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And so I wonder if you could explain church if you walk away with equal rights it was. All she could build this little serving over those the president. Should either really enjoy what you can feel just as well let me just say this as I say to you. Mr Republican talking points what I said to the president of the United States when you talk about the whistleblower you're coming into my wheel house I have more experience in intelligence and anybody in the Congress anybody's ever served 25 years on the committee as top Democrat at fish you know a speaker and leader I was here to protect one whistleblower at levels of whistleblower . Is there to speak truth to power and have protection from doing that and me any retribution or how I'm coming to a whistle blower undermines our ability to hear truth. That power so I will defend that I said that Wish I am not only was she an enemy of the Mr Republican talking points it just proves my point I mean she has become a shopping cart with 3 wheels she is so off balance says his whole impeachment thing which she never wanted right to quantum sheet ever wanted impeachment she eventually folded and gave in you know to her hard left party but she knew this thing could just absolutely devastate the Dems and then yesterday was their big day their past and the thing was just a flop a let's go to v.f.p. And welcome to quantum speck to the damn Catholic show if you're new to the area to kids has been involved in his one a lot of big races on the national stage here in Colorado as well also served as chair of the g.o.p. In Colorado and still very active Dick welcome back to the Dan Kaplan show not nice to be with you Dan Thank you my friend you know I think back over all the years all the times all the issues that we've been on air together for and wow this is a moment I mean this is a truly unique moment. It really is and as you pointed out that means he basically gave in to the fact that Speaker of the House of Alexandria looked Cortez. And. Decided she had to commit to impeachment proceedings or she was going to lose her nominal speakership but no what we saw yesterday is a joke they have between Adams if the chairman of the Intelligence Committee and the speaker of the house so part of this process that they have here in Key is going to fail. Yet and Dick I wanted to get your take because you've seen so much of this including Watergate though you were very young then it. How did you view because I know you have this talent and you have to be successful in the business here and I've sort of putting your own biases aside and trying to identify the strong points of the opponent how did the Democrats to yesterday. You know then I comment when. I watched it. Or not because I was busy with stuff yesterday but. I think it would be confusing. To the to the trouble is is that there is this is a very difficult issue to get your arms around and I think about the average Americans sitting out there and they might think that probably trump maybe is in the make this call the Ukrainian president but is this really teachable I don't know I don't think are missing are the American people the people who are convinced that he did something of a teachable people who already hate it Donald Trump going to vote for Madrid in circles. On the field in fact I think they're I honestly think they're weakening their own position in the selection by making this so brutally partisan. And I think that's going to that's going to backfire yet brutally partisan on an issue that I don't think excites a lot of people I mean that the Russian collusion defamation you know that false allegation that had real weight to it because if they were right everybody could agree that's impeachable that's awful that's traitorous but. So people paid attention to that and then obviously the Democrats got exposed and embarrassed and the president was proven correct this thing this allegation that he tried to link a to demanding an investigation of Joe Biden and his son I don't think this is hook the American people and one big thing Dick and I want to get your take on this is I think to the extent the American people are paying attention most think it is really shady that Biden's son was being paid these huge dollars by Ukrainian energy company obviously to try to buy his dad so I don't think you know the general public's getting very worked up about this. You know and I agree then because that is easily understandable but the average American you mean the village vice president's son was an existing agreement among welcome Biden was in charge of you kind of American policy with Ukraine. A great job for a company that he was not qualified or could not speak the language of Ukraine I mean. There was actually no nothing that made him qualify for that 50000. People do understand that and as much of the Democrats and frankly the national news media love to gloss over that and dismiss that is any kind of an issue the average the average voter doesn't understand that and I don't like it and that's why I think you may know her personally I've never met her but that that's why I think Nancy Pelosi was so off balance today because you know yesterday was their big test and in fact they didn't even have testimony scheduled for today I think because they were planning to you know let the impact of yesterday sink in and it's sinking in all right way they wanted it to you know so I think she's very off balance because now it's like and I don't know if you ever had one of these I've known some guys who did but you know instead of just having a normal 1st day to sort of feel things out maybe go for launch or a dinner or a movie or whatever you know you know you've probably known those guys who just all the sudden they meet this girl and they're Gaga and then they go on a weeklong road trip and then you know they they both know by the end of the 1st day it's a disaster but they're stuck together for a week I think that what's rolling out here. Oh no you could tell they thought they were going to come out of the box with both guns blaring out of. It with. Their star witnesses and that they were going to set the tone of this series of open hearing and that was going to be just yes it was going to be brutal Donald Trump it didn't work that way you know at the end of the day it just felt like yeah there's that there's up there once again oh man just for 3 years on Rush inclusion once again trying to produce something that isn't there well when the face of you or anything it can be your cheeseburger it can be your impeachment has to investigation when the Face of Your anything is Adam Schiff you lose and I think it sets simple and I'm not I'm not making fun of his actual looks so there's certainly not ideal for the situation but but more just people know it it's a it's an intuitive people know when you're dealing with a shady character and he's right out of central casting. I mean think about how many times he came out of closed meetings of the House Intelligence Committee during it before. And saying oh you know I have and that very somberly we now have firm evidence that the president was colluding with a question or something to that effect yeah so often over 3 years going to became a joke right now and that's the guy who was there yesterday the presiding over the latest joke that he is trying to propagate and to talk to us now about this to Quantum's our guest the impact in Colorado because and we've talked with you often about the Senate race in Colorado Cory Gardner versus whomever most likely John Hickenlooper but not definitely that Senate race most expect you included I think it to be very close what will the impact of this eventual impeachment vote be because I you know I listen Emmis n.b.c. And c.n.n. As part of my show prep because I want to know the best arguments coming from the left and what I was hearing yesterday it was while this was real time and they were having to deal with their disappointment they dropped the masks and they were talking about they were disappointed by later in the day they had rallied to their talking points but one of the things they were pushing was that wait a 2nd they know they're competes him but this is all about trying to put senators like Cory Gardner on the hot seat forced them to cast a vote for Donald Trump an impeachment and then hope it cost them their Senate seat is that strategy from the left going to work. No I don't think so than in fact I frankly don't think this is going to have much of an impact at all and what impact there will be will be somewhat of a backlash against the Democrats I think this is going to be ancient history once the Senate and then I'm presuming I think your teeth are going to pass they're going to impeach the president the Senate will take it up in January there will probably be you know a week trial from what I'm reading so sometime in February it will be over with and by March we will be along in the Democratic nomination process and and then shortly thereafter the general election campaign begins I just I just think this is going to be a distant memory. And if anything. The voters will say What was that all about your window again Russian closing for 3 years and now for the past 6 months. This impeachment stuff so I just don't think it's going to but by the way as you've said you've been reading where. If it does go to trial in the Senate in January and February those senators running for president will have to sit in the Senate chamber an active journalist and never be able to leave to go campaign I ever even thought of that that's awesome yeah I love that they can't believe in America they can't speak either because it will be a trial having your kind of familiar with you which I was in and and they will be church so they have to listen to the testimony from both sides they cannot they cannot be up in New Hampshire or Iowa when there is water job as a United States senator is to be there for that impeachment trial. Yeah right now 6 senators running for president must be thinking what are we going to do anything about well or can I dicked this leads to the next question since since this thing is already stalled out of the gate is there any chance they don't impeach you no matter. What Russian on the give or whatever is is that because the point you made I hadn't thought of but in addition with all of the other downsides of following through on impeachment including for the what is it 31 Democrat congress people who you know are from districts trump one I mean is there any chance they take the offer up I don't think so then I think the left wing of the Democratic Party is so well bent on this that Nancy Pelosi literally would be. 10 years speaker might be threatened if he pulled that back and any Democrat who voted didn't support going forward would be but the sort of vulnerable to a primary I just think the left wing on the Democratic Party they're not going to tolerate this they're convinced that they're right and I think they're I do think Dan that there are a lot of Democrats in Congress and frankly and there was and maybe even running for president who are saying to themselves We wish this will just die a natural Yeah yeah but what would an off ramp look like if you're advising them to they call you up tonight and they say Dick we saw you knock off Tom Daschle we've seen all this great stuff you've done so yeah you're on the other side but tell us we need an off ramp What does it look like. You know I would honestly tell them then listen you you you've done your best you turn a lot of crap at the President Trump a son of a stock. The Senate is not going to convict him the Senate is going on a party line vote mightn't one Republican senator maybe 2 but they're going to they're they're not it's going to be a party line vote. They do they really do threaten their own Democratic presidential candidates with being off the campaign trail for a little week at school if not months and I could I'd say you know withdraw the resolution declare victory and get back to that to defeating Donald Trump and November next year see that that's interesting to get to your point I mean to your point couldn't they do that can they come out and say hey listen we've proven it we've proven high crimes and misdemeanors bribery all this other junk they're trying to peddle and dabbed but it is clear now that that the g.o.p. Is not acting in good faith they are not putting America 1st it's clear g.o.p. Senators are not going to convict we've done our job we're going to spare the country the pain of the impeachment trial and we're just going to go beat them on Election Day What did are what are the odds that we hear that from them. Probably not very much but not very high because I just think they want to be in the left wing but. I think that would be a possible serenity and frankly a smart strategy because they need to get it I don't think it's really helping their ability to try to unseat Trump I can buy maybe I can continue in the same Pietschmann process I think it overshadows the the their own presidential candidate and. If it if I were the leader in the Democratic Party or the national Democratic chairman I want this I want to get this behind me and let's focus on Trenton him and his record because it's an admission by them not right to communicate in our mission by them that they can't beat him straight up because if they really thought they could beat him straight up there's no need to impeach him but I love your point if you just joined us Dick was making the point earlier that if there's impeachment as we all expect right now then the senators running for president and the Democrat side are going to have to sit in the Senate chamber for the entire impeachment trial and they won't be able to go out and campaign now I would hope that Mitch McConnell being very aware of that you know would then try to. Choose the correct time mean maybe make it last as long as he could it will be fascinating to watch all that. Now there are good conservative. Media figures that Dan who think that what McConnell lot of do is immediately put up a resolution. To go forward on impeachment trial and have the Senate to have a Senate Republican majority just kill it and then ended all right there he's. Written a couple of columns in The Washington Post advocating that position and other words just because he thinks that a trial would. Actually be harmful for truncating to for the Republicans to conduct a trial. I don't know I mean it's so that's the other that's the other kind of it's . A stream diversion from what we're talking about point that that's what your reaction that Dick because mine and I think you it is one of the smartest people in America but my immediate concern is it'll look like a cover up and and there's no you don't want to risk that because there's nothing to coverup. Yeah I agree I think I think the senators got a little got to take it seriously yes you should require them to have a trial and I think. At the time today look for to get together in the next few days Thank you Dan Thank you my friend that is that Dick Wadhams compact open line lots of sound lots of texters we're living through history together and the pain kept pushing. The dirty word for environmentalist this year is Paul ass dicks in Colorado groups are rolling out a legislative agenda to restrict the use of single use plastic items for environmentalists public enemy number one is styrofoam which can take hundreds of years to degrade working