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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Thank good morning to you. Sorry, I'm dealing with technical
issues of morant. I wasn't sure if you had checked
in yet or not. Yeah. No, I was here in
body at least. Okay, yeah, there I was. Let's see.
Let me do this right now. Body. Spirit is not voice. Yeah,
everything goes here but the voice. Yeah, because I had
to do this where I could do that. Okay, Well
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now I'm here morning, but more or less yeah, okay, well, hello,
welcome in. It is Thursday, July thirty. Yes, I didn'
hit this news button this morning. I don't do that
anymore for some reason this morning though, for I don't
know why. It is the day before holiday. Yeah, and
I'm on day three of a grueling three day work week. Yeah,
I'm more out man. It's hard to be me, right.
(01:17):
It is seventeen minutes after six. Good morning, and welcome away.
We appreciate I am Gary David. If not, if we've
not met before, good morning, nice to meet you, and
that is Christopher Thompson right there? Okay, ready for the
July fourth weekend, though the Independence Day weekend is at
least one listener thinks we should always call it. I'm
down with that. The well looks pretty decent until we
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get to the end of the weekend, though, and that's
because we may have a tropical depression for them off
the southeast coast here, so we mentioned that earlier in
the week. Still keeping an eye on that potential, so
heads up on that. If we get anything, it would
be just some rain for us, and that would be
an increased chance rain. Sunday looks like right Sunday, but
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all the fireworks, all the fun. Be able to get
that in before that happens. Good, and there's plenty, plenty
of plenty of that to do this weekend. We got
you get you get to fireworks over at the ballpark tonight,
right county tonight and tomorrow night. That's right, very nice.
The tonight will be the night at Sega Park where
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the fireworks with the fill. I guess that was originally
scheduled for last night, but it had been rescheduled to tonight.
The fourth of July celebration at Fort Jackson happens tonight,
excuse me, tomorrow night gates a little bit of four
o'clock for that, so yeah, plenty of firework to take
in across the meadows and Hermo doing a laser light show,
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are they Yeah? Those are always cool.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I actually know the people who do the laser part
of that, so yeah, that should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
By the way, that one. Now, there will be complimentary
hot dogs while supplies last, so get there early for
the free dog. Now, I'm a little particular about my
hot dogs. I gotta tell you, if I if I
if it's it's almost those red ones, you know. I'm sorry.
I don't want one of those. I don't know what's
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in that me. I only go for the real beef
hot dogs. Buddy. That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Okay, all right, will you tune in tomorrow just see
the And now that the man himself is back in
the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, oh.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Joey Josh chestnutt Yeah, because he was banned last year
because he had some kind of branding deal with some
other hot dog thing or something.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Was what was that one? But I think it was
a plant base. Oh yeah, Okay, come on, but apparently
they worked it all out behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No, I really don't care to watch somebody stuff that
many hot dogs in her face. You know what? You
know what? The grossest part to be the buns. Yeah,
when they dip them in the water. Yeah, yeah, No,
I'll be busy then, I think. Okay, all right, Rundown,
Big stories, hot topics for a Thursday. Well, here at home.
The big news is up at Capitol. We'll get to
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that in a second. But here at home. It was
nearly five years ago that Dolly Myers, Richmond County council woman,
was indicted on charges of public corruption. She will finally
get her day in court. Yeah, some five years later,
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two dozen counts of public corruption, allegations of all sorts
of misdeeds while she was a councilwoman. So she'll love
be getting her day in court here sometime soon. I
actually don't even know what day that date is, but
it's coming up here. It's a new report out showing
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how the six week abortion band has impacted women seeking
abortions here in South Carolina. And it good news. Now,
what is happening is that women are going out of state. Okay,
well you expected that but remember, for a while there,
at least in this part of the world here, we had,
you know, one of the loosest abortion bands, and we
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were an abortion destination. No longer, no longer. Part of
that big beautiful Bill, of the centered version of it
are changes to snap work requirements, and now folks are
complaining about how many South Carolinians we'll lose access Again.
What it's done has raised the working as of sixty
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four able bodied. Okay, right now, those work requirements stop
at fifty four, So sixty four if that survives, and
it looks like it's going to and we'll get to
that in just a second. Ralph Norman, well, he still
a holdout on the Big beautiful Bill. We've talked about
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this briefly yet yesterday Norman, who's expected, Well, he's gonna
make an announcement in July twenty seventh whether or not
he's running for governor of South Carolina. But you don't
want to be on the wrong side of Donald Trump
if you want to do that. Meanwhile, the current governor
weighing in officially endorsing Lindsey Graham for his reelection bid
next year. Of course he has a competition now announced
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competition on the Republican side from former Lieutenant Governor Andre Bower,
who I didn't realize this too, did you. The Posting
Courier in a piece about Andre Bower running against Graham,
that saying that for months and months and months that
Bauer had been dogging Lindsay Graham wanting a wanting a job.
Apparently he was trying to get at least on one
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account here, that he had been trying to get to
Graham to get him an ambassadorship, any sort of job,
apparently in the administration, and that didn't happen. So now
Bower's running against him.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Hard to believe he couldn't get I mean, he was
one of the original steering committee members for Donald Trump. Mark,
If he really wanted a job that badly in the administration,
it's hard to believe they couldn't find him something. It's
kind of weird, isn't it. So I'm not sure how
much of that story holds up.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, Okay, the Big Beautiful Bill. It was another all
nighter up on the Capitol. The lights were burning all
night long on Capitol Hill, and about three point thirty
this morning a rules vote the Chamber, voting two nineteen,
two thirteen to adopt a rule that governs debate on
this and there are they're telling us they're debating right now.
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We could get a vote this hour. And it's looking
like this bill, the Senate version, is going to pass
through the House, as at least a few of the
fiscal hawks have caved. I think Norman voted no on
that rule governing debate, but we'll double check that and
keep an eye on it. It looks like, yeah, Trump's
on the verge of getting that big beautiful bill sent
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to his desk by his deadline that he put out
there being July fourth. Keeping an eye on that this morning,
waiting for breaking news on that story. And uh well,
the verdict in on on p Diddy Sean Combs. Just
two of those five charges that he was charged with
was he found guilty on, but not out of jail yet.
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And these were two of the lesser charges. We could
still spend, you know, some serious time in behind bars,
the judge refusing to allow him out on bail until sentencing.
So we wait to hear on that.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I think you said it best. We expected to hear
a lot more in that trial than we wound up doing.
And yeah, I think for that reason, you know, the
fury inside of course, I mean we expected to hear
names and deeds and everything else, but we also didn't
hear enough proof from the government that ultimately, I think
led to the big charges not coming guilty.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, I think. So that's we got some border news
talk about we've got some more rogue judges. Even though
the Supreme Court has said you can't do this, they're
still doing that, especially when it comes to the border.
And some numbers. Wow, what a what a different day
it is when it comes to border crossings. How many
illegals enter this country under Joe Biden's watch and how
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many are entering now we'll get to that. More coming
up on this. It is the Thursday morning edition of
Columbia's Morning News. Always fabulous to have you with us
in today's keeping the commitment.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I love you guys twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Who listened to you every day half for years.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
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Speaker 1 (09:45):
Sakes forty one the time. Good morning, it is Thursday,
July third. Welcome in and good to have you along
on Gary David with Christopher Thompson the team. This is
Columbia's Morning News. Well engaged in serious show prepace morning. Hey.
By the way, listen, you know we're we're the local guy.
We don't have massive teams of people show prepping us
for the show, right, mister Thompson, No, we don't. It's
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all on us. Man, Yeah, it's all on us.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And that's small staff outside. But well, but we don't
pay well kidding anyway, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Well, he says, the fall staff are small cats. It's
small stake. Yeah, we got a bunch of We got
lots of cats around. We're doing cats. We got plenty
of those. We're hurting those. Now. I came across this.
I just want to at least mention it. And I
found this, of all places in the Hill dot com.
It's kind of unusual to see this article in there,
but there it was, you know, all of the the
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gloom and doom about how car prices were going to
just skyrocket thanks to tariffs. Of course, the reciprocal tariffs
are on hold now until I think it's July ninth,
so a little less than a week. We'll see what happens.
But car prices really haven't gone you know, all the
car dealers were hyping the pre tariff pricing, right, Well,
the prices really haven't gone up, but it may have
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had the effect of having a lot of people go
and actually buy a car to get pre terror pricing. Okay,
but get a load of this. Last quarter, nearly one
in five people who bought a new car and financed
it took on monthly payments of a one thousand dollars
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or more. O yikes, holy comode. One in five. I
just I don't even know what that would be like.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Are they all buying Porsches and Maseratis?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, no, they overall, car shoppers are borrowing more. On average. Now,
car buyers are finance financing forty two three and eighty
eight dollars for a new car. That was last quarter
forty almost you know, just over forty two thousand dollars.
(12:02):
They're financing that much, and they're you know, the time
was I mean, this has been a long time ago,
I know, but you bought a new car, okay, it
was four years?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Four years financing, right, and you even try and put
something down exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And that's the other part of this equation is people
in the last quarter put less. The average down payment
has fallen by about one hundred and fifty bucks, So
they're putting less down and they're financing for upwards of
eight years. Imagine having an eight year long car payment
of one thousand dollars a more. That's just insane.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, you're talking about a generation now that will get
a line of credit for Uber eats, so right, you know, right,
they're used to financing everything.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But IoT one out of five car buyers in the
last quarter took on that's a that's for some people,
that's a mortgage payment.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Man, that's right, and it will be for a long time.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Wow. Crazy, Okay. I found that to be extremely interesting.
All right, So, as I mentioned going into the break,
how successful were those strikes on those Iranian nuclear facilities
a couple of weekends ago. Well, Sean Parnell, who's the
Pentagon chief spokesperson, yesterday telling us that by Pentagon intelligent assessments,
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the Iranian nuclear program was set back by one to
two years. That's disappointing. Now, you know, you had that
leak from an early assessment, there was a poo poo
by the administration saying maybe a couple of months, so
it's better than that, yes, but setting it back one
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to two years, yikes, not what we had hoped. I mean,
that doesn't sound to me like obliterat it. It's not bad,
but I don't think it's what a lot of folks
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had hoped for. Right, So one of the two years,
Parnell saying the strikes on those three sites severely degraded
Tehran's capabilities and willingness. He says, and that may be
the bigger part of the story here. You know, we
just we sent a big, old exposive telegram to Tehran
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a couple of weeks ago. This is what we are
capable of doing. Okay, any questions that may, in the
long run be the best thing out of this. And
if the Iranians insist on trying to rebuild that program,
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they're going to do it with this in the back
of their mind. You know what, the B twos could
come again. You know, it could happen again, and we.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Have to go back into hiding, and we have to
hide everything we've got. And yeah, it's I mean, it's
it's certainly inconvenient for them, even if we haven't you know,
knocked them back years.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, and again do we do? We know for sure?
This is just the best intelligence assessment, and Barnell's saying that,
you know, allies and others who have been studying this
all agree that day you out one to two years.
The Israeli Atomic Energy Commission a little more you know,
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optimistic in their outlook. They say it's been set back
many years, which I think by definition would say more
than one to two. But you know, it sounds like
at least parding to the Pentagon, it's one to two years.
But lasting lesson is don't don't spit in Superman, don't
spit in a way, don't pull on Superman's cape. Right,
they'll mess around with Uncle Sam because you know the
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results may not be very good for you. Things certainly
on that front thankfully have quieted down. But again, when
we got into all this, remember we talked about it.
It's the Middle East, and odds are something like this happens.
It's a bunch of buzz. He game changer, and then
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we find out, you know, at some point down the road, Yeah,
nothing's really changed, and quite Honestly, it's probably what's going
to be the offshoot here is nothing will really change
with the exception of well nothing else. The Iranians know
that we mean business. Okay, We're not shipping palet loads
of cash to you. You know, Barack Obama's not the
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White House. We're not appeasing you. Joe Biden's out. We're
coming after you if we need to. So you know,
as far as that's going, that's a win. That's a win.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's fifteen minutes after seven o'clock at morning, and wonderful
to have you with us this morning. Appreciate that. Just
watching some of the debate moving on the House floor
here this morning, and you have anyone an all nighters?
A lot of all nighters up on Capitol Hill these days,
right uh. The House Minority Leader Akeem Jeffries was speaking
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a few moments.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Ago republic enzo once again, which has been the case,
mister Speaker through every step of this journey. Try to
jam this bill through the House. Of representatives under cover
of darkness, like that.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Never happens under cover of darkness.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
No, sir, there's a there's a cell imposed timeline, and
they want to get it done into the President's desk
to sign tomorrow on July fourth. Okay, I'm not sure
what anyway. Republicans. Oh, yes, you know, back rooms, cigars,
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good brandies. Yeah, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
The Republicans probably wish it was all done under cover.
I mean they've exposed a lot of weaknesses and warts
with this whole process.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah. I mean, anytime you get a piece of legislation
with this much stuff in it, and there's going to
be something that makes everybody unhappy. I get it now again.
For for folks like you and me, what's making is
most unhappy is how much money you're would that we're
adding to the the the to the nation's debt here.
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But it looks like it's going to happen. The debate
has been going on all night long, and at three
point thirty this morning there was a vote to adopt
a rule that would govern debate and that that past
two nineteen two thirteen. That was a hurdle for a
House leadership Republican leadership in the House and was something
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of a gamble really for Mike Johnson. Had he lost
that vote, got to shut it down basically, or at
least really changed the dynamic. But they stayed all night
long and they're still there right now.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
He probably had a pretty firm vote count in hand
before he called for that.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Oh you better believe that he died. Yes, So the
vote early early this morning to advance this into the
final phase.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I'll be curious to hear what the hardline conservatives got
out of this, because, yeah, they were trying to, you know,
for some concessions. That's why it played out so late
last night. The President seemed to understand early and then
later on apparently he got a little more exasperated with
the group of Republicans that were saying no.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, I mean a lot of phone calls made from
the from the Oval office, you know, Ralph Norman and
Ship Roy both said the House Rules Committee.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
And there is nothing wrong with what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
No. They they voted against that measure. And again, as
I talked about yesterday, I'm a it's it's fascinating for
Norman if he does to say he's going to run
for governor. You know, you don't want to get on
the wrong side of Trump, and right now he's on
the wrong side of Trump. But he's sticking to his
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guns on it, on the right side of his principles.
Yeah yeah, and you know you can't fault him for that.
But some of the fiscal hawks apparently have caved and
they're wanting to go on to this now. Johnson, the
House Speaker, saying this is going to end well, and
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uh yeah, he's He's saying that they've they've got the
votes to make this thing happen, and we'll find out
at some point. There was talk at one point that
there might even be a voute last hour, a final vote.
That hasn't happened yet. It looks like Akeem Jefferies is
still still at the podium. Looks like that's they got
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in a small picture and picture here on my monitors,
I can't tell, but it's a small monitor to begin with.
But in my iSER, not as young as he used
to be. But yeah, that's still a keeen Jefferies who's
speaking right now. Who knows how long he'll go. They've
all been in there all night long. They probably wishing okay,
wrap it up, dude, Let's let's move on here. The
energy drinks are wearing off. Yeah, Johnson did something to
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last night. In the middle of the night, four of
the five Republicans and we mentioned Norman and ship Roy
amongst those who voted no, and there were eight altogether
who withheld their votes for hours. They were in the
center out of the House and posed for a picture
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that was taken by Mike Johnson. Anyway, Yeah, they were
smiling and posing. But Johnson's pretty certain that he's got
the votes to make this thing happen. The Senate changed
a lot of this. Remember well, the House sent over
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for the fiscal hawks of the House, like Ralph Norman,
what got out of their chamber. They weren't enamored with
it because of the spending. And then the Senate got
it and just like you know, injected a dose of
steroids onto it. I'll be surprised if Ralph Norman votes
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in favor of this thing. Johnson can lose a couple
of votes. Again, Remember this thing only survived The initial
House version only survived by one vote. One that was it.
And I don't have any reasonablieve it'll be any different
this time around. Maybe it will be. So we're standing
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by to see to see what happens with this thing.
But if that again, if that, if that vote that
was taken about almost four hours ago now in the
middle of the dead of the night, it is indicative
at all, then it looks like maybe it will pass
by a larger margin than it originally did with the
original House version.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well you don't. I mean, these tax cuts have to
be made permanent. Yeah, and nobody's going to be on
the other side of that. The spin now that Republicans
are going to be in charge of handling over the
next coming months is how this impacts Medicaid, and the
Democrats are obviously hammering that right now. It's Republicans are
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taking away you know, valuable health money from you know,
the handicapped and women and the poor. Oh yeah, there's
every group is even more downtrodden today thanks to the Republicans.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Sure, and you can you can bet your bottom dollar
that any Republican incumbent in a House race next November,
all the Democrats up against them, that's all they're going
to talk about. All the ads, everything.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Is going to be about that right there, And Republicans
will have to have answers, and they will have to
have answers if you know, the Democrats are claiming that
all these rural hospitals will close and access to healthcare
will be you know, Republicans will need to have answers
in place and ready to roll.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, and again, how much of that is really going
to happen versus what the Democrats are saying is going
to happen. Well, we got we got to, you know,
not quite a year and a half to see what develops.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Versus how many able bodied folks are being taken off.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Those rules as they should be in here in South Carolina.
There's going to be a lot of folks right now
that are getting the SNAP benefits. For example, the Senate
put this in they've raised the able bodied worker requirement
on SNAP benefits from fifty four to sixty four. And rightfully,
so enough of the free stuff already. Okay, at some
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point you got to try to try to better your lot.
But you know, as long as Democrats are in charge,
you don't have to anyway, all right, So we're keeping
an eye on that. Hopefully we'll get maybe we'll get
a bet before we get off the air this morning,
we'll keep you posted. I won't live up the ship
talking about what matters. This country is too great to
throw over to communism. I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
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Speaker 1 (26:09):
Coming up on seven thirty nine. It's Thursday, July third
morn Until You're good to have you along. It's finally
gonna happen a story that well, quite honestly, i'd forgotten
all about, and maybe you did too. But September twenty
ninth is the date the trial is supposed to start
for well, the woman who's become the poster child of
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at least alleged of a corruption in local government, Dolly Myers,
who nearly five years ago was indicted on the slew
of charges.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Will remind us of what the charge? Which did she
allegedly travel on Richland County funds a lot?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Apparently she only served on council for four years, but
it was apparently made the most of it, allegedly lucrative
four years. Twenty four charges Misconduct in office, use of
official position, for personal gain, embezzlement, writing a fraudulent check,
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use of campaign funds for personal expenses. Oh yeah, remember
this was This is a story that well, at least
according to Creighton Waters at the time, who nobody had
ever heard of, and now everybody knows who Creighton Waters
is after the Alex Murdock trials, told a judge at
her arraignment almost five years ago that Myers took a
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trip de grease on. You know, public funds spent thousands
on that one. It been a potential misuse of county
credit card funds, the Peak cards. That the Peak cards,
you remember the Peak cards. Yes, that she had flown
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through Newark, New Jersey before her trip de Grease, Waters said,
so she could stalk Magic Johnson and Richard Seymour. Seymour,
who was a LR grad, played for the Patriots in
the NFL. I think the Raiders too, But anyway, Yeah,
that she had used her county credit card for a
week long personal trip. Degrees paid for plane tickets, hotels,
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restaurant bills, other purchases. Yeah, yeadha list goes on and on.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Was there even a conference there or something.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
To reason it was Greece? Wow? It was just grease man.
Most of these charges on a two year span from
twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen. And then she tried to
repay this money at least I don't know all of it,
but some of it by a stroking a twenty seven
thousand dollars check that bounced not once but twice. Yeah. Nice.
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So her trial will begin September twenty ninth. Now it
took so long. I mean, they had a bunch of
judge reassignments to state paper reports. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I understand these blue collar crimes aren't as urgent in
the court system, but at the same time, a public official,
you would think we would want to make an example out.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Of a public official when they've.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Gone this far astray allegedly, Yeah, allegedly. It sounds like
the state has plenty of proof. Yeah, in black and white. Yeah,
I don't know. A bunch of judge reassignments and this
and that. Who knows, you know, who knows?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I guess they figured out she was on the danger
to the community, So I've got to put something off.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Will put that off. I couldn't tell you she's not
a criminal danger. She allegedly was a pretty big danger.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Taxpayers pocketbooks exactly. Yeah, now there's any report it's just
dropped about. Uh, well, the impact of the six week
abortion ban here in South Carolina. And it shows that
it pretty much does what we thought it would do,
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the Department of Public Health, or at least this data
earlier this week. And yeah, it shows the number of
abortions the state of dropped precipitously. And remember before this
law was finally passed and passed Cord Muster, we had
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become an abortion destination state. We uh twelve, I guess
it was to twelve weeks. Prior to that, was that
what it was then twelve? It was longer than that
at one time, but other states around US had stricter bands,
and we had a lot of women coming to South
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Carolina to get abortions. Well, that number has dropped big time.
The data show the number of out of state residents
coming here to get abortions fell ninety two percent from
twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four. Strong deterrent. Yeah, yeah,
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we had we had a lot of women coming here
prior to this. The number of women here in our
residents here in our state getting abortions in state dropped
by more than forty percent, So all in all, there
were more than five thousand fewer babies aborted in South
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Carolina twenty twenty three, eight and eighty seven babies lives
ended by abortion. Twenty twenty four, that number dropped at
threeenty twenty five. Now Planned Parenthood. Remember there are just
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two clinics here in the state, one in Charleston, one
here in Columbia. Each one of those locations in twenty
twenty three performed more than a thousand abortions. But they
tell us that that's not what they're there for, right,
They're there to protect women's health. Okay, yeah, but not
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baby's health. So yeah, more than a thousand at each
one of those locations two years ago, two years ago, yes,
those numbers now twenty twenty four, Colombia went from more
than one thousand to eight hundred and seventy three, Charleston
(32:47):
from more than a thousand of five hundred and twenty one.
There is a third clinic in the upstate that's not
affiliate with Planned Parenthood, but the Greenville Women's Clinic. They
saw their numbers wow, go from five one hundred and
fifty eight and twenty twenty three to one thousand, five
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hundred eighty four and twenty twenty four boom, and of
course planned parenthoods complaining and their Vicky Ringer with planned
Parenthoods South Atlantic quote in this article as saying that
three out of four women who come to see them
have had to be turned away because they're too late
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of their term. It did what it was designed to do.
Now again, a woman. There's still plenty of options out there, ladies.
You know, if you want to off that child, there's
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still plenty of states you can go to and get
it done. But South Carolina is and especially for those
out of stators wanting to come here, see not anymore?
What was that number? Down? Ninety how many percent? Ninety
two percent drop?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Not the destination you want to be known for around
the country.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
No, it's not. These have been not good days for
planned parenthood, have they in the last year or so?
And with the latest uh, latest news we we we've
had when it comes to planned parenthood and funding and such.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
But good news for those who embrace life.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, and somehow you're you're seen as isn't it weird?
I mean to the to the left, if you stand
for the sanctity of life. You're seen somehow as evil
what a what it was our doublespeak thing. This is
(34:51):
I mean, this is, this is straight out of you know,
nineteen eighty four. It's good as bad as bad as
good anyway, this is, this is, this is, this is
where we find ourselves these days. So good news there
on that front. That report just to release just a
couple of days ago. Wanted to pass that info a long.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning news on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Once again.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Hey, good morning to you. It's eight fifteen. It is
July third, Thursday morning, and UH another fireworks celebrations we'll
begin tonight around town Bluefish. I'll got I got fireworks tonight, right, mister.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Thompson, tonight and tomorrow night tonight and tomorrow Lexington County
Baseball Stadium.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
All right, the uh fireworks over at Sega Park with
the Philharmonic. It was originally scheduled for last night, but
rescheduled for tonight. I think they were worried about the rain,
the storms.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Last Yeah, I don't know this. See a drop right
in my house. I didn't get much either.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Oh, I mentioned this earlier in IRMO. They're doing a
laser light show. I'd want to mention that again because
if you want to go, go early because you get
free hot dogs while supplies last. I don't how many
hot dogs are gonna have, but while supplies last, you
(36:10):
can you can grab boths. So yeah, and again the
weather is going to cooperate moving forward for for all this.
What about this until maybe Sunday?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Yeah, what's what's the deal in this depression?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Or Yeah, there there's a low off the southeastern coast
that that could become a tropical depression over the weekend,
and so it's gonna bring us an increased chance of
rain Sunday, And if we're impacted by this, it would
be just rain for us. But the end of the weekend,
first part of next week, we could see some impacts
(36:46):
of that. But this this won't be a major tropical
storm by any stretch of the imagination. Okay, just a
few disruptions for some Okay, there's that, all right? H
is I keem Jeffrey still talking? I've lost I feed now,
I don't feed this or not. Well, we're waiting. I
don't know it is this is this signal that when
(37:06):
Keem stops, a vote will take place? Is that what
this is? I show him live, yes and still lie? Okay,
all right, Well we're keeping a watch on that this morning,
expecting a final vote on the Trump's big beautiful bill
and the in the House. Meantime, I guess maybe the
highest court in the land doesn't matter anymore. Uh, here
(37:29):
we go, another district judge looking to block Trump's mass
deportation efforts. What district this is?
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Which district is this? Well, it's let's listen. Let's put
it this way. It's not the district of the United
States of America. Okay, Oh a judge in Brooklyn. Yeah, okay, yeah,
socialist Brooklyn. I mean, the Supreme Court is ruled these
these law fair judges in a in in just as
(38:01):
a district judge, you cannot make rulings that impact the
entire country. Well, they're still trying to do it. But
you know, in the meantime, okay, we're you know, the
Trump administration is still battling to get illegals, in particular
the criminal element of these of this legal population out
of the country. Well, getting into the country has gotten
(38:26):
a lot tougher. By the way, in addition to that
judge ruling, you had a federal judge, an Obama appointee,
ruling that the president does not have unilateral authority to
limit the rights of aliens present in this country to
apply for asylum. Okay, Well, I might argue that this
(38:54):
Obama appointee does not have the unilateral authority to prevent
the elected president United States from exercising his authority, But
that's the whole other story. So all right, now, getting
in here has gotten a lot tougher. Before we get
to the numbers, let's let's let's back up in history
a little bit. The numbers are in according to the
(39:18):
Congressional Budget Office, from twenty twenty one through twenty twenty four,
you know, the Joe Biden years, a net number of
ten point three million people immigrated to this country. And
that's a number that reflects both and illegal immigrants. The
vast majority of those are are are illegal, and that
(39:43):
does take out the number who left. So you're left
with a net of ten point three million who immigrated,
a lot of them illegally into this country. During Joe
Biden's years. So as a result of this, the population
numbers here in the US, the number of people living
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in this country who were four and born now has
hit sixteen point two percent. You'd have to go back.
The all time record prior to this was fourteen point
eight percent. That was in eighteen ninety. Wow, one hundred
and thirty years plus, that was the record. But Joe
(40:29):
Biden said, hold my beer, unbelievable. Okay, So that's there,
you go, that's that's that's the Joe Biden legacy right there. Now.
(40:51):
Last month, for the entire month of June, the number
of encounters at the southern border six thousand and seventy.
And oh, by the way, guess what, not a single
one was released into this country with a cell phone
and a court date maybe you know, five six years
(41:13):
down the road. Not a one. Six thousand and seventy
for the entire month of June. As that Tom Holman
wrote on x that is less than a single day
under Biden. So as a matter of fact, the total
number of encounters has left less than half of a
(41:34):
single day under Joe Biden. Yeah, to compare this under
the Biden White House, there were about one hundred and
fifty five thousand monthly border crossings one hundred and fifty
five thousand. May of twenty four alone, sixty two thousand
(41:59):
plus immigrants were released into the country. Released that was
a year ago. Last month, again, the number of immigrants
released into this country zip nada blanco, big old goose egg.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Did you see the president when he announced that yesterday?
I think even he was shocked. Yeah, right, he said
zero zero. So you go from sixty two thousand to zero,
and from one hundred and fifty five thousand or so
border crossings on average under Joe Biden to last month
just a tick over six thousand total. But then we
(42:45):
have this from Homeland Security. They say they've uncovered widespread
instances of unaccompanied migrant children placed with unvetted sponsors with
criminal background during the Biden administration. They released this press
(43:06):
release just a day or two back, and this comes
from a months long investigation that they have been leading
to ensure these kids are safe. Agents finding numerous instances
where sponsors had previously been charged with serious crimes hit
and run, aggravated assault, larceny, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, prostitution, even
(43:27):
attempted murder, and that in some of the most extreme cases,
unaccompanied migrant girls were found to be pregnant with children
fathered by their alleged sponsors. You know, that's a part
of this story that did the Biden administration tried their
(43:48):
best to cover up, and the media complied with them.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
That's horrific, man, horrific vetted sponsors with criminal backgrounds, and
how many of these kids wound up in those households. Yeah,
I was cleaning out the office the other day. In
the bottom of a little case I found I found
one of the you know, the little stickers, little Joe
(44:16):
Biden stickers that were so popular when gas prices were high.
I did that. Yeah, Yeah, I found that. Yeah, he
did this too. You can take us on the go.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
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Speaker 1 (44:46):
Hey forty final thoughts for Thursday, July third, Breaking news.
First up, No, not a not a house on the
boat yet. On the Big Beautiful Bill, I Keem is
still holding cord over there. But Labor Department and just
released the jobs numbers for June. While economist predicted one
hundred and ten thousand, they were wrong, as usual, one
(45:10):
hundred and forty seven thousand. Even amongst all this economic uncertainty,
the economy keeps adding jobs. How about that?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
That is good news anytime we overshoot their estimates, right right.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yes, So there you go, one hundred and forty seven
thousand jobs added in the month of June. Nice, okay.
You know, And I took a long weekend this past
weekend and spent some time down in the low country
over Mount Pleasant, Isle of Palms, and went out to
shim Creek Sunday night and ate and I wondered, you know,
(45:46):
as soon as we pulled up, you know, I said, Yeah,
the shrimp wars in Charleston. This has gotten serious, man.
Oh yeah, it's gone to court. Yeah, there are lawsuits
over this. Remember the places that the claim is is
these restaurants that were advertising, you know, a fresh local
shrimp and well the allegations that it really wasn't. Yeah,
(46:08):
this is this is serious, a big shrimp war.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Now you've got a lot of restaurants, saying, well, we
kind of hinted at it, but that was really our
social media folks. We had nothing to do with that.
They just they back off a little bit farther with
every statement. Right, Yeah, we didn't know what those kids
were creating for our social campaign.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
We had no idea. Now this lawsuits have been brought
by the sc Shrimpers Association. They've named twenty five Charleston
area restaurants. I'm happy to see that the restaurant that
we ate at in Shrimp Creek was not on the list.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Okay, well, I mean if it doesn't sound like a
big deal to us, but down there where seafood and
tourism is a big part of the that's that's the
job market.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Yeah, so now it's a big deal down there. Sure
they're gonna finally get it reopened here. Matter of fact,
not in time for this week in July fourth weekend,
but they don't miss it by much. July fourteenth is well,
now they will miss it by much. They're expected to
start work July fourteenth to get large portions of the
(47:11):
river Walk on the West Columbia side reopened again. And
we talked about this a while back. They decided to
wait for the federal funds thing to get resolved. All
this from damage from Helene that was we hadn't been
over there in a bit. I would tell you we
live in Lexington. When they opened that new trail around
(47:32):
at the old mill, that's been our go to man.
We used to get out of the West Comba River
Rock all the time, and we tried to go a
month or two back. I didn't realize it was mainly
all shut down, but they're working to get it reopen.
With the independence state celebrations at hand. Now, the Fed's
warning of lone wolf attacks, especially since the military action
(47:53):
against the Iranians. Again maybe mainly big cities. Of course,
this has gotten to be pretty much standard, right. I mean,
anytime we have a big holiday in this country, sure,
and I don't think we need the FENS to warn
us anymore. I think everybody's pretty much realizing it could
happen anytime.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
But they're working to keep us safe. The goal is
to live our lives as normally as we can.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, right. One of the agencies that tries to keep
us safe ice good Old Promeila Jpow, the Democrat squad
member from the state of Washington not back and down
defending a recent social media post in which she called
ICE a terrorist force. Wow. Yeah. When attacked on this,
(48:54):
she responded by saying, what's deranged and cruel and outrageous
is that literally we are seeing ICE agents no identification,
wearing masks and playing clothes, coming and kidnapping and disappearing
people on the streets of the United States.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
Well, we've talked about why they wear masks.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Yeah, because of people like you ABC Catch and Flag
for a social media post. They were published a report
Tuesday about a sentence of hearing coming up for a
thirty year old who is a leader of a local
and I think it's in New York City area, a
(49:33):
local MS thirteen gang. In the post, the post read this,
the leader of an MS thirteen click like the chess club,
yeah right, or like a group of you know, girls
(49:55):
who get together and form their own click in you know,
high school or junior high school. They do bad things.
Sometimes they're mean and stuff. Yeah, you know it's a clique.
Speaker 3 (50:05):
Who wrote that post, somebody who's been raised on PC
and trying not to offend right, right, and maybe.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
The whole post to you And imagine how you write
this post and you can actually put these words all
together in one post. The leader of an MS thirteen
clique faces sentencing in a federal racketeering case involving eight murders.
But it's a click. Yeah, I have no I get
(50:41):
nothing else. I don't know what to say about that.
I can't add to that.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
And somebody at ABC News, the national Organization right there, and.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
A social media pos you know, I wonder sometimes if
these you know, uh, these outlets, if they don't look
at social media stuff, is something totally different from what
they might Can you imagine going on the air and
saying that, no, no, somehow, if it's gonna be on
social media, they take a whole different approach. Ben Austin,
(51:17):
an ex Kamala Harris campaign aid, writing an opinion piece
Monday saying the Democrat Party should break up with Randy Winingarten,
the president of the American Federation of Teachers, who recently
resigned her position from the DNC. You'll recall his complaint
is that, well, you know what, while Republicans were trying
all sorts of ways when it came to a school
(51:39):
choice that folks like Winegarten just were like, you know
there should be no choice at all. And then she
turned off a lot of what might have been Democrat
voters and they went and voted Republican because they got kids,
and their kids are getting short shifted in schools run
by people like Randy Wingarten. He says, we should break up.
(52:01):
I was hoping he's probably right.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
I was hoping it would be a few more years
before they figured that out. But yes, he's absolutely.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
Absolutely right, right, Yeah, And I don't know what to
make of this. I don't guess we'll really notice unless
you're like really super nerdy. But a scientist warning that
Earth's rotation is unexpectedly accelerating and will lead to the
shortest day in history in just a few weeks. Now.
We're not talking about you know, daylight and dark that
(52:29):
sort of thing, but that the actual rotation, the spin
of the Earth. We'll see it could be one of
three dates this summer, he says, July ninth. If that
doesn't happen on July twenty second, that doesn't happen in
August fifth.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
And how long is the shortest day going to be?
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Well, let's see, Actually, he's prettyting it'll happen each of
those days actually look sary. Just look, oh, let's see
one point three zero milliseconds the ninth, one point three
to eight milliseconds on the twenty second, and one point
five to one milliseconds on the fifth. Now, individually, that's
not much, but you add it all up, and now
were talking serious time, right, we're talking about you know,
probably five milliseconds.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
Sure, so we're spinning so fast that I need to
hang onto the walls.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
Hang on to the walls, man. No, no, no mention
of what this might do to gravity or the ocean
tides or anything else. But just know, if it seems
like the day really flew by, that'll be why
Icious, yeah, America and for reus orination is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Thank good morning to you. Sorry, I'm dealing with technical
issues of morant. I wasn't sure if you had checked
in yet or not. Yeah. No, I was here in
body at least. Okay, yeah, there I was. Let's see.
Let me do this right now. Body. Spirit is not voice. Yeah,
everything goes here but the voice. Yeah, because I had
to do this where I could do that. Okay, Well
(00:55):
now I'm here morning, but more or less yeah, okay, well, hello,
welcome in. It is Thursday, July thirty. Yes, I didn'
hit this news button this morning. I don't do that
anymore for some reason this morning though, for I don't
know why. It is the day before holiday. Yeah, and
I'm on day three of a grueling three day work week. Yeah,
I'm more out man. It's hard to be me, right.
(01:17):
It is seventeen minutes after six. Good morning, and welcome away.
We appreciate I am Gary David. If not, if we've
not met before, good morning, nice to meet you, and
that is Christopher Thompson right there? Okay, ready for the
July fourth weekend, though the Independence Day weekend is at
least one listener thinks we should always call it. I'm
down with that. The well looks pretty decent until we
(01:41):
get to the end of the weekend, though, and that's
because we may have a tropical depression for them off
the southeast coast here, so we mentioned that earlier in
the week. Still keeping an eye on that potential, so
heads up on that. If we get anything, it would
be just some rain for us, and that would be
an increased chance rain. Sunday looks like right Sunday, but
(02:03):
all the fireworks, all the fun. Be able to get
that in before that happens. Good, and there's plenty, plenty
of plenty of that to do this weekend. We got
you get you get to fireworks over at the ballpark tonight,
right county tonight and tomorrow night. That's right, very nice.
The tonight will be the night at Sega Park where
(02:26):
the fireworks with the fill. I guess that was originally
scheduled for last night, but it had been rescheduled to tonight.
The fourth of July celebration at Fort Jackson happens tonight,
excuse me, tomorrow night gates a little bit of four
o'clock for that, so yeah, plenty of firework to take
in across the meadows and Hermo doing a laser light show,
(02:49):
are they Yeah? Those are always cool.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I actually know the people who do the laser part
of that, so yeah, that should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
By the way, that one. Now, there will be complimentary
hot dogs while supplies last, so get there early for
the free dog. Now, I'm a little particular about my
hot dogs. I gotta tell you, if I if I
if it's it's almost those red ones, you know. I'm sorry.
I don't want one of those. I don't know what's
(03:17):
in that me. I only go for the real beef
hot dogs. Buddy. That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Okay, all right, will you tune in tomorrow just see
the And now that the man himself is back in
the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, oh.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Joey Josh chestnutt Yeah, because he was banned last year
because he had some kind of branding deal with some
other hot dog thing or something.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Was what was that one? But I think it was
a plant base. Oh yeah, Okay, come on, but apparently
they worked it all out behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No, I really don't care to watch somebody stuff that
many hot dogs in her face. You know what? You
know what? The grossest part to be the buns. Yeah,
when they dip them in the water. Yeah, yeah, No,
I'll be busy then, I think. Okay, all right, Rundown,
Big stories, hot topics for a Thursday. Well, here at home.
The big news is up at Capitol. We'll get to
(04:10):
that in a second. But here at home. It was
nearly five years ago that Dolly Myers, Richmond County council woman,
was indicted on charges of public corruption. She will finally
get her day in court. Yeah, some five years later,
(04:32):
two dozen counts of public corruption, allegations of all sorts
of misdeeds while she was a councilwoman. So she'll love
be getting her day in court here sometime soon. I
actually don't even know what day that date is, but
it's coming up here. It's a new report out showing
(04:53):
how the six week abortion band has impacted women seeking
abortions here in South Carolina. And it good news. Now,
what is happening is that women are going out of state. Okay,
well you expected that but remember, for a while there,
at least in this part of the world here, we had,
you know, one of the loosest abortion bands, and we
(05:16):
were an abortion destination. No longer, no longer. Part of
that big beautiful Bill, of the centered version of it
are changes to snap work requirements, and now folks are
complaining about how many South Carolinians we'll lose access Again.
What it's done has raised the working as of sixty
(05:36):
four able bodied. Okay, right now, those work requirements stop
at fifty four, So sixty four if that survives, and
it looks like it's going to and we'll get to
that in just a second. Ralph Norman, well, he still
a holdout on the Big beautiful Bill. We've talked about
(05:59):
this briefly yet yesterday Norman, who's expected, Well, he's gonna
make an announcement in July twenty seventh whether or not
he's running for governor of South Carolina. But you don't
want to be on the wrong side of Donald Trump
if you want to do that. Meanwhile, the current governor
weighing in officially endorsing Lindsey Graham for his reelection bid
next year. Of course he has a competition now announced
(06:21):
competition on the Republican side from former Lieutenant Governor Andre Bower,
who I didn't realize this too, did you. The Posting
Courier in a piece about Andre Bower running against Graham,
that saying that for months and months and months that
Bauer had been dogging Lindsay Graham wanting a wanting a job.
Apparently he was trying to get at least on one
(06:42):
account here, that he had been trying to get to
Graham to get him an ambassadorship, any sort of job,
apparently in the administration, and that didn't happen. So now
Bower's running against him.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Hard to believe he couldn't get I mean, he was
one of the original steering committee members for Donald Trump. Mark,
If he really wanted a job that badly in the administration,
it's hard to believe they couldn't find him something. It's
kind of weird, isn't it. So I'm not sure how
much of that story holds up.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, Okay, the Big Beautiful Bill. It was another all
nighter up on the Capitol. The lights were burning all
night long on Capitol Hill, and about three point thirty
this morning a rules vote the Chamber, voting two nineteen,
two thirteen to adopt a rule that governs debate on
this and there are they're telling us they're debating right now.
(07:33):
We could get a vote this hour. And it's looking
like this bill, the Senate version, is going to pass
through the House, as at least a few of the
fiscal hawks have caved. I think Norman voted no on
that rule governing debate, but we'll double check that and
keep an eye on it. It looks like, yeah, Trump's
on the verge of getting that big beautiful bill sent
(07:55):
to his desk by his deadline that he put out
there being July fourth. Keeping an eye on that this morning,
waiting for breaking news on that story. And uh well,
the verdict in on on p Diddy Sean Combs. Just
two of those five charges that he was charged with
was he found guilty on, but not out of jail yet.
(08:18):
And these were two of the lesser charges. We could
still spend, you know, some serious time in behind bars,
the judge refusing to allow him out on bail until sentencing.
So we wait to hear on that.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I think you said it best. We expected to hear
a lot more in that trial than we wound up doing.
And yeah, I think for that reason, you know, the
fury inside of course, I mean we expected to hear
names and deeds and everything else, but we also didn't
hear enough proof from the government that ultimately, I think
led to the big charges not coming guilty.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, I think. So that's we got some border news
talk about we've got some more rogue judges. Even though
the Supreme Court has said you can't do this, they're
still doing that, especially when it comes to the border.
And some numbers. Wow, what a what a different day
it is when it comes to border crossings. How many
illegals enter this country under Joe Biden's watch and how
(09:12):
many are entering now we'll get to that. More coming
up on this. It is the Thursday morning edition of
Columbia's Morning News. Always fabulous to have you with us
in today's keeping the commitment.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I love you guys twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Who listened to you every day half for years.
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Speaker 1 (09:45):
Sakes forty one the time. Good morning, it is Thursday,
July third. Welcome in and good to have you along
on Gary David with Christopher Thompson the team. This is
Columbia's Morning News. Well engaged in serious show prepace morning. Hey.
By the way, listen, you know we're we're the local guy.
We don't have massive teams of people show prepping us
for the show, right, mister Thompson, No, we don't. It's
(10:06):
all on us. Man, Yeah, it's all on us.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And that's small staff outside. But well, but we don't
pay well kidding anyway, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Well, he says, the fall staff are small cats. It's
small stake. Yeah, we got a bunch of We got
lots of cats around. We're doing cats. We got plenty
of those. We're hurting those. Now. I came across this.
I just want to at least mention it. And I
found this, of all places in the Hill dot com.
It's kind of unusual to see this article in there,
but there it was, you know, all of the the
(10:39):
gloom and doom about how car prices were going to
just skyrocket thanks to tariffs. Of course, the reciprocal tariffs
are on hold now until I think it's July ninth,
so a little less than a week. We'll see what happens.
But car prices really haven't gone you know, all the
car dealers were hyping the pre tariff pricing, right, Well,
the prices really haven't gone up, but it may have
(11:02):
had the effect of having a lot of people go
and actually buy a car to get pre terror pricing. Okay,
but get a load of this. Last quarter, nearly one
in five people who bought a new car and financed
it took on monthly payments of a one thousand dollars
(11:23):
or more. O yikes, holy comode. One in five. I
just I don't even know what that would be like.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Are they all buying Porsches and Maseratis?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, no, they overall, car shoppers are borrowing more. On average. Now,
car buyers are finance financing forty two three and eighty
eight dollars for a new car. That was last quarter
forty almost you know, just over forty two thousand dollars.
(12:02):
They're financing that much, and they're you know, the time
was I mean, this has been a long time ago,
I know, but you bought a new car, okay, it
was four years?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Four years financing, right, and you even try and put
something down exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And that's the other part of this equation is people
in the last quarter put less. The average down payment
has fallen by about one hundred and fifty bucks, So
they're putting less down and they're financing for upwards of
eight years. Imagine having an eight year long car payment
of one thousand dollars a more. That's just insane.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, you're talking about a generation now that will get
a line of credit for Uber eats, so right, you know, right,
they're used to financing everything.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But IoT one out of five car buyers in the
last quarter took on that's a that's for some people,
that's a mortgage payment.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Man, that's right, and it will be for a long time.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Wow. Crazy, Okay. I found that to be extremely interesting.
All right, So, as I mentioned going into the break,
how successful were those strikes on those Iranian nuclear facilities
a couple of weekends ago. Well, Sean Parnell, who's the
Pentagon chief spokesperson, yesterday telling us that by Pentagon intelligent assessments,
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the Iranian nuclear program was set back by one to
two years. That's disappointing. Now, you know, you had that
leak from an early assessment, there was a poo poo
by the administration saying maybe a couple of months, so
it's better than that, yes, but setting it back one
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to two years, yikes, not what we had hoped. I mean,
that doesn't sound to me like obliterat it. It's not bad,
but I don't think it's what a lot of folks
(14:13):
had hoped for. Right, So one of the two years,
Parnell saying the strikes on those three sites severely degraded
Tehran's capabilities and willingness. He says, and that may be
the bigger part of the story here. You know, we
just we sent a big, old exposive telegram to Tehran
(14:39):
a couple of weeks ago. This is what we are
capable of doing. Okay, any questions that may, in the
long run be the best thing out of this. And
if the Iranians insist on trying to rebuild that program,
(15:00):
they're going to do it with this in the back
of their mind. You know what, the B twos could
come again. You know, it could happen again, and we.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Have to go back into hiding, and we have to
hide everything we've got. And yeah, it's I mean, it's
it's certainly inconvenient for them, even if we haven't you know,
knocked them back years.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, and again do we do? We know for sure?
This is just the best intelligence assessment, and Barnell's saying that,
you know, allies and others who have been studying this
all agree that day you out one to two years.
The Israeli Atomic Energy Commission a little more you know,
(15:43):
optimistic in their outlook. They say it's been set back
many years, which I think by definition would say more
than one to two. But you know, it sounds like
at least parding to the Pentagon, it's one to two years.
But lasting lesson is don't don't spit in Superman, don't
spit in a way, don't pull on Superman's cape. Right,
they'll mess around with Uncle Sam because you know the
(16:07):
results may not be very good for you. Things certainly
on that front thankfully have quieted down. But again, when
we got into all this, remember we talked about it.
It's the Middle East, and odds are something like this happens.
It's a bunch of buzz. He game changer, and then
(16:30):
we find out, you know, at some point down the road, Yeah,
nothing's really changed, and quite Honestly, it's probably what's going
to be the offshoot here is nothing will really change
with the exception of well nothing else. The Iranians know
that we mean business. Okay, We're not shipping palet loads
of cash to you. You know, Barack Obama's not the
(16:50):
White House. We're not appeasing you. Joe Biden's out. We're
coming after you if we need to. So you know,
as far as that's going, that's a win. That's a win.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty AM w VOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's fifteen minutes after seven o'clock at morning, and wonderful
to have you with us this morning. Appreciate that. Just
watching some of the debate moving on the House floor
here this morning, and you have anyone an all nighters?
A lot of all nighters up on Capitol Hill these days,
right uh. The House Minority Leader Akeem Jeffries was speaking
(17:36):
a few moments.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Ago republic enzo once again, which has been the case,
mister Speaker through every step of this journey. Try to
jam this bill through the House. Of representatives under cover
of darkness, like that.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Never happens under cover of darkness.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
No, sir, there's a there's a cell imposed timeline, and
they want to get it done into the President's desk
to sign tomorrow on July fourth. Okay, I'm not sure
what anyway. Republicans. Oh, yes, you know, back rooms, cigars,
(18:19):
good brandies. Yeah, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
The Republicans probably wish it was all done under cover.
I mean they've exposed a lot of weaknesses and warts
with this whole process.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah. I mean, anytime you get a piece of legislation
with this much stuff in it, and there's going to
be something that makes everybody unhappy. I get it now again.
For for folks like you and me, what's making is
most unhappy is how much money you're would that we're
adding to the the the to the nation's debt here.
(18:53):
But it looks like it's going to happen. The debate
has been going on all night long, and at three
point thirty this morning there was a vote to adopt
a rule that would govern debate and that that past
two nineteen two thirteen. That was a hurdle for a
House leadership Republican leadership in the House and was something
(19:16):
of a gamble really for Mike Johnson. Had he lost
that vote, got to shut it down basically, or at
least really changed the dynamic. But they stayed all night
long and they're still there right now.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
He probably had a pretty firm vote count in hand
before he called for that.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Oh you better believe that he died. Yes, So the
vote early early this morning to advance this into the
final phase.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I'll be curious to hear what the hardline conservatives got
out of this, because, yeah, they were trying to, you know,
for some concessions. That's why it played out so late
last night. The President seemed to understand early and then
later on apparently he got a little more exasperated with
the group of Republicans that were saying no.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, I mean a lot of phone calls made from
the from the Oval office, you know, Ralph Norman and
Ship Roy both said the House Rules Committee.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
And there is nothing wrong with what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
No. They they voted against that measure. And again, as
I talked about yesterday, I'm a it's it's fascinating for
Norman if he does to say he's going to run
for governor. You know, you don't want to get on
the wrong side of Trump, and right now he's on
the wrong side of Trump. But he's sticking to his
(20:44):
guns on it, on the right side of his principles.
Yeah yeah, and you know you can't fault him for that.
But some of the fiscal hawks apparently have caved and
they're wanting to go on to this now. Johnson, the
House Speaker, saying this is going to end well, and
(21:08):
uh yeah, he's He's saying that they've they've got the
votes to make this thing happen, and we'll find out
at some point. There was talk at one point that
there might even be a voute last hour, a final vote.
That hasn't happened yet. It looks like Akeem Jefferies is
still still at the podium. Looks like that's they got
(21:28):
in a small picture and picture here on my monitors,
I can't tell, but it's a small monitor to begin with.
But in my iSER, not as young as he used
to be. But yeah, that's still a keeen Jefferies who's
speaking right now. Who knows how long he'll go. They've
all been in there all night long. They probably wishing okay,
wrap it up, dude, Let's let's move on here. The
energy drinks are wearing off. Yeah, Johnson did something to
(21:52):
last night. In the middle of the night, four of
the five Republicans and we mentioned Norman and ship Roy
amongst those who voted no, and there were eight altogether
who withheld their votes for hours. They were in the
center out of the House and posed for a picture
(22:14):
that was taken by Mike Johnson. Anyway, Yeah, they were
smiling and posing. But Johnson's pretty certain that he's got
the votes to make this thing happen. The Senate changed
a lot of this. Remember well, the House sent over
(22:36):
for the fiscal hawks of the House, like Ralph Norman,
what got out of their chamber. They weren't enamored with
it because of the spending. And then the Senate got
it and just like you know, injected a dose of
steroids onto it. I'll be surprised if Ralph Norman votes
(22:57):
in favor of this thing. Johnson can lose a couple
of votes. Again, Remember this thing only survived The initial
House version only survived by one vote. One that was it.
And I don't have any reasonablieve it'll be any different
this time around. Maybe it will be. So we're standing
(23:19):
by to see to see what happens with this thing.
But if that again, if that, if that vote that
was taken about almost four hours ago now in the
middle of the dead of the night, it is indicative
at all, then it looks like maybe it will pass
by a larger margin than it originally did with the
original House version.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well you don't. I mean, these tax cuts have to
be made permanent. Yeah, and nobody's going to be on
the other side of that. The spin now that Republicans
are going to be in charge of handling over the
next coming months is how this impacts Medicaid, and the
Democrats are obviously hammering that right now. It's Republicans are
(24:00):
taking away you know, valuable health money from you know,
the handicapped and women and the poor. Oh yeah, there's
every group is even more downtrodden today thanks to the Republicans.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Sure, and you can you can bet your bottom dollar
that any Republican incumbent in a House race next November,
all the Democrats up against them, that's all they're going
to talk about. All the ads, everything.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Is going to be about that right there, And Republicans
will have to have answers, and they will have to
have answers if you know, the Democrats are claiming that
all these rural hospitals will close and access to healthcare
will be you know, Republicans will need to have answers
in place and ready to roll.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, and again, how much of that is really going
to happen versus what the Democrats are saying is going
to happen. Well, we got we got to, you know,
not quite a year and a half to see what develops.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Versus how many able bodied folks are being taken off.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Those rules as they should be in here in South Carolina.
There's going to be a lot of folks right now
that are getting the SNAP benefits. For example, the Senate
put this in they've raised the able bodied worker requirement
on SNAP benefits from fifty four to sixty four. And rightfully,
so enough of the free stuff already. Okay, at some
(25:31):
point you got to try to try to better your lot.
But you know, as long as Democrats are in charge,
you don't have to anyway, all right, So we're keeping
an eye on that. Hopefully we'll get maybe we'll get
a bet before we get off the air this morning,
we'll keep you posted. I won't live up the ship
talking about what matters. This country is too great to
throw over to communism. I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
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Speaker 1 (26:09):
Coming up on seven thirty nine. It's Thursday, July third
morn Until You're good to have you along. It's finally
gonna happen a story that well, quite honestly, i'd forgotten
all about, and maybe you did too. But September twenty
ninth is the date the trial is supposed to start
for well, the woman who's become the poster child of
(26:31):
at least alleged of a corruption in local government, Dolly Myers,
who nearly five years ago was indicted on the slew
of charges.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Will remind us of what the charge? Which did she
allegedly travel on Richland County funds a lot?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Apparently she only served on council for four years, but
it was apparently made the most of it, allegedly lucrative
four years. Twenty four charges Misconduct in office, use of
official position, for personal gain, embezzlement, writing a fraudulent check,
(27:13):
use of campaign funds for personal expenses. Oh yeah, remember
this was This is a story that well, at least
according to Creighton Waters at the time, who nobody had
ever heard of, and now everybody knows who Creighton Waters
is after the Alex Murdock trials, told a judge at
her arraignment almost five years ago that Myers took a
(27:39):
trip de grease on. You know, public funds spent thousands
on that one. It been a potential misuse of county
credit card funds, the Peak cards. That the Peak cards,
you remember the Peak cards. Yes, that she had flown
(28:02):
through Newark, New Jersey before her trip de Grease, Waters said,
so she could stalk Magic Johnson and Richard Seymour. Seymour,
who was a LR grad, played for the Patriots in
the NFL. I think the Raiders too, But anyway, Yeah,
that she had used her county credit card for a
week long personal trip. Degrees paid for plane tickets, hotels,
(28:27):
restaurant bills, other purchases. Yeah, yeadha list goes on and on.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Was there even a conference there or something.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
To reason it was Greece? Wow? It was just grease man.
Most of these charges on a two year span from
twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen. And then she tried to
repay this money at least I don't know all of it,
but some of it by a stroking a twenty seven
thousand dollars check that bounced not once but twice. Yeah. Nice.
(28:55):
So her trial will begin September twenty ninth. Now it
took so long. I mean, they had a bunch of
judge reassignments to state paper reports. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I understand these blue collar crimes aren't as urgent in
the court system, but at the same time, a public official,
you would think we would want to make an example out.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Of a public official when they've.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Gone this far astray allegedly, Yeah, allegedly. It sounds like
the state has plenty of proof. Yeah, in black and white. Yeah,
I don't know. A bunch of judge reassignments and this
and that. Who knows, you know, who knows?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I guess they figured out she was on the danger
to the community, So I've got to put something off.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Will put that off. I couldn't tell you she's not
a criminal danger. She allegedly was a pretty big danger.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Taxpayers pocketbooks exactly. Yeah, now there's any report it's just
dropped about. Uh, well, the impact of the six week
abortion ban here in South Carolina. And it shows that
it pretty much does what we thought it would do,
(30:09):
the Department of Public Health, or at least this data
earlier this week. And yeah, it shows the number of
abortions the state of dropped precipitously. And remember before this
law was finally passed and passed Cord Muster, we had
(30:32):
become an abortion destination state. We uh twelve, I guess
it was to twelve weeks. Prior to that, was that
what it was then twelve? It was longer than that
at one time, but other states around US had stricter bands,
and we had a lot of women coming to South
(30:52):
Carolina to get abortions. Well, that number has dropped big time.
The data show the number of out of state residents
coming here to get abortions fell ninety two percent from
twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four. Strong deterrent. Yeah, yeah,
(31:18):
we had we had a lot of women coming here
prior to this. The number of women here in our
residents here in our state getting abortions in state dropped
by more than forty percent, So all in all, there
were more than five thousand fewer babies aborted in South
(31:43):
Carolina twenty twenty three, eight and eighty seven babies lives
ended by abortion. Twenty twenty four, that number dropped at
threeenty twenty five. Now Planned Parenthood. Remember there are just
(32:03):
two clinics here in the state, one in Charleston, one
here in Columbia. Each one of those locations in twenty
twenty three performed more than a thousand abortions. But they
tell us that that's not what they're there for, right,
They're there to protect women's health. Okay, yeah, but not
(32:25):
baby's health. So yeah, more than a thousand at each
one of those locations two years ago, two years ago, yes,
those numbers now twenty twenty four, Colombia went from more
than one thousand to eight hundred and seventy three, Charleston
(32:47):
from more than a thousand of five hundred and twenty one.
There is a third clinic in the upstate that's not
affiliate with Planned Parenthood, but the Greenville Women's Clinic. They
saw their numbers wow, go from five one hundred and
fifty eight and twenty twenty three to one thousand, five
(33:09):
hundred eighty four and twenty twenty four boom, and of
course planned parenthoods complaining and their Vicky Ringer with planned
Parenthoods South Atlantic quote in this article as saying that
three out of four women who come to see them
have had to be turned away because they're too late
(33:29):
of their term. It did what it was designed to do.
Now again, a woman. There's still plenty of options out there, ladies.
You know, if you want to off that child, there's
(33:51):
still plenty of states you can go to and get
it done. But South Carolina is and especially for those
out of stators wanting to come here, see not anymore?
What was that number? Down? Ninety how many percent? Ninety
two percent drop?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Not the destination you want to be known for around
the country.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
No, it's not. These have been not good days for
planned parenthood, have they in the last year or so?
And with the latest uh, latest news we we we've
had when it comes to planned parenthood and funding and such.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
But good news for those who embrace life.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, and somehow you're you're seen as isn't it weird?
I mean to the to the left, if you stand
for the sanctity of life. You're seen somehow as evil
what a what it was our doublespeak thing. This is
(34:51):
I mean, this is, this is straight out of you know,
nineteen eighty four. It's good as bad as bad as
good anyway, this is, this is, this is, this is
where we find ourselves these days. So good news there
on that front. That report just to release just a
couple of days ago. Wanted to pass that info a long.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
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Speaker 1 (35:18):
Once again.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Hey, good morning to you. It's eight fifteen. It is
July third, Thursday morning, and UH another fireworks celebrations we'll
begin tonight around town Bluefish. I'll got I got fireworks tonight, right, mister.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Thompson, tonight and tomorrow night tonight and tomorrow Lexington County
Baseball Stadium.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
All right, the uh fireworks over at Sega Park with
the Philharmonic. It was originally scheduled for last night, but
rescheduled for tonight. I think they were worried about the rain,
the storms.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Last Yeah, I don't know this. See a drop right
in my house. I didn't get much either.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Oh, I mentioned this earlier in IRMO. They're doing a
laser light show. I'd want to mention that again because
if you want to go, go early because you get
free hot dogs while supplies last. I don't how many
hot dogs are gonna have, but while supplies last, you
(36:10):
can you can grab boths. So yeah, and again the
weather is going to cooperate moving forward for for all this.
What about this until maybe Sunday?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Yeah, what's what's the deal in this depression?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Or Yeah, there there's a low off the southeastern coast
that that could become a tropical depression over the weekend,
and so it's gonna bring us an increased chance of
rain Sunday, And if we're impacted by this, it would
be just rain for us. But the end of the weekend,
first part of next week, we could see some impacts
(36:46):
of that. But this this won't be a major tropical
storm by any stretch of the imagination. Okay, just a
few disruptions for some Okay, there's that, all right? H
is I keem Jeffrey still talking? I've lost I feed now,
I don't feed this or not. Well, we're waiting. I
don't know it is this is this signal that when
(37:06):
Keem stops, a vote will take place? Is that what
this is? I show him live, yes and still lie? Okay,
all right, Well we're keeping a watch on that this morning,
expecting a final vote on the Trump's big beautiful bill
and the in the House. Meantime, I guess maybe the
highest court in the land doesn't matter anymore. Uh, here
(37:29):
we go, another district judge looking to block Trump's mass
deportation efforts. What district this is?
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Which district is this? Well, it's let's listen. Let's put
it this way. It's not the district of the United
States of America. Okay, Oh a judge in Brooklyn. Yeah, okay, yeah,
socialist Brooklyn. I mean, the Supreme Court is ruled these
these law fair judges in a in in just as
(38:01):
a district judge, you cannot make rulings that impact the
entire country. Well, they're still trying to do it. But
you know, in the meantime, okay, we're you know, the
Trump administration is still battling to get illegals, in particular
the criminal element of these of this legal population out
of the country. Well, getting into the country has gotten
(38:26):
a lot tougher. By the way, in addition to that
judge ruling, you had a federal judge, an Obama appointee,
ruling that the president does not have unilateral authority to
limit the rights of aliens present in this country to
apply for asylum. Okay, Well, I might argue that this
(38:54):
Obama appointee does not have the unilateral authority to prevent
the elected president United States from exercising his authority, But
that's the whole other story. So all right, now, getting
in here has gotten a lot tougher. Before we get
to the numbers, let's let's let's back up in history
a little bit. The numbers are in according to the
(39:18):
Congressional Budget Office, from twenty twenty one through twenty twenty four,
you know, the Joe Biden years, a net number of
ten point three million people immigrated to this country. And
that's a number that reflects both and illegal immigrants. The
vast majority of those are are are illegal, and that
(39:43):
does take out the number who left. So you're left
with a net of ten point three million who immigrated,
a lot of them illegally into this country. During Joe
Biden's years. So as a result of this, the population
numbers here in the US, the number of people living
(40:06):
in this country who were four and born now has
hit sixteen point two percent. You'd have to go back.
The all time record prior to this was fourteen point
eight percent. That was in eighteen ninety. Wow, one hundred
and thirty years plus, that was the record. But Joe
(40:29):
Biden said, hold my beer, unbelievable. Okay, So that's there,
you go, that's that's that's the Joe Biden legacy right there. Now.
(40:51):
Last month, for the entire month of June, the number
of encounters at the southern border six thousand and seventy.
And oh, by the way, guess what, not a single
one was released into this country with a cell phone
and a court date maybe you know, five six years
(41:13):
down the road. Not a one. Six thousand and seventy
for the entire month of June. As that Tom Holman
wrote on x that is less than a single day
under Biden. So as a matter of fact, the total
number of encounters has left less than half of a
(41:34):
single day under Joe Biden. Yeah, to compare this under
the Biden White House, there were about one hundred and
fifty five thousand monthly border crossings one hundred and fifty
five thousand. May of twenty four alone, sixty two thousand
(41:59):
plus immigrants were released into the country. Released that was
a year ago. Last month, again, the number of immigrants
released into this country zip nada blanco, big old goose egg.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Did you see the president when he announced that yesterday?
I think even he was shocked. Yeah, right, he said
zero zero. So you go from sixty two thousand to zero,
and from one hundred and fifty five thousand or so
border crossings on average under Joe Biden to last month
just a tick over six thousand total. But then we
(42:45):
have this from Homeland Security. They say they've uncovered widespread
instances of unaccompanied migrant children placed with unvetted sponsors with
criminal background during the Biden administration. They released this press
(43:06):
release just a day or two back, and this comes
from a months long investigation that they have been leading
to ensure these kids are safe. Agents finding numerous instances
where sponsors had previously been charged with serious crimes hit
and run, aggravated assault, larceny, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, prostitution, even
(43:27):
attempted murder, and that in some of the most extreme cases,
unaccompanied migrant girls were found to be pregnant with children
fathered by their alleged sponsors. You know, that's a part
of this story that did the Biden administration tried their
(43:48):
best to cover up, and the media complied with them.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
That's horrific, man, horrific vetted sponsors with criminal backgrounds, and
how many of these kids wound up in those households. Yeah,
I was cleaning out the office the other day. In
the bottom of a little case I found I found
one of the you know, the little stickers, little Joe
(44:16):
Biden stickers that were so popular when gas prices were high.
I did that. Yeah, Yeah, I found that. Yeah, he
did this too. You can take us on the go.
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Speaker 1 (44:46):
Hey forty final thoughts for Thursday, July third, Breaking news.
First up, No, not a not a house on the
boat yet. On the Big Beautiful Bill, I Keem is
still holding cord over there. But Labor Department and just
released the jobs numbers for June. While economist predicted one
hundred and ten thousand, they were wrong, as usual, one
(45:10):
hundred and forty seven thousand. Even amongst all this economic uncertainty,
the economy keeps adding jobs. How about that?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
That is good news anytime we overshoot their estimates, right right.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yes, So there you go, one hundred and forty seven
thousand jobs added in the month of June. Nice, okay.
You know, And I took a long weekend this past
weekend and spent some time down in the low country
over Mount Pleasant, Isle of Palms, and went out to
shim Creek Sunday night and ate and I wondered, you know,
(45:46):
as soon as we pulled up, you know, I said, Yeah,
the shrimp wars in Charleston. This has gotten serious, man.
Oh yeah, it's gone to court. Yeah, there are lawsuits
over this. Remember the places that the claim is is
these restaurants that were advertising, you know, a fresh local
shrimp and well the allegations that it really wasn't. Yeah,
(46:08):
this is this is serious, a big shrimp war.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Now you've got a lot of restaurants, saying, well, we
kind of hinted at it, but that was really our
social media folks. We had nothing to do with that.
They just they back off a little bit farther with
every statement. Right, Yeah, we didn't know what those kids
were creating for our social campaign.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
We had no idea. Now this lawsuits have been brought
by the sc Shrimpers Association. They've named twenty five Charleston
area restaurants. I'm happy to see that the restaurant that
we ate at in Shrimp Creek was not on the list.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Okay, well, I mean if it doesn't sound like a
big deal to us, but down there where seafood and
tourism is a big part of the that's that's the
job market.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Yeah, so now it's a big deal down there. Sure
they're gonna finally get it reopened here. Matter of fact,
not in time for this week in July fourth weekend,
but they don't miss it by much. July fourteenth is well,
now they will miss it by much. They're expected to
start work July fourteenth to get large portions of the
(47:11):
river Walk on the West Columbia side reopened again. And
we talked about this a while back. They decided to
wait for the federal funds thing to get resolved. All
this from damage from Helene that was we hadn't been
over there in a bit. I would tell you we
live in Lexington. When they opened that new trail around
(47:32):
at the old mill, that's been our go to man.
We used to get out of the West Comba River
Rock all the time, and we tried to go a
month or two back. I didn't realize it was mainly
all shut down, but they're working to get it reopen.
With the independence state celebrations at hand. Now, the Fed's
warning of lone wolf attacks, especially since the military action
(47:53):
against the Iranians. Again maybe mainly big cities. Of course,
this has gotten to be pretty much standard, right. I mean,
anytime we have a big holiday in this country, sure,
and I don't think we need the FENS to warn
us anymore. I think everybody's pretty much realizing it could
happen anytime.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
But they're working to keep us safe. The goal is
to live our lives as normally as we can.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, right. One of the agencies that tries to keep
us safe ice good Old Promeila Jpow, the Democrat squad
member from the state of Washington not back and down
defending a recent social media post in which she called
ICE a terrorist force. Wow. Yeah. When attacked on this,
(48:54):
she responded by saying, what's deranged and cruel and outrageous
is that literally we are seeing ICE agents no identification,
wearing masks and playing clothes, coming and kidnapping and disappearing
people on the streets of the United States.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
Well, we've talked about why they wear masks.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Yeah, because of people like you ABC Catch and Flag
for a social media post. They were published a report
Tuesday about a sentence of hearing coming up for a
thirty year old who is a leader of a local
and I think it's in New York City area, a
(49:33):
local MS thirteen gang. In the post, the post read this,
the leader of an MS thirteen click like the chess club,
yeah right, or like a group of you know, girls
(49:55):
who get together and form their own click in you know,
high school or junior high school. They do bad things.
Sometimes they're mean and stuff. Yeah, you know it's a clique.
Speaker 3 (50:05):
Who wrote that post, somebody who's been raised on PC
and trying not to offend right, right, and maybe.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
The whole post to you And imagine how you write
this post and you can actually put these words all
together in one post. The leader of an MS thirteen
clique faces sentencing in a federal racketeering case involving eight murders.
But it's a click. Yeah, I have no I get
(50:41):
nothing else. I don't know what to say about that.
I can't add to that.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
And somebody at ABC News, the national Organization right there, and.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
A social media pos you know, I wonder sometimes if
these you know, uh, these outlets, if they don't look
at social media stuff, is something totally different from what
they might Can you imagine going on the air and
saying that, no, no, somehow, if it's gonna be on
social media, they take a whole different approach. Ben Austin,
(51:17):
an ex Kamala Harris campaign aid, writing an opinion piece
Monday saying the Democrat Party should break up with Randy Winingarten,
the president of the American Federation of Teachers, who recently
resigned her position from the DNC. You'll recall his complaint
is that, well, you know what, while Republicans were trying
all sorts of ways when it came to a school
(51:39):
choice that folks like Winegarten just were like, you know
there should be no choice at all. And then she
turned off a lot of what might have been Democrat
voters and they went and voted Republican because they got kids,
and their kids are getting short shifted in schools run
by people like Randy Wingarten. He says, we should break up.
(52:01):
I was hoping he's probably right.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
I was hoping it would be a few more years
before they figured that out. But yes, he's absolutely.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
Absolutely right, right, Yeah, And I don't know what to
make of this. I don't guess we'll really notice unless
you're like really super nerdy. But a scientist warning that
Earth's rotation is unexpectedly accelerating and will lead to the
shortest day in history in just a few weeks. Now.
We're not talking about you know, daylight and dark that
(52:29):
sort of thing, but that the actual rotation, the spin
of the Earth. We'll see it could be one of
three dates this summer, he says, July ninth. If that
doesn't happen on July twenty second, that doesn't happen in
August fifth.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
And how long is the shortest day going to be?
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Well, let's see, Actually, he's prettyting it'll happen each of
those days actually look sary. Just look, oh, let's see
one point three zero milliseconds the ninth, one point three
to eight milliseconds on the twenty second, and one point
five to one milliseconds on the fifth. Now, individually, that's
not much, but you add it all up, and now
were talking serious time, right, we're talking about you know,
probably five milliseconds.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
Sure, so we're spinning so fast that I need to
hang onto the walls.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
Hang on to the walls, man. No, no, no mention
of what this might do to gravity or the ocean
tides or anything else. But just know, if it seems
like the day really flew by, that'll be why
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