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And it's gotten so bad with the roiling scandals going on in Minnesota that he has either turned a blind eye to, or for some reason has turned a blind eye to, that even some of his allies are saying that his political career is over for a Minnesota State Senator and political analyst in Minnesota. This is, who is this? Remember Rice Scott, June, saying he is clearly vulnerable and in my view is riskier than any Democratic candidate that might run. Anonymous longtime ally of Waltzes in Minnesota, a different person said it's clearly a real vulnerability. Even suburban dads would bring it up to me over the summer. Which is interesting because this news of this fraud has been circling around Minnesota for a while, but it's really broken open and we're seeing the scale of it. It's now the biggest fraud case in America. Over a billion dollars is probably more to come, more things to come out of this as well. Was it incompetence? Was there some skimming of money off the top? You know, and sort of putting a blind eye to it? We don't know. But the investigation is going to continue. The DOJ has promised to get to the bottom of this. And Griff, you know, everyone's trying to wash their hands of all of this. They're going to throw Tim. The Democrats in Minnesota are throwing Tim Walts under the bus and saying that's on him. We don't know how far this goes. Well, the question is whether or not Walts's administration was at best incompetent or at worst complicit in allowing this unprecedented fraud going on. Meanwhile, this triggered the Trump administration to go into Minnesota. To go after particularly Somali illegal aliens that are protected in the sanctuary state of Minnesota, the sanctuary city of Minneapolis here. Let me show you some of the criminals. The Somali illegal aliens have been rounded up just in the past week or so in Minnesota. And these are the people come with me that Governor Walts wants to defend praising the Somali citizens. Well, let's look at them. Mohammed Syed, convictions include domestic violence, trespassing, assault on a peace officer, damaging property in the list goes on. But there's a whole handful of them. You've got Sharif Abdi, a gang member. Convictions include fraud, vehicle theft, multiple probation violations. Osman Shidani, convicted of criminal sexual conduct with a minor aged 13 to 15. That's a child. Mohammed Ali, convictions include domestic assault, fraud, robbery and larceny. Finally, Mohammed Omar, charged with two counts of domestic violence. These are not the best of the best. They are, as the Trump administration says, the worst of the worst and yet Governor Tim Walts is defending them. Meanwhile, the deputy ICE director, Madison Sheehan, on this program yesterday says they're going to continue to go after these criminals. Watch. We have an operation going on in Minnesota right now to specifically go after the Somalis who have broken laws in this country, who have come to this country illegally and continue to wreak havoc on the American people. Our officers are out every day arresting gang members, murders and rapists, and truly the list goes on. And people like Governor Walts have let this guy run free in his state for years, and it's time that we put a stop to it. Democrats continue to choose to protect the people that are locked up in our facilities, people that have broken the laws by coming into this country and then perpetuated laws against the American people after that. Secretary Noem, President Trump, have taken the handcuffs off our officers so we can put them on the criminals, but we enforce the laws that are on the books. We do not pick winners and losers. And the Democrats continue to think that the real winners are inside the fences at our ICE facilities. And that's not true. It's the American people that have been victimized by alien crime for years. And you know, it's Democrats who insist that these government programs that are being defrauded in Minnesota right now, that this is the lifeblood. This is the answer to everybody's problems. And then they allow this to go on and you wind up with, you know, this is going to actually hurt, you know, genuinely hurt people who Democrats claim to care about. It's such a great point because the Democrat answer to any problem is just more money, right? So there was probably, you know, a lot of incompetence, but also it's sort of in line with their philosophy. We must be helping people. A billion dollars has been sent on them. Meanwhile, this money has been spent overseas and all kinds of, you know, schemes, buying real estate. It's gone into terrorist hands. And we had Jack Brewer on earlier, somebody who's from Minnesota knows it or played in Minnesota when he was in the NFL, spent a lot of time there, has family that lives in Minnesota. He's talked about the poverty rate of, you know, a lot of African-Americans who live in Minneapolis, poverty rate, the education, how bad it is. And all of this money getting wasted when it could have gone to really help people. And it's just, it's absolutely shameful. And we really need to talk about, and again, this is a hot button issue, assimilation. Are there certain immigrants that are more easily assimilated because their culture and their love of this country shines through? Are there others who just see this as, you know, a place to scam money and send it back to their home country? We have to have this conversation about assimilation and who actually wants to come to this country and make it better versus these guys that you had up on the board. If you're coming to the country to get welfare or to commit fraud, then you're not what we're looking for. You're here. We are the dumping place for bad people from other places. That's not the way it's supposed to work. If you want to come here because you love America and you want to contribute to America and contribute to the American dream, under our system, we believe that that helps everyone. That's what is so magical about the American people. And you can look no further than who they have chosen to represent them, somebody who is a very ungrateful refugee to our country, Elon Omar, probably the most ungrateful. You know, I mean, look, Governor Walz defending these violent criminal legal aliens from Somalia really leaves you scratching your head.

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You know, ladies and gentlemen, this is my pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Now, in the last half century, I've probably read this a thousand times. I've looked around it, those who wrote it, the history at the time, what they meant, depending on which words, which phrase, which section, which clause we're dealing with. And I went back and I took a look earlier today, and I cannot find this phrase, birthright citizenship. I have looked everywhere. I've looked in the penumbras and emanations, and I can't find it. I've looked at the invisible ink. I can't find it. Birthright citizenship. And yet, last week, there was a big argument in front of the Supreme Court. And the justices, a couple of them were really wise, but most of them were like, kind of strange, getting into policy and politics and quirky examples and things of that sort. So I thought I'd bring us back down to earth and deal with this, because sometimes lawyers, particularly lawyers with black robes, who think they're really smart, they get carried away with themselves. Let's get back to brass tacks here. Let's get back to the facts. You ready? We have this Dred Scott decision in 1857. It was a diabolical decision. And it held in short that blacks, whether enslaved or free, were not US citizens. Now the court led by Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that black people, descendants of imported slaves, were not included in the citizenship definition of the Constitution. And I quote, had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. Now that was a seven to two decision and the decision helped trigger the Civil War, our costliest war with over 700,000 casualties that almost destroyed the country. That war was fought for two reasons, to keep the union together and to eliminate slavery. So following the Civil War, after these horrendous battles and these horrendous casualties and so forth, certain formally Confederate states, they passed restrictive laws called Black Codes. Now what did these Black Codes do? They limited the freedoms of former slaves. Despite the Civil War, it was also a time when the Klan came into being founded by former Confederate generals and so forth. Well, Congress had already adopted the 13th Amendment in 1865, right at the end of the Civil War, that formally abolished slavery throughout the country. But they determined that the 13th Amendment alone was obviously not enough to guarantee freed slaves their civil liberties, including citizenship and equal rights and equal protection and due process. So Congress took action, after all it was controlled by the Republicans. So Congress in 1866 passed our first Civil Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Now that act formally declared that all persons born in the United States, anywhere in the United States except Indians, were citizens, granting them equal protection under federal law. Why not Indians or Native Americans? Because in many cases the tribes were considered their own nations, their own nations. You could be a citizen of two nations at the same time, especially within the Americas. So they passed that. Now what did it state in relevant part? The Civil Rights Act of 1866, which is crucially relevant to this discussion. "Be it enacted that all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power." In other words, not a citizen of another country. "Excluding Indians not taxed are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." This again was aimed at what? At the former slaves, their family, their children, their future children, and the black codes in these southern states that were preventing the implementation of equal rights and citizenship. "And such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every state and territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, to purchase, to sell, to hold, and convey real and personal property, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings, for the security of every person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding." A complete repudiation of the Dred Scott and a complete repudiation of the black codes. So this act was intended to reverse the Supreme Court's decision and eliminate these black codes. So they passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the overwhelmingly Republican Congress. And what happens? Well, the bill goes to a Democrat by the name of Andrew Johnson, who'd been Vice President, but became President on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was a Democrat from Tennessee. So President Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. But there were enough Republicans in Congress to override his veto, so it remained the law. But the Republican Congress was concerned about the ease with which a law could be changed. It even eliminated down the road. They saw what Johnson tried to do. Thus was born the impetus for the 14th Amendment. Their purpose was to constitutionalize the Civil Rights Act of 1866. How do we know this? Because they told us this. John A. Bingham, B-I-N-G-H-A-M, these are great patriots. He was a House Republican from Ohio. In the House, he was the main drafter considered the Madison of the 14th Amendment of the language in Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which includes the Citizenship Clause. He was a member of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction in the 39th Congress, which formulated the amendment to provide a constitutional basis for civil rights following the Civil War. That is the constitutionalization of the 1866 Civil Rights Act. Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, a well-known, famous, so-called radical Republican and Republican leader in the House, helped him draft the amendment and helped him usher it through the committee. On the other side of the Capitol, on the Senate, Senator Lyman Trumbull, a Republican of Illinois, notice they're all Republicans, he had drafted the 13th Amendment that had been passed in 1865, abolishing slavery formally, and was a contributor, if not the main writer, of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. He was a key figure also in drafting that process of drafting of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Trumbull. Then we have Senator Jacob Howard, a Republican of Michigan, who introduced the amendment in the Senate, declaring, among other things, it would extend the Bill of Rights to the states, every state. Now what exactly does Section 1 of the 14th Amendment say? The language that is being debated, that was heard in front of the Supreme Court, which they say gave birth to birthright citizenship. Well, we know it doesn't say that. What exactly does it say? Quote, right here, in my little pocket Constitution, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Remember, in the Civil Rights Act a few years earlier, which is intended to constitutionalize, it talked about having no allegiance to a foreign country or foreign nation. Here, they basically implement that by saying subject to the jurisdiction thereof, meaning subject to the United States and the jurisdiction of the United States. "Are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside?" Remember, they're doing this because of these black codes in these formerly Confederate states. "They're citizens of the United States and of the citizen wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or denied to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Boy, that doesn't sound like it has a lot to do with immigration, let alone illegal immigrants, let alone the children of illegal immigrants in the United States, because it didn't.

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We eventually broadcast a story about the Hunter Biden laptop after the midterm elections in 2022. We commissioned a forensic review. I got a copy of the laptop data. I have it here still. I went to a lot of effort to get the cleanest copy of the laptop data, the same data that was provided to the FBI, because I didn't want to have any professional journalistic risk for CBS News. I wanted this thing to be totally locked down. When we did the story, we did it after the midterms. I argued against that because it was ready before the midterms, and my training is that you should always do the story when it's ready to go. You should not be dictated by the political cycle. Once we got the laptop story on the morning news, I felt that there was so much there that we could still do. For example, in the text messages, there's unfortunately the use of the N-word, the liberal use of the N-word. I thought this was worthy of a story, but I was told that it was not something that interested CBS News. Then I asked for a forensic review of the laptop, and we found that there were more than half a dozen emails that were likely used by Joe Biden. I thought that was a story. The answer that came back was, "Well, we need to know what the content is of the emails," but that was going to be a years-long process. There were a lot of reasons I was told not to do it, not to pursue it. I spent a lot of my time at CBS following the Hunter Biden story. One of the things that really struck me is this kind of disconnect. I didn't understand how a senior executive like George Cheese could tell me that this was a high priority for the network and for his boss, and yet the executives at CBS News showed producers anchors could refuse that. I came to the conclusion that they must have felt that they were more powerful than George Cheese, which was astonishing to me. I'd never worked at a place where a directive from the top would be so defied.

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-And war has been a tremendous military success. -When they hit, we hit 10 times harder. -We have no military left. Their air force is gone. Their ships are gone, 159 ships are gone. They're at the bottom of the sea. We have a lot better equipment than they did. -At the direction of President Trump, the War Department will ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon.

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Okay, multiple people, including a former US Olympian, have now been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the newly renovated reflecting pool in the nation's capital. Kevin Kork joins us now from the White House with all the latest on this. Kevin, good morning. Yeah, frankly, this is, and good morning to all of you, this is a sad story because all Americans, I don't care about your political stripes, enjoy the reflecting pool. But as Charlie points out, we're talking about someone who's gone from competing and Olympic sized swimming pools to being accused of vandalizing the reflecting pool along the mall. And of course, he ends up in cuffs and apparently he's not the only one. We're speaking of a former Olympian, canoeist, 67 year old David Hearn, three time Olympian, by the way, said he was cycling by the monument on Friday. He noticed a piece of the pools under liner floating in the water, but authorities, they didn't buy his story at all. And now they're accusing him of being one of several individuals of trying to sabotage the project with a pair of arrests being made so far. In fact, the president said as much and opposed untrue social announcing, quote, many additional people have been arrested, having to do with the disgraceful vandalism of our beautiful reflecting pool. What these terrible vandals have done is a true affront to both presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly. They also poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the pool. Finally, he adds this. We are very proud of what we have done with this magnificent structure, and we'll get it repaired quickly to an equal level of beauty. Now, the pool, which had been restored to a beautiful cerulean as part of the American 250 celebration, spent years mired in an algae covered state until the big cleanup. But suddenly we started reading reports of a new algae bloom forming. And the peeling lower coating, critics said it was a shoddy job done by the contractors. Turns out that's not true at all. And now we know why. Now, the cleanup of this $14 million project is ongoing, even at this very hour. But given the fact that the Fourth of July is right around the corner, to get it ready, they're going to have to work around the clock, guys. All right. Really incredible. Some people just need to get a life. They need to get a hobby. They need to find something better to do. All right. Thanks, Kevin.

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