Has Doge just discovered the greatest fiscal scandal in history? Millions of people are getting Social Security payments that they shouldn t be getting. And then Newt Gingrich joins us about the geopolitical significance of what's happening in Saudi Arabia, Trump 2.0, and more.
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00:01:31.000Is Elon Musk and Doge about to unwind the biggest fraud in American history?
00:01:36.000Over the weekend and into last night, Elon Musk on Twitter has been highlighting an unusual thing about the data of the Social Security Administration.
00:01:45.000There are millions and millions of numbers that are linked to people that are over 110 years old.
00:01:54.000There's 3.6 million numbers for people aged 110. There are 3.5 million for people aged 140 to 149. There's almost 1.5 million for people ages over 150. There it is right there.
00:02:33.000We're not sending payments to people that shouldn't be getting them.
00:02:37.000However, after so many of our eyes were opened during COVID, do we trust the government to say that they've looked into this thoroughly?
00:02:47.000After the government has lied to us repeatedly about the open border, lied to us repeatedly about the safe and effective vaccine.
00:02:56.000The government has not earned our trust.
00:02:59.000The last decade, the last 20 years, the last 30 years, they lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
00:03:05.000So you look at this chart, 3.6 million numbers for people ages 110 to 119. Now, mind you, this is not about cutting Social Security for current beneficiaries or for those of you that are retirees.
00:03:18.000This is about sending money to what we call phantom Social Security numbers.
00:03:23.000Now, some people have suggested this could be millions of people who are fraudulently drawing Social Security benefits on behalf of people who died half a century ago.
00:03:33.000It's probably a bit more complex than that.
00:06:22.000Now, according to Stephen Miller, who's a very smart and thoughtful person, these are fraud rings operating abroad using a treasure trove of expired Social Security numbers.
00:06:32.000If this is even 1% true, this is one of the greatest scandals in the history of the American budget, glaring in front of us.
00:06:44.000And they say it would only spend $10 million to fix?
00:06:48.000For the record, that's less than 1,000th of the budget of USAID. Here is Stephen Miller, a serious thinker and a real operator, claiming this is a foreign ring using U.S. taxpayer dollars to reverse launder money from you to we don't know where.
00:07:07.000Black holes of cartels and Iranian leaders, Chinese Communist Party outposts.
00:07:14.000Is this some sort of a government spending program via money laundering?
00:07:22.000As we know, there's a massive amount of fraud in this country.
00:07:25.000You have, for example, foreign fraud rings.
00:07:29.000These are foreign nationals who come into the United States.
00:07:32.000They use fake Social Security numbers.
00:07:34.000They use fake identities to steal billions in taxpayer benefits.
00:07:38.000There's no way to know until Doge gains full access exactly how much money we're talking about.
00:07:44.000But over a 10-year normal budget window, you could be talking about saving over a trillion dollars by clamping down on massive fraud in our tax and entitlement systems, including, again, those carried out by organized fraud and theft rings.
00:09:29.000This is an untreated cancer that is metastasizing throughout the federal government.
00:09:36.000There's probably at least $1 trillion of waste.
00:09:40.000One out of six dollars at least is wasted in our federal government.
00:09:44.000And of course, Biden wouldn't want to fix any of it.
00:09:48.000And Elon Musk is on a focused campaign, like a precision Tomahawk missile, to fight for you, the American people, the American worker.
00:09:58.000And President Trump is doing the greatest government reduction efficiency program in the history of this republic.
00:10:05.000Elon says, quote, All outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code to enable financial audits.
00:10:12.000He noted that this code, quote, is frequently left blank, implying a systemic failure to track payments properly, which he sees as a critical flaw that hinders accountability.
00:10:22.000Quote, the logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks insane, he says.
00:10:28.000The payment files that move between Social Security and Treasury have significant inconsistencies that are not reconciled.
00:10:36.000Further highlighting that his view that the Treasury payments tracking is disjointed and unreliable.
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00:12:27.000Or at least let's entertain this together.
00:12:30.000If you can't steal Social Security numbers when you invade the country as an illegal alien, maybe less people would have invaded the country.
00:12:40.000Does a relaxed Social Security administration system quietly subsidize illegal immigration?
00:12:48.000Does the Joe Biden regime, because they want open borders, say, just turn the other way.
00:12:54.000They want the foreigners to become voters, and so one of the ways that they allow them to stay is through the theft of legitimate or once legitimate Social Security numbers.
00:13:04.000Here is Caroline Levitt on the fraud that is being uncovered at the Social Security Administration.
00:13:12.000It's in every single agency, and no one has thought to even look at it.
00:13:17.000You work your tail off to pay your taxes.
00:13:19.000You're a carpenter, you're a welder, you're a teacher, you're a retiree, you're a financial manager, you're a truck driver.
00:13:54.000This is not just about reorganizing chairs and doing photo ops with Super Bowl winners.
00:14:00.000This is about getting to the essence of the matter.
00:14:04.000Play Cut 62. President Trump has directed Elon Musk and the Doge team to identify fraud at the Social Security Administration.
00:14:12.000They haven't dug into the books yet, but they suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent Social Security payments.
00:14:22.000And so their goal in going into the Social Security Administration is to identify three things.
00:14:28.000Number one, to identify duplicate payments and to end them.
00:14:37.000And number three, to protect the integrity of this system for hardworking Americans who have been paying into it their entire lives.
00:14:48.000So rest assured to all of the people watching your show tonight, if you paid into the system, honestly, you will continue to receive your Social Security checks.
00:14:58.000Do not buy into the lies from the legacy fake news media who are trying to fear you and scare you.
00:15:05.000Look, we know how many people are getting Social Security payments, and there are not tens of millions of people that are necessarily getting fake ones.
00:15:15.000But the question is, which one is a fake and which one is legitimate?
00:15:19.000The question is, which ones are the legitimate ones and which ones are the fake ones and which ones continue past the point of death?
00:15:27.000We got an email here from one of our listeners saying that their loved one died during COVID. And the Social Security checks, even though they reported it, came for another three years.
00:16:35.000Even the IRS, even politicals and the former IRS commissioner who was just on the show yesterday said even he didn't go to it, and it's highly unusual for politicals to have access to that system.
00:16:45.000Do you not have questions about what they're doing with the data, why they want access to private tax information from Americans?
00:16:52.000Do you not have those questions as a member of the Oversight Committee?
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00:19:59.000I think if you dated from the 7th of November after it was clear he was going to be president all the way up through the first month.
00:20:09.000I'm writing on this Friday at Gingrich 360. There is a speed, a comprehensiveness, a clarity of what he's doing, which is extended through his whole team.
00:20:23.000If you look at who he's been picking for key jobs, starting with Vice President Vance, he has a clear sense of the entrepreneurial energy and drive and toughness that he wants throughout the whole government.
00:20:37.000And of the kind of America that he thinks we have to become if we're going to be great again.
00:20:44.000I think if he can continue it for four years and if he can win the 2026 election, then I think he's going to be in a league just below Washington and Lincoln and maybe slightly above Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who created a majority that lasted for 90 years.
00:21:34.000Well, I think the historians will look back and say the greatest mistake the left ever made was taking the election away from Trump in 2020. Because what it did is it allowed him to spend four years thinking about what had gone wrong, thinking about lessons he'd learned as president.
00:21:53.000And at the same time, the left misunderstood the election, thought they had a mandate to go further and further left to be truly weird.
00:22:04.000You ended up, I think, with a country that was madder, sicker of the left, more ready for change.
00:22:12.000And thanks in part to the America First Policy Institute and the remarkable work of Linda McMahon and Brooke Rollins, there were some 400 people from the Trump administration who were actively preparing for a second administration.
00:22:48.000MAGA was a movement, but it wasn't a structure.
00:22:51.000Now, MAGA, all across America, there are huge numbers of people who think of themselves as MAGA and who are prepared to go out and work and help elect candidates who belong to Make America Great Again.
00:23:05.000Totally different world than the world of 2016.
00:23:09.000And there's real infrastructure behind it.
00:23:12.000Mr. Speaker, I now want to talk about how President Trump is reformulating Western alliances.
00:23:19.000J.D. Vance was in Munich last week and gave an exceptional speech that was then immediately condemned by the Germans.
00:23:27.000How do you think about this geopolitically?
00:23:30.000The Europeans seem entitled to unlimited amounts of U.S. taxpayer money without them contributing.
00:23:37.000President Trump is doing this in a very thoughtful way.
00:24:31.000You know, I just did some numbers a while ago.
00:24:35.000There are 15 trillion dollar companies that are American, four that are Chinese, and then Saudi Aramco.
00:24:43.000There are no European companies that are trillion dollar companies.
00:24:46.000Well, the Europeans chose regulation rather than innovation.
00:24:51.000And it's now destroying the continent.
00:24:55.000And they're a husk of their former selves.
00:24:58.000Let's talk about some of the domestic political issues in Europe.
00:25:02.000J.D. Vance made it a point saying, not only are you guys embracing regulation and strangulated laws against your business, but also, they are cracking down on freedom of speech.
00:25:14.000I mean, in Germany, there was this extraordinary piece of tape on 60 Minutes this last weekend.
00:25:19.000They said, you can't insult somebody online.
00:25:21.000You're not allowed to say, get out of my country.
00:26:30.000And, of course, the American elites, who are all still in a state of shock from the election, I mean, the performance on CBS the other morning with Marco Rubio was a disgrace.
00:26:51.000The 60-minute speech is pure propaganda.
00:26:54.000And of course, what you've seen is, as Jim Clifton and Gallup told me the other day, for the first time, the news media now ranks below Congress as an institution people don't trust.
00:27:06.000And as a general rule now, I think the average American knows that if you're watching CBS or NBC or ABC, or you're reading the New York Times, the Washington Post, it's probably a lie.
00:28:57.000As somebody with a background as a Cuban-American, he has a deep instinct for Latin America.
00:29:02.000He's thought a great deal about communism because he's dealt with Castro and the Cubans.
00:29:07.000And I think you're going to find, and he and I chatted about this the other day, he is going to remake the State Department into an institution that actually serves American interests rather than the elitist interests of the sort of Davos world gentry.
00:29:53.000It's going to be interesting to see what they can accomplish in talking with the Russians and trying to get the Russians to understand that the war is over.
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00:31:27.000And the entire team there, Steve Whitcoff, if we can get to an end of this Russian-Ukrainian war via negotiations in Saudi Arabia, what does this mean for American foreign policy and hopefully a reorientation towards the menacing rise of China?
00:31:47.000Well, I mean, first of all, very symbolic that they're not meeting in Europe.
00:31:51.000I mean, historically, you'd meet probably in Switzerland.
00:31:58.000They've gone to Saudi Arabia, which makes the Saudis happy.
00:32:02.000They have basically taken a step out of the old world, creating a new world.
00:32:08.000Remember that Saudi Arabia is the first place Trump went when he was elected and sworn in in 2017.
00:32:15.000So he does feel a deep affection for the crown prince, and he's trying to get him to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
00:32:23.000So there's a lot of different things moving here.
00:32:28.000The sense I get from talking with the president over a number of years, he is increasingly aware, first of all, of the danger of Putin having about 6,000 nuclear weapons and that nuclear war would be horrifying on a scale that none of us can appreciate.
00:32:46.000Second, He really, I think, wants to be a peacemaker.
00:32:51.000I believe personally that his being shot once and almost shot a second time with the sniper who they found at the golf course, I think that had a profound impact on him.
00:33:03.000And I was reminded, Chris and I did two movies, one about...
00:33:06.000John Paul II, called Nine Days to Change the World, is going back to Poland in 1979. And the other, called Ronald Reagan, Rendezvous of Destiny.
00:33:15.000When Reagan and John Paul meet in 1982, they are comparing notes because they've both been shot.
00:33:26.000And they decided God had spared them to defeat the Soviet Empire.
00:33:31.000And they agreed to make basically an alliance to defeat the Soviet Empire.
00:33:35.000Well, I think in a very similar way, Trump said, this is not hidden, he said in his inaugural address that he believes God spared him to make America great again.
00:33:46.000And I think that that is about as deep a feeling as you can have.
00:33:52.000And I think that he believes that part of that is not just here at home, but part of it is trying to make the world a safer and a better place, whether it's in Gaza.
00:34:03.000Or Ukraine, or a number of other places, you're going to see him, I think, have an impact.
00:34:08.000And he's begun to assemble a team, as you pointed out.
00:34:11.000When you have somebody as good as Marco Rubio as your Secretary of State, you have a negotiator as effective as Steve Witkoff, and you have a National Security Advisor as realistic and smart as Mike Waltz.
00:34:26.000You really have a pretty remarkable team.
00:34:40.000And about a minute and a half remaining, talk about what this might mean for the breaking up of BRICS. It's a not-so-subtle way to say, hey, America's convening in Saudi Arabia, and Russia, I know you've been doing this whole BRICS thing, but the dollar is going to reign supreme.
00:34:54.000If we can pass a tax cut by May or June...
00:35:01.000And have this economy roaring next year.
00:35:40.000Just a reminder, on Thursday, I will be at the University of South Florida for the American Comeback Tour, so make sure you guys check that out.
00:35:47.000And Mr. Speaker brought up an incredibly astute point.
00:35:51.000Going to Saudi Arabia, not Switzerland, not Brussels, not Paris.
00:35:55.000You are taking this out of the European context.