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I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruit America is back. Yes, sir. Even despite Lindsey Graham, from the common sense retirement planning text line, Charlie, all you gotta do is play that, Lindsey Graham clip of him saying that Donald Trump can go to hell and that he will lose. Oh, what do you mean?

You mean this clip from Lindsey Graham? And you know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell. That clip? I would never play that clip.

No. That's, that that would be horrible, to do something like that. Yeah. That's it. He also said that Donald Trump was the most unelectable Republican that he had ever seen in his whole wide life.

There you go. So, anyway, well, over at Doge, a lot of people have been talking about Doge lately. I'm wondering what the heck is going on. They have found I want you to listen to what Elon Musk said that they founded Doge. This will blow your mind.

Here we go. So, I call it magic my computer any computer which can just make money out of thin air. That's magic money. So how does that work? It just issues payments.

And you said there's something like 11 of these computers at treasury that are that are sending out trillions in in payments? They're mostly at treasury. Some are but there's some at, HHS, Some at there's one as they wanted to at state. There's some at DOD. I think we found now 14 magic money computers with 14.

Okay. They just send money out of nothing. They just send money out of nothing. Now, folks, the days of the government spending money in cash are long gone. We we that went out with the horse and buggy as far as the, the government is concerned.

All they do is just make money out of thin air. Whenever they send out a check, it doesn't have to have a dollar bill with it in a bank somewhere anymore. That's just not the way they do things. They just go, oh, we need we need another trillion dollars. Alright?

Clickety. Click. Click. Click. Click.

There we go. We got another trillion dollars. Alright. Make some payments. And that's exactly what these computers were doing that Doge found.

They just got money out of thin air. So it makes me wonder, if they can just make money out of thin air, create money remember, they're no longer printing it. Oh, they're print oh, the money that they print, that's for the peasants. That's for us peasants. That's that's not for them.

That's not the way they spend it. But if they can make money out of thin air, it doesn't make you wonder why they need to tax us so much. Doesn't it? I mean, it's I mean, I I think I think we we we could have done without paying taxes and still been in just as big a fix as we are right now. But that's what they do.

They just create money. They don't print it anymore. Like I said, that's for you, and they wanna get rid of yours as well. So a lot of people have been asking what's going on with Doge? What are they going to be doing?

Well, we are now hearing that the White House because remember, everything that has been done since November the I'm sorry. Since January, when president Trump got inaugurated, starting that day, virtually everything that has been done has been Donald Trump by himself. Our congress has sent fewer bills to president Trump's desk than any other congress in the past seventy years. He's really had nothing to sign from congress. There's been no big, hoopah, no big hoorah from congress.

Hey. Look. We passed this bill. Hey. Look.

We passed that. But no. They virtually been silent, and this guy has been running the country practically by himself the whole time. Well, now he's gonna have to do it again. We're hearing that the White House is going to be sending Doge cut request to Congress next week.

The White House sending these thin ...

And welcome to the program. I I gotta start out the program by telling you that we are having some, major technical issues right now in the studio. And I'll be honest with you, I can't even hear myself talking right now, so I'm just going to, assume that we are we're on the air right now. So, you guys let me know over on the text line how everything sounds. We are we are also streaming.

Let me know on the stream how everything sounds because, right now, it sounds like I am speaking through a microphone that is immersed in a bag of cornflakes, and somebody is crunching them. So I have I have no idea how things sound right now. But, hopefully, we'll get this thing straightened out soon because, an entire show like this is gonna be, well, challenging to say the least. But welcome to the program. Hope you're having a great Wednesday.

I'd I can't wait to talk to you guys today, if I'm even able to talk to you guys today. But let's give it an old try on the, the PhD weight loss talk line at 809050989, and we'll see what happens with that. So, there was a a story that came out today. And and this may or may not surprise you. Somebody says, somebody says we sound clear out there.

So good. I'm I'm glad of that. I just wish I sounded clear in my own head here. The South Carolina legal community you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna take off my headphones real quick, and maybe maybe then.

That's better. The South Carolina legal community has united listen to this. South Carolina legal community has united against federal deportation tactics in an open letter. Over 230 South Carolina lawyers and former judges are working to raise awareness and speak out against the federal government's ongoing deportation efforts. In a letter, the law use, lawyers argue that removal of people from The US to a foreign prison without a chance to contest the action in court is a threat to the country's most basics, basic freedoms.

Now here's the thing. Most of these people that have been deported and are scheduled to be deported have already had their day in court. That's already happened. They've had all of this has happened, and the judge has decided, and the the courts have decided that you have to leave this country now. You've got your deportation orders.

Some of the signers, of the open letter include South Carolina Supreme Court Justice John Waller Junior, retired SC Circuit Judges Gary Clark, Gary Clary, rather, Brooks Goldsmith, Reginald Lloyd, and Charles w Whetstone. They say we have rejected the proposition that our government can defy the courts and refuse to correct its errors by citing the extraterritorial status of the person unlawfully removed. If the governor if the government's actions stand, it is and this is where they get ridiculous. If the government's actions stand, it is only a matter of time before it uses rendition tactics to remove US citizens to a foreign prison. So these these legislators here in South Carolina, they're trying to claim now that the Trump administration, if they follow along this path, will very soon not just be deporting illegal immigrants to foreign prisons, they will be deporting US citizens.

US citizens as well. BS. What a load of bunk. What an absolute load of bunk coming from some, former members of the legislate well, not really legislators, but justices and lawyers here in South Carolina. What a boatload of BS.

Nobody in the Trump administration is going, you know, it's a pretty good oh, you know what we need to do. Now if we don't like somebody you see, they are conflating what the Biden administration did in going after political prisoners with what, what what the Trump administration is doing. And what the Trump administration is doing is trying to remove illegal immigrants from our country. Pretty amazing. Right?

So I I just I it it's so ridiculous. Now why would lawyers sign on to an open letter like this? Anybody got any idea? I got a real good idea. I got a great idea.

Because they m ...

And welcome to the program. I I gotta start out the program by telling you that we are having some, major technical issues right now in the studio. And I'll be honest with you, I can't even hear myself talking right now, so I'm just going to, assume that we are we're on the air right now. So, you guys let me know over on the text line how everything sounds. We are we are also streaming.

Let me know on the stream how everything sounds because, right now, it sounds like I am speaking through a microphone that is immersed in a bag of cornflakes, and somebody is crunching them. So I have I have no idea how things sound right now. But, hopefully, we'll get this thing straightened out soon because, an entire show like this is gonna be, well, challenging to say the least. But welcome to the program. Hope you're having a great Wednesday.

I'd I can't wait to talk to you guys today, if I'm even able to talk to you guys today. But let's give it an old try on the, the PhD weight loss talk line at 809050989, and we'll see what happens with that. So, there was a a story that came out today. And and this may or may not surprise you. Somebody says, somebody says we sound clear out there.

So good. I'm I'm glad of that. I just wish I sounded clear in my own head here. The South Carolina legal community you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna take off my headphones real quick, and maybe maybe then.

That's better. The South Carolina legal community has united listen to this. South Carolina legal community has united against federal deportation tactics in an open letter. Over 230 South Carolina lawyers and former judges are working to raise awareness and speak out against the federal government's ongoing deportation efforts. In a letter, the law use, lawyers argue that removal of people from The US to a foreign prison without a chance to contest the action in court is a threat to the country's most basics, basic freedoms.

Now here's the thing. Most of these people that have been deported and are scheduled to be deported have already had their day in court. That's already happened. They've had all of this has happened, and the judge has decided, and the the courts have decided that you have to leave this country now. You've got your deportation orders.

Some of the signers, of the open letter include South Carolina Supreme Court Justice John Waller Junior, retired SC Circuit judges Gary Clark, Gary Clary, rather, Brooks Goldsmith, Reginald Lloyd, and Charles w Whetstone. They say we have rejected the proposition that our government can defy the courts and refuse to correct its errors by citing the extraterritorial status of the person unlawfully removed. If the governor if the government's actions stand, it is and this is where they get ridiculous. If the government's actions stand, it is only a matter of time before it uses rendition tactics to remove US citizens to a foreign prison. So these these legislators here in South Carolina, they're trying to claim now that the Trump administration, if they follow along this path, will very soon not just be deporting illegal immigrants to foreign prisons, they will be deporting US citizens.

US citizens as well. BS. What a load of bunk. What an absolute load of bunk coming from some, former members of the legislate well, not really legislators, but justices and lawyers here in South Carolina. What a boatload of BS.

Nobody in the Trump administration is going, you know, it's a pretty good oh, you know what we need to do. Now if we don't like somebody you see, they are conflating what the Biden administration did in going after political prisoners with what, what what the Trump administration is doing. And what the Trump administration is doing is trying to remove illegal immigrants from our country. Pretty amazing. Right?

So I I just I it it's so ridiculous. Now why would lawyers sign on to an open letter like this? Anybody got any idea? I got a real good idea. I got a great idea.

Because they m ...

Hey, Charlie. Let's talk. Stop you, man. It's the right talk. Charlie.

Welcome. This is the Charlie James Show. Now we're talking. News talk 989. W o r d.

The voice at The Carolinas. Now special guest host Heidi Harris. Good afternoon. It was a privilege sitting in for Charlie, hanging out with y'all. By the way, the PHD weight loss talk line and the WORD common sense retirement planning text line are the same number.

So please put this in your phone. Put it in your phone number, WORD. Put it under that. Put it under Charlie, Tara, you know, whatever. Bill Frady, whatever you wanna do.

But be sure you have it in your phone handy. So if I say something you find intriguing and wanna comment on, you can do that. 809050989. That's 809050989. I I'm gonna talk about the coast guard for a minute because it is Memorial Day, and we are grateful for everyone's sacrifice, all those who've given, you know, the ultimate for our freedom and those who continue to sacrifice on behalf of the rest of us.

And when you think of how many people are in military, it's a very, very small percentage of people versus, you know, those who benefit from their sacrifice and their continued vigilance. This is crazy. Alright. This happened in a construction site of all you know, you hear about the coast guard. Right?

You think about coast guard helping people in the water and whatnot. Okay? But this is nuts. So what happened was there was a construction site. Some folks were guys were working on the in the Pacific Northwest on a tank, like, putting together a tank, a roof of a tank.

I mean, tank like a water tank or something. Okay? An industrial water tank. And when they were working on the tank, the roof collapsed of the structure. And the coast guard heard about it, and the coast guard had a chopper ready to go, went over there.

And they found that two of the guys were ready were really badly hurt. Well and one of them was lying in a pool of fast drying concrete. Alright. So picture this if you will. The opening I'm a do the best I can on the radio with this.

Okay? The opening of this tower building, whatever they were working on, was only about 30 feet wide, and rebar was sticking out everywhere after the roof collapsed on these four workers. K? Unbelievable. Chief Benjamin Brown told Task and Purpose, the workers had been pouring concrete on the roof before collapse, so the ground was under knee was uncured concrete.

The consistency was just like mud when we initially got down there, and then it started to cure and get a little harder. Can you imagine that? Being surrounded by concrete? So they they have the rescue swimmers in this tank with concrete. With what concrete?

God bless these guys. I mean, really. And then, of course, they have to package them up to get them on the hoist, thing, whatever that that thing is. The don't make fun of me. You know, when they lift them out, they're on a stretcher or something that resembles a stretcher.

Go ahead and make fun of me. It's alright. That's incredible. And it took these guys hours to do this. Hours.

Crazy. This is in a place called Tahoe, Washington. When they got there initially, they, learned that the fire department had no way to reach the guys inside the tank, so they dropped these swimmers down crazy. So, anyway, God bless. Everybody's safe.

God bless these guys. I love watching those videos online of, the coast guard. I mean, they just jump in these rescue swimmers. I mean, I I don't know about you guys. I can swim across the pool, but remember one time I went to one of those water parks, and I, was with my brother.

And you get out on the wave pool, you know, and it starts to get a little bit higher and a little bit rougher in the wave pool, and I was on a raft. And I thought, oh, I can swim over to the ladder. It's, you know, 15 feet away. So I get off my raft and I swim over to the ladder. And right when I get on the ladder, I get hit with a wave.

Boom. Knocks me to the groun ...

Hey, Charlie. Let's talk. It's the right talk, Charlie. Welcome. This is the Charlie James Show.

Now we're talking. News talk ninety eight nine. The voice of The Carolinas. Please welcome special guest host, Heidi Harris. Good afternoon.

Always a privilege sending in for Charlie. So appreciate you guys for joining. It's Memorial Day. JJ's running the board where I'm echoing back into my ears just to make it complicated. Listen.

Can I just be honest here? I couldn't run a board. I ran one when I first started in 1998. Can you believe it? I ran the board then, but I couldn't do it.

I couldn't do it today. Too many things to push. Back when I started, you actually used carts, so they called them. They look like eight tracks. And you put them in the thing.

I can not sense that if I've done it. Anyway, I'm glad to have you here today with me. And I'm sorry. I'm trying to avoid coughing because I've had an allergy situation. I'm not sick, but I've had allergies this year just kill me.

You know that little cough that you get just in the top of your throat? It's not coming out of your lungs. It's just right there at the top of your throat. I gotta tell you guys a funny story, and I hope it doesn't sound weird, but it's kinda funny actually. It reminds me of this situation.

First of all, let me say hello to JJ. How are you, buddy? I am I am good. Yeah. We're gonna talk about Memorial Day here in a second.

It's very obviously, a very solemn day for lots of people. I will get to that in a moment for our nation, obviously, too. But many years ago, my family and I were on Family Feud. You ever seen Family Feud, JJ? Well, this is I love Steve Harvey, but this is long before Steve Harvey.

This was a guy named Ray Combs when they relaunched it. Right. Well, after Richard Dawson, who was the original, after Richard Dawson, they relaunched it in 1988 with a guy by the name of Ray Combs. Yes. So long story short, I said to my family one day sitting in my aunt's house in California, hey.

They're gonna start Family Feud up again. We should do it. And And my family said, are you kidding? And I said, no. We really we should do this.

So long long story short, when I applied because I didn't live in California, they don't really want you if you don't live there because they don't want you going through all the expense to apply there and then not win. But when my aunt applied, then I had to fly it out of California, and, we went through the audition process. We got on the show. Okay. So the night before the show because my mom and her aunt my sister aunts had been singers and all that.

They're all real pretty and stuff, so I knew that wasn't gonna be hard. But once I get you on the show, the night before the show, I'm getting that cough like I'm getting right now. Just that little annoying, that kind of thing. Yes. So I go out in the middle of the night.

See what I'm saying? I'm sorry, guys. I go out in the middle of the night, and and this is Los Angeles. And, you know, there aren't a lot of things open, at least not in neighborhood where we were at that hour of the night. I went out in the middle of the night, found some drugstore, got some cough medicine, and I drink pretty much the whole bottle over the course of a few hours, because what I didn't want to do was get to the show and have them kick the whole family off or not put us because what they do is they have several families in the audience.

Okay? So they're doing a show. They have family one, family two. Well, then they have family three, four, and five in the audience waiting because in case, you know, somebody gets sick in your family or something happens, then they have alternate families to go and play the next game. Plus, they don't know how quickly they're gonna turn it over.

In other words, you might have new people, you know, two new families, somebody loses, and there's another new family. And in our case, we won a bunch of time won four times. We won five times. ...

Hey, Charlie. Let's talk. It's the right talk. Charlie. Welcome.

This is the Charlie James Show. Now we're talking. News talk ninety eight nine. Double the warranty. The voice of The Carolinas.

Please welcome special guest host, Heidi Harris. Good afternoon. Always a privilege sending in for Charlie. So appreciate you guys joining. It's Memorial Day.

JJ's running the board where I'm echoing back into my ears just to make it complicated. Listen. Can I just be honest here? I couldn't run a board. I ran one when I first started in 1998.

Can you believe it? I ran the board then, but I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it today. Too many things to push. Back when I started, you actually used carts, so they called them.

Look like eight tracks, and you'd put them in the thing. Not sense that if I've done it. Anyway, I'm glad to have you here today with me. And I'm sorry. I'm trying to avoid coughing because I've had an allergy situation.

I'm not sick, but I've had allergies this year just kill me. You know that little cough that you get just in the top of your throat? It's not coming out of your lungs. It's just right there at the top of your throat. I gotta tell you guys a funny story, and I hope it doesn't sound weird, but it's kinda funny, actually.

It reminds me of this situation. First of all, let me say hello to JJ. How are you, buddy? I'm good. How are you?

Happy, weekend. I am good. Yeah. We're gonna talk about Memorial Day here in a second. It's very, obviously, a very solemn day for lots of people.

I will get to that in a moment for our nation, obviously, too. But many years ago, my family and I were on Family Feud. You ever seen Family Feud, JJ? Yes. Which version with Steve Harvey?

With This is I love Steve Harvey, but this is long before Steve Harvey. This was a guy named Ray Combs. Yes. The original. Relaunched it.

Right. Well, after Richard Dawson, who was the original, after Richard Dawson, they relaunched it in 1988 with a guy by the name of Ray Combs. I remember that era. Yes. So long story short, I said to my family one day sitting in my aunt's house in California, hey.

They're gonna start Family Feud up again. We should do it. And my family said, are you kidding? And I said, no. We really we should do this.

So long story short, when I applied, because I didn't live in California, they don't really want you if you don't live there, because they don't want you going through all the expense to fly there and then not win. But when my aunt applied, then I had to fly it out of California, and, we went through the audition process. We got on the show. Okay. So the night before the show because my mom and her aunt my aunts had been singers and all that.

They're all real pretty and stuff, so I knew that wasn't gonna be hard. But once I get you on the show, the night before the show, I'm getting that cough like I'm getting right now. Just that little annoying, that kind of thing. The allergy cough. Yes.

So I go out in the middle of the night. See what I'm saying? I'm sorry, guys. I go out in the middle of the night, and this is Los Angeles. And, you know, there aren't a lot of things open, at least not in neighborhood where we were at that hour of the night.

I went out in the middle of the night, found some drugstore, got some cough medicine, and I drink pretty much the whole bottle over the course of a few hours because what I didn't want to do was get to the show and have them kick the whole family off or not put us because what they do is they have several families in the audience. Okay? So they're doing a show. They have family one, family two. Well, then they have family three, four, and five in the audience waiting because in case, you know, somebody gets sick in your family or something happens, then they have alternate families to go and play the next game.

Plus, they don't know how quickly they're gonna turn it over. In other words, you might have new people, you know, two new families, somebody l ...

And welcome to the program. So what is the status of the big beautiful bill? Let's talk with representative William Timmons who's on with us right now. Representative Timmons, welcome to the program. Charlie, good afternoon.

Great to be with you. We had a a a a very long meeting with the president this morning. It had to be almost two hours. And Yeah. You know, he told everybody to cut it out.

We gotta get this done. It's it it is critical to the the future of our country, and he has asked, the the the moderate members that are demanding changes to the state and local tax deductions to to accept the the current deal, which is an increase from 10 to $30,000. And you've asked the the advocate to change additional, components of Medicaid to cut it out and to accept the deal, take a half a loss, and, we can come back for the rest later. This is not the end of us, making important changes to our tax code and to our health care system. It's the beginning.

So I I had a feeling that these people are gonna listen to them, and, we'll see what happens over the next twenty four hours. Now from what we heard, the meeting this morning was, but I know we had a little bit of excitement. Right? I mean, everybody, it was energetic, should we say. It absolutely was.

And, you know, he's excited. And the the the changes that we're making are so critically important to the future of our country. Just I mean, it's hard to even talk about all the all the things and get and just list them all out. I mean, the border security is such a huge one, and we're gonna be able to address a lot of deregulation and and permitting reform. We're gonna extend the tax cuts, from 2017, and we're gonna no tax on tips.

No no tax on overtime. I mean, the list just keeps going on and on. So we have to do this. Is it perfect? No.

Are there things that I would change? Yes. That's not how this works. You you don't get to you don't get to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We gotta move the ball forward.

It's gonna be, a big win. One of the big questions that a lot of people had was where are the spending cuts? They seem to be, missing somewhat in the big beautiful bill. Was there a lot of discussion about that? So there there was, but, you know, you gotta think.

The the we're cutting out waste, fraud, abuse, and Medicaid, and that's gonna pay, for an enormous percentage of it. There's just a lot of people that are getting benefits that are not entitled to them. Right. And, you know, you you can say that that that Republicans are cutting Medicaid. Well, yeah, we're cutting it from people that don't deserve it, like illegal immigrants that are criminal criminals here.

We're cutting it from people that are not eligible because they make too much money. So, I mean, yeah, I mean, we're seeking out the waste, fraud, and abuse, and this is just the beginning. I have a number of bills that will further, streamline delivering government social safety nets to people that actually need them as opposed to people that are abusing the system. We got an organized crime that is is is fleecing the government for billions of dollars because our systems are so antiquated. We're gonna we're gonna tackle all this stuff.

So, I mean, when because now it's either gonna live or die on the floor of the house. When is the vote gonna happen? So 1AM, tomorrow morning or, you know, tonight, however you wanna get it, the rules committee is gonna meet. And so there's two people that have been scuffed six. Our our good buddies in the fifth, Ralph Norman and Shiproy, from Texas.

And so the the two of them are on the rules committee. That'll be a big hurdle to overcome. I mean, I don't I wouldn't cross the president if I was them, but I'm not them. So Yeah. The the net, assuming assuming that we get that passed and there's likely to be what's called a manager's amendment.

So there will be some some changes to the bill at at 1AM. And assuming it gets out of the the House Rules Committe ...

And and welcome to the program on your Monday afternoon. So glad to join us. Hope you guys had a fantastic weekend. I know I did. But we did get that news this weekend.

And, folks, let me tell you, we're gonna talk about this today. Because what we're seeing with with with the previous administration And the people that were in charge, we have said for a long time that this was nothing more what they were doing to Joe Biden than elder abuse. That's what we've been saying for a long time. We knew that he was on the the the decline cognitive cognitive cognitively. We knew that he wasn't making right decisions.

We knew that there was something seriously wrong with this man. A lot of people were saying, what was the a lot of people saying he had Parkinson's and and things like that. But there was something else that is quite obvious that they were hiding from us. And I just find it a little too convenient, too convenient that within forty eight hours of some of those her tapes being released, the ones that show that Joe Biden was in serious cognitive decline. Within forty eight hours of those things being released, all of a sudden, they come out with this diagnosis and finally reveal it to the American people and to the world.

That's just a little too convenient for me. So you got all of these books beer that are being written in including, Jake Tapper's book, original sin, that talked about Joe Biden's decline. Then you got the her tapes, and then the folks in in in in the Democrat machine, they decided, well, we gotta do some sort of damage control here. We gotta take people's minds off of the cognitive decline, and let's go ahead and release the report. Let's go ahead and do that.

I've seen I've seen urologist after urologist online talk about this is not something. You don't just go from completely healthy to stage four prostate cancer, especially if you are the vice president and the president of The United States. Right? It just doesn't happen. Those physicals are given to the president for a reason.

I want you to listen to what this, one doctor said over there on, morning. Well well well, hold on. Before we get to that, let's not forget that Joe Biden hinted at this back in 2022. And because it was a four lane highway that was accessible, my mother drove us and rather than us be able to walk. And guess what?

The first frost, you know what was happening. You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer. That's why I and so many other people I have grown I've grown up with have cancer. He said that.

And then you've got his brother, Jim Biden. Jim Biden Now the way that the, mainstream media and the White House kinda covered up that little slip up from Joe Biden was, oh, no. No. Oh, no. He's not refer no.

It's nothing major. He just had a little skin cancer. Yeah. That that that's that's all he was talking about. Just a little bit of skin cancer.

Well, then his brother, Jim Biden, comes along, and Jim says, hey. Joe's a great guy. I love Joe. I love my brother, and, man, we just gotta enjoy him as long as as we've got him. Really?

Well, you know how CBS News covered that up? They accused Jim Biden of being an alcoholic. So you have to sit back and go, wow. They really have been covering this stuff up for a long time. Overall, Morning Joe, they talked about it.

To, run for for president for another four years. Obviously, the PSA exam is not a % accurate, and I've never met a doctor that doesn't say you needed to do the PSA exam and also have the physical exam as well. I just find it hard to believe that any White House physician wouldn't say, okay. Well, what my doctor, what every other doctor says, which is, okay. We we've done the PSA test, and that's fine.

But at least once a year, we we need to do a physical exam. Again, if you're just talking about a 78 year old guy that, is is not running the free world ...

Pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple purple mountain majesties above the fruit America is back. And welcome back to the program. Please join us in welcoming, attorney general Alan Wilson. Attorney general Wilson, how are you, sir?

Wait a minute. There you are. I'm doing well. How are you? I'm doing absolutely fantastic.

Boy, I tell you what, you guys have been pretty busy in the AG's office. Is there ever do you guys ever take a break? No. We're always on. You get you're getting your tax dollars out of me, Charlie.

Absolutely. You you guys sent me an email, a text about this. I I had no idea. Boy, I tell you what, these these drug traffickers, they're getting really tech savvy out there. There's a Chinese Fentanyl app.

It's called WeChat. Yeah. WeChat is basically if if signal and Venmo and Instagram all got put in the blender, and that would be the new app. It's basically a peer to peer app that you can transfer money on and do social media post on. And, basically, Mexican drug cartels and Chinese money launderers and other illicit actors are using it to transfer money and basically launder money for illicit drug trafficking purposes.

And it's a Chinese owned app. The Chinese it's a Chinese company. And so this is an app that is being, circ used to circumvent the law. Charlie, you know, president Trump has done an excellent job of shutting down the physical border of this country, but we have a digital border that bad guys are stuck trying to get around right now, and WeChat is one of those digital borders they're using. So, I mean, what would because I know, I'd be you your office and the AG over there, up there in North Carolina, you guys work together.

What has been the headway that you've made against people using this app? So we're still in the beginning of this, but, basically, this is a bipartisan effort. Obviously, he's a Democrat. I'm a Republican, but we have a bipartisan letter that he and I led from AGs around the country. Basically, we sent it to WeChat.

And, basically, we're asking WeChat, we know that peep that bad guys are using your platform to transfer and launder money. We wanna know what you know and when did you know it, and what are you gonna do about it. And we're waiting on them to respond to us in the next thirty days. Otherwise, we're gonna pursue potential legal courses of action. I can't go into it right now.

Right. But this is I mean, the fentanyl crisis in this country is off the charts. President Trump has done an incredible job of shutting down the borders, and we're bailing out all of the water out of the proverbial boat that is America. But there is so much bad stuff that is here. Illegal aliens, drugs, gang members, Mexican cartel trafficking is going on in our state.

Enough is enough, and that's why we're going after them. You're exactly right. And that brings up the case of Larisha Thompson murdered by, well, murdered, six illegal aliens, in in, Lancaster. And it's just a horrible case, a horrible story. What can we do about illegal aliens and gang activity here in South Carolina?

Well, first off, I've a couple of weeks ago, I was doing a ride along with a law enforcement agency till 01:30 in the morning. They were doing sting operations with illegal aliens that were members of Trende Arago, which is a violent Venezuelan gang. Mhmm. And I was able to watch, you know, law enforcement, you know, do amazing work. When everyone else is sleeping, they were out there as the tip of the spear.

What I can tell you about law enforcement right now is we are working to get all of our local sheriffs and police chiefs that can be a member of the two eighty seven g program, which is a federal program that is that allows local law enforcement to basically be deputized ICE officers. Durin ...

And welcome to the program on your Friday afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Getting ready for the weekend. Man, I'd tell you what. Oh, boy. I got a big weekend planned.

Yeah. Tomorrow, I'm, I don't like to brag, but, I'm going to the dump. I know. I but, hey. I know.

I get it. A lot of people wish they could go to the dump, but I'm doing it. Take some yard waste to the dump, to first thing tomorrow morning. Yeah. Lots of yard work getting because, I mean, it is we've had such a wet spring so far.

What what did they say? April showers bring May flowers? Looks like April showers bring May showers. That's what we've got right now. So, time to catch up on a little yard work this weekend, get everything looking good around the house.

Maybe watch a little bit of the PGA championship on the T. We. But, looking forward to the weekend, absolutely. By the way, speaking of television, did you see the way that Donald Trump arrived in Qatar? Did you see that?

Holy if there I have never seen anything more majestic than Air Force One flying into Qatar surrounded by United States military fighter jets in formation. It was so unbelievably impressive. Oh my goodness. I I just I I I I bet I watched that that it was a very short clip. I bet I bet I watched it 20 times.

It was just that impressive. I mean, absolutely amazing. Now remember, these are the same people that were going, Charlie, Trump is gonna embarrass us all throughout the world. It's, nobody's gonna respect us. Hello?

Respect? Did you see the way he was he was greeted and Saudi? Did you see him being escorted by those Arabian stallions? Did you see the oh, man. It was fantastic.

This guy has got more respect now on the world stage than Joe Biden ever had, ever. He didn't even come close, not even a little bitty bit. So, I mean, pretty darn cool. It really, really was. But that's but not the oh, oh, no.

Trump's not gonna be well, oh, oh, Trump. And even also Hillary Clinton. This is kinda funny. Hillary Clinton made some comment the other day about that, the jet from Qatar. Basically, the replacement jet for Air Force One from Qatar, the flying palace, the palace with wings.

And she was like, well, you know, if if you get you know, if you receive this kind of a gift from a foreign nation, I'm pretty sure there's some quid pro quo going on. And then people started pointing out the guess who took a whole bunch of money from Qatar. Did anybody guess? The Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Foundation took a whole bunch of money from Qatar.

Not only that, the Clinton Foundation took a whole bunch of money from countries all over the planet, including Russia. How much did Hillary Clinton get to speak in Moscow? It was a lot of money. It was a great deal of money. So a lot of people pointed back.

Sometimes, some my my grandfather always used to tell me. He said, boy, never miss a good opportunity to shut up. And Hillary Clinton missed that opportunity. So there you go. It's got a Bruce in Simpsonville and talked to him.

Bruce, welcome to the program. How are you doing, my friend? I'm doing alright. Yeah. Which dump you planning on going to?

You know the one by the Mesa Soccer Fields? Yes. Okay. That's gonna be. Yeah.

It's okay, if that's close to you. I'm it used to be close to me when I lived on 14, but I'm not off Fairview. Okay. So I go to Hips Road. So but I tore down my deck, and I went to Hips.

And he measured it. He said I had five yards. You you're only allowed to do three yards a day. Yeah. Right.

So I said, oh, okay. So I'll just unload half, and I'll bring the other half to the box. No. I didn't do it like that. So you need to go down to Twin Chimneys.

Oh. The next day I go down next day I go down to Twin Chimneys, and it cost me $20 for me to dump my bag boards. Yeah. I I just when they start charging it was last year they enacted something, but, you know, if you got a certain amount or whatever, they're gonna charge you. So Yeah.

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