A day after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman resisting arrest in Minneapolis, two suspects were shot during a vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon yesterday afternoon. Governor Tim Walz orders the National Guard to Minneapolis as tensions escalate. A new assistant attorney general position is created who will have nationwide jurisdiction over fraud. A group of Senate Republicans votes with Democrats to advance legislation aimed at curbing U.S. military force in Venezuela. And one year after losing his home in the Palisades Fire, reality TV star Spencer Pratt kicks off a campaign to unseat L.A. Mayor Karen Bass.
00:08:36.280And that is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24 hours.
00:08:41.760The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace.
00:08:47.760And it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.
00:08:52.440What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America.
00:09:00.140What that headline leaves out is that that woman has is part of a broader left wing network to attack,
00:09:06.760to dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.
00:09:11.180The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, or BCA, yesterday announcing it had withdrawn from the investigation of the incident
00:09:18.540due to the FBI denying it access to certain evidence in the case.
00:09:23.140The BCA calling it a reversal of a previous discussion indicating a joint operation.
00:10:33.840The Hennepin County DA's office saying it does believe it has the authority to bring charges.
00:10:38.820But Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan telling MS Now pursuing charges at the local level would be difficult without cooperation from the FBI.
00:10:46.980Meanwhile, DHS confirming federal enforcement operations in Minneapolis are continuing as scheduled.
00:10:54.560Agents seen yesterday morning exiting local businesses carrying out banker boxes as part of a fraud investigation.
00:11:01.220Accusations of widespread Medicaid fraud among Minnesota's Somali community amounting to at least $9 billion stemming from 14 state-run services forming the backdrop of a broader White House push.
00:11:13.700Vice President J.D. Vance from the White House yesterday announcing a new team member at the DOJ.
00:11:19.900We are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud.
00:11:28.060Now, of course, that person's efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota,
00:11:32.140but it is going to be a nationwide effort because, unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.
00:11:40.100This person is going to be part of a very broad interagency White House that's being led from the President of the United States on down,
00:11:46.920and that's going to give them the resources, the access to material and information to make this person more effective.
00:11:53.060I think a lot of people have asked, how are you really going to get to the heart of the fraud?
00:11:56.900We've been asking ourselves that question for the past couple of months, and we think this is the critical piece at the Department of Justice to really ramp this fraud investigation into high gear.
00:12:06.740The new role will require Senate confirmation.
00:12:09.640The Vice President, stating Majority Leader John Thune, has assured the White House the Senate will act swiftly to confirm the nominee who has not yet been named.
00:12:18.060The White House also recently announcing the DOJ is doubling the number of prosecutors dispatched to Minnesota to focus specifically on fraud.
00:12:25.620Treasury Secretary Scott Besson in Minneapolis yesterday, laying out the scale of fraud facing the federal government nationwide.
00:12:33.760The GAO, the General Accounting Office, believes that there is somewhere between $300 billion and $600 billion of annual fraud, roughly 10% of government spending, that disappears due to fraud.
00:12:47.460If we can recapture that, that is 1% to 2% of GDP.
00:12:52.460Earlier this week, the administration announcing the freezing of more than $10 billion in federal social services funds across five states, California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York, underscoring the scale of the work ahead for the DOJ's new fraud hunter.
00:13:08.320Coming up, a handful of Senate Republicans breaking with the party to advance a war powers resolution aimed at curbing military action in Venezuela.
00:13:19.220And former reality TV villain Spencer Pratt launches a run for L.A. mayor, targeting the officials who let his city burn and promising to, quote, expose the system.
00:14:34.740The Senate yesterday in a procedural vote clearing the way to begin debate on a war powers resolution seeking to limit the use of military force in Venezuela without congressional approval.
00:14:48.100Yesterday's vote giving the green light to begin debate on the war powers measure.
00:14:52.060Five Republicans voting with Democrats.
00:14:54.300Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Todd Young of Indiana, and Josh Hawley of Missouri.
00:15:04.900The vote following a DOJ operation carried out by the U.S. military last Saturday to capture and arrest former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife from a Venezuelan military base.
00:15:15.780The White House ordering the raid without first requesting permission from Congress on the grounds that the operation was a law enforcement action, not a military one.
00:15:23.800Under the Constitution, only Congress can declare war, but in recent decades, presidents from both parties have increasingly used military force without congressional authorization.
00:15:34.700Presidents from both sides pointing to the powers granted to them under the Constitution's commander-in-chief clause.
00:15:40.240Fox News reports that the Republicans who favored the resolution supported the operation to arrest Maduro, but argue Congress should weigh in before any additional military action is taken.
00:15:50.900Senator Hawley telling Politico, if the president wants to send in the military, quote, Congress would have to be on the hook for that.
00:15:57.380President Trump posting to Truth Social following the vote, quote,
00:16:00.240Republicans should be ashamed of the senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our powers to fight and defend the United States of America.
00:16:08.780This vote greatly hampers American self-defense and national security, impeding the president's authority as commander-in-chief.
00:16:15.680The final vote on the resolution expected next week.
00:16:19.040If it passes, the next stop is the House, followed by the White House, where it appears quite likely to be vetoed.
00:16:26.160Overriding a veto requires a two-thirds majority in both chambers.
00:16:30.240Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt on Wednesday launching a bid for Los Angeles mayor one year after losing his home in the Palisades fire.
00:16:40.820The fire destroying thousands of structures and taking 12 lives, an additional 19 lives lost in the concurrent Eaton fire.
00:16:48.800Pratt rising to fame in the late aughts as a villain on MTV's The Hills.
00:16:53.200So, I'm sorry that you're making yourself cry.
00:16:58.200Oh, sweet. My answer is get out of my car.
00:17:01.340Long known for courting controversy on reality TV, Pratt now channeling that notoriety into a crusade for justice for fire victims.
00:17:09.620The candidate spending last year waging an online campaign against L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom,
00:17:16.260accusing them in social media videos of negligence and mismanagement.
00:17:20.260Since Gavin Newsom hasn't given us our Palisades investigation, we are going to get to the bottom of how our town burned down and how 12 senior citizens were killed.
00:17:31.100It wasn't hurricane winds that screwed these guys.
00:17:34.680It was the cruel incompetence of Mayor Karen Bass who sabotaged this once great agency and left us all to burn.
00:17:43.720At the Wednesday campaign launch, Pratt citing examples of incompetence he says contributed to the deadly inferno.
00:17:50.200I have to tell you the most heartbreaking part of the past year wasn't being displaced or losing everything I own.
00:17:56.780It was the realization that all of this was preventable.
00:18:00.500We are standing here amongst the ashes of our once beautiful town because the state and local leaders let us burn.
00:18:10.400Gavin Newsom and the state of California let brush grow wild in Topanga State Park for 50 years with no prescribed burns and no wildfire maintenance.
00:18:21.060Gavin Newsom and the state of California created an insurance market so hostile that every major carrier stopped writing policies and dropped our families and our neighbors just before the sparks flew here in the Palisades.
00:18:37.800Gavin Newsom and his state park policies actually literally dictated that we let the Palisades burn.
00:18:45.660And while our lives were literally burning to the ground, Mayor Karen Bass was in Ghana.
00:18:52.840Pratt promising to, quote, expose the system and displaying a campaign slogan of they let us burn behind him during his speech.
00:19:00.820To this day, the AP reporting fewer than a dozen homes have been rebuilt in Los Angeles County.
00:19:05.860According to Mayor Bass, only about 400 homes in the Palisades are currently under construction.
00:19:10.560Pratt joining two other declared challengers against Mayor Bass with the possibility of the field expanding.
00:19:16.900The nonpartisan primary is set for June.
00:19:19.540Yesterday, Pratt ending speculation surrounding his political affiliation with a post on X, quote,
00:19:25.160I registered Republican in 2020 and never changed it.
00:19:28.540And I wasn't going to change it now just to check a different box.
00:19:42.960If a candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote in June, that person will become the next mayor.
00:19:47.840If no candidate earns a majority vote, the top two candidates, regardless of party, will compete in a general election set for November.
00:19:55.720Bass's approval rating sitting in the low 40s.
00:19:58.560Polling that indicates Pratt in a hypothetical matchup is not yet available.
00:20:02.820Mr. Pratt receiving some early support from Trump administration official and L.A. resident Rick Grinnell and GOP candidate for governor of California, Steve Hilton.
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