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Jan. 9, 2026 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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Terrorist Gang Member Attacks ICE in Portland, Feds RAMMED With Car, SHOTS Fired | Dems: 'At War…'

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madeleine rivera
Poland officials are calling for an independent investigation into the shooting.
And until that's completed, they say they want ICE to stop all their operations in the city.
The man and the woman who were shot by federal agents yesterday were taken to the hospital.
Their conditions are unknown.
DHS says U.S. Border Patrol agents were doing a targeted vehicle stop and that the passenger and the driver were linked to Trendiaragua.
They say when the agents identify themselves, the driver tried to run them over, prompting one officer to fire defensive shots.
The car drove away.
Here's the 911 dispatch call of the shooting.
unidentified
Police are en route.
It looks like Pohler's saying that he was shot twice by ICE and his wife was shot as well.
They have a male who was shot twice in the arm and his wife who was shot in the chest.
Your talk group is going to be out for one.
Standby for additional dispatch.
madeleine rivera
A group of people protested near the ICE facility in South Portland after the shooting.
Police arrested five people.
There are protests breaking out in Minneapolis, too, following the death of Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE officer.
Federal officials alleged she attempted to use her SUV as a deadly weapon.
gregory bovino
This violent rhetoric, whether it's a Tim Waltz, a Newsom, a Pritzer, that is what they're saying.
They're choosing those illegal aliens over American citizens and over American law enforcement is reprehensible.
You know, every city we've been to, whether it's Chicago, Los Angeles, or now Minneapolis, take a look at what President Trump and Secretary Noam have accomplished.
Double-digit figure drop in crime.
Let me say that again, Laura.
Double-digit figures, drops in crime.
madeleine rivera
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says it's reluctantly withdrawing from the investigation.
They say the FBI informed the BCA that the U.S. Attorney's Office had reversed course.
The investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence, or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation.
DHS Secretary Chrissy Noam says the Minnesota BCA has no jurisdiction over the investigation.
kristi noem
I'd like to know where they've been and why they're not out on the streets investigating all of these people that are harassing and inciting violence on law enforcement officers right now.
They're allowing the situation to be volatile.
They're not doing their work.
They have not been cut out.
They don't have any jurisdiction in this investigation.
madeleine rivera
Governor Tim Walz has now authorized the Minnesota National Guard to be staged and ready to support state and local police in case protests get out of hand.
unidentified
Youth is a happy time and a carefree time.
But what does a youth do when they see two foreign tattooed criminals driving towards them?
The right thing to do is first draw your firearm.
While pointing the firearm at the commie, it is prudent to shout, get out of my country, commie.
This lets the criminals know that they are unwanted.
One shot to the head should do the trick.
Those commies won't be coming back anytime soon.
Good job, Billy.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, we are excited to be back in the studio.
Today is Friday, January 9th, 2026.
A little bit of a detour yesterday to Washington, D.C., hanging out with our Maha crew, RFK.
We have some clips from that for you and also giving a speech on affordable housing.
Well, I got to tell you, man, we are winning in 2026.
The first week of January is always the longest week of the year, and this has been no exception.
What a week we have had.
We're going to round it out with another horrifying story of ICE agents getting run over by Tren de Aragua, Venezuelan gangbangers, ICE agents fighting for their lives, having to discharge their weapons once again, this time in Portland.
Will Portland burn?
That is the question.
What is happening in Minneapolis?
A full update there.
And then the Supreme Court will be releasing opinions live during the show.
What will some of those opinions include?
Well, potentially striking down President Trump's tariffs.
A lot of the odds are that that's going to happen.
And then also, potentially getting rid of transgender exemptions in Title IX.
So ruling strongly against transgenderism, effectively saying men are men and women are women.
So that will happen live during the show.
Our best in production team is staffed and stocked and on standby, refreshed after a little day's break yesterday.
Although we did cover JD Vance's incredible emergency press conference, we'll have clips from that to round out the show.
Nick Sotor will be joining our show live from somewhere.
Alex, let me know where will Nick be today?
Is he in LA or is he in Minneapolis?
It'd be neat to see something on the ground from either of those locations.
Senator Ron Johnson will join the show.
The great senator from the state of Wisconsin.
We're going to try and encourage him to go find fraud in his state.
He's one of the lions of the Senate, though, and is doing a great job.
We look forward to doing a great job on the show.
My name is Benny Johnson, and this is the Benny Show.
A great job is what my wife has when she's cooking fajita night and reaches for the masa chips and says, ah, there we go.
Perfect dinner.
The masa chips are a perfect addition to any of your dinners.
We do fajita nights in our family a lot.
They are in line with the new upside-down food pyramid and something that we studied yesterday very closely with the entire health establishment as a joyous day at HHS, sort of like a maha rally with a lot of great influencers, a lot of cool people, and our first one-on-one with RFK.
It's awesome.
But he would approve of Masa chips because masa chips have three main ingredients.
And that's it.
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None of them you can pronounce.
And all of them are sludge from the sewers of China.
But these ingredients are American beef tallow, corn, and salt.
And that's it.
And that's why you feel good after eating them.
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Okay.
Speaking of something that is sprouting up right now, I want to play you a clip of Tim Walz.
Alexa, let me know if we've got the longer clip here, please.
Okay, okay, cool.
I want to load a clip of Tim Walz because I want to talk about the moment that we're facing as a country.
I want to talk about, yeah, and as Klein loads that up, maybe we can just go through like the day at HHS.
I forget.
Why not?
Let's do the sweet in the sour.
Okay, we'll start with the sweet.
Yesterday we were at HHS.
I was there with my wife, Nurse Kate.
It was a big maha day.
Eat real food.
They just flipped the food pyramid.
We have the brand new food pyramid to show you.
It is, again, Nurse Kate approved.
And we also have this wonderful time with the secretary.
He actually showed us around the building.
We were able to see his offices, which were very, very cool.
He has a Charlie Kirk memorial in his office, which is also very, very cool.
I could load up some of these clips and make sure that we're ready to just chat through why we didn't have a show yesterday.
I also gave a speech about housing at American First Policy Institute.
We'll post that interview later today.
But here we go.
Let's go through some of the top line just really quickly because RFK is without question the single most consequential and successful HHS secretary in the history of America.
They should just demolish the building after he walks out.
They should just explode behind him, you know, peacefully with nobody in it, because he's done such an excellent job in resetting the framing of what the government is here to do.
And I loved this commentary from him yesterday.
RFK, please pop up that photo.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
RFK saying, listen, we are a democracy.
I am not here to force you to do anything.
I can't.
I'm the government, and people have always had the freedom to do whatever.
They can make their own choices in this country.
But I'm here as the government to set the guidelines to say this is what you should do.
To take the knowledge and the power and the weight and the force of the federal government and say, this is what you should be trying to do in order for the best outcomes in your life.
You shouldn't be eating the food pyramid.
No, your entire life shouldn't be a bunch of wonder bread.
You know, the entire base of the food pyramid is eat as much wonderbread as possible, the old one, right?
The base of the old food pyramid.
The old food pyramid is trash.
And they were resetting the table.
And by the way, what's really important about all this is that what flows from this, Klein's loading up the old pyramid versus the new pyramid right now.
What flows from this is guidelines for school lunches, for what our men and women can eat inside of the military.
I mean, look at how trash this old food pyramid was.
This is garbage.
Look at this.
The old food pyramid.
Eat as much white wonder bread as possible.
Then you should eat some craft singles.
Then, like, as an afterthought, you should eat some chicken, but only with a bunch of seed oils.
This is the dumbest thing.
This is what leads to obesity rates that are twice the rest of the world and a bunch of people dying in their 60s from heart attacks.
This is the worst possible.
I mean, I guess there's other really bad diets, but look at how much ultra-processed foods are on this.
This isn't really even my lane.
I'm just saying that, like, as I'm raising my own kids, I don't want kids to be obese.
You want to see fat kids running around?
You never saw that a couple of years ago.
20, 30 years ago?
You never saw that.
Try and find a fat kid in ET.
You know, you can't find it.
The truffle shuffle and the goonies is really funny, you know, because you never really saw stuff like that.
But now it's like every other kid has diabetes when they're in grade school.
It's because of this.
And this is how the school lunches are made.
School lunches are made like this.
And you've trained these kids to eat like trash.
So the new food pyramid does the opposite.
The new food pyramid, which can you get the actual, please get the actual graphic that the HHS has been using.
It's all over the place.
The new food pyramid is not only inverted in order to show absolutely no connection to the old because the old was so flawed, but it is actually the way that I eat every single day and hopefully the way that you eat because this is what the government should do.
It should project what is good for you, not force you to do anything.
Out are the forced vaccine mandates from HHS in is the framing of what healthy actually looks like.
And healthy doesn't look like your nine-year-old having diabetes and a heart attack on the jungle gym.
This is what healthy looks like.
You will see the top of the food pyramid is meats and vegetables and fruits, whole fruits, not processed food fruits.
You won't find a single processed thing on the whole damn chart.
Got some fresh baked sourdough down there.
That's cool.
My wife baked sourdough, but the majority of what your diet should look like is not actually bread, especially ultra-processed white bread.
It's actually food that grows out of the ground the way God intended it.
You know, chickens just walk around the way God made them and you can eat those things.
I mean, don't like grab a chicken up and start biting it, but like, you know what I mean.
You know, fruit, it grows on trees.
You can eat that.
You can grow vegetables in your own garden and you can eat those.
And that's the way God intended it.
This is like God's food pyramid, actually.
So it's like a beautiful thing to see.
We're there to celebrate it.
Okay, great.
No tariff ruling today, breaking news.
No tariff ruling today.
That is a wonderful thing.
The tariff ruling, everyone fears they're going to strike down Trump's tariffs and it's going to lead to some real economic problems because the tariffs are bringing in billions for the country.
And then a bunch of countries and companies will sue to get the money back and it'll be just a nightmare.
Anyway, this is what we chatted with RFK about very briefly.
Here, here's our short little interview with RFK, who's again doing God's work in simply saying, like using the force of the federal government to say, this is what is good for you, and then taking those policy lines down through all of the things that the government funds.
You know, the government funds 45 million school lunches every single day.
45 million school lunches built on like seed oils and ultra-processed foods.
That's how you have such sick kids.
And then how about the military?
You know, it's not, you're not allowed to eat steak in the military.
You can't eat steak in the military because they were like, oh, yeah, it's not good for you.
Like nothing better for you, especially if your job is going and fighting battles.
Going and yeeting communist dictators blackbag and them and throwing them back a helicopter.
Flying them to New York and frog trotting them through communist New York.
This is like exactly what you should be eating.
So anyway, RFK on this.
Let's go.
Here, Kennedy, appreciation posts.
God bless you.
Thank you for making America healthy again.
unidentified
Thank you.
Don't eat frozen foods.
Yes.
benny johnson
And what is your message to fast food out there, Secretary Kennedy?
unidentified
Stay away from it.
It's poison.
Yes.
benny johnson
And what about your new mothers when it comes to these tough decisions about vaccinations about children?
unidentified
Eight-year-old research.
benny johnson
Last thing.
Flipping the food pyramid.
It was upside down the whole time.
I saw it on South Park.
unidentified
Yeah, you finally got it.
That's South Park.
Thank you, Secretary.
benny johnson
You only get a little bit of time.
I mean, he did walk us around, but it would have been rude to be sitting there like filming him the whole time.
And we did get a tour of his office, which was awesome.
I don't know.
ALX is telling me we can't actually play the reference there, the South Park reference.
So that's fine.
But there is a funny troll.
And speaking of the, you know, speaking of the Supreme Court ruling on Title IX and women's rights, there's a really funny troll inside of HHS that we were able to find with our dearest admiral, Rachel Levine.
Here we go.
What's up, guys?
I'm at HHS right now, and I have the single greatest troll of the Trump administration to show you you are not going to believe this.
So this is the wall that shows all the assistant secretaries of HHS, right?
And you probably don't know any of these dorks at all, except for there's something really remarkable here with Rachel Levine, or as HHS says, Dick Richard Levine.
There you go.
Friend of Mark Milley.
Proper pronouns right there.
Richard.
Well done, Trump administration.
Amazing.
It's pretty awesome.
And there was also a there was also a clip from inside of RFK's office.
Here it is, Klein.
That is a Charlie Kirk memorial that I thought was neat that I'm not sure anybody has seen yet.
And then we're going to jump over to the breaking news, obviously.
This is the view out of RFK's office, and it is the entry to his office.
And while there's a lot of cool, like nostalgic Kennedy stuff all over the office, this is what he actually looks at.
Let's listen.
Is this remarkable Easter egg of President Trump?
Happiest I've ever seen the man look, actually, and Bobby Kennedy at the turning point event.
And Kennedy's staff tell me that this is an ode to Charlie Kirk inside of the building itself.
This is in honor of Charlie.
This is what the chief of staff just told me and the secretary.
So what an honor, ladies and gentlemen.
What a moment in history.
It is extremely cool.
And Charlie, of course, was the reason that that event happened.
Trump and RFK together on stage, the sparklers behind him, that was all a turning point event.
That was a Charlie special.
Charlie linking together Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Charlie linking together JD Vance and Donald Trump.
Charlie putting RFK together and this incredible Maha moment that we're having as a country.
The saving of our health.
It is amazing.
And one final note on all this before we move on to darker topics.
When Christ wanted to help people, what did he do?
He healed them.
He healed their body.
This was like the vast majority of blessings and miracles that Christ did was healing people, sometimes raising them from the dead, saving them from death itself, but often healing horrible maladies that people had been living with and suffering from.
Back in that times, back in those times, it wasn't diabetes type 2 or obesity.
But nonetheless, Christ is healing the body.
And there's a lot of witnessing to be found in healing someone.
And that is what this image reflects.
And so once again, through the power of the unity against a common enemy, Charlie Kirk showing the hand of God and the Heine of Christ in his life, even after his death, even posthumously in this.
And so I thought very neat, ladies and gentlemen.
And we move on to the reason why that unity was so important was because we have an enemy that wants to kill us.
And that's been made abundantly clear over the last couple of days, weeks and years.
And you, you know, see both of these guys up on stage.
I don't know if you have Kennedy and Trump one more time.
I mean, the left's tried to kill.
The left killed that dude's father and his uncle.
And by the left, I kind of mean the deep state, the Marxist deep state.
And they shot Trump in the head, and then they try to shoot him again at his golf course, I guess, a couple times.
Remember how the FBI found a deer stand in Palm Beach outside of Trump's golf course just a few weeks ago?
How many assassination attempts had there really been on Trump's life?
Well, we don't know.
We know they killed Charlie.
We know they constantly attack conservatives.
And now they're ramming ICE agents with vehicles.
Who are the true insurrectionists?
You got to ask yourself this.
Is it the guy there on the right that said march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol?
Or is it Tim Walz, who just at a press conference yesterday said that he and his state are at war with the federal government?
Here we go.
unidentified
This yesterday, we've never been at war with our federal government.
I think in this case, that the National Guard is their main mission.
They have a dual mission.
benny johnson
So wait a second.
He's calling up the National Guard to fight the federal government?
Wasn't he in the National Guard?
Does he have a functional brainstem?
Does he know the National Guard's party army?
You know, it's like under the Pentagon.
Ultimately, does he know that he could be recalled to the National Guard himself?
He was a member there.
He did abandon his troops, obviously, and then lie about his service in Iraq.
Never saw combat.
He's a liar and a fraud about his own military service.
And now he's saying he's going to use the Minnesota National Guard in order to fight the federal government.
He's going to turn the army on itself.
That's an insurrection.
That's civil war.
He should be arrested under the Insurrection Act for that alone.
Not to mention the criminal referrals that he now has for all the fraud in his state.
Egregious.
And that happened in Congress yesterday after a series of hearings, criminal referrals for Tim Walz.
So with this level of incitement against the federal government from the left and the open attacks that we have seen on federal law enforcement, you really have to ask yourself, what kind of a country are we going to live in if the left regains control again?
Well, what will they do if they get the gun?
You know, they don't have any power right now.
They have very little power right now.
And look what they're already doing.
They're using their cars to run over ICE agents.
They're attacking and killing their political enemies, slaughtering their political enemies in the streets, and they have no power.
What are they going to do when they get the power again?
God help us.
Why we do have to get rid of the filibuster, quite frankly.
We just can't let these people have power.
Again, we can't let them back into power.
We can't.
We can't allow it.
It's been like it's a different moment.
This is not this is not like 25 years ago, Bill Clinton's Democrat Party.
I'm going to unite and link arms with Newt Gingrich.
This is a terrorist organization.
This is a left-wing terrorist organization.
And it's being backstopped by the corporate press.
Thank God that they are less relevant than ever and less Americans believe them than ever, but nonetheless, they are lying about what happened in Minneapolis, where a woman floored her car, floored the gas in her vehicle, hit that gas pedal with an ICE officer in front of her.
I think we have brand new footage of this actually, and I want to show you it.
That proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, ALX, please flag it, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt what happened here.
I thought we had another one I saw in the chat, but let me know.
Let me know.
Anderson Cooper.
But nonetheless, it's obvious what happened.
The press is lying about it.
They'll never tell you that this woman tried to run over an ICE agent, that that same ICE agent had been dragged for 300 feet when somebody also tried to run over him.
Further demonstrable evidence here released showing the collision.
anderson cooper
For full minutes leading up to the shooting, it shows Renee Good's Maroon Honda pilot entering from the right there.
Then, 20 seconds later, someone gets out on the passenger side.
We don't know who or why this person leaves the car.
We then see her turn and pull perpendicular across the street, seeming to block the way.
But as you see here, leaving room for vehicles to pass by her on either side.
Finally, there is this new angle of the federal officer who shot her.
He arrives.
Another federal SUV pulls up.
As the ICE officer briefly goes back to his car, then he returns and with another agent grabbing at her door, the federal officer who shot her, he leaving room for vehicles to pass by her on either side.
Finally, there is this new angle of the federal officer who shot her.
He arrives.
Another federal SUV.
benny johnson
So you have two guys on the side, and then you have one guy passing in front.
And it was a little hard because that's just the way these ring cameras or security cameras are.
They're not 4K.
They're 1080p.
anderson cooper
Pulls up.
benny johnson
You can see here an officer right in front of her vehicle, passing right in front of her vehicle.
unidentified
Right?
benny johnson
That's the guy walking in front of her headline.
And there he is standing in front of her headlights right now.
anderson cooper
The officer briefly goes back to his car.
benny johnson
Then you can see.
Now you can see the full effect.
Now you can see the full mowdown.
That officer is lucky to be alive.
What is to be done with people who are foment who are wantonly fomenting a civil war in this country?
It's a fake party.
It's not real.
It can't survive without USAID funding.
I posted this morning, and it's true.
The reason why Minneapolis hasn't burned to the ground to ash has been because Elon Musk cut USAID and destroyed that organization, gutted it, disemboweled it, burned it to cinders, torched it to the ground.
And USAID now can no longer pay protesters in order to burn down our American cities.
This is an incredible victory for the Trump administration.
And this is why Minneapolis is still standing.
But what is to be done?
You know, you can defund, obviously, they're foot soldiers.
You can defund these people, but you still have left-wing, often aging, left-wing white women who are childless or in deeply unhappy and broken relationships, who view criminal aliens as their legitimate children and their only path to keeping power or to passing on their worldview.
Just because you don't have kids or just because you choose alternative lifestyles doesn't mean that you lose the instinct to mother.
It just means you're going to pass that instinct on to something else.
You're going to find some inanimate objects.
There are women who have like fake babies that like look lifelike and they like treat them like real babies.
They're like, there's that.
There are women who like baby their husbands, their dink husbands.
And then those women like then pour what was meant, that love that was meant for a child into a dog or a cat, poopsiekins.
And that's how they work.
And then when they realize that they're a dead limb on their family tree and that their ideology, which is really what having children is about, is the passing on of your faith, your spirit, your worldview, your genetics, also a strong driver of that.
But it's really about like that, imparting future generations with your worldview.
They realize they can't do that.
They see turning point flipping the youth right wing and the entire youth like breaking out of the mind virus and the programming.
They go psychotic.
And then they project that love that was meant for their own biological child on a bunch of criminal aliens that they would go die for them.
You're only supposed to ever like die for your own children.
Like give your life for your own children.
I am ready at any second of the day to die for my family.
I will die for my family.
I hear a bump in the night.
I am armed and I am ready to go.
And I am downstairs.
Happens all the time.
unidentified
That just is what it is.
benny johnson
But I am not ready to die for some 68 IQ point of 68 Somali off the boat who doesn't speak English, who is incompatible with Western civilization, is a fraudulent pirate who's here to rob my children's future.
They're actually here to harm my children.
No, no.
In fact, I want punishment for you.
I want you to be put in prison or deported.
I'm not going to die for you.
You are harming my children.
Something has gone so effed up, something's gone so haywire with the left that left-wing women, often childless, over-medicated, high off their asses on SSRIs and blue-in-on propaganda,
are out here willing to die for sub-Saharan Somalis that wouldn't even swerve if they were standing in the road, that don't care about them, that don't, that absolutely, if they had full power, would ensure that their worldview was eradicated because these people practice Sharia law.
They wear burqas.
Do you understand this?
Do you understand what Somali men would do to you?
Left-wing white women, you know, women all across left-wing white women all across Europe are finding that out in mass.
unidentified
It's awful.
benny johnson
Multiculturalism has failed.
Society hangs in the brink by a thread.
And the person trying to cut that thread is the unhappy, over-medicated, childless, left-wing, aging, liberal woman, post-menopausal, who is somehow inexplicably willing to attack her own government and die for the 68 IQ Somali who doesn't even, who's not even aware of her existence.
And as soon as the fraud funnels dry up here, will immediately decamp back to some other country where they can be a parasite.
No, they are not your neighbors.
And that's what's been wrong in Minneapolis, in Portland, in these sunken places.
It's what's led to this moment where the leaders are talking civil war, which is what Tim Walz is talking right now.
And where the route of choice for those who are either defending or those who are criminal aliens are using their cars as weapons to try and kill ICE agents.
We saw this in Portland yesterday.
So yesterday, two federal agents, federal agents, shot at Trende Aragua gangbangers.
They weaponized their car to try and run them over.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents shot at two alleged Trende Aragua gangbangers.
This is a deadly and demonic Venezuela gang.
Federal agents involved in the shooting, Portland, came just one day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement gunned down an anti-ICE activist, Renee Goode, in Minnesota.
Also, there is a lie about Renee Goode that she's somehow just like a working-class mom that was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
That is a factually, totally, and completely inaccurate.
That is a lie.
She is a trained and paid agitator who spent her live-long days literally living and dying in order to attack ICE.
This is what she did professionally.
The agents identified themselves, the vehicle occupants, and the driver allegedly tried to mow them down.
DHS spokesperson said the shootings were non-fatal.
Nonetheless, these are two criminal aliens that do not belong in this country and need to be shipped home back to Venezuela.
Police said a man and a woman were found with gunshot wounds at a specific intersection in Portland.
Police said the shooting unfolded about three miles away, so they were able to drive three miles gunshot wounds.
Officers applied to tourniquet to the pair.
No doubt that the illegal aliens will be treated far better than any ICE agent.
There is no doubt that the left would have preferred the ICE agents get run over.
I wouldn't have preferred anybody get shot.
I just want people deported.
And I want the left-wing activists to seek spiritual and mental help.
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The chas happy?
unidentified
All right.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have joining our program right now, one of the best journalists in America, a man who we kept having on our program.
Boy, back in Lahaina, back in Hawaii, far before this whole trend of independent journalism skyrocketed and took off in a way that is very exciting to us.
But one of the granddaddies of them all, the great Nick Sotor, joins our show live.
Hey, Nick, how you doing, bro?
Nice hat.
nick sortor
Yeah, appreciate it, man.
Yeah, I'm actually typically I'd be on the street doing this thing, but two things.
I can't go alone because they'll probably just shoot me or whatever.
And secondly, we were out until like three o'clock in the morning last night out there at the new autonomous zone, the new Chaz.
So there's some, just an update on that this morning, though.
And we can get into that a little bit.
benny johnson
Please, please.
So, yeah, you're reporting from Minneapolis, right?
nick sortor
That is correct.
We're on the ground here in Minneapolis.
And it definitely feels behind enemy lines.
It kind of is behind enemy lines.
Anywhere in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, I mean, you've got, look at this freaking moon of a mayor that they've got out here.
And, you know, the police force out here called 911 the other day as we were being chased down the road and they told us to basically screw off.
It's sad to see this stuff happening in an American city, but it's also not surprising.
I mean, Portland is a very similar way.
And I guess we're going to find out if they're going to pop off tonight over this trend-Aragua guy that got shot by Border Patrol after he tried to run them down and is now in FBI custody.
So are they going to try to make a martyr out of him, man?
I mean, that'd be interesting.
benny johnson
Force them to do it.
Force them to eat it.
Like, do it.
Like, I want make heroes out of these people.
Like, I, you know, we were in Portland, bro, and, you know, we watched these rapists get arrested, you know, these criminal alien rapists, and they're sick people.
How could you possibly defend this?
There is no explanation.
There's no explanation as to how any of these people make our country better.
And as you said quite famously in front of the Learing Center, you know, they're trespassing in our country.
nick sortor
I did say that felt very good to say, Benny.
I'll be honest with you, man.
And I don't know if you saw this Bovino last night was going around arresting people in front of the learning center.
Just, you know, I've been waiting for this day for a week and a half now.
And he went around.
And they're going to do more operations in what we call Little Mogadishu.
And Little Mogadishu, though, man, is not nearly as little as it used to be.
You now have what was previously called the Mall of America.
It is now here known as the Mall of Somalia.
And you got to go check that place out at some point.
I'm just not going to tell anybody when I'm going there because it's wild.
benny johnson
Maybe you should shave your goatee, wear some glasses.
You know what I mean?
I mean, you with the Border Patrol hat on is a little on the nose, bro.
You make it kind of easy to find you.
I know I texted you a couple of times.
Like, you have got to get security.
Well, I'll call you after the show because we're working on something like that.
Cause I want to be able to have.
I want to be, I want to start a nonprofit to do security for independent journalists and just you and me both.
nick sortor
I think we talked about that at one point.
benny johnson
Yes.
And it has to happen because it's just too easy to kill all of us.
Like, that's just what, and that's obviously the plan.
nick sortor
In some situations, depending on how volatile it is, I mean, it can be two grand a day.
I mean, it's, it's wildly expensive.
And independent journals, that's just not in budget unless you're who knows.
benny johnson
I mean, it's, it's like Nick Shirley is because you're making like, even if you're making good revenue, like that's all your revenue then.
So then you're, so then you need, you know, so you got to be able to be profitable.
So here we go.
Here's Bovino and his team making arrests at the Quality Learning Center and then the autonomous zone in Minneapolis.
And we got some footage of that that you took last night.
Tell us about this autonomous zone, Nick.
What's up, man?
nick sortor
Well, this is a place where two nights ago, I was chased around and they called the police.
I was on the phone with the police for over 20 minutes.
They kept telling me, we're on the way.
We're on the way.
I mean, you can hear death threats being screamed at me in the background.
It's all on video.
And then after that 20 minutes, they just, they called back and they said that they weren't responding unless I moved to another location, which is a little bit difficult when you're being mobbed.
And then they literally hung up the phone on me.
And you can see it's last night when they had, it's like two and a half blocks, man, of just no, it's a no-go's only what they call for police.
They built this like sweat shack that you can see behind there so that people can go in.
They're like, I don't want to sweat with any of these people, bro.
I don't, the, the area in general doesn't smell very good at this point, let alone in a box that everybody's sweating inside of.
It ended up becoming a, if you look on the sides of the road, Benny, there are a bunch of houses.
This is like three o'clock in the morning or two o'clock in the morning.
And these people are out screaming, blasting loud music.
They're not letting people get to their houses.
And those residents are super upset about it.
And so the city of Minneapolis, very, very early this morning went in and they moved the crap out of the way.
However, it is now being moved back into position.
And what's going to happen now, most likely, is if the city doesn't very quickly go in there with a bulldozer, they're going to keep this place staffed all night long with tons and tons of people.
Keep in mind, it's going to be a Friday night tonight.
They'll stay out there all night long and fight the police if they try to come in there and move their crap out of the way again.
unidentified
Jeez.
benny johnson
So we got like a chaz, okay, like our own chaz in Minneapolis.
nick sortor
Yeah.
And I mean, you remember what happened up in Chas, right?
It was famous for failed communism, death.
Can I, I don't know if I could say the R word on YouTube.
But you know what it is?
benny johnson
Yeah.
nick sortor
They established armed border guards and they would shoot you and they did shoot you if you were unauthorized and walked into their zone.
The communism part failed at Chaz because the homeless people were coming in there and taking everything.
And so I was strongly considering bussing in a bunch of homeless people last night.
I just couldn't find a bus quick enough.
I just wanted to see what would happen.
benny johnson
So I got a question for you because I thought that Minneapolis would be burned to cinders at this point, but I believe that USAID getting cut and all the NGOs losing their funding has actually stopped a considerable amount of the funding of domestic terrorism in our nation.
Have you seen that, Nick?
nick sortor
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
And if you want me to be totally honest with you, Benny, about the reason that I believe it hasn't been burned down yet is because this is a white woman.
If it was a black woman or a Hispanic woman or something like that, the city would be totally on fire, but they don't care about white women.
White women don't care about white women.
Have you seen some of these videos that have been coming out?
There was one that just started going viral.
I don't know if you've seen it yet, like last night, where I believe it was a Daily Wire reporter that was talking to a white woman that was saying that it was weird and she didn't know how to take it because it feels wrong to have tears as a white woman for a white woman.
I mean, these people are especially here, man.
The liberal white woman in Minnesota is different than the liberal white woman from across the country.
It is a species that needs to be studied.
benny johnson
It's a lot of self-loathing, man.
And you don't like, that's where transgenderism comes from.
Like this whole, like, I hate myself.
I hate the person that God made me.
I hate my skin color.
That's a terrible way to, it's the most toxic way to think about your life.
It'll always end badly.
It will always corrode you from the inside.
Here's the clip itself of a woman.
I don't think it's that long.
Why don't we just listen to it real fast?
unidentified
So, I mean, I'm just walking here on kind of just day-side because I gotta, I was like, I don't know if it's the right thing to do.
It feels kind of wrong being here in some way.
I don't know why.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
Like where that stems from.
Like, I don't, I mean, part of it is being like a white woman that I'm privileged and I have a lot of privilege.
So I feel like white tears are not always something that's helpful or necessary.
benny johnson
I've had enough.
nick sortor
Okay.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
Got it.
Okay.
Got it.
Like, you know, give the NPC a microphone.
It's like NPC.
This is just programming behavior.
It's just listening to the programming.
unidentified
Yeah.
nick sortor
I mean, I'm kind of curious about the privilege that this, the dead chick has.
Does she still have her white privilege?
How does that work?
benny johnson
And you're right.
Like, I, you know, what a horrible life that she's so broken and had such a miserable life that she's decided to make her calling in life the defense of Somali criminal aliens who are fraudsters who have no right to be here in Western civilization and don't care about her.
And if they were in power, would utterly eradicate her worldview.
They hate her, but she's willing to give her life for them.
That's crazy.
She's willing to die for that.
What happened, dude?
Who hurt you?
It does.
It needs to be studied.
You're exactly right.
Okay, so have we seen, I mean, Nick, have we seen?
I mean, you've been on the ground.
You've had a wildly successful run.
You were able to expose the Hilton Hotel, some of the lies around that.
And you've been on the ground, I know, for at least a week or two in Minneapolis.
Any other major takeaways?
nick sortor
I mean, you can definitely feel outside of, typically, I don't stay in or around Minneapolis.
I stay like an hour away from there because that's much safer territory.
And you get out there and you talk to some of these people that aren't in Minneapolis and aren't in St. Paul.
And they are livid, absolutely livid.
And that's why at the end of the day, you're seeing Tim Waltz have to jump out because people around the state are just rebuking him violently.
I have not seen anybody that is willing to sit there.
And I've tried, trust me, to defend Tim Waltz.
You can't find it unless it's some radical leftist in the middle of Minneapolis.
His approval rating outside of the Twin Cities is about the same, maybe a little lower than toenail fungus.
It's really a satisfying thing to see.
But it kind of reminds me, the entire state is not lost.
You have a lot of great patriots outside.
It's just this little area.
Little Mogadishu is actually not very little.
It spreads 30 minutes outside the city.
So that hotel, that Hilton hotel, right next door, there's a Walmart.
And I tried to go in there and I was just asking for some basic things and I couldn't communicate.
It's all on video.
I'll release that sometime later this week.
And they just couldn't.
They couldn't tell me because they couldn't talk to me.
So I don't know if that's a requirement at Walmart nowadays that you speak Somali and only Somali.
At one point, I just as a white man asked her what time the place was closing and she got mad at me and started like yelling.
Just it feels like Walmart is basically built a store in Somalia.
And people are getting fed up with that too, because like the mob of America, you can't really go there anymore and enjoy it as you could 10 years ago.
It's pretty sad.
benny johnson
Maybe your final takeaway here, since you've been a victim of left-wing attacks, since you can not show your face in the streets anymore, maybe in peaceful American cities, but in cities like this that have descended into madness, you are enemy number one.
They'll come after you.
What are we facing here?
Tim Walz, I mean, the top of the show, Tim Walz is saying that he's calling up the Minnesota National Guard to fight the federal government.
Well, bro, that's an insurrection.
I mean, that's civil war by definition.
That's definitionally civil war.
nick sortor
Yeah, absolutely.
And it also has to do with the fact he's trying to make it as difficult as possible on President Trump to federalize the National Guard, right?
Because what he would do, Tim Waltz would say, no, I'm already handling it.
I've already authorized them myself.
And then he'd go to one of these activist judges and get an injunction against Trump real quick to stop him from taking over the Minnesota National Guard.
So I mean, that's part of the tactic here as well.
And when tonight, likely, I would say something is probably going to end up happening.
It is the weekend.
Remember the, the George Floyd riots.
Uh, those happened like three days after George Floyd.
Uh, Od'd in the street but um yeah, I mean fingers crossed on it man, but Tim Wallace is not going to come to your help.
Not, he's not going to come to my help if somebody like me is on the street.
I know there are other people like sort of uh similar to me that are now out here, thank god, when the first few nights I was out here man, I was alone, totally.
It was driving me crazy.
That's why I was making those uh angry posts on x about uh, you know, no support, like no, but nobody else is out here.
Like the left man, they're so good at mobilizing immediately.
Their backers are right there, ready to go.
Uh, and they, they have strength and numbers.
We have the numbers.
Uh, we just don't have these people that are willing to put their money where their mouth is.
benny johnson
That's right.
Strength and numbers.
We don't have the strength.
That's exactly right.
Let's work on let's work on fixing this nick.
I know that we've been trying to do it for a while and uh, I would like to fix this problem and give people an opportunity uh, to be able to fund security and to be able to fund this journalism, which is, of course, like what people have done throughout all time, like there have been people who believe in journalistic missions uh, and these are the kind of missions that actually save the country, and that this is, this is something that we should we, we have to build, we have to build it.
Yeah, i'll call you I.
nick sortor
I will just say that the like, the most important part that I want to highlight for the audience that's why independent journalists, in this situation especially, is so important is because as soon as it gets a tiny bit dicey out there in the streets, legacy media packs up, they're gone.
You're not going to see the crime, the fires or anything or, and if you do, you're going to have CNN saying that it's mostly peaceful and uh, and lying to your face, and so that's that's where we're important.
That's why it's important that we're out there and that you know somebody is there to like, watch our back, because these people, if they know the cops aren't coming, they have no problem hurting you.
benny johnson
Yeah yes, I mean, I mean man, you know, do you really want to, do you really want to do Blackhawk down two right in Minneapolis, and it's journalists like Nick, who prevent it, because he is on the ground showing exactly what's happening.
Uh, he doesn't miss anything.
I've worked with Nick for a long time.
He's one of the best in the business.
Uh, you absolutely must follow him.
That's one way of supporting him uh, and then we're going to come up with other ways to make sure that we support and keep alive our independent journalists who are saving the country.
nick sortor
Godspeed Nick, you're the man Benny appreciate you.
benny johnson
see you bro and gentlemen a great senator from midwest a border state minnesota is uh ron johnson He joins the show live now.
Here we go senator, thank you so much for being uh back on the program.
Uh, are you a little worried that there could be some contagion if Minneapolis falls and if riots happen there?
Uh, and why?
Why, Senator, is it always Minneapolis?
ron johnson
Hello, Benny.
Well, first of all, living in Wisconsin, a conservative in Wisconsin, we've been concerned about Minnesota politics bleeding over in our state for quite a few years now.
It's really sad.
I'm originally from Minnesota.
What they say about Minnesotans, you know, really nice people, it's true.
I cannot explain.
I still have brothers and sisters who live in Minneapolis.
They cannot explain what's happening.
But what's happening is radical leftism.
And what you see in Minnesota is kind of the same in Minnesota, right?
In Wisconsin or other states where you've got a few large cities that are governed by radical leftists, in other words, Democrats.
The rest of the state, I remember Pat Toomey, I always used to talk about Pennsylvania.
It was Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabama in between.
Same is true, Wisconsin.
We've got Milwaukee, we've got Madison, then you've got, you know, pretty conservative folks, common sense people.
The problem we have is we don't have honest journalism.
I was listening to your last guest, Nick.
You know, God bless him.
It's unfortunate we have to call a journalist like him an independent journalist because mainstream journalists are no longer journalists.
They are propagandists and they're propagandists for the radical left.
The radical left has taken over our institutions, governmental institutions, private institutions, non-governmental organizations.
They've taken over journalism, our academia, and of course they've taken over the Democrat Party.
Now, Democrats always try and separate themselves.
I mean, they let the true nutcases go out there and do their bidding, and then they try and pretend to be moderates when they run from re-election.
But don't be fooled.
Anybody who's signing up and running as a Democrat is signing up to this radical leftism that is literally destroying our country.
Radical leftism is destroying America.
They opened up our borders, the balkanization of America, and they're okay with it.
From my standpoint, it is depressing to see what is happening in Minneapolis.
It is depressing to see what's happening through this country.
It is depressing to understand what radical leftism is doing to this marvel of a country that our founders created for us.
The freedom, the opportunity that America represents is going down the drain because of Democrats and radical leftism.
It is infuriating and is depressing.
benny johnson
You've been in the august body of the Senate, Senator, for quite a while.
Has any politician from your home state of Minnesota, and could you shout out your hometown?
Where are you from in Minnesota?
ron johnson
I was born in Mankato, Minnesota.
My folks came from Wells and Mapleton.
Southern Minnesota, just dairy farms, basic farmers, and then end up growing up around the Minneapolis area.
benny johnson
All right.
Wow.
So, okay, you grew up around Minneapolis.
You go to high school in Minneapolis, a college in Minneapolis?
ron johnson
Went to a dining high school.
I didn't finish my senior year.
I went to skipped my senior year and went to the University of Minnesota.
So I graduated from the University of Minnesota as well.
But then I chose to live in Wisconsin.
I escaped the port that went crazy.
benny johnson
Start moved.
So, not trying to cause any contention, obviously, with any Badger fans out there.
I myself am a Hawkeye, but I'm just trying to get the full landscape here.
And I'm really glad that you told us that because this has got to really suck for you.
You must have really enjoyed the Twin Cities.
I know that there's nice places.
I know it used to be really nice.
And maybe you know a lot of people that still live there.
It sounds like you do, maybe some family.
Has anybody ever tried to explain to you why 100,000 Somalis make the city better?
ron johnson
No.
What they explained is, as your previous guest, they've just taken over certain neighborhoods.
And you feel now like you're a foreigner in your own cities.
And now we see the rampant fraud within that Somali community.
Again, There is a unique situation.
There's nothing racist about this.
This is a group of people who, for whatever reason, culturally have come to this country and the community in general has committed this massive fraud.
Now, in fairness, some of the whistleblowers exposed to the fraud are also from the Somali community.
So, again, you don't paint the broad brush, but the fact of the matter is, this is a unique situation.
And what I'm trying to point out to my colleagues and really to the nation is Somali fraud, they're amateurs.
They've only been this country relatively short period of time.
The true fraudsters, the true stealing of taxpayer money is coming from the people who are entrenched within the system.
Take a look at the military-industrial complex.
Take a look at these organizations that have just been established for decades to facilitate the spending of all this money that we can't afford.
This is much larger than what we're just seeing in Minneapolis in terms of Somali fraud.
This is endemic, probably worse in Democrat-run districts and states and cities, that type of thing.
But Republican districts aren't immune.
There's a good piece in the Wall Street Journal about fraud in Mississippi.
That's a pretty red state.
So it's the size, scope, cross-government.
We're doing all these things from the federal government that our founders never envisioned.
They're not within the enumerated powers.
benny johnson
You talk about the systems and the stealing of the money from the Somalis is low-grade fraud.
This is not Lex Luthor stuff, as JD Vance said.
You have to assume that there was someone inside of the governor's office, somebody inside of the superstructure of the Farmer and Labor Party, the Democrat Party in Minneapolis that was facilitating this.
It defies logic that people could come here, low IQ people could come here from sub-Saharan prehistoric cultures and then learn the American tax code in such a sophisticated way that they were able to defraud billions of dollars and do so without being intercepted or found out.
And we have multiple whistleblowers that were before the House yesterday saying, yes, the government knew about it.
We even have a criminal referral for Tim Walz.
Would you join in that criminal referral?
Do you believe that Tim Walz has committed a crime here?
ron johnson
Again, I'm not an attorney.
I'm not a prosecutor.
I do know they've got an audio of Keith Elson.
Seems like he was certainly in on the grift as well.
So, no, I mean, the Minnesota officials, they had an Office of Legislative Auditor report come out in March 2019, two months after Tim Walz took office, lays this out.
The lead investigator in his memo says that the investigators figured there's probably about 50% of $217 million spent on this child care program was fraud.
50%.
So, no, this was well known.
The politicians knew it.
They looked the other way to the exempt to the extent that they're actually complicit in it, buying votes with it.
Obviously, they knew that the Somalis voted pretty much in a block, so they did everything they could to keep them on their side.
Looking the other way, the massive fraud is probably one of the ways they got their votes.
benny johnson
Do you believe that Minnesota is a red state and that this level of fraud is also applied to election theft or fraudulent ballots?
We've seen that pretty roundly demonstrated with the loose rules in Minnesota, like the vouching system, same-day voter registration, and so on.
ron johnson
No, without a doubt.
I mean, the welfare system is literally set up to make people dependent on government and to make them vote for people who want to grow government.
I mean, that was really FDR's massive stroke as a politician.
You know, start spending money federally for states so you can get elected, you know, get those electoral votes from those particular states.
It worked marvelously well.
And it's just continued to be built on.
The whole open borders was all about flooding millions of people in this country.
They're going to go to sanctuary cities, sanctuary states.
Well, those are the blue states, those are the blue cities.
They are counted in the census.
And so they're going to increase the number of members of Congress.
Even though the Baker-Carter Commission said that the greatest threat for fraud in our election system was absentee ballots, they used COVID as an excuse to double the number of absentee ballots cast in the 2020 election.
They're moving toward automatic registration.
They're moving toward mail-in balloting.
No voter ID.
Even though 80% of Americans want voter ID, the Democrat Party is absolutely opposed to voter ID.
They want to make cheating easy, which means they want to cheat.
So this is their game plan.
But again, the complicit media will look the other way and completely deny it and then accuse people like me and you who are pointed out as we're conspiracy theorists.
No, this is exactly what the Democrat Party is doing.
Grow government, make people dependent on it, open up the borders, bring more people dependent on government.
So they're going to vote for you.
That's the game plan, and they're succeeding in carrying it out.
benny johnson
Senator, they want every city in America to be Minneapolis.
How do we prevent that exactly?
What should happen to the Somali community in Minneapolis as it stands right now?
What should we do to prevent this from happening in other American cities?
Because obviously, no city, nobody wants to live in Minneapolis anymore.
ron johnson
Again, I support President Trump and the people working for him, getting rid of deporting people who are in this country illegally, particularly the criminals.
Obviously, if you're committing fraud, hundreds of millions of dollars, you're a criminal.
You ought to be deported.
So deport the ones that should be deported, jail the ones that have committed crimes.
Stop letting people in this way.
And then, you know, what is just going to be absolutely crucial is we have to restore an integrity to our election system.
Again, Minnesota, you can get a driver's license and then you use that to register to vote.
And again, if we in America would simply follow the rules and guidelines that our State Department tries to impose on nations when we tell them how to run a clean election, we'd have pretty clean elections, but we don't.
So the same advice we give to other nations to hold free and fair elections, we do the exact opposite thing here.
benny johnson
But the Senate will never take up or wouldn't be able to get 60 votes in order to pass anything in order to secure elections.
ron johnson
So then what is to which, which is which is why I reluctantly, and again, I think the filibusters prevented us from being a socialist nation decades ago, but the filibuster is over.
The Democrats have purged anybody who would not nuke the filibuster when they get power.
We have to recognize that reality.
So I think we need to beat them to the punch.
And if we don't have the votes in the Republican conference, we probably don't right now, we ought to be ought to do the talking field buster that Mike Lee's been talking about.
Now, is it going to take a lot of time and effort and hours?
Yeah, but I think we have to do it.
So, you know, Chip Roy issued really an excellent, I think, 17-point master plan of things that we should do.
If you just take the top three points that he's made in his memo, secure our elections, secure our border, and literally secure our welfare system, you know, end the fraud.
If we did those three things, you know, craft that legislation so it is really well done.
It can't be slipshot.
It can't be half, you know what.
It's got to be really well done.
It's got to address it.
So you take the SAVE Act and you combine that with the executive orders that President Trump is trying to do to secure elections and then do it well and bundle that up into a Save America package.
And if we can't do it with, you know, still have the filibuster, force the Democrats to take up all their time.
We need to be on the floor.
It'll probably take three, four, 500 hours of floor time.
Run the Senate on a continuous shift basis.
Skate down the staff, bring in presiders on a continuous shift basis.
We need to be dedicated to doing that because if we don't do it, literally, as Republicans, we're not serious about saving this nation.
But that's what it's going to take.
We have to secure elections.
We have to secure our border long term, not just when you have President Trump in office.
We have to eliminate this fraud.
We're spending over $7 trillion a year, $2 trillion deficit again this year, probably.
$2.6 trillion projected over the next 10 years on average.
Again, this is unsustainable.
We've got to pull our heads out of the sand and recognize the radical left is destroying this nation.
The Democrat Party is dedicated to a one-party nation.
So it can continue to destroy it, apparently.
They are focused on power.
We have to save this nation.
And I'm sorry, the filibuster, it worked for a while.
It's not in the Constitution.
It's a rule we post on ourselves.
It's a rule that worked when there was comedy, when there was respect within the Senate.
But that's been thrown out the window.
It's the Democrats that have broken every norm.
It's the Democrats that are pressing for a one-party nation.
We got to recognize the Democrat Party, radical left, they're at war with us.
This is just some standard political debate.
The radical left is at war with conservatives, with Republicans, with people who value what our founders valued, freedom and liberty, a free market competitive system.
That's not what they want.
They want big government.
They want socialism.
They want to be able to control your life.
Look at how well that has worked around the world when it's been imposed on people.
Look at Venezuela.
Venezuela is an oil-rich nation.
They should be the shining star of the southern hemisphere, the western hemisphere.
They're an economic basket case with repression, extrajudicial killings, people dragged out of their homes and shot in the back alley.
And now you have Democrats upset because President Trump took out that awful dictator who was doing those things.
I mean, again, you can't make this up, but Americans have to open up their eyes to that reality.
Stop denying the reality.
Stop relying on the lamestream media.
They're not going to bring in the news.
They're not going to bring you the truth.
It's going to be people like Nick and Nick Shirley and other independent journalists, investigatory journalists like John Solomon, Shale Atkinson.
I mean, we have so few of them nowadays, you know, conveying that to the American people.
The good news is you have alternate media, you've got podcasts like yours, more and more people are listening to them.
The $64,000 question is, are there enough?
Are there enough Americans paying attention with their eyes open, not believing what the lanestream media is telling them, but really understanding the danger, the peril that our nation is in?
Our nation is in peril.
If you don't believe that, open up your eyes.
You have to open up your eyes.
And again, if you know it, talk to everybody you know.
Let them know.
You know, I've got, you know, my brothers and sisters sitting in Minnesota.
We have a very active text chain.
We're sharing these videos.
We'll share this, you know, my appearance on your show.
That'll be spread around.
That's how this works.
Don't hold this information yourself.
Share it.
Spread it.
You know, get energized.
Understand.
Time's running out.
We don't have much more time.
If the radical left continues to win elections, if these Democrats continue to pull the world over the Americans' eyes, oh, here's a mod.
Every time I hear, oh, this is a moderate Democrat.
You know, this is a more moderate person that elected this government.
No, they're part of the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party has been completely taken over by the radical left.
And the radical left is destructive in every instance, in every country, every nation, every time it's tried, it destroys nations.
It destroys societies.
That's what's happening right now in America.
benny johnson
Very quickly, after that heartfelt plea, we know that you believe these things.
You're one of the greatest vampire hunters in the Senate.
You've been able to find so many dark truths out about the deep state, the FBI, the Biden administration.
Will Tim Walz come before your committee?
Do you think that there will be an investigation into the fraud?
You sit on a couple of very important committees.
Will you look into this?
ron johnson
Absolutely.
We met with one of the Minnesota legislators yesterday, talked to her about exactly the kind of cooperation, what's the penis that she can issue that we can do it for.
So absolutely.
But again, I want to make sure that we open up our aperture.
And yeah, we're going to investigate this.
I mean, the Department of Justice is on this case now.
They have the capability to investigate and to prosecute.
You know, my capability of investigation is actually quite limited.
I've got a pretty small staff and it's a target-rich environment.
So I've got to prioritize things.
I want to open up the aperture and take a look at what happened in Minneapolis and expand that to okay, that's not the only place that's happening.
It might be uniquely egregious in Minneapolis, but take a look at every last one of these programs, figure out exactly how it was defrauded, and now start looking around the nation.
And like I said, you know, the Wall Street Journal had a great article, fraud in the red state of Mississippi, you know, that they knew about.
What's being done about that?
So, unfortunately, again, in Washington, D.C., it's a bubble.
It's an alternate universe.
Most people serving there are just whistling by the graveyard.
Again, I was a pretty lonely voice during the debate under reconciliation about returning to a reasonable pre-pandemic wealth spending.
We made some progress, but not nearly enough.
And if you really want to get to the bottom of it, if you're going to actually solve this problem, you have to reduce the size, the scope, and the cost of government.
You keep shoving money out the doors.
I mean, it blows me away.
I've got colleagues that want to extend the enhanced subsidies on Obamacare.
In doing that, just okay, you're okay with the $30 billion worth of fraud because the no premium policies, apparently, huh?
You're not okay with just allowing the vast majority of 22 of the 24 million people just to revert to Obamacare subsidies.
You're going to be afraid of the political whiplash because Democrats are lying, like pretending people are not going to get something.
No, they're going to get the same subsidies they had under Obama.
They're just not going to be bumped up by a couple of percent.
So, no, I mean, I could go on, I could rant forever.
My frustration level is high.
I gotta say, nobody can outfrustrate me, but I'm gonna keep fighting on it.
Yeah, we're gonna investigate the Minnesota situation, but I want to expand that and I want to shine a spotlight and expose the corruption, the fraud across the federal government because we have to.
We're mortgaging our kids' future.
It's immoral.
It's wrong.
It's got to stop.
benny johnson
Sounds like some of your colleagues in the Senate graduated from the Quality Learing Center Center.
And yeah, maybe they should go back to school.
We appreciate always your time, Senator.
The great Senator Ron Johnson doing his best to stop Wisconsin from becoming Minnesota, proudly representing Wisconsin here with 700,000 subscribers on X. One of the truest, clearest voices in the Senate rings like a bell and a true fighter for you.
Godspeed, Senator.
ron johnson
Same to you.
Take care.
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you.
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Here we go.
Annapolis and Aluna refers Tim Walz and Ellison.
This is the Attorney General to the DOJ for Criminal Prosecution in Minnesota.
Will the DOJ do anything?
Bad history, actually, of the DOJ getting these referrals and not doing anything.
They have the Dr. Fauci referral, for instance.
Rand Paul's been on talking about that.
Here is APL.
unidentified
Terry recognizes Ms. Ludo.
anna paulina luna
Thank you, Chairman Comer.
Honorable Robbins, based on your record before your committee, when did Governor Walls first become aware of widespread fraud in Minnesota social service programs?
unidentified
I would assume that he has been aware of it since he ran for office for governor in 2018.
anna paulina luna
By 2017, DHS investigators warned CCAP fraud could exceed 50%.
Was that information elevated to the governor's office?
unidentified
Yes, there was an OLA report.
anna paulina luna
Thank you, ma'am.
By 2020, state officials knew feeding our future invoices were fraudulent.
We know that payments continue to the AG's knowledge.
Did they continue to the governor's knowledge as well?
Yes.
Attorney General Ellison agreed on tape to fight Minnesota's own Department of Human and Health Services in exchange for Somali political and financial support.
In your personal opinion, do you believe it is a possibility that Governor Walls also made that personal deal or that he at least knew about the Attorney General's agreement?
unidentified
I don't know.
anna paulina luna
Okay.
I don't want to rehash what you guys have spent hours answering.
We know that there's a big issue with the fraud in Minnesota.
So on a number of things, I'd first like to point out, thank you for being here today.
But because of your testimony and because of some of the evidence that we've seen brought forward, as well as I'm sure the fact that this committee, I assume, at Chairman Comer's direction, will be soon subpoenaing A.G. Ellison, I would like to make criminal referrals regarding Governor Walls as well as A.G. Ellison.
As you know, U.S. Code 371 and U.S. Code 2, which deals with criminalized conspiracies to defraud the United States and establishes liability for individuals who knowingly aid or abet the commission of federal offense, includes willing full blindness or deliberate inaction where duties to act exist.
So I will be referring them later on today.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, the referrals have gone to the DOJ.
As James Comer has said in a recent podcast and on our program, he is very frustrated with the DOJ for their lack of action on these referrals.
So we'll pray for this one.
As Annapolina Luna sent criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General alleged involvement in obstructing federal oversight of the state's recently exposed fraud scandal.
Separate letters addressed to Bondi.
Luna made her case that the two state officials should be subject to criminal investigations and prosecution for violating federal law.
One of the cited law criminalizes conspiracies to defraud the United States.
Another establishes criminal liability for those who aid and abet federal offenses.
Congresswoman announced the DOJ confirmed receipt of the criminal referrals.
And here we go.
Roundy round.
Time is a flat circle.
We'll see what happens.
What we did like, though, was the clip of the week, which is Brandon Gill going scorched earth on one of the witnesses here asking the pertinent question, what exactly do Somalis do in Minneapolis other than fraud and piracy and leering?
Here we go.
brandon gill
Does large-scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker?
brendan ballou
Certainly stronger.
brandon gill
Certainly stronger.
Do you know what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on food stamps?
brendan ballou
No.
brandon gill
54%.
Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?
brendan ballou
Well, to be clear, a majority of those.
brandon gill
It's 7%.
There's a big difference between 54% and 7%, is there not?
brendan ballou
Excuse me, sir.
Could I answer the question?
brandon gill
Let me move on.
We've got a lot of questions here.
What percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on Medicaid?
brendan ballou
I don't know.
brandon gill
It's 73%.
Do you know what that number is for Minnesota native households?
brendan ballou
Again, you're using the phrase Minnesota native households, but the number is 18%.
brandon gill
That's quite an astounding difference.
I think we would.
brendan ballou
Can I answer the question, please?
brandon gill
Let me ask you one more and then we can go into that.
What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?
brendan ballou
I don't know.
brandon gill
It's 81%.
What about, let me just ask you, after 10 years of being in the United States, what percentage of Somali immigrant households are on, continue to be on welfare?
brendan ballou
I don't know.
brandon gill
The number is 78%.
So even after 10 years, 78% of Somali immigrant households continue to be on welfare.
Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?
Again, you're using that.
Non-Somali immigrant-headed households.
brendan ballou
If I can just answer the question, you're using the phrase native Minnesotans.
The majority of Somali Minnesotans are as Minnesotan as any of us.
They were born in the United States.
It's only 8,000 of the 108,000.
brandon gill
Nevertheless, the welfare usage is astoundingly different.
benny johnson
A healthy body wouldn't import a parasite.
You wouldn't knowingly give yourself COVID or tapeworm.
want that.
I mean, I know you're looking for an alternative to a Zempic, but like a tapeworm, don't do it.
Why would you give yourself a parasite?
Why would you knowingly import a population that is going to go on welfare?
That is antithetical to every theory of immigration, to every possible argument for immigration.
You're bringing in people to make your country worse.
You're bringing in people to, even if they're doing just legal welfare.
If you ask yourself the question like, wait a second, Americans whose grandparents built this country, died for this country, they can't afford child care.
They can't afford groceries.
They can't afford gas.
They can't afford a home.
But a Somali fresh off the boat with a 68 IQ from a tribe in sub-Saharan Africa that practices Sharia law, child brides, and inbreeding, they get free federal housing, food stamps, free child care, even though none of the meals exist, none of the children exist.
And the houses that they're purchasing are actually luxury houses around the world.
As we have proven on this program, the Somali fraudsters have bought luxurious resorts and mansions with what they've stolen from America.
They take the welfare dollars that we give them and then they wire it immediately out of the country.
Somali bag men going in and out of the Minneapolis airport with bags full of cash, $350,000, a million dollars stuffed into suitcases, leaving the country.
Kind of a racket are we running?
So the government sends someone welfare, and then that same person immediately wires the welfare amount out of the country.
What is that?
We should wire them out of the country, the entire population.
They are the ones who should be wired out of the country.
There are some cultures that are utterly and totally incongruent, incompatible with Western civilization.
Somali culture is one of those cultures.
It is indefensible.
The only purpose for its existence is the destruction of the city of Minneapolis, which used to be a perfectly fine, clean, profitable, nice to live in city for the purposes of permanent control of the state of Minnesota by the Democrat Party.
That is the only explanation.
And it has been atrocious for the people who live there.
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Okay, let's do some good news.
Good news Friday.
We used to do Good News Friday.
Now it's free for all Friday.
Good news Friday.
Whatever.
We're going to end our week.
Again, this has been a brutal week.
I don't know why there's been so much news packed up this week.
Trump just chose violence.
And it looks like he's not done with Venezuela or with the axis of evil around the world.
Iran seems to be crumbling.
I'm not sure exactly what this will mean long term.
I don't support us going to war in the Middle East.
I don't support us going to war with Venezuela either.
But nonetheless, Trump's wars are done before I wake up in the morning.
And I wake up really early.
This morning I was up at 4 a.m.
It's a great time to have a bunch of work to get done.
Get up early in the morning.
Get it done before the sun rises.
If you have a workout to do, get that done too, because then that's a bunch of stuff that you've accomplished before the rest of the country even has their hot coffee going.
That is the way to live your life.
Trump's wars are done even before that.
You wake up and it's like, oh, we won the war.
I didn't even have time to get pissed off about it.
Okay.
Maybe that'll happen in Iran.
I'm not sure.
Iran's supreme leader threatens Trump and predicts arrogant U.S. president will be overthrown as he blames him for huge anti-regime protests.
Ladies and gentlemen, there are massive protests around Iran right now.
There's an internet blackout, but there's a lot of clips that are still getting out.
Apparently, the regime is losing cities, big cities, to anti-regime protests, and they're losing control of the nation itself.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, on Friday insisted that the Islamic Republic would not back down in the face of protests after the biggest rallies yet in almost a two-week movement that's sparked by anger over rising cost of living, chanting slogans, including a death to the dictator.
That's a new one, and setting fire to official buildings.
Crowds of people opposed the clerical establishment marched through major cities late Thursday.
Internet monitor NetBlocks said authorities have imposed total connectivity blackout late on Thursday and added that early Friday, the country is now bent offline for 12 hours in an attempt to suppress the protests.
The demonstrations represented one of the biggest challenges yet to the Islamic Republic over the four and a half years, a decade existence, with protesters openly calling for an end to the theocratic rule, which should totally happen.
Iran used to be an American ally.
Iran had an incredible population of people that were doing remarkable things.
You can go back to the 1970s and see photos and videos of what Iran used to look like.
It used to look like a paradise.
Used to look like a place I'd really want to visit.
And then, of course, as is happening here in this country and as has happened throughout all of Europe, this is the result of radical Islam.
Taking over your country, plundering it, plunging it into the Dark Ages.
They took a first or second world society and then destroyed it piece by piece.
And now it is in ruins.
Here are some of the images that have been, I guess, smuggled out of Iran of the protesters taken to the streets.
And we totally support this.
I mean, this is like, I mean, you got to support this kind of stuff.
And I think as many other powers in the Mideast have proven, there's a better way.
There's a better way for the societies of the Middle East to be organized and structured.
And so, you know, wherever you're looking to, you know, I'm not going to sit here and obviously simp for the Middle East.
I don't want to live there.
I don't want to go there.
I don't want to buy a house there.
But Iran is the worst actor in the entire region, without a doubt, and is the darkest place in the entire region.
And so I fully support the overthrow of the regime and the dictator and the overthrow of extremist radical Sharia law in Iran for something that would more reflect what they had,
well, for the last couple hundred years in Iran, which was a very forward-looking society and a society that, of course, wasn't committing vengeful acts of terrorism all throughout the region that killed some of our brothers and sisters here in America.
The vast majority of lives lost, the vast majority of lives lost in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
Those are stupid wars anyway, but they were lost because of Iranian bombs, Iranian munitions, Iranian roadside bombs, and IDs, killing our boys and sending them home in body bags.
This is Iran.
They are bloodthirsty and evil.
And I am in total favor of that country being liberated without any American boots on the ground, but probably with some American meddling.
Okay, here we go.
Speaking of American meddling, Greenland.
Let's go, ladies and gentlemen.
Polymarket has a poll.
What will happen to Greenland?
Will the United States of America acquire Greenland?
Well, a little bit of a background here.
We did acquire from Denmark the Virgin Islands.
We did that for $25 million in gold about 100 years ago.
We've bought property from Denmark before.
Greenland exists in our hemisphere.
It's not in Europe.
The tectonic plates, the hemisphere lines that surround the earth, like Greenland is ours.
Greenland, the people of Greenland don't speak Danish.
They don't consider themselves European.
This is an ancient colonial asset.
And as we have alliterated on this program time and time again, Greenland was already America's.
America was sent to Greenland to defend her in World War II when the Danish were conquered.
We should have just kept it then.
We were idiots for not doing that.
It was American ships and naval vessels that kept Greenland from falling into Axis powers.
So we already had the administration of Greenland and we should have just kept it then, but we should keep it now.
It's going to be a lot more costly now, sadly.
But the Trump administration is looking at just paying off every Greenlander and saying, and calling it a day.
Let's go, baby.
I will look forward to being, it's just summering in Greenland.
We actually want to, we want to go.
I want to go very badly to Greenland and do some content there.
I would really like to go.
I haven't really looked into how long of a flight that would be.
I asked Eric Trump to take me on Trump Force One.
We'll see if that happens.
But I want to go to Greenland.
I want to go to Greenland and I want to pass out.
MAGA HATS.
What do I want to do?
Polymarket says there is a 17% chance that Trump will acquire Greenland.
That's the smart money, man.
There it is.
17% chance.
Okay.
There's 100% chance that you're going to get a verse of the day on this program every single day from Psalms 101.
Love a good psalm.
No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house.
No one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.
Psalm 1017.
Make sure that when you are speaking, that you do it with clarity and with thought.
Make sure that when you are acting that you do it with clarity and with thought.
Make sure that when you are engaging with the world around you, especially with those that you love, that you have truth always on your side.
There's no reason, no reason ever to lie.
But more importantly, there's so much power in telling the truth, ladies and gentlemen.
It is in truth that we leave you this week.
Have a great one.
And this is the most incredible country that God has ever created on earth.
And a reminder: keep marching with us because in the end, it's the best part.
We win.
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