
September 17th, 2021 Edition
Season 29 Episode 37 | 27m 31sVideo has Closed Captions
Ganahl Gov. bid, third CD map released, Anderson investigation, Aurora Police AG Report
Topics include Heidi Ganahl announcing her run for Governor, a third map released by the Redistricting Commission, Tay Anderson investigation finds assault claims unsubstantiated, Attorney General Weiser issues a report regarding Aurora Police
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WELCOME TO THE SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2021 EDITION OF COLORADO INSIDE OUT.
I'M YOUR HOST DOMINIC DEZZUTTI.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.
IT HAS BEEN QUITE A WEEK IN THE NEWS.
LET'S GET TO IT.
GANAHL FACED QUESTIONS THIS WEEK OVER HER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS WHICH WERE RECENTLY SCRUBBED.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WILL VOTE ON SATURDAY TO KEEP IT'S PRIMARY OPEN AT LARGE.
PATTY CALHOUN WE START WITH YOU.
HEIDI GANAHL, A LITTLE BIT BUMPY.
SHE TEASES THERE IS GOING TO BE AN EVENT ON MONDAY.
BUT OTHER HER CAMPAIGN FILED FOR GOVERNOR.
FACES SOME QUESTIONS BACK AND FORTH.
AND THEN HER PARTY IS MAKING SIGNIFICANT DECISION TOMORROW.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF WHAT WE HEARD ABOUT THIS ISSUE THIS WEEK?
>> CERTAINLY, SHE COULD USE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DECIDING TO GO FORWARD WITH THE PRIMARY BECAUSE YOU GET MORE PUBLICITY.
A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HER NAME.
THEY ARE LEARNING IT MAYBE NOT A GOOD WAY.
SHE WAS DUCKING QUESTIONS.
SHE WOULDN'T TALK ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THE 2020 ELECTION WAS RIGGED.
NO ONE SUGGESTED COLORADO'S ELECTION WAS RIGGED.
IF YOU HEARD KEN BUCK SAY IT IS FINE.
SHE SHOULD SAY 2020 IS OVER.
IT IS DONE, IT WAS FAIR, LET'S MOVE ON.
THE PRIMARY ISSUE IS GOING TO BE TOUGH.
UNAFFILIATED CAN VOTE IN A PRIMARY IF THERE IS A PRIMARY.
YOU WANT THEM TO GET YOUR BALLOT IF THEY ARE GOING TO GET THE DEMOCRATIC BALLOT.
IT MIGHT SHOW WHAT THEY WILL DO IN NOVEMBER 2022.
HER START, AS WE SAY SHE UNDERSTANDS SMALL BUSINESS.
THIS DOG WON'T HUNT UNLESS SHE STARTS BEING FORTHCOMING.
>> IT SEEMS THAT THE QUESTIONS POST DIFFICULT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION DECIDE WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARTY.
YOU HAD DICK RIDING AN EDITORIAL TO STAY ON THIS ISSUE AS A PARTY IN COLORADO WILL FORFEIT.
WILL THAT ISSUE GOING TO BE PUT TO BED FOR THE COLORADO REPUBLICAN PARTY?
>> PROBABLY NOT.
FIRST OF ALL GANAHL HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE A STRONG REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WHICH WILL BE A BIG CHANGE FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR.
AND SHE HAS WON A STATEWIDE RACE.
MAKING HER UNIQUE AMONG MODERN STATE REPUBLICANS.
LIKE JARED POLIS SHE WON THE STATEWIDE RACE.
HE SPENT $11 TRILLION TO BARELY GET OUT A WIN.
SHE WAS SWIFTER ON COST PER VOTE.
THERE IS A LOT OF POSITIVES ABOUT HER.
I THINK ON THE MATTER WHAT THE STATE PARTY IS GOING TO BE VOTING ON SATURDAY ABOUT OPEN PRIMARY VERSUS A CLOSED, JUST A CONVENTION PROCESS.
I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY A CANDIDATE WOULD STAY OUT OF THAT.
THERE IS PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF MY PARTY.
I'LL GO WITH WHATEVER THE PARTY DECIDES.
ON THE STOLEN ELECTION.
I THINK SHE WAS WRONG NOT TO STAND UP FOR REALITY.
THE STOLEN ELECTION WAS TRUMP'S ATTEMPT TO STEAL THE ELECTION BY CLAIMING AFTER HE LOST FAIR AND SQUARE THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN FROM HIM.
A LOT OF REPUBLICANS HAVE DESERTED THE REALITY.
IT IS SYMPTOMIC ON A PROBLEM ON BOTH PARTIES BELIEVING LIES.
50% OF DEMOCRATS INCLUDING HILL HILLARY CLINTON AND JOE BIDEN SAY RUSSIA STOLE.
THEY STILL BELIEVE THIS RUSSIA HOAX.
TRY RUNNING FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION OF THE STATE AND SAYING ONLY WOMEN CAN BECOME PREGNANT OR LACTATE.
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE UNJUSTIFILY KILLED BY POLICE OFFICERS IS NO MORE THAN A FEW DOZEN.
THE VAST OF THEM WERE WHITE.
OR THAT THE SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY AND A LOT THEM DON'T.
REALITY IS NOT A STRONG SUIT.
>> I GET YOUR POINT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE COLORADO DEMOCRATIC PARTY WOULD HAVE A VOTE TO CLOSE A PRIMARY DUE TO ANY OF THOSE ISSUES.
I GET YOUR POINT.
ERIC SONDERMANN, THE FACT THAT WE HAVE -- THAT WE ARE TALKING AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MAKING THIS CALL.
THEY NEED 75% OF THE VOTE.
IT IS NOT WHERE FOLKS CAN GET IN A ROOM AND IT IS DONE.
THEY USE 75%.
PEOPLE ARE SAYING I HOPE THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN.
THIS IS KICKING US TO LIBERTARIAN STATUS.
IT IS SOMETHING THAT A GUBERNATORIAL IN HEIDI WORRIES ABOUT.
>> THE LAST OF CHARGE ARE HOW FALL HAVE THEY FALLEN.
THIS USED TO BE THE DOMINATE PARTY FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND DECADES AND DECADES.
OBVIOUSLY, THOSE DAYS ARE GONE.
IT BRINGS TO MIND THE QUESTION CAN ANYONE AROUND HERE PLAY THIS GAME?
CAN ANYONE IN THE REPUBLICAN PLAY THIS GAME?
TO DAVID'S POINT THERE ARE MORE TRUTH TO WHAT DAVID SAID.
THE BURDEN IS NOT ON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO WIN ELECTIONS AND BE THE DOMINATE PARTY.
THEY FIGURED OUT THE FORMULA TO DO THAT.
THAT BURDEN IS UNDER REPUBLICAN PARTY TO BE SMARTERER TO MOUNT SOME KIND OF COMEBACK HERE.
GEORGE HAS WRITTEN A COLUMN.
JON CALDARA FROM THE INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE HAS WRITTEN A COLUMN TO THAT EFFECT.
NO ONE IS GOING TO ACCUSE THEM OF BEING ANYTHING DEEP RED CONSERVATIVES.
THEY ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE ENOUGH FOR THE BREEDING HEART OF THAT PARTY.
75% IS A HIGH STANDARD.
THEY PROBABLY WON'T GET IT.
THEY ARE TALKING OF LITIGATING THE 75% QUESTION.
THERE IS SOME DISCUSSION THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE A DECENT LEGAL CASE THERE.
IN TERMS OF GANAHL, FIRST IMPRESSIONS MATTER.
MOST OF THE STATE IS LEARNING WHO THIS WOMAN IS.
THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS WERE NOT GREAT.
SHE LOOKED OVERCOACHED.
OVERPREPARED AND OVERMANAGED.
THAT IS NOT WHAT SELLS IN THIS STATE.
IF SHE IS GOING TO BEAT JARED POLIS EVERYTHING NEEDS TO GO HER WAY.
AND YOU DON'T GET THAT BY BEING COY.
YOU DON'T GET THAT BY DANCING AROUND OBVIOUS QUESTIONS.
YOU GOT TO BE GENUINE AND GOT TO BE BOLD.
SHE IS NOT GOING TO WIN A FLIP OF A COIN.
AND THIS WAS NOT THE WAY TO START IT OUT.
SHE IS AN INTERESTING PERSON AND AN ACCOMPLISHED PERSON.
SHE NEEDS TO PUT THAT OUT THERE AND NEEDS TELL THEM TO TAKE A HIKE.
>> JUST 20 YEARS OR SO MAYBE NOT BUCK THE TREND BUT THREADED THAT NEEDLE.
IT IS ABOUT BEING COLORADOAN FIRST.
IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE -- THERE IS A LONG WAY BETWEEN HERE AND NEXT ELECTION DAY.
FOR ALL OF OUR FANS AT COLORADO INSIDE OUT WE USUALLY HAVE A FOURTH VOICE.
WE HAD SOMEONE CALL IN SIX.
THE NEXT TEN PEOPLE NOT BEING AVAILABLE.
IT WILL BE THE FOUR OF US.
WE HAVE THREE OF THE GREAT ALL-STARS OF THE SHOW.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE FOURTH OPINION WE WILL HAVE IT READY NEXT WEEK.
>> THE REDISTRICTING COMMISSION RELEASED A THIRD CONGRESSIONAL MAP THIS WEEK THAT SEEMS TO HAVE STRONG SUPPORT.
THE NEWEST MAP IS FAR CLOSER TO THE CURRENT MAP, TO THE POINT THAT EACH CURRENT INCUMBENT IS NOT EXPECTED TO SEE A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE.
THE EIGHT DISTRICT STRETCHES NORTH FROM THE METRO AREA, AND CHANGES INCLUDE HIGHLANDS RANCH GOING TO THE 4th CD AND MANY MOUNTAIN COUNTIES JOINING THE 7th.
DAVID, WHEN THIS WAS RELEASED, FINALLY, PATTY CALHOUN'S MAIN RULE.
IT DID SEEM THAT NONE OF THE INCUMBENTS FACE SOMETHING THAT I WOULD CALL A CHALLENGE.
CD2 GET FURTHER EXTENDED WEST.
EVERYBODY IN A PRETTY COMFORT ZONE.
THE EIGHT CD WILL SEE SOME ACTION.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE WILL SEE SOME OTHER PRIMARIES.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS MAP, WHAT DID YOU THINK?
>> IT WAS AN IMPROVEMENT COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS MAP.
IT EXTENDED THE BOULDER BASE DISTRICT LAST FAR WEST.
THIS TALK ABOUT FOR THE MAIN PURPOSE -- A LEADING PURPOSE TO LEGISLATURES IS TO DESTROY THE ECONOMY OF NORTHWEST COLORADO.
THEIR VIEW IS PEOPLE CAN LIVE IN NORTHWEST COLORADO TO THE EXTEND THEY PARTICIPATE IN SERVICE INDUSTRIES FOR RECREATIONAL TOURIST.
OTHER THAN THAT THINGS LIKE RANCHING, FARMING, AND MINING THEY ARE ALL IMMORAL AND SHOULD BE ELIMINATED.
DONE A GOOD JOB IN CARRYING THAT AGENDA.
BOULDER EXTENDS TO WHERE STEAMBOAT IS.
THE TOWN THAT LIVES IN ACCORD TO THE SERVICE INDUSTRY.
THE STATE LEGISLATURE MAP, BOTH THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ORDER THE COMMISSIONS TO DRAW COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS.
THE STATE LAWYER MAP WE ENDED UP WITH IS A MAJORITY OF SOLID DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS IN BOTH HOUSE AND THE SENATE FOREVER, OR FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS.
I'M NOT SURE THEY DID A GOOD JOB IN MAKING THOSE COMPETITIVE.
>> ERIC, WHILE THEY HAVE -- I GUESS TO THE END OF THIS MONTH, IT SEEMS THAT HONESTLY I TOOK IT THERE WAS THE LEAST AMOUNT OF BELLY ACHING.
WHEN YOU SAW THE FIRST ONE THERE WAS A WHOLE LINE OF PEOPLE.
THIS ONE CAME OUT AND IT IS LIKE THE FIRST.
IS THAT THE CASE?
>> I THINK IT IS THE CASE.
THERE MIGHT BE SOME TWEAKING GOING ON.
WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THIS FINAL MAP WILL LOOK LIKE.
MANY IF NOT IN MOST RESPECTS HERE.
ON THE ONE HAND, DAVID, IS RIGHT.
IT IS AN IMPROVEMENT OF THE MAP BEFORE.
I WENT THROUGH A LITANY OF PROBLEMS WITH THAT PREVIOUS MAP.
IT JUST UNDERSCORES THE BOTTOM LINE.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF COLORADO LIVES ALONG THE FRONT RANGE.
IT IS HARD TO CREATE DISTRICTS.
I HAVE TO BELIEVE MY NEIGHBORS ARE PROBABLY NOT THRILLED, A MORE RURAL, IT HAS BECOME A TOURISM COUNTY.
THEY ARE NOT BEING THRILLED BEING BOULDER AND FORT COLLINS DISTRICT.
THE PEOPLE GOING TO BE PART OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY DISTRICT.
YOU NEED AN ANCHOR FOR MOST OF THESE DISTRICTS IN THE FRONT RANGE JUST TO GET TO THE POPULATION REQUIREMENT.
EVEN THOUGH I THINK THIS IS LOOKING CLOSE TO THE FINAL MAP.
WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS MUCH MORE IS MORE COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS IN COLORADO AND THE STATES AS WELL.
AT MOST TWO OF THESE STATES WILL BE COMPETITIVE.
AT MOST.
I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THEY DO BETTER.
AS LONG AS YOU ARE RESPECTING COMMUNITIES OF INTERESTS AND TRYING TO CONSOLIDATE MINORITIES INTO ONE OR MORE DISTRICTS.
LAUREN BOEBERT THIS IS A GREAT MAP FOR LAUREN BOEBERT.
THIS MAP IS MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN THE DISTRICT THAT ELECTED HER TWO YEARS AGO.
DEMOCRATS CAN GIVE UP THAT DREAM.
I WISH WE HAD MORE COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS.
WE DON'T.
>> PATTY, IT LOOKS LIKE THE DRAMA IS IN THE EIGHTH DISTRICT.
DO YOU SEE ANYWHERE ELSE?
>> YOU WILL HAVE DRAMA IN THE BOEBERT DISTRICT.
SOMEONE WILL RUN AGAINST HER.
PEOPLE WILL HAVE A LOT OF FUN TALKING ABOUT THAT RACE.
NOT AS MUCH IF SHE WON AGAINST JOAN.
WOULD YOU HAVE REAL CHALLENGES.
THE EIGHTH LOOKS INTERESTING.
YOU COULD HAVE A REAL FIGHT UP TO THE LAST MINUTE THERE.
IN SOME OF THESE OTHERS, YOU WILL HAVE PEOPLE CHALLENGING, PEOPLE WHO ARE ON A MISSION.
I THINK YOU FIND PEOPLE IN BOEBERT'S DISTRICT THEY ARE GOING TO GO FOR HER.
IT IS FAR MORE FAIR MAP.
THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN MAKE COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS YOU WILL HAVE TO DO FLAGPOLE ANNEXATION.
YOU GOT MOSTLY FRONT RANGE POPULATION.
YOU CAN'T BRING IN THE OTHER AREAS WHEN THEY GET COMPETITIVE.
>> IT WOULD BE A GERRYMANDER MAP AT THAT POINT.
>>> THE INVESTIGATION CAME TO A CLOSE THIS WEEK.
THE BOARD IS CONSIDERING CENTERING HIM SITING UNBECOMING BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS AS PART OF INVESTIGATION.
THEY ARE STILL AT POSSIBLE CENTER.
IS THIS ISSUE OVER?
>> I THINK IT IS SOME WHAT OVER.
IT IS NOT OVER FOR TAI ANDERSON.
IT WILL HOUND HIM AND LIVE WITH HIM AS HE GOES FORWARD.
HE IS A YOUNG MAN.
SOME LESSON LEARNING FROM THIS EXPERIENCE.
THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE THE CASE.
WE TAPED THIS ON NOON ON FRIDAY.
I THINK THERE IS A CENTER MOTION WE WILL KNOW WHAT BECAME OF THAT LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
IT SEEMS LIKE THE VOTES ARE AMONG THEM EVEN THOUGH MOST OF THEM ARE ALIGNED WITH TAI TO CENTER HIM.
I BELIEVE IS DOING A PRESS CONFERENCE WITH MINISTERS AND OTHERS.
HE IS PLAYING THE RACE CARD HERE.
IF YOU TAKE THE RACE CARD HE HAS NO CARDS AT ALL IT SEEMS TO ME.
YES, HE WAS VINDICATED BUT NOT SUFFICIENT PROOF ON THE MAIN CHARGES.
SOME THAT CAME OUT WAS BEFORE HE WAS IN THE DPS BOARD.
HE RAIN FOR THE DPS BOARD IN 2017 HE WAS ALREADY A PUBLIC FIGURE.
THE INAPPROPRIATE TEXT MESSAGING TO A 16-YEAR-OLD, GIVE ME A BREAK AS WELL AS SOME OF THE ATTEMPT SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER MEDIAS TO INTIMIDATE PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THIS INVESTIGATION.
IT IS NOT HAS SHOWN WELL ON TAI.
IT COULD BE WORSE BUT NOT SHOWN WELL.
>> PATTY DOES THE DRAMA LINGER?
>> OF COURSE.
THEY ARE BREAKING THE RULE.
THEY ARE HAVING THE MEETING.
THEY ARE VOTING AT 1:00.
TAI HAD SAID THEY ARE GOING TO CENTER HIM.
THAT IS COMING OUT.
DOES ANYONE ELSE HOW RANKEROUS THIS SCHOOL BOARD WAS?
OBVIOUSLY, TAI ANDERSON SHOULD NOT BE POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA THE WAY HE HAS.
THEY DIDN'T LOOK HALF OF THE BONE HEADED THINGS HE HAS SAID.
ABOUT COLLECTING MONEY FOR HIS GRANDMOTHER'S BIRTHDAY.
HE SHOULD PUT DOWN THE PHONE AND JUST DO HIS WORK AS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER.
KEEP QUITE ON THE OTHER STUFF.
HIS BEHAVIOR HAS BEEN BAD.
YOU WONDER IF YOU WERE ACCUSED OF SOCIAL ABUSE, ASSAULT, OF 60 INDIVIDUALS YOU MAY NOT BEHAVE WELL EITHER.
>> THERE WERE A LOT OF ANALYST AND PEOPLE COMING OUT.
IT HAS BEEN A BIG ISSUE FOR A LOT OF FOLKS.
DOES THAT GO AWAY?
DOES THAT FEED THE SAME KIND OF ENERGY LOOP SOMEONE WANTS THE ATTENTION.
TWO YEARS LATER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT.
>> TAI ANDERSON IS AN ATTENTION MONGER.
BUT HE IS ALSO A RACIST SLEAZY AND IT SHOWS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
THEY NAMED HIM DEMOCRAT OF THE YEAR.
THEY PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE.
THESE ACCUSATIONS WERE PRETTY STRONG AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CAME OF IT.
WHEN SOMEONE COMES FORWARD AND SAYS WE GOT 60 CASES ASSAULT, SEXUAL ASSAULT AND THEY CAN'T COME UP WITH ONE WITNESS WHO WILL SAY SO.
IT IS LIKE JOE McCARTHY CAN'T ACTUALLY NAME ONE OF THEM WITHIN THE EVIDENCE.
IN A WAY, ONE WOULD NOT COMPARE A RESPECTABLE PERSON IN ANY SENSE EXCEPT THEY BOTH HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF HOAXES WITH COMPLETELY UNSUPPORTED ACCUSATIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
>>> COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL PHIL WEISER ISSUED A CONDEMNATORY REPORT ABOUT AURORA POLICE DEPARTMENT THIS WEEK CALLING THE STATE OVERSIGHT.
HIS STATEMENT CAME AFTER AND EXPENSIVE INVESTIGATION ON APD CITING REGULAR OCCURRENCES OF EXCESSIVE FORCE, RACIAL BIAS, AND FAILURE TO ISSUE MANDATED REPORTS.
PATTY YOUR QUICK TAKE.
>> WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS IS BIG HITS FOR AURORA.
YOU HAD THE GRAND JURY ISSUING THOSE INDICTMENTS AGAINST THREE OF THE POLICE OFFICERS AND TWO PARAMEDICS.
YOU HAVE THIS REPORT COMING OUT.
WE COVERED THE AURORA POLICE DEPARTMENT EXTENSIVELY.
IT IS HARD TO DENY THAT THEIR PAST BEHAVIOR WAS REPREHENCEABLE.
IT WAS THE DRUNK OFFICER IN THE MIDDLE OF A CAR DURING HIS LUNCH BREAK.
SO MANY THINGS THEY DIDN'T DEAL WITH.
THE CURRENT CHIEF HAS BEEN WORKING HARDER, THE MAYOR HAS BEEN WORKING HARDER.
WE WILL SEE HOW THEY RESPOND TO THIS REPORT.
>> THIS IS NOT NEW FOR THEM BUT IN PROGRESS.
IS THERE ENOUGH PROGRESS TO KEEP STATE OVERSIGHT AT BAY?
>> IT IS WHETHER THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE HAS THE CAPACITY TO BASICALLY RUN AND MICRO MANAGE A LARGE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THE NEW LAW GIVES THEM THAT AUTHORITY.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AGAINST OTHER POLICE DEPARTMENTS SOME OF THEM ON THE BASES OF SERIOUS PROBLEMS, IT HAS WORKED OUT COUNTER PRODUCTIVELY.
AN INVESTIGATION IN LOS ANGELES, A POLICE SCANDAL RIGHT THERE.
THE LACK OF OFFICER INTEGRITY.
WHEN YOU GET THE PROPOSAL AND THE BEST QUALIFY CANDIDATES.
WE WILL HIRE IN THE BASE OF QUOTAS.
I THINK A SIMPLE SOLUTION IS LET THE PEOPLE OF AURORA ELECT THEIR POLICE CHIEF DIRECTLY SO THEY CAN HAVE SOMEONE DIRECTLY ACCOUNTABLE TO THEM.
>> ERIC WRAP IT UP FOR US.
>> I THINK THIS NEW STATE BILL GIVES THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THIS POWER.
THIS COURSE OF EVENTS WOULD NOT HAVE UNFOLDED THE WAY IT DID.
IF THERE ARE ABUSES IN POLICE DEPARTMENTS THIS IS NEW TERRITORY BEING PLOWED HERE.
I KNOW THE CHIEF VANESSA WILSON DID A CONFERENCE SAYING SHE DOESN'T WANT A FEW BAD APPLE TO PAINT THE WHOLE FORCE.
IS IT A FEW BAD APPLES OR IS IT SOMETHING FAR MORE SYSTEMIC?
THAT'S WHERE PHIL WEISER CAME DOWN.
>> LET'S GET TO DISGRACE OF THE WEEK.
PATTY, PLEASE START US OFF.
>> HAVEN'T GOTTEN VACCINATED.
TALKED WHY HE DIDN'T.
HE DIED OF COVID.
I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT BEING A DISGRACE.
THAT WAS DISGRACEFUL WE CAN'T FORGET THAT HAPPENED YOU WANT TO BE FAIR.
>> DAVID?
>> THE MASS EXECUTIONS OF OUR FRIENDS IN AFGHANISTAN.
THEY DID COMPLAIN THAT THE NEW TALIBAN OF 35 DOESN'T HAVE ANY WOMEN IN IT.
MAYBE THE TOP 35 TERRORIST HAPPEN TO BE MEN.
THE TALIBAN WENT OUT OF IT'S WAY TO REACH OUT THE OBAMA/BIDEN TERRORIST IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS ONE AMERICAN WORSTLESS DESERTER.
WHAT MORE CAN THEY DO TO SHOW THEIR RESPECT FOR THE OBAMA-BIDEN.
>> MINE IS HEIDI GANAHL MAY NOT BE WILLING TO SAY IT, EVERYONE ELSE SAYING IT.
PEOPLE WHO CONTINUE TO LAUGH IT UP.
IT IS MY COLUMN THIS WEEKEND AND NEXT WEEK.
IT IS PLAYING WITH SUCH FIRE.
WE HAVE SO FEW BONDS THAT HOLD US TOGETHER THESE DAYS.
WE QUESTION THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTIONS WE QUESTION THEM NOW, YOU WONDER WHAT BONDS REMAIN?
>> TIME TO SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT SOMEBODY.
>> IT IS AMAZING.
SINCE IT SOLD OUT THIS WEEKEND GO TO OTHER ARTS INSTITUTIONS IN THIS GROUP.
>> DAVID?
>> THE SCHOOL NEWSPAPER LET IT BE BULLIED BY THE COMMUNIST.
TAIWAN HAS BEEN INDEPENDENT FROM CHINA FOR ALL OF THE FOUR OF THE LAST 25 YEARS.
UNLIKE CHINA HAS A DEMOCRATIC ELECTED GOVERNMENT.
UNLIKE THE CRIMINAL BANDITS WHO DON'T HAVE ELECTION IN CHINA.
>> ERIC?
>> CONGRATS GOVERNOR POLIS AND MARLIN ON THEIR MARRIAGE A FEW WEEKS AGO.
THE FIRST SAME SEX COUPLE TO BE MARRIED.
>> THAT IS ALL THE TIME WE HAVE HERE.
FROM EVERYBODY HERE AT PBS12 AND COLORADO INSIDE OUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING.
GOOD NIGHT.

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