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And welcome to the program on your Wednesday afternoon. Gorgeous Wednesday going on out there. And as usual, we've got a ton of stuff to talk about today. This is, I have found that right around seven o'clock in the morning, 11 o'clock in the morning, and then about 2.30 in the afternoon, that's where everything just goes crazy.
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It just absolutely goes nuts. Those are the three times that I can, Oh, Oh, two 30s Watch out quarter to three that, that area there. Uh, so we've got a lot of stuff breaking. We're trying to get to as much of this as we can. Um, let's, uh, let's go to, um, uh, Esther in Powdersville. How you doing Esther? I'm good. Okay. just wanted to give you, I just wanted to give you, uh,
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called Lindsey Graham's office and Kim Scott's office concerning uh their vote for Senate Majority Leader. And I'm going tell you, you know, I know, and everybody else knows, trying to get a straight answer is like trying to find your shadow in a dark room. Isn't that the truth? It ain't going to happen. Yeah. So what did they say? Anything? Well, the girl that I spoke to, her name was Margot. And she said,
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She just didn't have that information. Oh. And I asked her if he voted, who did he vote for Senate Majority Leader? Did he vote for John Boone? I just don't have that information. And I said, well, can't you find out for me? Can't you ask somebody in the office around you and let me know? No, she said, the best thing to do to that response is to email him.
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Oh, you know what you're get. You're gonna get a form email asking for money. yep, yep. So I said, well, no, I'm right here. I said, I'm on the phone with you right now. You could ask somebody in the office. Yeah. No, no, you need to email him to get a response. Yeah. So like I said, that's what I got from him. Now, I called Tim Scott's office.
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Tim Scott's fellow, his name was John, he hesitated to tell me his name so I questioned whether that was his real name. But anyway, he said, he was honest, he said that that was done by secret vote. And I said, why is anything done concerning the public and your constituents done by secret vote? I said, anything they do in that office should be made public to everybody.
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I said, I'd like to know whether he voted, did he vote for John Thune to be the Senate majority leader? It's done by secret ballot. uh I you not ask him to let me know how he voted? It's done by secret ballot. And I said, anything done in that office should be made public.
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to anybody that they represent. Exactly. That's just the way they do it. I understand. Anyway, they both wanted me to email them. Right. Of course they did. Of course they did. Pretty amazing. Esther, I appreciate you being on top of that. Thank you. So what we were talking about with Esther is yesterday we were wondering um who voted for John Thune to be the Senate Majority Leader.
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And that is a that's a secret ballot. And Esther said, and I said yesterday that I don't think any vote that they have in Washington should be done on a secret ballot. Because if you do something on a secret ballot, I'm not being represented. I can't make sure that I'm being represented.
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And that's my right as an American taxpayer and as a voter. I want to know how my representative voted. But no, they do that on a secret ballot because, you know, just because they do. So thank you, Esther, for staying on top of that. Well, speaking of Senator Tim Scott, oh, my goodness, he has finally come out and said something. Listen, Joe, you and I should both agree. Frankly, everyone in the studio should agree when you have
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80 plus percent of Americans, black ones, white ones, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, mixed kids, all say the same thing. Voter ID? Common sense. When the vast majority of every demographic in this country comes to the same conclusion that Save America Act should be passed, we should pass it. Only thing standing in our way? Democrats at this point. I'm hopeful that we'll find a path forward on the Save America Act.
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Senator Scott, you don't mind to um just correct you a little bit here. It's not just the Democrats. It's also some of your colleagues in the Senate that are holding this thing up, either four or five of them, which so many people are talking about, but nobody will name names. You all got to start naming names in Washington. Have a little more testicular fortitude and name names of these people. So, but oh, but
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So now we've got John Thune and we got John Cornyn. John Cornyn is in a race for the Senate in Texas against um Ken Paxton. Ken Paxton right now leading in the polls with or without Donald Trump's endorsement, Ken Paxton is leading in the polls. So now John Thune has actually changed course here.
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No, I'm sorry, John Cornyn has changed course and is now saying that he would be for doing away with the filibuster. What? Yes. According to NBC News, Senator John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass the Save America Act as Trump weighs endorsement. I'll bet he did.
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Cornyn said he'll support whatever changes the Senate rules and the Senate rules that may prove necessary to pass the Save America Act. Cornyn's comments came as a part of an op-ed that he wrote in the New York Times today called Why the Save Act Matters More Than the Filibuster. And we'll see what happens with that. So now even John Cornyn is saying, do away with the filibuster. But we know why he's saying do away with the filibuster.
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because he really wants that seat. He really, really wants that Senate seat. interesting things going on right now. Also, got to get to this. um Apparently, the FBI has warned police departments in California that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast as according to an alert, alert reviewed by ABC News, we recently required information
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As of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the US homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran. The warning came just as Trump administration launched its ongoing assaults against the Islamic Republic. Iran has been retaliating with drones against targets throughout the Middle East.
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So no comment from the FBI on the West Coast with that, but they are alerting police stations in California to be on the lookout because it could be that, I don't think they're gonna. I don't think they're gonna. I really don't. I saw one guy over in Iran talking today how they've got a missile that they can launch from under the water.
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that goes 100 meters per second. Oh, 100 meters per second. That's a little over 200 miles an hour. That's about 220 miles an hour. Kyle Berkshire hits a golf ball 240 miles an hour. And you're gonna scare, you think, first of all, yeah, I bet they don't, I bet they don't have that.
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even if it was going to go, how fast does it go? It would go 100 meters a minute or something like that. It's 100 meters a minute. Okay, there you go. 100 meters a second, I think that's what it was. A little over 200 miles an hour. When we get back, the state legislature did something good and then they did something bad. We'll tell you both of them. It's the Charlie James Show. News Talk, 989WOID, the voice of the Carolinas.
Mar 11, 2026
