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00:02:24.420 your podcast center. Today on the show, we've got a warning every American needs to hear. The

00:02:30.040 Democratic Socialists of America have just unveiled what they say is their new radical

00:02:35.780 political agenda. It's in writing and it should scare everyone in this country. Well, we are

00:02:41.420 witnessing the rapid takeover of the Democrat Party by the DSA. They call themselves the

00:02:47.660 Democrat Socialists of America, but what they are is they are Marxists. They are communists.

00:02:51.460 that they are radicals. And what is amazing is the Democrat Party is barely resisting this hostile

00:03:00.340 takeover. It seems the leadership of the Democrat Party has decided to follow the philosophy of

00:03:06.100 feeding the alligator and hoping that it'll eat you last. And it's a losing strategy. We saw the

00:03:11.780 primary results in New York City of three communists winning the Democrat primaries in New

00:03:16.560 york city we saw the primary in colorado of another communist winning in colorado and and

00:03:22.440 to understand just how radical these people are these are not democrats these are open

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00:05:17.640 of how radical the DSA has become.

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00:05:25.060 The Democratic Socialists just unveiled

00:05:26.740 a sweeping new policy agenda.

00:05:29.140 It calls for a dramatic overhaul

00:05:31.520 of all three branches of the government.

00:05:34.540 They say, on the plus side,

00:05:37.100 you probably never have to pay a bill again.

00:05:38.760 Take a listen.

00:05:39.640 You're able to take a day off and not have to worry.

00:05:42.940 And you don't have to have a job just to pay the bills because you don't have a lot of bills, right?

00:05:48.200 Bills are no longer a thing because there's not for-profit businesses that are constantly trying to exploit you and trying to, you know, put you into debt.

00:05:57.260 We wanted to lift up that demand very clearly and to state, you know, abolish ICE, end ICE detention, end deportations, and punish the brutality of these federal agents.

00:06:06.980 correspondent madeline rivera has all the details for us here in the dc newsroom hey maddie good

00:06:13.280 afternoon jillian besides those things the dsa also calls for defunding the department of war

00:06:18.200 reparations and wealth taxes they argue capitalism hinders freedom and that our current political

00:06:24.620 system is not true democracy why do we have a senate like a lot of a lot of people are going

00:06:30.840 to see that and be like wait a second why do i have a like what's so great about the senate i

00:06:35.620 I mean, I can I'm not sure about this, but I'm pretty sure the only popular senator is Bernie Sanders.

00:06:40.360 And it's because he ran for president as a Democratic socialist.

00:06:44.100 The DSA is pushing for an expansion of the House, which they argue is a more accurate representation of the population.

00:06:50.920 And they want the Supreme Court to be replaced by a judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.

00:06:56.660 The new platform comes as the DSA hits 120,000 members, which they say is now the largest socialist organization in the country.

00:07:06.040 The agenda will essentially serve as a rallying call as they try to build on the winds of left-wing candidates in recent primaries.

00:07:13.640 Democrats are torn about how to tackle the rise of socialism within their party, but Senator Bernie Sanders says it's been a long time coming.

00:07:21.960 We are seeing a real movement of the American people who increasingly understand that we are living in a moment where never in our history have so few people, multi-multi-billionaires, had so much economic and political power.

00:07:36.560 And all across this country, we're seeing a profound disgust.

00:07:40.100 People are standing up and saying that establishment politics and establishment policies are not working.

00:07:46.700 We need change.

00:07:47.940 House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans are sounding the alarm, framing communism as a real threat ahead of the midterms.

00:07:55.480 You listen to this, and not only is it a real threat, but they're winning.

00:07:59.560 And as you mentioned, they're gaining momentum, Senator.

00:08:02.820 This is, I actually believe, the now real Democratic Party.

00:08:06.940 Well, let me be clear.

00:08:08.420 They are not gaining momentum in the reality of life.

00:08:12.100 These are fringe and radical ideas.

00:08:14.340 One of the reasons that these communists won the primaries in New York City is only 8% of the primary voters showed up to vote.

00:08:22.800 So they are doing a hostile takeover, but most Americans don't agree with these ideas.

00:08:27.240 These ideas are extreme.

00:08:28.700 So they put out – this is not you and me putting words in their mouth.

00:08:31.840 They put out a manifesto that is called the Workers Declare More Declaration.

00:08:36.820 It would expand the House of Representatives, eliminate the Senate, make the new House of Representatives, select the president.

00:08:45.680 So guess what? These radicals want to take away your right to vote for president. 0.81

00:08:49.860 You wouldn't get to vote for president at all under their proposal.

00:08:53.400 They want to make the Supreme Court subservient to the new House of Representatives.

00:09:00.160 as the manifesto says, quote, replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy,

00:09:06.900 expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and rank choice

00:09:11.500 voting in all elections and abolish the Senate. They're not done with that. They want to abolish

00:09:16.400 other things. Abolish the Electoral College, replace the president of the Supreme Court with

00:09:21.000 an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. They also said

00:09:29.100 that they want to establish public ownership of the largest corporations and industries to

00:09:37.820 ensure democratic control and accountability to the people. They call for enacting

00:09:44.100 aggressive wealth taxes on the richest individuals and corporations and the manifesto says

00:09:50.120 it's been said that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end

00:09:55.540 of capitalism. But just because it isn't easy to imagine now doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make

00:10:00.700 it happen. Workers deserve more. And they go on to say, quote, some of these demands may be won

00:10:08.360 under a current system, but we know complete victory will require building a new society

00:10:14.980 from the ground up. On top of that, their demands include defunding the Department of War,

00:10:21.540 abolishing ICE and eliminating the Jewish state of Israel, eliminating Israel altogether and

00:10:28.760 making Jerusalem the capital of a free Palestine. These are the radicals that are the heart of the

00:10:34.540 Democrat Party, that are winning Democrat primaries and that have every elected Democrat

00:10:39.400 in Congress terrified out of their minds. Senator, it was a very interesting week on

00:10:44.420 Capitol Hill in Washington. It was actually not covered the way that typically you see

00:10:49.500 hearings covered with Todd Blanche, and you were there for this. So get us up to date on how this

00:10:55.480 went down and what happened. Well, obviously, President Trump has nominated Todd Blanche to

00:10:59.480 be the Attorney General. He had his confirmation hearing this past week. I actually started the

00:11:04.260 week by going to the Department of Justice and helping moot Todd, helping get him ready. They

00:11:09.120 had a conference room set up with a whole line of lawyers, and each of us were playing different

00:11:14.620 individuals, different senators on the Judiciary Committee. I actually played in the mood. I played

00:11:19.100 sheldon white house so i was i was gonna ask you who did you draw straws for this like how does it

00:11:24.560 work how do you pick who gets who because who did you want to be they just assigned it they assigned

00:11:30.060 it to me i did not choose but but look my questioning i will tell you in the mood i

00:11:36.740 was not nice to todd in the mood i was obnoxious and yelling and screaming and insulting him and

00:11:43.860 insulting his integrity and i was insulting the president and i was calling everyone corrupt and

00:11:48.120 I was channeling everything, the Trump derangement syndrome that has so consumed the Democrat Party.

00:11:55.080 I channeled it. I will say I went in.

00:11:59.140 This was the day before the hearing we were doing the moot.

00:12:01.400 I went in with a very high level of confidence because despite the fact that, I mean, it was a rough moot.

00:12:06.040 And if you do a moot right, it should be worse than the real hearing.

00:12:09.140 And I'll say it was when we actually what gave me comfort in the mood is that Todd was calm.

00:12:15.220 He didn't lose his cool. He's a smart lawyer.

00:12:18.120 And he just answered systematically and did a very effective job.

00:12:23.180 And in the hearing itself, Todd did even better.

00:12:26.200 Here's the beginning of my questioning when the Democrats had been screaming about politicization.

00:12:32.100 Here's what I said when it came to my turn to ask questions.

00:12:34.560 He's rich seeing Senate Democrats complaining about weaponization and politicization of the Department of Justice

00:12:43.440 after four years in which they were complicit in the greatest abuse we have ever seen of the

00:12:51.000 Department of Justice. I want to do something that was strikingly absent in much of the

00:12:56.260 questioning from our Democrat colleagues, which is actually focus on facts instead of made-up

00:13:02.200 stories. And I want to compare where the department was under Joe Biden to where it is now

00:13:10.100 under your leadership. During the Biden administration, the Justice Department

00:13:16.700 devoted extraordinary resources to investigating and prosecuting President Trump and his supporters.

00:13:23.580 Is that correct, Mr. Blanche? It is. The department authorized Operation Arctic Frost,

00:13:29.520 which investigated members of Congress and other political figures. Is that correct?

00:13:34.340 Yes, Senator. The department's senior leadership, Attorney General Merrick Garland,

00:13:39.720 Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, FBI Director Chris Wray, all personally approved the opening

00:13:45.300 of this investigation. Is that right? That's correct. This investigation involved nearly

00:13:51.740 200 subpoenas, targeted over 400 Republican-aligned groups and individuals. Is that right?

00:13:59.360 Yes, Senator. And then the FBI obtained, without our knowledge,

00:14:04.380 the cell phone data of 20 percent of the republicans in the senate including me and many of my

00:14:12.640 colleagues on this committee as well as now fbi director cash patel and now white house chief of

00:14:19.320 staff suzy wiles is that correct yes senator i love by the way the the simple yes senator like

00:14:25.680 this is exactly what happened yes senator this is exactly what happened and and the white board you

00:14:30.400 had up there of all the senators that were spied on that was amazing visual as well well going

00:14:35.940 through the facts and laying out the record and and then if you you contrast it uh because what

00:14:41.000 i did is i contrasted not just the the absolute political corruption but also the difference

00:14:46.040 between open borders and the incredible successes we've seen in the last year and a half under

00:14:51.720 president trump actually securing the border uh and and and i pointed out the victims of open

00:14:58.180 borders and mass illegal immigrations that the democrats would not talk about or acknowledge

00:15:02.600 here give a listen when the department of justice loses sight of criminals because it is turned

00:15:09.260 into a partisan arm of the dnc the american people pay the price it also meant the department of

00:15:16.720 justice was not doing its job which is enforcing the law and putting criminals in jail during the

00:15:22.620 Biden administration, there were roughly 12 million encounters at the southern border. Is

00:15:28.320 that correct? Yes. Approximately 2 million illegal aliens were known to have entered but were not

00:15:35.960 apprehended the so-called gotaways. Is that right? Yes, that's correct. Fentanyl became the leading

00:15:42.580 cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45. Is that right? That's correct. That was

00:15:48.600 courtesy of the Democrats' open border policies of letting drug dealers and human traffickers

00:15:55.040 flood into this country because they believed it would benefit them politically.

00:16:00.260 Violent transnational criminal organizations, including the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco

00:16:04.740 New Generation Cartel, MS-13, and Trenderagua, expanded their operations inside the United

00:16:11.540 States.

00:16:11.900 Is that right?

00:16:12.340 It is absolutely correct.

00:16:14.320 And then something we never hear from the Democrat side of the aisle, the victims.

00:16:24.200 Jocelyn Nungary, I've not heard one Democrat so much as utter her name.

00:16:29.760 The little girl tragically raped and murdered by two Venezuelan gang members the Biden administration released.

00:16:37.580 Lakin Riley, again, the Democrats cannot even say her name.

00:16:42.640 Rachel Moran, a mom, brutally raped and murdered by another illegal the Biden Justice Department

00:16:48.920 released. These were daughters, these were students, these were mothers, and they would

00:16:54.880 be alive if the Department of Justice had done its duty. So let's compare the lawlessness,

00:17:02.420 the partisanship, the abuse of power of the Biden Department of Justice

00:17:06.480 to what has happened in the last 18 months.

00:17:10.380 Mr. Blanche, objectively, the American people are safer today than they were 18 months ago.

00:17:16.440 Is that correct?

00:17:17.360 There is no doubt.

00:17:19.540 Now, that's not simply empty rhetoric.

00:17:23.900 Since President Trump took office, federal law enforcement has arrested approximately 29,000 violent gang members.

00:17:30.620 Is that right?

00:17:31.180 That's correct.

00:17:31.740 The department has disrupted or dismantled approximately 2,700 gangs, a 365 percent increase over the comparable period of time in the previous administration. Is that right?

00:17:45.660 That's correct.

00:17:47.100 Arrests of Trender-Aragua members have increased by approximately 519 percent. Is that right?

00:17:53.060 That's correct.

00:17:53.620 In 2025, the United States saw the largest one-year drop in violent crime and murder since 1937.

00:18:03.340 Homicides across America's largest cities fell more than 19 percent.

00:18:09.000 Is that right? 1.00

00:18:10.660 That's correct.

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00:20:19.400 I want to get back to this back and forth with Todd Blanchenter and more of what you had to say at his confirmation hearing.

00:20:26.120 Here's the last part.

00:20:27.220 It's truly amazing to see Democrats fighting against this incredible guy who's going to be a great AG.

00:20:33.160 Robberies fell nearly 20 percent.

00:20:35.260 Aggravated assaults fell nearly 10 percent.

00:20:37.540 And that trend has continued into this year with homicides falling by yet another 17.7 percent and robberies by over 20 percent during the first quarter of 2026.

00:20:50.020 Is that right? It is. Yes.

00:20:53.020 The department has also made protecting America's children one of its highest priorities.

00:20:57.200 Since the beginning of this administration, the FBI has located approximately 7,200 child victims, a 42% increase. Is that right?

00:21:08.580 Yes.

00:21:09.360 The FBI has arrested approximately 3,500 child predators and human traffickers, a 102% increase. Is that right?

00:21:18.060 That's correct.

00:21:18.680 By April alone, in April alone, Operation Iron Pursuit located more than 200 child victims and arrested more than 350 alleged child sex abuse offenders.

00:21:30.940 Is that right?

00:21:31.580 That's right.

00:21:32.440 And across my home state of Texas, Operation Soteria Shield rescued 89 children and resulted in 276 child exploitation arrests.

00:21:42.700 Is that right?

00:21:43.320 That's the correct stat.

00:21:45.440 Mr. Blanche, after less than 18 months, would it be fair to say that the department is once again focused on protecting the American people and faithfully enacting the laws?

00:21:58.040 That's exactly what we're focused on, Senator.

00:22:00.680 And I will point out that one direct result of that also is deaths by drug overdoses have dropped 20 percent.

00:22:08.720 There are literally thousands of Americans who are alive today because of the job you and your colleagues at the Department of Justice are doing.

00:22:18.060 And I, for one, want to say thank you for focusing the department on saving people's lives and putting criminals in jail.

00:22:24.960 We have great prosecutors, Senator, and great agents.

00:22:28.060 Senator, we've got great agents.

00:22:30.040 I do love the demeanor of Todd Blanche.

00:22:32.200 I think that's the reason why he will be a great attorney general.

00:22:34.980 Yeah. And look, the Democrats, not a single Democrat disputed a word I said. They didn't dispute the chaos of the open borders. They didn't dispute that this administration has secured the border, that illegal border crossings are down 99 percent, that the murder rate is down 20 percent, the drug overdose deaths are down 20 percent.

00:22:53.080 They can't dispute any of that. So instead, they just scream how much they hate Trump.

00:22:58.800 And I'll tell you, look, at the end of the day, it was a bad hearing for the Democrats because none of them laid a glove on on Todd Blanchett.

00:23:06.160 And I think he's going to end up being confirmed confirmed quickly.

00:23:10.980 There was another hearing this past week in Capitol Hill where Chris Wright, the secretary of energy, a very good friend of mine, was testifying.

00:23:17.860 And he was testifying about the shocking revelation that the Biden administration in the last two months of the administration between Election Day and when Trump was sworn in shoveled ninety three billion dollars out of the Department of Energy, mostly to left wing cronies.

00:23:40.340 My very good friend, John Kennedy, questioned him on this.

00:23:43.200 Listen to this questioning because you know what?

00:23:45.240 The corporate media did not play this for you.

00:23:47.960 So you don't know that these utterly corrupt criminals, and there's no other way to put it,

00:23:53.960 when you're $93 billion is more than twice as much as the Department of Energy had put out in 15 years.

00:24:04.620 They did that in 76 days. Give a listen.

00:24:08.040 Mr. Secretary, I want to go back to some of your earlier testimony and be sure I heard it correctly.

00:24:14.420 The 76-day period you're talking about, that's the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office.

00:24:25.000 Is that right?

00:24:26.000 That is correct.

00:24:27.140 And during that short period of time, 76 days, how much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy?

00:24:35.560 From the loan program office in loans and commitments, $93 billion, well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years.

00:24:46.740 So how do you vet and do due diligence on a loan in 76 days, one loan, much less $93 billion?

00:25:01.020 How do you do it?

00:25:02.220 I think it's probably pretty clear it wasn't done in many cases.

00:25:06.660 As I mentioned, I'm told I'm holding back clearly in place stuff.

00:25:13.360 There is lots of funds that have gone out the door and commitments that were made from businesses that provided no business plan,

00:25:21.480 no numbers about their own financial solvency or how this project.

00:25:25.220 So you're telling me that the Department of Energy, in the 76-day period, before their boss was going to leave office, gave or loaned money to entities that had no business plan?

00:25:38.460 Correct.

00:25:39.540 No financials?

00:25:41.000 Correct.

00:25:41.400 A number of those were before the 76-day period as well.

00:25:45.720 that's that's i've come in with great concern about how this institution this great american

00:25:51.920 institution has been run and how american taxpayer money has been handled um i'm sorry everyone's

00:25:58.500 upset that we're taking some time to do it but what we've seen what the record shows i'm not

00:26:03.840 upset could it be that a lot of people say you haven't returned your calls could it be that

00:26:09.660 you and your your colleagues have returned the calls but the people calling just didn't like

00:26:14.700 the answer could that be a possibility i'm not i'm not i'm not aware of that you know i give my

00:26:21.280 cell phone number to any senator that i know you do and i return my calls i i i'm i mean is your

00:26:27.320 is your department gone dark somebody said your department's gone dark is it dark over there

00:26:33.620 doesn't look it doesn't look dark behind me i don't see any of you sitting on your hands

00:26:39.940 Somebody made that charge.

00:26:41.300 I see everybody's hands.

00:26:43.460 Let me ask you something else, Mr. Secretary.

00:26:47.700 Does anybody ever come to the Department of Energy to get some of this free money and lie to you?

00:26:57.920 I have not experienced that, but I think it's a reasonable assumption that that has happened.

00:27:04.600 uh does anybody ever come to you is or is it conceivable that some of these folks that heard

00:27:12.340 about this free money came to you with a half-baked idea i think it's very conceivable in fact i've

00:27:20.480 seen such plans that were half-baked would be charitable that didn't have a business plan

00:27:26.480 right correct a promise to develop one to find a location give me the money and i'll develop the

00:27:33.420 plan later correct and and now you're going back through not money that's already been contracted

00:27:44.540 but you're going back through and checking each one of these loans and these grants

00:27:49.780 to make sure there was no stealing aren't you we are we make sure there was no incompetence

00:27:57.120 aren't you is that correct we're looking at that and and yeah my my blood pressure is rising right

00:28:04.000 now just thinking about what we have seen and what did happen and you're going to tell some

00:28:08.980 of these boondoggles no aren't you that's correct and they're going to be upset aren't they that's

00:28:14.220 correct and they ought to be upset shouldn't they i don't think they should be upset i think they

00:28:20.700 should be ashamed i am it's rare that i'm speechless but i want to be sure i understood

00:28:31.740 the people running the department of energy for president biden's administration

00:28:38.300 shoveled 93 billion dollars not million 93 billion dollars out the door in 76 days

00:28:50.220 And it just happened to be the time between when President Trump was elected and President Biden, their boss, was leaving.

00:28:57.840 Is that right?

00:28:59.920 It is correct and distasteful.

00:29:04.500 Confidence undermining.

00:29:07.680 My God.

00:29:11.940 Senator, I mean, you look at this money and it's very clear the Democratic Party knew what they were doing and they funneled this money.

00:29:19.060 How is this not illegal?

00:29:20.220 Well, it may well have been illegal, and I think there needs to be serious investigations. There's a cynicism. Look, you're an appointee of Joe Biden in the Department of Energy, and your party loses. Donald Trump gets reelected. The American people reject your agenda.

00:29:34.360 you know what you should do you should start packing your things up and get ready to leave

00:29:39.600 because the voters have spoken all these democrats that love to beat their chest about democracy

00:29:44.780 that's what you would do if you respected democracy but they didn't they said we got 76 days

00:29:50.420 let's rob the taxpayers blind let let's steal the computers let's pull the the curtains off the rods

00:29:58.940 ninety three billion dollars understand that is more than double the amount of money the

00:30:06.520 department of energy had sent out in the previous 15 years combined that is bonnie and clyde bank

00:30:13.740 robbery that is the corruption of the biden administration and and it demonstrates an utter

00:30:20.460 contempt for the taxpayers an utter contempt for the country a willingness to prioritize your

00:30:27.020 political cronies over the nation. And the people who did this need to be investigated. And if they

00:30:33.080 broke the law, they need to go to jail. Senator, I want to start off this last segment by saying

00:30:37.840 I don't ever want our government to be weaponized against our political adversaries. Notice I didn't

00:30:43.200 use the word enemy. Democrats use the word enemy to describe Republicans. I say adversaries.

00:30:48.040 But I do want to hold those accountable that are actually doing corrupt things. And we now know a

00:30:55.080 lot more about the investigation and the Chinese Communist Party tycoon Neville Roy Singham.

00:31:01.100 And it should get a lot more attention than it is right now.

00:31:04.480 Certainly the media, they're looking the other way.

00:31:07.500 Well, that's exactly right.

00:31:08.600 And, you know, we ended the last segment by talking about the need for accountability

00:31:12.980 of the corruption within the Biden administration, that those who broke the law need to be held

00:31:18.600 to account.

00:31:19.360 And on this podcast, we have talked at great length about the need to follow the money that these anti-American efforts.

00:31:28.400 Look, if you look at all of the stories in today's pod, they're interwoven.

00:31:31.840 The DSA, there is clearly a funding stream funding the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses, funding the communists tearing this country apart, funding the DSA, funding the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots across the country,

00:31:47.020 funding the open border riots in LA and elsewhere, the money stream, and what I've urged the

00:31:53.000 Department of Justice, what I've urged the FBI from the beginning of this second Trump

00:31:56.900 administration, follow the money, the people who are paying for this. This is not organic. When

00:32:02.360 people carry out these acts of violence, it's not organic. When you look at the anti-Semitic protests,

00:32:07.380 the tents all match. Follow the money. And then we, in a previous podcast a couple of weeks ago,

00:32:14.640 talked about the bombshell story that we've all seen the rising sentiment against AI that on the

00:32:21.820 left and the right suddenly people are saying gosh I don't like AI shut down data centers Kathy

00:32:26.200 Hochul just this past couple of weeks said no data centers in New York and the bombshell story that

00:32:32.520 much of that is being paid for by a communist named Neville Roy Singham who has deep ties to

00:32:41.340 the Chinese Communist Party. And listen, we're in a race, America and China, to see who will

00:32:47.420 develop AI first. If China wins, it will put China in a position to dominate the world economically,

00:32:53.480 but also whichever country wins, the values of that country will dominate AI. So if China wins,

00:33:02.420 AI will be dominated by Communist Party control and surveillance and propaganda and espionage

00:33:10.640 and I think all of us want AI to instead reflect American values, to reflect free speech and

00:33:18.160 individual liberty and free enterprise. Well, a bit of good news, which is the Trump Department

00:33:24.740 of Justice is doing exactly that. It's following the money and it's holding people to account.

00:33:29.380 Let me read from a story in CBS News. Husband of Code Pink founder being investigated under

00:33:34.660 federal foreign agent and tax laws. Neville Roy Singham, the wealthy husband of the founder of

00:33:40.440 the progressive non-profit Code Pink and the benefactor of far-left political causes is under

00:33:46.340 criminal investigation by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York, according to

00:33:51.120 multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. The investigation began by looking into possible

00:33:55.500 violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and has since expanded into a criminal tax probe

00:34:01.460 over whether the money was unlawfully funneled through non-profits he controls and whether he

00:34:08.040 lied on the tax forms for those non-profits known as 990s. Singham is a major financial backer

00:34:16.540 of a New York City-based non-profit called the People's Forum, a left-leaning non-profit that

00:34:22.380 advocates for causes impacting the working class and other marginalized groups. He's also the

00:34:27.860 founder of ThoughtWorks, an IT consulting company, and is married to Jody Evans, co-founder of the

00:34:33.540 anti-war group Code Pink. Singham sold ThoughtWorks to a private equity firm in 2017

00:34:41.000 for $785 million. At around the same time, Singham moved his business operations to Shanghai, China

00:34:50.780 and began funding a vast global network of non-profits and think tanks to the tune of

00:34:58.360 hundreds of millions of dollars. According to reports of the Free Press and the New York Times,

00:35:05.680 Singham moved the funds through shell companies and other opaque entities, advancing his brand

00:35:11.140 of leftist politics while pushing pro-Beijing messaging. He injected much of his own money

00:35:19.060 into Code Pink, funding up to a quarter of its operation, according to reports. Soon,

00:35:25.660 Code Pink softened its stance on China, which had previously been highly critical of Beijing's

00:35:31.600 human rights policies. Among other things, the group defended China against widespread reports

00:35:37.300 its government was committing genocide against a Muslim minority group in the country's far

00:35:42.480 northwest. So I and numerous other senators on the Judiciary Committee have urged the Department

00:35:48.260 of Justice to look into this. Chuck Grassley wrote a letter urging DOJ to do that. Here's

00:35:54.580 what Grassley's letter said, quote, evidence suggests that the People's Forum and Code Pink

00:35:58.620 have been funded and influenced by Mr. Neville Roy Singham and the communist Chinese government,

00:36:04.600 both of which are foreign principles. The evidence also suggests that the People's Forum and Code

00:36:09.460 Pink have engaged in covered political activities that directly advance the communist Chinese

00:36:15.020 government's political and policy interest. And by the way, Neville Roy Singham's response to that

00:36:23.020 That is, quote, I categorically deny and repudiate any suggestion that I am a member of, work for, take orders from or follow instructions of any political party or government or their representatives.

00:36:33.740 I am solely guided by my beliefs, which are long held personal views.

00:36:38.720 So, well, there's going to be an investigation into it.

00:36:41.140 I don't know if this guy is just a communist who hates America and wants to destroy our nation, or if he's a communist who hates America and wants to destroy our nation, who is working directly for and may even be funded by the Chinese communist government.

00:36:53.720 That's one of the things that I would imagine the investigation will examine.

00:36:57.220 Either way, I am very glad the Department of Justice is examining the hundreds of millions of dollars he is using to fund the people that are tearing our country apart.

00:37:10.120 Yeah, and that's the key thing there. 0.93

00:37:12.420 And if you're doing something that is illegal and it's coming in with the Chinese Communist Party,

00:37:17.660 why would anyone not want that to be investigated if that's what the evidence is showing?

00:37:22.800 That's the core part here that I think matters for all Americans.

00:37:26.100 You know, it's one of the things that is dangerous in this world where we're on social media,

00:37:31.080 where you see things, you're on X or Facebook or wherever you are,

00:37:34.640 and suddenly a lot of people seem concerned about something.

00:37:37.040 And that can seem organic. And we are seeing more and more paid foreign influence operations. And China puts a lot of money into undermining America. Qatar puts a lot of money into undermining America. Iran puts a lot of money into undermining America.

00:37:52.940 You know, there was a report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute that says for the past five years, nonprofits funded by Neville Roy Singham have been putting out papers opposing export controls on advanced semiconductors to China, putting out newsletters quoting Chinese communist officials blasting America's approach to technology, and articles characterizing U.S. data centers as fronts in the, quote, new Cold War on China. 0.66

00:38:22.940 And this is a deliberate foreign influence effort that is targeting the American economy.

00:38:31.440 It's targeting A.I. It's trying to get America to stop leading an A.I.

00:38:36.160 And it's trying ultimately to defeat capitalism and destroy our country. 0.79

00:38:41.440 These it has the exact same objectives as the DSA radicals that are taking over the Democrat Party.

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