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Speaker 1: the show today with the National Treasure Andy McCarthy kind
Speaker 1: enough to join us from National Review his piece today
Speaker 1: on President Trump's legal authority to send in the federal
Speaker 1: troops and federalize the National Guard as well in Los Angeles. Andy,
Speaker 1: I know you're super busy, grateful for a few minutes
Speaker 1: of your time today.
Speaker 2: How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Dan, How are you well?
Speaker 1: I am doing great, And actually I know you're doing
Speaker 1: great because I listened to the McCarthy Report religiously. I
Speaker 1: recommend everybody pick up that podcast. I learned so much
Speaker 1: on it. But Andy, please do share the wisdom. President
Speaker 1: Trump's legal authority. Where does it begin and end here?
Speaker 3: Well, I think it begins an Article two of the Constitution,
Speaker 3: and as a result, I think that's where it ends
Speaker 3: for Governor Newsom in California, as I understand that the
Speaker 3: courts have already what buffed him in his attempt to
Speaker 3: nullify the president. We're calling it in order or proclamation?
Speaker 2: What have you?
Speaker 3: I think since the Civil War then in the prize cases,
Speaker 3: so I think that's you'll remember your law school better
Speaker 3: than me, maybe, but I think they're like around eighteen
Speaker 3: sixty three, the Supreme Court basically held that if there
Speaker 3: is a violent uprising, if there's a possibility of a
Speaker 3: profound threat to the United States, forcible threat, whether it's
Speaker 3: from within or without. The issue then was the blockade
Speaker 3: of the Southern States. But the Court said that the
Speaker 3: president has not only the authority, but the obligation to
Speaker 3: protect the United States and to take whatever action needs
Speaker 3: to be taken, even without congressional authorization, to suppress the
Speaker 3: threat to the United States. So the president has very
Speaker 3: broad power when it comes to things that are threats
Speaker 3: to national security, threats of civil strife. I'm not talking
Speaker 3: about like, you know, normal law enforcement stuff. I'm talking
Speaker 3: about the kind of stuff that we've seen in California
Speaker 3: in the last couple of days. And I also think
Speaker 3: the president has very wide authority when you're talking about
Speaker 3: the execution of duties that are undoubtedly federal responsibilities, which
Speaker 3: the courts of health for a century that immigration enforcement is,
Speaker 3: and the president has similarly broad authority to protect federal
Speaker 3: facilities and federal personnel carrying out executives branch responsibility. So
Speaker 3: I just think that, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: talk about trying to part these statutes, like what does
Speaker 3: the Insurrection Act say? And what is this section? What
Speaker 3: was it twelve four or six that Trump invoked from
Speaker 3: Title ten when he issued the proclamation. My personal view
Speaker 3: for what it's worth is that he's got all the
Speaker 3: authority he needs an articles of the Constitution and that's
Speaker 3: really the end of it.
Speaker 1: Andy McCarthy our guest from National Review of course, as
Speaker 1: well as the McCarthy Report podcast. Now, Andy, in terms
Speaker 1: of the specific use of US marines, is is that
Speaker 1: more limited? Is that limited to protecting federal facilities or
Speaker 1: where do you think the range of that use goes?
Speaker 3: Well, I see, you know, there's a difference between in
Speaker 3: theory what could the president do and you know, as
Speaker 3: a practical matter, what is he doing? So, as I understand,
Speaker 3: if we stick with what he is doing and you know,
Speaker 3: not get into crazy scenarios that that people want to
Speaker 3: get into, like all the Barer show scenarios, which I
Speaker 3: think are overwrought. What the Marines are being brought in
Speaker 3: to do is protect federal facilities. Anybody who's been watching
Speaker 3: the news knows have been under a real threat. And
Speaker 3: this isn't the first time. And you know, we saw
Speaker 3: the rioting that went on, you know, post George Floyd,
Speaker 3: and we had a courthouse in Portland that was like
Speaker 3: firebombed and nightly subject to attacks. Right, there was widespread
Speaker 3: violence that went on for months after George Floyd's death.
Speaker 3: You know, everybody gets themselves in the media and in
Speaker 3: the Democratic Party, they get themselves all whipped up about
Speaker 3: a three hour riot on January sixth, which I think
Speaker 3: all of us who believe that all political violence is
Speaker 3: wrong condemned full throatedly.
Speaker 4: I know I did.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's got to be the same not
Speaker 3: only the same rules for both sides, but we should
Speaker 3: be able to make the same kinds of assessmins. Right,
Speaker 3: And that was a three hour riot that the Justice
Speaker 3: Department and the incumbent government came down on like a
Speaker 3: ton of bricks once the Biden administration was in And
Speaker 3: yet we had months of rioting, legal rioting, right that
Speaker 3: went on in the United States, and they turned the
Speaker 3: blind eye to it, which I think is part of
Speaker 3: the anger that you see in people. Yeah, the two
Speaker 3: tiers of treatment.
Speaker 1: Exactly, exactly well, said my friend. Let me close with
Speaker 1: one broader question, if you don't mind, what's your take
Speaker 1: overall on the type of the quality of legal advice
Speaker 1: that the president's getting. And I know they can come
Speaker 1: from a lot of different sources, but in general, maybe
Speaker 1: starting with White House counsel, what do you think the
Speaker 1: overall quality is.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that the lawyers are fine. You know, they're
Speaker 3: very experienced lawyers. I think Trump is a difficult client.
Speaker 3: He doesn't really like lawyers. The lawyers. Yeah, well, you
Speaker 3: know a lot of people don't like lawyers, right, You
Speaker 3: and I have both experienced every thing is that you
Speaker 3: know he's this is he's not a neophyte. You know,
Speaker 3: he's now a nearly eighty year old guy. He's been
Speaker 3: very successful in his life. And what the lawyers are
Speaker 3: around for is basically to keep you on the straight
Speaker 3: and narrow and try to prevent you from getting yourself
Speaker 3: in trouble. And Trump, I think has an idea of
Speaker 3: what kind of trouble he's willing to live with He's
Speaker 3: willing to live on the edge in a way that
Speaker 3: I think most people are not comfortable with, and that
Speaker 3: makes for some interesting scenarios. But it probably makes if
Speaker 3: I was if I still had hair to tear out,
Speaker 3: I'd probably be tearing my hair out if I were
Speaker 3: a lawyer in the White House.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it has to be one of the most
Speaker 1: exciting presidencies ever. Last question, Andy, First, somebody just maybe
Speaker 1: thinking of getting started on the McCarthy Report podcast, which
Speaker 1: I really think is one of the top two most
Speaker 1: valuable out there. Do you have a favorite episode, you know,
Speaker 1: say it might hook somebody, somebody who just wants to
Speaker 1: dip their toe in. I think I've heard most, if
Speaker 1: not all of them.
Speaker 3: But Jerry Kind Jerry kind to you to say, we
Speaker 3: have a page on National Review that has our archives,
Speaker 3: and it's got for each episode, it's got a little
Speaker 3: description of what we discussed. You know, I try to
Speaker 3: listen to them afterwards, and I actually, I really do
Speaker 3: think that the ones we've done in Trump's most recent
Speaker 3: you know, in Trump's new presidency in this term, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think I think they've been as good as any
Speaker 3: that we've done, and I always like the ones where
Speaker 3: I think part of the reasons of that, Dan is
Speaker 3: like there's a lot of emergent news. I used to
Speaker 3: be a nut for doing an outline for the podcast
Speaker 3: to make sure that, like we at least had a
Speaker 3: framework of things that we were going to discuss some days.
Speaker 3: Now because there's so much going on and some of
Speaker 3: it breaks right before we start to record. A lot
Speaker 3: of the newer episodes, we just kind of go in
Speaker 3: and wing it, and I actually find those conversations are better, yeah,
Speaker 3: than the ones that are you know that we try
Speaker 3: to say too faithful to an outline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And what I really like about it we recommend
Speaker 1: to everybody listening is it's like going to law school
Speaker 1: that's geared to real life, and you learn so much
Speaker 1: that's directly applicable to the big issues of the day,
Speaker 1: and you just walk out of there smarter. You know,
Speaker 1: whether you have a high school degree or you manage
Speaker 1: to go to law school or some other school, everybody
Speaker 1: walks out of there smarter. So appreciate that, Andy, and
Speaker 1: appreciate the time today.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Dan, I appreciate the kind words.
Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend. Take care that is.
Speaker 1: Andy McCarthy truly is a national treasure when it comes
Speaker 1: to this legal stuff, and we appreciate his time. Three
Speaker 1: all three seven and three A two five five the
Speaker 1: number text d an five seven seven three nine And
Speaker 1: as Andy said, yeah, the federal judge didn't take long
Speaker 1: to have slapped down Newsome on this effort to reign
Speaker 1: in Trump's power. It's so clear Trump has this power,
Speaker 1: which is why this is such a beautiful moment.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I wish none of this was happening. I wish it
Speaker 1: wasn't necessary. But Trump is going to win and the
Speaker 1: Left just can't handle that, which means the left's just
Speaker 1: going to make it worse on itself, which means it's
Speaker 1: going to be a bigger victory for Trump, which is
Speaker 1: going to be great for this nation.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Really a little broken hearted the fans going out to
Speaker 1: the Rockies game tonight. I've got a project do at work,
Speaker 1: so I will miss this trip. But we went to
Speaker 1: our first game on Saturday night, first game of the season,
Speaker 1: and it was a blast.
Speaker 2: I mean they lost seven to one, but it was
Speaker 2: still a blast neet the Mets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, hey, listen, I'm telling you I I think
Speaker 1: that's a good Mets team.
Speaker 2: It's a very good They seem to have a good chemistry.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, truth.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a big sports gambler or anything,
Speaker 1: even though I'm really good at it.
Speaker 2: I mean, little little bitty stuff. But I did. I
Speaker 2: went out put a couple of bucks in the Mets
Speaker 2: to win it all.
Speaker 5: Ye of little faith? Oh you mean to win it all?
Speaker 5: Not just Thick in the game against the Rockets.
Speaker 2: Oh goodness.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet against the Rockies in a game. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's karma, man. No, No, I'm talking about the Mets
Speaker 1: to win the n L and then win the World Series.
Speaker 4: It's an interesting bet.
Speaker 2: I think that's the team. Kind of a sneaky, smart
Speaker 2: bet on the Mets. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just having a chance to watch him in action,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm so big on the chemistry, the vibe,
Speaker 1: everything else, not just the talent level.
Speaker 4: Have you watched might Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 1: I have missed them so far. I didn't the Cubs
Speaker 1: kind of wiped the floor with them.
Speaker 4: Absolutely not.
Speaker 5: That's a fake news. The Tigers took two out of
Speaker 5: three from the Cubs. Are you use Chicago? And I
Speaker 5: should have known better. They did split with your white
Speaker 5: Sox though, I know because the white socks are terrible.
Speaker 1: I know, Dan says a text to da in five, seven,
Speaker 1: seven through nine. I'm sorry to hear Andy bring up
Speaker 1: how the Dems ignore the twenty twenty riots versus a
Speaker 1: three hour January sixth event twenty twenties, over five hundred
Speaker 1: riots with billions of damage, et cetera. A great text,
Speaker 1: and Andy McCarthy made the point as well that this
Speaker 1: is part of this underlying anger in America that is
Speaker 1: righteous anger and is doing real damage to the Democrats.
Speaker 2: This two tiered justice system where.
Speaker 1: The left, I mean Polis went into hiding essentially told
Speaker 1: the left by going into hiding, do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: And yet Conservatives, you spent on the sidewalk, you're probably
Speaker 1: going to do five years. So yeah, people don't like that.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't like that. And remember, for eons prior to
Speaker 1: election day, I was telling you it's one of the
Speaker 1: many reasons Trump is going to win. Even a lot
Speaker 1: of people who don't like them, We're going to vote
Speaker 1: for them because they don't want us to be a
Speaker 1: two tiered Banana Republic, Dan says a text, it sounds
Speaker 1: like Trump has the full authority and even more importantly,
Speaker 1: the obligation to send in the troops. Absolutely, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure he probably regrets not doing it during those George
Speaker 1: Floyd riots, but he absolutely does. And it's such a
Speaker 1: no brainer form right, it's so good for the country,
Speaker 1: it's so good from politically. And then the question is
Speaker 1: how long is the left going to drag this out?
Speaker 1: Because every minute this goes on is horrible for the left,
Speaker 1: good for Trump, and good for the country in terms
Speaker 1: of sending the message out there. No whether it's Polis
Speaker 1: or Johnston or Hickenloop or Bennett or any of these lefties,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get away with being insurrectionists. You're
Speaker 1: not going to get away with defining and ignoring federal
Speaker 1: law that you don't like, ie immigration law. So very
Speaker 1: important message for the country, Dan, did you change your
Speaker 1: mind about the cyber truck purchase? Many of these texts
Speaker 1: cybertruck purchases.
Speaker 2: On hold, on hold.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling these two are going to get
Speaker 1: back together, and it will be a very good thing
Speaker 1: if they do. Very important that you. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of that musk money. Did you ever wear musk?
Speaker 1: Do you remember that old scent musk?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And absolutely not?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, no, nor did I?
Speaker 2: Dan and Ryan.
Speaker 1: I'm not certain of this, but I would be willing
Speaker 1: to bet Dan's on her proposal. Amy as a news
Speaker 1: anchor during the live news broadcast is one of a
Speaker 1: kind of current set from Andy.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think there were some copycats
Speaker 2: after that. Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't uh news reporter on anchor, legal anal,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it was like sports stuff, But.
Speaker 2: I think there were a bunch of those on.
Speaker 5: To me, that's not even close to the same, Like
Speaker 5: somebody doing the proposal on a jumbo tron, which I'm
Speaker 5: here to tell you a lot of ladies don't like that,
Speaker 5: Oh they don't. Uh, but yours was the five o'clock news,
Speaker 5: but it was white hot spotlight.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I've been on a TV set.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot of pressure, regardless it's you, it's her,
Speaker 5: it's everybody watching.
Speaker 4: It's I can't even wrap my hat around that moment.
Speaker 2: Dan, Yeah, nor can I.
Speaker 4: How did you do it?
Speaker 2: How did you do it? Well?
Speaker 1: I was in love, okay, and I wanted her to
Speaker 1: marry me. Yep, I wanted the world to know that
Speaker 1: I was in love with her and wanted her to
Speaker 1: marry me. And at that point that all seemed very positive.
Speaker 1: And if if you live like life, just afraid of failing,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a pretty miserable life.
Speaker 5: Well that moment, you, I mean, you wore it well,
Speaker 5: but you exhibited zero fear.
Speaker 4: You just jumped no parish to you.
Speaker 1: You got to yeah, once you're through the door, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: you just block everything else out.
Speaker 2: I on the prize.
Speaker 4: Incredible, truly incredible moment history.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you, Yeah no, and thanks for pulling that sound.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, this is a tough turn because this is a
Speaker 1: sad story and one we predicted. I'm not even sure
Speaker 1: there's time to do the full setup right now, but
Speaker 1: I want to give you a taste. You remember when
Speaker 1: we talked about how this lack of respect for human
Speaker 1: life the left takes so many different forms. Obviously, we
Speaker 1: talk a lot about abortion, because they kill so many
Speaker 1: millions of innocent children before abortion, before they're born. But
Speaker 1: we talk also about how the left just this disregard
Speaker 1: of the inherent value of human life affects a lot
Speaker 1: of people who've already been born. And one of the
Speaker 1: examples he've been talking about are these new laws regarding
Speaker 1: motorcyclists and how Polish in the Left had to know
Speaker 1: that this lane splitting would lead to carnage right where
Speaker 1: they are telling motorcyclists, yeah, you can drive down the
Speaker 1: middle of a lane. Now the traffic's supposed to be
Speaker 1: stopped and everything else. But everybody with a one IQ
Speaker 1: understood once this law passed, there was just going to
Speaker 1: be full speed lane splitting and lots of innocent people
Speaker 1: are going to die. But what the Left doesn't get,
Speaker 1: or they do get it, they just don't care.
Speaker 2: Is that that that means.
Speaker 1: You're going to have a child sitting at home and
Speaker 1: they're going to be waiting for their dad to get home,
Speaker 1: for Morkanes ever going to come home. That they they
Speaker 1: don't care about any of that. They don't care about
Speaker 1: the human loss, the ripple effect of the human loss.
Speaker 1: They just don't have the same respect for the individual
Speaker 1: importance of each human life. They're looking at their big
Speaker 1: green agenda and everything else, and the rest of us
Speaker 1: are anacceptable casualty rates so that's a setup for what
Speaker 1: we're seeing now since this whole lane splitting came into effect,
Speaker 1: And there are other examples as well, and we may
Speaker 1: get to it in this segment.
Speaker 2: But remember we talked a lot.
Speaker 1: About this insane new law, again born of this whole
Speaker 1: Green New Deal mentality, this insane law that in some
Speaker 1: circumstances allows cyclists not to stop at stop signs bicyclists
Speaker 1: things like that, Oh yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 1: But again, because the Left doesn't value individual human life,
Speaker 1: they're not thinking about that child who's not going to
Speaker 1: come home to their parents, or that mom who's not
Speaker 1: going to come home to her family. It's all an
Speaker 1: acceptable casualty rate to them. So the broader point is,
Speaker 1: and then we'll play that story after the break, is
Speaker 1: just that that there are really severe consequences for society
Speaker 1: in so many different ways when you have one major
Speaker 1: political party whose power. People literally just don't value individual
Speaker 1: human life unless it's their own or one of their cronies.
Speaker 1: So when we come back, we'll play that story and
Speaker 1: talk about, Okay, what do we need to do now
Speaker 1: beyond just getting rid of that crazy law, what do
Speaker 1: we need to do to make the roads safer for motorcyclists,
Speaker 1: safer for bicyclists, obviously safer for everybody out there, because
Speaker 1: there's so much more we can do, and the Left
Speaker 1: is constantly working against that in so many different ways.
Speaker 1: And don't even get me started on legalization in marijuana,
Speaker 1: because they absolutely understood once.
Speaker 2: They did that, Once they did.
Speaker 1: That, you are going to have a whole lot of
Speaker 1: trash kids, and you're going to have a whole lot
Speaker 1: of dead bodies on the roadways and a whole lot
Speaker 1: of mangled bodies and everything else. But again that that
Speaker 1: human life, it just it just isn't important to them.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't weigh with them. And I know, as
Speaker 1: you're driving home right now, you may not agree with
Speaker 1: that because you just can't imagine somebody's thinking that way.
Speaker 1: But I ask you, you know, in a quiet moment,
Speaker 1: to just think about it and look at the Left
Speaker 1: and look at everything they're doing, because a lot of
Speaker 1: it comes.
Speaker 2: Back to that.
Speaker 1: That does the secular radicals who own and operate the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party simply do not believe that each human life
Speaker 1: has that inherent dignity and importance.
Speaker 2: They just don't think that way.
Speaker 1: Two or three someone three eight two five five textda
Speaker 1: N five seven seven three nine. Do we need to
Speaker 1: get rid of that lane splitting law? What else can
Speaker 1: we do to make the road safer and more sane.
Speaker 1: You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Talking about we said it at the time, this insane
Speaker 1: new law in Colorado allowing motorcycle quote lane filtering versus
Speaker 1: lane splitting. Lane splitting is when in moving traffic you
Speaker 1: can split the lanes and go down one of the
Speaker 1: center lines, but lane filtering you're supposed to wait until
Speaker 1: the traffic is stopped.
Speaker 2: But of course everybody knew.
Speaker 1: As soon as this bill was passed and signed by
Speaker 1: Polis that in fact, what we would get is lane splitting.
Speaker 2: That's what we got, and we got a lot of dead.
Speaker 1: People with it. So we'll get to that story in
Speaker 1: a second. Want to get a call or to and
Speaker 1: before we go to this excellent CBS setup story, Texter
Speaker 1: says Dan, I put my hand out the window to
Speaker 1: feel the rain, and the lane splitter drove by and
Speaker 1: hit my hand with his handlebarers and broke two of
Speaker 1: my fingers and just kept driving.
Speaker 2: Boy talk about giving a cyclist the finger, right, I
Speaker 2: mean literally here two of them.
Speaker 1: That's horrible. That's absolutely horrible. Also a crime for the
Speaker 1: motorcyclists to do that. I want to get a caller
Speaker 1: to and then we'll go to that store. Let's start with.
Speaker 2: How about Sean and Lovelin'. You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 6: Welcome, Hey, Dan, thanks for taking my car. Hey, I
Speaker 6: would like you to consider another angle on that filtering,
Speaker 6: if you would please. If I'm not mistake, and the
Speaker 6: legislator who introduced that did it for the reasoning of
Speaker 6: people being rear ended as stoplights. So, as a longtime
Speaker 6: motorcycle rider, I do that lane filtering. I don't do
Speaker 6: it often, but I'm going to tell you the number
Speaker 6: one reason I do do it, and that is because
Speaker 6: somebody is either tailgating you or parked mirror feet behind
Speaker 6: me ed of shoplight. I'd ask you to look around too, Dana,
Speaker 6: when you see these motorcycles. Look how many people are
Speaker 6: so close to death?
Speaker 2: Oh man, it's dangerous. Bro. I rode for years. I
Speaker 2: know exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1: The only reason I gave it up is I was
Speaker 1: in a really bad crash and walked away thinking I
Speaker 1: was lucky. I wasn't earned to death. So that's why
Speaker 1: I gave it up. But I hear you loud and clear.
Speaker 1: And if you want to pass a law that says
Speaker 1: that you know, when you're stopped at a light or
Speaker 1: at an intersection, you can do a lane filtering in
Speaker 1: under that circumstance, I'd have no issue with that. But
Speaker 1: the way they've drawn this law was just an invitation
Speaker 1: to full speed, sixty seventy mile an hour lane splitting.
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but I'm seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of that.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 6: I can see to you that there are many many
Speaker 6: motorcycle riders who make very, very poor decisions. And you
Speaker 6: know what. I know this is going to make me
Speaker 6: sound cold, but to me, that's just natural order, Dan,
Speaker 6: and I don't want to see it. I turn my
Speaker 6: head when I see those guys do that, or really
Speaker 6: down the interstate whatever.
Speaker 7: It's unfortunate, but I just wanted to consider.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, thank you, no excellent point, thank you, Sean.
Speaker 1: And I agree with Sean completely. That should be permitted
Speaker 1: when somebody stopped at an intersection. That's an important safety
Speaker 1: I think, an important safety option.
Speaker 2: But that's the vast.
Speaker 1: Majority of what we're getting out there right now is
Speaker 1: flat out lane splitting.
Speaker 2: Hey, let me get to that setup.
Speaker 1: Story So well done here by CBS four otherwise known
Speaker 1: as Channel four.
Speaker 8: And we are continuing to see too many crashes across
Speaker 8: the state of Colorado, the most common with our motorcycle community.
Speaker 8: Colorado State Patrol says last year, motorcyclists were at fault
Speaker 8: for more than six hundred crashes. Among those, one hundred
Speaker 8: and sixty two people lost their lives on our roadways.
Speaker 8: And your First Alert Traffic Tracker reporter Brian Sharad joining
Speaker 8: us live from CSP headquarters in Golden and Brian, most
Speaker 8: of these crashes are on highways many of us take
Speaker 8: every single day, and.
Speaker 9: That's right, Ashley. The two biggest ones I twenty five
Speaker 9: and I seventy and speeding contains to be to number
Speaker 9: one issues and in those two areas alone. This is
Speaker 9: something we've been tracking for the last several months as well.
Speaker 9: So the biggest thing is just making sure you're being careful,
Speaker 9: but we're also noticing it around the times of two
Speaker 9: and four pm, the biggest day on Saturdays.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 9: When I spoke with troopers today they set Along with speeding,
Speaker 9: we're seeing too many motorcyclists not being attentive on the roads,
Speaker 9: lack of experience, causing crashes and driving under into oxication.
Speaker 9: Lane splitting is another huge reason for crashes. This is
Speaker 9: when a motorcyclist will use the highway lanes to drive
Speaker 9: in between cars while speeding. And want to remind you
Speaker 9: not only is this dangerous but illegal.
Speaker 10: By going through those vehicles at highway speeds, you are causing,
Speaker 10: whether it be small or big issues. A driver may
Speaker 10: not see you, and by coming close to that vehicle,
Speaker 10: you may cause them to panic, them to strike you
Speaker 10: or even somebody else.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and a reminder of riding a motorcycle, always where
Speaker 9: your helmet, boots, gloves and jackets because that's the only
Speaker 9: protection you're going to have on your motor cycle, especially
Speaker 9: in a crash.
Speaker 2: This could save your life.
Speaker 9: Live in Golden Brian Shrod covering Colado first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's what's going on out there.
Speaker 1: But again you think polists in the left care about
Speaker 1: that same thing with cyclists.
Speaker 2: Chick two out three someone three.
Speaker 1: Eight two five five text d an five seven seven
Speaker 1: three nine still can't get over that text or says
Speaker 1: you heard that one Ryan right just sticks his hand
Speaker 1: out the window to see if it's raining, and al
Speaker 1: Lane splitter breaks two of his fingers.
Speaker 4: And teach them.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to laugh, it's just it is horrible.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, so many bad things happening there, and
Speaker 1: I do maybe somebody can explain this, But as a
Speaker 1: guy who does this kind of law every day, I
Speaker 1: just sit here absolutely baffled at how is a society
Speaker 1: we can sit back and just kind of accept as
Speaker 1: the new normal all this unnecessary carnage on our roadways
Speaker 1: when all of us, all of us, no matter how safe,
Speaker 1: how law abiding, all of us are at that the
Speaker 1: most risk unless you're a police, fire military, that the
Speaker 1: gravest risk for you and your family ever, is when
Speaker 1: you're on the roadway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just.
Speaker 1: Sit back in a very relaxed way and just accept
Speaker 1: all of this unnecessary carnage. It's it's really madness, and
Speaker 1: it's very very hard to explain.
Speaker 2: What do you think it is.
Speaker 1: Ryan that that nobody has ever just kind of stepped
Speaker 1: up and said, wait a second, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be this way.
Speaker 2: We can do ABC and D.
Speaker 1: But but as a society. It just keeps getting worse, and
Speaker 1: people just kind of roll with it.
Speaker 5: I immediately reacted, Dan, and I might have done so on
Speaker 5: this show with you to the passage of this so
Speaker 5: called lane filtering, and we knew, damn well it was
Speaker 5: going to turn into lane splitting. And like you and
Speaker 5: like our caller before, I have seen it increase astronomically exponentially.
Speaker 5: I see it on C. Four seventy on I twenty five.
Speaker 5: I mean, they're out of control. And I want to
Speaker 5: clarify almost entirely. It's these crotch rocket dirt bikes. It's
Speaker 5: not the hogs like Harley Davidson Indian motorcycles, the ones
Speaker 5: that take me seriously, the lifestyle one do that. No, No,
Speaker 5: that's not how they rite. So I want to make
Speaker 5: sure to make that clarification. But yeah, these crotch rocket types,
Speaker 5: you know, they blaze by you. To the caller's point,
Speaker 5: they're doing wheelies at ninety miles an hour. It's insane,
Speaker 5: and it's suddenly a danger to them whatever Darwinism, like
Speaker 5: he said, but it's a danger to all of us
Speaker 5: that are looking to drive on the roads and use
Speaker 5: them legally.
Speaker 1: And the Darwinism thing I can't get into for this reason,
Speaker 1: as my parents raised me to look at everybody out there.
Speaker 1: That person is somebody's child, right.
Speaker 2: So you talk.
Speaker 1: About that idiot out there probably seventeen eighteen nineteen doing
Speaker 1: those wheelies lanes splitting, that's somebody's baby. That that's somebody's
Speaker 1: baby who isn't going to come home because of that.
Speaker 1: And listen, there's responsibility on the rider. But why pass
Speaker 1: these laws that just encourage it, you know, in the
Speaker 1: interest of what green new deals saving a couple of
Speaker 1: gallons of gas somewhere. I mean, but again it comes
Speaker 1: back to the left just not respecting human life. So
Speaker 1: here's what se Dots says about motorcycle lane filtering. Now
Speaker 1: I read this and I should save this for the
Speaker 1: show we're going to do. Ryan have we set the
Speaker 1: day chat where the entire show is going to be
Speaker 1: done in comedy. We we're going to talk about serious issues.
Speaker 1: We're not coming in and telling Rodney Dangerfield jokes. The
Speaker 1: day we're going to talk about the same issues, but
Speaker 1: we're going to do it in a humorous way. I
Speaker 1: should save this for that because as I read this,
Speaker 1: everybody knows and the people who wrote this had to
Speaker 1: know this isn't how it was going to work in
Speaker 1: real life. Motorcycle lane filtering. Lane filtering is now legal
Speaker 1: in Colorado. Colorado recently passed a new law allowing motorcycles
Speaker 1: to pass between vehicles stopped on the roadway and traveling
Speaker 1: in the same direction as the rider. But with these conditions,
Speaker 1: the motorcycle passes on the left of the vehicle in
Speaker 1: front of them. The other vehicles are stopped and traveling
Speaker 1: in the same direction, such as in traffic or at
Speaker 1: a red light, Well, big flip and distinction, like we
Speaker 1: were talking about with our great collar. If you're at
Speaker 1: a red light, that's fine, A slow little move between
Speaker 1: the vehicles so you don't get rear ended. That's a
Speaker 1: whole different critter then at speed. But that's what's happening
Speaker 1: is the at speed the lane is wide enough.
Speaker 2: To pass safely. How do you define that?
Speaker 1: I've never seen one wide enough to pass safely with
Speaker 1: all these people barreling through at eighty miles an hour,
Speaker 1: maybe sixty or seventy or eighty the motorcycle when passing,
Speaker 1: You'll love this one, Ryan does.
Speaker 2: Not exceed fifteen miles per hour.
Speaker 1: Has anybody, including myself, ever driven a motorcycle at less
Speaker 1: than fifteen miles an hour?
Speaker 2: Don't you fall off at less than fifteen miles an hour? Yeah,
Speaker 2: what a joke.
Speaker 1: When the stopped vehicles begin to move, the motorcyclist shall
Speaker 1: cease passing, like anybody expected that to happen. All right, Hey,
Speaker 1: we got a lot to talk about now, some great
Speaker 1: texts coming in as well. Love your suggestions on how
Speaker 1: to make it safer out there. First thing is get
Speaker 1: rid of this filtering thing or limited to at intersections.
Speaker 1: But we also want to talk about Denver, as we
Speaker 1: also predicted.
Speaker 2: A long time ago.
Speaker 1: Not a very tough prediction, right, but Denver and Grave
Speaker 1: and trouble now because that diamond, Mike and the Left
Speaker 1: have promised people all over the world come to Denver,
Speaker 1: we will get you a home. Oh what could possibly
Speaker 1: go wrong? You're on the Dankapla Show.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dankapla Show podcast.
Speaker 2: That day, he.
Speaker 11: Didn't do it. He forgave those people. Now as people
Speaker 11: want to raise money for them. And yet and yet,
Speaker 11: in the contral constitutional way, he has sent the National
Speaker 11: Guard into California.
Speaker 1: She's still in Congress barely, oh Man, another gift to
Speaker 1: the Republican Party. Yeah, so much for the legal analysis there, Congressoman,
Speaker 1: I think the federal court in California ruled in Trump's
Speaker 1: favor already today, right, And this one is so clear.
Speaker 1: It's part of as I said yesterday, what's driving him crazy.
Speaker 1: And then Andy McCarthy joined us at four oh s today.
Speaker 1: You can grab that off the podcast Andy, obviously from
Speaker 1: National Review. This is crystal clear that there's no gray area.
Speaker 1: It's as clear as anything you're ever going to find
Speaker 1: in the Constitution, in law, and that is President Trump
Speaker 1: has this authority, including the Marines. And so it's kind
Speaker 1: of fun, now, not kind of fun, lots of fun
Speaker 1: to watch the left grapple with the fact that and
Speaker 1: they're going through the five stages, right, we just heard denial,
Speaker 1: but the reality that Trump is going to win this,
Speaker 1: and the more they fight, the more they struggle, the
Speaker 1: bigger he's going to win it, and the more visible
Speaker 1: and important that victory is going to be to him
Speaker 1: and by extension, to the country, because we can't have
Speaker 1: insurrectionists and whether you're talking about the elected lefties in
Speaker 1: Colorado or anywhere else in the country, so many of
Speaker 1: them believe they have the right to be insurrectionists, to
Speaker 1: just rise up against and prevent the enforcement of federal
Speaker 1: laws they don't like, in particular immigration laws. And you
Speaker 1: can't have a nation like that. Let's go to beautiful
Speaker 1: lovel In, Colorado, one of my favorite places.
Speaker 2: Well talk with Danny. You're on the Dan Kaplas show.
Speaker 7: Welcome, Say Dan, love your show, A long time listener. Hey,
Speaker 7: I just wanted to say in regards to the motorcycles
Speaker 7: being able to go in between lanes. Now, I'm from California,
Speaker 7: and I'm here to say from California, there's just a
Speaker 7: ton of Republicans. Man, we're just stuck like we are
Speaker 7: here with Denver and older. But you know, wearing a
Speaker 7: helmet in traffic like that, if it's ninety degrees and
Speaker 7: you're just barely going bumper to bumper, you can suffer
Speaker 7: a heat stroke, you know, by not being able to
Speaker 7: do that.
Speaker 1: Dan, So you're seeing the lane filtering. Does California have
Speaker 1: lane splitting because it acts that way? I don't know
Speaker 1: if Kelly says yes, so it must be true. But
Speaker 1: you're saying, hey, you need the lane filtering, so riders
Speaker 1: don't overheat. But isn't it better to just sweat a
Speaker 1: little bit and get buried.
Speaker 7: Well, you got to remember these things are oil cool
Speaker 7: vengines too. They don't have a lot of them don't
Speaker 7: have radiators on them, so they can overheat when they're
Speaker 7: sitting in the heat. Like that.
Speaker 1: Interesting point, Tony. Hey, appreciate the call, man, Hope you
Speaker 1: call often. Yeah, you take care of hey.
Speaker 7: Just I just want to give a shout out to California.
Speaker 7: There's a ton of Republicans there.
Speaker 6: Get them here that loves Trump.
Speaker 2: Get it. And we can work a trade, right.
Speaker 1: How about one hundred thousand of them for one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand of these lefties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can work something.
Speaker 7: You can have them.
Speaker 2: We can work something now, Thank you Danny for that.
Speaker 2: Loveland just a great city if you haven't been up there.
Speaker 1: Three or three Someone three eight, two five five, text
Speaker 1: An five seven, seven through.
Speaker 2: Nine, Dan and Ryan.
Speaker 1: The ones that really blank me off are the idiots
Speaker 1: doing a hundred plus weaving through traffic. How am I
Speaker 1: supposed to watch out for motorcycles when they're coming from
Speaker 1: behind me at ridiculous rates of speed? I would not
Speaker 1: feel responsible at all if one of those bikes ran
Speaker 1: into me, true, but you'd still be haunted by it.
Speaker 1: That's what you find so often is people completely innocent
Speaker 1: and some of these horrific wrecks are still haunted.
Speaker 2: By that loss of human life.
Speaker 1: And it's one of the reasons the left is so
Speaker 1: irresponsible with their approach to traffic in Colorado. And you
Speaker 1: know that this one hundred mile stuff you see right now,
Speaker 1: and you see it all the time, right you see
Speaker 1: with bikes, you see it with these you know some
Speaker 1: of these cars out there. You know often cars you
Speaker 1: wonder how they're even getting down the roadway. Here's what
Speaker 1: I think is going on, and I believe it's proven
Speaker 1: by what I see in my law practice as well,
Speaker 1: is you've got this intersection now, this intersection of the
Speaker 1: left undermining law enforcement, so there's less enforcement. And then
Speaker 1: you have some of these crazy laws like allowing lane
Speaker 1: quote filtering. But here's the big thing. You layer the
Speaker 1: legalization of drugs on top of that. You have so
Speaker 1: many drug drivers out there, or this terrible combination of
Speaker 1: marijuana and alcohol. But you put those factors together and
Speaker 1: you have what we have on our roadways. Thunderdog, you know,
Speaker 1: just a killing field. But the fact that Left doesn't
Speaker 1: care about that is to me just so mind boggling.
Speaker 1: I get their lack of respect for the inherent dignity
Speaker 1: of human life, and it plays out in all sorts
Speaker 1: of ways, including this one. But you would think just
Speaker 1: for their own safety and the safety of their own
Speaker 1: family members. But no, they just oppose all of these
Speaker 1: common sense ways to make us all safer across party lines,
Speaker 1: and then they throw these new laws in that you
Speaker 1: just know are going to lead to a lot of
Speaker 1: dead bodies. Dan, in this state, we have minimal traffic enforcement,
Speaker 1: says a Texture. There is no visible police presence and
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of car and motorcycle drivers with the
Speaker 1: attitude that nothing will ever happen to them. Jim, You're
Speaker 1: so right, Jim, been talking about it forever. And where
Speaker 1: does that come from? It comes from the left undermining
Speaker 1: law enforcement. If you're a man in blue out there
Speaker 1: right now, can anybody blame them for wanting to have
Speaker 1: absolutely minimal contact with the public. What happens right, I mean,
Speaker 1: Polis and Left passes legislation that they're now personally liable.
Speaker 1: You have Democrat das and number of places you know
Speaker 1: who would make you a human sacrifice and a heartbeat
Speaker 1: if it helped them politically. Not all Democrat DA's there
Speaker 1: are some excellent Democrat days. But but yeah, law enforcement
Speaker 1: has been so undermined in most places, not all that.
Speaker 1: How could anybody reasonably expect them to have these additional
Speaker 1: contacts with the public that aren't absolutely necessary? No, that
Speaker 1: is the left undermining law enforcement, undermines the safety of
Speaker 1: our roadways.
Speaker 2: Yeah, three or.
Speaker 1: Three seven, three eight, two five five the number when
Speaker 1: we come back Trump winning, winning big the country by extension.
Speaker 2: How does this end? How bad is the left going
Speaker 2: to make it on themselves?