Show Rewind 07-21-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jesus right. Hell yeah America and for Regius one nation.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
And this is wrong.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
And good morning, tell you, welcome into a Monday. It's
the twenty first day of the month of July, seventeen
minutes after six. Hope you on a terrific weekend. I
hope you stayed indoors as much as possible. And who
he did? Oh my goodness. And we got more of
that today, about ninety nine to one hundred for the
air temp heated next values one o nine maybe one

(00:51):
ten today. This blistering wave of heat continues for us
little break tomorrow though it looks like huh, low nineties
and a better chance of getting rain, so we'll we'll
welcome that. Huh. All right, good to have you with this.
I'm Gary David. Hey back in the fold, Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
And what's the first thing you do when you come
back from vacation at the house?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Cut the grass? Exactly? Oh you did not. So that's
what I did over the weekend. I am giving all
my neighbors I'm that guy in the neighborhood when I
go buy a house and a grass is really young, Kim, Like, dude, man,
get with the program here. Okay, I'm giving everybody a
free pass right now because I looked at my front
yard yesterday that went, oh well, I need to do
something about that. But you know what, Uh, I'm gonna

(01:33):
have to wait.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
I will say this, waiting until six six thirty at night.
That doesn't you any good, doesn't help.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
No, you got to be out there like an eight
thirty eight forty even, that doesn't help. Yeah. Yeah, well,
welcome back. Well, thank you. Good to be back. So
I have a great time we.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Did, relaxed and chilled and beautiful. Yeah, well for now,
at least by the time the show's hope, you'll be.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Right back to Yeah. I'm already right back too. Okay, Well,
let's let's get out the rundown, the big store. The
hot topics from Monday, July twenty one.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
My younger son's birthday today, twenty seven years old. Happy
birth What that's not young? No, no younger us?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, sheah right way young, So happy birthday. Unexpected surge
and electricity bills, that's the headline screaming at us this
morning from the posting Courier that because of the because
well yeah, but this time they're pinning it on the
one big Beautiful bill. Okay, now you got some of
these the who has this energy innovation policy and technology?

(02:35):
A study out that South Carolina would be tied with
mud with Kentucky for the second highest annual increase electricity
bills thanks to the one Big Beautiful Bill. Now we'll
tell you how they came to this and how much
they're talking about. It's a substantial sum. I can tell
you this, like more than fifty bucks a month if

(02:56):
this was to become true. But this is all hinging
on and wind power and the credits that would rolled
back at the big Beautiful bill over this. Now, I
guess this just assumes that we don't have any other
way of generating electricity. But we'll jump into that this morning.
If what they say is true, we got a route
awakening coming our way. Certainly Democrats continue to make their
way through the state. I guess to kiss the ring

(03:17):
of James Clyburn. I suppose ROCNNA, the latest to come
into town. For a day or so, he held a
benefits over billionaires. That's his tour benefits over billionaires. He
was in Nancy Mace's district back Saturday. Didn't really go well,
doesn't sound like most of the questioning from the people

(03:39):
that were there were what is your party? What is
the Democratic Party? What are you doing for us? What's
your plan? Where are you heading? Maybe quite what they
thought it was going to be. Potential tragedy averted, although
it was not in the air, it was on the ground.
But two planes colliding at Charleston International Airport the other day.
Thankfully no one was hurt. They're attracting another one. The

(04:02):
last one didn't turn out to be much of anything
to it now, but another potential development of a tropical
system in the Atlantic, about a twenty percent chance over
the next two to seven days, they say, So hopefully
this one will do the last one did and not
become much. But we'll keep an eye on him all
right up in DC. This one is garnering a lot

(04:24):
of attention and elsewhere too across the country, needless to say.
When Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents on Friday, they show reports
alleging the Obama administration and officials in the Obama White
House manipulated intelligence related to these Russian interference claims in
the twenty sixteen election. Wow, Okay, well we'll talk a

(04:48):
bit about this this morning. For sure. Gabbard in a
statement saying that former officials engaged in what she called treason,
this conspiracy. So her office was sending evidence to the
Justice Department for potential criminal referrals. Okay, and just couldn't

(05:09):
involve people like James Clapper, the former d and I,
John Brennan, the former CIA director, and yeah, James Comy,
the former FBI director. So this plot thickens here.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Big news to reports, especially when there's the Epstein reports
still hanging over the heads.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Of her going right that suddenly this comes out.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
It kind of moves that off the front page a
little bit, doesn't it by design?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Potentially Potentially what's not getting a lot of attention is well,
the House Oversight Committee continuing to bring in former Biden
officials to question them over you know, who was running
the White House, who was calling the shots? And again
for the third time, a Biden aid taking the fifth
They will not answer any questions at all. So, like

(05:56):
I talked about last week, Yeah, Court of law in
the halls of Congress. That's fine. You can say that,
you can plead the fifth all day long in the
court of a public opinion. Though, as they keep trotting
in these former aids and officials, and they keep all
refusing to answer any questions, not even the most you know,
the easiest ones that don't really harm anybody, What are

(06:18):
you to believe? What are you to believe? The Justice
Department did on Friday formerly petition a Manhattan federal judge
to unseal grand jury testimony from the Epstein prosecution. We
mentioned that end of last week that was coming. Well,
they did file that request. Now this is from the
grand jury and grand jury testimony. This is not from

(06:41):
the actual trial. So I'm not sure that that will
amount to a hill of beans. Hollywood and Democrats still
in an uproar over CBS canceling Stephen Colbert's long running
late night talk show. Okay, of course, their assertation is
that the you know, Trump has a strong arm CBS

(07:02):
into canceling the show. The network says it was just
losing money and an unlikely ally for the White House
on this one, and that's none other thing. Well, Keith
Olberman who says, no, he wasn't fire for political reasons.
If he was, they'd be yanking mafi Air right now,
not letting him stay on until next May. Good point,

(07:24):
even Colbert says, or whether Olberman says, it's it's all
about the money. Good news out of Texas. Where now
the list of individuals still missing from that flooding back
on July fourth?

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Is?

Speaker 1 (07:38):
I guess it was the third? Wasn't it down to? Well?
Just three? Still a lot of people deathhold one hundred
and seven in Kerr County of those thirty seven children,
but just three now listed officially, is still missing, and
the party continues to lurch way to the left. Will
tell you the latest about the Democrat Party, this time

(07:59):
in Minneapolis. And yeah, the way too early odds are
already in from one of these betting markets. So the
betting website Polymarket announcing their new polymarket focus on the
twenty twenty eighth presidential election. We'll tell you who this
betting market says has a leg up in this way

(08:20):
too early poll. All right, that more coming your way
here on this. It is the back added Monday edition
of Columbia's Morning News, and it is as always Good
to have you.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Here anywhere anytime, take your infot to go.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I listened to you on iHeartRadio.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Powered by one on three point five FM and five
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Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one on three point
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Speaker 1 (08:54):
It US six forty one. Good morning, good to have you.
On Monday morning, July twenty one. I am Gary David.
Christopher Thompson. He is back. That's him right over there. Yes, sir, sir,
good morning. Have you Have you lost the relaxed vacation
feeling already? Well if I hadn't, I lost it the
minute I came in this morning. Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay.

(09:18):
Well we're going to get to this betting website and
they're way too early poll on the twenty twenty eight
presidential election. Here in a second, but first up an
update on a story and a name that, well, let's
face it, nobody had on their bingo card a week ago,
and it turned out to be one of the week's
biggest stories, at least on social media, because every time

(09:40):
I open up a feed, this is all I see.
Apparently it must be that big the uh the Coldplay
kiss cams. Oh gosh, yeah, man.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Oh man, I got in touch with that one even
on vacation.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Right wow. Andy Byron has resigned as CEO of the
startup tech company Astronomer. What did they do? By the way, I.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
You know, okay, yeah, I don't know, you know, I
guess that doesn't matter. They made the news for all
the wrong reason.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Not anymore so he well, at least his official status
is married for now at least so you know, hugging
on is chief human Resource resources officer who apparently has divorced.
But what that just took over everything last week for

(10:35):
a while, isn't it. And it was such a stupid story.
It was such a stupid reaction. I mean, you looked
a lot guiltier by what you did after you got
caught than you did when you got caught. Would have
been better off, I guess in hindsight, just to just to.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Go with it, right, Yeah, and just like nobody even
knows that like a friendly ceo.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah wow, moron. Morgan Waller and by the way, country
music star did a show and assured patrons that they
were if they were cheating couples in the crowd, they'd
be safe. He wasn't going to roll out of any
kind of a kiss cam thing. Dude, I don't know,
you know, I mean, you see those at sporting events.

(11:17):
I've never seen one of a concert before, but you know,
you would think you would when you think that if
if you knew they were doing that, they were spotlighting
couples like that, that well you probably don't want to
be standing there with your arm, you know, wrapped around her. Anyway,
he's resigned. Have a wonderful life there, Andy. Okay, So

(11:40):
Polymarket one of these betting websites, and these have become
you know, I have no idea. I'd have to look
back and see how accurate these betting website polls are
when it comes to politics. But this has been very
popular the last couple of years, and some say, hey,
you know what, these are people putting their money where
their mouth is, so it's it may well be more

(12:01):
accurate than the you know, the traditional polling websites, which
is we know recently have not been accurate at all.
But Polymarket announcing a new poly Market focused on the
twenty twenty eight presidential election. They have posted this to
x on Friday. So well, let's see who's got the

(12:22):
leg up? Looks like JD Vance. This is not just
you know, Republican and this is everything. It's not. They
didn't do one for Republican Party, one for the Democrat
Party just did overall. Who's got the leg up? Right now?
In twenty twenty eight, JD Vance at twenty seven percent
when no again when not selecting for party. Okay, number

(12:44):
two according to Polly Market, Gavin Newsom at seventeen. And
you may be saying, really, Gavin at seventeen? Huh, Well
maybe it's because look who else the Democrats have up
here third place of ten percent, Comrade Alexandria Ocasio Cortes,

(13:06):
fourth place, Pete Boudhage Edge.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Kamala Harris is on the list too, She places number
nine at four percent. Interestingly enough, Kamala at four percent
is actually trailing just behind Donald Trump, who's ineligible to run,

(13:34):
but he's hiring his poll than Kamala Harris. Uh. Okay, Now,
if you look at just Democrats, Newsom's got a twenty
two percent chance aoc and eighteen percent chance Buddha Jedge twelve,

(13:57):
Josh Sapiro seven Kamala Harris six If nothing else is
so much, should just tell Kamala you know your time
is up. Okay, aout, have a wonderful rest of your life,
don't try to get well. Pretty bad. Vance on the
Republican side fifty six percent. The only other name that

(14:19):
shows up on the Republican side in this particular poll
is Marco Rubio at six percent.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
That was the name I was going to throw out
there in addition to Vance. I mean, there's there's your
two high profile guys, young guys from this administration. Yeah, yeah,
so yeah. And for Kamala Harris, it's just, I mean,
you've been tagged with loser now and nobody wants to
go back to.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
That, right, right, Nobody loves a loser.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
It's not that you're not a high profile name. It's
just that you've been tagged now and you can't erase
that now. AOC hasn't gotten that tag yet, Gavin Newsom
hasn't gotten that tag yet. They're shiny and new, but
they're still losers. Well in your opinion, In my opinion, yes,
in my opinion. Name It didn't pop up here. I

(15:08):
thought it interesting and top of mind here because he
was in the state last week.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Is is Andy Basher, the Kentucky governor Democrat who well yeah,
well maybe nationally doesn't have the name recognition. See here's
what you got here. You got named recognition, right, Gavin Newsom,
aoc Pete boot Edge, Edge, Kamala Harris. Yet name recognition.
There you go, and that's pretty much it. So yeah,

(15:32):
these these polls that come on, it's it's July have
twenty twenty five, right, We're not even close to the
midterms yet for crying out loud, but it's always fun.
I guess to take a look ahead and just you know,
make your guesses. And this I was gonna say this
will change a lot between now and then, but you
know what, it might not. It just certainly on the
Republican side, I don't think it will. No Democrats side

(15:56):
got a chance. But this this we may we may
be turned around here in a couple of years, and
this may be the betting order at least, these may
be the names that everybody's talking about. Still, we'll see.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
You're listening to Columbia's morning news on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
The effect of what President Obama and his senior national
security team did was subvert the will of the American people,
undermining our democratic republic and enacting what would be essentially
a year's long coup against President Trump.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
It is seven sixteen, Good morning, Tulci Gabber, Director of
National Intelligence, commenting on the declassified documents that were released
on Friday, claiming to show overwhelming evidence. As she mentioned,
it wasn't just staffers, it was Barack Obama himself laid

(17:03):
the groundwork for the year's long Trump Russian collusion probe
after that election went in twenty sixteen by President Donald Trump. Now,
remember we've been hearing for weeks about Comy, about Clapper,

(17:23):
about Brendan. They're a part of this. That actually the
talk about them, and this kind of predates the whole
Epstein thing. Which this is a convenient distraction from absolutely
as mister Thompson, so it's totally pointed out. It moves
the Epstein story off the front page in a major way.

(17:44):
So it is convenient, but it is also important.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Too, right, no doubt, no doubt it just it would
have a lot more merit and carry a lot more
weight if it were not suspect for the timing.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
You wonder sometimes if the folks in charge, they don't
just kind of, you know, build up a kind of
a you know, a group of things over here that
you know, kind of like a fire alarm, right, you know,
use the emergency purposes only.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Let's throw this out there. Okay, so we need to
get something out there. We got this, Let's go with
it now, because this is the sort of thing that
could could come out really at any time. But now
is the you know, for the Trump administration is a
very communion trying to put it out.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
But what is it showing us? Is it showing us
that the party who kept screaming all the way up
until this last election that democracy is in peril? Are
they the party that put democracy in peril? Now? This
is one of these stories that you have to you know,

(18:53):
suspend political ideology for for a couple of minutes. And
I have to be honest. I mean, it's as hard
when it's you know, your guy, your gal at the
center of this. But quite honestly, it shouldn't really matter
Republican or Democrat or anything else. If if what we're
seeing these documents, more than one hundred of them at

(19:14):
leased on Friday, shows in fact, that the Democrat Party
was trying to pull on the Obama administration, including Barack
Obama himself, trying to pull a slick on the American people.
We should all be concerned about it. So these documents

(19:36):
dumped on Friday. Again, I do question the I questioned
the timing of when they were dumped. You don't do
this on Friday. You do this on a Monday. Here
a Tuesday, or a Wednesday, given a Thursday. But they couldn't.
They didn't want to wait. They didn't want people stewing
over the Epstein story all weekend. Over the weekend, Yeah,
give them something new. So what they detail, and they

(19:59):
do show evidence of how a conspiracy with Gabbard says
a treason a treasonous conspiracy. She says was directed by
President Obama in the final few weeks he was in
office before he left. This was again after the election,
before the inauguration of Trump. Gabart herself saying this is

(20:23):
not a Democrat or Republican nation, remember she was a Democrat,
but that this is an issue so serious it should
concern every single American because it has to do with
the integrity of our democratic republic. So the claim was
by these documents that prior to the twenty sixteen election,

(20:45):
there was no evidence at all showing that Russia tried
to directly alter vote counts. But remember we had intelligence
community members later on suggests that Putin wanted to help
Trump win. Gabbard's argument here is that the shift of

(21:06):
the narrative was politically motivated, not based on any new
findings at all. She says, so the effect of what
President again, she's not just saying in Stafford's She's saying
President Obama and his senior national security team did was
to subvert the wealthy American people. So the evidence that

(21:28):
her office has released have implications for James Clapper, then
d and I, John Brennan, then CIA director, James Comey,
then FBI director, Susan Rice, former National Security advisor, and others. Again,

(21:51):
who knows what comes out of this Again, you go
back and relitigate. This is now something that's more than
eight years ago, right right, And so yeah, it's it's
I understand it if you say, well, you know, I mean,
what's it going to change now? Hey? You Trump won?
He served us four years. Okay he did when the

(22:12):
last time, you know, in twenty twenty, but he won
this time. Why does it matter? It's kind of like
this whole Joe Biden's story floating around right now. And
was he really in charge of the last year or
so he was in office or was somebody else? Does
this change anything if we ever get to the bottom
of that. Apparently it won't, because everyda that comes in
just please the fifth. Does it really change anything? Well, no,

(22:34):
it doesn't. But these are issues of grave concern to
each and every American.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
It also shows how the mainstream media is walking in
lockstep with the Democrats when they offer a story without
checking it out. Oh sure, Joe Biden is mentally on
top of his game. Okay, let's report that o'biden was
flying through debate. Prep okay, let's report that. Yeah, and

(23:04):
same with this story. When did anybody ever bother to
second check any of these stories?

Speaker 1 (23:10):
They didn't nobody did. You're you're absolutely right. It's as
if somebody in the White House is just writing the
stories for them, and yeah, here's your story. Just go
ahead and feel free to.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Print it like it like, okay, we will it's more
like a press release than a news story.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Right. Oh yes, the so called you know, fourth of
State that's supposed to be keeping an eye on government
only keeps an eye on government when it's Republicans in charge.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
Is Jake Tapper going to write a tell all book
about this, about the Russia Russia Russian story?

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Why not Jake make some more money here, Bob, jump
on this one. You are part of it. You should
know it in and out. Yeah, this is what's going
on the mainstream media. Just they just they take it
hook line and secret every stink in time. They're still
doing it to this very day, to this very day.
They haven't learned. When Trump won in twenty sixteen, and

(24:07):
these big national newspapers, Oh wow, why did we get
it so wrong? Remember, they sent reporters out into the
great wastelands of America to talk to you, just people
way beneath their stature, to find out why are you
so enamored with this guy? We've got to learn. They
didn't learn. They don't care. Well, Okay, we'll see what
comes out of this. It's not going to change anything. No,

(24:31):
and two things can be true. We can be concerned
about this story, and we can still want more from
the Epstein investigation. It's all about the tea word, okay,
in all these stories, right and everything around the government.
It's all about transparency, transparency, and that's what Donald Trump
ran on. And whether it's transparency. Was Trump and Epstein?

(24:53):
We know that the two knew each other, but was
it more than that? Transparency about Joe Biden and his
last year's office, Transparency about the Russian hoax. That's all
we want, keeping you informed. Dad's up to date now.
Now more than.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Ever, I like knowing what's happening in the world. What
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Speaker 1 (25:27):
Now the clock's reached seven forty one here on the
Monday morning. Let's get up and get out of here.
We got things to get done, do we not. Yes,
we've been doing it for a while now around here.
Thanks for joining us. For appreciate if you're just tuning in,
we're talking in the last half hour about this bombshell
that Tulca Gabbert dropped on Friday, These these documents that
the ledgehay a conspiracy amongst not just Obama officials, but

(25:49):
Barack Obama himself in you know, conjuring up the whole
Russia collusion hoax. And how these documents, she says, impigrate
the whole the whole lot of them. We'll see where
this goes again. We talked about how, you know, people
could question, well, you know, why does that matter? Now, Well,

(26:11):
it matters because these are the sorts of things that
democracies don't do. Democratic republicans do not do that sort
of thing, So yes, it matters. Transparency. We mentioned at
the end of the segment was was what we deserve
as the American public, and we mentioned there's a couple
of the cases that deserve transparency. Joke of course, one

(26:33):
that got talked about a lot last week, we'll get
talked about a little less this week because of that
story that we just referred to, and that was, of course,
the whole Epstein thing. Well, the latest there on Fridays
we mentioned last week they were going to do this.
The DJ formally did petition a Manhattan federal judge on
Friday to unseal grand jury testimony from the Epstein prosecution.

(26:58):
Now this is not the trial testimony, okay, but the
grand jury testimony. And there certainly, I'm sure were things
brought up by the trial that may not have been
brought up during the grand jury when they indicted to Epstein.
But this is a step towards some transparencies here trump writing.

(27:22):
Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein,
I have asked Pam Bonnie to produce any and all
pertinent grand jury information testimony rather subject to court approval.
So that happened on Friday. Also on Friday, we had
another former Joe Biden aid, a former assistant show up

(27:48):
to talk to the House Oversight Committee about Biden's mental decline.
This was Annie thomas Cini, former assistant to the former president.
And it's a pattern, now, isn't it. Thomasini becomes the third,
uh former member of the Biden inner circle to not

(28:10):
answer a single question pleading the fifth on everything she
took the fifth would ask if Biden, a member of
his family, or anyone at the White House instructed her
to lie regarding his health at any time she took

(28:30):
the fifth. This is the same thing that Kevin O'Connor,
the former White House physician did. This is the same
thing that Anthony Bernall, the so called house husband or
husband rather, I should say, of the first lady Joe Biden.
He wouldn't answer any questions. You know. The only only

(28:54):
one of those three that that really had a good
reason was any questions to the physician that would have
been covered by you know, uh, doctor patient confidentiality. Okay,
that I get.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
And as we've said before, we don't we don't care
about Joe Biden's status at this point. We want to
know who was running the show behind.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Him, right, That's the whole question here.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
Nobody wants any insider info on Joe Biden's health. We
I think we have a pretty good idea of what
it was at that point, we saw it at the debate.
We want to know at this point, if Joe Biden
wasn't mentally up to running the office, who was.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
And now you've got Democrats are all upset because Biden
responded last week in that New York Times interview about
the pardons in the auto pen. And now they were
going to say, just shut up again, go away, Joe,
You're just keep bringing this back up again. We don't
We don't need you to keep bringing this back up again.
Don't say anything. Well again, taking the fifth is fine

(30:04):
and dandy. It's our constitutional right to do, even in
front of a congressional committee. But the court of public
opinion knows no bounds. Right. And when Kevin O'Connor the
physician showed up and all he did was plead the
fifth over and over and over again, the court of
public opinion win. Hmmm. When Anthony Bernall showed up last

(30:29):
week and pleaded the fifth and in testimony that Kevin,
the brother of James Comer expected the last eight hours,
it kind of got to the point where, well, even
I think Bernald's attorney said, you can keep asking questions
if you want to. But I was going to say,
is I take the fifth? Okay? And now Andy thomasin
he shows up and does the same thing on Friday.

(30:53):
They won't answer a single question. So yeah, in the
court of public opinion, the administration is guilty, is charged.
And I think that Comber knows this, and I think
he's gonna well, heck, he said it last week after
Bernall refused to answer any questions, he said this could

(31:15):
lead This just may lead to us subpoenaing the former
First Lady to come in and talk to us, and
I do believe he'll do it, probably ask if she'll
come in voluntarily, she'll say, no, issue a subpoena, and
they'll they'll try to fight that left and right. Of course.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Would she be subpoena as Joe Biden's wife or the
First Lady? Well, that's a good question, because I would
think she would have some privilege there as his wife.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
It would have to be as the First Lady, I
would think. But if she were to show up, she'll
do the same thing these other three have done, and
she'll just take the fifth over and over and over again.
But it doesn't matter, and Comber knows that because it's
all now about the optics, isn't it Imagine the optics?
Who having the former First Lady testify in front of
Congress about her husband's mental acuity at his final days

(32:11):
and who was running the White House and she takes
the fifth over and over and over again. Case closed
in the court of public opinion. Do you think going
back to the Epstein story, Yes? Do you think we'll
get anything else on that?

Speaker 2 (32:25):
No?

Speaker 1 (32:25):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Does that bother you in any way that that Donald
Trump has said I'm going to give you all the
jfk assassination files, I'm going to give you everything on UFOs.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
I'm going to give you everything. And we haven't gotten
any of that. Yeah, it draws a lot of the
MAGA crowd because this is part of what Trump didn't
really run on this. It was just you know, Trump
doing Trump stuff. You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna release
this and release that. He wasn't elected for that express purpose.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
True, I get it, but you know, you just you
just you can't push something into the spotlight and didn't
wish it wish it away.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
At in cases is a perfect example. You know, again,
up until February, nobody was talking about this, right nobody.
It was already a done deal. That's in the past.
We've moved on. But it was the you know, the
Trump administration was Pam Bondy who brought it back to
the forefront again inexplicably. But I'll say this, and I

(33:22):
think we're already starting to see this. They're playing the
long game, right. We'll just throw a little bit of this,
little bit of that out sooner or later other things
come along, like the again the story about Barack Obama
and his inner circle and the Russian collusion had hoax,
and other stories will come along. That'll be you know, big,
and we'll move on. That's that's that's the that's the

(33:46):
game plan, I'm sure. And in all of it, what
do we as American people again? What do we want
and what are we not getting? Transparency in government?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
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 Thompsoney.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
It's good to have you with us at eight point
fifteen on a Monday morning. It's July twenty first, and
it's good to have Christopher Thompson back in the fold.
I appreciate that. Thank you. Good to be back right now.
You know, I don't think i'd talked much about electricity
last week all year rounds. That's something, Grant, we've been
talking about a lot as of late, and for very
good reason, uh.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
For starters that then keep spinning faster and faster as
our air conditioners work overtime this summer.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Oh my goodness, man, is it just me or has
this been a more brutal summer than we usually get.
I don't know what the numbers show, but it just
seems that way. Goodness, sex it feels. I mean, it
is hot and humid even as we speak. So imagine
if we didn't do anything in this state okay, okay

(34:57):
to try to generate more electricity, and you know, we
found ourselves in a situation where all these big data
centers and such are sucking all this stuff up. Plus
we're getting new people moving into these states. Oh yeah,
like crazy, man, like crazy. What was the uh yeah,
I talked about it last week. I'm trying to remember

(35:17):
the rover. But we were like we had three cities
of Myrtle Beach, Greenville, and Charleston I think it was,
that were like on the top of the list of
all the cities in the country with people who wanted
to go there versus people who wanted to leave there. Okay,
three cities that were like top ten nationwide. We had

(35:43):
become a very popular place. So between that and yeah,
the data centers and on all this stuff, I mean,
the energy man is at above people. So it's just
gonna get worse. So you know, thankfully those at the
State House are trying to figure this out. You know,
as much as scoffed at the idea of trying to
find somebody to come in and take over the VC
Summer Nuclear plant expansion, we found out those really wishing

(36:08):
they would, right, sure, that would be the best of
both worlds. No public money, no potential public you know,
rate payers sucking up a cost. If it didn't work,
it'll be all just on some private entity. But good
luck finding that. So now we get this report, a

(36:28):
study by an outfit called Energy Innovation, Policy and Technology.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
That sounds just right off the bat, like somebody with
the political ax to grind.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
It sounds like maybe one of these groups at the
Biden administration their final days, funneled millions and millions and
millions of dollars into right you know, So take this
with a grain of salt. But you'll understand why here
in just a second. If the name doesn't imply that, well,
they're reasoning why we may see our electric bills here

(36:59):
in this state go up dramatically in the coming decade,
they claims, due to provisions and the big beautiful bill. Okay,
now we know there's a slant to this thing, but
it's worth discussing anyway. There's only one state they have
found that's projected to see a bigger hike at household

(37:20):
electric bills than South Carolina. They claim because of the
big beautiful bill. Now why be the big beautiful bill? Well,
it's because of provisions that are acting deductions and such
for things like you know, solar wind farms. You know,

(37:40):
these these grants, all the money, the kickbacks they have
been getting, those go away with a big beautiful bill.
The federal financial incentives incentives that is are dried up
now as a result of that, and so that is
supposed to bring higher electric grace to all of us.
But here in South Carolina, the only state that could

(38:01):
see an annual power build higher than ours is Missouri.
We're tied at number two with Kentucky. To the tune
of this report anticipates an additional fifty two dollars and
fifty cents per month. Okay, that would get your attention.

(38:25):
That's a substantial increase. But is it real. I'm just guessing.
I mean, this has got to depend totally on no
more power generation being built. Spokesperson Valinji Graham's office suggesting

(38:53):
just that that this group is not neutral because well,
what does this group do? They support what renewable energy? Yeah,
not energies powered by fossil fuel, So they're not even
looking at that. Do they even know that we're building
a new plant down in Cannedis Are they aware of that?
A plant which, you know, if the Biden era regulations

(39:15):
were to stick when it opened, would only be able
to generate about fifty percent of its capacity because of
the Biden era regulations on emissions, which would have been
one of two things. Either you've got to install some
sort of equipment that these operators have said is just

(39:36):
the cost is too extreme to even think about doing.
Or you've got to scale back your output and yeah,
it'd be about fifty it would run about half capacity,
which is ludicrous. Can you imagine a scenario where a state,
like any state but South Carolina, desperate for energy production,
opens a new plant and the federal government would told them, yeah,

(40:02):
we know you need the energy, but guess what, too
many emissions. You can only produce half of the amount
you're capable of. It's ludicrous, it's insane. But that was
the Biden rules. And if Kamala Harris had won the election,
those would be the Kamala Harris rules, and if a
Democrat wins in twenty twenty eight, those rules might well

(40:22):
be back in place. So yeah, this outfit is all
about solar, it's all about wind powered, it's all about
renewable energy. I don't have a problem with renewable energy.
If we could ever get to the day where it
was reliable and we could count on it would supply

(40:43):
all our needs, then great. But it's just like evs.
You know, we ain't there yet, and we ain't never
be there. I don't know, but we ain't there right now.
In the meantime, I mean, you gotta take care of
what you gotta take care of. So yeah, in the
extreme situation here, this assumes that we don't do anything

(41:06):
fossil fuel related, which they are all, well, we can't
do that. Okay, maybe we'd see this in about ten years,
we paid fifty bucks more a month for electricity. Well,
there's apparently some other group, the Kleinman Center for Energy
Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, who looked at eight
different analyzes and the impact of removing these federal supports

(41:28):
for renewables, and this so called nonpartisan group, at least
according to a Nancy Mace's a communications director, is doing
nothing more than running political pr for DC's green energy schemes,
not serious analysis. So this seems to be kind of

(41:51):
what we're looking at here, thankfully, here in South Carolina,
our leaders are looking at well, a future with more,
not less. When it comes to fossil fuels.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
You find you find a better, more profitable way to
create power. South Carolina is all in.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
But if you throw out these tax breaks and and
all these you know, schemes that were designed to put
renewable energy way ahead of anything else we're thinking about
developing right now, it's a different story.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Absolutely, you cannot put the cart in front of the
horse on this one. As much as you might want to,
you just can't do it.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
And the other the other thing, obviously is these huge
data centers. They've got to pay more than their freight.
I mean, they've they've got to carry their load. If
they're going to drain us of energy and drain us
of water, you know, they've got to They've got to
kick something back.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Do what Microsoft is doing, Go restart three mile Alan
much I'm sure of the consternation of the people who
live in that area, hopefully especially folks from my age
who remember that, but but still.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Keeping you connected. I check in throughout the day twenty
four to seven.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
I just like being informed. Know what's happening one.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
On three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC.
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one on three point five FM and five
sixty am w VOC.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
And our final thoughts now for Monday, July twenty first
at day forty three in the morning, Let's start here
at home where the parade of Democrats continues to come
through our state. Anybody know ro Conna was in our state? Well,
of course the last couple of days. Not a FLI
Democrat colon. Yes, he's out too in the country, as
all the Democrats who have any designs on twenty twenty

(43:44):
eight are. Which does he have a unique catchy name?
First tour his tour the Benefits over Billionaires Tour. Ah. Yes,
and he showed up back Saturday in Charleston, Nancy Mason's district.

(44:04):
But apparently, according to the posting courier, right of this
this kind of kind of turned his idea was the right,
of course, against Trump's agenda. But all he got asked
over and over again is okay, well, what's our plan.
You know, Democrats in the House were well, what are
you going to do? What are we going to do?
What's the plan? Basically is the paper put it a

(44:28):
two hour public reckoning over the state of the Democratic Party.
What's the plan and who's leading us? Right? Okay? So
in other words, there's wrote Roe Connor was in our state.
I don't know if he was. Did he did he
kiss the James Clyburn ring or not? I'm not sure?

(44:49):
Yeah he did, yeah, yeah, yeah, he did have a
at least an event plan with Clyburn. Okay, all right,
just see the story. This was in the state paper
a couple of days ago online about a Columbia rapper
who just got a nine year sentence in federal lockup

(45:11):
leading a fraud ring that apparently exploited hundreds of thousands
of dollars from banks. They had, you know, some kind
of a complicated scheme how they were doing this, a
fraud ring named Swipers only with a Z. Of course,
swipers Only. I only mentioned it because, you know, while
they're doing this, they were courted prosecutors regularly boasting about

(45:34):
their crimes, posting pictures and videos on social media, fat
stacks of cash, lavish jewelry and firearms, and even a
series of music videos citing the scheme and advertising it
to others. I mean, what is that.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
That's how it's done. That's how you get your social
media cred. I mean, look, look at the guys who
are breaking the law by bringing illegal cell phones into
p and then what's the first thing did they do
with that cell phone?

Speaker 1 (46:02):
They make a video? I make a video. Yeah, Hey
I'm here, I got an legal cell phone. Okay, Okay.
If I was a bad guy, I don't think i'd
be advertising it. But hey, you know what do I know.
I'm an old guy, man, I'm not hipped to the
ways of the day. Yeah, I'd be a lot more
low profile than some of these. I'm thinking. The good

(46:25):
news out of Texas is now the authorities say only
three individuals are still missing in Kirk County. Of course,
the tragic news is wow, just in Kirk County alone,
the death toll one hundred and seven thirty seven of
them children, all told. In Texas, at least one hundred
and thirty five were killed those floodwaters came through there

(46:46):
a couple of weeks ago. Initially there were some one
hundred and sixty unaccounted for just in Kirk County. Now
they've got that number down to just three, thankfully. Uh
More Blue states slashing medicaid for illegal immigrants ap reporting California, Illinois,
and Minnesota have all now, so they'll be scaling back

(47:07):
or even ending medicaid programs for illegal aliens. You know,
at some point, you know, no matter how woke you
want to be, you got to wake up to the
reality of situation here, and you can't provide for your
own citizens. You're providing free stuff to people here illegally.
At some point in time, you got to change your ways.

(47:30):
Illinois will begin slashing its medicaid availability for illegals. Minnesota likewise,
ending a program immediately for adult illegal immigrants, the Minnesota
House speaker saying that the healthcare program was not sustainable
in her state. They didn't have any choice. Sooner only

(47:54):
you get to that point, okay, if you woke, you
got to wake up. Speaking of Minnesota taking a page
out of New York City, the Democrat Party of Minneapolis
has endorsed a Democrat socialist over a two term incumbent

(48:14):
mayor to leave that city. Omar Fatah. I don't know
if you followed this guy or not. He almost almost
makes zorin Mondami look like a Democrat. I mean, this
guy is way out there and the Democrat party there

(48:36):
in Minneapolis has just endorsed him over the incumbent Democrat.
More main there's no such thing as a mainstream Democrat
in Minnesota. Okay, it doesn't exist. But if you get
any more extreme than Mondami in New York, you might well.
This is probably the guy.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
Just making more and more mainstream Democrats around the country
comfortable because they'll eventually have to help out.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Oh yeah, exactly. We had over the weekend Adam Smith,
a Democrat from the state of Washington, not exactly even
a mainstream Democrat state there, say that Mondamie is not
speaking for our party.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
Okay, finally the first Democrat to be honest. Yeah, he's
not speaking for our party and not dodge the question right,
thank you. Lindsey Snyder is the president of you know,
one of the more famous California exports in and out,

(49:40):
the burger chain.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Sure. She has announced that she and her family are
moving out of California, moving to Tennessee, saying that California,
raising a family here is not easy, Doing business here
is not easy. Wow. And Trump weighing in yesterday saying

(50:04):
he wants the Washington Commanders to go back to being
the Washington Redskins and the process threatened to kill off
the RFK stadium deal if they didn't do so.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Okay, okay, I want Trump to keep being president and
not worrying about stories that don't matter. They might matter
to the people of that area, but does anybody really
I mean, this whole Commander's idea. I mean, oh, it's
never stuck. It never will, Yeah, never will. But Trump's
got bigger things on the side I would rather see.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Yeah, exactly