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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is wrong.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm morning to tell you welcome in. It's Friday, October seventeenth,
fourteen after six and a little on the nippy side
in spots this morning. Let's check out our historically cool
place around the Midlands every winter. Well, still fall, but
still no good Old Cedar Creek, South Carolina. That's how

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near the UH near the Blathwood area. They usually have
the coldest temps around forty five in Cedar Creek this morning.
I believe that. I mean, you can tell there's a difference.
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's I don't think there's forty five where I was,
but it's it's still chillier those.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Places around the Middlands and low fifties. But we do
have some some of the matter of fact, Hopkins at
forty six right now checking in forty six. So yeah,
there's a little nip in the air this morning. It
feels good. Done it here. Seventeenth day of October I'm
Gary David. Good morning to you and wanted to you
mister Thompson.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
It'll feel good for all those tailgators who get out
around seven tomorrow morning.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
You better get out, you might only get about five.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Charlie O'Brien had a great story in our newscast about the.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
The convergence of the fair and football.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well even squeezed into a little music from the from
the musical Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Good for Charlie. Well, yeah, I guess, but we should
not hear in Oklahoma. But whatever, But yeah, it is. Uh,
every now and then you get two football games during
the fair. Well, sometimes you don't get any, but yeah,
this is the one. By what time are you leaving
to head over to set up our best game cock

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coverage tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm planning to leave around six thirty or seven tonight. No,
I'm gonna wait till tomorrow. Yeah, so, yeah, a twelve
forty five kickoff. I don't know what's what's better. What's
worse a day game during the fair or a night
game during the Fair. I guess the day game is
a little better than night game. I don't know that
there's a worse. I just it's just worse. I just

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think it's different.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So of course all the that won't
be the fairground parking, you know, for football fans obviously,
so no, but parking has been different to the fairgrounds
for years anyway, That's true, It has been, hasn't all. Right,
let's get right into it, the rundown, the big stories,
the hot topics for this Friday, October seventeenth. Well, here

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comes another report that no humans were involved that fire
at at Ostoe Island, the home of the judge that remember.
The Democrats immediately pounced on it, saying that yeah, this
was all the work of MAGA and the you know,
the vilifying judges and YadA, YadA, YadA. Somebody burned this

(03:03):
thing to the ground, they set off an explosion. None
of that true. We already had heard from sled who
previously had said that they didn't think this was arson. Well,
now the Edistoe Beach Fire Department has released their report
and they say no human factors contributed to that blaze.

(03:23):
Don't know what we know exactly what was but they
haven't determined exactly what started the blaze, Just saying that
there was no human act as a contributor.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Was it Democrats who lipped to that leap to that conclusion,
leapt to that conclusion or was it the mass media?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
I mean it felt like, well, you media was first
to that story.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, yeah, they started stoking the speculation, and then Democrats piled.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Out afterwards out. Now will they go back out and
report this news? Probably not. But anyway, there you go.
So you got the fair, you've got football, and you've
got the No King's protest downtown tomorrow. Oh I didn't
know we were having one here. Oh of course we were. Okay, Now,
exactly how big this one will be, who knows. But anyway, Okay,

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this is the self fulfilling prophecy that the left hopes
comes true. They're all concerned about the Feds getting aggressive
tomorrow at these protests. Oh, they're all worked up over
this thing, hoping Holy hoping that it happens. Obviously.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Uh, just saying for the record, if there were a king,
there wouldn't be a No King's protest.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well there's a atte point there, mister Thompson. You're right.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'm not the first person to say that. But okay,
it beer's repeating you were for repeating it.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Matter of fact, stay paper running on an article that
was actually an article written in the Island Packet or
one of those smaller low country publications U outlining the rights.
You need to know the rights you had before you
attend these protests. Not quite as bad as you know,
dosing ice or but if you want, if you want

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to go, you want to know what rights you have.
If you're accosted by the FEDS, never fear to say,
papers there for you with a whole laundry list of things. Uh,
the numbers are coming in, Uh, the amount of money
being raised so far in these uh, well in the
Republican gubernatorial primary campaigns, a lot of money in there.

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But posting currated a good job of breaking it down though,
to to to show how the numbers aren't always what
they look like. For example, a Loutitan governor or one
point four million dollars, well about three hundred thousand that
was out of our own own checkbook, just an example.
And all the candidates have things that you know that
they numbers they got in there that well it can

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be a bit misleading, but hey, at least they getting
there to getting money and they got content on the
Democrat side, well, it's Mullins McLeod at least for now,
although apparently we've got a big announcement coming down, an
exciting announcement, a special announcement, says Jermaine Johnson, coming up
on October twenty eighth. He's fully expected to become the

(06:19):
second Democrat to announce a run for the governor's office. Okay, meantime,
we've got a Columbia City Council candidate, Christal Williams, who
has filed a lawsuit against the police department in Casey,
claiming she was racially profiled during a routine traffic stop.

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Or does she just need to get a name on
the news, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
And she says she used to be in law enforcement,
but did you know, maybe there's there'll be a body cam,
And it sounds like they've already reviewed everything, and it
sounds on the up and up.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
It does. But also apparently according to the the accounts,
I mean, she right away, right off the bat accused
the officer of pulling it over because she was a
black woman. So now there you go. The mayor of
Batesburg Leesville, Lancer Shull, going to have to pay up
that thirteen hundred dollars fine imposed by the Ethics Commission.

(07:19):
This was an incident where he voted to put himself
on a board that paid him, not supposed to be
doing that, and then reappointed himself. Then reappointed himself. Yes,
you can do that, I guess when you're mayor. Meanwhile,
much more serious Williamsburg County, which has been controversy after
controversy after controversy, and well public corruption to the treasurer

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and four former officials all indicted on public corruption charges.
There the homecoming game in Orangeburg this weekend at South
Karlins State University. The schools installed new security measures. Well
this on homecoming. It's their first home game since the
homecoming shooting that took place there, so they're trying to

(08:02):
get things safer. John Bolton indicted yesterday. That news coming
down a federal grand jury in Maryland indicting Bolton on
eighteen counts related to alleged mishandling of classified information. You
know what's different about this one. This investigation of Bolton
actually started when Biden was still president. Okay, Trump did
not initiate this one.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
FYI, sounds like Bolton was pretty sloppy. I don't like
the look, but the more you read about it, the
more the more it sounds like he was a definite
threat to national security.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
And I guess is Abby Lowell this His attorney claims that, well, well,
all this was pretty clear because he was using a
taut write a book or something. Okay, good luck with
that argument right there. The Democrats blocking legislation that would
pay troops drink this government shut down, that's not a
good look. Huh. Dem is blocking the Senate from even

(08:56):
considering a defense spending bill yesterday, one that would pay
service during the shutdown. Okay, that goes on. Meantime, speaking
of the military, US Special operations shoppers B fifty two's
reported to be near Venezuela. Trump just recently said maybe
strikes on land targets there. There was another strike on

(09:16):
a boat in the Caribbean. This time there were actually
some survivors. And the head of the military's Southern Command retiring.
He is leaving. Admiral Alvin Holsey says he'll be leaving
his post and calling it quits December twelfth, after thirty
seven years of service. You have to assume he's not

(09:39):
happy with the way things are going. Trump meantime, trying
to stop another war. He'll be meeting with Vladimir Putin
in Hungary. That's coming up well, he says he will
be in about two weeks. He's meeting today with Vladimir
Zelensky at the White House. There have been what now
seven armed conflicts that Trumps to bring to a halt

(10:01):
this one. Good luck on that one. A couple debates
last night in New York City, the mayoral candidates, including
the Socialists or communist Zoe Wren, Mom, Donnie, we'll talk
a bit about that. And Virginia they had a debate
between the ag hopels. We'll only pay attention to that
one because Duel J. Jones and his comments about two

(10:22):
boats to the head of the Republican House speaker in
Virginia and killing kids and killing kids. Yes. Oh, and
also there was that problematic speeding ticket of going what
one hundred and sixteen miles an hour? Yeah, that came up,
needless to say, and uh, well this was uh, I
guess maybe in the cards here that story out of

(10:43):
Des Moines, Iowa, where the superintendent of schools there turned
out to be in this country illegally and didn't even
have a PhD. As he claimed he did well. Jackie Norris,
the chair of the Des Moines School Board, the chair
now the chair of the board that was reponsible for
hiring him to begin with, has had to end her

(11:04):
Iowa Senate campaign, citing, Yeah, the arrest of that superintendent
didn't look good on her. It so collateral damaged there
and condolences to the family. Ace Freely, Ace free lead guitar. Yeah,
rock and roll, it's pretty hard. Man seventy four years old,

(11:24):
dead of a Brainbley. I had a fall a couple
of weeks ago in the studio. Didn't seem like a
big deal at first, but apparently it was. Wow, hadn't
played with the band in a while, No, it'd been
a long time. Yeah yeah, Ace Freely. And by the way,
I'll if you heard this or not, but it could
have been two members of Kiss well as former member
Gene Simmons, recently apparently passed out of the wheel, hit

(11:46):
a went off the road, hit another vehicle parked on
the side of a cliff in Ballibou. Came within just
inches of his vehicle going over that cliff. That would wow, Okay,
we got that. We got more coming your way here
on this It is the Friday morning edition of Columbia's
Morning News, and it is great to have you with us,
keeping you informed. Dad's up to date. Now now more

(12:07):
than ever, I like knowing what's happening in the world.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
One on three point five FM and five sixty am
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and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five FM
and five sixty am doub VOC.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Six forty Now Friday morning, October seventeenth, final weekend of
the State Fair. And as we were talking about last
half hour, it's fair football, oh a, and a protest
downtown tomorrow, all wrapped up into one big fuzzy ball.
That should be fun, all right. More on that that
protest a little bit later on. We'll be talking about that,
all right. So I don't pretend at all to know

(12:50):
anything about how this works. Many of you probably do,
and maybe you're you're involved in this, and maybe you're
profiting handsomely off of it. Just a cryptocurrency doesn't had
you where you were going? Yeah, I got no clue, man,
And you know I'm too old to care now. I'm
not going to start this dog is too old to
teach these new tricks to all right, I don't. I'm

(13:12):
not putting my cash under the mattress. No, but I
ain't putting in crypto either. So when I mentioned this,
this this comes with a disclaimer. I have no idea
what I'm talking about. But uh, it's it's it's yeah,
it's it's it's pretty scary. An outfit called Paxos, which
is the blockchain partner of PayPal, yesterday mistakenly minted the

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stable coins as part of an internal transfer, mistakenly minting
three hundred trillion dollars worth of PayPal stable coin. This
happened Wednesday, and what they called a technical error. I

(14:06):
I realize, we can, you know, any government, anyone in the
world can just print money. I get that.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
This is kind of like that, right, You're just you're
printing money here and just hurting the price of what exists.
I guess they called it a technical error.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
They they caught the error pretty quick, within about twenty minutes,
I guess, and and and fixed it. This is a
stable coins, I said, I don't know what that means.
You know, I have no clue, but a bitcoin that
is fully backed by us, do all deposits. Okay, So

(14:44):
this one seems a little more up on the op
and up to me. You know, it's it's fully backed
by you know, it's a one to one. One of
these stable coins is worth one dollar. You turn in,
you get one dollar, Okay, on a one to one basis.
But the three hundred trillion worth, to put this in
some context, that would theoretically add up to more than

(15:12):
double the world's estimated gross domestic product. Okay, So if
you know, one country like Venezuela, I want to just
print a bunch of money and you know, hyperinflation and
all that. Venezuela. That's one country, Okay, but nay, something

(15:33):
like this would would It would impact the entire planet? Right,
this this bitcoin stuff? So yeah, they mistakenly printed in
enough to amount to again more than double the world's
estimated GDP. Crazy man, I have no idea what would

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have happen if it hadn't caught this error. I don't know.
I don't know. I would think the prices would have lunged,
but I don't know. But what it would it would have?
Would it have impacted people like me who don't delve
in those swampy waters? Of whatever this stuff is. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
It just feels like the economy is all interrelated these days.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, I'm sure it would happen, all right,
So you'll pull out by signal or in this cute
they spell signal cyg n a L. That's cute, uh,
noting a sizable group of liberals who support yes, breaking
the law regarding Ice that when simply protesting ICE does

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not get the job done. And what does that mean?
So other word, I guess that means if you're out
there protesting ICE and they don't turn around and go
home and not arrest people in this country illegally breaking
the laws, especially the criminal element that there after? Does
that mean if they don't do that, then you're say
it's okay to perpetrate violence upon them. Remember they're the

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ones with the guns. Forty two percent of liberals overall
considered appropriate to go beyond peaceful protest responding to Ice.
Remember this today in the No Kings Day rallies that
will be helpful the second time in what's six months,
the ones in which there's oh, you know, we're worried
the Feds are going to be aggressive again. They want

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them to be aggressive. That's that's the image they want.
They want the Feds to go crack some skulls man,
And forty two percent of those according to this pole,
would say, yeah, it's it's it would be appropriate to
go beyond peaceful protests and response to ice, even if
it means breaking the law. When you look at liberals

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in this poll under the age of thirty, it's sixty
percent who say it's okay. Hmm wow. I mean we
are on the verge of you know, like you know,
I don't know, total anarchy in this country. Now. It's
one thing to respond to a pole and say that right.

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It's like the keyboard warriors out there. They'd be happy
to go up on social media and say anything they
want to, but they would never say it to your face.
So you hear a poll like this that forty two
percent of liberals overall say it's okay, doesn't mean they'd
actually do it. Matter of fact, I would bank on
about ninety nine percent of those who well more than

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happy to tell upholster yeah I'd do it, would never
in their wildest dreams do it. But just the idea
that they think it's okay, it's really bad enough. All right, Now,
let me tell you about Graham Platner, a name I'm
sure you've never heard. I had not. Graham Platiner is

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as a former Marine, a combat vet, who now makes
his living raising oysters in Maine. Okay. He is running
for the Senate seat that is held by Collins In.
Susan Collins, yes, who's been there since they established the

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state of Maine. Well, Platner wants to oust her. He
is an insurgent Democrat. Oh I know, Susan Collins is
a Republican supposedly but still. It's now come out that
this guy Platner once suggested online again keyboard warrior like here,

(19:41):
that violence is a necessary means to achieve social change. Okay.
He made these statements on Reddit back in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Oh okay, all right, not just a keyboard warrior, No,
a Reddit thread.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Warrior, Reddit thread warrior, in which he wrote, if people
expect to fight fascism. This was back during the first
Trump term, of course. Yeah, the whole you know, fascism
thing in Trump have been around. Yeah since that first term.
If people expect to fight fascism without a good semi

(20:18):
semi automatic rifle. They had to do some reading of history.
So yeah, if you expect to fight fascism without a
good semi automatic rifle, you're doing it wrong, apparently, is
what he's saying. Another post, he writes, an armed working

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class is a requirement for economic justice. Now, these posts
stayed up on Reddit for a long time, up until
about three months ago before he decided to launch his
Senate campaign. But you know, that's the problem with putting
things up online. They never really go away.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
They don't even when you suddenly realize that you have
to be friendly and scrub everything down.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
And this is a guy who, now as a Senate candidate,
said he rejected the label of being a liberal, although
he is running on a number of progressive attendants like
universal health care, restricted arm sales to Israel, oh and
the strategsties hired Morris Katz also works with guess who,
So Redmond Domina. That was going to be my first guess. Yeah,

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so here you go. Here's another again running for a
seat in the United States Senate who has gone online
in the past and promoted political violence as being necessary. Day.
We are damn near close to total anarchy in this
country with these sort of view.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Points, keeping you connected. I check in throughout the day
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Speaker 1 (21:56):
I just like being informed, know what's happening, what all.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Three point five and five sixty AM w VOC. This
is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson
on one O three point five FM and five sixty
AM w VOC.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Is seven coming up on seven thirty nine on a
Friday morning, the seventeenth of October, and good morning to you.
Thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate that. So
this was a story that well, as mister Thompson pointed
out early this morning, we mentioned it, the media kind
of ran with the well they thought was the gospel

(22:35):
truth on this is that when the home of Judge
Diane Goudstein burned down on Edistone Island a couple of
weeks ago, that the magacrat was responsible for it.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
And well they didn't say that directly, but they they
pointed out that she had had a she had had
critical ruling, and that she had had threads.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, so that's what they pointed out. I think the
Democrats and the leftist went a step further to say, yeah,
MAGA was responsible. They're the ones who did this, and
how many stories and how many different individuals parroted that
same that same line.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
I have never seen a fire, a local fire make
national news right the way that story did.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Right animated news around here, even if it wasn't the
judge's house, because it was a beautiful forty two hundred
square foot home right there on a peninsula the Atlantic.
I mean, it was gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
And you're talking about a judge and your and her
husband was a legislator, and yeah, so it's a prominent family.
But still to make national news, Yeah, it was a
different story.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Maybe it was good Stein who had ruled that temporarily blocked.
This goes back to the old the voter data case, right,
So this was the innuendo, not even in nuendo, outright
fact according to some that Yeah, some maga extremist went
and it was talking about some sort of an explosion

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of the then the fire engulfed the entire thing, YadA, YadA, YadA. Well, now,
a couple of weeks ago, Mark Heel had a sled said, well,
the evidence doesn't show that he did not think it
was arson. Well, now the Edisto Beach Fire Department has
issued a report saying they're not exactly sure yet what

(24:21):
triggered the fire, but their newly released report only states
that no human act was a contributor. Of course, that
won't satisfy some people, I'm sure, but so that's not
just sled now, but also the fire department there was

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the first ones on the scene saying that this was
not a case of arson, there was no human being involved,
maga or otherwise. Okay, have you noticed, by the way,
these days, how much we're being forced to talk about
again political violence or rumors or hints of it. It's

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become commonplace, almost to the point where it's become wallpaper.
I know, I think it's ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Well yeah, right, I think it's still shocking enough that
we take notice. Like when a Virginia Attorney general candidate,
you know, says something about threatening the life of the
children of a political opponent.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
I mean that shocked you. Which, by the way, they
had their debate, a debate last night up in Virginia
and Jay Jones when when that was brought up, simply
pivoted to Donald Trump Republicans in January sixth, his campaign

(25:57):
obviously thought that through. Okay, let's let's let's not talk
about that. Let's Oh, I've taken account for that, he says. Okay,
also say took account for his How fast was he
going that speeding ticket? It was one hundred and six
one hundred and sixteen miles an hour. It was up there,
it was way up there. He took account for that too,
So go ahead and vote for him. But he's not

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running for dog catcher now. He's running for attorney general,
top comp in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A guy who's
done things like that and said things like that. Wow,
but it's become all too commonplace now tomorrow, No King's
two point zero and I hadn't even thought about this.

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You brought this up yesterday, mister Thompson, that there's a
number of Republicans who feel like we still are at
loggerheads over the government shut down, because well, the Democrats
didn't want to acquiesce and reopen the government before these

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these protests this weekend that have been kind of anti climactic, right,
That's been the feeling for a couple of weeks. Now, Yeah,
so here we go again. Millions were expected across the country,
and well, who's who writes this story? Here? This is

(27:30):
uh what outload is this notice? Dot org? I have
no idea what that is. Anyway, let's just read a
paragraph from this for you. Republican leaders have linked oh,
here we go without evidence, you know, if they never
use that when it's the Democrats saying something without evidence,

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only when it's Republicans. So Republican leaders have linked without
evidence the rallies to terrorism and political violence. But some
of the protesters, organizers, and their supporters say they're more
concerned about the federal response to these gatherings. What dom

(28:15):
I look like to any demonstrator's potential illegal conduct? Chip Gibbons,
policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent, one of the
supporting organizations who probably gets his money from you know,
George Soros. We have a very volatile situation in which

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these federal forces are not wanted in these cities, and
they're behaving very aggressively towards the people. They're being very provocative,
attacking or arresting people who are filming them or protesting them.
You know, we are left to assume when you listen
to people like Chip here that you know, when I

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shows up with the Fed, show up, whoever shows up,
they just go in willy nilly without any provocation, you know,
busting skulls. You know, the the vehicle pulls up, you know,
mask ice agents pop out with batons and billy clubs

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and whatever and start beating on people. That's what the
left wants you to believe. And I really think that
in some of these cases that's exactly they've convinced themselves
that's what's going on. You kind of get the feeling
that they're almost begging for it. They want and dare

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I say, there will be some among amongst these crowds,
not the vast majority, even the majority are close to it,
but just enough that are going to want to instigate
a response from the Feds at these rallies in order
to get what they what they what they want here.
They want video tomorrow night and all next week and

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the weeks after, of federal agents engaging with peaceful protesters.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, that's that's the worst thing that could happen, right.
And on the other hand, for the Democrats, the worst
thing that can happen for them is to instigate violence.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
I would say, yes, but you know that's going to
be all you know, covered over. You know, the focus
will be on the FED response. It's like in the
football game, you know, where it's always the guy that
reacts to the other guys and the one that gets
the flag for the personal foul. That's this is I
promise you. I don't think it'll be widespread, but there
are gonna be instances. There's gonna be some people that

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intentionally are inciting a response from the Feds tomorrow at
these rallies.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
But it's going to be interesting to just listen to
the words that are used, because you know, since the
Charlie Kirk assassination, you've had Republicans saying it's Democrat rhetoric
that has ramped up this hostility to the point where
people feel like they can go and shoot political opponents,
and Democrats have denied that they had anything to do

(31:15):
with it. So let's listen to the words tomorrow too
and see just how violent the rhetoric is.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
And we've seen the polls, and we mentioned one I'm
early today from Signal pulling outfit about what was the
number forty three percent of a Democrats say yeah, if
if basically if ice doesn't you know, tuck their tales
between their their their ladies and runs and then political
boalances is warranted. And for those younger under the age

(31:44):
of thirty sixty percent who say their Democrat say, yeah,
it's it's it's warranted. When's the last time you saw
a poll of Republicans who said it was warranted when
Joe Biden was president or Barack Obama was president, Clinton
was president. You didn't stay paid for the handy guide

(32:06):
Today's online? They didn't, right. I think it came from
the Island packet. They reprinted it Rights to Know before
attending the No King's anti Trump protests this weekend. So
it's it's a it's a it's a handbook on what
your rights are in case you are, in fact were
rasped by the federal government or local law enforcement. The

(32:32):
things you're allowed to do, on a few things you
can't do. But it's kind of a primer, you know.
But but again, know your rights. So yeah, I'm sure
that leftists all over the Midlands and the state are
are probably printing this guide out and will have it
in their back pocket tomorrow. Okay, so you got football,

(32:59):
the fair and this all coinciding tomorrow and where's that
going to be at the State House soon? Yeah? It'll
be downtown. Okay, so it won't be right on Assembly
Street or UG or whatever, but they would be during
close enough. They would be wise to stay off the streets.
They would.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Good morning, Good to have you with us. It's fourteen
after eight, It's Friday, October seventeenth. Hope you're well. We
have been pretty much exclusively talking about local and state
stuff this morning. Let's jump to the national scene, cover
a couple of items, and maybe even the international scene.

(33:53):
What going on John Bolton? Oh, this is witch hunt?
You know, this is Trump going after his his adversaries.
You know this is this is different though. Okay, this
is not Letitia James, It's not James. Comey. This one's
different from all of those. If for no other reason,
then the investigation into John Bolton and classified documents started

(34:20):
during the Biden administration, and a federal grand jury now
has indicted Bolden, as you know, on eighteen counts related
to his allegedly mishandling of classified information. This isn't even
like you know, Trump with the documents of mar A

(34:43):
Lago or Biden with the documents in his garage in Delaware.
Not only did John Bolton possess classified documents that he
should not have, he also shared that with at least
a couple of individuals. Didn't he have an AOL account

(35:03):
that he was using this year these documents? Was it? Al?
I think? So nobody with the oil for this. Okay,
he's going to old school on us. The indictment alleges
that Bolton abused his position as National Security Advisor by
sharing more than a thousand pages of information about his

(35:25):
day to day activities, including information running to the National
Defense which was classified up to the top secret SCI level,
with two unauthorized individuals. Hmmm, do we know who these
two unauthorized individuals are? I assumed there. I don't know.

(35:50):
I assumed they were co authors. But I don't know
because this is this is the defense apparently Abby Lowell, Oh,
Abby Lowell. And he's made his made his ment defending
folks like you know, Hunter Biden, and uh, they weren't
all liberals. He's defended who I'm trying to think of,

(36:13):
who was he defended unconservat But anyway, he says, yeah,
this was this was all This was all known about
and pre approved because he was using these to write
his book. Well wait a minute, you're going to write
a book and share top secret information in that book.
Is that how that works?

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yeah, a guy at Bolton's level knows as well as anyone,
you know what what you can and can't have access to,
what you can and can't keep stored at your home,
et cetera, and what you can and can't disseminate on
on a you know, an email platform like AOL.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
While he was National Security Advisor, he's regularly sent diary
like messages and emails to two individuals. Well, oh oh,
two individuals related to him. Oh okay, so maybe not
the authors of a book. All right, now, there was

(37:12):
this little angle to it forgotten about. A cyber actor
believed to be associated with the with Iran hacked Bolton's
email after he left his position with the NSA, and yeah,
gained access to classified information. So all right, not only
is he sharing classified information, but he's keeping it on

(37:33):
his servers and his stuff that gets hacked. And now
guess who's got that same top secret information. The Mullas
in Iran great Now, a representative of Bolton didn't inform
the government back in July twenty twenty one of the attack,

(37:55):
but failed to mention that classified national defense information was
contained in the account. Was going to admit to that
and forced to, Yeah, this is serious business there. So
you said, why this is? This is different than again
Trump and mar A Lago and Biden in the garage
with his corvette. Was a corvette, wasn't it was a Mustang?

(38:16):
I don't remember. I think it was a corvette. I
thre was corvette. And this is different than you know,
Komy or Letitia or any because this was a this
was an investigation that started when Biden was still president.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Okay, so the problem was you had Combe and Letitia
before that.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
So that's what everybody's just going, yeah, right, exactly on
top of that, John Bolden is guilty of having a
ridiculous mustache. I don't think that's prosecutable, but okay, I
think that's worth a couple extra years.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Okay, Now international uh reports that the US Special Operations
heldicopters and B fifty two's the buffs. Don't ask me
what that I can't say what that acronym stands for.
If you if you hear anything about aviation the military,
you probably know are now near Venezuela. That our military's

(39:19):
elite Special Operations aviation unit appears to have flown in
Caribbean waters less than ninety miles from the coast of
Venezuela in recent days. This according to visual analysis by
the Washington Poost, the shoppers were engaged in training exercises

(39:40):
that could serve their report as preparation for expanded conflict
against drug traffickers. I'm sorry the article has alleged drug traffickers. Okay, Now,
Trump just in the last two days has talked about
well not admitting when when asked about COVID ciop rations.

(40:01):
But of course the media is gonna be run with
that as though that's going on, and quite honestly, probably
it's going on. But he did say that, you know,
they they would there was a potential of land strikes.
We've been taking out these boats. Took out another one yesterday.
The different one this time was tho survivors. Actually, uh,
but so that's what's six. Now. I guess we've we've

(40:23):
we've we've sunk.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
There's certainly been a show of force. There has been
more more so than you'd expect with Venezuela.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Oh I didn't see it coming, right, I mean, this
wasn't This wasn't on my being go card back in January.
But I understand why.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
I mean, you'd think blowing the boats out of the
water that would be enough. You You wouldn't necessarily think, Okay,
we've got to we've got a okay, taken even more
aggressive posture.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Let's fly some planes.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, I mean that's it's ramping up the That's something
you see done with China and the you know, the
disputed c's. You don't see that done so much with
you know.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
He would say, yes, no, you didn't expect that with Venezuela. Now,
actually I take back something I just said. Trump did
say wednesday he had authorizes the IIDA conduct missions. Okay?
Is that and is this about? Well? This could be

(41:27):
twofold right, not just about drug traffickers, but regime changed
as well. You can bet your bottom dollar that Nicholas
Maduro is profiting handsomely off of what's become apparently his
nation's chief export as drugs guy that ruined the economy.

(41:52):
That is the way he's he's he's making his money.
So yeah, they could be too in the same actually,
but again, this this is uh right, this is this
is the song we haven't seen before, not in that
part of the world. So the uh the tensions rancheting
up and the the saber rattling, well that saber just

(42:14):
got bigger and more deadly. All right. Okay, by the way,
quick aside, just to light the mood here a little bit.
Oh yeah, go ahead, yeah, okay, can we do that
for me? Sure? Sure? Show well not really. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,

(42:36):
two people facing charges in an elaborate psychic fraud. Oh
oh yeah. Prosecutors say they swiddled victims out of more
than six hundred thousand dollars through false promises to lift curses. Okay,
what is it? A fool in his money?

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Yeah right, I mean I feel sorry for those people.
At the same time, I'm thinking you deserve at least
the little bit of that.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah. Yeah. They allegedly convinced victims they were cursed and
need these expensive rituals to remove these spiritual affliction.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Oh wow, yes, so it's not just people coming to
them and saying I'm cursed. Can you help? It was
people that they actually went out and said, hey, you're cursed,
let me help.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Well, they probably showed up for a reading, you know,
and we're told, oh, oh yeah, look at the dark
cloud in this crystal ball. Oh my goodness. Yeah. One
vic was allegedly told that failure to pay would destroy
her marriage, her business, and her family, and over eleven months,

(43:42):
the pair collected nearly Wow, this was from one person. Oh, Mike,
five hundred and ninety six thousand dollars in cash, jewelry, clothing,
concert tickets, and gift cards.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Your money's not doing enough to keep this curse down. However,
I'd really like to see Taylor site next week.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Score me the Taylor Swift tickets and that curse will
go away, just like that. When bringing a.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
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I don't know that.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Ask it to play one.

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Speaker 1 (44:31):
Hey thirty seven okay, playing time for our final thoughts here.
It's good things. We got a bunch of them this morning.
The quarterback Jeff Grants joining us in less than fifteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Cross your fingers. He went on vacation last week while
you were out and forgot he did not he did
after all these years. We'll reel him.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
In for today. We'll make sure he's here. Oh, we
guess here. Be sure to ask him about his thoughts
about what's going to come up with the LSU game
before you get to the Oklahoma game.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
We caught him sat, we just didn't catch him Friday
last week. The best laid plans and all of them
all right. Christa Williams. You may not have heard of
that name, even if you live in the city of Columbia.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
I haven't. I hadn't. She's a candidate for City council Columbia.
Maybe this is a way for her making name for
herself and get at the news. She's fought a lawsuit
against the Casey Police Department what she refers to as
a racial profiling incident during a routine traffic stop.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Well, for starters, before we even judge whether her accusations
are proper or not. That's an organization in casey that
could use a little more positive publicity.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Well then there's that, Yes, yeah, I need that the truth. Huh.
So she was pulled over, she had a brake light
out and said she was then charged with speeding. She says, yeah,
her break light was out, but she wasn't speeding, which
is what we all say when you get pulled off, officer,
I wasn't going. Usually they have some type of proof

(46:03):
that you were. I locked eyes with let's see j Noncrvis.
I guess it was the officer. I locked eyes with
j Non Carves in passing, saw that I was an
African American woman, pulled behind me, saw I had a
defective tail light, stop me, and I stated that I
was speeding when I passed him. Did she lock eyes

(46:30):
with the radar or whatever he used to judge that
she was speeding? Yeah, I don't know, but it appears
again from her accounts that once the blue lights hit
she knew exactly what she was going to say. So
it appears this is from her account of things. Right now,

(46:50):
there is police bodycam footage. Okay, the officer's seen approaching
a car when he tells her why I pulled you over?
He says, going forty to a twenty five mile an
hour zone and having a break light out. She immediately
denied speeding and immediately accused him of racially profiling her. Okay,
so this was all right. Well, she also tells the

(47:17):
officer she's going straight to the city hall. You can
make a fuss about this because you just profiled me
as a black woman, the officer said, deny being able
to see her from that far back in the video
to know that she was a black woman driving the vehicle. Right, Okay,

(47:41):
Well again, if you've got to try to get your
name out there, this is one way to do it.
And you're running for office, I suppose.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Well, but at the expense of this officer who may
have just been doing his or her job.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Well, she's running for political office. All's fair and love
war and politics, So come.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
On, man, maybe I mean you would think that somebody
out there is going to for you that that footage,
that footage, and we'll all be able to see the
body cam and yeah, same what the officer saw, right.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
S The state's installing new security measures the first home
football game this weekend since the homecoming shootings.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
They're going to put a fence around the stadium. Is
that what I'm understanding.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Well, they said they've identified vulnerable places along the perimeter
that have been damaged by intruders, and they also need
additional barriers to better prevent unauthorized access. I got to
tell you it's yeah. Remember years ago they started a
lot of schools built new football stadiums, and it seemed
like the only reason why it was so they could

(48:42):
set it up to keep the two opposing sides apart.
The fan base, not the teams, right right, home team,
you went on this side. Fans businors, you're over here,
and wow, it's just again, it ain't the world we
grew up in, right, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
I mean, we still don't know anything about who it
was or why it happened, do we.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Not? Really? But they have made seven weapons related to
arrests on just one day back on October fourth, but
none were linked to the shoot. None link to the shooting. Yeah,
eleven guns discovered, but apparently none will linked to the shooting. Well,
there's a problem right there.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
When you've got that many guns on campus, that shouldn't
be right, It's a shame man.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
Clemson University's telling freshmen coming in the incoming class next year.
Leave your car at home. I guess they're out of
parking spots. Huh. Maybe Carolina has you do the same thing.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
They ran out of parking spots years ago, right back
when we were in school there. It doesn't stop kits
from bringing cars to town.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Uh uh. So heads up, don't do not do not
take your car, even if you go to the bridge
program at Tri County. Don't take your car. Okay, Trump
saying he'll meet with Vladimir Putin in Hungary in about
two weeks, this following US sit down today with Vladimir's Lensky. Now, well,

(50:15):
Trump is trying to you know, come to a peaceful
resolution here. There's also talk about US you know, selling
long rage Tamahawk missiles to help with you create an
effort which could be a game changer. The last meetings
between Trump and and Putin, well, you know they looked

(50:39):
all cozy and such. Well maybe that's a wrong word,
but at least like, you know, things were getting discussed.
But that's Vladimir Putin. He'll say whatever you want he
thinks you want to hear, and then you know, go
on some more drones against innocence civilians. Don't know how
that was going to go. A couple debates drawing attention
last night New York City. There he is the communist,

(51:03):
I'm sorry, Democrats socialist Zoe ran Mom Donnie up against
Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa At one point, I think
I didn't Mandami kind of flip flopped on this. We
mentioned this yesterday. He was asked in an interview about

(51:24):
disarming hamas and he kind of he wouldn't, wouldn't really
comment on that. Last night he did, though, saying he believes,
of course they should lay down their arms. He didn't
say that the other day. He dodged it again. You

(51:45):
would think this would be kind of a big deal
in the city like New York with its Jewish population,
But if you just look at the polls, I mean,
this is Mandami's race. He's gonna win it going away.
If the poles are accurate, We're gonna find out here
before long. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
I thought Cuomo made a couple of good points last night.
Number one, he said, you know, this is the mayor
of New York City. Is not a training ground, right
for somebody who's just getting into the political game.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Yeah, how would Zoe Ranmandami deal with a nine to
eleven type event? Is that the guy you want calling
the shots? I mean it's New York City. Anything can
happen there. Commonwealth of Virginia the Attorney General's race, which again,

(52:33):
any of the day in time, nobody outside of the
Commonwealth of Virginia would be paying any attention to. Right,
it's a it's an ag race. But of course this
is the one that features Jay Jones, who talked about,
you know, putting a couple of bullets in the head
of the Republican House speaker about but I mean doing
harm to his children, well, seeing harm done to the children,

(52:54):
because only then, only when they feel pain, he said,
only when they feel pain can change be made. Yeah. Well,
and then his speeding ticket popped up. I'm sorry, what
was the What was that speed was? I think it
was one hundred and six miles an hour? Anyway, j Jones,

(53:16):
bottom line is I've taken I've accepted accountability for all
that that speeding ticket. By the way, it was one
hundred and sixteen miles an hour? Yeah, what what was
on the interstate so you know, yeah, one hundred and
sixteen miles an hour. That's still moving. Yeah, I don't

(53:37):
care if you're on the interstate or not. Uh huh yeah, yeah,
I mean he's did he get arrested? Oh he did?

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Okay, I was going to say that that would get
you arrested In most places it's not just a ticket, but.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Typically most people who get arrested get well, maybe some
jail time or at least a suspended jail sentence. He
got community service, which the current age there who's running
against him, says, yeah, his thousand hours community service requirement.
Well he spent a good chunk of that doing service

(54:09):
for the pack he controlled. That's that's cozy, right campaigning? Yeah? Yeah,
well why not? Joy behar boy, I hate to even
bring up that name here yesterday on the View, falsely
assuming that uh Jay Jones was a Republican and not
a Democrat. Well she's up on the news, right, oh boy,

(54:31):
But no Republicans denounced him. She said she's got that
story all wrong, says she was slamming him, slamming Republicans
for not denouncing their Republican ag can who turned out
to be a Democrat. Who, Yeah, Republicans are slamming And.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Then somebody's in her ears saying he's Democrats joint. His
whole slogan or his whole strategy last night was Trump.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's that's that's when asked about
you know, the I'm sorry but you like Trump. I'm sorry, yeah,
I'm sorry, but like Trump and JA six and stuff. Yeah, right, exactly.
Jackie Norris chairs the Des Moines school Board des Moines, Iowa.
The school board that didn't do their due diligence where
they hired it not only a guy who didn't have
a PhD like he claimed he did, but it wasn't

(55:14):
even in the country legally. Yeah. Well, Unfortunately for Jackie,
she was also running for a state senate well, because
of the blowback and fall out from that faulty hire,
she's now had to quit her senate race. Who's going
to vote for her? Huh? We mentioned as freely passing? Wow?

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Yeah, into an era and they get honored by the
Kennedy Center coming up.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
That's why they do, don't they? Yeah? Yeah, fell in
the studio, didn't think much of it, did get some
medical treatment. It turned out to be a brain bleed
and took his life at seventy four. Space Ace, freely
League guitar, rock and roll. Wow, and he's got a
hot hand, at least in Vegas. Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker,

(55:58):
he and his wife last year of their tax forms,
made one point four million dollars gambling. Yeah, okay, that
takes a while. That's a lot of gambling to win
that count. Wow. Maybe not