00:03:32.220OK, that much is probably true on the fraud in the state and being a paragon of integrity, being like like most Democrats concerned about not robbing the taxpayers.
00:03:43.960Instead of going after the fraud, he went after and persecuted the government employees who were pointing out the fraud.
00:03:50.060We're going to give you the facts on that also.
00:03:52.520Yeah, it's a really, really interesting story there.
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00:05:49.520All right. So, Senator, let's get into this first story. And you said it best. Welcome to
00:05:56.960Just Technology in 2026. For the first time in history, you had a drone boat that saved the
00:06:05.340lives of two Americans that were shot down by Iran. There's no pilot, no one on board. This0.51
00:06:12.200is a boat just like a drone in the sky that is controlled by a joystick. And it was able
00:06:19.380to go extremely fast, get these guys, and get out before the enemy could touch them.
00:07:29.120And what precipitated it is that earlier today, an armed Iranian Shahid drone struck a U.S. Apache helicopter, and it went down in the sea off the coast of Oman on Monday.
00:07:44.840uh u.s central command reported that the helicopter was on patrol when it was struck by the drone
00:07:50.840but the two pilots who were aboard the apache helicopter were safely rescued within about
00:07:57.040two hours of the strike and and and it's worth uh here we're going to play the fox news report
00:08:04.660that covered it and for those of you who are watching this uh on on youtube you can watch
00:08:09.580the video of this drone ship that was responsible for rescuing our soldiers in combat. Give a listen,
00:08:17.180give a watch. Iran's under attack. Trump ordered CENTCOM to launch self-defense strikes after an
00:08:22.640enemy drone took down an Apache helicopter patrolling the strait. The two pilots were
00:08:27.680rescued out of the water by an unmanned sea drone operated by Task Force 59 in Bahrain.
00:08:33.680The drones Texas made, it's 24 feet long and can travel a thousand miles and hit speeds of 35 knots.
00:08:42.300And it's the first sea drone rescue in combat history.
00:08:45.680Trump was on the phone with the press when he gave the order.
00:08:49.460POTUS said this is a retaliation for the helicopter hit.
00:08:53.020And it's important that our response is strong and powerful.
00:08:56.320CENTCOM called our response proportional, but sources say we're taking out Iranian air defenses,
00:09:01.520radar systems all along the strait and we're not finished technically i know it doesn't seem like
00:09:07.980it but we're still in a ceasefire and the president continues to say we're close to a deal
00:09:14.060we're in the final throes of what will be a very very good deal that will not allow in any way
00:09:21.240shape or form nuclear weapons etc and the strait will open up right away it'll open up immediately
00:09:27.700upon signing, which could be in two or three days.
00:09:51.300But you go back to just the beginning of it.
00:09:54.14035 knots, that's about 40 miles an hour.
00:09:56.780In rough seas, that's incredibly fast, especially if you're a 25-foot boat, as they described here.
00:10:02.600This technology allows these boats to go faster than what most, like if you're a human riding in a boat in heavy seas, in rough seas.
00:10:10.900Going at that speed is going to be very risky to you.
00:10:13.540This takes that away as well, which, again, talks about how the speed they were able to actually get to these two pilots that have been shot down.
00:10:22.640Yeah, and look, it's a manifestation of the new age of warfare where these drone ships are not massively expensive.
00:10:33.340You look at aircraft carriers and expensive ships that can cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars that are powered with nuclear reactors.
00:10:43.820That's been how we've approached naval power for 70 years.
00:11:03.440And the ability, and with AI, you can control.
00:11:06.760Look, 10,000, in a normal world, you'd have to have 10,000 captains piloting them.
00:11:12.140You can have AI, and you can assign, for example, 10,000 drone ships, patrol this area, and AI can direct them to their searching, and they'll engage in espionage, engage in reporting on what they find.
00:11:29.820You can train them to protect a particular ship, protect something that's going on, protect a port or a harbor.
00:11:37.260they can do that you can assign them go intercept this vessel and and if they're armed with
00:11:42.600ordnance they that they can fire torpedoes they can have explosives and and because the ships
00:11:48.620themselves are not super expensive it also means that that that if you lose one ship or 10 or 100
00:11:56.500it's not the end of the world it's not you can take that is risks yeah and and it's look we're
00:12:02.440seeing the same thing with aerial drones where we're headed very quickly to a world and some of
00:12:06.900this, we're actually getting some foreshadowing of this with the war in Ukraine, where the battle
00:12:11.680between Ukraine and Russia, much of it is involving drones and the ability to have thousands or tens
00:12:16.880of thousands of drones. And instead of one big, really expensive thing, lots and lots of smaller,
00:12:24.740less expensive things, which can overwhelm the previous technology. And I got to say,
00:12:31.000having been to the factory. Look, these guys are a startup in Austin, Texas. I know the CEO. I know
00:12:38.620the lead funders. And they're young techies who are entrepreneurial, who have a vision. And their
00:12:47.980desire to scale this, it is very cool. This is the first drone rescue at sea in combat in the
00:12:56.500history of the world. And you know what? This is not going to be the last. We're going to see a lot
00:12:59.840more. By the way, there are civilian applications of this that have nothing to do with combat.
00:13:05.240Look, look, the Coast Guard. I literally was talking to the Coast Guard as we were on family
00:13:10.900vacation. And one of the guys I saw and, you know, just saying thanks. But one of the things that was
00:13:15.760cool they were talking about is technology. They said a lot of times the helicopters, when there's
00:13:21.960the worst weather and boats get in trouble, they can be commercial vessels, they can be recreational,
00:13:29.740When things get really bad with weather, unfortunately, sometimes the weather's too bad to go out right at that moment in a helicopter because it's so bad.
00:13:38.620But if you have drones that you can risk no life going out there, it changes the entire way that it works.
00:13:45.800And there's some people that are afraid, like, hey, well, that's going to take jobs and away human beings.
00:13:50.180But if you can't be there in that moment and you can send out a drone that could quite possibly save your life, that a normal, if it's, you know, man controlled, you just can't take that risk and you come back, it's too rough.
00:14:05.020You can throw drones out there and save countless lives in that scenario.
00:14:09.400This is technology that is life changing.
00:14:18.540Yeah. I mean, they're kind of – they're the equivalent of Navy SEALs or Delta Force Green Berets. They're the most badass coasts.
00:14:30.200Yes. Yeah. And and and I met met a number of them, particularly in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
00:14:35.400So Hurricane Harvey was was a 2017 was at the time the second most costly natural disaster in American history, did massive damage all the way down from Corpus Christi, all the way up hundreds of miles up the Texas coast to the border right with Louisiana.
00:17:41.300And by the way, if China masters this technology before we do, that is a generation-skipping advance in technology.
00:17:50.700And if they have the ability to send 1,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 AI-controlled drones at one of our aircraft carriers, there's a real risk that the weapons we have to take out, say, surface-to-surface missiles or bombs, we have – our aircraft carriers are incredibly expensive and powerful tools.
00:18:14.920Yeah. But they were made to take out a limited number of ordnance and not just massive drone assaults. We're shifting to a new technology where where, look, if we're in a conflict with a smaller rival, that's less dangerous.
00:18:32.980although you know what, in times, even terrorists and smaller rivals, we're going to see more and
00:18:39.400more military attacks using drones. We're going to see things, we're going to see assassinations.
00:18:44.400We're going to see people killed using drones. That is unfortunately where the future is heading.
00:18:50.560One of the things the U.S. military is investing in heavily with American technology is counter
00:18:55.300drone technology. How do you take out drones that are attacking you? And some of what is working
00:19:02.980is lower cost ordinance that, that, that, that you can't fire a Patriot missile
00:19:08.040at every drone coming in. It, it just, the cost differential, they can swarm you.
00:19:14.360So, you know, I was at another Texas company where they're building basically the equivalent
00:19:20.020of a really big bad-ass machine gun that is powered, that is firing like 50 cal rounds,
00:19:27.460but is firing them with AI where they could target hundreds or thousands of drones,
00:19:33.520but the cost of a round is not very expensive. So, so instead of, of, of spending an entire
00:19:40.380Patriot missile or, or something that, that you have limited supply of, we have essentially
00:19:45.580unlimited supply of rounds. And so, but using those robot powered with AI to take out, uh,
00:19:53.300take-out attacks in scale. More and more of that is coming, and there are different ways to take
00:19:58.560out drones. You've got ordnance, you've got laser and microwave, and we're exploring all sorts of
00:20:05.280different technologies to take out a hostile drone. But if we lose this race, we would be at
00:20:11.800a serious military disadvantage to China. We can't let that happen, and I don't think we're going to.
00:20:23.300With four nights at Residence Inn downtown Montreal,
00:20:26.120flights from Porter Airlines, two weekend gold tickets,
00:21:47.240All right. I want to move on to this other incredible story, Senator, coming out of
00:21:53.400Minnesota. And in life, especially in government work, you're told that if you're a whistleblower,
00:21:59.800that you have protections. And that if you're a whistleblower, you should not be afraid for
00:22:04.660your job or that someone's going to come after you, certainly the government that you work for.
00:22:08.800Well, apparently that's not the case in Minnesota. And if you want to know how the Somali
00:22:14.600fraud got so bad? It might actually be because the governor was coming after the whistleblower,
00:22:21.280not those that were committing the crimes in Minnesota with his new shocking report.
00:22:26.780Well, that is inevitably, number one, the law, federal law and typically state law that protects
00:22:31.740whistleblowers, that gives you legal protection because you want whistleblowers to call attention
00:22:36.640to fraud. But number two, if a government official goes after the whistleblowers, attacks the
00:22:45.480whistleblowers, refuses to follow the law on whistleblowers, that is powerful indication
00:22:51.500of a guilty mind that you're covering something up. It's sort of like if someone is murdered in
00:22:58.620Central Park and you catch a person burning their clothes from that night and destroying the murder
00:23:06.440weapon. That is powerful, powerful evidence that they're the murderer, that it is typically the
00:23:13.380guilty who destroys evidence, who tries to cover it up, that if you're not guilty, you have far
00:23:20.920less motivation, far less likelihood to try to silence whistleblowers to try to destroy evidence.
00:23:26.820So here's the story that broke in the Daily Caller. The headline is, Tim Waltz's staff
00:23:31.400hired private investigators to silence fraud whistleblowers, committee report fines.
00:23:36.440Senior Minnesota state officials allegedly hired outside investigators to silence whistleblowers
00:23:41.820in an attempt to cover up widespread state social services fraud, a House committee report released
00:23:48.300Monday found. The 200-page staff report by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
00:23:53.600found that Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's state's administration intimidated
00:23:59.360and retaliated against state employees who raised concerns about fraud,
00:24:06.140soliciting private investigators to reveal employees' personal details.
00:24:12.960The report, titled The Cost of Doing Nothing, How Tim Walts and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota's Fraud Explosion,
00:24:20.500exposed that senior state officials, as high as allegedly Governor Walts,
00:24:25.660were aware of widespread fraud for years and neglected to respond to reports.
00:24:32.360A Minnesota Department of Education official who contacted the FBI told federal investigators she
00:24:37.640was pressured, quote, at every turn by her superiors to stop raising fraud concerns and was, quote,
00:24:46.760handslapped when she continued to investigate, according to the report. The official also
00:24:52.820reported that she was warned by state administrators to, quote, stop digging into things as it would
00:24:59.080appear that she was, quote, targeting certain groups. This is DEI and fraud all coming together
00:25:07.300along with corruption to elect Democrats. The article continues, dozens of other whistleblowers
00:25:13.340reported, dozens, that they were told to stay silent about fraud concerns by the Minnesota
00:25:19.640Department of Human Services because they would be labeled, quote, racist or Islamophobic.
00:25:26.960DHS also told state employees that raising fraud concerns would harm the state, the report said.
00:25:34.220Whistleblowers reported that DHS conducted arbitrary investigations to photograph their
00:25:39.560cars and houses, monitor their phones and computers, and asked employees where their
00:25:47.780kids attended school. Now it's going to get worse. Then Temporary Commissioner Shireen Gandhi,
00:25:56.320by the way, I'm going to give you some foreshadowing that Ms. Gandhi did not behave like
00:26:01.800Gandhi. Instead, she confirmed in a testimony copied in the report that the State Department
00:26:11.480used outside entities to conduct these investigations of employees, but could not
00:26:19.340confirm whether independent law firms were used. Gandhi also confirmed in her testimony
00:26:24.360that DHS management would regularly meet and, quote, check in on employees who had reported
00:26:30.900fraud concerns. Gandhi continued to conduct these check-ins on DHS whistleblower Faye Bernstein,
00:26:37.360a year or two after her investigatory leave. So they hunted them down and they stayed harassing
00:26:45.780them. Bernstein alleged that Gandhi, quote, shamed her in a meeting after she raised concerns about
00:26:51.980fraud and, quote, excluded her from further meetings on the topic. Whistleblowers also
00:26:56.800alleged that former state commissioner Jody Harpstead held a division-wide meeting and told
00:27:02.140attendees that, quote, employees would be punished if they reported concerns about fraud
00:27:10.140in DHS programs, according to the report. DHS employee Emanuel Nuala told colleagues that he,
00:27:17.020quote, did intelligence research within the Army and appears to have threatened to provide
00:27:23.840IP addresses to former colleagues in order to find the locations of whistleblowers' email
00:27:33.140addresses an email obtained through a public data request showed. Now it's about to get
00:27:39.400even worse. The report also alleged that DHS de-anonymized an internal fraud hotline
00:27:50.960for employees in an attempt to intimidate fraud reporters. After whistleblowers later created an
00:27:59.040anonymous external email to report fraud, DHS blocked the email address. Whistleblowers reported
00:28:07.600that their fraud hotline tips were sent to human resources and used against them. The hotline was
00:28:15.300originally anonymous, but was de-anonymized under Gandhi's tenure as deputy commissioner of HR.
00:28:23.040Governor Waltz appointed Gandhi as commissioner of DHS in February, 2026, but removed her in May
00:28:29.580before her confirmation hearing amid scrutiny of her response to fraud allegations.
00:28:36.520I this is anyone who claims gosh the the elected officials of Minnesota they were victims they
00:28:45.680didn't know they wanted to go after the fraud which by the way both Waltz and Ellison keep
00:28:50.820saying oh we wanted to go after the fraud we wanted to prosecute it this demonstrates I think
00:28:57.040powerfully they are lying not only did they not want to go after the fraud they were doing
00:29:02.260everything they could to silence the whistleblowers and prevent anyone from knowing about the fraud.
00:29:08.600Yeah. And this goes back to the other question of accountability.
00:29:13.120If everything that we just mentioned turns out to be true, there's obviously now an open
00:29:18.160investigation into this. If you do these things, are you breaking the law? And if it goes all the
00:29:25.140way to the governor, is he breaking the law? And the people below him, are they breaking the law?
00:29:29.260And is there any accountability for this or is this just, well, Walt isn't running for re-election, so it doesn't really matter anymore and we'll just move on.
00:29:37.740And, yeah, we may continue to do things like this in the future without accountability.
00:29:42.060Listen, the Department of Justice has created an entire new division focused at going after fraud.
00:29:48.600And I hope everyone who made these decisions faces accountability if they committed criminal violations that they are prosecuted.
00:29:55.840I am hopeful. I can tell you I'm urging the Department of Justice, hold them accountable.
00:30:00.980The way our constitutional system works, it's not the legislature. Look, I'm in the Senate.
00:30:06.440I can't prosecute anybody. I don't have executive authority. I have legislative authority. I can
00:30:10.380write legislation, which I have, but I can't. The power to bring an indictment, the power to go
00:30:16.340before a grand jury, to get an indictment, to prosecute, that is exclusively within the
00:30:22.080executive branch within principally the U.S. Department of Justice at the federal level.
00:30:27.460And so I can tell you this, I am urging the attorney general and DOJ prosecute every single
00:30:33.360person who committed criminal acts, who covered up this fraud, who benefited from it, who knew
00:30:38.760what they were doing. And this is this is a real smoking gun. And at the AG, I go back to Ellison
00:30:45.120there. We know his name well. If he's involved in this and is using and weaponizing the government
00:30:51.520to go after those that were not committing the fraud, those that were trying to whistleblow on
00:30:56.400the fraud and they are harassed. Is there any lane for the people that were being harassed
00:31:01.880to somehow have like, you know, restitution for what they went through? If you're being harassed
00:31:08.080for two years after you put in a tip, that's got to put a lot of stress on your life. I'm assuming
00:31:13.940it puts stress on your career. I'm assuming it could have affected a lot of people getting
00:31:17.880promotions that they deserved. Yeah, look, and I would assume we're going to see civil litigation
00:31:23.800of people filing lawsuits and seeking compensation for this, and that litigation could well be
00:31:32.060successful. In terms of criminal prosecution, this would not surprise me. I don't know sitting here
00:31:38.260if Minnesota law makes doing this a criminal violation in Minnesota. Now, of course, the
00:31:45.980federal government can't prosecute violations of Minnesota law. It would take a Minnesota
00:31:50.480district attorney to bring that case. And I got to admit, I'm very skeptical that there are any
00:31:57.400prosecutors in Minnesota willing to hold the corrupt Democrats in charge of that state
00:32:02.740accountable. If they're not, then there's not really a mechanism to enforce Minnesota law,
00:32:09.340which means you would be left with federal law. And given that these are federal funds
00:32:13.920that were effectively being stolen and funneled to Somali, funneled to Somalian fraudsters being
00:32:21.060sent, among other places, to Al-Shabaab. And we had terrorists before on this podcast that the
00:32:29.060single largest funder of Al-Shabaab, which is the radical Islamic terrorist group that is in Somalia,
00:32:35.960their number one funder was the taxpayers of Minnesota. And those are also federal taxpayer
00:32:41.120money. So look, I expect the department of justice, they've already prosecuted a number
00:32:45.780of the fraudsters at the lower level, but I hope they go right up, right up the, the ladder of
00:32:51.400accountability and any politicians that are responsible. And, and to be clear, this happened
00:32:56.780because it was in politicians, political interest for this to happen because they were getting0.82
00:33:02.680money from campaign donations and they were getting votes from allowing Somalian fraudsters
00:33:09.020to rob the taxpayers of Minnesota and the American taxpayers. And look, this has happened0.93
00:33:16.780also in other states. It's happened in Maine under the Democrat governor there. It's happened
00:33:22.140in California. It's happened in Illinois. It's happened, I think, all over the country, but
00:33:26.420predominantly in Democrat states where there are Democrat politicians who are benefiting
00:33:33.100from turning the other way to fraud. And I think everyone who committed a criminal act
00:33:38.780should face prosecution and real consequences.
00:33:41.880Yeah, this is a story we're going to follow.