March 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R, CO-4) joins Dan to recap her questioning of Denver mayor Mike Johnston, along with three other major city mayors (Michelle Wu, Boston; Brandon Johnson, Chicago; Eric Adams, New York City) on the impact of sanctuary policies on ICE deportations of criminal illegal aliens.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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time to be an American, right, What a great time
to be live. I'm telling Ryan, I love to laugh.
(00:21):
I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard starry.
The the I called State of the Union the President's
addressed to Congress last night. And it was interesting because
Amy had a good lifelong friend Dover, so they're up
on a different floor. I'm down in the cave. I'm
watching this thing when I do some trial prep, and
and you know, I just I just couldn't help it.
(00:41):
I just start bollowing, laughing, I mean like five, six,
seven times, and finally she had to check, Hey, you okay,
everything okay down there. I'm not sure she would have
laughed as hard as I did, but it really was
one of the great speeches of all time. And yeah, listen,
we're going to talk about lawless Mike up on the hills,
spinning his web of to see and all that good stuff,
and we have a lot of good sound. But this
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speech last night, I think, britt youume nailed it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
This was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partisan
speech I've ever heard of president, given this kind of setting,
and I go back about maybe fifty years on this.
I also think it may have been the most effective.
I mean, if you ever doubt it that Donald Trump
is the colossus, the political colossus of our time and
our nation, this night and this speech should have put
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that to rest. So the Democrats seemed to be falling
into trap after trap after trap as he recognized the
people and celebrated the people he pointed to in the
gallery and their stories, while the Democrats sat blumly on
their hands through all of that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It was a terrible look.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Al Green's attempt to disrupt the speech was a bad
look for the Democrats. This was I think, politically speaking,
this was pretty powerful stuff, as powerful as I think.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I've heard, oh and maybe the best I've ever seen him. Right,
And and then the Democrat contrast to me, even even
Michael Steele and how sorry he's become. Even Michael Steele
on MSNBC called him out.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Michael, when they hold.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Thank you. I just look at the bingo signs were
killing me.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I don't know who thought up the bingo size, but
they should be fined, Michael.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
This is an indictment, in my opinion, on the Democratic leadership.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, and if you didn't see it, you know the
Democrats sitting there. First, a lot didn't even show up,
so they just looked so puny over there. And then
they had these weird little bingo signs or like paddles
you'll hold up at a charity fundraiser, and then they
put this goofy stuff like musk lies and things like that.
They looked so ridiculous. But then Ryan, when they don't
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stand for the thirteen year old boy thirty and cute
so old thirteen year old boy ever battling cancer wearing
a police officers uniform made an honorary Secret Service member
of the Secret Service, and the Democrats wouldn't even stand
for him, and it just made the Democrats look so bad.
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And then there were lots of other examples right of
how they look stupid sitting there when all of these
very noble, worthy people were being honored. But this is
what we've talked about, right, this is the double barrel.
That's so critical for the future of America because we've
got Trump now and he's going to have a great
presidency as he did the first time, but then he's gone.
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He only gets two terms. So what's so critical now
is is not just that Trump succeed, but that the
left be exposed and that the left lose a lot
of ground. And that's been happening, right, and Trump's good
at making that happen. And Democrats last night, that was
one giant me kao for the Democrats last night, right.
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I mean, Trump was going to do his Trump thing
and he was going to be great. But the Democrats
it's like they just kept punching themselves in the face.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Like I said earlier, Dan, I don't know that this
could have gone better for President Trump, and I don't
know that it could have gone worse for the Democrats
and how they came out of this. Even John Fetterman,
who usually speaks truth to his own party, was slamming
them for their lack of decorum, for their behavior during this.
It was Algreen at the very beginning disrupting the entire proceeding.
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You couldn't hear what he was doing, so it wasn't
even effective if he was trying to make it be effective.
You had other Democrats dressed in pink after voting down
the Protection of Girls and Women's Sports Act, that was ironic.
Then you had the signs being held up which were stupid.
They're mean generators. Stephen Colbert even made fun of those,
and you heard Michael Steele and Simone Sanders slamming.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Them for that.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
They have a scattershot approach. Everything Trump is bad. You
mentioned DJ just what a wonderful young man he was,
and there were two moments, Dan that had me tearing up.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
You were laughing and I.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Was laughing too too.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
When DJ, he was so legitimately shocked to be given
this honor, he hugs Sean Current, the Secret Service Director.
And then after that, Dan, they honor the subsequent young
man who was being admitted to West Point, and DJ
came over and gave him ahab.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It was all so great. It was so well done
on the Republican side, so awful on the dem side,
and we have so much great sound of that. So
Texter Dan, the Democrats came off as petulant children refusing
to leave the toy isle and the Democrats had to
know as they sat there how much harm they were
doing to themselves. Because listen, a big problem they have
is they're losing people of color, not all, but some.
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And you know, once that starts, once people, you know,
start shifting away from traditional voting blocks, Democrats are going
to lose more and more. Right because at this point,
the Democrats when it comes to folks of color, and
you know, for the most part, they're getting those votes
not on merit but on habit and also on suspicion
of the GOP. But but you can take any voting
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block you want. It can be Catholics, it can be Irish,
it can be black, it can be Latino. Once more
people shift from that voting block to the GOP, it
becomes easier for other folks to and since there's no
good reason to stay with the Democrats. But last night,
my lord, when you've got this child and listen to this.
If you didn't hear it, you want to If you did,
you want to hear it again. This child happens to
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be black. Couldn't matter what color the child was, the
story's still going to be so compelling. But he happens
to be black, and he's up there with his father,
who obviously is African American, and the fact that Democrats
wouldn't stand for this.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Kid tonight, as a young man who truly loves our police,
his name is DJ. Daniel is thirteen years old and
he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. So
in twenty eighteen, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer. The
doctors gave him five months at most to live.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That was more than six years ago.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Since that time, DJ and his dad have been on
request to make his dream come true. And DJ has
been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer actually
a number of times. And tonight, DJ, We're going to
do you the biggest honor of them all. I am
asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Kerran to officially
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make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And yeah this song Kurrent comes in and he hands
DJ that the Secret Service credentials and these are flip
open rather than a badge, you know how, you flip
it open like FBI does. And then they hold DJ
up and he flips it open. And then his ryan
was seen and DJ initiated this. He said something to
Kerrn and then he hugged him, just grabbed him around
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the I mean it was so powerful. And the Democrats
just sitting there like bitter beer face. Remember there was
a keystone bitter beer face there was. Yeah, just sitting
there with bitter beer face. Oh there was so much
of that list. But do we have time for this?
I'm glad we do because some of my favorite, absolute
favorite lines in there. And we'll get back to how
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the left then tried to spin this DJ thing, which again,
please keep talking dirty like that. It just makes it
better for us. And in that first term.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
We set records on ending unnecessary rules and regulations like
no other president had done before. We ordered all federal
workers to return to the office. They will either show
up for work in person or be removed from the job.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He's getting it of that stuff.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
We've ended weaponized government, where as an example, a sitting
president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me,
How did.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That work out?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
What's the greatest bad to be the greatest line in
the art?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And our study was looking right at that right side,
is all right? The Democrats? How did that work out? Yeah?
How did that work? And what are we going to
have twenty million memes with how did that work out? That?
That is so cool? And then when we come back,
my second favorite at least line of the night. So
we'll continue to play a lot of sound from last
night because it was historic, it was funny, it was moving,
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and then that ties into, of course, then what happened
on the hill today where you have these Democrats sanctuary
city mayors come up, including lawless Mike Johnston from Denver
and Lauren Bolber Congress from Bolber to question him, among others,
will be with us at four thirty six and we'll
start to play some sound from that. I think it
went as I predicted it would, but there are some
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moments I think you'll really enjoy hearing. And then really
the profound question, which is how does anybody ever get
to the point and why do they get to the
point where clearly, and this was clear with all of
them in Johnston in particular, their priority, they're absolute to
the death priority is protecting folks here illegally who have
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committed other crimes, and they put those folks on a
pedestal ahead of everybody else, ahead of all people here legally,
ahead of all people here illegally not committing other crimes.
Their holy grail is protecting folks here illegally who've committed
other crimes. How does the person ever get to that
point in their life and why do you think they're
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doing it? You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I mean the X I love you. You guys were blaming
George W. Bush in year eight. But you know something
that we learned something from that. Jenny's is so good.
And the only reason I played that is there's a
lot of talk with Scott Jennings, you know, that conservative
on CNN, who I think is the best we've ever
seen at this and a lot of talking to him
(10:59):
taking Mitchell mco little seat in the US Senate. Since Jennings,
I guess is from Kentucky, Ryan, I think we're looking
at a future presidential contender there in Jennings. Wow, he
is so good. He is so good, he's so likable,
he's so good on the substance he is yet agree. Yeah, No,
I'm liking that we're mixing in text as well. Congressome
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Bobert at four thirty six, she was part of questioning
lawless Mike Johnston on the Hill today on Sanctuary City.
We'll get to that Dan. That one dem look like
an old vulture. It was fitting. Yeah, I tried to
snap a picture of her, but again I'm doing some
trial preps. I did in my camera. My end. Who's
do you know who he's talking about? Right? Or she's
talking about the one that looks like the wicked witch
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of the West. I wouldn't put any negative spin on it.
She looks completely unique. Rosa de Laurel, Rosa Delauo. Yeah,
but I would be very happy for her to be
the face of the Democratic Party. But I guess I
wouldn't be because I think it's I think it's the
Democrat who decided he was going to turn us into
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some kind of banana Republic at the beginning of this thing,
when he got up there and he was just going
to take over, right, he stood right in front of
Trump obviously planned screaming at Trump. And so this is
just not America. This is just not America. Whether it's
a Democrat up there, given the state of the Union
and a Republican who stands in front, remember the way
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that Lauren Bolbert will be with us at four thirty six,
got villified for shouting something out from back in the
stands in defense of our heroes who were killed at
Abbey's Gate, and she got vilified for that. Could you
imagine if she had done what this Democrat didn't come
and stand right down in front of Trump and just
not let the thing proceed, or right down in front
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of Biden and not let the thing proceed. Representative al Green.
He was then run out of Congress.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Well, he was censured, for what it's worth, in a
party line vote earlier today, by like two votes.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
So that's another thing.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Though the Democrats wouldn't even censure their own jerk who behaved.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Like a moron.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
And I think a lot John Fetterman's.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Called this out. And I saw Joe A. Goose Stan
sitting right behind al Green when that was happening, and
he wanted to be anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh, but he missed an opportunity. Ryan, my lord, he's
probably kicking himself. He's probably got his staff kicking him.
He's probably got peep on the street kicking him. Because
if Jonah Goose and I haven't met him, but I
hear he's a good guy, you know, I disagree with
this policies. People say he's a good guy. If Joonah
Goose had simply stepped up, put his arm around the
Democrat who'd lost his mind, and just walked him back,
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Joonah Goose would be the talk of the country. He
really would he get elected anything he wanted to get elected.
What an opportunity. Yes, but it's so revealing, right because listen,
we've all at times missed a moment. We've all at
times seized a moment when things are bang bang. But
this this l Green thing was not bang bang. It
was like it went on forever. So it's just revealing
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because if Jonah Goose or any of these other Democrats
were what the America wants right now, really rising above
it all, they would have done that. They would have
walked up to him, been gentle and kind and tried
to usher them out. And then if Elgreen had hit
him with the cane, So what, they still win, right,
They're still a winner.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
It just blows my mind too, Dan that all the
things they accused Trump of being and doing that he
lacks the korum, that he's smashed the norms, that he
isn't a throwback the way Biden was supposed to be
the Democrats lacking all the korum and class and everything.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Last night.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
They could not have shown themselves up worse than what
they presented to America last night, and that's why they're losing.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
They're in a doom loop right now. They are in
a doom loop right now, and the GOP bench is
so deep, and listen, somebody will emerge on the Democrats side,
because the media will make sure somebody emerges. You could
have some very average Joe or Jane emerge, and if
it's the best thing the Democrats have, the media will
make them out to be the next JFK. Though the
Democrats wouldn't have JFK in the party right now. He'd
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be too conservative in their view. But somebody will emerge.
But right now they are in a doom loop death spiral,
as they should. And I don't mean that personally, but
the reality of the left is that their ideas are horrible.
They don't work. Most of their ideas. Eighty percent of
America is opposed to and people who are voting for
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Democrats now most of them our people out of Haber
or they just don't like the Republicans, so they are
truly in a death spiral. Here's one of my other
favorite lines from last night. And my favorite lines are
not just because they're delivered well and they're funny, but
because they're true and so they're really going to hit.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping
border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly
achieve the lowest numbers of illegal border crosses ever recorded.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Thank you, one of the great lines ever coming up
because it is so true.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept
saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to
secure the border, but it turned out that all we
really needed was a new president.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
See Bets, that's as good as it gets because yeah,
it's a shot, and it's a direct shot, and he's
looking right at him. But it's true. It's substance. It's
not name calling. It is so true because that's what
all I'm right, Bennett Hick and Luper John's all I'm
saying during the campaign, Polis, Oh no, no, no, it's
all Trump's fault because if we had this bill, we
wanted the border to be shut down. No, that was
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all a lie. That was just one of the great
great moments. Three or three someone three eight two five
five text d A N five seven seven three nine
Dan Ryan DJ even hugg President Trump in the Oval
Office this morning that from Andy. Oh boy, he is
now kind of America's favorite. Andy should be he should
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be How cool that was? But then I want to
get to the sound. What's the clip?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Oh you hear?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
It is showing how nuts, how nuts the Democrats are
last night they just couldn't handle this whole DJ thing.
So here's how they tried to submit it.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
I think this was a lesson in finding one thing.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That you let yourself feel.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
And I let myself feel joy about DJ. And I
hope he's alive for another you know, ninety five years,
and I hope he lives and the life he wants
to live.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
He wants to be a cop.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
He knows what he wants to do, and maybe when
you have childhood cancer that crystallizes for you. And I
hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer.
But I hope he never has to defend the United
States capital against Donald Trump supporters.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
And it's been there's a winning argument. There is a
winning argument for Democrats right after they will not stand
up for the thirteen year old with brain cancer who
has just made a member of the Secret Service. Yeah,
that's the winning argument forum right there. It's such a
great time to be alive. And your life's probably real busy,
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right everybody's life's busy. But I hope you get a
chance just to slow down and savor this moment because
we are watching a sea change. We're watching a tipping
point in American history where once major political party is
just starting to fall apart before our eyes while another
is ascendant. And it doesn't guarantee anything over the next
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fifty years, but it's a lot of fun right now,
and it gives us a lot of reason to hope.
Congressoman Bobert next on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
A walk off song No doubt.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
It's mister Mayor, would you join me today and calling
and demanding that these sanctuaries, policies, these Colorado state laws
be repealed.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Great question, Thank you, Congresswoman.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Lets me now, mister Mayor pardons yes or no, you're
joined me.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I do not believe that the tenderal needs to be changed.
So I can tell you what a great question, congresswoman,
and I'm so glad you led with that. That is
such an important question. It just completely exposed him as
he tried to hide behind those laws that oh yeah
he doesn't want to change. Hey, thanks for your work today.
What was that like?
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Thank you? Well, you know I could have been there
another hour? Yeah, sure, and.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Questioning the mayor. Certainly he was there for six and
a half hours. But here in Washington, d C. There
are other meetings to be.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Had as well.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You know, that was an important question that I wanted
to spend some time on though. However, because it really
proves that Mayor Mike Johnson owns discuss that's right, he
refuses to call on his city council to even have
a vote to repeal the Denver ordinance that says Denver
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employees will be fired if they communicate with federal.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Law enforcement officers. Now that doesn't mean all federal employees.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
They can speak with the EPA and helping human services
and others by enforcement officers, they're prevented that.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
And then also he would not join me in calling
for Colorado's state sanctuary policies to be repealed. Now, I'm
proud of Douglas County and other counties who have stepped
up and are suing to get this stop. But it
isn't enough. And if may Or Mike Johnson would call
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for that to be removed instead of making excuses saying, well,
this is just state policy, state law, so my hands
are tied here.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
You know, that doesn't really that doesn't really work.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
But he would do that, then.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
There would be a real effort in.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Securing Denver, whether it comes to safety or even funding
that would actually benefit the citizens of Denver. And then
of course it would prevent crime in the cities that
he is bussing illegals from Denver too.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah. I think that was probably the most important question
asked of him all afternoon, because he, as you say,
now owns it. He can't just hide behind these laws.
He said he does not want them changed. In an
outside of this setting today, I don't think he could
have been pinned down on that. I want to give
people a taste of another question that you asked, and
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then I'll stop the tape and let you expand on it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
What about before a warrant? There are many issues before
a warrant.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
So your great point. You know, he always tries to
mislead people by saying, hey, we honor warrants, but as
a practical matter, that's almost meaningless. So please do expand
on that.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yes, So that's really the point of this policy and
what makes it a sanctuary policy and while why local
media is even clouded of Denver as a sanctuary city.
One example was in November of twenty twenty four of
Venezuelan illegals who had crossed the border illegally. He was
arrested in Denver for raping a fourteen year old girl,
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and this illegal alien had already been arrested and released
on bail for another offense before this crime, before abusing
this fourteen year old girl, and ICE later confirmed that
the suspect was here illegally. But these Denver sanctuary policies
prevented local police from notifying immigration authorities, and I hear
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from officers all over Colorado all the time while they
struggle with this that they are not able to notify,
and furthermore, when they do notify them, they are not
allowed to have ICE agents come in to their facilities
and apprehendous suspect that they have of and we just
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saw this. We just saw a criminal alien who was
being released to ICE. However, he couldn't be detained further
for just another hour or two in their facility.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
They had to.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Release him in the streets, as Mayor Johnston says, in
a parking.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Lot, and that's where he assaulted a law enforcement officer
and then later had to be tased.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
And this could have been handled much.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Better and it wasn't. And now Mayor Mike Johnson saying, well,
maybe we need to revisit how we release them to
ICE agents. Well, it should have never happened. And you know,
to wait for a federal warrant before action is taken.
It's far too long, but it does protect their narrative
of saying, well, they're not criminal aliens. You say you
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want criminal aliens removed from the country. Well, I also
you don't want to wait for them to commit a
very veenish crime like abusing a fourteen year old girl
before we take action. Anyone who has come into this
country illegally has already broken our nation's law and should
be notified to ICE.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Right, But the Left, as you know, has all these
laws in Colorado that you pinned Johnston down, and he
doesn't want them change. All these laws that are designed
to protect people who have committed other crimes ended up
in our jails, and now Ice wants to identify and
wants to interview them, et cetera. There are all sorts
of laws that are geared only to protect people who
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have been convicted of other crimes. Yeah, and let me
give people a taste. Yeah, go ahead, please, no, please,
let me give people a taste of another line of
questioning Congressoman Bobert.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
With us six hundred days, there's been no time to
ask for this to be repealed. You did have a
newcomer's playbook twenty five pages. You had time to put
that together, and you had time to agree with the
city council to authorize up to two million dollars to
pay Joe Biden's former lawyer his law firm to help
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cover your ass.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
So expand on that for us. I'm glad you had
the chance to ask him about that.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yes, well, you know it shows that the mayor requested
the city council to authorize up to two million dollars
to be paid to Joe Biden's former lawyer's law firm
to help prepare him for this Commission hearing, and you know,
he says, yeah, we secured that. Contrast in case your
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committee wanted me to come before him, what a document
for us. So I think that right there shows that
they know that they are not complying with federal law
and the federal government is going to want answers about
these policies. But this is also coming from a city
that whose budget for illegal aliens in twenty twenty four
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alone was ninety million dollars. And this is money millions
dollars gifted from investments.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
In city parks and employees that may actually benefit Denver taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And Congressoman, before I get your take on what I
think was a historic addressed to Congress last night, where
do you think this goes from here?
Speaker 7 (26:18):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Because Americans are on your side, right, I mean, this
is not just a Republican issue anymore. Where do you
think it goes sanctuary cities? Yes?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Well, President Trump and Secretary of Nome and Borders are
Tom Homan have said that there will be action taken
against those leaders who are refusing to follow state law
and who are aiding and ambtting illegal aliens, and within
their communities and under their jurisdiction, and so I do
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expect action to be taken in some form. I don't
know exactly what that looks like, but I'm sure that
there will be a some sort of a grace period
for them to get it right.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
But if they refuse and there needs to be action
is taken.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
And President Trump said he will withhold hold federal funding
from those who are not following the Constitution and his
executive orders, the laws that we have in this land.
And so unfortunately, we may see some of the funding
be removed from cities like Denver who have sanctuary policies.
(27:24):
And look, I work hard each and every day to
deliver tax dollars back to Colorado. Colorado's pay in a
lot of tax money, and I want to make sure
that they are represented and reaping the benefits of those
tax dollars. But when it's going to illegal aliens, this
is this is not acceptable. When Denver has a budget
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of ninety million dollars for illegal aliens in the year
twenty twenty four alone, that is unacceptable. When Genver needs
to ask for a bailout from the state legislature because
they're going bankrupt or their hospital is about to go under.
This is unacceptable, and so maybe we need to start
focusing on putting the agencies under the federal government in
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areas like maybe Douglas County who do want to uphold
our nation's laws and are taking on the state government
of Colorado and their sanctuary policies.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
With their lawsuits.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
But maybe we'll start to see more of that those
tax dollars go to our rural communities rather than just
the illegal aliens and in the illegal policies and.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Places like Denver and Congressomans, you've been generous at your
time in our last thirty seconds. What was the peak
moment for you last night in that amazing speech.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Oh, it was certainly the greatest speech that I've heard
in the House chambers. And it's wonderful to have a
president to be proud of again. I think the President
Trump demonstrated that he is back. He has energy and
vigor and vision, and not only is he back, but
America is back. Our border is a ninety five ninety
seven percent sture because we now have the rights resident
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in office and we are truly making America great again.
And he is demonstrating that we can't have peace through strength.
And unfortunately I also saw that my colleagues on the
other side of the aisle, well, they hate President Trump
more than they love America.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
That is it, boy, That is really profoundly put. Congressoman,
thank you for the time today. Thank you, Dan, you
take care And I would I would probably amend that
last statement just a little bit. They at this point
hate Trump so much They're willing to destroy their own
party over it. You're on the Dankapla Show.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
From do you know how many of those sixty five
to seventy one homicides were committed by people illegally present
in the country, And I'm happy to show all of
the sources for my facts. We don't ask anyone's status
at morn of arrest. We do not know someone's status
and when they charge thank you, yeah, so amazing, right, amazing.
(30:17):
Johnston just doesn't know. And Congressman Evans is going to
join us. He doesn't want to know. And this comes
back to this whole point. Why is the left so
determined right now? Why do they put on a pedestal
on a pedestal people here illegally you've committed other crimes.
Why are they so determined to protect them? And I
don't think there's any other conceivable answer other than they
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see them as voters. They see them as voters. And
then it ties into something we talked about recently, where
you've got Hickenlopers standing for reelection out there pushing a
bill that would prevent Ice from detaining an illegal immigrant
at a polling place. Eric in Denver, you're on the
DANCA Aplus Show.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
Welcome, Hi, Dan, great American.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Eric. Tell you Ben, I just had to call you
my brother.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
Because yesterday you said Johnston was going to shine today.
And on the contrary, young man, because Alabama Representative Palmer
and Representative Higgins in Louisiana they want to take the
shine out of Johnston, to put Johnston flat out in
a dull jail shale.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You did well, what I say, my friend, and thank
you for that. What I say is exactly what I
said yesterday, which is, wait a second, Yeah, Johnston is
going to shine today compared to what should happen to
him because what he's doing is so wrong and it's
so indefensible and he needs to be exposed for it.
(31:51):
But in a Committee hearing like today, no matter how
great the questioner, and there were lots of great questioners,
including Congressoman Bobert, they're limit They're limited to this little
five minute slot. There's no judge to sit up there
and order Johnston to answer the question, and so he's
able to do what he did a lot of today,
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which is to dodge and fill a buster and deceive.
So that's my point is, and make no mistake about it, Eric,
I mean to people on the left out there today,
you know, Johnston emerges as a hero. I mean, just
look at the Denver post stuff. So he was let
off the hook today, not by the questioners, all of
whom did a very good job under tough circumstances, but
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by the format. I mean, if this had been an
actual courtroom where there's a judge and Johnston's under oath
and there's you know, he has to answer the question,
the questioner has the time they need to pin him down,
the guy's career would be over.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
Yes, sir again. But see, I'm so sick and tired
as well as all of us Republicans out here that
the Democrats, my god, the Democrat mayor's and governor. Yeah,
for the love of me, they get away with buddy.
You know I got to arrested.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I got the solution. I'm not a darkness cursor. I'm
a candlelighter. I got the solution right now, and Eric
will agree the second he hears it. This solves everything instantly.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
We need to pass a bill, call it the capitalist Bill.
We need to pass a bill that citizens can sue
Mike Johnston, citizens can sue Jared Polis, citizens can sue
government officials with sanctuary policies for all harm done by
people here illegally. How you're here. How long do you
(33:40):
think these sanctuary cities would remain sanctuary cities.
Speaker 10 (33:44):
It'd be gone instantaneous.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah, no, it'd probably take thirty days, but they'd be
gone in thirty days.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
I got to ask you, being a lawyer and brilliant
as you are, you know I'm biased because took that vote.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You You just called the show to tell people I
was dead wrong, but which I am grateful for.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
I did.
Speaker 10 (34:07):
I just said no, no, no, no, hey, it's fair.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Hey, hey, it is fair. No. I appreciate the call,
and but but don't you think that solves it in
thirty days? It's done in thirty days.
Speaker 10 (34:18):
Absolutely, and I think that you know, you made a
brilliant point because Johnston showed his true colors. And for
the life of me, I can't believe Democrats keep voting
these people in, like you know, the mayor that preceded him, Handcock.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, and eventually Jenfer's going to have a Republican mayor.
She's just not going to call herself republic and she's
going to be a conservative. But Eric, to your point
where you called to call me out, listen, I was wrong.
I was wrong to this extent. There was more damage
done to Johnston today than I thought would be. And
(34:56):
a good example of that is Congressoman Bobert's very well
put question pinning him down on wait a second, you're
hiding behind these Colorado laws that you say tie your hands,
but will you join me in trying to change the laws,
and he said no, he wants the laws to stay
in effect. So that's an example of their being more
accomplished with Johnston today than I thought would be. But
(35:17):
here's my point, not nearly as much as could have
been done if we were in a courtroom, if the
questioners had a judge up there to force Johnston answer
the questions. That's my point is we weren't to be
going to be able to get a full cross examination
of him today. Eric, thank you, but I got to
(35:38):
tell you really impressed with the questioners and they accomplished
more than I thought they would, and I'm really happy
to see that. How about this the capitalist law, or
we'd come up with a better name for it. But
don't you think that doesn't instantly if people can sue
the city for damage done by folks here illegally, all
(35:59):
sanctuary city subject to those lawsuits.
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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time to be an American, right, What a great time
to be live. I'm telling Ryan, I love to laugh.
(00:21):
I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard starry.
The the I called State of the Union the President's
addressed to Congress last night. And it was interesting because
Amy had a good lifelong friend Dover, so they're up
on a different floor. I'm down in the cave. I'm
watching this thing when I do some trial prep, and
and you know, I just I just couldn't help it.
(00:41):
I just start bollowing, laughing, I mean like five, six,
seven times, and finally she had to check, Hey, you okay,
everything okay down there. I'm not sure she would have
laughed as hard as I did, but it really was
one of the great speeches of all time. And yeah, listen,
we're going to talk about lawless Mike up on the hills,
spinning his web of to see and all that good stuff,
and we have a lot of good sound. But this
(01:03):
speech last night, I think, britt youume nailed it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
This was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partisan
speech I've ever heard of president, given this kind of setting,
and I go back about maybe fifty years on this.
I also think it may have been the most effective.
I mean, if you ever doubt it that Donald Trump
is the colossus, the political colossus of our time and
our nation, this night and this speech should have put
(01:28):
that to rest. So the Democrats seemed to be falling
into trap after trap after trap as he recognized the
people and celebrated the people he pointed to in the
gallery and their stories, while the Democrats sat blumly on
their hands through all of that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It was a terrible look.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Al Green's attempt to disrupt the speech was a bad
look for the Democrats. This was I think, politically speaking,
this was pretty powerful stuff, as powerful as I think.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I've heard, oh and maybe the best I've ever seen him. Right,
And and then the Democrat contrast to me, even even
Michael Steele and how sorry he's become. Even Michael Steele
on MSNBC called him out.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Michael, when they hold.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Thank you. I just look at the bingo signs were
killing me.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I don't know who thought up the bingo size, but
they should be fined, Michael.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
This is an indictment, in my opinion, on the Democratic leadership.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, and if you didn't see it, you know the
Democrats sitting there. First, a lot didn't even show up,
so they just looked so puny over there. And then
they had these weird little bingo signs or like paddles
you'll hold up at a charity fundraiser, and then they
put this goofy stuff like musk lies and things like that.
They looked so ridiculous. But then Ryan, when they don't
(02:51):
stand for the thirteen year old boy thirty and cute
so old thirteen year old boy ever battling cancer wearing
a police officers uniform made an honorary Secret Service member
of the Secret Service, and the Democrats wouldn't even stand
for him, and it just made the Democrats look so bad.
(03:12):
And then there were lots of other examples right of
how they look stupid sitting there when all of these
very noble, worthy people were being honored. But this is
what we've talked about, right, this is the double barrel.
That's so critical for the future of America because we've
got Trump now and he's going to have a great
presidency as he did the first time, but then he's gone.
(03:32):
He only gets two terms. So what's so critical now
is is not just that Trump succeed, but that the
left be exposed and that the left lose a lot
of ground. And that's been happening, right, and Trump's good
at making that happen. And Democrats last night, that was
one giant me kao for the Democrats last night, right.
(03:53):
I mean, Trump was going to do his Trump thing
and he was going to be great. But the Democrats
it's like they just kept punching themselves in the face.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Like I said earlier, Dan, I don't know that this
could have gone better for President Trump, and I don't
know that it could have gone worse for the Democrats
and how they came out of this. Even John Fetterman,
who usually speaks truth to his own party, was slamming
them for their lack of decorum, for their behavior during this.
It was Algreen at the very beginning disrupting the entire proceeding.
(04:21):
You couldn't hear what he was doing, so it wasn't
even effective if he was trying to make it be effective.
You had other Democrats dressed in pink after voting down
the Protection of Girls and Women's Sports Act, that was ironic.
Then you had the signs being held up which were stupid.
They're mean generators. Stephen Colbert even made fun of those,
and you heard Michael Steele and Simone Sanders slamming.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Them for that.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
They have a scattershot approach. Everything Trump is bad. You
mentioned DJ just what a wonderful young man he was,
and there were two moments, Dan that had me tearing up.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
You were laughing and I.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Was laughing too too.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
When DJ, he was so legitimately shocked to be given
this honor, he hugs Sean Current, the Secret Service Director.
And then after that, Dan, they honor the subsequent young
man who was being admitted to West Point, and DJ
came over and gave him ahab.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It was all so great. It was so well done
on the Republican side, so awful on the dem side,
and we have so much great sound of that. So
Texter Dan, the Democrats came off as petulant children refusing
to leave the toy isle and the Democrats had to
know as they sat there how much harm they were
doing to themselves. Because listen, a big problem they have
is they're losing people of color, not all, but some.
(05:33):
And you know, once that starts, once people, you know,
start shifting away from traditional voting blocks, Democrats are going
to lose more and more. Right because at this point,
the Democrats when it comes to folks of color, and
you know, for the most part, they're getting those votes
not on merit but on habit and also on suspicion
of the GOP. But but you can take any voting
(05:54):
block you want. It can be Catholics, it can be Irish,
it can be black, it can be Latino. Once more
people shift from that voting block to the GOP, it
becomes easier for other folks to and since there's no
good reason to stay with the Democrats. But last night,
my lord, when you've got this child and listen to this.
If you didn't hear it, you want to If you did,
you want to hear it again. This child happens to
(06:15):
be black. Couldn't matter what color the child was, the
story's still going to be so compelling. But he happens
to be black, and he's up there with his father,
who obviously is African American, and the fact that Democrats
wouldn't stand for this.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Kid tonight, as a young man who truly loves our police,
his name is DJ. Daniel is thirteen years old and
he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. So
in twenty eighteen, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer. The
doctors gave him five months at most to live.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That was more than six years ago.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Since that time, DJ and his dad have been on
request to make his dream come true. And DJ has
been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer actually
a number of times. And tonight, DJ, We're going to
do you the biggest honor of them all. I am
asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Kerran to officially
(07:21):
make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And yeah this song Kurrent comes in and he hands
DJ that the Secret Service credentials and these are flip
open rather than a badge, you know how, you flip
it open like FBI does. And then they hold DJ
up and he flips it open. And then his ryan
was seen and DJ initiated this. He said something to
Kerrn and then he hugged him, just grabbed him around
(07:46):
the I mean it was so powerful. And the Democrats
just sitting there like bitter beer face. Remember there was
a keystone bitter beer face there was. Yeah, just sitting
there with bitter beer face. Oh there was so much
of that list. But do we have time for this?
I'm glad we do because some of my favorite, absolute
favorite lines in there. And we'll get back to how
(08:06):
the left then tried to spin this DJ thing, which again,
please keep talking dirty like that. It just makes it
better for us. And in that first term.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
We set records on ending unnecessary rules and regulations like
no other president had done before. We ordered all federal
workers to return to the office. They will either show
up for work in person or be removed from the job.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He's getting it of that stuff.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
We've ended weaponized government, where as an example, a sitting
president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me,
How did.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That work out?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
What's the greatest bad to be the greatest line in
the art?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And our study was looking right at that right side,
is all right? The Democrats? How did that work out? Yeah?
How did that work? And what are we going to
have twenty million memes with how did that work out? That?
That is so cool? And then when we come back,
my second favorite at least line of the night. So
we'll continue to play a lot of sound from last
night because it was historic, it was funny, it was moving,
(09:21):
and then that ties into, of course, then what happened
on the hill today where you have these Democrats sanctuary
city mayors come up, including lawless Mike Johnston from Denver
and Lauren Bolber Congress from Bolber to question him, among others,
will be with us at four thirty six and we'll
start to play some sound from that. I think it
went as I predicted it would, but there are some
(09:41):
moments I think you'll really enjoy hearing. And then really
the profound question, which is how does anybody ever get
to the point and why do they get to the
point where clearly, and this was clear with all of
them in Johnston in particular, their priority, they're absolute to
the death priority is protecting folks here illegally who have
(10:03):
committed other crimes, and they put those folks on a
pedestal ahead of everybody else, ahead of all people here legally,
ahead of all people here illegally not committing other crimes.
Their holy grail is protecting folks here illegally who've committed
other crimes. How does the person ever get to that
point in their life and why do you think they're
(10:24):
doing it? You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I mean the X I love you. You guys were blaming
George W. Bush in year eight. But you know something
that we learned something from that. Jenny's is so good.
And the only reason I played that is there's a
lot of talk with Scott Jennings, you know, that conservative
on CNN, who I think is the best we've ever
seen at this and a lot of talking to him
(10:59):
taking Mitchell mco little seat in the US Senate. Since Jennings,
I guess is from Kentucky, Ryan, I think we're looking
at a future presidential contender there in Jennings. Wow, he
is so good. He is so good, he's so likable,
he's so good on the substance he is yet agree. Yeah, No,
I'm liking that we're mixing in text as well. Congressome
(11:19):
Bobert at four thirty six, she was part of questioning
lawless Mike Johnston on the Hill today on Sanctuary City.
We'll get to that Dan. That one dem look like
an old vulture. It was fitting. Yeah, I tried to
snap a picture of her, but again I'm doing some
trial preps. I did in my camera. My end. Who's
do you know who he's talking about? Right? Or she's
talking about the one that looks like the wicked witch
(11:40):
of the West. I wouldn't put any negative spin on it.
She looks completely unique. Rosa de Laurel, Rosa Delauo. Yeah,
but I would be very happy for her to be
the face of the Democratic Party. But I guess I
wouldn't be because I think it's I think it's the
Democrat who decided he was going to turn us into
(12:00):
some kind of banana Republic at the beginning of this thing,
when he got up there and he was just going
to take over, right, he stood right in front of
Trump obviously planned screaming at Trump. And so this is
just not America. This is just not America. Whether it's
a Democrat up there, given the state of the Union
and a Republican who stands in front, remember the way
(12:21):
that Lauren Bolbert will be with us at four thirty six,
got villified for shouting something out from back in the
stands in defense of our heroes who were killed at
Abbey's Gate, and she got vilified for that. Could you
imagine if she had done what this Democrat didn't come
and stand right down in front of Trump and just
not let the thing proceed, or right down in front
(12:43):
of Biden and not let the thing proceed. Representative al Green.
He was then run out of Congress.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Well, he was censured, for what it's worth, in a
party line vote earlier today, by like two votes.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
So that's another thing.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Though the Democrats wouldn't even censure their own jerk who behaved.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Like a moron.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
And I think a lot John Fetterman's.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Called this out. And I saw Joe A. Goose Stan
sitting right behind al Green when that was happening, and
he wanted to be anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh, but he missed an opportunity. Ryan, my lord, he's
probably kicking himself. He's probably got his staff kicking him.
He's probably got peep on the street kicking him. Because
if Jonah Goose and I haven't met him, but I
hear he's a good guy, you know, I disagree with
this policies. People say he's a good guy. If Joonah
Goose had simply stepped up, put his arm around the
Democrat who'd lost his mind, and just walked him back,
(13:31):
Joonah Goose would be the talk of the country. He
really would he get elected anything he wanted to get elected.
What an opportunity. Yes, but it's so revealing, right because listen,
we've all at times missed a moment. We've all at
times seized a moment when things are bang bang. But
this this l Green thing was not bang bang. It
was like it went on forever. So it's just revealing
(13:53):
because if Jonah Goose or any of these other Democrats
were what the America wants right now, really rising above
it all, they would have done that. They would have
walked up to him, been gentle and kind and tried
to usher them out. And then if Elgreen had hit
him with the cane, So what, they still win, right,
They're still a winner.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
It just blows my mind too, Dan that all the
things they accused Trump of being and doing that he
lacks the korum, that he's smashed the norms, that he
isn't a throwback the way Biden was supposed to be
the Democrats lacking all the korum and class and everything.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Last night.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
They could not have shown themselves up worse than what
they presented to America last night, and that's why they're losing.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
They're in a doom loop right now. They are in
a doom loop right now, and the GOP bench is
so deep, and listen, somebody will emerge on the Democrats side,
because the media will make sure somebody emerges. You could
have some very average Joe or Jane emerge, and if
it's the best thing the Democrats have, the media will
make them out to be the next JFK. Though the
Democrats wouldn't have JFK in the party right now. He'd
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be too conservative in their view. But somebody will emerge.
But right now they are in a doom loop death spiral,
as they should. And I don't mean that personally, but
the reality of the left is that their ideas are horrible.
They don't work. Most of their ideas. Eighty percent of
America is opposed to and people who are voting for
(15:13):
Democrats now most of them our people out of Haber
or they just don't like the Republicans, so they are
truly in a death spiral. Here's one of my other
favorite lines from last night. And my favorite lines are
not just because they're delivered well and they're funny, but
because they're true and so they're really going to hit.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping
border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly
achieve the lowest numbers of illegal border crosses ever recorded.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Thank you, one of the great lines ever coming up
because it is so true.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept
saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to
secure the border, but it turned out that all we
really needed was a new president.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
See Bets, that's as good as it gets because yeah,
it's a shot, and it's a direct shot, and he's
looking right at him. But it's true. It's substance. It's
not name calling. It is so true because that's what
all I'm right, Bennett Hick and Luper John's all I'm
saying during the campaign, Polis, Oh no, no, no, it's
all Trump's fault because if we had this bill, we
wanted the border to be shut down. No, that was
(16:33):
all a lie. That was just one of the great
great moments. Three or three someone three eight two five
five text d A N five seven seven three nine
Dan Ryan DJ even hugg President Trump in the Oval
Office this morning that from Andy. Oh boy, he is
now kind of America's favorite. Andy should be he should
(16:54):
be How cool that was? But then I want to
get to the sound. What's the clip?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Oh you hear?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
It is showing how nuts, how nuts the Democrats are
last night they just couldn't handle this whole DJ thing.
So here's how they tried to submit it.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
I think this was a lesson in finding one thing.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That you let yourself feel.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
And I let myself feel joy about DJ. And I
hope he's alive for another you know, ninety five years,
and I hope he lives and the life he wants
to live.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
He wants to be a cop.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
He knows what he wants to do, and maybe when
you have childhood cancer that crystallizes for you. And I
hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer.
But I hope he never has to defend the United
States capital against Donald Trump supporters.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
And it's been there's a winning argument. There is a
winning argument for Democrats right after they will not stand
up for the thirteen year old with brain cancer who
has just made a member of the Secret Service. Yeah,
that's the winning argument forum right there. It's such a
great time to be alive. And your life's probably real busy,
(18:03):
right everybody's life's busy. But I hope you get a
chance just to slow down and savor this moment because
we are watching a sea change. We're watching a tipping
point in American history where once major political party is
just starting to fall apart before our eyes while another
is ascendant. And it doesn't guarantee anything over the next
(18:27):
fifty years, but it's a lot of fun right now,
and it gives us a lot of reason to hope.
Congressoman Bobert next on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
A walk off song No doubt.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
It's mister Mayor, would you join me today and calling
and demanding that these sanctuaries, policies, these Colorado state laws
be repealed.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Great question, Thank you, Congresswoman.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Lets me now, mister Mayor pardons yes or no, you're
joined me.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I do not believe that the tenderal needs to be changed.
So I can tell you what a great question, congresswoman,
and I'm so glad you led with that. That is
such an important question. It just completely exposed him as
he tried to hide behind those laws that oh yeah
he doesn't want to change. Hey, thanks for your work today.
What was that like?
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Thank you? Well, you know I could have been there
another hour? Yeah, sure, and.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Questioning the mayor. Certainly he was there for six and
a half hours. But here in Washington, d C. There
are other meetings to be.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Had as well.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You know, that was an important question that I wanted
to spend some time on though. However, because it really
proves that Mayor Mike Johnson owns discuss that's right, he
refuses to call on his city council to even have
a vote to repeal the Denver ordinance that says Denver
(20:04):
employees will be fired if they communicate with federal.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Law enforcement officers. Now that doesn't mean all federal employees.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
They can speak with the EPA and helping human services
and others by enforcement officers, they're prevented that.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
And then also he would not join me in calling
for Colorado's state sanctuary policies to be repealed. Now, I'm
proud of Douglas County and other counties who have stepped
up and are suing to get this stop. But it
isn't enough. And if may Or Mike Johnson would call
(20:44):
for that to be removed instead of making excuses saying, well,
this is just state policy, state law, so my hands
are tied here.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
You know, that doesn't really that doesn't really work.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
But he would do that, then.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
There would be a real effort in.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Securing Denver, whether it comes to safety or even funding
that would actually benefit the citizens of Denver. And then
of course it would prevent crime in the cities that
he is bussing illegals from Denver too.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah. I think that was probably the most important question
asked of him all afternoon, because he, as you say,
now owns it. He can't just hide behind these laws.
He said he does not want them changed. In an
outside of this setting today, I don't think he could
have been pinned down on that. I want to give
people a taste of another question that you asked, and
(21:37):
then I'll stop the tape and let you expand on it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
What about before a warrant? There are many issues before
a warrant.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
So your great point. You know, he always tries to
mislead people by saying, hey, we honor warrants, but as
a practical matter, that's almost meaningless. So please do expand
on that.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yes, So that's really the point of this policy and
what makes it a sanctuary policy and while why local
media is even clouded of Denver as a sanctuary city.
One example was in November of twenty twenty four of
Venezuelan illegals who had crossed the border illegally. He was
arrested in Denver for raping a fourteen year old girl,
(22:20):
and this illegal alien had already been arrested and released
on bail for another offense before this crime, before abusing
this fourteen year old girl, and ICE later confirmed that
the suspect was here illegally. But these Denver sanctuary policies
prevented local police from notifying immigration authorities, and I hear
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from officers all over Colorado all the time while they
struggle with this that they are not able to notify,
and furthermore, when they do notify them, they are not
allowed to have ICE agents come in to their facilities
and apprehendous suspect that they have of and we just
(23:05):
saw this. We just saw a criminal alien who was
being released to ICE. However, he couldn't be detained further
for just another hour or two in their facility.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
They had to.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Release him in the streets, as Mayor Johnston says, in
a parking.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Lot, and that's where he assaulted a law enforcement officer
and then later had to be tased.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
And this could have been handled much.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Better and it wasn't. And now Mayor Mike Johnson saying, well,
maybe we need to revisit how we release them to
ICE agents. Well, it should have never happened. And you know,
to wait for a federal warrant before action is taken.
It's far too long, but it does protect their narrative
of saying, well, they're not criminal aliens. You say you
(23:56):
want criminal aliens removed from the country. Well, I also
you don't want to wait for them to commit a
very veenish crime like abusing a fourteen year old girl
before we take action. Anyone who has come into this
country illegally has already broken our nation's law and should
be notified to ICE.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Right, But the Left, as you know, has all these
laws in Colorado that you pinned Johnston down, and he
doesn't want them change. All these laws that are designed
to protect people who have committed other crimes ended up
in our jails, and now Ice wants to identify and
wants to interview them, et cetera. There are all sorts
of laws that are geared only to protect people who
(24:36):
have been convicted of other crimes. Yeah, and let me
give people a taste. Yeah, go ahead, please, no, please,
let me give people a taste of another line of
questioning Congressoman Bobert.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
With us six hundred days, there's been no time to
ask for this to be repealed. You did have a
newcomer's playbook twenty five pages. You had time to put
that together, and you had time to agree with the
city council to authorize up to two million dollars to
pay Joe Biden's former lawyer his law firm to help
(25:09):
cover your ass.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
So expand on that for us. I'm glad you had
the chance to ask him about that.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yes, well, you know it shows that the mayor requested
the city council to authorize up to two million dollars
to be paid to Joe Biden's former lawyer's law firm
to help prepare him for this Commission hearing, and you know,
he says, yeah, we secured that. Contrast in case your
(25:37):
committee wanted me to come before him, what a document
for us. So I think that right there shows that
they know that they are not complying with federal law
and the federal government is going to want answers about
these policies. But this is also coming from a city
that whose budget for illegal aliens in twenty twenty four
(25:59):
alone was ninety million dollars. And this is money millions
dollars gifted from investments.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
In city parks and employees that may actually benefit Denver taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And Congressoman, before I get your take on what I
think was a historic addressed to Congress last night, where
do you think this goes from here?
Speaker 7 (26:18):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Because Americans are on your side, right, I mean, this
is not just a Republican issue anymore. Where do you
think it goes sanctuary cities? Yes?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Well, President Trump and Secretary of Nome and Borders are
Tom Homan have said that there will be action taken
against those leaders who are refusing to follow state law
and who are aiding and ambtting illegal aliens, and within
their communities and under their jurisdiction, and so I do
(26:48):
expect action to be taken in some form. I don't
know exactly what that looks like, but I'm sure that
there will be a some sort of a grace period
for them to get it right.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
But if they refuse and there needs to be action
is taken.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
And President Trump said he will withhold hold federal funding
from those who are not following the Constitution and his
executive orders, the laws that we have in this land.
And so unfortunately, we may see some of the funding
be removed from cities like Denver who have sanctuary policies.
(27:24):
And look, I work hard each and every day to
deliver tax dollars back to Colorado. Colorado's pay in a
lot of tax money, and I want to make sure
that they are represented and reaping the benefits of those
tax dollars. But when it's going to illegal aliens, this
is this is not acceptable. When Denver has a budget
(27:45):
of ninety million dollars for illegal aliens in the year
twenty twenty four alone, that is unacceptable. When Genver needs
to ask for a bailout from the state legislature because
they're going bankrupt or their hospital is about to go under.
This is unacceptable, and so maybe we need to start
focusing on putting the agencies under the federal government in
(28:11):
areas like maybe Douglas County who do want to uphold
our nation's laws and are taking on the state government
of Colorado and their sanctuary policies.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
With their lawsuits.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
But maybe we'll start to see more of that those
tax dollars go to our rural communities rather than just
the illegal aliens and in the illegal policies and.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Places like Denver and Congressomans, you've been generous at your
time in our last thirty seconds. What was the peak
moment for you last night in that amazing speech.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Oh, it was certainly the greatest speech that I've heard
in the House chambers. And it's wonderful to have a
president to be proud of again. I think the President
Trump demonstrated that he is back. He has energy and
vigor and vision, and not only is he back, but
America is back. Our border is a ninety five ninety
seven percent sture because we now have the rights resident
(29:10):
in office and we are truly making America great again.
And he is demonstrating that we can't have peace through strength.
And unfortunately I also saw that my colleagues on the
other side of the aisle, well, they hate President Trump
more than they love America.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
That is it, boy, That is really profoundly put. Congressoman,
thank you for the time today. Thank you, Dan, you
take care And I would I would probably amend that
last statement just a little bit. They at this point
hate Trump so much They're willing to destroy their own
party over it. You're on the Dankapla Show.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
From do you know how many of those sixty five
to seventy one homicides were committed by people illegally present
in the country, And I'm happy to show all of
the sources for my facts. We don't ask anyone's status
at morn of arrest. We do not know someone's status
and when they charge thank you, yeah, so amazing, right, amazing.
(30:17):
Johnston just doesn't know. And Congressman Evans is going to
join us. He doesn't want to know. And this comes
back to this whole point. Why is the left so
determined right now? Why do they put on a pedestal
on a pedestal people here illegally you've committed other crimes.
Why are they so determined to protect them? And I
don't think there's any other conceivable answer other than they
(30:41):
see them as voters. They see them as voters. And
then it ties into something we talked about recently, where
you've got Hickenlopers standing for reelection out there pushing a
bill that would prevent Ice from detaining an illegal immigrant
at a polling place. Eric in Denver, you're on the
DANCA Aplus Show.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
Welcome, Hi, Dan, great American.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Eric. Tell you Ben, I just had to call you
my brother.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
Because yesterday you said Johnston was going to shine today.
And on the contrary, young man, because Alabama Representative Palmer
and Representative Higgins in Louisiana they want to take the
shine out of Johnston, to put Johnston flat out in
a dull jail shale.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You did well, what I say, my friend, and thank
you for that. What I say is exactly what I
said yesterday, which is, wait a second, Yeah, Johnston is
going to shine today compared to what should happen to
him because what he's doing is so wrong and it's
so indefensible and he needs to be exposed for it.
(31:51):
But in a Committee hearing like today, no matter how
great the questioner, and there were lots of great questioners,
including Congressoman Bobert, they're limit They're limited to this little
five minute slot. There's no judge to sit up there
and order Johnston to answer the question, and so he's
able to do what he did a lot of today,
(32:11):
which is to dodge and fill a buster and deceive.
So that's my point is, and make no mistake about it, Eric,
I mean to people on the left out there today,
you know, Johnston emerges as a hero. I mean, just
look at the Denver post stuff. So he was let
off the hook today, not by the questioners, all of
whom did a very good job under tough circumstances, but
(32:34):
by the format. I mean, if this had been an
actual courtroom where there's a judge and Johnston's under oath
and there's you know, he has to answer the question,
the questioner has the time they need to pin him down,
the guy's career would be over.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
Yes, sir again. But see, I'm so sick and tired
as well as all of us Republicans out here that
the Democrats, my god, the Democrat mayor's and governor. Yeah,
for the love of me, they get away with buddy.
You know I got to arrested.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I got the solution. I'm not a darkness cursor. I'm
a candlelighter. I got the solution right now, and Eric
will agree the second he hears it. This solves everything instantly.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
We need to pass a bill, call it the capitalist Bill.
We need to pass a bill that citizens can sue
Mike Johnston, citizens can sue Jared Polis, citizens can sue
government officials with sanctuary policies for all harm done by
people here illegally. How you're here. How long do you
(33:40):
think these sanctuary cities would remain sanctuary cities.
Speaker 10 (33:44):
It'd be gone instantaneous.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah, no, it'd probably take thirty days, but they'd be
gone in thirty days.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
I got to ask you, being a lawyer and brilliant
as you are, you know I'm biased because took that vote.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You You just called the show to tell people I
was dead wrong, but which I am grateful for.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
I did.
Speaker 10 (34:07):
I just said no, no, no, no, hey, it's fair.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Hey, hey, it is fair. No. I appreciate the call,
and but but don't you think that solves it in
thirty days? It's done in thirty days.
Speaker 10 (34:18):
Absolutely, and I think that you know, you made a
brilliant point because Johnston showed his true colors. And for
the life of me, I can't believe Democrats keep voting
these people in, like you know, the mayor that preceded him, Handcock.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, and eventually Jenfer's going to have a Republican mayor.
She's just not going to call herself republic and she's
going to be a conservative. But Eric, to your point
where you called to call me out, listen, I was wrong.
I was wrong to this extent. There was more damage
done to Johnston today than I thought would be. And
(34:56):
a good example of that is Congressoman Bobert's very well
put question pinning him down on wait a second, you're
hiding behind these Colorado laws that you say tie your hands,
but will you join me in trying to change the laws,
and he said no, he wants the laws to stay
in effect. So that's an example of their being more
accomplished with Johnston today than I thought would be. But
(35:17):
here's my point, not nearly as much as could have
been done if we were in a courtroom, if the
questioners had a judge up there to force Johnston answer
the questions. That's my point is we weren't to be
going to be able to get a full cross examination
of him today. Eric, thank you, but I got to
(35:38):
tell you really impressed with the questioners and they accomplished
more than I thought they would, and I'm really happy
to see that. How about this the capitalist law, or
we'd come up with a better name for it. But
don't you think that doesn't instantly if people can sue
the city for damage done by folks here illegally, all
(35:59):
sanctuary city subject to those lawsuits.
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