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Speaker 1: to have the sheriff in a great honor for us
Speaker 1: to host the show a couple of days, and we'll
Speaker 1: certainly have him back soon.
Speaker 2: KBB.
Speaker 1: How do you get all their usual spectacular efforts as
Speaker 1: well as the icon? John calderis so glad I'm with
Speaker 1: you today and God willing for a very long time
Speaker 1: to come. I guess I should say God and management willing.
Speaker 1: But if God's willing, probably doesn't matter what management wants
Speaker 1: to do, right Ryan. But anyway, we're getting a little
Speaker 1: deep there, but so much to kick around, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to spend a lot more time tomorrow on this
Speaker 1: truly remarkable story that went national of Mayor Mike Johnston
Speaker 1: of Denver reportedly using encrypted communications in order to thwart
Speaker 1: the CORA laws and the public's right to know via CORA.
Speaker 1: So his first question is what does he have to hide, right,
Speaker 1: because you don't do that unless you have an awful
Speaker 1: lot to hide. Would seem to be kind of a
Speaker 1: common sense conclusion there. So we'll be getting into that
Speaker 1: in much more detailed tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Obviously, we have a lot of public officials.
Speaker 1: Constantly trying to undermine the public's right to know through CORA,
Speaker 1: but this report, if true, would be taken into a
Speaker 1: whole new low. Talking if you just joined us, thank you,
Speaker 1: talking about so many additional reasons now to be optimistic
Speaker 1: about the future, including that AOC Bernie rally in Colorado,
Speaker 1: because if that's the hope of the Democratic Party, then
Speaker 1: the GOP it's hard to even imagine how the GOP
Speaker 1: could blow it at that point, at least nationally. And
Speaker 1: then we've also talked about what appears to be just
Speaker 1: a real lack of any significant turnout from people of color,
Speaker 1: and again the reasons why, and I went into it
Speaker 1: in detail, why I believe that people of color are
Speaker 1: splitting away from the Democratic Party, and President Trump has
Speaker 1: done a great.
Speaker 2: Job of helping to speed that up.
Speaker 1: But it's inevitable, right because communities of color, whether you're
Speaker 1: talking about our Black American community, Latinos, Hispanics, etc. Tend
Speaker 1: to be overall very faithful communities, devoutly faithful, and then
Speaker 1: people who live their faith. And so that's going to
Speaker 1: be completely incompatible with the modern Democratic Party, which is
Speaker 1: secular and hostile toward faith and hostile toward religion. So yeah,
Speaker 1: now it's up to the Republicans to make themselves worthy
Speaker 1: of getting that support. President Trump did a great job
Speaker 1: of that. A lot of GOP candidates at a lot
Speaker 1: of different levels have to do a better job of that.
Speaker 1: And that can be done, and I believe will be
Speaker 1: done two or three someone three eight two five five
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Speaker 1: be done here too, obviously a steeper climb, which is
Speaker 1: only appropriate. Right, So we're talking about all that and
Speaker 1: pretty much everything else under the sun. We followed up
Speaker 1: on that story out at Columbine where some officials were
Speaker 1: working behind the scenes to try to have a young
Speaker 1: student there declared homeless, when in fact she wasn't and
Speaker 1: never declared homeless at the same time she was being
Speaker 1: groomed by a teacher there. Yeah, yeah, everybody should be
Speaker 1: very concerned. But Ryan, the fix there, I believe was
Speaker 1: brilliantly suggested by George Brockler, the DA in the twenty
Speaker 1: third who will also host the show this Wednesday. But
Speaker 1: George's suggestion was have a grand jury, and he is
Speaker 1: one thousand percent correct, because I think what a lot
Speaker 1: of us don't realize as we go about everyday life
Speaker 1: is that even in the most important criminal cases, unless
Speaker 1: a jury is called, the prosecutor does not have the
Speaker 1: same kind of discovery tools investigative tools available that I have.
Speaker 2: In my civil cases.
Speaker 1: And now our firm we do big cases, right, but
Speaker 1: even if somebody is doing small civil cases, well, they're
Speaker 1: entitled to the ability to go in and put people
Speaker 1: under rows and take sworn testimony under oath through depositions
Speaker 1: and subpoena records, etc. And of course we do all
Speaker 1: that on a very large scale in our big cases.
Speaker 1: But the point is you could have the most serious
Speaker 1: murder case out there, multiple homicide case, and the prosecutor
Speaker 1: does not have that tool in the criminal context unless
Speaker 1: they convene a grand jury, And for practical and other reasons,
Speaker 1: grand jury's aren't convened that often by prosecutors. Ironically, I've
Speaker 1: testified before a grand jury in a case where I
Speaker 1: was the victim. Right, it's up and boulder, But they're
Speaker 1: not convened that often. But George is absolutely right, this
Speaker 1: situation at Columbine, that is one that out for a
Speaker 1: grand jury, because then the DA can get all these
Speaker 1: people in, put them under oath, and get to the
Speaker 1: bottom of it. How could something this horrible ever happen,
Speaker 1: and how did it happen? And who did what when?
Speaker 1: And and you know work laws violated, and you know
Speaker 1: who should be charged with what? Because if you're ever
Speaker 1: going to convene a grand jury, right, it should be
Speaker 1: for public safety. And this is an enormous public safety
Speaker 1: issue because what happened at Columbine endangered the safety of
Speaker 1: that student. And right now it's accepted, right it's the
Speaker 1: new normal because as far as we know from the outside,
Speaker 1: nobody at Columbine, nobody at Folk Schools, nobody involved in
Speaker 1: this whole loop, the teacher herself, nobody's been prosecuted. So
Speaker 1: it is accepted right now as the new normal, and
Speaker 1: that can't be allowed to stand. So, yeah, there needs
Speaker 1: to be a grand jury here. So let's hope the
Speaker 1: da ALEXAI came out in the first first goes ahead
Speaker 1: and does that three or three? Someone three eight two
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Speaker 1: How about in Denver, Colorado with John. You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Kaplis Show. Welcome John.
Speaker 3: Why aren't you talking about the big leak?
Speaker 4: The text messages that would have been Biden. You'd have
Speaker 4: been all over it from Oh.
Speaker 1: John, Yeah, that's all. That's how we would have opened
Speaker 1: the show. That's all we do.
Speaker 3: Why are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Probably? Yeah, and what would your angle on that lands?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh please, you don't think that's a security breach?
Speaker 2: John, h first of all considered DCAF.
Speaker 4: Second, why do you run so many commercials on the radio?
Speaker 2: You know I was asking the same.
Speaker 4: Are you an ambulance chaser?
Speaker 2: John?
Speaker 4: Very ambulance?
Speaker 2: This is this is fantastic to me, just the same
Speaker 2: way doctors are. John. We all try to help injure people. Wow,
Speaker 2: thank you for your support.
Speaker 3: That's very angry, Hope.
Speaker 1: He calls back, yeah, which is a badge of honor, right,
Speaker 1: because you know, my mom, I can't remember the exact quote,
Speaker 1: but she just drilled it into us. If if nobody's
Speaker 1: angry with you, then you're not accomplishing anything. You're not
Speaker 1: doing anything important. And so yeah, John, thank you. You
Speaker 1: made my day. But I would like to continue that
Speaker 1: conversation that never started. Three or three someone three eight
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Speaker 2: The story that.
Speaker 1: He's referring to, and it's a newsworthy story.
Speaker 2: But that's why I asked him, you know, what would
Speaker 2: your angle be? Where would you take it?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 1: You know, there was a terrible security breach, an accident
Speaker 1: on the part of I think Mike Waltz, an accident
Speaker 1: where he accidentally copied a reporter from of all places,
Speaker 1: the Atlantic into a top secret encrypted communication string talking
Speaker 1: about the attack.
Speaker 2: On the tear is TUTSI.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, no, that's a major security breach of human error,
Speaker 1: and at this point it does not appear to have
Speaker 1: have had any effect. But yeah, shouldn't have happened. It
Speaker 1: did happen. But that's that's why I wanted to know where,
Speaker 1: Where would you take that.
Speaker 5: Well, just an update here, Dan, because I'm watching this
Speaker 5: unfold in real time, so we're trying to follow and
Speaker 5: cover it in real time. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth
Speaker 5: was deplaning in Hawaii and was asked about it. I
Speaker 5: was not able to grab those comments as of yet.
Speaker 5: But if whatever you just reported is letter of the
Speaker 5: law true, and Waltz was the responsible party, should there
Speaker 5: not be some form of reprimand or repercussions for this?
Speaker 5: Because this can't stand. This can't happen again, It shouldn't
Speaker 5: happen up first time.
Speaker 1: Right, But I don't view this the same way that
Speaker 1: I would be a fair question, right, my answer would
Speaker 1: be no, because I don't view this the same way
Speaker 1: I view say, the horrific Botch departure from Afghanistan, where
Speaker 1: there was this you know, long premeditated, deliberate, organizedational planning,
Speaker 1: et cetera. It was essentially a planned, humiliating surrender. And
Speaker 1: so yes, everybody involved in that should be fired. When
Speaker 1: you talk about somebody, pick anybody, pick anybody on the
Speaker 1: president's team, right, if anybody had made that mistake and
Speaker 1: it's a one off and it's not consistent with their
Speaker 1: overall level of performance. Then at that point, I think
Speaker 1: that's what you say. Hey, it was a big mistake.
Speaker 1: It can never happen again, and but you know his
Speaker 1: service outweighs that big mistake.
Speaker 2: So that'd be my approach. What would you do?
Speaker 5: I think, you know, the optics of this are bad.
Speaker 5: The other part of it, too, Dan that I was
Speaker 5: frustrated with. I'm not you know, dismissing what the caller
Speaker 5: said is that Trump appeared to be blindsided by this
Speaker 5: at a news conference, that he was not properly informed
Speaker 5: that this in fact had happened. And if I'm President Trump,
Speaker 5: I'm extremely angry that you put me in that position.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, now we're getting to something different. Okay, because
Speaker 1: when you talk about like a one off human error
Speaker 1: right where where he didn't intentionally loop in this reporter,
Speaker 1: that's one thing. If you're then talking about a deliberate
Speaker 1: effort to keep it from the president, and I am
Speaker 1: not saying that's what happened, but if it did happen,
Speaker 1: then you got a whole nother critter.
Speaker 2: Hey, when we come back, you tell us what should.
Speaker 1: Happen to the member of Trump's team who accidentally looped
Speaker 1: in that reporter three or three someone three eight two
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Speaker 3: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I'm excited to see that Elon less
Speaker 4: that his money as it relates to Tesla. Well, Tesla's
Speaker 4: tanking right now, and I'm okay.
Speaker 2: With that boy.
Speaker 1: Representative Crockett must have been a very bad day today, right,
Speaker 1: wasn't teslaf like ten percent today?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: Yes, it rebounded, But but I I've.
Speaker 1: Been I'll get to the phone lines and text in
Speaker 1: a second, but I have been given really serious thought
Speaker 1: to whether whether I need.
Speaker 2: To do something at this point to support.
Speaker 1: Tesla because getting a test I mean, they make re
Speaker 1: good cars and all that good stuff. It's just never
Speaker 1: really been on my radar, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I love the rower of the engine, but I really
Speaker 1: do wonder whether I've got to go out and get one.
Speaker 1: And I actually, as I was going to bed last night,
Speaker 1: I was actually googling up whether you know there are
Speaker 1: good places in Colorado to wrap a Tesla, because if
Speaker 1: I was going to get a cyber truck, I think
Speaker 1: I'd want to get it wrapped.
Speaker 2: You know what color would you wrap it in.
Speaker 5: I am not a fan of the look of those things, Dan,
Speaker 5: really not at all of the cyber truck, any of
Speaker 5: the design of Tesla. They're boxing and weird looking and
Speaker 5: I personally don't like the esthetic of them.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't get one.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't get one to make the political point toil
Speaker 1: support to fight back against the terrorism because it is terrorists,
Speaker 1: well that's being launched against Tesla, right.
Speaker 3: Different question I would like to.
Speaker 5: Quite in the Dan Capliss stratosphere of wealth also be
Speaker 5: a different approach from me.
Speaker 3: Can you even find used ones out there? I imagine?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, No, particularly now I mean with
Speaker 1: the terrorism, right, because you have some people loading them
Speaker 1: because they don't want to be targets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good point. No, I think I saw a used one.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought I saw you cyber
Speaker 1: truck yesterday for maybe eighty grand.
Speaker 3: Well, but.
Speaker 1: Apparently tremendous vehicles. I know there was a recent recall,
Speaker 1: but tremendous vehicle, I mean what vehicles have not been recalled?
Speaker 1: I guess you don't see that many Ferrari recalls, right,
Speaker 1: but never having owned one, let's go to Mike in Arvada.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Caplis. She'll welcome Mike.
Speaker 4: Hi you Dan, and couldn't talk to you you too, Hey,
Speaker 4: I hear something at the top of the hour on
Speaker 4: your station. Yes, about the federal Marcist federal judges restricting
Speaker 4: Trump from making any executive orders? Am I imagining this?
Speaker 4: I was rustling around.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's thanks, Mike.
Speaker 1: You know, I know it's tough for all multitasking, right,
Speaker 1: But no, nothing that broad. I think there was a
Speaker 1: story regarding I think a district court judge now addressing
Speaker 1: the deportation of the gang members to l Salvador. I
Speaker 1: know that's very much in the news today. But no,
Speaker 1: nothing as broad as you can't do executive orders, right
Speaker 1: because we all know that would be facially unconstitutional.
Speaker 4: So I know everything it's not constitutional. I said to
Speaker 4: these well, damn federal judge is taken over the presidency.
Speaker 1: Well but no, and listen, I know you're expressing a
Speaker 1: common frustration right now, and that's why, Hey, it is
Speaker 1: so critical to America right now and such a blessing
Speaker 1: that we have the US Supreme Court that we do, Because.
Speaker 2: You know, I am very very confident, and I.
Speaker 1: Know the delay is frustrating, but very very confident the
Speaker 1: US Supreme Court is going to get all of this
Speaker 1: right in the end. The big question obviously is how
Speaker 1: quickly we get to the end. You know, does it
Speaker 1: rocket dock it up to the Supreme Court or are
Speaker 1: you going through a more typical process through a federal
Speaker 1: Court of appeals level.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't have that much confident as soon as
Speaker 4: left a Supreme Court. Yeah, I mean, well my friend left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I do. I mean, I really do, my
Speaker 1: friend and I understand. Listen, I disagreed with a Supreme
Speaker 1: Court decision a few weeks ago. But overall, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that they're getting it right, and so some
Speaker 1: of the overreach right now, I think they'll correct, just
Speaker 1: hopefully quickly. Hey, appreciate the call, my friend. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: uh that there hasn't been any court ruling that that
Speaker 1: Trump can't issue additional executive orders.
Speaker 2: So thank you for your call on that.
Speaker 1: Texter to da N five seven seven three nine, Dan,
Speaker 1: yesco buy an e v AT doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: a tesla.
Speaker 2: But it would be for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not, you know, just now obsessed with
Speaker 1: buying an EV. I mean, I've got nothing against him,
Speaker 1: but I'm not upset. I had a loaner the other
Speaker 1: day because, as you know, my car is in the
Speaker 1: shop literally about half the time. But when it's not
Speaker 1: in the shop it's awesome. But they gave me this
Speaker 1: electric loaner. And have you driven an electric car?
Speaker 2: Ride?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, I haven't.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, because I in the beginning it was real
Speaker 1: hard for me to adjust, you know, but anyway, finally
Speaker 1: adjusted to it. But then I realized I didn't have
Speaker 1: a charger, you know, talk about six or seven miles.
Speaker 1: And then I find this little thing in the back
Speaker 1: you can plug into an outlet, but I plug it
Speaker 1: overnight and I get like four more miles.
Speaker 2: So I think you need the official setup.
Speaker 1: But if I was to get an EV, it'd be
Speaker 1: a tesla because the only reason I'd get an EV
Speaker 1: right now would be to support Elon Musk and oppose
Speaker 1: the terrorists. Same, So yeah, it would absolutely be a tesla. Dan,
Speaker 1: I need to hear Ryan's Bernie impression.
Speaker 5: I think everybody does against the millionaires and the billionaires.
Speaker 2: Dan can't be the millionaires because he's a millionaire.
Speaker 1: I am now a millionaire, right right right, and and
Speaker 1: then thank you to the Texter for the JFK theory thing.
Speaker 1: But that's just way too long for our text format.
Speaker 1: If you can narrow it down that it'd be fantastic. Dan,
Speaker 1: I think we can sum up the rally as AOC,
Speaker 1: and BS I think we can sell him with Therelli
Speaker 1: is a great sign for Republicans right even here in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, my friend I did a little research
Speaker 1: over the break. Unusual for me, but you know, so remarkable.
Speaker 1: Appeared to be so few people of color at AOC, Bernie,
Speaker 1: and we talked about why. But then, you know, then
Speaker 1: I thought, okay, so Michael Bennett he wants to be governor.
Speaker 1: Now he's doing these town halls in Colorado. And I
Speaker 1: went to look at his town hall schedule, and you know,
Speaker 1: we have Greeley, we have.
Speaker 2: Golden we have Colorado Springs. Where's the town hall in Denver?
Speaker 1: Where's the and how large or small is the turnout
Speaker 1: of color at these other town halls? But where's the
Speaker 1: town hall in Denver? Why wouldn't there be a town
Speaker 1: hall in Denver?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think the Democrats realize they have a big problem
Speaker 1: right now with Folks of color data. Apparently the cell
Speaker 1: phone data indicates the vast majority of those attending Bernie
Speaker 1: aoc rallies are the same people, and other evidence that
Speaker 1: many of them are paid.
Speaker 2: And I'll follow up on that.
Speaker 1: There is a report out from Tony Segura that eighty
Speaker 1: four percent of the devices had attended nine or more
Speaker 1: Kamala rallies. Now, if that data is true, then then yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you could draw some pretty obvious conclusions from that.
Speaker 3: Three or three see.
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Speaker 2: You're on the Den Capital Show.
Speaker 3: Your listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Great to be back.
Speaker 1: It's so weird, right, I mean, you should do a
Speaker 1: show like this every day, and then you're gone for
Speaker 1: a week and it feels like a year. Thanks again
Speaker 1: to all of the spectacular talent to filled in last week,
Speaker 1: including Sheriff Steve Raims. Great to have him on the
Speaker 1: show again as well. George Brockler will be in Wednesday.
Speaker 1: But it's so much to do we are talking about,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk much more tomorrow about Mayor Mike Johnston.
Speaker 1: What does he have to hide that when talking about
Speaker 1: illegal immigration issues? He and his team would switch to
Speaker 1: this encryption app that auto deletes the messages, according to
Speaker 1: CBS four, so that the public can't discover the communications
Speaker 1: through the Colorado Open Records Act at that point, isn't
Speaker 1: that just like an admission?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: But what do you think he was hiding?
Speaker 1: You know, we'll get into that in more detail tomorrow
Speaker 1: today talking about a wide range of things, including what
Speaker 1: a great sign it is that Bernie and a drew
Speaker 1: that big crowd down in Civic Center Park, and what
Speaker 1: a great sign it is for where the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: is headed, which is off a cliff and a great
Speaker 1: sign for Colorado because you know, Colorado's left, but it
Speaker 1: ain't that far left. And got to believe a lot
Speaker 1: of these lefties aren't going to be thrilled with the
Speaker 1: Democrats nominees for high office in this cycle. So kicking
Speaker 1: that around, Tesla, you know, what should happen to these terrorists?
Speaker 1: Is there any doubt that this is in fact terrorism?
Speaker 1: You know, call it domestic terrorism if you want to,
Speaker 1: but it's terrorism. And so what should happen to those folks?
Speaker 1: And are you inclined now if you weren't already to
Speaker 1: go out and get a Tesla. I was never inclined
Speaker 1: to get a Tesla, even though I think they're fine cars.
Speaker 1: I'm just more of a big engine sound guy. But
Speaker 1: now I am seriously thinking about getting a Tesla, and
Speaker 1: so I've been talking about that a little bit, just
Speaker 1: to push back against the terrorist and you know, support
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, and I'm sure I disagree with him on
Speaker 1: some major issues, but respect the heck out of what
Speaker 1: he's doing. And I do think I understand why they
Speaker 1: are so terrified of him, and because think about it,
Speaker 1: who else it in GOP modern history pose the kind
Speaker 1: of threat that he does to the Democrats because he
Speaker 1: can he can match their funding. He can match their
Speaker 1: funding if he decided, Ryan, how much did you think
Speaker 1: it to take if Elon Musk decided, you know what,
Speaker 1: we need a Republican governor of Colorado. What amount of
Speaker 1: money do you think you'd have to spend here for
Speaker 1: us to get one, assuming a good nominee?
Speaker 5: Oh wow, I don't even know they could put a
Speaker 5: dollar amount on that, Dan, but it would it would
Speaker 5: level the planes field. Because we've discussed this at length,
Speaker 5: there has not been a lot of national money coming in.
Speaker 5: I talked about this with Heidi Ganall and her campaign
Speaker 5: against Jared Polis, because there isn't a perception that a
Speaker 5: Republican can win here, right.
Speaker 1: Right, No, that's right, and so you know, and money's
Speaker 1: going to follow money, right And so I remember when
Speaker 1: Hickenlooper first ran and there was Arisavarus if I remember, right,
Speaker 1: was the odds on favorite he was going to be
Speaker 1: the new mayor, and then Hi could look started at
Speaker 1: about three percent, and then he started to catch fire
Speaker 1: and then you know, then people were backing up brings
Speaker 1: trucks to give his campaign money and by the end
Speaker 1: I think he won going away. So you know that
Speaker 1: the money will follow money, the money will follow success.
Speaker 1: So let's say Elon Musk said we're going to have
Speaker 1: a Republican senator from Colorado.
Speaker 2: Is there any amount of money he could spend.
Speaker 1: To win that race for the GOP, assuming again a
Speaker 1: good senate candidate.
Speaker 3: I do believe that there is an amount.
Speaker 5: Again, I don't know what that number would be, Dan,
Speaker 5: but it would need to be one that would level
Speaker 5: the playing field in terms of eyeballs getting the messaging
Speaker 5: out there, television advertising being tops among.
Speaker 3: Those, and it's just reach.
Speaker 5: I think there are a lot of people who are
Speaker 5: entrenched in the way that they vote and they haven't
Speaker 5: been moved because they haven't been spoken to directly. And
Speaker 5: one person I think that provided a bit of a
Speaker 5: roadmap on a smaller scale of how to run a
Speaker 5: successful campaign and a competitive district was Gabe Evans against you,
Speaker 5: Derek Caravellio. Yeah, brill was an incumbent member of the House,
Speaker 5: and he ran a really good campaign and he had
Speaker 5: a lot of eyeballs on his campaign.
Speaker 1: Brilliant, brilliant, and then the challenge obviously, you know that
Speaker 1: district was probably DEM plus two or three. Statewides probably
Speaker 1: DEM plus nine or ten. But listen, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: if Elon Musk committed to know we're going to have
Speaker 1: a Republican governor in Colorado, I think we'd have one because,
Speaker 1: first of all, if he's ready to commit the money,
Speaker 1: then you're going to have probably a broader pool of.
Speaker 2: Candidates to get in.
Speaker 1: Second, it's how you spend the money, right, because the
Speaker 1: way Police spent his money to buy his offices was
Speaker 1: very smart because it wasn't just pouring it into media
Speaker 1: because at a certain point that just saturates and people
Speaker 1: tune out right police spent the money on infrastructure, on offices,
Speaker 1: on people to go door to door, get out the vote,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Elon Musk did the same thing in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: did the same thing other places in the Trump campaign,
Speaker 1: so he knows how to do it. That terrifies the Democrats.
Speaker 1: The other thing that terrifies them is that he and
Speaker 1: his team have the knowledge when it comes to cyber
Speaker 1: sleuthing electronically stored information, to be able to get into
Speaker 1: these systems.
Speaker 2: The Democrats are going to court.
Speaker 1: To keep them out of get into these systems and
Speaker 1: see where the frauds are, identify patterns in a way
Speaker 1: that the GOP has never been able to do before.
Speaker 1: I think that terrifies them. Hey, let me get back
Speaker 1: to this really important story and this fair question Ryan
Speaker 1: raised of what should happen to whoever in the Trump
Speaker 1: administration is responsible for what appears to be a seismic
Speaker 1: breach in national security that fortunately did not have any
Speaker 1: negative consequences, but it could have been disastrous. And as
Speaker 1: I understand the story, and maybe new facts will arise
Speaker 1: that make this understanding incorrect, but as I understand the story,
Speaker 1: the Trump team had the core of the Trump team,
Speaker 1: including VP of Ants, etc. And Secretary of Defense Pete
Speaker 1: Hagsath and many others had formed this group that was
Speaker 1: communicating in advance of the plan strike on the terrorist
Speaker 1: Hutis and Yeomen, and they were debating whether to carry
Speaker 1: out the strike, etc.
Speaker 2: And someone on the team, it appears.
Speaker 1: To be National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, accidentally looped in
Speaker 1: a reporter from The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg. And so that's
Speaker 1: the version of the story out there right now. And
Speaker 1: so this reporter was privy to all of these top
Speaker 1: secret discussions and plans, and obviously if he had reported
Speaker 1: it real time that it would have blown up the operation,
Speaker 1: potentially endangered Americans and American assets, etc. So really serious deal.
Speaker 1: And then there are two issues. There's what should the
Speaker 1: consequence be for Michael Waltz if he's the one who
Speaker 1: made that mistake? And number two, if somebody made a
Speaker 1: decision not to tell President Trump.
Speaker 2: Because President Trump.
Speaker 1: The media today when he was asked about it, he said,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything about this. Tell me what the
Speaker 1: story is. They told him what the story is, and
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, haven't heard anything about this. It obviously
Speaker 1: didn't undermine the operation because the operation was very successful.
Speaker 1: But I think the point is it could have blown
Speaker 1: up the whole operation if the reporter had leaked. It
Speaker 1: could have been even worse if the person had bad motivations.
Speaker 2: So love your take on this.
Speaker 1: Three or three someone three eight two five five text
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Speaker 2: I've already staked it out with Ryan.
Speaker 1: In terms of Michael Waltz, Listen, people make mistakes, right.
Speaker 1: This isn't like the premeditated, deliberate, planned, horrifically botched surrender
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. This is kind of a one off mistake
Speaker 1: that could have had disastrous consequences. I don't think it
Speaker 1: would justify firing him because of his overall fine service elsewhere.
Speaker 1: And then on the separate issue of did somebody.
Speaker 2: Keep it from Trump?
Speaker 1: I don't think we can know that yet, Ryan, because
Speaker 1: I don't know what the timing was between the story
Speaker 1: breaking and Trump being confronted by those reporters. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it happened simultaneously, or if there was a
Speaker 1: gap in there that would have allowed his team time
Speaker 1: to inform it.
Speaker 5: They should have gotten ahead of this, Dan, You know,
Speaker 5: I come from the world of media NPR, and there's
Speaker 5: a bad story, you get in front of it, you
Speaker 5: own it. You operate from a position of strength, so
Speaker 5: you control the story. He was blindsided by this. I
Speaker 5: watched the press conference, Dan, and what President Trump responded
Speaker 5: with was, this is the first I'm hearing about this.
Speaker 5: And I think you could even sense his anger in
Speaker 5: that moment that where were my people to tell me
Speaker 5: about this so I'd be ready for this question. And
Speaker 5: I got to believe he got hot behind closed doors.
Speaker 5: That's just my opinion.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Listen, if it did not happen simultaneously, if
Speaker 1: his team knew about it, and there was any delay
Speaker 1: in informing him that this had happened, yeah, then at
Speaker 1: that point somebody needs to be fired, because that's a
Speaker 1: lot different than the initial mistake, as tragic as that
Speaker 1: mistake could have been, but yeah, if somebody made a
Speaker 1: decision not to inform the commander in chief that this
Speaker 1: had happened, yeah, then there have to be some serious consequences. Again,
Speaker 1: I just don't know if it all happened simultaneously, So
Speaker 1: love your thoughts on that. And why isn't Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: scheduled a town hall in Denver. Is he afraid of
Speaker 1: the reaction among voters of color to Democrats. Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: just apparently got blasted at a town hall of hers
Speaker 1: by Democrat voters of color.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 3: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast talking.
Speaker 1: About this really unfortunate major breach of security and we
Speaker 1: just laid out the details a few minutes ago, and
Speaker 1: whether President Trump needs to fire anybody or not, So
Speaker 1: taking your thoughts three or three someone three eight two
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Speaker 1: Thank god it did not undermine the operation against the
Speaker 1: terrorist Uzis, and that the reporter Jeffrey Goldberg from the left,
Speaker 1: no fan of the Trump administration, did not report any
Speaker 1: of the details prior to the strike. Apparently he was
Speaker 1: accidentally looped into this chain involving the Vice President Marco Rubio, hegseat, etc.
Speaker 1: As they debated and then planned this mission. And then
Speaker 1: the second important issue is did the team leave President
Speaker 1: Trump in the dark? I don't know the answer to
Speaker 1: that because I don't know whether the story broke simultaneously
Speaker 1: with the President being asked about it by the media.
Speaker 1: But if anybody chose to leave him in the dark. Then, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think some kind of head needs to roll there.
Speaker 1: Ryan's sorry to be the bearer of bad news, my friend.
Speaker 1: But Hooters of America preparing to file for bankruptcy.
Speaker 3: Huh, it was just there, thank goodness.
Speaker 1: But you know, they've never been in very good for
Speaker 1: anchel shape because they couldn't even afford to clothe their waitresses.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: They did have a Heyday at one point, though, Dan,
Speaker 5: they were very popular. I want to stay in the
Speaker 5: nineties is probably.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you, why do you think
Speaker 2: that heyday was?
Speaker 3: Probably? Then I go there for the wings, like I told.
Speaker 1: You, Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, no, And people call things
Speaker 1: all sorts of things. But yeah, no, because I remember
Speaker 1: we used to go there all the time after softball,
Speaker 1: and then a few of our guys got married, and
Speaker 1: then we stopped going there because the wives obviously weren't
Speaker 1: fans of it.
Speaker 3: Why not, the wives have nothing to worry about?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean would Now, you're fortunate.
Speaker 1: Your fiance is stunning and intelligent and everything else.
Speaker 2: I mean, she's amazing. But let's say that.
Speaker 1: She wanted to take you out to dinner, to the Chippendale's.
Speaker 1: How would you feel about.
Speaker 5: That a little differently? You know, I'd go along with it.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't bother me too much. But yeah, to your point,
Speaker 5: but Hooters would never be my first choice, like to
Speaker 5: take her.
Speaker 1: No, I stopped going once I met Amy, because you
Speaker 1: don't take a sandwich to a banquet, right, and Amy
Speaker 1: is the banquet if somebody's multitasking and not.
Speaker 2: Tracking that on right right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, some textures here because I've been debating
Speaker 1: now whether I need to get a Tesla. Great cars,
Speaker 1: but I never intended to just to push back against
Speaker 1: the terrorists. So I was asking if there's a place
Speaker 1: in Colorado that does a great job of wrapping vehicles,
Speaker 1: because if I was to get a cyber truck, I
Speaker 1: think i'd want.
Speaker 2: To wrap it.
Speaker 1: And somebody said, Dan, they have so much square footage
Speaker 1: on the cyber truck, would be hard to wrap huge
Speaker 1: mobile billboard, which is another concept, right, because if you're
Speaker 1: going to wrap a car, then you can put any
Speaker 1: kind of design on it you want. You just have
Speaker 1: to print on the wrap. But I don't see me
Speaker 1: doing that. Yeah, I don't know if I'm going to
Speaker 1: put a design on it what it would be. But
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun to think about because you never
Speaker 1: think about painting a design on your car, But if
Speaker 1: you're going to wrap your car, I'd.
Speaker 3: Like to see this, Dan, you got to put this
Speaker 3: plan into action.
Speaker 2: And then what color would you wrap up cyber truck in?
Speaker 3: What colors do those come in?
Speaker 5: Because to me, they've been all rather neutral and metallic,
Speaker 5: like silver or black.
Speaker 2: Ass just the silver.
Speaker 1: I think there's a basic black, maybe it basic white,
Speaker 1: but I have not yet seen a color that I
Speaker 1: really love the cyber truck. I think it's a great
Speaker 1: vehicle and I'd love to have one.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 1: That Tesla Cyberbeast will do zero to sixty and two
Speaker 1: point four with the top speed of one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't need all that, but I'd enjoy driving it. Dan,
Speaker 1: the cyber truck is frequently mistaken for a dumpster by raccoons.
Speaker 1: I think you just need to keep the back closed.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 1: I agree with Ryan, the cyber trucks are but ugly.
Speaker 1: But if the point of the truck is to push
Speaker 1: back against terrorism, doesn't it become more attractive? Oh yeah, absolutely, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know but if anybody knows of a
Speaker 1: place in Colorado that does a great job of wrapping,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd love to know about that. And then
Speaker 1: just just a little preview, what do you think Mayor
Speaker 1: Mike Johnston was hiding when he would go to such
Speaker 1: extreme links, according to CBS four, to be using an
Speaker 1: encrypted app with his team to communicate about immigration issues
Speaker 1: quote unquote, so that the communications would immediately auto delete
Speaker 1: and therefore the public could not exercise their right to
Speaker 1: know under the Colorado Open Records Act.
Speaker 2: What do you think he was hiding?
Speaker 3: Well, he doesn't want to leave a paper trail.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But but why because he was probably doing some
Speaker 5: things that the public would not approve of should they
Speaker 5: find out?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, No, that seems to be a pretty easy inference.
Speaker 1: Right, And does it and I pose it as a question,
Speaker 1: does it have anything to do with now spending millions
Speaker 1: of dollars of taxpayer money on a big fancy DC
Speaker 1: law firm? Uh huh Yeah No, I mean listen, once
Speaker 1: you go to that extreme to try to defeat the
Speaker 1: public right to know under KORRA, isn't that just a
Speaker 1: public admission that you're doing things the public would disapprove
Speaker 1: of and don't they expect at that point the public
Speaker 1: will wonder whether they were involved.
Speaker 2: In illegal activities.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so we'll follow up on that more.
Speaker 2: Hey, Ryan, thanks your great job today.
Speaker 1: As always, Kelly, you are human sunshine in its distilled form.
Speaker 2: Be safe tonight, join us tomorrow please on The Dancapitre
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