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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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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 1 (00:29):
Good morning and happy Friday. Tell you it is Friday morning,
July twenty fifth, sixteen. Now almost gosh, seventeen minutes after
six o'clock. Where's the time going already? Good morning?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Okay, you heard that forecast. It seems like will start
to show every day now with a forecast talking about
the weather. But you know what, when it's.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Triple digits, everybody needs to be on alert.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Is this is this is uh, this is more than
just uncomfortable. I mean this is extreme and it could
be dangerous. I tell you man. We were out to
trimming fronds about uh six sixot thirty yesterday after in
the backyard those palmetto trees. M that's a pain. I thought.
(01:13):
Somebody that ran over me with a pickup truck, not
a pick of a mack truck. Well one of those
one of those that has two trailers behind it. You
know that that that big one right there, right that
piggyback job. My goodness, it's just it's uh yeah, we
have the potential from tomorrow through next Thursday of a
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heat that heated its values between one hundred and and
one hundred and fourteen degrees.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
All right, so that's going to make anything any little
effort exhausting.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yes, so this is this is yeah, this is dangerous. Okay,
very little chance will we get any rain. Won't be
a lot of clouds apparently, Yes, Tyler mentioned there you're talking,
uh you know again, uh, one hundred and one Tomorrow,
one hundred and three Sunday, one hundred, two hundred and
three Monday. I mean this is all the way through
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next thursdays, expecting to get heat the next value tomorrow
by the way of about one hundred and eight. So yeah,
it's it's it's it's it's not just hot, it's it's
dangerously hot. Okay, we now know who the young man
was who lost his life to that brain eating amba
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out at Lake Murray. The family a step forward. They've
hired an attorney. He's been identified as Jason Carr, twelve
years old.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
That's a that's an absolute tragedy. But I'm a little
curious about the hiring of an attorney.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I get it. If the family wants to hire
an attorney to be their spokesperson to deal with the public
and the media and such, I get that.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Do they see I legal avenue ahead?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, this is this is again what the family, according
to a state of the family, has many questions about
how and why Jason died and wants to do everything
in their power to ensure this doesn't happen to another family. Okay,
that's nice. This according to again a statement from the attorney,
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so he's been hired to conduct an independent investigation into
Jason's death. Now, yeah, number one, I appreciate their their
their sentiments, especially a tragic time like this for the family,
of wanting to make sure this isn't happen another family.
You can't stop that. How do you stop that? You can't.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Are they suggesting dominion which owns Lake Murray or or
operates Lake Murray, or the state public health agencies? Are
they suggesting there was some negligence there?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But we'll see. I don't know what's to investigate independently
on this. It is what it is. It's it's tragic,
it's unthinkable. But but it's also mother nature. It's mother nags. Yeah,
so we wish the best for that family. And I
don't know, is there going to be some kind of
a you know, a lawsuit file and if so, against whom,
(04:10):
I don't know who, you who, you could possibly sue
and be successful. All right, Not much happening around here
aside from that, which is most of the attention up
on Capitol Hill, there's a lot happening. It's been pretty
much the two big same stories all week long and
continues to be today. We'll start with the Epstein stuff,
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and we're talking about this. Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General,
saying that he has spoken now with A. Glaine Maxwell,
he will continue his interview with her again today and
that the DJ will share more information about these discussions
at what he called the appropriate time, whatever that is.
(04:52):
So it will be at least two days of the
Deputy ag meeting with Maxwell called the meeting production of
day one. We'll see what happens day two. Again. This
is this is one of these items that is split.
I don't even know if you can say split the
Republican Party. It really hasn't. It's it's split the White
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House from everybody else, it seems. Speaker Johnson saying Epstein,
these Epstein files are, in his words, not a hoax.
He says, they're real victims. Here. The House is moving
forward to doing what he can to try to get
to the bomb of this. Republicans have to do this.
(05:35):
Maga is upset, as you know. House Republicans are mad
at at Pam Bondi, where they say fumbling this saga
so badly. I'm not sure it's all Bonti's fault. I'm
not sure. I think that she's getting her directions straight
from the top. And Republicans are joining the Democrat pushing
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for transparency in this. This is not going to go away.
A House overside committee, a subcommittee is voted to subpoena
the Justice Department for the files, and you have three
Republicans joining Democrats to support the motion, including Nancy Mays
who helped amend the measure that was put up by Democrats,
her Amendment to protect potential victims, but that she is
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joining along with Democrats on that subcommittee to try to
get to the bottom of this. Meantime, the Wall Street
Journal who reported a few days ago that well, there
was a note the birthday book from Donald Trump to Epstein,
which which tells you absolutely nothing now reporting. There was
also an entry from Bill Clinton which also tells you
absolutely nothing. Okay, although Bill and Hillary again there's been
(06:41):
a vote to subpoena them to testify in front of
one of those House committees. There you go. So there's
still plenty of to talk about on that front. On
the Obama administration and the Russian collusion hoax, there's mores
to talk about today, Tulsi Gabbards saying that the DOJ
(07:01):
is forming a strike force to review evidence related to
Russia Gate, and senat Republicans are backing a call for
a special council into well, what was Barack Obama? How
deep was he involved in this? That was a bill
or an effort put forward by John Cornet of Texas
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and by Lindsey Graham. Meantime, the grilling continues in the
House Oversight Committee as to Biden's fitness for office. And again,
up to this point, nobody's really talking. They're all just
taking the fifth And apparently ron Klain, the former chief
of Staff, did answer some questions to House investigators yesterday,
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and among other things, he said that Hillary Clinton, who's
also been in the news for other reasons, but that
Hillary approached him with concerns about Biden's political viability by
twenty twenty four. This was long before he ran for reelection.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Okay, hard to believe Hillary is still weighing in and
having that much or apparently her words carrying that much
weight in that party.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well, I'm not sure they are. I think she just
thinks they are. Okaybody listening to her or not, but
she thinks they are. In Hulk Hogan, man, I didn't
see this one coming. Huh. I'm not sure anyone did.
Cardiac arrest dead at seventy one. Now, you might argue that, well,
you know his lifestyle over the years, in particular in
that industry, and you know steroid use and everything else,
(08:33):
you might be surprised he made it seventy one. To
tell you the truth, We've known plenty of cases of
guys who you know, abused steroids over the years and
didn't get anywhere close to the seventies. But I'm not
saying that was the cause. But still it was unexpected.
He had been active. And then Chuck Mangione died he
was about eighty four. I think they say they come
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in threes, right, Combine that with Ozzy. Yeah, there you
have it and Malcolm Jamal Warner and Malcolm Jamal Warner too. Yeah, yeah,
all right, friends, We'll I get to that more coming
up here on this. It is the Friday morning. Let's
wrap up this work week edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Good to have you with us.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Lexion Orthopedics and Sports Medicine brings you up past game
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Speaker 1 (09:35):
It is six forty two on a Friday morning. Good
morning too. You're going to have you along on Gary
David he is Christopher Thompson right over there to my right.
If you were viewing us on yeah, all the football
play by play guys, Yeah, moving from left to right
on your radio dot I don't care, yeah, exactly right.
Other on the lighter side, oh okay, well not not
(09:56):
light for the people involved, but for the rest of us,
because it's been a you know, that's a good but
a good distraction for the last week or so. Yeah,
the astronomer story, the kiss cam Ah Now Kristin Cabot,
who was the the the other half of this story,
has also resigned her position.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Well, it would have been a little unfair, if you know,
he would have lost his job and she would have
stuck around. This is the coldplate concert called kiss Cam. Yeah,
so she's out. They were both married, well, and we
knew he was, and at first they weren't sure if
(10:35):
she was or not, so they was divorced.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
But then I saw some story that she was married.
So yeah, well anyway, yeah, at this point in time,
does their relationship continue? You know, this happened with who
were those two? It was an ABC?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yes, Good Morning America.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Good Morning American. Remember that story. Are they still together?
They are?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Okay, and their spouses are together, or their former spouses
got together and they are a couple now my good Yeah, okay, okay,
I guess they took comfort in each other and suppose
yeah this is Amy roll Back and TJ.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Holmesj Home. Yes, okay, so this is well, so yeah,
well these two stay together. Who knows? But the new
CEO Astronomer don't feel bad for that company because uh,
he's like, well, yeah, this just kind of put us
on the map. Man.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
True, I'd never heard of the company before.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Uh uh, I don't even know what they do. It's astronomer,
so I got a it's a tech company. Yeah, but
exactly what they do, I have no idea, but we
don't care. It's just it's been a I don't I'm
not on social media that often. If I bring up
my Facebook feed, that's all I see her, and everybody's
using that meme for everything else now right, No, that
(11:53):
won't last long. But well, oh, I hesitate to bring
this up because I know it's a sore spot for you,
mister Thompson. Oh but the the latest one I saw
was a meme that had the picture of them as
he was had his arms around her, and then the
picture of her the next one her or her hands
to her face. Oh and it was captioned, Uh, well,
it was that Super Bowl that the Atlanta Falcons call Patriots. Yeah,
(12:16):
there's no yas to bring that up, So anybody there's
that Now on a more serious side, okay, regardless of
everything else that is is embroiling DC right now with
with this Epstein thing and everything else going on. This
one is something that at some point in time they're
(12:38):
gonna have to figure out or they're gonna have big
problems in their hands. We know that, you know, we're
looking at the potential for cuts and benefits for Social
Security recipients. Well, a new analysis is out now. It's projecting.
I think the last time I saw the last analysis
was like a nineteen percent cut. This one says a
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twenty four cut so security benefits by late twenty thirty two,
So in just seven years, that's equal to about an
eighteen thousand dollars annual benefit cut for a dual earning
couple who both retire in twenty thirty three. There might
(13:21):
also be an eleven percent cut in Medicare hospital payments.
This is a problem. Okay, this is a problem. Now.
Back in the eighties, the last time that the trust
Fund was added to a shortfall, Congress did act, but
not until like the last minute, and they did that
(13:42):
by raising the age of retirement and beginning to tax benefits.
I don't know what the answer is here, but nobody
really thinks that Congress just sit back and not do anything.
Can you imagine the vault they'll have on their hands
if this comes to pass. Remember, you get the trust fund,
(14:07):
which is this is where this money would would evaporate
from what's going belly up here. Still people will be
paying into the system. So this is why it's a
you know, in this case, in this analysis, seventy six
percent of benefits would remain. That's from people still paying
into the system that are working. But it's you know,
that that other part, that trust fund, that makes up
(14:29):
a difference. And this is where the problem is. But again,
and we've talked about this often with the whole artificial
intelligence thing. What what happens when you know, there are
some people that are saying that, you know, I mean,
fifty percent of jobs could be lost one of these
days to artificial intelligence. Well that has obviously, you know,
(14:54):
ramifications for those who lost their jobs, but also ramifications
for the Sale Security Fund. Right few people paying into it.
What happens then, so huh? I don't know, Well, doubtful
that Congress won't do something. But regardless, it's going to
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be painful no matter what, because what they're gonna have
to do is either a razor retirement age. Again, I know,
for me, I mean, I'm I'm not even eligible for
my I don't hit my full retirement age, so our
social security is concerned until next April. For me, it's
sixty six years and ten months. If you're a little
younger than me, it's you know, it's sixty seven. Oh,
(15:41):
you can take it earlier, sure, but for to you know,
to get the full benefit. If you can wait to
your seventy then you gain more. So I'm researching all
these things these Days'm getting to that point in life, right,
I'm sure you are.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, but you know, I think Doze was an indicator
that we can we can dance around these subjects. But eventually,
even these type of programs that are so important, that
are so critical and that everyone declares are like a
third rail. You can't touch those. Everything has to be
on the table. Yeah, and this is on the table
(16:16):
right now because it as is as you pointed out,
it's it's unsustainable. So why cover our eyes and say, well, no,
but we can't touch that. It's you know, it's politically
it's suicide. And you know, we just we owe it
to the American people to keep doing what we're doing. Okay,
So we go into bankruptcy even deeper. We can't pay
(16:39):
the next generation. Got to address it sometime at some point.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
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Speaker 1 (16:57):
I'm seriously talking to my dog about learning how to
use the toilet or maybe the cap box. We're having
lengthy discussions over this.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I'd like to hear that conversation sometimes. Well, it was
pretty one side today, I would hope.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
So you don't want to take the dog off for
a walk in this stuff, man, right, I mean this
is again, I don't know what I was thinking last night.
I mentioned earlier I was cutting dead fronds off of
palmeto tree in the backyard. Well, it was Anne's idea.
I don't know what we were thinking. That was brutal. Yeah,
(17:32):
you ride at the ballpark last night, right, mentioned talk? Yes,
I mean you know how much I love baseball. I
don't want to you got to see a baseball game, man, Unfortunately,
in this heat, it's a slog Before eight o'clock. Goodness,
the sun finally starts to set. So I don't know
what the what the popular time for long work is
(17:52):
going to be this weekend at three am. Don't be
upset if you hear your neighbor out there, you know,
before you wake up, you know, or like a five
Thirtymorrow morning with a lawnmower going. You can't. You can't
blame them, cannon, you can't. Goodness sakes, all right, Well,
uh take all the precautions necessary. Is this heat domain
going anywhere anytime soon? I don't know. We look ahead here,
(18:19):
we know we got triple digits through Tuesday at one
hundred and one. This is a look at the National
Weather Service outlook. Now this is this heat dome. Yeah,
the heat dome. And we're talking airtamps here one hundred
and one Wednesday, ninety nine Thursday. It's gonna be all
next week too. And again he did, he did. Its
values during this run could could run between one hundred
and ten and one hundred and fourteen degrees. It's just
(18:43):
that's just inappropriate. Man. He'll be careful, all right. The
Epstein story consuming everything, Uh oh no. The the Tulsty
Gabbard bombshell a week ago last Friday certainly has become
another story. That's that's been a big story, but it
hasn't lessened the attention paid to this, and again the
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administration trying their best to move on from it, but
to deal with at the same time. And the latest,
as you started Fox mentioned, is the Deputy Attorney General
Todd Blanche spent an entire day interviewing a Glaine Maxwell yesterday.
He says that an interview will continue today, so it'll
(19:27):
be two straight days of interviews, and that the DOJ
will and his words on an ex post, share additional
information about what we learned at the appropriate time. I
think the appropriate time is like now, yeah, I would
think okay. According to Maxwell's attorney, she answered every question.
(19:54):
He claimed that she answered every question honestly. Well, we
don't know. Never did invoke her privileged to take the
Fifth Amendment, not on anything, never declined to answer. So
two days worth of interviews, that's a lot of information.
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Will anything be gleaned from it? Does Todd Blanche know
right now some things that we don't know? And if so,
will that be shared with the general public at some
point in time it's gonna to make this story go away? Well,
I don't know what's gonna make the story go away
at this point. And the other question is what does
(20:36):
she get out of it, right, she'll get something, something
more than you know, extra rations. So uh yeah, DJ
called it a productive meeting. Well, we'll see how productive
it is now. It's it's been fascinating to watch this,
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and I suppose for the trumpet illustration, the only uh,
the only saving grace in this is that it didn't
happen there in the first couple of months of the
presidency when Trump was trying to get so much done.
Because right now nothing's getting done. I mean, he's you know,
the House of Representatives declared an early recess.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Sent home, so they didn't have to fight it out
over whether they were going to have a vote on
it or not.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Right the House Speaker, in an interview that aired yesterday
with Major Garrett Over at CBS News, do you think
his first name is really major? Anyway? Ask if it
was a hoax, that that that the uh, the Epstein
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files are a hoax. He says, it's not a hoax,
of course not. They're real victims here. That's part of
a delicate balance. It's being done.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Well, remember the Speaker, he said, oh, we've got to
get out on this. We've we got to get out
in front of it. We've got to hear everything there
is to hear. We need the list, we need every
and then he got a call from the White House
and then he said, well, I don't know if we
need to hear all that, but you know, as long
as justice gets done, I'm not sure we need to
know names and everything. His story completely changed as soon
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as he heard from the folks over the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Well, I mean justice has been done right. Epstein was
in jail before he or did not off himself. Maxwell's
in jail, all right, But who else? If there are
other people on that list?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Right, and you know whether a list exists or not,
whether there were other people that could have been sexually
abusing younger women on that island, for example, then I'm
not sure justice has been done well.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And that's why there needs to be a list produced.
You don't need to produce the list. You bring the
people to justice, then we know who they are, right.
You don't have some secret trial somewhere. It's public knowledge.
Someone's arrested and facing you know, a conviction on that,
then we all know. So yeah, I mean, short of
releasing a list. Justice has been done for the only
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people we know that justice needs to be served for.
But who else needs to be punished? Well, there's got
to be more, right, There's got to be more. And
this is no longer just a Democrat thing. It hasn't
been just a Democrat thing. Latest here House Oversights Subcommittee
has voted to subpoena the DJ files. The three Republicans
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or three the Republicans on that panel joined all the
Democrats to support the motion. Among those Nancy Bass who
supports the motion to subpoena the DJ for all the
files they've got on this.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
It would be really hard to be somebody like Nancy Mays,
who has been so strong in her support of women's rights,
and she has.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Her own personal story.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
It would be really hard to be Nancy Mace and
not write to support whatever comes out of this.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
We need to know more. Yeah, she helped him in
the measure to try to protect the potential victims.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yeah, No, I mean I don't need to necessarily know
victims' names. I certainly don't need to see. No, we
don't need to know that, especially if you know, if
there are reports that he had security cameras everywhere but
then there are other reports that said it was just
to make sure he didn't get anything, that he'd had
thieves in his home at times, and he just wanted
to make sure nothing was I don't know if there
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are any tapes that exist, but if there are, we
don't need to see it. But the people involved need
to be punished.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
This story will not go away until somebody's got at
least some some major players gotta have to take a
fall here.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Well, I could, I could think of somebody who would
be the sacrificial lamb if it were to happened, a
very high profile royal.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, yeah, I knew where you're going with that. Yeah,
let's go ahead and serve him up right, he's got
to be quaking in his boots right about now. Huh wow,
he's already, he's already on the outs with the royal family. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
This this this goes all the way back to his
mother when she was still alive.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, hear about it. We've had multiple Democrats politicians talk
about it, throning people and incited violence.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
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Speaker 1 (25:45):
It is seven forty one, good morning, and good to
have you along. From Friday July to the twenty fifth,
so we we have more information about the h the
death from the the brain eating a meba. It's just
it's just a brain eating a meba. It's like something
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out of a science fiction movie or something, but it's
unfortunately very real. And it was a twelve year old
Jason Carr who I didn't realize this. He died last Friday.
(26:27):
When did we first hear this story about a patient
who had contracted it? It was earlier this week, right,
I think so, like maybe Monday, but Tuesday, I don't
recall now, But he died last Friday. Kind of weird
(26:49):
how they rolled that out, Yeah, to find out about
it after the fact is not unusual, but it was
the the report after the fact that for days we
didn't know until what yesterday that he had died. We
had a couple of days of you know, somebody had
contracted it somewhere in the state, blah blah blah blah.
(27:13):
But he's been he passed last Friday. Okay, that's kind
of curious how this information was released. But bottom line
is a twelve year old's dad from again, as you know,
a very rare, very rare thing. He was a student
at Hand Middle School. Yeah, this happened at Lake Murray. Now,
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the family has hired an attorney who's released a statement
saying in part that the family is grateful for the
outpouring of love and support, that the family has many
questions about how and why Jason died and wants to
(27:59):
do everything in their power to ensure this doesn't happen
to another family, and then went on to thank the
doctors and nurses at Prison Shilder's Hospital.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Well, that's very benevolent of them to, you know, want
to do something to make sure it doesn't happen to
any other family. I'm sure they're you know, waiting through
all the all the the tragic feelings now and mourning
and everything else. But I just wonder when you hire
an attorney, Yeah, maybe that attorney's serving as your spokesperson,
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but it just sounds like you're considering a lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Well, the Post and Couriers right up on this says
that the family hired a car to conduct an independent
investigation and to their son's death. Again, I mean, what's
to investigate? Yeah, I'm just I'm not sure who you
(28:59):
find lie, right, we don't do testing. There's no federal
or state requirement that testing for this be done anywhere
in the country. And again, because it is so incredibly rare,
I would guess that if you were to test every
(29:24):
body of water in this state right now, you'd probably
find this amieba in there. Uh. We're just that these
are the conditions that are that are right for this
to happen. But again, the only way it can infect
a brain is to go in through the nasal passages.
So not only is it just rare that it happens
(29:46):
to begin with it, again, the way you contract this
is also just this that's the only way. I don't Yeah,
I don't know what. I don't know what to investigate here.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
But if it turns out they find something or this
attorney finds something that prevents another family, another child from
going through this, then well absolutely, then it's worth it.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Absolutely. And you know, I'm going to have to write now,
based on the statements, assume that's all they want to do. Now,
I don't know what that's something you can do is
quite honestly, you know, aside from testing. And yeah, it
feels strange to say this because we're talking about a
very tragic situation. But I mean, for something that's as
(30:32):
unusual as this to happen, I'm guessing all these years
there's never been any you know, requirements to test, because
it's just it'd be a lot of money and time
spent for something that almost never happens, but it did
in this case. They do bacteria testing on rivers all
(30:52):
the time. You go walk the riverfronts in Columbia, West Columbia,
you'll see the signs, but they don't test for this, So, uh,
what a story man. Now they continue to stress that, hey,
it's it's safe as women lake Bury or anywhere else.
(31:13):
But if you're so concerned, they say, stay out of
any warm lakes, ponds or other bodies of fresh water.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
If you do get in, don't don't stir it up
with your feet. Don't start up with your feet, right,
apparently that's where it Yeah, lingers. And then once you
stir it up, you want to keep your nose closed.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, if you if you're gonna die, jump in or
dive into the water, use a nose clip or yeah,
or hold your nose wow.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning news on one oh
three point five FM on five sixty am w VOC,
once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It is almost sixteen a half eight o'clock in the morning,
and welcome to a Friday. It's the twenty fifth scorching
day of the month of July, and it is going
to get more scorching from here, so brace yourselves for
that and take all precautions necessary. It's good to have
you with us. I'm Gary David. Christopher Thompson is joining
us as well. By the way, I wanted to mention
this real quick, JT. JT's fame. You know. JT. Gondolfo
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recently awarded the highest civilian honor you get here in
this state. That was the Order of the Palmetto and
he was given it by to by this guy right here,
Alan Wilson, our state's attorney general, who joined us. Now,
Good morning, sir, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
How are you well.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
We have practicing to be governor there and I said,
that's a governor thing, isn't it usually?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
And what normally it is, But the governor was out
of town and the Gondolfo family honored me by asking
me to surprise JT with that incredible recognition by the governor,
So I was honored.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
To do it. Yeah, dude does a lot of stuff
for a lot of folks around here other than just
sell cars. He really does. All right, Well, let's start
off with a little ag news first, and then we get
to want to talk about you know, this this gubernatorial
race here. Of course, I know we had gosh, what
was it to ago the news of that huge fentanyl bust? Yeah? Man,
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how much of this stuff is floating around? This statement
is we've seen a lot of these.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Well, Gary, when people ask me what keeps you up
at night, I tell them the sentinel crisis is one
of those things that keeps me up at night because
it is hard to find someone who doesn't know of
a family or a family friend who has lost someone
or been impacted by the sentinel epidemic in this country.
The bus that you just referred to was here in
Lexington County.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
It was.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
It was a bus orchestrated by the DEA in coordination
with Lexington County Richland County sled other local law enforcement agencies.
The fentanyl truck or the bus busted a truckload of
sentinel I think about fifty six pounds, which is enough
to kill thirty six million people. And I think they
were about forty four pounds of meth in the truck
as well. And one of these individuals had been that
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was driving the truck had been deported twice. So it's
very very serious stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I've never understood how, like you said that there was
enough to kill thirty six billion people, How does anybody
come in contact with us and not die? How does
that work? Well? Anyway as a whole other story.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
That's why it's so serious, and that's why we're taking
it serious, and that's why we've doubled our efforts in
the state Grand Jury, working with state officials at the
state level to partner with our federal partners to go
after these people and to lock them up. That's why
I was in Washington, d C. To support the Hawk
Fentinel bill signing by President Trump. Yeah, that's why I
lobbied for the homicide by Sentinel bill and the General
Assembly this past year.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yeah, thankfully that well, maybe he didn't have the teeth
some think it could have, but it got done anyway. Well,
another tidbit here on for the hat you're currently wearing
as an attorney general is you were leading a multi
state coalition to ban divisive content from schools. Tell us
about that.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Well, yeah, this past year, the state legislature passed the
budget proviso that prohibited state appropriated dollars going to support
or prohibited the superintendent of Education from which she's in
very much in favor this, by the way, from using
state appropriated funds to support sexually and racially divisive materials.
There's curriculum out there that teaches that one raises inherently
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inferior or superior based on the racial makeup of a group,
And there's instructional material out there that talks about people
sexuality and these. This budget provider prohibited schools from teaching
that stuff that they're receiving state taxpayer funds. You know, obviously,
the state was sued, the superintendent was sued by a
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group of teachers and some students in the NAACP. I
led a seventeen state coalition and a Friend of the
Court brief supporting and defending that proviso and supporting and
defending the state Superintendent of Education who was the target.
So our goal is to defend that and keep that
stuff out of our schools absolutely.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Now, as attorney General, you are the state's top cop.
And well word this week that you got a lot
of cops in this case of sheriffs who are supporting
your camp paying for governor. What twenty two out of
the thirty one we've got Republican sheriff's for state.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah. Yeah, It's incredible. And I've only been in this
race just over four weeks, and as of Monday of
this week, twenty two sheriffs have formally stepped out and
publicly endorsed me. I do expect, we do expect others
will be coming in the not too distant future. But
I'm incredibly honored by the overwhelming support that I have
received thus far from our law enforcement community.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
And as the Post and Courier pointed out a couple
of days ago, most notably every sheriff in the Low
Country that makes up Nancy Mason's first congressional district.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Like I said, I'm going to every corner of the state.
I'm reaching out to law enforcement, and they've got my
back because they know I've had their back for the
last fourteen years. And again, you know, people who are
electing a governor want a governor that's going to keep
South Carolina safe. And knowing that the state elected law
enforcement leaders have recognized me as the best candidate to
do that is a true honor for me.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Now, we mentioned yesterday there was a poll from a
Beltway Side of the belt Way polling firm that has
you out in front right now in this race. I
want to say, off top of my head, I don't
remember now. I'm sure you're familiar with it anything we
heard about it. But I think about twenty three percent
support and the Nancy Mason about eighteen. I guess I
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was a field that will probably get a little more crowded.
I guess we were expecting an announcement sometime this weekend
from Ralph Norman, but it was really, according to that poll,
at least, it was pretty much a two horse race.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Well, look, polls are great. The only poll that I
care about is the one that is on next June
the ninth. That is the most important poll on the
election day. But you know, it's nice to see outside polls.
You know, we weren't behind this poll. So to see
an independent poll come out that, you know, I think
the numbers that I saw the after voters received information
about all the candidates, I think my number grew twenty
seven percent, which is nearly a double digit lead over
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the number two person. But you know, to see that
I'm being recognized as a leader in every leadership trait
almost every demographic of the state, especially for Republican primary voters,
is very reassuring. It means our message is resonating with people,
and we're going to continue to push it out there
for the next eleven months.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I'm not going to ask you to divulge it, but
I'm gonna I'm guessing that your campaign is doing its
own internal polling. I mean, all campaigns do or are
you doing it this early?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
We have not in the past. We have done some
internal polling, haven't. I have not done anything in several months.
But you know, all the trends that I'm seeing are
similar to what we're seeing in the polls that are
being publicly released.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Okay, well, we got a waste to go before we
get to June. And I keep saying this over and
over again, June ninth is really in this state. All
that matters when it comes to a state wide office
unless something really, really really weird were to happen. Whoever
that dominee is coming out of that primary June ninth,
was going to be going to be our next governor.
But we still got a ways to go there. I mean,
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how do you fill up your tie? That's a long
way to go between.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Now it did well, It's a marathon, not a sprint.
I mean, people ask me all the time, how do
you do it? First, I have great people around me.
I've got a very supportive family and my wife Jennifer
has been incredible, my two children, Michael and Anna Grace.
If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to
do this. And of course I got a good staff
people that are helping me along the way. Gary, like
I said, it's a marathon, you got to pay yourself.
(39:19):
You know you don't. You don't start out the gate
running as fast as you can on the marathon. You
just pay yourself. You go county to the county, community
to community, person to person, and you tell your story
and you let them ask you questions and you be
open and I think people really respond to that and
that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
All right. Well, we catch up with you about twice
a month, give or take, so we'll talk to you
and I'm sure in just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Yes, sir, thank you. Have a wonderful day, Gary, you.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Too, buy all right. Allan Wilson our state's attorney general,
and they running for the republic no nomination for governor.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
The hottest talk the reason I'm calling can happen here.
I believe that we're all laved here working for the government.
One on three point five FM and five sixty AF
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and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM
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Speaker 1 (40:11):
It's eight forty our final thoughts for Friday, July twenty fifth.
First up, this note in the public interest. Beer is
not a hydration beverage, Okay, it actually is just the opposite,
so water. The next number of days with this heat
dough moving in, So I'll just mention that the air
(40:32):
tempts we're looking at well between tomorrow and next Thursday,
the potential of heated X values that are between one
hundred and ten and one hundred and fourteen degrees and
that's pretty much statewide. There's nowhere. I guess if you
go up to Greenville and get some higher elevations, you'll
get a couple degree break. But I mean it's it's
just everywhere. It's dangerous. Yeah, there's no escape now. Yeah,
(41:00):
and beer is not a hydrator. Okay. The DOJ forming
a strike force, says Tulsa Gabbard, to review evidence related
to Russia Gate. Again, we've talked about this a lot
this week, So is everybody else? How involved? Was even
(41:24):
Barack Obama in this? And might there be again criminal referrals?
She's already asked the DJ to look into that. Meantime,
you've got a move on in the Senate where a
handful of Senate Republicans accord to the Hill offering support
(41:45):
by a move to get a special counsel to investigate
former President Obama in regards to the twenty twenty the
twenty sixteen election. I should say that was a move
put forward by John Corn of Texas and by Lends Graham.
They're calling for special counsel. This is for the Russia Gates,
(42:09):
not for the Epstein. The Senate's been a little quiet
about the Epstein thing, haven't they. The House has been
very vocal about it. We haven't heard anywhere near as
much out of the Senate over this.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Yeah, I think you're right, although they've been tied up
with other things too, But yeah, you haven't heard as
much from prominent senators as you have from House members.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
And apparently those senators are very upset with the House
for taking this early recess. They're not happy at all
about that. I think everyone knows the why why they
took it. Yes, we finally have somebody to actually talk
in front of that House Overside committee on Joe Biden's
viability to have been president for the last year or
so of his tenure. Ron Klain, the former chief of staff,
(42:54):
is the first of now what four I guess to testify,
who actually answered questions and just take the fifth over
and over and over again. Among the interesting things apparently
he said was he was approached by Hillary Clinton with
concerns about Biden's political viability. And that goes back a
(43:17):
couple of years, right, Yes, yes, that was before you
know it all melted down in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Now, now Clain did say that, yeah, you know, it was.
It was obvious at his age he was slipping, he'd
forget things, blah blah, bob. But that he felt like
he could have led the country for another four years.
That's just that's just lunacy right there.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
And to be let's be fair, Clain and Biden if
had a and on again, off again a relationship.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Yes, so yeah, but he did talk. The first of
many and more to come. Trump signed an executive order
yesterday making it easier for cities to remove homeless people
from the streets. The White House fact sheet on this
executive order claiming that the number of individuals living on
(44:11):
the streets in this country on a single night during
the last year of the Biden administration two hundred and
seventy four and twenty four.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Okay, I have one question that the efforts sounds great,
but where are these people going? If you're taking them
off the street, where are they going to be put?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Well, yeah, that's a that's a good question. Now, this
is a growing problem right here right around this area.
I mean, it's been a problem for long. It seems
to be getting worse.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
You're talking about homeless in general or mentally ill, well.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Homeless in general yeah, okay. Yeah. In general, funding from
this order ensures, accord to the fact sheet, that homeless
people who suffer from mental illness or addiction issues are
moved to the treatment facilities. I don't know that we
have that many treatment facilities.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
I don't think we do. That's why I'm asking where
are we putting these people?
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (45:13):
Get them off the street?
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Great? Where do they go to? Then? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (45:16):
And what you said funding?
Speaker 1 (45:19):
I did say funding.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
Where's the money coming from?
Speaker 1 (45:22):
You and me? Come on, man, you know that George
Santos off to the big house.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
He's not there yet.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
No, No, he starts. Uh. I think today he starts
swerving his federal print sentence. Remember fraud and identity theft.
He's going away for well seven years and he's going
out with a bag posting on X well, darlings. The
(45:52):
curtain falls, the spotlight dims, and the right stunes are packed.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
That's what That's what will kill in the most is
being in a place where he can regularly post and
get publicity.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Yeah right, Well, you know New York voters do some
crazy stuff.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
Man, You think you run an You think he runs
again in seven years and wins.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
I wouldn't be shocked at all is the state that's
given us? You know, I mean Montdami Anthony Wiener, although
they finally turned their back on him. Crazy. A school
district up in North Carolina, in order to admit their mistake,
issued a policy and fork over twenty grand and a
few other things after they were sued for suspending a
(46:36):
sixteen year old student who used the term illegal aliens. Wow,
that gets you suspended? Huh. This was during an English
class discussion where the student retorted, do you mean space
aliens or illegal aliens who need green cards? To a question? Wow,
(46:58):
he was suspended soon, didn't one? And the passing a
whole cogan. I mean nobody had that on their BINGO
card yesterday, right, I don't think so? Wow.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
I mean he'd had to think some hip surgery and
some next surgery nex fusion recently. I mean, you know,
those guys put such a their lifestyle took such a
tremendous toll on their bodies.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's fake, but still it hurts, yeah,
you know, and it wears you down.
Speaker 4 (47:24):
And that's before the first drug goes into their body.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yeah. And I'm gonna say you you typically and especially
as you get up in years, you don't have that
kind of a body without some help. Yeah, okay, and
well no doubt that that well, obviously it puts a
lot of stress on the old ticker. And that's what
did Hule cogin in. And I'm just waiting for it,
and I'm sure it's already out there, the left to
spew off their victory all because you know, the Haulksterra
was a big Trump supporter, you.
Speaker 4 (47:48):
Know that's right, yeah, right, he did a big appearance
at the convention.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
Yes he did. So expect the left to be, you know,
well like somewhere with Ozzy Osbourne because Ozzie did play
the concert in Israel a number of years ago. You
had someone on the left spewing hatred towards Ozzie after
his passing because of that. But that's the one, the
the party that cares about people, right, so they keep
telling us
Hollesus fright. Hell yeah, same America and Jerylling for reus
formation is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Good morning and happy Friday. Tell you it is Friday morning,
July twenty fifth, sixteen. Now almost gosh, seventeen minutes after
six o'clock. Where's the time going already? Good morning?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Okay, you heard that forecast. It seems like will start
to show every day now with a forecast talking about
the weather. But you know what, when it's.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Triple digits, everybody needs to be on alert.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Is this is this is uh, this is more than
just uncomfortable. I mean this is extreme and it could
be dangerous. I tell you man. We were out to
trimming fronds about uh six sixot thirty yesterday after in
the backyard those palmetto trees. M that's a pain. I thought.
(01:13):
Somebody that ran over me with a pickup truck, not
a pick of a mack truck. Well one of those
one of those that has two trailers behind it. You
know that that that big one right there, right that
piggyback job. My goodness, it's just it's uh yeah, we
have the potential from tomorrow through next Thursday of a
(01:33):
heat that heated its values between one hundred and and
one hundred and fourteen degrees.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
All right, so that's going to make anything any little
effort exhausting.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yes, so this is this is yeah, this is dangerous. Okay,
very little chance will we get any rain. Won't be
a lot of clouds apparently, Yes, Tyler mentioned there you're talking,
uh you know again, uh, one hundred and one Tomorrow,
one hundred and three Sunday, one hundred, two hundred and
three Monday. I mean this is all the way through
(02:02):
next thursdays, expecting to get heat the next value tomorrow
by the way of about one hundred and eight. So yeah,
it's it's it's it's it's not just hot, it's it's
dangerously hot. Okay, we now know who the young man
was who lost his life to that brain eating amba
(02:24):
out at Lake Murray. The family a step forward. They've
hired an attorney. He's been identified as Jason Carr, twelve
years old.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
That's a that's an absolute tragedy. But I'm a little
curious about the hiring of an attorney.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I get it. If the family wants to hire
an attorney to be their spokesperson to deal with the public
and the media and such, I get that.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Do they see I legal avenue ahead?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, this is this is again what the family, according
to a state of the family, has many questions about
how and why Jason died and wants to do everything
in their power to ensure this doesn't happen to another family. Okay,
that's nice. This according to again a statement from the attorney,
(03:11):
so he's been hired to conduct an independent investigation into
Jason's death. Now, yeah, number one, I appreciate their their
their sentiments, especially a tragic time like this for the family,
of wanting to make sure this isn't happen another family.
You can't stop that. How do you stop that? You can't.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Are they suggesting dominion which owns Lake Murray or or
operates Lake Murray, or the state public health agencies? Are
they suggesting there was some negligence there?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But we'll see. I don't know what's to investigate independently
on this. It is what it is. It's it's tragic,
it's unthinkable. But but it's also mother nature. It's mother nags. Yeah,
so we wish the best for that family. And I
don't know, is there going to be some kind of
a you know, a lawsuit file and if so, against whom,
(04:10):
I don't know who, you who, you could possibly sue
and be successful. All right, Not much happening around here
aside from that, which is most of the attention up
on Capitol Hill, there's a lot happening. It's been pretty
much the two big same stories all week long and
continues to be today. We'll start with the Epstein stuff,
(04:30):
and we're talking about this. Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General,
saying that he has spoken now with A. Glaine Maxwell,
he will continue his interview with her again today and
that the DJ will share more information about these discussions
at what he called the appropriate time, whatever that is.
(04:52):
So it will be at least two days of the
Deputy ag meeting with Maxwell called the meeting production of
day one. We'll see what happens day two. Again. This
is this is one of these items that is split.
I don't even know if you can say split the
Republican Party. It really hasn't. It's it's split the White
(05:12):
House from everybody else, it seems. Speaker Johnson saying Epstein,
these Epstein files are, in his words, not a hoax.
He says, they're real victims. Here. The House is moving
forward to doing what he can to try to get
to the bomb of this. Republicans have to do this.
(05:35):
Maga is upset, as you know. House Republicans are mad
at at Pam Bondi, where they say fumbling this saga
so badly. I'm not sure it's all Bonti's fault. I'm
not sure. I think that she's getting her directions straight
from the top. And Republicans are joining the Democrat pushing
(05:55):
for transparency in this. This is not going to go away.
A House overside committee, a subcommittee is voted to subpoena
the Justice Department for the files, and you have three
Republicans joining Democrats to support the motion, including Nancy Mays
who helped amend the measure that was put up by Democrats,
her Amendment to protect potential victims, but that she is
(06:17):
joining along with Democrats on that subcommittee to try to
get to the bottom of this. Meantime, the Wall Street
Journal who reported a few days ago that well, there
was a note the birthday book from Donald Trump to Epstein,
which which tells you absolutely nothing now reporting. There was
also an entry from Bill Clinton which also tells you
absolutely nothing. Okay, although Bill and Hillary again there's been
(06:41):
a vote to subpoena them to testify in front of
one of those House committees. There you go. So there's
still plenty of to talk about on that front. On
the Obama administration and the Russian collusion hoax, there's mores
to talk about today, Tulsi Gabbards saying that the DOJ
(07:01):
is forming a strike force to review evidence related to
Russia Gate, and senat Republicans are backing a call for
a special council into well, what was Barack Obama? How
deep was he involved in this? That was a bill
or an effort put forward by John Cornet of Texas
(07:22):
and by Lindsey Graham. Meantime, the grilling continues in the
House Oversight Committee as to Biden's fitness for office. And again,
up to this point, nobody's really talking. They're all just
taking the fifth And apparently ron Klain, the former chief
of Staff, did answer some questions to House investigators yesterday,
(07:42):
and among other things, he said that Hillary Clinton, who's
also been in the news for other reasons, but that
Hillary approached him with concerns about Biden's political viability by
twenty twenty four. This was long before he ran for reelection.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Okay, hard to believe Hillary is still weighing in and
having that much or apparently her words carrying that much
weight in that party.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well, I'm not sure they are. I think she just
thinks they are. Okaybody listening to her or not, but
she thinks they are. In Hulk Hogan, man, I didn't
see this one coming. Huh. I'm not sure anyone did.
Cardiac arrest dead at seventy one. Now, you might argue that, well,
you know his lifestyle over the years, in particular in
that industry, and you know steroid use and everything else,
(08:33):
you might be surprised he made it seventy one. To
tell you the truth, We've known plenty of cases of
guys who you know, abused steroids over the years and
didn't get anywhere close to the seventies. But I'm not
saying that was the cause. But still it was unexpected.
He had been active. And then Chuck Mangione died he
was about eighty four. I think they say they come
(08:54):
in threes, right, Combine that with Ozzy. Yeah, there you
have it and Malcolm Jamal Warner and Malcolm Jamal Warner too. Yeah, yeah,
all right, friends, We'll I get to that more coming
up here on this. It is the Friday morning. Let's
wrap up this work week edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Good to have you with us.
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Speaker 1 (09:35):
It is six forty two on a Friday morning. Good
morning too. You're going to have you along on Gary
David he is Christopher Thompson right over there to my right.
If you were viewing us on yeah, all the football
play by play guys, Yeah, moving from left to right
on your radio dot I don't care, yeah, exactly right.
Other on the lighter side, oh okay, well not not
(09:56):
light for the people involved, but for the rest of us,
because it's been a you know, that's a good but
a good distraction for the last week or so. Yeah,
the astronomer story, the kiss cam Ah Now Kristin Cabot,
who was the the the other half of this story,
has also resigned her position.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Well, it would have been a little unfair, if you know,
he would have lost his job and she would have
stuck around. This is the coldplate concert called kiss Cam. Yeah,
so she's out. They were both married, well, and we
knew he was, and at first they weren't sure if
(10:35):
she was or not, so they was divorced.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
But then I saw some story that she was married.
So yeah, well anyway, yeah, at this point in time,
does their relationship continue? You know, this happened with who
were those two? It was an ABC?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yes, Good Morning America.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Good Morning American. Remember that story. Are they still together?
They are?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Okay, and their spouses are together, or their former spouses
got together and they are a couple now my good Yeah, okay, okay,
I guess they took comfort in each other and suppose
yeah this is Amy roll Back and TJ.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Holmesj Home. Yes, okay, so this is well, so yeah,
well these two stay together. Who knows? But the new
CEO Astronomer don't feel bad for that company because uh,
he's like, well, yeah, this just kind of put us
on the map. Man.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
True, I'd never heard of the company before.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Uh uh, I don't even know what they do. It's astronomer,
so I got a it's a tech company. Yeah, but
exactly what they do, I have no idea, but we
don't care. It's just it's been a I don't I'm
not on social media that often. If I bring up
my Facebook feed, that's all I see her, and everybody's
using that meme for everything else now right, No, that
(11:53):
won't last long. But well, oh, I hesitate to bring
this up because I know it's a sore spot for you,
mister Thompson. Oh but the the latest one I saw
was a meme that had the picture of them as
he was had his arms around her, and then the
picture of her the next one her or her hands
to her face. Oh and it was captioned, Uh, well,
it was that Super Bowl that the Atlanta Falcons call Patriots. Yeah,
(12:16):
there's no yas to bring that up, So anybody there's
that Now on a more serious side, okay, regardless of
everything else that is is embroiling DC right now with
with this Epstein thing and everything else going on. This
one is something that at some point in time they're
(12:38):
gonna have to figure out or they're gonna have big
problems in their hands. We know that, you know, we're
looking at the potential for cuts and benefits for Social
Security recipients. Well, a new analysis is out now. It's projecting.
I think the last time I saw the last analysis
was like a nineteen percent cut. This one says a
(12:59):
twenty four cut so security benefits by late twenty thirty two,
So in just seven years, that's equal to about an
eighteen thousand dollars annual benefit cut for a dual earning
couple who both retire in twenty thirty three. There might
(13:21):
also be an eleven percent cut in Medicare hospital payments.
This is a problem. Okay, this is a problem. Now.
Back in the eighties, the last time that the trust
Fund was added to a shortfall, Congress did act, but
not until like the last minute, and they did that
(13:42):
by raising the age of retirement and beginning to tax benefits.
I don't know what the answer is here, but nobody
really thinks that Congress just sit back and not do anything.
Can you imagine the vault they'll have on their hands
if this comes to pass. Remember, you get the trust fund,
(14:07):
which is this is where this money would would evaporate
from what's going belly up here. Still people will be
paying into the system. So this is why it's a
you know, in this case, in this analysis, seventy six
percent of benefits would remain. That's from people still paying
into the system that are working. But it's you know,
that that other part, that trust fund, that makes up
(14:29):
a difference. And this is where the problem is. But again,
and we've talked about this often with the whole artificial
intelligence thing. What what happens when you know, there are
some people that are saying that, you know, I mean,
fifty percent of jobs could be lost one of these
days to artificial intelligence. Well that has obviously, you know,
(14:54):
ramifications for those who lost their jobs, but also ramifications
for the Sale Security Fund. Right few people paying into it.
What happens then, so huh? I don't know, Well, doubtful
that Congress won't do something. But regardless, it's going to
(15:15):
be painful no matter what, because what they're gonna have
to do is either a razor retirement age. Again, I know,
for me, I mean, I'm I'm not even eligible for
my I don't hit my full retirement age, so our
social security is concerned until next April. For me, it's
sixty six years and ten months. If you're a little
younger than me, it's you know, it's sixty seven. Oh,
(15:41):
you can take it earlier, sure, but for to you know,
to get the full benefit. If you can wait to
your seventy then you gain more. So I'm researching all
these things these Days'm getting to that point in life, right,
I'm sure you are.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, but you know, I think Doze was an indicator
that we can we can dance around these subjects. But eventually,
even these type of programs that are so important, that
are so critical and that everyone declares are like a
third rail. You can't touch those. Everything has to be
on the table. Yeah, and this is on the table
(16:16):
right now because it as is as you pointed out,
it's it's unsustainable. So why cover our eyes and say, well, no,
but we can't touch that. It's you know, it's politically
it's suicide. And you know, we just we owe it
to the American people to keep doing what we're doing. Okay,
So we go into bankruptcy even deeper. We can't pay
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the next generation. Got to address it sometime at some point.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, if you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one
oh three point five FM and five sixty am WVOC,
once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I'm seriously talking to my dog about learning how to
use the toilet or maybe the cap box. We're having
lengthy discussions over this.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I'd like to hear that conversation sometimes. Well, it was
pretty one side today, I would hope.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
So you don't want to take the dog off for
a walk in this stuff, man, right, I mean this
is again, I don't know what I was thinking last night.
I mentioned earlier I was cutting dead fronds off of
palmeto tree in the backyard. Well, it was Anne's idea.
I don't know what we were thinking. That was brutal. Yeah,
(17:32):
you ride at the ballpark last night, right, mentioned talk? Yes,
I mean you know how much I love baseball. I
don't want to you got to see a baseball game, man, Unfortunately,
in this heat, it's a slog Before eight o'clock. Goodness,
the sun finally starts to set. So I don't know
what the what the popular time for long work is
(17:52):
going to be this weekend at three am. Don't be
upset if you hear your neighbor out there, you know,
before you wake up, you know, or like a five
Thirtymorrow morning with a lawnmower going. You can't. You can't
blame them, cannon, you can't. Goodness sakes, all right, Well,
uh take all the precautions necessary. Is this heat domain
going anywhere anytime soon? I don't know. We look ahead here,
(18:19):
we know we got triple digits through Tuesday at one
hundred and one. This is a look at the National
Weather Service outlook. Now this is this heat dome. Yeah,
the heat dome. And we're talking airtamps here one hundred
and one Wednesday, ninety nine Thursday. It's gonna be all
next week too. And again he did, he did. Its
values during this run could could run between one hundred
and ten and one hundred and fourteen degrees. It's just
(18:43):
that's just inappropriate. Man. He'll be careful, all right. The
Epstein story consuming everything, Uh oh no. The the Tulsty
Gabbard bombshell a week ago last Friday certainly has become
another story. That's that's been a big story, but it
hasn't lessened the attention paid to this, and again the
(19:06):
administration trying their best to move on from it, but
to deal with at the same time. And the latest,
as you started Fox mentioned, is the Deputy Attorney General
Todd Blanche spent an entire day interviewing a Glaine Maxwell yesterday.
He says that an interview will continue today, so it'll
(19:27):
be two straight days of interviews, and that the DOJ
will and his words on an ex post, share additional
information about what we learned at the appropriate time. I
think the appropriate time is like now, yeah, I would
think okay. According to Maxwell's attorney, she answered every question.
(19:54):
He claimed that she answered every question honestly. Well, we
don't know. Never did invoke her privileged to take the
Fifth Amendment, not on anything, never declined to answer. So
two days worth of interviews, that's a lot of information.
(20:15):
Will anything be gleaned from it? Does Todd Blanche know
right now some things that we don't know? And if so,
will that be shared with the general public at some
point in time it's gonna to make this story go away? Well,
I don't know what's gonna make the story go away
at this point. And the other question is what does
(20:36):
she get out of it, right, she'll get something, something
more than you know, extra rations. So uh yeah, DJ
called it a productive meeting. Well, we'll see how productive
it is now. It's it's been fascinating to watch this,
(20:58):
and I suppose for the trumpet illustration, the only uh,
the only saving grace in this is that it didn't
happen there in the first couple of months of the
presidency when Trump was trying to get so much done.
Because right now nothing's getting done. I mean, he's you know,
the House of Representatives declared an early recess.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Sent home, so they didn't have to fight it out
over whether they were going to have a vote on
it or not.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Right the House Speaker, in an interview that aired yesterday
with Major Garrett Over at CBS News, do you think
his first name is really major? Anyway? Ask if it
was a hoax, that that that the uh, the Epstein
(21:45):
files are a hoax. He says, it's not a hoax,
of course not. They're real victims here. That's part of
a delicate balance. It's being done.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Well, remember the Speaker, he said, oh, we've got to
get out on this. We've we got to get out
in front of it. We've got to hear everything there
is to hear. We need the list, we need every
and then he got a call from the White House
and then he said, well, I don't know if we
need to hear all that, but you know, as long
as justice gets done, I'm not sure we need to
know names and everything. His story completely changed as soon
(22:16):
as he heard from the folks over the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Well, I mean justice has been done right. Epstein was
in jail before he or did not off himself. Maxwell's
in jail, all right, But who else? If there are
other people on that list?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Right, and you know whether a list exists or not,
whether there were other people that could have been sexually
abusing younger women on that island, for example, then I'm
not sure justice has been done well.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And that's why there needs to be a list produced.
You don't need to produce the list. You bring the
people to justice, then we know who they are, right.
You don't have some secret trial somewhere. It's public knowledge.
Someone's arrested and facing you know, a conviction on that,
then we all know. So yeah, I mean, short of
releasing a list. Justice has been done for the only
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people we know that justice needs to be served for.
But who else needs to be punished? Well, there's got
to be more, right, There's got to be more. And
this is no longer just a Democrat thing. It hasn't
been just a Democrat thing. Latest here House Oversights Subcommittee
has voted to subpoena the DJ files. The three Republicans
(23:34):
or three the Republicans on that panel joined all the
Democrats to support the motion. Among those Nancy Bass who
supports the motion to subpoena the DJ for all the
files they've got on this.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
It would be really hard to be somebody like Nancy Mays,
who has been so strong in her support of women's rights,
and she has.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Her own personal story.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
It would be really hard to be Nancy Mace and
not write to support whatever comes out of this.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
We need to know more. Yeah, she helped him in
the measure to try to protect the potential victims.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yeah, No, I mean I don't need to necessarily know
victims' names. I certainly don't need to see. No, we
don't need to know that, especially if you know, if
there are reports that he had security cameras everywhere but
then there are other reports that said it was just
to make sure he didn't get anything, that he'd had
thieves in his home at times, and he just wanted
to make sure nothing was I don't know if there
(24:37):
are any tapes that exist, but if there are, we
don't need to see it. But the people involved need
to be punished.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
This story will not go away until somebody's got at
least some some major players gotta have to take a
fall here.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Well, I could, I could think of somebody who would
be the sacrificial lamb if it were to happened, a
very high profile royal.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, yeah, I knew where you're going with that. Yeah,
let's go ahead and serve him up right, he's got
to be quaking in his boots right about now. Huh wow,
he's already, he's already on the outs with the royal family. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
This this this goes all the way back to his
mother when she was still alive.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, hear about it. We've had multiple Democrats politicians talk
about it, throning people and incited violence.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
One O three point five FM and five sixty AM
w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David
and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM
and five sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It is seven forty one, good morning, and good to
have you along. From Friday July to the twenty fifth,
so we we have more information about the h the
death from the the brain eating a meba. It's just
it's just a brain eating a meba. It's like something
(26:06):
out of a science fiction movie or something, but it's
unfortunately very real. And it was a twelve year old
Jason Carr who I didn't realize this. He died last Friday.
(26:27):
When did we first hear this story about a patient
who had contracted it? It was earlier this week, right,
I think so, like maybe Monday, but Tuesday, I don't
recall now, But he died last Friday. Kind of weird
(26:49):
how they rolled that out, Yeah, to find out about
it after the fact is not unusual, but it was
the the report after the fact that for days we
didn't know until what yesterday that he had died. We
had a couple of days of you know, somebody had
contracted it somewhere in the state, blah blah blah blah.
(27:13):
But he's been he passed last Friday. Okay, that's kind
of curious how this information was released. But bottom line
is a twelve year old's dad from again, as you know,
a very rare, very rare thing. He was a student
at Hand Middle School. Yeah, this happened at Lake Murray. Now,
(27:39):
the family has hired an attorney who's released a statement
saying in part that the family is grateful for the
outpouring of love and support, that the family has many
questions about how and why Jason died and wants to
(27:59):
do everything in their power to ensure this doesn't happen
to another family, and then went on to thank the
doctors and nurses at Prison Shilder's Hospital.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Well, that's very benevolent of them to, you know, want
to do something to make sure it doesn't happen to
any other family. I'm sure they're you know, waiting through
all the all the the tragic feelings now and mourning
and everything else. But I just wonder when you hire
an attorney, Yeah, maybe that attorney's serving as your spokesperson,
(28:31):
but it just sounds like you're considering a lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Well, the Post and Couriers right up on this says
that the family hired a car to conduct an independent
investigation and to their son's death. Again, I mean, what's
to investigate? Yeah, I'm just I'm not sure who you
(28:59):
find lie, right, we don't do testing. There's no federal
or state requirement that testing for this be done anywhere
in the country. And again, because it is so incredibly rare,
I would guess that if you were to test every
(29:24):
body of water in this state right now, you'd probably
find this amieba in there. Uh. We're just that these
are the conditions that are that are right for this
to happen. But again, the only way it can infect
a brain is to go in through the nasal passages.
So not only is it just rare that it happens
(29:46):
to begin with it, again, the way you contract this
is also just this that's the only way. I don't Yeah,
I don't know what. I don't know what to investigate here.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
But if it turns out they find something or this
attorney finds something that prevents another family, another child from
going through this, then well absolutely, then it's worth it.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Absolutely. And you know, I'm going to have to write now,
based on the statements, assume that's all they want to do. Now,
I don't know what that's something you can do is
quite honestly, you know, aside from testing. And yeah, it
feels strange to say this because we're talking about a
very tragic situation. But I mean, for something that's as
(30:32):
unusual as this to happen, I'm guessing all these years
there's never been any you know, requirements to test, because
it's just it'd be a lot of money and time
spent for something that almost never happens, but it did
in this case. They do bacteria testing on rivers all
(30:52):
the time. You go walk the riverfronts in Columbia, West Columbia,
you'll see the signs, but they don't test for this, So, uh,
what a story man. Now they continue to stress that, hey,
it's it's safe as women lake Bury or anywhere else.
(31:13):
But if you're so concerned, they say, stay out of
any warm lakes, ponds or other bodies of fresh water.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
If you do get in, don't don't stir it up
with your feet. Don't start up with your feet, right,
apparently that's where it Yeah, lingers. And then once you
stir it up, you want to keep your nose closed.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, if you if you're gonna die, jump in or
dive into the water, use a nose clip or yeah,
or hold your nose wow.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning news on one oh
three point five FM on five sixty am w VOC,
once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It is almost sixteen a half eight o'clock in the morning,
and welcome to a Friday. It's the twenty fifth scorching
day of the month of July, and it is going
to get more scorching from here, so brace yourselves for
that and take all precautions necessary. It's good to have
you with us. I'm Gary David. Christopher Thompson is joining
us as well. By the way, I wanted to mention
this real quick, JT. JT's fame. You know. JT. Gondolfo
(32:14):
recently awarded the highest civilian honor you get here in
this state. That was the Order of the Palmetto and
he was given it by to by this guy right here,
Alan Wilson, our state's attorney general, who joined us. Now,
Good morning, sir, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
How are you well.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
We have practicing to be governor there and I said,
that's a governor thing, isn't it usually?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
And what normally it is, But the governor was out
of town and the Gondolfo family honored me by asking
me to surprise JT with that incredible recognition by the governor,
So I was honored.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
To do it. Yeah, dude does a lot of stuff
for a lot of folks around here other than just
sell cars. He really does. All right, Well, let's start
off with a little ag news first, and then we get
to want to talk about you know, this this gubernatorial
race here. Of course, I know we had gosh, what
was it to ago the news of that huge fentanyl bust? Yeah? Man,
(33:06):
how much of this stuff is floating around? This statement
is we've seen a lot of these.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Well, Gary, when people ask me what keeps you up
at night, I tell them the sentinel crisis is one
of those things that keeps me up at night because
it is hard to find someone who doesn't know of
a family or a family friend who has lost someone
or been impacted by the sentinel epidemic in this country.
The bus that you just referred to was here in
Lexington County.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
It was.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
It was a bus orchestrated by the DEA in coordination
with Lexington County Richland County sled other local law enforcement agencies.
The fentanyl truck or the bus busted a truckload of
sentinel I think about fifty six pounds, which is enough
to kill thirty six million people. And I think they
were about forty four pounds of meth in the truck
as well. And one of these individuals had been that
(33:51):
was driving the truck had been deported twice. So it's
very very serious stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I've never understood how, like you said that there was
enough to kill thirty six billion people, How does anybody
come in contact with us and not die? How does
that work? Well? Anyway as a whole other story.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
That's why it's so serious, and that's why we're taking
it serious, and that's why we've doubled our efforts in
the state Grand Jury, working with state officials at the
state level to partner with our federal partners to go
after these people and to lock them up. That's why
I was in Washington, d C. To support the Hawk
Fentinel bill signing by President Trump. Yeah, that's why I
lobbied for the homicide by Sentinel bill and the General
Assembly this past year.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yeah, thankfully that well, maybe he didn't have the teeth
some think it could have, but it got done anyway. Well,
another tidbit here on for the hat you're currently wearing
as an attorney general is you were leading a multi
state coalition to ban divisive content from schools. Tell us
about that.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Well, yeah, this past year, the state legislature passed the
budget proviso that prohibited state appropriated dollars going to support
or prohibited the superintendent of Education from which she's in
very much in favor this, by the way, from using
state appropriated funds to support sexually and racially divisive materials.
There's curriculum out there that teaches that one raises inherently
(35:10):
inferior or superior based on the racial makeup of a group,
And there's instructional material out there that talks about people
sexuality and these. This budget provider prohibited schools from teaching
that stuff that they're receiving state taxpayer funds. You know, obviously,
the state was sued, the superintendent was sued by a
(35:31):
group of teachers and some students in the NAACP. I
led a seventeen state coalition and a Friend of the
Court brief supporting and defending that proviso and supporting and
defending the state Superintendent of Education who was the target.
So our goal is to defend that and keep that
stuff out of our schools absolutely.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Now, as attorney General, you are the state's top cop.
And well word this week that you got a lot
of cops in this case of sheriffs who are supporting
your camp paying for governor. What twenty two out of
the thirty one we've got Republican sheriff's for state.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah. Yeah, It's incredible. And I've only been in this
race just over four weeks, and as of Monday of
this week, twenty two sheriffs have formally stepped out and
publicly endorsed me. I do expect, we do expect others
will be coming in the not too distant future. But
I'm incredibly honored by the overwhelming support that I have
received thus far from our law enforcement community.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
And as the Post and Courier pointed out a couple
of days ago, most notably every sheriff in the Low
Country that makes up Nancy Mason's first congressional district.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Like I said, I'm going to every corner of the state.
I'm reaching out to law enforcement, and they've got my
back because they know I've had their back for the
last fourteen years. And again, you know, people who are
electing a governor want a governor that's going to keep
South Carolina safe. And knowing that the state elected law
enforcement leaders have recognized me as the best candidate to
do that is a true honor for me.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Now, we mentioned yesterday there was a poll from a
Beltway Side of the belt Way polling firm that has
you out in front right now in this race. I
want to say, off top of my head, I don't
remember now. I'm sure you're familiar with it anything we
heard about it. But I think about twenty three percent
support and the Nancy Mason about eighteen. I guess I
(37:17):
was a field that will probably get a little more crowded.
I guess we were expecting an announcement sometime this weekend
from Ralph Norman, but it was really, according to that poll,
at least, it was pretty much a two horse race.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Well, look, polls are great. The only poll that I
care about is the one that is on next June
the ninth. That is the most important poll on the
election day. But you know, it's nice to see outside polls.
You know, we weren't behind this poll. So to see
an independent poll come out that, you know, I think
the numbers that I saw the after voters received information
about all the candidates, I think my number grew twenty
seven percent, which is nearly a double digit lead over
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the number two person. But you know, to see that
I'm being recognized as a leader in every leadership trait
almost every demographic of the state, especially for Republican primary voters,
is very reassuring. It means our message is resonating with people,
and we're going to continue to push it out there
for the next eleven months.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I'm not going to ask you to divulge it, but
I'm gonna I'm guessing that your campaign is doing its
own internal polling. I mean, all campaigns do or are
you doing it this early?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
We have not in the past. We have done some
internal polling, haven't. I have not done anything in several months.
But you know, all the trends that I'm seeing are
similar to what we're seeing in the polls that are
being publicly released.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Okay, well, we got a waste to go before we
get to June. And I keep saying this over and
over again, June ninth is really in this state. All
that matters when it comes to a state wide office
unless something really, really really weird were to happen. Whoever
that dominee is coming out of that primary June ninth,
was going to be going to be our next governor.
But we still got a ways to go there. I mean,
(38:54):
how do you fill up your tie? That's a long
way to go between.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Now it did well, It's a marathon, not a sprint.
I mean, people ask me all the time, how do
you do it? First, I have great people around me.
I've got a very supportive family and my wife Jennifer
has been incredible, my two children, Michael and Anna Grace.
If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to
do this. And of course I got a good staff
people that are helping me along the way. Gary, like
I said, it's a marathon, you got to pay yourself.
(39:19):
You know you don't. You don't start out the gate
running as fast as you can on the marathon. You
just pay yourself. You go county to the county, community
to community, person to person, and you tell your story
and you let them ask you questions and you be
open and I think people really respond to that and
that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
All right. Well, we catch up with you about twice
a month, give or take, so we'll talk to you
and I'm sure in just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Yes, sir, thank you. Have a wonderful day, Gary, you.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Too, buy all right. Allan Wilson our state's attorney general,
and they running for the republic no nomination for governor.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
The hottest talk the reason I'm calling can happen here.
I believe that we're all laved here working for the government.
One on three point five FM and five sixty AF
w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David
and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM
(40:09):
and five sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
It's eight forty our final thoughts for Friday, July twenty fifth.
First up, this note in the public interest. Beer is
not a hydration beverage, Okay, it actually is just the opposite,
so water. The next number of days with this heat
dough moving in, So I'll just mention that the air
(40:32):
tempts we're looking at well between tomorrow and next Thursday,
the potential of heated X values that are between one
hundred and ten and one hundred and fourteen degrees and
that's pretty much statewide. There's nowhere. I guess if you
go up to Greenville and get some higher elevations, you'll
get a couple degree break. But I mean it's it's
just everywhere. It's dangerous. Yeah, there's no escape now. Yeah,
(41:00):
and beer is not a hydrator. Okay. The DOJ forming
a strike force, says Tulsa Gabbard, to review evidence related
to Russia Gate. Again, we've talked about this a lot
this week, So is everybody else? How involved? Was even
(41:24):
Barack Obama in this? And might there be again criminal referrals?
She's already asked the DJ to look into that. Meantime,
you've got a move on in the Senate where a
handful of Senate Republicans accord to the Hill offering support
(41:45):
by a move to get a special counsel to investigate
former President Obama in regards to the twenty twenty the
twenty sixteen election. I should say that was a move
put forward by John Corn of Texas and by Lends Graham.
They're calling for special counsel. This is for the Russia Gates,
(42:09):
not for the Epstein. The Senate's been a little quiet
about the Epstein thing, haven't they. The House has been
very vocal about it. We haven't heard anywhere near as
much out of the Senate over this.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Yeah, I think you're right, although they've been tied up
with other things too, But yeah, you haven't heard as
much from prominent senators as you have from House members.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
And apparently those senators are very upset with the House
for taking this early recess. They're not happy at all
about that. I think everyone knows the why why they
took it. Yes, we finally have somebody to actually talk
in front of that House Overside committee on Joe Biden's
viability to have been president for the last year or
so of his tenure. Ron Klain, the former chief of staff,
(42:54):
is the first of now what four I guess to testify,
who actually answered questions and just take the fifth over
and over and over again. Among the interesting things apparently
he said was he was approached by Hillary Clinton with
concerns about Biden's political viability. And that goes back a
(43:17):
couple of years, right, Yes, yes, that was before you
know it all melted down in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Now, now Clain did say that, yeah, you know, it was.
It was obvious at his age he was slipping, he'd
forget things, blah blah, bob. But that he felt like
he could have led the country for another four years.
That's just that's just lunacy right there.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
And to be let's be fair, Clain and Biden if
had a and on again, off again a relationship.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Yes, so yeah, but he did talk. The first of
many and more to come. Trump signed an executive order
yesterday making it easier for cities to remove homeless people
from the streets. The White House fact sheet on this
executive order claiming that the number of individuals living on
(44:11):
the streets in this country on a single night during
the last year of the Biden administration two hundred and
seventy four and twenty four.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Okay, I have one question that the efforts sounds great,
but where are these people going? If you're taking them
off the street, where are they going to be put?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Well, yeah, that's a that's a good question. Now, this
is a growing problem right here right around this area.
I mean, it's been a problem for long. It seems
to be getting worse.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
You're talking about homeless in general or mentally ill, well.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Homeless in general yeah, okay. Yeah. In general, funding from
this order ensures, accord to the fact sheet, that homeless
people who suffer from mental illness or addiction issues are
moved to the treatment facilities. I don't know that we
have that many treatment facilities.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
I don't think we do. That's why I'm asking where
are we putting these people?
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (45:13):
Get them off the street?
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Great? Where do they go to? Then? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (45:16):
And what you said funding?
Speaker 1 (45:19):
I did say funding.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
Where's the money coming from?
Speaker 1 (45:22):
You and me? Come on, man, you know that George
Santos off to the big house.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
He's not there yet.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
No, No, he starts. Uh. I think today he starts
swerving his federal print sentence. Remember fraud and identity theft.
He's going away for well seven years and he's going
out with a bag posting on X well, darlings. The
(45:52):
curtain falls, the spotlight dims, and the right stunes are packed.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
That's what That's what will kill in the most is
being in a place where he can regularly post and
get publicity.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Yeah right, Well, you know New York voters do some
crazy stuff.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
Man, You think you run an You think he runs
again in seven years and wins.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
I wouldn't be shocked at all is the state that's
given us? You know, I mean Montdami Anthony Wiener, although
they finally turned their back on him. Crazy. A school
district up in North Carolina, in order to admit their mistake,
issued a policy and fork over twenty grand and a
few other things after they were sued for suspending a
(46:36):
sixteen year old student who used the term illegal aliens. Wow,
that gets you suspended? Huh. This was during an English
class discussion where the student retorted, do you mean space
aliens or illegal aliens who need green cards? To a question? Wow,
(46:58):
he was suspended soon, didn't one? And the passing a
whole cogan. I mean nobody had that on their BINGO
card yesterday, right, I don't think so? Wow.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
I mean he'd had to think some hip surgery and
some next surgery nex fusion recently. I mean, you know,
those guys put such a their lifestyle took such a
tremendous toll on their bodies.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's fake, but still it hurts, yeah,
you know, and it wears you down.
Speaker 4 (47:24):
And that's before the first drug goes into their body.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yeah. And I'm gonna say you you typically and especially
as you get up in years, you don't have that
kind of a body without some help. Yeah, okay, and
well no doubt that that well, obviously it puts a
lot of stress on the old ticker. And that's what
did Hule cogin in. And I'm just waiting for it,
and I'm sure it's already out there, the left to
spew off their victory all because you know, the Haulksterra
was a big Trump supporter, you.
Speaker 4 (47:48):
Know that's right, yeah, right, he did a big appearance
at the convention.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
Yes he did. So expect the left to be, you know,
well like somewhere with Ozzy Osbourne because Ozzie did play
the concert in Israel a number of years ago. You
had someone on the left spewing hatred towards Ozzie after
his passing because of that. But that's the one, the
the party that cares about people, right, so they keep
telling us
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