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Car Prices to Drop w Trump Deregulation & MN Fraud Fallout as AG goes before Senate · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: When President Trump decided to run for reelection, one of
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Speaker 1: the things he made very clear and his agenda was
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Speaker 1: lowering the cost of living for so many Americans, and
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Speaker 1: one way he was going to do it was through deregulation. Now,
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Speaker 1: there is a significant number of regulations that have a
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Speaker 1: major impact on your life and the cost of goods.
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Speaker 1: You just may not realize how damning they are to
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Speaker 1: the final price that you're paying for products. The White
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Speaker 1: House is now coming out giving a perfect example of
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Speaker 1: how regulations can cost you big time and you don't
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Speaker 1: even know it. The White House is now saying that
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Speaker 1: it's going to save Americans two thousand, four hundred dollars
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Speaker 1: on car purchases. Now, you may say, are they going
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Speaker 1: to write me a check? No, this is what's actually
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Speaker 1: going on. The Trump administration is repealing now an Obama
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Speaker 1: era quote endangerment finding quote unquote that will now lower
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Speaker 1: car costs by an average of two thousand, four hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars per vehicle. The White House and Environmental Protection Agency
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Speaker 1: touted this as a big win for the American people.
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what Lee Zelden had to say.
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Speaker 1: This is the man in charge the EPA with President
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump at the White House about the announcement.
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Speaker 2: The Endangerment Finding and the regulations that were based on It.
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Speaker 2: Didn't just regulate admissions, it regulated and targeted the American dream.
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Speaker 2: And now the Endangerment Finding is hereby limited. As well
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Speaker 2: as all greenhouse gas emission standards that followed, the red
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Speaker 2: tape has been cut. Manufacturers will no longer be burdened
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Speaker 2: by measuring, compiling, or reporting greenhouse gas emissions for vehicles
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Speaker 2: and engines, and the forced transition to electric vehicles is eliminated.
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Speaker 2: No longer will automakers be pressured to shift their fleets
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Speaker 2: towards electric vehicles, vehicles that are still sitting unsold on
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Speaker 2: dealer lots all across America. And as it's sherry on top,
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Speaker 2: we are ending the federal government's push to get manufacturers
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Speaker 2: to install that Obama switch, the almost universally despised start
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Speaker 2: stop feature. There will be no more climate participation trophies
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Speaker 2: awarded to manufacturers for making Americans cars die at every
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Speaker 2: red light and stop sign. It's over done, finished.
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Speaker 1: Over done, and finished. The action announced by President Trump
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Speaker 1: and the EPA administrator leads out in ends former President
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Speaker 1: Barack Obama's green obsession with the sweeping anti greenhouse gas policy.
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Speaker 1: It allowed the EPA to measure and constrain emissions of
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Speaker 1: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other gases from all
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Speaker 1: vehicles and engines of model years twenty twelve and beyond.
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Speaker 1: Now regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the nine policy added
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Speaker 1: unbelievable upcharges costs to car makers and then passed on
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Speaker 1: to you, the American consumer. That is why the savings
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Speaker 1: are so big. The EPA has estimated benefits to the
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Speaker 1: economy from rescinding the Endangerment finding for vehicles to be
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Speaker 1: as much as four point seven trillion dollars for the
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Speaker 1: period twenty twenty seven through twenty fifty five. This is
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Speaker 1: a gross underestimate, is what Steve Moroy, a former Trump
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Speaker 1: EPA transition advisor and senior fellow at the Energy and
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Speaker 1: Environment Legal Institute, said to The New York Post. Because
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Speaker 1: of this move, gas prices will also remain low and
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Speaker 1: car price will decline. This is a perfect storm, lowering
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Speaker 1: gas prices and lowering vehicle prices that will ripple through
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Speaker 1: the economy for decades to come. They also noted that
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Speaker 1: consumers and businesses also standard benefit from the deregulation of
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Speaker 1: admissions by being able to well redirect money and then
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Speaker 1: save on vehicle costs that will help small businesses as well.
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Speaker 3: Quote.
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Speaker 1: All these benefits are impossible to calculate, but there's one
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Speaker 1: thing for sure. The cost of regulating greenhouse gas emissions
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Speaker 1: is incalculably large while providing absolutely no environmental benefit. Now,
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Speaker 1: the EPA also notes that both the avoided costs of
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Speaker 1: purchasing equipment related to electric vehicles, which car makers increasingly
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Speaker 1: began manufacturing solely because of the wake of the oh
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Speaker 1: Nino Obama policy, and reduce regulatory compliance costs will also
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Speaker 1: contribute to significant price cuts At the White House, Zelden
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Speaker 1: proclaiming that manufacturers will no longer be burdened by measuring, compiling,
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Speaker 1: or reporting greenhouse gas emissions for vehicles and engines. Ford
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Speaker 1: Motor Company, for example, one of the big three American
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Speaker 1: automotive manufacturers. They have come out publicly now celebrating the
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Speaker 1: decision to scrap Obama's admission standards, saying this, we appreciate
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Speaker 1: the work of President Trump and Administrator Zelden to address
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Speaker 1: the imbalance between current emission standards and also customer choice,
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Speaker 1: for it is constantly advocating for a single, stable, national
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Speaker 1: standard that aligns with customer choice, the market, social benefits,
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Speaker 1: and American job growth. Now, the one frustrating about this
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Speaker 1: announcement is, unfortunately, when you're having to have an entire
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Speaker 1: industry change and go back in the other direction, it
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Speaker 1: will take time. Tim Pohonka, vice president, executive director and
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Speaker 1: manager at the Virginia based Pohonka Automotive Group, cautioned consumers
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Speaker 1: that it will take time for the prices on new
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Speaker 1: cars to come down by as much as the Trump
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Speaker 1: administration predicts, saying, quote, is there a potential opportunity for
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Speaker 1: people to save, Yes, there is, but it can't be
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Speaker 1: coupled with having to pay more at the gas pump.
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Speaker 1: So it's all relative. What do we see a price
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Speaker 1: reduction of two four hundred dollars right away on a car?
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Speaker 1: Probably not. I would have a hard time release saying
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Speaker 1: exactly how the number is going to break out because
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Speaker 1: it will take time for it to move through manufacturing.
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Speaker 1: The cost of a car, by the way, has outpaced
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Speaker 1: inflation dramatically. Many consumers concerned about just how much it
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Speaker 1: can now to get a reliable automobile, including one that
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Speaker 1: is used now. Trump Andzelden also announced Thursday that that
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Speaker 1: start stop feature it was forced on American car buyers
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Speaker 1: under Obama's Endangerment finding, Well, that will no longer be
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Speaker 1: a requirement on new vehicles. Again, why was it on
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Speaker 1: your car if you have it, because it was an
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Speaker 1: Obama mandate. And this also is an exciting move because
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Speaker 1: it will save costs for you the consumer. Quote, every
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Speaker 1: time they put new components in the car, it just
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Speaker 1: adds costs. When you start looking at auto start, autostop buttons,
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Speaker 1: it plays an impact on the price you're paying, and
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Speaker 1: removing the complexity from the hardware will make a real difference.
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Speaker 1: Experts are also noting that that feature may cause harm
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Speaker 1: to the engine as well as battery components, which also
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Speaker 1: adds consumer costs when repairs are needed. That is another
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Speaker 1: reason why this will save Americans real cash. And will
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Speaker 1: this only be on certain brands? No, it's going to
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Speaker 1: be on every car brand. Yes, it's going to be
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Speaker 1: slightly different from brand to brand, but overall it's a
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Speaker 1: major win and it's making cars more affordable.
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Speaker 3: Quote.
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Speaker 1: There are some people saying this is a bad thing.
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Speaker 1: But the truth is, you can't always go with what
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Speaker 1: the government says because they don't know the industry. They
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Speaker 1: don't build cars. That statement coming from the auto industry experts,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. And you know who agrees with them,
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Speaker 1: the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: who promised he was going to lower prices and get
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Speaker 1: rid of ridiculous government mandates and regulations.
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Speaker 3: Accountability.
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Speaker 1: It is what Donald Trump promised all Americans for those
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Speaker 1: that have been breaking the law. Waste, fraud and abuse
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Speaker 1: were a part of the doctrine. We were going to
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Speaker 1: get rid of it and figure out exactly who was
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Speaker 1: involved in it. Well, then we had what happened in Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: a massive explosion of an expose on the fraud that
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Speaker 1: is costing taxpayers billions of dollars. We also found out
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Speaker 1: much of that money was actually going to terrorist groups
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Speaker 1: like al Shabab. And then there's those that were behind
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Speaker 1: it or actually protecting the fraudsters. Josh Holly and many
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Speaker 1: in the Senate. They got a chance to talk to
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Speaker 1: Minnesota's Attorney General, Keith Ellison, over his ties to many
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Speaker 1: of those Somali fraudsters. How to be clear, the attorney
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Speaker 1: general is the one that's supposed to be going after
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Speaker 1: the criminals, not hanging out with them, doing deals with them,
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Speaker 1: or looking the other way. And now Senator Holly is
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Speaker 1: calling for the indictment of the Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison,
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Speaker 1: over accusations that he accepted campaign contributions from the Somali
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Speaker 1: fraudsters for helping them evade investigation by state and federal officials.
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Speaker 1: During the Senate Homeland Security hearing on Thursday, Holly grilled
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Speaker 1: Ellison about a report from The New York Post published
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Speaker 1: last year that is now accused the top Minnesota official
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Speaker 1: of taking campaign contributions from Somali's involved in defeeding our
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Speaker 1: future fraud scandal. That scandal is where some nine billion
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Speaker 1: dollars in taxpayer money was stolen under the guise of
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Speaker 1: feeding needy children. That's right, They weren't doing it at all.
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Speaker 1: According to report, Ellison accepted several two thousand, five hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars campaign donations from Somali fraudsters after they raised concerns
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Speaker 1: that federal investigator were unjustly looking at their financials. I
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Speaker 1: want you to listen to part one center Holly, questioning
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Speaker 1: and laying out the facts with receipts of exactly what
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Speaker 1: Ellison was doing.
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Speaker 4: Try another question. You familiar with the nine billion dollars
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Speaker 4: in historic fraud out of your state, including the two
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Speaker 4: hundred and fifty million dollars in the Feeding Our Future
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Speaker 4: program alone you familiar with that? Don't turn to the
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Speaker 4: pages in your book to get your potted answers. Are
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Speaker 4: you familiar with it?
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Speaker 3: Yes or no?
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Speaker 5: Yes, I am familiar with it.
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Speaker 3: Very familiar, aren't you?
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Speaker 4: Because the people who ran the Feeding Our Futures program
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Speaker 4: came to you and your official office in the state
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Speaker 4: capitol of December eleventh to twenty twenty one and ask
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Speaker 4: for your help in getting investigators off their backs. They
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Speaker 4: complained to you for upwards of an hour about state
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Speaker 4: investigators going after them, and they begged you to help them,
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Speaker 4: and you agreed to it amazingly, And we know you did.
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Speaker 4: That's because it's all caught on tape. Every single sentence
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Speaker 4: is caught on tape.
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Speaker 3: Here's what you said.
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Speaker 5: Let's take it.
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Speaker 4: You said sid a question. You said to them, send
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Speaker 4: me the names of all these folks who are investigating them.
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Speaker 4: You said to them, send me their names and I'll
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Speaker 4: take that list and I'll call the person over at
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Speaker 4: education who was investigating them and say, what's going on?
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Speaker 4: Why am I getting these complaints? Then he went on
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Speaker 4: to say, I already have my team working on this.
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Speaker 4: What day should we get together to discuss it again?
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Speaker 4: You made pledge after pledge to them. You said, we've
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Speaker 4: got to make sure this guy who's investigating them stops it.
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Speaker 4: You said, you have my attention. I'm concerned about this.
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Speaker 4: You said, let's go fight these people, meaning the people
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Speaker 4: who are investigating the fraud.
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Speaker 5: Why'd you do it?
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Speaker 3: Why did you help them?
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Speaker 5: Are you gonna let me answer?
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Speaker 3: Please? We're all here, so first of.
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Speaker 5: All, you're cherry picking coos out of there?
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Speaker 3: Then why did you help me?
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Speaker 5: I thought you were gonna let me answer? Why did
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Speaker 5: you let me answer?
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Speaker 3: Why did you help? You?
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Speaker 5: Let me answer? And I'll answer.
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Speaker 3: You tell the truth and I'll let you answer.
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Speaker 5: I will.
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Speaker 3: It'd be nice so that no.
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Speaker 6: See, mister Sherman, I didn't come here to be insulted.
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Speaker 5: I came here value you came here for the truth.
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Speaker 3: Let's have it. Why did you help? Are here?
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Speaker 4: They're in black and white and everything for this audience
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Speaker 4: and their chair. Listen to the recording. It's fifty four
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Speaker 4: minutes long. It's all in public that you can google
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Speaker 4: it right now and listen to it and listen to.
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Speaker 5: To help them, First of all, I didn't help them,
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Speaker 5: you did. No, I did not. I certainly didn't.
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Speaker 4: You're saying you didn't do anything for them. You didn't,
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Speaker 4: you didn't. Well, wait a minute, I already have my
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Speaker 4: team working on this again.
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Speaker 3: That's not you I have.
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Speaker 5: I've been with my team.
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Speaker 6: My team assisted with the information that led to the
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Speaker 6: prosecution and conviction of.
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Speaker 4: These youn't finger to prosecute them, No, you did not, because.
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Speaker 3: You had all bs. You have whistleblowers.
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Speaker 6: One talking ba Listen, My time doesn't know what you're
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Speaker 6: talking about.
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Speaker 3: You, sir, you now have encountered why did you take
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Speaker 3: your money?
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Speaker 1: You notice there Holly really honing in on following the money.
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Speaker 1: He also talked about you know, you're familiar with the
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Speaker 1: nine billion in a historic fraud out of your state,
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Speaker 1: including the two hundred and fifty million in the Feeding
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Speaker 1: our Future program alone. That's when Holly asked Ellison, to
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Speaker 1: which he responded, I'm familiar with it because the people
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Speaker 1: who ran the feeding our future program. Came to you
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Speaker 1: in your office in the state capitol December eleventh, twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one, and asked for your help in getting investigators
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Speaker 1: off their backs. Holly wasn't done talking about the money
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Speaker 1: and connecting the trail. Take a listen.
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Speaker 3: Why did you take your money? Why did you take
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Speaker 3: their money?
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Speaker 5: I didn't.
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Speaker 3: You took ten to false thousand dollars.
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Speaker 5: That's a false staate.
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Speaker 4: Ten thousand dollars. Nine days after the meeting, false state.
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Speaker 4: You took ten thousand dollars. Here's what happened. They went
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Speaker 4: to your office. That's the money for you. He came
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Speaker 4: to your office. Was you lad with them for fifty
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Speaker 4: four minutes? They asked you for help, You pledged it
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Speaker 4: to them, and they talked repeatedly about money. In fact,
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Speaker 4: it's all they talked. That's a lot of money, money, money, money.
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Speaker 4: They said, we will put our dollars in the right place.
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Speaker 4: We will support candidates that will fight to protect our interests.
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Speaker 3: You replied, that's right.
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Speaker 4: They said that you are securing your donor base and
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Speaker 4: securing your power base. You can act the way you want.
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Speaker 4: You replied, money is freedom. They said, the amount of
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Speaker 4: money circulate. I'm reading the transcript. The amount of money
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Speaker 4: you're relating in our community today is powerful and we
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Speaker 4: haven't realizing it in a meaningful way. And you said,
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Speaker 4: give me the specifics, and nine days later you took
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Speaker 4: ten thousand dollars from people who were then indicted.
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Speaker 3: It's in your reports. Why did you do it?
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Speaker 6: Sir?
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Speaker 3: This was it worth it?
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Speaker 5: You know what? This is a theatrical ten thousand.
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Speaker 3: This is the truth.
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Speaker 4: It has what amount of ability looks like, of which
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Speaker 4: you've had none. You helped fraudsters defraud your sky and
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Speaker 4: this government of nine million dollar and you got that
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Speaker 4: campaign contribution out of it.
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Speaker 3: You ought to be Indicted's true? Well, that's the truth.
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Speaker 5: I think we've made the point. Let's keep the ten
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Speaker 5: for the record.
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Speaker 3: I'll ask how's alling?
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Speaker 5: And that's and that's the truth.
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Speaker 4: Oh no, this is all on the road. Did you
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Speaker 4: bother our did you bother to investigate where the money
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Speaker 4: that you facilitated their fraud for? Where it went? Do
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Speaker 4: you know where it went? What it was used for?
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Speaker 4: The fraudulent money? I do, because we just heard testimony
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Speaker 4: about it yesterday, Because we run with tears in the
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Speaker 4: hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorists, to transnational criminal organizations,
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Speaker 4: to the drug trade, to drug trafficking, to child trafficking,
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Speaker 4: and you took ten thousand dollars.
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Speaker 5: That's a lot and help them do it.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 4: The other thing is whistle blowers came to you as
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Speaker 4: early as twenty nineteen. Let's look as early as twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 4: Whistle blood, don't talk over me early talking about in nineteen,
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Speaker 4: it's my hearing pal.
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Speaker 3: As early as nineteen, don't.
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Speaker 4: Whistle blowers came, well, I should call you prisoner because
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Speaker 4: you ought.
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Speaker 3: To be in jail.
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Speaker 5: We see what you get.
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Speaker 4: In twenty nineteen, whistleblowers came to you in your office
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Speaker 4: and referred to you fraud allegations from feeding our futures,
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Speaker 4: and you blow them off.
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Speaker 3: Listen to your own state newspaper. That's all it.
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Speaker 4: The Minnesota Start Tribune, the Partners and Nutrition brought its
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Speaker 4: concerns to the Attorney General's office in twenty eighteen and
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Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen, and you did nothing. You did nothing
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Speaker 4: for years. The only action you took is once all
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Speaker 4: these fraudsters came to your office and asked you to
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Speaker 4: get involved and offered your money.
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Speaker 3: And then you got involved. Then you took the money,
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Speaker 3: and then you got involved.
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Speaker 6: They did not come to my office. You're completely wrong
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Speaker 6: about that. You met with it in twenty.
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Speaker 4: Minutes, and you took ten thousand dollars, and they also
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Speaker 4: gave your family money. They gave your family thousands of
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Speaker 4: dollars in campaign contributions and addition.
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Speaker 5: To what they gave false statements. Let's put the business.
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Speaker 5: You know this is completely under the New York Post. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: we know the New York Post.
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Speaker 4: Minnesota Keith Ellison ag accepted campaign donations from individuals link
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Speaker 4: to the two hundred fifty million dollars COVID fraud scheme
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Speaker 4: after they were in your office. No donations came on
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Speaker 4: December twentieth, sir, You met with them on December the eleventh,
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Speaker 4: and on January twentieth, the FBI knocked over their headquarters.
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Speaker 3: No, no, that's the sequence of events here.
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Speaker 5: No, it's not.
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Speaker 3: You've been right at the.
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Speaker 4: Center of this fraud, the sequence and and sir, the
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Speaker 4: false you should resign, and sir, you should reside.
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Speaker 5: I was thinking the same thing about you.
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Speaker 3: You'd reside now.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Ellison denied helping the fraudsters, to which Holly
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Speaker 1: made it very clear, saying to Ellison to his face,
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Speaker 1: you accepted ten thousand from them nine days after the meeting.
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Speaker 1: You helped the fraudsters of fraud your's state and this
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Speaker 1: government of nine billion dollars and you got a fat
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Speaker 1: campaign contribution out of it. You ought to be indicted. No,
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Speaker 1: this is all on the record, sir, Holly continued, did
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Speaker 1: you bother to investigate whether the money that you facilitated
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Speaker 1: their fraud for where it went? Question Mark, do you
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Speaker 1: know where it went? What it was used for? The
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Speaker 1: fraud DGS money? I do, because we just heard testimony
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Speaker 1: about it yesterday. Hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorist groups,
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Speaker 1: to transnational criminal organizations, to the drug trade, to drug trafficking,
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Speaker 1: to child trafficking, and you took ten thousand dollars and
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Speaker 1: helped them do it. Holly also told Ellison that not
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Speaker 1: only should he resign from office, which I'm sure Ellison
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Speaker 1: will not do, but he reminded him that as of
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Speaker 1: last December, eighty five people have been charged in the
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Speaker 1: Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, nearly all of whom are
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Speaker 1: Somali descent. The investigation has led to sixty convictions thus far.
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Speaker 1: So how does the Attorney General look the other way
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Speaker 1: and act like it never happened. Well, it's pretty easy
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Speaker 1: when the people that are committing the fraud are giving
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Speaker 1: you campaign contributions. And this is exactly why the President
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Speaker 1: of the United States of America, Donald Trump, said multiple
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Speaker 1: times in the last week that the resources of the
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Speaker 1: federal government are all in to go after anyone is
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Speaker 1: involved in defrauding the American taxpayer and sending that money
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Speaker 1: to terrorists. Massive fraud found in California, and many, including
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, are warning that it may be bigger than
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Speaker 1: what we found in Minnesota. Millions of your tax dollars
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Speaker 1: were defrauded, in fact, by just one man. The money
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Speaker 1: was meant to feed the homeless. I want you to
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Speaker 1: hear how Fox News talked about this one individual the
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Speaker 1: defrauded Americans of more than twenty three million dollars. I'll
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Speaker 1: stay it again, this is just one person. Listen to
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Speaker 1: report from Fox News.
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Speaker 7: Agent's moving in today, busting a man accused of stealing
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Speaker 7: tens of millions of dollars meant for the homeless and
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Speaker 7: spending that cash on a lavish life style. Corsponding Matt
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Speaker 7: finn is live in Los Angeles for you, and you know,
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Speaker 7: folks were warned about this and lo and behold here
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Speaker 7: it ends.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is it behind me, John.
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Speaker 8: The FEDS say this man was contracted with the City
21:16
Speaker 8: and County of Los Angeles to housing feed up to
21:18
Speaker 8: six hundred homeless people, but instead he was misusing tens
21:22
Speaker 8: of millions of dollars to live a luxurious life. Exclusive
21:27
Speaker 8: Fox video shows the fed's early morning bust here at
21:30
Speaker 8: the La mansion. Forty two year old Alexander Suker was arrested.
21:34
Speaker 8: Suker's one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars land rover
21:37
Speaker 8: was also seized by law enforcement. The fedse Suker defrauded
21:41
Speaker 8: the City and County of La out of twenty three
21:43
Speaker 8: million in taxpayer dollars for not only his mansion and car,
21:47
Speaker 8: but a second home in Greece, luxury vacations, designer clothes,
21:51
Speaker 8: and private schools.
21:54
Speaker 9: He was living the high life while the people suffering
21:58
Speaker 9: homelessly on the street eat with no shelter, no food.
22:02
Speaker 5: They're living out in the streets.
22:03
Speaker 9: People are literally dying and this guy is out vacationing,
22:07
Speaker 9: buying homes, buying range rovers, and going shopping.
22:12
Speaker 8: Prosecutors say Suker was supposed to provide three nutritional meals
22:15
Speaker 8: a day to the homeless, but during one inspection, Suker
22:18
Speaker 8: only had canned beans and ramen noodles on hand. The
22:21
Speaker 8: Fed Saint Lucre lied about various aspects of abundant blessings,
22:26
Speaker 8: including fake vendors facilities, and the home was actually getting meals.
22:30
Speaker 8: The US Attorney's Office in LA says they are actively
22:32
Speaker 8: investigating at least twelve other similar fraud cases here in California.
22:37
Speaker 5: First Assistant US Attorney Bill A.
22:38
Speaker 8: Sale says there's a tremendous amount of fraud in this
22:40
Speaker 8: state and that today's bust of one man who misused
22:43
Speaker 8: twenty three million dollars alone may show how little oversight
22:46
Speaker 8: there is.
22:49
Speaker 9: California was pushing this money out quickly. A lot of
22:52
Speaker 9: money went out the door with frankly, very little vetting,
22:57
Speaker 9: very little checks and balances, and he's one of the
23:00
Speaker 9: individuals that got it.
23:03
Speaker 8: The suspect is scheduled to make his first appearance later today.
23:06
Speaker 8: He faces up to twenty years if convicted on a
23:08
Speaker 8: federal case. The local district attorney is also planning on
23:11
Speaker 8: prosecuting Sean.
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Speaker 1: Now this is just the tip of the iceberg. In fact,
23:16
Speaker 1: we now have the same man Nick Shirley, who did
23:20
Speaker 1: the incredible job of discovering massive fraud in Minneapolis and
23:24
Speaker 1: exposing it to the world that is landed in California,
23:28
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23:31
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Speaker 1: California and what he says, is, well incredible amounts of
24:59
Speaker 1: fraud that may be much bigger than what he exposed In.
25:03
Speaker 10: Minnesota, oh there's massive fraud In. CALIFORNIA i mean the
25:07
Speaker 10: homelessness is just increased as they receive more. Money that's
25:11
Speaker 10: just one part of. It like you talked about the
25:13
Speaker 10: light rail and everything like. That the fraud is like
25:16
Speaker 10: crazy In. California and they have the highest. Taxes, yeah
25:19
Speaker 10: they want.
25:19
Speaker 11: More because anybody approached you about this, THING i tweeted
25:24
Speaker 11: it about. IT i had never heard about, it but
25:26
Speaker 11: these guys educated me on it CALLED qui, ten which
25:29
Speaker 11: is this framework where you can actually sue on behalf
25:33
Speaker 11: of the state and on behalf of tax. Payers has
25:36
Speaker 11: anybody approached you about thinking about using all of the
25:39
Speaker 11: information that you've garnered to try to launch some of
25:42
Speaker 11: these lawsuits Or.
25:43
Speaker 10: No, yeah actually had somebody to reach out to me
25:45
Speaker 10: the other day about, it So i'm gonna actually help
25:47
Speaker 10: on a phone call that.
25:48
Speaker 5: Guy.
25:48
Speaker 12: Yeah, also AS i understand that some of these whistleblower
25:51
Speaker 12: laws reward the whistleblower with something like twenty to thirty
25:54
Speaker 12: percent of amounts in some, Cases, yeah that ARE i
25:59
Speaker 12: don't know if it's like five or it's amounts that
26:01
Speaker 12: are recaptured, recaptured BUT i Don't, nick you can become
26:04
Speaker 12: a billionaire here just with all the billions.
26:06
Speaker 5: EXPOSED i gotta sit down and figured it.
26:10
Speaker 12: OUT i know that's not why you're in, it but.
26:12
Speaker 11: You be the most well loved billionaire In america if
26:14
Speaker 11: you do absolutely.
26:15
Speaker 13: Well the way to do it, is you, know since
26:17
Speaker 13: you're drafting off of these other news, reports is to
26:19
Speaker 13: set up your own tip. Line, So, nick what's your
26:21
Speaker 13: website or do you have a website where people can?
26:23
Speaker 13: Donate and do you have a tip? Line because you
26:26
Speaker 13: wouldn't get the whistle blow awards for the Stuff fox
26:29
Speaker 13: nine has been doing for a, decade but for the
26:31
Speaker 13: next one you. Could so what is your website where
26:34
Speaker 13: people can?
26:35
Speaker 3: Donate?
26:35
Speaker 10: Nick, yeah everything just on social. Media so if they
26:38
Speaker 10: can message me on any. PLATFORM i should probably get
26:41
Speaker 10: a website, Going.
26:45
Speaker 13: Nick what's your social media handle where people CAN dm
26:47
Speaker 13: you and? Donate, yeah it's Just Nick.
26:49
Speaker 10: Shirley and if you go on X i do have
26:51
Speaker 10: my tip section, open so if you would like to donate,
26:53
Speaker 10: there that gives them all the whether it be, venmo, cash, app,
26:57
Speaker 10: crypto you can all do it right.
26:59
Speaker 1: There by the, WAY i love that this guy is
27:03
Speaker 1: doing this on his, own like he's just, like, yeah
27:05
Speaker 1: if you want to, support go for. It i'm just
27:07
Speaker 1: going to be out here exposing all this, waste fraud and.
27:10
Speaker 1: Abuse Like that's What i'm doing with my life. Now
27:13
Speaker 1: i'm not. Afraid Like Nick shirley was In San. Diego
27:17
Speaker 1: he now estimates billions of dollars in fraud under Gab newsom's,
27:21
Speaker 1: leaderships and they want more. Money they want to raise
27:25
Speaker 1: taxes even higher than they are right. Now there's Also
27:30
Speaker 1: Benny johnson who says his team is traveling to the
27:33
Speaker 1: fraud capital of the.
27:34
Speaker 3: World he's now saying It's.
27:35
Speaker 1: California they say the fraud uncovered In minnesota was very
27:39
Speaker 1: bad and led to the destruction Of Tim waltz's, career
27:43
Speaker 1: But Gavin Newsom's california is far, worse, saying The american
27:46
Speaker 1: taxpayer needs first hand to understand how Criminal california's fraud
27:51
Speaker 1: is robbing our nation. Blind he, said here's just a
27:55
Speaker 1: glimpse of what we already. Know state auditor In california,
27:58
Speaker 1: found ready for, THIS us seventy. Billion think about that,
28:03
Speaker 1: number seventy billion and taxpayer funds that had been, lost
28:07
Speaker 1: like they just, disappeared no accounting for, them. Whatsoever twenty
28:11
Speaker 1: four billion In california a loon spent on nonexistent homelessness.
28:16
Speaker 1: Programs that means someone stole twenty four billion. Dollars eighteen
28:22
Speaker 1: billion poured into nonexistent high speed. Rail you Heard nick
28:27
Speaker 1: talk about. THAT a second, ago thirty two billion FOR
28:30
Speaker 1: covid relief funds that had been. Stolen two point five
28:34
Speaker 1: billion ready for this word loss to snap. Fraud billion
28:40
Speaker 1: spent on rebuilding after The palisade, fires but no homes
28:45
Speaker 1: have been. Built that is just some of what's being
28:49
Speaker 1: exposed right. Now this is all happening In. California it's truly.
28:55
Speaker 1: Incredible But california is the fraud capital Of. America and
28:59
Speaker 1: the town taxpayer fund and nonprofits there are embezzling our
29:03
Speaker 1: money by the, billions and the governor is allowing it to.
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