WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.719 edition of The Dan Caplis 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 --> 00:00:14.240 single day on your favorite podcast platform. 6 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:15.880 Anytime you can. 7 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:19.879 Start the show with Andy McCarthy, the nation's best legal analyst, 8 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:21.960 you know it's going to be a very good day. Andy, 9 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:23.640 Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show. 10 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:26.600 Dan, great to be with you as always well. 11 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:28.640 So grateful for your time and I know there are 12 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:31.519 a lot of demands on you always, but in particular today, 13 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:32.880 so I will get right to it. 14 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:34.719 And for those new to the planet. 15 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:40.439 Andy of course is the preeminent analyst, National Review scholar 16 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.560 as well as Fox News analyst, author of Ball of 17 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:47.520 Collusion and so much more. But above all, you got 18 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:50.520 to listen to his podcast, The McCarthy Report. I catch 19 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:53.920 it every time it drops. So Andy, I've been dying 20 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.039 to get your in person react to the part. 21 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:05.599 Well, you know it's it's I said about a million 22 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:10.439 times that there would be impardon and you know when 23 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.840 Biden started in the late spring to say he wouldn't 24 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:17.959 pardon his son. My reaction was that he'll keep that 25 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.159 promise right up until the minute after the elections over, 26 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:25.760 So it wasn't just a hunt. Though, if you if 27 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:32.319 you closely watched Hunters prosecutions and in particular the tax case, 28 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.400 his litigation strategy didn't make any sense unless he knew 29 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:40.599 he was getting a pardon, right though. That kind of 30 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:44.319 confirmed me in the in the you know, in my sense, 31 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.519 which by the way, I didn't blame Biden terribly for 32 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.040 I blamed him for lying. I think that was terrible, 33 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:56.200 but you know, I understood the fatherly impulse involved that. 34 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:58.159 The look in the country in the eye and saying 35 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:03.200 something he had to know wasn't true is the despicable part. 36 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:07.519 But I think the importance going forward, Dan is the 37 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:11.000 pardon doesn't make any sense to me, the structure of 38 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:14.960 it and the fact of it, unless there are going 39 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:18.080 to be many more pardons, or at least a few 40 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.680 more pardens, Because it looks to me that you know, 41 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:26.719 he's gotten about eleven years of complete community. This is 42 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:30.879 not the kind of a part you would expect someone 43 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:35.039 to get who is, like you know, has lived an 44 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.840 otherwise noble life, but has a misstepper too. Along the way. 45 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:42.159 This is a complete immunity bath for everything that could 46 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.759 conceivably be prosecuted under federal law for about an eleven 47 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:50.360 year period. In fact, it's the thing. It's the immunity 48 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:57.120 that in the Sweetheart Plea deal that blew up. What 49 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:01.639 Hunter's lawyers wanted Wife the Special Counsel to say in 50 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.759 court was that this was the scope of the immunity 51 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.680 that they were talking about. And it's so absurd that 52 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:10.840 Weiss politically couldn't get up and say it, even though 53 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:15.879 I'm quite sure that the Hunter's lawyers were accurate in 54 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.319 thinking that was the scope of the immunity they were getting. 55 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:24.280 But it just seems to me that because he now 56 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:31.120 has immunity from prosecution, he has no more Fifth Amendment privilege, 57 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.400 so he can be put in the grand jury if 58 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.400 the next Justice Department wanted to look at the aspects 59 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:42.800 of the Biden influence peddling scheme that the Weis's Special 60 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:47.280 Counsel and the Biden Justice Department averted their eyes from. 61 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:52.199 So instead of like discouraging that kind of an investigation, 62 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:55.520 it kind of entices it by saying, all, right, now 63 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:57.120 you have a witness who is at the center of 64 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:59.479 it all, who has to testify in the grand jury 65 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:02.159 nless you're going to immunize everybody else who was in 66 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:03.759 the scheme. Doesn't make sense. 67 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:06.840 To me, which brings us back to Anny McCarthy. Obviously, 68 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:11.400 our guest, your point about more pardons to come, where 69 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:12.319 do you see that going? 70 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:18.560 Well, I don't expect that Biden will pardon himself because 71 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:21.920 I think that Trump has said enough times that no 72 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:24.680 president or former president should ever have to go through 73 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:28.360 what he went through. That I don't think the Trump 74 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:32.360 Justice Department would pursue Biden. And I don't think Biden 75 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:34.920 could bring himself to pardon himself because that would be 76 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:37.839 like an admission of guilt when he's an adamant that 77 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.800 he's not guilty. But I think other people who were 78 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.040 involved in the scheme, I mean, you know, look, I 79 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.199 don't know what's going to happen, but it wouldn't shock me. 80 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:47.879 You know, all these names that we saw come up 81 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:53.319 in the House investigation, including Jim Biden, the President's brother, 82 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:57.399 and the uncle and confidant of Hunter, and a number 83 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:00.519 of these other guys who helped them ructure of these 84 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:03.240 payments that were coming from foreign sources. And then we're 85 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:06.839 being whacked up and put in various Biden accounts. What 86 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.279 it was like eleven or twelve different Biden accounts and 87 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:11.920 some of these payments, and we're talking about twenty seven 88 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:14.759 million dollars in payments of it just I think it 89 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:18.000 was just a five or six year period. So I 90 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.360 just it doesn't I mean, maybe this is a one off, 91 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.240 but it doesn't make sense to me as a one 92 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.240 off if you assume, as I do, that what they're 93 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:31.800 worried about is a law fair type investigation by the 94 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:33.079 Trump Justice Department. 95 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:36.639 It doesn't Biden then have to pardon every family member 96 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:39.480 who received funds, including wasn't it a granddaughter? 97 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:44.560 Well, you know, I guess the question you would have 98 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:49.000 to ask. And I don't mind playing this out with you, 99 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:53.279 because you know, you may come up with insight that 100 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:56.879 I don't. But I think what you would have to 101 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:03.439 weigh as the prosecutor is which targets would be worth investigating. So, 102 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:08.519 for example, there was a granddaughter in the array of payments, 103 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:11.639 and that was really just used as a vehicle so 104 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:13.959 that they could pass through money to somebody else in 105 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:17.360 the Biden family. I'm not going to do an investigation. 106 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:19.720 I don't think any of it should be investigated by 107 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:22.720 the way. I think it's all Congress already investigated it. 108 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:25.439 To me, the statute of limitations is run. I would 109 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.680 like to see Trump end loss there rather than have 110 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.399 his Justice Department pursue it. But if I were of 111 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:34.240 a mind to do an investigation, I would have to 112 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:38.680 have a worthwhile target. So if I thought, for example, 113 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:43.120 that you know, somebody higher up in the scheme was 114 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:48.160 available as a potential target, I think about it one way. 115 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:50.920 If I think it's a low level person who may 116 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.000 not even have known what was going on and whose 117 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:55.639 account was just used as a pass through, I'm not 118 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.639 going to do an investigation over that. 119 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:02.560 Andy McCarthy from National Review and much more. Now, Andy, 120 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:05.279 going back to your point earlier about Okay, he doesn't 121 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.199 have his Fifth Amendment privilege anymore because of this pardon. 122 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.040 How much time would he face if he simply refused 123 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.759 to testify I refuse to appear before Congress, refused to 124 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:18.560 testify in a grand jury. I know those are different issues, 125 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:21.120 but how much time could he face collectively there? 126 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:27.920 Well, there's no precise limit to it. I mean, generally speaking, 127 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:33.360 a prosecutor will charge transactionally rather than offense by offense. 128 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.279 And what I mean by that is, if I call 129 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:38.360 you to the grand jury and you take the fifth 130 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.279 seventy five times, even though you don't have a fifth amendment, 131 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:45.759 I can get you held in contempt seventy five times, okay, Joy, 132 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.879 But I would probably charge you with one count of contempt, 133 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.600 and then the jury gets constructed at the end that 134 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:55.759 the government alleges that there was seventy five instances of contempt. 135 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:58.120 If you find any one of them, you can convict 136 00:07:58.160 --> 00:07:59.040 the guy. I mean, that's the. 137 00:07:58.959 --> 00:07:59.920 Way it usually works. 138 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:02.759 But you don't really need Everyone is like a five 139 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:05.959 year account, so you don't need that much time, right. 140 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:08.720 Yeah, Well, it just tells you how bad the underlying 141 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:09.360 behavior was. 142 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:10.560 And I know we are already have. 143 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:14.279 The convictions, but how bad the total behavior must have 144 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:17.439 been to now be willing to expose him to this 145 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:21.399 losing his immunity for the purposes of these other hearings 146 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:23.600 and investigations. 147 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:27.480 Well, I guess from his perspective, though, the immunity he 148 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:31.399 cares about is from prosecution, right right, He cares about 149 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:35.799 that more than immunity from grand jury. Patinos and let's 150 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.399 say that he actually went in and testified to the 151 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.960 Congressional committee, right, So he wasn't fearful. 152 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:45.720 Yeah, I think. 153 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:47.679 Maybe he should have been, but he wasn't fearful of 154 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:51.080 going in there and testifying. Now, you know, he may 155 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:54.120 decide that he didn't go in and testify the grand jury, 156 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.879 if I'm remembering. And then no one of course asked 157 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:59.200 him but from the Biden Justice Department to do that. 158 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:02.120 And he had a Livens Amendment privilege because he was 159 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:04.240 under indictment, so he wouldn't have been asked to go 160 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:06.000 in the grand jury. But if he's asked to go 161 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:08.279 in the grand jury, now that's not going to be 162 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:10.919 the same thing as being asked to testify before a 163 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.399 congressional committee with a lot of Democrats on it. This 164 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:17.080 is going to be a grand jury with a bulldog 165 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:21.320 prosecutor from the Trump Justice Department. And again, yet every 166 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:23.639 time I say this, I have to stress I really 167 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:24.759 hope this doesn't happen. 168 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:27.480 Yeah, and Andy, in the last minute, we haven't. You've 169 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:31.399 been generous with your time. What do you think this means, 170 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:34.919 if anything, in terms of coming pardons from Trump? It 171 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:38.000 seems to me that it just gives him a big 172 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:40.200 old green light to go pardon whoever he wants to 173 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:43.759 and politically at least not face the price he might have. 174 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:45.159 Yeah. 175 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.799 Well, you know, I kind of felt like before this 176 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:51.679 even happened, Trump is of a mind like, you know, look, 177 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.519 he's going to be a one term president. He's not 178 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:59.279 running for re election, and he kind of got elected 179 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:02.639 because people who support him think of him as this, 180 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:06.759 you know, swashbuckling figure who doesn't give a who you know. 181 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:09.080 So I think he might have done what he was 182 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.559 going to do anyway, but Biden, what Biden has done 183 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:16.240 here has certainly given him a lot of a lot 184 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:16.919 of running rooms. 185 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:17.919 Yeah wow. 186 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:20.519 Well, Andy, thank you for your time today and all 187 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:22.879 of your great work and above all the McCarthy Report, 188 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.279 because I can't wait for each of those podcasts to 189 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:27.120 drop and look forward to the next one. 190 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.279 Thanks so much, Ded. I think we're recording tomorrow, so 191 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:32.000 hopefully it'll be out tomorrow. 192 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:34.080 I am looking forward to it. Thank you, my friend. 193 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:36.000 Thanks Dan, You take care of that. 194 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:38.840 Is Andy McCarthy best in the business eight five to 195 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:40.399 five for zero five eight two five. 196 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:40.919 Five to number. 197 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:43.879 We have so much to talk about today and a 198 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.759 lot of it local as well. The Denver Post editorial 199 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:51.519 board in this kind of really odd and strange effort 200 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:55.240 to defend maryork Johnston while criticizing him. Got to dive 201 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:57.639 into that here on the Dan Caplo Show. 202 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:12.080 Now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 203 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.519 I don't read you something that the Democratic governor of Colorado, 204 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:23.240 Guard Poulis posted about this. He's not okay with the move. 205 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:26.120 He wrote in part, I'm disappointed that he put his 206 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.559 family ahead of the country. This is a bad precedent 207 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:32.360 that could be abused by later presidents and will sadly 208 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:36.080 tarnish his reputation. Does this pardon does this damage the 209 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:37.320 justice system? 210 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:39.919 Well, I totally agree with the governor that this pardon 211 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.159 will tarnish Joe Biden's legacy. 212 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:42.799 I mean Joe Biden. 213 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:45.200 Let's be clear here, he lied to us for a 214 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:49.360 long time. He said categorically, I will not parton my son. 215 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:51.320 He said, I will take it off the table, and 216 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.759 he couched it in very high minded terminology. 217 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:57.000 Yeah, that's the Elie Hoenig from CNN, who do often 218 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:59.080 does a good job. I was more interested in the 219 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:04.000 Polish piece dishonesty, right, the hypocrisy. 220 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:08.440 Oh Biden, he put family ahead of country. Polis put 221 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:13.840 flipping Kim Kardashian. I had of victims who were burned 222 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:18.960 to death on I seventy by a homicidal trucker found 223 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:24.679 guilty by a Jefferson County jury, sentenced by a Jefferson 224 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:30.799 County judge. Polis puts sweet nothings from Kim Kardashian ahead 225 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.399 of those victims in their families. And by the way, 226 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:36.360 that the safety of all Colorado is because if you 227 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:38.639 haven't noticed, yeah, we got a lot of great truck 228 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.200 drivers out there, they're heroes, but you got a big 229 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:46.120 part of that industry that is absolutely deadly. And Polis 230 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:49.600 just sent this screaming message to the trucking industry across 231 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:51.600 the country that yeah, you can come to Colorado and 232 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.759 do that and get out after five years or so. 233 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:58.159 So no total hypocrite here. Here's what's going on. Polis 234 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:02.320 is going after low hanging fruit. Is virtually zero downside 235 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:06.960 to Polis in taking this shot at Biden. It's not heroic. 236 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:12.759 It's cowardly. And it's cowardly because a Polis wouldn't take 237 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:15.039 a shot at Biden when it would have served the country. 238 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.919 And that is what Jared Polis should have done at 239 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:20.039 the beginning of the primary season, was say a few 240 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:22.600 nice things about Biden and then just say, but I 241 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:25.519 got to get into this race, or somebody does, because 242 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:26.759 Biden's not competent. 243 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:29.240 But he didn't have the courage to do that. 244 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:34.240 Instead, he goes after this failing old man now where 245 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:37.000 there's no downside to him. But where is this oh 246 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:40.360 so honorable and noble and courageous Jared Polis when it 247 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:43.919 comes to Jenna Griswold right here in Colorado, And the 248 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.960 same thing for Crow and Hick and Looper and Bennett 249 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:49.279 and the rest of them, and wiser to start with, 250 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:53.200 who should be demanding her resignation first of those passwords 251 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:55.799 going online, but then making the decision not to tell 252 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:58.480 the county clerks, let alone the public. If there was 253 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:02.159 an ounce of true intellect, actual honesty, and courage, Polus 254 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.240 and the rest of those top Dems would have called 255 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:08.279 for her resignation, then called for a special prosecutor, called 256 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.600 for a full public report. But they didn't do any 257 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.480 of that because they're the opposite of courageous. They're political 258 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:18.720 hacks playing a political game. They hold high office. But 259 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:22.440 that doesn't change their hack status. That's what's going on here. 260 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:24.919 Eight five to five for zero five A two five 261 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:29.600 five the number tekes d an five seven seven three nine. Yeah, 262 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:33.519 which brings us to this Denver Post editorial, which is 263 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.960 one of the odd editorials I've seen there. The headline's Okay, 264 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:43.200 Denver's mayor was wrong to threaten armed conflict to protect immigrants. 265 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:45.480 But then when you get into the full body of 266 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:49.279 the editorial, that's really too long to read. It's really 267 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:54.679 an effort to, in my opinion, try to reshape and 268 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:59.200 kind of misrepresent what Johnston really did, because the editorial 269 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:03.679 makes it out is if it Johnston was understandably upset, 270 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:07.200 but he went too far, understandably upset about the idea 271 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:12.159 of dreamers being you know, rounded up by the Trump administration. 272 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:16.279 Wait a second, Johnston never qualified his comments that way. 273 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:21.720 Johnston never limited it to quote dreamers. Johnston just said, yeah, 274 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:23.360 I'm going to send the Denver police out to the 275 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.039 county line and then you know, hopefully fifty thousand in 276 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.960 the streets. So I think the Post is trying to 277 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:32.919 rewrite history a little bit to help Johnston and the Democrats, 278 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:36.320 not a little bit a lot. And then in the 279 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:38.559 piece and they do properly. I commend them for that. 280 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:42.399 You know, they talk about Johnston should have employed this 281 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:46.759 kind of violent rhetoric. But then the Post goes on 282 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:48.960 to say, and this is really interesting, I think worth 283 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.879 your time. And I think what we're seeing as a 284 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:54.960 unified national play by most of the Dems now which 285 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:59.480 already shows the Trump effect, the enormous positive benefit of 286 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:03.240 Trump being elected, you know, long before he's actually inaugurated. 287 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.240 And the Denver Post in this editorial is saying, hey, 288 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:12.639 we have always called for the deportation of violent immigrants, 289 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:15.360 and we're seeing hearing the same thing out of Kathy 290 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.440 Hochel in New York and a bunch of other Dems. 291 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:20.080 Wait a second, I'm not doubting the Posts said that 292 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:22.519 somewhere along the way somewhere, but it's not like they've 293 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:26.240 been out there championing that right, and nor any of 294 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:29.960 these other Democrats. But now they're all claiming that they've 295 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.440 always been for this. Well, it's a very good start, 296 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:35.960 right that. Now these Democrats not because they care about 297 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.720 you or your family or any of the women who 298 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:40.840 get raped or the children who get raped, or the 299 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:44.120 people who get murdered by criminal illegals, those here illegally 300 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:46.799 then commit other crimes. It's not that they've suddenly started 301 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:50.039 caring about those people. They care about getting re elected 302 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:54.360 and they see the election results, so they've done the calculation. Now, okay, 303 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.440 in order to get elected or re elected, we now 304 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:02.519 have to favor to pour in criminal illegals, because it's 305 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:05.720 absolutely insane not to, even though all these Democrats haven't 306 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.319 been for it for a long time. So anyway, you know, 307 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:11.640 positive Trump effect already on that front. But wait for 308 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:14.400 the rub when they start saying, oh no, that doesn't 309 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:16.039 constitute a criminal illegal. 310 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:17.960 So yeah, yeah, what are. 311 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:21.319 These Democrats going to say constitutes a quote criminal illegal 312 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:23.880 or the other way that A lot of these these 313 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:29.160 Democrats are trying to frame it a quote violent criminal illegal. Okay, 314 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:32.079 so what are they going to agree constitutes a quote 315 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:36.079 violent criminal illegal? And watch how they try to massage 316 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:39.240 that definition, which brings us back to the question. You know, 317 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:41.720 we all know, right, the reason the Democrats wanted that 318 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:46.480 open border and just allowing this unadulterated flow, no vetting 319 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.519 is is because they want those votes, right, we all 320 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:53.839 know that, But this willingness to fight to the death 321 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:59.119 to defend and protect those here illegally who have committed 322 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.759 other serious crimes. Where do you think that comes from. 323 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:05.240 I'd love to know your thoughts on that. We have 324 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:07.119 a lot to talk about when we come back. 325 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:08.599 I do though. 326 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:11.279 As soon as we get back, Ryan will remind me 327 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:16.880 if I forget this pro driving tip that you may 328 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:19.720 have never heard before, could easily save your life or 329 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:20.599 someone in your family. 330 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:22.119 I want to pass that along. You're on the Dan 331 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:22.839 Kaplis Show. 332 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.400 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 333 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:29.640 We'll see see. 334 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:32.079 Right, and folks around the country who will not violently 335 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:33.119 resist on me and. 336 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:34.759 The Denver mayor. We agree on one thing. 337 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:37.720 He's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put 338 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:38.319 him in jail. 339 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:45.079 And the oof was from Cassie Hunt on CNN, and 340 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.079 it just makes the point, right, Why would you be 341 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:53.200 surprised by that? Because the Democrats, the Democrats believe they're 342 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:57.160 above the law. Not everyday Democrats, but the people who 343 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:59.599 in power, the people who own and operate the party, 344 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:03.000 the elect officeholders. Most of them, like Mike Johnston, clearly 345 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:06.119 believes he's above the law. Right, that has to be 346 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:09.319 his his dominant mindset, or there's no way in the 347 00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:12.559 world he would publicly say that he's. 348 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:13.680 Going to Mountain insurrection. 349 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:15.559 Yeah, we're going to take the Denver police, send him 350 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.359 out to the county line, and does stop the federal 351 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:21.640 officers from enforcing federal law, and we want fifty thousand 352 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:24.400 in the streets to help. He'd never dream of saying 353 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:28.680 that unless his operating mo was that he's above the law. 354 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:32.680 So why would be she be surprised by the borders 355 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:34.279 are saying, you know, put him in jail if he 356 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:37.920 does that. Because the Democrats are so used to operating 357 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:42.759 outside the law, it's really become at the highest levels 358 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:46.359 in many ways, a very lawless party. And the latest 359 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:49.680 is obviously what what Joe Biden just pulled? Eight five 360 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:52.039 five for zero five eight two five five the number 361 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:54.680 and the reason the Democrats are so upset about that 362 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:57.839 is is because what it confirms is not just that 363 00:19:57.880 --> 00:19:59.960 Biden's a liar. Everybody already knew he was a liar. 364 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:05.000 What it confirms is that he's corrupt. Because any thinking 365 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:09.079 person understands the reason Joe Biden went back on his 366 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:11.720 word to the American people and pardon Hunter Biden. Has 367 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:14.240 nothing to do with Hunter Biden. It's because Joe Biden 368 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:17.680 is corrupt and Joe Biden needed to protect Joe Biden. 369 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:21.839 So that's that's the far bigger impact of this. And 370 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:25.680 it also exposes these media hacks for just being the 371 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:29.440 Democratic mouthpieces that they are, so many of them, not all, 372 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:32.920 so that that's why you know, it's so devastating to 373 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:35.599 the Democrats. Hey, before we go to calls and text, 374 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:38.640 I wanted to pass along this pro driving tip and 375 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:41.319 I safety and I want to make this a regular 376 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:44.839 part of the show because my real job for forty 377 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:48.440 years is representing, you know, victims in catastrophic injuries and 378 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:50.799 wrongful death cases. And so I'm working all the time 379 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:56.079 with these accident in reconstruction experts and working all the time, 380 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:00.960 you know, with safety engineers on vehicles. So in the 381 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:04.400 course of that, I pick up all of these amazing 382 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:08.240 facts and tips about safe driving and safe vehicles, etc. 383 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:10.559 So I want to start packaging them up and getting 384 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:12.839 them on air. And I understand you will have heard 385 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:14.920 some of this stuff before, but it doesn't hurt to 386 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.440 be reminded. Some of this stuff you may not have 387 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.039 heard like this next one. I'll bet you ninety percent 388 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:25.680 of the audience has not heard before. But it comes 389 00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:28.200 out of a case that we're working on right now. 390 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:33.000 And this really highly respected accident reconstruction expert made the 391 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:36.519 point that, and I'm starting to do this now myself. 392 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:37.920 I had not thought about it before. 393 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:42.079 When you're going to make a left turn in an intersection, 394 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:46.279 be sure consider. I mean, you have to decide what's 395 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:49.039 safe for you under the circumstances. This isn't entitled to 396 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:52.279 apply to all situations, but generally speaking, his advice was, 397 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:55.400 when you pull into that intersection tonight to make that 398 00:21:55.519 --> 00:22:01.519 left hand turn, keep your wheels pointed straight. Don't turn 399 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:04.559 the wheel to the left as you prepare to turn left, 400 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:07.960 because if you turn the wheel to the left as 401 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.079