Minnesota, Root of All Evil?

00:00:03 Speaker 1: My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. 00:00:24 Speaker 2: College is a scam, everybody. 00:00:26 Speaker 1: You got to stop sending your kids to college. 00:00:27 Speaker 2: You should get married. 00:00:28 Speaker 1: As young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start at turning point you would say, college chapter. Go start attning point. Yould say high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. 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Let's go ahead and throw back to Caroline Levit. 00:01:31 Speaker 4: Maximum leverage over the interim authorities in Venezuela right now, and the President has made it very clear that this is a country within the United States, the Western hemisphere, close by the United States, that is no longer going to be sending illegal drugs to the United States of America. It's no longer going to be sending and trafficking illegal people in criminal cartels to kill American. 00:01:53 Speaker 5: Citizens as they have in the past. And the President is. 00:01:56 Speaker 4: Fully deploying his piece through strength Foreign policy agenda. 00:02:00 Speaker 5: So we're continuing to be in close. 00:02:01 Speaker 4: Coordination with the interim authorities and their decisions are going to continue. 00:02:06 Speaker 5: To be dictated by the United States of America. 00:02:09 Speaker 4: Just one follow up when you talk about that leverage, there, has the Venezuelan government fully committed to turning over its oil to. 00:02:15 Speaker 6: The United States and definitely and what happens if they do not. 00:02:18 Speaker 4: Well, as you saw the President announced last night, this was a deal. This was a deal made by the President and his team with the Venezuelan interim authorities. This will benefit both the American people and the Venezuelan people. And Secretary Right and the Department of Energy are working with the interim authorities and also with the private oil industry to execute on this historic energy deal that's not only good for the United States, but it's also going to revive the prosperity, the safety, the security. 00:02:44 Speaker 5: Of both the United States and Venezuela as well ed. 00:02:47 Speaker 7: Following up on the oil part of this, thirty to fifty million barrels of oil, how exactly is actually into worker You're getting it out of Venezuela into the United States. 00:02:57 Speaker 5: Yes, then that's exactly right. 00:02:58 Speaker 4: So as you know ed, as the President announced last night, this was the sanctioned oil that was basically just sitting in barrels, sitting on ships because of the effective quarantine of the United States of America and these the interim authorities have agreed to release dot oil to the United States, so it will be arriving here at home very soon. The United States government has already begun marketing Venezuelan crude oil and the globate marketplace for the benefit of the United States. Engage the world's leading commodity marketers key banks to execute and provide financial support for these crude oil and crude product sales. All proceeds from the sale of Venezuelan crude oil and products will first settle in US control accounts at globally recognized banks to guarantee the legitimacy and integrity of the ultimate distribution of proceeds, and those funds will be dispersed for the benefit of the American people and the Venezuelan people at the discretion of the United States government. 00:03:51 Speaker 7: Sounds like it requires a lot of private sector engagement and agreement, and the oil industry and the banking industry I have that. 00:03:58 Speaker 4: Yet, there's a lot of private sector engagement that's happening right now, as you know, Secretary right our Energy secretary who's heading up this big project, is in Florida today meeting with some of these oil executives, and as we confirmed earlier, they will also be at the White House later this week. So they are absolutely eager to invest their eager about these opportunities and Secretary right is a very well knowledgeable guy when it comes to oil and energy, and he's the perfect man for the job. 00:04:23 Speaker 5: Another quarter of the world. The real quick going to go go ahead. 00:04:27 Speaker 8: So just to follow up on the oil thirty to fifty million barrels is an initial trunk, if you will, and then what happened to after that. 00:04:34 Speaker 7: For. 00:04:36 Speaker 4: I won't get ahead of the plans that the President and his team are currently speaking with the Interim Authority is about. 00:04:42 Speaker 5: But rest assured there is a long term plan here. 00:04:45 Speaker 4: Secretary Rubio and the entire team are working diligently on and this is just sort of the first action that you all are seeing ed. 00:04:52 Speaker 9: Thanks goh So. 00:04:53 Speaker 3: In order to get these oil companies to invest billions in Venezuela, how will the US reassure that their workers will be safe in Venezuela to there be troops. 00:05:01 Speaker 4: You will at this point in time, as you know, there are no troops on the ground in Venezuela. 00:05:06 Speaker 5: The President, of course, reserves the. 00:05:08 Speaker 4: Right to use the United States military if necessary, it's not something he wants to do. Diplomacy is always the first option, as you saw he tried that with Nicholas Maduro, but unfortunately he was an illegitimate dictator and an unserious person, and so President Trump authorized this law enforcement operation. And now Nicholas Maduro is sitting in a prison cell in New York. So certainly the President is going to do what's in the best interests of the American people, and that includes workers from our energy and oil industry meeting tomorrow. 00:05:34 Speaker 9: With that meeting tomorrow, what is the message the president is going to give to the oil executives and what does he want to hear? 00:05:39 Speaker 4: Well, the meeting is on Friday, and it's just a meeting to discuss, obviously the immense opportunity that is before these oil companies right now. 00:05:48 Speaker 10: Stephen Caroline, and congratulations again, thank you to The New Yorker had a story yesterday on the Vice president and it questioned his quote notable absence on Venezuela. 00:06:00 Speaker 9: The sub headline asked, was the Vice president's exclusion from the operation in Venezuela and expression of this anti anti interventionist ideology or political calculation. Would you be able to discuss the Vice president's role in Venezuela policy. 00:06:14 Speaker 4: I did see that report in the New Yorker and quite frankly, I laughed out loud because it's very clear it's a fake report that's trying to so distrust in division amongst the president and his team. Let me just be very clear, if the vice president has been involved in all policy, he is the right hand man of the president on all policy matters, including Venezuela policy. He was of course read in and deeply involved in this operation from the very beginning, and he was present on the night of the operation via secure communication at a different location as to not damage the operational secrecy of this mission that was so incredibly important to ensure that this mission could be carried out successfully without endangering our troops. 00:06:58 Speaker 11: Sure, the US seized tanker recently, Russia specifically asked the United States not to seize that tanker. Does this action risk a larger conflict with Russia? 00:07:13 Speaker 4: I believe you're referring to the below one tanker that was seized this morning. The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security and coordination with the Department of War did announce that seizure this morning for violations of US sanctions. I've spoken about the enforcement of our sanctions policy at the podium prior to the new year. In this administration is going to fully enforce the sanctioned policy. 00:07:38 Speaker 5: Of the United States. 00:07:39 Speaker 4: The vessel this morning was seized in the North Atlantic pursuant to a warrant issued by a US federal court after being tracked, and this was a Venezuelan shadow fleet vessel that has transported sanctioned oil in the United States of America. 00:07:53 Speaker 5: Under this president is not going to tolerate that. 00:07:55 Speaker 4: I would also just add the vessel head a judicial seizure order and the crew mean the crew is now subject to prosecution for any applicable violation of federal law and they will be brought to the United States for such prosecution if necessary. 00:08:08 Speaker 5: Kelly, Caroline, happy to you, to you, Thank you too much to talk to you. 00:08:12 Speaker 12: A couple of things real quickly. The first question about the Venezuelan people. As you know, there's some eight million of Venezuelans here, some of them celebrating in the streets. There are Venezuelans on the ground who are concerned about their safety. What does the Trump administration, what is it doing to actually help people in Venezuela understand that they will be secure throughout this transition. 00:08:34 Speaker 4: I think the fact that this president actually followed through on the long held promise of the United States of America, the bipartisan promise to take down the illegitimate Maduro regime, should give assurance to the Venezuelan people and also Venezuelan Americans who fled this communist regime for a better life here at home, that this is a president who is serious about taking down illegitimate regimes and who is also serious about securing the security of the United States of America, including the Venezuelan American people. And I would just add that this is something that not just Republicans and President Trump have talked about for a very long time, but it is also something that Democrats have advocated for. 00:09:16 Speaker 5: In twenty twenty, Chuck Schumer said that. 00:09:20 Speaker 4: At the time President Trump had not brought an end to the Maduro regime. The Maduro regime is more powerful today and more in trench today than it was when the president began. Now you hear Chuck Schumer out there saying this is reckless. The American people and the Venezuelan people should be in fear. But this is something that Chuck Schumer has long advocated for Senator Chris van Holland. Same thing had said that the United States is going to use its leverage and influence to push for negotiations to transition to the truly elected leader. This was under President Biden. We know Maduro and his cronies don't want to go quietly into the night. The US needs to work to ratchet up the pressure now. Senator Holland says it's an illegal act of war to get rid of of Nicholas Maduro. So the hypocrisy is really astounding here, and thank you for giving me an opportunity to point it out with Kaylea, I. 00:10:06 Speaker 6: Mean sorry, go ahead, Yes, the reports that the administration is demanding that Venezuela cut ties with China Russia, I ran in Cuba. 00:10:14 Speaker 4: Can you confirm I'm sorry it reports that the administration has essentially demanded that Venezuela cut. 00:10:20 Speaker 5: Ties with China Russia. I ran in Cuba. Can you confirm that? 00:10:24 Speaker 4: Well, those alleged demands were made in a classified briefing by Secretary Rubio, and I know that there's a lot of leaks coming out of these classified briefings, so I'm not going to confirm or deny or get into what the Secretary has set in classified settings to members of Congress. But I think that the administration has made it quite clear to the interim authorities in Venezuela that this is the Western Hemisphere and American dominance is going to continue under this president. 00:10:50 Speaker 7: Aska. 00:10:50 Speaker 13: There have also been reports that the US could potentially by Greenland is as one potential option on the table. 00:10:57 Speaker 5: What would such an offer look like? 00:10:59 Speaker 13: Is there anything monetarily you could provide a details there. 00:11:02 Speaker 4: Well, that's something that's currently being actively discussed by the President and his national security team. And I would point out that the acquisition of Greenland by the United States is not a new idea. This is something that presidents dating back to the eighteen hundreds have said is advantageous for America's national security. The President has been very open and clear with all of you and with the world that he've used it in the best interests of the United States to deter Russian and Chinese aggression in the Arctic region. And so that's why his team is currently talking about what a potential purchase would look like. 00:11:37 Speaker 14: Chucky here, I. 00:11:38 Speaker 13: Thought about Greenland, why not rule out taking it by military force? 00:11:43 Speaker 4: I know that past presidents and past leaders have often ruled things out. They've often been very open about ruling things in and basically broadcasting their foreign policy strategy to the rest of the world, not just to our allies, but most egregious to our adversaries. That's not something this president does. All options are always on the table for President Trump as he examines what's in the best interests of the United States. 00:12:09 Speaker 5: But I will just. 00:12:10 Speaker 4: Say that the president's first option always has been diplomacy. Again, look at Venezuela. He tried ardently to strike a good deal with Nicholas Maduro, and he told him, I will use the United States military and you will not like it if you don't take such a deal. 00:12:26 Speaker 5: And look at what happened with respect to Iran. 00:12:29 Speaker 4: The President said the same thing, right, he try to have serious interest and then a deal with the Iranian regime with respect to their nuclear capabilities. They were not interested, and so Operation Midnight Hammer happened, which was another remarkable military success under the leadership of this commander in chief. So the president keeps his options open, but diplomacy is always the first. 00:12:51 Speaker 15: Quickly, just one additional call uponment does the President recognize Denmark's ownership as part of the Kingdom because there been some Republican senators questioning, you know, the claim that Denmark has to Greenland. Is the President in that camp with them, you know, questioning. 00:13:08 Speaker 4: The legality of I have not heard him question it personally, but you're welcome to ask him yourself next time you have the chance. 00:13:15 Speaker 5: Thank andans lifted for Venezuela. 00:13:18 Speaker 15: We got to lift some sanctions to let the oil come in. 00:13:20 Speaker 5: Can you talk about that just very brief. 00:13:21 Speaker 4: Yeah, So the US is selectively rolling back sanctions to enable the transport and the sale of Venezuelan crude and oil products to the global markets. 00:13:29 Speaker 3: Yes, everybody, This is Andrew Colvet, executive producer of the Charlie Kirk Show. Burna is proud to continue supporting Charlie Kirk's mission and the important work of turning Point USA because empowering Americans to defend their freedoms begins with protecting themselves, their families, and their communities. The Burna les lethal launcher looks like a firearm, but it isn't one. 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I know they are well aware and tracking. 00:15:04 Speaker 5: Kelly. 00:15:05 Speaker 8: Two questions, One on the c's vestments, the villa of the Sofia. Can you tell us where they're headed, what happens to any existing cargo, and you reference personnel but potentially facing the prosecution. 00:15:15 Speaker 17: That's one thing I'd like. 00:15:16 Speaker 5: Yes, And on the Bela yes, okay. 00:15:19 Speaker 18: And on Anny's question, if I can also ask, does the administration believe that the interim regime should release all political dissidents and prisoners and return to tainted Americans. 00:15:31 Speaker 4: That's not a question that I've personally spoken about the to the President with so I will let him answer that question. I don't want to make new policy at this podium today with respect to Venezuela. With respect to the two ships that you mentioned, I spoke with you about the Bella one. There was another vessel this morning, the Sofia, that, in coordination with the Department of War the Department of Homeland Security apprehended it. This is a stateless sanctioned dark fleet motor tanker and this occurred without incident. This vessel was operating in international waters and conducting illicit activities in the Caribbean Sea. The US Coast Guard is is escorting the SOFIA to the United States for final disposition. To answer your question, Kelly directly, this was through Operation Southern Sphere. The Department of War is unwavering in its mission to crush illicit activity in the Western Hemisphere, and as the President has repeatedly stated, We're going to defend our homeland and restore security and strength across the Americas. 00:16:29 Speaker 5: Dasha, Sasha Caurerlin, thank you and having me here. Thanks to you too. 00:16:32 Speaker 16: The questions one on Venezuela, one on Greenland. You repeatedly a podium called the current leadership in Venezuela interim leadership. There are Republicans and Democrats alike that say they want to see elections in Venezuela. The President has said it's too soon to do that right now. But is there a timeline for elections in Venezuela as he committed to seeing that year for example, you. 00:16:52 Speaker 5: Just said, the President has answered that question. 00:16:54 Speaker 4: So I will reiterate what the President has said a few times now to all of you, which is that it's too prematurture and too early to dictate a timetable for elections in Venezuela right now. 00:17:03 Speaker 16: Carolyn Carolina, You've just talked to Jackie about diplomacy first, right, The Days have repeatedly said they are willing to collaborate on all of the concerns that the President has, whether it's more truths, mineral rights, intelligence sharing. Why does the president feel he needs to own Greenland and not and put out the threat of military action when this could be done through diplomacy. 00:17:24 Speaker 4: Well, who said diplomacy isn't taking place behind the scenes, Stash. I mean the President is interested in diplomacy. The National Security team is as well, and of course he's always willing to pick up the phone for everybody and hear out their concerns. But the president is the president of the United States of America, and he's always going to be very clear about what he's views as being in our nation's best interest. 00:17:45 Speaker 19: Reagan, Thanks, Caroline, I have a quessure for you in Venezuela, and then I'd love to ask you about Minnesota and Tim Walls. 00:17:51 Speaker 16: Sure. 00:17:52 Speaker 19: On Venezuela, I'm wondering does the administration hope to start sending more Venezuelan migrants back home or have them self, or if the situation of the country and groups. 00:18:03 Speaker 4: As far as I'm concerned, the policies of the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security have not changed. All those illegally present in the country are subject to deportation. 00:18:13 Speaker 5: And I would just like to add how we got here. 00:18:17 Speaker 4: The President was very clear on the campaign to the American public, and it's one of the many reasons they resoundingly re elected him back to this office that he was not only going to crush foreign drug cartels, but that he was not going to stand by and watch as the illegitimate Venezuelan regime was sending illegal criminals and gang members and rapists and murderers to our country, which happened to the tune of thousands under the previous administration. In president and so there could be nothing more America First than this operation. 00:18:51 Speaker 5: That took place last week. 00:18:52 Speaker 4: And I would just remind all of you in this room that there were innocent Americans like Jocelyn Nungere who lost their lives at the hands of dangerous Venezuelan criminals who were sent here by the Maduro regime. And that has been the President's north star and guiding principle throughout his entire policy since January twentieth Minnesota. 00:19:13 Speaker 19: Does the administration believe that Tim Walls potentially dropped out of the governor's race because he could be under criminal investigation. 00:19:21 Speaker 5: I don't know if there's a criminal investigation. 00:19:23 Speaker 4: If there was, I wouldn't be able to comment on it from up here, to be honest with you, but I think Tim Walls probably dropped out of the race because he realizes he no longer has the support of the people of his own state, which is a remarkable downfall considering he was the number two on the Democrat Party's ticket just about a year ago. When it comes to Minnesota, the fraud that we have seen, the wide scale of fraud is really remarkable. 00:19:46 Speaker 5: It's egregious. 00:19:47 Speaker 4: I would encurcourage every single journalist in this room to go to Minnesota and to cover it yourselves. As for the Trump administration, we have officials who have been on the ground almost every day. Secretary Nome was there yesterday. Secretary Bessant will be traveling there later this week to talk about the fraud and to do a roundtable on this very topic. 00:20:06 Speaker 5: And I would just like to leave you with an update. 00:20:08 Speaker 4: To date, the Department of Justice has charged ninety eight total defendants in several Medicaid fraud and related case programs. Sixty four were convicted and eighty five of the ninety eight charged were of Somali descent. The DOJ has also issued over seventeen thousand, seventeen hundred subpoenas, executed over one hundred and thirty search warrants, and they have now added more attorneys to their office there to absorb the case flow. 00:20:36 Speaker 5: DHS is on the. 00:20:37 Speaker 4: Ground going door to door conducting large scale criminal and HSI investigations. They have also sent approximately two thousand agents to Minneapolis to assist with law enforcement and immigration enforcement. As I said, Secretary Nome was on the ground yesterday. The Department of Health and Human Services has also begun requiring a justification and photo evidence for all childcare related payments nationwide, and they required Minnesota to conduct a full audit of all childcare centers. They also froze one hundred and eighty five million dollars in funding to Minnesota, and doctor Oz who was just here, also notified Governor Walls they're going to begin auditing Medicaid recipients and deferring payments on claims based on waste fraud and abuse. The Department of Labor is also conducting a targeted review of Minnesota's unemployment program, Department of Agriculture requiring Minnesota to conduct recertification for SNAP recipients, and HUD has launched investigations into the public housing SBA has also suspended nearly seven thousand borrowers amid suspected fraudulent activity. So, with all of that rest assured, this is an all hands on deck effort from the entire administration to get to the bottom of this and ensure that they're ripping off of taxpayers in the state of Minnesota. And it won't just be Minnesota, It'll be any state across this country where fraud has taken place and we are protecting law abiding tax pays American citizens. 00:22:01 Speaker 5: Phil La you, Caroline. 00:22:03 Speaker 20: Just to follow up on Greenland, there are treaties already on the books that give the United States access to the island. They can construct and maintain military bases there, we can house personnel on the island, the USS control of landings, takeoffs. 00:22:18 Speaker 5: Anchorages, etc. 00:22:20 Speaker 20: So I'm curious if you could just spell out for the American public what specifically would the US gain by taking control of Greenland that the US doesn't already. 00:22:29 Speaker 4: Have access to right now, more control over the Arctic region, and ensuring that China and Russia, in our adversaries, cannot continue their aggression in this very important and strategic region. And there would be many other benefits as well, that again the President and his national security team are currently talking about. 00:22:51 Speaker 5: Jeff, I'll give you another. 00:22:52 Speaker 1: One abroad first, and that question on warn Rossey. 00:22:57 Speaker 21: Are you concerned about increasing tensions with Russia because of the tanker seizures and how does the US action in Venezuela impact the ongoing relationship with China and the President's relationship with President she. 00:23:15 Speaker 4: I think the President has very open, honest and good relationships with both President Putin and Russia, and also President she of China. He has spoken with them numerous times, as you know, since coming to office about a year ago, and I believe that those personal relationships. 00:23:30 Speaker 5: Are going to continue. 00:23:31 Speaker 4: But as for the President and the United States, he's going to enforce our policy that's best for the United States of America, and with respect to these ships seizers, that means enforcing the embargo against all dark fleet vessels that are illegally transporting oil and only legitimate commerce. To answer your question much earlier, Rachel, determined by the United States is going to be permitted, and that's the policy of this administration, and he's not afraid to implement. 00:23:58 Speaker 5: Last one. 00:23:59 Speaker 14: I remember the. 00:24:00 Speaker 21: Cleric here the alien of his term if he was committed to Article five and NATO, and he said yes. Has his stance on NATO or his commitment to NATO changed? 00:24:09 Speaker 4: Did you see his statement earlier today? He said, we will always be there for NATO, even if they are not there for us. And I think that answers your question directly. 00:24:17 Speaker 7: Yes. 00:24:18 Speaker 10: Just to follow up on what I'm saying, their lobly blessing to commit that if any Native members are attacked in. 00:24:24 Speaker 4: The United States with future Again, the President addressed this directly himself this morning after seeing the coverage from all of you in this room on television, and he made it very clear, We're always going to be there for NATO even if they have not done right. 00:24:38 Speaker 5: By the United States of America, and they have not. 00:24:42 Speaker 4: They have finally increased their defense spending at the. 00:24:45 Speaker 5: Request of this president. But it was only because of this president that they did that. To take a couple four. Michael, go ahead, New York. 00:24:53 Speaker 2: Congratulations, thanks you. 00:24:54 Speaker 22: Questions one on healthcare, one on Mexico. On healthcare, the President says he wants Republicans to be flexible on the High Amendment in order to ask healthcare legislation. What is the White House's message to pro life voters who say federal funding for abortion goes against their values. 00:25:10 Speaker 4: Well, the President did not change the administration's policy. It was President Trump who signed an executive order protecting the High Amendment. It's the Trump administration that has taken multiple actions on various fronts to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not funding the. 00:25:25 Speaker 5: Practice of abortion. 00:25:26 Speaker 4: What the President was saying yesterday was Republicans and frankly Democrats too, need to show a little bit more flexibility so we can actually get something done with respect to the issue of healthcare. 00:25:37 Speaker 5: Republicans have amazing ideas. 00:25:39 Speaker 4: The President himself, as we spoke about earlier, has launched this Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing initiative, has cut good deals with big pharma. He wants to see Republicans and Democrats too, if they're willing codify those executive orders into law so that these good deals can remain and these prices can continue to be lowered long after this president and this deal maker in chief is gone. President's talked a lot about health savings accounts and giving more money back to the healthcare consumer rather than to these giant insurance companies, and he's been very outspoken and tough on them too, and I think you'll see more and hear more from him directly on that issue. So he wants to see Congress get something done with respect to healthcare. 00:26:18 Speaker 5: And that was the point that he was driving home yesterday. 00:26:20 Speaker 22: So Goline, President Trump says, the drug cartels are running Mexico. 00:26:24 Speaker 14: What action does. 00:26:25 Speaker 22: He need to see Mexico's President, Claudia scheinbamb take to prove that she's in control of that country, in control of those hotels, And does the White House believe she's able to do that without US intervention? 00:26:35 Speaker 4: Look, I think the President was speaking very candidly and frankly about the reality on the ground in Mexico. 00:26:42 Speaker 5: Hayley jar and happy to the year. 00:26:43 Speaker 13: I want to say too, about this ceased tanker with bella horse. Before this that Russia had sent a submarine to the sport. It was there any engagement with that submarine, and then was the deconfliction align with Russian used ahead of forty and a half. 00:26:57 Speaker 4: Again, this was a Venezuelan shadow flea vessel that has transported sanctioned oil. The vessel was deemed stateless after flying a false flag and it had a judicial seizure order and that's why the crew will be subject to prosecution. 00:27:12 Speaker 6: Mary Columbia, the President talking weeks, I will be open for an operation there, sure, the President of Columbia, the expecting golf. 00:27:23 Speaker 5: Course and time too, and I want to be on California. 00:27:26 Speaker 4: That would be a very unwise question for me to answer to way into what's your next question in California? 00:27:31 Speaker 19: Can you share any more about the broad investigation? 00:27:34 Speaker 5: And the President send them there Westland. 00:27:36 Speaker 19: Who's being investigated and. 00:27:38 Speaker 5: Where's it sturning? 00:27:39 Speaker 4: Again, this is going to be a all hands on deck government wide effort. The President has directed all agencies across the board to look at federal spending programs in not just Minnesota, but also in the state of California, to identify fraud and to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law all. 00:27:55 Speaker 5: Those who have committed it. We take one more sure, Thank. 00:28:00 Speaker 23: You, Carolyn. Yesterday was the five year anniversary of January sixth. Democrats and mainstream media continued to push their big lie that it was an insurrection and that police officers died that day. The reality is that four Trump supporters died on January sixth, and two women were killed by January sixth police. Everybody knows Ashley Babbitt was shot in cold blood by Capitol police officer Michael Byrd, But there was another woman. Her name was Roseanne Boylan from Georgia, and she was peppable to gas and ultimately bruly beaten with a stick by January six police officer Lila Morris. The Biden administration and mainstream media lied and told Americans Roseanne Boylan died of overdoes on Capital steps. Her family is now asking for an investigation. Is the administration aware of the circumstances of her death and will there be an investigation? 00:28:44 Speaker 4: Finally, well, for an investigation, I will have to defer you to either the FBI or the Department of Justice, and I'm sorry to have to do that, but with respect to all of the facts that you just laid out, The White House relished the opportunity yesterday to actually create a new website to share the fact with the American public, but also all those. 00:29:02 Speaker 5: In this room. 00:29:02 Speaker 4: We knew the media would be covering January sixth quite a bit because they think it's something that the American people are still believing their lies on. They think it's something that still helps their case against this president. Obviously not or else he wouldn't have been re elected in an overwhelming fashion in November of last year. And so I would encourage everyone to take a look at the website. It's quite well done, and thank you all very much. 00:29:24 Speaker 5: It's great to be back with you. 00:29:25 Speaker 16: Thank you. 00:29:27 Speaker 3: Massive amount of breaking news there. It was the first White House press briefing that Caroline has done since the Maduro. I guess you would call it attack a seizure deposition. Also, we've got two tankers that have been basically apprehended boarded by US military. A lot of questions about that. My pillow wants to say a heartfelt thank you to our listeners for your continued support. To show their appreciation, they're offering it in edible after Christmas sale with some of the best prices that they've ever had, and all when you use promo code kirk ki RK right now. 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I'm very excited to bring in our next guest, Senator Rick Scott, from the great State of Florida. It's good to have you back. Senator how have you been. 00:31:01 Speaker 14: I've been great. Happy New Year, Andrew. It's going to be a great year. 00:31:04 Speaker 3: I've never been so ready to turn the calendar over to the next year. I will tell you twenty twenty five was a absolute doozy. But there is so much breaking news here, Senator. You know, there's Greenland. There was a shooting that I want to actually inform our audience about involving an ICE officer in Minneapolis. As you know, we've been surging ICE DHS personnel over two thousand on the streets of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, massive, massive reaction from the federal government. It appears that it was a ramming and a shooting. This is breaking news, a ramming and a shooting. So a lot of times the citizen activists, these volunteers on the left, they will follow around ICE vehicles trying to alert the public, and sometimes they ram them, and sometimes they try and get in their way. Sometimes they play fast and loose with their own vehicle. It appears initial indications, we're waiting for more information here, that that's what this was. But Senator, let's start there. There was a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Somali fraud and the complicity within the local politicians there covering it up. Maybe they were getting political kickbacks. What's your take of it. You have run the state of Florida, You know these processes, you know how the bureaucracies work. 00:32:19 Speaker 2: What's your reaction. 00:32:21 Speaker 14: Well, I'm not surprised. Number One. When I became governor of Florida January twenty eleventh, I saw going agency by agency. Now, my background is I'm a business guy, and in business, you don't waste your money, right, and you solve your customer's needs. They don't want to pay you a little extra money because you wasted money or did stupid things. So what I watched agency by agency, there would be they wouldn't worry about fraud against the agency, They wouldn't worry about improper payments. They look as free money. The way is the way. So many people looked at it. So I went agency by agency and fix it. Then we got all this free federal money. It's free, by the way. The attitude that many governors have is if the federal government's paying for it up, it's free. Didn't cost you anything, right, And so I watched it like after a hurricane. People would say, well, if we just got to, you know, we can go get all this free federal money. So I watched unbelievable fraud attempts with regard to debris pick up after hurricanes. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Every government program, and especially federal programs, the oversight is pathetic, it's horrible. We have studies, We know that there's you know, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud. We know there's tens of billions of dollars worth of improper payments and we don't get the money back right, and then we know, we know people lie cheating steel, and we we're just sitting there and people say, well, it's it's free. Why do you worry so much about this, Well, we should worry about it because thirty eight and a half thirty dollars worth of debt. Your interest rates are too high because of that, you're the inflation is caused by all this wasteful spending. And it's not fair. It's not fair. The hard working the kid that's out there or family that's out there busting their butt every day. And then somebody else doesn't want to work, so they take advantage of a state government, a local government, a federal government. It's wrong. 00:34:17 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it keeps getting worse the deeper this rabbit hole goes. Senator, it looks like, you know, Keith Ellison, there was a leaked tape released of him that he was basically, you know, said he was going to cover up for these Somalis if they kind of gave them political kickbacks, and he was gonna they were gonna run cover for them. There's multiple questions here. I'm going to play David Marcus from Fox News. He had a great take on it on to get your reaction to it, because we had Senator Ron Johnson on the show yesterday. I know a friend and colleague of yours in the Senate who said that these were these systems are designed to fail, They're designed to be looted. They're designed to have wealth extracted from working class Americans, from the white man, however you want to look at it, to be given to marginalized communities. I thought David Marcus made an incredible point here at two forty five. 00:35:07 Speaker 24: This is not standard Tammany Hall patronage and kickbacks, right, We've always had that that was meant to keep people in power, that was not meant to be a massive redistribution of wealth. What we're seeing here is a massive redistribution of wealth when these blue states allocate billions of dollars for marginalized communities and then fail to put in place any safeguards to stop theft. That's Marxism by fraud. That's taking money from corporations, from rich people, saying we're going to send it over here, We're not going to pay any attention to what's happening to it. 00:35:40 Speaker 3: That line sticks with me. This is Marxism by fraud. Is this intentional? Is this in a blue state, in a blue setting? 00:35:49 Speaker 2: Is this? 00:35:49 Speaker 3: Is this the outgrowth of a really sick ideology that is based on racial grievances, that's based on systemic oppression, that's based on cr TEA, all of these ideologies. 00:36:02 Speaker 2: Is it intentionally lacking oversight? 00:36:04 Speaker 14: Oh? Absolutely? I mean, think about this, is the most of the taxes are paid by hard working middle class Americans. That's who's paying most of the taxes in this country. Right. It's taking their money and giving it to somebody else. And then their goal is the politicians that give all this away, Oh vote vote for them, because they're giving you something for free because it's it's free Andrew that doesn't cost anything, so absolutely. I mean, let me tell you a quick story. I became governor of Florida. I ran my whole campaign in twenty ten on jobs. I go to the agency that doesn't employment. Right after I won, I said, how's unemployment work? They said, well, you have to, I said, She said, we're open six days a week because unemployed freulians don't have enough time to apply during the week. Really, I said, if you get unemployment, if they do anything. They said, yeah, apply forf to fly for five jobs a week. I said, you enforce that? Well, no, I said, I said, so, I said, if you somebody was on unemployment and you found them have a job, would you, you know, accuse them of fraud and get the money back? Well? No, I said, what's your purpose here? Is that our purpose is to give as many people on the program as we can, right because we don't, you know, because that will feel good? Who cares? It's free? By the way, they explained to me that at the time, the federal government was paying the excess money. So it's free. It's federal money. They don't care, and they think that's just how they're going to get elected. And you look, I've been up here seven years. Don't they don't you know, the people, they don't set up the programs to work. They intentionally allow it to be allowed, the fraud. And then we have earmarks that waste money. We have programs that have no account But when I was governor of Florida, four thousand lines of the budget, every line had a written purpose. If you didn't meet your purpose, I vetoed your money. We can't even I mean it's hard to even get a copy of the budget up here, let alone is there a purpose. So so we've got to get to the bottom of this. This is unfair, it's un American, it's infurious. 00:38:07 Speaker 25: Has got to Senator Scott. We have to get to the bottom of this. But it strikes me that the most immediate pressing thing. We're not going to get Minnesota to reform itself unless we can have a revolution in their state government. But we've tried several times. We're not going to get washed. Certainly, we're not going to flip Washington. We're not going to flip fraud in California anytime soon. It's what's the step I guess, first of all, what could the administration do to have immediate accountability for this? Not just in terms of arresting perpetrators, but I think a lot of people are asking, Okay, we know the fraud is there. 00:38:40 Speaker 2: Can we bring a. 00:38:41 Speaker 25: Stop to it in a quick way, even if that's something as simple as saying Minnesota doesn't get money anymore? 00:38:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's kind of some of it. 00:38:49 Speaker 14: Yeah, so right now, one thing they should be doing, and they're focused on it. If you talk to Brooke Rollins or you've talked to Membina, as you talk to them, you know they're going through program by program and they're gonna they're gonna do everything they can't. That's number one. Number two is we've got it. We've got in Congress. We've got to pass measures to stop the fraud and make sure when we pass things it doesn't allow the fraud to happen. So, so what you know, people like Ron Johnson and Mike Lee and Cynthia lummis I are doing. We keep coming up with ideas of how do you stop the waste. 00:39:23 Speaker 6: Now. 00:39:24 Speaker 14: Part of it is stop the earmarks. Part of it is don't have programs that have no accountability. That's part of it. And then the other part is let's make sure that the you know, executive branch has the ability to stop it. And then we need to be doing investigations. We need to do real investigations of of the of of you know, each of these programs. I've been think, I think about I've said for seven years that all this fraud with regard to Tobre pick up, and I can't get the Democrats to help me. I'm on the right, I'm on the right committee, but I have to have Democrat votes to get this done, to fix the UN the labal fraud, and to repick up after hurricanes. 00:40:02 Speaker 3: Jeez, they don't want to do it, Senator, they don't care. I'm just I wonder if you're going to get maybe a John fetterman if in the Senate, if there's laws that need to be changed, is there? You know, there's too little time here. And I actually have to ask you about Greenland. I had no idea you spoke with representatives from Greenland as much as you did fifty nine. 00:40:24 Speaker 14: Denmark is a great ally and I know every time I talk to them, I talk to their ambassad quite a bit. They want to work with us, so we'll see what happens. 00:40:32 Speaker 2: Sir, all right, Senator, So you know these people, I. 00:40:35 Speaker 14: Know exactly what's going to happen. 00:40:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, what is going to happen next? Not let. 00:40:42 Speaker 14: So I don't you know. Look, Denmark is a great ally. I talked to their Basslard quite a bit. Jasper is a good guy. So I think Trump is trying to be strategic. I don't believe we're going to be invading Greenland, but I do believe we're going to figure out how to work with Greenland to have more military assets on there so we can count act what Sean and Rush is doing. So something will happen there. You never know exactly. You know the process. You know that let's make a deal. Guy who's gonna do But something will happen there to put us in a better position. 00:41:12 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:41:12 Speaker 3: I mean we're gonna have Pete hag Seth on in the second hour, Senator, So we're gonna ask. 00:41:17 Speaker 2: Him about Greenland. 00:41:19 Speaker 3: So and again, audience members, if you have questions, send him in Freedom at Charliekirk dot com. 00:41:24 Speaker 2: He sent him a lot. 00:41:25 Speaker 3: They're just they want the Secretary of War is like, Hey, any question any question you want. 00:41:30 Speaker 2: So, it's fantastic he'd sent a great job. Yeah, he's doing. 00:41:34 Speaker 3: By the way, he was our most popular UH cabinet secretary according to the Amfest Rappel. 00:41:40 Speaker 2: So tells you something, people love it. Yeah. 00:41:42 Speaker 14: I think he's I think he's doing great job. I just saw him. We did a class briefing on Venezuela just last hour. 00:41:47 Speaker 3: Oh well, shoot, I wish now that you tell me that I want to. I wish I could keep you for a couple more minutes. Senator, thank you for joining. We'll have you on again soon. Thank you so much, sir. 00:41:56 Speaker 14: Oh bye, see you guys, see both of you. By by. 00:42:00 Speaker 17: This is Lane Schoenberger, chief investment officer and founding partner of y Refi. It has been an honor and a privilege to partner with Turning Point and for Charlie to endorse us. His endorsement means the world to us, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Turning Point for years to come. 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The alleged perpetrator was hit in his deceased. The Ice officer who was hurt are expected to make full recoveries. 00:44:06 Speaker 2: And I totally agree with this. 00:44:07 Speaker 3: By the way which she says next, this is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement. These men and women who are simply enforcing the law on the books are facing a thirteen hundred percent increase in assaults against them in an eight thousand percent increase in death threats. 00:44:26 Speaker 2: This is an evolving situations. 00:44:27 Speaker 3: We're giving we will give public more information as soon as it becomes. 00:44:31 Speaker 25: And that's the most important part because she says that we'll see there's reportedly video, we'll see, we'll get more context on what fully happened. But the big picture is this, which is the reason ICE has to go around all acting like they're basically going to war, is because they're treated as an enemy force by these leftern cities, by these left wing governments. Their job would be a million times easier if they could pluck people out of jails like focus on that, get the crisriminals so getting arrested. That's happening all the time. They have treated them like criminals. They've encouraged violence against them, and they've harassed them. And so regardless of how this incident went down, that is why it happened and that needs to be the focus. Yeah, the blood of this person is on Jacob Fry's hands, It's on Governor Tim Wallas's hands, period. 00:45:19 Speaker 3: I totally well said a thousand percent agree. I actually like it when we disagree on stuff a little bit because it makes for a live I just happened to completely agree with what you said. You have to so no sob stories here, absolutely not. I have seen video after video. There was an instance that really sticks out in my mind where I saw a video of this guy ramming ice officers in California. They ram him back, they stop him and arrest him. He gets released. He gets immediately he's an American citizen. So he goes over straight to CNN about two hours later cries victim on national television. And this is what they do, this is their cycle. So you have these vigilantes they call themselves it is an activists or whatever, and they're working on behalf of illegal immigrants because you know, why get off your couch to help American citizens. They want to go help the marginalized, right, So then they do this and they put lives on the line. They put lives at risk of federal law enforcement. And by the way, new today ice officers have surpassed their recruiting goals of ten thousand. According to one Big Beautiful Bill, they've hired twelve thousand. There's twelve thousand new ice officers on the streets of the United States. And I want to underscore Blake's point here about this the way that it was done. So you go back to Obama was called the deporter in Chief. Do you realize that eighty percent of those deportations were done the old fashioned way? What does that mean? It means that an illegal immigrant was arrested, apprehended on the streets of his or her you know, invaded city. They would go into jail, the local officials would process that person. There would be an ICE detainer. They would hand that person over to ICE safely, securely. There's no race in the streets. There's no DHS, rammings, there's no none of that stuff. 00:47:04 Speaker 2: It's secure. 00:47:05 Speaker 3: The person has handcuffs on, they get put on a plane, process put back in their country of origin. When sanctuary cities and states refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement, this is the result. They have to go into the streets, do raids, They have to go knock on doors, They have to endanger the public in order to do the public a good. 00:47:24 Speaker 2: So this is completely Blake's point. 00:47:27 Speaker 3: The blood is on the hand of Jacob Fry, who's, by the way, demanding that these ICE agents be removed from a city, which is not gonna happen by the way and you hear Tom home and saying we're gonna double down. We're coming for California, We're coming for Illinois. We're coming from New York next so look out. More of this is coming is as it should be, and uh, you know, just say a prayer for our brave men and women of DHS and ICE as they are forced to not work in cooperation behind closed doors in safety but instead have to go out on the streets and commit, you know, conduct raids on businesses and homes and that sort of thing. Because this is completely on the head and on the hands of local officials. It's absolutely infuriating. Blake, we had a kind of related but there was a House Oversight Committee hearing, the first of its kind. Some explosive allegations were made in this hearing by Republicans in the state of Minnesota that were saying they have tried to conduct oversight and to deal with the fraud in Minnesota. 00:48:29 Speaker 25: We saw this one viral the other day that there's in twenty eighteen, their Inspector General did a whole report, or the staff there did a whole thing. It laid out exactly how fraud happens. They say they have fake groups that come in or associake groups. They have groups of like these daycares that come in and say we're interested in stopping fraud, but they're really trying to deflect investigations away. They had a whistleblower explain this to them. They said, we think half of all of our daycare money may be going to fraud, if not more, and then the Inspector General just buries it. 00:49:00 Speaker 3: Well and get this, they are fabricating documents play cut two sixty two. 00:49:06 Speaker 26: According to the non partisan Legislative Auditor, this is another case of mismanagement of taxpayer money. But perhaps the most explosive revelation is that managers within DHS, the Department of Human Services, tried to cover their tracks by backdating and creating new. 00:49:22 Speaker 3: Documents backdating, so they're trying to cover their tracks. Other testimony from this morning's hearing said that they were blacklisted, that it was career suicide to call out fraud. The depth of the rot seems to know no end here. It's truly stunning, and I think we all knew this was going on. We all knew that there was fraud, we all knew that it was bloat. But it was so amorphous and abstract, and now you're seeing in vivid technicolor exactly how it works. 00:49:51 Speaker 2: And they get political. 00:49:52 Speaker 3: Kickbacks, and they get promises for whole communities like the Somalis to vote in block for them for reelection. 00:50:06 Speaker 17: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com