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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jesus fly Hell yeah, same America and Jery for.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Fination.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And morning, tell you welcome in. It is Thursday, the
twenty fifth of September sixteen after six. Gary David, that's
me Christopher Thompson right over there. Good morning to you, sir,
Morning to you, and uh you break out the umbrella
and the goloshes and the rain slicker, remember the old
yellow ones he as a kid, and sure you had
the little lashes on the front of it. That's something
(00:52):
I hadn't thought about in fifty years. Why did that
just pop into my head this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We also haven't thought about it in what three weeks?
How long has this drought lasted?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
At least that? I mean, it's like we had two
weeks of NonStop right then and then nothing since with
the exception of maybe some college football games. But here
it comes. Okay, So now none of this really has
to do with these tropical systems out there, I don't think.
So you got now umberto who's got a name? Do
(01:23):
I have to say it like that, you said you
want to talk. Okay, all right, but that's gonna stay
well out in the Atlantic, gonna make a turn like
the rest of them have. And then you got this
other one in vest ninety four L that could become
a hurricane. That is this weird scenario. And I watch
these folks who track hurricanes and such and are like, Wow,
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this is really crazy. I'm they're gonna be like right
beside each other. Umberto will be the stronger of the two,
and this other one could get sucked up into it.
At least well, let's put it this way. The second one,
this ninety four L invest, the one on the q
Agan i on if it becomes a hurricane, could have
more of an impact on us. But we're not talking
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about landfall sorts of things, at least it doesn't look like.
But the models are in wide variants as to where
it could go. So there's that possibility.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Now, Gabrielle is not going to come back again, is it?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
No? Man, She's head like back where she came from.
That's weird too, What a strange hurricane season this has been.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But it's not going to bounce back and then come
back again into the ocean.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't think so. Okay, okay, all right, I don't
know they they can tell us for sure it won't.
But anyway, two tropical systems out there, and they could
become one at some point in time. Nobody really knows.
But at this point it's just going to be you know,
rough surf along the coastal areas and such, and no
impactually here in the middlands on that. All right, run
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down the big stories, the hot topics for this twenty
fifth day of the month of September. And don't look now,
but September is just about out of here. Wow. To
coincide with the reopening of Finley Park. Now looks like
the city of Columbia ready to launch a new downtown
center to get homeless folks off the street. That again,
has been a big issue at Finley Park for a
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number of years, to the point where you had nonprofits
going down there and taking out and taking free food.
I don't want to make this analogy, but I will
kind of like, we've got some cats here at the
radio station. You know, we got one of our folks
who feeds them on a regular basis, and you know
that the free food. They'll keep coming back, right, absolutely,
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same thing at Finley Park with a homeless So the
city working to they'll be opening next month the recovery
center at Hope Plaza. It's near Elmwood to try to
get homeless people off the streets and I guess out
of Finley.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Park and the city's in charge. And the city's in charge. Yeah,
you know, they've they've tried this before and tried working
with everyone else in town, and everyone's got their own
and everyone's got their own way of doing things, and
it hasn't worked. So now the city saying, you went in,
you come to us, and we're going to organize them. Yeah,
well we'll be the organizers. We'll consolidate all these services
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and let's see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay. Matt Verene, I had forgotten about this story. A
Matt Verene, who at one time was a sports anchor
at watch TV, was arrested after an investigation a year
ago that led to the discovery, if you guessed it,
child sexual abuse material on his computer. He has been
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sentenced after pleading guilty. Not a long sentence. I think
it's what thirty months in prison, right, yeah, thirty months
in prison on one count. Judge is delaying a decision,
as you heard mentioned in the update a few minutes ago,
delaying the decision regarding multiple filings made by R. J.
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May and by the government prosecuting the case ahead of
the A. Maze trial, which is again supposed to start
next month.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well, the delay in the change of venue makes sense.
They want to go through and see if they can
find it an unbiased jury or not.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Can you find one? I would I would maintain that's
going to be a pretty much an impossibility, which is
what what what May is arguing. You know, that's what
he's counting on. That's what he's counting on. But it's
got to be heard somewhere. You know, we can't find
never mind never mind Alan Wilson joining up with the
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twenty two other state attorneys general supporting this proposed FCC
rule that would allow state prisons to ban cell phones
here here to that. We'll talk tomorrow morning with him
about that. They're not getting paid. Thomas mentioned this too,
after that lawsuit that was filed by Wes Climber over this.
We gave ourselves a raise thing in this last session
of the State House. Remember the legislature can give themselves
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a raise, but those raises aren't supposed to take effect
till after the next election cycle. It's not the way
they did it. So as a result of that lawsuit, well,
still nobody is getting paid. Don't worry. They're on the
bread line. They're going to be okay, don't worry about it.
And speaking of getting paid, the principle of Great Collegiate Academy,
State newspaper investigation shows he's got a pretty lucrative side
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gig getting paid to big money to well, to work
with the Charter Institute at Erskine, to advise his charter
school peers, and the Guy Dow charter school development. And
I guess that includes overlooking the schools like the one
he's the principal of. And he's getting well, a pretty
good chunk of change and a big chunk of change
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to be the principal at Great Collegiate. By the way,
it's over three hundred thousand dollars that gig Rich in
one meantime gonna have to fork at a few more
bucks over the now defunct learning center. They've already spent
just about seven million dollars for a hole in the ground,
and now they've got to pay another at least nine
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hundred thousand dollars for terminating contracts.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Canceling building the whole lefkround.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Let's not build that hold the ground after all. I
had the big story yesterday, of course, at Dallas, Texas.
Two detainees killed who everyget's killed, another injured critically shooting
at that ice facility in Dallas. We mentioned this right
before we went off the air yesterday. We started seeing
the news of this at about eight o'clock yesterday morning.
I didn't have much detail at the time, but well,
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what we do know is a bullet found with the
words anti ice on them. Now, you guess someon on
the left saying, yeah, this is just somebody trying to
pose an anti ice person. Well, the suspect has been identified.
He took his own life, twenty nine year old Joshua John.
The exact motive we don't know quite yet, but they'll
find out. This has been an ice facility that had
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a bomb thread just recently. And again the attacks on
ice agents and ice detention facilities continues to ramp up.
And you've still got Democrats continuing to rail against ice
and ramping up those who are going out and doing
these sorts of things. James Comy, the window closes, I
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think it's next Tuesday. Whether or not he lied to Congress,
Will there be an indictment coming down? The DJ said
to be working on this. That. Yeah, that five year
window closes at the end of this month. So if
they're going to make it a diatmen, they got to
make it soon. Meantime, FBI saying they'd found documents marked
as classified in John Bolton's office and that word came
(08:38):
out a couple of days ago working for the government
to the federal government, Well, this's well right around the corner.
Impending government shut down this time could result in not
just furloughs of federal government workers, but actual layoffs. Yeah,
they're working on that plan right now. And new quidnitpiac poll.
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Are we in crisis as a country? Is our government
in crisis? Is democracy working or not? We've got some
news to share on that as well, and more coming
up here on this. It is the Thursday morning edition
of Columbia's Morning News. It's great to have you with us.
Thanks for joining me.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
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Speaker 1 (09:23):
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Speaker 3 (09:28):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
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Speaker 1 (09:37):
Good morning. It is six forty two on a Thursday,
the twenty fifth of September. How the heck are you well?
I don't know about the over the air broadcast numbers,
but the uh well, the online the YouTube numbers are
in for Jimmy Kimmel's return to late night TV the
other night, and it looks like this was as of
(10:02):
last night. Showbiz for one one reporting that about fourteen
million views on YouTube for the monologue. Okay, the normal
Jimmy Kimmel YouTube monologue clip viewership on YouTube is about
two hundred and fifty thousand, so from a quarter of
(10:23):
a million to more than fourteen million in counting the
other night.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
The on air viewership six point three million, Oh you
get that? Okay, most watched regularly scheduled episode ever ever. Okay,
an over three hundred and increase from the previous season's average.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And that's even though it was not showing what some
sixty six markets I they get what the number was
between the Sinclair and next to our owned affiliates of
the American Broadcasting Company. But we knew that was coming,
sure we did. And and how quickly did it drop?
By the way, again that that first night back, by
the time he got past the monologue and got to
his guest segments, well then the number of YouTube views
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dropped back down to what it usually is, about a
quarter of a million. So a lot of intense interest
in the monologue, which did not include an apology but
was emotional and yeah the eye I didn't say what
you said I said kind of thing, and moving forward,
expect the numbers to go back to what they normally were.
And again part of the inflated YouTube viewership probably comes
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again from the fact that there are a lot of
markets where this show is, at least for now, not on,
so people will try to find another way if they
want to watch it. Okay, so you had you had
your big your big night there, Jimmy, where do they
go from here? Now we have more instances of problems
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in the air or at least not getting into the air.
United Airlines grounding all flights out of the US and Canada.
This is the second time in a month, growing safety concerns.
This is America's biggest airline, United Airlines, they fly to
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here out of Columbia Metro, ask the FAA to issue
a groundstop due to an unspecified technological issues. So we
saw and this actually was. It was just before midnight
Tuesday night, about the Central time, at about one am
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yesterday morning our time. All flights were grounded for a
little over half an hour. How big an impact does
that have? I mean, how many flights are flying at
that time of the night. Well, that's the only positive here. Yeah,
it was the middle of the night. Okay, but this
is the second time now in a month that the
United Airlines has asked for a halt to departures over
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technical glaciers. Yeah, this noon instead of midnight, it would
have been a much bigger problem.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They'd still be working it out.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Now. Again, what's the cause here? They're pulling of experts
out there, warning of again what's happening in Europe right
now with cyber attacks disrupting flights there. Now, that was United.
A couple hours later, American Airlines flights stuck on the
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tarmac again a force delay due to a quote unquote
technology glitch. Numerous flights were delayed by hours. Again, this
came just hours after United had a similar problem. So
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to think that this was an isolated incident just with
one airline and their software, m yeah, no, not one,
but two, two big airlines here in our country. What
is what's what's going on here? Hmm? Now, these issues
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we were fairly rapidly fixed, but again it gets your
attention right and across the pond. Now we've had another
major Danish airport shut down, this after mystery drones buzzed
their airspace, this coming just days after Copenhagen descended to chaos.
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There it claims that that Moscow is behind the sabotage.
We've seen a number of these drone sightings that have
shut down airports and parts of Europe, specifically again in Denmark.
This one was in Alborg, if that's how you say it.
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And that came just a couple of days after forty
eight hours after the Copenhagen airport was shut down for
hours after two or three unidentified drones came close to
the runways. Again, the thought is is that Vladimir Putin
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is behind this, okay, So these are two separate sorts
of things, I mean, drones near the runways versus technological glitches.
But yeah, it's starting to look a little suspicious now,
isn't it. And I guess this is not really shocking.
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I mean, there are bad actors out there keyboards and
monitors who are pretty dog on smart when it comes
to such things.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And that's all it takes these days.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's all it takes. Man. Keyboard Warriors is getting a
whole whole new definition here, huh. And they are constantly
figuring out new ways to cause big problems. These are
just the latest.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
This Thursday, September twenty fifth. Welcome to it and good
to have you along. At fifteen minutes after seven o'clock.
I am Gary David, he is Christopher Thompson. Thanks for
being with us. So we mentioned yesterday day before. I
guess we've got an opening date and I've already forgotten
what it is for Finley Park. The renovation over a
Finley Park time in November. I'll look at November fifteenth,
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something like that. I think, yeah, I think it is
the fifteenth. I don't know why it's stuck in my head,
so it must be right. It stuck in my head somewhere, right,
don't don't question yourself there, just go with it. Anyway.
It's opening, you know, fairly soon here, so it's got
a little more work to do. But they'll get that
thing reopened, which was a gym in the in the
you know, the crown of the City of Columbia for years,
and then you.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Better be a gym again for twenty four million dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Money they've spent, you better hope. So I don't know,
is it is it gonna be enough to draw people
back into it. I yeah, there was a time, you
know about the time Finley Park opened right before I
mean we had gosh, when you hit like springtime, it
was like a festival every weekend. Yeah, you had Spring Fast,
you had Mayfast, you had all these fests going on.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I mean there was programming where there was a concert
or an event at the park practically every week.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, if it was the Riverfront Park, it was Finley Park.
I mean, it's just all sorts of stuff going on
and then all that just went away and it sort
of demise of Finley Park didn't help. Uh, Now you
got to know, you have to draw people back down
there again, and that might be easier said than done,
I don't know, or might not be, so we'll see.
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But so it's going to reopen after that major investment.
Now again one of the issues and at least since
the client of Finley Park. And I'm not even can
we even point to what actually started that decline. It
just kind of seemed to happen overnight almost, is it
when the fountain stopped working?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
That was that it That was a big part of it.
I mean, that's that got people's attention. Trivials that sounds
it was. I mean that was the.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I don't know, the beginning of the end for that part.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, and it was. I mean it just kind of
it not only symbolized the decline, but I mean that's
that's what you look to when you walked into the park.
You looked up to that hill where the fountain was located.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
How many organizations over the years, whether it's TV stations
or just somebody with print public or whatever have Have
you used a picture of that, of that fountain and
with the city background behind it. I mean you see
it over and over and over again, and it hadn't
worked in a long time. So and then you know
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what happened. That's when the homeless took over the place.
If you've driven by Finley Park in the last number
of years, I mean, that's that's what you saw. So
now is it reopening? Middle November, the City of Columbia
announcing that they're opening another homeless shelter, and this time
they're calling the shots. The city will be managing what's
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being called the Recovery Center at Hope Plaza. It's near
elmwot Ab and I think the actual address is a
main street address, but it's right across the street from
the Transition's Homer Shelter.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, the police know that area very well already.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, so they'll open that up next month. Now, this
will of course again coincide and this is the answer
to what what do you do with the homeless problem
at Finley Park? I guess. So it's smart for them
to do this at this time. Certainly, Now how well
it will work, I don't know we'll find out.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, they're asking all these different organizations to come in
under the city's one big umbrella, and which we've been
lacking that. I mean, the city has tried to organize things,
but everybody, everybody had their own captain, and everybody had
their own agenda, and everybody did things their own way. Yeah,
and you've got homeless services that are spread all over
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the city, so they're constantly moving here or there everywhere
they can't get service. Meanwhile, they're problems for businesses all
over the city and problems for Findlay Park too because
that's where they wind up sometimes. So because some of
these organizations decided, hey, that's the perfect place for us
to feed them.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, see, they will go right to Finlay Park with
the free food. So you know, that's that's where the
free stuff is. Why not congregate there.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
So the city is going to try and organize things
and that's that. And and the city is taking the
lead saying, if you want in, you know, we're in charge.
But here's where we're going to do it, and here's
how we're going.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
To do it. Yeah, so let's see how this works.
But now of state paper reporting that some fairly large
organizations that have tried to help with this issue, so
they haven't been contacted by the city yet, and then
they're wondering, why, so what is this, what is this
going to cost? Well, they say they've spent nearly four
hundred thousand dollars that money a big chunk of not
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all of it. It looks like it's coming from the
the Opioid Recovery Fund.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Well, I mean, we we we know that there's a
drug addiction problem. That's part of the reason why people
are homeless.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, our state got some three hundred and sixty million
dollars from that settlement with Johnson and Johnson and cities
are able to apply for some of that money. So
they're using again the fact that many homeless have have
drug addiction issues, so that that's allowing them to use
some of this money for that specific purpose. Nearly about
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thirty five percent of homeless people in Richland County are
estimated to have a drug addiction problem.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
And there's mental health, and there's you know, they don't
you know, they don't have addresses to apply for jobs,
and I mean that's there's there's a lot of things
that can be taken care of if with a centralized
service like the city is proposing.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I do have a question though, because if I'm not mistaken,
this this new center will be open from eight to
five pm. What happens at five pm?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, it's not a housing No, it's it's services to
provide help for the homeless during.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
The day, yes, and then when night falls, where do
they go? Well, it's I mean, are we going to
have is law enforcement going to be actively keeping homeless
people out of Finley Park?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Well, yeah, I know that that's part of the money
that we've spent. I mean, they're gonna have Mark rangers there,
there will be security. So yeah, that's not that's not
going to be an option.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I tell you. It's this is a you know, I mean,
we're not a huge city by any stretch of imagination.
But maybe it's just me, but it seems like over
maybe the last i don't know, five since COVID, we're
seeing a lot more of this problem in places that
maybe it's always was we just didn't notice it, or
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it's not just downtown Colombia anymore. I mean you see
evidence of this in all sorts of places.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well, I mean the city worked and at one point
they were going to buy that building that the state
was abandoning and turn that into a homeless you know,
a true homeless shelter including services. But that didn't work out.
So this is just going to be services. And yeah
there's still I mean, they'll they'll help people find housing.
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There's some housing out there and they'll help find it.
But yeah, we're still going to face the same issues.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, but I apply the city for you know, trying
it this way. It is the first step. Yeah, the
other way was working to some degree, but you're never
going to solve this issue one hundred percent. But let's
hope they can make some make some good progress with
this one.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Wish them on the world is calling Mexico, Ukraine, Russia,
United States, and we'll take you there.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
At a critical time in our world's history.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
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Speaker 1 (25:11):
The seven forty Good morning, Good to have you with
us for Thursday, September twenty fifth. All Right, so the
new quinit Pac poll out this disturbing but it probably
reflects something that you feel like yourself. Seventy nine percent
of us in this poll say that we're in a
political crisis. Well, there's leaves just a few that say
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we're not right.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Who didn't feel that way after Charlie Kirk got killed?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
All right, exactly interesting this this poll was taken after
the assassination of the Charlie. Interestingly enough, gosh, ninety three
percent of Democrats say we're a political crisis. Now, okay,
and this is for different reasons.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Okay, if it had been somebody on the left who
had gotten shot and killed, I would have felt the
same way. Sure, yeah, because that would have sent the
same signal that we're just that divided.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Eighty four percent of Independence think we're in a political crisis,
but just sixty percent of Republicans feel that way. Now,
I get with the Democrats because I'm not going to
sit here and say this that Democrats aren't affected by
the assassination of Charlie Kurt. Well, the extreme left is not.
They're rejoicing it, okay, but no, most people who who
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identify with democratic political ideologies there is saddened as shocked
by this as the rest of us. Are okay. But
these are the same people who have been told now
for years and years and years by their leaders that
were in a political crisis. Not not when they controlled Washington,
d C. There were no political crisis then, but as
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soon as we're anytime Republicans control it down. This has
been going on for a while, suddenly it's a political crisis.
This has been hammered over and over and over again.
So yeah, I suspect even if Charlie Kirk had not
been assassinated and Quinnepiac took this poll, they probably would
have found probably similar results, especially with Democrats. Seventy one
percent of voters think that politically motivated violence today in
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the US is a very serious problem.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I would hope we're all on edge because of it.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, so seventy one percent say it's a serious problem.
Twenty two percent think it's a somewhat serious problem.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Nobody should find it acceptable, should nobody should consider this
the price of doing business in our country.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
So explained to me, the polls that show a majority
of Democrats think is okay to take out Donald Trump
or Elon Musk. Wow, they took the same poll, asked
the same question to pull back in June, then you
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had fifty four percent of people thinking it was a
serious problem and thirty seven saying a somewhat serious problem.
So you got a lot of folks who just a
couple of months ago thought it was a at least
a somewhat serious problem and now thinking it's a very
serious problem. And they would be right. And a majority
fifty four percent think it's going to get worse over
the next few years. Fifty eight percent think it's not
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going to be possible to lower the temperature on political
rhetoric and speech in this country. What's more, the same poll,
a majority of Americans believe that democracy isn't working. Fifty
three percent think it's just not working right now. Take
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that poll again. If we have another government shutdown, it'll
be even worse. Right, you know, I gotta tell you
I'm starting to democracy as it is functioning right now. Mean,
can you honestly say that if you compared this country
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politics the state of democracy twenty years ago, maybe even
ten years ago, to today, can you really, honestly, in
your heart of hearts, say that that's the same as
it ever was. It's working fine, it doesn't seem to.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Be, But would you rather be in Russia or China.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Right, what's the alternative? Right? Right? But this great experiment
that has been so successful for nearly two hundred and
fifty years. Yeah, but we've had grow pains all along,
sure we have. And yeah, well yeah we can go back,
you know, to the middle eighteen hundreds and see the
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issues we have with democracy then, right, Okay, a lot
more serious. But it just seems that the institutions there
are founding fathers envisioned and so geniusly developed that man,
things aren't going well, yeah, you're right, what's the alternative, right? Well,
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the alternative is Zohan run Mondamie in New York, who's
got big leads in the polls. It's AOC and Bernie Sanders,
who more and more on the left are identifying with
their policies and liking them better. I don't think it's
the Republicans that are the problem here, okay. I mean, honestly,
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how is the Republican Party of the day. Let's okay,
So here's the shue. People who aren't Conservatives aren't Republicans.
They look at the Republican Party, they don't see the
Republican Party. They see Donald Trump, Right, they see Donald
Trump as the Republican Party, you know, an abrasive personality,
a polarizing figure, somebody they can't stand, and they you
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take that, and quite honestly, if a shoe were on
the other foot, Conservatives might do the same thing, and
probably do. We're starting to more and more I'm guilty
of this too. Look at the Democrat Party. Instead of
seeing the Democrat Party as a whole, what am I seeing?
I'm seeing Alexandria Ocassio Cortaz, you know, I'm seeing the squad.
I'm seeing what's her name down in Texas who keeps
(31:49):
mauling off on Jasmine Crockett. Right, I mean, we're all
guilty to some degree or another of this h But
then you've got folks who are identifying with people like
that on both sides and saying, yeah, well it wasn't
working before. It wasn't working with you know, Mitch McConnell
and Chuck Schumer. So you know, actually, my surprise at
(32:17):
this poll is that it's only fifty three percent who
think the democracy is is not working right now. That's
not to say that these fifty three percent don't want
it to work. They're just saying it's it's not working
right now.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I think it's I think it's always working as long
as we can walk around free from government control, as
long as we can carry guns and speak freely. And
now are those rights infringed upon occasionally, Yes, but you know,
I think the Constitution winds up winning more times than
(32:54):
it loses. Yeah, So it's I mean, like I said,
it's it's it's hiccups, which we've gone through throughout history.
I think democracy is not working. Sounds a little too
strong to me. Well, and again you break that down
left and right. It's seventy four percent of the left
that says it's not working, whereas seventy thirty four percent
(33:16):
of the right say it is working. There's no problems
at all, And if a Democrat was in the White House,
the numbers would.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Reverse about flipped. Yeah, but that in itself is a problem,
isn't it. My party's not in power, so it's not working.
That's an issue, right, Darren. Okay, so some interesting takes
from the new Quintipiac poll that would just dropped yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's democracy working in itself. When you're out of power,
you still have power. I mean, look at what the
Democrats can do to the government, and that might be
part of the problem though, you're right and shutting it down. Yeah,
you're right.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
But Democrat voters now looking at their party and thinking
what are you doing? They're not happy with their own
party right now, So of course is not work because
you're not making it work.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, well, I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
What Schumer to do? He got vilified for working with
Trump earlier this year, so there's no way he's going
to do it now. So what happens here?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, Well, by the way, is on a side this
next impending government shutdown, We're not talking about workers being furloughed.
We're talking about workers being laid off. So that ratchets
up the degree of the concern here with this one.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty am w VOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Say fifteen, you can only get to have you along
watching two tropical systems, Umberto which is a tropical storm,
and invest Invest ninety four L which could become one.
And really a weird setup here is they're kind of
going to be like almost like side by side. I mean,
(35:00):
folks who travel who track this kind of thing are
like freaking out over this one. But the good news
is it's you're not supposed to impact us this weekend's
ragin is not part of that that's for next week.
There's always the potential that that small the two that's
second one could make an impact on the East coast,
but probably not South Carolina, but it's too early to tell.
(35:20):
Tomorrow I think is tomorrow's one year since Helene. I
think that was on September twenty sixth as I recall,
And they're still rebuilding up in North Carolina and that
that's surprise the way that thing came in. And about
eighty billion dollars in damage. Yeah, difficult, Okay, before we
(35:48):
get off the air, about this time yesterday morning, we
started hearing the first reports of a shooting at an
ice facility in Dallas, Texas. We went off here at
nine o'clock. Didn't know a whole lot more detail about that,
but we do now. So here we go, another nearby rooftop,
(36:11):
another rifle, and two more people dead, and this time
they were immigrants. This gunman identified as twenty nine year
old Joshua John who took his own life after the shooting,
(36:31):
firing at a nice vehicle, a van that had I
think three detainees inside, two of them killed, a third
critically injured. And as you've probably since heard, there were
you've probably seen the photo of a bullet found at
(36:53):
the scene with the words anti ICE written on them
with a marker. It appears to be a marker in
an understatement. The FBI says they were investigating the shooting
as an act of targeted violence. You think, so, here
we go again. This is this same facility in Dallas
(37:14):
has Well, he had a bomb threat what had been
the last month, I guess it was, And we again
see these ICE facilities coming under attack. It's the first
time we've seen them like this, but certainly plenty of
instances of them coming under attack from ANTIFA and other
(37:34):
leftist extremist organizations. DHS says this was driven by hatred
for ICE, and we've seen a lot of that. I mean,
the attacks on ICE agents is up over about one
thousand percent in this country now at the same time,
(38:05):
and I mean, yeah, it's hard to get past this.
How often we have heard and not just from extremist leftists,
but from Democrats in Congress, in state legislators, mayors, I mean,
you name it. Who wants you to believe that we,
(38:28):
as the American people are at war with immigrations and
custom enforcement, at war with them? I mean, the rhetoric
that they're using. It should be no great shock that
this sort of thing is going to happen at some
point in time, and it has. You know, there's a
(38:53):
very hotly contested governors race up in Virginia and a
clip is resurfaced now shared by the Republican lieutenant governor
wins some earl sears not long after the word came
down about this shooting in Dallas yesterday morning. It is
(39:14):
a video that shows a Democrat in that race, Abigail Spamberger,
saying during a political event back in June, let your
rage fuel you. Okay, Now, she could have been referring
(39:35):
to a lot of things, I suppose, but this is
kind of this is not a We're not talking about
an extreme leftist politician here in this Democrat Spamberger, let
your rage fuel you. Uh. The Democrat Party and the
(39:58):
left would would could continually like you to believe that
all of this is a result of Donald Trump. Yes,
Donald Trump has some nasty, fiery reddick, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
But only Trump would say at Charlie Kirk's memorial how
he hates his enemies, right.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Yeah, But I mean it comes from so many different
places on the left that what did you think was
gonna happen? Well, here it was. Now you got this
tied back to the Charlie Kirk shooting. Georgetown University. A
(40:39):
red flyer posted from the John Brown gun Club, A
recruitment flyer with the headlines scrolled across the top. Hey, fascist,
catch this doesn't believe right, This is a leftist gun club.
Remember that was edged on one of the bullets it
(41:01):
was found after the Charlie Kirk assassination. In addition, the
advertisement reads the only political group that celebrates when Nazis die?
You know. Okay, Well we'll uh well, we'll harken back
to that discussion we had earlier this morning about uh,
(41:24):
about this country and people thinking we're in serious political
crisis here. You imagine this that at Georgetown University. I
hope I didn't stay up there long. I hope it
(41:44):
was taken down pretty quickly, But I don't know. Goodness, sakes. Yeah,
I think we've got some I think we got some
problems here. Okay, So the motive for yesterday shooting in Dallas,
now you're gonna you've and we've already seen this. We
(42:04):
have seen at least one commentator on one of the
uh the cable networks bring up was it, Oh goodness,
where was it in Auckland? Or there was a mass
shooting a number of years ago by a guy who
turned out to be a rightist, right extremist who wanted
(42:27):
to make it look like he was a left extremist.
Remember I can't remember where that was. Was that Australia
or somewhere somewhere far far away from here? I vaguely
remember that. But you've already got some on some of
these talking heads saying that's what this is. This is
a rightist extremist taking potshots at immigrants, trying to make
(42:50):
it look like it's a leftist that's upset with ice. Well,
I suppose that's always not out of the realm of possibility,
But again, chances are a lot greater that you've got
young people who probably already have issues to begin with,
(43:12):
and then they're subjected to this rhetoric over and over
and over again that ice agents and masks. So they
got a stopo and they should be stopped at all costs.
You've got elected politicians saying that what did you think
was going to happen? Huh?
Speaker 3 (43:28):
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Speaker 1 (43:53):
Some time for our final thoughts here on a Thursday morning,
the twenty fifth of September. Of the time now is
eight forty. It's the gift that keeps on taking the
hole in the ground in Richland County. It was going
to be an early learning center. You remember this one.
They went about all this, All kinds are wrong here.
(44:14):
They didn't get a they get an approval from the
Department of Education because it wasn't really a school that
was as many people referred to it as a kind
of a glorified expensive daycare. They didn't get work permits
to start construction. I'm still scratching my head over how
a project that large, that much land cleared and nobody
(44:35):
at the county to go bien said, wait a minute,
did did code enforcement never go by? There was nobody
aware they were doing this? Was it not in the news?
I think it was. But somehow they started all that
work with no work permit and then you know, the
lawsuits ensued. They cleared all this land and it rained
(44:55):
and then the runoff affected homes in the adjoining neighborhood. Yeah,
that one, that one that they well basically dug a
big old hole in the ground and put seven million
dollars in it in taxpayer money. That one, now ritual
one's got to pay well out of the nine hundred thousand,
(45:15):
let's just call it an even million? What the heck?
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Huh? And you wonder if that was factored into the decision.
I mean, they knew they were going to have to
cancel these contracts.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Yeah, and for their troubles for canceling said contracts with
what four different companies, nine hundred thousand dollars they got
to pay out.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
The price of doing business.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Wow. So let's see they already spent seven mil. This
is close, So let's just call it an even eight
million dollars buried somewhere out there in the mud. Well
maybe not right now, but by this weekend it'll be
mud unbelievable. And again, if this is if this is
a private enterprise doing this, well I could care less,
(46:03):
so could you. But this is your money. This is
your money. Speaking of school state, paiper earnning this length
the article about the guy who's the principal of the
Great Collegiate Academy over West Columbia, Brian Newsom, who is
making bank man. As the principal there, he is one
(46:29):
of the highest paid public school employees in the state.
He knocks down almost three hundred and twenty three thousand
dollars a year. Wow. The rub here is though, that
they say he is being paid at least another one
hundred and sixty thousand a year by the Charter Institute
(46:50):
at Erskine in a role to advise charter school peers
and guid new charter school development. So, as one expert
in education law and policy says, charter school authorizers have
(47:11):
a fiduciary duty to the state to manage charters and
hold them accountable. So this is the role he's taking
part in while he's also the principal at one of
these charters, the hen guarding the chicken House. Well, some
people are raising concerns over that.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
I mean, it seems to know what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
He does they open up another I think it's all
portables right now, but they will open up another satellite
campus over. We talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
That's led to a decline student population in l R
five on out side of the county. The trial for RJ.
May is supposed to take place next month. I'm not
(47:58):
sure it will now he is quest of a change
the venue. They start picking a jury next week? Is
it next week?
Speaker 2 (48:04):
October? Next week's October?
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Isn't it? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Or will they pre trial
hearing yesterday a judge delaying decisions on multiple filings put
forth by May. Now whether or not there's a change
of venue, The judge says, well, they can't even consider
(48:26):
that until the jury selection starts. I guess they'll start
jury selection next week is planned, and I guess when
they interview potential jurors to make a decision that as
to whether or not he can get a fair trial
on this spot here I suppose James call me on
the hot seat. Here. The DOJ preparing to ask a
(48:47):
grand jury as soon as today to indict the former
FBI director, this on allegations he lied to Congress, so
that news may come down today. It's gonna have to
come down soon. The testimony in question was back in
(49:09):
twenty twenty, on September thirtieth, testimony related to the investigation
of ties between Russia and Trump. You know, Russia, Russia, Russia.
There's a five year statute limitations on this, so the
case would have to be brought by next Tuesday, if
it's gonna be brought at all. And again sources telling
(49:35):
the Associated Press that those indictments, or at least they'll
the grand jury will consider those today. Okay, we mentioned
earlier he got another looming government shutdown, which these looming
government shutdowns of I think most people these days were like, yeah, whatever, they.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
Tune out until you start seeing people lose their jobs
and or lose their paychecks.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Yeah, and a riff in this one, or reduction of
force in this one. This time around, well, the White
House is suggesting actually getting rid of federal employees, not
only lay them off, but eliminate their positions all together.
So this one's different on that front. And of course
(50:24):
both sides are pointing fingers at the other side for
being the responsible party for this looming shutdown here.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
I would, you know, I'd have a lot I've heard
what John Thune has to say. I'd have a lot
more respect for the Republican leaders if they just if
they said what is essentially the truth. There are cuts
in healthcare. You know why, because we can't afford what
we're spending right now, because we weren't prepared for the
(50:51):
Affordable Care Act, and as a result, we've seen prices
go up, We've seen competing forces, you know, creat inflation
for health care because of this Affordable Care Act and
because of the fact that we're spending more money than
we take in. I wish, I wish a Republican would
just step up and say, yes, it's true, and it's
(51:12):
not just I mean, you know, you keep hearing the
argument that illegal illegals won't get healthcare anymore thanks to Republicans,
that there that there's already a law against that. This
this this shutdown has nothing to do with that. It's
it is, it's there are some some protracted cuts to
healthcare in there, because we can't afford what we're doing
(51:33):
right now. I wish a Republican was brave enough to
man up and say that, and and then explain why.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Well, I should run for office and do it.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
I wouldn't win because because I would tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
And uh, the book one hundred and seven days, I'm
not reading it, but.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
All right, others are.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
And oh yeah, I mean she and this hold Tim
Wall's angle here. She writes that that it was quickly
clear to her that Tim had walked into the room
feeling he wouldn't get the job. First thing he said
when he sat down, I don't even know if a
door had closed behind him, and said, whether or not
you pick me, I'm gonna do everything I can't get
(52:19):
you elected. He was immediately self critical. She says, I'm
not a good debater. Never use a teleic prompter. Blah
blah blah blah. We saw that, saying that Waltz was
less polish than Josh Shapiro, but had an appealing authenticity
and was genuinely self deprecating. Oh yeah, he wouldn't try
(52:40):
to outshine her, So that's why she picked the governor
of Minnesota as her running mate.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
And that's why she's peddling a book instead of in
the White House.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
Right didn't matter who she picked, she'd still be peddling
a book in not the White House. Remember, it wasn't
her fault. Okay, it wasn't her fault. It was everybody
else's spinn
Jesus fly Hell yeah, same America and Jery for.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Fination.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
And morning, tell you welcome in. It is Thursday, the
twenty fifth of September sixteen after six. Gary David, that's
me Christopher Thompson right over there. Good morning to you, sir,
Morning to you, and uh you break out the umbrella
and the goloshes and the rain slicker, remember the old
yellow ones he as a kid, and sure you had
the little lashes on the front of it. That's something
(00:52):
I hadn't thought about in fifty years. Why did that
just pop into my head this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We also haven't thought about it in what three weeks?
How long has this drought lasted?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
At least that? I mean, it's like we had two
weeks of NonStop right then and then nothing since with
the exception of maybe some college football games. But here
it comes. Okay, So now none of this really has
to do with these tropical systems out there, I don't think.
So you got now umberto who's got a name? Do
(01:23):
I have to say it like that, you said you
want to talk. Okay, all right, but that's gonna stay
well out in the Atlantic, gonna make a turn like
the rest of them have. And then you got this
other one in vest ninety four L that could become
a hurricane. That is this weird scenario. And I watch
these folks who track hurricanes and such and are like, Wow,
(01:46):
this is really crazy. I'm they're gonna be like right
beside each other. Umberto will be the stronger of the two,
and this other one could get sucked up into it.
At least well, let's put it this way. The second one,
this ninety four L invest, the one on the q
Agan i on if it becomes a hurricane, could have
more of an impact on us. But we're not talking
(02:06):
about landfall sorts of things, at least it doesn't look like.
But the models are in wide variants as to where
it could go. So there's that possibility.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Now, Gabrielle is not going to come back again, is it?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
No? Man, She's head like back where she came from.
That's weird too, What a strange hurricane season this has been.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But it's not going to bounce back and then come
back again into the ocean.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't think so. Okay, okay, all right, I don't
know they they can tell us for sure it won't.
But anyway, two tropical systems out there, and they could
become one at some point in time. Nobody really knows.
But at this point it's just going to be you know,
rough surf along the coastal areas and such, and no
impactually here in the middlands on that. All right, run
(02:48):
down the big stories, the hot topics for this twenty
fifth day of the month of September. And don't look now,
but September is just about out of here. Wow. To
coincide with the reopening of Finley Park. Now looks like
the city of Columbia ready to launch a new downtown
center to get homeless folks off the street. That again,
has been a big issue at Finley Park for a
(03:10):
number of years, to the point where you had nonprofits
going down there and taking out and taking free food.
I don't want to make this analogy, but I will
kind of like, we've got some cats here at the
radio station. You know, we got one of our folks
who feeds them on a regular basis, and you know
that the free food. They'll keep coming back, right, absolutely,
(03:32):
same thing at Finley Park with a homeless So the
city working to they'll be opening next month the recovery
center at Hope Plaza. It's near Elmwood to try to
get homeless people off the streets and I guess out
of Finley.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Park and the city's in charge. And the city's in charge. Yeah,
you know, they've they've tried this before and tried working
with everyone else in town, and everyone's got their own
and everyone's got their own way of doing things, and
it hasn't worked. So now the city saying, you went in,
you come to us, and we're going to organize them. Yeah,
well we'll be the organizers. We'll consolidate all these services
(04:12):
and let's see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay. Matt Verene, I had forgotten about this story. A
Matt Verene, who at one time was a sports anchor
at watch TV, was arrested after an investigation a year
ago that led to the discovery, if you guessed it,
child sexual abuse material on his computer. He has been
(04:37):
sentenced after pleading guilty. Not a long sentence. I think
it's what thirty months in prison, right, yeah, thirty months
in prison on one count. Judge is delaying a decision,
as you heard mentioned in the update a few minutes ago,
delaying the decision regarding multiple filings made by R. J.
(04:59):
May and by the government prosecuting the case ahead of
the A. Maze trial, which is again supposed to start
next month.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well, the delay in the change of venue makes sense.
They want to go through and see if they can
find it an unbiased jury or not.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Can you find one? I would I would maintain that's
going to be a pretty much an impossibility, which is
what what what May is arguing. You know, that's what
he's counting on. That's what he's counting on. But it's
got to be heard somewhere. You know, we can't find
never mind never mind Alan Wilson joining up with the
(05:34):
twenty two other state attorneys general supporting this proposed FCC
rule that would allow state prisons to ban cell phones
here here to that. We'll talk tomorrow morning with him
about that. They're not getting paid. Thomas mentioned this too,
after that lawsuit that was filed by Wes Climber over this.
We gave ourselves a raise thing in this last session
of the State House. Remember the legislature can give themselves
(05:57):
a raise, but those raises aren't supposed to take effect
till after the next election cycle. It's not the way
they did it. So as a result of that lawsuit, well,
still nobody is getting paid. Don't worry. They're on the
bread line. They're going to be okay, don't worry about it.
And speaking of getting paid, the principle of Great Collegiate Academy,
State newspaper investigation shows he's got a pretty lucrative side
(06:20):
gig getting paid to big money to well, to work
with the Charter Institute at Erskine, to advise his charter
school peers, and the Guy Dow charter school development. And
I guess that includes overlooking the schools like the one
he's the principal of. And he's getting well, a pretty
good chunk of change and a big chunk of change
(06:42):
to be the principal at Great Collegiate. By the way,
it's over three hundred thousand dollars that gig Rich in
one meantime gonna have to fork at a few more
bucks over the now defunct learning center. They've already spent
just about seven million dollars for a hole in the ground,
and now they've got to pay another at least nine
(07:04):
hundred thousand dollars for terminating contracts.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Canceling building the whole lefkround.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Let's not build that hold the ground after all. I
had the big story yesterday, of course, at Dallas, Texas.
Two detainees killed who everyget's killed, another injured critically shooting
at that ice facility in Dallas. We mentioned this right
before we went off the air yesterday. We started seeing
the news of this at about eight o'clock yesterday morning.
I didn't have much detail at the time, but well,
(07:31):
what we do know is a bullet found with the
words anti ice on them. Now, you guess someon on
the left saying, yeah, this is just somebody trying to
pose an anti ice person. Well, the suspect has been identified.
He took his own life, twenty nine year old Joshua John.
The exact motive we don't know quite yet, but they'll
find out. This has been an ice facility that had
(07:54):
a bomb thread just recently. And again the attacks on
ice agents and ice detention facilities continues to ramp up.
And you've still got Democrats continuing to rail against ice
and ramping up those who are going out and doing
these sorts of things. James Comy, the window closes, I
(08:16):
think it's next Tuesday. Whether or not he lied to Congress,
Will there be an indictment coming down? The DJ said
to be working on this. That. Yeah, that five year
window closes at the end of this month. So if
they're going to make it a diatmen, they got to
make it soon. Meantime, FBI saying they'd found documents marked
as classified in John Bolton's office and that word came
(08:38):
out a couple of days ago working for the government
to the federal government, Well, this's well right around the corner.
Impending government shut down this time could result in not
just furloughs of federal government workers, but actual layoffs. Yeah,
they're working on that plan right now. And new quidnitpiac poll.
(08:58):
Are we in crisis as a country? Is our government
in crisis? Is democracy working or not? We've got some
news to share on that as well, and more coming
up here on this. It is the Thursday morning edition
of Columbia's Morning News. It's great to have you with us.
Thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 1 (09:37):
Good morning. It is six forty two on a Thursday,
the twenty fifth of September. How the heck are you well?
I don't know about the over the air broadcast numbers,
but the uh well, the online the YouTube numbers are
in for Jimmy Kimmel's return to late night TV the
other night, and it looks like this was as of
(10:02):
last night. Showbiz for one one reporting that about fourteen
million views on YouTube for the monologue. Okay, the normal
Jimmy Kimmel YouTube monologue clip viewership on YouTube is about
two hundred and fifty thousand, so from a quarter of
(10:23):
a million to more than fourteen million in counting the
other night.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
The on air viewership six point three million, Oh you
get that? Okay, most watched regularly scheduled episode ever ever. Okay,
an over three hundred and increase from the previous season's average.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And that's even though it was not showing what some
sixty six markets I they get what the number was
between the Sinclair and next to our owned affiliates of
the American Broadcasting Company. But we knew that was coming,
sure we did. And and how quickly did it drop?
By the way, again that that first night back, by
the time he got past the monologue and got to
his guest segments, well then the number of YouTube views
(11:06):
dropped back down to what it usually is, about a
quarter of a million. So a lot of intense interest
in the monologue, which did not include an apology but
was emotional and yeah the eye I didn't say what
you said I said kind of thing, and moving forward,
expect the numbers to go back to what they normally were.
And again part of the inflated YouTube viewership probably comes
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again from the fact that there are a lot of
markets where this show is, at least for now, not on,
so people will try to find another way if they
want to watch it. Okay, so you had you had
your big your big night there, Jimmy, where do they
go from here? Now we have more instances of problems
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in the air or at least not getting into the air.
United Airlines grounding all flights out of the US and Canada.
This is the second time in a month, growing safety concerns.
This is America's biggest airline, United Airlines, they fly to
(12:12):
here out of Columbia Metro, ask the FAA to issue
a groundstop due to an unspecified technological issues. So we
saw and this actually was. It was just before midnight
Tuesday night, about the Central time, at about one am
(12:34):
yesterday morning our time. All flights were grounded for a
little over half an hour. How big an impact does
that have? I mean, how many flights are flying at
that time of the night. Well, that's the only positive here. Yeah,
it was the middle of the night. Okay, but this
is the second time now in a month that the
United Airlines has asked for a halt to departures over
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technical glaciers. Yeah, this noon instead of midnight, it would
have been a much bigger problem.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They'd still be working it out.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Now. Again, what's the cause here? They're pulling of experts
out there, warning of again what's happening in Europe right
now with cyber attacks disrupting flights there. Now, that was United.
A couple hours later, American Airlines flights stuck on the
(13:28):
tarmac again a force delay due to a quote unquote
technology glitch. Numerous flights were delayed by hours. Again, this
came just hours after United had a similar problem. So
(13:54):
to think that this was an isolated incident just with
one airline and their software, m yeah, no, not one,
but two, two big airlines here in our country. What
is what's what's going on here? Hmm? Now, these issues
(14:20):
we were fairly rapidly fixed, but again it gets your
attention right and across the pond. Now we've had another
major Danish airport shut down, this after mystery drones buzzed
their airspace, this coming just days after Copenhagen descended to chaos.
(14:47):
There it claims that that Moscow is behind the sabotage.
We've seen a number of these drone sightings that have
shut down airports and parts of Europe, specifically again in Denmark.
This one was in Alborg, if that's how you say it.
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And that came just a couple of days after forty
eight hours after the Copenhagen airport was shut down for
hours after two or three unidentified drones came close to
the runways. Again, the thought is is that Vladimir Putin
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is behind this, okay, So these are two separate sorts
of things, I mean, drones near the runways versus technological glitches.
But yeah, it's starting to look a little suspicious now,
isn't it. And I guess this is not really shocking.
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I mean, there are bad actors out there keyboards and
monitors who are pretty dog on smart when it comes
to such things.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And that's all it takes these days.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's all it takes. Man. Keyboard Warriors is getting a
whole whole new definition here, huh. And they are constantly
figuring out new ways to cause big problems. These are
just the latest.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
This Thursday, September twenty fifth. Welcome to it and good
to have you along. At fifteen minutes after seven o'clock.
I am Gary David, he is Christopher Thompson. Thanks for
being with us. So we mentioned yesterday day before. I
guess we've got an opening date and I've already forgotten
what it is for Finley Park. The renovation over a
Finley Park time in November. I'll look at November fifteenth,
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something like that. I think, yeah, I think it is
the fifteenth. I don't know why it's stuck in my head,
so it must be right. It stuck in my head somewhere, right,
don't don't question yourself there, just go with it. Anyway.
It's opening, you know, fairly soon here, so it's got
a little more work to do. But they'll get that
thing reopened, which was a gym in the in the
you know, the crown of the City of Columbia for years,
and then you.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Better be a gym again for twenty four million dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Money they've spent, you better hope. So I don't know,
is it is it gonna be enough to draw people
back into it. I yeah, there was a time, you
know about the time Finley Park opened right before I
mean we had gosh, when you hit like springtime, it
was like a festival every weekend. Yeah, you had Spring Fast,
you had Mayfast, you had all these fests going on.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I mean there was programming where there was a concert
or an event at the park practically every week.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, if it was the Riverfront Park, it was Finley Park.
I mean, it's just all sorts of stuff going on
and then all that just went away and it sort
of demise of Finley Park didn't help. Uh, Now you
got to know, you have to draw people back down
there again, and that might be easier said than done,
I don't know, or might not be, so we'll see.
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But so it's going to reopen after that major investment.
Now again one of the issues and at least since
the client of Finley Park. And I'm not even can
we even point to what actually started that decline. It
just kind of seemed to happen overnight almost, is it
when the fountain stopped working?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
That was that it That was a big part of it.
I mean, that's that got people's attention. Trivials that sounds
it was. I mean that was the.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I don't know, the beginning of the end for that part.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, and it was. I mean it just kind of
it not only symbolized the decline, but I mean that's
that's what you look to when you walked into the park.
You looked up to that hill where the fountain was located.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
How many organizations over the years, whether it's TV stations
or just somebody with print public or whatever have Have
you used a picture of that, of that fountain and
with the city background behind it. I mean you see
it over and over and over again, and it hadn't
worked in a long time. So and then you know
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what happened. That's when the homeless took over the place.
If you've driven by Finley Park in the last number
of years, I mean, that's that's what you saw. So
now is it reopening? Middle November, the City of Columbia
announcing that they're opening another homeless shelter, and this time
they're calling the shots. The city will be managing what's
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being called the Recovery Center at Hope Plaza. It's near
elmwot Ab and I think the actual address is a
main street address, but it's right across the street from
the Transition's Homer Shelter.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, the police know that area very well already.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, so they'll open that up next month. Now, this
will of course again coincide and this is the answer
to what what do you do with the homeless problem
at Finley Park? I guess. So it's smart for them
to do this at this time. Certainly, Now how well
it will work, I don't know we'll find out.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, they're asking all these different organizations to come in
under the city's one big umbrella, and which we've been
lacking that. I mean, the city has tried to organize things,
but everybody, everybody had their own captain, and everybody had
their own agenda, and everybody did things their own way. Yeah,
and you've got homeless services that are spread all over
(20:45):
the city, so they're constantly moving here or there everywhere
they can't get service. Meanwhile, they're problems for businesses all
over the city and problems for Findlay Park too because
that's where they wind up sometimes. So because some of
these organizations decided, hey, that's the perfect place for us
to feed them.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, see, they will go right to Finlay Park with
the free food. So you know, that's that's where the
free stuff is. Why not congregate there.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
So the city is going to try and organize things
and that's that. And and the city is taking the
lead saying, if you want in, you know, we're in charge.
But here's where we're going to do it, and here's
how we're going.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
To do it. Yeah, so let's see how this works.
But now of state paper reporting that some fairly large
organizations that have tried to help with this issue, so
they haven't been contacted by the city yet, and then
they're wondering, why, so what is this, what is this
going to cost? Well, they say they've spent nearly four
hundred thousand dollars that money a big chunk of not
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all of it. It looks like it's coming from the
the Opioid Recovery Fund.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Well, I mean, we we we know that there's a
drug addiction problem. That's part of the reason why people
are homeless.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, our state got some three hundred and sixty million
dollars from that settlement with Johnson and Johnson and cities
are able to apply for some of that money. So
they're using again the fact that many homeless have have
drug addiction issues, so that that's allowing them to use
some of this money for that specific purpose. Nearly about
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thirty five percent of homeless people in Richland County are
estimated to have a drug addiction problem.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
And there's mental health, and there's you know, they don't
you know, they don't have addresses to apply for jobs,
and I mean that's there's there's a lot of things
that can be taken care of if with a centralized
service like the city is proposing.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I do have a question though, because if I'm not mistaken,
this this new center will be open from eight to
five pm. What happens at five pm?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, it's not a housing No, it's it's services to
provide help for the homeless during.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
The day, yes, and then when night falls, where do
they go? Well, it's I mean, are we going to
have is law enforcement going to be actively keeping homeless
people out of Finley Park?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Well, yeah, I know that that's part of the money
that we've spent. I mean, they're gonna have Mark rangers there,
there will be security. So yeah, that's not that's not
going to be an option.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I tell you. It's this is a you know, I mean,
we're not a huge city by any stretch of imagination.
But maybe it's just me, but it seems like over
maybe the last i don't know, five since COVID, we're
seeing a lot more of this problem in places that
maybe it's always was we just didn't notice it, or
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it's not just downtown Colombia anymore. I mean you see
evidence of this in all sorts of places.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well, I mean the city worked and at one point
they were going to buy that building that the state
was abandoning and turn that into a homeless you know,
a true homeless shelter including services. But that didn't work out.
So this is just going to be services. And yeah
there's still I mean, they'll they'll help people find housing.
(24:23):
There's some housing out there and they'll help find it.
But yeah, we're still going to face the same issues.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, but I apply the city for you know, trying
it this way. It is the first step. Yeah, the
other way was working to some degree, but you're never
going to solve this issue one hundred percent. But let's
hope they can make some make some good progress with
this one.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Wish them on the world is calling Mexico, Ukraine, Russia,
United States, and we'll take you there.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
At a critical time in our world's history.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
One well three point five FM and five sixty am
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Speaker 1 (25:11):
The seven forty Good morning, Good to have you with
us for Thursday, September twenty fifth. All Right, so the
new quinit Pac poll out this disturbing but it probably
reflects something that you feel like yourself. Seventy nine percent
of us in this poll say that we're in a
political crisis. Well, there's leaves just a few that say
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we're not right.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Who didn't feel that way after Charlie Kirk got killed?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
All right, exactly interesting this this poll was taken after
the assassination of the Charlie. Interestingly enough, gosh, ninety three
percent of Democrats say we're a political crisis. Now, okay,
and this is for different reasons.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Okay, if it had been somebody on the left who
had gotten shot and killed, I would have felt the
same way. Sure, yeah, because that would have sent the
same signal that we're just that divided.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Eighty four percent of Independence think we're in a political crisis,
but just sixty percent of Republicans feel that way. Now,
I get with the Democrats because I'm not going to
sit here and say this that Democrats aren't affected by
the assassination of Charlie Kurt. Well, the extreme left is not.
They're rejoicing it, okay, but no, most people who who
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identify with democratic political ideologies there is saddened as shocked
by this as the rest of us. Are okay. But
these are the same people who have been told now
for years and years and years by their leaders that
were in a political crisis. Not not when they controlled Washington,
d C. There were no political crisis then, but as
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soon as we're anytime Republicans control it down. This has
been going on for a while, suddenly it's a political crisis.
This has been hammered over and over and over again.
So yeah, I suspect even if Charlie Kirk had not
been assassinated and Quinnepiac took this poll, they probably would
have found probably similar results, especially with Democrats. Seventy one
percent of voters think that politically motivated violence today in
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the US is a very serious problem.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I would hope we're all on edge because of it.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, so seventy one percent say it's a serious problem.
Twenty two percent think it's a somewhat serious problem.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Nobody should find it acceptable, should nobody should consider this
the price of doing business in our country.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
So explained to me, the polls that show a majority
of Democrats think is okay to take out Donald Trump
or Elon Musk. Wow, they took the same poll, asked
the same question to pull back in June, then you
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had fifty four percent of people thinking it was a
serious problem and thirty seven saying a somewhat serious problem.
So you got a lot of folks who just a
couple of months ago thought it was a at least
a somewhat serious problem and now thinking it's a very
serious problem. And they would be right. And a majority
fifty four percent think it's going to get worse over
the next few years. Fifty eight percent think it's not
(28:32):
going to be possible to lower the temperature on political
rhetoric and speech in this country. What's more, the same poll,
a majority of Americans believe that democracy isn't working. Fifty
three percent think it's just not working right now. Take
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that poll again. If we have another government shutdown, it'll
be even worse. Right, you know, I gotta tell you
I'm starting to democracy as it is functioning right now. Mean,
can you honestly say that if you compared this country
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politics the state of democracy twenty years ago, maybe even
ten years ago, to today, can you really, honestly, in
your heart of hearts, say that that's the same as
it ever was. It's working fine, it doesn't seem to.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Be, But would you rather be in Russia or China.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Right, what's the alternative? Right? Right? But this great experiment
that has been so successful for nearly two hundred and
fifty years. Yeah, but we've had grow pains all along,
sure we have. And yeah, well yeah we can go back,
you know, to the middle eighteen hundreds and see the
(30:10):
issues we have with democracy then, right, Okay, a lot
more serious. But it just seems that the institutions there
are founding fathers envisioned and so geniusly developed that man,
things aren't going well, yeah, you're right, what's the alternative, right? Well,
(30:36):
the alternative is Zohan run Mondamie in New York, who's
got big leads in the polls. It's AOC and Bernie Sanders,
who more and more on the left are identifying with
their policies and liking them better. I don't think it's
the Republicans that are the problem here, okay. I mean, honestly,
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how is the Republican Party of the day. Let's okay,
So here's the shue. People who aren't Conservatives aren't Republicans.
They look at the Republican Party, they don't see the
Republican Party. They see Donald Trump, Right, they see Donald
Trump as the Republican Party, you know, an abrasive personality,
a polarizing figure, somebody they can't stand, and they you
(31:27):
take that, and quite honestly, if a shoe were on
the other foot, Conservatives might do the same thing, and
probably do. We're starting to more and more I'm guilty
of this too. Look at the Democrat Party. Instead of
seeing the Democrat Party as a whole, what am I seeing?
I'm seeing Alexandria Ocassio Cortaz, you know, I'm seeing the squad.
I'm seeing what's her name down in Texas who keeps
(31:49):
mauling off on Jasmine Crockett. Right, I mean, we're all
guilty to some degree or another of this h But
then you've got folks who are identifying with people like
that on both sides and saying, yeah, well it wasn't
working before. It wasn't working with you know, Mitch McConnell
and Chuck Schumer. So you know, actually, my surprise at
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this poll is that it's only fifty three percent who
think the democracy is is not working right now. That's
not to say that these fifty three percent don't want
it to work. They're just saying it's it's not working
right now.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I think it's I think it's always working as long
as we can walk around free from government control, as
long as we can carry guns and speak freely. And
now are those rights infringed upon occasionally, Yes, but you know,
I think the Constitution winds up winning more times than
(32:54):
it loses. Yeah, So it's I mean, like I said,
it's it's it's hiccups, which we've gone through throughout history.
I think democracy is not working. Sounds a little too
strong to me. Well, and again you break that down
left and right. It's seventy four percent of the left
that says it's not working, whereas seventy thirty four percent
(33:16):
of the right say it is working. There's no problems
at all, And if a Democrat was in the White House,
the numbers would.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Reverse about flipped. Yeah, but that in itself is a problem,
isn't it. My party's not in power, so it's not working.
That's an issue, right, Darren. Okay, so some interesting takes
from the new Quintipiac poll that would just dropped yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's democracy working in itself. When you're out of power,
you still have power. I mean, look at what the
Democrats can do to the government, and that might be
part of the problem though, you're right and shutting it down. Yeah,
you're right.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
But Democrat voters now looking at their party and thinking
what are you doing? They're not happy with their own
party right now, So of course is not work because
you're not making it work.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, well, I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
What Schumer to do? He got vilified for working with
Trump earlier this year, so there's no way he's going
to do it now. So what happens here?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, Well, by the way, is on a side this
next impending government shutdown, We're not talking about workers being furloughed.
We're talking about workers being laid off. So that ratchets
up the degree of the concern here with this one.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
Say fifteen, you can only get to have you along
watching two tropical systems, Umberto which is a tropical storm,
and invest Invest ninety four L which could become one.
And really a weird setup here is they're kind of
going to be like almost like side by side. I mean,
(35:00):
folks who travel who track this kind of thing are
like freaking out over this one. But the good news
is it's you're not supposed to impact us this weekend's
ragin is not part of that that's for next week.
There's always the potential that that small the two that's
second one could make an impact on the East coast,
but probably not South Carolina, but it's too early to tell.
(35:20):
Tomorrow I think is tomorrow's one year since Helene. I
think that was on September twenty sixth as I recall,
And they're still rebuilding up in North Carolina and that
that's surprise the way that thing came in. And about
eighty billion dollars in damage. Yeah, difficult, Okay, before we
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get off the air, about this time yesterday morning, we
started hearing the first reports of a shooting at an
ice facility in Dallas, Texas. We went off here at
nine o'clock. Didn't know a whole lot more detail about that,
but we do now. So here we go, another nearby rooftop,
(36:11):
another rifle, and two more people dead, and this time
they were immigrants. This gunman identified as twenty nine year
old Joshua John who took his own life after the shooting,
(36:31):
firing at a nice vehicle, a van that had I
think three detainees inside, two of them killed, a third
critically injured. And as you've probably since heard, there were
you've probably seen the photo of a bullet found at
(36:53):
the scene with the words anti ICE written on them
with a marker. It appears to be a marker in
an understatement. The FBI says they were investigating the shooting
as an act of targeted violence. You think, so, here
we go again. This is this same facility in Dallas
(37:14):
has Well, he had a bomb threat what had been
the last month, I guess it was, And we again
see these ICE facilities coming under attack. It's the first
time we've seen them like this, but certainly plenty of
instances of them coming under attack from ANTIFA and other
(37:34):
leftist extremist organizations. DHS says this was driven by hatred
for ICE, and we've seen a lot of that. I mean,
the attacks on ICE agents is up over about one
thousand percent in this country now at the same time,
(38:05):
and I mean, yeah, it's hard to get past this.
How often we have heard and not just from extremist leftists,
but from Democrats in Congress, in state legislators, mayors, I mean,
you name it. Who wants you to believe that we,
(38:28):
as the American people are at war with immigrations and
custom enforcement, at war with them? I mean, the rhetoric
that they're using. It should be no great shock that
this sort of thing is going to happen at some
point in time, and it has. You know, there's a
(38:53):
very hotly contested governors race up in Virginia and a
clip is resurfaced now shared by the Republican lieutenant governor
wins some earl sears not long after the word came
down about this shooting in Dallas yesterday morning. It is
(39:14):
a video that shows a Democrat in that race, Abigail Spamberger,
saying during a political event back in June, let your
rage fuel you. Okay, Now, she could have been referring
(39:35):
to a lot of things, I suppose, but this is
kind of this is not a We're not talking about
an extreme leftist politician here in this Democrat Spamberger, let
your rage fuel you. Uh. The Democrat Party and the
(39:58):
left would would could continually like you to believe that
all of this is a result of Donald Trump. Yes,
Donald Trump has some nasty, fiery reddick, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
But only Trump would say at Charlie Kirk's memorial how
he hates his enemies, right.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Yeah, But I mean it comes from so many different
places on the left that what did you think was
gonna happen? Well, here it was. Now you got this
tied back to the Charlie Kirk shooting. Georgetown University. A
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red flyer posted from the John Brown gun Club, A
recruitment flyer with the headlines scrolled across the top. Hey, fascist,
catch this doesn't believe right, This is a leftist gun club.
Remember that was edged on one of the bullets it
(41:01):
was found after the Charlie Kirk assassination. In addition, the
advertisement reads the only political group that celebrates when Nazis die?
You know. Okay, Well we'll uh well, we'll harken back
to that discussion we had earlier this morning about uh,
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about this country and people thinking we're in serious political
crisis here. You imagine this that at Georgetown University. I
hope I didn't stay up there long. I hope it
(41:44):
was taken down pretty quickly, But I don't know. Goodness, sakes. Yeah,
I think we've got some I think we got some
problems here. Okay, So the motive for yesterday shooting in Dallas,
now you're gonna you've and we've already seen this. We
(42:04):
have seen at least one commentator on one of the
uh the cable networks bring up was it, Oh goodness,
where was it in Auckland? Or there was a mass
shooting a number of years ago by a guy who
turned out to be a rightist, right extremist who wanted
(42:27):
to make it look like he was a left extremist.
Remember I can't remember where that was. Was that Australia
or somewhere somewhere far far away from here? I vaguely
remember that. But you've already got some on some of
these talking heads saying that's what this is. This is
a rightist extremist taking potshots at immigrants, trying to make
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it look like it's a leftist that's upset with ice. Well,
I suppose that's always not out of the realm of possibility,
But again, chances are a lot greater that you've got
young people who probably already have issues to begin with,
(43:12):
and then they're subjected to this rhetoric over and over
and over again that ice agents and masks. So they
got a stopo and they should be stopped at all costs.
You've got elected politicians saying that what did you think
was going to happen? Huh?
Speaker 3 (43:28):
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Speaker 1 (43:53):
Some time for our final thoughts here on a Thursday morning,
the twenty fifth of September. Of the time now is
eight forty. It's the gift that keeps on taking the
hole in the ground in Richland County. It was going
to be an early learning center. You remember this one.
They went about all this, All kinds are wrong here.
(44:14):
They didn't get a they get an approval from the
Department of Education because it wasn't really a school that
was as many people referred to it as a kind
of a glorified expensive daycare. They didn't get work permits
to start construction. I'm still scratching my head over how
a project that large, that much land cleared and nobody
(44:35):
at the county to go bien said, wait a minute,
did did code enforcement never go by? There was nobody
aware they were doing this? Was it not in the news?
I think it was. But somehow they started all that
work with no work permit and then you know, the
lawsuits ensued. They cleared all this land and it rained
(44:55):
and then the runoff affected homes in the adjoining neighborhood. Yeah,
that one, that one that they well basically dug a
big old hole in the ground and put seven million
dollars in it in taxpayer money. That one, now ritual
one's got to pay well out of the nine hundred thousand,
(45:15):
let's just call it an even million? What the heck?
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Huh? And you wonder if that was factored into the decision.
I mean, they knew they were going to have to
cancel these contracts.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Yeah, and for their troubles for canceling said contracts with
what four different companies, nine hundred thousand dollars they got
to pay out.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
The price of doing business.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Wow. So let's see they already spent seven mil. This
is close, So let's just call it an even eight
million dollars buried somewhere out there in the mud. Well
maybe not right now, but by this weekend it'll be
mud unbelievable. And again, if this is if this is
a private enterprise doing this, well I could care less,
(46:03):
so could you. But this is your money. This is
your money. Speaking of school state, paiper earnning this length
the article about the guy who's the principal of the
Great Collegiate Academy over West Columbia, Brian Newsom, who is
making bank man. As the principal there, he is one
(46:29):
of the highest paid public school employees in the state.
He knocks down almost three hundred and twenty three thousand
dollars a year. Wow. The rub here is though, that
they say he is being paid at least another one
hundred and sixty thousand a year by the Charter Institute
(46:50):
at Erskine in a role to advise charter school peers
and guid new charter school development. So, as one expert
in education law and policy says, charter school authorizers have
(47:11):
a fiduciary duty to the state to manage charters and
hold them accountable. So this is the role he's taking
part in while he's also the principal at one of
these charters, the hen guarding the chicken House. Well, some
people are raising concerns over that.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
I mean, it seems to know what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
He does they open up another I think it's all
portables right now, but they will open up another satellite
campus over. We talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
That's led to a decline student population in l R
five on out side of the county. The trial for RJ.
May is supposed to take place next month. I'm not
(47:58):
sure it will now he is quest of a change
the venue. They start picking a jury next week? Is
it next week?
Speaker 2 (48:04):
October? Next week's October?
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Isn't it? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Or will they pre trial
hearing yesterday a judge delaying decisions on multiple filings put
forth by May. Now whether or not there's a change
of venue, The judge says, well, they can't even consider
(48:26):
that until the jury selection starts. I guess they'll start
jury selection next week is planned, and I guess when
they interview potential jurors to make a decision that as
to whether or not he can get a fair trial
on this spot here I suppose James call me on
the hot seat. Here. The DOJ preparing to ask a
(48:47):
grand jury as soon as today to indict the former
FBI director, this on allegations he lied to Congress, so
that news may come down today. It's gonna have to
come down soon. The testimony in question was back in
(49:09):
twenty twenty, on September thirtieth, testimony related to the investigation
of ties between Russia and Trump. You know, Russia, Russia, Russia.
There's a five year statute limitations on this, so the
case would have to be brought by next Tuesday, if
it's gonna be brought at all. And again sources telling
(49:35):
the Associated Press that those indictments, or at least they'll
the grand jury will consider those today. Okay, we mentioned
earlier he got another looming government shutdown, which these looming
government shutdowns of I think most people these days were like, yeah, whatever, they.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
Tune out until you start seeing people lose their jobs
and or lose their paychecks.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Yeah, and a riff in this one, or reduction of
force in this one. This time around, well, the White
House is suggesting actually getting rid of federal employees, not
only lay them off, but eliminate their positions all together.
So this one's different on that front. And of course
(50:24):
both sides are pointing fingers at the other side for
being the responsible party for this looming shutdown here.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
I would, you know, I'd have a lot I've heard
what John Thune has to say. I'd have a lot
more respect for the Republican leaders if they just if
they said what is essentially the truth. There are cuts
in healthcare. You know why, because we can't afford what
we're spending right now, because we weren't prepared for the
(50:51):
Affordable Care Act, and as a result, we've seen prices
go up, We've seen competing forces, you know, creat inflation
for health care because of this Affordable Care Act and
because of the fact that we're spending more money than
we take in. I wish, I wish a Republican would
just step up and say, yes, it's true, and it's
(51:12):
not just I mean, you know, you keep hearing the
argument that illegal illegals won't get healthcare anymore thanks to Republicans,
that there that there's already a law against that. This
this this shutdown has nothing to do with that. It's
it is, it's there are some some protracted cuts to
healthcare in there, because we can't afford what we're doing
(51:33):
right now. I wish a Republican was brave enough to
man up and say that, and and then explain why.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Well, I should run for office and do it.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
I wouldn't win because because I would tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
And uh, the book one hundred and seven days, I'm
not reading it, but.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
All right, others are.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
And oh yeah, I mean she and this hold Tim
Wall's angle here. She writes that that it was quickly
clear to her that Tim had walked into the room
feeling he wouldn't get the job. First thing he said
when he sat down, I don't even know if a
door had closed behind him, and said, whether or not
you pick me, I'm gonna do everything I can't get
(52:19):
you elected. He was immediately self critical. She says, I'm
not a good debater. Never use a teleic prompter. Blah
blah blah blah. We saw that, saying that Waltz was
less polish than Josh Shapiro, but had an appealing authenticity
and was genuinely self deprecating. Oh yeah, he wouldn't try
(52:40):
to outshine her, So that's why she picked the governor
of Minnesota as her running mate.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
And that's why she's peddling a book instead of in
the White House.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
Right didn't matter who she picked, she'd still be peddling
a book in not the White House. Remember, it wasn't
her fault. Okay, it wasn't her fault. It was everybody
else's spinn
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