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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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It is seventeen minutes after six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good morning and welcome back in Yeah, Lumbia's Morning News.
Got the hot and fresh sign up open for big
business here on the seventeenth morning of July.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's good to have you here.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I have Gary David, Christopher Thompson is uh he's vacationing somewhere.
He'll be back with us on Monday. Alwa's not hanging
out at SEC Media days all week. Uh No, he's
enjoying time with the family, so so good for them.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And well, I hope it's a little cooler he is
than it is here.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Maybe he's got an ocean breeze or something, because around
here it continues to be stiflingly hot, even this time
of the morning. It's like walking into a sauna when
you walk out the front door. So what did Tyler say?
Ninety five? Maybe higher than that today one hundred and
five heated decks ninety eight tomorrow that's the airtemp ninety nine,
see ninety eight Saturday, ninety nine Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That's the expectation. Those those are the airtemps.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, but nothing untoward for is from this this problem
down to the golf and we'll get to that here
in just a few It's in the rundown the big stories,
the hot topics for.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Thursday, July seven. Things.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Let's start at home as always, in the announcement from
the campaign of the Lieutenant Governor Pamela Avitt that she
has raised over one million dollars, raised over one million
in the first twenty four hours of a campaign for
governor after she launched on Monday. Now, that one million
dollar total included one hundred and thirty thousand dollars raised
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immediately after the launch, which does a new benchmark for
money raised here in South Carolina politics. But that was
one hundred and thirty thousand after right after the launch. Yeah,
I get you. Well, you know, I mean, who knows
a lot of this money was probably secured beforehand. I
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mean that's the way to do it, right, I mean,
go ahead and get the get the commitments, know what's
coming in, and then uh, you know, make a big
splash with it, so anyway. Meantime, Josh Kimbrel continues to
push back against that lawsuit from his business associate, who
claims he has been defrauding the company they owned together
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of more than two million dollars. Kimbrel is that's that's
that's his focus right now. That's the sucking up all
that went out of his campaign at least early on,
and another court file has been the issue this in
the ongoing litigation back and forth with Nancy Mace, who
is not an announced candidate may well become one at
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some point in time, but a company owned by her
ex fiance filing a brief this week trying to stop
Mace and a woman identified in court filing says Jane
Doe from intervening in a now withdrawn pre suit discovery petition.
So the Mace news continues to be all about you
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know that, you know, sex and stuff. Oh, I shouldn't
have a campaign yet, but maybe she will one of
these days. We'll see. Meantime, there's a one less I
want to be here in the state as Lee Johnson,
who is a Democrat up in the Upstate who about
two months ago entered the race hoping to topple Lindsey
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Graham has dropped out. He only raised sixty seven thousand
in two months. That's after he put half a million
dollars of his own cash in the kick off his campaign.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yikes, that hurts.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Remember Annie Andrews, the doctor in the Low Country, also
hoping to unsee Graham as a Democrat. She reported raising
just over a million dollars in her first month of running.
So okay, there's one less state newspaper reporting as they
have gotten a hold of internal documents that the former
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city manager of a Casey left his job less than
a year into it over frustrations with mayor. At least
pardon this acording documents is obtained by the state newspaper.
This is Jim Crossland who had been there for a
while and then finally got to the position he wanted
and then in short order left and went over to
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a similar position at HERMO. It was issues with the
the mayor, according to these internal documents. Okay, is you
know if you care care? Down in Charleston, they have
settled a lawsuit over the statue of A.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
John C.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Calhoun five years after it was taken down. Remember that
morning in Marion Square may once again go up on display,
but not within Charleston city limits. Apparently descendants of A Calhoun.
They had followed a lawsuit along with the Board of
Field Officers of the Fourth Brigade, which is a historic
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militia that actually owns Marion Square where that statue sat.
So they've come to an agreement with that right there, Boy,
this is scary news here over in Ridgeway. D Heck,
I'm sorry, not d Heck anymore?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Are they?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The State Department of Public Health You've always referred to
him as d Hack right, issued a license suspension for
an assistant living facility after they found residents locked inside.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, and Jamie Harre y'all remember Jamie.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Some folks part of weighs a lot of money with
Jamie about one hundred and thirty million dollars worth in
his unsuccessful bid to knock off Lindsey Graham about five
years ago. Then he was, for his troubles given the
position as the top dog over the Democratic National Committee
and he failed spectacularly there. So what's up next? He's
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got a podcast at Our Table launches today. First episodes.
We'll have guests like Hunter Biden, Tim Walls, another failure.
That's two failures right there. James Clyburn will also be
a guest. Okay, countdown to is honest to how long
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that one's going to last. They have been doing a
lot of overtime up on Capitol Hill, especially in the Senate,
and they did it again last night, late night vote
finally coming down to a fifty one forty eight tally
as sitting Republicans have passed Trump's clawback package. Is this
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is kind of qualifying some of those Doge cuts, big
cuts to foreign aid, to NPR. It did pass in
the middle of the night. Two Republicans voted against it,
Susan Collins, Lisa Mkowski. I can see the look of
shock on your face right now as I say that.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Initially then the vote to what a day or two back,
who advanced? There were three Republicans who voted against it,
as I recall, Yeah, mister mccoughll voted against it. Then
he did not vote against it this time around. So yeah,
trying to get to cut that budget at least just
a little bit. Do we have more Epstein news, Yeah,
we do. Trump's doubling down on it, calling it a
(07:47):
hoax and killing Republicans or even MAGA members who members
but you know who are still talking about it, that
he doesn't need their support. A loomer, that creepy influencer
that has so much influence, it seems over Donald Trump
is warning that this whole thing could consume his presidency. Meantime,
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the former president Joe Biden, well, his wife's the first
lady is Joe Biden's senior advisor, Anthony Bernall. Well, it's
it's a trend now, right. You get called in front
of the Oversight Committee. You remember the Biden inner team,
You just take the fifth over and over and over again.
James Comer's saying, as a result of all this, the
(08:32):
odds of actually calling in Jill Biden as a witness
have increased greatly.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And yeah, looking out on.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
The tropics, the weather system moving across the Florida Panhandle
showing a greater chance of becoming a tropical depression moving
towards the northern Gulf Coast. This could bring a lot
of rain of places like New Orleans, Texas, Louisiana coast.
Not going to impact us though, that's the good news
on that, all right, friends, That more coming up on this.
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It is the Thursday edition of Columbia's Morning News. It's
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Speaker 1 (09:13):
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Speaker 3 (09:32):
Bit as six forty one and good morning to you.
It's Thursday, July Seventeenth's talking to Kelly Nash for the
show this morning.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
He and Jonathan Luguy in the eight o'clock an Hour
with the Rash Lond. Kelly was very excited.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
He is very pumped up over this announcement by the
President yesterday that Coca Cola has agreed to use real
cane sugar and they're beverages sold here in the US
enough of the high fructose co corn syrup natural cane sugar.
Trump says that Coke has agreed to this. Nash telling
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me that he goes Sam Sam's Club. Well, I think
a Sam's club where you can buy the Mexican Coca
Cola which has always had the real cane sugar in it.
Some other countries of South Africa, some European countries also
used the real cane.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Sugar, you know, in the midst of everything else.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Apparently Trump has says he's been speaking to Coca Cola
about using real cane sugar and coke and they've agreed.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
To do so.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Okay, I don't know. We were at dinner last night
with some friends. This came up, and I recall I
used to be a big Pepsi drinker back in the day.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I could.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I could knock down three four five pepsis a day,
pat idea. I know, hadn't done that in a long time.
I don't drink it anymore, but yeah, I'm a water
guy now. But in coffee, Uh, they came out, remember
they came out with uh what do they call it.
I think it was pepsi with real sugar or something.
And pepsy was always a very sweet drink anyway, but
(11:12):
they did they did the throwback to where the way
they used to make it. I remember buying one, and
now I don't know if this is what coast gonna
taste like now or not. Of course, Coach has never
been as sweet as pepsi, but still all right, so yeah,
you can, you can. You can buy the Mexican cook
right now in a number of places, and it does
taste different, all right. So in the midst of all that, uh,
(11:33):
Trump also doubling down in another post on so on
True Social yesterday. Uh. Now remember the the uh with
this Epstein saga. The latest has been as the Trump
is brandon this is as a hoax that he says
it has been perpetrated for the highest ranking members of
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the Justice Department for years now, and the Democrats are
behind it all. So he says as a hoax, it's
a scam. And he also wrote this, I have had
more success in six months than perhaps any president in
our country's history, which may well be true. Yeah, and
(12:17):
all these people want to talk about with strong prodding
by the fake news and the success star of Dems
is the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward
and do the Democrats work. Don't even think about talking
of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don't want
their support anymore. Okay, But he also took a shot
(12:45):
when he said their new scam is what we will
forever call the Jeffrey Epstein hoax, and my past and
all calves past supporters have bought into this BS hook
line and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson. So Trump
is on his truth social post again, even telling MAGA
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supporters there are many of them who are very upset
about this, that he no longer needs their support, again
referring to past supporters, and there again there are a
lot of It's almost as though now more you know, say,
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mainstream for lack of a better word, of Republicans don't
seem to be quite as upsets they are. Some of are,
but it really has been the MAGA craft. It's been
very vociferous in their criticisms over what has not happened.
Ras Mussen released a poll Tuesday in their polling finding
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that only twenty one percent twenty one percent of likely
US voters believe that the FBI and the DOJ are
telling the truth about Epstein. So, yeah, the vast majority
of people, and we've kind of become a customer of
this over the years, haven't we. How many different things,
I mean, starting back with JFK and moving forward, do
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we look at and say, yeah, we never got the
whole story. So seventy nine percent of likely US voters
don't believe that we're being told the truth about this.
If you want to break it down by party, that
includes sixty eight percent of Democrats, sixty six percent of
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Republicans reject the idea that the case is closed and
believe that there are dozens of powerful and wealthy offenders
who need to face justice. That's bipartisan condemnation, right there,
isn't it. You don't when's the last time you saw
results of a poll and you saw that about the
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same percentage or the same percentage almost in this case,
within a few points of Democrats and Republicans agreed to anything. Well,
they are on this one. And Laura Lumer, Now I've
been somewhat intrigued by this whole Laura Lumor story. I'm
not real sure, you know, I know she's an influencer
in college, people following her social media and all. But
(15:34):
this this whole you know, Trump whisper thing that Lumor's
got going on. I'm not sure how that happened, but
She's had Trump's ear, or so it would seem.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
She did an interview in the last day yesterday, actually
and warned that.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
How this is all being handled threatens to consume Trump's presidency.
She says, obviously this is not a complete hoax, given
the fact that Julane Maxwell is serving twenty years in
prison in Florida right now for her crimes and activities
with Epstein, who we know as a convicted sexual predator.
(16:16):
She did this interview with Politico. She said, the best
thing that the president can do is to appoint a
special counsel to handle this. Now Trump has said that's
not up to him to do, but yeah, she warns
that this could consume his president. Certainly right now it is,
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at least for right now. It may not stay that way.
And again, we've been down the roads like this before,
where it seems like something is, oh wow, this is
the big one, this is the biggen. And you know,
you play the long game if you're in politics, right
Sooner or later people tend to, you know, they forget
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about it, they move on. And I think that's probably
the game being played right now. We'll just you know,
although again Trump keeps bringing it up and that post
yesterday even telling his supporters, yeah, if you're buying into this,
and I don't need your support. Basically what he was saying,
well that, uh, the best probably to do would be
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to just just move on and not even bring it
up anymore. You're right, quite honestly, that's what politicians did
to do, and sooner or later, yeah, we move on
as well.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
This one though, seems.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
To be uh maybe uh hanging out a little bit longer. Okay, Well,
so that's the latest and all that. Here on the
Thursday morning.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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Speaker 3 (17:59):
Is sixteen minutes after seven o'clock and a good Thursday
morning to you. But the seventeenth of July. Nice to
have you on board. I'm Gary David Christopher Thompson off
this week gubernatorial news Lieutenant Governor Pamela Abbott, her team
announcing that she'd raised a ton of money in the
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first twenty four hours after her campaign officially kicked off
on Monday, over a million dollars in the first twenty
four hours, and they say that includes one hundred and
thirty thousand raised immediately after the launch, which they say
is a new benchmark for South Carolina politics.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
This is going to.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Be again the money raised by the Republicans at least
in this primary season. Probably a lot of us going
to be spent on that primary. Why would you not.
You don't need much for next November. You need it
for next June the ninth. I think the data is
of the primary here in South Carolina saw a million bucks,
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her finance committee chair saying that raising over a million
dollars in the first twenty four hours is a clear
sign that South Carolinians believe in EVI it's bold conservative
vision to our state. Well, okay, maybe stretched a little bit.
These are some deep pocketed donors that do And again
I mentioned this in the rundown. Any politician worth there
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assaut they're going to get these commitments ahead of time,
and then it'll become official. Once they become official, and
then it's announced and it sounds wow.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
This money was well everything but in the bank, I
would imagine before the announcement last Monday.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
But that's the way you play it, right. We just
raised a ton of money in twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
It's going to take a ton of money for these
gubernatorial hopefuls to win on June ninth, certainly at least
for the Republicans the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, you might say why bought again?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
So far Again, as far as platforms are concerned, EVIDS
is not really any different from the platform laid out
by Alan Wilson.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Well, the platform laid out by.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Josh Kimbrel, no income tax, doge cuts. There's going to
be very little daylight between any of these candidates when
it comes to their platform. That's pretty much gonna be
locked in for each and every one of them. So
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it's going to depend on well, I don't know what's
going to depend on the truth. For Josh Kimbrel, it's
going to depend on him getting passed. Well, this bombshell
allegation and this lawsuit again you're familiar with that his
business partner of finding that lawsuit accusing Kimberle from creating
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a fake business and diverting funds away in the amount
of about two million dollars he claims over two and
a half years. Now, is it more problematic for Kimberle
than just that fitz News is reporting that, according to
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their sources, this civil complaint is tied to an ongoing
criminal investigation into Kimberrel. Now we had not heard that before. Again,
this is anonymous sources telling the outlet we have no
way of verifying this. Kimberrel is not taking this lightly,
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of course, releasing a video on his Facebook page. So
you may have seen some headlines recently. I want to
speak to you directly about them. Let me be perfectly clear.
What we're dealing with here is nothing short of a
politically motivated attack, an orchestrated attempt by entrenched forces in
Colombia to distract us from the real work that needs
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to be done. Okay, well that's the stock answer you
wouldn't expect to get. But again, this, at least in
this outlet, this news that well news, but sources telling
them that this hall may be tied to some sort
of a criminal investigation would certainly raise the bar. Now
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we've not seen really any polling to any great degree.
I think the only polls we've had have in name
recognition polls. So that's Josh Campberell, the Ralph Norman. Will
he get in into this month? He says he's going
to say yes or no. I still I keep saying this.
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I know, but in a state like South Carolina, where
a potential Trump endorsement is it's worth more than it's
weight in gold, you would have to think that, well,
a Trump a endorsement would not go to Ralph Norman.
He at least initially was against the One Big Beautiful Bill.
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And then just earlier this week when a Republican or
excuse me, a House subcommittee, Republicans shot down a bill
that would have tried to force the government's hand in
releasing Epstein data. It wasn't just Democrats who voted to
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try to let that happen. Ralph Norman went along with
it too, but Republicans were successful in squashing that. But
Ralph Norman again on the wrong side of Trump on
something else, and Nancy mays, well, the only news she's
making is you know, legal news.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Patrick Bryan, her ex fiance, and attorneys for a company
that he owns, filed a brief this week trying to
stop Mace and the Jane Doe, the one identified as
Jane Doe, from intervening in a now withdraw on presuit
discovery petition. So the legal stuff around all this continues
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to fly back and forth for Nancy Mace and again
I've tried to in my opinion all along, if you're
going to run for governor, this is not the distractions
you want people talking about or thinking about. And you know,
Mace's well brought up. I always feel weird talking about
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this because you know, if there's anything to this, it
needs to be brought up, it needs to be addressed
and dealt with. But if you're thinking about running for governor,
this is not what you want people talking about. She
has not said anything. The mum's been the word about
a potential campaign. There one other quick note here up
in the Upstate, Lee Johnson, who he's an engineer, but
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he was hoping to beat Lindsey Graham, a Democrat who
two months ago entered the race as a Democrat. Doctor
Annie Andrews, of course, down in the low Country, is
also as a Democrat trying to unseat Lindsay Graham. Well
Andrews reported she had raised one point two million dollars
in her first month of running, but Johnson didn't fare
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quite as well. He only raised about sixty seven thousand,
this after he put a half a million dollars of
his own cash in the.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Kick off his campaign. Yikes.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Two months in he decided she's got a call to day,
So one less Democrat in that race.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
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Speaker 3 (26:17):
Seven forty one. Now we'll be talking about it seems
like forever and that a tropical system not on the
Gulf now, it's it's it doesn't have tropical name or
anything right now, but it does apparently as of yesterday,
showed a greater chance of becoming a tropical depression.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Now are we concerned here.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
No, we just got a deal with get it like
about one hundred degree air temperatures, not to mention the
heated X, but places like New Orleans, the Louisiana Texas
border area. I could see a whole bunch of rain
out of this thing. They're talking to New Orleans, three
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to five inches of rain. Okay, it's not like you know,
October twenty fifteen type for US rain. I get it.
But still, you know how New Orleans is three to
five inches of rain is is a pretty good bitch.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Some could see as much as ten inches, and that
could be a real problem.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
That mainly more along the Louisiana coastline, so there could
be a deal with that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
We've had.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
I mean, of course, Texas in Kirk County we all know.
But New Jersey's been flooding parts of New York subways,
flooding tons of rain in that part of the country,
flash flooding there.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
There's a.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
New report out that billion dollar disasters are becoming more
frequent here in this country. That from nineteen eighty through
twenty twenty four, we had four hundred and three weather
or climate disasters, each costing a billion dollars or more crazy,
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seventeen thousand lives lost, give or take, and close to
three trillion in direct damages. So yeah, it's you know,
this whole global warning thing is that it's been out
there for a long time. I don't know, I'm starting
to believe it now the way this summer has gone, huh,
we have had. They seem to be certainly increasing in
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frequency and regularity. All right, another long night up on
Capitol Hill. Last night, and there was some internal opposition
in the inside the Republican Party, as there always is
these days, but sent Republicans got it through that that
clawback package. So what this is these are are are
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things in the budget that had already been approved that
they went back in, you know, at Trump's behast and said,
you know what, I know, it's already in the budget,
and this is listener is really unheard of and right budgeting.
You know, if the money's there, you go spend it, right,
you go spend it. Well, there's nine no, what is it?
(29:11):
Nine trillion? No, I'm sorry, not trillion. You wish it was.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
About nine billion dollars that have been a clawed back,
taken back out of the budget recisions is what it's
officially known as that final vote fifty one forty eight.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Now a couple a day or two back. Remember JD.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Vance had to go over to Capitol Hill as the
President of the Senate and issue a tie breaking vote
because you had three Republicans then who had voted against
advancing this onto a final four vote. And that was well,
your usual suspects, right, Murkowski and the Collins, but you
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also had a Mitch McConnell vote against that advancing, Well,
he did not vote against it. Last night the final
votality fifty eight still Collins and Rakowski voted every Democrat
in voting against it. So now that package goes over
to the House and they've got until Friday to pass it.
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And that is the deadline. It's got to get done
by Friday. This isn't some artificial want to get it
done by July fourth kind of thing. This is they
got to get it done by Friday. So where's this
money coming from? Well, just shy of eight billion dollars
for USAID, which has been the focus of a.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Lot of these These are.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
The cuts that Elon Musk and is Doose team uncovered suggested.
And so at least this part of all that gets
gets cadified, he gets put into law here, assuming the
House passes it, of course they will. So almost eight
billion dollars from USAID and uh over a billion dollars
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from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting if you've if you've
looked recently, they woke bey ain't even the word for
it anymore. So that's that's cuts the NPR to PBS.
Now as it heads to the House Republicans there had
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warned the Senate not to make changes to the package.
But but you know, just like in the uh, the uh,
the One Big Beautiful Bill, they did, the Senates version
is uh, well, it's not that far off, I mean,
because we're talking about cutting billions of dollars, but it's
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it's it's smaller by about four hundred million dollars, so
close to a half a billion dollar smaller. After they agreed,
the Senate leadership did on Food and Company to make
a car valve that's spared HIV and AIDS prevention funding.
This goes back to the Bush era. There were a
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number of other attempts to make changes, but this long
drawn out voter rama. None of them passed the sixty
vote threshold to make it to the final bill.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So this is a start. We'll call it that.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
This was one of the big criticism, of course, of
the One Big Beautiful Bill from folks you know, are
concerned about about these budgets and this government spending, and
that included a lot of people like you and me.
Is how much more money we were going to spend
as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill. So
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this gets a little bit of that money back.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Again.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
This is money that was already in the budget to
be spent, and this just doesn't happen. Point is is
we need to see more of this happen. It's like
so I pulling teeth to get government to go back
on something when it comes to spending our money. We'd
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sure like to see a little more of that. Huh,
that'd be nice, that'd be sweet.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So that's done. At least.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
The Senate version is slightly different from the House version.
Back to the House. Today's Thursday. It's got to get done.
That vote's got to take place by tomorrow or this
just evaporates and those cuts don't happen.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I doubt that.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Over four hundred million dollars, the House will have too
much of a problem getting it passed.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
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 1 (33:59):
And the two. It is sixteen minutes past eight eight m.
It's Thursday, July seventeenth. Don't look now.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Or go ahead and look well, we get some school districts,
it'll be cranking up here. But in a week, week
and a half, what is Aikin County, y'all doing? Like
year round school in an Acin County. Now, I just
aborre the idea personally, but I'm a dogging that hunt.
But yeah, they'll be back in the classroom here for
long and well even the school districts that are operating
(34:32):
on normal schedules. Just a couple of weeks of summer left,
that's it. When did that happen?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
All right, I'm Gary David. Good to have you here.
Christopher Thompson is off this week. He and his family
are vacationing and having a big gold time. I'm sure
I know, I know they are. If I hadn't heard
from him, and I haven't heard from them, not one word,
I don't blame them either.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
So we all know.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Now, in a court of law and inside the hallowed
halls of Congress, it's no different when someone is asked
to come and testify and they, you know, take the
Fifth Amendment, that's that's their right to do so. That's
a constitutional right in in a court of law or
(35:16):
in the halls of Congress, when somebody takes the Fifth okay,
totally legit now in the court of public opinion, it's
a whole different story.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
And I guess so far.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Between the former Biden White House physician and then Anthony Bernall,
that's been a lot of taking the fifths the last
couple of get togethers at the House Overside Committee. Now
Anthony Bernall is the former senior advisor to the first
(35:54):
Lady Joe Biden. So yeah, the investigation goes on. And now,
as we mentioned yesterday, the White House ordering an investigation
separate from what the House Oversight Committee is doing, into
who was running the show, and a lot of people
are of the opinion at least that well, it looks
(36:17):
like there was maybe a couple of folks if in
fact Joe Biden was not mentally able to run the country,
or a couple of folks. But people keep pointing to
Jill Biden that who would know better Joe's mental state
of mind and his abilities to perform his duties as
(36:38):
President of the United States of America than his wife
Jill Biden. Jill Biden who thought, yeah, he could do
it for another four years, which was total lunacy, but
her uh well, as they fight to call him work husband,
Anthony Bernall. He showed up yesterday. He was agally supposed
(37:00):
to appear for a voluntary transcribed interview. Okay, that was
going to be back about a month ago in late June,
but he bailed out after he learned that Trump was
taking a page from Biden's book and waving executive privilege
for the investigation, which meant that Bernal will be required
to provide lawmakers with unrestricted testimony. Now, Anthony Bernall Tony
(37:28):
has been characterized as one of the most influential people
in the Biden White House and a key member of
biden so called politbureau. That if you've read Original Sin,
which I haven't because I don't want to give Jake
Tappero a single dime of my money, but anyway, that's
how he was referred to in that book, Original Sin. Well,
(37:52):
so he didn't voluntarily showed up, so the subpoena went out.
So he shows up and though just like the White
House physician Kevin O'Connor, he refused to answer any of
the questions on this theme of was Biden actually running
the White House. He clammed up over and over and
over again, claiming the Fifth Amendment again totally fine. In
(38:16):
a court of law or in Congress, but in the
court of public opinion, it leaves you saying, no, wait
a minute, here's the White House physician and here's Jill
Biden's former chief of staff, and they're all taking the fifth.
What are they trying to hide?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Fairly or not? That's the opinion we're left with right well.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
As a result, James Comer, the chair of the House
Overside Committee, yesterday said the odds of actually requesting Jill
Biden to testify has increased significantly. He says, we had
our chief of staff, he self proclaimed Roy's husband. Therefore
(39:02):
we planned to be an eight hour deposition. He kept
invoking the fifth. His lawyer finally says, you can ask
all the questions you want, We're gonna invoke the fifth
on every question. Soe Comer says, we need to know
what Jill Biden, if she was the one calling the shots. Now,
(39:24):
what of the odds are if number one, Jill Biden
is not going to show up in for this committee voluntarily.
It's gonna take us a poena together there. But I
don't know that they'll get anything different they've gotten from
from Connor and Bernal, But just a specter of having
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the former first Lady in front of Congress having to
take the question, and then, I have no doubt in
my mind, do just what her two predecessors here have done.
If she gets called just claiming the fifth, Well, it
it does something, doesn't it? Optically? It does something. You
(40:13):
got some of that committee that are floating the idea
of of subpoenaing the former president himself.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Now that you talk about optics. Wow.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
So Bernald yesterday became the fourth former White House aide
to send for questioning, and again what they thought would
be an eight hour deposition lasted well less than an
hour again before his attorney said, Hey, you know what
you could ask all day long. We're just going to
keep saying the Fifth Amendment. It to the rest of us.
(40:59):
It looks at sort of way, doesn't it. I mean
there had to be something something in there you could answer, right, Oh,
I guess the problem is if you if you answer
a few of the questions and then you get to
a really you know, a really touchy one, and then
you claim the fifth, it makes it stand out that
much more. Right, So just claim the fifth on everything
everything with a physician, I get there are certain things,
(41:23):
you know, doctor patient confidentiality you can't answer.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
I get that, but.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
There were questions that were put to doctor O'Connor's way
that he could have answered. But yeah, if if Bernald
shows up yesterday answers a few and then you get
to the really serious stuff and he says the fifth
that it makes us stand out of that much more.
So just say the fifth to everything. Why not just
say okay, could have just taken a tape recording in
there himself punched about every time fifth, fifth of ben
(41:49):
It's pretty much what we got.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Your world happens here.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
But let me be clear and updated accordingly.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
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Speaker 3 (42:15):
It is eight forty and it is time, my friends,
for our final thoughts for a Thursday morning good morning.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Tell you let's see at home. Here a couple of
quick notes.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
State newspaper apparently got a hold of a document that
shows that well, it was weird at the time, but
you kind of had a hint as to what might
have gone down. Jim Crossman, who had been with the
City of Casey for some time and finally rose to
the top spot in what has been a ever evolving
door over there, became the city manager, but he didn't
(42:47):
stay long, less than a year. According to the documents
obtained by the newspaper, he left over frustrations with mayor.
Release parton who's long time been mayor over there?
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
The letter that cross And left for the city before
he left said, among other things, I feel like we
are operating under two councils. Council one is with the mayor,
and Council two is with the other members. Council one
doesn't communicate, collaborate, or cooperate with Council two. Okay, well,
it has been a revolving door. I'm not sure you
(43:25):
can pin it all on the mayor, but at least
the former city manager dead. Scary stuff here Over in Ridgeway,
the ADJC LARIS South Winds Assisted Living community shut down
after in order revealing at least nineteen violations of long
(43:45):
term care facility codes. Apparently, amongst other things, they had
locked residents inside. I realized that most of these facilities.
These My mother is in a long term care home
assistant living facility, and it's wonderful. These wonderful people couldn't
(44:09):
be in a better place. But man, some of these places, man,
you will find that. They'll go through every now and
then and list some of the violations of some of
these spots, and some are quite egregious. They ever find
yourself in a position, or if you are right now,
if you're already in that position, you know you got
to keep an eye out right. Never find yourself in
(44:29):
that position. Be very careful when you make your choice.
Jamie Harrison, you know, I'm not even sure I can
remember now what it was Jamie Harrison did before he
ran for Lindsey Graham senen Seed and failed spectacularly. Well,
I guess the one thing that did get for him was, well,
(44:53):
somebody was convinced that the Dudel raise a bunch of money.
And he did remember one hundred and thirty million dollars
flushed down the toilet in that failed Senate attempt back
in twenty twenty against Lindsey Graham. One hundred and thirty
million dollars. Now, a lot of it had nothing to do
with Jamie Harrison and had everything to do with Lindsey Graham.
Right liberals wanted Graham out of office. He was a
(45:15):
friend of Trump, off and on friend of Trump. Uh
remember when Trump docksed Lindsay with his his cell phone
number back in a debate back.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
In Wow, that whole off and on again thing.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
But yeah, so yeah, Harrison raised one hundred and thirty
million dollars, threw it all down the toilet. But for
his troubles, the DNC said, hey, this guy can raise
some money, Let's bring him over here and let him
have this up. Well, that resulted in what twenty twenty
four went for the White House, the Senate and the Republicans.
The House for the Republicans. So now maybe they found
(45:54):
their version of Joe Rogan. Maybe, I don't know. Jamie
Harrison launching today a podcast at Our Table. Apparently amongst
the first episodes, you'll hear from the likes of Wes Moore,
the Governor Maryland, James Clyburn, Tim Wall speaking of failed candidates,
(46:18):
the Minnesota governor, and speaking of fail yours, Hunter Biden.
I might have to listen just to listen to that
Hunter Biden interview. Okay, so Jamie Harrison is going to
try his hand in the podcast arena. Another record smashed
(46:42):
for buller enforcement. Nationwide illegal crossings in June plummeted to
the lowest level ever recorded in US history. In US history, now,
consider we've always had border crossings, but and for years
(47:04):
we just didn't pay attention to it as general public.
We were concerned about it. But considering how many people
were crossing the border for example June of last year,
twenty seven, seven hundred and sixty six May of last year,
(47:28):
some sixty two thousand June six seventy two, and just
to again this is this is a record the lowest
monthly border crossing attempts in history. And considering where we
(47:51):
just came from, how quickly this has happened is really unfathomable.
We're not just lowering it from what Biden was doing.
It's it's lower period from what anybody's ever done, including
the first four years of the Trump administration. Now DHS
is out saying the media has been misleading about who
is being arrested those who have gotten into this country
(48:11):
under Biden's watch. New ICE arrest data from late June
showing that the FEDS ramped up arrests of those who
were considered other immigration violators. Okay, yeah, those with criminal backgrounds.
The deceptive non criminal categorization really is misleading, DHS says,
(48:38):
because this is what the Yeah, this is what the
media is trying to want. This is their narrative. Last
week you had Major Garrett CBS saying that there's a
growing number of those detained who are not criminals. They're
here illegally, which is a crime, he says, but they
don't have other felonies on their records. Well, again, on
(49:00):
out of one side of his mouth, he says, they're
here illegally, which is a crime. On the other side,
I says, but they're not criminals. Well, which is it?
Which is what's false? It just happens, is what it is.
This I found this very interesting. An advocacy group CEO
for an advocacy group says that his organization turned down
(49:21):
an offer for what he said would have been worth
around twenty million dollars to help recruit for a national
rally against Trump. This goes back to well, what is
being referred to interesting left to day being July seventeenth,
the July seventeenth movement they'd approached this ceo for if
you were these things exist. Adam Stewart, the CEO and
(49:45):
founder of Crowds on Demand, in a News Nation interview,
said that, yeah, twenty million dollars just wasn't worth it. Today,
there's supposed to be some protest around the country put
on by some group called Good Trouble Lives On. They
(50:06):
call themselves peaceful and non violent protesters. But I guess
this guy wasn't necessarily convinced that would be the guest. Yes,
there are companies like this. You wonder where all these
people suddenly show up from. Yeah, there are companies like
Crowds on Demand. You can rent a protester. Man, how
(50:28):
do he has signed up to get that job?
Speaker 1 (50:29):
Anyway? Wow, Crowds on Demand.
Speaker 3 (50:33):
And Uh, if you're heading out to FLA, going down
to Florida looking forward to some time in the Uh
in the water, be very careful. Four people now have
died in Florida from flesh eating bacteria found in coastal waters.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (50:52):
Uh, so far a total of eleven have contracted this
bacteria so far this year. This is a specific bacterium
that lives typically in warm, brackish seawater. It can open
inner wounds when people are swimming.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:14):
So, if it's not the sharks, it's the flesh eating bacteria.
To keep your head of the water. Good luck,
Jesus hell, Yeah America and Jery for for nation. Yes
is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
It is seventeen minutes after six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good morning and welcome back in Yeah, Lumbia's Morning News.
Got the hot and fresh sign up open for big
business here on the seventeenth morning of July.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's good to have you here.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I have Gary David, Christopher Thompson is uh he's vacationing somewhere.
He'll be back with us on Monday. Alwa's not hanging
out at SEC Media days all week. Uh No, he's
enjoying time with the family, so so good for them.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And well, I hope it's a little cooler he is
than it is here.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Maybe he's got an ocean breeze or something, because around
here it continues to be stiflingly hot, even this time
of the morning. It's like walking into a sauna when
you walk out the front door. So what did Tyler say?
Ninety five? Maybe higher than that today one hundred and
five heated decks ninety eight tomorrow that's the airtemp ninety nine,
see ninety eight Saturday, ninety nine Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That's the expectation. Those those are the airtemps.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, but nothing untoward for is from this this problem
down to the golf and we'll get to that here
in just a few It's in the rundown the big stories,
the hot topics for.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Thursday, July seven. Things.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Let's start at home as always, in the announcement from
the campaign of the Lieutenant Governor Pamela Avitt that she
has raised over one million dollars, raised over one million
in the first twenty four hours of a campaign for
governor after she launched on Monday. Now, that one million
dollar total included one hundred and thirty thousand dollars raised
(02:06):
immediately after the launch, which does a new benchmark for
money raised here in South Carolina politics. But that was
one hundred and thirty thousand after right after the launch. Yeah,
I get you. Well, you know, I mean, who knows
a lot of this money was probably secured beforehand. I
(02:27):
mean that's the way to do it, right, I mean,
go ahead and get the get the commitments, know what's
coming in, and then uh, you know, make a big
splash with it, so anyway. Meantime, Josh Kimbrel continues to
push back against that lawsuit from his business associate, who
claims he has been defrauding the company they owned together
(02:48):
of more than two million dollars. Kimbrel is that's that's
that's his focus right now. That's the sucking up all
that went out of his campaign at least early on,
and another court file has been the issue this in
the ongoing litigation back and forth with Nancy Mace, who
is not an announced candidate may well become one at
(03:09):
some point in time, but a company owned by her
ex fiance filing a brief this week trying to stop
Mace and a woman identified in court filing says Jane
Doe from intervening in a now withdrawn pre suit discovery petition.
So the Mace news continues to be all about you
(03:32):
know that, you know, sex and stuff. Oh, I shouldn't
have a campaign yet, but maybe she will one of
these days. We'll see. Meantime, there's a one less I
want to be here in the state as Lee Johnson,
who is a Democrat up in the Upstate who about
two months ago entered the race hoping to topple Lindsey
(03:53):
Graham has dropped out. He only raised sixty seven thousand
in two months. That's after he put half a million
dollars of his own cash in the kick off his campaign.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yikes, that hurts.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Remember Annie Andrews, the doctor in the Low Country, also
hoping to unsee Graham as a Democrat. She reported raising
just over a million dollars in her first month of running.
So okay, there's one less state newspaper reporting as they
have gotten a hold of internal documents that the former
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city manager of a Casey left his job less than
a year into it over frustrations with mayor. At least
pardon this acording documents is obtained by the state newspaper.
This is Jim Crossland who had been there for a
while and then finally got to the position he wanted
and then in short order left and went over to
(04:56):
a similar position at HERMO. It was issues with the
the mayor, according to these internal documents. Okay, is you
know if you care care? Down in Charleston, they have
settled a lawsuit over the statue of A.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
John C.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Calhoun five years after it was taken down. Remember that
morning in Marion Square may once again go up on display,
but not within Charleston city limits. Apparently descendants of A Calhoun.
They had followed a lawsuit along with the Board of
Field Officers of the Fourth Brigade, which is a historic
(05:32):
militia that actually owns Marion Square where that statue sat.
So they've come to an agreement with that right there, Boy,
this is scary news here over in Ridgeway. D Heck,
I'm sorry, not d Heck anymore?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Are they?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The State Department of Public Health You've always referred to
him as d Hack right, issued a license suspension for
an assistant living facility after they found residents locked inside.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, and Jamie Harre y'all remember Jamie.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Some folks part of weighs a lot of money with
Jamie about one hundred and thirty million dollars worth in
his unsuccessful bid to knock off Lindsey Graham about five
years ago. Then he was, for his troubles given the
position as the top dog over the Democratic National Committee
and he failed spectacularly there. So what's up next? He's
(06:25):
got a podcast at Our Table launches today. First episodes.
We'll have guests like Hunter Biden, Tim Walls, another failure.
That's two failures right there. James Clyburn will also be
a guest. Okay, countdown to is honest to how long
(06:49):
that one's going to last. They have been doing a
lot of overtime up on Capitol Hill, especially in the Senate,
and they did it again last night, late night vote
finally coming down to a fifty one forty eight tally
as sitting Republicans have passed Trump's clawback package. Is this
(07:09):
is kind of qualifying some of those Doge cuts, big
cuts to foreign aid, to NPR. It did pass in
the middle of the night. Two Republicans voted against it,
Susan Collins, Lisa Mkowski. I can see the look of
shock on your face right now as I say that.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Initially then the vote to what a day or two back,
who advanced? There were three Republicans who voted against it,
as I recall, Yeah, mister mccoughll voted against it. Then
he did not vote against it this time around. So yeah,
trying to get to cut that budget at least just
a little bit. Do we have more Epstein news, Yeah,
we do. Trump's doubling down on it, calling it a
(07:47):
hoax and killing Republicans or even MAGA members who members
but you know who are still talking about it, that
he doesn't need their support. A loomer, that creepy influencer
that has so much influence, it seems over Donald Trump
is warning that this whole thing could consume his presidency. Meantime,
(08:11):
the former president Joe Biden, well, his wife's the first
lady is Joe Biden's senior advisor, Anthony Bernall. Well, it's
it's a trend now, right. You get called in front
of the Oversight Committee. You remember the Biden inner team,
You just take the fifth over and over and over again.
James Comer's saying, as a result of all this, the
(08:32):
odds of actually calling in Jill Biden as a witness
have increased greatly.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And yeah, looking out on.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
The tropics, the weather system moving across the Florida Panhandle
showing a greater chance of becoming a tropical depression moving
towards the northern Gulf Coast. This could bring a lot
of rain of places like New Orleans, Texas, Louisiana coast.
Not going to impact us though, that's the good news
on that, all right, friends, That more coming up on this.
(09:02):
It is the Thursday edition of Columbia's Morning News. It's
fabulous to have you on board. Thanks for joining us,
keeping you connected. I check in throughout the day twenty
four to seven.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I just like being informed. Know what's happening.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
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Speaker 3 (09:32):
Bit as six forty one and good morning to you.
It's Thursday, July Seventeenth's talking to Kelly Nash for the
show this morning.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
He and Jonathan Luguy in the eight o'clock an Hour
with the Rash Lond. Kelly was very excited.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
He is very pumped up over this announcement by the
President yesterday that Coca Cola has agreed to use real
cane sugar and they're beverages sold here in the US
enough of the high fructose co corn syrup natural cane sugar.
Trump says that Coke has agreed to this. Nash telling
(10:09):
me that he goes Sam Sam's Club. Well, I think
a Sam's club where you can buy the Mexican Coca
Cola which has always had the real cane sugar in it.
Some other countries of South Africa, some European countries also
used the real cane.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Sugar, you know, in the midst of everything else.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Apparently Trump has says he's been speaking to Coca Cola
about using real cane sugar and coke and they've agreed.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
To do so.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Okay, I don't know. We were at dinner last night
with some friends. This came up, and I recall I
used to be a big Pepsi drinker back in the day.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I could.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I could knock down three four five pepsis a day,
pat idea. I know, hadn't done that in a long time.
I don't drink it anymore, but yeah, I'm a water
guy now. But in coffee, Uh, they came out, remember
they came out with uh what do they call it.
I think it was pepsi with real sugar or something.
And pepsy was always a very sweet drink anyway, but
(11:12):
they did they did the throwback to where the way
they used to make it. I remember buying one, and
now I don't know if this is what coast gonna
taste like now or not. Of course, Coach has never
been as sweet as pepsi, but still all right, so yeah,
you can, you can. You can buy the Mexican cook
right now in a number of places, and it does
taste different, all right. So in the midst of all that, uh,
(11:33):
Trump also doubling down in another post on so on
True Social yesterday. Uh. Now remember the the uh with
this Epstein saga. The latest has been as the Trump
is brandon this is as a hoax that he says
it has been perpetrated for the highest ranking members of
(11:55):
the Justice Department for years now, and the Democrats are
behind it all. So he says as a hoax, it's
a scam. And he also wrote this, I have had
more success in six months than perhaps any president in
our country's history, which may well be true. Yeah, and
(12:17):
all these people want to talk about with strong prodding
by the fake news and the success star of Dems
is the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward
and do the Democrats work. Don't even think about talking
of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don't want
their support anymore. Okay, But he also took a shot
(12:45):
when he said their new scam is what we will
forever call the Jeffrey Epstein hoax, and my past and
all calves past supporters have bought into this BS hook
line and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson. So Trump
is on his truth social post again, even telling MAGA
(13:10):
supporters there are many of them who are very upset
about this, that he no longer needs their support, again
referring to past supporters, and there again there are a
lot of It's almost as though now more you know, say,
(13:33):
mainstream for lack of a better word, of Republicans don't
seem to be quite as upsets they are. Some of are,
but it really has been the MAGA craft. It's been
very vociferous in their criticisms over what has not happened.
Ras Mussen released a poll Tuesday in their polling finding
(13:58):
that only twenty one percent twenty one percent of likely
US voters believe that the FBI and the DOJ are
telling the truth about Epstein. So, yeah, the vast majority
of people, and we've kind of become a customer of
this over the years, haven't we. How many different things,
I mean, starting back with JFK and moving forward, do
(14:20):
we look at and say, yeah, we never got the
whole story. So seventy nine percent of likely US voters
don't believe that we're being told the truth about this.
If you want to break it down by party, that
includes sixty eight percent of Democrats, sixty six percent of
(14:47):
Republicans reject the idea that the case is closed and
believe that there are dozens of powerful and wealthy offenders
who need to face justice. That's bipartisan condemnation, right there,
isn't it. You don't when's the last time you saw
results of a poll and you saw that about the
(15:12):
same percentage or the same percentage almost in this case,
within a few points of Democrats and Republicans agreed to anything. Well,
they are on this one. And Laura Lumer, Now I've
been somewhat intrigued by this whole Laura Lumor story. I'm
not real sure, you know, I know she's an influencer
in college, people following her social media and all. But
(15:34):
this this whole you know, Trump whisper thing that Lumor's
got going on. I'm not sure how that happened, but
She's had Trump's ear, or so it would seem.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
She did an interview in the last day yesterday, actually
and warned that.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
How this is all being handled threatens to consume Trump's presidency.
She says, obviously this is not a complete hoax, given
the fact that Julane Maxwell is serving twenty years in
prison in Florida right now for her crimes and activities
with Epstein, who we know as a convicted sexual predator.
(16:16):
She did this interview with Politico. She said, the best
thing that the president can do is to appoint a
special counsel to handle this. Now Trump has said that's
not up to him to do, but yeah, she warns
that this could consume his president. Certainly right now it is,
(16:37):
at least for right now. It may not stay that way.
And again, we've been down the roads like this before,
where it seems like something is, oh wow, this is
the big one, this is the biggen. And you know,
you play the long game if you're in politics, right
Sooner or later people tend to, you know, they forget
(16:58):
about it, they move on. And I think that's probably
the game being played right now. We'll just you know,
although again Trump keeps bringing it up and that post
yesterday even telling his supporters, yeah, if you're buying into this,
and I don't need your support. Basically what he was saying,
well that, uh, the best probably to do would be
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to just just move on and not even bring it
up anymore. You're right, quite honestly, that's what politicians did
to do, and sooner or later, yeah, we move on
as well.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
This one though, seems.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
To be uh maybe uh hanging out a little bit longer. Okay, Well,
so that's the latest and all that. Here on the
Thursday morning.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty am w VOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Is sixteen minutes after seven o'clock and a good Thursday
morning to you. But the seventeenth of July. Nice to
have you on board. I'm Gary David Christopher Thompson off
this week gubernatorial news Lieutenant Governor Pamela Abbott, her team
announcing that she'd raised a ton of money in the
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first twenty four hours after her campaign officially kicked off
on Monday, over a million dollars in the first twenty
four hours, and they say that includes one hundred and
thirty thousand raised immediately after the launch, which they say
is a new benchmark for South Carolina politics.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
This is going to.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Be again the money raised by the Republicans at least
in this primary season. Probably a lot of us going
to be spent on that primary. Why would you not.
You don't need much for next November. You need it
for next June the ninth. I think the data is
of the primary here in South Carolina saw a million bucks,
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her finance committee chair saying that raising over a million
dollars in the first twenty four hours is a clear
sign that South Carolinians believe in EVI it's bold conservative
vision to our state. Well, okay, maybe stretched a little bit.
These are some deep pocketed donors that do And again
I mentioned this in the rundown. Any politician worth there
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assaut they're going to get these commitments ahead of time,
and then it'll become official. Once they become official, and
then it's announced and it sounds wow.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
This money was well everything but in the bank, I
would imagine before the announcement last Monday.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
But that's the way you play it, right. We just
raised a ton of money in twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
It's going to take a ton of money for these
gubernatorial hopefuls to win on June ninth, certainly at least
for the Republicans the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, you might say why bought again?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
So far Again, as far as platforms are concerned, EVIDS
is not really any different from the platform laid out
by Alan Wilson.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Well, the platform laid out by.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Josh Kimbrel, no income tax, doge cuts. There's going to
be very little daylight between any of these candidates when
it comes to their platform. That's pretty much gonna be
locked in for each and every one of them. So
(20:40):
it's going to depend on well, I don't know what's
going to depend on the truth. For Josh Kimbrel, it's
going to depend on him getting passed. Well, this bombshell
allegation and this lawsuit again you're familiar with that his
business partner of finding that lawsuit accusing Kimberle from creating
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a fake business and diverting funds away in the amount
of about two million dollars he claims over two and
a half years. Now, is it more problematic for Kimberle
than just that fitz News is reporting that, according to
(21:26):
their sources, this civil complaint is tied to an ongoing
criminal investigation into Kimberrel. Now we had not heard that before. Again,
this is anonymous sources telling the outlet we have no
way of verifying this. Kimberrel is not taking this lightly,
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of course, releasing a video on his Facebook page. So
you may have seen some headlines recently. I want to
speak to you directly about them. Let me be perfectly clear.
What we're dealing with here is nothing short of a
politically motivated attack, an orchestrated attempt by entrenched forces in
Colombia to distract us from the real work that needs
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to be done. Okay, well that's the stock answer you
wouldn't expect to get. But again, this, at least in
this outlet, this news that well news, but sources telling
them that this hall may be tied to some sort
of a criminal investigation would certainly raise the bar. Now
(22:36):
we've not seen really any polling to any great degree.
I think the only polls we've had have in name
recognition polls. So that's Josh Campberell, the Ralph Norman. Will
he get in into this month? He says he's going
to say yes or no. I still I keep saying this.
(22:56):
I know, but in a state like South Carolina, where
a potential Trump endorsement is it's worth more than it's
weight in gold, you would have to think that, well,
a Trump a endorsement would not go to Ralph Norman.
He at least initially was against the One Big Beautiful Bill.
(23:22):
And then just earlier this week when a Republican or
excuse me, a House subcommittee, Republicans shot down a bill
that would have tried to force the government's hand in
releasing Epstein data. It wasn't just Democrats who voted to
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try to let that happen. Ralph Norman went along with
it too, but Republicans were successful in squashing that. But
Ralph Norman again on the wrong side of Trump on
something else, and Nancy mays, well, the only news she's
making is you know, legal news.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Patrick Bryan, her ex fiance, and attorneys for a company
that he owns, filed a brief this week trying to
stop Mace and the Jane Doe, the one identified as
Jane Doe, from intervening in a now withdraw on presuit
discovery petition. So the legal stuff around all this continues
(24:28):
to fly back and forth for Nancy Mace and again
I've tried to in my opinion all along, if you're
going to run for governor, this is not the distractions
you want people talking about or thinking about. And you know,
Mace's well brought up. I always feel weird talking about
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this because you know, if there's anything to this, it
needs to be brought up, it needs to be addressed
and dealt with. But if you're thinking about running for governor,
this is not what you want people talking about. She
has not said anything. The mum's been the word about
a potential campaign. There one other quick note here up
in the Upstate, Lee Johnson, who he's an engineer, but
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he was hoping to beat Lindsey Graham, a Democrat who
two months ago entered the race as a Democrat. Doctor
Annie Andrews, of course, down in the low Country, is
also as a Democrat trying to unseat Lindsay Graham. Well
Andrews reported she had raised one point two million dollars
in her first month of running, but Johnson didn't fare
(25:37):
quite as well. He only raised about sixty seven thousand,
this after he put a half a million dollars of
his own cash in the.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Kick off his campaign. Yikes.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Two months in he decided she's got a call to day,
So one less Democrat in that race.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
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Speaker 3 (26:17):
Seven forty one. Now we'll be talking about it seems
like forever and that a tropical system not on the
Gulf now, it's it's it doesn't have tropical name or
anything right now, but it does apparently as of yesterday,
showed a greater chance of becoming a tropical depression.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Now are we concerned here.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
No, we just got a deal with get it like
about one hundred degree air temperatures, not to mention the
heated X, but places like New Orleans, the Louisiana Texas
border area. I could see a whole bunch of rain
out of this thing. They're talking to New Orleans, three
(27:02):
to five inches of rain. Okay, it's not like you know,
October twenty fifteen type for US rain. I get it.
But still, you know how New Orleans is three to
five inches of rain is is a pretty good bitch.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Some could see as much as ten inches, and that
could be a real problem.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
That mainly more along the Louisiana coastline, so there could
be a deal with that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
We've had.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
I mean, of course, Texas in Kirk County we all know.
But New Jersey's been flooding parts of New York subways,
flooding tons of rain in that part of the country,
flash flooding there.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
There's a.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
New report out that billion dollar disasters are becoming more
frequent here in this country. That from nineteen eighty through
twenty twenty four, we had four hundred and three weather
or climate disasters, each costing a billion dollars or more crazy,
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seventeen thousand lives lost, give or take, and close to
three trillion in direct damages. So yeah, it's you know,
this whole global warning thing is that it's been out
there for a long time. I don't know, I'm starting
to believe it now the way this summer has gone, huh,
we have had. They seem to be certainly increasing in
(28:27):
frequency and regularity. All right, another long night up on
Capitol Hill. Last night, and there was some internal opposition
in the inside the Republican Party, as there always is
these days, but sent Republicans got it through that that
clawback package. So what this is these are are are
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things in the budget that had already been approved that
they went back in, you know, at Trump's behast and said,
you know what, I know, it's already in the budget,
and this is listener is really unheard of and right budgeting.
You know, if the money's there, you go spend it, right,
you go spend it. Well, there's nine no, what is it?
(29:11):
Nine trillion? No, I'm sorry, not trillion. You wish it was.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
About nine billion dollars that have been a clawed back,
taken back out of the budget recisions is what it's
officially known as that final vote fifty one forty eight.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Now a couple a day or two back. Remember JD.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Vance had to go over to Capitol Hill as the
President of the Senate and issue a tie breaking vote
because you had three Republicans then who had voted against
advancing this onto a final four vote. And that was well,
your usual suspects, right, Murkowski and the Collins, but you
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also had a Mitch McConnell vote against that advancing, Well,
he did not vote against it. Last night the final
votality fifty eight still Collins and Rakowski voted every Democrat
in voting against it. So now that package goes over
to the House and they've got until Friday to pass it.
(30:17):
And that is the deadline. It's got to get done
by Friday. This isn't some artificial want to get it
done by July fourth kind of thing. This is they
got to get it done by Friday. So where's this
money coming from? Well, just shy of eight billion dollars
for USAID, which has been the focus of a.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Lot of these These are.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
The cuts that Elon Musk and is Doose team uncovered suggested.
And so at least this part of all that gets
gets cadified, he gets put into law here, assuming the
House passes it, of course they will. So almost eight
billion dollars from USAID and uh over a billion dollars
(31:04):
from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting if you've if you've
looked recently, they woke bey ain't even the word for
it anymore. So that's that's cuts the NPR to PBS.
Now as it heads to the House Republicans there had
(31:30):
warned the Senate not to make changes to the package.
But but you know, just like in the uh, the uh,
the One Big Beautiful Bill, they did, the Senates version
is uh, well, it's not that far off, I mean,
because we're talking about cutting billions of dollars, but it's
(31:50):
it's it's smaller by about four hundred million dollars, so
close to a half a billion dollar smaller. After they agreed,
the Senate leadership did on Food and Company to make
a car valve that's spared HIV and AIDS prevention funding.
This goes back to the Bush era. There were a
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number of other attempts to make changes, but this long
drawn out voter rama. None of them passed the sixty
vote threshold to make it to the final bill.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So this is a start. We'll call it that.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
This was one of the big criticism, of course, of
the One Big Beautiful Bill from folks you know, are
concerned about about these budgets and this government spending, and
that included a lot of people like you and me.
Is how much more money we were going to spend
as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill. So
(32:53):
this gets a little bit of that money back.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Again.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
This is money that was already in the budget to
be spent, and this just doesn't happen. Point is is
we need to see more of this happen. It's like
so I pulling teeth to get government to go back
on something when it comes to spending our money. We'd
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sure like to see a little more of that. Huh,
that'd be nice, that'd be sweet.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So that's done. At least.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
The Senate version is slightly different from the House version.
Back to the House. Today's Thursday. It's got to get done.
That vote's got to take place by tomorrow or this
just evaporates and those cuts don't happen.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I doubt that.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Over four hundred million dollars, the House will have too
much of a problem getting it passed.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
And the two. It is sixteen minutes past eight eight m.
It's Thursday, July seventeenth. Don't look now.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Or go ahead and look well, we get some school districts,
it'll be cranking up here. But in a week, week
and a half, what is Aikin County, y'all doing? Like
year round school in an Acin County. Now, I just
aborre the idea personally, but I'm a dogging that hunt.
But yeah, they'll be back in the classroom here for
long and well even the school districts that are operating
(34:32):
on normal schedules. Just a couple of weeks of summer left,
that's it. When did that happen?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
All right, I'm Gary David. Good to have you here.
Christopher Thompson is off this week. He and his family
are vacationing and having a big gold time. I'm sure
I know, I know they are. If I hadn't heard
from him, and I haven't heard from them, not one word,
I don't blame them either.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
So we all know.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Now, in a court of law and inside the hallowed
halls of Congress, it's no different when someone is asked
to come and testify and they, you know, take the
Fifth Amendment, that's that's their right to do so. That's
a constitutional right in in a court of law or
(35:16):
in the halls of Congress, when somebody takes the Fifth okay,
totally legit now in the court of public opinion, it's
a whole different story.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
And I guess so far.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Between the former Biden White House physician and then Anthony Bernall,
that's been a lot of taking the fifths the last
couple of get togethers at the House Overside Committee. Now
Anthony Bernall is the former senior advisor to the first
(35:54):
Lady Joe Biden. So yeah, the investigation goes on. And now,
as we mentioned yesterday, the White House ordering an investigation
separate from what the House Oversight Committee is doing, into
who was running the show, and a lot of people
are of the opinion at least that well, it looks
(36:17):
like there was maybe a couple of folks if in
fact Joe Biden was not mentally able to run the country,
or a couple of folks. But people keep pointing to
Jill Biden that who would know better Joe's mental state
of mind and his abilities to perform his duties as
(36:38):
President of the United States of America than his wife
Jill Biden. Jill Biden who thought, yeah, he could do
it for another four years, which was total lunacy, but
her uh well, as they fight to call him work husband,
Anthony Bernall. He showed up yesterday. He was agally supposed
(37:00):
to appear for a voluntary transcribed interview. Okay, that was
going to be back about a month ago in late June,
but he bailed out after he learned that Trump was
taking a page from Biden's book and waving executive privilege
for the investigation, which meant that Bernal will be required
to provide lawmakers with unrestricted testimony. Now, Anthony Bernall Tony
(37:28):
has been characterized as one of the most influential people
in the Biden White House and a key member of
biden so called politbureau. That if you've read Original Sin,
which I haven't because I don't want to give Jake
Tappero a single dime of my money, but anyway, that's
how he was referred to in that book, Original Sin. Well,
(37:52):
so he didn't voluntarily showed up, so the subpoena went out.
So he shows up and though just like the White
House physician Kevin O'Connor, he refused to answer any of
the questions on this theme of was Biden actually running
the White House. He clammed up over and over and
over again, claiming the Fifth Amendment again totally fine. In
(38:16):
a court of law or in Congress, but in the
court of public opinion, it leaves you saying, no, wait
a minute, here's the White House physician and here's Jill
Biden's former chief of staff, and they're all taking the fifth.
What are they trying to hide?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Fairly or not? That's the opinion we're left with right well.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
As a result, James Comer, the chair of the House
Overside Committee, yesterday said the odds of actually requesting Jill
Biden to testify has increased significantly. He says, we had
our chief of staff, he self proclaimed Roy's husband. Therefore
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we planned to be an eight hour deposition. He kept
invoking the fifth. His lawyer finally says, you can ask
all the questions you want, We're gonna invoke the fifth
on every question. Soe Comer says, we need to know
what Jill Biden, if she was the one calling the shots. Now,
(39:24):
what of the odds are if number one, Jill Biden
is not going to show up in for this committee voluntarily.
It's gonna take us a poena together there. But I
don't know that they'll get anything different they've gotten from
from Connor and Bernal, But just a specter of having
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the former first Lady in front of Congress having to
take the question, and then, I have no doubt in
my mind, do just what her two predecessors here have done.
If she gets called just claiming the fifth, Well, it
it does something, doesn't it? Optically? It does something. You
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got some of that committee that are floating the idea
of of subpoenaing the former president himself.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Now that you talk about optics. Wow.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
So Bernald yesterday became the fourth former White House aide
to send for questioning, and again what they thought would
be an eight hour deposition lasted well less than an
hour again before his attorney said, Hey, you know what
you could ask all day long. We're just going to
keep saying the Fifth Amendment. It to the rest of us.
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It looks at sort of way, doesn't it. I mean
there had to be something something in there you could answer, right, Oh,
I guess the problem is if you if you answer
a few of the questions and then you get to
a really you know, a really touchy one, and then
you claim the fifth, it makes it stand out that
much more. Right, So just claim the fifth on everything
everything with a physician, I get there are certain things,
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you know, doctor patient confidentiality you can't answer.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
I get that, but.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
There were questions that were put to doctor O'Connor's way
that he could have answered. But yeah, if if Bernald
shows up yesterday answers a few and then you get
to the really serious stuff and he says the fifth
that it makes us stand out of that much more.
So just say the fifth to everything. Why not just
say okay, could have just taken a tape recording in
there himself punched about every time fifth, fifth of ben
(41:49):
It's pretty much what we got.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Your world happens here.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
But let me be clear and updated accordingly.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
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Speaker 3 (42:15):
It is eight forty and it is time, my friends,
for our final thoughts for a Thursday morning good morning.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Tell you let's see at home. Here a couple of
quick notes.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
State newspaper apparently got a hold of a document that
shows that well, it was weird at the time, but
you kind of had a hint as to what might
have gone down. Jim Crossman, who had been with the
City of Casey for some time and finally rose to
the top spot in what has been a ever evolving
door over there, became the city manager, but he didn't
(42:47):
stay long, less than a year. According to the documents
obtained by the newspaper, he left over frustrations with mayor.
Release parton who's long time been mayor over there?
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
The letter that cross And left for the city before
he left said, among other things, I feel like we
are operating under two councils. Council one is with the mayor,
and Council two is with the other members. Council one
doesn't communicate, collaborate, or cooperate with Council two. Okay, well,
it has been a revolving door. I'm not sure you
(43:25):
can pin it all on the mayor, but at least
the former city manager dead. Scary stuff here Over in Ridgeway,
the ADJC LARIS South Winds Assisted Living community shut down
after in order revealing at least nineteen violations of long
(43:45):
term care facility codes. Apparently, amongst other things, they had
locked residents inside. I realized that most of these facilities.
These My mother is in a long term care home
assistant living facility, and it's wonderful. These wonderful people couldn't
(44:09):
be in a better place. But man, some of these places, man,
you will find that. They'll go through every now and
then and list some of the violations of some of
these spots, and some are quite egregious. They ever find
yourself in a position, or if you are right now,
if you're already in that position, you know you got
to keep an eye out right. Never find yourself in
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that position. Be very careful when you make your choice.
Jamie Harrison, you know, I'm not even sure I can
remember now what it was Jamie Harrison did before he
ran for Lindsey Graham senen Seed and failed spectacularly. Well,
I guess the one thing that did get for him was, well,
(44:53):
somebody was convinced that the Dudel raise a bunch of money.
And he did remember one hundred and thirty million dollars
flushed down the toilet in that failed Senate attempt back
in twenty twenty against Lindsey Graham. One hundred and thirty
million dollars. Now, a lot of it had nothing to do
with Jamie Harrison and had everything to do with Lindsey Graham.
Right liberals wanted Graham out of office. He was a
(45:15):
friend of Trump, off and on friend of Trump. Uh
remember when Trump docksed Lindsay with his his cell phone
number back in a debate back.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
In Wow, that whole off and on again thing.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
But yeah, so yeah, Harrison raised one hundred and thirty
million dollars, threw it all down the toilet. But for
his troubles, the DNC said, hey, this guy can raise
some money, Let's bring him over here and let him
have this up. Well, that resulted in what twenty twenty
four went for the White House, the Senate and the Republicans.
The House for the Republicans. So now maybe they found
(45:54):
their version of Joe Rogan. Maybe, I don't know. Jamie
Harrison launching today a podcast at Our Table. Apparently amongst
the first episodes, you'll hear from the likes of Wes Moore,
the Governor Maryland, James Clyburn, Tim Wall speaking of failed candidates,
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the Minnesota governor, and speaking of fail yours, Hunter Biden.
I might have to listen just to listen to that
Hunter Biden interview. Okay, so Jamie Harrison is going to
try his hand in the podcast arena. Another record smashed
(46:42):
for buller enforcement. Nationwide illegal crossings in June plummeted to
the lowest level ever recorded in US history. In US history, now,
consider we've always had border crossings, but and for years
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we just didn't pay attention to it as general public.
We were concerned about it. But considering how many people
were crossing the border for example June of last year,
twenty seven, seven hundred and sixty six May of last year,
(47:28):
some sixty two thousand June six seventy two, and just
to again this is this is a record the lowest
monthly border crossing attempts in history. And considering where we
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just came from, how quickly this has happened is really unfathomable.
We're not just lowering it from what Biden was doing.
It's it's lower period from what anybody's ever done, including
the first four years of the Trump administration. Now DHS
is out saying the media has been misleading about who
is being arrested those who have gotten into this country
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under Biden's watch. New ICE arrest data from late June
showing that the FEDS ramped up arrests of those who
were considered other immigration violators. Okay, yeah, those with criminal backgrounds.
The deceptive non criminal categorization really is misleading, DHS says,
(48:38):
because this is what the Yeah, this is what the
media is trying to want. This is their narrative. Last
week you had Major Garrett CBS saying that there's a
growing number of those detained who are not criminals. They're
here illegally, which is a crime, he says, but they
don't have other felonies on their records. Well, again, on
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out of one side of his mouth, he says, they're
here illegally, which is a crime. On the other side,
I says, but they're not criminals. Well, which is it?
Which is what's false? It just happens, is what it is.
This I found this very interesting. An advocacy group CEO
for an advocacy group says that his organization turned down
(49:21):
an offer for what he said would have been worth
around twenty million dollars to help recruit for a national
rally against Trump. This goes back to well, what is
being referred to interesting left to day being July seventeenth,
the July seventeenth movement they'd approached this ceo for if
you were these things exist. Adam Stewart, the CEO and
(49:45):
founder of Crowds on Demand, in a News Nation interview,
said that, yeah, twenty million dollars just wasn't worth it. Today,
there's supposed to be some protest around the country put
on by some group called Good Trouble Lives On. They
(50:06):
call themselves peaceful and non violent protesters. But I guess
this guy wasn't necessarily convinced that would be the guest. Yes,
there are companies like this. You wonder where all these
people suddenly show up from. Yeah, there are companies like
Crowds on Demand. You can rent a protester. Man, how
(50:28):
do he has signed up to get that job?
Speaker 1 (50:29):
Anyway? Wow, Crowds on Demand.
Speaker 3 (50:33):
And Uh, if you're heading out to FLA, going down
to Florida looking forward to some time in the Uh
in the water, be very careful. Four people now have
died in Florida from flesh eating bacteria found in coastal waters.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (50:52):
Uh, so far a total of eleven have contracted this
bacteria so far this year. This is a specific bacterium
that lives typically in warm, brackish seawater. It can open
inner wounds when people are swimming.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:14):
So, if it's not the sharks, it's the flesh eating bacteria.
To keep your head of the water. Good luck,
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