WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.759 edition of The Dan Kaplis Show. Please be sure to 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.240 give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.199 single day on your favorite podcast platform. 6 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:16.559 Well, it's a Trump doctrine. 7 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:19.839 From Middle East, announced in no uncertain terms today, major 8 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:22.399 address in Saudi Arabia, and so we'll get you a 9 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.120 lot of that hot sound. I think it may be 10 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:29.160 viewed looking back in what two, three, five, ten, twenty 11 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:32.799 years as one of those standout, maybe even pivotal days 12 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:38.119 in American foreign policy. But the president clearly making a 13 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:40.920 break with the past in no uncertain terms. Picture the 14 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:44.679 setting for this. You know, you're in Riod and you've 15 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:48.439 got the Crown, Prince MBS front and center. Obviously a 16 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.280 lot of this has been pre wired, and you have 17 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:54.679 this very high tech looks like a modified ballroom but 18 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:58.399 about as fancy and tech savvy as you can get. 19 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:01.359 And the President is up there alone, he's making this 20 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:05.359 major address. And here is I think one of the 21 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:06.599 points at the heart of it. 22 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:10.040 I believe it is God's job to sit in judgment, 23 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:15.280 my job to defend America and to promote the fundamental 24 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:18.079 interest of stability, prosperity, and peace. 25 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:19.760 That's what I really want to do. 26 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.280 Yeah, So I think obviously the presidents saying, hey, do 27 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.400 you know the human rights issues? And I'm sure he 28 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.680 means within reason, but the human rights issues are not 29 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:32.879 going to be the priority issues at this point. You know, 30 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:35.079 let God sit in judgment of that. I'm here to 31 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:39.599 protect America's interest, referring to America's you know, peace and 32 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:43.000 prosperity interest. So that I think a key part of 33 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:47.239 the Trump doctrine. There were some others as well. Can't 34 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:49.120 play all the sound because there was so much. I mean, 35 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:51.519 and you know, I'm normally just pulling in Ryan as 36 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:54.519 the highlight bites, but there are a lot of highlight 37 00:01:54.599 --> 00:02:00.000 bites today. I think this is another of those those 38 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:03.959 key foundational pieces to the new Trump Mideast doctrine. 39 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:07.640 Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending 40 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:11.599 the ancient conflicts of tired divisions of the past and 41 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:14.599 forging a future where the Middle East is defined by 42 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:20.360 commerce not chaos, where it exports technology not terrorism, and 43 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:24.599 where people of different nations, religions, and creeds are building 44 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:29.439 cities together, not bombing each other out of existence. 45 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:30.319 We don't want that. 46 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:33.759 Yeah, And obviously part of that's aspirational, but part of 47 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:36.479 it's real, and it's happening, and not in its purest form, 48 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.319 but nothing happening on a human level. It's in its 49 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:43.159 purest form. But here's the point. There are some bastions. 50 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:46.599 There are some throwback bastions where they have no interest 51 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:50.879 in prosperity, that they have no interest in peace. They 52 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:54.199 exist to kill, and that is the Iranian regime, not 53 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:56.919 the Iranian people. They're prisoners of the Iranian regime, but 54 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:00.840 the Iranian regime. They exist to kill, is to commit 55 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.919 the next Holocaust. And I think one of the things 56 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:08.039 that President Trump is wisely doing here is he's building 57 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:08.800 and you'll hear. 58 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:09.599 Some of his. 59 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:13.599 I wouldn't even call him concessions, but some of his 60 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:18.319 major strategic moves to build this coalition in the Mideast 61 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:22.120 to isolate Iran. Because Iran isn't the only bad actor, 62 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.240 right but in terms of the worst of the bad 63 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:27.840 actors and the one posing the most immediate threat to 64 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:31.439 this nation and our Ali Israel, great Ali Israel, it 65 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:33.919 would be Iran. So I think part of this whole 66 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:38.360 play is to isolate Iran and to I'm sure the 67 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:41.840 President hopes be able to resolve that peacefully, but I'll 68 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.199 play some sounds you'll hear. He makes it very clear 69 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.039 that in the end he will obliterate Iran if he 70 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:48.599 has to. 71 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:53.439 Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending. 72 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:55.240 That it's really good, but not good enough to play twice. 73 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:59.479 Here's the follow up to that, And that was on me, honest. 74 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:02.280 Crucial for the wider world to note. 75 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:07.719 This great transformation has not come from Western intervention no less, 76 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:13.159 or flying people and beautiful planes giving you lectures on 77 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:16.199 how to live and how to govern your own affairs. No, 78 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.639 the gleaming marvels of Riad and Abu Dhabi were not 79 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:25.000 created by the so called nation builders, neocons or liberal 80 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.639 nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars 81 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:36.920 failing to develop Kabbal Baghdad so many other cities. 82 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:40.120 Yeah, I think that's another pillar of the new Trump 83 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.120 doctrine for the Mid East. You know, all the Americans 84 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:45.560 who've been flying over here, and it's implied, not stated, 85 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.399 from both parties, you know, who've been telling you how 86 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:52.120 to live. No, those those days are over. And again 87 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:54.680 this ties back into the President making it clear that 88 00:04:55.439 --> 00:05:00.000 human rights are not going to be the focus again 89 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.360 and drawing the line when it comes to Iran. 90 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.399 And I'll get to some of that specifically. 91 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.279 Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been 92 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:13.040 brought by the people of the region themselves, the people 93 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:15.000 that are right here, the people that have lived here 94 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:19.720 all their lives, Developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your 95 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:24.279 own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your 96 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:28.120 own way. It's really incredible what you've done. In the end, 97 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:32.079 the so called nation builders wrecked far more nations than 98 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:39.040 they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies. 99 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:41.480 That they did not even understand themselves. 100 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:43.360 They told you how to do it, but they had 101 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:47.360 no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and 102 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:52.319 progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, 103 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:56.800 but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that 104 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.959 same heritage that you love Earlier. 105 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.800 And obviously the message being very well received. Again, I 106 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.800 think it's part of a bigger strategy to try to 107 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:09.800 get that widespread and starting in Saudi Arabia, right, because 108 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:12.519 not all of those countries are created equal, and the 109 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:16.160 King pain of Saudi Arabia to again try to isolate Iran. 110 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:19.199 Now here's where the President turns to Iran. And there's 111 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:22.720 no question Iran clear and present danger to this nation, 112 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:26.600 to our great Ali Israel, to this nation's economy, to 113 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:31.120 to world health. Economically, Iran simply cannot have a nuclear weapon. 114 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:33.160 I want to make a deal with Iran. 115 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:35.480 If I can make a deal with Iran, I'll be 116 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:38.399 very happy if we're going to make your region and 117 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:39.399 the world's. 118 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:39.879 A safer place. 119 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:44.160 But if Iran's leadership rejects this olive branch and continues 120 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:47.000 to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice 121 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:53.480 but to inflict massive maximum pressure drive Iranian oil exports 122 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:54.759 to zero. 123 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:59.199 Like I did before. If you know that they were a. 124 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:03.519 Virtually banged crypt country because of what I did, they 125 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:05.839 had no money for terror, they had no money for 126 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:10.279 Hamas or Hezbollah, and take all action required to stop 127 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:14.839 the regime from ever having a nuclear weapon. Iran will 128 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:16.879 never have a nuclear weapon. 129 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:19.959 Ye, and Trump walked the talk. He had a run 130 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.199 on the ropes. Remember and one of the first things 131 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:25.680 Biden did when he got into office was to empower Aran. 132 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:26.879 Trump says no more that. 133 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.240 But with that said, Iran can have a much brighter future, 134 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:35.000 but will never allow America and his allies to be 135 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:37.480 threatened with terrorism or nuclear attack. 136 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:39.800 The choices there is to make. 137 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:42.959 We really want them to be a successful country. We 138 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:47.120 want them to be a wonderful, safe, great country, but 139 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:50.319 they cannot have a nuclear weapon. This is an offer 140 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:54.959 that will not last forever. The time is right now 141 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:55.920 for them to choose. 142 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:56.519 Right now. 143 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:58.160 We don't have a lot of time to wait. 144 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:01.519 And then the President making it very clear, and we'll 145 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.040 play a bunch of that sound but this one kind 146 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:07.839 of summarizes it that if necessary, he'll do what he 147 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.319 has to do militarily to end that regime. If the 148 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:13.240 regime pursues further. 149 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:17.680 The nuclear weapon, I will never hesitate to wield American 150 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:21.160 power if it's necessary to defend the United States or 151 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:25.920 to help defend our allies. And there will be no 152 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:29.360 mercy for any foe who tries. 153 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:30.839 To do us or them harm. 154 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.720 We will have no mercy. They understand that. That's why 155 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:36.759 I've been pretty lucky. A lot of people think, you know. 156 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:39.919 He's looking to fight, he's looking to fight, and things 157 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:40.519 get settled. 158 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:41.879 It's an amazing thing. 159 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:43.840 When they really think you mean it. 160 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:45.159 But we do. 161 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:45.600 We have the. 162 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.480 Greatest military, the strongest military, stronger. 163 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:49.759 Than any nobody's even close. 164 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:53.039 We have the best weapons in the world, but we 165 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:55.279 don't want to use them. If you threaten America or 166 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:59.480 our partners, however, then you'll be faced with overwhelming strength 167 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.000 and deva stating for us. We have things that you 168 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:05.759 don't even know about, you don't hear about, and if. 169 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:06.879 You did, you say, wow. 170 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:08.120 Yeah. 171 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.039 So the Trump doctrine announced today in the Mid East. 172 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:16.399 This is the start of a multi day swing. So yeah, 173 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:19.759 I love the play in lots of different respects, and 174 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:23.360 starting with the fact that Iran is a clear and 175 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:26.799 present danger. The clock is ticking, has to be dealt 176 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.639 with very very soon. And I think a lot of 177 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:32.039 what the President had to say when he talked about 178 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.000 the Mid East parts of it transforming now and being 179 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:39.519 more concerned with prosperity than with terrorism true, and I 180 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:42.200 think the President's in a perfect position now to try 181 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:44.879 to advance that further while isolating around. 182 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:46.960 So come back, get your take on that much more. 183 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:48.279 You're on the Dan Capla. 184 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:52.519 Show and now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 185 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:57.159 Far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the 186 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:59.960 notion that it's our job to look into the souls 187 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:04.320 of foreign leaders and use US policy to dispense justice 188 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:10.639 for this sins they loved using our very powerful military. 189 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:13.039 And now it's really the most powerful it's ever been. 190 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.879 We just are getting a budget approof one trillion dollars, 191 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:21.120 highest budget we've ever had in history for military, one 192 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:26.919 trillion dollars, and we're getting the greatest missiles, the greatest weapons, 193 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.440 And you know, I hate, I hate to do it, 194 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:31.399 but you have to do it because we believe in 195 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:34.399 peace through strength. You have to have the strength otherwise 196 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:38.399 bad things could happen. But hopefully we'll never have to 197 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:41.519 use any of those weapons. Seems to be an awfully 198 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.720 big waste of money if you're never going to use them, 199 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:45.759 But hopefully we'll never have to use them, because the 200 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:50.120 destructive power of some of those weapons are like nobody's 201 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:50.840 seen before. 202 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.200 If you just joined us, thank you. What a beautiful day. 203 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:59.960 The Trump doctrine announced today in riodd and it is powerful. 204 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.759 It is clear, it is bold, we're talking it through. 205 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.279 I think it's fair to say the President making it 206 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:10.159 very clear that the US will will not be addressing 207 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:13.919 human rights issues, you know, with with its Mid East allies. 208 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.279 And you know, I'll play this this clip. Trump just 209 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:19.159 comes right out and says it. You know, it's it's 210 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.320 God's job to sit in judgment. Was I think one 211 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:25.639 of the key pillars of this Trump doctor Now in return, 212 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.080 and obviously Trump wants a lot in return, not just 213 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:30.440 for this, but you know, there were some other policy 214 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:34.159 pronouncements today that were really significant and including you know, 215 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.879 removing at this point the sanctions on Syria, which the 216 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.840 host MBS, Saudi Arabia, Turkey others have been pushing hard for. 217 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:45.080 But the but the point of the President is that, 218 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:49.519 you know, he wants this to be a very prosperous relationship. 219 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:53.159 He wants to run isolated, and he wants those Midiest 220 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:57.200 countries that are trying at this point and some are succeeding, 221 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.639 you know, in developing technologically, et cetera, to be able 222 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:03.799 to continue to do that and human rights. And he 223 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:06.320 didn't say it in these terms, but clearly the message 224 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:08.759 human rights is not going to be the US focus. 225 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.000 I believe it is God's job to sit in judgment, 226 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:17.240 my job to defend America and to promote the fundamental 227 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.080 interest of stability, prosperity, and peace. 228 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:21.679 That's what I really want to do. 229 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:24.559 And so we'll get to much more from that. 230 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:26.960 Three or three someone three eight two five five text 231 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:29.759 d An five seven seven three nine. If you don't 232 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:34.000 follow beblon b on Ax, you're missing a lot of 233 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:37.080 one of their instant classics today see this one Ryan 234 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.759 Jake Tapper uncovers startling evidence that Biden's decline was covered 235 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:43.159 up by Jake Tapper. 236 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:46.759 So true, right, yeah, and we've got sound of that 237 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.799 effect as well, where you attempt to shift the blame saying, hey, 238 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.279 we were lied to. The people on the inside of 239 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:53.960 the Biden administration were covering this. 240 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:54.799 I'm not telling us. 241 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.919 So anybody stupid enough to believe what they were being 242 00:12:57.919 --> 00:13:01.120 told rather than what they were seen, right, you know 243 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:02.960 at that point shouldn't have their job to begin with that. 244 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:04.960 I don't believe these are stupid people. I think Jake 245 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.960 Tepper is a smart person who decided to engage in 246 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.320 one of the worst cover ups in American political history, 247 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.799 probably this single worst offense, the single worst defense by 248 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.399 journalists in American history, to cover up the fact that, 249 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:22.840 as we talked about every day on the show, I've 250 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:24.879 been talking about for two and a half years, you know, 251 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:27.159 we do not have a president, we have a non 252 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.440 functional president, we have no president. And yet these people 253 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.320 were willing to continue to peddle alike to the American people. 254 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:34.399 So they're party won. 255 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.559 You have an entire White House press corps though, following 256 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:41.720 him around, and I'm just curious as to whether or 257 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:45.000 not this kind of trying to hide what was happening 258 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:48.360 with the president at the time had an impact on 259 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:50.240 the press corps, like why didn't we hear some of 260 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:53.679 these details from what they actually saw? And we're dealing 261 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:54.879 with trying to get information. 262 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:58.600 Well, Alex Thompson and I were on the case, as 263 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:01.159 were lots of other reporters trying to figure out what 264 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:02.480 was going on behind the scenes. 265 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.039 If you weren't able to figure that out, you should 266 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:08.360 not have your job. They figured it out. They were 267 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:09.200 part of the cover. 268 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.240 Well, and the ultimate slam on the media came from 269 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.600 Saturday Night Live, Dan, which is, you know, a friend 270 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.559 to the Biden administration or should be, And they kept 271 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:21.440 running this bit about behind closed doors, he's a maniac, 272 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:24.039 he crawls off the ceilings. Keen and Todd's, they're all 273 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:27.000 doing that. But it didn't have to be to your point, then, 274 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:30.159 behind the scenes. It was right in front of our faces, 275 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.480 him falling down at the Air Force graduation ceremony, right. 276 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:36.720 And the best of journalism is investigative reporting, right. And 277 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:41.000 it wouldn't have taken Woodward and Bernstein right. It was 278 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:43.240 right there in front of your eyes. And if they 279 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.360 had been motivated to serve America and to report the 280 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:49.039 truth to America, they could have had an intern go 281 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:50.840 out and do the things you'd need to do to 282 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:55.279 get more layers of proof that we had an incapacitated president. 283 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:58.799 But the bottom line is the White House was lying 284 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:00.960 not only to the press, not only to the public, 285 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:02.399 but they were lying to members. 286 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:03.000 Of their own cabinet. 287 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.279 They were lying to White House staffers, they were lying 288 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:10.879 to Democratic members of Congress, to donors about how bad 289 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:11.799 things had gotten. 290 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:17.759 Wait a second to say, their line assumes that everybody 291 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.679 you just mentioned could not see this for themselves. They could, 292 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:23.480 and they were all part of the lie. They were 293 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:26.840 all part of the cover up that includes Michael Bennett, 294 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:31.440 and includes Jared Polis, and includes John Hickenlooper Kamala Harris. 295 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.919 One of the many reasons she should have lost is 296 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:38.600 she was a key player in lying to the American people. 297 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:41.960 She betrayed the American people. Everybody I just mentioned who 298 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:45.159 was in a position of power and knew they betrayed 299 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.440 the American people by not putting America first, putting America 300 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:51.840 at a party and standing up and saying no, that 301 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:55.000 this is a situation. Our president, God love them, is 302 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:59.200 not able to function physically and mentally. And even that's 303 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:00.960 what they should have done, and they paid the price 304 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:02.840 right what they ended up losing the election. 305 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:03.960 Their selfish interest. 306 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.159 Let's put aside any moral obligation to the American people, 307 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:10.039 which there is that. But did they really think this 308 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:11.679 was going to play out what they were seeing that 309 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.559 they would just talk themselves into Joe Biden is still 310 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:19.840 cognitively sufficient and coherent enough to beat a completely lucid 311 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:23.519 Donald Trump in a debate, in a campaign and energy 312 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:25.120 on the road where you would have to go out 313 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.480 and do appearances. You couldn't hide in the basement like 314 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:29.720 you did during the COVID campaign of twenty twenty. 315 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:31.559 Did they really think this would play out? 316 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:34.279 This is what I'm asking and that Biden would somehow 317 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.679 win reelection If they wanted Trump to lose, shouldn't they 318 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.600 have done dogged journalism to dig this up and get 319 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.320 this out in the open and get Biden off the ticket. 320 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:47.000 They were all acting in their selfish interests. They were 321 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:50.519 doing their own selfish calculation that hey, wait a second ticket. 322 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:52.679 J're at Polish right, who wanted to be president? 323 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.120 Yeah? And I want to be the Broncos quarterback. 324 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:57.440 But as and I said it at the time, if 325 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:00.240 Polis had just had the courage to come out and say, hey, 326 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.360 wait a second, love him, but he's not functional, that 327 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.880 the president is not mentally functional, I'm going to get 328 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.559 in this race, you know, Polus would have elevated his 329 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:13.119 stock so much. But he did the calculation, just as 330 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:15.799 they all did the calculation. And they just bet they 331 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:20.400 do more harm to themselves politically than good in standing 332 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:22.640 up and speaking the truth to the American people. That's 333 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.079 why none of them should be in office. None of 334 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:28.799 them should be in office because they made a premeditated, 335 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:32.640 deliberate decision to act against the best interest of America 336 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:36.039 in order to pursue their own. 337 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:36.799 Selfish best course. 338 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:39.559 And of course the irony is that they all end 339 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:42.640 up losing to one degree or another, as they should. 340 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:45.559 One of the most just outcomes in America. Now, Hey, 341 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:48.279 American in the world suffered a great deal in the process, right. 342 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:51.000 I mean, look at the rape and pillage of Ukraine. 343 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.359 Look at October seven, Look at all the horrible things 344 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:57.720 that happened in America and across the globe because all 345 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:00.359 of these people were talking about decide I did to 346 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:02.759 become part of the big lie to the American people. 347 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:05.880 But you know what, the American people knew they were 348 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:06.519 being lied. 349 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.759 To, right, and in the end, they spoke loudly and 350 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:12.799 clearly on election Day. Let's hope that that carries over 351 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:16.400 now into this cycle, this cycle in Colorado and beyond. 352 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:17.880 Hey, if you just joined us, thank you. 353 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.920 So many interesting things going on today, including the President 354 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.200 announcing the Trump Doctrine in Riot and we'll have some 355 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:27.119 of that powerful sound and more on the Dan Caplis Show. 356 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:34.519 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 357 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:39.480 Secretary Marco Rubio will be meeting with the New Syria 358 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:43.000 and Foreign Minister in Turkey later this week, and very importantly, 359 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:47.240 after discussing the situation in Syria with the Crown Prince 360 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:52.720 you're a crown prince, and also with President Ernigan of 361 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:55.799 Turkey who called me the other day and asked for 362 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:59.839 a very similar thing, among others and friends of mine 363 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:01.319 well that I have a lot of respect for in 364 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:05.279 the Middle East. I will be ordering the cessation of 365 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:08.920 sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance. 366 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:12.480 Act rate this bold moved by the President part of 367 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:17.680 the Trump doctrine announced today in Saudi Arabia, a doctrine 368 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:20.839 for the entire Mid East. I think I labeled a 369 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:24.599 Trump doctrine, not exactly creative, but I think it's accurate, 370 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:26.960 and I think it's a really big deal, particularly if 371 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:28.960 there's the follow through, and I expect that there will 372 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:32.559 be now as part of this or at Saudi Arabia 373 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:35.880 promising six hundred billion dollars. In fact, I think they 374 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:38.279 appear to be pretty concrete deal, six hundred with a 375 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:42.519 B billion in terms of everything from arms purchases to 376 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:47.960 other involvements in American business. But the President, I think, 377 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:52.119 very wisely and clearly trying to rally the Mid East 378 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:55.000 to isolate the Iranian leadership. I won't say iron because 379 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:58.720 the Iranian people are prisoners of the Iranian leadership, but 380 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:00.599 they do and I know it does and feel like 381 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:02.319 it day to day on the street. But they do 382 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:05.640 pose a clear and present danger to you, your family, me, 383 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:09.920 my family, our country, our great Ali Israel, and the world. 384 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:12.680 So I do think the Mid East is changing in 385 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:15.799 many ways for the better. I think Trump was not 386 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:20.279 just aspirational but pretty accurate on that today in some senses. 387 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.440 But in the middle of that, and they aren't the 388 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:25.839 only bad actors. You have that Iranian regime right now 389 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:30.359 that lives to kill, they live to spread death, whereas 390 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:32.759 you do have other parts of the Mideast that are 391 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:37.480 better focused more now on peace, prosperity, etc. 392 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:39.079 So play some of that hot sound. 393 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:41.400 We have a lot of different topics bouncing around today, 394 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:45.119 which is always fun. We are talking about professional sports ownership, 395 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:46.759 not in the X and O sense. I know we're 396 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:48.640 not a sports show, though we'd be a darn good 397 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:51.319 one if we were, but just in this bigger question 398 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:54.680 of is professional sports team ownership not legally I'm just 399 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:57.039 talking right and wrong, which should matter even more right, 400 00:20:57.720 --> 00:20:59.960 right and wrong. Should it be viewed as a public true. 401 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:03.240