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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Fallen for Reius.

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One nation.

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Is wrong.

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This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
point five FM and five sixty AM w VOC, Columbia
and ninety four to three WSC Charleston. Now Gary David
and Christopher Thompson, and good.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Morning to you.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Welcome in.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
It's Tuesday, December the second, three minutes after six up
and roll on again, South Carolina's morning news on one
of three point five FM and five sixty AM wv
OC in ninety four to three Charleston. I hope you're
off to a good start this morning, and safe, careful
out there. We've got to a widespread rain across the
state midlands down to the low Country. It'll be heavy

(01:00):
at times and we could see some some some flooding
in a few spots. So we'll keep you posted on
road conditions across the Middlands and the low Country this morning.
And welcome in. It is good to have you here.
My name is Gary David. Right over there, Christopher Thompson.
And no snow in the forecast, No, no, no, no snow.

(01:21):
I think we talked about this Yesterdavid. There's still people
who are suggesting oh you know, it's cold, it's rainy.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
What are we going to see?

Speaker 5 (01:28):
Yeah, well you're not here, no, no, no, no, we're
here in in our neck of the woods now in
the Midlands. Uh, yeah, we've We're in the forties something
like that right now. I haven't checked recently here. Certainly
warmer in the low country, but no, no snow. Although
we did have the press or yesterday over at the
Emergency Management Division Center. It's the they do it this

(01:52):
time of the year every year, December first, Yeah, to
talk about you know, well it's winter weather week. Maybe
that's what confuses people. You know, it's just designated as
winter weather. We oh, so we're gonna get no or not.
Doesn't mean we're gonna see winter weather this week.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
No. Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
For the record, Uh, the the Noah forecast is calling
for our state to be warmer and drier this winter.
So we're not we're not worried about all that. But boy,
the Northeast, hope you're not heading that way today.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
A climatologist mt saying that the Northeast will be colder
than literally anywhere else on earth today.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, so they're looking for for big time problems there
snow ice, you know, all the nastiness. So if you're
a travels take you today to the northeast, expected of
probably a few slow downs. Big stories we're following on
this Tuesday morning all across the state. Uh this big one,
we'll have more details on the resignation of uh Well,

(02:58):
a Nancy Mays senior advisor. He resigned yesterday and said
that President Trump should take Mace off his list for
considerations of an endorsement. Austin mccoven, who was Trump's state
director in the twenty twenty four campaign and Mace's campaign
manager in twenty twenty two, saying that Mace has aligned

(03:22):
herself with an anti Trump wing of the Republican Party
and it's urging folks here not to vote for her
for governor and urging Trump not to endorse her. So, well,
what got her on the wrong side of him? We'll
get into that.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Sounds like that happens a lot with people she worked with.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Kind of seems that way, doesn't it. That's not a
novel story for Nancy Mace. We've got eleven warships and
fifteen thousand troops now in the Caribbean as tensions continue
to escalate in Venezuela. The President, of course, confirming he
did have a phone call with Venezuelan's strong man, Nicholas
Modura over the weekend promised Mador and his family safe

(04:05):
passage if they would, if they would, Bolt resign his seat.
But a lot of people are asking this question this morning.
While that's going on, Trump is is pledged to pardon
a former head of State of Honduras for Honduran President,
Juan Orlando Hernandez, a guy that was convicted of trafficking cocaine.

(04:29):
Hearing of this country. It's kind of bizarre. We'll tell
you what the White House said in defending that idea
from Trump. Meantime, more news being made about the strike,
the second strike in one of those Narco boats. Now
the White House says it was an admiral who ordered

(04:50):
that follow up strike. They continue to insist that the
attack was lawful, but many in Congress are questioning this,
including some Republicans. The president's physician releasing his physical results. Okay,
let me just put this out here right now. Any
time of president's medical results are released from their annual exams,

(05:13):
they always come out with one result, right, excellent. I
don't care who the president is, what year it is,
what's going on with their health. We always get this, yeah, yeah,
president's excellent. Now, part of this could be national. You
don't want to come out and say, yeah, the president's
really having a hard time here.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, you're not going to tell our enemies otherwise.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
No, no, But of course the media narrative, the media
who ignored Joe Biden's health issues is trying to make
a big deal now of Trump's aging and oh is
he having issues? Well, and there's the report that says, well,
we knew it would be excellent. And speaking of health,
the Senate promising a vo John Thunon did by the

(05:54):
middle of this month on extending the Obamacare enhanced subsidies,
but it looks like any kind of a bipartisan breakthrough
is probably unlikely. We'll get to that and more coming
up on this. It is the Tuesday morning edition of
South Carolina's Morning.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
News 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 four four three WSC.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Thank you now, Gary.

Speaker 6 (06:32):
David and Christopher Thompson. We'll get used to this in
a little while. I'm sure, I promise you. It's fourteen
after six. Good morning, Tuesday, December the second. We appreciate
you being with us. We are, what now, twenty three
days away from the big day, fewer shopping days than that.
Let I don't know that we're going to see a
lot of heavy traffic in brick and mortar stores if

(06:53):
Black Friday results are any indication.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Oh, numbers were down.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
No, they were up.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Oh okay, everybody's and done already.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well and they're doing it online.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Okay, yeah, yesterday was Cyber Monday, right, but people didn't
wait for Cyber Monday. Black Friday online spending a record
eleven point eight billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Wow, yeah, all the dooming go. Hey wait, we were
talking this is gonna be a horrible, horrible.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
Christmas season for retailers. Maybe not so a new record
close to twelve billion. That was just online spending on
Black Friday, not to mention what happened to the stores.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I don't have that number in front of me right now.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Just doing Thanksgiving for reading up to Thanksgiving, we spend
a record six point four billion dollars. Now, bar that's
got of course, got to do with the fact that
you know, Black Friday now starts.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
What November one, you get a lot of these stories.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Or a lot of these stores. Yeah, that's one of
all the big discounts hits.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
So they're going to have to expand the span that
they count these numbers. I mean, you can't take statistics
from just you know, the day after Christmas or day
after thanks Giving through Christmas because a lot of people
are getting their shopping done earlier and earlier.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
And here's what's really interesting. On top of all that,
this year an eight hundred percent spike in AI driven
traffic to retail websites compared to last year. You get
things like, oh, Walmart's got their own AI thing, what
they call it, sparky, Amazon's got rufous just just a

(08:25):
couple of the mini out there, and uh yeah, more
and more people. Matter of fact, Adobe did a survey
found that nearly half of us had already used or
planning to use AI to assist with online shopping. Okay, now,
I'm not the most technically savvy person around. I'm not
exactly sure how that helps you out, but apparently it does.

(08:48):
I guess I better bone up on this. Huh uh
so that's that's that's that's driving numbers too. What people
are doing. They're using AI to find the best deals
obviously the best places. I guess I'll just have to
play around with that makes sense how that happens. By
the way, hopefully you're not in bitcoin. It's worst worst

(09:09):
day since March yesterday.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Ouch.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, the crypto markets are a little in and uproar.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Bad news for Nancy Mace as one of her top
advisors only bolts the campaign, but is asking you not
to vote for and Trump not to endorse her. We've
got the details coming up on South Carolina's Morning.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
News live from the State Capitol. This is South Carolina's
Morning News with Carrie David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's twenty two after six o'clock.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
Good morning for Tuesday, December the second, and again, welcome
to our new friends Nick Charleston listening to us on
ninety four to three WSC. One thing you're gonna learn
about us if we screw something up, we can admit
to it. Okay, We're not going to try to hide
like it never happened like some people do, you know
in media talking about yesterday yesterday that was that was
a major screw up. Yeah, yeah, but it's fixed, I'm

(10:10):
told this morning.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
That is good news.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
We apologize that.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Apparently those of you listening in the low country, we're
you know, getting things like a Columbia traffic report and
the Columbia weather forecasts. Who cares, right, exactly, so that
that is fixed this morning, hopefully you're getting, well you
should be getting this morning on ninety four to three WSC.
That is your traffic reports, that is your weather reports,
and not the ones from from the midlands. So hey,

(10:36):
you know it happens. But when we read one.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
But yeah, what we will talk about is news that
impacts all of us.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
Exactly like the story here about well another break with
Nancy Mace. There have been a litany of people in
the Mace campaign that have exited stage right.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well wait a minute, not just her campaign. There have
been a litany of people who have gone in and
out of her offices, whether it's campaign office, whether it's
raational office. There's been a lot of turnover, a little
reminiscent of Kamala Harris who had that problem. To remember, No, no,
I'm not comparing Nancy Mace to Kamala Harris. But when
it comes to this particular thing, well, yeah, but this

(11:15):
one has a potential to be a real blockbuster. I
think it is.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
You may not be familiar with the name, but Austin
mccoin who was Mace's campaign manager in her run for
the first district seat back in twenty twenty two. He
was Trump's state director here in the Palmetto State for
the twenty twenty four successful campaign. Well, actually in South Kuntia,
you could have put anybody in that spot.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Trump put awaken them with me in there, and even
a one.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
But and then back in August he was named as
the estate director for Nancy Mason's gubernatorial campaign. Well that
was just a few months ago. He has left that position,
and he did not go quietly into that good night.
In a long post, McCubbin said that Mace has aligned

(12:06):
to herself with an anti Trump wing of the Republican Party. Specifically,
he referenced to Rand Paul and Thomas Massey. He says,
last month, the Rand Paul affiliated Protect Freedom Political Action
Committee started spending money to benefit Mace. I mentioned last
week I saw my first pack ad for Nancy Mace.

(12:30):
I thought that timing was interesting.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Now, you can't control what these packs do and how
much they spent or whether they spend any money at
all on you. No, you can't, but there's some behind
the scenes stuff that goes on.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
Oh yeah, they're not going to spend money on a
candidate unless they know are in line with that candidate.
So when then Mace ads hit last week, and I
at the time thought, well, and I still do. I
think this is kind of a rehab thing for Mace
after the debacle at the airport and Charleston a couple
of weeks ago. Mccuffin says that this pack that is

(13:06):
Rand Paul affiliated, has spent close to five hundred thousand
dollars on advis in South Carolina on behalf of Nancy Mace.
So he is leaving the campaign, but he's not again
going quietly. He is telling South Coronina voters that Nancy
Mace is anti Trump aligned, don't vote for her. And

(13:27):
in addition, he is asking the President not to endorse her.
And he did say he did have a conversation with
Trump before he announced that he was splitting, and at
which time he asked the President not to endorse her
because she's aligning against him on a number of things.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
He'sas all right, let's take the facts here. If these
are true. Number one, it means that she's either desperate
for money and she'll take it from anywhere, okay. Or
number two, she doesn't think Trump will be as big
a factor in the upcoming election, or.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Maybe that Trump won't endorse anybody, because let's face it,
I mean, if Trump is gonna endorse, he's gotta make
a tough decision.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, I still think he stays out of the race.
And I'm not sure how many South Carolinians are really
banking their decision on you who Trump decides should lead
South Carolina.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
Well, I would say there's certainly a contingent of Talis
Gunnians who would definitely do that. I don't know this
is a good, good play. I mean, you vote for
who you think best serves the needs of South Carolina. Right,
But we'll have more on this, certainly as this this
bombshell dropped yesterday, another moment of is it bad news

(14:42):
for the base campaign? They don't think so. Apparently their
response will get to a little bit later on. It's
twenty seven after the hour. Thanks for joining us for
South Carolina's Morning News.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
If you're listening to SO Carolina This Morning, yous with
Gary David at Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
And we appreciate you doing just that.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
Six thirty five on a uh A rainy Tuesday morning
across the Palmeado State, December the second, I'm Gary David.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
That there is Christopher Thompson. More on this may story
here Tove.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
By the way, for our new listeners in the low
country tof Christopher Thompson is dove often. Let's go back.
This guy goes like about thirty years. I guess I wouldn't.
I didn't come up with that.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
No college nickname, college nickname.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah, anyway TOAF mentioned Christopher Christafer last game. From there
there you go that these packs and they're spending you know,
you're not supposed to be at all the line with
a with a candidate's campaign's supposed to be really no
interaction there. The pack chooses who they want to support
and this and that. But we all know the money

(15:56):
is uh is supreme when it comes to the running
for office. And the Posting Courier had done an analysis
of a campaign finance returns and they found that Mace
had been really unable to secure any early support from
deep pocketed South Carolina donors, so she had been seeking

(16:20):
out of state money to help with her fundraising. Okay,
I think we've talked about that a month or two
back when that came out. Mccobn. Austin mccobn, Jay Austin
McCubbin for the record, who just resigned as her state director,

(16:41):
makes claims now in his departure that Mace told him
that she was directing a personal friend to fund a
seven figure check to the Pro Paul Political Acture Committee. Again,
this is the as we mentioned in the last segment,
the Rand Paul Pack Protect Freedom Pack. So according to

(17:04):
uh to mccobbn, Mace told him that she was asking
or directing, he said, a personal friend to fund this check,
running it through the Propal Pack. Now, I don't know
if that crosses any if that's true, does that does
that cross any ethical or legal ethical lines?

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Ethical?

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Certainly, I mean it's but it happens all the time.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Well, that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
I mean, you don't you don't come buy money without
knowing where it's coming from. They're not supposed to direct
it in that fashion, but it happens every day.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
Mccomban also claims he hadn't been paid a dime since
he started back in August.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
So is this is this, you know, just a bitter
claim from a guy who wasn't being paid or does
he have a serious beef here and Rand Paul? I
mean this is all part of Rand Paul's to run
for president in the next election. I mean, that's why
he's put this pack together. He's not he's not just
helping fellow Republicans. He's gearing up for a run himself

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and keeping receipts. Yes, yes, Well, the Mace campaign, responding
to all this and saying that McCubbin didn't raise a
dime for the campaign, never even bothered showing up that
he demanded ten thousand dollars a month for his services
and was told no. He ran straight to X Good

(18:32):
luck with that. And they also reminded us that it
was mccovenum's himself who talked about what a staunch ally
that Mace was of Donald Trump. Well, that's been the
problem she is on some things, on on other's And again.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Mccubn is apparently, well, I don't well whatever pretty close
means to Trump?

Speaker 1 (18:57):
He can get him on the phone.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
I guess he says that he did and again has
asked Trump not to endorse her, which again could be
the biggest part of this whole story.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Right here, when it's all.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Said and done, I think you nailed them earlier. I mean,
she's it's a campaign desperate for money, and they'll take
it from anywhere right now, and.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Sometimes I can come back and bite you.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
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now Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
Hannity in just minutes with his morning take on this Tuesday,
December second, Good morning to you at is six forty four.
Yesterday the law in North Carolina took effect IRENA's Law,
a name for the young Ukrainian refugee who was brutally
stabbed to death on that light rail earlier.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Than this year by a career criminal.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
How many stories have we had just in the Carolinas
over the course of the last year. We're repeat thugs
are on the street, let out again and again by
liberal activist judges who just want to give them one
more chance and they wind up killing somebody. Well, you

(20:26):
know that case. The case had happened in Columbia in
five points earlier this year, with the co ed from
North Carolina again murdered by a repeat offender. None of
this had to happen. My only question is why is
this law? Why wasn't this always the law. It discourages

(20:47):
pre trial release for defendants with prior criminal histories hello,
mental health exams in some serious cases, increases punishment for
crimes committed on public transportation systems. It advanced judges from
releasing defendants on a written promise to appear.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
This just this just didn't happen.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
With the Biden administration and immigrants flowing across our border,
people here illegally just give yeah, you show up in
four or five years for for a court hearing. We
see you can stay or not. This is this is
happening in our own judicial system. Judges were, Okay, yeah,
I promise I'll appear. All right, good, you can go.

(21:35):
And that's the same declaration that the guy who killed
this young woman made back in January. Before then, he
allegedly murdered Irena Zaruska on that light rail in Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, I'll be back. I'm just going to commit a
few more crimes, a few more violent crimes before I
show up.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
Yeah exactly. I mean you you you you saw that video.
I mean the I was obviuously way out there mentally
to range. Yeah. Why wasn't this always the law? Why
did it take something like that? And I don't know,
do we have a law like this here in South Carolina?

(22:16):
Might that have kept that thug off the street that
killed that co ed down in five Points in the
Columbia area.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
If not, maybe we should.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
This is South Carolina This morning news on one O
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and ninety four to three WSC Charleston, Now Gary David
and Christopher Thompson six fifty.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Three good news here on a Tuesday morning.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
The young man Air Force staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf, one
of the two shot by this Afghan refugee in DC
last week, is showing signs of signs. Still in critical condition.
A serious condition is the actual condition, but positive signs
giving the thumbs up, wiggling his toes. According to West

(23:11):
Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey, yesterday. So he's still fighting for
his life, the governor said, but encouraging, but encouraging yes. Meantime,
no details yet on funeral arrangements for Sarah Beckstrom, the
twenty year old who was killed in that shooting. This,
by the way, has had a lot of blowback here

(23:33):
against the immigration as you might imagine, all assilmed decisions halted,
paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports. And
Christine nom So she met with Trump at mar Lago
and said that she's recommending a travel band after that meeting.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
It is six point fifty four. We appreciate you joining us.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
It is the Tuesday, December second edition of South Carolina's
Morning News.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
From the Midlands to the low Country. This is South
Carolina's Morning US on one three point five FM and
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now Gary David and Christopher Thompson's three.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Minutes after seven o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
We appreciate you joining us with this Tuesday, December the second,
and a nasty day from the midlands of the Low
Country with rain and chili temperatures in some spots not
so bad in others.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
But careful out there.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Keep you posted as you make your way into a
work wherever you're heading here on this Tuesday morning. Big
stories we were talking about last hour the breakup between
Nancy Mason or state director as she runs for the
Republican gubernatorial nod here.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Prediction that won't be the last person who leaves that campaign.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
You've also predicted the past that it won't.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
The Charleston Airport incident won't be the last incident that
Nancy Mace has doubt it will be probably not, given
her her history, and she doesn't mind making news that way, No,
she doesn't. I mean it's part of herm she's good
at getting her name out there. Certainly, we'll be talking
more about that this morning. We got what eleven warships

(25:15):
fifteen thousand troops in the Caribbean. Are we going to
put boots on the ground in South America here? The
President had a security Council meeting yesterday. Yeah, it's looking
more and more likely. In the meantime, again, that's all
about the White House claims, you know, narcotics being imported
to our country and killing Americans. But curious as to

(25:37):
why Trump is one of the idea of pardoning the
former Honduran president who was guilty of the same thing.
We'll talk about that too. Meantime, health Care and political
reporting that a bipartisan breakthrough appears well unlikely. They've scheduled

(25:58):
votes for next week. In the Senate. John Thune promised
there would be a mid December vote on the extension
of the Obamacare enhanced subsidies. By the middle of December,
votes again our scheduled for next week. Now, no such
promise has been made. No such votes are being scheduled

(26:18):
in the House side.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Mike Johnson knows he doesn't have the votes, so why
hold one?

Speaker 5 (26:23):
Well, yeah, the House Republican party. The Republicans in the
House a lot more divided on this than Republicans of
the Senate are. But on the Senate side, they've got
about a week before they're supposed to be voting, and
according to political at least most of the Senators already

(26:46):
believe that the chances for any sort of a bipartisan
breakthrough by then, or roughly they say zero, not slimdon
on zero.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Which means the chance of another government shutdown are starting
to increase.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, then there's that.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Mark Wayne Mullen, the Oklahoma Republicans saying, right now, it's
not on a fast track. I can't wait a minute.
It's December the second.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
They only have about two and a half weeks before they.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Leave, right.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
I mean, yeah, we talk about this almost every day.
I realize, and I feel like I'm forced to reiterate
my sentiments on this. This is not that I'm a
fan of Obamacare by any stretch of the imagination. Nor
am I a fan of you know, American citizens subsidizing

(27:47):
healthcare for other American citizens. I'm not a fan of either.
But if the Republicans don't come up with something and
these things go away, even if they're somehow brought back,
that is going to leave such a bad taste in
the mouths of voters that it's going to be problematic

(28:08):
come November. And again, the folks who aren't on Obamacare
may be thinking, well, yeah, it's only liberals on Obamacare.
If you don't work for somebody else, if you're a
small business owner, if you're a gig economy worker, you're
some sort of an entrepreneur. Maybe you've had to retire

(28:32):
early and you're not eligible for Medicare. Yet you are
on the Obamacare. This is uplus on are these insurance
sharing things that some people are big fans of, but.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
This is your only option.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
So the point is is there are a lot of
conservative minded voters that are on Obamacare, and they're not
gonna like this anymore than anybody else's. If these subsidies
go away, they might not be as ocal about it,
but it's going to hit him in the wallet.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
It would have a huge impact on voters. And then
you lose the House and the Senate in the midterms,
and then the Democrats just dictate what the next plan is.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Yeah, and again, as we talked about yesterday, the next
plan Hillary Care. This hasn't been their goal all along.
They let the they let the Republicans walk into this.
That's fine, don't don't talk about it, don't come up
with a plan. They weren't about to remind them of it, because, yeah,
their ultimate goal is to you know, get get back control.
And they would use this as an example of why

(29:33):
this nation needs Hillary Care, single payer universal health care.
You know, we're all a government plan. We have seen
that in action, and if we have seen what happens
when that's the way the game is played, and they
something we want, so next week scheduled votes on the Senate,

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no move in the House, and any idea of a
Byparis and break through at least right now in December
the second well again, chances they say, roughly zero.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
Live from the State Capitol, This is South Carolina's Morning
News with Carrie David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
It's fourteen after seven o'clock. Good to have you here
on this Tuesday, December second, South Carolina's Morning News on
one of the three point five FM and five sixty
AMWVOC and now on ninety four to three WSC and Charleston.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Welcome to our new friends in the low country, the upstate.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
Of South Carolina hot spot these days, young kids, they're
all infatuated of the Greenville area. The gen Z's man there.
They're all about green this beautiful play. A lot of
people are yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
And apparently it's very popular with the rats as well.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
Or can out with their annual list of the most
rat infested cities in the country, Greenville made the list.
Green Oh yeah, they've been on the list for a
couple of years now.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
They were the forty first worst in twenty twenty. By
last year they moved up to number thirty four on
the list, and now organ Scores Greenville is the thirtieth
most rat infested city in America.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Not a list you want to be on. Jeez, what's
the deal with that top of the list.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Actually, there's a new number one.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
It's not New York.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
No, it hadn't been New York for a little while. Actually,
believe it or not. That's the if we all think
it's New York. Yeah, and we had a lot of
rats there.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Lah.

Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah, new number one out rating Chicago, which has been
at the top of the list for the last ten years.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Well that makes perfect sense.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
I mean your top three Los Angeles, Chicago, New York,
home of lots of rats of all sorts.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
I see where you're going, All right.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, Chicago, I guess the baby.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
They they've dropped from number one to number two because
they have been working now for the last decade on
a program they call cats at Work. Uh, They're they're
trapping feral cats, neutering them, and then putting back out
on the streets natural predators. Yeah right, yeah, cats are
killing machines. If you didn't know that, just ask somebody

(32:24):
who's got one. They will kill anything. If cats were
bigger than us, they'd kill us. Which, oh, by the way,
on a tragedy, have you seen the video of the
of the of the kid in Brazil who just shimmy
down a tree into that line that lion's den.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
No, oh.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
Do I want to No, you don't. Okay, he didn't
live to tell the story. I think in nineteen years old,
I think you knew if if you saw you thought, okay,
this this kid had some some serious issues obviously apparently
said the mind of like a five year old, and
his lifelong goal was to be a lion tamer.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Just scurry down that tree into that there.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
By the way, Uh, the zoo officials there in Brazil
say they are not going to put the animal.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
It was a tiger.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
I'm not going to put it down, saying this is
this is just this is an animal doing what an
animal does. This is their natural behavior. Wow, okay, how
do I get there?

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Oh? Rats and cats?

Speaker 5 (33:33):
Rats and cats? Yeah, Greenville, congratulations, you're number thirty.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Get off that list.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Off that list any way you can.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Gary David and
Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
Seven twenty three at the time. Now, thanks for joining
us this morning for South Conn's morning news. We appreciate
that didn't watch it last Monday night football Last night,
I did see the replay of the the poor place
kicker for the Giants attempt to whoops.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
It looked like one of my golf shots. Man.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
No, no, not not the slice, the fact that, yeah,
his foot came down that was had to be a
good six inches in front of the ball, right, just whiffed. Cool. Yeah,
for the record, I do that on a lot of
golf shots, which is why I quit playing golf. Uh yeah,
bless him. You don't leave that one down, man, ever?
Do you unbelievable leave it to the New York Football Giants.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
I think I have the audio actually of the Patriots
call of that, but pushing.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
It about my staff. The kick got down for the
right now, he never kicked it. He never kicked it.
He can't kicked around. Go to time out with six
two to go.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
You're in a second.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
They kick it.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
They couldn't figure it out. The Patriots where the Patriots radio.
They couldn't figure it out. What do you think was
going to the mind of the placeholder, He says, there
holding the ball.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
What I almost have expected a kid to stop and
just stand right there and try again, just flat footed,
trying to anyway?

Speaker 1 (35:17):
And how much does he get paid more than us? Yeah?
You bet?

Speaker 5 (35:22):
Headline I first saw this morning. This is the story
that made news across the state a couple of weeks
back when Mark Bumgardner, who's the executive director of a
Moment of Hope, shot and wounded.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
A man.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
Bumgardner protesting outside the Planned Parenthood in the Columbia area.
At first, of all, I headlined this morning and the
post in Current I misread it. I thought it said
activists back at Columbia Planned Parenthood after shooting. That says activivists.
So the group is back, His group is back. He's
not yet. No, he's been told to stay away. Whose

(36:01):
brilliant idea was that? No, he's not there, but the
group is this again he was arrested? What last week,
wasn't it?

Speaker 1 (36:11):
I think so?

Speaker 2 (36:12):
But the incident happened last month?

Speaker 5 (36:14):
Yeah, last month, and well again to some it was
a surprise he was arrested to begin with. If you
saw the video of that, you see and you have
to put things in context, right, I mean, you see
the guy being accosted by somebody there. You see him
pepper spray the guy, and then the guy chases the
activist and they wound up tussling, and you know, then

(36:37):
it all ends when bomb Gardner pulls out a gun
and shoots the guy.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
And there was someone else. There was a woman on
the scene that had a gun as well.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
Yeah, well again some witnesses have said that prior to
all that, that bomb Gardner was you know, I had
a costed the guy who was in his car and
it started the whole war.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Whatever.

Speaker 5 (37:01):
Do we have a standard ground defense coming, don't know.
But the point is is that the group is now
back again, which they have every right to be. Okay,
they've been there for a long time, but I would
I think, if I recall correctly, planned parenthood is arranged
for their own security.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
I suspect that.

Speaker 5 (37:23):
Local law enforcements probably taking a few drives by there
on a regular basis. I'm trying to remember the exact
words they use planned parenthood in their statement they released
after all this, but I remember looking at part of
that it said something along the lines of sanctity of
life or something. Maybe paraphraser, are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Really?

Speaker 3 (37:54):
You're listening to South Carolina this morning?

Speaker 4 (37:57):
Yous with Gary David at Christopher Thompson in seven thirty four.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
Good morning, and we appreciate you joining us this morning
on a dreary, rainy day from the low Country through
the Midlands this morning. I'll be careful out there. We'll
keep you up to date on a traffic editions. And oh,
by the way, let's mention this again here. We talked
about it earlier, and thanks to our new friends listening
to us in the low Country on ninety four to
three WSC and Charleston. And just so you know, there

(38:26):
was a technical issue yesterday on the program where apparently
you were hearing traffic and weather reports from Columbia.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
You're thinking, why do I care?

Speaker 2 (38:38):
The last thing you need?

Speaker 5 (38:39):
I'm stuck on the Mark Clark Expressway. I mean, why
do I care? That has been remedied, Thank you. We
apologize for that, but we get all that straightened out there.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Big stories today. Nancy Mason's, one of one of her.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
Top advisors in a leadership role of her campaign, has
exited and is calling on South Kondo voters not to
vote for Nancy Mace and calling on President Trump not
to endorse her. We'll be talking about that a little
bit later on again, why why the break and why
the sour grapes? Here we'll have details on that. Uh,

(39:16):
healthcare major topic is we're into December now and a
vote scheduled for next week in the Senate. It doesn't
look like there's much hope of any kind of a
bipartisan solution on the Senate side, and really absolutely none
on the House side.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
And you've got to be careful because the House numbers
are evolving too, aren't they. That special election I think
is in Tennessee today.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Today, Yes, we'll have to talk about that.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Uh, you got a whack job leftist Tennessee's AOC, they're
calling her.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Running in that race.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
But the problem is nobody votes in these special elections.
They hold between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Nobody goes what.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
A horrible time to hold any kind of election, right, so.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
You never know who's gonna win, or what the what
the underlying cause is, or whether that's really what the
electorate thinks were Just because three or four people voted, well,
well there may be a few more than that.

Speaker 5 (40:13):
One of the craziest things about that she is running
in a district that represents, among other places, the city
of Nashville. Yeah, and she is on the record of
saying she hates Nashville.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
But she says she said that when she was a
private citizen, and oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
That's fine.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Then if she's a politician, she'll handle things different.

Speaker 5 (40:29):
Yeah, she'll love Nashville if she's the course you elected, right, Okay, Yeah, well,
how was a private citizen when I said that?

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Don't hold it against me, nut job. Okay, all right.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
By the way, if you haven't gotten the real id yet, now,
they told us, and we knew this a week or
two back, that if you didn't have a real idea
or a passport, you you can still get on a
plane and fly domestically, but it was gonna cost you
eighteen bucks. Well, they've gone back and looked at the
numbers and decided that wasn't enough. They wanted more. Now,

(41:07):
starting February one, if you want to fly without a
real idea or a passport, it's not gonna be eighteen dollars, it's.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Going to be forty five dollars.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Not to mention the fact that it's going to be
slower for you to get on that plane because you're
gonna have to clear hour or more. Yeah, different security clearances.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
You will need to go online to the TSA website,
complete the identification steps, pay the forty five dollars fee,
and you'll get a confirmation. But you'll have to do
this every time unless you fly all the time, because
it's only good for ten days.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Ooh, you have to rewind and do it all over again. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
That's that alone is incentive to go down to the
DMV and get it done.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
That or be sure you got your passport with it.
I guess you can. You can now upload your not
all airports except this. I'll have to check around the
South Carolina to see which one do. But you can
upload your passport to your Apple digital wallet.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (42:06):
That sort of thing just kind of freaks me out,
maybe more than a little bit, so I don't know
any who. Yeah, February one, that's it. Forty five bucks.
Got a register first online at a government website. Do
I need to say more? A government website? Well, they
don't make things easy ever, and then it's only good
for ten days. Coming up, while the Trump administration is

(42:29):
maybe looking to wage war against one country's leader in
a country that they say is providing narcotics to our country.
Is he looking to really pardon another former country's president
for doing the same thing. We got the details coming
your way on South Carolina. It's morning news, your news, traffic,

(42:56):
weather and information stations.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
This is South care Carolina's morning News on one on
three point.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
Five FM, five sixty AM WVOC and ninety four to
three WSC Now Gary David and Christopher Thompson, and.

Speaker 5 (43:11):
Good morning to you. It's seven forty four. I am
Gary David. He is Christopher Thompson, learning to you. We
have now eleven warships, some fifteen thousand troops in the Caribbean,
including a marine Expeditionary Expeditionary Unit one that's capable of
amphibious land invasion.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
So is this just a lot of bluster, It is
just just designed to put a scare into the folks
down there, or are we getting serious about putting boots
on the ground.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
I tell you what if this is a this is
a scare tactic.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
We're spending a lot of time and a lot of
energy to try to scare Nicholas Maduro, who the president
has confirmed he had a conversation with and I told
him he would offer is he Madu and his family's
safe path message if he would resign, because I'm not
sure what would happen after that. Who fills the void?
But still Secretary of the Navy John Feeling over the

(44:12):
weekend saying, the military job is to defend the homeland.
That's exactly what we're doing, using our best assets to
defend the homeland. Course this is all over drugs.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
So yeah, I mean this is a nod flex for
a president who ran on America first. And you know,
regime change is a dirty word that the Republican Party
is no longer going to embrace, and here we are.
You know, It's one thing to attack these boats who
are coming towards us, Yeah, it's another to actually send

(44:46):
soldiers that way.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Here's the curious part. Well, on the one hand, we're
doing that.

Speaker 5 (44:51):
On the other hand, Trump on Friday, I think it
was announced that he has plans to pardon Orlando Hernandez,
who is the fore we're Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
What's the difference between what Venezuela is doing now and
what Honduras has done for you.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Well, that's the weird part, right.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
Hernandez was convicted on drug trafficking and weapon charges in
New York last year. A guy who once said, We're
gonna stuff the drugs up the gringoes noses and they're
never even gonna know it. And the prosecution of Hernandez

(45:34):
actually started during the first Trump administration, it concluded under Biden,
but Trump suggesting on Friday on truth Social that Hernandez
was treated very harshly and unfairly by the Biden administration

(45:54):
according to many people. He says that the president greatly respects.
Who are these people lobbying?

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Well, it may be this.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
Hernandez previously provided support for well tech friendly development laws
that had the backing of several American investors with ties
to the current Trump administration.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
What, please don't tell me this is what's behind all this.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
So you've got lobbyists who are swaying Trump to embrace
this guy when he's essentially going to war over another
guy for the same issue.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah, please don't tell me. That's the reason.

Speaker 5 (46:36):
I can't think of any other reason why you would
go to war with one president and want to part
another former president for doing the same thing. It's uh, yeah,
it's curious, but there, Yeah, there are some big players
in the tech industry that've got a lot of money
invested in places like Honduras and projects throughout Central and

(47:01):
South America. And are these the people that have Trump's
here on this? I guess that might make some sense.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
I would not have pinned Venezuela as one of the
hot spots in the world that Trump would be worried
about at this point.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
That was not on the BINGO card before November of
twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Four, was it. And it's not like things have cooled
down in other parts of the world. I mean we're
holding things together. Tenuous peace in the Middle East, Ukraine
and Russia still going on.

Speaker 5 (47:30):
Yeah, we give Trump credit. He's done a lot more
than Biden did on both of those fronts. True to
try to bring piece of credit where credit is due.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Certainly.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three point.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
Five FM and five sixty AM WVOC Columbia and ninety
four to three WSC Charleston, now Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
Seven fifty three and ten minutes another top campaign official
leaving the Nancy Bays campaign and taking no prisoners in
the process. We'll tell you all about it coming up
here eight oh three on this Tuesday morning edition of
South Carolina's Morning News.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Finally this hour. You know you've probably noticed this.

Speaker 5 (48:19):
The mainstream media who ignored and even defended Joe Biden's
health is all about led by none of than Matt
Drudge at the Drudge Report, who's suffering from severe Trump
derangement syndrome and has been for a long time. Anybody
read that rag anymore? You ever go to the Drudge
Report anymore? I mean, who, well, continuously questioning Trump's health.

(48:42):
Of course, he just delivered the results of his his
his physical and his doctor says he's in excellent health,
which is what all presidential doctors say when they had
their exams.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
You have them.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
You have to say that for national security reason, I
guess so.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
But a woman named Megan Hayes.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
Posting on on X it's an undeniable fact Donald Trump
is aging rapidly.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
It should concern us all That.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
Name Meghan Hayes may not mean anything to you, but
remember the incident at the Easter egg hunt on the
White House grounds when Biden was president when the Easter
Bunny came up and directed them away from her daughter's question,
locked Biden away. Meghan Hayes was the person in the
easter Bunny suit. Yeah, she was the director of Messaging
by administration the Easter Bunny suit.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
It's South Carolina's Morning News. Thanks for being with us.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
From the Midlands to the low Country.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
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.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Now Gary Day and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
It's three minutes after aid. Good morning.

Speaker 5 (50:04):
Appreciate you joining us here for Tuesday, December second, the
Tuesday morning condition of South Carolina's Morning News.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
I am Gary David Ay. Guy over there, Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
We talked yesterday about the fact that you and I
have been together almost twenty five years. My other partner
we've been together twenty five years today.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
Oh really, yeah, the one the one I sleep with,
not you, not me, not you not me. You just
wake up with me exactly right. Neither one of us
is awake when we get here at the board, and
trust me, lots of caffeine for that.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Well.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Congratulations, Thank you and happy anniversary twenty five years.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
I remember being at your Wow, that's been twenty five years.
It's been twenty five years too, my goodness. Anne and
I will be thirty six in January.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Wow. Yeah right, yeah, how the words she put up
with me all those years. I have no idea.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
Oh, you'll learn a lot more about us than you
want to know if you're just now fighting the program,
especially though to be done in Charleston on ninety four
to three WS.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
And Gary and I have been together in some form
of fashion for probably over thirty years now, going back
to the time we worked at another station together. So
it's been a long time. Yeah, good partners.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
I was just we're going to talk here about the latest.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Nancy Mays issue, and that is the resignation of her
long time political strategist Austin mccobbin.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
I was just sent a new poll. I haven't had
a chance to look over y key findings here.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
This was the first poll since the controversy with Nancy
Mace in the in the airport in Charleston. Let me
click on view the results. That might help.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Like, that'll do it. I'll do that.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
I'll be surprised if there's any major chain, because I
think people know what they're getting with Nancy Mays. She
she uses this to get pr She I mean, this
is this is the way she runs, This is the
way she lives.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
If it's not happening happening in the Charleston Airport, it's
happening in DC, it's happening in Mount Pleasant when she
goes out to shop.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Yeah, Okay, here we go. If the election were hell today,
who would you vote for? Top of the list? Attorney
General Alan Wilson twenty two point two percent. Number two,
Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evitt fifteen point seven.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Who hopped all over the story yesterday that broke about
Austin mccoven.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Number three, Nancy Mays ten point five.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
Okay, Now, the polls we had out prior to that,
she was leading a couple of those, or at least
right up at the top. And if this pole is
a neo polls or polls or polls, okay, you know
we're getting used to that idea. But if this poll
is accurate, that is a massive dropping support for Nancy Mace.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Is this internal polling? Who did this poll?

Speaker 1 (53:11):
This is wick?

Speaker 5 (53:18):
Yeah, I don't think this is this is internal polling
to me, huh interesting, Okay, well I'm a little I'm
wondering if if there wasn't some internal Nancy Mays polling
after that, Ye that they showed the same thing.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Which is why she decided to take on that money,
that Pack money, and rehab her image.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
Yeah, or attempt to, which is the whole point of
this story right here, the Pack money. So Austin mccobbin,
longtime political strategist. This is a guy who ran her
campaign in twenty twenty two, who was the state director
for Trump in twenty twenty four, and uh back in
August was named as taptis or her director for her

(54:05):
good editorial run yesterday, blows up, leaves the campaign and
took no prisoners. He is telling people do not vote
for Nancy Mace. He apparently says he had a conversation
with the President and urged the President not to endorse

(54:26):
Nancy Mayce for governor.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
And this is over Pack money.

Speaker 5 (54:30):
He says that Nancy Mace is, you know, cozying up
with anti Trump Republicans, specifically Thomas Masseew of Kentucky Ran
Paul also of Kentucky. Because this ad campaign that mister
Thompson just referenced was paid for by Ran Paul's pack,

(54:51):
the Protect Freedom Pack, which is supporting Rand Paul another
pro freedom and liberty minded candidates, according to the pack itself. Now,
while the candidate and the pack, I'm not supposed to
have any you know, direct conversations, do you think that
really happens. They may not be directly conversing, but they're conversing.

(55:15):
And according to mccobn, he said that Mace told him
that she was directing a personal friend to fund a
seven figure check to the pro Paul pack, and then
that pack funded her latest round of TV advertisements, and
he says, that's, yeah, that's an anti Trump people, and

(55:36):
he's not going to stand for it.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Is she just desperate for money and she'll take it
from anywhere at this point, regardless of how they feel
about Trump, or does she feel like she can afford
to do this at this point because she doesn't see
Trump as being as big a factor in the upcoming election.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
Yeah, I don't think the latter would be true. The former, certainly,
she has had a hard time. The latest uh financial
reports that the Posting Courier reported was the last month
showed that she was having a hard time. She was
she wasn't attracting big, you know, deep pocketed in state donors,
that she was having to go outside the state to

(56:13):
try to raise money. Which again, you know, if you're
Nancy May said, you've listen, your name is known nationally,
so you're you're gonna probably have a much easier time
than other candidates might be raising you know, out of
state money. But still, this is this a bombshell here
that him leaving is one thing, But him saying that
she is, you know, closing up to anti Trumper's here

(56:36):
and accepting their money and is not being layal to
Trump and is asking Trump not to endorse her and
so is not to vote for Well, that's a bigger
story than just you know, a top campaign ate leaving. Okay, well,
we'll see what the whether where the chips fall on
this one.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
Live from the state Capitol.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Carrie David and
Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
It's fifteen after eight o'clock. The courts. Another court steps
in and rules against Trump. Here, this time.

Speaker 5 (57:20):
A panel of judges from the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals in Philadelphia ruling that Alina Haba is not qualified
to serve as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor. This having
the lower courts judges ruling they affirmed the district Court's
disqualification where she cannot serve, she served passed her interim.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
This is the problem, you see. This is the same
thing with the prosecutor who was.

Speaker 5 (57:50):
Going after it got the indictments, was going after a
comy and and Tisha whatever her name is. You know,
the courts judge said in that case that no, you
wouldn't qualified to.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Be in that role as a prosecutor.

Speaker 5 (58:03):
Problem is this the Democrats. I mean Trump has been
in office now for nearly a year and the Democrats
and the Senate refuse to confirm nominations.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Holding up appointments. Okay, this has become a political football.
It used to be if you were president, especially when
you got the mandate that Trump got. Your people went
through and then you know, you argue about their viability
later on after they've had a chance to do their job.
But you take the if a president makes an appointment,
especially in the beginning of his term, it's courtesy you

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push them through. But this has become the thing in
Washington now is to oppose everyone to slow the entire
process down.

Speaker 5 (58:46):
And both signs do it. Yep, Okay, it's not just
the Democrats doing the Republicans do it too. But in
the meantime, you know, things have to get done. And
so here listen to this. In the opinion, the court
wrote this, it is apparent that the current administration has
been frustrated by some of the legal and political barriers

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to get against appointees in place. His efforts to elevate
is preferred candidate to the role of acting US Attorney
demonstrate the difficulties that has faced Yet the citizens of
New Jersey and the loyal employees in the US Attorney's
Office deserve some clarity and stability. So, yeah, we are

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from the lower court's order. She can't serve, they said,
right there, they understand the problem here. Democrats will not
advance the nominations, but she's not eligible to serve.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Again, it's a pay per technicality, yeah, exactly. And there
should be a year into anybody's term. There should be
no interims left.

Speaker 5 (59:53):
Should not be ever, not even six months. And again,
most people now if it's if this was a cabinet
level position. Everybody would be screaming about it, right, but
it's not. It's not you know that that that level.
So people just don't even pay attention. But it's still

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a key function of government. And uh, it's has become
way too often here where both sides just bring a
total stop.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
In this case to law enforcement to prosecute exactly by the.

Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
Way, the DJ is considering whether or not to try
to re get indictments again for a Comi and uh
James and James. Of course, I guess one of the
things they're considering now is well, well, boy, if we fail,
then we got really got a egg on our face.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
But I think they have to.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
But again I questioned this originally again another case with
a prosecutor there who a court says, or judge it
le said, just a week or so back, did not
have the standing to bring the case, didn't have a
saying to be the prosecutor. Was it already passed her
enterpreew But a woman who had never in her life
prosecuted a case, and they tapped her to go after

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this high profile case against Comby and James, which was
really stunning in my opinion. Okay, so again another case
here where the Democrats won't confirm a nomination. So if
you're Trump, what are you supposed to do? I don't know,
say nineteen We'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
This is South Carolina This Morning News with Gary David
and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
A twenty four. Well, they got my lunch plans for
the day.

Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
Uh. You still got to know it was well established
last week on this program. And then Charles, you are
hearing this for the first time that mister Thompson over
there is a hater of all things turkey, not.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
A big you're a turkey hater man. Yeah, I'm just
that you're a hater. I'd rather not have a meal
that sinners around the bird.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
I would.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
I meet sure ham steak, great turkey. Okay, it's just
not my thing.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
I love the.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Sides, that's fine, Yeah, yeah, yep, And I'll do a
good turkey sand leftover turkey sandwich afterward.

Speaker 5 (01:02:21):
No wait a minute, See that makes no sense to
me at all. You don't like turkey, but you love
a turkey sandwich. How does that work?

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
You doll it up with little Duke's mao and some
pepper and black pepper and a good piece of bread
and I'm happy with it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
Okay, all right, whatever, Okay, Well, yesterday was the last
day I supposed to eat those leftovers.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
I've been having turkey sandwiches now since Thursday, and I
was really salivating over another one today. Man, and we
got we got plenty of that. And we got yeah,
plenty of ham leftover too. Not not any old ham,
that expensive ham what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Yeah, the one swear it's sweetened and they cut it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Yeah, that one.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Yeah, I will throw a flag on this one. I
know there are no pumpkin pies that are getting thrown away,
yet you can still I think you can still do
those a couple of more days.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
See, but I don't like pumpkin pie. What see?

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Okay, now you're crazy?

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
No I like now and makes a.

Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
No, I'm thinking I'm not the sweet potato castle. I
don't like sweet potatoes either, but the sweet petatda castle
is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
I'm in for that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
Yeah, we don't have any of that left.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
How do you not like pumpkin pie?

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
I just don't like. Yeah, I don't know, I don't like.

Speaker 5 (01:03:30):
I ain't drink I ain't going to Starbucks and getting
pumpkin latte or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
Even if I liked that, I wouldn't do that. You're
a month late on that they got. They cranked that
up in September. Oh that's gone now, yeah probably.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
Well see anyway, so the moral story is today, oh yesterday,
rather it was your last safe day to eat. I'm
gonna tempt the fates today, man, I don't blame you.
I'm doing the drinking sandwich.

Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
You listening to South Carolina This Morning, yous with Gary
David at Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Say thirty four, good to have you with us.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
Southron Morning News one O three point five FM, five
sixty AMWVOC in ninety four to three WSC. We spent
a record not yes, I don't know the numbers in
form yesterday. Yesterday was Cyber Monday. I failed to participate. Sorry,
I don't know if we have those numbers yet. I

(01:04:28):
don't think we do. But I'm not sure that the
can top what we did on Black Friday when it
came to online spending. Online spending Black Friday a record
eleven point eight billion dollars. Looking like this might be
a pretty jolly Christmas for retailers. And here's the interesting

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part that shoppers in this country turned to artificial intelligence
in unprecedented numbers to help them find the best deals.
This is the new thing, right. Adobe did a survey.
They found that nearly half of US operas had already
used or planning to use AI to assist with online
shopping this season.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
I guess it just finds you the best deals, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
I mean that's you can task it to do whatever
you want, short of making the purchase. I wouldn't do that,
but find this, find this at at the cheapest place
for me near me. Yeah, it's not a bad idea.

Speaker 5 (01:05:27):
And if you need to hang you on mainstream. Walmart
has their own AI assistant called Sparky.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
So that was Friday, Black Friday, which turned into Cyber Friday.
It looks like we had Cyber Monday yesterday. Well today
is what? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Today being Tuesday? Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (01:05:45):
Yes, apparently I'm off the mailing list now because every
time we hit Giving Tuesday, my inbox is inundated with
emails from my alma mater at the University of South Carolina.
Well you had to give money? Wait, now, wait a minute,
you got my money all those years ago. You got
my wife's money, not once, but twice. You got both
my kids money. And what did I get in return?

(01:06:07):
A feign seven football season. I don't think you can
blame them for that. Well, I am four by the way,
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Four and eight. It just got worse.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
Mark Hammond, Secretary of State, is encouraging if you want
to give, and that's good, you know, I mean, I
do good.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Give smart. There's always a case. There's plenty of scams
out there. There's a scam a day man.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Adobe, by the way, projected that Americans would spend up
to six point three percent more online yesterday than last
year's Cyber Monday. So I don't think the official numbers
are in yet, but they expected them to be better.

Speaker 5 (01:06:50):
But wait a minute, I thought the economy was in
the dumps, man. You don't know what the mainstream media
keeps telling us. You know, we had that survey last
week that said, well, what was that? The headline was
very biased and then it pointed out that low income
and modern income individuals felt like they would spend the
same or less. But that wasn't the majority of the people.

(01:07:13):
The majority of people felt like they would spend more
this Christmas season, but you can't put that in the
headline if you're the mainstream media, right, you got a yeah, right, Yeah,
we're spending more already. And quite honestly now that I
mean the shopping season starts in October. Now is it
possible if it's already peaked? I suppose it could be

(01:07:36):
not yet because I haven't gotten to the game yet. Well,
lookout here we go, lookout by pretty cool. The NASDAC
today ringing the closing bell will be uh execs from
a Blackbot, the Charleston Tech Company. They will be ringing
the bell the NASDACT today to promote Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
So there's that.

Speaker 5 (01:07:59):
Yeah, gift smart. That's one thing here in South JNG.
We've always been real good at doing giving back. Yeah,
I mean we are a generous bunch when it comes
to that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
And there are a lot of charities out there this
time of year that needs your help.

Speaker 5 (01:08:14):
Yeah, there are there are, so yeah, get back, be
smart and in huge caution, Yeah, look out for the
scams because there are plenty of them out there.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
It is eight thirty eight and we will be right back.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
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.

Speaker 5 (01:08:48):
Stay forty three. You truckers have been in the news
quite a bit recently for a very good reason. How
many truck drivers we got going over our nation's roads
who aren't qualified to be doing that. Shouldn't have gotten
a license to begin with. To have a license with
not even with no name given on it, How does
that happen? How can you get a CDL license with

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no name given on it? Try that, Try to get
a driver's license, Go down to the DMV so you
can get one and not give your name.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:09:24):
Well, here in our state, I don't know we have
that big of an issue with it, but we do
have an issue with this, and that is overweight trucks
going crossing bridges. You know the bridge they've got that
weight limit on it, those you know, rural bridges and
specifically got the weight limits on it. And there was
an incident in the Upstate where a trucker went over
the bridge. Uh he was over the weight limit. And

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and right after that the bridge collapsed. Well, the enforcement
of this is really ramped up since that time. State
Transport Police as issued close to nine hundred citations for
violating road weight limits and bridge weight limits. Uh, that's

(01:10:14):
this year. In the last two years combined, they wrote
three hundred and eighty seven. Wow, so this year alone
they more than doubled that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
I would have think that I would have thought they
would have ramped it all up after you know, we
had all these reports that our bridges were so deficient
around the state, right, and then you know, of course
we started paying the gas tax that was supposed to
address that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
And now they're all magically fixed. Oh no, yeah, no
they're not.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Yeah no, hasn't happened.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
Well, that's a whole other conversation that we don't have
time to make it into right now. Right the Department
of Transportation, who oversees not all bridges in our state,
believe it or not, but about eighty nine percent of them,
so that well, yeah, bridge collapses are rare, but federal

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data showed that more than twenty six hundred of the
bridges in our state got the same safety rating as
that Pickens County bridge or a lower rating, and that
was the one that collapsed when a seaman truck went over.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:11:19):
By the way, the FEDS reviewing and finding that forty
four percent of trucking schools in this country are not
complying with government rules. They announced this yesterday. They plan
to revoke the accreditation of nearly three thousand schools across
the country unless they can comply with trading requirements in

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the next thirty days. Now the four thousand are being worn,
they may face similar action. This is scary stuff. I mean,
you put somebody out there behind the wheel a below
ted eighteen wheeler. Are they qualified to be there? I
mean I'm talking about now, are they a citizen or whatever?
But do they have the skills necessary to be doing

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what they're doing?

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
You would hope so. And yet we've got supply chain issues.
We need those truckers out there, but we don't need
the wrong ones.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
That's the flip side of the story.

Speaker 5 (01:12:13):
Though. You start shutting down trucking schools left and right, Yeah,
do we then encounter supply chain issues?

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
Quite possibly? Okay, well, this is this is a hard
truth here, isn't it? Now? The problem again, oversight? We
go back to that oversight question.

Speaker 5 (01:12:41):
How do we let things get so out of control,
so out of hand, to where it gets to a
point where again the FED review finding that nearly half
of TRUCKE schools in this country are not incompliance with
government rules.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
Nearly half. How did that happen in the first place? Huh?

Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
Not to mention the problems we have and you know,
air traffic control, outdated technology. I still I'm still scratching
my head over that one. How we're using technology that's
decades old and we're talking about millions and millions of
people every day whose lives are at risk as a
result of that. And how we've been so fortunate not

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to have more issues than we've had when it comes
to you know, air traffic control and the outdated technology
being a reason for a major disaster. We've been really
dodging the battle on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
Now for a while.

Speaker 4 (01:13:39):
This is South Carolina's 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, and.

Speaker 5 (01:13:53):
Good morning to you, and good morning to GT down
in the Low Country listening to us on ninety four
to three WSC the rights. He moved from Lexington to
Charleston about two years ago. Three things I've missed the
most are a reasonable cost of living, slightly less traffic,
and Gary and Christopher in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
One out of three a bad?

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
What out of three a bad? Well?

Speaker 5 (01:14:15):
Good, Good to have you with us again, Gt. We
appreciate that you can. I know this something I forgot
to do. I got to change the email address. Okay, Well, meantime,
if you want to reach out Gary David at WVOC
dot com, that's our station here in Columbia. Love to
put a new email address out there sometime soon.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Tony wided in by the way on Facebook saying, Yeah,
you talk about the safety in the air right now
and how it's how tenuous it's been. That's a credit
to the air traffic controllers you are still working, yes,
and who have.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
An incredibly stressful job.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Yeah, in spite of the fact that they're shorthanded and
as you mentioned, low one technology m HM.

Speaker 5 (01:14:53):
Amazon says they're testing get the boet a little of
this thirty minute deliveries.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Through the air.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
I suppose like drone drop offs, you know, I guess
it's kind of gotta be right.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
This is hope.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
They're not on the road going that fast.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
Unless they put a warehouse like right next door to you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:11):
Right, they're doing this in Seattle thirty imagine that thirty
minute deliveries. It's amazing what we use Amazon for these days,
isn't it. That's gonna wrap it up for us. Thank
you so much for joining us. We appreciate that. As always,
back in the morning. We'll see you right again at
six a m. Tomorrow morning for South Carolina's morning news.

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We do hope you choose to make it a great day.