Accountability in Action - James Comer on Welfare Fraud and National Security

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has had Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton before him in depositions, forced depositions.

As they bow to his well ultimately, he's been at the lead of the Epstein investigation.

He was a guy who unraveled Hunter Biden and got the truth out from that, the IRS whistleblowers.

And of course, he has been all over the massive Democratic fraud scheme that has swept this

country to the 200 billions of dollars of taxpayer money's fleeced.

He joins us right now.

Mr. Chairman, great to have you on the show today.

Thanks for having me, Joe.

All right.

At the beginning of my little celebrate this morning, I kind of felt like I was watching

a bad version of the movie Clueless because Tim Wall seemed to be unaware of anything

happy.

He couldn't even explain why his state worker thought they had told him about this and

he didn't get on top of it.

What's your biggest takeaway from the governor and from the attorney general today?

Well, he's going to play dumb and he's pretty good at that.

But at the end of the day, the problem he has is today's hearing was a culmination of

two months worth of work by the oversight committee.

We talked to 30 Minnesota state employees.

We actually had sit down, transcribed interviews where the whistleblow with nine of the state

employees, a majority of whom testified that not only did they warrant Tim Walls in

P-thousand about the fraud, they were told to stay in down by P-thousand and Tim Walls.

So the governor and attorney general of Minnesota knew about the fraud.

They've known about the fraud for a long time and they don't care.

And all you heard today was them complaining that President Trump had cut off the federal

funding temporarily.

The Democrats on the committee, they were crying because the Trump administration had cut

off federal funding.

I think every American taxpayer would call for their federal funding to be cut off until

they fix this massive fraud problem they have.

But they just want to act like they didn't that it doesn't exist.

Just because we have a little fraud, then that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be entitled

to get even more welfare money.

Those days are over under the Trump administration.

I think our investigation proved that Walls in Olsen both knew about the fraud.

So hopefully, hopefully, the Trump administration will continue to cut off their federal welfare

spicket and try to get some people putting jail for defrauding the government.

Yeah, no important.

Mr. Chairman, was there any provable retaliation against any of these whistleblowers by Ellison

or Walls or anyone else?

Well, a couple of the employees testified under oath in a transcribed interview.

If you lie in a transcribed interview, you're lying to Congress that's a felony you committed

perjury.

They testified that they were retaliated against.

Many testified that they were told to stand down.

I mean, that's a form of retaliation.

I mean, if you're a whistleblower and you're brave enough to come forward and say, look,

there's massive amounts of fraud in the government.

It's the responsibility of the state employee's superiors to do something about it.

But they didn't.

And the employees who were all predominantly Democrat because I think most government employees

and whether they be on the state level or federal level that work in the welfare programs

are just predominantly Democrat.

That's a fact.

No matter what state, whether it's Kentucky or Minnesota.

And they came forward because they were appalled that Walls and Ellison would not do anything

about the fraud.

The view is because of political reasons.

One-arm shift political, they didn't want to offend the Somali population, which was

a massive voting block for the Democrat party.

Yeah.

Now, there's no doubt about it.

Tim Walls really didn't take much responsibility, though he did acknowledge that the fraud occurred

on his watch, which may have been as far as he got today.

But the Democrats, you would think, would be a little worried.

Hey, how do we fix this?

$18 billion in one state of fraud, 50% of all welfare services might have been a function

of fraud.

And instead, all they want to talk about was immigration enforcement, even though that

wasn't the subject of the hearing today.

What do Americans take away from the Democratic Party's unwillingness to engage on what's

really a serious issue?

The taxpayer getting fleeced.

Well, I hope the American people were watching this hearing.

What they should take away from the Democrat behaviors, they don't care about whether the

hardworking taxpayer dollars are spent.

They don't care.

All they want is to keep money flowing.

They want to keep their base happy and their base are welfare recipients and people that

are defrauding the government.

These contractors, you know, they fix in these contracts, they have to be demeaning minority

contractors and all this.

So not only was that you had a massive amount of Somali fraud in Minnesota, you had Somali

contractors who were also, you know, participating in the food programs who were taking advantage

of the Medicaid programs, who were taking advantage of the housing programs, the food

step programs.

Just about every government welfare program in Minnesota is predominantly federally funded

and every single one of them were being defrauded in Minnesota, which, in fairness, most states

have massive amounts of fraud in the social programs, especially states with Democrat governors.

But this state in particular, with this particular Somali population, was breathtaking.

But when you've got, when you've got over 80% of a demographic that is on full welfare

benefits, full meaning they get Medicaid, which is free healthcare, they get food

steps, they get housing, they get transportation to and from their medical clinics.

I mean, over and over and over, they get life, they get programs to help heat their house

and cool their house, they get, they get, you know, all sorts of grants, this daycare,

they get daycare.

And this was, this was, you know, abused greatly in Minnesota, everyone knew it.

The employees blew the whistle and yet Democrat governor Waltz and Democrat Attorney General

Walt Ellison played into politics and they didn't do anything about it.

So Democrat don't care, not a single Democrat on the oversight committee was, was outraged

or concerned about the fraud.

They don't care about the taxpayers, only the Republicans.

When it comes to, I think feeding our future is the organization or the program that really

busted a lot of this wide open, but it's certainly not the only program.

What is the current status of these programs and will anyone who was a civilian who was

involved in those programs, will they ever see jail time or any type of punishment?

Well, the purpose of the programs was to feed, you know, hungry children.

And what we found was that, you know, the program was, was grossly overbearing, there

was no humanly way possible.

They were feeding it, you know, as many meals as they were, they were building the government

for it.

And at the end of the day, you know, what the purpose of our investigation was, was to

determine whether or not Tim Waltz and Keith Ellison, you, whether or not they were warned

about the fraud and whether or not they told the state employees to stand down and allow

the fraud to continue.

We concluded and we published a report that they did know, they did know about the fraud.

They did tell the employees and the whistleblowers to stand down and they did retaliate against

some of the employees.

Now, it's according to Attorney General Pambondi, who gives a lot of interviews.

He says they're on the ground investigating specific fraudsters, the fraudsters we saw

on those videos that went viral with the Learing Center and all of that.

So, that's where the Department of Justice, according to Pambondi, is investigating and

trying to prosecute.

We know there have been about 80 people prosecuted thus far, which I would argue is a drop in

the bucket.

So, hopefully the Department of Justice is on the ground doing that.

We're going to turn over our findings to the Department of Justice and I hope to see

a lot of people in prison.

But I think that just the revelation of this fraud in Minnesota ended Tim Walsh's political

career.

Remember, he was the running mate for Kamala Harris just a few months ago.

And I think this fraud ended his political career, so that's a little bit of accountability,

but we got a lot more to go.

Sir, two quick questions for you.

Do you expect to make criminal referrals from this?

And two, what are we to make of the subpoena that just approved for Attorney General Pambondi,

who just mentioned?

Yeah, well, we want to look at what Pambondi and the Department of Justice is able to uncover.

There's a communication that the Department of Justice in Minnesota has plenty of resources

to be able to prosecute these people.

We know they're bringing people in.

It takes longer than the average person realizes to put a case together and get in front

of a judge and get a prosecution.

It's my understanding they're doing that in at least dozens of cases in Minnesota, as

we speak.

But we're going to coordinate with them.

We've given them the report today that shows Walsh and them new.

I don't know that it's a crime, incompetence isn't a crime, unfortunately, or there wouldn't

be many Democrats left in Washington, but at the end of the day, if some of these fraudsters

implicate a coordination with Attorney General Allison or Governor Walts, then I think

that you could see some referrals from the committee.

But we've done our work with the whistleblowers.

We've saved that of our justice a lot of time, have already doing those transcribed interviews.

We're going to see how their prosecutions come and hopefully we can work together to

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I've been current politics for about 38 years now, and it's a very rare moment when

an incumbent senator can't get 50 percent of the vote in his own primary, especially after

that senator spent $100 million trying to win.

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He spent $100 million trying to win that primary.

We're talking about, of course, John Kornine last night.

He underperformed, not surprising for the candidate he was facing against.

That is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson who joins us right now, General Paxson, great

to have you on the show.

Big night for you last night.

Yes, it was, and by the way, I spent $5 million versus $100, and it's only, there've only

been two U.S. senators that I know that lost a primary in the last 40 or so years because

the finance rules are so rigged in favor of the incumbents and so limited for challengers,

but it's, you know, I think Richard Luger lost and Bob Bennett lost the bike league.

So it's a pretty unusual thing to take on an incumbent and actually do well against them,

but we're going to do really well in the run-off.

So when you look at the vote, 60% of the people who voted last night voted against Kornine,

though he's been in office for a long, long time, four decades, what do you make of that?

What message does that send, and what message do you want to send to the Republican-based

state?

President Trump said he's going to make an endorsement, whoever he does endorse, he

drop out.

I have a funny feeling you don't drop out under any circumstance.

No, I'm saying this right.

I owe it to the people of Texas.

I've spent a year in my life campaigning against John Kornine because John has not represented

the people of Texas well.

He sided with Joe Biden on the second amendment that restricts the side of a Joe Biden

upbringing.

He asked him refugees to settle here without vetting them, but he's been against Trump

in both of his elections, said he shouldn't run last time, his day had passed, and of course

he fought him on the border wall.

He's been an amnesty guy.

Everything that Trump stood for, John Kornine's fought, but he wasn't, he helped to

Joe Biden.

The people of Texas, at least the Republicans would like something different.

General, on your tenure as Attorney General, and all of the times that we've had you on

our show, it seems like every time we have another court action or lawsuit from you to

talk about because you have been so busy in fighting for Texans in that office by contrast,

even if you take policies out of it, Senator Kornine, for a lot of Texans, they feel like

he's never really done much for them.

A lot of them can't even name a piece of major legislation that he's sponsored or authored.

If you make it to that Senate seat, are you going to operate in this Senate with as much

fervor and activism and energy as you did as Attorney General?

It's the main reason I'm running, and you're right about the 40 years in office.

You can take them all the way back to when he started when I was in college, and I'm

63.

I've asked every single person I've met with, from one person to thousand, and you name

one major accomplishment of John Kornine in those 40-plus years, and they can't.

No one's ever named it.

I don't think it exists because I've asked thousands of people, no one's ever given me

an answer.

If you take any two weeks, I've been in Attorney General's office, other than Chris Bank

City.

I've accomplished more than two weeks, and he's accomplished in 40 years, so I guarantee

you.

The bar is low for accomplishments for John Kornine, and we will be much better.

So I want to talk about some of the many actions you've taken just in the last few weeks.

You've been busy at the Attorney General's office.

One of those is alerting all mental health providers in Texas that they will be prosecuted

or they'll be violating the law, excuse me, if they try to help transition children without

their parents permission.

You're, it's a big strike, you've got a lot of attention, tell us what the Texan citizens

think about that.

Now, look, there was legislation passing in the authority to go after hospitals and providers,

and we, who, who try and try to transition children.

So obviously that's horrifically bad, and we, we actually wrote the first opinion that

kind of got that up, that legislation off the ground, when we said, when you transition

children, it's child abuse, and I meant it.

And so we're pursuing, we pursued hospitals, we forced hospitals to leave the state.

We've got many hospitals to stop doing these transitioning procedures, and we've gone

after medical providers now, and said in this opinion that if you do this, you are violating

Texas law, and we are going to stop you.

Well, and, and another legal opinion that you issued, I think this week as well, on election

officials authority, this is something that is on a lot of people's minds as we have seen

many problems, play glass elections, talk to us about that one.

Yeah, so we, we, sometimes you, you find in some of these, especially Democratic counties,

but sometimes, you know, other counties, where election officials say things that are

not correct about what poll watchers are allowed to do, poll watchers are allowed to monitor

everything.

And many times these election administrators or election officials will try to keep poll

watchers away from certain parts of the count, or certain transitions, the ballots.

And we just wanted to make it clear, when we were asked, that poll watchers have every

authority to see every part of the transaction with the ballots to make sure that our elections

are not fraud, but there's no fraud involved in elections.

Yeah, so important.

On that front, I think you did something really big a few weeks ago that's gotten a lot

of attention.

You sued a group called Jolt Initiative.

It's a far left group that goes after Latino voters for allegedly registering non-citizens

that put them on the Texas rolls.

That is a historic moment, first time a state attorney general has done something like

that.

But similarly, is there a criminal referral also coming to your, to the Justice Department

in Washington, because they might be able to make criminal chargers on the evidence you

surfaced?

We're definitely looking at that.

We don't have authority in my office to do criminal matters, unless we refer to it on

the state level for my district attorney, unfortunately.

But if we find that there are criminal violations, settled criminal violations, we will definitely

refer it to the Justice Department.

But then pursue it in the case.

General, before we let you know, let you go, Congressman Wesley Hunt graciously conceded

last night.

What do you want to say to the folks who voted for him who are now looking at you versus

Sean Corning?

I say, come aboard, the water is warm.

We've got a lot that we can get done.

People voted for Wesley Hunt.

They were not voting for John Corning, and they were voting for Wesley Hunt because they

wanted to change.

Well, I offer the same change, and I offer a lot of experience in making those changes.

And so give me a chance.

We can do better, and I would encourage those people to get back out and vote for change,

vote for somebody who will actually represent your values, and we'll actually get things done

that matter for the country.

And we definitely, as you can see, when you look at our budget deficit, the issues with

China and Iran and all the issues that we have, we definitely need better representation

in Texas.

Sir, before you let you go, just real quickly, have you had a conversation with the president

and say, do you have an idea where his head is on an endorsement?

I know, it won't matter.

You're going to stay in, but what's your thinking on the president's endorsement?

Yeah, look, I don't know.

I haven't talked to him today since I saw that post that been actually doing a lot of meetings

to try to raise money for the next round.

So I look forward to talking to him.

I'd love to talk to him.

I'd encourage him either not to endorse, or if so, endorse somebody that actually has

been a supporter of his and not an opponent, and somebody that actually would help him

with his policies instead of finding him, because we know that after the primary is over,

we'll get the real John Corin back.

Right now we've got a fake John Corin who's acting like a maggot conservative, but he never

has it as 40 years until the last 10 months when I get into the race.

Hey, one more to go, folks.

Congresswoman Beth Fendi in the Texas.

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Congresswoman great to have you back on the show.

Thank you.

Let's talk about today.

I want to talk.

Yeah, oh my goodness, you are kidding.

You've been in a briefing with our intelligence leaders over the last hour.

When you hear everything that they have to share now, do you feel like America was facing

an imminent threat from Iran before President Trump launches attacks on Saturday?

Well, absolutely.

I mean, they absolutely confirmed that there was a direct threat that the negotiations

were not going well, that they were just waiting and holding out through your wasting

time and that there was immediate threat to US military assets and to US military lives

in the region and potentially further away from that at home.

So I think they took the right action, but I do want to comment on that brief that you

just saw earlier that you just showed with the moms and the others in Dearborn that we're

talking about, you know, US being Satan, and they live here.

If they don't like it, nobody forced you here.

Go home.

Get out.

We don't want you here.

We don't need you here.

If you hate this culture, you hate this country so much, leave.

I think, you know, the Homeland Security, Kristi Nome, Tom Homan have been very clear.

We'll even buy you a plane ticket out of this country.

But what we have seen is these these these cells that are popping up.

You just saw it.

This last weekend in Austin, people who hate our country, you hate our culture, who are

will will murder our citizens.

And we don't know how many of them are here.

We know that during the Biden administration, we had 700 Iranian nationals come over our

border illegally.

We don't know where they are.

We don't know what their intentions are, which I think is really important right now that

we've got Homeland Security funded and these Democrats that are playing these games that

just left this briefing.

They were very clear.

The threat is imminent.

The threat there overseas is, it was very clear that we needed to stop it.

But we also have a threat on our homeland.

And you know, not having the questions that are even being asked by Democrats, we're

not even serious questions that that, you know, you had the folks there to answer.

You know, Republicans are like, what is the mission, you know, this is the, what was the

threats?

And they were very clearly lined it out.

I think, you know, Marco Rubio is a freaking rock star.

He's listening to his answer so concise, so clear.

I'm just glad he, the president, you have Pete Heggseth there.

You had John Rockliffe and Dan Cain are doing such a great job.

And I'm really proud of this administration for taking the threat seriously, doing what

has to be done and being willing to stick it out.

Congresswoman, obviously, when it comes to radical Islam on our shores, the priority

is any threat to American lives.

However, there is a cultural threat as well.

And I played that clip out of Dearborn, Michigan.

I did not mean to besmirch the good reputations of Texas.

It was not Texas.

It was Dearborn, Michigan.

But you have these communities across our country that have turned into, you know, in

Minnesota, you've got these Somali communities, but Islamic communities on our shores in

our country.

There is a culture clash.

How do we handle that?

I mean, but, but yes, it wasn't Dearborn, Michigan, but you have them all over and you

have them in Texas as well.

I know firsthand I've seen it.

I've seen, you know, a father who was finally arrested 15, 20 years later after murdering

his daughters in Irving on it was a ritual killing because they embarrassing by being

too westernized.

They have this in our country right now.

You've got this epic city in Plano.

It's the, the, the East Plano Islamic Center where they are talking about creating these

massive home developments around the mosque and preventing people who are not Islamists

from being able to live there.

There are issues that we face in our state, in our country, and I think we need to take

them seriously.

This is a fight that I've been fighting for the last 15 years and, you know, we've been

called all sorts of things, you know, racist, haters big.

It's you name it.

You've got to call it out when you see it.

And we had a threat in one of our, our call of ill sitting, sitting dogs just a few years

ago when I was a freshman on where we had, you know, a radical Islamist who came over,

took over a synagogue and took four people hostage and ended when he got shot.

But that should never have happened.

And I think calling out to anti-Semitism when you see it, making sure that the people

who come to our country want to be here, it is not that hard.

You know, we, we always say that we are a country built on, on immigration.

Yeah, but it was immigration with respect people who wanted to assimilate people who

shared our values or culture and wanted to grow here in prosper.

We want to welcome those folks, but the people who want to do damage, the people who wanted

to teach our youth had a hate our country, had to hate our past, our history, you know,

our forefathers.

We don't need you here.

We don't want you here to be here is a privilege.

You're taking advantage of a system that, you know, they end up using our constitution

against us.

And I think finding ways of the loopholes in the language of our laws that's definitely

denied.

Reflecting the intent is important.

I and a number of other lawmakers are looking into that right now.

We're working with a state of Texas to see how we can clamp down on some of those laws

and we're working in the federal government to figure out how we've clamped down on those

laws and to close those loopholes.

That's so important.

Some of the rhetoric is coming from groups that are funded by virtue of the tax code.

They get a tax exempt status, they're called non-profits, 501C3s, a single network,

as some of them, your colleague Jason Smith flagged these over two years ago to the Biden

Justice Department, Biden IRS, two years later still, those groups have their tax exempt

status.

I know you feel really strongly about this.

A few weeks ago, those groups were up in Minnesota protesting ICE, all of a sudden they just

switched placards and went to Iran.

We concerned that the tax codes being abused here.

Well, absolutely.

And again, they're using our constitution against us, they're using our tax code against

us.

And we're trying to do everything that we can to tighten that up.

I think one big, beautiful bill definitely had some rails in it that would prevent this

type of fraud from occurring.

I had the Stop Funders Act, which is looking at people who are funding some of these violent

protests and finding out where their money is coming from, who is organizing it.

Well, I would also like to see my Gorak Act pass, which is calling for third party, independent

party reflections on our budgets for our agencies.

You're getting third parties to come in there and research and say, okay, where is money

going?

Is it going where it's supposed to be going?

Once we pass it through appropriations, how are we holding the agencies accountable?

And how are we holding where those dollars are going to make sure that it's for the

intent meant?

And so many times we're not doing that.

I think you're already seeing that through, you know, waste fraud and abuse that you've

up in it.

We've been able to uncover it in Minnesota, but it is so much further than that.

Minnesota is just the tip of the iceberg.

When what you're going to find in California, what they're already starting to uncover in

New York, Illinois, even in my great state of Texas, we have got to clamp down on the waste

fraud and abuse and put things in there that are systemic and not just dependent on the

Bush administration is in power.

Yeah, important.

I'm proud of someone I know you so generously left a briefing and you were privy to a

lot of information there.

I know a lot of our listeners, they see what's happening in the Middle East and they think

all right, it's over there.

But we need to make sure that there's not a threat here at home, President Trump.

You, your Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill are working hard to make sure there isn't

a threat.

But what's that level right now?

You know, I can't say I'm not in the state department and that would be a good question

to ask them, but I will tell you, we do have over 1500 Americans right now that are

still in on that area that are trying to get home on where they are very clear.

If you've got folks that are stranded, have them contact the state department, go to

the state department's website, sign up, let them know where you are, who you are, how

to contact you.

And they're trying to get on planes, either charter planes or using other methods to

get folks out of those countries that right now are under attack.

I think we're seeing what's happening over there and it obviously is scary here, which

is why again, we're part of it that the problem is that we have allowed it to happen.

But you also have to look at the silver lining on this.

We have an ability right now to be able to stop it.

We have an ability right now with the President who is very clear.

He wants peace in the Middle East.

He recognizes a threat that it's not only to our military assets that are there at

home, you know, broad, but also at home.

But we have, you know, with our Texas freedom fuel and ability to be able to help our allies

that right now have been reliant on countries like Russia and Iran.

We have an ability to be able to prevent some of the manipulations that we have seen.

But what we have to also understand is regulations matter and what we saw under the Biden administration

was their attempt to kill our energy industry and make our allies and ourselves more reliant

on those countries.

So this war that is not at all, you know, these attacks are not at all about oil directly.

But the ability for us to be able to have a free independent land is going to be important.

Our ability to be able to defend ourselves is going to be important.

And the ability to be able to be strong allies is going to be important.

We saw a direct threat, this administration took care of it.

It's we're not sure.

You know, this is what question that we had asked today, you know, do we have a timeline?

I think they're being very realistic.

We're talking weeks, possibly months, not years, but until they know the threat

and they can get their arms around it, it's only been, you know, a couple of days.

They're being as transparent as they possibly can be.

I think a lot of Republicans, Democrats may not admit it,

but have to admit that that is at least, you know, it's a transparent administration.

They're doing what they can and we're going to try to support them as much as we can.

So important, one more quick question in that briefing.

Any if we have this terrible episode in Austin over the weekend.

Are they talking about the potential threats on US soil, what we need to guard against them?

I think the the answers that we got today were focused on on the last, you know,

few, few days and what was going on overseas.

Obviously, there's a potential for, you know, domestic.

I it was not, it was not directly for two today during the briefing.

All right, folks, that wraps up the Thursday edition.

John Solomon reports the podcast from Justin who's a big thank you to the chairman.

James Comer, the 30 general general, uh, uh,

Paxton and of course, Congressman Van Dyne, a great conversation back tomorrow with more programming.

Until then, have a good night and God bless you.

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