November 13, 2024 • 35 mins
Dan evaluates Trump's cabinet nominees to this point, including the differences from the start of his first administration in 2017. Has he learned his lesson on bringing in establishment insiders to implement his agenda? Will Matt Gaetz make it through the Senate confirmation process as attorney general?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
If that celebration continue fix maxing truly now getting emotional.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Sorry, I've got a bug and it's a big one.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
But I was talking to somebody today about this. I
don't know that I've ever missed a day of work.
Forty years as a lawyer, I don't know that I've
ever missed a day of work. I'll have to think
back on that.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
But you know my.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Attitude is, hey, right, you know, you forge through, You
do what you gotta do, and what are you going
to do otherwise just sit on the couch and think
about feeling bad.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But here's the point. Here's the point.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Every day now is like the super Bowl, right, because
you got the Trump win and then you have all
these different appointments and then you are looking forward to
you know what this team as a whole is going
to do, and you're looking for the plan, and you
can see a real plan in these cabinet picks. It
has to be about the youngest cabinet ever. And as
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George was pointing out George Brockler in the last segment,
everybody is a great communicator. There are a couple lists
on the know that on the names on the list
I don't know, But everybody I do know really great communicators. Obviously,
people aligned with President Trump in terms of worldview and
who will defer to him where there are disagreements. But
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I think he's building a cabinet for the next eight
to twelve years. I think he's building a cabinet to
extend beyond his presidency and into the next one, whether
it's j D, whether it's Don Junior, whoever that GOP
president is going to be in twenty eight eight.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Five five or zer five eight two fivey five, with
which brings us, of course to Matt Gates.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
If anybody tells you that they saw the Gates pick coming,
that's as good as a lie detector machine right there,
because nobody saw this coming, right And that's part of
the beauty of Donald Trump. It's been part of the
excitement of Trump, you know, going by to when he
came down the escalator, is he does a bunch of
things you don't see coming, and very often they're brilliant,
and every now and then you know it's a lemon
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with Gates. Listen, it wouldn't have been my first pick,
but I get exactly why I did it, because if
I'm right, the Gates pick is about two big things.
And one is there is only one individual in all
of the United States government who can single handedly take
down a president, and that is the Attorney General.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And so this is protection for President Trump because.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
He has been subjected to some of the worst behavior
from within the US government we've ever seen toward a president,
subjected to the whole Russia hoax, and so we know
the next one's coming from the left right. They will
stop at nothing. The truth means nothing to them. They
have no limits on what they will do to win
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and politically. And so the next one's coming, The next
version of the Rush hoax is coming. That story is
going to quote break as untrue as it will be
sometime in the next few weeks, if not the next
few days, and the left will try to now focus
the whole second term on whether Trump needs to be impeached, prosecuted,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So by having somebody very loyal to him as ag
At that point, Trump has that protection against the next
Russia hoax. The other thing is Trump's only human right.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And if any of us were in his shoes, knowing
that that this administration and lots of people in it
wanted him to die in jail, that was literally their plan.
They couldn't beat him at the polls, so they were
going to abuse the legal system, charge him with things
he didn't do, charge in with some other things they'd
never charge anybody else with, and have him die in jail.
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That was their plan. It's hard for anybody to not
take that personally. But here's where Trump's personal interest also
aligned with the national interest. That effort, that abuse of
the legal system at Lawfair was the greatest threat to
this nation since the Cuban missile crisis, and it can
never be allowed to happen again. So I think Trump
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probably had a big old smile on his face as
he made that pick, wanting to make sure that anybody
involved in that Lawfair who had violated the law, if
they violated the law underlying the word if, would not
sleep at night. Because with the guy like Matt Gates,
you can be sure they're going to be looking everywhere
to see if any laws were violated in pursuing him.
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Does that mean that Trump wants to pursue lawfair. I
don't believe that for a second. But if there were
crimes committed in the course of trying to jail Donald
Trump so he could not win an election day that
I think Trump intends to prosecute those crimes.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Eight five or zero five eight two five five. So
lots to talk about.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Let's get to your calls in your text and a
bunch of other picks. Great to see Tulsea Gabbard in
the cabinet if you've been having a real life you know,
congratulations and I hope to someday. And let me give
you some of the key picks today. As you know,
it's not the one being talked about the most, but
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Marco Rubio for Secretary of State. And that's a huge pick,
I think, hugely important, tremendous pick right there, Marco Rubio
and Tulci Gabbard. She is Director of National Intelligence. Right
I'll double check my list there, but great to see
her in a high ranking position as well. By the way,
when you get a chance when you get home, please
(05:33):
look at at Dan Camplis on Twitter, and there's this
really cool picture of Donald Trump posing with two of
his voters at the White House today, Jill and Joe Biden,
and it's it's really a cool pick. And that's at
Dan Caplis on Twitter. I don't think there's any doubt.
Do you doubt for a second, Ryan, that both of
them voted for Trump.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I can't rule it out. It's definitely a non zero
chance and possibility chance. I have more confidence than doctor
Jill by and certainly voted for Trump, especially the icy
reception that Kamala got from her when they were just
seeing in public together. But there's a lot of reasons
that you've enumerated, Dan, why Joe Biden would be happy.
But with this result, he's the only guy that can say, hey,
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I beat Trump, bro.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
That's why he forced Kamala on them. He knew she'd lose.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
He wanted the people who deposed him to lose. Nobody
can think he wanted them to win, right, But yeah,
I mean Jill didn't try to hide it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
She went out to vote on election day wearing all red.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
No, I would bet I bet my car.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
At least that they both voted anyway, the pictures compelling,
and let me get that sound, because I thought this
was really cool today. And I'm kind of a softy
for these traditional moments, but I think it was so
very cool. Biden handled it great today. I thought Trump
handled it great when they all met at the White House.
And if you haven't seen the video yet, I'm hopefully
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you will when you get home. But here's the sound
some of the sound President elect.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
And form with President Thank you, gone, congratulation, thank you.
I should looking forward to having mi, Like we said,
the smooth transition. Whoeverthing, we can make sure you're accommodated
what you need. I'm good a chance to talk with
somebout today's good. Welcome jad Man, thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
And the politics is tough, and it's many cases not
a very nice world, but it is a nice world
today and I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
A transition that's so smooth. It'll be as smooth as
you can get. And I very much appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Jude, you all, thank you all. That was that was
so cool.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That was so cool, and you know they met for
two hours in can you imagine I would have loved
to be on that wall wasn't.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
It important too for the world to see those two
men in the same room shaking hands like that, a
peaceful transfer. That was the one thing Dan even more
so than Trump's reaction time on January sixth, which we
can discuss, but that he didn't go to the inauguration
to have that transfer. As much as he might have
disagreed with the result, and I did too for some reasons,
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but to have that traditional show of respect for the office.
I didn't like the fact that Trump skipped the inauguration,
no listen.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And I think looking back on it, clearly if there
had been a traditional transition, you know, when Trump lost
that very narrow race. In my view, I think Donald
Trump wins this election by ten points.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But the fact that he was able.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
To win it so convincingly as it was, yeah, that
that does everything it needs to do for him. But yes,
I thought that was a great moment for America today.
I think it also signals what I think many other
things point to. President Trump right now is a man
in a hurry. He knows he's got these two prime
years right now, but he also he wants to be
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a unified There is no doubt in my mind he
wants to be a unifier, he wants to help bring
this country closer together. He wants to leave office a
very more broadly popular president, building on you know, this
coalition he just built across party in racial lines on
election day, and so I think he is focused on
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all the right things.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Here eight fi five for zero five eight two five.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Five the number text d an five seven seven three nine,
and one more quick point on it. I don't know
either of these guys, obviously, but I think they're from
that generation where and I'm not sure the current brand
of younger high stakes politicos are this way, but from
that generation where you could fight like hell, and you
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could try to rip each other's heads off, but then
when you got together personally, often it would click and
you could.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Be friendly and there could be some mutual respect.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And so I wouldn't be at all surprised if that
was a pretty warm couple of hours they spent together. Plus,
Trump knows that Biden wanted him to win, and that
it was Biden who made sure that the opponent Trump
had to face was the weakest the Dems had to offer.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
You're on the Dankapla Show, and now back to the
Dan Kapla Show podcast, like.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You I.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
What I know?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I follow sleep to it once Nelson Dorma from Turna Do.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, that was probably the single greatest threat to Amy
and I getting married.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Was not that culture to guy, and so she was
very very you know, like opera, ballet everything else.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Oh yeah, Oh that was the one sticking point.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Early in our dating life because I do anything for it, right,
who wouldn't but right? But de man's got to know
his limitations. So every time we went to one of
those things, I'd fall asleep. No, you know me, I'm
emin early morning guy. I don't sleep a lot to
begin with. But and it's I guess a compliment to
I think in all those singers, but I would fall asleep,
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and I think that was embarrassing to her.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
This was actually the exact same singer who performed at
the Trump rallies, Christopher Maccio. Okay, so you have to
imagine that Christopher was a Trump supporter, that he was
willing to do.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
This, and the significance of this song.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Again, I don't know a lot.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
It's Italian, obviously, it sounds a lot better than Italian
that does in England.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I've read something where it was how some movie ended
where everybody in.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
The Deep State got wiped out or something. Maybe I misunderstanding.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Well, I don't know, but all I know is Christopher Machio,
Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock Haul Cogan, the celebrities came off
for Donald Trump, Dan, and unlike Kamala Harris's celebrities, they
didn't have to be Paylke Greenwood made that clear on
acts earlier today.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It just keeps getting better. Yeah, and it's going to
be an amazing inauguration too. All right, let's get to
text and call. So much great stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
If you just joined us, thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's another endless super Bowl kind of day, right with
all of these appointments and everything going on.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
But Telsea Gabbert, Director of National Intelligence. Great to see that, and.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Of course the big one, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State,
and he will be tremendous in that role. Now the
one everybody's talking about Matt Gates for AG and I've
talked about that two or three times now my theory.
And George Brockler joined us at four point fifty as well,
and then the list goes on and on. Still very
(12:44):
curious to see who Trump's pick for FBI director will be,
and looking forward to that as I mean, there are
so many other big jobs left right, not necessarily the
most glamorous ones in every case, but also his press secretary.
Is it going to be his lawyer Elena hobb Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You know? But that that is Megan Kelly.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's really going to be fun to watch and fun
to watch as it goes on every day. A five
five five eight two five five text D and five
seven seven three nine. Before I get to the phone lines,
let me squeeze in a couple of texts, Dan, I
know you keep bringing up down Junior as a potential
candidate in twenty eight I agreed'd be a good choice.
We shouldn't overlook Eric, and then the texture goes on
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to oh it's Patty goes on to say good things
about Eric, who I think so highly of Eric Trump
and have interviewed him many times.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
And one of the most memorable. I've got to get
this tape ran. We've got to play it on air,
especially in historical context. Now.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I had Eric on air the Monday after the Access
Hollywood tape story broke, so picture that story breaking over
the weekend. Many saying Trump, many Republicans saying Trump had
to drop out of the race. And then Eric he was.
He joined me from an airport Monday morning. We talked
for an hour on air. If I remember right, I
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blew out mamrcial breaks and it was so personal and
so real and human and compelling. I've got to find
that tape and play it. I love me Sam Eric Trump.
He is wonderful. But clearly I think it's Don Junior
who's been preparing this political path. I thought at one
time it might be Avanka. She seems to have soured
on all that will be president.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Not in twenty eight, not in twenty eight, but Don Junior.
I wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
But that would have to be part of some understanding,
right with jd Vance, because it was Don Junior who
pushed for JD Vance, and so if Don himself intended
to run in twenty eight, you would assume those two
would have had an understanding about that. But one of
those two I think lived the inside track. Texter says,
Dan are they're enough teenage girls for gays to feast
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his eyes and other body parts on. This is alluding
to what you already know and will be front and
center in confirmation hearings.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
The allegation never proven, and Gates.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Would say, disprove and he may very well be right
that he had transported underage girls across.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
State lines for sex. It was the allegation.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But again, think of all the things they choose Trump
off that were false and never proven. So that'll be
front and center in the Gates nomination. I have to
assume first he's presumed innocent, and have to assume he
is in fact innocent, or he would not be nominated
at this point, knowing that that's going to be a
major focus dance. As a Texter, Biden was a big
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enough person to extend the olive branch to Trump, who
could not summon any sense of common decency or protocol
when he lost in twenty That's the difference in the
person who respects the office and a man baby who
pouts when he loses.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I was critical of Trump in twenty when he didn't
do the transition thing at the White House. But with
that said, zero doubt in my mind, zero doubt that
Donald Trump has believed and still believes to his core
that that election was dole it. So I have to
judge his you know, conduct against that backdrop.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
But I'm so happy to see that so.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Many Americans did what I did, which is you look
at the balance sheet. And yeah, I was critical of
Donald Trump did not incite violence in January sixth. He
just didn't, But I think should have responded better and sooner,
and the voters could take that into account. But to me,
there were so many great things he did as president
and so many reasons to know he'd be far better
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than Kamala Harris that that far outweighed, you know, any
kind of error in judgment on January sixth, starting point
being he did not incite that violence, and the American people,
the ultimate jury, rendered their verdict in his favor. Dean
and Arvadah, excuse me, you're on the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Hey, I was wondering, how did you What do you
think of that beat?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Eggit? You know? I love it? I absolutely love it
because and I'll play some Scott Jennings sound yet you
do too? Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Shoot, I was hoping we'd get to heavy, respect full
disagreement on this, but I yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Gosh, you don't need another bureaucradit.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I mean look at how the insiders have screwed it up.
And so you know what I love. I mean, I
love I love his values. I love the fact that
he served, that he won the bronze Star. I love
the fact that he's young. I love the fact that
I think you'll be able to help in recruiting, which
is so critical, and recruiting is down right now.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
And thank you for that call. And listen in terms
of somebody hasn't run this big agency or that big agency, Well,
if we limit our choices to people who've done that,
then what do you expect to get in those jobs? No,
but you can.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You can hire people to do that sort of thing,
just like in the AG job. If Matt Gates gets confirmed,
I would expect to have somebody like Andy McCarthy or
some other wingman or woman you know, who has that
kind of administrative experience and can do those other very
important but still ministerial managerial type things. But I love
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kind of the common thread in this cabinet. He's putting
together young, articulate, aggressive, dynamic people. I think that's just
great for America. All Right, we got a lot to do.
Anything on your mind, please would love to hear when
it comes to these picks. I also want to come
back to one of the biggest scandals in I think
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in Colorado political history. You know what's going on in
the Secretary of State's office, Griswold's decision not to tell
the clerks after those passwords had leaked.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And maybe have a bigger scandal.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Now, where's the true special prosecutor, where's the big investigation
and how that's going to come back to hurt the dams.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You're on the Dan Kaplish.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplish Show podcast.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
I have confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon
and the way the defense situation has been operating for
the last several years. I mean from the Afghanistan pull out,
which was an extreme debacle for which no one was
held accountable. We've had five balloons flying over the United States.
We built a three hundred million dollar pier as a
public relations stunt, which wound up killing an American service member.
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I'd say I've had just about enough of the so
called insiders running the Defense Department. I think you ought
to get Pete Hagk's at.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
The chance well said by Scott Jennings America did not
elect Donald Trump to be more of the same, that
is for sure. So I love the team he's putting together. Yeah,
the Matt Gates pick was a surprise. Would not have
been my first pick, but I get it.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I get why he did that.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Quick summary I deeped oved earlier is, first of all,
Trump has been subjected to some of the worst legal
abuses ever foisted on an American president, and infact the worst,
you know, with Russia Gate and everything else. And we
know the left is cooking up the next one as
we speak. And since there's literally only one individual in
all of government who can destroy a presidency, and that's
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the AG I don't blame Trump for wanting.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Somebody loyal there.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Second, listen, you know this lawfair the left launched against Trump.
It was the most dangerous attack on America. Well, let
me put it this way, the most dangerous threat to
America since the Cuban missile crisis. And they wanted to
Trump to die in jail. And that's very personal to him.
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So I think he wanted to send a message if
and I underline if, if you were involved in that
that attack on America through lawfare, and if you committed
a crime in the process, We're going to find it.
And I think he wants all of those people who
were involved in that, if they committed any crimes, to
not sleep at night. And I think that was part
of the pick. I would not support any more lawfair,
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and I don't think Donald Trump would commit any law fair.
But if somebody did, in fact break laws in the
course of doing something that threatened the very stability and
success of this nation, this lawfare obscenity, then they should
be prosecuted.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
But so I think that's what was behind the pick.
Eight four five A two five five. Let's uh, we
got a bunch of sound. I gotta get to, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I want to get to some more of these texts
as well. Dan, where do you see RFK Junior having
a place in the cabinet?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Now?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I thought he'd be the A G No.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I think Ryan thinks he'll be Health and Human Services CDC.
Maybe might be Health and Human Services, but it will
be prominent. It will be, in the words of Joe Biden,
a big blanking deal. Speaking of that, I just think
that was such a cool moment at the White House today,
and I commend Biden for it. I commend Trump for
the way he handled it, and and it was just
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great to see the two get together. They met for
two hours in private, but here's part of the public.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Part President elect and former predit and get found in
congratulation and looking forward to having a micro said just
through the transition. Whoever, we can make sure you're accommodated
once you need.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
I'm just to talk to us on out to this
good welcome. Thank you, Jady Man, Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
And politics is tough, and it's many cases not a
very nice world, but it is a nice world today,
and I appreciate very much a transition.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's so smooth.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
It'll be as smooth as you can get. And I
very much appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Joe, you all, thank you all. A good moment.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And one of my better text which I think is
saying a lot at Dan Caplis on Twitter this very
compelling photo of Trump celebrating with two of his voters
today at the White House, Joe and Jill Biden. So
great to see him together and looking so happy and
zero down in my mind that in fact they both
voted for Donald J.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Senator John Thun elected de Senate majority leader, today, Texter says,
good to hear a different perspective Thune from Dick Wadams,
who joined US at four h six.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
A good interview.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, Dick was John Tune's campaign manager when Thun knocked
off the sitting Senate Minority Leader Tom dashel Up in
South Dakota. That was a seismic victory at the time,
and so Dick's take was basically, great guy, totally aligned
with Trump on policy, and they'll get along great personally.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Here's a little theme for you, I think going into
it there.
Speaker 11 (23:27):
You know, if you look at the polls, obviously with
everybody expected a tight race, but it was a very convincing,
resounding win for President Trump and literally up and down
the ballot, and we outperformed twenty twenty in forty eight
states and across all demographic groups and actually did better
in twenty three hundred countries or counties i should say
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around the country than we did four years ago. So
this was a I think an example that the American
people said enough is enough with the Biden Harris Jenna.
They're ready for a different direction for the country. And
I think it's really about open borders and high prices
I think those are the issues that animated voters to
get out.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
See.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I think Thune's going to be great for Trump because
I think he's going to be real effective in the job.
Thune is an a player, you know. I mean you
always want a players. Trump obviously an a player, a
plus player. Soon's an a player, and he is also
I think he's going to be a much more effective
communicator to America and that prominent platform a Senate majority leader.
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I think he's going to be much more charismatic. I
think Americans are going to connect with him better, which
will in turn help Trump. No, he's a real deal
kind of guy, and I don't know him, you know.
I mentioned earlier that Amy and I had dinner with
John Thunne and his wife, and if I remember, his
daughter was there and we were talking about, okay, you know,
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what's life like.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
In the US Senate when you have young kids and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So we had that conversation at a time when Amy
and I were considering that journey, and I just we
both came away super impressed with thuon on every level,
including just as a.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Guy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
So I'm very optimistic and I know some other supporters
of President Trump have a concern that he said some
rough things about the president in the past. Well not
as rough as JD did, right, And so no, I
would judge him by his whole body of work. I
think he's going to be great for Trump, the country
and the GOP. The only thing I'd quibble with there,
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And if you see a flaw in the logic, I'm
sure you will tell me is who's the wee kim Osabi.
You know, when Thune and others say the GOP did this,
the GOP did that.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
In this cycle.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The margin of victory voters were Trump voters. They were
not GOP voters. The GOP benefited from those Trump voters
and now has an opportunity to try to keep enough
of them to win again. But we got to be
realistic about the fact that those differences making voters margin
of victory voters, those were Trump voters, and thank god
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they were. And now it's up to the GOP. But
the GOP can hold enough of them, it just has
to deliver. Talk is cheap. We are just it is
a whole different world now, and that is for the better.
Everybody by now knows talk is meaningless. It's all about
what people deliver, and the GOP just has to deliver.
I'm very very confident they will and that they can.
(26:27):
The kind of stuff they can deliver on right away
you don't even need legislation for so I'm very confident
they're going to do that, especially you know Trump who
he is, and then you look at this a team
that he's putting together. Dan in regards to Mett Gates,
are they just trying to get a trouble maker out
of Congress? Well, if that's what they're trying to do,
they were successful because he's already resigned. He has formally
(26:49):
resigned his seat in Congress. Really, so yeah, yeah, it's
a burn the ship steals, so he has and it's
tactical right because it allows now allows somebody to be
in place. I think by January third, when the next
Congress starts, and I think that's a dissant disappointment.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I'm not sure. I'd have to double check.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Do you think Gates is kind of overplaying his hand?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
I'm not sure he gets through the Senate confirmation process. Yeah,
every Democrats won't against him, you know that, right?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And if we had to bet today and I'd probably
get decent odds on this.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I would bet he does.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He does get confirmed, yes, but there's obviously a real
chance he won't. But you know, Trump has a backup plan,
and Gates has a backup plan. If he is not confirmed,
he will have some other very prominent position in the
Trump administration. There's no doubt about that. So we will
not have Matt Gates applying to work.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
With us here. I'm pretty confident about that.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
But yeah, and hey five five verse five eight two
five five the number, you know, very very interesting now
to watch the Dems and see what they're trying to
do and how they're trying to position themselves. I really
think they're just making it worse on themselves. And when
we come back, I want to give you a couple
of examples, one loco with Jared Polis, and this is
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going to be so much fun to watch. We're going
to cover it more on tomorrow's show. It's Dems eating
Dems at the Capitol. Now, a lot of Dems going
after Polis because guess what, because of goofy stuff the
Democrats did, We're now have a big budget shortfall and
so now Polis has to start cutting budgets and the
left's not liking that at all, So we'll enjoy that together.
(28:36):
But then some national stuff as well that Polis is
a part of as they try to mount resistance two
point zero.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Don't think it's going to go well for them. You're
on the Dan Capitla Show.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
We also want to make sure that there isn't a
violation of people's rights with raids, for example, that are
done in coordinate with local law enforcement on people who
are frankly holding down jobs and have been in this
country for many, many years. We think that's improper, and
in Illinois, that's not something that we would condone. There's
(29:12):
been some talk about using other states National Guard red
state national Guards to somehow come into a blue state
and try and force these new Stephen Miller inspired rules,
and that's just not something we're.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Going to accept.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep talking big, right, So what are
you going to do, Paula George Wallace when the federal
Most people don't get that reference, right, used to be
a racist governor down in Alabama.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So when the.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Federal government comes in to enforce federal law and get
folks who are here illegally and who have also committed
other crimes, and get them out of this country.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
You're going to stand in the way. You're going to
stand in the door, block the Feds.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Talk tough in governor.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing that we can retire
the national debt while selling the cable rights to that
one personally physically that he might be able to do
it because he's a pretty large man, Jumy prisker Strich,
you know. And this goes to something I was talking
with a client about today. When are we going to
see the first genetically engineered goalie who's so big they
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block out the entire net. They just don't have to move.
It's just a job of the hut, word for word.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
My brother's been saying that for about twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Since we all started watching hockey.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I can't believe the Russians or something evn't come up with.
Somebody point, Yeah, just so big you never have to move,
just sit there it. But I played that in part
because his Pritzker character is now co chair of the
so called nonpartisan Governor's Safeguarding Democracy. Who do you think
his other co chair is Governor's safeguarding Democracy avenusom worse
(31:01):
how yeah, Jared, Jared, take the shot, or you're fired, polists.
So the Governor's safeguarding democracy? Who told all these state
workers you will do what I want. You will take
the medicine I want you to take, or you're going
to be fired. Yeah, Governor's safeguarding democracy.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
I'm telling you to wear a mask, wear a damn mask,
safeguarding democracy? Right there? Hight five five or zero five
eight two five five the number.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What a great time to be alive, right because we
all knew coming in that we had a couple of
missions here. One was you had to win the presidency
to save the country. Donald Trump did that again with
his voters, thank god. And then the other is the
left has to be exposed in the process because Donald
Trump can't run again, and Donald Trump's not on the
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ballot in twenty six, and the margin of victory voters
were Trump voters, they weren't to your pe voters, and
so you have to expose the left in the process.
So by the time you get to the midterms and
twenty six and you get to the presidential in twenty eight,
You've had enough people say no, I'm not going to
support the left anymore. Yeah, I will support the Republicans.
(32:09):
So it's so great now to see so many on
the left exposing themselves and as expected, it is not pretty.
A Lexai text that Jack Smith has officially filed to.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Halt his appeals, etc.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, he's resigning before Trump takes office, thank you, Alexa.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
And halt his career. That is what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And yeah, Dan Moore on Don Junior, he won me
over when he addressed the RNC in sixteen. He was
very impressive and I've now forgotten the first impression he
made on me. That from Patty Listen and I interviewed
him a bunch too. Don Junior is a super smart guy,
and a tough guy, and an articulate guy. And that's
(32:48):
why I wonder was there some understanding because it was
Don Junior who who convinced his dad to put JD.
Fans on the ticket, and I'm glad he did, But
was there some understanding between the two guys that if
Don Junior wanted to run in twenty eight and continue
the Trump legacy, he would or that Junior would be
supporting Vance in twenty eight. We'll find out together because yeah,
(33:11):
twenty eight begins now, Dan, I'm loving these left lib
media outlets melting down over peak.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Pete hag Seth, Yeah, that is so cool.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Let me get to one of those, because it again,
they're just kind of embarrassing themselves. Here's Van Jones, who
of all of these commentators on the left, you know,
it tends to be more balanced and more likely to
be honest about Dems at times, but here he's just
trying to somehow take a bite out of the Republicans.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
But I think he got his own arm. He looks great,
I mean, but he sounds terrible. And I think that
if it's not broke, don't fix it. There's this fiction
that there's something.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
If it's not broke, don't fix it. Did anybody watch
it Afghanistan? Did Van Jones miss Afghanistan? I mean, like
Jenny said, where have the insiders gots?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I see the wisdom of this hexeth pick and I
love the use of the team that Trump's putting together
and the fact George was talking about this earlier, George Brockler,
that they're all so articulate, that ability to communicate, and
again I think Trump's building a team for the next
eight to twelve years. Not that each and everyone will
(34:23):
stay in their position. That's not how life works.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
We know that.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
But a team that kind of in its core, you know,
can stay together beyond his four years.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
And so I just I love it. I love the
whole plan.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I love the way he's executing right now. And yeah, Gates,
he wouldn't have been my first choice, but as I
explained to depth earlier, I get why President Trump is
doing it, and I would bet Gates does get confirmed,
but I could see where he may not be, and
if he's not, you can be sure they've got a
backup plan. He'll have a prominent position in the administration. Ryan,
thank you for all your great hard work. Again today, Kelly,
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human sunshine brightens and warms every year. Thank you to
all the suggestions rolling in for our one hundred natured
old dog tests as well, some of them are actually working.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Catch you tomorrow on the Dan Kapla Show.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
If that celebration continue fix maxing truly now getting emotional.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Sorry, I've got a bug and it's a big one.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
But I was talking to somebody today about this. I
don't know that I've ever missed a day of work.
Forty years as a lawyer, I don't know that I've
ever missed a day of work. I'll have to think
back on that.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
But you know my.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Attitude is, hey, right, you know, you forge through, You
do what you gotta do, and what are you going
to do otherwise just sit on the couch and think
about feeling bad.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But here's the point. Here's the point.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Every day now is like the super Bowl, right, because
you got the Trump win and then you have all
these different appointments and then you are looking forward to
you know what this team as a whole is going
to do, and you're looking for the plan, and you
can see a real plan in these cabinet picks. It
has to be about the youngest cabinet ever. And as
(01:03):
George was pointing out George Brockler in the last segment,
everybody is a great communicator. There are a couple lists
on the know that on the names on the list
I don't know, But everybody I do know really great communicators. Obviously,
people aligned with President Trump in terms of worldview and
who will defer to him where there are disagreements. But
(01:24):
I think he's building a cabinet for the next eight
to twelve years. I think he's building a cabinet to
extend beyond his presidency and into the next one, whether
it's j D, whether it's Don Junior, whoever that GOP
president is going to be in twenty eight eight.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Five five or zer five eight two fivey five, with
which brings us, of course to Matt Gates.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
If anybody tells you that they saw the Gates pick coming,
that's as good as a lie detector machine right there,
because nobody saw this coming, right And that's part of
the beauty of Donald Trump. It's been part of the
excitement of Trump, you know, going by to when he
came down the escalator, is he does a bunch of
things you don't see coming, and very often they're brilliant,
and every now and then you know it's a lemon
(02:09):
with Gates. Listen, it wouldn't have been my first pick,
but I get exactly why I did it, because if
I'm right, the Gates pick is about two big things.
And one is there is only one individual in all
of the United States government who can single handedly take
down a president, and that is the Attorney General.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And so this is protection for President Trump because.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
He has been subjected to some of the worst behavior
from within the US government we've ever seen toward a president,
subjected to the whole Russia hoax, and so we know
the next one's coming from the left right. They will
stop at nothing. The truth means nothing to them. They
have no limits on what they will do to win
(02:55):
and politically. And so the next one's coming, The next
version of the Rush hoax is coming. That story is
going to quote break as untrue as it will be
sometime in the next few weeks, if not the next
few days, and the left will try to now focus
the whole second term on whether Trump needs to be impeached, prosecuted,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So by having somebody very loyal to him as ag
At that point, Trump has that protection against the next
Russia hoax. The other thing is Trump's only human right.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And if any of us were in his shoes, knowing
that that this administration and lots of people in it
wanted him to die in jail, that was literally their plan.
They couldn't beat him at the polls, so they were
going to abuse the legal system, charge him with things
he didn't do, charge in with some other things they'd
never charge anybody else with, and have him die in jail.
(03:51):
That was their plan. It's hard for anybody to not
take that personally. But here's where Trump's personal interest also
aligned with the national interest. That effort, that abuse of
the legal system at Lawfair was the greatest threat to
this nation since the Cuban missile crisis, and it can
never be allowed to happen again. So I think Trump
(04:11):
probably had a big old smile on his face as
he made that pick, wanting to make sure that anybody
involved in that Lawfair who had violated the law, if
they violated the law underlying the word if, would not
sleep at night. Because with the guy like Matt Gates,
you can be sure they're going to be looking everywhere
to see if any laws were violated in pursuing him.
(04:32):
Does that mean that Trump wants to pursue lawfair. I
don't believe that for a second. But if there were
crimes committed in the course of trying to jail Donald
Trump so he could not win an election day that
I think Trump intends to prosecute those crimes.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Eight five or zero five eight two five five. So
lots to talk about.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Let's get to your calls in your text and a
bunch of other picks. Great to see Tulsea Gabbard in
the cabinet if you've been having a real life you know,
congratulations and I hope to someday. And let me give
you some of the key picks today. As you know,
it's not the one being talked about the most, but
(05:12):
Marco Rubio for Secretary of State. And that's a huge pick,
I think, hugely important, tremendous pick right there, Marco Rubio
and Tulci Gabbard. She is Director of National Intelligence. Right
I'll double check my list there, but great to see
her in a high ranking position as well. By the way,
when you get a chance when you get home, please
(05:33):
look at at Dan Camplis on Twitter, and there's this
really cool picture of Donald Trump posing with two of
his voters at the White House today, Jill and Joe Biden,
and it's it's really a cool pick. And that's at
Dan Caplis on Twitter. I don't think there's any doubt.
Do you doubt for a second, Ryan, that both of
them voted for Trump.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I can't rule it out. It's definitely a non zero
chance and possibility chance. I have more confidence than doctor
Jill by and certainly voted for Trump, especially the icy
reception that Kamala got from her when they were just
seeing in public together. But there's a lot of reasons
that you've enumerated, Dan, why Joe Biden would be happy.
But with this result, he's the only guy that can say, hey,
(06:14):
I beat Trump, bro.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
That's why he forced Kamala on them. He knew she'd lose.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
He wanted the people who deposed him to lose. Nobody
can think he wanted them to win, right, But yeah,
I mean Jill didn't try to hide it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
She went out to vote on election day wearing all red.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
No, I would bet I bet my car.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
At least that they both voted anyway, the pictures compelling,
and let me get that sound, because I thought this
was really cool today. And I'm kind of a softy
for these traditional moments, but I think it was so
very cool. Biden handled it great today. I thought Trump
handled it great when they all met at the White House.
And if you haven't seen the video yet, I'm hopefully
(06:57):
you will when you get home. But here's the sound
some of the sound President elect.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
And form with President Thank you, gone, congratulation, thank you.
I should looking forward to having mi, Like we said,
the smooth transition. Whoeverthing, we can make sure you're accommodated
what you need. I'm good a chance to talk with
somebout today's good. Welcome jad Man, thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
And the politics is tough, and it's many cases not
a very nice world, but it is a nice world
today and I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
A transition that's so smooth. It'll be as smooth as
you can get. And I very much appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Jude, you all, thank you all. That was that was
so cool.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That was so cool, and you know they met for
two hours in can you imagine I would have loved
to be on that wall wasn't.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
It important too for the world to see those two
men in the same room shaking hands like that, a
peaceful transfer. That was the one thing Dan even more
so than Trump's reaction time on January sixth, which we
can discuss, but that he didn't go to the inauguration
to have that transfer. As much as he might have
disagreed with the result, and I did too for some reasons,
(08:14):
but to have that traditional show of respect for the office.
I didn't like the fact that Trump skipped the inauguration,
no listen.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And I think looking back on it, clearly if there
had been a traditional transition, you know, when Trump lost
that very narrow race. In my view, I think Donald
Trump wins this election by ten points.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But the fact that he was able.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
To win it so convincingly as it was, yeah, that
that does everything it needs to do for him. But yes,
I thought that was a great moment for America today.
I think it also signals what I think many other
things point to. President Trump right now is a man
in a hurry. He knows he's got these two prime
years right now, but he also he wants to be
(08:59):
a unified There is no doubt in my mind he
wants to be a unifier, he wants to help bring
this country closer together. He wants to leave office a
very more broadly popular president, building on you know, this
coalition he just built across party in racial lines on
election day, and so I think he is focused on
(09:20):
all the right things.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Here eight fi five for zero five eight two five.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Five the number text d an five seven seven three nine,
and one more quick point on it. I don't know
either of these guys, obviously, but I think they're from
that generation where and I'm not sure the current brand
of younger high stakes politicos are this way, but from
that generation where you could fight like hell, and you
(09:44):
could try to rip each other's heads off, but then
when you got together personally, often it would click and
you could.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Be friendly and there could be some mutual respect.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And so I wouldn't be at all surprised if that
was a pretty warm couple of hours they spent together. Plus,
Trump knows that Biden wanted him to win, and that
it was Biden who made sure that the opponent Trump
had to face was the weakest the Dems had to offer.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
You're on the Dankapla Show, and now back to the
Dan Kapla Show podcast, like.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You I.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
What I know?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I follow sleep to it once Nelson Dorma from Turna Do.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, that was probably the single greatest threat to Amy
and I getting married.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Was not that culture to guy, and so she was
very very you know, like opera, ballet everything else.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Oh yeah, Oh that was the one sticking point.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Early in our dating life because I do anything for it, right,
who wouldn't but right? But de man's got to know
his limitations. So every time we went to one of
those things, I'd fall asleep. No, you know me, I'm
emin early morning guy. I don't sleep a lot to
begin with. But and it's I guess a compliment to
I think in all those singers, but I would fall asleep,
(11:19):
and I think that was embarrassing to her.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
This was actually the exact same singer who performed at
the Trump rallies, Christopher Maccio. Okay, so you have to
imagine that Christopher was a Trump supporter, that he was
willing to do.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
This, and the significance of this song.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Again, I don't know a lot.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
It's Italian, obviously, it sounds a lot better than Italian
that does in England.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I've read something where it was how some movie ended
where everybody in.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
The Deep State got wiped out or something. Maybe I misunderstanding.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Well, I don't know, but all I know is Christopher Machio,
Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock Haul Cogan, the celebrities came off
for Donald Trump, Dan, and unlike Kamala Harris's celebrities, they
didn't have to be Paylke Greenwood made that clear on
acts earlier today.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It just keeps getting better. Yeah, and it's going to
be an amazing inauguration too. All right, let's get to
text and call. So much great stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
If you just joined us, thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's another endless super Bowl kind of day, right with
all of these appointments and everything going on.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
But Telsea Gabbert, Director of National Intelligence. Great to see that, and.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Of course the big one, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State,
and he will be tremendous in that role. Now the
one everybody's talking about Matt Gates for AG and I've
talked about that two or three times now my theory.
And George Brockler joined us at four point fifty as well,
and then the list goes on and on. Still very
(12:44):
curious to see who Trump's pick for FBI director will be,
and looking forward to that as I mean, there are
so many other big jobs left right, not necessarily the
most glamorous ones in every case, but also his press secretary.
Is it going to be his lawyer Elena hobb Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You know? But that that is Megan Kelly.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's really going to be fun to watch and fun
to watch as it goes on every day. A five
five five eight two five five text D and five
seven seven three nine. Before I get to the phone lines,
let me squeeze in a couple of texts, Dan, I
know you keep bringing up down Junior as a potential
candidate in twenty eight I agreed'd be a good choice.
We shouldn't overlook Eric, and then the texture goes on
(13:25):
to oh it's Patty goes on to say good things
about Eric, who I think so highly of Eric Trump
and have interviewed him many times.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
And one of the most memorable. I've got to get
this tape ran. We've got to play it on air,
especially in historical context. Now.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I had Eric on air the Monday after the Access
Hollywood tape story broke, so picture that story breaking over
the weekend. Many saying Trump, many Republicans saying Trump had
to drop out of the race. And then Eric he was.
He joined me from an airport Monday morning. We talked
for an hour on air. If I remember right, I
(13:59):
blew out mamrcial breaks and it was so personal and
so real and human and compelling. I've got to find
that tape and play it. I love me Sam Eric Trump.
He is wonderful. But clearly I think it's Don Junior
who's been preparing this political path. I thought at one
time it might be Avanka. She seems to have soured
on all that will be president.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Not in twenty eight, not in twenty eight, but Don Junior.
I wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
But that would have to be part of some understanding,
right with jd Vance, because it was Don Junior who
pushed for JD Vance, and so if Don himself intended
to run in twenty eight, you would assume those two
would have had an understanding about that. But one of
those two I think lived the inside track. Texter says,
Dan are they're enough teenage girls for gays to feast
(14:48):
his eyes and other body parts on. This is alluding
to what you already know and will be front and
center in confirmation hearings.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
The allegation never proven, and Gates.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Would say, disprove and he may very well be right
that he had transported underage girls across.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
State lines for sex. It was the allegation.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But again, think of all the things they choose Trump
off that were false and never proven. So that'll be
front and center in the Gates nomination. I have to
assume first he's presumed innocent, and have to assume he
is in fact innocent, or he would not be nominated
at this point, knowing that that's going to be a
major focus dance. As a Texter, Biden was a big
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enough person to extend the olive branch to Trump, who
could not summon any sense of common decency or protocol
when he lost in twenty That's the difference in the
person who respects the office and a man baby who
pouts when he loses.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I was critical of Trump in twenty when he didn't
do the transition thing at the White House. But with
that said, zero doubt in my mind, zero doubt that
Donald Trump has believed and still believes to his core
that that election was dole it. So I have to
judge his you know, conduct against that backdrop.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
But I'm so happy to see that so.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Many Americans did what I did, which is you look
at the balance sheet. And yeah, I was critical of
Donald Trump did not incite violence in January sixth. He
just didn't, But I think should have responded better and sooner,
and the voters could take that into account. But to me,
there were so many great things he did as president
and so many reasons to know he'd be far better
(16:27):
than Kamala Harris that that far outweighed, you know, any
kind of error in judgment on January sixth, starting point
being he did not incite that violence, and the American people,
the ultimate jury, rendered their verdict in his favor. Dean
and Arvadah, excuse me, you're on the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Hey, I was wondering, how did you What do you
think of that beat?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Eggit? You know? I love it? I absolutely love it
because and I'll play some Scott Jennings sound yet you
do too? Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Shoot, I was hoping we'd get to heavy, respect full
disagreement on this, but I yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Gosh, you don't need another bureaucradit.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I mean look at how the insiders have screwed it up.
And so you know what I love. I mean, I
love I love his values. I love the fact that
he served, that he won the bronze Star. I love
the fact that he's young. I love the fact that
I think you'll be able to help in recruiting, which
is so critical, and recruiting is down right now.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
And thank you for that call. And listen in terms
of somebody hasn't run this big agency or that big agency, Well,
if we limit our choices to people who've done that,
then what do you expect to get in those jobs? No,
but you can.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You can hire people to do that sort of thing,
just like in the AG job. If Matt Gates gets confirmed,
I would expect to have somebody like Andy McCarthy or
some other wingman or woman you know, who has that
kind of administrative experience and can do those other very
important but still ministerial managerial type things. But I love
(18:05):
kind of the common thread in this cabinet. He's putting
together young, articulate, aggressive, dynamic people. I think that's just
great for America. All Right, we got a lot to do.
Anything on your mind, please would love to hear when
it comes to these picks. I also want to come
back to one of the biggest scandals in I think
(18:26):
in Colorado political history. You know what's going on in
the Secretary of State's office, Griswold's decision not to tell
the clerks after those passwords had leaked.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And maybe have a bigger scandal.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Now, where's the true special prosecutor, where's the big investigation
and how that's going to come back to hurt the dams.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You're on the Dan Kaplish.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplish Show podcast.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
I have confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon
and the way the defense situation has been operating for
the last several years. I mean from the Afghanistan pull out,
which was an extreme debacle for which no one was
held accountable. We've had five balloons flying over the United States.
We built a three hundred million dollar pier as a
public relations stunt, which wound up killing an American service member.
(19:13):
I'd say I've had just about enough of the so
called insiders running the Defense Department. I think you ought
to get Pete Hagk's at.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
The chance well said by Scott Jennings America did not
elect Donald Trump to be more of the same, that
is for sure. So I love the team he's putting together. Yeah,
the Matt Gates pick was a surprise. Would not have
been my first pick, but I get it.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I get why he did that.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Quick summary I deeped oved earlier is, first of all,
Trump has been subjected to some of the worst legal
abuses ever foisted on an American president, and infact the worst,
you know, with Russia Gate and everything else. And we
know the left is cooking up the next one as
we speak. And since there's literally only one individual in
all of government who can destroy a presidency, and that's
(19:55):
the AG I don't blame Trump for wanting.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Somebody loyal there.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Second, listen, you know this lawfair the left launched against Trump.
It was the most dangerous attack on America. Well, let
me put it this way, the most dangerous threat to
America since the Cuban missile crisis. And they wanted to
Trump to die in jail. And that's very personal to him.
(20:20):
So I think he wanted to send a message if
and I underline if, if you were involved in that
that attack on America through lawfare, and if you committed
a crime in the process, We're going to find it.
And I think he wants all of those people who
were involved in that, if they committed any crimes, to
not sleep at night. And I think that was part
of the pick. I would not support any more lawfair,
(20:41):
and I don't think Donald Trump would commit any law fair.
But if somebody did, in fact break laws in the
course of doing something that threatened the very stability and
success of this nation, this lawfare obscenity, then they should
be prosecuted.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
But so I think that's what was behind the pick.
Eight four five A two five five. Let's uh, we
got a bunch of sound. I gotta get to, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I want to get to some more of these texts
as well. Dan, where do you see RFK Junior having
a place in the cabinet?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Now?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I thought he'd be the A G No.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I think Ryan thinks he'll be Health and Human Services CDC.
Maybe might be Health and Human Services, but it will
be prominent. It will be, in the words of Joe Biden,
a big blanking deal. Speaking of that, I just think
that was such a cool moment at the White House today,
and I commend Biden for it. I commend Trump for
the way he handled it, and and it was just
(21:39):
great to see the two get together. They met for
two hours in private, but here's part of the public.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Part President elect and former predit and get found in
congratulation and looking forward to having a micro said just
through the transition. Whoever, we can make sure you're accommodated
once you need.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
I'm just to talk to us on out to this
good welcome. Thank you, Jady Man, Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
And politics is tough, and it's many cases not a
very nice world, but it is a nice world today,
and I appreciate very much a transition.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's so smooth.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
It'll be as smooth as you can get. And I
very much appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Joe, you all, thank you all. A good moment.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And one of my better text which I think is
saying a lot at Dan Caplis on Twitter this very
compelling photo of Trump celebrating with two of his voters
today at the White House, Joe and Jill Biden. So
great to see him together and looking so happy and
zero down in my mind that in fact they both
voted for Donald J.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Senator John Thun elected de Senate majority leader, today, Texter says,
good to hear a different perspective Thune from Dick Wadams,
who joined US at four h six.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
A good interview.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, Dick was John Tune's campaign manager when Thun knocked
off the sitting Senate Minority Leader Tom dashel Up in
South Dakota. That was a seismic victory at the time,
and so Dick's take was basically, great guy, totally aligned
with Trump on policy, and they'll get along great personally.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Here's a little theme for you, I think going into
it there.
Speaker 11 (23:27):
You know, if you look at the polls, obviously with
everybody expected a tight race, but it was a very convincing,
resounding win for President Trump and literally up and down
the ballot, and we outperformed twenty twenty in forty eight
states and across all demographic groups and actually did better
in twenty three hundred countries or counties i should say
(23:50):
around the country than we did four years ago. So
this was a I think an example that the American
people said enough is enough with the Biden Harris Jenna.
They're ready for a different direction for the country. And
I think it's really about open borders and high prices
I think those are the issues that animated voters to
get out.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
See.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I think Thune's going to be great for Trump because
I think he's going to be real effective in the job.
Thune is an a player, you know. I mean you
always want a players. Trump obviously an a player, a
plus player. Soon's an a player, and he is also
I think he's going to be a much more effective
communicator to America and that prominent platform a Senate majority leader.
(24:30):
I think he's going to be much more charismatic. I
think Americans are going to connect with him better, which
will in turn help Trump. No, he's a real deal
kind of guy, and I don't know him, you know.
I mentioned earlier that Amy and I had dinner with
John Thunne and his wife, and if I remember, his
daughter was there and we were talking about, okay, you know,
(24:51):
what's life like.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
In the US Senate when you have young kids and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So we had that conversation at a time when Amy
and I were considering that journey, and I just we
both came away super impressed with thuon on every level,
including just as a.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Guy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
So I'm very optimistic and I know some other supporters
of President Trump have a concern that he said some
rough things about the president in the past. Well not
as rough as JD did, right, And so no, I
would judge him by his whole body of work. I
think he's going to be great for Trump, the country
and the GOP. The only thing I'd quibble with there,
(25:27):
And if you see a flaw in the logic, I'm
sure you will tell me is who's the wee kim Osabi.
You know, when Thune and others say the GOP did this,
the GOP did that.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
In this cycle.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The margin of victory voters were Trump voters. They were
not GOP voters. The GOP benefited from those Trump voters
and now has an opportunity to try to keep enough
of them to win again. But we got to be
realistic about the fact that those differences making voters margin
of victory voters, those were Trump voters, and thank god
(26:06):
they were. And now it's up to the GOP. But
the GOP can hold enough of them, it just has
to deliver. Talk is cheap. We are just it is
a whole different world now, and that is for the better.
Everybody by now knows talk is meaningless. It's all about
what people deliver, and the GOP just has to deliver.
I'm very very confident they will and that they can.
(26:27):
The kind of stuff they can deliver on right away
you don't even need legislation for so I'm very confident
they're going to do that, especially you know Trump who
he is, and then you look at this a team
that he's putting together. Dan in regards to Mett Gates,
are they just trying to get a trouble maker out
of Congress? Well, if that's what they're trying to do,
they were successful because he's already resigned. He has formally
(26:49):
resigned his seat in Congress. Really, so yeah, yeah, it's
a burn the ship steals, so he has and it's
tactical right because it allows now allows somebody to be
in place. I think by January third, when the next
Congress starts, and I think that's a dissant disappointment.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I'm not sure. I'd have to double check.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Do you think Gates is kind of overplaying his hand?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
I'm not sure he gets through the Senate confirmation process. Yeah,
every Democrats won't against him, you know that, right?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And if we had to bet today and I'd probably
get decent odds on this.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I would bet he does.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He does get confirmed, yes, but there's obviously a real
chance he won't. But you know, Trump has a backup plan,
and Gates has a backup plan. If he is not confirmed,
he will have some other very prominent position in the
Trump administration. There's no doubt about that. So we will
not have Matt Gates applying to work.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
With us here. I'm pretty confident about that.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
But yeah, and hey five five verse five eight two
five five the number, you know, very very interesting now
to watch the Dems and see what they're trying to
do and how they're trying to position themselves. I really
think they're just making it worse on themselves. And when
we come back, I want to give you a couple
of examples, one loco with Jared Polis, and this is
(28:12):
going to be so much fun to watch. We're going
to cover it more on tomorrow's show. It's Dems eating
Dems at the Capitol. Now, a lot of Dems going
after Polis because guess what, because of goofy stuff the
Democrats did, We're now have a big budget shortfall and
so now Polis has to start cutting budgets and the
left's not liking that at all, So we'll enjoy that together.
(28:36):
But then some national stuff as well that Polis is
a part of as they try to mount resistance two
point zero.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Don't think it's going to go well for them. You're
on the Dan Capitla Show.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
We also want to make sure that there isn't a
violation of people's rights with raids, for example, that are
done in coordinate with local law enforcement on people who
are frankly holding down jobs and have been in this
country for many, many years. We think that's improper, and
in Illinois, that's not something that we would condone. There's
(29:12):
been some talk about using other states National Guard red
state national Guards to somehow come into a blue state
and try and force these new Stephen Miller inspired rules,
and that's just not something we're.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Going to accept.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep talking big, right, So what are
you going to do, Paula George Wallace when the federal
Most people don't get that reference, right, used to be
a racist governor down in Alabama.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So when the.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Federal government comes in to enforce federal law and get
folks who are here illegally and who have also committed
other crimes, and get them out of this country.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
You're going to stand in the way. You're going to
stand in the door, block the Feds.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Talk tough in governor.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing that we can retire
the national debt while selling the cable rights to that
one personally physically that he might be able to do
it because he's a pretty large man, Jumy prisker Strich,
you know. And this goes to something I was talking
with a client about today. When are we going to
see the first genetically engineered goalie who's so big they
(30:25):
block out the entire net. They just don't have to move.
It's just a job of the hut, word for word.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
My brother's been saying that for about twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Since we all started watching hockey.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I can't believe the Russians or something evn't come up with.
Somebody point, Yeah, just so big you never have to move,
just sit there it. But I played that in part
because his Pritzker character is now co chair of the
so called nonpartisan Governor's Safeguarding Democracy. Who do you think
his other co chair is Governor's safeguarding Democracy avenusom worse
(31:01):
how yeah, Jared, Jared, take the shot, or you're fired, polists.
So the Governor's safeguarding democracy? Who told all these state
workers you will do what I want. You will take
the medicine I want you to take, or you're going
to be fired. Yeah, Governor's safeguarding democracy.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
I'm telling you to wear a mask, wear a damn mask,
safeguarding democracy? Right there? Hight five five or zero five
eight two five five the number.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What a great time to be alive, right because we
all knew coming in that we had a couple of
missions here. One was you had to win the presidency
to save the country. Donald Trump did that again with
his voters, thank god. And then the other is the
left has to be exposed in the process because Donald
Trump can't run again, and Donald Trump's not on the
(31:48):
ballot in twenty six, and the margin of victory voters
were Trump voters, they weren't to your pe voters, and
so you have to expose the left in the process.
So by the time you get to the midterms and
twenty six and you get to the presidential in twenty eight,
You've had enough people say no, I'm not going to
support the left anymore. Yeah, I will support the Republicans.
(32:09):
So it's so great now to see so many on
the left exposing themselves and as expected, it is not pretty.
A Lexai text that Jack Smith has officially filed to.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Halt his appeals, etc.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, he's resigning before Trump takes office, thank you, Alexa.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
And halt his career. That is what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And yeah, Dan Moore on Don Junior, he won me
over when he addressed the RNC in sixteen. He was
very impressive and I've now forgotten the first impression he
made on me. That from Patty Listen and I interviewed
him a bunch too. Don Junior is a super smart guy,
and a tough guy, and an articulate guy. And that's
(32:48):
why I wonder was there some understanding because it was
Don Junior who who convinced his dad to put JD.
Fans on the ticket, and I'm glad he did, But
was there some understanding between the two guys that if
Don Junior wanted to run in twenty eight and continue
the Trump legacy, he would or that Junior would be
supporting Vance in twenty eight. We'll find out together because yeah,
(33:11):
twenty eight begins now, Dan, I'm loving these left lib
media outlets melting down over peak.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Pete hag Seth, Yeah, that is so cool.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Let me get to one of those, because it again,
they're just kind of embarrassing themselves. Here's Van Jones, who
of all of these commentators on the left, you know,
it tends to be more balanced and more likely to
be honest about Dems at times, but here he's just
trying to somehow take a bite out of the Republicans.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
But I think he got his own arm. He looks great,
I mean, but he sounds terrible. And I think that
if it's not broke, don't fix it. There's this fiction
that there's something.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
If it's not broke, don't fix it. Did anybody watch
it Afghanistan? Did Van Jones miss Afghanistan? I mean, like
Jenny said, where have the insiders gots?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I see the wisdom of this hexeth pick and I
love the use of the team that Trump's putting together
and the fact George was talking about this earlier, George Brockler,
that they're all so articulate, that ability to communicate, and
again I think Trump's building a team for the next
eight to twelve years. Not that each and everyone will
(34:23):
stay in their position. That's not how life works.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
We know that.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
But a team that kind of in its core, you know,
can stay together beyond his four years.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
And so I just I love it. I love the
whole plan.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I love the way he's executing right now. And yeah, Gates,
he wouldn't have been my first choice, but as I
explained to depth earlier, I get why President Trump is
doing it, and I would bet Gates does get confirmed,
but I could see where he may not be, and
if he's not, you can be sure they've got a
backup plan. He'll have a prominent position in the administration. Ryan,
thank you for all your great hard work. Again today, Kelly,
(34:57):
human sunshine brightens and warms every year. Thank you to
all the suggestions rolling in for our one hundred natured
old dog tests as well, some of them are actually working.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Catch you tomorrow on the Dan Kapla Show.
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