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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Dan Capless Show here with Welcomny Sheriff
Speaker 2: Steve Rams as your guest host, and man, what twenty
Speaker 2: four hours does for you. Yesterday, when we were finishing
Speaker 2: out the show, we were doing a little bit of
Speaker 2: talk about the Epstein issues and what's going on in
Speaker 2: the Trump administration. And to say that it fired a
Speaker 2: few of you up would be probably an understatement. We
Speaker 2: get some texts and some phone calls in reference to
Speaker 2: your doubt about whether this administration was giving us the
Speaker 2: full truth about the Epstein files. And so when I
Speaker 2: got home last night, I thought, well, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm going to dive in a little bit on Facebook.
Speaker 2: See what the world of social media is saying about
Speaker 2: this current the current situation as it revolves to Jeffrey
Speaker 2: Epstein and all the curiosity around him. And lo and behold,
Speaker 2: my Facebook page was just riddled with information about an
Speaker 2: issue happening here in Colorado at the Colorado State House.
Speaker 2: As you guys know, yesterday we had Representative Carlos baron
Speaker 2: On who had just been named the new House Minority
Speaker 2: Whip for the Republicans, and we were paid him a
Speaker 2: lot of praise. I think Carlos Baron has done a
Speaker 2: great job representing House District forty eight, taken over for
Speaker 2: Congressman Gabe Evans in that particular district, has built a
Speaker 2: lot of relationships down to the State House. We were
Speaker 2: very supportive of I was very supportive of him moving
Speaker 2: into that seat or into that role as the whip,
Speaker 2: and had no idea about some of the turmoil that
Speaker 2: had gone on behind the scenes. We knew that Carlos
Speaker 2: Baron had kind of faced off against Representative Brandy Bradley
Speaker 2: and Representative Ron Weinberg had also been in the running
Speaker 2: for that position, but Carlos had come out on top.
Speaker 2: And again I was completely unaware of some of the
Speaker 2: stuff that had gone on behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: But by the time I got home.
Speaker 2: Some stuff started to kind of float to the surface
Speaker 2: through the world of social media, and again I just
Speaker 2: kind of soaked it in last night. You know, I
Speaker 2: didn't want to respond too quickly and decided that, you know,
Speaker 2: this morning, about five thirty in the morning, when I
Speaker 2: was finishing up my workout, I messaged Representative Weinberger message
Speaker 2: on through Facebook and just said, Hey, if you've got
Speaker 2: a desire to come on the radio today and give
Speaker 2: your side of these accusations, because I had seen every
Speaker 2: major news station had had run a story about this,
Speaker 2: that Hey, here's your opportunity, and I just kind of waited.
Speaker 2: I Represented Weinberg responded and said, Hey, let me check
Speaker 2: with my attorney see where see what's the smartest way
Speaker 2: for us to respond, and I'll get back with you.
Speaker 2: So that leads me to kind of where we're at
Speaker 2: here today. And holy smokes, like I said, what twenty
Speaker 2: four hours will do. And if you haven't listened, if
Speaker 2: you weren't listening to Ryan Schuling live, you should have been.
Speaker 2: He had a fire show, for sure, And I say
Speaker 2: that in the kindest of ways. He definitely was batting
Speaker 2: for the fences. So welcome back from vacation, Ryan. He
Speaker 2: came back to a home run. I'm not sure that
Speaker 2: it's good for Republican Party to have this kind of
Speaker 2: stuff in the news, but it does make for a
Speaker 2: very interesting radio and your guests were on fire.
Speaker 4: Well, it goes kind of it's part and parcel with
Speaker 4: what we've been talking about.
Speaker 3: What you just mentioned.
Speaker 4: When it comes to the Colorado Republican Party, you can't
Speaker 4: have one element of maybe good news as you had.
Speaker 4: And I spoke with Representative Carlos Baron earlier today. He
Speaker 4: earns the House Minority whip position. You know, he's relatively
Speaker 4: new to the General Assembly. He's a commodity and a
Speaker 4: high riser under Rose Paglici and Ty Winner and the
Speaker 4: leadership there, and it's something feel good about.
Speaker 5: And then you have all of this going on behind
Speaker 5: the scenes.
Speaker 4: And I spoke with Representative Brandy Bradley because Carolyn Weinberg,
Speaker 4: the wife of Representative Ron Weinberg, who has been accused
Speaker 4: of sexual harassment now by several women who are coming forward,
Speaker 4: also invoked the name of Brandy Bradley of perhaps being
Speaker 4: behind some kind of smear merchant campaign.
Speaker 3: Behind the scenes.
Speaker 4: Brandy adamantly vehemently denies that she was behind any of
Speaker 4: this when it comes to the allegations against Ryan Weinberg
Speaker 4: in those going public. So Representative Bradley fired back on
Speaker 4: my program and we had to edit out in real
Speaker 4: time using the dump button a portion of what she
Speaker 4: said over the air, because there's very there are some
Speaker 4: things that are very sensitive in nature about these accusations
Speaker 4: that don't lend themselves for over the air radio broadcasts.
Speaker 4: And yet Representative Brandy Bradley went there and we were
Speaker 4: awaiting as well in response to the accusations made by
Speaker 4: Jacqueline Anderson, who is one of the first to come
Speaker 4: forward these victim impact statements about what happened to her,
Speaker 4: not once by her allegation, but twice back to back
Speaker 4: years at LPR with her husband correct and with Representative
Speaker 4: Weinberg consuming alcohol, and that kind of lending itself to
Speaker 4: inappropriate comments, according to her, that were targeted in her direction,
Speaker 4: right in front of her husband. And the second time
Speaker 4: around the next year, that husband confronted Represented Weinberg and
Speaker 4: he was subsequently banned from the event. So I don't
Speaker 4: know how Representive Weinberg going to respond to that part
Speaker 4: of the allegation, but I know that you got a
Speaker 4: statement from him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. Right before we were ready to go
Speaker 2: on air. Ron had actually made a phone call to
Speaker 2: me and he just said, hey, with the new accusations
Speaker 2: that were made on your show, or some of the
Speaker 2: new accusations that were made on your show. He felt
Speaker 2: like that was something that he needed to yet again
Speaker 2: speak with his attorney about, and his statement was, I'm
Speaker 2: taking this very serious under the advice of legal counsel.
Speaker 2: I will respond when it's appropriate, and that's you know,
Speaker 2: that's all I can go. I'll go with on the
Speaker 2: air right now. I have told Ron representative Weinberg that
Speaker 2: if he changes his mind he wants to come on
Speaker 2: the show, he's welcome to do so at any time.
Speaker 2: And when I spoke with him, I said, look, I'm
Speaker 2: not judging you. I'm not making a case for or
Speaker 2: against you. You know, one side of the story's been told.
Speaker 2: I'm giving you an opportunity to tell the other side.
Speaker 2: And that's as fair as I can be. I truly
Speaker 2: do want to give him a platform to say, you know,
Speaker 2: say his peace and defend himself if that's what if
Speaker 2: that's what needs to occur, you know, especially in a
Speaker 2: world where we were told for a little while there
Speaker 2: that and this is no knock against Jaqueline Anderson, that
Speaker 2: says no knock against Brandy Bradley or any of the others.
Speaker 2: But there was this narrative that was going on from
Speaker 2: the left for a while of believe all women, and
Speaker 2: we knew that some of the statements that were being
Speaker 2: made against people that were, you know, Supreme Court nominees
Speaker 2: and that kind of stuff. It was a little controversial
Speaker 2: and there were some questions about whether those folks were
Speaker 2: telling the truth. And I, you know, I want to
Speaker 2: give Jacqueline Anderson and Brandy Bradley all the credit in
Speaker 2: the world that they're coming forward to tell their story.
Speaker 2: I think Ron should have the opportunity to tell his
Speaker 2: story too, and he does if he wants to come
Speaker 2: on the radio, he has this platform. I'm sure you
Speaker 2: would invite him on your show as well, Ryan, and
Speaker 2: that that opportunity still stands. So if he changes his mind,
Speaker 2: he's welcome to come on the show. But I think
Speaker 2: it's it's one of those things in Republican politics, which
Speaker 2: I'm deeply involved in in many ways, these are this
Speaker 2: is one of those unforced errors and you know, whatever
Speaker 2: is driving this situation. You know that I say in
Speaker 2: law enforcement, the truth is always somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 2: There's one side, there's the other side, and then there's
Speaker 2: the truth. That's not to say that the truth doesn't
Speaker 2: lean more to one side than the other, but it's
Speaker 2: never as clear cut as it's as it's painted to
Speaker 2: be typically. So I think when all this is said
Speaker 2: and done, well, we'll know we'll have a truth that
Speaker 2: we can all agree on, unless it's something like along
Speaker 2: the Epstein lines. I think we'll all have a truth
Speaker 2: that we can agree on, and somewhere in this it'll
Speaker 2: all make sense. But it takes everybody's story getting out
Speaker 2: there in the news, and right now, Representative Weinberg controls
Speaker 2: that timeline. So you know, I'm pretty shocked. I'm sure
Speaker 2: the listeners are as well, if especially if they were
Speaker 2: listening in the last hour with with what's our last
Speaker 2: two hours with what went on in on Ryan Shuling Live.
Speaker 2: If you have some early text or our thoughts, you
Speaker 2: want to call in. The number here is three O
Speaker 2: three seven one three eight two five five, or you
Speaker 2: can text Dan at five seven seven three nine. I'd
Speaker 2: love to hear your feedback. But just to kind of
Speaker 2: summarize the story, what we have that's been alleged is
Speaker 2: that Representative Ron Weinberg who filled in when Hugh McKean
Speaker 2: died in office. Representive Weinberg I believe was appointed to
Speaker 2: the seat and then later ran for the seat and
Speaker 2: won the election. He's been down at the State House
Speaker 2: for that amount of time, I think, the last couple
Speaker 2: of years. Technically this would be his third third term
Speaker 2: or third year in office, I believe. But apparently over
Speaker 2: that time and since maybe twenty twenty one, there's been
Speaker 2: some allegations that he may have made some inappropriate comments
Speaker 2: to different women, one of those being Jacqueline Anderson at
Speaker 2: a leadership program of the Rockies event, both in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one and again in twenty twenty two, I believe,
Speaker 2: and then also some interesting comments back and forth I guess,
Speaker 2: between he and Representative Brandy Bradley down at the State Capitol.
Speaker 2: But in addition to that, when Jacqueline Anderson posted her
Speaker 2: information out on Facebook. There's a story one as well
Speaker 2: that is written by another person, and I'm just going
Speaker 2: to read this on air. Actually, we'll go to break
Speaker 2: and I'll read it when we come back. Let's do
Speaker 2: that that way, we can let all of you load
Speaker 2: the text lines and load the phone lines if you'd like.
Speaker 2: We'll read that story as soon as we come back
Speaker 2: from break. You listen to Dan Capless Show here on
Speaker 2: six point thirty k HOW with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve
Speaker 2: Reims in the guest seat.
Speaker 5: And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to.
Speaker 2: The Dan camp the Show here with Wilkounny staff Steve
Speaker 2: Raimes as your guest host. And we went to break.
Speaker 2: We were talking about a recent firestorm that's kind of
Speaker 2: popped up in the Colorado State Capitol involving Representative Ron
Speaker 2: Weinberg with some allegations in reference to some inappropriate sexually
Speaker 2: charged comments that have been made to several persons. It
Speaker 2: sounds as if maybe the case or allegedly the case
Speaker 2: Jacqueline Anderson, a former I guess Party member over a
Speaker 2: Republican Party member over in Mason County, and then Brandy
Speaker 2: Bradley State rep in a different district than Ron Weinberg.
Speaker 2: And we're gathering a little bit more information as this
Speaker 2: thing kind of continues to unfold. But before we went
Speaker 2: to break, I was going to read victim impact statement
Speaker 2: story one which was posted by by Jacqueline Anderson also
Speaker 2: but it's referenced in a Colorado politics story. This person
Speaker 2: is identified as Heather Booth and Elizabeth's school boy. Remember,
Speaker 2: and I'm just going to read story one as she
Speaker 2: told it. At a very large event in February of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, my husband and I were going back
Speaker 2: and forth to the bar, getting my friends and me drinks.
Speaker 2: While he was gone, I was joking with my friend
Speaker 2: about needing a facelift. Out of no where, Ron, who
Speaker 2: I barely even know, came to us. At first, he
Speaker 2: told me not to get a facelift because I was beautiful.
Speaker 2: I think'd him politely, but then he kept repeating it
Speaker 2: and it started to feel uncomfortable. Suddenly he said something
Speaker 2: so vile that I was in shock. He told me, no,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd put my blank in your blank. I
Speaker 2: couldn't believe what I was hearing. My friend and I
Speaker 2: were stunned. We didn't even know how to react. Then
Speaker 2: Ron took it even further, saying, Oh, I'm sorry, would
Speaker 2: you rather me put my blank in your blank? It
Speaker 2: was humiliating, disgusting, and terrifying. We were dressed up at
Speaker 2: a public event and this man thought it was okay
Speaker 2: to sexually degrade me like that. I still can't shake
Speaker 2: how powerless and violated I felt. So I'll let you
Speaker 2: fill in the words. Obviously, there's some things we can't
Speaker 2: say on the radio for reasons. And so that's the
Speaker 2: story from Heather Booth, as told by Jacqueline Anderson via
Speaker 2: also coloradopolitics dot com. I don't know where all this thing,
Speaker 2: where this thing all ends, but I know that it
Speaker 2: is extremely bad for the Republican Party to have this
Speaker 2: kind of stuff going on, and the absence of a
Speaker 2: response just lets this thing build. And I'm again we've
Speaker 2: offered the opportunity for Representative Weinberg to come on the
Speaker 2: air and tell his side of the story. I don't
Speaker 2: know if that helps or hurts, but at least it
Speaker 2: gets both sides of the story out on the radio waves.
Speaker 2: But as a as a Republican in the state of Colorado,
Speaker 2: I've said many times over, we can't afford to lose
Speaker 2: a steed at the state House. We cannot afford to
Speaker 2: have an unforced error, and this feels like we could
Speaker 2: be headed to an unforced error if it's not resolved
Speaker 2: very quickly, and if this issue isn't cleaned up again.
Speaker 2: If you want to text and give your comments, you
Speaker 2: can at five seven seven three nine, start your text
Speaker 2: with Dan, or you can call in at three O
Speaker 2: three seven one three eight two five five. We've got
Speaker 2: a text from one of our loyal listeners here says
Speaker 2: if I was one of these women, I might have
Speaker 2: just repeated what he said back to him in a
Speaker 2: very loud voice for all to hear. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 2: probably a way of handling it. I can tell you
Speaker 2: if as if I were the husband of either of
Speaker 2: these ladies who have told their story, I don't know
Speaker 2: that I would have been nearly as calm in my
Speaker 2: response as it appears that they were. If these things
Speaker 2: are are true, if these allegations are true, Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's it's a bad look for sure. That being said,
Speaker 2: you know, we'll give Representative Weinberg the benefit of the
Speaker 2: doubt until it's proven. Otherwise, as far as giving him
Speaker 2: opportunity to come on the radio and say whatever you'd like,
Speaker 2: or respond in court as he's as as it sounds
Speaker 2: like that maybe the direction he plans on tape. So
Speaker 2: I don't want to put words in his mouth. I
Speaker 2: don't want to. I don't want to say anything that
Speaker 2: isn't absolutely true.
Speaker 3: So we'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 2: Uh Again, yesterday we talked quite a bit about the
Speaker 2: Epstein files and whether or not any any of you
Speaker 2: believed what we were hearing was true, and I kind
Speaker 2: of questioned it myself. You know, I had definitely followed
Speaker 2: the story, watched several watch several of the documentaries about
Speaker 2: mister Epstein, as as that case was coming to you know,
Speaker 2: kind of coming to fruition. He was being arrested, sitting
Speaker 2: in prison, and just kind of wondering how a guy
Speaker 2: goes from being basically a math teacher to a billionaire
Speaker 2: almost billionaire, with really no tracking of how he raised money,
Speaker 2: how he how he got there. Always had me scratching
Speaker 2: my head. I mean, you know, more on anybody, more
Speaker 2: to anybody that can make that kind of money and
Speaker 2: do so quite easily. I haven't had that same success,
Speaker 2: I guess. But as time went on, we kept hearing
Speaker 2: from the former Trump administration or people associated with the
Speaker 2: Trump administration that something wasn't quite right, that you know,
Speaker 2: there was more to this story. The client list was
Speaker 2: going to come out. And I will tell you from
Speaker 2: a person in law enforcement, I don't know how how
Speaker 2: you can look at one of these cases and say
Speaker 2: there's not more to the story, And you know, quite honestly,
Speaker 2: that's kind of the same view I take when I
Speaker 2: look at the incident we were talking about that's going
Speaker 2: on down at the state Capitol. There's always more to
Speaker 2: the story. But even if there's not a printed client
Speaker 2: list that Jeffrey Epstein wrote out somewhere in this case,
Speaker 2: there had to have been people who were associated with
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein. We know there was a list of people
Speaker 2: who flew on the Lolita Express. We know that there
Speaker 2: were witnesses that saw one another on the island. We
Speaker 2: know that there were people that had to have been
Speaker 2: talked to. We know there were victims of this crime
Speaker 2: spree from Jeffrey Epstein and Giselle Maxwell or however you
Speaker 2: say her first name. He's sitting in prison for a
Speaker 2: crime that now I guess we're not certain was even committed.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein was in custody for crimes when he died,
Speaker 2: whether that was by suicide or some other means. So
Speaker 2: there's a lot of questions here about how can we
Speaker 2: not have a client list of some kind, and maybe
Speaker 2: it's not handwritten by Jeffrey Epstein, but there should be
Speaker 2: a client list. And I guess what really gets me
Speaker 2: going on this or what causes me the point of
Speaker 2: concern is a comment that was made by a G.
Speaker 2: Pam Bondi just a few months back. And if we could,
Speaker 2: I'd like to play the clip where I think it
Speaker 2: kind of resurfaced this whole thing, and that's clip one, Ryan,
Speaker 2: could we get that going?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: So basically Pam Bondy talks about this whole file setting
Speaker 2: on her desk and she kind of hints that, hey,
Speaker 2: there is a there is a client list. Deep oh,
Speaker 2: we're working on it. Ryan was absorbed with the other
Speaker 2: issues of the day, which is totally understandable.
Speaker 4: The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Speaker 3: Well, that really happened.
Speaker 6: It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's
Speaker 6: been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm
Speaker 6: reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the process
Speaker 6: of being reviewed because that was done at the directive
Speaker 6: of the President from all of these agencies.
Speaker 2: So what that tells me is that list does exist now.
Speaker 2: She equivocates later and we'll play that clip a little
Speaker 2: later in the show. But she equivocates later and says, well,
Speaker 2: I was talking about the entire case file, not just
Speaker 2: the specific list. And I'm sorry, you know, maybe it's
Speaker 2: a fallacy of words, maybe that's not exactly what she
Speaker 2: meant to say. But everyone who listened to that said, oh,
Speaker 2: there's a list. And I remember the hubbub that went
Speaker 2: on not only on talk radio, you know, on conservative
Speaker 2: talk radio, but even on mainstream news, that hey, this
Speaker 2: client list could be dropping, and we might also see
Speaker 2: the JFK files, the RFK files, the MLK files. There's
Speaker 2: going to be a a dump of information. And then
Speaker 2: we waited, and we waited, and we waited and we waited,
Speaker 2: and it was a big nothing burger. And then we
Speaker 2: get to the point where over the weekend, on I
Speaker 2: think a Sunday night, we get a drop saying oh, well,
Speaker 2: there's nothing to see here, there's nothing to look at.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. There is no Epstein list. It
Speaker 2: just it doesn't make sense. We're gonna shift gears when
Speaker 2: we come back from break and try to look at
Speaker 2: something a little more positive. We're gonna have Congressman Gabe
Speaker 2: Evans on talking about some wins for the Republicans, especially
Speaker 2: out at the national level on the Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan Capless Show here with well
Speaker 2: Knty Sriff Steve Reims as your guest host.
Speaker 5: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Dankplas Show here with Well Keunty
Speaker 2: Shaff Steve Reims. And we've been kind of covering some
Speaker 2: controversial topics here in in the state of Colorado down
Speaker 2: at the Golden Dome, but we're going to get to
Speaker 2: something that is a little more nationally based, and that
Speaker 2: is our Congressman from the eighth Congressional District, Gave Evans
Speaker 2: just recently cast his vote on the Big Beautiful Bill
Speaker 2: and actually had a press conference down at the state
Speaker 2: Capitol and support of that set and supportive said bill,
Speaker 2: and we wanted to have gabon to kind of talk
Speaker 2: about some of the highlights of this bill, what it does,
Speaker 2: what it doesn't do, and hear it directly from one
Speaker 2: of the guys that voted for it. Congressman Evans, how
Speaker 2: are you doing all?
Speaker 7: He's got to be honest, Your Sheriff.
Speaker 3: Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2: And you know, every time we get a chance to
Speaker 2: talk with you, I get a little more educated about
Speaker 2: what life is out in Washington, d C. And I'm
Speaker 2: so glad I'm not there, and so glad that you are.
Speaker 2: So thank you for your service. I know that the
Speaker 2: process of getting through this big, beautiful bill was not easy.
Speaker 2: If you would just kind of outline the process that
Speaker 2: you guys had to fight through just to get this
Speaker 2: thing across the finish line, and then we'll talk about
Speaker 2: the goods and the bads of this thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So, I think most folks know that the Republicans have
Speaker 7: unified governments, so we have majorities in the House of
Speaker 7: the Senate and the Presidency. But the sticking point is
Speaker 7: Republicans have fifty three votes in the US Senate, the
Speaker 7: Democrats have forty seven, and because of the rules of
Speaker 7: the Senate, the Senators can filibuster anything, and that basically
Speaker 7: killed it, and you've got to have sixty votes to
Speaker 7: block the filibuster. So while Republicans have a majority in
Speaker 7: the Senate, we don't have a filibuster proof majority. And
Speaker 7: so about the only way that we could we could
Speaker 7: get a piece of legislation passed without having the Democrats
Speaker 7: block it is this thing called the reconciliation process, and
Speaker 7: it's basically a budgetary process by which as long as
Speaker 7: whatever we're doing is predominantly budgetaryan nature, it actually can
Speaker 7: pass through the Senate with a simple majority vote instead
Speaker 7: of being subject to the filibuster. So that was the
Speaker 7: process that we used for this big, beautiful bill, and
Speaker 7: it's a very complex process. We have to pass the
Speaker 7: bill twice. You have to figure out is this thing
Speaker 7: budgetary or not budgetary. If it's not budgetary, then the
Speaker 7: you know, the parliamentary in was making some news last week.
Speaker 7: The parliamentarian in the Senate says who it says, says
Speaker 7: if that provision is going to be subject to the
Speaker 7: filibuster or not. But that was the process that we
Speaker 7: had to follow in order to get this thing passed.
Speaker 7: Because there's a lot of things in there that do
Speaker 7: just outstandingly amazing things for the Americans. But you know,
Speaker 7: unfortunately some of our Democrat colleagues don't don't agree with that. So,
Speaker 7: you know, these are things like tax cuts we're we're
Speaker 7: not only extending, but we're increasing the tax cuts, and
Speaker 7: these tax cuts are for middle class, lower income working Americans.
Speaker 7: We we actually increase the size of the child tax deduction.
Speaker 7: So if you've got kids like me, young kids, this
Speaker 7: year you're able to deduce excuse me, a deduct you'd
Speaker 7: get two thousand dollars back in taxes just for the
Speaker 7: price of having a kid. We were able to raise
Speaker 7: that a little bit. It's now twenty two hundred dollars.
Speaker 7: The alternative was it actually expired at the end of
Speaker 7: this year if we did not pass the bill. So
Speaker 7: on the one hand, we were facing these major tax
Speaker 7: increases that would happen when the cuts expired. So we
Speaker 7: were able to extend and make permanent those tax cuts
Speaker 7: and actually make them bigger. So again the child tax
Speaker 7: credit is going from two thousand dollars to twenty two
Speaker 7: hundred dollars. We were able to put some other things
Speaker 7: in there. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
Speaker 7: So when I was a cop, your deputies, you know,
Speaker 7: when they're doing their job, yess what that overtime is
Speaker 7: now tax free up to a certain amount. Twelve five
Speaker 7: hundred dollars of overtime is now tax free. Other things
Speaker 7: in there to help out seniors. One of the rules
Speaker 7: for reconciliation, you can't say the word social security and
Speaker 7: the Reconciliation Bill, that's just one of the Senate, one
Speaker 7: of the Senate's rules, so we couldn't say no tax
Speaker 7: on Social Security. Instead, we were able to put a
Speaker 7: six thousand dollars tax deduction in the bill, so that
Speaker 7: your average retiree who makes seventy five thousand dollars a
Speaker 7: year or less in retirement, they now have no tax
Speaker 7: liability for Social Security. We were able to help We
Speaker 7: were able to help small businesses in there. Small businesses.
Speaker 7: They were looking at their tax rate doubling when the
Speaker 7: tax cuts expired at the end of this year. So
Speaker 7: we made their tax rate permanent, so small businesses now
Speaker 7: have tax stability. I mean, it's just a long laundry
Speaker 7: list of tax cuts to make life more affordable, to
Speaker 7: put more money back in people's pockets. And then you
Speaker 7: know you're a you're a sheriff. I was a coffee
Speaker 7: soldier for a while. We've got resources in here to
Speaker 7: secure the border. We've got resources in here to make
Speaker 7: sure that we're going after the gangs and the cartels
Speaker 7: and the drug dealers that are causing problems in our community,
Speaker 7: and we're being good stewards of tax payer money by
Speaker 7: cutting out the fraud, waste, and abuse and programs like
Speaker 7: Medicaid and SNAP, which I'm sure we'll talk about here
Speaker 7: in a little bit, because that's what all of our
Speaker 7: friends on the left are screaming about right now, is
Speaker 7: how Republicans have gutted these programs. Guess what, that's actually
Speaker 7: blatantly false. All we did was cut the fraud, waste
Speaker 7: and abuse out of them.
Speaker 2: Well, so that's a great segue. But you know, when
Speaker 2: you go through and you look at what the White
Speaker 2: House looks at in this bill and says, hey, these
Speaker 2: are our wins. You know, they don't even talk about
Speaker 2: border security and all the new ICE agents and you know,
Speaker 2: border patrol agents. And to me as a law enforcement guy,
Speaker 2: and I think to a lot of the American public,
Speaker 2: that's a huge win seeing that border wall go up.
Speaker 2: I think there's like forty six billion dollars in funding
Speaker 2: for the border wall. There's enough funding for I think
Speaker 2: ten thousand new ICE agents and maybe two thousand new
Speaker 2: border patrol agents. I don't know what the dollars work
Speaker 2: out to on those particular items, and I may be
Speaker 2: a little off on my figures, but.
Speaker 7: You're pretty close.
Speaker 2: Based on what Trump was running on in the election cycle,
Speaker 2: I think the American publics would probably see that as
Speaker 2: a huge win, and the White House has the win
Speaker 2: that there sales so much that they kind of just
Speaker 2: gloss over that that's just a given we're doing that stuff.
Speaker 2: And well, I think that's kind of cool. At the
Speaker 2: same time, I'm like, man, list your wins. So the
Speaker 2: specifics on that, Did I get that right? Am I
Speaker 2: close on that? Congressman Evans?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I actually sit on the Homeland Security Committee.
Speaker 7: We've got jurisdiction over border patrol, over the physical security
Speaker 7: at the border, and so you rattled off a lot
Speaker 7: of the numbers that are forty six billion dollars to
Speaker 7: be able to build more wall, which you know it,
Speaker 7: I know it. We need that barrier.
Speaker 8: You know, the wall.
Speaker 7: Itself isn't going to stop people, but that slows folks
Speaker 7: down so that you can have more border patrol folks
Speaker 7: come out and be able to interdict individuals and keep
Speaker 7: them from just coming into the uniteds States. And we
Speaker 7: know how critically important this is. You know, a couple
Speaker 7: couple of weeks ago, the United States set Iran's nuclear
Speaker 7: program back quite a ways, you know, with just an
Speaker 7: incredible show of air power and some really big bombs.
Speaker 8: Well, we know that with a wide.
Speaker 7: Open border for the last four years, Iran has been
Speaker 7: has been getting people into the United States unlawfully.
Speaker 3: Along with every other country.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm. We know there's always a persistent threat for terrorists,
Speaker 7: sleeper cells who have unlawfully entered the United States, and
Speaker 7: so we saw that threat level go up. You know,
Speaker 7: after we took out Iran's nuclear program, we saw, for instance,
Speaker 7: news that Ice had detained a former Iranian army sniper
Speaker 7: illegally present in the United States, you know, right right
Speaker 7: after we dropped those bombs right on their nuclear programs.
Speaker 7: So being able to secure the border, being able to
Speaker 7: go find uh, these sleeper cells, these these folks from
Speaker 7: Iran or other countries that have no no love loss
Speaker 7: for the United States, Being able to find the cartels,
Speaker 7: the terrorsts, the gang bangers that have come into our country,
Speaker 7: this is a huge win, especially in a state like Colorado,
Speaker 7: which as you well know, has done everything possible to
Speaker 7: handcuff costs and empower criminals, which is why we're now
Speaker 7: the second most dangerous state in the country.
Speaker 2: So on that note, I mean, you were talking about
Speaker 2: some of the things we've invited into this state, and
Speaker 2: one of those is, you know, we're a sanctuary state,
Speaker 2: so we have plenty of illegals flooding in. But the
Speaker 2: country itself saw I think twenty million in the last administration.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of talk about one point five trillion
Speaker 2: dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse cut out through the
Speaker 2: big beautiful bill. The math that I was doing, or
Speaker 2: the math that I've heard, is each illegal that comes
Speaker 2: into the country costs the United States about seventy thousand
Speaker 2: dollars a year, times out by twenty million people, and
Speaker 2: you get to one point four trillion dollars. Is that
Speaker 2: the one point five trillion that's being referred to as
Speaker 2: the savings in this bill? Or is there an additional
Speaker 2: one point five trillion that is just in other things?
Speaker 2: Are you prepared to answer that, Congressman Evans, Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean there's always a couple of ways to to,
Speaker 7: you know, slice up the numbers and figure out how
Speaker 7: do you get to that one point five trillion in
Speaker 7: cost savings? And so I guess just to level set.
Speaker 7: In terms of the federal budget, you have two big
Speaker 7: pots of money. You have what's called mandatory spending and
Speaker 7: then you have discretionary spending. So that one point five
Speaker 7: trillion dollars in cuts that is to the mandatory spending.
Speaker 7: So you know, we always talk about the national debt
Speaker 7: just keeps going up. Right, A lot of that is
Speaker 7: driven by mandatory spending. So when we say cuts like
Speaker 7: this isn't really a cut, we're stopping the deficit spending.
Speaker 7: We're stopping spending money that okaya and saddling our kids.
Speaker 7: But to your point, a lot of that comes from
Speaker 7: just basic common sense reforms, like no taxpayer fund, did
Speaker 7: healthcare money to go to illegal immigrants? We saw the
Speaker 7: Denver Post. I'll say that again, the Denver Post, not
Speaker 7: known for being a right leaning newspaper. The Denver Post
Speaker 7: ran a headline a couple of days ago that said,
Speaker 7: under this bill, twenty one thousand illegal immigrants in Colorado.
Speaker 7: So they call them undocumented Colorado's, but you know it's
Speaker 7: illegal immigrants. Twenty one thousand illegal immigrants in Colorado may
Speaker 7: lose their medicaid funding. Well, you know at Newslash that's
Speaker 7: taxpayer money going to illegal immigrants, and we're putting a
Speaker 7: stop to that in this big, beautiful bill that has
Speaker 7: a cost savings measure. It's other things. You'll hear a
Speaker 7: lot of folks saying, oh my gosh, you know, Republicans
Speaker 7: destroyed the safety net for SNAP, which is food stamps. No,
Speaker 7: here's the two things that we did for the SNAP program.
Speaker 7: Number one, able bodied, working aged adults with a kid
Speaker 7: fourteen years of age or older. And we picked that
Speaker 7: age specifically because an all fifty states it's legal for
Speaker 7: a fourteen year old to stay home all by themselves.
Speaker 7: So if you're nable bodied, working aged adult and your
Speaker 7: kids are older fourteen or above, in order to qualify
Speaker 7: for food stamps, you have to work, volunteer or go
Speaker 7: to school part time defined is eighty hours a month,
Speaker 7: basically twenty hours a week. So that was one reform
Speaker 7: that we did in the SNAP program. Again taxpayer funded,
Speaker 7: you know, nutrition supplement basically food. The other thing that
Speaker 7: we did was right now today, SNAP food stamps is
Speaker 7: one hundred percent funded by the federal government, but it's
Speaker 7: the state government that actually administers the program, which is
Speaker 7: very odd. Well, yeah, and the problem is is it
Speaker 7: doesn't give the state government has no incentive to actually
Speaker 7: run a good program because they got no skin in
Speaker 7: the game. The Feds are writing one hundred percent of
Speaker 7: the check. So all we said for the SNAP program
Speaker 7: was if a state is running a bad program such
Speaker 7: that the fraud, waste and abuse in the program is
Speaker 7: higher than six percent. So if you got, you know,
Speaker 7: a million dollar program, if more than six percent of that,
Speaker 7: more than sixty thousand dollars is fraud, waste, and abuse,
Speaker 7: then the state has to start kicking in some money
Speaker 7: until they can get that error rate, that fraud, waste
Speaker 7: and abuse back below six percent. And once they get
Speaker 7: it below six percent, then the will continue to write
Speaker 7: one hundred percent of the check.
Speaker 2: Pretty logical stuff there, you know. I think everything that
Speaker 2: you're speaking of is speaking to the hearts of the
Speaker 2: American public. Unfortunately, we're up against the hard break here,
Speaker 2: Representative Evans, but I appreciate you coming on and outlining
Speaker 2: some of the some of the benefits of this bill.
Speaker 2: We will definitely keep an open line for you if
Speaker 2: you want to come back on on any of the
Speaker 2: shows and continue to pound the table for what's right
Speaker 2: for the Republicans. Here in this state.
Speaker 7: Thank you for being on on with you.
Speaker 3: We appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan Capla Show here on six
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Speaker 5: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show here on six
Speaker 2: thirty K How with Well, Kenny Sheriff, Steve Rereams. We're
Speaker 2: talking a little bit of everything today. We got the
Speaker 2: Epstein files, We've got well what I'll call the Golden
Speaker 2: Dome Files. I'm naming it that at this point. Some
Speaker 2: allegations against Representative Ron Weinberg from Jacqueline Anderson and Representative
Speaker 2: Brandy Bradley and others. We've had a little bit of
Speaker 2: that on the show. We just had Congressman Gabe Evans
Speaker 2: talking on talking about the Big Beautiful Bill, and I
Speaker 2: love having gave Evans on because he is a hometown guy.
Speaker 2: He's a hometown boy from Colorado. You know, this is
Speaker 2: this is his roots. And I bring that up because
Speaker 2: one of his opponents, one of his announced opponents on
Speaker 2: the other side of the aisle, an individual named Manny
Speaker 2: ruttinal is also you know, claim to be a Colorado
Speaker 2: guy and that you know, he's he's for Colorado values,
Speaker 2: and this race actually matters to me. CD eight represents
Speaker 2: a large part of Weld County. I don't live in
Speaker 2: CDY eight, but I work a lot in CDY eight,
Speaker 2: and a lot of Weld County is in CDY eight
Speaker 2: where Congressman Evans represents.
Speaker 3: Well old manny here.
Speaker 2: You know, he's got his he's got his Twitter handle
Speaker 2: and other pages out there talking about how he's a
Speaker 2: you know, a practical guy for Colorado. And he shows
Speaker 2: a picture of the Rocky Mountains. Unfortunately he misses the
Speaker 2: he misses the geographic context by just a little bit
Speaker 2: because they're a picture of the Rocky Mountains from Kuteney
Speaker 2: National Park in British Columbia, know, the one that's in Canada.
Speaker 2: And maybe that doesn't seem like a lot or seem
Speaker 2: like a big deal. But if you can't step out
Speaker 2: of your front door or you know, drive a little
Speaker 2: ways and take a picture of our actual Rocky Mountains
Speaker 2: here in Colorado, I don't know how well you truly
Speaker 2: want to represent this state. So I just I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's it's kind of like, you know, we're talking unforced errors.
Speaker 2: That's just that's it's just dumb. It looks stupid. And
Speaker 2: I'll stick with Gabe Evans. I know that if he's
Speaker 2: going to take a picture of the mountains, he's probably
Speaker 2: going to do it from his backyard. So with that,
Speaker 2: we have a color on the line. We have Mike
Speaker 2: from Eerie and he wants to comment about Ron Weinberg.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure this is going to be a little saucy.
Speaker 2: Are you with us, Mike?
Speaker 8: Yeah, good afternoon, Sheriff.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Mike, I'm fine.
Speaker 8: First of all, let me just thank you. I'm a
Speaker 8: resident of Weald County, so I appreciate what you and
Speaker 8: your team are doing to keep me and my family safe.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for that. Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: What do you have to say about Ron?
Speaker 8: I well, I do want to take exception with how
Speaker 8: you're looking at Representative Weinberg. I think you're looking at
Speaker 8: it completely wrong. Okay, I think this. I think this
Speaker 8: is a strategy that he's employing to improve his status
Speaker 8: in the Republican Party.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm listening. How does this benefit it?
Speaker 8: Yeah, just think about it. The head of the Republican
Speaker 8: Party has been found liable for sexual assault for doing
Speaker 8: exactly what you you mentioned in your in your little
Speaker 8: segment earlier about putting somebody's blank and something's blank. I
Speaker 8: mean the head of the party has done that as
Speaker 8: a matter of fact.
Speaker 2: Ethan, you're trying to make a reference back to Trump
Speaker 2: bragging about it. Okay, you're making a reference back to Trump.
Speaker 2: I'll give you that one. Unfortunately, Mike, we're at a heartbreak.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the phone call. I'll give you that one.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan Cafley Show here on six
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