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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Okay, yeah, yeah, are.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
We about to get into the little hotest sweating.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And it's oh you know this time.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Before I was a politician, I was a public school
teacher in San Antonio, Texas on.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The west side of the city.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
And I've taught a lot of undocumented students, and those
students tended to be my most patriotic students.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The biggest question, not even close.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
The most popular question that we got asked is are
you single?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Are you single? So? Do you have a girlfriend?
Speaker 7 (00:50):
I do?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
For many years, I do, and she is She is
my rock.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No, sir, you cannot have her. Cush. We have real
sex all the john. We get frisky win lo. We
have phone sex all the phone. I like it when
she talks dirty.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Something that you love. It's not family or friends.
Speaker 8 (01:15):
I love and just say this to this on my mind,
we trans children heard more and more issues of animal welfare.
Speaker 9 (01:24):
I think, not just because it's the right thing to
do and the moral thing to do, but also it's,
as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change.
It is now existential that we try to reduce our
meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in
all aspects of society. And so I am proud to
say that our campaign has officially become a non meat campaign,
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so we have we are only buying vegan products from
our local vegan businesses.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
He is an eighth generation white Texas male who love meat.
Speaker 8 (01:59):
Texans, They're seeing that climate change is here and we
need action. And so I think if it can happen
in Texas, if we can build that bipartisan coalition to
save the Planner, if we can do it here, then
there's hope for us doing it across the country and
across the world.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And so we've got to keep this issue.
Speaker 8 (02:19):
On the front burner part of my pun to make
sure that folks understand that this is no longer a
theoretical possibility. It is no longer something in the distant
future for our kids and grandkids to deal with. It
is here and it is killing Texans and Americans by
the thousands. Poverty is violence, pollution is violence, and yes,
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prison is violence. Before we go further, I want to
acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too. If
ending trans Texans is something we have to do every
day at the state capital, and you better be about
be getting sermons on that too. So when I use
the word woman, it should not be understood as an
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exhausted term, but rather as a lens through which to understand, examine,
and interrogate.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You knew i'd feel sorry for.
Speaker 10 (03:17):
There's good people that live in California. There is a
tendency to think that every Californian is a whack, and
it's just not true. There are good people who live
in Los Angeles who did not vote for Karen Bass
the first time, and certainly didn't vote for her yesterday.
There are people who've built businesses served our country. There
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are police officers, veterans, firefighters, teachers, business owners that are
good people. And I understand that it is easy to
paint with a broadbrush, but I feel horrible for those
people because they look around and say, how did Karen
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Bass lead the primary yesterday? There couldn't be a worse
mayor if you tried. Who are these people who were
voting for her? How can this happen? We've got an
affiliate in Los Angeles k Eib, and I hear from
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listeners and they feel the need to tell me much
as our upstate New York listeners feel, Hey, I'm not
one of the crazies. I know you're not one of
the crazies, and I don't think everybody there is. I
actually feel for you because some people are caring for
an elderly.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Mother or father who won't move.
Speaker 10 (04:43):
Some people have a business there that they can't simply
sell and relocate, and yet here they are struggling, noticing
that their neighbors are complete and utter idiots. Aaron Bass
watched Los Angeles burn to the ground. President Trump came
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in and said, you're going to fix this. Oh yeah,
why would you say, we're not? You know, I will
assume you know this, but in case you didn't. Karen
Bass was actually Joe Biden's choice for vice president in
twenty twenty. If you remember, there was a there was
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He had announced that he was going to have a
black woman vice president. That was his that's how he
was going to court black voters. And so he announced
I'm going to have a black woman. He didn't know who
it was going to be yet, and he said during
one of the debates, or during the debate, Trump, Trump
hasn't Trump hasn't announced a black woman. He hasn't committed
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to having a black woman as vice president.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Why would you.
Speaker 10 (05:55):
He's going to pick the best person, period, end of story,
whatever that may be. But it was Karen Bass. The
problem is Karen Bass had been part of an organization
as a young person that was basically a communist grooming organization,
and she had come back from that and made statements
about the fact that Cuba's healthcare system was far better
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than ours. Well, let me tell you something. That's not
a winner anywhere in the country, but that's a stone
cold loser in Florida. You got a lot of Cuban
blood flowing through the people of Florida, and not just
in Miami, and the Cuban diaspora has spread across the country.
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They are successful people. They are very proud, patriotic Americans.
And you go extolling the virtues of that murderous castro
and now his brother after him, and how well they
run things.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You know, that's just.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
One example of how crazy and in common potent Karen
Bass is. And yet here we are she still has
a chance to end up the mayor the governor's race.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
We won't have it.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
We won't have real results that we can be certain
of for a while, because why would we The Democrats
want to make sure that votes can still come in
after election day, which in and of itself is ridiculous.
Speaker 11 (07:25):
Kriszaimasu make BETI show super neat.
Speaker 10 (07:34):
September tenth, that's today, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I remember,
as that day unfolded, I heard Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That can't be true.
Speaker 10 (07:54):
People are so creepy and weird. A friend of mine
send me a message and he's not the type two
I don't know if i'd be funny, awkward, He's not
the type to traffic in rumors. And he said, hey,
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I think it's the case that Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
Some credible news sources are reporting it, and here's a video.
And I saw the video, and I to this day,
I don't know if that's the accurate video or not,
but I will never forget what that looked like. It
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makes sense that at the time there was real time
video taken because Charlie Kirk was filmed when he was talking.
There were a lot of young people and young people
film everything, so of course there was real time footage
and if in fact this was real, and I think
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it was, it was pretty shortly thereafter. It could have
been graphically enhanced or complete A I don't know. I
don't know that it's important, but it's pretty brutal. In
any case, I don't know that it matters one way
or another. Because he died, there's no doubting that there's
no Charlie Kirk is alive somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Movement. It played out in front of everybody, and it
was so upsetting.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
A lot of people who didn't know who Charlie Kirk
were were suddenly introduced to Charlie Kirk and they, in
short order were introduced to how influential Charlie was. I've
said many times before and since Charlie was incredibly influential
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in the Trump White House. He had a pipeline into
the Trump like a back door access to Trump. Trump
respected him, admired him, and listened to him, and a
big reason.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Two reasons for that.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
Number one is Charlie Kirk had the biggest youth audience
in the country for conservatives, not even close. There's nobody
talking to as many young people as he was. And secondly,
he had a razor sharp mind. He was committed to
self improvement through prayer, faith, reading, engaging. He was really
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trying to live a good life in a certain on
a certain path. And that's what made it perhaps most frustrating,
the whole darn thing. And I remember thinking at the time, well,
at least something good will come of it. Patriots will
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stand up for their country now. The left will be
ashamed of fire.
Speaker 12 (11:01):
Now.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
An unhinged sen in tone Man has been arrested for
threatening to murder Erica Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow ahead of
her Turning Point USA appearance in the city of San Antone.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Miss Fox News with the story.
Speaker 13 (11:17):
This threat not only targeted Erica Kirk, but Turning Point
USA events across the board. News stations in Texas report
Jacob Wensky of San Antonio was arrested earlier today and
now faces two felony counts for making terrorist threats against
Erica Kirk and tpusa's upcoming women's leadership event in that city.
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According to local reports, San Antonio police were alerted to
Wensky after he allegedly commented on social media quote, I
know exactly where to bomb investigators. According to reporting, say
he also wrote in an email, quote death to Erica
Kirk and every single speaker there. America will live on
without those scum of this earth. Every Christian Nationalists shall
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perish in the bombing that will take place at every
single turning point, rally and event. TPUSA responded to the
arrest on X, saying the organization takes all threats seriously
and is working with law enforcement, adding quote, we are
grateful to the San Antonio Police Department and the FBI
for the rapid response and arrest of the individual making
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these threats. We refuse to let threats silence us. We
look forward to a successful and inspiring gathering. Erica Kirk,
her family, and the organization she now runs have been
under near constant hostility by critics ever since Charlie was
assassinated in September. Charlie Kirk's accused killer, Tyler Robinson, is
scheduled for his preliminary hearing in early July. Erica Kirk
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has been pushing for maximum transparency with the public in
that case. As for the San Antonio suspect, his next
court appearance is set for August.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well, and here we are, so the question is.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
Why doesn't everybody make such a threat that made him
feel powerful and important. He scared people, That's what he wanted.
Why doesn't everybody do that? Will there be a punishment
of him, because that's going to make all the difference
in the world. How will this case play out? What
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will be done to him?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Will he live to regret this? Will that be covered?
Speaker 14 (13:35):
You know?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
That's that's that's it.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
We get these, and it's not it's not always law
enforcements faults, always the officer's fault.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
We get these.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
You know, if you watch as I do, you know,
dangerous criminals or stupid criminals, you'll get this. And that
was the point he that's the point where he learned
a really tough lesson and then you know, the bad
guy does something and then he gets arrested. No, he
didn't because he never paid for it. He got arrested
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and arraigned and he appeared and he walked out, and
they gave him probation because it was his first because
his first time he's brought before a court and actually
given any sense of a sentence. And the reason is
because a few times before he was arrested, they let
him go before they punished him. And so what happens
is there is just this free flow of bad people
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that the rest of us have to hope that our
bumper car doesn't end up on the same block as theirs.
We just have to hope they don't come in contact
with us, because they're out there. They've harmed a lot
of other people. They've been caught after harming a lot
of other people and nothing was ever done, and so
they're just going to keep harming other people. There are
rabid dog human beings, and we the Left does not
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want to acknowledge that sympathy for the criminal is cruelty
to the innocent. Adam Smith said that around seventeen seventy six,
sympathy for the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. But
that's what happens, isn't it. You see a bad guy.
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Look at this guy who murdered the CEO of a company,
whatever you might think of United Health. We're just people
are gonna just gun someone down and then they're gonna
have fan clubs. Think about what kind of whacked out,
whacked out group of people that guy should have hanged
already from a tree where people could watch. He murdered
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a man in cold blood, and now what are we
doing legal wranglings for how long? This is an awful
We've lost the plot somewhere along the way.
Speaker 15 (15:46):
He just shows me what it's like to be, you know,
a real man.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I have never met someone so wonderful. I call him rich.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
The Michael Berry A Homeland Security Task Force finds a
sophisticated their term not mine tunnel running from Tijuana into
a retail store in San Diego, that is, from Mexico
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into the United States. Officials say the tunnel had reinforced walls, rails,
ventilation system, electricity. It was being used by the cartels
to smuggle drugs.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
NBC seven with the story.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
This business behind Me Buy for Less that federal prosecutors
say was actually not.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
A business at all.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
They say that it actually houses the exit of that
elaborate tunnel that they say the cartel was using to
traffic quite literally a ton of cocaine.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
Cocaine is now the lifelive of the cartels, and what
you see here today is a cardiac or rest for
their system. For those defendants. They thought they saw a
light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, what
they saw were our lights in sirens.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Federal officials provided this video of agents going through that
tunnel they discovered between Tijuana and a storefront in O
ti Mesa. They say the tunnel is about nineteen hundred
feet long and fifty five feet deep, with electricity, ventilation
and a rail to move back and forth under the border.
Homeland Security says they've been watching this location since December
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twenty twenty five, and for six months they saw really
only a handful of people taking empty suitcases in and
out of the store until Friday. The FED say then
they saw a man loading up a white van and
taking it to National City for what appeared to be
a handoff. Then a second truck was loaded up at
Buy for Less, and prosecutors say traffic stops of those
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vehicles found more than twenty two hundred pounds of cocaine
worth forty five million dollars. The FED say this was
a cartel operation and four people, two men from San
Diego and two from Mexico, are now feacing multiple federal charges,
including distribution of a controlled substance. The investigation is still
ongoing and the storefront remains blocked off.
Speaker 16 (18:13):
We would not consider a legitimate business if fronted as
a retail store selling liquidated items. Appliance is luggage miscellaneous
household goods. During the six months that agents regularly had
it under surveillance, there was very minimal foot traffic besides
the people I would call in sort of scare quotes,
employees of the store.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
What kind of quotes do the use air quotes or
do you say scare quotes? I'm serious, I thought it.
I think we're all fascinating by tunnels. There's no way
around that. We are all fascinated by tunnels. Like when
El Chappo would bust out of prison through a tunnel.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That's fascinating. I mean, that's just absolutely fascinating. Remember Welcome
back to El Chapel.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
In our last episode, El Chappo was captured by the
federal and placed in a Mexican prison.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
All right, everybody listen up.
Speaker 17 (19:14):
Alquizo wants to say something here in the exercise yard
inside the federal prison was we have put together some
of the most notorious criminals to ever be arrested by
the Mexican government.
Speaker 11 (19:25):
Yeah, homes, and we're going to work together to help.
But they'll Chopo out of prison. I'll personally stab anyone
who gets any way. Do you understand me? Alquizo, settle down,
stabb e Pedro. If this plan goes smoothly, we won't
have to stab anyone.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So what's the plan, homes, what do we do?
Speaker 17 (19:39):
We're going to have our guy on the outside digae
tunnel right into El Chapel's personal shower.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Then we won't have to kill anyone.
Speaker 17 (19:46):
Just walk right out to a nearby motorcycle that will
be waiting to escort him to freedom.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
That's a good plan. I think you could work, but
only if it's okay with El Champo. Yes, what do
you think, El Chapel? Is this a good plan? Y?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I must need this prison and return to my love
Flora M L.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Chapel.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Will El Chapo escape prison?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Will he be reunited with his love Emma? Will stabby Pedro?
Speaker 14 (20:11):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Stab again?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Find out next time only Niel Chapolt.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
CBS News reports a secret federal warehouse in California holes
assets seized from California fraudsters, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and other luxury cars.
Some of the items seas were from a man who
ran a two hundred and seventy million dollars Medicare fraud scheme. Gosh,
it's almost as if they're making it too easy to
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run Medicare fraud screams schemes, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I wish I could show you what's behind here, but
I can describe.
Speaker 14 (21:02):
I've seen over a dozen Ferraris, Lamborghinis, a Bugatti Lotus.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Several g wagons.
Speaker 14 (21:11):
These are just some of the assets the government as
sees from fraudsters who have taken your taxpayer dollars and
bought some of these ill gotten gains. LA's top federal
prosecutor built. As Sali showed us around this US Marshall's warehouse.
Speaker 15 (21:25):
It should offend every American taxpayer that these people are
taking advantage of the system and enriching themselves.
Speaker 14 (21:31):
These items had been owned by Paul Randall, who pleaded
guilty to wire fraud this year. In one of the
largest medical fraud cases in California history.
Speaker 15 (21:39):
He submitted above two hundred and seventy million dollars worth
of claims to the State of California through medical he
was paid one hundred and seventy million dollars.
Speaker 14 (21:48):
One hundred and seventy million dollars of hard earned tax dollars.
Speaker 15 (21:53):
That's correct, and what's most egregious about this is it
was basically no questions asked. He basically exploited a loophole
in the state's processing system.
Speaker 14 (22:02):
That loophole, court records show, meant healthcare providers got reimbursed
for prescription drugs that were not medically necessary and often
not even given to patients.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But where did all the stolen money go?
Speaker 14 (22:13):
Authority, say, paid for Kobe Bryant, Gamemorn Sneakers, baseball cards
of Jackie Robinson and Mickey Mantle.
Speaker 15 (22:19):
Very expensive, taste, very rare, near mint condition, collectiable sports
cards purchased with taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 14 (22:28):
Assaie also showed us Randall's home, one of seven properties
he owned.
Speaker 15 (22:31):
Well, let me tell you what a piece of work
this randal guy was. He's got six prior convictions for
fraudulent conduct and he was out on bond waiting sentencing
when he started this new scheme.
Speaker 14 (22:42):
He was effectively unbonded when he decided to defraud one
hundred and seventy million more dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yes, it's crazy.
Speaker 14 (22:50):
Who's responsible for the breakdown of the system.
Speaker 15 (22:53):
Obviously there's a breakdown in the criminal justice system. If
this guy was able to have six convictions and never
did any real prison time.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
We turned up a private driveway.
Speaker 14 (23:02):
He was living like a king off of us, climbing
into an exclusive corner of Orange County.
Speaker 15 (23:09):
It's eight bedrooms, ten bathrooms.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
Randall faces up to thirty years in federal prison. He
didn't want to talk to us for the story. The
federal government will try to recover some money by auctioning
his assets, but as sale warrants in other cases, they
can't get back the money.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
And we see a lot of that money leave the
country quickly. And once some money leaves the country, it's
much more difficult, if not impossible, for us to trace
it or recover it.
Speaker 14 (23:33):
Investigating government fraud is a priority for Haywood Talcove. He's
been warning officials about scams for two decades.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
US tax prayers lose a trillion dollars a year to
these criminal groups.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Where's it going.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
It goes to Russia, it goes to China, it goes
to Nigeria, it goes to Romania, and it's never to
be seen again.
Speaker 14 (23:53):
By his estimate of that trillion dollars, roughly seventy percent
ends up in the hands of transnational criminal gals.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Taxpayers are funding transnational criminals who are using this money
for horrible things, child trafficking, drugs, rights to our democracy.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Cars, carts, compacts.
Speaker 14 (24:15):
This is what fraud looks like after it's already happened,
sail and Helcovid Greek.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
That is why it is.
Speaker 15 (24:22):
So important that the money never goes out to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'm not sure what your question.
Speaker 14 (24:27):
Was the Michael Berries.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I lost the plot somewhere you did.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
An interesting thing has happened.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
CNN has made a conscientious, conscious, concerted effort to try
to appear appear more balanced, more honest. CNN got caught
in a squeeze. Their play was Fox has the conservatives,
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we'll go after the rules. The problem is there's a
bigger audience working from the far extreme toward the middle
than from the middle toward the extreme, and MS now
ended up carving out too much of the extreme as
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well as a number of the size of the audience
for the extreme left was not big enough because they're
already served by Colbert Kimmel. What's the other fallon? And
they already have everything else. So C and M got
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into real trouble with that, and there was no They
became a man with no home. So now they've tried
to carve out a place in the middle by showing
that they're being more honest. So they have this fellow
Harry Inton, and he does and he comes back more
often than you would expect with rather my opinion, honest
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polling results in what they mean. This is a three
minute clip, which is longer than we normally like to play,
but I couldn't find a spot to shorten it. It
seemed to be a complete story that needed to be told.
So he's talking about the fact that the Democrats face
an electoral college disaster because people have fled blue states
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for the refuge of red states. And we've been talking
a lot about this, and that means they're going to
lose congressional seats, right, They're going to lose electoral college
votes because it's all based on population. But anyway, here
is the point, And guess what Los Angeles, California, San Francisco,
California generally has lost people who've come to Texas, who
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come to Tennessee, who've come to Florida, come to Arizona,
and they're going to feel that that's going to make
a real difference to their population.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Numbers.
Speaker 18 (27:01):
Here's what he said, take into account the population mid
twenty twenty five. Look at this, the biggest population growth
this decade. All five of the states states that Donald
Trump Donald John Trump won Donald John Trump won in
twenty twenty four, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and of
course the great state of Arizona, where I spent my
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New Year's Eve. I love those folks out in Prescott, Arizona.
These were the biggest gainers, the biggest gainers in terms
of population compared to the twenty twenty census. Now it's
not just a red state boom. This is what we're
looking at. We're looking at a red state boom here.
But it is not just a red state boom. We're
also looking at what I would dare call a blue
state depression because who are the people who and where
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are the people moving from into the red states.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well, they're blue states. They're blue states. Take a look here,
the lowest.
Speaker 18 (27:51):
Domestic net migration this decade.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
All five of the states.
Speaker 18 (27:55):
States that were won by Kamala Harrison twenty twenty four.
Look at this California, Harris's state, New York where I'm
coming from, coming from right now.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Of course, Illinois, New Jersey, and.
Speaker 18 (28:06):
Of course the Great Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which is a
bastion of blue liberalism.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
These are the states that folks.
Speaker 18 (28:12):
In the United States are moving away from and into
the red states, which is propelling a red state boom.
Now this is interesting, right, but it could also have
major political ramifications if it holds holds for twenty thirty
the next census. Because take a look here, If in
fact the twenty twenty five population shifts hold for the
twenty thirty census, look at this, Look at the House
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seat shifts by state. Of Remember, of course, we apportioned
the number of House seats depending on the.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Population in each state. If in fact, the twenty twenty.
Speaker 18 (28:41):
Five population shifts hold for twenty thirty, states that Kamala
Harris won, they would lose. They would lose seven seats
in the United States House of Representatives. The states that
Donald Trump won in twenty twenty four they would gain.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
They would gain seven seats.
Speaker 18 (28:58):
Now, this isn't just about the House of Representatives, right,
It's also about the Electoral College. Because the number of
electoral votes that each state gets is equal to the
number of centers each state of course has two plus
the number of House seats that they have.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So what would this mean for the House of Representatives.
Speaker 18 (29:13):
Well, if you remember back in twenty twenty four, right,
it was all about we were talking about the blue Wall.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
If Kamala Harris could win the.
Speaker 18 (29:18):
Baseline Democratic states and then add in the blue wall
states of Michigan, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, she
would get to two hundred and.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Seventy electoral votes.
Speaker 18 (29:28):
But if all of a sudden we in fact have
applying the twenty twenty five estimates the population estimates to
the electoral College, the blue states plus the blue Wall
of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin would no longer be enough.
Under the current estimates, you get to exactly two hundred
and seventy electoral votes, the minimum needed to win the
electoral College. If in fact you apply the twenty twenty
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five estimates, look at that, you would only get to
two hundred and sixty three electoral votes if you were
a Democrat, which would mean a Republican victory.
Speaker 10 (30:02):
Democrats have seen this coming for a while. That's why
they now criticize the electoral College. See what they do
is change the rules to suit themselves. They don't really
care about our government being representative. Look, they would change
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the rules of baseball to the rules of football if
their players were all three hundred pounds right. They would
change the rules of football to the rules of basketball
if their players were all seven feet tall. They want
to change the rules to suit what they're trying to accomplish.
I read this recently. I'm going to read it again
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because I think it is very, very telling. It is
known in the political world as voting with your feet.
If you want to know if the policies of a
place are being successful, how they're being reviewed, look at
what people who can move do.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Often the really.
Speaker 10 (31:09):
Poor or the working poor cannot move, and that is
because if you own a home in a rough neighborhood,
it's hard to sell it. And so we've seen that
in places like New York, well in places in all
the Blue cities. And that's who really loses out of this.
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The fabulously wealthy. They can up and move in a second,
and they'll even hold on to their place in New
York or in LA and just move somewhere else. Zuckerberg
moved to Florida. We've seen this with billionaire after billionaire relocating.
And by the way, they're almost all liberals. They're almost
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all liberal policies. But when it comes down to it,
what do they do? Where do they live? Texas, Florida.
Texas and Florida are big ones, the two biggest probably now,
but anyway, so you look at the states who have
the cities which have gained the most headquarters from twenty
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twenty to twenty twenty five. Dallas is almost one hundred,
Austin is over fifty. Houston, Phoenix, and Nashville in that order,
are all twenty five and more. And where did they
come from? San Francisco has lost over one hundred. LA's
lost almost one hundred. New York has lost about thirty.
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Chicago and they'd lost a bunch already. Chicago and San
Diego have lost upwards of let's see, that would be
it's on a graph, so it's about ten each. That's
called voting with your feet for a company to move
their headquarters. This isn't a guy that graduated college, and
you know, maybe I'll or graduated high school, you know,
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Jack Kerouac, Maybe I'll go out on the road and
figure out where I'm going to live or somebody moving
to LA or Hollywood to take a waitressing job to
see if they can get in the movie. Moving a
corporation is a big deal for people.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
To do that, your policies have to be bad.
It's that time time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Okay, yeah, yeah, are.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
We about to get into the little hotest sweating.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And it's oh you know this time.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Before I was a politician, I was a public school
teacher in San Antonio, Texas on.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The west side of the city.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
And I've taught a lot of undocumented students, and those
students tended to be my most patriotic students.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The biggest question, not even close.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
The most popular question that we got asked is are
you single?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Are you single? So? Do you have a girlfriend?
Speaker 7 (00:50):
I do?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
For many years, I do, and she is She is
my rock.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No, sir, you cannot have her. Cush. We have real
sex all the john. We get frisky win lo. We
have phone sex all the phone. I like it when
she talks dirty.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Something that you love. It's not family or friends.
Speaker 8 (01:15):
I love and just say this to this on my mind,
we trans children heard more and more issues of animal welfare.
Speaker 9 (01:24):
I think, not just because it's the right thing to
do and the moral thing to do, but also it's,
as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change.
It is now existential that we try to reduce our
meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in
all aspects of society. And so I am proud to
say that our campaign has officially become a non meat campaign,
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so we have we are only buying vegan products from
our local vegan businesses.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
He is an eighth generation white Texas male who love meat.
Speaker 8 (01:59):
Texans, They're seeing that climate change is here and we
need action. And so I think if it can happen
in Texas, if we can build that bipartisan coalition to
save the Planner, if we can do it here, then
there's hope for us doing it across the country and
across the world.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And so we've got to keep this issue.
Speaker 8 (02:19):
On the front burner part of my pun to make
sure that folks understand that this is no longer a
theoretical possibility. It is no longer something in the distant
future for our kids and grandkids to deal with. It
is here and it is killing Texans and Americans by
the thousands. Poverty is violence, pollution is violence, and yes,
(02:44):
prison is violence. Before we go further, I want to
acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too. If
ending trans Texans is something we have to do every
day at the state capital, and you better be about
be getting sermons on that too. So when I use
the word woman, it should not be understood as an
(03:05):
exhausted term, but rather as a lens through which to understand, examine,
and interrogate.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You knew i'd feel sorry for.
Speaker 10 (03:17):
There's good people that live in California. There is a
tendency to think that every Californian is a whack, and
it's just not true. There are good people who live
in Los Angeles who did not vote for Karen Bass
the first time, and certainly didn't vote for her yesterday.
There are people who've built businesses served our country. There
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are police officers, veterans, firefighters, teachers, business owners that are
good people. And I understand that it is easy to
paint with a broadbrush, but I feel horrible for those
people because they look around and say, how did Karen
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Bass lead the primary yesterday? There couldn't be a worse
mayor if you tried. Who are these people who were
voting for her? How can this happen? We've got an
affiliate in Los Angeles k Eib, and I hear from
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listeners and they feel the need to tell me much
as our upstate New York listeners feel, Hey, I'm not
one of the crazies. I know you're not one of
the crazies, and I don't think everybody there is. I
actually feel for you because some people are caring for
an elderly.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Mother or father who won't move.
Speaker 10 (04:43):
Some people have a business there that they can't simply
sell and relocate, and yet here they are struggling, noticing
that their neighbors are complete and utter idiots. Aaron Bass
watched Los Angeles burn to the ground. President Trump came
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in and said, you're going to fix this. Oh yeah,
why would you say, we're not? You know, I will
assume you know this, but in case you didn't. Karen
Bass was actually Joe Biden's choice for vice president in
twenty twenty. If you remember, there was a there was
(05:29):
He had announced that he was going to have a
black woman vice president. That was his that's how he
was going to court black voters. And so he announced
I'm going to have a black woman. He didn't know who
it was going to be yet, and he said during
one of the debates, or during the debate, Trump, Trump
hasn't Trump hasn't announced a black woman. He hasn't committed
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to having a black woman as vice president.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Why would you.
Speaker 10 (05:55):
He's going to pick the best person, period, end of story,
whatever that may be. But it was Karen Bass. The
problem is Karen Bass had been part of an organization
as a young person that was basically a communist grooming organization,
and she had come back from that and made statements
about the fact that Cuba's healthcare system was far better
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than ours. Well, let me tell you something. That's not
a winner anywhere in the country, but that's a stone
cold loser in Florida. You got a lot of Cuban
blood flowing through the people of Florida, and not just
in Miami, and the Cuban diaspora has spread across the country.
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They are successful people. They are very proud, patriotic Americans.
And you go extolling the virtues of that murderous castro
and now his brother after him, and how well they
run things.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You know, that's just.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
One example of how crazy and in common potent Karen
Bass is. And yet here we are she still has
a chance to end up the mayor the governor's race.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
We won't have it.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
We won't have real results that we can be certain
of for a while, because why would we The Democrats
want to make sure that votes can still come in
after election day, which in and of itself is ridiculous.
Speaker 11 (07:25):
Kriszaimasu make BETI show super neat.
Speaker 10 (07:34):
September tenth, that's today, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I remember,
as that day unfolded, I heard Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That can't be true.
Speaker 10 (07:54):
People are so creepy and weird. A friend of mine
send me a message and he's not the type two
I don't know if i'd be funny, awkward, He's not
the type to traffic in rumors. And he said, hey,
(08:16):
I think it's the case that Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
Some credible news sources are reporting it, and here's a video.
And I saw the video, and I to this day,
I don't know if that's the accurate video or not,
but I will never forget what that looked like. It
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makes sense that at the time there was real time
video taken because Charlie Kirk was filmed when he was talking.
There were a lot of young people and young people
film everything, so of course there was real time footage
and if in fact this was real, and I think
(08:59):
it was, it was pretty shortly thereafter. It could have
been graphically enhanced or complete A I don't know. I
don't know that it's important, but it's pretty brutal. In
any case, I don't know that it matters one way
or another. Because he died, there's no doubting that there's
no Charlie Kirk is alive somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Movement. It played out in front of everybody, and it
was so upsetting.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
A lot of people who didn't know who Charlie Kirk
were were suddenly introduced to Charlie Kirk and they, in
short order were introduced to how influential Charlie was. I've
said many times before and since Charlie was incredibly influential
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in the Trump White House. He had a pipeline into
the Trump like a back door access to Trump. Trump
respected him, admired him, and listened to him, and a
big reason.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Two reasons for that.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
Number one is Charlie Kirk had the biggest youth audience
in the country for conservatives, not even close. There's nobody
talking to as many young people as he was. And secondly,
he had a razor sharp mind. He was committed to
self improvement through prayer, faith, reading, engaging. He was really
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trying to live a good life in a certain on
a certain path. And that's what made it perhaps most frustrating,
the whole darn thing. And I remember thinking at the time, well,
at least something good will come of it. Patriots will
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stand up for their country now. The left will be
ashamed of fire.
Speaker 12 (11:01):
Now.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
An unhinged sen in tone Man has been arrested for
threatening to murder Erica Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow ahead of
her Turning Point USA appearance in the city of San Antone.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Miss Fox News with the story.
Speaker 13 (11:17):
This threat not only targeted Erica Kirk, but Turning Point
USA events across the board. News stations in Texas report
Jacob Wensky of San Antonio was arrested earlier today and
now faces two felony counts for making terrorist threats against
Erica Kirk and tpusa's upcoming women's leadership event in that city.
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According to local reports, San Antonio police were alerted to
Wensky after he allegedly commented on social media quote, I
know exactly where to bomb investigators. According to reporting, say
he also wrote in an email, quote death to Erica
Kirk and every single speaker there. America will live on
without those scum of this earth. Every Christian Nationalists shall
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perish in the bombing that will take place at every
single turning point, rally and event. TPUSA responded to the
arrest on X, saying the organization takes all threats seriously
and is working with law enforcement, adding quote, we are
grateful to the San Antonio Police Department and the FBI
for the rapid response and arrest of the individual making
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these threats. We refuse to let threats silence us. We
look forward to a successful and inspiring gathering. Erica Kirk,
her family, and the organization she now runs have been
under near constant hostility by critics ever since Charlie was
assassinated in September. Charlie Kirk's accused killer, Tyler Robinson, is
scheduled for his preliminary hearing in early July. Erica Kirk
(12:45):
has been pushing for maximum transparency with the public in
that case. As for the San Antonio suspect, his next
court appearance is set for August.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well, and here we are, so the question is.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
Why doesn't everybody make such a threat that made him
feel powerful and important. He scared people, That's what he wanted.
Why doesn't everybody do that? Will there be a punishment
of him, because that's going to make all the difference
in the world. How will this case play out? What
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will be done to him?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Will he live to regret this? Will that be covered?
Speaker 14 (13:35):
You know?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
That's that's that's it.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
We get these, and it's not it's not always law
enforcements faults, always the officer's fault.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
We get these.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
You know, if you watch as I do, you know,
dangerous criminals or stupid criminals, you'll get this. And that
was the point he that's the point where he learned
a really tough lesson and then you know, the bad
guy does something and then he gets arrested. No, he
didn't because he never paid for it. He got arrested
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and arraigned and he appeared and he walked out, and
they gave him probation because it was his first because
his first time he's brought before a court and actually
given any sense of a sentence. And the reason is
because a few times before he was arrested, they let
him go before they punished him. And so what happens
is there is just this free flow of bad people
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that the rest of us have to hope that our
bumper car doesn't end up on the same block as theirs.
We just have to hope they don't come in contact
with us, because they're out there. They've harmed a lot
of other people. They've been caught after harming a lot
of other people and nothing was ever done, and so
they're just going to keep harming other people. There are
rabid dog human beings, and we the Left does not
(14:50):
want to acknowledge that sympathy for the criminal is cruelty
to the innocent. Adam Smith said that around seventeen seventy six,
sympathy for the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. But
that's what happens, isn't it. You see a bad guy.
(15:11):
Look at this guy who murdered the CEO of a company,
whatever you might think of United Health. We're just people
are gonna just gun someone down and then they're gonna
have fan clubs. Think about what kind of whacked out,
whacked out group of people that guy should have hanged
already from a tree where people could watch. He murdered
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a man in cold blood, and now what are we
doing legal wranglings for how long? This is an awful
We've lost the plot somewhere along the way.
Speaker 15 (15:46):
He just shows me what it's like to be, you know,
a real man.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I have never met someone so wonderful. I call him rich.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
The Michael Berry A Homeland Security Task Force finds a
sophisticated their term not mine tunnel running from Tijuana into
a retail store in San Diego, that is, from Mexico
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into the United States. Officials say the tunnel had reinforced walls, rails,
ventilation system, electricity. It was being used by the cartels
to smuggle drugs.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
NBC seven with the story.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
This business behind Me Buy for Less that federal prosecutors
say was actually not.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
A business at all.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
They say that it actually houses the exit of that
elaborate tunnel that they say the cartel was using to
traffic quite literally a ton of cocaine.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
Cocaine is now the lifelive of the cartels, and what
you see here today is a cardiac or rest for
their system. For those defendants. They thought they saw a
light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, what
they saw were our lights in sirens.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Federal officials provided this video of agents going through that
tunnel they discovered between Tijuana and a storefront in O
ti Mesa. They say the tunnel is about nineteen hundred
feet long and fifty five feet deep, with electricity, ventilation
and a rail to move back and forth under the border.
Homeland Security says they've been watching this location since December
(17:30):
twenty twenty five, and for six months they saw really
only a handful of people taking empty suitcases in and
out of the store until Friday. The FED say then
they saw a man loading up a white van and
taking it to National City for what appeared to be
a handoff. Then a second truck was loaded up at
Buy for Less, and prosecutors say traffic stops of those
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vehicles found more than twenty two hundred pounds of cocaine
worth forty five million dollars. The FED say this was
a cartel operation and four people, two men from San
Diego and two from Mexico, are now feacing multiple federal charges,
including distribution of a controlled substance. The investigation is still
ongoing and the storefront remains blocked off.
Speaker 16 (18:13):
We would not consider a legitimate business if fronted as
a retail store selling liquidated items. Appliance is luggage miscellaneous
household goods. During the six months that agents regularly had
it under surveillance, there was very minimal foot traffic besides
the people I would call in sort of scare quotes,
employees of the store.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
What kind of quotes do the use air quotes or
do you say scare quotes? I'm serious, I thought it.
I think we're all fascinating by tunnels. There's no way
around that. We are all fascinated by tunnels. Like when
El Chappo would bust out of prison through a tunnel.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That's fascinating. I mean, that's just absolutely fascinating. Remember Welcome
back to El Chapel.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
In our last episode, El Chappo was captured by the
federal and placed in a Mexican prison.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
All right, everybody listen up.
Speaker 17 (19:14):
Alquizo wants to say something here in the exercise yard
inside the federal prison was we have put together some
of the most notorious criminals to ever be arrested by
the Mexican government.
Speaker 11 (19:25):
Yeah, homes, and we're going to work together to help.
But they'll Chopo out of prison. I'll personally stab anyone
who gets any way. Do you understand me? Alquizo, settle down,
stabb e Pedro. If this plan goes smoothly, we won't
have to stab anyone.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So what's the plan, homes, what do we do?
Speaker 17 (19:39):
We're going to have our guy on the outside digae
tunnel right into El Chapel's personal shower.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Then we won't have to kill anyone.
Speaker 17 (19:46):
Just walk right out to a nearby motorcycle that will
be waiting to escort him to freedom.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
That's a good plan. I think you could work, but
only if it's okay with El Champo. Yes, what do
you think, El Chapel? Is this a good plan? Y?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I must need this prison and return to my love
Flora M L.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Chapel.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Will El Chapo escape prison?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Will he be reunited with his love Emma? Will stabby Pedro?
Speaker 14 (20:11):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Stab again?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Find out next time only Niel Chapolt.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
CBS News reports a secret federal warehouse in California holes
assets seized from California fraudsters, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and other luxury cars.
Some of the items seas were from a man who
ran a two hundred and seventy million dollars Medicare fraud scheme. Gosh,
it's almost as if they're making it too easy to
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run Medicare fraud screams schemes, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I wish I could show you what's behind here, but
I can describe.
Speaker 14 (21:02):
I've seen over a dozen Ferraris, Lamborghinis, a Bugatti Lotus.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Several g wagons.
Speaker 14 (21:11):
These are just some of the assets the government as
sees from fraudsters who have taken your taxpayer dollars and
bought some of these ill gotten gains. LA's top federal
prosecutor built. As Sali showed us around this US Marshall's warehouse.
Speaker 15 (21:25):
It should offend every American taxpayer that these people are
taking advantage of the system and enriching themselves.
Speaker 14 (21:31):
These items had been owned by Paul Randall, who pleaded
guilty to wire fraud this year. In one of the
largest medical fraud cases in California history.
Speaker 15 (21:39):
He submitted above two hundred and seventy million dollars worth
of claims to the State of California through medical he
was paid one hundred and seventy million dollars.
Speaker 14 (21:48):
One hundred and seventy million dollars of hard earned tax dollars.
Speaker 15 (21:53):
That's correct, and what's most egregious about this is it
was basically no questions asked. He basically exploited a loophole
in the state's processing system.
Speaker 14 (22:02):
That loophole, court records show, meant healthcare providers got reimbursed
for prescription drugs that were not medically necessary and often
not even given to patients.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But where did all the stolen money go?
Speaker 14 (22:13):
Authority, say, paid for Kobe Bryant, Gamemorn Sneakers, baseball cards
of Jackie Robinson and Mickey Mantle.
Speaker 15 (22:19):
Very expensive, taste, very rare, near mint condition, collectiable sports
cards purchased with taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 14 (22:28):
Assaie also showed us Randall's home, one of seven properties
he owned.
Speaker 15 (22:31):
Well, let me tell you what a piece of work
this randal guy was. He's got six prior convictions for
fraudulent conduct and he was out on bond waiting sentencing
when he started this new scheme.
Speaker 14 (22:42):
He was effectively unbonded when he decided to defraud one
hundred and seventy million more dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yes, it's crazy.
Speaker 14 (22:50):
Who's responsible for the breakdown of the system.
Speaker 15 (22:53):
Obviously there's a breakdown in the criminal justice system. If
this guy was able to have six convictions and never
did any real prison time.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
We turned up a private driveway.
Speaker 14 (23:02):
He was living like a king off of us, climbing
into an exclusive corner of Orange County.
Speaker 15 (23:09):
It's eight bedrooms, ten bathrooms.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
Randall faces up to thirty years in federal prison. He
didn't want to talk to us for the story. The
federal government will try to recover some money by auctioning
his assets, but as sale warrants in other cases, they
can't get back the money.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
And we see a lot of that money leave the
country quickly. And once some money leaves the country, it's
much more difficult, if not impossible, for us to trace
it or recover it.
Speaker 14 (23:33):
Investigating government fraud is a priority for Haywood Talcove. He's
been warning officials about scams for two decades.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
US tax prayers lose a trillion dollars a year to
these criminal groups.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Where's it going.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
It goes to Russia, it goes to China, it goes
to Nigeria, it goes to Romania, and it's never to
be seen again.
Speaker 14 (23:53):
By his estimate of that trillion dollars, roughly seventy percent
ends up in the hands of transnational criminal gals.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Taxpayers are funding transnational criminals who are using this money
for horrible things, child trafficking, drugs, rights to our democracy.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Cars, carts, compacts.
Speaker 14 (24:15):
This is what fraud looks like after it's already happened,
sail and Helcovid Greek.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
That is why it is.
Speaker 15 (24:22):
So important that the money never goes out to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'm not sure what your question.
Speaker 14 (24:27):
Was the Michael Berries.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I lost the plot somewhere you did.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
An interesting thing has happened.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
CNN has made a conscientious, conscious, concerted effort to try
to appear appear more balanced, more honest. CNN got caught
in a squeeze. Their play was Fox has the conservatives,
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we'll go after the rules. The problem is there's a
bigger audience working from the far extreme toward the middle
than from the middle toward the extreme, and MS now
ended up carving out too much of the extreme as
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well as a number of the size of the audience
for the extreme left was not big enough because they're
already served by Colbert Kimmel. What's the other fallon? And
they already have everything else. So C and M got
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into real trouble with that, and there was no They
became a man with no home. So now they've tried
to carve out a place in the middle by showing
that they're being more honest. So they have this fellow
Harry Inton, and he does and he comes back more
often than you would expect with rather my opinion, honest
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polling results in what they mean. This is a three
minute clip, which is longer than we normally like to play,
but I couldn't find a spot to shorten it. It
seemed to be a complete story that needed to be told.
So he's talking about the fact that the Democrats face
an electoral college disaster because people have fled blue states
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for the refuge of red states. And we've been talking
a lot about this, and that means they're going to
lose congressional seats, right, They're going to lose electoral college
votes because it's all based on population. But anyway, here
is the point, And guess what Los Angeles, California, San Francisco,
California generally has lost people who've come to Texas, who
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come to Tennessee, who've come to Florida, come to Arizona,
and they're going to feel that that's going to make
a real difference to their population.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Numbers.
Speaker 18 (27:01):
Here's what he said, take into account the population mid
twenty twenty five. Look at this, the biggest population growth
this decade. All five of the states states that Donald
Trump Donald John Trump won Donald John Trump won in
twenty twenty four, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and of
course the great state of Arizona, where I spent my
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New Year's Eve. I love those folks out in Prescott, Arizona.
These were the biggest gainers, the biggest gainers in terms
of population compared to the twenty twenty census. Now it's
not just a red state boom. This is what we're
looking at. We're looking at a red state boom here.
But it is not just a red state boom. We're
also looking at what I would dare call a blue
state depression because who are the people who and where
(27:43):
are the people moving from into the red states.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well, they're blue states. They're blue states. Take a look here,
the lowest.
Speaker 18 (27:51):
Domestic net migration this decade.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
All five of the states.
Speaker 18 (27:55):
States that were won by Kamala Harrison twenty twenty four.
Look at this California, Harris's state, New York where I'm
coming from, coming from right now.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Of course, Illinois, New Jersey, and.
Speaker 18 (28:06):
Of course the Great Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which is a
bastion of blue liberalism.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
These are the states that folks.
Speaker 18 (28:12):
In the United States are moving away from and into
the red states, which is propelling a red state boom.
Now this is interesting, right, but it could also have
major political ramifications if it holds holds for twenty thirty
the next census. Because take a look here, If in
fact the twenty twenty five population shifts hold for the
twenty thirty census, look at this, Look at the House
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seat shifts by state. Of Remember, of course, we apportioned
the number of House seats depending on the.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Population in each state. If in fact, the twenty twenty.
Speaker 18 (28:41):
Five population shifts hold for twenty thirty, states that Kamala
Harris won, they would lose. They would lose seven seats
in the United States House of Representatives. The states that
Donald Trump won in twenty twenty four they would gain.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
They would gain seven seats.
Speaker 18 (28:58):
Now, this isn't just about the House of Representatives, right,
It's also about the Electoral College. Because the number of
electoral votes that each state gets is equal to the
number of centers each state of course has two plus
the number of House seats that they have.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So what would this mean for the House of Representatives.
Speaker 18 (29:13):
Well, if you remember back in twenty twenty four, right,
it was all about we were talking about the blue Wall.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
If Kamala Harris could win the.
Speaker 18 (29:18):
Baseline Democratic states and then add in the blue wall
states of Michigan, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, she
would get to two hundred and.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Seventy electoral votes.
Speaker 18 (29:28):
But if all of a sudden we in fact have
applying the twenty twenty five estimates the population estimates to
the electoral College, the blue states plus the blue Wall
of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin would no longer be enough.
Under the current estimates, you get to exactly two hundred
and seventy electoral votes, the minimum needed to win the
electoral College. If in fact you apply the twenty twenty
(29:51):
five estimates, look at that, you would only get to
two hundred and sixty three electoral votes if you were
a Democrat, which would mean a Republican victory.
Speaker 10 (30:02):
Democrats have seen this coming for a while. That's why
they now criticize the electoral College. See what they do
is change the rules to suit themselves. They don't really
care about our government being representative. Look, they would change
(30:23):
the rules of baseball to the rules of football if
their players were all three hundred pounds right. They would
change the rules of football to the rules of basketball
if their players were all seven feet tall. They want
to change the rules to suit what they're trying to accomplish.
I read this recently. I'm going to read it again
(30:45):
because I think it is very, very telling. It is
known in the political world as voting with your feet.
If you want to know if the policies of a
place are being successful, how they're being reviewed, look at
what people who can move do.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Often the really.
Speaker 10 (31:09):
Poor or the working poor cannot move, and that is
because if you own a home in a rough neighborhood,
it's hard to sell it. And so we've seen that
in places like New York, well in places in all
the Blue cities. And that's who really loses out of this.
(31:29):
The fabulously wealthy. They can up and move in a second,
and they'll even hold on to their place in New
York or in LA and just move somewhere else. Zuckerberg
moved to Florida. We've seen this with billionaire after billionaire relocating.
And by the way, they're almost all liberals. They're almost
(31:52):
all liberal policies. But when it comes down to it,
what do they do? Where do they live? Texas, Florida.
Texas and Florida are big ones, the two biggest probably now,
but anyway, so you look at the states who have
the cities which have gained the most headquarters from twenty
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twenty to twenty twenty five. Dallas is almost one hundred,
Austin is over fifty. Houston, Phoenix, and Nashville in that order,
are all twenty five and more. And where did they
come from? San Francisco has lost over one hundred. LA's
lost almost one hundred. New York has lost about thirty.
(32:38):
Chicago and they'd lost a bunch already. Chicago and San
Diego have lost upwards of let's see, that would be
it's on a graph, so it's about ten each. That's
called voting with your feet for a company to move
their headquarters. This isn't a guy that graduated college, and
you know, maybe I'll or graduated high school, you know,
(32:58):
Jack Kerouac, Maybe I'll go out on the road and
figure out where I'm going to live or somebody moving
to LA or Hollywood to take a waitressing job to
see if they can get in the movie. Moving a
corporation is a big deal for people.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
To do that, your policies have to be bad.
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