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June 12, 2025 36 mins
Stephen L. Miller, Versus Media podcast host, joins Ryan to help commemorate the one-year anniversary of 'cheap fakes' being rolled out as cover for President Biden's freeze-up at a George Clooney fundraiser event in Los Angeles. 

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Ryan Edwards, host of KOA Sports weekdays from 3-6pm, joins Ryan to discuss the potential renovation or relocation of stadium accommodations for the Denver Broncos. Which option makes the most sense for fans and the team?

Broncos buying up land at potential stadium location

Also, the Colorado Rockies are hosting a special 'Ryan Meetup' event on Friday, June 20 against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Both Edwards and Schuiling are planning to attend.

Ryan Meetup | Colorado Rockies

Rep. Jeff Hurd (R, CO-3) joins Ryan to discuss the theatrical display put on by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) on Thursday, Denver mayor Mike Johnston's 180 on anti-ICE protests in his city, and why passing the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' is vitally important to reinforce our border security.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We will certainly just continue to call that out. And
the chief fakes didn't come for me. I didn't coin that.
I didn't come from this White House or this podium.
That came from the media.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
They called the chief fix and they said this president,
President Biden was being targeted on misinformation. It was purposefully
being done to this president. And what we did is
we echoed that.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
So I don't regret it at all. It was just
the facts.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
I disagree they will have a chance. In fact, if
you look at Donald Trump's track record and Donald Trump's
Republican Party over the last seven years, they're are one seven.
So yeah, maybe the Biden team's going to have to
work harder. Maybe Democrats are going to have to work harder.
Maybe people who actually like American democracy are going to
work harder.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
But they just have to.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Work harder and get the word out that these people
are lying. Not only is the RNC line but also
at mainstream media outlets are now all in on the lies.

Speaker 6 (00:55):
Look, his brain is broken.

Speaker 7 (00:57):
The difference is he does it more energetically, and you
know the the what And I think it's completely an
unfair comparison. But right now, you know, Joe Biden looks
a lot more low energy than Donald Trump, and that's
Donald Trump's advantage. But these videos, I mean, they're blatant lies.
And it used to be jen back in the day.

(01:18):
It would be kind of the dark corners of the
Internet that would put out these fake videos and then
responsible people like members of Congress.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
In the Senate or the RNC would say, no, we're
not going to do that.

Speaker 7 (01:27):
They're the ones pushing this now, this whole Joe Biden
wandering at Normandy, all you had to do was pan
out and.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
See that he was talking.

Speaker 7 (01:34):
He's doing exactly what I would have done as a
military guy, which.

Speaker 8 (01:37):
Is go over and talk to them and not the
other state leaders. You know him at the fundraiser. If
you actually zoom in on his face, he's very mobile.
He's motioning, and he's smiling at people. He's not frozen.

Speaker 7 (01:48):
But we're going to see this for the next five months,
So people just guard yourself when you see those videos.
Wait to make a judgment until you see the full
video in context.

Speaker 9 (01:58):
The Why House present use the phrase cheap fake. So
the idea of cheap fakes, let me explain what that
is to people. We've been worried for years about AI
deep fakes, that computer generated images are going to trick
people into believing something that's totally false. Cheap fakes are
a little bit simpler.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
They're cheap.

Speaker 9 (02:11):
They're just distorted, out of context videos, chopped up in
certain ways, constructed in certain ways. That's what we're seeing.
That's what the Biden administration in the Biden campaign is
so worried about right now. But made no mistake. They
are worried about this. This is a real problem. This
is not some made up fiction. The videos are oftentimes
made up, but the problem is real.

Speaker 10 (02:29):
My goodness, Kareeine, Jean Pierre, Joe Scarborough, Adam Kinzinger, and
Brian Stelter all in on the cover up of Biden's
sanility by advancing this narrative, this canard of cheap fake videos.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Don't believe what your own eyes are telling you.

Speaker 10 (02:48):
What a surreptitious video at the George Clooney fundraiser was
telling you, as Barack Obama had to escort him off stage.
Joe Biden and it would later be revealed that Joe
Biden did not wreck recognized George Clooney. All of you
having never met George Clooney, but having seen him on
stage and screen, if you met George Clooney, would you

(03:09):
know who George Clooney is? Because Joe Biden didn't joining
me to commemorate and celebrate this one year anniversary of
cheap fake videos looking to bolster the Biden administration, Carrie
Water for him.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
Steven L. Miller.

Speaker 10 (03:21):
He is the host of the Versus Media podcast. You
can follow him on Exit Red Stee's and he joins
us in Ryan Shuling Live. Stephen, where does your mind
and your heart go when hearing these highlights?

Speaker 11 (03:35):
I guess I look at the first reaction we have
from them. So what's interesting about this is almost a
year to the day that this happened, and this was
Biden Normandy Obviously we just had that anniversary and I
had an eyewitness account on my podcast about the same
bind just did not look good, he didn't look all there.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
He had to be guided everywhere.

Speaker 11 (03:58):
And so when you have somebody who is ahead of
the curve on this stuff, then it still happens. And
then you have the journalists pushing the same thing, cashing
on on bookdals.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
Let's still kind of.

Speaker 11 (04:09):
Gets under your skin a bit. But the reason this
is relevant is because even a year later, on the
first real big story that these guys had to get
away from, we didn't we just missed the story of
Joe Biden. It wasn't that we pushed a narrative of
chief fakes, which is the La riots. And we're being
told by the very same people that there are conspiracy
theories online about the La Immigration riots and that there's

(04:31):
disinformation and that the videos you're seeing aren't actually what
you're seeing.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
And this is again.

Speaker 11 (04:37):
The same habits that they have learned nothing, and it
tells you that this isn't about missing the story. This
is them about pushing a narrative. We have an incident
today where we all have our eyes and ears about
Democratic senator barging in and storming into a press conference
and we're being told that he was simply just asking
a question. And it's the same people who pushed the.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Joe Biden cheap fake narrative who continue to continue to
do this.

Speaker 11 (05:02):
And it becomes more and more laughable because we've seen
that they try to do this. None of them have
lost their jobs over it, and they continue to do it.
Inserts of the Democratic Party and their own narratives.

Speaker 10 (05:13):
Desperation is a stinky cologne, and that's what this reeks of.
Senator Alex Paediaz, who Stephen is referencing. Here, We've got
the clip, here's the audio. You want to see the
video along with it. He's crashing a Christy Nome press
conference as a senator and he just wants to ask
a question, Like Stephen said.

Speaker 12 (05:30):
I'm sor I have a questions for the Secretary because
the fact that the matter is half a dozen set
of criminals on.

Speaker 13 (05:40):
Your on yours.

Speaker 14 (05:45):
How many of our I SAgs have been jocks for
doing their duty?

Speaker 13 (05:49):
They have targeted?

Speaker 10 (05:50):
Oh, thinking this was just the distraction they needed, Senator
Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor.

Speaker 15 (05:55):
Mister President, I just saw something that sickened my stomach.
Oh my, the man handling, Oh the United States Senator.
We need immediate answers to what the hell went on
a yield to floor.

Speaker 10 (06:08):
Well, keep your ear on that word man handled. Here
is the aforementioned media by Steven L. Miller Lisa Rubin
MSNBC parroting that particular word.

Speaker 14 (06:17):
I don't know yet what has going to come of
this and where Senator Padilla has been taken. But this
is a big escalation of what has been happening in California.
Senator Padia, as David was mentioning earlier, is a son
of California. He grew up in Pacoima in Los Angeles's
San Fernando Valley, where I'm also from. Pacoima is a

(06:38):
heavily Latino community. Senator Padilla born to immigrants. He himself
is the pride of much of the Latino community in
the Los Angeles area. To see him manhandled in this
way like a common everyday protester is going to be
particularly jarring for many who are watching from California, where
he is the senior senator.

Speaker 10 (06:59):
Here, the media working hand in glove with Padilla himself,
and he must be above these common protesters. He's a senator,
for God's sake. He should be treated far better. He's
a He's a higher quality human being. And that led
to these comments, these crocodile tears from Padia at a
press conference that he just held about an hour or
so ago.

Speaker 12 (07:17):
I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 12 (07:22):
I was forced to the ground, and I was handcuffed
I was not arrested, I was not detained. Okay, I
will say this. If this is how this administration responds
to a senator with a question, If this is how

(07:44):
the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with
a question, you can only imagine.

Speaker 13 (07:52):
What they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, two day
laborers in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and
throughout the country.

Speaker 12 (08:06):
We will hold this administration accountable, Stephen.

Speaker 10 (08:11):
The unintentional narcissism shown here, which is I am a
senator on high I'm above these ne'er do wells, and
who will pick our crops? And that whole feeling, that
icky narrative that they have of these people are below us,
think all badly they're being treated. Of me, a mighty
senator is being taken away in handcuffs. Your reaction to
this whole stunt, well.

Speaker 11 (08:31):
At first US senators, they receive security briefings, including methods
to identify themselves to police or FBI agents. This press
conference is being held at the FBI headquarters in southern California,
believe was Los Angeles, and they have identification pins, they
have name tags to say that avoids Hey, I'm a senator.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
Don't you do anything to me.

Speaker 11 (08:53):
He was not wearing a senatorial hit, he wasn't wearing
any identifying clothes. He didn't have his idea out, and
he just walked into the press comp references started shouting.
You can imagine the sensitivity of an executive branch where
the Republican nominee was almost assassinated twice last year. So
then a guy barges in and starts yelling and starts
moving towards a podium of a female cabinet secretary, you

(09:15):
can probably imagine the secret Service is a little bit
on edge. And so now you have the media sending well,
he said his name, He said he was a senator,
and that was Abby Phillip of CNN. And I confronted her,
and I said, if I walked into CNN's lobby and
said that I'm a United States Senator without identification and
walked past security guards, how far do you think that
I would get? Probably the elevator. So when you walk

(09:36):
into a press conference shouting you're the king of Honda
and you demand answers, you're probably going to get confronted
by guys with guns. Now, he wasn't arrested. He was
detained for five minutes.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
And along their line of being manmandled, we already.

Speaker 11 (09:49):
Have Anita Shabria the La Times, and this is a
real headline. First they came for the immigrants. Then they
took down our Latino senator. Agents manhandled California Senator Alex
Padee out of the room, shoved him down on his
knees and handcuffed him. And the other tell on this
he had two staffers with him who both had their
phones out. They weren't trying to intervene with the agents

(10:11):
saying hey, this is the Hey, guys, see the senator.
He just wants to know what's going on. They whipped
out their phones as he was escorted.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
Out of the room.

Speaker 11 (10:18):
And the other thing is they could get away with
this stuff if you didn't have such overwrought reactions.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
Like like well he just played from Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 11 (10:26):
Elizabeth Warren said, this is a horrifying moment in the
history of our country. And you know, this kind of
takes me back to the whipping of the migrants narrative
that happened on Twitter, where they took one photograph of
a migrant trying to deter a migrant coming across the
southern border. He had his horse raids in his hands,
and those agents were suspended because a Democrat operative went

(10:49):
to the White House press room and told him that
migrants were being whipped. Then since of course been cleared,
and that was before.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Donald Trump came into office.

Speaker 11 (10:57):
But this is the kind of stunted you pull when
you know you're seventy seven percent underwater on an issue
that most Americans are defending.

Speaker 6 (11:04):
And this is also a senator.

Speaker 11 (11:06):
Missed four votes last week and had the chance to
talk about this issue on the Senate floor and chose
not to.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
So it is performative.

Speaker 11 (11:13):
And even CNN's Will Campbell is saying this behavior is
generally frowned upon. And the other thing about this is
what I don't understand is ninety nine other senators weren't
acting violent, and I think that that's where we should
really be posing our attention to. I walked out of
my front door after this happened. I didn't even see
a senator being attacked, So I don't even understand what

(11:33):
the problem is. This is the narrative we're being told
in southern California, which is only one percent of the
city is experiencing riots and so the playbook kind of
gets turned around on these guys and it is It
is a laughable stunt where the majority of the country
and polite society doesn't take too kindly to the do
you know who I Am act when they're trying to
get a restaurant reservation or get out of a parking ticket.

Speaker 10 (11:55):
Here moron is versus Media podcast. That's via his sub
stack and find it all on his exb follow him
at Red Steve Steven L. Miller Great stuff as always,
Happy cheap Fakes Anniversary Day.

Speaker 6 (12:06):
Yeah, we'll see where it goes from there.

Speaker 10 (12:09):
Well, we don't need cheap fakes when it comes to
Ryan Edwards or the Denver Broncos, who are definitely on
the ascent. But I saw this story and felt the
need to summon him, especially considering there's a Rockies game
and so he had a little bit of time on
his hands. And the title of this article says, Bronco's
buying up land at potential stadium location. Might there be
a new stadium in the works for the Broncos and
their fans? Ryan Edwards koa Sports joins us now live

(12:32):
in studio. Ryan, Thanks for your time, of course, Man,
thanks take us through the breakdown from your perspective on this,
what's more likely a new stadium completely being built or
a renovation and a power where we are right now,
I would.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
Say the new stadium is more likely.

Speaker 16 (12:45):
Scenario twenty thirty one is when this current lease runs
out at the stadium that they're at right now. And
you got to think, when you're the richest owners in
all of sports and you have an opportunity to sort
of build whatever the heck you want, you don't even
need the approval necessarily of the tax community of the voters,
right you can just go ahead and say, hey, we're

(13:06):
going to buy the land and we're gonna go ahead
and build.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
What we want to build. You know, we have the speculation.

Speaker 16 (13:11):
We've been asking Greg Pinner as well as you know,
Demandi Leech, the president of football operations there, about this
for well for years now, knowing full well that hey,
it's a new ownership group, that this is something that
they might want to do. They've scouted different areas of town,
whether it's down south in Lone Tree and Aurora. They've

(13:33):
we've heard rumors of stuff up north of stuff out
east towards the airport. But this is the closest to
downtown that we've seen anything so far. So this would
be the Burnham Yard area, which is just east of
the Highway there, south of Colefax, kind of that Thirteenth
Ave area. So yeah, I think that that would be
probably the direction they're eventually leaning. But again, twenty thirty

(13:54):
one's when this lease, this current lease runs out.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
That's six years from now.

Speaker 10 (13:57):
Obviously, doing the simple math there, that's what I'm for
Ryan Edwards joining me, Ryan Shuling and talking about the
possibilities for the Broncos and power Field at Mile High.
I've been there many times. You've been there a load
more times than I have. I compare it, you know
to the indoor facility that was built now it's going
on twenty odd years ago. Ford Field and Detroit indoor

(14:18):
contained facility has a lot of the modern kind of
Accoutremont that fans are looking for. I guess that would
be My question is as it currently stands right now, Ryan,
and your estimation or what you're hearing from fans or
what you're hearing from the team itself, what doesn't power
Field at Mile High maybe lack in terms of fan
experience or the ability to kind of retro fit it
in a way that fits the modern fan.

Speaker 16 (14:40):
Yeah, that's a good question. I'd say, I don't see
there's many much. There's not very much to that because
they actually have done some renovations there. Yeah, and they
have improved the viewing experience for a lot of fans.
They've dumped one hundred million dollars into the stadium already
in those kinds of upgrade. The scoreboard has been upgraded,

(15:01):
They've been doing upgrades.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
With the Wi Fi.

Speaker 16 (15:03):
I mean, so there isn't a lot on its face value,
but it's kind of like Jerry World, right right the
Dallas Cowboys, Like, if you can build it, and you
could make it your own, and you can maybe add
some shops and shopping around it, so you can add
apartments around it that are all yours, well, then you know,
maybe you go ahead and do something like that. So

(15:25):
I think this would be more about the facility and
what you can do around it more so than just
the facility itself.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
An interesting connection there.

Speaker 10 (15:32):
We've seen Stan Cronkey do that with so far exactly
in Los Angeles.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
What a remarkable facility that is. Have you been to that.
I have not, but I've seen the photos.

Speaker 16 (15:40):
And again the relationship with the family too, right, I
mean they're all they're all kind of related there with
the Walmart. Yeah, so it's't it wouldn't surprise me. Like
I said, you asked me what the lean would be today,
I'd say to lean and I thought this was the
lean when they bought the team, is that they would
eventually want to do something like this and purchasing up
this land, spending one hundred and forty six million just

(16:01):
on the land there doesn't feel like a fix and
flip exactly right. So but again you know that you'd
ask them and they probably give you some details about well,
it's all speculative and they bought it under about it,
I think ten different LLCs. It's all traced back to
them eventually, but it was under different names.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
So they're business people.

Speaker 16 (16:22):
There may be some business dealings that they can make
this look like for the time being. But the fact
this is downtown, this is about a mile away from
the stadium or so, it's just a lot of coincidence.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
To tie together.

Speaker 10 (16:34):
You know, Ryan Edwards KOA Sports joining us and this
from Business done a quote given to them by the team,
and they said quote, as we previously share, we are
involved in a comprehensive process regarding the future of our stadium.
No determinations have been made as we continue to evaluate
several options in and around the Denver metro area, DA
and the twenty third. George Brockler text me Broncos fans

(16:56):
would be safer in Douglas County, just saying well, and
had mentioned they might come as far as south as
Loan Tree, So that's.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
An interesting development.

Speaker 10 (17:04):
And just considering all these different avenues, I guess I'm
more focused, kind of like you, Ryan, on the stadium itself,
what it would look like, what it would entail, how
it would change, and the thing that comes to mind
at the very front. We see it in Arizona, we
see it in various newer stadiums across the country, and
that your tractable roof stadiums. I remember a few years
ago Dan Kaplis gave me his tickets because it was

(17:26):
going to be the third coldest kickoff ever, fifteen degrees
against the Chiefs.

Speaker 5 (17:29):
I went. I'm proud to say I went and attended.

Speaker 10 (17:32):
But might that be a consideration as well, that you
could have the open out door experience, but the retractable
roof for those bad weather days.

Speaker 16 (17:39):
I am in favor of that, but I know the
Broncos fans typically they blanched a little bit at the
idea of a any kind of roof whatsoever. They I
guess they liked the idea of the elements. If you
come to Denver, you've got to deal with the elements. Yeah,
and I respect that, But I also think that if
you want the ability to host major events, including maybe

(18:01):
a super Bowl, you're going to have to have a roof.
And you saw in Minnesota they odded a roof and
they got a super Bowl out of it, right exactly.
So that's the thing. I like the idea of the
retractable probably the most, because it does allow for the
fact that you can, like you said with Arizona, you
can you can move that off if it's a beautiful day.
If you decide to hey, we're gonna we want to
keep this more of an indoor situation because we have

(18:22):
a giant blizzard or something along those lines, well then
you have that option. And again it gives you some
options down the road to host a Draft, to host
the Super Bowl, to host other big events. Maybe even
at some point if you have the ability to, maybe
you can host us some kind of Olympics or something
like that too. I mean, so there's just it gives
you some options there. So that would be my lean.

(18:43):
But again I know a lot of Broncos fans. They
push back on that almost immediately.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
So I'm glad you could join us here today.

Speaker 10 (18:48):
And that's because Rocky's baseball getaway day game is going
on over on KOA about they're battling.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
They're battling.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
Okay, that's that's good.

Speaker 10 (18:54):
Seven to five right now in the seventh inning, the
seventh so ballparking, about what time do you think you
guys would go lives?

Speaker 16 (19:00):
You know, again, they're they're fighting, so I'll give them credit.
I usually round four fifteen, four thirty.

Speaker 10 (19:06):
Okay, you can catch Ryan Edwards, Dave Logan, the whole
gang over there on KOA Sports. That's our sister station.
We appreciate any time that Ari can check in. I
will see you at the Ryan event for the Colorado Rockies.
Gotta get my tickets round deck for that. Yep, all right,
Ryan Edwards KOA Sports joining us on the future of
the Denver Broncos and a potential news stadium. A timeout
when we come back, will be joined by Congressman Jeff

(19:28):
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Speaker 17 (21:20):
What goes through your mind when you see those confrontations?
Do you say, is the President watching this? What will
he do if he sees these videos?

Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (21:29):
I'm frustrated and I'm angry when I see that, because
I think it sends the wrong message about where Denver
is and what Denver believes. There's no reason to invite
a new battle with the President that he would love
to start in a city that doesn't have a crisis.

Speaker 17 (21:43):
Are you handling these protests differently this time around, knowing
that if they get out of hand, the president could
send in federal forces.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (21:50):
My concern is not really about the President. My concern
is about people in Denver feeling safe. But I think
the people that miscarry this mission into violence that's just
not tolerated here. And I don't think I think the
people who care the most about this issue would say
that doesn't help them. So if people are violent and
they're damaging someone's small business, we're going to rest you.
You know, if you are assaulting officer, we're going to

(22:11):
wrest you. You're trying to light cars on fire, We're
going to wrest you.

Speaker 10 (22:14):
Quite the one to eighty from Denver Mayor Mike Johnston
from his Tienamen Square remarks just months before, and quite
the different tone struck from his counterpart in Los Angeles
Mayor Karen bass In what she's saying no, the violence
won't be tolerated here in Denver. I don't know if
our next guest is a stunned to hear that as
I am, but he joins US Representative Jeff Hurd from

(22:35):
the third here on Ryan Schuling Live. Congressman Hurd, thank
you for your time.

Speaker 19 (22:40):
Ryan, it's great to be with you.

Speaker 10 (22:41):
What do you make of the Mayor of Denver's comments
right there?

Speaker 19 (22:45):
Well, look, every American has a right to protest peacefully,
but when the protests turn in a riots, law enforcement
has every right to restore order and protect our communities.
We cannot allow law lessons to take root in our cities.
What we saw in Los Angeles cannot be allowed to
happen in Colorado. And so whatever we need to do
to stop that, I think is appropriate.

Speaker 10 (23:03):
A congressman heard, you represent a tremendous land mass, one
of the largest in the nation, that really spans a
lot of different types of people constituents within that geography,
from the Western Slope and all the way down and
around to Pueblo. As you hear from your constituents on
this issue, and it's front and center here in Colorado
because of the car accident the vehicular homicide that happened

(23:28):
in Aurora, and then also with the fire bombing in Boulder,
neither in your district, but certainly in your state. And
what the typical constituent who you represent feels about ICE
executing mass deportations in Colorado and nationally, Where do they
come down?

Speaker 5 (23:44):
How do you feel about that issue?

Speaker 19 (23:47):
Ran certainly the vast majority of people I represent believing
the rule of law and following the rule of law,
enforcing federal law, including with respect to immigration, and supporting ICE.
One of the top issues that we ran on Ryan
was securing the border, making our community stay for stopping
the flow of drugs and sentinel across the border. I
think it's important that we follow up on those commitments

(24:08):
that we made during our campaign. So by and large,
I think most people agree with what we see happening.
We're finally securing the border and enforcing our immigration laws.

Speaker 10 (24:17):
Representative Jeff Heurd joining US third Congressional district, the largest
by land in Colorado, and of course representing a very
pivotal city in Pueblo that has turned from blue to
purple and now in my view, lean's red, and that
bodes well for Jeff in the next elections, we try
to get him re elected. But Jeff, one of the
things I think it's going to be critical in turning
the tide in the Republicans favor heading into those midterm

(24:40):
elections is the Big Beautiful Bill. Its status currently with
the Senate as they make adjustments perhaps to it, looking
to pass it and put it on President Trump's desk
by the fourth of July. I've talked to your counterpart,
Representative Gabe Evans. He's confident that that will happen. But
we've seen some pushback from the likes of Thomas Massey
out of Kentucky in the House, from the likes of

(25:00):
Ram Paul to Kentucky and the Senate against passing this
because of it contributing to the deficit. But the reason
you just stated is why I feel it's so important.
I think you do too, And that are the elements
of this bill that addresses border enforcement, the completion of
the wall, reinforcing our ice agents, our border patrol agents.
Can you take us through that part of it and
why you are so firmly committed to this bill getting

(25:22):
across the finish line.

Speaker 19 (25:24):
And I think that's absolutely correct. The Big Beautiful Bill
has got a lot of things in it that are good,
a lot of things that we campaign on. One of
those is securing the border, finishing the wall, increasing resources
for law enforcement, adding additional ice agents, all of those
things that will make our community safer. And you know what,
I will tell you the violence that comes from the
drugs and having an insecure border hurts families, small business owners,

(25:49):
and hardworking Americans. They're the ones that pay the price.
Those are the ones in my district that are most
concerned about what we're seeing, and that is one important
part of the Big Beautiful Bill. Ryan is advancing that
border security issue and keeping our community safe.

Speaker 10 (26:03):
Representative Jeff heard third Congressional District, joining us from the
great state of Colorado. I just want to get your
thoughts on the goings on today, Jeff. There's a lot
of theater in drama being perpetrated by the opposite party
in Washington. Most recently, Senator Alex Padilla barnstorming at a
press conference held by Christy Nome.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
He had these comments to make just within the last
couple of hours.

Speaker 12 (26:24):
Will not be taking questions, but allow me to greet
my statement. I'm here in Los Angeles today, and I
was here in the Federal Building in the conference room
waiting a scheduled briefing from federal officials as part of
my responsibility as a senator to provide oversight and accountability.

(26:51):
While I was waiting for the briefing with General Guillo,
I learned that the Pritaria Nome was having a press
conference a couple of doors down the hall.

Speaker 10 (27:04):
So then he pretends, I don't know, to be a
member of the media, doesn't really identify himself as a senator,
crashes that press conference, and then is escorted out of there.
Representative heard, you know this better than anybody. There are
House oversight committees, both for the Senate and the House.
There are opportunities for Senator Padia or anybody else, yourself included,
to arrange meetings with Secretary Nome or anybody else in

(27:26):
the Trump administration. What fuels this theater from the left
and feeling like they've got to make a spectacle of
themselves just to move the needle.

Speaker 19 (27:35):
Yeah, I'm not sure I understand it. Ran What I
would say you is, You're right, there was a lot
of drama there. It was inappropriate, it was disruptive, it
was aggressive what the senator did. He should have been removed.
He should not get special treatment just because of the
United States Center and be able to disrupt a meeting
like that. So I understand why law enforcement did what
it did, and I think they did the right thing
in that circumstance.

Speaker 10 (27:55):
Representative Jeff heard their congressional district doing his level best,
along with the three other House reps from the state
of Colorado we talk about, Gabe Evans, Jeff Crank, Lauren Bobert.
We're so fortunate to have the likes of yourself and
those three Jeff representing our interests for Colorado in Washington,
and that Colorado is split four and four in the

(28:15):
House is nothing short of a modern miracle. So thank
you for all the hard work that you're doing. Thank
you for your efforts to advance this big, beautiful bill,
and we look forward to that next conversation where we
can talk about it going to the President's desk.

Speaker 19 (28:28):
I look forward to it. Ryan, thank you so much.

Speaker 10 (28:30):
Congressman Jeff heard your reaction, especially if you live in
his district. The third, as I mentioned by Land, it's
the largest geographical district in the state of Colorado. The
pivotal district one of them, along with the eighth and Representative,
Gabe Evans, of course narrowly defeating a Derek Caravello in
that last re election. We need to do our level

(28:51):
best to batten down the hatches, make sure Congressman Herd
gets re elected, make sure Congressman Evans gets re elected,
and reinforce what Congressmen Crank and Congresswoman Bobert are doing
on behalf of Colorado, specifically in my mind, on two
issues illegal aliens in our state, the issue of illegal
immigration to Colorado, the sanctuary status of this state and

(29:13):
the city of Denver, along with expanding the leasing and
drilling rights and opportunities for Colorado oil and gas, natural
gas energy excavation of this state being a net energy
export as a country and as a state of Colorado,
to help reinforce and bolster our economy, and then finally
fighting on behalf of our farmers and ranchers. To me,

(29:34):
that is the three pronged approach that these four members
of Congress are doing their due diligence in working with
the Trump administration to advance those causes for those that
do not live in the dominated blue corridors of Denver
Boulder in a Rapahoe County. We'll take this time out,
come back, wrap it all up with your tex and
a counterpoint issued by a potential challenger for the man

(29:56):
you just heard, Representative Jeff Hurd. Hope Sheppelman has thrown
her hat into the ring. Will get her posted video
and commentary as to why she's running to primary Jeff Hurd,
and get your thoughts as well on that after this
on Ryan Schuling Live.

Speaker 20 (30:13):
Hello Colorado, Hope Sheppleman here, the former vice chairwoman of
the Colorado GOP.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
And this is your grassroots roundup.

Speaker 20 (30:20):
The establishment doesn't want fighters, they want followers, and they
picked one last election. Jeffhard isn't running to represent the
people of the third Congressional district here in Colorado. He
is running for the donor class and the special interest group,
for the billionaires who think they can buy our district
and control our voices in Washington. I have lived a

(30:44):
life of service to my country as a Navy veteran,
to families as a trauma and critical care nurs practitioner,
and to conservatives as your former vice chairwoman of the
Colorado Republican Party.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
I have fought to defend our.

Speaker 20 (30:59):
Values, protect rule Colorado, and put America first.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
And I am not stopping now.

Speaker 20 (31:06):
That is why I'm officially announcing my campaign for Congress
in the Colorado's third congressional district. I am running to
primary Jeff heard and to stand up to the coke
funding machine trying to hijack our party again. This is
our district, this is our fight, and with your help,
we are going to win it.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Go to Hope for Colorado dot com learn more, donate
and volunteer.

Speaker 20 (31:34):
I am Hope Shefelman, I am America First, and I
am just getting started.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
As always, please like and share this video.

Speaker 20 (31:43):
Remember the grassroots are the soul of Colorado, and we
are ready to take our state back one county at
a time.

Speaker 10 (31:51):
Let's Hope Sheplman the point counterpoint we heard from Representative
Jeff Hurd, and Hope Sheplman right there with a video
launching her campaign into the primary for the third to
challenge herd Yes that rhymed. What it comes back down
to for me is in a district like the third,
which has gotten a bit more blue. You got those
kind of wealthy areas in the mountains Aspen, etc. Where

(32:13):
Adam Frisch is from and where he has been strongly
funded by Soros and others in a very narrow election
against Lauren Bobert the previous time around, and then a
hard fought election for Jeff Heard.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
This past time around.

Speaker 10 (32:29):
My question then, is does Hope Sheppeman stand a stronger
chance of winning in that district. I'm all about winning
practical and pragmatic measures without sacrificing principle and based those
priorities that we have based in principle. In other words,
is Congressman Jeff Heard in effective means to an end

(32:52):
for that which we hold dear as conservatives, as libertarians,
as populist America first mag pro Trump supporters. Is Jeff
Heard perfect? No, I mean no congress person is. But
is he good enough to get things done? Like we
just talked about with a big, beautiful bill. We want
that passed, right. I know there are problems with it,
and I would have them too, But this is it's

(33:15):
a big arena with a lot of divergent interests, and
it's like trying to herd cats. And I do not
envy Speaker Johnson Mike Johnson in that regard. But can
he get the job done by and large, to help
move the football down the field incrementally picking up first downs.
We're not gonna get hail Mary touchdowns necessarily, especially with
the narrow majority in the House. And it turns out

(33:38):
to be a narrow majority in the Senate because of
people like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. So it's a
very difficult needle to thread, and you have to be
a realist about it. I hear about this grassroots idealist movement,
but does it win?

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Can we win? Because we can't do anything if we
don't win. That's my two cents. Let's get Kelly Caucheriz.

Speaker 10 (33:58):
Kelly, I know that you ten and to support kind
of non conventional candidates who are against the establishment. I
think Hope Sheppelman would qualifies that. Where do you stand
on Hope Shepelman versus Jeff Heard. I like Jeff Lot
you do.

Speaker 5 (34:12):
I do, And I think.

Speaker 21 (34:14):
With such a diverse area that you have in three
I think there's enough people. I mean mountains and those counties,
notwithstanding Summit County and Aspen you know all of those,
But I think with just the diversity of all of
the other counties, which is how I think he won

(34:34):
the last time. I think he's going to be doing
enough in the House in order to maintain that stuff.

Speaker 10 (34:41):
So Jeff Herd doesn't fit in the category that you
usually espouse, which is vote the bums out, or that
this is a rhino who's not getting the job done.

Speaker 21 (34:48):
I he does have his moments, okay, but I don't
believe that Hope Sheppelman is the correct choice.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (34:57):
Kelly Kuchera her thoughts there yours as well, five seven seven,
three nine. We'll get those on the air through text tomorrow.
This one came in to me directly, Ryan, So what
do you think will happen to empower Field at Mile
High after the Browncos lease expires?

Speaker 6 (35:09):
Well?

Speaker 10 (35:09):
I texted it to Ryan Edwards. He says, great question.
Guess it would be up to whoever owns the rights
to the land. My top choice would be the level
at making it a park parking lot and build a
new stadium right next door. They've done that at Yankee
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