Iesus say hell yeah, Sa America and HOLLI for regious one nation, I your God in your nas.
And yes it's wrong. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM and five sixty AM w VOCs.
And good morning, Welcome to a Monday. It's the twenty seventh day at January fifteen minutes after six o'clock. And if you haven't rolled out yet, don't forget the umbrella today is Tyler man Shall We got rain off and on for the bet at least through about lunchtime early afternoon or so. May see things taper off it clear
out after that. And of course the best news of all is it's forty one here now the radio range so a twenty one freezing Yeah no, uh good tipperatures won't budge a lot today, but they got around fifty or so, low fifties. It's tyler Mane. But hey, you know, hang on because believe it or not, by the time we get well, say Friday, we have a chance of getting back into maybe the low seventies.
Wow, yes, it'll feel different.
Yeah, I want it though, huh So we'll slowly warm up this week, and uh we'll put last week and the preceding weeks in the rearview mirror, probably not for good, but at least for for a few days. So that's the good news there, all right. I hope you had a terrific weekend. We're up and running off an atom here for this final final week of the month. Man.
January has flown on by, hadn't it. And we've been a little busy. There's there have been a few things going on January. Yeah, and we'll talk about some more of those this morning, certainly. Okay.
Uh so we'll have sports in a few super Bowl is set what number of Super Bowls?
This?
Like? Fifty nine?
Yeah?
Yeah. When I was a kid, I could you threw you threw some Roman numerals up in front of me, I would know, bam, I would The only thing to use them anymore is a super Bowl. So once a year, we guys, how did that work? Now?
Okay, you got the you got the l that's a fifty Fox has a great Pro Bowl right now with Rob Gronkowski say oh here we go, it's time for Super Bowl licksh.
You got you got the eye in front of the eggs, which means you subtract one from the ten. There you go. All right, so it's fifty nine.
Yes, all right, got it?
Okay, I guess we'll always be stuck with that.
Huh. They'll never change it. I don't think so.
I don't think so. All right, rundown big stories, hot topics. Swell, you know the we were just talking last week about this, the on again, off again relationship between Lindsey Graham and Donald Trump. Graham who is already you know, well he never has. He's always been building his war chest and he will run for senator again. And well when we get closer to that, he'll get closer to Trump, no doubt.
But uh, Graham on Meet the Press yesterday calling the uh pardons of well violent J six offenders a mistake. He said that, well, Trump has the authority to do it legally, but he says, I feel you'll get more violence.
He's not the only one who's said that, No, he's not. There's a guy who's I think second now in the country, a guy named J. D Vance. Jd Vance who said before a while back, yes, and then he retracted. Yeah, So you know this is this is typical you know Graham Trump.
Yeah, they are altogether off again. And I don't know is Trump responded to this yet.
I how do you defend pardoning violent?
The violent violent? Yeah? Yeah, and I remember of the fifteen hundred or so, not all of them were, not all of them were violent, but some certainly were. Yes. Will the Democrat Party here in our state lose its first in the nation's status?
Uh?
Possibly? You know, the DNC is going through the uh, the machinery of trying to pick a new head for their party, earned a new chair, and well not all of them that are in the running are that terribly enamored with South Carolina being number one in the country. So this, this could change.
It's literally the only thing that state party has a chance has to hang their hat on.
That's it. That's it.
They lose every election but their first.
Yeah, and well we've only done this once now because we weren't first when Biden ran for office and beat Trump back in twenty twenty, because I remember we were a few notches down and that's what saved him was the James Clyburn effect. But yeah, first, this last time around, it chances are pretty good and won't stay that way back at the state House this week is a return
to to Travay Street tomorrow. One of the things again that's taking up a lot of time is this whole one point eight billion dollar accounting error and reforms said to be coming. And again is the drum beating any louder on a possible impeachment of Curtis Loftus. This will also be discussed, certainly. Some concerns that we have been in our state all in on on battery stuff and
the the electric the electric battery stuff. Yeah, for evs, some seventy million, seventy million dollar EV charging program posting current reports in limbo. This due to a Trump executive order. Okay, we'll have to take a look at that. Stop don't, don't pass, go, don't collect two hundred bucks. Town of a Lexington telling Ripple Fiber to stop ort to cease after well, repeatedly water lines and gas lines were cut
into as they laid new fiber optic cable. I know this one well because I'm doing it in my neighborhood too. They dug up about three holes in our front yard and well they did put all the stuff back in and somewhat tried to make it look normal. But we didn't have the issues that others in our neighborhood I have had in adjoining neighborhoods with the cutting of water lines and gas lines. This all came to a head on Friday when well, the neighborhood next to mine is where
the mayor of Lexington lives. They had a gas line cut that blocked the only way in and out of that neighborhood for hours on Friday. This is a recurring theme other areas where this company has been operating. I've had issues too. We had that was it was Irmo? Was that a year or two back in Irmo where a different company was cutting in the lines left and right? Is it the markings? Because I'll tell when they came to our neighborhood, they didn't spend a whole lot of time,
you know, doing the markings. They were in and out in a hurry. Or of these people just not paying attention, don't know. But anyway, just know this. If you get a letter in your mailbox one of these days, it says, hey, we're a fiber optic company and we're coming to your town soon. Yeah, be on the lookout, all right. Pete Hegsath and well, as it turned out, Jdvans had to head over to the Sin and cast a vote the other night as Mitch McCollough, who had said he would support Hegzeth.
And voted to get hexit out a committee then said yeah.
No no, So yeah, it took Jadvan's coming in to break the tie, but heg Zeth was all said and done. It's still the same. He is the new chair of the Pentagon and moving quickly when it comes to things like DEI in the nation's military. So he's in. Christy Nolan also confirmed by the Senate. She was confirmed on Saturday, so she is the new Department of Homeland Security Secretary. That vote was not nearly his close fifty nine thirty four.
And this week though, well hold your hats and get the popcorn, because you've got RFK Junior and Tulci Gabbard in back to back hearings. Kennedy on Wednesday and Gabbard on Thursday. But these are two well former Democrats. I don't know RFK Junior, is he still a Democrat? We know that they Gabbart left the party, so this will be interesting to see and of course for a number
of reasons asign from just their past political affiliations. So Trump puts some immigrants, well not physically but anyway, on a plane, criminal illegal aliens, ship them back to their home country of Colombia, where well, Columbia said, yeah, no, you can't send them here. So Trump said, fine, here comes a tariff and here comes other crackdowns. Well it didn't take long for Columbia to back down on that one. Yeah. Brazil by the way, complaining that they got to some planes.
Dozens of deportees arrived handcuffed. Well you know what, they are, criminals. What did you expect. Ice busy day six of the Trump administration, nearly a thousand more arrest mads. So we got more news to pass along today on the immigration front where things are happening and quickly meantime, Trump up in North Carolina on Friday, also then headed to California to to talk to Gavin Newsom and Linda Bass, the mayor of La which that was interesting press conference there.
But while in North Carolina floating the idea of getting rid of FEMA, well, yesterday he signed an executive order aimed at drastically improving FEMA's efficacy priorities and competence. Okay, so he's not ditching him right now, but he wants it improved. And what folks up in North Carolina would tell you a lot of improving is needed. We've got new polling data out which is good news for Trump,
and it's across various racial groups in California. Well, could there be a ballot referendum on the twenty twenty eight ballot one that would declare California independent? I can hear you right now saying yeah, yeah, that'll work. But there are some potential downside. We'll get to that more coming up here on this the Monday morning back ated edition at Columbia's Morning News. It's terrific to have you with.
Us, keeping you connected. I check in through up the day twenty four to seven.
I just like being informed.
Know what's happening. One on three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five FM and five sixty am doub VOC.
Six forty Now, good morning, and welcome to Monday, January twenty seventh. It was not quite a week now almost amount of hours since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the forty seventh president. And it has been a whirlwind, needless to say, a flurry of activity. You you might, uh, you might could argue that the new Trump administration and now a little less than a week, has gotten well more more done, at least at least more activity than
the outgoing administration got done. And I don't know how long last year, two three, maybe it's it's it's been, it's it's been dizzying hard to keep up with it all but a couple of you know again, major focuses. There's been a lot more going on, but we'll get most of the attention, of course, the border, and we'll talk more about that later on the whole DEI thing, the the whole wokesm of the prior administration, the Democrat Party.
One of the things that Trump signed an executive order on when he first took office was to bar biological mails from being in women's federal detention facilities.
UH.
The order prohibits federal funds for under transition procedures for drugs for any kind of treatment. It mandates that the federal government only recognized male and female sexes imagine we have to get we have to We're at the point where we have to have an executive voter from the president to mandate that the federal government only recognize male and female sexes. That's it, that's all we get. Okay, that's all there is.
Wow.
Oh, it requires these inmates to be housed according to their biological sex. All right, So here are the numbers on this. And we're just talking about federal lockup now, okay, not state penitentiaries nothing. Who knows it depends on where you are as to what these numbers will be. But in federal lockups, and this is information according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Okay, there are ten thousand and forty seven total inmates and women's federal soldies across the country.
Ten thy forty seven of that number, one thousand, five hundred and thirty eight are biological males. So fifteen percent of inmates in women's federal prisons were born male. Fifteen percent. Okay, you gotta wonder how many and how many cases now are there men born men still? Men who just thought that had to be a lot easier for me to make it in a women's prison than a men's prison. Yeah, I'm declaring myself a female. Well uh sorry, but you're getting ready to head back to the male only lock
up here? Kindness sakes. The Independent Women's Forum, which is a conservative nonprofit advocacy group, celebrating the end of what it called utter unfairness of allowing men into women's spaces. You know, again, we are we are putting biological males. And again let's let's the example. I just use it. And you know what's happened that there are biological men who are still men, who still want to be men,
but they wanted an easier ghost. They said, yeah, I'm identifying as a woman, and they're sitting here in these federal facilities with women. What could possibly go wrong? The a c l U complaining that calling this order a plan to erase transgender people's existence under the law, well when it when it comes to folks who have committed crimes and sent of federal lockups, well yeah, of course, you know there'll be lawsuits plenty, and there already are.
You know, it was back up oh spring of last year, as I recall that a magistrate judge was put up for the by the administration to a for a federal post Sarah Netburn, you may probably don't remember the name. I remember talking about this at the time, and Ted Cruz during her confirmation hearings grilled her she allowed a biological male, a convicted serial child rapist, to be put in women's facility, and as Crew said at the time, he said that Netburn was willing to subjugate the rights
of individuals to satisfy your political ideology. That you know, again, that may be an extreme example, but there you had it. A biological male imprisoned, convicted as a child's serial rapist, not just once, multiple times, and that says, oh, yeah, I identify as a woman. Okay, judge says, you can go to women's lock up. Several incidents of rape and sexual assault involving biological male inmates in female facilities have popped up in the last few years. So yeah, the
gravy train is about over for these people. But again, I had no idea. I knew, I knew that this happened, but I had no clue that fifteen percent, fifteen percent of all inmates in federal lock up women's facilities are actually biological mails, gaming the system, gaming the system. Absolutely, these are the sorts of things that push the Democrat
Party out of power. And I would venture to say, and we've talked about this before that certainly, when you know, at a time when you had people concerned about their own livelihoods, their own economic situations and everything else has been going on. But even all that had been, you know, just just peachy keen, at some point in time, everyday Americans, rational logical thing of Americans look at this and say, this is really what you stand for? This is this
is your priority here? Yeah, No, I don't think we want to play that game. And quite honestly, will will will any of this us, any of this what just happened change the Democrat Party at all? Oh dot, let's keep this thing going, all right? So week one not quite in the bookshet, and it's it's it's been a lot to keep up with, right, a whole lot. I think we all well, first one hundred days, a lot's gonna and it may not, it won't get accomplished it
for no other reason. Then you know, lawsuits are file and judges get involved and this and that and again a lot of back and forth there, but it's it does a hard good to see that just return to a season of logicalness. I'm just making up stuff here. A season of logicalness. That's all we want, you know, that's all we want.
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one O three three point five FM on five sixty AM WVOC, once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
I want to thank the men and women were in the uniform. And I've said this before when I speak, and I mean it. Every time I stand at a podium and there's bright lights and cameras, the first thing that goes through my head are the guys that I served with on the battlefield.
Good morning is fourteen minutes after seven, It's Monday, January twenty seventh. That is music to the ears of the men and women serving in uniform in this country, to our nation's finest. Maybe not so much for the higher ups in some brass I don't know. Certainly not for the Democrats, certainly not for DEI and the woke military. Pete Heggzeth confirmed narrowly to be the Pentagon head. Wow, okay, no, I.
Mean nobody was arguing with his philosophy. I mean, all you had to do is is hear him speak once on Fox News or hear him give a speech, and you knew that conservatives would like his philosophy. He just a came with a lot of baggage and b is completely unprepared for what he is about to oversee.
You know, my whole issue was the latter, because okay, yeah, the former could be troublesome. A lot of anonymous stuff here. The only people to speak on record when it came to this was the people who defended him. Anybody who lodged accusations against him wanted to stay anonymous. So that's that's that's troublesome. But you show me a I don't care what any just just about any just about not all. I'm not going to pay with that brought up a stroke.
But you talk about politicians inside Capitol Hill, inside of the Beltway, there's a lot of baggage there. Yeah, that's true. You know, this has always been there, always will be. But the latter, as you mentioned, having never run an organization like this, yeah, that was that was troublesome to me.
I mean, there are a lot of Defense Department heads who have come from the business world, CEOs who had no military background whatsoever. But because they knew how to run a major corporation, they knew what they were facing when they got to the Pentagon. Because you've got so many branches and so much money and so many assets to oversee. It is like being the CEO of a major corporation.
Sure, but now we're gonna try a little differently. This time. We're gonna put somebody in there who is not that far removed from being on the front lines. Okay, you can surround yourself with people to make up for your shortcomings.
Well, we'll see if he does that.
Let's hope that he does. But when it all came down to it, it did require JD. Vans to take a trip over to the Capitol and lodge a vote as a tiebreaker. He tweeted it afterwards. Yeah, I thought I thought I had lodged my last vote in the Senate already. He had at least one more to do, and he did that Friday again. Republicans holding fifty three seats in the Senate right now, only four to lose three.
We knew that Murkowski and Collins were no. We also know they're not really Republicans, but Mitch McConnell, who on Thursday said he supported Hexath, didn't turn around and voted against him.
That was a surprise, and I'm not sure we know why.
Well, the turtle stays true to form.
Well, you know, I don't know if this is he didn't feel like Hegxeth was up to it, which a lot of people agreed with him. I don't know if this is. I'm just gonna I'm gonna lay quietly and get Donald Trump back for taking all those shots at me and my wife. Is it revenge? I don't know. Well he at any rate, McConnell's on his way out. Oh yeah, well he published a letter afterwards. Oh okay, Yeah,
McConnell did, And I'll just read a little bit from it. Yeah, mere desire to be a change agent isn't enough to fill these shoes and dust on the boots. Fails to even distinguish this nominee from multiple predecessors of the last decade. Uh, YadA, YadA, YadA. Mister Hegzath has failed as yet to demonstrate he'll pass
this test. But as he assumes off as the consequences of phil Okay, so you put Pete Hesath's philosophical, philosophical, his ideals about what the military should be, and his experience even although you know, again boots on the ground, it wasn't that long an experience. But you give him all that and put that in the head of somebody who's run a big business or a big corporation. I mean,
you you have, You've got a winning candidate, right. Unfortunately, he's gonna be learning, he's gonna be learning on the job.
Well but true, But there's no one, single individual who's ever served as the head of the Pentagon who did everything. No, they had got to rll out other people. So I'll i'll well, we'll wait and see. Now, there are some who think that with that confirmation that was gonna be the toughest one, that when you get past that one, well Trump's gonna get all his folks, well the exception of course of uh well his original pick for for a g and Matt Gates. But that he'll get all
his books. I don't know. It's it's gonna be an interesting week. I mean, you got we'll see Wednesday, rfk JR.
That's that's a that's gonna be a tough hurdle. I mean a lot of conservatives are going to look at RFK Jr. And think he doesn't belong in the administration. He's a Democrat. He still holds liberal viewpoints, a lot of them, a lot of them. And he also holds some scary viewpoints. I mean, if he were if it was left up to him, Mumps and Measles would be back with a vengeance.
Christy Nome on Thursday follows up. I'm sorry, Christi Num was confirmed Saturday. Tulsi Gabbard is up on Thursday. Uh. Those two may be the most vulnerable, so be interesting to see how this plays out later on this week. You also have a Cash Ptel on Thursday. M hmm, all right. That's also as far as liberals are concerned, a very controversial pick. True, But again liberals, it doesn't matter if Republicans again.
Conservatives will fight a whole lot harder for Patel than they will for RFK Junior.
Yes, yes, you know, Gabbard comes with some baggage because of you know, certain things she said the past when but I think I think Gabbard cash Betel do I think that Murkowski and uh and Collins will probably not McConnell maybe not so jd vance May, I'd be knowing this tide breaking votes here, but I do think that I think Gabart's in an RFK Junior, I just don't know, man, I don't know.
Well, I mean, you hope Trump has him on a leash. You hope Trump tells him, all right, talk about the things that people that that conservatives voted for this administration for, you know, focus on that and don't don't let your crazies out.
Let's let's let's mention this though, just just briefly here in passing, because again, we really haven't seen anything quite like this. If you've got a president who's picked two former Democrats to be in well either way, two members former members of the other party to be in his cabinet, you've got a president who's picked well, let's face it, I mean some folks that are somewhat unconventional.
Yeah, well, I mean RFK Junior resonates with conservatives when he's talking about Fauci and what happened during COVID and the steps this government took. And you know, he resonates with some when he talks about you know, big pharma, big food.
If Trump wanted this to be easy He could have just you know, read the room and said and taken safe picks, yeah, and moved ahead. But you know what, I give him credit for saying this is whether you agree with him and some of these picks or not. Credit has to be given that he says, you know, this is the person I want, and this is why this is the ideology I want. And you know, I still think a lot of this is a low tests
for Republicans in the Senate. But you know, if you don't agree with me, well you know, the hell with you. We're moving forward with it anyway. So you know, credit for that he may well, he may wind up getting all of them, except of course, of Matt Gates, which was doomed from the very get go.
Nothing wrong with RFK Junior if Trump keeps him on a tight leash. But if RFK Junior stands up there and says, and you know, I want to make sure that no parent ever immunizes their kids again, then you know Trump needs to have a word with him.
Well, I'll put this out to you. When's the last time Trump hasn't kept somebody on the tight leave true?
You know, well, the ones the ones who didn't in the first administration went by the wayside pretty quickly.
Yeah, it's the stuff people are talking about.
And he called him out like a bad Evan, like you.
Doing right now? One on three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC. This Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Good to have you along. It's Monday, January twenty seventh, seven forty three our time now. So about a month or so back, got a letter in the mailbox and telling me that some outfit called Ripple Fiber was going to be working on a neighborhoods soon installing new fiber optic lines. O oh great, I've heard too much about all this, right, It didn't take long for the people marking the lines to show up in our neighborhood. We don't live in a really big neighborhood. But they didn't
take a whole lot of time. It didn't take long for them to be done with their marking of the gas lines, of water lines, electricity line or whatever. And that might be part of the problem. I don't know. Well, not long after that, the cruise from Ripple fiber showed up digging like three four foot holes in people's yards
and three of an r yard. Now, the letter we got said, you know, yes, we'll be you know, working on the easeman's but but well we'll we'll whatever we do, we'll put it back together at least as good as as as, if not better than it was before. Well maybe they're not done yet. I hope that's the case. Uh,
you know, this isn't ha an r yard. But I've seen plenty of yards of our neighborhood where yeah, they tore something up and then when they they patch the hole again, they just threw a chunk of sod on top of the clay or whatever, and that was that.
Sometimes it takes. Sometimes it doesn't.
Well, yeah, if you just throw it up there, it's and that's all you do. It's not gonna take. And especially this time of the year, it's not gonna take. But anyway, regardless, aside from all that didn't happen on our street, but I soon started hearing on other streets, including one we used to live on. Oh wow, water line got cut, and then another water line got cut, and then it was a gas line.
This is the same thing. That happened with another company in downtown Columbia.
Yeah, and another one uh uh yeah, Loomos I think was Lomos was also in Irmo. Yeah, in Irmo. You might have heard of those stories.
In Irmo.
They had all kind of issues. So well, you know, these these you know, issues were fairly quickly taken care of by town authorities. But then I guess it was this past Friday that the neighborhood next to ours they cut into a gas line and uh, there's only one one way in and out of this neighborhood next to hours and they had it all blocked off. People couldn't come nor go. And unfortunately for Ripple Fiber, that's the neighborhood in which the mayor of Lexington lives.
That's not the person you want to tick off.
Now, uh huh. So uh, you know, by the end of the day Friday, a stop order was issued by the Town of Lexington Mayor Livingston, saying that election will not tolerate damage to critical infrastructure and disruption to entire communities. Okay, why is it? Well, well, the company and the statement said that you know, to date they've connected over ten thousand homes in Lexington County blah blah blah blah blah,
were completing this expansive build with minimal disruption. Okay, well, why is it that it seems like every time one of these companies, whether it's Ripple or Loomos or whomever, come in that this this always becomes an issue. I well, I can tell you this from Frostown experience. These folks come in, they work pretty quickly, maybe too quickly, but
so do the people marking these lines. And I don't know if it's and I suppose the town of Lexington knows when their folks went out there, it'd be pretty obvious if okay, yeah, this thing was plainly marked and you cut right into it. Or are they not being marked properly? I don't know.
I think it's I think it's complicated. The older the neighborhood is because you know, there are certain things that you know, the newly built neighborhoods, everything's laid out pretty conveniently, and you've got some of these older neighborhoods. You've got old utilities, you've got new utilities, and it's it can be complex. Yeah, I'm not making excuses. I'm just saying
I have a feeling. I have a feeling this happened because it happened at what Friar's Gate, and irmo it happens in some of the older neighborhoods, Earl.
Would it happen downtown where they had to evacuate some home? Yeah? All you need is somebody had started homes start blowing up. Yeah, because people are cutting into gas lines here and that thankfully hasn't happened. But it may just be a rush to get things done. And I don't know if if blame doesn't go to both the markers and the cutter, I don't bottom line is this, if you get that letter in the mail saying one of these companies is coming into your neighborhood, okay, I beware.
We've got it in our neighborhood. And the results are even mixed as far as you know, if people feel like it's really truly speeded up their internet right.
See and at this point in time, yeah, at this point in time. Quite honestly, I mean, I think a lot of people in my neighborhood are probably the same opinion. I am. Yeah, okay, I'm you want how much for me to hook up to this and well, my first impression I had been a good one, So good luck with that.
It's not a mandatory thing. You know, you've got the option.
But anyway, if if that's coming to your neighborhood, just just you know, beware. We'll see how this one plays out. I'll be there report firsthand.
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three point five FM on five sixty am w VOC, once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson Moran.
Tell you welcome in if you're just joining us, or hey, thanks for hanging atic. You've been in here for a while. We started morning just after six o'clock, so wh where you been. We'll be here till nine. It's always good to have you. Just spend as much time as you can. We appreciate that. Just a few minutes. We appreciate it all right now. I don't know exactly at what point Donald Trump started thinking about, okay, boy, if I get
back to the White House, here's what we're doing. But I'm gonna I'm gonna venture to say it was well maybe uh not long after he last left the White House. It's pretty obvious that that Trump has had obviously a
lot of time to think about this. We saw such a flurry of activity in week one, not even done with the first full week yet, you know, about four hours or so, it'll be the one week mark of the new Trump administration, and so much, so much has taken place, and certainly when it comes to illegal immigration in this country.
Wow, so much has taken place. It's going to hold. But one of the things we talked about before he took office is, you know, unlike his first administration, he had vetted all this out. He had experts who knew exactly what would and wouldn't Even though he's going to get challenged on some of these things in court by Democrats, Sure he knew what would and would not pass muster and I mean they did a good job, an effective job of writing these orders with that in mind.
Yes, that's the that's the big difference from eight years ago. Yeah, you know where the land mines are right, So latest on the immigration front here and this is again, yeah, that's love him or hate him, dude gets things done right. The president of Colombia refusing to accept flights of deported migrants, and uh, well, Trump said, okay, I will I'll put into place tariffs on imports, other sanctions, and it didn't take long for Colombia to back down and say, okay,
send them on. Yeah, that happened quick.
There's a new sheriff in town.
Yeah, home, we don't play ICE. On day six of the Trump administration, which was yesterday, making nearly a thousand arrests, a lot of this activity taking place in the southeast Florida, the Miami Field Office arresting a number of Again, this
is what they're going after, illegal criminal migrants. We mentioned last Friday, and I think it was in Boston the story of a member of the MS thirteen gang who had been arrested on a weapons charge and somehow was let out of jail, and you know, as these sanctuary cities do, refusing to alert ICE even though ICE had
a detainer on this individual. Fortunately, in this particular case, ICE was able to track this person down and in the process happened to find that he was in the vicinity of somebody else who was here in this country illegally with a criminal background. And so now they're both head and back. Who are ever they came from? Still has just just baffling that cities and mayors and city councils are trying to shield these individuals. Well, ICE is doing a good job or rooting them out. It's going
to be a daily thing. It's not going to happen quickly. It's going to take a while. And well, this headline here from the Associated Press, Trump administration ramps up immigrant raids in Chicago, sparking fear among residents. Which residents are we talking about here? Are we talking about law bidding citizens in Chicago? I don't think so. Are we talking
about the immigrant population? Well maybe to a degree, but they're going after the criminal And if there's fear among the criminal criminal migrant population in Chicago, then great, there should be. We haven't yet seen the administration go after this criminal element in Chicago like we're going to. And it's going to be very newsworthy when that big crackdown comes.
But it's already starting. It will continue. And by the way, and this has not gotten a whole lot of play here, but one of the orders that Trump has written here is titled Guaranteeing the State's Protection against Invasion. And this is an order that at least temporarily suspends a policy that allows migrants to enter this country claiming asylum. But the most important change in this order is again one that received very little media attention, and that is the
classification of the border crisis as an invasion. And under such and under the Constitution, this gives the states certain rights. You talk to somebody in Texas. For them, it's been an invasion for a long time, Arizona, mean you name it, Southwestern States. Article one, section ten of the Constitution says this, no state shall, without the consent of Congress, engage in war unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as
will not admit of delay. So, in other words, each and every state can determine citizenship or set a foreign affairs agenda that's not in lockstep with the whoever's in the White House. They can defend themselves from an invasion. And this is one of the executive orders that Trump assigned. So states have gotten a whole lot more power now to deal with this on their own. By the way, I think he was joking, but you know, maybe not. The other day he talked about, you know, getting rid
of the I R S. That's not a joke. There's already been a bill introduced to do just that. We we'd have a national sales tax, but the IRS and and federal income tax would be abolished. But he made a mention the other day that, well, you know they, you know, the last administration just hired you know, close to ninety thousand new workers, meaning I R. S. Agents. So maybe we'll just send them to the border.
You know, who agrees with Donald Trump, by the way, on deporting illegal criminals.
Should be everybody?
Hillary Clinton? Hillary, Hillary Clinton, what two thousand and eight? Hillary Clinton crime, deport them, no questions asked.
They're gone, if they've been working and our law abiding, we should say, here are the conditions for you staying. You have to pay a stiff fine because you came here illegally. You have to pay back taxes, and you have to try to learn English.
And you have to wake an Wow. But again, as she led with, if they've committed a crime, and deport them. Yeah, that was Hillary two thousand and eight.
This is not a novel idea, even for Democrats.
The latest news, traffic and weather is minutes away.
But as you will learn next, that is what's happening.
From one O three point five FM and five sixty AM w VOC This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Take boarding. All right, our rough final thoughts here for this Monday morning with you. There's well, some money that well could be at in jeopardy here and some consternation, some confusion and just have to take away and see approach to this. Of the executive orders that that Trump has so far signed, well dozens and dozens of do On day one last Monday, one of them put at least a pause on the disbursement of federal funds that
the Biden administration had earmarked for electric vehicle chargers. This was the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula program. This dates back to twenty twenty one. Well, as you may know, South Caroline has been we've been all in on this ev thing man and these batteries as well.
We're all in on any industry that wants to come here and do business.
Yeah. So there's about seventy million dollars now that is in limbo, and there's a lot of confusion over this. The Department Transportation in our state now saying that the administrator for this program is awaiting further direction from the Federal Highway Administration on how to move forward here. So nationwide, this is seven and a half billion dollars worth of funding, seven and a half billion for us. It's just a paltry seventy million here. So we'll keep an eye on that.
They first got this honor, if you want to call it that, this designation, we'll put it that way. Recently our state did the Democrats and the first in the nation. No longer first in the South, but first in the nation Democrat primary. A thank you from Joe Biden to South Carolina Democrats and in particular James Clyburn for reviving his primary candidacy eight years ago or not eight years ago, five years ago, I guess. So they pushed us to
the forefront here in South Carolina the Democrat primary. Republicans didn't do this. Democrats did well. Now of course, also the head of the DNC was, you know, Jamie Harrison. That didn't hurt. But now that he's out, well, the leading contenders to take over his role, well, they're split on whether or not we should stay first in the
nation or not. How much you want to bet we don't, which as you mentioned earlier, toop is really about the only thing that Democrats in the state have left to hang their hats on.
Yeah, and it's really been good for all of us. I mean, it gets the state a lot of political attention. Oh yeah, it brings a lot of visitors from both parties, you know, in that month span where people are campaigning and yeah, trying to gather votes. That's I mean, it's a big deal for the state. Sure, so I hope they're successful.
Can you imagine being one of these states is like you don't have a primary intol like may nobody's thinking about you anymore, doesn't matter, you know the way.
I mean Piling that on top of the fact that you know, Democrats votes really don't matter around here that much anyway, Well, no they don't, but at least they get the attention of being first and if they lose that wow, Well.
And remember the argument was is that our state better reflects the makeup of the Democrat Party. I mean, you got to Iowa and New Hampshire there, these are not states that well, I don't know, you say we better reflected the make up of the Democrat Party, I don't know anymore?
Quite Honestly, they'll have to decide what they want to look like in four years. Yeah, okay, after seeing what happened to them in November. I mean they may rethink. Sure, well you would think they'd rethink, But I don't know. The new Rasmus and Reports Presidential Tracking poll out top line, indicates that fifty six percent of likely voters in this country approve of Trump's performance so far. Here's the gut punch in this. That exceeds.
The best number that Joe Biden got in this tracking pole at any stage of his presidency. And what's more so is that it's consistently represented across various demographics, including again, and we refer to our past comment those long taken for granted by the Democrat establishment. The total approval for Trump with white voters fifty five percent, with Hispanic slash other voters fifty eight eight, with black voters fifty seven percent.
You didn't miss that, did you. Although it's just a matter of a point or two, but Trump's approval in this Rasmusen Presidential Daily Tracking poll is higher for Hispanics and for black voters than for white voters. That's a pretty big deal right there. Man, that is a gut punch number two for the Democrat Party. And it's not just ethnic groups, but it's ages as well. I think it kind of surprised a lot of people, including Republicans, that we have seen a dramatic shift in the ideology
of younger voters. Dramatic. Well, we've seen in all sorts of difference breakdowns and groups and such, but you know, that was that was again another another one of these givens for Democrats. You got to get the young voters. You can get the black voters, get the Hispanic voters. That's no longer a given, far far from it.
I think everyone was just ready for change.
Yeah, you know.
And and whereas older people are usually you know, weary of what government does, you know, younger people were ready to see their government take action.
Get on the government to do something for him.
Yeah. And I mean this government's been treading water under the Biden for months, if not.
Years, oh yeah, a few years.
And now you look at what Trump has done in his first you know, six days and a half of office.
A man of action. Yeah, now you got to deliver true, not only this Trump, but the Republicans and Congress have.
To deliver and the clock is sticking because they really only have two years.
Sure, yeah, you'll know it's working if Republicans maintain power in the House and the Senate in the midterms.
Oh, that would be huote. That would be a trend breaker.
Yeah, yes, exactly, because a trend is just the opposite. So you got, yeah, you got, you got two years to make it stick, really less than that. This is why you see the the frantic franticness of uh, of the pace that's going on right now to this this administration. And well, it's been approved now by the Secretary of State of California a campaign to gather signatures petitioning for a vote on whether or not California should leave the
US and become an independent country. Okay, Now, by some margin, California is the wealthy and most popular state in the in the country. Okay, caw exit.
Uh.
This is a group of the campaigns for their independence, describing Trump's win as an attack on everything California cares about. Are you allowed to sign this if you don't live in California.
Ask the people in Pacific Palisades what they think of Donald Trump today?
Yeah?
Right, huh right, I mean he was trying to get them in their houses last week, or at least get them on their lots to clean up, and the mayor keeps standing in the way.
Yes, exactly. That was an interesting press conference, wasn't it. Well, Hey, can we slap some terrafts on California if they leave the country, can we help them pack up