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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Now back to Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and plays.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
When our leadership decides that Americans don't want to make anything,
you know what we do. We cost great businesses and
great corporations like New Core a lot of money. We
cost great workers their wages, and we cost a lot
of people their jobs.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
More in the Vice President's Low Country visit at New
Core Steel coming up, but.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
First recovering this morning's top stories. Apple CEO Tim cooks
as President Trump's tariffs could cost the company almost a
billion dollars in the second quarter. During a Thursday earnings call,
Cook said he was not able to estimate the impact
of tariffs precisely, but assuming things do not change, it
would add an additional nine hundred million dollars to costs.
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Trump is imposed to one hundred and forty five percent
tarify on China, where most of Apple's products are made,
although he did partially exempt items such as smartphones and
computers from the new reciprocal duty on imports. Meanwhile, Microsoft
has announced significant price increases for the Xbox. The company
says the market conditions are causing the increase the consoles
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are made in China, and tariffs are making parts more expensive.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
See, it's going to take some time for this great
golden reset that the president's talking about with our economy.
So how long will the patients will people's patients be.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Well, that's a good question. And also quick crying about
this and stop buying so much stuff from China. Oh, well,
it exposes how all of these corporations are outsourcing this too,
essentially slave labor. And I haven't even seen that aspect
of this debate come up, that Oh, you're so concerned
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about workers and workers' rights and all of these things,
but you don't mind outsourcing these products that you buy
on a regular basis to essentially slave labor. Whether it
be your Nike shoes or your Apple iPhone or your
Xbox or whatever it may be. It's all by people
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making a dollar a day.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, and this has been done over forty years. This
has been building, and it's become to an intolerable point.
If we're talking about the strength of America, the American
worker products, I mean, think about it. This is almost
a foreign concept to a lot of people listening. To
make things in America by Americans.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well, at the end of the day, do you want
a Chinese economy or an American based economy, because right
now apparently we have a Chinese based economy and you
have all of these companies. Oh, the sky is falling.
We're going to have to raise prices because it's exposing
how much of this stuff that they outsource to China
at the expense of American jet not only at the
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expense of American jobs, spence of the Chinese slave laborers
under the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party. Seven to two
to one talk seven two one, eight two five five
is a number to the studio this morning if you
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Speaker 1 (03:12):
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Speaker 3 (03:25):
We're addressing some of the scrutiny the critics claiming that
President Trump's creating economic uncertainty and increasing the chance of
recession with the tariff war. And it quite literally was
right here on our own front porch yesterday that Vice
President JD. Vance took a core of New Course tourist
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should save New Course steel in Berkeley County, and he
emphasized the importance of empowering American workers steel workers unless
we forget Trump introduced at twenty five percent tariff on
steel in the aluminum imports, and the whole points to
urge companies to manufacture in the US.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Take a listen the.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Empire State Building, the Hoover Dam, the Saturn five. Every
single one of those great accomplishments were impossible without the
might of American industry. And yes, the hard work of
American steel workers. For decades, newcre has been an engine
of American industry. The products this company and other steel
makers create form the literal foundation of American society.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Very powerful speech if you missed it from the Vice
President yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, I heard a piece yesterday that was talking about, oh,
you know, these companies are only going to have a
few choices here, it's going to create scarcity. And this
was on the back of them reporting that a lot
of these manufacturers companies do not plan on raising prices
to the US consumer. So they said, well, one thing
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that's going to happen is maybe it's going to create
create more scarcity, or that they would have to raise
prices after just saying that most of them did not
plan on doing that. At this point, we see a
few of them, like Microsoft, you know, saying they're raising
money on the raising the price on the xbox. But
you know, at the end of the day, you hear
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the Democrats always say they need to the rich need
to pay their fair share. They need to pay their
fair share, and they go after these companies and everything else.
And because they have to dip into their profit margins
a little bit to maybe pay these tariffs and stop
doing so much business with China and bring manufacturing back
to the United States, all of a sudden, that's a
bad thing. So again Democrats talking out of both sides
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of their mouth mouths, Which is it? The rich need
to pay their fair share. And you know, they make
everything so convoluted, and most people don't pay enough attention
to even know that the stuff that they're buying is
manufactured in China at the expense of the American worker,
the Chinese worker.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
How about stuff that they're buying that they don't need.
I mean, I think that we've you know, we don't
talk enough about the fact that if you can't afford it,
don't buy it.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Period.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, that fear mongering continues this morning sadly on the
propag with the propaganda press saying here are all the
things that China, you know, manufacturers that you buy. It's like,
did you need to buy that? And how quickly did
you throw it away? And how far and debt are you?
But I digress.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
What's up? James?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah, he feels sorry for Tim Cook this morning.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Right, James, Yeah, right, I do.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
My heart's just breaking for Tim Cook. And the fact
that you know, Apple's profit margin might go from thirty
percent down to twenty five percent with these tariffs. It's
such a load of bs. And you know that you
talk about the Democrat plays and you know, the tax
the rich is a good is a good line to
get them elected, and that's all it is. It's a
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line to get them elected because again, guys like Tim
Cook are cutting them checks. So they're going to make
sure that Apple's profit margin is as big as possible
so they can get that donation from Tim Cook, you know,
and then then and then they'll sit there and bash
you know, energy companies that you know, in a really
good year, are you know, eight or nine percent profit margin,
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but you know they're usually running closer to a five
percent profit margin. And we really need what they're producing.
You know, there's plenty of days. I'm not an Apple guy,
I'm an Android guy, but there's plenty of days where
you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't hate life if you know,
my smartphone just disappeared and and and never returned.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, and and think about the implications of making all
this stuff in China. Your phone, for example, you're carrying
around in your pocket this product that was that's has
who knows what hidden in it because a lot of
its parts, if not the whole thing, was manufactured in China.
And so you're literally allowing them to track you through
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everything you do. And uh, no concern about that whatsoever.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah, and it and it truly is it truly is
slave labor. I've got a guy that I that I
work with who you know, in a previous job, did
a lot of work over in that area. And you know,
these these manufacturing facilities, you know, they they've got hundreds
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of people just sitting waiting to be moved into. You know,
I mean, you really are a cog in the wheel
in those manufacturing facilities. And yeah, like you said, it's
it's a dollar a day. It's pennies a day, and
if if something happens to it, they just boot you
to the side and slide the next cog in to
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keep the keep the machine moving.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Well. James, and we were discussing this off here, I said,
it's much like it was here during the development of
the industrial revolution, before there was collective bargaining and unions.
They didn't pay these workers they worked, you know, they
didn't work eight hour days, they worked sixteen hour days
or longer. They didn't get paid any money. They got
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killed on the job, only to replace by the next one,
and then the family suffers. And that's the way it
was here. That's why there was the development of labor
unions and collective bargaining and all of those things. And
so it amazes me that when industry sidesteps those things.
So they found a way around all of that. You know,
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our answer to that, which was you know, making it
better for the worker and more fair and get paid
a fair wage. They found their way around that by
going and using slave labor in China. And these people
are all for that.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
This is democrats, by the way, getting rich pedaling the
notion there for the working party. We need to remember
who's standing up for those who are working in America.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
The whole thing's ridiculous to me. And also, you know what,
they'll go to the extent of forcing the sale or
possibly a ban of TikTok in this country because it's
run by the CCP and they may be using it
for nefarious reasons. But then you're carrying this whole computer
that tracks your whole damn life and your finances and
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your location and everything else right around in your pocket.
We're not talking about banning that or making them divest
themselves of Chinese ownership, now, are we.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and plays Hey.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Thanks for being with us on this Friday morning. We'll
covering this morning's top stories. The White House says the
American Republic would have ended if the policies of former
President Biden and Vice President Harris continued, and so, Deputy
Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said during a press briefing
yesterday morning. He criticized the previous administration's border economic policies.
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This comes as President Trump marked his first one hundred
days back in office earlier this week. Wednesday night, Harris
gave a speech at a gala in San Francisco where
she went after Trump's tariff's policies.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Of course, she did wonder how many people were tuning
in and paying attention. Did you see how much her
speech didn't make headlines?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Yeah, well it made it for the wrong reasons, of course,
on kind of your right wing media outlets. In shows
where you know, they kept playing her elephant comments about
did you see the video from the zoo a few
weeks back where the elephants during an earthquake all made
a circle to protect the most vulnerable among them, and
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she's cackling the whole way through, and it was just
awkward and very kamala ish. Now, Stephen Miller, I have
to say, this guy is awesome. Did you see it
was outside the White House where there's this whole gaggle
of press. Oh yes, and they're asking him about this
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uh brago whatever they get. It doesn't even matter what
the dude's name is. Yeah. So they're, you know, they're
asking him about this, and he says, here, let me
ask you a question. They're like, no, we're asking the
questions here, and he says, no, I'm before I answer,
I'm going to ask you a question. Do you know
what happens to him if we bring him back to
the United States? You know, not a single damn one
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of them knew no. And then he brings up the
law and he says, under the law, here's what happens.
We can't keep him in this country. We have to
deport him somewhere so we can deport him back to
El Salvador, where we just under your guys just brought
him back, or he has to go to another country.
And now he deported him to another country that he's
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not from. Are you familiar with this law? And one
of the reportters is like, well, I mean, there's so
many lawyers to this story, it's hard to keep up.
And he's like, you would think that you could take
twenty minutes and google this before you asked me the question.
And I mean, he just exposed them for the idiotic,
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just uncurious, lazy partisan hacks that they are. And it
was awesome to see every time he exposed them for
being totally uninformed about what they're asking him about.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I admittedly don't know Stephen Miller's background, but he is
an incredible human being. I'm so glad that he is
the deputy you know here he is deputy to the
inner circles of the White House and the President frankly,
because he just he slays the day every time he
opens his mouth. He was even on stage or in
the Michigan rally when it comes to touting the president's
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first one hundred days, and he eviscerates the press much
like Caroline Lovett I believe, you know, at the White
House press briefings each and every day. And I'm thankful
for it because it's not just the press learning, it's
the American people of their willing to pay attention.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
But it was it was stunning to me because it's
one thing to say, ah, the press is in the
bag for the Democrats, and ah the press is not
fair to me or anything, but to put their stupidity
on display like he did, yes, you know, it was
just awesome to see and to hear them pushing back
on it. Well, we really don't have time to research
these questions we're throwing at you. So it shows that
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there's no kind of context, that it is politically motivated,
that it's a herd mentality, and that they don't know
what they're talking about. Literally.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Well, and I do find it interesting that Garcia's attorneys
are out here still insisting their client was never charged
with any crime and had been living in the US
for years. I don't know if you caught Stephen Miller
addressing Obrego Garcia about this with the press, But as
we head into break here, in case anybody wants to do,
you know, way in seven two two five five listened
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to Stephen Miller.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
There's not even been more evidence that has been made
public of this person's violent, repeated threats and assaults against
his spouse, someone who had repeated documented human trafficking and
human smuggling offenses.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
These are things that the press don't talk about.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Well, there's a video of him, Abragio Garcia in Tennessee,
getting pulled over in a car that's not registered to
him with a bunch of undocumented so called friends, and
the police in the video or like, this guy's human
trafficking and they call the Biden administration's FBI and they're like,
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let him go. And so this is documented on video
of him being pulled over while he's human trafficking, and
you can watch it, go google it. It's unbelievable that
they're still trying to play us with this other narrative.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
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Now back to Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Plays.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
What a great song.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Welcome in, run it down today's top stories, and boy
there are a lot to get to.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yeah. Luigi the Musical has sold out. The musical based
on accused CEO murderer Luigi Mangioni is set to premiere
next month in San Francisco. It has now sold out.
The twenty six year old is accused of shooting United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City late last year.
Creators say the new musical will follow Mangioni's time at
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the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, with real
life cellmates Sean Diddy, Combs and Sam Bankman Freed. The
show I'll run from June thirteenth to the twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm sitting here with my face and my palms.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
So my first reaction to this was how disgusting, right?
How just.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Shows the darkest side of our society.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yes, and you know, just the lack of respect for
human life and how they're championing this murderer and I
was about to go off on the left.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
But you want a ticket, I'm going no, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I was going, I'm joking. No, But I will buy
the tickets, but I will give it the benefit of
the doubt. Maybe it is social commentary where they set
up you know, think of twelve angry men in the
jury room or something like that, where they set up
a dialogue between this Luigi Mangioni and Sean Dittycombs and
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Sam Bankment Freed and explore just what we were talking
about the inadequacies of modern day society and just how sick.
And maybe it's some social commentary and maybe it's very good.
So I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. I
don't know, so I won't automatically, although I have a
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good idea it probably is what we think it is.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Yeah, come on, I'll still give it.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
The benefit of the doubt because I don't know for sure.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Consider the audience and where they are. I know, but
it just goes to show capitalism and creativity and whatever
else it might be. I mean, love it, like it,
hate it. It is an example of it, and quite literally,
depending on how they depict it, could be in some ways,
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like you said, social commentary of literally what's happening in
the living history that we are dealing with right now
in our life in America.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yeah, so that's why I took pause and said, all right,
you know, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt
and we'll see what this is really.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
All about, being fair minded.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I'm trying to.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
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