July 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Allegations against Rep. Ron Weinberg (R-51) citing sexual harrassment of several women both at the capitol and Leadership Program of the Rockies retreats continue to mount, Sheriff Steve Reams fills in for Dan and attempts to sort through the details on the very latest.
Rep. Gabe Evans (R, CO-8) joins the program to share his thoughts on highlights of the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' recently signed by President Trump after passing through both houses of Congress.
Rep. Gabe Evans (R, CO-8) joins the program to share his thoughts on highlights of the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' recently signed by President Trump after passing through both houses of Congress.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Dan Capless Show here with Welcomny Sheriff
Steve Rams as your guest host, and man, what twenty
four hours does for you. Yesterday, when we were finishing
out the show, we were doing a little bit of
talk about the Epstein issues and what's going on in
the Trump administration. And to say that it fired a
few of you up would be probably an understatement. We
get some texts and some phone calls in reference to
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your doubt about whether this administration was giving us the
full truth about the Epstein files. And so when I
got home last night, I thought, well, you know what,
I'm going to dive in a little bit on Facebook.
See what the world of social media is saying about
this current the current situation as it revolves to Jeffrey
Epstein and all the curiosity around him. And lo and behold,
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my Facebook page was just riddled with information about an
issue happening here in Colorado at the Colorado State House.
As you guys know, yesterday we had Representative Carlos baron
On who had just been named the new House Minority
Whip for the Republicans, and we were paid him a
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lot of praise. I think Carlos Baron has done a
great job representing House District forty eight, taken over for
Congressman Gabe Evans in that particular district, has built a
lot of relationships down to the State House. We were
very supportive of I was very supportive of him moving
into that seat or into that role as the whip,
and had no idea about some of the turmoil that
had gone on behind the scenes. We knew that Carlos
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Baron had kind of faced off against Representative Brandy Bradley
and Representative Ron Weinberg had also been in the running
for that position, but Carlos had come out on top.
And again I was completely unaware of some of the
stuff that had gone on behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But by the time I got home.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Some stuff started to kind of float to the surface
through the world of social media, and again I just
kind of soaked it in last night. You know, I
didn't want to respond too quickly and decided that, you know,
this morning, about five thirty in the morning, when I
was finishing up my workout, I messaged Representative Weinberger message
on through Facebook and just said, Hey, if you've got
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a desire to come on the radio today and give
your side of these accusations, because I had seen every
major news station had had run a story about this,
that Hey, here's your opportunity, and I just kind of waited.
I Represented Weinberg responded and said, Hey, let me check
with my attorney see where see what's the smartest way
for us to respond, and I'll get back with you.
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So that leads me to kind of where we're at
here today. And holy smokes, like I said, what twenty
four hours will do. And if you haven't listened, if
you weren't listening to Ryan Schuling live, you should have been.
He had a fire show, for sure, And I say
that in the kindest of ways. He definitely was batting
(03:08):
for the fences. So welcome back from vacation, Ryan. He
came back to a home run. I'm not sure that
it's good for Republican Party to have this kind of
stuff in the news, but it does make for a
very interesting radio and your guests were on fire.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Well, it goes kind of it's part and parcel with
what we've been talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
What you just mentioned.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
When it comes to the Colorado Republican Party, you can't
have one element of maybe good news as you had.
And I spoke with Representative Carlos Baron earlier today. He
earns the House Minority whip position. You know, he's relatively
new to the General Assembly. He's a commodity and a
high riser under Rose Paglici and Ty Winner and the
leadership there, and it's something feel good about.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
And then you have all of this going on behind
the scenes.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And I spoke with Representative Brandy Bradley because Carolyn Weinberg,
the wife of Representative Ron Weinberg, who has been accused
of sexual harassment now by several women who are coming forward,
also invoked the name of Brandy Bradley of perhaps being
behind some kind of smear merchant campaign.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Brandy adamantly vehemently denies that she was behind any of
this when it comes to the allegations against Ryan Weinberg
in those going public. So Representative Bradley fired back on
my program and we had to edit out in real
time using the dump button a portion of what she
said over the air, because there's very there are some
things that are very sensitive in nature about these accusations
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that don't lend themselves for over the air radio broadcasts.
And yet Representative Brandy Bradley went there and we were
awaiting as well in response to the accusations made by
Jacqueline Anderson, who is one of the first to come
forward these victim impact statements about what happened to her,
not once by her allegation, but twice back to back
years at LPR with her husband correct and with Representative
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Weinberg consuming alcohol, and that kind of lending itself to
inappropriate comments, according to her, that were targeted in her direction,
right in front of her husband. And the second time
around the next year, that husband confronted Represented Weinberg and
he was subsequently banned from the event. So I don't
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know how Representive Weinberg going to respond to that part
of the allegation, but I know that you got a
statement from him.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, I did. Right before we were ready to go
on air. Ron had actually made a phone call to
me and he just said, hey, with the new accusations
that were made on your show, or some of the
new accusations that were made on your show. He felt
like that was something that he needed to yet again
speak with his attorney about, and his statement was, I'm
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taking this very serious under the advice of legal counsel.
I will respond when it's appropriate, and that's you know,
that's all I can go. I'll go with on the
air right now. I have told Ron representative Weinberg that
if he changes his mind he wants to come on
the show, he's welcome to do so at any time.
And when I spoke with him, I said, look, I'm
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not judging you. I'm not making a case for or
against you. You know, one side of the story's been told.
I'm giving you an opportunity to tell the other side.
And that's as fair as I can be. I truly
do want to give him a platform to say, you know,
say his peace and defend himself if that's what if
that's what needs to occur, you know, especially in a
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world where we were told for a little while there
that and this is no knock against Jaqueline Anderson, that
says no knock against Brandy Bradley or any of the others.
But there was this narrative that was going on from
the left for a while of believe all women, and
we knew that some of the statements that were being
made against people that were, you know, Supreme Court nominees
and that kind of stuff. It was a little controversial
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and there were some questions about whether those folks were
telling the truth. And I, you know, I want to
give Jacqueline Anderson and Brandy Bradley all the credit in
the world that they're coming forward to tell their story.
I think Ron should have the opportunity to tell his
story too, and he does if he wants to come
on the radio, he has this platform. I'm sure you
would invite him on your show as well, Ryan, and
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that that opportunity still stands. So if he changes his mind,
he's welcome to come on the show. But I think
it's it's one of those things in Republican politics, which
I'm deeply involved in in many ways, these are this
is one of those unforced errors and you know, whatever
is driving this situation. You know that I say in
law enforcement, the truth is always somewhere in the middle.
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There's one side, there's the other side, and then there's
the truth. That's not to say that the truth doesn't
lean more to one side than the other, but it's
never as clear cut as it's as it's painted to
be typically. So I think when all this is said
and done, well, we'll know we'll have a truth that
we can all agree on, unless it's something like along
the Epstein lines. I think we'll all have a truth
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that we can agree on, and somewhere in this it'll
all make sense. But it takes everybody's story getting out
there in the news, and right now, Representative Weinberg controls
that timeline. So you know, I'm pretty shocked. I'm sure
the listeners are as well, if especially if they were
listening in the last hour with with what's our last
two hours with what went on in on Ryan Shuling Live.
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If you have some early text or our thoughts, you
want to call in. The number here is three O
three seven one three eight two five five, or you
can text Dan at five seven seven three nine. I'd
love to hear your feedback. But just to kind of
summarize the story, what we have that's been alleged is
that Representative Ron Weinberg who filled in when Hugh McKean
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died in office. Representive Weinberg I believe was appointed to
the seat and then later ran for the seat and
won the election. He's been down at the State House
for that amount of time, I think, the last couple
of years. Technically this would be his third third term
or third year in office, I believe. But apparently over
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that time and since maybe twenty twenty one, there's been
some allegations that he may have made some inappropriate comments
to different women, one of those being Jacqueline Anderson at
a leadership program of the Rockies event, both in twenty
twenty one and again in twenty twenty two, I believe,
and then also some interesting comments back and forth I guess,
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between he and Representative Brandy Bradley down at the State Capitol.
But in addition to that, when Jacqueline Anderson posted her
information out on Facebook. There's a story one as well
that is written by another person, and I'm just going
to read this on air. Actually, we'll go to break
and I'll read it when we come back. Let's do
that that way, we can let all of you load
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the text lines and load the phone lines if you'd like.
We'll read that story as soon as we come back
from break. You listen to Dan Capless Show here on
six point thirty k HOW with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve
Reims in the guest seat.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Welcome back to.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The Dan camp the Show here with Wilkounny staff Steve
Raimes as your guest host. And we went to break.
We were talking about a recent firestorm that's kind of
popped up in the Colorado State Capitol involving Representative Ron
Weinberg with some allegations in reference to some inappropriate sexually
charged comments that have been made to several persons. It
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sounds as if maybe the case or allegedly the case
Jacqueline Anderson, a former I guess Party member over a
Republican Party member over in Mason County, and then Brandy
Bradley State rep in a different district than Ron Weinberg.
And we're gathering a little bit more information as this
thing kind of continues to unfold. But before we went
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to break, I was going to read victim impact statement
story one which was posted by by Jacqueline Anderson also
but it's referenced in a Colorado politics story. This person
is identified as Heather Booth and Elizabeth's school boy. Remember,
and I'm just going to read story one as she
told it. At a very large event in February of
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twenty twenty two, my husband and I were going back
and forth to the bar, getting my friends and me drinks.
While he was gone, I was joking with my friend
about needing a facelift. Out of no where, Ron, who
I barely even know, came to us. At first, he
told me not to get a facelift because I was beautiful.
I think'd him politely, but then he kept repeating it
and it started to feel uncomfortable. Suddenly he said something
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so vile that I was in shock. He told me, no,
I mean, I'd put my blank in your blank. I
couldn't believe what I was hearing. My friend and I
were stunned. We didn't even know how to react. Then
Ron took it even further, saying, Oh, I'm sorry, would
you rather me put my blank in your blank? It
was humiliating, disgusting, and terrifying. We were dressed up at
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a public event and this man thought it was okay
to sexually degrade me like that. I still can't shake
how powerless and violated I felt. So I'll let you
fill in the words. Obviously, there's some things we can't
say on the radio for reasons. And so that's the
story from Heather Booth, as told by Jacqueline Anderson via
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also coloradopolitics dot com. I don't know where all this thing,
where this thing all ends, but I know that it
is extremely bad for the Republican Party to have this
kind of stuff going on, and the absence of a
response just lets this thing build. And I'm again we've
offered the opportunity for Representative Weinberg to come on the
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air and tell his side of the story. I don't
know if that helps or hurts, but at least it
gets both sides of the story out on the radio waves.
But as a as a Republican in the state of Colorado,
I've said many times over, we can't afford to lose
a steed at the state House. We cannot afford to
have an unforced error, and this feels like we could
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be headed to an unforced error if it's not resolved
very quickly, and if this issue isn't cleaned up again.
If you want to text and give your comments, you
can at five seven seven three nine, start your text
with Dan, or you can call in at three O
three seven one three eight two five five. We've got
a text from one of our loyal listeners here says
if I was one of these women, I might have
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just repeated what he said back to him in a
very loud voice for all to hear. Yeah, that's that's
probably a way of handling it. I can tell you
if as if I were the husband of either of
these ladies who have told their story, I don't know
that I would have been nearly as calm in my
response as it appears that they were. If these things
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are are true, if these allegations are true, Yeah, it's
it's it's a bad look for sure. That being said,
you know, we'll give Representative Weinberg the benefit of the
doubt until it's proven. Otherwise, as far as giving him
opportunity to come on the radio and say whatever you'd like,
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or respond in court as he's as as it sounds
like that maybe the direction he plans on tape. So
I don't want to put words in his mouth. I
don't want to. I don't want to say anything that
isn't absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So we'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Uh Again, yesterday we talked quite a bit about the
Epstein files and whether or not any any of you
believed what we were hearing was true, and I kind
of questioned it myself. You know, I had definitely followed
the story, watched several watch several of the documentaries about
mister Epstein, as as that case was coming to you know,
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kind of coming to fruition. He was being arrested, sitting
in prison, and just kind of wondering how a guy
goes from being basically a math teacher to a billionaire
almost billionaire, with really no tracking of how he raised money,
how he how he got there. Always had me scratching
my head. I mean, you know, more on anybody, more
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to anybody that can make that kind of money and
do so quite easily. I haven't had that same success,
I guess. But as time went on, we kept hearing
from the former Trump administration or people associated with the
Trump administration that something wasn't quite right, that you know,
there was more to this story. The client list was
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going to come out. And I will tell you from
a person in law enforcement, I don't know how how
you can look at one of these cases and say
there's not more to the story, And you know, quite honestly,
that's kind of the same view I take when I
look at the incident we were talking about that's going
on down at the state Capitol. There's always more to
the story. But even if there's not a printed client
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list that Jeffrey Epstein wrote out somewhere in this case,
there had to have been people who were associated with
Jeffrey Epstein. We know there was a list of people
who flew on the Lolita Express. We know that there
were witnesses that saw one another on the island. We
know that there were people that had to have been
talked to. We know there were victims of this crime
spree from Jeffrey Epstein and Giselle Maxwell or however you
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say her first name. He's sitting in prison for a
crime that now I guess we're not certain was even committed.
Jeffrey Epstein was in custody for crimes when he died,
whether that was by suicide or some other means. So
there's a lot of questions here about how can we
not have a client list of some kind, and maybe
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it's not handwritten by Jeffrey Epstein, but there should be
a client list. And I guess what really gets me
going on this or what causes me the point of
concern is a comment that was made by a G.
Pam Bondi just a few months back. And if we could,
I'd like to play the clip where I think it
kind of resurfaced this whole thing, and that's clip one, Ryan,
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could we get that going?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
So basically Pam Bondy talks about this whole file setting
on her desk and she kind of hints that, hey,
there is a there is a client list. Deep oh,
we're working on it. Ryan was absorbed with the other
issues of the day, which is totally understandable.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Well, that really happened.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's
been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm
reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the process
of being reviewed because that was done at the directive
of the President from all of these agencies.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So what that tells me is that list does exist now.
She equivocates later and we'll play that clip a little
later in the show. But she equivocates later and says, well,
I was talking about the entire case file, not just
the specific list. And I'm sorry, you know, maybe it's
a fallacy of words, maybe that's not exactly what she
meant to say. But everyone who listened to that said, oh,
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there's a list. And I remember the hubbub that went
on not only on talk radio, you know, on conservative
talk radio, but even on mainstream news, that hey, this
client list could be dropping, and we might also see
the JFK files, the RFK files, the MLK files. There's
going to be a a dump of information. And then
we waited, and we waited, and we waited and we waited,
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and it was a big nothing burger. And then we
get to the point where over the weekend, on I
think a Sunday night, we get a drop saying oh, well,
there's nothing to see here, there's nothing to look at.
Don't worry about it. There is no Epstein list. It
just it doesn't make sense. We're gonna shift gears when
we come back from break and try to look at
something a little more positive. We're gonna have Congressman Gabe
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Evans on talking about some wins for the Republicans, especially
out at the national level on the Big Beautiful Bill.
You're listening to the Dan Capless Show here with well
Knty Sriff Steve Reims as your guest host.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Welcome back to the Dankplas Show here with Well Keunty
Shaff Steve Reims. And we've been kind of covering some
controversial topics here in in the state of Colorado down
at the Golden Dome, but we're going to get to
something that is a little more nationally based, and that
is our Congressman from the eighth Congressional District, Gave Evans
just recently cast his vote on the Big Beautiful Bill
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and actually had a press conference down at the state
Capitol and support of that set and supportive said bill,
and we wanted to have gabon to kind of talk
about some of the highlights of this bill, what it does,
what it doesn't do, and hear it directly from one
of the guys that voted for it. Congressman Evans, how
are you doing all?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
He's got to be honest, Your Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
And you know, every time we get a chance to
talk with you, I get a little more educated about
what life is out in Washington, d C. And I'm
so glad I'm not there, and so glad that you are.
So thank you for your service. I know that the
process of getting through this big, beautiful bill was not easy.
If you would just kind of outline the process that
you guys had to fight through just to get this
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thing across the finish line, and then we'll talk about
the goods and the bads of this thing.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
So, I think most folks know that the Republicans have
unified governments, so we have majorities in the House of
the Senate and the Presidency. But the sticking point is
Republicans have fifty three votes in the US Senate, the
Democrats have forty seven, and because of the rules of
the Senate, the Senators can filibuster anything, and that basically
killed it, and you've got to have sixty votes to
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block the filibuster. So while Republicans have a majority in
the Senate, we don't have a filibuster proof majority. And
so about the only way that we could we could
get a piece of legislation passed without having the Democrats
block it is this thing called the reconciliation process, and
it's basically a budgetary process by which as long as
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whatever we're doing is predominantly budgetaryan nature, it actually can
pass through the Senate with a simple majority vote instead
of being subject to the filibuster. So that was the
process that we used for this big, beautiful bill, and
it's a very complex process. We have to pass the
bill twice. You have to figure out is this thing
budgetary or not budgetary. If it's not budgetary, then the
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you know, the parliamentary in was making some news last week.
The parliamentarian in the Senate says who it says, says
if that provision is going to be subject to the
filibuster or not. But that was the process that we
had to follow in order to get this thing passed.
Because there's a lot of things in there that do
just outstandingly amazing things for the Americans. But you know,
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unfortunately some of our Democrat colleagues don't don't agree with that. So,
you know, these are things like tax cuts we're we're
not only extending, but we're increasing the tax cuts, and
these tax cuts are for middle class, lower income working Americans.
We we actually increase the size of the child tax deduction.
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So if you've got kids like me, young kids, this
year you're able to deduce excuse me, a deduct you'd
get two thousand dollars back in taxes just for the
price of having a kid. We were able to raise
that a little bit. It's now twenty two hundred dollars.
The alternative was it actually expired at the end of
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this year if we did not pass the bill. So
on the one hand, we were facing these major tax
increases that would happen when the cuts expired. So we
were able to extend and make permanent those tax cuts
and actually make them bigger. So again the child tax
credit is going from two thousand dollars to twenty two
hundred dollars. We were able to put some other things
in there. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
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So when I was a cop, your deputies, you know,
when they're doing their job, yess what that overtime is
now tax free up to a certain amount. Twelve five
hundred dollars of overtime is now tax free. Other things
in there to help out seniors. One of the rules
for reconciliation, you can't say the word social security and
the Reconciliation Bill, that's just one of the Senate, one
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of the Senate's rules, so we couldn't say no tax
on Social Security. Instead, we were able to put a
six thousand dollars tax deduction in the bill, so that
your average retiree who makes seventy five thousand dollars a
year or less in retirement, they now have no tax
liability for Social Security. We were able to help We
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were able to help small businesses in there. Small businesses.
They were looking at their tax rate doubling when the
tax cuts expired at the end of this year. So
we made their tax rate permanent, so small businesses now
have tax stability. I mean, it's just a long laundry
list of tax cuts to make life more affordable, to
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put more money back in people's pockets. And then you
know you're a you're a sheriff. I was a coffee
soldier for a while. We've got resources in here to
secure the border. We've got resources in here to make
sure that we're going after the gangs and the cartels
and the drug dealers that are causing problems in our community,
and we're being good stewards of tax payer money by
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cutting out the fraud, waste, and abuse and programs like
Medicaid and SNAP, which I'm sure we'll talk about here
in a little bit, because that's what all of our
friends on the left are screaming about right now, is
how Republicans have gutted these programs. Guess what, that's actually
blatantly false. All we did was cut the fraud, waste
and abuse out of them.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Well, so that's a great segue. But you know, when
you go through and you look at what the White
House looks at in this bill and says, hey, these
are our wins. You know, they don't even talk about
border security and all the new ICE agents and you know,
border patrol agents. And to me as a law enforcement guy,
and I think to a lot of the American public,
that's a huge win seeing that border wall go up.
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I think there's like forty six billion dollars in funding
for the border wall. There's enough funding for I think
ten thousand new ICE agents and maybe two thousand new
border patrol agents. I don't know what the dollars work
out to on those particular items, and I may be
a little off on my figures, but.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
You're pretty close.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Based on what Trump was running on in the election cycle,
I think the American publics would probably see that as
a huge win, and the White House has the win
that there sales so much that they kind of just
gloss over that that's just a given we're doing that stuff.
And well, I think that's kind of cool. At the
same time, I'm like, man, list your wins. So the
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specifics on that, Did I get that right? Am I
close on that? Congressman Evans?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Yeah, So I actually sit on the Homeland Security Committee.
We've got jurisdiction over border patrol, over the physical security
at the border, and so you rattled off a lot
of the numbers that are forty six billion dollars to
be able to build more wall, which you know it,
I know it. We need that barrier.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
You know, the wall.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Itself isn't going to stop people, but that slows folks
down so that you can have more border patrol folks
come out and be able to interdict individuals and keep
them from just coming into the uniteds States. And we
know how critically important this is. You know, a couple
couple of weeks ago, the United States set Iran's nuclear
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program back quite a ways, you know, with just an
incredible show of air power and some really big bombs.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Well, we know that with a wide.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Open border for the last four years, Iran has been
has been getting people into the United States unlawfully.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Along with every other country.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Mm hmm. We know there's always a persistent threat for terrorists,
sleeper cells who have unlawfully entered the United States, and
so we saw that threat level go up. You know,
after we took out Iran's nuclear program, we saw, for instance,
news that Ice had detained a former Iranian army sniper
illegally present in the United States, you know, right right
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after we dropped those bombs right on their nuclear programs.
So being able to secure the border, being able to
go find uh, these sleeper cells, these these folks from
Iran or other countries that have no no love loss
for the United States, Being able to find the cartels,
the terrorsts, the gang bangers that have come into our country,
this is a huge win, especially in a state like Colorado,
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which as you well know, has done everything possible to
handcuff costs and empower criminals, which is why we're now
the second most dangerous state in the country.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So on that note, I mean, you were talking about
some of the things we've invited into this state, and
one of those is, you know, we're a sanctuary state,
so we have plenty of illegals flooding in. But the
country itself saw I think twenty million in the last administration.
There's a lot of talk about one point five trillion
dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse cut out through the
big beautiful bill. The math that I was doing, or
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the math that I've heard, is each illegal that comes
into the country costs the United States about seventy thousand
dollars a year, times out by twenty million people, and
you get to one point four trillion dollars. Is that
the one point five trillion that's being referred to as
the savings in this bill? Or is there an additional
one point five trillion that is just in other things?
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Are you prepared to answer that, Congressman Evans, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
I mean there's always a couple of ways to to,
you know, slice up the numbers and figure out how
do you get to that one point five trillion in
cost savings? And so I guess just to level set.
In terms of the federal budget, you have two big
pots of money. You have what's called mandatory spending and
then you have discretionary spending. So that one point five
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trillion dollars in cuts that is to the mandatory spending.
So you know, we always talk about the national debt
just keeps going up. Right, A lot of that is
driven by mandatory spending. So when we say cuts like
this isn't really a cut, we're stopping the deficit spending.
We're stopping spending money that okaya and saddling our kids.
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But to your point, a lot of that comes from
just basic common sense reforms, like no taxpayer fund, did
healthcare money to go to illegal immigrants? We saw the
Denver Post. I'll say that again, the Denver Post, not
known for being a right leaning newspaper. The Denver Post
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ran a headline a couple of days ago that said,
under this bill, twenty one thousand illegal immigrants in Colorado.
So they call them undocumented Colorado's, but you know it's
illegal immigrants. Twenty one thousand illegal immigrants in Colorado may
lose their medicaid funding. Well, you know at Newslash that's
taxpayer money going to illegal immigrants, and we're putting a
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stop to that in this big, beautiful bill that has
a cost savings measure. It's other things. You'll hear a
lot of folks saying, oh my gosh, you know, Republicans
destroyed the safety net for SNAP, which is food stamps. No,
here's the two things that we did for the SNAP program.
Number one, able bodied, working aged adults with a kid
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fourteen years of age or older. And we picked that
age specifically because an all fifty states it's legal for
a fourteen year old to stay home all by themselves.
So if you're nable bodied, working aged adult and your
kids are older fourteen or above, in order to qualify
for food stamps, you have to work, volunteer or go
to school part time defined is eighty hours a month,
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basically twenty hours a week. So that was one reform
that we did in the SNAP program. Again taxpayer funded,
you know, nutrition supplement basically food. The other thing that
we did was right now today, SNAP food stamps is
one hundred percent funded by the federal government, but it's
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the state government that actually administers the program, which is
very odd. Well, yeah, and the problem is is it
doesn't give the state government has no incentive to actually
run a good program because they got no skin in
the game. The Feds are writing one hundred percent of
the check. So all we said for the SNAP program
was if a state is running a bad program such
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that the fraud, waste and abuse in the program is
higher than six percent. So if you got, you know,
a million dollar program, if more than six percent of that,
more than sixty thousand dollars is fraud, waste, and abuse,
then the state has to start kicking in some money
until they can get that error rate, that fraud, waste
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and abuse back below six percent. And once they get
it below six percent, then the will continue to write
one hundred percent of the check.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Pretty logical stuff there, you know. I think everything that
you're speaking of is speaking to the hearts of the
American public. Unfortunately, we're up against the hard break here,
Representative Evans, but I appreciate you coming on and outlining
some of the some of the benefits of this bill.
We will definitely keep an open line for you if
you want to come back on on any of the
shows and continue to pound the table for what's right
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for the Republicans. Here in this state.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Thank you for being on on with you.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
We appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You're listening to the Dan Capla Show here on six
thirty K How with Weill, Kenny Sheriff, Steve Riams.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show here on six
thirty K How with Well, Kenny Sheriff, Steve Rereams. We're
talking a little bit of everything today. We got the
Epstein files, We've got well what I'll call the Golden
Dome Files. I'm naming it that at this point. Some
allegations against Representative Ron Weinberg from Jacqueline Anderson and Representative
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Brandy Bradley and others. We've had a little bit of
that on the show. We just had Congressman Gabe Evans
talking on talking about the Big Beautiful Bill, and I
love having gave Evans on because he is a hometown guy.
He's a hometown boy from Colorado. You know, this is
this is his roots. And I bring that up because
one of his opponents, one of his announced opponents on
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the other side of the aisle, an individual named Manny
ruttinal is also you know, claim to be a Colorado
guy and that you know, he's he's for Colorado values,
and this race actually matters to me. CD eight represents
a large part of Weld County. I don't live in
CDY eight, but I work a lot in CDY eight,
and a lot of Weld County is in CDY eight
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where Congressman Evans represents.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Well old manny here.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You know, he's got his he's got his Twitter handle
and other pages out there talking about how he's a
you know, a practical guy for Colorado. And he shows
a picture of the Rocky Mountains. Unfortunately he misses the
he misses the geographic context by just a little bit
because they're a picture of the Rocky Mountains from Kuteney
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National Park in British Columbia, know, the one that's in Canada.
And maybe that doesn't seem like a lot or seem
like a big deal. But if you can't step out
of your front door or you know, drive a little
ways and take a picture of our actual Rocky Mountains
here in Colorado, I don't know how well you truly
want to represent this state. So I just I don't know.
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It's it's kind of like, you know, we're talking unforced errors.
That's just that's it's just dumb. It looks stupid. And
I'll stick with Gabe Evans. I know that if he's
going to take a picture of the mountains, he's probably
going to do it from his backyard. So with that,
we have a color on the line. We have Mike
from Eerie and he wants to comment about Ron Weinberg.
And I'm sure this is going to be a little saucy.
(34:24):
Are you with us, Mike?
Speaker 8 (34:27):
Yeah, good afternoon, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
How you doing, Mike, I'm fine.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
First of all, let me just thank you. I'm a
resident of Weald County, so I appreciate what you and
your team are doing to keep me and my family safe.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Well, thank you for that. Thank you, I appreciate it.
What do you have to say about Ron?
Speaker 8 (34:42):
I well, I do want to take exception with how
you're looking at Representative Weinberg. I think you're looking at
it completely wrong. Okay, I think this. I think this
is a strategy that he's employing to improve his status
in the Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Okay, I'm listening. How does this benefit it?
Speaker 8 (35:07):
Yeah, just think about it. The head of the Republican
Party has been found liable for sexual assault for doing
exactly what you you mentioned in your in your little
segment earlier about putting somebody's blank and something's blank. I
mean the head of the party has done that as
a matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Ethan, you're trying to make a reference back to Trump
bragging about it. Okay, you're making a reference back to Trump.
I'll give you that one. Unfortunately, Mike, we're at a heartbreak.
I appreciate the phone call. I'll give you that one.
You're listening to the Dan Cafley Show here on six
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Dan Capless Show here with Welcomny Sheriff
Steve Rams as your guest host, and man, what twenty
four hours does for you. Yesterday, when we were finishing
out the show, we were doing a little bit of
talk about the Epstein issues and what's going on in
the Trump administration. And to say that it fired a
few of you up would be probably an understatement. We
get some texts and some phone calls in reference to
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your doubt about whether this administration was giving us the
full truth about the Epstein files. And so when I
got home last night, I thought, well, you know what,
I'm going to dive in a little bit on Facebook.
See what the world of social media is saying about
this current the current situation as it revolves to Jeffrey
Epstein and all the curiosity around him. And lo and behold,
(01:00):
my Facebook page was just riddled with information about an
issue happening here in Colorado at the Colorado State House.
As you guys know, yesterday we had Representative Carlos baron
On who had just been named the new House Minority
Whip for the Republicans, and we were paid him a
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lot of praise. I think Carlos Baron has done a
great job representing House District forty eight, taken over for
Congressman Gabe Evans in that particular district, has built a
lot of relationships down to the State House. We were
very supportive of I was very supportive of him moving
into that seat or into that role as the whip,
and had no idea about some of the turmoil that
had gone on behind the scenes. We knew that Carlos
(01:44):
Baron had kind of faced off against Representative Brandy Bradley
and Representative Ron Weinberg had also been in the running
for that position, but Carlos had come out on top.
And again I was completely unaware of some of the
stuff that had gone on behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But by the time I got home.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Some stuff started to kind of float to the surface
through the world of social media, and again I just
kind of soaked it in last night. You know, I
didn't want to respond too quickly and decided that, you know,
this morning, about five thirty in the morning, when I
was finishing up my workout, I messaged Representative Weinberger message
on through Facebook and just said, Hey, if you've got
(02:24):
a desire to come on the radio today and give
your side of these accusations, because I had seen every
major news station had had run a story about this,
that Hey, here's your opportunity, and I just kind of waited.
I Represented Weinberg responded and said, Hey, let me check
with my attorney see where see what's the smartest way
for us to respond, and I'll get back with you.
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So that leads me to kind of where we're at
here today. And holy smokes, like I said, what twenty
four hours will do. And if you haven't listened, if
you weren't listening to Ryan Schuling live, you should have been.
He had a fire show, for sure, And I say
that in the kindest of ways. He definitely was batting
(03:08):
for the fences. So welcome back from vacation, Ryan. He
came back to a home run. I'm not sure that
it's good for Republican Party to have this kind of
stuff in the news, but it does make for a
very interesting radio and your guests were on fire.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Well, it goes kind of it's part and parcel with
what we've been talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
What you just mentioned.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
When it comes to the Colorado Republican Party, you can't
have one element of maybe good news as you had.
And I spoke with Representative Carlos Baron earlier today. He
earns the House Minority whip position. You know, he's relatively
new to the General Assembly. He's a commodity and a
high riser under Rose Paglici and Ty Winner and the
leadership there, and it's something feel good about.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
And then you have all of this going on behind
the scenes.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And I spoke with Representative Brandy Bradley because Carolyn Weinberg,
the wife of Representative Ron Weinberg, who has been accused
of sexual harassment now by several women who are coming forward,
also invoked the name of Brandy Bradley of perhaps being
behind some kind of smear merchant campaign.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Brandy adamantly vehemently denies that she was behind any of
this when it comes to the allegations against Ryan Weinberg
in those going public. So Representative Bradley fired back on
my program and we had to edit out in real
time using the dump button a portion of what she
said over the air, because there's very there are some
things that are very sensitive in nature about these accusations
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that don't lend themselves for over the air radio broadcasts.
And yet Representative Brandy Bradley went there and we were
awaiting as well in response to the accusations made by
Jacqueline Anderson, who is one of the first to come
forward these victim impact statements about what happened to her,
not once by her allegation, but twice back to back
years at LPR with her husband correct and with Representative
(05:01):
Weinberg consuming alcohol, and that kind of lending itself to
inappropriate comments, according to her, that were targeted in her direction,
right in front of her husband. And the second time
around the next year, that husband confronted Represented Weinberg and
he was subsequently banned from the event. So I don't
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know how Representive Weinberg going to respond to that part
of the allegation, but I know that you got a
statement from him.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, I did. Right before we were ready to go
on air. Ron had actually made a phone call to
me and he just said, hey, with the new accusations
that were made on your show, or some of the
new accusations that were made on your show. He felt
like that was something that he needed to yet again
speak with his attorney about, and his statement was, I'm
(05:49):
taking this very serious under the advice of legal counsel.
I will respond when it's appropriate, and that's you know,
that's all I can go. I'll go with on the
air right now. I have told Ron representative Weinberg that
if he changes his mind he wants to come on
the show, he's welcome to do so at any time.
And when I spoke with him, I said, look, I'm
(06:10):
not judging you. I'm not making a case for or
against you. You know, one side of the story's been told.
I'm giving you an opportunity to tell the other side.
And that's as fair as I can be. I truly
do want to give him a platform to say, you know,
say his peace and defend himself if that's what if
that's what needs to occur, you know, especially in a
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world where we were told for a little while there
that and this is no knock against Jaqueline Anderson, that
says no knock against Brandy Bradley or any of the others.
But there was this narrative that was going on from
the left for a while of believe all women, and
we knew that some of the statements that were being
made against people that were, you know, Supreme Court nominees
and that kind of stuff. It was a little controversial
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and there were some questions about whether those folks were
telling the truth. And I, you know, I want to
give Jacqueline Anderson and Brandy Bradley all the credit in
the world that they're coming forward to tell their story.
I think Ron should have the opportunity to tell his
story too, and he does if he wants to come
on the radio, he has this platform. I'm sure you
would invite him on your show as well, Ryan, and
(07:12):
that that opportunity still stands. So if he changes his mind,
he's welcome to come on the show. But I think
it's it's one of those things in Republican politics, which
I'm deeply involved in in many ways, these are this
is one of those unforced errors and you know, whatever
is driving this situation. You know that I say in
law enforcement, the truth is always somewhere in the middle.
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There's one side, there's the other side, and then there's
the truth. That's not to say that the truth doesn't
lean more to one side than the other, but it's
never as clear cut as it's as it's painted to
be typically. So I think when all this is said
and done, well, we'll know we'll have a truth that
we can all agree on, unless it's something like along
the Epstein lines. I think we'll all have a truth
(07:57):
that we can agree on, and somewhere in this it'll
all make sense. But it takes everybody's story getting out
there in the news, and right now, Representative Weinberg controls
that timeline. So you know, I'm pretty shocked. I'm sure
the listeners are as well, if especially if they were
listening in the last hour with with what's our last
two hours with what went on in on Ryan Shuling Live.
(08:19):
If you have some early text or our thoughts, you
want to call in. The number here is three O
three seven one three eight two five five, or you
can text Dan at five seven seven three nine. I'd
love to hear your feedback. But just to kind of
summarize the story, what we have that's been alleged is
that Representative Ron Weinberg who filled in when Hugh McKean
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died in office. Representive Weinberg I believe was appointed to
the seat and then later ran for the seat and
won the election. He's been down at the State House
for that amount of time, I think, the last couple
of years. Technically this would be his third third term
or third year in office, I believe. But apparently over
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that time and since maybe twenty twenty one, there's been
some allegations that he may have made some inappropriate comments
to different women, one of those being Jacqueline Anderson at
a leadership program of the Rockies event, both in twenty
twenty one and again in twenty twenty two, I believe,
and then also some interesting comments back and forth I guess,
(09:22):
between he and Representative Brandy Bradley down at the State Capitol.
But in addition to that, when Jacqueline Anderson posted her
information out on Facebook. There's a story one as well
that is written by another person, and I'm just going
to read this on air. Actually, we'll go to break
and I'll read it when we come back. Let's do
that that way, we can let all of you load
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the text lines and load the phone lines if you'd like.
We'll read that story as soon as we come back
from break. You listen to Dan Capless Show here on
six point thirty k HOW with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve
Reims in the guest seat.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Welcome back to.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The Dan camp the Show here with Wilkounny staff Steve
Raimes as your guest host. And we went to break.
We were talking about a recent firestorm that's kind of
popped up in the Colorado State Capitol involving Representative Ron
Weinberg with some allegations in reference to some inappropriate sexually
charged comments that have been made to several persons. It
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sounds as if maybe the case or allegedly the case
Jacqueline Anderson, a former I guess Party member over a
Republican Party member over in Mason County, and then Brandy
Bradley State rep in a different district than Ron Weinberg.
And we're gathering a little bit more information as this
thing kind of continues to unfold. But before we went
(10:43):
to break, I was going to read victim impact statement
story one which was posted by by Jacqueline Anderson also
but it's referenced in a Colorado politics story. This person
is identified as Heather Booth and Elizabeth's school boy. Remember,
and I'm just going to read story one as she
told it. At a very large event in February of
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twenty twenty two, my husband and I were going back
and forth to the bar, getting my friends and me drinks.
While he was gone, I was joking with my friend
about needing a facelift. Out of no where, Ron, who
I barely even know, came to us. At first, he
told me not to get a facelift because I was beautiful.
I think'd him politely, but then he kept repeating it
and it started to feel uncomfortable. Suddenly he said something
(11:26):
so vile that I was in shock. He told me, no,
I mean, I'd put my blank in your blank. I
couldn't believe what I was hearing. My friend and I
were stunned. We didn't even know how to react. Then
Ron took it even further, saying, Oh, I'm sorry, would
you rather me put my blank in your blank? It
was humiliating, disgusting, and terrifying. We were dressed up at
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a public event and this man thought it was okay
to sexually degrade me like that. I still can't shake
how powerless and violated I felt. So I'll let you
fill in the words. Obviously, there's some things we can't
say on the radio for reasons. And so that's the
story from Heather Booth, as told by Jacqueline Anderson via
(12:07):
also coloradopolitics dot com. I don't know where all this thing,
where this thing all ends, but I know that it
is extremely bad for the Republican Party to have this
kind of stuff going on, and the absence of a
response just lets this thing build. And I'm again we've
offered the opportunity for Representative Weinberg to come on the
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air and tell his side of the story. I don't
know if that helps or hurts, but at least it
gets both sides of the story out on the radio waves.
But as a as a Republican in the state of Colorado,
I've said many times over, we can't afford to lose
a steed at the state House. We cannot afford to
have an unforced error, and this feels like we could
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be headed to an unforced error if it's not resolved
very quickly, and if this issue isn't cleaned up again.
If you want to text and give your comments, you
can at five seven seven three nine, start your text
with Dan, or you can call in at three O
three seven one three eight two five five. We've got
a text from one of our loyal listeners here says
if I was one of these women, I might have
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just repeated what he said back to him in a
very loud voice for all to hear. Yeah, that's that's
probably a way of handling it. I can tell you
if as if I were the husband of either of
these ladies who have told their story, I don't know
that I would have been nearly as calm in my
response as it appears that they were. If these things
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are are true, if these allegations are true, Yeah, it's
it's it's a bad look for sure. That being said,
you know, we'll give Representative Weinberg the benefit of the
doubt until it's proven. Otherwise, as far as giving him
opportunity to come on the radio and say whatever you'd like,
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or respond in court as he's as as it sounds
like that maybe the direction he plans on tape. So
I don't want to put words in his mouth. I
don't want to. I don't want to say anything that
isn't absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So we'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Uh Again, yesterday we talked quite a bit about the
Epstein files and whether or not any any of you
believed what we were hearing was true, and I kind
of questioned it myself. You know, I had definitely followed
the story, watched several watch several of the documentaries about
mister Epstein, as as that case was coming to you know,
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kind of coming to fruition. He was being arrested, sitting
in prison, and just kind of wondering how a guy
goes from being basically a math teacher to a billionaire
almost billionaire, with really no tracking of how he raised money,
how he how he got there. Always had me scratching
my head. I mean, you know, more on anybody, more
(14:51):
to anybody that can make that kind of money and
do so quite easily. I haven't had that same success,
I guess. But as time went on, we kept hearing
from the former Trump administration or people associated with the
Trump administration that something wasn't quite right, that you know,
there was more to this story. The client list was
(15:11):
going to come out. And I will tell you from
a person in law enforcement, I don't know how how
you can look at one of these cases and say
there's not more to the story, And you know, quite honestly,
that's kind of the same view I take when I
look at the incident we were talking about that's going
on down at the state Capitol. There's always more to
the story. But even if there's not a printed client
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list that Jeffrey Epstein wrote out somewhere in this case,
there had to have been people who were associated with
Jeffrey Epstein. We know there was a list of people
who flew on the Lolita Express. We know that there
were witnesses that saw one another on the island. We
know that there were people that had to have been
talked to. We know there were victims of this crime
spree from Jeffrey Epstein and Giselle Maxwell or however you
(15:57):
say her first name. He's sitting in prison for a
crime that now I guess we're not certain was even committed.
Jeffrey Epstein was in custody for crimes when he died,
whether that was by suicide or some other means. So
there's a lot of questions here about how can we
not have a client list of some kind, and maybe
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it's not handwritten by Jeffrey Epstein, but there should be
a client list. And I guess what really gets me
going on this or what causes me the point of
concern is a comment that was made by a G.
Pam Bondi just a few months back. And if we could,
I'd like to play the clip where I think it
kind of resurfaced this whole thing, and that's clip one, Ryan,
(16:39):
could we get that going?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
So basically Pam Bondy talks about this whole file setting
on her desk and she kind of hints that, hey,
there is a there is a client list. Deep oh,
we're working on it. Ryan was absorbed with the other
issues of the day, which is totally understandable.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Well, that really happened.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's
been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm
reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the process
of being reviewed because that was done at the directive
of the President from all of these agencies.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So what that tells me is that list does exist now.
She equivocates later and we'll play that clip a little
later in the show. But she equivocates later and says, well,
I was talking about the entire case file, not just
the specific list. And I'm sorry, you know, maybe it's
a fallacy of words, maybe that's not exactly what she
meant to say. But everyone who listened to that said, oh,
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there's a list. And I remember the hubbub that went
on not only on talk radio, you know, on conservative
talk radio, but even on mainstream news, that hey, this
client list could be dropping, and we might also see
the JFK files, the RFK files, the MLK files. There's
going to be a a dump of information. And then
we waited, and we waited, and we waited and we waited,
(18:05):
and it was a big nothing burger. And then we
get to the point where over the weekend, on I
think a Sunday night, we get a drop saying oh, well,
there's nothing to see here, there's nothing to look at.
Don't worry about it. There is no Epstein list. It
just it doesn't make sense. We're gonna shift gears when
we come back from break and try to look at
something a little more positive. We're gonna have Congressman Gabe
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Evans on talking about some wins for the Republicans, especially
out at the national level on the Big Beautiful Bill.
You're listening to the Dan Capless Show here with well
Knty Sriff Steve Reims as your guest host.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Welcome back to the Dankplas Show here with Well Keunty
Shaff Steve Reims. And we've been kind of covering some
controversial topics here in in the state of Colorado down
at the Golden Dome, but we're going to get to
something that is a little more nationally based, and that
is our Congressman from the eighth Congressional District, Gave Evans
just recently cast his vote on the Big Beautiful Bill
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and actually had a press conference down at the state
Capitol and support of that set and supportive said bill,
and we wanted to have gabon to kind of talk
about some of the highlights of this bill, what it does,
what it doesn't do, and hear it directly from one
of the guys that voted for it. Congressman Evans, how
are you doing all?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
He's got to be honest, Your Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
And you know, every time we get a chance to
talk with you, I get a little more educated about
what life is out in Washington, d C. And I'm
so glad I'm not there, and so glad that you are.
So thank you for your service. I know that the
process of getting through this big, beautiful bill was not easy.
If you would just kind of outline the process that
you guys had to fight through just to get this
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thing across the finish line, and then we'll talk about
the goods and the bads of this thing.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
So, I think most folks know that the Republicans have
unified governments, so we have majorities in the House of
the Senate and the Presidency. But the sticking point is
Republicans have fifty three votes in the US Senate, the
Democrats have forty seven, and because of the rules of
the Senate, the Senators can filibuster anything, and that basically
killed it, and you've got to have sixty votes to
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block the filibuster. So while Republicans have a majority in
the Senate, we don't have a filibuster proof majority. And
so about the only way that we could we could
get a piece of legislation passed without having the Democrats
block it is this thing called the reconciliation process, and
it's basically a budgetary process by which as long as
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whatever we're doing is predominantly budgetaryan nature, it actually can
pass through the Senate with a simple majority vote instead
of being subject to the filibuster. So that was the
process that we used for this big, beautiful bill, and
it's a very complex process. We have to pass the
bill twice. You have to figure out is this thing
budgetary or not budgetary. If it's not budgetary, then the
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you know, the parliamentary in was making some news last week.
The parliamentarian in the Senate says who it says, says
if that provision is going to be subject to the
filibuster or not. But that was the process that we
had to follow in order to get this thing passed.
Because there's a lot of things in there that do
just outstandingly amazing things for the Americans. But you know,
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unfortunately some of our Democrat colleagues don't don't agree with that. So,
you know, these are things like tax cuts we're we're
not only extending, but we're increasing the tax cuts, and
these tax cuts are for middle class, lower income working Americans.
We we actually increase the size of the child tax deduction.
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So if you've got kids like me, young kids, this
year you're able to deduce excuse me, a deduct you'd
get two thousand dollars back in taxes just for the
price of having a kid. We were able to raise
that a little bit. It's now twenty two hundred dollars.
The alternative was it actually expired at the end of
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this year if we did not pass the bill. So
on the one hand, we were facing these major tax
increases that would happen when the cuts expired. So we
were able to extend and make permanent those tax cuts
and actually make them bigger. So again the child tax
credit is going from two thousand dollars to twenty two
hundred dollars. We were able to put some other things
in there. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
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So when I was a cop, your deputies, you know,
when they're doing their job, yess what that overtime is
now tax free up to a certain amount. Twelve five
hundred dollars of overtime is now tax free. Other things
in there to help out seniors. One of the rules
for reconciliation, you can't say the word social security and
the Reconciliation Bill, that's just one of the Senate, one
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of the Senate's rules, so we couldn't say no tax
on Social Security. Instead, we were able to put a
six thousand dollars tax deduction in the bill, so that
your average retiree who makes seventy five thousand dollars a
year or less in retirement, they now have no tax
liability for Social Security. We were able to help We
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were able to help small businesses in there. Small businesses.
They were looking at their tax rate doubling when the
tax cuts expired at the end of this year. So
we made their tax rate permanent, so small businesses now
have tax stability. I mean, it's just a long laundry
list of tax cuts to make life more affordable, to
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put more money back in people's pockets. And then you
know you're a you're a sheriff. I was a coffee
soldier for a while. We've got resources in here to
secure the border. We've got resources in here to make
sure that we're going after the gangs and the cartels
and the drug dealers that are causing problems in our community,
and we're being good stewards of tax payer money by
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cutting out the fraud, waste, and abuse and programs like
Medicaid and SNAP, which I'm sure we'll talk about here
in a little bit, because that's what all of our
friends on the left are screaming about right now, is
how Republicans have gutted these programs. Guess what, that's actually
blatantly false. All we did was cut the fraud, waste
and abuse out of them.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Well, so that's a great segue. But you know, when
you go through and you look at what the White
House looks at in this bill and says, hey, these
are our wins. You know, they don't even talk about
border security and all the new ICE agents and you know,
border patrol agents. And to me as a law enforcement guy,
and I think to a lot of the American public,
that's a huge win seeing that border wall go up.
(24:43):
I think there's like forty six billion dollars in funding
for the border wall. There's enough funding for I think
ten thousand new ICE agents and maybe two thousand new
border patrol agents. I don't know what the dollars work
out to on those particular items, and I may be
a little off on my figures, but.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
You're pretty close.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Based on what Trump was running on in the election cycle,
I think the American publics would probably see that as
a huge win, and the White House has the win
that there sales so much that they kind of just
gloss over that that's just a given we're doing that stuff.
And well, I think that's kind of cool. At the
same time, I'm like, man, list your wins. So the
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specifics on that, Did I get that right? Am I
close on that? Congressman Evans?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Yeah, So I actually sit on the Homeland Security Committee.
We've got jurisdiction over border patrol, over the physical security
at the border, and so you rattled off a lot
of the numbers that are forty six billion dollars to
be able to build more wall, which you know it,
I know it. We need that barrier.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
You know, the wall.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Itself isn't going to stop people, but that slows folks
down so that you can have more border patrol folks
come out and be able to interdict individuals and keep
them from just coming into the uniteds States. And we
know how critically important this is. You know, a couple
couple of weeks ago, the United States set Iran's nuclear
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program back quite a ways, you know, with just an
incredible show of air power and some really big bombs.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Well, we know that with a wide.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Open border for the last four years, Iran has been
has been getting people into the United States unlawfully.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Along with every other country.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Mm hmm. We know there's always a persistent threat for terrorists,
sleeper cells who have unlawfully entered the United States, and
so we saw that threat level go up. You know,
after we took out Iran's nuclear program, we saw, for instance,
news that Ice had detained a former Iranian army sniper
illegally present in the United States, you know, right right
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after we dropped those bombs right on their nuclear programs.
So being able to secure the border, being able to
go find uh, these sleeper cells, these these folks from
Iran or other countries that have no no love loss
for the United States, Being able to find the cartels,
the terrorsts, the gang bangers that have come into our country,
this is a huge win, especially in a state like Colorado,
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which as you well know, has done everything possible to
handcuff costs and empower criminals, which is why we're now
the second most dangerous state in the country.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So on that note, I mean, you were talking about
some of the things we've invited into this state, and
one of those is, you know, we're a sanctuary state,
so we have plenty of illegals flooding in. But the
country itself saw I think twenty million in the last administration.
There's a lot of talk about one point five trillion
dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse cut out through the
big beautiful bill. The math that I was doing, or
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the math that I've heard, is each illegal that comes
into the country costs the United States about seventy thousand
dollars a year, times out by twenty million people, and
you get to one point four trillion dollars. Is that
the one point five trillion that's being referred to as
the savings in this bill? Or is there an additional
one point five trillion that is just in other things?
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Are you prepared to answer that, Congressman Evans, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
I mean there's always a couple of ways to to,
you know, slice up the numbers and figure out how
do you get to that one point five trillion in
cost savings? And so I guess just to level set.
In terms of the federal budget, you have two big
pots of money. You have what's called mandatory spending and
then you have discretionary spending. So that one point five
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trillion dollars in cuts that is to the mandatory spending.
So you know, we always talk about the national debt
just keeps going up. Right, A lot of that is
driven by mandatory spending. So when we say cuts like
this isn't really a cut, we're stopping the deficit spending.
We're stopping spending money that okaya and saddling our kids.
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But to your point, a lot of that comes from
just basic common sense reforms, like no taxpayer fund, did
healthcare money to go to illegal immigrants? We saw the
Denver Post. I'll say that again, the Denver Post, not
known for being a right leaning newspaper. The Denver Post
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ran a headline a couple of days ago that said,
under this bill, twenty one thousand illegal immigrants in Colorado.
So they call them undocumented Colorado's, but you know it's
illegal immigrants. Twenty one thousand illegal immigrants in Colorado may
lose their medicaid funding. Well, you know at Newslash that's
taxpayer money going to illegal immigrants, and we're putting a
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stop to that in this big, beautiful bill that has
a cost savings measure. It's other things. You'll hear a
lot of folks saying, oh my gosh, you know, Republicans
destroyed the safety net for SNAP, which is food stamps. No,
here's the two things that we did for the SNAP program.
Number one, able bodied, working aged adults with a kid
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fourteen years of age or older. And we picked that
age specifically because an all fifty states it's legal for
a fourteen year old to stay home all by themselves.
So if you're nable bodied, working aged adult and your
kids are older fourteen or above, in order to qualify
for food stamps, you have to work, volunteer or go
to school part time defined is eighty hours a month,
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basically twenty hours a week. So that was one reform
that we did in the SNAP program. Again taxpayer funded,
you know, nutrition supplement basically food. The other thing that
we did was right now today, SNAP food stamps is
one hundred percent funded by the federal government, but it's
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the state government that actually administers the program, which is
very odd. Well, yeah, and the problem is is it
doesn't give the state government has no incentive to actually
run a good program because they got no skin in
the game. The Feds are writing one hundred percent of
the check. So all we said for the SNAP program
was if a state is running a bad program such
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that the fraud, waste and abuse in the program is
higher than six percent. So if you got, you know,
a million dollar program, if more than six percent of that,
more than sixty thousand dollars is fraud, waste, and abuse,
then the state has to start kicking in some money
until they can get that error rate, that fraud, waste
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and abuse back below six percent. And once they get
it below six percent, then the will continue to write
one hundred percent of the check.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Pretty logical stuff there, you know. I think everything that
you're speaking of is speaking to the hearts of the
American public. Unfortunately, we're up against the hard break here,
Representative Evans, but I appreciate you coming on and outlining
some of the some of the benefits of this bill.
We will definitely keep an open line for you if
you want to come back on on any of the
shows and continue to pound the table for what's right
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for the Republicans. Here in this state.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Thank you for being on on with you.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
We appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You're listening to the Dan Capla Show here on six
thirty K How with Weill, Kenny Sheriff, Steve Riams.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show here on six
thirty K How with Well, Kenny Sheriff, Steve Rereams. We're
talking a little bit of everything today. We got the
Epstein files, We've got well what I'll call the Golden
Dome Files. I'm naming it that at this point. Some
allegations against Representative Ron Weinberg from Jacqueline Anderson and Representative
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Brandy Bradley and others. We've had a little bit of
that on the show. We just had Congressman Gabe Evans
talking on talking about the Big Beautiful Bill, and I
love having gave Evans on because he is a hometown guy.
He's a hometown boy from Colorado. You know, this is
this is his roots. And I bring that up because
one of his opponents, one of his announced opponents on
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the other side of the aisle, an individual named Manny
ruttinal is also you know, claim to be a Colorado
guy and that you know, he's he's for Colorado values,
and this race actually matters to me. CD eight represents
a large part of Weld County. I don't live in
CDY eight, but I work a lot in CDY eight,
and a lot of Weld County is in CDY eight
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where Congressman Evans represents.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Well old manny here.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You know, he's got his he's got his Twitter handle
and other pages out there talking about how he's a
you know, a practical guy for Colorado. And he shows
a picture of the Rocky Mountains. Unfortunately he misses the
he misses the geographic context by just a little bit
because they're a picture of the Rocky Mountains from Kuteney
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National Park in British Columbia, know, the one that's in Canada.
And maybe that doesn't seem like a lot or seem
like a big deal. But if you can't step out
of your front door or you know, drive a little
ways and take a picture of our actual Rocky Mountains
here in Colorado, I don't know how well you truly
want to represent this state. So I just I don't know.
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It's it's kind of like, you know, we're talking unforced errors.
That's just that's it's just dumb. It looks stupid. And
I'll stick with Gabe Evans. I know that if he's
going to take a picture of the mountains, he's probably
going to do it from his backyard. So with that,
we have a color on the line. We have Mike
from Eerie and he wants to comment about Ron Weinberg.
And I'm sure this is going to be a little saucy.
(34:24):
Are you with us, Mike?
Speaker 8 (34:27):
Yeah, good afternoon, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
How you doing, Mike, I'm fine.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
First of all, let me just thank you. I'm a
resident of Weald County, so I appreciate what you and
your team are doing to keep me and my family safe.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Well, thank you for that. Thank you, I appreciate it.
What do you have to say about Ron?
Speaker 8 (34:42):
I well, I do want to take exception with how
you're looking at Representative Weinberg. I think you're looking at
it completely wrong. Okay, I think this. I think this
is a strategy that he's employing to improve his status
in the Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Okay, I'm listening. How does this benefit it?
Speaker 8 (35:07):
Yeah, just think about it. The head of the Republican
Party has been found liable for sexual assault for doing
exactly what you you mentioned in your in your little
segment earlier about putting somebody's blank and something's blank. I
mean the head of the party has done that as
a matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Ethan, you're trying to make a reference back to Trump
bragging about it. Okay, you're making a reference back to Trump.
I'll give you that one. Unfortunately, Mike, we're at a heartbreak.
I appreciate the phone call. I'll give you that one.
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