In Minneapolis, where the state government of Minnesota seems to be threatening the federal government under Tim Walz, the rhetoric of the left with regard to ICE keeps ratcheting up, and the latest in Iran, plus we re joined by the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright.
00:00:00.000Alrighty, we'll get to the latest in Minneapolis, where the state government of Minnesota seems to be threatening the federal government under Tim Wall's astonishing stuff.
00:00:08.000The rhetoric of the left with regard to ICE keeps ratcheting up.
00:00:11.000And the latest in Iran, plus, we're joined by the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright.
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00:01:16.000So, the situation in Minnesota continues to roil.
00:01:20.000We are looking at the very real possibility of a standoff between the state government led by Tim Walz, the former vice presidential candidate under Kamala Harris and current governor, who just had to step away from a third-term run in Minnesota because of all of the allegations of fraud with which he was caught up.
00:01:39.000A standoff between that government and the federal government.
00:01:42.000That is something now being pushed very hard by Tim Walz, even as new details emerge as to who is behind the Minneapolis ICE resistance movement.
00:01:51.000And new details emerge about Renee Goode, who is the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE officer while apparently in the process of either attempting to escape ICE or to possibly run down an officer who was essentially on the front left bumper of her vehicle.
00:02:07.000According to the New York Post, Renee Goode, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE warrior and was part of a group of activists who worked to document and resist the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, according to the New York Post.
00:02:20.000Now, of course, obstruction of the law enforcement community in its pursuit of the enforcement of law is in and of itself a crime.
00:02:28.000Good moved to the city last year, linked up with anti-ICE activists through her six-year-old son's Woke Charter School, which boasts that it puts social justice first and prioritizes, quote, involving kids in political and social activism.
00:02:40.000So, I mean, number one, if you decide that you need to give up your life in pursuit of mildly hindering ICE in finding illegal immigrants from Somalia and deporting them, and you have a child at home, these are bad life decisions.
00:02:56.000Truly, a mother named Lisa, whose child attends the same school, said she was a warrior.
00:03:04.000I watched the video plenty of times, but I also know in my heart, the woman she was, she was doing everything right.
00:03:09.000Well, again, I think it's very difficult to make the case that she was doing everything right when this happened.
00:03:15.000The very least, resisting law enforcement is a foolish move.
00:03:20.000And again, this seems to me more like a tragedy than like a quote-unquote act of terror by the woman who was driving the car by Renee Good.
00:03:29.000With that said, when you resist the police and when you create a situation in which the officer has a reasonable perception that you are trying to run him down with your motor vehicle, you getting shot is a predictable outcome of this thing.
00:03:41.000Goode and her wife Rebecca Forty were raising the boy together in the mostly working-class, activist-heavy neighborhood of South Minneapolis, which features tree-lined streets and a large number of homes with windows decked out in LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign flags or signs depicting George Floyd.
00:03:56.000Just as many others did in the lefty enclave, Good sends her son to a place called Southside Family Charter School, according to the New York Post.
00:04:02.000That is a K through 5 academy opened in 1972 that from its inception has been unabashedly dedicated to social justice education, according to the co-founder, a person named Susie Oppenheim.
00:04:13.000So she became involved in something called Ice Watch, which is a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE operations in the city.
00:04:22.000Apparently, current event topics like the killing of George Floyd were regular parts of the curriculum.
00:04:26.000Last month, students took a field trip where they learned about Aboriginal issues, a reference to the Indigenous people of faraway Australia.
00:04:35.000So apparently, she was trained, quote, against these ICE agents, what to do, what not to do.
00:04:41.000ICE Watch and adjacent groups can also turn confrontational with numerous instances of activists ramming agents with their cars in the past.
00:04:50.000So, yes, this person was, in fact, a radical activist.
00:04:58.000And she was a stay-at-home mother of three who dabbled in poetry.
00:05:03.000And this is being portrayed by the media as having very little to do with activism, but apparently it has an awful lot to do with activism.
00:05:10.000The New York Post also has a report today on who is behind the Minneapolis ICE resistance movement.
00:05:17.000According to the New York Post, radical leftist groups, including one financed with $7.8 million from wait for it, progressive billionaire George Soros are behind the anti-ICE protests in Minnesota.
00:05:28.000Indivisible Twin Cities, which describes itself as a grassroots group of volunteers, has led many of the protests against ICE raids in Minnesota.
00:05:38.000And that is an offshoot of something called the Indivisible Project in Washington, D.C., which is a movement to defeat the Trump agenda, according to the Open Society Foundation, which granted it something close to $8 million.
00:05:48.000That group was also behind the recent protests in favor of Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela and the No Kings demonstrations against the Trump administration throughout the country last year.
00:05:57.000Again, there seems to be some contradiction between no kings and also yes, Venezuelan dictators.
00:06:03.000Other protest leaders include, wait for it, the Council on American Islamic Relations, an anti-Israel group whose Minnesota chapter's executive director, Jaylani Hussein, has railed against ICE at protests.
00:06:15.000And the coalition of people who believe that Western civilization must be torn out by its roots is quite strong.
00:06:22.000It continues to march the scavengers that I talk about in my book.
00:06:29.000Well, as all of this happens, the FBI is making the point that this is a federal issue, that because the ICE officer involved was a federal officer, federal law enforcement preempts state law enforcement issues.
00:06:42.000And so, according to the Wall Street Journal, Minnesota law enforcement officials said on Thursday the FBI blocked them from participating in an investigation into the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent, intensifying the dispute between the state and federal government over the death.
00:06:55.000Minnesota Governor Tim Walz denounced the FBI, saying any probe that doesn't include state law enforcement cannot be trusted.
00:07:01.000I mean, I think it's fair to say that the opposite is also true.
00:07:04.000Any probe that includes a state law enforcement apparatus run by Tim Walz, who has already effectively declared this murder, is not going to be a relevant or useful piece of law enforcement.
00:07:17.000That any investigative body answerable to Tim Walz, who presided over the burning down of his own major city, Minneapolis in 2020, over what I believe to be a fraudulent take on the George Floyd death.
00:07:31.000I don't really trust Tim Walz on that very much.
00:07:34.000Walls has obviously been upping the ante.
00:07:37.000He continues over and over and over to use extraordinary language with regard to ICE.
00:07:44.000Yesterday, he announced that he would be staging the Minnesota National Guard.
00:07:50.000He put out a press statement: quote: Governor Tim Walz has authorized the Minnesota National Guard to be staged and ready to support local and state law enforcement in protecting critical infrastructure and maintaining public safety following a shooting involving federal immigration enforcement agents in South Minneapolis.
00:08:07.000Now, will the National Guard be protecting infrastructure from rioters or are they there to obstruct ICE in their performance of their federal duties?
00:08:15.000That's a question because of the way that Walls is talking.
00:08:18.000Of course, the latter would be a crime.
00:08:21.000Walls said, Minnesotans have met the moment.
00:08:23.000Thousands of people have peacefully made their voices heard.
00:08:28.000We have every reason to believe that the peace will hold.
00:08:30.000Yesterday, I directed the National Guard to be ready should all of this be needed.
00:08:33.000By the way, Minnesota actually canceled classes.
00:08:37.000They actually canceled school in Minneapolis because of this, which is fairly incredible that a controversial shooting involving an activist who appears to have been aiming her car at an ICE agent at the very least clipped the ICE agent before being shot, that that results in kids being released from school.
00:08:59.000Because they're so afraid of riots and that that's going to take over the schools?
00:09:22.000The officer himself, apparently, was transported to a nearby hospital, was later released.
00:09:28.000Christy Noam said that the agent involved had already been rammed by a car in a previous encounter, pointing out that ICE alone is facing a 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats against ICE agents.
00:09:44.000In fact, DHS put out an entire list with evidence of the various attacks and assaults that have been performed on ICE agents.
00:09:54.000Earlier this year, a Trendar Aragua suspect rammed law enforcement, a vehicle into a tree.
00:10:00.000There are two separate vehicular assaults in Chicago.
00:10:05.000They're put out by the Department of Homeland Security.
00:10:08.000An ICE officer was hit with a car, nearly crushing him.
00:10:11.000If you go back to September of last year, a sniper, as you'll recall, attacked an ICE facility in Dallas.
00:10:19.000So something quite dangerous is happening.
00:10:22.000When you create a permission structure that suggests that ICE is the problem, when you create that permission structure and you say that they are the Gestapo, that they are evil, that they are Nazis, then it shouldn't be a gigantic surprise when people start treating them as such and violence increases.
00:10:41.000Now, in the midst of all of this, the agent who is involved is actually unmasked online.
00:10:46.000You want to know why ICE agents are masked?
00:10:48.000The reason is because their lives come under threat thanks to actions like this.
00:10:53.000So the ICE agent apparently was unmasked, which puts his life at risk for sure.
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00:12:13.000And the Democrats just cannot stop upping the ante.
00:12:16.000So yesterday, Tim Walz, again, the governor of Minnesota, who right now is in a world of hurt politically because of that Somali fraud.
00:12:23.000Remember, this ICE activity was initiated based on reports of not only Somali fraud, but illegal immigrants from Somalia engaged in fraud.
00:12:32.000Tim Walz compared this moment to the Civil War.
00:12:37.000If you send ICE to enforce arrest warrants against criminals in the country, Tim Walz says it's now a civil war.
00:12:45.000When things looked really bleak, it was Minnesota first that held that line for the nation on that July 3rd, 1863.
00:12:54.000And I think now we may be in that moment that the nation's looking to us to hold the line on democracy, to hold the line on decency, to hold the line on accountability, and more than that, to rise up as neighbors and simply say, we can look out for one another.
00:13:14.000But we've proved to the world going on 250 years that our democracy could hold.
00:13:19.000It feels to me like we're at one of those inflection points.
00:13:22.000It's an inflection point, like a civil war inflection point.
00:13:25.000Now, one of the things that I've said many, many times is that when you have high-level politicians talking this way about the country, it is very bad for the country.
00:13:42.000These sorts of things from political leaders turn into self-perpetuating prophecies.
00:13:47.000They turn into self-fulfilling prophecies because the more people believe that they can't get along with their neighbors and that there is no basis for a common Americanism, the more they are likely to see each other as enemies and not just sometimes political opponents.
00:14:02.000Yesterday, Tim Walz called for a moment of silence, which is to take place today.
00:14:06.000And of course, use some pretty charged language.
00:14:10.000In Minnesota, I'm declaring tomorrow at 10 a.m. on January 9th.
00:14:15.000I'd ask everyone to pause for a moment of silence to remember Renee Good, also to remember all that's good and right about this nation.
00:14:24.000And I'm going to ask folks, if they can, I'd ask employers to give their people some space.
00:14:29.000I'd ask each and everyone to find a way to contribute in your community.
00:14:32.000It might be shuffling your neighbor's walk.
00:14:36.000It might be pausing to talk to someone you haven't talked to before, but to show the goodness to rise up, to make sure that we're being very, very clear about this, that we expect our constitutional rights to be respected, that law enforcement is local, that we expect accountability of our elected leaders, and that we are not going to go quietly.
00:14:56.000And we're not going to give up on those things that matter so much to us.
00:15:00.000And Chief amongst those is human dignity, respect, rule of law, all of the things that we know make this country great.
00:15:08.000I mean, this sort of bizarre Orwellian language that Tim Walz is using right there, he moves very quickly from, you know, we should take this moment of silence to go work at a food bank or talk to someone you've never talked to before.
00:15:19.000From there to, we need to respect the rule of law while overtly holding a moment of silence for a person who at the very least was involved in obstruction of the performance of law.
00:15:29.000When he says that law enforcement must be local, what he means is that federal law enforcement shouldn't do its job.
00:15:35.000And when he says that we should rise up, which is language that he uses right there in that video, when he says that we have an obligation to stand up for our constitutional rights, you do not have a constitutional right to be in this country illegally, nor do you have a constitutional right to thwart federal law enforcement in its pursuit of criminal illegal immigrants and their deportation.
00:15:56.000You do not have a right to do any of those things.
00:15:59.000All of this is part and parcel, of course, of Tim Walz' broader agenda, which is to label ICE Gestapo, which is what he did last year.
00:16:06.000Here he was in May of 2025, the governor of Minnesota.
00:16:10.000Donald Trump's modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets.
00:16:15.000They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons.
00:16:20.000No chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.
00:16:28.000To be clear, there's no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not because they refused to give them a trial.
00:16:35.000We're supposed to just take their word for it.
00:16:40.000Again, that was him in 2025, comparing ICE to the Gestapo.
00:16:43.000And then you wonder why people are out there confronting ICE.
00:16:47.000And when you put people in a moral position where they feel they must confront federal law enforcement and do it over and over and over again, basic rule.
00:16:56.000The more people are confronting law enforcement, the more there will be bad situations that emerge from those confrontations.
00:17:06.000And again, listening to Tim Walz talk about morality is kind of astonishing considering that just last year, he was saying that China might be the global moral authority, a true authoritarian state.
00:17:26.000I think there's a lot of people that say you always leaned one way in this, but I think there was at least an attempt to be somewhat of the arbitrator in this.
00:17:34.000We saw President Carter do it with Begin and Sadat.
00:17:37.000We've had certain wins along the way that were actually mutually beneficial both ways.
00:17:56.000So that person is the person who's now the moral authority talking about authoritarianism.
00:18:00.000And remember, he presided over the riots in 2020 that shut down not only the city, but a large part of the country because he was unable to handle basic law enforcement function in his state.
00:18:13.000Meanwhile, the mayor of Minneapolis, who's been similarly outrageous, he told ICE to get the F out of here, which, of course, as the mayor of a city, you do not have the law enforcement power to do.
00:18:25.000And then he suggested that Renee Good had been murdered, which again, even if you wanted to take the pro-Rene Good side of this equation, the claim that it wasn't at least disputed is insane.
00:18:36.000You can watch that tape and you can come away with varying interpretations.
00:18:39.000The point I made yesterday is that it is not about the intent of Renee Good when she is driving the car, whether or not the officer is prosecuted.
00:18:47.000It is about the intent of the officer and his reasonable perception that there is a deadly threat to his life.
00:18:53.000And again, all of that presumably will be investigated.
00:18:56.000There will be investigations held into where the shots were fired from.
00:18:59.000Were they fired from the front of the car?
00:19:00.000Were they fired from the side of the car?
00:19:02.000Which matters because presumably, if you fire from the front of the car while you are theoretically being run over, maybe there's an imminent danger of deadly threat if you're now to the side of the car.
00:19:46.000I've been coming to grips with my own brokenness in this situation, my own failures, my own storm coming, and I know there needs to be dealing with the feelings of how the department operates.
00:20:02.000The systemic erases system needs to be revamped.
00:20:53.000But what Jacob Fry says here is truly insane.
00:20:57.000Quote: The Trump administration's false narrative about this week's shooting and the demonization of the victim are only part of a bigger lie.
00:21:03.000It wants the American public to believe that ICE's heavily militarized crackdown across this country is an effort to keep cities like Minneapolis safe.
00:21:11.000It is about vilifying not just immigrants, but all who welcome them and their contributions to our communities.
00:21:17.000By defending the lie about this clearly avoidable shooting in Minneapolis, the administration is sending a message to the entire country.
00:21:23.000If you show up for your immigrant neighbors or even are simply present when those neighbors are taken, your rights will not be protected by the law and your life will be at risk.
00:22:41.000If they do not abide by federal law, then presumably they will be prosecuted.
00:22:47.000The governor of California wrote, his administration has driven extremism and cruelty while discarding basic safeguards and accountability.
00:22:53.000Now, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen is dead.
00:22:55.000Again, ignoring the circumstances of the death are key to this.
00:22:59.000I've said that I think that this is a confused and confusing situation.
00:23:03.000I don't think it's absolutely 100% clear-cut what Renee Good was trying to do.
00:23:07.000I do think that there is a very, very good case that the officer had a reasonable and objective fear for his life when he fired the shot.
00:23:15.000They killed her, the shots that killed her.
00:23:18.000But ignoring that what she was doing, why she was there in the first place, makes it sound as though ICE broke down Renee Good's door and just shot her in her living room.
00:24:33.000The notion that is now being promoted by apparently every major Democrat that ICE never should have been in Minneapolis in the first place in order to, again, effectuate federal law with regard to immigration is crazy.
00:25:18.000The mayor and I will stand together and reject any efforts to try and militarize our streets, but they never should have been in Minneapolis in the first place.
00:25:28.000Why should they never have been in Minneapolis in the first place?
00:25:35.000But again, this is all part and parcel of a broader left-wing argument that we are now living under a dictatorship, which, of course, is not even remotely true.
00:25:43.000Because if we were, Tim Walz would not be doing what he's doing.
00:26:34.000And then you wonder why people are ramming cars into ICE agents because you're telling them.
00:26:38.000You are telling them that they are a threat to your family.
00:26:41.000You are telling these people that ICE is a threat to Americans' families.
00:26:45.000And we've talked about permission structures for violence.
00:26:47.000We've talked about it over and over again on the show, particularly since the death of Charlie Kirk.
00:26:51.000We've talked about there are specific ideologies that lead to an increase in violence.
00:26:56.000Those ideologies posit that there is some sort of conspiratorial force out to get you, that there is specific danger to you and people like you, and that the only way to prevent that force from harming you is to preemptively harm them.
00:27:09.000And there are certain ideologies that are caught up in this.
00:27:14.000That is why it took a person who is pro-trans radicalism, apparently, to shoot Charlie.
00:27:19.000Okay, well, the same thing is true here.
00:27:22.000If you keep saying over and over and over that ICE is not just a threat to illegal immigrants, which of course it is because that is their job, but that it is a threat to all Americans, that they are here to promote violence, that they are here to threaten you just for walking down the street, according to Jacob Fry.
00:27:40.000That if you're on the very street where something is happening with ICE, you have to be afraid for your life.
00:27:44.000Why are you possibly wondering why people are trying to assassinate ICE officers?
00:27:51.000And all Democrats have to do, all they have to do is suggest that the way that President Trump is going about enforcing federal immigration law is over-the-top, unspecific, and blunderbuss.
00:28:04.000If I were going to try to steelman the Democratic position, a position with which I disagree, the case that I would be making is President Trump should be focusing in on true threats to the American people, meaning criminal, illegal immigrants, until he gets rid of all the criminal illegal immigrants deploying large-scale ICE raids to go and get people who are participating in welfare fraud should not be top, top, top priority.
00:28:27.000Yes, they should be deported, but that can be done in a less militant way or a less obvious way.
00:28:33.000And it's less effective if you actually show up en masse to do this sort of stuff.
00:28:40.000Now, I don't think it's a particularly strong case, but that is a case that you can make.
00:28:43.000You can make the case that the Trump administration has been too overt in its sort of propagandizing on behalf of the joys of deportations, refusing to acknowledge the pain of people, right?
00:28:57.000This is something that Democrats typically say about law enforcement.
00:29:01.000You'd be wrong, but that's at least an argument.
00:29:03.000But making the case that ICE itself is a threat to the American way of life because they are doing their jobs is crazy, crazy and dangerous.
00:29:13.000Well, Christy Noam over at the Department of Homeland Security, she made clear again that if people try to attack police officers or ICE officers, they will be prosecuted.
00:29:23.000We are warning anyone, if you think you can harm an individual, a citizen of the United States, or a law enforcement officer, we will find you and bring you to justice.
00:29:32.000If you lay a finger on one of our officers, we will catch you, we will prosecute you, and you will feel the full extent of the law.
00:29:41.000So, again, that's what law enforcement should do, obviously.
00:29:45.000JD Vancevice, President of the United States, has been taking a lead role in combating a lot of the rhetoric coming from the left over ICE.
00:29:52.000So, yesterday, he said that the video is clear and then he slammed the media for its coverage.
00:29:58.000The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.
00:30:09.000What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very off ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg.
00:30:19.000So, you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile?
00:30:24.000What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America.
00:30:32.000What that headline leaves out is that that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.
00:30:43.000If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left-wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques to try to make it impossible for the president of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws.
00:31:04.000We stand with all of our law enforcement officers.
00:31:07.000Again, I think that a huge part of that is true.
00:31:11.000When he says nobody debates that she was aiming the car at the officer, that's under debate because it's possible that she was trying to avoid the officer, but she did hit the officer with the car.
00:31:19.000She nudged the officer at the very least with the front bumper of the car on tape.
00:31:25.000The vice president also went off on Tim Walz.
00:31:28.000Our very own Mary Margaret Olihan asked him the question over in the White House pressroom.
00:31:34.000I wanted to read a quote from Tim Wallace earlier today.
00:31:36.000He said, when things looked bleak, it was Minnesota's first that held the line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863.
00:31:43.000And I think we may be in that moment now.
00:31:45.000Can you comment on his rhetoric and Mayor Jacob Fry and whether they want to see unrest in Minneapolis?
00:31:50.000Well, it's very tough rhetoric from a guy who just quit because his fraudulent activities have been uncovered.
00:31:57.000His entire administration has been a joke.
00:31:59.000The idea that he's some sort of freedom fighter, he's not.
00:32:02.000He's a guy who has enabled fraud and maybe, in fact, has participated in fraud.
00:32:05.000That's what this new assistant attorney general position is going to find out.
00:32:10.000Hey, so again, if the two polarized positions here are Democrats say all law enforcement bad and Republicans say, well, this lady was violating the law and was aiming her car at the police officer.
00:32:24.000Again, it is amazing to me that Democrats are going to take the law enforcement is bad position.
00:32:58.000I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it's a tragedy of her own making and a tragedy of the far left who has marshaled an entire movement, a lunatic fringe against our law enforcement officers.
00:33:14.000Again, the vice president is not wrong here.
00:33:17.000Well, again, a lot of this is also tied up in what's going on in terms of the fraud cases in Minnesota.
00:33:22.000The reason that Tim Walz is going so hard here is because Tim Walz just had to step away from his third term run because of the fraud in which he has been caught up, a fraud largely emanating from the Somali community, which of course is the community at issue in these immigration raids from ICE.
00:33:38.000Again, all of this is tied up with the massive fraud scandal that has engulfed the state of Minnesota.
00:33:44.000According to Scott Besant, the IRS has uncovered somewhere between $300 and $600 billion in fraud on a national level at this point.
00:33:54.000We are going to hold people accountable.
00:33:57.000We're going to press this to the full extent possible.
00:34:03.000And like I said, I think that this may just be, it's a cold day outside, so this could be the tip of the iceberg here in Minnesota, but it's probably may not be as prevalent, but the dollars may be bigger and larger in other states.
00:34:19.000Yeah, Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, also is now going to use mechanisms for cutting down on fraud to cut down on remittances if you're on public assistance.
00:34:28.000The idea being if you're receiving welfare, you shouldn't take American taxpayer dollars that are meant to help you and then send those over to al-Shabaab in Somalia.
00:34:37.000If a certain amount of money gets wired, We're lowering that to 3,000.
00:34:44.000And we're also targeting the two counties here.
00:34:47.000And we're going to do enhanced surveillance.
00:34:50.000And from now on, anyone who wires money out from one of these money service businesses has to check a box saying whether they are on public assistance.
00:35:00.000And if you are on public assistance, we are going to start pushing that you cannot wire money out of the country.
00:35:09.000And the Department of Homeland Security, by the way, has now unleashed investigators to go door to door collecting evidence and investigating fraud in Minneapolis and across the country, according to their ex-account.
00:35:20.000The Trump administration will follow the law and is not afraid to use denaturalization and deportation.
00:35:24.000If you're complicit in defrauding the American people, they say your days are numbered.
00:35:28.000Fraud is the thing that is lying at the root of an enormous amount of this.
00:35:31.000The vice president, JD Vance, he said yesterday that there will be the creation of a new assistant attorney general dedicated specifically to prosecution of fraud.
00:35:41.000We have over 1,500 subpoenas that the Department of Justice has issued to get to the heart of the fraud ring.
00:35:47.000We've done almost 100 indictments, mostly Somali immigrants, but also a few others.
00:35:52.000And of course, we're looking in with broad investigatory authority to a number of the instances of wrongdoing that we've seen in Minneapolis.
00:36:03.000We know that the fraud isn't just happening in Minneapolis.
00:36:05.000It's also happening in states like Ohio.
00:36:07.000It's happening in states like California.
00:36:10.000And so what we're doing in order to help coordinate this remarkable interagency effort from the Trump administration, but also to make sure that we prosecute the bad guys and do it as swiftly and efficiently as possible, is we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud.
00:36:33.000Apparently, according to KSTP.com as well, Minnesota DHS employees backdated and created documentation in a behavioral health grant program.
00:36:41.000Fraud in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, this sort of stuff is incredibly, incredibly common.
00:36:48.000The Equality Learning Center, which of course was the center of a huge amount of ire, given the video from Nick Shirley that went essentially door to door to these various daycare facilities that he claimed were defrauding the Minnesotan taxpayer.
00:37:03.000Apparently, they have now closed officially.
00:37:04.000That would be the Quality Learning Center.
00:37:06.000You remember that their sign was missing an N. Quality Learing Center closed on Tuesday, according to the Minnesota Department of Human Services licensing records.
00:37:15.000And they're unable to reopen without reapplying for a license, apparently.
00:37:22.000The biggest problem for Democrats, what's amazing, truly, if you're a Democrat and if you believe in bigger government spending, more welfare, more taxpayer money flowing from certain people to other people, you should hate fraud, right?
00:37:35.000You should be very anti-fraud because fraud totally undermines your program.
00:37:39.000Fraud means that the money that you want to go to this poor person is instead going to this person who is buying himself a Mercedes.
00:37:46.000Fraud means that the money that you are saying to the taxpayer, we are taking from you to give to this other person who's poor, that money is not going to the poor guy.
00:37:54.000It's going to somebody who's bilking you.
00:37:56.000They should be the angriest about fraud.
00:37:58.000In the same way, if I found out that someone was embezzling from our company, I would be very, very, very angry as an owner of the company.
00:38:05.000If you are a Democrat and you quote unquote own the government, you should be upset about people embezzling, which is what that is, from the government.
00:38:12.000And yet, Democrats are very, very defensive about fraud.
00:38:15.000They seem not to care very much about fraud.
00:38:17.000In fact, they seem to facilitate the fraud in many cases, which is totally crazy.
00:38:21.000Unless you believe that the fraud is sort of the point, that the way that they want to spread money around is corrupt.
00:38:29.000Because otherwise they should be angry, right?
00:38:31.000They should be the first in line to say fraudsters need to be prosecuted.
00:38:34.000They should be deploying law enforcement themselves to crack down on the fraud.
00:38:55.000Along those lines, have you asked anyone to follow up on the fraud claims either to the Department of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs or SPE?
00:39:05.000And again, I think one of the reasons they don't want to look into the fraud is because an inherent part of growing the government this big and making it this intrusive is more fraud, is more fraud.
00:39:16.000New York, by the way, is talking about initiating larger programs, larger programs that will be replete with even more fraud.
00:39:23.000So Kathy Hochul and Zorn Mamdani have announced a plan to make New York child care universal.
00:39:31.000Mamdani, by the way, says that he wants to focus specifically on home-based providers.
00:39:35.000Okay, home-based providers, that would be like you pay somebody in their home to stay in their home to care for children, or you hire grandma to care for the kids or whatever.
00:39:44.000This is a system that is begging for fraud, begging for it.
00:39:48.000Here is Zor Mamdani happy to facilitate the defrauding of the taxpayer.
00:39:54.000Not only will we make pre-K truly universal, but expand this care to include all two and three-year-olds across the city.
00:40:06.000As the governor said, we will deliver to care by working in partnership with child care providers, especially home-based providers.
00:40:17.000They're very excited about the home-based providers because you know how hard it is to monitor that?
00:40:21.000It's almost impossible to monitor home-based providers that you're sponsoring with welfare dollars because they're in the home.
00:40:31.000By the way, there was a report released in August 2024 in New York in which the state comptroller Thomas D'Anapoli revealed that over the past couple of decades, audits of private preschool special education providers, that is a minor, like tiny subset of child care providers, identified $113 million in mismanaged or fraudulent expenses.
00:40:51.000The federal government alleges billions of dollars in mismanagement and fraud here, which would not be surprising in the slightest.
00:40:58.000Meanwhile, Kathy Hochul says New York is going to spend $4.5 billion on childcare.
00:41:03.000How much of that is going to flow to actual childcare?
00:41:05.000And how much of that is going to flow to people who are defrauding the system?
00:41:10.000Oh, this year we're committing an additional $1.7 billion in what we call recurring spending, something my budget director hates, but meaning we're committed.
00:41:20.000And so that means our total child care investment this year will be $4.5 billion in the state of New York.
00:41:30.000And by the way, she's going to have to tap existing funding because she doesn't want to increase the taxes.
00:41:34.000So we'll see how that works out for her.
00:41:36.000And according to the New York Times, if and when the funding is secured, the city and state would have to tackle an enormous operational challenge that would involve hiring and training scores of teachers and constructing a high-quality, unified system out of a scattered existing network of child care providers in schools, daycare centers, and private homes.
00:41:52.000But he says that he wants more private homes involved.
00:42:01.000Hochul wants to spend an additional nearly $2 billion on the expansion plan.
00:42:07.000And this is just going to spread the fraud like wildfire.
00:42:11.000It is what it's going to satisfy people who will then create, you would imagine, unions to built the taxpayer of even more money.
00:42:19.000And state growth cannot happen without high levels of fraud.
00:42:23.000And that is one of the reasons why people are very against even investigating fraud in blue states, where they should be, again, the most in favor of cracking down on fraud.
00:42:32.000Well, meanwhile, on the international front, protests in Iran have continued to roil the country.
00:42:38.000In fact, the Iranian government apparently shut down the internet last night entirely, which is usually a cover for them massacring people.
00:42:46.000Large-scale protests are an amazing thing, but if they don't materialize in terms of actual power, then we've seen this show before where the Iranian government simply goes out in the streets and starts murdering people willy-nilly.
00:42:57.000It happened back in 2009 under Barack Obama.
00:43:00.000Would not be a shock to see something like that happen again.
00:43:02.000President Trump has made clear he does not want to see that happen again.
00:43:06.000Yesterday, he was on with Hugh Hewitt, and he said that Iran knows that if they engage in this sort of slaughter of people, that the United States will, in fact, stop them from doing that.
00:43:16.000As you know, probably better than anybody, they're doing very poorly.
00:43:20.000And I have let them know that if they start killing people, which they tend to do during their riots, they have lots of riots.
00:43:27.000If they do it, we're going to hit them very hard.
00:43:31.000Now, President Trump was asked also by Hugh Hewitt about meeting with Reza Pahlavi, who is the son of the former Shah, and he has sort of taken a very public position as the protest leader.
00:43:42.000Again, it's unclear how many of the protesters there are supportive of the return of a shadow or whether it is an entirely different movement.
00:43:49.000Trump himself says that's not really the issue.
00:43:51.000The issue here is the protests themselves.
00:43:55.000Would you meet with Crown Prince Padlai, who is the heir to the constitutional monarchy?
00:44:03.000He would be a symbolic ruler like King Charles.
00:44:07.000Well, I've watched him, and he seems like a nice person, but I'm not sure that it would be appropriate at this point to do that as president.
00:44:15.000I think that we should let everybody go out there and we see who emerges.
00:44:21.000I'm not sure necessarily that it would be an appropriate thing to do.
00:44:27.000President Trump did say that he is following closely what has been happening in Iran and that if Iran goes out and starts shooting people in the streets, that there will be consequences to that.
00:44:37.000In the past, they've started shooting the hell out of people, and all of a sudden, people without any weapons whatsoever are standing there and you have machine guns gunning them down.
00:44:47.000Or they take them to prisons and then hang them and kill them.
00:45:53.000Nobody's ever seen anything like what's happening right now.
00:45:57.000Now, again, it may be that those protests turn into a full-scale regime change.
00:46:01.000It may also be that you require somebody in the IRGC, in the Iranian echelon, to end the Ayatollah's rule.
00:46:08.000It is true that if there were some sort of security umbrella provided by the West to prevent protesters from being mowed down in the streets, that would fundamentally change the game.
00:46:15.000Presumably, that is why Ayatollah Khomeini is lashing out at President Trump.
00:46:19.000He gave a speech last night in the middle of the internet blackout, in which he essentially told the Iranians that President Trump is the bad guy, which is something Iranians do not believe as a general rule.
00:46:30.000His hands are stained with the blood of over 1,000 of Iranians The 12-day war over 1,000 people from apart from generals, scientists, and others, from masses of people, they were martyred.
00:46:59.000So he admitted that his hands stained the blood of Iranians.
00:47:05.000But he's claimed that he supports the Iranian people and a number of people without experience that do not pay attention, without vigilance, believe what he says and acts according to his will.
00:47:21.000Well, of course, the Israeli operation last year was designed to defenestrate the Iranian nuclear facilities.
00:47:26.000It was a highly targeted operation directed at the IRGC in particular, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:47:31.000Khomeini, in those remarks, said Trump should mind his own business.
00:47:35.000We will not tolerate protesters serving foreign interests.
00:47:37.000Now, what's amazing is that these protesters are, in fact, not propped up by foreign interests.
00:47:41.000These protesters are apparently in the millions out there protesting in the streets against the Iranian regime that has been unable not only to provide security, but unable to provide even water and power.
00:47:52.000Here is some of the video from the protests.
00:47:55.000This would have been the night before last.
00:47:59.000You can see these are massive, massive protests.
00:48:03.000In fact, in one city called Kharimabad, the lion and sun flag, which was the flag of the Iranian government prior to the takeover of the country by the Ayatollah, was raised in Haramabad in Luristan province.
00:48:21.000So we may be on the verge of something major.
00:48:23.000And then again, it may be that the Iranians roll out the guns and start mowing people down and the West doesn't respond, which would be true to the West form over the course of the last several decades.
00:48:35.000Meanwhile, the United States continues to pursue a change of policy in Venezuela.
00:48:42.000Obviously, the goal is to have the existing structure in Venezuela change its behavior, leading to elections.
00:48:50.000Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessant was speaking at the Minnesota Economic Club, and he said this is not in any way like the Iraq war, which of course is true.
00:48:58.000The Iraq war required hundreds of thousands of American troops.
00:50:23.000It's more capital, more intense refineries that can process this cheaper, high-viscosity crude.
00:50:30.000And then, of course, Venezuela over this ensuing decades has fallen off a cliff, destroyed its country through socialism and top-down control.
00:50:39.000And so we have to find that heavy, viscous crude elsewhere.
00:50:43.000So, yeah, it's beneficial for the U.S. refineries.
00:50:46.000But really, the short-term agenda with Venezuela is stop the criminality, stop the import of drugs and gangs and violence into the United States.
00:50:55.000It's just made our hemisphere a worse place to do business and a worse place to prosper.
00:51:00.000We want to fix Venezuela because that's good for Americans.
00:51:03.000Of course, it'll be good for Venezuelans too.
00:51:05.000So, Secretary, looking at the release that you put out at the Energy Department, you say that it's going to help unleash prosperity and peace across the Western hemisphere, this current U.S.-Venezuela energy deal, which would leave the United States in charge essentially of oil sales and disbursements therefrom.
00:52:22.000So we're going to sell that oil into the marketplace, generate more money than they would have, put it in accounts that are controlled by the United States government, and then at our discretion, just deliver those funds to Venezuela.
00:52:36.000So it's going to bring more money into the country, but it's going to mean massive U.S. influence that we're only going to deliver the money and continue this arrangement if they make rapid progress on reforms, end the criminality, end the threats to the United States, start to restore rule of law back in Venezuela.
00:52:56.000We're going to be able to use this tool to drive them in a positive direction.
00:52:59.000That's going to benefit Americans, and it's going to benefit Venezuelans as well.
00:53:05.000Well, it's that latter part that I think is extraordinarily important.
00:53:09.000A lot of critics of the president's action against Nicolas Maduro have suggested that nothing is fundamentally going to change on the ground in Venezuela, that Maduro will be gone, that Venezuela will continue to be a socialist dictatorship because, of course, the vice president of Venezuela, who has now taken over, Del City Rodriguez, is an ardent socialist herself.
00:53:25.000In public, she's made very pro-Maduro statements, even after the extradition of the drug offender that is Nicolas Maduro.
00:53:31.000So the case that the administration seems to be making, correct me if I'm wrong, is that given the fact that the vast majority of income possible to Venezuela will now be flowing through American hands, that money just doesn't get to Venezuela unless reforms occur that move Venezuela in the direction of rule of law and future elections.
00:54:40.000But we want to do that through a process without it becoming a failed state or going back to the narco-terrorist terrorist state it's been for the last 20 years.
00:54:51.000So, Secretary, one of the other questions that's arisen here is getting American companies involved in the oil industry in Venezuela requires a level of stability and an assurance that things aren't going to take a turn for the worse, that Venezuela isn't going to renationalize its oil fields as soon as, for example, President Trump is out of office or the United States is not going to simply walk away from this arrangement and leave American companies who do require years and years of investment in order to see any sort of recapitalization holding the bag.
00:55:20.000What sort of measures are the Trump administration looking forward to taking for the long term that ensure the security of investments in that transitional process?