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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w v OC.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
And good morning to tell you it is fourteen and
a half after six. It is Monday, October thirteenth, and.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It is great to hear your voice back.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Well, the voice is here, that that part is here
at least, I'm not sure the brain behind it will
be here bunch today, but we'll see.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, this is going to be back. Good to have
you in the chair.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
All right, Well, thank you, sir, and thank you for
from filling an able again most most all of last week.
I guess here Wednesday. I guess we're here Wednesday. Yeah,
So it's going to be back. And uh, well just
by the touch and go this week for me. So
we'll see where things go. But in the meantime that's
ketchup time, huh. After a gloomy weekend, a better forecast
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at least later on to day is tyl to just mention.
Oh and by the way, it's Columbus Day. Oh are
we allowed to say allowed to say that. Yes, Columbus Day.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
My calendar, my Google calendar says it's indigenous people. Yes
it does. Okay, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I'm looking at uh.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh no, actually it does. It says Columbus Today. Oh
that's changed. I'm pretty sure last year it said indigenous people.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I think it probably did. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Interesting, I wonder when that changed.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Maybe it changed at six gener Pennsylvania Avidue something to
do with that. Maybe, so quite possibly, so happy Columbus
Day to you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I apologize Google for assuming you were still had that
liberal slant to you.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
M well, oh, it's not what it seems to be. Sometimes.
Rundown stories hot topics.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
As we get into this Columbus Day Monday with you again,
two of our top stories around here.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
You heard in the update there Saint Helena, Island.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Four dead at a high school a union high school
reunion outside a bar in Beauford County. Now we don't
know that it had anything to do with the reunion itself,
but nonetheless it was You don't expect something like that
to happen at a reunion.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, I don't know. Let's put it this way.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
More and more we're seeing these large gatherings end in violence,
and in this case, deadly violence. All told, some twenty
people were injured, four dead. At least eight people were
shot after hundreds of people were attending the Battery Creek
High School alumni tailgate. Okay, this wasn't high school kids,
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these were adults.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Hm.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Wow, this is another mass shooting and the stories that
unfortunately we're hearing each and every day. No arrest have
been made so far that we're aware of, and the
investigation continues. Also, in addition to that, up in the Upstate,
two security guards killed at a nightclub shooting up in Anderson. Yeah,
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three fifteen in the morning yesterday morning. Yeah, it's a
story we hear way too often. Well, our weather starts
to clear out here today forest. Fortunately they're still going
to be cleaning up some and or Georgetown counties. We're
flooding happened there from this this nor'easter that is going
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to well really hit the mid Atlantic in the Northeast
pretty hard.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Here.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
They've already declared a state of emergency in places like well,
New Jersey, New York. They're going to get battered by
this thing. Some flooding again looks like I don't try
to hear about any problems in Charleston. I'm sure they
had some.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh they did.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, that was all up and down the coast
over the weekend for us. That was responsable for our
great guys and sum rain. We didn't get a whole
bunch here. Uh, Chief's firing back at a letter from
Ralph Norman, Mark Keel responding to Norman after Norman suggesting
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that SLID failed to accurately maintain the criminal record of
the man who is charged with the killing Logan of Federico.
This has become a highly political story now as well
as just a tragic one. Of course, last week you
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had the press conference with Federico and what was it too, solicitors?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I guess yeah, it was uh Pasco and Kevin Brackett.
I think Kevin Brackett, Yeah, yeah, and Ralph Norman. Again
you recall Norman about two weeks ago. I guess it
was called for the impeachment or the resignation of Byron Gibson,
the Fifth Circuit Solicitor.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Over All this well sled. Chief has something to say
about that, and then we'll talk more about that a
little bit later on it is happening now. The President
is set to address the Israeli Parliament as the remaining
living hostages and guys that have been released. Twenty living
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hostages released as part of this peace proposal. This does
hand over a bunch of Palestinian terrorists and Hamas, the
terrorists a bunch, but this is the moment that Israel
is waiting for now for more than two years. Does
the ceasefire hold well the original of course, the goal
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is to get these hostages released, and that that's that's
been done. So congratulations, even some arch enemies of Trump
or giving him kudos for this one meantime, violence erupting
in the Gaza strip, but not between the Israelis and Hamas,
but between Hamas and other factions. You kind of get
the idea that well, people who reside in Palestine, especially
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in Gaza City who aren't Hamas, have had enough and
we'll see where it takes it from here. Fox mentioned
that the markets rebounding some today after a bad day
on Friday, but the crypto markets taking a big crash,
Bitcoin dropping precipitously after a Trump's announcement of tariffs on China.
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Some thought over the weekend that potentially the you know,
more traditional markets could follow today, so far that's not
been the case.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, he tried to pacify that with some words on
social media to make it sound like they weren't willing
to come down. It's quite as hard on China. So
we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, he has, we're understanding, found a way to pay
our troops. That pay was set to end what today,
right the fifteenth, So on Wednesday, our military would have
gone without a paycheck. But the President announcing over the
weekend he's found funds to ensure that our troops don't
miss a paycheck. Meantime, as of I guess Friday, some
(07:28):
four thousand federal workers have been fired by the administration.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Now where do things go from here?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Well, of course, the House is on recess, and there
are those who are trying to pressure the House Speaker
to bring them back. Part of the employ here the
House says, a House leadership says, is to try to
force the s in his hand to take a vote
to get the government back open again, and thinking without
the House and Session, it might give them a little
more reason to go ahead and take that vote and
(07:55):
get it done. But so far that hasn't happened, as
that shut down rolls on. Controversy after a Friday announcement
by Pete Hegsath about a new training arrangement with the
Air Force of a cutter and this will be a
new facility in Idaho at Air Force at Mountain Home
(08:16):
Air Force Base to host and train Katari pilots on
US made f fifteens. Now, there was some you know,
social media stuff flading around that we were actually allowing
the Qataris to build an air force facility on US
soil and this was you know, payback for the gift
(08:36):
of the plane to the President. They're actually not building
a facility specifically for the Qatari Air Force, but again
there will be a facility built there that will host
and train them, but it will not be under Katari control.
Tensions ramping up in Portland after DHS retained or detained
(08:57):
three and police made arrested at i Fasor that has
been under daily siege by anarchists that left his activists
in the Pacific Northwest. Former President Biden getting radiation hormone
therapy to treatise prostate cancer. That story went away for
a bit, but it's back now and the lawyers for
Luigi Mangione looking for a dismissal of the federal charges
(09:23):
their client faces, the alleged assassin of the United Healthcare CEO.
This is not the These aren't the state charges. Remember,
the Feds could impose the death penalty the state of
New York. I don't think they can do it, can they?
I don't think so? Yeah, No, wonder they want the
Fed charges dropped. All right, Just a few of the
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things that are happening here on a Columbus day, Monday.
Keep you posted on developments as they happen. And good morning,
and good to have you with us.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
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Speaker 4 (10:16):
It is six forty on a Monday morning, Columbus Day,
the thirteenth of October.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Good to have you with us.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Just kind of monitoring, trying to break the situation in
Israel where Benjamin at Yahoo now is addressing the Israeli Parliament.
President Trump will speak here shortly where it's one forty
in the afternoon their time. This after the news that, yes,
in fact, and you had to wonder, you know, over
the weekend when it actually happened or not, but it has.
(10:43):
The twenty remaining living hostages have have been released. They've
all been released now, and the ceasefire at least between
Israel and Hamas is holding. Mentioned earlier, Bret of warring
factions inside Gaza that are battling each other now or
(11:05):
Hamas's days in their leadership in that area numbered quite possibly.
So we'll keep an eye on what develops here. But again,
the breaking news this morning is that all twenty living
Israeli hostages now have been released by Hamas, more than
two years after that attack on that music festival in Israel.
(11:30):
All right, we're watching that this morning now. I gotta
be honest, when I first heard this on Friday, and
this is part of the whole you know, you see
a headline or some posts on social media, but it
did get your attention. When Pete Haggsath announced what is
well essentially a new training arrangement for a cutter's Air
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Force Cutter Qatar. You hear it both ways, We'll go
to Cutter. And this is a prompted backlash from Mini
and Maga, and that led to a clarification later in
the day. Now, his initial announcement, and this is what
(12:14):
again caused such consternation, was when he said that the
US is building a Katari Air Force facility to enhance
our combined training, increase the lethality and interruptibility. All right, well,
(12:36):
poor choice of words, I guess the way he phrased it.
We will host, yes, a new facility at a base
in Idaho. It will be a mountain home Air Force base.
We will host Katari pilots and aircraft. But this is
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going to be hangars built house these F fifteen's they'll
be flying. And we've done this before. We did it
with was it Singapore or the Philippine. We have done
this before, but this is this is not something that's
never happened before. But that initial announcement was poorly worded.
(13:20):
Well whatever, and it's certainly to get people's attention.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Again.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Cutter, Well, Cutter has been very instrumental in these talks
with Hamas to try to end that conflict in the
Middle East, but they've also supported other Islamist groups, and
quite honestly, conservatives aren't happy about this at all. Laura Lumer,
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somebody please explain to me why Laura Lumoor has any
influence on all over this administration.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
But she does for whatever the reason.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Warning that the US was training the funders of Hamas
saying what happened the last time we let Muslims learn
how to fly planes on us Soul of course had
a reference to nine to eleven. Others are saying this
is a payback for this gift to Trump of a
new plane that will be the new Air Force one.
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All this forced Hegzeth by the end of the day
on Friday to clarify on social media when he wrote,
Cutter will not have their own base in the United States,
not anything like a base. We control the existing base,
like we do with all partners Singapore that we have
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a relationship with at that same spot there. So this
begs the question, man, Pete, you gotta be careful how
you phrase things, buddy. Maybe a little context would have
(15:03):
been important before we just say that, yeah, we're we're
we're hosting their their fighters and planes and and they're
building a facility in our soil.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
No, not good. Okay, that's boy, I got to say
about that.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Right there, still waiting on Trump to begin his speech,
and then yeah, who continues to speak right now?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
There was a lot of talk on Friday about the
Nobel Peace Prize, and of course Trump has coveted that
from the starts, even in his last administration. But he
didn't get it. But the denominations had been in for
a while. This wasn't this wasn't anything related to the
Middle East peace Plan. I don't think there's anybody out
there suggesting that what Donald Trump has done is not
(15:49):
not worthy of, not worthy of and maybe one of
the most magnificent treaties ever drawn up, if it, if
it comes to pass. But this was you know, the
peace Prize was already in It was already done.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, it was already baked in the cake.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Well, and the uh the woman who wanted Maria Cariina Machado,
who has been from from from hiding out but still
leading resistance against UH Nicolas Monduro in Venezuela. She immediately
(16:25):
came out and said, I dedicate this prize to the
suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his
decisive support of our cause. So she right away thanked
and and and dedicated that award to Trump. I suspect,
and I don't know how you couldn't the next time
it rolls around next year based on and who knows
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how all this holds, but getting those hostages out, I
don't know how Trump doesn't win the prize. A lot
of things could happen between now and when it's the
next one is announced next October. But if you stop
and think about it, what other administration this century I
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was gonna say, has done more than the Trump administrations.
Don't forget the the Abraham Peace of Corps doing the
first term. I was gonna say, what what other administration
has done more than Trump has to try to secure
a piece in the Middle East?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And I thought, well, you know what what.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Other administrations try to do anything to try to secure
peace in.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
The Middle East.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well, every administration tries. I mean, that's always one of
the objectives when you take that office on Pennsylvania Avenue.
It's okay, we're gonna do peace in the Middle East.
That's going to be our deal this year. Yeah, I
mean rarely does it happen. And you had MSNBC on
Friday suggesting that Trump had put all this together at
least with a temporary way, you know, things that he
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knew wouldn't hold, but would hold just long enough for
him to get the Peace Prize, which was, you know,
again another ridiculous allegation.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, right, well, Trump does have any go besides of Manhattan.
We know that that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's he's been coveting this Nobel Peace Prize so long
that he played right into his detractors. I mean, he
played right into their hands. But there was there was
no way he could get it this year unless they
were voting on things that he had done last year.
It had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Elague.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
No, the whole debate starts like in January. Yeah, so
they've been debating this for all year before they made
that announcement.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
But but then again, they have awarded Peace Prizes to
other presidents for far less. Remember, Barack Obama got it
just for being Barack Obama.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
He hadn't done anything at that point, He just got
it because he was Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Fourteen after seven o'clock. It is a Monday, October thirteen.
That is Columbus Day, and a day that may well
be remembered if things go as well. A lot of
folks hope as the day that peace dawned, and maybe
he stuck around in the Middle East. Good morning to you,
President Trump now addressing the Israeli Parliament, a speech so
important that even the Today's show his covering it in
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its entirety.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I wonder if it mess NBC is checked. Trump just
began as marks a few moments ago. This again after
as we've been telling you this morning, the twenty remaining
live hostages who've been held for more than two years
by Hamas have been released. They are back in Israeli territory.
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I got a feeling, maybe more so than any other's
speech this president has ever made. He will stray very
little for the prompter, Dona. This is an important speech,
one in which Trump is is proclaiming a change and
hope and peace, a new era in the Middle East.
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Oh and now we have let's see somebody. Oh yeah,
one of the legislatives protesting being drug out by authorities.
Watch of this happen live here as we talk about it.
Of course, then there you go. So, yeah, one of
them has been expelled. Well now two of them? Okay,
here we go, game on.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well wow, really, governments operate different ways in different countries.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
We've seen this before.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Not quite the Philippines, but looks like they're shooting for
the next best thing now in the in the Knesset.
All right, so we're following that for this morning.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Again. This this, this may turn out to be one.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Of the most important speeches this president, well maybe any
president sometimes has ever made.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And it's not just the importance scary, it's how many
times this will be replayed in the future. I mean,
it's important today, but you know this could be this
could be Trump's legacy period. Yeah, easy, Yeah, It's it's
important that he sticked to the script and not go
wildly off.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Yeah. I don't think he will. He's uh.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
As a matter of facts, I'm watching this in real
time because the security forces just escorted two members of
these early parliament out. Trump gets back to the microphones.
So now back to the speech. To which everybody laughs
and he's back to the speech. Now this again, there
is this moment one that yeah, everybody hopes will change
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everything in the Middle East. I don't know that, maybe
maybe a little over the top. This is a region
that we fought before we were on the verge of peace,
and it is the Middle East after all. But getting
those hostages, the remaining living hostages out, if nothing else,
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that's a big deal obviously.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And moving does some of the other players that still
want the death of Israel that we stand beside them
every step of the way. Yeah, now, this is this deal.
A number of.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Palestinian prisoners, including some who've been convicted of deadly attacks,
are being released back into the Palestinian authorities hands.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Not all.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Matter of fact, one of their top leader terrorist leader
that Hamas had been wanting released, is not going to
be released in this deal, but all told, Jerusalem Friday
released a list of two hundred and fifty Palestinian prisoners
who would be released, including one who kidnapped and murdered
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an Israeli citizen. In addition, more than seventeen hundred guysins
captured during the current war who are not involved in
the October seventh massacre are being released by Israel. So yeah,
they're releasing a lot of individuals to try to make
this happen. Now, also, we've got this development here, this
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headline that dozens killed in Gaza. But this is not
violence between Hamas and Israel. This is violence between Hamas
and armed clans. Wow, okay, So is there a revolt
going on inside Gaza now against this Hamas leadership. It's
been brewing for some time now. You've seen you've seen
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the pictures of what's left of Gaza. I mean, there's
not a whole lot left there and the things that
these Palestinians in that area have endured now for the
last couple of years. On the flip side of this story,
of course, and you wondered, my goodness, this might be
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real simple. Eliminate Hamas, you eliminate the problem. Well it's
not quite that simple, I know, but it does appear though. Now, well,
the reports are that a mass was going after one
clan who they accused of siding with the Israelis to
get to this point. But you got to wonder if
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some of these again, other clan is how that area
have finally had enough and are stepping up against Tamas.
That would solve a lot right there, certainly. So Columbus
Day may go down as a day of something else
to remember here, And I'll reiterate what I said earlier.
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Say what you want, but this century, at least, the
only administration to get anything accomplished of any note in
that region has been the Trump administration, the Abraham Accords,
and the first administration and now this.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Mention.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yeah, every administration goes is, yeah, we're gonna solve Middle
East peace, and nobody does it. And I'm not stupid.
I don't believe for a second that this is the
end of hostilities in the Middle East. It'll pop up
again somewhere at some time, but this was this was
an important day here. That speech is ongoing right now,
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and knowing Trump will probably go on for quite a while.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Oh, he's going to do his touchdown dance for a
little while now that he's got the spotlight.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
But so far, just with what I've been reading on
the close captioning here seems b sticking to the script,
And no doubt some speechwriter took a long time. This
is this one of those things we gotta be very
careful about what you say and how you say it right,
maybe more so than we do in this society, you know,
and then that is society. They hinge on every word.
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There's something one wrong word or something set a wrong
way with the wrong intention. He's going to upset somebody.
So we'll keep up, keep monitoring that. Also coming up
this morning on the home front, we'll be talking more
about the killing of Logan Federico and how this has
become such a political story. Now we're at the point
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now where Markiel, the sled chief, is issuing some blowback
against Ralph Norman over the congressman and Republican gubernatorial hopeful
his letter about the Federico killing. This again and following
that press or last week where Logan's dad held that
press conference with David Pascoe and one another prosecutor, Pasco,
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by the way, saying some things that well seemed to
indicate an unhappiness with the Attorney General's office. That's an
obvious he seeks, but he sends kind of claire find
some of these statements. You know, it was this headline
about ninety two percent of pedophile cases in one particular
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district have gone either unprosecuted or not getting a guilty plea,
a guilty verdict. Now that they're starting to put some
context of those numbers, and it's not quite what it
was painted to be. So, but this tragic story has
become a political hopitato here and again Saint Helena making nationally.
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It's another mass shooting, this time down in Beeford County.
Four dead, eight people shot all told, dozens of others
injured or about a dozen.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
I was injured.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
You get at a high school reunion, not high school kids,
adults at a high school reunion. So we're following that
this morning as well. It's good to have you here.
It's the Monday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
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Speaker 4 (28:19):
Coming up on seven thirty eight. It's a pleasure to
have you join us this morning. Thank you so much.
It's Monday, October thirteenth. And yeah, apparently even Google Calendars
is now again calling it Columbus Day. It never really
went away for most of us. But it's Columbus Day,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
What was?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Oh, Indigenous People's Day was the other one?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah, seeing less and less of that now, all right?
Uh Trumps still speaking in front of the Israeli Parliament.
Meantime back here on Capitol Hill, it's it's it's well,
it's lights out as a government to shut down, and
it is this third week now.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And they wouldn't have been working today anyway because of
the holiday.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Well no, because it's digital Columbus Day, So no, they
would not have been. And the finger pointing continues. The
blame game rolls on, and federal workers are missing paychecks
and some of them have lost their jobs. Now as
of Friday, reports that more than four thousand federal workers
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were told they were being laid off. The department that
lost the most close to fifteen hundred employees the Treasury
Department IRS, right, okay, DHH Health Human Services losing some
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twelve hundred, Department of Education losing close to five hundred
for fifty or so at HUD. Yeah, DHS did lay
off one hundred and seventy six workers Homeland Security, so
the layoffs have started the riffs as they were said
(30:05):
they would. Now as of this Wednesday, our troops were
going to miss their first paychecks. But apparently that won't
happen now, as Trump says they have identified funds to
allow our troops to continue to get paid during this shutdown.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
The Democrats had suggested they'd thrown up a couple of
bills that allowed the military to continue to get paid
while the shutdown continued, and Mike Johnson voted down every
one of those, saying he didn't want to give the
Democrats a political cover, that he didn't want to make
it look like everything was okay when Chuck Schumer and
(30:47):
his friends were still causing the rest of the government
to be shut.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Down, right, but allowing our troops not to get paid,
that's a bad look and a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
It's politics, you know, It's it's the it's the one
image versus the other. And Johnson's in a little bit
of a unwinnable position and realizes that, but he felt
like his that he felt like his strongest position, I
guess would come if everybody suffered equally and eventually the
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Democrats would be forced into an agreement.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Now the House is on recess, now they are okay,
they're not even in DC, right and uh, you've got
some calling get them back to d C.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But this is all the hands of the Senate right now,
right that's where the votes have taken place.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
That's where the vote.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Johnson's not allowing any votes to take place on the
House side.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Right, Well, the House is already again. Republicans have put
up a cleaned CR, another continuing resolution that keeps the
funding levels at well the same rates that Democrats have
voted for in the past. So what's the rub Well,
we know it's healthcare. We don't it's the subsidies. You know,
it's healthcare for illegals. The Democrats on the other side
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of the coin have put up a one and a
half trillion dollar funding bill that's well full of provisions
aimed at reversing what the one big, beautiful bill did.
So this is part of the problem again right there.
Now you can still do a CR and keep the
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government running for another month or what have you. These
subsidies and Obamacare don end until the end of the year,
so there is some time there not a lot, but
there is some time there for more negotiations. But in
the meantime, in other words, you can reopen the government
with a clean cr and have folks back to work,
back drawing a paycheck, services restore, and those few spots
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again they've been curtailed. You can do all that and
could still work on these subsidies for Obamacare recipients because
you got to.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
The end of the year to do that.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Of course, we all know how that works, right. So
we're in a week three now. The last government shutdown
was not quite seven years ago. Lasted was four weeks.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I think it was something like that, just over thirty days. Okay,
so we're going to be getting close to that. But again,
the headline over the weekend was that Trump says the
administration had found a way, had found the money to
keep paying our troops. Now these riffs, there's a whole
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other story here, and this will be something that's going
to of course wind up in court fights and lawyers
getting involved and such. I still contend that no matter
what you think about the federal government and the federalment
workforce and the amount of money that we're spending, that
maybe we don't need to be. I'm still contending that
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this is a bad opting for the Republicans, and that's
what some of Mike Johnson's representatives are telling him. But
the alternative is giving in to Schumer and allowing this
healthcare fight to go the Democrats away.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Now, in the midst of all that, of course, the
Trump threat to impose tariff on Chinese goods again over
the weekend. Trying to temper that a little bit on
social media.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
China is going to be okay, relax, They had JD.
Vance do the same thing. You know, Advance isn't on
social media nearly as much as Trump and Vance got
on social media saying everything's going to be all right,
you're your teenager.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Isn't on social media as much as trauma I think
go on.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
So they I think they knew the impact those statements,
the earlier statements were going to have on the markets.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Right well, Friday, of course, the markets took a tumble,
and then over the weekend, Bitcoin, which trades seven days
a week, all these cryptocur ncies I said, bitcoin, it's
just a generic name, but still those markets, well, one
of the biggest cryptocurrency crashes that we've seen so far,
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a loss of some four hundred billion dollars in less
than twenty four hours, again based on Trump saying he
would check up Chinese tariff one hundred percent, but again
his well, when Trump said over the we can all,
We'll be fine. Traders in the more traditional markets are
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buoyed by that news. Down futures are up three hundred
and eighty eight points as of a few minutes ago.
So while overseas markets and overnight training continue to trade downwards,
the American markets are rallying here on a well China
will be okay statement. You know, forget the what was
the old y f hunting commercials back in the day,
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right when he have hunting talks pe people listen, Yeah, yeah,
not like this. You've got the power with a couple
of words type on a keyboard post of the social
media to influence markets the way Trump's.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Able to do it.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
It's kind of scary, man, you know, it really is.
But they are, they are rebounding at least the markets here.
So we have a lot going on. Trump is still
speaking I figured at least an hour, right, I mean,
I don't think you can speak for less than hour.
It's a rule somewhere it's got to be at least
an hour. And I've been kind of keeping up with
(36:38):
this on the prompters here during the show, had noticed recently,
but I'm still thinking. I'm hoping that he sticks to
the script on this one for the most part. See,
it's a monument monumental day, and one that's not just
as Trump has said, ending this conflict, but one that
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he hopes in all conflict in the Middle East. If
you could pull that off, man, wow, just just do
the lifetime Nobel Peace Prize forever and ever and ever
again to Trump for the one that one, because that's
that's a tall task.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Indeed.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Right there, 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 4 (37:29):
Fourteen after a good morning. Good to have you along.
From Monday, October thirteenth, Columbus Day. I am Gary David,
he is Christopher Thompson. Spording Sir so latest mass shooting
in this country here in South Carolina. As you've heard
the news Saint Helena Island. I'm in a quiet place
down in Beautiford County and hundreds of people attending the
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Battery Creek High School alumni tailgate. This was at Willie's
Bar and Grill just before one o'clock in the morning
yesterday morning, shots fired. At least eight people were shot,
four of them dead. Dozens about a dozen others were
(38:16):
injured during the melee that ensued, And we don't have
we don't have any answers this morning.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
It's early. I know.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Sheriff's office again estimating twenty people injured in total from
a combination of gunshots and other wounds. Not exactly clear.
They now say about how many of the twenty injuries
were for gun from gunshots, we know at least.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Eight and I'm guessing some of the other wounds. The
same thing we saw in Orangeburg the weekend before for
South Carolina State, the trampling that occurs when everybody panics
and runs at the same time.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Right.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Again, these were not high school students. This was high
school alumni. These are adults. Seems like we're getting to
the point where you just can't have these sorts of
things anymore without violence like this.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Erupting, unless you're like a big time pro stadium where
you have metal detectors and to have checkpoints at every gate, Yeah, unbelievable.
And I say pro stadium, it happens at all stadiums, now.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Okay, So that making a national news over the weekend. Unfortunately,
meantime last week while I was out, I know there
was the press conference. Was that Thursday with the father
of Logan of feder Rico, Yes, that was Thursday, So
Stephen Fererrico, Aloi, David Pasco and Kevin Brackett holding a
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presser over again, how in the world was it that
Alexander Dickey with his rap sheet was out on the
street and took the life of twenty two year old
Logan for no reason, for no reason at all. Well,
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this is putting a spotlight on the on the criminal
justice system in our state and in other states too.
We're not the only ones with these sort of issues.
So that was last Thursday. Now, Ralph Norman who has
been very vocal in his criticism. Remember it was Ralph
Norman who what about two weeks ago? I guess it
(40:32):
was called for the impeachment or the resignation of Byron Gibson.
The Fifth Circuit solicitor who's charged with this case. He
wants Gibson out. And he sent a letter dated last Friday.
I guess it was whatever day that was the ninth,
tenth the last It was dated October ninth. Norman sent
(40:57):
a letter to a Marquille sled chief asking Kill to
explain why some of Dickey's former crimes were missing from
his criminal record. As Norman wrote, maintaining rap sheets his
sled's function. He also went on to insinuate that slid
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was responsible for Dickie having the opportunity to kill Federico
back this past May. In the letter, Norman wrote, an
incomplete rap sheet is not a clerical error, it's a
public safety failure with deadly consequences. And Logan Federco is
dead because a violent repeat offender's record was full of holes.
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And we've all wondered, how does this happen? How does
it happen that inexplainably when a purp shows up in
court auless to have done something. How many times does
that judge not have information about out the background, the
criminal background of that individual. It seems to happen way
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too often. Now, Kill responding, this is political grandstanding on
the part of Norman, who of course is running for
the Republican nomination for governor, writing what I will not
do is stand by while politicians play politics where a
young innocent girl was tragically killed. I will not allow
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the integrity of a SLED and our hard working employees
to be unduly tarnished in exchange for political talking points.
And this has become a political hot potato. But what's
the reason. If Mark Keel's saying, don't accuse SLED of
wrongdoing or an error, then how did it happen and
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how can we avoid it happening again?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Well, what Keel's response is again is that there's no
one individual or agency responsible this sort of thing happening
or not happening. In this case, then maybe there should be. Well, yeah,
I mean you mentioned the Department of Homeland Security the
other day and a comparison of that to this situation.
We had so many before nine to eleven, we had
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so many different agencies in federal government and neither talked
to the other, and because of that, we had a
huge security breach on nine to eleven. Maybe it's the
same thing here. If there's not a system in place,
if there's not some kind of computer program, some kind
of database that ties together all of our various jurisdictions
when it comes to criminals and their records. Maybe there
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should be.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
There want to be. Why is there not?
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Well at issue in Norman's letters specifically pointed out the
charges against this Alexander Dickey in twenty fourteen were never
attached to its criminal record. That is, a rest for
grand larceny back in twenty fourteen, while still incarcerated the
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Lexton County Detention Center with seven additional counts of burgleary
and larsony, none of these were ever put on his
wrap sheet. Keil says that was the fault of the
detention center, writing for criminal charges to attach to a
criminal history when the subject is served with additional charges
will already incarcerated, that the subject must be reprinted on
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the new charges and figure prints sent to SLED and
that that didn't happen. So he's pointing to the Lexington
County Detention Center going back at twenty fourteen. No response
from Well Jay Coon Sheriff Jay Kuhn. Remember Lectioning County
is one where the sheriff is responsible with the attention center.
He wasn't sheriff in twenty fourteen. He took over in
(44:47):
twenty fifteen. So Keell's response again is that to well,
it basically it takes the village to.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Make an error like this. I guess it's just.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
A combination of jurisdictions, courts, law enforcement, detention centers who
all have to do it right. Okay, I get that,
but there's no excuse for not being done right. There's
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just no excuse for a guy like Dicky. Even if
he had not murdered Logan Federico, he should not have
been on the streets with the record.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
He had.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
Thirty nine arrests, twenty five federally charges among them, and
that was well as a span of about a decade.
But keep in mind, for about six hundred days of
those ten years he was behind bars. So let's say
in about eight plus years, this guy wracked up a
(45:59):
rap sheet. How could you not notice it? Well, somehow
we didn't. So a lot of blame going on here.
And Mark Heel had a sled responding to Norman's letter,
and yeah, he did take some you know, responsibility for
(46:22):
some of this, But I guess the bottom line was,
you know, if if we're not told how are we
going to know? Got a good point. If he's if
they're not told, how are they going to know?
Speaker 2 (46:33):
And if and I'll go a step farther, if the
system's not working, then let's fix it, right And.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
This is not like we didn't know the system wasn't
working up until this point. We've known that for a
long time. This is not the first time we've had
somebody charged and or convicted of a violent crime with
a long rap sheet and we had we wondered why
were they on the streets you talk about, And we've
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had these discussions how much it costs. Well, I'm sure
we can find money that we spend on for for
all sorts of frivolous reasons in the state.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
And put it to some good use right here. Gotta be.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
It ain't like we're living thirty years ago when computer
systems cost an arm in a leg. Again, I mean,
hire some teenager to figure it out for you. It
won't take them long.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
But but but do it. The world is.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
Calling Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, United States, and we'll take you there.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
A critical time in our world's history.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
One O three point five FM and five sixty AM
w VOC this is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David
and Christopher Thompson on one O, three point five FM
and five sixty AM w VOC Bye time.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
I was eight forty our final thought. That's for Monday,
October thirteenth, Columbus Day, mister Thompson Research Star this morning.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Even Google is calling it Columbus Day again. Yeah, I'm
pretty sure it was Indigenous People's Day last year. I'm
pretty sure it was on their old calendar. But this
year it's changed.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Right, We're back to Columbus Day for many of us
have never left. So Happy Columbus Day to you. As
you've heard time to mention, we're supposed to clear out
at some point today and return to sunny skies. There's
been flooding on the coast layers now because of that northeaster,
even up in the Georgetown and Ore counties. Is that
(48:38):
that storm makes its way up the eastern coast and
they're bracing for now in the mid Atlantic.
Speaker 5 (48:43):
In the Northeast, there was.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
A lot of flooding in the low Country over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (48:47):
Oh yeah, of course it could just get cloudy enough.
Floods in the low country. You know, that's a whole
other issue they got to figure out taking care of
at some point in time. I mean, how many houses
have fall the outer banks? Now I lost track a
week or two back, like eight or nine. I guess
it's a good question.
Speaker 5 (49:04):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (49:05):
Crazy Portland, Oregon protests continue unabated over the weekend outside
the ICE facility in South Portland. There's an appeal from
the White House over that temporary restraining order that's blocking
(49:25):
National Guard troops from going into Portland.
Speaker 5 (49:27):
Again.
Speaker 4 (49:28):
We talked about this the one day I was here
last week. How you can have a judge in this
say this area say yeah, it's okay in this town,
another judge in another area of the country saying it's
not okay in this town. How does that make any
sense to anybody? This is what we see. So the
protests continued. There were at least three people detained by
(49:54):
ICE officers, and Portland police arrested another individual. Okay, it's
a nightly thing out there. This is why Trump must
us into the National Guard. It's a lawless city when
it comes to this, and lawless politicians who not only
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allow but seem to encourage this sort of vold behavior.
Nothing's new, same as it ever was former President Biden
is we're told now receiving radiation and hormone therapy. It's
a new phase of treating what we're told as an
aggressive form of prostate cancer. Of course, so that that
(50:37):
story went away for a little while. It came out
of nowhere right that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer,
and then we didn't hear anything for a while. Now
there's the latest that we certainly certainly wish him well.
So that's going on. We're just referencing earlier talking about
(50:58):
the speech that the president. It is over now in
the Israeli parliament. This after all, twenty of the surviving
hostages were released by Hamas. It was a big prisoner swap,
and as usual, the case is, you know, the bad
guys got more to good guys, but the good guys
(51:19):
in this case did get there civilians okay, who did nothing.
All they did wrong was being the wrong place at
the wrong time.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
And this was the sticking point. I mean, you almost
feel like some of the attacks that occurred, the military stuff,
you know that the hostages being released, that was the
sticking point that continued divide these two factions.
Speaker 4 (51:49):
It was the only leverage that Hamas had, right, Yeah,
and Trump and you know other diplomats able to work
through that.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Finally, still haven't heard about the next phase, which is
reported to be disarmament, complete disarmament of Hamas. Yeah, that's
going to be a trickier one.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
Yeah, a whole lot trick here. So that is a backdrople.
What's going on this morning? Get a load of this.
The National Education Association on Friday send out an email
to its three million members. Okay, these are teachers containing
a map that erased Israel and labeled the territory as Palestine.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
Wow. Yeah, in this day and age, how do you
make that mistake? Well, it wasn't a mistake. Oh well,
the North American Values Institute said. The email provided teachers
with resources for teaching about indigenous peoples and yeah, that
included the map, along with materials defending the Hamas attacks
(53:02):
on October seventh of two years ago and links to
organizations that glorified terrorism. This according to the Jewish National
Syndicate reporting this on Friday. Imagine the National Education Association,
who yet, we know they're liberal and all that, we
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get that, but to go as far as to send
out this map do just what this whole Palestinian chan
has been all these years. Wipe out Israel, wipe it
off the map and label that areas Palestine.
Speaker 4 (53:39):
And if that weren't bad enough, sending along materials defending
the Hamas attack on innocent Israeli citizens.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
This is how.
Speaker 4 (53:51):
Far these teachers associations have gone. These are these are
the organizations sending the people who teach our kids.
Speaker 5 (54:05):
This is just this is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (54:12):
Now, a spokesperson for the NA blamed a third party
for the content and claimed the Union has always been
opposed to uh or has always opposed anti Semitism.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
What third party is in charge of your account?
Speaker 4 (54:25):
Well, exactly right, they did. I have to go through
one of your peeps before it went out.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
I'm surprised they didn't just go with that. Yeah we got.
Speaker 5 (54:35):
Hacked, all right, exactly, we got hacked.
Speaker 2 (54:37):
We didn't say that.
Speaker 5 (54:39):
We got hacked.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (54:44):
And the new twenty fifth annual Drive Through Study by
in Touch Insight and QSR Magazine.
Speaker 5 (54:51):
What's QSR magazine? I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
Anyway, what's a drive through study? Well, they looked at
thirteen fast food brands. Oh to see well, what is
the drive through experience.
Speaker 5 (55:04):
Like these days?
Speaker 2 (55:05):
You said, qsr qsr magazine Quick service restaurant.
Speaker 5 (55:09):
Well, there you go, one.
Speaker 4 (55:12):
Hundred and sixty five undercover visits across three categories, classic, chicken,
and beverage. Chicken's got its home category. Now you know
that's how big Chicken is. Now Chicken is huge. This
is huge.
Speaker 5 (55:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (55:25):
They say the overall drive through time five minutes and
thirty five seconds. Wow, so much for fast food convenience, right,
slightly slower than twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (55:42):
Now, that's from the time you order till the time
you get your food.
Speaker 5 (55:45):
Well, I think it's time.
Speaker 2 (55:45):
If you get time, you get in line, okay, until
the time you get your food.
Speaker 5 (55:48):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Well, I mean that's you know.
Speaker 4 (55:50):
Well you imagine if it was five minutes for by
the time you order the time you got your food,
then he'd beat there for hours.
Speaker 5 (55:56):
Man at lunch hour.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Yeah, and I've had some experiences like that. Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (56:00):
I can. I'm not gonna name names, but I could.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
But if it's if it's a busy place and you're
just getting into line at noon on a weekday, I mean,
I think you know you're gonna wait a little bit longer.
Speaker 4 (56:10):
Yeah, Big Wins here, Uh, Taco Bell mm hmm. Chick
fil A m hmm. Now they got a whole system.
I mean they will revamp entire restaurants. They're closed them
for months.
Speaker 5 (56:22):
On the end.
Speaker 2 (56:23):
They they're getting ready to tear down the wind closest
to us, Yes, Ade building a new location. Yeah no,
I'm talking about Bush River Road Bush.
Speaker 4 (56:31):
Oh that one okayeah, yeah, I think it one over
three seventy nine twenty has.
Speaker 2 (56:34):
Been yes, shut down too. They're remodeling now that one.
Speaker 4 (56:37):
Yeah, so uh yeah. Chick fil A, KFC, Popeyes, raising
Canes had highest customer satisfaction, highest raised for friendliness, and
best food quality. Okay, all right, somebody's also had the
longest waits.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
You take me, you can get. I guess did you
look to see who scored the lowest. They didn't put
the entire list in here.
Speaker 5 (57:07):
I can.
Speaker 4 (57:07):
I can think of some ones from my experience. Again,
I won't name them here, Okay,
I'm right, jelicious, right, Hell yeah America and y for
wious formation.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And this is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w v OC.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
And good morning to tell you it is fourteen and
a half after six. It is Monday, October thirteenth, and.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It is great to hear your voice back.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Well, the voice is here, that that part is here
at least, I'm not sure the brain behind it will
be here bunch today, but we'll see.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, this is going to be back. Good to have
you in the chair.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
All right, Well, thank you, sir, and thank you for
from filling an able again most most all of last week.
I guess here Wednesday. I guess we're here Wednesday. Yeah,
So it's going to be back. And uh, well just
by the touch and go this week for me. So
we'll see where things go. But in the meantime that's
ketchup time, huh. After a gloomy weekend, a better forecast
(01:12):
at least later on to day is tyl to just mention.
Oh and by the way, it's Columbus Day. Oh are
we allowed to say allowed to say that. Yes, Columbus Day.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
My calendar, my Google calendar says it's indigenous people. Yes
it does. Okay, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I'm looking at uh.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh no, actually it does. It says Columbus Today. Oh
that's changed. I'm pretty sure last year it said indigenous people.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I think it probably did. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Interesting, I wonder when that changed.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Maybe it changed at six gener Pennsylvania Avidue something to
do with that. Maybe, so quite possibly, so happy Columbus
Day to you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I apologize Google for assuming you were still had that
liberal slant to you.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
M well, oh, it's not what it seems to be. Sometimes.
Rundown stories hot topics.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
As we get into this Columbus Day Monday with you again,
two of our top stories around here.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
You heard in the update there Saint Helena, Island.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Four dead at a high school a union high school
reunion outside a bar in Beauford County. Now we don't
know that it had anything to do with the reunion itself,
but nonetheless it was You don't expect something like that
to happen at a reunion.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, I don't know. Let's put it this way.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
More and more we're seeing these large gatherings end in violence,
and in this case, deadly violence. All told, some twenty
people were injured, four dead. At least eight people were
shot after hundreds of people were attending the Battery Creek
High School alumni tailgate. Okay, this wasn't high school kids,
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these were adults.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Hm.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Wow, this is another mass shooting and the stories that
unfortunately we're hearing each and every day. No arrest have
been made so far that we're aware of, and the
investigation continues. Also, in addition to that, up in the Upstate,
two security guards killed at a nightclub shooting up in Anderson. Yeah,
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three fifteen in the morning yesterday morning. Yeah, it's a
story we hear way too often. Well, our weather starts
to clear out here today forest. Fortunately they're still going
to be cleaning up some and or Georgetown counties. We're
flooding happened there from this this nor'easter that is going
(03:43):
to well really hit the mid Atlantic in the Northeast
pretty hard.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Here.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
They've already declared a state of emergency in places like well,
New Jersey, New York. They're going to get battered by
this thing. Some flooding again looks like I don't try
to hear about any problems in Charleston. I'm sure they
had some.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh they did.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, that was all up and down the coast
over the weekend for us. That was responsable for our
great guys and sum rain. We didn't get a whole
bunch here. Uh, Chief's firing back at a letter from
Ralph Norman, Mark Keel responding to Norman after Norman suggesting
(04:24):
that SLID failed to accurately maintain the criminal record of
the man who is charged with the killing Logan of Federico.
This has become a highly political story now as well
as just a tragic one. Of course, last week you
(04:45):
had the press conference with Federico and what was it too, solicitors?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I guess yeah, it was uh Pasco and Kevin Brackett.
I think Kevin Brackett, Yeah, yeah, and Ralph Norman. Again
you recall Norman about two weeks ago. I guess it
was called for the impeachment or the resignation of Byron Gibson,
the Fifth Circuit Solicitor.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Over All this well sled. Chief has something to say
about that, and then we'll talk more about that a
little bit later on it is happening now. The President
is set to address the Israeli Parliament as the remaining
living hostages and guys that have been released. Twenty living
(05:32):
hostages released as part of this peace proposal. This does
hand over a bunch of Palestinian terrorists and Hamas, the
terrorists a bunch, but this is the moment that Israel
is waiting for now for more than two years. Does
the ceasefire hold well the original of course, the goal
(06:00):
is to get these hostages released, and that that's that's
been done. So congratulations, even some arch enemies of Trump
or giving him kudos for this one meantime, violence erupting
in the Gaza strip, but not between the Israelis and Hamas,
but between Hamas and other factions. You kind of get
the idea that well, people who reside in Palestine, especially
(06:25):
in Gaza City who aren't Hamas, have had enough and
we'll see where it takes it from here. Fox mentioned
that the markets rebounding some today after a bad day
on Friday, but the crypto markets taking a big crash,
Bitcoin dropping precipitously after a Trump's announcement of tariffs on China.
(06:49):
Some thought over the weekend that potentially the you know,
more traditional markets could follow today, so far that's not
been the case.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, he tried to pacify that with some words on
social media to make it sound like they weren't willing
to come down. It's quite as hard on China. So
we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, he has, we're understanding, found a way to pay
our troops. That pay was set to end what today,
right the fifteenth, So on Wednesday, our military would have
gone without a paycheck. But the President announcing over the
weekend he's found funds to ensure that our troops don't
miss a paycheck. Meantime, as of I guess Friday, some
(07:28):
four thousand federal workers have been fired by the administration.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Now where do things go from here?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Well, of course, the House is on recess, and there
are those who are trying to pressure the House Speaker
to bring them back. Part of the employ here the
House says, a House leadership says, is to try to
force the s in his hand to take a vote
to get the government back open again, and thinking without
the House and Session, it might give them a little
more reason to go ahead and take that vote and
(07:55):
get it done. But so far that hasn't happened, as
that shut down rolls on. Controversy after a Friday announcement
by Pete Hegsath about a new training arrangement with the
Air Force of a cutter and this will be a
new facility in Idaho at Air Force at Mountain Home
(08:16):
Air Force Base to host and train Katari pilots on
US made f fifteens. Now, there was some you know,
social media stuff flading around that we were actually allowing
the Qataris to build an air force facility on US
soil and this was you know, payback for the gift
(08:36):
of the plane to the President. They're actually not building
a facility specifically for the Qatari Air Force, but again
there will be a facility built there that will host
and train them, but it will not be under Katari control.
Tensions ramping up in Portland after DHS retained or detained
(08:57):
three and police made arrested at i Fasor that has
been under daily siege by anarchists that left his activists
in the Pacific Northwest. Former President Biden getting radiation hormone
therapy to treatise prostate cancer. That story went away for
a bit, but it's back now and the lawyers for
Luigi Mangione looking for a dismissal of the federal charges
(09:23):
their client faces, the alleged assassin of the United Healthcare CEO.
This is not the These aren't the state charges. Remember,
the Feds could impose the death penalty the state of
New York. I don't think they can do it, can they?
I don't think so? Yeah, No, wonder they want the
Fed charges dropped. All right, Just a few of the
(09:46):
things that are happening here on a Columbus day, Monday.
Keep you posted on developments as they happen. And good morning,
and good to have you with us.
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Speaker 4 (10:16):
It is six forty on a Monday morning, Columbus Day,
the thirteenth of October.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Good to have you with us.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Just kind of monitoring, trying to break the situation in
Israel where Benjamin at Yahoo now is addressing the Israeli Parliament.
President Trump will speak here shortly where it's one forty
in the afternoon their time. This after the news that, yes,
in fact, and you had to wonder, you know, over
the weekend when it actually happened or not, but it has.
(10:43):
The twenty remaining living hostages have have been released. They've
all been released now, and the ceasefire at least between
Israel and Hamas is holding. Mentioned earlier, Bret of warring
factions inside Gaza that are battling each other now or
(11:05):
Hamas's days in their leadership in that area numbered quite possibly.
So we'll keep an eye on what develops here. But again,
the breaking news this morning is that all twenty living
Israeli hostages now have been released by Hamas, more than
two years after that attack on that music festival in Israel.
(11:30):
All right, we're watching that this morning now. I gotta
be honest, when I first heard this on Friday, and
this is part of the whole you know, you see
a headline or some posts on social media, but it
did get your attention. When Pete Haggsath announced what is
well essentially a new training arrangement for a cutter's Air
(11:52):
Force Cutter Qatar. You hear it both ways, We'll go
to Cutter. And this is a prompted backlash from Mini
and Maga, and that led to a clarification later in
the day. Now, his initial announcement, and this is what
(12:14):
again caused such consternation, was when he said that the
US is building a Katari Air Force facility to enhance
our combined training, increase the lethality and interruptibility. All right, well,
(12:36):
poor choice of words, I guess the way he phrased it.
We will host, yes, a new facility at a base
in Idaho. It will be a mountain home Air Force base.
We will host Katari pilots and aircraft. But this is
(12:58):
going to be hangars built house these F fifteen's they'll
be flying. And we've done this before. We did it
with was it Singapore or the Philippine. We have done
this before, but this is this is not something that's
never happened before. But that initial announcement was poorly worded.
(13:20):
Well whatever, and it's certainly to get people's attention.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Again.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Cutter, Well, Cutter has been very instrumental in these talks
with Hamas to try to end that conflict in the
Middle East, but they've also supported other Islamist groups, and
quite honestly, conservatives aren't happy about this at all. Laura Lumer,
(13:50):
somebody please explain to me why Laura Lumoor has any
influence on all over this administration.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
But she does for whatever the reason.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Warning that the US was training the funders of Hamas
saying what happened the last time we let Muslims learn
how to fly planes on us Soul of course had
a reference to nine to eleven. Others are saying this
is a payback for this gift to Trump of a
new plane that will be the new Air Force one.
(14:22):
All this forced Hegzeth by the end of the day
on Friday to clarify on social media when he wrote,
Cutter will not have their own base in the United States,
not anything like a base. We control the existing base,
like we do with all partners Singapore that we have
(14:43):
a relationship with at that same spot there. So this
begs the question, man, Pete, you gotta be careful how
you phrase things, buddy. Maybe a little context would have
(15:03):
been important before we just say that, yeah, we're we're
we're hosting their their fighters and planes and and they're
building a facility in our soil.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
No, not good. Okay, that's boy, I got to say
about that.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Right there, still waiting on Trump to begin his speech,
and then yeah, who continues to speak right now?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
There was a lot of talk on Friday about the
Nobel Peace Prize, and of course Trump has coveted that
from the starts, even in his last administration. But he
didn't get it. But the denominations had been in for
a while. This wasn't this wasn't anything related to the
Middle East peace Plan. I don't think there's anybody out
there suggesting that what Donald Trump has done is not
(15:49):
not worthy of, not worthy of and maybe one of
the most magnificent treaties ever drawn up, if it, if
it comes to pass. But this was you know, the
peace Prize was already in It was already done.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, it was already baked in the cake.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Well, and the uh the woman who wanted Maria Cariina Machado,
who has been from from from hiding out but still
leading resistance against UH Nicolas Monduro in Venezuela. She immediately
(16:25):
came out and said, I dedicate this prize to the
suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his
decisive support of our cause. So she right away thanked
and and and dedicated that award to Trump. I suspect,
and I don't know how you couldn't the next time
it rolls around next year based on and who knows
(16:48):
how all this holds, but getting those hostages out, I
don't know how Trump doesn't win the prize. A lot
of things could happen between now and when it's the
next one is announced next October. But if you stop
and think about it, what other administration this century I
(17:14):
was gonna say, has done more than the Trump administrations.
Don't forget the the Abraham Peace of Corps doing the
first term. I was gonna say, what what other administration
has done more than Trump has to try to secure
a piece in the Middle East?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And I thought, well, you know what what.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Other administrations try to do anything to try to secure
peace in.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
The Middle East.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well, every administration tries. I mean, that's always one of
the objectives when you take that office on Pennsylvania Avenue.
It's okay, we're gonna do peace in the Middle East.
That's going to be our deal this year. Yeah, I
mean rarely does it happen. And you had MSNBC on
Friday suggesting that Trump had put all this together at
least with a temporary way, you know, things that he
(17:55):
knew wouldn't hold, but would hold just long enough for
him to get the Peace Prize, which was, you know,
again another ridiculous allegation.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, right, well, Trump does have any go besides of Manhattan.
We know that that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's he's been coveting this Nobel Peace Prize so long
that he played right into his detractors. I mean, he
played right into their hands. But there was there was
no way he could get it this year unless they
were voting on things that he had done last year.
It had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Elague.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
No, the whole debate starts like in January. Yeah, so
they've been debating this for all year before they made
that announcement.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
But but then again, they have awarded Peace Prizes to
other presidents for far less. Remember, Barack Obama got it
just for being Barack Obama.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
He hadn't done anything at that point, He just got
it because he was Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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Speaker 4 (18:57):
Fourteen after seven o'clock. It is a Monday, October thirteen.
That is Columbus Day, and a day that may well
be remembered if things go as well. A lot of
folks hope as the day that peace dawned, and maybe
he stuck around in the Middle East. Good morning to you,
President Trump now addressing the Israeli Parliament, a speech so
important that even the Today's show his covering it in
(19:20):
its entirety.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I wonder if it mess NBC is checked. Trump just
began as marks a few moments ago. This again after
as we've been telling you this morning, the twenty remaining
live hostages who've been held for more than two years
by Hamas have been released. They are back in Israeli territory.
(19:45):
I got a feeling, maybe more so than any other's
speech this president has ever made. He will stray very
little for the prompter, Dona. This is an important speech,
one in which Trump is is proclaiming a change and
hope and peace, a new era in the Middle East.
(20:08):
Oh and now we have let's see somebody. Oh yeah,
one of the legislatives protesting being drug out by authorities.
Watch of this happen live here as we talk about it.
Of course, then there you go. So, yeah, one of
them has been expelled. Well now two of them? Okay,
here we go, game on.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well wow, really, governments operate different ways in different countries.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
We've seen this before.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Not quite the Philippines, but looks like they're shooting for
the next best thing now in the in the Knesset.
All right, so we're following that for this morning.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Again. This this, this may turn out to be one.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Of the most important speeches this president, well maybe any
president sometimes has ever made.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And it's not just the importance scary, it's how many
times this will be replayed in the future. I mean,
it's important today, but you know this could be this
could be Trump's legacy period. Yeah, easy, Yeah, It's it's
important that he sticked to the script and not go
wildly off.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Yeah. I don't think he will. He's uh.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
As a matter of facts, I'm watching this in real
time because the security forces just escorted two members of
these early parliament out. Trump gets back to the microphones.
So now back to the speech. To which everybody laughs
and he's back to the speech. Now this again, there
is this moment one that yeah, everybody hopes will change
(21:36):
everything in the Middle East. I don't know that, maybe
maybe a little over the top. This is a region
that we fought before we were on the verge of peace,
and it is the Middle East after all. But getting
those hostages, the remaining living hostages out, if nothing else,
(21:56):
that's a big deal obviously.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And moving does some of the other players that still
want the death of Israel that we stand beside them
every step of the way. Yeah, now, this is this deal.
A number of.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Palestinian prisoners, including some who've been convicted of deadly attacks,
are being released back into the Palestinian authorities hands.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Not all.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Matter of fact, one of their top leader terrorist leader
that Hamas had been wanting released, is not going to
be released in this deal, but all told, Jerusalem Friday
released a list of two hundred and fifty Palestinian prisoners
who would be released, including one who kidnapped and murdered
(22:51):
an Israeli citizen. In addition, more than seventeen hundred guysins
captured during the current war who are not involved in
the October seventh massacre are being released by Israel. So yeah,
they're releasing a lot of individuals to try to make
this happen. Now, also, we've got this development here, this
(23:16):
headline that dozens killed in Gaza. But this is not
violence between Hamas and Israel. This is violence between Hamas
and armed clans. Wow, okay, So is there a revolt
going on inside Gaza now against this Hamas leadership. It's
been brewing for some time now. You've seen you've seen
(23:37):
the pictures of what's left of Gaza. I mean, there's
not a whole lot left there and the things that
these Palestinians in that area have endured now for the
last couple of years. On the flip side of this story,
of course, and you wondered, my goodness, this might be
(23:57):
real simple. Eliminate Hamas, you eliminate the problem. Well it's
not quite that simple, I know, but it does appear though. Now, well,
the reports are that a mass was going after one
clan who they accused of siding with the Israelis to
get to this point. But you got to wonder if
(24:20):
some of these again, other clan is how that area
have finally had enough and are stepping up against Tamas.
That would solve a lot right there, certainly. So Columbus
Day may go down as a day of something else
to remember here, And I'll reiterate what I said earlier.
(24:44):
Say what you want, but this century, at least, the
only administration to get anything accomplished of any note in
that region has been the Trump administration, the Abraham Accords,
and the first administration and now this.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Mention.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yeah, every administration goes is, yeah, we're gonna solve Middle
East peace, and nobody does it. And I'm not stupid.
I don't believe for a second that this is the
end of hostilities in the Middle East. It'll pop up
again somewhere at some time, but this was this was
an important day here. That speech is ongoing right now,
(25:31):
and knowing Trump will probably go on for quite a while.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Oh, he's going to do his touchdown dance for a
little while now that he's got the spotlight.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
But so far, just with what I've been reading on
the close captioning here seems b sticking to the script,
And no doubt some speechwriter took a long time. This
is this one of those things we gotta be very
careful about what you say and how you say it right,
maybe more so than we do in this society, you know,
and then that is society. They hinge on every word.
(26:00):
There's something one wrong word or something set a wrong
way with the wrong intention. He's going to upset somebody.
So we'll keep up, keep monitoring that. Also coming up
this morning on the home front, we'll be talking more
about the killing of Logan Federico and how this has
become such a political story. Now we're at the point
(26:23):
now where Markiel, the sled chief, is issuing some blowback
against Ralph Norman over the congressman and Republican gubernatorial hopeful
his letter about the Federico killing. This again and following
that press or last week where Logan's dad held that
press conference with David Pascoe and one another prosecutor, Pasco,
(26:50):
by the way, saying some things that well seemed to
indicate an unhappiness with the Attorney General's office. That's an
obvious he seeks, but he sends kind of claire find
some of these statements. You know, it was this headline
about ninety two percent of pedophile cases in one particular
(27:10):
district have gone either unprosecuted or not getting a guilty plea,
a guilty verdict. Now that they're starting to put some
context of those numbers, and it's not quite what it
was painted to be. So, but this tragic story has
become a political hopitato here and again Saint Helena making nationally.
(27:32):
It's another mass shooting, this time down in Beeford County.
Four dead, eight people shot all told, dozens of others
injured or about a dozen.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
I was injured.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
You get at a high school reunion, not high school kids,
adults at a high school reunion. So we're following that
this morning as well. It's good to have you here.
It's the Monday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
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Speaker 4 (28:19):
Coming up on seven thirty eight. It's a pleasure to
have you join us this morning. Thank you so much.
It's Monday, October thirteenth. And yeah, apparently even Google Calendars
is now again calling it Columbus Day. It never really
went away for most of us. But it's Columbus Day,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
What was?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Oh, Indigenous People's Day was the other one?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah, seeing less and less of that now, all right?
Uh Trumps still speaking in front of the Israeli Parliament.
Meantime back here on Capitol Hill, it's it's it's well,
it's lights out as a government to shut down, and
it is this third week now.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And they wouldn't have been working today anyway because of
the holiday.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Well no, because it's digital Columbus Day, So no, they
would not have been. And the finger pointing continues. The
blame game rolls on, and federal workers are missing paychecks
and some of them have lost their jobs. Now as
of Friday, reports that more than four thousand federal workers
(29:20):
were told they were being laid off. The department that
lost the most close to fifteen hundred employees the Treasury
Department IRS, right, okay, DHH Health Human Services losing some
(29:42):
twelve hundred, Department of Education losing close to five hundred
for fifty or so at HUD. Yeah, DHS did lay
off one hundred and seventy six workers Homeland Security, so
the layoffs have started the riffs as they were said
(30:05):
they would. Now as of this Wednesday, our troops were
going to miss their first paychecks. But apparently that won't
happen now, as Trump says they have identified funds to
allow our troops to continue to get paid during this shutdown.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
The Democrats had suggested they'd thrown up a couple of
bills that allowed the military to continue to get paid
while the shutdown continued, and Mike Johnson voted down every
one of those, saying he didn't want to give the
Democrats a political cover, that he didn't want to make
it look like everything was okay when Chuck Schumer and
(30:47):
his friends were still causing the rest of the government
to be shut.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Down, right, but allowing our troops not to get paid,
that's a bad look and a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
It's politics, you know, It's it's the it's the one
image versus the other. And Johnson's in a little bit
of a unwinnable position and realizes that, but he felt
like his that he felt like his strongest position, I
guess would come if everybody suffered equally and eventually the
(31:20):
Democrats would be forced into an agreement.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Now the House is on recess, now they are okay,
they're not even in DC, right and uh, you've got
some calling get them back to d C.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But this is all the hands of the Senate right now,
right that's where the votes have taken place.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
That's where the vote.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Johnson's not allowing any votes to take place on the
House side.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Right, Well, the House is already again. Republicans have put
up a cleaned CR, another continuing resolution that keeps the
funding levels at well the same rates that Democrats have
voted for in the past. So what's the rub Well,
we know it's healthcare. We don't it's the subsidies. You know,
it's healthcare for illegals. The Democrats on the other side
(32:08):
of the coin have put up a one and a
half trillion dollar funding bill that's well full of provisions
aimed at reversing what the one big, beautiful bill did.
So this is part of the problem again right there.
Now you can still do a CR and keep the
(32:30):
government running for another month or what have you. These
subsidies and Obamacare don end until the end of the year,
so there is some time there not a lot, but
there is some time there for more negotiations. But in
the meantime, in other words, you can reopen the government
with a clean cr and have folks back to work,
back drawing a paycheck, services restore, and those few spots
(32:52):
again they've been curtailed. You can do all that and
could still work on these subsidies for Obamacare recipients because
you got to.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
The end of the year to do that.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Of course, we all know how that works, right. So
we're in a week three now. The last government shutdown
was not quite seven years ago. Lasted was four weeks.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I think it was something like that, just over thirty days. Okay,
so we're going to be getting close to that. But again,
the headline over the weekend was that Trump says the
administration had found a way, had found the money to
keep paying our troops. Now these riffs, there's a whole
(33:33):
other story here, and this will be something that's going
to of course wind up in court fights and lawyers
getting involved and such. I still contend that no matter
what you think about the federal government and the federalment
workforce and the amount of money that we're spending, that
maybe we don't need to be. I'm still contending that
(33:56):
this is a bad opting for the Republicans, and that's
what some of Mike Johnson's representatives are telling him. But
the alternative is giving in to Schumer and allowing this
healthcare fight to go the Democrats away.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Now, in the midst of all that, of course, the
Trump threat to impose tariff on Chinese goods again over
the weekend. Trying to temper that a little bit on
social media.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
China is going to be okay, relax, They had JD.
Vance do the same thing. You know, Advance isn't on
social media nearly as much as Trump and Vance got
on social media saying everything's going to be all right,
you're your teenager.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Isn't on social media as much as trauma I think
go on.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
So they I think they knew the impact those statements,
the earlier statements were going to have on the markets.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Right well, Friday, of course, the markets took a tumble,
and then over the weekend, Bitcoin, which trades seven days
a week, all these cryptocur ncies I said, bitcoin, it's
just a generic name, but still those markets, well, one
of the biggest cryptocurrency crashes that we've seen so far,
(35:12):
a loss of some four hundred billion dollars in less
than twenty four hours, again based on Trump saying he
would check up Chinese tariff one hundred percent, but again
his well, when Trump said over the we can all,
We'll be fine. Traders in the more traditional markets are
(35:37):
buoyed by that news. Down futures are up three hundred
and eighty eight points as of a few minutes ago.
So while overseas markets and overnight training continue to trade downwards,
the American markets are rallying here on a well China
will be okay statement. You know, forget the what was
the old y f hunting commercials back in the day,
(36:01):
right when he have hunting talks pe people listen, Yeah, yeah,
not like this. You've got the power with a couple
of words type on a keyboard post of the social
media to influence markets the way Trump's.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Able to do it.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
It's kind of scary, man, you know, it really is.
But they are, they are rebounding at least the markets here.
So we have a lot going on. Trump is still
speaking I figured at least an hour, right, I mean,
I don't think you can speak for less than hour.
It's a rule somewhere it's got to be at least
an hour. And I've been kind of keeping up with
(36:38):
this on the prompters here during the show, had noticed recently,
but I'm still thinking. I'm hoping that he sticks to
the script on this one for the most part. See,
it's a monument monumental day, and one that's not just
as Trump has said, ending this conflict, but one that
(37:00):
he hopes in all conflict in the Middle East. If
you could pull that off, man, wow, just just do
the lifetime Nobel Peace Prize forever and ever and ever
again to Trump for the one that one, because that's
that's a tall task.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Indeed.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Right there, 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 4 (37:29):
Fourteen after a good morning. Good to have you along.
From Monday, October thirteenth, Columbus Day. I am Gary David,
he is Christopher Thompson. Spording Sir so latest mass shooting
in this country here in South Carolina. As you've heard
the news Saint Helena Island. I'm in a quiet place
down in Beautiford County and hundreds of people attending the
(37:53):
Battery Creek High School alumni tailgate. This was at Willie's
Bar and Grill just before one o'clock in the morning
yesterday morning, shots fired. At least eight people were shot,
four of them dead. Dozens about a dozen others were
(38:16):
injured during the melee that ensued, And we don't have
we don't have any answers this morning.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
It's early. I know.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Sheriff's office again estimating twenty people injured in total from
a combination of gunshots and other wounds. Not exactly clear.
They now say about how many of the twenty injuries
were for gun from gunshots, we know at least.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Eight and I'm guessing some of the other wounds. The
same thing we saw in Orangeburg the weekend before for
South Carolina State, the trampling that occurs when everybody panics
and runs at the same time.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Right.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Again, these were not high school students. This was high
school alumni. These are adults. Seems like we're getting to
the point where you just can't have these sorts of
things anymore without violence like this.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Erupting, unless you're like a big time pro stadium where
you have metal detectors and to have checkpoints at every gate, Yeah, unbelievable.
And I say pro stadium, it happens at all stadiums, now.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Okay, So that making a national news over the weekend. Unfortunately,
meantime last week while I was out, I know there
was the press conference. Was that Thursday with the father
of Logan of feder Rico, Yes, that was Thursday, So
Stephen Fererrico, Aloi, David Pasco and Kevin Brackett holding a
(39:50):
presser over again, how in the world was it that
Alexander Dickey with his rap sheet was out on the
street and took the life of twenty two year old
Logan for no reason, for no reason at all. Well,
(40:11):
this is putting a spotlight on the on the criminal
justice system in our state and in other states too.
We're not the only ones with these sort of issues.
So that was last Thursday. Now, Ralph Norman who has
been very vocal in his criticism. Remember it was Ralph
Norman who what about two weeks ago? I guess it
(40:32):
was called for the impeachment or the resignation of Byron Gibson.
The Fifth Circuit solicitor who's charged with this case. He
wants Gibson out. And he sent a letter dated last Friday.
I guess it was whatever day that was the ninth,
tenth the last It was dated October ninth. Norman sent
(40:57):
a letter to a Marquille sled chief asking Kill to
explain why some of Dickey's former crimes were missing from
his criminal record. As Norman wrote, maintaining rap sheets his
sled's function. He also went on to insinuate that slid
(41:20):
was responsible for Dickie having the opportunity to kill Federico
back this past May. In the letter, Norman wrote, an
incomplete rap sheet is not a clerical error, it's a
public safety failure with deadly consequences. And Logan Federco is
dead because a violent repeat offender's record was full of holes.
(41:41):
And we've all wondered, how does this happen? How does
it happen that inexplainably when a purp shows up in
court auless to have done something. How many times does
that judge not have information about out the background, the
criminal background of that individual. It seems to happen way
(42:04):
too often. Now, Kill responding, this is political grandstanding on
the part of Norman, who of course is running for
the Republican nomination for governor, writing what I will not
do is stand by while politicians play politics where a
young innocent girl was tragically killed. I will not allow
(42:26):
the integrity of a SLED and our hard working employees
to be unduly tarnished in exchange for political talking points.
And this has become a political hot potato. But what's
the reason. If Mark Keel's saying, don't accuse SLED of
wrongdoing or an error, then how did it happen and
(42:47):
how can we avoid it happening again?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Well, what Keel's response is again is that there's no
one individual or agency responsible this sort of thing happening
or not happening. In this case, then maybe there should be. Well, yeah,
I mean you mentioned the Department of Homeland Security the
other day and a comparison of that to this situation.
We had so many before nine to eleven, we had
(43:10):
so many different agencies in federal government and neither talked
to the other, and because of that, we had a
huge security breach on nine to eleven. Maybe it's the
same thing here. If there's not a system in place,
if there's not some kind of computer program, some kind
of database that ties together all of our various jurisdictions
when it comes to criminals and their records. Maybe there
(43:34):
should be.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
There want to be. Why is there not?
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Well at issue in Norman's letters specifically pointed out the
charges against this Alexander Dickey in twenty fourteen were never
attached to its criminal record. That is, a rest for
grand larceny back in twenty fourteen, while still incarcerated the
(44:04):
Lexton County Detention Center with seven additional counts of burgleary
and larsony, none of these were ever put on his
wrap sheet. Keil says that was the fault of the
detention center, writing for criminal charges to attach to a
criminal history when the subject is served with additional charges
will already incarcerated, that the subject must be reprinted on
(44:26):
the new charges and figure prints sent to SLED and
that that didn't happen. So he's pointing to the Lexington
County Detention Center going back at twenty fourteen. No response
from Well Jay Coon Sheriff Jay Kuhn. Remember Lectioning County
is one where the sheriff is responsible with the attention center.
He wasn't sheriff in twenty fourteen. He took over in
(44:47):
twenty fifteen. So Keell's response again is that to well,
it basically it takes the village to.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Make an error like this. I guess it's just.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
A combination of jurisdictions, courts, law enforcement, detention centers who
all have to do it right. Okay, I get that,
but there's no excuse for not being done right. There's
(45:24):
just no excuse for a guy like Dicky. Even if
he had not murdered Logan Federico, he should not have
been on the streets with the record.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
He had.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
Thirty nine arrests, twenty five federally charges among them, and
that was well as a span of about a decade.
But keep in mind, for about six hundred days of
those ten years he was behind bars. So let's say
in about eight plus years, this guy wracked up a
(45:59):
rap sheet. How could you not notice it? Well, somehow
we didn't. So a lot of blame going on here.
And Mark Heel had a sled responding to Norman's letter,
and yeah, he did take some you know, responsibility for
(46:22):
some of this, But I guess the bottom line was,
you know, if if we're not told how are we
going to know? Got a good point. If he's if
they're not told, how are they going to know?
Speaker 2 (46:33):
And if and I'll go a step farther, if the
system's not working, then let's fix it, right And.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
This is not like we didn't know the system wasn't
working up until this point. We've known that for a
long time. This is not the first time we've had
somebody charged and or convicted of a violent crime with
a long rap sheet and we had we wondered why
were they on the streets you talk about, And we've
(47:04):
had these discussions how much it costs. Well, I'm sure
we can find money that we spend on for for
all sorts of frivolous reasons in the state.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
And put it to some good use right here. Gotta be.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
It ain't like we're living thirty years ago when computer
systems cost an arm in a leg. Again, I mean,
hire some teenager to figure it out for you. It
won't take them long.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
But but but do it. The world is.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
Calling Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, United States, and we'll take you there.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
A critical time in our world's history.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
One O three point five FM and five sixty AM
w VOC this is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David
and Christopher Thompson on one O, three point five FM
and five sixty AM w VOC Bye time.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
I was eight forty our final thought. That's for Monday,
October thirteenth, Columbus Day, mister Thompson Research Star this morning.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Even Google is calling it Columbus Day again. Yeah, I'm
pretty sure it was Indigenous People's Day last year. I'm
pretty sure it was on their old calendar. But this
year it's changed.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Right, We're back to Columbus Day for many of us
have never left. So Happy Columbus Day to you. As
you've heard time to mention, we're supposed to clear out
at some point today and return to sunny skies. There's
been flooding on the coast layers now because of that northeaster,
even up in the Georgetown and Ore counties. Is that
(48:38):
that storm makes its way up the eastern coast and
they're bracing for now in the mid Atlantic.
Speaker 5 (48:43):
In the Northeast, there was.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
A lot of flooding in the low Country over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (48:47):
Oh yeah, of course it could just get cloudy enough.
Floods in the low country. You know, that's a whole
other issue they got to figure out taking care of
at some point in time. I mean, how many houses
have fall the outer banks? Now I lost track a
week or two back, like eight or nine. I guess
it's a good question.
Speaker 5 (49:04):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (49:05):
Crazy Portland, Oregon protests continue unabated over the weekend outside
the ICE facility in South Portland. There's an appeal from
the White House over that temporary restraining order that's blocking
(49:25):
National Guard troops from going into Portland.
Speaker 5 (49:27):
Again.
Speaker 4 (49:28):
We talked about this the one day I was here
last week. How you can have a judge in this
say this area say yeah, it's okay in this town,
another judge in another area of the country saying it's
not okay in this town. How does that make any
sense to anybody? This is what we see. So the
protests continued. There were at least three people detained by
(49:54):
ICE officers, and Portland police arrested another individual. Okay, it's
a nightly thing out there. This is why Trump must
us into the National Guard. It's a lawless city when
it comes to this, and lawless politicians who not only
(50:15):
allow but seem to encourage this sort of vold behavior.
Nothing's new, same as it ever was former President Biden
is we're told now receiving radiation and hormone therapy. It's
a new phase of treating what we're told as an
aggressive form of prostate cancer. Of course, so that that
(50:37):
story went away for a little while. It came out
of nowhere right that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer,
and then we didn't hear anything for a while. Now
there's the latest that we certainly certainly wish him well.
So that's going on. We're just referencing earlier talking about
(50:58):
the speech that the president. It is over now in
the Israeli parliament. This after all, twenty of the surviving
hostages were released by Hamas. It was a big prisoner swap,
and as usual, the case is, you know, the bad
guys got more to good guys, but the good guys
(51:19):
in this case did get there civilians okay, who did nothing.
All they did wrong was being the wrong place at
the wrong time.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
And this was the sticking point. I mean, you almost
feel like some of the attacks that occurred, the military stuff,
you know that the hostages being released, that was the
sticking point that continued divide these two factions.
Speaker 4 (51:49):
It was the only leverage that Hamas had, right, Yeah,
and Trump and you know other diplomats able to work
through that.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Finally, still haven't heard about the next phase, which is
reported to be disarmament, complete disarmament of Hamas. Yeah, that's
going to be a trickier one.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
Yeah, a whole lot trick here. So that is a backdrople.
What's going on this morning? Get a load of this.
The National Education Association on Friday send out an email
to its three million members. Okay, these are teachers containing
a map that erased Israel and labeled the territory as Palestine.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
Wow. Yeah, in this day and age, how do you
make that mistake? Well, it wasn't a mistake. Oh well,
the North American Values Institute said. The email provided teachers
with resources for teaching about indigenous peoples and yeah, that
included the map, along with materials defending the Hamas attacks
(53:02):
on October seventh of two years ago and links to
organizations that glorified terrorism. This according to the Jewish National
Syndicate reporting this on Friday. Imagine the National Education Association,
who yet, we know they're liberal and all that, we
(53:23):
get that, but to go as far as to send
out this map do just what this whole Palestinian chan
has been all these years. Wipe out Israel, wipe it
off the map and label that areas Palestine.
Speaker 4 (53:39):
And if that weren't bad enough, sending along materials defending
the Hamas attack on innocent Israeli citizens.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
This is how.
Speaker 4 (53:51):
Far these teachers associations have gone. These are these are
the organizations sending the people who teach our kids.
Speaker 5 (54:05):
This is just this is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (54:12):
Now, a spokesperson for the NA blamed a third party
for the content and claimed the Union has always been
opposed to uh or has always opposed anti Semitism.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
What third party is in charge of your account?
Speaker 4 (54:25):
Well, exactly right, they did. I have to go through
one of your peeps before it went out.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
I'm surprised they didn't just go with that. Yeah we got.
Speaker 5 (54:35):
Hacked, all right, exactly, we got hacked.
Speaker 2 (54:37):
We didn't say that.
Speaker 5 (54:39):
We got hacked.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (54:44):
And the new twenty fifth annual Drive Through Study by
in Touch Insight and QSR Magazine.
Speaker 5 (54:51):
What's QSR magazine? I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
Anyway, what's a drive through study? Well, they looked at
thirteen fast food brands. Oh to see well, what is
the drive through experience.
Speaker 5 (55:04):
Like these days?
Speaker 2 (55:05):
You said, qsr qsr magazine Quick service restaurant.
Speaker 5 (55:09):
Well, there you go, one.
Speaker 4 (55:12):
Hundred and sixty five undercover visits across three categories, classic, chicken,
and beverage. Chicken's got its home category. Now you know
that's how big Chicken is. Now Chicken is huge. This
is huge.
Speaker 5 (55:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (55:25):
They say the overall drive through time five minutes and
thirty five seconds. Wow, so much for fast food convenience, right,
slightly slower than twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (55:42):
Now, that's from the time you order till the time
you get your food.
Speaker 5 (55:45):
Well, I think it's time.
Speaker 2 (55:45):
If you get time, you get in line, okay, until
the time you get your food.
Speaker 5 (55:48):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Well, I mean that's you know.
Speaker 4 (55:50):
Well you imagine if it was five minutes for by
the time you order the time you got your food,
then he'd beat there for hours.
Speaker 5 (55:56):
Man at lunch hour.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Yeah, and I've had some experiences like that. Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (56:00):
I can. I'm not gonna name names, but I could.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
But if it's if it's a busy place and you're
just getting into line at noon on a weekday, I mean,
I think you know you're gonna wait a little bit longer.
Speaker 4 (56:10):
Yeah, Big Wins here, Uh, Taco Bell mm hmm. Chick
fil A m hmm. Now they got a whole system.
I mean they will revamp entire restaurants. They're closed them
for months.
Speaker 5 (56:22):
On the end.
Speaker 2 (56:23):
They they're getting ready to tear down the wind closest
to us, Yes, Ade building a new location. Yeah no,
I'm talking about Bush River Road Bush.
Speaker 4 (56:31):
Oh that one okayeah, yeah, I think it one over
three seventy nine twenty has.
Speaker 2 (56:34):
Been yes, shut down too. They're remodeling now that one.
Speaker 4 (56:37):
Yeah, so uh yeah. Chick fil A, KFC, Popeyes, raising
Canes had highest customer satisfaction, highest raised for friendliness, and
best food quality. Okay, all right, somebody's also had the
longest waits.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
You take me, you can get. I guess did you
look to see who scored the lowest. They didn't put
the entire list in here.
Speaker 5 (57:07):
I can.
Speaker 4 (57:07):
I can think of some ones from my experience. Again,
I won't name them here, Okay,
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