Speaker 1: This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 1: to be even wilder than we thought. And there's still
Speaker 1: what I'd say, Oh, gues September October three, four months ago,
Speaker 1: So we're talking about President Trump today. I think showing
Speaker 1: great courage and intellectual confidence going in front of another
Speaker 1: hard left leaning group. In this case, it happened to
Speaker 1: be a National Black Journalist convention where he knew he
Speaker 1: was going to be grilled. He didn't just get to
Speaker 1: give up and get up and give a speech. He
Speaker 1: was going to be grilled by a left leaning reporter,
Speaker 1: and he was willing to go there, and things got
Speaker 1: pretty intense. We'll play some of that sound. The highlight
Speaker 1: headline coming out of it is a president questioning whether
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is really black. And again I don't think
Speaker 1: he should have gone there. I think he gains points
Speaker 1: strength points for being willing to sit down with another
Speaker 1: hard left journalist and do that kind of interview. But
Speaker 1: we'll play you some of that sound. But Ryan, in
Speaker 1: the meantime, can we audible.
Speaker 2: A little bit?
Speaker 1: Nobody better than Ryan at this President Trump just took
Speaker 1: the stage in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Jamdreena, can we go there?
Speaker 3: Wow, they saw some pretty bad things.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: He opened. I was just watching the chrono. He opened
Speaker 1: by taking shots at Harris's event yesterday. You know where
Speaker 1: they had what was there? Somebody the Stallion and Megan
Speaker 1: thee in the Stallion two ease job and we have, by.
Speaker 3: The way, we have the dollar there. One of the
Speaker 3: great doctors was there.
Speaker 4: They worked doing Corey.
Speaker 5: Actually Ms Corey had.
Speaker 4: A hard Timey Cory is special.
Speaker 3: Thank you doctor, appreciate it very much. Great great doctors,
Speaker 3: great doctors. A job they did on David Dutch and James.
Speaker 4: Copenhagen was just incredible.
Speaker 3: And as you know, they brought him back.
Speaker 4: From very very seriously wounded. They were going to be
Speaker 4: maybe not with us, it was a group of us,
Speaker 4: but they are doing really well. Now they're making it.
Speaker 4: They're going to be fine.
Speaker 3: Not going to be perfect, maybe, but who is who
Speaker 3: is as we get older, who is perfect? But the
Speaker 3: doctors were so great they had two great doctors also,
Speaker 3: and most of all, we lift the memory or memory
Speaker 3: to the brave firefighter who was so cruelly taken from us.
Speaker 3: Corey comparator, Corey comparator.
Speaker 1: Getting out of President Trump in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he had opened up with basically saying, Hey, we don't
Speaker 1: need entertainers to fill up an arena. And then he
Speaker 1: was talking about Kamala Harris's event and Meghan the Stallion,
Speaker 1: the Stallion, right. I gotta tell you, As I watched that,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, is this really going to work? I mean,
Speaker 1: but anyway, and then Trump was saying that her crowd
Speaker 1: started to leave after a few minutes, et cetera. So
Speaker 1: that's how President Trump opened it. But certainly, Ryan, it
Speaker 1: looks like wherever they are, it looks jam packed and
Speaker 1: like an awful lot of people. Yeah, it's Harritsburg, which
Speaker 1: brings us to something, my friend brings us to something
Speaker 1: we've not talked about, which is Kamala Harris's VP.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I know it's kind of surreal and preposterous to be
Speaker 1: talking about any of this because she's not the nominee.
Speaker 1: She didn't get a single vote. She was put in
Speaker 1: place as essentially, you know, by whatever cabal, whatever group
Speaker 1: deposed Biden the duly elected nominee, but she has been
Speaker 1: ordained by them, so she now is going to be
Speaker 1: picking a VP, even though she's not the nominee. But anyway,
Speaker 1: here's my point. We all know that the obvious lame
Speaker 1: dunk pick is Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania. Democrats
Speaker 1: cannot win without Pennsylvania. So hopefully everybody is saying a
Speaker 1: silent or even out loud prayer that she does not
Speaker 1: pick Josh Shapiro. I'm not saying Josh Shapiro would win
Speaker 1: her the election. I'm just saying that it's really going
Speaker 1: to hurt her if she doesn't pick him. If I'm
Speaker 1: betting the car right now, which I'd be very happy
Speaker 1: to do, after I took it in a day for
Speaker 1: a routine service, you know, because the car barks that
Speaker 1: you now service, do service do? You can't play the
Speaker 1: radio unless you go get your service. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden I get this call and I need
Speaker 1: all these other repairs. Of course, so maybe I hope
Speaker 1: I lose this bet. But if I'm betting you my car,
Speaker 1: I bet it's Mark Kelly. I know I agree from
Speaker 1: obviously centered from Arizona, but but boy it, well, we're
Speaker 1: so lucky, aren't we. Ryan that she is the DEM
Speaker 1: caller nominee, but the den backroom pick, that she's the
Speaker 1: DEM backroom pick rather than a younger candidate, and will
Speaker 1: be even more lucky if she the cabal does not
Speaker 1: choose Shapiro.
Speaker 6: This is why my head is spinning. It's kind of
Speaker 6: today's topic, and I understand why it is dan, But
Speaker 6: these silos, these categories, these labels that the Democrats dwell on.
Speaker 6: I was telling you during the break. You know, I'm
Speaker 6: not mixed race, but I mixed ethnicity, and so on
Speaker 6: some level, I can relate to Kamala Harris. My dad's
Speaker 6: side is British and Dutch. My last name is Dutch.
Speaker 6: I don't look that though I look like my mom's side,
Speaker 6: which is Serbian.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 6: My point is I identify with a lot of these
Speaker 6: other things. But the thing my mom always said, and
Speaker 6: she was an immigrant, was that she was an American
Speaker 6: and that's what she was proud of. And this is
Speaker 6: what really pisses me off about all of this. Josh
Speaker 6: Shapiro should be the running bait. But he's not going
Speaker 6: to be and I'm going to tell you why, because
Speaker 6: he's Jewish. And that's stupid, but that's true because the
Speaker 6: Democrats are hung up on this identity politics bs and
Speaker 6: they know that if they choose Shapiro, that might get
Speaker 6: them Pennsylvania, but it might lose them dear or in
Speaker 6: Michigan or Minneapolis, Minnesota. So they got to go with
Speaker 6: a Casper milk toast unoffensive. They're going to go with
Speaker 6: a white guy because they've got to balance the ticket
Speaker 6: to try to bring in somebody that, you know, white
Speaker 6: males for Kamala or whatnot. They're so hung up and
Speaker 6: focused on all these things that divide us, Dan, and
Speaker 6: that's why I wish Donald Trump would take it a
Speaker 6: step further in a positive direction, say it doesn't matter
Speaker 6: what she is. She's an American and she should be
Speaker 6: proud of that, and I'm glad that she is an American,
Speaker 6: and just leave that issue alone. That's for them to
Speaker 6: figure out and deal with.
Speaker 1: I'm with and that's why I open the show, you know,
Speaker 1: just being critical of President Trump for going to the
Speaker 1: is she black thing, praising him for some other things
Speaker 1: he did today. But but the Democrats have put themselves
Speaker 1: in this horrible spot because it is fundamentally Unamerican. It's
Speaker 1: fundamentally opposed to all core American values. It is profoundly
Speaker 1: opposed to the teachings of Doctor King. To have a
Speaker 1: party centered around what skin you have, who you like
Speaker 1: to sleep with, what kind of sex you like to have,
Speaker 1: you know, to have this party based on identity, it
Speaker 1: just violates all these basic principles of America. And you
Speaker 1: don't listen doctor King in his own words, I.
Speaker 7: Have a dream my poor little children one day live
Speaker 7: in a nation where they will not be judged by
Speaker 7: the color of their skin, but by the content of
Speaker 7: that character.
Speaker 1: I have a dreamy and the Democratic Party is going
Speaker 1: entirely the opposite way. Eight five five for zero five
Speaker 1: eight two five five the number. So let's just hope, though,
Speaker 1: because I think we see this identity based party. I
Speaker 1: think we see this party, you know, just eroding before
Speaker 1: our eyes. And so let's hope they make another mistake
Speaker 1: by not choosing Josh Shapiro. And I say they, because
Speaker 1: do you really think it's her choice, you know, not
Speaker 1: choosing Josh Shapiro. If they choose Josh Shapiro, the race
Speaker 1: becomes tougher for President Trump eight five to five for
Speaker 1: zero five eight two five five text D A N
Speaker 1: five seven seven three nine. Because even in the latest polling,
Speaker 1: which you know is predicted, she's got this sugar high going.
Speaker 1: I think it'll soon start to wear off unless some
Speaker 1: crazy things happen between now and then. But even in
Speaker 1: this polling, you know that's that's favoring her. Trump is
Speaker 1: still up for in Pennsylvania, and so he's in a
Speaker 1: good position there. Let's hope she does not pick Shapiro.
Speaker 1: I want to get to some of these texts as well,
Speaker 1: and we have exploding text as you might expect. And
Speaker 1: then when we come back from this break and of
Speaker 1: play some interesting sound. Do you remember, Ryan, which cut
Speaker 1: you made? The Don Lemon sound where Don lemonon CNN,
Speaker 1: Don lemonon CI. Yeah, Don lemonon CNN initiates this d
Speaker 1: kind of sharp verbal disagreement with other guests over whether
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is African American and Lemon taking the position
Speaker 1: she is not. So we'll have that cut for you
Speaker 1: right out of the break as well. You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 6: And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 4: Donald J.
Speaker 6: Trump and I approved this message.
Speaker 2: This is America's borders are and she's failed us under Harris.
Speaker 2: Over ten million illegally here, a quarter of a million
Speaker 2: Americans dead from petroar, brutal migrant crimes, lears, and isis
Speaker 2: now here. Do you have any plans to visit the border?
Speaker 8: You haven't been to the.
Speaker 1: Border, and I haven't been to Europe. Understand the point
Speaker 1: that you're making.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris failed, weak, dangerously liberal.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: Just do that.
Speaker 1: Take yes for an answer. Take yes for an answer.
Speaker 1: Take the W. It's right there, it's city, right there,
Speaker 1: it's right in front of you. Just grab it, caress it,
Speaker 1: snuggle it.
Speaker 6: Take the damn W.
Speaker 1: Don't be talking about whether she's black. Talk about the
Speaker 1: fact she's a San Francisco radical. You've got it all
Speaker 1: on tape. In her own words. She wants to use
Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars to guarantee every prisoner in America sex change operations.
Speaker 1: It's such a target rich environment. Just ninety days of
Speaker 1: discipline and Trump wins bigly.
Speaker 2: But it's going to be wild.
Speaker 1: I mean, take today, today is what we're going to
Speaker 1: get for the next three months. Trump was brilliant in
Speaker 1: so many different ways today brilliant. But then you get
Speaker 1: this other thing where he's questioning whether she's black. Now,
Speaker 1: first of all, she is. Second, even if she wasn't,
Speaker 1: why go there. You win this thing just by saying
Speaker 1: a jillion times over and over san Francisco radical, because
Speaker 1: people know it's true.
Speaker 9: It.
Speaker 1: We're so lucky she's the DEM nominee. It could they
Speaker 1: have so many other stronger nominees who could have pulled
Speaker 1: the con. She can't pull the con. Americans know who
Speaker 1: she is. She's been VP for three and a half years,
Speaker 1: so there are so many different ways to win it.
Speaker 1: But hey, we all know President Trump has been president
Speaker 1: of the United States. I haven't. And he has his
Speaker 1: own way of doing things, and often he does things
Speaker 1: that doesn't look like they should work, and they work.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying on this one is whether it works
Speaker 1: or not. Politically, it's wrong she is black. Don't be
Speaker 1: questioning whether she's black, youah just be just be talking
Speaker 1: about how radical she is San Francisco radical, and use
Speaker 1: the specific. Let me give you one. And we're doing
Speaker 1: a bunch every day but how about this one. There
Speaker 1: can't be what one percent of America who would support
Speaker 1: this using taxpayer dollars for this.
Speaker 9: When I was Attorney General, I learned that the California
Speaker 9: Department of Corrections, which was a client of mine I
Speaker 9: didn't get to choose.
Speaker 5: My clients, a client of the Attorney General, a client of.
Speaker 9: The Attorney General of the Office of Attorney General, that
Speaker 9: they were standing in the way of surgery for prisoners.
Speaker 9: And there was a specific case. And when I learned
Speaker 9: about the case, I worked behind the scenes to not
Speaker 9: only make sure that that transgender woman got the services
Speaker 9: she was deserving. So it wasn't only about that case.
Speaker 9: I made sure that they changed the policy in the
Speaker 9: state of California so that every transgender inmate in the
Speaker 9: prison system would have access to the medical care that
Speaker 9: they desired and need. And I believe it was not
Speaker 9: only I know it was historic in California, but I
Speaker 9: believe actually it may have been one of the first,
Speaker 9: if not the first, in the country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for good reason. It's insane. It's insane. Just play
Speaker 1: that over and over and over again till election day.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phone lines. We'll go to
Speaker 1: Beautiful Colorado Springs and I'm going to play that Don
Speaker 1: Lemon's sound for you, where Don Lemon jumped into this issue,
Speaker 1: much to the chagrin of a Harris supporter, Becky in
Speaker 1: Beautiful Sea Springs. You're on the Dan Kapla, She'll welcome, Hi, Dan.
Speaker 8: I think there's someone really clever, maybe Ryan, who could
Speaker 8: come up with the answered. I like when Reagan was
Speaker 8: debating Mandel and he said, I won't hold my opponent's
Speaker 8: youth and inexperience against him. Yes, and I think Trump
Speaker 8: could come up with something. I won't hold somebody's raise,
Speaker 8: their ethnicity for them or against them, but look at
Speaker 8: their policies and just and I would invite my opponent
Speaker 8: to also stay all both gender and race if they can,
Speaker 8: and just some clever savement like that and never talk
Speaker 8: about it again unless he says that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Becky, appreciate the call, thank you for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It just shouldn't be part of this campaign. I mean,
Speaker 1: the questioning whether she's really black just shouldn't be part
Speaker 1: of this Dennis and Morse. And now at the same time, Trump,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, He's going to win for a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons unless he blows it gives it away, and
Speaker 1: I don't believe he will, but he's going to win
Speaker 1: simply on strength versus weakness and today being willing to
Speaker 1: appear and be questioned by this left leaning journalist, hard
Speaker 1: left leaning journalist. I believe in public stuff like that
Speaker 1: plays to the strength image. Certain responses of his play
Speaker 1: to that. But the other stuff, you gotta let it go.
Speaker 1: Dennis and Morris, and welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Hey, Dan, I'm going to go a little off topic.
Speaker 5: I just want to comment on these fires. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: saying to my beautiful mountain top patio looking at the
Speaker 5: quarry fire as blames just hit the ridge across from us.
Speaker 5: We're on pre pre evacuation notice here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why are you still there?
Speaker 5: Well, it's it's a little bit of a ways. If
Speaker 5: it creeps down that mountain, it could go across uh
Speaker 5: Deer Creek into the canyons there, and then it'll go
Speaker 5: all the way up to Connacher.
Speaker 1: Here's my concern for you, Dennis, because you know, I've
Speaker 1: represented people in this situation where all of a sudden
Speaker 1: that the fire just sped up in a hurry, and
Speaker 1: then you've got people burned to death. And so is
Speaker 1: it worth hanging around and waiting.
Speaker 5: Probably not. So we've got stuff parked backed up in
Speaker 5: the car, and yeah, get out of there.
Speaker 1: Call me from the road. We take calls from the
Speaker 1: road as long as people are safe, right.
Speaker 5: But yeah, you know, all they're talking about is limited resources,
Speaker 5: limited resources, limited resources. And finally, our stupid governor came
Speaker 5: on today and said we should probably put more money
Speaker 5: into aviation resources to fight fires. You know, he goes around,
Speaker 5: he's so concerned with letting wolves go in the wild. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's so concerned about protecting the butterfly population, and he
Speaker 5: just drops the ball on stuff like this. We should
Speaker 5: have the best equipment available to where are of feet
Speaker 5: on the ground those people. I mean, I'm watching these
Speaker 5: planes come in and drop and oh my god, it's
Speaker 5: well this.
Speaker 1: We know if one of those wolves that he had
Speaker 1: released here, that he pushed having released here, if one
Speaker 1: of those wolves was in this area, I bet you
Speaker 1: would have got help sooner.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have been put out a long time ago.
Speaker 5: So anyway, be.
Speaker 1: Careful, man, I've got to hit a hard break, but
Speaker 1: truly be careful, because you know how that works. I mean,
Speaker 1: so many people die when the fire just speeds up
Speaker 1: or shifts directions.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you Dan.
Speaker 1: Hey, thank you Dennis for the call. Be safe, my friend,
Speaker 1: and wow, and prayers for everybody affected by it right
Speaker 1: now on so many different levels. But eight five five
Speaker 1: four zero five eight two five five the number. Let
Speaker 1: me get you that lemon sound right after the break,
Speaker 1: so we don't chop it up and this. Oh and
Speaker 1: Mike Kaufman, yeah, he'll be with us at five thirty six.
Speaker 1: That's wonderful, the mayor of Aurora. And remember what happens
Speaker 1: Sunday night is three to four thousand people gathering in
Speaker 1: connection with the Venezuelan election results and essentially taking over
Speaker 1: this parking lot of a shopping center, and then people
Speaker 1: are having a real hard time getting in and out,
Speaker 1: and then guns being fired into the air and all
Speaker 1: sorts of other issues. In wait a second, I don't
Speaker 1: care what the group is. We just can't have this.
Speaker 1: We can't have this be the new normal. And Mike Kaufman,
Speaker 1: who has been a tremendous law and order guy and
Speaker 1: has walked that talk for a lot of years, I'm
Speaker 1: sure he is not going to permit that as well.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk to him at five thirty six and
Speaker 1: find out for my kaffin what really happened out there,
Speaker 1: and then what's he going to do to make sure
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen again. You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 6: You're listening to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phone lines talk to Mike Kaufman,
Speaker 1: the great Mayor of Aurora, Colorado, talking about this bizarre
Speaker 1: and I think kind of scary occurrence that occurred Sunday
Speaker 1: night in Aurora. Mister mayor, Welcome back to the Dan
Speaker 1: Capla Show.
Speaker 4: Hey, Dan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Well, really appreciate you being here. Obviously, you know what
Speaker 1: the questions are going to, because I'm sure a lot
Speaker 1: of citizens have been calling in with them. But first
Speaker 1: of all, what happened on Sunday night at that shopping mall?
Speaker 1: And second, what can be done to make sure that
Speaker 1: sort of thing doesn't happen again.
Speaker 4: What happened was it was a historic event. Were not
Speaker 4: just for the city of Aurora. Unfortunately, it was unfortunate
Speaker 4: for the city, but we've had the country's had and
Speaker 4: Aurora's had these ways of migrants crushing in the border
Speaker 4: and a lot of them are from Venezuela and so
Speaker 4: and probably the majority are from Venezuela. So there was
Speaker 4: an elections were being held in Venezuela. They somebody on
Speaker 4: social media, one of the number of ve Isuelan immigrant
Speaker 4: community put out a post saying, you know, let's meet
Speaker 4: up over at this parking lot in the vicinity of
Speaker 4: Mississippi and Hava, and it tried out four thousand people,
Speaker 4: about four thousand people and so with no planning, and
Speaker 4: so they just know, kind of took over the area.
Speaker 4: People couldn't uh couldn't get get it that were in
Speaker 4: the stores couldn't get out, uh because they're part where
Speaker 4: their cars were. There was no you know, people couldn't
Speaker 4: go in the stores. Uh, there were a celebratory gunfire,
Speaker 4: a lot of drinking going on. Pretty much trast the area.
Speaker 4: So very disappointing. Uh and uh but you know, certainly,
Speaker 4: uh I felt that they are the people in the
Speaker 4: city will run apology. And the leader from the Venezuelan
Speaker 4: community immigrant community, it's contacting me and said they more
Speaker 4: than that the leaders that they thought to be criminally prosecuted.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: So we're certainly looking at the social media post out
Speaker 4: there trying to track things down in the future of well,
Speaker 4: I think this is more of a one off. But
Speaker 4: in the future, certainly we'll monitor their social media to see,
Speaker 4: you know, if there's ever a meet up again like this.
Speaker 4: But I don't think. I think it was just because
Speaker 4: of this historic event that had occurred, but it was
Speaker 4: really unfortunate and hurt the city may.
Speaker 1: Or Mike Kaufman our guest. And when you say, mister Merrit,
Speaker 1: the one off, I think that is the profound concern
Speaker 1: of so many people listening is wait a second, it
Speaker 1: needs to be a one off, right, because this can't
Speaker 1: be the new normal. And I don't care if it's
Speaker 1: four thousand country clubbers or four thousand people from Ireland
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I happened to be one hundred percent Irish.
Speaker 1: This just can't be the new normal. Even if it's
Speaker 1: the normal in some other country, it can't be the
Speaker 1: normal in America.
Speaker 4: No I did. It really can't be. And so, you know,
Speaker 4: so I think that that there leaders within their community.
Speaker 4: There was an editorial in Spanish language all commercial paper
Speaker 4: by Jezu Sanchez, a leader in the Venezuelan immigrant community.
Speaker 4: Somebody who had been here for a long time, not
Speaker 4: not a new uh. Now one of the ways of
Speaker 4: migrants that have come over here that that that put
Speaker 4: out a pretty harsh editorial, uh, you know against those
Speaker 4: that did that, what really is irresponsible in terms of planning.
Speaker 4: I get that they were exuberant. I get that they
Speaker 4: were excited. Uh. You know, they've they've left the country
Speaker 4: because of the dictatorial leadership there and they were hoping
Speaker 4: for a change uh in governance. Uh. And that has
Speaker 4: yet to be resolved, but certainly there's no excuse for it.
Speaker 4: And but it did. It caught us ouf guarb.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let me ask you about that, mister Merrick,
Speaker 1: because listen, I know you, and I know how you've
Speaker 1: served this country and you're a law and order guy.
Speaker 1: Way beyond talking law and order, you've risked your life
Speaker 1: for it. But at this point you won't find a
Speaker 1: bigger pro cop guy than me. My dad was a
Speaker 1: cop for thirty years. But but how how was the
Speaker 1: intelligence missed on this? And and what's being done, if anything,
Speaker 1: to make sure this can never happen again? And why
Speaker 1: when they started to form And I know it's really
Speaker 1: tough for individual law enforcement officers with a huge crowd
Speaker 1: like that. But was any thought given to having law
Speaker 1: enforcement enforced the law in that situation.
Speaker 4: No, it was tough. I mean, we are we're understaffed
Speaker 4: as a police department. We are, you know, we're working
Speaker 4: hard to staff up, but we we you know those
Speaker 4: Douge Floyd and the after Matthew George Floyd and you know,
Speaker 4: we lost a lot of officers and so we're trying
Speaker 4: to rebuild the department and so. But but it was
Speaker 4: it was a crush of people that unexpectedly descended at
Speaker 4: one time. You know, do we certainly where we have
Speaker 4: experiences is in the street racing when they do meetups
Speaker 4: that we do want a toor uh a social media
Speaker 4: their social media to see if and when they're coming
Speaker 4: as a group. So we have experienced, but absolutely caught
Speaker 4: off guard in this situation that I mean that these
Speaker 4: posts would go viral one person started it, that they
Speaker 4: would go viral to where you had a crush of
Speaker 4: four thousand people descending in one area that couldn't accommodate
Speaker 4: them in a fairly short period of time.
Speaker 1: And mister Marrin, in terms of deterring it in the future,
Speaker 1: you alluded earlier to the credit of apparently somebody from
Speaker 1: the Venezuelan community saying there should be criminal charges. Is
Speaker 1: there videotape available where people who committed crimes, including firing
Speaker 1: guns into the air, you know, could be identified and prosecuted.
Speaker 4: There's an investigation going on, so they're going to try to,
Speaker 4: you know, identify people that are responsible for it. But
Speaker 4: I'll tell you this, in the context of the challenges
Speaker 4: that we have as a city, my worry was not
Speaker 4: that was more about the Venezuelan immigrants that weren't there
Speaker 4: than the visits Venezuelan immigrants that were there there. There's
Speaker 4: concern about Venezuelan gangs in the Denver metro area or
Speaker 4: being no exception to that. And they certainly don't care
Speaker 4: about the politics in Venezuela in whether or not the
Speaker 4: government's going to change. They're here to do harm and
Speaker 4: so Venezuela, you know, this is a problem with to
Speaker 4: Biden administration. Venezuela is a country that doesn't share its
Speaker 4: criminal records with the United States when it comes to immigration,
Speaker 4: and so what we have is we have a lot
Speaker 4: of people that have crossed the board illegally, been arrested,
Speaker 4: then have asked for asylum, political asylum. They know the process.
Speaker 4: They're given what's called a humanitarian parole in the country
Speaker 4: pending an adjudication of their asylum clan. And so, I
Speaker 4: mean that's what we're up against.
Speaker 1: Yeah, without any idea of their criminal histories, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate the point. This is Biden and Harris
Speaker 1: and that whole administration and Polis and the whole bunch
Speaker 1: of them support this sort of thing. But when you're
Speaker 1: stuck in this situation, mister mayor, with this, with this
Speaker 1: very tough hand to deal with, you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, is you know better than I
Speaker 1: do the law still has to be enforced or is
Speaker 1: it a situation whereimply the numbers involved that that people
Speaker 1: are going to be able to continue to do this.
Speaker 4: No, and again, is this the one off? Absolutely? This
Speaker 4: is the one off. Well, this wasn't a story. I
Speaker 4: disagree with you on this because I think it was.
Speaker 4: This was in a story moment of where they met
Speaker 4: up in anticipation of an election result that that occurs.
Speaker 4: I don't know how will Alpha may have elections of
Speaker 4: the president, but not very often. And so, and I
Speaker 4: think that that the message will be out there not
Speaker 4: to do this, and it will be better prepared next time.
Speaker 4: In the context of some of the challenges that we're
Speaker 4: up against, this isn't certainly the biggest one, but it's
Speaker 4: important I get that, and that we'll certainly be prepared
Speaker 4: for this next time better than we are today. It's
Speaker 4: pretty hard when when people descend on a given area,
Speaker 4: on a fairly small area in a very quick period
Speaker 4: of time.
Speaker 1: Right, And You've been generous with your time. But I
Speaker 1: know you know this better than I do that all
Speaker 1: of us, just as individuals and collectively as a community,
Speaker 1: we can done and encourage what we tolerate. So in
Speaker 1: this situation, if they are not criminal charge is brought,
Speaker 1: it isn't the message that's sent to people that Okay,
Speaker 1: you can do this again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I certainly hope that there are that the investigation
Speaker 4: will yield that information where we can prosecute people. And
Speaker 4: you know, and so this is this is a challenging time,
Speaker 4: and this is one of the challenges that we have
Speaker 4: and you know, I'm not gonna you know, obviously there's priorities.
Speaker 1: Yeah, meaning in terms of resources.
Speaker 4: In terms of resources, and in terms of no different
Speaker 4: than than when we deploy our patrol officers. And the
Speaker 4: difference treating and what is a priority one call and
Speaker 4: what is a lesser called.
Speaker 1: Well, wouldn't this be a highest priority call because you've
Speaker 1: got this group that that's formed illegally, it's shutting down commerce,
Speaker 1: you have guns being fired into the air. Wouldn't this
Speaker 1: be the highest prior?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: What would be higher?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not? We you know, if you know Aurora, the
Speaker 4: what you know is we have areas in our city,
Speaker 4: unfortunately that have been overtaken and that we have to
Speaker 4: take back street by street, block by block that where
Speaker 4: we have violent criminals, not people coming together for a
Speaker 4: party as bad as it was, but where we have
Speaker 4: violent criminals, that would not be a priority one call.
Speaker 4: Priority one call is shots fired but at somebody else,
Speaker 4: not still a Detroit fire, gots fired, injuries, you know,
Speaker 4: due to violent crimes and a crime in progress, and
Speaker 4: so I mean a violent crime in progress. Those are
Speaker 4: that's a priority one call. And so this was important.
Speaker 4: I get the frustration. It is not something This is
Speaker 4: not like dealing with street racing, where it occurs on
Speaker 4: a regular basis, and you know, we get onto we
Speaker 4: learn their social media patterns, we get on top of it,
Speaker 4: we'll certainly learn from this. But for people that think
Speaker 4: that this is going to be every week, it's not.
Speaker 1: Well, Listen, I know you have enormous challenges not of
Speaker 1: your making, and I know your commitment to law and
Speaker 1: order in public safety. And one thing I'd love to
Speaker 1: do is I'd love to get you in here for
Speaker 1: an hour just based on what you said a second
Speaker 1: ago about you've got areas you've got to fight for
Speaker 1: and take back block by block. I mean that, and
Speaker 1: I know you don't exaggerate, so that's an extraordinarily alarming statement.
Speaker 1: But I'd love to get you in studio for an
Speaker 1: hour and and just talk that through and talk about
Speaker 1: what the reality is on the ground there and what
Speaker 1: the fixes are.
Speaker 4: Well, do it?
Speaker 1: Okay, Thank you, my friend, appreciate the times. Take care.
Speaker 1: That is, Mayor Mike Kaufman, good to spend time with us.
Speaker 1: Come back at your reaction. You're on the Dan Caplo Show.
Speaker 6: And now back to the Dan Kamplas Show, Podcast number one.
Speaker 6: She is a black woman. She's a mixed race woman.
Speaker 2: When you see her, you see her blackness, but she
Speaker 2: is also South Asian.
Speaker 6: Her mom is South Asian and her dad is Jamaica.
Speaker 4: Let me, let me, let me listen. More power to her.
Speaker 10: And I think it's great that is that should be enough. Listen,
Speaker 10: it is enough that she's a black woman.
Speaker 6: Models.
Speaker 11: No, no, no, they did the same.
Speaker 6: No, no, no no.
Speaker 10: I think I think you're not You're not hearing what
Speaker 10: people are saying. The people who are saying is she
Speaker 10: black enough? That's bold, that's bs. But to to to
Speaker 10: what the distinction to say is she African American or
Speaker 10: is she black?
Speaker 4: Or she whatever?
Speaker 10: That which there is nothing wrong with that. There is
Speaker 10: a difference between being African American and being black people,
Speaker 10: lack people, Latino people are people of color, but they're
Speaker 10: not black, they're brown people.
Speaker 6: She is, okay, but she is a black woman.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 8: That's why I agree with that.
Speaker 10: I agree with that, but American.
Speaker 1: And the reason I played that if you just joined us,
Speaker 1: thank you? Is this big issue today President Trump questioned
Speaker 1: you whether Kamala Harris is black. I don't think he
Speaker 1: should have done that. I think she is. And regardless,
Speaker 1: you just don't go there. He has so many different
Speaker 1: ways to win his own accomplishments. Her crazy radicalism. But
Speaker 1: yet we've just been playing that kind of related sound
Speaker 1: all day. Let's go to our JAM phone line. Start
Speaker 1: with Greg and Aurora, Colorado. You're on the Dan Kaplis,
Speaker 1: She'll welcome.
Speaker 11: Yeah, nice to talk with you, Dan. And I called
Speaker 11: in a couple of days ago explaining that my wife
Speaker 11: and I were traveling north on Havana just all out
Speaker 11: right about the time all of this started. And I
Speaker 11: just listened to your interview with Mayor Kauflin. I actually
Speaker 11: mentioned to the host the other day that we had
Speaker 11: to get him on the phone and find out exactly
Speaker 11: what was going on. So I appreciate your time on that.
Speaker 11: I think he deflected, and I've had previous experience with
Speaker 11: him as I'm a precinct leader here in a Republican
Speaker 11: precinct leader here in Aurora, and uh, he's uh, he's
Speaker 11: I don't think he handles things very clearly. And uh,
Speaker 11: I don't understand the kind of deflection on if this
Speaker 11: was not the highest priority what it was there it was,
Speaker 11: if not at the moment we were there, it's turning
Speaker 11: into a dangerous situation, especially on the road. People were there,
Speaker 11: they were brought blocking the intersections and who knows what
Speaker 11: could have happened. There could have been accidents. Fortunately there wasn't.
Speaker 11: But you know, I think that uh uh Mayor Kaufman
Speaker 11: after left the when I when I actually spoke to
Speaker 11: him personally there in the Republican headquarters in the Rapallo County.
Speaker 11: He was This is shortly after his revelation in the
Speaker 11: Denver Post that he was not supporting the Trump and
Speaker 11: I asked him who he.
Speaker 4: Was voting for. I said, are you going to vote
Speaker 4: for Hillary?
Speaker 1: And he didn't say anything, and my apologies, my friend.
Speaker 1: The music means I have to bail because we're going
Speaker 1: to get hit a heart break here in a few seconds.
Speaker 1: Thank you everybody else jamming the lines. We'll continue this
Speaker 1: conversation tomorrow. You can be sure of that. We'll have
Speaker 1: a report from the courtroom from Jimmy Sandeberger on the
Speaker 1: Teenyer Peters trial which has begun. Ran tremendous job is always.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Kelly, You're the best. Join us tomorrow please
Speaker 1: on the Dan Kapla Show.