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The Democrats, the minority in the Senate, seem to be the majority. Because it's not just them. I mean, you got several senators out there that are like, I'm not voting for that as long as this provision is in it or that provision. Shut up. We're trying to secure our elections with the Save America Act.

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The Democrats are using the only power. Oh, please understand this. Please, if you get nothing else from this segment, understand this. The only power that the Democrats have right now in the Senate is the power that John Thune allows them to have.

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John Thune is giving them the power, not only to block funding for DHS and TSA and the Coast Guard and FEMA, he's also giving them, he's giving them the power.

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to block the Save America Act. In fact, he's giving them the power to block over 200 bills that are sitting in the Senate. So really, the ultimate roadblock that we have in the Senate right now is John Thune. It's not the Democrats. The Democrats are only using the power that he gave them.

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Wait a minute, a minute. uh Senator Thune, you said we can block these bills? That's right, you can block the bills. And you're not going to do anything to stop us? No, I'm not going to do anything to stop you.

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But you could stop us if you wanted to. Yeah, I could. But you're not. No, I'm not. That's how that conversation is. You can pull that all down to that.

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The only power the Democrats have is the power that John Thune's given them. And he could revoke that power like that. I just don't have the votes. uh I thought you were the Senate majority leader. I thought you led the Senate majority. But apparently you're not a leader. So then therefore you need to go. Well, Senator Mike Lee might have an idea. Let's take a listen to what he said.

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Okay, important update on the Save America Act and the effort to get it passed. Look, I am guardedly optimistic. We've turned kind of a corner. Over the last few days, there's been some uncertainty about exactly what procedure we will be and will not be using. In the end, we've been working closely with Leader Thune and his staff, and they've been great to work with. What we're coming up with is something that I think is best described as a hybrid version of the talking filibuster. But look, let's not...

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get mired down in nomenclature. What matters far more than what we call it is what we do with it. We're going to bring it to the floor. We're going to debate it for an extended period of time before filing cloture. And in my view, at least, I don't want to speak for anyone else. This bill needs to remain on the Senate floor before we file cloture on the bill for as long as it takes to get it done. Now, fact that Leader Thune and his office have been willing to work with us on this and they appear open to a variation of that is a good thing. So let's

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Let's keep up the momentum. Let's encourage them to continue to do this. Let's put the bill on the floor. Let's make those who want to filibuster speak and keep it on there as long as possible. Thanks so much. Not really sure how that's a hybrid talking filibuster, but there you go. But please understand this. John Thune is gaslighting you. When he's talking about bringing this Save America to the floor of the Senate.

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next week. He is gaslighting you.

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This is nothing more than a show vote. That's all it is. It's a show vote. He knows it's not going to pass. He knows it's not going to pass 60 votes. But what he wants to do is give cover, give cover to all of those Republicans who are against it. And there are some out there.

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You got the McConnells and his crowd, Mikowski. You got those folks. So what he wants to do is he wants to bring it to the floor of the Senate and then just let all the Republicans quote unquote vote for it. That way they can all say I voted for it knowing good and well that the Democrats are going to vote against it.

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Muhammad Jallah, Muhammad Jallah shouted Allahu Akbar before opening fire at Old Dominion. um That's been ruled a terrorist attack. Amen. Muhammad Ghazali, he's the guy that drove into the synagogue in Michigan. You had the two bomb throwers in New York City. You had the shooter in New York City. Terrorism is in our midst, ladies and gentlemen, right now. ah And what are we going to do about it?

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That's the thing. What are we going to do about it? Joining us right now is Dr. Ehrenfeld, who is the author of uh Finding Evil, How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop it. Dr. Ehrenfeld, welcome to the program, ah Thank you for having me. So, I mean, this is, what is, I mean, when we look at all of this stuff, is there a common ideology behind all the terrorism? Yeah, since you asked, yeah.

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This is Jihad and sacrificing one for Allah. So since October 7, 2023, when Hamas committed genocide against Israelis and others in Gaza, there have been more than 13,340

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uh anti-Semitic attacks. That means attacks against Jews. 13,340? Yes. Wow. And this includes the attacks at the universities that we saw. were the most patience all the time. Yeah. Okay. These attacks, this includes attacks on the street.

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This includes not only attacks from synagogues, there are many, many attacks which are not reported. People don't want to bother with it. People are attacked on the street because they have, they wear a kippah, uh something on the head that Orthodox Jews wear, or they wear uh magendavid, it's a Star of David, as a jewelry.

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They're being attacked all the time. And now it's not just, I mean, we all know what happened at the Jewish Center in Michigan. Gretchen Whitmer said this was anti-Semitism and everybody's calling it out and saying it's a horrible thing, but nobody's pointing the finger at the ideology behind it. And like you said, it was jihad, right? Yeah. Well, the attacker,

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absolutely that I have came from Dearborn Michigan right very crazy about half an hour drive from there and um at for example Dearborn both the mayor of the city is a radical Muslim yeah who justified justified the attack saying that the family family and some friends of the attacker

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uh... uh... previously because uh... bombing the hezbollah well it turns out that his brother apparently in lebanon has been a member of hezbollah we don't know about him because nobody asked apparently the question when he became a citizen or when he arrived in the united states uh... and for example what they are teaching professors

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have a quote in front of me. uh In Dearborn, Michigan, ah the Ford Community College, Professor Ali Akbar Shadid said the following, Trump made a huge mistake by killing our leader, Ali Khamenei. We are going to continue on his path. We are going to hold his blood and ideology and teach it to our children. This is this week.

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after Ali Khamenei was killed a week ago, something by the United States and Israel. So they are continuing also to preach in their mosques all the time for jihad, to kill all the Jews, but it's not only the Jews. Now we see also more arise in attacks against Christian Americans.

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ah So we have seen there was the attack in Austin, Texas. What is it? Two weeks ago, 12 people were shot. ah Others were wounded. We have seen the attacks, other attacks this week, uh like the attack on, ah what is it? Yeah, this was Austin, Texas. Yeah. Yeah, and also,

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He also yelled, Anurag Akbar, was wearing an Iranian flag on his clothes. Right, yeah, and that was in New York. But again, it's like nobody in the mainstream media wants to point out you can't solve a problem unless you identify the problem, and they just don't want to identify the problem. You absolutely have to identify the problem, and you have to look at data, at statistics.

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The Muslims in the United States account for about 1.2, maybe 1.3 percentage of the popul ...

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and justice for all.

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you

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For spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties.

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God shed his grace on thee.

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you

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from sea to shining sea. America is back. Yes, sir. And we are back. And I got to tell you, folks, we've got less than three months until the primaries. Less than three months. Get ready. It's coming up on June 9th.

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Oh my goodness, that's too quick. So a little while ago, there was a bill in front of the House and this was uh put forth by Marjorie Bright Matthews, a Democrat, and that would remove the religious exemptions from the MMR vaccine. Would have done away with the religious exemption. Now, this bill was sent

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Well, it didn't move out of the subcommittee because there are watchdogs in Columbia, the people that are there actually keeping a close eye on our state legislature. And now the state legislature, they don't like that very much. They don't like the fact that they've got people looking over their shoulders. Joining us right now is Elena Moore with Palmetto State Watch. Elena, these people really don't like you watchdogs in Columbia, do they? eh

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It appears that way. I knew that they didn't like us, but I didn't know that it was this intense. Yeah, they're going to have a bill to put a whole lot of restrictions on you folks, right? It's called uh S960. Tell us about it. Yes, S960 was filed the same day that that MMR vaccine bill was scheduled for a hearing, which should have never even made it to a hearing, let alone been heard being a uh

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supposedly red state, but S 960 is the ultimate incumbent protection act as it eliminates all opposition to elected officials. This bill is how you completely control elections in South Carolina with discouraging citizens from participating. instead of the power of the people, the little bit of power that we do have, it will be shifted to only those that can afford the detailed compliance requirements.

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that are funded by donors who would not be impacted like George Soros and Bill Gates. And I can go a little bit into what's actually in S960. Yeah, let's hear it. So S960, it defines election communication that would encompass any paid message supported or opposing a clearly identified candidate or ballot measure. So not even just a candidate, it can be just a ballot measure over TV, radio, internet or print.

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And they pretty much would consider anything like that to be considered election communications. So pretty much anything political almost. The bill also redefined or defines independent expenditure committee as any one or any group that spends $500 or more on political messaging that will be classified as an independent expenditure committee. If you qualify as this, you now have to provide very detailed compliance rules, including major donor and spending disclosures.

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And the main things that they would have you do is disclose your donors that have contributed $1,000 or more with their name, address, occupation, personal information. They would have you list your spending disclosures. So any vendors that you have, any fundraisers that you have, um you have to report any transfers to political committees or any debts and obligations.

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The third thing you'd have to do is you'd have forced disclaimers on communication. So any communications that you have in the internet, on print or mail, you'd have to put your committee name. And then if you're on radio, TV, or even just doing a podcast, you'd have to say your committee name and also say the address with it as well. Good grief. It's crazy. mean, no one, and it gets even worse because the other two things that they would have you do,

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is maintain your records for four years, and if that wasn't enough, you'd have to file with the State Ethics Commission on the same schedule as campaign reports. So basically, if you're trying to get involved in politics at all, you would be ...

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And welcome to the program on your Friday afternoon. Started out chilly this morning, but warmed up kind of nice today. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend. I absolutely understand that. I got to start the show off today with a question for you. Do you guys know of anything that is going on at Prisma Health in Easley? I saw one report, just one little blip.

00:27

and then nothing else after that. if you know of anything that is going on at Prisma Health and Easley, please let me know. We would love to get the information out there. Again, I don't have a whole lot of information. At least I don't want to give the information that I have because I only got one source for that and I'm not real positive about the source. So if you guys know of anything that's going on at Prisma Health and Easley, please let me know. Well,

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If you're planning on traveling this weekend, you definitely want to make sure that you leave for the airport very early. Much earlier than normal. Listen to this. In Houston, for example, officials at Hobby Airport are telling passengers to show up three to four hours before their flights just to make sure they get through TSA checkpoints on time.

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I'm very empathetic to the people that are having to deal with the three, four, five hour lines because obviously it's spring break. My flight is at five o'clock and I'm here at what is it, 1.30? So I'm trying to not get stuck. I expected it in a third world country but here, how long does it take to resolve the issue with the government? It's not, to me, it's shocking.

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And this morning DHS says more than 300 of its TSA workers have quit since February at the start of this partial government shutdown. CBS News reports absences have more than doubled and Denver Airport is even asking for donations of grocery store and gas gift cards for TSA workers who are now set to miss a full paycheck tomorrow. m

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I mean, you know, part of me can't blame these folks. They're out there working. They're not getting paid. Why? Because Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have kept that section of the government shut down with the help of John Thune. And the reason that I say with the help of John Thune is because the Democrats have the power to shut down the government and John Thune continues to give them

02:42

the power to shut down the government. All John Thune has got to do is do away with the filibuster. Bada boom, bada bing, everything is funded. But this just isn't in places like Houston or Denver. The Greenville Spartanburg Airport District is launching a food and personal essentials drive today to support federal employees.

03:08

The effort is designed to assist transportation security administration agents and Customs and Border Protection officers impacted by the ongoing partial government shutdown. This is from Nicolette Miller. The drive seeks donations of self-stable food, household goods, and personal items for federal officers and their families. The airport district previously organized a similar support effort during a federal government shutdown in October of 2025.

03:37

Donations can be dropped off daily between 7 and 7. The airport district has established two collection points for the public, the information center inside the terminal and the valet parking kiosk. The district will organize and distribute all collected items through a pop-up pantry. Airport leadership highlighted the necessity of these federal roles in maintaining regional travel. And this will keep going on until this shutdown.

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is stopped.

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Now my question is, when's it going to stop? When is it going to stop? Because remember, not only is TSA down, but also DHS is down, Department of Homeland Security. Also FEMA is down. Also the Coast Guard is down. They're not getting, none of those people are getting paid right now.

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because the Democrats are having a hissy fit over ICE. Now, what is up and running? What is not being ...

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terrorist acts. Representative Biggs, welcome to the program. Hey, it's great to talk to you. Thank you so much for having me. Yes, ma'am. Tell us about the bill. What all does it entail? Well, we are still finalizing the details, but the gist of the bill, it's going to strengthen penalties for individuals that are convicted of supporting any terrorist. And right now we're discussing looking at a 20 year mandatory minimum

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Um, we want to make sure that it's strong and it's clear, and we want to make sure that courts are going to impose stiff penalties up to life in prison if necessary. And additionally to that, we're going to revoke citizenship of naturalized citizens. If they aid in any type of terrorism or provide, um, any support to those that are.

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actually considered our enemies. Yeah. Now, would this include, because President Trump has put out a list of uh terrorist organizations that he has deemed to be terrorist organizations, and that would include the cartels, they would be included in this as well? Absolutely. As I said, we're still finalizing everything, but this is going to make a huge difference. people that were

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impacted at Old Dominion University. This never would have happened had we not had this bill. If we had this bill in place, it would have never happened. And, you know, I was listening to what you were saying that under the Biden administration, oh he was released in 2024 for good conduct. Yeah. It just seems kind of ironic that it happened on Biden's watch and

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It didn't happen afterwards when President Trump was in office and taking the lead. Now, I mean, when you see just how many terrorists were let into this country under the Biden administration, mean, you got to be able to point fingers in that direction, right? I just can't, I can't understand. This is so simple to me that we have to put America first and we have to put the safety of our citizens.

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I can't understand why everyone can't grasp this. Even my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, this is simple. Yeah, even Gretchen Whitmer said today that this was hatred, was anti-Semitism. That happened in the synagogue in Michigan. But I mean, where's all this hate coming from? I mean, we've got mosques out there that are preaching this hate to their congregants. I don't even know if that's what you call them, but...

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to the people attending their their mosque. mean, some has got to be done or these things are just going to keep on happening. I agree, and that's why my team has been working so hard so quickly. I know they were up late last night up early this morning communicating. We're trying to get this finalized to get it in place because I really do feel like this matters to everyone and it really matters to the people in the 3rd District of South Carolina. And I want to make sure that we do this.

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and close any loopholes that could kind of ease in and impact our national security. I think where the Democrats, once they hear about this bill, are going to scream the loudest is going to be with the denaturalization clause. I think it should happen, absolutely. If we can naturalize somebody, we ought to be able to denaturalize them. What pushback are you guys uh expecting from the folks on the left?

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You know, I'm accustomed to that in this last year. I've heard the most nonsense ever in my whole life. But naturalized citizenship, it's a privilege. It's not a right. And I think everyone should understand that. You have to abide by our rules and you have to prioritize. If you hate America, you shouldn't be here. And I think any individuals who support terrorists

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organizations, they should face severe and lasting consequences under the federal law. mean, no ifs and buts about it. That's just the way it's got to be. America cannot be a safe haven for terrorists or anybody who supports them. You're absolutely right. You are. You recently an ...

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surprised last night when we found out, first we knew that a guy named Muhammad Jallah, a naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone was responsible for that shooting in Old Dominion in Virginia yesterday.

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mean, this guy was a former member of the military who was pleaded guilty to giving material support to ISIS. He even traveled overseas to try to join ISIS, pled guilty to that. And then the Biden administration let him go in 2024. He should have been gone. He should have been denaturalized and gone.

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So last night, you know, later in the evening after the show last night, just kind of, let me just kind of keep in track on everything. Then comes the report that the Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that the Michigan synagogue attacker was an immigrant from Lebanon, Eman Mohammed Ghazali. Gosh. Gosh, Abby Phillip. Remember when Abby Phillip said, what's that got to do with Islam? What's that got to do with Muslims? And?

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There have been five terrorist attacks. And? What do mean and? This is big. But here we've got the left continuing for, there's probably several reasons behind this. Number one, the left hates America. The mainstream media hates America. Number two, they don't want to be seen as Islamophobic, right? So they just keep kissing the rear ends.

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of the one radical ideology that we know is behind all of this. This is Jake Tapper. For seeing the real-life consequences to the elevation and platforming and legitimizing of anti-semitic voices, to be crystal clear, we do not know the motivations of the attacker, this would-be mass murderer of Jews. We don't know their political views. But the Overton window, the measure of acceptable discourse, has opened.

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to some of the most hateful anti-semitic voices out there on the... Ah, that's interesting. The most hateful anti-semitic voice. God, Lee, just... There's something... Something here happened here recently. I just... I don't have any... Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that's right.

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Do you remember after October the 7th, do you remember how our colleges and universities and these campuses were overrun with pro-Hamas demonstrators, pro-Palestine demonstrators, how everybody was marching around saying, from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free? They were all getting together, chasing Jews all around the campus.

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What do you want to do? Let's chase a Jew. All right, let's go. Remember that? Jews had to barricade themselves into classrooms. Just keep from being lynched, literally lynched.

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And you guys in the mainstream media will say, well, these are just peaceful protests. That's all this is. It's a peaceful protest. They're just exercising their First Amendment rights, a peaceful protest. uh

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You guys supported that. You were A-OK with that. Oh, we have no... So an Islamic guy from Lebanon drives a truck into a synagogue.

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hits a security officer, shots were fired, we don't know why the guy died, we don't know if he was shot by the security guard, we don't know if he shot himself, we don't know if he blew, uh he was injured in the explosion that happened, but apparently, and by the way, what happened to all of that? I'd love a little more information.

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And you, Jake Tapper, the great journalist that you are, can't put two and two together? You can't do that? Of course you can. You just don't. So meanwhile, in Michigan, their wonderful, wonderful governor, the woman whose forehead hasn't moved since before COVID, Gretchen Whitmer, made this statement.

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attack this community yesterday get fomented by rhetoric that they see online and that they see on television and they hear on the radio. It radicalizes people and it endangers our fellow Michiganders. We cannot let this continue. And so each of us has a duty to take action where and how we can. Ah, oh, so it was online. That's that's where

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That's where they're getting all of the rhetoric. Right? was onli ...

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And welcome to the program on your Friday afternoon. Started out chilly this morning, but warmed up kind of nice today. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend. I absolutely understand that. I got to start the show off today with a question for you. Do you guys know of anything that is going on at Prisma Health in Easley? I saw one report, just one little blip.

00:27

and then nothing else after that. if you know of anything that is going on at Prisma Health and Easley, please let me know. We would love to get the information out there. Again, I don't have a whole lot of information. At least I don't want to give the information that I have because I only got one source for that and I'm not real positive about the source. So if you guys know of anything that's going on at Prisma Health and Easley, please let me know. Well,

00:56

If you're planning on traveling this weekend, you definitely want to make sure that you leave for the airport very early. Much earlier than normal. Listen to this. In Houston, for example, officials at Hobby Airport are telling passengers to show up three to four hours before their flights just to make sure they get through TSA checkpoints on time.

01:24

I'm very empathetic to the people that are having to deal with the three, four, five hour lines because obviously it's spring break. My flight is at five o'clock and I'm here at what is it, 1.30? So I'm trying to not get stuck. I expected it in a third world country but here, how long does it take to resolve the issue with the government? It's not, to me, it's shocking.

01:46

And this morning DHS says more than 300 of its TSA workers have quit since February at the start of this partial government shutdown. CBS News reports absences have more than doubled and Denver Airport is even asking for donations of grocery store and gas gift cards for TSA workers who are now set to miss a full paycheck tomorrow.

02:12

I mean, you know, part of me can't blame these folks. They're out there working. They're not getting paid. Why? Because Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have kept that section of the government shut down with the help of John Thune. And the reason that I say with the help of John Thune is because the Democrats have the power to shut down the government and John Thune continues to give them

02:42

the power to shut down the government. All John Thune has got to do is do away with the filibuster. Bada boom, bada bing, everything is funded. But this just isn't in places like Houston or Denver. The Greenville Spartanburg Airport District is launching a food and personal essentials drive today to support federal employees.

03:08

The effort is designed to assist transportation security administration agents and Customs and Border Protection officers impacted by the ongoing partial government shutdown. This is from Nicolette Miller. The drive seeks donations of self-stable food, household goods, and personal items for federal officers and their families. The airport district previously organized a similar support effort during a federal government shutdown in October of 2025.

03:37

Donations can be dropped off daily between 7 and 7. The airport district has established two collection points for the public, the information center inside the terminal and the valet parking kiosk. The district will organize and distribute all collected items through a pop-up pantry. Airport leadership highlighted the necessity of these federal roles in maintaining regional travel. And this will keep going on until this shutdown.

04:07

is stopped.

04:10

Now my question is, when's it going to stop? When is it going to stop? Because remember, not only is TSA down, but also DHS is down, Department of Homeland Security. Also FEMA is down. Also the Coast Guard is down. They're not getting, none of those people are getting paid right now.

04:34

because the Democrats are having a hissy fit over ICE. Now, what is up and running? What is not being af ...

The March 12th, 2026, episode of The Charlie James Show centers on breaking news of an active shooter at Old Dominion University and a vehicle attack on a Michigan synagogue, both of which are officially characterized as acts of terrorism committed by an ISIS sympathizer. The broadcast features guest Michael Letts discussing the need for security at houses of worship while James critiques the political left for allegedly "rooting against America" and prioritizing complaints over military perks—dubbed "Lobstergate"—rather than focusing on national security. Additional segments cover Congressman Jim Clyburn’s re-election announcement, the projected growth of the Muslim population in Europe by 2030, and a debate regarding the role of Christians in politics.