1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 1: He left around and he found out, expect for the 2 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: next eleven months for me to ride you like you've 3 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:30,159 Speaker 1: never been ridden. Expect for the next eleven months for 4 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: me to ride you like you've never been ridden. 5 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 2: At six oh six on a Wednesday morning, January seventh, 6 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 2: I can't believe we're only seven days into this new year, 7 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. I'm saying it now. Governor Tim Walls 8 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 2: will not be the governor of Minnesota by the time 9 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 2: we get to the primary later on this year. This 10 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 2: is my prediction, Mark my words, Governor Tim Walls is 11 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: not going to be able to weather this storm, which 12 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 2: is growing every single day. It is truly astonishing when 13 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: we talk about the fraud that we've been covering, how 14 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 2: the local news has now become the national news. Try 15 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 2: to balance things out. It's primarily a local show here 16 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: on Twin Cities News Talk, but I do my fair 17 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 2: share of national news coverage as well. 18 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 3: But right now you did, they're the same. 19 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 2: The local news is the national news right now, and 20 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 2: every single day when people go and say what we've 21 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 2: seen exposed so far as is the tip of the iceberg, 22 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: We're getting further and further examples of that, and that's 23 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 2: what took place yesterday. What you heard in that clip 24 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: was just a portion and we have a lot more 25 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: audio to share later on this morning here. 26 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 3: On Twin City's News Talk. My name is John Justice. 27 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 2: We've got Devin in the Master Control booth next door 28 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 2: this morning. But Governor Tim Walls held the press conference yesterday, 29 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 2: and what you witnessed, as predicted is an unhinged individual 30 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 2: who knows that his time as governor in Minnesota is 31 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 2: coming to an end, who knows that his legacy is 32 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 2: about to go down in flames. I'm convinced right now 33 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 2: based off of new reporting that came out yesterday from 34 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 2: the Office of Legislative Auditor, their latest report of what 35 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 2: they've discovered fraud corruption inside of Governor Tim Wallas's administration. Like, 36 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 2: I don't even know how we fix it at this 37 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 2: point in time. I posted yesterday that I'm convinced right 38 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 2: now that the only solution is to take the entirety 39 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 2: of Minnesota government under Tim Walls, raise it to the 40 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 2: ground and start new Anything that you could come up 41 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 2: with in your wildest fantasies in terms of the fraud 42 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 2: that could be perpetuated at the government level is basically 43 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: occurring now here in Minnesota. All right, So let me 44 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:17,399 Speaker 2: give you the lay of the land for the show 45 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 2: this morning, because we have a lot of ground once 46 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 2: again to cover. So we got Ryan Wilson, Lieutenant governor candidate, 47 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 2: and also along with him friend of the show who's 48 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 2: working on the campaign as well, formerly with Alpha News, 49 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 2: but political insider Hank Long. They will both be joining 50 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 2: me in studio at seven thirty this morning, so we'll 51 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 2: talk to them about everything that we'll be discussing on 52 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 2: the on the show today. Liz Colin from Alpha News 53 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 2: will be joining us at eight thirty. I've got a 54 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 2: lot of audio from Governor Tim Walls yesterday and this 55 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: press conference, and like I said, he's unhinged because he 56 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 2: knows he's in trouble. Acts of pure desperation, straight up 57 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 2: lies and deflection, complete lack of accountability coming from the 58 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 2: Governor of Minnesota yesterday. He is going to eventually, I 59 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 2: give it four to five months, have to resign. And 60 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 2: one of the biggest reasons why is because he is 61 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 2: going to be and every single day this will increase. 62 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 2: He is going to be a massive liability on whomever 63 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: the DFL decides that they want to go and run 64 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 2: as the nominee on the Democrat ticket for governor here 65 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 2: in Minnesota. Having him in office is going to be 66 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 2: detrimental to whomever that turns out to be. But let 67 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 2: me give you the big bombshell yesterday, which was stunning 68 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 2: when you consider that this report came out just hours 69 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 2: after Governor Tim Walls was out there just. 70 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 3: Puffing up his chest talking about. 71 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 2: Holding Republicans accountable, as if Republicans had anything to do 72 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 2: with the position that he's in right now. 73 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 3: That's what this quote was in reference to. 74 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: Expect for the next eleven months for me to ride 75 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,039 Speaker 1: you like you've never been ridden. 76 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,919 Speaker 2: I'll play the play the clip in its entirety so 77 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 2: you get the full context. But what he was referring 78 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 2: to there was Republicans and how he was going, you know, 79 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 2: I'm gonna stay on top of you guys. At one 80 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 2: point he said, you know, the buck stops with him. 81 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 2: If there's any examples of fraud and taking place, show 82 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 2: us prove it. Well, that kind of happened within hours 83 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 2: of this ridiculous press conference that took place yesterday. So 84 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 2: let me share with you this version and we'll get 85 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,679 Speaker 2: into further details, but over at Cara eleven, louver Goose 86 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 2: summed it up in this quick clip of just one 87 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 2: of what the aspects of what was exposed yesterday in 88 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 2: this OLA report. Listen to this from louver Goose. 89 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 4: State workers mismanaging taxpayer money, then backdating and creating new 90 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 4: documents to cover their tracks during an audit explosive findings 91 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 4: in a report by the nonpartisan Minnesota Office of the 92 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 4: Legislative Audit. They looked into the Behavioral Health Administration, the 93 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 4: division within the Department of Human Services that issues grants 94 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 4: to providers for mental health and drug and alcohol abuse 95 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 4: services nearly two hundred million dollars each year. In one example, 96 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 4: the auditors found a provider who couldn't prove they did 97 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 4: any work. DHS paid them six hundred and seventy two 98 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 4: thousand dollars per one month of work. Then days later, 99 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 4: the manager that approved the payment left DHS to become. 100 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 3: A paid consultant for that company. 101 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 4: The most deserving revelation to Legislative Auditor Judy Randall was 102 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 4: that state workers fabricated documents when auditors asked for them. 103 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 5: Frankly, in the twenty seven plus years I've been with OLA. 104 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 5: I have never seen this before. I will say we 105 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 5: have had suspicions periodically, but we have never been able 106 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 5: to prove it, to document it, and we did in 107 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 5: this case, and it's very troubling. I will add that 108 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 5: it wasn't just one individual that created the documents or 109 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 5: backdated the documents. There were several BHA staff that we 110 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 5: could identify who had done this, and it was across 111 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 5: the grand oversight process. 112 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 4: Temporary DHS Commissioner Sharen Ghani says that she was shocked 113 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 4: to hear that and that it is unacceptable. 114 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 6: I'm louver goose follow for more news. 115 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 2: This isn't the wheels coming off. This is the wheels 116 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 2: are off. The vehicle has gone into the ditch. The 117 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 2: train isn't heading for the cliff. The train isn't heading 118 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 2: for the bridge that's out. It's gone off the bridge. 119 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 2: It is still crashing as we speak. I don't know 120 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 2: how we fix it. We'll get into the nuances of this. 121 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 2: There's an amazing report out of the Minneapolis Times and 122 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 2: Carol Becker, who has some insight that has worked within 123 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 2: the government here in Minnesota, and she breaks down the 124 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 2: logistical aspects of why she believe there's fraud before you 125 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 2: even get to the fraud, what she points to is 126 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 2: the archaic system itself, in which billions of your tax 127 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: dollars are sent out to these programs even before the 128 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 2: fraud occurs. I mean, these are individuals that are working 129 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 2: off of computer programs that are the green screens. And 130 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 2: I'm not talking about green screens like CGI. I'm talking 131 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 2: about computer systems that are so outdated they didn't even 132 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 2: have color yet. 133 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 3: I'm talking about. 134 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,719 Speaker 2: The screens that you see in old eighties sci fi, 135 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 2: seventies and eighties sci fi films like Alien, when they're 136 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 2: working on a computer screen and it's just. 137 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 3: This green monitor with text on it. 138 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 2: What you would see within the matrix, which is incredibly 139 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 2: apropos because that's where. 140 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 3: We are now. I love my movies, I love my 141 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 3: movie references. 142 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,079 Speaker 2: You know this, I know this. Right now, we are 143 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:01,359 Speaker 2: outside of the matrix. During the Trifecta for the Democrats, 144 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 2: we were in the matrix. They were putting out these 145 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 2: Pie in the Sky dreams, passing all these progressive programs, 146 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 2: talking about how all of this was gonna be great. 147 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 2: It was all pure and utter bogus bs fantasy. We've 148 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 2: all been yanked out of the matrix now when we're 149 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 2: seeing what Minnesota actually looks like, and we are looking 150 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 2: at economic ruin and devastation, and it starts right at 151 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 2: the top with Governor Tim Walls, and he knows it. 152 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 2: The comments that he gave yesterday was nothing but pure 153 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 2: and utter desperation. The lies, the redirects, the lack of accountability. 154 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 2: The dude looks unhealthy and he's unhinged. And as I mentioned, 155 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 2: he is not going to make it to primary. I 156 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 2: give him four to five months. He will be too 157 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 2: big of a liability. What we all get to witness 158 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 2: right now is history, probably one of the biggest, most 159 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 2: significant downfalls of a governor in the United States of 160 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 2: America that you and I have ever seen in our 161 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:07,199 Speaker 2: entire lifetimes. 162 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 3: And we're gonna all watch this. We're gonna all witness this. 163 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 2: For ourselves over the course of the next six to eight, 164 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 2: nine or eleven months. 165 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: As Wall said, expect for the next eleven months for 166 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,079 Speaker 1: me to ride you like you've never been ridden. 167 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 2: All Right, we got a lot of ground to cover. 168 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 2: I gotta take care of some sponsorships. Eight four four nine, 169 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 2: four six five eight five five is the phone number. 170 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 2: Email me Justice at iHeartRadio dot com if you're listening 171 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app, leave us a talkback. I see 172 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 2: many of you have already. We'll talk a little bit 173 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 2: national news before we dive back into things. Trump did 174 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 2: announce that Venezuela is turning over a lot of oil 175 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 2: to US, so that could prove positive for the price 176 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 2: at the pump. Also freezing welfare funds to blue states 177 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 2: like ours over these fraud concerns, and then we'll dive 178 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 2: right into it. All the audio from yesterday's press conference. 179 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 2: A lot of ground to cover this morning. Thank you 180 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 2: so much for being with the show today. I'm excited 181 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 2: to talk to you, not excited to cover what is 182 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 2: about to happened to this state. But we will be 183 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 2: here every single step of the way. 184 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, and I love your show. 185 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 4: The monitors to what you are referring are technologically you 186 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 4: see RTS with a monocle screen. 187 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,599 Speaker 2: No, I can't call them see RTS because I'm just 188 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 2: gonna think critical race theory. 189 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 7: It is interesting to me when you talk about green screens. 190 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 7: When I was working in it, a contract would come 191 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 7: up for a steak job I would generally refuse because 192 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 7: the technology was so far out of date, and this 193 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 7: is a decade ago. 194 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 2: We're going to dive into this next hour, but this 195 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 2: was really interesting information. Can considering how archaic the system 196 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 2: is in which billions of your tax dollars are funneled 197 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 2: to these programs, I mean, the ease at which the 198 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 2: fraud can occur, it's astonishing. 199 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 3: I do not know how we fix it at this point. 200 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 2: I honestly don't, because you deploy the lonely highway theory 201 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 2: as I've suspected, if you had suspected, and if you're 202 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 2: finding it in all these different places, it's probably everywhere. 203 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 2: And yet the dude sitting at the top does nothing 204 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 2: but deflect and blame everybody else for what is taking place, 205 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 2: like it's a Republican's fault for what is transpired or mine. 206 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 3: Apparently. 207 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: Hey, John, good morning, Brandon Cottage Grove just wanted to 208 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: chime in and remind you that all this fraud is 209 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: your fault. 210 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 6: Don't forget that. I was listening to the podcast yesterday 211 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 6: and I couldn't stop laughing at that. I know, Man, 212 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 6: have a great day, Man, keep up the good work. 213 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, for those that missed it. 214 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 2: You can check out the podcast on the iHeartRadio app 215 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 2: from yesterday. I have some schizophrenic friends of the show 216 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 2: doing that thing with my fingers because I'll get talkbacks 217 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 2: from individuals that one in particular that'll go and talk 218 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 2: about me being the problem. It's my fault, the fraud 219 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 2: is occurring, or Liz Collins fault, and then two or 220 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 2: three talkbacks later they'll go and say, that was a 221 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 2: really good point. 222 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 3: You made good job today. I just. 223 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 2: I do my best, all right, before we get back 224 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 2: to the fraud. I got a lot of comments that 225 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 2: rolled in. Let's go here. President Donald Trump did announced 226 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 2: yesterday that the interim authorities in Venezuela will be turning 227 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 2: over between thirty and fifty million barrels of high quality, 228 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 2: sanctioned oil to the US. 229 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: The best oil that we could use to refill our 230 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 1: oil reserve is boiled that we died for three three 231 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: to fifty million barrels from Venezuela. 232 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 6: Would the nice shot in the arm. 233 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely it would. 234 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 2: Trump said the oil would be sold at market price, 235 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 2: and he will control the proceeds to ensure it is 236 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 2: used to the benefit of the people of Venezuela and 237 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 2: the United States. The oil will be transported directly to 238 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 2: the unloading docks in the US via storage ships. The 239 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 2: President said, I was watching a clip yesterday. It was 240 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 2: Karine Jean Pierre from one year ago during a White 241 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 2: House press briefing talking about just it was all tough 242 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 2: talk about how the Biden administration was going to go 243 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 2: and hold the dictator Maduro responsible for all of his 244 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 2: heinous crimes in Venezuela, and it was all just lip service. 245 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 2: Now President Donald Trump went and took care of that. 246 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: Speaking of Trump, the Department of Health and Human Services 247 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 2: will frees ten billion in funding for multiple welfare programs 248 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 2: in five blue states over fraud concerns. And this is 249 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 2: something that Walls keeps pointing to, blaming Trump for his 250 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 2: dropping out, as if Trump is the problem when it 251 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 2: comes to the fraud. As a matter of fact, here's 252 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 2: a bit of what the governor had to say talking 253 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 2: about his refined hatred for President Donald Trump. 254 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: Doing to the Somali community is absolutely unconscionable and at 255 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: some point in time this is about I don't know 256 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: what it is, whatever it is, I bug the crap 257 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: out of Donald Trump. 258 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 6: I would argue it is is because I believe in 259 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 6: public service. I have not enriched myself in office. 260 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: I treat people with dignity, I agree to compromise with people, 261 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: and the attacks on Minnesota are far beyond me, and 262 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: it's hurting Minnesota. Here's what I have full confidence in 263 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 1: is Republicans are going to lose races up and down 264 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: the ticket because where is their plan on healthcare? Is 265 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: healthcare prices doubled? Where is their plan to push back 266 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: on the president? 267 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 6: Again? 268 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: For God's sakes, the children of a murdered speaker, and 269 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: they can't speak up and say, mister President, this is wrong. 270 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 6: Stop it. 271 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: And you write a story that one retired legislator said 272 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: it and one member. 273 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 6: How can you not have every single one of them 274 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 6: saying this is wrong? 275 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 2: So he's going off about funding his frustration with Trump, 276 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 2: and yet the only thing he could default to is 277 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 2: Trump going and doing a repost on social media, which 278 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 2: only like between. 279 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 3: Five and ten percent of the public actually sees. 280 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 2: It always makes me laugh because they end up amplifying 281 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 2: the thing that they think people shouldn't be seeing. 282 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 3: It's so counterproductive. 283 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 2: The best thing you could do, if you care about, 284 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 2: say the Hortman's family members, the conspiracies surrounding the targeted 285 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 2: assassination and the shooting of the elected officials here in 286 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 2: Minnesota would be to ignore that stuff that's put out there. 287 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 2: And yet he uses this to push back on the president. 288 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 2: Why because he has so little else to go and 289 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 2: point to, and he knows that his base just thrives 290 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 2: off of this ridiculous nonsense because of the Trump Arrangement syndrome. 291 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: And I'm going to fight this without having to spend 292 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: any time worrying about the politics of this. I'm going 293 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: to fight it making sure that Minnesotans are cared for what. 294 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: I'm going to fight it by doing the way the 295 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: respect that we should have for rule of. 296 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 3: No, he's not going to do anything. 297 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:28,399 Speaker 2: If he cared at all, he would have stopped all 298 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 2: the waste, fraud, and abuse the moment the red flags 299 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 2: were raised. But that wasn't the plan. They wanted this 300 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 2: to happen. It's a redistribution of wealth. Minnesota is turning 301 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 2: into the perfect modern day example of the failures of socialism, 302 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 2: and we're becoming that example in an incredibly short period 303 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 2: of time. You go back, I mean, it was just 304 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 2: a couple of years ago when the DFL had the 305 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 2: trifecta and they passed the sweeping progressive policy. And here 306 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 2: we are seven days into twenty twenty six, just a 307 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 2: handful of years later, and what we're seeing is essentially 308 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,919 Speaker 2: a government that is filled with fraud and corruption to 309 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,959 Speaker 2: the point that I don't know how you fix it 310 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 2: unless again, you just destroy it all and rebuild it. 311 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,160 Speaker 3: That's how bad it is right now. 312 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 2: Coming up, substance abuse, grants lacked the internal oversight for payments, 313 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 2: as Walls describes his personal decision to drop out. We'll 314 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 2: have more audio to share. We'll get to your comments 315 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 2: as well, ahead of our guests in studio coming up 316 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 2: at seven thirty this morning right here on Twin Cities 317 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 2: News Talk AM eleven thirty and one on three five FM. 318 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,439 Speaker 3: They have what's called a Trump derangement problem. Have you 319 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 3: heard about that problem? 320 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:09,439 Speaker 8: Good morning, John Rich here. So I think that Minnesota 321 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 8: politics has now risen to the level of Illinois politics. 322 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 8: And I think we're going to see our first governor 323 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 8: possibly going to prison for fraud like the three that 324 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 8: have in Illinois. So I think you're going to see 325 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 8: Tim Waltz be removed from office. 326 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 1: Expect for the next eleven months for me to ride 327 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: you like you've never been ridden. 328 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 9: Good morning, Michael, here, pastor Michael. I'm thinking we should 329 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 9: do a pool and set up maybe a little a 330 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 9: betting pool. And when he resigns, I'm staying the end 331 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 9: of February. Originally I was staying the end of January, 332 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 9: but I'm going to give it another thirty days. Twenty 333 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 9: eight days. That would be fun. Thanks well. 334 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 3: It drives at the. 335 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 2: Part of why Walls went and resigned in the first place, 336 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 2: and why so many people rightfully. 337 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 3: So figured that he wouldn't. 338 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 2: The logic would dictate, based off of what we've seen 339 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 2: occur over the past few years in the exposure of 340 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 2: the fraud here in Minnesota, that he would weather this 341 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 2: storm the same way he weathered all the other storms 342 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 2: surrounding ridiculous, over the top statements, the rhetoric, the stolen valor. 343 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 2: He's gotten through it every single time. No, what I 344 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 2: think the difference is now, what I believe the difference 345 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 2: is now is that it's what we're not seeing. It's 346 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 2: what was exposed yesterday that we'll get back into with 347 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 2: this Office of Legislative Auditor's Financial Audit Division report that 348 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 2: came out yesterday, what Walls knew heading into that press 349 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 2: conference that hadn't been revealed yet, and what is yet 350 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 2: to be revealed. Every single time there is some new 351 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 2: report that comes out of some audit taking place, it 352 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 2: continues to expose just how corrupt all of it is. 353 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 2: The new report from the state's nonpartisan OLA outlined how 354 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 2: the state agency that was tasked with overseeing grants for 355 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 2: substance abuse disorders. 356 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 3: It's part of the working through all of this. 357 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 2: There are so many disgusting layers it's hard to work through. 358 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 2: We're talking about your taxpayer dollars that were supposed to 359 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,719 Speaker 2: be going to programs to help individuals dealing with substance abuse. 360 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 2: I mean, there is a level of depravity taking place 361 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 2: in the corruption and the low moral standing of individuals 362 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 2: within the government right on up to the individuals that 363 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: are supposed to be providing these services that we don't 364 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 2: even get a chance to discuss and talk about and 365 00:21:55,480 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 2: examine because of all the fraud that's taking place before 366 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 2: for it. These are evil people, These are godless individuals. 367 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 2: This is what you get in a godless government with 368 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 2: a group of individuals and a person leading that group 369 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 2: of individuals that are completely and totally self centered. You 370 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 2: have no set standard, no morality to point to beyond 371 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 2: your own basic, depraved needs and desires, whether it's money, 372 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 2: whether it's fame, whether it's power. If the only person, 373 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 2: the only thing that you're adhering to is your own 374 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 2: self as interest, you'll do anything. Yesterday, the OLA report 375 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 2: outlined the audit of the Department of Human Services DHS, 376 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 2: the Behavioral Health Administration the BHA, and grants between July 377 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 2: first and twenty twenty two and July thirty first to 378 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 2: twenty four to determine the Behavioral Health Administration's level of 379 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 2: financial oversight of the grants administered. So the BHA, basically 380 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 2: the report was, Hey, we want to go and look 381 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 2: at this money, these millions, hundreds of thousands, millions of 382 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 2: dollars that you've been giving out and how they've been administered. 383 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,880 Speaker 2: The findings determined that seventy one audited grants, and I'm 384 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 2: working off of the story here from Fox nine, seventy 385 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 2: one audited grants awarded to fifty six recipients. They saw 386 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,360 Speaker 2: systemic issues in sixty three of them. An eighty nine 387 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 2: percent failure to comply rate. The audit found issues with 388 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 2: eleven of the eighteen BHBHA made to grantees stemming from 389 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 2: insignificant documentation, costs not incurred, costs incurred outside the reimbursement period, 390 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 2: or costs inaccurately reported on reimbursement requests. You have like 391 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 2: six hundred thousand dollars plus in money being given to 392 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 2: an entity that's supposed to be providing services relating to 393 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 2: substance abuse disorders, and on one aspect of it, they 394 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,679 Speaker 2: can't even show the documents relating to how that money 395 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 2: was even used allegedly for those substance abuse disorders? Can 396 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 2: you show me how you used this over half a 397 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 2: million dollars to go and help people know? And then 398 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 2: you find out that the woman who actually gave the grant, 399 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 2: after she cut the check, quit to go and join 400 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 2: the program administering. 401 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 3: The substance abuse disorder. She essentially paid herself. 402 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 2: Throughout the AUDITI audit period, eighteen providers had grant percentage 403 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 2: allocations increase during the audit period by more than one 404 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 2: hundred percent, with one grant, as I mentioned, this recipient 405 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 2: increasing from six hundred thousand dollars to a final grant 406 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 2: total of five point six million, or an eight hundred 407 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 2: and thirty percent increase. This is just one reports from 408 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 2: the OLA going through one specific portion of taxpayer dollars 409 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 2: being allocated to these social service programs. 410 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 3: In response to the report by the. 411 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:35,399 Speaker 2: Way BHA, the Behavioral Health Administration says that it's begun 412 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 2: implementing corrective actions to address the findings and recommendations, including 413 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 2: the creation of a central grant's office and restructuring of 414 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 2: its leadership to strength strengthen operational support and business functions, 415 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 2: with particular emphasis on improving the oversight and management of 416 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 2: contracts and grants. 417 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 3: What this is just a word salid with no substance. 418 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 3: Fire people. 419 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 2: Fire them now, and then do the criminal investigation because 420 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 2: this isn't going to make any difference. So you're going 421 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 2: to put in more oversight, and more than likely the 422 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 2: individuals providing the oversight are the ones that are being 423 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 2: investigated because of their lack of good quality work. 424 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 10: Hey, good morning, John. The only way that we're going 425 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 10: to get out of this mess is that everybody has 426 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 10: to be rooted out from the top, all the way down, 427 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 10: gone completely overhauled. 428 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 11: And start fresh. 429 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 10: I'm on a board of a large association and we 430 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 10: were getting ripped off year after year from property managers. 431 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 10: We did an overhaul, We overturned the board, got rid 432 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 10: of everybody, and hired a new property management company. 433 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 3: Slowly we are coming back. 434 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 2: Andrew Mercado, he is this commentator on X. You may 435 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 2: have seen him, one of these individuals out there that 436 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 2: creates their own sort of media entity and then declares 437 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 2: themselves editor in chief and suddenly now have bestowed upon 438 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:18,160 Speaker 2: themselves some level of self proclaimed credibility to the statements 439 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 2: that they're making. He put out this really long post 440 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 2: regarding Governor Tim Walls and a defense of Governor Tim Walls. 441 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 2: I want to share with you just a couple of 442 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 2: points from this, because it's really interesting insight from an 443 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 2: individual who supports Walls and who's on the left. He says, politically, 444 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 2: it makes sense for Walls to set back from the 445 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 2: governor's race. The frauds tied to the state programs has 446 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 2: become a massive liability. 447 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 3: He's right, and once. 448 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 2: Something reaches that scale, it stops being about nuance and 449 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 2: it starts being about headlines. Running would have meant non 450 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:56,199 Speaker 2: stop defense instead of actually dealing with the problem. But 451 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 2: again I would argue that this would have been a 452 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 2: campaign talking point benefit unless Walls expects legal trouble, which 453 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 2: he more than likely does. He goes on to ride. 454 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 2: But here's the part that keeps getting lost. Tim Walls 455 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 2: didn't commit the fraud. He's not accused of personally stealing 456 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 2: money or orchestrating anything criminal. What happened were oversight failures 457 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 2: and programs that were exploited by bad actors. That's a 458 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 2: governance failure, not personal corruption. Those are not the same thing. 459 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,919 Speaker 2: But Walls is still essentially the CEO. You tell me 460 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 2: any corporation, any business with this level of corruption, just 461 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 2: a fraction of the level of corruption, waste, fraud, and 462 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 2: abuse that's been exposed here in Minnesota, and you tell 463 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 2: me that that CEO still has their job. 464 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? 465 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 2: Then he says the right wing turned this into a 466 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 2: full time harassment campaign, viral clips, national pylons, trump jumping 467 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 2: into frame Walls as some sort of cartoon villain. That 468 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 2: pressure didn't come with new evidence. It came with louder microphones. 469 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 2: Once that machine starts, facts start stop mattering. He's right, 470 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 2: but not in defense of Walls or Democrats, because that's 471 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 2: still evidence, even if it's not new. It was repackaged 472 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 2: and made more palatable and interesting to the masses. That's 473 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 2: how the rest of the country ended up finding out 474 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 2: what we already knew. He says, the hypocrisy is hard 475 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 2: to miss. Walls is being held to an impossible standard 476 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 2: over management failures, while Trump, and of course Trump is bad, 477 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 2: is routinely excused or defended despite facing far more serious 478 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 2: legal issues directly tied to his own actions. Accountability apparently 479 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 2: only matters depending on who you are. 480 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 3: I love this argument, by the way. 481 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 2: So the argument here is, well, since Trump got away 482 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 2: with stuff, than Wall should too. 483 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 3: It's almost an admission. 484 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 2: By this idiot that Walls has a problem and should 485 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 2: be held accountable. But we're not going to hold them 486 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 2: accountable because Republicans aren't holding Trump accountable. So what's fair 487 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 2: is fair. He then says, you can acknowledge the mistakes 488 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 2: that we're made without pretending Walls is some criminal mastermind. 489 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 2: You can say oversight failed while also recognizing he wasn't 490 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,239 Speaker 2: personally lining his pockets. Both things can be true at 491 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 2: the same time. But that's not the criticism. It's the 492 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 2: fact that again Governor Tim Walls is the boss, the CEO, 493 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 2: someone at the top that needs to take responsibility for 494 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 2: what we're seeing now on a daily basis in terms 495 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 2: of the exposure of the fraud that now we're seeing 496 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 2: is taking place at the point that the checks are 497 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 2: actually being written to the fraundsters. 498 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 12: But the other thing that we're going to be able 499 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 12: to do in the state of Minnesota is shut down 500 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 12: every social program, every grant, every handout. Can start from 501 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 12: the ground up. Again, It's going to be tough because 502 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 12: a lot of its legislation the Democrats have signed their 503 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 12: names to it. But the facts are going to have 504 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 12: to come in and take over this state. That's the 505 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 12: only way we have of surviving. 506 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 2: And I know that you'll all have your own opinions, 507 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 2: and there are people that disagree with me about Walls resigning, 508 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 2: but there were people that were disagreeing with me about 509 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 2: Walls dropping out. I'm telling you right now, Walls is 510 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 2: not going to be the governor by the time that 511 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 2: we get to the primary this year. I give it 512 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 2: four to five months max. At the rate these audits 513 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 2: are coming out, at the level of exposure that we're 514 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 2: seeing right now. We really are in a situation where 515 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 2: it's that old adage of you know, can't see. 516 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 3: The forest for the trees. 517 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 2: When you get close to something this big, it's almost 518 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 2: impossible to see anything at all. The corruption is running 519 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 2: from top to bottom. Whether Walls specifically knew about it, 520 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 2: whether he specifically glossed over it, whether or not you 521 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 2: can actually tie him criminally to any of this, that 522 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 2: all remains to be seen. It wouldn't shock me in 523 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 2: the least bit if Walls was completely unaware of this. 524 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 2: It doesn't take away his responsibility by any stretch. It 525 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 2: doesn't matter if he wasn't aware plausible deniability. He is 526 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 2: still at the top, he continues to say, and I'll 527 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 2: play the audio. The buck stops with him and the 528 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 2: fact that he is out there spewing, the number of 529 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 2: lies that he is, the little tiny pieces of misinformation 530 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 2: and lies that he puts out there, like Nick Shirley 531 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 2: breaking into an autism center. There's a part of me 532 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 2: that says he's blatantly lying knowing the truth. But there's 533 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 2: another part of me that says, now he's just heard 534 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 2: whatever Hope Walls or Gwen Walls or Gus has told him, 535 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 2: has conflated a couple of different issues and then just 536 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 2: spouts it when he gets behind a microphone, because he's. 537 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 3: Just that absolutely clueless. 538 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 2: Yesterday, Walls was asked why he dropped out of the race. 539 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 3: He answered the question by rambling about January sixth. 540 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 1: Campaign by yourself or did you receive pressure from demisrat down. 541 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 1: This is a decision that I make and make with 542 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: my family, and certainly I think, as I said, it's 543 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: the right decision. 544 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 6: We all note. I think it's appropriate. We're here today 545 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 6: the war that's being waged against Minnesota. You're seeing it. 546 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: We have a ridiculous surge of apparently two thousand people 547 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: not coordinating with us that are for a show of 548 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 1: the cameras. 549 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 3: Let me stop here really quick. 550 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to be doing a lot of this today, 551 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 2: so please just bear with me because some of the 552 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 2: comments in here just can't go without adding a little 553 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 2: bit of appropriate commentary. Because he's about to start to 554 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 2: go off about the surge of ice agents here in Minnesota, 555 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 2: which we will talk about later on during the show. 556 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 3: Christy Gnome was in town yesterday. 557 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 2: We had some audio with her listen, we wouldn't need 558 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 2: the surge of ICE agents if we didn't have all 559 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 2: this fraud. We wouldn't need the surge of ICE agents 560 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 2: if we didn't have so many individuals here illegally taking 561 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 2: your taxpayer dollars. 562 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,560 Speaker 3: The war that's being waged isn't. 563 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 2: Washington and the Trump administry against Minnesota. The war that's 564 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 2: been waged has been Governor Tim Walls's administration against you. 565 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 2: The DFL the Democrats have been waging war against the 566 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,879 Speaker 2: taxpayers of Minnesota now for almost four years straight, if 567 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 2: not longer. 568 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 3: That's the war that's taking place. This redistribution of wealth. 569 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,800 Speaker 2: They're taking of your hard earned tax dollars, which increased 570 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:31,720 Speaker 2: dramatically this year with their completely unnecessary paid family medical 571 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 2: leave that's going to cost all of us hundreds of 572 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,480 Speaker 2: dollars every single year, and basically a brand new tax 573 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 2: that we have no option to op out of. That's 574 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 2: the war that's taking place. It's Governor Tim Walls against you. 575 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to note to all of you today is 576 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 1: January sixth. There's no debate what happened. The President of 577 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: the United States led an insurrection against a fair election 578 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: to try and overturn that. 579 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,719 Speaker 2: Again, he was asked about why he is dropping out, 580 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 2: and he goes to January sixth. 581 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,400 Speaker 6: And you know, report both sides this. 582 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: Well, you know, he said he really didn't, and courts 583 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: convicted four hundred of them and he pardoned them. 584 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,760 Speaker 6: No, he did that. He did that, and that's today. 585 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,120 Speaker 1: And it's clear that we also saw today he implemented 586 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: five states are being punished with a freezing of federal 587 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 1: funds illegally that were appropriated by Congress, our tax dollars. 588 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 1: And I find it interesting that Minnesota, California, Illinois, in 589 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: New York we're taking that. The interesting thing is the 590 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 1: biggest fraud trial in the country is taking place in 591 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 1: Mississippi today with one hundred million dollars of welfare fraud. 592 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:39,120 Speaker 1: And I don't believe Mississippi was on that list. So look, 593 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: this is a concerted effort to try and destroy the 594 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 1: president's opponents, to destroy the rule of law. And it 595 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,319 Speaker 1: became apparent to me that he was going to do 596 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:56,280 Speaker 1: that with me being there, and I just feel, along 597 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,240 Speaker 1: with my family that it's the best decision for Minnesota. 598 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,160 Speaker 1: I feel very compidt in that I think it's it's 599 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: going to be clear that Minnesotans agree with that. 600 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 11: There's a lot of Democrat voters that seemingly can't put 601 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,240 Speaker 11: all these pieces together still. And I'm not talking about 602 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,960 Speaker 11: young voters who didn't learn math or politics in high 603 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,920 Speaker 11: school because they don't teach it. I'm talking about adults 604 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 11: who have children, who have raised children and everything. The 605 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 11: Democrats are saying, like Tim Walls right now, they sound 606 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 11: my kids. They sound like gaslighting teenagers. But yet they 607 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,960 Speaker 11: still can't see it. And that's right in front of 608 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,880 Speaker 11: their face every time Tim Wall speaks. 609 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,719 Speaker 6: It's as simple as this is great. 610 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 10: If Tim Walls was innocent, he would have stayed in 611 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,200 Speaker 10: the race for governor. 612 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 11: He would have weathered. 613 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,960 Speaker 10: Any storm to stay in that race and prove to 614 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 10: Minnesotans that he was the right person for the job. 615 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 6: Yep, I don't want to see him resign. 616 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 3: I want to see him purplocked. 617 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 2: Now, you are absolutely correct, that is in the running 618 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:09,320 Speaker 2: for talkback of the day. The biggest admission of fault, 619 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,400 Speaker 2: even though he'll never admit it publicly, was that he 620 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:13,319 Speaker 2: dropped out of the race. 621 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:14,759 Speaker 3: She's absolutely right. 622 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,240 Speaker 2: This was the moment where he probably got the most 623 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 2: unhinged yesterday, which also is probably the biggest evidence that 624 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 2: I can point to that he's going to resign. It's 625 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 2: a quintessential vow dost protest too much. 626 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,560 Speaker 1: Republicans want to tell you it's too dangerous to walk 627 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 1: down the streets. Republicans want to tell you there's nothing 628 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 1: good comes out of Minneapolis, Saint Paul. Republicans want to 629 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: tell you everybody with brown skin is stealing mine. 630 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,920 Speaker 2: Me And again, I'm sorry, like I shouldn't do this 631 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,400 Speaker 2: because I hate it when other shows do this, but 632 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 2: I just can't help myself here. Those are all just 633 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 2: blaytant lies. It is just factually untrue. All that Republicans 634 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 2: have been doing is attempting to go and straighten things 635 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,840 Speaker 2: out to better the lives of Minnesotan's. It's all pushing 636 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,879 Speaker 2: back against Democrats because what Democrats have done is made 637 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:12,239 Speaker 2: the lives of Minnesotans worse, taking your money, new taxes, 638 00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 2: putting in these pathways for this waste, fraud and abuse, 639 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:18,920 Speaker 2: this corruption to take place. 640 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,279 Speaker 6: Or that they're not welcome here. 641 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,400 Speaker 1: They want to do nothing to improve this state. The 642 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 1: latter idea of improving this state is being a parrot 643 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,840 Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. Agreeing to everything that he agreed with. Well, 644 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,840 Speaker 1: here's what I'm going to tell you, it ain't happening. 645 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere, and you can make all your 646 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,279 Speaker 1: requests for me to resign over my dead body will 647 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,000 Speaker 1: that happen. I will fight this thing till the very 648 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,719 Speaker 1: end to make this state better. And the question that 649 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,880 Speaker 1: I think they need to decide is is when do 650 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,360 Speaker 1: the guy in the White House resign? 651 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,360 Speaker 6: When is he gat account building. 652 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 1: For what he did, because it isn't going to happen 653 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,960 Speaker 1: here in terms of us shying away from making the 654 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:57,600 Speaker 1: state better. 655 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,120 Speaker 2: There was a stunning statement that Governor Tim Walls yesterday 656 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 2: which again reveals so much about his current mindset of 657 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,560 Speaker 2: what he's facing moving forward in the coming months when 658 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,040 Speaker 2: he goes on the attack against US Attorney Joe Thompson. 659 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,400 Speaker 2: Another great example of Walls protesting too much and showing 660 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,640 Speaker 2: his hand of where. 661 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,840 Speaker 3: His real concerns rest. 662 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,439 Speaker 2: Will have more audio to share with you here on 663 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,480 Speaker 2: Twin Cities News Talk. Also coming up at seven thirty 664 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 2: this morning, we've got Hank Long, friend of the show, 665 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,520 Speaker 2: political insider and Lieutenant governor candidate with Lisa Damuth. Ryan 666 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,360 Speaker 2: Wilson will be in studio with us as well, and 667 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,800 Speaker 2: we'll get to more of your thoughts from the iHeartRadio 668 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,359 Speaker 2: app here on Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven thirty 669 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 2: and one h three five FM