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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Legesious America and hollen for.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
One nation and this is wrong.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
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. Well, good morning, four three
WSC Now Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
My apologies, Good morning. How the heck are you welcome
to a Thursday. It's the fourth day of the month
of December. I am Gary David, that's just mentioned. He
is Christopher Thompson. Good morning to you, sir.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Did you get the tree up last night?

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Actually we we had to postpone. What Yeah, one of
the boys was not feeling well, so well, the trees up.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
We just got to put all the ornaments on. Okay,
so we didn't get it done last night. Tonight tonight's
night though, decoration night tonight. All right, Yeah, that's what
we're playing on anyway. Okay, as long as he's feeling better,
hopefully hope he will.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Be alrighty, then we'll get a little break today across
the state. But tomorrow we got more rain moving in
middles of the Low Country, and you know, just north
of us, some folks may see some iciness. Stay north
thank you. It's the La Nina effect.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Won't come this far down south.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
I did check with the National Weather Service. Now there's
some talk that old places like Charlotte might get a
little bit of snow, the mountains of North Carolina could
get snow or an icy snowy mix. This is anything
dealing with ice is the last thing you want, obviously,
some freezing rain so parts. I love how the national

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media always when they put out a story like this,
they say, well, what it is, potential ice threat looms
from mid Atlantic Carolinas. Yeah, okay, none of this is
impacting South Carolina. Okay, we are one of the Carolinas.
Remember it's just North Carolina. But if you see the
headline like that, it's going to stay further north of us.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Thankfully. That's good. Yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
I got a lot to get into this morning, and
we appreciate you listening to us on ninety four to
three WSC in the low Country, in one O three
point five FM and five sixty AMWVOC in the Midlands.
The Governor yesterday cutting out race from consideration when it
comes to the awarding of government contracts. Governorment Master telling

(02:37):
state agencies to stop favoring minority owned businesses when it
comes to these contracts being awarded.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, the Supreme courts already said stop doing that when
it comes to student admission into colleges. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
The governor's saying that the forty year old practice incentivizes
racial discrimination and the procurement process. Okay, all right, there's
a backlash to the needless to say. We'll be talking
about that this morning. The New York Times in a
piece claiming that Nancy Mace is planning to retire early

(03:10):
from Congress, along with Marjorie Taylor Green, who announced her
resignation late last month. A New York Times reporter by
name of Annie Carney writing this yesterday that Mace has
told those around her she's frustrated with Speaker Johnson, sick
of the way he's running the house, primarily how women

(03:31):
have been treated there. Now, two of the matter is
that this is Nancy Mace's last term in Congress anyway,
at least this time around. Who knows what the future
might hold, but with her run for governor here in
South Carolina, she's not going to be on the ballot
for the first district. So the nerdly departure. Well, it's

(03:51):
certainly well, it certainly again changed the dynamic of the
mix up on Capitol Hill when it comes to the
House of Representatives. But what message might this send to
voters in the gubernatorial primary or will it We've got
that today, second day in a row and then made

(04:12):
it the lead correctional institution attacked and killed. The DC
says two straight days someone has been attacked and killed.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
There. That is a violent place, Yes, it is. And
you may disagree with, obviously everything these people have done
to get into that facility, but they deserve to be
treated safely while they're there. Yes, absolutely are the screws

(04:41):
tiding on Pete Heggsath the Pentagon Watchdog Act Now in
the report on well Hagsith, remember remember this one when
he used that that the commercially available messaging app signal? Well,
the uh, the watchdog report is out on that one,
and it's it's looking worse and worse for the Secretary

(05:02):
of War. Republicans beginning to complain more and more vociferously
about Hagsath's rain over at the Pentagon, and well, what
about the admiral He's going to testify on Capitol Hill today? Right.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
The admiral that the Hess says was the one who
wore that second strike on that Narco book back in September.
Is this guy getting thrown under the bus. We'll have
more on that. The President yesterday unveiling what he called
a historic reset, a reset of federal fuel standards that
were heightened and tightened under the Biden administration, the White

(05:37):
House claiming this will save somewhere in the neighborhood of
one hundred and nine billion dollars for American families.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
They were trying to drive us to buy the evs. Oh, yes,
they were, so. Yeah, we wound up driving up the
costs of our gas guzzling cars, which we still cling
to around here.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yes, we do dog on it in some cases. Well,
at least, the claim is the cars have gone more
than twenty five percent or so over the course of
the last couple of years thanks to this. That number
may be a bit inflated, but regardless. Notice the affordability
focus by the White House these days. And speaking of affordability, okay,
what about those subsidies. Well, next week a planned vote

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in the Senate. But it looks like, well, well they're
warming up to some talks here. They're nowhere near any
kind of a bipartisan solution, at least on the Senate.
In the House, that's a whole other story. So we're
talking about that and more coming up on this. It
is the Thursday, December fourth edition of South Carolina's Morning News,
and we thank you for being here.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Live from the State Capitol.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Carrie David and
Christopher Thompson's.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Fourteen minutes after six. Good morning to you. All right,
So there's the background on this quota. I guess since
the mid eighties, we've been doing this in South Carolina.
The state law required that well number one, the Department
of Transportation award at least five percent of certain contracts
for highway and infrastructure might have to be spent on

(07:15):
minority businesses each and every year.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
That was one law.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Another law requires that each state agency out there develop
and submit a plan demonstrating how ten percent of their
total controllable annual budget will be spent through minority owned businesses.
And again, the governor yesterday firing off an executive order
directing state agencies and state universities to stop using race

(07:43):
based quotas when they award future contracts.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
That might have been necessary at one point in this state.
But that's dated policy. And not only that, think about
the costs that you and I, I mean, that's it
just makes everything cost more to the taxpayer to the state. Yeah,
I mean, if they're having to shop and maybe they
find an inferior firm, but you know, one that happens

(08:08):
to check a box instead of going with the better offer,
the better quote.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Well well exactly, maybe they find that a particular firm
is quoting higher, but they've got to fulfill that quote
up right, So now they're going with that, and costing
is more money. Not to mention how much time and
effort to spend each year on these agencies having to
again come up with and submit some sort of a
plan to prove that they're spending you know, about ten

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percent of their at least of their budget with a
minority based firms. The governor issuing this order saying, nowhere
should any person be treated differently because of their race.
This is again.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
The deal.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Now a program like this anywhere, Yeah, there are some
winners here, there certainly are. It does bring up you know,
is it just to do it this way? But certainly
there are some firms that may have gotten business that
otherwise wouldn't have. But then that's kind of the point, right,
be competitive. If you want to be successful, be competitive,

(09:17):
and if you put out a good product at at
a good price, it shouldn't matter.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, if you're the best, you'll rise to the top,
regardless of race or anything consideration.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
You're the best at what you do. And this is
you know, again that that age old argument here. The
left has now since the sixties, tried their best to
in their viewpoint, level the playing field. But a lot
of people would argue that in the process, what they've
really done is held back a segment of this population.

(09:52):
This is a smaller part really of a bigger story here.
So that current state law that's been around since the eighties,
Governor says that goes away until the law has changed too.
He says he's ordering state agencies to hold off on
signing any new procurement contracts that are related to do
these said quotas. So there is uh, yeah, there's some

(10:14):
backlashes you would expect, but it's yeah, it's it's it's
high time.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
You're listening to South Carolina this morning, yous with Gary
David At Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
It is six twenty three morning.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Good to have you along South Colina's morning news on
one of three point five FM and five sixty AM
WVOC in ninety four to three w SC unrelated but
in the same vein AT and T announcing they are
ditching their DEI programs. This has been a this has
been the trend now, hasn't it. And this mister Thompson

(10:56):
always likes to say, it's what it's all about business.
You make money, make you're trying to make a profit.
And if it's an unprofitable decision to promote people who
don't know what they're doing, just because you're trying to
check a box, just.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Like our last conversation.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, okay, hire the best firm, hire the best people,
and you'll have success.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's pretty simple.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's what this country was built on, right, I mean,
come on, go out and succeed. Be the best at
what you do and you'll succeed. So we're talking about
one hundred thousand employees here employed by AT and T.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
In the.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Statement, AT and T says they've always stood for Okay,
I hope this is true, Not sure it has been
AT and T has always stood for merit based opportunity
as it should. Yeah, and we're pleased to reaffirm our
commitment to equal employment, opportunit unity and non discrimination today

(12:04):
consistent with applicable law, their approach will allow employees to
thrive an environment free from invidious. I don't even know
that word. Is that a misspelling? Invidious? I know insidious?
I don't know invidious? Look that one up discrimination.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
The New York Post had reported previously that AT and
t's training called racism a uniquely white trade, and that
white employees were told they are the problem. This was
a it was a while back that Post had reported.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
This They were training people with that.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
That their training had called at one time racism a
uniquely white trade, and white employees were told that they
are the problem.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Okay, well the whole white guilt thing.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, exactly. So it looks like they've reversed themselves on
all that. Now DEI is out at AT and T.
So the growing number of programs, Amazon, Meta, Low's, McDonald's
all pulled back on their own DEI programs. You've got Verizon,
T Mobile. You do wonder though, Okay, these companies say this,

(13:16):
But are they just kind of going about it a
different way. Well, we haven't seen a lot of evidence
of that so far, but I wouldn't be surprised if
in some cases that's not the case.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I would think that would be easier in today's world,
where so many people are working remotely. You're not in
you're not in contact directly with a lot of people anymore.
So you don't know, it doesn't matter, you know, what
color they are, what religion they are, what their political
affiliation is. You're just seeing their work come across your desk.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
You know, this just occurs to me. These sorts of programs,
haven't they made the situation worse and not better because
you're specifically looking at your workforce and you're divving them
up into you know, multiple camps. Now, okay, you're you're
you're pointing out the fact that somebody's skin color is different,

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when quite possibly prior to that, nobody really cared. But
suddenly now you've created this artificial division amongst your workforce.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
How is that helpful? It's invidious? It is invidious. What
does that mean? Designed to create ill will or resentment
or give offense?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Okay, then we go We've learned a new word today
on the program. Yeah, there you go, all we already
knew that. I'm just you know, I'm a little slow invidious. Okay,
So it wasn't a mistype.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Hi, hire the people who were best for your business.
Right now, that's not necessarily how we got the job here,
but still that's what you should do.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
Carolina's Morning News on one on three point five five
sixty AM WVOC and ninety four to three WSC NOW.
Gary David, ad Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Good morning, six thirty four. I'm Gary David. He is
Christopher Thompson. This is South Carolina's Morning News. Well, I
gotta tell you this. Give her credit. She knows how
to get her name and keep her name of the news.
Nancy Mace the latest reporting here, and this is from
a It was just a quick mention in an article
in New York Times.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
About how.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
Mainly women Republican women in the House of Representatives are
frustrated with how Speaker Mike Johnson.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
They're not the only ones, by the way.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
By the way, yeah, it takes need to be getting
all the attention though, and with the recent announcement that
Marjorie Taylor Green is resigning. The New York Times in
that piece, just really a one liner said that Nancy
Mace is reportedly planning to us retiring early from Congress

(16:03):
along with Taylor Green. Annie Carney reported for The Times,
writing yesterday that Mace has told those around her she's
frustrated with Speaker Mike Johnson, sick of the ways around
the house, and primarily with how women have been treated there. Again,
this is a common refrain from Nancy Mays now that

(16:27):
none of that's not none of that's you know, not
not true. That's all true right there. She has expressed frustration.
Low Country TV station reached out for a comment and
was told to well, look at her latest post on
x where she said, there is frustration that discharge petitions

(16:51):
are the only way to move things to the House.
That's a that's a parliamentary procedure to try to bring
a bill out of committee into the floor without any
kind of report from the committee.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
But they discharge it from the committee.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
And the frustration is that things are getting held up
in committee, they navi getting to the full House floor.
And we've had a number of these discharged positions recently.
I guess maybe the most famous was the one that
brought the Epstein bill to the full House floor at
least as of late. In that post, Mace wrote, I
loathe how slow Congress moves. I loathe that we haven't

(17:29):
delivered on Trump's agenda. I loathe serious lawmakers aren't taken seriously.
I loathe the press making stories up, and more loathing
They're in her comment, but she said nowhere did I
say I was retiring, and a spokesperson for the congresswoman
also says she's not planning to retire from Congress.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
So I would think the last thing Nancy Mace would want,
especially after what Austin McCubbin said last week about the
fact that the Nancy Mace was aligning herself with anti
Trump causes, is to be viewed in the same vein
as Marjorie Taylor Green, who famously broke with the president
before she resigned.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
This would be the perception, regardless of what a reality
might be, That would be the perception among voters.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
I'd also advise Nancy Mace that if she is frustrated,
stick around. There may be a leadership change at the
top soon, I just I think so. I'm not sure
what's going to happen with Mike Johnson in twenty twenty six.
But he's in a bad position. But he's not gaining
a whole lot of popularity with the decisions he's made.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Quite honestly, I don't care who it is. Whoever's in
that position right now is going to be in a
bad position, true, because it's tough sletting for Republicans in
the House right now to get down the same page
on anything, it seems like.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
And the sentence forcing the househand.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Now, now, Mace, this is going to be her last term.
Who knows, she may one day run again for Congress,
but this is her last term at least this time
around as she runs for governor here in South Carolina. So, okay,
a little early, big deal. What's the perception among voters
if that were.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
To be the case.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
If it were to be the case, man, I gotta
tell you, if I'm Nancy Mace, I think right about now,
I'm just keeping my head down. You know, maybe maybe
stay off the radar a little bit and maybe spend
more time in South Carolina talking about the things you
want to do for South Carolinians as opposed to complaining
about the way things are done on Capitol Hill. That
she's doing a lot of complaining about the way things

(19:27):
are going, and she's got some good points. Okay, she does.
But if your goal is to win the Republican nomination
for governor in South Carolina, this doesn't seem like the
way to go about it to me at least. And
none of this may be true. Again, that was That
was one line in a New York Times article. Basically,
we'll see where it goes.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
This is South Carolina.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
This Morning news on one on three point five FM
and five AM w VOC, Columbia and ninety four to
three WSC Charleston, now Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
At six forty three on a Thursday morning. The good
news is it's a slow to pick up. Bad news
is we've had our first reported death in the state
from flu. Partment of Public Health confirming that the state's
first flu related death has occurred. Not many details, obviously,

(20:29):
but somebody in the Low Country has died as a
result of the flu. The good news, though, is it's
it's taking longer. Well maybe this I don't know if
the state's good news or not. But we typically start
really ramping up flu season in September. Late September, maybe
late October is when we've had the first flu death

(20:50):
the last three years.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
So it's.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
About one thousand of so confirmed cases the flu as
of the end of November, but so far and picked up.
I guess they're talking about a new flu strain out
there somewhere. Every year there's a new flu strain, right.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
I wish they would say a little bit more. I
don't need to know the details as far as personal statistics,
but maybe was this person immuno compromised? For example, Well,
just go back to the COVID discussions. Yeah, I mean,
you know, somebody died, were there it is a perfectly
healthy human being, then we'd be had that be reason
for fear, right, cause for concern. But you know, was

(21:27):
it an elderly person? Was it somebody who had been
fighting cancer? Tell us a little bit more so we know,
you know, compromised? Yeah, whether it be concerned or not. Yeah,
that is bothersome where they don't well, yeah, they are
telling us a lot about the measles though, aren't they. Yeah, boy,
there's a simple fix for that. Well, how but how

(21:49):
bizarre is it? Okay, so you know.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Kennedy's up there's you know, heading up the Health and
Human Services and you know, anti vacks and all that.
But isn't it a weird coincidence that his first year
in that position is the year suddenly that measle starts
ramping up. I mean, this is obviously from folks who
never well I say obviously may maybe not obviously, but

(22:15):
at least for the most part of folks who never
got measles vaccination. Yeah, and that turks back years and
years and years, not just this year.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well, no, I think I think it's the post COVID,
you know, people just after COVID, And I mean a
lot of these outbreaks started in pre k and daycare
centers and schools where these kids are of that age where,
you know, twenty twenty, their parents decided nope, not doing

(22:43):
it anymore. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Yeah, mainly we're seeing it in schools. Yeah, we have
seen in some other places. Apparently it's been passed around,
but yeah, it is mainly schools and mainly you know,
young kids. So okay, all right, Linda Bell, let's say
an epidemiologists saying this is alarming.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
And most of this in the upstate. It's it's hard
to imagine. I mean, the diseases that we conquered years ago,
and now people are all of a sudden getting hinky
about what needle goes in them, what needle goes in
their kids. And as a result, and we're seeing outbreaks
all over again. Spartanburg has been hard. Yeah, that's that's
that's mainly been the focus of all this, from.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
The midlands to the low country.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
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.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
It's six fifty three major major retraction, I should say,
on a climate doomsday prophecy. Just last year, the journal Nature,
supposedly widely respected, prestigious scientific journal, an article that claimed
that the economic commitment of climate change, that was the

(24:07):
title of it, detailed how global GDP grows domestic product
could be roughly sixty two percent lower by twenty one
hundred due to climate change. They never stop with this, right,
this would be a disaster. Well, they have retracted that study.

(24:29):
They retracted it yesterday after I guess the scientists decided
to talk to his economists and found out that well,
they discovered data issues and used Bekistan that heavily distorted
the results.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Okay, hello, how heavily did they rely on Uzbekistan material?

Speaker 4 (24:50):
I don't know, but apparently actually be maybe a twenty
percent reduction, not a sixty two percent reduction.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Okay, there you go.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
This is the Thursday morning edition of South Malanda's Morning News.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Live from the state Capitol.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Carrie David and
Christopher Thompson, and.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
We appreciate you joining us on this Thursday morning. It
is the fourth of December, three minutes after seven o'clock
now on ninety four to three WSC and one of
three point five FM and five sixty AMWVOC.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Big stories.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, the governor again, as we mentioned, executive order removing
at least for now, and waiting for the actual law
to change current state law that rewards a certain number
of state contracts to minority or female owned businesses. We'll
be talking more about that. We've also discussed and we'll

(25:54):
have more on this too. A New York Times report
claiming that Nancy Mace is going to exit Congress early,
follow the lead of Marjorie Taylor Green. The Mace camp
denies that this is Mace was running for governor here
in South Carolina, and what might even the prospect of

(26:14):
that mean, whether or not it's the actual reality. We'll
get back into that again a little bit later on
the more and more Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing
their uneasiness with Pete Heggseth as the Secretary of well
defense or war, whichever you choose, how or you won't
refer to it as.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Now.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
The latest issue for Hegseeth is the watchdog report from
the Pentagon over his use of well that you know,
messaging app signal. Back at the time, this was several
months back. This is when we were conducting air strikes,
right and he made that known via signal to a

(26:56):
number of individuals.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
It's a big story.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
At the time, kind of forgotten about that, but now
it well reappears conveniently right now, or inconveniently if you're
Pete Haggsath and the White House any movement on healthcare,
specifically those enhanced subsidies for Obamacare. We'll be talking more
about that coming up this morning on this the Thursday

(27:19):
edition of South Carolina's Morning News. The President yesterday with
a big announcement the federal fuel standards that were really
really tightened under the Biden White House. He's resetting those.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
What did you tell us? The average price of a
car right now is fifty five thousand dollars. Yes, it
was over fifty Yeah, something fifty three to fifty five thousand.
That's the average price. And that's because, I mean, it's
gotten so much more expensive to produce these cars thanks
to these new federal standards.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
They the White House claims that this will save in
total one hundred and nine billion dollars for American families.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Manufacturers are celebrating. Americans should celebrate too. We should, we should.
Trump yesterday saying that we're officially terminating Joe Biden's ridiculously burdensome,
horrible cafe standards that imposed expensive restrictions and all sorts
of problems. You know, Joe Biden just took the lead

(28:22):
of California on this one, right, So let's just do this. This
is do what Californias do. Let's make the whole country.
You have to do what California's doing. Well, you already
know what prices are like there.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
And this is what you know, Joe Biden, the Democrats
wanted to impose on the entire country. And yeah, all
about you know what climate change reference to report. We
just had a few minutes ago about it, right, that
journal Nature report on how horrific climate change would be
on our economy globally. And they had to retract that
one because they got it wrong.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Meanwhile, the message these days is all about affordability.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Yes, oh, the White House is right now, laser focused
on affordability.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
That's good. Yeah, get one message, stick to it and
and everything should revolve around that.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
Right now, the White House, the Republican Party has got
to spend all of twenty twenty six focusing on affordability
because you know, the Democrats have changed their tune. You know,
it's it's no longer about you know, dei wokeness.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Men and women's bathroom minute, men in women's sports.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Now they may still all be be all for that, sure,
but they're not saying they're not focusing on it.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
They realize they lost big time in the last election
because of those issues, right, because they're so far on
the other side of what the average American thinks.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
And how bad is it when a you know, a communist,
I'm sorry, a Democrat socialist runs for mayor of New
York City and wins based on just that, Really that
one topic, affordability, not to mention he wants to give
stuff away and for a certain you know, parts of
the electorate, that's always a winning proposition. But still affordability.

(30:03):
That will be the war between the parties and twenty
twenty six ahead of the midterms.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
So this is a good start right here.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
According to the White House, these regulations under Biden that
were instituted have caused the price of cars to go
up more than twenty five percent. In one case, the
White House claims car prices went up eighteen percent in
just one year. Now, I know, when we had the pandemic,
we had you know issues because we had you know,
supply chain issues, We had the chip shortage and all

(30:32):
that and that all kinds of Remember you drive by
a new car dealership and it wasn't a single car
a lot, and the.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Price of used cars was out courageous. Rental cars weren't.
They weren't in business, So that wasn't trickling down to
the used car business. Right, Well that was then that
problem has been solved. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
What's been jacking up car prices from the last couple
of years.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
These new federal standards, the little stickers on the gas pumps,
little Joe Biden, Yes, I did that. Yeah, he did that,
and Trump's gonna undo it, thank you. Meanwhile, gas is
coming down or as come down. Yeah. Yeah. And that
other topic you mentioned, healthcare is going to be the
next big war that's waged in Washington when it comes

(31:20):
to affordability.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
And what's happening with that. Now, we'll get into it
in just a few here on South Carolina's Morning News.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Gary David and
Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
It is seven thirteen. Good morning.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
So, yeah, what about the Obamacare subsidies. Well, yesterday you
had senators from from both sides of the aisle saying
they wanted to get together and come out with some
sort of a deal on handling.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
These expiring subsidies.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
The problem is they just can't decide how to go
about do it. Josh Holly, the Missouri Republican, it's ringing
a bell if we don't do something on the issue.
He says, if Congress doesn't take action, this will be
a crisis for twenty more twenty four rather than million
Americans in counting.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
And a crisis for his party in the next midterms.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yes, there's a growing number of Republicans that are expressing
their frustration that they haven't been able to.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Do it.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
Okay, Number one, you're going to have to make this
thing happen. Get on the same page with Democrats, and
Democrats with Republicans to move it forward. Well, first, Republicans
have to get on the same page with other Republicans,
and that's not happening, and that's leading to to more
and more concern with it within the party. There was
a hearing yesterday on affordability. There's that word again, affordability

(32:56):
the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. The committee
chair Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican, acknowledging in this meeting
yesterday that large scale reform on the Affordable Care Act
is not gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
He says, it at least not this year. Now.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Is he talking about the subsidies or is he talking
about reforming Obamacare? As he said, we can push for
big ideas grand UoS ideas on the right or the left.
But we got to have a solution for three weeks
from now. Yeah, I mean, you're not gonna in short

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order here unfortunately, be able to reform Obamacare. You know,
Republicans tried that a few years ago and felt just
that one boat short due to the late Senator John McCain,
who famously gave it the thumbs down on the Senate
floor rather than go back and try it again. It's

(33:59):
just his set and festered all these years, and now
we're at a crunch time. Apparently the Senate Democrats are
moving ahead, by the way, with ideas to propose a
three year extension on these.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Now. Originally Chuck Schumer wanted a one year extension. Remember,
coming right up against the midterms. Now they're going to
come right up against the next presidential election.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Yeah, this was how King Jeffrey's idea in the House
several weeks back. Okay, Schumer said a one year extension.
Jeffrey said a three year EXTENSI would put you it
win twenty twenty eight. What happens then, Yeah, presidential election
cycle just shows how politically driven this whole conversation is.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Well, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
So yeah, it looks now like send the Democrats are
going to go along with Hakim Jefferies and say, yeah,
let's extend NUM for three years. Remember the Whope Act,
which apparently there's no Hope happening. It was a two
year extension that was a bipartisan deal. That was a
bipartisan idea, and it looked like the White House idea
was also two years. With caps on income you've made

(35:06):
above I think two hundred thousand a year or whatever,
you would not be eligible as a family for the
subsidies enhanced subsidies that never got put out. We've talked
about that, so that didn't happen. So here come to
send Democrats back with lea, let's do three years. Oh
and by the way, and we'll talk about this in
a second. Trump's top poster says he has a well,

(35:28):
maybe a different idea and some advice or Republicans on
what they should be doing here in the midst of
all this. We'll share that with you. Coming up on
this the Thursday morning edition of South Carolina's Morning News.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Gary David and
Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
It's seven twenty three Tony Fabrizio, the name you probably
don't know. He's a top polster President Trump. He gave
a briefing yesterday to House Republicans on this whole Obamacare
subsidy extension question. His advice changed the subject. Okay, let's explain.

(36:20):
Fabreezio showed some new polling to members of the Republican
Study Committee. He argued, the most effective way for Republicans
to counter Democrats' healthcare messaging is to change the subject,
to pivot to what to working with Trump to reduce
drug prices? Do we have a yellow hanky I can throw.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
On that one? Well, Trump's already had an impact on
drug prices. He has, But I mean, in my mind
a least, here's the problem with that. Okay, if something's
not done, And again, let me disclaim all this by
saying that I'm no fan of all mymacare and certainly
no fan of the enhanced subsidies. But from a political standpoint,

(37:09):
Republicans are risking a lot here if they don't make
something happen. As you pointed out, there are too many
people already in that system.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
Oh yeah, twenty four million plus. So the problem here
with this, in my mind at least, and who am I,
But we reduce drug prices. That's that's good, right, That's sure,
that's a good thing. Sure, sure, But how many of
these twenty four some odd million people who were, you know,

(37:38):
come January going to see their insurance rates under Obamacare skyrocket?
Are you going to that same month, for example, offset
that enough because of reduced pharmaceutical prices to make.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
It a wash?

Speaker 5 (37:54):
They're not.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
I don't think people see that as the same issue.
They don't, and that's going to be a hard sell.
But the guy did bring up some very good points,
and he talked again, there's that word affordability, and he
you know, suggested strongly to these Republicans that he briefed,

(38:17):
you know, focus on that focus on affordability. He also
spoke about.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Housing and how that should be a key area of
focus for Republicans. High home prices, high interest rates. But
he had a well this is actually an idea that
some say that some of the White House have been
mulling over. So the guy I had never heard of before,

(38:45):
making mortgage rates a portable. Like your cell phone. You
can change cell phone providers and keep the same phone number. Right,
that's portable. So this is this idea floading around that
we can do that with with mortgage rates too.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
That will allow you as a homeowner that let's say you're.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
At a home right now, and your mortgage rate on
your mortgage is you know, if you got with the
lucky ones, you're in the twos of the threes.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
You ain't moving now, huh, not at six plus.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
But this idea that you could take that same mortgage
interest rate and applied.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
How do how would that even work?

Speaker 4 (39:21):
I don't know what what what bank or what mortgage
is going to be wanting to do that.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
That's a crazy idea to me. It'd be great if
it could. You could pull that off, sure, but yeah,
I'm not sure how you would do that.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
But again the good news is here. Republicans are being
pushed more and more to focus on what almost not
quite but guy got are close than she should have been,
almost got to the AOC of Tennessee elected to other affordability.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
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Speaker 2 (40:15):
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Speaker 4 (40:17):
It's seven forty four, good morn until you talk about
spitting in the wind. Word that the My Pillow guy.
Mike Lindell is uh, well, the week is due diligence
and saying that so far things are looking good. He
may be making announcement to the next week or so
that he is going to run for governor of Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Well, that's one place where he might succeed. Wait, Minnesota,
I know he's from there. In all, when Democrats find
out that their own governor has wasted that much money,
well then again there's that, isn't there. But even Minnesota, man,

(40:59):
it's it's it's a lot like California and Oregon and California.
When it comes to that, it would be an uphill battle.
Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
Haven't seen a my Pillow commercial in a long time,
have you. Of course, he sees at the wrong end
of that huge lawsuit by was it smart Matic.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
The well.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Dominion voting systems and and Smartmatic would suit him for
one point three billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
What he said about to he went crazy some of
his theories.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Yeah, so's them luck man, Maybe instead of a chicken
in everybody can run for a my pillow on every
bed that might work for him now here at home.
Nancy Mace making news again, Well did she? There was
a New York Times article came out yesterday. There was, Well,

(41:53):
the focus of the article actually may have come out
late Tuesday, but I remember seeing it but not really
paying much attention to it.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
But the focus the article was that.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
Mainly women, Republican women in the House are upset with
Speaker Johnson and they're revolting. And they mentioned Marjorie Taylor Green,
you know, resigning her seat from the House as a result.
But they also threw in a line about Nancy Mace.
The Times reporter at Annie Carney writing, Yeah, it was

(42:22):
yesterday that macee has told people around her she's frustrated
with Speaker Johnson, was sick of the way he was
running the House and primarily sick of how women are
being treated. There a common refrain for Nancy Mace, of course,
and the word was that she was going to follow
the lead of Marjorie Taylor Green and retire early from
her congressional seat. Now, the Mace campaign denies this. They

(42:46):
don't deny that she's not happy with Speaker Johnson, not
happy with the way the House operates, so on and
so forth, but that she is not resigning her seat.
She even posted on Internet that nowhere did I say
I was retiring? Internet is wild. So two of my
opponents spreading this nonsense, she claims. So is she really

(43:09):
thinking about it or not?

Speaker 1 (43:11):
And if she were, if this were to happen, how
would that impact her odds that well, at least according
to the latest poll, are rapidly dwindling to be the
Republican nominee. Well, it would give her more time here
in South Carolina. I mean, yeah, she and Ralph Norman
are fairly restricted in what they can do campaigning right now.

(43:31):
We'll see that change next year, though. Oh they'll start
to miss votes because they have to. Everyone does that
when they run for a state job, when they're trying
to serve in Washington at the same time.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
But for her, I.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Think it she'll also lose that big platform she has.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I mean she'll still be outspoken,
but no longer outspoken congress person.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Well, we may have to revisit this because I have
some other thoughts to share. We don't have time to
do it right now. But keep that on the front.
How would that affect the gubernatorial race in South Kalina
if it were to happen again, her office denies it.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
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Speaker 1 (44:25):
It's seven fifty two if you missed it.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
Earlier were talking about this climate change report that the
journal Nature published last year about how climate change was
going to cause US to lose sixty two percent of
gross domestic product globally by twenty one hundred.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
What would that do to the world economy? It would
tag it, But yeah, we're not around to worry about it.
Our kids aren't around to worry about it. But still
grandkids might be. But then they had to retract it.
They were attracted it.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
Yesterday said they put too much weight on economic data
out of use bes E stand where was which?

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (44:59):
I think it was us? Yeah, Okay, so now they've
attracted that. Now that wouldn't be It might be twenty percent,
but it wouldn't be sixty two percent. Okay, Well, what
has ever happened to all the the when's the last
time we heard from al Gore? For example, Greta Thunberg,
she's more interested now in getting on these boats and
heading to you know, Gaza than talking about climate change.

(45:21):
But those the people we should have been worried about.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
There are private companies out there right now that are
raising money and in some cases millions, with plans to
wait for it, block the sun. Yeah, uh, startups ones
called make sunsets. It's a weird name for a company

(45:47):
that wants to block the sun. But whatever. Oh oh
sunsets okay, Yeah, that makes sunrise and make sunsets, Okay,
that makes sense. There are a lot of these companies
out there right now. This one called Stardusks. They raise
seventy five million dollars and they think they'll have a
method they'll be ready to launch by the end of
the decade, in just five years, to block the sun

(46:10):
to reduce global warming.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
What could possibly go wrong here?

Speaker 4 (46:18):
You know, I'm just thinking out loud, you know, off
top of my head as a non scientist. You know,
it's just a regular old guy. It just doesn't sound
like a real good idea to me. I I don't.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Know plunging the world into eternal darkness. So it begs
the question, if a private company or private companies can
come up with technology to block the sun, isn't it
time for governments to step in to say you, no,
you can't do that. You would hope? So what would hope?

Speaker 6 (46:47):
So?

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Right?

Speaker 4 (46:49):
Anyway, Yeah, these are the people we should be worried about.
Or maybe that well, I was gonna say that gets
out to the wrong country. Now they wouldn't do it enither,
because guess what they're part of all of us.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Two.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
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Carolina's Morning News.

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Speaker 4 (47:32):
And we appreciate you starting off for Thursday morning with us.
It's the fourth of December, twenty one days away from
the big day. It's three minutes a halfter eight o'clock.
I'm Gary David. That is Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Morning to you. We appreciate you being here with us.
So more on this executive order coming from the governor yesterday.
One of our big stories this morning.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
We're also following and we'll be talking about this in
a few up on Capitol Hill. Is well, for lack
of a better way to phrase it, is the news
tightening around the neck of Pete eggsaff this watchdog report
out about those signal messaging app chats that he had
months back before an airstrike, combined, of course, with the
brewja ha over that second strike on that Narco bote

(48:12):
back in September in the Caribbean. We're talking about that.
We've talked and we may get Brown to it again.
Is Nancy May's going to retire early from Congress? The
New York Times report made that claim. Her camp denies it.
Healthcare enhanced subsidies again a topic ahead of a vote
supposedly next week in the Senate on this. Are they

(48:33):
any closer to coming up with some sort of a resolution?
And meantime, affordability is the buzzword in the White House.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
They're all over it.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
The announcement yesterday by Trump to reset the Cafe Standards plan,
the Biden administration's plan that jacked up car prices, and
what Trump's going to do about it. So those some
of the big stories were following here on this Thursday,
December the fourth. All right, So this executive order now
that the governor laid out or issued yesterday, changing how

(49:02):
state agencies go about awarding contracts and spending your money
and my money, tax payer money. For last forty years,
I guess, since the mid eighties, state law has required,
for example, that the Department of Transportation give at least
five percent of specific contracts to minority owned businesses, whether

(49:26):
that's minority of female business, you name it. Other state
agencies have got to spend ten percent of their controllable
budgets through minority firms. And they've got it each and
every year. Submit a plan, develop a plan, submit a plan.
I don't how much time and money that takes to

(49:46):
do that, just to come up with a plan to
demonstrate how that ten percent of their money is being
spent through minority owned businesses. So the governor yesterday is
executive order saying no, no more of that.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
That's over.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
So as of right now, state agencies are not required
to do that by executive order, and the governor says,
I'll work to pass a bill in this upcoming session
of the state House to totally repeal that mid eighties
piece of legislation.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Which if it were challenged right now, would probably be
found unconstitutional. I mean, look at what the Supreme Court's
already said when it comes to kids getting into college
and whether colleges and universities can use race or gender
or anything else in their admissions policies. Yeah, I mean,

(50:40):
you stop and think about it.

Speaker 4 (50:43):
And this goes back to the sixties, in the Civil
rights era, the Democrat Party and in this case here
in South Carolina, a state can controlled run Republicans just
get getting caught up in all the fearer these sorts
of quotas, these quota systems. The question is have they

(51:04):
been good for minority communities as a whole? While they have?
You know, something like this has certainly benefited certain companies
that are you know, minority owned. Can't argue that it has.
Has it made them better companies? Or are they where

(51:25):
they are just because of something like this?

Speaker 1 (51:28):
And has it made us as a state inefficient? And
is the whole system inefficient when it comes to spending
our taxpayer dollars? Right?

Speaker 4 (51:40):
And this has not just been government We've had this
whole craze with you know, private companies.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
UH and and and DEI and you.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
See we AT and T has a lead us to
walk away from that, saying they'll know it'll be merit
based promotion. Only now. I know there's been pressure for
but Trump administration to do that. But still these businesses
are coming to the realization that it didn't work.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
It ain't working.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
But my question is not so much from that advantage point,
but for the people it had the most direct impact on.
Has that really helped them? For example, we've seen it
in education. We've seen it where in these states where
they're like, I just you know, just move them on.
You know, okay, so they can't really learn, they can't

(52:27):
get to the standards, but that's okay, We'll just keep
moving them on. Who are you really helping the individual
by doing that.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Artificial success?

Speaker 4 (52:35):
Yeah, and sooner or later, you know, that all comes
crashing down eventually, you know, you hit the real world. Now,
for these companies that have been you know, benefiting from
this this quota, I mean I say this truthfully, honestly
from my heart, I hope they continue to succeed.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Yeah, No, one's saying they can't bid on projects any along.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
R right, right, Sorry, we could never hire you again.
But I'm afraid what we're going to see is at
some of these same companies that are now you know,
outraged over this, maybe they're outraged for good reason, because.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Maybe maybe I have no idea, but.

Speaker 4 (53:15):
I think the possibility exist that some of these companies
were getting jobs they otherwise wouldn't have because they either
weren't good enough or they weren't competitive enough in their bids,
and now the cold, hard realities hit them in the face.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
We got to get good fast, and we got to
get a competitive fast.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
It's not fair to other businesses who may have offered
a better product at a better price, but didn't get
the job because of a race based quota. And you
know the governor yesterday calling this, you know, discriminatory, that
we were doing that for all these years, four decades
we've been that's been state law here.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Ye it's outdated.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
Yeah, nowhere should any person be treated differently because of
the race, is what the governor said yesterday when he
exists executed this executive order. I don't know, well, is
this something somebody can sue over if they can. They'll
do it. They will, and I'm sure that'll happen. But yeah,
the courts, as mister Thompson referenced, the High Court in

(54:13):
the land, has already spoken when it comes to education
and race based quotas. They are a thing of the past,
and they don't. They have no place in today's business world.
I would argue at least.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Why from the State Capitol.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Carrie David and
Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
It's fourteen after eight. Good morning, Good to have you
long for Thursday, December fourth. If you've been with us
for a little while this morning, you've heard this word
mentioned a lot, affordability. Get used to it. It is
the new buzzword. It should have always been the buzzword.
And yesterday at the White House, the President announcing a rewind,

(55:00):
a reset of federal fuel standards that were really ratcheted
up under the last administration, and the White House saying
that this reset of these cafe standards will save the
neighborhood of one one hundred and nine billion dollars in total. Wow,

(55:22):
that number may be exaggerated a bit, but you know what,
even if it was fifty billion dollars. We should be
happy about it. The regulations that Joe Biden heightened under
his administration have led to car prices going up more
than twenty five percent. Maybe not the only factor, but

(55:43):
a big factor in that. In one case, the President
says they went up eighteen percent in just one year
under Joe Biden. The car makers are loving this. The
CEO of for Jim Farley, as America's largest auto producery, writes,
we appreciate President Trump's leadership and aligning fuel economy standards

(56:06):
with market realities. Okay, see, that's that's always been the
Democrats problem. They don't know how to deal with and
live in reality. Aligning fuel economy standards with market realities.
Farly going on to say, we can make real progress
on carbon emissions and energy efficiency while still giving customers choice.

(56:30):
And here's that word again, affordability. And I love this,
He says, this is a win for customers and common sense.
Whatever happened to common sense?

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Rare in Washington, but thank good, I mean, and this
is going to be what the entire election, the midterms certainly,
but probably twenty twenty eight as well. That's affordabil the
economy I mean, unfortunately for Trump, he fixed the border.
Unfortunately for Trump, he's had great success in fighting crime.

(57:08):
Those were two major issues in the last election. And
now we're turning back to the economy again because it's
it's always the economy, always, never straight away from the
economy if you're run of the country.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
This is South Carolina's Morning News with Gary David and
Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
It's a twenty two good morning.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
Appreciate you joining us for South Carolina's Morning News. He
was unpopular with Democrats from the get go, and now
is he becoming unpopular with Republicans. Pete Haig's at the
Secretary of Defense War however you want to refer to
it as Ryan Smells Now from Fox Radio joins us
from Capitol Hill to talk about it. Ryan, Good morning, Good,
Good to have you with us, Buddy.

Speaker 5 (57:58):
Good to be on, Buddy.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
So we know Democrats don't like hegg Zath. They haven't
from the start, from the get go. But what about Republicans.
There seems to be a little split going on, including
one of our state senators, Lindsay Graham, who's expressing some
doubts about him.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
What's the latest.

Speaker 5 (58:14):
Here, Ryan, I think they're trying to get answers to
what oltimately happened with this strike in the Caribbean. There's
a lot of different reporting and different accounts of what happened.
So bringing in today, which is supposed to be the
progress of Admiral Bradley testifying or speaking before a closed
door panel with different relevant committees like the House Armed

(58:35):
Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee, so they'll
be able to get at least some of the answers
that they're looking for today.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
So Heggs says that he was out of the room
when that second strike occurred. This goes back to what September.
I guess, yes, correct, a second two strikes on that now,
haven't we heard the Admiral say Ryan that, well, this
is kind of two things that wanted to be sure
that that vessel was completely destroyed so it wouldn't be
a hazard they're shipping in the lanes. And number two,

(59:02):
to make sure that any survivors didn't call in, you know,
back up reinforcements or what have you did.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Did I remember the admiral actually saying that.

Speaker 5 (59:10):
I can't remember the Admiral said that, but that was
some of the accounting that the Department of War was
given about what happened, including Hesit himself. So I think
that's going to depend on, you know, obviously what you know,
what exactly led to the second strike, what the intention was,
because you know, if these were in fact wounded people
who were surrendering and were trying to and weren't a

(59:31):
threat to the United States anymore, that's going to be
some problems. There's gonna be some legal issues with that.
But if if not, and there was in fact, you know,
a justification for the second strike or that Hexsitt has
said that the admiral, he believes the admiral had the
legal authority to do this. So I think it just
depends on, you know, what the context is for why
it happened.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
So this is what they'll be talking about a day
up on Capitol Hill. Okay.

Speaker 4 (59:54):
Now combine that with it now the Watchdog coming out
we just yesterday saying that Hegsath's use of the signal
messaging app prior to that air strike several months back,
could have put our our fighter pilots and in such
an in harm's way. It's kind of pile up for
Hexeth right now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Isn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
Yeah, potentially. I mean there's been some pretty strong defense
of him in the waking hours after this. You know,
you have the chairman of the Senator of Services Committee,
Roger Worker, putting out a statement. I could pull up
the exact quote that he had, but he was pretty
much defending hegets And then you know, some others have

(01:00:35):
said that the that ultimately the Inspector General report does
you know, justify that he didn't commit anything. You know,
here's the line, Okay, it is clear from the reports
that the Secretary acted within his authority to communicate the
information in question to other cabinet levels of level officials.
So you know, some summer saying is actually vindicates him.
But you know there are others who will take some

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of those quotes from the IG report and say that's
a big concern.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
Well, we know Trump has a history of you know,
turning over cabinet members and people's administration. At least right now,
Hexath seems to be the only one who potentially could
be on the shopping block, but the presidents standing beside
him for at least.

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
For now, right Yeah, And and of course you know
there's there's the idea and then I've heard a lot
of this. There's a lot of people really like Dan Driscoll,
the Army secretary. Uh, He's kind of seen as a
rising star within the cabinet and could be somebody who
could be a future Department of War secretary down the road.
And then you also have this idea that you know,
maybe Hexit would consider the Tennessee Senate seat if Marshall

(01:01:39):
Blackburn or whoever becomes governor of Tennessee next of it's
a Republican appoints into that position. Now, no, there's no
hard evidence that's the plan. And all we have right
now is that heggs of plans on staying in the
job throughout the duration of the term. But you know,
those are those are scenarios that that wouldn't be out
of the realm of possibility, certainly.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
Ryan Spells joining us from from the Capitol with Fox
New Radio. Thanks as always, Ryan, appreciate itybody, of course.

Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
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David at Christopher Thompson Taint.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Thirty four, Good morning, good to have you along.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
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They're trying to get evidence suppressed in the Luigi Louis
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second here. Did you see what they want to suppress?

(01:02:41):
It's like everything, the gun, the noes, the backpack, I
mean everything.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
You're good luck with that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
Top stories around here today we've been talking about all
morning long. The governor again rolling back repealing the minority
contract requirement laws. Nancy mays is she really thinking about
retiring early from Congress? She'll be out in twenty twenty
six anyway, because she's running for governor here, but will
she depart early? New York Times report claims that she's

(01:03:14):
been telling people she's fed up with Mike Johnson, fed
up with the slow pace of the house. Her camp
denies it, and she denied it herself on social media.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Wouldn't be the right move for her, But no, we did.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
Want to roll back to that story again here, just
just briefly, because if that, if that were to happen,
uh seems to better. That's that's a strange way, to
a strange way, or to run for governor by by
by by quitting a seat that you ran for and
that your constituents elected you to to serve them in

(01:03:49):
and to walk away early. It's the campaign seems to
be reeling right now. We had that that Wick pull
data at least a couple of days ago, we talked
about yesterday morning. At least according to that poll, she's
lost about half of her support, and that was the
first poll taken since her meltdown at the Charleston Airport

(01:04:12):
a couple of months back. I don't see how a
move like this if again she denies it, her camp
denize it, that would I would you? That have not
played well with constituents back home.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
The only the only thing, and loyal listener Marty pointed
this out, is that you know, it does allow her
to play the victim again, to say that she was
she was forced out by the men in the in
the US House.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
That's one of the things she said on social media.
She's she's unhappy with Mike Johnson. She's unhappy with the
pace of you know, what it takes to get things
done in the House, and she's unhappy with the way
that Johnson is treating women. Yeah, there are a lot
of Republican women in the House that are upset with
the Speaker Johnson right now. But then again, there are
a lot of people in general, men and women who
are upset with Speaker Johnson right now.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
He's he's in an untenable situation.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
Right, Okay, you put there, when's the last time a
House speaker? Well, as much as it pains me to
say this, except for Nancy Mace because she had, you know,
control in the in the in the in the House
with the Democrat Party.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
Pelosi, what did I say, Mace to Nancy? Nancy's with
very different political points of view?

Speaker 6 (01:05:26):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Yeah, Nancy Pelosi? Thank you? How many mistakes is that today?

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
For me?

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
Are we keeping track? That was my first one? Actually,
I think it's a rare day. I've only made one.
She wielded a lot of power, and of course, yeah,
it wound up being quite profitable for her too.

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
This did not when's the last time a Republican Speaker
of the House. This says more about the Republican Party
than anything else, right today, when's the last time a
GLP Speaker of the House just had a smooth ride
through his There's never been her but his tenure been
a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
I don't remember it happening in recent memory. Lately, they've
all been, you know, brokeer to elections. To get them there,
they've had to promise so many things to other people
that by the time they got there, they were it
was an unwinnable war.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
Okay, Well, the point is is, in my humble opinion,
if Nancy Base were to leave Congress earlier, I just
don't see that as being a good thing for her
gubernatorial hopes.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
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Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Listener Dan Wagon this morning on the program.

Speaker 4 (01:06:57):
Not that I would plan to vote for her anyway,
but if to Nancy Mays, if she does leave the House,
it leaves our balance of power in the House in jeopardy,
I'd throw under the bus and a heartbeat.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Then there's that. Then there is that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
Yes, there have been a lot of Republican retirements and
not running for re elections in this last It happens
a lot during the midterm cycle for some reason, I
don't know why, but yeah, that would further throw the
balance of power in jeopardy and would not sit well.
You'd have to call a special election. And again the
first district, the district that not that terribly often but

(01:07:32):
in recent memory, has sent a Democrat to the House
of Representatives.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
Happened with Joe Cunningham. Well, let's reiterate that she has
denied it, she has her campus denied it. And this
was just a blurb in the New York Times.

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
Yeah, this was not some long expose a citing all
sorts of sources. It was just pretty much a line
or two that she'd been telling people she was thinking
about a quitting the House.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
So she denies it. Cantonize it. That's that.

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
Let me spend a few moments talking about this here,
because we've been again all morning long, talking about the
a word affordability. Affordability. Keep this in mind, though, as
we head into this mid term election year. While it
seems somewhat doom and gloom for the Republicans, have wheels

(01:08:23):
been set into motion though that will change all that.
Keep don't forget this the one big beautiful bill. One
of the things that did was it extended the Trump
era tax cuts. At that Cabinet meeting a couple of
days ago, the President said that we're in line for
record tax refunds this year, that those Trump era tax

(01:08:49):
cuts were set to expire. That wasn't you know, the
enhanced subsidies wasn't the only thing set to expire at
the end of this year. The Trump era tax cuts
were spent to expire as well.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
They were gonna sunset, which is Republicans won on that
bill because you know, they started telling the American people, look,
the Democrats are prepared to make your tax bill go
up exponentially. M m hm.

Speaker 4 (01:09:12):
We almost forgot about that, didn't we. But that bill
also had other tax reforms, other spending measures, the President
says will lead to us getting larger refunds. That next
year is projected to be the largest tax refund season ever,
the President said, Scott Bess and the low Country Native
Treasury Secretary, saying that the best is yet to come,

(01:09:37):
noting that many of those one big Beautiful Bill provisions
are retroactive this year again, so we're going to see
substantial tax refunds next year. You know, you've got tax
relief for certain soci security beneficiaries for don't forget people
you know, making tips not going to be taxed on
them over time, can deduct auto loans for US made cars,

(01:10:06):
and not to mention that the president's flow of this
idea of giving us a you know, or a tariff
rebate check. So you know, stop and consider there have
been things put in place this year that next year,
in a midterm election cycle, could have very positive impacts

(01:10:27):
on your wallet and your pocketbook.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
It's going to take a lot of people by surprise.
I mean people who accounting wise, make sure they're not
giving the government too much and don't want a big
refund at the end of the year because that means
the government's had their money for so much longer than
they deserve. Sure, but these a lot of these provisions
I think are going to take people by surprise. Oh wow,
I'm getting that much back or I only have to

(01:10:51):
pay a little and what better time to get it?
In twenty twenty six, Yeah, genius.

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
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Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
A couple of minutes left with you on this Thursday
morning at is eight fifty two. When's the last time
you heard this fifty one state attorney's general or an agreement?
Does that ever? I guess it happened during phase one
of this, now phase two of an anti robocall operation. Yeah,

(01:11:40):
every state attorney general is an agreement here, and they've
announced they're joining forces to investigate and take legal action
against these companies responsible for a illegal and fraudulent robo
call traffic. Alan Wilson, of course one of those fifty
one announcing this yesterday. I guess the first phase did

(01:12:02):
have some success. I've always been in the opinion of
these people that they would just simply just like the
spam email or the text messages you get, Is there
any point really anymore in sending you know, delete and
report us junk because they just sent him from a
different number next time.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
And you said fifty one, So I guess I guess
every state plus the US Attorney General. Yeah, I suppose
that works all right, But yes, fifty one it is
Trump pardoning a Democrat. Huh what yeah? Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
Texas Democrat Representative Henry Quaar. It was Quaar in Texas.
Who was you know, right beside Trump when it came
to enforcing the border. But then he got well, got
some legal issues. Trump has pardoned him an unconditional pardon,

(01:12:57):
and uh, Quaar says he's gonn run for Congress again.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
So is he gonna run as a Republican this time? No?
As a Democrat? Okay. Kind of hard to put your
past in the in the past, kind of hard to
hide it from voters. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
Yeah, he was right with Trump on the border, but
that was probably about it. Which, by the way, Uh,
how about this from Hakim Jefferies saying that securing the
border of the Trump he called it a good thing.
Hakim Jefferies, what else could he say?

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
Right? I mean, Democrats know they were on the wrong
side of that issue in the last election, giving Trump
credit for it. Y'all had your chances, man, you could
have done it. I mean, how simple was it, How
quickly did that happen? You just needed somebody who wanted
to do it and get it done.

Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
That's gonna wrap it up for us. Thanks so much
for being along this more. We appreciate that. As always,
we hope you choose to make it a great day,
and we reconvene tomorrow morning at six o'clock right here
for South Carolina's morning news.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
We'll see you then