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Morning to you, welcome in. It's Tuesday, January twenty eighth. Just about done with this first month of the new year. Wow, that was quick. Huh, sixteen after six I appreciate you waking up with us, or maybe enough for a while. Like me, I'm Gary David. An hour early this morning, I woke up.
What what got you up that early?
I had no idea. It's like I went to bed at earlier last night, just woke up and got up. I'm talking about sleep that didn't work out? Yeah, why bother that? Why sit there and just waste time in bed? Right? Just get him and be productive. I guess. Well, I'm not sure it was productive, but I got up anyway.
Good for you?
All right? That the voice there, mister Christopher Thompson came wing to you, sir.
I'm fixated on with the voice of Tyler. Ryan was telling it rain if it's warm, yeah, we'll take it.
Yeah. Well you don't agree. Well, no, but the well yeah, rain later in the week, yes, yeah, it was good. Not today? Yeah, no, oh, you know I'll take the rain in the warm absolutely, yeah right.
I mean he's talking seventy and rain.
Well Friday, could the National Wet Service is thinking maybe his heightst Warman seventy five yes, wow, but yeah, rain likely, but yeah, I'll tell you I'll take that and a heart beat man. To quote the late great G Gordon, Lady, we are stacked in packed today. Friends. Okay, we got a bunch here. Let's quickly move through the rundown because it'll take a while here. Lead story you heard Thomas
mention and just a tragedy. This goes back in number of years when Gavin Guffey at seventeen years old killed himself. Guffy the son of Brandon Guffey, a state representative. This is one of these sextortion schemes and a twenty four year old Nigeria now has been extradited from Nigeria brought here to Columbia and he faces life in prison for
this sextortion scheme. He's posing as a as a as a girl and the process was able to get some you know lewd photographs from Gavin Guffey and then was using them to extort him.
Good for our governments for working on getting that thug out of there right and here where he'll face punishment. And this is something our generation never faced. I mean, no, this is a this is a New Years social media thing. But it happens, and it happens all too often.
Yes, it does. Unfortunately, so, uh, life in prison. Let's hope. Uh, let's hope. That's that's that's that's what we see come out of all this. Yeah.
I guess the agreement was, well, we'll send him to you, but you can't. You can't put him to death, right, Okay, the next best thing, it's put him behind bars for the rest of his days.
All right. We have a South Carolinia in the cabinet, Scott Bessen confirmed yesterday, the billionaire investor. Interesting dude, first openly gay treasury secretary in this country and a guy who was once a uh well a donor and a supporter of folks like George Sorows, but no longer. Now he's uh, he's all aboard the Trump train has been
for a bit. Uh. This is a this is an important role we have a very important thing that the Treasure Secretary needs to shepherd through Congress in this sometime in this this year, and that is, you know, not letting these tax cuts, these Trump era tax cuts sunset and expire. Big deal. And Bessen will be a tasked with leading that charge. Well, it's getting interesting early. Nobody has declared yet to run for governor in South Carolina,
but Nancy Mace is making a lot of noise. As we talked about a couple of days ago, she told the Associated Press that she was considering running for governor. Well, she's making a tour across the state, so obviously she is going to run for governor, right.
And that's the perfect way to describe it. She made a lot of noise yesterday.
Yeah, she did make a lot of noise, and in most of that noise was directed at her most formidable opponent, who is not yet announced either, that is Attorney General Alan Wilson.
She made a little bit of noise at John Monk of the State.
John Monk of the State newspaper, who asked her about yeah, does she does he support these J six pardons? She says, wait, you're part of the legacy media, right, you're a dying breed. Did I get that quote right? Yeah?
I mean she went on to name everything on her resume. You know, I've been attacked, have been raped, and by the way, your legacy media. I mean it was she was just checking off boxes yes and never answered the question no.
Making a lot of noise exactly. Okay, that's what Nancy Mace does best.
Who but if she keeps doing that, who will take her seriously as a candidate.
Well, I'm already having a hard time doing that from the get go. That's just me, though, Wilson. Meantime, a part of what some nineteen states attorneys say attorneys general, I always get that. I always think that should be attorney generals, But it's attorneys general. Okay, that's the way it's supposed to be said. Who are warning Costco they may want to rethink this. Costco recently coming out doubling
down on their DEI policies. Uh, These attorneys general calling on Costco to end on all unlawful discrimination discrimination that is imposed through these policies. Okay, Alan Wilson signing out of that one right there. Meantime, our current governor Henry McMath says he's not talked to President Trump about deportation operations yet, but says we here in South Carolina will do whatever we are asked to do. We got more
news on that front coming up. Our state's Department of Education is well had a lawsuit filed against it, says it has been censoring a racially inclusive has been censoring that is racially inclusive education for all public school students, and the claim is that's an in violation of the US Constitution. This lawsuit filed by the Legal Defense Fund
just yesterday. Now, I don't know that we're here here yet, but in some parts of the state, the Low Country in particular, the price of eggs now is hit as high as nine dollars a dozen. Nine dollars a dozen. Wow. You go back to December of twenty twenty three, a dozen great eggs sold for US for four point fifteen a dozen that same are now nearly nine bucks. Of course, bird flu is to blame.
And you see certain grocery stores saying they can't keep them on the shelves.
Yeah, they're having a hard time keeping them. Yeah, and don't expect this to change anytime soon. Apparently, all right, boy, I don't even know where to begin. When I talk, you know, you go to what is happening with the Trump administration. The announcement yesterday morning that Trump is reinstating with back pay thousands of military members who were discharged
for refusing the COVID shot. He is signed an executive order to begin creation and construction of an iron dome over this country, much like the one that exists in the Israel. Defends Secretary Pete Hegzeth arrived at the Pentagon
on his first full day of work, laying out his priorities. Meantime, the Justice Department has fired or Trump has fired prosecutors in the DOJ who helped prosecute him, and a number of senior aides for the US Agency for International Development placed on leave this over what appears to be an alleged effort to thwart some of the president's new executive orders.
At least fifty six of these senior officials on leave already. Meantime, we got more news to talk about on the immigration front, Trump moving to deport nearly one and a half million migrants that were admitted under Biden's parole programs. Selena Gomez with her now infamous meltdown over deportation of illegal aliens, and Tom Holman's response to that was certainly notable.
She rates that pretty quick or she deleted it pretty quickly.
Yeah, and she didn't even have her fax right. Of course she's a celebrity. Of course she didn't have her facts right. Okay, today's Tuesday, tomorrow. What we got RFK Junior tomorrow right, full Senate confirmation hearing in vote. Then Tulca Gabett on Thursday. Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana guy who has such a way with words, well pretty straightforward when he said the Gabbard, he says he thinks she's in the most danger of not getting confirmed by the Senate.
And wow, what a crazy day yesterday with this release of this Chinese AI app, Deep Seek, the tech stocks tumbled. In Vidia, I'm just about set a record for how much their stock lost yesterday. I don't know too much of that. I do want something, but not too much, thankfully. But what is this Chinese AI app? And it's apparently already getting hacked. But this startup isn't a game changer?
Well we know it's controlled by the Chinese government because it won't answer basic questions about like you know, t in them and square and things like that. All right, we'll get to that. More coming up. Yes, there's more on this the Tuesday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News. Thank you for being with us, the hottest talk.
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Forty two and more Antelia for Tuesday, January twenty eighth. How quickly they forget, although in this case it wasn't a question of forgetting, it was a question of not even really bothering to notice. So, you know, a week ago, we had, I mean just all these pardons. You know, it started with with Joe Biden, and well I started a while back with Joe Biden. But then you know, on his literally on his way out the door, you know,
probably heading to the podium of the Trump inauguration. Yeah, he pardons his entire family and then quickly followed up then by Trump pardoning some fifteen hundred or so. Not all, but but but most of all of the of the j six participants. Maybe Trump should have waited a little bit. Let's the media stew on the Biden partons, because if nothing else, he gave them cover to forget about those and talk about his But did they even talk about Joe's The media research centers got the numbers, and it
won't shock you. We're talking about the three letter networks here, ABCCBSNBC. Let's see here, during a forty eight hour period after Trump's inauguration, those three networks spent a total of forty six minutes and thirty two seconds talking about Trump's partons forty six minutes, thirty two seconds. Joe Biden's pardon of his family members got three minutes and thirty two seconds worth of coverage. Yeah, so thirteen times more coverage was
given to the Trump's partons and we're to Biden's. Okay, I know that doesn't shock you, right, No, not at all. Both were newsworthy events. Absolutely, I'm not, you know, knocking them for spending so much time on the Trump partons, But my goodness, did the Biden partons even exist? For ABC, NBC and CBS not much, not much. We were talking
about this yesterday morning. I think at the same time segment, how when it comes to the economy, some people are going to be unfortunately disappointed when you know, things don't turn around right away. I'm liking it to, you know, trying to turn the Titanic, maybe even after it actually hit the iceberg. Well, Democrats understand this, of course they do. Elizabeth Warren one of a number of Democrats now slamming Donald Trump for not making good on his promise to
immediately lower food prices. Truth of the matter is, he probably shouldn't have said immediately. There's no way you're going to do that immediately. He knew it, you know it, I know it, Elizabeth Warren knows it. But hey, why did a good crisis go to waste? Huh? So? Yeah, here comes a letter from Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats addressed to Trump, accusing him of backtracking on a campaign
promised to lower supermarket bills starting on day one. You repeatedly promise you'd lower food prices immediately if elected, but during your first week of office, you've instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning. January sixth, attackers reads the letter. Okay, well, I would say, Elizabeth, golly, y'all the folks who've got to send us mess to begin with, you didn't get us out of it. But on the street, on Main Street,
what a folks think, what a businesses think? Well, the new survey from the National Association for Business Economics the majority of their members eighty two percent now putting the probability of a US recession at twenty five percent or lower over the next year. That's right, twenty five percent or lower. This is quite a big increase from this just this past October, when only fifty six percent thought the probability of the US recession was at twenty five
percent or lower. So, you know, just Donald Trump winning the election changed a lot of minds. Now we'll see how it goes. But again, it's good to have some faith back restored for our businesses, especially our small business owners who've been through the ringer now for quite some time, starting with COVID. So that's good news.
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It's coming up on sixteen minutes after seven o'clock. Good morning, and good to have you along for Tuesday, January twenty eighth. We'll make no mistake about it. While she says she's four to maybe eight weeks away from deciding whether or not to do it, Nancy Mays is going to mount a run for governor of South Carolina. Her actions over
the past couple of days would certainly indicate that. Making the Rounds held a presser yesterday she was in town here head of a Richland County Republican meeting, and well, I'm saying she's traveling the state next couple of weeks to explore the potential. Okay, and then everything after that made it pretty obvious she has all all designs on
running for governor. As we mentioned this in the rundown, she was, uh, well, Nancy May makes a lot of noise, no matter what it is, no matter what the topic is, she makes a lot of noise.
And because of that, and I questioned this a couple of weeks ago, it's why would she want to step off the national stage where she's on Fox News every week and you know it's a bigger position with more leadership potential than being the governor. But I think she gets a bigger spotlight where.
She is and she enjoys that spotlight.
Yes she does.
So yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But hey, you know what I well, she uh, as you mentioned, she was was checking off all the boxes. Yes, today she had some words with John Monk over the state newspaper.
Well, he asked about pardoning January sixth, folks, and she went into her you know, her rape story, her being assaulted. I mean, she was just going through her entire resume of the things that she talks about whenever she does get the national spotlight and didn't answer the question.
Didn't answer the question, and told Monk that he was part of the legacy media which is dying. That part's true, so answer the question. Well, she did not answer the question. Now, I did see some data last week, and I haven't seen the poll yet, but apparently it's been some polling that maybe it's internal. I'm not sure that of. You know, here's what up until Mace starting to make noise on this. You know, Alan Wilson, most people think he'll he'll he'll
make a run. Pamela Abbott, Hey, listen, I like Pam Evitt, you know I do. But I think that's a challenge right there. How many South Calians can pick pamel Evit out of a crowd.
She would definitely have to elevate her profile.
Yeah, it'd be tough, smart, smart woman, good business person, but doesn't really have that that that level of you know, a notoriety or people just don't really know much about her. So, but the polling that I have seen, uh some data last week was indicated that, yeah, Alan Wilson, Nancy Mace or the top of the heap. So Mace is going to come after Wilson right away, and she did that yesterday, saying that Wilson has no business and even thinking of
running for governor. She says, says he's not done anything for women and girls. Hmm uh, well, I think he's signed onto a number of things, like you know about men and women's sports and such. She says, I will take him out. I will personally make sure that he is never governor of South Carolina. Now that that sounds personal right there to me, doesn't I'll take him out. She's not even said she's going to run for governor yet. But still she'll she'll take him out, she says, and
personally make sure he's never governor of South Carolina. Okay, Well, the response from Wilson's press secretary, any statements that he hasn't protected children or victims of sex crimes is blatantly false. And yes, it is blatantly now you know again in total transparency here you know, I'm I'm I'm friends with Alan Wilson. Uh, that doesn't get in the way of of you know, the way I see this ray shaping up here. But but Nancy Mace is she's a wild card.
Yeah, forget Alan Wilson, take him out of the equation. Nancy Mace has always been looked at, well, she's crazy, but she's Charleston's crazy.
I don't which is a whole nother kind of crazy.
By the way, I don't know that the I don't know that the state of South Carolina is ready for her and ready for her tactics. And I mean, if this is how her campaign is starting, if this is how she's launching, good luck.
Well she's seeking and without this she's dead in the water. And that's the approval of the endorsement of Donald Trump. So she's well, she's always been somewhat trumpy in anyway in her approach, but she's going to try to amplify that and magnify that now to get Trump's attention.
And again, I don't understand. You have a much better chance of it staying in Washington, I would think, I agree. Maybe maybe she looked over and saw Marjorie Taylor Green and thought, all right, well, she's already cornered the kookie on southeastern congress women. So maybe I've got to go elsewhere.
Oh. I don't know, man, I don't know. Well, whenever I think of Nancy Mace's governor, and I mentioned this the other day, I just think of, you know, Mark Sandford taking the pig to the steps of the state House, you know, a stunt. Yeah, And I don't know that that's what we need here in South Carolina. Again, she she'll certainly have her her supporters, no doubt about that, But I don't know outside of Charleston. And remember, it
wasn't that long ago before they redrew the lines. Wasn't the case in twenty twenty four, but in twenty twenty two, I mean it was you weren't real sure she was gonna make it so, I you know, so even in her home district there, certainly she has her attracted out. Again, that was a more Democrat. It's a it used to be a heavier leaning Democrat district than it is right now with a redraw of course. But yeah, I don't know. I don't, I don't. My sense is is that across
the state and listen, you know, this is what we do. Okay, we're involved in this. We watch it. You do too, But you know, the average South Carolinian, other than the fact they may see her on TV every now and then, do they really know much about Nancy Mace.
The problem she's a smart woman and she's accomplished a great deal in a short time.
I'm not gonna take that away from her now.
The problem is every time you do hear about Nancy Maces, she's playing this character instead of you know, talking about policy or making you know, these making any inroads into what South Carolinians need or want.
We'll have to do this, We'll have to go back and look and see. Okay, what what bills has she gotten through in Congress? You hear about her all the time, but do you hear about her for that reason. Well, we're we're a long ways out, but this gooop Patrol campaign is going to be ramping up quickly. It would appear talking.
About gotta keep talking, the good job, the stuff that matters.
I think I've been listening to y'all in the eighteen year plus.
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It's seven forty one. Good morning and good to have you a long for Tuesday, January twenty eighth. Week a two back, we were talking about some talk over the state House of increasing the of the liability laws so when it comes to bars and restaurants overserving individuals who then go out and get in accidents and hurt or maybe even kill someone. And I was curious at the time, Well, we how does this work, because you know, we already
have a party of lawsuits when that sort of thing happens. Unfortunately, we have one of the worst d u I death rates in the country. Well, a state representative of MIKEA. Caskey is joining us now representing the eighty ninth district over in Lexington County, and we hope to get an update from you, sir on this. Thanks for joining us this morning. We appreciate that.
Oh, good morning Gary, thank you for the invitation.
To be with you. Absolutely so, how do we already it's you know, you can sue a bar or a restaurant for overserving someone. What exactly in this legislation would how would it change that, how would it strengthen that?
Or you could make a pretty good case that our laws are already pretty good at being able to sue someone in the event that you were injured because someone was overserved. And in fact, the argument that we're dealing with is that our laws are too good, if you will,
because there's too much litigation on that front. And combined with the change in our law back in twenty seventeen that required bars and restaurants who serve alcohol after five PM to carry a one million dollar policy that the insurance world is saying, look, we can't stay in business
doing this. They're exiting the market or at least driving up premiums to unsustainable levels according to a lot of bars and restaurants, and so the concern in the fight is, how do we fix this whole system so we continue to balance people people's ability to be made wholes they're an injured victim. Will also make sure that we protect our small businesses.
And it's got my other question, because yeah, that has been We've had a lot of establishments go out of business as a result of that twenty seventeen law, which I guess was obviously not the intent, but that's the result. And it seems like, yeah, at first glance, as I was looking over this, that this would even you know, make it more difficult than the stay in business. But you say it's to kind of tie that up a little bit, So maybe we're going the other way from what well I.
Think, Yeah, Well, what we're trying to do is make sense of all the noises that's out there right now. Because what happened was last year the House passed a bill that addressed some of this. The Senate never took it up. But what we did pass between both bodies was to have a study committee. What else can you do in a legislature other than pass a bill to
have a study committee. Yeah, but as we've gone through that study commit committee process, and the Speaker most disappointed me to it was to find out a lot of things that are a little bit unsettling, if I'm being honest with you, particular with respect to what do we actually know about our situation in the state right now. The Department of Insurance collects a lot of information, not all that's particularly useful when you want to ask questions like, hey,
what is the rate of bars closing? Is that higher or lower than normal? And that pictures a little unclear. The Department of Revenue can give you some information about liquor liability or excise me, liquor licenses, and that tells a tough picture. And then you hear from local bar and restaurants and they're telling you about premium skyrocketing, and it's really hard to make sense of where things are. But we do know a couple of things. Department Insurance
has got to get better at doing their jobs. We've got to tighten our DUI laws, and then we've got to figure out a way to balance the concerns again between the injured victim and the small business. And fortunately, there's some other states that have I mean, fortunately is the wrong way to frame it. But Alabama, Vermont, DC they've experienced a similar thing, but they seem to have
found a way out of it. And that's really where the conversation is now, is what out of what out of there can we take a lesson from to improve our situation.
Yeah, certainly we don't want to let anybody off the hook when they're guilty of having done this. But sometimes maybe it seems like maybe it goes a bit too far. But so is in Study Committee right now. This is what's working on. I mean, what happens from here? Do you think?
Do you think we have at least one more I anticipate today this afternoon will be the last Insurance Study Committee meeting. I've seen the draft report, which isn't terribly exciting. It's really minutes of the meetings we've had over the fall, and from here the respective chambers will sort of huddle up and figure out how they want to approach this issue.
I anticipate the Senate will move forward with a bill that tends to be broader in scope than just the alcohol liability issue, and I think that the House will will look to put together some legislation that is again focused really on the intersection of the insurance companies the Department Insurance and our local bars and restaurants. And I think it's probably just because of the way the two bodies tend to think about things, and the House is,
you know, here's the problem. Let's get a government solution. Or if the government's going to have a solution, it should be as narrowly tailored as possible. Right, And sometimes there are friends in the Senate they like to think real big and so that's not always as practical.
So it's a balancing act, obviously with well obviously severe ramifications for on both sides of this. All right, good, well, thanks for clearing that up. I appreciate that because I think I was looking at this the wrong way maybe when I first heard of it. But we'll stay in touch and figure out where things go from here. Thank you so much.
Absolutely appreciate the opportunity. Happy to come back anytime.
We'll certainly do that. Represented Michael Caskey shedding a little more light on that. So it's a study committee and we'll see where it goes.
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Sixteen minutes after eight o'clock and morning to you. Okay, total confession time here, but one of the few times in my life I don't even know where to be at. How do you keep up? I had this conversation with Kelly Nash this morning before he came on the air. He said, Man, there was so much news coming out of the White House. I can't even keep up with it all. It's kind of hard to keep up with it.
You talk about a flurry of activity, Man, wow, but yesterday alone, well let's start here, uh, Trump reinstating thousands of military members who were kicked out for refusing the COVID shot. Now, this would have not this never would have happened, and Trump not won this election. So all these folks who have sacrificed not only them but their families to serve our country, and some with years and years and years of experienced in the military forced to
leave because they didn't want to take a COVID shot. Well, COVID used to have a case pop up here and there. I know, but COVID has been gone for a.
While now, and at a time where we're having trouble meeting our recruiting numbers.
And this is something that Joe Biden would have never envisioned doing. Why not? Why not? So he signed that executive order yesterday. Again, this is another campaign promise, you know, promises made, Promises capped. Now, there were a number about twelve hundred all told who reports were able to to secure exemptions, but Pentagon record show that three thousands. I
want to give you exact numbers because it's important. Three thousands, seven hundred and seventeen marines, one thousand, eight hundred and sixteen soldiers, and two thousand and sixty four sailors were discharged for refusing that vaccine. So reinstated, apologized to said Pete Heggsath yesterday, the new Pentagon secretary. They will be reinstated, reinstituted with pay and rank. Thank you. Someone may say I'm not going back anyway, I mean whatever, but still uh.
Trump also signing an executive order yesterday to construct an iron Dome for the US, called it a top priority.
Remind you of Ronald Reagan sweeping into office and talking about Star Wars, right, remember that, and immediately the Soviet Union took notice.
Again. Trump had said that this was a project that was on his radar, and we're gonna do it. Interesting left. Trump even reference Ronald Reagan, saying that, yeah, yeah, the whole star way was he was interested in doing that during the Coldord, but we didn't have the technology. Well we do now you've seen it. You've seen it at action in Israel and it works amazingly well, so an
iron dome. There's that. Uh. Trump is also signed an executive order addressing transgender troops and DEI in the military. One directive of the orders was potentially banning transgender service members. Trump did ban them from serving when he president back in twenty seventeen. That was repealed, of course, by Joe
Biden in twenty twenty one. What else, Oh, Lawyers, prosecutors inside the Department of Justice who were involved in Trump prosecutions, they're looking for new jobs today as they've been let go. At least fifty six senior officials in the top Usaid Development Agency this is the US Agency for International Development placed on leave yesterday as an investigation going on into
alleged efforts by these individuals to thwart Trump's the orders. Okay, Trump's executive arder last week directed a sweeping ninety day pause on most US foreign assistants. That's handed out to the State Department. But there's an investigation going on that some were trying to work around that. Okay, dude ain't playing, man, dude is not playing. And when it comes to the border, not playing that. We are seeing now more and more of these ICE raids in big blue cities all across
the country. DHS announcing that ICE can deport foreuns who are allowed under one of Biden's parole programs. Now, so Trump making a move. That's about one point four million migrants who were admitted under Biden's parole program. ICE is looking for them, and of course they're first up, first order businesses to remove the criminal, illegal element. And Tom Holman speaking of people, he ain't playing, Tom Holman, you gotta love this guy. This Seleni Gomez video comes out.
She's crying and she's a well known public figures, so she got a lot of attention. Sure yeah, and she's Hispanic.
Yeah. And you could barely make out a word she was saying because she was bawling so hard about families and kids being removed home. I'm so sorry. I wish I could do something.
Well Home people, She said, my people, yes, yeah.
Yeah, home and having none of that, saying, well, we're her her tears for the hundreds of thousands of US who Americans who have died from fentanyl coming across that border, saying he's met with hundreds of angel moms and dads separated from their kids because they buried them after they
were killed by illegal aliens. We got a half a million children who are sex trafficking into this country, separated from their families, put in the hands of criminal cartels, and the Biden administration couldn't find over three hundred thousand. Where are the tears for them? Yeah, don't play this game with Tom Holman. Don't even think about it. By the way, the numbers don't lie. Numbers in from Sunday from border patrol, fewer than six hundred people crossed illegally
on Sunday, Fewer than six hundred. Even in the final days of the Biden administration, after they supposedly cracked down, the numbers were between twelve hundred and fourteen hundred per day, So they've been cut in half. Matter of fact, first three days of the Trump administration you had about the same number you had and maybe one day under the
Biden White House. And oh, by the way, we were liking it, Harry int and over at CNN, their senior data reporter detailing yesterday how significantly Americans have shifted towards trusting Republicans over Democrats when it comes to immigration. Said, you go back to April twenty seventeen, Democrats held an eleven point advantage over Republicans when it came to gration. Today, Republicans hold a twenty two point advantage over Democrats when
it comes to immigration. So, yes, we already knew this because the American people spoke at the ballot box on November fifth, in the week's leading up to it. We don't need your analysis, Harry, but that's fine, we'll take it. Thank you. Where this spirit of America lives off day every day we've spoke each other and where we're coming from and.
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It is eight forty and this is this is gonna be one of those days there's gonna be stuff left on the cutting room floor. I apologize for that, but hey, let's uh, let's quickly run down some some closing thoughts here this morning. First up, I mean hats off kudos to the FED authorities who were able to track down the person they say is responsible for the suicide death of seventeen year old Gavin Guffey. You remember this case or not, but this states back twenty twenty two, when
Gavin Guffey at seventeen committed suicide. He was a victim of sex stortion. His father is State Representative Brandon Guffey, and I can't begin to imagine the grief that his parents will feel for the rest of their lives. But they were able to track down a now twenty four year old from Nigeria who was posing online as a female and convinced Gavin Guffey into sending pictures and use them to extort him, and go as far as to include that's saying the thing that threats of exposures will
only hurt him but would end his father's career. So this Nigerian now has been extradited. He was in a courtroom here in town yesterday and he is facing life in prison.
He kept up the messaging after after yes, it is a suicide. I mean he was trying to milk the family for anything he could.
Yeah, and this was not the only time he did this. His cell phoned that they got a hold of had the names of ten other alleged sextrs and victims, six of whom were miners. Wow, South Carolina has, oh, somebody in the cabinet. Scott Bessant was confirmed yesterday as Treasury Secretary. Interesting, dude, Bassant, uh will be the first openly gay person in the role of Treasury secretary. And this is a guy that was once a supporter and a donor to George Soros.
Here what you mean, the devil himself. Well, he's had a change of heart over the years and he's yeah, yeah, and his UH is his big time on the on the Trump train. Now he's got a very important role because as Treasury Secretary, he'll be tasked with shepherding through, you know, getting these Trump tax cuts which are set to expire at the end of the year, to get them, well, not expire at the end of the year. We need that to happen big time. Now, I don't pretend to
know to be an expert on such things. But boy, it was crazy yesterday to watch Wall Street, not the Doubt. The Dow was up, the SMP was down, some of the Nasdaq. It was a blood bath yesterday. This all because China released a new app, a new AI app called deep Seek. This is a company apparently it's been around for about a year, and it quickly claimed the top spot as the number one free app in Apples
app Store. They head of open aiyes Chat GPT. They claimed they developed this in just a month or so at very little cost, so they claim, And this just set the tech world on us here yesterday again for no other reason than the fact here that we've been trying to work to stay ahead and get ahead in this arena. Now, I don't think you can believe the Chinese and what their claims are and how quickly developed this and for how cheaply they did it. But it caused a pig melt down on the on the tech
stocks in the NASDAC yesterday. But I don't know if you've seen this thing. People were asking you questions about the Chinese government. Now ooh, we got tight.
Lip then whip CNN square.
Yep, no answer, no answer, got no answer for you there. Yeah. So well, apparently the problem was they claim in a paper there wrote last month and they trained this thing with less than six million dollars worth of computing power from what it claims were two thousand in Vidio chips, which is, if true, incredibly cheaper than what has been sunk into things like chat GPT, and that just it sounded like a game change at the Wall Street. Wow, they can do whoa in vidiostoc trup like what seventeen
percent yesterday? I think the guy that controls the CEO of eighteen billion dollars on paper in one day.
Yeah, wow, I mean that's that's one of the big questions right now. It's okay, if you get these AI programs, you know, how are they trained?
And what results are you gonna get?
Yeah?
And what results are you gonna get? And do you owe anything to you know? McCartney. Paul McCartney brought this up the other day. You know, he's asking Great Britain to protect the Beatles and his products against AI using it to train because who's to say, you know, they can't ingest you know, sixty or seventy Lenna McCartney songs and then write songs like McCartney. I'm sure, sure, I'm
sure it's possible. So he's asking for protection from the government against AI using his products, his licensed product to train.
Well, you know what, this cow's out at the barn now man, And I, for one, I have very little faith at all that any government, any well seeking government, can rein it in. We're in a whole new world now, a whole new world. And two California Democrats yesterday unveiling a bill did they say would allow insurers and policyholders affected by the LA fires to sue major oil corporations.
This is so California. They say that the old companies must atone for the fires and stabilize California's faultering insurance mar because they blame climate change on big oil, and because of that they've got all these.
Wild That's a roundabout approach.
Right, totally ignoring their lack of preparation in anything else. But no, let's blame it on big oil. Let's sue them courts.
Fine,