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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jesus right, Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
America, and.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
For one nation.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
This is wrong.
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This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It is sixteen minutes after six o'clock. It is Thursday.
It is a tenth day of July. And good morning
to you. Ready or not. Here we go blasting off
into another day. Good to have you with us. I'm
Gary David, Christopher Thompson. Good morning to you. Good morning
to you. The rest of the gang. They're all busy
over there doing stuff. Ain't got time to talk right now,
(00:49):
So we do, and we welcome you in as always.
Thanks for joining us our three hours swore eh every
weekday here on WVOC.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Kind of like that Gilligan's Island three hour tour. We
have no idea where we are or how to get
back home. Luckily we do manage to make it back
each day.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, somehow we find our way back each and every day. Okay,
So I don't know if you got rocked by those
storms yesterday. Appreciable rainfall amounts at the house yesterday, by
the way, which is nice, Yes it is, man, it's
weird how you get that kind of rain and like
everything that's green is just suddenly a whole nother hue
of green.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It just pops. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, I just stood out the looked out the back
window and looked at the yard and went wow.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And I was worried wow because it rumbled and it
rumbled with thunder most of the afternoon and nothing happened.
I mean, we got a sprinkle, but then it finally came.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, and we may get more of that to day.
You heard Tyler mention, so be on the lookout for
all that still working a heat in next day. It
looks like one o two what it could feel like today,
So that braces yourselves for that as well. All right,
run down big stories, hot topics. What are we watching today? Well,
I guess he's left our friendly state now, huh. Headed
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back to wherever, Gavin Newsom wrapping up his two days
swing through the Palmetto State. And uh, I don't know
who thought it would be a good idea for Gavin
to go to Pickens, but he did so I give
him credit for that. And he was met with some
fans and a lot of protesters who are out there.
(02:34):
Interesting morning, Joe Joe Scarborough over on MSNBC blasting Newsom
for traveling around the country while his state suffers from
quality of life issues. Okay, that's fair. Yeah, I mean,
is this your export, Gavin. We all know what's going
on in California. We don't want it here, thank you
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very much. So Newsome he make any real news. He
did talk about the new IRS rules when it comes
to churches being able now to endorse a Canada to
not lose their tax exempt status. I find this fascinating.
He called it politically convenient for Trump. Well, I mean,
let's be real here, churches over the years, in particular
(03:21):
black churches, well maybe not out and out endorsing a
particular candidate, doing everything but saying it. Yeah, you know,
I mean, come on, so now that argument doesn't make
a whole lot of sense to me. Okay, but he's gone.
Now you can let the kids back out.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Alan Wilson, we spoke.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
To yesterday our state's attorney general and a Republican nominee,
hopeful unfeeling a pretty rare state grand jury report yesterday,
and it had to do with organized crime in our
state's prisons and among other things, and we'll talk about this.
He made that call to block these these cell phone
signals in these prisons. My goodness, I mean, was it
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gonna take? This is a recurring theme on the show.
I know, but this continues to be a problem. And
for whatever reason, which is totally escapes me, the Feds
just won't do it. All right, we'll get into that.
Say hello and goodbye to Brandon Brown. Brandon Brown has
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announced he will throw his hat into the ring for
the Senate seat now held by Lindsey Graham. None of
the Republican as a as a Democrat. Okay, are you
feeling with Brandon Brown at all?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
No? No, no, I neither.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Mind, and you probably won't get to know him much
more based on what he's trying to do. You heard
Thomas mention this. We've got our first outbreak of measle
cases of the state. Somebody in the Upstate who had
apparently traveled recently.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And they won't say where, which disturbs me a little bit.
They say it's for confidentiality, are okay, So if.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You say they're in Greer, for example, a lot of
people live in Greer, Greenville, bunch of people live in Greenville.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
No, but they won't tell us where that passenger travels. Yeah,
see right, I want to stay away, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Okay, Well, they're not telling us much other than somebody's
got it and it costs the country measlos cases have
hit a record high. Fascinating here. We were just talking
yesterday about teacher shortages and such, and I brought up
the fact that these charter schools, I'm probably sucking up
a lot of the talent these days.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But what about the high end talent? The state newspaper
with this piece.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The principal at Gray Collegiate Academy and how much he
is making, and how much more he makes than even
superintendents at public schools. Crazy dude is making almost three
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Wow. Yeah, and they're expanding. Yeah is a.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Sare We may get into some of that today too.
The President yesterday, coming to his attorney general's defense, Trump
standing behind Pam Bondi amid the uproar that continues over
the flip flop on the Jeffrey Epstein files. Wow, this
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story is not going away. We mentioned yesterday. Was it intelligence?
Was he's involved in some sort of CIA or Massaud operations?
Was he a spy? I didn't realize this. What's her name,
mc Gislaine Maxwell. Maybe I did know this. You know
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her dad was part of an intelligence agency at one time.
I don't think I did. Yeah, maybe we'll deal with
some of that today. He showed up but didn't answer
any questions. Kevin O'Connor, excuse me, doctor Kevin O'Connor, Biden's
former White House physician, refused to answer anything yesterday in
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front of his Oversight Committee questioners.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
No big surprise here, I don't guess. Yeah, you know,
I didn't expect him to say. You know, here's what
the president was dealing with. I mean, that is doctor
patient confidentiality. But when he was asked, were you ever
told to lie about the President's health? That's a different ballgame. Yeah, right, exactly.
That's not related directly to the president. That is related
(07:39):
to you know, what an unawful.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Order you may have been given, right, and you know
it's by law you can take the fifth and no
comment and all that, but you know, in the court
of public opinion, when somebody does that, you're like, yeah, yeah,
you're told.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Makes you wonder if you're.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Told right, okay, scratching my head over this one, and
talk of all these tariffs and such. Now the news
that Trump singling out Brazil for import taxes of fifty
percent in part because of his treatment of their former
president who Trump says that the Brazilians is another witch
(08:20):
hunt there. Now, okay, if you're talking about tariffs for
you know, economic reasons, okay, but for this reason, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'm not going along with that one, not at all.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
All right, We've got that, We've got oh key West
doing a quick about face when it comes to working
with ice.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
How about that? And more coming up on this.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
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Speaker 1 (08:47):
Thanks for joining.
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Speaker 3 (09:10):
Six forty two the time. Now, good morning, It's Thursday,
July tenth. It's good to have you with us. One
of the few things that the Biden administration did that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I went.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I think most of us were like, yeah, okay, yeah,
that was good. Was the click to cancel rule? Oh,
if you remember this or not, this was in the
in the in the waiting days. I think it was
last like last October when the uh they put this
thing out there. It was set to go into effect Monday.
(09:42):
It was this past Monday or this coming Monday. Well anyway,
but now it won't because we got law fair for
this now too. Yeah, a court steps in and blocks.
Is that the click to cancel rule? This was This
was a rule that would have made it, uh, well
easy to cancel a subscription.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
How many do you have, by the way, plus track man,
we just discovered we had one more than we thought
we had the other night. Well too, I du plicate,
Oh yeah, we're paying twice for the same service. You're
kidding me? No, wow.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well, the FTC had had proposed these changes. They were Yeah,
they were adopted back in October. It would require businesses
to obtain your consent before charging you for a membership,
an auto renewal, or any program linked to a free
trial offer. It would have made it very easy.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I know.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
There's this supposed that there's apps out there you can
use to do this sort of thing. I've never tried
one of those, but anyway, so this was this was
part of the Time Is Money initiative, which was a
government wide initiative under the BID administration announced last year.
The aim was to crack down on consumer related hassles.
(11:00):
But the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
now says that the FTC made a procedural error by
failing to come up with a preliminary regulatory analysis, which
is something that's required for rules whose annual impact on
the US economy is more than one hundred million dollars.
So I guess they're telling us that, yeah, these subscriptions
(11:22):
are it's a lot of money being generated by these subscriptions, right,
So you had an administrative law judge decided that the
economic impact would be more than that one hundred million
dollar threshold. So the court vacated the rule. While we
certainly do not endorse the use of unfair deceptive practices
(11:43):
in negative opinion option marketing, Rather, the Court said, the
procedural deficiencies of the Commission's rule making process are fatal here.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So click to rule goes bye bye.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
One of the few things that the Biden White House
rolled out I think we could all agree with.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I mean, that's we talk every year at around the holidays,
at Christmas about gift cards and how much money these
companies make, yeah, from gift cards that wind up getting
don't don't get used.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I found one just the other day I had Yeah,
well wow, okay, missed out on that one.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And I think they What was really annoying.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Is when it's like a fifty dollars gift card, you
go spend thirty five, right, and then you're like, okay,
I've got something on that and you have no idea
how much is left on it. And he sits there,
says there. I said, sir, you can check. It's just
a pain in the neck to check. Yeah, yes it is.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah. But companies have found the same thing that these
these subscriptions, especially when you get lost in a haze
of them. You know, they're big business. Oh yeah, huge.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Okay, So there's that now the left going Okay, one
hundred and twenty that's the number the latest number of
people who lost their lives in those Texas floods, one
hundred and twenty and seventy those are the number of
people who are still unaccounted for. So I mean, we
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are seriously looking at a death hole right around three
hundred when all this is said and done, three hundred.
The Buffalo News, Buffalo, New York, publishing a cartoon. The
guy who drew the cartoon, guy named Adam Zeiglass, who
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was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, showed a man wearing
a Maga hat being swept away in the flood, holding
a help sign while behind him in the word bubble
in the cartoon, government is the problem, not the solution.
(13:50):
So this Adam Zeiglass is a guy who has drawn
a number of cartoons that are raticle of the Maga
crowd and of conservatives in general. He is known for
left wing cartoons, recently drawing one with Maga officers arresting
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a newly born baby. But the Muffalo News thought it
was a good idea to publish this again. One hundred
and twenty lives lost that we're aware of, potentially maybe
one hundred and seventy more that are still missing. And
it's just, I mean, you know, every day we learned
(14:32):
something new about how the left operates here, and this
was the this is the party that accuses conservatives of wow.
And then speaking of Texas, here's some craziness for you,
Jasmine Crockett. Y'all know Jasmine who by the way, posting
(14:55):
a tearful video this is our home state of course,
Texas about those deaths, so you know, appreciate that. But
in the video also taking condimension. Oh, by the way,
thanks to so and so for my hair bob long
you have. I'll commented on it. Really, Jasmine, wrong time, really,
I mean in the same video. Well, there's a new
(15:17):
poll out that shows Jasmine Crockett the preferred candidate among
Texas Democrats to run for the Senate in twenty twenty six.
Now part of the pub maybe there's nobody else down
there Democrat that gets anybody's attention. She led a hypothetical
primary field with thirty five percent of likely Democrat voters,
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followed by a Texas Congressman Colin al Read at twenty percent,
Beto O'Rourke, and a Juaqueden Castro at thirteen percent. Jasmine
Crockett would be the leading vote getter if in this
hypothetical poll, if she would have run for Senate, leading
vote getter for Democrats. I guess we're to point now
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where the Democrat Party, who ever makes the most noise,
does the most crazy stuff, gets the attention of these Obviously,
we're in a situation now where these is Rush Limbaugh
always call them low information voters. They don't bother it
even look to see what stand for. Just well, who
do I know? Who have I heard about who's making noise?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And jazz? It makes a lot of noise.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Uh, okay, okay, of course. You know the problem is
I don't realize this is you put up people like this,
you're gonna lose the moderate Democrat voter. You're gonna lose them,
and you might.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Lose them for good. So keep putting them up there,
I say, works for me.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's going to past seven. It's Thursday. It's July tenth,
and good morning to you. This is a story that
we have talked about numerous times over the years, and
we still keep having to talk about it because there's
still no no movement. You know, Brian Sterling, who just
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departed as the head of the Department of Corrections in
our state. He is now the US Attorney for South Carolina.
This was one of this is one of the things
that he worked tirelessly to try to get done. And
when the FTC or the FCC in this case wouldn't
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go along with this, he tried to find other methods
to shut it down. It cell phones behind prison bars,
and the problem that continues to be And I guess
what the only only excuse we've ever heard, right, was
that cell phone companies said, well, if we if we
(18:09):
jammed those cell phone signals, it could uh, it could
have the the effect of jamming cell phone signals for
people outside these prison walls, right.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Not that many people live. I mean, these are huge complexes.
You might have a farm here and there, but these
are huge complexes, largely taking up vast amounts of property,
and there's really no one around. I mean they're usually
out in the middle of nowhere. Not every time, but
in most cases, in most cases.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yet, for whatever reason, the FCC and I thought by
this might change when a Republican took control of the
FCC as the chair, but it still hasn't. It's still happening.
And yes, uh, Director then Director Stirling was able to
come up with some technology to kind of cut down
on this, but still this is taking place. Well, yesterday,
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Alan Wilson held a press conference and took a pretty
rare step of issuing a state grand jury report. And
the report was addressing issues of organized crime behind prison
walls here in South Carolina. And according to officials that
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that press are yesterday, crimes are being planned by current
inmates using illegal cell phones and they have been carried out.
As the AG said, locking someone up doesn't make us
safer if they're still running criminal enterprises from behind bars.
Inmates with contraband cell phones aren't just continuing their crimes,
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they're escalating them. We know how to stop this. The
technology already exists. We've talked about this time and time again.
This same technology is being used in federal prisons. Is
what makes us even more exasperating. In a federal lockup,
they're jamming these cell phone signals, yet they will not
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allow states to do so for their prisons.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Do we have an explanation for that?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
By the way, is there any good explanation as to
why that's the case. Joel Anderson, who's the interim director
of the Department of Corrections, called the situation highly dangerous
for staff, other inmates, and communities. And they brought up
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several examples during this presser yesterday.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
One was up in Pickens.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
County where three pled guilty in a state grand jury case.
All three were serving time for previous drug trafficking convictions.
And they continue to run their meth operation from behind
bars using illegal cell phones. Yeah uh, I mean while
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behind bars, these guys were running weekly shipments of up
to thirty kilograms of cartel meth from Atlanta to multiple
counties here in South Carolina from behind prison bars.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Wow, it's big business. Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Another one a defendant who pled guilty to multiple child
abuse charges involving her young daughter. A woman who admitted
to a first degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor,
among other things. She and a co conspirator accused of
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smuggle using smuggled cell phones to coordinate the abuse.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
That's just sick, right, I mean, And then let's go
on and on here. I mean, you give criminals time
and an opportunity, they're going to take it. Yeah, And
they've got all the time they want on their hands.
Oh yeah, and then some and now they've got the
opportunity with these cell phones, bridges the gap, get them
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right over the prison walls.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So the AG is calling on Congress and the FCC
to change this. We cannot be the only state in
the country that has an issue with this. Why aren't all,
you know, fifty attorneys general in this country banging on
the doors of Congress and the FCC on a daily
basis saying let's change this. Why do you allow these
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cell phones to be jammed in federal lockups but not
state penitenttion Are we not smart enough to know how
to do?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
It makes absolutely zero sense, And crimes continue to be
committed on a daily basis because apparently the cell phone
lobby is so powerful they keep states from being able
to block these signals inside our prisons. You know, hats
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off to Director Sterling who for years and years and years,
I mean, I think this guy had a I think
he seemed like every other week he was flying up
to d C to testify in front of some committee
saying let's jam these signals. The dude did everything he
possibly could and kept ringing up against a brick wall,
and then he came up with other methods that helped
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but didn't solve the problem. I don't know what it's
gonna take. You know, we've already had hits, order and
everything else. I mean, how serious is the need to
get before Congress and the FCC does something about this.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The FCC has seen a lot of changes lately, and
maybe this is maybe the makeup of the FCC right now.
It's the perfect opportunity to get these checks. Think so, yeah,
I certainly hope so. And uh, and we'll have to
wait and see. I suppose give yourself an edge every
morning with.
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Speaker 1 (24:29):
Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been
talked about for years. You're asking, we have Texas, we
have this, we have all of the things, and are
people still talking about this guy? This creep that is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
It's seven for you, the President. That was a couple
of days ago when asked by a reporter about all this.
Actually a reporter was attempting to ask Pam Bondi about this.
This was at a White House cabinet meeting, and Trump
jumped in then with that comment right there.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
This hadn't gone away, man. And part of the reason
it hasn't gone away is because the White House essentially
did a touchdown Dan saying we can't wait for you
to see what we've seen, and here it comes, here
it comes, and then boom nothing nothing. That was back
in February.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We've talked about this a lot the last few days,
I know, but you had a group of you know, influencers,
very you know, far right influencers really, who were invited
to the White House given binders, Epstein files, Phase one
and declassified stuff that was already out there in the
public domain.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Anyway. I didn't put much stock into that, but it
was the press conferences from people like Pam Bondi for example, Well, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
She had a truckload of previously with evidence, yep, that
she'd been given by the FBI. And as we've talked
about a numerous times the last few days when asked
by Peter Doocy, and.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
His question again was direct. It was specific about the
Epstein files, not the file on Epstein, but the Epstein file,
the list, the list, the client list, which she responded
saying it was on her desk right now, and then
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it just doesn't exist. And these are supposedly the worst
of the worst, people who committed crimes repeatedly, whether it
be rape or child sexual abuse.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yep, child pornography. I mean, do we need to see that? No?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
No, Should we know their names, yes, yes we should.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
So.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
And then there's the whole issue of his death right,
that mystery, which was a mystery, then it wasn't a mystery,
then it was, then it wasn't. And we've been treated to,
you know, pictures that don't match up what we originally saw.
It's the whole thing is bizarre. Is it at all possible?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Okay that coming into the office again that Trump and
Bondi and whomever else seriously with with it in good faith,
wanted to put this stuff out there, and some who
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knows what has convinced them not to do it. I mean,
it's gonna be. It had to be pretty strong man,
because you got you gotta. You don't have that egg
you gotta. You got a whole omelet on your face
right now over this.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
And I'm not sure Trump could be convinced of anything
like that if he didn't want to do it. Yeah,
so we brought this idea up yesterday. I think it was.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Uh, this is all speculation now, okay, I mean, I'm
not telling you anything that I know this for a fact.
This is all just speculation people talking.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
So why not.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Was Jeffrey Epstein somehow wrapped up in some sort of
intelligence op?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Was he a spy?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
If you think about it for a second, this is
kind of like the yeah, you hear about it all
the time. You know, the Russians are great for this, right,
they ensnare powerful people and they do that by using women.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Are we doing the same thing? But are we doing
it at a level where it could even involve children?
Or did we? It was Jeffrey Epstein part of some
sort of intelligence operation to if nothing else, compromise very
important people, whether they were allies or enemies or maybe
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right here in the United States of America, in our
own government, in our own corporations. And is this something
that is just so incredibly damning that even somebody like
Trump who might want to put it out there, can't.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You know, I agree with what oh who said this?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
It was we talked about this yesterday, this this concept, this,
this theory.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
At least.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
It was Tucker Carlson who said, you know this, this information,
if it's out there, this list, if it's out there,
it's been out there, and the FBI has had it,
and the FBI under Biden would have used that if
Trump's name was in there, if there was evidence that
pointed to Donald Trump, you better believe, especially after the
whole Biden meltdown and now you got Kamala Harris coming out,
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they'd have put that out there. They'd have leaked it
somehow or another. But that didn't happen. Again, because of
the flip flop on this, a lot of people are
left to think that, well, this is the reason why
Trump said his name's in there.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
There's videos or whatever, which would be even more of
an incentive for Trump and its administration to leak the list.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Right, or it would have been for Biden. Well yeah,
but but but was he was he a spy?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
But if Trump's name wasn't it wasn't yes, if it wasn't, yes,
absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Uh Jelane Maxwell, who's sitting behind bars right now, and
who knows for how long she'll be there, maybe forever.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Her father.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Was affiliated with numerous intelligence agencies over the years. I
don't know if that's that well known or not, but
but he was. I know, I keep saying this, and
(31:19):
I'll keep saying this. Why even bring it back up again?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah? I know this was a it came up in
the campaign.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I get it, But really, I mean, you don't run
for president based on a platform of releasing the Epstein list, Right.
That's interesting and it's something we all like to know,
but that's not going to get you any votes. But
why go through all this? Why in February go through
that charade? You know that that that that theater of
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inviting these people to the White House and giving them
declassified documents that, yeah, they were declassified.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
They've been classified for a while.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Did they think all of that was going to pacify us? Maybe? Maybe? So?
Maybe that was it. I mean, I guess it could
be similar to the jfk assassination files. You know, we've
heard now in two different terms of the Trump administration
that we're going to get everything they have on that,
and I'm not sure we have. And I think people
have lost interest or either that or people have realized,
(32:29):
you know, we're never going to get everything happened.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
And guess what, we had lost interest in this too.
I mean, it wasn't top of mind with anybody, true,
but I find it hard to believe that the White
House would revive interest the way they did and then
just slam the brakes and shut the door on this thing.
(32:58):
Something else is going on here. You can talk Deep
State and everything else. You can talk CIA and FBI
and all. Something is going on here, man. And problem is, well,
we'll o really never know what it was. But there
are some dark evil forces out there that are, uh,
(33:20):
I think, more powerful than we ever thought.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I know, I know where's my ten hat? I get it,
you know, I know TI full hat. But you don't.
You can't claim to be interested in whoever the puppet
master was that was pulling Biden strings and not be
interested in whoever stopped Trump and Pam Bondi from releasing
this list.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
What entity, what person group of people could possibly have
that much power behind the scenes, behind the scenes to
pull this off.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
People we didn't vote for.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Right, you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
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Once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Tompson.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
At fifteen minutes half eight o'clock and morning. Good to
have you along into the final hour of the program
here for this Thursday morning. It is July the tenth,
and the state is finally rid of Gaven Newsom. He
meet his the rest of his two days swing through
the state yesterday and went up to Pickens County.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay. You don't get any more dyed in the wool.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Red than Pickens County, right, And somebody thought it was
a good idea to go there, Newsome, telling the well,
let's see the Posting Courier article starts this way. He
was greeted by adoring fans plural okay and indignant protesters,
Newsom saying, I love it. I'm here in Pickens, as
(34:47):
the article says, telling an enthusiastic crowd that Democrats need
to do a better job connecting with rural voters. Now,
I'm not here to say that there are no Democrat
voters in Pickens County. There are three, maybe five. Now,
I haven't seen the video. I don't know how many
were actually in attendance. I know had some of the
stops on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It was pretty sparse, sure, And I wouldn't pick Gavin
Newsome to be the one to do the outreach program
for those voters right in Pickens County, because what are
you selling here? Man? You?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
What do you all you can sell is your record
selling the West Coast, selling the disaster that is California.
I mean, come on, who's buying? I had to I
had to laugh. They quoted the article a seventy six
year old Greenville resident who well, let's put it this way,
(35:39):
she hasn't lived in Greenville.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
All her life. She moved here from California six years ago, Okay, okay,
and thought she had escaped him.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Well, she loves the guy, apparently, and also said it
doesn't hurt that he's drop dead gorgeous. Okay, if you're
pulling the lever on the best looking person, which you know,
by the way, we should probably note here often we
seem to do that in this country.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Well, they're about thirty protesters outside. They weren't let inside,
of course, but I mean, you go to Pickens County
as as as a Democrat period, Well, you're a fish
out of water. You go there, it's Gavin Newsom, You're
a way out of water. And of course he took
(36:25):
shots at Trump, he took shots at Lindsay Graham, which again,
even some of those protesters outside might have welcomed that.
Who knows, but a two day swing through the state,
I'm not sure what good it did, by the way,
to note, next up, as Democrats continue to bring in
(36:46):
twenty twenty eight hopefuls, will be uh Andy Basheer the
governor of Kentucky. Now, I will tell you this, you
should be a lot more if you're a concer deservative,
if you're a Republican, those two don't necessarily go hand
in hand. But if you are, you should be a
lot more concerned about Andy Basher than you are Gavin Newsom.
(37:11):
Basher somehow has been able to convince voters in Kentucky
that they should put a Democrat in the governor's chair,
and they really seem to like the guy for some reason.
But he'll be the next to make a trek through
the state that again hasn't voted for a Democrat for
president since Jimmy Carter in nineteen seventy six, but continues,
(37:34):
at least in the Democrat primary, to be a very
important state now while up in the Upstate, Newsom took
a shot at this recent Supreme Court ruling and actually
under the Supreme Court in an IRS ruling on churches,
that ruling, if you missed it, you probably didn't ear
up on these things, was that the churches will be
(37:57):
allowed to endorse political candidates harmed their attacks exempt status.
Newsom called it politically convenient for Trump and gaming the
system in every way. He said, now, I find this
curious and the fact that I mean, let's be honest,
(38:22):
Black churches all across the country for years now, while
not saying we endorse so and so, have done the
next best thing. They've held all sorts of well rallies,
described concealed a church services over the years, welcoming in
(38:44):
Democrat candidates. So I don't know that Gavin Newsom needs
to be talking about that, but anyway, there it was
interesting to note too that that Joe Scarborough over an
MSNBC going after Newsome for launching his out of state
(39:06):
political tour while his own state suffers from a variety
of serious issues. Scarborough is saying that Newsome hass a
really big pile of problems he needs to address and
take accountability for if he wants to appeal to voters
in a national scale. And that's the most curious thing
(39:26):
of all this California is a disaster on all sorts
of fronts, you know, the wildfires, the immigration issues, the riots,
the taxation, the fact that what thirty eight percent of
the workforce in a place like Los Angeles is comprised
(39:49):
of people who were not born in this country, not
all of me legal granted, but still the fact that,
you know, we keep hearing stories that LA's economy is
shutting dow because so many people here.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Illegally are in the workforce. Was the what was the latest.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
You've got a bishop out in California now who has
told illegal immigrants who are here, you're okay to skip
mass That's fine, We'll give you a pass on it
because we don't want you to get hauled off by ice.
That's California, man, That's where California is right now on
July tenth of twenty twenty five. So I'm not real
sure what it was. Gavin Newsom thought he was selling
(40:29):
here or anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
He decides to go to a state that embraces law
and order.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah, yeah, very curious. But by the way, since we're
on the upstate political beat here, Brandon Brown has announced Yeah,
right at what I said to Brandon Brown announcing he
(40:55):
will run for the Senate seat held by Lindsey Graham. Brown,
a Democrat, saying he's running for US Senate because he
believes our communities deserve more and Lindsey Graham has forgotten
who he represents.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Okay, I mean, everyone has the right to run, but Bore,
that's going to be an uphill battle. Yeah. Maybe they're
banking on the fact that that Lindsay might have to
spend a lot of his his political dollars on a
primary run. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
I mean, I don't know how serious the Andre Bauer
threat is to Lindsey Graham. There's some name recognition there, certainly,
but guy that's been out of politics for a while,
I'm not sure. And Graham's got an enormous war chest.
Get your fifteen minutes of fame, mister Brown five and
(41:48):
you got the right to do that.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
But if you'll get your hopes up if you're a
well known Democrat, who would want to wad into that
race right now? I mean after seeing what happened the
last time around, right the money spent, the support from
the national oh my.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Goodness, came in from out of the state on that race.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I mean, everything was done to hand that race to
the Democrats and they couldn't pull it off.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Yeah, the Jamie Harrison fiasco. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Here's there's one thing I think, whoever it is there
was a Democrat, I don't think they'll have the luxury
of having all this outside money poor in it next
time around.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Probably. I think folks learn their listen. Well, certainly, Brendan
what you spent last Burns Brown Brown, Brandon Bryan. Certainly
Brandon Brown won't attract a whole lot of that money.
Let's call him BB from here on APPS. Okay, the
world is.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Calling Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, United States, and we'll take you there.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
At a critical time in our world's history.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
One on three point five FM and five sixty AM
w VOC, This is Colombia's Morning News with Gary Davis
and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM
and five sixty am w voc.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Okay, your final thoughts today? Thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
I just saw this flash across my TV screen a
moment ago, and I'm sorry who We're just talking about
the Upstate Democrat who wants to take on Lendsey Graham.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
I've already forgot his name, Brandon Brown, Brandon Bright. Yes,
that's it. How quickly we forget? Do you recall this name?
Mark Lynch? Is that Riget any bells? No? Yeah? Should it? Well?
I just saw his ad Okay, what's it?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Is?
Speaker 1 (43:35):
He running for something right now?
Speaker 3 (43:36):
He's running against Lendsey Graham. Oh, and he's a Republican okay?
Ed he announced back in February. Okay, and already were forgotten.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Well again one of those guys that is going to
really struggle with the name recognition. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
I mean the dude's a businessman, Overernori County, owns an
applient store.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I think.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Okay, don't lie to me. You forget you You didn't
know that name either, did you, Mark Lynch?
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Okay? Well, you know, normally I say you don't want
to start the election cycle too soon, but for guys
like that, you may need to start going door to
door tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
I need to knock on every door in South Carolina. Yeah, yeah, okay,
so Mark Lynch.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
And isn't it isn't that where Andre Bauer is living now?
Is he at the beach? Now? I don't know where
he's living. I think so. So that's two guys essentially
from the same territory neck of the Woods. Huh. Yeah,
although Bowers got a bigger I got an advantage on
name recognition. Sure. I think that's where he's living.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
Andre's got his own intersection named after him, true, which
I find terribly ironic. Or if he got a speeding
ticket that intersection, they had to get him a driver
because it's anyway, Okay, I like Audrey all right, file
thoughts here. I mention this in a undown hours ago
(45:01):
when we first come on the air. A state newspaper
article yesterday about the principle over at the Great Collegiate Academy, who,
as it turns out, as one of these states highest
paid public school administrators. Remember, charter schools get public dollars, okay,
(45:21):
and he gets a lot of them, to the tune
of three hundred and twenty two thousand, five hundred and
forty four dollars a year. Wow, these said, yeah, these
are taxpayer dollars. Okay, that's double with the highest paid
principles in for example, Lexington to an l R fiber
(45:44):
making double. And that's a sound that's in line with
that of our state's highest paid superintendent who heads up
the Greenville coint of Schools SYS them it's within about
five thousand dollars I mean paid we pay these top
(46:05):
administrators public schools. Is ridiculous amounts of money, I mean
gobs of money. But yeah, this is an eye opener.
Here a charter school with the principal making over close
to three hundred and twenty five thousand a year. They
reached out to the school that the chair of their
(46:27):
board director has declined to be interviewed, but did email
the state a statement that the board voted unanimously on
his salary for this year. He's been getting a lot
of raises, apparently in large part, they say, because there's
no role like his in conventional school public school public
schools districts of the Midlands. That he serves as principal
for two campuses, a middle school, and a lead administrator
(46:50):
for all three. Okay, so we are talking about taxpayer
dollars here.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
Okay, but that's not a taxpayer salary. That's that's decided
on by what they're bored and the I mean Erskine
still oversees. Yeah, the charter school system, right, yes, yes,
So don't they have some say in that too they
dole out, Yes, they do, and then Gray decides how
(47:17):
that money is spent.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
So well that that charter institute, by the way, they've
been under some fire too. I mean they they've spent
more than two hundred thousand dollars on travel here recently,
including a five day trip to London for leaders and staff.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Oh, I saw the right up on that. Yeah, I
remember that.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Yeah, that was back well, I think that it was
between February of twenty three and April of twenty four.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yeah. That came off as just a joy ride with
a little bit of education thrown in there. Yeah yeah, right, yeah. No.
And I'm not defending necessarily, I'm just saying this is
this isn't necessary. This is decided by what Gray's board. Yeah,
And here's what here's one of the things we've got
to remember. When you've got competitive school situations, when you've
(48:03):
got schools that are operated like a business competing against
public schools, which you know, all we've said is, you know,
give us a chance to have a competition of which
ones are the best schools, and then let us decide
where we want to send our kids. Obviously, this guy's
had some success. They're building a new campus. So I
(48:25):
mean people, the CEOs of top businesses get rewarded. Yeah,
but we are talking about tax payer dollars. True. True.
That's the weird part of all this is that charter
schools are not the same as private schools, right, but
it does a lot of people think a charter school. Okay,
no it's not, but it almost operates in the similar style. Yes,
(48:51):
but with our money, but with our money.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Yeah, got our first official case of measles. It's in
the Upstate, being very not transparent about apparently this somebody
who had traveled it was not Imian eyes, but they
don't tell us where they went.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
I guess that's a privacy thing. You know this, We've
had outbreaks all over the country already. This was bound
to happen.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Yeah, we've set a record high and measles outbreaks in
this country, so yeah, it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
People are freaked out about vaccinations these days. You got
to cook running Health and Human Services up there right now.
You do not like it, But I mean, I think
some of the things he's done is have been great.
But you know, his his whole stance on vaccinations, they're
not helping. And he says he's backtracked on that now
and maybe he has, but I mean, we haven't. Well,
(49:44):
we have had problems with measles for a long long time.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
Backtracking on that is like taking out that little correction
on page two of a paper that they used to
do in that little box. Yeah after it was the
headline the day before. Yeah, right, it's and there you
gotta really, Yeah, there are too many people who hang
on has every word. And when he says, you know,
vaccinations cause autism and vaccinations are bad and we shouldn't
give this to our kids, then people will listen, even
(50:10):
when he corrects himself later on. Kevin O'Connor, excuse me,
doctor Kevin O'Connor, the former White House physician for Joe Biden,
refusing to answer any questions in front of that House
Overside Committee hearing yesterday.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
He wouldn't even answer. Did they even ask him?
Speaker 3 (50:27):
If does somebody say, is your name Kevin O'Connor, no comment,
I plead the fifth.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Yeah. Yeah. If I'm not asking what the president's blood
pressure is, I'm not asking what he weighed on, you know,
January second of twenty twenty three. But that the question
that was asked that he should have been able to
answer is did anyone ever tell you to lie about
the president's health? That has nothing to do with the
(50:54):
presidents self itself. Yeah, that's all it client A patient
privilege is going here. That's all about a cover up.
And he refused to answer that question.
Speaker 3 (51:03):
And that's all they really, that's all they want to know.
That's what they want to know. Now we may part
ways on this one, my friends, but I cannot agree
to this at all. The news now that Trump has
singled out Brazil for import taxes of fifty percent, and
at least part of the reasoning here is their treatment
(51:26):
of their former president. Yeah here Bolsonaro, who Trump liked,
who Trump?
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Yeah? Who?
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Trump says, has been the victim of a witch hunt
and the trial should not be taking place. This trial,
he said, it's a witch hunt and should end immediately
and use this as one of the reasonings for dumping
a fifty percent to tariff on Brazil. No, if you
(51:53):
want institute of tariff for pure sound economic reasons, even
though not pure and sound, but you think it's the
right thing to do, ok.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
But not for a political grudge. Now now we're moving
in a whole different territory here. Okay.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
I don't know much stuff we buy from Brazil other
than maybe granted for countertops, but I was thinking coffee,
that's yeah, yeah, I guess Brazil has some of it.
But you know, again, to put a tariff on a
country because of a political difference, I can't go there,
(52:28):
And apparently key West can't go where they win either.
They're coming back key West a stunning reversal as commissioners
there have voted a reinstate local law enforcement collaboration with ICE.
They got to take one more vote on this, but
it's going to happen. I mean, they made a lot
of news when they decided to cut ties. I don't
(52:50):
know what changed their minds, but they're restoring said ties.
Jesus right, Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
America, and.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
For one nation.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
This is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
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It is a tenth day of July. And good morning
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Speaker 1 (01:00):
Kind of like that Gilligan's Island three hour tour. We
have no idea where we are or how to get
back home. Luckily we do manage to make it back
each day.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, somehow we find our way back each and every day. Okay,
So I don't know if you got rocked by those
storms yesterday. Appreciable rainfall amounts at the house yesterday, by
the way, which is nice, Yes it is, man, it's
weird how you get that kind of rain and like
everything that's green is just suddenly a whole nother hue
of green.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It just pops. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, I just stood out the looked out the back
window and looked at the yard and went wow.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And I was worried wow because it rumbled and it
rumbled with thunder most of the afternoon and nothing happened.
I mean, we got a sprinkle, but then it finally came.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, and we may get more of that to day.
You heard Tyler mention, so be on the lookout for
all that still working a heat in next day. It
looks like one o two what it could feel like today,
So that braces yourselves for that as well. All right,
run down big stories, hot topics. What are we watching today? Well,
I guess he's left our friendly state now, huh. Headed
(02:10):
back to wherever, Gavin Newsom wrapping up his two days
swing through the Palmetto State. And uh, I don't know
who thought it would be a good idea for Gavin
to go to Pickens, but he did so I give
him credit for that. And he was met with some
fans and a lot of protesters who are out there.
(02:34):
Interesting morning, Joe Joe Scarborough over on MSNBC blasting Newsom
for traveling around the country while his state suffers from
quality of life issues. Okay, that's fair. Yeah, I mean,
is this your export, Gavin. We all know what's going
on in California. We don't want it here, thank you
(02:56):
very much. So Newsome he make any real news. He
did talk about the new IRS rules when it comes
to churches being able now to endorse a Canada to
not lose their tax exempt status. I find this fascinating.
He called it politically convenient for Trump. Well, I mean,
let's be real here, churches over the years, in particular
(03:21):
black churches, well maybe not out and out endorsing a
particular candidate, doing everything but saying it. Yeah, you know,
I mean, come on, so now that argument doesn't make
a whole lot of sense to me. Okay, but he's gone.
Now you can let the kids back out.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Alan Wilson, we spoke.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
To yesterday our state's attorney general and a Republican nominee,
hopeful unfeeling a pretty rare state grand jury report yesterday,
and it had to do with organized crime in our
state's prisons and among other things, and we'll talk about this.
He made that call to block these these cell phone
signals in these prisons. My goodness, I mean, was it
(04:07):
gonna take? This is a recurring theme on the show.
I know, but this continues to be a problem. And
for whatever reason, which is totally escapes me, the Feds
just won't do it. All right, we'll get into that.
Say hello and goodbye to Brandon Brown. Brandon Brown has
(04:29):
announced he will throw his hat into the ring for
the Senate seat now held by Lindsey Graham. None of
the Republican as a as a Democrat. Okay, are you
feeling with Brandon Brown at all?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
No? No, no, I neither.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Mind, and you probably won't get to know him much
more based on what he's trying to do. You heard
Thomas mention this. We've got our first outbreak of measle
cases of the state. Somebody in the Upstate who had
apparently traveled recently.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And they won't say where, which disturbs me a little bit.
They say it's for confidentiality, are okay, So if.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You say they're in Greer, for example, a lot of
people live in Greer, Greenville, bunch of people live in Greenville.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
No, but they won't tell us where that passenger travels. Yeah,
see right, I want to stay away, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Okay, Well, they're not telling us much other than somebody's
got it and it costs the country measlos cases have
hit a record high. Fascinating here. We were just talking
yesterday about teacher shortages and such, and I brought up
the fact that these charter schools, I'm probably sucking up
a lot of the talent these days.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But what about the high end talent? The state newspaper
with this piece.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The principal at Gray Collegiate Academy and how much he
is making, and how much more he makes than even
superintendents at public schools. Crazy dude is making almost three
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Wow. Yeah, and they're expanding. Yeah is a.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Sare We may get into some of that today too.
The President yesterday, coming to his attorney general's defense, Trump
standing behind Pam Bondi amid the uproar that continues over
the flip flop on the Jeffrey Epstein files. Wow, this
(06:32):
story is not going away. We mentioned yesterday. Was it intelligence?
Was he's involved in some sort of CIA or Massaud operations?
Was he a spy? I didn't realize this. What's her name,
mc Gislaine Maxwell. Maybe I did know this. You know
(06:52):
her dad was part of an intelligence agency at one time.
I don't think I did. Yeah, maybe we'll deal with
some of that today. He showed up but didn't answer
any questions. Kevin O'Connor, excuse me, doctor Kevin O'Connor, Biden's
former White House physician, refused to answer anything yesterday in
(07:13):
front of his Oversight Committee questioners.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
No big surprise here, I don't guess. Yeah, you know,
I didn't expect him to say. You know, here's what
the president was dealing with. I mean, that is doctor
patient confidentiality. But when he was asked, were you ever
told to lie about the President's health? That's a different ballgame. Yeah, right, exactly.
That's not related directly to the president. That is related
(07:39):
to you know, what an unawful.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Order you may have been given, right, and you know
it's by law you can take the fifth and no
comment and all that, but you know, in the court
of public opinion, when somebody does that, you're like, yeah, yeah,
you're told.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Makes you wonder if you're.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Told right, okay, scratching my head over this one, and
talk of all these tariffs and such. Now the news
that Trump singling out Brazil for import taxes of fifty
percent in part because of his treatment of their former
president who Trump says that the Brazilians is another witch
(08:20):
hunt there. Now, okay, if you're talking about tariffs for
you know, economic reasons, okay, but for this reason, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'm not going along with that one, not at all.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
All right, We've got that, We've got oh key West
doing a quick about face when it comes to working
with ice.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
How about that? And more coming up on this.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
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Six forty two the time. Now, good morning, It's Thursday,
July tenth. It's good to have you with us. One
of the few things that the Biden administration did that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I went.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I think most of us were like, yeah, okay, yeah,
that was good. Was the click to cancel rule? Oh,
if you remember this or not, this was in the
in the in the waiting days. I think it was
last like last October when the uh they put this
thing out there. It was set to go into effect Monday.
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It was this past Monday or this coming Monday. Well anyway,
but now it won't because we got law fair for
this now too. Yeah, a court steps in and blocks.
Is that the click to cancel rule? This was This
was a rule that would have made it, uh, well
easy to cancel a subscription.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
How many do you have, by the way, plus track man,
we just discovered we had one more than we thought
we had the other night. Well too, I du plicate,
Oh yeah, we're paying twice for the same service. You're
kidding me? No, wow.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well, the FTC had had proposed these changes. They were Yeah,
they were adopted back in October. It would require businesses
to obtain your consent before charging you for a membership,
an auto renewal, or any program linked to a free
trial offer. It would have made it very easy.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I know.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
There's this supposed that there's apps out there you can
use to do this sort of thing. I've never tried
one of those, but anyway, so this was this was
part of the Time Is Money initiative, which was a
government wide initiative under the BID administration announced last year.
The aim was to crack down on consumer related hassles.
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But the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
now says that the FTC made a procedural error by
failing to come up with a preliminary regulatory analysis, which
is something that's required for rules whose annual impact on
the US economy is more than one hundred million dollars.
So I guess they're telling us that, yeah, these subscriptions
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are it's a lot of money being generated by these subscriptions, right,
So you had an administrative law judge decided that the
economic impact would be more than that one hundred million
dollar threshold. So the court vacated the rule. While we
certainly do not endorse the use of unfair deceptive practices
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in negative opinion option marketing, Rather, the Court said, the
procedural deficiencies of the Commission's rule making process are fatal here.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So click to rule goes bye bye.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
One of the few things that the Biden White House
rolled out I think we could all agree with.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I mean, that's we talk every year at around the holidays,
at Christmas about gift cards and how much money these
companies make, yeah, from gift cards that wind up getting
don't don't get used.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I found one just the other day I had Yeah,
well wow, okay, missed out on that one.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And I think they What was really annoying.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Is when it's like a fifty dollars gift card, you
go spend thirty five, right, and then you're like, okay,
I've got something on that and you have no idea
how much is left on it. And he sits there,
says there. I said, sir, you can check. It's just
a pain in the neck to check. Yeah, yes it is.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah. But companies have found the same thing that these
these subscriptions, especially when you get lost in a haze
of them. You know, they're big business. Oh yeah, huge.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Okay, So there's that now the left going Okay, one
hundred and twenty that's the number the latest number of
people who lost their lives in those Texas floods, one
hundred and twenty and seventy those are the number of
people who are still unaccounted for. So I mean, we
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are seriously looking at a death hole right around three
hundred when all this is said and done, three hundred.
The Buffalo News, Buffalo, New York, publishing a cartoon. The
guy who drew the cartoon, guy named Adam Zeiglass, who
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was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, showed a man wearing
a Maga hat being swept away in the flood, holding
a help sign while behind him in the word bubble
in the cartoon, government is the problem, not the solution.
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So this Adam Zeiglass is a guy who has drawn
a number of cartoons that are raticle of the Maga
crowd and of conservatives in general. He is known for
left wing cartoons, recently drawing one with Maga officers arresting
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a newly born baby. But the Muffalo News thought it
was a good idea to publish this again. One hundred
and twenty lives lost that we're aware of, potentially maybe
one hundred and seventy more that are still missing. And
it's just, I mean, you know, every day we learned
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something new about how the left operates here, and this
was the this is the party that accuses conservatives of wow.
And then speaking of Texas, here's some craziness for you,
Jasmine Crockett. Y'all know Jasmine who by the way, posting
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a tearful video this is our home state of course,
Texas about those deaths, so you know, appreciate that. But
in the video also taking condimension. Oh, by the way,
thanks to so and so for my hair bob long
you have. I'll commented on it. Really, Jasmine, wrong time, really,
I mean in the same video. Well, there's a new
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poll out that shows Jasmine Crockett the preferred candidate among
Texas Democrats to run for the Senate in twenty twenty six.
Now part of the pub maybe there's nobody else down
there Democrat that gets anybody's attention. She led a hypothetical
primary field with thirty five percent of likely Democrat voters,
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followed by a Texas Congressman Colin al Read at twenty percent,
Beto O'Rourke, and a Juaqueden Castro at thirteen percent. Jasmine
Crockett would be the leading vote getter if in this
hypothetical poll, if she would have run for Senate, leading
vote getter for Democrats. I guess we're to point now
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where the Democrat Party, who ever makes the most noise,
does the most crazy stuff, gets the attention of these Obviously,
we're in a situation now where these is Rush Limbaugh
always call them low information voters. They don't bother it
even look to see what stand for. Just well, who
do I know? Who have I heard about who's making noise?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And jazz? It makes a lot of noise.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Uh, okay, okay, of course. You know the problem is
I don't realize this is you put up people like this,
you're gonna lose the moderate Democrat voter. You're gonna lose them,
and you might.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Lose them for good. So keep putting them up there,
I say, works for me.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's going to past seven. It's Thursday. It's July tenth,
and good morning to you. This is a story that
we have talked about numerous times over the years, and
we still keep having to talk about it because there's
still no no movement. You know, Brian Sterling, who just
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departed as the head of the Department of Corrections in
our state. He is now the US Attorney for South Carolina.
This was one of this is one of the things
that he worked tirelessly to try to get done. And
when the FTC or the FCC in this case wouldn't
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go along with this, he tried to find other methods
to shut it down. It cell phones behind prison bars,
and the problem that continues to be And I guess
what the only only excuse we've ever heard, right, was
that cell phone companies said, well, if we if we
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jammed those cell phone signals, it could uh, it could
have the the effect of jamming cell phone signals for
people outside these prison walls, right.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Not that many people live. I mean, these are huge complexes.
You might have a farm here and there, but these
are huge complexes, largely taking up vast amounts of property,
and there's really no one around. I mean they're usually
out in the middle of nowhere. Not every time, but
in most cases, in most cases.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yet, for whatever reason, the FCC and I thought by
this might change when a Republican took control of the
FCC as the chair, but it still hasn't. It's still happening.
And yes, uh, Director then Director Stirling was able to
come up with some technology to kind of cut down
on this, but still this is taking place. Well, yesterday,
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Alan Wilson held a press conference and took a pretty
rare step of issuing a state grand jury report. And
the report was addressing issues of organized crime behind prison
walls here in South Carolina. And according to officials that
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that press are yesterday, crimes are being planned by current
inmates using illegal cell phones and they have been carried out.
As the AG said, locking someone up doesn't make us
safer if they're still running criminal enterprises from behind bars.
Inmates with contraband cell phones aren't just continuing their crimes,
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they're escalating them. We know how to stop this. The
technology already exists. We've talked about this time and time again.
This same technology is being used in federal prisons. Is
what makes us even more exasperating. In a federal lockup,
they're jamming these cell phone signals, yet they will not
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allow states to do so for their prisons.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Do we have an explanation for that?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
By the way, is there any good explanation as to
why that's the case. Joel Anderson, who's the interim director
of the Department of Corrections, called the situation highly dangerous
for staff, other inmates, and communities. And they brought up
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several examples during this presser yesterday.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
One was up in Pickens.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
County where three pled guilty in a state grand jury case.
All three were serving time for previous drug trafficking convictions.
And they continue to run their meth operation from behind
bars using illegal cell phones. Yeah uh, I mean while
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behind bars, these guys were running weekly shipments of up
to thirty kilograms of cartel meth from Atlanta to multiple
counties here in South Carolina from behind prison bars.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Wow, it's big business. Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Another one a defendant who pled guilty to multiple child
abuse charges involving her young daughter. A woman who admitted
to a first degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor,
among other things. She and a co conspirator accused of
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smuggle using smuggled cell phones to coordinate the abuse.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
That's just sick, right, I mean, And then let's go
on and on here. I mean, you give criminals time
and an opportunity, they're going to take it. Yeah, And
they've got all the time they want on their hands.
Oh yeah, and then some and now they've got the
opportunity with these cell phones, bridges the gap, get them
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right over the prison walls.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So the AG is calling on Congress and the FCC
to change this. We cannot be the only state in
the country that has an issue with this. Why aren't all,
you know, fifty attorneys general in this country banging on
the doors of Congress and the FCC on a daily
basis saying let's change this. Why do you allow these
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cell phones to be jammed in federal lockups but not
state penitenttion Are we not smart enough to know how
to do?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
It makes absolutely zero sense, And crimes continue to be
committed on a daily basis because apparently the cell phone
lobby is so powerful they keep states from being able
to block these signals inside our prisons. You know, hats
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off to Director Sterling who for years and years and years,
I mean, I think this guy had a I think
he seemed like every other week he was flying up
to d C to testify in front of some committee
saying let's jam these signals. The dude did everything he
possibly could and kept ringing up against a brick wall,
and then he came up with other methods that helped
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but didn't solve the problem. I don't know what it's
gonna take. You know, we've already had hits, order and
everything else. I mean, how serious is the need to
get before Congress and the FCC does something about this.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The FCC has seen a lot of changes lately, and
maybe this is maybe the makeup of the FCC right now.
It's the perfect opportunity to get these checks. Think so, yeah,
I certainly hope so. And uh, and we'll have to
wait and see. I suppose give yourself an edge every
morning with.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
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Speaker 1 (24:29):
Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been
talked about for years. You're asking, we have Texas, we
have this, we have all of the things, and are
people still talking about this guy? This creep that is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
It's seven for you, the President. That was a couple
of days ago when asked by a reporter about all this.
Actually a reporter was attempting to ask Pam Bondi about this.
This was at a White House cabinet meeting, and Trump
jumped in then with that comment right there.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
This hadn't gone away, man. And part of the reason
it hasn't gone away is because the White House essentially
did a touchdown Dan saying we can't wait for you
to see what we've seen, and here it comes, here
it comes, and then boom nothing nothing. That was back
in February.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We've talked about this a lot the last few days,
I know, but you had a group of you know, influencers,
very you know, far right influencers really, who were invited
to the White House given binders, Epstein files, Phase one
and declassified stuff that was already out there in the
public domain.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Anyway. I didn't put much stock into that, but it
was the press conferences from people like Pam Bondi for example, Well, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
She had a truckload of previously with evidence, yep, that
she'd been given by the FBI. And as we've talked
about a numerous times the last few days when asked
by Peter Doocy, and.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
His question again was direct. It was specific about the
Epstein files, not the file on Epstein, but the Epstein file,
the list, the list, the client list, which she responded
saying it was on her desk right now, and then
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it just doesn't exist. And these are supposedly the worst
of the worst, people who committed crimes repeatedly, whether it
be rape or child sexual abuse.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yep, child pornography. I mean, do we need to see that? No?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
No, Should we know their names, yes, yes we should.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
So.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
And then there's the whole issue of his death right,
that mystery, which was a mystery, then it wasn't a mystery,
then it was, then it wasn't. And we've been treated to,
you know, pictures that don't match up what we originally saw.
It's the whole thing is bizarre. Is it at all possible?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Okay that coming into the office again that Trump and
Bondi and whomever else seriously with with it in good faith,
wanted to put this stuff out there, and some who
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knows what has convinced them not to do it. I mean,
it's gonna be. It had to be pretty strong man,
because you got you gotta. You don't have that egg
you gotta. You got a whole omelet on your face
right now over this.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
And I'm not sure Trump could be convinced of anything
like that if he didn't want to do it. Yeah,
so we brought this idea up yesterday. I think it was.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Uh, this is all speculation now, okay, I mean, I'm
not telling you anything that I know this for a fact.
This is all just speculation people talking.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
So why not.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Was Jeffrey Epstein somehow wrapped up in some sort of
intelligence op?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Was he a spy?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
If you think about it for a second, this is
kind of like the yeah, you hear about it all
the time. You know, the Russians are great for this, right,
they ensnare powerful people and they do that by using women.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Are we doing the same thing? But are we doing
it at a level where it could even involve children?
Or did we? It was Jeffrey Epstein part of some
sort of intelligence operation to if nothing else, compromise very
important people, whether they were allies or enemies or maybe
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right here in the United States of America, in our
own government, in our own corporations. And is this something
that is just so incredibly damning that even somebody like
Trump who might want to put it out there, can't.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You know, I agree with what oh who said this?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
It was we talked about this yesterday, this this concept, this,
this theory.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
At least.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
It was Tucker Carlson who said, you know this, this information,
if it's out there, this list, if it's out there,
it's been out there, and the FBI has had it,
and the FBI under Biden would have used that if
Trump's name was in there, if there was evidence that
pointed to Donald Trump, you better believe, especially after the
whole Biden meltdown and now you got Kamala Harris coming out,
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they'd have put that out there. They'd have leaked it
somehow or another. But that didn't happen. Again, because of
the flip flop on this, a lot of people are
left to think that, well, this is the reason why
Trump said his name's in there.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
There's videos or whatever, which would be even more of
an incentive for Trump and its administration to leak the list.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Right, or it would have been for Biden. Well yeah,
but but but was he was he a spy?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
But if Trump's name wasn't it wasn't yes, if it wasn't, yes,
absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Uh Jelane Maxwell, who's sitting behind bars right now, and
who knows for how long she'll be there, maybe forever.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Her father.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Was affiliated with numerous intelligence agencies over the years. I
don't know if that's that well known or not, but
but he was. I know, I keep saying this, and
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I'll keep saying this. Why even bring it back up again?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah? I know this was a it came up in
the campaign.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I get it, But really, I mean, you don't run
for president based on a platform of releasing the Epstein list, Right.
That's interesting and it's something we all like to know,
but that's not going to get you any votes. But
why go through all this? Why in February go through
that charade? You know that that that that theater of
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inviting these people to the White House and giving them
declassified documents that, yeah, they were declassified.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
They've been classified for a while.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Did they think all of that was going to pacify us? Maybe? Maybe? So?
Maybe that was it. I mean, I guess it could
be similar to the jfk assassination files. You know, we've
heard now in two different terms of the Trump administration
that we're going to get everything they have on that,
and I'm not sure we have. And I think people
have lost interest or either that or people have realized,
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you know, we're never going to get everything happened.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
And guess what, we had lost interest in this too.
I mean, it wasn't top of mind with anybody, true,
but I find it hard to believe that the White
House would revive interest the way they did and then
just slam the brakes and shut the door on this thing.
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Something else is going on here. You can talk Deep
State and everything else. You can talk CIA and FBI
and all. Something is going on here, man. And problem is, well,
we'll o really never know what it was. But there
are some dark evil forces out there that are, uh,
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I think, more powerful than we ever thought.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I know, I know where's my ten hat? I get it,
you know, I know TI full hat. But you don't.
You can't claim to be interested in whoever the puppet
master was that was pulling Biden strings and not be
interested in whoever stopped Trump and Pam Bondi from releasing
this list.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
What entity, what person group of people could possibly have
that much power behind the scenes, behind the scenes to
pull this off.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
People we didn't vote for.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Right, you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
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Once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Tompson.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
At fifteen minutes half eight o'clock and morning. Good to
have you along into the final hour of the program
here for this Thursday morning. It is July the tenth,
and the state is finally rid of Gaven Newsom. He
meet his the rest of his two days swing through
the state yesterday and went up to Pickens County.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay. You don't get any more dyed in the wool.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Red than Pickens County, right, And somebody thought it was
a good idea to go there, Newsome, telling the well,
let's see the Posting Courier article starts this way. He
was greeted by adoring fans plural okay and indignant protesters,
Newsom saying, I love it. I'm here in Pickens, as
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the article says, telling an enthusiastic crowd that Democrats need
to do a better job connecting with rural voters. Now,
I'm not here to say that there are no Democrat
voters in Pickens County. There are three, maybe five. Now,
I haven't seen the video. I don't know how many
were actually in attendance. I know had some of the
stops on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It was pretty sparse, sure, And I wouldn't pick Gavin
Newsome to be the one to do the outreach program
for those voters right in Pickens County, because what are
you selling here? Man? You?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
What do you all you can sell is your record
selling the West Coast, selling the disaster that is California.
I mean, come on, who's buying? I had to I
had to laugh. They quoted the article a seventy six
year old Greenville resident who well, let's put it this way,
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she hasn't lived in Greenville.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
All her life. She moved here from California six years ago, Okay, okay,
and thought she had escaped him.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Well, she loves the guy, apparently, and also said it
doesn't hurt that he's drop dead gorgeous. Okay, if you're
pulling the lever on the best looking person, which you know,
by the way, we should probably note here often we
seem to do that in this country.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Well, they're about thirty protesters outside. They weren't let inside,
of course, but I mean, you go to Pickens County
as as as a Democrat period, Well, you're a fish
out of water. You go there, it's Gavin Newsom, You're
a way out of water. And of course he took
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shots at Trump, he took shots at Lindsay Graham, which again,
even some of those protesters outside might have welcomed that.
Who knows, but a two day swing through the state,
I'm not sure what good it did, by the way,
to note, next up, as Democrats continue to bring in
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twenty twenty eight hopefuls, will be uh Andy Basheer the
governor of Kentucky. Now, I will tell you this, you
should be a lot more if you're a concer deservative,
if you're a Republican, those two don't necessarily go hand
in hand. But if you are, you should be a
lot more concerned about Andy Basher than you are Gavin Newsom.
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Basher somehow has been able to convince voters in Kentucky
that they should put a Democrat in the governor's chair,
and they really seem to like the guy for some reason.
But he'll be the next to make a trek through
the state that again hasn't voted for a Democrat for
president since Jimmy Carter in nineteen seventy six, but continues,
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at least in the Democrat primary, to be a very
important state now while up in the Upstate, Newsom took
a shot at this recent Supreme Court ruling and actually
under the Supreme Court in an IRS ruling on churches,
that ruling, if you missed it, you probably didn't ear
up on these things, was that the churches will be
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allowed to endorse political candidates harmed their attacks exempt status.
Newsom called it politically convenient for Trump and gaming the
system in every way. He said, now, I find this
curious and the fact that I mean, let's be honest,
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Black churches all across the country for years now, while
not saying we endorse so and so, have done the
next best thing. They've held all sorts of well rallies,
described concealed a church services over the years, welcoming in
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Democrat candidates. So I don't know that Gavin Newsom needs
to be talking about that, but anyway, there it was
interesting to note too that that Joe Scarborough over an
MSNBC going after Newsome for launching his out of state
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political tour while his own state suffers from a variety
of serious issues. Scarborough is saying that Newsome hass a
really big pile of problems he needs to address and
take accountability for if he wants to appeal to voters
in a national scale. And that's the most curious thing
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of all this California is a disaster on all sorts
of fronts, you know, the wildfires, the immigration issues, the riots,
the taxation, the fact that what thirty eight percent of
the workforce in a place like Los Angeles is comprised
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of people who were not born in this country, not
all of me legal granted, but still the fact that,
you know, we keep hearing stories that LA's economy is
shutting dow because so many people here.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Illegally are in the workforce. Was the what was the latest.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
You've got a bishop out in California now who has
told illegal immigrants who are here, you're okay to skip
mass That's fine, We'll give you a pass on it
because we don't want you to get hauled off by ice.
That's California, man, That's where California is right now on
July tenth of twenty twenty five. So I'm not real
sure what it was. Gavin Newsom thought he was selling
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here or anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
He decides to go to a state that embraces law
and order.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah, yeah, very curious. But by the way, since we're
on the upstate political beat here, Brandon Brown has announced Yeah,
right at what I said to Brandon Brown announcing he
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will run for the Senate seat held by Lindsey Graham. Brown,
a Democrat, saying he's running for US Senate because he
believes our communities deserve more and Lindsey Graham has forgotten
who he represents.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Okay, I mean, everyone has the right to run, but Bore,
that's going to be an uphill battle. Yeah. Maybe they're
banking on the fact that that Lindsay might have to
spend a lot of his his political dollars on a
primary run. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
I mean, I don't know how serious the Andre Bauer
threat is to Lindsey Graham. There's some name recognition there, certainly,
but guy that's been out of politics for a while,
I'm not sure. And Graham's got an enormous war chest.
Get your fifteen minutes of fame, mister Brown five and
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you got the right to do that.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
But if you'll get your hopes up if you're a
well known Democrat, who would want to wad into that
race right now? I mean after seeing what happened the
last time around, right the money spent, the support from
the national oh my.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Goodness, came in from out of the state on that race.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I mean, everything was done to hand that race to
the Democrats and they couldn't pull it off.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Yeah, the Jamie Harrison fiasco. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Here's there's one thing I think, whoever it is there
was a Democrat, I don't think they'll have the luxury
of having all this outside money poor in it next
time around.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Probably. I think folks learn their listen. Well, certainly, Brendan
what you spent last Burns Brown Brown, Brandon Bryan. Certainly
Brandon Brown won't attract a whole lot of that money.
Let's call him BB from here on APPS. Okay, the
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Speaker 1 (43:05):
Okay, your final thoughts today? Thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
I just saw this flash across my TV screen a
moment ago, and I'm sorry who We're just talking about
the Upstate Democrat who wants to take on Lendsey Graham.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
I've already forgot his name, Brandon Brown, Brandon Bright. Yes,
that's it. How quickly we forget? Do you recall this name?
Mark Lynch? Is that Riget any bells? No? Yeah? Should it? Well?
I just saw his ad Okay, what's it?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Is?
Speaker 1 (43:35):
He running for something right now?
Speaker 3 (43:36):
He's running against Lendsey Graham. Oh, and he's a Republican okay?
Ed he announced back in February. Okay, and already were forgotten.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Well again one of those guys that is going to
really struggle with the name recognition. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
I mean the dude's a businessman, Overernori County, owns an
applient store.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I think.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Okay, don't lie to me. You forget you You didn't
know that name either, did you, Mark Lynch?
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Okay? Well, you know, normally I say you don't want
to start the election cycle too soon, but for guys
like that, you may need to start going door to
door tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
I need to knock on every door in South Carolina. Yeah, yeah, okay,
so Mark Lynch.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
And isn't it isn't that where Andre Bauer is living now?
Is he at the beach? Now? I don't know where
he's living. I think so. So that's two guys essentially
from the same territory neck of the Woods. Huh. Yeah,
although Bowers got a bigger I got an advantage on
name recognition. Sure. I think that's where he's living.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
Andre's got his own intersection named after him, true, which
I find terribly ironic. Or if he got a speeding
ticket that intersection, they had to get him a driver
because it's anyway, Okay, I like Audrey all right, file
thoughts here. I mention this in a undown hours ago
(45:01):
when we first come on the air. A state newspaper
article yesterday about the principle over at the Great Collegiate Academy, who,
as it turns out, as one of these states highest
paid public school administrators. Remember, charter schools get public dollars, okay,
(45:21):
and he gets a lot of them, to the tune
of three hundred and twenty two thousand, five hundred and
forty four dollars a year. Wow, these said, yeah, these
are taxpayer dollars. Okay, that's double with the highest paid
principles in for example, Lexington to an l R fiber
(45:44):
making double. And that's a sound that's in line with
that of our state's highest paid superintendent who heads up
the Greenville coint of Schools SYS them it's within about
five thousand dollars I mean paid we pay these top
(46:05):
administrators public schools. Is ridiculous amounts of money, I mean
gobs of money. But yeah, this is an eye opener.
Here a charter school with the principal making over close
to three hundred and twenty five thousand a year. They
reached out to the school that the chair of their
(46:27):
board director has declined to be interviewed, but did email
the state a statement that the board voted unanimously on
his salary for this year. He's been getting a lot
of raises, apparently in large part, they say, because there's
no role like his in conventional school public school public
schools districts of the Midlands. That he serves as principal
for two campuses, a middle school, and a lead administrator
(46:50):
for all three. Okay, so we are talking about taxpayer
dollars here.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
Okay, but that's not a taxpayer salary. That's that's decided
on by what they're bored and the I mean Erskine
still oversees. Yeah, the charter school system, right, yes, yes,
So don't they have some say in that too they
dole out, Yes, they do, and then Gray decides how
(47:17):
that money is spent.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
So well that that charter institute, by the way, they've
been under some fire too. I mean they they've spent
more than two hundred thousand dollars on travel here recently,
including a five day trip to London for leaders and staff.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Oh, I saw the right up on that. Yeah, I
remember that.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Yeah, that was back well, I think that it was
between February of twenty three and April of twenty four.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yeah. That came off as just a joy ride with
a little bit of education thrown in there. Yeah yeah, right, yeah. No.
And I'm not defending necessarily, I'm just saying this is
this isn't necessary. This is decided by what Gray's board. Yeah,
And here's what here's one of the things we've got
to remember. When you've got competitive school situations, when you've
(48:03):
got schools that are operated like a business competing against
public schools, which you know, all we've said is, you know,
give us a chance to have a competition of which
ones are the best schools, and then let us decide
where we want to send our kids. Obviously, this guy's
had some success. They're building a new campus. So I
(48:25):
mean people, the CEOs of top businesses get rewarded. Yeah,
but we are talking about tax payer dollars. True. True.
That's the weird part of all this is that charter
schools are not the same as private schools, right, but
it does a lot of people think a charter school. Okay,
no it's not, but it almost operates in the similar style. Yes,
(48:51):
but with our money, but with our money.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Yeah, got our first official case of measles. It's in
the Upstate, being very not transparent about apparently this somebody
who had traveled it was not Imian eyes, but they
don't tell us where they went.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
I guess that's a privacy thing. You know this, We've
had outbreaks all over the country already. This was bound
to happen.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Yeah, we've set a record high and measles outbreaks in
this country, so yeah, it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
People are freaked out about vaccinations these days. You got
to cook running Health and Human Services up there right now.
You do not like it, But I mean, I think
some of the things he's done is have been great.
But you know, his his whole stance on vaccinations, they're
not helping. And he says he's backtracked on that now
and maybe he has, but I mean, we haven't. Well,
(49:44):
we have had problems with measles for a long long time.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
Backtracking on that is like taking out that little correction
on page two of a paper that they used to
do in that little box. Yeah after it was the
headline the day before. Yeah, right, it's and there you
gotta really, Yeah, there are too many people who hang
on has every word. And when he says, you know,
vaccinations cause autism and vaccinations are bad and we shouldn't
give this to our kids, then people will listen, even
(50:10):
when he corrects himself later on. Kevin O'Connor, excuse me,
doctor Kevin O'Connor, the former White House physician for Joe Biden,
refusing to answer any questions in front of that House
Overside Committee hearing yesterday.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
He wouldn't even answer. Did they even ask him?
Speaker 3 (50:27):
If does somebody say, is your name Kevin O'Connor, no comment,
I plead the fifth.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Yeah. Yeah. If I'm not asking what the president's blood
pressure is, I'm not asking what he weighed on, you know,
January second of twenty twenty three. But that the question
that was asked that he should have been able to
answer is did anyone ever tell you to lie about
the president's health? That has nothing to do with the
(50:54):
presidents self itself. Yeah, that's all it client A patient
privilege is going here. That's all about a cover up.
And he refused to answer that question.
Speaker 3 (51:03):
And that's all they really, that's all they want to know.
That's what they want to know. Now we may part
ways on this one, my friends, but I cannot agree
to this at all. The news now that Trump has
singled out Brazil for import taxes of fifty percent, and
at least part of the reasoning here is their treatment
(51:26):
of their former president. Yeah here Bolsonaro, who Trump liked,
who Trump?
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Yeah? Who?
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Trump says, has been the victim of a witch hunt
and the trial should not be taking place. This trial,
he said, it's a witch hunt and should end immediately
and use this as one of the reasonings for dumping
a fifty percent to tariff on Brazil. No, if you
(51:53):
want institute of tariff for pure sound economic reasons, even
though not pure and sound, but you think it's the
right thing to do, ok.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
But not for a political grudge. Now now we're moving
in a whole different territory here. Okay.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
I don't know much stuff we buy from Brazil other
than maybe granted for countertops, but I was thinking coffee,
that's yeah, yeah, I guess Brazil has some of it.
But you know, again, to put a tariff on a
country because of a political difference, I can't go there,
(52:28):
And apparently key West can't go where they win either.
They're coming back key West a stunning reversal as commissioners
there have voted a reinstate local law enforcement collaboration with ICE.
They got to take one more vote on this, but
it's going to happen. I mean, they made a lot
of news when they decided to cut ties. I don't
(52:50):
know what changed their minds, but they're restoring said ties.
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