May 5, 2026 • 43 mins
Jon drops into Pete Hegseth's live press conference on Project Freedom. Jon and Sam talk through some questionable snack combinations. One listener calls out Jon's Star Wars fandom and Jon turns his attention to Amy Klobuchar's gubernatorial campaign and fraud in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Just wrapped up our Tuesday Conversation or Q and A
with AI analyst and expert David Gartzenstein Ross.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We wrapped on a story where.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kathy Hilton ended
up falling for AI celebrities endorsing a jello diet.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Why would anybody think that was real in the first place.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I know there are all kinds of fad diets, but seriously,
like you're from La, you know how that goes yellow diet?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's one of those where it's like just believable enough,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, I guess. I mean if you're looking.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
At like, if you were legitimately thinking that was real, right,
it would have to be like a special concoction of jello.
It couldn't just be your your normal jello. The real
question is do you do cotta cheese with your jello?
Because I do call it cotta shoes with my jello.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You put it in, you put it in the mix,
and then and then and then, so it's embedded in
the jello.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's quite delicious. What's your flavor? Lime? Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Lime is my Lime is my go to. That's pretty
much my go to whenever it comes to those types
of of of flavors. I like me, I like me
some lime, I.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Do the I mean raspberry is probably my number one.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Although I do not care for key lime pie, but
I do like the bubbly make it make sense.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I like ketchup, but I don't like tomatoes. You're fascinating talks.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I absolutely, I absolutely am So was this talk back? John?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I don't watch Blatch TV.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
And when I do, it's when were me and my
wife at She's watching TV and she watches her Home's
Wife whatever show and I tend to watch it just
because it's on a show. But Kathy Hilton, I swear
she is microdochiing Treue all the time he is. She's
oblivious on that show, and it's so funny. I think
(02:06):
it's hilarious just to watch her. But that's it. I
don't active listen.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I don't say anybody for the reality shows that you watch.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We are a survivor household.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Melina and I have been wiping out on makeover shows
on Discovery Plus. So no shame. You watch what you
want to watch, all right? From Jell odets to the
war in Iran. Here on Twin City's News Talk, Secretary
of War a friend of the show, Pete Hegseth, is
giving an update on Operation Epic Furialistic A few minutes
(02:36):
of this sam well.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
As you know, President Trump has directed US Central Command
to restart the free flow of commerce through the Street
of Horror Moves under the umbrella of Project Freedom. To
be clear, this operation is separate and distinct from Operation
Epic Fury. Project Freedom is defensive in nature, guest in scope,
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and temporary in duration, with one mission protecting innocent commercial
shipping from Iranian aggression. American forces won't need to enter
Iranian waters or airspace.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's not necessary. We're not looking for a fight. But
Iran also.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Cannot be allowed to block innocent countries and their goods
from an international waterway. Iran is the clear aggressor harassing
civilian vessels, threatening mariners from every nation indiscriminately, and weaponizing
a critical choke point for its own financial benefit, at
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least trying to. For too long, Iran has been harassing ships,
shooting at civilian tankers from all nations, and trying to
impose a tolling system Iran's plan, a form of international extortion,
is unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
That ends with Project Freedom.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Two US commercial ships, along with American destroyers have already
safely transited the strait, showing the lane is clear. We
know the Iranians are embarrassed by this fact.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They said they control the strait.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
They do not.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
So American ships led the way, commercial and military, shouldering
the initial risk from the front, as Americans always do,
and right now hundreds more ships from nations around the
world are lining up to transit.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Sentcam along with partner.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Nations, is in active communication with hundreds of ships, shipping companies,
and insurers. All of these ships from all around the
world want to get out of the Iranian trap that
they have been stuck inside. As a direct gift from
the United States to the world, we have established a
powerful red, white, and blue dome over the street. American
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destroyers are on stations supported by hundreds of fighter jets,
Helica drones, and surveillance aircraft, providing twenty four to seven
overwatch for peaceful commercial vessels except Iran's, of course, which
is why our ironclad blockade remains in full effect as well.
In fact, six ships tried to run the blockade out
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of Iranian ports as Project Freedom commenced and they were
all turned around. This is more than strategy, it's also humanitarian.
By breaking Iran's illegal stranglehold, were protecting the lives and
livelihoods of sailors from dozens of countries, securing global energy routes,
and preventing shortages that hit the world's poorest people the hardest.
(05:40):
Once again, America is using its strength to lift up others.
Iran is trying to subjugate the world to what remains
of Iran's forces. If you attack American troops or innocent
commercial shipping, you will face overwhelming and devastating American firepower.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The President has been very clear about this.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
We prefer this to be a peaceful operation, but are
locked and loaded to defend our people, our ships, our aircraft,
and this mission without hesitation to Iran. Let innocent ships
pass freely. These international waters belong to all nations, not
to Iran, to tax, toll or control, to our partners, allies,
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and the rest of the world. This is a temporary
mission for us, As I've said before, the world needs
this waterway a lot more than we do. We're stabilizing
the situation so commerce can flow again, but we.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Expect the world to step up at.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
The appropriate time, and soon we will hand responsibility back
to you. To the incredible Americans executing this mission right now,
simply thank you your courage, your readiness, your unmatched professionalism
and precision, or why the world can breathe easier today
and every day. You are and always will be the
greatest fighting force in human history, unmatched.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Always. Project freedom is underway, Commerce.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Will be flowing, and America is once again leading with strength, clarity,
and purpose for the benefit of the entire world. Our
will is unshakable. God bless our troops, and God bless the.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Mighty United States Navy as well.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Chairman that was our Secretary of War, Pete Heggsseth giving
us an update on Operation Epic FIA here on Twins
City's News Talk at AM eleven thirty and one oh
three five FM. As I mentioned at the start of
the show, it seems as if I'm President Donald Trump
is doing everything he can to get what he wants
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and demands without having to conduct extensive military operations, but
is still willing to go and do so as he
should if necessary. Well, certainly keep you up to date.
General raising. Kine is continuing with the press conference. Anything noteworthy,
I'll share it with you here on twins Cities News Talk.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Speaking of a noteworthy.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Morning, John Steve andover, Hey, I just want you to
try someday, just someday, put some mayonnaise on jello. I
know not doesn't sound good, but try it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You'll like it.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I think Sam just pieced out on that. Not even gonna,
not even gonna consider it there, Sam, no, no.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Thank you? And hey, you do you. I just some
things aren't aren't meant to be together.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
In school when I was a kid, I will never
ever forget this.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I mean I was really young at the time, probably
like middle school. Probably the only thing that I remember
from middle school was we did like it was an
exotic foods themed classroom activity, sir so, and it was
based off of your culture. I don't know what I made.
(09:02):
I'm Italian in German, but but based off your culture.
You know, what can you bring to the classroom that's
that's different. And one of the kids had made pancakes
but then had put guacamole on it. Okay, it actually worked.
I mean when you consider the pancake mixing the.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Guacamole, right, yeah, I mean that that I can see
if you take out the sweet.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Part of exactly savory then exactly Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
When it comes to the mayo, I still on occasion,
after learning about it from Dale Earnhart Junior, I'll do
the mayo in banana sandwich. So it's just white bread,
mayonnaise and banana. No, don't knock until you try it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Man, it's good. It's it's it's good, it's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'm not a big Mayo fan of oh. So that's
where it's no knock against the jidget.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's a Mayo. It's a male thing thing. Okay. Now
do you do miracle with no? Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I mean well as an ingredient in like a bigger dish, yes,
but by itself.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
If you had to choose if my miracle whip in
real mayonnaise, if I had to choose, I would go
real mail. Okay, Okay, yeah I would too. I don't
know what miracle whip is. I don't know's. I don't
know what that is.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That's a whole different that's a whole different thing.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
John, look down, the gotta che yellow and back away
slowly and no one will get hurt.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
All right, Just stay awake again. Don't knock teach by it.
It's really good. My mom made it when I was
a kid. It's fantastic, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Minnesota official seeing a massive spike in the new reports
of fraud in social service programs, overwhelming the ability of
investigators to handle the cases.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, I don't think that's the case.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We're going to get into more of this coming up
in just a moment, including your comments from the iHeart
Radio app. This one came in a little earlier when
I was giving a preview of the upcoming story.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Bob from Lake Elmo. I know you're about ready to
talk about this, but the shortage of workers to go
after fraud, this isn't rocket science, people. I bet there's
enough retired accountants and forensic accountants in this state that
would be willing to work on a contingency basis for
the funds that they recover, just to save this state.
(11:16):
Give them a chance, bring them on it. It'll cost us
nothing and we'll get money back.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You know, John Jessics, We're all out here waiting for
you to denounce all things Star Wars immediately. After your
buddy Puke Skywalker showed up to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
To help Obama open up his library. So come on,
we're waiting. Well, you're gonna keep waiting. They're all liberals.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Is one of the goofiest, staunch progressive lunatics out there.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
He has been for years.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That being said, George Lucas is a lefty, So most
of Hollywood is left.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I was gonna say, we've talked about this before. If
you if you do that game of like, well, this
person has this political ideology. Therefore I can't associate with them.
You're you're never going to find anything to watch.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
There's varying degrees, right, right, I mean there's different levels.
You're right, Sam, And this is what I've said before.
You're speaking truth over there. If I went this route,
I mean, you might as well just end up, you know,
moving to Amish country for crying out loud. Now, again,
there are varying degrees. If there are certain actors or
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actresses or directors that take a particularly harsh stance on
a particular issue or things like that. Yeah, of course
you all have to make your personal judgment call on
whether or not you want to consume that material. But
if I'm talking about a specific piece of content that
I don't have a particular issue with in terms of
the content itself, I'm not going to base my enjoyment
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off it for the most part, because the individuals who
created it happened to be Democrats, regardless of how extreme
they are, and again there are varying degrees and circumstances.
I didn't see that video yesterday. As a matter of fact,
I made a video about that video because I thought
it was so stupid, totally cringe worthy, and Obama's new
presidential Center it's got to be one of the ugliest
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monstrosities that I've ever seen. It actually looks like a
giant gray sand crawler, although the sand crawler is better
looking than that building is, and so Mark Hamill's inclusion
in it, especially seeming it to Star Wars on Star
Wars Day, did not come as any shock to me whatsoever.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
Listening to Pete hegg Seth speak about the strait of
horror moves brings to my the compelling piece in the
Wall Street Journal shortly after the war began about how
the Trump administration had no concrete plans to keep this
straight open and in fact seemed surprised when Iran closed it.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Let me paus it here. Why are you believing anything
out of the Wall Street Journal? And that's just my
own personal opinion, but when was the last time any
news outlet, and specifically like the Wall Street Journal, ever
reported accurately about the Trump administration, especially over an issue
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and a serious operation like epic Siri? I just buy
I wouldn't trust anything coming out of the Wall. As
Michael Scott on The Office calls.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
It seems like a better late than never situation. I
took a THHC gummy as you suggested, and still I
find myself shaking my head over some of the Trump
Administrtion's choices.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Okay, well, Tom, I always appreciate your commentarian thanks for
that one as well. As I said, I don't know
why you would trust anything that the Wall Street Journal
has to has to say. I continue to trust the
Trump administration in their operations and what they're doing right now.
And what's so funny about this too, is that the
way that Trump has been handling we are going to
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talk about fraud. I got a lot of talkbacks that
have rolled in. I know I've been teasing it so
it's not going anywhere, but the way that the Trump
administration has been handling Operation epic FERI like, regardless of
it of how we got into it, right, everybody's got
their own opinion about whether or not we should have
started this in the first place. I believe it probably
should have happened a long time ago. You had plenty
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of former Democrat presidents, Democrat leaders, congressman, Secretary's of State,
and otherwise Kamala Harris who all talked about going after Iran,
but none of them did it. So regardless of that,
when you consider the way that Trump has been operating
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and conducting via Pete hegseth this war, he actually deserves
quite a bit of credit for showing reserve. It's not
like Trump's been acting as if he's some homicidal maniac,
as the Left wants to go and portray him often,
especially when you see the anti Trump protests on the street.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
No, he's been reserved.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
He's been giving or on every single opportunity to meet
our demands. And when they want to do a ceasefire,
as they work through the details of whatever that agreement
might be, Trump's willing to do that.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
He's willing to extend it.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But I have all the confidence that this administration is
not going to end these operations until there is a solid,
firm agreement in place that they will not be able
to create a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
All right, Let's get back to fraud.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
State authorities apparently are farming out more cases to federal
investigators delayed their ability to identify and shut down credible
allegations of fraudulent providers. So we talked a little bit
about this piece yesterday from the Star Tribute, and there's
a few more points that I wanted to make though.
The Minnesota Attorney General's office has been asking legislators to
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boost their Medicaid fraud Control unit ranks from thirty two
to fifty people, which also means they're going to need money.
This is why I don't trust any of it. Nick Wankup,
who leads the Medicaid fraud Control Unit at the Attorney
General's Office, said his staff is drowning in referrals. Said
his team cannot be expected to take on two or
three times as many cases as they used to and
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still get quick results. They had a couple of comments
that rolled into this that I want to share with you.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Let's start here.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
Good morning, John Rich Here. So when they say there's
a shortage of investigators to investigate all this fraud, what
they're saying is Tim Waltz's train to control the investigation.
He wants to hire on investigators that have to have
loyalties to his administration. The other thing is is they
want to expand the Attorney General's office. The bigger, the
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bloated the government, the more they have to control.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Wlank has said they must rely more on federal law
enforcement to lead the charge, with his staff potentially providing
some data analysis or secondary help.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And which way was it?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I mean, Walls and the Democrats have been all over
the place regarding the actual level of fraud. It seems
as if they finally landed on well, we can no
longer go and try to spin this as if there
wasn't any fraud. I mean, it wasn't less than a
year ago. Even though the level of fraud really hasn't
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changed apart from it increasing, there was still a massive
amount when you had legislators saying that there wasn't any
fraud or they weren't worried about fraud in particular programs.
And now you've got Amy Klobashar coming out and saying
that she's going to go and deal with the fraud,
laying out her plan, which, as many have noted and
(19:24):
I realized as well, is really just a hodgepodge of
the various bills that the GOP has been trying to
pass during the legislative session, but it has been stopped
to every single step of the way by Democrats.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And now we're at the point where apparently.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
There's so much fraud they don't have the staff to
go and tackle it. It all just sounds like excuses,
and providers are frustrated. Tips are coming in from a
range of sources, from providers to manage care organizations.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Wanka said his staff.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Is spending more time figuring out whether something is a quality,
a referral that could lead to a criminal case, or
largely paperwork errors that doesn't look criminal.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You know, I said this yesterday and I'll repeat it now.
They wouldn't be in.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
This problem if they had identified the fraud when people
brought it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
To their attention in the first place.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Like so many of the issues that we face here
in Minnesota, they all became exponentially worse because of Democrats
are funding issues, the deficits in the future. You blew
through billions of dollars in surplus operation Metro Surge. You
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encourage individuals to go and get in the way of
lawful law enforcement fraud. Now you're being overwhelmed by all
the fraud. And yet how many whistleblowers have we seen
already during legislative hearing hearings and committees talking about how
when I brought it to people's attention, I was chastised,
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I was ignored, I was moved to a different department.
Some of the service providers have raised concerns that the
team is not doing enough work before referring the fraud
allegations to law enforcement and ascending along cases that are
minor paperwork issues rather than fraud. Clark set a tiny
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fraction of the tips they get result in payments withheld
and a referral to law enforcement. Folks who are saying
that we're doing this willy nilly. I think the numbers
show that we're doing this judiciously. Maybe you are now,
but I hesitate to say that you've been doing that
judiciously from the get go. In the meantime, maybe Klobasar
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comes out on Sunday says that she has this plan
to combat fraud, And I'm just asking the question and wondering, well,
why wasn't this being done in the first place. Why
can't Walls do this right now? He's still going to
be in office so the end of the year. So
why is it that we all have to wait for
Amy Klobashar to get elected.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Oh? Oh, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
We have to wait for Amy Closhar to get elected
before we can go and take care of all these
various issues. It reminds me a lot if you're familiar
with the office when Steve Currell's character Michael Scott left
the show and they needed a new office manager, and
so they were going through the hiring process and Will
Arnett came on and he said, Hey, I have this
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plan to raise the revenue here for dunder Mifflin Paper,
but you got to hire me in order to find
out what it is.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Absolutely, yes, in fact, I actually have a three step
plan that I believe could effectively double your profits.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Really, yeah, what is it?
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Nice?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Joy, I'm sorry, what is your three step plan?
Speaker 12 (23:02):
Well, I mean I can't just hand you my plan.
I mean, if you guys give me the job then
then you look at the plan.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Amy Clovishar, DFL gubernatorial candidate unveiled her plan to combat
fraud and Minnesota state government, including audits, empowering agencies to
shut down payments, and banning convicted fraudsters from state contracts.
As highlighted in a portion of this clip from Fox News.
Speaker 13 (23:39):
I plan to transform our state government into a government
that is innovative, effective, and accountable.
Speaker 14 (23:47):
Senator Amy Clobshar laying out priorities of her campaign for
Minnesota governor at a press conference in Saint Paul Sunday.
She was joined by local and former leaders from across
the state. Clobahar says combating fraud is top of mind.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
On day one, I would begin a top to bottom
audit of our state government.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That audit will.
Speaker 13 (24:08):
Look at state agencies to identify waste, fraud.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And abuse.
Speaker 12 (24:14):
Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Yes.
Speaker 12 (24:16):
In fact, I actually have a three step plan that
I believe could effectively double your profits.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Really yeah, what is it?
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Nice?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Joy?
Speaker 15 (24:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Sorry, when is your three step plan? Well, I mean
I can't just hand you my plan. I mean, if
you guys give me the job.
Speaker 12 (24:34):
Then then look at the plan.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Oh come on, John, don't leave me hanging.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I'm one of the five people in the world that
hasn't watched The Office.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Did he get the job? Calculator, No, he did not
end up getting the getting the job. Andy ended up
eventually getting the job.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Did you ever hear the backstory about why Michael Scott
didn't continue on the Office, like the real reason or
the the real reason.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes, it was like it was like a miscommunication. Is
that what you heard? What did you hear?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I thought it was more of like a contractual thing
where his contract was up, and he's just like.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
H that Okay, So that was a part of it. Okay,
his contract was up, he was starting to do film.
The My understanding was the producers on the show just
assumed he was going to be too busy to continue
doing The Office and he was done. So they basically
just had kind of a miscommunication and never reached out
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to confirm any of it. So they ended up rolling
with other storylines and brought and Will Ferrell for a
while test to him, that was an awful experiment that
didn't work very well, so he ended up moving on
until they eventually ended up with that helms in Andy's character,
but ultimately in interviews after the office was finished, Steve
Krows like, no, I absolutely would have interesting.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I would have I would have come back.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
So there there are some hidden gems in those couple
of episodes with Will Ferrell, though he has he has
some really funny lines.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh yeah, that was some good stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
He just he wouldn't have been good as the regular
office manager. Yes, you can only I love Will Ferrell,
but he's good in the doses that you get from him, exactly.
Any more than that and it just ends up being
and ends up being overkilled. And speaking of speaking of
which I've been using this sparingly.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
John, when you mentioned Amy and more of a direct
mentioned you need to be playing that shark song, Buddy.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Amy Cloba charter You do do Do Do do Cloba
chart Do do do Do do do Cloba.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Char do do do do do do Cloba chart Amy Cloud.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
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Speaker 7 (26:46):
Do do It's all performative by the Democrat, John. They're
part of the from Oh yeah, they want to uncover
what they're part of their benefiting forendic that we need it.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, No, it's all intentional. They made these programs intentional,
intentionally vulnerable to fraud. You're right, it is all performative.
It's all style over substance. They don't really care. This
whole notion of what Amy Klobashar is suggesting here is ridiculous.
Just do Why can't walls do this now? We don't
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need this whole, top down forensic audit of the government.
And if we do, then do it now. There's a
why why wait? If it's costing us money, then we
shouldn't have to wait for Amy Klobashar to potentially be
elected as governor.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Before we start taking steps.
Speaker 16 (27:48):
If you need any you don't need any further proof
then to look at how the Democrats are reacting to
the fraud and the fact that it is real. It
is bad because not too long ago they were trying
to trying to diminish it or write it off. Is
not that big of a deal, and now every one
of them is running on it like it's the an
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existential crisis.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
That needs to be solved and they have the answers.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So Democrats published by the Cloba car excuse me. Documents
published by the Clobashar campaign note that many of her
proposals come from existing GOP and DFL bills pending before
the Minnesota legislature. Alongside her anti fraud plan, globash Are
introduced proposals to streamline government efficiency and access. However, fraud
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in state government programs working off this piece from Alfhews
is poised to be one of the most talked about
issues during the upcoming gubernatorial campaign. Minnesotans have a right
to have high expectations, Clobashar said. They have deadlines that
they meet every day, and so should our government. They
plan and prioritize for their families, and so should our government.
They see something that isn't working and they fix it,
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so should our government. Of course, she's only just saying
this now. Has she said any of this up until
this point? Has she criticized Governor Tim Walls in her
time as senator over this state when the fraud has
been occurring? How much has she even talked about the
fraud at all until this point in time. Following the
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press conference, Republicans were quick to criticize Clobashh. Lisa Damuth,
Republican cubernatorial candidate House Speaker, said, waiting three months to
hold your first campaign press conference before adding the Clobashar
represents a Wall's third term, plain and simple. For terms
of Democrat control of the executive branch have doubled our
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state's budget, raised our taxes by billions, and enabled the
culture of fraud that has stolen of billions more A
wants to triple down on the Walls era.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
She doesn't want to be governor.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
It's not an easy job, especially here in Minnesota now
at the state we're running smoothly. If Republicans had control
and you had individuals that were making the right decisions
for the state, be a heck of a.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Lot easier job. You just would be serving.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Over the state as a CEO, watching over the legislature,
getting involved where you need to.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
But that's not where the state is.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
The state's a mess because of Democrats, and yet she's
been silent over all.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Of this up until this point.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Alex Pleckish, the chairman of the Minnesota GOP, released a
lengthy statement which said Amy Klobashar's plan is not innovation,
it's an emission of failure. This plan reads like an
indictment of Democrat governance in Minnesota. Pleckish went on to
say she's announcing her campaign in January, Klobashar has all
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but become the DFL nominee for governor. She has no
major primary challengers and has raised more money than all
of her perspective Republican opponents combined. Yeah, but the vast
majority of that money is all from outside the state.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
It's not coming from Minnesota's.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
That's not to say she's not going to be popular,
but also keep in mind this isn't a coast to
victory situation. It is to get the nominee, but not
to actually win the governor's race. She's been losing momentum
over the past few election cycles as Senator.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
The numbers bear that out. She's not very.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Likable, which is why you don't see her very often,
why she's the Senator of small things.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
And it's whole premature to say that.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
It's a foregone conclusion that she's going to win. That
is a defeatist attitude that will only end up helping
her in the end.
Speaker 17 (32:14):
Good Morning John, friend of the show, Paul so Amy,
Klobushire is saying, I need to be in office to
fix this fraud. Is kind of today's version of Nancy
Pelosi saying you've got to vote for it to see
what tonight regarding Obamacare, Amy doesn't want the job. I
think in her perfect world, Democrats would control the House
and the Senate and the state, and the governor would
be a Republican, and then they could blame that new
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Republican governor for all the problems created by all the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
By the way, Bill Golong picked up on exactly the
same thing that I did at Center the American Experiment,
saying in a piece that's available right now in American
Experiment dot org. Nothing on her agenda needs to wait
until twenty twenty seven. All of the useful bits could
be done immediately if only her fellow Democrats at the
state Capitol would go along. Clobashar highlighted her desire to
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replace the decades old technology systems in state government, an
idea that Republicans and dflers supported the legislature. Cloboshar said
that she if she had been governor instead of Walls,
she would have spent some of the state's historic surplus
on system upgrades. Fine, except, as Bell Glawn writes, I
was around and we all were to see min Lars
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and Minshire Minnesota is simply incapable of executing large scale
computer upgrade projects under Democrat leadership. Clobashar's fraud plan includes
an audit of state agencies, tougher criminal penalties for fraud,
creating a permanent ban on state grants and contracts for
anyone convicted of fraud, and more oversight like in person expections.
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And Bill goes on to write all ideas that are
worth doing the agency audits, though if we started now
could be complete before the November election. As for the
other ideas, they should already be state policy.
Speaker 18 (34:05):
Good morning John, great show, classic Democrat playbook, Spin, deflect, deny,
and then become the solution. Of course, keep Democrats in
control and do the fear mongering of if you let
Republicans in, how much your life is going to change?
We must vote read in November. Get these people out.
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Needs a top to bottom change. Have a great day.
Speaker 19 (34:32):
The thing that gets me all of these departments in
the government have managers and assistant managers. Why do we
have to hire anybody else. Maybe it's time to let
the managers go because they're not doing their job.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Good morning John, Sam. We need to be all highly.
Speaker 15 (34:51):
Disgusted that Klobuchar's out there acting like she's going to
come and investigate these things a fraud what she's in office,
So of course we should all know the playbook of
the Democrats. You lie in the campaign and say you're
gonna do this, that and the other thing, and then
you get into office and you revert back to your
same crazy left wing ideologies that are making this country
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terrible to live in.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I think it's funny. Now we need to update it
with the lamy clover.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Oh I like that, so it would be uh, lamy.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Charter, do do do Cloba chart?
Speaker 12 (35:34):
Do do do do do do Cloba chart, do do
do do clob.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
A chart, lamey char. I can just do it on
the fly. I don't need we don't need to update it.
I can just I could just sing it. I can
sing it live, or maybe I shouldn't.
Speaker 20 (35:53):
Good morning John, great show was always thank you with
respecting the clover Shar sus she was going to take
to Joe Biden approach and hide out in the bunker,
but it got to the point where the ice events
are over in Minneapolis and now fraud is back to
top of mind up for everybody.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
She had to come out and say something.
Speaker 20 (36:13):
But what can you say.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
It's a train wreck and the heating no Litsten. It's
a great point. It's a great point.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Her plan, like, it's something that I would do if
I were running for governor. I'll give myself a little
bit more credit. But just like an average individual, like,
let's take me out of it. That's an unfair assessment because
I do this for a living and I would actually
want to address the root causes of this that Amy
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klobish are will never go and talk about. I mean,
that's one of the big fundamental flaws of all of this.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Is the underlying.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Issues relating to fraud, the communities that are the ones
conducting this fraud, how they're being told in other countries.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
A lot of fraud.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You can make a lot of money in the United States,
but you definitely got to go to Minnesota because that's
the place where you can make the most money based
off of fraud. She's never going to address that comprehensively.
She's never going to be honest about it. There's nothing
racist about it. It's just the facts. But unfortunately they've
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done this to themselves on the left because they've convinced
their base of voters that if you are criticizing any
person who belongs to a minority group that Democrats are
dependent on to win elections, than any criticism of that group,
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regardless of how factual it is, is immediately racist. And
so that in and of itself is going to keep
Amy Klobish are incapable apart from the fact that she's
a Democrat, but I'm speaking from the angle that she
would legitimately care about fraud like most Democrats should. And
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to that point, they've also done a very good job
on the left of vilifying and demonizing Republicans at Trump
that they've convinced their own base of supporters that it's
okay that they have money stolen from them because they
hate Trump. They still have to continue to vote Democrats
into office. So we know, and we know that you
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know money's being taken from you, but you cannot you know,
those guys are really evil, so you can't go and
elect them. Now, something weird happened yesterday. We'll talk about
this now regarding fraud. Let's use this comment here from
Stacey to get me to the next story on today's show.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Here on Twin City's News Talk.
Speaker 21 (38:56):
Chennel five had a great story last night. Of the
nine daycare centers that were rated last week, sixty seven
million dollars has been paid out by DHS to those
nine sixty seven million. Instead, this week, DHS is down
at Mystic, having a little hoorrah and wasting more tax
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payer money.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I think people have become incredibly numb to the dollar amounts.
Sixty seven million dollars is a lot of money, and
yet the fraud is so bad, and we've been talking
in billions that, unfortunately through no fault of their own.
I think a lot of people they just their eyes
just glazed over. It's sixty seven million, it's five million,
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it's six million. What's the big deal. Here's what's odd
about what took place yesterday. By the way, sharene Gandhi.
So this was the individual who was in charge of
handling the fraud in DHS since twenty seventeen. He was
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there the entire time. She wasn't removed from the office.
She ended up taking over temporarily as Commissioner of DHS
and was scheduled to appear in front of the Minnesota
Senate and Health Human Services Committee today for a confirmation hearing.
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Suddenly now she's stepping down from that post.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
They knew and they let it happen.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, exactly, sharing Gandhi is stepping down as commissioner of
Minnesota's Department of Human Services. John Connolly will take over
as the temporary commissioner, according to a news release from Walls,
So you had an individual who should not have been
serving in that position in the first place. That Governor
Gim Walls doubled down on said that he was going
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to make the commissioner, and then on the eve of
her becoming the commissioner, she steps down and another person
takes over temporarily. And my understanding is this person is
not going to be going to the confirmation hearing. It's
another temporary commissioner. This is all an intentional distraction to
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minimize the negativity for as long as possible. When you
have an interim commission at the helm commissioner at the HELM,
then you've got a little bit more control.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Over the narrative as it relates to the fraud.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
In an email to DHS staff obtained by Caro Levin,
Gandhi wrote about her time leading the embattled department with
mixed emotions. I'm sharing this morning that I notified Walls
that I'm stepping down. Since February of twenty twenty five,
I've led an aggressive, proactive work to protect MINISO, this
medicaid program for Minnesota's most vulnerable people. Gandhi's efforts weren't
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enough for Republican critics. State Representative Kristin Robbins, has been
leading the charge against fraud in the state, posted on
social media that Gandhi's departure is an important opportunity to
change course. DHS is in need of real leadership that
will stop the fraud, hold employees accountable for doing basic
internal controls, and reward and reward, not retaliate against whistleblowers now.
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In her email to staff, Gandhi wrote that the new
interim Commissioner Connolly, asked her to remain with the agency
and a deputy commissioner role she previously served before serving
as the interim commissioner. So on the eve of getting
an actual commissioner, she steps down. We have a new
interim commissioner, and yet she still is a part of
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the department as a deputy commissioner.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
What are the world is going on? Coming up? I
have audio to share.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Representative Kristin Knutsen put up a post yesterday that I
want to share with you basically breaking down what transpired
in the departure of sharing Gandhi as the commissioner and
this new temporary commissioner make it all makes sense. We'll
get to your thoughts from the iHeartRadio app as well,
and as further evidence of what you can expect from
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a governor Klobashar were she to Heaven forbid, when we'll
look to Virginia and Governor Abigail A. Spamberger who believes
that perhaps if you go to the gym, you should
have to pay a lot more in taxes. That's right,
they're talking about taxing exercises there. And you know here
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in Minnesota, if anybody's proposing a new ridiculous tax, it's
our DFL leadership that is quick to go and hop
on board.
Just wrapped up our Tuesday Conversation or Q and A
with AI analyst and expert David Gartzenstein Ross.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We wrapped on a story where.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kathy Hilton ended
up falling for AI celebrities endorsing a jello diet.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Why would anybody think that was real in the first place.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I know there are all kinds of fad diets, but seriously,
like you're from La, you know how that goes yellow diet?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's one of those where it's like just believable enough,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, I guess. I mean if you're looking.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
At like, if you were legitimately thinking that was real, right,
it would have to be like a special concoction of jello.
It couldn't just be your your normal jello. The real
question is do you do cotta cheese with your jello?
Because I do call it cotta shoes with my jello.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You put it in, you put it in the mix,
and then and then and then, so it's embedded in
the jello.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's quite delicious. What's your flavor? Lime? Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Lime is my Lime is my go to. That's pretty
much my go to whenever it comes to those types
of of of flavors. I like me, I like me
some lime, I.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Do the I mean raspberry is probably my number one.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Although I do not care for key lime pie, but
I do like the bubbly make it make sense.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I like ketchup, but I don't like tomatoes. You're fascinating talks.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I absolutely, I absolutely am So was this talk back? John?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I don't watch Blatch TV.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
And when I do, it's when were me and my
wife at She's watching TV and she watches her Home's
Wife whatever show and I tend to watch it just
because it's on a show. But Kathy Hilton, I swear
she is microdochiing Treue all the time he is. She's
oblivious on that show, and it's so funny. I think
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it's hilarious just to watch her. But that's it. I
don't active listen.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I don't say anybody for the reality shows that you watch.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We are a survivor household.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Melina and I have been wiping out on makeover shows
on Discovery Plus. So no shame. You watch what you
want to watch, all right? From Jell odets to the
war in Iran. Here on Twin City's News Talk, Secretary
of War a friend of the show, Pete Hegseth, is
giving an update on Operation Epic Furialistic A few minutes
(02:36):
of this sam well.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
As you know, President Trump has directed US Central Command
to restart the free flow of commerce through the Street
of Horror Moves under the umbrella of Project Freedom. To
be clear, this operation is separate and distinct from Operation
Epic Fury. Project Freedom is defensive in nature, guest in scope,
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and temporary in duration, with one mission protecting innocent commercial
shipping from Iranian aggression. American forces won't need to enter
Iranian waters or airspace.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's not necessary. We're not looking for a fight. But
Iran also.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Cannot be allowed to block innocent countries and their goods
from an international waterway. Iran is the clear aggressor harassing
civilian vessels, threatening mariners from every nation indiscriminately, and weaponizing
a critical choke point for its own financial benefit, at
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least trying to. For too long, Iran has been harassing ships,
shooting at civilian tankers from all nations, and trying to
impose a tolling system Iran's plan, a form of international extortion,
is unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
That ends with Project Freedom.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Two US commercial ships, along with American destroyers have already
safely transited the strait, showing the lane is clear. We
know the Iranians are embarrassed by this fact.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They said they control the strait.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
They do not.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
So American ships led the way, commercial and military, shouldering
the initial risk from the front, as Americans always do,
and right now hundreds more ships from nations around the
world are lining up to transit.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Sentcam along with partner.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Nations, is in active communication with hundreds of ships, shipping companies,
and insurers. All of these ships from all around the
world want to get out of the Iranian trap that
they have been stuck inside. As a direct gift from
the United States to the world, we have established a
powerful red, white, and blue dome over the street. American
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destroyers are on stations supported by hundreds of fighter jets,
Helica drones, and surveillance aircraft, providing twenty four to seven
overwatch for peaceful commercial vessels except Iran's, of course, which
is why our ironclad blockade remains in full effect as well.
In fact, six ships tried to run the blockade out
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of Iranian ports as Project Freedom commenced and they were
all turned around. This is more than strategy, it's also humanitarian.
By breaking Iran's illegal stranglehold, were protecting the lives and
livelihoods of sailors from dozens of countries, securing global energy routes,
and preventing shortages that hit the world's poorest people the hardest.
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Once again, America is using its strength to lift up others.
Iran is trying to subjugate the world to what remains
of Iran's forces. If you attack American troops or innocent
commercial shipping, you will face overwhelming and devastating American firepower.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The President has been very clear about this.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
We prefer this to be a peaceful operation, but are
locked and loaded to defend our people, our ships, our aircraft,
and this mission without hesitation to Iran. Let innocent ships
pass freely. These international waters belong to all nations, not
to Iran, to tax, toll or control, to our partners, allies,
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and the rest of the world. This is a temporary
mission for us, As I've said before, the world needs
this waterway a lot more than we do. We're stabilizing
the situation so commerce can flow again, but we.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Expect the world to step up at.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
The appropriate time, and soon we will hand responsibility back
to you. To the incredible Americans executing this mission right now,
simply thank you your courage, your readiness, your unmatched professionalism
and precision, or why the world can breathe easier today
and every day. You are and always will be the
greatest fighting force in human history, unmatched.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Always. Project freedom is underway, Commerce.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Will be flowing, and America is once again leading with strength, clarity,
and purpose for the benefit of the entire world. Our
will is unshakable. God bless our troops, and God bless the.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Mighty United States Navy as well.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Chairman that was our Secretary of War, Pete Heggsseth giving
us an update on Operation Epic FIA here on Twins
City's News Talk at AM eleven thirty and one oh
three five FM. As I mentioned at the start of
the show, it seems as if I'm President Donald Trump
is doing everything he can to get what he wants
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and demands without having to conduct extensive military operations, but
is still willing to go and do so as he
should if necessary. Well, certainly keep you up to date.
General raising. Kine is continuing with the press conference. Anything noteworthy,
I'll share it with you here on twins Cities News Talk.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Speaking of a noteworthy.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Morning, John Steve andover, Hey, I just want you to
try someday, just someday, put some mayonnaise on jello. I
know not doesn't sound good, but try it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You'll like it.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I think Sam just pieced out on that. Not even gonna,
not even gonna consider it there, Sam, no, no.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Thank you? And hey, you do you. I just some
things aren't aren't meant to be together.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
In school when I was a kid, I will never
ever forget this.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I mean I was really young at the time, probably
like middle school. Probably the only thing that I remember
from middle school was we did like it was an
exotic foods themed classroom activity, sir so, and it was
based off of your culture. I don't know what I made.
(09:02):
I'm Italian in German, but but based off your culture.
You know, what can you bring to the classroom that's
that's different. And one of the kids had made pancakes
but then had put guacamole on it. Okay, it actually worked.
I mean when you consider the pancake mixing the.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Guacamole, right, yeah, I mean that that I can see
if you take out the sweet.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Part of exactly savory then exactly Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
When it comes to the mayo, I still on occasion,
after learning about it from Dale Earnhart Junior, I'll do
the mayo in banana sandwich. So it's just white bread,
mayonnaise and banana. No, don't knock until you try it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Man, it's good. It's it's it's good, it's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'm not a big Mayo fan of oh. So that's
where it's no knock against the jidget.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's a Mayo. It's a male thing thing. Okay. Now
do you do miracle with no? Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I mean well as an ingredient in like a bigger dish, yes,
but by itself.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
If you had to choose if my miracle whip in
real mayonnaise, if I had to choose, I would go
real mail. Okay, Okay, yeah I would too. I don't
know what miracle whip is. I don't know's. I don't
know what that is.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That's a whole different that's a whole different thing.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
John, look down, the gotta che yellow and back away
slowly and no one will get hurt.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
All right, Just stay awake again. Don't knock teach by it.
It's really good. My mom made it when I was
a kid. It's fantastic, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Minnesota official seeing a massive spike in the new reports
of fraud in social service programs, overwhelming the ability of
investigators to handle the cases.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, I don't think that's the case.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We're going to get into more of this coming up
in just a moment, including your comments from the iHeart
Radio app. This one came in a little earlier when
I was giving a preview of the upcoming story.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Bob from Lake Elmo. I know you're about ready to
talk about this, but the shortage of workers to go
after fraud, this isn't rocket science, people. I bet there's
enough retired accountants and forensic accountants in this state that
would be willing to work on a contingency basis for
the funds that they recover, just to save this state.
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Give them a chance, bring them on it. It'll cost us
nothing and we'll get money back.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You know, John Jessics, We're all out here waiting for
you to denounce all things Star Wars immediately. After your
buddy Puke Skywalker showed up to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
To help Obama open up his library. So come on,
we're waiting. Well, you're gonna keep waiting. They're all liberals.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Is one of the goofiest, staunch progressive lunatics out there.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
He has been for years.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That being said, George Lucas is a lefty, So most
of Hollywood is left.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I was gonna say, we've talked about this before. If
you if you do that game of like, well, this
person has this political ideology. Therefore I can't associate with them.
You're you're never going to find anything to watch.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
There's varying degrees, right, right, I mean there's different levels.
You're right, Sam, And this is what I've said before.
You're speaking truth over there. If I went this route,
I mean, you might as well just end up, you know,
moving to Amish country for crying out loud. Now, again,
there are varying degrees. If there are certain actors or
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actresses or directors that take a particularly harsh stance on
a particular issue or things like that. Yeah, of course
you all have to make your personal judgment call on
whether or not you want to consume that material. But
if I'm talking about a specific piece of content that
I don't have a particular issue with in terms of
the content itself, I'm not going to base my enjoyment
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off it for the most part, because the individuals who
created it happened to be Democrats, regardless of how extreme
they are, and again there are varying degrees and circumstances.
I didn't see that video yesterday. As a matter of fact,
I made a video about that video because I thought
it was so stupid, totally cringe worthy, and Obama's new
presidential Center it's got to be one of the ugliest
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monstrosities that I've ever seen. It actually looks like a
giant gray sand crawler, although the sand crawler is better
looking than that building is, and so Mark Hamill's inclusion
in it, especially seeming it to Star Wars on Star
Wars Day, did not come as any shock to me whatsoever.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
Listening to Pete hegg Seth speak about the strait of
horror moves brings to my the compelling piece in the
Wall Street Journal shortly after the war began about how
the Trump administration had no concrete plans to keep this
straight open and in fact seemed surprised when Iran closed it.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Let me paus it here. Why are you believing anything
out of the Wall Street Journal? And that's just my
own personal opinion, but when was the last time any
news outlet, and specifically like the Wall Street Journal, ever
reported accurately about the Trump administration, especially over an issue
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and a serious operation like epic Siri? I just buy
I wouldn't trust anything coming out of the Wall. As
Michael Scott on The Office calls.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
It seems like a better late than never situation. I
took a THHC gummy as you suggested, and still I
find myself shaking my head over some of the Trump
Administrtion's choices.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Okay, well, Tom, I always appreciate your commentarian thanks for
that one as well. As I said, I don't know
why you would trust anything that the Wall Street Journal
has to has to say. I continue to trust the
Trump administration in their operations and what they're doing right now.
And what's so funny about this too, is that the
way that Trump has been handling we are going to
(15:22):
talk about fraud. I got a lot of talkbacks that
have rolled in. I know I've been teasing it so
it's not going anywhere, but the way that the Trump
administration has been handling Operation epic FERI like, regardless of
it of how we got into it, right, everybody's got
their own opinion about whether or not we should have
started this in the first place. I believe it probably
should have happened a long time ago. You had plenty
(15:44):
of former Democrat presidents, Democrat leaders, congressman, Secretary's of State,
and otherwise Kamala Harris who all talked about going after Iran,
but none of them did it. So regardless of that,
when you consider the way that Trump has been operating
(16:06):
and conducting via Pete hegseth this war, he actually deserves
quite a bit of credit for showing reserve. It's not
like Trump's been acting as if he's some homicidal maniac,
as the Left wants to go and portray him often,
especially when you see the anti Trump protests on the street.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
No, he's been reserved.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
He's been giving or on every single opportunity to meet
our demands. And when they want to do a ceasefire,
as they work through the details of whatever that agreement
might be, Trump's willing to do that.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
He's willing to extend it.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But I have all the confidence that this administration is
not going to end these operations until there is a solid,
firm agreement in place that they will not be able
to create a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
All right, Let's get back to fraud.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
State authorities apparently are farming out more cases to federal
investigators delayed their ability to identify and shut down credible
allegations of fraudulent providers. So we talked a little bit
about this piece yesterday from the Star Tribute, and there's
a few more points that I wanted to make though.
The Minnesota Attorney General's office has been asking legislators to
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boost their Medicaid fraud Control unit ranks from thirty two
to fifty people, which also means they're going to need money.
This is why I don't trust any of it. Nick Wankup,
who leads the Medicaid fraud Control Unit at the Attorney
General's Office, said his staff is drowning in referrals. Said
his team cannot be expected to take on two or
three times as many cases as they used to and
(17:49):
still get quick results. They had a couple of comments
that rolled into this that I want to share with you.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Let's start here.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
Good morning, John Rich Here. So when they say there's
a shortage of investigators to investigate all this fraud, what
they're saying is Tim Waltz's train to control the investigation.
He wants to hire on investigators that have to have
loyalties to his administration. The other thing is is they
want to expand the Attorney General's office. The bigger, the
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bloated the government, the more they have to control.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Wlank has said they must rely more on federal law
enforcement to lead the charge, with his staff potentially providing
some data analysis or secondary help.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And which way was it?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I mean, Walls and the Democrats have been all over
the place regarding the actual level of fraud. It seems
as if they finally landed on well, we can no
longer go and try to spin this as if there
wasn't any fraud. I mean, it wasn't less than a
year ago. Even though the level of fraud really hasn't
(19:01):
changed apart from it increasing, there was still a massive
amount when you had legislators saying that there wasn't any
fraud or they weren't worried about fraud in particular programs.
And now you've got Amy Klobashar coming out and saying
that she's going to go and deal with the fraud,
laying out her plan, which, as many have noted and
(19:24):
I realized as well, is really just a hodgepodge of
the various bills that the GOP has been trying to
pass during the legislative session, but it has been stopped
to every single step of the way by Democrats.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And now we're at the point where apparently.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
There's so much fraud they don't have the staff to
go and tackle it. It all just sounds like excuses,
and providers are frustrated. Tips are coming in from a
range of sources, from providers to manage care organizations.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Wanka said his staff.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Is spending more time figuring out whether something is a quality,
a referral that could lead to a criminal case, or
largely paperwork errors that doesn't look criminal.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You know, I said this yesterday and I'll repeat it now.
They wouldn't be in.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
This problem if they had identified the fraud when people
brought it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
To their attention in the first place.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Like so many of the issues that we face here
in Minnesota, they all became exponentially worse because of Democrats
are funding issues, the deficits in the future. You blew
through billions of dollars in surplus operation Metro Surge. You
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encourage individuals to go and get in the way of
lawful law enforcement fraud. Now you're being overwhelmed by all
the fraud. And yet how many whistleblowers have we seen
already during legislative hearing hearings and committees talking about how
when I brought it to people's attention, I was chastised,
(21:05):
I was ignored, I was moved to a different department.
Some of the service providers have raised concerns that the
team is not doing enough work before referring the fraud
allegations to law enforcement and ascending along cases that are
minor paperwork issues rather than fraud. Clark set a tiny
(21:29):
fraction of the tips they get result in payments withheld
and a referral to law enforcement. Folks who are saying
that we're doing this willy nilly. I think the numbers
show that we're doing this judiciously. Maybe you are now,
but I hesitate to say that you've been doing that
judiciously from the get go. In the meantime, maybe Klobasar
(21:52):
comes out on Sunday says that she has this plan
to combat fraud, And I'm just asking the question and wondering, well,
why wasn't this being done in the first place. Why
can't Walls do this right now? He's still going to
be in office so the end of the year. So
why is it that we all have to wait for
Amy Klobashar to get elected.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Oh? Oh, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
We have to wait for Amy Closhar to get elected
before we can go and take care of all these
various issues. It reminds me a lot if you're familiar
with the office when Steve Currell's character Michael Scott left
the show and they needed a new office manager, and
so they were going through the hiring process and Will
Arnett came on and he said, Hey, I have this
(22:37):
plan to raise the revenue here for dunder Mifflin Paper,
but you got to hire me in order to find
out what it is.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Absolutely, yes, in fact, I actually have a three step
plan that I believe could effectively double your profits.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Really, yeah, what is it?
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Nice?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Joy, I'm sorry, what is your three step plan?
Speaker 12 (23:02):
Well, I mean I can't just hand you my plan.
I mean, if you guys give me the job then
then you look at the plan.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Amy Clovishar, DFL gubernatorial candidate unveiled her plan to combat
fraud and Minnesota state government, including audits, empowering agencies to
shut down payments, and banning convicted fraudsters from state contracts.
As highlighted in a portion of this clip from Fox News.
Speaker 13 (23:39):
I plan to transform our state government into a government
that is innovative, effective, and accountable.
Speaker 14 (23:47):
Senator Amy Clobshar laying out priorities of her campaign for
Minnesota governor at a press conference in Saint Paul Sunday.
She was joined by local and former leaders from across
the state. Clobahar says combating fraud is top of mind.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
On day one, I would begin a top to bottom
audit of our state government.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That audit will.
Speaker 13 (24:08):
Look at state agencies to identify waste, fraud.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And abuse.
Speaker 12 (24:14):
Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Yes.
Speaker 12 (24:16):
In fact, I actually have a three step plan that
I believe could effectively double your profits.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Really yeah, what is it?
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Nice?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Joy?
Speaker 15 (24:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Sorry, when is your three step plan? Well, I mean
I can't just hand you my plan. I mean, if
you guys give me the job.
Speaker 12 (24:34):
Then then look at the plan.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Oh come on, John, don't leave me hanging.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I'm one of the five people in the world that
hasn't watched The Office.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Did he get the job? Calculator, No, he did not
end up getting the getting the job. Andy ended up
eventually getting the job.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Did you ever hear the backstory about why Michael Scott
didn't continue on the Office, like the real reason or
the the real reason.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes, it was like it was like a miscommunication. Is
that what you heard? What did you hear?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I thought it was more of like a contractual thing
where his contract was up, and he's just like.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
H that Okay, So that was a part of it. Okay,
his contract was up, he was starting to do film.
The My understanding was the producers on the show just
assumed he was going to be too busy to continue
doing The Office and he was done. So they basically
just had kind of a miscommunication and never reached out
(25:32):
to confirm any of it. So they ended up rolling
with other storylines and brought and Will Ferrell for a
while test to him, that was an awful experiment that
didn't work very well, so he ended up moving on
until they eventually ended up with that helms in Andy's character,
but ultimately in interviews after the office was finished, Steve
Krows like, no, I absolutely would have interesting.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I would have I would have come back.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
So there there are some hidden gems in those couple
of episodes with Will Ferrell, though he has he has
some really funny lines.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh yeah, that was some good stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
He just he wouldn't have been good as the regular
office manager. Yes, you can only I love Will Ferrell,
but he's good in the doses that you get from him, exactly.
Any more than that and it just ends up being
and ends up being overkilled. And speaking of speaking of
which I've been using this sparingly.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
John, when you mentioned Amy and more of a direct
mentioned you need to be playing that shark song, Buddy.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Amy Cloba charter You do do Do Do do Cloba
chart Do do do Do do do Cloba.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Char do do do do do do Cloba chart Amy Cloud.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Char do do do do do do Cloba char do
do do Do do do Cloba chart do.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Do do It's all performative by the Democrat, John. They're
part of the from Oh yeah, they want to uncover
what they're part of their benefiting forendic that we need it.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, No, it's all intentional. They made these programs intentional,
intentionally vulnerable to fraud. You're right, it is all performative.
It's all style over substance. They don't really care. This
whole notion of what Amy Klobashar is suggesting here is ridiculous.
Just do Why can't walls do this now? We don't
(27:27):
need this whole, top down forensic audit of the government.
And if we do, then do it now. There's a
why why wait? If it's costing us money, then we
shouldn't have to wait for Amy Klobashar to potentially be
elected as governor.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Before we start taking steps.
Speaker 16 (27:48):
If you need any you don't need any further proof
then to look at how the Democrats are reacting to
the fraud and the fact that it is real. It
is bad because not too long ago they were trying
to trying to diminish it or write it off. Is
not that big of a deal, and now every one
of them is running on it like it's the an
(28:11):
existential crisis.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
That needs to be solved and they have the answers.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So Democrats published by the Cloba car excuse me. Documents
published by the Clobashar campaign note that many of her
proposals come from existing GOP and DFL bills pending before
the Minnesota legislature. Alongside her anti fraud plan, globash Are
introduced proposals to streamline government efficiency and access. However, fraud
(28:40):
in state government programs working off this piece from Alfhews
is poised to be one of the most talked about
issues during the upcoming gubernatorial campaign. Minnesotans have a right
to have high expectations, Clobashar said. They have deadlines that
they meet every day, and so should our government. They
plan and prioritize for their families, and so should our government.
They see something that isn't working and they fix it,
(29:02):
so should our government. Of course, she's only just saying
this now. Has she said any of this up until
this point? Has she criticized Governor Tim Walls in her
time as senator over this state when the fraud has
been occurring? How much has she even talked about the
fraud at all until this point in time. Following the
(29:29):
press conference, Republicans were quick to criticize Clobashh. Lisa Damuth,
Republican cubernatorial candidate House Speaker, said, waiting three months to
hold your first campaign press conference before adding the Clobashar
represents a Wall's third term, plain and simple. For terms
of Democrat control of the executive branch have doubled our
(29:51):
state's budget, raised our taxes by billions, and enabled the
culture of fraud that has stolen of billions more A
wants to triple down on the Walls era.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
She doesn't want to be governor.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
It's not an easy job, especially here in Minnesota now
at the state we're running smoothly. If Republicans had control
and you had individuals that were making the right decisions
for the state, be a heck of a.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Lot easier job. You just would be serving.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Over the state as a CEO, watching over the legislature,
getting involved where you need to.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
But that's not where the state is.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
The state's a mess because of Democrats, and yet she's
been silent over all.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Of this up until this point.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Alex Pleckish, the chairman of the Minnesota GOP, released a
lengthy statement which said Amy Klobashar's plan is not innovation,
it's an emission of failure. This plan reads like an
indictment of Democrat governance in Minnesota. Pleckish went on to
say she's announcing her campaign in January, Klobashar has all
(31:05):
but become the DFL nominee for governor. She has no
major primary challengers and has raised more money than all
of her perspective Republican opponents combined. Yeah, but the vast
majority of that money is all from outside the state.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
It's not coming from Minnesota's.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
That's not to say she's not going to be popular,
but also keep in mind this isn't a coast to
victory situation. It is to get the nominee, but not
to actually win the governor's race. She's been losing momentum
over the past few election cycles as Senator.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
The numbers bear that out. She's not very.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Likable, which is why you don't see her very often,
why she's the Senator of small things.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
And it's whole premature to say that.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
It's a foregone conclusion that she's going to win. That
is a defeatist attitude that will only end up helping
her in the end.
Speaker 17 (32:14):
Good Morning John, friend of the show, Paul so Amy,
Klobushire is saying, I need to be in office to
fix this fraud. Is kind of today's version of Nancy
Pelosi saying you've got to vote for it to see
what tonight regarding Obamacare, Amy doesn't want the job. I
think in her perfect world, Democrats would control the House
and the Senate and the state, and the governor would
be a Republican, and then they could blame that new
(32:35):
Republican governor for all the problems created by all the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
By the way, Bill Golong picked up on exactly the
same thing that I did at Center the American Experiment,
saying in a piece that's available right now in American
Experiment dot org. Nothing on her agenda needs to wait
until twenty twenty seven. All of the useful bits could
be done immediately if only her fellow Democrats at the
state Capitol would go along. Clobashar highlighted her desire to
(33:04):
replace the decades old technology systems in state government, an
idea that Republicans and dflers supported the legislature. Cloboshar said
that she if she had been governor instead of Walls,
she would have spent some of the state's historic surplus
on system upgrades. Fine, except, as Bell Glawn writes, I
was around and we all were to see min Lars
(33:27):
and Minshire Minnesota is simply incapable of executing large scale
computer upgrade projects under Democrat leadership. Clobashar's fraud plan includes
an audit of state agencies, tougher criminal penalties for fraud,
creating a permanent ban on state grants and contracts for
anyone convicted of fraud, and more oversight like in person expections.
(33:51):
And Bill goes on to write all ideas that are
worth doing the agency audits, though if we started now
could be complete before the November election. As for the
other ideas, they should already be state policy.
Speaker 18 (34:05):
Good morning John, great show, classic Democrat playbook, Spin, deflect, deny,
and then become the solution. Of course, keep Democrats in
control and do the fear mongering of if you let
Republicans in, how much your life is going to change?
We must vote read in November. Get these people out.
(34:28):
Needs a top to bottom change. Have a great day.
Speaker 19 (34:32):
The thing that gets me all of these departments in
the government have managers and assistant managers. Why do we
have to hire anybody else. Maybe it's time to let
the managers go because they're not doing their job.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Good morning John, Sam. We need to be all highly.
Speaker 15 (34:51):
Disgusted that Klobuchar's out there acting like she's going to
come and investigate these things a fraud what she's in office,
So of course we should all know the playbook of
the Democrats. You lie in the campaign and say you're
gonna do this, that and the other thing, and then
you get into office and you revert back to your
same crazy left wing ideologies that are making this country
(35:15):
terrible to live in.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I think it's funny. Now we need to update it
with the lamy clover.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Oh I like that, so it would be uh, lamy.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Charter, do do do Cloba chart?
Speaker 12 (35:34):
Do do do do do do Cloba chart, do do
do do clob.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
A chart, lamey char. I can just do it on
the fly. I don't need we don't need to update it.
I can just I could just sing it. I can
sing it live, or maybe I shouldn't.
Speaker 20 (35:53):
Good morning John, great show was always thank you with
respecting the clover Shar sus she was going to take
to Joe Biden approach and hide out in the bunker,
but it got to the point where the ice events
are over in Minneapolis and now fraud is back to
top of mind up for everybody.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
She had to come out and say something.
Speaker 20 (36:13):
But what can you say.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
It's a train wreck and the heating no Litsten. It's
a great point. It's a great point.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Her plan, like, it's something that I would do if
I were running for governor. I'll give myself a little
bit more credit. But just like an average individual, like,
let's take me out of it. That's an unfair assessment because
I do this for a living and I would actually
want to address the root causes of this that Amy
(36:41):
klobish are will never go and talk about. I mean,
that's one of the big fundamental flaws of all of this.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Is the underlying.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Issues relating to fraud, the communities that are the ones
conducting this fraud, how they're being told in other countries.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
A lot of fraud.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You can make a lot of money in the United States,
but you definitely got to go to Minnesota because that's
the place where you can make the most money based
off of fraud. She's never going to address that comprehensively.
She's never going to be honest about it. There's nothing
racist about it. It's just the facts. But unfortunately they've
(37:27):
done this to themselves on the left because they've convinced
their base of voters that if you are criticizing any
person who belongs to a minority group that Democrats are
dependent on to win elections, than any criticism of that group,
(37:50):
regardless of how factual it is, is immediately racist. And
so that in and of itself is going to keep
Amy Klobish are incapable apart from the fact that she's
a Democrat, but I'm speaking from the angle that she
would legitimately care about fraud like most Democrats should. And
(38:11):
to that point, they've also done a very good job
on the left of vilifying and demonizing Republicans at Trump
that they've convinced their own base of supporters that it's
okay that they have money stolen from them because they
hate Trump. They still have to continue to vote Democrats
into office. So we know, and we know that you
(38:35):
know money's being taken from you, but you cannot you know,
those guys are really evil, so you can't go and
elect them. Now, something weird happened yesterday. We'll talk about
this now regarding fraud. Let's use this comment here from
Stacey to get me to the next story on today's show.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Here on Twin City's News Talk.
Speaker 21 (38:56):
Chennel five had a great story last night. Of the
nine daycare centers that were rated last week, sixty seven
million dollars has been paid out by DHS to those
nine sixty seven million. Instead, this week, DHS is down
at Mystic, having a little hoorrah and wasting more tax
(39:16):
payer money.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I think people have become incredibly numb to the dollar amounts.
Sixty seven million dollars is a lot of money, and
yet the fraud is so bad, and we've been talking
in billions that, unfortunately through no fault of their own.
I think a lot of people they just their eyes
just glazed over. It's sixty seven million, it's five million,
(39:39):
it's six million. What's the big deal. Here's what's odd
about what took place yesterday. By the way, sharene Gandhi.
So this was the individual who was in charge of
handling the fraud in DHS since twenty seventeen. He was
(40:00):
there the entire time. She wasn't removed from the office.
She ended up taking over temporarily as Commissioner of DHS
and was scheduled to appear in front of the Minnesota
Senate and Health Human Services Committee today for a confirmation hearing.
(40:21):
Suddenly now she's stepping down from that post.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
They knew and they let it happen.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, exactly, sharing Gandhi is stepping down as commissioner of
Minnesota's Department of Human Services. John Connolly will take over
as the temporary commissioner, according to a news release from Walls,
So you had an individual who should not have been
serving in that position in the first place. That Governor
Gim Walls doubled down on said that he was going
(40:54):
to make the commissioner, and then on the eve of
her becoming the commissioner, she steps down and another person
takes over temporarily. And my understanding is this person is
not going to be going to the confirmation hearing. It's
another temporary commissioner. This is all an intentional distraction to
(41:20):
minimize the negativity for as long as possible. When you
have an interim commission at the helm commissioner at the HELM,
then you've got a little bit more control.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Over the narrative as it relates to the fraud.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
In an email to DHS staff obtained by Caro Levin,
Gandhi wrote about her time leading the embattled department with
mixed emotions. I'm sharing this morning that I notified Walls
that I'm stepping down. Since February of twenty twenty five,
I've led an aggressive, proactive work to protect MINISO, this
medicaid program for Minnesota's most vulnerable people. Gandhi's efforts weren't
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enough for Republican critics. State Representative Kristin Robbins, has been
leading the charge against fraud in the state, posted on
social media that Gandhi's departure is an important opportunity to
change course. DHS is in need of real leadership that
will stop the fraud, hold employees accountable for doing basic
internal controls, and reward and reward, not retaliate against whistleblowers now.
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In her email to staff, Gandhi wrote that the new
interim Commissioner Connolly, asked her to remain with the agency
and a deputy commissioner role she previously served before serving
as the interim commissioner. So on the eve of getting
an actual commissioner, she steps down. We have a new
interim commissioner, and yet she still is a part of
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the department as a deputy commissioner.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
What are the world is going on? Coming up? I
have audio to share.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Representative Kristin Knutsen put up a post yesterday that I
want to share with you basically breaking down what transpired
in the departure of sharing Gandhi as the commissioner and
this new temporary commissioner make it all makes sense. We'll
get to your thoughts from the iHeartRadio app as well,
and as further evidence of what you can expect from
(43:24):
a governor Klobashar were she to Heaven forbid, when we'll
look to Virginia and Governor Abigail A. Spamberger who believes
that perhaps if you go to the gym, you should
have to pay a lot more in taxes. That's right,
they're talking about taxing exercises there. And you know here
(43:45):
in Minnesota, if anybody's proposing a new ridiculous tax, it's
our DFL leadership that is quick to go and hop
on board.
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