Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen in this corner from the University of Colorado,
Speaker 1: thirty years in Lorraine, fighting for truth, justice and.
Speaker 2: The American Way. Dan Chaplas, Welcome back to the second
Speaker 2: Holary Dan Kaplo Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown in for
Speaker 2: Dan today. Thanks for joining us. You can call in
Speaker 2: anytime during the show eight five to five four zero
Speaker 2: five eight two five five. You can also text your
Speaker 2: thoughts five seven, seven three nine to Dan. We are
Speaker 2: going through some media hits that happened in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four that are pretty bad for the main three media
Speaker 2: and Democrats, and so we're already on number five. We've
Speaker 2: been going through ten of them, so we have a
Speaker 2: few more to cover. If you missed the first one,
Speaker 2: you can go back and listen in the last hour.
Speaker 2: Some fun stuff like actually believing that Republicans were faking
Speaker 2: Biden's clips when he was very mentally incompetent during the campaign.
Speaker 2: That was actually an accusation that went around if you've
Speaker 2: forgotten since the election. And then of course the heights
Speaker 2: that the media created around Beyonce supposedly performing at a
Speaker 2: Kamala rally. And I've gotta say, actually I'll stop right there.
Speaker 2: During the campaign, my family was actually in California for
Speaker 2: a little bit of time. We were at a child
Speaker 2: evangelism conference. Actually really great event, really great organization. But
Speaker 2: my son was sick one of the nights, so he
Speaker 2: and I went back up to the hotel room to
Speaker 2: watch some TV so that he could chill out and
Speaker 2: rest a little bit, and so we turned on a
Speaker 2: baseball game for a while. But as we were flipping
Speaker 2: through the channels, we came upon a Kamala rally, and
Speaker 2: being the I guess, very political mom that I am,
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, let's keep this on for a
Speaker 2: few minutes, and so we did, and the entire rally
Speaker 2: was a reproductive rights rally. It was all about abortion.
Speaker 2: That's literally all her and her speakers and people were
Speaker 2: talking about. And for all the accusations that conservatives are
Speaker 2: one issue voters and all we care about the stopping abortion,
Speaker 2: which I'm happy to admit that is my number one issue,
Speaker 2: I've never hidden that at all. In fact, I met
Speaker 2: Dan working when I was working on a pro life campaign.
Speaker 2: It's actually the first time he had me on his show.
Speaker 2: When I was about twenty years old. Way back then,
Speaker 2: was on the pro life issue. So I love the
Speaker 2: issue absolutely, but you know, it's always the liberals that
Speaker 2: claim the Republicans are the one issue voters on that issue,
Speaker 2: and their presidential candidate is having this big rally all
Speaker 2: about abortion, and obviously it didn't work out so well
Speaker 2: for her. But I was very disappointed that, you know,
Speaker 2: I want to show my son politics and expose him
Speaker 2: a little bit to the other side, and here's what
Speaker 2: they're talking about, and that's what her entire rally is about,
Speaker 2: is abortion, abortion, abortion. Very disappointing. I'm happy the American
Speaker 2: public did not go for that this year. Let's get
Speaker 2: Let's get to number five on these clips.
Speaker 3: Number five, Tim Wats is the best. Jd Vance is
Speaker 3: the worst.
Speaker 2: Midwestern dad like super clean cut five everybody likes.
Speaker 4: Right, so claim spoken and relatable, pretty moderate Democrat, very
Speaker 4: moderate ragger, new moderates, right down the middle.
Speaker 2: He's not just an old white man walts be.
Speaker 3: It's America, you know, a Hawks like a regular person.
Speaker 4: Is the opposite of weird populist approach to fear on the.
Speaker 5: Republican side and the happy populism that Jim Walls is
Speaker 5: on the ticket on the democratic side.
Speaker 6: Happy warriors, happy warriors.
Speaker 7: He was certainly the happy warrior that night, happy warrior,
Speaker 7: folksy backstory, maken sense of humor, look at happy the
Speaker 7: pig looks good.
Speaker 8: And JD Vance is weird, extreme and angry.
Speaker 7: Utter humorlessness.
Speaker 8: Try to believe that jd Vance could be any more extreme.
Speaker 7: It's like a freak show of bros.
Speaker 2: Dark and ugly beneath the dignity of most politicians JV Vance.
Speaker 9: J D is at the far extreme, the most extreming,
Speaker 9: one of the.
Speaker 7: Most extreme, angry and mean and dark.
Speaker 9: This guy is really weird, y'all.
Speaker 2: Number four, Okay, that's probably my favorite on the whole list,
Speaker 2: just because it has proved so insanely wrong. When anyone
Speaker 2: watched the vice presidential debate, I mean hello, that became
Speaker 2: the most obvious example of the real differences in JD
Speaker 2: Vance and Tim Walls, And no, Tim Walls was not
Speaker 2: the normal guy of the two, and that became very
Speaker 2: badly obvious. Also, you know, I think it just shows
Speaker 2: how often the media likes to tell people what to
Speaker 2: think instead of I mean, hey, let us watch Tim
Speaker 2: Walls and let us watch jadid Vance, and we'll come
Speaker 2: to our own opinions, and in fact, pulling close to
Speaker 2: the election showed that of all four people running for
Speaker 2: president and vice president, so Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Tim Walls, JD. Vance,
Speaker 2: the person who gained the most throughout the campaign in
Speaker 2: approval ratings was JD.
Speaker 3: Vance.
Speaker 2: The more America saw of him, the more they liked actually,
Speaker 2: and that was proven through polling, through showing what people
Speaker 2: off the street, random people of all demographics thoughts, he
Speaker 2: gained the most, and the more people saw him, the
Speaker 2: more they actually liked him. So they didn't need the
Speaker 2: media coming in and being I mean, I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: but stop for a second if you have to say,
Speaker 2: this guy is not weird, Tim Wall, So, like, what
Speaker 2: does that tell you? You know that everyone else is
Speaker 2: thinking when they see him, Oh, this guy's weird, But
Speaker 2: let's tell you he's not. I mean, if someone isn't weird,
Speaker 2: you'll be able to watch them and see them and
Speaker 2: come to that conclusion yourself. Once again, we see that
Speaker 2: the media prefers to think that people cannot think for
Speaker 2: themselves and must be told what to think. But Americans
Speaker 2: are known for our independence and our free thinking, and
Speaker 2: that we can come to our own conclusions. So I
Speaker 2: just love that the media, which loves to blast old
Speaker 2: white men as some terrible thing, had to point out
Speaker 2: Tim Walls is not just an old white guy, like
Speaker 2: that's the ticket the Democrats that chose to pick an
Speaker 2: old white man. And I zero objection to old white
Speaker 2: men getting elected to office and running. I mean, I
Speaker 2: think it's great. It's part of America. They're Americans too,
Speaker 2: they have every right. But who actually picked the person
Speaker 2: with a true American dreams story of the Republicans? Jade Vance,
Speaker 2: first millennial in the White House now that he's elected,
Speaker 2: married to the daughter of immigrants, came from Appalachia, one
Speaker 2: of the poorest areas of the country, the son of
Speaker 2: drug addicts, who went on to make something of himself
Speaker 2: and create one of the best American dream stories out there.
Speaker 2: But could we point that out as the meanstream media? No,
Speaker 2: of course not. Let's just talk about the Tim Wolves
Speaker 2: isn't actually goofy, even though you can see it for
Speaker 2: your own self. Let's go to number four.
Speaker 3: Number four, very very bad things will happen if Trump wins.
Speaker 10: Think about what happens if all of our access to
Speaker 10: healthcare goes away?
Speaker 9: Next Tuesday. The stakes literally.
Speaker 7: Are life and death for every woman in America. It's
Speaker 7: not hyperbole, it's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 4: Prop will fulfill his promise to be a dictator on
Speaker 4: day one.
Speaker 2: That's up a network of.
Speaker 5: Camps, extraordinarily erratic foreign policy.
Speaker 6: In the Middle East being profound and possibly permanent damage
Speaker 6: to American democracy.
Speaker 8: If historians in the future are allowed to write books,
Speaker 8: and by the way, that question is open this morning,
Speaker 8: and if people are allowed to go on television and
Speaker 8: say what they think in the future, which again that
Speaker 8: question is open this morning. That's what happens when strong
Speaker 8: men come to power. That happened in Italy in the
Speaker 8: nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties, Germany and the nineteen thirties,
Speaker 8: suspend the constitution, fit the Justice Department, the Defense Department
Speaker 8: against political enemies, and run this country out of the
Speaker 8: White House.
Speaker 3: Number three.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, that's some conspiracy theories for you. If
Speaker 2: you ever hear that only the right is conspiracy theorist,
Speaker 2: replay that clip for yourself. I mean anything from setting
Speaker 2: up camps, to banning historians and writing books, to the
Speaker 2: election being a life or death matter for women. I
Speaker 2: am a woman, I have children. I actually was pregnant
Speaker 2: when I took the bar exam for after law school
Speaker 2: with my first daughter. Like I believe in women being
Speaker 2: empowered to pursue their dreams, but I do not believe
Speaker 2: that also choosing to be a mother and embracing life
Speaker 2: within you doesn't hurt your dreams at all. A completely
Speaker 2: fault narrative. I really dislike it. And I think that
Speaker 2: Democrat narrative and Kambla. Harris's narrative is what actually makes
Speaker 2: women feel like they're weak and they can't do things
Speaker 2: because you're told you have to choose between being an
Speaker 2: empowered woman and giving life to your children. And it's
Speaker 2: not an either or a choice. You could absolutely do both.
Speaker 2: So that's just one thing I don't like about what
Speaker 2: they said. But the historians can't write books ripping up
Speaker 2: the constitution. Trump has never even hinted at doing any
Speaker 2: of these things, and yet the mainstream media took it
Speaker 2: upon themselves to say, we're going to make sure he
Speaker 2: doesn't get elected by scaring Americans into a particular choice.
Speaker 2: And you know what, maybe that worked during COVID when
Speaker 2: people were actually scared and in their homes and weren't
Speaker 2: actually conversing with other people and having real discussions. But
Speaker 2: that's not the world we live in anymore, thank god.
Speaker 2: And people were out there having conversations, researching for themselves
Speaker 2: and thinking that they didn't want to repeat the last
Speaker 2: four years. And thankfully, whatever you think of Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: the American system is strong enough to prevent a dictator
Speaker 2: from taking hold and under our system of balanced government
Speaker 2: with three different branches, that is actually not a risk
Speaker 2: we have in America because the system and the people
Speaker 2: would stop someone from taking power like that. Very confidentive
Speaker 2: of that, and we're going to see that proved out
Speaker 2: in the next four years. You're on the Dan Kapli Show.
Speaker 2: I'm Kristy Burton Brown. You can call in over the
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Speaker 2: Start it with Dan. We have three more hits to
Speaker 2: go when you come back. You're back on the Dan
Speaker 2: Cakpla Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown. We've been covering some
Speaker 2: of the worst media clips from twenty twenty four, a
Speaker 2: good list of ten of them. We have three left.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try and cover them. All in this last
Speaker 2: or not this last segment. We still have lots of
Speaker 2: segments left. But what I want to do in our
Speaker 2: last segments today is talk about what Trump's going to
Speaker 2: do in his first few hours in office. He's actually
Speaker 2: made promises about the first few hours and then the
Speaker 2: first one hundred days that every president tends to set
Speaker 2: out an agenda four. And I'm going to tell you
Speaker 2: some things I think he should make sure and do
Speaker 2: in those first one hundred days, and I hope you'll
Speaker 2: share your thoughts about what he should do. But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go over to my text line. And one of
Speaker 2: the clips we played was about how you know, the
Speaker 2: media wanted to talk since Elon Musk took over Twitter,
Speaker 2: how it was filled with misinformation and conservatives are just
Speaker 2: lying to everyone, and this texter says, I find it
Speaker 2: amazing that Elon Musk was the messiah with the left
Speaker 2: when he came up with Tesla, because of course, you know,
Speaker 2: electric vehicles, They liked all that. But now he's a
Speaker 2: pariah because he doesn't agree with some leftist people's ideas.
Speaker 2: Tells a lot there, and I agree very much. It's
Speaker 2: often not based on what you actually do but whether
Speaker 2: or not they agree with you, that that's how they
Speaker 2: base what they say about you. And the media often
Speaker 2: which is not reporting the news. As I've said a
Speaker 2: little bit earlier, if you have a talk show, I
Speaker 2: mean radio is talk shows. So clearly we're all about
Speaker 2: saying our opinions here. But I would say we freely
Speaker 2: disclosed that we're talking about our opinions, not solely reporting
Speaker 2: the news and letting you decide. We'd tell you what
Speaker 2: we think. If you don't like it, you don't have
Speaker 2: to listen. That's sort of how talk radio is, and
Speaker 2: how a lot of talk shows are. When we're talking
Speaker 2: about the nightly news that people to go to get information.
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be based on what you agree with and
Speaker 2: don't agree with. It should be based on the facts,
Speaker 2: and sadly that's not where we are. We'll see more
Speaker 2: of this in the last three clips. Let's hit number three.
Speaker 3: Number three, Joe Biden would never pardon his son because
Speaker 3: he is such a great guy.
Speaker 10: Presidential promise to put the law before a family.
Speaker 7: The president has ruled out pardoning his son.
Speaker 6: Pledging not to pardon his son.
Speaker 4: Just sit there and say, well, I'm not going to
Speaker 4: intervene in the legal process, and I wouldn't pardon my son.
Speaker 4: Democrats and Joe Biden protecting the justice system. A current
Speaker 4: president of the United States has so much respect for
Speaker 4: the law that he has said he would not pardon
Speaker 4: his son.
Speaker 6: And Joe Biden has very clearly said he would not
Speaker 6: pardon his son, he would not commune his sentence. How
Speaker 6: can Republicans keep making this argument now that now that
Speaker 6: Joe Biden has really put it out there, he.
Speaker 7: Is not doing it because he is living what it
Speaker 7: means to have a rule of law in this country.
Speaker 7: And then it is I mean, if you want to
Speaker 7: know if he believes it, you could actually see what
Speaker 7: is happening with his own son.
Speaker 10: Even President Biden saying in a statement that he would
Speaker 10: respect the outcome of this case.
Speaker 5: This was a good day for the system, good day
Speaker 5: for sort of of sort of America. As an example
Speaker 5: of how the rule of law should work.
Speaker 4: We're coming on the air at this hour with breaking news.
Speaker 4: President Biden has just pardoned his son Hunter number two.
Speaker 2: Well, there we go, and that's what happens when you
Speaker 2: don't just report the news. He says he's not going
Speaker 2: to pardon his son. Instead you give like this long,
Speaker 2: I don't know, wonderful explanation of because he's such a
Speaker 2: great guy and because he believes in the rule of law,
Speaker 2: you don't know why he's saying what he's saying or
Speaker 2: if he's going to actually stick to it, which he
Speaker 2: clearly didn't. So maybe you should just report the news
Speaker 2: and then it's all on him if he then changes
Speaker 2: his mind and gets it wrong. I'll say as a
Speaker 2: side note, a good friend of mine and I had
Speaker 2: a conversation recently after the Hunter Biden pardon and just
Speaker 2: talked about whether or not we thought presidents should actually
Speaker 2: have the pardon ability. Governors have it too, But you
Speaker 2: see Joe Biden in his last few days, I think
Speaker 2: he gave them clemency rather than fully pardoning them, because
Speaker 2: you can't actually just release someone who has the death sentence,
Speaker 2: I don't think, but he gave them clemency and so
Speaker 2: he pulled off the death sentence for I think thirty
Speaker 2: seven different people. So my head that I had an
Speaker 2: interesting discussion of whether or not you think a president
Speaker 2: should have that ability because or a governor for that matter,
Speaker 2: because is it just people with access to the president
Speaker 2: and the governor who can get these pardons, and a
Speaker 2: lot of other people equally or more deserving have no
Speaker 2: access and therefore can't get them. Very interesting conversation you
Speaker 2: could think about it. I think they should have pardoning ability.
Speaker 2: I think it's one of the branches of government and
Speaker 2: unique ability that the executive branch has. I do think
Speaker 2: people can get access and appeal. But there's a bussle
Speaker 2: pole opinions on that, so think what you want about it.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting question. At the very least. Let's go
Speaker 2: to number two.
Speaker 3: Number two, Media gets caught editing interviews to help Kamala Harris.
Speaker 9: When we talk about bringing down prices and making life
Speaker 9: more affordable for people, what are two specific things you
Speaker 9: have in mind for that.
Speaker 10: Well, I'll start with this. I grew up a middle
Speaker 10: class kid. My mother raised my sister and me. She
Speaker 10: worked very hard. She was able to finally save up
Speaker 10: enough money to buy our first house when I was
Speaker 10: a teenager. I grew up in a community of hard
Speaker 10: working people, you know, construction workers and nurses and teachers.
Speaker 10: And I try to explain to some people who may
Speaker 10: not have had the same experience. You know, but a
Speaker 10: lot of people will relate to this. You know, I
Speaker 10: grew up in a neighborhood of folks who are very
Speaker 10: proud of their lawn.
Speaker 9: You know, when we talk about bringing down prices and
Speaker 9: making life more affordable for people, one or two specific
Speaker 9: things you have in mind for that.
Speaker 10: So when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it
Speaker 10: is very much with the mind of investing in the
Speaker 10: ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the
Speaker 10: American people.
Speaker 7: But it seems that Primar and Ya who is not listening.
Speaker 10: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted
Speaker 10: in a number of movements in that region by Israel
Speaker 10: that were very much prompted by or a result of
Speaker 10: many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen
Speaker 10: in the region.
Speaker 7: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanya who is not listening.
Speaker 10: We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for
Speaker 10: the United States to be clear about where we stand
Speaker 10: on the need for this war to end.
Speaker 3: Number one.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it's a bunch of word solid And as
Speaker 2: voters decided, Kamala Harris wouldn't represent us well in the
Speaker 2: international stage, in large part because when she's asked to
Speaker 2: answer a question with ideas, she gives stories. Stories are
Speaker 2: not ideas. Stories are not answers. They might be interesting
Speaker 2: in her case, they're not even that. But saying that
Speaker 2: you grew up with people who are very proud of
Speaker 2: their laws isn't an answer for her going to make
Speaker 2: homes affordable for people of the United States. So yeah,
Speaker 2: media love to cover for her, love to make good clips.
Speaker 2: When you actually listen to the full answer, you see
Speaker 2: that she doesn't have one. All right, let's go to
Speaker 2: the number one.
Speaker 3: Number one, there's no cognitive decline. In fact, Biden has
Speaker 3: never been better.
Speaker 8: Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell
Speaker 8: you the truth.
Speaker 9: This version of Biden is the best Biden.
Speaker 2: Ever he knows so long as he was.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been.
Speaker 5: He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail oriented and focused.
Speaker 3: President Biden has a photographic memory.
Speaker 9: But he's totally focused.
Speaker 1: He's very sharp.
Speaker 9: They say he's sharpened meetings and so on.
Speaker 3: Very lucid.
Speaker 7: Will very well done for him.
Speaker 2: He's older, that doesn't mean that he is unfit.
Speaker 4: He can clear a dementia bar and that's probably a win.
Speaker 8: More wild speculation from a bunch of people who.
Speaker 2: Have probably never been in a room with Joe Biden
Speaker 2: and certainly don't have medical degrees that I'm aware of.
Speaker 4: But a huge part of the Mulla report talks about
Speaker 4: Russian disinformation tactics, and one of the themes this election
Speaker 4: cycle is that Joe Biden is too old to lead,
Speaker 4: and so everyone is seizing upon this and it is
Speaker 4: a classic disinformation tactic.
Speaker 2: All right, Well that was number one. It circles back
Speaker 2: to number ten that we listened to, and he started
Speaker 2: this whole saga of the media clips the terrible odds
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four. But they made a huge effort,
Speaker 2: the mainstream media and Democrats, to push the idea that
Speaker 2: there was absolutely no cognitive decline. He was sharp, he
Speaker 2: was focused, and again, like we talked about with Tim
Speaker 2: Walls and Jade Vance, all you had to do is
Speaker 2: watch the debates for yourself, watch the press conferences for yourself,
Speaker 2: and no matter what the media told you how sharp
Speaker 2: he was, you could see that that was a man
Speaker 2: in mental decline. And of course I feel bad for
Speaker 2: someone like that. He's spent his life at least attempting
Speaker 2: to serve the country. But there is a time when
Speaker 2: you need to pack up the bags and go and
Speaker 2: not lie to the American people and say that he's
Speaker 2: just as sharp and focused as ever when people saw
Speaker 2: that wasn't true. So I think after all these ten clips,
Speaker 2: what we really see is that Americans came to the
Speaker 2: conclusion at the end of twenty twenty four that they
Speaker 2: weren't going to buy what the media was selling anymore,
Speaker 2: that they were going to think for themselves. And that
Speaker 2: is a great conclusion that we can take into next year.
Speaker 2: I'm Christy Burton Brown. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to talk about Trump's
Speaker 2: first few hours in office coming in less than a month,
Speaker 2: and you can call in eight five five four zero
Speaker 2: five eight two five five or text your ideas that
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Speaker 2: and start it with Dan. You're back on the Dan
Speaker 2: Kapla Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown. Thanks for joining us tonight.
Speaker 2: You can call in a five five four zero five
Speaker 2: eight two five five or text your thoughts to Dan
Speaker 2: at five seven seven three nine. All Right, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get to Trump's first few days in office. Kind of
Speaker 2: nice to end out the year, close out the year
Speaker 2: anyway with seeing what we have looked forward to and
Speaker 2: zag that we're actually going to change things in America again.
Speaker 2: After the election, sometimes it feels like a really long
Speaker 2: time before the next press and it is sworn in,
Speaker 2: at least in my opinion, and this time has seemed
Speaker 2: particularly long to me. But we know that on January twentieth,
Speaker 2: things will turn over. We'll have a big change. I
Speaker 2: think at the international level, I think Marco Rubio as
Speaker 2: the choice of Secretary of State is going to be
Speaker 2: really great for our standing on the international stage. Combined
Speaker 2: that with Trump's very strong presence and his ability to
Speaker 2: negotiate and make demands of other nations that Joe Biden
Speaker 2: and Kamal Harris were just in no position to do whatsoever.
Speaker 2: And I think we have a lot to look forward
Speaker 2: to over the next four years. But breaking it down
Speaker 2: a little smaller than that, I was looking at a
Speaker 2: NPR article that talked about specifically what Trump says he'll
Speaker 2: do in the first one hundred days. And I'm sure
Speaker 2: you're familiar that most presidents make certain agendas for the
Speaker 2: first one hundred days. What I think Trump has done
Speaker 2: a little bit uniquely this time. Is even said what
Speaker 2: he's going to do in the first few hours. Now
Speaker 2: we'll see how possible this actually is. I like the
Speaker 2: concept of saying that he's going to get this done
Speaker 2: in the first few hours. Obviously somethings take a little longer.
Speaker 2: But if he's that laser focused on it, I think
Speaker 2: it has a much greater chance of actually getting done. So,
Speaker 2: according to this article which they're taking it from, the
Speaker 2: Trump team's words themselves and Donald Trump himself on day one,
Speaker 2: and he specifically says within a few hours he is
Speaker 2: going to close the border with Mexico and launch the
Speaker 2: largest deportation operation in American history. Now, he's certainly talked
Speaker 2: about this over and over and over. He's picked I
Speaker 2: think Tom Homan is the name of his Borders Are.
Speaker 2: It's definitely going to be far more effective than Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris as a borders are. I think that's guaranteed. But
Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of moving pieces when you
Speaker 2: talk about closing the border and having a deportation operation,
Speaker 2: A whole lot of moving piece is fifty different states,
Speaker 2: some of course far more affected by illegal immigration than others.
Speaker 2: But you have states of Colorado which claim to be
Speaker 2: sanctuary states. I mean Mike john said, the mayor of Denver, claiming,
Speaker 2: you know, he's gonna have people out there standing to
Speaker 2: block the federal operation. I think he's walked that back
Speaker 2: a little bit seeing the blowback that he got. You
Speaker 2: actually do want some level have to cooperate with federal
Speaker 2: agents and them enforcing actual federal law on immigration. But
Speaker 2: I think this is great to have a president whose
Speaker 2: laser focused on closing the border. That I think is
Speaker 2: one of the biggest pieces, because you know, you can
Speaker 2: there are some people who should be deported, specifically starting
Speaker 2: with drug dealers, criminals, people like that who should not
Speaker 2: be here. But we really need to do is stop
Speaker 2: the problem from continuing. So I haven't seen a plan
Speaker 2: from Trump as far as exactly how he's going to
Speaker 2: close the border within a few hours. I think he's
Speaker 2: more communicating the idea that he's going to be that
Speaker 2: focused on it. It's certainly not something that's going to
Speaker 2: be accomplished within his first few hours, but the focus
Speaker 2: is good. The other thing the article says that he's
Speaker 2: going to do in the first one hundred days is
Speaker 2: gut climate subsidies and resume energy exploration, specifically talking about
Speaker 2: giving tax breaks to oil, gas, and coal producers. He
Speaker 2: said we would return to the drill baby drill era
Speaker 2: and quote cut energy prices in half within one year.
Speaker 2: Good goal to have focus on closing our border, getting
Speaker 2: criminals and drug dealers out of our nation, and then
Speaker 2: on the flip side, making life more affordable by actually
Speaker 2: encouraging American energy production. I mean, even Barack Obama saw
Speaker 2: the benefits of encouraging American energy production and drilling. A
Speaker 2: lot of that actually increased under Barack Obama because new
Speaker 2: technologies were developed, and it increased America's standing on the
Speaker 2: international stage. We weren't so relying on other countries for
Speaker 2: oil production. We need to get back to even more
Speaker 2: of that, and I think expand it, like we talked
Speaker 2: a little bit earlier in the show, into American independence
Speaker 2: when it comes to rare earth minerals and mining and
Speaker 2: producing those, creating our own chips for electric cars and phones,
Speaker 2: and also pharmaceuticals. I think that needs to be a
Speaker 2: huge focus. Is producing our own antibiotics, our own medicines.
Speaker 2: Here in the United States, we often talk about energy
Speaker 2: production We often talk about manufacturing, but we really, really
Speaker 2: really need to talk about producing our own medicine here
Speaker 2: in the United States, in my opinion, so I hope
Speaker 2: that's something that President Trump also focuses on with America.
Speaker 2: First produce it here in our own country mindset. If
Speaker 2: you have thoughts about the things he should focus on
Speaker 2: in the first few hours or first one hundred days,
Speaker 2: you should text them to five seven seven three nine,
Speaker 2: start it with Dan or call in we can discuss
Speaker 2: it eight five five four zero five eight two five five. Now,
Speaker 2: one thing that President Trump's allies are saying that he
Speaker 2: should do in the first one hundred days and sooner
Speaker 2: rather than later, is to reimpose the Schedule F executive order.
Speaker 2: And if you're like me, you're like, what is a
Speaker 2: Schedule F executive order? But it actually relates to his
Speaker 2: ability to getting things done. What a Schedule F executive
Speaker 2: order would do is reclassify huge portions of federal staff
Speaker 2: federal employees as at will employees. That's a very important
Speaker 2: distinction classification, so that honestly, you can get rid of
Speaker 2: a lot of them and replace them with his own people.
Speaker 2: I'd say this was the biggest barrier in Trump's first
Speaker 2: term for actually accomplishing things. He accomplished a lot, but
Speaker 2: he could have accomplished a lot more if he had
Speaker 2: been used to the system and how swampy it is
Speaker 2: and how bad it is, and knowing that people who
Speaker 2: have been in place in federal agencies for decades and
Speaker 2: who don't change when the presidents change over, they can
Speaker 2: do a whole lot that the president isn't aware of.
Speaker 2: They can block a lot of things the president wants
Speaker 2: to happen. There's only so much power you have by
Speaker 2: yourself as president and your key high up staff. You
Speaker 2: need to be able to put people in place in
Speaker 2: all these different agencies, all these departments, and get rid
Speaker 2: of people who are lifelong bureaucrats, who aren't willing to
Speaker 2: institute changes, who aren't willing to close down departments to
Speaker 2: cut regulations. And there's a whole lot that needs to
Speaker 2: be changed at the federal level. When it comes to
Speaker 2: the Chevron doctrine that was in place for decades. I
Speaker 2: was actually able to write an amacust brief Friend of
Speaker 2: the Court brief in the overturn of the Chevron doctrine
Speaker 2: for Advanced Colorado who I worked for we submitted an
Speaker 2: amicus brief, and thankfully the Supreme Court last year or
Speaker 2: actually this year it's still twenty twenty four, overturned the
Speaker 2: Chevron doctrine, which basically said agencies don't get to make laws,
Speaker 2: and they were allowed to do that for so long.
Speaker 2: Congress could give them all this authority just with a
Speaker 2: little stroke of the pen, not giving them any specifications,
Speaker 2: and so unelected bureaucrats were creating all these regulations that
Speaker 2: chiefly hurt businesses. It was kind of like a yo
Speaker 2: yo going back and forth with different administrations. The regulations
Speaker 2: would be imposed, pulled back, imposed, pulled back, just depending
Speaker 2: on which president was in charge and which bureaucrats were
Speaker 2: overseeing the process. And so a lot of agency created
Speaker 2: laws and regulations that really devastated a lot of family
Speaker 2: owned businesses, small and big corporations across the United States. Well,
Speaker 2: the Chevron doctrine is gone now, but we need President
Speaker 2: Trump to actually peel back those regulations and put the
Speaker 2: right people and not only in the cabinet pause positions,
Speaker 2: but in the deputy positions and in the management positions
Speaker 2: in these federal agencies and departments to roll back those regulations. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: what's going to happen is it's going to take court
Speaker 2: case after court case after court case with companies and
Speaker 2: individuals suing to peel back the regulations. That can work,
Speaker 2: but it's also going to take decades. And so what
Speaker 2: you really need is you need people in management positions
Speaker 2: in these agencies who are going to peel back themselves
Speaker 2: without being forced by a court to do it. I
Speaker 2: think that's one of the best ways we return freedom
Speaker 2: and the free market to companies and people and communities
Speaker 2: across the United States is proactively get rid of these
Speaker 2: regulations that are crushing free markets and crippling businesses. So
Speaker 2: that'd be something that I think he should do. So
Speaker 2: I agree with the people who say he should reinstitute
Speaker 2: this Schedule F executive order to classify federal employees at
Speaker 2: least a whole chunk of them as at will employees,
Speaker 2: because then it makes it far more possible for him
Speaker 2: to put the right people in these positions to peel
Speaker 2: back the the insane level of regulations that Congress allowed
Speaker 2: the executive agencies and federal employees to impose on people. Now,
Speaker 2: the next thing I'll talk about, we're about to have
Speaker 2: to take a break, but I do want to talk
Speaker 2: about what the ACLU has done about all of this.
Speaker 2: They've looked at some of President Trump's goals for his
Speaker 2: first few hours and first hundred days in office, and
Speaker 2: they have written their own fifteen or fourteen or fifteen
Speaker 2: page memo outlining how they're going to sue him, and
Speaker 2: how he's wrong and how he can't do all these things. So,
Speaker 2: you know, I always find the ACLU to be fairly
Speaker 2: interesting in their oh, in their takes as a constitutional
Speaker 2: attorney myself, they are also constitutional attorneys, but they have
Speaker 2: a very different I sometimes I think they're looking at
Speaker 2: a very different document if you evaluate what the ACLU did,
Speaker 2: I'll say the one thing I've done where I did
Speaker 2: agree with ACLU was on the free speech on campus
Speaker 2: the bill in Colorado that was past I think back
Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen. I help them negotiate that bill for
Speaker 2: Senator Tim Neville, and the ACLU was actually actually grewed
Speaker 2: with thought that there should be free speech on campus
Speaker 2: in Colorado's university. So occasionally they happen to be on
Speaker 2: the right side. But this memo that they have I'm
Speaker 2: looking at it now and it is fourteen pages long.
Speaker 2: They of course accused Trump of surveillance, that he's going
Speaker 2: to crack down on protests and free speech through an
Speaker 2: abuse of executive power. But then they outline what the
Speaker 2: overall response should be and specifically say that the ACLU
Speaker 2: will resist a second Trump administration efforts to abuse executive
Speaker 2: power with litigation and legislative and policy advocacy at both
Speaker 2: the states and federal levels. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 2: about you, but that's not shocking to me at all.
Speaker 2: It's what they're always doing. Throughout their entire history. The
Speaker 2: ACLU has taken things to court and sued anyone they
Speaker 2: disagree with for their own interpretation of the Constitution. They
Speaker 2: love to do threat letters. I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 2: be very effective on President Trump. But what they love
Speaker 2: to do is go after small city councils, school boards,
Speaker 2: issue threat letters basically tell them they can't pray and
Speaker 2: do all these other things that often scare unelected but
Speaker 2: volunteer government officials from doing whatever the ACLU says because
Speaker 2: they have a big, fancy name. But that's not going
Speaker 2: to work with President Trump, and thankfully, he's going to
Speaker 2: continue to get a lot of opportunities to appoint more
Speaker 2: federal judges, which I think will impose the real view
Speaker 2: of the American Constitution in the judiciary and stunt the
Speaker 2: ability of the ACL you to really affect every change
Speaker 2: they want to make. But I'll tell you about a
Speaker 2: couple more of their specific threats that they're throwing back
Speaker 2: at President Trump. When we get back from this break,
Speaker 2: you can call in if you want. Eight five five
Speaker 2: four zero five eight two five five. I'm Christy Burton Brown.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kaplish. You're back on the Dan
Speaker 2: Kaplish Show for our last segment tonight. I'm Christy Burton Brown,
Speaker 2: and for Dan, thanks for giving us some time and
Speaker 2: joining us today. I hope you will have a great
Speaker 2: end to your year. I know that I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: a good end to mine. On New Year's Eve, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get to see the Coloridle Avalanche play. I haven't
Speaker 2: been to one of their games in years, actually, so
Speaker 2: I am super excited. My husband got some tickets and
Speaker 2: invited me, so I'll take that. It'll be a great
Speaker 2: and and if they win, I don't know, I actually
Speaker 2: have not This is terrible to admit, but I haven't
Speaker 2: followed how well they're doing this year. The last time
Speaker 2: I really paid attention was when they won the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2: Because my family actually drove into Colorado when I was
Speaker 2: a kid in nineteen ninety six. We moved to Highland's
Speaker 2: Ranch on the night the Avalanche won the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2: That was like the night we drove into Denver. So
Speaker 2: I definitely love seeing them win the Stanley Cup, but
Speaker 2: I've not heard they're in the running for that this year.
Speaker 2: Maybe some you know listener who's more up on the
Speaker 2: Avalanche than I am could let me know. I'm sort
Speaker 2: of like a fairweather sports fan, like I like them
Speaker 2: when they're good. When they're not, I don't pay a
Speaker 2: lot of attention. All that said, I'm very excited that
Speaker 2: I get to end my year that way, So I
Speaker 2: hope you have something fun to end your year with.
Speaker 2: Regardless of that, we have good things to look forward to.
Speaker 2: With Trump taking office in a little over three weeks,
Speaker 2: we were talking about some of his goals, and I'm
Speaker 2: very thankful that one of his top goals is, according
Speaker 2: to him, in the first few hours, he's going to
Speaker 2: try to the border and begin his deportation operation. Personally
Speaker 2: for me, I hope he is focused on deporting the criminals,
Speaker 2: the drug dealers who've infiltrated our country. Those are the
Speaker 2: people who need to go back where they came from,
Speaker 2: and it's my understanding that is what he's focused on,
Speaker 2: so I hope that stays the goal. We certainly are
Speaker 2: still a country of immigrants. I think that's important to
Speaker 2: point out and to remember when there's a lot of
Speaker 2: talk about illegal immigration, is that immigration itself is still
Speaker 2: a valuable thing. In the United States of America. Pretty
Speaker 2: much all of us here had ancestors that immigrated from somewhere.
Speaker 2: America is indeed the melting pot of the nations, and
Speaker 2: that's part of what makes our country amazing is we
Speaker 2: pull in different talent, different people from across the world
Speaker 2: who all want to come here and build an American dream.
Speaker 2: But it should be done legally. And one of the
Speaker 2: biggest reasons I believe that is if you study at
Speaker 2: all or spend time with people who have been in
Speaker 2: refugee camps around the world, there are so many people
Speaker 2: from refugee camps who should be getting asylum in the
Speaker 2: United States, who actually deserve to be here because they
Speaker 2: are fleeing war torn nations, terrible areas across the world,
Speaker 2: and yet it takes years and years and years for
Speaker 2: them to get here legally, while people who have better
Speaker 2: access to our borders just pour across the border and
Speaker 2: in many cases don't at all have as much of
Speaker 2: a need as people do in these refugee camps. So
Speaker 2: that's one of the pieces of the system I'd love
Speaker 2: to see reformed, is getting more actual refugees, people who
Speaker 2: deserve asylum in the United States, getting them here even
Speaker 2: though they're not just sitting on our border. I think
Speaker 2: that's one of the biggest errors we've made, is letting
Speaker 2: people with close proximity to the United States pour across
Speaker 2: our border. And I understand that they want to experience
Speaker 2: the American dream, but so do people who aren't close
Speaker 2: in proximity to the United States, and so we need
Speaker 2: to find a way, and I think the Trump administration
Speaker 2: will find a way to stop so much easy access
Speaker 2: pouring over our borders because you're close, and then denying
Speaker 2: access to people who are true refugees and true asylum seekers.
Speaker 2: That's a big piece of the system I'd love to
Speaker 2: see reformed. I think is just going to have to
Speaker 2: be contended with when Trump takes office and the new
Speaker 2: Congress is sworn in, And I for one, am very
Speaker 2: happy that my friend Gabe Evans is going to be
Speaker 2: sworn in for Colorado in Congressional District eight, splitting the
Speaker 2: congressional delegation in Colorado four to four, four Republicans four Democrats.
Speaker 2: I grew up with him. We met each other when
Speaker 2: we were eleven and twelve years old. Our moms were
Speaker 2: best friends. So it's super exciting for me to see
Speaker 2: that he's going to be sworn in to the next Congress.
Speaker 2: But they're gonna have to contend with the budget. And
Speaker 2: I do not understand why Trump wants there to be
Speaker 2: no ceiling on the debt. I think that's a very bad,
Speaker 2: bad mistake, bad message from Republicans if that's how we
Speaker 2: start out saying, well, we can increase the debt however
Speaker 2: much we want to accomplish our priorities. That is one
Speaker 2: thing the American people, and specifically conservatives, have insisted on
Speaker 2: for a long time that we've got to fix our
Speaker 2: debt and stop spending beyond our means. And so I
Speaker 2: hope that gets worked out the right way. And that
Speaker 2: we actually have a conservative view on economics, not just
Speaker 2: the Trump view on economics, but the conservative view. We
Speaker 2: need to return to that and stop spending so much
Speaker 2: money that we don't actually have. That is something Trump
Speaker 2: actually hasn't promised to solve that in the right way,
Speaker 2: but I'd love to see him do that in his
Speaker 2: first one hundred days. Reach a deal with the Republicans
Speaker 2: and the Senate. In the House, we have to remember
Speaker 2: that we control all three as of January twentieth, and
Speaker 2: we need to take advantage of that and not squander
Speaker 2: what we have with the abilities that gives us to
Speaker 2: solve budgetary issues, like let's stop with all the continuing
Speaker 2: resolutions and actually pass a real budget for the first
Speaker 2: time in a very very long time, and stop stop
Speaker 2: spending like crazy just because we're the ones in charge.
Speaker 2: That's something if I could pick, I'd certainly say that
Speaker 2: the Trump administration needs to get done. Obviously, he needs
Speaker 2: to get all his nominees confirmed. I like RFK Junior,
Speaker 2: which isn't necessarily the most popular opinion among Republicans, but
Speaker 2: only because Trump's also picked a pro life person to
Speaker 2: head the CDC and FDA, and that's essential in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Christy Burton, you've been here on the Dan Kappelo Show.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining. I hope you have a
Speaker 2: great end to your year and I'll be back a
Speaker 2: little bit with you after the start of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Enjoy your night,