Todd Watkins, a member of the Republican State Central Committee, joins Dan to discuss the primary elections and the committee calling for a special meeting to discuss a vote on Dave Williams' ouster after releasing a petition with 25% of signatures from the committee.
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end up being one of the mostimportant days in American political history, so
much more important than any other debatein our lifetime. So of course we're
going to be over every single aspectof this and some deeply deeply concerning behavior
by CNN, And it goes waybeyond a Tapper and Bash. Are they
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going to be biased against Trump?Of course, but no, this goes
way beyond that. So I wantto get to that in a second as
well. We have so much hotsound for today, but just hours away.
I cannot wait. I think it'sgoing to be a very good night
for President Trump. It'll be Biden'sswin Swan song. He's going to do
better, better than expected, butit isn't going to matter in the end.
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Eight five five or zero five eighttwo five to five the number What
is going to matter is that Trump'sgoing to do a good job tonight.
A vast majority of humans know theyhad a better life under Trump than they
do under the Biden presidency, andthey just want to see if Trump is
nuts. They just want to seeif Trump is all these crazy things the
Democrats say he is, and they'regoing to see tonight he's not. They're
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going to see tonight he's the guywho did the job real well and made
their life better, while Biden isa guy who did the job horribly and
made their life worse. So there'sonly one thing that could move us off
of this topic of the most importantdebate in American political history. Well,
let me say, of our lifetimes. We can argue the rest, and
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that is this very important development inColorado, because I talked at link yesterday
about how great and important Tuesday Night'sresults were to the rebirth of the GOP
in Colorado and reasserting itself eventually beingable to win state wide again. And
part of that now is the moveto oust Dave Williams as party chair.
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So Todd Watkins from the State CentralCommittee, who authored the letter to Chairman
Dave Williams that we read on Areyesterday is able to join us right now,
so I want to take full advantageof that. Todd, Welcome to
the Dan Caplis show. Hey,thank you, mister capitalist. Glad to
be here. Man, you justaged me ten years, but appreciate the
thought. Please do call me Dan. But so Todd, we read your
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letter to Dave Williams on Area yesterday, so I won't repeat that now.
It basically calls for a meeting ofthe Central Committee in order to vote on
austing Dave. But you're the expert. You're right in the middle of this.
Please tell folks what you're doing andwhy. I've never been accused of
being an expert, but I'll takeit. So this is provided for in
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the State Party's bylaws. The CentralCommittee can call a special meeting for any
purpose that it wants on twenty fivepercent of the body requesting the meeting,
which we have provided the request.The purpose for the meeting is to hold
a vote to remove Chairman Dave Williamsfrom his position as the chair of the
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party, and that requires sixty percentof the State Central Committee to do that.
Answer. Yeah, that's a verysimple process of it. Has there
been any response to your letter requestingrequiring that vote. Yeah, yeah,
quite a bit. Actually. Ofcourse the media has picked this up across
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the state. The seeking support forit has been very well received in we're
very comfortable that we have sixty percentat least of the book committee to dismiss
Chairman Williams. Do you think ChairmanWilliams is going to agree to hold the
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vote? Oh no, no,they're not going to. They're already making
overtures that they're not going to.They're they're questioning the validity of the of
the petition with the signatures. Uh, they're asking for you know, names
and all of the metadata behind it, where the where the names came from?
I responded, simply, you're theyou're the leadership of the party.
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These are your own members. Ifyou want to call them and ask them,
go ahead. But they've already madeovertures previously to this, uh a
week plus that they would essentially publicizeall of those who supported this, So
I was going to get wasn't goingto give them help with emails and addresses.
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They can look that up on theirown. They they hold all the
records for who is a member oftheir committee. So wow, and how
how pathetic that is, you know, threatening to publicize the names of the
Central Committee members who want to voteon whether to oust you, rather than
just addressing the issue on the merits. That doesn't sound like greatlyleadership. I'm
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not going to argue with you there, Dan. Yeah. I would also
like to point out that, sothey were delivered the petition yesterday, they
have ten days from yesterday to callthis meeting. If they do not,
any member of the Central Committee cancall this meeting at the expense of the
state Party. We have fifteen days. The call has to come out fifteen
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days prior to the meeting, butthe meeting must occur thirty days within thirty
days of the call. So ifthey don't call this meeting, we will
call it, Todd Watkins, ourguest. And when you say you'll call
it mechanically, that simply means thatany member of the Central Committee can say,
Hey, we're going to We're goingto meet on Saturday, July whatever
at ten o'clock at the high school. Be there and we'll take our vote.
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That's right, Okay, Okay,do you expect they'll go to court
to try to block you? Surpriseme, but you know I've I've done
this before with the kind of inreverse order where the previous administration held a
meeting, held a special meeting totake over the El Paso County organizational meeting
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in February of twenty twenty three.That did go to court, and the
court ruled that we're not it wrongjurisdiction. We don't have any place here
in this political internal interested So Ithink I think they know that to be
the case. They can they cantake it to court. I pretty confident
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that Judges cann't dismiss it, justlike he dismissed Al Paso County's case.
Do you think the vote will occurbefore the Republican National Convention by just pure
math in the time hacks, No, it'll be after. Okay, well,
when do you expect the vote willbe? Mathematically? Uh, interest
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real world because you've obviously got allthese moving pieces that you're dealing with.
Yeah, I mean, you know, so, I believe July sixth is
the tenth day, so you know, you got you make the call has
to occur within thirty days, soyou're looking really August at the latest,
I suppose, but it would itwould happen after the uh, the then
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sure, because you have to youhave to give it least fifteen days notice.
So so if we say if wecalled this meeting on July seventh,
we couldn't call it for the nextday, he has to understood, you
know, we get least fifteen daysout. And my final question, what
percentage of the Central Committee if thevote was held today do you believe would
vote to remove Chairman Williams over sixtypercent? Yeah? Yeah, well yeah,
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I mean you've you've probably uh,he had taken the temperature of the
of the state party just well byobservations, did you see where it stands?
And I would have to believe thatthat number is going up with the
will of the people being expressed inChairman Williams home area, and these are
largely GOP voters on primary night,with the absolute she lacking that he took,
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I think that has probably further weakendisposition. Yeah. I mean I'm
in El Paso County, so youknow some home hometown kid, I guess
yeah, And I mean the clerksends us all the daily data. I
think the county had twenty eight pointtwenty point ish percent voter turnout, which
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is better than I think we're expectingit. Yeah, the Republicans even out
numbered the unaffiliateds in turnout, andyou saw what happened in the D five
race. And if I may add, I mean we held this, we
held onto this petition to wait forthe primary resultsking that well, let's see
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what the people say. I mean, if the people, if the people
vote with their current administration and theirtheir st their brand of politics and leadership,
then I guess you know they've spoken, and uh, we are the
Republican Party, and you know weare guaranteed a Republican small art form of
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government. So I mean that wouldbe the appropriate thing to do that.
If the people disagree with that,yeah, then we're done here. We
we we you know, lick ourwounds and go on and say, well,
see what happens next. Nope.I believe that people are in favor
of this move, and I thinkthat we kind of have an obligation to,
uh to respect that right well anddo this. I think you're absolutely
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right that people have spoken. Ithink in a lot of different ways.
So you know, just as aColoraden and a Republican, I appreciate what
you're doing. It's not personal withDave. I actually kind of like Dave,
but for all the reasons that havebeen stated, he has got to
go as party chair for the cause, all of the causes that we're also
committed to. Thank you, ToddWatkins. Look forward to the next conversation.
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Thank you. You take care ofthat? Is that Todd Watkins say
when we come back. It isall debate all the time. CNN engaging
in some very very concerning behavior abouttonight, to the point where the White
House Correspondence Association, pretty far leftgroup, is stepped in. They're furious
with CNN and they're concerned about what'sabout to happen. You're on the Dan
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Capla Show and now back to theDan Kaplas Show podcast. This is a
tough business. So you're a toughguy, and we need to have a
leader that is for real top you'renever going to be president, and I
insulting your way to Let's see,I'm at forty two and you're at three,
so somehow I'm doing better. SomewhereI'm doing better. You know,
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you started off all the hits,yet you're moving over further and further.
Pretty soon you're going to be off. The end is that the President Trump
you want tonight. I got myanswer to that, but first we have
to talk about something that is deeply, deeply concerning. And I'm the guy
who's been on air all week tellingyou, hey, wait a second,
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to CNN is going to be morefair to Trump. They're not going to
be completely fair. Obviously they wanthim to lose and they hate him viscerally,
but they're going to be more fairto Trump than people think and all
of this and that, well,there's been a development that has to has
to really undermine any honest person's confidencein CNN for tonight. This is coming
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from the White House Correspondence Association.This is a liberal group. Here's the
headline in the Washington Post. WhiteHouse Correspondence blast CNN for debate access snub.
The association representing White House reporters saysto the network should allow a pull
reporter to be in the closed studiowhere Biden and Trumpell debate. Now,
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before I get into the Washington Poststory, this is obvious, right.
There is no legitimate reason whatsoever tokeep a poll reporter out of this auditorium,
out of this arena where the debateis going to occur. The only
conceivable reason to keep the reporter outis to prevent the reporting of true facts
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that are likely to be bad forJoe Biden. This is fundamentally dishonest,
fundamentally Unamerican. And you've even gotthe lefty press stepping up and squalling about
it right now, which they should. And here's part of the Washington Post
take on it. The White HouseCorrespondence Association criticized CNN for not allowing a
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designated poll reporter to be in theroom as the network produces Thursday's presidential debate.
The absence of a pool reporter representingthe larger White House Press Corps is
notable because there will be no audiencepresent for the debate, which is being
held then a closed studio in Atlanta. I'll interject here, so get this.
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So CNN now no audience, nowitnesses, no witnesses whatsoever to anything
that may happen in there when thecameras are off. Why think about that?
What conceivable justification could there be forthat other than to protect Joe Biden.
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The piece goes on, the WhiteHouse Pool has a duty to document,
report, and witness the president's eventsand his movements on behalf of the
American people. The pool is therefor the what ifs in a world where
the unexpected does happen. A poolreporter is present to provide context and insight
by direct observation and not through thelens of the television production. And then
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it goes on to describe a bunchof stuff quote. A pool reporter is
there to observe what is said anddone when microphones are off, or when
either candidate is not seen on camerabut may speak, gesture, move,
or engage in some way. Andthen the story goes on to say in
the post, how you know,the Correspondence Association has been pushing CNN on
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this for a while, So thinkabout what's happening here. You've got a
president in Biden who has repeatedly seizedup in public. He's had these bizarre
moments where he just starts spewing gobbledegook. He has times where he wanders aimlessly.
And now CNN is keeping all witnessesout of the room other than CNN
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personnel. So it would just beDonald Trump saying, hey, wait a
second. During the break, youknow, Biden started babbling like a child.
Biden wandered off and they had togo grab him. All of this
behavior, all of this information shouldit happen, you know, being highly
relevant to the American people. Sothink about what CNN is doing. CNN
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is intentionally intentionally eliminating witnesses from theroom in case Biden engages in any of
the behavior we've seen so often fromhim recently, any of it off camera.
It's just one of the worst thingsI've seen in the history of journalism.
How much of this, Dan,do you suspect has been coordinated between
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CNN and the Biden White House?One hundred percent? Yeah. Yeah.
And then now there's another question outthere and a Texter hits it. There
are several people saying, Dan,don't forget about the two minute delay of
the debate. I would have ledwith that if we can source it.
Here. Here's the thing. Allover the internet right now, including x
there are these reports that CNN isinstituting a one to two minute delay.
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If that is true, it fallsinto the same bucket that I was just
talking about, you know, justjust a blatant dereliction of duty for any
journalist, any broadcaster, a blatanteffort to protect Biden, etcetera. The
problem is maybe you can source itdirectly. I can't source that report right
now. I see it all overthe internet, but I cannot find an
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original source. I cannot see anyconfirmation from CNN. It may be out
there and I've just missed it.But if it's out there, tell me
where it is, and I'll leteverybody else know, because that would be
equally horrific if CNN was putting ina one minute delay. Listen, we
got seven seconds here, right,and so we're on a seven second delay.
Everybody's on a seven second delay,right, Maybe ten might be ten,
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Okay, But here's the point.The justification for that is if a
caller utters some obscenity or something,or yet, we're not allowed to me.
You think I would I was goingto do that. I would have
done that thirty years ago. Butno. But here's the point. There
is no justification for a one seconddelay, not even a one second delay
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in this debate tonight, because ifone of these candidates was to utter an
obscenity that's normally not permitted, itwould be permitted because of the news context.
If the President of the United Statesor the presumptive GOP nominee utters an
obscenity and that context. It's newsand it may be aired, so there's
no justification for any delay tonight.All I'm telling you is I cannot find
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credible sourcing for the report that it'sgoing to be a one to two minute
delay. We'll continue to work onthat. Does it really quick, Dan?
Does it change your opinion as towhether Bash and Tapper will be even
handed, fair or try to betonight? No? And here's why,
because I come back to their selfinterest and what I expect from Bash and
Tapper is that they will ask equallytough initial questions of both Trump and Biden
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the follow up questions. Sorry,I'm just hitting puberty. My voice is
changing. The follow up questions arethe only thing that matter. The initial
questions don't matter at all. Anybodycan duct a question, and it's all
about the follow up questions. Thefollow up questions to Trump will be tougher
than the follow up questions to Biden, but not by as large a margin
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as expected for the reasons we've discussedbefore. But CNN at this point cannot
justify what it's doing. You're listeningto the Dan Kapliss Show podcast. He's
had the gall to go World TradeCenter, came down the mother for that
hold on. He's had the gallto go after my mother. It's not
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keeping. I won the lottery whenI was born sixty three years ago.
Looked up, but I saw mymom. Mom. My mom is the
strongest woman I know. She's justnot a See. That's the I'm sorry,
that's the Trump I want tonight.I understand the danger in that,
but I want the animated Trump tonight, not the approach. Not the approach
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at the first twenty twenty debate thatwas disastrous, that that kind of rude,
constant, interrupting to no point.It's that's not what I want tonight.
But I want the fully alive Trump. I want the energized, vibrant,
funny Trump. I think if theytry to suppress Trump and make them
too quote presidential, then at thatpoint you lose a lot of that energy.
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And frankly, I don't think he'llbe a sharp I don't know how
it is for you. Everybody's different, right, but they're an awful lot
of people, and I think Trump'sone of them that the more animated,
the more intense they are, thesharper and quicker they are So that's the
Trump I want to see tonight witha healthy dose of humor as well,
because think about the contrast. Now, I know Biden's not relevant tonight.
He's not going to be their nominee. We all know that, but it
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still is a very helpful contrast.And whoever the DEM nominee is going to
be is going to be. Obviously, everybody is younger than Biden, at
least younger acting and performing. SoI think it's very important that Trump be
his vigorous self tonight because whether it'sObama or Newsome or whomever, the Dem
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nah many is going to be youngerand more energetic than Biden. So yeah,
I want to see the Trump infull tonight. I got an update
on the alleged delay that we've beentalking about trying to source. Dan.
Let me prefaces with a question foryou. Do you think the communications and
PR team for CNN are morons oridiots? Those are my only two choices.
Are they morons or idiots? Yesor no? Yes or no question?
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Do you think they don't know?Okay, I don't even know who
the light after this? Either they'rebeing intentionally deceptive or they're stupid beyond words.
No, they're not stupid. Okay, here we go. They may
be smrons, smart people acting moronically. So this Patrick Webb, he's like
an independent journalist. I think hetweeted out the following breaking CNN will implement
a one to two minute delay fortonight's presidential debate instead of the standard seven
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second delay, potentially allowing time toedit parts of the broadcast. Their response,
CNN pr this is false. Thedebate will begin live at nine pm
Eastern. So they didn't directly adds. What they're stupidly apparently answering is no,
it's going to start on time.There won't be a delay. I
won't go to nine oh two andstart that it'll start on time. That's
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not the question, you morons.That is will there be a delay in
the broadcast transmission of the ninety minutedebate throughout? They know that they have
to know that and listen. Iunderstand that it would be easy for CNN
to say no, there will beno delay, or no, there will
be a seven second delay. Bythe way, my position is there shouldn't
be any delay, not even amillisecond. But they didn't say that directly.
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Right at the same time, Ryan, I can't find any confirmation anywhere
that there will be a delay tonight. I cannot find that confirmation what I
can find, And if you're joiningthe show now, thank you. This
is very important. CNN is infact barring all witnesses, all witnesses from
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that room that they're not allowing ineven a press pool reporter. Obviously there
will be no audience. And sothe White House correspondence is so ciation of
a left leaning group is outraged aboutthat and saying, wait, we have
to have a reporter in there.We have to be able to report on
what happens during breaks, what happenswhen it's not on camera, And they
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don't say it, but it's obviousthat when you've had a presentent who's frozen
up many times in public now andwandered off, they need to be able
to report if that happens. Somy position as CNN has no legitimate reason
to keep a pull reporter out ofthat room. And I'll bet you,
I'll bet you another tomahawk, myfriend, that they do relent and they
allowed the pull a reporter in becausenow they've been busted right now that it's
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a national story. They've been busted. Everybody can see they're trying to protect
Biden, and I think they're goingto have to let a pull a reporter
in. Please focus on the stupidWhy would anybody who has access to the
CNN Communications pr X account reply withthat idiotic response listen that it will start
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on time, that that was theincident. I get it if if you're
in front of a jury right now, you would win an argument that that
response by not directly refuting the allegationadmits it, you would win on that.
But all I'm saying is I can'tfind any independent confirmation what may be
going on there is maybe as CNNwas planning some substantial delay and now they're
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going to rethink that. But again, I have seen no confirmation that there
was ever any delay planned. We'llfind out together, right, I mean,
we're going to I'm going to beable to find out. Dan they
could have totally dismissed that with adirect right response. Now podcast will not
be delayed throughout I hear you.They have to know that was the accusation.
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Very good reasoning. I agree withthat. All I'm saying is I
can't look our listeners in the microphoneand say there's going to be a one
to two minute delay without being ableto confirm that somewhere. You consider that
confirmation the failure to directly deny it, and I accept that. I mean,
I accept the logic behind that.Let's see, Oh, we've got
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so many texts coming in. Dan, you keep saying CNN wants Biden out,
So why would they do that ordo you think they want info on
him so they can use it toblackmail him in the future. Great,
great thinking by this, Texter.Listen above all, CNN wanted this debate.
This is the only debate I canremember presidential that isn't run by the
Presidential Commission. So CNN now hasthis lottery win, right, they own
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it. When you watch it onFox tonight, it will say CNN on
the screen, the CNN debate.So maybe it's something that CNN agreed to
to be able to get the debate, because obviously the Biden camp doesn't want
any witnesses in there to what Bidenmay do during breaks. Yeah, maybe
it's something they agreed to. Idon't think there's any question CNN wants Biden
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out of this race. CNN hatesTrump, they want Trump defeated, and
they know that Biden is he's notgoing to make it to election day as
a remotely credible option, Dan greatopportunity for Tump actually show the quote threat
to democracy. Boy, that issuch a timely text. A tremendous poll.
There's been a lot of good pollingcome out today for President Trump,
and one of those is Washington Postthat shows that on the issue of who
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do you trust more to deal withthe threat to democracy? By an eleven
point March and forty four to thirtythree, voters trust Trump more than Biden
to deal with the threat to democracy, as they should because the threat to
democracy is Biden and the left.And do you think there will be a
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tape delay or will it truly belive on the debate? I expect at
this point that if in I underline, if they had planned to delay,
that it will now either be liveor have kind of a typical seven second
delay. Again, my position isthere's no justification for a seven second delay.
Those only exist in case somebody swearson air, And if somebody swore
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during the debate, it would benewsworthy, it would be permitted to be
broadcast. So I don't think theyI don't think they can justify a one
second delay, and I don't thinkthey can justify keeping out a pool reporter.
Dan, So, now that that'snot public my White House Correspondence Association,
do you think CNN will relent andlet a pool reporter do? Okay?
Yes? I help you, so, yes. And if they don't,
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what does that tell you? Uhhuh? Because what's what's the downside?
In the words of Donald Trump,you what the hell do you have
to lose? Yeah, what's thedownside of allowing a pool reporter? He's
the president of the United States,that the people of the United States have
a right to know what happens inthere, and it shouldn't be in the
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control of CNN only to decide whatthe people get shown. Yes. So
no. And you know, ifthere are those freeze up moments, et
cetera for Biden, they are mostlikely to happen during breaks or the wandering
off or whatever. So now Ithink they'll have to relent now that they've
been busted. Dan, I'm prayingthat Biden's people don't overjuice him and give
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him an aneurysm on National TV.That would be horrendous, not knowing what
their secret sauce is. Yeah,there's no way to comment on the risk
of this or that. Here's whatwe do know. Logically, if if
medically, they could do every daywhat they do for these special occasions to
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get him better, they would bedoing it every day. That's a great
point. So whatever they're doing mustbe something that is too dangerous to repeat
every day. Eight five five Zfive A two five five comeback will take
calls tremendous text, red hot sound. Maybe one of the most important days
in American political history. You're onthe Dan Capla Show and now back to
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the Dan Kaplass Show podcast. It'sjust awfully good that someone with the temperament
of Donald Trump is not in chargeof the law in our country, because
you'd be in jail, Secretary Clayton, That's the Trump I want tonight,
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not the Trump of the first twentytwenty debate, but that Trump where sense
of humor is fully alive. Notthat the rude, nonsensical to no end
interrupting, but that kind of intellectualaggressiveness, that sense of humor so important
that we have him fully alive tonight, in control, yes, but fully
alive and listen, we all knowthat if you you know from your own
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life, if you're going to beout there and you're going to be living
in full and you're going to beliving out loud, sometimes you're going to
go outside the lines that there isno way to do it perfectly. There's
no perfect balance. You're always goingto err on one side or the other.
I'd rather have him air on theliving out loud side, but not
that ugly, rude, nonsensical interruptingthat we saw in twenty There's a big
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difference between that and what you justhurt that flashback from sixteen, and there
are plenty of others out there eightfive to five for zero five eight two
five five if you just joined us. Some very concerning news about the behavior
of CNN. White House Correspondence Association, a lefty or left leaning group blasting
CNN because, get this, they'rerefusing to allow witnesses in the CNN studios
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to see what goes on during breaksor what goes on that may not be
captured by CNN cameras. They willnot allow a pool reporter in when the
President of the United States is engagedin an official function. That's insane.
And there's no legitimate reason for it. Obviously it's being done to cover for
Biden. So i'd bet you tomahawkthat yeah, they. CNN is forced
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to relent at this point because it'sso obvious now you know that they are
on Biden's team, when even theleft is going after him for that.
So we'll keep you updated on that. There is no official sourcing available for
the claim that CNN will have aone to two minute delay tonight. I
don't think a single second delay isjustified for the reasons we've just discussed Texter.
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We have such smart listeners. DanTrump should wear a body camo.
Great. I love it when thereare no rules against that, right,
I don't think. So they can'tbring pre written notes, right, They
get a pen and a pad ofpaper in front of them and that's it.
Think about how much that favors Bidento not have the notes, right,
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Trump doesn't need them, But it'ssuch a help to Biden to not
have the notes, because that itwould just short circuit what's left of his
brain if he's trying to keep trackof what's in his notes and look down
at his notes. So the Bidencamp was very smart it may have even
been their requirement that there be nonotes. And one thing that I hope
Donald Trump can do when he walksright up to the podium immediately is write
down the names of the young womenwho have been raped on the murderer by
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illegals here and then pop quiz Joehotshot. Yeah, can you need any
one of these young women that havebeen murdered by your illegal migrants that have
been here. I love the thinkingbehind that. If he's going to do
that, he has to be preparedfor Biden to named them, and then
then he has to have a followup line of attack on Biden there,
because you've got to believe they've spenthalf of their what is it two months
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of prep now for Biden just drillingthose names into his head, or maybe
just one name, yeah, whichhe's a remember he didn't get right at
the State of the Union called herLincoln Riley, not Lincoln Yeah Riley.
Yes, So no, you canbet that's been half of his prep.
But and you tell me eight fiveto five for zero five A two five
five text d an five seven seventhree nine, What what kind of creative
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move would you like to see fromTrump? Tonight that you think nobody sees
coming. Would love to hear fromyou on that text, d An five
seven seven three nine if you don'tfeel like calling Texter Dan. What about
Biden getting administered medication during the debate, Yeah, another reason why they wouldn't
want to have, you know,a poll reporter in there CNN. I
think clearly being part of Biden's teamis is it? You can't confer with
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advisors, But there's no rule againgetting medication. I doubt we'll see that
because again, the other debates,the other circumstances we've seen where Biden is
better than he normally is. AndI know it was weird and bizarre and
angry old man. Can we getsome angry old man for the five o'clock
hour or two? You know,the SNL stuff we've been reallying. Yeah,
but like State of the Union,he was able to get through that.
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What was it probably about sixty threesixty four minutes. But here's the
point. State of the Union wasall scripted. You know, Biden wasn't
being actively questioned, He didn't havethat extra stimulation. I still think,
you know, tomorrow the reporting willbe Biden did better than expected. I
still think we'll see that, butit won't matter because it's all about Trump.
It's all about how well Trump dous. People of Merrick already know
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their lives are better under Trump.But the people don't follow this stuff every
day like you do. They justwant to see, Hey, is he
the nut job? The left sayshe is, and that's what they're tuning
in to see. Tonight. Isjust all about Trump. Unless Biden does
have one of those really gary horriblefreeze up moments. If he does that,
Ryan, then yeah, then he'sprobably out within a week. If
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he does what he typically does inthese things and he's better than expected,
then he's out by the convention.Speaking of which, to see the latest
evidence in my favor today the widespreadreporting that Michelle Obama is not going to
campaign for Joe Biden. Now,do you think the leak of that story
is the timing is coincidental? No? Wait a minute, hold on the
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Democratic conventions in Chicago, right,this is the backyard of Michelle Obama.
She's gonna be one of the featuredspeakers one of those nights, you would
think, right, she has tobe. Well, the reporting is she's
not going to campaign for a bitcampaigned for Bibles, right, but would
she appear at the convention as hefeatured the speaker. That's a fair question.
All I'm saying is the leaking ofthat story coming at the same time
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that Gavin Newsom is moving back toMarin County so his kids can be in
one school, and Jared Poulis's resurfacein National TV. All these vultures are
circling, right. They're all justpositioning themselves for the moment very soon when
Biden will not be officially will nolonger be the presumptive nominee. And and
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it's so interesting to listen to thissound. This is just from twenty but
but listen to Biden in this soundas well. The issue is the American
people should speak. You should goout and vote. You're in voting,
now, vote and let your senatorsknow. How are you gonna how you
feel? Let vote now? Ina fact, make sure you in fact
let people know. Senator. I'mnot going to answer the question because answer
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that, because the question is thequestion is just this rational left. Well
you should who is so welcome back? As bad as Biden was in twenty
think how much worse he sounds now, no way he's going to be their nominee.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome totoday's online podcast edition of The Dan Caplis
Show. Please be sure to giveus a five star rating if you'd be
so kind, and to subscribe,download and listen to the show every single
day on your favorite podcast platform,even if you're not into politics. This
is one of the most exciting daysin American political history. It's probably gonna
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end up being one of the mostimportant days in American political history, so
much more important than any other debatein our lifetime. So of course we're
going to be over every single aspectof this and some deeply deeply concerning behavior
by CNN, And it goes waybeyond a Tapper and Bash. Are they
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going to be biased against Trump?Of course, but no, this goes
way beyond that. So I wantto get to that in a second as
well. We have so much hotsound for today, but just hours away.
I cannot wait. I think it'sgoing to be a very good night
for President Trump. It'll be Biden'sswin Swan song. He's going to do
better, better than expected, butit isn't going to matter in the end.
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Eight five five or zero five eighttwo five to five the number What
is going to matter is that Trump'sgoing to do a good job tonight.
A vast majority of humans know theyhad a better life under Trump than they
do under the Biden presidency, andthey just want to see if Trump is
nuts. They just want to seeif Trump is all these crazy things the
Democrats say he is, and they'regoing to see tonight he's not. They're
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going to see tonight he's the guywho did the job real well and made
their life better, while Biden isa guy who did the job horribly and
made their life worse. So there'sonly one thing that could move us off
of this topic of the most importantdebate in American political history. Well,
let me say, of our lifetimes. We can argue the rest, and
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that is this very important development inColorado, because I talked at link yesterday
about how great and important Tuesday Night'sresults were to the rebirth of the GOP
in Colorado and reasserting itself eventually beingable to win state wide again. And
part of that now is the moveto oust Dave Williams as party chair.
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So Todd Watkins from the State CentralCommittee, who authored the letter to Chairman
Dave Williams that we read on Areyesterday is able to join us right now,
so I want to take full advantageof that. Todd, Welcome to
the Dan Caplis show. Hey,thank you, mister capitalist. Glad to
be here. Man, you justaged me ten years, but appreciate the
thought. Please do call me Dan. But so Todd, we read your
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letter to Dave Williams on Area yesterday, so I won't repeat that now.
It basically calls for a meeting ofthe Central Committee in order to vote on
austing Dave. But you're the expert. You're right in the middle of this.
Please tell folks what you're doing andwhy. I've never been accused of
being an expert, but I'll takeit. So this is provided for in
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the State Party's bylaws. The CentralCommittee can call a special meeting for any
purpose that it wants on twenty fivepercent of the body requesting the meeting,
which we have provided the request.The purpose for the meeting is to hold
a vote to remove Chairman Dave Williamsfrom his position as the chair of the
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party, and that requires sixty percentof the State Central Committee to do that.
Answer. Yeah, that's a verysimple process of it. Has there
been any response to your letter requestingrequiring that vote. Yeah, yeah,
quite a bit. Actually. Ofcourse the media has picked this up across
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the state. The seeking support forit has been very well received in we're
very comfortable that we have sixty percentat least of the book committee to dismiss
Chairman Williams. Do you think ChairmanWilliams is going to agree to hold the
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vote? Oh no, no,they're not going to. They're already making
overtures that they're not going to.They're they're questioning the validity of the of
the petition with the signatures. Uh, they're asking for you know, names
and all of the metadata behind it, where the where the names came from?
I responded, simply, you're theyou're the leadership of the party.
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These are your own members. Ifyou want to call them and ask them,
go ahead. But they've already madeovertures previously to this, uh a
week plus that they would essentially publicizeall of those who supported this, So
I was going to get wasn't goingto give them help with emails and addresses.
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They can look that up on theirown. They they hold all the
records for who is a member oftheir committee. So wow, and how
how pathetic that is, you know, threatening to publicize the names of the
Central Committee members who want to voteon whether to oust you, rather than
just addressing the issue on the merits. That doesn't sound like greatlyleadership. I'm
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not going to argue with you there, Dan. Yeah. I would also
like to point out that, sothey were delivered the petition yesterday, they
have ten days from yesterday to callthis meeting. If they do not,
any member of the Central Committee cancall this meeting at the expense of the
state Party. We have fifteen days. The call has to come out fifteen
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days prior to the meeting, butthe meeting must occur thirty days within thirty
days of the call. So ifthey don't call this meeting, we will
call it, Todd Watkins, ourguest. And when you say you'll call
it mechanically, that simply means thatany member of the Central Committee can say,
Hey, we're going to We're goingto meet on Saturday, July whatever
at ten o'clock at the high school. Be there and we'll take our vote.
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That's right, Okay, Okay,do you expect they'll go to court
to try to block you? Surpriseme, but you know I've I've done
this before with the kind of inreverse order where the previous administration held a
meeting, held a special meeting totake over the El Paso County organizational meeting
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in February of twenty twenty three.That did go to court, and the
court ruled that we're not it wrongjurisdiction. We don't have any place here
in this political internal interested So Ithink I think they know that to be
the case. They can they cantake it to court. I pretty confident
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that Judges cann't dismiss it, justlike he dismissed Al Paso County's case.
Do you think the vote will occurbefore the Republican National Convention by just pure
math in the time hacks, No, it'll be after. Okay, well,
when do you expect the vote willbe? Mathematically? Uh, interest
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real world because you've obviously got allthese moving pieces that you're dealing with.
Yeah, I mean, you know, so, I believe July sixth is
the tenth day, so you know, you got you make the call has
to occur within thirty days, soyou're looking really August at the latest,
I suppose, but it would itwould happen after the uh, the then
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sure, because you have to youhave to give it least fifteen days notice.
So so if we say if wecalled this meeting on July seventh,
we couldn't call it for the nextday, he has to understood, you
know, we get least fifteen daysout. And my final question, what
percentage of the Central Committee if thevote was held today do you believe would
vote to remove Chairman Williams over sixtypercent? Yeah? Yeah, well yeah,
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I mean you've you've probably uh,he had taken the temperature of the
of the state party just well byobservations, did you see where it stands?
And I would have to believe thatthat number is going up with the
will of the people being expressed inChairman Williams home area, and these are
largely GOP voters on primary night,with the absolute she lacking that he took,
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I think that has probably further weakendisposition. Yeah. I mean I'm
in El Paso County, so youknow some home hometown kid, I guess
yeah, And I mean the clerksends us all the daily data. I
think the county had twenty eight pointtwenty point ish percent voter turnout, which
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is better than I think we're expectingit. Yeah, the Republicans even out
numbered the unaffiliateds in turnout, andyou saw what happened in the D five
race. And if I may add, I mean we held this, we
held onto this petition to wait forthe primary resultsking that well, let's see
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what the people say. I mean, if the people, if the people
vote with their current administration and theirtheir st their brand of politics and leadership,
then I guess you know they've spoken, and uh, we are the
Republican Party, and you know weare guaranteed a Republican small art form of
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government. So I mean that wouldbe the appropriate thing to do that.
If the people disagree with that,yeah, then we're done here. We
we we you know, lick ourwounds and go on and say, well,
see what happens next. Nope.I believe that people are in favor
of this move, and I thinkthat we kind of have an obligation to,
uh to respect that right well anddo this. I think you're absolutely
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right that people have spoken. Ithink in a lot of different ways.
So you know, just as aColoraden and a Republican, I appreciate what
you're doing. It's not personal withDave. I actually kind of like Dave,
but for all the reasons that havebeen stated, he has got to
go as party chair for the cause, all of the causes that we're also
committed to. Thank you, ToddWatkins. Look forward to the next conversation.
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Thank you. You take care ofthat? Is that Todd Watkins say
when we come back. It isall debate all the time. CNN engaging
in some very very concerning behavior abouttonight, to the point where the White
House Correspondence Association, pretty far leftgroup, is stepped in. They're furious
with CNN and they're concerned about what'sabout to happen. You're on the Dan
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Capla Show and now back to theDan Kaplas Show podcast. This is a
tough business. So you're a toughguy, and we need to have a
leader that is for real top you'renever going to be president, and I
insulting your way to Let's see,I'm at forty two and you're at three,
so somehow I'm doing better. SomewhereI'm doing better. You know,
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you started off all the hits,yet you're moving over further and further.
Pretty soon you're going to be off. The end is that the President Trump
you want tonight. I got myanswer to that, but first we have
to talk about something that is deeply, deeply concerning. And I'm the guy
who's been on air all week tellingyou, hey, wait a second,
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to CNN is going to be morefair to Trump. They're not going to
be completely fair. Obviously they wanthim to lose and they hate him viscerally,
but they're going to be more fairto Trump than people think and all
of this and that, well,there's been a development that has to has
to really undermine any honest person's confidencein CNN for tonight. This is coming
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from the White House Correspondence Association.This is a liberal group. Here's the
headline in the Washington Post. WhiteHouse Correspondence blast CNN for debate access snub.
The association representing White House reporters saysto the network should allow a pull
reporter to be in the closed studiowhere Biden and Trumpell debate. Now,
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before I get into the Washington Poststory, this is obvious, right.
There is no legitimate reason whatsoever tokeep a poll reporter out of this auditorium,
out of this arena where the debateis going to occur. The only
conceivable reason to keep the reporter outis to prevent the reporting of true facts
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that are likely to be bad forJoe Biden. This is fundamentally dishonest,
fundamentally Unamerican. And you've even gotthe lefty press stepping up and squalling about
it right now, which they should. And here's part of the Washington Post
take on it. The White HouseCorrespondence Association criticized CNN for not allowing a
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designated poll reporter to be in theroom as the network produces Thursday's presidential debate.
The absence of a pool reporter representingthe larger White House Press Corps is
notable because there will be no audiencepresent for the debate, which is being
held then a closed studio in Atlanta. I'll interject here, so get this.
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So CNN now no audience, nowitnesses, no witnesses whatsoever to anything
that may happen in there when thecameras are off. Why think about that?
What conceivable justification could there be forthat other than to protect Joe Biden.
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The piece goes on, the WhiteHouse Pool has a duty to document,
report, and witness the president's eventsand his movements on behalf of the
American people. The pool is therefor the what ifs in a world where
the unexpected does happen. A poolreporter is present to provide context and insight
by direct observation and not through thelens of the television production. And then
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it goes on to describe a bunchof stuff quote. A pool reporter is
there to observe what is said anddone when microphones are off, or when
either candidate is not seen on camerabut may speak, gesture, move,
or engage in some way. Andthen the story goes on to say in
the post, how you know,the Correspondence Association has been pushing CNN on
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this for a while, So thinkabout what's happening here. You've got a
president in Biden who has repeatedly seizedup in public. He's had these bizarre
moments where he just starts spewing gobbledegook. He has times where he wanders aimlessly.
And now CNN is keeping all witnessesout of the room other than CNN
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personnel. So it would just beDonald Trump saying, hey, wait a
second. During the break, youknow, Biden started babbling like a child.
Biden wandered off and they had togo grab him. All of this
behavior, all of this information shouldit happen, you know, being highly
relevant to the American people. Sothink about what CNN is doing. CNN
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is intentionally intentionally eliminating witnesses from theroom in case Biden engages in any of
the behavior we've seen so often fromhim recently, any of it off camera.
It's just one of the worst thingsI've seen in the history of journalism.
How much of this, Dan,do you suspect has been coordinated between
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CNN and the Biden White House?One hundred percent? Yeah. Yeah.
And then now there's another question outthere and a Texter hits it. There
are several people saying, Dan,don't forget about the two minute delay of
the debate. I would have ledwith that if we can source it.
Here. Here's the thing. Allover the internet right now, including x
there are these reports that CNN isinstituting a one to two minute delay.
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If that is true, it fallsinto the same bucket that I was just
talking about, you know, justjust a blatant dereliction of duty for any
journalist, any broadcaster, a blatanteffort to protect Biden, etcetera. The
problem is maybe you can source itdirectly. I can't source that report right
now. I see it all overthe internet, but I cannot find an
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original source. I cannot see anyconfirmation from CNN. It may be out
there and I've just missed it.But if it's out there, tell me
where it is, and I'll leteverybody else know, because that would be
equally horrific if CNN was putting ina one minute delay. Listen, we
got seven seconds here, right,and so we're on a seven second delay.
Everybody's on a seven second delay,right, Maybe ten might be ten,
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Okay, But here's the point.The justification for that is if a
caller utters some obscenity or something,or yet, we're not allowed to me.
You think I would I was goingto do that. I would have
done that thirty years ago. Butno. But here's the point. There
is no justification for a one seconddelay, not even a one second delay
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in this debate tonight, because ifone of these candidates was to utter an
obscenity that's normally not permitted, itwould be permitted because of the news context.
If the President of the United Statesor the presumptive GOP nominee utters an
obscenity and that context. It's newsand it may be aired, so there's
no justification for any delay tonight.All I'm telling you is I cannot find
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credible sourcing for the report that it'sgoing to be a one to two minute
delay. We'll continue to work onthat. Does it really quick, Dan?
Does it change your opinion as towhether Bash and Tapper will be even
handed, fair or try to betonight? No? And here's why,
because I come back to their selfinterest and what I expect from Bash and
Tapper is that they will ask equallytough initial questions of both Trump and Biden
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the follow up questions. Sorry,I'm just hitting puberty. My voice is
changing. The follow up questions arethe only thing that matter. The initial
questions don't matter at all. Anybodycan duct a question, and it's all
about the follow up questions. Thefollow up questions to Trump will be tougher
than the follow up questions to Biden, but not by as large a margin
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as expected for the reasons we've discussedbefore. But CNN at this point cannot
justify what it's doing. You're listeningto the Dan Kapliss Show podcast. He's
had the gall to go World TradeCenter, came down the mother for that
hold on. He's had the gallto go after my mother. It's not
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keeping. I won the lottery whenI was born sixty three years ago.
Looked up, but I saw mymom. Mom. My mom is the
strongest woman I know. She's justnot a See. That's the I'm sorry,
that's the Trump I want tonight.I understand the danger in that,
but I want the animated Trump tonight, not the approach. Not the approach
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at the first twenty twenty debate thatwas disastrous, that that kind of rude,
constant, interrupting to no point.It's that's not what I want tonight.
But I want the fully alive Trump. I want the energized, vibrant,
funny Trump. I think if theytry to suppress Trump and make them
too quote presidential, then at thatpoint you lose a lot of that energy.
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And frankly, I don't think he'llbe a sharp I don't know how
it is for you. Everybody's different, right, but they're an awful lot
of people, and I think Trump'sone of them that the more animated,
the more intense they are, thesharper and quicker they are So that's the
Trump I want to see tonight witha healthy dose of humor as well,
because think about the contrast. Now, I know Biden's not relevant tonight.
He's not going to be their nominee. We all know that, but it
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still is a very helpful contrast.And whoever the DEM nominee is going to
be is going to be. Obviously, everybody is younger than Biden, at
least younger acting and performing. SoI think it's very important that Trump be
his vigorous self tonight because whether it'sObama or Newsome or whomever, the Dem
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nah many is going to be youngerand more energetic than Biden. So yeah,
I want to see the Trump infull tonight. I got an update
on the alleged delay that we've beentalking about trying to source. Dan.
Let me prefaces with a question foryou. Do you think the communications and
PR team for CNN are morons oridiots? Those are my only two choices.
Are they morons or idiots? Yesor no? Yes or no question?
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Do you think they don't know?Okay, I don't even know who
the light after this? Either they'rebeing intentionally deceptive or they're stupid beyond words.
No, they're not stupid. Okay, here we go. They may
be smrons, smart people acting moronically. So this Patrick Webb, he's like
an independent journalist. I think hetweeted out the following breaking CNN will implement
a one to two minute delay fortonight's presidential debate instead of the standard seven
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second delay, potentially allowing time toedit parts of the broadcast. Their response,
CNN pr this is false. Thedebate will begin live at nine pm
Eastern. So they didn't directly adds. What they're stupidly apparently answering is no,
it's going to start on time.There won't be a delay. I
won't go to nine oh two andstart that it'll start on time. That's
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not the question, you morons.That is will there be a delay in
the broadcast transmission of the ninety minutedebate throughout? They know that they have
to know that and listen. Iunderstand that it would be easy for CNN
to say no, there will beno delay, or no, there will
be a seven second delay. Bythe way, my position is there shouldn't
be any delay, not even amillisecond. But they didn't say that directly.
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Right at the same time, Ryan, I can't find any confirmation anywhere
that there will be a delay tonight. I cannot find that confirmation what I
can find, And if you're joiningthe show now, thank you. This
is very important. CNN is infact barring all witnesses, all witnesses from
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that room that they're not allowing ineven a press pool reporter. Obviously there
will be no audience. And sothe White House correspondence is so ciation of
a left leaning group is outraged aboutthat and saying, wait, we have
to have a reporter in there.We have to be able to report on
what happens during breaks, what happenswhen it's not on camera, And they
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don't say it, but it's obviousthat when you've had a presentent who's frozen
up many times in public now andwandered off, they need to be able
to report if that happens. Somy position as CNN has no legitimate reason
to keep a pull reporter out ofthat room. And I'll bet you,
I'll bet you another tomahawk, myfriend, that they do relent and they
allowed the pull a reporter in becausenow they've been busted right now that it's
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a national story. They've been busted. Everybody can see they're trying to protect
Biden, and I think they're goingto have to let a pull a reporter
in. Please focus on the stupidWhy would anybody who has access to the
CNN Communications pr X account reply withthat idiotic response listen that it will start
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on time, that that was theincident. I get it if if you're
in front of a jury right now, you would win an argument that that
response by not directly refuting the allegationadmits it, you would win on that.
But all I'm saying is I can'tfind any independent confirmation what may be
going on there is maybe as CNNwas planning some substantial delay and now they're
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going to rethink that. But again, I have seen no confirmation that there
was ever any delay planned. We'llfind out together, right, I mean,
we're going to I'm going to beable to find out. Dan they
could have totally dismissed that with adirect right response. Now podcast will not
be delayed throughout I hear you.They have to know that was the accusation.
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Very good reasoning. I agree withthat. All I'm saying is I
can't look our listeners in the microphoneand say there's going to be a one
to two minute delay without being ableto confirm that somewhere. You consider that
confirmation the failure to directly deny it, and I accept that. I mean,
I accept the logic behind that.Let's see, Oh, we've got
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so many texts coming in. Dan, you keep saying CNN wants Biden out,
So why would they do that ordo you think they want info on
him so they can use it toblackmail him in the future. Great,
great thinking by this, Texter.Listen above all, CNN wanted this debate.
This is the only debate I canremember presidential that isn't run by the
Presidential Commission. So CNN now hasthis lottery win, right, they own
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it. When you watch it onFox tonight, it will say CNN on
the screen, the CNN debate.So maybe it's something that CNN agreed to
to be able to get the debate, because obviously the Biden camp doesn't want
any witnesses in there to what Bidenmay do during breaks. Yeah, maybe
it's something they agreed to. Idon't think there's any question CNN wants Biden
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out of this race. CNN hatesTrump, they want Trump defeated, and
they know that Biden is he's notgoing to make it to election day as
a remotely credible option, Dan greatopportunity for Tump actually show the quote threat
to democracy. Boy, that issuch a timely text. A tremendous poll.
There's been a lot of good pollingcome out today for President Trump,
and one of those is Washington Postthat shows that on the issue of who
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do you trust more to deal withthe threat to democracy? By an eleven
point March and forty four to thirtythree, voters trust Trump more than Biden
to deal with the threat to democracy, as they should because the threat to
democracy is Biden and the left.And do you think there will be a
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tape delay or will it truly belive on the debate? I expect at
this point that if in I underline, if they had planned to delay,
that it will now either be liveor have kind of a typical seven second
delay. Again, my position isthere's no justification for a seven second delay.
Those only exist in case somebody swearson air, And if somebody swore
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during the debate, it would benewsworthy, it would be permitted to be
broadcast. So I don't think theyI don't think they can justify a one
second delay, and I don't thinkthey can justify keeping out a pool reporter.
Dan, So, now that that'snot public my White House Correspondence Association,
do you think CNN will relent andlet a pool reporter do? Okay?
Yes? I help you, so, yes. And if they don't,
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what does that tell you? Uhhuh? Because what's what's the downside?
In the words of Donald Trump,you what the hell do you have
to lose? Yeah, what's thedownside of allowing a pool reporter? He's
the president of the United States,that the people of the United States have
a right to know what happens inthere, and it shouldn't be in the
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control of CNN only to decide whatthe people get shown. Yes. So
no. And you know, ifthere are those freeze up moments, et
cetera for Biden, they are mostlikely to happen during breaks or the wandering
off or whatever. So now Ithink they'll have to relent now that they've
been busted. Dan, I'm prayingthat Biden's people don't overjuice him and give
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him an aneurysm on National TV.That would be horrendous, not knowing what
their secret sauce is. Yeah,there's no way to comment on the risk
of this or that. Here's whatwe do know. Logically, if if
medically, they could do every daywhat they do for these special occasions to
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get him better, they would bedoing it every day. That's a great
point. So whatever they're doing mustbe something that is too dangerous to repeat
every day. Eight five five Zfive A two five five comeback will take
calls tremendous text, red hot sound. Maybe one of the most important days
in American political history. You're onthe Dan Capla Show and now back to
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the Dan Kaplass Show podcast. It'sjust awfully good that someone with the temperament
of Donald Trump is not in chargeof the law in our country, because
you'd be in jail, Secretary Clayton, That's the Trump I want tonight,
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not the Trump of the first twentytwenty debate, but that Trump where sense
of humor is fully alive. Notthat the rude, nonsensical to no end
interrupting, but that kind of intellectualaggressiveness, that sense of humor so important
that we have him fully alive tonight, in control, yes, but fully
alive and listen, we all knowthat if you you know from your own
(28:25):
life, if you're going to beout there and you're going to be living
in full and you're going to beliving out loud, sometimes you're going to
go outside the lines that there isno way to do it perfectly. There's
no perfect balance. You're always goingto err on one side or the other.
I'd rather have him air on theliving out loud side, but not
that ugly, rude, nonsensical interruptingthat we saw in twenty There's a big
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difference between that and what you justhurt that flashback from sixteen, and there
are plenty of others out there eightfive to five for zero five eight two
five five if you just joined us. Some very concerning news about the behavior
of CNN. White House Correspondence Association, a lefty or left leaning group blasting
CNN because, get this, they'rerefusing to allow witnesses in the CNN studios
(29:11):
to see what goes on during breaksor what goes on that may not be
captured by CNN cameras. They willnot allow a pool reporter in when the
President of the United States is engagedin an official function. That's insane.
And there's no legitimate reason for it. Obviously it's being done to cover for
Biden. So i'd bet you tomahawkthat yeah, they. CNN is forced
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to relent at this point because it'sso obvious now you know that they are
on Biden's team, when even theleft is going after him for that.
So we'll keep you updated on that. There is no official sourcing available for
the claim that CNN will have aone to two minute delay tonight. I
don't think a single second delay isjustified for the reasons we've just discussed Texter.
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We have such smart listeners. DanTrump should wear a body camo.
Great. I love it when thereare no rules against that, right,
I don't think. So they can'tbring pre written notes, right, They
get a pen and a pad ofpaper in front of them and that's it.
Think about how much that favors Bidento not have the notes, right,
(30:18):
Trump doesn't need them, But it'ssuch a help to Biden to not
have the notes, because that itwould just short circuit what's left of his
brain if he's trying to keep trackof what's in his notes and look down
at his notes. So the Bidencamp was very smart it may have even
been their requirement that there be nonotes. And one thing that I hope
Donald Trump can do when he walksright up to the podium immediately is write
down the names of the young womenwho have been raped on the murderer by
(30:44):
illegals here and then pop quiz Joehotshot. Yeah, can you need any
one of these young women that havebeen murdered by your illegal migrants that have
been here. I love the thinkingbehind that. If he's going to do
that, he has to be preparedfor Biden to named them, and then
then he has to have a followup line of attack on Biden there,
because you've got to believe they've spenthalf of their what is it two months
(31:07):
of prep now for Biden just drillingthose names into his head, or maybe
just one name, yeah, whichhe's a remember he didn't get right at
the State of the Union called herLincoln Riley, not Lincoln Yeah Riley.
Yes, So no, you canbet that's been half of his prep.
But and you tell me eight fiveto five for zero five A two five
five text d an five seven seventhree nine, What what kind of creative
(31:33):
move would you like to see fromTrump? Tonight that you think nobody sees
coming. Would love to hear fromyou on that text, d An five
seven seven three nine if you don'tfeel like calling Texter Dan. What about
Biden getting administered medication during the debate, Yeah, another reason why they wouldn't
want to have, you know,a poll reporter in there CNN. I
think clearly being part of Biden's teamis is it? You can't confer with
(31:56):
advisors, But there's no rule againgetting medication. I doubt we'll see that
because again, the other debates,the other circumstances we've seen where Biden is
better than he normally is. AndI know it was weird and bizarre and
angry old man. Can we getsome angry old man for the five o'clock
hour or two? You know,the SNL stuff we've been reallying. Yeah,
but like State of the Union,he was able to get through that.
(32:20):
What was it probably about sixty threesixty four minutes. But here's the
point. State of the Union wasall scripted. You know, Biden wasn't
being actively questioned, He didn't havethat extra stimulation. I still think,
you know, tomorrow the reporting willbe Biden did better than expected. I
still think we'll see that, butit won't matter because it's all about Trump.
It's all about how well Trump dous. People of Merrick already know
(32:43):
their lives are better under Trump.But the people don't follow this stuff every
day like you do. They justwant to see, Hey, is he
the nut job? The left sayshe is, and that's what they're tuning
in to see. Tonight. Isjust all about Trump. Unless Biden does
have one of those really gary horriblefreeze up moments. If he does that,
Ryan, then yeah, then he'sprobably out within a week. If
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he does what he typically does inthese things and he's better than expected,
then he's out by the convention.Speaking of which, to see the latest
evidence in my favor today the widespreadreporting that Michelle Obama is not going to
campaign for Joe Biden. Now,do you think the leak of that story
is the timing is coincidental? No? Wait a minute, hold on the
(33:30):
Democratic conventions in Chicago, right,this is the backyard of Michelle Obama.
She's gonna be one of the featuredspeakers one of those nights, you would
think, right, she has tobe. Well, the reporting is she's
not going to campaign for a bitcampaigned for Bibles, right, but would
she appear at the convention as hefeatured the speaker. That's a fair question.
All I'm saying is the leaking ofthat story coming at the same time
(33:52):
that Gavin Newsom is moving back toMarin County so his kids can be in
one school, and Jared Poulis's resurfacein National TV. All these vultures are
circling, right. They're all justpositioning themselves for the moment very soon when
Biden will not be officially will nolonger be the presumptive nominee. And and
(34:13):
it's so interesting to listen to thissound. This is just from twenty but
but listen to Biden in this soundas well. The issue is the American
people should speak. You should goout and vote. You're in voting,
now, vote and let your senatorsknow. How are you gonna how you
feel? Let vote now? Ina fact, make sure you in fact
let people know. Senator. I'mnot going to answer the question because answer
(34:37):
that, because the question is thequestion is just this rational left. Well
you should who is so welcome back? As bad as Biden was in twenty
think how much worse he sounds now, no way he's going to be their nominee.
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