00:06:57.000I don't know, just being handed out to homeless people in exchange for signing voter registration forms and election petitions.
00:07:07.000And then, because California clearly just can't stop being, I don't know, California, we've got Gavin Newsom's $114 million bridge to nowhere.
00:07:21.000A bridge, literally, just goes over a highway, a bridge for cougars and butterflies.
00:07:27.000Not entirely sure what a butterfly needs a bridge for because they can fly, but you know, anyway, I wish I was making this stuff up, but I'm not.
00:07:35.000And later on the show, Sean Davis from the Federalist is joining us live.
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00:09:56.000And before we get to Sean, let's get into some of the top headlines.
00:10:00.000So if you remember very clearly, Nick Shirley, this is the independent journalist who was on the show a few weeks back, the kid from Utah who blew open the Minnesota daycare fraud scandal back in December.
00:10:24.000And this time, it might even be bigger.
00:10:27.000Shirley just dropped a 40-minute video on X exposing what he says is over $170 million in hospice and home health care fraud in Los Angeles County alone, just LA County.
00:10:41.000And within two days, nearly 9 million people have watched it.
00:10:46.000He found basically abandoned buildings turned into offices that are fake companies pretending to be healthcare services.
00:10:55.000The way it works is you get a hold of a Medicare beneficiary's number, you enroll people into hospice care, you bill the government for millions, and if anyone starts sniffing around, you pack up and you disappear.
00:11:17.000Well, they found shuttered doors, piled up mail, dead phone lines, zero evidence of actual patients, zero evidence of anyone, you know, receiving hospice care, receiving any care.
00:11:31.000But these outfits have billed Medicare and California's Medi-Cal program for tens of millions of dollars.
00:11:38.000And the real number is probably much, much more.
00:11:42.000Los Angeles County has seen a thousand percent, thousand percent surge in hospice care spending in just a few years.
00:11:50.000LA County now accounts for 10% of all home health care expenditure in the entire United States.
00:11:58.000The entire United States, just LA County, 10% of it.
00:12:30.000So they say they only take it from hospitals, which could be a valid response.
00:12:33.000Let's go see if we can find Guardian of Angels.
00:12:35.000This place is just filled with hospice centers and home health care centers.
00:12:38.000You have one right here, seven-star home healthcare.
00:12:41.000And then up here, you have Miracle Healing Hospice.
00:12:45.000So this hospice location, Miracle Healing Hospice, in 2023, they charged $1.3 million and per beneficiary was $32,000 for 38 beneficiaries per beneficiary.
00:14:23.000This is supposed to be for people who are dying, for people who need end-of-life care, for people who have actually paid into these systems.
00:14:31.000And these criminals are using it as an ATM machine and committing fraud.
00:14:36.000Now, you would think that, I don't know, if you're the governor of California and a journalist just exposed $170 million of fraud happening on your watch, you may want to, I don't know, maybe, just maybe, I don't know, you know, launch an investigation or something, maybe do something.
00:14:56.000But this is Gavin Newsom we're talking about.
00:15:00.000His office puts out an AI-generated meme depicting Nick Shirley as a predator, lurking outside a daycare with cameras strapped to his body with a quote bubble that says, hey, I can see your kids.
00:15:57.000You know, like, I mean, like, that's like kind of a smear.
00:16:00.000You know, like, you can, you may, you want to disagree, but to imply that someone, someone in one of the most gross kinds of terms like that, well, it's like, hey, shouldn't we agree?
00:16:14.000Like, you know, eliminate all the waste.
00:16:17.000If it exists under my purfew, let's eliminate it.
00:16:55.000Although it's 100% the Democrat playbook.
00:17:00.000And staying in California, because apparently this is a state, I guess it's just like a magnet for all things corruption.
00:17:07.000James O'Keefe just released part one of what might be his most explosive undercover investigation yet.
00:17:15.000He and his team went undercover as homeless people on Skid Row in Los Angeles.
00:17:20.000And what they found is a federal crime, literally caught on tape.
00:17:26.000O'Keefe's undercover journalists documented dozens and dozens of instances of petitioners offering cash, cigarettes, and weed in exchange for signatures on election petitions and voter registration forms.
00:17:41.000Petitioners just told the undercover journalists that they're getting paid $7 to $10 per signature, with some earning up to $1,000 a day doing this.
00:17:52.000$1,000 a day to commit election fraud?
00:17:59.000This is a signal to all nearby homeless people that he is a source of the money.
00:18:03.000Paying citizens to sign petitions is a violation of California Elections Code 18603, which states, quote, every person who offers or gives money or other valuable consideration to another in exchange for his or her signature on a state, county, municipal, or district initiative, referendum, or recall petition is guilty of a misdemeanor.
00:18:35.000But it wasn't just cash that we saw exchanged for signatures.
00:18:39.000We also saw the homeless being bribed with cigarettes and even drugs, marijuana, and all of that is considered valuable consideration.
00:18:48.000And according to the petitioner that we spoke with earlier, it would be a crime just to give out water to anyone who is signing petitions.
00:18:55.000Now, you don't give people money to sign it.
00:19:11.000Hey, if you sign all these, I'll give you a free water.
00:19:13.000Our undercover journalist continued to engage with this group in Skid Row and found the majority of homeless people who were being paid to sign, as you might expect, didn't even know what it was they were signing.
00:19:48.000They were also encouraging the homeless to just make up random addresses such as Pinocchio Lane.
00:20:00.000Oh, this woman named Brenda Brown acknowledges that if the person signing isn't a registered voter, she won't get paid $7 for the signature.
00:20:22.000Brenda Brown also has a stack of voter registration forms so she can get the homeless people to first register to vote.
00:21:36.000But if you actually had to show, like, I don't know, a birth certificate to register to vote, it's a problem.
00:21:42.000They're not going to be able to collect these fraudulent petitions, these fraudulent registrations.
00:21:49.000They're not going to be able to get those people to vote for Democrats in the future.
00:21:52.000And if they then had to actually show up and actually vote and actually present an ID, rather than whatever mail-in ballot system from Pinocchio Lane that they're scheming for here, it creates a problem.
00:24:54.000Because Christopher Ruffo, another friend of the show over at the City Journal, just dropped a piece that shows how so much of this waste, fraud, and abuse is standing right in plain sight.
00:25:07.000Back in 2022, Newsom broke ground on something called the Wallace-Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, a bridge that goes over a few lanes of highway on the 101 freeway in Southern California for animals, specifically cougars and butterflies.
00:25:23.000Again, not sure why you need a bridge for butterflies, but it's California.
00:25:28.000I'll give them a little bit of leeway because they're insane.
00:25:32.000But at the ceremony, Newsom said the state had committed $54 million and promised they'd complete the job with another $10 million.
00:25:43.000So $64 million in total for a bridge for mountain lions.
00:25:48.000Here was Newsom announcing the project a few years ago.
00:25:51.000Again, personally, this is for me to be here and to be a small part of it, working with our remarkable colleagues in the state Senate, the Assembly, working with local officials and federal officials.
00:26:01.000$54 million the state has put up for this program and we'll complete the job within another 10.
00:26:40.000And remember, California is projecting a $2.9 billion budget deficit for this fiscal year.
00:26:46.000But sure, let's spend the $114 million on a butterfly bridge that still isn't finished and that has no real purpose.
00:26:54.000This is the same state where hospice fraud is running rampant, where people are being paid cash and weed to sign voter registration forms, where homelessness is out of control.
00:27:05.000And the priority is a bridge for mountain lions to cross the freeway.
00:27:50.000So, you know, I don't know if you're, I think you were listening in.
00:27:52.000I saw you there on the screen, but, you know, we just ran through all of the different examples of fraud in California.
00:27:57.000I mean, I want to say all of, because I'm sure there's so much more, but, you know, this is what a 20-something-year-old journalist was able to uncover.
00:28:06.000And James O'Keefe, between Nick Shirley, hospice fraud, James O'Keefe, you know, cash for ballots, you know, and another bridge to nowhere like the train to nowhere.
00:28:31.000So I got my start in politics working for Tom Coburn, senator from Oklahoma, who was a very famous hater of waste, fraud, and abuse and spent all his time and energy going after that.
00:28:43.000So I have a special hatred for seeing all this waste and this fraud.
00:28:49.000And it should absolutely be a line in the sand for the right.
00:28:53.000It should absolutely be a line in the sand for conservatives and for Republicans because you just can't tolerate it.
00:28:59.000I don't see how you can possibly look at this stuff and tolerate it and say, you know, it's a good idea that the Somali fraudsters in Minneapolis are getting hundreds of millions or maybe even billions of dollars to do fake autism therapy classes.
00:29:13.000It's ridiculous to be spending hundreds of millions on fake hospice.
00:29:17.000What these are, these are just bogus political patronage programs for Democrats.
00:29:43.000Because if you allow this type of fraud to exist in the country, you don't actually have democracy.
00:29:48.000You don't have a constitutional republic.
00:29:50.000What you have is an oligarchy just looting the people for the benefit of its corrupt clients.
00:29:56.000Yeah, and I would think with, you know, some, you know, reasonable actuarial practices or accounting practices, they should be able to track the amount of donations from these fake hospices and such that are just being kicked back to Democrat Party politicians to either participate or turn the other way.
00:30:12.000But I mean, I would think there's got to be a way to figure out the quid pro quo because we both know it exists.
00:30:18.000I mean, we know what the awesome power of the FBI and investigators can do because we saw how the Biden FBI went and found grannies who went by the wrong velvet rope on January 6th and tracked down their purchases and tracked their phones and went into their bank accounts.
00:30:34.000I mean, I think you were debanked for having wrong views.
00:30:38.000So clearly there's the mechanism and the technology to do this.
00:30:41.000What is lacking is actually the will to do it in the will to see it done to the end.
00:30:49.000And unfortunately, actual oversight, doing this type of investigative work, not just finding the targets like Nick Shirley is doing, and he's doing an amazing job of it, but going in and seeing all the financial records, parsing through them, looking at contribution records, that's really hard work.
00:31:06.000It's not particularly sexy and involves sitting around looking at spreadsheets and receipts and stuff like that all day.
00:31:12.000And unfortunately, a lot of politicians, even on the right, they don't really like spending their time doing the nitty-gritty hard investigative work that's required to do things like get convictions.
00:31:23.000And so that's one thing that I've always been pushing for: I want to make oversight great again.
00:31:28.000I wish legislators and people who have this authority and this obligation to do that would actually dig into it and use these awesome powers and abilities that we've given them to root this stuff out.
00:32:22.000Yeah, so I remember when she was AG, there was this great investigator named David DeLeiden who went and did incredible undercover work to expose the illegal trade in aborted baby body parts.
00:32:35.000He had people on camera admitting to it.
00:32:37.000And instead of taking action against that, Kamala Harris went and indicted him and tried to put him in prison.
00:32:43.000So it's almost like there's this weird thing in Democrat politics, especially if you're from California, that it doesn't matter how incompetent you are or how corrupt you are, as long as you're giving money to Democrat clients and as long as you're trying to put your Republican opponents in prison, by the way, for doing First Amendment journalism work, that's all it takes.
00:33:04.000They don't care if you've committed total crimes against nature and humanity in ruining one of the most beautiful and lush and rich states in the country, one of the most beautiful places on earth.
00:33:16.000Imagine being given California with all its advantages and resources and its beauty and its weather and doing to it what Democrats have done.
00:33:25.000But apparently Democrat voters look at that and they say, yeah, yeah, we actually look at the ruination of one of the greatest states ever as a perfect qualification for running the country.
00:34:25.000But I mean, good for him for catching these people.
00:34:27.000Everyone involved in that needs to be in prison.
00:34:29.000So we should definitely be going after that.
00:34:32.000The voter fraud that I worry more about is the kind that we, I think, saw beginning to take shape in 2020 and the kind that can only come about from mass, almost universal mail-in balloting, where you actually have no ability to determine whether somebody turning in the ballot is the one who actually casts the ballot.
00:34:53.000You have millions, tens of millions, over 100 million ballots going out.
00:35:07.000They may be going to office buildings.
00:35:09.000And you have no idea if the actual individual voter wanted that to happen, if they even know it's happening.
00:35:15.000And I think that's the means by which we see elections rigged on a large scale.
00:35:20.000And I think that's what requires more structural reforms.
00:35:23.000I think the further you get from somebody casting a ballot and immediately being counted, the greater the possibility you have for fraud in election rigging.
00:35:35.000Once you're adding multiple links to the chain with different custody of ballots and all that, the more you have that, the harder it is to have ballot integrity, the harder it is to have election integrity, and the easier it is to have fraud in rigged elections.
00:35:49.000And so I think we need to crack down on the fraud, but we also do need structural changes that make it harder for people who actually aren't casting legal ballots to do so.
00:35:58.000Yeah, I mean, so, you know, you've been running the Federalists now for over a decade.
00:36:01.000The landscape, certainly in media, has changed dramatically.
00:36:04.000Nick Shirley is getting, you know, 100, 138 million views on X. O'Keefe is getting DOJ responses within hours of dropping a video.
00:36:14.000You know, meanwhile, legacy media is just hemorrhaging viewers.
00:36:18.000Is this the way forward, you know, to ultimately get results?
00:36:22.000I don't know if it's the exact way forward.
00:36:26.000And people like Nick Shirley, I wish we could clone him 10 million times and do this type of independent journalism everywhere.
00:36:34.000I think where journalism, especially on the right, works best is when you can have organizations like mine, the Federalists, you can have other groups who have lots and lots of trained seasoned reporters be able to work with people like Nick Shirley to take the ball that he's gotten and then run that down the field.
00:36:55.000And I think we're actually in this weird spot in media now where we're kind of stuck between these two new paradigms, where we have lots of independent journalism, but we also still have a lot of the legacy infrastructure.
00:37:08.000And then we're still dealing with a totally corrupt big tech.
00:37:11.000You know, the kind of the golden age, I think, of journalism on the internet was right when the internet was getting started, 2000s, maybe 2010.
00:37:24.000And then they realized after Hillary lost in 2016, because she was a terrible candidate, oh crap, we got a problem here because if people have free access to information, they might make decisions that we, their left-wing tech overlords, don't really want them to make.
00:37:38.000So we're going to start doing the censorship.
00:37:40.000So I think the story for the last 10 years is this war between big tech and its own users happening in parallel with this war between corrupt legacy media and everyone really on our side that they don't like.
00:37:54.000And so I actually think the best thing going forward, it's not just having great independent journalists like Nick Shirley.
00:38:00.000It's in having control of your own platforms like Rumble, for example.
00:38:05.000You know, without Elon going and buying going and buying Twitter, making it X, I think we would have been cooked.
00:38:12.000There would have just been a total information monopoly by the left.
00:38:16.000So I think you have to have great independent journalists, but you also need to have control of your own distribution platforms.
00:38:22.000Because if we continue to allow a Facebook or an Apple or a Google to control 80 or 90% of distribution, we're never actually going to have a free and independent media that can hold people accountable.
00:38:34.000Well, and I think to your point, yes, it has always started with tech in terms of the big censorship complex.
00:38:42.000I see perhaps even worse than Google now would be what's going on in AI.
00:38:47.000You saw the stuff a couple of weeks ago with Anthropic saying, hey, well, we're going to be the AI for the, we want to be the AI for the Department of Defense, but like, you know, we, the rulers of Anthropic, actually get to decide what's the appropriate response.
00:39:00.000You know, if they're sending missiles at us and, you know, maybe the enemy could be harmed more than the disparate cause of a weapon hitting the United States.
00:39:12.000Like, you don't get to make decisions for the DOD.
00:39:14.000Like, you don't get to overrule or program these systems to be able to make those decisions in, let's call it with a woke mindset than what the Department of Defense would want to do.
00:39:24.000And so that tech threat didn't just sort of get mitigated a little bit by Elon.
00:39:29.000It's gotten worse now with the advent of AI.
00:39:32.000I think, you know, Grok has done a great job of that, but I'm worried that whether it's Gemini, Google's platform in AI, obviously you saw the fallout with Anthropic.
00:39:41.000I mean, they actually want to control and be the decision makers of all of these things going forward.
00:39:46.000So we can't just win the tech battle as it relates to information.
00:39:49.000If we lose to woke AI, that's probably even worse because on Google, you can see the search of, you search a subject and only CNN pops up.
00:40:01.000I would think with AI, you could be fed information that just slowly changes the way you think.
00:40:07.000And it does so very, you know, very subtly and very over time to literally change someone's entire mindset by the information that they're giving them.
00:40:18.000Yeah, and it gets especially scary when you see what's happening with all the different agents and being able to have agents do things on your behalf.
00:40:27.000They have this community notes feature, which is kind of cool, community-driven that allows people to do fact-checking and vote on it and whatnot.
00:40:34.000Well, what happens in the midst of the propaganda wars that are constantly happening when it comes to foreign policy, where suddenly you can deploy your own AI bots to go and game community notes thing?
00:40:48.000You can claim you're just fact-checking.
00:40:51.000And then suddenly, even the stuff that's supposed to be fairly democratic, suddenly that can be gamed.
00:40:56.000So, I mean, I find the AI future, I'm not a technologist.
00:41:00.000I find the AI future to be fairly terrifying in terms of what they're going to be able to do to us with surveillance, with kind of this brainwashing that you see through subtle changing of facts.
00:41:15.000And I just, I don't know how we're going to handle it.
00:41:17.000And I think the only way we can is by doing total decentralization.
00:41:22.000So you don't have these one or two or three evil tech oligarchs suddenly being the sole deciders of what you're told and what information you get access to.
00:41:30.000Yeah, I think without question, I mean, you and I seem to get it, but Washington Republicans, well, you know, that seems to be a very different story.
00:41:38.000As I've said, my father is making decisions for the long term, not just for the next election cycle.
00:41:43.000So, you know, what is the right call to action right now for voters?
00:41:49.000What is the right pressure point for Republicans, especially in the Senate who seem to be so inactive on things that are wildly popular with the American public, like the Save America Act or whatever it may be?
00:42:00.000What do you think needs to be done right now?
00:42:03.000Yeah, one of the best lessons I learned about power and politics, I learned from Dick Armey, I think almost 20 years ago, former majority leader for Republicans in the House.
00:42:11.000And he made this observation that Washington ends up being controlled by a group he calls the bedwetters.
00:42:18.000You've got the Republicans, they're going to do what they want.
00:42:20.000You've kind of got the base of Democrats are going to do what they want.
00:42:23.000But the balance of power is always this squishy 10 or 20% of House members or senators.
00:42:28.000And they're controlled entirely by their fear because they're constantly going to be wetting the bed.
00:42:34.000And the insight he had was they're going to be afraid of someone.
00:42:37.000They might as well be afraid of your side.
00:42:40.000You should make sure that you're the one they're worried about ending their political career and making sure they lose their next election.
00:42:47.000And so I think that constant pressure, especially on stuff like the Save America Act, these guys have to constantly be terrified that they're about to lose their next election.
00:42:58.000And a great example of this, I think, is John Cornyn.
00:43:00.000This guy who is doing nothing for MAGA, nothing for American First for years and years and years.
00:43:05.000Suddenly, he's in a really, really tough reelection in Texas.
00:43:09.000And now, magically overnight, he's the best friend of base conservative voters.
00:43:13.000And suddenly, he wants to do election integrity.
00:43:16.000They turn into a creature that I call the leapier conservative.
00:43:19.000You know, every four or six years in the case of senators, they magically discover that they're conservative again.
00:43:26.000And it's because they have an election coming up.
00:43:28.000So I think the best thing that the voters on the right can do right now is make these people understand you will never have this job in Washington that you covet again if you don't do exactly what we tell you to do.
00:43:39.000And when we tell you to do it, and I think the main topic right now is the Save America Act.
00:43:45.000I don't care what excuses they have, how hard it is, how much they're going to have to work.
00:43:50.000They might have to work, I don't know, a couple of five-day work weeks in a row.
00:43:55.000Do what it takes to get the Save America Act passed because we're not going to have a republic for much longer if we don't have secure, safe elections with integrity.
00:44:03.000So I think that's what we need to focus on is getting the Save America Act passed.
00:44:26.000You know, an issue that's 84% popular across the board, everyone in America, not just conservatives, this is truly 80-plus% issue.
00:44:34.000You'd think that'd be a no-brainer, and it's not.
00:44:38.000Yeah, it's the constant battle we have on the right that's so frustrating.
00:44:42.000You know, we could complain for, I think, weeks on end about it.
00:44:45.000The Democrats, they have 51% of the power and they get 100% of their agenda through.
00:44:51.000We end up with control of the Supreme Court and the Congress and the White House.
00:44:55.000And for some reason, there's always a couple Republicans in the Senate who make sure that we don't even get 51% of our agenda.
00:45:02.000But the solution here is in primaries, make sure that the person you're voting for in primaries is the person who's going to do what they said they were going to do when they ran for election.
00:45:14.000And I think Republicans have probably taken for granted a little too much how important their own primary is.
00:45:20.000It's not enough just to beat the Democrats, although you have to do that.
00:45:23.000You have to make sure that the person you have going to battle against the Democrats is battle-tested, is trustworthy, and isn't going to run for the Hills or play possum or stick their head in the sand whenever the time to fight comes.
00:45:36.000We actually need fighters in the Senate and in the House and in the Supreme Court.
00:45:41.000So when the battle comes, we know that the outcome is assured instead of constantly hoping that, oh, maybe they'll actually do the right thing this time.
00:45:48.000I guess on that topic, what's your view of the talking filibuster?
00:45:53.000If Democrats want to block the Save America Act, shouldn't we make them stand up there all day and night explaining to the American people why requiring citizenship to vote is a bad idea?
00:46:06.000I mean, I think that would be very useful to anyone running against them in a general election on an 84% issue.
00:46:16.000Yeah, I think the talking filibuster is fantastic because it actually switches the burden of maintaining the floor and maintaining opposition.
00:46:24.000The recent practice, and I'd say probably over the last, definitely the 10 or years or so, is that once Democrats say, hey, we're going to filibuster this, Republicans kind of just throw up their hands and say, well, guys, I guess we don't have 60.
00:46:38.000We should just move on to the next thing.
00:46:40.000And Democrats never have to work for it.
00:46:42.000They never have to make a sacrifice for it.
00:46:43.000They just get to say, hey, we oppose it and move on.
00:46:46.000And what the talking filibuster does is it switches that work calculus.
00:46:51.000So now instead of just granting them what I call the zombie filibuster, where they don't have to do anything, they don't even have to show up.
00:46:57.000They could just effectively not vote by not showing up for work.
00:47:04.000So instead of putting the burden on us to hit 60, we should put the burden on them to maintain the floor 24-7 for days or weeks or months.
00:47:12.000If something is as important as whether you can trust your election, I don't really care how long it takes, whether it takes a month or a week or three months.
00:47:22.000And I've looked at their workload this year.
00:47:24.000I think they're voting on average once a day.
00:47:46.000Make the Democrats vote it down and make them exhaust all their options so that when they're out of their speeches and when they're out of their amendments, you can just vote on the bill.
00:47:57.000Unfortunately, and you've probably noticed this in some of your time in Washington.
00:48:02.000A lot of these guys really don't like working hard.
00:48:05.000They love the trappings of office and they loved being called the honorable so-and-so.
00:48:09.000They love getting to avoid TSA when they go to the airport and getting walked through.
00:48:14.000What they don't love is that really, really difficult work of the long days and the long hours and the poring through spreadsheets and research reports.
00:48:33.000Yeah, I mean, I think more than anything, the American people just want clarity on what's happening and why it's happening.
00:48:40.000You know, for example, right now, TSA agents aren't getting paid because Democrats want to punish TSA agents for no other reason other than, I guess, the left is totally consumed with TDS, Trump derangement syndrome.
00:48:52.000But do we need to communicate that better?
00:48:55.000I see on the mainstream media, well, it's to defund ICE and that's why we're standing up for it.
00:48:59.000But that's not true because ICE has been funded.
00:49:01.000It has nothing to do with the rest of TSA.
00:49:04.000So it's the Democrats' way of inflicting pain on the public.
00:49:08.000But again, the mainstream media is going to run around and say, oh, it's because of Republicans doing this.
00:49:11.000It's like, no, that's actually been done.
00:49:44.000You have to assume that before it sinks in, someone has to hear the same thing probably 20 or 30 times.
00:49:49.000It's so easy to tune out things that are happening in politics that you can't just go and say, oh, well, I wrote this one article or I had this great tweet or I had this one great media appearance.
00:50:14.000You know, you get some person losing a flight, not being able to go see a loved one because a flight got canceled because they couldn't get through security.
00:51:35.000I didn't need to look at a single poll to know how that election was going to go.
00:51:39.000And then I think the third thing I look at is: you know, if you think of polls as being from the bottom up and the vibes being kind of what's happening in the middle, the top-down kind of version is what's happening in the country right now.
00:52:08.000Thanks for everything that you're doing.
00:52:09.000Everyone, go out there and check out the Federalist.
00:52:13.000Sean, I'm sure we'll be talking again in the not too distant future because I'm sure there'll be more fraud out of California discovered.
00:52:19.000I'm really psyched that now we're going to have a fraud czar JD Vance out there looking at all of this because I think the American people deserve to know what's actually happening with their taxpayer dollars.
00:52:28.000So, really appreciate what you as always.
00:52:31.000Again, guys, go check out the Federalist.