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Speaker 2: I've been saying that for years.

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Speaker 3: I've been pro ballroom my entire life. Good to know

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Speaker 4: My name is John Justice, and the master control both.

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Speaker 4: We have Sam.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna go get grace keeping from American Experiment. She'll

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Speaker 3: be joining us in a moment. The Representative Max Rymer

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Speaker 4: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: I didn't talk about this yesterday, and I'm glad I didn't,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's talk about there's too much.

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Speaker 3: There's too much news going on, too much news going

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Speaker 3: to revisit this from Wednesday. This week, I have a

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Speaker 3: deeper on this. In a new video, Minnesota Governor Tim

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Speaker 4: Here's a bit of that audio.

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Speaker 5: You might receive notice that your healthcare costs are increasing

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Speaker 6: Skyrocket fifty four percent for eighty nine thousand Minnesota and

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Speaker 4: We're wondering why the federal government shut down. Just bear

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Speaker 3: So we'll just stop it here. By the way, here's

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Speaker 3: As Bill Glant says, Walls repeats the dead wrong talking

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Speaker 3: The advanced premium tax credits under the ACA that subsidized

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Speaker 3: Yeah, early retirees like Bill and Shelley will see their

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Speaker 3: Absolutely incredible. Chris Keating American experiment. Good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 9: How we doing so much worse than I thought I would?

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Speaker 3: So any travel plans for you in the near future.

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Speaker 9: Comparently I was traveling this week. Actually I was in

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Speaker 4: They pay nothing.

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Speaker 3: It isn't fair that such a small fraction of people

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Speaker 8: And you know what's crazy in Minnesota is during the Trifecta,

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Speaker 1: Gee, conservatives told you that Obamacare wouldn't work, and now

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Speaker 3: Representative Tom emmer Good morning, sir, Welcome to the show

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Speaker 4: It's always good to speak with you.

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Speaker 2: What controversy, I mean, the guy, this idiot at that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I don't know, especially this one.

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Speaker 2: Tom.

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Speaker 3: I said it a couple of times this morning. I

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is how ridiculous all of this has gotten.

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Speaker 2: Tom Emmer, Yeah, blow them out of the water. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you it's long overdue. The United

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Speaker 2: Americans are sick of this. And you know what, you

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Speaker 2: why is that job? Is it? Because the majority of Americans,

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Speaker 3: How much longer do you think this shutdown is going

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Speaker 3: to continue? Tom at this point in time? I know

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Speaker 2: Well, you're right, we thought after the Hate America rally.

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Speaker 2: Why because Chuck Schumer and company I had to you know,

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Speaker 2: And guess what we learned, John, We learned that they

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Speaker 2: They should have wrote the book that Republicans wrote. You

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Speaker 2: You can find a Democrat poll that says they're winning

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Speaker 2: the shutdown. Hey, look, nobody wins in a shutdown, but

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Speaker 2: John on a Friday today, federal government employees are not

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Speaker 2: getting paid. What does that mean? Air traffic controllers are

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Speaker 2: next week. When you get to November, forty two million

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Speaker 3: Representative Tom Emmer, we are out of time this morning,

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Speaker 3: but thank you so much for calling in.

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Speaker 4: Always great to speak with you.

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Speaker 3: We've got emmor weather outside right now was lower than

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Speaker 2: All right, John, have a great weekend.

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Speaker 11: All morning long, Good morning everyone. The Trump arrangement syndrome

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Speaker 11: is insane. We used to always joke that a Trump

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Speaker 11: They've institutionalized revenge and fear amongst everyone. There's a new

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Speaker 4: Hen I yeah, I remember that. I remember that going back. No,

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Speaker 3: And it's why I simply cannot take any criticism at

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Speaker 4: Seriously.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you're going to go to the links

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Speaker 3: I cannot take you seriously.

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Speaker 8: There's an element again I said it earlier, of conservatives

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Speaker 8: don't take don't take the bait right when these stories

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Speaker 8: come out, you have to really analyze what was the

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Speaker 8: heart behind these stories, because you could have maybe a

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Speaker 8: problem with them building a new ballroom on the side

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Speaker 8: of the White House. But what you have to remember

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Speaker 8: is these stories originated from leftist hit pieces.

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Speaker 9: And that's also why it is frustrating for conservatives to

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Speaker 9: waste time and give more energy than is needed to

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Speaker 9: criticizing other conservatives on things that don't really matter, like

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Speaker 9: I don't know. We're in a fight for for bigger

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Speaker 9: things than a extension on the White House.

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Speaker 4: I want to play this clip.

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Speaker 3: I shared this right at the end of the show

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Speaker 3: yesterday we had Tim Slagel was in for Crash and Burn,

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Speaker 3: acting many nice and so I had a little commentary

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Speaker 3: surrounding this. In normal times, if you had a clip

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Speaker 3: like this, this would be dominating the news headlines right,

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Speaker 3: this would this would be covered wall to wall if

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Speaker 3: you if you were living in normal times now, comments

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Speaker 3: like this just get made. They end up popping up online,

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Speaker 3: you know, there's commentary, and then they just disappear. This

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Speaker 3: is state representative Democrat out of Texas, Yolanda Jones going

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Speaker 3: on CNN. Just listen to what she has to say here.

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Speaker 12: No, it absolutely doesn't work out from the hood. Okay,

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Speaker 12: So when a bully comes, like, if there are no rules,

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Speaker 12: you literally have to figure it out. So Donald Trump

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Speaker 12: has changed things and people trying to do what's always

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Speaker 12: been done is not going to work. And I think

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Speaker 12: that's why Democrats are losing black people. That's why they're

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Speaker 12: losing poor people, because poor people all they want is

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Speaker 12: for us to fight. So if you hit me in

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Speaker 12: my face, I'm not gonna punch you back in your face.

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Speaker 12: I'm gonna go across your neck. Because we can go

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Speaker 12: back and forth fighting each other's faces. You've got to

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Speaker 12: hit hard enough where they won't come back. And so yeah,

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Speaker 12: for the same way, I went to New York and

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Speaker 12: spoke with Governor Kathy Hockel and said, if they're going

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Speaker 12: to try to wipe us out in Texas, we need

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Speaker 12: to wipe out every Republican in New York, in California

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Speaker 12: and Illinois.

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Speaker 3: Well, she did the slashing of the next like she

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Speaker 3: did this throat motion, like basically, if you punch me,

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Speaker 3: I'm just going to turn around, just going to to

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Speaker 3: your throat. This is the level of rhetoric that we've

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Speaker 3: that we've landed on.

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Speaker 4: I get self defense, I understand that.

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Speaker 3: But then to couple that with the Republican comment and

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Speaker 3: and like I said, if this was normal times, this

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Speaker 3: would be wall to wall coverage over egregious comments like this.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, are you not aware that people in your party

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Speaker 9: are killing conservatives?

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Speaker 4: Where have you been?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: It doesn't matter, especially referencing the throat with Charlie curse.

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Speaker 4: Classes. All right, so let's go here.

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Speaker 3: So the the article, the editorial former Legislative Auditor is

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Speaker 3: the Walls Administration finally awake about fraud. The recent messes

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Speaker 3: and state programs represent failures in the executive branch and

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Speaker 3: among some legislator. This is being written by h This

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Speaker 3: was written by Minnesota Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles. Former Minnesota

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Speaker 3: Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles. At the start of the piece,

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Speaker 3: Jim says Rachelle Olsen's interview with Minnesota Legislative Auditor Judy

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Speaker 3: Judy Randall, on which, by the way, Rachelle rash. This

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Speaker 3: interview seemed, despite its headline, to offer a ray of

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Speaker 3: hope that the Walls administration is maybe finally doing something

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Speaker 3: about the problem of fraud in Minnesota government programs. It's

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Speaker 3: good news, but make no mistake about it, the theft

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Speaker 3: of millions of tax dollars from Minnesota programs resulted not

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Speaker 3: just from the actions of the thieves, but from the

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Speaker 3: failure of state executive officials to implement basic financial safeguards

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Speaker 3: recommended in numerous audit reports for several years. What Jim

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Speaker 3: Nobles lays out here is something that we've sort of

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Speaker 3: speculated on the show and the questions that we've raised

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Speaker 3: of when you see this increase in the amount of

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Speaker 3: money that's being requested from these different programs that turned

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Speaker 3: out to be fraudulent, why wasn't anybody at DHS raising

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Speaker 3: an eyebrow calling it into question? So let me share

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Speaker 3: some of the A real quick summary here. I got

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Speaker 3: this from the Minnesota House Fraud and Oversight Committee X

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Speaker 3: account to kind of bullet points it here. So former

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Speaker 3: Legislative auditor Jim Nobles massive fraud State programs. Wasn't just

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Speaker 3: theft it enabled was enabled by negligence political cover from

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Speaker 3: top officials in the Walls administration. For years, auditors warned

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Speaker 3: about week oversight at DHS and other agencies. State offish

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Speaker 3: let unvetted organizations run programs and failed to verify their claims,

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Speaker 3: opening up the door to repeated fraud. When the OLA,

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Speaker 3: the Office of Legislative Auditor, reported on proven childcare fraud,

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Speaker 3: the DFL Human Services Committee chair brushed it off, saying

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Speaker 3: there's always going to be fraud. The DFL committee chairs

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Speaker 3: were further instructed not to allow any public hearings on

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Speaker 3: the OLA reports related to the fraud. Other lawmakers attacked

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Speaker 3: the auditor for referencing proven prosecutions, claiming it was harmful

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Speaker 3: to include them. Instead of fixing the problem, incredible, they

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Speaker 3: tried to bury it. And the last little point here,

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Speaker 3: Noble's message is clear state officials completely failed in their

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Speaker 3: jobs to protect taxpayer dollars, and even when as far

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Speaker 3: as hiding just how extensive the fraud was to the public.

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Speaker 4: Again, things that we.

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Speaker 3: Had all sort of seen with our own eyes but

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Speaker 3: didn't hear from anybody on the inside of how this

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Speaker 3: was all actually occurring.

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Speaker 8: And if you talk to anybody who has served at

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Speaker 8: the legislature for a long time, or not even that

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Speaker 8: long of a time, but just even in the last

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Speaker 8: five six years, what most people will tell you about

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Speaker 8: Jim Nobles as the Legislative Auditor is that he is

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Speaker 8: truly a balls and strikes guy. He was universally respected

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Speaker 8: when he was the Legislative Auditor. So for him to

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Speaker 8: come out with a piece like this that explicitly blames

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Speaker 8: the Walls administration for this systematic failure, just know you

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Speaker 8: are hearing from a man who would not come out

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Speaker 8: and say this if he did not have a leg

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Speaker 8: to stand on. This is not some Republican activist or

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Speaker 8: partisan hack. This was a guy who was universally respected

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Speaker 8: down in Saint Paul doing.

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Speaker 9: His job, getting this glimpse behind the curtain of what

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Speaker 9: allowed this fraud to happen. Internally, it feels as significant

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Speaker 9: as like when the Twitter files came out and we

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Speaker 9: realized that they were suppressing accurate information that they knew

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Speaker 9: was factual because oh, well, it might be harmful to

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Speaker 9: the country even though it's true.

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Speaker 4: Even though it's true, we shouldn't let people talk about.

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Speaker 3: This you get into and I'll work off of I

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Speaker 3: got a couple different sources here. I have the article

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Speaker 3: in and of itself from Jim Nobles, but others have

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Speaker 3: done a really good job, like the one I was

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Speaker 3: sharing with you from the ex account of summarizing all

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Speaker 3: of this, and Bill glaugh had centered the American experiment

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Speaker 3: as doing a fantastic job as well. This repeats a

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Speaker 3: bit of what we mentioned a moment ago, but let's

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Speaker 3: get back into it. So it's the some legislator's part

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Speaker 3: of this whole thing that Bill says should raise eyebrows.

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Speaker 3: The occasion of Nobles piece was in response to the

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Speaker 3: commentary of his successor, the Auditor post Ola Judy Randall.

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Speaker 3: Her interview on the subject of state fraud and the

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Speaker 3: crisis jogged memories loose for Nobles, he writes in paragraph six, Again,

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Speaker 3: while executive officials were obviously negligent, less obvious is the

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Speaker 3: fact that some key legislators tried to minimize the fraud

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Speaker 3: and shield the Department of Human Services in the Walls administration.

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Speaker 3: And this idea that the then chair of the House

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Speaker 3: Human Services Committee just dismisses this, saying, oh, there's always

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Speaker 3: going to be fraud. I mean that in and of

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Speaker 3: itself is just a bombshell revelation.

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Speaker 4: I mean, in what world, in the private sector a

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Speaker 4: billion dollars in any way, shape or form. Can you

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Speaker 4: just say, oh, it's you know, we're always going to have.

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Speaker 3: Theft, We're always going to have this fraud.

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Speaker 4: There's always going to be fraud.

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Speaker 3: And then to say that and not go on one thing,

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Speaker 3: to go and say there's always going to be fraud,

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Speaker 3: let's go and do something about it, right, Okay, But

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Speaker 3: in this case, no, she refused to actually allow the

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Speaker 3: Office of Legislative Auditor to.

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Speaker 4: Even present the report to the committee. I mean, that's

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Speaker 4: just stunning to me. No, it truly is.

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Speaker 8: I've been telling people it is a matter of practicality

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Speaker 8: to vote Republican in this next election, right if you

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Speaker 8: want to change, even if you're Democrat. Usually it's this

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Speaker 8: partisan thing to say, hey, go go and vote Republican,

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Speaker 8: or I want you to vote Republican. But what has

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Speaker 8: been very apparent during my time in the House is

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Speaker 8: that you have one party that is serious about tackling

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Speaker 8: the fraud. You have another party who tacitly excuses it

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Speaker 8: or embraces it. Or sometimes participates in it. It sticks

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Speaker 8: with me that Representative Tina Leebling, one of my colleagues,

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Speaker 8: said on the House floor, there is zero corruption in Minnesota.

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Speaker 8: We don't have a corruption problem here. Imagine being that disconnected, ignorant,

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Speaker 8: or indulgent of the bad policies that we've developed over

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Speaker 8: the last ten years.

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Speaker 9: And you made this point earlier in the show. But

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Speaker 9: how broken is the DFL party in Minnesota that Tim

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Speaker 9: Walls is the best viable candidate.

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Speaker 4: They have after all of this.

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Speaker 9: I mean, he should be unable to step foot in

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Speaker 9: a voting place, let alone run for governor again.

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Speaker 3: Well, we were talking yesterday, well throughout the week this week,

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Speaker 3: do you guys hear about that heist at the Louver music?

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Speaker 8: Oh right, hey, you see do you see the lead

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Speaker 8: investigator by the way in this story and what.

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Speaker 4: He looked like. It's just just he.

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Speaker 8: Looks like a cartoon character, a French investigator. Excellent, imagine

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Speaker 8: a French investigator in your mind, and this guy plays

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Speaker 8: to every stereotype.

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Speaker 4: Go on, the director of the Louver came out and

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Speaker 4: said I'm going to resign. I mean she straight up

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Speaker 4: came out.

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Speaker 3: Now, the individuals in charge said, no, you know, we

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Speaker 3: need you here, We respect you, know your wishes, but

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Speaker 3: you know this isn't all your fault. I only point

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Speaker 3: that out because that's what real leadership does. Yes, they

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Speaker 3: look at a situation that happened under their watch, even

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Speaker 3: if it wasn't their fault, and they.

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Speaker 4: Go, the buck stops with me.

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Speaker 3: This happened under my watch, and I, at a bare minimum,

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Speaker 3: Walls shouldn't be running for re election. But he also

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Speaker 3: should have stepped down a long time ago in the

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Speaker 3: wake of all of this.

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Speaker 4: That's exactly it.

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Speaker 9: He Walls used those exact words in an interview.

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Speaker 4: We said, the buck stops here.

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Speaker 9: But then he's going to turn around and what promised

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Speaker 9: to just not let it happen again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: It reminds me of David Cameron, the former Prime Minister

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Speaker 8: of the UK. After Brexit happened, David Cameron the next

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Speaker 8: day came out and just resigned because he had felt like, hey,

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Speaker 8: I campaigned against Brexit, it failed, and I'm a failure,

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Speaker 8: so therefore I resign. That doesn't happen in American politics.

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Speaker 8: In fact, in most cases, these politicians are failing upward

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Speaker 8: until they're ninety years old. And that's the way we

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Speaker 8: do politics here. I want to play a quick talk

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Speaker 8: back here.

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Speaker 12: It is.

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Speaker 3: Always entertaining to me how because it's a freedom Friday

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Speaker 3: and I'm going to allow myself to do this. It's

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Speaker 3: always entertaining to me how foes of the show they

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Speaker 3: all fall under the same the same arguments, the same

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Speaker 3: tried arguments, and then the same attempts to sort of

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Speaker 3: undermine the show in and of itself. So let me

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Speaker 3: let me play this again. This is deep throat to.

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Speaker 13: Eric and more than Eric from Brainard Auditors just wondering

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Speaker 13: why what happened to the interview with Elliott Ingen that

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Speaker 13: was supposed to happen today.

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Speaker 4: I know is Binky and Bob.

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Speaker 13: Bob probably wasn't ready, but uh yeah, I don't not

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Speaker 13: sure why we should be showing up to vote for

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Speaker 13: him if he's not even going to show up to

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Speaker 13: do an interview on the show.

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Speaker 3: I never said that Elliott Ingen was going to be

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Speaker 3: on the show today. I mentioned yesterday his announcement to

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Speaker 3: run for auditor. I said maybe we would have him

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Speaker 3: call in today. He's actually going to be in studio

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Speaker 3: on Monday morning at seven point thirty to talk about

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Speaker 3: his run. I just I love the fact that when

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Speaker 3: I have these foes of the show listeners, what happened

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Speaker 3: to this way?

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Speaker 4: Is he not ready yet?

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Speaker 3: I must be doing and we must all be doing

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Speaker 3: a bang up job here on the show with out

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Speaker 3: of everything that we've talked about this morning. That's the

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Speaker 3: criticism that you have regarding it. I just had to

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Speaker 3: deviate for a second while ak Kamara gets settled in.

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Speaker 3: I want to go back to Tina Leebling really quick.

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Speaker 4: Your girl waiting, So, my girl.

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Speaker 3: The OLA Report the Office of Legislative Auditor on Child

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Speaker 3: on the childcare subsidy fraud that was issued in March

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Speaker 3: of twenty nineteen. So American Experiment had covered the report

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Speaker 3: when it first came out. In a March twenty nineteen story,

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Speaker 3: MPR quoted the then chair of the House in Human

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Speaker 3: Services Committee, Tina Leebling, who you mentioned earlier, who said this,

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Speaker 3: we need to be very careful when we start accusing

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Speaker 3: people and accusing entire communities really of being less than

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Speaker 3: concerned about where the public money is going. Leeblin continues

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Speaker 3: to serve in the legislature. In his commentary, Nobles recalls

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Speaker 3: another twenty nineteen event, where he says, as like minded

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Speaker 3: House members joined in criticizing the OLA for investigating allegations

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Speaker 3: of fraud and human services. I met with then Speaker

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Speaker 3: Melissa Hortman. As always, she was thoughtful and supportive of

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Speaker 3: the OLA's work, but acknowledged that some members of her

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Speaker 3: caucus were upset. They felt the OLA reports were subjecting

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Speaker 3: human service programs to too much criticism, particularly programs administered

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Speaker 3: by the Somali community organizations, to which Bill Glohm rights

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Speaker 3: too much criticism of DHS programs. Six years later, it

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Speaker 3: turns out to have been far too little correct. Billions

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Speaker 3: of dollars worth of new frauds have gone out the

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Speaker 3: door since the OLA's March twenty nineteen report. That report

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Speaker 3: struck a nerve and Democrats are still smarting over it.

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Speaker 3: And again, I understand the reluctance to go and point

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Speaker 3: to particular demographics and communities here in Minnesota. And it's

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Speaker 3: not to go and disparage particular communities as a whole,

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Speaker 3: but you need to go and address the situation and

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Speaker 3: the facts of the situation, and the truth of the

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Speaker 3: matter is it's actually hurting the Somali community because it's

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Speaker 3: the Somali community that was in large part taking not

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Speaker 3: taking advantage, but using the services that were found out

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Speaker 3: to be fraudulent. And when they go to use these

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Speaker 3: services and they can't, then they're not getting service, which

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Speaker 3: is which was supposed to come from the taxpayer dollars.

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Speaker 3: So you've got a really complicated issue here, but you

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Speaker 3: have a lot of political care directness and fear that

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Speaker 3: certain demographics of Democrat voters are going to get upset.

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Speaker 3: And that's what this ultimately comes down to, and Tina

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Speaker 3: Leebling's concern and at the end.

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Speaker 8: Of the day, when we're talking about solutions, remove the

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Speaker 8: demographics from it.

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Speaker 4: Right, just stop the fraud period.

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Speaker 8: I mean, if there are demographic groups that are being

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Speaker 8: more impacted by the fact that you're stopping the fraud,

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Speaker 8: well that's too bad. Because if you're a criminal, I

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Speaker 8: don't care what race you are, stop being a criminal, right,

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Speaker 8: just stop the fraud. And what's very apparent is that

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Speaker 8: Democrats in the Minnesota House especially are not concerned. They

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Speaker 8: don't think it's a problem. Tina Leebling said there is

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Speaker 8: a zero corruption. We have zero corruption in the state

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Speaker 8: of Minnesota. I heard her say.

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Speaker 3: That business owner ak Kamara, RNC Committee man, Good morning,

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Speaker 3: Tina Leebling.

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Speaker 14: Saying that we have zero fraud is like saying that

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Speaker 14: Keith Ellison has never been accused of credibly beating his

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Speaker 14: ex girlfriend.

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Speaker 4: It's just not reality.

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Speaker 3: Wow, you're coming in, whoa the conservative ravel rousers coming

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Speaker 3: on hot.

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Speaker 4: Super hot man.

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Speaker 14: I mean, I've been pushing this so hard because I

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Speaker 14: can't believe that Keith Ellison has the audacity to run

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Speaker 14: for a third term. And he's just like, yeah, I

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Speaker 14: don't care, like whatever, Like you can go back to

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Speaker 14: twenty eighteen and find all these articles of my ex girlfriend,

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Speaker 14: like literally giving her testimony of what happened of me

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Speaker 14: beating her. I don't care, And I think it's crazy

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Speaker 14: because most people don't even acknowledge. So yeah, I'm coming

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Speaker 14: in hot on Keith Ellison. I'm gonna be on him

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Speaker 14: until he either loses by like twenty points or he

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Speaker 14: resigns an absolute shame.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of which, Ron Schultz, the Attorney General shoots and

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Speaker 3: the date shoots, shoots, shoots. Thank you for correcting me,

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Speaker 3: or shoot ty if you prefer, because it's this C

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Speaker 3: H U E T T.

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Speaker 8: I don't know, but any of that that sounds like

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Speaker 8: North Dakota talk right there.

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Speaker 4: It's still it's still ways at right?

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Speaker 2: Is that?

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Speaker 4: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: In my getting?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 4: Why calls about that one? Why is that I was choking?

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Speaker 4: That was a joke. Are you longtimers? You know what

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about?

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Speaker 3: So Ron Shoots he confused me over there, so I

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Speaker 3: don't know. Ron Shoots will be on the show.

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Speaker 14: Awesome.

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Speaker 3: Just for Deep Throat Eric here, that will be Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 3: If you're keeping tabs, I'm glad that you're thinking about

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Speaker 3: when the next guests are going to be on. He

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Speaker 3: will be in the in studio on a Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 3: Representative Elliott Ingen will be in studio.

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Speaker 4: On Monday morning.

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Speaker 3: All right, and we're gonna get back to all of

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Speaker 3: our guests coming up in just a moment here on

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Speaker 3: Twin City's News Talk.

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Speaker 4: We do have business owner ak.

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Speaker 3: Kamara coming to Hot, very Hot, Grace keating American Experiment

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Speaker 3: American Experiment podcast. We also have representative Max Rymer, and

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Speaker 3: of course you on the iHeartRadio app brought to you

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Speaker 3: by Lyndahl Realty.

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Speaker 4: That would be the talkbacks.

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Speaker 5: Good Morning, John Sam and guests as somebody that's been

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Speaker 5: in the business world. For over thirty five years, I

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Speaker 5: have worked under many leaders and it is a rare

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Speaker 5: individual who has the courage and fortitude to say, you

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Speaker 5: know what, I screwed up.

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Speaker 4: I'll take the blame.

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Speaker 5: They make them all money, but they never want to

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Speaker 5: take the most blame. And you see it in government

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Speaker 5: and you see it in business, and it's really sickening

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Speaker 4: To us worker bees who do all the heavy lifting