1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: Two thousand federal agents are being deployed to Minneapolis. Yes, 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: I didn't say Minnesota, I said Minneapolis, as an escalated 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: immigration push is underway. Here is what we know so far, 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: the two thousand federal agents being deployed to a city 5 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: as part of the Trump Administration's latest effort, They say 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: to crack down not only on immigration but also on 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants that they are committing crimes. City officials, of course, 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: are angry over this. Why because they've been exposed for 9 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: the welf of fraud scandal that has reached a fever 10 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: pitch this past week in Minneapolis. Now, in the days 11 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: since that conservative content creator, a brilliant twenty something with 12 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 1: a cell phone, took down the governor for his oversight 13 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: with the fraud, the creator has raised new allegations of 14 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: fraud as well. Of course, the left is saying there's 15 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: little evidence. If that was true, then why did the 16 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: say he wasn't running for re election. The Somali run 17 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: daycare centers in Minneapolis are a problem, and the Trump 18 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: administration has also moved forward and is frozen federal childcare 19 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: funds and at least more biding rhetoric against the Somali 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: community for the fraud that they have been doing in Minneapolis. 21 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: President Trump not backing down. The President stepping up immigration 22 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: enforcement as well, and federal agents have already been on 23 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: the ground in Minneapolis, and both Immigration and Customs enforcement 24 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: agents and the US Port Patrol agents are deploying in 25 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: record numbers now. 26 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 2: Agents in Minneapolis. 27 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: On Monday, they arrested more than one hundred and fifty 28 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 1: people accused of being in the country illegally, the Department 29 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security saiday's Tuesday statement. The release highlighted nearly 30 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: a dozen detainees the DHS called the worst of the worst, 31 00:01:54,400 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: with charges like murder, robbery, probation violations, drug violation, and again, 32 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: one of the most important things is this, They're now 33 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: no longer terrorizing the people in Minneapolis. DHS posted an 34 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: edited video on x showing the Secretary Christy Nome following 35 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: armed agents into a three story building in Saint Paul. 36 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 1: Why was this so important because it was a place 37 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: where legal immigrants were committing crimes and running their crimes 38 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: out of the building. Secretary Nome and our brave DHS 39 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: law enforcement have taken Tomas Tabia off the streets. An 40 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: Ecuadorian illegal alien convicted of robbery and wanted for murder 41 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 1: and sexual assault. To the criminals living among us, you 42 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: are not our neighbors. Leave now or we will find you. 43 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: Of course, they don't want to tell you that part 44 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: of the story. They don't want to tell you it's 45 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 1: from Ecuador and not Haiti, right because they want this 46 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: to be some sort of racial issue. The fact of 47 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 1: the matter is Department of Home and Security doesn't care 48 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: where you're from if you're in the country illegally and 49 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: committing Hanah's crimes like robbery, extortion, warrants out for murder 50 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: and sexual assault. 51 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 2: Now, this is just one individual that was. 52 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: Caught because of the people going in and fighting hard 53 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: to make sure that we're all safe. We also know 54 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: that there are more ICE raids that are happening right now. 55 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: Heavily armed ice raids on fraudulent scammers happening all over 56 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 1: the country is what ICE and the Department of Homeland 57 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: Security are telling us about. 58 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: Even local news. 59 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: Covering the story Fox five in Minneapolis saying this. 60 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 3: A major surgeon. Federal agents are expected here in Minnesota. 61 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 3: On top of what we all have already seen in 62 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 3: recent weeks. The Trump administration escalating its immigration crackdown in 63 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 3: the Twin Cities. Ox Stein's Mori Glover here now to 64 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 3: explain what these agents will be looking for. 65 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 4: More while the officers and agents started arriving yesterday in 66 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 4: the first major expansion of President Trump's immigration enforcement efforts 67 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 4: in the new year. Since early last month, federal ICE 68 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 4: agents have been in the Twin Cities to crack down 69 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 4: on immigrants who were in the country illegally. Now, a 70 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 4: new wave of federal agents will expand on that work 71 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 4: and help root out fraud. According to reports, the White 72 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 4: House has already started sending an additional fifteen hundred ICE 73 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 4: agents to the Twin Cities to track down people who 74 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 4: have deportation orders. On top of that, six hundred agents 75 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 4: from Homeland Security investigations will focus on identifying fraud in 76 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 4: the Somali community. Ali. We've arrived to ABC Learning Center. 77 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 4: The thirty day Surge operation comes after a viral video 78 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 4: from right wing influencer Nick Shirley claimed Somali run daycares 79 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 4: were receiving federal subsidies but no children were present. The 80 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 4: Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families said it conducted 81 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 4: compliance checks at nine of the ten facilities featured in 82 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 4: the video. One facility closed in twenty twenty two, and 83 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 4: investigators said children we're present at all the sites except 84 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 4: one that was not open for the day when inspectors arrived. 85 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 5: The mission's going to continue no matter what. 86 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 4: US Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bavino, who has led immigration 87 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 4: roundups in other cities around the country, is expected to 88 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 4: arrive in Minnesota to help with the surge here, along 89 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 4: with a number of Border Patrol agents. Now, the Department 90 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 4: of Homeland Security says it is arrested over a thousand 91 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 4: criminal undocumented immigrants Minnesota in just the last few weeks. 92 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: In just the last few weeks, which brings up the question, 93 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: why would you not want this type of law enforcement 94 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: happening in your city. Well, it's clear Democrats are hoping 95 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: to import illegal immigrants, even if they are criminals, even 96 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: if they're wanted for drug trafficking, sex trafficking, human smuggling, 97 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 1: or murder. They don't care as long as they set 98 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: up in a city where liberals can be elected by them. 99 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: US Customs and Border Protection commander, whose tactics have come 100 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: on quote increased scrutiny in multiple cities, is also expected 101 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: to deploy to Minneapolis, showing that we are not afraid 102 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: of liberal Democrats. The war that's being waged against Minnesota. 103 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: You're seeing it. That is the response from Governor Tim Waltz. 104 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: That's what he said tuesday's news conference. We have a 105 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: ridiculous surge of apparently two thousand people not coordinating with us, 106 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: that are for a show of the cameras. No, we're 107 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: actually arresting the bad guys, Governor, and you would know 108 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: this if you actually cared about your citizens instead of 109 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants from Somalia. Uncertainty, of course, is how CNN 110 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: puts it, as sweeping Minnesota's largest city, as the fraud 111 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: allegations prompt shakeups in local leadership and a new ambitious 112 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: immigration enforcement effort by Donald Trump intimidating, as they described, 113 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 1: with the Somali residence that has emerged. This again another 114 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: example of the left more about illegal immigrant criminals than 115 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: they actually care about citizens in this country. There's an 116 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: invisible thread that connects humans across distance. You can't see it, 117 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: but you can feel it when you pull, and when 118 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: a child in Guatemala learns to read, you feel it. 119 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: The thread vibrates with every new word they master. When 120 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: a teenager in Kenya gets medical care that saves their sight, 121 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: that thread pulls tighter. And when a young woman in 122 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: the Philippines breaks her family cycle of poverty, you're standing 123 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: there with her. And here's what's remarkable. 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It's all about following the money, 133 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: especially in the Somali community. We're now being told that 134 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: Somalia's ambassador to the United Nations is linked to medicaid fraud, 135 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: not in Minnesota, but in Ohio. As this continues to 136 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 1: explode around the country, the permanent representative Somalia to the 137 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: United Nations, a man by the name of Ashman, is 138 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: linked to a home healthcare agency in Cincinnati, Ohio that 139 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: has been prosecuted for Medicaid fraud. Officials with the Department 140 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security and HHS have now can confirmed. This week, 141 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: online reports began circulating that Ausman had ties to Progressive 142 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: health Care Services, it is a home health care company 143 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: plagued by a Medicaid fraud investigation. HHS Deputy Secretary Jim 144 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: O'Neil confirmed via x that Osman is in fact linked 145 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: to the Progressive health Care Services and that the federal 146 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: agency previously took action against the home healthcare company after 147 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: a conviction for Medicaid fraud, saying this, I can confirm 148 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: public speculation that Ambassador Assman, the Permanent Representative of Somalia 149 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: to the UN and President of the Security Council, is 150 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: in fact associated with Progressive health Care Services, a home 151 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:54,199 Speaker 1: healthcare agency in Cincinnati. AHHS has previously taken action against 152 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: Progressive in response to a conviction for Medicaid fraud. So 153 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: if you think think that this is just going to 154 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: be an issue in Minnesota, you. 155 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 2: Are wrong now. 156 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: O'Neil's statement came after the account libs of TikTok posted 157 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: several documents for porting to show Osman's ties to progressive healthcare. 158 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: What is amazing about how this story continues to unravel 159 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: not just in Minnesota, but now in Ohio another place 160 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: around the country is men and women are doing the 161 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,599 Speaker 1: job that the journalists of this country are supposed to 162 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 1: be doing. But the journalists are not doing their job 163 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: for one reason, their partisan hacks, state sponsored media of 164 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party quote Somalia's ambassador to the UN Osman 165 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: was a healthcare administrator in Ohio. There's another healthcare company 166 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: in the same suite as his, with a different name, 167 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: and multiple others at the same address, all with Somali names. 168 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: The account wrote on acts his company was convicted of 169 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: medical fraud while he worked in a Medicaid office in Ohio. 170 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: The account wrote, Now, why is this Somali ambassador the 171 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: UN working in the healthcare system in the US is 172 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: another question that many of you should be asking. The 173 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: company not only was convicted of Medicaid fraud while he 174 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: was working in that Medicaid office in Ohio. 175 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 2: But wait, there's even more. 176 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: The NPI for Somalia's you an ambassador's healthcare company is 177 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: on an exclusion list with the code one one two 178 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: eight A one. 179 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 2: What does that mean? 180 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: It means the company has been convicted of Medicaid and 181 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 1: Medicare crimes. This is who is overseeing security now at 182 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: the United Nations. He was also a supervisor, so to 183 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: act like he didn't know what was going on or 184 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: it was someone underneath him is also a lie. The 185 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: post shows a LinkedIn page for Ossman where it lists 186 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: him as the managing director of Progressive Health Services from 187 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: October fourth teen to May of nineteen, around the same 188 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: time the company was investigated for Medicaid fraud. Just to 189 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: give you more context about the corruption. So the next 190 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: time the United Nations starts wagging their finger at the 191 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: Security Council, just know it's the same dude that was 192 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: involved in healthcare fraud, defrauding Americans and Medicare and Medicaid. 193 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 2: And of course, this. 194 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: Story that I'm talking about right now, there's a very 195 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: good chance you've heard about it nowhere else at all, 196 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: Which brings me to another interesting point that needs to 197 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: be made. Waltz dropping out is a very real allegation 198 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: of corruption, and it is out of the political arena. 199 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: That's at least how one Democrat is describing it. Pau 200 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: Bagala on CNN admitting this about the corruption. 201 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 6: Ask you because I do. You're our Democrat here, and 202 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 6: when the news out of Minnesota the governor Toim Walls 203 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 6: is dropping out of the governor's race because of a 204 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 6: welfare fraud scandal on his state that is only intensified. 205 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 6: There's been a lot of action there from when Biden's 206 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 6: in office, but's still going on. Do you think that 207 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 6: was the right move by govern Jent Walls? 208 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 7: I do. 209 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 8: I do, because look, third terms never go very well anyway. 210 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,479 Speaker 8: And the Democratic Foreign Labor Party there, the DFL, the Democrats, 211 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 8: they have a very strong bench. Amy Klovicharg's very popular 212 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 8: senator is thinking about running, according to reports. Evant spoken 213 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 8: to her, but I'm sure she is. Keith Ellison, the 214 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 8: attorney General's popular, Steve Simon, Secretary of State. Meanwhile, the Republicans, 215 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 8: oh my gosh, they have a pillow fight on their side, 216 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 8: right with the Speaker of the Minnesota ask the my 217 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 8: pillow guy is running. So this is actually good news 218 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 8: for the Democrats because it also takes this very real 219 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 8: allegation of corruption in childcare and it takes it out 220 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,079 Speaker 8: of the political arena, right Republicans can't make hay off 221 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 8: of that. 222 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 2: Believe me. 223 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 8: There's a special place for anybody if they're stealing from children, 224 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 8: vulnerable children, and that place is in prison here and 225 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 8: in hell in the next life. But I don't think 226 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 8: Democrats need to take any lectures about corruption and fraud 227 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 8: from the Donald Trump. Oh he settled a. 228 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 2: Twenty there we go. 229 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: There it is the Democratic Party now saying, well, it's 230 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 1: dropping out, takes very real allegations of corruption out of 231 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: the political arena, So we shouldn't be taking lectures, as 232 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: they describe it, from Donald Trump after billions of dollars 233 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: have been stolen from the tax payers. Of course, lowering expectations. 234 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: Begala said, third terms never work, so that's another reason 235 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: why we should just move on from this, and somehow 236 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: says this is back to Donald Trump. Right, he's settled 237 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: to fraud case once in New York City, so therefore 238 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: that's what we should really be looking at. Democrats, he said, 239 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: don't need to take lectures about corruption or fraud from 240 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So in other words, let it keep happening, 241 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: and if a Democrat gets caught, fine, what we'll do 242 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: is we'll just act like it's really not a big deal, 243 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: which brings me back to the original story. These federal 244 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: agents surging in many A to crack down on immigration 245 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 1: and fraud is exactly what the president should be doing. 246 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: Democrats are terrified of two thousand people there doing their jobs. 247 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: Of course, Governor Walt saying, well, they're not coordinating with us. 248 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: You won't know why, because you've declared you're a sanctuary state. 249 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: You've declared that you will not work with ICE, You've 250 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: declared that you believe that ICE is an evil group 251 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: of people. You've dehumanized them, you've turned them into your 252 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: bad guys, and so yes, they're not working with you. Yes, 253 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: there's no coordination because you chose to go after ICE 254 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: and said the illegal immigrant criminals. And if you look 255 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: at who's being taken off the streets, that's what really 256 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: this should be all about. There are men and women 257 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: committing heinous crimes, stealing from Americans. We should all be 258 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: outraged over that, as Paul Bagalla described it, we should 259 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: all be angry, and we should want there to be 260 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 1: more accountability. We also know that Trump is using Minneapolis 261 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: to send a message to all the other fraudsters in 262 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: the country. The Department of Homeland Security describing what is 263 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: happening in Minneapolis this way as the largest immigration enforcement 264 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: operation ever aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration and fraud. 265 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: Federal officials and DHS also emphasizing the scale and the 266 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: intensity of this operation is a major enforcement action. The 267 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: surge includes personnel from ICE and Homeland Security investigations, bringing 268 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: they say, broad federal resources to the region where crime 269 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: is out of control. DHS highlighting today that some of 270 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: the people arrested includes serious offenders ascribed by the Department 271 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: as among the worst of the worst, individuals with records 272 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: for violent crime like murder and sexual assault of children. 273 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,119 Speaker 1: DHS also launched a Worst of the Worst web page 274 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: so the public can see the criminal histories and those 275 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 1: arrested nationwide as part of the immigration enforcement underlying that 276 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: many apprehended individuals have violent or dangerous criminal records. Homeland 277 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:15,719 Speaker 1: Security Secretary Christy Nome personally being president in Minneapolis and 278 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 1: accompany the agents during the enforcement actions, showcasing federal leadership 279 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: and involvement as well as the commitment to get rid 280 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: of this fraud in America, and the reports are also 281 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: indicating at this hour that additional federal agents beyond the 282 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: original surge are continuing to arrive, meaning the reinforcement and 283 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: the ongoing commitment to the enforcement of the law in 284 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: the community of Minnesota will not only make the people 285 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: safe there, but this is all about getting rid of 286 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: what the Democrats set up, a safe haven for billions 287 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: in fraud. Some Minnesota Republicans and supporters of federal enforcement 288 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: efforts have also praised the operation, saying that they're seeing 289 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 1: this urges something that was long overdue and making the 290 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 1: streets safer where they live. So in summary, the Trump 291 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: administration's operation in Minneapolis represents a significant federal law enforcement 292 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 1: mobilization we've never seen before, at a level we've never 293 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: witnessed before, with a focus on arresting, as the White 294 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: House put it, individuals with serious criminal histories and enforcing 295 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: immigration laws which the prior administration refused to do as 296 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: well as Governor Waltz DHS has highlighted the tangible arrests 297 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: of dangerous criminal suspects, active federal leadership on the ground, 298 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: and increasing the manpower as well as making it clear 299 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: who we're arresting on the web page they've set up. 300 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: This is exactly why I voted for Donald Trump, and 301 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: I got a feeling there's a lot of people in 302 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: Minneapolis that maybe didn't vote for Trump that are now saying, Wow, 303 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 1: maybe I voted for the wrong tim in the last election. 304 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has made a major announcement about Venezuela, and 305 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: as a taxpayer, you should be very excited about what 306 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: I'm about. 307 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 2: To tell you. 308 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 1: He said that Venezuela will turn over thirty to fifty 309 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: million barrels of oil to the United States of America. 310 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 1: Donald Trump announcing that the interim authorities in charge of 311 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 1: Venezuela would be giving us between thirty to fifty million 312 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: barrels of high quality, sanctioned oil to the United States. 313 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: In a post on True Social Trump explained that the 314 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: oil would be sold at its market price and that 315 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: Trump would ensure the money from the sales will be 316 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the US, 317 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: saying quote, I'm pleased to announce that the interim authorities 318 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: in Venezuela will be turning over between thirty to fifty 319 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: million barrels of high quality, sanctioned all of the United States. 320 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: This oil will be sold at its market price, and 321 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: the money will be controlled by me as President of 322 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: the United States of America to ensure it is used 323 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: to benefit not only the people Venezuela, which means you 324 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 1: and I as taxpayers, do not have to worry about 325 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: paying for Venezuela like we did in Afghanistan in Iraq. 326 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: He also went on to say this, I have asked 327 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: the Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, to execute this plan immediately. 328 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: It will be taken by stored ships and brought directly 329 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: to unloading docks in the United States of America. Now, 330 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: after Venezuela's socialist dictator Maduro and his wife Flores, were 331 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 1: captured by US military forces, Trump stated that the US 332 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: will run everything regarding Venezuela's oil reserves. It also has 333 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: been reported that Venezuela, as of Saturday's oil price, has 334 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: approximately seventeen point three trillion in oil reserves, which exceeds 335 00:20:54,720 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: the collective global gross domestic product excluding the United States, Erica, 336 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 1: and China. To put in perspective, this obviously is a 337 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: major step forward for the President and also to getting 338 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: Venezuela back on its feet and the people there that 339 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 1: have been oppressed by the commist regime for far too long, 340 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: what they need economic stability. What is next for the 341 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 1: Western hemisphere. That is a question that Donald Trump is 342 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 1: answering in real time through his actions instead of his words. 343 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 2: With Maduro's capture, there are now real. 344 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: Speculation among those in Washington that this could be the 345 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 1: beginning of the end for places like Cuba's dictators, the 346 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: regime there. The House Intelligence Committee chairman going on Fox 347 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: News channel to talk about exactly what could be next, 348 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 1: and I want you to listen carefully to what he 349 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 1: had to say about. The President also talking about Cuba. 350 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 1: So this will obviously have a lot of a domino 351 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: effect in the neighborhood down there. 352 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 4: President Trump and Secretary of Rubio talked about the possibilities 353 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 4: for Cuba. 354 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 2: Let's play this clip real quick. 355 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 7: Cuba is going to be something we'll end up talking 356 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 7: about because Cuba is a failing nation right now, very 357 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 7: badly failing nation, and we want to help the people. 358 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 7: If it's very similar in the sense that we want 359 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 7: to help the people in Cuba. 360 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 5: When the President speaks, you should take them seriously. So 361 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 5: it's suffice that to say, you know, Cuba is a disaster, 362 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 5: it's it's run by incompetent. 363 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: See now, men, if I lived in Havana and I 364 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: was in the government, I'd be concerned. 365 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 2: What is Cuba thinking right now? 366 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 5: We're going to We're going to see freedom in liberty 367 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 5: in Cuba. I mean the Cuba is a failed state 368 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 5: that people of Cuba do not like IDAs Canal, they 369 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 5: don't like their government. It was all it's all propped 370 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 5: up with the oil from Venezuela. So Cuba has been 371 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,360 Speaker 5: the root of evil. So if you look at this 372 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 5: is an unbelievable opportunity. When Trump finishes his this term, 373 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 5: I see, I think all across Latin America we see 374 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,440 Speaker 5: freedom and liberty. We'll have a new president in Columbia 375 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 5: next year, and I think the right thing will happen there. 376 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 5: I think diascnaw will be will be gone. So I'm 377 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 5: and look, I'm excited for all my friends that have 378 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 5: fought all these years for freedom and liberty and they 379 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 5: have not been able to get a president that would 380 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 5: show up and do the job that needed to be done. 381 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 5: And this president has been willing to do it. So 382 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 5: hats off to Donald Trump. 383 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: Senator Rick Scott and what he had to say there, 384 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: He's absolutely right and it brings me the top lawmaker 385 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: of the House Intelligence Committee, also saying that he believes 386 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 1: at the weekend capture of Maduro may have a major 387 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: domino effect in Cuba. Chairman Rick Crawford, a Republican from Arkansas, 388 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: call it the beginning of the end for the regime. 389 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,159 Speaker 1: Cuba and Venezuela have had a symbolic relationship for a 390 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 1: long long time. The congressman said, Cuban needs Venezuela and oil. 391 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: They no longer have the resources that will be provided 392 00:23:55,119 --> 00:24:00,400 Speaker 1: by Venezuela, and that means there are major consequences. According 393 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: to Crawford, Venezuela also benefited from the partnership by receiving 394 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: medical assistance from Cuba and military protections used by Maduro. 395 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: President of Cuba Manuel Diaz is a one party communist 396 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: state that has been long at odds with the United 397 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: States of America, and the US has an economic embargo 398 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: on the country, restricting exports to and from Cuba, as 399 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: well as travel restrictions that limit tourism. Those measures have 400 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: been in place now for sixty three years. You go 401 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 1: back to February of nineteen sixty two when President JFK 402 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: proclaimed an embargo on trade between the United States and 403 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: Cuba and directed the Department of Commerce and the Treasury 404 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,360 Speaker 1: to implement the embargo, which literally remains in place today, 405 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: the State Department saying that on its own website, which 406 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 1: brings us to the bigger question that Crawford brought up. 407 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 1: He said, quote, you may very well see a very 408 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 1: popular uprising there. There's a lot of connective tissue. We have, really, 409 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 1: for a lack of a better term, we have a 410 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:12,199 Speaker 1: familiar bond with Cuba. We have so many families in 411 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: South Florida that are directly connected to family members in 412 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: Cuba that remittances are a big part of their economy. 413 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: They rely on the United States of America, whether they 414 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: want to admit it or not, we can play an 415 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: outsized role they are in influencing those folks and helping 416 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: them to organize, to rise up and help overcome the oppressive, 417 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: to help overcome that oppressive regime. Now, Congressman Crawford isn't 418 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: the only one talking about how there could be a 419 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: major domino effect when it comes to Venezuela and now 420 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: in other parts of Latin America. The White House saying 421 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,399 Speaker 1: they believe that this could certainly move us in the 422 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,719 Speaker 1: right direction and inspire others to stand up to the regimes, 423 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: whether it's Columbia or Cuba. There are several other countries 424 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: now where there's no problems on the ground for the dictators, 425 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: including even Iran, which makes this part of the conversation 426 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: even more interesting. We're now hearing a new chant coming 427 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: out of Iran. Usually you hear the chant of death 428 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: to America. Right now, the protests are continuing across Iran, 429 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,239 Speaker 1: and now the protests are calling for quote death to 430 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 1: the dictator, not to America. The protests against the Iranian 431 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,880 Speaker 1: regime has now spread to most of Iran's thirty one 432 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: provinces as of Tuesday, including cities that have long been 433 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: seen as firmly loyal to the Ayatola. The current movement 434 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: is arguably larger than the Women Life and Freedom uprising 435 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: that really shook the regime to its core in twenty 436 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: twenty two, and today's demonstrations are now showing no sign 437 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 1: of backing down in the face of the brutal repression. 438 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: The ABC cited video confirming massive protests in seventeen provinces, 439 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: plus reports of demonstrations in eleven more verified video footage 440 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: of anti government demonstrations was posted from over fifty Iranian 441 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: towns and cities, including the Holy Cities as well, which 442 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: have previously been strongholds for the theocracy. Outside analysts said 443 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: these surprising size and the persistence of the protests in 444 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: the regime's political fortress cities was a sign that even 445 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: the Iatola's hardcore supporters are abandoning him in the face 446 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 1: of rank incompetence and most importantly, massive economic collapse. The 447 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 1: regime seems reluctant to indulge in the kind of bloody 448 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 1: crackdown that snuffed out the Women Life and Freedom movement, 449 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: the protests after Iran's humiliating defeat by Israel and the 450 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: United States in the summer of twenty twenty five, as 451 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 1: well as the uprising after the rigged elections in nine. 452 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: The Iranian regime is also attempting a difficult political balancing 453 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: act by separating demonstrators with legitimate grievances from the rioters 454 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 1: who are supposedly acting on behalf of the United States 455 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: and European power as they claim, and all out bloodbath 456 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,479 Speaker 1: would make it very difficult for the regime to pretend 457 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: it has sympathies and concerns for the Iranian people, which 458 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: now brings us to the present's promise. If Iran does 459 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: go after the protesters, then America will step up, and 460 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: that seems to be giving cover for freedom for the 461 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: people of Iran to actually rise up against another regime. 462 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: Don't forget to share this podcast, by the way, with 463 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: your family and your friends on social media wherever you 464 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: can hit that subscribe or auto download button, and I'll 465 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: talk to you again tomorrow.