WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.759 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. Yeah, the American 6 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:18.920 way is to fix it, right. It's not to sweep 7 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:20.839 it under the rug. It is to fix it. The 8 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.440 American way is to be the best. The American way 9 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:27.000 is to be as close to perfect as humanly possible. 10 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.960 But why else should anything else be acceptable? With everything 11 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.479 we've been blessed with? Right, So I like the very 12 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:38.799 strong response of President Trump in this one critical respect. 13 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:42.399 He is not going to accept the status quo. And 14 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:45.200 whether he ends up being right or wrong about whether 15 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:49.960 this unimaginable failure in that control tower was DEI or not, 16 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:53.200 one way or the other. I love the fact he's 17 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.960 laying out we are not going to accept this status quo. 18 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.439 It's a big reason he won. It's a big reason 19 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:01.159 Republicans now can win for a very long time to 20 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:05.760 come if they deliver, because Americans that they don't want 21 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:08.640 this slide. That's not who we are. We aren't mediocre. 22 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:11.959 We are goofballs who all of a sudden say that that, yeah, 23 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:14.719 boys and men with penises can be in girls showers 24 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.319 just because the left says so, And people who are 25 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:21.239 dangerous criminals from other country get to come in because 26 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:23.680 the left says we're racist if you won't let them in. 27 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:29.439 That's all nonsense. Americans pride themselves on operating at the 28 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:32.439 highest level, and we need to get back to that. 29 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:36.439 So I'm glad to see see Trump's overall response be 30 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:39.799 We're not tolerating this anymore, whether it's right orround, and 31 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:41.359 got on the cause of this one. We'll find out 32 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:43.640 together over time. Eight five five four zero five eight 33 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:47.319 two five five the number dam five seven seven three nine. 34 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:49.760 Want to get your reaction, I know you have one 35 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:52.439 on multiple levels, because I sure do. None of us 36 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.799 were expecting last night to have this story, you know, 37 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:58.640 come on the news and then everything that flowed from it. 38 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:01.359 I think everybody in the country went to bed sad 39 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.200 after this last night because it was just so unnecessary. 40 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:09.840 And obviously, if if you fly and this doesn't make 41 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:13.520 you a little bit afraid, then you know you may 42 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:15.719 want to go see her doctor about that. And I 43 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.960 don't mean, oh I'm not getting an airplane. I mean, 44 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:21.479 I mean, what the blank is going on? And can 45 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:24.960 I really trust this system? Because one of the things 46 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.479 Trump has exposed in a way I don't think anybody 47 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.120 else could have is that there are a lot of 48 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.080 systems that we'd been trusting, maybe not blindly, right, we're 49 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:37.240 not idiots or children, but systems that in general we 50 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.400 just sort of trusted. When you get beyond this whole 51 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:44.879 Hollywood storefront, it's a mess behind the curtain, and so 52 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:47.520 is this one of them? Because you know, we've been 53 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:50.000 hearing all these stories about near miss this, near miss that, 54 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:52.639 and maybe you pay attention to the story, maybe you don't, 55 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:56.400 and then all of a sudden it's not a near miss. 56 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.479 So what really is going on? I want to get reaction. 57 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:02.479 Eight five to five for zero five eight two five 58 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:04.639 five the number. I thought about throwing out the question, Hey, 59 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:07.039 is this going to change your travel habits or plans? 60 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:10.120 But I figured that's a stupid question because it's not right. 61 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.360 I mean, I can't imagine anybody at this point is 62 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.439 going to now fly less or this or that, or 63 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:18.840 want to go peek up in the tower before they go. 64 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:21.400 It's because we all just got to do it right, 65 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:25.120 We've all just got to fly. But I would just 66 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:27.879 like to get your reaction on whatever level you have, 67 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:30.800 including I mean, you know, the President came out today 68 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:35.680 and he's he's very concerned about DEI on this. We'll 69 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:37.199 start with some of that sound. 70 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:43.199 The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer 71 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:49.120 severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical 72 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:53.599 conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiatives spelled out. 73 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:55.520 On the agency's website. 74 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:00.639 Can you imagine these are people that are and actually 75 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:04.280 their lives are shortened because of the stress that they have. 76 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.879 Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their 77 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.120 lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the 78 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:16.279 stress where you have many, many planes coming into one 79 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:21.319 target and you need a very special talent and a 80 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:23.399 very special genius to be able to do it. 81 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:27.680 Yeah. So let's see where the investigation leads on this, right. 82 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:31.000 I mean, the current reporting is that there was one 83 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:35.040 controller working two positions. If that's the case, somebody needs 84 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.560 to go to jail. That there is a point at 85 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:41.560 which it becomes criminal negligence and you have to start 86 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.439 putting people in jail. Let's say that you have a 87 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.959 heart surgery. You can't just say, okay, well, you know 88 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:50.920 we haven't. We've had hiring trouble, so we're going to 89 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:54.959 have the our nurse also cover anesthesia. You can't do that. 90 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:59.680 At a certain point, it becomes criminal negligence. So if 91 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.560 that were is true, somebody needs to go to jail. 92 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.000 And that's what needs to start happening in America, right. 93 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:09.279 They have got to start jailing. They have got to 94 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:15.360 start jailing these people at the top levels of different corporations, institutions, etc. 95 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:21.279 That make a decision that they know may very well 96 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:23.759 get somebody killed. I'm not talking about judgment calls, and 97 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:25.720 I know there's danger in every aspect of life. I'm 98 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:29.720 talking about if somebody knew, Okay, we need two controllers tonight, 99 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.279 but Johnny called in six, so we're only gonna have 100 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.079 one controller, but we're still going to allow the same 101 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:37.959 amount of air traffic. Whoever made that decision needs to 102 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.720 be charged with criminal negligence and they need to do time. 103 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:44.000 And I'm sick and tired. You know, as a guy 104 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.600 who's been at the privilege for forty years have been 105 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:49.279 suing corporations that, in my opinion, just sit back and 106 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:51.360 make that decision. You know what, Yo, we know that's 107 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:53.720 gonna kill somebody, We're gonna do it anyway. It's cheaper 108 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:56.600 to pay the claims. Those sobs need to start going 109 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.519 to jail and not just get away with writing checks 110 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.279 to pay the claims. So I'm real hopeful we're in 111 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:06.160 one of those moments now with Trump and with RFK. 112 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.560 And I got plenty of differences with RFK, but I 113 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:10.879 really like the stuff I like, and he's Trump's pick. 114 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:13.319 I just hope we're in one of those moments right 115 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.800 now where we're going to be shattering, where we're going 116 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:20.680 to be shattering some of this awful stuff that has 117 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.639 become the quote norm eight five five for zero five 118 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.560 eight two five five the number texts DA N five 119 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.879 seven seven three nine. So again, anxious to get your 120 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.519 take to all of this, Ryan right now. And I 121 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:35.560 understand none of us have done a full investigation, et cetera, 122 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:38.040 et cetera, But right now, who do you blame? 123 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:43.319 It's difficult, But where I'm most curious to find out 124 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.639 details is the flight path of the helicopter and that 125 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:50.120 training exercise, and why then and why there and who 126 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:52.000 was leading it, Because you have to believe I was 127 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.480 talking to Kelly about this earlier, that the flight plan, 128 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:58.720 the manifest for the Wichita aircraft coming into Reagan National 129 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:00.879 that had been on the books. I knew about that. 130 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:03.759 That's a constant in the equation. For me, the helicopter 131 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:06.480 is the variable. So that's where I would start. Yeah, yeah, 132 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:08.839 it makes perfect sense. On the other hand, wait a second, 133 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:10.800 you're up in that tower for a reason. 134 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.040 We're talking about the air traffic controllers. You're just supposed 135 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:16.439 to be watching this stuff. I mean, listen, you've got 136 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:19.839 to assume when you run any kind of system where 137 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.519 lives can easily be lost, it's your basic responsibility to 138 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:28.000 assume there's going to be human error in the operation 139 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:31.560 of aircrafts. And you assume that you know that's going 140 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:34.480 to happen. So your job is to assume that and 141 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.120 be watching everything and to stop it from happening. Now, 142 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.040 maybe we learned some facts down the road that take 143 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:44.240 air traffic control off. OK, right, that could happen, But 144 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:48.079 at this point, my understanding of the reporting is that 145 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:52.319 they could see they could see the helicopter approaching the 146 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:56.160 flight plaths, flight paths of the plane. Now, again this 147 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.199 is all preliminary, but all I'm saying the one thing 148 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:02.680 for sure is is we've been tolerating mediocrity and worse 149 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:04.800 for way too long in this country, at lots of 150 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:07.600 different levels. And that doesn't mean we all don't make mistakes. 151 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.199 We all do make mistakes at time, but that doesn't 152 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:14.360 mean we're mediocre. The question is in our overall everyday performance, 153 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:16.519 what level do we operate at? 154 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.199 In my contention, Dan, when I was watching this press 155 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:22.600 conference live and President Trump took that hard pivot from 156 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.399 expressing condolences for the victims and their families to going 157 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:29.079 in on DEI I don't think he did that for 158 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:31.040 no reason at all on a thin air. I think 159 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:34.399 either Sectev Pete Hegseth or Sean Duffy or some of 160 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:37.159 the other information he was given gave him a strong 161 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:40.559 feeling that there was some level of incompetence within the 162 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:42.480 air traffic control that contributed to this. 163 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:44.759 No, you're right, and we know the tweet he sent. 164 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:46.559 I can't remember if it was late last night early 165 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:49.679 this morning, but to tweet the President sent, you know, 166 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:52.159 just pointing toward the control tower, etc. And you know 167 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:56.240 he has access to all of that information immediately. So yeah, 168 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:58.639 so I expect that he would not have said that 169 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:00.840 unless he has a lot to back it up. We'll 170 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:03.120 find that out as it rolls out. But I really 171 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:04.960 like the fact he's making it clear, No, we are 172 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:10.039 not tolerating this mediocrity anymore, no matter what the source 173 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:13.679 of the mediocrity. I mean, can the mediocrity come from 174 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:17.159 political appointees? To me, here's where the mediocrity comes from. Right, 175 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:22.559 The mediocrity comes from doing the opposite of what doctor 176 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:25.759 King called for. That's where mediocrity comes from. 177 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:35.120 I have a dream my poor little children when they 178 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:37.759 live in a nation where they will not be judged 179 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:40.159 by the color of mass skin, but by the pun 180 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:41.320 kent of that character. 181 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:48.440 I have a dream, And it doesn't have to be 182 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:53.480 race or gender or any of that based Once you 183 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:57.679 start compromising merit, once you start saying whether it's because 184 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:01.480 of political appointees, or whether it's because of this factor 185 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:06.279 or that factor, once you start saying that, hey, merit 186 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:07.720 isn't what matters here. 187 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.720 You know, hiring is going to be based on other things. 188 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.519 That's the point where this whole thing falls apart, and 189 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:17.960 when you start compromising the standard and making decisions based 190 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.840 on other than merit when it comes to public safety 191 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:24.519 and life and death operations, at that point it is criminal. 192 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:26.600 We have to get to the bottom of this. It's 193 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:29.080 one of the things I'm most excited about about Trump 194 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:31.519 is I'm confident he's going to get to the bottom 195 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:34.320 of this and lots of other stuff. Let the chips 196 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:37.080 fall where they may. You're on the Dan Capla Show. 197 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:45.799 And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast. 198 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:47.919 Way, that's back. 199 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:54.480 The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buddhajeg A 200 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:54.960 real winner. 201 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:56.120 That's the guy's a real winner. 202 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:58.519 And you know how badly everything's run since he's run 203 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:03.600 this Department of Transportation. He's a disaster. He was a 204 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.919 disaster as a mayor. He read his city into the ground, 205 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:10.000 and he's a disaster now. He's just got a good 206 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:16.559 line of bullshit. The Department of Transportation his government agency 207 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:20.639 charged with regulating civil aviation. Well, he runs it forty 208 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:22.840 five thousand people and he's run it right into the 209 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.039 ground with his diversity. 210 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:27.759 Eight five five for zero five eight two five five 211 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:31.600 the number text d an five seven seven thirty nine. 212 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:34.840 And again, hey, we'll see where the evidence lines up 213 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:38.519 on whether DEI is responsible for any of this. But 214 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:40.120 what we know, what everybody has to be able to 215 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:43.240 agree on, right, is that it's got to be merit based, 216 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:47.480 especially when it comes to something like this, something like safety, 217 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:50.519 it's got to be merit based. And with lefties in charge, 218 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:53.519 does any sane person have any reason to believe that 219 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:56.480 it's merit based. And that doesn't mean race, that doesn't 220 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.759 mean gender, It can mean political appointees, that can mean 221 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.720 all sorts of garbage. But is there anything in the 222 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:04.639 way you see lefties operate here in Colorado or nationally 223 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:08.279 which makes you think that for them it's merit based? 224 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:09.120 N A. 225 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:12.519 William in Longmond. You're on the Dan Kaplas show. Welcome 226 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:14.879 are you today? 227 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:15.159 Dan? 228 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:16.440 I am ticked off. 229 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.360 I think I am too a little bit because I 230 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:26.519 think you're on the right track here. I would say 231 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.080 that there is a difference between back east and out 232 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:34.519 west here. I have a relative in one of the 233 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:38.440 facilities back east and their training success rate is thirty 234 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:39.039 five percent. 235 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:40.279 Oh my lord, and you. 236 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:42.799 Come out here to the east or to the west 237 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:48.360 and your training success rate is seventy five percent. And 238 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:51.519 you know over time in the twenty four to seven 239 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:56.919 operation is very lucrative if you start working shorthanded and 240 00:12:57.200 --> 00:12:58.120 washing people out. 241 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:02.440 But I appreciate the call, my friend. Is this broader 242 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:07.080 issue of competence of standards, I think is an enormous one. 243 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:12.120 And listen, I am not, underline, not suggesting that drugs 244 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:14.799 had anything to do with what happened in that crash. 245 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:21.279 Not I'm making a broader point that in general, no 246 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:25.919 rational person can expect that you can now flood this state, 247 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:30.600 flood this nation with drugs and drug use, and not 248 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.080 pay a price when it comes to public safety, when 249 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:35.919 it comes to competence performance. Again, I am not saying 250 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:39.039 that was a part of this plane crash, But what 251 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:41.960 I am saying is it's cost a lot of lives 252 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:45.519 already in Colorado, and we've got to be we've got 253 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.919 to be realistic about the effect of a much more 254 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.600 drugged up population, the effect on public safety, the effect 255 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:56.399 on standards, the effect on everything eight five five for 256 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.120 zero five e two five to five of the number 257 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:01.399 speaking of which it at some point do we have 258 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:07.919 the latest installment from the grand bugler Michael Bennett. Okay 259 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.919 twenty four, Okay, great, let's yeah. See that's the thing. 260 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:13.279 Mine's not scrolling down to twenty four? Can you fire 261 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:18.320 that for us? Not on a whim? What's a How 262 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:24.000 is it a whim to say, Hey, I've got a 263 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:28.559 computer from nineteen oh eight and it is not scrolling 264 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:29.519 to cut twenty You're. 265 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:31.240 Saying it's like one of those og computers. 266 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:33.159 What I'm saying is, can we just buy our own 267 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:36.600 blank and can we spend thirty five bucks and put 268 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:37.279 a webcam in? 269 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.240 Well, I know you want that that one. I knew here. 270 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:40.960 I'm going to fire the Bennett one right now. You're ready, 271 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:41.720 Thank you're ready. 272 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:46.240 Yes, Well, you believe, as the chairman of this committee believes, 273 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:51.480 as the vast majority of members of our intelligence agencies believe, 274 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:54.799 that Edward Snowden was a trader to the United States 275 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:55.480 of America. 276 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:58.039 Senator of confirmedis. 277 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:05.519 Is there not a moment social media, It's not a 278 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.720 moment to propagate theories, conspiracy theories, or or or attacks 279 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:15.200 on journalism in the United States. This is when you 280 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:18.399 need to answer the questions of the people whose votes 281 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:26.159 you're asking to be confirmed. As the chief intelligence officer 282 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:31.519 of this nation. As my colleague said, this is not 283 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.600 about you. It's about the people that serve the intelligence 284 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:41.600 agencies of the United States. Is Edward snowed In a 285 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:46.320 trader to the United States of America? That is not 286 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.000 a hard question to answer when the states. 287 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:54.120 Are this, Hi, Senator, as someone who has. 288 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:55.840 Your answer yes or no? 289 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:56.720 Is he drunk? 290 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:00.000 Is Edward snowed In a trader to the United State 291 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:01.679 States of America. 292 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:10.120 As someone who has everybody understand how critical our national security? 293 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:13.799 Apparently you don't. Apparently you don't. I gotta tell you 294 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:16.480 this goes back to the very fair question I asked 295 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:19.399 yesterday about Mike Johnston, and I gave a specific example. 296 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:22.399 Then he's the mayor of Denver. Lawless Mike. Is it 297 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:26.480 fair to ask these days, particularly of those elected representatives 298 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:30.159 from states where marijuana is quote legal, whether they imbibe 299 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.799 Because I've got to tell you, Michael Bennett, I haven't 300 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:37.120 met him. I assume he's an intelligent guy. Michael Bennett 301 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.080 sounded impaired there, didn't he didn't. 302 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:43.120 He When he gets worked up, though, he loses annunciation. 303 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:44.639 I told you about the time he went off. 304 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:48.200 With Cruz annunciation is one thing, because I do that 305 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:50.440 too sometimes, all right, I'll get real fired up at 306 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:54.480 something and who knows. But here's the point is, wait 307 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:57.080 a second. He had these lines ready to go, right, 308 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:01.519 but she had to die to question before the lines 309 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:05.559 made any sense. He asks her the question, gives her 310 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:08.759 no chance to answer, and then starts bellowing answer the question. 311 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:12.480 I mean, it really seemed impaired. And you know, you 312 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:15.720 had plenty of lefty questioning that was way off base, dishonest, whatever, 313 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:17.680 but didn't seem impaired. 314 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.440 I think she wanted to give a nuanced answer. And 315 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:23.839 what I was able to dig out after he interrupted 316 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:26.519 her three separate times, was that she wanted to prevent 317 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:31.240 on another Snowden like event from happening, and that what 318 00:17:31.319 --> 00:17:34.319 he did was wrong. He leaked this information. She was 319 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:37.119 not willing, for whatever reason, to call him point blank 320 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:38.960 yes or no, a trader to the United States. That's 321 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:40.160 what Bennet wanted, right. 322 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:42.599 But what you see there is that the lack of 323 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:45.799 the ability, the lack of the ability and skill to 324 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:50.440 engage her in any kind of back and forth, so 325 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.720 he has to interrupt and just bellow this stuff. It's 326 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:58.480 just to me, it's not only weird, it's you got 327 00:17:58.519 --> 00:17:59.759 to be able to do better than that in the 328 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:01.960 US Senate. I don't care what side you're on, what 329 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:04.640 your ideology is, you got to be able to perform 330 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:07.680 better than that. I think in the end, like so 331 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:10.160 much of this lefty garbage, it just helps her. It 332 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:13.440 just helps her get confirmed. Speaking of which, when we 333 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:15.599 come back, we'll go to our fiery lines. The main topic, 334 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:20.319 of course, spins from the very, very sad, tragic, completely 335 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:24.119 preventable destruction of human life last night and what it 336 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:26.720 means about the system, what it means about a lot 337 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:29.920 of different things. Is President Trump right when he says DEI, Oh, 338 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:32.240 We've got to bring you two days in a row 339 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:36.000 from Bernie some of the classic all time sound from 340 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:38.319 the Hill And this is Bernie going at it with 341 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:42.240 RFK Junior, and I bet Bernie wishes he hadn't here 342 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:43.400 on the Dan Kaplas Show. 343 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:54.599 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 344 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.319 I'm going to make I'm Erica healthier than other countries 345 00:18:59.319 --> 00:18:59.720 in the world. 346 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:03.079 Right now, will you guarantee do what every other major 347 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:03.920 country does. 348 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:04.880 That's a simple question. 349 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:09.680 And by the way, Bernie, you know that the problem 350 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:12.759 of corruption is not just in the federal agents, is 351 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:16.039 in Congress to almost all the members of this panel 352 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:19.720 are accepting, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from 353 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:24.079 the pharmaceutical and opecting their interests. 354 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:26.759 Oh I thought that that would come. 355 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:29.359 Know, I ran for president like you. 356 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:34.799 I got millions, millions of contributions. They did not come 357 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:38.319 from the executives, not one nickel of pack money from 358 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:40.000 the pharmaceutical that they came. 359 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:44.400 To work twenty twenty. In twenty twenty, you were the single. 360 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:50.000 Largest because I received from minations from workers all over 361 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:50.680 this country. 362 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:51.359 Workers. 363 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:54.319 You were not a nickel from corporate. 364 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:59.119 You were the single largest hyarmaceutical dollars from. 365 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:04.000 Workers in million. Yeah, out of two hundred million. All right, 366 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:06.880 but you. 367 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.480 Gotta confirm this guy. Now, You've got to confirm him. Now. 368 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:15.240 You know what's going on. And this is what we've 369 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:18.400 been talking about since Trump won. For a lot of 370 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:23.400 different reasons, including smart lefties can see their days are numbered. 371 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:25.799 A lot of these changes are now permanent. Americans are 372 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:29.200 not going back. They're not going back to that lefty craziness. 373 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:33.799 The spell's been broken. They've been liberated, and so what 374 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:36.720 it has cost. A Wall Street journal guy had the 375 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:40.079 perfect phrase for it's something I read last night. He says, 376 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:43.799 the Democrats are in concussion protocol. Oh yeah, they have 377 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:49.079 a Trump concussion and so they're skewered. Their brains aren't 378 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:52.160 working right, They're just flailing. And it is a beautiful 379 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:55.000 thing to see because it just it helps and helps 380 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:56.200 and helps in so many ways. 381 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:58.599 And long term, Dan, we heard what you just heard 382 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:02.839 from Bernie Sanders's he's getting donations from the workers whatever. 383 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:04.559 I think RFK Junior is right on the point. 384 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:08.839 And given you go from yesterday, Dan, when we're mocking 385 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:12.480 Bernie Sanders for screaming at RFK Junior, do. 386 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:14.920 You support the onesies on this website? 387 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:16.079 What a onesie? 388 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:17.440 That's your best effort? 389 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:22.200 And then today I'm listening Dan cash Patel, director of 390 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:27.000 the FBI nominee and Adam Schiff, senator from Kelly's home 391 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:30.880 state of California. The best he had was you help 392 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:35.920 produce a song. But the J six choir Pero saying 393 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:40.039 do you admit that? I'm like, that's your best shot 394 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:42.359 of Cash Patel is a song. 395 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:45.720 They've been exposed, right, That's why this is a tipping 396 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.759 point moment, it goes beyond the normal pensulum swing and 397 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.240 text or Dan, it sounds like Michael Bennett has been 398 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:53.640 properly trained by Jared Poulis and how to talk to 399 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:57.079 those that you think you are better than. And what 400 00:21:57.240 --> 00:21:59.680 a great point and the point being this too, right Ryan, 401 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.759