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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jesus fly. Hell yeah, same America for formation from.
Speaker 2 (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 3 (00:29):
Lood Morning and welcome. It's Thursday, July twenty fourth, sixteen
after six back at at Columbia's Morning News, back on
the radio. Good to have you along. I'm Gary, he
is Christopher.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I am hot. Oh you ain't seen nothing yet, That's
what I'm hearing, right.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I mean, come on, we're like you know, it was
it was actually not half bad. Yesterday it was okay,
it was. It wasn't great, yeah, but it wasn't good.
But uh and today kind of more of the same.
Not ninety three. They'll mention of a heat inext today, but.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Then we get another one of these heat domes.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yes we do, uh, upper nineties tomorrow, heating next about
one hundred and four. But that ain't that ain't nothing yet.
We hit the weekend and we're talking air temperatures here
one hundred and one Saturday, one and three, Sunday and
Monday one oh two, Tuesday and Wednesday, and those are
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the air temperatures. Yeah, and by the way that had
to be the bear of more bad tidings here. No, boy,
the old Farmer's Almanac is telling us we're gonna have
a warm fall too. We got a ways to go
in all this. Yeah, and I'm, you know, head on
(01:50):
a vacation next week, and I'm we're talking about doing
a bunch of yard work Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Gotta do yard work for you to go, right, you
want to come back to a jungle. I don't know, man,
You'll still have to do it. But when you get back, well, it's.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Still gonna have to. Yeah, but I don't know, man,
one hundred and three degrees on Saturday. I might start
at four am. Maybe that's an option. Turn on the floodlights.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
If I'm your neighbor and hear the leaf blower going
at four am, I might not be too happy. Well,
And I see, I made the smart move a couple
of years ago. I know some people say, oh, come on, man,
but I bought a battery operated lawnmower and it's very quiet.
So now I could cut my grass at for him
and not disturbing it. Now I can't turn on the blower. No,
you're right, I don't know. I might have to consider that.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
All right, So make your plans accordingly, because here comes
the hottest temperatures we've seen so far this summer, and
it's been a hot summer. We have more of a
con Okay, rundown, big stories, hot topics for this Thursday morning.
They have confirmed DPH has confirmed in fact the individual
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who again because they were being treated at Children's hospital,
you know, it was a child, was exposed to that
brain eating amba at Lake Murray. Initially they weren't. The
story yesterday was it was presumed to be a Lake Murray,
but DPH has confirmed that yes, it was in fact
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at Lake Murray. Now, despite that, they tell us there's
no elevated risk of it happening to anybody else. This
is a very rare thing. You're a handful of episodes
and a dozen years or so in our state, not
even that, and what about forty across the country in
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some twelve years, So it's very very rare. So yeah,
the concerns of people going to freak out and I
want to go out to the lake and all that, well,
they say that's unfounded. There are no elevated risks there,
but there are concerns over lack of testing, and again,
this is something that's not tested. The state Department of
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Environmental Science says they don't test for it because there
are no federal or state recreational water standards for it.
I guess this is one of those things to that
because it is so rare. There are other, you know,
things out there that could harm you that are are
better spent time and money and man and woman power doing.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I suppose, I guess. I'm not even sure. I you know,
we were critical of them for not pinning it down
to Lake Murray the other day. Now that I've read
more about it, I'm not sure how you know it
was Lake Murray. I mean this, if this could be
anywhere in any warm body of water, unless you can
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confirm that this particular individual, you know, that was the
only water they were submerged in. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
it's the only way you could do it. I'm guessing
that's how that came down.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You heard Thomas mentioned this one point seven million dollars
worth of drugs at a record setting bust here in
our state, one hundred and fifty six pounds of fentanyl. Yeah,
I'm so. I'm just shocked every time I hear one
of these stories because they tell you what, what's such
a small tiny amount can kill? You think it can
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kill a bunch of us, a bunch of us. And
you got somebody you know, right around with one hundred
and fifty six pounds of this in a vehicle. How
does that work?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The thing that stuns me is that that people are
aggressively going after this drug to get high, right because
it's you know, it's the big thing.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, you know, and the sign of the times, you
know the story the Kershaw County. They're they're expanding the
number of narcan vending machines. I mean, you got these
things on the street now, you know, like a like
a coke machine. Oh, there's a narcan machine. Let's get
some just in case, Just in case. Josh Kimberl, who
is embroiled now in this lawsuit from a business partner
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over an aircraft company the Upstate you remember the story.
He's being sued the Upstate senator who is a tossed
his hat in the ring for governor as a Republican,
being sued for two million dollars in funds that his
partner says were fraudulently diverted from the company. Now, the
latest word is is that Kimberl has given up ownership
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of that company. Now. He kind of said that he
might when all this news first broke in an interview,
that you know, if this guy wants it, he can
have it and see what he can do with it.
Apparently this company is not doing a whole lot to
begin with, but he's given up any ownership of that now.
There is a way too early poll out American Pulse. Well,
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actually this was a American Pulse of the announced and
soon to be announced a contenders in the governor's race.
We'll run down some of those results for you. Meantime,
at David Stumbo, longtime prosecuting in our state, wanting to
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be the next attorney general. And he's teastouting that he's
pulled in a little bit of money, about a hundred
thousand dollars worth, give or take. Now, boy, it's hard
to keep up with it. It's moving so fast now.
Each and every day they're new revelations. They are new accusations,
new allegations, all of it, well not all of it,
but a lot of it stemming around the Epstein case.
And well, you got two, you've got the Epstein stuff
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and you've got the Trump Russia collusion hoax. Right. Well,
yesterday headlines were Republican Republicans in the House officially did
subpoena Gallaine? Is it Delaine or Gallaine? I know I
never had a Gallayne. We'll go with We'll go Gilly.
How about that? Uh? They officially, uh, suboena Gilly Maxwell
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to to testify. Now, as far as the DOJ releasing
the transcripts from the grand jury that indicted Epstein, a judge,
as we mentioned yesterday, denying that request by the Trump administration,
Yeah huh exactly, yeah, yeah, but federal judge saying the
court's hands are tied and says, no, you can't release
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those transcripts. Now. Pam Bondy is facing calls from Democrats
to testify over all this, and a Wall Street journal
running the story that Bondi told Trump back in May
that his name appeared multiple times in files related to Epstein.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't think that's a shock to anybody. I don't
think so.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Now, other side of this is a House Oversight panel
subcommittee has voted to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton were
their ties to Epstein and Gilly I don't think that's
a surprise to anybody. I don't think it is either. No, huh,
the Russia Gate collusion hoax. We got news to talk
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about on that this morning.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh, that got a whole lot more interesting yesterday they
did not speaking of Bill well speaking of Hillary. Yes,
that got a whole lot more interesting yesterday.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, that the Russians sat on intelligence of Hillary's alleged
heavy tranquilizers. You okay that coming out of this newly
did classified.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Report psycho emotional issues.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh my goodness. And again we are we talking criminal
referrals now for the Obama administration of members and maybe
Barack Obama himself. Wow, this thing is taken off like
crazy here and we got that and a lot more
coming your way here on this. Thanks for joining us
for the Thursday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
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Speaker 3 (09:51):
Forty two the time. Now it is a a really
news heavy Thursday, July twenty fourth. Morning, we got man,
we've got more Epstein stuff talking about. We've got now
you know, Hillary on un serious medication and the rust
of the Ruskies know about it. We've got referrals out
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of this Russian uh, this Russia Gate hoax thing, referrals
from the d n I over to the d o
J for potential criminal prosecution of a former president. Man.
That we got stuff. We even got a gubernatorial pull
in South Carolina to talk about. So things are lined
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up this morning. Hopefully you can you can stick with
us because we have a bunch of stuff talk about.
But let's let's clear out a couple of things right now.
Other items that they're they're in the news and dispatch
of these right now. Brian Kolberger, sentenced to four life
terms yesterday and no possibility to parole out in Idaho.
(11:01):
Given a chance to explain why he killed those four
students back in twenty twenty two, the only words were,
I respectfully decline this guy's a total whack job.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Man and really offering the family no closure, the family
which all had to fight with the court system at
times just to get things done.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And now and we're shocked with this plea deal. Yeah,
they weren't even aware this was happening when it was announced.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
They did at least get in some parting shots, including
a parting confederor a long, lengthy statement by the only
surviving witness, right, tough to watch.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, but no sort of contrition from this guy. And
we have learned a few other things that apparently he
was taking a place out for weeks sounds like it, yeah,
before the murders actually took place. So yeah, this is
at some point, not initially, but at some point Brian
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Coberger is going to be the general population at some
prison somewhere, and that's that won't be good for him, no,
if ironically enough, quite honestly, I mean, this is a
guy who wanted his life spared. He probably did just
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the opposite, tell you the truth. He probably a little
longer to you taking the death penalty. Okay, Columbia University says, well,
we didn't do anything wrong, but we'll pay up two
hundred twenty one million dollars. Anyway, I always love these.
You sell a lawsuit, you pay a ton of money.
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But you don't admit any kind of guilt at all.
That's what Columbia University did, reaching a deal with the
administration to pay more than two hundred and twenty million
dollars to restore federal research money that they've been taken
away after the anti Semitic behavior displayed on their campus
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time and time again. But we didn't do anything wrong,
admitting no guilt, no admission wrong doing at all. Now
suppose that they've they've they've reformed, they've they've seen the
air of their ways, and well we'll see these Ivy
(13:30):
League schools. Man. Wow, this cheery note. The agency in
our country that's responsible for maintaining and designing our cash
of nuclear weapons among those breached by a hack of
Microsoft's SharePoint document managed software. Okay, that that's not good.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
No, it doesn't sound good.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Uh. They tell us that no sensitive or classified information
is known to have been compromised in the attack. This
from a person not authorized to speak publicly and who
asked not to be identified. Yeah, I bet not. This
is an arm of the Energy Department that has the
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task of producing and dismantling nuclear arms. Man, if we
can't keep again, these were not like missile silos that
got hacked into. Okay, wasn't that, But I mean it's
a little scary anything that even remotely is involved in
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all that stuff. Man, you don't want to hear that
news Microsoft blaming guess who? You may say, like two
choices here, right, Trump, free free choice?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah right?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And Trump? Did it? Not China?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Okay, Russia?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It was China in this case. Oh, I'm sorry. I
just went straight to the point. Are what you have China,
you'd have Russia, you'd have Iran? Uh in North Korea.
Basically you can usually pick it's one of those four.
In this case it was it was the Chinese. Surprise, surprise.
Apparently these hackers have also broken into systems belonging to
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national governments in Europe, the Middle East, the US Education Department,
for the Department of Revenue, the Rhode Island General Assembly.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Because that's a hot that's a hot and right there, man,
Well it can be once you hold them ransom. Well yeah,
hold them hostage and charge a ransom.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Let'll be gone. The Rhode Island General Assembly. Really come
and somebody just playing around there, I think better to
do with their time, I suppose. So anyhow, uh, I don't.
That's that that that is again, you know, that's that's
the new the new face of warfare. It's all it's
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all revolving around the Internet and artificial intelligence. Oh my goodness,
what did I see today? The Chinese? Now the reports
the Chinese are experimenting with with AI to human interfaces,
I mean, actually connecting human beings up, wiring them up
to artificial intelligence. Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
No, I believe in.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I mean we begin to understand it all. Oh, all,
it's for all good purposes, of course, they say, yeah, sure, right,
it's the Chinese. Come on, are you're kidding me? How
long before we well, how long? It's already? I think
we're at that point now where we don't recognize this
place anymore. Right, give it another couple of years and
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we really won't recognize it at this rate. Huh. All right,
So we got a lot of fish to Friday day.
Hey on, stick with us. We appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's just about sixteen minutes after seven o'clock and it's Thursday,
July twenty fourth, and we have so much to talk
about today. I don't know, mister Thompson, you make the call.
Where do we go here? Do we go more Epstein
or do we go Russian collusion hoax?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Well that's pretty fascinating what we heard from Tulsi Gabbard yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So let's go there, all right, let's go there. Well, yeah,
and we did, by the way, Yeah, we heard from
from Tulsi Gabbard yesterday.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
To undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, to subvert the
will of the American people who had just voted to
a love Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, and to in essence,
launch this year's long coup against President Trump that lasted
throughout the four years of his administration.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Now, yesterday, Tulci Gabbard, member former Democrat Director of National
Intelligence at a briefing, alleging that the Obama administration promoted
a contrived narrative that Russia interfered. Now again, she's this
goes back.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
To what last Friday, I guess I think so, yeah,
when this was first mentioned, another one of those you know,
don't pay attention to Epstein. Look what you've got here. Yeah,
but this is this is this is kind of big. Yeah,
it turned out there was a little beef behind it.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah. So again, we've had these documentsy classified from the
intelligence community alleging the Obama administration even at the even
Barack Obama himself politicized intelligence. And now Gabbert is saying
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that this evidence directly points to Obama and that the
Department of Justice will decide criminal implications. We've referred and
will continue to refer all of these documents to the
DOJ and the FBI to investigate the criminal implications of
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this for the evidence, saying the evidence we found and
that we've released direct directly point to President Obama leading
the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces
of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact. Okay, so yeah,
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we're reading some new ground here, as we mentioned yesterday,
are really are we looking at at the potential for
criminal charges in this against Barack Obama? This is serious
off here right now. I realized that for some folks.
(20:08):
He is like, yeah, absolutely, And again you know we're
talking about wait a minute, after all these years of
Democrats talking about a threat to democracy, this is what
this is a threat to democracy. So I get it.
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But let's for a moment consider the upheaval we're talking
about here. If criminal charges are pressed against Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Man uh, Well, first, first of all, first of all,
that's not the threat to democracy. Remember kicking Stephen Colbert
off TV. That's right, that was the threat to democracy. Well,
that's this week's threat to Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I'm sorry, I forgot all about that all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I don't know. I don't know if we need to
go back that far. I certainly don't think that throwing
Barack Obama in prison solves anything. I was more. I'm more.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I don't see that it would. I'm more happy.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I'm curious to see, you know, how Democrats respond to that.
We've had all this talk lately about the fact that
the party isn't upheaval. They have no leadership, they're not
quite sure where they're going, they're not quite sure how
to attack Trump. And now they find out and I know,
Hillary Clinton's not a major player in the party anymore,
but then now they find out that not so many
years ago, when she still was a major player, there
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were DNC folks who were saying awfully bad things about Hillary.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, and the Russians were aware of this, but they
sat on it. Apparently, according to newly released documents, that
as of September twenty sixteen, the Russian forge Foreign Intelligence
Service had DNC information that President Obama and party leaders
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found the state of Hillary Clinton's health be extraordinarily alarming.
Now you'll you'll remember the video and the pictures, Remember
her exiting or trying to get into a car he
was in New York City, and how frail she was,
and then they were having a proper remember that. Remember that, well,
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something was going on. They found her health to be
extraordinarily alarming, Felton could have serious negative impact on her
election prospects, and that that info is being kept in
strict as secrecy and even close adviser was romping fully informed.
Does this sound at all vaguely familiar to what we
just went through with Joe Biden a little bit? Doesn't? It? Though?
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That the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service also allegedly had DNC
communications that show that Clinton was suffering from intensified psycho
emotional problems.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
That's the part I'm more interested. I think anybody can
be sick or dehydrated or under the weather at any
day of the week, including that day. That's well documented.
But the I mean, you look at anyone or any
report from a person who has worked with or under Clinton,
and you will hear about the emotional roller coaster that
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she's constantly on, and you will hear how brutally mean
she was to most people who worked under her. That's
you know.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Who else you heard that about Kamala Harris. True, Remember
she couldn't keep an about in her staff. It was
a revolving door. True, but you.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Never heard about her being on this emotional roller coaster,
the way Clinton always seemed to.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Be uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness, and that
she was on a daily regiment of heavy tranquilizers, and
while afraid of losing, she remained obsessed with a thirst
for power. At The report states, Wow, okay, so here
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was this is again, This is twenty sixteen. This is
Hillary Clinton running for president. So I find this curious
because for all this talk that the Russians were doing
anything and everything they could to help Donald Trump get
elected president, according to this report, they were fully aware
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of Hillary Clinton's emotional issues, but they sat on it.
That doesn't fit the narrative that we've been told all
these years, now, does it. Who were they really trying
to help? Well? Anyway, Yeah, so this is a kid.
They had secret dirt for sure on the election. But
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guess what. It wasn't about Trump, It was about his rival,
Hillary Clinton. This story is getting more and more interesting
by the day, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Your world happens here? But let me be clear and
updated accordingly.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
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Speaker 3 (25:16):
Seven forty one a time. Now, it's Thursday, July twenty fourth.
It's good to have you with. My name is Gary David.
That guy down there right there, he's Christopher Thompson, as
I recall him, This guy guy now just feels really
odd here in July of twenty twenty five to be
talking about a gubernatorial race that won't wrap up until
November of twenty twenty six in South Carolina. But boy,
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we're talking about it. The season started early this year,
way early. So a couple of tidbits here pass along. First,
up is it? I guess it's damage control to some extent.
But Josh Kimbrel, who's already announced his run for governor,
I keep saying one of three is it's one of four?
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Said I even mentioned this. I think at the other
day there's this other businessman who's declared he's running. I
can never think of the dude's name. He was actually
the first one to announce. But anyway, Josh Kimberl, Alan Wilson,
Pamela Evian so far announcing. But Kimbrell, I mean right
after his announcement, basically, we learned of this lawsuit filed
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by a not an ex but still current business partner,
Frank Rogers. The two together own Exodus Aircraft llc up
in the Upstate. It sounds like it's a business that
doesn't do a whole lot of business. But this lawsuit
filed by Rogers against the Upstate senator and goubernatorial want
to be claims again that through fraud, Kimberle diverted two
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million dollars in funds from the company and further states
that he used corporate money to pay for his political campaign. Now,
the FEC filings don't really show any massive influx of
cash into kim campaign sort of not forget it or
not even for senator, but this is the claim in
the lawsuit. Well, the latest update is that Kimberle now
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has given up his ownership of that company, calling the
allegations a regrettable, uncorroborated case of law fare from a disgruntled,
absent business partner with no function or daily involvement or operations.
But he had hinted about a week or so ago
that he might just give it to him and say, okay,
do with what you can. And that's what he's done.
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So he's given up his stake in that in that company.
The lawsuit, though, is still going on. It's still pending.
The sooner for Josh Kimball, he can settle this thing
and get it to get it off the off the
off the papers, and off the broadcast airwaves, the better, certainly, right.
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But it'll come back, you know, once the the ads
start ramping up. It'll pop up, maybe more so on
say social media than mainstream media, but probably on both.
So it's something that regardless Kimberle is going to have
to live with. But you got to figure he would
like to get this lawsuit out of the way as
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quickly as possible, right, and maybe this is part of that,
is just giving up ownership of the company. Okay, Now,
new survey out by American Pulse, this is one of
the Beltway outfits. Yeah, they're already taking polls of likely
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Republican primary voters, which, again in this state, that's all
that matters. The Democrat primary doesn't matter. The Republican primary
matters in November doesn't matter either. But this new pole
likely GOP primary voters shows that Alan Wilson at twenty
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two point six. Nancy Mays, who is not announced yet
but as we keep seeing that is will announce sometime
this summer, although again, at least for school students, this
summer is just about over, so I don't know when
that's coming down. But she's at seventeen point three. So
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those your top two dogs, Wilson at twenty two to six,
Mace at seventeen three.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Any numbers on that Senate.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Race, the Senate race, I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Does does Andre Bauer have any chance of making any
inroads on Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Not that I've seen in this poll, no numbers on that.
We'll be getting those sometime soon.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
You'd think, right, maybe, I mean it is awfully early.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah, it is still way early. What about the other players?
By the way, the number is very similar to a
poll from another poll that was taken a couple months ago,
a poll that showed Wilson at twenty point eight, Mace
at sixteen to three. Again, Wilson rising at this poll
at twenty two to six, Mace rising to seventeen three. Okay, well,
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who else? A Ralph Norman who was just days away
from making his announcement that's coming up Sunday, right, I think, yeah, Sunday,
he's at nine point three. Pamela Evid lieutenant governor who's
already announced, is at eighty four. And Josh Kimberl, who
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we just talked about with his litigious issues, as at
one point seven. This is gonna be a problem for
killing again your state senator. Fine and dandy, but you
don't have the name recognition that a Ralph Norman has
as a US congressman, or Pamela Evitt has a lieutenant governor,
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or Nancy Mace has as a congresswoman or Allan wil
says his ag. You just you don't have the widespread
name recognition these other individuals have, So kimberl at one
point seven, not where you want to be. They were
about nine point one percent of folks who said they
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were supporting some other candidates. Okay, there was another question
they asked in this survey, and this was a night
that we haven't talked about recently, but did get talked
about during this last legislative session. And that was again
on the on casino style gambling here in South Carolina.
You remember a deep pocketed Republican owner wants to build
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a casino over in Orangeburg County off of ninety five.
According to that poll, fifty nine point two percent of
respondents were in favor of casinos if they were restricted
to designated zones and the tax revenues were man data
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to support programs like schools and roads.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, I'm surprised that number is that high, although we.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Saw a high number member back during the legislative session,
or was a poll about that true?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
It just I almost wonder if there's a caveat there
though that people are saying it should be in a
zone and away from me. Not in my back not.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
In my backyard. No, yeah, it's one hundred percent to
say that, right, right, yeah, not in my backyard. And
quite honestly, I guess where they're looking at. You know,
we won what the guy wants to put this one,
it's really nobody's backyard doesn't look like But anyway, again,
likely GOP voters only thirty five percent opposed the casino's outright,
(32:40):
which is kind It was just surprising. It's surprising. Okay,
So there's some way early numbers for you on the
gubernatorial race here in South Carolina. Been a long way
to go.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
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 3 (33:02):
Seventeen after aight, good morning. Two major stories consuming the
Beltway these days in the country when it comes to politics.
We talked about one of them last half hour, and
that is the Tulsi Gabbard declassification of intelligence documents and
the Obama administration. Even Barack Obama himself, the allegation is
ginned up all the Russian collusion, hoaxed stuff, against Donald
(33:24):
Trump back in twenty sixteen, and the latest of getting
what they've released, it shows that the Russians were aware
of Hillary Clinton's emotional issues she was running for president
and sat on it. Wow. Okay, all that though initially
thought to be just we're gonna throw this out there
to get the mind off of the Epstein story, Well, okay,
(33:46):
there seems to be something to these Tulsi Gabbard releases. Okay,
number one, number two. Did it distract anybody from the
Epstein story? Well, no, not really, not much. No, I
mean there's room for both. Now the latest here and
every day there's something new. Of course, Democrats continue to
(34:07):
hammer the administration over the handling of this. But it's
not just Democrats. Now, the House Oversight Committee James Comer
has officially subpoenaed Galaid Maxwell to come testify in front
of Congress and his committee. Now this is the time when,
of course, the Trump administration is trying to you know,
(34:29):
turn the page on all this. House Republicans are looking
for transparency. Now, can you believe a word she says?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Well, like I said the other day, I think she
probably does hold something in reserve that she's probably kept
close to her vest thinking, Okay, I may need a
get out of jail cards someday. She knew she didn't
need it. There was no reason to bring it up
a trial. But here's a chance for her to, you know,
give somebody some dirt that would at least reduce her
(35:06):
jail sentence. Yeah, and she apparently knows all the dirt.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'm sure she does. So this is this is gonna happen.
It looks like, now again, do we are we are
we privy to this? Will this be a publicly broadcast
that'll tell you a lot right there? Okay, if it's not,
(35:34):
If it's behind closed doors, yeah, some leaks get out.
But will we get everything?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Probably not. If you're gonna do this and if you
want as as a number of Republicans are saying total
transparency on this, this needs to be a public not
behind closed doors session.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Well, the Trump administration is asked that those jury the
court records be unsealed.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
From the grand jury. Yeah, but but now you've got
a judge standing on the way of that and saying
that the court's hands are tied. They have rejected that
bid by the administration to get and people have said, uh,
the illegal people have surmised that what's in that grand
jury transcript probably not something we didn't already know or
(36:18):
or at least think that it's not gonna be the
really juicy stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, and there may not be any really juicy stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
But it's the fact that we haven't been told and
it's almost like a cover up.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Now, has that feel, isn't it? Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
And it's I've been curious to what you know. This
has been interesting the MAGA crowd's reaction. Even as Donald
Trump says this is nothing, this is you know, a Democrat,
you scheme, don't pay any attention, the MAGA crowd is
still very much interested in what's going on. You know.
Donald Trump once said he could walk down Fifth Avenue
and shoot somebody, get away with it, and get away
(36:54):
with it. But the MAGA crowd is so far holding
him accountable. Now, well, that will that effect his poll numbers?
Probably not. I think I think most people probably expect
that Trump's name is mentioned pretty prominently in whatever is
being mentioned is being released about Epstein. But does that
affect the economy?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, no, does that affect your border?
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
No, So it's not the most important issue, but it
is important to the MAGA crowd that they get some
transparency here.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
And the Wall Street Journal yesterday publishing a report that
claims that Pam Bondi told Trump back in May that
his name appeared multiple times in files related to Epstein,
which again is no great surprise, right shock there? Uh?
They reported the Bondy also told Trump that many other
high profile individuals were named in the files, which again,
(37:46):
just because your name is in there doesn't mean you
did anything wrong, but you were associated with but you
were associated with it. And we all know that Trump
was at one time associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I'd be curious about the dates, because you know, Trump
and his folks say at a certain point that they
ended the relationship, that Epstein was banned from mar A Lago,
et cetera. I'd be curious to see if the dates
match up.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
But again, I thought we were told there was basically
no client list. Well, now, again, your name popping up
in a file being associate with Epstein does not make you,
you know, doesn't mean you're on a client list, does
make you a client. Those are two separate things here.
But anyway, there's you know, so so this Wall Street
General story comes out that was in May, and then
you know this following back in February. Hey, we got
(38:31):
all that, we got the client list, We've got all
this stuff we're gonna put out, and then it changes.
So you know the obviously people are going to try
to connect a couple of dots and say, well, Trump
must be on the client list. Well, that doesn't necessarily
say that. But there's more. Now. The House Overside Panel
subcommittee has voted to subpoena a couple other well known
(38:54):
names to testify Bill and Hillary. It should be no
great surprise, right we know that Bill Clinton was on
that jet on multiple occasions. What would Hillary's ties be? Well,
I don't know. Okay, Well, I mean the plot just
(39:16):
con't continues to think it now, doesn't it. So I mean,
we could be looking at here Ghlaide Maxwell testifying in
front of the House Overside Committee. We could be looking
at Bill and Hillary Clinton testify. I will they will
fight that tooth and nail. But if you issue a subpoena,
well you know what you're gonna get. You get saved
(39:38):
that you got by the subpoena is issued for the
Biden administration members. I plead the fifth, I plead the fifth,
I plead the fifth, over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Meanwhile, you could also be seeing, you know, the staunchest
of the Magas supporters like Marjorie Taylor Green taking Trump
to task until these records get completely released.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
So how do you know they've all been released?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Well, then there's that you won't.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Be for something. You won't folks won't be satisfied until
they get some real dirt. You know, when the real
dirt comes out, then okay, good, got it?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
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Speaker 3 (40:36):
Has eight forty eight Time for our final thoughts here
for Thursday, July twenty fourth. Oh uh.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Following up on.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Uh, I mentioned this a couple of days ago on
the program, and there's been no movement at least out
as of yesterday afternoon. I don't know how this happens
and why I hadn't been fixed yet. But I still
there is a sign the I twenty exit to number
(41:03):
one in Lexington, which has been redone over the last
ten years. Seems like yeah, and they're still doing something
over there.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I'm not sure what, but they're putting new signage up.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
They're putting up new signage. And as you're getting off,
you're heading, you know, away from Columbia towards Lexington, and
you get off on the on the end of the
exit ramp there where you know you go that way.
You know, you get off the ramp, you take a
right to go to election, you take a left to
go to West Columbia.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Well, somebody at DOT doesn't or whoever they hired to
put up signs doesn't seem to know that, because there's
a sign there that says Columbia.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Airport, go right. And it's still there, and.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
It was still there as of yesterday afternoon. Yes, I
mean I almost stopped because there was some guys working
over off the doing some landscape and stuff or whatever,
so I figured they don't they don't. Almost pulled over
the to the to the shoulder and got out and said, hey,
all have sign's going the wrong way. They said, okay, whatever,
but yeah, this has been like all week now it
(41:58):
is directing traffic that wants to go to the air
Now again nine not out one hundred people around here
gonna know that's wrong. But it just you know, there's
some port sucker is going to get off the interstate.
Never been around there before, and they're gonna take a
rite try to go to the airport and wind up
in the you know, like sn and traffic.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
And you're sure they didn't build some loop when they
were doing all that building that loops around and comes
back the other way unless it's invisible.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
No, okay, fix it.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Please, that's strange.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Somebody a dot call somebody and get them to fix
the stupid sign. Would you already come on? It's embarrassing
all right. Now, it has been confirmed Department of Public
Health has in fact confirmed that the person who we
assume was a child because well was being treated a
(42:45):
children's hospital at Prison of Health, died from that brain
eating ABIBA that it was exposed at ed Lake Murray. Yeah,
first case of this our state since twenty sixteen. Matter
of fact, over the past sixty two years, there have
(43:07):
only been one hundred and sixty seven cases reported nationwide.
It is extremely extremely rare.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
It's gotta happen just right, Yeah, where that bacteria gets
stirred up and then it winds up getting into your
nasal passage is just right.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
You can only infect a person by entering through the nose,
and that's what happened here. Now, despite that, public health
officials say that there's no elevated risk of this at
Lake Murray. They don't want people freaking out. And again,
based on how extremely rare this is, there's no reason too.
But it's it's gonna it'll keep some people out of
(43:43):
the water for a little while till they forget about probably.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I mean, but you could drink the water containing it
and it wouldn't bother you. You could get it in
your ears and it wouldn't bother you. But if you
jump into the water just right and don't hold your
nose there you and you know, I think when we
hear that the children's hospital was involved, and I think
we naturally think, you know, infant toddler, and keep in
(44:06):
mind that could be teenage teenagers.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Yep, absolutely guess Now there are people that are expressing
concerns that there's there's no no testing for this, and
there's not on the national level, the state level, the
local level is and there's not. There are no CDC
nor EPA or requirements or recommendations for routine testing for
this amiba. There's not even a scientific standard for knowing
(44:30):
whether what amount of this is safe or unsafe in
a body of water.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
They make it sound as if, you know, if as
warm as it is right now, as warm as all
the water is, chances are it is there.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, oh yes, oh, it is definitely there. But it's
so unusual to contract it that they don't test for it,
and there's no method for doing that. I guess you've
probably heard the news. Thomas has been updating this morning
on a big drug bust one point seven million dollars
dollars worth of one hundred and fifty six pounds of
(45:02):
fentanyl right here in our state, two traffic stops Lexington,
Richland Counties.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
As deadly as fentanyl is.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
This is what blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
And yet you watch, for example, on Patrol, which has
a presence here in Richland County. I mean, it just
seems like all these drug busts involve fentanyl in one
way or another. People are chasing that elusive, great high,
even though chances are it could kill you.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
And again, that's what I keep hearing. Just a little
little bit of it, a grain a green can kill you.
How are people? I don't know how that works.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
You know, one other little tidbit in this whole Epstein saga.
I don't know if you We didn't talk about it yesterday,
but Roy Black passed away in the last few days.
Roy Black at a time was a very high profile attorney.
He was a Miami attorney, very well known. He defended
a lot of very well known people, including Jeffrey Epstein
(46:15):
at one time. He just died a couple of days ago.
And some people though that's interesting. How old was he? Uh?
He was? He was eighty Okay, Okay, that's yeah. The
family's saying this is kind of nothing to do with
the Epstein scandal. Okay, nothing to do at all, but
you know it is. It's it was curious timing for
(46:35):
some more a law fair, more judicial overreach. A federal
appeals courting now San Francisco ruling yesterday that Trump's ordered
in birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. Okay, yeah, well you expected
that from the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals. Democrats are
hopping mad over this proposal. House Republicans on the Apropriations
(47:00):
Committee have passed emotion to change the name of the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after Millennia Trump. You
know what, I don't blame them.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Wait a minute, they're going to rename the Kennedy Center
or is there a room within the Kennedy's No, they want.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
To rename the Kennedy Center the First Lady Milania Trump
Opera House. Okay, yeah, I don't blame them for that one. Yeah,
I mean, come on, really, And the wife of a
guy who created an anti ice app is complaining now
because she's lost her job as a result of it. Uh,
(47:41):
Carolyn Feinstein. Her employer was the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yeah yeah, that might do it. That might get you canned.
Jesus fly. Hell yeah, same America for formation from.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Lood Morning and welcome. It's Thursday, July twenty fourth, sixteen
after six back at at Columbia's Morning News, back on
the radio. Good to have you along. I'm Gary, he
is Christopher.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I am hot. Oh you ain't seen nothing yet, That's
what I'm hearing, right.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I mean, come on, we're like you know, it was
it was actually not half bad. Yesterday it was okay,
it was. It wasn't great, yeah, but it wasn't good.
But uh and today kind of more of the same.
Not ninety three. They'll mention of a heat inext today, but.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Then we get another one of these heat domes.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yes we do, uh, upper nineties tomorrow, heating next about
one hundred and four. But that ain't that ain't nothing yet.
We hit the weekend and we're talking air temperatures here
one hundred and one Saturday, one and three, Sunday and
Monday one oh two, Tuesday and Wednesday, and those are
(01:28):
the air temperatures. Yeah, and by the way that had
to be the bear of more bad tidings here. No, boy,
the old Farmer's Almanac is telling us we're gonna have
a warm fall too. We got a ways to go
in all this. Yeah, and I'm, you know, head on
(01:50):
a vacation next week, and I'm we're talking about doing
a bunch of yard work Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Gotta do yard work for you to go, right, you
want to come back to a jungle. I don't know, man,
You'll still have to do it. But when you get back, well, it's.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Still gonna have to. Yeah, but I don't know, man,
one hundred and three degrees on Saturday. I might start
at four am. Maybe that's an option. Turn on the floodlights.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
If I'm your neighbor and hear the leaf blower going
at four am, I might not be too happy. Well,
And I see, I made the smart move a couple
of years ago. I know some people say, oh, come on, man,
but I bought a battery operated lawnmower and it's very quiet.
So now I could cut my grass at for him
and not disturbing it. Now I can't turn on the blower. No,
you're right, I don't know. I might have to consider that.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
All right, So make your plans accordingly, because here comes
the hottest temperatures we've seen so far this summer, and
it's been a hot summer. We have more of a
con Okay, rundown, big stories, hot topics for this Thursday morning.
They have confirmed DPH has confirmed in fact the individual
(02:52):
who again because they were being treated at Children's hospital,
you know, it was a child, was exposed to that
brain eating amba at Lake Murray. Initially they weren't. The
story yesterday was it was presumed to be a Lake Murray,
but DPH has confirmed that yes, it was in fact
(03:13):
at Lake Murray. Now, despite that, they tell us there's
no elevated risk of it happening to anybody else. This
is a very rare thing. You're a handful of episodes
and a dozen years or so in our state, not
even that, and what about forty across the country in
(03:34):
some twelve years, So it's very very rare. So yeah,
the concerns of people going to freak out and I
want to go out to the lake and all that, well,
they say that's unfounded. There are no elevated risks there,
but there are concerns over lack of testing, and again,
this is something that's not tested. The state Department of
(03:56):
Environmental Science says they don't test for it because there
are no federal or state recreational water standards for it.
I guess this is one of those things to that
because it is so rare. There are other, you know,
things out there that could harm you that are are
better spent time and money and man and woman power doing.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I suppose, I guess. I'm not even sure. I you know,
we were critical of them for not pinning it down
to Lake Murray the other day. Now that I've read
more about it, I'm not sure how you know it
was Lake Murray. I mean this, if this could be
anywhere in any warm body of water, unless you can
(04:37):
confirm that this particular individual, you know, that was the
only water they were submerged in. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
it's the only way you could do it. I'm guessing
that's how that came down.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You heard Thomas mentioned this one point seven million dollars
worth of drugs at a record setting bust here in
our state, one hundred and fifty six pounds of fentanyl. Yeah,
I'm so. I'm just shocked every time I hear one
of these stories because they tell you what, what's such
a small tiny amount can kill? You think it can
(05:10):
kill a bunch of us, a bunch of us. And
you got somebody you know, right around with one hundred
and fifty six pounds of this in a vehicle. How
does that work?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The thing that stuns me is that that people are
aggressively going after this drug to get high, right because
it's you know, it's the big thing.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, you know, and the sign of the times, you
know the story the Kershaw County. They're they're expanding the
number of narcan vending machines. I mean, you got these
things on the street now, you know, like a like
a coke machine. Oh, there's a narcan machine. Let's get
some just in case, Just in case. Josh Kimberl, who
is embroiled now in this lawsuit from a business partner
(05:50):
over an aircraft company the Upstate you remember the story.
He's being sued the Upstate senator who is a tossed
his hat in the ring for governor as a Republican,
being sued for two million dollars in funds that his
partner says were fraudulently diverted from the company. Now, the
latest word is is that Kimberl has given up ownership
(06:11):
of that company. Now. He kind of said that he
might when all this news first broke in an interview,
that you know, if this guy wants it, he can
have it and see what he can do with it.
Apparently this company is not doing a whole lot to
begin with, but he's given up any ownership of that now.
There is a way too early poll out American Pulse. Well,
(06:36):
actually this was a American Pulse of the announced and
soon to be announced a contenders in the governor's race.
We'll run down some of those results for you. Meantime,
at David Stumbo, longtime prosecuting in our state, wanting to
(06:56):
be the next attorney general. And he's teastouting that he's
pulled in a little bit of money, about a hundred
thousand dollars worth, give or take. Now, boy, it's hard
to keep up with it. It's moving so fast now.
Each and every day they're new revelations. They are new accusations,
new allegations, all of it, well not all of it,
but a lot of it stemming around the Epstein case.
And well, you got two, you've got the Epstein stuff
(07:18):
and you've got the Trump Russia collusion hoax. Right. Well,
yesterday headlines were Republican Republicans in the House officially did
subpoena Gallaine? Is it Delaine or Gallaine? I know I
never had a Gallayne. We'll go with We'll go Gilly.
How about that? Uh? They officially, uh, suboena Gilly Maxwell
(07:41):
to to testify. Now, as far as the DOJ releasing
the transcripts from the grand jury that indicted Epstein, a judge,
as we mentioned yesterday, denying that request by the Trump administration,
Yeah huh exactly, yeah, yeah, but federal judge saying the
court's hands are tied and says, no, you can't release
(08:02):
those transcripts. Now. Pam Bondy is facing calls from Democrats
to testify over all this, and a Wall Street journal
running the story that Bondi told Trump back in May
that his name appeared multiple times in files related to Epstein.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't think that's a shock to anybody. I don't
think so.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Now, other side of this is a House Oversight panel
subcommittee has voted to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton were
their ties to Epstein and Gilly I don't think that's
a surprise to anybody. I don't think it is either. No, huh,
the Russia Gate collusion hoax. We got news to talk
(08:44):
about on that this morning.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh, that got a whole lot more interesting yesterday they
did not speaking of Bill well speaking of Hillary. Yes,
that got a whole lot more interesting yesterday.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, that the Russians sat on intelligence of Hillary's alleged
heavy tranquilizers. You okay that coming out of this newly
did classified.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Report psycho emotional issues.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh my goodness. And again we are we talking criminal
referrals now for the Obama administration of members and maybe
Barack Obama himself. Wow, this thing is taken off like
crazy here and we got that and a lot more
coming your way here on this. Thanks for joining us
for the Thursday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
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Speaker 3 (09:51):
Forty two the time. Now it is a a really
news heavy Thursday, July twenty fourth. Morning, we got man,
we've got more Epstein stuff talking about. We've got now
you know, Hillary on un serious medication and the rust
of the Ruskies know about it. We've got referrals out
(10:14):
of this Russian uh, this Russia Gate hoax thing, referrals
from the d n I over to the d o
J for potential criminal prosecution of a former president. Man.
That we got stuff. We even got a gubernatorial pull
in South Carolina to talk about. So things are lined
(10:36):
up this morning. Hopefully you can you can stick with
us because we have a bunch of stuff talk about.
But let's let's clear out a couple of things right now.
Other items that they're they're in the news and dispatch
of these right now. Brian Kolberger, sentenced to four life
terms yesterday and no possibility to parole out in Idaho.
(11:01):
Given a chance to explain why he killed those four
students back in twenty twenty two, the only words were,
I respectfully decline this guy's a total whack job.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Man and really offering the family no closure, the family
which all had to fight with the court system at
times just to get things done.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And now and we're shocked with this plea deal. Yeah,
they weren't even aware this was happening when it was announced.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
They did at least get in some parting shots, including
a parting confederor a long, lengthy statement by the only
surviving witness, right, tough to watch.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, but no sort of contrition from this guy. And
we have learned a few other things that apparently he
was taking a place out for weeks sounds like it, yeah,
before the murders actually took place. So yeah, this is
at some point, not initially, but at some point Brian
(12:04):
Coberger is going to be the general population at some
prison somewhere, and that's that won't be good for him, no,
if ironically enough, quite honestly, I mean, this is a
guy who wanted his life spared. He probably did just
(12:26):
the opposite, tell you the truth. He probably a little
longer to you taking the death penalty. Okay, Columbia University says, well,
we didn't do anything wrong, but we'll pay up two
hundred twenty one million dollars. Anyway, I always love these.
You sell a lawsuit, you pay a ton of money.
(12:47):
But you don't admit any kind of guilt at all.
That's what Columbia University did, reaching a deal with the
administration to pay more than two hundred and twenty million
dollars to restore federal research money that they've been taken
away after the anti Semitic behavior displayed on their campus
(13:08):
time and time again. But we didn't do anything wrong,
admitting no guilt, no admission wrong doing at all. Now
suppose that they've they've they've reformed, they've they've seen the
air of their ways, and well we'll see these Ivy
(13:30):
League schools. Man. Wow, this cheery note. The agency in
our country that's responsible for maintaining and designing our cash
of nuclear weapons among those breached by a hack of
Microsoft's SharePoint document managed software. Okay, that that's not good.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
No, it doesn't sound good.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Uh. They tell us that no sensitive or classified information
is known to have been compromised in the attack. This
from a person not authorized to speak publicly and who
asked not to be identified. Yeah, I bet not. This
is an arm of the Energy Department that has the
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task of producing and dismantling nuclear arms. Man, if we
can't keep again, these were not like missile silos that
got hacked into. Okay, wasn't that, But I mean it's
a little scary anything that even remotely is involved in
(14:42):
all that stuff. Man, you don't want to hear that
news Microsoft blaming guess who? You may say, like two
choices here, right, Trump, free free choice?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah right?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And Trump? Did it? Not China?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Okay, Russia?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It was China in this case. Oh, I'm sorry. I
just went straight to the point. Are what you have China,
you'd have Russia, you'd have Iran? Uh in North Korea.
Basically you can usually pick it's one of those four.
In this case it was it was the Chinese. Surprise, surprise.
Apparently these hackers have also broken into systems belonging to
(15:25):
national governments in Europe, the Middle East, the US Education Department,
for the Department of Revenue, the Rhode Island General Assembly.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Because that's a hot that's a hot and right there, man,
Well it can be once you hold them ransom. Well yeah,
hold them hostage and charge a ransom.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Let'll be gone. The Rhode Island General Assembly. Really come
and somebody just playing around there, I think better to
do with their time, I suppose. So anyhow, uh, I don't.
That's that that that is again, you know, that's that's
the new the new face of warfare. It's all it's
(16:04):
all revolving around the Internet and artificial intelligence. Oh my goodness,
what did I see today? The Chinese? Now the reports
the Chinese are experimenting with with AI to human interfaces,
I mean, actually connecting human beings up, wiring them up
to artificial intelligence. Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
No, I believe in.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I mean we begin to understand it all. Oh, all,
it's for all good purposes, of course, they say, yeah, sure, right,
it's the Chinese. Come on, are you're kidding me? How
long before we well, how long? It's already? I think
we're at that point now where we don't recognize this
place anymore. Right, give it another couple of years and
(16:51):
we really won't recognize it at this rate. Huh. All right,
So we got a lot of fish to Friday day.
Hey on, stick with us. We appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's just about sixteen minutes after seven o'clock and it's Thursday,
July twenty fourth, and we have so much to talk
about today. I don't know, mister Thompson, you make the call.
Where do we go here? Do we go more Epstein
or do we go Russian collusion hoax?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Well that's pretty fascinating what we heard from Tulsi Gabbard yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So let's go there, all right, let's go there. Well, yeah,
and we did, by the way, Yeah, we heard from
from Tulsi Gabbard yesterday.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
To undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, to subvert the
will of the American people who had just voted to
a love Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, and to in essence,
launch this year's long coup against President Trump that lasted
throughout the four years of his administration.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Now, yesterday, Tulci Gabbard, member former Democrat Director of National
Intelligence at a briefing, alleging that the Obama administration promoted
a contrived narrative that Russia interfered. Now again, she's this
goes back.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
To what last Friday, I guess I think so, yeah,
when this was first mentioned, another one of those you know,
don't pay attention to Epstein. Look what you've got here. Yeah,
but this is this is this is kind of big. Yeah,
it turned out there was a little beef behind it.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah. So again, we've had these documentsy classified from the
intelligence community alleging the Obama administration even at the even
Barack Obama himself politicized intelligence. And now Gabbert is saying
(18:54):
that this evidence directly points to Obama and that the
Department of Justice will decide criminal implications. We've referred and
will continue to refer all of these documents to the
DOJ and the FBI to investigate the criminal implications of
(19:17):
this for the evidence, saying the evidence we found and
that we've released direct directly point to President Obama leading
the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces
of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact. Okay, so yeah,
(19:44):
we're reading some new ground here, as we mentioned yesterday,
are really are we looking at at the potential for
criminal charges in this against Barack Obama? This is serious
off here right now. I realized that for some folks.
(20:08):
He is like, yeah, absolutely, And again you know we're
talking about wait a minute, after all these years of
Democrats talking about a threat to democracy, this is what
this is a threat to democracy. So I get it.
(20:30):
But let's for a moment consider the upheaval we're talking
about here. If criminal charges are pressed against Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Man uh, Well, first, first of all, first of all,
that's not the threat to democracy. Remember kicking Stephen Colbert
off TV. That's right, that was the threat to democracy. Well,
that's this week's threat to Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I'm sorry, I forgot all about that all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I don't know. I don't know if we need to
go back that far. I certainly don't think that throwing
Barack Obama in prison solves anything. I was more. I'm more.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I don't see that it would. I'm more happy.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I'm curious to see, you know, how Democrats respond to that.
We've had all this talk lately about the fact that
the party isn't upheaval. They have no leadership, they're not
quite sure where they're going, they're not quite sure how
to attack Trump. And now they find out and I know,
Hillary Clinton's not a major player in the party anymore,
but then now they find out that not so many
years ago, when she still was a major player, there
(21:31):
were DNC folks who were saying awfully bad things about Hillary.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, and the Russians were aware of this, but they
sat on it. Apparently, according to newly released documents, that
as of September twenty sixteen, the Russian forge Foreign Intelligence
Service had DNC information that President Obama and party leaders
(21:57):
found the state of Hillary Clinton's health be extraordinarily alarming.
Now you'll you'll remember the video and the pictures, Remember
her exiting or trying to get into a car he
was in New York City, and how frail she was,
and then they were having a proper remember that. Remember that, well,
(22:20):
something was going on. They found her health to be
extraordinarily alarming, Felton could have serious negative impact on her
election prospects, and that that info is being kept in
strict as secrecy and even close adviser was romping fully informed.
Does this sound at all vaguely familiar to what we
just went through with Joe Biden a little bit? Doesn't? It? Though?
(22:45):
That the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service also allegedly had DNC
communications that show that Clinton was suffering from intensified psycho
emotional problems.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
That's the part I'm more interested. I think anybody can
be sick or dehydrated or under the weather at any
day of the week, including that day. That's well documented.
But the I mean, you look at anyone or any
report from a person who has worked with or under Clinton,
and you will hear about the emotional roller coaster that
(23:17):
she's constantly on, and you will hear how brutally mean
she was to most people who worked under her. That's
you know.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Who else you heard that about Kamala Harris. True, Remember
she couldn't keep an about in her staff. It was
a revolving door. True, but you.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Never heard about her being on this emotional roller coaster,
the way Clinton always seemed to.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Be uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness, and that
she was on a daily regiment of heavy tranquilizers, and
while afraid of losing, she remained obsessed with a thirst
for power. At The report states, Wow, okay, so here
(24:03):
was this is again, This is twenty sixteen. This is
Hillary Clinton running for president. So I find this curious
because for all this talk that the Russians were doing
anything and everything they could to help Donald Trump get
elected president, according to this report, they were fully aware
(24:24):
of Hillary Clinton's emotional issues, but they sat on it.
That doesn't fit the narrative that we've been told all
these years, now, does it. Who were they really trying
to help? Well? Anyway, Yeah, so this is a kid.
They had secret dirt for sure on the election. But
(24:44):
guess what. It wasn't about Trump, It was about his rival,
Hillary Clinton. This story is getting more and more interesting
by the day, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Your world happens here? But let me be clear and
updated accordingly.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
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Speaker 3 (25:16):
Seven forty one a time. Now, it's Thursday, July twenty fourth.
It's good to have you with. My name is Gary David.
That guy down there right there, he's Christopher Thompson, as
I recall him, This guy guy now just feels really
odd here in July of twenty twenty five to be
talking about a gubernatorial race that won't wrap up until
November of twenty twenty six in South Carolina. But boy,
(25:37):
we're talking about it. The season started early this year,
way early. So a couple of tidbits here pass along. First,
up is it? I guess it's damage control to some extent.
But Josh Kimbrel, who's already announced his run for governor,
I keep saying one of three is it's one of four?
(25:59):
Said I even mentioned this. I think at the other
day there's this other businessman who's declared he's running. I
can never think of the dude's name. He was actually
the first one to announce. But anyway, Josh Kimberl, Alan Wilson,
Pamela Evian so far announcing. But Kimbrell, I mean right
after his announcement, basically, we learned of this lawsuit filed
(26:21):
by a not an ex but still current business partner,
Frank Rogers. The two together own Exodus Aircraft llc up
in the Upstate. It sounds like it's a business that
doesn't do a whole lot of business. But this lawsuit
filed by Rogers against the Upstate senator and goubernatorial want
to be claims again that through fraud, Kimberle diverted two
(26:45):
million dollars in funds from the company and further states
that he used corporate money to pay for his political campaign. Now,
the FEC filings don't really show any massive influx of
cash into kim campaign sort of not forget it or
not even for senator, but this is the claim in
the lawsuit. Well, the latest update is that Kimberle now
(27:10):
has given up his ownership of that company, calling the
allegations a regrettable, uncorroborated case of law fare from a disgruntled,
absent business partner with no function or daily involvement or operations.
But he had hinted about a week or so ago
that he might just give it to him and say, okay,
do with what you can. And that's what he's done.
(27:31):
So he's given up his stake in that in that company.
The lawsuit, though, is still going on. It's still pending.
The sooner for Josh Kimball, he can settle this thing
and get it to get it off the off the
off the papers, and off the broadcast airwaves, the better, certainly, right.
(27:51):
But it'll come back, you know, once the the ads
start ramping up. It'll pop up, maybe more so on
say social media than mainstream media, but probably on both.
So it's something that regardless Kimberle is going to have
to live with. But you got to figure he would
like to get this lawsuit out of the way as
(28:13):
quickly as possible, right, and maybe this is part of that,
is just giving up ownership of the company. Okay, Now,
new survey out by American Pulse, this is one of
the Beltway outfits. Yeah, they're already taking polls of likely
(28:36):
Republican primary voters, which, again in this state, that's all
that matters. The Democrat primary doesn't matter. The Republican primary
matters in November doesn't matter either. But this new pole
likely GOP primary voters shows that Alan Wilson at twenty
(28:57):
two point six. Nancy Mays, who is not announced yet
but as we keep seeing that is will announce sometime
this summer, although again, at least for school students, this
summer is just about over, so I don't know when
that's coming down. But she's at seventeen point three. So
(29:18):
those your top two dogs, Wilson at twenty two to six,
Mace at seventeen three.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Any numbers on that Senate.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Race, the Senate race, I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Does does Andre Bauer have any chance of making any
inroads on Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Not that I've seen in this poll, no numbers on that.
We'll be getting those sometime soon.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
You'd think, right, maybe, I mean it is awfully early.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah, it is still way early. What about the other players?
By the way, the number is very similar to a
poll from another poll that was taken a couple months ago,
a poll that showed Wilson at twenty point eight, Mace
at sixteen to three. Again, Wilson rising at this poll
at twenty two to six, Mace rising to seventeen three. Okay, well,
(30:12):
who else? A Ralph Norman who was just days away
from making his announcement that's coming up Sunday, right, I think, yeah, Sunday,
he's at nine point three. Pamela Evid lieutenant governor who's
already announced, is at eighty four. And Josh Kimberl, who
(30:34):
we just talked about with his litigious issues, as at
one point seven. This is gonna be a problem for
killing again your state senator. Fine and dandy, but you
don't have the name recognition that a Ralph Norman has
as a US congressman, or Pamela Evitt has a lieutenant governor,
(30:55):
or Nancy Mace has as a congresswoman or Allan wil
says his ag. You just you don't have the widespread
name recognition these other individuals have, So kimberl at one
point seven, not where you want to be. They were
about nine point one percent of folks who said they
(31:16):
were supporting some other candidates. Okay, there was another question
they asked in this survey, and this was a night
that we haven't talked about recently, but did get talked
about during this last legislative session. And that was again
on the on casino style gambling here in South Carolina.
You remember a deep pocketed Republican owner wants to build
(31:38):
a casino over in Orangeburg County off of ninety five.
According to that poll, fifty nine point two percent of
respondents were in favor of casinos if they were restricted
to designated zones and the tax revenues were man data
(32:00):
to support programs like schools and roads.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, I'm surprised that number is that high, although we.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Saw a high number member back during the legislative session,
or was a poll about that true?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
It just I almost wonder if there's a caveat there
though that people are saying it should be in a
zone and away from me. Not in my back not.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
In my backyard. No, yeah, it's one hundred percent to
say that, right, right, yeah, not in my backyard. And
quite honestly, I guess where they're looking at. You know,
we won what the guy wants to put this one,
it's really nobody's backyard doesn't look like But anyway, again,
likely GOP voters only thirty five percent opposed the casino's outright,
(32:40):
which is kind It was just surprising. It's surprising. Okay,
So there's some way early numbers for you on the
gubernatorial race here in South Carolina. Been a long way
to go.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
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 3 (33:02):
Seventeen after aight, good morning. Two major stories consuming the
Beltway these days in the country when it comes to politics.
We talked about one of them last half hour, and
that is the Tulsi Gabbard declassification of intelligence documents and
the Obama administration. Even Barack Obama himself, the allegation is
ginned up all the Russian collusion, hoaxed stuff, against Donald
(33:24):
Trump back in twenty sixteen, and the latest of getting
what they've released, it shows that the Russians were aware
of Hillary Clinton's emotional issues she was running for president
and sat on it. Wow. Okay, all that though initially
thought to be just we're gonna throw this out there
to get the mind off of the Epstein story, Well, okay,
(33:46):
there seems to be something to these Tulsi Gabbard releases. Okay,
number one, number two. Did it distract anybody from the
Epstein story? Well, no, not really, not much. No, I
mean there's room for both. Now the latest here and
every day there's something new. Of course, Democrats continue to
(34:07):
hammer the administration over the handling of this. But it's
not just Democrats. Now, the House Oversight Committee James Comer
has officially subpoenaed Galaid Maxwell to come testify in front
of Congress and his committee. Now this is the time when,
of course, the Trump administration is trying to you know,
(34:29):
turn the page on all this. House Republicans are looking
for transparency. Now, can you believe a word she says?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Well, like I said the other day, I think she
probably does hold something in reserve that she's probably kept
close to her vest thinking, Okay, I may need a
get out of jail cards someday. She knew she didn't
need it. There was no reason to bring it up
a trial. But here's a chance for her to, you know,
give somebody some dirt that would at least reduce her
(35:06):
jail sentence. Yeah, and she apparently knows all the dirt.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'm sure she does. So this is this is gonna happen.
It looks like, now again, do we are we are
we privy to this? Will this be a publicly broadcast
that'll tell you a lot right there? Okay, if it's not,
(35:34):
If it's behind closed doors, yeah, some leaks get out.
But will we get everything?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Probably not. If you're gonna do this and if you
want as as a number of Republicans are saying total
transparency on this, this needs to be a public not
behind closed doors session.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Well, the Trump administration is asked that those jury the
court records be unsealed.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
From the grand jury. Yeah, but but now you've got
a judge standing on the way of that and saying
that the court's hands are tied. They have rejected that
bid by the administration to get and people have said, uh,
the illegal people have surmised that what's in that grand
jury transcript probably not something we didn't already know or
(36:18):
or at least think that it's not gonna be the
really juicy stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, and there may not be any really juicy stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
But it's the fact that we haven't been told and
it's almost like a cover up.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Now, has that feel, isn't it? Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
And it's I've been curious to what you know. This
has been interesting the MAGA crowd's reaction. Even as Donald
Trump says this is nothing, this is you know, a Democrat,
you scheme, don't pay any attention, the MAGA crowd is
still very much interested in what's going on. You know.
Donald Trump once said he could walk down Fifth Avenue
and shoot somebody, get away with it, and get away
(36:54):
with it. But the MAGA crowd is so far holding
him accountable. Now, well, that will that effect his poll numbers?
Probably not. I think I think most people probably expect
that Trump's name is mentioned pretty prominently in whatever is
being mentioned is being released about Epstein. But does that
affect the economy?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, no, does that affect your border?
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
No, So it's not the most important issue, but it
is important to the MAGA crowd that they get some
transparency here.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
And the Wall Street Journal yesterday publishing a report that
claims that Pam Bondi told Trump back in May that
his name appeared multiple times in files related to Epstein,
which again is no great surprise, right shock there? Uh?
They reported the Bondy also told Trump that many other
high profile individuals were named in the files, which again,
(37:46):
just because your name is in there doesn't mean you
did anything wrong, but you were associated with but you
were associated with it. And we all know that Trump
was at one time associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I'd be curious about the dates, because you know, Trump
and his folks say at a certain point that they
ended the relationship, that Epstein was banned from mar A Lago,
et cetera. I'd be curious to see if the dates
match up.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
But again, I thought we were told there was basically
no client list. Well, now, again, your name popping up
in a file being associate with Epstein does not make you,
you know, doesn't mean you're on a client list, does
make you a client. Those are two separate things here.
But anyway, there's you know, so so this Wall Street
General story comes out that was in May, and then
you know this following back in February. Hey, we got
(38:31):
all that, we got the client list, We've got all
this stuff we're gonna put out, and then it changes.
So you know the obviously people are going to try
to connect a couple of dots and say, well, Trump
must be on the client list. Well, that doesn't necessarily
say that. But there's more. Now. The House Overside Panel
subcommittee has voted to subpoena a couple other well known
(38:54):
names to testify Bill and Hillary. It should be no
great surprise, right we know that Bill Clinton was on
that jet on multiple occasions. What would Hillary's ties be? Well,
I don't know. Okay, Well, I mean the plot just
(39:16):
con't continues to think it now, doesn't it. So I mean,
we could be looking at here Ghlaide Maxwell testifying in
front of the House Overside Committee. We could be looking
at Bill and Hillary Clinton testify. I will they will
fight that tooth and nail. But if you issue a subpoena,
well you know what you're gonna get. You get saved
(39:38):
that you got by the subpoena is issued for the
Biden administration members. I plead the fifth, I plead the fifth,
I plead the fifth, over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Meanwhile, you could also be seeing, you know, the staunchest
of the Magas supporters like Marjorie Taylor Green taking Trump
to task until these records get completely released.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
So how do you know they've all been released?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Well, then there's that you won't.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Be for something. You won't folks won't be satisfied until
they get some real dirt. You know, when the real
dirt comes out, then okay, good, got it?
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Speaker 3 (40:36):
Has eight forty eight Time for our final thoughts here
for Thursday, July twenty fourth. Oh uh.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Following up on.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Uh, I mentioned this a couple of days ago on
the program, and there's been no movement at least out
as of yesterday afternoon. I don't know how this happens
and why I hadn't been fixed yet. But I still
there is a sign the I twenty exit to number
(41:03):
one in Lexington, which has been redone over the last
ten years. Seems like yeah, and they're still doing something
over there.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I'm not sure what, but they're putting new signage up.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
They're putting up new signage. And as you're getting off,
you're heading, you know, away from Columbia towards Lexington, and
you get off on the on the end of the
exit ramp there where you know you go that way.
You know, you get off the ramp, you take a
right to go to election, you take a left to
go to West Columbia.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Well, somebody at DOT doesn't or whoever they hired to
put up signs doesn't seem to know that, because there's
a sign there that says Columbia.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Airport, go right. And it's still there, and.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
It was still there as of yesterday afternoon. Yes, I
mean I almost stopped because there was some guys working
over off the doing some landscape and stuff or whatever,
so I figured they don't they don't. Almost pulled over
the to the to the shoulder and got out and said, hey,
all have sign's going the wrong way. They said, okay, whatever,
but yeah, this has been like all week now it
(41:58):
is directing traffic that wants to go to the air
Now again nine not out one hundred people around here
gonna know that's wrong. But it just you know, there's
some port sucker is going to get off the interstate.
Never been around there before, and they're gonna take a
rite try to go to the airport and wind up
in the you know, like sn and traffic.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
And you're sure they didn't build some loop when they
were doing all that building that loops around and comes
back the other way unless it's invisible.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
No, okay, fix it.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Please, that's strange.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Somebody a dot call somebody and get them to fix
the stupid sign. Would you already come on? It's embarrassing
all right. Now, it has been confirmed Department of Public
Health has in fact confirmed that the person who we
assume was a child because well was being treated a
(42:45):
children's hospital at Prison of Health, died from that brain
eating ABIBA that it was exposed at ed Lake Murray. Yeah,
first case of this our state since twenty sixteen. Matter
of fact, over the past sixty two years, there have
(43:07):
only been one hundred and sixty seven cases reported nationwide.
It is extremely extremely rare.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
It's gotta happen just right, Yeah, where that bacteria gets
stirred up and then it winds up getting into your
nasal passage is just right.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
You can only infect a person by entering through the nose,
and that's what happened here. Now, despite that, public health
officials say that there's no elevated risk of this at
Lake Murray. They don't want people freaking out. And again,
based on how extremely rare this is, there's no reason too.
But it's it's gonna it'll keep some people out of
(43:43):
the water for a little while till they forget about probably.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I mean, but you could drink the water containing it
and it wouldn't bother you. You could get it in
your ears and it wouldn't bother you. But if you
jump into the water just right and don't hold your
nose there you and you know, I think when we
hear that the children's hospital was involved, and I think
we naturally think, you know, infant toddler, and keep in
(44:06):
mind that could be teenage teenagers.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Yep, absolutely guess Now there are people that are expressing
concerns that there's there's no no testing for this, and
there's not on the national level, the state level, the
local level is and there's not. There are no CDC
nor EPA or requirements or recommendations for routine testing for
this amiba. There's not even a scientific standard for knowing
(44:30):
whether what amount of this is safe or unsafe in
a body of water.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
They make it sound as if, you know, if as
warm as it is right now, as warm as all
the water is, chances are it is there.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, oh yes, oh, it is definitely there. But it's
so unusual to contract it that they don't test for it,
and there's no method for doing that. I guess you've
probably heard the news. Thomas has been updating this morning
on a big drug bust one point seven million dollars
dollars worth of one hundred and fifty six pounds of
(45:02):
fentanyl right here in our state, two traffic stops Lexington,
Richland Counties.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
As deadly as fentanyl is.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
This is what blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
And yet you watch, for example, on Patrol, which has
a presence here in Richland County. I mean, it just
seems like all these drug busts involve fentanyl in one
way or another. People are chasing that elusive, great high,
even though chances are it could kill you.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
And again, that's what I keep hearing. Just a little
little bit of it, a grain a green can kill you.
How are people? I don't know how that works.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
You know, one other little tidbit in this whole Epstein saga.
I don't know if you We didn't talk about it yesterday,
but Roy Black passed away in the last few days.
Roy Black at a time was a very high profile attorney.
He was a Miami attorney, very well known. He defended
a lot of very well known people, including Jeffrey Epstein
(46:15):
at one time. He just died a couple of days ago.
And some people though that's interesting. How old was he? Uh?
He was? He was eighty Okay, Okay, that's yeah. The
family's saying this is kind of nothing to do with
the Epstein scandal. Okay, nothing to do at all, but
you know it is. It's it was curious timing for
(46:35):
some more a law fair, more judicial overreach. A federal
appeals courting now San Francisco ruling yesterday that Trump's ordered
in birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. Okay, yeah, well you expected
that from the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals. Democrats are
hopping mad over this proposal. House Republicans on the Apropriations
(47:00):
Committee have passed emotion to change the name of the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after Millennia Trump. You
know what, I don't blame them.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Wait a minute, they're going to rename the Kennedy Center
or is there a room within the Kennedy's No, they want.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
To rename the Kennedy Center the First Lady Milania Trump
Opera House. Okay, yeah, I don't blame them for that one. Yeah,
I mean, come on, really, And the wife of a
guy who created an anti ice app is complaining now
because she's lost her job as a result of it. Uh,
(47:41):
Carolyn Feinstein. Her employer was the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yeah yeah, that might do it. That might get you canned.
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