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Speaker 1: US President Donald Trump. We are now being told as

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Speaker 1: considering airstrikes on Iran to stop a crackdown on the protesters,

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Speaker 1: they also made clear, is still open with Iran, taking

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Speaker 1: quote a far different tone in private discussions with President

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Speaker 1: Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witskoff and the pres Secretary Caroline Levitt,

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Speaker 1: confirming that saying quote, one thing President Trump is very

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Speaker 1: good at is always keeping all of his options on

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Speaker 1: the table, and air strikes would be one of the many,

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Speaker 1: many options that are on the table for the commander

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Speaker 1: in chief. Levitt added that diplomacy is always the first

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Speaker 1: option for this president, saying quote, what you're hearing publicly

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Speaker 1: President has an interest in exploring those messages. Iran's foreign

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Speaker 1: ministry said earlier on Monday that a channel of communication

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Speaker 1: despite a lack of diplomatic relations. Trump said on Sunday

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Speaker 1: that the US military was in fact, considering a very

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Speaker 1: his previously stated red line of protesters being killed. Now,

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Speaker 1: before we get into even more of what the White

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Speaker 1: House has said, I want you to listen to President

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Speaker 1: Trump and his own words in his last conversation he

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Speaker 1: had publicly about Iran with Sean Hannity.

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Speaker 2: Are you following the protesting that is taking.

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Speaker 3: Place all over the country of Iran?

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Speaker 2: And have you read that the ayatolah Ali Kamani is

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Speaker 2: now as a plan B to go to.

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Speaker 4: Russia in some place.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's looking to go. You believe that's getting a

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Speaker 2: it could be. I mean what they've done is they

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Speaker 2: I said, if they do that, we're going to hit

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Speaker 2: them very hard. Well, we're gonna hit them out. We're

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Speaker 2: there's been some of it, but for the most part

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Speaker 2: The crowds are so big that some of them have

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Speaker 2: It's people running in a certain direction. See what happens.

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Speaker 2: We'll see what happens over there. They know though, that

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Speaker 2: it's a stampede, is I guess the best words they have,

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Speaker 2: like a stampede. You talk about stampede for cattle, but

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Speaker 2: the people are stampeding and you're losing a lot of

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Speaker 2: But I have put a rando noticed that if they

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Speaker 2: and they love their country. They want something to happen.

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Speaker 2: Look at their country. They've gone they've gone back one

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Speaker 1: We're going to hit them very hard. The president clearly

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Speaker 1: us to another important story. President Donald Trump has come

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Speaker 5: The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement.

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Speaker 5: You saw that they were harassing, that were following for

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Speaker 5: new signs and all the different things. But these are

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Speaker 5: What that woman and what her friend and what their

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Speaker 1: The President added that he would like to find out,

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Speaker 1: But these are professional agitators, and law enforcement should not

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Speaker 1: Representative Lance Coudden of Texas asserted that the anti ICE

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Speaker 1: protesters are actually all just being paid for saying, quote

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Speaker 1: the lawmakers said in his post. A person weaponizing their

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Speaker 6: as violent anti ICE protests continue to rise in the state.

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Speaker 3: Matt Finn joins US Live in Minneapolis with the details, Hey, Matt.

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Speaker 4: Hi Ainsley, DHS sources tell us up to one thousand

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Speaker 4: And this comes as DHS Secretary Christy Noum is defending

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Speaker 3: If you look at what the definition of domestic terrorism is.

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Speaker 3: It completely fits the situation on the ground. This individual,

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Speaker 4: But the Democratic Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frye, disagrees and

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Speaker 6: It sounds like she doesn't believe a single word that

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Speaker 6: Minneapolis like this dystopian hell hole. You know how many

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Speaker 6: shootings we've had so far this year, two and one

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Speaker 6: This is a safe city. ICE and Christy Nolman, everything

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Speaker 4: And there's new video leading up to the moments of

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Speaker 4: The video appears to show goods suv partially blocking the street,

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Speaker 4: Border Patrol tells us it's dangerous for agents to be

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Speaker 7: Absolutely not. We're out here to do a job and

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Speaker 4: And that was during a ride along with Border Patrol.

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Speaker 1: It's clear the President United States of America wants to

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Speaker 1: this shooting was duefully acted in self defense. That is

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Speaker 1: There has been a lot of speculation about the weapons

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Speaker 1: He said, they were shooting with such precision and speed

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Speaker 5: Month or shortly thereafter, and speaking to them would have

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Speaker 4: Step up I now recognize Representative Robins for her opening statement.

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Speaker 9: Good morning, mister Chairman and members. Thank you for inviting

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Speaker 8: Tim Walls and his.

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Speaker 8: These are actual crimes that must be parnished.

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Speaker 9: There are crimes against our moral values and erode trust

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Speaker 9: we are unearthing staggering amounts of fraud of Minnesota.

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Speaker 8: As far back as.

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Speaker 9: Twenty fourteen, there were credible whistleblower allegations of millions in

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Speaker 9: Just last month, our committee held the hearing on credible

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Speaker 8: You cannot make this up.

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Speaker 9: The Walls administration has been gaslighting Minnesotans on the scale

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Speaker 9: is still working through. Under the leadership of our Vice chair,

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Speaker 9: Patty Anderson. We passed a bipartisan bill in the Senate

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Speaker 9: to create an independent office of Inspector General. When it

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Speaker 9: got to the House, Democrats killed it because the DHS

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Speaker 9: commissioner testified against it. The Tim Walls administration has utterly

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Speaker 9: failed to protect Minnesota taxpayers and vulnerable citizens, ignoring years

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Speaker 9: of credible reports and retaliating against those who spoke up,

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Speaker 9: often by claiming they were racist or Islamophobic. Tim Walls

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Speaker 9: and the Democrats have reut heatedly protected their political base

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Speaker 9: at the expense of all Minnesotans.

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Speaker 8: Other states should learn from.

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Speaker 9: The failures of the Walls administration. So I'll give you

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Speaker 9: a quick roadmap on how to find and stop fraud. First,

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Speaker 9: culture Matters, Fraud flourishes when leaders ignore it and criminals.

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Speaker 8: See they can get away with it.

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Speaker 9: Second, fraud flourishes when basic internal controls are not followed.

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Speaker 8: This is not complicated. Third, you have to look at.

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Speaker 9: The interconnections of relationships in businesses and multiple programmers and medicaid.

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Speaker 9: It's a huge red flag that has been ignored in

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Speaker 9: our state. Finally, it is important to say what is

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Speaker 9: true and to stand up against fake allegations of racism

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Speaker 9: or Islamophobia. Crime is crime no matter who is committing it.

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Speaker 9: It is true that the majority of the fraud in

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Speaker 9: Minnesota has taken place in the Somali community, and it

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Speaker 9: is also true that some of our best whistleblowers are

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Speaker 9: from the Somali community. Democrats refuse to acknowledge this truth,

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Speaker 9: and that has enabled criminals to steal billions and hurt

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Speaker 9: our vulnerable sits.

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Speaker 8: Mister Chairman, thank you for the opportunity.

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Speaker 9: To share the lessons for Minnesota and for your help

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Speaker 9: in investigating these crimes.

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Speaker 8: The time for justice and accountability is now.

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Speaker 1: You listen to this state lawmaker sid official testifying on

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Speaker 1: the misuse of federal funds in DC. It was a

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Speaker 1: powerful opening statement. The Walts administration has been gas lading

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Speaker 1: Minnesotas on the scale of the problem four years now.

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Speaker 1: So far, nearly one hundred people have been charged welfare

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Speaker 1: fraud in multiple state scandals. One federal prosecutor has estimated

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Speaker 1: the amount of welfare fraud alone in the state has

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Speaker 1: now toppled nine billion dollars, and according to Swanson, the

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Speaker 1: state's Human Services Department created the Childcare Provider Investigation Unit

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Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, staffing it with just four investigators and

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Speaker 1: one manager, as well as two special agents in the

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Speaker 1: Minisota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which refers cases then to

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Speaker 1: law enforcement. Swanson's email ledges the fraud, notes that his

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Speaker 1: unit found provides using a similar scheme to successfully steal

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Speaker 1: large sums of taxpayer money from the program. He acknowledges

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Speaker 1: them the most responsibility for the fraud rests with the

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Speaker 1: sophisticated criminals. Nonetheless, warns that an equal amount of responsibility

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Speaker 1: now rests with the lack of internal controls involving the

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Speaker 1: statutes and this was done by design. What's clear is

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Speaker 1: Governor Waltz was obviously involved in some major capacity when

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Speaker 1: it comes to this amount of fraud. He was also

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Speaker 1: profiting from the fraud as the Smalley community was paying

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Speaker 1: in essence payoffs or donations the political campaigns of all

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Speaker 1: their allies who were again in on the scheme. So

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Speaker 1: here we are with more people coming forward and saying

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Speaker 1: what we all know is true, that this fraud is

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Speaker 1: out of control and getting bigger and bigger by the

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