September 29, 2025 • 34 mins
Brian Maass, CBS Colorado 4 reports on Rolex robberies in the upscale Cherry Creek shopping district by known illegal alien Tren de Aragua gang members. Ryan is beyond frustrated that, rather than focus on what should absolutely be a losing issue for Democrats in power, Colorado Republicans continue their infighting over the party's primary process.
In her book '107 Days,' Kamala Harris makes excuses for wasting enough money to buy the Detroit Tigers only to lose the election, but in '107 Horrible Days' the Freedom Center’s Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield tells the real story of one of the dumbest campaigns by one of the dumbest candidates. You'll laugh and cry (but mostly laugh) at stories like how Iran and the porn industry tried to help Kamala, how racists made her the candidate and why Dems still want her back.
Mark Tapson, Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture at the David Horowitz Freedom Center joins Ryan to discuss the lunacy of the Harris campaign itself, and the ridiculous sound bites the former Vice President is providing on the media circuit to promote her book.
107 Horrible Days: The Real Story of the Kamala Campaign | Frontpage Mag
In her book '107 Days,' Kamala Harris makes excuses for wasting enough money to buy the Detroit Tigers only to lose the election, but in '107 Horrible Days' the Freedom Center’s Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield tells the real story of one of the dumbest campaigns by one of the dumbest candidates. You'll laugh and cry (but mostly laugh) at stories like how Iran and the porn industry tried to help Kamala, how racists made her the candidate and why Dems still want her back.
Mark Tapson, Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture at the David Horowitz Freedom Center joins Ryan to discuss the lunacy of the Harris campaign itself, and the ridiculous sound bites the former Vice President is providing on the media circuit to promote her book.
107 Horrible Days: The Real Story of the Kamala Campaign | Frontpage Mag
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The FBI says, this is a target attack. That's absolutely clear.
This is someone who focused on that church, rams the
car in, kills at least one person by gunshot, and
has pre planned for explosives. In fact, I think more
of the fatalities happen from the fire, So this was,
in other words, pre planned. It may seem obvious that
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we would know what the motive is, right, and that's
where we're being careful, because it would seem obvious that
they're going after people of this church, of this faith,
But the FBI is not willing to make that link
because they haven't seen anything, anything online, anything he said
to the family. We may get that later, So that's
the distinction. What's really important is whatever if they do
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find that motive, it was not made to the public.
It didn't seem to be part of his persona. And
in this way, it's very similar to what we're seeing recently,
very very quick radicalization leading to violence, not tied to
any known movement or group, and that's the scary part
of where we live right now.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's Juliet Caium, the national security analyst for CNN, commenting
on the attack over the weekend. In my home state
of Michigan. This one hits close to home obviously and
literally for me, in Grand Blanc, which is just outside
of Flint. And this happened at a church of Latter
day Saints, a Mormon church, and seemed to have a
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similar Mo modus operandi to perhaps part of what we
saw in Oklahoma City with Timothy McVeigh and his accomplice
Terry Nichols hailed from the state of Michigan as well
and is currently serving a life sentence. McVeigh, of course,
was executed for that attack in Oklahoma City back in
nineteen ninety five. This one very well planned out methodically
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by a disturbed individual who had served our country in
Iraq and had a negative view of Mormon church and
reportedly was asking after he slammed into this church and
set it on fire, then went around with a firearm,
asking do you believe in Jesus Christ or do you
believe in Joseph Smith?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And didn't matter what the answer was. This was a
lunatic But we're seeing more and more these outbreaks of violence.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
We have a mental health crisis in our country. You
cannot tie it specifically and only to guns. That is
fool a hearty. This individual had a vehicle loaded up
with an accelerant, gasoline, kerosene, something like that, and set
the place ablaze with the people in it, and at
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least four are now dead. The shooter was killed himself
by law enforcement on the scene that responded. I believe
within seconds than a minute of the original nine five
nine your number to join the conversation via text here
on Ryan Shooting Live. That quick radicalization, you know, speaking
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of accelerants. We've spoken about this before and I think
it holds true with a lot of what we're watching
in this increased narcissistic culture within which we live.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Social media, access to it, platforms.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
On it selfies galore, and putting your thoughts and viewpoints
out there, wanting to be acknowledged, wanting to be accepted,
one to be validated, wanted to be empowered, wanting to
be to me made feel important. And that could be TikTok,
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that could be Snapchat, that could be Instagram, that could
be Reddit, that could be x formally known as Twitter,
that could be Facebook. We live in a time when
these radicalized views find these burrows and these echo chambers,
and they're very narrowly defined and we're not all on
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the same page. And this lends itself to as this
analyst put it, and I don't think she's wrong, this
quick radicalization of this deranged individual, this lunatic looking forward
to having a conversation with Valdemar Archiletta, and then it'll
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be coming up in our number two because it's another
day and another day of dysfunction in the Colorado Republican
Party and I am bashing my own head against the
figurative brick wall having to respond to and deal with this,
and I'm trying to get people on the program to
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give us an insight into what went down at the
Republican State Central Committee meeting.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Over the weekend on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I've been going back and forth with a friend and
the source of mine, and as she put it, she
has a day jaub I get it. But apparently Mark
Hampton was the author of the following. There are two factions,
and there's various shades of gray here, I'm sure, and
I believe i'd be one of those. Not that I'm
not taking a stand here, but I'll give you, and
I'll articulate for you my stance on this issue and
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the why behind it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
In a moment. But there are those who are very grassroots.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Anti establishment factions within the Colorado Republican Party that want
to do away with these open primaries, meaning that an
unaffiliated voter would be mailed both a Republican and Democratic
a ballot and then would be free to fill out
either one, not both, but either one, and participate in
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a Republican primary. So there's a faction that wants to
either get rid of the primary altogether and have it
be a selection process from within the party machinery, or
to close the primary to only registered Republican voters. Now
there's the other side of that, and this would be
more of the establishment faction that thinks that's a bad
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idea that if we narrow cast our candidates to only
our side in a state like Colorado that is barely
purple and mostly blue, that we will not generate candidate
to compete in a general election and have a really
good chance of winning. Now, my counter to that argument
would be two words, one of them of apostrophe. Joe O'Day,
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who was kind of this moderate, middle of the road,
palatable candidate that unaffiliated left leaning voters would consider and
vote for. But the problem was, in particular the issue
of abortion. He had no home, He disaffected pro life
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members of the Republican Party, and he was never going
to win over pro choice voters who were going to
vote for the Democrat anyway, Michael Bennett, because that person,
Michael is entrenched in the pro choice, pro abortion agenda,
and a lot of people out there in particular, it's
going to say it. Women are single issue voters. My body,
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my choice, That's the only thing I care about. I
know one personally, it drives me mad because I can't
think of like I'm going to be defined by one issue. No,
you're not going to define me by one issue. I
don't think Kelly's like that either. No, win hearts and minds,
win my heart and mind. Campaign for my vote. Earn
my vote, not just a pass fail litmus test. Do
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you believe abortions are awesome, then I'm going to vote
for you. I mean, that's unfortunately, it's where we are
in our state with a lot of these people that
are just hell bent on that issue. So why try
to pacify that element of the electorate and run on
a platform basically being Democrat Light You're not going to
win being Democrat. Light because they're just to analogize it
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to a local brew. There are people that prefer Creuer's
Banquet Beer and they're not going to drink Coors Light,
and they just like Coors.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Banquet Beer and that's what they're going to go with.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So I feel that the Republican Party is better off
running on principles, with a practical, pregnant, matic approach, priorities
based in principles, those four pieces that I talk about.
But you're prioritizing issues that appeal to the masses, and
you're not getting caught up in the Democrats playbook of
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silos and narrowly defined issues that fracture a voting This
is part of their plan of attack. They go after
Republicans on the issues where they feel they have the
majority on their side, specifically here in Colorado, and they
try to demonize, marginalize, and make Republicans look like they
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are the extremes, when of course that's projection and it's
anything but, and in fact it's quite the opposite. But
for Republican running here, what should you focus on? Well,
how about trendy Arragua And let's just go to that story. Now,
hadn't been planning on it. But this is something that
you need to hear. This is a losing issue for Democrats.
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This should be a winning issue for Republicans. Fighting crime,
fighting illegal aliens in our mits that are not here
for the right reasons, that are not here to become Americans,
contribute to our society and culture, to hold down a job,
to pay taxes, to have a home, to raise a family.
That is a myth being sold by the left because
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there are so many near duells, nefarious types that have
come across the border during the Biden administration that it
leads to more of this.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Denver's Cherry Creek North neighborhood is known for shopping and
high end dining. Tonight, police are actively looking for a
man who is seemingly targeting that luxury lifestyle, taking part
in a series.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Of armed rolex robberies.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Your investigator Brian Moss has been looking into those cases.
He joins us Live Tonight from Cherry Creek North and Brian,
who exactly are these robbers targeting.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
One of the victims in these attempted armed robberies were
residents of this Cherry Creek North neighborhood and.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
They were prominent citizens in this area.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
We've also learned that one suspect in these cases has
now been deported, with Homeland Security saying that he was
a member of Trende Aragua TDA Venezuelan street gang. Really,
the second suspect is still on the run.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
With upscale shopping mark galleries, high had boutiques and fine dining,
and surrounded by multimillion dollar homes, Cherry Creek North is
considered one of Denver's safest neighborhoods.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I was sure that somebody would have walked by and said, hey,
what's going on, you know on the window like this
and I'm sitting in there.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
But on one particular day, it sure didn't feel like
it to eighty five year old Larry Dietrich.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And then I looked up and he's got the gun
pointed in my head. He was very fourth watch watch.
I said, you, mother, son, you're not going to get
this watch from me to day. Didn't you understand me?
I said to you?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
You know, it turns out what happened to Larry was
not an isolated incident. Well, according to this Denver police document,
there have been three robberies in Cherry Creek North within
the last twelve months. In broad daylight, where the unknown
suspect attempted to rob the victim.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
For their Rolex watch.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Dietrich had just finished coffee with friends here when he
got in his car to leave.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
There's always a spot in the parking.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
He says, a feeling of rage came over him that
someone would rob him at gunpoint in his community during
daylight hours, in a heavily trafficked area.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Finally, it sort of became a standoff that I think
he realized in order to get my watch, even if
I was worrying one, he was going to have to
shoot me. It went through my mind that, well, if
this is the end, so be it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
But I was not.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I just didn't want to give up the watch under
these circumstance.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
What did your wife say when you told her what
you did?
Speaker 6 (12:03):
She said, I was stupid.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
But this was just another chapter in a life of danger.
Larry was a professional race car driver, racing the Pike's peak.
He'll climb in his seventies.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Put the gun away. I just stood there and they
were parked.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
That would be robber ran away.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
But ten days later it happened again. A prominent Denver
lawyer was walking his dog a third and Steel in
the heart of Cherry Creek North mid afternoon, four blocks
from where Dietrich was held up. The suspect demanded his
watch at gunpoint, wrote police, but say investigators, the seventy
one year old lawyer refused to give him the watch.
The suspect took off, running eastbound on foot.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's been a deeply impactful tool.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Denver Police Commander Cliff Barnes says investigators turned to the
Flock camera system for help. It's a network of one
hundred eleven cameras around Denver that cannot only read license plates,
but cars by certain characteristics. They say. In both of
those robberies, Flock cameras around Cherry Creek North showed a
two thousand and six gray Honda Civic with a temp
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plate was in the area. Flock was an integral piece
of that right because we were able to take a
look at vehicles matching the description that was provided by
the victim at the time, and police track the Honda
back to its owner in Greeley, Fernando Rodriguez d Silva.
Police say DA Silva's cell phone was in Cherry Creek
North during both of those robberies, had investigators say Da
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Silva tried to cover his tracks by turning his phone
off right before both robberies.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I can't believe this.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
It's the same guys.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
The Department of Homeland Security said, Fernando da Silva is
a criminal Venezuelan, illegal aliens oh and a member of
the vicious Trende Iragua gang.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
The statement went on to say ICE arrested Da Silva
in January of this year, claiming he admitted to being
the ghetaway driver for numerous TDA Denver area robberies.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
He's still here, the agency says.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
In March, Da Silva, who they call a dangerous gang member,
was deported to l Salvador, OH in March.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
You can imagine what the press would have done with
a murderer under those circumstances.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Larry Dietrich's Cherry Creek North neighborhood is pretty quiet these days,
although police are still looking for the second suspect, the
gunman in both cases, twenty eight year old die Care
Rivero Urbano, who Denver police believed might have fled the state.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
I just wasn't afraid of dying. I just was curious
and you could kill me.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
We did ask the Department of Homeland Security for their
evidence that Rodriguez da Silva is a member of TDA
Trende Ragua. They did not respond to that request. Police say,
if you're confronted by it, like by an armed robber
like these men, do not do what these men did. Instead,
they say, comply with an armed robber and prioritize your
safety by cooperating, staying calm, and giving up your property.
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And if you do recognize Rivero Urbano, the second suspect,
please ask you to call Metro Denver crime Stoppers as
they are actively looking for him. Live in Cherry Creek North.
I'm Brian Moss covering Colorado first.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
THEIRS, CBS Colorado for there, Brian Moss with that extensive report,
and I wanted you to hear all of it, folks.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
This is the world we're.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Living in here in the Denver metro. And I'm not
just talking downtown Denver anymore. What you just heard. Cherry
Creek North. I go there all the time. I meet
up with Christian Toto. We go to Cherry Cricket. There's
a lot of nice shops through there. You're getting held
up at gunpoint to surrender your Rolex watches, and Democrats
feel that's an acceptable cost of doing business. They don't
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want to deport criminal illegal aliens like this. They don't
want to help ice in those deportations. They want to
fund healthcare for illegal aliens, giving a green light, rolling
out a red carpet for even more criminal illegal aliens
to come to Denver, to come to Colorado. Folks, this
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is a winning issue that if Republicans hammered it. I
gotta tell you, if you were to walk, stroll, or
drive through Cherry Creek North during the election of twenty
twenty four, do you know how many more Kamala Harris
Tim Walls signs you would have seen than Trump signs.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
It was astronomical.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
This is what is happening in one of the ritziest
Denver metro locations in which one can live. But the
Democrats are doubling, tripling down on that, rather than focus
on that as a Republican party, as Republican candidates that
should be able to win, go in there, win hearts
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and minds, say you're going to fight this crime, that
you're going to deport criminal illegal aliens, that you are
going to help Ice with those deportations, because that's the
type of neighborhood that we want to live in safe
where Denver citizens, Colorado citizens are put first, our needs
are put ahead of those.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Who are here illegally. I don't care about.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Your sob stories because a vast majority who come here illegally.
First of all, they're here illegally for a reason. Why
didn't they come here legally? Maybe they've got something to hide.
And there are far too many of these ne'er do well,
nefarious types that have infiltrated our population, that intend to
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do us harm that the Democrats don't give one wit about.
And I use a different word if you and I
were out for a beer with Kelly, but you know
what I'm talking about. Instead of circling the wagons uniting
in that fight to win elections here in Colorado, in
the city of Denver, we've got a fight over the
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weekend on Saturday for the Republican State Central Committee between
dueling factions as to whether or not we should opt
out of the current primary system, make it a closed
I'm Mary, or have it open to unaffiliated voters, many
of whom lean Democrat in selecting our candidates for general elections.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I'm not sure where you come down on that. Five
seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I would like to hear from you, but all I got,
unfortunately from Britta Horne, the chair who I'm very fond of,
is a statement and it says the following. Yesterday, the
Colorado Republican State Central Committee meant to vote on whether
to change from nominating candidates through a primary election to
nominating them through an assembly or convention. That statute mandates
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that at least three fourths of the total membership of
the party's state Central Committee vote to do so. No
such vote occurred yesterday. There will be a Republican primary
in Colorado in twenty twenty six. That is signed Britta Horne,
Chairman Colorado Republican State Central Committee.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
She did not want.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
To conduct any interviews on the topic on the day
care apples show, this program, and the others, instead deciding
to issue that statement and then that would be the
end of it.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
But it's not the end of it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
And this is why, in my view, we continue to
struggle as a Republican party in Colorado and we continue
to lose. Our leaders must lead, plain and simple, and
the time.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Is now and now deep thoughts by Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
And you think this country is going to survive this regime.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Only if we fight for the country we love, and
I listen. That's another piece of this, which is I
really want to remind people of the light that is
in each of us, even in these moments of darkness.
Especially in these moments of darkness, we have to remember
the nobody gives us our light. It's ours. So let's
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see it in ourselves. Let's see it in each other,
and maybe a little flicker right now, because they're certainly
trying to dim it. But don't let them extinguish our light, right.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Sure, anytime anybody ever gives you any guff about voting
for Donald Trump, just remind them that this was the alternative.
Could you imagine Kamala Harris holding any kind of summit
with a world leader trying to give a press conference
to describing what they had talked about.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I mean, these banal metaphors ain kind of light.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And it's in our hearts and it needs to shine,
and you can't let them put it out.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
This person was in no way, shape, manner, or form
qualified to be president of the United States.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
In fact, when she appeared with Rachel.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Maddow last week, you remember this, What was the first
thing that Rachel Maddow, Well, you were South Asian and
you were a woman, and you were black. Oh, that
person should be president. The check all the woke DEI boxes.
That makes them good?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Right?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Is that the merrittokers. Oh, it's not the meritocers.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Okay, we are going to be spotlighting the contrast to
Kamala Harris's book tour, which unfortunately continues. I know we
are all dumber for having this happen, but it's happening
one hundred and seven days.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You can find it on Amazon.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Tomorrow will be speaking with Charlie Spearing, who wrote the
original unauthorized biography on Kamala Harris called Amateur Hour. And
today we are being joined by a member of a
group that continues on the legacy of David Horowitz, the
David Horowitz Freedom Center, and they have a digital version
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of one hundred and seven Horrible Days, the real story.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Of the Kamala campaign.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And joining me right now is the Shilman Fellow on
Popular Culture at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Mark Tapson
on Ryan Shuling Live Mark welcome. Pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Ryan.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I hesitate to ask this because I don't know if
you've put yourself through this torture. But have you read
Kamala Harris's book One hundred and seven Days?
Speaker 9 (22:18):
Tragically?
Speaker 10 (22:19):
I have not.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
I could use the laugh but it came out just
a couple of days ago, so I'm not you know,
I have not yet rushed out to get my copy.
But I think one of the things that's interesting about
this book because there's a lot that came out about
it prior to the release of the book. And one
of the interesting things is that it was co written,
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not by a professional biographer or a professional or ghost
writer or you know, the typical collaborator that political figures
and sports figures will get to put out a book
written by a novelist. So I think there's, you know,
that suggests that there's maybe a lot of fiction involved
in this book, which in the book, by the way,
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is supposedly Kamala is behind the scenes thoughts and reflections
on one hundred and seven Days, which is the shortest
campaign in presidential history. And I think the reason they
titled it that was to draw attention to one of
the excuses that they're making for the reason that she lost,
which is that she did not have enough time to
rev up a really robust campaign and get out and
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meet the American people and all that stuff, and you know,
get us to know her a little better, even though
we knew her very well after four years under Joe Biden.
But I think that's probably the reason they called one
hundred and seven days.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
So she's doing this book tours. She's giving every excuse
in the world. It seems like she's throwing everyone in
anyone under the bus who got in her way or
didn't help her the way that she saw fit. I mean,
not really any accountability on her own part.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Say you know what, I didn't run a good campaign.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I know, only had one hundred and seven days, but
these are things I could have done better.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Doesn't seem like there's any of that in this book,
is there?
Speaker 9 (24:01):
Mer I highly skeptical that any of that will be
in there, because she can't afford, you know, she wants
to run again, so she can't afford to suggest that
maybe she did anything wrong in this campaign. The blame
has to go elsewhere. And of course, a lot of
the blame, according to the Democrat Party goes to such
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accusations as well. America still struggles with racism and misogyny,
and so, you know, we're just not ready to have
a female president. We're totally ready to have a female president.
We just need one that's super qualified. And Kamala is
not that person. As you mentioned in your lead into this,
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the entire country can see plainly that she is out
of her debt as a presidential candidate, that she is
the sort of person who has somehow managed in her
career to fail up every time so that she, you know,
eventually became the EI choice for president. But she is
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not presidential caliber. Now, if you know, if either party
wants us to give wants to give us a woman
who is very qualified and doesn't vomit word salage every
time she opens her mouth, then the American people would
be fine with that. I don't think, you know, we're
not a racist country. We're not a massage in this country.
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But Kamala was not the candidate.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Schilman Fellow on Popular Culture of the David Horowitz Freedom Center,
Mark Tampson our guests talking about the newly released book
One hundred and seven Days Kamala Harris, it's already thirty
percent off on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I wonder why that price drop occurred.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Just to your example mark for me coming up and
having voted for George W. Bush twice, and there are
things about his presidency I regret happened and that I
don't support. But Kindaleza Rice is an example that totally
thwarts this notion that you're kind of touching on that
we would not vote for a black woman, We would
not vote for a woman where misogynistic or racist kind
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of Liza Rice is a brilliant mind. She's never run
for office in that way, but if she had, there's
an example I would submit of an individual who does
have the timber, the caliber, the character, the resume to
be president of the United States, just as one example.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
Yeah, I mean, I think there are women out there
who are capable of being president. I don't think anyone
really doubts that. But you know what, what the Democrat
Party gave us was Kamala Harris. And that woman is,
as you said in your intro, you know, just imagine
her meeting with world leaders around the country and trying to,
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you know, trying to strong arm the people that the
strong arm our enemies. You know, it's just it's not
going to happen. She's just completely out of her debt.
She's unqualified, and you know, the Democrat Party is has
kind of painted itself into a corner with her because
it's going to be very difficult for them to go
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back to a straight white male candidate like Gavin Newsom
or JB. Pritzker, or even a gay white male like
Pete Buddageek because you know, Kamala did such a great
job of checking off their identity politics boxes and so
now they're kind of stuck with that. They're like, well,
we can't go back to just any old white guy
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because that will look like a repudiation of everything our
party stands for. So they're there, but they don't want
to run her again. They know she's a disaster, and
she knows they know that JD. Vance is going to
absolutely wipe the floor with her in debates. So they're
in a bad way.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Mark Tapson making a great point there, and just to
drive that point home, you provide with me with the
perfect segue, Mark, so we might as well play it.
This is the aforementioned Kamala Harris appearance with Rachel Matta
listen for the identity politics silos.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
If his reaction to that, since this part of the
book has come out, if you've had any reflection on that,
or I guess, I guess I'd ask you to just
elaborate on that a little bit. It's hard to hear
with you running, as you know, you're the first woman
elected vice president, you're a black woman and a South
Asian woman elected that high office, very nearly elected president,
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to say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively
because he was gay, it's hard to hear.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
No, No, that's not what I said. That's that he couldn't
be on the ticket because he is gay. My point,
as I write in the book, is that I was
clear that in one hundred and seven days, in one
of the most hotly contested elections for president and United
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States against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor,
to be a black woman running for president United States
and as a vice presidential running mate a gay man,
with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad,
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But I also realized it would be a real risk.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
So market wasn't so much that Pete booda judge, was gay.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
It's that there were only one hundred seven days to run,
and because the stakes were so high, she couldn't pick
him because he was gay.
Speaker 9 (29:23):
They have a lot of trouble living up to their
own standards on the left, So that's something that I
think the right needs to push a little bit harder
with the left. But instead she picked Tim Wallas as
a running mate, and they tried to the Democrats tried
to paint him as an icon of what they call
twenty first century masculinity, and that didn't go over very
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well either. In fact, Kamala underperformed Joe Biden in every demographic,
you know, compared to Joe's twenty twenty results, she underperformed
with even with women of color. So I think America
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just basically knew that she was not presidential material, that
she was not the right candidate. She couldn't generate any
excitement about her campaign or herself or her running mate.
And when it came down to, you know, asserting what
it was that she stood for, her entire campaign was
directed mostly at just attacking Donald Trump as opposed to
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laying out what she stood for. And in fact, remember
that catastrophic appearance she had on the view when one
of the co hostesses said, what is it that distinguishes
you from Joe Biden? Your your boss? You know, what
makes you the candidate of change? And Kannell's brilliant response
was nothing that I can think of. She couldn't think
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of any any way in which her presidency would be
different from Joe Biden's. And at that point, Biden's popularity
rating was in the tank. So you know, she just
could not sell herself to the American people.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You could read more about it front Page magazine and
titled one hundred and seven Horrible Days The Real Story
of the Kamala campaign. Subhead Behind the Scenes of one
of the dumbest campaigns by one of the dumbest candidates,
aptly said, put a.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Fine point on it.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
He's the Shilman Fellow on Popular Culture at the David
Horowitz Freedom Center. Mark Tapson our guest, Mark, great talking
to you. Look forward to the next time.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Likewise, thanks, Ryan, all right, we'll.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Take this time out.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Come back your thoughts response five seven seven three nine
after this on Ryan Schuling Live.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Maybe Kamala Harris is just happy? Is that possible?
Speaker 6 (31:43):
Kelly?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Yeah, So you.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Think she's dumb? Yeah, Kurt Cobain had it right the
first time.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
I think he did.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh wow, what a conversation I was telling Kelly during
the break. Just no shortage of content of supply, Kamala Harris,
just keep them coming, keep those hits it coming, one
hundred seven days.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I think it's really funny that you pointed out that
Amazon now has lowered the price of all I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Right at it, thirty off. It's only two days out. Oh,
you gotta sell more of these, Lord.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
And then Mark tells us Mark Taps and our guests
in the previous segment that the co author of this,
so the you know person helps the subject along in
writing the.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Book, was a novelist.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
So maybe this is a feature of her imagination to
borrow a phrase from our governor, Jared Polis go to
the tax five seven seven three nine. Ryan, did he say,
but a jedge? He very well may have Mark Taps
in there, but hey, we call him Buddha Jedge. Okay,
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I do not trust Britta Horns as this Texter. Have
you gone on the Colorado Republican website?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
There's nothing there. I do not do social media, And
won't God love you? I am jealous of you.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Continuing, Britta and her cronies need to start posting information
on that website. If this keeps up, I'm going to
change to unaffiliated. Can't blame you, but like I said,
we reached out, the leadership didn't want to comment, furnished
a statement, we invited her to go on with Dan.
I will have Valdimar Archiletta coming up bottom of the
next hour to talk about everything that went on Saturday
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at this Central State Committee meeting.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
And your thoughts on this topic. Five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Should unaffiliated voters be allowed to participate in our Republican primaries? Now,
from a fundamental standpoint, I say no, because, in large
part I'm a fatalist, meaning if we as a Republican
party can't get our blank together and we decided to
nominate a terrible candidate who is going to lose, then
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we deserve that and we own that, and then we
have to answer for that. All of us Republicans, grassroots, conservative, libertarians, populist,
MAGA republic all of us have to answer for that
if we are the ones that select our candidate. And
I would lean towards supporting that to closing the primary process,
because I do think there are the types that want
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to meddle, that remain unaffiliated, have no interest in voting
for a Republican ever, but might try to sandbag sabotage
Beastie Boys style.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Are primary, and I'm not a big fan of that.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Register as a Republican if you want to vote in
the Republican primary, so I do largely support that. But
the end justifying the means the rebel rousing that apparently
went on Saturday, it did not come to a resolution,
and this is just more of the same of the
problems that we've been having in the Colorado Republican Party.
The FBI says, this is a target attack. That's absolutely clear.
This is someone who focused on that church, rams the
car in, kills at least one person by gunshot, and
has pre planned for explosives. In fact, I think more
of the fatalities happen from the fire, So this was,
in other words, pre planned. It may seem obvious that
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we would know what the motive is, right, and that's
where we're being careful, because it would seem obvious that
they're going after people of this church, of this faith,
But the FBI is not willing to make that link
because they haven't seen anything, anything online, anything he said
to the family. We may get that later, So that's
the distinction. What's really important is whatever if they do
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find that motive, it was not made to the public.
It didn't seem to be part of his persona. And
in this way, it's very similar to what we're seeing recently,
very very quick radicalization leading to violence, not tied to
any known movement or group, and that's the scary part
of where we live right now.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's Juliet Caium, the national security analyst for CNN, commenting
on the attack over the weekend. In my home state
of Michigan. This one hits close to home obviously and
literally for me, in Grand Blanc, which is just outside
of Flint. And this happened at a church of Latter
day Saints, a Mormon church, and seemed to have a
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similar Mo modus operandi to perhaps part of what we
saw in Oklahoma City with Timothy McVeigh and his accomplice
Terry Nichols hailed from the state of Michigan as well
and is currently serving a life sentence. McVeigh, of course,
was executed for that attack in Oklahoma City back in
nineteen ninety five. This one very well planned out methodically
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by a disturbed individual who had served our country in
Iraq and had a negative view of Mormon church and
reportedly was asking after he slammed into this church and
set it on fire, then went around with a firearm,
asking do you believe in Jesus Christ or do you
believe in Joseph Smith?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And didn't matter what the answer was. This was a
lunatic But we're seeing more and more these outbreaks of violence.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
We have a mental health crisis in our country. You
cannot tie it specifically and only to guns. That is
fool a hearty. This individual had a vehicle loaded up
with an accelerant, gasoline, kerosene, something like that, and set
the place ablaze with the people in it, and at
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least four are now dead. The shooter was killed himself
by law enforcement on the scene that responded. I believe
within seconds than a minute of the original nine five
nine your number to join the conversation via text here
on Ryan Shooting Live. That quick radicalization, you know, speaking
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of accelerants. We've spoken about this before and I think
it holds true with a lot of what we're watching
in this increased narcissistic culture within which we live.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Social media, access to it, platforms.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
On it selfies galore, and putting your thoughts and viewpoints
out there, wanting to be acknowledged, wanting to be accepted,
one to be validated, wanted to be empowered, wanting to
be to me made feel important. And that could be TikTok,
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that could be Snapchat, that could be Instagram, that could
be Reddit, that could be x formally known as Twitter,
that could be Facebook. We live in a time when
these radicalized views find these burrows and these echo chambers,
and they're very narrowly defined and we're not all on
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the same page. And this lends itself to as this
analyst put it, and I don't think she's wrong, this
quick radicalization of this deranged individual, this lunatic looking forward
to having a conversation with Valdemar Archiletta, and then it'll
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be coming up in our number two because it's another
day and another day of dysfunction in the Colorado Republican
Party and I am bashing my own head against the
figurative brick wall having to respond to and deal with this,
and I'm trying to get people on the program to
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give us an insight into what went down at the
Republican State Central Committee meeting.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Over the weekend on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I've been going back and forth with a friend and
the source of mine, and as she put it, she
has a day jaub I get it. But apparently Mark
Hampton was the author of the following. There are two factions,
and there's various shades of gray here, I'm sure, and
I believe i'd be one of those. Not that I'm
not taking a stand here, but I'll give you, and
I'll articulate for you my stance on this issue and
(05:16):
the why behind it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
In a moment. But there are those who are very grassroots.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Anti establishment factions within the Colorado Republican Party that want
to do away with these open primaries, meaning that an
unaffiliated voter would be mailed both a Republican and Democratic
a ballot and then would be free to fill out
either one, not both, but either one, and participate in
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a Republican primary. So there's a faction that wants to
either get rid of the primary altogether and have it
be a selection process from within the party machinery, or
to close the primary to only registered Republican voters. Now
there's the other side of that, and this would be
more of the establishment faction that thinks that's a bad
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idea that if we narrow cast our candidates to only
our side in a state like Colorado that is barely
purple and mostly blue, that we will not generate candidate
to compete in a general election and have a really
good chance of winning. Now, my counter to that argument
would be two words, one of them of apostrophe. Joe O'Day,
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who was kind of this moderate, middle of the road,
palatable candidate that unaffiliated left leaning voters would consider and
vote for. But the problem was, in particular the issue
of abortion. He had no home, He disaffected pro life
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members of the Republican Party, and he was never going
to win over pro choice voters who were going to
vote for the Democrat anyway, Michael Bennett, because that person,
Michael is entrenched in the pro choice, pro abortion agenda,
and a lot of people out there in particular, it's
going to say it. Women are single issue voters. My body,
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my choice, That's the only thing I care about. I
know one personally, it drives me mad because I can't
think of like I'm going to be defined by one issue. No,
you're not going to define me by one issue. I
don't think Kelly's like that either. No, win hearts and minds,
win my heart and mind. Campaign for my vote. Earn
my vote, not just a pass fail litmus test. Do
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you believe abortions are awesome, then I'm going to vote
for you. I mean, that's unfortunately, it's where we are
in our state with a lot of these people that
are just hell bent on that issue. So why try
to pacify that element of the electorate and run on
a platform basically being Democrat Light You're not going to
win being Democrat. Light because they're just to analogize it
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to a local brew. There are people that prefer Creuer's
Banquet Beer and they're not going to drink Coors Light,
and they just like Coors.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Banquet Beer and that's what they're going to go with.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So I feel that the Republican Party is better off
running on principles, with a practical, pregnant, matic approach, priorities
based in principles, those four pieces that I talk about.
But you're prioritizing issues that appeal to the masses, and
you're not getting caught up in the Democrats playbook of
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silos and narrowly defined issues that fracture a voting This
is part of their plan of attack. They go after
Republicans on the issues where they feel they have the
majority on their side, specifically here in Colorado, and they
try to demonize, marginalize, and make Republicans look like they
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are the extremes, when of course that's projection and it's
anything but, and in fact it's quite the opposite. But
for Republican running here, what should you focus on? Well,
how about trendy Arragua And let's just go to that story. Now,
hadn't been planning on it. But this is something that
you need to hear. This is a losing issue for Democrats.
(09:06):
This should be a winning issue for Republicans. Fighting crime,
fighting illegal aliens in our mits that are not here
for the right reasons, that are not here to become Americans,
contribute to our society and culture, to hold down a job,
to pay taxes, to have a home, to raise a family.
That is a myth being sold by the left because
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there are so many near duells, nefarious types that have
come across the border during the Biden administration that it
leads to more of this.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Denver's Cherry Creek North neighborhood is known for shopping and
high end dining. Tonight, police are actively looking for a
man who is seemingly targeting that luxury lifestyle, taking part
in a series.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Of armed rolex robberies.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Your investigator Brian Moss has been looking into those cases.
He joins us Live Tonight from Cherry Creek North and Brian,
who exactly are these robbers targeting.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
One of the victims in these attempted armed robberies were
residents of this Cherry Creek North neighborhood and.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
They were prominent citizens in this area.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
We've also learned that one suspect in these cases has
now been deported, with Homeland Security saying that he was
a member of Trende Aragua TDA Venezuelan street gang. Really,
the second suspect is still on the run.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
With upscale shopping mark galleries, high had boutiques and fine dining,
and surrounded by multimillion dollar homes, Cherry Creek North is
considered one of Denver's safest neighborhoods.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I was sure that somebody would have walked by and said, hey,
what's going on, you know on the window like this
and I'm sitting in there.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
But on one particular day, it sure didn't feel like
it to eighty five year old Larry Dietrich.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And then I looked up and he's got the gun
pointed in my head. He was very fourth watch watch.
I said, you, mother, son, you're not going to get
this watch from me to day. Didn't you understand me?
I said to you?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
You know, it turns out what happened to Larry was
not an isolated incident. Well, according to this Denver police document,
there have been three robberies in Cherry Creek North within
the last twelve months. In broad daylight, where the unknown
suspect attempted to rob the victim.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
For their Rolex watch.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Dietrich had just finished coffee with friends here when he
got in his car to leave.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
There's always a spot in the parking.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
He says, a feeling of rage came over him that
someone would rob him at gunpoint in his community during
daylight hours, in a heavily trafficked area.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Finally, it sort of became a standoff that I think
he realized in order to get my watch, even if
I was worrying one, he was going to have to
shoot me. It went through my mind that, well, if
this is the end, so be it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
But I was not.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I just didn't want to give up the watch under
these circumstance.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
What did your wife say when you told her what
you did?
Speaker 6 (12:03):
She said, I was stupid.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
But this was just another chapter in a life of danger.
Larry was a professional race car driver, racing the Pike's peak.
He'll climb in his seventies.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Put the gun away. I just stood there and they
were parked.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
That would be robber ran away.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
But ten days later it happened again. A prominent Denver
lawyer was walking his dog a third and Steel in
the heart of Cherry Creek North mid afternoon, four blocks
from where Dietrich was held up. The suspect demanded his
watch at gunpoint, wrote police, but say investigators, the seventy
one year old lawyer refused to give him the watch.
The suspect took off, running eastbound on foot.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's been a deeply impactful tool.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Denver Police Commander Cliff Barnes says investigators turned to the
Flock camera system for help. It's a network of one
hundred eleven cameras around Denver that cannot only read license plates,
but cars by certain characteristics. They say. In both of
those robberies, Flock cameras around Cherry Creek North showed a
two thousand and six gray Honda Civic with a temp
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plate was in the area. Flock was an integral piece
of that right because we were able to take a
look at vehicles matching the description that was provided by
the victim at the time, and police track the Honda
back to its owner in Greeley, Fernando Rodriguez d Silva.
Police say DA Silva's cell phone was in Cherry Creek
North during both of those robberies, had investigators say Da
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Silva tried to cover his tracks by turning his phone
off right before both robberies.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I can't believe this.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
It's the same guys.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
The Department of Homeland Security said, Fernando da Silva is
a criminal Venezuelan, illegal aliens oh and a member of
the vicious Trende Iragua gang.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
The statement went on to say ICE arrested Da Silva
in January of this year, claiming he admitted to being
the ghetaway driver for numerous TDA Denver area robberies.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
He's still here, the agency says.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
In March, Da Silva, who they call a dangerous gang member,
was deported to l Salvador, OH in March.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
You can imagine what the press would have done with
a murderer under those circumstances.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Larry Dietrich's Cherry Creek North neighborhood is pretty quiet these days,
although police are still looking for the second suspect, the
gunman in both cases, twenty eight year old die Care
Rivero Urbano, who Denver police believed might have fled the state.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
I just wasn't afraid of dying. I just was curious
and you could kill me.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
We did ask the Department of Homeland Security for their
evidence that Rodriguez da Silva is a member of TDA
Trende Ragua. They did not respond to that request. Police say,
if you're confronted by it, like by an armed robber
like these men, do not do what these men did. Instead,
they say, comply with an armed robber and prioritize your
safety by cooperating, staying calm, and giving up your property.
(15:00):
And if you do recognize Rivero Urbano, the second suspect,
please ask you to call Metro Denver crime Stoppers as
they are actively looking for him. Live in Cherry Creek North.
I'm Brian Moss covering Colorado first.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
THEIRS, CBS Colorado for there, Brian Moss with that extensive report,
and I wanted you to hear all of it, folks.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
This is the world we're.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Living in here in the Denver metro. And I'm not
just talking downtown Denver anymore. What you just heard. Cherry
Creek North. I go there all the time. I meet
up with Christian Toto. We go to Cherry Cricket. There's
a lot of nice shops through there. You're getting held
up at gunpoint to surrender your Rolex watches, and Democrats
feel that's an acceptable cost of doing business. They don't
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want to deport criminal illegal aliens like this. They don't
want to help ice in those deportations. They want to
fund healthcare for illegal aliens, giving a green light, rolling
out a red carpet for even more criminal illegal aliens
to come to Denver, to come to Colorado. Folks, this
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is a winning issue that if Republicans hammered it. I
gotta tell you, if you were to walk, stroll, or
drive through Cherry Creek North during the election of twenty
twenty four, do you know how many more Kamala Harris
Tim Walls signs you would have seen than Trump signs.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
It was astronomical.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
This is what is happening in one of the ritziest
Denver metro locations in which one can live. But the
Democrats are doubling, tripling down on that, rather than focus
on that as a Republican party, as Republican candidates that
should be able to win, go in there, win hearts
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and minds, say you're going to fight this crime, that
you're going to deport criminal illegal aliens, that you are
going to help Ice with those deportations, because that's the
type of neighborhood that we want to live in safe
where Denver citizens, Colorado citizens are put first, our needs
are put ahead of those.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Who are here illegally. I don't care about.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Your sob stories because a vast majority who come here illegally.
First of all, they're here illegally for a reason. Why
didn't they come here legally? Maybe they've got something to hide.
And there are far too many of these ne'er do well,
nefarious types that have infiltrated our population, that intend to
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do us harm that the Democrats don't give one wit about.
And I use a different word if you and I
were out for a beer with Kelly, but you know
what I'm talking about. Instead of circling the wagons uniting
in that fight to win elections here in Colorado, in
the city of Denver, we've got a fight over the
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weekend on Saturday for the Republican State Central Committee between
dueling factions as to whether or not we should opt
out of the current primary system, make it a closed
I'm Mary, or have it open to unaffiliated voters, many
of whom lean Democrat in selecting our candidates for general elections.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I'm not sure where you come down on that. Five
seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I would like to hear from you, but all I got,
unfortunately from Britta Horne, the chair who I'm very fond of,
is a statement and it says the following. Yesterday, the
Colorado Republican State Central Committee meant to vote on whether
to change from nominating candidates through a primary election to
nominating them through an assembly or convention. That statute mandates
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that at least three fourths of the total membership of
the party's state Central Committee vote to do so. No
such vote occurred yesterday. There will be a Republican primary
in Colorado in twenty twenty six. That is signed Britta Horne,
Chairman Colorado Republican State Central Committee.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
She did not want.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
To conduct any interviews on the topic on the day
care apples show, this program, and the others, instead deciding
to issue that statement and then that would be the
end of it.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
But it's not the end of it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
And this is why, in my view, we continue to
struggle as a Republican party in Colorado and we continue
to lose. Our leaders must lead, plain and simple, and
the time.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Is now and now deep thoughts by Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
And you think this country is going to survive this regime.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Only if we fight for the country we love, and
I listen. That's another piece of this, which is I
really want to remind people of the light that is
in each of us, even in these moments of darkness.
Especially in these moments of darkness, we have to remember
the nobody gives us our light. It's ours. So let's
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see it in ourselves. Let's see it in each other,
and maybe a little flicker right now, because they're certainly
trying to dim it. But don't let them extinguish our light, right.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Sure, anytime anybody ever gives you any guff about voting
for Donald Trump, just remind them that this was the alternative.
Could you imagine Kamala Harris holding any kind of summit
with a world leader trying to give a press conference
to describing what they had talked about.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I mean, these banal metaphors ain kind of light.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And it's in our hearts and it needs to shine,
and you can't let them put it out.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
This person was in no way, shape, manner, or form
qualified to be president of the United States.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
In fact, when she appeared with Rachel.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Maddow last week, you remember this, What was the first
thing that Rachel Maddow, Well, you were South Asian and
you were a woman, and you were black. Oh, that
person should be president. The check all the woke DEI boxes.
That makes them good?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Right?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Is that the merrittokers. Oh, it's not the meritocers.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Okay, we are going to be spotlighting the contrast to
Kamala Harris's book tour, which unfortunately continues. I know we
are all dumber for having this happen, but it's happening
one hundred and seven days.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You can find it on Amazon.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Tomorrow will be speaking with Charlie Spearing, who wrote the
original unauthorized biography on Kamala Harris called Amateur Hour. And
today we are being joined by a member of a
group that continues on the legacy of David Horowitz, the
David Horowitz Freedom Center, and they have a digital version
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of one hundred and seven Horrible Days, the real story.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Of the Kamala campaign.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And joining me right now is the Shilman Fellow on
Popular Culture at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Mark Tapson
on Ryan Shuling Live Mark welcome. Pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Ryan.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I hesitate to ask this because I don't know if
you've put yourself through this torture. But have you read
Kamala Harris's book One hundred and seven Days?
Speaker 9 (22:18):
Tragically?
Speaker 10 (22:19):
I have not.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
I could use the laugh but it came out just
a couple of days ago, so I'm not you know,
I have not yet rushed out to get my copy.
But I think one of the things that's interesting about
this book because there's a lot that came out about
it prior to the release of the book. And one
of the interesting things is that it was co written,
(22:40):
not by a professional biographer or a professional or ghost
writer or you know, the typical collaborator that political figures
and sports figures will get to put out a book
written by a novelist. So I think there's, you know,
that suggests that there's maybe a lot of fiction involved
in this book, which in the book, by the way,
(23:01):
is supposedly Kamala is behind the scenes thoughts and reflections
on one hundred and seven Days, which is the shortest
campaign in presidential history. And I think the reason they
titled it that was to draw attention to one of
the excuses that they're making for the reason that she lost,
which is that she did not have enough time to
rev up a really robust campaign and get out and
(23:24):
meet the American people and all that stuff, and you know,
get us to know her a little better, even though
we knew her very well after four years under Joe Biden.
But I think that's probably the reason they called one
hundred and seven days.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
So she's doing this book tours. She's giving every excuse
in the world. It seems like she's throwing everyone in
anyone under the bus who got in her way or
didn't help her the way that she saw fit. I mean,
not really any accountability on her own part.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Say you know what, I didn't run a good campaign.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I know, only had one hundred and seven days, but
these are things I could have done better.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Doesn't seem like there's any of that in this book,
is there?
Speaker 9 (24:01):
Mer I highly skeptical that any of that will be
in there, because she can't afford, you know, she wants
to run again, so she can't afford to suggest that
maybe she did anything wrong in this campaign. The blame
has to go elsewhere. And of course, a lot of
the blame, according to the Democrat Party goes to such
(24:22):
accusations as well. America still struggles with racism and misogyny,
and so, you know, we're just not ready to have
a female president. We're totally ready to have a female president.
We just need one that's super qualified. And Kamala is
not that person. As you mentioned in your lead into this,
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the entire country can see plainly that she is out
of her debt as a presidential candidate, that she is
the sort of person who has somehow managed in her
career to fail up every time so that she, you know,
eventually became the EI choice for president. But she is
(25:03):
not presidential caliber. Now, if you know, if either party
wants us to give wants to give us a woman
who is very qualified and doesn't vomit word salage every
time she opens her mouth, then the American people would
be fine with that. I don't think, you know, we're
not a racist country. We're not a massage in this country.
(25:23):
But Kamala was not the candidate.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Schilman Fellow on Popular Culture of the David Horowitz Freedom Center,
Mark Tampson our guests talking about the newly released book
One hundred and seven Days Kamala Harris, it's already thirty
percent off on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I wonder why that price drop occurred.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Just to your example mark for me coming up and
having voted for George W. Bush twice, and there are
things about his presidency I regret happened and that I
don't support. But Kindaleza Rice is an example that totally
thwarts this notion that you're kind of touching on that
we would not vote for a black woman, We would
not vote for a woman where misogynistic or racist kind
(26:02):
of Liza Rice is a brilliant mind. She's never run
for office in that way, but if she had, there's
an example I would submit of an individual who does
have the timber, the caliber, the character, the resume to
be president of the United States, just as one example.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
Yeah, I mean, I think there are women out there
who are capable of being president. I don't think anyone
really doubts that. But you know what, what the Democrat
Party gave us was Kamala Harris. And that woman is,
as you said in your intro, you know, just imagine
her meeting with world leaders around the country and trying to,
(26:39):
you know, trying to strong arm the people that the
strong arm our enemies. You know, it's just it's not
going to happen. She's just completely out of her debt.
She's unqualified, and you know, the Democrat Party is has
kind of painted itself into a corner with her because
it's going to be very difficult for them to go
(27:00):
back to a straight white male candidate like Gavin Newsom
or JB. Pritzker, or even a gay white male like
Pete Buddageek because you know, Kamala did such a great
job of checking off their identity politics boxes and so
now they're kind of stuck with that. They're like, well,
we can't go back to just any old white guy
(27:22):
because that will look like a repudiation of everything our
party stands for. So they're there, but they don't want
to run her again. They know she's a disaster, and
she knows they know that JD. Vance is going to
absolutely wipe the floor with her in debates. So they're
in a bad way.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Mark Tapson making a great point there, and just to
drive that point home, you provide with me with the
perfect segue, Mark, so we might as well play it.
This is the aforementioned Kamala Harris appearance with Rachel Matta
listen for the identity politics silos.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
If his reaction to that, since this part of the
book has come out, if you've had any reflection on that,
or I guess, I guess I'd ask you to just
elaborate on that a little bit. It's hard to hear
with you running, as you know, you're the first woman
elected vice president, you're a black woman and a South
Asian woman elected that high office, very nearly elected president,
(28:20):
to say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively
because he was gay, it's hard to hear.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
No, No, that's not what I said. That's that he couldn't
be on the ticket because he is gay. My point,
as I write in the book, is that I was
clear that in one hundred and seven days, in one
of the most hotly contested elections for president and United
(28:45):
States against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor,
to be a black woman running for president United States
and as a vice presidential running mate a gay man,
with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad,
(29:06):
But I also realized it would be a real risk.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
So market wasn't so much that Pete booda judge, was gay.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
It's that there were only one hundred seven days to run,
and because the stakes were so high, she couldn't pick
him because he was gay.
Speaker 9 (29:23):
They have a lot of trouble living up to their
own standards on the left, So that's something that I
think the right needs to push a little bit harder
with the left. But instead she picked Tim Wallas as
a running mate, and they tried to the Democrats tried
to paint him as an icon of what they call
twenty first century masculinity, and that didn't go over very
(29:44):
well either. In fact, Kamala underperformed Joe Biden in every demographic,
you know, compared to Joe's twenty twenty results, she underperformed
with even with women of color. So I think America
(30:06):
just basically knew that she was not presidential material, that
she was not the right candidate. She couldn't generate any
excitement about her campaign or herself or her running mate.
And when it came down to, you know, asserting what
it was that she stood for, her entire campaign was
directed mostly at just attacking Donald Trump as opposed to
(30:30):
laying out what she stood for. And in fact, remember
that catastrophic appearance she had on the view when one
of the co hostesses said, what is it that distinguishes
you from Joe Biden? Your your boss? You know, what
makes you the candidate of change? And Kannell's brilliant response
was nothing that I can think of. She couldn't think
(30:53):
of any any way in which her presidency would be
different from Joe Biden's. And at that point, Biden's popularity
rating was in the tank. So you know, she just
could not sell herself to the American people.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You could read more about it front Page magazine and
titled one hundred and seven Horrible Days The Real Story
of the Kamala campaign. Subhead Behind the Scenes of one
of the dumbest campaigns by one of the dumbest candidates,
aptly said, put a.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Fine point on it.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
He's the Shilman Fellow on Popular Culture at the David
Horowitz Freedom Center. Mark Tapson our guest, Mark, great talking
to you. Look forward to the next time.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Likewise, thanks, Ryan, all right, we'll.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Take this time out.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Come back your thoughts response five seven seven three nine
after this on Ryan Schuling Live.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Maybe Kamala Harris is just happy? Is that possible?
Speaker 6 (31:43):
Kelly?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Yeah, So you.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Think she's dumb? Yeah, Kurt Cobain had it right the
first time.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
I think he did.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh wow, what a conversation I was telling Kelly during
the break. Just no shortage of content of supply, Kamala Harris,
just keep them coming, keep those hits it coming, one
hundred seven days.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I think it's really funny that you pointed out that
Amazon now has lowered the price of all I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Right at it, thirty off. It's only two days out. Oh,
you gotta sell more of these, Lord.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
And then Mark tells us Mark Taps and our guests
in the previous segment that the co author of this,
so the you know person helps the subject along in
writing the.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Book, was a novelist.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
So maybe this is a feature of her imagination to
borrow a phrase from our governor, Jared Polis go to
the tax five seven seven three nine. Ryan, did he say,
but a jedge? He very well may have Mark Taps
in there, but hey, we call him Buddha Jedge. Okay,
(32:49):
I do not trust Britta Horns as this Texter. Have
you gone on the Colorado Republican website?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
There's nothing there. I do not do social media, And
won't God love you? I am jealous of you.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Continuing, Britta and her cronies need to start posting information
on that website. If this keeps up, I'm going to
change to unaffiliated. Can't blame you, but like I said,
we reached out, the leadership didn't want to comment, furnished
a statement, we invited her to go on with Dan.
I will have Valdimar Archiletta coming up bottom of the
next hour to talk about everything that went on Saturday
(33:24):
at this Central State Committee meeting.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
And your thoughts on this topic. Five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Should unaffiliated voters be allowed to participate in our Republican primaries? Now,
from a fundamental standpoint, I say no, because, in large
part I'm a fatalist, meaning if we as a Republican
party can't get our blank together and we decided to
nominate a terrible candidate who is going to lose, then
(33:53):
we deserve that and we own that, and then we
have to answer for that. All of us Republicans, grassroots, conservative, libertarians, populist,
MAGA republic all of us have to answer for that
if we are the ones that select our candidate. And
I would lean towards supporting that to closing the primary process,
because I do think there are the types that want
(34:14):
to meddle, that remain unaffiliated, have no interest in voting
for a Republican ever, but might try to sandbag sabotage
Beastie Boys style.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Are primary, and I'm not a big fan of that.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Register as a Republican if you want to vote in
the Republican primary, so I do largely support that. But
the end justifying the means the rebel rousing that apparently
went on Saturday, it did not come to a resolution,
and this is just more of the same of the
problems that we've been having in the Colorado Republican Party.
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