April 11, 2025 • 34 mins
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R, CO-3) urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to take legal action on behalf of the Department of Justice with a Second Amendment task force investigating the clearly un-Constitutional Colorado gun restriction bill signed into law on Thursday by Governor Jared Polis.
https://x.com/RepBoebert/status/1910478115626696800
She joins Ryan to discuss this fight for our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms in this state, as well as her support for the SAVE Act - which requires photo ID to vote in American elections and passed narrowly in the U.S. House before heading to the Senate.
https://x.com/RepBoebert/status/1910478115626696800
She joins Ryan to discuss this fight for our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms in this state, as well as her support for the SAVE Act - which requires photo ID to vote in American elections and passed narrowly in the U.S. House before heading to the Senate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you, mister speaker, and bless my colleague's hearts on
the other side of the aisle. Using married women as
a gotcha for voting. I've never had to bring my
birth certificate to prove that I was a registered voter.
I have an ID that has a different name than
my birth certificate. And also, since we're using women as
bait here, maybe in the next round of debates they
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can explain to us exactly what a woman is. I
rise in support of the Save Act. The American people
are done messing around with a woke, weak need system
that lets our elections get hijacked. I am fighting for you,
for me, for every American who knows our vote is
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sacred and it's time to lock it down with citizens only.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Let's cut the crap right now.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You can walk up, check a box claiming you're a citizen,
and boom, you're registered for federal elections.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
No proof, no ID.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
That's not a system built on truck us as a
system vulnerable to error, fraud, and exploitation. And in Colorado,
it was just expedited for the process for illegals to
receive a driver's license. And in the state of Colorado,
when you obtain a driver's license, you register to vote.
The Save Act is a common sense measure designed to
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protect the integrity of our electoral process, and at its core,
it requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in
federal elections. This isn't radical, it's not extreme. It's a
basic safeguard to ensure that only those who are legally
entitled to participate in our elections can do so.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Let's be clear.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
This isn't about denying anyone's right to vote. It's about
protecting the rights of every American citizen, not adding votes
and subtracting American citizens votes. I support the Save Act, Speaker.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I yield back Representative Lauren Bolbert strongly on the House
floor yesterday before passage of the Save Act by a
two twenty to two eight vote. It must be noted
that four Democrats cross over to support it as well.
She joins US now Live from Congress Representative Lauren Bobert
on Ryan Schuling Live. Lauren, thank you for the time
as always.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Ran, It's great to be here with you, and it
was wonderful to see a victory a step in securing
our federal elections. Yesterday in the House of Representatives, I
would love to see this go all the way through
the Senate and have President Trump sign this into law.
He already has an executive order. President Trump wants citizenship proof.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
When you're voting. He wants voter ID.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He even wants same day elections and to declare a
national holiday for voting.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
One day voting.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
On a national holiday so folks can take the time
off work and go and do their civic duty to
elect their representatives and officials.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I can't imagine this is going to have any trouble
in the Senate. John Soon, the leader over there. I
might anticipate even like a John Fetterman, Democrat, perhaps coming
over and supporting it. But what I'm trying to make
sense of not that I want to get sign the
mind of a Democrat congresswoman. That's a dangerous thing, but
that just in Wisconsin they had a statewide election in
which they elected a liberal justice to the Supreme Court.
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That was a downside, but on the upside, every county
but two Dane County where Madison University, Wisconsin, a lot
of Commies are that's one, and then Milwaukee only by
a fifty one to forty nine margin in a very
urban county. Every other county in Wisconsin supported the measure
that you just supported on a federal level, the Save Act.
Why are Democrats choosing yet another eighty twenty hill to
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die on the twenty percent side of.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I hope they keep doing it because they have not
left any of the eighty twenty issues where they are
on the wrong side of.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
After losing there was a blood bath in this election
in many areas of the country, and President Trump winning
an electoral landslide and winning the popular vote, and they
still are fighting to keep.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Men in women's sports, have men in women's pods, and
jails and in prisons, and of course there's always the
restroom issue. You know, I would love it if Democrats,
especially when it comes to our children in schools, would
never say another word about the bathrooms or the locker rooms,
and just teach our kids how to read and do maths,
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and maybe even something that will actually apply to them,
like filing their tax return. But this is this is
it really shows where the Democrat Party lies in their beliefs.
They are on the wrong side of these issues, where
Americans are overwhelmingly in support of radical change, common sense change,
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but unfortunately we are so far to the left on
these issues, it's going to.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Seem radical to those who still believe in it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But this is a common sense approach to have only
US citizens voting in US election, and unfortunately not enough
were in support of this. I would love to see
this come up in the Senate and path. I don't
know if they can get through, get over the filibuster
and have and have enough Democrats come on board, but
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it would be lovely to get a hold of our
elections and secure them. We know that there is a
lot of fraud that takes place in our elections.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
We have illegals who are voting here. That's why they
brought in fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Million illegal aliens into our country. And like I said
on the floor yesterday, in Colorado, when you get a
driver's license, you are automatically registered to vote. And they
just expedited from two years down to immediate approval for
illegal aliens to obtain a driver's license in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Unbelievable, but it's true. Congresswoman Lauren Bobert joining us here
and doing the maths, you bring up a good point.
I mentioned Fetterman, but then also in the Upper Midwest
there these are purple states that are going to be
up for grabs in the next twenty twenty six election
for Senate Tina Smith not running for reelection Minnesota, Tammy
Baldwin not running for reelection Wisconsin, Gary Peters not running
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for reelection Michigan. However, you had Alyssa slocked into that
mix as well, or even Amy Klobashar. If any of
those five were to oppose the Save Act in these
states where it's universally almost supported and certainly in a
bipartisan matter, I think they might be digging their own
graves politically, Lauren, for those Senate races that they view
as crucial.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I would hope that that would be enough to get
us some victories in those states.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I would hope that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That is an issue that will drive people to the
polls and cause them to seriously consider their candidates. Now, Wisconsin,
that's a tough one, right. We just lost the Supreme
Court judge race, but we won voter ID and citizenship there,
so you know, that's a tough one. And then you
know you have to you have to wonder, is is
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is there something going on?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Was it because abortion was on the on the ballot
and you know, that is a topic that we historically.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Lose on just because, uh, the.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Messaging isn't right on our end. We need to really
position ourselves as the common sense, as a common sants party.
When it comes to abortion, Democrats are the extreme. They
do not want limitations. Uh, they wanted it any time
of the pregnancy up until.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
The point of birth.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
There have been Democrats who have advocated for post term
abortions and we are simply defending life.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And so these are the these.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Are the issues that we have to be able to
effectively communicate to folks, and I think we're doing a
much better job at that. But and if if that
topic is on the ballot, you know that that could
be an area where uh we we may lose the
messaging battle.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
On Representative Lauren. But Robert our guests, now, I have
to give the other side the opportunity the platform to respond.
So Congress Willman, I want to have you listen to
what Sonny Haustin had to say about these voter id
laws and have you give your reaction. On the other side.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Don't have cars, don't have driver's licenses, so it's sort
of a vestige of I think post slavery laws where
they where black people had to prove their right to vote,
and oftentimes they couldn't vote because they couldn't pass some
crazy tests or they didn't have the appropriate ID. It
also affects women, women that are married. Maybe your passport
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reflects something that's different on your ver certificate or on
your driver's license. So really the bottom line is voter suppression.
And I agree with him one hundred percent. It's a
brilliant notion that less voter ID laws allows more people
to vote, and most democracies do it that way. We're
the only ones that really don't do it that.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
How about that line right there, Representative Bober, Less voter
ID laws allow more people to vote, exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
More illegal voting taking place. And how disgusting is it
for anyone to say, because you are black, you cannot
get a driver's license. That is one of the most
defensive lines of the lines of the Democrat Party plays
on and and really tries to dump down an entire
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population of Americans. And it's absolutely disgusting. You know, if
somebody can't obtain an actual driver's license for whatever reason,
you can still obtain a state I D and and
you can still have identification. You could still get a
passport and uh, and this this argument that because a
woman is married and no longer carries her maiden name,
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it is absolutely absurd. A birth certificate is one form
of identification that you could use to register to vote.
And it's not saying that you'd have to have all
of these. I'm not bringing my birth certificate and my
driver's license and having someone say, WHOA, these names don't
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match up. You have two different last names here. It's
just a form of identification, identification you can use to
obtain ID and to register to vote. So you know,
all of these arguments do not hold water, and there's
really holes all throughout them. And again, it's just so
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disgusting that they would take a whole group of people
and say that they are ineligible of proving their citizenship.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Now, the only folks that cannot prove.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Their citizenship are those who are not citizens.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Representative Lauren Bobert, I guess now moving on, And the
reason I reached out Lauren was this post to put
on x tagging or any general Pam Bondi in it.
After the absolutely nightmarish kind of a mad Max Beyond
Thunderdome non libertarian gun bill that Governor Polis signed. He
can never claim to be a libertarian again. This is
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the most extreme state gun law ever passed into law.
That's Senate Bill twenty five TOASH zero zero three. Now,
you interestingly called on the DOJ's Second Amendment Task Force
to begin their first wave of litigation against police the
state of Colorado the General Assembly for instilling this law
that to me is clearly unconstitutional, that should bear out
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in the courts, but it doesn't take effect until August
of next year. Then somebody has to get standing as
if they've been harmed by the law. Then it works
its way through the courts, then ultimately maybe to the
Supreme Court of the United States. Lauren, it could be
like twenty twenty seven before we even get adjudication on this.
So I imagine that's why you put up the post that
you did. Can you explain to our listeners exactly where
you hope it goes from here?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yes, President Trump assembled a task for a Second Amendment
Task Force to identify unconstitutional gun laws. In my opinion,
the investigation of this task force should be very quick
and easy. Any gun law is unconstitutional, we have the
Second Amendment that says that this right shall not be
infriends similarly to the Nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Amendment that gives women the right to vote. Well, women
have the right to vote, and we don't have to.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Go take a test to prove that we can vote.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
We don't have to go through all of these.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Stipulations and pay extra fees and all of this qualification
or even have elements of our voting rights taken away.
There's no law that says, well, you're a woman, so
you can vote in your city council race, but not
in a federal race election.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And so this is something.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That I want Attorney General Pam Bondi to look into quickly.
And I think that this is a perfect example of
what's going on in these blue states and your right.
This is not libertarian. We were promised that years ago
that Governor Jaredpoulis was libertarian.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
There's been a lot of playing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Based been placed on as cabinet members who are not libertarian,
and kind of its hands are tied because this is
what they've decided. But we've just seen time and time
and time again. But this is about ultimate control, extreme policies,
even to the point where we saw the law. The
bill pass out of the House and go to the
Senate here in the state of Colorado, labeling our parents
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with child abuse if they don't provide gender affirming care
for their children.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And that's just the base of it.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So all of this is extreme. I have folks who
own gun stores in Colorado already reaching out to me saying,
what are we going to do. We're going to lose
millions of dollars in business.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
There's already so much regulation.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It started with the magazine that Band back in twenty thirteen.
The majority, if not all, of our sheriffs in Colorado
we're opposed to. I haven't heard of any sheriff that
supports this one. And it's just another extreme piece of
legislation signed into law by the Democrat Party.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So Representative Bolbert, let me put a fine point on
this and bullet point it from the Democrats perspective. They
want illegal aliens to be able to obtain driver's license
and ostensibly be able to vote in our elections. They
don't want to vote for the Save Act, for instance.
They want to revoke the Second Amendment constitutional rights of
those who are American citizens that that has been promised
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to in our constitution and the point that you just
made about House Built twenty five thirteen twelve. They want
to take away the rights of parents to have decision
making capabilities over their children, who are dependents, who are miners,
whether they can get their body parts chopped off where
they can be injected with hormones, I might add that
type of so called gender affirming care. Representative Bobert has
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been banned in Sweden, in Finland, and most recently in
the United the Kingdom. Why is it okay for Colorado
to be a trans sanctuary state for children?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's it's all of those points are very egregious, and
this is exactly the platform of the Democrat Party and uh,
and this is so extreme when it comes to our children,
the utilization of their body even the uh, the hormones
that they are saying that they can be ejected with.
If a parent dead names their child, calls their child
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the name that they were given at birth, and refuses
to acknowledge a name that they choose, uh, you know,
they can they could potentially have their.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Children removed from their custody.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
This is as far as it goes, and it really is.
With the state wanting to step in and be the
parents and have control.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
This is very extreme. And you mentioned all these countries
where this is abandoned. Well, I think President Trump just.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Banned this in America as well, and he said it's
if you have gone woke, if you are doing this
and pushing this on children, well then you're not going
to receive federal funding if you have men and women's sports.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And so maybe he needs to go a little bit
further there and.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Talk about the mutilization of our children's bodies as well.
But I already knew that Democrats in Colorado wanted our
children to be mutilated, to go under these procedures, to
be injected with hormones and unfortunately completely mess up their
entire pubescent years.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
They hated federal funding because.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
They certainly asked for it a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And this is a darn good way to lose federal funding.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Go after our kids go woke, you go broke.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Finally, Representative Bolbert, always appreciate your time. The big beautiful
bill that President Trump is working on with members of Congress,
with Speaker Johnson, with Senate Leader Soon, where does that
all stand and what's going to get through I know
there have been some discrepancies about spending cuts, and I
just saw Senator Lisa Murkowski come out and say, I
don't know, I might want to keep spending. And where
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whether or not you think this will be on President
Trump's desk.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes, we just had this fight in the House. We
we got the insulting language of the Senate's proposal on
their budget resolution. They took our one point five trillion
dollars in spending cuts and reduced that down.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
To four billion. We spend.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We spend more than that in a couple of hours
every single day, So it's very insulting to see only.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Four billion dollars in cuts.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We aren't even back to pre COVID spending levels. We're
not in a pandemic, we're not an emergency in that sense,
and so that funding does not need to be there.
But you know, a great president was once said that
there is nothing closer to eternity here on earth than
a government program. And so once these programs are in place,
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it is so hard for even Republicans to justify getting
rid of them. And so we're hoping for this big,
beautiful bill to see at least one point five trillion
dollars and cuts. We did get agreement, strong language from
Speaker Mike Johnson and strong ish language from Leader Johnson
in the Senate saying that nothing will come to the
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floor that doesn't at least have a base of one
point five trillion dollars and cuts. And this is imperative
because our national debt is at thirty six trillion dollars.
We're on track to spend another twenty two trillion dollars
in the next at ten to twenty years, and that's
not that's without even new programs being added.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
So this is something that must be addressed.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Our national debt is absolutely immoral. This is money that
we are stealing from our children and our children's children.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Follow her on ex at Rep. Bulbert b e Rt
Representative Lauren Bobert our guest on this Friday. Thank you
so much, Lauren, as always and especially for all the
fighting you're doing on our behalf on Capitol Hill. We'll
talk again soon. Thanks, all right, have a great weekend,
and we'll take this time out when we come back.
Rob Dawson from the KOA newsroom. He was there for
the announcement today Senator Michael Bennett's running for governor. Okay,
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and he comes to state a lot, all right, and
he's going to tell you all about it when we
come back. Were Ryan schuling live on a Friday after this,
lacking sound and fury, but also signifying nothing. Senator Michael Bennett,
who comrade Kyle Kyle Clark once compared to cicadas who
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come around every thirteen years to be heard from. Kyle
Clark said that about Michael Bennett, that what really stands
out to me is a couple of things there in
the middle. He's talking about the high cost of living
in Colorado. You know who has controlled the wheels and
levers of government here in this state since the elections
are twenty eighteen entirely entirely Colorado General Assembly, the State House,
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and the State Senate. The Governor's office have all been
controlled by Democrats one hundred percent. Republicans have not had
a hand in any of the decisions that have gone
into making housing unaffordable, their constant war against tabor, the
property tax issue, which was not very well solved out
of the gate. So if anything's going wrong here in
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Colorado when it comes to cost of living, affordability of
any of the things that he mentioned, well, the Democrats
own it and they need to wear it, and that's
what's happening. There's no other way to explain it. The
other part about this, I'm trying to reconcile this to
my political mind going back forty years or however long
I've been following this, is he running against Donald Trump.
I mean, we're hearing Colorado, we don't have to worry
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about Trump. Colorado is its own island. You can tell
by all the laws that have been passed, has nothing
to do with Donald Trump. If anything, our energy costs
might be coming down because of and thanks to Donald Trump.
I'm thinking back to Rick Snyder was a center right
governor in the state of Michigan during the Obama administration.
I don't recall him running against Barack Obama in that
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race or before him. John Engler was a center right,
pretty conservative actually governor in the state of Michigan in
the nineties. I don't remember him running against Bill Clinton
in his campaign or ads that. This is just I mean,
obviously it's Pavlovian. It's a bell that goes off, It's
a red light and red meat for a fervent base.
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Ol Trump. Oh, then I'm gonna support Michael Bennett. He's
gonna fight Trump, He's gonna get Trump Like no. I
would prefer a governor, even if he's a Democrat like
Michael Bennett, who's focused on Colorado. And this is where
our intrepid reporter Rob Dawson from the KOA Newsroom caught
up to Michael Bennett. He's got a great description. I
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don't want to steal his thunder about the setting for
this announcement today or Senator Bene. So I'm running for
governor And Rob Dawson asked him the question, I mean
kind of along the lines what I said with Comrade Kyle,
is Cicada around every thirteen years, it's going on here?
Are you even around here? And Rob asked a very
good journalistic question, and it really got stuck in Senator
Bennett's craw. Listen to this whole.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Thing for your credits site that you don't spend that
time you stayed and some people may not really know you.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Do you feel like I think that's just absolute nonsense.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
There isn't anybody who has.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Spent more time in Colorado that I have as a
statewide elected official. There isn't anybody who spend more time
in rural Colorado than I have, and that's been one
of the greatest joys of my public service and I
look forward to continue it.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
That is a ridiculous statement in my view.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
See your question.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
You spoke a lot about fighting treat but.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Like Trump isn't, so why not let me say one
other thing.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
I also think there isn't anybody in Colorado who's better
situated to bring us all together, whether we're urban or rural,
whether we are on the western slope where the Eastern
plains or in Metro Denver, to convene Kyl Roddens to
have the important discussions that we need to have to
be able to build a future where all of our
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kids can stay here and where people feel like they
can work hard and get ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So that's how I answer your question. Okay, Rob, How
I told you that I knew that you won this
exchange was the fact that this other female reporter tries
to step in and go Trump, Trump, Trump, and he
can't get past your question, so he takes a second
bite at the apple. That's how I know you did
your job.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Well, well, thank you, well, I appreciate that, But I
was just you know it is. You know, I mentioned
to someone that Mike Michael Benn was probably going to
announce today. Yesterday, we had gotten some information about that,
and people, regular everyday people, especially my age he in
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my thirties, They're just not really familiar. They just don't
feel like a connection. There's you know, does he show
up on cable TV? Yes, but is he around all
the time. He may do events and not let us
know about them. We've I feel like we get a
whole lot more Hickenlooper notices about where he's going to
be h than Michael Bennett. Is not to say that
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he's not done one event, he's been back, but it
just feels like that he's he may not be as visible.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
So we hear about all these endorsements coming in, I
mean by the dozens. It seems like from every every yeah,
every prominent politician the state of Colorado. Joe Nogose falls
in line, Jason Crow, same thing. Mayor Mike Johnston offers
his endorsement. This is early and we haven't heard from
Governor Polis yet.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I was led to believe and talking to people who
are in the know, that he and Phil Wiser were
pretty close but I think it stopped short at least
at this point of an endorsement. And there's now scuttle
butt that with all these kind of big figures coming
in on Benett behalf, that Phil Wiser might drop out
of the race entirely.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
What are your thoughts along those lines. I just felt
it was just so one sided. It was just this
this enormous wave of of just endorsements and political good
well all the heavy hitters. It's like a checkbox there
in front of front of the podium. So uh he
Michael Bennett instantly has the momentum. So I would I
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would tend to agree with some of the people who
think that Wiser may step out and realize, let's unite
this party. You know, let me, let me step away.
I'm gonna I'm gonna unite. Michael Bennett has has a
good shot, especially in the makeup of this day to win.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Rob Dawson KOI News joining us. He was there today
for the announcement. Now people can't see this, so I
need to do your level best as a play by
play announcer to set the scene, yes of what it
looked like when Bennett approached the podium.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Thank you I was waiting for this.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Because I was looking at the first of all, it
is this grassy knoll at City Park, Oh Okay, and
you have the snowcapped mountains and the dome in the back,
and you see the little bit of the East High
School tower there. Remember he was DPS superintendent. He takes
the longest route possible, as everyone's.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Like, look, look here he is.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
He's coming closer. He's walking.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
He's like two hundred yards away, and I as people
start the golf clap, Okay, I'm like, he is coming
up on the eighteenth fairway of the Masters. He has
just hit an approach shot to the green. He's walking
up to the green, and I can only think of
Jim Nantz as he's like Senator Bennett's VPS superintendent. Now
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looks towards the State Capitol Dome. A full circle moment
for him with his wife and daughter coming down that
augusta cheer we all know. As he gets ready for
the final putt.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
What's fantastic, well done, rub And I mentioned that earlier.
You know he got happy Gilmore too coming out in July. Here,
I'm gonna be happy Gilmore.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Ok.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
You gotta give me the gold Jacket.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
You do pretty good, Bennett too, and then this text
at five seven seven three nine, Ryan, and you should
do the rest of your show and your Michael Bennett voice.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Well, so I wanted to bring up something, you know,
when he was talking about the western slope and eastern
plants in his campaign ads. You have to give him credit,
whether the illusion is there or not, that he visits
all these places and he has been big. I'll give
him credit on one thing. He's been big on the
Dolores River and he's been big on water rights, especially
in that area.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Took a tour with the people living the river.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Okay, but all I could think of when he's talking
about the rural parts of our state in twenty sixteen.
I remember this was mentally recording everything that happened to Colorado.
I think because I had just gotten here, I just
moved here. He's his campaign ad is standing with a farmer.
His last shot is standing with a farmer, and he's
eating corn, like chomping at it, and he's like, I'm
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Michael Bennett, and I'm running for the US Senate because
Washington's got to change.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah. Well, and I enjoy Michael Bennett I like making
fun of him, but you know, I do Trump's voice
and others as well. But I've talked to him briefly
a couple of times when I've been anchoring coverage on
and KOA.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
He's he's been respectful to our station. That's it. He's
been one.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
He's pleasant to interact with. I think he's humorous at
times unintentionally. He's one of those guys I think that
he's funniest when he's not trying to be like the
whole one.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
He's trying to like this opposite.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Yeah, cringey. But when he went off on Ted Cruz
on the floor of the Senate that says it animated
as I've ever seen him, it's hilarious. If you haven't
seen it, YouTube that video. But the other part, I
think people, you know, when they get to know Michael
Bennett better, and I think to your point, Rob, it
is accurate that that stung him a little bit, that
comment that you made, and the question was a fair
one about are you back here in Colorado enough? And
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I think a lot of people feel like he's not.
And the other part of that is he's not a
native Colorado and I know a lot of us, aren't
you and I are not. But he doesn't offer that
kind of life time perspective of having grown up in
this state. He's in the East Coast, you know, ivly educated,
kind of checks all those boxes. So I think he's
qualified in terms of, you know, his credentials and so forth,
But is he really knowledgeable in what the everyday colorad
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and is going through right now? And I don't know,
But like you said, this race maybe over before it
starts for two reasons. One, the endorsements that have come
in we talked about on the Democratic side, if Phil
Wiser drops out, I mean that pretty much annoints Bennett
as a nominee. And Republicans have not won statewide office.
You know, that's the point.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Do the Republicans have the apparatus right now to challenge
Because here's the thing that's interesting. Michael Bennett had talked
in his ads and about his messaging Washington's got to change.
I'm going in there to help Washington. Well, now he's
leaving Washington. So you were in Washington, you know, and
it's still kind of broken, and now you're leaving. And
he made that comment, and that woman who asked the
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question after me, I believe from NPR or CPR. So
she asked about are you going to fight be able
to fight Trump? And he said, I'm gonna be able
to fight Donald Trump from here, and I want to
build a state where it's an alternative to what Donald
Trump has. So he's thinking about Donald Trump. Now he's
got a transition from being Washington right feel to what
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the state is. And the thing is, if the Republican
Party may have a stronger candidate or stronger apparatus, could
he be in for a challenge because he feels Washington.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Insidary or is he going to win this?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
And then we're going to see for ourselves whether or
not he can make the transition from a Washington guy
representing Colorado to a Colorado person representing Colorado.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
It's a great point, Rob, How can people follow you
in the socials?
Speaker 6 (30:42):
At Dawson? Rob Twitter, reporter, Rob Instagram. All right, Rob Dawson,
he was there. He's everywhere. Like I said, he's on
the scene. He's Johnny on the spot. He's got the scoop,
he's got the you got the press pass kind of
thing on the in the fedora. I need a fedora
and I wanted the nance. It's Master's weekend. How should
you not look at Michael Bennett walking down the grassy
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kN all.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's perfect the eighteenth Green and he will beat Happy
Gilmore Rob. Thanks man, Yeah, I time out your thoughts
on Michael Bennett being the Democratic nominee presumptive at this point,
you would have to say, and the race for governor
on the Democratic side, we'll have those when we come
back to round out this Friday edition of Ryan Scherling
Live after this.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Because when you when the Centator from Texas shut this
government down in twenty thirteen, my state was flooded, it
was underwater. People were killed, people's houses were destroyed, their
small businesses were ruined forever. And because of the Senator
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from Texas, this government was shut down for politics.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Then he's served to a second place finish in the
Iowa Caucuses.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
But we're of no help.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
To the first responders, to the teachers, to the students
whose schools were closed with the federal government. There was
shut down because of the junior senator from Texas.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
That's like, okay, right there, that's the third time because
that was not me, by the way, doing my impersonation.
But you see, the more worked up Senator Bennett gets,
the more he loses his annunciation. And this comment, you're
exactly right text five seven seven three nine. How has
nobody compared Bennett to a South Park character? He is
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counselor Mackie and drugge Ben. Okay, I mean that's the
voice that I'm drawing from, and that's what he sounds.
You just heard it. I wanted you to hear that.
And thanks Zach for queuing that up. Junior Senator Ted
Cruz shut the government down. He didn't have first responders.
People died, like he gets lost in the sauce and
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the message would he starts mushmouthing through it, And yeah,
we're gonna have a lot of things right for comedy
if Michael Bennett's the next governor of Colorado. Now, on Monday,
we're going to have a reveal and there will be
a candidate who declares, and he has chosen this program
to announce his official launch to the campaign on the
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Republican side of the governor's race. So you want to
stay tuned for that. More texts on Bennett coming in.
Ryan Bennett is one of the least dynamic politicians ever
do nothing milk toast. I mean, that's if we're lucky.
I take that over the damage that Jared Polis has done.
I mean, at least take us back in time to
the halcionic days of John Hickenlooper. You guys should be
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protecting me, he said to the media. He said that
on camera in an interview. You guys should be protecting me.
Let me see here, you're wasting your time, Ryan, Colorado
will always remain a sewer. All of the decent Republicans
left Colorado long before you arrived. Well, I got here.
I brought my red voting with me.
Speaker 9 (34:10):
That's one.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Let's just keep building on that. Stay tuned. The Dan
Kaplis's show is next. Hope you have a great weekend.
I'm looking forward to Nick Swardston tonight. Until Monday, I'll
talk to you then I'm Ryan Schruling Live
Thank you, mister speaker, and bless my colleague's hearts on
the other side of the aisle. Using married women as
a gotcha for voting. I've never had to bring my
birth certificate to prove that I was a registered voter.
I have an ID that has a different name than
my birth certificate. And also, since we're using women as
bait here, maybe in the next round of debates they
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can explain to us exactly what a woman is. I
rise in support of the Save Act. The American people
are done messing around with a woke, weak need system
that lets our elections get hijacked. I am fighting for you,
for me, for every American who knows our vote is
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sacred and it's time to lock it down with citizens only.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Let's cut the crap right now.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You can walk up, check a box claiming you're a citizen,
and boom, you're registered for federal elections.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
No proof, no ID.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
That's not a system built on truck us as a
system vulnerable to error, fraud, and exploitation. And in Colorado,
it was just expedited for the process for illegals to
receive a driver's license. And in the state of Colorado,
when you obtain a driver's license, you register to vote.
The Save Act is a common sense measure designed to
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protect the integrity of our electoral process, and at its core,
it requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in
federal elections. This isn't radical, it's not extreme. It's a
basic safeguard to ensure that only those who are legally
entitled to participate in our elections can do so.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Let's be clear.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
This isn't about denying anyone's right to vote. It's about
protecting the rights of every American citizen, not adding votes
and subtracting American citizens votes. I support the Save Act, Speaker.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I yield back Representative Lauren Bolbert strongly on the House
floor yesterday before passage of the Save Act by a
two twenty to two eight vote. It must be noted
that four Democrats cross over to support it as well.
She joins US now Live from Congress Representative Lauren Bobert
on Ryan Schuling Live. Lauren, thank you for the time
as always.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Ran, It's great to be here with you, and it
was wonderful to see a victory a step in securing
our federal elections. Yesterday in the House of Representatives, I
would love to see this go all the way through
the Senate and have President Trump sign this into law.
He already has an executive order. President Trump wants citizenship proof.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
When you're voting. He wants voter ID.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He even wants same day elections and to declare a
national holiday for voting.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
One day voting.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
On a national holiday so folks can take the time
off work and go and do their civic duty to
elect their representatives and officials.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I can't imagine this is going to have any trouble
in the Senate. John Soon, the leader over there. I
might anticipate even like a John Fetterman, Democrat, perhaps coming
over and supporting it. But what I'm trying to make
sense of not that I want to get sign the
mind of a Democrat congresswoman. That's a dangerous thing, but
that just in Wisconsin they had a statewide election in
which they elected a liberal justice to the Supreme Court.
(03:12):
That was a downside, but on the upside, every county
but two Dane County where Madison University, Wisconsin, a lot
of Commies are that's one, and then Milwaukee only by
a fifty one to forty nine margin in a very
urban county. Every other county in Wisconsin supported the measure
that you just supported on a federal level, the Save Act.
Why are Democrats choosing yet another eighty twenty hill to
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die on the twenty percent side of.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I hope they keep doing it because they have not
left any of the eighty twenty issues where they are
on the wrong side of.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
After losing there was a blood bath in this election
in many areas of the country, and President Trump winning
an electoral landslide and winning the popular vote, and they
still are fighting to keep.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Men in women's sports, have men in women's pods, and
jails and in prisons, and of course there's always the
restroom issue. You know, I would love it if Democrats,
especially when it comes to our children in schools, would
never say another word about the bathrooms or the locker rooms,
and just teach our kids how to read and do maths,
(04:24):
and maybe even something that will actually apply to them,
like filing their tax return. But this is this is
it really shows where the Democrat Party lies in their beliefs.
They are on the wrong side of these issues, where
Americans are overwhelmingly in support of radical change, common sense change,
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but unfortunately we are so far to the left on
these issues, it's going to.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Seem radical to those who still believe in it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But this is a common sense approach to have only
US citizens voting in US election, and unfortunately not enough
were in support of this. I would love to see
this come up in the Senate and path. I don't
know if they can get through, get over the filibuster
and have and have enough Democrats come on board, but
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it would be lovely to get a hold of our
elections and secure them. We know that there is a
lot of fraud that takes place in our elections.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
We have illegals who are voting here. That's why they
brought in fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Million illegal aliens into our country. And like I said
on the floor yesterday, in Colorado, when you get a
driver's license, you are automatically registered to vote. And they
just expedited from two years down to immediate approval for
illegal aliens to obtain a driver's license in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Unbelievable, but it's true. Congresswoman Lauren Bobert joining us here
and doing the maths, you bring up a good point.
I mentioned Fetterman, but then also in the Upper Midwest
there these are purple states that are going to be
up for grabs in the next twenty twenty six election
for Senate Tina Smith not running for reelection Minnesota, Tammy
Baldwin not running for reelection Wisconsin, Gary Peters not running
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for reelection Michigan. However, you had Alyssa slocked into that
mix as well, or even Amy Klobashar. If any of
those five were to oppose the Save Act in these
states where it's universally almost supported and certainly in a
bipartisan matter, I think they might be digging their own
graves politically, Lauren, for those Senate races that they view
as crucial.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I would hope that that would be enough to get
us some victories in those states.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I would hope that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That is an issue that will drive people to the
polls and cause them to seriously consider their candidates. Now, Wisconsin,
that's a tough one, right. We just lost the Supreme
Court judge race, but we won voter ID and citizenship there,
so you know, that's a tough one. And then you
know you have to you have to wonder, is is
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is there something going on?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Was it because abortion was on the on the ballot
and you know, that is a topic that we historically.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Lose on just because, uh, the.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Messaging isn't right on our end. We need to really
position ourselves as the common sense, as a common sants party.
When it comes to abortion, Democrats are the extreme. They
do not want limitations. Uh, they wanted it any time
of the pregnancy up until.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
The point of birth.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
There have been Democrats who have advocated for post term
abortions and we are simply defending life.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And so these are the these.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Are the issues that we have to be able to
effectively communicate to folks, and I think we're doing a
much better job at that. But and if if that
topic is on the ballot, you know that that could
be an area where uh we we may lose the
messaging battle.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
On Representative Lauren. But Robert our guests, now, I have
to give the other side the opportunity the platform to respond.
So Congress Willman, I want to have you listen to
what Sonny Haustin had to say about these voter id
laws and have you give your reaction. On the other side.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Don't have cars, don't have driver's licenses, so it's sort
of a vestige of I think post slavery laws where
they where black people had to prove their right to vote,
and oftentimes they couldn't vote because they couldn't pass some
crazy tests or they didn't have the appropriate ID. It
also affects women, women that are married. Maybe your passport
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reflects something that's different on your ver certificate or on
your driver's license. So really the bottom line is voter suppression.
And I agree with him one hundred percent. It's a
brilliant notion that less voter ID laws allows more people
to vote, and most democracies do it that way. We're
the only ones that really don't do it that.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
How about that line right there, Representative Bober, Less voter
ID laws allow more people to vote, exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
More illegal voting taking place. And how disgusting is it
for anyone to say, because you are black, you cannot
get a driver's license. That is one of the most
defensive lines of the lines of the Democrat Party plays
on and and really tries to dump down an entire
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population of Americans. And it's absolutely disgusting. You know, if
somebody can't obtain an actual driver's license for whatever reason,
you can still obtain a state I D and and
you can still have identification. You could still get a
passport and uh, and this this argument that because a
woman is married and no longer carries her maiden name,
(09:57):
it is absolutely absurd. A birth certificate is one form
of identification that you could use to register to vote.
And it's not saying that you'd have to have all
of these. I'm not bringing my birth certificate and my
driver's license and having someone say, WHOA, these names don't
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match up. You have two different last names here. It's
just a form of identification, identification you can use to
obtain ID and to register to vote. So you know,
all of these arguments do not hold water, and there's
really holes all throughout them. And again, it's just so
(10:39):
disgusting that they would take a whole group of people
and say that they are ineligible of proving their citizenship.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Now, the only folks that cannot prove.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Their citizenship are those who are not citizens.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Representative Lauren Bobert, I guess now moving on, And the
reason I reached out Lauren was this post to put
on x tagging or any general Pam Bondi in it.
After the absolutely nightmarish kind of a mad Max Beyond
Thunderdome non libertarian gun bill that Governor Polis signed. He
can never claim to be a libertarian again. This is
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the most extreme state gun law ever passed into law.
That's Senate Bill twenty five TOASH zero zero three. Now,
you interestingly called on the DOJ's Second Amendment Task Force
to begin their first wave of litigation against police the
state of Colorado the General Assembly for instilling this law
that to me is clearly unconstitutional, that should bear out
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in the courts, but it doesn't take effect until August
of next year. Then somebody has to get standing as
if they've been harmed by the law. Then it works
its way through the courts, then ultimately maybe to the
Supreme Court of the United States. Lauren, it could be
like twenty twenty seven before we even get adjudication on this.
So I imagine that's why you put up the post that
you did. Can you explain to our listeners exactly where
you hope it goes from here?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yes, President Trump assembled a task for a Second Amendment
Task Force to identify unconstitutional gun laws. In my opinion,
the investigation of this task force should be very quick
and easy. Any gun law is unconstitutional, we have the
Second Amendment that says that this right shall not be
infriends similarly to the Nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Amendment that gives women the right to vote. Well, women
have the right to vote, and we don't have to.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Go take a test to prove that we can vote.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
We don't have to go through all of these.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Stipulations and pay extra fees and all of this qualification
or even have elements of our voting rights taken away.
There's no law that says, well, you're a woman, so
you can vote in your city council race, but not
in a federal race election.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And so this is something.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That I want Attorney General Pam Bondi to look into quickly.
And I think that this is a perfect example of
what's going on in these blue states and your right.
This is not libertarian. We were promised that years ago
that Governor Jaredpoulis was libertarian.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
There's been a lot of playing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Based been placed on as cabinet members who are not libertarian,
and kind of its hands are tied because this is
what they've decided. But we've just seen time and time
and time again. But this is about ultimate control, extreme policies,
even to the point where we saw the law. The
bill pass out of the House and go to the
Senate here in the state of Colorado, labeling our parents
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with child abuse if they don't provide gender affirming care
for their children.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And that's just the base of it.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So all of this is extreme. I have folks who
own gun stores in Colorado already reaching out to me saying,
what are we going to do. We're going to lose
millions of dollars in business.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
There's already so much regulation.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It started with the magazine that Band back in twenty thirteen.
The majority, if not all, of our sheriffs in Colorado
we're opposed to. I haven't heard of any sheriff that
supports this one. And it's just another extreme piece of
legislation signed into law by the Democrat Party.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So Representative Bolbert, let me put a fine point on
this and bullet point it from the Democrats perspective. They
want illegal aliens to be able to obtain driver's license
and ostensibly be able to vote in our elections. They
don't want to vote for the Save Act, for instance.
They want to revoke the Second Amendment constitutional rights of
those who are American citizens that that has been promised
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to in our constitution and the point that you just
made about House Built twenty five thirteen twelve. They want
to take away the rights of parents to have decision
making capabilities over their children, who are dependents, who are miners,
whether they can get their body parts chopped off where
they can be injected with hormones, I might add that
type of so called gender affirming care. Representative Bobert has
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been banned in Sweden, in Finland, and most recently in
the United the Kingdom. Why is it okay for Colorado
to be a trans sanctuary state for children?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's it's all of those points are very egregious, and
this is exactly the platform of the Democrat Party and uh,
and this is so extreme when it comes to our children,
the utilization of their body even the uh, the hormones
that they are saying that they can be ejected with.
If a parent dead names their child, calls their child
(15:29):
the name that they were given at birth, and refuses
to acknowledge a name that they choose, uh, you know,
they can they could potentially have their.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Children removed from their custody.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
This is as far as it goes, and it really is.
With the state wanting to step in and be the
parents and have control.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
This is very extreme. And you mentioned all these countries
where this is abandoned. Well, I think President Trump just.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Banned this in America as well, and he said it's
if you have gone woke, if you are doing this
and pushing this on children, well then you're not going
to receive federal funding if you have men and women's sports.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And so maybe he needs to go a little bit
further there and.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Talk about the mutilization of our children's bodies as well.
But I already knew that Democrats in Colorado wanted our
children to be mutilated, to go under these procedures, to
be injected with hormones and unfortunately completely mess up their
entire pubescent years.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
They hated federal funding because.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
They certainly asked for it a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And this is a darn good way to lose federal funding.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Go after our kids go woke, you go broke.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Finally, Representative Bolbert, always appreciate your time. The big beautiful
bill that President Trump is working on with members of Congress,
with Speaker Johnson, with Senate Leader Soon, where does that
all stand and what's going to get through I know
there have been some discrepancies about spending cuts, and I
just saw Senator Lisa Murkowski come out and say, I
don't know, I might want to keep spending. And where
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whether or not you think this will be on President
Trump's desk.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes, we just had this fight in the House. We
we got the insulting language of the Senate's proposal on
their budget resolution. They took our one point five trillion
dollars in spending cuts and reduced that down.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
To four billion. We spend.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We spend more than that in a couple of hours
every single day, So it's very insulting to see only.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Four billion dollars in cuts.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We aren't even back to pre COVID spending levels. We're
not in a pandemic, we're not an emergency in that sense,
and so that funding does not need to be there.
But you know, a great president was once said that
there is nothing closer to eternity here on earth than
a government program. And so once these programs are in place,
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it is so hard for even Republicans to justify getting
rid of them. And so we're hoping for this big,
beautiful bill to see at least one point five trillion
dollars and cuts. We did get agreement, strong language from
Speaker Mike Johnson and strong ish language from Leader Johnson
in the Senate saying that nothing will come to the
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floor that doesn't at least have a base of one
point five trillion dollars and cuts. And this is imperative
because our national debt is at thirty six trillion dollars.
We're on track to spend another twenty two trillion dollars
in the next at ten to twenty years, and that's
not that's without even new programs being added.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
So this is something that must be addressed.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Our national debt is absolutely immoral. This is money that
we are stealing from our children and our children's children.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Follow her on ex at Rep. Bulbert b e Rt
Representative Lauren Bobert our guest on this Friday. Thank you
so much, Lauren, as always and especially for all the
fighting you're doing on our behalf on Capitol Hill. We'll
talk again soon. Thanks, all right, have a great weekend,
and we'll take this time out when we come back.
Rob Dawson from the KOA newsroom. He was there for
the announcement today Senator Michael Bennett's running for governor. Okay,
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and he comes to state a lot, all right, and
he's going to tell you all about it when we
come back. Were Ryan schuling live on a Friday after this,
lacking sound and fury, but also signifying nothing. Senator Michael Bennett,
who comrade Kyle Kyle Clark once compared to cicadas who
(19:42):
come around every thirteen years to be heard from. Kyle
Clark said that about Michael Bennett, that what really stands
out to me is a couple of things there in
the middle. He's talking about the high cost of living
in Colorado. You know who has controlled the wheels and
levers of government here in this state since the elections
are twenty eighteen entirely entirely Colorado General Assembly, the State House,
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and the State Senate. The Governor's office have all been
controlled by Democrats one hundred percent. Republicans have not had
a hand in any of the decisions that have gone
into making housing unaffordable, their constant war against tabor, the
property tax issue, which was not very well solved out
of the gate. So if anything's going wrong here in
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Colorado when it comes to cost of living, affordability of
any of the things that he mentioned, well, the Democrats
own it and they need to wear it, and that's
what's happening. There's no other way to explain it. The
other part about this, I'm trying to reconcile this to
my political mind going back forty years or however long
I've been following this, is he running against Donald Trump.
I mean, we're hearing Colorado, we don't have to worry
(20:48):
about Trump. Colorado is its own island. You can tell
by all the laws that have been passed, has nothing
to do with Donald Trump. If anything, our energy costs
might be coming down because of and thanks to Donald Trump.
I'm thinking back to Rick Snyder was a center right
governor in the state of Michigan during the Obama administration.
I don't recall him running against Barack Obama in that
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race or before him. John Engler was a center right,
pretty conservative actually governor in the state of Michigan in
the nineties. I don't remember him running against Bill Clinton
in his campaign or ads that. This is just I mean,
obviously it's Pavlovian. It's a bell that goes off, It's
a red light and red meat for a fervent base.
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Ol Trump. Oh, then I'm gonna support Michael Bennett. He's
gonna fight Trump, He's gonna get Trump Like no. I
would prefer a governor, even if he's a Democrat like
Michael Bennett, who's focused on Colorado. And this is where
our intrepid reporter Rob Dawson from the KOA Newsroom caught
up to Michael Bennett. He's got a great description. I
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don't want to steal his thunder about the setting for
this announcement today or Senator Bene. So I'm running for
governor And Rob Dawson asked him the question, I mean
kind of along the lines what I said with Comrade Kyle,
is Cicada around every thirteen years, it's going on here?
Are you even around here? And Rob asked a very
good journalistic question, and it really got stuck in Senator
Bennett's craw. Listen to this whole.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Thing for your credits site that you don't spend that
time you stayed and some people may not really know you.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Do you feel like I think that's just absolute nonsense.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
There isn't anybody who has.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Spent more time in Colorado that I have as a
statewide elected official. There isn't anybody who spend more time
in rural Colorado than I have, and that's been one
of the greatest joys of my public service and I
look forward to continue it.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
That is a ridiculous statement in my view.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
See your question.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
You spoke a lot about fighting treat but.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Like Trump isn't, so why not let me say one
other thing.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
I also think there isn't anybody in Colorado who's better
situated to bring us all together, whether we're urban or rural,
whether we are on the western slope where the Eastern
plains or in Metro Denver, to convene Kyl Roddens to
have the important discussions that we need to have to
be able to build a future where all of our
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kids can stay here and where people feel like they
can work hard and get ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So that's how I answer your question. Okay, Rob, How
I told you that I knew that you won this
exchange was the fact that this other female reporter tries
to step in and go Trump, Trump, Trump, and he
can't get past your question, so he takes a second
bite at the apple. That's how I know you did
your job.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Well, well, thank you, well, I appreciate that, But I
was just you know it is. You know, I mentioned
to someone that Mike Michael Benn was probably going to
announce today. Yesterday, we had gotten some information about that,
and people, regular everyday people, especially my age he in
(23:55):
my thirties, They're just not really familiar. They just don't
feel like a connection. There's you know, does he show
up on cable TV? Yes, but is he around all
the time. He may do events and not let us
know about them. We've I feel like we get a
whole lot more Hickenlooper notices about where he's going to
be h than Michael Bennett. Is not to say that
(24:16):
he's not done one event, he's been back, but it
just feels like that he's he may not be as visible.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
So we hear about all these endorsements coming in, I
mean by the dozens. It seems like from every every yeah,
every prominent politician the state of Colorado. Joe Nogose falls
in line, Jason Crow, same thing. Mayor Mike Johnston offers
his endorsement. This is early and we haven't heard from
Governor Polis yet.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I was led to believe and talking to people who
are in the know, that he and Phil Wiser were
pretty close but I think it stopped short at least
at this point of an endorsement. And there's now scuttle
butt that with all these kind of big figures coming
in on Benett behalf, that Phil Wiser might drop out
of the race entirely.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
What are your thoughts along those lines. I just felt
it was just so one sided. It was just this
this enormous wave of of just endorsements and political good
well all the heavy hitters. It's like a checkbox there
in front of front of the podium. So uh he
Michael Bennett instantly has the momentum. So I would I
(25:24):
would tend to agree with some of the people who
think that Wiser may step out and realize, let's unite
this party. You know, let me, let me step away.
I'm gonna I'm gonna unite. Michael Bennett has has a
good shot, especially in the makeup of this day to win.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Rob Dawson KOI News joining us. He was there today
for the announcement. Now people can't see this, so I
need to do your level best as a play by
play announcer to set the scene, yes of what it
looked like when Bennett approached the podium.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Thank you I was waiting for this.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Because I was looking at the first of all, it
is this grassy knoll at City Park, Oh Okay, and
you have the snowcapped mountains and the dome in the back,
and you see the little bit of the East High
School tower there. Remember he was DPS superintendent. He takes
the longest route possible, as everyone's.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Like, look, look here he is.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
He's coming closer. He's walking.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
He's like two hundred yards away, and I as people
start the golf clap, Okay, I'm like, he is coming
up on the eighteenth fairway of the Masters. He has
just hit an approach shot to the green. He's walking
up to the green, and I can only think of
Jim Nantz as he's like Senator Bennett's VPS superintendent. Now
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looks towards the State Capitol Dome. A full circle moment
for him with his wife and daughter coming down that
augusta cheer we all know. As he gets ready for
the final putt.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
What's fantastic, well done, rub And I mentioned that earlier.
You know he got happy Gilmore too coming out in July. Here,
I'm gonna be happy Gilmore.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Ok.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
You gotta give me the gold Jacket.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
You do pretty good, Bennett too, and then this text
at five seven seven three nine, Ryan, and you should
do the rest of your show and your Michael Bennett voice.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Well, so I wanted to bring up something, you know,
when he was talking about the western slope and eastern
plants in his campaign ads. You have to give him credit,
whether the illusion is there or not, that he visits
all these places and he has been big. I'll give
him credit on one thing. He's been big on the
Dolores River and he's been big on water rights, especially
in that area.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Took a tour with the people living the river.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Okay, but all I could think of when he's talking
about the rural parts of our state in twenty sixteen.
I remember this was mentally recording everything that happened to Colorado.
I think because I had just gotten here, I just
moved here. He's his campaign ad is standing with a farmer.
His last shot is standing with a farmer, and he's
eating corn, like chomping at it, and he's like, I'm
(27:55):
Michael Bennett, and I'm running for the US Senate because
Washington's got to change.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah. Well, and I enjoy Michael Bennett I like making
fun of him, but you know, I do Trump's voice
and others as well. But I've talked to him briefly
a couple of times when I've been anchoring coverage on
and KOA.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
He's he's been respectful to our station. That's it. He's
been one.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
He's pleasant to interact with. I think he's humorous at
times unintentionally. He's one of those guys I think that
he's funniest when he's not trying to be like the
whole one.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
He's trying to like this opposite.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Yeah, cringey. But when he went off on Ted Cruz
on the floor of the Senate that says it animated
as I've ever seen him, it's hilarious. If you haven't
seen it, YouTube that video. But the other part, I
think people, you know, when they get to know Michael
Bennett better, and I think to your point, Rob, it
is accurate that that stung him a little bit, that
comment that you made, and the question was a fair
one about are you back here in Colorado enough? And
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I think a lot of people feel like he's not.
And the other part of that is he's not a
native Colorado and I know a lot of us, aren't
you and I are not. But he doesn't offer that
kind of life time perspective of having grown up in
this state. He's in the East Coast, you know, ivly educated,
kind of checks all those boxes. So I think he's
qualified in terms of, you know, his credentials and so forth,
But is he really knowledgeable in what the everyday colorad
(29:15):
and is going through right now? And I don't know,
But like you said, this race maybe over before it
starts for two reasons. One, the endorsements that have come
in we talked about on the Democratic side, if Phil
Wiser drops out, I mean that pretty much annoints Bennett
as a nominee. And Republicans have not won statewide office.
You know, that's the point.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Do the Republicans have the apparatus right now to challenge
Because here's the thing that's interesting. Michael Bennett had talked
in his ads and about his messaging Washington's got to change.
I'm going in there to help Washington. Well, now he's
leaving Washington. So you were in Washington, you know, and
it's still kind of broken, and now you're leaving. And
he made that comment, and that woman who asked the
(29:54):
question after me, I believe from NPR or CPR. So
she asked about are you going to fight be able
to fight Trump? And he said, I'm gonna be able
to fight Donald Trump from here, and I want to
build a state where it's an alternative to what Donald
Trump has. So he's thinking about Donald Trump. Now he's
got a transition from being Washington right feel to what
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the state is. And the thing is, if the Republican
Party may have a stronger candidate or stronger apparatus, could
he be in for a challenge because he feels Washington.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Insidary or is he going to win this?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
And then we're going to see for ourselves whether or
not he can make the transition from a Washington guy
representing Colorado to a Colorado person representing Colorado.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
It's a great point, Rob, How can people follow you
in the socials?
Speaker 6 (30:42):
At Dawson? Rob Twitter, reporter, Rob Instagram. All right, Rob Dawson,
he was there. He's everywhere. Like I said, he's on
the scene. He's Johnny on the spot. He's got the scoop,
he's got the you got the press pass kind of
thing on the in the fedora. I need a fedora
and I wanted the nance. It's Master's weekend. How should
you not look at Michael Bennett walking down the grassy
(31:02):
kN all.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's perfect the eighteenth Green and he will beat Happy
Gilmore Rob. Thanks man, Yeah, I time out your thoughts
on Michael Bennett being the Democratic nominee presumptive at this point,
you would have to say, and the race for governor
on the Democratic side, we'll have those when we come
back to round out this Friday edition of Ryan Scherling
Live after this.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Because when you when the Centator from Texas shut this
government down in twenty thirteen, my state was flooded, it
was underwater. People were killed, people's houses were destroyed, their
small businesses were ruined forever. And because of the Senator
(31:51):
from Texas, this government was shut down for politics.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Then he's served to a second place finish in the
Iowa Caucuses.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
But we're of no help.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
To the first responders, to the teachers, to the students
whose schools were closed with the federal government. There was
shut down because of the junior senator from Texas.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
That's like, okay, right there, that's the third time because
that was not me, by the way, doing my impersonation.
But you see, the more worked up Senator Bennett gets,
the more he loses his annunciation. And this comment, you're
exactly right text five seven seven three nine. How has
nobody compared Bennett to a South Park character? He is
(32:43):
counselor Mackie and drugge Ben. Okay, I mean that's the
voice that I'm drawing from, and that's what he sounds.
You just heard it. I wanted you to hear that.
And thanks Zach for queuing that up. Junior Senator Ted
Cruz shut the government down. He didn't have first responders.
People died, like he gets lost in the sauce and
(33:06):
the message would he starts mushmouthing through it, And yeah,
we're gonna have a lot of things right for comedy
if Michael Bennett's the next governor of Colorado. Now, on Monday,
we're going to have a reveal and there will be
a candidate who declares, and he has chosen this program
to announce his official launch to the campaign on the
(33:27):
Republican side of the governor's race. So you want to
stay tuned for that. More texts on Bennett coming in.
Ryan Bennett is one of the least dynamic politicians ever
do nothing milk toast. I mean, that's if we're lucky.
I take that over the damage that Jared Polis has done.
I mean, at least take us back in time to
the halcionic days of John Hickenlooper. You guys should be
(33:48):
protecting me, he said to the media. He said that
on camera in an interview. You guys should be protecting me.
Let me see here, you're wasting your time, Ryan, Colorado
will always remain a sewer. All of the decent Republicans
left Colorado long before you arrived. Well, I got here.
I brought my red voting with me.
Speaker 9 (34:10):
That's one.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Let's just keep building on that. Stay tuned. The Dan
Kaplis's show is next. Hope you have a great weekend.
I'm looking forward to Nick Swardston tonight. Until Monday, I'll
talk to you then I'm Ryan Schruling Live
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