Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast.

Howdy, welcome.

It's Eric Erickson here across the nation.

The phone number, if you want to be on the program, is 87797-973-725.

I hope the weather is great where you are.

It is gorgeous.

Looking out my office window, I'm so thankful to have this studio now here with this great view.

And it's just, it's wonderful.

There's hardly a cloud in the sky, except off in the horizon.

Riley Gaines is going to join me at the bottom of the hour.

If you're not familiar with Riley Gaines, she is the NCAA athlete from Kentucky, who has now become an outspoken feminist against trans women in sports.

She was attacked recently at the University of San Francisco.

I will ask her about that.

Interesting enough, Salesforce because of crime, decided today that they are leaving the

Salesforce building in San Francisco.

A million square feet of business space. They're leaving it because of crime in San Francisco. A million square feet of business space. They're leaving

it because of crime in San Francisco. Just incredible. We'll get into a lot of that. But

I want to start with 2024. When Donald Trump announced he's running for president, he also

produced a small video. We played it.

Nikki Haley produced a video. We played it. Vivik Ramoswami produced a video. We played it.

It's kind of my policy here is that we should be able to hear from these candidates unfiltered in their announcement videos.

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is now announcing he's forming an exploratory committee to run for

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