January 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Donald Trump holds another classic press conference at Mar-a-Lago, making a lot of news doing it, and generates not one, not two... but FIVE installments of 'Trump's Hot Takes' with the assembled media.
Ryan asks Kelly why Trump has invested so much trust and political capital in re-elected Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House - what makes the Louisiana Congressman a preferable alternative to Paul Ryan in Trump's first go-around as President?
Brita Horn, Rock Creek Volunteer Fire Department chief joins Ryan to announce her candidacy to be the next chair of the Colorado Republican Party.
About - Brita Horn
Ryan asks Kelly why Trump has invested so much trust and political capital in re-elected Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House - what makes the Louisiana Congressman a preferable alternative to Paul Ryan in Trump's first go-around as President?
Brita Horn, Rock Creek Volunteer Fire Department chief joins Ryan to announce her candidacy to be the next chair of the Colorado Republican Party.
About - Brita Horn
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's time once again for another edition of Trump's hot takes,
charting the forty seventh president's epic interactions with a fake
news media.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
That's a sick group of people, and.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It was all to influence the election.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was all a fight against a political opponent. We've
never had that in this country.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
We have had that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
In certain countries. We've had that in h thirdkiear countries,
we've had that in Banana republics, but we've never had
that in a place like the United States. I don't
even know if it's been on a small level. I'm
sure it has been on a small level, but this
was the largest level level that brought this moron out
(00:56):
of the Hague. He's a mean guy. He's a mean,
nasty guy.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Was perfect because you look at this picture. You say,
that's a bad guy with his robe, his pope purple robe,
and he executes people.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
He shouldn't be allowed to execute.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
People because he'll execute everybody. He's a nutsyep. But we
want all of those cases with him.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Vintage A plus DJT on display today at mar A Lago.
Ryan Shuling live with you on this Tuesday, January seventh.
Jesse Thomas alongside as well. Kelly Caucera sticking around because
I wanted her input and she's got some breaking news
for us.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Too along the lines of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But Kelly, I know you were working on the Tom
Martino Show probably during this press conference.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Were you able to catch any of it?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Unfortunately, And I can't wait to hear this sound because
it sounds epic.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
There are not one, not two, not even three or four.
There are five editions of what you just heard.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Trump's hot takes. That's how many.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I was laughing like I was watching a stand up
special on Netflix, whether it was Jim Gaffigan or Bill Burr.
I think I might have gotten more laughs watching Trump
over this.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
He was epic.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Like you said, I can't wait to hear it.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, what I like about Trump two point oh? And
that's what we're gonna call this because it had to
be a reboot. There was the Biden four year disaster
in between. But this edition of Donald Trump is going
to be so much better, huh, because he knows what matters,
who matters, what doesn't, who doesn't. He knows how to
navigate this far better than he did before. He had
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to lean on people. One. I think there's some truth
to the portrayal that we saw on South Park going
back eight years ago now, where mister Garrison was playing
what was obviously a Trump like figure and he never
expected to win, and in the show, mister Garrison didn't
even really want to win, but he won, and then
he's like, well what do I do now? I mean,
(02:54):
it was such a massive upset. I have to believe
on some level, Kelly Donald Trump himself was shock that
he won that night against Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Yes, I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
And also he went into it as a complete neophyte
correct and had to trust other people that did not
give him and lead him in the good direction that.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
They should have.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So before we get into more of this sound and
there's so much, and we're gonna have these sprinkled throughout
today's show, the hot takes just for you, they're gonna
be moresel form. You know, you're cudled up right now
on the couch, hopefully out of this bad weather. You know,
I got sipping some tea wink or whatever you want
to drink, and you got a fireplace going, and you're
going to be just warmed by these Trump hot takes.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So we have that for you throughout today's program.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But I wanted to ask you, Kelly, as you've watched
kind of the rollout of Trump two point zero of
the next administration, the selections and nominations for the cabinet positions.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
He mentions by name Pam Bondi for.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Attorney General, which I prefer her one hundred percent over
Matt Gaze. Absolutely, maybe that was the play all along,
don't know, but Cash Pateel for FBI.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yes, Pete Haig suffer defense. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You go back though to twenty seventeen, eight years ago,
and you had the likes of Rex Tillerson, right, hr McMaster.
You know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Absolutely well, he made really bad cabinet decisions based on
other people's suggestions.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Like Chris CHRISTI gave him advice on Christopher.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Ray or Ryan's previous you know my favor exactly. And
so because you have this little caveat of you know this,
I should say, not kaviat what I'm trying to say,
this group of people who almost from the get go
didn't have his best interests in mind. It was almost
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like they were fighting from within, and then they had
to fight the Russia. Russia, Russia and all of the
stuff that they jumped on him. And then he had
Paul Ryan, who completely obfuscated everything that Trump tried to
roll out and made it sound like, I don't know
if this is a good idea of people, so I'm
(05:08):
going to do it this way and I'm not going
to you know, basically, let Trump's be Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well, yeah, they thought they had to be this check
in balance against this bull in a China shop, which
he was, which he is, which we love, which we
voted for. You me, I think Jesse and a lot
of people out there listening, sure, because this is what
we need. We need to shake things up. Blank's got
to get real, and that's what's happening now, and world
leaders are taking notice. Georgia Maloney flies into mar A
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Lago just to say hi, basically exactly to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
But I'm glad you brought up Paul Ryan.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Paul Ryan was a failure, a miserable failure, much like
John Bayner.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
The only good speaker I.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Think we've had it is New in our lifetime. As
a Republican. He was masterful. He was able to bring
drag Bill Clinton to the middle and they worked out compromises.
They had two balanced budgets. That's unheard of. Now, Newton
was a genius in a lot of way. Hes a
very smart guy, a tremendous intellection.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
It wasn't only Newt though, Bill Clinton actually really smart too.
Yeah that you know what, I can't be doing this
for another four years.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I have to work with Congress.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, but where I'm going with this is Paul Ryan
was such a disappointment. They were supposed to repeal and
replace Obamacare.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
You remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I That's what Trump ran on, That's what we wanted,
that's what we voted for, and he dragged his feet
on that crap over the first two years.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
It's playing out the same way.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
The Republicans had the Senate, the Republicans had the House,
and then you got the John McCain thumbs down in
the Senate and it all failed. It all blew up
in their faces. So Trump didn't have somebody he could
count on. Now, in your mind, in your eyes, and
maybe you disagree with Donald Trump, what makes Mike Johnson
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better as a speaker than say, Paul Ryan or maybe
Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
I think the jury's still out on that one.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I do too.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I don't think that we can make any sort of do.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You trust Mike Johnson? Do you trust him? I know
that's a loaded question, big Time's.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
A loaded question.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I'm in waiting see mode Oka. My gut says, give
the guy a chance.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Why did Trump give Mike Johnson his blessing, which is
really what carried him across the finish line. I spoke
with Gabe Evans yesterday. He was just sworn in Kelly.
He defeated Yudrek Caravello. Thanks if he didn't defeat her,
Thomas Massey's vote was enough to prevent Mike Johnson from
being speaker. Do you know that he won by one vote?
Gave Evans was kind of that one vote. He's the
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way he flipped a seat. So if you look at
what Mike David's on in a precarious position, and we
knew that going in, why did Trump offer his blessing?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
I think it's two reasons.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
One, he knew that Mike Johnson was probably Johnson Sten.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Mike Johnson, Johnson's the Denver May We'll get to him
in a minute, by.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
The way, sure, but I think first of all, he
thought he's probably the best House Speaker to push his
agenda through. And second, he didn't want to go through
all of this rigamarole like we did before. I agree
where you know, you had five different sets of votes
that went to until it finally hit on and you
(08:26):
had three different people that were up for speaker until
it finally hit with Mike Johnson. So I think those
are the two reasons. But again we are in wait
and see mode. I don't know he is still out.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I was not a fan. I'm a you know me,
I'm a desantist kind of Republican. I like to win.
I like practical and pragmatic. I want to be principled.
All three of those piece practical, pragmatic, and principled.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But you got to be the first two as well.
You got to win. You can't just did you didn't win.
You've got to win in the arena of ideas.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
You've got to win hearts and you've got to move policy,
and that requires orchestrating the gears of government. I know
we don't like to hear it about the swamp, but
Trump knows how I think to identify his allies in
the swamp now to get through. Unlike with Mitch McConnell,
unlike with Paul Ryan, and I was not a fan
really of booting Kevin McCarthy, though I had major reservations
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with him because I'm always of the mind, Okay, you
don't like Kevin McCarthy, that's great. Who is going to
take his place? That's better? And nobody had that suggestion,
that idea. If Thomas Massey had come up and going,
you know what, I'll do it, I'll be the speaker.
Go okay, I can respect that. But Massey ends up
voting for this clown. But in Minnesota, right Tom Emmer,
nobody knows who that is, let alone likes him. And
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I'm like, are we really better off, like you said,
throwing this whole thing back into the hopper, trying to
come up with somebody, or is Mike Johnson good enough
knowing that he's on thin ice, knowing he's got to
deliver not just for Trump but the American people.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
The onus is and I believe he is aware of that.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So on that level, I trust Mike Johnson politically to
do the right thing, to follow his instincts, and to
know that he's got to get this across the finish line.
And this being whatever the Trump agenda is for DJT
in a seventy seven million voters.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Well, I think the difference.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Also you have to juxtapose the Democrats versus the Republicans,
and the Republicans, just like Massey, they never actually stay
together as a collective.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Oh, they do not. That's why I admire Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
But on the vote, all the Democrats rallied around Hakeem Jeffers,
every single one of them, and there were no nobody held.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Out on that. Nope.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
And so it's going to be a very interesting house
coming up. But let's just give him a chance. You know,
I got butterflies in my stomach, but my gut also
tells me give the guy.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Give the guy.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, we're gonna wait and see what you said. But
the first order of business, I believe, if I'm hearing correctly,
reading correctly, seeing correctly, is the Lake and Riley Act
is going to come before the House to be voted on,
to pass this Senate and to be signed by Donald
Trump on day one.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
And that should be bipartisan by it even if it isn't.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You know, they don't need a Democrat vote in either
chamber yeah, House or Senate. Can Mike Johnson get that
across the finish line. That'll be test number one, and
we hope to be joined by Representative Jeff Crank tomorrow.
He succeeded Doug Lamborne in the fifth Congressional district. A
great guy, a very smart guy, has worked in this
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business and has run his own campaigns before. He was
finally sworn in as a congressman this past Friday. So
we talked to Gabe Evans yesterday, hoping to talk to
Jeff Crank tomorrow about that. So that'll be a first
order of business. Donald Trump elucidated on what else would
be on the table day one, and he wants I'd
like one need beautiful bill. It's gotta be shiny and
(12:01):
probably gold. Okay, I no, I don't woll okay, let's
just go. We've been burying the lead.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
We got a breaking news due to the great leg
work of Kelly Kuchera.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
What can the people expect tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
We're going to have a Trump off.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
No, we're not. I'm not. I concede already.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
No, No, he wants it, he's excited for it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Sean Firish, is that how you say it fairish, it's fair,
and that is that what he's settled on. He's going
to be coming on and he does, in my mind,
for my money, the best Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Impersonation I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And I'm going to tell him this. I'll tell you
guys this now, but I want to make sure I
tell Sean this. I was kind of milling around doing
some household chores whatever, listening half heartedly to Clay and Buck.
Oh yeah, Rixton was down in mar A Lago and
they enter the segment and Bucks, he's very happy to
be joined by the president.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Right now, here's Donald Trump my.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
A lago and he just casually entered it and on
comes this voice. And Kelly, I'm telling you, it took
me to almost the end of that segment before I
really I was like, is Donald Trump really saying that
he could? He says some outlandish things, but the great
part was Buck in this playing the straight man, and
(13:22):
he didn't let us, the listeners, the audience off the
hook until the very im Ah. That was Sean Ferresh
and I'm like, oh my god, it is incredible.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
What he does.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
You know, he goes on a lot of Newsmax. Yeah,
programs and you know he'll break into it and you cannot.
It's kind of almost eerie how he'll go to Trump
and then he'll go into his own voice and it
sounds completely different.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Well, it's everything.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It's the mannerisms, it's the gestures, it's the facial expressions.
I mean, as somebody that fancies myself, you know, a
pretty good impersonator along a lot of lines. When I
kind of bring down what Sean does, it's genius level.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
It is genius level.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And here, just as an example before we go to
break here you can follow him at Sean sha w
n underscore farish am I saying it right?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
You want okay f r A s h. And this was.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
This was twas the Night before Christmas, but in Trump's
style by Sean Ferrish.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Here we go because the night before Christmas and all
through the nation everybody was excited about mass deportations and
the illego band ambraser shouldn't be here or all dreading
the day that Tom Holman appears soon I'll be your
next president, Dad, Camalo or not. We were sent with
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a mandate.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
We won by a lot on day one.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
We'll get work done to boost a Morrell will annex
Canada and Greenland and the Panama can everybody's excited to
be finally done with Joe, including our fifty first governor.
I call him Queen Justine Trudeau. But the slabs like
Chris Christi and the Hogs on the View, they cannot
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stand me, and they cannot stand you. They're upset that
you voted.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
They're upset that we won.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
They're upset that we got the radical left wing Marxists
on the run. It's a political comeback that could never
be topped. From law fair to bullets, Mago would not
be stopped. And with Elon and Bobby and Cash and Pete,
we're assembling a cabinet that cannot be beat. A new
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golden age is upon us. So let's fight, fight, fight.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Fantastic. That's a plus level.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
You are going to get your asking.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
He wants you to Sean now r too. Kai.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I laid down the gauntless of them. That's the only
reason he's coming on.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
No, what I would suggest is my impression will get
you through in a pinch. You need to get Yeah, Okay,
that's Trump. His will fool you, and he could do
Maybe he's doing this, he could make so much money, Kelly,
like sending messages, Oh marry Chris, happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
How are you doing.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
I'm already I think he already is like looking.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
At it up.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I should.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I'm not sure if it's a conflict of I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
We're to help this parody stuff, you know that's his own.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well we can ask him.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I am going to ask him.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But Sean Ferrish, you just heard he'll be joining us
at three thirty three tomorrow for two segments to close.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Out the show.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Closing out the show.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I'm just I'm so excited about and normally excited about
this because I.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Love this and I kept it from you on purpose and.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
All sand I did. That's what you're doing there.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
You know, I have little secrets. I have little ways.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Of getting you really do. I don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I think he kills people to get sometimes to the
end objective. But something he mentioned there was what I
wanted to pose to the audience and to you a
Kelly and to Jesse. Trump went full Trump today in
the press conference about the Panama Canal.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
We're gonna We're gonna buy it back. I mean, we
might use economic force.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And whether he's going to do that or he's talking,
he's pretty serious about this Greenland thing, Like Don Junior
is going up there trying to negotiate. Well, people are
freaking out, but it's like, do you remember the Louisiana purchase?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
You know that was done. It could be done.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I mean, could you negotiate price, like I'll give you
ten billion dollars?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
What do you say we get greenland?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
The thing Mark did say and mention is that did
he mention something about naming renaming Gulf of Mexico Gulf
of America?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
The other thing?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Okay, thank you, because I was a third of those
three things. Listeners five, seven, seven, three nine, Kelly Jesse,
Which do you think is most likely to happen to
actually happen or all three or two of the three.
Will we get control back of the Panama Canal which
Jimmy Carter sold the Pana for a dollar yep? That
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could the late seventies. Will the Gulf of Mexico in
fact be renamed the Gulf of America It's beautiful, just
think about it, okay? Or will we purchase Greenland? It's
a great buy. There's a lot of land mass, a lot.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Of people, not a strategic geographical and.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
That's what made me believe it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Kelly, there is a national security interest both in the
Panama Canal and in Greenland now Gulf of America. That's
just a vanity thing, like we're gonna call it this instead.
So which of those three you think is most likely
to happen, or two of the three or all of
the three.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I think Panama Canal is going to be probably the
most important one of the whole of.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
All of them.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But will you call it? Will it happen? Will it
get done? That's my quest.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
A tough negotiation.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
But Pete people text us, okay, if you want to
see a Trump off tomorrow because Ryan is shacking it out, No.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I just I'm not good enough. I know what I'm
good at, I know what I'm better at. I know
I'm not voting.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Let's do the Trump off tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, Well, we got more hot takes from Donald Trump
coming up next, and I just kind of hinted at
one of them. Also still to come, Britta Horn, she
is running for the Colorado chair of the GOP.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
She joins us, next, I'm Ryan shuling.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Livest song Firewoman by the Cult has Kelly dancing on
the other side of the glass as Jesse Thomas once
again delivers the hits, and that one is apropos of
our next guest here on Ryan' Shooling Live joining us.
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We're glad to be joined by her, Britta Horn, and
she is a Rock Creek volunteer fire department chief and
now has thrown her hat into the ring to be
the Colorado GOP chair.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
She joined us live. Bretta, Welcome, Hey, thanks, what a
great song.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Thanks Jesse.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, just for you absolutely, And I just want you
to kind of inform people out there, Britta about the
road that got you here. I mean, to this point
where you are considering taking on this enormous responsibility and burden,
you feel ready for the charge to be the chair
of the Colorado Republican Party.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Okay, So yes, I'm runny for the state GOP chair
because I'm the person that could put things together that
com unify the party and be able to foster the relationships,
because relationships are all about, you know, working with you
to each other, listening to each other, you know, fostering good,
good conversations and then I'm also being able to get
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you know, central resources together because you know, resources are
more than just money. And I'm a really good fundraiser.
I know all the donors in the state. I know
how to get that money down. But we also have
to foster relationship and resources with volunteers. And I've been
a volunteer chief for I think I'm going on sixteen years.
I've always been a part of volunteer organization and I
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really enjoyed doing that. And even at Sea Pac. I
don't know if you know about SEAPAC and Washington dcxcept
Trump coming and I was always a volunteer for them.
In the last four years, I've been hired as the
volunteer coordinator, so I coordinate two hundred and twenty five
people to make sure that we have a great event
for four days when over twenty thousand people show up.
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So I just I love working with volunteers. I know
how to work with them, and I believe all these
different skill sets makes me perfect for the job.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And you can find out more about her online at
Britta Horn dot com. That's br Ita ho rn dot com.
She joins us here in Ryan Shuling Line now Britta,
you just mentioned a couple of things, and I got
to lead with this question.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I got others for you as well.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
But two reasons why I think the whole Republican Party
has struggled so much here in Colorado, and that's fundraising,
the deficit between what we are able to raise on
our side and the Colorado Democrats. And then also ground
game where it seems like we've been lapped on the
field in recent years.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Take us through what you've observed.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Either from the outside looking in or the volunteer positions
that you've held, like you said, under the leadership of
the past several terms, whether it's Dave williams Now or
Christy Burton Brown before him, or going back before him,
as to why we keep coming up short here in Colorado,
both in terms of fundraising and ground game.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Well, definitely on the ground game, we're not seeing the
ground game. We have only different organizations outside the party.
You know, they're all working on their own. Well, we're
not together and working together on it. And there's no
like when you know one of your besties on Natalie Tennant,
which is my best seed. We saw right after the election,
we saw that we were running short well, and you
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go count or see the weld in Adams County when Ryan,
Ryan's Zales and Daniel lug and even gave Evans. We
were trying to find out how going to put together
the ballot curing. There were ten, you know, tens of
thousands of ballots that were being cured, being none that
they weren't getting voted because of you know, some kind
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of error, whatever the error was. And we just put
together a group of people. We kept calling on people
and working with the candidates, and we had over eighty
people willing to make phone calls to tell everybody how
to cure their ballots. And it was just a great
gap ground game that just wasn't being done anywhere else.
So we were doing things because it wasn't getting done
at the state level. And then the same way with fundraising,
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were all the checkbooks were closed these last two years.
The local money went out of state, and want other
candidates across the country didn't stay in state, and they
was because they were so frustrated about who was running it,
what was going on. And you know, we can look
to the past and we have to be transparent, absolutely
transparent of what happened, you know, audits and things like that,
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and to gain respon the responsibility of that trust with everybody.
But we've got to move this ball forward. We've got
to advance. We're only thirty percent of this state. I mean, Brian,
I'm sorry. I don't need to be like I'm just overwhelmed.
Seventy percent of the state is not Republican, correct, and
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we know with the motor voter rolls that probably I'm
looking at some statiticians for me for July and August,
we're going to be they're going to be unaffiliated over
fifty percent. But just the boss com mind Democrats and Republicans,
we got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
We do. Bretta Horne is looking to do that work.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
She is stepping up in a big way, declaring her
candidacy to be the Colorado GOP chare and she joins
us here. Britta, I want to focus on the positive
because there was really light at the end of the
tunnel and kind of a bright spot, and you mentioned it,
and I want to talk a little bit more about it.
We had Gabe Evans on the program yesterday, but I
remember as that race was winding down election night. The
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next day, you Derek Caravo had a lead. Now Gabe
didn't concede, and he was stalwart. Now he's the numbers
guy too, and I kept I was text back and forth.
I'm like, do you think the votes are out there
for you to legitimately win this thing? And he didn't
even waiver. He just one word response, yes in a text.
Now you said it. Though it was Valdemar Archiletta, it
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was you, it was Lauren Bolbert. It was just a
cast of dozens that got together and we're curing these ballots.
And I got to ask you this, had that not
been done, would gave Evans be the sitting congressman for
the eighth district right now?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Oh boy? And we felt that, we felt rough that
if we didn't do that. And you have to remember,
through those ten days, to secure ballots, you had to
train everybody how to do it. Get a script, get
them a list, get them even the voter, you know,
the person we're calling and texting saying hey, here's your
voter number, so they could do, you know, teach everybody
how to do what was text secure. And we were
(25:46):
out of breath because we also had a weekend where
they nobody could walk into the clerk's office and then
Monday was a holiday. No, like, this is crazy, I mean,
out of breath, daylight to dark. I didn't all these
lists from all these candidates, cutting him back down to
just you know, sizeable bite so we could get those
eighty people. He named a lot of top line names.
(26:09):
But you got to remember, although unsung here is all
these other volunteers, all these grassroots people that just want
to helop. We sent them a list of thirty names
and say just get it back to us as soon
as you can, you know, call them and then text
them and then text them you know how to text
the cure on you know, on their phone, which is phenomenal.
And we did that for every Republican And if we
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didn't get a response from them, Ryan, then we made
sure the next day there was a group of people
knocking on their door.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
As I recalled to Brett. At least for a portion
of this, I was talking to Valdemar through this. There
was really bad weather to contend with at that time.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Too, right, there was.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
Yeah, we had so we had people that were just
drivers just to drive people to the door so they
could hop out and keep the car running we had
a done what why would have come help? And then
we had to get to the unaffiliated and I'm going
to tell you those are affiliated to help get us
across the line too.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Wow and how?
Speaker 9 (27:03):
And we we knew that because we saw UA assets
unaffiliated in the in the spreadsheets that we cut back
and then we had to kind of change the script
a little bit Ryan because we're like, Okay, how are
we going to talk to these guys because we only
want our own affiliated to cure their ballots, right because
you know the Democrats are calling to Oh yeah yeah.
So we changed the script just a little and we
(27:24):
just had a little fun with it. But it's not
everybody to do it. We just called and said, hey,
I'm I'm Gritter and I'm I'm a Republican. What'd you
think of the of the UH election last week with Trump?
And just based on how they responded whether we told
them that they cure their ballot or they were too
busy cursing, calling us names and hanging up the phone.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Wow, what a strategy like it?
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Yeah, And we took notes for it, so we finally
now have data on then there's unaffiliateds. It was like
a survey.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
It worked great, incredible.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
We know which one to call again, and that's what
we need to do because I know the unaffiliated. So
I came into Colorado nineteen eighty nine, met my husband
in ninety who got married in ninety one, and you
was a non affiliated it was an independent, and I'm like,
what the heck is that I came from Washington, DC,
Upstate New York and I grew up in Chicago. We
only had two parties, so I had to really talk
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to all the randers, going, why are you guys all unaffiliated?
You know, independent? And they're like, because they can't trust
either party and they had to do what was best
for their livelihood.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Brenda Horne our guest, and she's a candidate for the
GOP share spot here in Colorado Fort of final question,
I know you were part of a group that I supported,
along with Eli Bremer, to try to upend the current
leadership of Dave Williams, Hope Sheppelman, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
That was not successful. One why wasn't it successful? And two?
Why will it be different this time around for you?
Speaker 9 (28:51):
Well, well, just for records sake, when I was running,
I was running against Eli and then some other candidates
that'll stepped back and we really want to that to work,
because we had to take all that information that we
did at that Brighton meeting and go to that court
case to say, look, we did everything right, and instead
of being able to go to court place, the court
got this, you know, the case got dismissed. So I
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believe it was the right thing because they followed the
letter of the law, of the bylaws how to do
this as members, as you know, Central Committee members, and
I just looked at that as an opportunity to go, look,
let's get out this voice. Let's see what we can
get done, because I was up for it for the
you know, the last hundred days make change because you know,
you know, as a firefighter, as a first responder of
(29:35):
putting out fires, I'm like, you know, here, here's the tourniquet,
make the bleeding stop.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Find out more.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
We're at her website Brettahorn dot com. That's b our
I t a horn like you're playing trombone horn dot
com and she's running once again for the Colorado GOP
chair spot. Britta, thank you so much for your time today,
and I'm sure we'll follow up more conversations in the future.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Best of luck.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
Absolutely, thank you very that's time.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Rida Horn right there and again find out more at
her website. Before we go to break here, I want
to send you out with one of Trump's hot takes
from mar A Lago today. They were fast, they were furious.
They were coming in hot and heavy. It's time once
(30:32):
again for another edition of Trump's hot takes, charting the
forty seventh president's epic interactions with the fake news media.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Mexico's really in trouble, a lot of trouble, very dangerous
place that we're going to be announcing it a future
date pretty soon. We're going to change because we do
most of the work there and it's ours. We're going
to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden, where
he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid of fifty to
(31:01):
sixty trillion dollars worth of assets. We're going to be
changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers
a lot of territory.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name, and it's appropriate.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
It's appropriate, and Mexico has to stop allowing millions of
people to pour into our country. They can stop them.
And we're going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico
and Canada because Canada. They come through Canada too, and
the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
It's time once again for another edition of Trump's hot takes,
charting the forty seven president's epic interactions with the fake
news media. I know I've heard forty police officers were
injured by writers on January sixth.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Will you pardon anyone who attacked a police officer?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Well, you know, the only one that was killed was
a beautiful young lady named Ashley Babbitt.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
She was killed, and there was actually somebody.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Else that was killed, also a magga person, But people
don't give it one hundred percent credibility.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'm going to find out about it, and we're going
to find out.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
But Ashley Babbitt was killed. She was shot, should have
never been shot. She was shot for no reason whatsoever.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
In fact, they say that she was trying to hold
back the crowd, and the.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Crowd's made up of a lot of different people, So
we'll see. But I will tell you this, the person
that was killed was Ashley bad.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
But the other thing is when they talk, you know,
there was never charges of insurrection or anything like that,
but if there were, this would be the only insurrection
in history where people went in as insurrectionists.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
With not one gun.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Okay, and let me tell you, the people that you're
talking about have a lot of guns in their home
for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment, a lot
of good reasons.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
But there wasn't one gun that they found.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Checkmate, Donald Trump, you know this reporter. They were with
an agenda saying, well, are you going to part in
a January sixth rioter who attacked a police officer? And
Trump changes the entire focus and narrative back to where
it should be, which is if this was such a
successful attempt at an insurrection by those of us on
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the right or fervent supporters of the right to bear arms,
not that there should be an insurrection.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I do not support that.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I don't support what happened that day going into the
Capitol stupid. It set us back politically a decade. We
had to rebuild from that. The Democrats used it as
a cudgel as material for their campaigns that we were
all insurrection, as I hate that that happened that day. However,
had there been an insurrection by Republicans by Second Amendment advocates,
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would we have gone.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
In there with just our blanks in our hands to
quote the Godfather?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
No, you'd have the gun taped to the toilet like
Michael Corleone had to take out Salatso if you're going
to if you're going to do an insurrection, you shouldn't.
Again let me caveat that to death. Does our side
do it with no guns? That's the most idiotic thing
I've ever heard. Was not an insurrection. It was a
(34:52):
bunch of idiots going into the capital doing stupid stuff,
most of them harmlessly, most of them harmlessly. Stupid late,
but harmlessly. And I would side with the reporter say,
but you can't grant them the premise. That's the old
Rush Limbaugh axiom. Do not grant them the premise.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Well, and I can tell you Miriam Webster identifies insurrection
as a violent uprising against an authority or government.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And remember the Democrats kept using that word violent. There
was violence at the Capitol that day, largely there was not.
The video revealed there was not the guy in the
buffalo horned head with the painted face was walking around.
There was security personnel. Police just kind of don't mess
anything up. Come on, come on, you know you can
watch the video for yourself. Don't take my word for it. Now,
(35:42):
I would say anybody that punched a police officer, assaulted
a police officer, yes, they should face charges, obviously, I'll.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Grant you that.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
But the main point that Trump made there and what
he brilliantly did politically, was Ashley Babbitt was the only
one killed that day, and she was killed by a
DC police officer.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
And that's true.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
And he made the point that all these gun nuts
that were so called us, we're gonna go launch an
insurrection at the Capitol to to overthrow the American government
with not.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
A single gun gt to the fo with that noise.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
And on that note, we'll sign off for hour one,
but straight ahead, you won't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Stephen L.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Miller Red Steeves joins me, the host of the Versus
Media podcast, one of the smartest minds on X and
he has his feathers ruffled about one Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
You'll find out why next on Ryan Schuling Live
It's time once again for another edition of Trump's hot takes,
charting the forty seventh president's epic interactions with a fake
news media.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
That's a sick group of people, and.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It was all to influence the election.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was all a fight against a political opponent. We've
never had that in this country.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
We have had that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
In certain countries. We've had that in h thirdkiear countries,
we've had that in Banana republics, but we've never had
that in a place like the United States. I don't
even know if it's been on a small level. I'm
sure it has been on a small level, but this
was the largest level level that brought this moron out
(00:56):
of the Hague. He's a mean guy. He's a mean,
nasty guy.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Was perfect because you look at this picture. You say,
that's a bad guy with his robe, his pope purple robe,
and he executes people.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
He shouldn't be allowed to execute.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
People because he'll execute everybody. He's a nutsyep. But we
want all of those cases with him.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Vintage A plus DJT on display today at mar A Lago.
Ryan Shuling live with you on this Tuesday, January seventh.
Jesse Thomas alongside as well. Kelly Caucera sticking around because
I wanted her input and she's got some breaking news
for us.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Too along the lines of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But Kelly, I know you were working on the Tom
Martino Show probably during this press conference.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Were you able to catch any of it?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Unfortunately, And I can't wait to hear this sound because
it sounds epic.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
There are not one, not two, not even three or four.
There are five editions of what you just heard.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Trump's hot takes. That's how many.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I was laughing like I was watching a stand up
special on Netflix, whether it was Jim Gaffigan or Bill Burr.
I think I might have gotten more laughs watching Trump
over this.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
He was epic.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Like you said, I can't wait to hear it.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, what I like about Trump two point oh? And
that's what we're gonna call this because it had to
be a reboot. There was the Biden four year disaster
in between. But this edition of Donald Trump is going
to be so much better, huh, because he knows what matters,
who matters, what doesn't, who doesn't. He knows how to
navigate this far better than he did before. He had
(02:34):
to lean on people. One. I think there's some truth
to the portrayal that we saw on South Park going
back eight years ago now, where mister Garrison was playing
what was obviously a Trump like figure and he never
expected to win, and in the show, mister Garrison didn't
even really want to win, but he won, and then
he's like, well what do I do now? I mean,
(02:54):
it was such a massive upset. I have to believe
on some level, Kelly Donald Trump himself was shock that
he won that night against Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Yes, I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
And also he went into it as a complete neophyte
correct and had to trust other people that did not
give him and lead him in the good direction that.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
They should have.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So before we get into more of this sound and
there's so much, and we're gonna have these sprinkled throughout
today's show, the hot takes just for you, they're gonna
be moresel form. You know, you're cudled up right now
on the couch, hopefully out of this bad weather. You know,
I got sipping some tea wink or whatever you want
to drink, and you got a fireplace going, and you're
going to be just warmed by these Trump hot takes.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So we have that for you throughout today's program.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But I wanted to ask you, Kelly, as you've watched
kind of the rollout of Trump two point zero of
the next administration, the selections and nominations for the cabinet positions.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
He mentions by name Pam Bondi for.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Attorney General, which I prefer her one hundred percent over
Matt Gaze. Absolutely, maybe that was the play all along,
don't know, but Cash Pateel for FBI.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yes, Pete Haig suffer defense. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You go back though to twenty seventeen, eight years ago,
and you had the likes of Rex Tillerson, right, hr McMaster.
You know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Absolutely well, he made really bad cabinet decisions based on
other people's suggestions.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Like Chris CHRISTI gave him advice on Christopher.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Ray or Ryan's previous you know my favor exactly. And
so because you have this little caveat of you know this,
I should say, not kaviat what I'm trying to say,
this group of people who almost from the get go
didn't have his best interests in mind. It was almost
(04:46):
like they were fighting from within, and then they had
to fight the Russia. Russia, Russia and all of the
stuff that they jumped on him. And then he had
Paul Ryan, who completely obfuscated everything that Trump tried to
roll out and made it sound like, I don't know
if this is a good idea of people, so I'm
(05:08):
going to do it this way and I'm not going
to you know, basically, let Trump's be Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well, yeah, they thought they had to be this check
in balance against this bull in a China shop, which
he was, which he is, which we love, which we
voted for. You me, I think Jesse and a lot
of people out there listening, sure, because this is what
we need. We need to shake things up. Blank's got
to get real, and that's what's happening now, and world
leaders are taking notice. Georgia Maloney flies into mar A
(05:37):
Lago just to say hi, basically exactly to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
But I'm glad you brought up Paul Ryan.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Paul Ryan was a failure, a miserable failure, much like
John Bayner.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
The only good speaker I.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Think we've had it is New in our lifetime. As
a Republican. He was masterful. He was able to bring
drag Bill Clinton to the middle and they worked out compromises.
They had two balanced budgets. That's unheard of. Now, Newton
was a genius in a lot of way. Hes a
very smart guy, a tremendous intellection.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
It wasn't only Newt though, Bill Clinton actually really smart too.
Yeah that you know what, I can't be doing this
for another four years.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I have to work with Congress.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, but where I'm going with this is Paul Ryan
was such a disappointment. They were supposed to repeal and
replace Obamacare.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
You remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I That's what Trump ran on, That's what we wanted,
that's what we voted for, and he dragged his feet
on that crap over the first two years.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
It's playing out the same way.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
The Republicans had the Senate, the Republicans had the House,
and then you got the John McCain thumbs down in
the Senate and it all failed. It all blew up
in their faces. So Trump didn't have somebody he could
count on. Now, in your mind, in your eyes, and
maybe you disagree with Donald Trump, what makes Mike Johnson
(06:58):
better as a speaker than say, Paul Ryan or maybe
Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
I think the jury's still out on that one.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I do too.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I don't think that we can make any sort of do.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You trust Mike Johnson? Do you trust him? I know
that's a loaded question, big Time's.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
A loaded question.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I'm in waiting see mode Oka. My gut says, give
the guy a chance.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Why did Trump give Mike Johnson his blessing, which is
really what carried him across the finish line. I spoke
with Gabe Evans yesterday. He was just sworn in Kelly.
He defeated Yudrek Caravello. Thanks if he didn't defeat her,
Thomas Massey's vote was enough to prevent Mike Johnson from
being speaker. Do you know that he won by one vote?
Gave Evans was kind of that one vote. He's the
(07:44):
way he flipped a seat. So if you look at
what Mike David's on in a precarious position, and we
knew that going in, why did Trump offer his blessing?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
I think it's two reasons.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
One, he knew that Mike Johnson was probably Johnson Sten.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Mike Johnson, Johnson's the Denver May We'll get to him
in a minute, by.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
The way, sure, but I think first of all, he
thought he's probably the best House Speaker to push his
agenda through. And second, he didn't want to go through
all of this rigamarole like we did before. I agree
where you know, you had five different sets of votes
that went to until it finally hit on and you
(08:26):
had three different people that were up for speaker until
it finally hit with Mike Johnson. So I think those
are the two reasons. But again we are in wait
and see mode. I don't know he is still out.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I was not a fan. I'm a you know me,
I'm a desantist kind of Republican. I like to win.
I like practical and pragmatic. I want to be principled.
All three of those piece practical, pragmatic, and principled.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But you got to be the first two as well.
You got to win. You can't just did you didn't win.
You've got to win in the arena of ideas.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
You've got to win hearts and you've got to move policy,
and that requires orchestrating the gears of government. I know
we don't like to hear it about the swamp, but
Trump knows how I think to identify his allies in
the swamp now to get through. Unlike with Mitch McConnell,
unlike with Paul Ryan, and I was not a fan
really of booting Kevin McCarthy, though I had major reservations
(09:20):
with him because I'm always of the mind, Okay, you
don't like Kevin McCarthy, that's great. Who is going to
take his place? That's better? And nobody had that suggestion,
that idea. If Thomas Massey had come up and going,
you know what, I'll do it, I'll be the speaker.
Go okay, I can respect that. But Massey ends up
voting for this clown. But in Minnesota, right Tom Emmer,
nobody knows who that is, let alone likes him. And
(09:44):
I'm like, are we really better off, like you said,
throwing this whole thing back into the hopper, trying to
come up with somebody, or is Mike Johnson good enough
knowing that he's on thin ice, knowing he's got to
deliver not just for Trump but the American people.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
The onus is and I believe he is aware of that.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So on that level, I trust Mike Johnson politically to
do the right thing, to follow his instincts, and to
know that he's got to get this across the finish line.
And this being whatever the Trump agenda is for DJT
in a seventy seven million voters.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Well, I think the difference.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Also you have to juxtapose the Democrats versus the Republicans,
and the Republicans, just like Massey, they never actually stay
together as a collective.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Oh, they do not. That's why I admire Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
But on the vote, all the Democrats rallied around Hakeem Jeffers,
every single one of them, and there were no nobody held.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Out on that. Nope.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
And so it's going to be a very interesting house
coming up. But let's just give him a chance. You know,
I got butterflies in my stomach, but my gut also
tells me give the guy.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Give the guy.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, we're gonna wait and see what you said. But
the first order of business, I believe, if I'm hearing correctly,
reading correctly, seeing correctly, is the Lake and Riley Act
is going to come before the House to be voted on,
to pass this Senate and to be signed by Donald
Trump on day one.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
And that should be bipartisan by it even if it isn't.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You know, they don't need a Democrat vote in either
chamber yeah, House or Senate. Can Mike Johnson get that
across the finish line. That'll be test number one, and
we hope to be joined by Representative Jeff Crank tomorrow.
He succeeded Doug Lamborne in the fifth Congressional district. A
great guy, a very smart guy, has worked in this
(11:38):
business and has run his own campaigns before. He was
finally sworn in as a congressman this past Friday. So
we talked to Gabe Evans yesterday, hoping to talk to
Jeff Crank tomorrow about that. So that'll be a first
order of business. Donald Trump elucidated on what else would
be on the table day one, and he wants I'd
like one need beautiful bill. It's gotta be shiny and
(12:01):
probably gold. Okay, I no, I don't woll okay, let's
just go. We've been burying the lead.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
We got a breaking news due to the great leg
work of Kelly Kuchera.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
What can the people expect tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
We're going to have a Trump off.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
No, we're not. I'm not. I concede already.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
No, No, he wants it, he's excited for it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Sean Firish, is that how you say it fairish, it's fair,
and that is that what he's settled on. He's going
to be coming on and he does, in my mind,
for my money, the best Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Impersonation I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And I'm going to tell him this. I'll tell you
guys this now, but I want to make sure I
tell Sean this. I was kind of milling around doing
some household chores whatever, listening half heartedly to Clay and Buck.
Oh yeah, Rixton was down in mar A Lago and
they enter the segment and Bucks, he's very happy to
be joined by the president.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Right now, here's Donald Trump my.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
A lago and he just casually entered it and on
comes this voice. And Kelly, I'm telling you, it took
me to almost the end of that segment before I
really I was like, is Donald Trump really saying that
he could? He says some outlandish things, but the great
part was Buck in this playing the straight man, and
(13:22):
he didn't let us, the listeners, the audience off the
hook until the very im Ah. That was Sean Ferresh
and I'm like, oh my god, it is incredible.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
What he does.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
You know, he goes on a lot of Newsmax. Yeah,
programs and you know he'll break into it and you cannot.
It's kind of almost eerie how he'll go to Trump
and then he'll go into his own voice and it
sounds completely different.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Well, it's everything.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It's the mannerisms, it's the gestures, it's the facial expressions.
I mean, as somebody that fancies myself, you know, a
pretty good impersonator along a lot of lines. When I
kind of bring down what Sean does, it's genius level.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
It is genius level.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And here, just as an example before we go to
break here you can follow him at Sean sha w
n underscore farish am I saying it right?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
You want okay f r A s h. And this was.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
This was twas the Night before Christmas, but in Trump's
style by Sean Ferrish.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Here we go because the night before Christmas and all
through the nation everybody was excited about mass deportations and
the illego band ambraser shouldn't be here or all dreading
the day that Tom Holman appears soon I'll be your
next president, Dad, Camalo or not. We were sent with
(14:48):
a mandate.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
We won by a lot on day one.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
We'll get work done to boost a Morrell will annex
Canada and Greenland and the Panama can everybody's excited to
be finally done with Joe, including our fifty first governor.
I call him Queen Justine Trudeau. But the slabs like
Chris Christi and the Hogs on the View, they cannot
(15:16):
stand me, and they cannot stand you. They're upset that
you voted.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
They're upset that we won.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
They're upset that we got the radical left wing Marxists
on the run. It's a political comeback that could never
be topped. From law fair to bullets, Mago would not
be stopped. And with Elon and Bobby and Cash and Pete,
we're assembling a cabinet that cannot be beat. A new
(15:49):
golden age is upon us. So let's fight, fight, fight.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Fantastic. That's a plus level.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
You are going to get your asking.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
He wants you to Sean now r too. Kai.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I laid down the gauntless of them. That's the only
reason he's coming on.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
No, what I would suggest is my impression will get
you through in a pinch. You need to get Yeah, Okay,
that's Trump. His will fool you, and he could do
Maybe he's doing this, he could make so much money, Kelly,
like sending messages, Oh marry Chris, happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
How are you doing.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
I'm already I think he already is like looking.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
At it up.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I should.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I'm not sure if it's a conflict of I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
We're to help this parody stuff, you know that's his own.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well we can ask him.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I am going to ask him.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But Sean Ferrish, you just heard he'll be joining us
at three thirty three tomorrow for two segments to close.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Out the show.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Closing out the show.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I'm just I'm so excited about and normally excited about
this because I.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Love this and I kept it from you on purpose and.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
All sand I did. That's what you're doing there.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
You know, I have little secrets. I have little ways.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Of getting you really do. I don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I think he kills people to get sometimes to the
end objective. But something he mentioned there was what I
wanted to pose to the audience and to you a
Kelly and to Jesse. Trump went full Trump today in
the press conference about the Panama Canal.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
We're gonna We're gonna buy it back. I mean, we
might use economic force.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And whether he's going to do that or he's talking,
he's pretty serious about this Greenland thing, Like Don Junior
is going up there trying to negotiate. Well, people are
freaking out, but it's like, do you remember the Louisiana purchase?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
You know that was done. It could be done.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I mean, could you negotiate price, like I'll give you
ten billion dollars?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
What do you say we get greenland?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
The thing Mark did say and mention is that did
he mention something about naming renaming Gulf of Mexico Gulf
of America?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
The other thing?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Okay, thank you, because I was a third of those
three things. Listeners five, seven, seven, three nine, Kelly Jesse,
Which do you think is most likely to happen to
actually happen or all three or two of the three.
Will we get control back of the Panama Canal which
Jimmy Carter sold the Pana for a dollar yep? That
(18:18):
could the late seventies. Will the Gulf of Mexico in
fact be renamed the Gulf of America It's beautiful, just
think about it, okay? Or will we purchase Greenland? It's
a great buy. There's a lot of land mass, a lot.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Of people, not a strategic geographical and.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
That's what made me believe it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Kelly, there is a national security interest both in the
Panama Canal and in Greenland now Gulf of America. That's
just a vanity thing, like we're gonna call it this instead.
So which of those three you think is most likely
to happen, or two of the three or all of
the three.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I think Panama Canal is going to be probably the
most important one of the whole of.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
All of them.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But will you call it? Will it happen? Will it
get done? That's my quest.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
A tough negotiation.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
But Pete people text us, okay, if you want to
see a Trump off tomorrow because Ryan is shacking it out, No.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I just I'm not good enough. I know what I'm
good at, I know what I'm better at. I know
I'm not voting.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Let's do the Trump off tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, Well, we got more hot takes from Donald Trump
coming up next, and I just kind of hinted at
one of them. Also still to come, Britta Horn, she
is running for the Colorado chair of the GOP.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
She joins us, next, I'm Ryan shuling.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Livest song Firewoman by the Cult has Kelly dancing on
the other side of the glass as Jesse Thomas once
again delivers the hits, and that one is apropos of
our next guest here on Ryan' Shooling Live joining us.
(19:51):
We're glad to be joined by her, Britta Horn, and
she is a Rock Creek volunteer fire department chief and
now has thrown her hat into the ring to be
the Colorado GOP chair.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
She joined us live. Bretta, Welcome, Hey, thanks, what a
great song.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Thanks Jesse.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, just for you absolutely, And I just want you
to kind of inform people out there, Britta about the
road that got you here. I mean, to this point
where you are considering taking on this enormous responsibility and burden,
you feel ready for the charge to be the chair
of the Colorado Republican Party.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Okay, So yes, I'm runny for the state GOP chair
because I'm the person that could put things together that
com unify the party and be able to foster the relationships,
because relationships are all about, you know, working with you
to each other, listening to each other, you know, fostering good,
good conversations and then I'm also being able to get
(20:48):
you know, central resources together because you know, resources are
more than just money. And I'm a really good fundraiser.
I know all the donors in the state. I know
how to get that money down. But we also have
to foster relationship and resources with volunteers. And I've been
a volunteer chief for I think I'm going on sixteen years.
I've always been a part of volunteer organization and I
(21:10):
really enjoyed doing that. And even at Sea Pac. I
don't know if you know about SEAPAC and Washington dcxcept
Trump coming and I was always a volunteer for them.
In the last four years, I've been hired as the
volunteer coordinator, so I coordinate two hundred and twenty five
people to make sure that we have a great event
for four days when over twenty thousand people show up.
(21:31):
So I just I love working with volunteers. I know
how to work with them, and I believe all these
different skill sets makes me perfect for the job.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And you can find out more about her online at
Britta Horn dot com. That's br Ita ho rn dot com.
She joins us here in Ryan Shuling Line now Britta,
you just mentioned a couple of things, and I got
to lead with this question.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I got others for you as well.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
But two reasons why I think the whole Republican Party
has struggled so much here in Colorado, and that's fundraising,
the deficit between what we are able to raise on
our side and the Colorado Democrats. And then also ground
game where it seems like we've been lapped on the
field in recent years.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Take us through what you've observed.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Either from the outside looking in or the volunteer positions
that you've held, like you said, under the leadership of
the past several terms, whether it's Dave williams Now or
Christy Burton Brown before him, or going back before him,
as to why we keep coming up short here in Colorado,
both in terms of fundraising and ground game.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Well, definitely on the ground game, we're not seeing the
ground game. We have only different organizations outside the party.
You know, they're all working on their own. Well, we're
not together and working together on it. And there's no
like when you know one of your besties on Natalie Tennant,
which is my best seed. We saw right after the election,
we saw that we were running short well, and you
(22:48):
go count or see the weld in Adams County when Ryan,
Ryan's Zales and Daniel lug and even gave Evans. We
were trying to find out how going to put together
the ballot curing. There were ten, you know, tens of
thousands of ballots that were being cured, being none that
they weren't getting voted because of you know, some kind
(23:09):
of error, whatever the error was. And we just put
together a group of people. We kept calling on people
and working with the candidates, and we had over eighty
people willing to make phone calls to tell everybody how
to cure their ballots. And it was just a great
gap ground game that just wasn't being done anywhere else.
So we were doing things because it wasn't getting done
at the state level. And then the same way with fundraising,
(23:31):
were all the checkbooks were closed these last two years.
The local money went out of state, and want other
candidates across the country didn't stay in state, and they
was because they were so frustrated about who was running it,
what was going on. And you know, we can look
to the past and we have to be transparent, absolutely
transparent of what happened, you know, audits and things like that,
(23:52):
and to gain respon the responsibility of that trust with everybody.
But we've got to move this ball forward. We've got
to advance. We're only thirty percent of this state. I mean, Brian,
I'm sorry. I don't need to be like I'm just overwhelmed.
Seventy percent of the state is not Republican, correct, and
(24:12):
we know with the motor voter rolls that probably I'm
looking at some statiticians for me for July and August,
we're going to be they're going to be unaffiliated over
fifty percent. But just the boss com mind Democrats and Republicans,
we got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
We do. Bretta Horne is looking to do that work.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
She is stepping up in a big way, declaring her
candidacy to be the Colorado GOP chare and she joins
us here. Britta, I want to focus on the positive
because there was really light at the end of the
tunnel and kind of a bright spot, and you mentioned it,
and I want to talk a little bit more about it.
We had Gabe Evans on the program yesterday, but I
remember as that race was winding down election night. The
(24:50):
next day, you Derek Caravo had a lead. Now Gabe
didn't concede, and he was stalwart. Now he's the numbers
guy too, and I kept I was text back and forth.
I'm like, do you think the votes are out there
for you to legitimately win this thing? And he didn't
even waiver. He just one word response, yes in a text.
Now you said it. Though it was Valdemar Archiletta, it
(25:11):
was you, it was Lauren Bolbert. It was just a
cast of dozens that got together and we're curing these ballots.
And I got to ask you this, had that not
been done, would gave Evans be the sitting congressman for
the eighth district right now?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Oh boy? And we felt that, we felt rough that
if we didn't do that. And you have to remember,
through those ten days, to secure ballots, you had to
train everybody how to do it. Get a script, get
them a list, get them even the voter, you know,
the person we're calling and texting saying hey, here's your
voter number, so they could do, you know, teach everybody
how to do what was text secure. And we were
(25:46):
out of breath because we also had a weekend where
they nobody could walk into the clerk's office and then
Monday was a holiday. No, like, this is crazy, I mean,
out of breath, daylight to dark. I didn't all these
lists from all these candidates, cutting him back down to
just you know, sizeable bite so we could get those
eighty people. He named a lot of top line names.
(26:09):
But you got to remember, although unsung here is all
these other volunteers, all these grassroots people that just want
to helop. We sent them a list of thirty names
and say just get it back to us as soon
as you can, you know, call them and then text
them and then text them you know how to text
the cure on you know, on their phone, which is phenomenal.
And we did that for every Republican And if we
(26:30):
didn't get a response from them, Ryan, then we made
sure the next day there was a group of people
knocking on their door.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
As I recalled to Brett. At least for a portion
of this, I was talking to Valdemar through this. There
was really bad weather to contend with at that time.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Too, right, there was.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
Yeah, we had so we had people that were just
drivers just to drive people to the door so they
could hop out and keep the car running we had
a done what why would have come help? And then
we had to get to the unaffiliated and I'm going
to tell you those are affiliated to help get us
across the line too.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Wow and how?
Speaker 9 (27:03):
And we we knew that because we saw UA assets
unaffiliated in the in the spreadsheets that we cut back
and then we had to kind of change the script
a little bit Ryan because we're like, Okay, how are
we going to talk to these guys because we only
want our own affiliated to cure their ballots, right because
you know the Democrats are calling to Oh yeah yeah.
So we changed the script just a little and we
(27:24):
just had a little fun with it. But it's not
everybody to do it. We just called and said, hey,
I'm I'm Gritter and I'm I'm a Republican. What'd you
think of the of the UH election last week with Trump?
And just based on how they responded whether we told
them that they cure their ballot or they were too
busy cursing, calling us names and hanging up the phone.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Wow, what a strategy like it?
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Yeah, And we took notes for it, so we finally
now have data on then there's unaffiliateds. It was like
a survey.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
It worked great, incredible.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
We know which one to call again, and that's what
we need to do because I know the unaffiliated. So
I came into Colorado nineteen eighty nine, met my husband
in ninety who got married in ninety one, and you
was a non affiliated it was an independent, and I'm like,
what the heck is that I came from Washington, DC,
Upstate New York and I grew up in Chicago. We
only had two parties, so I had to really talk
(28:20):
to all the randers, going, why are you guys all unaffiliated?
You know, independent? And they're like, because they can't trust
either party and they had to do what was best
for their livelihood.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Brenda Horne our guest, and she's a candidate for the
GOP share spot here in Colorado Fort of final question,
I know you were part of a group that I supported,
along with Eli Bremer, to try to upend the current
leadership of Dave Williams, Hope Sheppelman, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
That was not successful. One why wasn't it successful? And two?
Why will it be different this time around for you?
Speaker 9 (28:51):
Well, well, just for records sake, when I was running,
I was running against Eli and then some other candidates
that'll stepped back and we really want to that to work,
because we had to take all that information that we
did at that Brighton meeting and go to that court
case to say, look, we did everything right, and instead
of being able to go to court place, the court
got this, you know, the case got dismissed. So I
(29:14):
believe it was the right thing because they followed the
letter of the law, of the bylaws how to do
this as members, as you know, Central Committee members, and
I just looked at that as an opportunity to go, look,
let's get out this voice. Let's see what we can
get done, because I was up for it for the
you know, the last hundred days make change because you know,
you know, as a firefighter, as a first responder of
(29:35):
putting out fires, I'm like, you know, here, here's the tourniquet,
make the bleeding stop.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Find out more.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
We're at her website Brettahorn dot com. That's b our
I t a horn like you're playing trombone horn dot
com and she's running once again for the Colorado GOP
chair spot. Britta, thank you so much for your time today,
and I'm sure we'll follow up more conversations in the future.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Best of luck.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
Absolutely, thank you very that's time.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Rida Horn right there and again find out more at
her website. Before we go to break here, I want
to send you out with one of Trump's hot takes
from mar A Lago today. They were fast, they were furious.
They were coming in hot and heavy. It's time once
(30:32):
again for another edition of Trump's hot takes, charting the
forty seventh president's epic interactions with the fake news media.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Mexico's really in trouble, a lot of trouble, very dangerous
place that we're going to be announcing it a future
date pretty soon. We're going to change because we do
most of the work there and it's ours. We're going
to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden, where
he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid of fifty to
(31:01):
sixty trillion dollars worth of assets. We're going to be
changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers
a lot of territory.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name, and it's appropriate.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
It's appropriate, and Mexico has to stop allowing millions of
people to pour into our country. They can stop them.
And we're going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico
and Canada because Canada. They come through Canada too, and
the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
It's time once again for another edition of Trump's hot takes,
charting the forty seven president's epic interactions with the fake
news media. I know I've heard forty police officers were
injured by writers on January sixth.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Will you pardon anyone who attacked a police officer?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Well, you know, the only one that was killed was
a beautiful young lady named Ashley Babbitt.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
She was killed, and there was actually somebody.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Else that was killed, also a magga person, But people
don't give it one hundred percent credibility.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'm going to find out about it, and we're going
to find out.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
But Ashley Babbitt was killed. She was shot, should have
never been shot. She was shot for no reason whatsoever.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
In fact, they say that she was trying to hold
back the crowd, and the.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Crowd's made up of a lot of different people, So
we'll see. But I will tell you this, the person
that was killed was Ashley bad.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
But the other thing is when they talk, you know,
there was never charges of insurrection or anything like that,
but if there were, this would be the only insurrection
in history where people went in as insurrectionists.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
With not one gun.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Okay, and let me tell you, the people that you're
talking about have a lot of guns in their home
for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment, a lot
of good reasons.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
But there wasn't one gun that they found.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Checkmate, Donald Trump, you know this reporter. They were with
an agenda saying, well, are you going to part in
a January sixth rioter who attacked a police officer? And
Trump changes the entire focus and narrative back to where
it should be, which is if this was such a
successful attempt at an insurrection by those of us on
(33:52):
the right or fervent supporters of the right to bear arms,
not that there should be an insurrection.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I do not support that.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I don't support what happened that day going into the
Capitol stupid. It set us back politically a decade. We
had to rebuild from that. The Democrats used it as
a cudgel as material for their campaigns that we were
all insurrection, as I hate that that happened that day. However,
had there been an insurrection by Republicans by Second Amendment advocates,
(34:24):
would we have gone.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
In there with just our blanks in our hands to
quote the Godfather?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
No, you'd have the gun taped to the toilet like
Michael Corleone had to take out Salatso if you're going
to if you're going to do an insurrection, you shouldn't.
Again let me caveat that to death. Does our side
do it with no guns? That's the most idiotic thing
I've ever heard. Was not an insurrection. It was a
(34:52):
bunch of idiots going into the capital doing stupid stuff,
most of them harmlessly, most of them harmlessly. Stupid late,
but harmlessly. And I would side with the reporter say,
but you can't grant them the premise. That's the old
Rush Limbaugh axiom. Do not grant them the premise.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Well, and I can tell you Miriam Webster identifies insurrection
as a violent uprising against an authority or government.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And remember the Democrats kept using that word violent. There
was violence at the Capitol that day, largely there was not.
The video revealed there was not the guy in the
buffalo horned head with the painted face was walking around.
There was security personnel. Police just kind of don't mess
anything up. Come on, come on, you know you can
watch the video for yourself. Don't take my word for it. Now,
(35:42):
I would say anybody that punched a police officer, assaulted
a police officer, yes, they should face charges, obviously, I'll.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Grant you that.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
But the main point that Trump made there and what
he brilliantly did politically, was Ashley Babbitt was the only
one killed that day, and she was killed by a
DC police officer.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
And that's true.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
And he made the point that all these gun nuts
that were so called us, we're gonna go launch an
insurrection at the Capitol to to overthrow the American government
with not.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
A single gun gt to the fo with that noise.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
And on that note, we'll sign off for hour one,
but straight ahead, you won't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Stephen L.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Miller Red Steeves joins me, the host of the Versus
Media podcast, one of the smartest minds on X and
he has his feathers ruffled about one Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
You'll find out why next on Ryan Schuling Live
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!