Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - February 25, 2026


Nick Shirley: The CA Voter Fraud Files | The Riley Gaines Show


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Nick Shirley is a two-time All-American tennis champion and was recently honored with the 2020 NCAA Impact Award. In this episode, Nick discusses the impact of his fraud expose on the state of Minnetonka and how it led to the end of Governor Tim Waltz's political career.

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00:00:00.000 hello everybody welcome back to the riley gain show if you're watching at youtube.com which i
00:00:08.960 hope you are you can see that i am not in my home studio uh back on the road speaking at all sorts
00:00:15.340 of different campuses high schools and colleges all across the country so that's what we're doing
00:00:18.700 today back in the home studio on friday i am so excited for today's guest we've had him on before
00:00:25.620 actually he was the first guest on the riley gain show the inaugural episode was with
00:00:30.620 nick shirley excited to talk about that but before we do i want to tell you about today's sponsor
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00:00:59.940 founded a club on her campus to empower the next generation of girls in sports while managing the
00:01:04.260 heavy workload of a biology degree i love ella's story because it perfectly illustrates the balance
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00:01:33.980 leader both on and off the court as i said we had nick shirley on for the first episode now what he
00:01:40.980 talked about in that expose and what he highlighted on the riley gain show regarding the state of
00:01:45.080 minnesota and the fraud that's happening there resulted in the end of tim waltz's political career
00:01:50.300 can he have the same success in the state of california that was where he went following
00:01:56.420 minnesota i don't think it's a shock to many of us that california is really a breeding ground for
00:02:03.280 voter fraud in america as well as homelessness crime you could keep going that's why people from
00:02:10.060 california are fleeing their state and moving to my state states like tennessee and it's so funny when
00:02:15.160 you meet someone in the streets of tennessee and they say you know i'm from california they immediately
00:02:18.800 follow it up with well i'm not like them i'm i'm a political refugee that's literally what they call
00:02:23.400 themselves now but he went to california nick shirley did and what he found is shocking uh millions of
00:02:29.960 people who are voting with no id month-long election process inaccurate voter rolls uh dead people who have
00:02:36.800 been caught voting even a dog was successfully registered to vote uh excited to break down all of
00:02:43.540 this and more on today's episode stay tuned to this interview with nick shirley well nick thanks for
00:02:49.660 joining the riley gaines show uh it's kind of funny seeing you in a suit and tie i'm used to seeing you
00:02:56.300 like in a t-shirt on a street corner in like minnesota or california but tonight actually you're
00:03:01.120 attending the state of the union i guess my my first question before we get into this california expose
00:03:06.580 when you were working on all those little videos in your room that you would post to youtube did you
00:03:11.760 ever imagine that here you would be in a suit and tie and i guess having a seat in the capitol building
00:03:18.200 great question i mean you never fully can imagine it you always like envisioned it in a way
00:03:23.400 but to see it come to fruition is pretty cool yeah yeah it is it's um remarkable i think you'll see
00:03:29.500 tonight the state of the union uh just the energy and the patriotism that's there uh you'll see a lot
00:03:35.100 theatrics i imagine uh last time it you have al green who's like waving his cane so uh i'll be
00:03:41.940 interested to see some of those clips that surface uh i want to start with number one the result that
00:03:49.320 we saw from your minnesota expose uh were you shocked to see that pretty much ended the political
00:03:55.100 career of governor tim walls i was shocked to see how easy he folded i was not shocked by the impact the
00:04:03.340 video had how big of an impact it did have a little bit because i mean i wasn't expecting to upload the
00:04:09.020 most viral video in the past few years on the internet but i mean tim waltys he obviously knows
00:04:15.120 that he was kind of caught red-handed not kind of he was caught red-handed so therefore he has dropped
00:04:19.940 out for running for re-election if he didn't have anything to do with the fraud he would have
00:04:23.900 probably kept running and so i was super happy to see the impact of the videos had
00:04:28.120 now in terms of the response and the accountability that we have seen since both from the state
00:04:35.880 government local government to minneapolis but even the federal government what has that looked like
00:04:41.240 where do things stand can we expect people to be held accountable yeah i think we can and you
00:04:47.420 recently just saw one of the ladies who was in the she was not in the video her daycare was in the
00:04:51.700 video she was the owner of the daycare that was receiving the most amount of money from the ccap 1.00
00:04:57.180 funding fundings she tried to flee the country on a one-way ticket to london she got caught and now
00:05:04.640 she's been arrested and she was one of the she had one of these daycares then she was caught for fraud 1.00
00:05:10.900 and with feeding our future and so her daycare is one of those and so i think after after her we're
00:05:17.180 going to start seeing more and more people get arrested and prosecutions take a while there's
00:05:21.300 ongoing investigations and i think it's just a matter of time and before you start seeing more
00:05:26.420 and more people get held accountable for all the crimes they committed yeah i hope so it's exactly
00:05:33.320 what the american people voted for was that sort of accountability and transparency now as i have
00:05:39.160 alluded to and as i would imagine many people have seen online you expose a different kind of fraud
00:05:44.900 in california before we talk about that i want to know what made you go to california to look in
00:05:51.740 to voter fraud yeah right now we know that voter id is a big issue so i really wanted to show people
00:05:58.580 how easy it would be to not not only rig an election but to just let anybody vote i mean i went straight to
00:06:06.580 the registrar of voters there and asked her what would it take to vote and she said well you sign this and
00:06:12.080 and you just pretty much need to present your own name and i said well what if somebody wanted to go
00:06:16.880 and say they were so and so and they actually weren't she's like well why would they do that
00:06:20.640 that'd be lying but the fact that anyone could just go and lie is showing how easy it would be to vote on
00:06:27.700 behalf of somebody else and there's lots of locations as well that have a ton of people registered
00:06:33.920 to vote and some of them are ups stores other other the others are these colleges that have
00:06:41.600 50 people registered at a college university where there should be thousands of people registered so
00:06:46.480 there's a lot of these irregularities within their voter rolls that would be very much solved if people
00:06:53.720 just had to present their own ids yeah talk about that uh we're gonna insert a clip in post of the
00:07:01.640 woman you're referring to i was curious how come in california you don't need voter id to vote
00:07:06.260 because when you sign your affidavit you're swearing that you're telling us the truth and we
00:07:12.280 compare the signature that you put on your application battery 65 percent
00:07:19.720 do you think it leaves any room for error with voter id or
00:07:24.840 yeah i'm just like curious because i want to make sure that like our elections are as fair and
00:07:32.960 honest as possible and i feel like voter id is just something super simple to have
00:07:36.980 and do you think it's possible like illegal migrants could be voting
00:07:41.220 yeah if they don't have their id and they could just sign on behalf of richard sherman
00:07:55.360 then they could technically vote right
00:07:59.640 yeah but what if they just don't care what if like richard sherman and billy bob joe just don't care
00:08:12.980 but so you don't think illegals would ever vote would you i don't think so do you think there was
00:08:24.400 just a level of like naivety to her do you think that she was attempting to be political politically
00:08:30.820 corrupt i was pretty amazed just how i guess gullible she was to believe that there aren't 0.98
00:08:37.440 bad actors out there who would be intentional in some sort of fraud in the voting realm like you
00:08:44.700 you exposed yeah and god bless this lady because she's just doing her job right uh it's not her
00:08:50.680 responsibility for what's happening in california but it just goes to show how easy it would be for
00:08:55.280 anyone to vote i mean somebody reached out to me after i posted that video and they're like i actually
00:08:59.580 am a canadian and i came down to california to vote just to show you how easy it was
00:09:03.540 dang that's wild and so talk about that like you you showed up to a desk what what was the setting
00:09:10.760 what was this job where were you it's the registrar of voters in san diego
00:09:16.420 so it's a place you go to register and you just showed up and had absolutely no problem in saying
00:09:21.820 i i would like to i mean what are what are kind of the prerequisites of voting and and she had
00:09:28.800 nothing to give you yeah i just said like how how does it work with that idea i feel like that's
00:09:33.820 probably pretty common sense to have an id when you go up and vote and she said well you signed your
00:09:40.000 signature and then we scanned the signature and why would why would anyone not say who they really are
00:09:46.320 and that's pretty they're pretty much going off of good faith but when we know that millions of
00:09:52.120 illegal migrants have gone into a state like california i think you should be like okay maybe 1.00
00:09:56.760 let's like certify that this person's really them and not just based off the slant of a signature
00:10:01.160 that's going to get scanned in with millions of other signatures i mean a dog got registered to vote
00:10:05.920 and successfully voted in two elections before the lady turned herself in 1.00
00:10:09.480 talk about how you found out about the dog that was something that was so wild to me and watching
00:10:16.940 your video yeah so a dog got registered to vote a lady did it she was actually republican she did it 0.97
00:10:22.820 to show how easy it is to register and how easy it would be to vote so she successfully voted in 2021
00:10:29.560 and she voted in 2022 the i think the ballot got sent back to her and it's funny watching people try
00:10:36.500 to defend this dog on the internet and the fact is that whether this person was republican or democrat
00:10:40.960 it doesn't matter it's the fact that a dog was somehow registered to vote in an election in the
00:10:46.460 united states somebody something a being that doesn't even have a human body was able to vote
00:10:52.840 well and that's what i think is so amazing about the exposés that you've done is it's not just
00:10:57.900 necessarily exposing democrats which yes of course that has been you know the the crux of it uh but in this
00:11:05.460 you've exposed republicans too and you're just saying look i don't care who it is committing
00:11:09.440 fraud voter fraud or whatever other fraud there is that it doesn't matter it affects everyone
00:11:16.300 exactly and it's so funny to watch people come out and defend some of these things that they're
00:11:21.640 defending whether it be the dog or whether it be the daycares they're stealing and they're corrupting
00:11:27.040 not just they're corrupting society it's not a republican or democrat issue it's like we're all
00:11:33.440 dealing with this yeah and you talk about you know obviously needing an id we have this whole id paradox
00:11:40.100 you need an id to go to the liquor store or even as mom donnie has proven to shovel snow in new york city 1.00
00:11:47.300 yet they fight for voting saying that it's racist when you point out that hypocrisy to people on the
00:11:53.820 street do you ever have this kind of light bulb moment or is it always just people getting angry
00:11:59.600 because i saw one interaction you had with a woman who said look i don't want to be once you realized
00:12:04.160 you know the line of questioning she said look i don't want to be a part of your your maga movement
00:12:08.420 what do you think about over 30 people are registered to vote in this ups store right here
00:12:12.980 is that a little strange to you is it through po boxes yeah i don't know what are you trying to do or
00:12:21.600 what are you trying to prove yeah so so you have to you have to re-register where you live right
00:12:26.400 where your primary residence is and so if you've got a primary residence that's a ups store
00:12:31.240 i just there's a real tiny houses you know inside the ups store for people to live in
00:12:35.840 probably what's your guys affiliation my name is nick shirley yeah could you live inside a po box 0.92
00:12:41.300 no so do you think it's a little strange that here in california you have lots of people are
00:12:44.980 registered to vote from these po boxes meanwhile you don't even have to show your id when you go and 0.96
00:12:48.880 vote i don't want to be part of the whole maga storyline thank you this isn't a maga storyline man
00:12:53.400 this is just the straight up facts now we're going in yeah that's what they kind of deflect to
00:12:58.380 is because they've made it like a republican issue but anybody should want to have open and fair
00:13:02.760 elections if you need an id to go to the airport whether to be shovel snow in new york city to buy
00:13:08.700 liquor to even get some medicine uh over the counter inside the united states you have to present your
00:13:14.260 own id and so it's not some wild idea for someone to present their own id and really the only reason
00:13:20.320 why someone would be against a person showing their id when they go and vote is to vote on
00:13:26.620 behalf of somebody else i mean dead people are voting in california and that's been happening for
00:13:31.180 years uh you worked with whistleblowers in both of these exposés in california and minnesota
00:13:37.660 how do you vet them that was a question i had initially um how do you how do they come to you and
00:13:44.280 how do you vet that they're legit yeah so for these people for instance david in minnesota he
00:13:50.100 had been working on this for years and when they come to me with information i make sure that it's
00:13:54.760 credible information because it comes from the state for instance david had a request that those numbers
00:14:00.040 of the ccap funding about the daycares so that comes straight from the state the man who i met up
00:14:05.560 with in california he had been requesting those that information from the secretary of state as well
00:14:10.600 and so he had the legitimate voter rolls and that guy actually had even created his own way of going
00:14:16.200 through and vetting all these so he had dedicated years of his life to examining these voter rolls in
00:14:21.480 california yeah well i think there were pivotal parts um in the these exposés you've been i guess
00:14:29.080 critics will say that you're just cherry picking extreme cases can you walk us through some of the
00:14:34.200 examples or situations that maybe you didn't necessarily get on film or highlight in these videos
00:14:40.760 yeah well everything i post is what i've seen like i guess a better i guess a better way to ask this
00:14:49.720 is like how many houses did you knock on where everything was seemingly normal before you kind
00:14:56.280 of hit that like red flag well that's the thing what you see is what you get so every anytime i go out
00:15:03.560 and film i'll post the whole thing that's why i'll post the lady who's getting mad at me for saying 0.94
00:15:08.280 some mega storyline most people would cut that out because it might make the other person it might
00:15:12.280 make me look bad but in reality i'm just showing people what it is for what it for what it is so
00:15:17.240 everything you see for me is what you get we've got a clip here from your video where 108 people
00:15:23.880 registered to vote in one house let's watch it really quick do you know where where the ballots
00:15:28.920 might have gone um like for 108 people you know that were registered okay 108 people
00:15:36.280 and yes so that house so that house was on a university it was an alumni house and so the issue
00:15:42.840 with that is okay well that house is registered at the university it's said that it's alumni house
00:15:47.800 and actually nobody lives inside of that house and whether it's the addresses to the university
00:15:53.320 or to the house it says the house on the the the uh the voter rolls but okay well let's not say that
00:16:01.320 only 108 people are registered to vote at a university where there are thousands of people well that's
00:16:05.240 another large irregularity that that needs to be looked at and so there's these issues all across
00:16:10.120 these voter rolls in california for instance and this could all be solved with presenting an id
00:16:15.800 have you had any response from election officials in the state of california or have you heard from
00:16:22.760 from local citizens or even local politicians at the state level yeah for instance in that video
00:16:28.680 there was one location was a ups store and uh 30 people were registered to vote there and the issue
00:16:34.200 with that and it turns out i didn't know this beforehand because we had went there and what people don't
00:16:38.840 see is when i go film these videos a lot of times people heckle you and you have to get out
00:16:42.120 these locations quick so uh there's a apartment there's an apartment as well that was above it
00:16:48.840 well either way the person they were registering themselves at a ups box it has to be their domicile
00:16:55.080 address and so that that's a big issue too so you can't just register at a p.o box to vote it needs
00:17:00.360 to be the address of your primary residence which is your domicile location domicile address
00:17:06.280 i've seen where gavin newsom his office i guess has dismissed your work uh and has attempted to
00:17:15.960 mudsling you calling you names the one that i've seen the most is slow shirley uh which i don't even
00:17:22.520 really know what he's attempting to get at there i think it's very clear he wants you out of his state
00:17:28.280 if you could put a camera in front of the person who wrote that i guess message on governor newsom's
00:17:37.800 press account uh and show them just one piece of footage from your trip which one would you want to
00:17:43.800 show probably the fact that i would invite them i didn't actually invite them i said let's work
00:17:50.600 together i would invite them to come with me and go to some of these locations and say okay let's justify
00:17:55.240 this and let's see if you can justify it because this this is that we're just doing a public service
00:17:59.320 for the people i would take them to the location where 125 year olds are registered to vote and then
00:18:04.200 you go to the location of that person's home and they're actually not 125 years old i would take them
00:18:08.760 to a location just like that so they can see with their own eyes say okay look we have issues in your
00:18:13.160 voter rolls this lady is actually 81 years old and she's registered as 125 years old that's something we 1.00
00:18:18.520 should fix all right so let's say he's named virginia she's 125 years old she's voted over 55
00:18:25.880 times and she's active on the voter rolls here in california let's see if she's home hi how's it
00:18:31.240 going sir doing good nope i'm cooking okay well i'll be quick i'm just looking for virginia 125 years old
00:18:39.480 125 years old yeah she's registered to vote at this location right here is virginia here yeah but she 0.99
00:18:45.640 ain't no 125 years old really how old is virginia then 80 80 well here on the state of california
00:18:57.080 she's 125 years old and she's voted in 55 elections
00:19:03.800 is there another virginia no not here virginia 10-4 21 in the whole world only one in the whole world
00:19:13.000 i hope she's voting good because so she's not 125 no no now that you've kind of seen the mess in
00:19:20.600 both minnesota and california is one or the other state's system i guess does it feel more vulnerable
00:19:29.400 to you like was it the administrative errors in california's voter rolls or the specific types of
00:19:35.080 fraud you exposed in minnesota which one should have viewers or i guess voters more concerned about
00:19:41.640 the upcoming election cycle obviously california because one in six americans live inside the state
00:19:47.800 of california and so just think about that you have people who are 125 years old who don't even who are
00:19:54.600 80 years old registers 125 years old and they have no idea and that's just not uh that's just not a case
00:20:01.160 of 100 people that's thousands of people all across the state and these people also it says how many times
00:20:06.440 they've they've voted as well and a lot of these people had no idea that they had voted in 55
00:20:11.880 elections or 50 elections so i think that's something very that's a big issue and then obviously like
00:20:17.640 the fraud because that's some money yeah yeah has it become harder to do your job now that uh i believe
00:20:25.880 you're incredibly recognizable you have name recognition has that made it harder to do
00:20:30.600 do the job that you're attempting to do to do actually that you are successfully doing
00:20:36.920 yeah it does like for instance at that ups store and that video that went viral i mean right we were
00:20:42.360 there for like five minutes the lady wouldn't even let me go into the ups store because that lady 1.00
00:20:46.440 who yelled who got mad at me for saying i don't want to hear a part of your magma storyline she then
00:20:50.840 goes into that building and says don't let this kid come in don't let him talk to you and so it really
00:20:57.240 would have helped if the ups store could have cleared up any any information but instead they
00:21:03.000 won't even address you because people like that lady go in and they try to slander your name or make 1.00
00:21:08.600 you look like you're somebody or not when in reality all i am doing is i'm trying to go and get the truth
00:21:13.160 from the source these mainstream media all these critics online they never actually go to the source
00:21:18.760 they go to uh what the person on the internet saying they don't actually don't go to the location
00:21:24.440 and so that does make it hard and uh when i do go to a lot of places and i have to have security with
00:21:29.080 me you'll see in my next video where i go and confront some of these other fraudsters these
00:21:33.080 people just start running like cockroaches like i'm not joking like they see me and they're getting
00:21:37.560 in their cars and they're fleeing the scene and uh so that's very interesting to see as well
00:21:43.640 you talk about your next video is that still in california yes in california if you just look at the
00:21:50.440 medi-cal the budget that they have which is their their form of medicaid inside of california it's
00:21:55.400 just called medi-cal they have their budgets keep going up by the billions each and every single year
00:22:01.400 and there's not like an exponential increase in their population but there's an exponential increase
00:22:06.680 in their budget and so you're you're seeing really big fraud in california with uh with their health
00:22:16.360 care system not even just that i saw a video of you on skid row and it was really remarkable
00:22:23.960 and truthfully just incredibly inspiring to see you approach a mom and her 12 year old son
00:22:30.280 actually will you kind of walk us through what you saw on skid row skid row and again the corruption
00:22:37.560 and the fraud that's happening even behind these homeless encampments in california yes so a place like
00:22:43.240 skid row there's tons of ngos non-profits and they receive millions of dollars every single
00:22:48.040 year to help out the homeless and so it's not a secret that there's people living on the streets
00:22:52.600 there i mean anyone can go set up a tent my issue was when i went down there we had been there for an
00:22:57.240 hour or so my issue was when we found a 12 year old and the 12 year old had been there for a few days
00:23:02.920 and whether the mom is has some sort of responsibility for that child being in that situation
00:23:08.680 or not the fact is a 12 year old sleeping out where people openly get raped at night
00:23:15.560 people get robbed people get assaulted people are selling drugs a 12 year old's there for multiple
00:23:21.480 days on end why can't they go in and why is that kid not made a priority to make sure that he's not
00:23:26.920 sleeping in that street um and why would it take a responsibility of me to go and make sure that
00:23:33.720 kid's all right and so that's kind of what made me upset when i was there is just the fact that
00:23:38.360 yeah there's a 12 year old sleeping there whether it's uh whether his mom is complicit in that
00:23:45.480 happening or not someone needs to take a responsibility especially when billions of
00:23:49.560 dollars get sent to the homeless every single year and a 12 year old can't get put in a place to sleep
00:23:54.200 at night that's a big issue yeah and he also talked about how he wasn't even in school
00:24:01.080 and you think you're 12 years old what you're probably like in sixth grade maybe fifth grade
00:24:06.280 seventh grade maybe uh those are critical periods of learning uh and so to be homeless and not in
00:24:12.920 school is a major problem but then to see you step in and offer both him and his mom a hotel room and to
00:24:19.480 to follow up and to make sure that he is in school uh just incredibly inspiring uh and i think one of the
00:24:26.520 things about that video that i saw as well was you have a 12 year old and then a fight breaks out you
00:24:31.080 know uh not even 10 feet away from where you and the little boy were stood that's what he's being
00:24:36.760 exposed to exactly and since i posted and shared that video um lots of people people have donated so
00:24:43.640 they've been able to extend their stay at the hotel but not just that they've actually been able to get
00:24:47.960 into a place where they can now sleep so that kid should be going back to school in the next few days
00:24:53.640 and a lot of people reach out because they wanted to help the kid because it's not it's not the fault
00:24:57.560 of the kid that they're in that situation right so that kid should be no there should be no judgment
00:25:02.200 for him and so i'm super happy that he's been able to get taken care of and hopefully that inspires more
00:25:07.320 people and more of these programs that receive millions of dollars to go and search for that next
00:25:11.720 kid because there's a lot of them out there in the streets now what do you make of the save act uh
00:25:18.360 is this something that i mean of course i believe needs to be done where are we kind of at in that
00:25:24.920 process yeah that needs to get done i'm interested to see what happens as far as if it gets passed and
00:25:31.160 then it gets signed by the president i mean how can somebody be against that it's so simple like we've
00:25:36.680 it's not even a hard argument to win i mean literally you have to get an id for everything else
00:25:42.200 why shouldn't you have to do it for the most important things inside of our government especially
00:25:46.280 in the federal election do you feel like maybe i guess asking you this since you've you've been
00:25:51.640 the one on the ground do you feel like voter fraud is really one of the only ways for democrats to win
00:26:02.680 well if you look at the states that kamala won they're all states that didn't require voter id
00:26:07.240 that's a good point it's a good point matt it would it will be very interesting when this gets
00:26:15.800 passed if it gets passed to see what happens in the next election to see the difference in the numbers
00:26:22.200 because i mean you have literally people voting
00:26:26.680 elon musk of course has been a big proponent of the save act and i know when you were on the show the
00:26:31.000 first time i was asking you about you know what sort of communication have you guys had uh i've seen
00:26:37.560 of course where he's tweeted about you about your work i saw where he tweeted recently saying you know
00:26:43.000 california does the most government fraud by far have you guys had any further communication at this
00:26:49.000 point no i have not he he uh does support on x i mean he'll sometimes he for instance he was shocked
00:26:56.520 that a dog was able to vote so he reshared that that a dog was able to vote but just a huge shout
00:27:01.800 out to him because he has all these businesses he's running yet he's also fighting for our freedoms
00:27:07.880 whether it be free speech or the right to have an open and fair election i mean that man is doing
00:27:12.280 a lot to help america and to help society all across the world just think about starlink and the
00:27:16.840 internet that he provides to millions of people that would not even have it yeah yeah no he's uh even
00:27:24.600 when we just had those um that big ice storm down in my home state of tennessee and nashville he sent
00:27:31.560 a bunch of those star links over uh to help people without power we there were i think more than a
00:27:36.600 hundred thousand homes without power for two weeks uh and so critical uh he really cares about the
00:27:43.560 american people as as you do of course uh and so i guess kind of final thoughts here as you sit
00:27:50.680 in the capitol this evening for the state of the union what is one i guess uncomfortable truth that
00:27:58.680 you hope your work forces all of america's politicians to finally acknowledge before the
00:28:04.760 next election yeah imagine if president trump says something about the fraud and everyone stood up which
00:28:11.000 won't happen but i think it's so obvious that what we're doing is exposing fraud and it's not a
00:28:17.320 a right or left issue i mean we're all trying to make america a better place and so if you're a
00:28:21.960 democrat you want to see less fraud you should want to see less fraud and if you're a republican you
00:28:26.360 should want to see less fraud as well so i think especially on an issue of fraud i think that's
00:28:29.720 something that everyone should be able to come together for and not make it a race issue or not
00:28:35.400 make it a democrat or republican issue but i think that's something very easy to come together for and
00:28:41.560 people have somehow made fraud controversial yeah you would certainly think because look it's not
00:28:47.320 just republicans money that's being used fraudulently it's all of our money and that should outrage
00:28:53.000 every single person and so as i said when you came on the first time god bless you thank you for
00:28:58.280 doing what you're doing uh for being willing to because it's scary when you're on the ground which is
00:29:03.800 something we talked about and maybe one more thing i'll ask you the security aspect of things uh have you
00:29:09.960 had more instances where i guess you were fearful for your safety yeah i think i mean sometimes you
00:29:17.000 just get some weird people uh you get some people have yelled at me in certain locations or people
00:29:23.880 come up to you and they'll say they'll say something and you'll know that they've been looking at you for
00:29:28.520 a while from a distance and so that's always a bit scarier just the fact that everywhere you go someone
00:29:34.440 knows you and how people try to make you out to be some bad person when you're really not you're just out
00:29:39.560 here literally providing service for the public yeah so i do have to have security what i'm out
00:29:44.280 about and especially in big cities that is so crazy to me um well god bless you thank you uh for being
00:29:53.960 willing to do the hard work we and i say we as in uh me and my family and the people i know in my life
00:30:00.360 but more broadly than that american voters who care about the future and the trajectory of our country
00:30:06.920 we thank you and i hope you enjoy the state of the union tonight thank you riley appreciate it