1 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and 3 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: Jetty and he Armsrong Jetty who live Brum Studio c 4 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: Say Senior, a dim lely lit groom deeper than the 5 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compound. And on 6 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: Tuesday we're under the tutelage of our general manager Greenland. 7 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: Greenland is a country. It is. It's a big, icy 8 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: country with like sixty thousand people in it right over there, 9 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: sixty thousand people. What kind of country is that? A 10 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: tiny one, not a huge one anyone? And why is 11 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: it our general manager? 12 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 2: Now? 13 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: Trump's one of Trump's top advisors, Stephen Miller, who would 14 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: slip right into an SS uniform and look pretty good 15 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: in it, just saying, I mean, I agree with the 16 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: guy a lot, but he just has that look, doesn't he. Anyway, 17 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: he's making noises about tow. If Greenland isn't Kinna willingly 18 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: become our fifty first state, maybe we just grab it 19 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: up and please don't please don't invade our allies now, 20 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: or or just please there's another way. I think there 21 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: is another way. Soft power. But we can talk about 22 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: that later. But this is serious. This is not earlier 23 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: when we were talking Greenland last year, it was fairly joky, 24 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: even though I think Trump was seriously bust But Ian 25 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: Bremmer says, this is serious. Europe needs to pay attention. 26 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: This is for real. 27 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. 28 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: And you know, whether you are running a company or 29 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: perhaps say football team, you have that one teammate who's 30 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: a little unhinged. They're so gung ho, they've got occasionally 31 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: you know, you got to drag them off the field 32 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 1: because they want to fight the ref. That kind of guy, right, 33 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: great teammate and all I feel like Stephen Miller may 34 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 1: be that guy. I think the most interesting person in 35 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: the world right now is that Rodriguez woman who's a 36 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: born as the president of Venezuelan. 37 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 3: Man. 38 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: If you liked Game of Thrones or a Shakespeare fan 39 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: or anything like that, yeah, man, she is living that 40 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: life right now. Game of Thrones is a great metaphor man, 41 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 1: because she is stuck between a couple of vicious, vicious 42 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: adversaries or I'm not sorry, not vicious as much as 43 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: deadly well vicious on her side that may string her 44 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: up if she doesn't do the right things. There are 45 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: plenty vicious. So she ran like the security apparat she 46 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,119 Speaker 1: was the secret police head person. Yeah, she cannot believe more, Madurohite. Yeah, 47 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: she is a horrible human being. And uh and the 48 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: first thing she said after we snatched up their president 49 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: using my finger quotes, she said, he is still the 50 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: legitimate president and I will not put up with this 51 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. Then she changed her tune after 52 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: who knows why, threats from Trump or perhaps the military 53 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:32,119 Speaker 1: or the drug lord said, you're not gonna actually lead 54 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 1: to regime change. You're not going to disrupt this whole 55 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: system where we're all getting rich, or we're gonna kill you, 56 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, we're going to appear to cooperate or 57 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: cooperate to whatever extent we need to to keep the 58 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: scam going. Let's appease Trump, let's lay low for a 59 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: little while. Yeah. So it'll be interesting to see how 60 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: things turn out for her, because she she could end 61 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: up just disappearing or falling out a window or hanging 62 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: from her heels or something like that quite easily. Yeah. Absolutely, 63 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: But what I don't get in fact, that's more likely 64 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: than any other outcome given the position she's in of 65 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: appeasing the world's greatest superpower and her own corrupt army 66 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: and corrupt police and their relationships with a bunch of 67 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 1: drug car tells tell you what I wouldn't be sleeping 68 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: real well at night. Oh my god, what I don't 69 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: get and I would like to read a book about 70 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: or something or talk to an expert. I guess is 71 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: did Venezuela always have this much oil? Or is it 72 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: one of those deals where like they didn't know this 73 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: much they had this much oil until they learned to 74 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: extract it, kind of the way that happened here in 75 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: the United States. Or But why why were they not 76 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: a big, bigger player back in the day. Why did 77 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia have so much power over the world and 78 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: they're all driving around in Bentley's and everything. If there's 79 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: more oil actually in Venezuela, why weren't they utilizing that? Yeah, 80 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 1: great question, I can give you the grade school answer. 81 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: Difficulty of extraction and the fact that they just weren't 82 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 1: advanced in in their oil extra Why wouldn't capability to 83 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: me until the US companies came in and got it 84 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 1: going and then immediately the totalitarian said yeah, we want 85 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: dad money, and they nationalized the oil fields. But it 86 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: seems like if you want to be a criminal, fine 87 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: in Venezuela. But you got the greatest resource on earth, 88 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: or certainly you know, back in the day it was 89 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: the most valuable resource on earth. It might be pretty good. 90 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: It's still damn good, but it might be high speed 91 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: chips now I don't know, or wind, but dam thing, 92 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: we can't watch TV the wind isn't blowing. Why wouldn't 93 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 1: you want to live like Saudi princes and run your 94 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: country in a criminal form like that, as opposed to 95 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: a nice herald, as opposed to ventyl and cocaine. I mean, 96 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: you got more oil than anybody. It just seems so 97 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: odd to me, you know, getting back to that ass 98 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: kicking Cruela de Villa, who's running Venezuela. At this point, 99 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: I arguing back to all the times I've heard throughout 100 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: my life that if women were in charge, there would 101 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: be no war and there would be no problems. Do 102 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 1: you people who say that, do you know any women 103 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 1: Katie feel free? I mean, come on, I love women 104 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: and all their womanliness, but please yeah, yeah, that's fair, 105 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: especially catch us at a certain time. Are women capable 106 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: of vengeance or holding a grudge or are you joking 107 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: right exactly? You ever worked around an office where it's 108 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 1: ninety percent women or anything, Now, imagine them all armed. Okay, 109 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: quick with that crap. If only women were in charge 110 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: ba ba place. So she was actually in charge of 111 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: the secret police. So I feel like the media would 112 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: be doing a good job if they put out a 113 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: big piece interviewing a bunch of people who feel free 114 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: to speak now in Venezuela about what it was like 115 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: for the last quarter century. There, put out a piece 116 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: about the secret police and the kidnappings and the you know, 117 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,239 Speaker 1: the murders and the tortures and all that sort of stuff, 118 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: instead of only pieces about how awful it is that 119 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: Trump overthrew Maduro Jack. I give you, of course, from 120 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: the Free Press by Nelson Marino, Venezuelan. I survived Maduro's 121 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: torture state. Okay, of course it's in the free Press 122 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: and not the New York Times or the Washington Post. 123 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: But still, we don't want to publish that truth, that 124 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: important truth, because that would undermine our narrative. Yeah, yeah, flee. 125 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: But I imagine there's some pretty horrific stories just like 126 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: came out of Iraq or the Soviet Union or anywhere 127 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: else after a quarter century of communist rule, utter totalitarian 128 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: cruelty of the classic stripe. Awful. Yeah, and again I 129 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: don't understand they had such an advantage with all that oil. 130 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: Why were you able to turn that into being like 131 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: a mini superpower? Uh, well, they were on their way 132 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: to doing that. There's there's the problem of where there 133 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: is money, those who would take it inappropriately or illegally 134 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: are That's where they go. Obviously in the communists, they're companies, 135 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: they're kleptocrats. Yeah, but they claimed to be socialists. They 136 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: came in and they stole it. The second problem is 137 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: there are real issue with a huge percentage of your 138 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: economy being a natural resource. There are really good books 139 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: written about that, the economics of petro economies. It can 140 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: be a real problem because your economy doesn't grow up 141 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: in a holistic way. You know, neighborhoods that support each other. 142 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: The grosser buys from the butcher, who buys from the teacher, 143 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: who blah blah blah, it's all oil. 144 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 4: Body. 145 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: Well, I get that, but I wouldn't think they'd care 146 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: about that. I would think they would have looked at 147 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia and thought, I want to be that. But 148 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: it seems like that precisely what they It seems like 149 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: they looked at Columbia back in the day and thought, 150 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,839 Speaker 1: we want to be that a narco state. Well, no, 151 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: I think they wanted to be the Saudis a dictatorship, 152 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: a very small dictatorship of the chosen few who control 153 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: all the oil revenue. They just suck at it. And 154 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,079 Speaker 1: how did we not end up taking their oil back 155 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: when oil was really, really, really important. I'm surprised we didn't. Well, 156 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: we had a Carter Biden Obama esque you know, a 157 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:11,719 Speaker 1: silly classroom teacher view of foreign policy. I think a 158 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: very feat starched shirt, polished shoes version of the way 159 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: the world ought to work, honestly, And it's not like 160 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 1: we should sweep in there and steal the oil. No, 161 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: we should just get rid of the brutal, brutal kleptocrat 162 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: dictator right off the coast of the Gulf of America 163 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 1: and and and put in a reasonable regime or help them, 164 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, put in listen to me. The globalist assist 165 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: the good people of Venezuela in returning to democracy. Uh, 166 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 1: and and then be in a country we can do 167 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 1: business with and be allied with right in our own neighborhood. 168 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: That's just smart foreign policy. Yeah, you got to crack 169 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: a couple of eggs. But the Barack Obama sitting around 170 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: a table reciting what he learned in grad school style 171 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: of foreign policy, please, oh my lord, you're trying my 172 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: patients world. Got to crack a couple of eggs. Yeah, 173 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 1: I just realized. Okay, well, we got to start the 174 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: showave hosts, as they say, got to start the show officially. 175 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: I would have realized when I said the date the 176 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 1: show starts officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on 177 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: that it is his Tuesday, January sixth, So you're gonna 178 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: hear a lot about that uncertain channels the year twenty 179 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: twenty six. We are I'm Strong and Getty, and we 180 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: approve of this program. All right, let's begin swarming the 181 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: capitals of stupidity, precisely according to see we're turning in 182 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: the other direction. We're storming the stupidity the precisely according 183 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: to cis he rules and regulations at Mark. 184 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 5: Senior White House official tells me that Madurero's quote overt arrogance, 185 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 5: including his rejection of multiple offers to surrender and his 186 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 5: public dancing, helped persuade some of the president's team that 187 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 5: Maduro would not leave on his own. 188 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: Well, how is public dancing? Now? That's my favorite footnote 189 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: from history effort. I could take him summing his nose 190 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 1: in America and our interests, but the dancing, all the dancing. 191 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: Maduro put out a video of him doing the Trump dance, 192 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: kind of mocking Trump with an armada off the coast, 193 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you're blindfolded in a helicopter. 194 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: You know. The One of the interesting aspects of this 195 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: is that in December, which counting the days, was not 196 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: long ago, the administration reached out to my door and said, look, 197 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: complete amnesty. You can go to these places and live 198 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: with lots and lots of wealth and have a great life, 199 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: but you gotta go. And he said, f you. I'm 200 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: sure as he was sitting there with his headphones on 201 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: and his blind folded on the plane with the manacles, 202 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,599 Speaker 1: he was thinking, God, damn it, are you sitting in 203 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: a sail in Brooklyn right now? Thinking probably should have 204 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 1: taken that man, Bill Man, that all amnesty thing. Hey, 205 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: can I still get that amnesty thing? Okay, we got 206 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: Ketty's headlines on the way and a lot of other stuff. 207 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: Will stay here. I am Hanson grabbing the promo. We 208 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: can talk about it later. I just saw promo TLC 209 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: Tonight brand new season starts one thousand pounds Sisters, which 210 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: is not not a show I've seen, but it appears 211 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:14,199 Speaker 1: to be two women or are sisters who each weigh 212 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: one thousand pounds? Or are they where pounds? I've heard that. 213 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: I can't tell if it's a thousand total er thousand each. 214 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 3: They've both lost a significant amount of weight, but they 215 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 3: are entertaining. 216 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,679 Speaker 1: Over selling it. Huh cool. We will talk about that later. 217 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: That's eight hundred and fifty pounds of sisters at mostyn 218 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: Do we have any matter sisters anywhere? I'm to switch around, 219 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 1: Great Scott, it's tragic. Okay, let's figure out who's reporting what. 220 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: It's the lead story with Katie Green. 221 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 3: Katie, all right, We'll start with the alphabet networks on 222 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 3: this Maduro situation. CBS Austin, Venezuelan President Maduro arraigned in 223 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 3: US court Trump threatens other nations CNN. Trump's Venezuela raid 224 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 3: plunges Greenland and the Western Military Alliance into uncertainty, and 225 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 3: then US allies Warren Trump over threats to seize Greenland. 226 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll talk more about that later. In what 227 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,719 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, who you know speaks for the president, what 228 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: he said yesterday on CNN. 229 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 3: Your guys's favorite topic from Politico, Bondy threatened with fines 230 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 3: over quote cover up of dozens of Epstein FBI witness documents. 231 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: It's funny during the commercials, I came across the word 232 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: Epstein and thought, is that gonna happen? Surely not anymore, 233 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 1: but apparently no. Boy from the Associated Press. 234 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 3: Hilton Hotel in Minnesota apologizes for email canceling immigration agents 235 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 3: room reservation. 236 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to talk about that more unbelievable. Yeah, 237 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: got a couple of good Ice stories to send your way. Also, big, 238 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: big look at the corruption in Minnesota, the welfare fraud, 239 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: the Somalis, and others well worth looking into. It's symptomatic 240 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: of so many programs we have in the States. It's 241 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: more than Tim Watz is a lame brain and Minnesota's 242 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: a lefty hell hole, it's it's a big story. Look, 243 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 1: I'm a knucklehead. Sometimes I let nine billion dollars get stolen. 244 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 3: From the Washington Post, X users tell Groc to undress 245 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 3: women and girls in photos, it. 246 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: Says, yes, excusers. So you get a photo of any 247 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: chick and then you tell Groc to do the image 248 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: thing and take their clothes off, and Groc apparently is 249 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: doing it. I'm surprised by that because I've never tried 250 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: to do that. But I've tried to do other things 251 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: where it's like really really careful about what it'll allow 252 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: you to do. Like I took a family photo and 253 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: tried to make a video where we're all fighting or 254 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: something like that, and it wouldn't do it. Yeah. I 255 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: don't feel like I need Groc for that. Yeah, no, no, Katy. 256 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: I want to imagine a woman on clothes. I think 257 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: I can do it pretty capably. Yeah. 258 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 3: From Fox Sports, Tom Brady will help lead the Raiders 259 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 3: head coach search alongside of the general manager. 260 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: According to Mark David, there you go. It can't hurt Huh. 261 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: You know Brady pretty good commentator, Jack, I know you 262 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: think he's okay. There is one king among color commentators. 263 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: He stands head, shoulders and shoulder pads above everybody else. 264 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: And that's Chris Collinsworth. Yeah, he's good. Close, he's very 265 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: very good. Oh, he's so good. 266 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 3: From the New York Post, doctor warns that dangerous ingredient 267 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 3: and fancy cocktails can quote cause your stomach to explode. 268 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: Whoa nobody wants that awful end of the night. 269 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 3: Bartenders are putting liquid nitrogen in the drinks to make 270 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 3: them smoke for pictures for social media, but they're failing 271 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 3: to tell people to wait until the smoke evaporates to 272 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 3: drink them. 273 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no, because then your stomach will explode, 274 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: which nobody wants. 275 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 3: Study findes ai chat bots whisper gossip about people to 276 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 3: each other, and no one's checking. 277 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: To see if it's true. Do we have examples? 278 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 3: Art absolutely, and finally from the Babylon b liberals quickly 279 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 3: changing quote no kings signs to read yes Kings in 280 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 3: support of Maduro. 281 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: Yeah. 282 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: Well, and Axios has got a story that a lot 283 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: of Democrats are pissed off at their party's response to 284 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: the Maduro captures, that it makes us look weak, I mean, guys, 285 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: an awful dictator and we got rid of them. It 286 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: maybe we should come out and you know this is 287 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: all behind the scenes, of course a secret, but maybe 288 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: we should come out and say it was a good thing. 289 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: Go ahead, wonder what the thousand pounds sisters think of 290 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: Maduro or if that'll come up on tonight on TLC 291 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: for season two. They're gonna eat them. We gotta nail 292 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: this down. Are they a total of one thousand pounds 293 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: or each one thousand pounds? They were a total at 294 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: one point they were each about one total. You say 295 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: it seems misleading to me? Yeah, I agree, And now 296 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: they're just medium overweight and like the rest of us. 297 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's as entertaining. You want my eyeballs, 298 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: You've got one hundred pounds is a pretty I mean, 299 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: come on, if you want my eyeballs, you got to 300 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: get fatter. 301 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 3: There's some teeth missing and some good arguments that go down. 302 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: You got my attention. Know that rampant fraud in Minnesota. 303 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:28,640 Speaker 1: It's worse than anyone fought arm Strong and Getty here 304 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: in Minnesota. 305 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 6: Massive fraud is taking place within the government and the 306 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 6: Somali population. 307 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: Here. 308 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 6: This building alone, Quality Learning Center is a daycare, yet 309 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 6: they spelled learning wrong and they said leering. This daycare 310 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 6: alone in twenty twenty five has received one point nine 311 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 6: million dollars from the government. And the strange things about 312 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 6: these childcare centers is there's no one here right now. 313 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: It's midday on a weekday, and if. 314 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 6: You were to try to go inside, it's completely closed 315 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 6: and the windows are. 316 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: All blacked out. No one's working midday children should be 317 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: in here. That's Nick Shirley, which you may have missed 318 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: his work if you were kind of taking a vacation 319 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: like we did the last couple of weeks from following 320 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: what's going on in the world. He's an amateur journalist 321 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: who caught on there in Minnesota quite a while ago 322 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: to the amount of fraud that was going on. And 323 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: for instance, the fake leering center, well it was a 324 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 1: real learing center. It was a fake learning center. The 325 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: fact that they had a learning center missing a letter 326 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: is just it's too good, it's too perfect, it is 327 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: too much. In fact, let me hit retweet right now. 328 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna retweet repost to our Twitter feed. Nick Shirley. 329 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 1: Here is the full forty two minutes of my crew 330 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: and I exposing Minnesota fraud. This might be my most 331 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,719 Speaker 1: important work yet. We uncovered over one hundred and ten 332 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: million dollars in one day. So I sent that to you. 333 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 1: And this happened right before we got off the air 334 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: way back in the year twenty twenty twenty five, like 335 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: ten minutes before we got off the air was the 336 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: breaking news that, no, it's not a billion dollar fraud scheme. 337 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: The some a lot of small he's pulled off in Minnesota, 338 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: which was an extraordinary number for a small state. It's 339 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: more like nine billion dollars. I know, it boggles the mind. 340 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 3: It was. 341 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: It was not a system beset by fraud. It was 342 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 1: a fraud system. I mean there was there was virtually 343 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: no attention given whatsoever to preventing fraud. It was a 344 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: money spigot. And for what it's worth, Nick made a 345 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: couple of mistakes, you know, I can't remember specifically. It's 346 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,880 Speaker 1: like one of the places had moved and that sort 347 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: of thing. And so the the leftists who want to 348 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: pump billions of dollars of tax payer money just to 349 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: thieves are pretending like that discredits the rest of his reporting. 350 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: But I've got plenty to back it. Up. Yeah, man, 351 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 1: I wish we could get to a place. And I'm 352 00:19:54,520 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: maybe it's just a a childish dream that you know, 353 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: left wing media or voters or whatever would hate fraud 354 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: as much as people on the right, just for different reasons. I, 355 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: as a taxpayer, want to keep my money. I want 356 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: it in my pocket. I don't want to go to 357 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: these I don't want to go into these programs at all. 358 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: I want to keep it. But if you're a lefty 359 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 1: and you like these programs, you should be just as 360 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: upset that they're not doing what they're supposed to do. 361 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:25,920 Speaker 3: I know. 362 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: And because you're all about helping the downtrauden well, and 363 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: there's this bizarre childlike belief. I guess that if you 364 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: limit the money spraying out in any way, including the 365 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: fraudulent money, that's somehow switching sides to becoming a conservative. 366 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: And you don't want to do that. It's it's absolutely idiotic. 367 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: By the way, this Nick Shirley went from like nobody'd 368 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: ever heard of him. So he's got one point two 369 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 1: million followers on Twitter and more on Instagram. Let's just 370 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: play this next clip where you actually confront the people 371 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: in front of I don't know if it was this 372 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: leering center or a different learning center where they actually 373 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: weren't teaching anybody, but they were getting a lot of 374 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: taxpayer money. 375 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 2: Minnesota Childcare right here, it's from the State of Minnesota's website. 376 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 2: We're just wondering where the children are? 377 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 7: Where did you know? 378 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 4: Yeah? 379 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 2: Where are the children? It says you have one hundred 380 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 2: and two children here and you got two point six 381 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 2: six million dollars this year in funding and two point 382 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 2: five million last year. We're just wondering where the kids are. 383 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: My name is Nick Shirley. Surely ready? 384 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 8: Oh, we are from ourselves. Hello, we'd like to ask 385 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 8: where the money's going. You look at that shut us down? 386 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 8: Which department are you from? We're from ourselves? 387 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: Yes, on a T shirt from ourselves statement of individuality. 388 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: Or you could say I'm an independent journalist, but you 389 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: know who am I to? Told me, I'll bet there 390 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: are a thousand places like that across this country, in 391 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: different states that aren't doing anything close to what they 392 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,679 Speaker 1: claim they're doing, that are getting tax Paramney, I'll bet 393 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: you're right. I guarantee you right. What's really really interesting 394 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: about this story, Well, there's so many aspects that are, 395 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: but the Free Beacon did some great reporting on the 396 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: fact that a lot of this has been known, not 397 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: the full scope of it, but a lot of this 398 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 1: has been known for years. There was a devastating twenty 399 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: nineteen report by the Minnesota's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Auditor 400 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: investigating whistleblower claims that found one hundreds of millions of 401 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: dollars of fraud. Of course, that was a fraction of 402 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 1: what it turned out to be. Local Twin Cities reporters 403 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: have documented the daycare problems and stories before and after 404 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 1: that twenty nineteen report, and they go into a great 405 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 1: bit of reporting from j Coles at KSTP Eyewitness News 406 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: that visited two of the site. Two of the ten 407 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: sites surely just visited back in twenty twenty three, I 408 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: think twenty nineteen is overspan, including the now famous Quality 409 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: Leering Center, and they found out that that place was 410 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: guilty in ninety five violations, including no records for sixteen children, 411 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: failure to keep hazards items away from children like Shirley 412 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 1: Coles found no children at the daycare center. Well that's 413 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: the advantage they had like scissors and knives around, but 414 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 1: fortunately there were no kids actually at the center, so 415 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 1: they couldn't hurt themselves. Well, right, so it wasn't dangerous, right, 416 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: But so this Jay Cole's on the big Eyewitness News 417 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: report does a big expose of that. Right, Taxpayer funds 418 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: continued to flow going back more than ten years. Fox 419 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: nine reporter Jeff Bailon reported on daycare frauds in twenty 420 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: thirteen and twenty fifteen. It's unbelievable. I'll stop after this 421 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: because I want to get back to the particulars of 422 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: this story. There's only one way to stop this. One way. 423 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: Don't give them the money in the first place. That's 424 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:56,360 Speaker 1: the only way. Well, right, and where programs are necessary, 425 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: have reasonable planking, a scrutiny for applications. When you get 426 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: to how like hilariously childlike some of the fraud was 427 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: and Minnesota did nothing about it, even when after being 428 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 1: alerted to it. Do you understand what we're trying to 429 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: communicate to you. This is not a the bank vault, 430 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 1: the padlock that doesn't fasten, right and somebody got in. No, 431 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: there's no padlock, there's no door. Nobody cares. I'll bet 432 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: California has stories. Every bit is good about all the 433 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 1: homeless money that's been slashing around for the past decade 434 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: or more. Oh yeah, Gavin Newsom says that Tim Watts 435 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: hold my beer. That beer, of course bought by a 436 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: supporter and Gavin never paid for it. But let's hear 437 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: some more of the reporting around this. This is CBS 438 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: news on how it got started during COVID, because that's 439 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: when we were really throwing money around. 440 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 7: According to federal prosecutors, it was really during COVID that 441 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 7: fraudsters set up these fake res restaurants or shamp businesses 442 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 7: and health clinics that would provide things like meals to 443 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 7: school children, or behavioral health services or housing to people 444 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 7: with addiction. And because during COVID, you didn't have the 445 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 7: same checks and balances, you had social distancing, you couldn't 446 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 7: have the site visits, you couldn't have the in person inspections. Well, 447 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 7: the fraudsters got away with it all and provided the 448 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 7: receipts and collected boatloads of cash. 449 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: From us, the taxpayers. 450 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 7: More than ninety people have been charged in the schemes, 451 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 7: mostly Somali's and more than sixty people have been convicted. 452 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: Good on sixty CBS for doing that story by the way. Yeah, 453 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: let's hit a few more of the facts from that 454 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: story and then we'll discuss We. 455 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 7: Visited those sites too, as did state inspectors many times 456 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 7: over the last six months, and we found the facts 457 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 7: on the ground tell a different story. Those daycares, many 458 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 7: of them were written up for safety violations, things like 459 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 7: maybe busted equipment or staff training issues. But that's not 460 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 7: the same as being fraudulent. So it's important to put 461 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 7: all of this into context. 462 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, wait a minute, Wait a minute, 463 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: wait a minute, they're guilty of all that stuff, and 464 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: they're fraudsters. Jonah Jonah Kaplan of CBSU you praised only 465 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: moments ago. What perspective do I need? Okay, so they're 466 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: both Thanks unbelievable. The federal prosecutor who needs a lot 467 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: more help call the press conference when we're on vacation. 468 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: Intense press conference. He announced charges against more than six 469 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 1: defend against six more defendants. He warned that there were 470 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: more cases coming while his team continues to investigate frauds 471 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: that he estimates may total half of the eighteen billion 472 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 1: dollars spent on these programs since twenty eighteen. Half of 473 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: the money is fraudulent, He says, quote, every day we 474 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,199 Speaker 1: look under a rock and find a new fifty million 475 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 1: dollar fraud scheme. He noted that fraudsters are now seeking 476 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: out the state, which has developed a fraud tourism industry. Well, 477 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: it sounds like all you had to do was contact 478 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: your local do gooder government agency and say, yeah, I 479 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: just set up a I'm gonna help drug addicted kids 480 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: who are hungry, hungry, drug addicted autistic kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 481 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 1: I got a school for them. Yeah, it's a leering center. 482 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 1: There you go, drug addicted, hungry, autistic kids with COVID. 483 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: And if you could send me fifty million dollars, i'd 484 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 1: be handy them. We'll check out to you right away. Unbelieved. 485 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: And I don't like the throwing because of social distancing 486 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: in COVID. No, no, no, no, because so much money 487 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: was being thrown around. Don't try to convince me that 488 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: you would have been really, you know, diligent about making 489 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: sure this money was well spent if it hadn't been 490 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 1: for social distancing. Yeah, that was pull crap. What a 491 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: what a crappy report that was. Anyway, you know, I 492 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,719 Speaker 1: don't know if we need all of this, but probably 493 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: for one of the last times. Lame o, moron, ask clown, Wow, 494 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 1: it's a facilitator. Two days in a row. You've dropped 495 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: an ac in someone. This is a rough year so far. 496 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: If the big red shoes fit, wear them, Tim Walls, 497 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: who is going to teach America a new sort of masculinity? 498 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: Remember that? Oh wow, he was a regular guy. The 499 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 1: regular guys would love him, right, that's what the Democrats thought. Anyway, 500 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: Here he is explaining what's going on now. Thirty six Michael. 501 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 4: We'll win the fight against the fraudsters, but the political 502 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 4: gamesmanship we're seeing from Republicans is only making that fight harder. 503 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 4: We've got Republicans here in the state legislature playing hide 504 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 4: and seek with potential whistleblowers. We've got conspiracy theorists, right 505 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 4: wing YouTubers breaking into our daycares demanding access to our children. 506 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 4: We've got the President of the United States demonizing our 507 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 4: Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds the Minnesotans rely on. 508 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 4: Disgusting and it's dangerous. Republicans are playing politics with the 509 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 4: future of the state. 510 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: Boy, he should be in jail. Criminal negligence put him 511 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: in jail, put him next to Meduro, put him in 512 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: the eye shades and the headphone manical it put him 513 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: next to Maduro. I've got the final sour note on this, 514 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: but because that's my job. But first on Tim Walls, 515 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: what year and a half for him? I mean, could 516 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: he have had a higher point in his life than 517 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: that acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention? I mean, because 518 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: he was really good. That was that was That was 519 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: a good moment for her and him. They really handled 520 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 1: that well and he came off really really good. And 521 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: from that to this where he drops out of the race. 522 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: Now he's got to be spending a lot of his 523 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: time with personal lawyers trying to make sure he doesn't 524 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: end up in jail. Let alone the fact that he's 525 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: just disgraced as a politically inept from an executive stand, 526 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,719 Speaker 1: he's inapt. He may be a crook. Yeah, and I'm 527 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: a knucklehead at times. Yeahh yeah, we know. I don't 528 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 1: you know, California, we had Katie brought us the story 529 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: I remember last year or whatever. The whole turns out 530 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: California having spent and I don't remember, there was fifty 531 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: billion dollars on the homeless in the last couple of years, 532 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: has no mechanism to track whether or not this does 533 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: any good. Well, if you have no mechanism to track 534 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 1: weather does any good. Tell me you don't have a 535 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: that there's a mechanism to make sure it's not being stolen. 536 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: Give me a break. I know it's outrageous. It is we, 537 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: We the American people, are so prone to falling for 538 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: you know, flowery words about generosity and concern for the underprivilege, 539 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 1: that we will just open the bank faults again, Just 540 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: let whoever walk in and take the money generally, because 541 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: you know, it's somebody else's tax money. That's the point 542 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: of narrowing the tax base as much as possible. That way, 543 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: the fewest people possible are concerned about how tax money 544 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: he's spent. It's an insidious and successful here's my sour note. 545 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: I mentioned this last year. It was based on something 546 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: Megan mccarto said on The Dispatch. She writes for the 547 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: Washington Post. She's a right leaning Washington Post reporter. She 548 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: went through a whole bunch of these over history, with 549 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: the point that nothing ever happens out of these things. 550 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 1: We all just move on it's amazing how big a scandal. 551 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: Note it is a sour note. It's amazing how big 552 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: a scandal you can have around ripping off taxpayers and 553 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 1: they just go away. People like are mad, like I'm mad, 554 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: But nothing ever happens. Nobody pays a price. The same 555 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: thing happens again six months later in a different way. 556 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: It's probably because of what you just said, because half 557 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: the country doesn't pay taxes at all. They don't pay 558 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: federal taxes, so they don't care a bit. Why would 559 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: you care at all if you don't pay taxes. At 560 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: the end of the year, time for mob with some 561 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: nice pitchforks, torches, axe handles, if that your preferred tool, 562 00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: It's time to take to the streets, folks. But the 563 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: thing is istfully, of course, the pitch fort are to 564 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: bail ay. We're got to take a break. We're out 565 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,479 Speaker 1: of time. We got to take a break. I got 566 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: more anger about this. We got mail. Callik on the way, 567 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: stay tuned. 568 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 6: Taking the money. 569 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: Armstrong. You know our old friend Steve Hilton, he of 570 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 1: the British accent, is leading the current polling for governor 571 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: of California. All right, yeah, running is a Republican very 572 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: small number, but still tied for the lead. I think 573 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 1: our other friend, Kevin Kylie, congressman from the sane part 574 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 1: of California, is thinking of throwing his hat in the 575 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: ring of his congressional district, goes krip Louis. But more 576 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: on that another time. It's time for our freedom hating 577 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 1: quote of the day. We're doing a series of those, 578 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: at least for this week, inspired by Zorn Mumdani and 579 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: his communists, and I mean that quite seriously. Tenant Advocate 580 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 1: Director see a Weaver who said this and I quote, 581 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: private property, including and kind of especially homeowners is a 582 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 1: weapon of white supremacy masquerading as wealth building public policy. 583 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: This is the woman. Do we have that quote from yesterday? 584 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: Michael I asked to have that back and forgot. She said, 585 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: we're going to be confiscating homeowners' houses from them, or 586 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: I'd like to, yeah, go ahead. 587 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 9: I think the reality is is that for centuries we've 588 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 9: really treated property as an individualized good and not a 589 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 9: collective good, and we are going to and transitioning to 590 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 9: treating it as a collective good and towards a model 591 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 9: of shared equity will require that we think about it differently, 592 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 9: and it will mean that families, especially white families, but 593 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,719 Speaker 9: some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going 594 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 9: to have a different relationship to property than the one 595 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 9: that we currently have. 596 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: Wow, and what is she and his administration his ten 597 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 1: a tenant advocate direct? I mean, he doesn't have the 598 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: power to do that sort of thing, But the fact 599 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: that he's got somebody that high up in his campaign 600 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,399 Speaker 1: who believes that crap in his administration stunning. Yeah, she's 601 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: a stalinist. He's a stalinist. We're going to confiscate private property, 602 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: malist if you prefer and redistribute it. Wow, you have 603 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 1: a different relationship with property. The communists of like the sixties, seventies, 604 00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: eighties are thinking, oh my god, you can just come 605 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 1: out and say it. We're couching it in all these 606 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,720 Speaker 1: like flowery terms. Although she said their relationship will change, 607 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: you would have literally have armed standoffs there to actually 608 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: be a revolution almost instantly. Yeah, well no instantly. So 609 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 1: we don't have time to get the mail bag unfortunately, 610 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 1: because we have some really really good email. Is there 611 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: a single topic or is it a bunch of different things. 612 00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 1: It's a bunch of different things. I'll give you a 613 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: very very small sampling. What do we have? Michael Eckham 614 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:06,480 Speaker 1: in it thirty seconds. On the topic of groovy moons 615 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:11,799 Speaker 1: and their names, Hank writes, how about the warm Collectivist Moon. 616 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: I would like ang fans to come with a whole 617 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: year of names for soft heads, a special attention to 618 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 1: diversity and the poor homeless. After all, lunatic drives from lunar. 619 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: The warm Collectivist Moon based on another Mom Donny quote. 620 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 1: That's a good one. Yeah, we got a lot to 621 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,800 Speaker 1: get to today and we look forward to it. And 622 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,800 Speaker 1: if you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and 623 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty