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Speaker 1: Good morning, John.

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Speaker 2: I got a question, how could the federal government not

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Speaker 2: vet Tim Walls so thoroughly at the time he was

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Speaker 2: running for vice president to dig up all of this fraud.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think they.

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Speaker 3: Did, but because there was such a cover, there's content

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Speaker 3: there continued to be such a cover for what had

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Speaker 3: transpired regarding the fraud, which just simply cannot be ignored anymore.

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Speaker 3: It didn't matter. But this speaks back to you know,

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Speaker 3: this speaks to what I was talking about with Andrew

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Speaker 3: Langer a moment ago here on Twin City's News Talk

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Speaker 3: as we kick off hour two from the six y

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Speaker 3: five to one Carpet Next Day install Studios.

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Speaker 1: I think all of.

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Speaker 3: This speaks more to just how nobody wanted to run

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Speaker 3: with Kamala Harris that they ended up going with Governor

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Speaker 3: Tim Walls despite all of his all of his baggage.

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Speaker 3: Then again, we have so much ground to cover. I

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Speaker 3: don't want to relitigate what has transpired and what was

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Speaker 3: although that will really when we look at when we

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Speaker 3: look back at the entirety of Governor Tim Walls, depending

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Speaker 3: on whether or not he ends up still being the

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Speaker 3: nominee next year. Because I just think that every single

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Speaker 3: week that goes by, there is it's less likely that

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Speaker 3: Walls ends up being the nominee. There's just so much

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Speaker 3: baggage attached to him right now. I mean this is

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Speaker 3: including within his own party. And we'll get into more

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Speaker 3: of this, more of this coming up, but in total,

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Speaker 3: if Walls does not end up being the nominee, and

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Speaker 3: for the time being, like his time as governor right

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Speaker 3: now would be coming to a close, him being tapped

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Speaker 3: as the VP for Kamala Harris will be sort of

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Speaker 3: the beginning of the end in terms of the ark

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Speaker 3: and the storyline. More recently, Trump called the Minnesota governor

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Speaker 3: seriously retarded. This is working out the version here from newsmax,

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Speaker 3: a term widely regarded as derogatory towards people with intellectual disabilities, Which.

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Speaker 1: Makes me wonder whether or not Newsmax.

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Speaker 3: Was questioning Walls and his intellect based off of how

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Speaker 3: they worded that me that is it may Walls responded

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Speaker 3: by calling for the release of the President's MRI results

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Speaker 3: of drawing renewed attention to questions surrounding the seventy nine

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Speaker 3: year old commander in chiefs health. Really really, Newsmax, Oh,

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, this is actually Newsweek.

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Speaker 4: That's my bad.

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Speaker 1: Newsmax as a better job. This was Newsweek that makes

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Speaker 1: more sense.

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Speaker 3: So the post was on True Social wherein Trump called

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Speaker 3: walls retarded. I do have a clip that I want

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Speaker 3: to share with you. Traveling on Air Force one over

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Speaker 3: the weekend, I believe it was yesterday, President Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: was asked about whether or not he still stood by

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Speaker 3: that claim that Walls is retarded.

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Speaker 1: Walls and you called.

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Speaker 5: Him of what many Americans do find an offensive word, retarded.

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Speaker 1: Do you stand by that claim of calling the walls retarded?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I think there's something wrong with him, absolutely sure.

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Speaker 1: You have a problem with you know what.

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Speaker 7: I think there's something wrong with him. Anybody that would

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Speaker 7: do what he did. Anybody that would allow those people

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Speaker 7: into a state and pay billions of dollars out to Samalia.

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Speaker 7: We give billions of dollars to Samo. It's not even

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Speaker 7: a country because it doesn't function like a country. It's

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Speaker 7: got a name, but it doesn't function like a country. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: there's something wrong with wolves, mister president.

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Speaker 3: So in the post, Trump wrote that hundreds of thousands

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Speaker 3: of Somali refugees were taking over Minnesota and suggested some

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Speaker 3: all the gangs were roving the streets. So that second part,

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Speaker 3: and look at the Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara and

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Speaker 3: had to go and apologize for in case anybody within

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Speaker 3: African kids that were coming into or kids from East

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Speaker 3: Newsweek article does go on to say that Samali's makeup

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Speaker 3: while roughly one point one percent of Minnesota's population about

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Speaker 3: sixty one three hundred according to the US Census data. Now,

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Speaker 3: with you, that number is closer to eighty thousand. So

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Speaker 3: Trump is off with his hundreds of thousands in terms

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Speaker 3: of Somali refugees here in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: US Census, and those are individuals that have claimed directly

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Speaker 3: half of individuals who had immigrated to the country from

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Speaker 3: that area may have done so committing marriage fraud. This

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Speaker 3: if Trump were to go and launch expansive immigration operations

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Speaker 3: on doing, that is one area in which immigrations and

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Speaker 3: customs enforcement and border patrol could go and target. The

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Speaker 3: newsweak article goes on to say crime rates in Minnesota

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Speaker 3: showing some all the gangs are responsible for the widespread violence.

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Speaker 3: But again you had Minneamplis's own police chief stating such.

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Speaker 1: And listen, not all.

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Speaker 3: Somali's commit fraud, but of the total fraud, seventy five

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Speaker 3: from the Somali community, and in large part that community's

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Speaker 3: leadership has been silent on the issue. There is an editorial,

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Speaker 3: as I mentioned, from the Minnesota reformer that I'll share

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Speaker 3: Somali community that's willing to step up and call out

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Speaker 3: the fraud or at least mention I shouldn't say call out,

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Speaker 3: because they don't really call it out, but.

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Speaker 1: At least mention.

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Speaker 3: That the majority of the fraud that's been discovered here

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Speaker 3: in Minnesota has been committed by those from the Somali community.

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Speaker 3: Here's what's some Governor Chim Walls had to say on

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Speaker 6: Look, Donald Trump insulting me as a badge of honor

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Speaker 6: for me, but I think we all know as both

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Speaker 6: as a educator for a couple decades and as a parent,

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Speaker 6: using that term is just so damaging.

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Speaker 4: It's hurtful.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because Walls has never gone and used any sort

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Speaker 3: of you know, hurtful terminology in any way, shape or form.

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Speaker 6: I'm getting called out on this because I called Donald

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Speaker 6: Trump a wanna be dictator.

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Speaker 4: It's because he is. It's because he is.

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Speaker 6: Oh, the governor's being mean, and the governor's speaking out

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Speaker 4: Well, maybe it's time for us to be a little meaner.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's time for us to be a little more fierce.

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Speaker 3: The last person that ever can take the high ground

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Speaker 3: over bullying tactics calling individuals' names not be a hypocrite

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Speaker 3: is Governor Tim Walls. They didn't keep Jennifer Brooks in

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Speaker 3: The Star Tribune from rushing to Walls's defense in the

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Speaker 1: Derogatory terms.

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Speaker 3: Brooks writes this, Tim Walls knows how bullies operates, how

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Speaker 3: bullies operate. Well, sure he does, because he's a bully himself.

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Speaker 3: That's not a point that she makes. That's the point

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Speaker 3: that I'm making, Jennifer Brooks says, Minnesota's governor responds to

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Speaker 3: the president who called him the R word. She writes,

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Speaker 3: Minnesota Governor Tim Walls Todd High school. He's the parent

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Speaker 3: of a child with special needs. He's heard the R

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Speaker 3: word before. He's heard it from playground bullies, He's heard

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Speaker 3: it from online trolls. Does she really know that? Or

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Speaker 3: is she just making a lot of assumptions there? Does

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Speaker 1: Did she questioned him as if that was the case

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Speaker 3: Just wondering now he's heard it for the president of

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Speaker 3: the United States, She writes. The President's insult comes as

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Speaker 3: Minnesota prepares to host the twenty twenty six Special Olympic

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Speaker 3: US Games in June, Okay, and nine nine percent of individuals,

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Speaker 3: those with disabilities and those without understand. I'm not saying

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Speaker 3: that you should be going you should go around calling

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Speaker 3: most people understand that terminology is used exclusively in a

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Speaker 3: derogatory way toward an individual who is acting out of

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Speaker 3: dealing with any mental disabilities. If that doesn't include you,

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Speaker 3: then most people go, that doesn't include me. Walls said,

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Speaker 3: this is not both sides ism. This is clearly one

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Speaker 3: divide this country and thinks that it's beneficial to him politically. Really,

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Speaker 3: Governor Tim Wall said that, okay, here's a bit of

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Speaker 3: a before and after of Walls, by the way, but.

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Speaker 4: Look, this is what Donald Trump has done.

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Speaker 6: He's normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type

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Speaker 4: Well, maybe it's time.

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Speaker 6: For us to be a little meaner, and when it's

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Speaker 8: What we should demonize is people like Elon Musk. Although

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Speaker 3: Again, Walls has no leg to stand on whatsoever.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 3: Trump's holiday greetings subject plus verb plus insult. She put

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Speaker 3: in his latest truth the Social Post, a very happy

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Speaker 3: patriots who have been so nice in allowing our country

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Speaker 1: And he's not wrong.

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Speaker 3: Jennifer Brooks doesn't like that, though, not that Jennifer Brooks

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Speaker 3: would like anything that that President Donald Trump had to say.

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Speaker 3: There was nothing in the lengthy message Walls noted about

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Speaker 3: his life. Why isn't he with his family lamented Governor

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Speaker 3: Jim Walls. Why aren't they celebrating. Why aren't they playing yachtzie, that's.

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Speaker 1: What we're doing.

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Speaker 3: I don't get it, like Walls cares. She goes on

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Speaker 3: to talk about Gus Walls, saying that he also heard

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Speaker 3: blocked it out. Wallsman on to say, people who do

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Speaker 3: things like this you don't associate with. I really wish

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Speaker 3: America America would start to understand that this has nothing

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Speaker 3: to do with conservative policy, It has nothing to do

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Speaker 3: with climate change. It has everything to do with at

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Speaker 3: heart just being cruel. He added, the cruelties at the

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Speaker 3: center of his agenda. That's the end of the piece

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Speaker 3: from Jennifer Brooks. And I would have look if she

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Speaker 3: And I played for you the audio the time when

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Speaker 3: kick gops, but the doom scrolling, the red hats, the

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Speaker 3: being entertained by falling Tesla's stock. The bad Ankle's comment,

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Speaker 2: Okay, Walls apparently was saying why wasn't Trump with his family?

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Speaker 4: They had a huge Thanksgiving celebration.

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Speaker 1: It was everywhere online.

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Speaker 7: Tells me that he doesn't look and see what's going

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Speaker 1: Walls is too busy.

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Speaker 4: Of pocketing money from all the griston Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Oh, he's just a liar. That's really what it comes

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Speaker 4: Show, I am just baffled.

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Speaker 1: If we remember Sarah Palin.

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Speaker 5: Had a special needs child and the vitrio that came

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Speaker 1: Have a great day.

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Speaker 3: There's no there's no level of consistency. There's nothing but

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Speaker 1: Tim Walls did.

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Speaker 3: Take aim at Trump's criticism of the Somali community when

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Speaker 1: That's an understatement.

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Speaker 3: So he was on Meet the Press with host Christian

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Speaker 11: Dozens of people of East African descent have been charged, convicted,

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Speaker 6: Well, certainly, I take responsibility for putting people in jail.

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Speaker 6: Governors don't get to just talk. Theoretically, we have.

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Speaker 3: To solve problems, and I will note it's not first off,

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Speaker 3: whatsoever for what's transpired. You can do that and still

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Speaker 3: Any good leader would say yes, of course, I am

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Speaker 1: This has been happening on my watch.

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Speaker 3: And then you add in the subsequent and I'm going

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Speaker 3: In the moment, you can see I know that look,

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Speaker 6: Just Somali's Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota's a prosperous days,

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Speaker 4: On the actions of a few, it's lazy.

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Speaker 1: No, what's lazy is what he's doing.

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Speaker 3: And the clip it's interesting because he says, well, they're

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Speaker 3: So at least he's admitting that other individuals are committing fraud.

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Speaker 3: But when you look at the numbers, you're looking at

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Speaker 3: our future are of East African descent. Walls hasn't done

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Speaker 3: facts is not racism. This is where things get lazy

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Speaker 3: the way that you would describe somebody who was willfully

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Speaker 1: You had some only families.

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Speaker 3: Taking cash bribes in one instance to have their non

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Speaker 10: Good morning, John Sam. I want the first preface that

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Speaker 10: eighteen to thirty somethings that hijack the rental cars, smash

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Speaker 1: There you go again. The lazy thing is to just

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Speaker 3: That's the lazy thing to do, to not give a

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Speaker 3: thorough examination of what is actually taking place here. The

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Speaker 3: article how fraud swamped Minnesota's social services system under Tim

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Speaker 3: Minnesota Underscore DHS at Minnesota under or DHS apparently apparently

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Speaker 3: hundred percent responsible for massive fraud here in Minnesota. We'll

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Speaker 3: also get to more of your talkbacks as well from

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Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app here on Twin City's News Talk Am

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Speaker 3: John Justice along with Sam and the Master Control Booth. So,

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Speaker 1: Before we do that, let me play this clip really.

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Speaker 3: Quick because it's kind of it's kind of it's kind

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Speaker 3: Tim Walls was retarded, this was the response from Walls

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Speaker 6: Well, here we got a guy on Thanksgiving where we

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Speaker 4: This is not normal behavior. It is not healthy.

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Speaker 6: And presidents throughout time have released a couple things. They've

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Speaker 6: their medical records, not Donald Trump. And look, the MRI

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Speaker 4: What it was for? As he says, So, look.

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Speaker 6: It's clear the presence fading physically, I think the mental

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Speaker 1: Know, let me stop here. I'm just I won't subject

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Speaker 3: I have more walls clips to share, so I won't

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Speaker 3: subject you to more of that one than you have to.

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Speaker 3: With regard to the last thing he said, has anybody

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Speaker 1: Getting an MRI for.

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Speaker 3: I just saw an ad for a cyber deal for

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Speaker 3: and then the MRI will go and expose whether or

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Speaker 3: just it was only ten minutes ago, Cyber Monday, for

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Speaker 3: what every single year now for me, specifically, we're looking

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Speaker 3: things that have popped up before with those MRIs. Sometimes

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Speaker 3: they're just routine, and it's really rich for Governor Tim

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Speaker 3: Walls to be using that line of attack when you

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Speaker 3: American Experiment. But the state withholds records on fraud cases

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Speaker 1: But it won't.

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Speaker 3: So here you have the Star Tribune actually doing journalism,

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Speaker 3: which is somewhat shocking. But they wrote this just two

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Speaker 3: state agencies brought authority to stop payments to individuals and

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Speaker 3: But while DHS requested the ability to disclose that information,

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Speaker 1: So perhaps Governor.

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Speaker 3: Tim Walls, as others have noted online, should stop complaining

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Speaker 3: DHS release the information regarding the records of the fraud cases.

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Speaker 3: President Donald Trump was asked about the MRI line on

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Speaker 8: Will you tell us why it was, Governor Wolves, I

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Speaker 7: So if they want to release it, it's okay.

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Speaker 4: With me to release it. It's perfect.

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Speaker 1: It's like my phone call where I got it peached.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely perfect.

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Speaker 7: So if you want to hear about it, or if

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Speaker 1: Release it, do you want to have it released?

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Speaker 7: News station failing failing, News station fail news nation is doing.

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Speaker 7: It allows you, by the way, but if you want

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Speaker 7: to have it released, I'll release its want releasing?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, What part of your body was the I.

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Speaker 7: Have no idea which is an run What part of

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Speaker 7: the body it wasn't the brain because I took a

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Speaker 7: tact that it fests DIASTI and I got a perfect mark,

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Speaker 7: which you would be incapable of doing anybody. Everybody you do.

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Speaker 1: It really is the best. Yeah, and there's nothing surprising

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Speaker 1: about that. It's like I just got an MRI I done.

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Speaker 1: That was all.

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Speaker 10: I just.

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Speaker 1: Does a routine check up. People get them all the time,

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Speaker 1: as I mentioned.

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Speaker 3: They actually you can get one on your own, just

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Speaker 3: go through particular services. So the timeline of how all

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Speaker 3: this played out everything got ramped up last week, dovetailing

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Speaker 3: off of the reporting from City Journal, The New York

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Speaker 3: Times got in on the action.

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Speaker 1: How fraud swamped.

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Speaker 3: Minnesota social services system under Tim Walls's watch. Prosecutors say

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Speaker 3: members of the Somali despora, a group with growing political power,

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Speaker 3: were largely responsible. President Trump has drawn national attention to

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Speaker 3: the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration. Federal prosecutors charged

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Speaker 3: dozens of people with felonies. I'm reading from the New

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Speaker 3: York Times piece now. The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota

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Speaker 3: was staggering in its scale and brazenness. Visuals acused of

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Speaker 3: sealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program

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Speaker 3: meant to keep children fed during the COVID nineteen pandemic.

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Speaker 1: At first, many in.

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Speaker 3: The States saw the case as a one off abuse

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Speaker 3: during a health emergency. But as new schemes at targeting

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Speaker 3: the state's generous safety net programs came to lights, state

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Speaker 3: and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality.

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Speaker 3: Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say fraud

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Speaker 3: it took root in pockets of Minnesota's Somali community as

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Speaker 3: scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies

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Speaker 3: that build state agencies for millions of dollars worth of

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Speaker 3: social services that were never provided. Fifty nine people convicted

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Speaker 3: in the scheme. So far, more than one billion in

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Speaker 3: taxpayer money was stolen in three plots that they are

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Speaker 3: currently investigating. That is more than Minnesota spends annually in

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Speaker 3: its Department of Corrections. Minnesota fraud scandal even stood out

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Speaker 3: in this context of the rampant theft during the pandemic,

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Speaker 3: when Americans sole tens of billions through unemployment benefits, business loans,

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Speaker 3: and other.

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Speaker 1: Forms of aid.

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Speaker 3: Outrage has swelled among Minnesotans, and fraud has turned into

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Speaker 3: the political potent political issue in a competitive campaign season.

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Speaker 3: Governor Tim Watson fellow Democrats are being asked to explain

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Speaker 3: how so much money was stolen on their watch, providing

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Speaker 3: Republicans who hoped to take back the governor's office in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six with a powerful line of attack. In

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Speaker 3: recent days, President Donald Trump weighed in calling Minnesota a

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Speaker 3: hub of fraudulent money laundering activity, saying that some ally

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Speaker 3: perpetrators should be sent back to where they came from.

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Speaker 3: So again, when you go down the timeline here you

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Speaker 3: have the City Journal reporting and I'm I'm not including

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Speaker 3: what's been covered in the past by Alphinus, Liz Colin,

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Speaker 3: by those over it American experiment. I'm not covering. I'm

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Speaker 3: not referring to everything that's come beforehand. We've been talking

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Speaker 3: about a lot of these issues for a long time.

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Speaker 3: I'm just talking about the most recent timeline that brings

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Speaker 3: Minnesota to national attention. So you had the City Journal

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Speaker 3: reporting going back two weeks, you had Trump move to

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Speaker 3: end the temporary protect the status.

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Speaker 1: Which was solely to.

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Speaker 3: Bring to raise the profile of everything that was taking place,

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Speaker 3: and specifically that City Journal reporting that happened. You had

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Speaker 3: the controversial, controversial ice raid in Saint Paul. I'll have

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Speaker 3: more on that next hour or two cover. We now

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Speaker 3: have the background on the individual that all the protesters

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Speaker 3: showed up to go and defend. Then of course we

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Speaker 3: had the members of our National Guard that were shot

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Speaker 3: last week, along with the individual from Afghanistan who also

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Speaker 3: was setting up for an attack. Then we had the

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Speaker 3: New York Times report that I just mentioned, Trump calling

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Speaker 3: Walls the R word, and then the Walls interview that

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Speaker 3: I've shared with you, which I have more audio coming up,

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Speaker 3: of which Walls did not do a good job at

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Speaker 3: all in explaining what exactly was taking place. A real

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Speaker 3: leader would have stepped down, A real Democrat leader would

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Speaker 3: have at least said, yes, I take responsibility for what

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Speaker 3: has transpired, but I'm also going to do everything I

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Speaker 3: can to root it out. As I mentioned before, let

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Speaker 3: me just go ahead and just play that clip again

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Speaker 3: for those that may have missed it.

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Speaker 1: Where he addressed this specifically, dozens.

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Speaker 11: Of people of East African descent have been charged, convicted,

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Speaker 11: and sentenced for stealing more than a billion dollars in

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Speaker 11: taxpayer money from government programs during COVID. As you know, Governor,

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Speaker 11: that is more than Minnesota spends each year to run

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Speaker 11: its Department of Correction. So I want to give you

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Speaker 11: a chance to respond to this. Do you take responsibility

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Speaker 11: for failing to stop this fraud in your state?

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Speaker 6: Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.

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Speaker 6: Governors don't get to.

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Speaker 3: So he's not going to take responsibility for all of

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Speaker 3: this happening under his watch.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's clear.

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Speaker 3: He'll take responsibility for the good stuff in holding people

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Speaker 3: accountable according to him, which also he can't really go

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Speaker 3: and take credit for We just had a judge that

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Speaker 3: overturned the conviction of an individual who was committing fraud.

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Speaker 1: There needs to be an investigation into that judge.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely talk theoretically, we have to solve problems, and I

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Speaker 6: will note it's not just Somali's. Minnesota is a generous state.

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Speaker 6: Minnesota is a prosperous days a well run state or

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Speaker 6: triple A bond rated but that attracts criminals.

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Speaker 4: Those people are going to Ja.

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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable to me.

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Speaker 3: You know, We're just we're run so well that all

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Speaker 3: the criminals they just flock here to Minnesota because I've

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Speaker 3: done such a good This is what he's essentially saying.

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Speaker 3: Governor Tim Walls is saying, listen, we got a triple

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Speaker 3: A bond rating. Yeah, it's good, and we're so successful here,

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Speaker 3: the criminals just want to come here and do crime.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, all of this fraud should

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Speaker 1: be looked.

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Speaker 3: At and applauded because we wouldn't have all this fraud

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Speaker 3: if it wasn't for how successful our state is. He's

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Speaker 3: a liar. Need further proof. Let me share this with you,

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Speaker 3: and then we'll dive into what alleged members of the

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Speaker 3: Department of Human Services had to say. But this is

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Speaker 3: a before and actually it's an it's a it's a

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Speaker 3: recent and then before we'll go that route. So the

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Speaker 3: first clipical here is Governor Tim Walls saying that more

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Speaker 3: accountability is needed in the programs found to be fraudulent.

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Speaker 3: And then the second clipicle here is Walls in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty two defending the.

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Speaker 1: Very pro that turned out to be fraudulent.

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Speaker 6: Do you think there was not enough skepticism for too

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Speaker 6: long in state agencies that were overseeing these programs. I

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Speaker 6: think it's an unfortunate situation, But yeah, I think you

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Speaker 6: need to be.

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Speaker 4: More skeptical now in this world.

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Speaker 6: I think the COVID pandemic and the releasing of some

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Speaker 6: of the rules, the relaxing of the rules fostered this

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Speaker 6: one or.

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Speaker 12: Tim Walls today defended how the Education Department handled food

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Speaker 12: fraud allegations during the pandemic. Prosecutors say millions meant for

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Speaker 12: hungry kids went to buy luxury cars and homes instead.

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Speaker 3: Just how many different contradictions as Walls made, It's incredible.

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Speaker 3: So late this weekend, after receiving a lot of attention

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Speaker 3: Minnesota Department of Human Service employees through an account associated

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Speaker 3: with them at Minnesota Underscore DHS.

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Speaker 1: They wrote, we are overwhelmed.

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Speaker 3: By the interest the nation has shown in the fraud

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Speaker 3: occurring in Minnesota. Popular Wise, we are small, but health

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Speaker 3: and human services fraud in our state exceeds that of

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Speaker 3: much larger states like California and New York, Texas and others. Well,

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00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 3: Tim Walls makes all manner of incorrect statements about Minnesota

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Speaker 3: leading in one way or another. What we really lead

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Speaker 3: is in failed governance. Tim Walls has turned Minnesota into

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Speaker 3: a failed state with deteriorating infrastructure, education, economic metrics. Worst

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Speaker 3: of all, we are failing our most vulnerable citizens by

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Speaker 3: letting crippled state services. For many years, we reached out

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Speaker 3: to every available source to get attention to help stop

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Speaker 3: the fraud. We were lucky enough to get the Office

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Speaker 3: of Legislative Auditor of the Fraud Committee, certain news outlets,

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Speaker 3: and many find politicians to help shed light on the matter. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: only one in DFL members showed interest in fraud. John

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Speaker 3: Hoffman Contrary to pop belief, we aren't a political group,

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Speaker 3: but we've been continually disappointed in the way the DFL

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Speaker 3: has responded or the way they haven't responded. We hope

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Speaker 3: for partnership with all political parties, but instead the DFL

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Speaker 3: discredited our reports and please, is protecting your political party

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Speaker 3: or clinging onto power really worth destroying your state? Many

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Speaker 3: thanks for those who have supported us over the years.

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Speaker 3: It's been an uphill battle and that's been certain. It's isolating,

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Speaker 3: but one we aren't giving up on. We hope Minnesota

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Speaker 3: will be freed from fraud, good governance is restored, and

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Speaker 3: trust in government is rebuilt. The next step now is

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Speaker 3: to bring in external auditors in new leadership. Tim Walls

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Speaker 3: has failed Minnesota. Now this was the again sort of

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Speaker 3: the end result of what they had initially posted over

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Speaker 3: the weekend that I want to share with you.

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Speaker 1: Because this also gained national attention.

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Speaker 3: Before we get to that, let's get to a few

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Speaker 3: of your thoughts from the iHeartRadio app. Your talkbacks are

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Speaker 12: What did Walls just say? What does the lightning of.

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Speaker 2: The COVID restrictions have anything to do with people finding

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Speaker 2: out about the fraud?

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Speaker 9: Hey, John Rolling from Farmington again say that's a joke

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Speaker 9: Wall saying that Minnesota is so successful as we're attracting

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Speaker 9: all these criminals. I mean, if we were successful, we

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Speaker 9: would have gone from a seventeen billion dollar budgets or

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Speaker 9: plus to an eight and a half billion dollar budget deficit,

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Speaker 9: all under his administration. That's not success, that's failure.

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Speaker 1: That's hard.

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Speaker 5: If the state was run well, there wouldn't be any

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Speaker 5: corruption in fraud. The biggest fraud there is is Tim

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Speaker 5: Walls there's always been a fraud his whole life.

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Speaker 1: And we need to give this guy. And the thing

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Speaker 1: that really.

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Speaker 3: I find most frustrating about all of this is how

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Speaker 3: it was completely avoidable. When you look at the increase

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Speaker 3: in requests for funds from these programs, they just they

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Speaker 3: immediately exploded from one year to another. When you have

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Speaker 3: an uptick of ten to fifteen and then hundreds of

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Speaker 3: millions of dollars, you should have immediately started looking into it.

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Speaker 3: At a ten million year over year uptick. Tory van

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Speaker 3: Out from Axios had pulled this quote from the New

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Speaker 3: York Times article from a defense attorney for several defendants

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Speaker 3: and state fraud cases, including a woman who prosecutors alleged

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Speaker 3: stole fourteen million with business partners from Autism support group.

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Speaker 3: Mister Pekiga, who also has represented other defendants in fraud cases,

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Speaker 3: and again this is from the New York Times piece,

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Speaker 3: said that some involved and became convinced that state agencies were.

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Speaker 1: Tolerating, if not tacitly allowing the fraud. No one was

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Speaker 1: doing anything about the red flags. He said.

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Speaker 3: It was like somebody was stealing money from the cookie

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Speaker 3: jar and they kept refilling it. So we'll dive into

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Speaker 3: this post from Minnesota DHS employees that garnered national attention

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Speaker 3: over the weekend. They pulled to one more quote that

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Speaker 3: I'll share with you, and they will take a quick

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Speaker 3: break and we'll get to more of your talkbacks from

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Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app coming up just after the top of

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Speaker 3: the hour for the New York Times quote on Tim

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Speaker 3: Walls and his failure to stop the fraud consuming Minnesota

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Speaker 3: and again no one was doing anything about the red

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Speaker 3: flags going back to the previous quote as well, just

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Speaker 3: absolutely stunning as is or as the employees for DHS layout.

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Speaker 3: On top of that, we'll get to medicaid fraud crisis

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Speaker 3: that we did not get a chance to talk about

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Speaker 3: before we went on the Thanksgiving break. Matt Dean's got

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Speaker 3: a great piece of Governor Tim Walls has failed to oversight.

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Speaker 3: And then we'll turn our attention overdue immigration. We had

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Speaker 3: the details on the individual that was arrested by Ice

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Speaker 3: in Saint Paul that caused so much controversy. Yeah, he

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Speaker 3: was a criminal illegal alien who had a long rap

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Speaker 3: sheet including abuse that the activists were all their protesting

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Speaker 3: and supporting at the time. Yeah, all that's coming up

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Speaker 3: on Twin City's News Talk AM eleven thirty and one

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