself more likable. I don't know,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I just if I were. I don't know if anybody
is consulting her on this, you know, but if I were,
I would say, you know, that just doesn't look very gubernatorial,
you know, I mean, this is really weird.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I mean, when is the last when's the last time
you've gotten the feeling she is running because it's been
a it's been a couple of weeks for me.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, yeah, me too. She's really I mean, since she
said I might be forced into the race, and I thought, okay,
you don't say that. I think, like, I don't want
to run, but I may have to, you know, maybe
forced into it.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I think the backlash finally got to her and she said,
you know what, I haven't done this the right way.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I think you're right meantime, as we talked about briefly earlier,
and we've been alluding to the last number of days
because the site's been up, but it's official now that
andre Bauer is going after Lindsey Graham. I don't see
this ending well.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
You know, we talk about name recognition with a lot
of these candidates. How many people remember him?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh, he's got to sign up on the interstate over
here and andre Bauer interchange, which I think is very ironic,
is wreckoned behind the wheel beating.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I mean, there are a lot of historical monuments up
that people might look at and go, who was that
guy or who is that?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Right? I don't know. I mean, he really has been
out of the picture for a long time now. I
know he's a little still on CNN there briefly, but
that's been a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Right, He's pretty active on social media, but you know,
I don't know. And then you remind people, oh, yeah,
I was lieutenant governor, and most people will say, well so.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, yeah, right, And remember Graham already has Trump's endorsement. NA,
you can rip that back out of you know, cutch
that from the from the hands too. Anytime you wanted to.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I have a feeling if a better conservative, Rand Trump
would happily hand.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Him his his endorsement, and Bower described myself as a
real America first conservative and saying that he thinks that
Graham has been up in DC too long and that
he votes like it.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Well, I don't know that many people would disagree with
that part.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Well, right, and then that's that's the thing, you know
Bower's got going for him, you know, I mean, we
hear this every six years, get rid of Lindsay, get
rid of Lindsay, and then what do we do We
return Lindsay to office again.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Well, in that fifth year, he suddenly becomes somebody that
everybody in the state likes.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
We have such short memories, don't we.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
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Speaker 1 (32:59):
Said, fifteen after eight o'clock. It is Wednesday, July second,
Good morning to you, and it's time. I mentioned, well, well,
we'll heat things back up here again, Mari. He the
next about one hundred, So enjoy eighty seven a day.
Even it comes from some sours and storms. We mentioned
this story this morning. By the way, we're kind of
to quote Kenny Chesney, we're living in fast forward here.
(33:22):
The temperatures we had here in May were more indicative
of temperatures we don't only have in June. The templeres
that we had last month were more indicative of the
temperatures we don't only have in July. We're a month
ahead of time on all this. Now that holds by
the time we get to August, it's gonna be brilliant.
You know, starting getting nice around here. I don't see that.
(33:46):
You don't. You don't think that's gonna Okay, all right,
you're pouring cold water on that theory missing.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Sorry, sorry, I'm just imagining those August tailgates and thinking, well,
at least one August tailgate and thinking, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Actually, apparently, historically speaking, July is a hotter and more
humid month here than August is.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Then why does August always feel like such a law?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I think because we've been looking, we've been through it
for so long, and we're just beat down by it. Yeah, right,
but time we hit to August, like I'm exhausted anyway, Okay,
A couple things to mention here. We've still got a
lot to want to do between now nine o'clock, so
let's jump right in here. While they haven't said exactly
who it is, although I don't know, the state newspaper
(34:29):
says it's right there in the headline, r J. May.
But the House Ethics Committee is opening an investigation into
a lawmaker that they're refusing to publicly identify, but everybody
knows is RJ. May May, who was suspended from the House,
(34:53):
who is behind bars after indicted last month on ten
counts of distributing child sex abuse material. So they're looking
at conduct unbecoming. Yeah, I would think this would qualify
now yep, sounds like it. I don't think this, And
(35:14):
again R. J. May will get his day in court.
But this is a whole different beast right here. Okay,
based on the indictment, I'm I'm not even sure, number one,
why you need to open an investigation into this was
conduct unbecoming? Just go ahead and say that it is. Okay,
why do we need an investigation? But that's what they
(35:35):
do over there and the Ethics Committee. Okay, fine, but
riddle me this. Why are they hiring outside legal counsel. Huh,
how much you're gonna pay some outside attorneys. Are they
(35:58):
actually gonna do the investigation or just assist you in
the investigation? Why you want to spend more of our
money on something that. Come on, guys and gals, it's
a slam dunk from an ethics standpoint, Okay, anyway, that's
(36:19):
what they're gonna do. How many members of the House
Ethics Committee are also attorneys. I wonder you've already hired
outside counsel to defend yourself against the lawsuit over the
unconstitutional pay raise you gave yourself. It's just it's the
(36:43):
gift that keeps on giving, So keep opening up those
wallets and pocketbooks because they just want to spend more.
I don't know. Am I missing something here? I don't
think so.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
It's just I think they have to separate themselves from
the decision and from the legal side of it.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I mean, you can't. You can't play representative and lawyer
at the same time. Although, like you said, this one
would seem to be a slam dun.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
They do this all the time, though, I mean, heck,
that's what they're there for. It's the Ethics Committee That's
what they do, is they investigate lawmakers to see if
they've violated ethics rules.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
But doesn't that committee have a staff council?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I would think, so are isn't everything over there?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Are they saying the staff council as a conflict of
interest because he or she may have known and worked
with our JMA in the past.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Well maybe that's it. I don't know, but I mean,
this is in any other I mean, maybe they do
this on a regular basis and I'm just not aware
of it, But I mean, this is what they do.
They investigate ethics violations. I can for a minute believe
that every time they do that, they're bringing an outside
legal counsel to investigate one of their own, which is
(37:57):
all this is. It's just that these charges are beyond scandalous.
I don't know, I don't. I don't get it, but
you know, you're not. We don't have a choice. So
you know, next time around, stroke the check a little
bit bigger to pay for these attorneys along with the
(38:17):
ones that are defending themselves over their big pay races.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Okay, uh, what's the what's the timing on that case?
By the way, do we know how quickly this is
going to happen?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Oh, the RJA case? Yeah, no, is it this fall?
They I don't think they've actually well, if they've set
a trial date, I'm not aware of it. M M yeah,
I'm not aware.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Of A state newspaper this morning just releasing a piece
a couple of hours ago on how the FEDS snared RJMA.
I haven't seen that any digital investigators might be an
interesting read.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
H okay apparently, Yeah, a potential conflict of interest could exist,
the committee said, so a third party investigator or a
private law firm was retained. No, I get that, but
again I mean they, I don't a potential conflict of
(39:26):
interest could exist with any lawmaker based on these, with
any lawmaker that they investigate for an ethics violation? Right,
why is this different? I don't know. Anyway, there's that
Richland won We are gosh, what does school start back,
mister Thompson. It's a little over a month from now.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Right, yes, less than for some districts. Really, yeah, July,
they're starting in July in some districts. I don't know
if they start in July, but I think most of
well we get some of those year. Yeah, Now you
get first week in August for a lot of but yeah,
there are I know there is at least one in
the Low Country that starts in July.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
M boy, Well, Richland, won I don't think they start
quite that early. I hope not, because they got some
work to do, more than two hundred vacant teaching positions.
More than two hundred. Uh boy. Maybe it was last
(40:25):
year that was quite the fuss because they started the
school year and then this was an elementary grades, right,
I mean very young kids who I mean first grade,
second grade, I mean new to the whole thing, and
you know, they get in there and they just get
comfortable with the teacher and then that teacher gets she
hanged because they needed them somewhere else. I hope they're
(40:47):
figuring out, you know, what they're going to do this
time before the year actually starts. Well, they don't have
much time left.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Which it starts August eleventh for Richland one August eleventh, Okay.
Earliest district opening, by the way, in South Carolina July
twenty first, Aiken County.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
See, they're on that year round thing in Acon County,
that aren't they Edgefield opens on the twenty third.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
There are Greenwood districts that open on the twenty fourth.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Okay, that's just wrong. Lawrence and Marble on the twenty eight. Sorry,
that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Lexington three opens on the twenty ninth.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Really okay, Well, well, thank goodness for Richinal one. They
got a few more weeks to deal with this. But well,
you're not going to find two hundred teachers in a
span of about what six weeks seems like a pretty
tall tasks. Five and a half weeks now, it's not
going to happen. So they got to do some some
(41:36):
juggling over there. And apparently well, according to a state
newspaper article, we have been using across the state more
and more international teachers over the past few years. Matter
of fact, set a record back in the twenty three
to twenty four school year of nearly six hundred, five
hundred and seventy nine international teachers in our public schools.
(41:58):
I'm guessing the private schools don't have this issue.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
That could be wrong, and I would think a majority
of those probably are teaching foreign language, right or are they?
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I don't know. Based on the math I took in
college for teaching math, did you have a single English
speaking instructor Carolina in math, who well, English was their
first language. That that doesn't happen.
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Speaker 1 (42:45):
It's eight forty one. Our final thoughts for Wednesday, July second.
Will today be the day that'll we get a verdict
in New York City and the jury trial of Sean
Diddy Combs.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yeah, that got a little confusing yesterday when we started
seeing headlines of a partial verdict. Yeah, but it wasn't
surprising considering the fact that the judge and jury of
at issues.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah, well, he's up on five counts. The one that
could send him to life to prison for life is racketeering.
A racketeering charge, So that's going to be the hardest
to prove. And that's it.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
And I think, you know, we talked about this earlier
this week that we didn't think that was the one
that the government really got close to.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Well, apparently they convinced some jurors but not others. They
couldn't come to an agreement. Now the other four counts, well,
I say lesser. You know, as far as prison time
has concerned lesser counts, they have reached a verdict on that. However,
the judge said that they would not release what those
verdicts were until they decided on this fifth count of racketeering,
(44:01):
and both sides, the prosecutors of defense the judge all said, well,
you know, after two days of deliberation, that's that's just
too soon to quit, you know, get back in and
get back to work.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Yeah, we've spent too much money on this trial. Yes,
he's a bad guy, I mean a sick, sick man.
It's just did the government meet the burden of proof here?
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Right? This is not only of these trials by the way,
that we thought we could hit all kinds of names,
all kinds of famous people we knew about, right, didn't
really happen, not to the level I think some people
expected it would. Anyway. I would think, you know, just
my theory on this is okay. If they could reach
verdicts on four counts but not on the fifth, and
(44:48):
you know, the top charge here, then probably this is
a sign that these are not not guilty verdicts on
these other four counts. They probably find them guilt on
those four. Sounds like just could agree on the fifth.
So we'll see. Uh. The Pentagon is halting shipments some
(45:09):
at least shipments of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns the
Associated Press reporting that our own stock piles have declined
too much. The Pentagon out came out and said this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Hey Russia, Hey China, we're out of weapons.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
How much are we sending to Ukraine? Talking about cutting
off your nose despite your face? I mean, come on,
and okay, let's say that's apparently true. Do you want
to advertise that? Yeah, you wouldn't think so, that's nuts.
A Pentagon review determined the stocks were too low on
(45:47):
some not all weapons, but on some previously pledged Wow.
That's that's not a good look right there. Huh. They've
give an end the University of Pennsylvania, you pen agreed
to a slew of concessions when it comes to transgends
or athletes. This is one of those. This is the
(46:09):
the Leah Leah Thomas School, right, yeah, yeah, it's part
of Education saying they've reached an agreement. You pin will
be stripping swimming titles from Thomas and uh. I think
also having to apologize to female athletes.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Yeah, they they have to send all the athletes that
competed a letter of apology. Yeah, and I'm not sure
this is an agreement, right. I think the Department of
Education came with the hammer, yeah, do this or else.
But they also had the proof. Again, we keep talking
about November. They had the proof of November behind them. Yeah,
(46:48):
this is what voters wanted.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
Promises made promises. Cap. We were talking a week or
two back about there was an investigation that apparently there
was a report the FBI had do it. Well, they
had done an investigation, the FBN, I think a couple
other agencies, but never did disclose to the public about
(47:13):
the Chinese Communist Party and their attempts to deliver fake
driver's licenses to Chinese sympathizers here in this country in
order to get them to cast a ballot in the
election back in twenty twenty. I mean, they actually they
halted ashiberalties in Chicago. I mean, I know, we're like
(47:33):
a ton of these things, and we wanted to wait
a minute, why was that never made public? Well, now,
records showed communications between FBI officials ahead of the election
regionally declassified that. Well, it seems to be now that
(47:56):
they blocked any further investigation into this because it would
contradict the testimony of then FBI Director Christopher Ray that
he gave to Congress that this apparently wasn't a problem.
Wait a minute, you actually Okay, Now, not telling the
public about this is one thing, but you actually the
(48:19):
FBI actually blocked an investigation. This is the story. Now.
They blocked the investigation because they didn't want the head
guy to look bad, to contradict his testimony in front
of Congress. Really, this is not just like you know, okay,
a minor thing here. This is I can't remember what
the number was, but it seemed like it was close
to hundreds of thousands of fake id's that would hopefully
(48:43):
land in the hands of Chinese communist sympathizers and vote
in the election. Kind of a big.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
Deal, which is probably even more of a reason why
they didn't want it out there, to show just how
wrong Christopher Ray was.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
Yeah, well that's exactly what happened. So you're gonna compromise issue,
compromise an election because you know, the top dog to
get to egg on his face. Yeah, Paramount Global CBS
agreeing to pay Trump a sum that could, with advertising
and everything else for conservative causes be north of thirty
million dollars. This is this isn't a lawsuit that was
(49:20):
filed against the network over that Kamala Harris interview on
sixty minutes on sixty minutes. Now, if you're thinking, Okay,
this is a money grab by Trump or whatever, here's
the important part of this. This is now they're calling
this is the Trump rule that going forward, the network
will promptly release full unedited transcripts of future presidential candidates interviews.
(49:41):
Every network should do that everyone. That's the will be
the legacy of this lawsuit. That's what's most important there.
Every network should do that. And then there's a story
of this guy, Wilson Tendy. He's a forty two year
old native of Kenya, started working in a in a
(50:02):
state as an auditor back in twenty eighteen, rose through
the ranks at the Department of Education in this state.
Had worked as an chief audit officer in this state
at a pollution control agency well, this was in twenty
eighteen when he started working for this state, this particular state.
(50:23):
Back in twenty fifteen, though he submitted a position to
plead guilty to felony fourth degree criminal sexual conduct. Okay,
felony criminal sexual conduct a year before or two years before.
(50:44):
He had also been arrested on a similar charge, but
that one was dropped. This guy, Wilson Tendee, apparently up
until now it looks like his name has been scrubbed
from the website, had been promoted to a top position
(51:05):
in Minnesota state government by none other than Yeah, I said, Minnesota,
Tim Walls, the failed vice presidential candidate Tim Walls. Yeah,
he promoted this guy to become education director. Education director,
(51:27):
Did you do any due diligence at all on this one? Tim,
Jesus hell y s America. Thanks for fination is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
And good morning to you. It is sixteen minutes after
six o'clock and welcome to the other side of the week.
Short work week here already passed our home day and
into the back half. Here it's Wednesday, July second. Good
to have you here, sixteen after six. I am Gary David,
he is Christopher Thompson. Morning sir, and we are happy
to have you on board with us this morning. We
(00:49):
got Tumboid hanging out and Tyler and the whole gang.
So thank you for joining us this morning. As always,
on a day that's gonna I guess something's gonna bring
us a few showers and storms. Huh. Okay, it sounds
like it, and slightly cool TIMPs to cool lure, not
cool but stretched the imagination. But the upper eighties today.
(01:10):
But if you're missing one hundred degree heated X values,
don't worry. Let'll be back tomorrow. Okay I wasn't, but
thanks thank you. No, nor was I. And if you're
wondering June was it hot? Yes, it was. Matter of fact,
our June temperatures on par with what our July temperatures
normally are, So we got an early start out of
(01:30):
it this year. No great, Remember when May was very warm,
too warmer than usual, it was closer to being June temperatures.
Does this mean when we get to like August, it'll
be September temperatures.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I doubt that. Probably not, It'll still be August. Yeah,
it'll still be August. We did have a very comfortable spring.
I guess we shouldn't complain.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We should not. No, but we are forty chance, by
the way, that we get a tropical system developed somewhere
near the southeastern coast over the next the number of days, no, no, no,
no risks, no concerns for July fourth weekend, by the way,
(02:09):
but you know, maybe in the next week we'll be
looking at something. The Pacific has been fairly active as
a Cat three off of the coast of Mako Hurricane FLOSSI,
So they're a little further along and all that than
we are. Okay, Rundown, Big Stories, Hot topics for the
second day of July. Welcome to a Wednesday, on a
(02:30):
short work week. Sweet no great surprise here over the
State House. The Ethics Committee in the House is investigating R. J. May.
They haven named it. They haven't named him, no, but
let's go. I think everybody knows who it is. They're
(02:51):
they're not publicly naming him as the one, but most
everybody figures it is R. J. May who is suspended
from the House, who whiz behind bars after his indictment
last May on ten counts of distributing child's sex abuse material.
And here's the kicker. How many lawyers you figure over
(03:13):
the State House, mister Thompson. A few? A few? Well,
they're retaining outside legal counsel in order to investigate this
unnamed member's alleged conduct. Really, come on, let's say you're
retaining outside legal counsel to defend yourself in this lawsuit
about the unconstitutional pay raise you gave yourself. You get
(03:33):
outside legal counsel for the Ethics Committee to Why do
you even need outside legal counsel to do this? They
don't want the blood on their own hands. They don't
want to look like, you know, they're acting against one
of their own, so they'll let somebody else do it.
Come on, I mean, if you have an ethics committe,
that's their job is to investigate these things. Right, don't
(03:55):
let me get two deep into weeds on that. Now,
we'll do that later. Okay. Anyhow, like I said, official, now,
Lindsey Graham gets a challenge from andre Bauer. Yeah, well
we've we've kind of known this. He's been saying. The
website's been set up, so this is no great surprise.
But last night, the former lieutenant governor, it's one on
the Associated Press that he thinks that Lindsay has been
(04:18):
there too long. I'm guaranteed he said, I'm conservative, and
I don't think he is. Okay, so the gauntlet has thrown.
The race is on, and somehow andre Bauer's got to
come up with a whole bunch of money, because we
know that Graham has a bunch. We'll continue to get
(04:39):
nuclear power from the VC Summer Nuclear Power Plant, the
part of it that works, the part that's up in
running and has been for a long time, at least
until twenty sixty two. Okay, Feds have extended the license.
It's been approved dominion announcing that yesterday. Now, well, we
ever actually add on finished that ill fated addition from
(05:04):
a number of years ago that remains to be seen
as the state and the utilities continue to try to
find some private investor to take over that project.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, we finally heard something about those I guess proposals,
and very few of them are viable, right, Yeah, which
is not a big surprise. I mean we thought that
would be a pretty tall task.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean it just is. It is. Glenton
Youngin going to be in town, the Virginia governor and
rising or maybe already risen Republican star, the guy who
took the old dominion state from a blue to red
back in twenty twenty one, maybe presidential candidate. One of
these days, he'll be the keynote speaker at the Republican's
(05:44):
Silver Elephant gala. Okay, with just a few days away
from July fourth, now it's started to starting to thinking
about back to school end and now the liberal month
away and word that Richland one has more than two
hundred vacant teaching position. Wow. Wow. Yeah was it last year?
(06:04):
Were they caused a fuss when they started moving teachers
around after the year began. Yeah, they still hold.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
They said they sized up the classrooms and then started
making changes, you know, well into the school year.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah. Well one of the uh, one of the they
think a viable alternative is to bring in more international teachers. Okay,
we've been saying a steady rise in international teachers in
the state. Matter of fact, the twenty twenty three twenty
twenty four school year, we set a record of five
hundred and seventy nine of them. Okay, well, it got
(06:39):
done yesterday, and it didn't. It didn't mean that the
Vice President had to cast a tie breaking vote, but
the Senate did pass the Big Beautiful Bill? Can we
still call it that? By the way, can we still
call it the Big Beautiful Bill? After Chuck Schumer got
a hold of it and in a moment of just
you know, like adolescent rage, actually officially had the title
(07:02):
of the bill changed. Okay, well, anyway that they got
it done, how it got there, and again three Republican
senators ran Paul who we knew from day one was
not going to to sign on to this, Tom tell
Us of course, who famously said he couldn't and then
(07:23):
said he was going to retire after this term, and
Susan Collins a Maine. You expect that from you knew
Collins or mccowski are both were not going to Murkowski
the holdout. They did get it done after she got
to a number of concessions for her home state of Alaska.
They essentially bought her votes.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yes, they did, with a bunch of whaling and phishing
tax credits.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah. Now this is different from the House bell in
a number of ways. And now the House takes a
mad dash to try to get it done by Trump's
self imposed deadline of July fourth, that's this Friday. Of course,
there's a bit of a problem though. Now you've got
to get House members back to DC. And oh, yeah,
(08:06):
we got nasty weather on the East coast. So even
the House speakers saying, yeah, weather's a problem for this thing,
as they try to get enough back there to get
a vote in by the end of the week. Johnson
himself and Republicans many and not happy with what the
Senator has done to this thing. Jury deliberations will continue
(08:28):
and the Sean Diddy, puff daddy, whatever you want to
call them. Comb's sex trafficking trial as what four counts
the jury reached verdicts on, but not on the most well,
the count that could send them to prison for life,
and that was racketeering conspiracy. We don't know what their
verdict is on those other four counts, but both sides
(08:51):
agreeing to send the jury back in deliberate more, wouldn't
you guess? And I'm no lawyer, I don't know, but
you know, if it was the one count that that
trafficking count that could send it or racketeering, consider it
a prison for life. That's the one they couldn't agree on.
But the other four they could. I'm thinking probably guilty
on the other four, you think so? Yeah, right, But
(09:13):
we don't know yet. Trump says Israel has accepted a
terms for a ninety day ceasefire in Gaza, and this
is scary. The Pentagon is pausing weapons pledged to Ukraine
because of low stock levels. Yeah, we're we're we're we're
running out of weapons here because we've sent so many
(09:35):
to Ukraine. Do you really want to say that out loud? Well,
they just did. We got that more coven your way
here on this the Wednesday edition of Columbia's Morning News.
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Speaker 1 (10:11):
It is coming up on six forty three. It's great
to have you with us. It's Wednesday, July this second.
Good morning to you. I'm going to get to this
sense of stuff here in just a second. But first up,
we were talking I think it was in this segment
yesterday morning about a gallop pole and how so many
Democrats are just not proud to be Americans anymore. Well,
(10:33):
they were okay when Joe Biden was in office, but suddenly,
now that you know, Trump is back in office, they're
suddenly not proud to be American. Okay, bandwagon patriots, I guess.
But we are seeing patriotic pride here ahead of the
July fourth weekend, when we've talked about this the last
(10:54):
number of weeks, our military branches and recruiting, the latest
of the announcement this week that the Air Force, and
I still truckle when I say this Space Force, it
does doe a little cartoony, it does. But they they
have both met their recruitment goals for fiscal year twenty
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twenty five. Three months early. Yep, remember these every branch
of the military was struggling. They could get close to
their quotas under Joe Biden. And now you know, six
months of Donald Trump back in office and enrollment is booming,
the two services gaining a total of thirty thousand new
(11:37):
recruits so far this fiscal year, thirty thousand. And if
you think these are just you know, guys and gals
that are you know again, get a job or something
so they join the service, the Space Force get a
load of this. One in five new recruits holds a
college degree. Okay, we know the Army hit his goal
(12:06):
early last month and exceeded it. So, yes, all the
branches are doing very well and recruiting now that you've
got a Republican back in the White House and you
don't have the services out there marketing themselves by talking
about diversity, equity and inclusion.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
And all that woke stuff. You just said fourth of July.
You're comfortable with that?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah? Okay, I asked, because.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
We got to talk back yesterday not not related to
our show, in another show in our station, and said
that come on guys. You should you should never use
fourth of July. It's independent.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, you know what, I don't think that, you know,
I think we should. I think we could say Independence
Day more often. Yes, yeah, I don't even want to
say it fourth of July.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't think fourth of July is disrespectful. I think,
you know, conservatives looking for another fight like Christmas versus Holidays,
that this is not this, this.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Is not that one.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, all right, I want to make sure you were
comfortable because I say fourth of July and it's I
mean that to me spells independent celebration.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, they're synonymous in my book. Same here. Yeah, okay,
but yeah, I you know, we should probably say Independence
state more often. But that's okay, all right. So the
Donald Trump down in the Florida visiting Alligator Alcatraz yesterday,
and of course you ever present a photo Jenek looking
for the photo up. Christy Domes was right there as usual. Well,
(13:36):
I mean it is kind of her deal, right, she's DHS. Okay,
Rod DeSantis and Trump, who certainly had their their clashes
when it comes to primaries and such, well they agree
on this. Talking about this yesterday before the twenty twenty
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sixth census redo the rules. Remember under Joe Biden, the
rules changed to allow the Census Bureau to include illegal
immigrants in its count All right, okay, so legally they
can't vote just because they're the census. Of course, they're
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still not here. Legally they can't vote. They're not US
citizens except in some locales. Go figure. But remember the
whole point was if they count in the census, then
it counts in the state's population and accounts the number
of congressional seats they hold in Congress. Well, there is
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a bill coming up that would mandate the Census Bureau
revise a census to only include citizens of both the
Trump and DeSantis or behind this needless to say, every
Republican should be every American should be.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, I don't know what would be controversial about counting
and then saying, Okay, here's the number of voters you have,
here's the representation you get. Yeah, right, that's what the
Constitution says.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yes, if this individual is here, they're not a citizen,
they can vote. They shouldn't be counted in the census
for that purpose, and I would you know, really, the
point may be mood because in the current environment with
what's going on, I don't think you're gonna have too
many illegals sign up on the census, to tell you
the truth, I mean, come on, why would they, Right
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as Desanta said yesterday, if they did a fair census,
California would lose like five seats in the House of Representatives.
This is what we've talked about this quite a bit
since they did this. The Democrats did this under Biden.
They had nothing to do with these illegals going in voting.
(15:50):
It just had to do with, you know, propping up
these blue states, these sanctuary states like California, so they
didn't lose seats in Congress. That was the whole point.
And you wonder why those states are sanctuary places. I mean,
they welcome these folks because they want to keep their
representation because so many tax paying native born Americans or
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naturalized Americans, folks who came here and did it the
right way, are so fed up with all this that
they're leaving. By the way, that's where I got around here.
As Actually, I think it was Newsweek posting a long
article yesterday about Yeah, Florida is getting a lot of
interest from people from New York and Connecticut right now,
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very real interest in real estate thanks to this, with
what's going on in New York City right now, with
a potential socialist mayor here one of these days. This
is why these states are welcoming the illegals with their
arms open and giving them free stuff to keep their
seats in Congress. Let's redo this. Towe sixth senses absolutely
(17:01):
that should happen.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am w VOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
This is no longer just a House bill. It's not
a Senate bill.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It's a bill of the people, of the hard working
American people, and we are going to deliver it.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And it is seven fifteen. Good morning, House Speaker. Mike Johnson,
the ball's back in his court. Now, not sure he
wants it. Well, the ball, the ball got changed to
it's yeah, it's a bigger ball. Now, yeah, it's more
like a basketball than a baseball. Now yeah, okay, So
you know, as much turmoil as Mike Johnston went through
(17:44):
to give this thing to the House, then he vauls
it over to the other Chamber and the uh, the
Senate is hitting back a very nasty return shot here
since we're talking little tennis stuff there from last sports reporting. Now,
(18:05):
Johnson's got to deal with this, huh. Okay, So the
Senate got it done yesterday, and it did take a
tie breaking vote by J. D. Vans Hey. I asked
this question earlier, and I was serious. I mean, can
we still actually call it the Big Beautiful Bill? Because,
in a moment of infant outrage, Chuck Schumer somehow was
(18:31):
able to force a name change for this right right
before it passed the Senate yesterday, Schumer raising a point
of order against lines three to five on the first
page where it said that short title this Act may
be cited as one Big Beautiful Bill Act. Schumer argued
(18:54):
that the title that bill violated a particular subsection of
some Congressional budget Act of anyway whatever. So but we'll
still call the Big Beautiful Bill, right, Yes, sorry, Chuck,
it's big. It's a bill, is it beautiful? Well, let's see,
(19:15):
the Sinnate made some changes, uh, and it looks like
as far as spending is concern and raising the uh,
the deficit and then hence the debt that the Senate
has added on here. This is this bill will cost
more than the House bill did. And it it came
(19:38):
with with some some some perks given to Lisa Mkowski
up in Alaska because she was the last holdout here.
I guess that's what I guess. That's the game you play, right,
you want to be the last holdout. I mean, she
was probably salivating at the idea.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It certainly benefited a Alaska in the end.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yes, it did. But together with Susan Collins, who voted
against it, by the way, amendments to Medicaid provisions, clean
energy tax credits Medicaid well, there was an amendment to
raise the fund to fifty billion dollars by raising taxes
(20:23):
on billionaires. That vote failed, by the way, but Collins
did get more money outed for rural hospitals. Republicans of
the Senate made a last minute alteration to green energy provisions,
(20:43):
striking a controversial excise tax and giving tax credits to
solar wind projects that began construction that do begin within
a year of this bill's enactment. There were other tax
credits that the Senate changed and again, and remember and
(21:04):
this is because of the parliamentarian rule that it was
going to require sixty votes. But we and we had
some some Republicans who voted for this in the Senate
to actually, you know, continue to and maybe even increase
free stuff handouts to illegal immigrants in this country. It's just,
it's just it's it's it's sickening. Now.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I don't I don't think that's as big an issue
as it needs to be because clearly that's illegal. Yeah,
and you just have to you know, count on the
regulatory agencies and law enforcement to do the job that
you were hoping to do with this bill. It's not
that big a loss to this bill. There are other
things in this bill that are much worse.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
There are massive medicaid cuts coming out of the Senate
on this one. Matter of fact, these are the largest
custom Medicaid since the program started back in the six
and quite honestly, I'm tired of hearing about this one, because, well.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
You're gonna hear about this went all the way up
until November next.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yure, sure, and you're gonna hear part of the story.
You're going to hear the spin that the Republicans are
cutting medicaid to all these people that According to the CBO,
almost twelve million lower income Americans would lose their health
insurance by twenty thirty four as a results of these cuts. Now,
(22:32):
wait a minute, the cuts are based on what you're
willing this to do. What work? Well, yeah, there are
the work requirements, work requirements. They came there.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
They kept arguing about the dates that those were going
to effect. But you don't even have to get a job.
If you don't want to work, you can't find work.
You can go volunteer and not even on a full
time basis, on a part time basis, and maintain your requirements.
You can't sit on your sofa eating Cheetos and playing
(23:04):
video games and drinking beer all day every day and
expect the government, the tax payers to continue to foot
the bill for your medical or your medical expenses.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Well, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Well, the Congressional Budget Office, which is a nonpartisan group,
says there are currently four point eight million, four point
eight million able bodied Americans who choose not to work. Yeah,
how about that. That's that's a big number. And for
those on the left who say we it's just a
(23:39):
few people, you're singling out a few people.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
No, it's four point eight million. Yeah, it's a bunch. Now,
the the sprint of the finish line, it's Wednesday, Independence Day,
July fourth is Friday. Now, if it's not done by then,
it's not like it won't get done after the fact.
But that that's been that date that Trump put out there,
(24:05):
and the House has got to quickly reassemble. Reconvenient, it's
road trip time. But problem is weather problems on the
Eastern seaboard. Yes, they may have a hard time getting
their members back to DC to take take a vote
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on this. While the sound clip we played earlier from
the House Speaker Mike Johnson made it sound like it's
our bill, We're going to get it done. He's not happy,
and he said this yesterday. He was not happy with
what the Senate did to their product.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Well, according to one of our candidates for governor, it's
dead on arrival.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well soon to be candidates, I guess, Ralph Norman.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Oh yeah, sorry, yeah, we assume he's going to backdate.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
July twenty seven to tell us. Yeah, your name, but yeah,
but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
There are a couple of hardline conservatives in the Freedom
Caucus who have said no to.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Joeld Ship Roy a definite no, obviously.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
To all this money that is being spent in addition
to what the House had already passed.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now that you brought that up, though, let me let
me segue. Now I don't have time to We'll get
remind me to talk about Ralph Norman and this bill
and his hopes to be governor. Let's let's get back
to that a little bit later on, shall we, because
I don't have time to do it right here. But
thanks for reminding.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Me anywhere anytime, take your infot to go.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I listened to you on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
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Speaker 1 (25:52):
It is seven forty one. Good morning, It's Wednesday, July second.
How the heck are you me? I wanted to get
to this point, but we were right out of time
in the last segment. I find this fascinating. Now if
you're Ralph Norman, who, as we talked about yesterday, has
(26:16):
announced that he will announce yes or no or run
for governor on July twenty seventh, which means he's going
to say, yes, he's ready for governor. Yeah, you don't
pick some arbitrary date to see I'm going to announce
that I'm not running for governor on this date. So Norman,
(26:36):
assuming that my theory is correct here, will announce he's
running for governor. Now, as this relates to what's going
to happen over the course the next day or two
upon Capitol Hill and Norman not happy with this particular, big,
(27:01):
beautiful bill, we wouldn't happen with the before was in
the House. If Norman votes against this, remember Tom tell us, Well.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
They're I mean, they're hoping to make some changes before
it gets to that.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, I don't see how Ralph Norman votes against this
if he wants to run for governor in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well, I mean, I would hope he'd vote his conscience
regardless of And the other thing he knows is and
I assume you're talking about angling for a Trump endorsement.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Well, it's because somebody's gonna get it. Yeah, likely somebody's
going to get it.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I mean, he knows by now, it's the politics of
playing Trump. It's the last person to say something nice
about Trump. We'll get that endorsement. So I don't think
he's necessarily worried about a vote this time around this
year versus what happens next year.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I don't know, man, I'm gonna tell us voted against them.
The sentence that it was coming. Didn't Trump immediately out good,
I'm going to primary. Yeah, didn't.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Didn't sound like Tillis was all that sold on running anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, maybe not. Yeah, It's it kind of puts some
in a tricky situation, though, well, true, I.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Think he's you know, I'm it sounds like even Chip
Roy's thinking, all right, we want to get this passed.
We want to get those tax breaks passed. Yeah, it's
just we've got to see changes before that happens. Here's
what I here's what I think is going to happen this.
I don't think this bill passes before the fourth deadline.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I don't think it does either.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And I think you're going to see some changes that
make the fiscal hawks happy, and then it will pass,
maybe maybe as early as next week.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Well, the fiscal hawks weren't happy with the with the
the House version of the bill, true, but they the
Senate took it and put it on steroids. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
So they held their nose and voted for it the
first time, and now I think there's a little more
pressure to get something done.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You know, everybody keeps saying, well, American's voted for, you know,
everything Trump believed in. Well, Americans also voted for some
fiscal responsibility. After four years of handing out money to
anybody who wanted it, including people who don't belong here,
Americans voted in November for some fiscal responsibility in Washington.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
So that's part of the deal. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Absolutely, those tax breaks, the tax cuts should be permanent.
But there are other things that Republicans can do to
this bill too in order to make it more palatable
and you know, ensure America has a decent financial future.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yep. I'm not sure why this happened this morning, but
on my ex timeline it was filled with Nancy Maystweet's
really and it was all about a big road trip.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
What she been talking about, well, nothing in particular.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
It was kind of like one of those oh stream
of social media messages you'd get from a well, quite honestly,
from a teenager. It was about the big road trip
and there's Mason, about three or four of her the
girl friends, and oh not, they're piled into a van.
I guess she was heading back to DC to make
(30:04):
a vote, right for this big beautiful bill, all right,
And it was just like a series of picture or something.
I just thought to myself, I don't think she's running
for governor.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Maybe she's trying to make herself more likable. I don't know,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I just if I were. I don't know if anybody
is consulting her on this, you know, but if I were,
I would say, you know, that just doesn't look very gubernatorial,
you know, I mean, this is really weird.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I mean, when is the last when's the last time
you've gotten the feeling she is running because it's been
a it's been a couple of weeks for me.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, yeah, me too. She's really I mean, since she
said I might be forced into the race, and I thought, okay,
you don't say that. I think, like, I don't want
to run, but I may have to, you know, maybe
forced into it.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I think the backlash finally got to her and she said,
you know what, I haven't done this the right way.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I think you're right meantime, as we talked about briefly earlier,
and we've been alluding to the last number of days
because the site's been up, but it's official now that
andre Bauer is going after Lindsey Graham. I don't see
this ending well.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
You know, we talk about name recognition with a lot
of these candidates. How many people remember him?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh, he's got to sign up on the interstate over
here and andre Bauer interchange, which I think is very ironic,
is wreckoned behind the wheel beating.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I mean, there are a lot of historical monuments up
that people might look at and go, who was that
guy or who is that?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Right? I don't know. I mean, he really has been
out of the picture for a long time now. I
know he's a little still on CNN there briefly, but
that's been a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Right, He's pretty active on social media, but you know,
I don't know. And then you remind people, oh, yeah,
I was lieutenant governor, and most people will say, well so.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, yeah, right, And remember Graham already has Trump's endorsement. NA,
you can rip that back out of you know, cutch
that from the from the hands too. Anytime you wanted to.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I have a feeling if a better conservative, Rand Trump
would happily hand.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Him his his endorsement, and Bower described myself as a
real America first conservative and saying that he thinks that
Graham has been up in DC too long and that
he votes like it.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Well, I don't know that many people would disagree with
that part.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Well, right, and then that's that's the thing, you know
Bower's got going for him, you know, I mean, we
hear this every six years, get rid of Lindsay, get
rid of Lindsay, and then what do we do We
return Lindsay to office again.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Well, in that fifth year, he suddenly becomes somebody that
everybody in the state likes.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
We have such short memories, don't we.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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Speaker 1 (32:59):
Said, fifteen after eight o'clock. It is Wednesday, July second,
Good morning to you, and it's time. I mentioned, well, well,
we'll heat things back up here again, Mari. He the
next about one hundred, So enjoy eighty seven a day.
Even it comes from some sours and storms. We mentioned
this story this morning. By the way, we're kind of
to quote Kenny Chesney, we're living in fast forward here.
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The temperatures we had here in May were more indicative
of temperatures we don't only have in June. The templeres
that we had last month were more indicative of the
temperatures we don't only have in July. We're a month
ahead of time on all this. Now that holds by
the time we get to August, it's gonna be brilliant.
You know, starting getting nice around here. I don't see that.
(33:46):
You don't. You don't think that's gonna Okay, all right,
you're pouring cold water on that theory missing.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Sorry, sorry, I'm just imagining those August tailgates and thinking, well,
at least one August tailgate and thinking, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Actually, apparently, historically speaking, July is a hotter and more
humid month here than August is.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Then why does August always feel like such a law?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I think because we've been looking, we've been through it
for so long, and we're just beat down by it. Yeah, right,
but time we hit to August, like I'm exhausted anyway, Okay,
A couple things to mention here. We've still got a
lot to want to do between now nine o'clock, so
let's jump right in here. While they haven't said exactly
who it is, although I don't know, the state newspaper
(34:29):
says it's right there in the headline, r J. May.
But the House Ethics Committee is opening an investigation into
a lawmaker that they're refusing to publicly identify, but everybody
knows is RJ. May May, who was suspended from the House,
(34:53):
who is behind bars after indicted last month on ten
counts of distributing child sex abuse material. So they're looking
at conduct unbecoming. Yeah, I would think this would qualify
now yep, sounds like it. I don't think this, And
(35:14):
again R. J. May will get his day in court.
But this is a whole different beast right here. Okay,
based on the indictment, I'm I'm not even sure, number one,
why you need to open an investigation into this was
conduct unbecoming? Just go ahead and say that it is. Okay,
why do we need an investigation? But that's what they
(35:35):
do over there and the Ethics Committee. Okay, fine, but
riddle me this. Why are they hiring outside legal counsel. Huh,
how much you're gonna pay some outside attorneys. Are they
(35:58):
actually gonna do the investigation or just assist you in
the investigation? Why you want to spend more of our
money on something that. Come on, guys and gals, it's
a slam dunk from an ethics standpoint, Okay, anyway, that's
(36:19):
what they're gonna do. How many members of the House
Ethics Committee are also attorneys. I wonder you've already hired
outside counsel to defend yourself against the lawsuit over the
unconstitutional pay raise you gave yourself. It's just it's the
(36:43):
gift that keeps on giving, So keep opening up those
wallets and pocketbooks because they just want to spend more.
I don't know. Am I missing something here? I don't
think so.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
It's just I think they have to separate themselves from
the decision and from the legal side of it.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I mean, you can't. You can't play representative and lawyer
at the same time. Although, like you said, this one
would seem to be a slam dun.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
They do this all the time, though, I mean, heck,
that's what they're there for. It's the Ethics Committee That's
what they do, is they investigate lawmakers to see if
they've violated ethics rules.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
But doesn't that committee have a staff council?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I would think, so are isn't everything over there?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Are they saying the staff council as a conflict of
interest because he or she may have known and worked
with our JMA in the past.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Well maybe that's it. I don't know, but I mean,
this is in any other I mean, maybe they do
this on a regular basis and I'm just not aware
of it, But I mean, this is what they do.
They investigate ethics violations. I can for a minute believe
that every time they do that, they're bringing an outside
legal counsel to investigate one of their own, which is
(37:57):
all this is. It's just that these charges are beyond scandalous.
I don't know, I don't. I don't get it, but
you know, you're not. We don't have a choice. So
you know, next time around, stroke the check a little
bit bigger to pay for these attorneys along with the
(38:17):
ones that are defending themselves over their big pay races.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Okay, uh, what's the what's the timing on that case?
By the way, do we know how quickly this is
going to happen?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Oh, the RJA case? Yeah, no, is it this fall?
They I don't think they've actually well, if they've set
a trial date, I'm not aware of it. M M yeah,
I'm not aware.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Of A state newspaper this morning just releasing a piece
a couple of hours ago on how the FEDS snared RJMA.
I haven't seen that any digital investigators might be an
interesting read.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
H okay apparently, Yeah, a potential conflict of interest could exist,
the committee said, so a third party investigator or a
private law firm was retained. No, I get that, but
again I mean they, I don't a potential conflict of
(39:26):
interest could exist with any lawmaker based on these, with
any lawmaker that they investigate for an ethics violation? Right,
why is this different? I don't know. Anyway, there's that
Richland won We are gosh, what does school start back,
mister Thompson. It's a little over a month from now.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Right, yes, less than for some districts. Really, yeah, July,
they're starting in July in some districts. I don't know
if they start in July, but I think most of
well we get some of those year. Yeah, Now you
get first week in August for a lot of but yeah,
there are I know there is at least one in
the Low Country that starts in July.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
M boy, Well, Richland, won I don't think they start
quite that early. I hope not, because they got some
work to do, more than two hundred vacant teaching positions.
More than two hundred. Uh boy. Maybe it was last
(40:25):
year that was quite the fuss because they started the
school year and then this was an elementary grades, right,
I mean very young kids who I mean first grade,
second grade, I mean new to the whole thing, and
you know, they get in there and they just get
comfortable with the teacher and then that teacher gets she
hanged because they needed them somewhere else. I hope they're
(40:47):
figuring out, you know, what they're going to do this
time before the year actually starts. Well, they don't have
much time left.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Which it starts August eleventh for Richland one August eleventh, Okay.
Earliest district opening, by the way, in South Carolina July
twenty first, Aiken County.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
See, they're on that year round thing in Acon County,
that aren't they Edgefield opens on the twenty third.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
There are Greenwood districts that open on the twenty fourth.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Okay, that's just wrong. Lawrence and Marble on the twenty eight. Sorry,
that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Lexington three opens on the twenty ninth.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Really okay, Well, well, thank goodness for Richinal one. They
got a few more weeks to deal with this. But well,
you're not going to find two hundred teachers in a
span of about what six weeks seems like a pretty
tall tasks. Five and a half weeks now, it's not
going to happen. So they got to do some some
(41:36):
juggling over there. And apparently well, according to a state
newspaper article, we have been using across the state more
and more international teachers over the past few years. Matter
of fact, set a record back in the twenty three
to twenty four school year of nearly six hundred, five
hundred and seventy nine international teachers in our public schools.
(41:58):
I'm guessing the private schools don't have this issue.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
That could be wrong, and I would think a majority
of those probably are teaching foreign language, right or are they?
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I don't know. Based on the math I took in
college for teaching math, did you have a single English
speaking instructor Carolina in math, who well, English was their
first language. That that doesn't happen.
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Speaker 1 (42:45):
It's eight forty one. Our final thoughts for Wednesday, July second.
Will today be the day that'll we get a verdict
in New York City and the jury trial of Sean
Diddy Combs.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yeah, that got a little confusing yesterday when we started
seeing headlines of a partial verdict. Yeah, but it wasn't
surprising considering the fact that the judge and jury of
at issues.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah, well, he's up on five counts. The one that
could send him to life to prison for life is racketeering.
A racketeering charge, So that's going to be the hardest
to prove. And that's it.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
And I think, you know, we talked about this earlier
this week that we didn't think that was the one
that the government really got close to.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Well, apparently they convinced some jurors but not others. They
couldn't come to an agreement. Now the other four counts, well,
I say lesser. You know, as far as prison time
has concerned lesser counts, they have reached a verdict on that. However,
the judge said that they would not release what those
verdicts were until they decided on this fifth count of racketeering,
(44:01):
and both sides, the prosecutors of defense the judge all said, well,
you know, after two days of deliberation, that's that's just
too soon to quit, you know, get back in and
get back to work.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Yeah, we've spent too much money on this trial. Yes,
he's a bad guy, I mean a sick, sick man.
It's just did the government meet the burden of proof here?
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Right? This is not only of these trials by the way,
that we thought we could hit all kinds of names,
all kinds of famous people we knew about, right, didn't
really happen, not to the level I think some people
expected it would. Anyway. I would think, you know, just
my theory on this is okay. If they could reach
verdicts on four counts but not on the fifth, and
(44:48):
you know, the top charge here, then probably this is
a sign that these are not not guilty verdicts on
these other four counts. They probably find them guilt on
those four. Sounds like just could agree on the fifth.
So we'll see. Uh. The Pentagon is halting shipments some
(45:09):
at least shipments of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns the
Associated Press reporting that our own stock piles have declined
too much. The Pentagon out came out and said this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Hey Russia, Hey China, we're out of weapons.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
How much are we sending to Ukraine? Talking about cutting
off your nose despite your face? I mean, come on,
and okay, let's say that's apparently true. Do you want
to advertise that? Yeah, you wouldn't think so, that's nuts.
A Pentagon review determined the stocks were too low on
(45:47):
some not all weapons, but on some previously pledged Wow.
That's that's not a good look right there. Huh. They've
give an end the University of Pennsylvania, you pen agreed
to a slew of concessions when it comes to transgends
or athletes. This is one of those. This is the
(46:09):
the Leah Leah Thomas School, right, yeah, yeah, it's part
of Education saying they've reached an agreement. You pin will
be stripping swimming titles from Thomas and uh. I think
also having to apologize to female athletes.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Yeah, they they have to send all the athletes that
competed a letter of apology. Yeah, and I'm not sure
this is an agreement, right. I think the Department of
Education came with the hammer, yeah, do this or else.
But they also had the proof. Again, we keep talking
about November. They had the proof of November behind them. Yeah,
(46:48):
this is what voters wanted.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
Promises made promises. Cap. We were talking a week or
two back about there was an investigation that apparently there
was a report the FBI had do it. Well, they
had done an investigation, the FBN, I think a couple
other agencies, but never did disclose to the public about
(47:13):
the Chinese Communist Party and their attempts to deliver fake
driver's licenses to Chinese sympathizers here in this country in
order to get them to cast a ballot in the
election back in twenty twenty. I mean, they actually they
halted ashiberalties in Chicago. I mean, I know, we're like
(47:33):
a ton of these things, and we wanted to wait
a minute, why was that never made public? Well, now,
records showed communications between FBI officials ahead of the election
regionally declassified that. Well, it seems to be now that
(47:56):
they blocked any further investigation into this because it would
contradict the testimony of then FBI Director Christopher Ray that
he gave to Congress that this apparently wasn't a problem.
Wait a minute, you actually Okay, Now, not telling the
public about this is one thing, but you actually the
(48:19):
FBI actually blocked an investigation. This is the story. Now.
They blocked the investigation because they didn't want the head
guy to look bad, to contradict his testimony in front
of Congress. Really, this is not just like you know, okay,
a minor thing here. This is I can't remember what
the number was, but it seemed like it was close
to hundreds of thousands of fake id's that would hopefully
(48:43):
land in the hands of Chinese communist sympathizers and vote
in the election. Kind of a big.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
Deal, which is probably even more of a reason why
they didn't want it out there, to show just how
wrong Christopher Ray was.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
Yeah, well that's exactly what happened. So you're gonna compromise issue,
compromise an election because you know, the top dog to
get to egg on his face. Yeah, Paramount Global CBS
agreeing to pay Trump a sum that could, with advertising
and everything else for conservative causes be north of thirty
million dollars. This is this isn't a lawsuit that was
(49:20):
filed against the network over that Kamala Harris interview on
sixty minutes on sixty minutes. Now, if you're thinking, Okay,
this is a money grab by Trump or whatever, here's
the important part of this. This is now they're calling
this is the Trump rule that going forward, the network
will promptly release full unedited transcripts of future presidential candidates interviews.
(49:41):
Every network should do that everyone. That's the will be
the legacy of this lawsuit. That's what's most important there.
Every network should do that. And then there's a story
of this guy, Wilson Tendy. He's a forty two year
old native of Kenya, started working in a in a
(50:02):
state as an auditor back in twenty eighteen, rose through
the ranks at the Department of Education in this state.
Had worked as an chief audit officer in this state
at a pollution control agency well, this was in twenty
eighteen when he started working for this state, this particular state.
(50:23):
Back in twenty fifteen, though he submitted a position to
plead guilty to felony fourth degree criminal sexual conduct. Okay,
felony criminal sexual conduct a year before or two years before.
(50:44):
He had also been arrested on a similar charge, but
that one was dropped. This guy, Wilson Tendee, apparently up
until now it looks like his name has been scrubbed
from the website, had been promoted to a top position
(51:05):
in Minnesota state government by none other than Yeah, I said, Minnesota,
Tim Walls, the failed vice presidential candidate Tim Walls. Yeah,
he promoted this guy to become education director. Education director,
(51:27):
Did you do any due diligence at all on this one? Tim,
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