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Hour 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.199 two of our first show back in the new year. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:15.600 Never been so. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.160 Excited to see. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.640 The calendar flip from twenty twenty five to twenty twenty six. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:22.440 The new year. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.640 Lots to cover, and we have I think the most 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.400 important journalists from the state of Minnesota and one of 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.880 the most important journalists in the country. She did the 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.920 fall of Minneapolis, which is truly important following the George 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.520 Floyd riots. And she's a senior reporter from Alpha News. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:44.399 Liz Colin from Minneapolis, Minnesota, or at least thereabouts. Liz, 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.800 Welcome to the Charlie Kirkshow it's good to see you again. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.640 Hi guys, Happy New Year. Good to see you as well. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.320 Thanks for having me a lot I'm here a lot 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:53.240 to talk about. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.400 Yeah, I mean, we actually had reached out to you, 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:57.920 I know, Blake and you were talking about. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.840 It back and forth. You're in high demand on. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.480 The Somalia fraud issue, and we did not know when 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.880 we booked you that we were also going to be 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.920 welcomed by the news that Tim Waltz is deciding not 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:14.320 to run for reelection. What is the story behind the 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:15.160 story here, Liz. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.000 Yeah, you guys, these last few weeks been a bit 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.680 of a whirlwind in Minnesota. You could certainly say that 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:26.000 with News and Politics, no doubt. Governor Tim Walls making 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.240 it official actually just about an hour ago here that 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.960 he will not seek reelection to a third term as governor. 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.880 There have been many political scandals on his watch. We've 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.920 been detailing all of them, but this billion dollar fraud 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:43.240 scheme seemed to be the last straw in his case. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.800 Nine billion dollars in all and counting. We now have 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.639 multiple federal investigations going on here in Minnesota. And yeah, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.519 compared to mainstream media, I think we've been one of 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.320 the very few, is certainly the most prominent in the 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.200 state of Minnesota criticizing that the governor. We have been 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.760 for several years with our exclusive reporting. But we even 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.360 showed up at that press conference today, our photo journalist, 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.320 which it's really difficult to even call it a press conference, 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.480 you guys, but Governor Walls took no questions at all. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.920 Alf News tried to get into the room, but we 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.000 were told we were not on the list, so we 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:17.400 could not. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:18.800 The governor. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.639 It's been years now since they've even responded to our 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.840 requests for comment on any story. But really just a 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.800 bizarre situation. If any of your viewers. We're seeing this 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.639 at all play out on X you have walls coming off. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.160 I think quite angry. I think that's fair to say. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.080 He talked about how he was supposedly fighting fraud for 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.800 his last seven years in office, which came off as 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.840 a bit of a surprise to any of us paying attention, 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.800 basically blaming Republicans and President Trump for all of this. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.880 Referring to Nick Shirley's viral video, which got an awful 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.760 lot of attention, called that a right wing YouTuber and 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.320 Nick Shirley was breaking into daycares. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:03:59.640 We have that we have. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.560 That's let's play it real quick. Let's play one seventy nine. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:08.840 We've got conspiracy theorist, right wing YouTubers breaking into our daycares, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.840 demanding access to our children. We've got the President of 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:19.400 the United States demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:24.320 funds that Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.800 Now what comes to mind for me, Liz, is he 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.680 can talk a big game there, he can say that, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.360 yet I feel like nothing confirms all of the theories 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:36.679 and allegations going on in Minnesota. More than the fact 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.120 Governor Wallace realizes I can't fix this in the eleven 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.320 in the ten months till the next election, I have 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.720 to drop out to give us a shot in this race. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:49.839 That seems like the greatest confirmation of all that there's 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.560 a gigantic scandal here. 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:53.000 Correct. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.599 Yeah, I mean I think Blake pretty but paying attention, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.920 it certainly seems that that way that with what he's 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.240 saying now, it's almost kind of opposite day. But we 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.800 see that message again and again from the Governor's office. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.760 But you have some interesting maneuvering happening behind the scenes. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.320 And this is something we've been monitoring for months now. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.440 Even when Governor Walls announced in September that he would 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.360 run for reelection for a third term, many were very 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.000 surprised by that with all of the baggage that he 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:26.120 carries in the state. But now it seems that it 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.000 seems to be more and more truthful now and this 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.159 is something we were hearing months ago that Senator Amy 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:35.680 Klobashar will in fact be running for Minnesota governor. And 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.760 then you have perhaps some backroom dealing going on that 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:43.520 Walls would then be appointed to her Senate seat because 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.720 She is not up for reelection until twenty thirty one, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.600 so there would be a special election in twenty eight 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.960 but Walls would have some sort of swap out until then. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.839 This is all just sort of speculative at this point, 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.960 but many of these Democrats, one could say that, you know, 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.560 fraud has been happening on the watch of many Democrats 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.880 here in Minnesota. It's been twenty years now since there 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.040 was a statewide office held by a Republican in Minnesota. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.839 But they've been all very quiet. You did not see 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.640 anybody really going to bat, if you will, for Governor 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.120 Walls for these many weeks and months, and sometimes you 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.520 know that silence speaks louder than anything else. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.880 So you know, this seems to be the first shoe 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:27.480 to drop. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.080 And this swap out idea is fascinating because I could 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.000 I could actually see that really coming to bear here. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.760 But the question then becomes where is accountability? So you've 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.839 been doing the research and the investigations here, Liz in Minnesota. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.359 Who is most responsible? Obviously the buck stops with the 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.960 guy at the top, But it seems like this fraud 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.599 has you have to have so many people turn a 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.760 blind eye to allow the fraud to go this long, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.120 this large, this widespread, Who needs to be held accountable? 0:06:59.120 --> 0:06:59.400 Next? 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.360 I think it's a great point Andrew. In many ways, 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.159 this this fraud is almost baked into the legislation that 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.320 we see passed again and again at the state capital 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.240 with these NGOs, these nonprofits that are formed. I'll just 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.200 highlight some recent reporting over at Elphinews within the last 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.120 few months, but a transportation company paid millions of dollars 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:23.320 over what the Minneapolis School District was allowing. We find 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.280 that these vans are either sitting for months on end, 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.840 or in fact they're driving around town without any passengers 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.800 in them at all. A Somali owned company, several small 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.920 owned companies working for the Minneapolis School District. Well, it 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.200 turns out that there is some legislation passed in twenty 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.840 twenty three under a DFL trifecta so controlled by Democrats, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.680 that basically one hundred percent, one hundred percent of the 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.400 reimbursement that is submitted to the federal government will go 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.600 to the district and those companies. And what are the 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.480 monitoring systems put in place for these you know, so 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.160 called rides and service This is all of a sudden 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.239 assigned to what they consider the homeless and highly mobile 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.880 population in Minneapolis. So what do we see all of 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.360 a sudden, there's a forty percent spike in homeless kids 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.520 in Minneapolis. So when you really take a look at 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.600 a lot of this, the math certainly does not add up, 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.160 but has not been for years. But we continue to 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.480 detail those stories over at ELPHA News from whistleblowers who've 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.360 been trying to bring this to the attention of prosecutors 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.160 of authorities for such a long time. I've interviewed recently 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.440 just a TSA agent who detailed her time at the 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.800 airport here how she would watch millions of dollars in 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:39.040 cash and carry on luggage be flown out of MSP 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.719 on a weekly basis by a couple of US Somali men, 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:47.400 sometimes the same, sometimes different. And this was also cooperated 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.680 by a former HSI agent who I then interviewed, who 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.000 talked about how again and again they would present these 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:58.640 cases to the US Attorney's office back then and there 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:03.000 would be no prosecution at all, no charges. Very similar 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.280 with congress Woman il Han Omar, we're hearing a lot 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.560 about her again as President Trump continues to bring her 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.679 up but marrying her brother, the fact that there are 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.160 questions if she's even a US citizen. But so much 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.240 of this, you know, has been reported before and not 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.720 by the mainstream media. The mainstream media is very complicit 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:23.400 in Minnesota. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:23.640 I know. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:24.319 You guys know that. 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.719 No that well with you know, perhaps the focus being 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.280 more on what they do not report than what they do. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:35.360 And the Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota's largest newspaper, is run 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:39.320 by a former Commissioner of Governor Tim Walls. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.880 Yeah, the Star Tribune has really just been exposed as 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:44.920 a total It's. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.720 Been so great where they've been like they initially said, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.240 this is over you know, this is overreacting, there's nothing 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:51.920 to see here, and then yeah, as it becomes real, 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.160 they've had to pivot to Actually, we've been covering this 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.000 for years. We've totally talked about that. It's very funny 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.400 to see them squirm back and forth on this. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:06.160 Yeah, it's it's really It shows how important your investigations 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.240 have been, Liz, and you know you're you want to. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.200 I wanted you on the show to make sure you know. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.240 With Nick Shirley, God bless him. We're very happy for 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.079 Nick's the success he's having the virality of that video 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.600 and what it's really unleashed nationwide. Second half of this hour, 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.440 we're gonna be covering Washington Somali daycare fraud and other 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:24.240 fraud in. 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.040 The state of Washington. 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We're not gonna pay them. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.520 Waltz needs to pay Trump just I mean, we can dream, 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.840 we can dream. Liz Trump, I think is echoing the 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.800 sentiment of a lot of Americans that we feel where 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.440 we don't understand why we had to take in hundreds 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.920 of thousands of somalions from a culture that doesn't share 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.640 our values, doesn't assimilate very easily or seamlessly, and now 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.160 we find out they're defrauding us. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.000 What can be done? 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:46.360 And if you've investigated this as far as deportations, there's 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.840 a new report, Liz just broke. I just saw it, 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.680 so I don't expect you to know about it that 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:55.320 even local Hilton hotels and Hampton Inns in the Minnesota 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:00.000 or the Minneapolis area are declining ICE agents and DHS 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.800 officers from getting hotel rooms because of the assumption is 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.200 they're working to deport Somali's what can be done in 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.680 that regard and what are people on the ground saying. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.840 Yeah, you know, I actually did did see that report, 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.720 and I was able to actually ride along with ICE 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:17.760 just a couple of months ago. And this is how 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.920 deep this all runs, you guys. I think this story 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.240 is a good example. But I accompanied them on a 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.760 ride along for a news story and they talked about 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:30.280 just the growing frustration they have with Minnesota, how difficult 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:34.160 their job is because you have so few counties in 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.280 the state that cooperate with ICE. So instead of you know, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:42.240 doing these pickups at jails and prisons in Minnesota. Instead 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.720 they have to go out into neighborhoods where they are 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.199 met by these activists. And in fact, the Star Tribune 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.720 has a live reporting feed where they go ahead and 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.440 blast out where Ice is going to be next. So 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.800 this has been going on now for months in Minnesota. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:13:59.920 But we went out starts. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.240 Yes, they actually are basically promoting this where Ice is 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.840 going to be so they can be met by activists. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.760 But during our ride along, we picked up a former 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.679 Minnesota state employee who was being paid six figures this 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.360 by the state. Had worked for two different agencies and 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.960 turns out was a convicted felon and it was was 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.880 hired anyway and now faces deportation. And that was a 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.040 story that we documented for elfin News. But but again 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.840 you see this kind of at every turn, sort of 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:35.080 this radical leftism that has taken hold in many agencies. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.760 And you know, I think that you know that that's 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.280 a perfect example of something that has been playing out 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:40.800 here as well. 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.240 It's really interesting. Minnesota used to just be this very 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.600 let's say, it was probably one of the best run 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.760 blue states. It was a desirable one and you look 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.400 at the map and we well know that people are 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.440 fleeing California, fleeing Illinois, fleeing New York. But actually there's 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.760 a lot of domestic out migration out of Minnesota. 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:58.000 Now. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.840 People they can sense that it's going south. I wanted 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.200 this is a bit of a swerve, but I thought 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:04.880 you might have some thought on this. It just seems 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.880 like every program in Minnesota very quickly can become this 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.600 feeding frenzy for fraud. I know, you guys have a 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.920 new paid leave law that just came into play. They 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.320 added to their own they added their own payroll tax 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.000 to the state on top of what you pay for Medicare, 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:21.440 Social Security for paid leave, and you're eligible for it. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.200 If you are self employed, you can join into it. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.520 You can get a maximum of twenty weeks of family 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.680 or medical leave. And so it seems to me like 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.520 this is going to obviously present people an opportunity to 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.200 incorporate a self employed business, declare that they're paying themselves 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.320 a certain salary. He feels like, and then you yeah, 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:40.880 and then you go on. You go on your leave 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.480 for long COVID or whatever. You know your family member 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.040 is sick, or you have any one of your four 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.920 wives and infinite possible claims, and you can get a 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.520 maximum of twenty weeks of leave a year. Fourteen hundred 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.360 dollars a week is what the state will pay, So 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.520 that's twenty eight thousand a year. Am I reading this right, Liz? 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.840 Yeah, No, you're absolutely right, Blake, Blake, And that's what 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:00.520 I was talking about, just sort of how this is 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.600 baked into the legislation. In fact, people are actually calling 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.960 on just a forensic audit overall of the Minnesota state 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:08.640 budget at this point. I think there are five or 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:13.000 six federal investigations now ongoing in Minnesota, and I think 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.080 they will be taking a look at a lot of this. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:21.800 Republicans certainly have been raising alarms surrounding this new law 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.560 that just went into to affect January first. You had 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.520 Governor Walls in this so called I guess press conference 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.280 today talking about how he's going to be back out 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.600 in front of cameras tomorrow talking about how great this 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.840 new law is, and there are many questions about fraud. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.640 Already thousands of people have been approved for this and 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.880 speaking with small business owners, whether it's COVID or other 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.320 mandates that were put in place on small business owners 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:49.240 in Minnesota. They have expressed a serious alarm. The Chamber 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:54.240 of Commerce, many departments came out against passing this. But again, 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:58.640 this has been a Democrat controlled state for such a 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.040 long time. You're right that tens of thousands of people 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:06.359 have fled the state at this point, but Governor Walls, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.160 in the last seven years, it's really hard to understate, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.400 you know, how much has happened here, whether it's defunding 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.399 the police, a lot of these mandates on small businesses, 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:22.120 education scores really in the tank at this point, thousands 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:27.040 of businesses closing in Minnesota in addition to people moving out. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.560 And we've all we've always been known, you know, for 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.160 years as a welfare state, you know, the good people 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:37.760 of Minnesota, whether it's Lutheran social services, Catholic charities taking 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.919 people in. But this Somali part certainly has been different, 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.480 and the evidence has pointed to that. It's about a 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.960 hundred thousand they say Somalis in Minnesota. I've covered cases 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.040 where they will be on the stand saying this is 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.560 our culture. They consider themselves business people and this is 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.439 under oath they're saying this. It's just it's totally different 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:01.879 than anything we've seen before. 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.080 Liz, you're quite the trooper. I would get out of 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.760 Minnesota if I were you, But you're there. You're covering 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:08.679 it for us, and I suspect we're going to get 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.760 a lot of material from it in the weeks to come. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:12.760 Thank you for very much for coming on. 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:17.760 Thanks Liz, Thank you guys. 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And 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.960 now Jonathan has I mean, he's done amazing work for 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:02.040 Turning Point for years, but he is uncovered the extent 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.360 of Somali fraud in the state of Washington. So Minnesota 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.160 has gotten a lot of the attention. But this fraud, 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:13.400 in this tendency by specific community in specific kinds of states, 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.760 expands well beyond Minnesota. We've heard Ohio, and Jonathan's on 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.640 the ground in Washington exposing it there. Welcome to the show, 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.879 Jonathan Schoe Frontline CPUSA. 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:24.560 Hey guys, thanks for having me. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.200 Yeah, man, you so give us the rundown here. So 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.760 this fraud has been going on for who knows how long, 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.680 and you are uncovering it. And it appears that instead 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.800 of like we're in Minnesota, they are. We've Tim Wallas 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.080 is saying he's not going to run for reelection. We 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:47.920 have a new socialist mayor of Seattle, Katie Wilson, who's 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.800 promising to probably make things worse. Tell us, give us 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:52.880 the lay of the land. What's the state of things 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:53.480 in Washington. 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:57.200 Well, first of all, credit to Nick Shirley, who busted 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.600 this story wide open in Minnesota and again this morning 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:04.520 Tim Walls finally saying he's no longer going to run 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.439 for governor. Shirley's coverage had a lot to do with that. 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:11.080 That's what also inspired though our coverag sure in Washington. 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:15.040 As soon as that story, you know, broken Minnesota last week, 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:19.480 independent journalist Cam Higbee, along with citizen journalists Kristen Magnuson 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.679