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Other news we haven't gotten to yet, and this is big news.
Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota has withdrawn his bid, dropped his bid for re-election in light of the massive conspiracy and fraud revelations that had taken place in this state.
Now, over the long vacation that I had, I had an opportunity to stay in contact with everybody.
I am told what has been going on in Minnesota is just the tip of the iceberg and the numbers of tens and if not hundreds of billions in dollars in waste, fraud, abuse, corruption is through the roof.
Gotta tip a hat to citizen journalist Nick Shirley.
I mean, a lot of his work went viral.
For example, he visited two daycare centers and he found no children.
And meanwhile, our government was paying millions of dollars for, quote, daycare for kids that didn't exist at these daycare centers.
Listen.
We're going to a place called Mako Child Care, which actually has another child care registered at the same address called Mini Child Care Center.
So we should see lots of children if there's this child care center, especially if there's two.
In nine years, I've never seen a single child at this building right there.
Oh, then now it looks like we already got the Somalis coming.
Yeah, they're coming.
The word's out.
Hello, is this your daycare?
No.
Can you tell us where there are no children?
Have you ever seen children at this child care center?
That shit, I don't know.
Doesn't know if she's ever seen a child here.
All right, let's go to the next location.
Now we're going to the next daycare center.
How much money has this one generated?
This one in fiscal year 2025, $1,042,059.
In fiscal year 2024, $1,059,078.
And in fiscal year 2023, $727,336.
This next one is literally one block away.
And this one's also generated nearly $3 million in the past three years.
Let's see if there's any children.
Let's see if any of the buildings are open.
Here we go.
All right, we've arrived to ABC Learning Center.
All the windows are blacked out.
Let's see if anybody is here.
This door is locked.
This facility is licensed for 40 children.
Zero children.
I've come by this place 100 times.
I've never seen a child here ever.
The only thing I've ever seen is someone standing outside smoking.
What's crazy about this is that last daycare center is that green building right there.
And the other daycare center right now is right here.
These buildings should be operating as they're receiving literally millions of dollars.
I knocked on the door and to my surprise, somebody actually answered the door.
Hello.
Can we speak?
I would like to check a child in a daycare.
Can I speak to a manager?
Where can I get paperwork to file for my son?
I wanted to put my son Joey in daycare.
And after a few questions, the lady went silent.
Looks like little Joey Shirley ain't going to daycare here.
And then Nick Shirley visited a daycare center that was supposed to have 74 kids.
74.
It was empty.
Listen.
Now we're going to Sweet Angel Child Care.
We're in the middle of a strip mall here inside of this neighborhood.
In fiscal year 2025, this facility, which says it's licensed for 74 kids, was paid $1.26 million in tax money.
And there are no kids, and all the facilities are the same way, all of them.
Let's see if anyone opens.
Yeah, let's see.
Once again, I try to find a spot for my son, Joey, and they would not open the door.
I want to put my son Joey in daycare.
Because I need a spot to put my son Joey.
Is this your daycare center?
No, it's not there.
What's up?
I just want to put a child in daycare, but all the daycare centers seem to be closed.
No one's opening the doors.
You work here?
Oh, well, yeah.
Let's help it.
Where are the kids?
It says it's licensed for 74 children.
Right here, state of Minnesota.
Where are the kids?
They got paid $1.26 million in fiscal year 2025.
It says they have a capacity for 74 children.
When?
When?
Where are the kids?
Right here.
State of Minnesota website.
You work here and you don't know?
I don't know.
I was there before.
I don't know what's going on.
Were there any kids when you worked here?
He's dead.
Kids are there.
How many?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah.
You worked here.
Okay, well, I need out of any help.
Can I put my son in a daycare here?
No, no, I don't know.
Can I speak to someone?
No, I don't know.
No?
Yeah, I would like to see if I can put my son Joey here.
Who is your son, Joey?
My son, Joey.
Can I check out Daycare Center?
How do you know my son?
No!
Do you put your kid here in this daycare?
There is one child in there.
Yeah, I would like to know if this is a legit business.
These revelations resulting in Tim Walz now dropping his re-election bid.
When I was away, Jason Chaffetz was filling in.
He said, my biggest, he had James Comer on.
He said, my biggest frustration is that people have not been held accountable.
And anyway, Chairman Comer now is looking to bring in Tim Walz.
And he says that the governor cannot run from accountability.
Anyway, Chairman Comer, good to have you back.
Happy New Year, sir.
Happy New Year, Sean.
Massive fraud of taxpayer dollars occurred on Tim Wall's watch.
He's either complicit in this theft or grossly incompetent, but he was warned by many whistleblowers, was he not?
He was, and that's the problem he's got.
It wasn't just that the fraud occurred.
There's fraud that occurs every day in every level of government.
The problem is these Democrat state employees in Minnesota have been warning and begging Tim Waltz and Keith Ellison, the Attorney General, to do something about it.
They've been saying they are fraudulent daycare sharers.
There are people receiving SNAP benefits that aren't legal citizens.
The list goes on and on and on of the waste, fraud, and abuse of the social programs in Minnesota.
And all along the way, there were employees that warned people in Minnesota, and Tim Waltz turned a blind eye.
So the problems he's got, obviously his political career has been ruined.
And, you know, that's some level of accountability that he's dropping out of the governor's race.
But the fact that he, according to the whistleblowers, knew about it, I think that puts him in legal peril.
And he can drop out of the governor's race.
He can resign from the governor's office.
But he's still going to have to answer to why he did not respond earlier to the countless claims from state employees who blew the whistle about this Somali fraud.
Now, you are calling on both Tim Walz and the Attorney General Keith Ellison to provide documents, communications, and records about widespread fraud.
I assume you've subpoena those?
Before you can do a subpoena, you have to give them every effort to comply with your request.
We have teeted it up for a subpoena.
If they don't respond after Wednesday, our hearing with our first Somali hearing, then they will receive subpoenas.
We're doing everything by the book so that we can win in court.
I fully expect Tim Waltz and Keith Ellison to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee in a few weeks.
So we've got a hearing on Wednesday where we're going to bring in local office holders and state office holders in Minnesota and start building a case for warrants for the Department of Justice and other agencies to be able to go in.
Just because one guy put on Twitter the obvious that these learning centers can't even spell learning right and there aren't any kids going to these acres, you still have to have more evidence to get warrants to go into all these offices.
So we're working to ensure that the legal framework is met to where when these people are brought in, that they're not kicked out of court on some technicality.
We're doing everything we can to do it the right way to hold these people accountable.
And I'll say this, Sean, Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice, they've been investigating this for several months and they've arrested over a dozen people already.
So I think you're going to see a lot of people finally in handcuffs wasting our tax dollars.
Well, we have noticed in particular, especially in Minnesota, and apparently there's a Somali community in Ohio where it happens to be widespread in this community.
Some people say, well, this is racist.
But is this this, but we're also learning that this is far more widespread as well in very liberal states.
I'm hearing New York State is going to probably be exposed next, and California is going to be exposed as having widespread fraud.
I mean, what are we looking at here?
How potentially, how much money is being wasted?
Well, we know for a fact there were billions, billions in Minnesota.
That's not a big state.
And when you're talking about billions of dollars in federal social funds that were completely spent fraudulently, that's a significant percentage of the overall welfare budget for the state of Minnesota.
We're starting to get papers in and whistleblowers coming forward in Illinois, in California, in Ohio, and in Maine.
And it's all in the Somali community.
So, you know, at first glance, Sean, it appears this could be a very organized criminal network because I don't think it's limited to Minnesota, but Minnesota was ground zero because there are so many more Somalis in Minnesota than all the other states combined.
But we're going to hopefully depend on more whistleblowers to come forward.
That's the key to a congressional investigation working out in the end.
You have to have whistleblowers like the IRS whistleblowers that came forward in the Biden investigation.
These state employees in Minnesota are providing us information.
And the information not only proves, Sean, that there was widespread fraud, but it appears that Waltz and Ellison knew about it.
Now, they're going to be given due process.
That's why they need to show up with their future subpoena in the oversight committee in a few weeks.
They need to show up to defend themselves because we're giving them an opportunity to have due process.
But the evidence doesn't look good thus far with the fact that both the governor and attorney general were warned multiple times over several years that this was taking place.
Are you hearing about any potential involvement of Congresswoman Omar?
Well, everyone's saying that.
You know, the Department of Justice is going to have to look into her.
And you know how when the Department of Justice looks into members of Congress, we're seeing that with the last administration, they're going to have to make sure they do everything right.
But it shouldn't be hard.
I'm not allowed to subpoena financial records for a member of Congress.
The ethics committee can.
I'm going to be talking to those guys tomorrow in Washington, D.C., because all they have to do is subpoena her bank records.
And, you know, you can ask her, get her under oath.
She should be asked in a committee hearing.
I feel like there'll be some of my colleagues that will ask Omar in a public setting this week whether or not she had anything or any knowledge or received any funds from this.
So she's going to be put on the spot this week.
It'll be interesting to see if she shows up for her committee hearings, but she will be put on the spot.
And then, you know, either the Department of Justice or the Ethics Committee is going to have to look at her bank records to see.
Obviously, the reports of her net worth going from zero to several million dollars look suspicious.
So she's going to be a lot of money.
Not several.
I think I read over 30.
Did you not read the same number?
Well, the financial disclosure forms are very broad.
They'll say, do you have between $1 million and $5 million?
So if you have something that's worth $1.2 million, the farmland is probably worth $1.2 million.
You have to check between $1 and $5 million.
So the range on that, it's hard to upperhead.
But here's what I know, Sean.
She didn't have anything when she came to Congress.
She had a net worth of, it wasn't even zero.
It was below zero.
So now she's without doubt, according to her own financial disclosure form, worth several million dollars.
At the very least, it could be 30 million or it could be 6 million.
Well, even if it's 6 million, where did that come from?
Because if she makes the same salary I do, you don't make enough money to accumulate that much wealth just on a congressional salary.
Well, are you able to work outside jobs?
No.
Does she write a book?
You're not.
No, I don't know.
There would be no other sources of.
I guess the only other way that that might have happened is did she inherit any amount of money that we know of?
That's right.
She's going to have to answer that.
No one's known.
She hasn't done any media.
She hasn't been doing any tweeting.
She used to be an avid tweeter.
She's kind of gone underground.
And to me, that makes her look even more guilty.
But I think that this week, when she goes back to Congress, we're all going to be there in the morning.
I feel like there will be at least the Fox News media outlets hounding her, asking about where her wealth came from.
We appreciate you joining us and always keeping us in the loop.
Congressman James Comer, Happy New Year, my friend.
Thank you for being with us.
Thanks, Sean.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's get to our busy phones here.
We have Edwin in California, Gavin Newsom's United Socialist Utopia.
What's up, Edwin?
How are you?
How are you, Sean?
Good to meet you.
Yeah, I just wanted to touch something that pretty much all Republicans have missed.
Basically, I'm Hispanic.
And I was watching back in 2014 when Barack Obama lost Congress.
Don't quote me exactly the date, but he said it was shellacking.
And basically, he Jorka Ramos was on when he was young, and he stated that they had done nothing for us, so we stayed home.
We didn't vote.
That's what he said.
And then next thing you know, he's saying, well, I have a meeting with Barack Obama.
And I'm going to take La Mecha and the Chicano movement, which sent warning signs down my spine.
Because I have a CD where there's a professor in New Mexico, and he's one of the leaders of La Mecha and stated the Democrats are a bunch of egg ramises.
They don't know that if they let another 10 to 20 million illegals in, they would become the dominant party.
Just like California, it's being dominated by the new Hispanic vote, that they would never lose another election.
And that same week, and to my horror, that same week, Barack Obama opened the borders.
And so I wish you would investigate that.
You know, look, I can tell you that maybe has been the thinking of Democrats.
What I have been seeing all around the world is a reaction among, you know, various people from various countries, Hispanic Americans, people from the Cuban-American community, Venezuelan-American community, celebrating what has happened here because they've lived under the tyranny of Hugo Chavez and Maduro and the Castro brothers, et cetera, in Cuba.
There's no doubt that Cuba today is hanging in the balance and probably is on the verge of falling itself without the help of Venezuelan energy.
I don't see there's a lining in Gladiator where Marcus Aurelius says, I'm not sure it'll survive the winter.
And he was talking about the Empire of Rome.
I'm not sure Cuba will survive the winter.
They're in deep political trouble because of the poverty.
I know Michael Moore thinks they had the best health care system in the world.
Meanwhile, it was one of the worst health care systems in the world.
And that is the failure of communism, statism, collectivism, redistributionism.
That is the predictable failure.
And that's going to be on the ballot this year because the party of Mamdani and the party of AOC and Bernie Sanders and Pocahontas, that's where they would take that Democratic party.
And they do control the party.
The party of Jasmine Crockett.
God bless Donald Trump because he is saving South America.
And like Reagan did Latin America and Central America.
So Santinistas were taking over El Salvador.
La Junta of Adolfo Mojano was handing it over to communism.
And as he saved Central America, Donald Trump just saved South America.
Listen, this is our own hemisphere here.
And we're talking about an illegitimate dictator indicted in our country six years ago, a drug trafficker, narco-terrorist, illegitimate leader.
And there's going to be an opportunity for the people of Venezuela to do a reset where, and I'll never forget, I mentioned it earlier, Jorge Ramos goes and he's in Venezuela and he sees people eating out of a garbage truck.
A country with this type of wealth, these natural resources should be, every Venezuelan should be wealthy and happy and prosperous and rewarded in the blessing that the natural resources offer that country.
And just the opposites happen because of corruption.
Anyway, appreciate you.
Thanks for checking in, man.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, Greg in Virginia.
Greg, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, it's an honor to talk to you.
First of all, Donald Trump, the president has done everything in my wish list that I've been wishing for the last 12 years.
But I want to bring up political Islam and neo-Marxism and the alliances in the towns.
And Mandami, of course, an example of that.
And I heard one of his minions say we have to rethink housing, especially for white families.
And I didn't grow up in that kind of America, and I think it's clear and present danger to our country.
Can you hear me, Bob?
He said specifically, yeah, I can hear you fine.
He said specifically that he wanted higher taxes on white New York City residents.
I'm like, wow, that's pretty remarkable.
This is a clear and present danger, the alliance between this political Islamist, and I want to be blunt about it, and the neo-Marxists.
And, you know, people say, oh, that's a general term, but no, it's creeping up here in Virginia, big time in the city I live, Charlottesville.
They want to do things like that.
They've got all kinds of San Francisco East policies trying to happen here.
And then we lost to the Democrats this go-round.
But Chip Roy has some bills to outlaw Sharia law.
And I think this should be implemented.
I hate to see him leave Congress, but he's going to be hopefully the Attorney General in Texas.
And his bills ought to be really looked at and passed with Sharia law.
And I think we need to go after care.
And of course, Trump has done everything in my wish list on the border.
But the bottom line is that if this alliance radicals takes place, we're going to lose the country.
And the Democrats foam in it.
And I'm sick and tired of it.
If you watch Western Europe, for example, they have allowed basically unchecked immigration from around the globe.
Okay, I believe they, like the U.S., needs a set of standards.
They need to check and make sure people don't have radical associations.
They should have a health check.
People should not move to a new country and be a financial burden for the people of that country.
And then there's something called assimilation.
You know, the idea that Great Britain has allowed groups of people not to assimilate, I think, is going to cause great conflict and harm down the road, which is why it is unfathomable to me that they've allowed Sharia courts to emerge.
And it's not just one or two.
It's like 80 or 90.
And you see the same thing happening throughout the rest of Europe as well.
There's not been assimilation.
And without that, you basically have a society within a society and you have, you know, Sharia law, for example.
It is contradicts Western values, period, end of sentence.
It is a theocracy.
And we see the manifestation of it in many countries in the Middle East.
And people want to bring those values with them.
And their goal would be to transform the countries that they moved to into the countries that they came from.
And that's something we've got to be very careful of in this country.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Jerry, Connecticut, next Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean.
I was calling about this.
I'll call her Dingbat, this C. Weaver, the tenant director underneath Mamdani.
And a lot of people have focused on the racial aspect of this, sort of her anti-white comments.
But I wanted to focus on this from the point of view of Islamic law.
I'm not Islamic, but my understanding is, like most religions, it condemns theft.
It condemns stealing.
And for the Mamdani administration to basically steal private property by, oh, we're changing your relationship with your property.
It's just another word for stealing.
And where I'm going with this is I think Islamic clerics and Islamic scholars need to, if Mamdani is going to run around waving the Quran, they need to be very clear and very public that his policies of stealing private property are not in junk.
Let me quote Mamdani's tenant director, a woman by the name, I think you pronounce it, Sia Weaver.
Quote, we will transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good.
Whites especially will be impacted.
Now, that sounds like racism to me, but put that aside, I thought we judge people according to the content of their character.
And private property rights are paramount in a free society, is it not?
Well, not only in a free society in any society other than a communist society, and this is your prior caller talked about what Melanie Phillips called the coming green-red alliance.
And that's certainly true, but here already we have a case of conflict that stealing and by calling it, you know, repurposing your property, whatever phrase they're going to use, again, the race part is important, but the stealing part is at the heart of this.
And I think it's really incumbent upon Islamic scholars and clerics to say this stealing of your property, whether it's, you know, predominantly whites or I think she used the term POC, people of color, it is against Islam.
And Mamdani smears Islam when he talks about stealing people's property in the name of whatever it is, social justice, whatever they call it this week.
I really would like to see Islamic scholars come out and condemn this taking of private property and by calling it— He's getting away with all of this.
And there was a poll out when I was off on vacation that showed that 56% of New York City residents support all of this collectivism, if you will, socialism, whatever name you give it, whatever manifestation it takes on.
And it should put chills down the spine of Americans.
Now, there's broader implications here, and that is this is the new Democratic Party.
This is why Chuck Schumer will not criticize the likes of Mamdani publicly.
This is why, you know, AOC is in full compliance and Bernie Sanders are so close to Momdani.
This is now the Democratic Party defined.
This is what's on the ballot this year.
And I'm telling everybody, this will be the most important midterm election in your lifetime because all progress will stop and we will be a nation that comes to a screeching halt as Democrats weaponize, politicize Congress to the point that they will try to incapacitate any constitutional powers that Donald Trump has.
And it'll be impeachment after impeachment after impeachment.
This election will matter.
And I'm telling everybody right now, you know, our first show of the year, buckle up, get ready, get involved, and you got to make it too big to rig.
And that means that you've got to vote for your congressman, your senator, if your senator's up, and make sure the president maintains a majority.
This Supreme Court decision that we are awaiting as it relates to gerrymandering, redistricting, et cetera, et cetera, this is going to have an impact on the future of the country because Democrats, they have gerrymandered this country to death.
Appreciate the call.
We have a minute here.
I'm going to give it to Richard in Alabama.
Richard, you have one minute.
Go ahead, sir.
Hey, Sean.
I am livid like a lot of Americans about the fraud that's gone on in Minnesota and the disruption that politicians are bringing in.
And the Constitution requires that the president must be a native-born citizen.
I think that same standard should apply to members of Congress.
I think we need to pass a constitutional amendment that requires members of Congress to be native-born.
I think you probably have a hard time passing it because, first of all, the constitutional amendment is hard in and of itself.
I think there's energy for it.
I think that it was necessary at the beginning of the nation to allow people naturalized to be in Congress, but now it's not relevant anymore.
Well, I think, you know, look, you can make the case.
It's not at the top of my priority list, honestly, at this moment because it takes so many years to get that accomplished.
But I hear what you're saying, especially I just want to know that some of the members of Congress are actually here legally.
And I think there's legitimate questions that need to be answered for sure.
Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend.
Thank you.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
And that's going to wrap things up for today.
We have the opposition leader, Maria Karina Machado, is going to join us on Hannity tonight.
Also, the Attorney General Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller, who's expected to take a bigger role in all of this.