Hour 2: Low voter turnout lets a small minority decide elections, distrust of mainstream media is growing after the New York incident, Thune says there aren’t enough votes to sustain a filibuster, and attention returns to a CNN report about teens travelin

00:00 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 00:27 For spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties. 00:59 share his grace on thee. 01:12 from sea to shining sea. America is back. Yes, sir. We are back. And by the way, happy birthday to Carrie Underwood. She was born on this day in 1983, as if you wanted to feel kind of old. you folks, gosh, I wish everybody knew. 01:43 how much power they actually have over what happens in this state. I wish you knew how much power you have. 01:59 last primary, non-presidential primary election. 02:06 We had a 13 and a half percent voter turnout. That means that 86.5 % of the people let 13 and a half percent determine what their lives were gonna be like. Now that's the voters, that was the voter turnout we had in the last non-presidential primary election, 13 and a half percent. 02:36 I'm sorry. I'm not one of these people that's going to allow 13 % of the people to determine what happens in my state. Not going to do it. You shouldn't be one of those people either. You should be part of that number that shows up to the polls and you can make big changes. Right now in Columbia, if there's any place in your life 03:05 that needs changing right now. 03:09 It's Columbia, South Carolina. 03:13 at our state capitol. Gotta get a new governor. Got to. Sorry, Henry McMaster has done nothing, nothing but hide. 03:26 Our Senate is about as corrupt as it gets, and our house is full of rhinos. 03:34 absolutely jam-packed full of rhinos. In fact, it is so bad in Columbia that on the occasion that a good person does get elected, they try to run them out of town. They literally want to be a capital full of thugs and thieves. And everybody there, and the only people they're robbing is us. 04:00 They wanted to be, they are a gang of, oh my gosh, they're here. So now they're going over the budget. All right. 04:10 So, the House today voted to spend your taxpayer dollars, I want to thank Adam Morgan for this, your taxpayer dollars here in South Carolina are going to all of these things that you really love, like climate change research. That's right. They're spending your tax dollars on climate change research. They're spending your tax dollars on corporate welfare, on lewd art exhibits. 04:39 They want to give money to Hollywood to bring Hollywood here to South Carolina. 04:46 They want to spend money on sports marketing. 04:51 I hate to tell you, when I elect somebody to go to Columbia, I don't want them to go to Columbia and do sports marketing. Remember the last budget? Remember last year's budget? They spent $900,000. 05:07 to start, and that's the key word, to start. 05:12 a podcast about the South Carolina at the Sports Hall of Fame. $900,000. I made a very generous offer. I'd do it for $500,000, save them $400,000 right there off the bat. Do know how much it starts to, it takes to start a podcast? Literally, you could do it for 200 bucks. 05:37 It's not even a big deal. Okay, so. 05:43 Here we are in South Carolina, supposed to be Ruby Red, South Carolina. 05:50 and the liberal guy that I know well from down in the low country, Leon Stavronakis. He's the chairman. For some reason, a radical leftist Democrat is the chair of the budget subcommittee that controls funding for the Commerce Department, the Arts Commission, and a whole lot more. His committee, which doles out millions of tax dollars to liberal priorities, including for a lesbian podcast last year, 06:21 is comprised of a majority of Democrats despite the fact that South Carolina has a Republican supermajority. The Democrats are controlling 06:30 the budget subcommittee. 06:35 Did you know there's not a single strong conservative on the Ways and Means Committee which creates the state budget? 06:45 And according to Adam Morgan, t ...