The Charlie Kirk Show - January 07, 2026


Minnesota, Root of All Evil?


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Venezuelan President Maduro has been deposed and replaced by the Interim Government, and the United States is now the sole supplier of Venezuelan oil. President Trump announced that the Venezuelan government has agreed to hand over 30-50 million barrels of oil to the US.

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00:01:09.000 All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:11.000 It is January 7th.
00:01:12.000 Lots going on.
00:01:13.000 We are going to throw right here at the top to the press conference that Caroline Levitt is leading and the White House press briefing room.
00:01:21.000 It's the first one since the deposition of Maduro in Venezuela.
00:01:27.000 So we're actually getting a lot of information.
00:01:28.000 Let's go ahead and throw back to Caroline Levitt.
00:01:31.000 Maximum leverage over the interim authorities in Venezuela right now, and the president has made it very clear that this is a country within the United States, the Western Hemisphere, close by the United States, that is no longer going to be sending illegal drugs to the United States of America.
00:01:47.000 It's no longer going to be sending and trafficking illegal people in criminal cartels to kill American citizens as they have in the past.
00:01:55.000 And the president is fully deploying his Peace Through Strength foreign policy agenda.
00:02:00.000 So we're continuing to be in close coordination with the interim authorities and their decisions are going to continue to be dictated by the United States of America.
00:02:09.000 Just one follow-up when you talk about that leverage there.
00:02:11.000 Has the Venezuelan government fully committed to turning over its oil to the United States indefinitely and what happens if they do not?
00:02:18.000 Well as you saw the president announced last night, this was a deal.
00:02:22.000 This was a deal made by the president and his team with the Venezuelan interim authorities.
00:02:26.000 This will benefit both the American people and the Venezuelan people.
00:02:30.000 And Secretary Wright and the Department of Energy are working with the interim authorities and also with the private oil industry to execute on this historic energy deal that's not only good for the United States, but it's also going to revive the prosperity, the safety, the security of both the United States and Venezuela as well.
00:02:47.000 Following up on the oil part of this, 30 to 50 million barrels of oil, how exactly is that going to work?
00:02:54.000 Getting it out of Venezuela into the United States?
00:02:56.000 Yes.
00:02:57.000 That's exactly right.
00:02:58.000 So as you know, Ed, as the president announced last night, this was the sanctioned oil that was basically just sitting in barrels, sitting on ships because of the effective quarantine of the United States of America.
00:03:08.000 And the interim authorities have agreed to release that oil to the United States.
00:03:12.000 So it will be arriving here at home very soon.
00:03:15.000 The United States government has already begun marketing Venezuelan crude oil in the Globet marketplace for the benefit of the United States, engage the world's leading commodity marketers, key banks to execute and provide financial support for these crude oil and crude product sales.
00:03:31.000 All proceeds from the sale of Venezuelan crude oil and products will first settle in U.S.-controlled accounts at globally recognized banks to guarantee the legitimacy and integrity of the ultimate distribution of proceeds and those funds will be dispersed for the benefit of the American people and the Venezuelan people at the discretion of the United States government.
00:03:51.000 Sounds like it requires a lot of private sector engagement and agreement in the oil industry and the banking industry.
00:03:58.000 That's right.
00:03:59.000 There's a lot of private sector engagement that's happening right now.
00:04:02.000 As you know, Secretary Wright, our energy secretary who's heading up this big project, is in Florida today meeting with some of these oil executives.
00:04:09.000 And as we confirmed earlier, they will also be at the White House later this week.
00:04:12.000 So they are absolutely eager to invest.
00:04:14.000 They're eager about these opportunities.
00:04:17.000 And Secretary Wright is a very well-knowledgeable guy when it comes to oil and energy, and he's the perfect man for the job.
00:04:23.000 Another quarter of the world here, real quick, on the other hand.
00:04:25.000 Go ahead.
00:04:26.000 Go ahead.
00:04:27.000 So just to follow up on the oil, 30 to 50 million barrels is an initial trauma, if you will, and then what happens after that?
00:04:36.000 I won't get ahead of the plans that the president and his team are currently speaking with the interim authorities about, but rest assured, there is a long-term plan here.
00:04:45.000 Secretary Rubio and the entire team are working diligently on it, and this is just sort of the first action that you all are seeing.
00:04:50.000 Caroline, Ed.
00:04:52.000 Thanks, John.
00:04:53.000 So in order to get these oil companies to invest billions in Venezuela, how will the U.S. reassure that their workers will be safe in Venezuela?
00:05:01.000 Could there be troops involved?
00:05:02.000 At this point in time, as you know, there are no troops on the ground in Venezuela.
00:05:06.000 The president, of course, reserves the right to use the United States military if necessary.
00:05:10.000 It's not something he wants to do.
00:05:12.000 Diplomacy is always the first option, as you saw.
00:05:14.000 He tried that with Nicolas Maduro, but unfortunately, he was an illegitimate dictator and an unserious person.
00:05:20.000 And so President Trump authorized this law enforcement operation, and now Nicolas Maduro is sitting in a prison cell in New York.
00:05:27.000 So certainly the President is going to do what's in the best interests of the American people, and that includes workers from our energy and oil industry at the time.
00:05:34.000 With that meeting tomorrow, what is the message the president is going to give to the oil executives and what does it want to hear?
00:05:40.000 Well, the meeting is on Friday, and it's just a meeting to discuss, obviously, the immense opportunity that is before these oil companies right now.
00:05:47.000 Caroline.
00:05:48.000 Stephen.
00:05:49.000 Thank you, Caroline, and congratulations again.
00:05:51.000 Thank you.
00:05:52.000 The New Yorker had a story yesterday on the vice president, and it questioned his, quote, notable absence on Venezuela.
00:05:59.000 And the sub-headline asked, was the vice president's exclusion from the operation in Venezuela an expression of this anti-interventionist ideology or political calculation?
00:06:10.000 Would you be able to discuss the vice president's role in Venezuela policy?
00:06:14.000 I did see that report in the New Yorker, and quite frankly, I laughed out loud because it's very clear it's a fake report that's trying to sow distrust and division amongst the president and his team.
00:06:25.000 Let me just be very clear.
00:06:26.000 The vice president has been involved in all policy.
00:06:30.000 He is the right-hand man of the president on all policy matters, including Venezuela policy.
00:06:35.000 He was, of course, read-in and deeply involved in this operation from the very beginning.
00:06:40.000 And he was present on the night of the operation via secure communication at a different location as to not damage the operational secrecy of this mission that was so incredibly important to ensure that this mission could be carried out successfully without endangering our troops.
00:06:57.000 Caroline?
00:06:58.000 Sure.
00:07:00.000 The U.S. seized a tanker recently.
00:07:03.000 Russia specifically asked the United States not to seize that tanker.
00:07:09.000 Does this action risk a larger conflict with Russia?
00:07:13.000 I believe you're referring to the Bella 1 tanker that was seized this morning.
00:07:17.000 The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Department of War, did announce that seizure this morning for violations of U.S. sanctions.
00:07:26.000 I've spoken about the enforcement of our sanctions policy at the podium prior to the new year.
00:07:34.000 And this administration is going to fully enforce the sanction policy of the United States.
00:07:39.000 The vessel this morning was seized in the North Atlantic pursuant to a warrant issued by a U.S. federal court after being tracked.
00:07:46.000 And this was a Venezuelan shadow fleet vessel that has transported sanctioned oil.
00:07:51.000 And the United States of America, under this president, is not going to tolerate that.
00:07:55.000 I would also just add the vessel had a judicial seizure order in the crew, so that means the crew is now subject to prosecution for any applicable violation of federal law, and they will be brought to the United States for such prosecution if necessary.
00:08:08.000 Kelly.
00:08:09.000 Caroline, happy new year to you.
00:08:10.000 Thank you.
00:08:11.000 I'd like to talk to you about a couple of things real quickly.
00:08:13.000 The first question about the Venezuelan people.
00:08:16.000 As you know, there's some 8 million Venezuelans here, some of them celebrating in the streets.
00:08:20.000 There are Venezuelans on the ground who are concerned about their safety.
00:08:24.000 What does the Trump administration understand that they will be secure throughout this transition?
00:08:35.000 I think the fact that this president actually followed through on the long-held promise of the United States of America, the bipartisan promise to take down the illegitimate Maduro regime, should give assurance to the Venezuelan people and also Venezuelan Americans who fled this communist regime for a better life here at home that this is a president who is serious about taking down illegitimate regimes and who is also serious about securing the security of the United States of America,
00:09:04.000 including the Venezuelan American people.
00:09:06.000 And I would just add that this is something that not just Republicans and President Trump have talked about for a very long time, but it is also something that Democrats have advocated for.
00:09:16.000 In 2020, Chuck Schumer said that at the time, President Trump had not brought an end to the Maduro regime.
00:09:23.000 The Maduro regime is more powerful today and more entrenched today than it was when the president began.
00:09:29.000 Now you hear Chuck Schumer out there saying this is reckless.
00:09:32.000 The American people and the Venezuelan people should be in fear. 1.00
00:09:34.000 But this is something that Chuck Schumer has long advocated for.
00:09:38.000 Senator Chris Van Holland, same thing, had said that the United States is going to use its leverage and influence to push for negotiations to transition to the truly elected leader.
00:09:47.000 This was under President Biden.
00:09:49.000 We know Maduro and his cronies don't want to go quietly into the night.
00:09:53.000 The U.S. needs to work to ratchet up the pressure.
00:09:56.000 Now, Senator Holland says it's an illegal act of war to get rid of Nicholas Maduro.
00:10:01.000 So the hypocrisy is really astounding here.
00:10:03.000 And thank you for giving me an opportunity to point it out, Caitlin.
00:10:06.000 I mean, sorry.
00:10:07.000 Go ahead.
00:10:08.000 Yes.
00:10:09.000 So there are reports that the administration is demanding that Venezuela cut ties with China, Russia, Iran, and Cuba.
00:10:14.000 Can you confirm?
00:10:15.000 I'm sorry.
00:10:17.000 Reports that the administration has essentially demanded that Venezuela cut ties with China, Russia, Iran, and Cuba.
00:10:23.000 Can you confirm that?
00:10:24.000 Well, those alleged demands were made in a classified briefing by Secretary Rubio, and I know that there's a lot of leaks coming out of these classified briefings, so I'm not going to confirm or deny or get into what the Secretary has said in classified settings to members of Congress.
00:10:39.000 But I think that the administration has made it quite clear to the interim authorities in Venezuela that this is the Western Hemisphere and American dominance is going to continue under this president.
00:11:03.000 Well, that's something that's currently being actively discussed by the President and his national security team.
00:11:08.000 And I would point out that the acquisition of Greenland by the United States is not a new idea.
00:11:13.000 This is something that presidents dating back to the 1800s have said is advantageous for America's national security.
00:11:19.000 The president has been very open and clear with all of you and with the world that he views it in the best interest of the United States to deter Russian and Chinese aggression in the Arctic region.
00:11:31.000 And so that's why his team is currently talking about what a potential purchase would look like.
00:11:36.000 Caroline, Caroline.
00:11:43.000 I know that past presidents and past leaders have often ruled things out.
00:11:48.000 They've often been very open about ruling things in and basically broadcasting their foreign policy strategy to the rest of the world, not just to our allies, but most egregiously to our adversaries.
00:12:01.000 That's not something this president does.
00:12:03.000 All options are always on the table for President Trump as he examines what's in the best interests of the United States.
00:12:09.000 But I will just say that the president's first option always has been diplomacy.
00:12:14.000 Again, look at Venezuela.
00:12:17.000 He tried ardently to strike a good deal with Nicolas Maduro, and he told him, I will use the United States military and you will not like it if you don't take such a deal.
00:12:26.000 And look at what happened.
00:12:27.000 With respect to Iran, the president said the same thing, right?
00:12:31.000 He tried to have serious interest in a deal with the Iranian regime with respect to their nuclear capabilities.
00:12:38.000 They were not interested, and so Operation Midnight Hammer happened, which was another remarkable military success under the leadership of this commander-in-chief.
00:12:47.000 So the president keeps his options open, but diplomacy is always the first.
00:12:51.000 Very quickly, just one additional follow-up on that.
00:12:53.000 Does the president recognize Denmark's ownership as part of the kingdom?
00:12:59.000 Because there have been some Republican senators questioning the claim that Denmark has to Greenland.
00:13:06.000 Is the President in that camp with them questioning the legality of I have not heard him question it personally, but you're welcome to ask him yourself next time you have the chance.
00:13:16.000 Sanctions are being lifted for Venezuela.
00:13:18.000 We've got to lift some sanctions to let the oil come in.
00:13:20.000 Can you talk about that just very briefly?
00:13:21.000 Yes, so the U.S. is selectively rolling back sanctions to enable the transport and the sale of Venezuelan crude and oil products to the global markets, yes.
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00:14:36.000 Caroline, Annie.
00:14:37.000 Thank you.
00:14:38.000 There are some reports from Venezuela that the country's leaders are cracking down on the population, specifically suppressing public expression of support for Maduro's ouster.
00:14:50.000 Is that kind of behavior consistent with what the president wants to see, how the president wants to see the leaders take on the population?
00:14:57.000 It would not be consistent, and I'll let the president's national security team speak further on that.
00:15:02.000 I know they are well aware and tracking.
00:15:04.000 Kelly?
00:15:05.000 Two questions.
00:15:05.000 One on the seas vessels, the Bella the Sophia.
00:15:08.000 Can you tell us where they're headed, what happens to any existing cargo?
00:15:12.000 And you reference personnel potentially facing prosecution.
00:15:15.000 That's one thing I'd like to follow on.
00:15:17.000 And then on the Bella.
00:15:18.000 Yes, okay.
00:15:19.000 And on Annie's question, if I can also ask, does the administration believe that the interim regime should release all political dissidents and prisoners and return to taint Americans?
00:15:31.000 That's not a question that I've personally spoken about to the president with, so I will let him answer that question.
00:15:37.000 I don't want to make new policy at this podium today with respect to Venezuela.
00:15:40.000 With respect to the two ships that you mentioned, I spoke with you about the Bella 1.
00:15:45.000 There was another vessel this morning, the SOFIA, that in coordination with the Department of War, the Department of Homeland Security apprehended it.
00:15:53.000 This is a stateless, sanctioned, dark fleet motor tanker, and this occurred without incident.
00:16:00.000 This vessel was operating in international waters and conducting illicit activities in the Caribbean Sea.
00:16:05.000 The U.S. Coast Guard is escorting the SOFIA to the United States for final disposition.
00:16:11.000 To answer your question, Kelly, directly.
00:16:14.000 This was through Operation Southern Spear.
00:16:17.000 The Department of War is unwavering in its mission to crush illicit activity in the Western Hemisphere.
00:16:22.000 And as the President has repeatedly stated, we're going to defend our homeland and restore security and strength across the Americas.
00:16:29.000 Sasha.
00:16:30.000 Dasha.
00:16:31.000 Caroline, thank you and having a year.
00:16:32.000 Thanks, Duke.
00:16:35.000 You've repeatedly at the podium called the current leadership in Venezuela interim leadership.
00:16:40.000 There are Republicans and Democrats alike that say they want to see elections in Venezuela.
00:16:44.000 The president has said it's too soon to do that right now.
00:16:47.000 But is there a timeline for elections in Venezuela?
00:16:49.000 Is he committed to seeing that this year, for example?
00:16:52.000 You just said the president has answered that question.
00:16:54.000 So I will reiterate what the president has said a few times now to all of you, which is that it's too premature and too early to dictate a timetable for elections in Venezuela right now.
00:17:04.000 Caroline, you just talked to Jackie about diplomacy first, right?
00:17:07.000 The Danes have repeatedly said they are willing to collaborate on all of the concerns that the president has, whether it's more troops, mineral rights, intelligence sharing.
00:17:15.000 Why does the president feel he needs to own Greenland and not and put out the threat of military action when this could be done through diplomacy?
00:17:24.000 Well, who said diplomacy isn't taking place behind the scenes, Dasha?
00:17:28.000 I mean, the president is interested in diplomacy.
00:17:30.000 His national security team is as well.
00:17:33.000 And of course, he's always willing to pick up the phone for everybody and hear out their concerns.
00:17:37.000 But the president is the president of the United States of America, and he's always going to be very clear about what he views as being in our nation's best interest.
00:17:45.000 Reagan.
00:17:46.000 Thanks, Caroline.
00:17:47.000 I have a question for you on Venezuela, and then I'd love to ask you about Minnesota and Tim Walz.
00:17:52.000 On Venezuela, I'm wondering, does the administration hope to start sending more Venezuelan migrants back home or have them self-deport if the situation in the country improves?
00:17:52.000 Sure.
00:18:03.000 As far as I'm concerned, the policies of the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security have not changed.
00:18:09.000 All those illegally present in the country are subject to deportation.
00:18:13.000 And I would just like to add how we got here.
00:18:17.000 The president was very clear on the campaign to the American public, and it's one of the many reasons they resoundingly re-elected him back to this office, that he was not only going to crush foreign drug cartels, but that he was not going to stand by and watch as the illegitimate Venezuelan regime was sending illegal criminals and gang members and rapists and murderers to our country, which happened to the tune of thousands under the previous administration and president.
00:18:47.000 And so there could be nothing more America first than this operation that took place last week.
00:18:52.000 And I would just remind all of you in this room that there were innocent Americans like Jocelyn Nungare who lost their lives at the hands of dangerous Venezuelan criminals who were sent here by the Maduro regime.
00:19:04.000 And that has been the president's North Star and guiding principle throughout his entire policy since January 20th.
00:19:12.000 Does the administration believe that Tim Walz potentially dropped out of the governor's race because he could be under criminal investigation?
00:19:20.000 I don't know if there's a criminal investigation.
00:19:23.000 If there was, I wouldn't be able to comment on it from up here, to be honest with you.
00:19:27.000 But I think Tim Walz probably dropped out of the race because he realizes he no longer has the support of the people of his own state, which is a remarkable downfall considering he was the number two on the Democrat Party's ticket just about a year ago.
00:19:39.000 When it comes to Minnesota, the fraud that we have seen, the wide-scale of fraud, is really remarkable.
00:19:46.000 It's egregious.
00:19:47.000 I would encourage every single journalist in this room to go to Minnesota and to cover it yourselves.
00:19:54.000 As for the Trump administration, we have officials who have been on the ground almost every day.
00:19:58.000 Secretary Noam was there yesterday.
00:20:00.000 Secretary Besson will be traveling there later this week to talk about the fraud and to do a roundtable on this very topic.
00:20:06.000 And I would just like to leave you with an update.
00:20:08.000 To date, the Department of Justice has charged 98 total defendants in several Medicaid fraud and related case programs.
00:20:15.000 64 were convicted, and 85 of the 98 charged were of Somali descent.
00:20:21.000 The GOJ has also issued over 1,700 subpoenas, executed over 130 search warrants, and they have now added more attorneys to their office there to absorb the case flow.
00:20:35.000 DHS is on the ground going door to door, conducting large-scale criminal and HSI investigations.
00:20:41.000 They have also sent approximately 2,000 agents to Minneapolis to assist with law enforcement and immigration enforcement.
00:20:49.000 As I said, Secretary Noam was on the ground yesterday.
00:20:51.000 The Department of Health and Human Services has also begun requiring a justification and photo evidence for all child care-related payments nationwide, and they required Minnesota to conduct a full audit of all child care centers.
00:21:04.000 They also froze $185 million in funding to Minnesota.
00:21:10.000 And Dr. Oz, who was just here, also notified Governor Walls they're going to begin auditing Medicaid recipients and deferring payments on claims based on waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:21:19.000 The Department of Labor is also conducting a targeted review of Minnesota's unemployment program.
00:21:25.000 Department of Agriculture requiring Minnesota to conduct recertification for SNAP recipients.
00:21:32.000 And HUD has launched investigations into the public housing.
00:21:35.000 SBA has also suspended nearly 7,000 borrowers amid suspected fraudulent activity.
00:21:41.000 So with all of that, rest assured, this is an all-hands-on-deck effort from the entire administration to get to the bottom of this and ensure that the ripping off of taxpayers in the state of Minnesota, and it won't just be Minnesota, it'll be any state across this country where fraud has taken place.
00:21:57.000 And we are protecting law-abiding, tax-paying American citizens.
00:22:01.000 Phil.
00:22:02.000 Thank you, Caroline.
00:22:03.000 Just to follow up on Greenland, there are treaties already on the books that give the United States access to the island.
00:22:10.000 They can construct and maintain military bases there.
00:22:14.000 We can house personnel on the island.
00:22:16.000 The U.S. has control of landings, takeoffs, anchorages, etc.
00:22:20.000 So, I'm curious if you could just spell out for the American public what specifically would the U.S. gain by taking control of Greenland that the U.S. doesn't already have access to right now.
00:22:32.000 More control over the Arctic region and ensuring that China and Russia and our adversaries cannot continue their aggression in this very important and strategic region.
00:22:44.000 And there would be many other benefits as well that, again, the President and his national security team are currently talking about.
00:22:51.000 Jeff, I'll give you another one.
00:22:54.000 A broad understand that question on foreign policy.
00:22:57.000 Are you concerned about increasing tensions with Russia because of the tanker seizures?
00:23:03.000 And how does the U.S. action in Venezuela impact the ongoing relationship with China and the President's relationship with President Xi?
00:23:15.000 I think the President has very open, honest, and good relationships with both President Putin of Russia and also President Xi of China.
00:23:23.000 He has spoken with them numerous times, as you know, since coming to office about a year ago, and I believe those personal relationships are going to continue.
00:23:31.000 But as for the President and the United States, he's going to enforce our policy that's best for the United States of America.
00:23:38.000 And with respect to these ships, seizures, that means enforcing the embargo against all dark fleet vessels that are illegally transporting oil and only legitimate commerce, to answer your question much earlier, Rachel, determined by the United States, is going to be permitted.
00:23:52.000 And that's the policy of this administration, and he's not afraid to implement it.
00:23:55.000 One more standby.
00:23:56.000 Just one more standback.
00:23:57.000 I'm just going to ask the last one.
00:23:59.000 I remember asking the president at the very beginning of his term if he was committed to Article 5 in NATO, and he said yes.
00:24:06.000 Has his stance on NATO or his commitment to NATO changed?
00:24:09.000 Did you see his statement earlier today?
00:24:11.000 He said, we will always be there for NATO, even if they are not there for us.
00:24:15.000 And I think that answers your question directly.
00:24:17.000 Yes.
00:24:19.000 Just to follow up on what Jeffrey was saying there, will the President commit that if any NATO members are attacked, the United States would be there?
00:24:26.000 Again, the President addressed this directly himself this morning after seeing the coverage from all of you in this room on television, and he made it very clear.
00:24:35.000 We're always going to be there for NATO, even if they have not done right by the United States of America.
00:24:40.000 And they have not, they have finally increased their defense spending at the request of this president, but it was only because of this president that they did that.
00:24:49.000 Caroline, we'll take a couple more.
00:24:51.000 Michael, go ahead.
00:24:52.000 Happy New Year, and congratulations.
00:24:52.000 Thank you, Caroline.
00:24:54.000 Two questions tonight.
00:24:55.000 One on health care, one on Mexico.
00:24:56.000 On health care, the president says he wants Republicans to be flexible on the Hyde Amendment in order to pass health care legislation.
00:25:04.000 What is the White House's message to pro-life voters who say federal funding for abortion goes against their values?
00:25:10.000 Well, the president did not change the administration's policy.
00:25:13.000 It was President Trump who signed an executive order protecting the Hyatt Amendment.
00:25:17.000 It's the Trump administration that has taken multiple actions on various fronts to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not funding the practice of abortion.
00:25:26.000 What the President was saying yesterday was Republicans, and frankly Democrats too, need to show a little bit more flexibility so we can actually get something done with respect to the issue of health care.
00:25:37.000 Republicans have amazing ideas.
00:25:39.000 The president himself, as we spoke about earlier, has launched this most favored nation drug pricing initiative, has cut good deals with big pharma.
00:25:47.000 He wants to see Republicans and Democrats too, if they're willing, codify those executive orders into law so that these good deals can remain and these prices can continue to be lowered long after this president and this dealmaker in chief is gone.
00:25:59.000 The president's talked a lot about health savings accounts and giving more money back to the health care consumer rather than to these giant insurance companies.
00:26:08.000 And he's been very outspoken and tough on them too.
00:26:10.000 And I think you'll see more and hear more from him directly on that issue.
00:26:14.000 So he wants to see Congress get something done with respect to health care and that was the point that he was driving home yesterday.
00:26:20.000 So Caroline, President Trump says the drug cartels are running Mexico.
00:26:24.000 What action does he need to see Mexico's president, Claudia Scheinbaum, take to prove that she's in control of that country and control of those cartels?
00:26:32.000 And does the White House believe she's able to do that without U.S. intervention?
00:26:35.000 Look, I think the President was speaking very candidly and frankly about the reality on the ground in Mexico.
00:26:43.000 I want to talk to you about the seas tanker, the Bella.
00:26:46.000 There were reports before this that Russia had sent a submarine to escort it.
00:26:50.000 Was there any engagement with that submarine?
00:26:52.000 And then was the deconfliction line of Russia used ahead of 48 Act?
00:26:57.000 Again, this was a Venezuelan shadow fleet vessel that has transported sanctioned oil.
00:27:02.000 The vessel was deemed stateless after flying a false flag and it had a judicial seizure order and that's why the crew will be subject to prosecution.
00:27:12.000 Mary Caroline, the president talking for the weekend has suggested that we be open to an operation there.
00:27:20.000 Should the president of Colombia be expecting delta force anytime soon and then have another one through California?
00:27:26.000 That would be a very unwise question for me to answer, to weigh into.
00:27:29.000 What's your next question?
00:27:31.000 On California, can you share any more about the fraud investigation?
00:27:34.000 President Senator Wesley, who's being investigated and where is it starting.
00:27:39.000 Again, this is going to be an all-hands-on-deck government-wide effort.
00:27:43.000 The president has directed all agencies across the board to look at federal spending programs in not just Minnesota, but also in the state of California to identify fraud and to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law all those who have committed it.
00:27:58.000 Take one more.
00:27:59.000 Sure.
00:28:00.000 Carolyn, yesterday was the five-year anniversary of January 6th.
00:28:00.000 Thank you.
00:28:04.000 Democrats and mainstream media continue to push their big lie that it was an insurrection and that police officers died that day.
00:28:11.000 The reality is that four Trump supporters died on January 6th and two women were killed by January 6th police.
00:28:17.000 Everybody knows Ashley Babbitt was shot in cold blood by Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd, but there was another woman, her name was Roseanne Boyland from Georgia, and she was pepperballed, gassed, and ultimately brutally beaten with a stick by January 6th police officer Lila Morris.
00:28:31.000 The Biden administration and mainstream media lied and told Americans Roseanne Boyland died of a drug overdose on Capitol Steps.
00:28:37.000 Her family is now asking for an investigation.
00:28:40.000 Is the administration aware of the circumstances of her death and will there be an investigation finally?
00:28:45.000 Well, for an investigation, I will have to defer you to either the FBI or the Department of Justice, and I'm sorry to have to do that.
00:28:52.000 But with respect to all of the facts that you just laid out, the White House relished the opportunity yesterday to actually create a new website to share the facts with the American public, but also all those in this room.
00:29:02.000 We knew the media would be covering January 6th quite a bit because they think it's something that the American people are still believing their lies on.
00:29:10.000 They think it's something that still helps their case against this president.
00:29:13.000 Obviously not, or else he wouldn't have been re-elected in an overwhelming fashion in November of last year.
00:29:19.000 And so I would encourage everyone to take a look at that website.
00:29:22.000 It's quite well done.
00:29:23.000 And thank you all very much.
00:29:24.000 It's great to be back with you.
00:29:26.000 Thank you.
00:29:27.000 Massive amount of breaking news there.
00:29:29.000 That was the first White House press briefing that Caroline has done since the Maduro, I guess you would call it attack, a seizure, deposition.
00:29:40.000 Also, we've got two tankers that have been basically apprehended, boarded by U.S. military.
00:29:47.000 A lot of questions about that.
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00:30:51.000 Without further ado, I'm very excited to bring in our next guest, Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida.
00:30:57.000 It's good to have you back, Senator.
00:30:59.000 How have you been?
00:31:01.000 I've been great.
00:31:02.000 Happy New Year, Andrew.
00:31:03.000 It's going to be a great year.
00:31:04.000 I've never been so ready to turn the calendar over to the next year, I will tell you.
00:31:09.000 2025 was an absolute doozy.
00:31:11.000 But there is so much breaking news here, Senator.
00:31:15.000 You know, there's Greenland.
00:31:17.000 There was a shooting that I want to actually inform our audience about involving an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
00:31:23.000 As you know, we've been surging ICE DHS personnel, over 2,000 on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
00:31:32.000 Massive, massive reaction from the federal government.
00:31:35.000 It appears that it was a ramming and a shooting.
00:31:38.000 This is breaking news, a ramming and a shooting.
00:31:40.000 So, a lot of times, these citizen activists, these volunteers on the left, they will follow around ICE vehicles, trying to alert the public.
00:31:48.000 And sometimes they ram them.
00:31:50.000 And sometimes they try and get in their way.
00:31:51.000 Sometimes they play fast and loose with their own vehicle.
00:31:54.000 It appears, initial indications, we're waiting for more information here that that's what this was.
00:32:00.000 But, Senator, let's start there.
00:32:03.000 There was a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Somali fraud and the complicity within local politicians there covering it up.
00:32:12.000 Maybe they were getting political kickbacks.
00:32:14.000 What's your take of it?
00:32:15.000 You have run the state of Florida.
00:32:17.000 You know these processes.
00:32:18.000 You know how the bureaucracies work.
00:32:19.000 What's your reaction?
00:32:21.000 Well, I'm not surprised.
00:32:22.000 Number one, when I became governor of Florida January 2011, I started going agency by agency.
00:32:28.000 Now, my background is I'm a business guy.
00:32:31.000 And in business, you don't waste your money, right?
00:32:33.000 And you solve your customers' needs. 1.00
00:32:36.000 They don't want to pay you a little extra money because you wasted money or did stupid things. 0.94
00:32:40.000 So what I watched, agency by agency, there would be, they wouldn't worry about fraud against the agency. 0.97
00:32:47.000 They wouldn't worry about improper payments.
00:32:50.000 Look as free money, the way is the way so many people looked at it.
00:32:53.000 So I went agency by agency and fixed it.
00:32:56.000 Then we got all this free federal money.
00:32:58.000 It's free, by the way.
00:32:59.000 The attitude that many governors have is if the federal government's paying for it, up, it's free.
00:33:06.000 Doesn't cost you anything.
00:33:08.000 Right.
00:33:09.000 And so I watched it like after a hurricane.
00:33:11.000 People would say, well, if we just got it, you know, we can go get all this free federal money.
00:33:16.000 So I watched unbelievable fraud attempts with regard to debris pickup after hurricanes.
00:33:23.000 But that's just the tip of the iceberg. 0.88
00:33:26.000 Every government program, and especially federal programs, the oversight is pathetic. 0.98
00:33:32.000 It's horrible. 0.95
00:33:33.000 We have studies.
00:33:34.000 We know that there's, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.
00:33:40.000 We know there's tens of billions of dollars worth of improper payments and we don't get the money back.
00:33:45.000 Right.
00:33:46.000 And then we know we know people lie, cheat, and steal.
00:33:49.000 And we're just sitting there and people say, well, it's free.
00:33:53.000 Why do you worry so much about this?
00:33:55.000 Well, we should worry about it because $38.5 trillion worth of debt.
00:33:58.000 Your interest rates are too high because of that.
00:34:01.000 Inflation is caused by all this wasteful spending.
00:34:04.000 And it's unfair.
00:34:05.000 It's not fair to the hard-working kid that's out there or a family that's out there busting their butt every day and then somebody else doesn't want to work.
00:34:12.000 So they take advantage of a state government, a local government, a federal government.
00:34:16.000 It's wrong.
00:34:17.000 Yeah, I mean, it keeps getting worse.
00:34:19.000 The deeper this rabbit hole goes, Senator, it looks like, you know, Keith Ellison, there was a leaked tape released of him that he was basically, you know, said he was going to cover up for these Somalis if they kind of gave them political kickbacks and he was going to, they were going to run cover for them.
00:34:37.000 There's multiple questions here.
00:34:39.000 I'm going to play David Marcus from Fox News.
00:34:43.000 He had a great take on it.
00:34:44.000 I want to get your reaction to it because we had Senator Ron Johnson on the show yesterday.
00:34:48.000 I know a friend and colleague of yours in the Senate who said that these systems are designed to fail.
00:34:54.000 They're designed to be looted.
00:34:55.000 They're designed to have wealth extracted from working class Americans, from the white man, however you want to look at it, to be given to marginalized communities.
00:35:03.000 I thought David Marcus made an incredible point here at 245.
00:35:07.000 This is not standard Tammany Hall patronage and kickbacks, right?
00:35:11.000 We've always had that.
00:35:12.000 That was meant to keep people in power.
00:35:14.000 That was not meant to be a massive redistribution of wealth.
00:35:19.000 What we're seeing here is a massive redistribution of wealth.
00:35:21.000 When these blue states allocate billions of dollars for marginalized communities and then fail to put in place any safeguards to stop theft, that's Marxism by fraud.
00:35:33.000 That's taking money from corporations, from rich people, saying we're going to send it over here.
00:35:37.000 We're not going to pay any attention to what's happening to it.
00:35:40.000 That line sticks with me.
00:35:42.000 This is Marxism by fraud.
00:35:44.000 Is this intentional?
00:35:45.000 Is this in a blue state, in a blue setting?
00:35:49.000 Is this the outgrowth of a really sick ideology that is based on racial grievances, that's based on systemic oppression, that's based on CRT, all of these ideologies? 0.61
00:36:02.000 Is it intentionally lacking oversight?
00:36:04.000 Oh, absolutely.
00:36:05.000 I mean, think about it.
00:36:06.000 This is, look, most of the taxes are paid by hardworking middle-class Americans.
00:36:12.000 That's who's paying most of the taxes in this country, right?
00:36:15.000 And it's taken their money and giving it to somebody else.
00:36:19.000 And then the goal is the politicians that give all this away, oh, vote for them because they're giving you something for free because it's free.
00:36:29.000 Andrew, it doesn't cost anything.
00:36:31.000 So absolutely.
00:36:32.000 I mean, let me tell you a quick story.
00:36:34.000 I became governor of Florida.
00:36:35.000 I ran my whole campaign in 2010 on jobs.
00:36:38.000 I go to the agency that does employment right after I won.
00:36:41.000 I said, how's unemployment work?
00:36:42.000 They said, well, you have to, I said, she said, we're open six days a week because unemployed Floridians don't have enough time to apply during the week.
00:36:50.000 Really?
00:36:51.000 I said, if you get unemployment, you have to do anything.
00:36:53.000 They said, yeah, apply for it.
00:36:54.000 You have to apply for five jobs a week.
00:36:56.000 I said, you enforce that?
00:36:57.000 Well, no.
00:37:00.000 I said, if somebody was on unemployment and you found them have a job, would you accuse them of fraud and get the money back?
00:37:07.000 Well, no.
00:37:07.000 I said, what's your purpose here?
00:37:10.000 They said, our purpose is to get as many people on the program as we can, right?
00:37:14.000 Because we don't, you know, because we'll feel good.
00:37:17.000 Who cares?
00:37:18.000 It's free.
00:37:19.000 By the way, they explained to me that at the time, the federal government was paying the excess money.
00:37:23.000 So it's free.
00:37:24.000 It's federal money.
00:37:26.000 They don't care.
00:37:27.000 And they think that's just how they're going to get elected.
00:37:29.000 And look, I've been up here seven years.
00:37:33.000 They don't, you know, the people, they don't set up the programs to work.
00:37:38.000 They intentionally allow the fraud.
00:37:41.000 And then we have earmarks that waste money.
00:37:44.000 We have programs that have no accountability.
00:37:47.000 When I was governor of Florida, 4,000 lines of the budget, every line had a written purpose.
00:37:51.000 If you didn't meet your purpose, I vetoed your money.
00:37:54.000 We can't even, I mean, it's hard to even get a copy of the budget up here, let alone is there a purpose?
00:38:00.000 So we've got to get to the bottom of this.
00:38:02.000 This is unfair.
00:38:04.000 It's un-American. 0.82
00:38:06.000 It's infurious.
00:38:07.000 This has got to change.
00:38:08.000 Senator Scott, we have to get to the bottom of this, but it strikes me that the most immediate pressing thing, we're not going to get Minnesota to reform itself unless we can have a revolution in their state government.
00:38:18.000 But we've tried several times.
00:38:20.000 We're not going to get Wash.
00:38:22.000 Certainly we're not going to flip Washington.
00:38:24.000 We're not going to flip fraud in California anytime soon.
00:38:29.000 What's the step?
00:38:30.000 I guess, first of all, what could the administration do to have immediate accountability for this, not just in terms of arresting perpetrators, but I think a lot of people are asking, okay, we know the fraud is there.
00:38:40.000 Can we bring a stop to it in a quick way, even if that's something as simple as saying Minnesota doesn't get money anymore?
00:38:47.000 Yeah.
00:38:47.000 Well, they've cut off some of it.
00:38:50.000 So right now, one thing they should be doing, and they're focused on it, if you talk to Brooke Rollins, if you talk to Memba Naz, you talk to them, you know, they're going through program by program, and they're going to do everything they can.
00:39:00.000 That's number one.
00:39:02.000 Number two is we've got in Congress, we've got to pass measures to stop the fraud and make sure when we pass things, it doesn't allow the fraud to happen.
00:39:14.000 So what people like Ron Johnson and Mike Lee and Cynthia Lummis and I are doing, we keep coming up with ideas of how do you stop the waste.
00:39:23.000 Now, part of it is stop the earmarks.
00:39:25.000 Part of it is don't have programs that have no accountability.
00:39:29.000 That's part of it.
00:39:30.000 And then the other part is let's make sure that the executive branch has the ability to stop it.
00:39:36.000 And then we need to be doing investigations.
00:39:38.000 We need to do real investigations of each of these programs.
00:39:46.000 I've said for seven years that all this fraud with regard to debris pickup, and I can't get the Democrats to help me.
00:39:54.000 I'm on the right committee, but I have to have Democrat votes to get this done to fix the unbelievable fraud and debris pickup after hurricanes.
00:40:02.000 Jeez.
00:40:04.000 They don't want to do it.
00:40:05.000 Senator.
00:40:06.000 They don't care.
00:40:07.000 I'm just, I wonder if you're going to get maybe a John Fetterman in the Senate, if there's laws that need to be changed.
00:40:15.000 There's too little time here, and I actually have to ask you about Greenland.
00:40:18.000 I had no idea you spoke with representatives from Greenland as much as you did.
00:40:23.000 259.
00:40:24.000 Denmark is a great ally.
00:40:26.000 And I know every time I talk to them, I talk to their ambassador quite a bit.
00:40:29.000 They want to work with us.
00:40:31.000 So we'll see what happens there.
00:40:32.000 All right, Senator.
00:40:33.000 So you know these people.
00:40:35.000 I know exactly what's going to happen.
00:40:37.000 Yeah.
00:40:38.000 What is going to happen next?
00:40:40.000 When not left.
00:40:42.000 So I don't, you know, look, Denmark is a great ally.
00:40:44.000 I talked to their ambassador quite a bit.
00:40:46.000 Jesper's a good guy.
00:40:47.000 So I think Trump is trying to be strategic.
00:40:51.000 I don't believe we're going to be invading Greenland, but I do believe we're going to figure out how to work with Greenland to have more military assets on there so we can counteract what China and Russia is doing.
00:41:01.000 So something will happen there.
00:41:03.000 You never know exactly the process, the let's make a deal guy is going to do, but something will happen there to put us in a better position.
00:41:12.000 Yeah, I mean, we're going to have Pete Hegseth on in the second hour, Senator.
00:41:17.000 So we're going to ask him about Greenland.
00:41:19.000 So, and again, audience members, if you have questions, send them in.
00:41:23.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:41:24.000 They've sent in a lot.
00:41:25.000 They're just, they want, the Secretary of War is like, hey, any question, any question you want.
00:41:30.000 So it's fantastic.
00:41:32.000 Pete's done.
00:41:32.000 He's doing a great job.
00:41:33.000 Yeah, he's doing a phenomenal.
00:41:34.000 By the way, he was our most popular cabinet secretary, according to the Amfest drop poll.
00:41:40.000 So tells you something.
00:41:42.000 People love it.
00:41:42.000 Yeah.
00:41:43.000 I think Pete's doing a great job.
00:41:44.000 I just saw him.
00:41:45.000 We did a classified briefing on Venezuela just last hour.
00:41:47.000 Oh, well, shoot.
00:41:49.000 Now that you tell me that, I wish I could keep you for a couple more minutes.
00:41:52.000 Senator, thank you for joining.
00:41:54.000 We'll have you on again soon.
00:41:55.000 Thank you so much, sir.
00:41:56.000 Bye-bye.
00:41:56.000 See you guys.
00:41:57.000 See both of you.
00:41:57.000 Bye-bye.
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00:43:09.000 Blake, we got new information.
00:43:12.000 There is a tweet here from Trisha McLaughlin, who was just on the show, actually.
00:43:17.000 She said, today ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations, very targeted.
00:43:23.000 There's over 2,000 that have surged to that area following the Somali fraud ring, basically following Nick Shirley's expose. 0.94
00:43:32.000 When rioters began blocking ICE officers, and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in attempt to kill them.
00:43:43.000 Certainly, or at least to block them.
00:43:46.000 But yeah, certainly those things can be fatal, and these people lose their minds and they do crazy things.
00:43:50.000 An act of domestic terrorism, says Trisha McLaughlin.
00:43:53.000 An ICE officer fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement, and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.
00:44:00.000 The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased.
00:44:02.000 The ICE officer who was hurt are expected to make full recoveries.
00:44:06.000 And I totally agree with this, by the way, what she says next.
00:44:08.000 This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement.
00:44:17.000 These men and women who are simply enforcing the law on the books are facing a 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats.
00:44:26.000 This is an evolving situation.
00:44:29.000 We will give public more information as soon as it becomes.
00:44:31.000 And that's the most important part because she says that we'll see.
00:44:36.000 There's reportedly video.
00:44:37.000 We'll see.
00:44:38.000 We'll get more context on what fully happened.
00:44:40.000 But the big picture is this: which is the reason ICE has to go around all acting like they're basically going to war is because they're treated as an enemy force by these left-wing cities, by these left-wing governments.
00:44:54.000 Their job would be a million times easier if they could pluck people out of jails.
00:44:58.000 Yes. 0.70
00:44:58.000 Like focus on that, get the criminals who are getting arrested. 0.70
00:45:01.000 That's happening all the time.
00:45:02.000 They have treated them like criminals.
00:45:04.000 They've encouraged violence against them and they've harassed them.
00:45:08.000 And so, regardless of how this incident went down, that is why it happened.
00:45:12.000 And that needs to be the focus.
00:45:13.000 Yeah.
00:45:13.000 The blood of this person is on Jacob Fry's hands.
00:45:16.000 It's on Governor Tim Walz' hands.
00:45:18.000 Period.
00:45:19.000 Totally well said.
00:45:20.000 1,000% agree.
00:45:22.000 I actually like it when we disagree on stuff a little bit because it makes for a live.
00:45:26.000 This is the wheels.
00:45:26.000 I just happen to completely agree with what you said.
00:45:28.000 You have to.
00:45:29.000 So no sob stories here.
00:45:31.000 Absolutely not.
00:45:32.000 I have seen video after video.
00:45:33.000 There was an instance that really sticks out in my mind where I saw a video of this guy ramming ICE officers in California.
00:45:42.000 They ram him back.
00:45:43.000 They stop him and arrest him.
00:45:45.000 He gets released.
00:45:45.000 He gets immediately.
00:45:46.000 He's an American citizen.
00:45:47.000 So he goes over straight to CNN about two hours later, cries victim on national television.
00:45:54.000 And this is what they do.
00:45:56.000 This is their cycle.
00:45:57.000 So you have these vigilantes.
00:45:59.000 They call themselves citizen activists or whatever.
00:46:02.000 And they're working on behalf of illegal immigrants. 0.79
00:46:05.000 Because why get off your couch to help American citizens?
00:46:08.000 They want to go help the marginalized, right?
00:46:10.000 So then they do this and they put lives on the line.
00:46:14.000 They put lives at risk of federal law enforcement.
00:46:16.000 And by the way, new today, ICE officers have surpassed their recruiting goals of 10,000, according to the one big beautiful bill.
00:46:25.000 They've hired 12,000.
00:46:26.000 There's 12,000 new ICE officers on the streets of the United States.
00:46:30.000 And I want to underscore Blake's point here about this, the way that it was done.
00:46:36.000 So you go back to Obama was called the deporter in chief.
00:46:38.000 Do you realize that 80% of those deportations were done the old-fashioned way?
00:46:43.000 What does that mean?
00:46:44.000 It means an illegal immigrant was arrested, apprehended on the streets of his or her invaded city.
00:46:51.000 They would go into jail.
00:46:53.000 The local officials would process that person.
00:46:55.000 There would be an ICE detainer.
00:46:57.000 They would hand that person over to ICE safely, securely.
00:46:59.000 There's no raids in the streets.
00:47:00.000 There's no DHS rammings.
00:47:02.000 There's no none of that stuff.
00:47:04.000 It's secure.
00:47:05.000 The person has handcuffs on.
00:47:06.000 They get put on a plane, processed, put back in their country of origin. 1.00
00:47:10.000 When sanctuary cities and states refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement, this is the result.
00:47:16.000 They have to go into the streets, do raids.
00:47:19.000 They have to go knock on doors.
00:47:20.000 They have to endanger the public in order to do the public a good.
00:47:24.000 So this is completely Blake's point.
00:47:27.000 The blood is on the hand of Jacob Fry, who's, by the way, demanding that these ICE agents be removed from his city, which is not going to happen, by the way.
00:47:36.000 And you hear Tom Homan saying, we're going to double down.
00:47:38.000 We're coming for California.
00:47:40.000 We're coming for Illinois.
00:47:41.000 We're coming for New York next.
00:47:42.000 So look out.
00:47:43.000 More of this is coming as it should be.
00:47:46.000 And, you know, just say a prayer for our brave men and women of DHS and ICE as they are forced to not work in cooperation behind closed doors in safety, but instead have to go out on the streets and commit, you know, conduct raids on businesses and homes and that sort of thing, because this is completely on the head and on the hands of local officials.
00:48:08.000 It's absolutely infuriating.
00:48:09.000 Blake, we had a, it's kind of related, but there was a House oversight committee hearing, the first of its kind.
00:48:17.000 Some explosive allegations were made in this hearing by Republicans in the state of Minnesota that were saying they have tried to conduct oversight and to deal with the fraud in Minnesota.
00:48:29.000 We saw this went viral the other day that there's in 2018, their inspector general did a whole report or their staff did a whole thing.
00:48:38.000 It laid out exactly how fraud happens.
00:48:40.000 They say they have fake groups that come in or fake groups.
00:48:44.000 They have groups of like these daycares that come in and say, we're interested in stopping fraud, but they're really trying to deflect investigations away.
00:48:51.000 They had a whistleblower explain this to them.
00:48:53.000 They said, we think half of all of our daycare money may be going to fraud, if not more.
00:48:58.000 And then the inspector general just buries it.
00:49:00.000 Well, and get this, they are fabricating documents.
00:49:04.000 Play cut 262.
00:49:06.000 According to the nonpartisan legislative auditor, this is another case of mismanagement of taxpayer money.
00:49:12.000 But perhaps the most explosive revelation is that managers within DHS, the Department of Human Services, tried to cover their tracks by backdating and creating new documents.
00:49:24.000 Backdating?
00:49:24.000 So they're trying to cover their tracks.
00:49:26.000 Other testimony from this morning's hearing said that they were blacklisted, that it was career suicide to call out fraud.
00:49:34.000 The depth of the rot seems to know no end here.
00:49:38.000 It's truly stunning.
00:49:39.000 And I think we all knew this was going on.
00:49:41.000 We all knew that there was fraud.
00:49:43.000 We all knew that it was bloke, but it was so amorphous and abstract.
00:49:45.000 And now you're seeing in vivid technicolor exactly how it works.
00:49:51.000 And they get political kickbacks and they get promises for whole communities like the Somalis to vote in block for them for reelection.
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