WALZ CLOSE IN: Massive fraud raids spark HEATED showdown with all eyes on Walz

Welcome back. The US Government

Accountability Office out with a new

report identifying

186 billion dollar of improper payments

across 64 programs in fiscal year 2025

alone. It's one reason why the federal

government is ramping up its fraud

crackdown. Yesterday, authorities raided

more than 20 locations in Minnesota,

including multiple child care centers

and now as well the infamous Quality

Learing Center. Investigators say some

state licensed daycarees may have been

billing for services that were never

provided. And the raids are part of the

broader fraud probe involving largely

Somali owned businesses. In other words,

a federal operation, something Governor

Tim Waltz doesn't seem to realize.

We've created additional checks and

balances. We've brought on more

investigators, more auditors, more law

enforcement agencies, as well as an

outside firm to take a look at

high-risisk programs. People who have

ripped us off are getting caught, and

they are going to jail, just like today.

I've said the buck stops with me. And as

I know some of you will take that as an

open invitation to play politics with

every incident of fraud that takes place

here in Minnesota. Even though I have to

tell you, the statistics show it's

happening in red states more than here.

But so be it.

>> Should someone tell him? Well, I can

leave that to the vice president. Vice

President JD Vance, who's heading up the

crackdown. And here's more of my

exclusive interview with the vice

president. As you know, Governor Tim

Walter of Minnesota has claimed some

credit for the fraud crackdown in

Minnesota. Is there credit to be

deserved for the governor?

>> Uh, no, not at all, Will. This is uh

like the the arsonist trying to claim

credit for the work of the fire

department because Tim Waltz let this

fraud happen under his watch. Uh whether

he was complicit in it directly himself

or just turned a blind eye towards it.

Uh we we really did not get much help at

all from the governor's office. Where we

did actually get some help was from some

state local uh law enforcement officers

who we assigned to the federal task

force because the state government

wasn't doing anything. So all credit

goes to people on the ground, the

federal officers, the state officers who

are working to uncover this fraud. The

best part about this for me, Will, is

you you have when the president

empowered his entire government to go

after this fraud issue. You know, I had

this question to the Department of

Justice, you know, these investigations

take a long time. So I was asking

myself, how quickly can we start getting

into some real investigatory work, court

issued warrants, actually going

doortodoor and finding out what's going

on? People told me it would take at

least six months. We've gone from Nick

Shirley's video about the Minneapolis

fraud schemes to active, you know,

judges issuing warrants for this

investigation in a matter of 3 months.

We've got 280 law enforcement officers

working on this problem. We really have

the most accelerated aggressive

anti-fraud operation that we've ever

seen from the federal government. And

again, it's because the president of

United States empowered his team to go

after this. That's what we're doing. And

this is just a very very good next step.

This is far from done, Will, but we're

doing a lot of good work and we're

making a lot of progress.

>> Far from done. You mentioned complicity

and you analogized the governor to an

arsonist. Do you expect some type of

accountability beyond political some

type of accountability for Attorney

General Ellison or Governor Waltz?

>> Well, will we have to follow the law

where it leads? And what we know is that

there were multiple Minnesota

authorities who were turning a blind eye

to this fraud. Uh what we don't yet know

is whether they knew it was going on as

it was going on. But that's one of the

things that we're looking at with these

investigations. We're not going to, you

know, we're not going to let anybody who

committed a crime off the hook. And in

fact, if you're a senior officer, if

you're the attorney general or the

governor or any other elected official,

we're going to look extra hard at what

you knew and when you knew it and how

connected your actions were to this

fraud scheme. But it's part of the

reason why we're serving these warrants,

Will, is because of course people don't

come out and tell you, "Oh, yeah, I knew

that the qual quality learing center was

committing fraud and people were getting

rich off of it and I did nothing."

People don't say that. So, we've got to

do the investigatory work to understand

what was known, when it was known, and

by whom. That's a big part of the reason

why the fraud investigation, these

warrants that we saw being served all

across this the city of Minneapolis, why

that's such a big deal is because we're

finally starting to really get into the

nitty-gritty of what we knew of what

people were involved in this fraud

scheme. But but regardless of whether

there was criminal wrongdoing on behalf

of the governor, of course, like I said,

Will, we're going to let the law make

those determinations. We know that he

turned a blind eye towards this. I mean,

you have people, will who came into this

country, many of them illegally, and six

months later they're driving Mercedes

despite the fact that they don't have a

job. That doesn't happen without some

defrauding of the American taxpayer. The

fact that they turned a blind eye

towards it for so long as a scandal.

We're also going to find out whether it

was criminal.

>> Let's stay on the note of accountability

for one more second. You mentioned the

people that come into this country

sometimes illegally, sometimes legally,

and then take advantage of our system

here in the United States. We know, for

example, as you mentioned with the

Quality Laring Center, that much of this

was located within the Somali community

in Minneapolis. Could the law lead you

to a place where we'd see accountability

in the form of dennaturalization or

deportation from people that come to

this country legally or illegally and

take advantage of America?

Yeah. Well, absolutely. And that's one

of the angles that we're looking at is

the people who committed immigration

fraud against our system and how do we

denaturalize those people and send them

back uh to where they came from. There's

also, as you know, will under the Biden

administration, there was a big blurring

of the lines between illegal and legal

immigration. The B administration would

often take people who were coming in on

fraudulent asylum claims, fraudulent

refugee claims, and basically wave the

magic wand of amnesty and say, "We're

not going to enforce the immigration

laws against those people." The first

thing, and maybe the most important

thing that we did in the Trump

administration is that we stopped that

from happening. But then you still have

a lot of people who benefited from that

Biden administration amnesty program.

We're trying to unwind as much of that

as possible. We we've already had some

success, by the way, will despite the

fact uh that left-wing radicals in the

justice system, the court system have

tried to stop us. We have been able to

denaturalize and actually unwind that

temporary protected status, a lot of

those fraudulent asylum claims. So, that

work has been happening, but it's going

to keep on happening so long as Donald

Trump is president. I think Minneapolis

is the tip of the iceberg. I think

there's sort of a good news bad news

situation in that will which you know