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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm elesus.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hell yea America and ll for.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Formation is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM. W voc.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Well, we have made it to the end of a
five day work week for me, I haven't had one
of those in a couple of weeks. Good morning. It
is Friday, July the eleventh. Welcome in. Good to have
you along. It is sixteen after six. I am Gary David.
That is Christopher Thompson. Good morning to you, sir. Morning
to you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What well watered after yesterday? Like my grass is, Oh
it's a beautiful Yeah, it's a beautiful thing, a great thing.
This is sa It's so vibrantly green. Man, it's very
cool after all those days of one hundred degree heat
and no relief. That was that wasn't bad last.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Night and pretty sweet. Yeah, it would be get a
little more that day. The chances of dropping precipitously though,
I don't know. We've got some palmetto trees in the
backyard and occasionally they grow something that's not your typical
frond or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I know what you call these things. But man.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Whatever those branches, they're like tripled in size in two days.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, I got it and cut them down this weekend,
taking it all in.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah man.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
All right, well let's get ready for the weekend, shall we.
Let's get right into it, the run down, the big stories,
the hot topics for Friday, July the eleventh. Here we
go and brace yourselves, friends. Another Democrat want to be
is coming to our state. Well, we mentioned this the
other day, Andy Basheer, who's going for Kentucky. And as
I mentioned yesterday, forget Gavin Newsom, Andy Basher, this is
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a guy to to to keep an eye on a Democrat.
It is second term of governor in you know, typically
blue Kentucky. How he's pulled that one off? Well, he'll
he'll bring his message to our state next week, Okay,
And unlike Gavin Uh, Andy is going to drop by
the Columbia area.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He'll be speaking at.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
The UH the USC Alumni Center, the Pestides Alumni Center
next week as part of one of his many stops
uh and it won't probably stop there. It looks like Rocanna,
the California Democrat, is going to be uh in our
state later on this month.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So this is this is this kind of weird tove.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It feels like the campaign trail is heating up a
little too quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, just a little too soon.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
We had a long way to go to twenty twenty eight, man,
a long way to go.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But anyway, maybe this is the Democrats game plan is
don't don't pay attention to what's going on in New York.
We got we've got all these viable candidates, mainstream candidates
going around the country, well aside from Gavin Newsom, anybody's
mainstream compared to Mandani. True true point.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, trying to show us who the real Democrats are,
I guess.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Now, meantime, we got, you know, elections of our own
a lot sooner than that coming up in twenty twenty six.
And the state newspaper the piece that Stephen Goldfinch, she
has said now sorry that he's running for attorney general
after Allan Wilson announced he's running for governor. Says that
this he didn't initially didn't want to be one of
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the presenters over the State House this past session in
the case to to boot or attempt to boot Curtis
Loftus out of office, and that yeah, it could be
a liability for him. Okay, so far, unless I miss somebody,
it's just Goldfinch, and well it's just Goldfinch, right. David
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Pasco has not made an announcement yet. I don't think so.
But that's that's coming. You got you gotta figure that's coming. Meantime,
the guy that Goldfinch wants to replace, Alan Wilson, has
picked up endorsements from three more sheriffs across the state.
Jay Coon over in Elecxington County, the Saluta County Sheriff,
and the Chester County Sheriff, all tossing their hat into
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the ring with Wilson. It got heated last night and
it was a huge crowd in a rainstorm. Over in
Sandy Run in Calhoun County. This story, man, it just
doesn't go away. Dozens of folks showed up with questions
about that new ordnance dissolving the Sandy Run Fire Service
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Special Tax District and requiring that they transfer ownership over
to Calhoun County and all their stuff and everything else.
I don't think you're going to find any residents in
that area that are happy with his decision, and they
continue to let their feelings be known every time they
get together. The former executive director of a nonprofit over
in Kershaw County, one that serves kids, is now facing
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numerous charges after Copps says she stole more than one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars from the organization.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Wow, and did what with it?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Among other things, used it to pay for personal expenses
like vacations and medical bills.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, this was the Kershaw County's first Step program. These
thefts occurring over a seven year period in which she
was the leader of that organization.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Wow. Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You know, we were talking last week, and I think
earlier this week too, about how many out of state
students are attending public colleges here in South Carolina. Interesting
opinion piece I thought by the name of Ben Mitchell
in the state paper today, and I'm not sure what
is He's just a dad apparently, but he wrote a
very good piece of pointing out making the case that
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it's unfair to our state students and pointing out why,
for example, the freshman class this year Clemson was forty
four percent out of state. It's usc it was forty
eight percent out of state. But you go up to
North Carolina, they've got caps on these things. Maybe we'll
deal back into that again today at some point in time.
All right, So the Supreme Court a few weeks ago said, okay,
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you federal court district judges, you can't you can't make
rulings that block Trump's agenda. This is your district. You
can't cover the whole country. Well, they're finding other ways
to do it now. And yesterday a federal judge in
New Hampshire issued a ruling that would stop the executive
(06:29):
order that ends birthright citizenship from taking effect. This judge.
And what they're doing now is they're taking claims and
this lawsuit filed by the A c l U and
making them class action lawsuits so it can affect the
entire country. Yeah, they're they're they're finding ways around this
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Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Be damned.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I suppose we got lots to talk about on immigration today.
By the way, California, another flashpoint is an ICE operation
at a cannab farm led to a clash between agents
and protesters there By the way, even though there have
been numerous arrests, a lot of them, deportations are low,
(07:13):
very low. Matter of fact, agents last month arrested more
people than they had in at least five years, but
still deportations lagged behind even those from the Obama years.
And the haughty US always like to call him the
hottie John Kerry admitting that Trump was right on immigration. Oh,
(07:33):
we got to look at that. Meantime, the Education Department
is stopping at Clinton era giveaway for illegal aliens. We'll
tell you what that's all about. It's not going away.
The Jeffrey Epstein story. Latest is Alan Dershowitz yesterday saying
he had seen the Epstein client list and that the
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government had suppressed documents to protect powerful individuals.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Inviduals is what we all think, by.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
The way, one Congressman Tim Burchett, the Tennessee Republican, said
earlier this week he thinks there was a client list.
There is, but then it has been destroyed. He thinks
it was destroyed by the Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Go figure.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And what about Epstein as an intelligence asset, Well, that's
getting talked more and more about Pam Bondi claims no
knowledge of that. Pink slips will be flying up the
State Department. About eighteen hundred employees will be laid off
in the coming days. Bureaucrats bureaucrats, yes, bureaucrats, not the
people doing the real work, the bureaucrats.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And Israel says.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
The Iranian uranium stocks may be retrievable despite those air
strikes by our B two bombers. The White House again
defending the success of that. We'll get to that more
coming up here on this. It is the Friday morning edition,
Thank God of Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Have you here?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Exciting times on the Glenn Beeck program. It's so rare
for me to be excited.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's going to be very exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
One on three.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Point five FM and five sixty AM w VOC. This
is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson
on one on three point five FM and five sixty
AM w VOC.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
The six forty one. Good morning.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It is a Friday, the eleventh day of July. Good
have you with us? A topic we've talked about a
couple of times past few weeks got raised up again
about two weeks ago. I guess it was was the
practice on how many out of state students are attending
colleges public publicly funded colleges, at least to some part
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funded publicly. About eleven percent is what schools like Carolin
and Clemson get from taxpayer dollars. How many out of
state students are in these institutions. And there was an
articles a couple of weeks ago about how you know
some of these again out of state students are, for
all intents and purposes, getting in state rates, which is
(10:08):
a is not fair. You want to send your kid
to one of these schools, you're helping to foot the
bill Ford through your tax dollars. Some kid from New
York comes down here, Mom and dad aren't paying any
taxes here in South Carolina. So that's unfair to begin with.
But is it unfair to the students here in our
state trying to get into these in state colleges? Opinion
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piece by a guy named Ben Mitchell, who doesn't show
that he's an educator or anything like that, and the piece,
but regardless, he thinks it is unfair at least for
students who want to attend not only maybe a top
public university here in this state, but even in a
neighboring state that our students here in our state are facing,
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as he writes, immense admissions competition from out of states too.
At Clemson, at USC and limited chances to attend top
public schools in states nearby. For example, he points out
the twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five freshman class, forty
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four percent of students at Clemson forty eight percent of
students at USC were from out of state. I don't
know if it's still this way to Clemson or not,
but I know when our youngest was looking at schools
and he had a pretty good GPA, he had a
lot of his friends at least expressed an interesting going
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to Clemson.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I finally put a stop to that. You wound up
going to USC.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
But to go to so many at that time, at
least so many high schools here in this state who
wanted to get into Clemson were told, well, you're going
to have to go to what's that tech school up there?
Not Try County, but whatever. There's one in Charleston and
one up the upstate that both kind of sounds similar
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to me, but regardless, tried in text. Then Okay, so
it's Trike County or what I think it has up
at the upstate. You need to go there for a year.
Bridge school, Yeah, a bridge school. These were kids, These
weren't kids with you know middle of the road GPAs
either coming out of high school. I don't really said
the same thing to out of state students or not,
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but they were saying that the n state students back
there to the day.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's been a while ago now.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
So they're forty four percent at Clemson out of state,
forty eight percent South Carolina out of state the incoming
freshman classes the last last academic here.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
But look to North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
They limit out of state students of their top schools
to just eighteen percent of enrollment.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Florida out of state cap ten percent for all their
public schools. University of Georgia no more than twenty percent
out of state students. So we've got way more than
double in our state what we allow. We don't have
any caps as many as we can get. I guess well,
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these neighboring states capeted far, far less, and he writes
the imbalances even more pronounced when comparing enrollment at individual schools.
For example, the entire twenty three thousand plus undergraduate student
body at Clemson in the fall of twenty twenty four
included more than a thousand students from North Carolina, nearly
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nine hundred from Georgia, but USC out of close to
twenty nine thousand undergrads spring of twenty twenty five, close
to fifteen hundred from North Carolina, close to eight hundred
from Georgia, but UNC Chapel Hill their student body included
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less than one hundred undergrad students from South Carolina. And
last year's freshman class at UNC Chapel Hill from South
Carolina just twenty Wow. Yeah, Georgia. University of Georgia, how
many South Carolina freshmen last academic year? Thirty five. So
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there's a big imbalance here.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And we were always doing it for the out of
state tuition.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Right as long as if we get that, we're not
always even getting that.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
It doesn't sound like that's been an issue for years now,
and again we talk about public tax dollars. Clemson and
Carolina get hundreds of millions each year. It's about eleven
percent of the mentioned of their total budgets. So you know,
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we're paying in money to educate out of state students. Now,
if all things were equal and all the state students
who qualified could get in, well, okay, we wouldn't have
much of an argument. But the argument is is that
there are some in state students who are denied admission.
Maybe they don't have quite as good a record in
high school, but shouldn't they be given priority. Shouldn't there
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be some And maybe there is. You know, if you're
gonna say you gotta have this much in an eight
s at score, an ACT score, this this this much GPA,
well maybe there should be a different scale for att
of state versus in state students. I don't know that
there is one. I'm betting there's not. But again, these
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students who may be denied entry here because of that,
guess what, they're not getting into the top schools in Georgia,
Florida or North Carolina either. And uh, and that that
that's that's a problem. Now we can't talk about private schools.
They're not getting public dollars. They do what they want
to do. But these are schools that are getting publicly
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funded to it. Again, it's not a large it's eleven
percent of their total funding. But still it just doesn't
seem fair at all. It's because it's not.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Interesting piece by Ben Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty am WVOC once again.
Here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Sixteen minutes after seven o'clock in the morning, and good
to have you along for Friday, July the eleventh. Isn't
it odd how the news cycle just turns and sometimes
get stuck on a story? What was the big news?
You know a week or two ago we're no longer
talking about. For example, go back to what month, month
and a half or so you mentioned this the other
day to I had totally forgotten him. We're talking about this,
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Joe Biden's doctor on the oversight committee, and I say, well,
he wants to argue, you know, doctor client confident, patient
confidentiality or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I guess that would have to last until Joe Biden
passes one day and he said, well he's got cancer.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about that.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Weird how that story popped up at a very convenient
time and then you never hear anything else about it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Prostate cancer in May and advanced prostate cancer, right, and
in July it's all but forgotten.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Right, So the news cycle is weird. But this week
it's stuck on one big, well two big stories. What
happened in Texas obviously, but the other is the mysterious
disappearing or maybe never existed. Jeffrey Epstein client list Charlie
kirk Over turning for USA says, this story is actually
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getting bigger, and he's right. He called the role out
of this perplexing. I'd call it botched. Yeah, things he
one of the criticism that he had, he says, you know,
he he's learned this week on how not to handle
pr when it comes to a story like this. He said,
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what was so perplexing to him was because you signed
the one big beautiful bill on an independence state that
was last Friday, and then on a holiday weekend, going
into a news week, you decide to leak it to Axios.
That's you know, it's like you know, case closes, don't
ask any questions, there is no list. That's what happened.
This was leaked to Axios over the weekend, over three
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day weekend. And maybe, of course this is the weird
way the new cycle works.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Sometimes.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
If you if you want people not to know something, yeah,
that's a great time to do it. You do it,
you know, during or right before, you know, a long weekend.
But then this isn't just any old story, Okay. Latest
this morning, Alan Dershowitz, talking to Sean Spicer, former Press
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Secretary of the White House, told Spicer that he had
seen the Epstein client list and that the government had
suppressed these documents to protect powerful individuals, Which is what
we all think, right, Sure, documents are being suppressed to
protect individuals. I know the names of these individuals, I
know why they're being suppressed, he told Spicer, and I
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know who's suppressing them. Well do tell sorry, I'm bound
by confidentiality.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Uh okay.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Spicer asked if people on that list were Were they politicians,
were they business leaders? Dershwood says they're everything.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
He said he had seen these relevant materials due to
back when he was accused by Virginia Jeffrey, who recently
committed suicide. Right remember how that came about too? As
an aside here, that was a weird set of things
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because she was supposedly doing fine. I mean she she
had she had married, she had kids, done in what
Australia I think, right, Australia, New Zealand wherever. It's all
the same to me down there, man. And uh, there
was a story that popped out where where she had
been in a car what a car wreck or something
like that, and went up on social media and said that,
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you know, her life was in you know, I mean
she was just hanging on by a thread. I mean,
her injuries were severe. She might die and then, like
you know, a week or two later, we're told she
commits suicide. But she had accused Dershowitz at one time,
but then later recanted those accusations.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
But she accused a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
She accused a lot of folks. Yeah, most notably of
course Prince Andrew. We got pictures on that one. So
he said he saw he saw this list as result
of that when he was accused. But not only who's
on there, but who's suppressing this list? But he can't
tell us because he's bound to confidentiality. Okay, Hey, Alan,
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do us a solid man?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I mean, what do you got to love? What do
you got to throw you in jail? I mean, come on.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Tim Burchett, the Tennessee Republican congressman, said this week he
thinks that a client list did exist, doesn't anymore, that
it was destroyed by the Biden administration. Now I don't
know how he knows this or he just thinks this.
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He like we mentioned the other day of the same
opinion that that Tucker Carlson is is if there had
been anything on that list, anything to do with Trump,
that it would have been out day one under the
Bible administration. He says, he thinks there's some very prominent people,
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there's Hollywood people, world leaders, and it would have caused
economic disruption around the globe.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So is this what Jeffrey Epstein was? I mean, was
he just simply a somebody who created situations and then
use them as blackmail?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It sounds like it, doesn't it it does. Well, we know,
we know he was videotaping these encounters, right right, or
so we're told. Now, I'm not you haven't seen those tapes.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I'm not taking away any of the blame from these
people who allegedly, you know, committed sex abuse, especially child
sex abuse. But what I'm saying is he created these
situations knowing he was going to get blackmail material out
of it. And then we go back to the whole
was he an intelligence asset angle?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Well, that would certainly play into it.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I mean, this is a guy who didn't have a
college degree, right, who basically had nothing to his name,
and suddenly one of these days, you know, he's this billionaire.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Financier rubbing elbows with every star and business person you
could imagine.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Yeah, and now Pam Bondi is having to answer questions
about that, is was he an intelligence asset?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, they couldn't answer that regardless.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Yeah, well no they couldn't, could they. She claimed earlier
this week she has no knowledge of that. And the
Daily Caller doing some interviews apparently with some top Trump officials,
and they are hopping mad. They're very frustrated, very displeased,
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very you know what over Pam Bondi and the DOJ
on how they handle this. Can't blame them, right because
no matter who botched this, it's gonna come back to
Donald Trump. You know, the buck stops right there, right,
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doesn't matter if it was Pam Bondi or some junior
person or some shady character or whomever it was. Again,
for a moment, forget whether or not the list existed.
Just focus on the fact that the Trump administration got
us all worked up in a lather over it and
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then nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Burger and I guess they're hoping at this point that
this too will die down eventually because well you know
we've it will yeah, I mean, eventually you'll run out
of things to speculate about it.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
So you play the long game here again, right, it
sounds like you play the long game. People forget about it.
But you know, in this day and age, in this
political environment, there's always gonna be somebody out there reminding us.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Or some political points, somebody who has a name or
two to throw out there, yeah, that we may not
have heard, and suddenly we'll be right back into it, right.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Back at it.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
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Speaker 4 (25:33):
The seven forty two. Good morning, It's Friday, July the eleventh.
We appreciate your being with us this morning. He didn't
want to do it. He's flat out set, did not
want to do it. Stephen Goldfend, state senator from the
Grand Strand area, said that at least initially, he didn't
want to be one of the presenters of the case
over in the Senate this past session in their attempt
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to boot Curtis Loftus out of his state wide office.
In an interview, Goldfinch, who of course is at this
point the only announced candidate for Attorney general here in
our state, said that he only served in that role
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because Larry Grooms and Thomas Alexander, the Senate President, wanted
him to be one to make that argument. So I
didn't want to do it, And he says he asked
not to do it, but both Grooms and Alexander insisted
that he would, so he did it. Said it was
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a duty, he felt honor bound, So.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It didn't make sense politically to do that, knowing that
he had aspirations of a statewide office, and he knows
just how popular Curtis Loftus is in many parts of
the state.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah, now, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Had he actually loft has been removed from office, some
might have seen that as a plus for Goldfish brothers
would have seen that as an even bigger negative more
than likely. So now he says, as he's running for
that Attorney general's office, he has said in the interview,
I'm quoting here quite frankly. I thought it was a
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political liability rather than a political help and it still
might be a political liability. He points out that Loftus
has been traveling around the state and making appearances with
David Pascoe, who has not yet announced, but after switching
from a Democrat to Republican Party recently and a very
tough prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
The listener.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
In Pasco, I would argue that Pasco, well, at least
around this these parts of the state, has much better
name recognition than this Goldfinch, probably even though Goldfinch has
served in the Senate. Still Pasco's Yeah, I think if
you took a poll, he would come out on top.
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As far as name recognition is concerned.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Well, if it's just the two of them in the
in the race, it's going to come down to, you know,
conservative credentials, who can prove they've got them right.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
And it's it's one thing to switch to the Republican
Party from the Democrat Party, Okay. Oh, and if you're
gonna run for a state went off of the state
the state, then you want to win, you're gonna have
to do that. But yeah, let me be plenty of
that that that will be a campaign that is full
If Pasco gets in, and he's widely expected too, they'll
be a campaign full of yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
But right, and there will also be you know, dedication
to law and order as there should be.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Speaking of which.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
The uh, the guy that Goldfinch and more than likely
Pascal wanted a place. Alan Wilson is run for governor
picked up three more endorsements from law enforcement, uh Jay
kuon the election and county sheriff, which is no surprise
at all. Of course, a coon was at the announcement
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when Wilson had his announcement. Now, what about two clus
of two weeks ago? I guess it was Josh Price
saluted County Sheriff and Max Dorsey, Chester County Sheriff all
yesterday announcing their endorsement of Wilson for governor. So he's
racking up the endorsements from law enforcement and that's not
a surprise. It was an attorney general again for that race.
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So far, the only other announced Canada is Josh Kimberrel.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
We is it Monday?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I think it's Monday right that Pamela Evan's going to
announce well, she has an exciting announcement, so she'll she'll
throw her hat into the ring next week. And we
still wait to hear from Ralph Norman. Twenty seventh, I
think was the was the date he said he would
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make it a yes or no announcement. That'll be a
yes announcement. I'm sorry we heard from Nancy Mace.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
The twenty seventh is a Sunday.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Maybe it's a twenty eighth, might be something like it's one,
it's a it's a day late in the month. That's
all I remember. Yeah, man, I'm sixty six years old.
Don't ask me to remember specific dates trying to figure
out what it might be. I watched these these shows
on TV, these crime shows, and they you know, listening. Okay,
where were you on April thirteenth, dude, asked where I
was yesterday?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Man, I have no idea, but no.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Nancy Mace has been, at least on the topic of
a potential run for governor. Has been very quiet now
for a very long time, mister Thompson, quite some time.
All right, Yeah, just like we were discussing earlier. Again, listen,
with these state right, state wide office races, We're not
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We're not June is the important date. Okay, we're less
than a year away from the from from the election
that will tell us who the next person is in
that role. Okay, because the primaries are all that matter here
unless something really bizarre happens. November is a big old afterthought.
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So we're closer that we think it's funny. I'm scanning
pamel avits. Well it's a lieutenant governor's X feed, but
it's hers obviously, and I mean there's it's almost half
and half state news versus tackling national topics. So you
know she's she's got her eye on everything right now.
(31:43):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, this is a woman who appears
to be running, so sure that announcement's coming next week.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson in.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Sixteen minutes after the hour of eight o'clock Friday morning,
July the eleventh. Thank you so much for joining us.
We appreciate that. All right, the Supreme Court spoke. Yet
these district judges keep doing what they've been doing. Oh
but they found a new way to do it. Here's
the latest on this this morning. A federal judge in
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New Hampshire issued a ruling yesterday that prohibits the President's
executive order on the ending birthrights citizenship from taking effect
not just in this judge's district, Joseph Laplant, but anywhere
in the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Now, hang on a minute.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
I thought that the highest court in the land in
the last few weeks just ruled it.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
You can't do that. You got your.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Little fiefdom right here, but you don't have the entire kingdom.
That's exactly what they ruled. Well, needless to say, these
lawfair judges have found a way around it. So these
cases keep getting brought in front of judges and districts
where the plaintiffs know that these judges will bend over
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backwards to stop anything that Donald Trump attempts to do.
And how have they done it this time? Okay, for example, Well,
not just anything back up. I mean, this is a
pretty big deal. I mean, this is essentially an amendment
to the Constitution, so that it's not just anything he's doing.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
But this is a biggie, it's a big one.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
So this case, this birthright citizenship issue now is on
a fast track to get back to the Supreme Court,
at which time the justices might be asked to rule
whether the order complies with their decision they made just
last month. Again that limits the judges authority to issue
nationwide injunctions. Again, the Supreme Court has said that these
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district judges generally can't issue nationwide or universal injunctions. But
what they didn't rule out, and this is the loophole.
This is where this one's going, is whether or not
these federal judges could accomplish much the same thing by
a different legal means, in this case, a class action lawsuit.
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So yeah, plaintiffs brought this case, the ACLU and others,
and wanted it to be filed as a civil or
rather a class action lawsuit, and this judge has agreed
to that. So they well, I guess if you can
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close this loophole, do they have? They'll find another one somewhere,
I'm sure. But we've been functioning all these years under
this misnomer that when the High Court and the Land rules,
then that's it. But we're finding out that it's not
it necessarily. Yeah, but he's paused the decision. He's giving
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the Trump administration time to appeal, and let's hope that
appeal has heard quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah. Now, well, we know there's been a lot of arrests.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Matter of fact, in the last month, ICE agents arrested
more people than they have in at least five years,
but the deportations not very many. I find it ironic
that the left keeps complaining about, you know, deporting these people,
seeing them out of the country, separating you know, babies
from their mamas and everything else, and seeing them to
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god knows where where. Hey, you know what, your guy,
Barack Obama, he departed far more people than Trump has.
FYI in California's still a hotspot. Yesterday, I was just
sitting upon a marijuana farm. Marijuana farms, it's California. Of
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course they're legal, but they were allegedly employing illegal immigrants
to pick the buds. I showed up, so did the protesters.
Of course, they were tipped off. They knew it was coming.
That's the way it works in California. They probably have
an app for that. I'm sure there wasn't app for that,
wasn't there. Yeah, So you had ICE agents having to
(36:37):
resort to toss and tear gas at these protesters. You know,
Karen Bass again with a straight face, saying that the
La anti Ice riots never happened, at least not as
immediate reported them. Well, let me just say, she says,
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when I asked, the way this was portrayed nationally was
like the whole city was up in flames. She says
that the quote unquote riots that were reporting never happened. Okay,
Well it was not like nineteen ninety two. No, the
whole city wasn't burning. But I'm sorry, I guess it
depends on your definition of a riot.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I mean, how many different how much square square having
the square miles have to be affected before it's considered
to be a riot.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I guess if they don't burn it down, it's not
a riot. If the whole town didn't burn down, it's
not a riot.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
But I mean, you've seen the images. You saw the
attack on police vehicles. You saw that that that that
video of of bricks and everything else being tossed from
the highway overpasses, that the police cars that were on
the Interstate the freeway below. But Karen Bass says, yeah,
these these riots never happened. Sorry, we've seen them. One
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of the things that put Donald Trump back in office
a massive shift in voters set them amongst minority groups,
and one of those groups being Hispanic voters. And a
new poll has found support for what Trump is doing
right now amongst Hispanic voters. Overall, fifty percent of Hispanic
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voters support deportations, eight percent oppose them, but there was
an eleven percent rise in support for deportations amongst Hispanic
voters who said they strongly support the policy. That same poll,
by the way, also found that another minority group, black voters,
had also increased their support for deportations, not a smaller margin,
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but still hit it increased. So again, what's playing out
here is Hispanics, people who maybe themselves or they're at
some point in time, some prior generation came to this country.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Did it legally? They're the right way. I'd be hopping
mad too, sure if.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I jump through all the whoop, you'd resent it.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
You talk on rightio what.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
And for black voters, let's face it, many many black
voters and a lower socioeconomic status in this country. Yeah,
this threatens their livelihoods. So it shouldn't be the big
surprise and by John Carey. The Haughty John Kerrey, as
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Rustling Ball always said in an interview podcast on the BBC,
says this, if you're going to define your nation, you
have to have a border that means something. WHOA wow,
John Kerry, are you kidding me? Well, I mean he's
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not out of touch. Essentially, Clinton and Obama said the
same thing. But that was then, this is now. Yeah,
maybe John's having a flashback.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I like keeping up with local news and I'm.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
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Speaker 4 (40:19):
Final thoughts time now at eight forty on a Friday morning,
wrapping it up for the work week.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Here. Uh, we were talking.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Earlier this morning about statewide races that are have begun
an ernest here now.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
And the fact that it's July the eleventh. I mean we're.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Now less than and then a year away from the
primaries in South Carolina coming.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Up next June.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Well, now that's I guess that's than eleven months away now,
aren't we. Oh, what are the primaries?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
You asked me the exact date.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah, you're you're the keeper of all great knowledge around here,
so ask Google a Google.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
All right, But so so we're closer to that than
we think, and again making the case that for a
state white office in South Carolina that for all intents
and purposes, June is the only day that matters, not
next November. Okay, so there's that, But now the next
presidential election, for crying out loud, we just had one.
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I mean, we're three and a half years away from
doing that again. Yet you wouldn't know it here in
South Carolina?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Would you.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Just had Gavin Newsom come here and bring his brand
of California democracy to South Carolina earlier this week?
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Next week?
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Andy Basheer, who might make a lot more here in
South Carolina. It's certainly a lot more sense than Gavin
Newsom does. Uh Basher, the Democratic governor in Kentucky who
somehow has been able to convince Kentucky voters twice to
elect him as governor. We'll be speaking and he's going
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to make a stop here in Columbia. He'll be with
the Pestides Alumni Center next week, and we'll also hit
up Greenville and Georgetown County later on this month. Before
the month is out, we'll get a visit from from Rocanna,
the California Democrat. Okay, So, I mean we're we're three
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and a half years away from from electing a president again.
You wouldn't know it around these parts, would you. And
who remembers all of this? I mean, how how worthwhile
is this?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Well?
Speaker 4 (42:52):
I guess once one does it, then they all got
to do it, right, I guess, yeah, it's a good
Who's going.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
To remember it by then? Right? Who's going to remember
it by August? Whichever?
Speaker 4 (43:09):
State departments getting ready to lay off a bunch of folk.
They're uh working up the pink slips as we speak,
US based employees were We're told yesterday they'll soon begin
laying off again about eighteen hundred employees. Now, this following
the Supreme Court decision that allows the Trump administration to
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move forward with these mass job cuts, unless, of course,
of the class action lawsuit filed, which there probably will be.
So these are these are bureaucrats. You know, this is
one thing that if you worked for the government, you
didn't have to really worry about not like here in
the private sector. When why I take that back, there
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were there were, there were, there were riffs certainly in
the in the in the military organizations, mainly riffing base.
Remember we used to have a lot of bases around here.
We don't have any more in this date. But the
reduction force, well, those that will be effected will be uh,
we'll find out soon. Here Again, these are bureaucrats. Matter
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of fact, the termer nations can start as soon as today.
Word from the Israelis they believe that deeply buried stocks
of enriched uranium at one of those Iranian nuclear facilities
hit by the B two s are potentially retrievable. And
(44:44):
the h and the Israelis say that the bunker buster
bombs dropped on two other nuclear sides. Well they're still
waiting for data to determine if those munitions reach those targets. Again,
these were very deep into the earth. And this is
the whole bunk or buster bomb that was developed for
just this very scenario. This is what it was designed
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to do.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Think about what we did, you know, where did we
put I mean, we don't have our main headquarters for
calling out attacks. We don't have that in Washington, d C. No,
We've got it buried deeply ig noor ad in Colorado,
deeply under lots of mountains, lots of mountains.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
The White House continues to maintain that those sites were obliterated,
this after that New York Times report suggesting, as we
just told you, that some of that may have may
have survived it. Anna Kelly, white House Deputy Press Secretary
(45:53):
Kelly Fox News that, as President Trump has said many times,
Operation Midnight Hammer totally rated Iran's nuclear facilities. I hope
the administration is right. We should all hope they're right.
The Maryland Man.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Or we're still talking about him, the Maryland.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
Man, Yeah, kill mar Abrigo Garcia. Well, a lawyer's for
the Maryland Man and the DOJ have agreed that he
will stay in the custody of US Marshalls until the
hearing next week. Now, his ultimate destination is still up
in the air. It's certainly in the realm of possibility
(46:38):
that the administration could deport him again, maybe not to
l Salvador like last time, but maybe somewhere else. And
apparently the lawyers are trying to Yeah, they're trying to
make the play that. Well, if you're going to send
him somewhere, you need to give us a heads up
so we can be prepared for all that and we
can make sure they are hearings as to whether or
(46:59):
not his safety will be ensured at wherever's final destination
might be. How much time and money have we spent
on this one case? Man, there's one stinking case. And
doctor Christina Probest is sorry. This is the Texas pediatrician
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whose comments on social media were so vile that she
was fired when she suggested that Trump supporters got what
they voted for. When what now? One hundred and twenty
souls have perished in the flooding from last Friday.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Was she the one that zeroed in on Camp Mystic?
Speaker 4 (47:43):
No, that was the the board member of some low
level board in Houston.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
I think.
Speaker 4 (47:49):
Okay, Now, this is the one who said, may all visitors, children,
non MAGA voters, and pets be safe and dry. Kirk
County MAGA voters voted to gut FEMA, they deny climate change.
May they get what they vote for? Bless their hearts,
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and for that post she got canned. Now, she says
she's sorry. I speak to you as a mother, a neighbor,
a pediatrician, and the human being who is deeply sorry.
I take full responsibility for a comment I made before
we knew that so many precious lives were lost in
the terrible tragedies ce tral Texas. Notice she said, before
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we knew that so many lives were lost? How many
does it take, doctor probst, before it's a tragedy? For
it's a tragedy, you know, I mean, one life lost
is too many, is it not? Would you be okay
with five? Or ten or twenty? Maybe where's your cutoff?
I'm just curious? Is it thirty?
Speaker 2 (48:57):
So?
Speaker 4 (48:57):
I remember she didn't say, did she claim she didn't
know anyone that died? She said, before we knew so
many precious lives were lost?
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Okay, Well, hey.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
Good luck to you. Doctor probes. Can't say we wish
you well, but bless your heart.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
By the way, you were asking about primary dates in
South Carolina. June ninth, ninth o Catha runoff would be
June twenty third.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
So we are less than eleven months away. There you go.
They haven't
I'm elesus.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hell yea America and ll for.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Formation is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
Well, we have made it to the end of a
five day work week for me, I haven't had one
of those in a couple of weeks. Good morning. It
is Friday, July the eleventh. Welcome in. Good to have
you along. It is sixteen after six. I am Gary David.
That is Christopher Thompson. Good morning to you, sir. Morning
to you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What well watered after yesterday? Like my grass is, Oh
it's a beautiful Yeah, it's a beautiful thing, a great thing.
This is sa It's so vibrantly green. Man, it's very
cool after all those days of one hundred degree heat
and no relief. That was that wasn't bad last.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Night and pretty sweet. Yeah, it would be get a
little more that day. The chances of dropping precipitously though,
I don't know. We've got some palmetto trees in the
backyard and occasionally they grow something that's not your typical
frond or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I know what you call these things. But man.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Whatever those branches, they're like tripled in size in two days.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, I got it and cut them down this weekend,
taking it all in.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah man.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
All right, well let's get ready for the weekend, shall we.
Let's get right into it, the run down, the big stories,
the hot topics for Friday, July the eleventh. Here we
go and brace yourselves, friends. Another Democrat want to be
is coming to our state. Well, we mentioned this the
other day, Andy Basheer, who's going for Kentucky. And as
I mentioned yesterday, forget Gavin Newsom, Andy Basher, this is
(01:50):
a guy to to to keep an eye on a Democrat.
It is second term of governor in you know, typically
blue Kentucky. How he's pulled that one off? Well, he'll
he'll bring his message to our state next week, Okay,
And unlike Gavin Uh, Andy is going to drop by
the Columbia area.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He'll be speaking at.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
The UH the USC Alumni Center, the Pestides Alumni Center
next week as part of one of his many stops
uh and it won't probably stop there. It looks like Rocanna,
the California Democrat, is going to be uh in our
state later on this month.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So this is this is this kind of weird tove.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It feels like the campaign trail is heating up a
little too quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, just a little too soon.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
We had a long way to go to twenty twenty eight, man,
a long way to go.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But anyway, maybe this is the Democrats game plan is
don't don't pay attention to what's going on in New York.
We got we've got all these viable candidates, mainstream candidates
going around the country, well aside from Gavin Newsom, anybody's
mainstream compared to Mandani. True true point.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, trying to show us who the real Democrats are,
I guess.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Now, meantime, we got, you know, elections of our own
a lot sooner than that coming up in twenty twenty six.
And the state newspaper the piece that Stephen Goldfinch, she
has said now sorry that he's running for attorney general
after Allan Wilson announced he's running for governor. Says that
this he didn't initially didn't want to be one of
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the presenters over the State House this past session in
the case to to boot or attempt to boot Curtis
Loftus out of office, and that yeah, it could be
a liability for him. Okay, so far, unless I miss somebody,
it's just Goldfinch, and well it's just Goldfinch, right. David
(03:44):
Pasco has not made an announcement yet. I don't think so.
But that's that's coming. You got you gotta figure that's coming. Meantime,
the guy that Goldfinch wants to replace, Alan Wilson, has
picked up endorsements from three more sheriffs across the state.
Jay Coon over in Elecxington County, the Saluta County Sheriff,
and the Chester County Sheriff, all tossing their hat into
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the ring with Wilson. It got heated last night and
it was a huge crowd in a rainstorm. Over in
Sandy Run in Calhoun County. This story, man, it just
doesn't go away. Dozens of folks showed up with questions
about that new ordnance dissolving the Sandy Run Fire Service
(04:28):
Special Tax District and requiring that they transfer ownership over
to Calhoun County and all their stuff and everything else.
I don't think you're going to find any residents in
that area that are happy with his decision, and they
continue to let their feelings be known every time they
get together. The former executive director of a nonprofit over
in Kershaw County, one that serves kids, is now facing
(04:52):
numerous charges after Copps says she stole more than one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars from the organization.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Wow, and did what with it?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Among other things, used it to pay for personal expenses
like vacations and medical bills.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, this was the Kershaw County's first Step program. These
thefts occurring over a seven year period in which she
was the leader of that organization.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Wow. Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You know, we were talking last week, and I think
earlier this week too, about how many out of state
students are attending public colleges here in South Carolina. Interesting
opinion piece I thought by the name of Ben Mitchell
in the state paper today, and I'm not sure what
is He's just a dad apparently, but he wrote a
very good piece of pointing out making the case that
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it's unfair to our state students and pointing out why,
for example, the freshman class this year Clemson was forty
four percent out of state. It's usc it was forty
eight percent out of state. But you go up to
North Carolina, they've got caps on these things. Maybe we'll
deal back into that again today at some point in time.
All right, So the Supreme Court a few weeks ago said, okay,
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you federal court district judges, you can't you can't make
rulings that block Trump's agenda. This is your district. You
can't cover the whole country. Well, they're finding other ways
to do it now. And yesterday a federal judge in
New Hampshire issued a ruling that would stop the executive
(06:29):
order that ends birthright citizenship from taking effect. This judge.
And what they're doing now is they're taking claims and
this lawsuit filed by the A c l U and
making them class action lawsuits so it can affect the
entire country. Yeah, they're they're they're finding ways around this
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Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Be damned.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I suppose we got lots to talk about on immigration today.
By the way, California, another flashpoint is an ICE operation
at a cannab farm led to a clash between agents
and protesters there By the way, even though there have
been numerous arrests, a lot of them, deportations are low,
(07:13):
very low. Matter of fact, agents last month arrested more
people than they had in at least five years, but
still deportations lagged behind even those from the Obama years.
And the haughty US always like to call him the
hottie John Kerry admitting that Trump was right on immigration. Oh,
(07:33):
we got to look at that. Meantime, the Education Department
is stopping at Clinton era giveaway for illegal aliens. We'll
tell you what that's all about. It's not going away.
The Jeffrey Epstein story. Latest is Alan Dershowitz yesterday saying
he had seen the Epstein client list and that the
(07:57):
government had suppressed documents to protect powerful individuals.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Inviduals is what we all think, by.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
The way, one Congressman Tim Burchett, the Tennessee Republican, said
earlier this week he thinks there was a client list.
There is, but then it has been destroyed. He thinks
it was destroyed by the Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Go figure.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And what about Epstein as an intelligence asset, Well, that's
getting talked more and more about Pam Bondi claims no
knowledge of that. Pink slips will be flying up the
State Department. About eighteen hundred employees will be laid off
in the coming days. Bureaucrats bureaucrats, yes, bureaucrats, not the
people doing the real work, the bureaucrats.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And Israel says.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
The Iranian uranium stocks may be retrievable despite those air
strikes by our B two bombers. The White House again
defending the success of that. We'll get to that more
coming up here on this. It is the Friday morning edition,
Thank God of Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Have you here?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Exciting times on the Glenn Beeck program. It's so rare
for me to be excited.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's going to be very exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
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Speaker 2 (09:24):
The six forty one. Good morning.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It is a Friday, the eleventh day of July. Good
have you with us? A topic we've talked about a
couple of times past few weeks got raised up again
about two weeks ago. I guess it was was the
practice on how many out of state students are attending
colleges public publicly funded colleges, at least to some part
(09:46):
funded publicly. About eleven percent is what schools like Carolin
and Clemson get from taxpayer dollars. How many out of
state students are in these institutions. And there was an
articles a couple of weeks ago about how you know
some of these again out of state students are, for
all intents and purposes, getting in state rates, which is
(10:08):
a is not fair. You want to send your kid
to one of these schools, you're helping to foot the
bill Ford through your tax dollars. Some kid from New
York comes down here, Mom and dad aren't paying any
taxes here in South Carolina. So that's unfair to begin with.
But is it unfair to the students here in our
state trying to get into these in state colleges? Opinion
(10:30):
piece by a guy named Ben Mitchell, who doesn't show
that he's an educator or anything like that, and the piece,
but regardless, he thinks it is unfair at least for
students who want to attend not only maybe a top
public university here in this state, but even in a
neighboring state that our students here in our state are facing,
(10:56):
as he writes, immense admissions competition from out of states too.
At Clemson, at USC and limited chances to attend top
public schools in states nearby. For example, he points out
the twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five freshman class, forty
(11:16):
four percent of students at Clemson forty eight percent of
students at USC were from out of state. I don't
know if it's still this way to Clemson or not,
but I know when our youngest was looking at schools
and he had a pretty good GPA, he had a
lot of his friends at least expressed an interesting going
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to Clemson.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I finally put a stop to that. You wound up
going to USC.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
But to go to so many at that time, at
least so many high schools here in this state who
wanted to get into Clemson were told, well, you're going
to have to go to what's that tech school up there?
Not Try County, but whatever. There's one in Charleston and
one up the upstate that both kind of sounds similar
(12:03):
to me, but regardless, tried in text. Then Okay, so
it's Trike County or what I think it has up
at the upstate. You need to go there for a year.
Bridge school, Yeah, a bridge school. These were kids, These
weren't kids with you know middle of the road GPAs
either coming out of high school. I don't really said
the same thing to out of state students or not,
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but they were saying that the n state students back
there to the day.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's been a while ago now.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
So they're forty four percent at Clemson out of state,
forty eight percent South Carolina out of state the incoming
freshman classes the last last academic here.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
But look to North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
They limit out of state students of their top schools
to just eighteen percent of enrollment.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Florida out of state cap ten percent for all their
public schools. University of Georgia no more than twenty percent
out of state students. So we've got way more than
double in our state what we allow. We don't have
any caps as many as we can get. I guess well,
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these neighboring states capeted far, far less, and he writes
the imbalances even more pronounced when comparing enrollment at individual schools.
For example, the entire twenty three thousand plus undergraduate student
body at Clemson in the fall of twenty twenty four
included more than a thousand students from North Carolina, nearly
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nine hundred from Georgia, but USC out of close to
twenty nine thousand undergrads spring of twenty twenty five, close
to fifteen hundred from North Carolina, close to eight hundred
from Georgia, but UNC Chapel Hill their student body included
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less than one hundred undergrad students from South Carolina. And
last year's freshman class at UNC Chapel Hill from South
Carolina just twenty Wow. Yeah, Georgia. University of Georgia, how
many South Carolina freshmen last academic year? Thirty five. So
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there's a big imbalance here.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And we were always doing it for the out of
state tuition.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Right as long as if we get that, we're not
always even getting that.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
It doesn't sound like that's been an issue for years now,
and again we talk about public tax dollars. Clemson and
Carolina get hundreds of millions each year. It's about eleven
percent of the mentioned of their total budgets. So you know,
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we're paying in money to educate out of state students. Now,
if all things were equal and all the state students
who qualified could get in, well, okay, we wouldn't have
much of an argument. But the argument is is that
there are some in state students who are denied admission.
Maybe they don't have quite as good a record in
high school, but shouldn't they be given priority. Shouldn't there
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be some And maybe there is. You know, if you're
gonna say you gotta have this much in an eight
s at score, an ACT score, this this this much GPA,
well maybe there should be a different scale for att
of state versus in state students. I don't know that
there is one. I'm betting there's not. But again, these
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students who may be denied entry here because of that,
guess what, they're not getting into the top schools in Georgia,
Florida or North Carolina either. And uh, and that that
that's that's a problem. Now we can't talk about private schools.
They're not getting public dollars. They do what they want
to do. But these are schools that are getting publicly
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funded to it. Again, it's not a large it's eleven
percent of their total funding. But still it just doesn't
seem fair at all. It's because it's not.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Interesting piece by Ben Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
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Here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Sixteen minutes after seven o'clock in the morning, and good
to have you along for Friday, July the eleventh. Isn't
it odd how the news cycle just turns and sometimes
get stuck on a story? What was the big news?
You know a week or two ago we're no longer
talking about. For example, go back to what month, month
and a half or so you mentioned this the other
day to I had totally forgotten him. We're talking about this,
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Joe Biden's doctor on the oversight committee, and I say, well,
he wants to argue, you know, doctor client confident, patient
confidentiality or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I guess that would have to last until Joe Biden
passes one day and he said, well he's got cancer.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about that.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Weird how that story popped up at a very convenient
time and then you never hear anything else about it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Prostate cancer in May and advanced prostate cancer, right, and
in July it's all but forgotten.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Right, So the news cycle is weird. But this week
it's stuck on one big, well two big stories. What
happened in Texas obviously, but the other is the mysterious
disappearing or maybe never existed. Jeffrey Epstein client list Charlie
kirk Over turning for USA says, this story is actually
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getting bigger, and he's right. He called the role out
of this perplexing. I'd call it botched. Yeah, things he
one of the criticism that he had, he says, you know,
he he's learned this week on how not to handle
pr when it comes to a story like this. He said,
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what was so perplexing to him was because you signed
the one big beautiful bill on an independence state that
was last Friday, and then on a holiday weekend, going
into a news week, you decide to leak it to Axios.
That's you know, it's like you know, case closes, don't
ask any questions, there is no list. That's what happened.
This was leaked to Axios over the weekend, over three
(18:33):
day weekend. And maybe, of course this is the weird
way the new cycle works.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Sometimes.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
If you if you want people not to know something, yeah,
that's a great time to do it. You do it,
you know, during or right before, you know, a long weekend.
But then this isn't just any old story, Okay. Latest
this morning, Alan Dershowitz, talking to Sean Spicer, former Press
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Secretary of the White House, told Spicer that he had
seen the Epstein client list and that the government had
suppressed these documents to protect powerful individuals, Which is what
we all think, right, Sure, documents are being suppressed to
protect individuals. I know the names of these individuals, I
know why they're being suppressed, he told Spicer, and I
(19:23):
know who's suppressing them. Well do tell sorry, I'm bound
by confidentiality.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Uh okay.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Spicer asked if people on that list were Were they politicians,
were they business leaders? Dershwood says they're everything.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
He said he had seen these relevant materials due to
back when he was accused by Virginia Jeffrey, who recently
committed suicide. Right remember how that came about too? As
an aside here, that was a weird set of things
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because she was supposedly doing fine. I mean she she
had she had married, she had kids, done in what
Australia I think, right, Australia, New Zealand wherever. It's all
the same to me down there, man. And uh, there
was a story that popped out where where she had
been in a car what a car wreck or something
like that, and went up on social media and said that,
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you know, her life was in you know, I mean
she was just hanging on by a thread. I mean,
her injuries were severe. She might die and then, like
you know, a week or two later, we're told she
commits suicide. But she had accused Dershowitz at one time,
but then later recanted those accusations.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
But she accused a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
She accused a lot of folks. Yeah, most notably of
course Prince Andrew. We got pictures on that one. So
he said he saw he saw this list as result
of that when he was accused. But not only who's
on there, but who's suppressing this list? But he can't
tell us because he's bound to confidentiality. Okay, Hey, Alan,
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do us a solid man?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I mean, what do you got to love? What do
you got to throw you in jail? I mean, come on.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Tim Burchett, the Tennessee Republican congressman, said this week he
thinks that a client list did exist, doesn't anymore, that
it was destroyed by the Biden administration. Now I don't
know how he knows this or he just thinks this.
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He like we mentioned the other day of the same
opinion that that Tucker Carlson is is if there had
been anything on that list, anything to do with Trump,
that it would have been out day one under the
Bible administration. He says, he thinks there's some very prominent people,
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there's Hollywood people, world leaders, and it would have caused
economic disruption around the globe.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So is this what Jeffrey Epstein was? I mean, was
he just simply a somebody who created situations and then
use them as blackmail?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It sounds like it, doesn't it it does. Well, we know,
we know he was videotaping these encounters, right right, or
so we're told. Now, I'm not you haven't seen those tapes.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I'm not taking away any of the blame from these
people who allegedly, you know, committed sex abuse, especially child
sex abuse. But what I'm saying is he created these
situations knowing he was going to get blackmail material out
of it. And then we go back to the whole
was he an intelligence asset angle?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Well, that would certainly play into it.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I mean, this is a guy who didn't have a
college degree, right, who basically had nothing to his name,
and suddenly one of these days, you know, he's this billionaire.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Financier rubbing elbows with every star and business person you
could imagine.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Yeah, and now Pam Bondi is having to answer questions
about that, is was he an intelligence asset?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, they couldn't answer that regardless.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Yeah, well no they couldn't, could they. She claimed earlier
this week she has no knowledge of that. And the
Daily Caller doing some interviews apparently with some top Trump officials,
and they are hopping mad. They're very frustrated, very displeased,
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very you know what over Pam Bondi and the DOJ
on how they handle this. Can't blame them, right because
no matter who botched this, it's gonna come back to
Donald Trump. You know, the buck stops right there, right,
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doesn't matter if it was Pam Bondi or some junior
person or some shady character or whomever it was. Again,
for a moment, forget whether or not the list existed.
Just focus on the fact that the Trump administration got
us all worked up in a lather over it and
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then nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Burger and I guess they're hoping at this point that
this too will die down eventually because well you know
we've it will yeah, I mean, eventually you'll run out
of things to speculate about it.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
So you play the long game here again, right, it
sounds like you play the long game. People forget about it.
But you know, in this day and age, in this
political environment, there's always gonna be somebody out there reminding us.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Or some political points, somebody who has a name or
two to throw out there, yeah, that we may not
have heard, and suddenly we'll be right back into it, right.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Back at it.
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Speaker 4 (25:33):
The seven forty two. Good morning, It's Friday, July the eleventh.
We appreciate your being with us this morning. He didn't
want to do it. He's flat out set, did not
want to do it. Stephen Goldfend, state senator from the
Grand Strand area, said that at least initially, he didn't
want to be one of the presenters of the case
over in the Senate this past session in their attempt
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to boot Curtis Loftus out of his state wide office.
In an interview, Goldfinch, who of course is at this
point the only announced candidate for Attorney general here in
our state, said that he only served in that role
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because Larry Grooms and Thomas Alexander, the Senate President, wanted
him to be one to make that argument. So I
didn't want to do it, And he says he asked
not to do it, but both Grooms and Alexander insisted
that he would, so he did it. Said it was
(26:35):
a duty, he felt honor bound, So.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It didn't make sense politically to do that, knowing that
he had aspirations of a statewide office, and he knows
just how popular Curtis Loftus is in many parts of
the state.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah, now, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Had he actually loft has been removed from office, some
might have seen that as a plus for Goldfish brothers
would have seen that as an even bigger negative more
than likely. So now he says, as he's running for
that Attorney general's office, he has said in the interview,
I'm quoting here quite frankly. I thought it was a
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political liability rather than a political help and it still
might be a political liability. He points out that Loftus
has been traveling around the state and making appearances with
David Pascoe, who has not yet announced, but after switching
from a Democrat to Republican Party recently and a very
tough prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
The listener.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
In Pasco, I would argue that Pasco, well, at least
around this these parts of the state, has much better
name recognition than this Goldfinch, probably even though Goldfinch has
served in the Senate. Still Pasco's Yeah, I think if
you took a poll, he would come out on top.
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As far as name recognition is concerned.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Well, if it's just the two of them in the
in the race, it's going to come down to, you know,
conservative credentials, who can prove they've got them right.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
And it's it's one thing to switch to the Republican
Party from the Democrat Party, Okay. Oh, and if you're
gonna run for a state went off of the state
the state, then you want to win, you're gonna have
to do that. But yeah, let me be plenty of
that that that will be a campaign that is full
If Pasco gets in, and he's widely expected too, they'll
be a campaign full of yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
But right, and there will also be you know, dedication
to law and order as there should be.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Speaking of which.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
The uh, the guy that Goldfinch and more than likely
Pascal wanted a place. Alan Wilson is run for governor
picked up three more endorsements from law enforcement, uh Jay
kuon the election and county sheriff, which is no surprise
at all. Of course, a coon was at the announcement
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when Wilson had his announcement. Now, what about two clus
of two weeks ago? I guess it was Josh Price
saluted County Sheriff and Max Dorsey, Chester County Sheriff all
yesterday announcing their endorsement of Wilson for governor. So he's
racking up the endorsements from law enforcement and that's not
a surprise. It was an attorney general again for that race.
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So far, the only other announced Canada is Josh Kimberrel.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
We is it Monday?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I think it's Monday right that Pamela Evan's going to
announce well, she has an exciting announcement, so she'll she'll
throw her hat into the ring next week. And we
still wait to hear from Ralph Norman. Twenty seventh, I
think was the was the date he said he would
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make it a yes or no announcement. That'll be a
yes announcement. I'm sorry we heard from Nancy Mace.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
The twenty seventh is a Sunday.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Maybe it's a twenty eighth, might be something like it's one,
it's a it's a day late in the month. That's
all I remember. Yeah, man, I'm sixty six years old.
Don't ask me to remember specific dates trying to figure
out what it might be. I watched these these shows
on TV, these crime shows, and they you know, listening. Okay,
where were you on April thirteenth, dude, asked where I
was yesterday?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Man, I have no idea, but no.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Nancy Mace has been, at least on the topic of
a potential run for governor. Has been very quiet now
for a very long time, mister Thompson, quite some time.
All right, Yeah, just like we were discussing earlier. Again, listen,
with these state right, state wide office races, We're not
(31:01):
We're not June is the important date. Okay, we're less
than a year away from the from from the election
that will tell us who the next person is in
that role. Okay, because the primaries are all that matter here
unless something really bizarre happens. November is a big old afterthought.
(31:22):
So we're closer that we think it's funny. I'm scanning
pamel avits. Well it's a lieutenant governor's X feed, but
it's hers obviously, and I mean there's it's almost half
and half state news versus tackling national topics. So you
know she's she's got her eye on everything right now.
(31:43):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, this is a woman who appears
to be running, so sure that announcement's coming next week.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson in.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Sixteen minutes after the hour of eight o'clock Friday morning,
July the eleventh. Thank you so much for joining us.
We appreciate that. All right, the Supreme Court spoke. Yet
these district judges keep doing what they've been doing. Oh
but they found a new way to do it. Here's
the latest on this this morning. A federal judge in
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New Hampshire issued a ruling yesterday that prohibits the President's
executive order on the ending birthrights citizenship from taking effect
not just in this judge's district, Joseph Laplant, but anywhere
in the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Now, hang on a minute.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
I thought that the highest court in the land in
the last few weeks just ruled it.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
You can't do that. You got your.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Little fiefdom right here, but you don't have the entire kingdom.
That's exactly what they ruled. Well, needless to say, these
lawfair judges have found a way around it. So these
cases keep getting brought in front of judges and districts
where the plaintiffs know that these judges will bend over
(33:25):
backwards to stop anything that Donald Trump attempts to do.
And how have they done it this time? Okay, for example, Well,
not just anything back up. I mean, this is a
pretty big deal. I mean, this is essentially an amendment
to the Constitution, so that it's not just anything he's doing.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
But this is a biggie, it's a big one.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
So this case, this birthright citizenship issue now is on
a fast track to get back to the Supreme Court,
at which time the justices might be asked to rule
whether the order complies with their decision they made just
last month. Again that limits the judges authority to issue
nationwide injunctions. Again, the Supreme Court has said that these
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district judges generally can't issue nationwide or universal injunctions. But
what they didn't rule out, and this is the loophole.
This is where this one's going, is whether or not
these federal judges could accomplish much the same thing by
a different legal means, in this case, a class action lawsuit.
(34:36):
So yeah, plaintiffs brought this case, the ACLU and others,
and wanted it to be filed as a civil or
rather a class action lawsuit, and this judge has agreed
to that. So they well, I guess if you can
(34:56):
close this loophole, do they have? They'll find another one somewhere,
I'm sure. But we've been functioning all these years under
this misnomer that when the High Court and the Land rules,
then that's it. But we're finding out that it's not
it necessarily. Yeah, but he's paused the decision. He's giving
(35:16):
the Trump administration time to appeal, and let's hope that
appeal has heard quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah. Now, well, we know there's been a lot of arrests.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Matter of fact, in the last month, ICE agents arrested
more people than they have in at least five years,
but the deportations not very many. I find it ironic
that the left keeps complaining about, you know, deporting these people,
seeing them out of the country, separating you know, babies
from their mamas and everything else, and seeing them to
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god knows where where. Hey, you know what, your guy,
Barack Obama, he departed far more people than Trump has.
FYI in California's still a hotspot. Yesterday, I was just
sitting upon a marijuana farm. Marijuana farms, it's California. Of
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course they're legal, but they were allegedly employing illegal immigrants
to pick the buds. I showed up, so did the protesters.
Of course, they were tipped off. They knew it was coming.
That's the way it works in California. They probably have
an app for that. I'm sure there wasn't app for that,
wasn't there. Yeah, So you had ICE agents having to
(36:37):
resort to toss and tear gas at these protesters. You know,
Karen Bass again with a straight face, saying that the
La anti Ice riots never happened, at least not as
immediate reported them. Well, let me just say, she says,
(36:58):
when I asked, the way this was portrayed nationally was
like the whole city was up in flames. She says
that the quote unquote riots that were reporting never happened. Okay,
Well it was not like nineteen ninety two. No, the
whole city wasn't burning. But I'm sorry, I guess it
depends on your definition of a riot.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I mean, how many different how much square square having
the square miles have to be affected before it's considered
to be a riot.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I guess if they don't burn it down, it's not
a riot. If the whole town didn't burn down, it's
not a riot.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
But I mean, you've seen the images. You saw the
attack on police vehicles. You saw that that that that
video of of bricks and everything else being tossed from
the highway overpasses, that the police cars that were on
the Interstate the freeway below. But Karen Bass says, yeah,
these these riots never happened. Sorry, we've seen them. One
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of the things that put Donald Trump back in office
a massive shift in voters set them amongst minority groups,
and one of those groups being Hispanic voters. And a
new poll has found support for what Trump is doing
right now amongst Hispanic voters. Overall, fifty percent of Hispanic
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voters support deportations, eight percent oppose them, but there was
an eleven percent rise in support for deportations amongst Hispanic
voters who said they strongly support the policy. That same poll,
by the way, also found that another minority group, black voters,
had also increased their support for deportations, not a smaller margin,
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but still hit it increased. So again, what's playing out
here is Hispanics, people who maybe themselves or they're at
some point in time, some prior generation came to this country.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Did it legally? They're the right way. I'd be hopping
mad too, sure if.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I jump through all the whoop, you'd resent it.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
You talk on rightio what.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
And for black voters, let's face it, many many black
voters and a lower socioeconomic status in this country. Yeah,
this threatens their livelihoods. So it shouldn't be the big
surprise and by John Carey. The Haughty John Kerrey, as
(39:25):
Rustling Ball always said in an interview podcast on the BBC,
says this, if you're going to define your nation, you
have to have a border that means something. WHOA wow,
John Kerry, are you kidding me? Well, I mean he's
(39:46):
not out of touch. Essentially, Clinton and Obama said the
same thing. But that was then, this is now. Yeah,
maybe John's having a flashback.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I like keeping up with local news and I'm.
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Speaker 4 (40:19):
Final thoughts time now at eight forty on a Friday morning,
wrapping it up for the work week.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Here. Uh, we were talking.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Earlier this morning about statewide races that are have begun
an ernest here now.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
And the fact that it's July the eleventh. I mean we're.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Now less than and then a year away from the
primaries in South Carolina coming.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Up next June.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Well, now that's I guess that's than eleven months away now,
aren't we. Oh, what are the primaries?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
You asked me the exact date.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah, you're you're the keeper of all great knowledge around here,
so ask Google a Google.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
All right, But so so we're closer to that than
we think, and again making the case that for a
state white office in South Carolina that for all intents
and purposes, June is the only day that matters, not
next November. Okay, so there's that, But now the next
presidential election, for crying out loud, we just had one.
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I mean, we're three and a half years away from
doing that again. Yet you wouldn't know it here in
South Carolina?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Would you.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Just had Gavin Newsom come here and bring his brand
of California democracy to South Carolina earlier this week?
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Next week?
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Andy Basheer, who might make a lot more here in
South Carolina. It's certainly a lot more sense than Gavin
Newsom does. Uh Basher, the Democratic governor in Kentucky who
somehow has been able to convince Kentucky voters twice to
elect him as governor. We'll be speaking and he's going
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to make a stop here in Columbia. He'll be with
the Pestides Alumni Center next week, and we'll also hit
up Greenville and Georgetown County later on this month. Before
the month is out, we'll get a visit from from Rocanna,
the California Democrat. Okay, So, I mean we're we're three
(42:41):
and a half years away from from electing a president again.
You wouldn't know it around these parts, would you. And
who remembers all of this? I mean, how how worthwhile
is this?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Well?
Speaker 4 (42:52):
I guess once one does it, then they all got
to do it, right, I guess, yeah, it's a good
Who's going.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
To remember it by then? Right? Who's going to remember
it by August? Whichever?
Speaker 4 (43:09):
State departments getting ready to lay off a bunch of folk.
They're uh working up the pink slips as we speak,
US based employees were We're told yesterday they'll soon begin
laying off again about eighteen hundred employees. Now, this following
the Supreme Court decision that allows the Trump administration to
(43:30):
move forward with these mass job cuts, unless, of course,
of the class action lawsuit filed, which there probably will be.
So these are these are bureaucrats. You know, this is
one thing that if you worked for the government, you
didn't have to really worry about not like here in
the private sector. When why I take that back, there
(43:53):
were there were, there were, there were riffs certainly in
the in the in the military organizations, mainly riffing base.
Remember we used to have a lot of bases around here.
We don't have any more in this date. But the
reduction force, well, those that will be effected will be uh,
we'll find out soon. Here Again, these are bureaucrats. Matter
(44:17):
of fact, the termer nations can start as soon as today.
Word from the Israelis they believe that deeply buried stocks
of enriched uranium at one of those Iranian nuclear facilities
hit by the B two s are potentially retrievable. And
(44:44):
the h and the Israelis say that the bunker buster
bombs dropped on two other nuclear sides. Well they're still
waiting for data to determine if those munitions reach those targets. Again,
these were very deep into the earth. And this is
the whole bunk or buster bomb that was developed for
just this very scenario. This is what it was designed
(45:07):
to do.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Think about what we did, you know, where did we
put I mean, we don't have our main headquarters for
calling out attacks. We don't have that in Washington, d C. No,
We've got it buried deeply ig noor ad in Colorado,
deeply under lots of mountains, lots of mountains.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
The White House continues to maintain that those sites were obliterated,
this after that New York Times report suggesting, as we
just told you, that some of that may have may
have survived it. Anna Kelly, white House Deputy Press Secretary
(45:53):
Kelly Fox News that, as President Trump has said many times,
Operation Midnight Hammer totally rated Iran's nuclear facilities. I hope
the administration is right. We should all hope they're right.
The Maryland Man.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Or we're still talking about him, the Maryland.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
Man, Yeah, kill mar Abrigo Garcia. Well, a lawyer's for
the Maryland Man and the DOJ have agreed that he
will stay in the custody of US Marshalls until the
hearing next week. Now, his ultimate destination is still up
in the air. It's certainly in the realm of possibility
(46:38):
that the administration could deport him again, maybe not to
l Salvador like last time, but maybe somewhere else. And
apparently the lawyers are trying to Yeah, they're trying to
make the play that. Well, if you're going to send
him somewhere, you need to give us a heads up
so we can be prepared for all that and we
can make sure they are hearings as to whether or
(46:59):
not his safety will be ensured at wherever's final destination
might be. How much time and money have we spent
on this one case? Man, there's one stinking case. And
doctor Christina Probest is sorry. This is the Texas pediatrician
(47:25):
whose comments on social media were so vile that she
was fired when she suggested that Trump supporters got what
they voted for. When what now? One hundred and twenty
souls have perished in the flooding from last Friday.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Was she the one that zeroed in on Camp Mystic?
Speaker 4 (47:43):
No, that was the the board member of some low
level board in Houston.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
I think.
Speaker 4 (47:49):
Okay, Now, this is the one who said, may all visitors, children,
non MAGA voters, and pets be safe and dry. Kirk
County MAGA voters voted to gut FEMA, they deny climate change.
May they get what they vote for? Bless their hearts,
(48:10):
and for that post she got canned. Now, she says
she's sorry. I speak to you as a mother, a neighbor,
a pediatrician, and the human being who is deeply sorry.
I take full responsibility for a comment I made before
we knew that so many precious lives were lost in
the terrible tragedies ce tral Texas. Notice she said, before
(48:33):
we knew that so many lives were lost? How many
does it take, doctor probst, before it's a tragedy? For
it's a tragedy, you know, I mean, one life lost
is too many, is it not? Would you be okay
with five? Or ten or twenty? Maybe where's your cutoff?
I'm just curious? Is it thirty?
Speaker 2 (48:57):
So?
Speaker 4 (48:57):
I remember she didn't say, did she claim she didn't
know anyone that died? She said, before we knew so
many precious lives were lost?
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Okay, Well, hey.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
Good luck to you. Doctor probes. Can't say we wish
you well, but bless your heart.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
By the way, you were asking about primary dates in
South Carolina. June ninth, ninth o Catha runoff would be
June twenty third.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
So we are less than eleven months away. There you go.
They haven't
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