WEBVTT - Fraud, Power and Payoffs 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.320 Thanks to all of you for being one of this 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:04.800 hour to Sean Hanneredy's show, Toll Free. It is eight 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.000 hundred and ninety four one sewn if you want to 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.360 be a part of the program. There's a lot of 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.040 articles and we've been following this and we had Nick 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.079 Shirley on and now they've gotten California the Silence Nick 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.119 Shirley Act. You know, it had the unmitigated audacity to 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:25.119 go out in Minnesota and California and find that places 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.120 that declare themselves to be daycare centers that are taking 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.839 care of thousands of children in fact don't exist. And 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:34.919 where does this money come from. It comes from all 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.120 of you. And that's money that would otherwise be distributed 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:42.640 to all of you. Now we've got a new article 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.640 out that came out over the weekend on Foxnews dot com. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.240 At Newsom and his administration knew about a two billion 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:55.920 dollar California budget error for months and anyway, Democrats were 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:00.040 aware of this accounting error, and you know, and a 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.840 plan already that projected, you know, roughly three billion dollar 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.080 deficit in the fiscal year that is upcoming. The mistake 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.200 is made to the state's public employee retirement system. I mean, 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:15.240 it just never it just never ends. And all of 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.640 this money combined is money that would otherwise be going 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.759 to you and to your family. There has been one 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:27.280 voice that has been the most articulate, the most informed 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:32.040 of anybody out there, and that is Meme at Oz. 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.040 He is the seventeenth administrator of the Centers for Medicare 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:41.000 Medicaid Services. And anyway, he was at this testimony with 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:45.920 Senator with Secretary Kennedy today and the Secretary testified before 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.720 the House Education Workforce Committee on the Trump administration's policies. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:51.840 I mean, and they want to pull this guy off 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.000 in a million different directions. Republicans questioning the Secretary about 0:01:55.000 --> 0:02:00.400 abortion pills, kinder affirming care, rural health care, school tritionan, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.720 et cetera, et cetera. But when you get to the 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.160 bottom line, as doctor Oz has been reminding us, removing 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.480 healthcare fraud alone would double the life of the Medicare 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:16.240 Trust Fund. Remember, government says that social Security, Medicare, Medicaid 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.080 on the state level, that all of this is going 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.680 to be available for us, and all of them are 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.240 headed towards insolvency. The lock box for Social Security has 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.680 been long rated. You know, if you look at well, 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.040 all these people that want the government credle to grave, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.560 womb to the tomb ideology put in place, and everything's 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.200 going to be free, free, free, free free. Well, mom, 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.799 Donnie's not given New York City free buses. But putting 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.120 that aside, how did those Obamacare promises, keep your doctor, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.959 keep your plan. Average family saved twenty five hundred dollars 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.040 per family a year, Millions lost doctors, millions lost plans, 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.240 and we're now paying about on average, three hundred percent more. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.200 And what doctor Oz has been saying is some of 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.000 you are worried you won't have Medicare. He said, we 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.440 could double the life expectancy of Medicare and the trust 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.200 Fund if we could get the fraud out of the system. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.320 And he pointed out that this task force will not 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.960 stop until they accomplish that. Anyway, here's doctor Oz saying, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.520 removing healthcare fraud would double the trust Fund. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.880 We put it in context. Folks out there working their 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.760 tails off to get Medicare. Some of you a word, 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.079 you won't have Medicare. That's healthy for you. We would 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.280 double the life expectancy of the Medicare Trust Fund. If 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.560 we could get the fraud out of the system, the President, 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.040 the Vice President, the task force. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:28.960 We're not going to stop until we do just that. 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.520 Anyway, Doctor Memdaz joins us. Now, it is remarkable to 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.760 me that we're discovering all of this waste, fraud, abuse 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.520 and corruption, and nobody seems to be that interested on 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.680 Capitol Hill about it. And it infuriates me because we're 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.080 all being stolen from. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.400 The magnitude of the staft we estimate to be about 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.000 one hundred billion dollars a year. Shot. Think about that, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:57.000 one hundred million dollars in folks paying taxes. That's not 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.880 going towards their long term savings in medicare as you 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.520 I pointed out, not helping her most vulnerable, which is 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.400 what Medicaid's all about. When President says he wants to 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.920 love and cherish these programs, that includes protecting them from 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.640 frosters taking advantage of them. And I think part of 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.560 the reason that Capitolill hasn't really caught up is there 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.800 in a bit of a time warp, because it wasn't 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.000 that bad more than five years ago. What happened five 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:25.640 years ago COVID. COVID taught a lot of fraudsters that 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.560 they could corrupt the American system, whatever system you're talking about. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.120 It be snap benefits, it could be temporar assistants and 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.839 needy families, could be health benefits. You could defraud the 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.440 American system and take money out of it from COVID benefits, 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.000 for example, and never be caught, never be held accountable. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.120 None of the elected officials who are sloppily throwing money 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.240 at problems, they wouldn't get caught up in it all. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.720 And it sort of like sleepily through the prior administration 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.600 went through unnoticed. And I'll just speak Seana, you know 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.320 we're close friends to talk about this, but just for 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.320 everyone out there, I want you to hear this frustration 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.159 in my voice. The prior administry did not want to 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.880 hear from my agency, which is Medicare and Medicaid, and 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.920 we cover one hundred and seventy million people's insurance. They 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.760 did not want to hear from us about corruption or 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.839 fraud or anything else. They just want to know one thing, 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.520 did you sign more people up? And so Sean I 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.960 got thinking like, is this really a flaw or is 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.360 this maybe a feature for some people? Now let's think 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.560 about this. Well, one. You know this already. If you 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.359 sign someone up for Medicaid, you have to also the 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.560 option to sign to vote. You know, that's something that's 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.719 been in statute for many, many years. So that's you know, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.919 one sort of issue that comes up periodically. But the 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.080 topic that's sort of gotten on my attention more recently 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.440 is the fact that this has become a jobs programs. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.920 Let's take two states, New York and California. In both 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.760 these states, now you have personal care services which have 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.240 served massively. Now what is the personal care service. It's 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.159 a service that you do for somebody that normally their 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.720 family would offer for them, like driving them to the 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.960 doctor's office, carrying the groceries up the stairs, like simple 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.320 things like that. Not licensed and not done in any 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.240 accredited location. So it's very hard to audit if it 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.440 really happened appropriately in New York State. Now, then number 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.040 one job sewn you lived in New York for a 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.320 long time, The number one job in New York State 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.240 is a personal care assystem. It's not retail. You know, 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.120 all the other things that could be. It's not that. 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.920 It's personal care service. And this system is also, by 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.560 the way, it's a big problem in California where they 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.360 have even more personal care service providers. The problem done 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.000 becomes gay now that you've gotten all these new jobs 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.240 created ostensibly that you think these are jobs on Wall Street, 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.719 they're not. They're someone carrying groceries up the stairs. Maybe 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.039 it's their parents they're carrying the groceries for. Then the 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.640 question becomes, is there an additional layer of corruption? And 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.080 we're hearing more and more about the possibility that unions. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.919 You're getting involved and when you unionize, this is a 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.520 massive amount of people to bring into a union. That 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.480 becomes an extra political force. Union dues so obviously could 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.960 contribute to the ability of unions to support some political 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.120 candidates over others. And so you basically have a political 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.600 patronage system that we've built up in America. And that's actually, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.000 I think the core issue. We need to start focusing 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.040 on why did we let it get so bad? Not 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.560 just that it's bad, because believe me, the President's focused 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.280 on this. He's created the task force, as you heard 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.680 mentioned with the Vice president's thing spectacular job leading our 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.680 efforts to try to attach these bad apples. But the 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.560 corruption is very deep because it has been systematized and 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.160 allowed to prosper well. 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.520 I mean, this is the thing I mean, and this 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.640 is the most ironic thing. I'm sure you're aware of 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:34.160 the work of Nick Shirley and in the particular case 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.960 in Minnesota, how to deal in large part with the 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.880 Somali community. I think you told me, I think it 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.480 was you that they had an autism rate of some 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.400 eighty seven percent in the Somali community of Minnesota. Am 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:49.160 I right about that? 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:51.600 I don't know if that number is right, but they 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.360 did definitely they claim to have a higher baseline incidents, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.640 but without question, they paid moms to dishonestly claim their 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.160 kids autistic and by doing that, obviously they settled their 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.040 child with the diagnosis for life. But they also were 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.840 able to create all kinds of jobs, often for members 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.000 of the community. They took a budget shown there was 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.840 three million dollars. I think at the four hundred million dollars. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.120 I mean, come on, someone had to pactlessly allowing that 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:18.560 to happen. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.560 And then they seem to be targeting big care centers 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.240 that are claiming that they're watching children all day that 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.920 are nonexistent. And then in the case of California, and 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.920 this is what Nick Shirley found out, which I guess 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.560 is why they want the Silence Nick Shirley Act, which 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.000 is insane. I mean this, I think he's done us 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.480 a great service. But also hospice care. Now, where does 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.640 that money come for hospice care? For states like California, 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.880 aren't their federal tax dollars involved. 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.679 Hospice care is almost all Medicare. So think about this. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.640 You're living in New Mexico, which is a blue state 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.280 but not an affluent state, and your tax pill comes 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.240 due and you got to pay extra money. Why because 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.640 your tax dollars are going to pay for the fraud 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.120 that's taking place in Los Angeles. That just doesn't sound 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.400 very fair to me. You or anybody else is singing 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:05.960 right now. But let's go over the numbers, and Nick 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.640 Shirley has done a fantastic job just showcasing what these 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.480 people actually are thinking about when they're stealing money from 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.800 almost vulnerable Remember hospices for people who are predicted to 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.200 die within six months. There are fifty eight hundred hospices 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.920 in America. One third of them, one third of all 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.959 the hospices in America are in Los Angeles, not California. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.840 Los Angeles how many people are dying there. I mean, 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.520 think about this, and what they allowed to have happened 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.160 was all the doctors got on board with, you know, 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.760 looking the other way, the stick county regulators, the attorney generals, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.960 all of these people are supposed to be policing the system. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.880 They didn't care because the system itself was able to 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.640 bring money into Los Angeles and is coming in from 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.960 other states. This hurts the system. It corrupts the fundamental 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.760 safety net that we have built for America. The country 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.720 sixty years ago lost Medicare and Medicaid, these beautiful programs 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.640 that the crown jewels of our safety net system. On 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.480 the belief that we had shared values, we would not 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.600 take advantage of them. So Medicare was for people retired. 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.760 Medicaid was for people who Hubert Hemphrey called them people 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.000 lived in the shadows, folks who had had trouble with 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.680 their lives, they had chronic illnesses, they were just having difficulties. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.680 They needed help. That's what we do. All great people 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.840 help their most needy. And so we did that for 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.080 sixty years. And when COVID hit, somehow we lost our way. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.679 And then we had an administration that wasn't interested in it. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.880 It's not this similar from the border. By the way, Sean, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.240 if you want to get people psyched up in the 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.760 right way, the way that the President was able to 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.280 fix the border almost immediately and drop it by ninety 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.920 nine percent the illegal immigration flow, we can fix corruption 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.959 in America. What you need is for people to focus 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.000 on it and then I'll allow those people to do 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.480 their jobs. So take hospice in Los Angeles. We just 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.520 talked about it. We have now stopped payments to four 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.640 hundred hospices in southern California. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.600 Four hundreds, I mean, and this is what I don't 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.400 think more people to think about. I mean, you mentioned 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.079 Los Angeles at the high percentage. It is really money 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.720 that is being stolen. I mean to say that we could, 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.760 you know, double the the longevity of this program that 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.600 so many Americans rely on and depend on, just by 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.480 eliminating waste, fraud, corruption and abuse. That is so deep 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.040 and so profound to me. And it's like it's just 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.800 outright stealing, and nobody seems to be held accountable. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.960 Well, people are being held accountable now. I hope you 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.760 saw this bus we did out there with the Great 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.520 US attorney in Los Angeles, Billiasale. But we booked, you know, 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.760 we took that seven big frosters. One of them I 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.120 was able to attend pre dawn swat raid husband and 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:45.880 wife couple living in a beautiful mansion in Los Angeles, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.240 and they his doctored a nurse wife and they were 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.680 quickly snapped up in pre dawn hours and they didn't 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.160 think anyone would ever come for them. That couple was 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:59.280 interviewed four years ago about the massive fraud they were 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.400 perpetrating on the American people. No one did anything. So 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.319 what the President said, he called all of US attorneys 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.520 did and said, guys enough, I want you guys focused 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.959 on healthcare fraud. It is a huge part of the 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.360 epidemic of fraud we're facing our country. It represents probably 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.520 half the money that's stolen in aggregate. Because the healthcare 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.480 system is so big and it's it's become so easy 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.840 to target the healthcare system by stealing beneficiary numbers. Those 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.240 are the numbers that all the folks on Medicare get. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.960 There's probably five million of those numbers that are stolen now, 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.520 and so you can create false bills and sean where 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.000 you live in South Florida, there are twice as many 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:37.320 durable medical equipment suppliers using those stolen numbers. Then there 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:41.440 are McDonald's. Think about that, twice as many durbal medical 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:46.480 equipment suppliers with selling wheelchairs and canes than McDonald's. I mean, 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.120 it's obviously fraud in South Florida. We think the Cuban 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.920 government's involved. In California, we have the Russian mafia. In 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.240 New York, You've got the Chinese involved. I mean, we 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:59.360 have foreign governments we believe getting involved now and large 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.440 organized middle syndicates to pulling this money out and money 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.959 laundering is actually one of the ways that we can 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.719 catch these guys. That's why I set working closely with Treasury. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.760 This is by way an all of government approach. So 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.880 the President wants everybody on board. So when Scott Besson 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.199 allows his forensic accountants to work through a problem with 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.640 the US Attorney on a case that we've provided data on, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.720 you get answered. You get answered very quickly. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:23.040 You know. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.840 I just want people to understand this is this is 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.640 something you're paying into, This is money coming directly out 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.439 of your pocket. I would like to see states held accountable. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.319 I don't have a lot of time left. How can 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.320 we hold the states that are allowing this institutionalized fraud 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.400 to continue? How did they get punished for doing so 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.000 by not stopping the corruption. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.480 Well, the day after the State of the Union, when 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.800 the President announced the task force, the Vice President and 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.120 I had a press conference and announced a deferment of 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.200 a quarter billion dollars just for the last quarter the 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.760 Minnesota because the bills that they had sent didn't add up. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.160 And so one of the ways we do bring people 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.360 to bear for their their fair mistakes is to audit 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.200 them and make sure they have backup. And so one 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.000 by one we're going to go through states that don't 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.240 be focused on this, and I want to just give 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.400 people getting confidence because it's a good news story in 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.760 many ways. Look at Florida. I wrote a letter to 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.720 Governors Santis. I said, we're going to audit you. We 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.440 want to know this and this and this, and we 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.920 had a national moratorium on these durable medical equipment suppliers 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.720 that I mentioned earlier. Governors Stantis wrote back and said, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.760 what fine, I'll take that. I'll double down on it. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.640 I want to have a ban on all durbal medical 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.760 equipment suppliers within our state on Medicaid. That's how you react. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.280 You don't run from the problem. You embrace it. And 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:42.080 so while Governor Newsom is off, you know, talking about 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.960 problems outside of his own state and not really addressing 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.400 the fundamental crisis that they're facing, which of course hurts 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.560 all the other forty nine states, you've got other governors 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.720 taking this seriously and going after it. And I think 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.120 that's going to be a big issue over the next 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.680 six months. Are we able to figure out who's serious 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.040 about this crisis and we'll deal with it, and who's 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.000 running from the problem because they were part of it. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:09.000 All right, Doctor Melminas, we appreciate it. Please stay on this. 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.120 This is too important. There's too much money involved, Doctor Meminas, 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.680 thank you, sir. One of the things that's happening in 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.800 Virginia tomorrow is a redistricting vote, which we have been 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.000 talking at length about, and you know it's imperative if 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.760 you're a Republican. They want to squeeze any chance that 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.280 you could have any any representation in the in Congress. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.880 It's unbelievable. You have Abigail Spanberger. This is the biggest 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:38.440 power grab ever of any one state governor. I mean, 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.800 Trump got forty six percent of the vote, and she 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.120 wants to go against you know, a commission that put 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:49.400 together districting inside of Virginia, and she wants all these 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.440 liberal Democrats to take that away. And then the ultimate 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.680 result would be Democrats would end up with ten safe 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:01.360 congressional seats Republicans would have won. Yet Donald Trump got 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.080 forty six percent of the vote. Why do I bring 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.400 this up? Well, listen to the likes of James Carvell. 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.440 He's telegraphing where these lunatics will go if they ever 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.400 get both Houses of Congress and the presidency, they would 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.360 make Puerto Rico a state, d C estate, and of 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.120 course they would pack the Supreme Court. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.720 He's saying it. Listen to them when they say it. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.120 If the GMO pass, run in presidency in both Houses 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.520 of Congress, I think on day one, this should make 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.480 Puerto Rico you see, a state, and you should expand 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:30.840 the Supreme Court to thirteen. 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:32.160 Eat our dust. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.160 Yeah, there you go. I mean, it couldn't be any 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.600 more clear. Listen to him. All right, let's go to 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.400 Todd in Texas. Todd, how are you God blessed Texas? 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:40.880 Happy? Monday, glad you called sir. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.400 Hey, Sean, how are you appreciate you taking them a come? 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.440 Oh, it's my pleasure. What's going on? 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:45.880 You know? 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.360 So Friday, I was driving down to Houston for my son, 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.480 and I came back and I'm listening to the radio, 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.360 and all day I heard all this and misinformation about 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.480 what Trump was doing and money was going to give Iran, 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.640 and I just kind of thought, for a moment, God, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.680 I wish I had the truth. And there was this 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.960 part of me that said, I wish we could actually 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.680 have some kind of verify where Sean Hennedy would say 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.280 this was actually said by Trump, and the news media 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.919 wouldn't actually just be able to say false stuff. They 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.960 could just say the truth and they could say this 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.280 was verified like you would on Twitter on any other medium. 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.800 And you know, to me, I read all the news. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.240 I'm always paying attention, but like, I feel like there's 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:33.000 so much libel and misinformation given. I just wonder, Sean, 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:34.800 what are we going to do about all this stuff 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.760 where we can actually tell the truth and not have 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:38.639 people be misled by the media. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.360 Well, I did that on Friday because I read directly 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.760 from President Trump's own post that there had been I've 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.159 heard the same rumors that you heard. My phone was 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.919 blowing up. Why would Trump do this? Why would he 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.880 give the Iranians twenty billion dollars? And I'm like, yeah, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.280 that doesn't sound like Donald Trump to me, Let's see 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:57.880 what's let's see what happens. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:59.640 Oh, well, you have the best. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.520 And then and then, and then he posted that he's 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:02.240 not doing. 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.879 It, and I'm captive in the car. I'm driving like 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.280 I'm captive for four hours, and I'm thinking, that doesn't 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.840 sound like a Donald Trump. I know, you know him 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:11.879 way better than I do, but like, to me, is 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.399 a just constituent. I'm thinking, God, how can they say 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:19.000 this stuff on the news when it's totally false. There's 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.920 got to be some better way where we could verify 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.440 this libel that they're giving. 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.720 Well, if you were in the car listening to this 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.760 show on Friday, I was reading directly from the president's 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.920 own truth posts, and he said, no, it's not true. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.520 I'm not giving them twenty billion dollars. I'm not doing it. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:38.879 I know, and it sounds crazy even to think it, 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.560 but so many people believe that. It's just like, oh, 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:43.800 that's what he's doing. It's crazy. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.360 The worst part is I spent half my day Friday 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.200 dealing with people on our side saying, what the hell 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:50.840 is he doing? You need to call him, you need 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:52.920 to talk to him, You need to talk of all 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.920 what makes up his own mind? And if he really 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:57.439 thought it was a good deal, I'd like to hear 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.800 his rationale behind it. I can't think of a circumstances 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.119 with that where that would be a good deal. I 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.800 know what the President's trying to do here, but the 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:07.840 President was very clear today he doesn't care if they 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.800 get a deal or not. It just may take a 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.639 little bit longer than we had hoped. But he's going 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.720 to get the nuclear dust, and he's going to open 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.120 the straight of horn Moves. And if it takes more 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.160 bombing to wake these idiots up and Iran, then it's 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:24.040 going to take more bombing. And I want this to 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.800 be over as soon as possible. However, the success of 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:32.200 the mission has to transcend any other consideration in my view, 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.720 and winning, and we define winning very clearly here. How 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.919 would I define winning getting the nuclear dust, which was 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.119 the number one priority of the president, having the straight open, 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.720 free and free flow of oil, at market prices. 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.320 And then you know what we've done. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.800 That was the president's mission, degrading their ability to have 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.720 ballistic missiles, making the world a safer place for our 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:58.440 children and grandchildren. And it's hard to talk to stupid, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:02.320 ignorant people that he just completely The President even addressed 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:06.400 the insanity this on a truth post and I said 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.080