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Speaker 1: we protect our children. And as we sit here right
Speaker 1: now at four h six, we know that the next
Speaker 1: mass shootings, the next school shootings in Colorado, are being
Speaker 1: planned as we speak, and we hope and we pray
Speaker 1: and we work to make sure that those monsters who
Speaker 1: are planning the next school shootings here, that they fail,
Speaker 1: that they're thwarted along the way. But we know that's happening,
Speaker 1: and we know it's coming. And yet we have so many,
Speaker 1: so many on the left who are opposed to just
Speaker 1: these practical, common sense efforts to protect the kids. They
Speaker 1: would rather literally, they would rather have the kids their defenseless,
Speaker 1: the teachers, the staff, they're defenseless when the monsters show up.
Speaker 1: Then they would have a good guy or good gale
Speaker 1: with a gun there to give him a fighting chance.
Speaker 2: It's it's one of.
Speaker 1: The sickest, most bizarre things I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: But that's the reality on the ground in Colorado. And
Speaker 1: you think of all those schools out there right now,
Speaker 1: all those schools out there right now that no, they
Speaker 1: know they have gaping holes in their security. Those schools
Speaker 1: that don't have an armed good guy or gale, they
Speaker 1: know for sure they are defenseless if the monster chooses
Speaker 1: their school. And guess what, the monsters notice that two.
Speaker 1: Look at the pattern of the monsters. Look at where
Speaker 1: the monsters go, and yes, sometimes they'll go to a
Speaker 1: school with the gun there, but very very often they
Speaker 1: know where there are no guns, and that's where they go,
Speaker 1: or that's why they go. Three all three seven three
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Speaker 1: seven seven three nine. Obviously, we're talking about that today
Speaker 1: because of the latest school shooting, this at Florida State
Speaker 1: University and two dead, five injured at this point, so
Speaker 1: we'll weave that in and out of the show today.
Speaker 1: But it is it's just so stunning to me that
Speaker 1: the Left would really leave these schools unprotected and undefended.
Speaker 2: The other piece of it is, well.
Speaker 1: First of all, listen, any state, any society, any organization
Speaker 1: of any kind that can't protect their children at that
Speaker 1: point is fatally flawed to begin with, or won't protect
Speaker 1: their children. But what's remarkable to me here is we've
Speaker 1: got this sacred trust to protect the kids. Right, and
Speaker 1: then on top of that, the left at this point,
Speaker 1: the modern Democratic Party totally beholden to two things. One
Speaker 1: is abortion on demand and the other is teachers' unions.
Speaker 1: Screw the kids, it's pleased the teachers' unions. The kids
Speaker 1: don't have the money, the kids can't vote, the kids
Speaker 1: don't have the boots on the ground.
Speaker 2: The teachers' union does.
Speaker 1: So the attitude of the Colorado Democratic Party and the
Speaker 1: modern Democratic Party is screw the kids, We just got
Speaker 1: to make the teachers unions happy. But what's so remarkable
Speaker 1: about this, this fierce opposition to doing what actually would
Speaker 1: protect the kids in schools from these school shooters good
Speaker 1: guy Gail with guns, is that you've got faculty in
Speaker 1: staff in harm's way as well, and the top priority
Speaker 1: should be the children. And the faculty and staff would
Speaker 1: agree with that too, Right. We've seen such heroic faculty
Speaker 1: and staff in the face of gunfire before, such as
Speaker 1: Dave Sanders at Columbine, the janitors at Columbine. There are
Speaker 1: other examples out there, but yet the Democratic Party in
Speaker 1: Colorado would leave the faculty and staff totally defenseless as well.
Speaker 2: In so many of these situations.
Speaker 1: So well, eventually, I hope the voters at Colorado can
Speaker 1: see that and say, no, we don't want those people
Speaker 1: in charge. Three or three seOne three eight two five
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Speaker 1: So not the plan topic for the show because we
Speaker 1: were hoping there wouldn't be a school shooting today, but
Speaker 1: all too often it turns out that way.
Speaker 2: Lots to kick around today.
Speaker 1: Remarkable editorial in the Denver Post, and I guess they're
Speaker 1: one for two this week, right because they did hammer
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett just after his announcement, which was well deserved
Speaker 1: and very much fun for.
Speaker 2: The rest of us.
Speaker 1: They swining missed on this one, though Polue's signature can
Speaker 1: end Colorado's two tier justice system. This is a house editorial.
Speaker 1: Now listen, you don't have to live in Denver for
Speaker 1: this to matter to you. In fact, this applies directly
Speaker 1: to everybody across the state. But what it's talking about
Speaker 1: is it's talking about the fact that because statewide that
Speaker 1: the Colorado Democratic Party police, etc. Has become so overtly
Speaker 1: pro criminal and anti victim. You have all these state
Speaker 1: laws now that are just way, way, way too soft.
Speaker 1: So of course you have the increasing crime that comes
Speaker 1: with that. So you have some cities and towns that
Speaker 1: have set no, wait a second, no, we can't have this,
Speaker 1: we can't have all this crime. I don't care what
Speaker 1: Jared Polish wants. I don't care what the Colorado Democrats want.
Speaker 1: We don't want this here. We can't survive filling the
Speaker 1: blank here. So what do they do? They go out
Speaker 1: and they get these municipal local ordinances where they have
Speaker 1: stiffer penalties.
Speaker 2: It maybe for shoplifting, it may be for other things.
Speaker 1: And so what are the criminal loving Colorado Democrat Party
Speaker 1: folks do? They come in and say, oh, no, you
Speaker 1: can't have that anymore. They pass a bill that say no,
Speaker 1: you can't have any penalties stiffer in your town, your
Speaker 1: city or village. Then we have state wide Well think
Speaker 1: about how wrong that is on multiple levels, right, But anyway,
Speaker 1: so they have passed this law. Now, my law partner,
Speaker 1: John Kellner at our firm, who is DA in Repo, Douglas, Albert,
Speaker 1: and Lincoln until recently wrote a great piece, a great
Speaker 1: piece on why Polish should veto this and why this
Speaker 1: new legislation is so wrong that was published in the gazette.
Speaker 1: But Police has indicated that he is probably going to
Speaker 1: veto this bill, as as my partner John wanted him
Speaker 1: to do. But the Denver Post is having none of that,
Speaker 1: so they step in with this editorial today.
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
Speaker 1: Polus's signature can end Colorado's two tier justice system. Colorado
Speaker 1: lawmakers have passed an end to two tier justices Colorado's
Speaker 1: two tier justice system. Now Governor Jared Polis just needs
Speaker 1: to sign House Bill eleven forty seven. The Denver Post
Speaker 1: reporters highlighted the injustice of allowing municipal courts to carry
Speaker 1: much harsher sentences for nonviolent petty crimes than state courts.
Speaker 1: In a series of stories last year, The Posts found
Speaker 1: that not only were people spending months in jail for
Speaker 1: minor retail thefts that would have resulted in only a
Speaker 1: few days sentence in state court, but that indi gender
Speaker 1: poor defendants weren't guaranteed access to an attorney in unicourt,
Speaker 1: resulting in longer sentences without any representation. House Bill eleven
Speaker 1: forty seven would prohibit municipal courts from having harsher minimum
Speaker 1: sentences than state courts, thus reducing the temptation for law
Speaker 1: enforcement and prosecutors to funnel cases to municipal courts to
Speaker 1: get harsher sentences without facing tough legal counsel. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that's the way that they started these Wait a second,
Speaker 1: like these police officers and prosecutors would be diabolically tempted to, Oh,
Speaker 1: let's be evil, let's go file this cad in case
Speaker 1: in municipal courts so we can wrongfully punish this person
Speaker 1: over here. No, wait a second, deadver post. These are
Speaker 1: the people out there putting their lives on the line
Speaker 1: as law enforcement officers and the prosecutors who are taking
Speaker 1: their God given skills to a prosecutor's job to serve
Speaker 1: the public.
Speaker 2: And you make them out to.
Speaker 1: Be plotting this diabolical scheme to wrongly punish people. No,
Speaker 1: they are trying to protect the community. Jared Polis and
Speaker 1: the Colorado Democrats are not. It's that simple.
Speaker 2: That's why these communities pass these laws.
Speaker 1: They don't want crime, they don't like crime, they don't
Speaker 1: worship criminals. They exist for victims. So anyway, and here's
Speaker 1: where I think that just the starting point the Post
Speaker 1: gets it backwards. This isn't a two tiered justice system
Speaker 1: in Colorado when municipalities can punish more severely. No, the
Speaker 1: problem is Colorado right now has a one tiered justice system,
Speaker 1: and that is the one that exists in the cities
Speaker 1: and municipalities, et cetera. The one that should exist at
Speaker 1: the state level is being undermined and gutted all the
Speaker 1: time by Jared Polis and the Colorado Democratic Party. So
Speaker 1: the one tiered justice system we have have is in
Speaker 1: the cities and towns and villages. The one they want
Speaker 1: to do away with is the one we have. You
Speaker 1: can't call what we have at the state level now
Speaker 1: a justice system, not the way that the people of
Speaker 1: the state would want it. You have a lot of good,
Speaker 1: hardworking people in it, but you got the politicians undermining
Speaker 1: the good hardworking people within that state justice system. So no,
Speaker 1: we got a one tiered system now. It is in
Speaker 1: the municipalities, and the Denver Post and the rest of
Speaker 1: the Colorado Democratic Party want.
Speaker 2: To take that away.
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Speaker 1: One of the topics we're going to have on the
Speaker 1: show today is is just the surge in Christianity in
Speaker 1: Colorado and listen, it may very well be the same
Speaker 1: in Judaism. It might be and other faiths as well.
Speaker 1: You know, I happen to be Catholic, and so I
Speaker 1: see it in the Catholic Church and you can also
Speaker 1: see it very much on the ground and other Christian
Speaker 1: denominations and just want to talk about and you can
Speaker 1: see in the numbers it's happening nationally as well. Just
Speaker 1: what you think is behind that and how to keep
Speaker 1: this growth going in the future. So it's just it's
Speaker 1: a fascinating thing to see. It's a really cool thing
Speaker 1: to see. There are some theories that it kind of
Speaker 1: lines up with with Trump getting this second term and
Speaker 1: Americans just feeling freed, you know, freed from the cancel culture,
Speaker 1: et cetera. But I can tell you anecdotally, and you
Speaker 1: shouldn't even say anecdotally because it's all the time, just
Speaker 1: the numbers at church and you know, depending upon we
Speaker 1: have a home parish. But we bounce around some just
Speaker 1: depending upon what's going on that week, maybe where I'm
Speaker 1: trying a case where where some family stuff's.
Speaker 2: Happening, but it's just all over the place.
Speaker 1: It's not like, okay, we go to these churches and
Speaker 1: they're jammed and then the other one's crickets. Now it's
Speaker 1: all over the place, which makes it a little tough
Speaker 1: if you're looking for parking.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But yesterday I thought, okay, you know, I'll head over
Speaker 1: hit confession on my way into work.
Speaker 2: Et cetera.
Speaker 1: And I'm usually at work very very very early, but
Speaker 1: I got my stuff done and confession starts at eight.
Speaker 1: I walk in at eight. How many people do you
Speaker 1: think we're in line for confession at eight in the morning?
Speaker 3: Ran?
Speaker 2: How many people do you think we're in line for
Speaker 2: confession at eight in the morning. Eleven?
Speaker 1: It was probably close to one hundred, oh wow, And
Speaker 1: so it was. Then it was over a two hour
Speaker 1: a way, which, hey, it's great, but it's remarkable. And
Speaker 1: then you know, in the middle of that, there was
Speaker 1: a full mass, like the normal nine o'clock mass. I
Speaker 1: thought I'd be out of there long before the nine
Speaker 1: o'clock mass, and the nine o'clock Mass was jammed. But
Speaker 1: and then people say, well it's Holy week, but you
Speaker 1: know what, let's say bless me father. I've said my
Speaker 1: last confession was I think three months three months ago,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't a Holy week then. And the last
Speaker 1: time I went, there are about one hundred people in line.
Speaker 1: So I'm just telling you, and this is happening all
Speaker 1: over the place, and just just as surge in Christianity,
Speaker 1: and we may hear from our Jewish brothers and sisters,
Speaker 1: it's the same there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it is a beautiful.
Speaker 1: Remarkable thing to behold, and it ties into something else
Speaker 1: I want to get to, probably in the next segment.
Speaker 1: But some polling reported on by Newsweek that that young
Speaker 1: voters are now solidly Republican. And you talk about sea
Speaker 1: change kind of stuff, because we talk all the time about,
Speaker 1: you know, voters of color, and when we start to
Speaker 1: see the shift happen there, generally that's going to be
Speaker 1: death for the modern Democratic Party and then the GOP
Speaker 1: just has to deliver, right, And we're starting to see
Speaker 1: a shift there, but a dramatic shift among young voters.
Speaker 1: And why do you think that is? I would love
Speaker 1: your take. D An five seven, seven, three nine. You
Speaker 1: will be shocked to hear that. I do have a
Speaker 1: take of my own on that. One of the goofier
Speaker 1: things I've ever seen in my life is how you
Speaker 1: now have all of these prominent national Democrats, and I
Speaker 1: put prominent in quotes, I should say more precisely, they're
Speaker 1: well known, who are now their cause? Their cause is
Speaker 1: this alleged MS thirteen gang member who was deported to
Speaker 1: El Salvador, which happens to.
Speaker 2: Be where he's from.
Speaker 1: There's a question as to whether a mistake was made
Speaker 1: procedurally and whether he should not have been deported to
Speaker 1: El Salvador, and the administration says no, the deportation was proper, etc.
Speaker 2: But there's a question out there on that.
Speaker 1: But what's so fascinating to me is that this has
Speaker 1: become the cause for so many Democrats. The Maryland man
Speaker 1: Kilmarrobrego Garcia, the Maryland man got to bring him back. Well,
Speaker 1: they don't care at all, right about the Maryland woman
Speaker 1: just absolutely viciously murdered by somebody here illegally, not by
Speaker 1: this particular person here illegally. But you don't hear these
Speaker 1: democrats stepping up and talking about.
Speaker 2: The Maryland woman at all. We'll hear from her mother
Speaker 2: in a bit.
Speaker 1: But listen to Tim Walls now saying, wait a second,
Speaker 1: if you're not speaking up for the Maryland man.
Speaker 2: Well there'll be no one left.
Speaker 4: I have come to understand what Donald Trump, what pops
Speaker 4: into his head and he says he's going to carry
Speaker 4: it out. I once again, he talked about the tariffs,
Speaker 4: he talked about you know, he's going to deport people,
Speaker 4: and this whole thing.
Speaker 1: With mister So his first line of attack on Trump
Speaker 1: is he keeps his promises.
Speaker 2: You're off to a good start.
Speaker 3: Braille Garcia.
Speaker 4: It's that old wisdom and terrifying is if you're not
Speaker 4: speaking up for this man, there will be no one left.
Speaker 2: To speak up for you. Do they have legalized marijuana
Speaker 2: in Minnesota?
Speaker 3: Can not sure?
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, one of the stupidest things I've ever said,
Speaker 1: he's ever said. And I know he's not a stupid man.
Speaker 1: Why is he saying things like this that if we
Speaker 1: don't speak up for this guy. Have you seen this
Speaker 1: guy's history, If we don't speak up for him.
Speaker 2: There'll be nobody left to speak up for you.
Speaker 1: Please keep saying that, Tim, if there was a fund
Speaker 1: riding we could contribute to and be sure it wouldn't
Speaker 1: get siphoned off by Walls for other stuff or by
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party for other stuff. I would contribute to
Speaker 1: a fund that guaranteed that Tim Walls keeps saying these things.
Speaker 4: There's Chris Krabs that they're going after for simply I
Speaker 4: know Chris Crabs.
Speaker 2: He's a Republican.
Speaker 4: He was there to provide election security in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: He did it, and all he said was it was
Speaker 4: a fair election.
Speaker 1: They're come, boy, I hope they keep riding this horse, right,
Speaker 1: and he's not alone. But then let's go over to
Speaker 1: CNN and they've got some actual polling, which I know
Speaker 1: Walls doesn't like.
Speaker 2: Very much because it's never very good for him.
Speaker 1: But CNN talks about what the people of America want
Speaker 1: to port.
Speaker 5: All undocumented immigrants, voters favoring the government trying to deport
Speaker 5: all eleven million of them. Back in twenty sixteen, just
Speaker 5: thirty eight percent of voters wanted the government to to
Speaker 5: try to the port all eleven million undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 3: Compare it to where we are in twenty.
Speaker 5: Twenty five, fifty six percent. The majority the American people
Speaker 5: have come a long way on this issue, much closer
Speaker 5: to Donald Trump, and I think that's a big part
Speaker 5: of the reason why Americans are increasingly saying the country
Speaker 5: is on the right track when it comes to immigration policy,
Speaker 5: and why Donald Trump's not approval rating on that issue
Speaker 5: is in the positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which really bodes quite poorly right for Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: an Fhelwise, whoever the nominey is, we're assuming it will
Speaker 1: be Bennett, and Nanny.
Speaker 2: Appears to have it wired. Speaking of which, I've got
Speaker 2: to get to this.
Speaker 1: Great clapback from Mayor webs supporting Bennett and going after
Speaker 1: the Denver Post and the post saying the obvious common
Speaker 1: sense thing, no Pennant should resign his Senate seat to
Speaker 1: run for governors. So we'll get to that clapback after
Speaker 1: the next break. But extraordinarily vulnerable is Bennett Wiser as well,
Speaker 1: but Bennett Moore. So when it comes to protecting those
Speaker 1: illegally who commit other crimes, well, Wiser's equally vulnerable on that.
Speaker 1: But they have been so extreme on that, so extreme
Speaker 1: on that in the past. The challenge for the GOP
Speaker 1: nominee is going to be finding a way to let
Speaker 1: the people of Colorado know that, right, because Bennett and Wiser,
Speaker 1: whoever it is, they're going to be so protected by
Speaker 1: almost all of the Colorado press that the challenge is
Speaker 1: going to be how do you get the truth to
Speaker 1: enough people to be able to defeat them on election day?
Speaker 1: That's that's going to be the big challenge. Because you've
Speaker 1: got the truth, you've got that electoral ammal, but how
Speaker 1: do you get it to the people when you've got
Speaker 1: almost all of the media determined to make sure they
Speaker 1: don't learn the truth because they can't handle the truth?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the idea of this leftist media.
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Speaker 1: true Ryan that Letitia James, the New York Attorney General,
Speaker 1: maybe facing prosecution.
Speaker 2: Herself a man? What would you call that? What would
Speaker 2: the word for that be? Karma?
Speaker 1: And just tremendous? And how do you define karma? My friend?
Speaker 1: We should get your definition of karma?
Speaker 2: Just tremendous.
Speaker 1: Text coming in after doctor Catherine Willer, who used to
Speaker 1: be an abortionist, talked on the show yesterday about the
Speaker 1: reality of abortion.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 1: Podcast Colorado, you can clearly see it. Anybody who happens
Speaker 1: to be Christian and you're going to your different services, etc.
Speaker 1: Certainly within the Catholic Christian community. It is so why
Speaker 1: do you think that's happening? And what's it going to
Speaker 1: take for that to continue? Three or three someone three
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Speaker 2: Seven three nine.
Speaker 1: I was telling the story of going to confession yesterday
Speaker 1: two hour line and God loved the priest for hanging
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 2: It's one thing.
Speaker 1: Ryan, when I was back in the seminary, and that
Speaker 1: was high school, four high school years, you know, you
Speaker 1: would think about you think of what would it be
Speaker 1: like to hear these confessions.
Speaker 2: I wonder what you're going to hear in there.
Speaker 1: And it's not like you do practice confessions or anything,
Speaker 1: but yeah, what would that be like? That would have
Speaker 1: to be fascinating. Now I can't even talk to my
Speaker 1: uncle about it. You know.
Speaker 2: I called him the other night.
Speaker 1: I mean I called him to congratulate him on I
Speaker 1: think his sixty seventh year as a priest anniversary. And
Speaker 1: he's still doing three or four messes a week, incredible
Speaker 1: and call him in his happy anniversary one anniversary. I mean,
Speaker 1: he'd completely forgotten, you know, because he's so busy being
Speaker 1: a priest.
Speaker 2: He forgot that was his anniversary.
Speaker 1: But I can never even talk to him about the
Speaker 1: confession stuff because that's so locked up, that's so sacred.
Speaker 1: You can't even hint at what's happening there. The closest
Speaker 1: I've ever come to any good confession stories from him,
Speaker 1: and it's not like I.
Speaker 2: Push for it is I called him one day.
Speaker 1: I think about, you know, the Bears had lost a
Speaker 1: tough game or something, and I called him one day
Speaker 1: because he's back at you. I'll go obviously, and and
Speaker 1: he's whispery.
Speaker 2: I say, hey, I get you a bad time.
Speaker 1: He said, no, I'm just hearing a confession and I'll
Speaker 1: get you later.
Speaker 2: He said, no, I just told the guy that that
Speaker 2: it's God calling.
Speaker 1: So it was not quite Obviously, President Trump, you will
Speaker 1: said that.
Speaker 2: You aren't worried about allies broke closer to China, so
Speaker 2: souls from.
Speaker 3: Terras And this week we saw Chinese president and visit
Speaker 3: three our allies.
Speaker 2: Should you be worried?
Speaker 1: No, no, nobody, nobody can compete with us, nobody name.
Speaker 2: Why didn't we have the phone call an We're going
Speaker 2: to be a good deal. We'll have I think we
Speaker 2: have a I think we're going to make a very
Speaker 2: good deal with Channa.
Speaker 1: I think I think that you will see it will
Speaker 1: make a very good deal with Shadow.
Speaker 2: And that's going to be fascinating.
Speaker 1: We've seen it over and over again, right like Wiley,
Speaker 1: Coyote and Roadrunner, and that is the Democrats freak over
Speaker 1: this right.
Speaker 2: Uh troup.
Speaker 1: He's crushing the economy, disaster, everybody in breadlines. And then
Speaker 1: Trump's going to pull this off, and then the market's
Speaker 1: going to soar. Everything's going to be better than it
Speaker 1: was before, right because we're going to be in a
Speaker 1: better place after we get whatever deal he's going to get,
Speaker 1: even if it's not a perfect deal, maybe it will
Speaker 1: be a big, beautiful deal, but we're going to be
Speaker 1: better off than we were before. Trump's going to emerge victorious,
Speaker 1: as he almost always does, and the Democrats are going
Speaker 1: to be left even worse for it, right because right
Speaker 1: now they are openly rooting against the success of America, right,
Speaker 1: and so they're going to end up worse for it.
Speaker 1: I want to get to this. This is a Mayor
Speaker 1: Wellington Web for those new to the area. He was
Speaker 1: mayor of Denver for a long time. And you know,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite Democrats. I mean, we disagree on
Speaker 1: virtually everything in my constitutionally protected opinion. His administration came
Speaker 1: after me and tried to personally destroy me, is the
Speaker 1: way I look at it. When when I was pursuing
Speaker 1: on Channel four an investigation of the Web administration at
Speaker 1: that time in connection with Tia.
Speaker 2: And but Meri.
Speaker 1: Webb's one of my absolute favorite Democrats because you know
Speaker 1: he he's a big time guy.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I know that I'm going to disagree on the big
Speaker 1: issues of the day with virtually every big time Democrat.
Speaker 2: But give me a big time guy or.
Speaker 1: Gale instead of these small time operators. And and look
Speaker 1: at the small time operators we have. We used to
Speaker 1: have big time Democrats like you know a Wellington Webb,
Speaker 1: Gary Hart.
Speaker 2: Minus monkey business. You know, a Tim Worth and there
Speaker 2: are others. But these are these are big Todd Dotty Lamb.
Speaker 1: These are big time people who would just they'd sit
Speaker 1: down with you, they'd talk to you, they'd look you
Speaker 1: in the eye. They'd tell you what they believed, why
Speaker 1: they believed it. They'd listen to what you believe and
Speaker 1: why you believe it, and you'd have the conversation. We
Speaker 1: got a bunch of political midgets running around.
Speaker 6: Didn't Wellington web also have a meeting with you where
Speaker 6: he admitted he was wrong or something about what happened
Speaker 6: to you was.
Speaker 3: What a cool story?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah? He called me up one day and he said, hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: let's let's meet for lunch. He said, I've just heard
Speaker 1: about what you think happened here. And he never admitted anything.
Speaker 1: But what he said was he said, listen, man, if
Speaker 1: that happened way wrong, okay, and I'm very sorry that happened.
Speaker 2: If that happened.
Speaker 1: He didn't admit anything, but but you know, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, man and up or woman and up.
Speaker 2: Just you know. But but we got a bunch of
Speaker 2: small timers.
Speaker 1: Now you look at Mike Johnson, you look at Michael Bennett,
Speaker 1: these are small time operators.
Speaker 6: Well the guy you just named, could you imagine Jared
Speaker 6: Polis add to that list doing what Wellington Webb did
Speaker 6: right there at one point in time, at one point
Speaker 6: right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if.
Speaker 1: Polish changed dramatically right around COVID, But before that we
Speaker 1: used to agree on virtually everything. But we'd have lots
Speaker 1: of conversations on air and they were always pleasant and fun.
Speaker 1: And and then some big switch got thrown with him.
Speaker 1: So no that that Jared poul Us of Today, No,
Speaker 1: could not see that. At one point in time, John
Speaker 1: Hick and Looper, Yes, right, yeah, he came on the show.
Speaker 1: He used to come on the show all the time.
Speaker 1: We'd have these great conversations everything else. And then I
Speaker 1: ran in a charity dinner once and he just said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: my folks tell me I have nothing to gain by
Speaker 1: going on the show.
Speaker 3: Well that's honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right right, So Hick and Looper, I don't
Speaker 1: put in the same small timer bucket that I put
Speaker 1: a Mike Johnston or Michael Bennett.
Speaker 2: You know, I still disagree with Hick and Looper.
Speaker 1: And all that stuff, but oh, but where are the
Speaker 1: big timers now?
Speaker 6: Bennett has done a bit by his standards of a
Speaker 6: media blitz. You know, he was on Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 6: Kelly's laughing. He was that's a great show. Well, no
Speaker 6: it is, but what I'm what I'm getting at is
Speaker 6: because now he's in a gubernatorial race.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you think maybe he might come on with you?
Speaker 2: No, because I hope he does.
Speaker 1: But listen, we were, you know, back when Capitalist and
Speaker 1: Silverman was like the show, and it was the show
Speaker 1: for a long time.
Speaker 2: Everybody came on, right, everybody from both sides came on.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter came on. Everybody came on.
Speaker 3: He was the place that.
Speaker 2: Bennett never would.
Speaker 1: And then ever, even then, he met the guy scared
Speaker 1: of his own shadow. You heard him on CNN when
Speaker 1: they ask him a simple question, so are you taking
Speaker 1: money for you're not taking money from billionaires? And you know,
Speaker 1: you would have thought the guy had a stroke. And
Speaker 1: then in the and he saw I don't understand your question.
Speaker 1: I mean, no, the guy scared of his own shadow.
Speaker 1: And then you heard with Rob Dawson from the News
Speaker 1: throw Oh yeah, when he and Rob is the most
Speaker 1: you know, down the middle kind of guy you can get.
Speaker 2: And Rob just asked the dis questions. So here, some
Speaker 2: people say you're not in colorado't know?
Speaker 1: And Bennett blows a fuse. I'm not talking about He
Speaker 1: didn't like lose his mind or anything.
Speaker 3: He was agitated.
Speaker 1: He was, he was annoyed, Yeah, you shouldn't get annoyed
Speaker 1: a question like that, but then annoyed to the point
Speaker 1: he had brain gass.
Speaker 3: And then he.
Speaker 1: Says, no, look to official in Colorado's but Ben state
Speaker 1: wide more than I have.
Speaker 2: You know, have you ever seen Michael Bennett anywhere?
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good Bennett impression.
Speaker 1: And I don't do impressions that just naturally happened. That's
Speaker 1: just and I cannot allow that to happen.
Speaker 6: Here's a big question I have, Dan, and I'm just
Speaker 6: calling this as like a pundit, a commentator like you
Speaker 6: and I are, because we're neutral.
Speaker 3: On this truly, Why hasn't Phil.
Speaker 6: Wiser come out and just come out swinging on Bennett
Speaker 6: holding onto his head, wants.
Speaker 3: The Senate seed that's lame. He wants the Senate seats blame.
Speaker 3: And what did I tell you the day this happened?
Speaker 1: Now, maybe Wiser stays in the race, but but right
Speaker 1: now I know dead people who are louder than Phil Wiser.
Speaker 1: And you just had Michael Bennett, you know, just kick
Speaker 1: him in the teeth, and so no, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what Bennett's doing. And I want to get to what
Speaker 1: mere Webb trying to defend Bennett on. They said, but
Speaker 1: that's what Bennett's doing, right, So he's mocking the people
Speaker 1: of color and saying, oh, no, no, you.
Speaker 2: Don't really need me as a senator.
Speaker 1: I'm going to run for governor and I'm going to
Speaker 1: hold onto this job and I'm going to appoint my
Speaker 1: own successor.
Speaker 2: And he's saying that so that he has that.
Speaker 1: Powerful leverage to keep everybody else, including phil Wiser, in line,
Speaker 1: because if phil Wiser wants that Senate appointment, well, phil
Speaker 1: Wiser better play ball. And Phil Wiser is in maybe
Speaker 1: one of the best positions to snare that job because
Speaker 1: he's the only big announced candidate for the governor on
Speaker 1: the Den side. If he gets out of the way
Speaker 1: for Bennett right now, he has to be thinking, ah,
Speaker 1: that gives me the inside track to get that Senate appointment.
Speaker 1: So it's just that the most typical Washington DC elitist,
Speaker 1: silver spoon type of move you could imagine by Bennett,
Speaker 1: and it's working.
Speaker 2: It's working.
Speaker 1: So when we come back, I'll tell you what Webb
Speaker 1: had to say, Merrit Webb had to say about that,
Speaker 1: And then want to get to much more and coming
Speaker 1: up at five.
Speaker 2: Zero, I hope you can be here.
Speaker 1: Then, really really important bill be in advanced by Democrats.
Speaker 1: I'm going to praise the heck out of it in
Speaker 1: the legislature. That would do something I've been demanding four
Speaker 1: years be done.
Speaker 2: It's on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Harris absolutely should not should not run for president in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Now, let's let me explain what we don't need any explanation.
Speaker 1: The reason I wanted to play that that's chrysalizza from
Speaker 1: the left is the fact that it's even a topic
Speaker 1: of conversation. Right There are so many reasons that we
Speaker 1: should all be so optimistic right now about the future.
Speaker 1: Colorado a tougher nut to crack, but the door's open.
Speaker 1: But nationally, oh my goodness, the fact they're even talking
Speaker 1: about Kamala Harris as a candidate in twenty and that
Speaker 1: Tim Waltz is out there saying that crazy Tim Waltz
Speaker 1: stuff right, trying to put himself in position that just
Speaker 1: tells you everything you need to know. Whereas on the
Speaker 1: GOP side, it is a.
Speaker 2: Bounty of riches.
Speaker 1: When you talk about all of the talent that's going
Speaker 1: to be seeking that nomination in twenty eight, it's spectacular.
Speaker 1: And it's another reason why you know, America suffered so
Speaker 1: much because Trump didn't get consecutive terms, and the world
Speaker 1: suffered so much because Trump didn't get consecutive terms. So
Speaker 1: much of this awfulness would not have happened if he had.
Speaker 1: But there are going to be some enormous advantages to
Speaker 1: the split terms, including the fact obviously he's just got
Speaker 1: his A plus game, but which doesn't mean perfect.
Speaker 2: It's a human condition, right. But at the same time.
Speaker 1: There's so much more opportunity for this GOP talent now
Speaker 1: to emerge and to keep growing. I mean, you see
Speaker 1: how much Marco Rubio has grown.
Speaker 2: Jd Ants.
Speaker 1: You've got so many who are going to be competing
Speaker 1: for that twenty eight nomination, and across the country you've
Speaker 1: got you've got a lot of great young GOP talents,
Speaker 1: So very encouraging.
Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of.
Speaker 1: Colorado, so we've been talking a lot about Michael Bennett,
Speaker 1: right because one of the things that is Colorado Republicans
Speaker 1: so hopeful now is it looks like he'll be the
Speaker 1: dem nominee, and he obviously is not qualified for this
Speaker 1: governor's job. He's nobody's ever done less with more than
Speaker 1: he has in the US Senate. So there's a real
Speaker 1: opening there, and then he botches it right out of
Speaker 1: the gate with this ultimate elitist power move that he's
Speaker 1: going to keep his Senate job and then appoint his
Speaker 1: own successor. Right even the Post had to hammer him
Speaker 1: for that, which brings us to Meyorweb, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite Democrats, then blasting the Post for blasting Bennett. So
Speaker 1: it says, Ray, this is from Mayorweb. Bennett should resign
Speaker 1: now and has run for governor. I write in response
Speaker 1: to the Denver Post ridiculous editorial this week calling on
Speaker 1: Senator Michael Bennett to resign his seat to run for governor.
Speaker 1: As I recall, the Denver Post did not call on
Speaker 1: Governor Jared Polis to resign from the House of Representatives
Speaker 1: when he ran for governor at the beginning of President
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first term, nor did the Post call on
Speaker 1: John Hickenlooper to resign his position as mayor when he
Speaker 1: first ran for governor in twenty fourteen. The Post conveniently
Speaker 1: has not called on Attorney General Phil Wiser to resign
Speaker 1: from his office to run for governor. Either Democrats will
Speaker 1: go to the polls in June twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Let the people decide.
Speaker 1: I think the mayor has some good points and some
Speaker 1: weak points. I think the good point is when it
Speaker 1: comes to Wiser. No, the attorney general's job. The nature
Speaker 1: of that job is if you're running for governor, you
Speaker 1: should resign that job because that position really needs somebody
Speaker 1: in it full time the public safety of the people
Speaker 1: at Colorado. So fair point, mayor Web. Now what that
Speaker 1: means is that they both should resign their positions. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean Bennett should stay in his. It means both
Speaker 1: Bennett and Wiser should resign their positions because Bennett's is
Speaker 1: a Senate seat, and that US Senate seat is extraordinarily
Speaker 1: important if it's used correctly. Thank goodness, Bennett has been
Speaker 1: a ghost. Bennett's been a.
Speaker 2: Zero in that seat, and then you've got, obviously Wiser.
Speaker 1: So both of them should be resigning their seats. The
Speaker 1: idea that somebody should resign a congressional seat much less
Speaker 1: important in terms of overall impact than a US Senate
Speaker 1: seat or the AG seat in terms of not calling
Speaker 1: on Hick and Loper to resign as mayor. I think
Speaker 1: there was just an acknowledgment that he wasn't doing much anyway.
Speaker 2: You know, he'd go to some charity dinners in this
Speaker 2: and that.
Speaker 1: But what's really got the Post fired up, right, Ryan,
Speaker 1: What's really got the Post fired up, and the reason
Speaker 1: they hammered Bennett the other day, is that Bennett is
Speaker 1: now in the postview. And I agree Bennett is now
Speaker 1: using using this ultimate prize of an appointment to a
Speaker 1: US Senate seat to keep all these other Democrats in
Speaker 1: line to make them support him instead of Wiser, and
Speaker 1: even run Wiser out of the race so Wiser can
Speaker 1: gravel for the seat. That's what really has the Post
Speaker 1: fired up, because remember Plogoyevitch went to jail overselling the
Speaker 1: Senate seat. And I'm not saying that Bennett is committing
Speaker 1: a crime when he holds that Senate seat up is
Speaker 1: the ultimate prize. You know that everybody needs to chase,
Speaker 1: so they need to support him and get out of
Speaker 1: the race themselves.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying there's anything criminal in that, but there
Speaker 2: should be.
Speaker 6: And this is why the point you just made, Damn
Speaker 6: the Denver Post is absolutely right, and Wellington Webb his
Speaker 6: argument falls apart. This is an Apple's and oranges argument.
Speaker 6: Whether it's a House seat, the mayor's role, the attorney general,
Speaker 6: none of those three. Unlike if Michael Bennett is victorious
Speaker 6: in the governor's race, he gets to appoint his successor.
Speaker 6: In the case of the House seat with Jared Polis,
Speaker 6: you have to have a special election for the House
Speaker 6: of Representatives, don't for the Senate.
Speaker 3: That makes it a totally different argument, right, But.
Speaker 1: I would say, Ryan, I do think that age job
Speaker 1: is so important if it's done right, which which Phil
Speaker 1: has not been doing. But if it's done right, it's
Speaker 1: so important that, Yeah, if you're going to run for governor,
Speaker 1: which is a full time job, right, you need to
Speaker 1: resign that seat to go and run for governor. I
Speaker 1: do think the Post is right about that, and you
Speaker 1: and I obviously aligned on the idea of Wait a second,
Speaker 1: only one of these gets to appoint.
Speaker 3: The successor, right, right, But that's the level.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think what's ticking the Post off, and
Speaker 1: they should be ticked, is I think the Post wants
Speaker 1: wiser and so they can just see it. Bennett by
Speaker 1: doing what he's doing, as wrong as it is on
Speaker 1: every level, and as much as I think it's going
Speaker 1: to hurt him with voters, he is, he's probably able
Speaker 1: to force Wiser out of the race, because you say,
Speaker 1: I mean, does anybody get mel Cartins anymore? If so,
Speaker 1: if somebody gets a mel Carton, can you tell me
Speaker 1: if Phil Wiser's picture is on the side, because I
Speaker 1: don't think he's been heard from in days now since Bennett.
Speaker 3: Pulled this movie.
Speaker 2: He's probably trying to figure out if he can get
Speaker 2: that
Speaker 1: Appointment from Bennett to US Senate set if Bennett becomes governor.