Verdict with Ted Cruz - July 04, 2026


Minnesota Fraud Whistleblowers Hunted, the Fight for the Future of College Athletics & Controversial DA Practices in PA Week In Review


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A new report from a Minnesota state senator reveals that the state government actually hired private investigators to spy on and intimidate government employees who tried to expose massive social services fraud. A bill is moving through Congress that could save college sports forever. And an activist DA in Philadelphia is letting criminals walk.

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00:01:34.320 Welcome to This Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:01:36.080 We can review Ben Ferguson with you, and happy 4th of July.
00:01:40.560 Here are the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about this past week.
00:01:44.280 We have got a shocking story coming out of Minnesota
00:01:47.140 That the governor there actually paid private investigators to spy and to intimidate government employees who had whistleblown on the massive fraud that was taking place.
00:01:59.780 Also, a bill that is actually moving through Congress that is now quite possibly going to save college sports forever.
00:02:08.280 And lastly, an activist DA in Philadelphia yet again letting criminals walk.
00:02:13.900 Why is this happening and who's behind it?
00:02:16.160 We explain that for you.
00:02:17.600 It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.
00:02:20.680 All right, I want to move on to this other incredible story, Senator, coming out of Minnesota.
00:02:25.020 And in life, especially in government work, you're told that if you're a whistleblower,
00:02:30.580 that you have protections.
00:02:32.840 And that if you're a whistleblower, you should not be afraid for your job
00:02:36.080 or that someone's going to come after you, certainly the government that you work for.
00:02:39.940 Well, apparently that's not the case in Minnesota.
00:02:43.160 And if you want to know how the Somali fraud got so bad, it might actually be because the governor was coming after the whistleblower, not those that were committing the crimes in Minnesota with his new shocking report.
00:02:57.540 Well, that is inevitably, number one, the law, federal law and typically state law that protects whistleblowers, that gives you legal protection because you want whistleblowers to to call attention to fraud.
00:03:07.980 But number two, if a government official goes after the whistleblowers, attacks the whistleblowers, refuses to follow the law on whistleblowers, that is powerful indication of a guilty mind that you're covering something up.
00:03:26.740 It's sort of like if someone is murdered in Central Park and you catch a person burning their clothes from that night and destroying the murder weapon.
00:03:38.260 That is powerful, powerful evidence that they're the murderer, that it is typically the guilty who destroys evidence, who tries to cover it up.
00:03:46.780 that if you're not guilty, you have far less motivation, far less likelihood to try to
00:03:55.100 silence whistleblowers, to try to destroy evidence. So here's the story that broke in
00:03:59.360 the Daily Caller. The headline is, Tim Waltz's staff hired private investigators to silence
00:04:04.100 fraud whistleblowers, committee report fines. Senior Minnesota state officials allegedly hired
00:04:09.820 outside investigators to silence whistleblowers in an attempt to cover up widespread state social
00:04:16.160 Services Fraud, a House Committee report released Monday found. The 200-page staff report by the
00:04:22.420 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that Democrat Minnesota Governor
00:04:26.380 Tim Walz's state's administration intimidated and retaliated against state employees who raised
00:04:34.580 concerns about fraud, soliciting private investigators to reveal employees' personal
00:04:42.100 details. The report, titled The Cost of Doing Nothing, How Tim Waltz and Keith Ellison Fueled
00:04:49.020 Minnesota's Fraud Explosion, exposed that senior state officials, as high as allegedly Governor
00:04:55.940 Waltz, were aware of widespread fraud for years and neglected to respond to reports.
00:05:03.200 A Minnesota Department of Education official who contacted the FBI told federal investigators she
00:05:08.420 was pressured, quote, at every turn by her superiors to stop raising fraud concerns and was, quote,
00:05:17.500 handslapped when she continued to investigate, according to the report. The official also
00:05:23.580 reported that she was warned by state administrators to, quote, stop digging into things as it would
00:05:29.860 appear that she was, quote, targeting certain groups. This is DEI and fraud all coming together
00:05:38.060 along with corruption to elect Democrats. The article continues, dozens of other whistleblowers
00:05:44.100 reported, dozens, that they were told to stay silent about fraud concerns by the Minnesota
00:05:50.420 Department of Human Services because they would be labeled, quote, racist or Islamophobic. DHS
00:05:58.060 also told state employees that raising fraud concerns would harm the state, the report said.
00:06:04.880 Whistleblowers reported that DHS conducted arbitrary investigations to photograph their cars
00:06:10.900 and houses, monitor their phones and computers, and asked employees where their kids attended
00:06:19.600 school. Now it's going to get worse. Then Temporary Commissioner Shireen Gandhi, by the way I'm going
00:06:27.780 to give you some foreshadowing that Ms. Gandhi did not behave like Gandhi. Instead, she confirmed
00:06:38.240 in a testimony copied in the report that the State Department used outside entities to conduct
00:06:46.060 these investigations of employees, but could not confirm whether independent law firms were used.
00:06:52.360 Gandhi also confirmed in her testimony that DHS management would regularly meet and quote
00:06:58.440 check in on employees who had reported fraud concerns. Gandhi continued to conduct these
00:07:05.300 check-ins on DHS whistleblower Faye Bernstein quote a year or two after her investigatory
00:07:13.860 leave so they hunted them down and they stayed harassing them. Bernstein alleged that Gandhi
00:07:18.820 quote shamed her in a meeting after she raised concerns about fraud and quote excluded her from
00:07:24.360 further meetings on the topic. Whistleblowers also allege that former state commissioner Jody
00:07:29.640 Harpstead held a division-wide meeting and told attendees that quote employees would be punished
00:07:36.900 if they reported concerns about fraud in DHS programs according to the report. DHS employee
00:07:45.280 Emanuel Nwala told colleagues that he, quote, did intelligence research within the Army
00:07:51.540 and appears to have threatened to provide IP addresses to former colleagues in order to find
00:08:00.020 the locations of whistleblowers' email addresses an email obtained through a public data request
00:08:08.100 showed. Now it's about to get even worse. The report also alleged that DHS de-anonymized
00:08:19.320 an internal fraud hotline for employees in an attempt to intimidate fraud reporters.
00:08:27.380 After whistleblowers later created an anonymous external email to report fraud,
00:08:32.240 dhs blocked the email address whistleblowers reported that their fraud hotline tips
00:08:40.020 were sent to human resources and used against them the hotline was originally anonymous
00:08:46.880 but was de-anonymized under gandhi's tenure as deputy commissioner of hr
00:08:52.960 governor waltz appointed gandhi as commissioner of dhs in february 2026 but removed her in may
00:09:00.340 before her confirmation hearing amid scrutiny of her response to fraud allegations.
00:09:09.060 This is anyone who claims, gosh, the elected officials of Minnesota, they were victims.
00:09:16.160 They didn't know they wanted to go after the fraud, which, by the way, both Waltz and Ellison
00:09:21.260 keep saying, oh, we wanted to go after the fraud. We wanted to prosecute it.
00:09:24.580 this demonstrates, I think powerfully, they are lying. Not only did they not want to go after
00:09:32.020 the fraud, they were doing everything they could to silence the whistleblowers and prevent anyone
00:09:37.320 from knowing about the fraud. Yeah. And this goes back to the other question of accountability.
00:09:43.900 If everything that we just mentioned turns out to be true, there's obviously now an open
00:09:48.920 investigation into this. If you do these things, are you breaking the law? And if it goes all the
00:09:55.900 way to the governor, is he breaking the law? And the people below him, are they breaking the law?
00:10:00.360 And is there any accountability for this? Or is this just, well, Walt isn't running for re-election,
00:10:05.220 so it doesn't really matter anymore, and we'll just move on. And yeah, we may continue to do
00:10:10.300 things like this in the future without accountability. Listen, the Department of
00:10:13.920 justice has created an entire new division focused at going after fraud. And I hope everyone who made
00:10:20.980 these decisions faces accountability. If they committed criminal violations, that they are
00:10:25.860 prosecuted. I am hopeful. I can tell you I'm urging the Department of Justice, hold them accountable.
00:10:31.520 The way our constitutional system works, it's not the legislature. Look, I'm in the Senate. I can't
00:10:37.600 prosecute anybody. I don't have executive authority. I have legislative authority. I can
00:10:41.160 write legislation, which I have, but I can't. The power to bring an indictment, the power to go
00:10:47.100 before a grand jury to get an indictment to prosecute, that is exclusively within the
00:10:52.840 executive branch, within principally the U.S. Department of Justice at the federal level.
00:10:58.160 And so I can tell you this, I am urging the attorney general and DOJ prosecute every single
00:11:04.120 person who committed criminal acts, who covered up this fraud, who benefited from it, who knew
00:11:09.520 what they were doing and and and this is this is a real smoking gun and at the ag i go back to
00:11:15.680 ellison there we know his name well if he's involved in this and and is using and weaponizing
00:11:21.880 the government to go after those that were not committing the fraud those that were trying to
00:11:26.400 whistleblow on the fraud fraud and they are harassed is there any lane for the people that
00:11:31.800 were being harassed to somehow have like you know restitution for what they went through
00:11:37.540 if you're being harassed for two years after you put in a tip, that's got to put a lot of stress
00:11:43.220 on your life. I'm assuming it puts stress on your career. I'm assuming it could have affected a lot
00:11:48.160 of people getting promotions that they deserved. Yeah, look, and I would assume we're going to
00:11:53.500 see civil litigation of people filing lawsuits and seeking compensation for this, and that
00:12:01.500 litigation could well be successful. In terms of criminal prosecution, this would not surprise me.
00:12:07.720 I don't know sitting here if Minnesota law makes doing this a criminal violation in Minnesota. Now,
00:12:15.840 of course, the federal government can't prosecute violations of Minnesota law. It would take a
00:12:20.620 Minnesota district attorney to bring that case. And I got to admit, I'm very skeptical
00:12:26.340 that there are any prosecutors in Minnesota willing to hold the corrupt Democrats in charge
00:12:32.860 of that state accountable. If they're not, then there's not really a mechanism to enforce
00:12:38.960 Minnesota law, which means you would be left with federal law. And given that these are federal funds
00:12:44.680 that were effectively being stolen and funneled to Somali, funneled to Somalian fraudsters being
00:12:51.840 sent uh among other places to al-shabab and and we had terrorists before uh on this podcast that
00:12:59.640 the single largest funder of al-shabab which is the radical Islamic terrorist group that is in
00:13:05.360 somalia their number one funder was the taxpayers of minnesota and those are also federal taxpayer
00:13:11.880 money so look i expect the department of justice they've already prosecuted a number of the fraudsters
00:13:17.260 at the lower level, but I hope they go right up the ladder of accountability and any politicians
00:13:23.960 that are responsible. And to be clear, this happened because it was in politicians' political
00:13:31.000 interest for this to happen, because they were getting money from campaign donations and they 0.83
00:13:36.340 were getting votes from allowing Somalian fraudsters to rob the taxpayers of Minnesota 0.83
00:13:42.560 and the American taxpayers. And look, this has happened also in other states. It's happened 0.67
00:13:49.420 in Maine under the Democrat governor there. It's happened in California. It's happened in Illinois.
00:13:55.360 It's happened, I think, all over the country, but predominantly in Democrat states where there
00:14:01.320 are Democrat politicians who are benefiting from turning the other way to fraud. And I think
00:14:07.760 everyone who committed a criminal act should face prosecution and real consequences.
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00:16:08.640 into this is something you've been really working on this is the most like jock bro i've ever seen
00:16:13.660 you since i've known you and it's really been fun for me because usually you're geeking out over
00:16:18.180 like supreme court stuff i feel like our friendship has moved to another level because now we've got
00:16:23.440 to talk sports and nil so much and the college sports bill it is now reality let's walk us through
00:16:29.980 how this was done and what it means for sports fans and saving many sports that were getting
00:16:34.520 canceled around the country that were non-money making sports. So this week was a very, very big
00:16:40.240 week for college sports because the Senate Commerce Committee, which I chair, passed my
00:16:46.680 legislation to protect college sports. And it passed with a big bipartisan vote. The vote was
00:16:52.500 19 to 9. So we got a bunch of Republicans, bunch of Democrats. We got more than two thirds of the
00:16:58.040 committee voted for it that's really important it has momentum now going to the senate floor
00:17:02.500 i think it's going to pass on the senate with a big bipartisan vote and it's going to go to the
00:17:06.780 house and and president trump is eager to sign it now what's going on in college sports listen
00:17:12.800 college sports is in crisis right now uh every week you see another story about a program being
00:17:19.860 canceled women's sports being canceled track and field being canceled olympic sports being
00:17:24.100 canceled non-revenue sports tennis being canceled yeah and what is happening is is you've got total
00:17:31.200 chaos with the transfer portal you've got athletes transferring two three four five times
00:17:35.940 you have essentially no rules on eligibility uh they're all being decided by lawsuits it got so
00:17:43.120 ludicrous you had you had the brendan soresby case where even though he was gambling on his
00:17:47.980 own games. You had a hometown judge say, no, he can still play anyway. Now, thankfully, Texas Tech
00:17:54.840 backed away from that decision. I'm glad Tech made that decision to back away. That was an
00:17:59.520 indefensible decision. But it illustrated the chaos we have. You have people that are 26,
00:18:06.620 27 years old still playing college sports and 28-year-olds playing against 18-year-olds,
00:18:11.580 which is not fair, not right, and athletic programs, they're almost all losing millions of dollars.
00:18:21.240 Many of them are losing tens of millions of dollars because the cost keeps spiraling out of control.
00:18:27.040 And, Ben, if Congress doesn't act, I think five years from now, there will be 30 to 50 competitive college football programs,
00:18:38.180 basically a mini NFL.
00:18:40.460 Yeah, that's what it'll be.
00:18:41.280 It'll be a franchise.
00:18:42.320 If you're an SEC school, you'll own a franchise.
00:18:44.540 Yeah, and I think all of the other programs go under.
00:18:48.200 And what that means, by the way, that's not just college football going under.
00:18:52.000 The way athletics works in colleges is football pays for everything else.
00:18:56.500 And so if football goes under, it means those schools, they lose women's sports, 0.99
00:19:00.160 they lose their entire athletic program.
00:19:03.400 It means our Olympic athletes are just devastated,
00:19:07.700 and the college programs where they develop their skills right now go away.
00:19:12.340 And I think that would be a terrible outcome, and it would also be a terrible outcome.
00:19:17.340 Do you know right now there are more than 500,000 college athletes competing at any given time?
00:19:25.100 Yep.
00:19:25.440 If we allow this chaos to continue to play out,
00:19:29.900 hundreds of thousands of those slots will disappear.
00:19:32.760 Those scholarships will disappear.
00:19:34.880 And sports has been an avenue for millions of young men and women to go to school.
00:19:40.640 Let's be clear.
00:19:41.440 The 500,000 you just mentioned, and this is the part I want people to understand,
00:19:44.300 the majority of college athletes, like 90, I think I saw a study,
00:19:48.280 and you may know the number, but I want to say it was 98% or 99% of college athletes
00:19:52.860 do not play football or basketball.
00:19:56.620 So if you think about college sports, it is all the other sports,
00:20:01.340 the majority of them are not revenue making sports football barely is on most campuses
00:20:06.040 sometimes and depending on what school you're at if you're at a basketball school then that will
00:20:10.440 be your revenue sport outside that almost all the others lose money yep if you don't fix this
00:20:16.000 everything goes away and then many of those football programs that one percent of the student
00:20:21.140 body or or basketball which is i mean most basketball teams they have i think scholarships
00:20:25.440 i want to say it's nine in d1 maybe it's 11 scholarships i can't remember it always they're
00:20:29.760 always moving it around but for men like that's not many people folks if you don't fix this you
00:20:35.220 have a university that now has doesn't even have an identity in sports yeah look look my philosophy
00:20:40.240 in addressing this was was number one i didn't worry too much about the the powerhouse programs
00:20:45.820 the big big programs listen in texas university of texas and texas a&m i love them both i go to
00:20:52.160 games every year i cheer them on they're incredible institutions to be honest ut and a&m they are
00:20:58.160 going to survive and thrive regardless of what happens. They would survive the mini NFL and
00:21:05.060 continue to win national championships. But I worried about all of the other programs. To be
00:21:11.100 honest, if we don't act, I'm not convinced any other program in Texas survives. And if you can
00:21:16.300 imagine a Texas without SMU, without TCU, without Baylor, without Texas Tech, without Rice, without
00:21:23.160 university of houston that would be a tragic outcome uh and so my focus was on on maintaining
00:21:32.760 the entire ecosystem but secondly my focus was not on the superstar athletes if you're michael
00:21:38.720 jordan if you're arch manning you know what you're going to get millions of dollars you're going to
00:21:43.400 be on on the wheaties box you're going to do great yeah 99 of college athletes will never play in the
00:21:51.440 NFL will never play in the NBA, but yet athletics is their ticket to college.
00:21:58.040 Look, it was for you playing tennis is how you went to Ole Miss.
00:22:01.340 I'll be honest with you.
00:22:02.220 I'm not sure I would have gone to college if it wasn't for having the scholarship,
00:22:07.780 which came through tennis, to pay for college.
00:22:10.700 My family did not have a lot of means, and my dad was the first to admit,
00:22:14.540 and it was like, if you want to go to college, if you want to go to good school,
00:22:18.340 you're going to have to get there and earn it.
00:22:20.460 sports was my way in it wasn't going to be the academic road and that's another avenue you can
00:22:24.900 go but but sports was and for many of my friends it was a savior to a better life afterwards a
00:22:31.260 better member of society by the way we pay a lot more taxes when you're successful so it's a great
00:22:36.680 reinvestment in the country from that standpoint as well you want your kids to go to college but
00:22:40.240 for so many i had roommates they would have never gotten into college if it wasn't and gotten their
00:22:45.980 family many i had two different roommates they were the first kid in their families to ever go
00:22:50.640 to college it completely changed the trajectory of their family tree and it was because of athletics
00:22:55.680 well and and some people have said well why is congress getting involved in college sports and
00:23:00.860 and the reason is it's federal laws that congress has passed that created this chaos it's why all
00:23:07.600 of the rules got thrown out because they're being sued under existing federal law and every rule
00:23:12.760 keeps getting thrown out. And so Congress created the problem, which means only Congress can fix it
00:23:18.140 because only Congress can alter that federal law. And if we don't act, we can see the crisis
00:23:25.320 unfolding around us. And for millions of young men and women, many college athletes are coming
00:23:31.600 from economically disadvantaged circumstances. Many of them are African-American or Hispanic.
00:23:37.240 Over years and decades, we're talking about millions of young men and women who this may
00:23:42.200 be their only path to go to, A, going to college and getting an education, but B, learning the
00:23:48.240 disciplines that come from being in organized sports of teamwork and hard work and discipline
00:23:54.080 and sportsmanship. And look, I didn't have the skills to play college sports. I would have loved
00:23:58.460 to, but I played high school sports and it was, you know, being on, I played basketball and football
00:24:02.100 and soccer and being on a team in high school. Those are really important skills. And it's
00:24:07.380 amazing. I actually asked this at our Senate Republican lunch. I said, all right, how many
00:24:10.820 people around this table played college sports. And I would say about 20 percent of the Republicans
00:24:17.180 in the Senate raised their hand and they were college athletes. I mean, that's true. And that's
00:24:21.300 true. You find that with CEOs. You find that the discipline and nobody in the Senate played
00:24:27.480 professional sports, but the discipline of and the skills you learn set you up for success in life.
00:24:35.820 Let me ask you one final question on this. Who was behind this that surprised you the most?
00:24:39.560 Nick Saban was one that I was excited to see, that the African-American University of Memphis, my hometown football coach, he got behind this and had some great testimony there in front of you guys.
00:24:49.380 I was proud of that as well. But who shocked you that was behind this?
00:24:52.760 So the support we've seen has been overwhelming. 24 conferences have endorsed this bill.
00:24:58.940 They represent those conferences, represent over 200 different colleges and universities are enthusiastically supporting the bill.
00:25:06.780 The NFL endorsed the bill. The NBA endorsed the bill. Major League Baseball endorsed the bill. The NFL Players Association endorsed the bill. The NBA Players Association endorsed the bill. The College Football Association endorsed the bill.
00:25:21.340 We've had Nick Saban has endorsed it. John Calipari led over 100 college coaches who endorsed the bill.
00:25:28.540 The U.S. Olympic Committee endorsed the bill. So we've seen just enormous support.
00:25:35.280 And I will say the primary opposition came from the leadership of the Big Ten and the SEC.
00:25:42.460 And look, the SEC is really important in Texas, obviously, UTA and M. I think they're great.
00:25:47.220 if if congress doesn't act i believe the sec and big ten want to create a super league where
00:25:54.740 they're the only football that exists and everyone else goes out of business billion dollar franchise
00:25:59.040 organizations that's what they would have and that is a terrible outcome we explicitly prohibit a
00:26:04.420 super league in the bill because i want to keep all the other programs alive yeah that's where
00:26:09.360 the resistance has come from i think we're going to end up having a big big bipartisan vote on the
00:26:15.440 Senate floor. My objective is to do this, get it done, get it passed. The president's eager to sign
00:26:20.540 it and do all of that before school starts this fall. As before, if you want to hear the rest of
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00:27:58.840 Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
00:27:59.920 He's Joe Getty.
00:28:00.560 We're Armstrong and Getty.
00:28:01.680 We try to bring you the truth.
00:28:02.820 And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
00:28:05.080 How about something about a comedic tone?
00:28:07.640 we have a winner yes listen to armstrong you getty on demand on the iheart radio app apple
00:28:15.560 podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts i want to get back to the big story number three of the
00:28:21.540 week you may have missed i want to move on to another big issue we've got another activist da
00:28:27.280 that's been busted flat out lying senator this time in philadelphia uh you can you can say thank
00:28:33.660 you to the Democratic Party, to the George Soros' for allowing this to happen, and this is a story
00:28:37.880 that needs to be on your radar screen as well. It is, and let's talk about who this is. You know,
00:28:43.620 we talked about Singman and a left-wing billionaire spending money to do real damage to America.
00:28:51.320 This is a story about another left-wing billionaire spending money to do enormous
00:28:57.180 damage to America. In this case, George Soros. George Soros has spent billions of dollars. He
00:29:03.960 is the single most effective political giver, I think, in American history. Now, effective is not
00:29:10.200 a compliment. He is effective in being unbelievably harmful. There are, I believe, thousands of
00:29:16.160 Americans who are dead because George Soros has spent the money so effectively. So he spent
00:29:21.520 propaganda in support of open borders. And you look at all of the people who have been raped and
00:29:27.000 killed by illegal immigrant violent criminals, all the people that have been subject to terror 1.00
00:29:31.540 attacks from illegal immigrant violent criminals. But Soros also is creative in his destruction, 0.96
00:29:39.020 and he realized that our democratic society has vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities that
00:29:46.340 he can target. So he doesn't just target a presidential race. That's an easy, big, sexy
00:29:50.800 target. Yeah. He really pioneered targeting district attorney races. Now, district attorney 1.00
00:29:57.220 races used to be sleepy little races. You'd have a Democrat and a Republican, but they both were
00:30:02.500 prosecutors. They both were going to lock up criminals. If you were a murderer, you'd lock
00:30:07.800 up the murderer, you'd prosecute them. There didn't used to be a massive difference between
00:30:13.380 the two sides on DAs. You'd have a little bit different priorities from the one to the other,
00:30:18.700 but everyone agreed violent criminals will lock him up and throw the book at him.
00:30:23.560 That changed when Soros began flooding millions into DA races. Now, these races didn't used to
00:30:30.540 have millions of dollars in them. So this money just appeared out of nowhere and he elected what
00:30:35.120 are called Soros DAs. And Soros DAs are the prosecution side of the Abolish the Police
00:30:42.460 campaign. Look, Soros funded the Abolish the Police campaign too. If you want to destroy a
00:30:48.060 society, I can think a few more effective ways to do it than eliminate law enforcement, because the
00:30:53.200 result is anarchy and chaos. It's more murders, more rapes, more children being abused. That is,
00:31:01.140 I don't like to ascribe ill intent to someone, but Ben, I will say quite seriously,
00:31:08.120 I do not know any other motivation for George Soros that makes any sense to me,
00:31:12.920 other than that he wants to destroy america because his actions seem perfectly calculated
00:31:18.820 to destroy america yeah if you look at the and it's a it's very calculated it's prison reform
00:31:24.480 it's bail reform it's defund the police you do that trifecta which is saying well we're going
00:31:30.280 to let people out of jail because we just believe jail is somehow fundamentally wrong you then say
00:31:35.560 you want to defund the police so then you have no law enforcement and then you have bail reform
00:31:39.440 which says we're going to not put you in jail while we hold you for trial because you don't
00:31:44.140 have a lot of money. So then you're letting rapists and murderers literally back on the
00:31:47.820 street as fast as we catch them. You combine those three. This is a framework for total
00:31:55.640 anarchy in society, which is clearly what Soros wants. Yeah, look, just ask yourself the simple
00:32:01.360 basic question. Is society better if there are more murderers on the street, more murderers in
00:32:08.840 your community, more murderers living in your neighborhood. Any rational person would say,
00:32:14.580 no, I don't want more murderers in my community. Soros says yes. And he spends millions of dollars
00:32:22.020 to elect DAs who agree with him. And so one of those Soros DAs is a guy named Larry Krasner.
00:32:26.780 He is the left-wing Soros DA in Philadelphia. And instead of going in with a mission of,
00:32:32.900 I'm going to go lock up the bad guys, his mission is quite literally, I'm going to release as many
00:32:38.600 bad guys as I can. Now, you may be saying, come on, that can't be true. That's so extreme. All
00:32:44.640 right, let me just give you the facts. So just this week, a 5-2 Democrat court, so I'm going to
00:32:52.400 read you what judges who are Democrats said about Larry Krasner. They found that he is so quick
00:32:58.320 to falsely concede error in murder cases to try to free convicted murderers that it is tasked the
00:33:07.260 Pennsylvania Attorney General with checking to make sure that the Soros DA is not lying.
00:33:14.280 Now, let me give you a little context of this because legally this is astonishing. I've never
00:33:17.980 seen anything remotely like this. So a lawyer, particularly a government lawyer, has the ability
00:33:24.220 to do what's called confess error. And confessing error is you go to the court and you say,
00:33:29.280 we screwed up. We made a mistake. We made a legal mistake. We made a factual mistake. And we're
00:33:34.940 confessing error. You should take it from us. We were just wrong. And courts generally give
00:33:40.000 enormous weight to that because nobody, almost nobody ever confesses error falsely. Like,
00:33:45.840 confessing error is against your interest. You're saying you screwed up your job, right?
00:33:50.920 That's what you're saying. So confessing error doesn't happen often, and you usually believe
00:33:56.100 it because it's against the interest of the litigant. I want to read from an appellate
00:34:01.300 decision in one of these cases. Here, in this case reviewed under a King's Bench jurisdiction,
00:34:09.260 the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, on behalf of the Commonwealth, conceded that LeVar
00:34:15.540 Brown, a convicted murderer sentenced to death for a separate murder, was entitled to a new trial
00:34:22.420 based upon a facially untimely claim under the PCRA.
00:34:28.640 Upon careful review, we conclude this concession was not reliable.
00:34:36.060 More specifically, we find the district attorney's office conceded relief,
00:34:40.620 although none was warranted based on the existing record,
00:34:45.260 violated its duty of candor to the PCRA court,
00:34:49.000 withheld material evidence from the court, opposed efforts by Amiki to gain access to
00:34:57.300 this evidence, submitted a false stipulation of fact, misstated facts in its pleadings,
00:35:05.480 failed to conduct a reasonable investigation, and opposed a required evidentiary hearing.
00:35:12.260 the predictable result was an erroneous grant of a new trial these circumstances
00:35:19.400 troubling as they are would not warrant a remedy beyond reversal of the pcra court's order
00:35:27.020 in this particular case if they were confined to one case unfortunately they aren't since 2018
00:35:37.480 the district attorney's office has conceded relief well over 100 times by the way if that's your
00:35:47.260 record that would mean that you're basically the worst attorney in the history of the world
00:35:50.840 it's worse than that but let me get back to let me finish reading it and then i'm
00:35:53.720 as conceded relief well over 100 times mostly in murder cases like this one incredible there
00:36:03.280 have been numerous instances of untrustworthy concessions, lack of candor, misrepresentations
00:36:11.060 of fact, lack of adequate investigation, and avoidance of hearings. And the problems
00:36:17.100 are poised to continue. There are apparently more than 1,000 cases yet to be reviewed by the
00:36:25.100 District Attorney's Office Conviction Integrity Unit, and the District Attorney's Office vigorously
00:36:31.300 defends its checkered concession program as a necessary corrective to pass misdeeds by prior
00:36:38.120 administrations. The district attorney's office active, ongoing, and problematic concessions
00:36:44.000 program requires broader remedial action to promote just outcomes. Accordingly, in addition
00:36:52.220 to reversing the PCRA court's grant of a new trial here, we also hold that in any PCRA case in which
00:37:00.000 the district attorney's office concedes relief, the PCRA court shall grant the office of the
00:37:07.320 attorney general notice and the right to intervene in the case before ruling on the concession.
00:37:13.380 Regardless of the attorney general's position on the concession, if it chooses to intervene,
00:37:18.860 it may well agree relief is warranted. Its independent assessment and participation will
00:37:24.960 enhance the reliability of the proceedings and the PCRA court's ultimate decision.
00:37:30.000 wow i've never seen that and i've i've practiced law a long time under so you said a hundred times
00:37:37.580 that means they're terrible lawyers it's actually worse than that this is not larry krasner saying
00:37:42.820 i larry krasner screwed up a hundred times what he's doing is he's looking at murderers who are
00:37:48.320 in jail right now that were put there by his predecessors by previous district attorneys
00:37:52.580 and he's going and finding murderers and saying we should release you we should release you we
00:37:58.700 should release you and then he's going in he's not just conceding error he's conceding relief
00:38:03.580 relief means what do you get he's saying nope throw out your conviction altogether
00:38:07.980 over a hundred times almost all with murderers and he's lying look the only reason you do that
00:38:17.360 go back to the fundamental question that i asked at the beginning of this segment
00:38:21.260 do you think america is better off if there are more murderers walking the streets or fewer
00:38:27.880 murderers walking the streets? Do you want more murderers living in your neighborhood with your
00:38:32.480 family? Or do you want fewer murderers living in your neighborhood with your family? Anyone who is
00:38:38.020 rational, anyone who loves America, anyone who is not trying to destroy our nation, the obvious
00:38:44.280 answer is, of course, we don't want more murderers. And yet George Soros and Larry Krasner both do.
00:38:50.640 And by the way, Singham does too. As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted
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00:39:09.280 back here on monday morning on neutral podcast we're celebrating america's 250th birthday and
00:39:15.640 i ask my guests how they're spending their fourth of july brett bear i will be working i'll be in
00:39:22.240 washington because it's a big big day jared isaac i plan to be flying an f5 fighter jet
00:39:28.440 painted in freedom 250 colors along with four other fighter jets flying over the nation's
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00:39:40.260 why should you listen to armstrong and getty on demand we're not boring a lot of news is boring
00:39:46.700 and tedious and depressing and makes you angry you don't want to live your life like that
00:39:51.560 Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty.
00:39:53.640 We're Armstrong and Getty.
00:39:54.760 We try to bring you the truth.
00:39:55.920 And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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