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Speaker 1: But there's a new trend that has just started because

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Speaker 2: How did that happen?

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Speaker 1: Congresswoman Omar's net worth has increased again up to thirty million,

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Speaker 1: despite her claiming she isn't a millionaire. According to a

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Speaker 1: between she's stated in her government forms of six million

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Speaker 1: The Washington Free Beacon is now reporting this disclosures from

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Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty three, that is just two

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Speaker 1: The question, obviously, is, how do you go from having

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Speaker 1: So let's go back to Mark Kelly, hardcore liberal Democrat.

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Speaker 1: You know, the same guy that was in favor of

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Speaker 1: He now as a Democrat, is coming out saying, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Take a listen, hey, folks, let's talk about these New

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Speaker 3: Year's resolutions. Never really been that big into them. My

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Speaker 3: banned from Congress. Why is it that members of Congress

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Speaker 4: And trade stocks? Ridiculous? American people don't get that. It's

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Speaker 1: Why did Mark Kelly decide to come out right now.

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Speaker 5: The fraud scandal in Minnesota escalating over the weekend, both

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Speaker 6: So Besson spent much of the interview on his end

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Speaker 7: Representative Omar tried to downplay it, said, oh, it was

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Speaker 6: This fraud investigation dates back to twenty twenty two, when

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Speaker 6: he was asked last week to investigate whether Minnesota's tax

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Speaker 7: That money has gone overseas and we are tracking that

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Speaker 6: Minnesota is currently dealing with multiple fraud scandals totaling over

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Speaker 6: The House Oversight Committee announcing last week it's also opening

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Speaker 6: Meanwhile, Republican Senator John Kennedy also wing in on the

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Speaker 6: Now, a total of eighty seven people have been charged

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Speaker 1: You notice there in that report they talk about how

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Speaker 1: She also is dismissing these new allegations as quote right

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Speaker 1: Then why on your financial disclosures do you value your

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Speaker 1: Something that will make you laugh about this entire scandal

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Speaker 1: is remember the Quality Leering Center. You know the sign

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Speaker 1: where they couldn't even spell the word learning correctly. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not joking, this is literally what it says.

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Speaker 2: Now JD.

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Speaker 1: Vance, the Vice President United States of America, putting out

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Speaker 1: a tweet saying, quote, what's happening in Minnesota is a

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Speaker 1: microcosm of the immigration fraud in our system. Politicians like

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Speaker 1: day two of a massive operation in Minnesota. As federal

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Speaker 1: widespread Somali initiated fraud targeting the state and federal programs.

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Speaker 1: This surge is following the new allegations involving daycare centers

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Speaker 1: And guess what the Somalis did. They stole the money. Now,

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Speaker 1: have been misappropriated. Yes, we're talking about fraud now. James

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Speaker 9: It makes me. It makes me want to knee someone

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Speaker 9: is deeply disgusting. It's deeply disgusting. I mean, it is

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Speaker 2: Mister President, we have.

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Speaker 9: Discovered the federal federal prosecutors have discovered that for the

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Speaker 9: last five years, there has been massive welfare fraud in

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Speaker 9: the great state of Minnesota. Massive. Over a billion dollars

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Speaker 9: And this fraud has been centered in the Somali community

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Speaker 9: I'm here simply to describe what happened. The Somali community

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Speaker 9: a fact that this one billion dollars in welfare fraud

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Speaker 9: occurred almost exclusively in the Somali community in Minnesota and

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Speaker 9: was orchestrated by people with Somali ancestry. That's a fact.

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Speaker 9: Facts aren't racist. Facts are facts.

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Speaker 2: Facts aren't racists. Facts or facts.

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Speaker 1: It makes me want to need somebody in the growing

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Speaker 1: fifty nine people have been convicted in those schemes so far,

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Speaker 1: more than Minnesota spends annually to run its Department of Corrections.

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Speaker 2: Hundreds of millions of dollars were diverted.

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Speaker 1: Again by several Somali nationals who took the money they

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is unleashing the federal government and its resources

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Speaker 10: Hello, I mayh just Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill. I'm here

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Speaker 10: and Families and TRUMPID journalists have made shocky, incredible allegations

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Speaker 10: state of Minnesota has allowed scammers and fake daycares to

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Speaker 11: My office ACF provides Minnesota one hundred and eighty five

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Speaker 11: Any dollar stolen by fraudsters is stolen from those children.

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Speaker 11: Yesterday I spoke directly with the director of the Minnesota

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Speaker 10: Today, we have taken three direct actions against the blatant

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Speaker 10: have activated our defend the Spend system for all ACF

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Speaker 10: I've just signed and sent a demand letter to Governor Walls.

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Speaker 10: I required a full three hundred and sixty review of

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Speaker 11: And Third, we've launched a dedicated fraud reporting hotline and

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Speaker 11: every state to uphold the highest standards of oversight, monitoring,

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Speaker 10: We're committed to holding bad actors accountable, regardless the rank

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Speaker 1: Not only are is HHS officials saying they're activating to

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Speaker 1: Part two of the Trump administration's response. They have now

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The reason why these actions matter is because they're freezing

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Speaker 1: intended purpose. A great example without is actual childcare and

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Speaker 1: Now, while all this is happening, there's also a pr

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Speaker 1: disaster for Governor Tim Walls. In fact, there's a new

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Speaker 12: Tim Walls doesn't seek out fraud. Fraud seeks out Tim Walls.

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Speaker 12: When scammers apply for jobs, they list him as a reference.

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Speaker 12: Under his watch, Fraud is Minnesota's fastest growing small business,

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Speaker 12: Fraud had a frequent flyer program, he would always fly

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Speaker 1: The scary part is there's a lot of truth to

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Speaker 2: They're not seeing fraud at all.

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Speaker 1: In fact, they're looking at the opposite of that, making

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Speaker 1: A great example is ms NBC or ms NOW, whatever

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Speaker 13: The question is, you know, why is this a priority?

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Speaker 13: In a different kind of way, the politicization of the

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Speaker 13: But of course, the other factor here is that because

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Speaker 1: So there you have it, Democrats going back to their playbook.

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Speaker 2: So here we are. It is a divide.

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Speaker 1: You're either standing with the terrorists al Shabab, or you're

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Speaker 2: It's not with you, it's with the terrorists.

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