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November 6, 2025 17 mins
Do You Believe Nancy Mace Or Airport Security?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Nancy Mace is now suing over her airport controversy. Republican
Representative Nancy Manz says she's suing Charleston International Airport and
American Airlines following a recent incident. Last week, Mace allegedly
tried to use an entrance typically reserved for crew personnel
at a TSA security checkpoint. The police report says Mace

(00:29):
cursed at the officers and used profanity when calling the
department incompetent, adding this was no way to treat a
US representative. Mace, who is running for South Carolina governor,
has announced on social media that she has retained an
attorney and will be suing American Airlines and the airport
for defamation for allegations they falsified incident reports to defame her.

(00:53):
Mace posted on x the dirty cop or cops, Yes,
that filed a false incident report. You're giving other comps
a bad name, and I'm coming for you. So you
need to know that if you're not mad enough to
take my feedback, my constructive feedback for you not doing
your job, then what are you going to do? When

(01:13):
al Cada shows up at the airport.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh boy, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
This was dubbed by our current Lieutenant Governor Nancy Mace's
terminal tirade.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
You got a G.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Wilson out here, servant waffle house to TSA and airport workers.
After all of this started to unfold, even Senator Tim
Scott's put out a statement saying what I would sum
up as pretty much keep my.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Name out of your foul mouth.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Mace maintains that this is a political hit job because,
of course, aside from Senator Scott, who I mentioned there,
you've got people who would be on the same ticket
running for governor next year in South Carolina, at least
on the Republican side, so they're chomping at the bid
on this one. She seems to believe she has quite
a legal case here because she's retained Larry Klayman, the

(02:00):
founder of Judicial Watch and freedom Watch.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
That's a big deal.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
So she's also asked for more receipts, bodycam footage, and
unedited video throughout the airport, so we'll see. She laid
out in a press conference that this has happened twenty
four times and no other airport other than her hometown
airport after the last five days she mentioned being a
four different airports and this hasn't happened anywhere else, and
she did it's important to point out say, I have

(02:27):
been tried to handle this quietly, and I don't even
know who or why this was put out this way,
but she said, maybe it's a good thing because something
could be done, you know, intimating that their security breaches
at our airport, all these things she's going to.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Have to provide a receipts for. You would do what
one more time?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Whatever? Yeah, it's dirty cops coming after Nancy Mace.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
I would never defend her profanity. By the way, I'm
with Tim Scott on this one. I mean, it's unbecoming
of anyone holding office much ass running for office.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
These dirty cops at the airport file filed a falsified
reports to defame her. Yeah, and this was all what
her her political foes that are running for governor put
them so they they're on the payroll. I guess of
you know who's running against her for governor and so

(03:22):
it's all some big conspiracy to get Nancy Mace.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, by the way, let's add to the list because
this is new from overnight, over fifty lawmakers, both Republican
and Democrat, from all over the place, State House on down,
House Senate members and these are Republicans and Democrats. Mayors
throughout the Tri County pretty much every you know, town
council and city council have signed a statement showing their

(03:49):
support for the TSA and the airport and law enforcement.
So that's uh, that's I have no idea how she's
responded to that.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yet.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Here is her response to this, because I mean, one
of the risks, one of the comments I saw was
her bid for governor is tanked by this and expect her,
they said, to pivot back to running for another congressional
term in the spring of next year. Who knows this
is all just playing out, but I'm sharing.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well again, so they're after Nancy Mace and uh, and
this is not about airport security. She's making this case.
So when you're saying, oh, she has a good point,
and she's going to bring the receipts in all of
this BS, this has nothing to do with a defamation suit.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
She clearly seems to think she's got a case here
that her security was put at risk during her press conference,
which again I called out the optics on the bad
optics on the believability scale to hold an outdoor press
conference on a busy road with a heavy tree line
as a backdrop, talking about your being concerned about your security.

(04:59):
I just thought that her team should have done better
on that one.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
But well, this whole thing is, you know, she was
expecting to be met at the curb at the airport,
and they're saying that, you know, she she arrived in
a gray colored BMW and it was not the color
car that they told her that they told them, the
airport officials, TSA and airport security. It's a different color

(05:25):
car than they said she would be arriving in. So
they said, that's where the confusion comes in. And then
she comes in and starts going on a tirade against them, supposedly.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Right, that's alleged.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
She puts some text messages out showing that they did say.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
The correct color of the car.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
But people noticed when she put these receipts receipts you know,
from her campaign out there that the you know, you
can you can edit your text, and they said, wait,
this one's edited, and so you know, just put if
you got the receipts put them out.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
There, and it looks like she's willing to.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Do so because if her I keep hearing this and
I know, you know, chaos candidate Mayson. You know she's
hyperbolic and all these things, but she has been elected
to represent the first congressional district. She is entitled. She's
entitled to a certain level of security. She laid it
out how other dignitaries and lawmakers, there's there's a lane,

(06:24):
there's a door, there's a process, there's a procedure, and
she said twenty four times she's documented that for her personally,
this procedure hasn't been followed, and laid out that she's
had thirteen hundred death threats. One is too many. So
that concerns me if she can prove that case, and
there is a problem with security our airport, it shouldn't
matter if you're.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
A Republican or Democrat or whatever.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
None of our security should be compromised. No one should
be getting death threats. And I think the fact that
you know that if there's an issue there, then it
does need to be addressed. I will never stand up
for the cussing, the rating, any kind of nonsense like that,
especially if you hold office and.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
You're running for a higher office. So not defending the
profanity whatsoever?

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, she said, did I drop the F bomb? I
hope so. And she said that here's the thing, how
many people are going to feel sorry for her, whether
she's a representative for the first district or not. It
seems entitled, like entitled behavior. It seems like she's a
loose cannon. You saw how she went off on the

(07:31):
guy where she said she was attacked in the target.
Is this the same kind of story where she's shopping
for beauty products that it looked like a target and
some guy approached her and we saw the video. Did
he look like he was attacking her? No? And she
just went off like some crazy lady. The woman's nuts.
If she becomes governor, God help us all. And you know,

(07:55):
I'm like I normally try to stay measured, all right,
you know, it's up to the voters everything. She's a
loose canon. She's nuts.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Everybody had they're a title to their own opinions and
at all, well that's mine. Well, and it also includes
at the ballot box. And I would say this, when
people show you who they are, you pay attention.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
So anyway, you can say all these things that she
deserves as a representative as this. She didn't look like
the car pulls up, she casually gets out of the car.
You see her walking around. She wasn't like where are
they or and I don't know you can surmiit, you know,
you really can't. There's no audio to this thing, and
she's like, oh, for like one or two seconds, she's

(08:34):
playing this whole thing off. But we know what her
track record is. We've seen what she's done, and I
would say she's been less than honest in all of
these processes.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's important to point out that she said there's documented
almost twenty four cases of you know, the security protocol
that's on paper that they're supposed to follow of this airport.
She says, I've got receipts, we'll put it out. Twenty
four cases that she's kept private. She said, I'm not
the one who made this public. I've been privately trying

(09:08):
to fix the issues that I've had with security at
the airport. So that's important to note that she tried
to keep this private. That's why she's calling it a Politically.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, that's what she says after she's been accused of this,
and supposedly she was irate enough where they felt the
need to file a report on it because of the
threats that she made. And then she comes out and
plays the innocent victim and says, up, turn and change this.
So how was she defamed? You really think that somebody

(09:37):
went out of their way to make this story up
and defame Nancy Mace to make her look bad.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Well, she's asking for the buddycam footage and all the video,
so she clearly seems to think she has.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
A case here, and well, to me, it's two separate issues.
I mean, so if there was a security mix up,
there was a security mix up, but that's not defamation.
That's not what she's said over. She's suing over supposedly
that they're trying to paint her in a bad light
and this was a political move and they're trying to
throw her under the bus with it. That's what she's
suing over. And then she's muddy in the water with

(10:13):
the rest of it. So the issue is not you know,
she thinks there was some kind of security breach, then
she can bring that to their attention, and she can
bring it to the public's attention without throwing a crazy
fit over it, and instead she decides to throw a
fit and call these people names and use all kinds
of expletives. And then when she's called out for that,

(10:35):
then she says that they're trying to defame her and
that they falsified police reports in order to defame her,
and she's going to sue them. So you see, she's
she's muddy in the waters and trying to make this
about some sort of security issue. And if there is
a security issue, fine, like I said, then you bring

(10:56):
it up to the authorities, You bring it up in
public and say hey, there's a problem here and we're
going to fix it. You don't throw a fit and
then try to cover your tracks by throwing tossing lawsuits
around and saying that you're being defamed and set up.
And this is a political hit job.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
I'm here following it all.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
And at the end of the day, we have we
the people, the voter, have a choice to make right.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
If people show you who they are, pay attention.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, I mean, do you think that Nancy Mayce for
jets a stable personality?

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Are you asking me or is that a rhetorical no?
I'm asking everyone listening right now. I think i've we've
talked about this. I mean I would dub her kind
of the chaos candidate. She knows how to get attention.
And look, I mean, yes, we've mentioned some of the
names here who are running against her, you know, in
a political bid for governor in South Carolina come next

(11:55):
year on the Republican side. But she's definitely getting the
much already of the attention. So she knows how to
get attention. I'll just leave it at that.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
She knows how to make it about her. And then
now she's and she's been defamed by the dirty cops
at the airport and by TSA United Airlines. I mean, yeah,
we'll see how long this suit lasts. And she says,
I have a good lawyer, and you should know, is

(12:28):
that not just an open threat to these people? You
should know I'm coming after you.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
I think it's important for them to obviously have to
provide the receipts if there is a security issue. And
we are talking about a sitting representative that keeps th
rowning around. Oh, she's acting so entitled. She quite literally
is entitled as a sitting representative to security. There's a
whole protocol if she says it's been breached, she's got
to prove it and it needs to be fixed. Nobody should.

(12:53):
One death threat is too many, and she's apparently had
thirteen hundred, is what she's you know, as to.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
All kinds of people that have had death threats and
this issue, and again she's conflating it to confuse the issue.
This is not about her receiving death threats. This is
not about her security. It might have started that way.
It's about how she handled it and now how she's
trying to cover up her bad behavior. That's what this
is about. I love people who call and accuse you

(13:20):
of things and spout a bunch of stuff and then
hang up because they don't have enough balls to have
a conversation. I know, So I don't know. Some guy
named Terry called and he's like, oh, so we have
deep state in South Carolina? Are you a member of
the deep state? And I'm like, what are you talking about? Well,
there was a letter signed by fifty officials and it
was more than that, by the way, for the Biden

(13:42):
administration saying this and that, and I'm like, those were
former officials and you know, whatever, you're conflating two different things.
This letter that they sent about Nancy Mace was in
support of the TSA, in support of the airport police,
in support of airport security. And these are sitting officials,

(14:03):
everybody from mayors to state representatives and everything else.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
So a quick paragraph from it, it's important that we
recognize and respect the es central role these individuals play
in safeguarding the traveling public. The Low Country has always
prided itself on civility, respect, and gratitude for public service.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
That's just one quick it's a long letter.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, and it was signed by even you know, mayors
in sitting mayors, city of state senators, state congress people.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
And Cogswell, the mayor, lots of mayors.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, Cogswell, the mayor, I said, like the mayor Gruse
Creek mayor I think signed it.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Uhville.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, so this isn't some deep state thing, Terry. And
then he's like, thirteen hundred, your cohort there said one
death threat is an office or thirteen hundred, what do
we do? How many people? How many of them deserve
to go to jail? And I'm like, well, thirteen hundred,
but it's not TSA and the airport police that are
responsible for rounding those people up. So see, I don't know.

(15:02):
I have no idea how she gains the traction she
she does, except except Terry wouldn't shut up while I
was trying to have a conversation with him, and then
he hung up on me, so hang out. So obviously
he's of the same ilk as Nancy Mace.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Oh boy, okay, see and do.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
You want this as your governor? Uh? Do you want this? Uh?
You know, this kind of irrationality and these kind of things.
It's is she she's standing up and fighting for the people,
and she's just so powerful in that endeavor that people
have to stop her and smear her by making up
things how she attacked airports security on some Sunday morning

(15:41):
or whatever day it was, I don't remember.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
So and then the berating part. I think she did,
like you said, admit to saying I said the F word.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, she says she didn't be rate people, and she
and was it a second or two seconds? It was
hard to tell. And did I say the F bomb?
I hope so. So in the same breath, she says
she wasn't berating people. She says she hope hopes that
she dropped the F bomb. She really doesn't remember. She
was confused by the whole thing. She said, did you
see that video she put out during her walk in

(16:09):
the morning.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah, people were describing it as crashing out. As how
I saw some of the reactions.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Well, I saw a few different reactions. One was crashing out.
Another one was that she was smart for doing that,
because she made it look like she was just some
everyday person.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Right walking the dog in the morning.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Walking the dog in the morning, you know, hair and mess,
no makeup, and that she was trying to be relatable
to everybody else and conveying that the idea that this, see,
this could happen to anybody, and this could happen to you,
and it's about security. But she claims that she didn't
even know what they were talking about when this story

(16:50):
came out, and she had to stop and reflect and say,
what was I doing? And I was on the phone
the whole time on a conference call? And she went
in this video it's like four minutes, I mean it's long,
where she comes up with this excuse and says that
she didn't know what they were even talking about at first,
and she had to go back and reflect upon it

(17:11):
and looking at the video, I don't know. It's hard
to tell. Was it a second or two seconds? I
don't know. I don't think she's doing herself any favors,
except with people like Terry.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
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