00:04:50.280Finally, of course, also went in through the protesters and we got a clip that's gone
00:04:57.380quite viral now of myself and Kevin driving through chanting a stand with ice.
00:05:02.780Now, so we saw that over the weekend and we're going to get into this latest from our field correspondent who was on the scene last night regarding leftists swarming and attacking a vehicle which had Nick Sorter and Cam Higby inside.
00:05:19.180I want to also mention, of course, what are we seeing in Iran?
00:27:40.440And look, I'm out here at the president's orders to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:27:46.060And Minneapolis-St. Paul is ground zero for this terrible fraud that's been perpetrated on the American people and the people of Minnesota.
00:27:55.040And we are going to figure out what happened, why it happened, how it happened, who made it happen.
00:28:00.520And we're going to try to recover the money.
00:28:02.880And we're going to keep it from happening again.
00:28:04.920We're going to use the launching pad here in Minnesota to go out to the other states to figure out, you know, this is not an isolated incident.
00:28:14.540may be the most egregious, but it is not isolated. And this fraud in the children's
00:28:21.120services and home health care, it's everywhere. So there was a number you threw out the other
00:28:26.060day. I saw Elon Musk shared it as well. 600 billion. Now that's you think that's government
00:28:30.600wide. So that's a general accounting office number, GAO. It's between 300, 600 billion.
00:28:36.880That is between one and two percent of GDP. So President Trump this week asked for he wants to flex up our military spending, five hundred billion dollars.
00:28:48.920We could cover the military spending that we need because all the neglect that happened under Biden, the forever wars that we've been in for 20 years.
00:28:58.840We can flex up our military spending if we could just stop the fraud.
00:29:02.140And so when you come down to Minneapolis specifically, the Minnesota area, one of the big announcements that we've heard is that you're going to take a geographic targeting for any of the money that's being sent overseas from this area.
00:29:17.580How does that work with banning it from people who are either if they're on assistance, if they're on welfare, if they're receiving it from taxpayer dollars?
00:29:24.460How does that work from the Treasury side?
00:29:26.280So, Jack, what we do at Treasury is we follow the money.
00:29:30.340We follow the money. And we put away the mafia, we put away the Mexican cartels, and now we are going to put away these Somali fraudsters and everyone who did this.
00:29:41.500Not only do we put them away, we stop the flow and we have recoveries.
00:29:45.160I was just in a forum with a group of legislators, law enforcement, and people with real children, special needs children's centers who have been affected by this.
00:29:57.140where the money stopped flowing but what we are doing is we're doing three things so we have a
00:30:03.620group called fincent the financial crimes enforcement network and we are going to
00:30:10.940examine four what are called money service businesses storefronts that wire money out
00:30:16.840they're outside the regulated banking system and we are going to do a deep dive on the four of them
00:30:22.520that we think have sent the most money out of the country we don't believe that they followed
00:30:27.080proper procedures and they could be shut down managements could be held liable
00:30:32.240we'll see what happens two we have something called a suspicious activity
00:30:37.020report the threshold is $10,000 we're gonna bring that way down same thing
00:30:42.800that we've done at the US Mexican border which is effectively stopped the cartels
00:30:47.360from laundering money so we're gonna stop that and then three for individuals
00:30:53.120who want to wire money out of the country they're gonna have to tick a
00:30:56.360box whether they are or not on public assistance and then we are going to start pushing over the
00:31:02.600coming days or weeks that if you were on public assistance you cannot wire money out of the
00:31:07.480country because if you were wiring money out of the country and you're on public assistance it
00:31:12.120means one of two things either you're getting too much assistance that you don't need it for
00:31:16.600yourself and your family the american people are generous to people who are seeking asylum here we
00:31:22.360do not intend to the support people in mogadishu or to support terrorist organizations or the second
00:31:30.360thing it could mean is you've stolen the money which is what we are seeing that prevailed here
00:31:34.840in minnesota now some of the money as well and i happen to be able to listen in to a part of the
00:31:41.320round table earlier that was held you mentioned that there are indications that some of this
00:31:46.040money laundering may have gone not only just to mogadishu somalia but actually troops like al
00:31:52.360shabab the youth i mean this is the group that was conducting the somali piracy off the coast
00:31:57.880of the horn africa yeah so uh look we we are in a continuing investigation we can't talk about
00:32:04.920what's happened but what i can tell you is the geographic locations in east africa
00:32:10.920match closely to the group you just mentioned.
00:32:15.020And as someone who served in the Navy, as someone who was in Navy intelligence,
00:32:19.580you know, we would track that obviously using the other side of the house on the Treasury sector.
00:32:24.940But I had no, it never even struck my mind that money could be actually become from the U.S. taxpayer
00:32:31.660and possibly going to a terrorist group overseas.
00:32:34.040Yeah, look, the amount of leakage in the system,
00:32:37.640and these cockroaches are very good at figuring out like where the leaks are
00:32:42.620how to how to exploit them and we're gonna shut it down because Jack there
00:32:47.400are two parts here there's the fraud that the money that was stolen how is
00:32:53.120the money stolen who stole the money we've got to stop that but then we also
00:32:56.840have to figure out just this funnel overseas and where's all that going a
00:33:02.200So part of it has gone to buy expensive cars, real estate in Kenya and Middle East,
00:33:11.180but part of it highly likely went to Al Shabbat and other terrorist groups.
00:33:15.760So could you imagine money that was meant for a Minneapolis or St. Paul daycare center
00:33:21.740is actually buying machine guns back overseas?
00:33:25.340Right, or for these kids with special needs, and you spoke to a number of them today,
00:33:29.900kids who absolutely do need some assistance and we as a country have
00:33:34.140always been willing to do so but unfortunately when you have people who
00:33:37.820come from cultures who don't respect that level of honor who don't respect
00:33:42.680those customs or have different customs and cultures of their own then they have
00:33:46.740no qualms whatsoever about taking that assistance well it was as Chris Rufo
00:33:51.260said in the roundtable today 1% of the people are committing 90% of the fraud
00:33:56.640and those are the local Somalis. Now, we're also here in Minneapolis. We're on the sidelines of
00:34:02.140this. I've just come from the federal building as well. Are you going to stop by there at all?
00:34:07.360I know that obviously you work with some of the organizations involving in immigration. That's
00:34:12.180the other big thing that's going on right now. ICE, CBP, everyone basically out of the federal
00:34:17.680building. They're under constant harassment right now. I saw with my own eyes these agitators
00:34:23.360creating human blockades in the street. They're creating vehicular blockades all throughout the
00:34:28.440city while ICE conducts these operations. We also know that there's funding for many of these
00:34:33.380organizations. Is Treasury able to come in using these same powers to look at the funding of these
00:34:39.340leftist organizations that are behind this? Jack, that is what we have started a few months ago.
00:34:47.100We are going to, again, what we do is we follow the money, and all of these agitators who are causing violence night after night, Portland, Minneapolis, the other locations, someone is funding them.
00:35:03.360When they have lasers that they blind DHS officers with, when they hold up all the same umbrellas, someone bought those umbrellas, and there is a money trail, and we are going to follow it.
00:35:16.260So Treasury through FinCEN can do that.
00:35:19.820IRS has a badass group called Criminal Investigators.
00:35:24.020Anybody watching your show who wants to join, we are going to try to add 50 percent,
00:35:29.480the more investigators, and they're great because they can look at financial fraud
00:35:34.680and they carry guns, they go out in the field, and they make arrests.
00:35:39.500And it was IRS Criminal Investigators who got to the initial fraud here
00:35:44.860because the state of Minnesota wasn't doing it.
00:35:47.640The corrupt Tim Walts wasn't doing it.
00:37:07.300They have people who teach them how to form LLCs.
00:37:12.080They teach them, you know, it's maybe they don't tell them be corrupt, but it is like handing a deranged person a gun.
00:37:21.040You know, you are showing them how to do it and they are doing it.
00:37:24.620And what is supposed to be relief and aid is now being turned into these businesses that just skim and skim and skim.
00:37:33.860And as we've seen, much of it ends up back in Democratic coffers, whether it's here, we'll see if it's elsewhere.
00:37:40.580And we here on Human Events, we've been tracking the Feeding Our Families fraud case for almost a year and a half now.
00:37:47.060And I believe there are almost up to 100 indictments in the course of that, as well as one where they actually tried to pay off a juror handing her suitcases full of money like it's some kind of movie.
00:37:58.820And this I got to say, you know, at least Minnesota nice played out in terms of that one because the juror actually reported it rather than taking the money.
00:38:06.120Jack, you want to hear the best part of that story is that we had the gentleman, the older gentleman who was out doing the door knocks on the centers with the citizen journalists.
00:38:15.860Right. That he had that woman had worked for him.
00:38:20.000She tried to steal $30,000 from him a month into working for him, and she just got a slap on the wrist.
00:40:55.340Because when you actually pull up the training materials, what does it say?
00:40:58.160It says disrupt operations, try to de-arrest.
00:41:02.120So the de-arrest tactic is when they swarm either an individual or a car and try to get
00:41:06.440them to stop the arrest, or they walk in there and they say they try to block vehicles, just like
00:41:13.240this crazed agitator was actually doing up there in Minneapolis that started all of this.
00:41:19.560They train them to do this. This is not a protest group. This is not First Amendment activity.
00:41:25.260And over the weekend, human events caught multiple instances of violence and rioting
00:41:30.420being done. This is clearly just Antifa under their latest name. And Secretary of Treasury,
00:41:35.740Scott Besson confirming for the first time ever to human events that they will be placed under investigation.
00:41:44.580Very excited now. Wanted to bring on Matt Schlapp, by the way, of CPAC.
00:41:49.840He's joining us, the American Conservative Union. Matt, how are you?
00:41:53.300Great to be with you, Jack. What a great conversation with Secretary Besson.
00:41:56.740I could have listened to that all day.
00:41:58.460Thank you. Thank you. No, I and I could have picked his brain even more all day talking about Minneapolis,
00:42:04.880the fraud, Somalis, and then going into investigating Antifa. I mean, isn't it so
00:42:10.580great now that we have an administration that's actually looking into the things that are directly
00:42:15.280focused on and directly affecting so many Americans? Yeah. So let me just give people
00:42:20.720a perspective. So Mercy, my wife, Mercy, and I, we met working for President Bush. And, you know,
00:42:27.360since Reagan, there was this idea that we knew something that was wrong with the federal
00:42:31.140government but we didn't quite know how to get rid of the stink and uh what republicans did when
00:42:36.540they got positions in past administrations is they knew that most of the federal grant money
00:42:41.940would be used for bad purposes and they did everything they could to get the accounts to
00:42:45.800at least be lower levels so that they would have to give less like stinky grants out and uh and
00:42:51.500this was the strategy over time it was a terrible strategy people knew that ngos and other
00:42:56.460nonprofits were using money in ways that was illegal or immoral or just disgusting. And it
00:43:03.700just got worse and worse and worse over time. The IGs in many of these departments became
00:43:10.380politicized as the FBI became politicized. And, you know, it's going to take somebody of Scott
00:43:15.740Besson's character to oversee the overhaul. And this is going to take some time. And let me tell
00:43:21.600We're going to find out some things that that will I don't know what's the euphemism that will curl our hair, because this I think is the tip of the iceberg.
00:43:33.640I wanted to talk about this because we've this is you've got this new report out, this ranking the CPAC is doing of freedom of speech country by country.
00:43:42.980And what better time for you guys to be putting this out, because we've just seen the news that the EU and potentially even Canada are now looking to block X because they don't like what Grok is doing.
00:43:55.020I'm not sure if you saw that headline this morning.
00:43:58.920The Western European democracies with the direction of Brussels are becoming enemies to freedom, not just when it comes to speech, but on all kinds of topics.
00:44:10.840and we've witnessed what the UK is doing in the crackdown of social media posts on Facebook and
00:44:17.800other places. Canada is a real surprise to some people, but one of the case studies we looked at
00:44:25.140is a father who was prosecuted for not accepting his child's gender transition surgeries and such.
00:44:34.580Think about that. A father can go to jail for advocating traditional idea that gender comes in two forms to the child.
00:44:45.240This is how insane things are getting.
00:44:47.840Most of the countries, interestingly, Jack, that you've traveled with us overseas where we have CPACs, have a pretty good track record.
00:44:54.900I mean, the one there are two undeniable themes to where it's the worst, even worse than Western Europe.
00:45:00.820And that's obviously under radicalized Islamic regimes and communist regimes.
00:45:06.860Places like South Korea, where a pastor was jailed for keeping his church open during COVID.
00:45:13.220They considered that political speech an illegal, you know, hate political speech.
00:45:19.160So, you know, America gets 100 in our rankings.
00:45:22.600And, you know, we're far from perfect.
00:45:26.640But like compared to the rest of the world, this idea of free speech that our founders had, it is really a disappearing right.
00:45:36.060Oh, it certainly is. I'm looking now. So Malaysia has blocked not all of X, but has blocked Grok.
00:45:43.540We're seeing that the EU and their Digital Services Act, which is this new really just complete taking control of X and possible ban that's coming up.
00:45:54.300Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU, saying that, and by the way, they're saying
00:45:58.680this because their claim, apparently, they're claiming that Grock has, because it has the
00:46:04.320ability to manipulate images, just like, I don't know, pretty much all of the, of these
00:46:10.500new AI features do, but because people have been using Grock to be able to turn pictures
00:46:16.100of people into pictures of bikinis, that that will then claim, or they're now claiming that
00:46:22.540that that breaks their deepfakes law and therefore they can ban all of X.
00:46:27.120And I'm not joking because this is Ursula.
00:46:29.140I'm looking at Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission.
00:46:32.240Matt, is that what they're really cared about?
00:46:34.600Or they're actually caring about controlling speech in these countries?
00:46:47.220America's going to have to figure that out, too.
00:46:49.160I think that that is a brave new world.
00:46:52.540Political speech ain't too new, and it's not too brave to try to crack down on those people who criticize you.
00:46:59.600Look, John Adams tried to do that in America.
00:47:01.620I think it was the Alien and Sedition Acts for journalists who he said were lying about him, and that proved to be very unpopular and I think unconstitutional at the time.
00:47:15.100Politicians always want to have favorable media coverage, and even in Hungary and all the leftists say,
00:47:23.900I love it, Jack, when they say he rigs his elections.
00:47:26.340I always say, I didn't think an election could be rigged, but he doesn't rig his elections and he doesn't rig the communication structure within his society.
00:47:34.220What he did do is allow other conservative forms of media to grow and blossom, and about 50 percent of the news outlets in Hungary are thus so.
00:47:44.900But most of all the other travels I do throughout Europe, you can count the conservative outlets on one hand.
00:47:52.360And, you know, 80, 90 percent of the outlets are Brussels focused or globalist or China funded.