WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.719 edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.240 give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:16.199 single day on your favorite podcast platform. Were beautiful day 6 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:18.039 to fight for the American way. Tomorrow will be in 7 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.960 its own way as well, though do be careful on 8 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:22.440 the roads. I don't know that a whole lot of 9 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:24.760 this snow is going to stick, but it's going to 10 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:26.920 be sloppy and slushy and all that. Maybe on the 11 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:32.119 grass some of it sticks. But hey, really interesting stuff. 12 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:36.159 Before I get to this very very important bill that 13 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:39.200 I've been pushing for for years, and I love that 14 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:43.159 this is a bipartisan bill that was just introduced, I 15 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:46.200 do want to let you know about this potentially really 16 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:49.799 important development in the US Supreme Court, and we won't 17 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:51.520 know until we get there. We're going to get there 18 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.240 for the hearing on May fifteen, and we'll be able 19 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:57.719 to read something into the oral argument before scotus. 20 00:00:57.719 --> 00:00:59.320 But here's the headline. 21 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:02.679 Supreme Court poised to make major decision that could set 22 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:04.480 limits on the power. 23 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:05.920 Of district judges. 24 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:10.959 This comes after three federal judges issued separate nationwide injunctions 25 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.159 blocking an executive order by President Donald Trump ending birthright 26 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:18.719 citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. 27 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:19.760 Now here's why. 28 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:22.879 This is so interesting, and I think means it's going 29 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:28.040 to be a really important holding ruling. The Supremes are 30 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:32.280 working ot on this one. Normally they're not doing oral 31 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:34.799 argument this late right because they wrap up their session 32 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:38.840 at the end of June, so normally they're not bringing 33 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:42.159 people in for arguments as late as May fifteen. And 34 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.560 I think the reason they're doing it here is because 35 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:50.480 obviously we've seen a whole lot of nationwide injunctions being 36 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:56.000 issued by individual federal judges, and so I think the 37 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.680 Supreme Court is probably going to go beyond this particular issue, 38 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:04.599 as important as it is, and address more broadly this 39 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:11.120 idea of district court judges issuing national injunctions. And I 40 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:12.919 don't think for a second the Supreme Court is going 41 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:15.159 to say that can never happen. But I think the 42 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:18.719 Supreme Court is going to lay down the criteria, put 43 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:22.039 down a template, and try to rein it in that 44 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:23.960 That's what I think we're going to see come out 45 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.479 of this or they wouldn't be doing it this late 46 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:29.319 and this way. So I think that'd be a very 47 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:32.199 healthy thing for America. So I'm glad that the Supreme 48 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:34.800 Court is taking it on. So let me get now 49 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.159 to this very very important bill. I've been calling for 50 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:41.520 this for years because, as you know, my real job is, 51 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:44.439 you know, I've been a trial lawyer now for forty 52 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:48.319 plus years and representing victims in wrongful death cases and 53 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:52.479 catastrophic injury cases. And so you see all this carnage 54 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.879 on the roadway, and part of my job is I 55 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:59.080 look at the pictures, I meet, the families i'm around, 56 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:02.280 you know, just the most heartbreaking things all the time, 57 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:05.960 including today. And so you sit here and say, this 58 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.840 is crazy. There it's a killing field on our roadways, 59 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:11.520 and it doesn't have to be this way. Yeah, you're 60 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:14.039 always going to have some bad things happen because it's 61 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:18.120 a human condition. But there's so much more reckless driving 62 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:19.800 on our roads than there needs to be. There's so 63 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.840 much more death, there are so many more crashes than 64 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.879 there need to be on our roadways. So you would 65 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:29.199 think that a people like the great people of Colorado would, 66 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:32.439 as a matter of self survival, want to crack down 67 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.759 on this, and you know it. You're out on the roads, 68 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.879 you can see it's an epidemic. Now it's even gotten 69 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:40.439 worse since COVID and just that self survival instinct. You 70 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:43.039 would think that people would come together across party lines 71 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.240 to say not in our state, but that has not 72 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:49.560 been happening. And we have this big gaping hole in 73 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.360 our laws where you got people killing people flight out, 74 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:56.120 killing people on the roads through careless driving, and the 75 00:03:56.199 --> 00:04:00.280 law does not empower the das and the judges. 76 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:02.680 To punish those people the way they should be punished. 77 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:07.199 There's this big gap between careless which is treated as 78 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:11.159 this high level misdemeanor careless for causing death, and between 79 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:16.000 the felony. Because the felony vehicular sell vehicular homicide, you 80 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.720 need this recklessness component. And without getting into legal weeds, 81 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.839 now you know there's a lot of act going on, 82 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.920 but it's harder for das to prove. So this is 83 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.519 so wrong and so unnecessarily dangerous. So this bill is 84 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:33.199 intended to address it. Here's that Channel four version of 85 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:36.279 the story. Keep in mind it's sponsored by both a 86 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:40.879 Republican senator in Colorado and a Democrat Senator in Colorado. 87 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:44.639 Bill was introduced in the Colorado legislature this week that 88 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:48.600 would increase the penalties for careless driving causing serious bodily 89 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:50.079 injury or resulting in. 90 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:52.399 Death right now, that charge carries a maximum of a 91 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:55.680 year in jail. We've covered several high profile cases in 92 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:58.399 just the last two years where children were killed by 93 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.519 careless drivers while just walking or riding their bikes. 94 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:05.040 Already this year, twenty one pedestrians and cyclists have died 95 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:09.240 on Colorado roads, and those kinds of fatalities have increased 96 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:13.000 seventy eight percent in our state in the last ten years. 97 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.360 And that proposed change to Colorado state law could impact 98 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:18.279 many families. To report on a Rapo County Ashley Portillo 99 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:21.079 is live at euclid At Middle School where thirteen year 100 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:24.199 old Liam Stewart was riding his bike to middle school 101 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:26.720 in October twenty twenty three when a driver hit and 102 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:27.319 killed him. 103 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:30.560 Ashley, you spoke with Liam's dad, who has been working 104 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.040 to get the laws changed and is advocating for safe 105 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:34.040 for streets. 106 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:37.839 Right And I was able to speak with Liam's father 107 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:40.600 earlier today who told me that phone call from police 108 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:43.680 is a phone call that no parents, no family should 109 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:47.000 ever have to get now. What has made this situation 110 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:50.759 even more challenging and emotional is when they learn that 111 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:54.160 the person, the driver responsible for killing their own son 112 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:59.120 was only facing a traffic misdemeanor. As Liam's father, it's 113 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:02.920 something that Josh start sits on Liam's memorial bench. 114 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:06.959 It just kind of signifies that we had a Liam 115 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:07.439 in this world. 116 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:10.040 He's reminded of a son he lost nearly a year 117 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:10.759 and a half ago. 118 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:14.519 It starts to help you appreciate the short amount of 119 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:15.199 time we did have. 120 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.279 Since Liam's passing, Josh has been advocating for safer streets. 121 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:23.920 No parents should ever lose a child, especially when it's preventable. 122 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:26.240 He's also working to change state law. 123 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.839 Under current law, a person charged in careless driving resulting 124 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:33.639 in death faces a class one misdemeanor traffic offense with 125 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:35.639 up to one year in jail and or a one 126 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:36.720 thousand dollars fine. 127 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:39.240 Was at a surprise to you guys, as a family. 128 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:44.279 I sat up for probably a week reading criminal documents 129 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:46.839 trying to figure out how this could only be a 130 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:50.120 misdemeanor that somebody must have gotten this run. 131 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:52.560 If the bill passes, it would increase the penalty to 132 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:56.639 a classic felony and a much longer sentence. And Liam's case, 133 00:06:56.680 --> 00:06:59.720 the driver pled guilty then was sentenced to two years 134 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:00.319 or provation. 135 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.160 What the one thousand dollars fine? Do you feel like 136 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:07.199 justice has been served for Liam? 137 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:07.759 Don't? 138 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:12.439 No, Okay, justice has not been served for our family. 139 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:14.800 With the change in law, Josh's hope is that the 140 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.639 loss of a loved one in similar cases isn't just 141 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:20.000 seen as a low level traffic violation. 142 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:23.199 We're just trying to get justice for anybody that has 143 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:25.560 to go through this. I never want another family to 144 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:26.920 hear what we had to hear. 145 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:30.000 Josh added, Liam was a great big brother. No, I 146 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.279 think about him a lot and friend. We'd be turning 147 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:37.480 fifteen this year getting us permit. And while Liam's opportunity 148 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:41.199 to get behind the wheels taken away too soon, his family. 149 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.519 The world is not a better place without. 150 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:46.160 Of here helps to bring change in light of tragedy. 151 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.839 I think we're doing right by his legacy to make 152 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:51.959 some changes that I think he would appreciate. 153 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:55.560 I Meanwhile, opponents of the bill say increasing these penalties 154 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:58.360 and making them even harsher will not prevent crashes. From 155 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:01.480 happening in the future. By the way, this bill is 156 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:04.680 scheduled to be heard in committee, happening this coming Wednesday. 157 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.319 Refording live in Littleton. I'm not support the covering Colorado. 158 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:09.839 First, Ron Ashley, thank you so much. 159 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:12.399 If you live in a Reco county, actually is your reporter, 160 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:14.680 reach out to her with your story ideas through our 161 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:17.319 websites or our tip line on the show. 162 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:20.480 I would love to talk to an opponent of this bill. 163 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.560 But what good person could could make any kind of 164 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:27.800 credible argument against this bill. I would love to hear 165 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.079 that argument. All the idea that, Okay, if all of 166 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:35.279 a sudden we have these tougher laws that are going 167 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:38.679 to create real penalties if you kill an innocent person 168 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.000 on the roadway, that will make our roadways safer. Well, 169 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:45.600 why you have any loss right? And what about respect 170 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:48.840 for the victims? You heard that man who lost his son? 171 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:51.919 What about respect to the victims? I have sat there, 172 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.440 I mean, Ryan, it was what a couple of weeks ago, 173 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:58.279 I was over in the jeff Co jail and I 174 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:03.360 was deposing a trucker who spilled pipe killed. 175 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:07.399 My client's husband. He'd been deported more than ten times. 176 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.240 She hadn't even been in the country, and I was 177 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:13.480 in jail deposing him, cross examining monder oaths for five 178 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.600 hours before he was about to be released from jail, 179 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:21.320 and then Ice ended up picking him up and getting 180 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:25.039 that deportation process going. But I'm sitting there cross examining 181 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:28.759 this guy, and and you know, you think of all 182 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:31.360 these other cases out there, and he was out right. 183 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:34.080 His max sentence was just short of a year because 184 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:39.559 Jeff go prosecuted it as this misdemeanor, and I've got 185 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:40.559 and I won't take the time. 186 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:40.799 Now. 187 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:45.519 I have sat in Die's offices with my victim another 188 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:49.039 trucking case where her wonderful husband killed this this trucker 189 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.360 admitted when I cross examined him, took his eyes off 190 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.200 the road for nine seconds at highway speeds, killed this 191 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:02.120 beautiful man. This this tremendous husband and father, mister maaanor charge. 192 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.440 So we've had this big gaping hole in Colorado law. 193 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:09.840 There is no good argument, no good argument against this bill. 194 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:12.240 But keep in mind as you listen to all this, 195 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.360 and I'm sad to say this, it endangers you right now, 196 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.120 whether you're on the road or not, because you probably 197 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:21.840 have a loved one who is It endangers everybody who 198 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:25.919 can hear this. It endangers everybody in Colorado whoever ventures. 199 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:26.360 Onto a roadway. 200 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:29.080 We have a big gaping hole in the law that 201 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:31.519 puts you and your loved ones in more danger every day. 202 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.519 It's gotta be fixed. You're on the Dan Caplas. 203 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:43.399 Show and now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast. 204 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.879 I have come to understand what Donald Trump, what pops 205 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:50.240 into his head and he says he's going to carry 206 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:52.879 it out. I once again, he talked about the tariffs, 207 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:55.720 he talked about you know, he's going to deport people, 208 00:10:55.720 --> 00:10:58.879 and this whole thing with mister Braio Garcia. It's that 209 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:02.360 old wisdom and terrifying is if you're not speaking up 210 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:04.320 for this man, there will be no one. 211 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:05.320 Left to speak up for you. 212 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:10.279 Whether please keep talking, Tim, He is God's gift to Republicans. 213 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:11.120 My goodness. 214 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:16.159 By the way, this mister he calls him Abrigo Garcia. 215 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:17.840 By the way, did he call him mister Trump or 216 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.080 President Trump. I'd have to go back and listen to 217 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.399 that clip. I don't think he did, but I'll double 218 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:26.960 check that. Anyway, this kilmer Abrigo Garcia or the quote 219 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:31.440 Maryland man, as you've heard of obviously, that there's lots 220 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:34.519 of reason to believe Ms thirteen, lots of reason to 221 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:36.919 believe lots of other bad things. 222 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:38.440 But he is here. 223 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:42.639 Illegally, and he is a resident of El Salvador. He's 224 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:48.519 a citizen, pardon me, of El Salvador. And yet the 225 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:52.399 Democratic Party wants to make him right now. They're hero 226 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:57.559 wants to make him right now their cause, please have 227 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:00.360 at it right, because it's going to be like a 228 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:03.080 ninety nine to one issue in America. 229 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:04.360 But they're flailing right there. 230 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:08.840 They're flailing, and so they're exposing themselves more and more often. 231 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:10.879 And that's a good thing because the more people know 232 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:15.080 the truth about the modern Democratic Party in America and 233 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:18.519 here in Colorado, well then that the better Republicans are 234 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:19.919 going to do, and the sooner we're going to be 235 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:22.080 able to get all this straightened out. Three or three 236 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.159 someone three eight two five five takes d an five 237 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:29.360 seven seven three nine. But behind this craziness from the 238 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:33.639 Maryland senator right who then flies down this Senator Chris 239 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.600 van Holland, by the way, had anybody ever heard of 240 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:40.840 him before all of this? But he now flying down 241 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.279 to El Salvador to try to save the quote Maryland 242 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:48.000 man who's actually a citizen of El Salvador and in 243 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:49.039 the USC legally. 244 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.240 I'm here at the airport. I'm about to board my 245 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:55.799 flight for San Salvador. The goal of this mission is 246 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.840 to let the Trump administration to let the government of 247 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:02.360 Al Salvador know that we are going to keep fighting 248 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:05.360 to bring Albrego Garcia home. 249 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:06.440 Wow. 250 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:10.919 Okay, but did we hear anything from Chris Holland or 251 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:16.000 anything from Tim Walls about the vicious rapes and murders 252 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.279 of say, women all over the country, but certainly in 253 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:23.759 Maryland and in this case by illegal immigrants. I don't 254 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:25.759 think we heard a peep from them on that. And 255 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:29.639 that did not escape the attention of Patty Morin suffering 256 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.840 through the unimaginable. That the worst thing any parent could 257 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:37.080 possibly imagine, that the rape and murder of their child. 258 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:39.759 But not a peep from Tim Walls or Chris Holland 259 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:43.399 about that. But fortunately President Trump had this brave woman 260 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.600 to the White House, and here's part of what she 261 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:46.200 had to say. 262 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:50.639 A lot of you don't know the whole story about 263 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:55.039 Rachel and about the crime that was committed against her, 264 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:59.759 even us, her family, we didn't know all the details. 265 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.720 They kept most of it close to their chest, the 266 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:10.320 detectives because they didn't want to do anything to. 267 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:13.159 Hurt the case. 268 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.360 They wanted to keep the integrity of the case, so 269 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:20.360 they kept everything close. I sat for the last two 270 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:27.320 weeks in her trial, and we saw a layer upon 271 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:33.000 layer upon layer of evidence against the accused, an illegal 272 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:38.759 immigrant from El Salvador, and the things that we thought, well, 273 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:42.240 maybe this might have happened. We didn't know. But when 274 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:44.879 we were at the trial, we got all the puzzle pieces. 275 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:47.200 Yeah, and some of these details are going to be 276 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.799 really hard, and you may not want young children hearing this. 277 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:54.240 Well, she went on that trail that day, but she 278 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:58.159 was not planning on dying. She wasn't planning on walking 279 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:00.799 to her death. She was planning going to the grocery 280 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:06.600 store with our girls afterwards. Victor Martinez, he waited for her, 281 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:12.519 He waited for her to come closer. He saw her, 282 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:19.960 he saw that there was nobody around. He attacked her. 283 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:25.320 He dragged her one hundred and fifty feet, blood gushing 284 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:28.159 from her head. It left one hundred and fifty foot 285 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:32.799 trail of her blood. To the culverts where he took 286 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:39.399 He picked her up. He threw her against the wall 287 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:43.919 of the tunnel and he raped her. But before he 288 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:49.440 did that, he stopped on that trail and rocks were 289 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:53.960 still stained with her blood. He used them to can 290 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:59.120 hammer her head against those rocks. They say twenty at 291 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:04.759 least twenty times. They could count the cuts in her head. 292 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.480 They said that when they did the autopsy, and I've 293 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:12.200 seen the pictures, there's a six inch square in the 294 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:16.120 back of her head where the skull is shattered the 295 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:20.960 way that you would crush an eggshell in pieces, three 296 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:25.840 forths of her brain, hemorrhaged, her right and left side 297 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:30.399 of her face, bashed in her beautiful face, bashed in 298 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:37.200 her head, bashed in, broken bones, fractures. He takes and 299 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:43.320 he drags her some more. He drags her through the 300 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:46.519 thorn bushes. She has all the scrapes and cuts on 301 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:49.399 her body. There wasn't one inch of her body that 302 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:54.159 didn't have some kind of injury, whether it's bruising, her 303 00:16:54.799 --> 00:17:00.320 broken bones, contusions, the scratches. She had, a fractured rib, 304 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:07.400 fractured knows, fractured skull. And then he takes her into 305 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:12.319 the tunnel and he picks her up, he throws her 306 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:16.000 against the wall. The blood is gushing from her head, 307 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:20.079 her hair is soaked in blood. And they showed us 308 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:25.200 pictures of her body against the wall, outlined the blood, 309 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:26.359 outlined her body. 310 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:34.079 And not one word from this SLB Senator Chris van Holland, 311 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:36.559 not one word of sympathy to her or her family. 312 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:39.559 But he flies down to that same Ol Salvador to 313 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:42.680 stand up for this alleged m S thirteen gang member 314 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:45.079 who's a citizen of L Salvador. Not one word of 315 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:49.559 condolence from Tim Walls right, who says, now, if we 316 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:52.880 don't stand up for this MS thirteen guy in L Salvador, 317 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:59.039 who will stand up for us? This is beyond insanity. 318 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:04.400 This is ed vocating evil over good. This Democratic Party 319 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:07.839 has completely lost its way, and the people can see it. 320 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:19.559 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 321 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:23.720 Sure Van Holland and the Democrats applauding his trip to 322 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:27.640 El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of 323 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:32.119 common sense or empathy for their own constituents and our citizens. 324 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:35.920 Nobody knows this more than the woman standing to my right, 325 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:40.559 Patty Morin, whose beautiful daughter Rachel, was brutally maimed and 326 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:43.480 murdered at the hands of an illegal alien in August 327 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:47.079 of twenty twenty three. Patty no longer has her daughter 328 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:50.799 because of the failed Democrat Party's open border and these 329 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:53.519 are policies that President Trump is bringing an end to. 330 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:58.680 So well said, and just before the last break, we played. 331 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:02.960 Sound from that brave woman who laid out the details 332 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:05.880 of what had happened to her daughter, a story repeated 333 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.160 far too often once would be far too often, but 334 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:11.279 all over America by people here illegally. Now, there are 335 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:14.240 a lot of good people who come here illegally, but 336 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:17.400 there are also a lot of hardcore criminals who come 337 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:19.400 here illegally because the Democrats won them all. 338 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:20.640 They want them all as voters. 339 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:27.160 And it's just absolutely obscene, it's immoral, and the American 340 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:28.759 people have thoroughly rejected it. 341 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:32.119 Listen to this here we end this is on CNN. 342 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:36.759 To port all undocumented immigrants. Voters favoring the government trying 343 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.359 to deport all eleven million of them. Back in twenty sixteen, 344 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:43.559 just thirty eight percent of voters wanted the governments that 345 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:47.680 to try to deport all eleven million undocumented immigrants compared 346 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:51.359 to where we are in twenty twenty five, fifty six percent. 347 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:54.359 The majority the American people have come a long way 348 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:56.640 on this issue, much closer to Donald Trump. And I 349 00:19:56.680 --> 00:19:59.240 think that's a big part of the reason why Americans 350 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:01.400 are increasingly the country is on the right track when 351 00:20:01.400 --> 00:20:03.720 it comes to immigration policy, and why Donald Trump's not 352 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:06.440 approval rating on that issue is in the positive. 353 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:08.480 And why do you think that big flip? I think 354 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:12.519 the reasons are obvious. It's clear America now is set 355 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:15.599 on a course and the Democratic Party is on the 356 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:17.880 wrong side of history, the wrong side of morality, the 357 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:20.160 wrong side of the law, and they're going to be 358 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.200 on the wrong side of an awful lot of elections, 359 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:26.160 hopefully including the governor's race in Colorado. Let's go to 360 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:29.559 Erie Mike grazing us with his presence again on the 361 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:30.559 Dan Kapla show. 362 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:31.319 Erie, how you doing? 363 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:35.240 I'm better than I deserve. 364 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:37.200 Good answer. 365 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:42.720 You know what that reminds me of when I proposed 366 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:46.799 to my wife, and I proposed to her on TV 367 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:49.079 and then I get off air and I get a 368 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:51.359 call from this reporter and she said, how much did 369 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:54.640 the ring cost? And you know what, It's one of 370 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:56.519 the few times in my life. I came up with 371 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:01.039 the perfect answer. Yeah, more than I afford and less 372 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:05.240 than she deserves. That was pretty good right on the 373 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:08.839 fly to the Denver Post, and they used the clote you. 374 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:12.279 Yeah, I like it. I like it. 375 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:12.759 Thank you. 376 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:20.839 Hey Dan, I don't like Well. The reason I called 377 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:23.000 is I think, you know, you were playing some pretty 378 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:27.680 compelling audio before the break and really sad to listen 379 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:33.400 to and and really horrible actually, but I think, you know, 380 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:36.559 I think it's sort of takes away some of your 381 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:43.319 argument about this this man that's been deported, because you know, 382 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:47.880 everything that she recounted that I heard anyway, you came 383 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:52.680 from what happened during due process of a trial, as 384 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:55.160 terrible as it was. And I'm sure this guy was 385 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:58.119 sound guilty and he's gonna he's gonna be at least 386 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:00.440 I assumed he was. But I think what people are 387 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:05.359 are frustrated with is that this general, this person, this 388 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:07.640 man don't maybe the gentleman or I don't know what 389 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:12.039 he was, but he was. He was erroneously deported. The 390 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:15.920 administration admitted to that, and they're not they're not addressing it, 391 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:18.160 and he didn't have any due process, and I think 392 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:21.160 that's I think that's generally why there are people that 393 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:22.279 are frustrated by that. 394 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:25.480 Well, Mike, a few things there question your premise, So 395 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:28.480 let's dive into that. But first of all, who's frustrated? 396 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.720 I mean, right now, you got the Democratic Party right 397 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:35.000 now making this guy their hero. And and you know 398 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:37.400 that that's a very good thing for America because it's 399 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:38.920 going to mean a lot of Democrats are going to 400 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:41.759 lose their elections and we're going to get to control 401 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:45.000