On Demand - Show Highlights 03-04-25

That's that's the technicality right there. But yeah, we'll have it for you, and we started date tonight with our iHeart team with a pre speech analysis and more, and then the speech itself at nine o'clock and then well it's scheduled to go to eleven. I'm not sure how that's going to work out, but but we'll see. So yeah, more on that coming up this morning. And we're preparing here again, as Tyler mentioned, for some stormy activity come tomorrow.

Here it looks like early tomorrow morning western Midlands counties will start to see this, maybe four or five am. You're talking about places like Fairfield, Newberry, Saluta, Edgefield Counties. Then just in time for the mad rush in to work tomorrow morning. Here in the rest of the Midlands. Here it comes again. We're that marginal I think it's the marginal risk of severe storms tomorrow, but we could

get heavy rain, some high winds. There's a low risk of an isolated tornado spinning up, a low risk of that, but it's gonna get into that there pretty quickly. Now, this is this is going to be a good news for certainly the areas that are suffering from wildfires. I say suffering. I was talking to some folks at Myrtle Beach yesterday said, you know what, the National Meetia is playing this up like it's another La thing. It's not really that bad, okay.

don't don't freak out. This may be bad timing for this, but that's the day when they conduct their annual see a Air Safe. This is all an exercise. They do it every well, they do every three years. So so heads up, if if you, if you happen to notice that, and thing, oh my goodness, what's going on here? A big deal?

the Senate side, the Medical Informed Consent Act. This goes down back to the COVID pandemic and the and the fears that who knew, who knew what we were putting into our bodies and and such. Well, now, the lawmakers on the Republican side, I think it's time to implement guarantees for future emergencies to better protect our individual liberties.

The tariffs going into effect, the new tariffs on China, on Canada, on Mexico took effect at midnight, so the taxes that importers will pay will be going up on certain goods. As of today. Imports from China, which is our third largest trading partner, will be subjected to a ten percent tariff on the top of the initial ten percent that was imposed by Trump last month. Again, imported goods from Canada and Mexico included in all this. Yesterday was not a good day on Wall Street concerns over this.

But here we go. They start as Trump saiyest no room for delay, and again they're having an impact already. We mentioned last week and I don't know which at of maker it was, but but now Honda saying they intend to move production from of one of their best selling models to the US from Mexico to avoid these potential tariffs. Listen, this is not a this is not

a not a game for the faint of heart here. Okay, there will be bumps in the road, certainly, but the idea is that it's when it's all said and done, we'll be in a much stronger position here, and we should be. But again, there's gonna be some freaking out in the meantime, all Right, so yes. Tonight, Trump delivered his first address of his second term to a joint

session of Congress. Expected to be a doozy. We'll hear about Doje, We'll hear about the economy, we'll hear about immigration, we'll hear about Ukraine, we'll hear about a lot, and we're going to hear about the whole you know, men and women's sports thing too. Trump has invited Peyton McNabb to be a guest tonight. This is a volleyball player, a nineteen year old left with a traumatic brain injury after a transgender identifying man spiked a volleyball into her head.

This was when she was seventeen years old, two years ago. She'll be a guest star tonight. We've gotten news, by the way, on the Senate, and there a failed attempt to put this to it, and it looks like it's going to fail anyway. Hitting the pause button, Yeah, you got more heartball here. Trump yesterday directing a pause to US assistants to Ukraine. After that meltdown of the Oval Office.

This passed a this is not we're never again going to support the effort, but this is a pause intended to get it to affect change here and let's see if that happens or not. We've got well, although Zelensky says he still wants to sign this minerals deal, you've got folks like Scott Bessant, Treasury Secretary, saying that deal is dead in the water. So we got more to talk about on that front today. And by the way,

Zelensky is still saying. He did an article an interview with the I think was the a p where he's like, you know what, We're we're not done fighting yet. Okay, there's new polling data out. What does it say about what we think about Trump's handling of Ukraine. We'll get to all that for you. Uh, this is a story that went like just ice cold and and maybe because of the whole blow up of the Oval Office kind of took took took the took all the air out

of the room here. But Pam Bondi last night, UH an interview with Sean Hannity saying a truckload of Epstein files was delivered by the FBI after she gave the agency until eight am this past Friday morning to deliver them. She says they got them all by eight am. A truckload. She says, I got to go through it and make sure there's nothing in the international security that would be released,

so there'll be some reactions. Yeah, we heard absolutely zero about that story on Friday, right the deadline came and went, we heard nothing. Well, now we know that the apparent of this have been delivered. Okay, we'll get to that and more coming up on this. It is the Tuesday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News and it is as always great to have you with us. Coming up on six twenty five. Checking the drive here he is Tumbo.

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maybe sometimes boo and hiss and such. Will the Democrat women all wear white tonight, we'll see.

and I'll get to that in a second. Because the favorability ratings for Elon Musk about thirty nine percent.

you're paying. Like, if you look at the future obligations of soci Security far exceeds at tax revenue far exceeds. None of that made any sense to me, quite honestly. But by calling it a Ponzi scheme that freaks people out. Man, it does, Okay. I mean Trump has been very very vociferous and that he has not got any plans to cut Social Security benefits to anybody. But you know, at some point I've been saying this now for a couple

of weeks. You know, Trump's got to rain Musk in because again, this is a guy, all right, you're you, you're me whatever. I'm sixty five, almost sixty six. You know, one of these days I'll collect Social Security and I'd like for it to be there. I've been paying into it all my life. So, yeah, it rubs people the wrong way when a guy worth untold billions of dollars starts, you know, talking about something that for many people is hopefully not the only thing you've got set aside or

will have. But you know, for some people it is.

that's going to be a tough sell even for that person. Oh, it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough sell. It'll have to be a person with a lot more empathy than Elon Musk has. And I'm not criticizing him. I mean, I think he's done good things so far, but he's not the guy to handle that job.

And you know that whole thing. But you know, q Q the the the instant freak out moment here when Martin O'Malley, who was once the administrator of Social Security I think that's the correct term, former Maryland governor and a guy who just ran for ahead of the DNC here recently. Yeah, so he's a Democrat saying that this

ultimately you're going to see the system collapse. He says, so it's talking about social security, the system collapse and an interruption of benefits, And he went on to say, I believe you'll see that within the next thirty to ninety days, thirty to ninety days, people should start saving now. Okay, well, number one, if it's going to collapse within thirty to ninety days, how much do you think people can save between now and then? Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, that's

a stupid thing to say. But here comes to you know again, this is the whole The sky is falling. Okay, why because DOSEE is looking to layoff Social Security workers, the ones that of those things aren't bringing anything to the table at all, So that's automatically going to lead to interruptions and payments, which by the way, has never happened, never missed a payment benefit since it started more than eighty years ago. But here you go, O'Malley, the sky

is falling. Next thirty to ninety days, people won't be getting their CHECKSI claim, well, part of it, his statements don't have everything to do with just DOGE though. Part of it is just the the information technology and the lack of modernization, which is something that to his credit, O'Malley called for when he led the SOBI Security Administration

that they needed more money for information technology, modernization. And this is one of the critiques that Musk has had of Social Security, and that's the multiple systems, the multiple technologies they use, and he says that leads to errors. They're dead people getting checks and such. Okay, well, again, it's not helpful when Musk comes out and talks about

soci Security being a Ponzi scheme. And then you've got you know, the Democrats like O'Malley saying, yeah, expect benefits to not to you know, not be going out here in the next thirty to ninety days. Be an interruption. Well, somebody needs to get ahead of this right now, and thatn somebody should be Donald Trump, and I hope he addresses that tonight.

to ensure that it is contributing to a solution. Uh. Okay. Now, this following uh an interview that Vladimir's Lensky did with the Associated Press where he said not only that peace is, in his words, very far away, but that he also expects the United States to continue providing aid to his country. We're okay. Some people are seeing of Vladimir's Lensky that didn't know existed. You've got to think that Zelensky, well, you'd think he wants peace. There are those who claim

that he doesn't. Again, I'm not saying he does not want peace, but there are those who say, listen, you know he's suspended elections. He's outlawed demonstrations. Some we've been wondering is he profiting from all this? I have no idea. I'm not claiming he is or he's not. But this is what some people are saying. After three years of a disastrous war. And listen, let's just be real here.

The Ukrainian has had their best shot, probably maybe twenty twenty three, late twenty twenty three, I guess with their offensive that fail spectacularly. Does anybody in their right mind see any way really that Ukraine can win this thing? Now I've also heard this too, because you know, the criticism of Trump has been, well, he's siding with Putin on this thing? Or is it just that Trump is

siding with the prospect of peace? Doesn't mean you're supporting the aggressor here in this I mean, in any rational logical viewpoint, do you see any way that Ukraine can win this war any way at all, even with all the USA that's gone in. So for Zelensky to say that that peace is very far away, that's what this whole minerals deal was supposedly about. Right, you sign this deal and you've got a glimmer of hope there can

be peace. But you know when Zelensky walks away from it and says peace is very far away, but he expects us to continue to keep providing aid. Well, Trump says, uh, yeah, well no, well not for right now. So there's a pause and aid. So Europe, do you step up here? The European leader. They're good at talking, very good at talking. And they've been talking a lot since last Friday afternoon. A lot it's been made of. I think it's the UK who they're ponying up a ton of money to

Ukraine in aid. Here's a news flash that a they're talking about doesn't start until twenty twenty seven, two years from now. At this rate, is there still even a Ukraine two years from now? So if nothing else, is Ama just just alluded to that Donald Trump is forcing you to step up. And why they happened in three plus years with this war in their own backyard is a mystery to me and to a lot of people

as far as that deal is concerned. And again Zelensky says he still he still wants to sign that deal. Scott bess at the Treasury Secretary saying this deal is dead in the water. It's not happening, and what about it? We talked about this yesterday. What about that discussion that Zelensky had with some Democrats before that Oval Office meeting

the other day? Now, now the Democrat narrative coming out of folks like Chris Murphy saying, well again, Murphy says that it first, well, Murphy at least publicly, at first insisted this minerals deal was a fake peace agreement. It would force Ukraine to submit to Putin's will. But he also claims that the encourage Lensky to sign that thing.

Exactly what the what was said in that meat with a group of senators and there were some Republicans apparently in the room, But what the Democrats say to Zelensky that changed his mind? What do we think about all this? Well, a new polling data. How is Trump handling this job? And how did Biden handle this particular job. You go back to last year, Biden was twenty two points underwater

on this twenty two points underwater. Trump is plus two. Uh, about fifty percent of us want a quick end of this war that was impulling done back in December, But that jumped from from two years prior, when thirty one percent of us weren't quick end of this war. Now slightly more than half of us do.

military expenditure ever. Swallwell says, you haven't lost any American lives and economically, he says, this makes sense that the money that's being spent. Yes, he says, that's a lot of money, but it's being spent inside the United States to create jobs here. I have no idea where this guy gets his information. True, we have sent some weapons to Ukraine, I guess that's what he's referring to, you know, the weapons that we're manufacturing here in this country. But

we've spent a lot more in just cash. And how that economically benefits US, I don't know, but in Eric Swalwell's strange little world it does. And well, good luck convincing the American people about that. So for now the AID is paused. Trump playing hardball like he always does. You expect we'll see results out of this, soue. I think just maybe the.

the wildfires, it's still, you know, good. Wildfire's burning in a number of areas in the state, the PD, the Myrtle Beach area, the upstate Kershaw County has had issues with well they haven't had issues this time. They've had issues in the past. They don't have them right now. But it doesn't look like and there's all this too. We're being told now, especially if you have respiratory issues, that this smoke of these wildfires you may not even smell it, but it could impact the air quality across

the entire state. So you may be dealing what else some of that right now? All right, So they're doing some talion over the state newspaper, this ongoing saga of the one point eight billion dollars, the mystery money that didn't exist to begin with, but it's taken a lot of money to figure out that it didn't and well to respond to it. Wow, these accounting errors were first discovered.

This has been on for a while now. You've had requests from the Controller General's Office, the State Auditor, and the Treasurer's Office for outside legal counsel. Yeah.

are we at here? Now? It's a shade over four million dollars.

short term. Yeah, this is kind of like one of those deals where you know that if you're you're investing your saving for your retirement years. Yeah, you got you gotta take the long the long picture, right, you gotta take the thirty thousand foot view. You can't look at tomorrow the day after that, or the day or the week or the even the month after that. You're looking for, you know, decades down the road. Well, let's hope this

doesn't take decades. But the tariffs are in place China, Canada, Mexico. Now these are the tariffs. These are the fentanyl tariffs. Were not to the reciprocal tariffs. Yeah, that's next month, but effective as of today. Anything important from China, Wait, does that mean tam who? Also anything important from China, which happens to be our third largest trading partner, gets a ten percent tariffs slapped on. That's on top of the initial ten percent that Trump put on Chinese goods

last month. And our two biggest bilateral trading partners, Canada and Mexico, the twenty five percent tariffs go into effect. Now there is a lower tariff on Canadian oil imports. That's a ten percent tariff. When asked yesterday or not those any room left for negotiation for deals, Trump said nope, nope, they're gon't affect tomorrow. Well tomorrow is here again. This

is the long play. Now how long I don't know, but no doubt Trump is betting on the idea that our economy, you know, as bad as things have been, you know, and Biden used to always say this, well, you know, our economy is better than the rest of the world, and he was right. It actually it actually was as bad as it was, it was worse elsewhere. So it's you know, it's it's the calculated risk, the gamble that you know we can outlast these suckers. Right, this is uh, this is all the was it all

the Fraser ropodope or all the Foreman ropo dope? Foreman? Okay, this is this is ropo dope. Right, it's gonna sit back here on a row. We'll we'll take some body blows, but we're gonna wear We're gonna wear your butts out. Why having more people use that analogy? Man, that's what they said. This is ropodope.

other part of this. Okay, let's get more of this offshore man manufacturing back here at home and the jobs that come with it, and the jobs that come with it, yes, and the taxes generated by it. Yes. Now, granted this comes at a tenuous time when our with our economy, Yeah, it been much better had this sort of thing taken place when our economy was, you know, coming along pretty nicely. No, no, no matter what you think about this, you got to give Trump credit in that that he realizes there are

going to be moments of great angst here. That these things are seen by by by some is very unpopular. But again, Trump's playing the long game here, and uh, you know, we uh, we got we gotta hope he's uh, he wins this thing. He's right again, if you're just if you just want to play the war of attrition, is there any of these countries that can can outlast us of this now again the whole fentonel thing, that's one thing. But next month, the reciprocal tariffs that go

into effect, Remember what those are. This that that's not a punishment for these other countries are trading partners. That's a leveling the playing field. These are countries that are charging US tariffs in excess of what we might be charging or might not be charging them. That's a leveling of the playing field. Is nothing wrong with that. And in those cases again, all right, we're talking now right now, China, Canadian, the Canadians, the Mexicans, you get those were cyprocal tariffs.

Next month, you've got some countries with much smaller economies. They're not gonna be able to afford to outlast certainly not to outlast us. They won't be able to afford to stay on the sidelines long. They've got to have to do something they that comes and paying our tariff

or dropping theirs. So again, this is uh, this is coming it up again a time when yeah, the economy is still here, is tenuous, and it's going to give his critics the opportunity to to blame him for whatever economic woes may in the short term pop up from all this. Well, I mean, they're already blaming him for

the economy. Is that for Joe Biden's economy? Come on blaming him for an avian flu, which, by the way, we had we had chicken at the house last night, and and brought the good question, how come eggs are so outragially expensive because all the chickens have died, but chicken isn't.

And that can change on a dime. But expect a couple of days of negative news, you know, let's face it, But who thought we'd be sitting in the in the rarefied. Here we are right now on Wall Street. Who thought we'd be you know, dow in the forty three forty four thousand to begin with, So, hey we have you know we've we've if if you got money in Wall Street, you have profited handsomely the last couple of years, even

when Joe Biden was president. You gotta give it a little back right now for the greater good down In the long run, I think we'll all be better for it.

She's testified about how when she was seventeen, her volleyball team faced off against another team with a man, a biological male, and the roster. She was left with a brain bleed, a traumatic brain injury, partial paralysis, loss of peripheral vision on her right side as a result. She is one of the presidents invited guests tonight, so he'll be talking about that. The day after the Senate failed to ban trans athletes from girls and women's sports, Democrats

Republicans needed sixty votes to move past the filibuster. To break the filibuster, they only got fifty one. Not a single Democrat sided with women being safe in sports. Not a single one except for the two that didn't show up for the vote. Two Republicans didn't show up either. It failed fifty one to forty five. Here at home, there's a bill that's been filed over the state House, the Medical Informed Consent Act. This goes back to the

COVID days here, and it's back. One of the provision in this bill would prevent employers in our state, including private companies, from requiring workers to have to get any type of vaccine as a condition of employment. Critics argue that, well, it could wind up causing more harm than good. But well, I'm not sure we would repeat those days anyway. But we'll see where this goes. Pam Bondi last.

detailed report as to why they withheld these documents. Now again, there are things they got to go through first before they can release them. I mean there's there's things they can they need to be sure there aren't released, to protect the victims of of of Epstein and whomever else. She also accused the Biden administration of sitting on these documents that no one did anything with them, and she wants to know why. So don't expect this in the

next day or two. I wouldn't imagine there's a poor thing. If it's a truckload, if it's a literal truckload, it's gonna take a little while. But the days are coming. Let's hope it's got to be. I mean, otherwise you just don't even address it right now, You're like, Okay,

never happened. You can't afford another repeat of what we had last week and the Academy Awards a paltry eighteen million viewers on ABC, streamed on Hulu, and as you've heard our Money consumer update mentioned Hulu had its issues.

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