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Governor Waltz Doubles Down ‘Bring More In!’ Amid Somali Scandal · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 3: Good Tuesday morning. It's so nice to have you with
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  Speaker 3: us on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got
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  Speaker 3: two major stories for you. First up, Governor Tim Waltz
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  Speaker 3: breaks his silence in the fraud scheme in Minnesota. What
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  Speaker 3: he said is going to shock you. He's not holding
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  Speaker 3: those accountable who come in the fraud. Instead, he says
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  Speaker 3: he wants to bring in more Somalis into his state.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have those comments from him and the fallout from
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: Fallout after the viral video showing widespread fraud in Minnesota
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  Speaker 3: doesn't seem to be stopping the Governor Tim Waltz from
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  Speaker 3: doing what he does best standing with a Somali community.
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  Speaker 3: Not only is he refusing to answer questions from the media,
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  Speaker 3: he's now saying he wants to bring more Somalians into
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota to back up the fraud and abuse. Apparently that's
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  Speaker 3: already happened this coming out of Seattle. As Tim Walt
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  Speaker 3: ignores the questions about apologizing to Minnesota over the Somali
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  Speaker 3: fraud and then listen to what he had to say
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  Speaker 3: at a luncheon about it as well.
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  Speaker 1: Dofter walts, what can you say about the latest on
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  Speaker 1: the Somali fraud that happened under your watch? Have you
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  Speaker 1: been able to apologize yet to the people of Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: for allowing this Somali fraud to continue under your watch?
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  Speaker 1: The people in Minnesota is the time to apologize? How
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  Speaker 1: about the whistleblowers? Then you have allegedly retaliated against Would
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  Speaker 1: you like to respond to the whistleblowers? And right how
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  Speaker 1: our neighbors are being demonized. Our neighbors are being terrorized.
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  Speaker 3: Our neighbors are.
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  Speaker 1: The antidote to that is is positive actions to improve
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  Speaker 1: lives that go against what they're trying to do. So
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  Speaker 1: instead all weren't to be worth, welcome, orient and welcome human.
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  Speaker 3: It's still that's right. You just heard the governor of
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota say. Instead, of cutting programs filled with billions of
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  Speaker 3: dollars of fraud, We're going to enhance those programs, he said.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of getting rid of people, we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: more welcoming. Instead of demonizing our Somali community, We're going
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  Speaker 3: to be bringing more of them in, welcoming more of
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  Speaker 3: them in. Why what a governor, after billions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: of fraud is exposed would say something this out of
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  Speaker 3: touch with reality. Well, it's very simple. Governor Waltz knows
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  Speaker 3: that he could not be reelected without the Somali community.
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  Speaker 3: There is a large voting block, and the Somali community
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  Speaker 3: votes basically one hundred percent of the time together. It's
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  Speaker 3: not like normal America. We're fifty percent or conservative and
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  Speaker 3: fifty percent or liberal, or forty five percent or conservative
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  Speaker 3: and forty five percent or liberal, and then there's the
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  Speaker 3: undecideds in the middle. The Somali community, you get all
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  Speaker 3: of them are virtually none of their vote, and Governor
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  Speaker 3: Waltz is basically saying, I'm willing to sell out Minnesota's
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  Speaker 3: taxpayers and federal taxpayers to save the Somali community, putting
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  Speaker 3: them ahead of American citizens that are being defrauded which
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  Speaker 3: brings us to the Trump administration's response to this insanity.
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  Speaker 3: The Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Nome has now
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  Speaker 3: confirmed that federal Homeland Security agents are actively conducting a
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  Speaker 3: major fraud investigation in Minneapolis, focusing on the childcare centers
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  Speaker 3: and other alleged rampant fraud schemes. Agents have been observed
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  Speaker 3: going door to door at suspected sites as part of
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  Speaker 3: the probe in the last twenty four hours. The administration
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  Speaker 3: is portraying the operations part of a broader effort to
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  Speaker 3: protect federal funds and ensure accountability, framing these activities as
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  Speaker 3: legitimate law enforcement actions that are expanding and that moves
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  Speaker 3: us to the FBI. FBI Director Cash Betel has announced
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  Speaker 3: the Bureau has also surged additional agents and new investigative
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  Speaker 3: resources to Minnesota at large to investigate what officials are
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  Speaker 3: describing as a large scale fraud schemes involving federal aid
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  Speaker 3: programs amounting into the hundreds of millions, if not billions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars. Director Brittel characterize the known fraud cases as
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  Speaker 3: possibly the tip of a very large iceberg, referring to
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  Speaker 3: previous investigations like feeding our future and new leads sparked
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  Speaker 3: by the recent media attention as well as whistleblowers coming
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  Speaker 3: forward that also brings us to the US Immigration and
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  Speaker 3: Customs Enforcement known as ICE. They often work under the
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  Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security, and it has been reported that
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  Speaker 3: they are targeting suspected fraud sites in Minnesota to identify
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  Speaker 3: and address possible immigration related violations, including checks on legal
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  Speaker 3: status and inform where applicable. Some news reports are also
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  Speaker 3: indicating that there have been door to door operations connected
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  Speaker 3: with the fraud investigation that also involved immigration enforcement elements.
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  Speaker 3: Specific numbers and targets are in flux, but we will
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  Speaker 3: keep you updated on when we get the hard numbers. Now,
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  Speaker 3: all of this has triggered a federal response because of
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  Speaker 3: the viral social media video showing alleged empty daycare centers
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  Speaker 3: and nonetheless receiving no significant public information from the governor,
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  Speaker 3: the Attorney General of Minnesota, or even from the mainstream media.
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  Speaker 3: Conservative leaders including Ted Cruz, Vice President Vance, have publicly
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  Speaker 3: praised the video's impact in drawing federal attention to the
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  Speaker 3: matter as well the FBI and the Department of Home Security.
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  Speaker 3: Response also blends long standing fraud investigations with new actions
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  Speaker 3: tied to the recent spotlight on the Minnesota programs, which
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  Speaker 3: brings us back to the Minnesota Governor, Tim Waltz. He
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  Speaker 3: is being criticized by federal figures and GOP lawmakers the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration, framing the situation as evidence of lacks oversight
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  Speaker 3: of federal funds, and officials in Minnesota are even angry
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  Speaker 3: as well, bringing up broader claims emphasizing existing efforts to
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  Speaker 3: fight fraud, and the whistleblowers were punished by the governor.
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  Speaker 3: So that brings us to where we are.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: What we know is it looks like law and order
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  Speaker 3: will be restored, even if the governor says we want
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  Speaker 3: to bring in more Somalis for more fraud, even when
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  Speaker 3: he says that we're demonizing those that are taking billions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars away from American citizens. So Governor Waltz can
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  Speaker 3: hang out on stage and say this is his plan,
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  Speaker 3: but it's clear that law and order and law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: is going to take place, and it could even involve
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  Speaker 3: the governor himself. Now, story number two, there were major
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about overthrow of a regime.
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  Speaker 3: trump meeting with Zolensky. Donald Trump's engagement with Zelensky was
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  Speaker 3: about moving forward toplomacy. It also include a phone call
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  Speaker 3: with Russia's Vladimir Putin after their meeting ended. Progress towards
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