On today's show, we have a special guest on the show, Nick Shirley. Nick is a fraud investigator who exposed massive government child care fraud in his home state of Minnesota. He's been in the business for a long time, but it wasn't until he exposed the fraud that people began to realize just how widespread it really is.
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00:02:08.300Yeah, it's changed drastically because you wouldn't think by exposing fraud, you would really get a lot of people to come after you.
00:02:14.780You'd think, like, for instance, you'd think the mainstream media would be happy.
00:02:18.100You'd think other government officials would be happy.
00:02:20.260But then you see them all just turn it around and make it act like you're some sort of villain, which then enrages a bunch of crazies to want to kill you.
00:02:50.160And so now you're being called anti-migrant, anti-Islam, all this sort of stuff.
00:02:56.700When you just did a video about fraud, you had nothing to do with the race or the religion.
00:03:01.660It just happens to be that 89% of the Somalian population is committing the fraud in Minnesota.
00:03:08.500What did you do differently that made your story stand out where, you know, Chris Ruffo and, as I said, Walter Kern, they've been talking about this for a long time.
00:03:21.860And it connected, but it connected in the mind.
00:05:53.000And they're receiving millions of dollars.
00:05:54.760In that video right there, you're seeing a green building that has two daycares inside the same address, receiving upwards of $5 million.
00:06:03.500The Kash Patel came out and said, the FBI is aware of recent social media reports.
00:06:08.660Again, I think they're talking about you in Minnesota.
00:06:11.360However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes, exploiting federal programs.
00:06:21.760They had, but they just announced, I think it was yesterday, they're going to send another 2,000 investigators and federal officials, which is fantastic.
00:06:54.100Then by the time I got out of the Uber, so many people had called me between then and the phone call and so many messages that I couldn't figure out what phone number it was.
00:07:10.900If they need to talk to you, believe me, they'll get a hold of you.
00:07:12.680There is nothing freakier than when you look down at your phone, and it's either the White House calling you or the FBI.
00:07:20.940You're kind of like, I'm not sure I want to take this phone call right now.
00:07:25.000Anyway, you said with Patrick McDavid, you found it surprising that they didn't have all this information already.
00:07:33.040Yeah, because, I mean, it was so obvious, and just like, how come it was my video that surged even 2,000 more?
00:07:42.520If millions, quite literally billions of dollars is being given to these daycare centers, how come the government doesn't know that the money is being spent here?
00:07:53.400And so I thought what was great about this is the HHS then went and froze all daycare payments or all childcare payments and tell these businesses to prove they're legit.
00:08:02.480And so far, no business has been able to send in information saying they're a legit business.
00:08:08.520It's in, I think I saw you in Ohio, exposing this more in Ohio, or is that not you?
00:08:36.500Like, everyone knows, and you talk to the Somalis, and they're like, are we the only people who commit fraud?
00:08:42.380They'll literally say, are we the only people who commit fraud?
00:08:45.000No, and I'd like to find, do you have tips on others?
00:08:47.000You should ask them, do you have tips on others?
00:08:49.440Because we'll go after them too, yeah.
00:08:51.520Yeah, and like I said, it just so happens that the fraud being committed in Minnesota, 89% of the population committing the fraud is Somalian.
00:10:06.760And there's no way they could not have known, because as you say, the Leering Center didn't have any children in it, doing any leering.
00:10:16.140The Omar guy who was running for mayor, he was also, he had a brother-in-law or some family member who was in charge of one of the daycares that had also been receiving $2 million.
00:10:29.160And they actually had so many violations, they shut down the daycares, and the next day they reopened.
00:10:34.460And that guy was about to become mayor.
00:10:36.620And so all these people are in on the fraud.
00:12:24.120I watched your video as things were happening in Iran over the weekend.
00:12:29.000And I'm watching Iran, I mean, not probably as much as you are, with real hope and anticipation of possible good things to come.
00:12:40.080Can you tell us what's going on in Iran right now and if it's different than what we've seen in the past?
00:12:46.080So, what's happening in Iran right now is that people are rising up to overthrow the shackles of Islamic oppression that has held them hostage for the last 47 years.
00:13:02.040And a lot of people in Western media or a lot of the apologists for the Islamic Republic, you know, the pro-Islamists, they are claiming that, you know, this is just about the economy and people are just upset.
00:13:17.760Well, if this was about the economy, why are Iranians now?
00:13:22.060Like, this is the 10th day and things have escalated.
00:13:54.840Because there's only one person that Iranians trust to transition the country from a brutal totalitarian dictatorship into a functioning, secular, democratic country.
00:14:07.180And that's His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince of Iran, who's in exile.
00:14:11.740So do you believe, I've heard people say, well, he's not really a player because he's only been speaking out, but he hasn't really been active in anything significant in Iran.
00:15:07.400The reason that there are some people who are attacking him right now at the most critical time is because they know that the only person who can free Iran is the Crown Prince in exile.
00:15:20.980And so that's where he's being attacked.
00:15:22.300But Iranians in occupied Iran, they don't care.
00:15:25.180They are literally out there right now.
00:15:28.320It is, it is, it's all out civil war, Glenn.
00:15:31.520The Islamic Republic, they have imported their proxy terrorist groups from, from Iraq, from like Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza, right?
00:15:41.860They've imported all of their terrorist proxy groups and those people are heavily armed and they're out there attacking Iranians right now.
00:15:49.800And yet for Iranians, it's, it's basically now or never.
00:15:53.620They are putting their lives on the line.
00:15:56.180And, you know, one thing that gave Iranians a lot of hope is, is President Trump's statement where he said, if the Islamic Republic continues to shoot at innocent Iranians, then President Trump is going to do something about it.
00:16:11.540You know, you know, the United States, you know, the United States is locked and loaded.
00:16:13.860That actually gave Iranians so much hope.
00:16:17.360I guarantee you right now, President Trump is more popular in Iran than he is in the United States.
00:16:24.100Well, he'd have a hard time walking down the street in Venezuela today as well, being mobbed with fans.
00:16:32.820The, this has happened twice before, but it happened with Biden and, and then it happened with Obama and neither of them voiced their support.
00:16:41.760And I was saying at the time, that's the thing that Ronald Reagan did, you know, when the Berlin wall came down, when you had the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was, he was vocally supporting the people.
00:16:55.580Um, and I, and I, and I thought that was, you know, the missing, the missing piece, but the other part that at least Obama did was send money to the regime.
00:17:06.660Um, you know, you say this isn't about economics and, and I think part of partially true, um, but economics may have played the role to get the people out, the businesses out into the street and saying something, you know, I did a calculation today on the real and it is.
00:17:26.220It's one, 1.47 million reals to $1, which makes bread right now in Iran is between a hundred and 500,000, uh, reals.
00:17:39.040That means if it's at the high side, that means America, you could walk in and buy a loaf of bread for 34 cents.
00:18:07.580So, so like I said, the, the economic crisis, the collapse of the real, the, the, uh, you know, increasing, um, inflation that has played a role in sparking the movement, right?
00:18:22.300So the economy has played a role in sparking the, the, the demonstration, but people out there right now, they're not protesting because of the collapse of the real, but the collapse of the real is just one other, um, symptom of, of, you know,
00:18:39.280It's a straw that broke the camel's back.
00:18:47.380It's, um, it's, it's, it's about, you know, the, the, the fact that people have been brutally oppressed by, you know, Islamic dictatorship.
00:18:55.240It's the fact that people don't want Sharia a lot.
00:18:57.580They don't want, like, like we, like Iranians are sick and tired of, um, their, their name and their country being associated with terrorism because we're not terrorists.
00:19:09.360And prior to 1979, Iran was one of the biggest allies of the United States.
00:19:15.320Um, in fact, I think the person people are amazing.
00:19:23.580What, what, tell me, you know, it's been a long time since that has happened and a lot, I mean, you've had generations now raised under this.
00:19:33.940It, when the, when the Shah left and you had the Ayatollah Khomeini come in, most people don't know that was the Islamists and the Marxist socialists that were supporting that.
00:19:48.160And as soon as the Ayatollah got in, uh, I think 20,000 Marxist kind of were disappeared or thrown into jail or killed.
00:19:57.640Um, and, and it, it was, uh, it wasn't exactly a smooth transition.
00:20:06.020I mean, if this happens and they fall and the new Prince comes back, how, how, how bad would a purge be?
00:20:15.740I mean, is that, would that be part of this?
00:20:18.160Do you think that there'd be a lot of people that have to go to jail and how would this happen?
00:20:23.360So, um, his Royal Highness, um, the Crown Prince has said that, um, he wants to establish something similar to the Nuremberg trial.
00:20:33.260So, um, no violence, like no purge, nothing like that.
00:20:37.180Um, he wants, uh, there to, you know, basically a court of law and anyone who has, you know, anyone who is guilty of oppression or as part of the Islamic dictatorship, uh, will have to face that court of law.
00:20:50.680And then, you know, based on, based on what the verdict is, you know, they either go to jail or not, but he has never advocated for violence.
00:21:00.000He has never advocated for anything like that.
00:21:02.760And even now, even now in his messages to the Iranian people, um, he, when he's encouraging, cause also like one of the reasons these demonstrations are growing is because the Crown Prince, he is urging Iranians to go out in the streets and demonstrate, but he's never called for violence.
00:21:20.940Um, these demonstrations on, from the side of the Iranians have been peaceful.
00:21:26.200But when the Islamic dictatorship opens fire on Iranians, of course, they're going to, they're going to fire back, you know, they're going to defend themselves, even though Iranians are not armed.
00:21:36.640Although we've now heard reports that in certain parts of the country, um, someone has started to arm Iranians.
00:21:44.880And so in many places they're, they're fighting back, but, um, there's not going to be any sort of, you know, violent purge.
00:21:52.540I mean, we're not, we're not Islamists prior to 1979.
00:21:55.880We were a modern Western secularizing society and anything and everything that happens will, will go right.
00:22:02.660You know, it, it'll be, uh, based on the, you know, fundamental, uh, you know, laws and courts of justice.
00:22:08.760How does, I mean, the IRGC is pretty intense, you know, Hezbollah is there.
00:22:14.060Others were really bad intent are there.
00:22:33.120I mean, I think, I think the ones who are Iranian might very well do so, but I think the ones who are not Iranian, you know, like the Hezbollah and like the Palestinians and Iraqis and like, I don't know, Afghanis, whoever else are there.
00:22:45.880Um, because they're not Iranian, they have nothing left to lose.
00:22:48.960They're actually some of the most vicious, vicious Islamic terrorists, you know?
00:22:53.420So, um, I, I unfortunately don't see them laying down their guns.
00:22:57.960So what we really need is for the military to, to step up and for the military to defect and take the side of the people.
00:23:05.340I mean, or possibly for President Trump to, to, to do something or, you know, Israel to do something because no, no revolution has ever been successful without outside interference.
00:23:15.600And in fact, the only reason the 1979, um, Islamic coup d'etat was successful is because of Jimmy Carter and the democratic administration that supported the Ayatollah.
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00:24:42.440What I am talking about is a different kind of regime change, a great reset, if you will, because we all know this is what we've been battling about.
00:26:21.700Somebody has to redefine what it is we're for.
00:26:25.740However, this is exactly what Donald Trump is doing, but he's not, he's not, there's nobody, there's no storyteller to tell it, to say what is actually happening.
00:26:37.760And it's happening at such a rapid pace.
00:26:40.420Now, I could be wrong on this, but I don't think so.
00:26:44.860I'm not smart enough to come up with all of this stuff.
00:26:49.000I just, there's got to be somebody in the administration.
00:31:06.300They have an east-west pipeline, but I think it's small and it has problems because of progressives up there.
00:31:12.560But it would take them 10 years, 5 to 10 years, to build a real pipeline to the west coast into British Columbia, where you have access to the port and easy access to China.
00:31:24.720But remember, the Moreau Doctrine being taken seriously now.
00:32:00.480But we're going to need you to take care of your border for us.
00:32:06.260We're going to need you to take care of some of the money that is flowing in and out of the country that is coming from communist China.
00:32:14.540How do you, how do these, next hour, I think it's next hour, some point today, we're going to talk about the Chinese money that is funding all of this, all of these protests in the streets.