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Let me back first, let me back up. 37 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 2: Can you find Somalia on a map? Do you know 38 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 2: where Somalia is? Can you find Minnesota? You know, the 39 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: land of ten thousand Lakes. I think it is also 40 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 2: probably land of you know, hundreds of thousands of Somalians. 41 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 2: Minnesota is stubbornly and to me kind of mystifyingly a 42 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 2: blue state. I think that might explain why it's also 43 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 2: home to one of the most generous welfare programs in 44 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 2: the entire country. If you're listening to me in Minnesota 45 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: and you disagree, and you don't think that you have 46 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 2: one of the most generous welfare programs in the entire country, 47 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: then please text me and explain to me why. Minnesota 48 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 2: nice as they like to say, but when you give 49 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 2: away free stuff, it has a flip side, it has 50 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: a bad side. And it's for this reason that generosity 51 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 2: that Minnesota has that is also home to a section 52 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 2: of Minneapolis called Little Mogad Dishue, Little Mogad Dishue, and 53 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 2: to a large and ever growing Somali community that's literally 54 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 2: changing the Minnesota. What began in Somalia way back in 55 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 2: the nineties famine, civil war, societal collapse eventually evolved into 56 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: a movie we have probably all watched, Blackhawk Down, back 57 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety three. That was followed by an ostensibly 58 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 2: well intentioned federal effort to try to resettle desperate Somalians 59 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 2: in Minnesota in the largest city, Minneapolis, and Minneapolis resoundingly 60 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:34,119 Speaker 2: amazingly calls its Muslims to prayer five times a day 61 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 2: and is represented in Congress by a Jew hating Muslim 62 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: communist who may have may have married her brother to 63 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 2: try to skirt the country's immigration laws. Now let me 64 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 2: mix metaphors for a moment. No good deed on the 65 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 2: well paved road to hell goes unpunished. But I would ask, 66 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 2: if you live in Minnesota, did you vote for that? 67 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 2: Is that what you voted for? And my guess is 68 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 2: you probably did not, because we never vote for this. 69 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 2: Didn't vote on their taxpayer funds going to free stuff 70 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 2: for illegal aliens, didn't vote for the chain migration that 71 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 2: allowed a tiny Somalian community to blow up and take 72 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: over their biggest city in a relative heartbeat. Nor do 73 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 2: I think did Minnesotans vote on the sorry state of 74 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 2: their financial affairs in over In City Journal, Chris Rufo 75 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 2: writes Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars 76 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walls alone. 77 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 2: Democrat state officials overseeing one of the most generous welfare 78 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 2: regimes in the country are asleep of the switch, and 79 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 2: the media, duty bound by progressive pieties, refuses to connect 80 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 2: the dots. I think we always refuse to collect to 81 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 2: connect the dots if it involves a minority. Either a 82 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 2: minority in terms of religion, although it truthfully, Islam is 83 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 2: not really a minority religion when you look at it worldwide. 84 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 2: But because they're Muslims, oh well, they don't want to 85 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: talk about that. 86 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 3: Now. 87 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,799 Speaker 2: I would argue that if Minnesota itself was just merely 88 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 2: debt ridden, I'd just say, well, it's just like not 89 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: like every other state, but it's just like Colorado. We're 90 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 2: debt ridden. Colorado has a billion dollar budget deficit that 91 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 2: by my analysis, goes on for years and years and years. 92 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 2: Now they claim they patched it up with a special 93 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: legislative session and some tax increases, and they found some 94 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 2: money elsewhere and they tried to fill the whole, but 95 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 2: that whole is going to reappear next year. And you 96 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 2: may be living in a state Virginia or some other 97 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 2: states that are just like Colorado in that regard. But 98 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 2: what makes Minnesota special is the kind of fraud that's 99 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 2: going on now. I know that fraud goes on everywhere. 100 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:04,559 Speaker 2: When I was the Intersecretary of Homeland Security, I remember 101 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 2: test testifying one time about fraud within some of the 102 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 2: FEMA programs. And I was testifying, I think, along with 103 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 2: the Inspector General. I'm not really sure that, but I 104 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 2: think the Inspector General was either testifying with me or 105 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 2: the Inspector General had provided some information. But we were 106 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 2: trying to clean up the fraud, because anytime you have 107 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 2: a major disaster, there is inevitably fraud involved because people 108 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: like heat and steel, and so you try to put 109 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 2: mechanisms in place, you try to put people in place 110 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 2: to minimize the fraud. And a congressperson, a congress critter, 111 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 2: asked me, let's just say that the fraud rate was 112 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 2: five point nine percent, and I was testifying that we 113 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 2: were trying to get it down below five percent, we 114 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 2: were trying to get it down to three percent, And 115 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 2: the congressman asked me some stupid question about, well, why 116 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 2: isn't it zero zero percent? And I made I still 117 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 2: don't think it was a mistake, but I made a 118 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 2: statement to the effect that, well, since humans are involved, 119 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 2: we're never going to get to zero. There will always 120 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 2: be some fraud involved. You would have thought I'd committed 121 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 2: a heresy. Now, think about the absolute irony of a 122 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 2: member of Congress asking an under Secretary of Homeland Security 123 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: about trying to minimize fraud, and I just tell them 124 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 2: the truth that it's never going to get to zero 125 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 2: because humans are involved, and we're trying to do everything 126 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 2: we can to minimize it as much as possible. And 127 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 2: that congress person had the audacity to criticize me for 128 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 2: telling them the truth that fraud's always going to exist, 129 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 2: but we're trying to minimize it. Hey, member of Congress, 130 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 2: what are you doing to try to minimize fraud? That's 131 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: why I have a really distaste for members of Congress. 132 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 2: But what makes Minnesota special, as I say it, is 133 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 2: the type of fraud that is fostering. I'll let City 134 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 2: Journal explain. They write, if you were to design a 135 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 2: welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a 136 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 2: lot like Minnesota's Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services. Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services, 137 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 2: I'm going to refer to it as they do as 138 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: the HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, 139 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 2: was launched with a noble goal to help seniors, addicts, 140 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 2: the disable, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was 141 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 2: designed with low barriers to entry, meaning easy to get 142 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 2: to it, and minimal requirements for reimbursement. Nonetheless, before the 143 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 2: program went live in twenty twenty, officials pegged its annual 144 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 2: estimated price tag at two point six million dollars. So 145 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 2: you got that it's low barriers to entry, minimal requirements 146 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 2: to get reimbursed, and they pegged in twenty twenty the 147 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 2: annual estimated price tag at two point six million dollars. 148 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 2: If you don't live in Minnesota, or maybe if you 149 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 2: do and you don't know this story, what do you 150 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 2: think we're at today? I'll be right back. Welcome back 151 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 2: to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you 152 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 2: with me. I appreciate you tuning in. By the way, 153 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 2: if you like what we do during the weekend, you 154 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 2: might like the weekday program too. 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Minnesota's 162 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 2: Medicaid housing stabilization services originally estimated to cost two and 163 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 2: a half to two point six million dollars per year 164 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 2: when they launched it in twenty twenty, a mere five 165 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 2: years ago. They terminated it as as of this past 166 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 2: October thirty first, because the cost had skyrocketed to more 167 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 2: than one hundred and four million dollars for fiscal year 168 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, obviously a dramatic increase now. It was 169 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 2: originally intended to help seniors and people with disabilities so 170 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 2: they could find and maintain stable housing through Medicaid funding. 171 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 2: The costs by emerged amid accusations of substantial fraud, and 172 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 2: that led to federal and state investigations as well, as 173 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 2: I said, the program's complete shutdown in October of this 174 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 2: year just last month. The Department of Human Services in 175 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 2: Minnesota is now working to redesign and relaunch a more 176 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:15,439 Speaker 2: secure and transparent housing benefit. Now. The one hundred and 177 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 2: four million dollar figure for twenty twenty four that represents 178 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 2: the most recently reported annual cost for the program before 179 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 2: it was closed. But of the one hundred and four 180 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 2: million dollars and estimated eighty eight to one hundred million 181 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 2: out of one hundred four million is believed to have 182 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 2: been lost to fraud. You have one hundred and four 183 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 2: million dollar program originally estimated at two point five to 184 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 2: two point six million, and an estimated eighty eight to 185 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 2: one hundred million out of one hundred and four million 186 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 2: is supposed you are guessing its fraud. Now, I know 187 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 2: if you think I'm picking on Minnesota, I am, But 188 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 2: how many other states have this kind of I mean, 189 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 2: that's beyond fraud. That's just absolute, utter, gross negligence to 190 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 2: spend one hundred and four million dollars. Now, I'm picking 191 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 2: a Minnesota, but it applies to all of us because 192 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 2: this is not just state funded. This is also federal funded, 193 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 2: which is why you now have federal investigations into this program. 194 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 2: If I give you one hundred and four million dollars 195 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 2: and you steal one hundred million dollars of it, I'm 196 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 2: going to do everything I can to put you in jail. 197 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 2: I don't care what your nationality is, what your skin 198 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 2: color is, what your sexual preference is, what your height, 199 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 2: weight is, what or who you sleep. I don't care 200 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 2: you steal one hundred out of one hundred and four 201 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 2: million dollars from me. You're going to jail. 202 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 3: Now. 203 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 2: Authorities say that the figure is likely to grow as 204 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 2: these investigations continue, since hundreds of companies and potentially thousands 205 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 2: of clients are going to be implicated and additional waves 206 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 2: of prosecutions are now anticipated. The magnitude of the fraud 207 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 2: is truly considered unprecedented in Minnesota's history of welfare programs, 208 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 2: the acting US Attorney Joe Thompson reporting that it could 209 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 2: constitute one of the largest fraud waves in the history 210 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 2: of the United States. Now why did I mention Somali 211 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 2: at the beginning? And that elon Omar is the congressional representative. 212 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 2: A substantial portion, potentially a majority, of the fraud in 213 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 2: this program has been perpetuated by members of the Somali 214 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,079 Speaker 2: refugee and immigrant community, according to state, federal, and investigating 215 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 2: media sources. Multiple reports indicate that almost all defendants charged 216 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 2: in the Medicaid, housing and welfare fraud cases of Minnesota 217 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 2: originate from the Somali community. Kayesh Meghan, a former fraud 218 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 2: investigator for the Minnesota Attorney General's Office Keith Ellison what 219 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 2: a joke and himself a Somali American, stated that it 220 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 2: is uncomfortable and true that almost all the defendants in 221 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 2: the recent high high profile fraud cases are Somali. Now, 222 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 2: while these reports do confirm widespread participation from Smali refugees 223 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 2: and immigrants, precise percentages for the medicaid, housing stabilization services fraud, 224 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 2: I've found that difficult to quantify other than the majority. 225 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 2: All I get in is I do a Lexis nexus search. 226 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 2: Is I get the majority seemed to be or the 227 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 2: majority are Somalian? And you wonder why we need stricter 228 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 2: immigration controls and why we need to crack down on 229 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: these little, you know, mosques that are popping up all 230 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 2: over the country, because I think they're designed to be 231 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 2: affront for potential terrorist threats and they're obviously engaged in 232 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 2: widespread fraud if Minnesota is any investigation whatsoever. But I 233 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 2: imagine most people are afraid to talk about this because, oh, 234 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 2: you must be racist if you're saying that Somalis are Oh, 235 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I'm just telling you what the news 236 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 2: stories are that it probably can find primarily out of 237 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 2: the city journal provid can find primarily to Minnesota. But 238 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 2: I want the rest of the country to know about it. 239 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 2: I want all my affiliates to know about this because 240 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 2: these reports indicate just how political correctness allows this kind 241 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 2: of fraud to perpetuate and go on under the noses. 242 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 2: And but for at least one US attorney finally looking 243 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 2: at a program and saying, how do you go from 244 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 2: two point five million to one hundred and four million? 245 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 2: That seems like an awful lot, Maybe we should investigate. 246 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 2: And then you find out that, oh yeah, upwards of 247 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 2: a hundred of the one hundred and four million was 248 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 2: actually just fraudulent payments to welfare recipients. And then you 249 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 2: wonder why we can't have nice things in this country. 250 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 2: You can't have nice things in this country because we're 251 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 2: too politically correct. We're afraid to speak the truth. And 252 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 2: when facts like this come out, the cabal by acts 253 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 2: of oh mission, don't make a national story because oh, 254 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 2: we don't want people in Colorado to know about this. 255 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 2: We don't want people in Texas to know about this. 256 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 2: We don't people in California to know about this. They 257 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 2: got their own problems, and we do. I know, we've 258 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 2: got our own problems in Colorado. But when you have 259 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 2: a particular ethnic group that's involved from a particular country 260 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 2: that of our own doing we bring here and then 261 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 2: we allow and then they actually end up representing that 262 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 2: part of Minnesota in the United States Congress. I think 263 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 2: it does national attention. The available evidence attributes a large 264 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 2: majority of the medicaid housing fraud to Minnesota Somali community. 265 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 2: But I can't give you an exact dollar amount or 266 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,360 Speaker 2: a breakdown by legal status. It's just not currently reported 267 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 2: in the public records. At some point, we're going to 268 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 2: recognize that the cost of illegal immigration and the cost 269 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 2: of political correctness in our public policy is going to 270 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 2: be the death nail for us in terms of our 271 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 2: finances and our economy. So Minnesota, thank you. And I'm 272 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 2: not being a sarcastic here, I mean thank you for 273 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 2: pointing out the corruption and the fraud that we've got 274 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 2: to weed out of this country. I'll be right back. 275 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 3: Tonight. 276 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 2: Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA. 277 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 3: Director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, 278 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 3: You're doing a heck of a job The Weekend with 279 00:17:59,080 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 3: Michael Brown. 280 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 2: Welcome back The Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have 281 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 2: you with me. I appreciate you tuning in text lines 282 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 2: always open on your messy japp. The number three three 283 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 2: one zero three keyword, Mike or Michael, go follow me 284 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 2: on X at Michael Brown USA, at Michael Brown USA, 285 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 2: give me a follow. So now that President Trump and Zofram, Mom, 286 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 2: Donnie or somebody says, I am mispronouncing you that it's 287 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 2: man dummy, Now it's Zofram because his policies give me 288 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 2: heartburn and stomach indigestion. So I have to take some Zofram. 289 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 2: It's really Zofram's really good stuff. But maybe now at 290 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 2: Trump and Mom, Donnie, Zofram or our buddies, maybe Zofram 291 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 2: will agree that New York City falls under the jurisdiction 292 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 2: of the United States of America and it doesn't fall 293 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 2: under the jurisdiction of any international law. Or maybe it 294 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 2: will work the other way, and maybe President Trump will 295 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 2: allow Zofram to arrest an allied for the head of state. 296 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 2: He's on Zoefram is on the ABC seven affiliate in 297 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: New York. 298 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 5: You said you would arrest Benjamin Attnaho based on the 299 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:16,400 Speaker 5: tenty twenty twenty four International Court Arrest warrant A next 300 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 5: you and General Assembly as mayor, would you do that? 301 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 4: So I've said time and again that I believe this 302 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 4: is a city of international law and being. 303 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 2: A I can't tell you how much that irritates me. 304 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 2: These people who think they're world citizens, if they're citizens 305 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 2: of the world, and then you become mayor and you 306 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 2: think that, oh, you're a your city, which by the way, 307 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 2: is a municipality. It is a subset of the jurisdiction 308 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 2: of the State of New York. It is not a 309 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 2: city of international law. You have nothing to do with 310 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 2: international law. I know you got the United Nations there, 311 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 2: I know you're you think you're a citizen of the world. 312 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 2: Where's loyalty, mister mayor? Is your loyalty to the United 313 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 2: States of America and to the citizens of New York 314 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 2: that you're essentibly going to represent as mayor? Or is 315 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 2: your loyalties to the International Court or Criminal Appeals, by 316 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 2: the way, an organization which the United States of America 317 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 2: does not officially recognize as being legitimate. 318 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,439 Speaker 5: You said you would arrest Benjamin Etna who based on 319 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 5: the twenty twenty four International Court arrest warrant next you 320 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 5: and General Assembly? 321 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:31,439 Speaker 2: As mayor? Would you do that? 322 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 4: So I've said time and again that I believe this 323 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 4: is a city of international law and being a city 324 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 4: of International law means looking to uphold international law, and 325 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 4: that means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court, 326 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 4: whether they're for Benjamin Nyaw or Vladimir Putin. I think 327 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 4: that that's critically important to showcase our values. And unlike 328 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 4: Donald Trump, I'm someone who looks to exist within the 329 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 4: confines of the laws that we have, so I will 330 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 4: look to exhaust every legal possibility, not to create my 331 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 4: own laws to do so. 332 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,439 Speaker 5: On the other hand, this is also a world event. 333 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 5: Does that not count a little bit? 334 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 2: Well? 335 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 4: I think we are a global city. But I also 336 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 4: think what New Yorkers are looking for as consistency in 337 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 4: the way in which we talk about our values and 338 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 4: follow through on them. And that's why I think these 339 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 4: warrants from the International Criminal Court they are worth fully 340 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 4: exploring every legal possibility to actually follow through on. 341 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 2: Oh oh, you know what, I think if he does it, 342 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 2: it might result I mean it could. I don't think 343 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 2: it will, but it could result in island maybe something 344 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:36,679 Speaker 2: as minors Neglo war. I don't know the implication of 345 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 2: that is really horrified. What other international laws will Zoe 346 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 2: fram uphold laws that undermine free speech, laws that undermine 347 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 2: the Second Amendment, laws that undermine all of our constitutional rights. 348 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 2: Where are your loyalties? Though? Fram? See, I do not 349 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 2: think that Donald Trump owed. I don't care. Somebody's on 350 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 2: the text line, Well, Zofram asked for the meeting with 351 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,199 Speaker 2: Donald Trump? Okay, so what why don't you ask for 352 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 2: a meeting with Donald Trump? One not familiar? Yeah, well 353 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 2: he's a communist, and I just don't think that he 354 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 2: should have had the meeting. I know it's New York, 355 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 2: and I know that at New York or technically I 356 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 2: think Queen's is Donald Trump's home, is his home borough. 357 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 2: But New York City is Donald Trump's hometown. I get, 358 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 2: I get that. But a guy that speaks like this 359 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 2: and believes like this doesn't deserve to be elevated by 360 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 2: the meeting in the Oval Office because the implications truly 361 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 2: are horrifying. What what is he really after? If y'all, 362 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 2: if nett, y'all, whoever comes to speak at the United 363 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 2: Nations and Zo Fram arrests him for being I don't know, 364 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 2: mean to the terrorists, mean to Hamas. That would violate 365 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 2: not only diplomatic community, but guess what he would actually 366 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 2: violate federal law, because federal law prohibits US law enforcement 367 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 2: of any kind from cooperating with the deranged and the 368 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 2: malevolent international criminal court. But then Zoephram has already promised 369 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 2: to violate economic law by making everything affordable through massive 370 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 2: government intervention. So he doesn't care he's going to violate 371 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 2: the basic laws of economics. Why wouldn't he violate the 372 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 2: basic rules of laws of the United States of America. 373 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 2: Just because federal code says something doesn't mean that he 374 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,479 Speaker 2: has to follow it, right, I mean, who cares what 375 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 2: federal law says. The act that he would violate would 376 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 2: put him in direct violation of Title eighteen, Title of 377 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 2: the United States Code. He would be in violation of 378 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 2: federal law. What the heck? Let's see, we've picked on Minnesota, Colorado, Minnies. 379 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 2: We haven't picked on California today. In the cal state 380 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 2: education system, dumb assy is not an option. It's actually 381 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: a requirement. Nearly every California State University campus requires students 382 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 2: to pass at least one diversity and or cultural competency class. 383 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 2: Now what what's a cultural competency class? San Francisco State 384 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 2: University has among the most demanding criteria, requiring students to 385 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 2: take courses in quote areas that the campus feels are 386 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 2: important to graduates. H might that be oh American ethnic 387 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 2: and racial minorities, environmental sustainability in climate action, global perspectives, 388 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 2: and of course, social justice. Some classes cover several requirements, 389 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 2: like Queer Crip Lit, which examines connections between ableism and 390 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 2: other forms of discrimination such as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, 391 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 2: and transphobia that it appears in literary works. Another class 392 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:22,919 Speaker 2: that covers multiple requirements include find this So funny, Decolonize 393 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 2: your diet, Food Justice and Gender Labor in Communities of 394 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 2: Color AH is now decolonize is spelled d E COO 395 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 2: l O n I ze Is that d colon eyes 396 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 2: or decolonize see. It depends on where you put the emphasis. 397 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 2: Is that the emphasis or the emphasis because if I'm 398 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 2: going to d colon eyes my diet, I guess why 399 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get rid of my colon. My colon is 400 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,159 Speaker 2: kind of necessary to my diet or does it really 401 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 2: mean I'm going to decolonize my diet. I think it's 402 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 2: the latter, You know why, because it is the title 403 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 2: of this class is Food Justice and Gender Labor in 404 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 2: communities of color, so they want to focus on food 405 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,959 Speaker 2: justice in communities of color, addressing issues including sex, gender, 406 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 2: and food production. I can honestly tell you that when 407 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 2: it's come to the idea of food production, Oh, I 408 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 2: don't know the the canned green beans or maybe the 409 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 2: fresh green beans, or the pork and beans, or the 410 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 2: canned corn or the fresh corn. I've never thought about 411 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 2: that In terms of food justice. I've never thought about 412 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 2: was it a racially diverse group of people that put 413 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 2: the corn in the can? Was it a racially diverse 414 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 2: group of people that drove the trucks that delivered it 415 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 2: to the warehouses? And then was it a racially diverse 416 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 2: group of people that took it from the warehouses to 417 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 2: the grocery store? And for the people that stock the 418 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 2: shells where they racially diverse? And then if I'm gonna 419 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 2: look about racial diversity, then I've got to talk about 420 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 2: sexual diversity. Were there are enough gay, queer, lesbian, what 421 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 2: you know, LGBTQ plus I Were there are enough of 422 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 2: them involved in all of that process, because that's what 423 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 2: food production is to me. But it's food justice and 424 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 2: communities of color addressing issues including sex, gender, and food production, racism, 425 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 2: and attacks on traditional food systems. Oh, cal State, Well 426 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 2: maybe it is the land of fruit and nuts, because 427 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 2: all that's mandated by California law. Cal State students are 428 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 2: required to take an ethnic studies course, but those are 429 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 2: separate from the campus's DEI requirements, so the ethnic studies 430 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 2: would more accurately be called anti European studies. Excuse me 431 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 2: of the few cal State campuses that don't explicitly require 432 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 2: students to take a diversity or cultural centered course. You 433 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 2: must make DEI missions into their learning goals for students, 434 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 2: says the handout. One of Sacramento State's objectives for its 435 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 2: general ad requirements is to provide students with a significant 436 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 2: and useful understanding of peoples from a diversity of cultures 437 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 2: and backgrounds. Now you want to know what the eldlement purpose. 438 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 2: It's pretty explicit. In July that school's president, Luke Wood 439 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 2: said he wanted to eliminate whiteness. Now, if you don't know, 440 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 2: California State schools are largely funded by coercive taxes on 441 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 2: California taxpayers, and that's what you're getting for your money. Congratulations, California. 442 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 2: I'll be right back Welcome back to the Weekend with 443 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 2: Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. I really 444 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 2: do appreciate everybody tuning in on the weekend. I know 445 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: you've got lots of other things to do, but this 446 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 2: isbably the best thing you've got to do is listen 447 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 2: to me, and listen to me make fun of California 448 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 2: and Minnesota. Nothing but you know what, well, I'm mad 449 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 2: at Let's go to New Jersey. Let's make fun of 450 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 2: New Jersey for a while. But I'm want to make 451 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 2: sure I always tell the audience, tell all of you, 452 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,719 Speaker 2: every single one of you, how much I appreciate you 453 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 2: tuning in. And I hope you'll tell your friends about 454 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 2: the program too, And thanks to all the affiliates that 455 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 2: carry the program. There's a spaw in Palisades Park, New Jersey. 456 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 2: It's called the King Spaw. They have updated their policies 457 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 2: to allow the guests, the paying guests, to use the 458 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 2: facilities and they can use it in alignment with their 459 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 2: gender identity that's displayed on their government or state issued 460 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 2: photo ID. Now they're doing that because there was a 461 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 2: lawsuit filed by a Alexandra Gobert, a biologically male transgender 462 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 2: Air quotes here woman who alleged that he was denied 463 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 2: access to the female only section of the SPA despite 464 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 2: his ID identifying him as a woman. Pardon me, I'm 465 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 2: so confused. Why is this being crammed down our throats? 466 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 2: Why because truthfully, most of my friends who are gay, 467 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 2: I have asked what they think about these issues, and 468 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 2: they're really upset because they believe that this is not 469 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 2: something that pardon me, I'm swallowedrun. Most of my friends 470 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 2: in the gay community say this is not what they 471 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 2: signed up for, that they disapprove of this kind of 472 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 2: imposing this kind of ideology on other people when that's 473 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 2: just not the norm. And they get particularly upset about kids, 474 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,479 Speaker 2: you know their you know, their parents decide that because Johnny, 475 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 2: who's five years old, likes to play with dolls, then 476 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 2: let's start getting puberty blockers to little Johnny at the 477 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 2: age of five. It is truly insanity. Is this is insanity? 478 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 2: So this lawsuit came about because of an incident that 479 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,719 Speaker 2: occurred way back in twenty twenty two when Gobert was visited. 480 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 2: He was visiting the SPA and was initially assigned a 481 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 2: male wriskman. He was later given access to the women's 482 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 2: locker room, but then gets questioned by the staff because oh, 483 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 2: they saw him walking around and they saw his male anatomy, 484 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 2: and so they ultimately asked him to leave after confirming 485 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 2: that he had not undergone so called bottom surgery to 486 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 2: remove his penis in his testicles. So the SPA offered 487 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 2: him access to the female facilities, but only if he 488 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 2: wore a bathing suit, which he declined all according to 489 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 2: the court documents. So, as part of a confidential settlement 490 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 2: reached in August of twenty twenty five, King Spaw implemented 491 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 2: a policy change and provided additional training to the staff. 492 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 2: What teach them what to look for. Teach them that, okay, 493 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 2: check the ID closely, and I don't care how deep 494 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 2: the voice is, and I don't care what you see 495 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 2: in the speedo or you know, as you look at 496 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 2: the speed oh, you may think you see something, but 497 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 2: it's not really there. Let them in the women's locker room. 498 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 2: If the ID says female, We're a sick society. The 499 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 2: updated policy explicitly says that clients may use sex segregated 500 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 2: areas corresponding to the gender identity regard. You know, I 501 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 2: hate them phrase gender identity, because that's just that's a 502 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 2: made up thing. Gender is gender. Your gender identity is 503 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 2: in your head. The updated policy explicitly says that clients 504 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 2: may use sex segregated areas corresponding to their gender identity, 505 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 2: regardless of physical traits. The policy also emphasizes that clients 506 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 2: uncomfortable with that arrangement may request private accommodations, or they 507 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 2: can just forego use of the communal facilities. I'd say 508 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 2: that the policy reads this quote clients who choose to 509 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 2: access and use sex segregated areas where partial or full 510 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 2: nudity is either required or permitted to do so with 511 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 2: the understanding the other clients using those areas may have 512 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 2: bodies that do not appear to align with the stereotypical 513 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 2: body parts associated with the that area. They is utter insanity, 514 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:08,280 Speaker 2: utter insanity, and it will leave the program today without 515 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 2: reminding everybody of something that happened on November twenty second, 516 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 2: a long time ago. 517 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,360 Speaker 3: Was of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns First. 518 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,360 Speaker 3: Wood came at about one forty pm Eastern time. It 519 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 3: happened too quickly for cameras to be in place, and. 520 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:25,839 Speaker 1: I gave it a great ideal of. 521 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 2: Thought, grandpop. 522 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: Here is a bulletin from CBS News in Dallas, Texas. 523 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,800 Speaker 1: Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. 524 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 1: The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously 525 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 1: wounded by this shooting. 526 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 3: Then it was back to the soaparper, but not for long. 527 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 3: Soon after, Walter Cronkite was back reporting from the CBS newsroom, 528 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 3: complete with rotary telephones and wire machines. 529 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,759 Speaker 1: This picture has just been transmitted by wire. It is 530 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 1: a picture taken just a moment or two before the incident. 531 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 2: If you can. 532 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,360 Speaker 1: Zoom in with that camera, we can get a closer 533 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 1: look at This picture was. 534 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,799 Speaker 3: In almost exactly one hour after his initial bulleting bear 535 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,359 Speaker 3: this now famous announcement. 536 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 1: From Dallas, Texas. The flash apparently official. President Kennedy died 537 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:24,799 Speaker 1: at one pm Central Standard time two o'clock Eastern Standard time, 538 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:34,879 Speaker 1: some thirty eight minutes ago. Vice President Johnson has left 539 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: the hospital in Dallas, but we do not know to 540 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: where he has proceeded. Presumably he will be taking the 541 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:47,800 Speaker 1: oath of office shortly and become the thirty sixth President 542 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,520 Speaker 1: of the United States. 543 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:55,720 Speaker 2: November twenty second, nineteen sixty three. If you're my age 544 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 2: or thereabouts anywhere, you probably remember, like many people do, 545 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 2: of that era, exactly where you were and what you 546 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 2: were doing. And I always bring it up every year 547 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 2: simply because it's a reminder of how our world changed 548 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 2: yet really didn't change, because we had had assassinations before. 549 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 2: But what happened this time on November twenty second, nineteen 550 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 2: sixty three. We all witnessed it. We all witnessed it, 551 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 2: and that's what changed. Everybody. Have a great weekend, take care, 552 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 2: and I'll see you next weekend.