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Minnesota Dems Looked Away from Fraud, Funds and Favors plus Seashells, Threats, and a Second Indictment · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The Quality Leering Center in Minneapolis. Remember the leering center,
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  Speaker 1: you know where you send your kids to learn something,
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  Speaker 1: But it's called the leering Center. It's not a joke.
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  Speaker 1: It was on their sign will That center, plus twenty
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  Speaker 1: other Minnesota daycares have now been rated by the FBI
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  Speaker 1: as part of a massive fraud investigation. The FBI not
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  Speaker 1: only rated the infamous Quality Leering Center, but they went
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  Speaker 1: after the other ones as well, the FBI describing it
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: as a multi billion dollars social services fraud. Now the raids,
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  Speaker 1: they say, we're focused on prominent businesses tied to the
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  Speaker 1: Somali American community. Today, the FBI, with federal, state, and
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  Speaker 1: local law enforcement, is involved in court authorized law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation. Is what
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  Speaker 1: a Justice Department official told the New York Posts. Agents
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  Speaker 1: used a back ter ram to enter at least one
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  Speaker 1: of the alleged day cares, the Metro Learning Center. No
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  Speaker 1: word if they used to call it the leering Center
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  Speaker 1: or not.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The targets included the Quality Learning Center of Minnesota daycare
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  Speaker 1: that misspelled the word learning and its signage and collected
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  Speaker 1: a staggering ninety five violations from the State Human Services
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  Speaker 1: Agency between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty three that according
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  Speaker 1: to the local ABC News affiliate there, President Trump announced
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  Speaker 1: a war on fraud in his February Day of the
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  Speaker 1: Union address and put Vice President J. D. Vance in
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  Speaker 1: charge of a task force leading that effort.
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  Speaker 1: Kristin Robbins, chair of the House Fraud Committee, called the
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  Speaker 1: raids fantastic and said she hoped they would lead to
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  Speaker 1: accountability the state has been lacking for years. Here's more
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  Speaker 1: of what unfolded on TV as this became public news.
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  Speaker 4: Federal agents seen leaving the Quality Learning Center and Brooke
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  Speaker 4: Taylor has more on that and what they're looking for.
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  Speaker 5: Brooked morning, Hi Bill, good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: We have had a photographer there at the daycare since
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  Speaker 7: this morning capturing video of those federal.
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  Speaker 5: Agents just going in and out of the building.
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  Speaker 7: Collecting evidence as part of the DOJ's fraud investigation in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 5: Take a look at this video here.
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  Speaker 7: Sources tell Fox that federal agents are rating about twenty
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  Speaker 7: two businesses across Minneapolis this morning, and sources say many
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  Speaker 7: of them are tied to some moally owned operations. All
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  Speaker 7: of this comes after that viral YouTube video from Nick Shirley.
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  Speaker 7: It was back in December. In that video, he visited
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  Speaker 7: different child's care centers and you'll remember they were either
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  Speaker 7: closed or there were just no children inside, despite receiving
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  Speaker 7: state child's care funding. Now the location that you're looking
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  Speaker 7: at right now, it's the Quality Learning Center.
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  Speaker 5: This is the daycare. It went viral, It.
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  Speaker 7: Blew up on social media because of a sign outside
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  Speaker 7: with learning that was literally misspelled. The Education secretary at
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  Speaker 7: the time claimed that the daycare received one point nine
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  Speaker 7: million dollars while quote.
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  Speaker 5: Masquerading as a daycare.
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  Speaker 7: And then shortly after that, the Trump administration announced it
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  Speaker 7: was freezing child's care funding to Minnesota and calling for
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  Speaker 7: a full audit of certain daycare centers. And just checking
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  Speaker 7: my emails, now it looks like we I got a
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  Speaker 7: statement from DHS share and quote Homeland Security investigations in
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  Speaker 7: cooperation with our law enforcement partners, executed criminal search warrants
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  Speaker 7: in Minneapolis relating to the rampant fraud of US taxpayers dollars,
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  Speaker 7: and as you could see, their federal agents still outside
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  Speaker 7: one of those daycare centers where they have been the
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  Speaker 7: last few hours.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is truly incredible, because again you've got twenty
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  Speaker 1: two different businesses being rated that represent only the tip
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  Speaker 1: of the iceberg.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly, if they.
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  Speaker 1: Found enough to execute raids against twenty two, there is
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  Speaker 1: still a long way to go in this. We have dozens,
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  Speaker 1: probably closer to one hundred childcare centers where their license
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  Speaker 1: capacity is much lower than their units they are being
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  Speaker 1: billed for, and that is a clear indicator of fraud.
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  Speaker 1: How on earth those are still allowed to have active
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  Speaker 1: licenses is stunning to us. I couldn't agree more with
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  Speaker 1: the congresswoman from Minnesota. Now, let me also remind you
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  Speaker 1: that the focus on frauday Minnesota had largely been on
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic era of food programs and autism support services
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  Speaker 1: that fleeced taxpayers for countless dollars. The Justice Department since
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  Speaker 1: September has indicted seven alleged fraudsters who allegedly recruited members
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  Speaker 1: of the Somali community to enroll children and fake autism services,
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  Speaker 1: raking in more than fourteen million a loan. One defendant
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  Speaker 1: has now pled guilty. Now at least sixty five people
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  Speaker 1: have been charged as well criminally with the separate Feeding
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  Speaker 1: Our Future scam, which ripped off taxpayers the tune of
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million in counting. Many have pleaded
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  Speaker 1: guilty in that case as well. With the DOJ has
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  Speaker 1: begun prosecuting many of those cases back during the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Trump administration is also estimating just in Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: loan that there is now more than nineteen billion I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to say that again, nineteen billion in fraud. Dozens
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  Speaker 1: have been charged criminally. A Democratic governor Tim Wallas expressed
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  Speaker 1: regret during a recent congressional hearing for not doing more
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  Speaker 1: to guard against fraud, and noted that he had accepted
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  Speaker 1: responsibility by ending his bid for his third term as
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  Speaker 1: the governor of the state of Minnesota. In an ex
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  Speaker 1: post Tuesday morning, he voiced support for efforts to find
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  Speaker 1: and root out frauds urch despite previously dismissing the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: As he described it white supremacy not a joke. If
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  Speaker 1: you commit fraud in Minnesota, you're going to get caught.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what we saw today. He tweeted out,
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  Speaker 1: we catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information,
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  Speaker 1: joined investigations work, and securing justice depends on it. He wrote,
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  Speaker 1: in a stunning about face because now, well he knows
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  Speaker 1: those donations and the Somali fraudsters aren't going to be
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  Speaker 1: coming in to him and other Democratic candidates. The statement
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  Speaker 1: was a massive about face for the twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: Democratic vice presidential nominee. He previously suggested that fraud investigations
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  Speaker 1: targeting businesses that are mostly run by the Somali immigrant
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  Speaker 1: community were scapegoating and the result again of white supremacy.
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  Speaker 1: Walt said Tuesday that the raids were carried out with
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  Speaker 1: the support of local law enforcement. That is another departure
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  Speaker 1: from the mass immigration raids that took place across Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: earlier this year. Those operations carried out against the protests
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  Speaker 1: of state and local leaders through widespread backlash, which increased
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  Speaker 1: after federal agents killed two people in Minnesota. Now this
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  Speaker 1: isn't the only fraud that the administration is looking at
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  Speaker 1: there are other frauds that are happening around the country.
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  Speaker 1: And let me just get you ready for what I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to play for you. Secretary Brook Rawlings revealed that
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  Speaker 1: in just one state alone, there were fourteen thousand individuals
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  Speaker 1: receiving SNAP benefits that were driving high end luxury cars.
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  Speaker 3: You want to talk about the tip of the iceberg.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to this sharing.
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  Speaker 8: Previously, no data was shared. We had no idea where
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  Speaker 8: the taxpayer dollars were spent just one Red state. The
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  Speaker 8: recent dump of data, we found SNAP recipients had more
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  Speaker 8: than two thousand Tesla owners, two hundred Alpha Romeo owners,
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  Speaker 8: more than one hundred and forty four that were receiving
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  Speaker 8: food stamps.
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  Speaker 5: We're driving porsches.
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  Speaker 3: Again.
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  Speaker 8: This is the data dumps we're getting because that we
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  Speaker 8: before we had no accountability on any of these programs.
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  Speaker 8: We now are requiring accountability. The blue states are suing us.
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  Speaker 8: They don't want to share the data. And can you
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  Speaker 8: imagine this was a red state where there is actually
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  Speaker 8: some taxpayer accountability. Imagine what's happening in the blue states.
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  Speaker 8: If that's happening in the red state.
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  Speaker 1: This goes back to the President of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America saying we're going to start looking for fraud everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: We are not just going to sit here and act
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  Speaker 1: like it's only happening in liberal states. We now know
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  Speaker 1: it's happening in conservative states, many times in liberal cities,
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  Speaker 1: because almost every conservative state does have liberal cities, and
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  Speaker 1: that is where you see this massive fraud. We've been
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  Speaker 1: talking a lot about fraud, waste, and abuse, and we
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  Speaker 1: know exactly what has happened with the Quality Leering Center
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. But it's not just the fraud and the
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  Speaker 1: FBI ratings twenty plus places in Minnesota. It now seems
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  Speaker 1: that the administration is focusing on a lot of other
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  Speaker 1: fraudile and activity. Some of it even involves food stamps.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a very interesting article that was written
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  Speaker 1: about the number of recipients of food stamps that are
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  Speaker 1: actually driving ferraris. I'm not talking about just like one
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  Speaker 1: talking about a lot. We're also talking about people driving
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  Speaker 1: Lamborghini's and Bentley's and range Rovers and Porsches, Yes, getting
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  Speaker 1: food stamps. Center Cruz and I talked about that earlier,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to hear what he had to
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  Speaker 1: say about what the government's going to do next and
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  Speaker 1: what you can expect. I want to move center on
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  Speaker 1: to another topic, and that is some good news for
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  Speaker 1: people that are sick and tired of seeing crimes committed
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  Speaker 1: in one actual action, especially when it comes to taxpayer
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  Speaker 1: dollars disappearing by the tens of billions.
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  Speaker 2: And now we have the FBI that.
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  Speaker 1: Has rated the Minneapolis fraud ridden care centers at twenty
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  Speaker 1: plus of these that were actually raided by the FBI,
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  Speaker 1: including the famous children's leering center that was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: say on their sign learning but it was just a
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  Speaker 1: leering center.
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  Speaker 2: That one was rated as well. And I am.
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  Speaker 1: Excited to just say, at least it looks like now
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  Speaker 1: we're getting some real action into stole upping this fraud
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  Speaker 1: and is showing that if you take away taxpayer dours
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  Speaker 1: this way and you send it to terrorist organizations like
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  Speaker 1: ALUs Jabab and you bribe democrats to look the other way,
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  Speaker 1: like Governor Waltz, but with campaign contributions, somebody is at
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  Speaker 1: least going to.
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  Speaker 2: Come in and actually hold you accountable.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, look, I'm very glad that there is finally going
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  Speaker 3: to be some accountability. Twenty two locations in Minneapolis rated
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  Speaker 3: by the FBI. This week you mentioned the Quality Leering Center.
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  Speaker 3: Of course they're most proud graduate ilhan Omar, who actually
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  Speaker 3: is not technical.
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  Speaker 1: World War eleven yesterday? Did you know about that? We
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  Speaker 1: got eleven war wars? That's impressive stuff. I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: the King of Eland knew that.
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  Speaker 3: It really is stunning. So she was giving a speech
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  Speaker 3: and the speech referenced World War two, but the two
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  Speaker 3: is two Roman numerals, and that's you know, how you
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  Speaker 3: normally write world War two? And she read that as
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  Speaker 3: World War eleven yes now.
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  Speaker 1: And didn't like correct herself, just owned it and kept
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  Speaker 1: going like it was not like if you I did that.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, if you've ever read a speech
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  Speaker 1: and you're tired or you're just kind of it's a
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  Speaker 1: long day, you can you might, but you immediately correct it.
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  Speaker 1: She had no clue, no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Look, look, there's a level of ignorance there. If a
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  Speaker 3: ninth grader thought World War II was World War eleven,
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  Speaker 3: you would flunk that ninth grader. I mean, you think
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Just too Nowadays we'll just socially just pass them on
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  Speaker 1: in our public school. So so back in the good
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  Speaker 1: old days, you'd fail.
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  Speaker 3: Look look, Ilhan Omar is one of the leading Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: She and AOC and I mean the crazy squad is
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  Speaker 3: driving the agenda of Democrats today. And the level of
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  Speaker 3: ignorance of basic world history is really stunning. And Omar
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  Speaker 3: was also integral in covering up the Somali fraud in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: She was a beneficiary of it. She was elected by
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  Speaker 3: the fraudsters. The Somali voting base is is her core base.
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  Speaker 3: Their money helped elect her, their votes did elect her.
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  Speaker 3: And she and Tim Wallson the governor, and Keith Ellison,
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  Speaker 3: the ag they were all absolutely involved in the cover up.
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  Speaker 3: They had every incentive. It was corrupt and we're talking
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  Speaker 3: over nine billion dollars of taxpayer money swindled away. And
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  Speaker 3: so here's what Fox News reported about the raids. Federal
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  Speaker 3: authorities rated more than twenty locations, including child care facilities,
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  Speaker 3: in Minneapolis on Tuesday as part of a sweeping fraud
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  Speaker 3: investigation into largely Somali owned businesses. Sources confirmed to Fox News.
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  Speaker 3: Quote today, the FBI, with federal, state and local law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement is involved in court authorized law enforcement activity as
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  Speaker 3: part of an ongoing fraud investigation. A Department of Justice
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  Speaker 3: spokesperson said authorities executed twenty two federal search warrants in
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota on Tuesday morning as part of to the operation,
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  Speaker 3: which is not immigration related. Sources said the raids center
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  Speaker 3: on federal fraud investigations into largely Somali owned businesses, including
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  Speaker 3: childcare facilities that registered their daycare with the state but
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  Speaker 3: were allegedly billing for care that was not provided. Sources
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  Speaker 3: told Fox News that two of the raids were conducted
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  Speaker 3: at the Quality Leering Center and Baby haleim No Childcare,
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  Speaker 3: both in Minneapolis. Vice President j D Vance addressed the
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  Speaker 3: raids at a post on x, writing, the task Force
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  Speaker 3: of the DOJ will be relentless and exposing these fraudsters
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  Speaker 3: wherever they may be hiding. Governor Tim Waltz, this is
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  Speaker 3: you you want to talk about. Amazing, Hutspot said. The
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  Speaker 3: raids were carried out by federal and state law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: after state agencies quote caught irregular behavior and reported it.
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  Speaker 3: Quote If you commit fraud in Minnesota, You're going to
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  Speaker 3: get caught. And that's exactly what we saw today. We
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  Speaker 3: catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information, join investigations, work,
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  Speaker 3: and securing justice depends upon it. Now that truly is
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  Speaker 3: stunning because Walt's his entire governorship has looked the other
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  Speaker 3: way on massive fraud, has refused to investigate it, has
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  Speaker 3: profited from it, has been elected by it, has taken
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  Speaker 3: campaign donations from it. The entire Democrat machinery was built
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  Speaker 3: on fraud. And now he's taking credit. That really is
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  Speaker 3: like the arsonists taking credit when the firefighters turn up
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  Speaker 3: and put out the fire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all because now he's not running for reelection, right,
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  Speaker 1: so he can just be like, oh, we're rooting out
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  Speaker 1: fraud and try to I guess rebuild his legacy. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe he can have a grand comeback one day. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if that's going to work. There's one aspect
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  Speaker 1: of this though center that excites me, and it's the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it's clear this is the beginning, not the end,
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  Speaker 1: based on what was said by the DOJ, like this
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  Speaker 1: is the tip of the iceberg. We're going to the
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  Speaker 1: catalyst point. And then there's been directives at all states,
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  Speaker 1: including Republican led states, to start looking at waste, fraud
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  Speaker 1: and abuse.
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  Speaker 2: They're looking at California.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see more people that are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be indicted and more places that are going to be
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  Speaker 1: rated outside of Minnesota. That is exactly what the American
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  Speaker 1: people voted for, which was to get rid of waste,
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  Speaker 1: fraud and abuse.
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  Speaker 3: That is exactly right. And I will point out also
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  Speaker 3: that other Blue states are coming. California is coming. I
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  Speaker 3: have every reason to expect, and indeed, I've been told
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  Speaker 3: by senior officials in the administration California is even worse, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: than Minneapolis has been. And I want you also give
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  Speaker 3: a listen to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rawlins and what she
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  Speaker 3: revealed about fraud and abuse concerning SNAP. Concerning food stamps,
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  Speaker 3: give a listen to to Secretary Rollins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this one's amazing, by the way, for context, this
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  Speaker 1: is about luxury cars and how many people on food
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  Speaker 1: stamps are driving like luxury cars.
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  Speaker 5: It's incredible sharing.
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  Speaker 8: Previously, no data was shared. We had no idea where
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: the taxpayer dollars were spent, just one red state. The
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: recent dump of data, we found SNAP recipients had more
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: than two thousand Tesla owners, two hundred Alpha Romeo owners,
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: more than one hundred and forty four that were receiving
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: food stamps. We're driving Porsches. Again, this is the data
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  Speaker 8: dumps we're getting because that we before we had no
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: accountability on any of these programs. We now are requiring accountability.
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  Speaker 8: The Blue states are suing us. They don't want to
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  Speaker 8: share the data. And can you imagine this was a
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  Speaker 8: red state where there is actually some taxpayer accountability. Imagine
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  Speaker 8: what's happening in the Blue states. If that's happening in
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  Speaker 8: the red.
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  Speaker 2: State, well, I love that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a bunch of Tesla owners Alpha Romeo, also Porsches, Mercedes,
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  Speaker 1: BMW's and you're on food stamps, like these were high
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  Speaker 1: end luxury.
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  Speaker 3: Care ben it's even worse. Give some additional breakdown. So
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  Speaker 3: there are three hundred and six land Rovers.
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  Speaker 2: They're worth cheap.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, there were fifty nine Maseratis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there wered stamp car you know that.
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  Speaker 3: There were eleven Lamborghinis. There were three Ferraris, there were
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  Speaker 3: three Bentley's. These are people getting food stamps driving a
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  Speaker 3: quarter million dollar or more like a Lamborghini could be
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: a million dollar car, depending on which one they had. Yeah,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: that is an absolute abuse. And if that happened in
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: just one Red state that handed over its data. How
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  Speaker 3: much do you think it's happening in Minnesota, How much
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: do you think it's happening in New York. How much
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: do you think it is happening in Illinois. How much
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: you think it's happening in California. The numbers are going
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: to be shopped done.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Every time they went after and got somebody there for fraud. Recently,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: what were they doing. You saw them putting in a
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: six figure call that was being seized, and in some
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: of the cases there was like multiple six figure cars
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that were being c center and put on flatbeds. Like, yeah,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: they finally raided the house to this fraudster and look
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: at what they had. Like if you're on foodstamps and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: you're driving a Lambeau or a Ferrari or a Maserati,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: like you were defrauding the US government full stop. Former
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: FBI director James Comy has now been indicted by a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: federal grand jury for the second time in what is
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: becoming one of the most politically charged legal battles in
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: recent memory. Now, this latest indictment was handed down in
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: North Carolina and its centers around a twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: social media post a photo Comy shared showing seashells arranged
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: to read eighty six forty seven. Prosecutors argue that phrase
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: was a Now prosecutors argue that that phrase was a
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: clear threat against President Donald Trump because eighty six means
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to get rid of and Trump is a forty seventh president.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: According to the US Department of Justice, Comy is now
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: facing not one but two phony counts threatening the president
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. Here's how it
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: was announced on Fox News has.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Indicted former FBI director James Comy for a second time.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Justice corresponded David spot Scott the story. He's here in Washington.
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  Speaker 3: Hey David, they're going to go at it again. John.
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  Speaker 4: They are going at it again, not even a year
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: after they went at it after the first time. We're
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: told this via several law enforcement sources. Were told this
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: is related to an Instagram post from the former FBI
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: director last year when he posted on the beach you
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: may remember there was a formation of shells that said
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: eighty six forty seven that were in that pairing of
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: eighty six forty seven, and he said something along the
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: lines of isn't this a curious formation that I just
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: found while walking on the beach well. Critics to that
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: post immediately pointed out that eighty six, at least in
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: the restaurant world, means to get rid of or to
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: kill something from a menu. Forty seven meeting the forty
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: seventh President of the United States. So Komi did speak
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: with the Secret Service, did speak with federal investigators at
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: the time, he was interviewed last spring or early last summer.
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  Speaker 4: Shortly after that happened, no charges were ever filed. But
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: now it appears that he has been indicted. Today, we're
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: working to learn more about the indictment. We're waiting to
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: see if officials have anything to say on this. That
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: is the post that you see right there, cool shell
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: formation on my beach walk from former director.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Now, this obviously is going to be very interesting, and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: what's also interesting is how the media is covering it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: You heard how Fox is covering it, but listen to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the difference when CNN brought it up on their program.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: We also know that.
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: There has been investigation ongoing down in Florida around a
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: broad swath of the Russia investigation many years ago, starting
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: back in twenty sixteen, an investigation comy had worked on.
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  Speaker 5: Until Donald Trump fired him as his FBI director. Could
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: it be something related to that?
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: A lot of questions here, But this is going to
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: be a really interesting case moving forward because Komy had
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: been indicted again and had been trying to make arguments
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: in court the last time he faced charges in the
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: fall that he was being singled out for prosecution that.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: It was very unfair.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: You're very likely to see something like that again from
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: his legal team, and I did try and reach out
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: to them for more information.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: I have nothing back at this point on that front.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: We're still waiting bor us.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Now you also heard thing very interesting there from CNN.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: They mentioned that there's also another investigation going on that
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: deals with the Russia collusion investigation. Now, this was one
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of the most explosive political sagas in modern American history.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: And guess what, it's not over. In fact, it's back
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: in the spotlight now in a major way. And you
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: can hear CNN is trying to get ahead of it.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: And now it could also directly involve the former FBI
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: director James Comy. Yet again, Now let me just remind
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: you of how all this got started. Back in twenty sixteen,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the FBI launched what was known as Crossfire Hurricane. It
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: was an investigation of whether Donald Trump campaign was coordinating
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: with Russia. That probe ultimately led to the Special Counsel
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Robert Muller's investigation, which confirmed that Russia did interfere in
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the election, but did not establish a con criminal They
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: claimed conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. But now
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: we're learning that the story doesn't end with the collusion
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: hoax being declared a hoax. We now know that because
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of the Trump administration, they're saying, we're going to see
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: exactly what happened here, because in twenty fifteen and into
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: this year, the administration has reopened scrutiny into the origins
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: of the Russian investigation, launching was effectively a new criminal
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: probe into the investigators themselves that includes looking in the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: figures were being told like former CIA director John Brennan
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and yes, James Comy. According to the new reports, the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: FBI and the DOJ have begun examining whether Komy and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: others made not only false statements, but abused intelligence authorities
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and mishandled evidence during the origins of the original Russia investigation.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: At the same time, we now know newly declassified documents
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: pushed by intelligence officials are also reigniting debate over whether
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: there were efforts to shape or even influence the narrative,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and that obviously is where things get complicated, and that's
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: why the government is looking into all of this. US
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: intelligence agencies concluded Russia did interfere in our e lifections,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: but they did not coordinate that interference with the Trump campaign.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: This is the biggest problem for James Comy and others,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and that's exactly why right now they're in now having
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: to answer for their decisions. Because of course it was
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the FBI director James Kmy who approved the key decisions
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: early in the Russian investigation, and then he's the same
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: guy that later briefed Congress about it. He was also,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: as you know, fired by President Trump in twenty seventeen,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a move that helped trigger the Moler probe in the
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: first place. So you fast forward to right now. Comy's
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: now facing multiple legal challenges, including separate indictments unrelated to Russia.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: But at the same time he's also reported under scrutiny
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: again for his role in that original investigation. It does
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: mean that the chickens actually for once may be coming
• 26:57
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• 27:08
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