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Hey, good born, I tell you welcome in. Tuesday's arrived.
It's the fifteenth day of the month of July. How
the heck are you? I'm Gary David, Christopher Thompson's off
this week. Good to have you with us. Let's get
right to it, friends. We got a loss to do today.

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I'm into this road. I'm yeah, I'm multitasking. There we go. Okay,
I got that done. All right, good hey, now you
have my undivited attention. By apologies, welcome in. Lots going on,
lot's to get to here on this Tuesday morning. So
let us jump right in, my friends, with the rundown

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of the big stories, the hot topics for Tuesday, July
fifteenth of twenty twenty five, and make it three now again.
With the announcement yesterday that well we do it was coming,
she mentioned about a week back that she would make
an exciting announcement and we all knew what it was
that the Pamela Abott has launched her bid to become

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the next governor of the state of South Carolina. So
we got three now, Alan Wilson, first in Josh Kimbrel
who now is dealing with this lawsuit thing and that
distraction as we discussed yesterday, and and the lieutenant governor
becomes number three. I didn't see. Apparently there was a

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ca paiining rollout video that I did not see, uh,
but I understand it was. Uh, it was a little
unusual that it in a a in a video that
was released, she didn't say a word. Uh. It was
interspersed with shots and clips of government Master and Donald Trump,
and she didn't say anything. Uh that about a minute

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or so video that that was initially released. Okay, well, Evison, again,
we we are in a state with a weak form
of governor and maybe even even the weaker form of
lieutenant governor. Remember the time was when if you want
to be lieutenant governor of state you had to actually

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run for that office. That's no longer the case, of course,
Uh it was. It was always kind of weird to
me anyway, but whatever, that's the way it was done
for for a long long time around here. But now
you run on a ticket with the governor, which eb
has done. So this will be her first real you know,
this is her first race as far as she's concerned,
just just on her own. Still nothing from the Mace camp,

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which is getting more and more interesting by the day. Again,
we got a long way to go. We're well not
quite a year, about about less than eleven months before
the primaries, but it is it is curious. And again
everybody in this race is vying really at this point

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for one thing, and that as a potential endorsement from
Donald Trump, who has stayed quiet and may we'll stay
on the sidelines on this one, don't know. We'll see
the news of the Harveston Forest, the the the public
park there shutting down at least temporarily shut down yesterday

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at noon. It will last at least until Thursday. This
is the result of pit bull type dog attacks. A
number of joggers have been bitten by these dogs. So
now they've got to try to round these things up
and find them. So as a result, nobody is allowed

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in the National park over it to Harbison Forest, at
least for a couple of days. Fortunately, some pretty nasty bites,
but that was the worst of it. But still apparently
one of the joggers attacked was a prosecutor here in
our state. Now they're doubling the number of well, they

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will be the number of international flights out of Charleston's airport,
the busiest airport in our state, as broke around yesterday
on a big gate expansion that will increase the airport's
ability to handle higher traffic and double the number of
international destinations that offers. So yeah, looking to fly NonStop internationally,

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you'll have twice the number of chances here just down
the road over in Charles. The Washington Post, by the way,
I don't know why, but they put out a study
ranking airports when it came to South Carolina. They ranked well,
actually two of our airports among the best in the
entire nation. How about this Columbia Columbia Metropolitan ranked number

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sixteen in the nation in this Washington Post study. Yeah,
Greenville Spartanburg number twenty six. That Charleston Airport, again, the
busiest one in the state, didn't make the cuts. So
it's not going away, no, and we'll be talking about
it again today the Jeffrey Epstein story. Now there's the report.

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There's a report out in the Daily Mail. They said
a Juliane Maxwell was willing to testify in front of
Congress about these Epstein files. Wow, Okay, a source telling
the outlet despite the rumors she was never offered any
kind of plea deal. She'd be more than happy to

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sit before Congress and tell her story that no one
from the government has ever asked her to share what
she knows. She remains the only person to be jailed
in connection to Epstein, and she'd welcome the chance to
tell the American public the truth. Okay. Now, the DOJ
is trying to squash any Maxwell appeal, and detractors say

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that well, yeah, obviously, because they don't want her back
on a witness stand potentially saying stuff. The Democrats, after
four years of saying nothing about it again, now are
all over this latest of Zakim Jeffreys yesterday saying that
the White House should release all the files and that

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Congress should have intervene to force that release if the
administration doesn't act on a son. Of course, Rocana, the
Democrat representative from California, is already a proposed an amendment
to the Genius Act which would force Pam Bondi to
make all these records publicly available within thirty days. So

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Dan Bongino, is he still on the ounce here? Well,
he didn't go to the office on Friday as was expected,
and well as of yesterday morning, apparently nobody in the
leadership of the Justice Department had spoken to him. Apparently
not since this past Wednesday, so that falled out. Apparently
is still going on between Bongino as the deputy director

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of the FBI and Pam Bondi as the age And
again the questions, how did Epstein get to where he
got to, how did he make his money? A college
drop out? How did he get to that point? Even
have a former Israeli Prime minister now releasing a statement
addressing suspicions that Epstein was part of an Israeli blackmail
ring to compromise powerful figures. So we got more news

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to talk about on that front today. Meantime, as we
discussed yesterday, the former president Joe Biden in a New
York Times interview talking about the use of the auto pen.
Democrats now are they're saying, Joe just go away right there?
They just want Joe to go away. They are slamming
his response to this, the investigations on Capitol Hill over

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the use of the auto pen. I was saying that
Biden's did nothing but taking the bait now by the
GOP to the directorment of his own party, a party,
by the way, which according to latest Harris caps pole
which was released yesterday, is underwater in polling. Only four
out of ten respondents approve of the job the Democrat
Party is doing. Trump meantime threatening Russia with tariffs if

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the war with Ukraine has resolved in some fifty days.
He says, very severe tariffs. The Supreme Court and a
massive win for the White House will allow Trump and
his administration to cut down the size of the Department
of Education. Secretary mc ban right now will begin dismantling

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that federal agency. And we'll have some more news on
that weed farm bust out in California and some of
the people that they actually apprehended, they're not good people.
We'll get to that more coming up here on this.
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Speaker 1 (09:39):
Six forty two. Now, good morning, and welcome into a Tuesday.
Is the fifteenth day of the month of July. We're
halfway through it and we are way deep into the
dog days of something now, aren't we. Yeah, eat exes
back above one hundred again today, said Tyler. Okay, isn't
it interesting how Democrat party who finally realized too late

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for them and thankfully that the whole you know, anti
cop movement thing just wasn't a good idea, the whole
defund the police, that whole would it was. It was
a disaster for the party. But they they realized that
even before the latest election, they tried to mend their ways.
And you know, convince, folks, they're not really anti authority,

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they're not an anti cop. But now what we're seeing
is all right, so it's not your your rank and
file police, but you know, it's the federal it's the
the ICE agents that now they're they're anti everything about Ice.
They didn't learn their lesson for for your average American

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law enforcement is law enforcement, and we don't make differentiations
between whether it's your your your local police officer, or
an ICE agent, a federal authority, or whatever. It's law
and order. Law and order is again a big part
of what got Donald Trump elected a second time to
the White House. It's a big part of what allowed
the Republican Party to uh to to to to have

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a power in the Senate and in the House, to
have majorities in both chambers. So it's curious to watch
the Democrat Party now again go right back to the
you know, anti authority figure position. Here, Hannah was just

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mentioning this, I mean, after that that raid in California
last week. Now you've got, as we talked about yesterday,
LA Mayor Karen Bass issuing an executive order supporting illegal
immigrants in southern California. In Los Angeles making the announcement
that through this very same group that was at least

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alleged to have been funding some of those anti ICE
riots in LA a few weeks back, that the philanthropic
donations through that organization now will be going directly to
these families so affected by the ice raids. Gavin Newsom upset,

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of course he was in our state last week, but
distraught over that rate those pot farms last week, Well,
who did they get? Three hundred and sixty one immigrants
in this country illegally, of which at least fourteen were
migrant children out there working on the plot farms, at

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least fourteen. One was as young as fourteen and they
were all nearly all according to the Customs of Border
Patrol Commissioner Rodney Scott, nearly all were unaccompanied. Now they

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also nab some very bad people. One a Mexican national
convicted of kidnapping, attempted rape and attempted child molestation. A
guy who was previously sentenced to seven years in prison,
and a guy who I supported back in two thousand
and six back in the country and no doubt probably
get back in here during Biden's four years in the

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open borders policy. And here he is again, a man
convicted of kidnapping, attempted rape and attempted child molestation working
on a farm with kids as young as fourteen years old.

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Another convicted of rape and dui another convicted of du
and run with property damage, another convicted of burglary three times, Oh,
and a dui and you saw what happened. Some five
hundred rioters attempting to disrupt federal agents during these raids. Okay,

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this is a new face of the Democrat Party again,
back to anti law enforcement once again. And the media
on their parts, well, consider this. The Minnesota Star Tribune
is a way left publication. They're getting blasted now by
DHS for what sure looked like sympathetic coverage of illegal

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immigrants convicted of child sex crimes. DHS announced the arrest
of eleven illegal aliens convicted of sex crimes in Minneapolis
between June sixth and June the eleventh. Eleven they're from
Laos and from Thailand, and some were convicted of committing

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sexual abuse against children. The Minnesota Star Tribune reacted to
these arrests with a sub headline of an article that read,
the deportations bring anxiety and accusations of cultural misunderstanding, talking

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about two dozen men who live in Minnesota had been
for decades being held awaiting deportation, claiming that the sex
offenders may not have understood the US laws that bar
adults from marrying fourteen year old girls because of their culture.

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We're not about being maryor we're talking about sexual abuse
of fourteen year olds. Here attempted mollisty, but the paper
bent over backwards to try to find ways that well,
their culture, it's okay to marry a fourteen year old,
so okay, that makes it okay to molest a fourteen
year old. I mean, these folks will go to no
end in order to try to justify the behavior of

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people here in this country. Again, and it's always the
illegal immigrants they side with. No matter what the allegation
is or what the conviction is, they always find a
way to side with them. You wouldn't write this article
about somebody born and raised here. Unbelievable. So when it's

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all said and done, it appears as though liberals in
this country didn't learn a lesson at all from their
anti anything authority figure. They're right back at it again,
and just in time for the twenty twenty six mid terms.
A party, by the way, who and we'll get to
this later on the latest Harvard spoiled out says, yeah,
they're underwater. When are their constituents happy with them? Just

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four and ten. So they're happy with the way the
Democrat Party is going these days.

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It is fifteen minutes after seven o'clock. It is Tuesday,
July fifteenth, and it's great to have you with us.
So Pamela Evatt, as expected, it joins the Fray yesterday
making her announcement up in the Upstate, officially launching her
bid to become the next governor of the state of
South Carolina. While she is the first Republican female lieutenant governor,

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she would actually we haven't had a Democrat female lieutenant governor,
have we had? Wow? Wow? Well, she would not be
the first female governor of course here in the state.
So it's three now, Alan Wilson who announced first, followed
by Josh Kimberl, who you know. Again. The backstory now
is this whole lawsuit that's been filed claiming that he

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stole money from a business partner in a joint venture.
We talked about that yesterday. So Wilson, Kimberl. Now the
Lieutenant governor joins the race, we expect in what I
think the date was July twenty seventh or the twenty eighth.

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That's when Ralph Norman has said the Upstate Congressman that
he will give us a thumbs up or a thumbs
down on a run. Haven't heard much since he first
said that, but it's been long expected that Norman could
enter the fray. Nancy Mace crickets from the Mace camp,

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and for a while I've been thinking that she may
not get into this thing. I mean, you look at
who's I mean, listen, these are Mace has made a
name for herself. Okay, lots of people make names for themselves,
and sometimes not all for the for the for the
right reasons. So you know, I don't know if they're

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doing any kind of internal polling. The Mace folks are
not trying to get a handle on, you know, what
the general consensus is right now, but they might well be,
and they might not be getting what they hoped they
would get out of that. We'll wait and see. But
if the three that are in now, and if Ralph

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Norman joins, I think the problem for Mace is going
to be that those three or maybe four if Norman
jumps in, individuals are all seen as more serious sort
of candidates. So what about Pam Lavitt. She teased this
with a video that launched on her social media, ounced yesterday.

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She didn't say anything in that video. It was actually
well dubstep kind of music beat and it was shots
of the governor and President Trump interspersed in there. She
didn't say a word on that. But then the actual announcement,
the official launch came out yesterday. Overflow crowd, well organized,

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well attended. You had folks like Davy Hyatt, the House
Majority leader there, Bruce Banister, the House Ways and Means chair,
both from the upstate. She ran through her time her
record as the governor's chief lieutenant and made it a
point to try to convince folks that she was not

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just a ceremonial officer, but a true partner in working
with the governor in there five or so years together
in office, and saying she would follow the playbook that
made South Kina so successful. This is always the prob
liutenant governor's run into because they're always seen as just,
you know, a sidekick. Very seldom do you see you know,

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any any stories that focus solely on something lieutenant governor
has done. It has the office itself has at least
had the feeling, as you know, being ceremonial for you know,
all these years. And quite honestly, Pam labbott Is you
might argue she's done more as lieutenant governor than than

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than well you typically get. And there is then that
just assumption that if you are the lieutenant governor, when
the time comes, you're gonna run for governor. She like well,

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I think any other Republican worth their worth their their
weight here in South Carolina is gonna run a similar
platform to what we've heard from Alan Wilson, We've heard
from Josh Kimbrel. I'm sure what we'll hear from Ralph
Norman if he decides to get in, and that is
getting rid of the state's income tax. That and a

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number of other things. The platforms are not going to
vary very much at all. The getting rid of rus
state income tax thing, that is, I mean, that's that's
a winning proposition if you're running for governor, right and

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you also had that cover that well as governor. In
South Carolina. The way we've got it set up here,
you don't really have the power to you know, you
don't have the power to do that. That power resides
in the state House. But given what has taken place
in this last session from going to well it was
just a tax reduction. You know what last we wound

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up with was a top tier went from six point
two to six percent. It was seven percent just a
couple of years ago. So some progresses being made there.
But then when that whole idea the flat tax, rolled out,
which sounded so appealing at first until people started looking
at wait a minute, what's this actually going to do?
And then we discovered that well, the plan as they

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rolled it out, was going to actually increase the taxes
for the majority of middle class taxpayers in our state.
Well then that got yanked off the table, but pretty quickly,
of course. But then we started hearing again, well, you
know what, no income tax at all in the state.

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Problem is is about nearly half of our budget is
supported by state income taxes. So you got to figure
out ways. It's easy. It's one thing to say, yes,
I'm calling for the elimination of the state income tax.
Space no more state income tax. Great sounds good, populous theme.
Everybody loves it. But you can't stop there. How How

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what's your plan to make up that those additional dollars?
And that's the real world. But it's it's easy as
to go a gubernatorial candidate to say that, because you
know the thing is is you're not going to be
the one doing it. It's going to be the state House.
All you get the bully pulpits certainly, and that doesn't hurt.
But when the day is done, it's going to be
the state House. It has to, you know, do the

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heavy lifting and figure out ways to make that money up.
We have heard in the mace is not announced she's
entering the race. She also is advocating for elimination of
the income tax. Again, if you're a Republican running for
governor here, you're going to have to at least say that.

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And the one thing they'll all vye for and all
all all of our vying for is an endorsement from
Donald Trump. Evatt is positioning herself, of course, as being
a business person before she got into politics. The Alan
Trump she has spoken regularly at his rallies here in

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the state, and she over the course the last couple
of months, has been playing up her interactions with Trump
at the White House and the events in a DC
on her social media accounts. So yeah, the Trump effect
is going to be very real here in South Carolina.
And I don't you know, again, while he has made
endorsements already in some races across the country, he has

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not done so here in South Carolina. And I wouldn't
expect that he would anytime soon, really, And given the players,
who knows if he will at all. So three in
a fourth expected to be in a couple of weeks,
and a fifth and Nancy Mace, well, now the thought

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is maybe later on this summer, maybe there you go.
The field grows as we're a little under eleven months
away from the primary game, which is all it counts
if you're a Republican in South Carolina.

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Hey appreciate you joining us here on this the Tuesday
morning edition of Columbia's Morning News for the fifteenth day
of July. And uh No, it's not quieting down really
at all, even after the President's truth social post over
the weekend urging the MAGA crowd to uh just let

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this Epstein thing go away. It's and don't expect it
to anytime soon. Who's going to be who will draw
this out longer? Will it be MAGA or will it
be the Democrat Party. I'll get to that in a second. Now.
Latest here, the Department of Justice is fighting a potential

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Galaid Maxwell appeal on her conviction. Some see this as well, Yeah,
they don't want her under oath testifying in a quarter
of law about anything. But The Daily Mail reporting that
sources have told them that Maxwell is willing to speak

(27:43):
in front of Congress about these Epstein files. Uh source
says despite the rumors, she was never offered any kind
of plea deal, she would be more than happy to
sit before Congress and tell her a story. Well, I
bet she would be. Congress has to ask her first, though,

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he just did invite yourself. Well, the source telling the
outlet no one from the government has ever asked her
to share what she knows. She remains the only person
to be jailed in connection to Epstein, and welcome to
chance to tell the American public the truth. I do
find it interesting if this source is telling the truth

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is accurately portraying this, that nobody from within the government
ever asked her to share what she knows. Well, anyway,
this is just another part of the story here. As

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for the Democrat Party, the calls to release the files,
although again according to the Trump administration, there are no
files to release at least no client list to release.
Keem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, yesterday calling on the
Trump administration to release all the files related to Epstein

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and saying that Congress should intervene to force that release
if the administration doesn't act on its own. Jeffrey's saying
there's no good reason for the DOJ to keep those
details under wraps unless they have something to hide. Yeah, okay.
The loggerhead between well, the FBI, and the DOJ continues.

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Now Again, there's been much said about Dan Bongino, who
did not show up to work on Friday, and according
to at least one outlet, says that folks from the
DJ haven't had any conversations with him since last Wednesday. Now,
remember it, Bongino sat right there with Cash Betel what

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about a month ago, and at least as far as
did Epstein off himself or not, he says, yeah he did.
But as I recall, Bongino did not comment upon on
a client list, and that's apparently what he's upset with
Pam Bondi over is you know, you roll it out there,
you teased it, you tease it, you teased it, and

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he said it's not it doesn't exist. So his future
as Deputy director of the FBI appears to still be
up in the air as of yesterday. Again, nobody in
leadership of the DOJ had spoken to him since middle
part of last week, when he implied he could no

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longer continue in that position as long as Bondi was there.
There have been some reports saying that Cash matell is
of a similar mind, although we haven't heard a lot
of that, mainly itself focused on Bongino. Okay, but the
question remains, a lot of questions remain, and one of
them is this, how did Epstein get to where he

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is or where he was? College dropout, taught math and
wound up being a multi millionaire financier. A lot of
speculation again about how he got there. Well, just a

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little background here. He was teaching math at a school
of Manhattan, but despite the fact he never got a
college degree, he was dismissed from that teaching position for
poor performance, going to a school administrator. But his time

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there led him to tutor, the son of Alan Greenberg,
who was the CEO of bear Stearns, who helped me
get a job at the company and quickly he climbed
the ranks became a limited partner at the firm. It
all looked really weird. Guy goes from a college dropout

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to a financier in short order. Was he just that good?
This wasn't even a guy that knew a bunch of
people when he started out. It's not a guy who
was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. A
lot of questions remaining over that. And then, of course

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the other looming question is was he an intelligence asset? Well,
this has led a a former Israeli Prime Minister, Naptalie Bennett,
who served as Prime Minister of Israel from twenty twenty
one to twenty twenty two, to come out and rease
a statement addressing the suspicions that Epstein was part of

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an Israeli blackmail ring compromise powerful figures, and again this
is the theory that seems to make the most sense.
Bennett rejects that theory, saying that there's a vicious wave
of slander and lies against my country, my people. We
just won't take it anymore. The accusation that Epstein somehow

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worked for Israel or the masade running a back a
blackmail ring is categorically and totally false, he says. But
he worked for the CIA. Here's what we do know.
Epstein had the goods on a lot of people. He

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was in a position to extract whatever he wanted to
from a lot of people. Although apparently that list doesn't exist.
Is he from beyond the grave now still blackmailing somebody? Uh?
You know? I mean, if you know there's there's compromising video,
is the compromising information out there about you? Just because

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he's dead doesn't mean it's gone. Whether anybody still has
it or not is beside the point. Are there people
who aren't willing to take that chance? And as I
mentioned at the top of the segment, who is going
to pursue this longer the Democrat Party or MAGA, because

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this is the thing that enamored Donald Trump to the
MAGA crowd, total transparency in government, not doing it like
we always did it, and boy it's smacks of that's
just what we're doing right now. Right, Okay, you're.

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It is eight fifteen more than good to have you
along into the final hour of the program for this Tuesday,
July fifth. It heads up if you frequent the harbish
and the National Forest Harvest and state forests not national
Studies gave it upbraiding. It's gonna be closed for a
couple of days. Some very scary dog attacks recently been

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a couple of them by dogs that have been described
as pit bull type dogs. The Forestry Commission shutting it down.
They shut it down about lunchtime yesterday. They say, well,
at last, that shut down at least until noon this Thursday,
and they'll re evaluate the condition. So obviously they're looking
for some wild dogs out there. You know, it's kind

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of that's a lot of places you can go walk
the rivers, You go to all sorts of places outdoors
and never even think about something like that makes you
wonder if somebody hasn't released these dogs into that area.
A nineteen year old jogging got attacked by two of

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these dogs. Tried to item you had a federal prosecutor
out for a jog. Also was attacked by again two large,
unchained pit bull type dogs over the weekend. Wow. Okay,
so heads up, if you go out there and it's

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closed down, that's why they will. Uh, we'll re evaluate
again Thursday about lunchtime. I guess that just means if
they can catch these dogs, they'll reopen it. If not,
I don't know if it'll stay closed or not. Okay.
Another massive win at the Supreme Court for the Trump administration,
the court allowing plans to continue to significantly cut down

(36:42):
the size of the Department of Education. Uh. At least
Kataji Brown Jackson had to had to some some some
of her other justices side, we're throwing this. When this
one came down an ideological line six'. Three the majority
did not explain the. Ruling the minority is saying we're

(37:06):
just simply not doing something. Right, ACTUALLY i take that
back that the majority opinion would it would would say
that something is not right. Here that, again the point
has been all. Along let let's move education back to
get it as closer as close to the student and
the family as. Possible and that is not In, washington D.

(37:27):
C so about fourteen hundred jobs here on the. Line
and remember we have NOT i get it for maybe
for your. Lifetime this is you've known about, this but
we didn't have it A Us department Of education until nineteen.
Eighty prior to. THAT i think you could probably argue

(37:52):
that our schools perform, better our students learn, more they
are more you, know successful in the classroom prior to
since than SINCE i. Eighty if you're my, age you
went all the way through public school and there was
no such thing as A Us department Of. Education but
over the years we have spent some three trillion dollars

(38:15):
and what have we gotten for. It, well we've seen
student learning continue to. Decline, now there may be a
lot of factors, there but let's just let's call it
what it. IS i, mean A Us department Of education
has been a total. Failure Now linda, McMahon who was

(38:38):
actually put in the position to be the secretary Of
department Of, education and her job was to dismantle. It
is Well trump said yesterday that she'll begin the process
of doing just. That will we get more court action
here of some. Sort we have some other judge trying

(38:59):
to find some way Around Supreme court. Rule they seem
to be pretty good at doing that these. Days let's
wait and. See but in the, meantime the process of
dismantling it will, begin and high time let's bring it back.
Home let's get it back as close to that student
as we. Can, meantime we were talking in the last

(39:25):
segment about the Old epstein. Thing, Honestly i'm getting tired
of talking about, it but it continues to, be you,
know front page news. Here But democrats now are unhappy
With Joe. Biden we talked yesterday about the interview did
with The New York times on the auto pen and they're, Like,
joe just shut up and go. Away democrats not happy

(39:50):
about his response to these investigations up On Capitol, hill
This Oversight committee investigation and to who was running the,
government saying that he's just taking the Republic cans bait
to the detriment of his own. Party in other, words
don't talk about, it will go, AWAY i guess is the.
Idea but again they're they're they're, like we've we got

(40:10):
a job to do, here and that is to go
After trump on This epstein. Thing you, Know maga world's
in assurer over, this and don't get in the way of. It.
Joe so plenty Of democrats saying that that he's doing
nothing but helping The republicans with with with what he's,
doing and, this, well all the talk seems to be

(40:34):
About republican chances of the midterms as a result of
the big Beautiful, bill which we're told over and over
and over again that we don't like. It, well what
don't we like about? It as a? Conservative you don't
like the fact that it's increasing spending although the president
is trying to Get congress to cut more funds out
of the. Budget that's what conservatives don't like about. It, Okay,

(40:59):
yeah you got people who were upset Because medicaid coverage
may be cut or curtailed for those who don't want to,
work who are able body and don't want to, work
those are people who aren't Voting republican. Anyway so For republicans,
upset it's because of the. Spending, so you, know this

(41:20):
whole prophecy that we keep hearing about over and over
again in the mainstream media that The republicans are in
trouble because of this one, big beautiful. Bill i'm not
exactly buying. That but The Democrat party they're not faring any.
Better harris just released A harvard rather just to release
a Uphole Harvard Capps harris poll dropped yesterday their. Findings

(41:45):
with that only four and ten approved of the job
The Democrat party is, doing which is a slight drop
From june and forty two, percent so they weren't. Happy
so forty. Percent that's it to give The Democrat party
a thumbs. Up now you break it down by, Party,
yeah seventy two percent Of democrats are happy with, it

(42:05):
but twenty eight percent, aren't and that is. Problematic The
Republican party does a little bit. Better neither one does.
Great THE gop has a forty eight percent approval. Rating
eighty five percent Of republicans are happy with the job
The republicans are. Doing no too that that's eighty five

(42:28):
percent Of republicans like what their party is doing versus
seventy two percent Of democrats who like what their party is.
Doing is they continue to struggle to find out who
are they here in twenty twenty? Five who the heck are? They,
well we got a long time to go before we

(42:49):
get to those. Midterms, no it's politics and things can
change just like. That but now you've got Democra who was,
IT i can't remember who it was who actually said
we are praying for a recession A, democrats we're praying
for a recession so that we can beat The republicans
in the. Midterms, wow really tooth being. Known there probably

(43:15):
been Some republicans in the past who they may not
have out and out said, that but they were hoping for.
That but, no The, democrats if that party is that,
desperate now are they got to pray for a recession
in order to win an? Election? Wow things are pretty.
Dire the world is.

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Speaker 1 (43:53):
Are our final thoughts for This tuesday, Morning july. Fifteenth
good morning to. YOU i Am Gary. David Christopher thompson
is off this, week so you get one for the
price of. Two good thing is. Free. Huh you, know
min Heard thomas mentioned This Charleston airport breaking ground one
hundred million dollar, expansion adding new gates among other, things
are gonna double the number of international routes they. Fly

(44:15):
so that's that's good. News just head down twenty six and,
uh well we have twice as many opportunities now to
fly internationally if that's what you're that's what you'd like to.
Do by the, way The Washington, post h, OH i
almost forgot THAT i mentioned this last. Week they're also
doubling the number of flights From charleston To Bermuda bermuda

(44:38):
air that started flying out Of. Charleston you, know It's
i'm not sure it took so long for that to.
HAPPEN i mean it's just like right off the coast
Of charleston, basically so they're doubling those at least in.
Season washington posted a. STUDY i don't know, why, uh
the fifty best airports In. America interestingly, enough the top

(45:03):
Three Detroit. METRO i don't know. Why Salt Lake city
And Indianapolis international top three airports they rank in the
country number sixteen on that. List we only had two

(45:23):
in our state make the top, fifty or you had
to actually number, Sixteen Columbia. Metro. Yeah one of the
reasons that it made it so high on the list
was accessibility to public transit in parking. OPTIONS i will
tell you. This you, Know i've been through a few

(45:46):
AIRPORTS i, resist like the, plague you, know going to
a place Like atlanta and trying to fly out of
there at least driving. There and the last we're going
on vacation about a week and a half and we're
flying out Of columbia To charlotte to make a connection

(46:07):
because last year we fly To columbia quite a. Bit,
actually but last year we had gone up to spend
the evening with my sister and her family And charlotte
just flew out Of charlotte vacation on A monday morning
now at six am or. Whatever THE tsa line was
like a week. Long the convenience of Flying this is

(46:29):
not a commercial of The Columbia Metropolitan, airport but the
convenience of flying out of here in the. Parking, yeah
it's fat fantastic if you get one of those spots
ahead of time in that covered garage area. THERE i,
mean it's like, boom you walk across the little road
there and you're right. There. Man so that was one
of the reasons why it made the list so. High number.

(46:50):
Sixteen Greenville Greenville Spartanburg international came into twenty Six the
airport In, charleston the biggest in the state by the,
way did not make the great all. Right. UH a
couple of days, AGO i was talking about, this the
story That trump was threatening more tariffs On brazil Over,

(47:10):
yeah You're, Bolsonaro AND i said, this you, know do
do you know if you want to use tariffs for economic, reasons,
okay but don't use them for political differences for something like.
That but with, this, Hey i'm all on. Board trump
yesterday Threatening russia with tariffs if they don't if they
don't end this war In. Ukraine Steve tariff's The president,

(47:33):
said very, Severe, uh like one hundred percent. Severe, yeah
one hundred percent tariffs if if this drags on for
another fifty. Days you, know interesting side story here The
president telling reporters that you, know it was his Wife

(47:56):
milania who finally, said wait a, minute something ain't right,
here because He's, Ye i'd have a conversation on the
phone With Vladimir putin And i'd get off And i'd tell,
her you, know we had a very pleasant. Conversation, yeah, YadA, yad.
YadA he, says, yeah well another city just got. Hit
because ye that's what's happening. Here he says one, thing
but he does. Another so you, KNOW i, mean why

(48:18):
all Of europe is not engaging in that sort of
same thing economically With russia is beyond. Me it's in your.
Backyard do something about. It Lindsey graham meantime talking about
The Middle, east and you, know ever Hawkish graham not
ruling out FURTHER us military action in The Middle, east
saying it depends on What iran. Does, well that much is.

(48:43):
TRUE i suppose it was you, know several weeks back,
actually prior to the bombing of those nuke sites That
graham kind of left open the, idea didn't call for,
it but kind of hint and around. That, yeah you,
know we might have to Put american boots on the
ground one day in The Middle. East not a winning.

(49:05):
Proposition you can bet your bottom dollar with very Many.
Americans while we're on the topic the story of The,
pentagon it is getting ready to start Using Elon Musk's
grok Is ai? HERE i mean here we, Are, okay
a two hundred million dollar contract with A pentagon to

(49:27):
Use grock the Musk ai. SOFTWARE i get. It you,
know we gotta we have to take advantage of the.
TECHNOLOGY i understand, it but you KNOW i, don't AND
i don't think it's just. Me i'm pretty sure it's.
Not it just makes me feel a little queasy when
you start talking about artificial intelligence and military. OPERATIONS i,

(49:50):
mean Consider. Grock w was you know made news last
week when it suggested that uh peopleeople who express anti
white hate often Have jewish last names and would have
been crushed By Adolf. Hiller, yeah that's What groc said last. Week,

(50:12):
Okay musk saying that artificial intelligence platform can reason it
what he called superhuman levels and noted HOW ai is
advancing just vastly faster than any human and that's. True
that's very. Scary now The pentagon is going to be using.

(50:33):
It liberals be. Liberals Blue, sky which is the that you,
know that's that social media app that popped up Once,
musk you, know sided With trump and all the liberals
wanted to EXIT. X they went To Blue. Sky left
wingers on that social media platform praising people who jeered

(51:02):
The vice president's kids when they went To disneyland over the. Weekend,
Yeah Jade vance's wife and their kids were at The
california version Of. Disneyland they got some, cheers they also
got some booze from park. Attendees where we are right,
now and liberals went on A Blue sky to celebrate

(51:22):
the idea that The van's, kids who were, three, five
and eight years, old got jeered and booed by people
in attendance. There Even Gavin newsom had to hop in
with a post hope you enjoy your family. Time the
families are tearing, apart certainly. Won't, yeah, Okay and as

(51:47):
they continue to try to and that's they're still calling.
It they haven't haven't said it's a search and recovery
yet still a search and rescue In texas In Kirk.
County rumors circulating that whether modification have something to do with.
This well In, florida The Orlando sentinel reporting That florida

(52:09):
airports soon must submit monthly reports on whether excuse, me
whether modification activities or face the loss of. Funding it's
all part of a new law controversial that the critics
say are fueling conspiracy. Theories The Florida Attorney general writing
to operators of public airports yesterday saying their compliances needed

(52:32):
to catch those who seek to weaponize science and will
safeguard the atmosphere from harmful chemicals and. Experiments florida is
very deadly serious about. This but is it really that
big of an? ISSUE i guess it could be one,
day but is it? Now critics say you're addressing a

(52:54):
non existent. Problem, uh, Well florest taking it. Serious they
actually if you want to engage and these things do
happen to varying degrees of, SUCCESS i. Guess but, yeah
if you want to engage in the weather modification effort In,
florida you've got to get a license to do. So

(53:16):
this is the strange times we live, in aren't they? All?
Right final thoughts there For, Tuesday july fifteenth, state, Fifteen
we'll be right back