What is it to be an American? How did we get to a place where people are starting to see themselves in terms that have no reference point at all in a national identity? And, over time, where is that going?
00:00:00.000Well, if you voted in the last election in the hope that identity politics would go away, identity politics being the way of seeing the world through the lens of your particular group, your tribe, your identity, the qualities you were born with and the group into which you were born, if you thought that was a bad thing and you thought it would go away after 2024, well, surprise, surprise, it hasn't gone away.
00:00:23.600In fact, it's accelerated. And a lot of the conversation we have about it breaks along lines of, well, you know, I'm defending my group. I'm mad at your group. Let's have a debate about whether my group is good or bad. You shut up because you're criticizing my group. OK.
00:00:40.380But if you think about it for a second, the debate itself is a sign of, well, impending collapse because no country, especially one that's the size of a continent that has hundreds of millions of people in it, can stick together unless there is a shared identity, a supra identity, identity that looms over all other identities that holds it together.
00:01:07.620It's not the force of law that holds countries together. It's the force of custom, the force of language and the force of shared belief.
00:01:16.080What is it to be an American? It's not just a dopey academic question. It really is the question that without an answer will lead to the breakup of the United States and possibly sooner than any of us expected.
00:01:27.200And there's no answer for that question right now. And so the question, the meta question is why?
00:01:32.300Why can't we decide on something as basic as what it is to be American?
00:01:38.400How did we get here? How did we get to a place where people are starting to see themselves in terms that have no reference point at all in a national identity?
00:01:48.040And, you know, over time where that's going. How do we get here?
00:02:49.320Over 50% of all Somali kids are in poverty.
00:02:52.140That compares to about 8% of native-born Americans.
00:02:55.140So this is one of the poorest groups in the United States.
00:02:57.640They're also one of the newest arrival groups.
00:03:00.280There were about maybe two, this is just a guess, but there were about 2,000 Somalis in the country in 1990 during the first Bush administration.
00:03:18.540But all of a sudden, in the subsequent 35 years, there are hundreds of thousands of Somalis, and they are, and this leads to the second thing we know about Somalis, they are clustered together.
00:03:32.760Of Somalis who've lived here at least 10 years, most still can't speak fluent English because they don't need to because they live around other Somalis, and they don't have to learn it or learn critically what ties this country together beyond clan or tribe.
00:03:52.540And they are also beloved by Democratic politicians.
00:03:56.520So those are the three things we know about Somalis, and then recently we learned that in both Minnesota and the state of Maine, which is the two states in this country where they are concentrated, outside Minneapolis and within Minneapolis and in Maine and Lewiston and Portland, they have committed apparently, and by they we mean literally they, as a group speaking their language, communicating only with each other, massive multibillion-dollar Medicaid fraud, Medicare fraud.
00:04:21.660So we know that, and that scandal is just broken, and the president has weighed in on it.
00:04:37.180We wouldn't have a country without Somalis.
00:04:39.020They built Minneapolis, ladies and gentlemen.
00:04:41.460We should have a Somali on the $1 bill with a digital version.
00:04:45.560The programmable digital currency we're about to give you should be Somali-related.
00:04:49.680And, of course, all the politicians are singing the Somali national anthem and waving Somali flags, and all of a sudden being Somali is, like, the essence of what it is to be an American.
00:05:01.280But neither one of them is really kind of explaining what this is.
00:05:05.120First of all, how did all these Somalis get here?
00:05:07.960And two, how did it go so very, very wrong?
00:05:10.760Is there something unique to Somali culture that has produced these disastrous results?
00:05:16.400Probably the worst of any immigrant group in the United States, and there are hundreds and hundreds of different immigrant groups.
00:05:32.620Well, the argument that some are making is Somali's just a crappy country with a lot of dumb people, average IQ 80, and there will never be a successful Somali in the United States, and their religion is bad, and, like, there's just something inherently bad about Somalis.
00:05:48.980And others are arguing, actually, they're the model citizens.
00:05:51.860But it's possible that decisions made in this country exacerbated what might have already been a problem.
00:05:59.320So how do we get immigrants in the country?
00:06:01.100Well, traditionally, if you're an American, you assume that people come into this country, they're allowed into this country to fill a labor void.
00:06:37.560That's the idea behind H-1B, which, of course, is not actually working as intended.
00:06:41.840But the Somalis we're talking about had nothing to do with that.
00:06:45.640There was not one economist in the United States who looked at the numbers, took off his glasses and said, you know, we need some Somalis and we need them fast.
00:06:55.160No one ever said that because it's never been true and likely never will be true.
00:06:58.880The Somalis who live in the United States came here as refugees.
00:07:03.060So the assumption is if there's a problem in the world, the United States has a moral obligation.
00:07:08.200No one ever clarifies where this obligation comes from, but it's preexisting.
00:07:11.520It's just in the Constitution somewhere to bring that person and all of his relatives to the United States and pay for everything because that's who we are.
00:07:23.840But it becomes mandatory the second the United States government intervenes into someone else's conflict.
00:07:31.300So the principle is called invade the world, import the world.
00:07:34.580At the tail end of every American intervention around the world, we import, with the help of the State Department, all kinds of NGOs, Catholic charities and highest and all these different groups.
00:07:47.500We import, quote, refugees from the country in whose internal affairs we are tampering and whose citizens we have killed, sometimes in large numbers, since we bring them over.
00:07:55.280The Montagnards, the Afghan translators.
00:07:58.260So the Somalis got here because there was a Somali civil war in the early 1990s.
00:08:02.720The United States intervened in a limited way.
00:08:05.480And for doing that, got punished and a number of Americans died.
00:08:10.080It was famously publicized in a book and then a movie called Black Hawk Down.
00:08:13.080You may remember that, in which Somalia, Mogadishu, its capital, was described as like the most barbaric place ever in the world.
00:08:21.180And so it was out of that that arose our obligation to bring in hundreds of thousands of Somalis.
00:08:27.340So, again, it's not an accident when the United States intervenes or backs an intervention somewhere in the world.
00:08:32.660You can be certain the people from that country will be living in your zip code within 10 years.
00:09:04.680And that would include housing vouchers and food stamps and supplemental income.
00:09:08.820Of course, free education, free use of the emergency room.
00:09:12.720By the way, if you are wondering how our health care system is doing, all the emphasis on health insurance, go to the emergency room sometime over Christmas and see what you see.
00:09:21.340Well, Grand Canyon University is not like most American colleges.
00:09:25.060It focuses on the things that actually matter.
00:11:29.760Someone who works here had a grandmother who wound up two nights ago in the emergency with a broken hip, and she spent two days in the hallway on a stretcher.
00:11:38.820They finally just gave her opioids to keep her from writhing because there was no room because it was so packed with refugees and other migrants.
00:11:50.480So basically our health care system, our health care system, our hospitals, the place where you go when you're sick, totally destroyed by this last wave of immigration.
00:12:00.340But if you're coming from Mogadishu, this is a massive upgrade.
00:12:04.160You may wait two days on a stretcher in the hallway, but at least you're getting medicine.
00:12:09.000So they come here, and the assumption is that they will somehow benefit the United States and be grateful for their time here.
00:12:15.880But it turns out, and this is a very obvious point, but it needs to be restated, that will only happen if they are required by their host country, which is us, to start establishing some loyalty and gratitude to the country.
00:12:35.460And this is considered totally unacceptable, toxic, as they say.
00:12:39.300In fact, maybe a manifestation of white supremacy, because, and this is the critical point to know, the United States has lost the self-confidence necessary to import and assimilate people.
00:12:52.540Our leadership class no longer believes in the United States sufficiently to convince newcomers to believe in the United States.
00:13:12.860But the core problem is our leadership in the United States, which no longer says, and not just at the federal level, but up and down at the states, at the leadership of NGOs who are facilitating this, to say, okay, you're here.
00:13:29.680If you're going to take from us and live in our neighborhoods and use our community hospitals and force the rest of us to put our grandparents on gurneys in the hallway for two days, you have to buy into our system.
00:14:20.220Well, because there was critical mass of her fellow Somalis in her congressional district, so she got elected.
00:14:25.800So it's like worst-case scenario all the way around.
00:14:28.680A dumb, bigoted person with anti-American views serves in the United States Congress, but that's not the worst of it.
00:14:37.480The worst of it is, as she serves the United States Congress, as she serves the American people, she's actually serving her real people, which are the Somali people, and she says so out loud.
00:14:49.880Here's the first of two clips from Ilhan Omar pledging allegiance not to the United States, but to Somalia.
00:14:54.880I don't know if it's a special relationship, but I don't know if it's a special relationship, but I don't know if it's a special relationship.
00:15:24.860Not the prettiest language, not like hearing Balzac read in the original, but whatever.
00:15:44.580You can see the translation on the screen, and in case you couldn't, she repeatedly referred to our president.
00:16:03.460So, Ilhan Omar's taken a ton of crap since, most of it deserved, but most of it has been aimed at her foreign policy views.
00:16:11.680You're saying crappy things about the Israeli government or whatever.
00:16:15.060How many of you have noted that Ilhan Omar is openly disloyal to the nation, our nation, that our ancestors built, in the United States Congress?
00:16:28.660And if you think that's unfair, here's Ilhan Omar in 2015, before she got into Congress, making exactly the same point.
00:16:35.820In 2016, it's election cycle, and you guys have the ability to make an impact on where our nation is headed, not only here in the United States, but even in our nation back home.
00:16:57.620This is someone who seeks to lead Americans in our legislative body, our Congress, and our country refers to someone else's country that most of our actual countrymen cannot even locate on a map.
00:17:34.380But we're going to push back against it as long as we can, because we want the country to hang together, because we like it, and our ancestors built it.
00:17:39.800So you cannot refer to a foreign country as my country.
00:17:42.800And no, you can't serve in that country's military.
00:17:45.100You can't have dual citizenship with that country.
00:17:47.920Probably shouldn't speak their language in public.
00:17:49.920And no, we're not putting your language on our ballots.
00:20:37.640How can the politics in Somalia can resonate what we have here in the United States, the democracy that we have?
00:20:44.900How can you help us, you know, be a better country and build back what we used to have back in a long time ago?
00:20:52.680So hopefully we will be able to help our country, our former country, Somalia.
00:20:58.960How can you help us to build back better what we used to be a long time ago?
00:21:04.660Well, that, of course, is basically Donald Trump's campaign slogan.
00:21:07.780But she's not a Trump voter because she's not talking about the United States.
00:21:10.660She's not talking about rebuilding the U.S., making our country better.
00:21:13.300She's saying, how can you, as Americans, send more money to my country, which is not the United States, despite the fact I serve in the freaking state legislature in Augusta, has nothing to do with your country.
00:21:32.520To stand up as a state legislator and demand that the country that gave you safe harbor and free stuff and raised your three kids here for free, that that country pay your former country?
00:21:52.280And yet, not only is it allowed, it's encouraged.
00:21:57.680So take a look at a real part of the problem.
00:22:00.460And, of course, Ilhan Omar does not deserve a pass, and she's not, you know, innocent here.
00:22:06.680On the other hand, Ilhan Omar isn't from here, and she somehow went from a refugee camp, I think in Kenya, to the United States, and in a couple years, she's talking like a white liberal.
00:29:41.760Of course, by the way, I guess I'm liberal enough to assume there are probably Somalis you would like to live next to.
00:29:50.960Who are great people and are entrepreneurial.
00:29:53.980Shouldn't discount anybody based on how they were born, period, ever, which is why Jacob Fry's bigotry is immoral.
00:30:01.560On the other hand, as a community, not a net benefit, not even close to a net benefit, as you're about to hear from two reporters, one in Maine and one in Somalia.
00:30:14.060The point is political power and the ability to boast about what a good person he is, signifying, of course, that deep down he knows the opposite is true.
00:30:20.980And it would be really interesting to get forensic about Jacob Fry's personal life.
00:30:23.880And I bet you'd find exactly what you expect to find, which is a trail of sadness and broken relationships and betrayal and all kinds of other ugly things.
00:30:34.040I'm a member of the Somali community, grew up in Mogadishu, you could probably tell, not Arlington, Virginia, never, no, didn't go to William & Mary, went to Mogadishu U.
00:30:41.760And so once you embrace, adopt a new culture, that means you have to eat its food.
00:30:47.820And so Jacob Fry, in other words, talked himself into a box.
00:31:41.880And you would almost feel sympathetic, except Jacob Fry deserves every bit of that.
00:31:48.580Because like all of these people who import masses of suffering humanity in the United States for their own moral aggrandizement and their own political power,
00:31:57.700they care not at all about the actual culture.
00:32:29.660And if you don't like it, go back to Mogadishu or your refugee camp in Kenya.
00:32:33.720If we had some self-respect, if our leaders actually cared about the country, if they liked the culture they represent, which is a pre-existing culture, it's been going for 250 years.
00:32:43.380Then you can imagine that a lot of the Somalis, like every other immigrant group in the early 20th century, would probably be pretty what we used to call assimilated now.
00:32:52.800But instead, the point is to bring the poorest, least educated people in the world to the United States, immediately put them on welfare generationally, destroy the cities you park them in for free, low-income housing, making a lot of landlords rich, driving out the people who live there who actually deserved our help, like the unemployed factory workers throughout the state of Maine who were displaced by the Somalis, the cab drivers who were displaced by the Somalis because the Somalis got their jobs to the government.
00:34:29.400She's like the rich lady in your neighborhood who went to Kenya at 40 and just had a – on a safari and just had a life-changing experience.
00:34:53.700And you almost want to say, Shanna Bellows, like, can you tell me the details of female circumcision, which I think is pretty much universal in Somalia?
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00:52:55.960And I've heard from people who say that they're just trying to save up enough money so that they can get out of this state.
00:53:02.020And it's funny if you go back to the beginning of this year when the legislature came into session, there was a $118 million structural shortfall is what they called it.
00:53:12.640It means they, you know, they didn't take, they think that we need to supply $118 million more to the government rather than having them cut spending.
00:53:21.980And it was all Medicaid. All of it was Medicaid.
00:53:25.480And so they had to raise taxes on cigarettes, cannabis, Netflix, hospital services.
00:53:30.400They even increased the fee to become a licensed arborist in Maine because they were so desperate to find ways to raise money to pay for this Medicaid deficit.
00:53:40.000It never occurred to them that maybe we should just stop allowing migrant services and personal support services to be billed under MaineCare.
00:53:47.340This is a huge bucket of services that's thoroughly abused by these people, but the technocratic, neoliberal, progressive mind just can't consider that maybe their views of social and health policy are incompatible with their views on multiculturalism.
00:54:06.140They just can't empathize with a people who would come to say Lewiston and fight for their clan and systematically scam these programs that are meant to help poor people.
00:54:17.180It really breaks their brains to consider that maybe multiculturalism and their progressive, you know, economic policies are incompatible.
00:54:24.800I detect a lot of hostility toward whites from Somalis.
00:54:30.100Maybe I'm making up my mind. I don't think I am.
00:54:32.800I find it totally unacceptable to come to a majority white country built by white people and then hate whites.
00:54:38.640Like, I don't know where that attitude came from.
00:54:40.160I'm sure Shana Bellows had something to do with it, but I detect that.
00:54:43.620And I also detect like no attempt at assimilation at all.
00:54:46.900Am I on the right track, do you think?
00:54:49.140I think you are. And I think it may have something to do with the progressivism that they've been, I guess, inculcated with.
00:54:58.680The sole employee of the Office of New Americans, Akhlas Ahmed, again, former Gateway Community Services employee, she's actually Sudanese,
00:55:07.540but she was giving a video for some political event, one of these, you know, insufferable Zoom conferences.
00:55:14.160And she said that there's no reason to assimilate.
00:55:17.940She said that. No reason to assimilate.
00:55:20.260And she is the sole employee, I would say the leader, of the Office of New Americans,
00:55:25.120whose job it is supposedly to bring 75,000 migrants to Maine and help them assimilate into the workforce.
00:55:33.560Now, it would seem that that's a, you know, a fireable offense to think that there's no reason to assimilate when you're the head of the Office of New Americans.
00:55:40.880But not the case at all, because that office is not about workforce development or assimilation.
00:55:46.480It's about bringing migrants to the state of Maine, resettling them, enrolling them in welfare programs,
00:55:51.840and making them dependent on the Democratic Party.
00:55:55.280I think the big phenomenon that you see in the migrant community in Maine, and I suspect it also in Minnesota, is the gatekeeper phenomenon.
00:56:03.900So you have individuals like Representative Dekka Dalak, or Representative Yusuf Yusuf, or Abdullahi Ali, the CEO of the Dekka, of Gateway.
00:56:12.940You have them coming here early in, say, you know, 2015, and they form these nonprofits, and they get the relationships,
00:56:19.140and they get the contracts, and some money starts flowing their way.
00:56:21.900And then subsequent waves of migrants become dependent on them, because they can offer a job,
00:56:26.980or they can teach them how to sign up for housing or welfare benefits.
00:56:31.480And so they build almost this Ponzi scheme of migration, and their power grows insofar as more migrants come into that scheme,
00:56:40.380because they need more and more migrants, because as soon as a Somali in Lewiston learns English, learns the ropes,
00:56:46.920learns how the Democratic Party works, they're just going to go start their own hustle, start their own NGO.
00:56:51.080So they require a constant influx of migrants in order to sustain their own wealth and their own power.
00:56:57.480But the average Somali or Sudanese or Angolan migrant in Maine is fairly conservative.
00:57:04.520Their religious values are conservative, and they're just conservative generally by disposition.
00:57:09.300However, they're just dogmatically supporting democratic policies that, you know, force girls to compete against boys in high school sports.
00:57:18.360So it's all because of those gatekeepers.
00:57:21.720And those are individuals often, by the way, Tucker, they don't even like.
00:57:25.080Like, most of the Somalis that I've talked with, they don't like Deka at all.
00:57:28.520And they find her sense of entitlement a little bit repugnant,
00:57:32.160because she positions herself as the official spokesperson for all brown people in the state of Maine.
00:58:20.380I have to get your expert opinion on this, Tucker, because in the first response that his organization has made to this whole story,
00:58:28.920which we broke back in March, but the national media picked it up again following what's happened in Minnesota.
00:58:34.100The lawyer's statement said that referring to him as a warlord was racist, that it was racially tinged to refer to him as a warlord.
00:58:44.660But we have him on video twice in African media saying in Somali that he is using money he's raised in America to fund arms and militiamen.
00:58:57.160There's even one comment where he says specifically that his plan is to use the military and the volunteer force to depose President Madhobi, the incumbent president of Jubiland.
00:59:08.080To my mind, if you're walking around Jubiland, Somalia, and you're flanked by guys in camouflage carrying AK-47s,
00:59:16.200and you've said very publicly on multiple occasions that your aim is to depose the sitting president, that counts as running for warlord.
00:59:23.560I think warlord's in play at that point.
00:59:26.360Yeah, I mean, if you are a warlord, I think it's fair to describe you as one.
00:59:29.240So they've already learned to play the race card like the second they get here.
00:59:31.860Oh, totally. Absolutely. And they've also they also know the, you know, trying to play to liberal sentiment.
00:59:42.920They know, you know, interviewing some heads of main care businesses, you talk them on the phone,
00:59:47.780you can tell that they're so accustomed just to being to being able to meld the platitudes of liberalism
00:59:54.360and just bowl over whoever they're talking to when they say, oh, well, you know, where I'm only doing this because I want to help my community.
01:00:01.080Well, OK, so how does the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon, your driving factor into that, buddy?
01:00:06.400They can't explain that. That's when they're like, oh, well, I don't think we should be talking on the phone anymore.
01:00:10.400But they know the words and the phrases that will disarm people like Shana Bellows.
01:00:16.300They know they know what they have to say. It's like a magic, a magic charm that they utter.
01:00:20.660And Shana just kind of glazes over and gets that lizard smile on her face.
01:01:03.220And then finally, when the News Nation picked it up and a bunch of other outlets started running with it,
01:01:08.860they decided, well, I guess now we have to cover these racist attacks on gateway community services.
01:01:14.800And that's exactly how they they covered it.
01:01:18.160You know, they they was all about, you know, outside attacks, racially tinged attacks on this service organization,
01:01:26.120which is funny because these guys actually covered Abdullahi Ali's initial run for president in Jubiland like he was Somali Barack Obama returning to liberate his people.
01:01:36.500They had these just wonderful glowing profiles of the guy as if it was, you know,
01:01:41.740he was actually running to be president of a country rather than warlord of a territory.
01:01:47.860They know exactly what's going on here, but they just didn't want to cover it because it didn't fit the narrative
01:01:52.580and it didn't contribute to democratic power in this state.
01:01:56.400So to the extent they have covered it, it's been totally from a hostile angle.
01:02:00.340And, you know, the conservative main wire is the first to surface these allegations.
01:02:05.120But, you know, the whistleblower here in this story, he complained back in 2024 before I'd ever talked with him,
01:02:13.800before he even knew what the main wire is.
01:02:15.380He's living in Florida now, by the way.
01:02:17.080And I have to tell you that he after this story came out, he received a letter from Maine Revenue Services.
01:02:25.680Can you imagine what Maine Revenue Services wanted from a whistleblower who was sharing news about corruption in the democratic regime here in the state?
01:02:39.400And it turns out he's the he's the first person, I think, in the history of the state to be audited by Maine Revenue Services.
01:02:45.080And it turns out that the state owes him money because Gateway was still collecting, pulling money out of his paycheck while he was living in Florida, which doesn't have state income tax.
01:02:55.080So the state of Maine owes him money, audited him.
01:02:57.640When he discovered that, they said, yeah, well, if you want that money, you're going to have to file.
01:03:32.760Well, speaking of a state that has almost no journalists left, the state of Minnesota, which you may have heard because the president has talked about it quite a bit, has been rocked.
01:03:44.140It's not too strong to say rocked by a federal health insurance fraud scandal to the tune of billions and billions.
01:03:51.260Liz Collin of Alpha News is one of the very few journalists left in the state of Minnesota and joins us now for an explanation of what exactly that story is.
01:04:13.700You know, I've been a reporter in Minnesota for nearly 20 years now.
01:04:17.340I've never seen anything like this news cycle these these last few weeks on a federal level.
01:04:23.260It seems, though, as if people are finally paying attention, perhaps, as to what has gone on for years, things that we've been reporting for years.
01:04:30.740I know I was on your show just this summer focusing quite a bit of time on our governor, Tim Walz.
01:04:36.040There's many things to talk about there, but not so much this Somali fraud.
01:04:40.680And you can actually call it that now.
01:04:42.180I think that that's that's just something we've been able to do.
01:04:45.760It seems like these these last couple couple months.
01:04:50.080We're talking about billions of dollars in fraud.
01:04:53.100We've been hearing 10 billion dollars plus at this point.
01:04:57.420I think it's hard to even pinpoint an exact amount at the moment.
01:05:01.820I think we're actually going to hear more this week on just that number.
01:05:05.180But these social programs either being shut down now altogether, moratoriums put in place as enrollees in some programs, they've jumped by 200, 300 percent just in the last few years.
01:05:18.220Perhaps your listeners have heard about the feeding our future fraud that got a lot of attention.
01:05:23.520Well, Governor Walz was on the national stage as a vice presidential candidate.
01:05:28.160But that alone was a 250 million dollar fraud.
01:07:01.800And I will say that the taxpayers are absolutely sick of seeing this.
01:07:06.800We've even done some stories recently.
01:07:08.280You have some neighboring businesses to these fake businesses that are setting up surveillance cameras and actually rolling just to say, you know, there's no kids going in and out of this business.
01:08:14.040This is primarily Somali fraud, fraud committed by Somalis.
01:08:17.580Yeah, overwhelmingly, I mean, as just talking about the 78 defendants in Feeding Our Future, primarily all Somali, just a conversation recently with a commercial real estate broker.
01:08:32.020She told me she's still being contacted constantly by members of the Somali community looking to rent office space of any kind.
01:08:39.000They're basically saying we need an address just in case we get audited by the state.
01:08:43.420They're actually that open about what they're doing and just talking about kind of echoing what Steve said as well.
01:08:50.140We went to many of these addresses and have you always see a luxury vehicle perhaps parked in the parking lot, you know, with with one or two people inside a business, if there's anyone at all.
01:09:02.380Or perhaps they're, you know, living in very nice properties, five, six hundred thousand dollar homes, luxury vehicles.
01:09:10.000And, you know, that address will be getting, you know, tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars through these reimbursement programs.
01:09:19.520But I counted just before coming on the show here, looks to be now six separate investigations launched on a federal level.
01:09:29.740U.S. Treasury Secretary, the Walls administration has heard from, Transportation Secretary, the Education Secretary, the Department of Justice, the Agriculture Secretary.
01:09:39.800They're looking at the SNAP data in Minnesota, welfare fraud and the House Oversight Committee, as Steve was speaking about as well.
01:09:49.740So I've just never seen this all come all at once.
01:09:53.020And this is all about fraud in some way, shape or form in Minnesota.
01:09:57.420It's such an abuse, such an insult to the generosity of the United States that took these people in, not because we needed them.
01:10:04.500We didn't brought them in as refugees because we're nice people, paid for everything because we're generous.
01:10:09.400And then to be defrauded by those same people is is too insulting to take.
01:10:14.140It doesn't really make sense that the state government didn't know this was going on because daycare centers, autism centers.
01:10:20.900I mean, these are all inspected all the time.
01:11:53.080And they recently made those allegations as part of this account on social media.
01:11:58.080And we're in touch with a lot of these whistleblowers as well and have done some interviews.
01:12:01.660And that's really what's interesting is the people who have been vocal or pushed back or said, you know, there's this or there's this red flag.
01:12:09.480They've faced, they say, through our stories, retaliation for bringing this forward.
01:12:15.620Again, we've seen, similar to what Steve was talking about, race being weaponized in all of this.
01:12:21.780Our Attorney General, Keith Ellison, actually is caught on camera, if you will, in a recording, I should say an audio recording,
01:12:29.660meeting with some of the defendants at the time of Feeding Our Future before they were charged.
01:12:34.200But they were talking about how they were starting to see, you know, some of this money being turned off or they were struggling to get reimbursement at some of these, you know, fake sites.
01:12:43.660They're not saying that they're fake in the conversation.
01:12:46.720But right away, you hear the Attorney General, the, you know, top law enforcement officer in Minnesota say, you know, we're going to get this taken care of.
01:12:55.460You know, Wallace doesn't like to hear about this either.
01:12:57.460And this is the Attorney General representing the state side of things.
01:13:00.500It's really wild to hear in his own words this meeting that took place, and that has since gone viral again in this case.
01:13:08.560But that's what's also, I think, really enlightening, as we have had, different than what we're hearing about in Maine.
01:13:15.260There's been so many cases now, and we're able to hear from these defendants in their own words.
01:13:20.280And I will say, they say things like, you know, this is our culture.
01:13:28.900The media won't focus on that, of course, or they'll say that this was our American dream, that they think in a way that they're entitled to this money.
01:13:39.020Recently, I featured a story talking to a man who hired one of the defendants in Feeding Our Future.
01:13:46.000She worked for his insurance agency in the Twin Cities for just a few weeks.
01:13:50.800She forged a $30,000 check to herself.
01:14:29.040And to this day, this woman, who is now charged for the jury bribe as well and has gone on to then commit two more felonies, is still not behind bars in Minnesota.
01:14:41.040So it really speaks to, you know, this so-called justice system that's in play here.
01:14:47.900What have Democratic politicians said about this?
01:14:50.820And have any Somali leaders apologized for it, for defrauding the country that was so generous to them?
01:14:55.940No, it's deflection day in and day out.
01:15:00.100I think you showed at the top of your monologue here so much pandering that we're seeing on a daily basis.
01:15:06.400Mayor Frey can't go to enough Somali restaurants.
01:15:10.260That's basically how he's spending his time and then apologizing again and again to the Somali community.
01:15:17.800And we've had some reporting, just reporting from this month, in fact.
01:15:23.160You know, now we are OK to, you know, it seems to almost print this, but it's 90 percent of Somali homes with children in Minnesota are on welfare.
01:15:34.72073 percent of Somali households in Minnesota have at least one member on Medicaid.
01:15:40.520So that's compared to 21 percent of native households in Minnesota.
01:15:44.840And that was a report that came out just this month.
01:15:46.840And I don't think before all of this, this report would have received any attention at all.
01:15:53.460So there's just rampant taking to show up in a country and just take as much as you can from other people.
01:15:59.980And if they complain, call them racist.
01:16:01.920That's I mean, that's the picture you're painting.
01:16:03.460Yeah, I will say, you know, I know that when we were speaking this summer, we talked quite a bit about the George Floyd lie that was perpetuated here in Minnesota as well.
01:16:14.780And I think that, you know, if you line up sort of the timing, that's 2020, of course.
01:16:18.900And this kind of started, I would say, 2017, 2018.
01:16:24.360Some reporting back then, literally, there would be millions of dollars carted off.
01:16:31.900TSA agents have talked to us about this, but millions of dollars in carry-on luggage going through the checkpoints at MSP, the airport here.
01:16:58.780So I've been in touch with some of these TSA agents even more recently, again, as well, as they're talking about, you know, kind of connecting the dots that, oh, my gosh, this has been going on so much longer than just, you know, these last few months.
01:17:12.560And people really need to get at this and stop this.
01:17:16.060And I'll just say just it doesn't seem as if anybody on, you know, a local level here seems to be taking it seriously.
01:17:25.400But, again, this is a – these are all positions controlled by Democrats in Minnesota.
01:17:30.660When, you know, we're talking about Maine, the seven years, very similar to what has transpired here in Minnesota these last seven years.
01:17:39.140So let me finish this by asking the same question I finished my conversation with Steve Robinson with, which is where's the rest of the media in the state?
01:17:49.240I mean, you had – it's a pretty big state, certainly relative to Maine, and you had established media outlets there for, like, over 100 years.
01:19:09.400But I just recently tweeted about that again.
01:19:11.040But here's all this documentation showing this relationship that was also ignored years ago.
01:19:16.920And also some new what I would consider, you know, bombshell allegations that in fact allegations that Omar herself is not a legal citizen after changing her birth year on her records.
01:19:29.940So that's a really interesting story that that recently came to light as well.
01:19:34.320But changing her birth date from 1981 to 1982 for the longest time she maintained, she she got her citizenship naturalized through her father at the age of 17.
01:19:45.400Well, when you check out her documents, it basically was saying that she was 18 by the time, you know, that that would have happened.
01:20:58.500Actually, it's a form of love, setting standards, decent, universal standards that apply to everyone, no matter what they look like or who they vote for.
01:21:07.280That is the promise of the United States.
01:21:09.720And it's just evaporating without comment.
01:21:15.340Well, some Americans have become cut off from the things that once kept us grounded, our land, the skills that tied our families to nature.
01:21:27.580Told you he was getting his next spot.