Trish Regan confronts DHS Secretary Kristi Noem over alleged abuses of power regarding LaMonica McGiver's indictment and criticizes Letitia James for ignoring a $10 billion terror financing operation. The discussion expands to Ilhan Omar's personal allegations, the Biden administration's failure to stop 18,000 terrorists, and massive fraud within Obamacare subsidies. Kent Strang joins to argue that government monopolies drive healthcare costs, advocating for Health Savings Accounts and energy independence through new drilling legislation to fund AI competition against China. Ultimately, the episode frames current political failures as systemic threats requiring free-market solutions and aggressive domestic resource development. [Automatically generated summary]
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La Monica MacGyver Indictment00:10:34
Ah, La Monica, La Monica MacGyver, she is back at it and not a very good showing for the representative from New Jersey today who is indicted and actually facing 17 years in the Slammer.
Yeah, in the Slammer because, well, she did some kind of illegal things.
In my estimation, these are allegations still, but I just want to jog your memory.
La Monica MacGyver, I'm Trish Regan.
Welcome to Trish Regan Show.
Okay, just so you know who we're talking about.
Monica MacGyver is facing 17 years in prison, and she decided to grandstand a little bit in the hearings today and kind of try and sock it to Christy Gnome.
But you see, Christy Gnome actually has some class, and she totally outclassed the woman in spades.
It was really, really remarkable.
I want to play you all this sound because it's just tremendous to see.
I also want you to think about this.
You had a lot of classless people there.
On the Hill today.
I mean they had protests this, that and the other.
But you know, as Christy was walking out, I think she was reminded why she's doing all this, because I want you to see this video of her she's.
She's comforting an angel mom, an angel mom who lost her child due to one of the people here illegally that shouldn't have been here in this country.
And so when you hear the nonsense behind Christy, know that she's motivated for a reason.
watch.
you know what?
Well, that was weird.
Did you see that inverted shot?
If you're listening on Spotify, thank you so much.
If you're watching on Spotify, thank you so much.
We are live every day right here on YouTube.
And so.
Sometimes some funny things happen with the camera.
We just went backwards.
But here's the deal La Monica MacGyver is facing 17 years and somehow thinks that this is all directed against her, the DHS is trying to take her out.
Listen.
Thank you, Secretary Nome.
Do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of Congress is an abuse of power?
Excuse me?
Would you say that?
You would have heard me if you stopped talking and listened to my questions.
That sounds crazy.
Do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of Congress is an abuse of power?
We are not doing that.
We are out there enforcing the law, doing our work, and we are allowing oversight.
Of course, we're not going to get any of this.
With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back.
Gentle lady yields back.
I now recognize the gentleman from Oklahoma, Mr. Bakri.
Okay, so she's like, I yield back.
I want to show you the whole exchange because this woman is so brazen and so classless that this was her, I guess, worded version of what we saw out there in New Jersey with those.
DHS officer.
She clearly hates the DHS because, well, we saw what she did.
La Monica, you showed your true stripes there in your red.
I guess you decided to change colors today.
Maybe I'm trying to blend in a little bit more.
Well, you know what?
It's pretty easy to outclass a woman like La Monica MacGyver, who's probably going to wind up in jail.
That indictment, interestingly enough, while you're looking at some dicey things with Letitia and Comey, La Monica MacGyver's indictment has stuck.
So she's going to trial and she's going to have to defend herself against what we all have seen.
When I look at that, I mean, what do you think that is?
Look.
This is the slow version.
And she's pushing.
And then there's a big one.
Whoa.
You see that?
Boom.
I mean, the right hook, right?
We've talked about that before.
I mean, you know, I love playing that video because I'm just so blown away.
She's in red, the lady in red, going in, you know, with the big right hook, taking them out.
The DHF is officers.
And this is what she's trying to do with Christy today in this exchange.
But Christy's not having it.
Chrissy's too classy for that.
This woman is no match for our Ice Barbie, if you would.
Christy Nome, watch.
DHS into a political weapon.
So I'll ask you this Is Trump embarrassed by your 10 year, or is this exactly the kind of god awful leadership he wants at DHS?
Yes or no?
Ma'am, we've already conducted more oversight visits.
No, no, no.
It's a yes or no.
Yes or no.
Okay, Secretary Nome, this is my time to talk, not your time to talk.
I reclaim my time.
Here, I reclaim my time.
Secretary Nome, DHS is breaking the law, hiding information from Congress, and shutting out oversight.
So let me ask you how can the American people trust your department with you at the helm with this kind of behavior?
The American people absolutely trust this department to keep them safe.
And we are showing that every day by the support we get across the country, the amount of people that we're recruiting to all of our programs.
Thank you, Secretary Nome.
Do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of the Congress is an abuse of power?
Excuse me, would you say that?
You would have heard me if you stopped talking and listened to my question.
That sounds crazy.
Do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of Congress is an abuse of power?
We are not doing that.
We are out there enforcing the law, doing our work, and we are allowing oversight.
Of course, we're not going to get any of this.
With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back.
Gentle lady yields back.
What a lovely lady, huh?
Just a lovely, lovely lady.
You know, again, that was the verbal.
Equivalent of this alleged assault.
la monica making new jersey proud unbelievable Unbelievable.
You know, I just can't believe it.
I can't believe that we have members of Congress like that.
Okay, and she actually thinks she's in the right.
She thinks that this is perfectly fine for her to do.
No, it's not, LaMonica.
And you know what?
You are going to face 17 years, and you know, I realize.
That the administration and you know I blame Pam Bondy for this one I just I cannot believe how badly they have screwed up on some of the indictments that they should have had coming their way Easy Breezy, right on Comey and on Leticia James Leticia, James.
We've already seen all the evidence.
My gosh, if you can't get an indictment on that one, I don't know what to tell you.
You need Alina Hava, I guess, back.
But let me show you what just broke moments ago and uh, it's not very encouraging news, I know that.
But i'm telling you there's more that they need to go after and I i'm not kidding when I say they need to look at the terror financing alleged operation that was going through her jurisdiction, because we're talking about an alleged $10 billion that was getting like washed through New York on its way to Iran.
Her team was notified, according to reports about this twice and did absolutely nothing.
Elise Stefanik is demanding some answers and I'd like to see some answers from Pam Bondi on this one.
That's an investigation to look into.
But we have just gotten where the Justice Department allegedly has once again failed to re-indict New York attorney Letitia James.
According to sources, this is coming via AP right now.
So here's the deal La Monica, yours held, okay?
You are indicted, and I don't know how you're gonna get around that tape.
Letitia, I think there's some other things they need to focus on, like that five story brownstone that you claim is for and the alleged $10 billion.
Did I say million earlier?
Billion dollars.
You guys, I've been doing a lot on that story.
I encourage you to look at last week's episodes if you wanna know more, or even Monday's episodes, because I covered it there.
As well.
But Leticia James could find herself in a pretty difficult situation.
I mean, it was either total negligence right, it was something worse, god forbid.
Um, i'm i'm guessing it was like incompetency because she was so focused, so focused on going after Trump right, that was her motto.
She had to get Trump, get Trump.
That that's why Leticia James was uh kind of asleep at the switch when it came to some important stuff, and if these allegations concerning Standard Charter BANK are true, that's some really important stuff.
Anyway, La Monica's in for 15 years, possibly.
We'll see what happens with one Leticia James.
But it wasn't over there.
I mean, Christy Gnome, she had some moments.
In this case, she totally roasted this one Democrat who looks like a complete fool.
I mean, this idiot decides he's going to grandstand.
And again, she's just got this very calm demeanor.
And she's comical and collected and killing him with glass all day long.
Let's watch this mic drop of a moment right here from Christy Gnome and the congressman.
Let me get his name.
I mean, I'd never really seen him before.
Give me a moment on the name because he's not somebody.
Oh, here we go.
Representative Sri Threnidar, originally from India, speaking to DHS Secretary Nom.
I am sick of your lies.
The American people are sick of these lies.
American people demand truth.
America is very happy that finally they have a president in the White House that gets up every day to keep them safe.
Madam Secretary, your incompetence and your inability to truthfully carry out your duties of Secretary of Homeland Security.
If you're not fired, will you resign?
Lies and Homeland Security Failures00:15:48
Sir, I will consider your asking me to resign as an endorsement of my work.
Thank you very much.
That is classic, okay?
I like that one.
It's pretty classic.
I consider you telling me that I should resign as an endorsement of my work.
Pretty good, pretty good.
And you know what else is an endorsement of her work?
The angel mom who was there to see her amid the protests.
You cannot use a baby as a testimonial while you take away the rights of families.
How dare you?
I mean, and I just, I want to say that it got worse from there because they started equating her with the Gestapo and the SS because they always go back to the well, right?
We're going to go back to Nazi Germany because somehow, somehow Donald Trump is the equivalent of Hitler in their minds.
I mean, this is really, really dangerous rhetoric, aggressive, horrific rhetoric.
rhetoric.
He does not deserve that.
The country does not deserve that.
History does not deserve that.
The millions of Jews that were slaughtered don't deserve that.
Our allies don't deserve that.
And certainly anyone who lost anyone or had a loved one who fought in World War II doesn't deserve that, okay?
So I realize you guys have absolutely no patriotism, but you guys get to get with the program and find a better line of argument, for goodness sakes.
Don't keep going back to the well with the Nazi stuff.
I'm over it.
I remember a time, actually, when Democrats were all for deporting people who were not here legally.
Guess what?
You can't be here in this country if you don't come through the legal way, right?
That's just the rule.
I realized that Biden decided to ignore the rules, and we all know why.
Don't kid yourself.
New York Times had a great story on this one.
They were trying to get 800,000 new voters in the state of New York to say, okay, well, you're here.
Even though you are not a citizen, somehow we want to sweep you into the system so that you can vote in the state of New York.
And it had to go all the way up to the second appellate court who said, no way, no how.
This is not actually happening.
So this was the motivation all along.
Don't kid yourself.
They were successful in bringing a lot of people here, including a lot of people that shouldn't be here.
They were also successful in creating new burdens for our economy in doing so, and for our school systems, and for medical care, which was a big issue that came up today as well.
And I'm going to get to that because the concern is, once again, as we debate on Capitol Hill health care and how to make sure that Americans have access to health care, the GOP and Donald Trump want to make sure that it's not going to the illegals.
And that should be kind of obvious.
And I realize the Democrats say, oh, well, there's a law that prevents it from happening.
Well, guess what?
Hospitals.
that get the money from the states, they have to treat people that are there no matter what, right?
It's part of the Hippocratic Oath.
So, you know, you don't have a choice.
You're a doctor, you have to, you take an oath, you're going to make sure that you are going to treat everybody who comes in the door.
And if the state has a ton of people that are there illegally and they need health care, then too bad, right?
The state gets the money, the state dishes it out, and the hospitals keep giving the health care.
So these protesters were there, and this was pretty gross.
They were trying to use Christ and God as a way of trying to shame one Christine Gomez.
I got to tell you, I'm going to hand it to her.
I've never liked her so much as I liked her today.
I've actually always liked her, but I will say that she was grace under pressure.
Look at this.
I would have lost it.
My iris would have gotten up.
It gets up too easily sometimes, but I would have been like, you schmucks.
And she was so graceful and did such a good job.
Take a peek.
Introduce them to you.
Disruptions of congressional business is a violation of law, is a criminal offense under federal law.
Audience members are advised to take their seats and maintain order.
The chairman may now ask Capitol Police to remove and arrest the persons creating the disturbance.
Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.
I mean, so they took the guy out.
Bye, Sometimes you wonder were these paid protesters?
Because there's a whole racket in that.
Don't forget.
Don't forget, we've done that story too.
So, you know, she was up against a lot in terms of the protesters that were there and in terms of people like, oh, La Monica MacGyver, who was like out for blood.
You know, she didn't have her red suit on today and she didn't get a chance to throw a right hook at her, but she was effectively trying to do that from a verbal position.
And once again, Christine Nome really proving that she had the upper hand in terms of total class, total class move.
I mean, look, you've got all of these people, whether it be the guy that we just heard from, whose name I have already forgotten.
That's probably a good thing.
I see some of your comments.
You're like, who is this guy?
I've never even heard of him before.
I'd never heard of him before today either.
Look, everybody's trying to grandstand and make a little name for themselves, but we're going to forget him because he's just not that relevant other than to point out how they're all trying to go after her in a massive way and say, oh, you're not doing a very good job.
Because what?
She is doing her job?
She's actually making sure that people are being deported?
I mean, even MSNBC can't say she's not doing a good job.
Even MSNBC has to admit that the Trump administration is successful in terms of setting out.
To a con, you know, it's set out to get rid of people who were here illegally.
And they believe on MSNBC that he's actually doing that better than anyone thus far, other than Obama, who got about what, you know, the most.
I think they're going to quote you somewhere around 400,000 out.
She's already gotten 600,000 out.
So that's a pretty, pretty big accomplishment.
And she's doing it throughout the country, not just at the border.
I'm going to let MSNBC of all places say it because they're actually pretty articulate, believe it or not.
On this, I mean, when even MSNBC admits Christy Noem is doing a good job, I'd say she knows how to get people out of the country.
Ice Barbie, don't mess with her.
But I have to tell you, this is a remarkable accomplishment.
These numbers are stunning to me when I look at, let's say, 600,000 deportations this year.
Those are all from the interior.
And I think this is a critical distinction.
When you're doing the immigration enforcement, you divide the world into the border and the interior.
And during the Obama administration, when there were 400,000 deportations, the reality is about 250,000 of those were people caught right at the border.
And it's not as impactful because those are people.
Trying to get into the United States.
This is all people in the interior.
And everything we know about the data of the undocumented population inside the United States is that they've been here a long time.
They've integrated with U.S. citizens.
They have U.S. citizens and children.
So I just think that although the White House may be frustrated, she's coming up short of a million.
600,000 interior removals is unlike anything we have ever seen in the history of this country.
Woo!
Unlike anything we've ever seen.
Hear that?
And I know Donald Trump wants everything done yesterday and he wants a million, but.
We're getting there, right?
And I say this as somebody who actually believes in all the diversity and wonder that this country has to offer.
And the American dream is so special.
But this shouldn't be that hard.
I mean, in the old days, meaning like, I don't know, 10 years ago before you had Donald Trump, this was a no-brainer.
You didn't want people coming here illegally because you couldn't track them.
You had issues with terror concerns, et cetera.
You had issues with the drain on the system.
Dianne Feinstein famously saying back in the 80s, we don't want to be the welfare system for Mexico.
Well, guess what?
We still don't want to be the welfare system for Mexico.
And guess what?
We can't afford it, for goodness sakes.
We absolutely can't.
And this is what one Democrat, a congresswoman who decided to go on C-SPAN this morning, realized in an interview.
A C-SPAN caller called in and he's like, hey, hey, hey, you know what?
This isn't working out so well because you got illegals that are getting health care ahead of me.
And I'm like an American citizen who paid my dues.
I don't understand.
What do you guys do?
And I'm telling you, she gaslit him.
And I'm like, I can't believe this.
They have politicized this stuff so badly.
I want you to see this clip again from this morning on C SPAN.
Let's talk to Dennis next in New York, Republican Line.
Go ahead, Dennis.
Yes, I'm a veteran collecting Medicare.
I've been trying to get cholesterol and blood pressure medicine under the Biden administration since 2021 to 2024.
And I always had a hard time getting a prescription refilled or anything else.
It got to the point I actually went down to the office in Western New York Medical.
The whole room was filled with illegal immigrants going in and out.
I couldn't even get to the counter to get a refill on prescription cholesterol and blood pressure medicine.
Anyhow, long story short, a month ago, I was rushed into the hospital with heart failure and that, and I get there, and for the last six months, I come to find out that I got kidney failure and congestive heart failure.
Not one doctor from Western New York Medical called to notify me.
They knew about this for over a year, and now, here I am.
And I listen to you Democrats saying that illegal immigrants weren't collecting Medicare and it wasn't hurting the American people.
I'm dying right now because of them illegal immigrants getting in line before me.
Our medical system and our health care system didn't even have, didn't even call to notify me to let me know about this a year ago.
Do you have a response for your party and what they're doing to the American people?
Okay, so this is important.
You know, he's obviously fed up.
He's possibly dying.
He wasn't able to get the health services that he needs.
And this is the Democrat Congresswoman from Nevada about to tell him basically to go F himself, if you ask me.
I mean, this is the worst answer I've ever heard.
Let me say, I'm sorry for your health problems.
And you should have gone to your member of Congress and asked him to help intervene.
Oh, yeah, it's your fault.
For you with Medicare.
But Biden's gone.
So let's talk about what you can do in the future.
As far as blaming on the immigrants, U.S. law says that immigrants do not qualify for Medicare.
So, I don't know who was in front of you in line, but let's look at what caused your problem, see if we can help solve it now instead of just blaming other people.
Oh, I see.
I see.
I see.
So you are, you're a racist, Dennis in New York, if you dare to say, hey, you know, it's not fair that somebody who is here illegally is getting health care ahead of me.
And this woman says, no, it's all in your imagination.
That's not the case because illegals can't get health care.
Well, they actually can if they go to a hospital because, again, as I explained, a hospital cannot turn you away.
So this is, ugh, right?
This is just so infuriating.
Obamacare is a disaster on top of it all.
You get all kinds of fraud going on.
You know, you don't have to just worry about the illegals that are here.
You got to worry about the people like, oh, I don't know, that might have somehow managed to get their citizenship, perhaps in dubious ways, as the president has alleged about one Ilhan Omar.
But go out to Minnesota and you're going to see all kinds of other problems with any kind of state-run systems.
And you had Mike Johnson explaining this one.
Let's lay it out here.
It's bad, guys, okay?
There is a new government accountability report that is highlighting the massive, insane amounts of fraud in Obamacare.
You'll wonder why there's so much inflation.
In the healthcare sector, has a lot to do with anything government touches, government usually ruins, and the fact that there's a ton of fraud on top of it all.
I mean, what a mess.
Watch.
A new report by the Government Accountability Office, which I haven't seen too much written about yet, you should look into that.
It is an eye opener as well.
It makes clear why it would be a dereliction of duty to just extend subsidies without massive reforms to them.
Okay, over the last two years, This is investigators at the Government Accountability Office, okay?
They submitted 24 fraudulent applications for the ACA subsidies, the Un Affordable Care Act subsidies, Obamacare, okay?
Of the 24 fraudulent applications that they created intentionally to just see what would happen, 23 of them were approved.
Whoa!
These applications were completely fraudulent.
The investigators did not submit any social security numbers, citizenship documentation, or reported income documents.
And 23 of the 24 applications were still approved.
18 of those, by the way, are still receiving coverages.
They were as of September this year.
That means the Obamacare exchange and insurers didn't verify any of the information they were supposed to under the law, and they proceeded to pay tens of thousands of dollars to insurance companies for people who do not exist.
The GAO report also found that 29,000 social security numbers in 2023 and 68,000 in 2024.
Were used to receive more than one year's worth of insurance coverage.
In other words, multiple people were utilizing the same Social Security numbers to openly defraud the American taxpayers.
The GAO also found that more than 94 million was sent to insurers on behalf of dead people.
This is the system that Democrats and Congress want to extend without reform.
It's unbelievable.
Yeah, it's really unbelievable and it's really unacceptable.
And when Trump says, you know, this is not going to work, And we need to find a better way.
He's not kidding.
I mean, the reason they hate him so much is because he's the one who's willing to challenge it.
I mean, think of the money at stake.
Think of the insurance companies that are livid about this.
They don't want anything changing, right?
It's working out really well for them.
And it's working out really well for the fraudsters.
I mean, it's working out so well that Jasmine Crockett's hoping some of these people, I guess, contribute to her campaign because she's willing to lobby for them like nobody's business.
She's out there saying, well, what's the matter?
Just a little bit of fraud.
I mean, you got to expect that.
No, we don't have to expect that.
You expect that in third world countries.
We don't expect that in the United States of America, Jazzy.
And I do want to make sure that I cover one other thing that the chairman spoke about.
He specifically said that he's concerned about the fraud.
He's not given us numbers, but I can give you some numbers.
If we're concerned about how much money it may be costing us because systems are not perfect, we have no perfect systems, we have always had some level of fraud in anything that we have because.
There's no such thing as perfection walking on this earth.
So, who cares, right?
I mean, Jazzy is perfectly fine with a little fraud.
Treasury Fraud Allegations Explained00:15:29
A little fraud, you know, maybe a lot of fraud.
Hey, maybe she benefits from the fraud.
I don't know.
Maybe Ilhan Omar benefited from the fraud.
I don't know.
Maybe, maybe terror organizations in the Middle East benefited from the fraud.
I think I do know.
And we're going to get to that because the Treasury Secretary has launched an investigation just last week.
And I'm here to tell you, it is very unlikely. that they're not going to find some of that money being siphoned off by terror organizations because that's kind of the way it works with the Hawala system.
It's how they transfer money in that community.
And there's no way that you didn't have the ISIS arm of Somalia out there with their hand in the piggy bank, the piggy bank, which is you and me, okay?
U.S. taxpayers and Jazzy Crockett, who wants to run for Senate in Texas.
Good luck with that one.
I mean, Mike Johnson's like, yay, he said that today.
Like, I'll take that all day long.
Exactly what I've said all along.
Jazzy Crockett thinks it's totally fine to just have a little fraud because, you know, it's something that we just have always dealt with.
Why not have a little bit more?
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
This is the same team, by the way, that was trying to cancel half the country, trying to take away your bank account, for goodness sakes.
Remember when Janet Yellen wanted to get into everybody's bank account if they had more than $600 worth of transactions?
Yeah, that was her shtick.
She felt that that was the way to find all the billionaires that were averting taxes.
You're going to really find a lot of billionaires going look. for nickels and dimes and all those $600 accounts, right?
Janet Yellen?
Well, under previous administrations, you had vague, outdated policies and pressure from politically motivated regulators, which were leading to a lot of the closures of American bank accounts.
I mean, you know, this happened to Devin Nunes.
It happened to Eric Trump.
Happened to a lot of people.
A lot of people I know, actually.
It's sort of outrageous.
And it's because you had all these regulators that were getting pressure from politicians, Democrat politicians, the likes of, you know, Jazzy Crockett, et cetera.
I don't know if she specifically was involved, but certainly the Elizabeth Warrens of the world, they're there saying, you got to shut them down.
You got to shut them down.
You got to cut off their access to capital because they supported Donald Trump.
Disgusting, okay?
Disgusting behavior.
And the president is doing what he can to make sure that that doesn't happen again with his executive order.
But we need something more.
We need something that's going to ensure fair access to banking for Americans nationwide.
And that's what Americans for Free Market is trying to do.
Free markets, I should say.
And they're certainly thanking President Trump right now for all of his efforts.
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Congress should be working with the administration to fix outdated laws and to increase transparency and accountability so that you don't have people, because of their political affiliation, their party.
Getting canceled, and that's what they're chomping at the bit to do.
I mean, look at what Leticia James did.
I'm shocked.
And don't get me started on Pam Bondy, for goodness sakes.
I don't know how they're screwing up on that one so bad.
They had all the evidence, whatever.
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You think about all the fraud, though.
I mean, who's a better poster child for fraud right now than, well, I'll expand.
We don't need to put it all on her, right?
Her district, the 5th district of Minnesota, which belongs to Ilhan Omar, because, of course, they voted her in because of a very heavy Somalian population that came into that area.
And actually, they were able to immigrate legally.
I think that's changing as we speak pretty drastically.
And some of them would really question the legality of it.
There's a new report in the Daily Mail saying that Ilhan Omar actually married her brother, and that's how she was able to establish a way for him to be able to be educated in the United States.
So she was married once.
She had some kids with one guy.
She goes out and she marries this other guy who allegedly is her brother.
Again, per the Daily Mail report, per the president of the United States, apparently the FBI is doing an investigation.
But this is unbelievable.
Then she's still having kids with the first husband while married to this guy who went and I guess attended University of Nevada, probably on our dime, right?
Because that's how things roll and fraud is just okay.
I mean, if you listen to Jazzy, fraud is fine.
Fraud is just part of the system and you have to accept it.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
But Tim Waltz didn't care.
Ilhan Omar certainly didn't care.
In fact, there were whistleblowers, according to this state representative in Minnesota, that went and told Tim Waltz all about it.
Listen.
The whistleblowers that I've spoken to are saying that the governor knew and the governor and Lieutenant Governor, and even Chris Schmidter, who was his chief of staff, came to them as staff and scolded them for pointing out fraud.
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar told CNN this week she believes the fraud spiraled out of control because COVID programs were rolled out without sufficient guardrails.
It's also worth noting the owner of the restaurant where Omar held her 2018 victory party.
Is among those from the Somali community who have been convicted of profiting from the skeeps.
Wow.
Right?
Yeah.
Wow, indeed.
Wow, wee.
Wow, wee.
And it's why this whole thing with little Timmy, Tempontim, as some would like to call him, and the flag incidents, it all makes sense, right?
You guys have seen this.
I've seen this before, but just remember, because now it sort of crystallizes what's going on.
You know, he really was indebted to the Somali community.
He changed the flag.
In Minnesota, they decided to put one in that, if you ask me, kind of is on the Somalian motif because it's blue, similar color blue.
Well, this one's two color blues, and it's got that star just like they have in Somalia, too.
Ah, look at him.
He's so happy.
Did you hear him yesterday?
I played you that sound, but I don't need to bore you with it again.
I think we're going to put it on the shorts feed, though.
He was talking about how masculine he is.
This masculinity thing, the Republicans are afraid of him because he's so masculine.
Yeah.
All right, you go with that.
You know, you do you.
You believe what you want to believe.
I'll tell you this you got a big problem in Minnesota right now because the Treasury Department is now looking into allegations of money going to terrorists, whether directly or indirectly.
This is a concern, and it's something that Scott Besant highlighted on CBS over the weekend.
Watch.
The president told you this week to look into Somalis who, quote, ripped off that state for billions of dollars.
He said they contribute nothing.
What exactly are you investigating?
Well, Margaret, to be clear, the initial fraud that was discovered by the IRS, for which I'm the acting commissioner, was discovered by the IRS Criminal Investigations Unit.
This was not an endogenous thing that the state of Minnesota decided we had to go in and clean up the mess for them, and this is part of the continued cleanup.
A lot of money has been transferred from the individuals who committed this fraud, including those who donated to the governor, donated to representatives.
Omar donated to AG Ellison, but they've been transferred to something called MBSs.
And those are.
Mortgage back security?
What do you mean?
Sorry?
Transferred to what?
These are money, the Bureau services, and they are wire transfer organizations that are outside the regulated banking system.
And that money has gone overseas, and we are tracking that, both to the Middle East and Somalia, to see what the uses of that have been.
Okay.
But you have no evidence of that money being used to fuel terrorism at this point, which is what some conservative rioters are alleging.
That's why it's an investigation.
We started it last week.
We'll see where it goes.
But I can tell you that it's terrible.
Representative Omar tried to downplay it, said, oh, it was very tough to know how this money should be used.
She was gaslighting the American people.
But we'll talk to her.
Yeah.
But when you come to this country, you got to learn which side of the road to drive on.
You got to learn to stop the stop signs.
And you got to learn not to defraud the American people.
Bingo.
OK.
Jasmine Crockett, did you hear that?
You don't say, well, a little fraud never hurt anyone.
No.
You can't have any fraud in the system.
It's actually what used to make the United States really pretty great because you go to any country in any banana republic and you see all kinds of fraud.
So it's really important that we not have that.
But more importantly now, you've got Treasury launching this probe into tariff funding that may have come from U.S. taxpayers because you had everybody getting swindled there in the state of Minnesota from these fraudsters with a direct connection, direct connection to Ilhan Omar, direct connection to Ilhan Omar.
And Ilhan is trying to say, no, there's no possible way that could have happened.
And I'm here to tell you, and Margaret should know better because I know that she, we used to like share an office, sort of.
Cube area over at CNBC.
I know that she has a background in Middle Eastern studies and she should know better too because they have a system called Hawala.
And guess what?
The terror organizations are there with their handout.
They're taking their percentage no matter what.
So even if someone's not deliberately doing it, it's going there.
Ilhan knows this.
Margaret knows this.
And yet they're saying this.
I want to pick up on where the Treasury Secretary just left off.
He alleged that people who were tied to you or your campaign were involved in this broad, brazen scheme to rip off the Minnesota state welfare system.
Do you want to respond to that?
Do you know what he is referring to?
I really don't.
And I don't think the secretary himself understands what he's referring to.
Yeah, he knows what he's referring to.
And you do know what he's referring to.
And for you to say something like that, is this like trying to borrow from the Trump playbook when Biden didn't know what he was talking about with healthcare costs?
You know darn well what everyone's talking about, and so does the reporter that's interviewing.
We obviously had people who were able to donate to our campaign that were involved.
We sent that money back a couple years ago.
And actually, I was one of the first members of Congress to send a letter to the Secretary of Egg asking them to look into what I thought was a reprehensible fraud that was occurring within the program.
So that's what gets you off the hook.
You were one of the first to let everybody know about it.
Ilhan Omar, I don't buy it.
I think you know you're in big trouble.
I think you knew you were going to be in big trouble and you were sort of trying to race to get something done ahead of time, right?
How this thing went down, because all these people that were associated with your campaign, that were quote unquote, you know donors to your campaign, apparently not like tons and tons of money, but I got my suspicions in terms of what really was going on and how they really were making money in other kinds of ways.
I think that you you've got some real things that you need to probe there, and yet the mainstream media is trying to pretend like this never, ever, ever even happened.
Like somehow, you know, Margaret is acting all shocked and saying to the Treasury Secretary, oh, no, no, well, we're going to check with her on that.
And then she gives her a free pass to say, oh, there's no possible way, no possible way that this ever happened.
And I'm here to say, yeah, I think there is.
And then you've got other members of the media, other members of the media that are out there trying to allege something else or not allege, I should say, because they're also refusing to believe that Ilhan Omar could have had any connection whatsoever, despite the fact that we've seen the photos okay, we've seen the photos of her and her former campaign staffer.
She's got a staffer for goodness sakes, a staffer who's convicted okay, he was tried and convicted something like three million dollars in fraud.
So one of her staffers is a fraudster.
And yet you get the idiots over on CNN.
I really mean this.
This is such a terrible network.
It's such a terrible network.
Thank goodness you're not watching it.
Let me just clip a highlight though, for you, because you ought to know the craziness that they're spouting.
Take a look.
They don't think Ilhan could have possibly had anything to do with any of these people.
Watts.
Isn't the American Project supposed to be about treating people as individuals, not as representatives of where they came from, about who their parents were or whatever, but about who they are and what they can individually contribute to this country?
However, what Trump is doing there is basically saying you are worthless if you come from a part of the world that he doesn't think has value.
Is that really what we're doing in the United States of America?
That's not true in America.
No, we in America, we do treat people as individuals and appreciate them as individuals.
It's one of the greatest things about this country.
On the other hand, and I am no fan of Ilan Omar, and she is in a lot of deep doo doo now because she is very tangled in this billion dollar Somali Medicaid fraud scandal in Minneapolis, and she may be touched by this.
And of course.
I haven't seen any evidence of her being connected to it.
Well, woohoo!
You haven't seen any evidence?
What about the guy that worked for her, the campaign staffer, who was convicted?
What about the guy who decided to host her big gala, right, for when she won her office?
Oh, he hosted it.
She went to his restaurant.
He also has been convicted.
I mean, come on, CNN.
Get with it.
Let me tell you why there is evidence.
This kind of rhetoric doesn't matter because the economy.
I'll say this.
We can't have any tolerance for any of this.
And it gets worse.
Okay, it gets worse.
So someone who works for the government who specializes in looking at terror threats in the U.S. made a massive allegation today, a massive allegation that some 18,000 people that were brought in during the Biden years are believed to be known terrorists.
I mean, I can't even believe this.
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Say it.
I'm going to let him say it because this is actually kind of frightening.
And this is what happens, right?
If you don't have a DHS that's keeping track of things, if you just say, come one, come all, I mean, heck, you're going to get anyone.
Absolutely anyone.
Watch.
We've made significant progress under President Trump's leadership.
We have the jihadis of ISIS and Al Qaeda on the run in Iraq and Syria, thanks to the decisive action and the strikes that we've taken there recently since President Trump took office in January.
However, we have a persistent threat from the individuals that were allowed.
Into this country by the previous administration.
The number one threat that we have right now, in my view, is the fact that we don't know who came into our country in the last four years of Biden's open borders.
What we have identified is alarming, and I want to share that with you today.
We just recently put out a warning, warning of the heightened risk of terrorist attacks posed to the homeland by terrorists pretty much of all stripes, but in particular from ISIS and from Al Qaeda.
NCTC has been crunching the numbers and going through.
The sheer volume of known and suspected terrorists that are in the country that came in under the Biden administration.
So far, NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come into our country.
These are individuals who, under normal circumstances, would never be allowed to enter our country because of their ties to jihadi groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Yet the Biden administration not only let them into the country and, in many cases, facilitated their entry into the country.
Just like the 18,000 terrorists who committed the terrorist attack.
Here just before.
So now they're worried about all these threats and everyone's like, oh, you know this is racist of you to be getting these people out of the country.
I'm sorry this is.
This is really messed up.
It's really really messed up.
You know, Donald Trump doubling down on the allegations that Ilhan Omar married her brother.
This would come with five years in prison, 250 000 fine.
He apparently isn't isn't letting up, nor is the Daily MAIL.
They have another story on this today.
Let's listen to the president.
I want to see people that contribute.
I don't want to see Somalia.
I don't want to see a woman that, you know, marries her brother to get in and then becomes a congressman, does nothing but complain.
All she does is complain, complain, complain, and yet her country's a mess.
You know, it's one of the worst in the world.
Let her go back, fix up her own country.
So, no, Somalia, and I was right about it.
You know, I started complaining about Somalia long before the scandal.
The horrible.
The horrible things they're doing to Minnesota, it's incredible.
They have an incompetent governor there, too.
The Democrats are running some bad chips.
Yeah.
I mean, I got to say, so the whole, you know, and we did this on the show the other day, so you can watch part of this, but the concern is that she basically was out there trying to marry the brother because he needed some education opportunity that could be provided in the US of A.
And so they got married.
This is allegedly him.
And apparently there's no like real records because.
They came from worn, torn Somalia.
She was married to another guy, though, and like had kids with the other guy.
And then she's got this one, but then she had another kid with the other guy.
So it gets really, you know, I mean, she's playing the field, shall we say.
He winds up, after getting his education, leaving for London.
And once she's officially divorced from him, she takes up with, there's a whole timeline.
We did this the other day.
Timmy, another Timmy out of Minnesota.
What do you know?
They get a lot of Tims in Minnesota.
It's Tim Minot.
His wife filed for divorce in August 19 because, well, he apparently was so in love with Ilhan Omar and told her that she had to end it.
I don't even know what to say.
Anyway, so Timmy Minet, here he is, he's meanwhile making big bucks, big, big, big, big bucks off of Ilhan's campaign.
Because he also works as her campaign manager and he's like making millions on that one.
And then the day they announce their marriage what do you know?
This I find suspicious.
They introduce the very bill Hr 6187 he's a political consultant, by the way.
So uh, he calls himself a VC guy.
He's not.
He's not an investor, he is a political consultant.
If you look at his website, they introduce this.
And then this is the thing that enables her district To make off with hundreds of millions of dollars fraudulently.
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Whoa!
Okay, I mean, I don't know what they deserve, for goodness sakes, the two of them.
I mean, she gets around for somebody who is supposed to be very religious, right?
Where's the whole thing?
You know, I mean, she's on hubby number three.
Weird, very, very weird, people.
Anyway, I digress.
I mean, Donald Trump is all over this, he's calling it out.
He's making a big stink about it and you know what, when he's, he's like a dog with a bone right, like a dog with a bone, and he's not giving up.
Not giving up well um, you know, part of not giving up is also recognizing what we need to do on the health care front now.
There was a big health care vote going on today and it looks like, you know, as they, as they debate these Obamacare subsidies, they are on a fast track to nowhere, and that's a very good thing right, that's a very, very good thing, given of the fraud that we heard from Mike Johnson just moments ago.
And it's a good thing because it's really not putting the money in the hands of the people.
You want the people to have the money, not the institutions, not the fraudsters, for goodness sakes.
I sat down moments ago with Kent Strang from Americans for Prosperity.
You can go check them out, AmericansforProsperity.com.
And he had some really fascinating things to say.
I want to go to that.
Bringing into the conversation, my friend Kent Strang from Americans for Prosperity.
Kent, good to see you as always.
Wow, we got a lot going on on Capitol Hill today.
As we speak, we're looking at a vote that's going down now for Obamacare.
Like, I don't even want to have to say it.
But, you know, hasn't everybody figured out by now that this was a load of you know what?
Obamacare has been an absolute disaster.
The ill fated name, the Affordable Care Act, has done anything but make health care affordable.
And what we're seeing today is the showdown over these COVID era subsidies that were meant to be temporary, not permanent.
So, we're going to see two votes today.
One is Chuck Schumer's political show vote.
And what he's trying to do is he's trying to force a vote on a three year extension of these subsidies.
And let's remember that these subsidies are fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse.
There are people who are phantom being signed up on these programs.
They don't even know they have the health insurance.
Big insurance, and it's an absolute bad deal for the American people to expand this.
And then on the other side of this, we're seeing a health care vote that comes from Republican senators that is going to expand health savings accounts and put that money not in big insurance companies' hands, but put that in individuals' hands.
Typically, those have been for only high deductible plans, and they're going to expand that so more people have access over health savings accounts.
Okay, tell me a little bit more about those because you know, I like this.
And by the way, I'm not the only one, the president actually came out, was it last night?
The night before, they're all kind of blown together after a while.
And he said he had a lot of enthusiasm for that because, again, anytime you can get the money back in the hands of the people, I mean, you look at what went down in Minnesota, for goodness sakes, you're talking about possibly the largest government fraud in history of any welfare system, at least a billion dollars.
They're talking about potentially up to $8 billion in fraud.
I'm sorry.
It's like the New Hampshire live free or die in me.
I don't like the idea of big bloated government budgets.
I don't like the idea of the government having more say over my health care.
When you talk about giving the money back, I think it's fantastic.
And then you would have what?
A catastrophic insurance plan as well, so that everybody would be covered in the event something really bad happens?
That's absolutely right.
So when you go into the Obamacare marketplace, you pick your own insurance plans.
And those catastrophic options are always an option.
But the idea is that rather than just for the super high deductible rates, you can get a health savings account.
And so what does that do?
It really does drive down costs.
And to your point, whether it's President Trump or Republicans, just free market individuals believe that individuals can do.
So much better with their own money rather than sending it to an insurance company, which I don't know about you.
I typically don't have great experiences with.
And so you can use that money, which comes with a tax savings and it lowers your costs.
You can use it on qualified expenditures to lower your health care premiums.
And sometimes I know I have a number of friends who have negotiated their own rate using their HSAs with hospitals and doctors and gotten a lower rate rather than submitting it through their insurance company.
So, what is the real reason for all the inflation in the Obama?
Care nonsense.
Like, why did it get so bad?
Is it just lack of competition?
I mean, I'm sort of curious.
Well, what happens when you make government the dominant force?
There's less competition.
And rather than other insurances where, like life insurance or car insurance that we see commercial on television every 10 seconds, there's very little competition in healthcare.
And so rather than taking the government one size fits all approach that's a top down system, we need more competition to drive down price.
And we're just not seeing that when you make government Programs.
And so, folks like AOC and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and the like, they want a one size fits all Medicare for all style plan where we all live under government insurance.
We know that doesn't work.
If you want proof that it doesn't work, look at our friends that are veterans and look at how the VA has handled health care.
Is that what we want?
Is that where we want to go to?
I don't think so.
Let's open up the free market, give more people choice, give more people personal options in health care rather than one size broken government fits all.
I mean, the other thing I would just point out, and you and I have talked about this in the past, but the viewers.
Should hear it.
I mean, they're turning into these like conglomerates, like monopolies in and of themselves, right?
Where you have, I mean, every like little hospital is buying up every other hospital and every center.
And like before you know it, they get pricing power that way as well.
And then the money's coming straight from the government.
It's like the spigot's open.
And no wonder you get all this inflation.
Absolutely.
And it's the same thing with the subsidies.
When you're just doing out more and more money, well, what are they going to do?
There's no competition.
They're going to raise costs.
And that's why it's become so unaffordable.
And yes, Those big conglomerates are gobbling up the little guys.
There aren't as many little guys there to compete.
We need to reform our healthcare system, and hopefully, the Senate will pick up this bill that Republicans have proposed, pass it into law, and provide more options and more freedom for Americans that are healthcare.
It would be great.
It would be great.
I want to talk to you about something else really, really important.
looking at gas prices nationwide coming down below $3.
I mean, this is a big deal.
Okay, and everybody's going to be, oh, you know, I'm paying more where I am out in California.
Well, I'm sorry, I'm living in California.
You got to look at Gavin Newsom for that one because they get so many darn taxes on top of whatever the national average would be.
But I mean, the good news is, yes, energy prices are coming down.
And I think a big part of that is the president's push to drill, baby, drill.
But there's a lot more going on behind the scenes also being voted on today.
Walk us through the plan to basically open up America's energy infrastructure.
We've talked about it so many times before how important permitting is in unleashing American energy.
And we all know that we want lower electricity rates, we want lower gas prices, we want energy that can fund the AI revolution that's coming.
Well, how do we do that?
Right now, we have a really difficult time building anything in America.
And the red tape and the bureaucracy take years to get through in some cases.
And it takes longer to get a permit than it takes to actually build the thing that we're trying to deliver.
And so we saw that with the Biden administration where they wanted to put all kinds of rules and regulations.
And red tape and stop things from being built.
What President Trump and Republicans are doing right now is they're going that opposite direction because they know how important energy is for Americans and for our livelihood and for our prosperity.
And so there are a couple of bills that are taking place today.
One is an LNG expansion, and that's liquid natural gas, which can deliver affordable energy.
Another is the Permit Act.
And then next week, we're going to see something called the Speed Act.
And not to get into all the different things that they're going to do, but what are they really aimed at?
They're aimed at eliminating.
Useless red tape.
They're making sure that our legal system doesn't kill these programs before they can get started.
And they're making it easier for us to be able to go drive affordable American energy and projects that we need shovel ready projects for more jobs and more energy.
And so that's what we're after.
And we don't need it.
We're going to need it.
You know, Disney just announced it's a big deal with ChatGPT.
They're going to license those characters to Sora.
The world is changing, right?
You think about all the energy that's going to be needed.
You're going to be able to make your own movie.
Pretty soon.
I mean, it's just incredible, like all these changes.
And I know people get nervous about it and they want to fight it and this, that, and the other.
And it's a real viewpoint.
I understand.
But, you know, look, the investor in me and the business journalist in me still like looks at reality.
And to me, you want to be part of this, which means you need the energy infrastructure to be part of this in the future.
The world is changing.
It's changing fast.
And we need to be out in front, not let China dominate.
But this is a big part of it, making sure that we have the energy resources right here at home, right?
depending on anybody else, thank you very much, right here at home, Kent.
And this would go a long ways, wouldn't it, towards making sure that we have the infrastructure here in our jurisdiction to be able to provide for this future.