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Somali Daycare Scandal Sparks Federal Fury plus Maduro Falls, Cuba Next? · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Two thousand federal agents are being deployed to Minneapolis. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say Minnesota, I said Minneapolis, as an escalated
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  Speaker 1: immigration push is underway. Here is what we know so far,
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  Speaker 1: the two thousand federal agents being deployed to a city
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  Speaker 1: as part of the Trump Administration's latest effort, They say
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  Speaker 1: to crack down not only on immigration but also on
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants that they are committing crimes. City officials, of course,
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  Speaker 1: are angry over this. Why because they've been exposed for
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  Speaker 1: the welf of fraud scandal that has reached a fever
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  Speaker 1: pitch this past week in Minneapolis. Now, in the days
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  Speaker 1: since that conservative content creator, a brilliant twenty something with
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  Speaker 1: a cell phone, took down the governor for his oversight
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  Speaker 1: with the fraud, the creator has raised new allegations of
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  Speaker 1: fraud as well. Of course, the left is saying there's
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  Speaker 1: little evidence. If that was true, then why did the
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  Speaker 1: say he wasn't running for re election. The Somali run
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  Speaker 1: daycare centers in Minneapolis are a problem, and the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration has also moved forward and is frozen federal childcare
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  Speaker 1: funds and at least more biding rhetoric against the Somali
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  Speaker 1: community for the fraud that they have been doing in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump not backing down. The President stepping up immigration
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  Speaker 1: enforcement as well, and federal agents have already been on
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  Speaker 1: the ground in Minneapolis, and both Immigration and Customs enforcement
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  Speaker 1: agents and the US Port Patrol agents are deploying in
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  Speaker 1: record numbers now.
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  Speaker 2: Agents in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, they arrested more than one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: people accused of being in the country illegally, the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security saiday's Tuesday statement. The release highlighted nearly
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  Speaker 1: a dozen detainees the DHS called the worst of the worst,
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  Speaker 1: with charges like murder, robbery, probation violations, drug violation, and again,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most important things is this, They're now
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  Speaker 1: no longer terrorizing the people in Minneapolis. DHS posted an
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  Speaker 1: edited video on x showing the Secretary Christy Nome following
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  Speaker 1: armed agents into a three story building in Saint Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Why was this so important because it was a place
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  Speaker 1: where legal immigrants were committing crimes and running their crimes
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  Speaker 1: out of the building. Secretary Nome and our brave DHS
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement have taken Tomas Tabia off the streets. An
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  Speaker 1: Ecuadorian illegal alien convicted of robbery and wanted for murder
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  Speaker 1: and sexual assault. To the criminals living among us, you
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  Speaker 1: are not our neighbors. Leave now or we will find you.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, they don't want to tell you that part
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  Speaker 1: of the story. They don't want to tell you it's
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  Speaker 1: from Ecuador and not Haiti, right because they want this
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  Speaker 1: to be some sort of racial issue. The fact of
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  Speaker 1: the matter is Department of Home and Security doesn't care
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  Speaker 1: where you're from if you're in the country illegally and
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  Speaker 1: committing Hanah's crimes like robbery, extortion, warrants out for murder
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  Speaker 1: and sexual assault.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is just one individual that was.
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  Speaker 1: Caught because of the people going in and fighting hard
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that we're all safe. We also know
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  Speaker 1: that there are more ICE raids that are happening right now.
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  Speaker 1: Heavily armed ice raids on fraudulent scammers happening all over
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  Speaker 1: the country is what ICE and the Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 1: Security are telling us about.
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  Speaker 2: Even local news.
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  Speaker 1: Covering the story Fox five in Minneapolis saying this.
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  Speaker 3: A major surgeon. Federal agents are expected here in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: On top of what we all have already seen in
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  Speaker 3: recent weeks. The Trump administration escalating its immigration crackdown in
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  Speaker 3: the Twin Cities. Ox Stein's Mori Glover here now to
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  Speaker 3: explain what these agents will be looking for.
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  Speaker 4: More while the officers and agents started arriving yesterday in
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  Speaker 4: the first major expansion of President Trump's immigration enforcement efforts
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  Speaker 4: in the new year. Since early last month, federal ICE
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  Speaker 4: agents have been in the Twin Cities to crack down
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  Speaker 4: on immigrants who were in the country illegally. Now, a
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  Speaker 4: new wave of federal agents will expand on that work
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  Speaker 4: and help root out fraud. According to reports, the White
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  Speaker 4: House has already started sending an additional fifteen hundred ICE
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  Speaker 4: agents to the Twin Cities to track down people who
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  Speaker 4: have deportation orders. On top of that, six hundred agents
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  Speaker 4: from Homeland Security investigations will focus on identifying fraud in
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  Speaker 4: the Somali community. Ali. We've arrived to ABC Learning Center.
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  Speaker 4: The thirty day Surge operation comes after a viral video
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  Speaker 4: from right wing influencer Nick Shirley claimed Somali run daycares
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  Speaker 4: were receiving federal subsidies but no children were present. The
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  Speaker 4: Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families said it conducted
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  Speaker 4: compliance checks at nine of the ten facilities featured in
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  Speaker 4: the video. One facility closed in twenty twenty two, and
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  Speaker 4: investigators said children we're present at all the sites except
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  Speaker 4: one that was not open for the day when inspectors arrived.
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  Speaker 5: The mission's going to continue no matter what.
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  Speaker 4: US Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bavino, who has led immigration
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  Speaker 4: roundups in other cities around the country, is expected to
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  Speaker 4: arrive in Minnesota to help with the surge here, along
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  Speaker 4: with a number of Border Patrol agents. Now, the Department
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  Speaker 4: of Homeland Security says it is arrested over a thousand
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  Speaker 4: criminal undocumented immigrants Minnesota in just the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: In just the last few weeks, which brings up the question,
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  Speaker 1: why would you not want this type of law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: happening in your city. Well, it's clear Democrats are hoping
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  Speaker 1: to import illegal immigrants, even if they are criminals, even
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  Speaker 1: if they're wanted for drug trafficking, sex trafficking, human smuggling,
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  Speaker 1: or murder. They don't care as long as they set
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  Speaker 1: up in a city where liberals can be elected by them.
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  Speaker 1: US Customs and Border Protection commander, whose tactics have come
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  Speaker 1: on quote increased scrutiny in multiple cities, is also expected
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  Speaker 1: to deploy to Minneapolis, showing that we are not afraid
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  Speaker 1: of liberal Democrats. The war that's being waged against Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: You're seeing it. That is the response from Governor Tim Waltz.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he said tuesday's news conference. We have a
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous surge of apparently two thousand people not coordinating with us,
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  Speaker 1: that are for a show of the cameras. No, we're
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  Speaker 1: actually arresting the bad guys, Governor, and you would know
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  Speaker 1: this if you actually cared about your citizens instead of
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants from Somalia. Uncertainty, of course, is how CNN
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  Speaker 1: puts it, as sweeping Minnesota's largest city, as the fraud
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  Speaker 1: allegations prompt shakeups in local leadership and a new ambitious
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  Speaker 1: immigration enforcement effort by Donald Trump intimidating, as they described,
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  Speaker 1: with the Somali residence that has emerged. This again another
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  Speaker 1: example of the left more about illegal immigrant criminals than
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  Speaker 1: they actually care about citizens in this country. There's an
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  Speaker 1: invisible thread that connects humans across distance. You can't see it,
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  Speaker 1: but you can feel it when you pull, and when
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  Speaker 1: a child in Guatemala learns to read, you feel it.
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  Speaker 1: The thread vibrates with every new word they master. When
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  Speaker 1: a teenager in Kenya gets medical care that saves their sight,
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  Speaker 1: that thread pulls tighter. And when a young woman in
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  Speaker 1: the Philippines breaks her family cycle of poverty, you're standing
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  Speaker 1: there with her. And here's what's remarkable. That thread goes
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  Speaker 1: both ways because while you're changing their life, they're changing
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  Speaker 1: yours too. Their resilience inspires you, their joy reminds you
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  Speaker 1: what matters. Their letters become the highlight of your day.
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  Speaker 1: It is the powerful thread of Compassion International. Just hold
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  Speaker 1: one end of the thread, you'll stay connected through letters, photos, updates, prayers.
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  Speaker 1: The other end is a child who changed everything, including you.
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  Speaker 1: So impact the world, one child at a time. Learn
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  Speaker 1: how at Compassion dot com. That's Compassion dot com, which
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  Speaker 1: brings me to another story. It's all about following the money,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the Somali community. We're now being told that
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  Speaker 1: Somalia's ambassador to the United Nations is linked to medicaid fraud,
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  Speaker 1: not in Minnesota, but in Ohio. As this continues to
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  Speaker 1: explode around the country, the permanent representative Somalia to the
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  Speaker 1: United Nations, a man by the name of Ashman, is
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  Speaker 1: linked to a home healthcare agency in Cincinnati, Ohio that
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  Speaker 1: has been prosecuted for Medicaid fraud. Officials with the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security and HHS have now can confirmed. This week,
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  Speaker 1: online reports began circulating that Ausman had ties to Progressive
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  Speaker 1: health Care Services, it is a home health care company
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  Speaker 1: plagued by a Medicaid fraud investigation. HHS Deputy Secretary Jim
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  Speaker 1: O'Neil confirmed via x that Osman is in fact linked
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  Speaker 1: to the Progressive health Care Services and that the federal
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  Speaker 1: agency previously took action against the home healthcare company after
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  Speaker 1: a conviction for Medicaid fraud, saying this, I can confirm
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  Speaker 1: public speculation that Ambassador Assman, the Permanent Representative of Somalia
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  Speaker 1: to the UN and President of the Security Council, is
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  Speaker 1: in fact associated with Progressive health Care Services, a home
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  Speaker 1: healthcare agency in Cincinnati. AHHS has previously taken action against
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  Speaker 1: Progressive in response to a conviction for Medicaid fraud. So
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  Speaker 1: if you think think that this is just going to
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  Speaker 1: be an issue in Minnesota, you.
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  Speaker 2: Are wrong now.
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  Speaker 1: O'Neil's statement came after the account libs of TikTok posted
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  Speaker 1: several documents for porting to show Osman's ties to progressive healthcare.
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  Speaker 1: What is amazing about how this story continues to unravel
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  Speaker 1: not just in Minnesota, but now in Ohio another place
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  Speaker 1: around the country is men and women are doing the
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  Speaker 1: job that the journalists of this country are supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be doing. But the journalists are not doing their job
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  Speaker 1: for one reason, their partisan hacks, state sponsored media of
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party quote Somalia's ambassador to the UN Osman
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  Speaker 1: was a healthcare administrator in Ohio. There's another healthcare company
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  Speaker 1: in the same suite as his, with a different name,
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  Speaker 1: and multiple others at the same address, all with Somali names.
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  Speaker 1: The account wrote on acts his company was convicted of
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  Speaker 1: medical fraud while he worked in a Medicaid office in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: The account wrote, Now, why is this Somali ambassador the
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  Speaker 1: UN working in the healthcare system in the US is
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  Speaker 1: another question that many of you should be asking. The
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  Speaker 1: company not only was convicted of Medicaid fraud while he
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  Speaker 1: was working in that Medicaid office in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: But wait, there's even more.
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  Speaker 1: The NPI for Somalia's you an ambassador's healthcare company is
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  Speaker 1: on an exclusion list with the code one one two
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  Speaker 1: eight A one.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: It means the company has been convicted of Medicaid and
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  Speaker 1: Medicare crimes. This is who is overseeing security now at
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  Speaker 1: the United Nations. He was also a supervisor, so to
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  Speaker 1: act like he didn't know what was going on or
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  Speaker 1: it was someone underneath him is also a lie. The
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  Speaker 1: post shows a LinkedIn page for Ossman where it lists
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  Speaker 1: him as the managing director of Progressive Health Services from
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  Speaker 1: October fourth teen to May of nineteen, around the same
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  Speaker 1: time the company was investigated for Medicaid fraud. Just to
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  Speaker 1: give you more context about the corruption. So the next
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  Speaker 1: time the United Nations starts wagging their finger at the
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  Speaker 1: Security Council, just know it's the same dude that was
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  Speaker 1: involved in healthcare fraud, defrauding Americans and Medicare and Medicaid.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, this.
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  Speaker 1: Story that I'm talking about right now, there's a very
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  Speaker 1: good chance you've heard about it nowhere else at all,
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  Speaker 1: Which brings me to another interesting point that needs to
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  Speaker 1: be made. Waltz dropping out is a very real allegation
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  Speaker 1: of corruption, and it is out of the political arena.
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  Speaker 1: That's at least how one Democrat is describing it. Pau
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  Speaker 1: Bagala on CNN admitting this about the corruption.
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  Speaker 6: Ask you because I do. You're our Democrat here, and
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  Speaker 6: when the news out of Minnesota the governor Toim Walls
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  Speaker 6: is dropping out of the governor's race because of a
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  Speaker 6: welfare fraud scandal on his state that is only intensified.
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  Speaker 6: There's been a lot of action there from when Biden's
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  Speaker 6: in office, but's still going on. Do you think that
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  Speaker 6: was the right move by govern Jent Walls?
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  Speaker 7: I do.
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  Speaker 8: I do, because look, third terms never go very well anyway.
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  Speaker 8: And the Democratic Foreign Labor Party there, the DFL, the Democrats,
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  Speaker 8: they have a very strong bench. Amy Klovicharg's very popular
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  Speaker 8: senator is thinking about running, according to reports. Evant spoken
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  Speaker 8: to her, but I'm sure she is. Keith Ellison, the
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  Speaker 8: attorney General's popular, Steve Simon, Secretary of State. Meanwhile, the Republicans,
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  Speaker 8: oh my gosh, they have a pillow fight on their side,
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  Speaker 8: right with the Speaker of the Minnesota ask the my
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  Speaker 8: pillow guy is running. So this is actually good news
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  Speaker 8: for the Democrats because it also takes this very real
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  Speaker 8: allegation of corruption in childcare and it takes it out
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  Speaker 8: of the political arena, right Republicans can't make hay off
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  Speaker 8: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me.
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  Speaker 8: There's a special place for anybody if they're stealing from children,
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  Speaker 8: vulnerable children, and that place is in prison here and
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  Speaker 8: in hell in the next life. But I don't think
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  Speaker 8: Democrats need to take any lectures about corruption and fraud
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  Speaker 8: from the Donald Trump. Oh he settled a.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty there we go.
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  Speaker 1: There it is the Democratic Party now saying, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: dropping out, takes very real allegations of corruption out of
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  Speaker 1: the political arena, So we shouldn't be taking lectures, as
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  Speaker 1: they describe it, from Donald Trump after billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: have been stolen from the tax payers. Of course, lowering expectations.
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  Speaker 1: Begala said, third terms never work, so that's another reason
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  Speaker 1: why we should just move on from this, and somehow
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  Speaker 1: says this is back to Donald Trump. Right, he's settled
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  Speaker 1: to fraud case once in New York City, so therefore
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  Speaker 1: that's what we should really be looking at. Democrats, he said,
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  Speaker 1: don't need to take lectures about corruption or fraud from
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So in other words, let it keep happening,
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  Speaker 1: and if a Democrat gets caught, fine, what we'll do
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  Speaker 1: is we'll just act like it's really not a big deal,
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  Speaker 1: which brings me back to the original story. These federal
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  Speaker 1: agents surging in many A to crack down on immigration
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  Speaker 1: and fraud is exactly what the president should be doing.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are terrified of two thousand people there doing their jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Governor Walt saying, well, they're not coordinating with us.
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  Speaker 1: You won't know why, because you've declared you're a sanctuary state.
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  Speaker 1: You've declared that you will not work with ICE, You've
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  Speaker 1: declared that you believe that ICE is an evil group
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  Speaker 1: of people. You've dehumanized them, you've turned them into your
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  Speaker 1: bad guys, and so yes, they're not working with you. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's no coordination because you chose to go after ICE
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  Speaker 1: and said the illegal immigrant criminals. And if you look
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  Speaker 1: at who's being taken off the streets, that's what really
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  Speaker 1: this should be all about. There are men and women
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  Speaker 1: committing heinous crimes, stealing from Americans. We should all be
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  Speaker 1: outraged over that, as Paul Bagalla described it, we should
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  Speaker 1: all be angry, and we should want there to be
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  Speaker 1: more accountability. We also know that Trump is using Minneapolis
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  Speaker 1: to send a message to all the other fraudsters in
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  Speaker 1: the country. The Department of Homeland Security describing what is
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  Speaker 1: happening in Minneapolis this way as the largest immigration enforcement
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  Speaker 1: operation ever aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration and fraud.
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  Speaker 1: Federal officials and DHS also emphasizing the scale and the
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  Speaker 1: intensity of this operation is a major enforcement action. The
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  Speaker 1: surge includes personnel from ICE and Homeland Security investigations, bringing
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  Speaker 1: they say, broad federal resources to the region where crime
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  Speaker 1: is out of control. DHS highlighting today that some of
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  Speaker 1: the people arrested includes serious offenders ascribed by the Department
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  Speaker 1: as among the worst of the worst, individuals with records
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  Speaker 1: for violent crime like murder and sexual assault of children.
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  Speaker 1: DHS also launched a Worst of the Worst web page
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  Speaker 1: so the public can see the criminal histories and those
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  Speaker 1: arrested nationwide as part of the immigration enforcement underlying that
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  Speaker 1: many apprehended individuals have violent or dangerous criminal records. Homeland
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  Speaker 1: Security Secretary Christy Nome personally being president in Minneapolis and
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  Speaker 1: accompany the agents during the enforcement actions, showcasing federal leadership
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  Speaker 1: and involvement as well as the commitment to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of this fraud in America, and the reports are also
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  Speaker 1: indicating at this hour that additional federal agents beyond the
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  Speaker 1: original surge are continuing to arrive, meaning the reinforcement and
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  Speaker 1: the ongoing commitment to the enforcement of the law in
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  Speaker 1: the community of Minnesota will not only make the people
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  Speaker 1: safe there, but this is all about getting rid of
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  Speaker 1: what the Democrats set up, a safe haven for billions
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  Speaker 1: in fraud. Some Minnesota Republicans and supporters of federal enforcement
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  Speaker 1: efforts have also praised the operation, saying that they're seeing
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  Speaker 1: this urges something that was long overdue and making the
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  Speaker 1: streets safer where they live. So in summary, the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration's operation in Minneapolis represents a significant federal law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: mobilization we've never seen before, at a level we've never
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  Speaker 1: witnessed before, with a focus on arresting, as the White
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  Speaker 1: House put it, individuals with serious criminal histories and enforcing
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  Speaker 1: immigration laws which the prior administration refused to do as
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  Speaker 1: well as Governor Waltz DHS has highlighted the tangible arrests
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  Speaker 1: of dangerous criminal suspects, active federal leadership on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and increasing the manpower as well as making it clear
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  Speaker 1: who we're arresting on the web page they've set up.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly why I voted for Donald Trump, and
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  Speaker 1: I got a feeling there's a lot of people in
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  Speaker 1: Minneapolis that maybe didn't vote for Trump that are now saying, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I voted for the wrong tim in the last election.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has made a major announcement about Venezuela, and
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  Speaker 1: as a taxpayer, you should be very excited about what
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  Speaker 1: I'm about.
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  Speaker 2: To tell you.
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  Speaker 1: He said that Venezuela will turn over thirty to fifty
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  Speaker 1: million barrels of oil to the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump announcing that the interim authorities in charge of
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela would be giving us between thirty to fifty million
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  Speaker 1: barrels of high quality, sanctioned oil to the United States.
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  Speaker 1: In a post on True Social Trump explained that the
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  Speaker 1: oil would be sold at its market price and that
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  Speaker 1: Trump would ensure the money from the sales will be
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  Speaker 1: used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the US,
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  Speaker 1: saying quote, I'm pleased to announce that the interim authorities
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  Speaker 1: in Venezuela will be turning over between thirty to fifty
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  Speaker 1: million barrels of high quality, sanctioned all of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: This oil will be sold at its market price, and
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  Speaker 1: the money will be controlled by me as President of
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America to ensure it is used
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  Speaker 1: to benefit not only the people Venezuela, which means you
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  Speaker 1: and I as taxpayers, do not have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: paying for Venezuela like we did in Afghanistan in Iraq.
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  Speaker 1: He also went on to say this, I have asked
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  Speaker 1: the Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, to execute this plan immediately.
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  Speaker 1: It will be taken by stored ships and brought directly
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  Speaker 1: to unloading docks in the United States of America. Now,
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  Speaker 1: after Venezuela's socialist dictator Maduro and his wife Flores, were
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  Speaker 1: captured by US military forces, Trump stated that the US
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  Speaker 1: will run everything regarding Venezuela's oil reserves. It also has
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  Speaker 1: been reported that Venezuela, as of Saturday's oil price, has
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  Speaker 1: approximately seventeen point three trillion in oil reserves, which exceeds
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  Speaker 1: the collective global gross domestic product excluding the United States, Erica,
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  Speaker 1: and China. To put in perspective, this obviously is a
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  Speaker 1: major step forward for the President and also to getting
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela back on its feet and the people there that
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  Speaker 1: have been oppressed by the commist regime for far too long,
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  Speaker 1: what they need economic stability. What is next for the
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  Speaker 1: Western hemisphere. That is a question that Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 1: answering in real time through his actions instead of his words.
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  Speaker 2: With Maduro's capture, there are now real.
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  Speaker 1: Speculation among those in Washington that this could be the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the end for places like Cuba's dictators, the
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  Speaker 1: regime there. The House Intelligence Committee chairman going on Fox
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  Speaker 1: News channel to talk about exactly what could be next,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to listen carefully to what he
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  Speaker 1: had to say about. The President also talking about Cuba.
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  Speaker 1: So this will obviously have a lot of a domino
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  Speaker 1: effect in the neighborhood down there.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump and Secretary of Rubio talked about the possibilities
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  Speaker 4: for Cuba.
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  Speaker 2: Let's play this clip real quick.
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  Speaker 7: Cuba is going to be something we'll end up talking
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  Speaker 7: about because Cuba is a failing nation right now, very
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  Speaker 7: badly failing nation, and we want to help the people.
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  Speaker 7: If it's very similar in the sense that we want
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  Speaker 7: to help the people in Cuba.
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  Speaker 5: When the President speaks, you should take them seriously. So
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  Speaker 5: it's suffice that to say, you know, Cuba is a disaster,
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  Speaker 5: it's it's run by incompetent.
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  Speaker 1: See now, men, if I lived in Havana and I
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  Speaker 1: was in the government, I'd be concerned.
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  Speaker 2: What is Cuba thinking right now?
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  Speaker 5: We're going to We're going to see freedom in liberty
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  Speaker 5: in Cuba. I mean the Cuba is a failed state
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  Speaker 5: that people of Cuba do not like IDAs Canal, they
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  Speaker 5: don't like their government. It was all it's all propped
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  Speaker 5: up with the oil from Venezuela. So Cuba has been
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  Speaker 5: the root of evil. So if you look at this
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  Speaker 5: is an unbelievable opportunity. When Trump finishes his this term,
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  Speaker 5: I see, I think all across Latin America we see
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  Speaker 5: freedom and liberty. We'll have a new president in Columbia
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  Speaker 5: next year, and I think the right thing will happen there.
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  Speaker 5: I think diascnaw will be will be gone. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: and look, I'm excited for all my friends that have
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  Speaker 5: fought all these years for freedom and liberty and they
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  Speaker 5: have not been able to get a president that would
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  Speaker 5: show up and do the job that needed to be done.
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  Speaker 5: And this president has been willing to do it. So
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  Speaker 5: hats off to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Senator Rick Scott and what he had to say there,
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  Speaker 1: He's absolutely right and it brings me the top lawmaker
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  Speaker 1: of the House Intelligence Committee, also saying that he believes
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  Speaker 1: at the weekend capture of Maduro may have a major
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  Speaker 1: domino effect in Cuba. Chairman Rick Crawford, a Republican from Arkansas,
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  Speaker 1: call it the beginning of the end for the regime.
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  Speaker 1: Cuba and Venezuela have had a symbolic relationship for a
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  Speaker 1: long long time. The congressman said, Cuban needs Venezuela and oil.
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  Speaker 1: They no longer have the resources that will be provided
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  Speaker 1: by Venezuela, and that means there are major consequences. According
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  Speaker 1: to Crawford, Venezuela also benefited from the partnership by receiving
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  Speaker 1: medical assistance from Cuba and military protections used by Maduro.
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  Speaker 1: President of Cuba Manuel Diaz is a one party communist
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  Speaker 1: state that has been long at odds with the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America, and the US has an economic embargo
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  Speaker 1: on the country, restricting exports to and from Cuba, as
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  Speaker 1: well as travel restrictions that limit tourism. Those measures have
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  Speaker 1: been in place now for sixty three years. You go
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  Speaker 1: back to February of nineteen sixty two when President JFK
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: proclaimed an embargo on trade between the United States and
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  Speaker 1: Cuba and directed the Department of Commerce and the Treasury
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  Speaker 1: to implement the embargo, which literally remains in place today,
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  Speaker 1: the State Department saying that on its own website, which
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  Speaker 1: brings us to the bigger question that Crawford brought up.
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  Speaker 1: He said, quote, you may very well see a very
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  Speaker 1: popular uprising there. There's a lot of connective tissue. We have, really,
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  Speaker 1: for a lack of a better term, we have a
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  Speaker 1: familiar bond with Cuba. We have so many families in
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  Speaker 1: South Florida that are directly connected to family members in
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  Speaker 1: Cuba that remittances are a big part of their economy.
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  Speaker 1: They rely on the United States of America, whether they
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  Speaker 1: want to admit it or not, we can play an
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  Speaker 1: outsized role they are in influencing those folks and helping
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  Speaker 1: them to organize, to rise up and help overcome the oppressive,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to help overcome that oppressive regime. Now, Congressman Crawford isn't
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  Speaker 1: the only one talking about how there could be a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: major domino effect when it comes to Venezuela and now
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in other parts of Latin America. The White House saying
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: they believe that this could certainly move us in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction and inspire others to stand up to the regimes,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: whether it's Columbia or Cuba. There are several other countries
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  Speaker 1: now where there's no problems on the ground for the dictators,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: including even Iran, which makes this part of the conversation
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: even more interesting. We're now hearing a new chant coming
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  Speaker 1: out of Iran. Usually you hear the chant of death
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  Speaker 1: to America. Right now, the protests are continuing across Iran,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and now the protests are calling for quote death to
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  Speaker 1: the dictator, not to America. The protests against the Iranian
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  Speaker 1: regime has now spread to most of Iran's thirty one
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  Speaker 1: provinces as of Tuesday, including cities that have long been
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  Speaker 1: seen as firmly loyal to the Ayatola. The current movement
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  Speaker 1: is arguably larger than the Women Life and Freedom uprising
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  Speaker 1: that really shook the regime to its core in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, and today's demonstrations are now showing no sign
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  Speaker 1: of backing down in the face of the brutal repression.
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  Speaker 1: The ABC cited video confirming massive protests in seventeen provinces,
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  Speaker 1: plus reports of demonstrations in eleven more verified video footage
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  Speaker 1: of anti government demonstrations was posted from over fifty Iranian
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  Speaker 1: towns and cities, including the Holy Cities as well, which
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: have previously been strongholds for the theocracy. Outside analysts said
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: these surprising size and the persistence of the protests in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the regime's political fortress cities was a sign that even
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  Speaker 1: the Iatola's hardcore supporters are abandoning him in the face
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: of rank incompetence and most importantly, massive economic collapse. The
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: regime seems reluctant to indulge in the kind of bloody
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: crackdown that snuffed out the Women Life and Freedom movement,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the protests after Iran's humiliating defeat by Israel and the
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  Speaker 1: United States in the summer of twenty twenty five, as
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  Speaker 1: well as the uprising after the rigged elections in nine.
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  Speaker 1: The Iranian regime is also attempting a difficult political balancing
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  Speaker 1: act by separating demonstrators with legitimate grievances from the rioters
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  Speaker 1: who are supposedly acting on behalf of the United States
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  Speaker 1: and European power as they claim, and all out bloodbath
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  Speaker 1: would make it very difficult for the regime to pretend
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  Speaker 1: it has sympathies and concerns for the Iranian people, which
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: now brings us to the present's promise. If Iran does
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: go after the protesters, then America will step up, and
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  Speaker 1: that seems to be giving cover for freedom for the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: people of Iran to actually rise up against another regime.
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