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00:01:50.000Scott, thank you for being in studio and visiting us in Phoenix.
00:01:53.000I'm sorry I can't be there in person with you.
00:01:55.000But Blake, as you've probably already realized, is a great host, very hospitable, warm host.
00:02:02.000Thank you so much again, though, for coming.
00:02:04.000And you have so much going on in your world that you inhabit, that you're directing in Washington, and so many opportunities for young people.
00:02:39.000What's the Office of Personnel Management?
00:02:41.000So the very simple way to think about it is we have responsibility for the 2 million civilian employees that basically show up in Health and Human Services, IRS, all your favorite.
00:02:49.000You know, three letter agencies that you might be aware of.
00:02:52.000And our job is to make sure, really, two things.
00:02:54.000One is that we have the right talent so that we can actually deliver on behalf of the American people.
00:02:57.000And then two is that we have the appropriate culture and efficiency and other things to make sure that we can actually deliver for the American people without completely bankrupting our kids and grandkids.
00:03:05.000So those are the things we're focused on.
00:03:07.000I feel like efficiency is not a word you usually associate with government.
00:03:10.000But we actually talked to a journalist and analyst, Judge Glock, yesterday, and he was talking about that actually Doge, for example, did significantly streamline.
00:03:29.000Your listeners may know this, but actually, Doge oversaw kind of the largest reduction in headcount that we've had, I think, literally since like the Civil War II, I think.
00:03:38.000So close to like 300,000 people left the government last year.
00:03:41.000That's about a 13, 14% reduction in headcount.
00:03:44.000And look, there's still 2 million people, so it's not as if like this thing is running on a shoestring.
00:03:49.000But yeah, part of what we have to do now is we've got to take the work that Doge did and we've got to institutionalize it.
00:03:53.000So, we're trying, you know, I use the term we've got to make efficiency a first class citizen in government.
00:03:57.000And this is not just about cutting stuff.
00:03:59.000It's about figuring out, okay, can we do more for the American people?
00:04:01.000But every time we want to do more, the answer shouldn't be we go to Congress and we ask for more headcount.
00:04:05.000We ought to be able to use technology, use operational change, process change, you know, normal techniques that organizations use to be able to actually get more out of the people who are there.
00:04:14.000So that's a big part of what we're trying to do.
00:04:27.000U.S. federal workforce drops to lowest level in 60 years after Trump.
00:04:31.000Purge hundreds of thousands of employees.
00:04:34.000Federal workforce numbers under Trump at lowest levels since 1960.
00:04:38.000So it's a little bit ironic in some ways that you're here with an opportunity, Mr. Director.
00:04:46.000So why don't you explain this very exciting initiative, especially for if you are one of our students at our chapters across the country and you're interested in working in Washington despite the threats levied against you by Alyssa Slotkin?
00:05:00.000But it's a great opportunity, and I want our students especially to hear this.
00:05:06.000Look, what's really happening kind of under the covers here is we are reshaping the federal workforce.
00:05:10.000So, yes, part of this is there was a lot of obviously reductions last year, but the fundamental challenge we have in the federal government is only 7% of our workforce is under the age of 30.
00:05:21.000So, I'm guessing, I don't know, I'm guessing probably 90% of your listeners are under the age of 30 or something like that.
00:05:26.000Just so you have a comparison, in the total U.S. workforce, about 23% of the workforce is under the age of 30.
00:05:32.000So, that means the government has just whiffed by literally a factor of three to one.
00:05:35.000We've done a terrible job of Going on to college campuses and telling people why they should come join the government.
00:05:39.000And notwithstanding Senator Slotkin's appeal that nobody should do that because they're going to put them all in jail, that's not at all the way we think about it.
00:05:49.000What we want is we want patriotic people who care about the future of this country who are willing to say, hey, I'm not asking you to commit a 40 year career, by the way.
00:05:56.000I'm saying, hey, come spend two years, come work on some of the hardest, most complex, most interesting problems.
00:06:00.000And then, by the way, if you decide you want to go to the private sector, you want to the nonprofit sector, all the skills you develop in the federal government are going to be perfectly generalizable to that.
00:06:08.000Even if you do stay long term, we need that too because we've seen why was the bureaucracy often so left wing, even in Trump one, even in Trump two today?
00:06:17.000It's because it is filled up with so many committed ideologue career people.
00:06:21.000And we need people who have a conservative disposition to be in the federal government because it can stop that from happening.
00:06:28.000Yeah, no, I think that's a fair point.
00:06:30.000And look, we just need fundamentally, we need people who love this country, who believe in the Constitution, who are saying, hey, look, I actually want to be part of the solution to the problems.
00:06:38.000You know, the other thing we just need is look, we need fresh thinking, right?
00:06:41.000So, part of the problem of having, you know, only 7% of your workforce that's early career is you just don't have new ideas.
00:06:59.000She said, well, you're ruining everything because our whole pitch to people has been come to the federal government and you have a permanent job for the next 40 years.
00:07:05.000And, you know, I said to her, I said, look, you're not going to like me anymore when you hear my response.
00:07:09.000But that is the worst pitch I've ever heard to an eight To 26 year old, right?
00:07:13.000Like, look, you all know this demographic better than anybody, but I've got kids in this demographic.
00:07:18.000I guarantee you they're not thinking about 40 year careers.
00:07:20.000And so we have to kind of dispel this notion that you make a decision at the age of 22 and like that's what you do.
00:07:26.000And exactly to your point, if you love being in the federal government and you want to contribute, great.
00:07:31.000If you decide you want to do it for some period of time and then you want to go do other things or you want to come back at a later date, all that is goodness.
00:07:37.000And we've got to just stop this, you know, silly dichotomy that like there's a path to take in life and, you know, that's totally one directional.
00:07:54.000What are maybe specific roles that a lot of young people have where they actually should be thinking, I should go apply to the federal government?
00:08:03.000So there's people, you know, we're spending some time at ASU today, and I'm sure they have a public policy program.
00:08:07.000So those people know what the government jobs are.
00:08:09.000But I think what people forget is the government is the single largest employer, whether we like that or not, it's true.
00:08:15.000And so every single job that exists in a company exists in the government.
00:08:18.000So what we're hiring for are HR people, financial analysts, you know, program managers, IT people, security people.
00:08:24.000Like there's a whole law enforcement, you know, set of folks who work in government.
00:08:27.000So, Yes, like it's great if you want to do policy stuff, and we'd love to have you.
00:08:31.000At the end of the day, though, every single job that you might do as part of your broad career, you can do that in the federal government.
00:08:35.000And that's really the critical area where we're really trying to get people excited.
00:08:39.000Yeah, I mean, there's so many questions here, too.
00:08:41.000And I love what Blake was drilling down on is getting more specifics.
00:08:45.000It's like if you are a college, you're about to graduate, or by the way, Director Cooper, we have something called communities, which is a bunch of young professionals, our alums that we need to get this out to immediately.
00:09:10.000And then let me give you a real call to action.
00:09:13.000On October 29th, which I think is literally a week from today, or maybe even less than a week from today, we are doing the first ever cross government, I'll call it a hire a palooza, for lack of a better word.
00:09:22.000We're going to have 16 agencies who are literally going to use an online campaign and do online interviews with folks.
00:09:28.000And we're going to make job offers on the spot on October 29th.
00:11:10.000Obviously, everything in DC is political, so it's very hard to get away from that.
00:11:13.000But at the end of the day, the idea that you don't want young people who actually care about this country coming to work for the country, like, I just can't imagine a worse message.
00:11:23.000And again, I know she wants to politicize this and saying this is just kind of, you know, that everything that President Trump touches, unfortunately, she doesn't think is good.
00:11:32.000But the point is, at the end of the day, if you are an American citizen, do you want young, smart people who actually care about this country working on your behalf?
00:11:41.000And doing so in a way that actually delivers like appropriate goods and services to the American people.
00:11:45.000I just don't understand how that's political.
00:11:47.000I don't understand how you can argue with that.
00:11:49.000And so, yes, my answer to everybody in your audience is do what's right for you in your career, which is help your country and actually help build your skill set.
00:11:58.000Don't be scared away by people who are trying to dissuade you from doing what I think is actually one of the highest callings anybody can do.
00:12:05.000And for people who don't understand, Washington is staffed by predominantly young people between the ages of 22 and 30 or 35.
00:12:15.000So, if you are listening to this and you feel called to serve your country, to step into the breach, I mean, it sounds like you're never going to have a better opportunity than what you said, October 29th?
00:12:28.000And we're going to do a bunch of them.
00:12:30.000And just to put a pin on it right so the president has put out a goal for us that we have now kind of relayed to all the different agencies.
00:12:37.000And what he said is, I want a third of every new hire in the federal government to be early career.
00:12:42.000And again, to give you a sense of what that means, on average, depending on the year the government hires, let's call it 100,000 people a year.
00:12:48.000So you're literally talking 30 plus thousand people who could have an opportunity to come serve their government.
00:12:55.000I'm sure you read the headlines every day.
00:12:56.000Everybody's bemoaning the fact that, you know, kind of unemployment rates for, you know, younger and early career folks are not great.
00:13:03.000You know, there is no better opportunity if you actually want to develop a skill set than to actually take advantage of this opportunity that the government is providing for you.
00:13:12.000Like the nature of the federal government is transforming a lot.
00:13:15.000Like this administration is aggressively embracing AI or super intelligence, as he calls it, which means you'll be on the ground floor of a new federal government that's getting created, lots of new skills.
00:13:38.000You said during the break you're hoping to hire how many people?
00:13:40.000Yeah, I think we're hoping on this one day to get close to 500 people literally hired.
00:13:44.000So the goal is apply to early careers.gov.
00:13:47.000We have 16 different agencies who are going to review applications ahead of October 29th.
00:13:51.000We're going to use some, I won't mention the vendor because I don't know enough about it, but we're using some cool outside vendor to basically do virtual interviews with people.
00:14:00.000And then our goal is to literally give job offers on the spot on October 29th to people who qualify.
00:15:19.000Great inflation, obviously, is always a fun topic.
00:15:21.000And the problem with everybody getting an A is that means there's no incentive for people who are super hardworking to actually do what they're doing.
00:15:28.000Because if you excel, you're treated no differently than anyone else.
00:15:31.000So for the first time this year, actually, we have a force curve now in the federal government on employee ratings.
00:15:36.000So, no more than 40% of people in the federal government can be actually rated in the top group.
00:15:41.000And that's still, quite frankly, a big number.
00:15:43.000But historically, that number was like 70, 80%, which is crazy.
00:15:46.000But the whole point of this is if you are a smart, diligent, like young person, you're going to come into an environment where when you exceed and succeed, you are going to be like fantastically rewarded.
00:15:57.000You're going to move through the organization.
00:15:59.000We actually just eliminated a big impediment for a long time, which is you had to sit in the job for 12 months before you would even be considered for promotion.
00:16:07.000It's called time and grade for those of you who are nerdy inside baseball people.
00:16:19.000And those are the kinds of people we want people who are like, hey, if I go do phenomenal work, I'm going to get rewarded and recognized and paid for that.
00:16:25.000That's incredible because I know people who have lateraled and the reputation, certainly in the Obama years, it's that you were charging hard in the private sector and you saw federal government, oh, this is where you could lateral and you could work 35 hours a week, maybe get all this vacation time.
00:16:41.000And yeah, it made it a very cushy mid career job, but it was not very good for the American people.
00:16:46.000Got you a bloated, expensive workforce that was really non responsive.
00:16:52.000I mean, if we're going to get great people there, they have to walk into an environment that looks like working for an organization like this or working for a private sector organization where when you do well, you get moved through the organization.
00:17:03.000Look, obviously, the federal government can only pay what the federal government can pay.
00:17:06.000But part of the pay problem is actually because we mislevel people and we have these arbitrary rules, which is, hey, if you don't have five years' worth of work experience, you can only come in at level one instead of level five.
00:17:15.000We're also eliminating all of that stuff, basically.
00:17:17.000And so everything is going to be merit based.
00:17:19.000If you are good and you demonstrate performance, You will get paid appropriate for that, and then you will actually get promoted consistent with that as well.
00:17:26.000Well, this is fantastic news, and we're going to get this out to our entire network, Director Cooper.
00:17:32.000And it sounds like you are doing phenomenal work transforming the way that we hire, the way that we promote, the way that we incentivize the federal workforce.
00:17:40.000So if you hear this, young patriots out in the country, and you're worried about AI stealing your jobs, well, there's a huge boon happening right now at the federal government.
00:17:50.000It could be just the perfect opportunity.
00:19:17.000Well, you know what's so cool about it is that we actually have a president that allows us to do the job that we need to do to save American lives.
00:19:25.000And that's the big success story of the Trump administration and President Trump.
00:19:31.000We are watching the numbers of overdose deaths decrease by over 40%.
00:19:36.000That's 44,000 American lives saved since the height of the crisis.
00:19:43.000We are seeing those numbers go into continuous decline.
00:19:47.000So I feel blessed to be a part of this administration, to be a part of what I see as America's recovery, America's common sense initiatives.
00:19:59.000And our children are benefiting that and future generations.
00:20:10.000The fentanyl flowing into the country is falling off a cliff.
00:20:14.000This is one of the unsung, truly unsung aspects of what President Trump and this administration has accomplished.
00:20:21.000So the question then becomes how did you guys accomplish this?
00:20:25.000I mean, because it's historic and people need to know about it.
00:20:28.000Well, we did it through our national drug control strategy, our Homelands, you know, task forces, Homeland Security task forces, as well as our HIDAs.
00:20:37.000Under the Office of National Drug Control Policy, I oversee.
00:20:42.000The high intensity drug trafficking areas.
00:20:44.000Those are our HIDA teams, 33 regional HIDA teams across the country, all working together with our HSTS in an effort to target the drug cartels.
00:20:56.000We're targeting them both internationally and nationally.
00:21:01.000So, meaning the Western hemisphere is being protected.
00:22:02.000I was in Argentina recently with Administrator Terry Cole at the International Drug Enforcement Conference and delivered the U.S. speech along with Terry Cole to our international partners all over the world because this is a global issue.
00:22:17.000We are going to smash the cartels, Andrew.
00:22:22.000They have spent over 50 years taking the lives of Americans, of our children.
00:22:28.000And I want to just preface this with you know, I remember talking to Charlie right as I found out I got this position.
00:22:38.000And, you know, the issue of fentanyl and the rise of deaths in the United States at its highest point, it was over 112,000 under President Biden.
00:22:48.000That is American deaths, that's overdoses and poisonings due to fentanyl.
00:22:53.000And I remember Charlie saying, you know, If there's anyone that can do this, it's got to be President Trump.
00:22:59.000President Trump working with you, working with everyone else to save our children's lives, and how much that meant to him, right?
00:23:15.000And as the drugs are, you know, as the drugs are, I oversee all the 18 agencies and a nearly $44 billion budget that is designated.
00:23:26.000To the national security of this country.
00:23:28.000That means from Health and Human Services to the Department of War, and ensuring that that money is being allocated appropriately and following the national strategy that President Trump has put in place.
00:23:41.000That's why you're seeing lives saved because we're not taking it anymore.
00:24:41.000You're never going to be your fullest potential if you're using, if you're addicted.
00:24:47.000They watched as their friends died over the last decade, you know, even more than a decade.
00:24:53.000They watched as young people in their universities, friends of theirs, you know, collapsed dead, thinking they were taking an Adderall, purchasing it online, and then only to find out their parents find out that they have died and that they have to.
00:25:07.000You know, now their lives have been turned upside down.
00:25:09.000Communities have been turned upside down.
00:25:11.000They see the lie when they look at Kensington, you know, in Philadelphia, and people are toppled over on the streets.
00:25:44.000We saw addiction rise with the pharmaceutical giants, you know, with opioids.
00:25:49.000And finally, when we got a hold of that and stopped that, you know, those pill mills in the US, the cartels were already bringing in the heroin.
00:25:59.000You know, we had the Juarez cartel, then CJNG was bringing in heroin and feeding that supply chain, feeding that addiction.
00:26:07.000And then we saw others across the globe, you know, pharmaceutical laboratories in China.
00:26:13.000Pushing precursor chemicals into Mexico.
00:26:16.000And then those precursor chemicals were being used to create these fentanyl pills, these blue pills that were pushed all over our streets.
00:26:24.000And before we knew it, people, Americans were dying.
00:26:27.000Communities like in Ohio, you know, were seeing coroner's offices were being filled up with bodies.
00:26:49.000We talk about the importance of freedom in our nation, right?
00:26:52.000And how amazing it is to live in a country that is so absolutely beautiful, where liberty and freedom is essential to everyone.
00:26:59.000Where, by the way, frankly, people from all over the world, including my mother, who was a Cuban immigrant to this country in the late 1960s, want to be a part of this beautiful, great republic, right?
00:28:04.000I think it's important to let our children know and let the American people know that we have not forgotten you.
00:28:10.000You are the front lines of this battle.
00:28:12.000If we are going to win as a federal government, as a nation, against the cartels and against those that want to poison us, we have to work together.
00:28:23.000And that is the most important message that I can deliver.
00:28:27.000Please pay attention to your children.
00:28:29.000Please pay attention to what they're doing and work together.
00:29:57.000I hope you guys are internalizing just how incredible that is.
00:30:01.000So, Sarah Carter comes in, she's got she kind of Helps coordinate $40 billion in spending across our government on national security, stopping drug deaths, and 45,000 Americans are alive today, according to her estimates.
00:30:16.000I've seen some numbers say it's as high as 60,000.
00:32:09.000We got a breaking news story this morning out of Portsmouth, Virginia, where the FBI raided the office of Virginia Senate President pro tempore Luis Lucas, L. Luis Lucas, a Democrat and close ally of Virginia Governor Spanberger.
00:32:28.000So then, after the raids, she was arrested by the feds and is now in federal custody.
00:32:34.000She's charged with drug trafficking, felt a little bit related to our past segment, so I wanted to get to it.
00:32:40.000Money laundering, fraud, and firearms charges.
00:32:44.000So apparently, she was recorded on a phone call saying, This is our last chance at generational wealth.
00:33:17.000She was basically getting in position to obviously essentially be a marijuana trafficker and then also on the law side lobbying to make it more legal.
00:33:30.000But What it was always very obvious that the left for years they made this process as they made it easier to sell weed, they were also saying, like, they could basically treat it as a form of reparations.
00:33:41.000Like, let's traffic in the licenses, don't just make it a feeding frenzy, give it to specific groups.
00:33:46.000They sold it as a form of racial equity.
00:33:49.000And I think she's one of several people who seem to have exploited this.
00:33:52.000And that makes it one of the darkest things imaginable because what it essentially turned into is we pivoted from we should have laws to protect America's.
00:34:01.000Uh, urban communities, poor communities, black communities from drugs to oh, it's actually reparations for us to deliberately target those communities with drugs.
00:34:29.000Someone with the power to make an arrest finally decided to look at it.
00:34:33.000Well, yeah, this has been an open secret, and she's been using her political power, especially in the state of Virginia, her alliances, her relationship with the governor, to essentially shield herself from this.
00:34:45.000And she thought she could get away with this with impunity.
00:34:47.000She's still defiant because, of course, this 82 year old great grandmother that is playing the race card, anyways.
00:34:56.000It says today the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the full weight of the federal government have wielded against an 82 year old great grandmother.
00:36:02.000She is the essence of corruption, and she's shrouded in this sort of Jim Crow racial virtue signaling that she thinks is going to carry the day and see her through.
00:36:14.000The problem is, I think they got her dead to rights.
00:36:16.000And, you know, she was very, very brazen.
00:36:24.000Ted Cruz, when we were going through the whole redistricting fight in Virginia, and Ted Cruz said, a brazen abuse of power and an insult to democracy.
00:36:43.000Y'all started it, and we, blank pejorative word, finished it.
00:36:48.000So she's a defiant, angry black woman who thinks that she can get away with anything as long as she shrouds herself in the language of civil rights activism.
00:37:07.000Like, I mean, I guess we're going to see the sequel to it where people will just say, like, I grew up the grandchild of people who were under Jim Crow or whatever.
00:37:17.000We've had an entire generation of politicians who've been flagrantly corrupt and they've just trafficked in, like, Jim Crow scaremongering and exploiting the memory of the civil rights movement to just get away with the most flagrant behavior imaginable.
00:37:33.000They're finally aging out of the system, and hopefully, we can get some better politicians out of it because, for a long time, they've been some of our most corrupt, most hard to remove, like the worst barnacles in our state and federal government.
00:37:46.000And the black community, for once, deserves better.
00:39:54.000I just said, guys, make sure you have two factor authorization on any bank you have, anything that has access to your money, anything that's important to you.
00:40:04.000Just be ready because if you're aware, if you're an expert, the experts in cybersecurity basically say they're going through the biggest security crisis in their lifetimes.
00:40:47.000But wherever it's coming from, these AI bots are getting very, very effective at infiltrating very, I would say important infrastructure that's also consumer based.
00:40:57.000This isn't just government based infrastructure.
00:40:59.000So please, please, please look into that.
00:41:02.000And we'll get some experts on this week to talk more about it and see what you can do to defend yourself and take precautions.
00:41:08.000But I mean, when the NSA is putting out tweets saying that PHP, about 70% of websites have this vulnerability and use PHP, okay, you got to take note.
00:41:20.000And I think that tweet is like 11 million, 12 million people have seen that.
00:41:37.000This is not something you should sit around on.
00:41:40.000The people who are professionals are freaking out about it, and so we just encourage all of you if you take even a little bit of preparation, you will be a lot safer compared to a lot of people.
00:41:50.000And so, we would encourage you all to do that.
00:41:52.000And then, this comes as Axios reports unvetted AI agents are accessing U.S. bank accounts, major U.S. banks are detecting.
00:42:00.000Unauthorized third party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions.
00:42:09.000Okay, so you might be familiar with stuff like Grokbot, right?
00:42:12.000Where you could say, Hey, go cancel my subscription.
00:43:43.000Is not able to give one word answers when it comes to condemning the Muslim Brotherhood, care, all of this stuff, the Ayatollah, is because he's actually a true believer.
00:43:52.000You know, he has been speaking and doing events at a Detroit Islamic Center that is basically a hotbed for radicalization.
00:44:36.000Yeah, this is like Hillary Clinton says she wants to expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices, but only when the Democrats are in power, because it's all about fairness.
00:44:44.000But let's just really quick on Abdul El Sayed.
00:44:47.000Abdul said he's an immigrant from North Africa.
00:44:50.000He said he's a dual citizen with Egypt.
00:46:13.000Maybe he loves what he thinks he can turn it into.
00:46:16.000But this race is incredibly important to circle on the map because if the socialists, if the jihadists, if the third worldists, if they think that they can win a A swing state like Michigan, which is Democrat tilt.
00:46:30.000Nevertheless, if he can win there, it will be no holds barred moving forward.
00:46:35.000They will run these people in every single state across this nation, and the radicalizing elements of the far left will have a field day.
00:47:17.000Lindsey Graham is dead, died abruptly.
00:47:20.000Maybe they were really disappointed when that happened, but it's like it's ugly form to try to trash a person who can't defend themselves in this way.
00:47:31.000Yeah, so they're alleging that he was gay and that he hired sex workers, and one of them was underage.
00:47:37.000Obviously, if that's true, I find it despicable.
00:47:41.000And if you're going to try and implicate in some way Darlene Graham because you don't want her to win the Senate race, I think that's scummy.
00:47:48.000So, all you Democrats that think that the Vivek Ramaswamy ad was such low form, such bad form, you know, look in the mirror, okay?
00:48:48.000It looks like Senator Vance was at a rally and a gentleman or gentlewoman, I'm not sure actually, had some sort of medical emergency, medical issue come up.
00:49:00.000He enters the crowd and then leads the attendees in the Lord's Prayer.
00:49:06.000And this happened in Nebraska at his rally just moments ago.
00:49:10.000So, I mean, that's pretty amazing actually that he did that.
00:49:15.000And I'm reminded of Charlie's Memorial when JD Vance was reading.
00:49:20.000I was backstage and I was watching his script that would go up on the teleprompter.
00:49:25.000And I watched as he went off script to talk about how he'd talked about Jesus more in the last two weeks than he had in his entire public life up until that point.
00:49:35.000And, you know, then obviously he issued, he wrote that book about his own faith journey, was inspired to finish it, had been working on it for years, inspired to finish it after Charlie's murder.
00:51:19.000But, you know, there's this whole year, 2027, that's just going to go by without any progress in the criminal trial against Tyler Robinson.
00:51:29.000This is really, I've said this before, but just to repeat again, this is a strong argument.
00:51:35.000I think there's a big case to be made.
00:51:37.000Red states we should invest more money.
00:51:39.000In our court systems, have more judges, pay for more bailiffs, whatever infrastructure you need.
00:51:46.000When you have a major murder like this, it should be within our capacity to see that case through to completion in a reasonable length of time because we should not be waiting three years or more to get justice for what happened to Charlie and for anyone who faces a crime like this.
00:52:18.000But yeah, it says the filing and litigation motions related to the state's proposed non expert guilt phase evidence in the second quarter of 2028.
00:52:27.000And then they want to do litigation motions related to the state's proposed penalty phase experts in the third quarter of 2028.
00:52:33.000And then they want to do something when it comes to the non expert penalty phase in the fourth quarter, filing litigation of venues in the first quarter.
00:52:41.000The lodging of a proposed jury questionnaire and the filing and litigation of motions related to all jury selection procedures and jury instructions in the second quarter of 2029, so that then you can go to trial in the third quarter of 2029.
00:52:57.000So they've got each of these blocks that they think they need to get accomplished in order to get to the trial phase.
00:53:04.000So, and the timeline proposed by the state is more accelerated, but it's still so delayed.
00:54:44.000LeBron James should apologize to all those great American warriors and heroes who died for the American flag and all that our country stands for, President Donald J. Trump.
00:54:53.000I, you know, honestly, I totally agree.
00:54:55.000I wanted to hit this because it felt very Charlie esque, okay?
00:55:57.000And the fact that you do not have the sense of, Presence, you don't understand who you are and what you represent to this country, and how things like this that might feel insignificant to you are truly significant to the people that follow you and look up to you, the young people around the country.
00:56:18.000And nevertheless, you know, you're worth $1.4 billion, and you don't have the presence of mind to pay respect to the country that gave you all this opportunity that allowed you to be so enriched.
00:56:31.000Pretty sure you wouldn't do that in China, LeBron.
00:56:33.000Pretty sure you would have stood in respect for their anthem.
00:56:40.000The fact that you feel so willy nilly, the fact that you feel so emboldened and entitled to practice your shot and stretch and do your golf swing during the national anthem is a true disgrace.
00:56:50.000And I don't want to be mad at you, but I am.
00:56:55.000I talk about jobs and industries on this show all the time, but I didn't expect to find an entire skills trade community on TikTok.
00:57:03.000Plumbers, electricians, builders, and contractors sharing the work they do every day.
00:57:07.000And it went way beyond tips and tricks.
00:57:10.000People were sharing their craft, connecting with local contractors, and talking about how they were building their businesses and growing their teams.
00:57:16.000It opened my eyes to how people in the trades are using TikTok to share their skills, make connections, and find new opportunities.
00:57:23.000I remember thinking, this is exactly what we need more of people sharing what they know and creating opportunities for others.
00:57:29.000And I never expected to find a community like this.
00:57:33.000You start with something you know, and suddenly you're finding a whole new side of it that surprises you and leaves you wanting to know more.
00:57:39.000Your next discovery is waiting for you on TikTok.
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00:57:47.000We're going to bring in Will Chamberlain in just a second, but first, I want to give you an update out of Maricopa County.
00:57:52.000Another big drop, and for a third day in a row, Republicans take the drop.
00:57:57.000So Maricopa added 69,271 ballots, and it was an R plus 1.1.
00:58:05.000Just as a reminder, we did not have Republicans winning an early drop in 2022 until the Friday before election.
00:58:12.000This is three days in a row in Maricopa that we have won the drop.
00:58:17.000So the county now sits at D plus 0.5 compared to D plus 1.3 on the same day in 2022.
00:58:25.000So we are ahead by about 0.8 where we were in 2022.
00:58:31.000Now, as a state total, statewide, there have been 739,746 ballots delivered, early ballots, and it sits at D plus 0.7.
00:58:44.000On the same day in 2022, it was D plus 2.7.
00:58:47.000So we are running two points ahead of our 2022 totals.
00:58:51.000And here's what's really exciting when you look under the hood, We're winning with zero out of four voters, one out of four voters, two out of three voters, or two out of four voters, three out of four voters.
00:59:02.000We're losing with four out of four voters.
00:59:04.000So, a lot of those four out of four voters, those high propensity voters, are going to show up on election day.
00:59:39.000Now, you have been on top of this Ilhan Omar story like just about nobody else out there.
00:59:46.000There is so many different aspects of this case swirling.
00:59:50.000It's so delicious if you're us, because Ilhan Omar has been a thorn in our side and really just one of the more annoying congresswomen in the country.
01:00:01.000Break it down point by point, what's actually going on, because, like I said, there's just so much swirling.
01:00:06.000So, what are the feds investigating, and what can we surmise at this point?
01:00:11.000The feds are investigating immigration fraud and a related conspiracy.
01:00:18.000And the conspiracy includes this potential that she married her brother, it includes potential false statements she's made recently on her passports or in other places about her citizenship and perhaps even her date of birth.
01:00:32.000So, but that's the core accusation here is really that from the inception, from the mid 90s, when she came to the United States with her father, that she came under a false identity, that she was not, in fact, Ilhan Omar, that she was, in fact, Ilhan Nursaid Elmi.
01:00:51.000And the most recent revelation from yesterday was that apparently the Department of Justice has taken the view that that is her name.
01:01:00.000Her name is not Ilhan Omar, her name is Ilhan Nursaid Elmi.
01:01:07.000That they filed with in Washington, D.C., which is actually related to sort of a side piece of litigation about whether or not the warrant on her house would be unsealed.
01:01:18.000But in that document, they said that this was a warrant in relation to Ilhan Nur Saeed Elmi, AKA Ilhan Omar.
01:01:25.000Right, which then sort of leads us to believe that she's been operating under a pseudonym all these years.
01:01:40.000Blake, sorry, I couldn't tell if you were about to chime in.
01:01:41.000Well, yeah, I guess we've all been fixated.
01:01:44.000Obviously, the idea that she might have married her brother has been at the heart of this and has really kept it going.
01:01:50.000But if that's the case, if she had a false name, there's so many other things that could be in play here.
01:01:55.000And I've seen people say maybe the real thing is not necessarily that she married her brother, but clearly it seems the evidence to me feels almost overwhelming at this point that her second marriage, whatever it was, was clearly fraudulent.
01:02:08.000And that if you peel it back, you're going to see.
01:02:11.000An episode in the just endemic, epidemic levels of just deceptive, fraudulent behavior in the Somali diaspora that came to America in the 1990s.
01:02:22.000But so can you build that out for us more, Will?
01:02:24.000So let's start with just Ilhan's story of marriages so people understand the timeline here and you'll understand why things are so suspect.
01:02:30.000So, back in 2003, she apparently has a religious marriage with who is now the father of her three children.
01:02:37.000And then in 2009, without getting a formal divorce of that man, she has a civil marriage to Ahmed Nur Saeed Elmi.
01:02:47.000That civil marriage was conducted by a Christian priest, a Christian pastor, which is odd because, of course, she is Muslim.
01:02:56.000By 2011, apparently, they were no longer in the picture.
01:03:01.000And in 2015, before any divorce was filed, Omar filed a joint tax return with her first religious husband, who she shared the three children with.
01:03:12.000And then later in 2017, she formally divorced the so called second husband.
01:03:19.000One nugget that has not been reported that much, that was buried in the lead of a Washington Post story, was that apparently Ahmed Nursaid Elmi, the supposed second husband, Applied for naturalization in the early 2010s.
01:03:34.000And then USCIS came back to him and asked him for more documents and substantiation of his marriage to Ilhan Omar.
01:03:42.000And instead of providing that, he simply withdrew his application for naturalization, which is maybe the most suspect and revealing fact of all.
01:03:58.000Because if she's here legitimately and this is legitimately her brother, then Her brother should just be able to come in on a normal family visa, like a family reunification visa.
01:04:08.000And so, the way to understand it is while the marriage fraud was itself illegal, it's also the keystone at understanding the whole matrix of immigration fraud here that goes back to her father coming over in the mid 1990s under an identity that is pretty clear wasn't his.
01:04:23.000The allegations are that her father, now deceased, was a senior colonel in Siad Barre's Marxist Leninist regime in Somalia.
01:04:34.000The Somalian regime obviously fell during the Somalian Civil War, which is why Ilhan and her family had to move to Kenya.
01:04:40.000But because he was a senior colonel in a regime that was explicitly and avowedly Marxist, he would have been inadmissible to the United States.
01:04:49.000So he therefore would have had to come in under a pseudonym.
01:04:52.000And so we don't know the details of exactly how that happened.
01:04:56.000Did he merge into an existing family that had already gotten admission, which is something that actually has happened?
01:05:03.000I mean, you can find examples in the first Trump administration.
01:05:07.000For example, of four Somalis being denaturalized and deported who had presented themselves as a family for a diversity visa, and none of them were related to each other a husband, wife, and two purported children.
01:05:18.000None of them had any relation to the others.
01:05:20.000So these sort of fake families, mix and match families could have been done in Somalia because, of course, in those refugee camps in Kenya, it's not like they had great records and documentation of birth certificates and things like that.
01:05:32.000There's no question about these things being revealed.
01:05:35.000So you had just a lot of potential for fraud and people to pretend they're members of families that they aren't really members of.
01:05:43.000So something along those lines seemed to have happened here, where you have this father who had to pretend he wasn't a colonel in this Marxist regime, pretending to be somebody else.
01:05:51.000And then perhaps because he had to maybe merge into a different family or adopt another family's name that was going to be admitted, he couldn't bring all his children along because maybe the family structure wouldn't have made sense.
01:06:02.000An example would be think about it this way if you're merging your family into someone else's family and pretending that you're one big family, then your children can't be more than.
01:06:11.000Your children need to be at least nine months apart.
01:06:14.000And so if they're not, that would obviously create a serious problem.
01:06:17.000Maybe you fudge a birth date, maybe you, but maybe you also don't try and bring in all your children, which might have happened here or something along those lines.
01:06:24.000And that, so that sort of could be the catalyst for why 15 years later, after, you know, this family maybe split up 15 years before and then was trying to reunify with a sham marriage.
01:06:35.000I just think it's the way you describe this, it's just Americans have no idea how privileged we've been to not merely live in, as we'd say, a high trust society, but like, A legible society, a society with documentation, and a society where it's just not really thinkable to engage in that level of deception of the system.
01:06:58.000And I really think as the DOJ peels this back, the press has just, they've avoided this by treating it all like it's so uninteresting.
01:07:06.000And I don't know if she married her brother, but I think if we peel this back, you're going to discover this process by which really tens, hundreds of thousands of people have just made it an entire industry within their subculture to lie to everyone.
01:07:20.000And we've just, We've taken it lying down because most of us have been ignorant it's even happening.
01:07:25.000And you're racist, as Charlie would say, for even pointing it out.
01:07:30.000Well, this is what's interesting here, Will.
01:07:32.000Ilhan Omar deleted a 2013 tweet calling her father Nur Syed.
01:07:38.000So this does seem to, you know, now that we have these charging documents that refer to her as Ilhan Nur Syed Elmi.
01:07:49.000And so she goes, Happy Father's Day to my abo.
01:07:53.000Noor Syed, I am forever grateful to Allah for giving me the best father.
01:08:07.000Yeah, I mean, that's one piece of many pieces of evidence that have been reported by people like Scott Johnson and David Steinberg and Preya Samsandar at Powerline over the years.
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01:10:05.000I started with the Somali blog that I don't know if it still exists, but somebody put in there that, you know, that he had to have been my brother or something to that effect.
01:10:18.000And right wing conspiracy theorists in Minneapolis got a hold of it.
01:10:31.000You know, a lot of attention's gone on the not to my knowledge part, but what really stood out to me is just the fact that he says, Who is this guy that they're saying, you know, as your brother?
01:11:09.000I mean, not, you know, the big E on the eye chart here is, though, not to my knowledge.
01:11:13.000I mean, that is just the weirdest way to answer that question.
01:11:16.000There shouldn't be any doubt whether you married your brother.
01:11:19.000The other thing I've been just percolating on since our last segment, Will, was you were talking about how, if this is her brother, they got married with a Christian pastor.
01:11:30.000Now, if you're a Muslim, that is a sign that you know you're doing something that is not allowed, that is sort of forbidden.
01:11:39.000So you're going to go do it in the religion you think is false.
01:11:41.000You're going to go do it before somebody that is not representative of the true faith that you ascribe to.
01:11:47.000So, it just feels like a slap in the face and another little clue in this puzzle as you're unraveling it here.
01:13:26.000Like, normally, you know, I mean, look, I haven't been divorced, God forbid, but like, one would think that a divorced couple would not want the ex spouse to be living in the same house with them.
01:13:40.000And we know it's also fake because the, you know, despite having never like formally registered the original first marriage, you have in 2015 the couple that shares two, three children filing a joint tax return.
01:13:55.000There's something obviously fake about it.
01:13:57.000And again, it's like the fact that she can't even describe this person she supposedly married.
01:14:03.000There's lies about how long she knew this person, when she stopped contact with him.
01:14:06.000Like she made a claim that she, in her divorce filings, again under oath, that she hadn't seen or heard from him since 2011.
01:14:14.000But there are social media posts indicating that her responding and interacting with this guy as late as 2013.
01:14:22.000There's also social media posts from this guy referring to around the time Ilhan Omar gave birth to at least one of her children, to referring to them as referring to a picture that he had taken as.
01:14:42.000I think about that scandal that happened in Britain with Professor Jacer and Arde, where he got exposed.
01:14:48.000He was doing academic fraud, and it caused a bit of a feeding frenzy with the media where they started to realize there's so many things about this guy's life that are a lie and it should be newsworthy.
01:14:58.000Like, even if it were the case that you can't denaturalize Ilhan Omar, that All the statute of limitations of past that you can't prosecute her right now.
01:15:07.000It should be incredibly interesting to our media class.
01:15:11.000All of this behavior, it should be seen.
01:15:14.000They should say, This is incredibly bizarre.
01:15:16.000We should figure out what happened here.
01:15:18.000It seems like we have a member of Congress who's very prominent who lies a lot about her personal history.
01:15:23.000She's lying about marriages, she's doing bizarre stuff.
01:15:26.000You could get such an insight into this world.
01:15:28.000If she were a member of a fundamentalist Christian sect that was doing weird behavior like this, they would be all over this like flies on excrement.
01:15:37.000And the fact that they are not is just so damning of our media apparatus that they can just see this giant, it's like a black hole emanating out of the Somali community in Minnesota that makes them go, nothing interesting here, nothing to see.
01:16:07.000You know, smoke, there must be fire element here because, again, this casual nature of fraud within the Somali community seems to be a perfect representation of a larger fraud problem that we've become so aware of this year.
01:16:20.000But then I want to know what you think is ultimately the most likely outcome to this investigation.
01:16:30.000So, on the financial side, I think the most interesting dynamic here is to realize that if Ilhan Omar has this compromised family history and This history of not being properly admitted to the country, not being properly naturalized, immigration fraud, endless lying, that would make her an incredibly compromised person for blackmail within her own family.
01:16:53.000This strikes me as the kind of thing that if you saw this in the Italian mafia, this is like a plot out of The Sopranos.
01:16:59.000They would exploit someone like this ruthlessly who had this kind of criminal history and couldn't have it revealed publicly.
01:17:05.000So it strikes me that, especially given what's been revealed by the types of Nick Shirley and the Feeding Our Future scandal and what seems like endless fraud in the Somali community in Minnesota.
01:17:14.000She would be the perfect tool of one of these organized fraud rings to get legal protection and legal assistance from a legislature.
01:17:24.000And so I wouldn't be surprised at all if she's somehow involved and that maybe she was, you know, wanted to be involved out of greed.
01:17:30.000Maybe she was compelled to be involved because of threat of revealing all this derogatory information about her and potentially ruining her life and subjecting her to criminal penalties.
01:17:39.000Either way, it's just an example of how compromised she was and also why it's a derogation of duty upon the part of the media.