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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Formation 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 Good morning to tell.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You it's sixteen minutes after six o'clock and it is Friday.
The best word you'll hear all day. It is Friday.
Welcome to it. November the fourteenth, less than two weeks
away now from Thanksgiving Day? Are you at all? Are
you at all in the mindset the proper mindset right
now for the upcoming Christmas season. I got a little
(00:50):
work to do. I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, oh god, just not even close right. I don't
want to think about it yet. I want I want
to think about well, from one holiday at a time.
We always skip over, you know, it's well, I'm thinking
about that well. I say the Christmas, I always include Thanksgiving.
For me, it's like a whole month long er, Okay,
whatever the timeframe is. You know, I'm just trying to
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get there, man, I'm trying to get that peaceful, easy
feeling as the Eagles would have said, you know, I mean, I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Working on it working on it. Well, good morning to you.
I'm Gary David. That voice you just heard in your
head or coming out of your speaker, was that Christopher Thompson.
Good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Beautiful weekend coming up. Look at those high tempts this weekend,
mid seventies, upper seventies. It's beautiful, lots of sunshine, gorgeous,
the grand reopening of Finley Park getting out of way,
the big media day yesterday, and it's nice. I hope
it stays that way, So I hope. So I did
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not realize there were pickleball courts out there now? Is
there a r where you can go without pickleball?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We used to play tennis our family, and well my
family played. I've just batted the ball around. But it's
hard to find tennis courts around it anywhere because you
know that they're being converted to pickleball courts. I'm too
old for tennis anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So well, that just shows that, I mean again, they
foresee this being an event space, not just not just
a park for you know, strolling around and maybe a
concert once in a while. They want they want something
to be happening there all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, and I hope it's very successful. I really do.
It's twenty five million dollars. It bitter be right, all right.
So that's happening this weekend now with the government reopening
what's the deal on, you know, benefits and such an
air travel and all. Well, a full November snap benefits
here in our state to be issued today. That news
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coming from a state yesterday. Now again less than two
weeks from Thanksgiving. Airport sorts again we're still at that
six percent six percent freeze. The FAA concerned about safety.
When will that be dropped, Well, we don't know. But again,
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up to six percent of flights at airports, including a
lot of them that people in our state fly to Charlotte, Atlanta,
New York, d C. You name it. It's still gonna
be gonna be tough as you try to make your
way out. That executionist scheduled for six o'clock this evening,
This of Stephen Bryant, sentenced to death for a series
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of murders more than two decades ago. Of course, the
individuals will be taking place across the state. This is
a guy convicted of killing three men in Sumter County
over five days back in two thousand and four, and
on one of them, after shooting the victim, he burned
his eyes with a cigarette and then wrote messages on
the walls and the victim's blood.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Police.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes, so firing squad has a chosen method. The State
paper decided to go and ask all the gubernatorial candidates
on both sides of the of the Isle how they
would go about considering clemency decisions. This is the only
thing that could save Stephen Bryant right now is the
governor step again. And Governor mc master has yet to
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do that and is not expected to do it this time.
Interesting that all of them, even the Democrat candidates, well,
why they may study a particular case. They weren't you know,
they weren't against the death penalty. The one exception, interestingly enough,
was Josh Holly. I'm not Josh Holly, Josh Kimbrel. There
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was always the other guy, Josh Kimbrel, who said he
had a bit of a different view that desility the
most Republicans. But the only thing we've heard from Josh
kimberl here recently, and unless it was about litigation, well,
interesting enough. The State House the new session is don't
look now, but less than what two months away. So
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will abortion be a hot topic? You better believe it
will a number of bills and efforts to try to
restrict the most common abortion method in our state, which
right now, by the way, is using medication. We'll run
down some of the efforts that will be taking place
and things you'll be hearing about all session long. Yes,
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we talked about this the other day. I was pretty
sure this had happened. But yeah, Nancy Mace did get
a call from the White House over her support of
this Epstein file release. Now a website called notice dot
Notice in otus dot org with this headline. Trump officials
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say Nancy Mays's support for Epstein petition could cost her
in South Carolina. Well, we thought that would probably be
the case anyway. Yeah, I imagine Lauren Bobert and Marjorie
Taylor Green. I mean, I imagine everyone's going to be punished.
I mean that's what Trump does. He banishes people from
his orbit for a while, and then they eventually usually
get back in his good graces. I gotta feel this
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one might be different though, Just thinking. Meanwhile, her seats
up for grabs in the first district down in the
Low country. It's going to be an interesting race. Latest
entrant Tyler Diykes, a guy who was well arrested and
convicted of heading into the Capitol building back on Jay six.
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He has since been pardoned. He's running for the Nancy
may seat. Lindsey Graham's going to sue the DOJ for
more than a half a million dollars over what over
the phone records that well, under the Biden administration they
seized and snooped, they did a lot of Republicans, And
there was a hidden clause in this government shutdown bill
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that we could give the eight senators who were subjected
to this at least a million dollars each.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And I think Mike Johnson's already vowing to take that
out out.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, so far, Lindsey is the only one who says
he will sue. None of the other eight will. So
the House will vote as we expected on releasing the
Epstein files. And back to your question about you know
the couple of Republicans right now on the wrong side
of Trump on this. Uh, there's a chance here, Well,
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there'd be at least one hundred or more Republicans that
are expected to support the release of those files. We'll
have the latest on that. Charlotte. The Border Patrol is
heading there. We mentioned the other day the sheriff of
Mecklenburg County had requested it. The governor, Josh Stein, a Democrat,
was dead set against it. But it looks like yeah.
Ice is heading to the Queen City. Keeping an eye
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on that John Fennerman, hospitalized after a fall. It looks
like he'll be okay, but it was determined that he
had he's got a heart issue that well, quite often
as turns out to be deadly. Seattle has done at
the final votes are in and he tabulated, and yes,
Seattle goes the way. In New York City, well, no
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big surprise here. They have elected a zo oran mom
Dommy style candidate, a Democrat socialist Katie Wilson, who beat
the incumbent, who was a pretty liberal himself. It was
closed less than two thousand votes. But before you know,
the Democrat, Socialist or Communist of America get too excited.
It is Seattle, after all.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I was gonna say, how can you tell the difference
right exactly?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And the DNC taking heat from DNC workers after well,
the DNC chair said, hey, get back to the office,
no more work at home, and apparently there was universal
meltdown amongst DNC staffer ranks over this. Are you surprised?
Probably not, friends. We got that. We got the quarterback.
Jeff Grantz later on this morning, coming in breaking down
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the upcoming matchup between the game Cocks and Texas A
and M. That and more coming up on this the
Friday morning edition Colombia's Morning News. It's good to have
you here.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Carolina tangles with third ranked Texas A and M on
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Speaker 1 (09:27):
Six forty Friday morning, November fourteenth. Good to have you
with us. Big stories today, Well, trying to think things
back to normal here where the government reopened. But how
long is it going to take snap benefits back pay
airline travel? We're talking about that. This morning, the House
will vote on the full release of the Epstein files.
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We got the latest on that to discuss as well.
We mentioned in the Rundown that Seattle has gone the
way of New York City and electing a socialist Democrat
as mayor. Interesting individual. It's Katie We'lllson, who won the
vote by about two thousand votes, beating out the in
the incumbent, uh mayor of Seattle, who you know, Bruce
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Harrald was, was no centrist democrat himself. I mean, come on,
you're never going to get anybody less than a flaming
liberal to to to run Seattle. Let's let's be honest here,
so you know, before the you know, the socialist wing
of of of America gets all excited. It is Seattle
after all. But interesting, uh this woman is she really
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has no history in politics. She well, well, she did
operate a small nonprofit, the Transit Writers Union, okay, advocating
for well typical socialist stuff. You know, minimum wage increases,
better access which should be read free access probably to
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a public transportational hordable housing. You know all that. I mean,
somebody's got to pay for this. Who does that? Well,
we know who does that under their plans. At least
she was a barista, worked in a boatyard, managed apartments,
we're construction, I mean all sorts of weird things actually,
and considering this is a woman who during her campaign
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apparently took money from her parents to help with daycare,
and her parents paid for her to go to Oxford
back in the day, where she studied physics and philosophy.
Now there's a combination.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Physics and philosophy. Physics and philosophy. Yeah, that is strange.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, but yeah, attended Oxford University. Her parents paid the
whole bill. She left there debt free, but without a degree.
She dropped out six weeks before graduation. What wait a minute,
you're at Oxford, mom and dad are footing the bill
and you drop out six weeks before graduation. Okay, Well,
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now she's socialist or is she communist?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Back in September, she actually made a declaration that if mayor,
she would not allow private grocery stores to close, that
they shouldn't be allowed, they should not be allowed to
only sell food to those who can afford it, and yes,
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expressed her support like Mondami has done for a public option,
meaning that there would be government run grocery stores. Hmm, yeah,
sounds just like Zoe ran Mondami. But think about that.
Here's a politician saying that they would not allow private
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businesses to close their doors. Uh, that's that's you call
it socialism if you want to, I call it communism.
So you're supposed to keep the doors open, lose money,
We're going to force you to keep to keep your
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business operating. Really bizarre. This is the I gotta tell you.
I'm I'm not gonna say I'm excited, but I'm very
curious to see how the experiments play out in New
York City in Seattle. Here, Minneapolis got close to it,
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but their socialist democrat was rebuffed by again another liberal mayor.
But still Seattle. Well, this is kind of what Seattleites are,
you know, they're used to They're used to it. Yea,
So we may not get a lot of controversy out
of Seattle over this. A liberal barista, Wow, imagine that.
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I'm guessing if she was still a barista, she would
be going on strike.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Here.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What's the red cup day coming up? And the baristas
are going to strike? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Okay, And she was lumberjack in her spare time. I
mean she fits in. I'm guessing she'll be sworn in
in flannel.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Probably in construction boots. I guess. I don't know. But yeah,
Seattle is used to this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
New York City, though, well let's let's what's what's what's
the let's see what the blowback is there, because yeah,
there's certainly a contingent of that city that's uh, it's
all about this, but there's also a contingent that's not
that will be interesting to see. All right up the
road in Charlotte, and there's been been talked about now
for a number of days, and now it is in
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fact going to happen that ice is heading into the
Queen Ceti. Both Border Patrol and Immigrations and Custom Enforcement
have stated they they're not going to discuss their planned operations,
but they're going to be there now. The sheriff in
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Mecklenburg County confirming this, Gary McFadden. Remember, North Carolina has
a Democrat governor who is dead set against it, Alma Adams,
Member of Congress, Democrat who represents Charlotte, extremely concerned about
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the deployment. Yeah, how many how many times are we
going to see where the Feds move in to one
of these big, big blue and Charlotte's a big blue
city and just achieve amazing things We see crime rates plummet,
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we see thugs off the street. Yet again the focus
from the left and from the media as allway, well,
they just in front of a baby, just drug somebody
out and put them in a squad car. Yeah, they're
disappearing people left and right. You know, I got to
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tell you the truth. I get it from from the
very liberal standpoint. That's you know, this is part of
the game, right, this is what you want people to believe.
But I can't forgive the media for going along with
it and doing the same thing. Well, people do disappear
when they go behind bars, but they and they disappear
when they're in this country illegally. They get sent back
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to where they should be exactly. So in that sense,
you know, disappearing people. It'd be one thing to have
a citizen be wiped off the face of the map
and we never see them again. But if they're being
punished for crimes, okay, yeah, right, what happens. Typical Democrat
talking point here, Adam saying that Charlott's immigrant community is
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a proud part of the Queen's City. I'll not stand
by and watch my constituents be intimidated or harassed.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
The immigrant community is the proud part of the fabric
of our country. But are they here legally or not?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Right? Are they committing crimes or not? That's the question,
and that was the stated goal originally. We're going after
those who were here illegally and committing crimes in this country,
or have committed crimes prior to coming here. We're going
after the bad guys. Now, you know, are you going
to pick up some collateral damage along the way? Has happened,
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but that's always been the focus, whereas the Democrats and
the media would like you to think that, you know,
the Fed's going in there and just willy nilly if somebody,
if somebody's skin color is the wrong color, then just
nabbing them, picking them up. Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Well, by the way, we had a listener way in
on our talk back from your earlier discussion about this
new person running Seattle and the Oxford Studies.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
What was it both philosophy and physics, the philosophy of physics.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Should the laws of physics really apply to someone like me?
That's Brett with a philosophical question on this Friday morning.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Wow, you blew my mind with that one. Brett, I
don't know that I can recover. I'm gonna have to
go in some deep ponderous thoughts here in a few minutes,
see if I can figure that one out. Thank you, Brett.
I guess somebody you want to share always is right
there on the absolutely free iHeartRadio app. Just hit the
talkback button, let us know what's on your mind.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You're listening to Columbia's morning news on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us. It
is fifteen minutes after seven Friday morning, November the fourteenth.
I am the aforementioned Gary David. He is the aforementioned
Christopher Thompson. Have you changed your travel plans for Thanksgiving yet? Now?
We're we still got almost two weeks before Thanksgiving Day,
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but a lot of travel is going to happen prior
to that. So you know, we're certainly less than two
weeks away from you know, the peak travel times for
the holiday, and.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
You're booking now even well, you've probably already booked.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, you're really good nose.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, So I mean you're you've already made those plans
even if things change between now and then.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, So now the government's reopened, well it's it's still
a crapshoot. It's going to take a while to get
things ramped back up. And we are still don't forget,
we're still at six percent flight reductions. Now, had they
shut down not come to an end, we'd have been
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at ten percent today and that would have been a
total disaster. This shutdown is resulting the cancelation of some
eight thousand flights across the country. It's been it's been ridiculous.
Now they're not going up the restrictions. They're going to stay,
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as the FAA told us after Wednesday night, I guess
after that the House passed the buildery over the government.
They said then that because of safety reasons, they're going
to keep it at six percent at least for now.
And how long now is I don't know. But Shaun Duffy,
Transportation Secretary, said that some of these air traffic controllers
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we're working ten hour days, six days straight. Let's just
stop and consider that for a second. All right, If
you go to work at an office and you stare
at a computer screen all day, and you put in
your eight and you work five days, go home and
enjoy the weekend, refresh, recharge, or do chores whatever. Yeah,
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that'll wear you out. What do you mean it'll wear
you out? You're not out there digging ditches. Yeah, but
it wears you out. Imagine an air traffic controller now
working a ten hour day and doing that six straight days.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And it's similar staring at a computer screen. But the
only difference is there are lives on the line.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, those little blips you see or every blip's probably
a couple of hundred lives. Yeah, that's stress. So you know,
I think we should count ourselves very fortunate that during
this period we have not had a major air disaster
because of overworked, overstressed air traffic controllers working without pay.
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I think we're very fortunate that didn't happen. So that's
still existing in these control towers. So as we're all
the FAA is it's just not safe yet, we're going
to keep it at six percent. Columbia Metro has got
about three or four departing flights today that have been canceled,
So again check ahead. Now, as far as backpay is concerned,
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workers will be getting that. That's that's that's that's rolling
out SNAP benefits here in South Carolina. DSS announced yesterday
they'll be issuing full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits SNAP
benefits for November. New SNAP households that were approved for
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benefits between October sixteenth and the November thirteenth, and SNAP
households that have a monthly issu Wednesdays between the first
and fourteenth of each month, those will be heading out.
Those groups will be getting those This is this could
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have been a lot worse than it was. And again,
we've got more than a quarter of a million households
in this state that that rely on these SNAP benefits.
That's a that's a staggering number. If you just went, well,
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you know, ease household size would say four that's a
million people. What's our what's our population of this state?
Five something million?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I think.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So, I mean, this is this is like, you know,
twenty percent or so of our state's population apparently is
receiving these SNAP benefits.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Five point two by point two.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And I'm just using the you know, say four persons
in a household, so have more, some have less, but yeah,
it was probably about a million people all told. So
those benefits are rolling back out as well. Okay, now
coming up, don't look now, but the next legislative session
is right around the proverbial corner here and again, once again,
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I expect abortion to be a hot topic, but maybe
not the arguments, well, at least the methods we've been
arguing in past sessions. Now, here's what's going to be
debated to the state House. Here are some of the
bills that have been pre filed that are planned to
come up. Number one, as we mentioned, there is a
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bill to ban all abortions in our state, to make
it a felony to end a pregnancy. I don't see
that that makes much headway. I could be wrong, but
I kind of doubt it. Now, at the federal level,
both Lindsay Graham and Tim Scott have asked the FDA
to suspend approvals of generic abortion pills and to also
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suspend a rule that allows clinicians to dispense medication virtually
when it comes to this, This is the stat I
was not aware of. Last year. In twenty twenty four,
we had three twenty five total abortions in our state.
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Eighty four percent of those were abortions administered with medication,
not through an additional what you think an abortion is
of the process, but through you know, through a pill.
So this would drastically change that. And we've also had
attorney generals excuse me, attorneys general across the country, including
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Allen Wilson here in South Carolina that I ask Congress
to keep states from letting doctors ship medication abortion. You know,
these pills across state lines. That there would be consequences
that should be evolved. So again, abortion is going to
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be front and center in this next legislative session.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
It's going to continue to be front and center as
long as we have this break between the South Carolina Caucus,
the GOP, and the Freedom Causus.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, if the Republicans were all on the same page,
whichever page that is, you pick your page you like, Okay,
if they're all on the same page, Yeah, you're right.
This this really wouldn't be a topic that pops up
every year, but for the foreseeable future it will, and
that foreseeable future may be a long time. Aside from this,
I don't know tof you know, energy is going to
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be a big, big issue. I don't know what going
in what hell, I don't have a real good feel
for it this time aside from those two topics, but
you know, brace yourselves for something. Something will pop up.
Aside from those two things we just mentioned, something will
pop up and suddenly it will suck all the oxygen
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out of the room.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well, David Pasco is pushing judicial reform, so that's well, yeah,
that's something. Yeah, sure, sure, and that that needs to
be something. And please don't even don't even bother to
tell me ethics is going to be debated.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
It ain't happening. You've been waiting for that. Yeah, don't
hold your breath. What do we now? Seven weeks away
or so, let's start on the next session. Yeah, it's
not far. Yeah, be here for you know it.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
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Speaker 1 (27:57):
It's seven thirty nine, Friday, November fourteenth, and we appreciate
you joining us this morning. Now backing up here in
several weeks, one of the big stories well, one that
has been basically ignored by the media operation Arctic Frost,
and we learned the details about how far the DOJ
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and or Joe Biden went to snoop on Republicans, very
influential Republicans, and some even have looked at this as
it was basically the entire Republican party. This was the
you know Jack Smith and his investigation into Trump and
the election of twenty twenty. Now, a number of US
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Senators had their phones and messages snooped on as well
by Jack Smith and tucked into this bill that reopened
the government. Because you know, there's different there's no such
thing as a clean bill anymore, right, there's always something
in there. Well, tucked into this bill to get the
government reopened. The sentence version of it was to give
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these senators who were snooped on the opportunity to actually
sue the Department of Justice boards of potentially what a
million dollars. Well, eight senators were snooped on by Jack Smith,
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and right now it looks like none of them want
to take advantage of this, well none but one, that's
Lindsey Graham. I said it's five hundred thousand, five hundred
thousand dollars of the eight right now, this could change.
But but Lindsey Graham is the only one who says, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Okay, Well, I don't blame him in a sense, but
it's not a great look for a group that's getting
paid while the rest were not. And I'm talking federal employees.
Even though a lot of the senators and representatives of
Congressman said they would forego pay. Still, it's it's just
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it's not a good look. I would be curious to
I mean, does do they know yet what happened to
all this information that Jack Smith collected? Don't know that
they do? I mean that would maybe more to the story. Yeah,
that would be something that would concern me. Not the
just that I had my phone records look dead, but
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what else did they discover?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah? Well, Josh Holly over over Missouri, doesn't think this
is a good idea that there there there needs to
be accountability for the d o j's behavior under Joe
Biden for the abuse of separation of powers. But he
says that the right way to do this is the
public hearings, through oversight, not through through through through lawsuits.
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But Aam says he will sue for over five hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I I don't think it was the right move to
tuck this into that bill either, right, Right, all we
were focused on was the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No such thing as a clean bill, right, Okay. Now,
all of the Republicans who are running for governor this
date would like nothing better than he got a phone
call from Donald Trump. Nancy Mace just got a phone
call from Donald Trump. Reporting is and we thought she
(31:31):
probably had, And now there's at least one report out
that says she did, but not the phone call you
on from Donald Trump. Now, remember, Mace is one of
a handful of Republicans who have supported this discharged position
that now is going to well force and Mike Johnson
said they'll be of a vote on the floor, a
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full floor vote next week on whether or not to
release all of the Epstein files. Mace, and give her
a credit where credit? I mean from the outset she
was in favor of this and she's not changed her
mind on it. But yeah, word is that she did
get a call from Trump himself lobbying her to support
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or not to support that petition. Of course, she has
uh notice dot org reporting that while She's not the
only Republican who defied Trump, she is the only one
currently seeking higher office, and that the White House has
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taken note of that, sources telling the website helping Democrats
deflect from a Republican success is not a good GOP
primary election strategy. Another White House source telling the outlet
that they couldn't imagine a dumber strategy to get Trump's
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endorsement than doing what she did this week. That's that's
pretty plain. I mean, it didn't take a rocket scientist
to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, I don't, I don't. I don't think she was
in the running to get the endorsement anyway. But Nancy
Mace was the first on board in this state for
Donald Trump, and she knows him as well as anybody,
and she knows that his emotions, his thoughts, his who
he embraces changes like the wind based on what you
did today. So she could probably do, you know, two
(33:36):
good things in Trump's eye and get right back in
his good graces.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
She knows that everybody knows that. Well, yeah, that's that's
the way Trump rolls. But depending on the outcome of
all this, and no matter what the Democrats and the
media want, to tell you they don't have any they
got no smoking gun when it comes to Trump. But
depending on you know, the damage this could potentially do,
(34:01):
this one might be a little different. This one is
very personal. Obviously, I don't know there's been I think, well,
didn't Lindsey Graham several months ago tell Trump to stay
on the sidelines and unless you get to a runoff
or something, I don't even get involved, which which maybe
(34:22):
maybe the way it comes down again we've got this
is this is not to say we haven't had, you know,
fields this size before in a Republican primary for governor.
But when you look at well, the individuals that are running,
with maybe the exception of one, I mean, these are
all candidates who you know, stand up a real good
(34:44):
chance of winning this primary and being our next governor.
So the depth of the field, the quality of the
depth of the field is I think more than we've
seen in you know, a long time. And uh yeah,
a Trump endorsement would would would be huge. They all
know that. Nancy Mays knows that, and I get yeah,
(35:07):
I guess you're right. I guess she's counting on the
idea that you know, Trump will will forget this, I don't.
I'm not sure he'll forget this one. Well, I don't think.
I don't think he'll get involved. But so you're saying,
you think this is going to be damaging, that the
Epstein files are damaging to Trump.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Just no, I don't think it'll ever be proven that
they're damaging to Trump. But you know, the the innuendo
was out there right as it always has been. To
tell you the truth. Now, if if it was a
difference in you know, opinion on a particular policy between
you know, ah, a potential you know, Republican candidate here
(35:47):
and with Trump that that, but this is a this
is a difference in something very very personal to Trump.
I think I think that's what makes it different this time.
We'll see. Yeah, I don't know, we don't really know
how that phone call. Uh well, one White House source
did say this that Masin trumpe what they referred to
(36:07):
as a love letter detailing why she so adamantly supported
the measure. Okay, Now, her saving grace might be that
there are those on Capitol Hill that think there's going
to be a lot of Republican defections here on this,
(36:29):
that there could be one hundred or more Republicans who
vote next week to release these files. Now again, the
House wilding to release the files, that's just the starting point.
The Senate would have to agree, and at the end
of the day, Trump would have to sign off on it.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I mean, you don't want to look like you're covering
something up. And right, I mean, it's like you said yesterday,
Biden's had this for years, or the administration had it
for years, four years they had it. If there were anything,
if there were bombshells in this, we would have known
by now, they would have been used in the last election.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Absolutely they'd have been Well, I would say, be the
youn only have October surprise. You have to have like
September surprises, do early voting. But yeah, absolutely that would
have dropped like a like a neutron bomb man. But
it didn't. What does that tell you now, speaking of
covering things up, the Democrats selectively leaking a couple of
(37:32):
those emails a couple of days back. What were they
covering up? We'll get into that coming up here a
little bit later on.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
three point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson at age sixteen.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Good morning, Good to have you along for a big weekend.
The reopening of Finley Park is Tomorrowmorrow, and the weather
couldn't be more cooperative. Huh what seventy five tomorrow, seventy
eight Sunday. So the big two day event starts up
with the official reopening by the mayor and other city
(38:18):
leaders at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. They got the music
all weekend long, and yesterday was a big, big media
day over there. They invited folks out to see what
things look like, and by all accounts, it is really fabulous.
They've even like changed the topography of the place a
little bit. Got a walking track, you got you know,
(38:42):
stuff for kids.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
You have a pickleball court, something for everyone.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Yeah. So yeah, twenty this is go go buy. I
see which twenty five million dollars got you there. Don't
forget there's that that that that clear bag policy. I mean,
unless it's really really small, a little clutch bag or
one of those who put around your body bag or such,
it's got it's got to be clear.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
They say, it's going to be more about education, at
least early on, rather than you know, confiscation. They're not
going to throw you out of the park. What they
are going to do is tell you what you can
and can't have. So and and they've already apparently relaxed
enough to allow these soft sided coolers, So maybe it's
not quite as strict as we originally thought.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, and that'll that'll change over times. Yeah, yeah, but
you know, hey, we wanted to succeed.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
It was beautiful once. It's beautiful again. And they've got
plans in place to keep it that way with the
added security that will be there around the clock to
make sure that happens.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
And let's hope it's a safe weekend, so they get
off to a good start.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Let's yeah, let's hope. So how how you know, gosh,
how far you got to go back to win? That was?
You know, the Crown Jewel in Columbia. It's been a long,
long long time.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
We had a rehears there. You know, there's a little
building at the top of the I and I don't
know what they've done with it. I assume they kept it. Yeah,
there's a little building at the top of the fountain
that we held our rehearsal dinner in way back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I wouldn't I wouldn't invite it.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Sorry. Okay, we weren't as tight back then. No, that
was you were you were at the wedding was yes, absolutely,
I mean we were close. We just weren't as close
as we are now. We weren't blood brothers back then,
and it was pretty much family only. Okay, but I
(40:34):
consider you family now. Okay, I wasn't. But I am
now back pedaling big time. All right, I'm going to
stop you right there. I'm gonna make your day. I'm
going to interrupt your flow here for a second. I'm
going to make your day because this headline just came
across my feed, and it is going to be something
that is going to thrill you to no end. There
(40:55):
is a place very important to your past, Shaky's. They
are debuting a new prototype restaurant to revive the brand
and attract a new generation of customers with eighties inspired
atmosphere the whole nine yards Shaky is coming back.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Pizza.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Oh wow, see wow.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Yeah, okay for those of you if you don't know, yeah,
Gary was that that was a big part of Gary's formative.
My first ever job was a busboy in Shaky's Pizza.
I was thirteen years old. Didn't you also play the
drums there later? Or am I that story? Well kind of?
You know, we had some staff parties. I played the drums, okay,
(41:40):
but not for the general public. Oh it was just
a banjo and the piano for that. Well, there's I
don't play one of those. There's still hope, there is. Well,
that's what you knew about retirement. You just go back
and work at Shaky.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Okay, beautiful, all right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I knew had to make your day.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
That's cool. I grew up eating pizza every day and
I still would if I could. All right, Now back
to the the what's going to dominate headlines next week
down that the shutdown is behind us, and that is
going to be that House of Representatives full floor vote
on whether or not to release the Epstein files. Okay, yeah,
(42:16):
we this this guy got got put the in, you know,
back on the well not even on the back pages.
It was off off the pages now for for the
last seven eight weeks. But now it's back and it's
back with a vengeance. As you know, you'd be keeping
up with that. You probably don't want to, but you
can't avoid it, right. Well, uh, that vote's going to
come next week. The speaker is not happy about it.
(42:41):
But well, he called the discharged position that brought this
into a full house floor vote. He called it not
only reckless, but also a totally moot point. He says.
The Oversight Committee, uh, just releasing what some twenty thousand
pages of documents, emails, all this part of a subpoena
(43:03):
of the Epstein estate. They mentioned Trump. Yeah, well we
talked about that. But is there any smoking gun there? Well, no,
there's not. But what did the Democrats do in their
selective release of what about three emails? One of them
the one that was thought to be the most damaging mentions?
(43:23):
H Trump was spending time with one of the girls,
but her name was redacted. Okay, well you might not
have thought too much about that at the time. Well,
the Republicans have unredacted it. And that name is that
of Virginia Geoffrey, who earlier this year took her life.
(43:45):
Here's the problem. Why did the Democrats redact that name?
Was it just to keep the name, you know, as
we often see, or was it a little more sinister. Well, remember,
this is a young woman who wrote a book about
her time and her association and her abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.
(44:10):
And in that book she went as far as to
write that Donald Trump was nothing but very nice and
pleasant to her, a gentleman. She didn't incriminate Trump, and
she got why not, right if you, if you want
(44:30):
to want a memoir and have to make a real splash,
go ahead and say that the at the time, I
guess would have been former presidents before the election, that
you know this, this this guy was part of all this.
She didn't say that, she said just the opposite. So, yeah,
there's a reason why the Democrats, in their selective release
(44:50):
of the emails, redacted her name. So let me see
if I've got this straight. According to the Democrats, the
victim here is wrong and the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is
right on Trump. So they're glorifying Epstein's point of view.
They are shaming the victim. Okay, that's that's a strategy
(45:15):
and an interesting one.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Quite honestly, we first saw that first email, I didn't
even try to put a name with it. It was
just redacted.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
But didn't take long for people to realize who who
was being redacted.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
The name of a woman who said that Trump did
nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
So yeah, Jeffrey Epstein good, victim bad, that's the Democratic.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Je Epstein good. Jeoffrey bat even had Jasmine Crockett that
whack job from Texas on CNN, that's the story, totally wrong,
claiming it was the Republicans who redacted the name. She
had to be fact checked live by the CNN host. No,
it wasn't. It was the Democrats, And she told her
(46:05):
flat out it was the Democrats who redacted it.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Oh, let's just get this out, get this over with
and move on and move ahead.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Carolina wraps up the NSCC season at the third rank
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(46:33):
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Speaker 1 (46:39):
Time for final thoughts now for Friday, November the fourteenth,
time is eight forty. Seems like it's been a while
we went It seemed like we were doing these once
every couple of weeks, but another execution is scheduled here
and in Columbia at six this evening. Stephen Bryant, who
was convicted of killing three men back in two thousand
(47:02):
and four over a five day period, sentenced to death
for the murder of one man who cops ay was
was shot, has had his eyes burned with a cigarette
and then taunted police with messages scrawled on the wall
(47:22):
in the victim's blood. This was the the the guy
that this defense lawyer has tried to argue that in
his in his trial, that just would not wear necessarily
of all the oh, the guy's mom's alcohol and drug
(47:44):
abuse during pregnancy, abuse growing up as a child. You
know the story. We've heard way too many times. State
Supreme Court turned down that appeal. And the only chance
he has left now is a government master and snowball's
chance that happens. But would you see the I was
(48:05):
I think it was an Arkansas. We're a man just
really minutes from the death chamber, was granted clemency by
the governor there. It's happened a day or two back.
I guess it was sending back to his jail cell.
He's not getting out, He's just not getting put to death.
They find the guy, you know, like a couple hours later,
(48:27):
unconscious on the floor of the cell. No, no, he didn't,
he didn't die, but I guess the stress of it all. Anyway,
there you go. Now the battle replaced Nancy may remember
Nancy Mace after, you know, will come January one of
twenty twenty seven, will no longer be a congresswoman as
(48:53):
she's running for governor here, So she, you know, may
well be out of politics here come twenty twenty seven,
at least for a time. The race to replace her
just got a little more interesting when you got my
name of Tyler Dikes from Bluffton announced that he is
running for that seat. This is a guy who was
(49:17):
pardoned for being a part of the throng on Jay
six that entered the Capitol Building. Interesting. His platform is
big anti immigrant, matter of fact, that's about what it is,
blaming immigration for disrupting the housing and job markets and
(49:38):
driving down wages.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Not unlike what JD Van said last night on Handed.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
Yeah right, so Tyler Dikes, now I don't know. He
has a crowdfunding campaign that he's put up with a
goal of thirty five thousand dollars, which is not going
to win you anything, and so far he's raised about
twenty bucks. Yeah, I'm serious at the time, but the
(50:06):
Postercurver the was probably the twenty twenty bucks was in.
Speaking of money, they're throwing it around left and right
in DC, as they always have. But you know, sometimes
it's warranted. DHS handing out bonuses to TSA agents who
they say went above and beyond during the shutdown, to
the tune of about ten thousand dollars. Christi Noman announcing
this at a presser yesterday in Houston, which was a
(50:27):
sight of ridiculously long lines. Ten thousand bucks bonus to
agents who showed exemplary service. Now, I don't know what
that's based on. How you come you know, figured one
person was exemplary and another wasn't. You couldn't just said
anybody who wasn't getting paid and showed up was exemplary,
quite honestly. But anyway, there's that.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
Well, there were a lot of employees. I've got one
that lives with me was considered an essential employee and
had to work even though they weren't getting paid.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Well, maybe maybe she'll get a ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
A bus see that coming. That'd be great. You've not
been told that might happen? No, I have none.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
That's too bad. Now, we all recall how the Democrats
circumvented democracy in the twenty four election cycle by just
inserting Kamala Harris to their own detriment, as opposed to,
you know, holding in even a quick primary season to
determine who should be there, could de tote their banner
(51:28):
into the election against Trump. They seem to do this
a lot.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
Would they have said that, by the way, if she
had won. Would Democrats have celebrated the process at that
point if she had won.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
Well, I mean the way they did it, Yeah, probably
don't know. This was not a one off though, okay,
not on that scale at that level. But Marie Glusen
camp Perez, a Washington Democrat, excoriating a fellow Democrat, heyeseus
(52:02):
Choi Garcia from Illinois, calling his retirement reversal as beneath
the dignity of his office and undemocratic. So Garcia had
filed to run in Illinois's fourth congressional district. He filed
just a couple of weeks ago October twenty seventh, which
was the first day of the state's petition Foley window.
(52:26):
All right, but last Friday, Oh, actually that that Friday,
a couple of weeks ago. He changed his mind. But
this was four days after the filing deadline, which was
November the third. And now he's endorsed his chief of
staff Patty Garcia, who filed a run just before the deadline,
(52:50):
and launt her campaign on Wednesday, So goosen. Camp Perez
is criticizing her colleague again, saying that he's undermined the
props of a free and fair election, basically that this
was a ploy to get his deputy to win this
(53:11):
election again without the free and fair process. Mm. While
we're on the topic, the chair of the DNC, Ken Martin, says, Okay,
it's time to come back to work in the office.
Martin will end remote workdays for employees.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
In the d n C office.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
In the d n C office, yes, they'll be required,
how to show up to work five days a week.
I'm going to take seven, so maybe about five days
a week. And apparently the staff is in just total shock.
What wow? One person writing on X If you think
(53:53):
democracy is on the line, working in the office is
not a big ask. Oh yeah, they're out raised over
all this, and you know, if you want to get
a good chuckle, if you want to get a good
one liner, you always turned to John Kennedy from Louisiana,
who on Will Kine's show, talked about the impact that
(54:14):
this shutdown is going to have on on Chuck Schumer.
He says, Schumer gambled and lost. He's kind of walking
around now looking like a guy who just lost his luggage.
I think I think his testicles are on back order
from China. Wow, he's always good for a one liner.
Eesus fright, Hey America, and Jery for re.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Formation is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
You it's sixteen minutes after six o'clock and it is Friday.
The best word you'll hear all day. It is Friday.
Welcome to it. November the fourteenth, less than two weeks
away now from Thanksgiving Day? Are you at all? Are
you at all in the mindset the proper mindset right
now for the upcoming Christmas season. I got a little
(00:50):
work to do. I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, oh god, just not even close right. I don't
want to think about it yet. I want I want
to think about well, from one holiday at a time.
We always skip over, you know, it's well, I'm thinking
about that well. I say the Christmas, I always include Thanksgiving.
For me, it's like a whole month long er, Okay,
whatever the timeframe is. You know, I'm just trying to
(01:13):
get there, man, I'm trying to get that peaceful, easy
feeling as the Eagles would have said, you know, I mean, I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Working on it working on it. Well, good morning to you.
I'm Gary David. That voice you just heard in your
head or coming out of your speaker, was that Christopher Thompson.
Good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Beautiful weekend coming up. Look at those high tempts this weekend,
mid seventies, upper seventies. It's beautiful, lots of sunshine, gorgeous,
the grand reopening of Finley Park getting out of way,
the big media day yesterday, and it's nice. I hope
it stays that way, So I hope. So I did
(01:51):
not realize there were pickleball courts out there now? Is
there a r where you can go without pickleball?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We used to play tennis our family, and well my
family played. I've just batted the ball around. But it's
hard to find tennis courts around it anywhere because you
know that they're being converted to pickleball courts. I'm too
old for tennis anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So well, that just shows that, I mean again, they
foresee this being an event space, not just not just
a park for you know, strolling around and maybe a
concert once in a while. They want they want something
to be happening there all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, and I hope it's very successful. I really do.
It's twenty five million dollars. It bitter be right, all right.
So that's happening this weekend now with the government reopening
what's the deal on, you know, benefits and such an
air travel and all. Well, a full November snap benefits
here in our state to be issued today. That news
(02:52):
coming from a state yesterday. Now again less than two
weeks from Thanksgiving. Airport sorts again we're still at that
six percent six percent freeze. The FAA concerned about safety.
When will that be dropped, Well, we don't know. But again,
(03:16):
up to six percent of flights at airports, including a
lot of them that people in our state fly to Charlotte, Atlanta,
New York, d C. You name it. It's still gonna
be gonna be tough as you try to make your
way out. That executionist scheduled for six o'clock this evening,
This of Stephen Bryant, sentenced to death for a series
(03:38):
of murders more than two decades ago. Of course, the
individuals will be taking place across the state. This is
a guy convicted of killing three men in Sumter County
over five days back in two thousand and four, and
on one of them, after shooting the victim, he burned
his eyes with a cigarette and then wrote messages on
the walls and the victim's blood.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Police.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes, so firing squad has a chosen method. The State
paper decided to go and ask all the gubernatorial candidates
on both sides of the of the Isle how they
would go about considering clemency decisions. This is the only
thing that could save Stephen Bryant right now is the
governor step again. And Governor mc master has yet to
(04:21):
do that and is not expected to do it this time.
Interesting that all of them, even the Democrat candidates, well,
why they may study a particular case. They weren't you know,
they weren't against the death penalty. The one exception, interestingly enough,
was Josh Holly. I'm not Josh Holly, Josh Kimbrel. There
(04:43):
was always the other guy, Josh Kimbrel, who said he
had a bit of a different view that desility the
most Republicans. But the only thing we've heard from Josh
kimberl here recently, and unless it was about litigation, well,
interesting enough. The State House the new session is don't
look now, but less than what two months away. So
(05:04):
will abortion be a hot topic? You better believe it
will a number of bills and efforts to try to
restrict the most common abortion method in our state, which
right now, by the way, is using medication. We'll run
down some of the efforts that will be taking place
and things you'll be hearing about all session long. Yes,
(05:25):
we talked about this the other day. I was pretty
sure this had happened. But yeah, Nancy Mace did get
a call from the White House over her support of
this Epstein file release. Now a website called notice dot
Notice in otus dot org with this headline. Trump officials
(05:47):
say Nancy Mays's support for Epstein petition could cost her
in South Carolina. Well, we thought that would probably be
the case anyway. Yeah, I imagine Lauren Bobert and Marjorie
Taylor Green. I mean, I imagine everyone's going to be punished.
I mean that's what Trump does. He banishes people from
his orbit for a while, and then they eventually usually
get back in his good graces. I gotta feel this
(06:08):
one might be different though, Just thinking. Meanwhile, her seats
up for grabs in the first district down in the
Low country. It's going to be an interesting race. Latest
entrant Tyler Diykes, a guy who was well arrested and
convicted of heading into the Capitol building back on Jay six.
(06:29):
He has since been pardoned. He's running for the Nancy
may seat. Lindsey Graham's going to sue the DOJ for
more than a half a million dollars over what over
the phone records that well, under the Biden administration they
seized and snooped, they did a lot of Republicans, And
there was a hidden clause in this government shutdown bill
(06:52):
that we could give the eight senators who were subjected
to this at least a million dollars each.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And I think Mike Johnson's already vowing to take that
out out.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, so far, Lindsey is the only one who says
he will sue. None of the other eight will. So
the House will vote as we expected on releasing the
Epstein files. And back to your question about you know
the couple of Republicans right now on the wrong side
of Trump on this. Uh, there's a chance here, Well,
(07:21):
there'd be at least one hundred or more Republicans that
are expected to support the release of those files. We'll
have the latest on that. Charlotte. The Border Patrol is
heading there. We mentioned the other day the sheriff of
Mecklenburg County had requested it. The governor, Josh Stein, a Democrat,
was dead set against it. But it looks like yeah.
Ice is heading to the Queen City. Keeping an eye
(07:46):
on that John Fennerman, hospitalized after a fall. It looks
like he'll be okay, but it was determined that he
had he's got a heart issue that well, quite often
as turns out to be deadly. Seattle has done at
the final votes are in and he tabulated, and yes,
Seattle goes the way. In New York City, well, no
(08:07):
big surprise here. They have elected a zo oran mom
Dommy style candidate, a Democrat socialist Katie Wilson, who beat
the incumbent, who was a pretty liberal himself. It was
closed less than two thousand votes. But before you know,
the Democrat, Socialist or Communist of America get too excited.
It is Seattle, after all.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I was gonna say, how can you tell the difference
right exactly?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And the DNC taking heat from DNC workers after well,
the DNC chair said, hey, get back to the office,
no more work at home, and apparently there was universal
meltdown amongst DNC staffer ranks over this. Are you surprised?
Probably not, friends. We got that. We got the quarterback.
Jeff Grantz later on this morning, coming in breaking down
(08:53):
the upcoming matchup between the game Cocks and Texas A
and M. That and more coming up on this the
Friday morning edition Colombia's Morning News. It's good to have
you here.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
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Speaker 1 (09:27):
Six forty Friday morning, November fourteenth. Good to have you
with us. Big stories today, Well, trying to think things
back to normal here where the government reopened. But how
long is it going to take snap benefits back pay
airline travel? We're talking about that. This morning, the House
will vote on the full release of the Epstein files.
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We got the latest on that to discuss as well.
We mentioned in the Rundown that Seattle has gone the
way of New York City and electing a socialist Democrat
as mayor. Interesting individual. It's Katie We'lllson, who won the
vote by about two thousand votes, beating out the in
the incumbent, uh mayor of Seattle, who you know, Bruce
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Harrald was, was no centrist democrat himself. I mean, come on,
you're never going to get anybody less than a flaming
liberal to to to run Seattle. Let's let's be honest here,
so you know, before the you know, the socialist wing
of of of America gets all excited. It is Seattle
after all. But interesting, uh this woman is she really
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has no history in politics. She well, well, she did
operate a small nonprofit, the Transit Writers Union, okay, advocating
for well typical socialist stuff. You know, minimum wage increases,
better access which should be read free access probably to
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a public transportational hordable housing. You know all that. I mean,
somebody's got to pay for this. Who does that? Well,
we know who does that under their plans. At least
she was a barista, worked in a boatyard, managed apartments,
we're construction, I mean all sorts of weird things actually,
and considering this is a woman who during her campaign
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apparently took money from her parents to help with daycare,
and her parents paid for her to go to Oxford
back in the day, where she studied physics and philosophy.
Now there's a combination.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Physics and philosophy. Physics and philosophy. Yeah, that is strange.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, but yeah, attended Oxford University. Her parents paid the
whole bill. She left there debt free, but without a degree.
She dropped out six weeks before graduation. What wait a minute,
you're at Oxford, mom and dad are footing the bill
and you drop out six weeks before graduation. Okay, Well,
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now she's socialist or is she communist?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Back in September, she actually made a declaration that if mayor,
she would not allow private grocery stores to close, that
they shouldn't be allowed, they should not be allowed to
only sell food to those who can afford it, and yes,
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expressed her support like Mondami has done for a public option,
meaning that there would be government run grocery stores. Hmm, yeah,
sounds just like Zoe ran Mondami. But think about that.
Here's a politician saying that they would not allow private
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businesses to close their doors. Uh, that's that's you call
it socialism if you want to, I call it communism.
So you're supposed to keep the doors open, lose money,
We're going to force you to keep to keep your
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business operating. Really bizarre. This is the I gotta tell you.
I'm I'm not gonna say I'm excited, but I'm very
curious to see how the experiments play out in New
York City in Seattle. Here, Minneapolis got close to it,
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but their socialist democrat was rebuffed by again another liberal mayor.
But still Seattle. Well, this is kind of what Seattleites are,
you know, they're used to They're used to it. Yea,
So we may not get a lot of controversy out
of Seattle over this. A liberal barista, Wow, imagine that.
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I'm guessing if she was still a barista, she would
be going on strike.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Here.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What's the red cup day coming up? And the baristas
are going to strike? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Okay, And she was lumberjack in her spare time. I
mean she fits in. I'm guessing she'll be sworn in
in flannel.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Probably in construction boots. I guess. I don't know. But yeah,
Seattle is used to this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
New York City, though, well let's let's what's what's what's
the let's see what the blowback is there, because yeah,
there's certainly a contingent of that city that's uh, it's
all about this, but there's also a contingent that's not
that will be interesting to see. All right up the
road in Charlotte, and there's been been talked about now
for a number of days, and now it is in
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fact going to happen that ice is heading into the
Queen Ceti. Both Border Patrol and Immigrations and Custom Enforcement
have stated they they're not going to discuss their planned operations,
but they're going to be there now. The sheriff in
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Mecklenburg County confirming this, Gary McFadden. Remember, North Carolina has
a Democrat governor who is dead set against it, Alma Adams,
Member of Congress, Democrat who represents Charlotte, extremely concerned about
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the deployment. Yeah, how many how many times are we
going to see where the Feds move in to one
of these big, big blue and Charlotte's a big blue
city and just achieve amazing things We see crime rates plummet,
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we see thugs off the street. Yet again the focus
from the left and from the media as allway, well,
they just in front of a baby, just drug somebody
out and put them in a squad car. Yeah, they're
disappearing people left and right. You know, I got to
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tell you the truth. I get it from from the
very liberal standpoint. That's you know, this is part of
the game, right, this is what you want people to believe.
But I can't forgive the media for going along with
it and doing the same thing. Well, people do disappear
when they go behind bars, but they and they disappear
when they're in this country illegally. They get sent back
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to where they should be exactly. So in that sense,
you know, disappearing people. It'd be one thing to have
a citizen be wiped off the face of the map
and we never see them again. But if they're being
punished for crimes, okay, yeah, right, what happens. Typical Democrat
talking point here, Adam saying that Charlott's immigrant community is
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a proud part of the Queen's City. I'll not stand
by and watch my constituents be intimidated or harassed.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
The immigrant community is the proud part of the fabric
of our country. But are they here legally or not?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Right? Are they committing crimes or not? That's the question,
and that was the stated goal originally. We're going after
those who were here illegally and committing crimes in this country,
or have committed crimes prior to coming here. We're going
after the bad guys. Now, you know, are you going
to pick up some collateral damage along the way? Has happened,
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but that's always been the focus, whereas the Democrats and
the media would like you to think that, you know,
the Fed's going in there and just willy nilly if somebody,
if somebody's skin color is the wrong color, then just
nabbing them, picking them up. Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Well, by the way, we had a listener way in
on our talk back from your earlier discussion about this
new person running Seattle and the Oxford Studies.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
What was it both philosophy and physics, the philosophy of physics.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Should the laws of physics really apply to someone like me?
That's Brett with a philosophical question on this Friday morning.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Wow, you blew my mind with that one. Brett, I
don't know that I can recover. I'm gonna have to
go in some deep ponderous thoughts here in a few minutes,
see if I can figure that one out. Thank you, Brett.
I guess somebody you want to share always is right
there on the absolutely free iHeartRadio app. Just hit the
talkback button, let us know what's on your mind.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
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 (18:52):
Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us. It
is fifteen minutes after seven Friday morning, November the fourteenth.
I am the aforementioned Gary David. He is the aforementioned
Christopher Thompson. Have you changed your travel plans for Thanksgiving yet? Now?
We're we still got almost two weeks before Thanksgiving Day,
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but a lot of travel is going to happen prior
to that. So you know, we're certainly less than two
weeks away from you know, the peak travel times for
the holiday, and.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
You're booking now even well, you've probably already booked.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, you're really good nose.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, So I mean you're you've already made those plans
even if things change between now and then.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, So now the government's reopened, well it's it's still
a crapshoot. It's going to take a while to get
things ramped back up. And we are still don't forget,
we're still at six percent flight reductions. Now, had they
shut down not come to an end, we'd have been
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at ten percent today and that would have been a
total disaster. This shutdown is resulting the cancelation of some
eight thousand flights across the country. It's been it's been ridiculous.
Now they're not going up the restrictions. They're going to stay,
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as the FAA told us after Wednesday night, I guess
after that the House passed the buildery over the government.
They said then that because of safety reasons, they're going
to keep it at six percent at least for now.
And how long now is I don't know. But Shaun Duffy,
Transportation Secretary, said that some of these air traffic controllers
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we're working ten hour days, six days straight. Let's just
stop and consider that for a second. All right, If
you go to work at an office and you stare
at a computer screen all day, and you put in
your eight and you work five days, go home and
enjoy the weekend, refresh, recharge, or do chores whatever. Yeah,
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that'll wear you out. What do you mean it'll wear
you out? You're not out there digging ditches. Yeah, but
it wears you out. Imagine an air traffic controller now
working a ten hour day and doing that six straight days.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And it's similar staring at a computer screen. But the
only difference is there are lives on the line.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, those little blips you see or every blip's probably
a couple of hundred lives. Yeah, that's stress. So you know,
I think we should count ourselves very fortunate that during
this period we have not had a major air disaster
because of overworked, overstressed air traffic controllers working without pay.
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I think we're very fortunate that didn't happen. So that's
still existing in these control towers. So as we're all
the FAA is it's just not safe yet, we're going
to keep it at six percent. Columbia Metro has got
about three or four departing flights today that have been canceled,
So again check ahead. Now, as far as backpay is concerned,
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workers will be getting that. That's that's that's that's rolling
out SNAP benefits here in South Carolina. DSS announced yesterday
they'll be issuing full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits SNAP
benefits for November. New SNAP households that were approved for
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benefits between October sixteenth and the November thirteenth, and SNAP
households that have a monthly issu Wednesdays between the first
and fourteenth of each month, those will be heading out.
Those groups will be getting those This is this could
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have been a lot worse than it was. And again,
we've got more than a quarter of a million households
in this state that that rely on these SNAP benefits.
That's a that's a staggering number. If you just went, well,
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you know, ease household size would say four that's a
million people. What's our what's our population of this state?
Five something million?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I think.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So, I mean, this is this is like, you know,
twenty percent or so of our state's population apparently is
receiving these SNAP benefits.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Five point two by point two.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And I'm just using the you know, say four persons
in a household, so have more, some have less, but yeah,
it was probably about a million people all told. So
those benefits are rolling back out as well. Okay, now
coming up, don't look now, but the next legislative session
is right around the proverbial corner here and again, once again,
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I expect abortion to be a hot topic, but maybe
not the arguments, well, at least the methods we've been
arguing in past sessions. Now, here's what's going to be
debated to the state House. Here are some of the
bills that have been pre filed that are planned to
come up. Number one, as we mentioned, there is a
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bill to ban all abortions in our state, to make
it a felony to end a pregnancy. I don't see
that that makes much headway. I could be wrong, but
I kind of doubt it. Now, at the federal level,
both Lindsay Graham and Tim Scott have asked the FDA
to suspend approvals of generic abortion pills and to also
(24:49):
suspend a rule that allows clinicians to dispense medication virtually
when it comes to this, This is the stat I
was not aware of. Last year. In twenty twenty four,
we had three twenty five total abortions in our state.
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Eighty four percent of those were abortions administered with medication,
not through an additional what you think an abortion is
of the process, but through you know, through a pill.
So this would drastically change that. And we've also had
attorney generals excuse me, attorneys general across the country, including
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Allen Wilson here in South Carolina that I ask Congress
to keep states from letting doctors ship medication abortion. You know,
these pills across state lines. That there would be consequences
that should be evolved. So again, abortion is going to
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be front and center in this next legislative session.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
It's going to continue to be front and center as
long as we have this break between the South Carolina Caucus,
the GOP, and the Freedom Causus.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, if the Republicans were all on the same page,
whichever page that is, you pick your page you like, Okay,
if they're all on the same page, Yeah, you're right.
This this really wouldn't be a topic that pops up
every year, but for the foreseeable future it will, and
that foreseeable future may be a long time. Aside from this,
I don't know tof you know, energy is going to
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be a big, big issue. I don't know what going
in what hell, I don't have a real good feel
for it this time aside from those two topics, but
you know, brace yourselves for something. Something will pop up.
Aside from those two things we just mentioned, something will
pop up and suddenly it will suck all the oxygen
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out of the room.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well, David Pasco is pushing judicial reform, so that's well, yeah,
that's something. Yeah, sure, sure, and that that needs to
be something. And please don't even don't even bother to
tell me ethics is going to be debated.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
It ain't happening. You've been waiting for that. Yeah, don't
hold your breath. What do we now? Seven weeks away
or so, let's start on the next session. Yeah, it's
not far. Yeah, be here for you know it.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Ken Carolina finally win in college station. Get ready for
game day with the best game coverage on one O
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This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
(27:55):
sixty am w VOC.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
It's seven thirty nine, Friday, November fourteenth, and we appreciate
you joining us this morning. Now backing up here in
several weeks, one of the big stories well, one that
has been basically ignored by the media operation Arctic Frost,
and we learned the details about how far the DOJ
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and or Joe Biden went to snoop on Republicans, very
influential Republicans, and some even have looked at this as
it was basically the entire Republican party. This was the
you know Jack Smith and his investigation into Trump and
the election of twenty twenty. Now, a number of US
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Senators had their phones and messages snooped on as well
by Jack Smith and tucked into this bill that reopened
the government. Because you know, there's different there's no such
thing as a clean bill anymore, right, there's always something
in there. Well, tucked into this bill to get the
government reopened. The sentence version of it was to give
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these senators who were snooped on the opportunity to actually
sue the Department of Justice boards of potentially what a
million dollars. Well, eight senators were snooped on by Jack Smith,
(29:24):
and right now it looks like none of them want
to take advantage of this, well none but one, that's
Lindsey Graham. I said it's five hundred thousand, five hundred
thousand dollars of the eight right now, this could change.
But but Lindsey Graham is the only one who says, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Okay, Well, I don't blame him in a sense, but
it's not a great look for a group that's getting
paid while the rest were not. And I'm talking federal employees.
Even though a lot of the senators and representatives of
Congressman said they would forego pay. Still, it's it's just
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it's not a good look. I would be curious to
I mean, does do they know yet what happened to
all this information that Jack Smith collected? Don't know that
they do? I mean that would maybe more to the story. Yeah,
that would be something that would concern me. Not the
just that I had my phone records look dead, but
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what else did they discover?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah? Well, Josh Holly over over Missouri, doesn't think this
is a good idea that there there there needs to
be accountability for the d o j's behavior under Joe
Biden for the abuse of separation of powers. But he
says that the right way to do this is the
public hearings, through oversight, not through through through through lawsuits.
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But Aam says he will sue for over five hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I I don't think it was the right move to
tuck this into that bill either, right, Right, all we
were focused on was the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No such thing as a clean bill, right, Okay. Now,
all of the Republicans who are running for governor this
date would like nothing better than he got a phone
call from Donald Trump. Nancy Mace just got a phone
call from Donald Trump. Reporting is and we thought she
(31:31):
probably had, And now there's at least one report out
that says she did, but not the phone call you
on from Donald Trump. Now, remember, Mace is one of
a handful of Republicans who have supported this discharged position
that now is going to well force and Mike Johnson
said they'll be of a vote on the floor, a
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full floor vote next week on whether or not to
release all of the Epstein files. Mace, and give her
a credit where credit? I mean from the outset she
was in favor of this and she's not changed her
mind on it. But yeah, word is that she did
get a call from Trump himself lobbying her to support
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or not to support that petition. Of course, she has
uh notice dot org reporting that while She's not the
only Republican who defied Trump, she is the only one
currently seeking higher office, and that the White House has
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taken note of that, sources telling the website helping Democrats
deflect from a Republican success is not a good GOP
primary election strategy. Another White House source telling the outlet
that they couldn't imagine a dumber strategy to get Trump's
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endorsement than doing what she did this week. That's that's
pretty plain. I mean, it didn't take a rocket scientist
to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, I don't, I don't. I don't think she was
in the running to get the endorsement anyway. But Nancy
Mace was the first on board in this state for
Donald Trump, and she knows him as well as anybody,
and she knows that his emotions, his thoughts, his who
he embraces changes like the wind based on what you
did today. So she could probably do, you know, two
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good things in Trump's eye and get right back in
his good graces.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
She knows that everybody knows that. Well, yeah, that's that's
the way Trump rolls. But depending on the outcome of
all this, and no matter what the Democrats and the
media want, to tell you they don't have any they
got no smoking gun when it comes to Trump. But
depending on you know, the damage this could potentially do,
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this one might be a little different. This one is
very personal. Obviously, I don't know there's been I think, well,
didn't Lindsey Graham several months ago tell Trump to stay
on the sidelines and unless you get to a runoff
or something, I don't even get involved, which which maybe
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maybe the way it comes down again we've got this
is this is not to say we haven't had, you know,
fields this size before in a Republican primary for governor.
But when you look at well, the individuals that are running,
with maybe the exception of one, I mean, these are
all candidates who you know, stand up a real good
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chance of winning this primary and being our next governor.
So the depth of the field, the quality of the
depth of the field is I think more than we've
seen in you know, a long time. And uh yeah,
a Trump endorsement would would would be huge. They all
know that. Nancy Mays knows that, and I get yeah,
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I guess you're right. I guess she's counting on the
idea that you know, Trump will will forget this, I don't.
I'm not sure he'll forget this one. Well, I don't think.
I don't think he'll get involved. But so you're saying,
you think this is going to be damaging, that the
Epstein files are damaging to Trump.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Just no, I don't think it'll ever be proven that
they're damaging to Trump. But you know, the the innuendo
was out there right as it always has been. To
tell you the truth. Now, if if it was a
difference in you know, opinion on a particular policy between
you know, ah, a potential you know, Republican candidate here
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and with Trump that that, but this is a this
is a difference in something very very personal to Trump.
I think I think that's what makes it different this time.
We'll see. Yeah, I don't know, we don't really know
how that phone call. Uh well, one White House source
did say this that Masin trumpe what they referred to
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as a love letter detailing why she so adamantly supported
the measure. Okay, Now, her saving grace might be that
there are those on Capitol Hill that think there's going
to be a lot of Republican defections here on this,
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that there could be one hundred or more Republicans who
vote next week to release these files. Now again, the
House wilding to release the files, that's just the starting point.
The Senate would have to agree, and at the end
of the day, Trump would have to sign off on it.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I mean, you don't want to look like you're covering
something up. And right, I mean, it's like you said yesterday,
Biden's had this for years, or the administration had it
for years, four years they had it. If there were anything,
if there were bombshells in this, we would have known
by now, they would have been used in the last election.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Absolutely they'd have been Well, I would say, be the
youn only have October surprise. You have to have like
September surprises, do early voting. But yeah, absolutely that would
have dropped like a like a neutron bomb man. But
it didn't. What does that tell you now, speaking of
covering things up, the Democrats selectively leaking a couple of
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those emails a couple of days back. What were they
covering up? We'll get into that coming up here a
little bit later on.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
three point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson at age sixteen.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Good morning, Good to have you along for a big weekend.
The reopening of Finley Park is Tomorrowmorrow, and the weather
couldn't be more cooperative. Huh what seventy five tomorrow, seventy
eight Sunday. So the big two day event starts up
with the official reopening by the mayor and other city
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leaders at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. They got the music
all weekend long, and yesterday was a big, big media
day over there. They invited folks out to see what
things look like, and by all accounts, it is really fabulous.
They've even like changed the topography of the place a
little bit. Got a walking track, you got you know,
(38:42):
stuff for kids.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
You have a pickleball court, something for everyone.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Yeah. So yeah, twenty this is go go buy. I
see which twenty five million dollars got you there. Don't
forget there's that that that that clear bag policy. I mean,
unless it's really really small, a little clutch bag or
one of those who put around your body bag or such,
it's got it's got to be clear.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
They say, it's going to be more about education, at
least early on, rather than you know, confiscation. They're not
going to throw you out of the park. What they
are going to do is tell you what you can
and can't have. So and and they've already apparently relaxed
enough to allow these soft sided coolers, So maybe it's
not quite as strict as we originally thought.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, and that'll that'll change over times. Yeah, yeah, but
you know, hey, we wanted to succeed.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
It was beautiful once. It's beautiful again. And they've got
plans in place to keep it that way with the
added security that will be there around the clock to
make sure that happens.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
And let's hope it's a safe weekend, so they get
off to a good start.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Let's yeah, let's hope. So how how you know, gosh,
how far you got to go back to win? That was?
You know, the Crown Jewel in Columbia. It's been a long,
long long time.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
We had a rehears there. You know, there's a little
building at the top of the I and I don't
know what they've done with it. I assume they kept it. Yeah,
there's a little building at the top of the fountain
that we held our rehearsal dinner in way back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I wouldn't I wouldn't invite it.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Sorry. Okay, we weren't as tight back then. No, that
was you were you were at the wedding was yes, absolutely,
I mean we were close. We just weren't as close
as we are now. We weren't blood brothers back then,
and it was pretty much family only. Okay, but I
(40:34):
consider you family now. Okay, I wasn't. But I am
now back pedaling big time. All right, I'm going to
stop you right there. I'm gonna make your day. I'm
going to interrupt your flow here for a second. I'm
going to make your day because this headline just came
across my feed, and it is going to be something
that is going to thrill you to no end. There
(40:55):
is a place very important to your past, Shaky's. They
are debuting a new prototype restaurant to revive the brand
and attract a new generation of customers with eighties inspired
atmosphere the whole nine yards Shaky is coming back.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Pizza.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Oh wow, see wow.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Yeah, okay for those of you if you don't know, yeah,
Gary was that that was a big part of Gary's formative.
My first ever job was a busboy in Shaky's Pizza.
I was thirteen years old. Didn't you also play the
drums there later? Or am I that story? Well kind of?
You know, we had some staff parties. I played the drums, okay,
(41:40):
but not for the general public. Oh it was just
a banjo and the piano for that. Well, there's I
don't play one of those. There's still hope, there is. Well,
that's what you knew about retirement. You just go back
and work at Shaky.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Okay, beautiful, all right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I knew had to make your day.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
That's cool. I grew up eating pizza every day and
I still would if I could. All right, Now back
to the the what's going to dominate headlines next week
down that the shutdown is behind us, and that is
going to be that House of Representatives full floor vote
on whether or not to release the Epstein files. Okay, yeah,
(42:16):
we this this guy got got put the in, you know,
back on the well not even on the back pages.
It was off off the pages now for for the
last seven eight weeks. But now it's back and it's
back with a vengeance. As you know, you'd be keeping
up with that. You probably don't want to, but you
can't avoid it, right. Well, uh, that vote's going to
come next week. The speaker is not happy about it.
(42:41):
But well, he called the discharged position that brought this
into a full house floor vote. He called it not
only reckless, but also a totally moot point. He says.
The Oversight Committee, uh, just releasing what some twenty thousand
pages of documents, emails, all this part of a subpoena
(43:03):
of the Epstein estate. They mentioned Trump. Yeah, well we
talked about that. But is there any smoking gun there? Well, no,
there's not. But what did the Democrats do in their
selective release of what about three emails? One of them
the one that was thought to be the most damaging mentions?
(43:23):
H Trump was spending time with one of the girls,
but her name was redacted. Okay, well you might not
have thought too much about that at the time. Well,
the Republicans have unredacted it. And that name is that
of Virginia Geoffrey, who earlier this year took her life.
(43:45):
Here's the problem. Why did the Democrats redact that name?
Was it just to keep the name, you know, as
we often see, or was it a little more sinister. Well, remember,
this is a young woman who wrote a book about
her time and her association and her abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.
(44:10):
And in that book she went as far as to
write that Donald Trump was nothing but very nice and
pleasant to her, a gentleman. She didn't incriminate Trump, and
she got why not, right if you, if you want
(44:30):
to want a memoir and have to make a real splash,
go ahead and say that the at the time, I
guess would have been former presidents before the election, that
you know this, this this guy was part of all this.
She didn't say that, she said just the opposite. So, yeah,
there's a reason why the Democrats, in their selective release
(44:50):
of the emails, redacted her name. So let me see
if I've got this straight. According to the Democrats, the
victim here is wrong and the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is
right on Trump. So they're glorifying Epstein's point of view.
They are shaming the victim. Okay, that's that's a strategy
(45:15):
and an interesting one.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Quite honestly, we first saw that first email, I didn't
even try to put a name with it. It was
just redacted.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
But didn't take long for people to realize who who
was being redacted.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
The name of a woman who said that Trump did
nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
So yeah, Jeffrey Epstein good, victim bad, that's the Democratic.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Je Epstein good. Jeoffrey bat even had Jasmine Crockett that
whack job from Texas on CNN, that's the story, totally wrong,
claiming it was the Republicans who redacted the name. She
had to be fact checked live by the CNN host. No,
it wasn't. It was the Democrats, And she told her
(46:05):
flat out it was the Democrats who redacted it.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Oh, let's just get this out, get this over with
and move on and move ahead.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
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Speaker 1 (46:39):
Time for final thoughts now for Friday, November the fourteenth,
time is eight forty. Seems like it's been a while
we went It seemed like we were doing these once
every couple of weeks, but another execution is scheduled here
and in Columbia at six this evening. Stephen Bryant, who
was convicted of killing three men back in two thousand
(47:02):
and four over a five day period, sentenced to death
for the murder of one man who cops ay was
was shot, has had his eyes burned with a cigarette
and then taunted police with messages scrawled on the wall
(47:22):
in the victim's blood. This was the the the guy
that this defense lawyer has tried to argue that in
his in his trial, that just would not wear necessarily
of all the oh, the guy's mom's alcohol and drug
(47:44):
abuse during pregnancy, abuse growing up as a child. You
know the story. We've heard way too many times. State
Supreme Court turned down that appeal. And the only chance
he has left now is a government master and snowball's
chance that happens. But would you see the I was
(48:05):
I think it was an Arkansas. We're a man just
really minutes from the death chamber, was granted clemency by
the governor there. It's happened a day or two back.
I guess it was sending back to his jail cell.
He's not getting out, He's just not getting put to death.
They find the guy, you know, like a couple hours later,
(48:27):
unconscious on the floor of the cell. No, no, he didn't,
he didn't die, but I guess the stress of it all. Anyway,
there you go. Now the battle replaced Nancy may remember
Nancy Mace after, you know, will come January one of
twenty twenty seven, will no longer be a congresswoman as
(48:53):
she's running for governor here, So she, you know, may
well be out of politics here come twenty twenty seven,
at least for a time. The race to replace her
just got a little more interesting when you got my
name of Tyler Dikes from Bluffton announced that he is
running for that seat. This is a guy who was
(49:17):
pardoned for being a part of the throng on Jay
six that entered the Capitol Building. Interesting. His platform is
big anti immigrant, matter of fact, that's about what it is,
blaming immigration for disrupting the housing and job markets and
(49:38):
driving down wages.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Not unlike what JD Van said last night on Handed.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
Yeah right, so Tyler Dikes, now I don't know. He
has a crowdfunding campaign that he's put up with a
goal of thirty five thousand dollars, which is not going
to win you anything, and so far he's raised about
twenty bucks. Yeah, I'm serious at the time, but the
(50:06):
Postercurver the was probably the twenty twenty bucks was in.
Speaking of money, they're throwing it around left and right
in DC, as they always have. But you know, sometimes
it's warranted. DHS handing out bonuses to TSA agents who
they say went above and beyond during the shutdown, to
the tune of about ten thousand dollars. Christi Noman announcing
this at a presser yesterday in Houston, which was a
(50:27):
sight of ridiculously long lines. Ten thousand bucks bonus to
agents who showed exemplary service. Now, I don't know what
that's based on. How you come you know, figured one
person was exemplary and another wasn't. You couldn't just said
anybody who wasn't getting paid and showed up was exemplary,
quite honestly. But anyway, there's that.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
Well, there were a lot of employees. I've got one
that lives with me was considered an essential employee and
had to work even though they weren't getting paid.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Well, maybe maybe she'll get a ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
A bus see that coming. That'd be great. You've not
been told that might happen? No, I have none.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
That's too bad. Now, we all recall how the Democrats
circumvented democracy in the twenty four election cycle by just
inserting Kamala Harris to their own detriment, as opposed to,
you know, holding in even a quick primary season to
determine who should be there, could de tote their banner
(51:28):
into the election against Trump. They seem to do this
a lot.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
Would they have said that, by the way, if she
had won. Would Democrats have celebrated the process at that
point if she had won.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
Well, I mean the way they did it, Yeah, probably
don't know. This was not a one off though, okay,
not on that scale at that level. But Marie Glusen
camp Perez, a Washington Democrat, excoriating a fellow Democrat, heyeseus
(52:02):
Choi Garcia from Illinois, calling his retirement reversal as beneath
the dignity of his office and undemocratic. So Garcia had
filed to run in Illinois's fourth congressional district. He filed
just a couple of weeks ago October twenty seventh, which
was the first day of the state's petition Foley window.
(52:26):
All right, but last Friday, Oh, actually that that Friday,
a couple of weeks ago. He changed his mind. But
this was four days after the filing deadline, which was
November the third. And now he's endorsed his chief of
staff Patty Garcia, who filed a run just before the deadline,
(52:50):
and launt her campaign on Wednesday, So goosen. Camp Perez
is criticizing her colleague again, saying that he's undermined the
props of a free and fair election, basically that this
was a ploy to get his deputy to win this
(53:11):
election again without the free and fair process. Mm. While
we're on the topic, the chair of the DNC, Ken Martin, says, Okay,
it's time to come back to work in the office.
Martin will end remote workdays for employees.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
In the d n C office.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
In the d n C office, yes, they'll be required,
how to show up to work five days a week.
I'm going to take seven, so maybe about five days
a week. And apparently the staff is in just total shock.
What wow? One person writing on X If you think
(53:53):
democracy is on the line, working in the office is
not a big ask. Oh yeah, they're out raised over
all this, and you know, if you want to get
a good chuckle, if you want to get a good
one liner, you always turned to John Kennedy from Louisiana,
who on Will Kine's show, talked about the impact that
(54:14):
this shutdown is going to have on on Chuck Schumer.
He says, Schumer gambled and lost. He's kind of walking
around now looking like a guy who just lost his luggage.
I think I think his testicles are on back order
from China. Wow, he's always good for a one liner.
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