Valuetainment - January 10, 2026


＂Fraud Happening For YEARS!＂ - Nick Shirley BREAKS DOWN How Deep Minnesota's Fraud Network Runs

Topics
Minnesota flag change and fraud paid family medical leave
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Kash Patel David JD Vance Tim Waltz Sam Harris Mike Johnson Pam Bondi Somali V.P.
“89% Are Somali” - Nick Shirley DEBUNKS Islamophobia Accusations Over Minneapolis Daycare Fraud ＂Trump Is Playing OFFENSE＂ - Trump’s Greenland Strategy TRIGGERS Arctic Showdown With Russia

Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

198.57

Word count

1,274

Sentence count

126

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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On today's episode of the podcast, Rob and Sarah talk about the massive fraud uncovered in Minnesota, and how the FBI is handling it. They also talk about how the government is trying to figure out how they got the information, and what they can do about it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 The first day this came out, you know, people on Twitter were talking about it.
00:00:04.060 The second day, silence.
00:00:06.320 The third day, Kash Patel responds to it.
00:00:08.780 And I'm sure you saw the tweet on here.
00:00:10.540 Hey, the FBI has awarded recent social media reports in Minnesota.
00:00:13.280 However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged.
00:00:17.240 So he sends this tweet, right?
00:00:18.660 It's dismantled $250 million in fraud, et cetera, et cetera.
00:00:21.780 And then finally, it got to a point that it was so viral that everybody had to cover it.
00:00:28.000 And they barely started covering it yesterday.
00:00:30.560 I don't even think they did on the 29th.
00:00:32.220 I think they started on the 30th.
00:00:34.020 CNN, ABC, CBS, a lot of this other stuff.
00:00:37.700 Has Kash Patel or anybody from the White House reached out to you yet?
00:00:41.260 No, Kash Patel hasn't.
00:00:43.340 Other people have reached out as far as like, hey, do you want to come with us to see what's happening?
00:00:47.000 Or do you want to see what's happening?
00:00:48.640 A lot of people have sent me messages on X.
00:00:50.360 I mean, Mike Johnson was talking about it.
00:00:54.240 And J.D. Vance talked about it.
00:00:56.400 Attorney General Pam Bondi talked about it.
00:00:59.180 Everyone's talking about it.
00:01:00.620 I mean, literally, the GOP was using a video referencing my video on their Instagram yesterday.
00:01:05.680 The GOP was?
00:01:06.700 The GOP official Instagram account.
00:01:08.740 I mean, look, the vice president responded.
00:01:10.600 This dude has done more useful journalism than any of the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Center Prize.
00:01:16.840 The V.P. has given you.
00:01:19.480 But the FBI hasn't reached out to you at all.
00:01:21.920 No.
00:01:22.760 I mean, I think I can't.
00:01:25.860 There's been so many people that have messaged me.
00:01:27.220 But there's people who are wondering how I got my information from the government.
00:01:31.320 And I've been willing to say, like, yeah, I got it from David.
00:01:36.140 If you want to talk to David, here's David's contact info.
00:01:39.020 But I don't know how the government doesn't have all this information.
00:01:42.720 It's kind of, like, surprising to me.
00:01:44.140 So you're surprised that the government doesn't have this information?
00:01:47.100 Yeah.
00:01:47.280 They're reaching out to me to figure out what's going on.
00:01:49.440 A few of them are.
00:01:50.320 Really?
00:01:50.980 Yeah.
00:01:51.380 Pretty high up of high officials?
00:01:53.380 Not the high up of officials, but the departments.
00:01:56.220 Departments are reaching out to you to see how you got it?
00:01:58.200 Yeah.
00:01:58.860 So are they reaching out to you asking how you got it because they want to catch the
00:02:04.720 person that's blowing the whistle?
00:02:06.220 Or are they reaching out to you because they want to actually find out the work that you're
00:02:11.280 doing, like some access to the information that they don't have themselves?
00:02:14.100 Well, I think they're trying to figure out how to go about this fraud because it's so
00:02:18.260 big and so massive.
00:02:19.880 Because it's not just the daycares.
00:02:21.820 It's the home healthcares.
00:02:22.800 It's the transportation companies.
00:02:24.060 It's the people.
00:02:24.920 It's the translators at the hospitals.
00:02:26.860 It's so vast and big that the network is massive.
00:02:30.720 So I think they're trying to get an understanding of how big it is.
00:02:33.220 And that's why you hear them talking about, we've had fraud for years.
00:02:36.060 Tim Waltz literally admits to the fraud.
00:02:38.060 He's been talking about fraud for, he admitted to fraud yesterday.
00:02:41.580 And he said, it's been happening for years.
00:02:43.200 Okay.
00:02:43.480 If it's been happening for years, why don't you stop it?
00:02:46.000 He said this yesterday.
00:02:47.140 There was the one clip that he moved a flag and there's a whole thing about how Minnesota
00:02:54.500 changed its flag to look pretty much identical to Somali's flag.
00:03:00.360 Somalia's flag.
00:03:01.020 If you've not seen this, take a look at this.
00:03:03.620 First, this is the clip of that.
00:03:04.780 You can play this clip and then we can go matching the flag.
00:03:07.260 Old flag to the new flag.
00:03:08.460 So this is the old Minnesota flag.
00:03:11.280 Right, Rob?
00:03:11.840 That's the Minnesota flag, the old one.
00:03:14.020 And he replaces it with the new flag.
00:03:17.600 I believe that's the new Minnesota flag.
00:03:20.240 I don't think that's Somalia's flag.
00:03:21.360 I think that's their new flag.
00:03:23.300 But if you go to the picture next to you on X, you see how it says go next?
00:03:26.760 No, right there, right there.
00:03:27.860 Yeah.
00:03:28.400 Look at that.
00:03:29.240 They changed their picture.
00:03:30.660 That's the old Minnesota flag on the top left.
00:03:34.680 The bottom left is the new Minnesota flag.
00:03:37.980 And then go look at Somalia's flag on the right.
00:03:41.060 You tell me if you see any similarities.
00:03:44.460 So they changed their flag.
00:03:46.460 Minnesota, nicest people in the world is what they're supposed to be, to the Somalia flag.
00:03:52.040 And then Tim Waltz is sitting out there talking about that.
00:03:55.200 They've been dealing with this for many years.
00:03:57.860 Yet he was bragging, if you have that one clip when he was debating with J.D. Vance,
00:04:01.560 that they are opening up the most daycare centers and record-breaking daycare centers.
00:04:05.760 And they're doing such a good job.
00:04:06.980 This was in the debate, folks.
00:04:08.100 Watch this.
00:04:08.620 We in Minnesota passed a paid family medical leave.
00:04:11.840 You have a child, you.
00:04:13.760 And I had to go back to work five days after my kids were born.
00:04:17.000 This allows you to stay home a certain amount of time.
00:04:19.420 What we know is that gets the child off to a better start.
00:04:22.400 The family works better.
00:04:23.600 We stay in their employers.
00:04:24.860 We get more consistency in that.
00:04:26.420 So Kamala Harris has made it a priority.
00:04:28.160 We implemented it in Minnesota.
00:04:29.520 And we see growth.
00:04:30.820 That's how you become a pro-business state.
00:04:33.740 And so a paid family medical leave program, and I will tell you, go to the families or 0.74
00:04:38.240 go to the businesses and ask them.
00:04:40.060 As far as child care on this, you have to take it at both the supply and the demand side.
00:04:45.240 You can't expect the most important people in our lives to take either our children or
00:04:49.600 our parents to get paid the least amount of money.
00:04:52.520 And we have to make it easier for folks to be able to get into that business and then 0.95
00:04:56.860 to make sure that folks are able to pay for that.
00:04:58.700 We were able to do it in Minnesota, and I'm still telling you this.
00:05:01.740 We were listed as the best state.
00:05:03.340 We're still in crisis on this.
00:05:04.960 A federal program of paid family medical leave and help with this will enhance our workforce,
00:05:09.840 enhance our families, and make it easier to have the children that you want.
00:05:13.160 So in this debate, he challenged you.
00:05:15.460 If you want to find out, go there.
00:05:16.420 You took up the challenge.
00:05:17.380 Yes.
00:05:17.720 You went there.
00:05:18.300 Took up the challenge.
00:05:18.940 And maybe he shouldn't have said that.
00:05:20.860 Yeah.
00:05:21.240 He shouldn't have said a lot of things.
00:05:22.660 He shouldn't have said a lot of things.
00:05:24.040 He's not the brightest guy.
00:05:24.980 So the FBI hasn't reached out to you.
00:05:28.840 You guys are continuing to go out there and do your thing.
00:05:31.320 I'm Nick Shirley, and you guys can find me here on my neck.
00:05:33.540 Go ahead and ask me any questions, whether it be about politics, about what I believe,
00:05:37.580 or where I think the future of the country will be going, or just quite frankly, anything.
00:05:42.140 You can ask me here on my neck.
00:05:43.720 I really appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to answer your questions.
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