The Philip DeFranco Show - Reckless Ben Could Go To Jail Over LEGO Scandal Finale & Why Everyone Turned on WatchMojo

Episode Date: June 9, 2026

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starting with this. Watchmojo made a video called 10 YouTubers who made videos when they knew they were dying, they monetized it, and then they used that to plug their new AI music venture. And you're seeing the internet lose its collective mind over this. The backlash has been massive. And for those who don't know, Watchmojo is a huge YouTube channel. It's been around since 2006. They mostly specialize in Listicol style videos, and they have nearly 26 million subscribers. But recently, they've got a ton of backlash, and in part, that's because of the video about dead YouTubers. Which, yeah, for many, was already a pretty bad look, but then it got worse. Now, one thing that I have to note here is that Watch Mojo appears to have edited the video

in description, which we're going to touch on it a bit in a second. But before they made those changes, you had Jack Douglas, aka Jack's Films, a YouTube OG, posting a video where he was able to capture key parts of that first version. I want to see if they put ads on this. So they monetized 10 YouTubers who made videos when they knew they were dying. But yeah, this is a f*** an ad for the backrooms. add one of two. So watch Mojo is already

ghoulish enough to monetize a video all about dead YouTubers. Then Jack goes on to show a clip from the video and I can't play it because it includes music that might be copyrighted. But literally in the middle of talking about the depth of YouTuber Total Biscuit, they cut to an ad for a new album

on their music channel Sound Mojo and play what appears to be an AI rock cover of a famous piece of classical music. And so with that, you had Jack sang. That's correct. Yes. In between

documenting the death, of Total Biscuit and Techno Blade, Watch Mojo has the gall to shoehorn a plug for their AI music channel. You did not hallucinate that. And so this pissed off a ton of people, including the wife of one of the late YouTubers featured, Total Biscuit, who wrote, My late husband being mentioned in a monetized, lazy, listical video

by Watch Mojo called 10 YouTubers who made videos when they knew they were dying is tasteless enough. Plugging their AI slot music project in it as well? Unforgivable, you should be ashamed. They knew exactly what they were doing. I've been sick to my stomach ever since I saw it. I just have no words for this new low in content creation. It's ghoulish.

And you've had no shortage of people agreeing with her, thinking that the video itself is tasteless and that the choice to plug music from their new sound mojo venture was even worse. Some writing, watch mojo. You were the original slop before AI came along. And then now you're cashing in on even sloppier content by using deaths to promote it.

The only death we wanna hear about is this channel. And more and more, you're hearing creators speaking up, like for example, Moist Critical. In the middle of talking about the passing of these YouTubers, you then plug your AI music. Again, even if it wasn't AI, it wouldn't change anything if you're just like plugging your, you know, music of playing smoke on the water or whatever and delivering the tabs for it through Sound Mojo. It's still like a crazy way of trying to financially capitalize

off these tragedies. Oh yeah, your grandma died, huh? Uh, rip grandma, rip grandma. You also had up there calling out Sound Mojo for not clearly and transparently disclosing that the song was AI. It should be clearly stated that it's AI. Now, in the case of Sound Mojo here, you don't even really need that disclaimer because it is so blatantly AI, it is immediately recognizable as phony, baloney garbage. But I believe there's even a YouTube rule about disclosure

when it comes to AI generated content, which that is. And Watch Mojo actually ended up editing the video in the description so that it no longer plugs that AI rock song. With them pinning a comment saying, we recognize the unintended and, and accidental insensitivity. We do listen and take all feedback seriously. We can and do get things wrong and we really and truly appreciate it

when you let us know about an oversight, mistake, or problem. And adding 100% of the proceeds from this video will go to our charitable initiative, Mojo Gives, which donates to charities including colon cancer. But at least for right now, it doesn't appear like these changes have helped them a ton. Because even the newest comments on the video, they're just slamming Watch Mojo for making this video and promoting the song in the first place.

And actually, when it comes to the song itself, they uploaded a full video of it on a separate account for Sound Mojo, where again, you have people just calling it a, And there you have the Sound Mojo account just kind of basically arguing with everyone who's calling the song AI. But with that, I'll say that's not actually a new controversy. That account's been spending a month engaging in comment wars about AI use. With them telling one person that anyone who can't appreciate that lacks taste, which is ironic because the anti-AI crowd is big on thinking they have taste.

Also trying to argue that, quote, musicians use AI the same way many in Hollywood do, get over yourself and stop crashing out. And saying those who are complaining come across like a hysterical Luddike. And in a lot of the comments you have the account looking to a blog post by Watch Mojo's CEO explaining Sound Mojo's content. And there, you have him writing that he was initially apprehensive about using AI, but then says, I recognized it could serve as a powerful tool for producing demos, with making it clear that they did indeed use AI for those demos and writing, as we refined our prompts and better articulated each song's vision, the outputs improved significantly. And then adding, technology has always expanded the boundaries of music from electric guitars to synthesizers,

saying, I believe AI represents the next frontier enabling artists to experiment, iterate, and create in new ways. While I remain cautious about fully embracing it, I see it as a powerful tool for prototyping and ideation. Now with all that, it seems like the CEO is trying to spin this as using AI tools to help augment the music. But then with that, you had Jack noting that when you actually look at the credits of the song, says the CEO did the lyrics concept and direction and then gives two other credits for sound architecture and music orchestration and video. But, hey, what do you notice about that? Did you see singer anywhere? That makes me think a robot saying this.

You also have Jack claiming that it's actually the CEO leaving all these comments going after people online, noting that the tone and the language, they're similar to post that he's made on social media. or with him also pointing to another incident with Watchmojo that gained a lot of attention in the YouTube community last month. And there, you had Watch Mojo crashing out and leaving a really bizarre comment on a video posted by a small creator titled

Watch Mojo's downfall should be celebrated. And in addition to using the same weird tone language and phrasing, the account also linked to the same blog post explaining the move to AI music. But with that, I'll say, we do not know definitively who's actually leaving those comments. I'm just noting that it's speculation. And overall, it's just a wild situation

and one that has appeared to kind of bring the community together to some degree. And actually speaking of wild situations and parts of different communities coming together, throughout all the twists and turns of this Bricks and Minifigs Lego theft drama, I've never seen Reckless Ben look this defeated. Looks like this might be it. So, yeah. Now, I'm going to link to all my previous coverage of this story in the description down below. If you want to have a fun Tuesday night, you didn't know anything about the situation before this video. But otherwise, here's a three-sentence recut. This guy, Brian Mansell had a deal to sell his father's

one to $200,000 Lego collection to a Bricks and Minifix franchise. But when, Corporate sees a store and give it to new owners, Brian said that he lost his Legos and didn't get paid, so he teamed up with his YouTuber reckless Ben to get them back. And in the first two episodes of this series, Ben comes up with all these wacky schemes. There's too many to kind of recount here, but he ends up getting arrested multiple times

and sued by Bricks and mini-fix. And while at least for now, it appears that Ben's trilogy is done. Because he just announced that he has finished episode three, but there's a problem. If he posts it, then according to him, he's gonna go to jail. He'll lose his $300,000 lawsuit against his store owners

and all the money raised on GoFundMe for Brian over $450,000, that'll go straight to Bricks and mini-fix. I cannot even mention this company or I will be in jail and everything. That appears to be because Bricks and MityFigs apparently convinced the judge in their lawsuit against Brian, Ben, and his team that they had engaged in a pattern of unlawful activity, which has caused the company to suffer immediate in irreparable injury. You're the judge concluding after reviewing the evidence that Ben and his team have, quote, engaged in a campaign of extortion, harassment, defamation, nuisance, interference,

trespassing, stalking, and intimidation. And you have this judge saying that Bricks and Mnifigs is, quote, substantially likely to prevail on the merits of the claim. So Ben calls the whole thing unfair. This company was telling the court that I was making bomb threats. I was planning on murdering the manager and employees, which obviously I didn't do, and you can see that in the footage. The only problem is I was not given a chance to share my side.

The court just heard their perspective, not mine. But regardless, you're the judge granting Brickson Many Fix's request for a temporary restraining order against Ben and his team. So now to go through their list, cannot threaten the plaintiffs, can't docks them, can't go near the properties, can't impersonate people to obtain information, can't deface their property with signs, can't interfere with their business, can't recruit undercover agents, can't create fake raffles or contracts, can't deter people from calling 911, can't destroy evidence, and last but not

least, then can't create, post, publish, republish, or disseminate any false, misleading, harassing, interfering, defamatory, or unlawful images or content about the plaintiffs. And so presumably all of this is why he's not uploading part three of his series, and he's refraining from even saying the company's name, in his latest update video. Normally I would be like, screw the big guy telling me what to do. I'm gonna do what's morally right.

But in this situation, if I do that, then all my friends get screwed with this lawsuit and we lose all the GoFundMe money we raised, like immediately. But of course, this restraining order, it only applies to Ben and anyone working with him. It doesn't say anything about the other 340 million people in this great country of ours. And so who knows what's gonna happen next,

but this entire thing, it's appealed are nightmare for bricks and mini figs, like the brand as a whole. I mean, if you go online, there are people who have gone to these places for years and also people that had no idea they existed hating on this company right now. And even if this restraining order prevents Ben from continuing the series, I mean, it also, for many, it arguably reinforces this narrative that there's a conspiracy of some sort between bricks and mini figs, maybe the Mormon church, the police, the courts, that they're trying to silence Ben and cover up their Lego theft. And so it's going to be very interesting to see what happens from here. Is Bricks and Minifigs successful in kind of like trying to kill the flame?

Or does it just provoke more outrage? Do we see more people going, well, if Ben isn't able to do this, I'm going to do this. So there, I also have to know that Ben has explicitly discouraged viewers from going to these stores, especially as we're seeing reports of just a ton of people calling Utah 911, others, maybe harassing brands that have nothing to do with this dispute. But yeah, for now, let me know your thoughts, opinions, reactions, in those comments down below. And then there's more we're going to dive into in just a minute. But first, let me thank a sponsor and say, you know, I want to give all of you beautiful bastards a shout out that have entered our weekly $500 Seekeekeek giveaways. And also, a huge thanks to Seat Geek for doling out now nearly

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And it's largely thanks to Donald Trump and his immigration crackdown. But it's all set to start on Thursday, and in addition to the United States, you have games being played in Canada and Mexico. But many fans from dozens of countries, including four playing in the tournament, they have almost no shot of seeing the game in the United States, thanks to Trump's travel bans and other restrictions. In fact, a referee from Somalia, one of 52 people chosen to officiate the World Cup and one of only seven from Africa, he was denied entry into the US as well. He reportedly arrived in Miami over the weekend, but was taken aside, questioned overnight, kept in a holding cell for several more hours and then put on a flight.

With US Customs and Border Protection saying in a statement that he had been, quote, determined to be inadmissible due to betting concerns without then elaborating. But you then also had the ref claiming that he had the right papers and the right visa telling the New York Times, I think that they have a problem with my country. Which, yeah, may not be entirely off base. It is an administration. They've seriously restricted travel and immigration from Somalia,

and Trump himself has also disparaged Somali immigrants with racist attacks. Though then that's also as our Pentagon's been working with Somalia's government to launch airstrikes against militant groups in their country. And that also, I'll say, is not the only, we'll call it,

I guess, complicated relationship on display with this event. Right, you have Iran competing, which I also think makes it the first men's football World Cup in which the host nation welcomes the team of a country that they are at war with. The welcome might not be the right word,

or maybe it's too strong of a word, because for months, it wasn't even clear whether the Iran Iranian team would be allowed it. But then last week, they finally got their visas just 10 days before the first match is scheduled in LA. Also at the same time, within a dozen members of the team's support staff were denied entry. With an Iranian embassy official slamming what it called deliberate and discriminatory treatment and calling FIFA to hold the U.S. So there, you had a U.S. official telling Reuters that the administration had issued the visas necessary for Iran to compete in the World Cup. But then also beyond difficulties for foreign fans and players entering the U.S., there are also fears about what they might experience while here. where you've got more than 120 advocacy groups in the U.S. having issued an advisory warning visitors that they risk serious rights violations, including

arbitrary denial of entry and risk of arrest, detention, and or deportation, violent and unconstitutional immigration enforcement, including racial profiling and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and even death while in ICE detention or custody. And on top of that, even fans who live in the U.S., they're worried that ICE is going to carry out arrests in and around the stadium. And that's a concern you're even seeing with people that are working at these venues, which is actually part of the reason why you have some stadium workers as well as hotel workers threatening to go on strike. And that includes workers in Seattle where six games are held and more than 2,000 workers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, which is going to host eight matches. Along with higher pay and better employment protections, they're asking for guarantees that ICE will not be allowed to conduct deportation operations inside or outside of the venue. This is coming after the Union in LA, along with the ACLU of Southern California and other local advocacy groups filed a complaint with the state over PIPA's policy requiring people to share immigration information in order to work. And then because all of these concerns and these fears, there are concerns and fears that the economic benefits from the World Cup coming to town, they're going to be dampened.

You have 80% of hotel owners and managers and host cities saying that they're booking fewer rooms than expected, according to a survey by the American Hotel and Lodging Association. 65% to 70%, they say that visa barriers and broader geopolitical concerns are significantly suppressing international demand. And at least as yesterday, tickets for the U.S. team's opening match still have not sold out. You had FIFA's website showing more than 100 tickets still available and third-party resale platform showing thousands more statistics. still in stock. So there, I'll also say that part of that might have to do with the record-breaking costs of the tickets. The most expensive regular seats for the U.S.'s opening game, for example, they're priced at nearly $3,000. That's more than the final cost of the 2022 World Cup final. Well, the cheapest, they're a little over $1,000. You even had our now billionaire president

saying he wouldn't pay those prices, telling the New York Post last month. I would certainly like to be there, but I wouldn't pay it either, to be honest with you. Now, with everything that we've talked about here, I will note that you've had some local organizers and officials, including in California claiming that immigration agents, they're only going to be helpful. out with general security. But the administration's response has not been all that reassured. Or with the Department of Homeland Security saying in one statement that it would work with federal and local partners, quote, in line with federal law and the U.S. Constitution, as we do with every major sporting event. And adding, international visitors who legally come to the United States for the

World Cup have nothing to worry about. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is whether or not they are illegally in the U.S. full stop. But of course, you've many not taking them at their word, especially because there are plenty of people that are in this country that legally have been swept up in Trump's immigration crackdown. And that includes citizens and permanent residents. And the way that ICE is based, like, if someone's legal or not, has been the way that they look, the language they speak, and the work that they do. Especially because the conservative Supreme Court effectively gave them the green light. Plus, even as some DHS statements have suggested that agents are going to be focused on criminal activity, the White House has repeatedly cast undocumented immigrants as criminals, even when they haven't been convicted or even charged with any crimes.

And just this week, you had Bordersar Tom Homan saying that he looked over a plan to send more ICE agents than you've ever seen to New York City, his words, which is also jointly hosting some World Cup matches with New Jersey. There, I'll note that the timing might just be overlapping. Homan, he's repeatedly threatened to send more ice agents to New York for weeks. And it actually appears largely over a bill that Governor Kathy Hokel signed into law at the end of last month, which barred state and local enforcement from working with immigration in state jails. And so we're gonna have to see if he follows through this time, but also, in the meantime, you had New York City Mayor Zoran Mumdani, bowing that his administration will not take an ice invasion laying down.

Writing on Twitter, soccer would not exist without immigrants. Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US men's national team are immigrants. And adding, we will not allow ICE or anyone else to so fear in our communities, especially at this moment. As the world comes to our city, we will stand proudly with our immigrant neighbors and reject these attacks for what they are, an attempt to divide us. And then that actually brings us to the UK where we have another story where politicians are using immigration to stoke division.

Though this one is a little different. Because last night, a man in his 40s was brutally stabbed on the streets of Belfast in Northern Ireland. Well, a video of this, it's going viral right now. It's way too graphic for us to show in this video, but you can immediately see the victim's face just covered in blood, and in this censored still, you can see that the suspect was on top of him as he stabbed him, and eventually you had bystanders stepping in to chase him off with one, even swinging a hurling stick at him.

As far as a victim, you report saying currently in the hospital in serious condition after sustaining injuries in his face, neck, and back. We've got people like Prime Minister Kier-Starmor calling the attack sickening, sending his thoughts to the victim and applauding the citizens who intervene. And then as far as what we know about the suspect to start off, he's been arrested in charge with attempted murder. Currently, we don't have an official motive, and while officers are working with counterterrorism officials as they investigate,

right now there's no sign that this was a terrorist attack or they say that he wasn't working with anyone else. Now, as far as more specifics, you have the police saying the suspect is a Sudanese man in his 30s, though they initially identified him as Somali and they had to update their statement. He apparently arrived in Northern Ireland in 2023. He was granted asylum with approval to be there through 2028. And right now, police say that his status when he crossed the border is undetermined, but they said that he flew from Sudan to Paris, then to Dublin, and then reached Belfast. And the fact that this suspect is from Sudan has become a major angle of the story.

Or because his stabbing, it comes in the wake of the killing of 18-year-old Henry Novak. And while he was killed back in December, they recently released body camera footage that prompted massive protests in the UK last week. Because when police responded to that scene, the person who was responsible, Vikram Digwa, he told him that he had been the victim of a hate crime and the officers believed that Henry was the suspect. So when Henry told the police over and over that he had been stabbed, they initially didn't believe him and he died from his wounds. And so this prompted a ton of outrage generally in the country, but especially among far-right leaders who have been using it to claim anti-white prejudice. arguing that in Britain, the, quote, rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities.

And a number of them told people to respond with rage and anger. And in fact, they did. 11 officers were injured during protests in Southampton last week. And so now that there's been another tragic stabbing and the suspect isn't white, you have people fearing that this is going to happen again. The leaders are going to use this, they're going to point to this to this turrical tensions, racism, anti-immigration sentiments, and to encourage unrest. And in fact, it looks like we're already seeing some of that play out. With, for example, far-right MP, Rupert Robert Lowe writing a letter to the prime minister demanding full details of this savages, nationality, immigration status, and religion. Also writing, I want to know exactly what that Somalian scumbag is doing in our country,

how did he arrive, or what visa, is he working on benefits. Though, again, among other things, the suspect has since been identified as Sudanese, not Somali. You also have Britain's Restore Party, responding by posting in favor of mass deportations in writing, do not make peace with evil, destroy it. You also have leaders in Nigel Farage's reform parties saying that they have plans for a total ban on visas for anyone from Sudan. Right-wing voices like Tommy Robinson, similarly calling to send immigrants back and arguing that white people are under attack. seeing this also for people outside of the UK like Elon Musk calling for people to protest repeatedly and loudly and you've got right-wing American influencers also posting the stabbing

non-stop sharing the video far and whine and so then with all that you're seeing tons of others trying to push back against this saying people are trying to take individual instances to villainize entire group surging the public to remain calm and allow police to investigate with people like the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland say what we need today is calm across Northern Ireland across our communities any kind of disorder only serves to to wreck our own communities. It doesn't serve any purpose. You also had officials urging people to stop sharing the video

as to protect and not re-traumatize the victim's family. Also, you had people condemning those who were trying to either politicize or say anything that could incite chaos at the protest. And I understand that last night's attempts of murder will leave people feeling enraged with emotions from fear to anger. Do not let people who know nothing about Northern Ireland,

impact on the behaviors of our people in Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland from afar through social media. Where there are any concerns about immigration, let's have those through a political debate. Let the criminal justice process take its course. And let's just remember that all of our communities in Northern Ireland almost entirely contribute positively to this place and don't be fooled or duped into a trap by people online inciting awful behavior. And you've had others echoing that, calling out people who aren't from Northern Ireland, but still they're trying to put their outrage at the center of the story with one MP writing. The horrific scenes in North Belfast should not be used by English right-wing politicians to further their own ends.

I don't ever remember them commenting on any of the other hellish things that community is experienced over the years. And actually, right now, at least to some degree here and there, it does seem that certain right-wing officials are urging their own people to calm down. But I will say not necessarily in the same way, right, with, for example, Rupert Lowe writing, Patriots, if you are protesting tonight in Belfast or elsewhere, do not give Starmor what he wants. Stay calm, keep your heads, do not attack the police, saying the state will show you no mercy, the dangerous far right will be blamed and your life will be ruined forever. It will be that brutal. However angry you are feeling now, it is not worth it.

Protests, but do it loudly, do it peacefully. But for now, we'll have to wait to see what happens. And of course, yes, I want to know everyone's thoughts here, but especially if you're over in the UK, you're over in Northern Ireland, you know, what are your thoughts here? And then there's more we gotta dive into in just a minute, but first let me thank a sponsor and say, you know, I don't really struggle with wanting to get work done. I struggle with my brain deciding literally everything else is suddenly more interesting.

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smile because it happened. Words that I meant for you, but maybe they also work for Spencer Pratt because Nithia Rahman is now officially beat out Spencer Pratt to go on to the runoff with Karen Bass for L.A. Mayor. And with that, Trump, who'd been rooting on Pratt, he definitely wasn't happy. Posting not possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had,

Third World Nation rigged elections. Right in Pratt, he also teed up some conspiracies ahead of the final results as well. So do not be surprised if you hear more from him on that very soon. But for now, I'll say we are in for a pretty interesting race come November, Because among other things, Rahman made a last minute slide into the mayoral race after initially endorsing Bass for re-election. And she's the more progressive left-leaning candidate, so it's going to be kind of a litmus test to see really, you know, how far left Angelinos are. Especially in regards to a number of the hot button issues there, homelessness, pothold roads, rent prices.

And then the other side of you're representing more of the democratic establishment, which has had pushback and controversy one after the other. And this election really showed it. I mean, Bass, she's the incumbent and she didn't exactly shine at the polls. Which is why you had people saying her lead in the race, it was a victory with an asterisk. that it would be wrong for Karen Bass to think that this is a ringing endorsement of the work she's currently doing. And with that, you had Rahman saying, if you're as frustrated by the broken status quo as I am, I hope you'll join our movement to build a city that works for everyone. Saying for too long, city hall has prioritized giving political advantage to powerful interests that fund elections.

Meanwhile, working people pay the price in higher rents, depleted services, and a city that has stopped working for them. But you also have Bass's team taking aim at Rahman, saying, a campaign against Nithia Rahman, who allows encampments near schools and cuts the police forces, one Mayor Bass is looking forward to winning. But one, we'll have new polling, some. what's soon and two, anything could happen from now till November. Also, moving on from California to Minnesota, J.D. Vanch has referred Minnesota Governor Tim Wals and A.G. Keith Ellison to the Department of Justice for Criminal Investigation.

With this coming after a House Oversight Committee released another report this week on the ongoing fraud investigation in Minnesota, alleging that, quote, fraud warnings were elevated to the most senior levels of the Minnesota state government. Meaningful corrective action was delayed or avoided and payments continued long after credible signs of fraud emerged. And even before that, it seemed like there was an official investigation on the way for a while now. When I hear about a report that says to the governor, here's all this fraud and he doesn't do anything about it,

I ask myself, was anybody engaged in criminal wrongdoing? Was anybody his office engaged in criminal wrongdoing? Again, I'm not going to say yes, but I am going to promise the American people we're going to look into that stuff, we're going to investigate it, and we're going to take it seriously. Because if there was criminal wrongdoing, then people ought to go to prison for it.

But with his most recent report you at House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, pending a letter to Van saying that he should, quote, direct the appropriate executive branch agencies to conduct a thorough review of all of Minnesota's Social Services Program integrity measures, oversight processes, reimbursements, and enrollment from 2019 to the present. So with that, fans announced the investigation on Twitter saying, Minnesota state officials are not above the law.

And if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew or harassed and intimidated whistleblowers, they must face justice. But I'm also saying more about it in an interview with Jesse Waters yesterday. We are not going to do what the Biden administration did and make judgments of the law before all the facts are in. But here's what's particularly troubling about this to me is, is Jesse, you had people within Governor Walts's office who were saying, you know what, this looks like fraud. It looks like these Somalian illegal immigrants are doing something that's very shady.

And then you had people who shut them down, who shut these whistleblowers down and said, you know, you're a racist or you're a xenophob. And while at this point, Walls and Ellison, they haven't said anything. To be honest, there's probably nothing they can say that they haven't already said before. Since all these fraud probes took off, Walls has maintained that he welcomes the federal help saying joint investigations work, even adding that securing justice depends on it. But also when the administration got more aggressive, even holding back Medicaid funding at one point, Wall said that these moves have nothing to do with fraud.

And adding, this is a campaign of retribution saying Trump is weaponizing the entirety of the federal government to punish blue states like Minnesota. And so while for many at this point, you know, this seems like another strong arm from the administration, we're gonna have to wait to see what happens with this investigation and keep an eye on it.

And then the final thing today is that a federal judge just struck down the $100,000 fee that they put on the H-1B visas late last year. Where would the US district court judge deciding that the executive branch had violated the administrative procedure act? Or in other words, he said that the fee was unlawful because Congress never approved it. Right, that's because Trump used a presidential proclamation to put the fee in place, saying that it would help prevent foreign workers from taking American jobs. Right, which one be visas are supposed to be used for foreigners working high-skilled jobs in fields like tech, education, or medicine.

And when they implemented the fee, you had Trump's team saying, his common sense action on each one-b visas discouraged companies from spamming the system and driving down American wages, while providing certainty to employers who need to bring the best talent from overseas. But you had many noting that H1B visa applications already cost thousands before the fee increase. So it made it very difficult to fill important vacancies for jobs like physicians, nurses, and researchers. And the 20 states that sued over it said that the extra costs made things even worse. And so with this ruling, you had officials saying, today's victory protects the integrity of the H1B visa program as a tool to address severe labor shortages in vital industries like education, health care, and medical research.

As far as Trump, he felt differently. These federal judges are really giving us a hard time. It's really crazy what's going on with the court system. They are giving us a very, very hard time and they shouldn't be doing it. They're hurting our country very badly. Also with this decision, you had Trump's DHS saying this is blatant judicial activism,

dismantling President Trump's historic efforts for immigration reform. And so for now, Team Trump says that they're confident that this order will be reversed on appeal. And so we'll all see some time soon. And so you should definitely subscribe to stay in the loop on that

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