Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jesus Hey America and Jerry Hollin.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
For formation.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
This is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Good morning, Welcome to a Friday. It's the twenty sixth
day of September, seventeen minutes after six o'clock. Checking in.
I'm Gary David. That is Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I know what kind of morning it's going to be
because I can see one of your computer screens from
here and whenever you have a weather map up. Uh huh,
I know what kind of morning it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, Well you didn't see me spill coffee all over
the computer and my smartphone a few minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No, I miss that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Okay, I'm glad you didn't see that. It was kind
of a garrison even have a little my coffee cup.
Still it didn't matter. Yeah, Okay, here we go. We've
been lucky so far. What about this time around? So
all eyes on the tropics here along the Carolina coastline,
not not again, not worried about the Umberto which is
(01:22):
you know already got the name. But this invest ninety
four l that Tyler just mentioned. It's well again, you know,
there's no certainty here, but potential for a category one,
maybe a week category two. But the track of it
(01:43):
is varies a little bit. But most of the plot
lines right now the different models have it impacting our
state anywhere between Charleston Myrtle Beach probably most more more
than not, the prognostications are up towards the Myrtle Beach arey,
(02:04):
somewhere between Myrtle Beach and Wilmington. Potential there. You got
a couple of that have it coming in a little
further south and maybe making its way right through the Midlands.
But it looks like the majority of these models right
now are tend to have this thing making landfall along
(02:24):
the Grand Strand, taking a westerly turn across the upper
part of the state, and then believe it or not,
actually impacting the mountains of North Carolina again like a
year after Helene. Let's hope that doesn't come to right. Yeah,
(02:44):
that's kind of the doomsday scenario with this thing. Again,
not a huge, huge, very powerful, violent storm, but still
a hurricane. There are at least a couple models though,
that are more favoral for us because of that other
hurricane out there on Bert though that that system could
actually drag this thing as it starts to make a
b line to our coastline back out of the Atlantic,
(03:06):
and we get you know, no no landfalls. So it's well,
and the timeline again, we're thinking maybe Monday, Monday night
into Tuesday morning, although there are a couple of models
moving slower than that, and maybe not until Wednesday. So
it's all up in the air right now. But this
is going to be our closest, uh, our closest possibility,
(03:28):
our best possibility of having a hurricane so far this season.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
So get prepared over the weekend, but then we'll still
have Monday to figure things out for certain.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That seems to be okay, seems to be the case.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Okay, okay, I can do that, okay quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Here rundown big stories, hot topics, and we had a
bunch of stuff over here today. The firing of Howard
nap is the election director. Now it's uh, it's surface
that well. When sled first started an investigation about more
than a year ago, I guess it was it wasn't
for probably what he just got fired for, but it
(04:05):
was over the apparently potential misuse of state vehicles and
credit cards. Okay, source telling John Monk over the state paper.
Who is you know, he's John's I think John is
invigorated by this story. Man, he had had one like
this in a while. He's on the trail of this thing.
So let's keep following that. A judge says, the governor
(04:29):
can now intervene in this lawsuit that's attempting to block
the state Election Commission from turning over our personal information
to the Department of Justice, our voter info. So okay,
this is this back and forth. As all this continues meantime,
there are reports and you know, I mentioned this off
of the year to mister Thompson yesterday morning because I saw
(04:50):
an ad for Pamela Abbott and it looked a lot
like the ed had been running with a lot of
Trump in there, right, okay, but something looked different on
this one, and I thought, I think there's a lot
more Vern McMaster in this one. And yeah, there are
spots in that ad where the governor talks almost as
though he is endorsing Pamela ebbatt in this race. Well,
(05:12):
this new ad by a packed Patriots for South Carolina.
That just dropped does make it look like the governor's
endorsing her, and that has brought calls from both Nancy
Mason Alan Wilson their campaigns to yank this ad. It
is very misleading. Okay. We'll actually have the Attorney general
(05:35):
and with us later on that he is joined with
a number of other states attorneys general seeking for the
SEC to move forward with banning cell phones and state prisons.
So we'll be here at seven point forty to talk
about that. We have to ask them about this too.
A lawsuit has been filed by the son of a
former congressional candidate in the Low Country. You may recall
(05:56):
a Catherine Templeton. That name, Yeah, her son Brooks Hampton
Templeton was arrested. This was it seems like last year.
This lawsuit filed by her son accuses police in Mount
Pleasant of sloppy work and that all this was fabricated. Okay.
(06:19):
Russell Lafitte pleading guilty to a bunch of state charges.
This ahead of his sentencing on related federal charges next week.
So this deal, this is yeah, this is all done
behind the scenes. You just have to do it in public.
Now exactly. Yeah, yeah, so about eight years behind bars
for helping Alex Murdoch steal money from his clients and
(06:42):
up at the upstate the saga ongoing saga of the
former sheriff in Spartanburg County, Chuck Wright. He's agreed to
plead guilty on federal charges. He guilty to fraud drug counts. Goodness,
this is a lot of corruption going on, right, and
wire frauds thrown in there too. Okay, A good news.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The trooper who was struck and hospitalized earlier this month
in Lexington County after being hit by a pickup truck
in that chain reaction collision, Wayne lab Bounty, has been
released from the hospital. He's in a rehab facility now.
So he continues to make make men's to his body,
all right. It happened late yesterday. James Comey indicted by
a grand jury in DC this over alleged lying in
(07:30):
the congressional testimony over the whole Russia Gate thing, the Russia, Russia, Russia. Okay,
we're treading some new some new ground here, aren't we.
That Dallas ice shooter Moore has been known learned on
the timeline of this and his his motives. Joshua Yan,
the twenty nine year old who apparently put a lot
(07:50):
of a lot of premeditation into what he did the
other day in Dallas houseide that ice office.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I guess writing on bullets is a that's going to
be the end thing.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
This is the trendy thing. Yes, yeah, right. Pete hagsth
the Secretary of of the well the Department of War
we call it now the Department of War, ordering hundreds
of top military commanders to come back to the Pentagon
next week. Now I first heard this, I thought, oh man,
what are we getting ready to do here? But it's
(08:21):
maybe more like a lot we're going to lose their jobs.
Hagzeth has been talking about reducing the size of the
upper level the command structure, and focusing more on the gis,
the grunts at the bottom. We actually do have a
lot more high ranking officers now than we had, say
during times like World War two, a lot lot more,
and the economy expanding at a surprising pace in Q two.
(08:43):
Now that all the numbers have been crunched and revised
up three point eight percent from April through June, and
that well, how does this play into the fed's idea
of future rate cuts. We'll talk about that and more
coming up on this. It is the Friday morning edition
the Columbia's Morning News. Thanks so much for being with us.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Your morning news, getting ready for work and all day
in fault and check in throughout the day.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
One on three point five FM and five to sixty
am w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary
David and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five
FM and five sixty am dou w VOC.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Thank you morning, till you as six forty two. Now
for Friday, September twenty sixth, to be clear, rain that
we'll see today tomorrow gosh, eighty percent chance of rain
tomorrow is a forecast here and that includes well a
decreasing chance by tomorrow night for the game over to
(09:44):
Williams Brice. Okay, but this has nothing to do with
these tropical systems that we're talking about this morning, and
we'll talk more about that later on again. Concerns for
what's now invest ninety four l but is expected to
become Immelda uh meldo. Okay, not worried about emberto, but
(10:04):
Amelda could impact the coastal areas of our state. Some
of the spaghetti plot lines even have it coming like
right through this area, but that's not really the the
most popular pick. Most of them having this thing going
up through the between the Grand Strand and Wilmington area,
but potentially eventually impacting again the western the mountains of
(10:27):
north western North Carolina again a year after Helene did
the same thing. So we'll be tracking that and passing
along more information as we get it now. Uh this
story that when I saw this yesterday, and I think
a lot of people had this reaction that Pete hegsath
Uh the chairman of the the Department of War. Now
(10:51):
I've heard he used to call it. We used to
call it years, I mean, last decade, last century. We
called the Department of War up until when.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You see you say we we were live.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
We were alive. Yeah, people did, but before it was
changing the Department Defense. IM back to the Department of War.
But regardless that he is summoning all the top US
military leaders from across the planet to come to the
Pentagon next Tuesday. Now this is pretty unprecedented. They have
(11:28):
methods via which they can communicate all on a big
conference call. They're safe and secure. So a lot of
people I think might have thought like I did when
I first saw this, and that was, Okay, are we
getting ready to you know, launch World War iie here
(11:50):
or something? I mean, what is going on that we
would bring? What are we talking about? Eight or so? Yuh?
Eight hundred generals and admirals to the Pentagon seem weird,
But conventional wisdom is that it's got nothing to do
(12:14):
with that. That Hegseth has been talking about putting more
of a focus less on the upper chain of command
and more down to the grunt level, you know, the GIS.
So there's been fears of a looming purge in the
(12:36):
upper echelons of the military. Hegxeth previously had said he
wanted to cut twenty percent of senior generals and admirals.
Back in May, he issued a directive to cut about
one hundred generals and admirals, along with a minimum twenty
percent cut to four star officers, and on top of that,
(12:57):
a ten percent reduction in general and flag officers across
the country. Less generals, more GIS policies, what he called it.
So are we top heavy? Well, if you compare this
to well at a time when we were actually out
there winning wars and big ones too. World War two,
(13:21):
Excess says, at that time there was the ratio of
generals to troops was one general for every six thousand troops.
Right now, he says that ratio we're talking about four
star and flag officers across the military. That ratio is
(13:41):
one general to fourteen hundred troops. So world War two
one for every six thousand. Now today one for every
fourteen hundred. Too many cooks in the kitchen. Uh huh,
I mean, these aren't folks that are going out and
you know, fighting wars. So it seems like this is
probably what this is all about. Is he calling them
(14:03):
all in? Are we going to see like this? This
is this blood bath next Tuesday? Come in and uh
here this many of you are going to walk out
of here. No longer employed by the United States military.
It is unusual. J. D. Van said, Well, this is
(14:28):
this is the media is turning this into a big story.
It's not particularly unusual that generals who are report to
Hexeth or any Secretary of War Defense, whichever, are coming
to speak to them, but to bring them all together
at the same time is a little unusual. Sorry, mister
Vice President, that's unusual. Okay, Chrump said, why is this
(14:53):
such a big deal? Well, we'll find out, I guess
next Tuesday. But are we getting ready to go to war?
That doesn't seem to be the case here at all.
Let's hope. We got plenty of problems. We don't need
that too, right, we got weather to worry about it.
Let's get it. Let's do it with the weather first,
and then we'll worry about war.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
It is seven fifteen. Good morning, and I'm good to
have you along for Friday, September the twenty sixth, again
keeping an eye on what is not got a name
yet other than just calling it in best ninety four
l but expect to become amelda and with the potential
to impact us early next week Monday, late Monday into
Tuesday possibly although some models but it may be more
like Wednesday. The question is is will this thing come
(15:49):
on shore? If it does? Weird Right now, the entire
south kind of coastline's got to be at least paying
close attention to this looks like conventional wisdom, and most
of the plot lines would put this falling somewhere between
Saint Myrtle Beach and Wilmington, the Outer Banks area. But
it's what happens if it does that track afterwards. It
(16:10):
is so concerning to so many people. Now, a direct
path through the midlands. Well, there's at least one or
two lines that have that as a possibility, But it
looks like more than likely a landfall between South and
North Carolina, and then this thing would turn west and
have a potential again to impact the mountains of western
(16:31):
North Carolina, about a year after Halene devastated the area,
So they got to be feeling real squirrely right about now.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I can only imagine, I mean, some of them are
still rebuilding.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah. Yeah, there's also the possibility that this other hurricane
out there Umberto could actually drag this thing back out
to sea before it makes any landfall. There's even one
model it has it, you know, making landfall you know
along our northern coast line here in the state, tracking
across mountains of North Carolina and then heading back south
toward the Gulf coast. I mean, there's all kind of
(17:02):
possibilities here. It's like the more technology we get, the
less we seem to know. But anyway, it bears keeping
an eye out. And this weekend, ran We've got today
and tomorrow has nothing to do with that. Okay, all right, So,
as you've heard, James Comy was in fact indicted by
(17:23):
that grand jury in Virginia yesterday afternoon late We talked
about this briefly yesterday morning. They're going to indict him.
They had to do it like right now because the
five year statute of limitations was about to expire. I
think next Tuesday was the last possible day they could
have indicted him on charges of lying to Congress. So
this stems back to testimony that he gave back in
(17:48):
twenty twenty, right, Yeah, and the indictment alleging that the
former director of the FBI made a false statement when
he stated he did not authorize somebody the bureau to
be an anonymous source. According to the indictment, that was
a false statement. Okay. Now, of course, depending on what
(18:12):
side of the political aleu you fall on, you've got
a very different interpretation of this. Democrats are saying this
is again, this is part of Trump's revenge tour, that
he's hunting down his enemies, trying to throw them in prison.
Could James Comy go to prison on these charges, Yeah,
(18:32):
technically he could, Willie, I'd be shocked. But this is again,
this is unprecedented in this country. I mean, heck, we
had what news in the last air or two What
was Nicholas Sarkozi, former president of France. Right, dude's going
He's going to the big house for a number of years.
(18:56):
You see this a lot in you know, places like
South America. You know we're former I mean we're talking
presidents here now of countries wind up in jail. But
it didn't happen around here. I doubt Komy would spend
any time behind bars as a result.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
But well, who, I mean think about the case. Who
would compare in recent memory.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
At a level that high up?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, not in this country.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I mean, it's hard to think about anything that we've
gone through in recent history where you've got a former
FBI director who's accused of doing what he's accused of doing.
I can't think of a comparison. No, I can't either.
So this is the Antiamenta says he obstructed a concressional
(19:49):
congressional investigation. If you need to know the code he
was in violation of, it's eighteen Usc. Fifteen oh five.
There you go, for you.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Code nerds out there, you know, don't but don't don't
forget this too. You know. Back when Trump in his
first term fired Comy, he brought in remember John Bull
Durham as special counsel to look into the UH the
(20:19):
origins of the of the crossfire hurricane pro We all
remember that, and remember that Durham found that the FBI
under Comy's leadership failed to act on what he called
a clear warning sign that the bureau was the target
of a Clinton Hillary Clinton led effort to manipulate or
influence the law enforcement process for political purposes. This before
(20:42):
the twenty sixteen election. We remember famously when Comby said, yeah,
the Hillary you know, the the email thing and on
all this other stuff. You know, they had no prosecutor
right mind, would would would go after that. Sure seemed
like he was in the tank for Hillary Clinton at
the time. But but you can't prosecute him on that.
(21:03):
But you can on this, So that that indictment coming down.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yesterday, AI tells me there's no recent report of a
sitting US cabinet secretary being indicted. So I mean this
is a.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Big deal. This is precedent's setting.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, FBI is not a cabinet position, but I mean
still this is that level.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
So oh yeah, I mean this, this is a big story. Yes,
this is big news here. But as Pam Bondi saiding,
you hear this so often, no one is above the law.
How many times have people said about Trump, no one's
above the law. Uh, there have been way too many
apparent issues in recent history with this bureau. We're just
(21:53):
talking about Peter Stroke yesterday. I meybe, he's part of
that whole crossfire operation, crossfire hurricane. Remember he and and
he E five of law. His first am rights had
been had been taken away. He lost that that suit
got tossed.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Not only putting it together but then leaking it out exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So here we go from here. Komy will turn himself
in this morning, of course he is. You know, he's
not going down without saying a few things here saying
this is he mourned his family. As we stand up
to Trump, this is what happens now his what his
daughter was? She was she was canned. She was part
of the New York Office of the Prosecutor affair. Remember
(22:36):
she was canned. His son in law. I don't know
if this is the the husband of his daughter or
that daughter or I don't know. But he just resigned
his position as a prosecutor for the FEDS. So it's
the Kombe family is is quickly exiting the federal prosecutorial
ranks here. But this is a big deal. So that's
(23:01):
arrangment is set for ten am this morning. No, I'm
sorry he turned himself in this morning. The arrayment will
be October ninth at ten am, so a couple weeks
away from mats. Still celebrities who know not a darn
thing other than you know, singing and.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Dancing on stage.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton one on three point five
FM and five sixty am w VOC. This is Columbia's
Morning News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one
on three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's seven forty and at least here in the radio range,
the rain is coming down in buckets. They'll be careful
out there, all right. Uh. I mentioned this off the
air to mister Thompson yesterday morning, that I saw another
ad for Pamela Abbott and I thought it was different
(23:58):
than the one I'd been seeing, and I wondered if
there was It looked a little scorely to me. Attorney
General Alan Wilson is joining us this morning. This is
not what we're here to actually talk about. But besince,
I've got you, and good morning. Take off your AG
hat for a second, put on your arm running for
governor hat the new ad from Pamela evidd When if
(24:22):
you see this, it looks as though Governor McMaster is
endorsing her run for governor. Here, you have a problem
with this, you and some other candidates' problem with this, right.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Well, absolutely, I mean I think you referred to it
as a lack of truth in advertising when I was
when you watch these ads that are I'm playing on
TV with Donald Trump, that the ads are two and
three years old, back from his presidential election and from
rallies he did it several years ago. When you look
at the ads with Governor McMaster, and I pulled up
these ads on YouTube. These ads are from November of
(24:55):
twenty seventeen. These are eight years old, and they're the
rollout video when he selected her to be his running
mate in November of twenty seventeen. So these ads are
eight years old, and they are taken out of context
intentionally to mislead the viewers to thinking that these are
contemporary statements that the president has make, assuming that the
(25:17):
governor's making on this election, when it was actually statements
the governor was making when he was rolling out the
announcement video of his running mate eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Now I have read published report to say sources close
to the governor say the very upset over this. I
won't ask you to comment on that, but if nothing else,
I mean, this is one at least at this point.
This is one thing you and Nancy Mace have in
common because her camp's not happy about it either. But
truth and advertising when it comes to political ads doesn't
apply like it does to everybody else. But there's really
(25:48):
nothing to do about it, right other than bring attention
to it.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
I guess well you can call it out, Gary, and again,
you've got to respect the voters and you've got to
believe that the voters are smart enough to.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
See through this.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
And if you give the voters the information they're going
to see for what it is.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
This is someone, This.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Is a campaign trying to get trying to mislead voters
into thinking something that isn't true. I don't know what
else you call that, but all I can do is
raise awareness. This is an eight year old video. The
Trump videos are two and three years old, respectively. I
was actually on stage when the President made some of
those comments and he said nice things about me too.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
You don't see us.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Wrapping them up in a video and presenting them as
the President supporting me or the governor supporting me. I
just think it's not right. I think the voters at
the end of the day, we'll see through it, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
So let's put the ag hat back on again, which
was the original purpose for this call. Something that we
have talked about on this program for years and years
and years and years, and it is befuddled us all
this time that the Federal Communications Commission would not allow
(26:49):
states to ban cell phone signals in state prisons. Now,
correct me if I'm wrong. They allow the federal government
to do that for federal law, right, but not for
state prisons. Is that accurate?
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Yes, Gary, that's correct.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
The Federal Communications Commission actually has regulations that allow the
Federal Bureau of Prisons to implement jamming technologies in federal prisons,
but it specifically carves out state prisons.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
And for years, state prisons have.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Been dealing with this plague of contraband cell phones being
smuggled in or dropped in the prisons, and they're being
used to facilitate violent crimes, both inside the prisons as
well as outside the prisons. We have inmates becoming millionaires
because they're able to facilitate drug trafficking operations. They're able
to facilitate the harassment of witnesses and victims they're victims
(27:39):
who are on the outside. They're even able to help
facilitate the sexual abuse of children and publish it online.
I mean, this is stuff that we have been begging
the FCC to deal with. We've sent letters to Congress.
I've joined a twenty two state coalition. This is not
the first letter I've sent. This is like the tenth
letter I've sent, and so it's got to stop, and
we're grateful to the FCC is finally taking this up.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Do you have any idea of why it is that
the SEC has allowed federal prisons to do this, but
not state prisons. Has it ever been explained to you
Is there any rational reason for that?
Speaker 6 (28:13):
What has been explained to me is that there's a
lobby for the telecommunications companies around the country who are
concerned that this software, that assuming this hardware, this jamming technology,
if implemented in prisons, would disrupt the services of surrounding communities. Now,
what's interesting is we already have this technology in federal
prisons and we haven't heard any complaints from surrounding communities.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
In fact, it's so targeting, Gary, you can literally.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Be standing in one room, step through the doorway and
have your cell signal go off.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
It's that accurate.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, we know that you and Brian Sterling when he
was the head of Department of Corrections is he is
constantly but up in DC trying to get this changed.
And it sounds like we're closer to this than we've
ever been.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
As far as the first movement I've seen in Yes,
this is the first movement I have seen in ten
years of any action actually being taken.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So at this point I know they're going to be
deliberating this. Do we know will they be taking a
vote sometime soon on this will do you expect an
announcement anytime soon either way on this.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
I am hopeful that they'll take this vote up this
coming month.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
That is my hope.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Obviously, I've been seeing and arguing for this for more
than a decade, and so I just don't want to
get in front of my skis, But I'm hopeful that
this is the first time I've ever seen it go
this far, So I'm hopeful that they will actually act
this time and help make our states safer, an all
states safer by allowing state prisons to implement this technology.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
If they give us the go ahead here in South
Carolina and these and every other state for that matter,
how quickly could this be implemented here? Do you know?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
I think it could be implemented pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
I mean, obviously, the technologies there has been there for
you know, for a long long time, and I know
that having talked to Brian Sterling when he was the
direct of Corrections, you know that that the technology is there,
it's easily accessible, and it's easily implemented. So you know,
I don't want I'll let the Apartment Corrections speak for
how long it would take to actually set it up,
but I know that it's there waiting for us to
get it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Okay. Uh turns General Alan Wilson spending some time with
us this morning, and so let's we're all we're all
crossing our fingers on this one. This this needs to change,
and it needs to change like yesterday. Uh okay, thank you, sir,
appreciate it as always, yes, sir, thank you. All right,
Uh yeah yeah back to this uh this ad thing
here if you've seen that, and this is this is
(30:35):
not the original ad for Pamela Abbott. This is a
second one that her pack has dropped. The pack has
Patriots for South Kind and produced this thirty second spot.
It looks very similar to the original one. You know,
a lot of Trump in there, and no Trump has
not endorsed anybody, uh and and may not, even though
(30:56):
the the ebbitt Uh team, it is rumored to at
least privately suggested that a Trump endorsement was either in
the works or a done deal. That that's not the case.
But this one slides a few clips of governorment Master
in there, and AJ Wilson and a Republican primary gubernatorial
(31:19):
hopeful just mention to us that that was taying, I've
seen the video. It's a rollout of video when governorment
Master first tabbed her to run his running mate back
in twenty seventeen. I guess it was. They put together
about a two minute video a piece, and every single
comment you see in this current ad, the governor talking
(31:40):
about Pamela Abbott was lifted from that ad. Again, their
published reports that say the governor is not at all
happy with this, sources saying it was run without his knowledge,
without his consent. He has not taken a stance, and
I doubt the governor will make an endorsement in this race.
(32:03):
He may at some point. But and again this is
if you own your own business and you want to
put together a commercial, an advertisement and make claims that
are totally obviously bogus and false, well you know, you
get into trouble with the Federal Trade Commission on that one.
(32:24):
But remember that doesn't apply to political ads. A political
ad can say anything it wants to, it can be
outrageously obviously false, and many times it is, but it's allowable. Okay,
there's that double standard.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
It is eight fifteen Friday morning, September the twenty six.
Couldn't have along you, Sir Tyler mentioned this invest ninety
four L and TBD. Well, we got his boss with
us right now. ABC Columbia chief is John Farley. John,
good morning. Uh, I gotta tell you, brother, I was
just I was looking over all these different models out there,
(33:17):
the the European, the GF whatever it is. And yeah,
I mean there's a as a gazillion of them, right,
and yeah, while some are in some sorts of agreements,
and you've got a pretty wide variety of things that
could happen with not uh, we're not worried about uh Umberto,
but what may become Amelda.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, that's right, Garry. So what's going on? Yeah? Yeah,
And here's a situation.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
You know, when you have two storms that occur close
to each other, typically what happens is one of them
is going to eat up the other one.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
They don't generally combine. It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
And so when you look at these things, you're like, well,
wait a minute, these things aren't necessarily that close to
each other. These are about eight hundred miles apart. Assuming
that this one gets going, and you're like, okay, well,
now this is a pretty complicated situation because there are
a lot of things going on in the atmosphere this
in this situation that make this a very tricky forecast.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
So where are we in this It's pretty.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Likely a storm is going to form in the next
you know, day or two somewhere around the Bahamas and
then drift to the north.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Now the question becomes, and these are equally likely. Right now,
the question.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Becomes, does this thing form and then make landfall somewhere,
you know, along our coast and then push inland or
does it.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Get pushed out to sea?
Speaker 5 (34:40):
And right now it looks to me like both of
those are about equal opportunities. And this whole timing would
be sometime in the Monday Tuesday time frame on this,
So it's a really big stay tuned because we'll be
watching this closely to see how the whole thing evolves.
But it's you know, it's not that common that you
(35:01):
get storms that are even this close to each other
developing at the same time. Frequently they're you know, a
couple thousand miles apart.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, I was going to ask you that. Yeah. Now,
let's say, for example, all right, let's let's let's say
this thing takes the track where it does impact our coastline,
it makes landfall somewhere in South Carolina. I guess probably
the better odds are around the Myrtle Beach area, right
around the South gond North kint.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Of border or what yeah, yeah, somewhere there to Wilmington,
somewhere up I mean, but again still early to say,
but yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
So let's take that scenario, and then it turns inland,
and then you've got the horrific possibility that a year
after Helene, western North kinda gets hammered again.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Right, well, let me say this, not that likely that
it would do. So remember what the storm that came
up last time, came up across the peninsula of Florida,
that one Helene. Helene went from a category two to
a category four in a few hours landfall, and it
(36:01):
came up, you know, through Georgia and then western North Carolina.
Now that's a situation where you're on the right side
of the storm, which is the worst side of the storm.
To be on you have the most intense winds generally,
and so okay, this is not a VP performance at
this point. What it would be is it would come
in now we would the biggest threat, as it looks
(36:22):
to me from this one is rain, flooding rain. Now
we've been dry, so we need the rain. We just
don't need you know, eight inches of it at this point.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Right.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
So the other situation is how strong will this one
get usually, and again it's it's a pretty tricky situation
that we're we're in because we've seen in the last
several years, because of the ocean being considerably warmer than
it was fifty years ago, this rapid intensification that has
(36:54):
happened uncharacteristically of the historical storms. So there's a lot
of unknown in that as well, because remember this thing
goes up, it's going to be right on the Gulf string,
which would be pretty warm, and you know what I
look at, so intensity that's a bit of an unknown.
But for me, if this thing makes landfall at this point,
the biggest threat would be flooding rain.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Okay, Now for the Midlands, I mean, with the possible
scenarios we're talking about here, I mean, for us here
in the middles of South Carolina, what impacts could we
be looking at here?
Speaker 5 (37:26):
We'd be looking at I would say, again, if it
goes in the direction that it goes all right, If
it goes out to see nothing right, But if it
takes the left hand turn and comes inland, then we'd
be looking at a lot of rain, and the rain
would stick around.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
For a couple of days. That's what it looks like.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
The biggest threat to us would be would be rain
that could cause flooding. But I really want to underscore
on this one that when you talk about weather circumstances,
there are frequently we have become accustomed to, oh, you know,
here's the cone. We're out three, four or five days.
We have a reasonable comfort level that it's going to
(38:02):
be somewhere in this range, and so on. This one
is not that there are too many unknowns with this one,
and there's a lot of well the storm has yet
to form, but there are a lot of there's a
lot of unknown with this one more so than most.
So I would say, really, really stay tuned, because, as
I say, it looks to me like there are equal
(38:24):
chances that this thing goes out to see or takes
a left hand turn at this point.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Now, in another day, two days, we'll know a lot more.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Okay, And I guess a lot of the other note
has to do with umberto and what is how it's
gonna affect this thing, right, I mean, if that weren't
out there, we have we've know a little more with
positivity about where this thing mighte, but we just don't.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yes, we would definitely, definitely.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
And then there's this whole other there's this whole other
effect that happens when these storms get somewhat close to
each other.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
It's called the Fujihara effect.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
And it's a long story, but it's named after this
researcher who discovered this.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
But basically what happens is is.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
If sometimes what happens is if these storms get within
a range, not too close, but within a range of themselves,
they start to dumbbell around each other and then they
just wabble out to sea.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
That could equally happen. So this is a this is a.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Unfortunately, we can't give any more solid forecast advice at
this point.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
It's just a real complicated system right.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Now, all right. John Farley, Chief met Roger's ABC Columbia.
Thank you as always for your insides, my friend.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Okay, thanks ery Hye buddy.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Okay, And I got to tell you, I actually I
saw one of these model runs. Well, we were in
the news break and it was really bizarre. And if
this were to be the scenario that plays out, it
would not be good. And this is one that has
this storm approaching our coastline close enough to bring a
(39:51):
lot of heavy rains and some wind and potential damage
to the coastal areas. Okay, but not actually make landfall,
but get very close, get tugged back out into the
Atlantic by Umberto. Okay, all right, sounds good so far
for the most part. But then make a turn, come
back south and later next week Thursday or Friday, make
(40:16):
landfall down between Beaufort and Charleston. Okay. Now, from a
wind perspective, maybe not big of a deal, but with
the rainfall that areas would get from that first brush,
combined with what would happen if that thing turned around
and came back a few days later and impacted the
lower coast of our state, that would not be good. Yeah,
(40:38):
that's just one of them. Model only one model predicts
that right now, But Yeah, it's just too much, too
much unknown, so stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
It's the stuff people are talking about and called.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Them out like a bad Evan like you doing right now.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
One on three point five FM and five sixty am
w VOC 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 (41:10):
Tane forty. Good morning. The quarterback. Jeff Grants joins us here,
shortly breaking it down game Cocks Wildcats, Williams bryceon was
probably gonna be a wet affair tomorrow night. Forecast holds
up here. All right, final thoughts before we get to
the quarterback. Now, a judge says the governor can, in
fact intervene in this lawsuit. It's trying to block the
(41:32):
State Elections Commission, which of course is in turmoil right now,
from turning over our voter information data to the Department
of Justice. This is something the governor supports. Back and
forth with this I got at this point time, I'm
so confused. I don't I don't even know where to
go with this.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
Anyway, you could, I mean, you can understand the confusion.
I mean, the governor appoints those commission board members, right, yes, I.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Mean claims he's been pressuring them to do this, and well,
I don't know, it's it's it's great, but again, yeah,
bottom line here is doesn't the governed already know all
of us anyway, the federal government, you would think they did.
Speaking of that Elections Commission, now it's being reported by
(42:24):
John Monk, who's he's he's like a bloodhound on the
trail now in this election Commission story over the state
paper that Howard Knapp more than a year ago was
being investigating. We knew it was investigation last year by
sled but apparently, according to what he's unearthed, that investigation
was for the possible misuse of state vehicles and credit cards,
(42:49):
a report that was completed last year and turned over
to the Eternal General's office. And we don't know exactly
where where that stands. So, I mean, we've got that,
we've got now now the wire tapping thing that there
have been again talked that he was involved in that too.
(43:09):
But we also we at least court to the statement
from SLED or I guess from the Elections Commissioned office
that the deputy administrator over there who was fired earlier
this week, Paige Salonich I think her name was. I
think so that she had to put a recording device
in the boardroom. There's all kinds of other sordid stories
(43:30):
flying around about those two, and we're not going to
bother to jump into that right here, but it's it's
a real Peyton place. It sounds like, or at least was.
A lawsuit's been filed now down in the low Country.
Brooks Hampton Templeton, the son of Catherine Templeton, who was
at one time a congressional candidate, is suing the Mount
(43:52):
Pleasant Police Department, alleging a shoddy investigation led to an
over zealous criminal prosecution against him, a charge that was
ultimately dismissed. You may recall this story and then we
talked about it. But thus lawsuit claims that the Mount
Pleasant Police chief and a detective allegedly, according to the
(44:14):
post to Curry, among other things, that the department destroyed, buried,
and failed to disclose evidence of innocence that would have
cleared his name well at the same time fabricating a
story of violence. I'm trying about. The story was he
was in a fight with another high school student at
the time. This a couple of years ago, and again
(44:37):
his mom being Catherine Templeton, that that made news. But
he's filed a suit against them, saying that they have
kind of ginned this thing up and failed to take
into account or to include exculpatory evidence. Okay, this is interesting.
Scientists finding a specially formulated eye drop they say could
(45:00):
restore close up vision for many patients. Okay, I'm all ears.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
Wow, all right, an I drop?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
That would I drop?
Speaker 4 (45:07):
How often would you have to apply the I drop?
Speaker 1 (45:10):
I don't know, maybe three minutes, Yeah, they say within
the within an hour of applying the first dose. They
found in testing that patients could read significantly more lines
on the near vision chart, that after a full year
of use, more than eight and ten still enjoyed improved
(45:33):
near vision without having to wear glasses, and for many
of the benefits lasted well over a year. Okay. So
there's no surgical intervention, no, nothing like that. Okay, So
this study is out and we'll see if it gets
an okay and hits the market. I don't know, you
see kind of like the story that we're hearing, the
(45:55):
stories about these gop one drugs, now you know the
zimpics and stuff are leading to people getting you know,
vision law, anything like this new.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
I just take a I don't want to be a
beta tester. Yeah, okay, wait a few years. See what
happens to the people loose. I'll get card time. I'll
give it some time. I don't blame you.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
See where it goes. Some things you don't hear about
every day. Here Gene, Nevada, two skydivers hospitalized after a
parachute malfunction caused them to hit the ground at speeds
of up to forty five miles an hour. How do
you walk away from that? Well, they didn't walk away
from it, but how do you survive that? They jumped
(46:33):
out of a perfectly good functioning airplane at eleven thousand feet. Now,
they didn't fall that eleven thousand feet free falling, but
by the time they hit the shoot there were issues
and significant injuries. Yes, whoa again, jumping out of a
perfectly good airplane not on my bucket list, And as
(46:54):
we learned earlier this morning, neither is driving over a
tall bridge. Over a tall bridge like that one in China,
it's two thousand plus feet above a river and a
Canyon Gorge, no thank you. Greta Thunberg is added again
another flotilla trying to head toward Gaza and reports now
that flotilla has been bombarded with Alba music after hijackers
intercepted their radios. That's perfect. Oh that would drive me
(47:17):
just crazy. Oh you know, kind of crazy. I'll be
playing Mama Mia over and over and over again. I
don't know, sorry, my wife's a huge Abba fan.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Me.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
I mean I want to, like, you know, go throw.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
Up the anthing worse than listening to that music year
or hour after hour would be watching the movies oh.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah yeah, or having to watch it and listen to
it with Greta Thunberg. That too, that too? And how
about this Darlington. A clerk at a grocery store mistakenly
gave a woman a lottery ticket different from the one
she asked for, and the woman wound up winning three
(48:04):
hundred and three thousand dollars with that wrong lottery ticket.
Oh whoops, yep, how about that?
Speaker 4 (48:09):
Not bad? Can you can you give that back? Can
you say, oh, I didn't want this and turn it back?
In what happens if they give you the wrong one?
You just you have to take it.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I guess. I suppose, well, it worked out here, Yes,
it did.
Jesus Hey America and Jerry Hollin.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
For formation.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
This is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Good morning, Welcome to a Friday. It's the twenty sixth
day of September, seventeen minutes after six o'clock. Checking in.
I'm Gary David. That is Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I know what kind of morning it's going to be
because I can see one of your computer screens from
here and whenever you have a weather map up. Uh huh,
I know what kind of morning it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, Well you didn't see me spill coffee all over
the computer and my smartphone a few minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No, I miss that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Okay, I'm glad you didn't see that. It was kind
of a garrison even have a little my coffee cup.
Still it didn't matter. Yeah, Okay, here we go. We've
been lucky so far. What about this time around? So
all eyes on the tropics here along the Carolina coastline,
not not again, not worried about the Umberto which is
(01:22):
you know already got the name. But this invest ninety
four l that Tyler just mentioned. It's well again, you know,
there's no certainty here, but potential for a category one,
maybe a week category two. But the track of it
(01:43):
is varies a little bit. But most of the plot
lines right now the different models have it impacting our
state anywhere between Charleston Myrtle Beach probably most more more
than not, the prognostications are up towards the Myrtle Beach arey,
(02:04):
somewhere between Myrtle Beach and Wilmington. Potential there. You got
a couple of that have it coming in a little
further south and maybe making its way right through the Midlands.
But it looks like the majority of these models right
now are tend to have this thing making landfall along
(02:24):
the Grand Strand, taking a westerly turn across the upper
part of the state, and then believe it or not,
actually impacting the mountains of North Carolina again like a
year after Helene. Let's hope that doesn't come to right. Yeah,
(02:44):
that's kind of the doomsday scenario with this thing. Again,
not a huge, huge, very powerful, violent storm, but still
a hurricane. There are at least a couple models though,
that are more favoral for us because of that other
hurricane out there on Bert though that that system could
actually drag this thing as it starts to make a
b line to our coastline back out of the Atlantic,
(03:06):
and we get you know, no no landfalls. So it's well,
and the timeline again, we're thinking maybe Monday, Monday night
into Tuesday morning, although there are a couple of models
moving slower than that, and maybe not until Wednesday. So
it's all up in the air right now. But this
is going to be our closest, uh, our closest possibility,
(03:28):
our best possibility of having a hurricane so far this season.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
So get prepared over the weekend, but then we'll still
have Monday to figure things out for certain.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That seems to be okay, seems to be the case.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Okay, okay, I can do that, okay quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Here rundown big stories, hot topics, and we had a
bunch of stuff over here today. The firing of Howard
nap is the election director. Now it's uh, it's surface
that well. When sled first started an investigation about more
than a year ago, I guess it was it wasn't
for probably what he just got fired for, but it
(04:05):
was over the apparently potential misuse of state vehicles and
credit cards. Okay, source telling John Monk over the state paper.
Who is you know, he's John's I think John is
invigorated by this story. Man, he had had one like
this in a while. He's on the trail of this thing.
So let's keep following that. A judge says, the governor
(04:29):
can now intervene in this lawsuit that's attempting to block
the state Election Commission from turning over our personal information
to the Department of Justice, our voter info. So okay,
this is this back and forth. As all this continues meantime,
there are reports and you know, I mentioned this off
of the year to mister Thompson yesterday morning because I saw
(04:50):
an ad for Pamela Abbott and it looked a lot
like the ed had been running with a lot of
Trump in there, right, okay, but something looked different on
this one, and I thought, I think there's a lot
more Vern McMaster in this one. And yeah, there are
spots in that ad where the governor talks almost as
though he is endorsing Pamela ebbatt in this race. Well,
(05:12):
this new ad by a packed Patriots for South Carolina.
That just dropped does make it look like the governor's
endorsing her, and that has brought calls from both Nancy
Mason Alan Wilson their campaigns to yank this ad. It
is very misleading. Okay. We'll actually have the Attorney general
(05:35):
and with us later on that he is joined with
a number of other states attorneys general seeking for the
SEC to move forward with banning cell phones and state prisons.
So we'll be here at seven point forty to talk
about that. We have to ask them about this too.
A lawsuit has been filed by the son of a
former congressional candidate in the Low Country. You may recall
(05:56):
a Catherine Templeton. That name, Yeah, her son Brooks Hampton
Templeton was arrested. This was it seems like last year.
This lawsuit filed by her son accuses police in Mount
Pleasant of sloppy work and that all this was fabricated. Okay.
(06:19):
Russell Lafitte pleading guilty to a bunch of state charges.
This ahead of his sentencing on related federal charges next week.
So this deal, this is yeah, this is all done
behind the scenes. You just have to do it in public.
Now exactly. Yeah, yeah, so about eight years behind bars
for helping Alex Murdoch steal money from his clients and
(06:42):
up at the upstate the saga ongoing saga of the
former sheriff in Spartanburg County, Chuck Wright. He's agreed to
plead guilty on federal charges. He guilty to fraud drug counts. Goodness,
this is a lot of corruption going on, right, and
wire frauds thrown in there too. Okay, A good news.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The trooper who was struck and hospitalized earlier this month
in Lexington County after being hit by a pickup truck
in that chain reaction collision, Wayne lab Bounty, has been
released from the hospital. He's in a rehab facility now.
So he continues to make make men's to his body,
all right. It happened late yesterday. James Comey indicted by
a grand jury in DC this over alleged lying in
(07:30):
the congressional testimony over the whole Russia Gate thing, the Russia, Russia, Russia. Okay,
we're treading some new some new ground here, aren't we.
That Dallas ice shooter Moore has been known learned on
the timeline of this and his his motives. Joshua Yan,
the twenty nine year old who apparently put a lot
(07:50):
of a lot of premeditation into what he did the
other day in Dallas houseide that ice office.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I guess writing on bullets is a that's going to
be the end thing.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
This is the trendy thing. Yes, yeah, right. Pete hagsth
the Secretary of of the well the Department of War
we call it now the Department of War, ordering hundreds
of top military commanders to come back to the Pentagon
next week. Now I first heard this, I thought, oh man,
what are we getting ready to do here? But it's
(08:21):
maybe more like a lot we're going to lose their jobs.
Hagzeth has been talking about reducing the size of the
upper level the command structure, and focusing more on the gis,
the grunts at the bottom. We actually do have a
lot more high ranking officers now than we had, say
during times like World War two, a lot lot more,
and the economy expanding at a surprising pace in Q two.
(08:43):
Now that all the numbers have been crunched and revised
up three point eight percent from April through June, and
that well, how does this play into the fed's idea
of future rate cuts. We'll talk about that and more
coming up on this. It is the Friday morning edition
the Columbia's Morning News. Thanks so much for being with us.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Your morning news, getting ready for work and all day
in fault and check in throughout the day.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
One on three point five FM and five to sixty
am w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary
David and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five
FM and five sixty am dou w VOC.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Thank you morning, till you as six forty two. Now
for Friday, September twenty sixth, to be clear, rain that
we'll see today tomorrow gosh, eighty percent chance of rain
tomorrow is a forecast here and that includes well a
decreasing chance by tomorrow night for the game over to
(09:44):
Williams Brice. Okay, but this has nothing to do with
these tropical systems that we're talking about this morning, and
we'll talk more about that later on again. Concerns for
what's now invest ninety four l but is expected to
become Immelda uh meldo. Okay, not worried about emberto, but
(10:04):
Amelda could impact the coastal areas of our state. Some
of the spaghetti plot lines even have it coming like
right through this area, but that's not really the the
most popular pick. Most of them having this thing going
up through the between the Grand Strand and Wilmington area,
but potentially eventually impacting again the western the mountains of
(10:27):
north western North Carolina again a year after Helene did
the same thing. So we'll be tracking that and passing
along more information as we get it now. Uh this
story that when I saw this yesterday, and I think
a lot of people had this reaction that Pete hegsath
Uh the chairman of the the Department of War. Now
(10:51):
I've heard he used to call it. We used to
call it years, I mean, last decade, last century. We
called the Department of War up until when.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You see you say we we were live.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
We were alive. Yeah, people did, but before it was
changing the Department Defense. IM back to the Department of War.
But regardless that he is summoning all the top US
military leaders from across the planet to come to the
Pentagon next Tuesday. Now this is pretty unprecedented. They have
(11:28):
methods via which they can communicate all on a big
conference call. They're safe and secure. So a lot of
people I think might have thought like I did when
I first saw this, and that was, Okay, are we
getting ready to you know, launch World War iie here
(11:50):
or something? I mean, what is going on that we
would bring? What are we talking about? Eight or so? Yuh?
Eight hundred generals and admirals to the Pentagon seem weird,
But conventional wisdom is that it's got nothing to do
(12:14):
with that. That Hegseth has been talking about putting more
of a focus less on the upper chain of command
and more down to the grunt level, you know, the GIS.
So there's been fears of a looming purge in the
(12:36):
upper echelons of the military. Hegxeth previously had said he
wanted to cut twenty percent of senior generals and admirals.
Back in May, he issued a directive to cut about
one hundred generals and admirals, along with a minimum twenty
percent cut to four star officers, and on top of that,
(12:57):
a ten percent reduction in general and flag officers across
the country. Less generals, more GIS policies, what he called it.
So are we top heavy? Well, if you compare this
to well at a time when we were actually out
there winning wars and big ones too. World War two,
(13:21):
Excess says, at that time there was the ratio of
generals to troops was one general for every six thousand troops.
Right now, he says that ratio we're talking about four
star and flag officers across the military. That ratio is
(13:41):
one general to fourteen hundred troops. So world War two
one for every six thousand. Now today one for every
fourteen hundred. Too many cooks in the kitchen. Uh huh,
I mean, these aren't folks that are going out and
you know, fighting wars. So it seems like this is
probably what this is all about. Is he calling them
(14:03):
all in? Are we going to see like this? This
is this blood bath next Tuesday? Come in and uh
here this many of you are going to walk out
of here. No longer employed by the United States military.
It is unusual. J. D. Van said, Well, this is
(14:28):
this is the media is turning this into a big story.
It's not particularly unusual that generals who are report to
Hexeth or any Secretary of War Defense, whichever, are coming
to speak to them, but to bring them all together
at the same time is a little unusual. Sorry, mister
Vice President, that's unusual. Okay, Chrump said, why is this
(14:53):
such a big deal? Well, we'll find out, I guess
next Tuesday. But are we getting ready to go to war?
That doesn't seem to be the case here at all.
Let's hope. We got plenty of problems. We don't need
that too, right, we got weather to worry about it.
Let's get it. Let's do it with the weather first,
and then we'll worry about war.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
It is seven fifteen. Good morning, and I'm good to
have you along for Friday, September the twenty sixth, again
keeping an eye on what is not got a name
yet other than just calling it in best ninety four
l but expect to become amelda and with the potential
to impact us early next week Monday, late Monday into
Tuesday possibly although some models but it may be more
like Wednesday. The question is is will this thing come
(15:49):
on shore? If it does? Weird Right now, the entire
south kind of coastline's got to be at least paying
close attention to this looks like conventional wisdom, and most
of the plot lines would put this falling somewhere between
Saint Myrtle Beach and Wilmington, the Outer Banks area. But
it's what happens if it does that track afterwards. It
(16:10):
is so concerning to so many people. Now, a direct
path through the midlands. Well, there's at least one or
two lines that have that as a possibility, But it
looks like more than likely a landfall between South and
North Carolina, and then this thing would turn west and
have a potential again to impact the mountains of western
(16:31):
North Carolina, about a year after Halene devastated the area,
So they got to be feeling real squirrely right about now.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I can only imagine, I mean, some of them are
still rebuilding.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah. Yeah, there's also the possibility that this other hurricane
out there Umberto could actually drag this thing back out
to sea before it makes any landfall. There's even one
model it has it, you know, making landfall you know
along our northern coast line here in the state, tracking
across mountains of North Carolina and then heading back south
toward the Gulf coast. I mean, there's all kind of
(17:02):
possibilities here. It's like the more technology we get, the
less we seem to know. But anyway, it bears keeping
an eye out. And this weekend, ran We've got today
and tomorrow has nothing to do with that. Okay, all right, So,
as you've heard, James Comy was in fact indicted by
(17:23):
that grand jury in Virginia yesterday afternoon late We talked
about this briefly yesterday morning. They're going to indict him.
They had to do it like right now because the
five year statute of limitations was about to expire. I
think next Tuesday was the last possible day they could
have indicted him on charges of lying to Congress. So
this stems back to testimony that he gave back in
(17:48):
twenty twenty, right, Yeah, and the indictment alleging that the
former director of the FBI made a false statement when
he stated he did not authorize somebody the bureau to
be an anonymous source. According to the indictment, that was
a false statement. Okay. Now, of course, depending on what
(18:12):
side of the political aleu you fall on, you've got
a very different interpretation of this. Democrats are saying this
is again, this is part of Trump's revenge tour, that
he's hunting down his enemies, trying to throw them in prison.
Could James Comy go to prison on these charges, Yeah,
(18:32):
technically he could, Willie, I'd be shocked. But this is again,
this is unprecedented in this country. I mean, heck, we
had what news in the last air or two What
was Nicholas Sarkozi, former president of France. Right, dude's going
He's going to the big house for a number of years.
(18:56):
You see this a lot in you know, places like
South America. You know we're former I mean we're talking
presidents here now of countries wind up in jail. But
it didn't happen around here. I doubt Komy would spend
any time behind bars as a result.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
But well, who, I mean think about the case. Who
would compare in recent memory.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
At a level that high up?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, not in this country.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I mean, it's hard to think about anything that we've
gone through in recent history where you've got a former
FBI director who's accused of doing what he's accused of doing.
I can't think of a comparison. No, I can't either.
So this is the Antiamenta says he obstructed a concressional
(19:49):
congressional investigation. If you need to know the code he
was in violation of, it's eighteen Usc. Fifteen oh five.
There you go, for you.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Code nerds out there, you know, don't but don't don't
forget this too. You know. Back when Trump in his
first term fired Comy, he brought in remember John Bull
Durham as special counsel to look into the UH the
(20:19):
origins of the of the crossfire hurricane pro We all
remember that, and remember that Durham found that the FBI
under Comy's leadership failed to act on what he called
a clear warning sign that the bureau was the target
of a Clinton Hillary Clinton led effort to manipulate or
influence the law enforcement process for political purposes. This before
(20:42):
the twenty sixteen election. We remember famously when Comby said, yeah,
the Hillary you know, the the email thing and on
all this other stuff. You know, they had no prosecutor
right mind, would would would go after that. Sure seemed
like he was in the tank for Hillary Clinton at
the time. But but you can't prosecute him on that.
(21:03):
But you can on this, So that that indictment coming down.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yesterday, AI tells me there's no recent report of a
sitting US cabinet secretary being indicted. So I mean this
is a.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Big deal. This is precedent's setting.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, FBI is not a cabinet position, but I mean
still this is that level.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
So oh yeah, I mean this, this is a big story. Yes,
this is big news here. But as Pam Bondi saiding,
you hear this so often, no one is above the law.
How many times have people said about Trump, no one's
above the law. Uh, there have been way too many
apparent issues in recent history with this bureau. We're just
(21:53):
talking about Peter Stroke yesterday. I meybe, he's part of
that whole crossfire operation, crossfire hurricane. Remember he and and
he E five of law. His first am rights had
been had been taken away. He lost that that suit
got tossed.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Not only putting it together but then leaking it out exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So here we go from here. Komy will turn himself
in this morning, of course he is. You know, he's
not going down without saying a few things here saying
this is he mourned his family. As we stand up
to Trump, this is what happens now his what his
daughter was? She was she was canned. She was part
of the New York Office of the Prosecutor affair. Remember
(22:36):
she was canned. His son in law. I don't know
if this is the the husband of his daughter or
that daughter or I don't know. But he just resigned
his position as a prosecutor for the FEDS. So it's
the Kombe family is is quickly exiting the federal prosecutorial
ranks here. But this is a big deal. So that's
(23:01):
arrangment is set for ten am this morning. No, I'm
sorry he turned himself in this morning. The arrayment will
be October ninth at ten am, so a couple weeks
away from mats. Still celebrities who know not a darn
thing other than you know, singing and.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Dancing on stage.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton one on three point five
FM and five sixty am w VOC. This is Columbia's
Morning News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one
on three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's seven forty and at least here in the radio range,
the rain is coming down in buckets. They'll be careful
out there, all right. Uh. I mentioned this off the
air to mister Thompson yesterday morning, that I saw another
ad for Pamela Abbott and I thought it was different
(23:58):
than the one I'd been seeing, and I wondered if
there was It looked a little scorely to me. Attorney
General Alan Wilson is joining us this morning. This is
not what we're here to actually talk about. But besince,
I've got you, and good morning. Take off your AG
hat for a second, put on your arm running for
governor hat the new ad from Pamela evidd When if
(24:22):
you see this, it looks as though Governor McMaster is
endorsing her run for governor. Here, you have a problem
with this, you and some other candidates' problem with this, right.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Well, absolutely, I mean I think you referred to it
as a lack of truth in advertising when I was
when you watch these ads that are I'm playing on
TV with Donald Trump, that the ads are two and
three years old, back from his presidential election and from
rallies he did it several years ago. When you look
at the ads with Governor McMaster, and I pulled up
these ads on YouTube. These ads are from November of
(24:55):
twenty seventeen. These are eight years old, and they're the
rollout video when he selected her to be his running
mate in November of twenty seventeen. So these ads are
eight years old, and they are taken out of context
intentionally to mislead the viewers to thinking that these are
contemporary statements that the president has make, assuming that the
(25:17):
governor's making on this election, when it was actually statements
the governor was making when he was rolling out the
announcement video of his running mate eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Now I have read published report to say sources close
to the governor say the very upset over this. I
won't ask you to comment on that, but if nothing else,
I mean, this is one at least at this point.
This is one thing you and Nancy Mace have in
common because her camp's not happy about it either. But
truth and advertising when it comes to political ads doesn't
apply like it does to everybody else. But there's really
(25:48):
nothing to do about it, right other than bring attention
to it.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
I guess well you can call it out, Gary, and again,
you've got to respect the voters and you've got to
believe that the voters are smart enough to.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
See through this.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
And if you give the voters the information they're going
to see for what it is.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
This is someone, This.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Is a campaign trying to get trying to mislead voters
into thinking something that isn't true. I don't know what
else you call that, but all I can do is
raise awareness. This is an eight year old video. The
Trump videos are two and three years old, respectively. I
was actually on stage when the President made some of
those comments and he said nice things about me too.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
You don't see us.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Wrapping them up in a video and presenting them as
the President supporting me or the governor supporting me. I
just think it's not right. I think the voters at
the end of the day, we'll see through it, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
So let's put the ag hat back on again, which
was the original purpose for this call. Something that we
have talked about on this program for years and years
and years and years, and it is befuddled us all
this time that the Federal Communications Commission would not allow
(26:49):
states to ban cell phone signals in state prisons. Now,
correct me if I'm wrong. They allow the federal government
to do that for federal law, right, but not for
state prisons. Is that accurate?
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Yes, Gary, that's correct.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
The Federal Communications Commission actually has regulations that allow the
Federal Bureau of Prisons to implement jamming technologies in federal prisons,
but it specifically carves out state prisons.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
And for years, state prisons have.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Been dealing with this plague of contraband cell phones being
smuggled in or dropped in the prisons, and they're being
used to facilitate violent crimes, both inside the prisons as
well as outside the prisons. We have inmates becoming millionaires
because they're able to facilitate drug trafficking operations. They're able
to facilitate the harassment of witnesses and victims they're victims
(27:39):
who are on the outside. They're even able to help
facilitate the sexual abuse of children and publish it online.
I mean, this is stuff that we have been begging
the FCC to deal with. We've sent letters to Congress.
I've joined a twenty two state coalition. This is not
the first letter I've sent. This is like the tenth
letter I've sent, and so it's got to stop, and
we're grateful to the FCC is finally taking this up.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Do you have any idea of why it is that
the SEC has allowed federal prisons to do this, but
not state prisons. Has it ever been explained to you
Is there any rational reason for that?
Speaker 6 (28:13):
What has been explained to me is that there's a
lobby for the telecommunications companies around the country who are
concerned that this software, that assuming this hardware, this jamming technology,
if implemented in prisons, would disrupt the services of surrounding communities. Now,
what's interesting is we already have this technology in federal
prisons and we haven't heard any complaints from surrounding communities.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
In fact, it's so targeting, Gary, you can literally.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Be standing in one room, step through the doorway and
have your cell signal go off.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
It's that accurate.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, we know that you and Brian Sterling when he
was the head of Department of Corrections is he is
constantly but up in DC trying to get this changed.
And it sounds like we're closer to this than we've
ever been.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
As far as the first movement I've seen in Yes,
this is the first movement I have seen in ten
years of any action actually being taken.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So at this point I know they're going to be
deliberating this. Do we know will they be taking a
vote sometime soon on this will do you expect an
announcement anytime soon either way on this.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
I am hopeful that they'll take this vote up this
coming month.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
That is my hope.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Obviously, I've been seeing and arguing for this for more
than a decade, and so I just don't want to
get in front of my skis, But I'm hopeful that
this is the first time I've ever seen it go
this far, So I'm hopeful that they will actually act
this time and help make our states safer, an all
states safer by allowing state prisons to implement this technology.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
If they give us the go ahead here in South
Carolina and these and every other state for that matter,
how quickly could this be implemented here? Do you know?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
I think it could be implemented pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
I mean, obviously, the technologies there has been there for
you know, for a long long time, and I know
that having talked to Brian Sterling when he was the
direct of Corrections, you know that that the technology is there,
it's easily accessible, and it's easily implemented. So you know,
I don't want I'll let the Apartment Corrections speak for
how long it would take to actually set it up,
but I know that it's there waiting for us to
get it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Okay. Uh turns General Alan Wilson spending some time with
us this morning, and so let's we're all we're all
crossing our fingers on this one. This this needs to change,
and it needs to change like yesterday. Uh okay, thank you, sir,
appreciate it as always, yes, sir, thank you. All right,
Uh yeah yeah back to this uh this ad thing
here if you've seen that, and this is this is
(30:35):
not the original ad for Pamela Abbott. This is a
second one that her pack has dropped. The pack has
Patriots for South Kind and produced this thirty second spot.
It looks very similar to the original one. You know,
a lot of Trump in there, and no Trump has
not endorsed anybody, uh and and may not, even though
(30:56):
the the ebbitt Uh team, it is rumored to at
least privately suggested that a Trump endorsement was either in
the works or a done deal. That that's not the case.
But this one slides a few clips of governorment Master
in there, and AJ Wilson and a Republican primary gubernatorial
(31:19):
hopeful just mention to us that that was taying, I've
seen the video. It's a rollout of video when governorment
Master first tabbed her to run his running mate back
in twenty seventeen. I guess it was. They put together
about a two minute video a piece, and every single
comment you see in this current ad, the governor talking
(31:40):
about Pamela Abbott was lifted from that ad. Again, their
published reports that say the governor is not at all
happy with this, sources saying it was run without his knowledge,
without his consent. He has not taken a stance, and
I doubt the governor will make an endorsement in this race.
(32:03):
He may at some point. But and again this is
if you own your own business and you want to
put together a commercial, an advertisement and make claims that
are totally obviously bogus and false, well you know, you
get into trouble with the Federal Trade Commission on that one.
(32:24):
But remember that doesn't apply to political ads. A political
ad can say anything it wants to, it can be
outrageously obviously false, and many times it is, but it's allowable. Okay,
there's that double standard.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
It is eight fifteen Friday morning, September the twenty six.
Couldn't have along you, Sir Tyler mentioned this invest ninety
four L and TBD. Well, we got his boss with
us right now. ABC Columbia chief is John Farley. John,
good morning. Uh, I gotta tell you, brother, I was
just I was looking over all these different models out there,
(33:17):
the the European, the GF whatever it is. And yeah,
I mean there's a as a gazillion of them, right,
and yeah, while some are in some sorts of agreements,
and you've got a pretty wide variety of things that
could happen with not uh, we're not worried about uh Umberto,
but what may become Amelda.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, that's right, Garry. So what's going on? Yeah? Yeah,
And here's a situation.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
You know, when you have two storms that occur close
to each other, typically what happens is one of them
is going to eat up the other one.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
They don't generally combine. It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
And so when you look at these things, you're like, well,
wait a minute, these things aren't necessarily that close to
each other. These are about eight hundred miles apart. Assuming
that this one gets going, and you're like, okay, well,
now this is a pretty complicated situation because there are
a lot of things going on in the atmosphere this
in this situation that make this a very tricky forecast.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
So where are we in this It's pretty.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Likely a storm is going to form in the next
you know, day or two somewhere around the Bahamas and
then drift to the north.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Now the question becomes, and these are equally likely. Right now,
the question.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Becomes, does this thing form and then make landfall somewhere,
you know, along our coast and then push inland or
does it.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Get pushed out to sea?
Speaker 5 (34:40):
And right now it looks to me like both of
those are about equal opportunities. And this whole timing would
be sometime in the Monday Tuesday time frame on this,
So it's a really big stay tuned because we'll be
watching this closely to see how the whole thing evolves.
But it's you know, it's not that common that you
(35:01):
get storms that are even this close to each other
developing at the same time. Frequently they're you know, a
couple thousand miles apart.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, I was going to ask you that. Yeah. Now,
let's say, for example, all right, let's let's let's say
this thing takes the track where it does impact our coastline,
it makes landfall somewhere in South Carolina. I guess probably
the better odds are around the Myrtle Beach area, right
around the South gond North kint.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Of border or what yeah, yeah, somewhere there to Wilmington,
somewhere up I mean, but again still early to say,
but yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
So let's take that scenario, and then it turns inland,
and then you've got the horrific possibility that a year
after Helene, western North kinda gets hammered again.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Right, well, let me say this, not that likely that
it would do. So remember what the storm that came
up last time, came up across the peninsula of Florida,
that one Helene. Helene went from a category two to
a category four in a few hours landfall, and it
(36:01):
came up, you know, through Georgia and then western North Carolina.
Now that's a situation where you're on the right side
of the storm, which is the worst side of the storm.
To be on you have the most intense winds generally,
and so okay, this is not a VP performance at
this point. What it would be is it would come
in now we would the biggest threat, as it looks
(36:22):
to me from this one is rain, flooding rain. Now
we've been dry, so we need the rain. We just
don't need you know, eight inches of it at this point.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Right.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
So the other situation is how strong will this one
get usually, and again it's it's a pretty tricky situation
that we're we're in because we've seen in the last
several years, because of the ocean being considerably warmer than
it was fifty years ago, this rapid intensification that has
(36:54):
happened uncharacteristically of the historical storms. So there's a lot
of unknown in that as well, because remember this thing
goes up, it's going to be right on the Gulf string,
which would be pretty warm, and you know what I
look at, so intensity that's a bit of an unknown.
But for me, if this thing makes landfall at this point,
the biggest threat would be flooding rain.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Okay, Now for the Midlands, I mean, with the possible
scenarios we're talking about here, I mean, for us here
in the middles of South Carolina, what impacts could we
be looking at here?
Speaker 5 (37:26):
We'd be looking at I would say, again, if it
goes in the direction that it goes all right, If
it goes out to see nothing right, But if it
takes the left hand turn and comes inland, then we'd
be looking at a lot of rain, and the rain
would stick around.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
For a couple of days. That's what it looks like.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
The biggest threat to us would be would be rain
that could cause flooding. But I really want to underscore
on this one that when you talk about weather circumstances,
there are frequently we have become accustomed to, oh, you know,
here's the cone. We're out three, four or five days.
We have a reasonable comfort level that it's going to
(38:02):
be somewhere in this range, and so on. This one
is not that there are too many unknowns with this one,
and there's a lot of well the storm has yet
to form, but there are a lot of there's a
lot of unknown with this one more so than most.
So I would say, really, really stay tuned, because, as
I say, it looks to me like there are equal
(38:24):
chances that this thing goes out to see or takes
a left hand turn at this point.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Now, in another day, two days, we'll know a lot more.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Okay, And I guess a lot of the other note
has to do with umberto and what is how it's
gonna affect this thing, right, I mean, if that weren't
out there, we have we've know a little more with
positivity about where this thing mighte, but we just don't.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yes, we would definitely, definitely.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
And then there's this whole other there's this whole other
effect that happens when these storms get somewhat close to
each other.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
It's called the Fujihara effect.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
And it's a long story, but it's named after this
researcher who discovered this.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
But basically what happens is is.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
If sometimes what happens is if these storms get within
a range, not too close, but within a range of themselves,
they start to dumbbell around each other and then they
just wabble out to sea.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
That could equally happen. So this is a this is a.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Unfortunately, we can't give any more solid forecast advice at
this point.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
It's just a real complicated system right.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Now, all right. John Farley, Chief met Roger's ABC Columbia.
Thank you as always for your insides, my friend.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Okay, thanks ery Hye buddy.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Okay, And I got to tell you, I actually I
saw one of these model runs. Well, we were in
the news break and it was really bizarre. And if
this were to be the scenario that plays out, it
would not be good. And this is one that has
this storm approaching our coastline close enough to bring a
(39:51):
lot of heavy rains and some wind and potential damage
to the coastal areas. Okay, but not actually make landfall,
but get very close, get tugged back out into the
Atlantic by Umberto. Okay, all right, sounds good so far
for the most part. But then make a turn, come
back south and later next week Thursday or Friday, make
(40:16):
landfall down between Beaufort and Charleston. Okay. Now, from a
wind perspective, maybe not big of a deal, but with
the rainfall that areas would get from that first brush,
combined with what would happen if that thing turned around
and came back a few days later and impacted the
lower coast of our state, that would not be good. Yeah,
(40:38):
that's just one of them. Model only one model predicts
that right now, But Yeah, it's just too much, too
much unknown, so stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
It's the stuff people are talking about and called.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Them out like a bad Evan like you doing right now.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
One on three point five FM and five sixty am
w VOC 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 (41:10):
Tane forty. Good morning. The quarterback. Jeff Grants joins us here,
shortly breaking it down game Cocks Wildcats, Williams bryceon was
probably gonna be a wet affair tomorrow night. Forecast holds
up here. All right, final thoughts before we get to
the quarterback. Now, a judge says the governor can, in
fact intervene in this lawsuit. It's trying to block the
(41:32):
State Elections Commission, which of course is in turmoil right now,
from turning over our voter information data to the Department
of Justice. This is something the governor supports. Back and
forth with this I got at this point time, I'm
so confused. I don't I don't even know where to
go with this.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
Anyway, you could, I mean, you can understand the confusion.
I mean, the governor appoints those commission board members, right, yes, I.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Mean claims he's been pressuring them to do this, and well,
I don't know, it's it's it's great, but again, yeah,
bottom line here is doesn't the governed already know all
of us anyway, the federal government, you would think they did.
Speaking of that Elections Commission, now it's being reported by
(42:24):
John Monk, who's he's he's like a bloodhound on the
trail now in this election Commission story over the state
paper that Howard Knapp more than a year ago was
being investigating. We knew it was investigation last year by
sled but apparently, according to what he's unearthed, that investigation
was for the possible misuse of state vehicles and credit cards,
(42:49):
a report that was completed last year and turned over
to the Eternal General's office. And we don't know exactly
where where that stands. So, I mean, we've got that,
we've got now now the wire tapping thing that there
have been again talked that he was involved in that too.
(43:09):
But we also we at least court to the statement
from SLED or I guess from the Elections Commissioned office
that the deputy administrator over there who was fired earlier
this week, Paige Salonich I think her name was. I
think so that she had to put a recording device
in the boardroom. There's all kinds of other sordid stories
(43:30):
flying around about those two, and we're not going to
bother to jump into that right here, but it's it's
a real Peyton place. It sounds like, or at least was.
A lawsuit's been filed now down in the low Country.
Brooks Hampton Templeton, the son of Catherine Templeton, who was
at one time a congressional candidate, is suing the Mount
(43:52):
Pleasant Police Department, alleging a shoddy investigation led to an
over zealous criminal prosecution against him, a charge that was
ultimately dismissed. You may recall this story and then we
talked about it. But thus lawsuit claims that the Mount
Pleasant Police chief and a detective allegedly, according to the
(44:14):
post to Curry, among other things, that the department destroyed, buried,
and failed to disclose evidence of innocence that would have
cleared his name well at the same time fabricating a
story of violence. I'm trying about. The story was he
was in a fight with another high school student at
the time. This a couple of years ago, and again
(44:37):
his mom being Catherine Templeton, that that made news. But
he's filed a suit against them, saying that they have
kind of ginned this thing up and failed to take
into account or to include exculpatory evidence. Okay, this is interesting.
Scientists finding a specially formulated eye drop they say could
(45:00):
restore close up vision for many patients. Okay, I'm all ears.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
Wow, all right, an I drop?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
That would I drop?
Speaker 4 (45:07):
How often would you have to apply the I drop?
Speaker 1 (45:10):
I don't know, maybe three minutes, Yeah, they say within
the within an hour of applying the first dose. They
found in testing that patients could read significantly more lines
on the near vision chart, that after a full year
of use, more than eight and ten still enjoyed improved
(45:33):
near vision without having to wear glasses, and for many
of the benefits lasted well over a year. Okay. So
there's no surgical intervention, no, nothing like that. Okay, So
this study is out and we'll see if it gets
an okay and hits the market. I don't know, you
see kind of like the story that we're hearing, the
(45:55):
stories about these gop one drugs, now you know the
zimpics and stuff are leading to people getting you know,
vision law, anything like this new.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
I just take a I don't want to be a
beta tester. Yeah, okay, wait a few years. See what
happens to the people loose. I'll get card time. I'll
give it some time. I don't blame you.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
See where it goes. Some things you don't hear about
every day. Here Gene, Nevada, two skydivers hospitalized after a
parachute malfunction caused them to hit the ground at speeds
of up to forty five miles an hour. How do
you walk away from that? Well, they didn't walk away
from it, but how do you survive that? They jumped
(46:33):
out of a perfectly good functioning airplane at eleven thousand feet. Now,
they didn't fall that eleven thousand feet free falling, but
by the time they hit the shoot there were issues
and significant injuries. Yes, whoa again, jumping out of a
perfectly good airplane not on my bucket list, And as
(46:54):
we learned earlier this morning, neither is driving over a
tall bridge. Over a tall bridge like that one in China,
it's two thousand plus feet above a river and a
Canyon Gorge, no thank you. Greta Thunberg is added again
another flotilla trying to head toward Gaza and reports now
that flotilla has been bombarded with Alba music after hijackers
intercepted their radios. That's perfect. Oh that would drive me
(47:17):
just crazy. Oh you know, kind of crazy. I'll be
playing Mama Mia over and over and over again. I
don't know, sorry, my wife's a huge Abba fan.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Me.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
I mean I want to, like, you know, go throw.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
Up the anthing worse than listening to that music year
or hour after hour would be watching the movies oh.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah yeah, or having to watch it and listen to
it with Greta Thunberg. That too, that too? And how
about this Darlington. A clerk at a grocery store mistakenly
gave a woman a lottery ticket different from the one
she asked for, and the woman wound up winning three
(48:04):
hundred and three thousand dollars with that wrong lottery ticket.
Oh whoops, yep, how about that?
Speaker 4 (48:09):
Not bad? Can you can you give that back? Can
you say, oh, I didn't want this and turn it back?
In what happens if they give you the wrong one?
You just you have to take it.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I guess. I suppose, well, it worked out here, Yes,
it did.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies!
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!