Show Rewind 12-01-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Jesius right America and for Nations is from.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
News, Traffic, Weather, as Information Spections. This is South Carolina's
Morning News on one on three point five FM, five
sixty AM w VOC and ninety four to three WSC.
Now Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
It is three minutes after six o'clock. It's Monday, December
the first, and welcome to South Carolina's Morning News on
one O three point five FM and five sixty AM
WVOC and for the first time this morning on ninety
four to three WSC and Charleston. Welcome to our new
friends in the low Country. As we're off and running
our first installation of the program there.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
So we need to explain to.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Our new listeners this morning who we are and what
we've been doing all this time. We'll go good morning
to you first. My name is Gary David, my name
is Christopher Thompson. And we do the news. Yeah, and
we talk about the news, and we do stuff. We
do lots of stuff, and we'll be doing it for
a long time. We've been doing it for twenty five
years now almost. Yes, we have here in the in

(01:22):
the capital city. So this is uh this is uh,
it's it's it's a pleasure to be with you this
morning for the first time. We'll get to know each
other over time. And for our listeners in Columbia and
the Midlands all these years, so we thank you for
hanging out with us.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
And as we.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Mentioned last week again for our new listeners in the
Low Country. We were telling our friends here in Colombia
in this area for the last week or so, we'd
beat what we'd be doing, but it was, you know,
Thanksgiving week, so some folks may not have been tuned
in on their normal patterns.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
So nothing's changing here. Uh, we're just expanding our horizons,
that's it.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, we are a conservative morning show, but we're not
necessarily always dogmatic, and we don't follow anybody's party rules
or party lines. So from time to time we'll say
things that quite honestly, we'll take some folks off. But
we just try to be rational and logical about things,

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and that's it's served us well all these years, so
hopefully we'll continue to So that's who we are. And
again we're delighted to be on ninety four to three
WSC in the Low Country and look forward to meeting
a lot of y'all and getting down there and making
friends with a lot of folks. Love the air, by
the way, as a little backstory of mister Thompson's got
quite a history in Charleston.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, and we always a lot of our stories are
Charleston focused, just because it's such a big hub for tourism,
for example, and there's plenty of politics down there that
we've talked about over the years.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Oh, absolutely there is.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
So we're off and running with South Carolina's Morning News
now some of the big stories we're following on this
Monday back added morning. And it's December the first here
we go headlong into the end of the Christmas season.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
We put the tree up yesterday, by the way.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Oh wow, you're ahead of the game. Well, no, we're behind.
You're actually behind most people. Yeah, you're ahead of my game.
Christmas is going to be here for you know, yeah,
at least around the Midlands. I know that the trees
have been up and lights have been strung for weeks now.
So yeah, kind of behind the game there. But as
we get back into things here, we've got some rainy

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weather from the Midlands all the way to the low
Country coming our way, and some pretty heavy rains at times.
Matter of fact, here in the Columbia area that we're talking,
could we see snow, No, we won't see snow.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's way too warm for that. Not gonna get anywhere
near cold enough for that.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
But there will be some travel issues at least probably tomorrow,
widespread rains across most of the states, so we'll be
dealing with that. And for folks who are still traveling
getting back from Thanksgiving. The the winter weather in parts
of the country really snarled air traffic and land traffic
too for that matter, So that work and to get

(04:01):
things back on schedule lease as far as flights and concerns,
so still maybe some problems there. The National Guard in
our state is heading back to d C. The governor
ordering that several days back. Matter of fact, it was
Wednesday night on social media. This in response to what
happened there last week where two West Virginia National Guard

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members were shot. One died, as you know, and mc
mastress says about the three hundred or so troops of
our state's Guard, we'll be heading back that way. The
mother behind that shooting, Christy Nome, said over the weekend
still remains unknown. We do know some things about him though,
an Afghan national who entered under the disastrous Biden withdraw

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program when we left Afghanistan and let a lot of
folks in here without proper vettings.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
So we'll be talking about that.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Trump talking about a permanent pause in migration from third
world countries because of that. So we've got a lot
to cover on that front. Of Venezuela. Things are ramping
up there.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
The who had that on their bingo card going into
the Trump administration.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Absolutely nobody, by the way, exactly got details on that.
It's getting to be clenched time for well Republicans, specifically
when it comes to Obamacare in the enhanced subsidies. So
we'll be talking about that this morning as well. And
a new report alleging that Biden officials, even Biden officials,
raised concerns over the auto pen datis. Trump says he's

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reversing all those auto pen signatures. So got a lot
to go over with this morning. That is more here
on this the Monday morning edition and the debut edition
of South Carolina's Morning News on one of three point
five FM, five sixty AMWVOC, and ninety four to three Charleston.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is South
Carolina's morning news on one on three point five FM,
five sixty AM W and ninety four to three WSC
now Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's thirteen minutes now past the hour of six o'clock,
so McMaster. As we mentioned a few moments ago, the
governors sending three hundred more than three hundred Guard troops
back to Washington. D C made the announcement on social
media Wednesday night. Now, while he talked about this maybe
being in response to what took place there with the

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shooting of the killing of one West Virginia National Guards member,
the twenty year old female and critically isuring another one,
this was already, he says, scheduled. These Guard members from
our state are going to replace some other Guard members
who were cycling back off of that duty.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
But again.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
The timing, I mean, it almost sounded like this was
in response to that shooting.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
This was scheduled previously.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Some Guards folks from from Georgia will be We'll be
leaving and heading back home. So this is this is
why our guards members are heading that way.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
But certainly a heightened sense of awareness now if there
was before.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Right now, remember the first the first cycle, the first
time around, we said about to what two hundred gards
members to d C and that got I remember the
the Democrats here in our state, we were all upset
over this. Well, what are we going to do? You know,
we need them here in case, you know, we we

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have something they got to deal with on it's during hurricanes.
It's during hurricane season, which by the way, is over now,
and we didn't have any thank goodness. And I'm sure,
of course that's just that the calendar says it's over now.
It doesn't really mean anything. But we went into this
hurricane season. You know, folks in the low country all
were on pins and needles, as you always are. But

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the predictions did not come to pass, thankfully. But that
was what if we need him here, well, I remember
at the time the governor said, if we need him here,
we'll bring him back. I mean, it doesn't take that
long to get it back in state that they were needed.
Fortunately they weren't. So I'm just up standing by now
to wait to see what sort of reaction we get
from Democrats across the state to this move. But it

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was previously scheduled. But you're right, mister Thompson, a heightened
sense of well, at least your surroundings now after what
took place there last week. And we've got that, and
that is spurring again another crackdown on immigration and revoking

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some folks who were here and may be even naturalized.
Plus a lot more focus on that Afghan withdrawalis. This
was one of the guys who worked for the CIA
in Afghanistan.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
It may have been radicalized once he reached our shores.
Imagine that, Yeah, imagine that.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
So we have more to talk about on that front
here on this the Monday morning edition of South Carolina's Morning.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
News, your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is
South Carolina's Morning News on one on three point five FM,
five sixty AM WVOC and ninety four to three WSC.

(09:29):
Now Gary David and Christopher Thomps.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Twenty two and us after six o'clock. Thanks for joining
us for the debut edition in the Low Country of
South Carolina's Morning News. Glad it be with you on
ninety four to three WSC, and of course here in Columbia,
we've been here for years, almost twenty five is Columbia's
morning news on one of three point five FM and
five sixty AMWVOC. So good to have everybody joining us
here is or we're back at how was How was

(09:52):
your Thanksgiving?

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Mister? It was good filed to ask that question.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
That's all right, it was good, but you know, we
had a football game to prepare for, so we didn't
spend very long in the turkey. Speaking of turkeys, Yeah, wow.
I don't think either fan base is real thrilled with
what happened over the course of the season. But Clemson
gets the bragging rights for a year.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
South Carolina has got a lot of work to do,
and we saw a lot of change in college football yesterday.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
We'll talk about that more coming up.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, I got that sporting update coming up here in
just a few caught this over the weekend and the
Opotion courier Cindy Rosskapi with an op ed piece about
the VC summer deal. Okay, so we got a deal.
We got a buyer, as we've known for the last
couple of months. So Brookfield Asset Management gonna take it

(10:39):
over and try to finish that second reactor.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Somebody says they're going to transform that hole in the
ground that we paid and are still paying, still paying. Yes,
but we shouldn't have to pay anymore. I'm knocking on wood. Well,
I say that we shouldn't. This company says they're going
to do it all that's what they said on their dime. Okay,
And she wasn't really questioning that so much in this

(11:02):
op ed piece. But the point she was making was,
as the headline screams VC summer nuclear deal doesn't guarantee
electricity sales? Wow, what isn't that the whole point?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
You would think?

Speaker 3 (11:16):
So Apparently it has to do with the fact that, again,
you know, the state, the state owned utility, still has
a piece of this thing. And she started asking around
could they sell electricity to large customers?

Speaker 1 (11:33):
I e.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
You know, AI data banks and things like that, right,
and well, she couldn't get a straight answer apparently from
folks she talked to. Said she asked a spokeswoman for
Santie Cooper, can how can this company, this Brookfield sell
electricity big customers since we're a regulated monopoly state. And

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the answer she got from Molly Gore over at Santa
Cooper was well, the ultimate form of the transaction, including
the ownership structure of the project and related power sale,
purchase and other transaction agreements remains under negotiation. Tom Davis,
who's behind all this to begin with, been pushing it
for a long time getting it restarted, initially told Roscapi

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that he'd inserted a carve out from state regulations into
law to let Brookfield sell directly to consumers, and then
later in the day got back to her said well,
he was mistaken about that and something would have to
change to let Brookfield sell the major energy users. Okay,

(12:43):
I for one, I'm not that terribly concerned of an
AI farm can get the untricity or not. Well, maybe
I should, because they're going to get it at our expense,
no matter what happens at special rates.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
By the way, but.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
If there's some kind of well can you actually sell
to these big concerns like AI data farms? And if
that's up in the air, is Brookfield going to complete
this project? Are they going to move forward with it?
I mean this has got to be a money maker
for them in order for them to proceed.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
Okay, I don't know what their business plan looks like,
but it sounds like our legislators didn't consider everything when
they put this deal together.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
So after reading this, tell me why I'm all of
a sudden very skeptical again on this whole deal. And
I think you should be two. It's twenty six after six.
Good morning, and welcome to a Monday.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
This is South Carolina This Morning News on one on
three point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia
and ninety four to three WSC Charleston. Now Gary David
and Christopher Thompson six.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Thirty four at the time.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Now it's Monday, Nmber first, rocketing off into the Christmas season.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
We're just twenty four days away. When did that happen? Right?

Speaker 4 (14:10):
I think a lot of people have already done their shopping.
I mean the Black Friday deals started weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, I had yeah, An kept saying okay, and by
the way, and my wife for our new listeners in
the low country, who gets to know all of us here?
Eventually she was she kept out, what do you want
for Christmas? I'm at that age I don't need anything, right,
I got no clue. I don't even like to think
about it before Thanksgiving. I mean, who's putting that much

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thought into it prior to the turkey hitting the table.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Well apparently everybody, I guess.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
So, so I'm sitting there last night, I okay, got
on my phone, went on Amazon, started just searching for stuff.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Okay, so uh yeah, I'll take that, share it with her.
I'll take that, share it with her.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
That's the other thing is Amazon's changed the game because
if there's anything out there, you've likely already bought it
for yourself.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
That's the other problem. Right, I don't know. Last year,
we just bought ourselves a cruise. It's not a bad idea,
you know.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Maybe we'll do that again this year. I still wish
to cruise out of Charleston. Right.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
That was a contentious point for a lot of you
in the low country, I know, back and forth. But
we up here in the middle we sure did enjoy it.
And by the way, let's remind you for folks listening
on ninety four to three WSC and Charleston, welcome to
the party.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
This is South Carolina's morning News. It is I'm Gary David.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
He is Christopher Thompson, and the two of us have
been doing the show together now for almost twenty five years. Actually,
I guess if you really looked at it, it's like
maybe twenty eight of the last thirty something like that.
And we worked together at another radio station before we
came here. Yeah we did, didn't, Yes, we did. So

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we've been around the block a few times together and
we're still here and we're dellowed to be on in
Charleston now and of course still on here in Columbia
the longtime Columbia's morning news now South Carolina's more news.
So we're excited to have you join us each and
every weekday morning between six and nine am. You'll get
to know us, we'll get to know you, and you'll

(16:16):
find that we are in fact, our ideology is conservative.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
I may not be as.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Extreme as some folks are, which in some instances is
fine and others. You know, that's when I get the
hate mail. That's fine, you know.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
I like to think we're more rational than ideological. Try
to be, Try to be.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
You're not going to hear a lot of politicians interviewed
on this program because well we've taken most of them off.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
They't want to come on. So that's fine too.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
But and it allows us to, you know, take a
step back and try to look at things in a logical,
rational manner, and you know what works best for those
of us here in South Carolina.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Those of us who pay taxes, those of us who
raise family, who have kids in school, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, so that's what we're all about. And we are
delighted to have you with us. Thank you so much.
It is the Monday morning edition of South Carolina's Morning News.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
From the Midlands to the low Country. This is South
Carolina's Morning News on one O three point five FM
and five sixty AM WVOC and ninety four to three WSC. Now,
Gary David and Christopher Thompson, good.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
To have you with us, six forty two on a
Monday morning, the first day of December, twenty four days
away from Christmas Day. And uh, well, if they're going
to break for the Christmas holiday, even fewer days left
than that up on Capitol Hill for well, specifically Republicans
to figure out what they're going to do here with
these expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare. Not many days left now.

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When we last left you, John Thune had had promised
a vote in the Senate by mid December, so just
a couple of weeks from now, Speaker Johnson hadn't made
any such guarantees on the House side.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
They don't want that hanging over their heads the entire
Christmas break.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, I think they'll do something here. If not, yeah,
January one, these enhanced subsidies go away, and there are
plenty of Republicans who who feel like if that happens,
then they're going to lose the House come the midterms.
And that's been my opinion too.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Not to mention there's the looming thread of another government
shutdown in January, and the polls are out now showing
that nobody won both sides, bothoth Welkins and Democrats lost
voter support during the last shutdown.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
No way it happens again, right, You would hope not.
You'd hope not.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
But Okay, So a week or two back, I think
it was the last Monday, we were getting news that
the White House was getting ready to roll out a plan,
and you know, we heard a lot from Trump. Trump
had been kind of on the sidelines on this for
a while. Then he jumped into it and you know,
making comments like he didn't want to see these subsidies extended,

(19:17):
but they're probably going to have to be I'm paraphrasing now.
That was digist of what he had to say, and
so the White House was going to roll out there
their plan. It looked a lot like the Hope Act,
the bipartisan plan that would extend the Text subsidies for
two more years, the Obamacare subsidies for two more years,
would put an income limit cap. I think it was well,
the Hope Act was right around two hundred thousand dollars

(19:41):
for a family of four, and it sounded like the
Trump plan might be somewhat similar to that. But then
he started hearing from the mag of Faithful Yeah, and uh,
well that that announcement of the White House plan never
came out.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
I mean, you had House Republicans saying that I was
dead on arrival.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
The House Speaker Mike Johnson urged the White House to
consider according to the Wall Street Died Journal, but so
far they haven't. So this is again a party at
war with itself.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
You've got you know Republicans and you know conservatives like myself.
For years, I've been saying Obamacare was a bad thing.
I don't my ittuna hasn't changed on that.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
But then the deadline came and nobody had a better plan. Yeah,
you had all this time.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
You knew it was gonna sunset here on January one
of twenty twenty six, but the Republicans didn't come up
with the plants. So here we are expects. I don't know, certainly,
it'll dominate the headlines for the next couple weeks, so
you can you can bet your bottom dollar on that.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
My from the state Capitol.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Carrie David and
Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Six fifty two DAG, Good morning, It's Monday, December first.
I am Gary David. He is Christopher Thompson. Morning to you.
This is the debut edition of South Carolina's Morning News.
That's a that's a little misleading there. It's the debut
of that name. It's the debut in the low Country.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Delighted to be with you every morning now starting this
morning on ninety four to three WSC. But we've been
around for a while. Yeah, here in Columbia, we've been
on for twenty five years. More so yeah for for
our friends here in the Midlands. Yeah, it's what you're
used to.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
We've been talking about topics relatable to people who live
all around this state for years and years and.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Years mm hmm, and being right here in the state capital,
you know, we get a lot of that, and they'll
be cranking up again here before you know it. Look out.
So I got up this morning and I see all
the National Weather Service X feeds, still getting used to
that whole thing, X feeds telling us the difference between

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a winter storm warning and a winter storm watch, And
I thought, did I miss something?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
No, apparently not. We're not there yet. No, we're not
there yet.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Now for the low country, yeah, there's gonna be a
rain tomorrow, and the same here in the Midlands, like
one hundred percent, Chancellor in National Reserves is calling for
and certainly temperatures lower higher there as along the coast
than here by by about ten degrees today and by
about ten degrees overnight tonight.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
But here in the Midlands, yeah, a lower forty and
a chance of rain at night. We're not getting snow.
Who started that room, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
I think people see blue on the weather map and think, Okay,
that might be near us.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
It may be near us, but it's not that near. No,
So no, there is no snow forecast for a club.
But we could see, you know, in the low country
and in parts of the Midlands.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yes, by the way, we do have a few spots
here in the Islands that are prone to flooding, notoriously
prone to flooding, as are a lot of spots in
Charleston obviously.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
So yeah, some widespread rain early part of the week,
but yet no snow, thank you. And then more rain
this weekend.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yes, Morain coming back in this weekend, and for folks
trying to get back from Thanksgiving, major snowstorms and parts
of the country really causing problems, a lot of delays,
a lot of cancelations, more than eleven thousand yesterday.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
But at least we can say they weren't due to
government shutdown. True, They're just due to mother nature. So
folks are still struggling to get back home and get
back at it here on this first day of December.
It's good to have you along.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Listening to South Carolina's morning news on one o three
five FM and five sixty AMWVOC and ninety four three Charleston.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
This is South Carolina is Morning News with Gary David
and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Hey, good morning, it's three minutes after seven o'clock. It's Monday,
December First, it's good to have you along South Contin's
morning news on one of three point five FM and
five sixty am WVOC in the Midlands and now on
ninety four to three WSC in Charleston and the low
Country and excited to be there. Yes, we are looking
forward to getting back down to the low Country here.
The next to well, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to

(24:26):
do it before Christmas.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
This this month is a kind of things, kind of busy, right,
it will be Yeah, big stories this morning. Uh the
Fox update just mentioning, uh, whit coough is back off
to Russia today.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
I don't know. I'd like to think we're on the
cusp of something happening here. We've been saying that for
two weeks now.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, but when when the you know, one of the
two major players is Vladimir Putin. Say, it's hard to
feel excited or positive about anything, but but we'll find out.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
But you know that story then you get to Venezuela.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
We'll also be talking about our guard members here heading
back to d C after that that shooting that took
the life of that one young female guards member from
West Virginia. And again the other the male and critical condition,
fighting for his life. We're talking about that this morning.
How did how did that?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
How did their deaths get reported prematurely last week exactly
by the governor.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah, yeah, the governor of West Virginia initially report that
they both had died the fog of war.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
I guess right, I don't know. But how.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
You know, the one hand, we're we're we're working, the
administration is working feverishly at it appears to bring it
into the conflict in Ukraine, which you know was one
of the reasons that you know, Trump got got elected again.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Get us not that we're in.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
That war, but you know, we certainly we invested plenty
in that Oh we got plenty of plenty of Benjamin's
in that thing.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, and no one and no one in this country
should ever root for Russia ever ever. But on the
flip side, now, when you went and voted for Trump
last November, did you envision the potential of going to
war in South America?

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Not if you voted for the America First platform. Yeah, you,
I mean, you've heard a president who said, you know,
I'm going to keep us out of the all these
foreign wars.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
So a call last week, New York Times reporting uh
that apparently didn't last terribly long between uh well US
and Venezuela and Trump banking a phone call reportedly to
uh to Nicholas Madura, this is as uh the article

(27:00):
I'm looking at here says, as Washington prepares to launch
land attacks inside Venezuela.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Who saw that coming?

Speaker 4 (27:08):
I mean, it's one thing, you know, to try and
stem the drug war and and you know, stop all
the drugs from coming from that direction. Uh huh, it's
another two. I mean we're talking about boots on the ground.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Well, you know, these days with drones and everything else,
maybe you don't have to put boots on the ground.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
But it sounds like that nobody signed up for that.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Now, what it is in this phone call that Trump
offered to Madua save passage, get out of Venezuela. Okay,
let's let's for a moment. Let's let's just say that happens.
Let's say Madua exit stage left. Well, who's waiting in

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the wing and does anything really change?

Speaker 4 (28:03):
That sounds like many Middle Eastern countries we've been involved
with over the years.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Done, except for this one's just you know, just south
of our border here. Regime change is always the roll
of the dice, Yes it is.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
And oh, by the way, you know, in the meantime,
of course, you know dictator thugs like Nicholas Madori, you
know who who's cozying up to Russians Chinese?

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah? Right?

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Oh, and by the way, the liberal media, now there
their whole focus on this is Okay, did Pete hags
At back in September order a second strike on one
of these drug running boats?

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Kill them all?

Speaker 3 (28:42):
No, that's that's I believe. I wasn't really look at
the clock, but it looked like the Today Show I
think it was one. There was one of their lead
stories this morning. So this is royal in Washington. Now,
this gives the Democrats something else to complain about.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
But I think again it goes back to why people
hooted for Trump and for this administration. This is this
is not what people thought the focus would or should
be on.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Nobody has an issue with Okay, let's let's keep these
drugs out of our country, right. But you know, if
if that was a major, you know, platform for Trump
heading into you know, twenty twenty four, not many people
would have disagreed with that. Well, sure Democrats would have
found a way disagree with somehow. You know, that's because

(29:34):
that's the way it works. But this, this is no
one of these bridge too fars for even many of
the back of faithful here. There have been a few
of those here as of late.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
You're listening to South Carolina this Morning, yous with Gary
David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
And we appreciate that it's thirteen after seven, it's Monday,
December the first, and I hope Ellen Weaver is paying
attention to this story of the state superintend of Education
and all the public school officials and.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Organizations and everybody else.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Remember there was a time when around here it was
always well, thank God for Mississippi, and we could always
kind of Mississippi being you know, dead last, being dead last,
so that we weren't when it came to education. Well,
we can't say that anymore. You back up about a
dozen years. Twenty thirteen, Mississippi was ranked forty nine out

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of fifty states in Grade four reading achievement. Now they're
talking about Mississippi miracle. By twenty nineteen, they went from
forty ninth to twenty ninth. Last year they were nineteenth
best in the country when it comes to reading achievement.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
How did they do it well. They passed a.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Law in twenty thirteen, a Literacy Based Promotion Act. Basically,
they they did two things. They adopted phonics and they
said high standards for students. Don't don't the name of
the bill, the Literacy Based Promotion Act. In other words,

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teach the kids, make sure they're learning, or they don't advance.
The results have been unbelievable. Last year, Black students in
Mississippi ranked third nationally for reading in mass scores, number

(31:54):
three in the country. Hispanic students first in the nation
for reading second form mass scores, Students from economically challenged
families first for reading second for mass scores nationally. It's

(32:16):
not impossible and it's not a miracle. It basically comes
down to, you know, holding kids accountable, not just give
them a free pass, which we're so used to doing
these days.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah, they actually came up with a plan to catch
kids early. Anybody who was struggling early, you know, went
into an immediate other program specially designed for them to
improve their reading skills instead of waiting until you know, eighth, ninth,
tenth grade.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
And it was too late.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
We figure out, oh yeah, these kids right, and they
didn't go for the whole language thing. You know, you
don't have to learn how that sounds or how it's spelled.
You can just follow the context to figure out what
the words it is. Right, nobody learns to read that way.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
It is working in Mississippi, and uh, well, yeah, we're
we're making strides here, but we've still got a long
way to go in our state. Maybe we should try
our own Literacy based Promotion Act and see how that works.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
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Speaker 3 (33:44):
I appreciate your rolling now with us here on Monday, December,
the first coming off a four day weekend.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
This is this is this has been difficult, isn't it?
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Normally you get a you know, a Thanksgiving Day weekend,
four days the news is kind of hard to come by.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
But well, this wasn't the case this time around.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Putty of news made over the last couple of days
since we were last with you here in Columbia last Wednesday,
and that good morning to our new friends in the
low Country and listening to us on ninety four to
three WSC and Charleston, it's nice to meet you. I
guess what Trump and the White House news is going
to be made on a pretty regular basis if nothing

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else thinks the truth social and he posted Friday that
all orders signed by the Biden auto pen were noll
and void and that if Biden tries to argue that
he was involved, he'd be charged with perjury. Okay, well,
I don't think you find too many people.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
That believe that that rash of pardons that came down
on the way out the door, that each and every
one of those was the intention of the then president
of the United States. No, but they aren't always.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
I mean a lot of that gets done by staff,
especially at the end of an administration. The question is
would true, would a rational, coherent, you know, president who
had all his faculties have approved those right.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Now?

Speaker 3 (35:23):
The Office of Legal Counsel there was a ruling that
deemed the use of the auto pen is legal as
long as the president intended to use it, and Axios
reporting that there were well Biden officials who had raised
concerns over the use of the autopen. Some of those

(35:45):
stories are now resurfacing. Axios ran a report that top
Biden officials questioned and criticized the way that the team
handled these pardons and the waitning days of his His
is one term in office, and they went into some
length to talk about some of the instances. One person

(36:10):
familiar with the clemency process told Axios that after Biden
pardoned dear Hunter that was one year ago today, by
the way, for the record, there was a mad dash
to find groups of people that he could then pardon,
and then they largely didn't run it by the Justice
Department to vet them.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Was this the idea of, well, we'll do so many
that the Hunter Biden pardon won't stand out.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
We'll do so many bad come the story.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
We'll do so many bad ones that it will cloud
the bad when he passed along to his son, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
That's not good policy. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Additionally, the outlet reported that senior White House officials pushed
back internally on request to use the AUTO and that
the White House Staff Secretary Steph Feldman repeatedly asked for
more information and confirmation of Biden's intentions with a said
auto pen, wondering if they actually got Biden's approval on this.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
Well.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
So, even internally in the White House at the time,
a lot of people were questioning the validity of these pardons.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
You had a detached president, you had power hungry people
who were in the waning days of an administration. Of
course there's going to be abuse, yeah, but this was
like abuse on a whole other scale. Right here, SAMs
So Trump says, those pardons and null en void. We'll
see how the courts will be involved in this one.
We'll see where it goes. It's seven twenty six. It's
the Monday morning edition of South Carolina's Morning News.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Gary Day and
Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Say No three, good morning, and it's great to have
you with us here. It's Monday, December first back to work,
back at it after a four day break for most
of us. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
I think a lot of people, a lot more than
we realize, have decided they're not going to deal with
the Sunday travel anymore. They decide to wait an extra
day and see if they can wait out the big
crunch on Sunday after Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
I don't know how smart that is, because I think
I think Monday's become more of a travel day than
we'd realize.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Well, and there's been some some hangover from the winter
weather we had in parts of the country that too,
eleven thousand some on flights that were interrupted yesterday across
our nation. But at least it was for mother Nature
and not Uncle Sam true, which uh you know, we
we we could we could replay this all over again
here in about two months time.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
No one has the stomach for that, no one, No
one wins another government shutdown. You but there are a
lot of losers that's on the dock at this hour.
We're talking about that, we're talking about well again the
root cause of that. What will the Republicans do? Is
there a game plan for these.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
To extend these enhanced subsidies for Obamacare, which is at
the heart of all of this. Of course, we got
that still to talk about some more this morning. We've
got the Venezuelan issue, you know, we keep hearing that.
You know, we're getting close to something with Russia and Ukraine.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
We'll see and here around the state. Things are fairly quiet,
but there is a.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Question at least Sidney Roskapi, writing the Posting Courier a
couple of days ago in an op ed piece about well,
can this company that has decided to take over and
restart or rebuild rather or build never got built the
first time that second reactor at the VCS Summer Nuclear Station.

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Can they even sell it to big customers or not
the electricity they generate, there's some concern over that.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Now we'll be getting to that.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
Well, thanks for being here, We appreciate it, and thanks
to everybody it's touting in this morning on ninety four
to three WSC and Charleston. We are glad to meet you,
to make your acquaintance welcome to the party.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Pal. Yeah, all right, my name is.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Gary David by the way, he is Christopher Thompson, and
together we've been doing a show in the Columbia market
now for almost twenty five years, so we've been hanging
around here for a long time. And you know, what
we're doing this morning is what we've always done and
what we'll continue to do. And we are are pleased
to be.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
In the low country now talking about things that are relevant,
if you pay taxes in South Carolina, you're raising your
family here, if your kids go to school here, of life.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Yeah, and is the legislative session rams back up next month,
There'll be plenty to talk about on that front.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Oh yeah, plenty. And oh, by the way, yeah, we've
it's midterm election year here and we've got a hotly
contested Republican gubernatorial primary and we'll be talking a lot
about that. We have been all how weird here in Columbia.
We've been talking about that now for really all year, right,

(41:28):
I mean almost all year, and the campaigning hasn't even
started yet. It's oh no, oh no, no, not even close.
So that's what we do, and that's what we've been
doing and what we'll continue to do. And you know,
these days, I me, when we first started doing this show,
it seemed like, you know, local was local. But now
it's almost like everything is local because certainly the national

(41:49):
political scene has had a very big impact on everyone,
no matter where they are in this country.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
How many times have we gone into a state House
session where the first thing legislators decided was, Okay, we've
got to pick up whatever's the hot topic nationally and
bring it to South Carolina.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Yeah, it happens over and over and over again. So yeah,
these days almost all news rather is local news.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
So that's what we do.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
And again, for our friends here in the Midlands, we
thank you for your support over all these many years
here in the Columbia area and we're happy to be
on board with you in the low Country. On ninety
four to three WSC and Charleston. Thanks for having us,
and yeah, welcome to the party, pal, It's going to

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be a ride.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Good news.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Gas prices at least nationally, and I don't know around here,
at least in my neck of the woods there they
haven't changed much. But nationally the average price of a
gallon of gas has dropped below three dollars.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
First time in four years. What happened in the last
four years? Oh yeah, that other guy who was in
the office.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
So this is a decline in all fifty states, first
time under three bucks in a long time. And the experts,
whoever they are, are saying, despite all the doom and gloom,
that they think that this Christmas season, we as Americans

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will spend for the first time ever more than a
trillion dollars.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
Small businesses are loving that, loving that big business is
loving that.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Amazon's really digging that. Can we get there? Can we?

Speaker 3 (43:42):
I mean all the all the doom and glue man
about the economy, And let's face it, the polls indicate
that we're not exactly thrilled with the economy, but we're
gonna spend anyway. It looks like, well, we'll see what
the numbers actually do bring. But there's some some certainly
some some rosy economic news there if it comes to pass.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
You're listening to South Carolina's Morning Yous with Gary David
at Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
It's coming up twenty fourteen. Now.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Now, the fallout from the shooting and the killing of
one guard's troop and another the young female, the twenty
year old from West Virginia who died of this shooting,
and the young male who is said to be fighting
for his life in critical condition.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
The fallout from that.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
Is that the President now saying he will permanently pause
migration from third world countries as a result of this murder,
which may unfortunately become murderers, let's hope not. DHS confirming
it is initiating a review of hundreds of thousands of
refugees who were brought here by the Biden administration, and

(45:01):
they are citing evidence that many were rushed here without
adequate vetting. I don't think that's even in question, is it.
I mean, how many of these Afghan refugees were allowed
into this country under the Biden White House in such
a short.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Amount of time. There was no way you could vet
all these people.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
But you're just telling us there's going to be one
more court battle in Washington now, because yeah, right, this
will not go unnoticed or unchecked by the Democrats.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
No.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
No, So Sarah Beckstrom, twenty years old, is dead, and
on news of her death, the Citizenship and Immigration Services
indicated they had halted the processing of all immigration requests
pertaining to those Afghans who were previously brought here. So,

(45:54):
I mean, I don't even do we even know the
number that we're allowed into this country after again that
botched withdrawal. It keeps coming back and haunting us, doesn't it.
It keeps coming back and biting us on the rear end,
over and over and over again. Tom Holman predicts there

(46:14):
will be deportations of most Third world migrants because of
the risk from this lack of vetting, as he said
on Fox's Sunday Morning Futures, these third world nations, they
don't have systems like we do. So a lot of

(46:34):
these Afghanis when they did get here and get vetted,
they had no identification at all, not a single travel document,
not a piece a single piece of identification.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
This is the problem.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
You have no way of going back and looking at
any potential prior records from their home country because they
don't exist. And hope and pointing out that again over
the course of the Biden administration, he put the number
total not just Afghani's here, but the total number of

(47:10):
more than ten million people who crossed the border, more
than ten million.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
You might see a problem with that.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
One problem with trying to remove these folks so quickly, though,
is we're going to overwhelm the system. We still haven't
fixed the system. All the complaints that we on this
side had during the Biden administration about not enough immigration judges,
for example, moving quickly to move these folks out who
had committed crimes here in this country, Well, the same judges,
the same number of judges are going to be overwhelmed.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
If we start throwing people out.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
The only thing we've had positive come up with over
the course of the last now and early year is
that at least we've stopped the flow, and that has helped.
You had to start there, and now you've got to
figure out what you do with all these people that
are here who we know nothing about, like this guy here,
this alled shooter.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
It's Ay seventeen. We'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is South
Carolina's morning news on one O three point five FM,
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NOW Gary David and Christopher Thompson twenty three.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
I sure hope the folks at Brookfield Asset Management didn't
read Cindy Ross copies up in the posting courier a
couple of days back. I suspect they're probably I hope
they already knew this. These are the folks who have agreed.
I didn't think they ever find.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
A buyer for the you can say hole in the ground,
the hole in the ground. Yeah, that we're still paying
for it.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
We're still paying for it right over in Drinkinsville at
the VC Summer planned. But we did find a buyer
for it to go in and try to build that
second reactor out of what's left from the first attempt.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
At supposedly no taxpayer expense. This is when we get
told private enterprise. We're told that, and let's hope that's
the case. But there are questions now, specifically not you know,
do we get left holding a bag or can they
build it or anything? Or maybe the question is will
they build it because of this? Can they sell it

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to whomever they want? Keep in mind, still a partner
in all this is the state owned utility Santie Cooper.
Under existing law as it stands right now, all that
Brookfield could do would be to sell us electricity to
an authorized utility, which could then sell it directly to

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consumers inside a service area. But the obvious partner here
in all this, she writes, is Santie Cooper, who could
only really resell that electricity to someone in their service territory.
If Brookfield wanted to sell electricity they let's say, a
data center that was in Dominion's territory, they'd have to

(50:27):
come to sort sort of agreement. Dominion, she was wondering, Okay,
is this going to be a problem, So she went
on I started talking to people like Molly Gore, spokeswoman
at Santi Cooper, who said, well, it's it's remaining, it's

(50:47):
under negotiation. Our states shouldn't even have a utility. But
that's a whole that's a whole other story, right, exactly right.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
Tom Davis, who's been really pushing for this, of course
and a big fan of electricity deregulation, first told her
that he had inserted a carve out from state regulations
into state law to let Brookfield self to whomever they
wanted directly to consumers. But later that same day, after

(51:17):
that conversation, he got back to her and said, now
you know I was wrong. Something would have to change
to allow her to sell to major utility users.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
And he is an experts not only in electric legislation
but in legislation in general. Yeah, so if he didn't
see this coming, then no one did.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
And she talked to Duke Scott, who was deputy executive
director of the Public Service Commission. He couldn't point to
a single specific provision in state law that says that
these entities are allowed to sell electricity to the public.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
So how is this company going to make its money
back if they go ahead and build finished building out
this structure, right, Yeah?

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Do they know of this already? If they didn't, they do,
now wow? And does that?

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Is that like a big massive speed bump for Brookfield
Asset Management when it comes to listen, we need that power,
we need it.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
But will they be able to sell it to whomever
they want to? Could be a deal breaker. If they're
not going to make any money off of it, then
why would they build it?

Speaker 4 (52:25):
Exactly? That's business one oh one, business doing business stuff.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
This is South Carolina This Morning News on one O
three point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia
and ninety four to three WSC Charleston. Now, Gary David
and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Say thirty five, I realize we have spent them an
ordinate amount of time this morning making introductions. We're doing
right here just because you know, people are in and out, and.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Not everyone gets in their car at the same time
or not everyone gets up and turns their alarm clock.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Radio on at the same time. Exactly.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
So we would like to welcome our new listeners in
the low Country as we're now heard as of today
on ninety four to three WSC and Charleston. We have
been on the air here in the midlands of South
Carolina for twenty almost twenty five years this time around,

(53:33):
and this is what we do.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
We are.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Conservative, the both of us are. But you know we'll
break from that when logic dictates. We don't march in lockstep.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
No we don't.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
And some people like that and some people hate that,
whichever camp you fall in. But folks here in the
Columbia area, I have been with us for a long
time and we appreciate that, and thank you for for
being here all this time, and we plan to be
with you and Charleston now for a long time to
come as well. So welcome in. Thanks for joining us.

(54:14):
We appreciate it. By the way, my name is Gary David.
His name is Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
And we're always on the side of you, meaning you
who you want a better quality of life in the
state of South Carolina and in the United States in
general exactly.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
So coming up in a couple of minutes, we're going
to be talking about something that well there's been a
bit of flashpoints early for for conservatives, and that is Obamacare.
But we want to come to this from advantage point
of well, let's just call it political expediency. What are
the Republicans going to do because time is now very

(54:49):
short here, and if they don't do the right things,
it could spell disaster come November of next year. But again,
this is another topic that has shown the divisions in
the Republican Party, and we'll lay all that out for

(55:12):
you here coming up in just a couple of minutes
on the Monday morning edition of South Carolina's Morning News.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Gary David and
Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
The morning is flying by. It's already eight forty two.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Morning, Tulia, and we appreciate you joining us on this Monday,
December first, the debut edition of South Carolina's Morning News
in the Midlands and in the low Country.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
Say what it is? Same show we always had, right,
Yes it is. It's got a new name.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
So the Hill dot Com headline screams this for the GOP,
it's crunch time on Obamacare, and that's an accurate headline.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
It is.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
It's remember the first I'm assuming they want to get
out of town for three Weeksmas break. Yeah, just yeah,
three weeks. They don't have a whole lot of time
to do something. Okay, now, a little backstory here on this. I,
like many of you, not a fan of Obamacare. It's
been a total disaster. But the Republican Party, much like

(56:25):
a you know, an eighteen year old, waiting until the
night before the final exam to cram for it, failed
to come up with any better solution. Lo these many years,
we knew, we've known for years now that these enhanced
subsidies going to go away at the end of twenty
twenty six, twenty twenty five, brother, and you can bet

(56:46):
your bottom dollar the Democrats weren't going to say a word,
all right. They wanted it to come down to this.
So here you are in the in the closing weeks
of the year, and there's no play here. This is
what caused the first shutdown. And if it's not resolved,
this will do two things. It will cause another shutdown

(57:08):
at the end of January, and it could well spell
disaster for the Republican Party in the midterms of November. Now,
the Trump administration had announced a week or so back
that they would well the only indication really going to
roll out a plan sounded a lot like a bipartisan

(57:29):
plan in Congress called the Hope Act, that would extend
the benefits the enhanced subsidies, that is, for two more years,
would put a cap, an income cap. You make above
two hundred thousand or whatever it was, you're not eligible. YadA, YadA, YadA. Okay,
sounded like could be a lot like that. That plan
never came out from the White House because some members

(57:53):
of the GOP revolted.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
One of the problems was abortion. Exactlytly, what did this
plan do with, you know, federal dollars being paid for abortion?

Speaker 4 (58:03):
And the White House wasn't revealing that. It sounded like
they were just throwing up trial balloons. And when they
got shot down quickly by their own party and by
some of the mag of Faithful, the Trump administration backtracked.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
That wasn't our plan. Yeah, so the plan for the
White House never came out. Again, Republican infighting has got
us to this point. Here we're on the first day
of the month of December, and we got one month
left to do something about it. Again, let me reiterate,
I'm no fan of Obamacare, but here's what happens. If

(58:40):
the Republicans don't come up with some sort of a plan,
they can get passed. Whether or not we actually have
another government shut down the end of January still a
bit up in the air, but it could happen. But
more importantly, it is going to be when people are
having to You've seen the raids without the enhanced subsidies.

(59:02):
How much are it going to be. It's just a
fact of life. When people see that, when people start
paying that for healthcare, they're not going to be inclined
to go to the ballot box in November and vote
for the Republican Party.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
They're just not.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
And that's what John Thunis said. You know, it's not
only about addressing subsidies, it's about addressing affordability, period exactly.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
And what happens if that happens, If the midterms and
then potentially the next presidential cycle go Democrat, that brings
the Democrats one step closer to their ultimate goal, which
remember we've got to go back a few years. It
wasn't Obamacare, it was hillary Care. Remember hillary Care? Oh sure, yeah,

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universal Healthcare. They didn't have the votes. Then in this environment,
with this makeup of the Democrat Party, and if it's
a Republican Party that's down a number of seats thanks
to all of this, they'd have a much better chance
down the road of bringing that in and getting it

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past single payer healthcare. If you thought Obamacare was a disaster,
will do you get a load of that one? So yeah,
it's all about political expediency here. You hold your nose
and you do something. Is there enough time left for

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the Republicans to do something about it? Or will the
infighting utterly spell some sort of disaster not just the
Republican Party but for this country when it comes to healthcare.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
You're listening to South Carolina's Morning Yous with Gary David
at Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
All right, eight fifty two our final thoughts.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
Let me start with this though, because I was just
chatting with us some of our holks down at our
station at WSC. Apparently there was some sort of a
glitch down there, and if you listening to us in Charleston,
you were hearing Columbia's traffic reports with tumbleweed. Oh well,
you could care less about that, right exactly. They've got
that fixed now. You you shouldn't be hearing the Columbia

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traffic reports. No, we we got our guy in Charleston
doing that, and I think they've got that worked out now,
So apologies if that was the case. Who got a
hiccup in the system down there and they've got that
straightened out now, so thank thankfully for that. No, you
will you will not be hearing Columbia traffic and weather reports. No, okay,

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get that out of the way right now, there you go,
all right?

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
Good.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
Remember the guy Wayne litle Bounty, the trooper who was
heard us back in September. I guess now this was
this was here, This was here in the Midlands.

Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
This was it seemed like we had a rash of
troopers who were hit on the side of the road
while doing their jobs.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Yeah, we had one trooper in Orangeburg County killed as
I recall. But Leabouney, who's been a forty year vet
of the Higher Patrol, seriously injured.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
According to an insignt report that's been filed by the
Lextdon County Sheriff's Department up here in the Midlands, he
has been accused of attempting to rape one of his
en home caregivers. What accused of luring a caregiver into
his bedroom, exposing himself and pending her against a wall.

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These are the allegations they are just that allegations. Didn't
see that one coming. A former governor of our state
and a guy who wanted to be governor have teamed
up David Beasley and Phil Noble, who ran as a
Democrat twenty eighteen, I think it was. They're starting a

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humanitarian project for children, Palestinian kids in Gaza.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
I mean David Beasley's been doing a big work on
the global scale.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
Yeah, got a Nobel Prize for us as he is. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
I don't have time to really talk a much about
it right now, but maybe we'll get into this tomorrow.
This is this case up in Virginia about the high
school football coach who was they're looking at him for
child porn. Another child porn story here. Maybe we'll spend
some time tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
And another Republican in Congress retiring Troynelles and a big
Trump supporter.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
It's gonna be walking away. This is becoming a very
troubling tread. It's gonna wrap it up for us. Thanks
for joining us for this the Monday morning edition of
South Carolina's Morning News. Back at it tomorrow morning at six.
We'll see you right here