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Speaker 3: Probably did not take you long to realize I'm not
Speaker 3: Dan Caplis, slightly different tenor of voice, but I'm so
Speaker 3: grateful to be here.
Speaker 2: This is Deborah Flora sitting in for Dan today.
Speaker 3: I'll be back on Thursday as well, and just appreciate
Speaker 3: this opportunity to have this conversation with the great listeners here.
Speaker 3: As I was sharing before the top of the hour,
Speaker 3: we are now moving to a totally different topic. We're
Speaker 3: going to talk about something that really just determined probably
Speaker 3: is the number one issue the entire course of the
Speaker 3: last election, and that is illegal immigration. And I'm happy
Speaker 3: and honored and feel safe in being a resident of
Speaker 3: Douglas County. We have an amazing share of fare. And
Speaker 3: he is my next guest. He is a friend, and
Speaker 3: that is Douglas Sheriff Darren Weekly. Darren, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for joining me on the show today.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: You got it, You got it. Well, you know that
Speaker 3: this is in the news constantly. Obviously Douglas County our home,
Speaker 3: but's right up against really the Denver metro area and
Speaker 3: recently the Denver Mayor Mike Johnson, who by the way,
Speaker 3: is spending three hundred and fifty six million dollars on
Speaker 3: illegal immigrants. That's a whole nother topic, but was talking
Speaker 3: about standing up and actually utilizing the police to stand
Speaker 3: against deportations. Before we jump into that, I just want
Speaker 3: to set that because it's one of the most recent
Speaker 3: topics in this Let's start back a little bit of
Speaker 3: why this is so necessary, as you know, one of
Speaker 3: the lead law enforcement officials in our county and really
Speaker 3: in the Denver metro area. Let's just talk first again
Speaker 3: reminding everyone what has been going on because of the
Speaker 3: illegal immigration. And we're not just talking We're not talking
Speaker 3: about those who are coming here for the right reasons,
Speaker 3: even though they need to come here the right way.
Speaker 3: We're talking talking about it's opened up a gateway for
Speaker 3: all the criminal elements. What are you seeing from your
Speaker 3: position because of the illegal immigration.
Speaker 4: Well, we've had an uptick in crime. We've had an
Speaker 4: uptick in burglaries, We've had an uptick and robberies. We
Speaker 4: have had issues with Trendy oar Agua or Tha in
Speaker 4: my county. And so we've executed several search warrants, a
Speaker 4: couple of which were in the city of Aurora. So
Speaker 4: you know, I swore it out to serve and protect
Speaker 4: my community. I'm going to do just that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know, when we were down at the
Speaker 3: border with John Fabricatory, you'll be my guest on Thursday.
Speaker 3: One of the things that we were hearing so much
Speaker 3: is true. Not only is Colora really now a border state,
Speaker 3: we're really the drug distribution capital of the United States.
Speaker 3: It comes straight up I twenty five, straight out I seventy.
Speaker 3: What are you seeing and hearing around this state because
Speaker 3: of that, as far as you know, the increase in
Speaker 3: fttanol and other drugs that are in our state, in
Speaker 3: our area.
Speaker 4: Well, our open border to the south and everybody knows
Speaker 4: us the open border to the south has opened up
Speaker 4: the fetanyl crisis that we have in our country. And
Speaker 4: again it affects Douglas County, you know, rural suburban Colorado,
Speaker 4: and we have people that are dying of feentanyl poisoning.
Speaker 4: And so you know, we have a nationwide we have
Speaker 4: about seventy five thousand people, you know, plus or minus
Speaker 4: every single year from dying from fentanyl. And where's the
Speaker 4: outrage with that? And so again, our county budget just
Speaker 4: got approved today. I just added another detective to our
Speaker 4: narcotics group just to address the fentanyl issue in my county.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: And you know, Colorado is a sanctuary state, despite the
Speaker 3: fact that Paulus and others would like to say it's not.
Speaker 3: It became a sanctuary state in twenty nineteen when a
Speaker 3: law was passed that prohibits local and state law enforcement
Speaker 3: from coordinating with federal law enforcement.
Speaker 2: How hard does that make your job?
Speaker 3: I mean, just give it. Give us a for instance
Speaker 3: of what that does. First of all, it's crazy to
Speaker 3: me because we're all supposed to be working together for
Speaker 3: the safety of the people, the citizens. But what kind
Speaker 3: of things has that and how has that impacted your job?
Speaker 4: Well, it's house built nineteen eleven, twenty four, and essentially
Speaker 4: it dictates that we cannot hold people on ICE detainers
Speaker 4: and so we can coordinate with ICE to some extent
Speaker 4: if we arrest you know, somebody that their citizenship status
Speaker 4: is unknown, or the person tells us that they are
Speaker 4: a migrant, and we place them into custody for a
Speaker 4: criminal offense, not for being a migrant, but for an
Speaker 4: actual criminal offense they commit. In my jurisdiction, we can
Speaker 4: notify ICE on that, and so when we do our
Speaker 4: normal routine clearances when somebody has booked into jail, ICE
Speaker 4: can be alerted to that. So it's up to ICE
Speaker 4: to act upon those ICE detainers, but we cannot hold
Speaker 4: that individual strictly on that ICE.
Speaker 3: De Painter, Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Now,
Speaker 3: I want to get to one of the things that
Speaker 3: now obviously is really really building up. We hear a
Speaker 3: lot of history onics on certain outlets about what this
Speaker 3: is going to look like. But let's just talk about
Speaker 3: this idea of deportation, and let's frame it by the
Speaker 3: fact that by the Border Patrol Agency themselves, the Custom
Speaker 3: and Border Institute, they actually said there's been about ten
Speaker 3: million people that have come across our border in the
Speaker 3: last three years. I mean, if it was just even
Speaker 3: an infrastructure standpoint, that can take any city or municipality.
Speaker 3: But we also know that that means there's a lot
Speaker 3: of people here we don't know. Let's now talk about
Speaker 3: the solution. Donald Trump is now elected. He's talking about deportations.
Speaker 3: What do you think that is going to look like.
Speaker 4: Well, he's obviously already said that he's going to start
Speaker 4: with the criminals first and the people on the terror
Speaker 4: watch list. That will keep them busy enough for quite
Speaker 4: a while. And then my guess is is during that
Speaker 4: process they will also formulate, you know, how to better
Speaker 4: go about the deportation process and to make that process
Speaker 4: more efficient. But to be honest with you, their hands
Speaker 4: are going to be full just with the criminals that
Speaker 4: we have in custody already and the people on the
Speaker 4: terror watch list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think and that's a great place to start.
Speaker 3: Obviously at that beginning, No, you were and you were
Speaker 3: going to say go ahead and continue.
Speaker 4: No, this is not going to be a problem that's
Speaker 4: easily solved. I don't have any inside information. I will
Speaker 4: be going to the Trump inauguration, and so while I'm
Speaker 4: out there in Washington, d C. I do expect to
Speaker 4: have a couple of meetings and to get a better
Speaker 4: idea of what this will look like. So I'm looking
Speaker 4: forward to.
Speaker 3: That absolutely, and and you know, we've talked about this
Speaker 3: a lot. It's going to start, as you said, with
Speaker 3: those who have already been identified as criminals. Those are
Speaker 3: a terrorist. And that's why I find the history onics
Speaker 3: so crazy about this, because I don't know anyone with
Speaker 3: common sense that would not want to at least start
Speaker 3: there and then look at how we can change this
Speaker 3: as it's just you know, overwhelming infrastructure as well. To
Speaker 3: that point, you know, Mike Johnson, the mayor of Denver,
Speaker 3: and granted you're not this is Darren Wakley, my guess,
Speaker 3: the Douglas County sheriff, but he was saying, and he's
Speaker 3: pulled back from this, that he would even use Denver
Speaker 3: Police department to stand up against federal agents. And you know, Ice,
Speaker 3: when this began to happen, can you just give me
Speaker 3: your gut reaction to his statement like that, That is.
Speaker 4: One of the most irresponsible things that I've ever heard
Speaker 4: an elect official say. And the fact of the matter
Speaker 4: is is that it's against the law under USC Title
Speaker 4: eight of thirteen twenty four, it's against the law to
Speaker 4: harbor an illegal migrant. Also, you're talking about standing up
Speaker 4: law enforcement officers to stand against federal authorities. Not only
Speaker 4: is that not realistic, because I know a lot of
Speaker 4: Denver police officers and they're like, yeah, we're not doing that.
Speaker 4: It's illegal. And so I just when I heard that,
Speaker 4: I'm like, did did he really just say what I
Speaker 4: thought he said? Right? It's just completely irresponsible. You know,
Speaker 4: I understand maybe it was off the cuff, but as
Speaker 4: an elected official, you have to be responsible for the
Speaker 4: things that come out of your mouth, and I just
Speaker 4: I was baffled that he said that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, when you think about that, I mean, there are
Speaker 3: so many illegalities, when you think about they are taking
Speaker 3: they want to take federal money for all of the
Speaker 3: illegal immigrants that they're housing, costing Denver citizens three hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty six million dollars just last year. While saying
Speaker 3: to federal law enforcement, we will not allow you to
Speaker 3: do your job, and now taking it one step further
Speaker 3: to say, I will use the police department of the
Speaker 3: city to oppose you. I mean, what I did to
Speaker 3: appreciate was Tom Homan, the incoming borders are saying, fine,
Speaker 3: you want to be arrested, We'll arrest you. That's what
Speaker 3: Mike Johnston said, was you know, I will be arrested.
Speaker 3: I will stand up against it.
Speaker 2: You know, what.
Speaker 3: Would you say to people, because we need to dial
Speaker 3: down some of this irresponsible language. You know, there are
Speaker 3: people on you know, a lot of the more left
Speaker 3: pundits that are saying these it's going to be like
Speaker 3: Tianneman Square. You're going to see people shooting into civilian crowds.
Speaker 3: You know, I would just imagine that as we're finally
Speaker 3: coming out of the irresponsible defund the policemanment, we're finally
Speaker 3: starting to really support our law enforcement again. That kind
Speaker 3: of language has got to be challenging. What are you
Speaker 3: hearing reactions amongst those who serve, who serve as so
Speaker 3: bravely in law enforcement.
Speaker 4: Well, I think the pendulum is swinging the other way.
Speaker 4: I think people value public safety, They value their law enforcement.
Speaker 4: The defunding the police nationwide that has not worked, and
Speaker 4: a lot of local governments are now backtracking on that
Speaker 4: and funding the police. Douglas County is a great place,
Speaker 4: regardless of your party affiliation, because people value public safety.
Speaker 4: We have one of the most We have the most
Speaker 4: robust school resource officer program in the entire state of Colorado.
Speaker 4: We have more US rows and schools than any other jurisdiction.
Speaker 4: We take an aggressive approach to crime fighting into law enforcement.
Speaker 4: People know when they call the Sheriff's office, we're going
Speaker 4: to respond, no matter how minor the complaint is or
Speaker 4: how minor the crime is, We're going to show up
Speaker 4: and we are going to serve our community people. And furthermore,
Speaker 4: Douglas County, you don't see homeless individuals on every street corner.
Speaker 4: We connect those books with services and we enforce the law.
Speaker 4: It's a safe community. You know when you drive into
Speaker 4: Douglas County that things are different. Whether you're Republican, whether
Speaker 4: you're a Democrat. You know, it's a safe place to
Speaker 4: raise a family, to run a business. And so hopefully
Speaker 4: the rest of the state takes note of that, the
Speaker 4: rest of the officials and the state take note of
Speaker 4: that because Douglas County is so successful, because our elected
Speaker 4: officials value public safety, you know, and I.
Speaker 2: Really appreciate that.
Speaker 3: We're going to be heading to a break Darren, my
Speaker 3: guest Sheriff, Darren Weekly of Douglas County. You know, these
Speaker 3: issues should not even be partisan. Obviously, an election has
Speaker 3: had to shift to make securing the border a priority,
Speaker 3: but really, when it comes to the sovereignty of our nation,
Speaker 3: the safety of our citizens getting fentanyl office streets, which
Speaker 3: is the number one killer of eighteen I think to
Speaker 3: forty five year olds approximately, that shouldn't be partisan and
Speaker 3: everybody benefits.
Speaker 2: And I do believe the work that you do.
Speaker 3: Sheriff Weekly and Douglas County can be the shining example.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to be there and I'm happy to hear
Speaker 3: you know that. I've heard from many different sources that
Speaker 3: only stupid criminals ac should go through Douglas County. The
Speaker 3: smart ones go around, but now we've got to stop
Speaker 3: that freeway coming up from the border, basically of the
Speaker 3: open border situation.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Sheriff Weekly. I really appreciate your.
Speaker 3: Joining me on the show and the example that you're
Speaker 3: setting to the other areas in our state and our country.
Speaker 4: It's always a pleasure to talk to you, and thank
Speaker 4: you for having me.
Speaker 2: You got it. Take care. Well.
Speaker 3: That was my guest chair, Darren Weekly of Douglas County,
Speaker 3: talking about you know, really honestly, he said it very clearly.
Speaker 3: Mike Johnston, the Mayor of Denver. His incredibly irresponsible comment
Speaker 3: he's rolled it back, but it's out there and this
Speaker 3: histrionic response has got to stop. When we come back,
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about how our border is already
Speaker 3: becoming more secure long before President Trump takes the oath
Speaker 3: of office again on January twentieth, Don't Go Anywhere. I'm
Speaker 3: Deborah Flora sitting in for Dan Kaplis.
Speaker 5: And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Well, welcome back to the Dan Caplas Show. I'm Deborah
Speaker 3: Flora sitting in for Dan and having a great time. Boy,
Speaker 3: it goes quickly when we are having fun here. Want
Speaker 3: to continue this conversation. We just had Sheriff Darren Weekly
Speaker 3: of Douglas County. In all transparency, he is my sheriff.
Speaker 3: I'm in Douglas County, and I appreciate the fact that
Speaker 3: only the stupid criminals actually travel through there. I've actually
Speaker 3: heard George Brockler talk about that they go around own
Speaker 3: Douglas County, but unfortunately I twenty five goes straight up
Speaker 3: through Douglas County, which has made really a situation that
Speaker 3: is important for us to secure the border. Why because
Speaker 3: Colorado is the drug distribution capital of the United States,
Speaker 3: with drugs coming right up I twenty five, right out
Speaker 3: I seventy. Now I heard that firsthand from border patrol
Speaker 3: agents when I was on a different radio station and
Speaker 3: we went down to the border in February of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three.
Speaker 2: We went down with John.
Speaker 3: Fabricatory, former ICE official, who will be joining me here
Speaker 3: Thursday as I continue on Thursday to sit in for Dan.
Speaker 3: But we heard that firsthand. They understand and by the way,
Speaker 3: Aurora and other areas being number one in auto theft,
Speaker 3: why because the at least seventy or three different drug
Speaker 3: cartels that are operating in our state with impunity because
Speaker 3: we are a sanctuary state, they still look they steal
Speaker 3: the Catolic converters, and the majority or many, I should
Speaker 3: say at least of the cars that are stolen at
Speaker 3: DIA are found south of the border. So it impacts
Speaker 3: us in so many ways that we don't even realize.
Speaker 3: We've talked about how in Denver it finally came out
Speaker 3: and there was a lot of dragging a feet to
Speaker 3: release this number. But three hundred and fifty six million
Speaker 3: dollars was spent last year on illegal immigrants. And this
Speaker 3: is at a time where other services to the citizens
Speaker 3: there are getting cut. That is not right. But there
Speaker 3: is an answer. If we talk about money, money talks,
Speaker 3: it does.
Speaker 2: And we shared in the first hour how Joy.
Speaker 3: Read is certainly apoplectic on MSNBC that Donald Trump is
Speaker 3: daring to act like a world leader already. And one
Speaker 3: of the ways he's done that is he's threatened a
Speaker 3: twenty five percent tariff on Canada and Mexico, our neighbors
Speaker 3: that we have borders with to the north in the south.
Speaker 3: What happened right away within that period, well, as we know,
Speaker 3: Trudeau flew down on November thirtieth, jetted intomorrow Lago after
Speaker 3: you know, just calling him before, and then he took
Speaker 3: it really, really seriously and right away began to talk
Speaker 3: about how they would secure the border on the north,
Speaker 3: but the more important border obviously not important as far
Speaker 3: is in value, but where so much of the traffic
Speaker 3: is coming over. And let's reframe this again when we
Speaker 3: were talking to border patrol last year, about ten million
Speaker 3: people have come across our border in the only term
Speaker 3: of Joe Biden's presidency in four years, well it's three
Speaker 3: years at the time, so even more now, but nearly
Speaker 3: ten million people. What happened right after the twenty five
Speaker 3: percent tear off threat. Well, all of a sudden, Mexico
Speaker 3: after that stopped two caravans that were heading to our border.
Speaker 3: One had approximately twenty five hundred people that had started
Speaker 3: out in November fifth. They walked for ten days after
Speaker 3: the twenty five percent tear off threats. Suddenly the Mexican
Speaker 3: government gave them bus rides to all other cities, not
Speaker 3: to our border. A second one, about fifteen hundred of
Speaker 3: a caravan, started November twentieth. It was also disbanded. And
Speaker 3: then just last week when there was also the comment
Speaker 3: by Donald Trump that if they do not secure the
Speaker 3: border and stop the flow of drugs, that there would
Speaker 3: be this action taken. Well, just last week Mexican soldiers
Speaker 3: and marines made the largest ventanyl seizure in the country's
Speaker 3: history right after that threat, and that was because at
Speaker 3: the beginning of last year there was a sharp dreat
Speaker 3: drop in the fentanyl seizures. Well, they're listening, and that's
Speaker 3: what's important, And the reality is people are safer because
Speaker 3: of it. Why in Heaven's name anyone could not support that.
Speaker 3: I remember talking to a mom who testified in front
Speaker 3: of Congress, she lost two sons nineteen and eighteen who
Speaker 3: thought they were taking a percoset and it ended up
Speaker 3: being fentanyl. And is Rebecca Keesling And she said back then,
Speaker 3: two deaf ears in Congress and to the sitting president
Speaker 3: at the time, Joe Biden, this is a war act
Speaker 3: like it do something. Well, nothing was done. Nothing was done,
Speaker 3: lip service. Let's not forget that. Kamala Harris, by the way,
Speaker 3: the borders are and it took her forever to go
Speaker 3: to Mexico. She went to Guatemala before she went to Mexico. Well,
Speaker 3: something is happening now, something is being done, and we
Speaker 3: are safer for it. When we come back, We're going
Speaker 3: to continue this conversation, and I want to hear from you.
Speaker 3: Text in Dan at five seven seven three nine. I'm
Speaker 3: Deborah Flora sitting in for Dan Caplis.
Speaker 5: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show. This is Deborah
Speaker 3: Flora sitting in for Dan. My goodness, it has gone quickly.
Speaker 3: We are winding around the bottom of the second hour.
Speaker 2: Well, I want to read a couple of texts.
Speaker 3: We've had some great interviews by the way, if you
Speaker 3: missed any of.
Speaker 2: The show, be sure to check out the podcast.
Speaker 3: In the first hour, we had Dallas Jenkins, the creator
Speaker 3: of The Chosen and the director of that, also the
Speaker 3: director of the I think new instant Christmas Classic that
Speaker 3: is in theaters right now, the best Christmas pageant ever.
Speaker 2: Top of this hour, we had.
Speaker 3: Darren Weekly, the sheriff of Douglas County, talking about why
Speaker 3: we do need to secure the border, why we do
Speaker 3: need to make sure that the deportations do begin, and
Speaker 3: they're going to start as he was sharing, and this
Speaker 3: is what Donald Trump is said. It's going to start
Speaker 3: with a criminal element, those who are already incarcerated, those
Speaker 3: who are on the terror watch list, a couple other
Speaker 3: things we talked about it. You can't as a city say,
Speaker 3: guess what, I want federal tax dollars for our sanctuary status,
Speaker 3: but I'm going to absolutely not allow federal law enforcement
Speaker 3: to do its job. We had one caller text in
Speaker 3: the first thing Donald Trump needs to do is take
Speaker 3: away all federal funds from sanctuary cities and sanctuary cities
Speaker 3: with no exceptions here here and who ah.
Speaker 2: I think that's about what I'm going to say.
Speaker 3: We were talking the last segment about how money talks
Speaker 3: and Canada and Mexico and others are listening. Another caller texted,
Speaker 3: Deborah Sure enjoyed Darren's interview. We need more strong leaders
Speaker 3: like Sheriff Weekly, very very truth. Thank you so much
Speaker 3: for texting that. Guys have a caller on the line. Jack,
Speaker 3: you are on the line from Cheyenne. Thanks for calling
Speaker 3: into the show.
Speaker 6: Debra, haven't talked in a long time. You've always been
Speaker 6: one of my favorite radio people. Well, thank you.
Speaker 2: Good to hear your voice. By the way, Jack, I said,
Speaker 2: it's good to hear your voice.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'll go outside where maybe the phone works better. No,
Speaker 6: the first one is the first thing I'm going to
Speaker 6: hit you with is silly, and the second one is
Speaker 6: quite serious.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, bring it on, Okay.
Speaker 6: Your on your station. I keep hearing this name popping
Speaker 6: up of this John Fabricatory And is that a real
Speaker 6: name or is that a fabrication.
Speaker 3: It is not a fabricatoriation or a fabrication. It is fabricatory.
Speaker 3: And when I say that, and I practiced it a lot,
Speaker 3: by the way, Jack, I have to use my hands
Speaker 3: like Italian. He actually was the former Ice director here
Speaker 3: in Aurora and in the Colorado region and went down
Speaker 3: to the boards together. He was the candidate for CD
Speaker 3: six for Congress. A great guy.
Speaker 5: And just to really quickly insert Jack fabricatory and Italian
Speaker 5: means like to build.
Speaker 2: It's not a fabrication, so quite the opposite. I love that.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm a fourteen carrot Italian from the Bronx, so
Speaker 6: you're not talking strange stuff to make.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 6: The second one I heard you mentioned about Chris Wright
Speaker 6: being appointed to the Energy Secretary. Yes, I'm a pretty
Speaker 6: big investor in a lot of things. But we have
Speaker 6: about twenty thousand chairs of Liberty stock and it's fabulous.
Speaker 6: I encourage everybody to get on that. And there's one
Speaker 6: that's even better, which is TXL or making a bundle
Speaker 6: off of that one. But the oil and gas is
Speaker 6: going to come back, and that's the reason why when
Speaker 6: Trump got elected, my blood pressure drops fifteen points, well
Speaker 6: as your blood pressure. My portfolio. Yeah, yes, portfolio is
Speaker 6: going up a bunch.
Speaker 3: I was going to say it was an inverse reaction.
Speaker 3: As your blood pressure went down, the stock market shot up.
Speaker 3: The very next day, on November sixth, it shot up
Speaker 3: I agree, Jack.
Speaker 6: Oh, I know, I know I'm making a fortune. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 6: I love talking to you. I'd love to talk to
Speaker 6: you privately someday on some more heady topics that I've
Speaker 6: studied for years and years and years. I'd love to
Speaker 6: I'd love to me can't talk to you about some
Speaker 6: other things to fite stocks and Italians and all that.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, thank you so much, Jack, thanks for calling
Speaker 3: you to the show.
Speaker 2: I greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Well, Jack was talking about Chris Wright, who Donald Trump
Speaker 3: named to be the Department of Energy secretary. And he
Speaker 3: is not only a brilliant person, he is a Colorado
Speaker 3: person with liberty energy, as Jack was just sharing, and
Speaker 3: he is someone who really understands what needs to happen
Speaker 3: to unleash our energy sector. You know, all this situation
Speaker 3: about money talks that I've been talking about, what I
Speaker 3: appreciate so much about the threat of the twenty five
Speaker 3: percent tariffs.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm not a big tariff fan.
Speaker 3: I'm a I'm a you know, more of a fiscal
Speaker 3: and conservative in every single way. However, if we take
Speaker 3: those things off the table, we have no leverage.
Speaker 2: And the other situation is.
Speaker 3: If we just looked at our power in that way
Speaker 3: and started like, we are a country that has power.
Speaker 3: We do we still do as the United States of America.
Speaker 3: If right when Russia had invaded Ukraine, we had released
Speaker 3: our energy sector to really be competitive and continue the pathway,
Speaker 3: We're going to be the viable option in the marketplace
Speaker 3: in Europe and elsewhere Russia. Putin would have no money
Speaker 3: for the nonsense that he's doing. Half of the Russian
Speaker 3: economy is oil and gas, and by the way, it
Speaker 3: is the most polluting oil and gas, some of the
Speaker 3: most polluting on the planet, versus our very clean oil
Speaker 3: and gas that we have right here in Colorado. So
Speaker 3: I think that that is definitely an area and I agree.
Speaker 3: I agree Jack, I think that is a bright spot,
Speaker 3: and the market did relate to that very well. Hey,
Speaker 3: I want to bring one more point up before we
Speaker 3: head to the break here. You know, I think it's
Speaker 3: interesting when there's this this saying that, oh andess gracious,
Speaker 3: this is a joy read quote. I think she gets
Speaker 3: more play here than she does on her own show
Speaker 3: on MSNBC because the ratings have gone down for MSNBC
Speaker 3: by fifty seven percent. But the reality is I saw
Speaker 3: firsthand last February twenty twenty three when we went down
Speaker 3: to the border, how the Biden administration despite claiming that
Speaker 3: they could have no real impact on the what goes
Speaker 3: on in another country like Mexico. Oh, there's just nothing
Speaker 3: we can do, that's what they were saying. Well, we've
Speaker 3: already seen that that's not the case, as they're already changing.
Speaker 2: Their policy with a terror threat.
Speaker 3: But when we were down there February twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: I's want to give you this little example putting that
Speaker 3: in the context of what was happening at the time.
Speaker 3: Joe Biden, who started this terrible border crisis, finally finally
Speaker 3: went to the border January twenty twenty three, stood in
Speaker 3: a place called the Bridges of the Americas. Now what
Speaker 3: was interesting was I spoke to Democrats even down in
Speaker 3: El Paso.
Speaker 2: This was in El Paso, Texas.
Speaker 3: They were so excited the President of the United States
Speaker 3: was going to come and shine a light on everything
Speaker 3: they were having to deal with.
Speaker 2: In El Paso. I mean, there were.
Speaker 3: You know, illegal immigrants all over the streets and encamped
Speaker 3: and just flooding in and it was a humanitarian crisis
Speaker 3: as well as a safety crisis. Well, we found out
Speaker 3: from Border Patrol that a call went out to Border
Speaker 3: Patrol to first responders a few days earlier in January,
Speaker 3: and they all were sent to El Paso to clear
Speaker 3: out the streets, and first responders were asked to scrub
Speaker 3: the streets as they bust all of these illegal immigrants
Speaker 3: somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Then, on the.
Speaker 3: Other side of our border wall between El Paso, Texas
Speaker 3: and Warez of Mexico, one of the murder capitals of
Speaker 3: the Western Hemisphere. There previously, beginning of January twenty twenty
Speaker 3: street was a tenth that had built up hundreds of
Speaker 3: tents representing thousands of illegal immigrants poised and ready to
Speaker 3: come across the bridge of the Americas. What happened right
Speaker 3: before Joe Biden did his press conference there? Miraculously, somehow
Speaker 3: the Mexican government cleared them all out. And why was
Speaker 3: that to create a Potempkin village style press situation for
Speaker 3: Joe Biden to stand there in January twenty twenty three
Speaker 3: and have it looked behind him as.
Speaker 2: Though there was no crisis.
Speaker 3: So if anyone tries to tell you that Donald Trump
Speaker 3: is overreaching, by communicating very clearly to another country what
Speaker 3: needs to be done so that they uphold their part
Speaker 3: of their bargain of our sovereignty. Well, Joe Biden was
Speaker 3: already telling or his administration was telling Mexico to do
Speaker 3: right before his press event, So.
Speaker 2: This is nothing new.
Speaker 3: The difference is as Joe Biden and his administration did
Speaker 3: it for his purposes, and the people on Passotech has
Speaker 3: shared how sad they were afterwards that the world did
Speaker 3: not get to see the crisis that they were under.
Speaker 3: Thank goodness, now at least these communications are being done
Speaker 3: for the good of the American people and the good
Speaker 3: of the sovereignty of our nation.
Speaker 2: Well, we're heading to a break.
Speaker 3: When we come back, here's a teaser I want to
Speaker 3: share with you who Time magazine is considering naming their
Speaker 3: person of the Year.
Speaker 2: I think it may not be who we would like
Speaker 2: it to be.
Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll continue with that. I'm Deborah
Speaker 3: Flora sitting in for Dan Caplis.
Speaker 5: And now back to the Dan Caplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show. I'm Deborah Flora
Speaker 3: sitting in for Dan Caplis. My goodness, two hours has
Speaker 3: gone quickly, but fortunately I'll get to talk with you
Speaker 3: again on Thursday, and I am looking forward to that
Speaker 3: guest hosting again. And also I'm going to be joining
Speaker 3: Ryan shuling our very own Ryan every Friday at two pm.
Speaker 3: So great to talk with you all again. Well, love
Speaker 3: that intra music.
Speaker 2: Mexico.
Speaker 3: We have been talking about how it is time for
Speaker 3: that border to get secure. It's already happening. It's amazing
Speaker 3: what a thread of a twenty five percent tariff has done.
Speaker 3: We shared how already since that happened, the Mexican President
Speaker 3: has stopped not one, but two caravans that were heading
Speaker 3: to our border. Nearly four thousand, five thousand people combined,
Speaker 3: had the biggest drug bust of fentanyl in the country's history.
Speaker 3: And you know what, citizens of America are better for it.
Speaker 3: We're safer for it. And those people that were being
Speaker 3: lured here by drug cartels, that were being actually brought
Speaker 3: into a humanitarian crisis, they're being diverted back to their homes.
Speaker 2: They're better for it. So that is a good thing.
Speaker 3: Now that transitions into Time magazine.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: They are telling us who they are considering for per
Speaker 3: of the Year, and hey, I want to hear from
Speaker 3: you be thinking about this for Thursday?
Speaker 2: Who do you think should be Person of the Year.
Speaker 3: But I'll tell you one of the headliners of who
Speaker 3: they're considering. And yes, there should be like a sad
Speaker 3: sound after I say this, and that.
Speaker 2: Is Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Why, thank you, Ryan, I knew you'd be poised and ratty,
Speaker 2: my friend. That is awesome. Yes, Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: And what did they say as the reason why she
Speaker 3: may be their Person of the year. Well, they said,
Speaker 3: here are some of her accomplishments. She ran to be
Speaker 3: the first black female president of the United States. But
Speaker 3: let's really look at some of her accomplishments. Her accomplishments
Speaker 3: are becoming the Democratic candidate without any votes. Right on,
Speaker 3: there is one. I think this could be a different award.
Speaker 3: We're talking about losing the twenty twenty four election while
Speaker 3: spending one point five billion dollars one point five billion dollars,
Speaker 3: and that wasn't enough because she's twenty million dollars in
Speaker 3: debt from some reports. So those are some of the
Speaker 3: things that she's actually done. Now here is the list
Speaker 3: of other names are considering. And you know these last minutes,
Speaker 3: if you want to text in five seven, seven, three nine,
Speaker 3: which one of these you would vote for?
Speaker 2: Joe Rogan. Interesting, Maybe Kate.
Speaker 3: Middleton really thinks she's classy, praying for her health, but
Speaker 3: not necessarily shure that I wouldn't nominate her. Elon Musk
Speaker 3: possibly ding that. Benjamin Nett Yaho. Possibly he's certainly making
Speaker 3: the world a better place and defending his country. Jerome Powell,
Speaker 3: the Federal Reserved Chair. That really would be a whole
Speaker 3: mixed bag. Claudia Shine Mom, first woman President of Mexico,
Speaker 3: considering that she's finally doing a good thing with pressure
Speaker 3: from our own Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the next
Speaker 3: person on the list that they might name as the
Speaker 3: person of the year and the last one. I just
Speaker 3: don't get Ryan, tell me yours? That's about this?
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg, Well, he did a one eighty I guess
Speaker 1: going back to Trump and said that he was a
Speaker 1: badass for raising his fist after he got shot.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that just directs it back to Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: I don't think that directs it to bar zucker Bernan.
Speaker 5: You could make a very strong argument for Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: But if not Trump, I think it's got to.
Speaker 3: Elon has transformed. By the way, have you ever seen
Speaker 3: the movie about h The Amazing is the Aviator about
Speaker 3: Howard Hughes in a way without as much of the
Speaker 3: manning depression that Howard You's has to deal with and awareness.
Speaker 3: Elon Musk is that kind of a visionary person who
Speaker 3: could go between oh, I'm doing SpaceX. Okay, now I'm
Speaker 3: taking over Twitter or X as he calls it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: He's even talked about taking over CNN or MSNBC, which
Speaker 3: I do think would be phenomenal. But I do think
Speaker 3: he is a very unique person. But we do want
Speaker 3: to hear from you coming up Thursday. Who would you nominate?
Speaker 3: But here's one last thing I want to.
Speaker 2: Leave us with.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the examining of what should be celebrated now.
Speaker 3: I do not think Kamala Harris for having one hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy day presidential campaign and being twenty million dollars
Speaker 3: in death with one point five billion dollar campaign is
Speaker 3: in that area at all. And it makes me just
Speaker 3: transition real quickly as we head to the end of
Speaker 3: the show, as we know, Daniel Penny was acquitted by
Speaker 3: a New York jury, and thank goodness, I can't even
Speaker 3: imagine what would happen in the future in our society
Speaker 3: if someone who every single eyewitness called a hero thanked
Speaker 3: him for what he did a marine and an architect student.
Speaker 2: If he had been found.
Speaker 3: Guilty, we would have seen hesitation after hesitation, and probably
Speaker 3: even people stopping themselves from helping their neighbors.
Speaker 2: And by the way, to put.
Speaker 3: This in perspective, right before this happened, there were so
Speaker 3: many dangerous things happening in New York. A strap had
Speaker 3: been stabbed with an ice pick, somebody had been pushed
Speaker 3: in front of another train. Thing after thing was happening.
Speaker 3: And there is actually a GOP lawmaker. This is Republican
Speaker 3: Eli Crane from Arizona is going to introduce a resolution
Speaker 3: to give Daniel Penny the Congressional Medal of Honor now,
Speaker 3: not mital Monitor the Congressional Goal Medal.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: I haven't really sorted it out, but I'm really tired
Speaker 3: of our society celebrating the victims instead of those who
Speaker 3: are willing to do something heroic. I certainly think the
Speaker 3: acquittal of Daniel Penny is a step in the right direction.
Speaker 2: Here's a great news. By the way, just like.
Speaker 3: Daniel Penny was willing to stand up for the people
Speaker 3: in that train. We can, as we enter into this
Speaker 3: holidays season, be a hero to someone around us, or
Speaker 3: maybe just be a fellow citizen. I always think about
Speaker 3: this time of year. Buy a cup of coffee for
Speaker 3: a police officer, buy a lunch for a firefighter, find
Speaker 3: that single mom or that military family, you know what,
Speaker 3: take him out for dinner or offered a babysit. We
Speaker 3: can all do that and we can begin to turn
Speaker 3: this country around. Well, it is great to be with you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for being a part of the conversation.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 3: I'm Debora Flora sitting in for Dan Cathlas