Speaker 1: This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast edition
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Speaker 1: a seap fighting, right, because we're making so much progress,
Speaker 1: but there's still.
Speaker 2: So much that has to be stopped.
Speaker 1: In its tracks eight five five for zero five two
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Speaker 1: seven three nine. These celebration continues as it should, right
Speaker 1: because again today we see a major breakthrough. Now listen,
Speaker 1: this is not the most perfect deal in the world,
Speaker 1: but we see a major breakthrough that would not have
Speaker 1: happened that this, this deal and I'll put it in
Speaker 1: quotes between Hamas and Israel, would not have happened without
Speaker 1: Trump winning the presidency. I think any honest thinking person
Speaker 1: would admit that. But every single day we get some
Speaker 1: concrete example of how the country, the world is getting
Speaker 1: better because Trump was elected and as we all know,
Speaker 1: has not even been sworn in. But that just makes
Speaker 1: Monday right. You're just so exciting to even think about
Speaker 1: because we've seen how careful, and how thoughtful and how
Speaker 1: intelligent Trump and his team have been since the moment
Speaker 1: they won, and how well they've been planning for this,
Speaker 1: and they're already hitting the ground running. And then once
Speaker 1: he gets the power to actually put ink on paper
Speaker 1: come Monday at noon.
Speaker 2: You can bet they have a plan.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I could not be more excited to do
Speaker 1: you want to get your take on some of the
Speaker 1: first things you want to see from President trumpet in
Speaker 1: the meantime, so much to talk about and really enjoy
Speaker 1: when we talk about these confirmation hearings, right, and just
Speaker 1: really enjoy that because to me, this is another example
Speaker 1: of the extremely high level of competence that this administration
Speaker 1: is already functioning at.
Speaker 2: And I think part of that is a product of.
Speaker 1: The president having had those four years to think about
Speaker 1: what he would do in a next term, but just
Speaker 1: the way that his nominees have been able to handle
Speaker 1: themselves go on the offensive, impress you know, just just
Speaker 1: take these democrats on head on. It just says to
Speaker 1: me a couple of things. One is good choices, but
Speaker 1: also preparation, right, just preparation for these hearings. You know
Speaker 1: it from your own life. I know it from preparing
Speaker 1: for trials.
Speaker 2: You can tell when people have been thoroughly prepared.
Speaker 1: They've gone through murder boards, they've gone through you know,
Speaker 1: mock simulations, and these nominees have been thoroughly prepared. So
Speaker 1: I just want to enjoy that sound with you. So
Speaker 1: we'll play the Bondi sound from today, which I think
Speaker 1: I enjoyed a lot more than Adam Schiff and White
Speaker 1: House and some of these others.
Speaker 2: But there's also some of this Hegseth confirmation.
Speaker 1: Sound that I want to get to with you because
Speaker 1: there's you know, it's a target rich environment. There's so
Speaker 1: much great stuff. We couldn't get to all of it yesterday.
Speaker 1: So we'll just enjoy that piece together and then we've
Speaker 1: got to keep working on I mean, one of them
Speaker 1: to me and Lee Larson, legendary radio guy, said this
Speaker 1: many many many years ago when I was starting that
Speaker 1: the highest form of talk radio, often not always is
Speaker 1: cause radio. You know, where talk radio is serving a
Speaker 1: function that really no other media can serve or chooses
Speaker 1: to serve, and that is being a gathering point, a
Speaker 1: rallying point, an investigative tip of the spear for the
Speaker 1: community on issues that affect everybody across party lines, and
Speaker 1: I've had the privilege of being involved in a lot
Speaker 1: of those and leading on a lot of those over
Speaker 1: the years, including for example, War Church Hill. But this one,
Speaker 1: this one, we are also approaching full force. You know,
Speaker 1: this horrible mass killing on the mall, that this serial
Speaker 1: killer who the city knew about, that the administration knew
Speaker 1: about at some point, and somebody must have, right, it's
Speaker 1: my reasonable inference, somebody must have made a decison vision
Speaker 1: not to issue a five alarm fire warning to the public.
Speaker 1: So I'll brief you on what I'm doing right now
Speaker 1: to try to use Colorado law to get to the
Speaker 1: bottom of that. I will bet you right now, the
Speaker 1: biggest steak in town I guess still National Western, right,
Speaker 1: So we may need all the prime cattle they have
Speaker 1: for all the stakes we're going to need for this one.
Speaker 1: But that Denver forces me into court on this one,
Speaker 1: and that rarely happens, but it's happened a few times
Speaker 1: now where I submit public records request and they stonewall
Speaker 1: and I have to actually go to court. And whether
Speaker 1: it's Denver or some other governmental entity, I bet they
Speaker 1: force me into court on this one. And when I
Speaker 1: say me, it's us right because I'm not doing this
Speaker 1: for my own edification. I'm doing it because you have
Speaker 1: a right to know. Everybody has a right to know.
Speaker 1: Because my belief, and I think we're going to be
Speaker 1: able to prove it if we get these documents, I
Speaker 1: believe my belief is that somebody made a conscious, knowing
Speaker 1: decision to put you and everybody else in Colorado danger
Speaker 1: because they knew the only way to protect people from
Speaker 1: that serial killer on the mall was to warn them
Speaker 1: to stay away. Because the best police force in the world,
Speaker 1: they can't stop a serial killer who's determined to kill
Speaker 1: because all he has to do is pull that big
Speaker 1: butcher knife out from under his coat and start stabbing people.
Speaker 1: And today we get the name of the second person
Speaker 1: who was killed. According to Denver, his name is Nicholas
Speaker 1: and I Cholas Burkette b U rk Ett. Heartbreaking, just
Speaker 1: thirty four, and we're trying to reach his dad. There's
Speaker 1: a gentleman posting on Twitter who identifies himself as the
Speaker 1: father of Nicholas Burkett, and we're trying to find a
Speaker 1: way to reach him and see if he'll come on
Speaker 1: air with us.
Speaker 2: Talk about his son.
Speaker 1: But obviously I can't know right now the particulars of
Speaker 1: Nicholas Burkette, But I have to believe, like most people,
Speaker 1: if he had been aware, if the city had made
Speaker 1: him aware, like they should have made every Colorado and
Speaker 1: everybody within Colorado's borders aware that there was a serial
Speaker 1: killer loose who was targeting the mall and slashed somebody's throat.
Speaker 1: That I think everybody would have stayed away from the mall,
Speaker 1: which is why I believe they didn't.
Speaker 2: Make them aware.
Speaker 1: So we're going to use Colorado law try to get
Speaker 1: that documents that should the documents that show the truth,
Speaker 1: because people need to know if if maryor Johnston knew
Speaker 1: any you know, it would be worse if you didn't. Right,
Speaker 1: If Mary Johnston knew on Saturday night that that serial
Speaker 1: killer or anytime Sunday was targeting the mall and was
Speaker 1: out on the loose, and a decision was made not
Speaker 1: to warn the public, then that that person needs to
Speaker 1: leave office, right, I mean that that would be an
Speaker 1: automatic disqualifier for this or any other office. But we
Speaker 1: need to know, we need to know when, who knew
Speaker 1: what when, and who made that decision eight five five
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Speaker 1: seven seven three nine. Yeah, you know deal that has
Speaker 1: been struck that obviously would not have been struck without
Speaker 1: alluming Trump presidency will break that down as well.
Speaker 2: When we get a chance.
Speaker 1: But I do want to get into some of this
Speaker 1: from today, some of this confirmation sound just so we
Speaker 1: can enjoy it together, because it's more and more evidence
Speaker 1: that this is going to be more than just a
Speaker 1: pendulum swing back and forth with you know, Conservatives now
Speaker 1: triumphing over the left in this election, and then it
Speaker 1: swings back to the left next time. All indications to
Speaker 1: me are this, assuming Trump and the Republicans governed well,
Speaker 1: and I believe they will, this is going to be lasting.
Speaker 1: So let's enjoy. Pam Bondi, as you know, nominee for
Speaker 1: Attorney General.
Speaker 2: Today, you have.
Speaker 3: Said that Department of Justice prosecutors will be prosecuted in
Speaker 3: the Trump White House. What Department of Justice prosecutors will
Speaker 3: be prosecuted?
Speaker 2: Imply I said that.
Speaker 4: On TV, I said prosecutors will be prosecuted. To finish
Speaker 4: the quote, if bad investigators will be investigated. You know,
Speaker 4: we all take an oath Senator to uphold the law.
Speaker 4: None of us are above the law.
Speaker 2: Let me give you a really.
Speaker 4: Good example of a bad lawyer within the Justice Department,
Speaker 4: a guy named Cline Smith who altered a FAISA warrant,
Speaker 4: one of the most important things we can do in
Speaker 4: this country. So will everyone be held to an equal, equal,
Speaker 4: fair system of justice if I am the next Attorney General?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and no one is above the law.
Speaker 1: What a great answer than Bondy going at it with
Speaker 1: Senator Alex Padilla from California.
Speaker 4: I'm Senator, you were speaking, may I may I speak?
Speaker 2: You come off?
Speaker 5: I king answers yes.
Speaker 4: Previous one, Senator when we met yesterday.
Speaker 2: For me, let me answer my question.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to be bully paused.
Speaker 6: I'm men of the United States of America, which was
Speaker 6: deeply disappointing.
Speaker 2: I guess today.
Speaker 6: After I gave an opportunity to study overnight. So can
Speaker 6: you tell me in this committee what the citizenship cause
Speaker 6: of the fourteenth Amendment says?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I love the pushback there, right, and and his tone. Listen, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm a trial lawyer, right, I mean you, it's absolutely
Speaker 1: fine to try to pin somebody down, but the tone
Speaker 1: there is so condescending. It's so offensive, it's so insulting.
Speaker 1: I'm really glad that she pushed back there. And we
Speaker 1: will get to more of that. So it's going to
Speaker 1: be a lot to enjoy. And again some of the
Speaker 1: heg Sas stuff we didn't have time to get to yesterday,
Speaker 1: particularly is takedown of Elizabeth Warren. Just an instant classic.
Speaker 1: So A five five for zero five A two five
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Speaker 7: Nine And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Polls Ever, Ryan, come Monday, It'll be all right. I
Speaker 2: was telling Amy to day.
Speaker 1: Monday, you know, and this is in the top ten
Speaker 1: individual days of my life that I've been excited about,
Speaker 1: you know, the day we expected that Joe would be
Speaker 1: born or Caroline to be born, our wedding.
Speaker 2: Day, this is in the top ten.
Speaker 1: Inauguration day on Monday, and National Championship Game Monday as well. Right,
Speaker 1: but it is just in the top ten. And when
Speaker 1: you say, and that was a good pull, who is
Speaker 1: that again, Jimmy Buffett Buffett? Yes, thanks you I should
Speaker 1: know that, right. Let me tell you my Jimmy Buffett
Speaker 1: story someday, not right now, but anyways.
Speaker 2: So but it's all right already.
Speaker 1: Right, it's just going to get more all right come
Speaker 1: Monday when he can start signing things. But we just
Speaker 1: look at all that Trump is accomplished already.
Speaker 8: I'm right there with you, Dan, And there's a reason
Speaker 8: why I was determined to go to this one that
Speaker 8: I don't know there would be any other inauguration after
Speaker 8: an election in my lifetime. And I'm fifty that will
Speaker 8: be as significant, that will.
Speaker 5: Mean as much. And this is just such a wonderful.
Speaker 8: American comeback story, unlike any we've seen in American politics,
Speaker 8: even better than Richard Nixon, who lost in nineteen sixty
Speaker 8: came back one sixty eight, and.
Speaker 5: I just felt I needed to be a part of it.
Speaker 2: So I'll be going, Oh, that's that is awesome. Now,
Speaker 2: what's your weather going to be like?
Speaker 5: I'm hearing cold, very cold Michigan.
Speaker 2: That year, and you'll be out there near SPEEDO. Sure,
Speaker 2: we'll see that.
Speaker 8: I know a couple names, John Fabricatory and Heidi Ganaal
Speaker 8: they're going to be there as well. I just spoke
Speaker 8: with Jeff Crank, Representative Yea, and I was waiting.
Speaker 2: For you to ask me. I heard that interview. Good job.
Speaker 2: I was waiting for you to ask him for a ticket.
Speaker 8: I'm in communication with his communications director and also the Bobert.
Speaker 5: And John and I are We're trying to get situated
Speaker 5: on that.
Speaker 2: From listen my friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these people, you know, should be giving you a ticket,
Speaker 1: a BackRub, having four or five staffers carry you around.
Speaker 5: I'll take a martini.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when I say these people, I respect all of that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but you know when when somebody is treated
Speaker 1: fair in the media, that's kind of a rare critter
Speaker 1: for people. You've been very fair to people.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so I would I would think somebody will
Speaker 2: catch you a good day.
Speaker 1: I will be very disappointed if I look up on
Speaker 1: this stage and do not see you next to Baron.
Speaker 5: I don't think Baron needs me as an influence.
Speaker 2: And then you'll be doing updates right.
Speaker 8: Yes, I'll be calling into this show and then also
Speaker 8: over on the show's over on KOA and my own show.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be very meta.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Jimmy Sangenberg will be filling in for me on
Speaker 8: the desk where you are at, and then I'll be
Speaker 8: calling in.
Speaker 1: Yeah that Oh man, I can just I cannot wait
Speaker 1: eight five five five two five five text d An
Speaker 1: five seven seven three nine Dan, I'm so worried about
Speaker 1: Trump's safety. I'm afraid there could be multiple more attempts
Speaker 1: on his life. Well, you have every right to be right,
Speaker 1: I mean, we've already seen it twice and this evil
Speaker 1: around the world, I mean, right now, Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: by far multitudes the living person on the face of
Speaker 1: the earth who poses the greatest threat to the evil actors.
Speaker 2: All over the globe.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, yeah, you have a right to listen.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you're a person who prays,
Speaker 1: I am. I think at this point it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of prayer. And as you know, I believe, and
Speaker 1: I'm not alone. I know Trump believes it that it
Speaker 1: was divine intervention that saved him in Butler, and so
Speaker 1: I believe in divine intervention. The Founders believed in divine intervention,
Speaker 1: and I think we need we need more divine intervention
Speaker 1: to keep President Trump safe eight five five for zero
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Speaker 1: nine Speaking of which related issue, because Iran's been trying
Speaker 1: to take him out for a long time, and even
Speaker 1: after the Biden administration knew that it did not provide
Speaker 1: Trump with anywhere near the security that it could have.
Speaker 2: What does that tell you?
Speaker 1: But Mark Helprin, who has done some really good reporting,
Speaker 1: He's got this, I don't know you caught a podcast.
Speaker 2: It's also video YouTube.
Speaker 1: He's got a YouTube show every day called two Way,
Speaker 1: and they do a pretty good job. Here's some reporting
Speaker 1: he's doing that Biden may have planned a military strike
Speaker 1: against Iran very recently.
Speaker 9: So it was reported I believe by the Wall Street
Speaker 9: Journal that President Biden was considering a military strike against Iran,
Speaker 9: either against their nuclear assets or energy or some other
Speaker 9: significant target. For years, it has been believed that a
Speaker 9: threat a strike by Israel or the United States against
Speaker 9: Iran was dangerous on two scores. One that if you
Speaker 9: hit a nuclear facility, you risk nuclear material floating all
Speaker 9: over the region to which way the wind was blowing,
Speaker 9: and have disastrous consequences both medical, scientific, but also diplomatically.
Speaker 5: And then also that.
Speaker 9: Iran could strike back, and that Iran had the capacity
Speaker 9: to create an escalated conflict.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know from the reporting I've seen, And this
Speaker 1: depends on lip readers, right, so about it? Pigasteric on
Speaker 1: it that's part of what President Trump and Obama we're
Speaker 1: talking about at the funeral. At the Carder funeral was
Speaker 1: words to the effect of as part of the conversation.
Speaker 1: Another part of it was obviously light was got to
Speaker 1: talk to you, got to talk to you soon and
Speaker 1: something really urgent and important. So maybe it pertained to this,
Speaker 1: but still great for America to see that. And now
Speaker 1: that Michelle Obama's announced that she is not going to
Speaker 1: go to the inauguration, as you raised yesterday, Ryan, hopefully
Speaker 1: we'll see more of the happy chummy scenes with Obama
Speaker 1: and Trump, who it appears it actually like each other.
Speaker 5: And anticipate too. With Michelle out of the picture, bros
Speaker 5: will be bros.
Speaker 8: And I think Brock and Donald will be hanging out
Speaker 8: and having some fun.
Speaker 5: I think they had fun and that.
Speaker 8: Exchange, and like you said, Dan, that's such a great point.
Speaker 8: It was a great visual for the world, not just America,
Speaker 8: but for the world that those two former presidents soon
Speaker 8: to be next President Trump, we're getting along and appearing
Speaker 8: to have a good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's see some more of it at the inauguration. Texter, Dan,
Speaker 1: thank you for fighting for our safety in Denver. I
Speaker 1: can foresee an alert named after the flight attendant or
Speaker 1: man murdered. If multiple attacks are violent incidents that are
Speaker 1: suspected to or have happened, get sent an alert via
Speaker 1: text message to.
Speaker 2: Citizens in the States. Sadly, it might happen more than
Speaker 2: we think.
Speaker 1: And what I'm referring to is I've now served the
Speaker 1: court on the city, and we'll go to court if
Speaker 1: we have to.
Speaker 2: We're entitled to know.
Speaker 1: You're entitled to know when the mayor knew that you
Speaker 1: had a serial killer targeting the mall, and who made
Speaker 1: the decision not to warn the public, because that was
Speaker 1: the only way. Any safety expert knows the only way
Speaker 1: to protect the public in that situation is to warn them.
Speaker 1: Because you can have police officers every three feet on
Speaker 1: the mall, and the best officers in the world, and
Speaker 1: we have many of them here, will not be able
Speaker 1: to protect people against a serial killer who is determined
Speaker 1: to kill. So we're going to get to the bottom
Speaker 1: of this because you have a right to know, and
Speaker 1: whoever made that decision should not be in any official
Speaker 1: capacity anywhere. Eight UR zero five two five five text
Speaker 1: DN five seven seven three nine. Do we have Tom
Speaker 1: Ryan to squeeze in one of these great bites. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've got to here. It is Liz Warren getting obliterated
Speaker 1: by Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 10: And other words, you're quite sure that every general who
Speaker 10: serves should not go directly into the defense industry for
Speaker 10: ten years. Are you not willing to make that same pledge?
Speaker 2: I'm not a general. Senator just delivered perfectly right.
Speaker 1: And there's so much advantage to having these people in
Speaker 1: high positions who have these great communication skills. I mean,
Speaker 1: it doesn't guarantee success, but think of all the great
Speaker 1: leaders over time, in every different capacity of your own life, business, etc.
Speaker 1: What percentage of them have great communication skills like ke
Speaker 1: E Seth as from all of his media stuff, a
Speaker 1: very large percentage. Hey, speaking of which, when we come back,
Speaker 1: somebody I'd praised off and on air talked about as
Speaker 1: a generational talent, he'll join us in studio, we'll talk.
Speaker 2: About what he's doing next. What could that be? I know,
Speaker 2: I like it a lot.
Speaker 7: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 11: Criteria state if we stay on the road we're on
Speaker 11: right now, in less than ten years, virtually everything that
Speaker 11: matters to us in life will depend on whether China
Speaker 11: will allow us to have it or not.
Speaker 2: Everything from the blood.
Speaker 11: Rush for medicine we take, to what movies we get
Speaker 11: to watch, and everything in between, we will depend on China.
Speaker 11: Ford they have come to dominate the critical mental industry.
Speaker 2: Supplies throughout the world.
Speaker 5: Everywhere in the world.
Speaker 11: They've now established critical mineral rights. Even those who want
Speaker 11: to see more electric cars, no matter where you make them,
Speaker 11: those batteries are almost entirely dependent on the ability of
Speaker 11: the Chinese and the willingness of the Chinese Communist Party
Speaker 11: to produce it and export it to you. So if
Speaker 11: we don't change course, we are going to live in
Speaker 11: a world where much of what matters to us on
Speaker 11: a daily basis, from our security to our health, will
Speaker 11: be dependent on whether the Chinese allow us to have
Speaker 11: it or not. That's an unacceptable welcome.
Speaker 1: Thank God, Mark or Rubio soon to be Secretary of State.
Speaker 1: Hey John Kellner in studio, and so I've said about
Speaker 1: John before, generational talent, one of the elite trial lawyers
Speaker 1: in Colorado for quite a while now, but talented in
Speaker 1: so many different ways. Former Marine Corps veteran and still
Speaker 1: active duty Reserve right.
Speaker 12: John, Yeah, still working in the reserves.
Speaker 1: And John, as you probably know, has just finished his tenure.
Speaker 1: He was the elected DA in Arapo and Douglas and
Speaker 1: Lincoln and Albert, and so two reasons I wanted to
Speaker 1: have John in today. Let's start with the first, which
Speaker 1: is the victory lap of my friends.
Speaker 2: So lay it on ut. I mean it went great.
Speaker 1: It give people the numbers because I think people need
Speaker 1: to appreciate what success looks like so we can duplicate
Speaker 1: that other places.
Speaker 13: Well, first of all, thanks around me on the show. Dan,
Speaker 13: It's always a pleasure to join you. And you know,
Speaker 13: I was really blessed to have a great four years
Speaker 13: in office as district attorney for what was up until tuesday,
Speaker 13: the state's most populous judicial district, so we had about
Speaker 13: one point one plus million people. I think many of
Speaker 13: your listeners heard George Brockler on yesterday talking about the
Speaker 13: split of the jurisdiction. So I was the last district
Speaker 13: attorney for the OG the original eighteen judicial district, and.
Speaker 12: We saw a lot of success.
Speaker 13: And I think it's something that should resonate with everybody
Speaker 13: who's listening when you think about what does it look
Speaker 13: like when you have a prosecutor who takes crime seriously
Speaker 13: and then compare it across the state or across the
Speaker 13: country to other places. Because what I can tell you
Speaker 13: is this, I came into office in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 13: You know, crime was pretty rampant. We were dealing with
Speaker 13: a lot of the after effects of a lot of
Speaker 13: the COVID shutdowns and jail restrictions that we were having
Speaker 13: because of COVID. We had a legislature I think that
Speaker 13: hadn't seen a bill that they didn't love that would
Speaker 13: lower the consequences for offenders. You know, car theft was
Speaker 13: going crazy. We had drug cartels starting to push deadly
Speaker 13: fentanyl across the border and into our communities, killing people.
Speaker 13: So there was a lot on our plate, right And
Speaker 13: I'm proud to say that after four years, crime is
Speaker 13: down in virtually every single category in the eighteen judicial district.
Speaker 13: When I passed the baton off to my two successors,
Speaker 13: you know, we've got murdered down thirty percent, robbery down
Speaker 13: thirty percent, property crime down twenty nine percent, motor vehicle
Speaker 13: theft down thirty six percent, and all of those reductions
Speaker 13: pace the rest of the state's reductions in those categories.
Speaker 13: So we've had a lot of success. Really proud of
Speaker 13: what we accomplished.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't fake results. I mean those are real,
Speaker 1: concrete results, and I think they also evidence just great
Speaker 1: cooperation between you, your office and law enforcement.
Speaker 2: Just teamwork from top to bottom.
Speaker 12: Absolutely.
Speaker 13: I mean, look, nothing happens as a prosecutor that's good
Speaker 13: without the cooperation and work with our local law enforcement.
Speaker 13: We had over twenty agencies in the district that we
Speaker 13: work with day in and day out. Really proud to
Speaker 13: have their support, and frankly, just honored to be able
Speaker 13: to work with those officers who put their lives on
Speaker 13: the line every day to keep our community to stay
Speaker 13: if they did a great job at turning the corner
Speaker 13: in our state. And look, we could use some more
Speaker 13: help from the legislature. We made some progress when it
Speaker 13: came to Fennel increasing the penalties for dealers, obviously, we
Speaker 13: made great strides and changing the motor vehicle theft law.
Speaker 12: Real proud of what happened with one of.
Speaker 13: Our ballot initiatives this lastction cycle called Truth and Sentencing.
Speaker 13: You know, all these things are going to have a
Speaker 13: demishable impact on keeping people safe across Colorado.
Speaker 1: So a guy like you, Okay, you've got all that success,
Speaker 1: you've got, all this talent, all that good stuff, you've
Speaker 1: got infinite now high level job prospects. As you come
Speaker 1: out of that office, it must be almost impossible to choose.
Speaker 2: So what are you doing next?
Speaker 12: I love that question, Dan.
Speaker 13: So look my entire career, whether it started, you know,
Speaker 13: in the Marine Corps, trying to help people, to be
Speaker 13: in a public servant, a state prosecutor, and Boulder originally
Speaker 13: and then in the eighteenth and ultimately being elected, my
Speaker 13: whole goal has been to help people who can't help themselves,
Speaker 13: to make our community safer, not only for my family,
Speaker 13: but for yours, for our neighbors, friends and family. And
Speaker 13: so I'm looking for something where I could continue to
Speaker 13: help people. And that's why I'm really honored to say
Speaker 13: that I'm joining you at the dan Kaplis Law Firm.
Speaker 2: You're kidding me, no big surprise that decision.
Speaker 1: I feel like when I have us Hunter put on
Speaker 1: that CEU hat right when he was choosing between all
Speaker 1: those wow breaking news. I'll tell you We've been courting
Speaker 1: John for years now. John's going to be our managing partner.
Speaker 1: So John's going to be the top guy in the firm.
Speaker 1: I'm still going to put in my eighty hours a
Speaker 1: week and try more cases than any human on the
Speaker 1: face of the earth.
Speaker 2: But I got to tell you, it's such.
Speaker 1: An honor and a thrill, and I'll sleep so well
Speaker 1: at night knowing that John Kellner is now our managing partner.
Speaker 13: I couldn't be more thrilled to join the firm. I mean,
Speaker 13: the reputation obviously precedes itself. Everybody knows about dan Caplis law,
Speaker 13: and we just want to take it to the next level.
Speaker 13: We're going to try a bunch of cases. We're going
Speaker 13: to get great outcomes for our clients, you know.
Speaker 2: And I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to try cases with you because I
Speaker 1: think what everybody knows is, listen, you know, to maximize settlements, right,
Speaker 1: to maximize settlements, you have to prove that you're willing
Speaker 1: to go to trial. You're ready to go to trial,
Speaker 1: and you will win a trial. And so our whole
Speaker 1: model is we are a trial firm. We go to
Speaker 1: trial and you cannot fake results. We've got the results.
Speaker 1: And to be able to now go to trial with you,
Speaker 1: I mean I just can't wait. Now, I know we
Speaker 1: have a bunch coming up pretty darn soon.
Speaker 12: So yeah, you filled up my schedule pretty quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a bunch that that is going to
Speaker 1: be so cool. So man, well, thank you, thanks for
Speaker 1: doing the great job. Because we live in our Eppo county,
Speaker 1: so thanks for doing that great job. But thanks above
Speaker 1: all for joining our firm. And can't wait.
Speaker 12: It's an honor a lifetime to serve as DA.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but I'm just so excited about what we're going
Speaker 13: to accomplish together.
Speaker 1: Well, and i know this is obviously self serving, but
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now, I don't know, and.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's very big.
Speaker 1: The fulfillment that district attorneys get and your team members
Speaker 1: get and everybody else when when you convict that person
Speaker 1: who's committed these horrible acts and you help the victim
Speaker 1: that way. I'm sure that's that is a really high
Speaker 1: level of fulfillment. But I'm just telling you, in the
Speaker 1: kind of law that you're doing now, this catastrophic injury work,
Speaker 1: there is a deep resonant fulfillment that comes when you've
Speaker 1: just done a great job for somebody going through the
Speaker 1: worst thing in their life. Because it now helps them.
Speaker 1: You can never you can never bring back their loved one, obviously,
Speaker 1: you can never heal them of all the physical damage.
Speaker 1: But you can give them in other ways things that
Speaker 1: help them, that help rebuild life, help change life. And
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now, it is a level
Speaker 1: of satisfaction. I'd be very surprised if it's available in
Speaker 1: many areas of law. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 13: Well, Dan, I've seen it. Look in many of my cases,
Speaker 13: whether it's reckless drivers, people killed somebody on the road,
Speaker 13: I've seen that happen where Look, I'm prosecuting somebody, I'm
Speaker 13: gonna hold them accountable in.
Speaker 12: The criminal court.
Speaker 13: And on the other side of the courthouse there was
Speaker 13: a civil case going on with many of these victims
Speaker 13: and injured love one and other people. And just how
Speaker 13: comforting it was for those folks, how healing it was
Speaker 13: for them to have good quality representation on the civil side.
Speaker 13: It made the world's difference in their healing process.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I'm making this prediction right now, and
Speaker 1: my betting average on predictions, I think is unsurpassed on
Speaker 1: air over the decades. And that is when it's all
Speaker 1: said and done and you're how old now?
Speaker 2: I do I have to answer that question. No, but
Speaker 2: you're a young man.
Speaker 1: I would bet thirty years from now you will go
Speaker 1: down as one of the top five civil trial lawyers
Speaker 1: in Colorado history.
Speaker 2: I have no doubt that's going to be the case.
Speaker 1: That's definitely my goal, and my goal is to be
Speaker 1: around to see that. I'll take it and with your hope,
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 2: Be all right.
Speaker 1: Thanks, John, appreciate it, John Kellner, our special guest, and
Speaker 1: for a long time to come. Eight five five zero
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Speaker 1: five seven seven three nine. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: enjoy together. These Trump nominees are doing such a great
Speaker 1: job in their confirmation hearings and more fun mixed it
Speaker 1: up and going right back at the Dems. You're on
Speaker 1: the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 7: And now back to the Dan Taplass Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Appropriate you're a prosecutor to start with a name and
Speaker 3: look for a crime. It's a prosecutor's job to start
Speaker 3: with a crime and look for a name.
Speaker 2: Correst to your lifestaf Senator.
Speaker 4: I think that is the whole problem with the weaponization
Speaker 4: that we have seen the last four years and what's
Speaker 4: been happening to Donald Trump. They targeted Donald Trump. They
Speaker 4: went after him actually starting back in twenty sixteen. They
Speaker 4: targeted his campaign. They have launched countless investigations against him.
Speaker 4: That will not be the case if I am Attorney general,
Speaker 4: I will not politicize that office. I will not target
Speaker 4: people simply because of their political affiliation. Justice will be
Speaker 4: administered even handedly throughout this country. Senator, We've got to
Speaker 4: bring this country back together. We've got to move forward, or.
Speaker 2: We're going to lose you beautifully.
Speaker 1: I can't believe he walked right into that, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure glad he did. Beautifully done. But what's interesting is
Speaker 1: so many of those questions, and we'll get to shift
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: They're absolutely terrified.
Speaker 1: Now that there that they're going to be prosecutions against
Speaker 1: people on the left right because and this goes to
Speaker 1: a bigger point, it applies to sum in Colorado as well.
Speaker 1: You and obviously exhibit A as I talked about as lawless,
Speaker 1: Mike Johnston, the Mary of Denver, because the.
Speaker 2: Left has had this.
Speaker 1: Belief that they are immune, that that that they do
Speaker 1: not have to follow our laws, and that they will
Speaker 1: not be prosecuted and they've been operating with that assumption obviously,
Speaker 1: while they do the direct opposite, while they go out
Speaker 1: and blatantly pursue politically motivated prosecutions. So they have been
Speaker 1: operating with this assumption that they have reached that point
Speaker 1: where they can so abuse the justice system that way.
Speaker 1: And now they're absolutely terrified because Trump won. They knew
Speaker 1: what they were doing to Trump. They were trying to
Speaker 1: jail him for life because they knew they couldn't beat
Speaker 1: him at the polls. And now here's the flip side.
Speaker 1: You know that the Trump administration has made it clear
Speaker 1: that they will look at prosecuting people on the left.
Speaker 1: But here's the big difference, if they've actually committed crimes.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So, now the left, which has just abused the justice
Speaker 1: system to bring politically motivated charges whether somebody's committed a
Speaker 1: crime or not, is facing the real prospect of prosecution
Speaker 1: against people who've actually committed crimes. And they are obviously
Speaker 1: losing sleepover at eight five five four zero five eight
Speaker 1: two five to five the number. The last thing in
Speaker 1: the world I want to see is any kind of
Speaker 1: weaponization of DJ by the Trump administration. I don't believe
Speaker 1: there will be any But that doesn't mean they have
Speaker 1: to just like criminals get away. If people have actually
Speaker 1: committed crimes, then they need to be prosecuted or else.
Speaker 1: You you have this cycle where all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: if you reach a certain level of political office or importance,
Speaker 1: you're immune to our laws. We can't have that. Be
Speaker 1: very interesting to see how this plays out. Eight five
Speaker 1: four five two five five text DA five seven seven
Speaker 1: three nine. Somebody who did wrote this to us. Let
Speaker 1: me start with this one, Dan, I've been assured by
Speaker 1: my astrologer that the first order of business for the
Speaker 1: Trump administration is the deportation of Dreary Mike.
Speaker 2: So do you expect that, guys? I don't know that.
Speaker 14: Deep Drury Mike can be deported American citizen. I'm pretty
Speaker 14: sure I don't think he can be deported. Well, if
Speaker 14: we can't do that, no, I want to be on
Speaker 14: the record. I am not calling for the deportation of
Speaker 14: Eerie Mike.
Speaker 1: Not calling for that. But hey, Monday, guys, right Monday
Speaker 1: at noons. So where is the Trump administration starting? Do
Speaker 1: you think they're going to start in Aurora, I mean
Speaker 1: Project Aurora, or do you think they're going to start
Speaker 1: multiple places at once, shock in awe raids, and again
Speaker 1: they're focusing on people here illegally've committed other crimes.
Speaker 2: You think it's just going to be coast to coast.
Speaker 8: You just use the term that we've heard, and it's
Speaker 8: for more than one source, and that Senator Barasso just
Speaker 8: to our north, that shock and awe.
Speaker 2: But I gotta believe.
Speaker 5: I mean Trump called it during the debate Operation.
Speaker 1: Aurora, right, You would think symbolically, yes, there's got to
Speaker 1: be something there, right, because Trump's whole mantra from the
Speaker 1: time he came down the escalator was promises made, promises kept.
Speaker 1: So there and one of the reasons he's been so
Speaker 1: effective so far are and will be is because he
Speaker 1: also understands symbolism. He also understands theater, and I use
Speaker 1: this in the real positive sense theater, where you're doing
Speaker 1: certain things that are more likely to catch the public's attention.
Speaker 1: They're the right thing to do, they're justified, but you
Speaker 1: also know they're more likely to get the public's attention,
Speaker 1: so people know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's delivering.
Speaker 1: So you've got to believe there's going to be something
Speaker 1: special in Aurora.
Speaker 2: But I would expect the coast to coast.
Speaker 1: Hey, the Shock and All thing, can we put that
Speaker 1: on the list for the new show name because we
Speaker 1: keep taking these suggestions from listeners for a new show name.
Speaker 5: So am I shock and you're awe.
Speaker 2: A man can't sit on his own jury muf friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, unless you're a Democrat, right, I mean they
Speaker 1: probably feel.
Speaker 2: Like they can.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, speaking of lawless Mike Johnston, he went ahead and
Speaker 1: not a surprise, vetoed this craziness.
Speaker 8: Denver's mayor has just vetoed the expanded needle exchange rules
Speaker 8: that city council passed just last night.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Mayor Mike Johnson says it is the wrong solution
Speaker 13: at the wrong time. The council voted eight to five
Speaker 13: to expand the needle exchange programs beyond the three that
Speaker 13: are allowed right now.
Speaker 1: And to move them closer to schools. But why didn't
Speaker 1: Johnston come out and say we got to get rid
Speaker 1: of all of these Because anybody knows, no matter how
Speaker 1: well intentioned some people may be, a needle exchange program
Speaker 1: is just promoting hard drug use and attracting more hard
Speaker 1: drug users to Denver, which gets to one of the
Speaker 1: things I want to kick around with you in the
Speaker 1: next hour.
Speaker 2: We have so much to do, but one of them
Speaker 2: is why does.
Speaker 1: The left, including the Johnston administration, why do they want
Speaker 1: to attract more homeless to Denver? Why do they want
Speaker 1: to attract more drug users? What is their end game there?
Speaker 1: So please do ponder that. Eight five five four zero
Speaker 1: five eight two five to five text d an five
Speaker 1: seven nine Again, we've launched our corp request. I will
Speaker 1: go to court. I've done it before. I will go
Speaker 1: to court to fight to get the documents were entitled to,
Speaker 1: which will show when Mayor Johnston was informed that there
Speaker 1: was a serial killer targeting.
Speaker 2: The mall and who.
Speaker 1: Made the decision not to warn the public, Because when
Speaker 1: you make that decision not to warn the public, you
Speaker 1: are making a decision to put every member of the
Speaker 1: public in danger. You are making a conscious, deliberate decision
Speaker 1: to let them wander into that killing field.
Speaker 2: Because that's what the mall had become.
Speaker 1: There was a serial killer targeting a very specific, limited area.
Speaker 2: It became a killing field.
Speaker 1: So somebody made the decision to let people wander into
Speaker 1: that unknowingly