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Good morning and welcome in. It's Monday, it's March tenth, and it's a back up and adam after time change weekend, hadn't it feels really done? And yeah it is. It's good to have you here. I'm Gary David. Christopher Thompson's got the day off, so I got the double whammy time change Monday and well Sunday time change, but still that and happy to get here early to take care everything else that he normally handles for us. All it's a double whem me for me. But there will We'll

muddle on through here. It's fifteen sixteen now after six I know it doesn't feel like it, does it. They tell us that for most people it takes a good three days for your body clock to adjust to this time change. Matter of fact, it could take up to seven days. See we deal with this for an entire week. And for some folks who have what they call more rigid internal clocks, it may take longer. Okay, so this

is that day they tell us. We see more car accidents, we see spikes for health issues, cardiovascular problems, collitis, inflammation of the colon, wow, middle and behavioral disorders. Okay, welcome to that day. But we'll muddle on through and maybe maybe, just maybe one of these days we'll just we'll just do away with all this. It's it is it. It's curious. It seems like everybody's like, yeah, we should ditch this thing,

yet it never gets done. Well, we've our state house here said yeah, we'll ditch it, but not until everybody else does. You don't want to You don't want to be that guy. You wan't to be Arizona, right or parts of what some other state where they don't observe this. Okay, Well, anyhow, welcome into a Monday. We'll just we'll get up and get going here and get this thing done. We've got TIMPs in the upper forties now that rain most of it right now if you're in the yeah, the central

Midlands area. See, it's either off to the west or down to the south. Well, we've had a little bit of it here certainly, but yeah, more of the rain is is impacting other parts of the the Midlands this morning, not the central Midlands so much. It's a little light rain here. Run down big stories, hot topics. Well they've done it again. Uh, Gamecock women demolishing Texas yesterday. Wow?

What is showing in Greenville? And lots of Gamecock fans there, to the point where the Texas coach he moaned the road games set up, as he called it after losing. Yeah, Greenville's like a home floor for the game Cock. Certainly this it's the way it's been done. So wait, it will continue to be done for at least the next three SEC tournaments. But an impressive performance there by, don stay squad, and we'll have more in sports coming up

here in just a couple of minutes. We set history on Friday, well, for the first time ever in this day, but the first time again in fifteen years in this country. An execution was carried out by firing squad. That was the choice of Brad Sigmund, and that choice was delivered just after six oh five Friday afternoon, twenty three years after he was convicted and the brutal double murders of his ex girlfriend's parents killed them both with a baseball bat.

Herbo Mann indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday for threatening the life of Donald Trump. He was the n eyed bond Friday hearing in which prosecutor told a magistrate judge that the man, Travis Keith Lang posted danger to the community. He had pleaded not guilty in his first appearance in court at a federal courthouse here in Columbia. That indictment was pretty quiet. Actually, that was earlier last week.

He was arrested on Thursday, the news not coming out until late on Friday when that case was unsealed and made public. He faces a maximum five years in prison. As you heard, a woman has been arrested charged with sparking that massive Carolina Forest wildfire over the Myrtle Beach area. Alexandra be Allowso jailed bay last week for negligently allowing fire to spread to other lands and regulation of fires on certain Lands Chapter violation charges. This is what they

call him in the records. Allegedly started a fire to burn debris in a backyard pit in that area and that's what started the big fire, which is fifty five percent contained, so it's still burning over there. Let the legal challenges commence. Nancy Mays, who several weeks ago spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives accusing four men of very serious crimes. As you know, won her ex fiance. She was protected by well thanks to where she was standing, right on the floor of the house.

But is that true? Well, legal challenges are coming, as we mentioned last week. Are you really immunized from these subpoenas just because you spoke on the House floor. Well, we're getting ready to find out. Recall, now, this is the speech in debay clause. A couple of years ago, Lindsey Graham tried to avoid testifying before a special grand jury on efforts of Trump's overturn the election lost in Georgia, and his attorney's argue the same thing speech in debay

clause that didn't work out. The Supreme Court disagreed he might up testifying. Will this work out for Mace or not? Tragically, two men here in our state killed over the weekend. Their bodies recovered in Kershaw County. Twenty one year old of forty three year old. We're discovered in the Waterye River, right behind the Watery Dam. Wow. The deadline forgetting the real idea is coming soon. You've been putting it off. Well,

they kept postponing it, but now the dates. Well, federal idea requirements begin May seventh, or less than two months away here in the Palmetto State. So remember, if you want to fly without a passport domestically, you're gonna have to have one. There will be some secure federal buildings, military installations you won't be allowed on without it. So yeah, it's time to get it done. May seventh the final date.

Trump in an interview yesterday, not ruling out recession here in twenty twenty five, he was on with me Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Fox setting is Fox just mentioned a few minutes ago. I hate to predict things like that, but it's possible. It's a period of transition, he says, And yeah it is. So here comes you know, all the all the doom and gloom predictions, here's this one major economic data will reset recession bets this week.

The economy is starting to look weak. Wall Street's stressed by all the volatility in the markets. Well, yeah, there is stress, and there is volatility, certainly, and we are in a period of transition. Dose keeps uncovering all sorts of fun facts like this one three hundred and twelve million dollars in loans given out to children under the age of eleven during the COVID pandemic. Yeah, a new study out revealing the staggering scope of how much DEI

was infused into under Biden. Here's a doom and Gloom Part two. House slashing staff is sparking fears the Soil Security Administration could collapse. There you go, and of this question. Biden's auto pen signature appears on most official White House documents. Concerns over who was really in charge. Here we go that conversation again. Huh. Our man from Indiana shot by Secret Service near the White House. That was yesterday. No one else is injured. This happened around midnight, about a

block away from the White House. Trump was in Florida at the time. The man hospitalized his condition. On the meantime, the Air Force interccepting an aircraft that flew into a restricted zone near Marlogo op in the Great White North Canada stays Liberal. Mark Carney wins his Liberal Party nomination to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada's next Prime minister and the Carney is talking tough when it comes to to tariffs and any chance that canad would become America's fifty

first state. And the Wow, the details coming out now on the death of Gene Hackman and his wife. Wow. Didn't see this one. Apparently, as you probably know by now, his wife, they think, died a full week before Hackman did. And this was a rare but serious respiratory illness caused by exposure to infected rodents, hantavirus, pulmonary syndrome. Make sure,

wonder what kind of shape that house was in? And well, Hackman dying a week later, they say apparently he had been suffering from severe Alzheimer's and didn't really know what was going on, not aware his wife had passed away a week earlier. Goodness sakes all right, friends, we got a busy Monday. We'll get right to it here. That and more coming up on this the March tenth edition

of Columbia's Morning News. It's great to have you with us, celebrities who know not a darn thing other than you know, singing and dancing on stage.

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Clay Travis said Buck Sexton what on three point five FM and five sixty AM w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on on on three point five FM and five sixty am dou w VOC.

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Hey, good morning to you. Uh it's six forty yeah, I know it feels like five forty. I get it. It's Monday, March tenth. Let's get up in Adam. A little bit of rain around here. Mourain south and the west of us. All be careful out there. Disturbing, she says. Annapolina Luna. Yeah, anytime the story pops up with the name Annapoline Luna, got to mention it because I just like to say her name. Annapaulina Luna, the Florida congresswoman. Is is us upset over the the DJ silence over

the release of the Epstein files. Now, I remember Anna Paulina Luna is what the positioned it is. But she's she's leading the House Oversight Committee task Force on declassification of these secrets, and she Friday urged again Pam Bondy to publicize the rest of these documents. Now, of course, remember the first one was a total nothing burger. Bondi says she was duped by the FBI. Let's see, that

was a week ago Friday. Remember, well, it was actually the day or two before that the FBI in New York had a turn over the rest of those files. Bondi said by eight am that Friday morning, a week ago Friday, and we didn't anything else about. Of course, that was the weekend we found out Gene Hackman had died. We had the uh, well that was that was the weekend, I think. But that was the week of the blow up at the White House, the Oval Office with Trump

and Vanson Zelenski, and that just dominated the headlines. And for days we heard nothing about this. And then early last week we were told that Bondi had said that she had gotten the rest of those documents and they were pouring over them. She said that truckload was the word she said said, if it was a truckload, I

kind of get it. You've got to go through it, because the only valid reason to go through it all, not just release it, lock stock and barrel, is to protect the victims, of course, which Bondi said they were looking to do. Uh. But you know, here we go, it's still crickets starting to bother you. Well, let's hope we hear something from Bondi earlier this week. The idea that she apparently has truckloads of these documents is bothering a lot of people. You can bet your bottom dollar

on that one. So when do we well that there is no clear timeline for when the dj plans to release the remaining files. Okay, we'll wait and see. Oh, Columbia University, you know one of these elite institutions who allowed anti Semitic protesters to just run roughshot over their campuses summer before last. Now Columbia says it will in fact prioritize fighting that is anti semitism on their campus. Was that didn't happen until well last week the federal

government canceled federal funding worth about four hundred million dollars. Okay, email went out from their interim president Friday night saying the school would work with the Trump White House to address the problem of anti semitism. Okay, let's stop right there for a second. This is a good close to

eighteen months. Was it last summer? I'm losing track of time now, But regardless, it wasn't worth it for them to try to fight anti semitism while it was happening while I was playing out in real time all across the country. Now that wasn't good enough. You had to wait and listen. It's not like Columbia and russ Is gonna have to shut their doors because they've lost their federal funding. You know, these schools when they're incredible endowments. I mean, they got access to all kinds of money.

But they're apparently listening now. But it takes the withholding of four hundred million dollars in federal funding to get their attention. So you know, you're probably like me, you're not saying, oh yeah, good for you, Columbia. You should have done it before. Now, this, by the way, from the Trump White House, just the first round of action against the university. More cancelations could follow if they don't,

you know, seriously change their tune here. Okay, Well, at least it takes whatever it takes, right, and this is what it's going to take. Now. There's this report Axios late last week saying that the State Department now reportedly plans to use artificial intelligence to help identify Forden students who have been demonstrating support for Hamas and eating another

terrorist organization on college campuses. The Department of State will be using AI to review the social media accounts of tens of thousands of student visa holders to sift out pro terrorism content, which may then be used to revoke visa statuses as well. It should Department of State committed to protecting our nation and our citizens by upholding the highest standards of national security and public saving throughout visa process, something that has not been done in a long time.

By the way it was, it was a travesty number one. How these these institutions allowed these Hammas supporters to take over buildings, to disrupt classes, to force Jewish students to stay off campus out of fear for their lives. And the whole time, Divide administration just sat there and watched, Well there's there's a new sheriff in town, and well there's a new sheriff in town. Right. Well a lot is a lot has changed in a short amount of time,

and we'll be talking about more of that today. And nothing bigger than well, the economy, the tariffs, they are all all the rest. A lot of doom and gloom. There's a lot of prophecy out there that says this guy, chicken, little is rearing his ugly head. This guy is falling. Trump, in an interview over the weekend, asked specifically does he fear a recession in twenty twenty five? Does he think we're going to have one? He wouldn't say that, we wouldn't,

but he says we're in a period of transition. We're in a lot of periods of transition right now. We'll have more to come on that. Here in just a short while.

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You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three point FM and five sixty am WVOC. Once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

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It's fifteen minutes after seven o'clock in the morning, and welcome into a Monday, the tenth of March. I'm going to hea you along. I'm Gary David, Christopher Thompson has got the day off well. Fox has mentioned it last week it was not a good week at the corner Wall and Broad and uh, well, this week not starting off so good either. Dow Future is down four hundred and twenty five points. I wont how much of that

was based on what Trump said yesterday. Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartromo and Fox, are we looking at her at a recession this year? Well, Trump says he ates to predict things like that, but hey, we're in a period of transition, and we are because he's confident that our economy has got a bright future. But it's not ruling out a recession quite yet. The recession ruling is

a weird thing. It never happens in real time. It has happened sometimes years after the fact, when you got this small group of economists who you know, just proclaimed that, yeah, we were in a recession. Remember we we felt like we were in a recession. What was that twenty twenty three? When was it? You know, the old rule of thumb, what is it? How many straight quarters of down GDP means you're in a recession. And we had that, but the Biden and administration decided that and we're not going

to follow that rule of thumb. We're not in a recession. And so the economists never said we're in a recession. Will we be in twenty twenty five, well, you know, quite possibly. Yeah. Trump started rolled out this thought during the joint the speech to Congress last Tuesday night, when he said, you know, we bear with me on this one. You know, the tariffs have royal, the markets have upset, lots of folks, lots of countries. Reciprocal tariffs are still

to come April. Second. If if that's the plan, at least the Doge cuts, well, that's got everybody upset. But you're not gonna boy. We said this over and over and over again after the election, and I still if I fallt Trump for anything, I fault him from the campaign trail trail saying that he'll he'll deal and cure inflation in day one. Yeah, that's impossible. That's not gonna happen. I keep using the analogy of you know, trying to turn around the Titanic. It takes, it takes some time.

It takes more than just time. It takes action, and action is quite honestly going to be painful for a lot of folks in the interim period. You remember Reagan's policies back in the eighties. First, all his term were very unpopular and didn't look like they're gonna be very successful. Everybody was holler, everybody was screaming, everybody was upset. Lo and behold, they worked, But anybody thinking that they're gonna work in the short term is well, there, you're you're

they're foolish. Of course, you know, the Democrat Party and their their their, their cronies and the legacy media are you know, blaming blaming Trump for all this. It's just like they're blaming for the high egg prices. Think about that. You don't have to you don't even have to think about that. For a second, high eight price is a result of a v and flew. Okay, And those prices started ratcheting up before Donald Trump ever took office. But he told let a good crisis go to waste, right,

blame Trump for it? Why not?

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In this interview, Trump doubted his his unconventional use of tariffs on our allies and the efforts to cut down on the federal workforce. Now, so we get the uh, here comes the you know, the sky is falling stay paper. Today the economy is starting to look weak, wall streets stressed by all the volativity in the financial markets. The big immediate issues are tariffs, the particularly huge job cuts in the federal government payrolls. Yes, that's all true. It's

all part of a process. Do I know if it's gonna work or not? No, I have no idea but what we know doesn't work is continue the way to do things the way we've been doing them that we can't do now. The whole Doze effort, which again a majority of people in this country support, they keep finding

things that are just mind boiling. Doze says. It's identified the Small Business Administration granting nearly five thousand, six hundred loans totaling three hundred and twelve million dollars to borrowers whose only listed owner was eleven years old or younger at the time of the loan eleven years old or younger, the agency writing, while it's possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, it's highly unlikely for these five thousand,

five hundred and ninety three loans, as they all also used the Social Security number with the incorrect name. That was just an insane period in this country. The freak out we went through at all levels, and it appears as all you had to do was just tell the government, Yeah, I'm a small business owner and I'm going under here. Sure, here's a check. Three hundred and twelve million dollars and loans given to children under the age of eleven. Nobody

was paying attention. Study published late last week detailing the degree to which the Biden White House infused DEI policies into the government four hundred and sixty programs against twenty four across. That is, twenty four government agencies in which the Biden administration diverted resources to DEI initiatives, at least a trillion dollars of taxpayer money infused with DEI principles. This is the sort of thing that went on for

four years under this guy. I say it to this guy, I'm not sure on the infigs sure he was really the one in charge of any of this. This what this is what gets us to the point now today when sacrifices have to be made, as unpleasant as they may be. Oh, by the way, the other Glumenom forecast now is that so Security is going to collapse CNN. Millions of Americans could soon feel the impact of deep staffing cuts being planned to the Social Security Administration as

it undergoes reorganization thanks to DOGE. The loss of experienced employees who manage social securities. Fragile and interdependent web of computer systems leave the agency vulnerable detecnical outages. They want to tell us that they want us to believe that because of these DOGE cuts, because the reorganization that checks

won't go out. That's never happened. Now, certainly, is it possible that you could spa in a lot more time trying to get something done with the SILD Security Administration if you've ever dealt with them, at least here in Columbia. I think it couldn't be any longer than it is now, because that's a joke. You ever go down to the cil Security office on Assembly Street, that's a nightmare scenario. You're lucky to get out of there the same day.

It's crazy. Now cuts could exasperate that that timeframe. Yes, there was a time in this country where the American people were willing to make sacrifices in the short term. We did it a lot. The greatest generation certainly did it. But you know now we're at that point where no, no, no, huh huh, we don't want to sacrifice any I don't care what happened. I'm not sacrifice. We've become we've become a weak nation or a nation of weak people. And

you could argue a week nation too. So this is this is stuff, man, This is tough.

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What happens next? Who knows what happens next?

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Happens here one O three point five FM at five sixty am doub Voc. This is Columbia's morning News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five FM and five sixty am Double Voc.

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It is seven forty three and the sun's really not up. Well, it may be up somewhere you can't see over with the clouds, but yeah, it's a little darker than new normal. This time of the mortal takes some time getting used to all that Bob a zaxban ways in old friend the milling Gary David at WVC dot com. Every University of South Khana football fan should understand transition. Decades of

transition has proven no national championship yet. So let's give this man some grace everything over all, Right, don't breath to our discussion last half hour on the transition that we're in economically in this country, and so you know it's gonna be a bumpy ride, uh for for a bit. It's gonna take a while to try to get this economy straightened back out again. Hey, good morning, Good to have you along. Uh does she take it too far? Now?

Nancy Mace posting Courier over the weekend with a lengthy article about Mace's uh speech so called speech on the four of the House of Representatives last month. The one was she accused her ex fiance and three other men of some some serious crimes. And because of the I always forget what they call that thing, the speech and

debate clause. Okay, she she chose that forum and only again make these accusations against these men, but really to use it as a way to attack Alan Wilson, the Attorney General, who will likely be her foe if, in fact they both announced their runs for governor, which most everybody expects they will. I think she told us she would make a decision sometime this month or next right. Well, anyway, so you know the story. You know what she said.

And again because she was on the floor of the House of Representatives in thinking that this protected her from any allegations of slander, Well that's a guy to get tested. As we mentioned last week, Eric Bland is representing one of those men, Brian Musgrave of Fort Mill, and says he will be soon finding a lawsuit against Mace. And her official capacity as a congressman from South Carolina, saying that it wasn't the speech itself that causes Clime to

pursue this legal action. Ah, here's the catch. It was the comments that Mace may since she's walked off the floor, in particular in her social media account. Just because she's serving our country, it should not give her free license to just get on the house floor and destroy someone. Does it permit her to just go outside with a bullhorn anytime she wants? Hmm, So maybe Macey's speech is protected on the house floor under the speech and debate

clause in the Constitution. But yes, once she walks off that floor and continues to say the same things, in particular now in this day and age posting the social media, did she just step in it. The article quotes a professor at the University of Chicago Law School saying that even that and of itself, the speech in protects law a debate clause is not to get out of jail free card. It does not immunize you from subpoenas. It does not immunize you from what you do outside of

the House chamber. That was just that was a weird moment, man, And I've said this before. I thought, you know, if you if you had the goods here, you know, if you had the receipts as she claims she does, then why why go to the house floor. Well, number one, you can get a lot of publissy when you do that. Okay, I get that part. But if you've got all the goods, you're so sure of yourself, why take that hedge of trying to shield yourself from any sort of legal action

civil action by doing it there? M Well, And the fact that this was all done so early in this cycle, I mean, we don't. We don't. We're not electing a governor until a year from November now, I'm Will Kevin, and and you know again I'm not And a lot of people aren't questioning necessarily the allegation she's made, whether or not they're true, but the venue and the form in which she attempted she did it and again attempting to you know, tie that in with the Attorney general.

That that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. So is she immune from all this or not? If she had made that speech on the house floor and then walked off and left the building and never mentioned it again anywhere publicly, in person or on social media. Maybe she's protected by this, but this is going to

be the question. This is something, of course that the framers of the Constitution can never have envisioned social media posting it there the same things could wind up to be problematic for Base and the question raised to me saying whether or not she will run for governor and how this episode could impact her one way or the other if she decides to run. She says she's gonna let us know. I think it was by April, right, so within the next month or so. Stand by.

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You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three point five FM on five sixty AM WVOC. Once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

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It's fifteen minutes half eight o'clock in the morning. Good to have you along, Monday, March tenth. All of us dealing with the same issue this morning, that is the time change, but we're working on through it. Here a couple of things here in the segment they went off apparently reportedly without a hitch. That was the execution of Brad's Sigmund this past Friday, again notable because the first time we've ever used firing squad as the method of

execution in the state. The method that Sigmund chose over the electric chair or lethal injection. I'm not sure anybody would choose the electric chair if you had the choice. This us a noble here, first time we've ever done it, and first time in fifteen years in this country. So yeah, I got they got a pretty good amount of national attention over it. But again, apparently it went as planned.

The shots rang out at six oh five, just after six oh five, and within three minutes Sigmund was pronounced dead. As opposed to what we've we've heard is with the lethal injection the last two the process took a bit longer. So we have a lot more individuals on death row who will be making the choice as to the method of execution. Excuse me, I don't know. We may see more choose this. I don't Yeah, I don't care. And Hermo man indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening

the life of President Trump. This is Travis Keith Lang who was indicted earlier last week, arrested on Thursday, but we weren't made aware of this until Friday, when the case was unsealed made public. Lang pleaded not guilty in his first appearance at the federal courthouse in Columbia on Friday or Thursday. Actually I was. He was a denied bond after a prosecutor told a magistrate judge that the

man posted danger to the community. Okay, now, uh, this guy Lang filed to run for president as a Republican last year, according to Federal Election Commission records. Now, he was not a serious candidate. He wasn't on our ballot here, of course, but he did contribute six thousand dollars to himself, he reports. Okay, well, so he's got trouble now. Maximum penalty, by the way, five years in prison. That's it, five

years in prison. The reports over the weekend of an armed man believed to be traveling from Indiana to d C who was a shot. His condition is not not known. He's served hospitalized, this after a confrontation early yesterday. Now, Trump was not at the White House. He was at Marlago at the time of the shooting. There's also a report of what a an aircraft that was intercepted in Florida over the Marlago airspace there. So now, now the

wildfires in Myrtle Beach. The Carolina Forest wildfire is still burning. It's fifty five percent contained as of this past weekend. It really is. It's unbelievable that for as long as this has burned that the no homes have been lost, no one's been injured. As someone mentioned last week when we were talking about this, Yeah, that's because our fire

hiders actually had water in them. That was helpful. Of course, you had a lot of a lot of crews coming together and you know, they were getting water out of the inland waterway and everything else. Well, they've done an

extraordinary job of keeping people in property safe. But now we understand that a woman has been arrested in charge with sparking that wildfire, Alexandra be A loose out jail thursday for negligently allowing fire to spread to lends of another allegedly started this fire to burn debris in a backyard fire pit close to a tree line, did not have an appropriate water source ready to available or any garden tools to control on how to control the fire,

according to authorities in Myrtle Beach, and that's what led to the fire spread. Now, this was actually okay, the headline says we'll been charged with sparking massive count on a wifire post bond. But it sounds like according to the article, Now wait a minute, this wasn't actually what started the fire. This was this past weekend. Really okay, we were still under a burn band ooray kind of still is huh? Okay, Well it sounds like this wasn't

the initial cause of the fire. But well, after all that, you got somebody still in Ore County burning outdoors and not able to control it. Wow, okay, okay, real I d do you have one yet? The day this is one of this is one of these weird things that it kept getting pushed back and pushed back and pushed back. Well,

I'm trying to remember when it was. Originally we were told we needed a real idea, but it was a long time ag Well, now they tell us that the final of the drop drop dead day for this is May seventh, so a little less than two months away.

Now you don't have to have a real id but if you want to visit some secure federal buildings, if you want to go on Fort Jackson Show Air Force Base, any other military installation, you're gonna need to have it if you want to fly, Okay, well you can fly without it, but you're gonna have to have a passport to fly domestically. So well, of course I don't actually you have to have a passport anyway, but yeah, if you want to fly domestically, it's real ID or passport. Right,

it's twenty twenty five. This goes back twenty years. Congress passed the real ID Act in two thousand and five, and that was in response to the nine to eleven Commission and a recommendation to standardize government issued IDs like driver's licenses. Of course, in these days, we still some states will still give drivers licenses out to people who don't even weren't weren't born here and aren't legally here anyway. So you might be wondering, what's what's what's the big deal?

But uh, and one of the you know, one of the problems for some folks is you got to jump to a couple of hoops to get this. I mean, i'd say jump through hoops. You have to have some certain pieces of identification in order to get this done. Anyway, it's not that painful of a process. I mean I did it a while back. But if if if you don't all the hassle of having to carry a passport or you know, you can find yourself again not being able to get in some federal buildings that you need

to get into. Realize the d m V can help you out with it. And the deadline now is less than two months away, so it's a proaching rapidly. Hear about it a week to wake up in the country. Talk about it here Evil one.

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Eight thirty eight. Good morning to you. Good to have you along for Monday, March tenth. I'm Gary David. Christopher Thompson has got the day off. So what shocking as it was to hear about the death of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Aracalla. The news we heard in the last couple of days, wow stunning. So then I tell us that they think that she died a full week before he did, and of a rare but serious respiratory illness caused by exposure to infected rodents, which begs

the question infected rodents. I mean, this was a big, expensive house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome listed as her cause of death, natural death. She was what sixty three. I'm not sure how you well, exposure to infected rodents. Wow. And then the stunningly tragic news that Hackman himself it's possible he was not even aware she'd passed away. Well, we didn't know beforehand, but now they're telling us is that Hackman was suffering from advanced

to Alzheimer's. And if you've ever had a family member or anybody that you're around that suffered from that disease, it's it's horrible. So the possibility exists. Then Yeah, they say she died a full week before he did, and his cause of death is listed as a hypertensive all theoristal action, a heart attack, basically a heart issue. Imagine that seven days she lay there dead and they think

he didn't know it. Unreal? Wow, here comes this update. Now, how many times did people ask in the four years of Joe Biden's presidency, who's really running the show here?

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Fox knows reporting that the majority of official documents signed by Joe Biden allegedly used the same auto pen signature, bringing back concerns over his mental acuity and if he actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents. The Oversight Project whoever controlled the auto pin controlled the presidency. This is an initiative within the Heritage Foundation, a group of that investigates of the government to bolster transparency. They posted

this to x late last week. Say, we gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency. All used the same autopin signature, except for the announcement that he was dropping out of the race last year. Now again, autopin signatures, you have used them before too. It's a they are automatically produced by a machine, like a docu signed kind of thing. Uh okay,

we're so used to already. Again. You know Trump and his very flowery if you want to call that signature, and we see him signing things all the time, do we ever see Joe Biden's side one and again, if it's an autopen signature, truth of the matter is is that anybody could have been signing those things. This doesn't tell us it's not prof positive that Biden won in control. But it does raise the question again. Okay, latest DOGE efforts.

Now most of the eighty thousand federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and mystering Medicare and Medicaid under HHS got their email. You can leave and receive as much as twenty five thousand dollars. These are voluntary separation offers. Who knows how many may take take them up on this, but I don't know. In this environment, they have people who otherwise wouldn't have saying maybe I should. Now. RFK

Junior has hinted it deep deep staff cuts. He has a list in his head, he said at the time last year. Okay, well there's there's another Middle East offer for a buyout. The border things are quiet. We have been documenting the incredible decrease in people trying to illegally cross our border. Back during the Biden years. You had, you know, times when there were eleven thousand or so

a day. That number is below two hundred down. So here comes Jasmine Crockett, the Texas Democrat, saying over the weekend that illegally entering the country was not a crime. She was on an MSNBC says, yeah, entering the country illegally not a crime, but a civil accusation. The Republicans are so outraged by these immigrants and the crime that they're bringing. And not to mention city law enforcement, local

law enforcement. They're always going after crime, she says, And they don't say, oh, you committed a murder, oh, or you're an immigrant, well, will you let me go? Right, They're always so focused on crime. And then saying that crossing the border illegally is a crime, she says, it's not. Well. Truth of the matter is, miss Crockett, that improperly entering this country is considered a federal misdemeanor crime that's in

violation of AUSC. Thirteen twenty five, if you want to a specific statute, and it is punishable by fine, ends up to six months in jail for first time offenders. But hey, let's let's not try to argue with the Democrat about illegal immigration because we know they don't get it right. And she also went on to accuse Republicans of being hypocrites for supporting these immigration raids and supporting Trump,

who she claimed was the biggest criminal of all. Yeah, okay, but have you noticed this since we brought up Jasmine Crockett. She one of many. Apparently the new Democrat response to anything Trump or anything at all these days is to just start dropping f bombs. She did that in reaction to Trump' speech last Tuesday. Matter off, you get all sorts of Democrats these days. They're using foul language to I'm not sure what the point is here to make us think they're more like us. I'm well, that's what

some people are speculating here. Okay, this is they're still trying to figure it out. I guess Tim Walls, by the way, who a week or two back hinted that, well, you know, he might potentially try to run for president himself. Now with some pretty sharp criticism of the twenty twenty four campaign that he and kama Iran says they think they played it too safe. They should have held more

town halls, should have taken more risks onto more places. Well, remember that was criticism at the time, where are you why won't you give it interviews? This was a This was a presidential candidate who refused to sit down for one on one interviews until I think it got to the point where it was just such a such a joke that she had to and then that didn't go well, and you expect her to do town halls really well.

They could probably script him as far as they could, but you never know what's going to happen in a town hall, right, So wals has got some issues with the way they attempted to run that campaign. And at good old Adam Cheff, who's the gift that keeps on giving? Admitting his party lost due to not being laser focused on the high cost of living, and in the same breath trying to bash Donald Trump for the economy. Did

this yesterday on ABC. Oh yeah, the ridiculousness of the idea that Donald Trump, who's been in office now what month and a half, not quite two months, is somehow it was ponsible for this, uh, for Bidenomics, in this biden economy. Yeah. Okay. By the way, I haven't checked in the last few minutes, but we talked about this earlier. Pre Market training has been down big time today. This on a lot of uncertainty over the economy. Uh yeah, the future is down now four ninety four, close to

five hundred. It's it's gonna be a rocket ride. We discussed this earlier. It's gonna it's gonna take some some unconventional things, and we're seeing it right now to get us out of the adul drums that the prior administration left us in. It's gonna take some uncomfortable moments and we're, uh, we're getting some of those right now. Cele Brace ourselves, but don't forget this either first term, first h two

years or so if that of Ron Reagan's term. People were very critical of his attempts when it came to reviving the economy coming in after the lean Carter years, but it worked. We gotta have patience and perseverance, which we don't have a lot of in this country anymore.

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