The Trish Regan Show - Pam Bondi SIDELINED! Trump Creates NEW DOJ Position to BYPASS AG on Minnesota Fraud Cases

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

BREAKING: Calls for criminal prosecution are growing after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna formally urges the DOJ to investigate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison for their alleged complicity in what’s being described as a historic $19 BILLION fraud scheme. And — JD Vance just announced the creation of a new, dedicated federal prosecutor tasked specifically with rooting out fraud — reporting directly to the President. The move effectively sidelines Pam Bondi, whom many critics — including Trish Regan — argue is in over her head as fraud explodes nationwide. Trish also takes aim at the mainstream media’s immediate spin on the unfolding crisis in Minnesota — accusing outlets of deliberately ignoring the fraud, downplaying potential terror connections, and instead rushing to politicize events on the ground. And as tragedy strikes, Trish argues this moment could have been avoided — if Democrats had chosen to lower the temperature rather than divide the country, exploit chaos for political gain, and demonize ICE while law enforcement is under siege. 👉 Don’t miss Trish Regan’s full breakdown — the facts the media won’t touch, the politics behind the chaos, and what comes next. ✅ JOIN the Trish Team and help support independent journalism: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join 📈 For Trish Regan’s financial insights, subscribe to The 76 Report: ▶️ https://76research.com — Use CODE: DOLLAR for a special offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pam Bondi has finally been sidelined. We've been talking about this here on the show for a while, the need to get somebody a little more sophisticated, a little bit more on it, shall we say, in the seat. And it looks like the administration has finally gotten the hint. Pam Bondi getting sidelined here when it comes to the massive fraud investigation that's going on right now in, not just Minnesota, but the rest of the country.

A new DA is being in. installed just for fraud reporting to the President of the United States. Welcome everyone to the Trish Regan Show. Big story going on. We also have Anapalina Luna, the representative out of Florida, demanding a criminal charge be brought for being complicit in this Minnesota for both Governor Walsh of Minnesota as well as Keith Ellison. Big, big news.

I'm waiting for Ilhan Omar to come out. And, you know, the media is spinning this every way they can possibly think of, always to Sunday, J.D. Vandt's calling them out on it. I was calling them out on it just yesterday. I'll continue calling them out on it today. Welcome. Make sure you subscribe, share, like, all that good stuff. Again, if you're just joining us right now, major headline coming out just within the last 40 minutes or so, Pam Bondi has been sidelined. Pam Bondi, who runs the DOJ and has frankly, ladies and gentlemen, failed over and over and over again, whether it be Leticia James or James Comey. James Comey on that one. She just missed the statute of limitations for goodness sakes.

Now they're finally saying enough is enough because this is a big case. And you're talking about in some cases the concern about terrorist financing connections, et cetera. So you need somebody in the big leagues in the seat going after the fraudsters because it's not fair. It is not right. And J.D. Vance just announced moments ago that's exactly what they're doing. A new person in charge reporting to the president of the United States that's just handling fraud. Listen. Is we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud.

Boom. Okay. Over the issue of fraud. Nationwide jurisdiction. And not reporting to the likes of Pam Bondi, but reporting to one Donald Trump. Because you know what? This is kind of an important thing. And I don't know how she screwed up all the other things she screwed up.

But at this point, Americans are really mad. You're talking about $19 billion at least in the state of Minnesota. They're talking about $70 billion that's gotten missing in California. We get situations of all kinds of daycares, sprouting up all over. Washington State, Ohio, Maine. There's a lot coming out here and a lot of fraud that happened. Americans are angry, and it shouldn't be this way. Back to J.D.

Again, moments ago at the White House. If you're a young parent struggling to afford child care in the United States of America, there are programs that we have to make it easier for your kids to get in daycare, for your kids to get in preschool. Those programs should go to American citizens not be defrauded by Somali immigrants and others. Make it hard for you to get the access to the resources you need. But number two, making it easier for people who shouldn't even be in this country to fleece the United States and our taxpayers to begin with. We have actually activated a major interagency task force to make it possible to get to the heart of this fraud. We have Department of Agriculture resources that are focused on snap fraud so that people who need food benefits can get them, but illegal aliens and other fraudsters don't.

We have over 1,500 subpoenas that the Department of Justice has issued to get to the heart of the fraud ring. We've done almost 100 indictments, mostly Somali immigrants, but also a few others. And of course, we're looking in with broad investigatory authority to a number of the instances of wrongdoing that we've seen in Minneapolis. but we also want to expand this. We know that the fraud isn't just happening in Minneapolis. It's also happening in states like Ohio. It's happening in states like California. And so what we're doing in order to help coordinate this remarkable interagency effort

from the Trump administration, but also to make sure that we prosecute the bad guys and do it as swiftly and efficiently as possible is we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue. of fraud. Now, of course, that person's efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort because unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way. I mean, yeah. I mean, this is the big leagues, okay? So we can't be dealing with people who forget to turn in their homework on time. September 25th, 2005, the statute of limitations was running out. Remember on Comey? And it wasn't until

oh, I don't know, maybe 14 days before that, the president finally, in a sort of early morning, I want to say like 2 a.m., through social post is like, Pam Bondi, you better be moving forward on this. You better indict him. And so that's when they kind of had to do a big shuffling of the guy who was the DA in that office

because, I don't know, apparently she never checked in on him to see what was up. And they put in Lindsay instead, Halligan, but they didn't do it the right way because, well, you know, They forgot to turn in their homework on time. And I'm telling you, the other side isn't playing like that. Comey's laughing all the way to the bank. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

I got you. Statute of limitations. I'm sorry. You know what? I hate that there's a statute of limitations too, but that's just the way the cookie crumbles. That's the way the law works. And so you screwed up. And I don't know what happened as far as Latisha James goes.

I mean, you had all the proof from Bill Pulte giving it to you, you know, with the mortgage fraud allegations. And yet they couldn't see that one through to first base. Come on. So when it comes to this, you know, two strikes you're out. We're going on times three. And I'm going to go two here because the stakes are that big. We can't fail again.

And you know, J.D. Vance knows that. Scott Bessent knows that. Everyone knows that, all right? So they're pushing her aside. Look, she's got a lot on her plate. And she keeps failing with everything she's got. So it's time for someone new. who that new person is. I do not know, but they have just announced they have created this new

position. And that position actually will be reporting not to Pam Bondi, but to the president of the United States, because it is that serious. Don't forget, you're talking about billions of dollars, and I don't care. What Ilhan Omar is trying to say about, oh, no, you know, none of this went to el-a-bub overseas. But I hate to tell you, I've done a ton of reporting on terror financing throughout my career, actually won a lot of awards for it. The way the Hawala Network works, if you're a Somali immigrant here in the United States, sending money back home, guess what?

The cause is taken a little bit, right off the top. And that's what Treasury is going to find. And that's what the new person, the fraud prosecutor, is going to go after. Again, like I said, this is the big leagues. CBS, pay attention. The president told you, though, 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, Marta, to be clear, the initial fraud that was discovered by the IRS, for which I'm the acting commissioner, is discovered by 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 government, governor donated to represent. Omar donated to A.G. Ellison. But they've been transferred to something called MBSs. And those are... Mortgage-backed security. What do you mean? Sorry? Transferred to what?

These are money, the Bureau services, and they are wire-trained. for 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 writers are alleged.

That's why it's an investigation. We started it last week. We'll see where it goes. But I can tell you that, you know, it's terrible. You know, the Representative Omar tried to downplay it, said, oh, it was very, the, you know, it was very tough to know how this money should be used. You know, she was gaslighting the American people. Well, we'll talk to her. Yeah.

But, you know, when you come to this country, you've got to learn which side of the road to drive on. You've got to learn to stop the stop signs. And you've got to learn the not to defraud the American people. You know, we kind of hope you know that before you get here. But, hey, maybe you'll learn as you go. or you get denaturalized. Because that's the new thing they're talking about. Denaturalization of all the fraudsters that engaged in this Anapalina Luna coming out with a bombshell

in yesterday's hearing, my gosh, I want to go straight to her. As she took the floor, she announced that she was demanding criminal charges be pursued by the DOJ. The DOJ, that would be Pam Bondi's office, just announced about an hour ago that, yes, indeed they have received this formal request from the representative from Florida for criminal charges, as well as Anna Polina Luna's desire to see the fraudsters be denatralized and possibly wind up at that Honduran prison that no one's so fond about. Seacop. Chair, recognized this, Ms. Luna.

Thank you, Chairman Comer. Honorable Robbins, based on your record before your committee, When did Governor Walls first become aware of widespread fraud in Minnesota Social Service programs? I would assume that he has been aware of it since he ran for office for governor in 2018. By 2017, DHS investigators warned CCAP fraud could exceed 50%. Was that information elevated to the governor's office? Yes, there was an OLA report. Thank you, ma'am.

By 2020, state officials knew feeding our future invoices were fraudulent. We know that payments continue to the AG's knowledge. Did they continue to the governor's knowledge as well? Yes. Attorney General Ellison agreed on tape to fight Minnesota's own Department of Human and Health Services in exchange for Somali political and financial support. In your personal opinion, do you believe it is a possibility that Governor Walls also made that personal deal or that he at least knew about the Attorney General's agreement?

I don't know. Okay. I don't want to rehash what you guys have spent hours answering. We know that there's a big issue. issue with the fraud in Minnesota. So on a number of things, I'd first like to point out, thank you for being here today. But because of your testimony and because of some of the evidence that we've seen brought forward, as well as I'm sure the fact that this committee, I assume, at Chairman Comer's direction,

will be soon subpoenaing A.G. Ellison. I would like to make criminal referrals regarding Governor Walls as well as A.G. Ellison. As you know, U.S. Code 371 and U.S. Code 2, which deals with criminalized conspiracies to defraud the United States and establishes liability for individuals who knowingly aid or abet the commission of federal offense includes willing full blindness or deliberate inaction where duties to act exist. So I will be referring them later on today. She wants not only Waltz and Ellison to go down for their alleged complicity, complicity in all of this. She wants some heads to roll, some people who engaged in this fraud.

to lose their citizenship. And you know what? They just may. You heard her cite a couple of laws there. Let's go through them. You've got 8 U.S.C. 1451. Revocation of naturalization. This would be a denaturalization

for anyone who is found guilty of fraud. There's a 10-year statute of limitation on this one. This is the main statute that allows the U.S. government to basically revoke that citizenship if someone is determined to have engaged in fraud. So the first one, actually, forgive me. The first one is if somebody engaged in getting citizenship in an illegally procured way. In other words, if you lied on the citizen application and they find out about it, they can take it away.

But the second one, 18 U.S.C. 1425, criminal naturalization fraud. This is the criminal statute. that she's citing that would make it a crime to knowingly procure or attempt to procure naturalization contrary to the law, a conviction under this statute can be used as a basis to seek denaturalization. Basically, if you were found guilty, if you were found guilty of fraud in roughly about 10 years, because that's the statute of limitation, so then guess what? They can actually take away the citizenship. Now, I credit Anapolina Luna, with this one, because I actually was not familiar with this law. I was looking around trying to say, couldn't you actually lose it?

And, you know, if these guys are swindling Americans out of millions and millions of dollars, like, what is there? Is there any kind of law that says, you know what, a U.S. citizen cannot commit any fraud for exactly 10 years after the fact? It's not perfect, but these are the laws. Criminal prosecution for naturalization fraud, 18 U.S.C. 1425 that would allow for denaturalization. that's one that they'll be looking at with Ilhan Omar or whether there's civil denaturalization for fraud misrepresentation in obtaining citizenship. And then, of course, the question of whether or not the government can revoke your citizenship if you engaged in fraud around the time that you are being naturalized. So that's what they're going to try and use. Either one of these two laws, this kind of legislation, to bend this to show that someone was engaging in fraud, maybe not on their citizen application.

although possibly they're going to be looking at that too. They're absolutely going to be looking at that because the thinking is, hey, if you're willing to go and defraud Americans for these daycare centers, who's to say that you wouldn't have done something fraudulently in terms of your citizen application? So that's one thing that they're looking at. And then the other thing that they're looking at is if you were defrauding

at the time that you were getting your citizenship or shortly thereafter, then do they have the right to revoke your citizenship then? And I think that they probably, they just may. And this is why you need a good lawyer. Okay, this is why you need a really good person in charge. You need somebody that's kind of like a CEO of a massive law firm because at this point, you need your minions all out, all over the country in all of these different states, investigating what went down in Maine, investigating what was going down in Ohio, investigating the 70 billion missing dollars from all kinds of programs, 2.3 billion for whole. homelessness in California. So all of this has to come out.

And so this is going to take a lot of effort. You've got the Treasury Department working on it. As you saw, Scott Besson's been talking about how they're going to go after this because they believe that there are terror connections here. And then you've got to be able to see what you can recover. Can you recover any of this? No? Okay, well, you know what?

Maybe denaturalization is what the penalty is along with if you listen to APL. Seacot, okay? You're going down and you're going to be in one of the worst prisons in the world, whether or not that could come to fruition. We'll see. I mean, there's already been a lot of backlash against that. But I would say that they're aiming high here. And my question is, okay, you're going after Waltz.

You're going after Ellison. At what point did you decide to also go after this? Forgive me, I thought I had a picture of Ilhan Omar handy. But this is, again, another example of why and how they're going after Ellison. Let me show you this Fox report from Fox and Friends this morning. The feds are completely dropping the hammer on Ellison because they got him on tape. The investigation into these fraud allegations is far from over. But sources are telling Fox again this morning that now that Governor Tim Wall says he's not going to run for re-election.

The feds are also shifting their focus to the state's attorney general Keith Ellison. Why? Because a newly obtained clip by Fox that we just got yesterday. that was from 2021, has Ellison meeting in this recording with a group of people who were asking for his help. The problem is those people, you guys, were then just days later arrested for one of the biggest fraud scandals in the state. Watch. The only way we can protect what we have is by inserting ourselves into the political arena, putting our votes where it needs to be, but most importantly, putting our dollars in the right place and supporting candidates that will fight to protect our interests. That's right. You can only protect our interests when we have your back and you don't have to worry about

who's behind you. So now officials are saying why was Ellison meeting with this group in the first place? They were asking him to help them get more federal funding, offering votes and campaign donations for support. So the audio clips part of an ongoing investigation under the widespread fraud across the state. Ellison's office sharing an op-ed that he wrote in the local paper in the local paper. He said in part, I took a meeting of good faith with people I didn't know, and some turned out to have done bad things. I did nothing for them and took nothing from them.

But documents obtained by the Center for the American Experiment say some of those non-convicted Somali fraudsters that he met with donated to the money to Ellison's campaign after that meeting. It's money, though, he did later give back once this group was indicted, according to reports. So there's just so many levels of the fraud that's been going on for years, according to officials. Fox obtained that full, nearly one hour-long clip of the meeting with the lawyer of Amy Bach. For people wondering who that is there in your screen, she's the Minnesota woman who was one of many convicted last year in that $250 million feeding our future scam. That's how this all started with Bach. She's behind bars, though, but her legal team tells me, where's the accountability for the governor and the attorney general?

He said the state let the fraud happen. Do you think some of these politicians should be held accountable? I would like to see someone someone in the state. I don't care what is the governor. I don't care what is the attorney general. In other words, someone's got to go down for this

because someone allowed this to happen. Someone was looking the other way. I mean, at least Ellison returned the money. He said, oh, you know, I just, well, what happened? I don't know. I met with him one day and they got indicted the next and I guess I had to turn over those campaign funds. What about Ilhan Omar?

Has she apologized for having her big, election day party at the guy's restaurant who later was convicted of swindling taxpayers out of millions of millions of dollars? Where's her apology? No, no, she has no apology. Ilhan Omar thinks this is just because of race. You're going after her because she's a black woman and therefore that's some kind of clickbait. Are you kidding me? I'm not. This is what she said. This is what she said on CNN just the other day. We've already played it, so I don't have to bore you with it again. But Ilhan Omar believes that this is all about race and that they're just going after her because of the color of her skin. I mean, it's something we were kind of hearing from Keith Ellison as he sounded to, you know, sympathico with the people that were the fraudsters.

In the audio tapes, it's been released. You heard Fox play part of it. Let me play you some more. And it is my goal to see prosperity. among people who've been denied it. You know, I think it's very kind and important for you to say that new American communities appreciate the sacrifices of people who come before, but we're all in this together.

Right? You see what I'm saying? I think it's kind of you to say it, and I appreciate it, but we don't recognize no differences between us. We're one, and we're going to stand up for each other and make sure. Okay, so I got it covered, right? you're like me. It doesn't matter that you just came here yesterday from Somalia. You're like me because we're all the same color. You see what they're reducing this all too. It's divide, divide, divide and conquer. And I'm telling you someone's going down. Someone is going to go down.

We heard even CNN admit that someone's got to pay the price and it's going to be somebody with a big political career. Why do you think Walt suddenly retired from politics? Because he knows, guess what? He's got a bounty on his head. Listen right here to front Scott Jennings talking on CNN about how somebody has to pay the prices, the anchor protest. They're doing all they can here. That nothing is being done, that no one is being held accountable, that this was just let to run rampant is completely false.

Well, some people have been held accountable, but I think in the opinion of most Republicans, not nearly enough. And truthfully, until somebody in a position of power, until somebody in a position in Minnesota elected position who was in charge of administering this or having some oversight over it goes to jail, it's honestly never going to stop.

Look what's going on in blue states across the country. Nine billion in Minnesota, 70 billion in fraud in California, cooking the crime stats in Washington, D.C. When is someone in a position of power going to go to jail for the rampant fraud? What I am telling you, though, is in the case of these states and locales,

This is public money. Taxpayer money. Sure. People get elected. They're supposed to run the program. The D.OJ is doing their job every single day. About 10 walls. The Medicaid program is run by the state.

The DOJ is prosecuting fraudsters. And he bragged about putting more money into this daycare. Oh, hang on a second. I'm not sure. Ooh, that's some funny graphics, huh? If you're watching, we just had a little graphic mishap on the screen. That's like, you know, I'm live. But I think it's interesting that the CNN anchor is trying to say,

oh, the DOJ is doing their job. The DOJ is doing their job. the DOJ, the DOJ. Oh, I guess she kind of likes Pam Bondi. I guess she's pretty happy, you know? Pam Bondi didn't go after Comey the way they thought. Pam Bondi didn't get that indictment of Letitia James. And Pam Bondi is no longer being trusted with this case,

because guess what? Nothing's been happening. And we're getting a little frustrated because, you know, there's a lot of things going down and there's midterms coming up and you know what? This is not acceptable. It's not acceptable that $19 billion was stolen from you. It's not. And if Pam can't get the job done, and I'm sorry, I like her.

You know what? I really do like her on a personal level. And we've been on Newsmax many times together, and she's to come on my Fox show. And you know what? I really do like her. And she's lovely in person, and she's beautiful on camera. And believe me, she does have the president's back.

She's very loyal to him. She likes him, adores him. And he adores her. But I'm sorry, this is business, okay? And I'm going to wear my little business hat for a while because you guys know that. That's sort of my whole background, right, in business and in business journalism. I'm just going to say she's not the right person for the job.

Because while she may be beautiful to look at on camera, and while she may be very loyal to the president of the United States, at this point, we need more than a beauty queen. I say that as a former beauty queen myself, okay? Nothing against beauty queens. I like beauty queens. We need somebody who can actually execute on this. And so that means running an entire country's worth of other DAs that are going to go out, U.S. attorneys effectively, I guess a kind of a different arm of this U.S. attorney vehicle that are going to go out

and they're going to work with the Treasury Department. They're going to work with the Department of Agriculture and Homeland Security and everybody that's involved in this, whether it be SNAP fraud, whether it be Medicaid and Medicare fraud. This is a big assignment, okay? So you can't just pass it off to Pam, who's frankly, repeatedly forgotten to turn in the homework on time. time. You need the big leagues. And I don't know who that is. I mean, some of us have been talking about Janine Piro and Janine Piro is the big leagues. And I know she was television. And sometimes I even, you know, having worked in television, have a little bit bias against people in TV. My fear sometimes

is that this administration likes to put people that look good on and sound good on because they're going to be great on TV, but they can't actually do the job. Gene Piro can do the job. Janine Piro can do the job. Genean Piro was the real deal and Janine Piro had a long career as a prosecutor long before she ever wound up on Fox okay so that actually might be worth looking at

Harmeet Dillon is another one who's like a real attorney not just a TV attorney I don't want any TV attorneys okay I don't even want any politicians I mean I'd take Peero and I'd probably take Dylan but I'd like somebody who maybe has run a big law firm, who's run a big litigation department and knows how to manage this process because we're going to need a lot done. And I don't think that Pam, I think they realize this

is really up to the job. Hence, this is why you have, this is why you have JD now saying they are creating another position. Is we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud. Because fraud's a big deal. Fraud's a big deal. We also have, uh, the media kind of turning this situation in Minneapolis into a real tinderbox. Um, the tragedy was really horrific.

A 37 year old mother of three gun down after she refused. And let me just say this for a second, okay. You don't mess with the feds and you don't mess with the police and you know, I, I, just a small town girl from New Hampshire, but my dad taught me when I was about four or five years old. The police have guns. And the police pull you over. It's yes, sir, no, sir, please, sir, whatever you want, sir, okay? Like, you don't stand in the way of law enforcement, no matter how strong you feel about anything.

Because guess what? That's how you get yourself killed. Why on earth? this new generation of 30-something-year-olds doesn't get that? I don't know. But I tell my kids, number one, don't go to a protest. Unless you're covering it as a journalist, okay? It's the only time I've ever been to a protest.

And number two, if there are police there, you do what the police say. In the case of this 37-year-old woman, you've probably seen the video many times by now, and everybody's talking about how their interpretation of it is, I don't care. You know what? They're going to debate this, and I want to go to JD talking about this because he had some important things to say. But you know what? I'm just going to tell you this. I don't care.

The answer is you don't speed up when the police are trying to come towards you and get in the car. Okay? That's how you get yourself into trouble. And I don't know what your dad was teaching you when you were four or five years old. But again, I learned, as every American should learn, you don't mess with the police. Period. Full stop. End of story.

So here is J.D. Vance, who's just sticking tired of the way the media has been presenting this. What has the media been doing exactly what we'd assume they'd be doing? This poor woman. Oh, my gosh, she's so innocent, this, that, and the other. Well, here J.D.'s take on it. He just read them the riot act. I'll take some questions, but I want to make just one final observation here. When I was actually walking out here, somebody sent me a photo of a CNN headline about what happened in Minneapolis.

And this is the headline. I'm just going to read it. outrage after ICE officer kills U.S. citizen in Minneapolis. Well, that's one way to put it, and that is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24 hours. And I say attack very, very intentionally, because this was an attack on federal law enforcement, this was an attack on law and order, this was an attack on the American people. The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story, has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.

What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ice officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car, six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg. So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile? What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to docks, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job. If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left-wing radicals have been working, tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques to try to make it impossible for the president of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws. stands with ICE, I stand with ice, we stand with all of our law enforcement officers. And part of that is recognizing that you people in the media, not everybody in this room,

but many people in this room have been lying about this attack. She was trying to ram this guy with her car. He shot back. He defended himself. He's already been seriously wounded in law enforcement operations before. And everybody who's been repeating the lie that this is some innocent woman who was out for a drive in Minneapolis when a law enforcement officer shot at her, you should be ashamed of yourself. Wow. So that's how he opened up the briefing today, speaking with reporters before announcing

that they were creating this position that would report directly to the president of the United States to go after all of these fraudsters. And to possibly look at denaturalization, they're absolutely in on that. We heard from the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt just the other day, denaturalization, indeed, is on the table. And now, amidst all of this, right, because the left nose, a lot of people are going down. I mean, a lot. They have this horrible tragedy. Believe me, it's a tragedy.

Right? No one wants anyone to ever die in a situation like this. So it is a tragedy. But when you have lawmakers that are kind of ratcheting things up, the way they've been ratching it up, you know, sometimes things like this have a greater chance of happening. Because we've got Jacob Frye as the mayor there. You've got Tim Walts who's calling on people saying it's your civic duty to go out and protest. It's all I hate Trump. And the obscenities of get the F out, right? I mean, they're chanting this. F. ICE. F. Trump. And get the

This is Jacob Frye, the mayor, the mayor of Minneapolis, really. Leading by bad example. Here he is after the news yesterday. To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you are doing exactly the opposite. Somebody is dead. That's on you. This was an agent recklessly using power

that resulted in somebody dying. To the family, I'm so deep. family, I'm so deeply sorry. We're going to be working towards justice as quickly as we possibly can right now. And justice is what we've all got to get. We're going to make sure that in this very difficult moment, we do not take the bait that these ICE agents are trying to create and that the federal government, to be clear, wants. People are going to want to exercise their First Amendment rights, but please do so safely and lawfully to ensure that we do not have any further tragedy in this city or destruction. We can show them the kind of courage, bravery, love,

You know, I'm sorry. That makes Minneapolis... You could have helped prevent this, maybe by lowering the temperature just a little bit, right? Instead of having it being sweltering hot with all the hate and the fury. Thereby increasing the temperature to the point where you actually are now looking at a city

that's just a blaze. And it kind of reminds me, you know, this was the city, don't forget, of George Floyd. And remember what we saw there. In fact, if you go back to that time, do believe it was Jacob Frye, who was like down on his knees, basically, trying to apologize to the people and trying to say, yeah, we need to get rid of the police. He didn't fully say it. Well, I'll let you go back. Let's go back in time, okay, to 2020, because I think this tells you

everything you need to know about the state of Minneapolis today, Mr. Jacob Frye getting skewered. You have to take responsibility here. I've been coming to grips with my own brokenness in this situation, my own failures, my own shortcomings, and I know there needs to be deep-seated, structural reform in terms of how the department operates. The system needs to be revamped. The police union needs to be put in its place. We need to make sure that everything from the union contract to the way that the arbitration functions to the way that our officers in the culture and the department for page.

And I'm like, give you that. Give me that right. Jacob Fry, we have a yes or no question for you. Hey! Jacob Fry, we have a yes or no question for you. Yes or no will you commit to defunding Minneapolis Police Department? What do I say? We don't want no more police.

Is that clear? We don't want people with guns. guns toting around in our community, shooting us down. He's up for re-election next year. Election next year. Guess what the fuck we don't do next year? Sorry about that. Okay? So that was Minneapolis in 2020.

They don't want the police there under any circumstances. Do you think they want ice? Oh. No, they want complete lawlessness, apparently. And you know, Christy Noam was making the point they kind of need ice. They kind of need ice because things are that messed up. Let's go to her. I have her speaking here on the chaos that Frey and Waltz created. And that's actually one of the reasons why you need. Gosh, you probably need the National Guard in there too, right? Trying that again.

Like I said, we're live. Since Governor Walls has been in charge of Minnesota, we have seen homicides go up by over 50%. That's also during Mayor Fry's tenure as well. Since President Trump took office, Governor Walls has released over 470 violent criminals back onto the streets here in Minneapolis. He has another 680 of them still within his jurisdiction that he could give to us today to face the consequences for their crimes. Because Governor Walls and Mayor Fry refused to protect Minnesotans, and instead they protect these criminals, that's why we are here. And we didn't just show up yesterday. We've always been here. So in other words, the city has gotten so bad. And I'm just going to say it's so bad that not only are people getting blindly stolen from,

that would be us, U.S. taxpayers, they actually have a murder rate that's gone up. They've got a, I mean, they got chaos, they got bedlam. And they got thievery. And somehow, when you call it out, you're the, you're the way. the problem. You're the racist person calling this out. I mean, you saw what Governor Walts was talking about with Nick Shirley, the 23-year-old YouTuber who's 60 minutes ought to hire. Thank you very much because he's the one that blew the lid on the Quality Learning Center. And you think about all the people there on display in those hearings yesterday. You had an opportunity

to ask about this fraud. And here's this one woman, Emily Randall, a Democrat, who's trying to make it about something else entirely. You got to hear this all the way through to the end to hear this stupidity of this woman's logic. You can't even call it logic. None of it makes any sense. Watch. Not out all of the data that we want to create the sense that there is a bad guy. There is a bad group of people.

There are folks who are not among us. There are folks who are other. And I think we should spend a lot more time looking at ourselves, looking at Americans, citizens looking at white men. Okay, yeah. So here's the thing, don't call out any group, any group specifically. How dare you go after Somalian immigrants? How dare you, right?

You're calling out a specific group. And then what did she say? Did I hear that? Oh, let's go back and you know what? I don't want to put words in this. Gosh, I almost thought she was a white man, this person's mouth. Watch. citizens, looking at white men.

Woo! Okay. So, you know, not that we're trying to divide and conquer at all, but you want to forget about the Somali daycare owners. You want to go after, even though you don't actually want to single out any particular group. You want to go after white men. Says Representative Emily Randall, woo, lady. Like I said, if you can call her that.

And, you know, she's not the only one. I mean, Jasmine. Never fails to deliver. American people are concerned about is that the Republicans are taken away American's health care so that ultra billionaires can get more tax cuts. The real fraud is the dehumanization and demonization of the working class Americans and immigrants to distract folks away from corporate socialism that's happening because of the Republicans. So this is truly the definition of throwing away the baby with the bath water.

Okay, you see there's a consistency. there's a theme here. They all think it's about race. And then some of them are just completely unhinged, like off the reservation, insane, off the rails, whatever you want to call it. I'm told you can't say off the reservation anymore. You know, Elizabeth Warren might get mad. Here is Ayanna Presley out of Massachusetts with her complete meltdown. Election fraud lie.

Now, it claims he... Remember, this is a hearing about the theft of American. taxpayer dollars, which you'd think some of these people would care about because you know what, her constituents, they lose money in this too. $19 billion is allegedly stolen. I mean, people are talking about it. It could be as high as $100 million. We don't know, but basically it's a historic level on $70 billion, possibly out of California.

And this lady only wants to talk about January 6th. These things in the name of patriotism, but really he's just a criminal. So raise your hand if you oppose Trump's pardon of this Minnesota individual. Ma'am, this grandstanding nonsense is exactly what Minnesotans hate about D.C. This is accountability and you are hypocrites. So again, I will take your refusal. Thanks for demonstrating my opening statement. Mr. Chairman, order decorum.

She's off the rails. Reclaiming my time. I'm not off the rails, please. Oh, yeah, you are totally off the rails. Nancy, off of your trubs. Give me my time back. Order, Mr. Chairman. If Republicans were serious up,

you reclaim me. You pray for your time. You have no time. You have no time. Get to excuse me. You're out of time. You're out of time. You're out of time.

We're done here. You're not at time. At least. Times expired. It's personally. You've already secured your MSNBC spot tonight.

I'm not looking for a California You're going to be up in MSNBC and this administration. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And this Chairman, I agree she's going to be a great host on MSNBC.

This is my husband. I would want to jump in front of Miss May I reclaim my time. This is my time. Oh, my gosh. I wouldn't want to interrupt Ms. Spanx the third time. Chair recognizes Ms. Mr. Chair, she did not get all of her time. Mr. Chairman, she wants to spend ten more seconds. What do we have to do?

These people wind up in these positions. I used to have some bit of respect for members of Congress. Can't say that I do anymore. I'll tell you what, though. Americans deserve more. We all deserve better. We want that money back. And I can't tell you how happy I am that they are taking this seriously in the administration right now, that they are making this a priority to figure out who defrauded us. And they're going to make it a priority to make sure that these people are convicted and put in jail, not to mention anybody that was complicit and going along with this, looking the other way because maybe it meant political funds. Ilhan Omar, I'm still looking at you. We're going to have much more on this tomorrow. I'm curious, what do you guys think?

Who should get the gig? Who should take over the entire fraud prosecution operation? Tell me who's top of your list. Is it Janine Piro? I know you guys like her. And I'm going to just tell you, she's really, really good. She's really good. And I think she's the one person that actually has worked in television that I would say is up

to a job like this. Make sure you subscribe, share like. It is great to see all of you. Peace of my mind in the house again today. Pay for play for votes. That's what it feels like, right? But you know what? It's all coming out. Somebody else, somebody else making the point that this was like a one big giant USAID off. That's how it feels. I think so. So much more to come. Make sure you join this movement here on Team Trish. Make sure you subscribe, share like. It's important. As algorithms matter. I'll see you tomorrow. Thank you.