Ep. 2419 - VP Vows Action On DW Investigation

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Today, more shocking reports of alleged fraud in Ohio. As you know, yesterday on this show, we reported on the massive alleged fraud plaguing Ohio's Medicaid program. Our investigative team here at Daily Wire has uncovered shocking facts surrounding that alleged fraud. What appeared to be hundreds of shell companies' bilking taxpayers out of, perhaps, billions of dollars. And the vice president of the United States has already vowed to track it all down. We'll also be talking with Vaprom Swami, the likely next governor of Ohio about what he can do to stop all of that will also get to the Matt Galla, the nation's most annoying display of obnoxious wealth from people who proclaim that they hate their own wealth. Plus, the latest in Iran, where we could be just days away from more kinetic action and Christopher Nolan has a new Odyssey trailer, which I'm going to watch. Busy show coming up. This is the Ventureiro Show. [Music] So yesterday, based on our investigation in Ohio, the vice president of the United States put out a tweet pledging that he would look into what was going on, quote, the shocking allegations of true show why the fraud's task force work is so important. I'm directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate. So we are already getting action here at Daily Wire. This is why we exist not just to bring you things that entertain you, but obviously to change the world in better ways. Lucrosia, who is our senior investigative reporter over here, he has the second part of his large scale investigative series today, talking about the extent of Medicaid fraud in Ohio. He points out that there are seven buildings along East Dublin, Granville Road, and Columbus, Ohio that are filled with hundreds of office suites all owned by a company called Cordoba Real Estate. Almost every tenant in the building builds Medicaid for the impoverished, obviously, as a home and healthcare business that provides low skills, usually non-medical care to elderly or disabled people. So basically, it seems very much like what Nick Shirley was uncovering in Minnesota. Essentially, we have these gigantic buildings that are filled with home health care providers, completely empty of people, because we actually have video of Luc walking through the halls here. Here is Luc walking through the halls in an empty office building in Ohio that presumably millions of dollars are flooding through. Again, the accusations of racism him walking through full on empty buildings. Apparently, one Cordoba road employee said that the government actually pays people to take care of their own families. This of course is the scam, according to Luke's reporting. The Cordoba-owned buildings in Columbus house 288 businesses registered with Medicaid. Together, they charge taxpayers more than a quarter of a billion dollars between 2018 and 2024 in a city where there are only about 6,200 people who are 75 or older on Medicaid. Apparently, at one address, there are 80 companies that collectively build at least $73 million to Medicaid and receive $23 million from the state of Ohio. Again, shocking levels of what appear to be alleged fraud. And here is Luke talking to one of the employees at Cordoba Road who admits the government basically pays you to take care of your own family. In the Cordoba office building at 1425 East Dublin Grandville Road, we finally located a business suite with somebody in it, GC Home Healthcare LLC. Asked how he recruits employees, he said employees and patients come as a package. 70% of the employees are just being paid to spend time with their own family members. The patients, like they have someone in their family that has the qualifications to be in aid, and they can see we aren't anything. So they just come together and they say, yeah, well, I got approval from my doctor. After getting a note from the doctor, vouching for the elders' need for personal services. The family member of an elderly person isn't set up to build Medicaid, so a company stands in the middle. "We're just taking a small cut because they pay us and then we pay them a few hours." He said the number of hours depends on a doctor's recommendation, but it's often an hour a day. "Do you expect him to take time off where just to take care of those?" "I mean, there has to be some sort of benefit." I asked him why people wouldn't simply help their aging parents with basic tasks out of human decency. "What the government is paying you to do it? I mean, people see that as blue projects. Oh, you're only sure some money." Again, unbelievable stuff. Are you as a taxpayer willing to subsidize people to take care of their own aging parents? This is crazy town. It's crazy. Blue reports that there is one home health care service called Omega, which charged taxpayers $11 million between December 2017 and October 2024. Omega was incorporated in 2011 by a person named Muhammad Jama, a Democratic politician. Jama found it in newspaper called the Somali Post, also a Somali coffee house, and has been affiliated with the Somali Education Resource Center, which received $6 million in federal aid in 2023, all on top of raising nine kids and working as an engineer. When he ran for state senate as a Democrat in 2024, that home health care business was not even mentioned in his profile. So it's great. We also got to, as taxpayers, subsidize people running for the state legislature as they clear millions of dollars in cash. Joining us on the line, the man who broke this story, Lucrosiaq is a senior investigator reporter at the Daily Wire. You can follow him on ex @Lucrosiaq is a great fellow Luke. Thanks for taking the time to lay appreciate it. Thanks for having me Ben. So the story has already had a gigantic impact locally. Federally, the VP is committing to an investigation. What are the reactions that you've got your eye on to your explosive expose here? Yeah, it's funny. I mean, we just kind of laid out the bare bones of what we had. Part two, which is dropped and we've got a number of actual details going, but JD Vance, right from the beginning, said that the task force that he's helming with Andrew Ferguson, who's a very competent lawyer, is going to be descending upon Ohio. There's been a number of other reactions in the Senate, including from the chairman of the aging committee and so on. But at the center of this is the Medicaid waiver program for home health care. And in particular, what they call personal services, which is what I'm calling butlers for Somalis. Medicaid is the post to be for medical stuff. And personal services is just like butlers. There's people that go there to help you with whatever you need. You could cook, you can clean, even just conversation and companionship. And so, you know, I just got back from Columbus and you can walk through these buildings and there's a whole street of them. And you go inside these buildings and there's like hundreds of the small businesses. Nobody's in almost any of them. And they'll have signs that just say that that's the service they provide is companionship and conversation. And so that's kind of the question that's for fraud investigators. I think there's a lot of leads that we're going to be providing to them and people are going to see in the stories we have rolling out including today. But there's also the question of lowercase f fraud, which is some of this may well be legal and it may well be very poor policy decisions that our leaders have made that allow people to bill for hanging out with their family members or hanging out going to somebody's house to provide them with this companionship or cleaning their house in a way that's totally unverifiable. And so I think they're all both fraud questions. And I think if JD Vance's task force finds that they can't prove with the standard that would be required in a court of law, then you get to the question of do we just have to get rid of these programs because maybe we had programs that used to work in a time when Americans could be relied on to be honest that kind of break down in situations where you import people from low-trust societies. So Luke, take us back to the beginning of the story. How did you first uncover this level of fraud and what was it like walking through these empty buildings that supposedly hundreds of millions of dollars are being funneled through for home health care? Yes. So doge back in February released Doge working with HHS, a database of Medicaid spending to what companies are getting paid by Medicaid. And I've been trying to get that for many years because when you look at that pie chart of the federal budget, so much of it is in Medicaid, to the point where a lot of liberals kind of to doge saying there's nothing to even cut unless you're going to go for the non-discretionary stuff. And so when we can actually see what Medicaid is going to and then we find out that it's actually not just all like untouchable like doctor's visits. It's like very much fair game for those that want to make the government more efficient. I think that's a huge potential for kind of saving our country and it's a huge win for transparency that they did that. So I did my computer thing. I've been doing data analysis for a long time and I had my computer run queries that told me where the really sketchy stuff was and it took me right to a red state, Ohio, Columbus, and the northeast sector of Columbus, which turns out to be where all the Somalis lived. But it's funny because I didn't go say I want to go find Somalis. I didn't really tell it anything except tell me where some really sketchy money stuff is going on. And the data took me right there. And so I went and I had a guy from the Capitol Research Center, a great researcher. We both did our thing. We poured through all the records and then we did what Nick Shirley made famous. We saw similar to what he did with the daycares. Nobody's there. And it was very creepy to walk down these long hallways. It looks like aliens abducted people on some day at noon like months ago because a lot of them will have signs saying we're out to lunch and it's like you can tell they've been out to lunch for a long time. There's like mail piling up like postmarked from months prior. So at the end of the day, we kind of did the Nick Shirley thing and found the same results in Ohio. But then we coupled that with really rigorous database research and we went through all these individuals in public records. And for those that implied that somehow Nick Shirley got the story wrong or didn't do a rigorous enough job, I can tell you when you take two months and you look up hundreds of these people and you tell the full story, it actually makes it worse for the Medicaid people and the small is not better. So this is a five part expose. Obviously today was just part two. Do you have any clues as to what's coming? So you know, we'll have a person you'll hear and interview with me talking to a guy who's been charged 30 times in court, all kinds of multiple fraud arrests, violence arrests. And he's arguing me with me that it's totally fine to run a Medicaid company. You know, he says I was just too dumb to know what the law is. And so this is what we're dealing with here. I mean, that's the excuse of these people is I'm really dumb. I just didn't even know it was wrong to steal and lie constantly. But there's a lot to go through in part two. There's a tons of different examples from what just dropped. That's going to take I think people a while to go through. For example, a Democrat politician by the name of Muhammad Jama, who ran for a state senate with the Democrat endorsement in Ohio. He founded an $11 million home health care company. While he was doing other stuff, he did it as a side business. He didn't mention it when he ran for office. And that's a pattern that we keep seeing here is like these people have these businesses on the side. I mean, can you imagine making multiple millions of dollars and it's not even what you do full time. It's just kind of your, you're just like a little side gig. Well, Luke, you know, obviously the vice president has responded. The state of Ohio to imagine is going to respond at some level. What are you expecting from Congress? What do you think are the next steps going forward? What I'm really interested to see is whether they will rescind these Medicaid waivers. I spent a great deal of time investigating all these people and keeping track of well, Ahmed, Muhammad, and how does he relate to Muhammad? Ahmed and is Abdu Rizak, Ahmed, the brother, you know, it goes on and on. It's very difficult to track these people because they don't even have a birthday. A lot of them don't even know when they were born. So our system is designed to keep track of people based on the idea that family members have the same names and you have birthdays and stuff. It's very difficult. And I put the time in and I was able to find some really good stuff, but I'm certain that the government is not able to do this at scale because it's just too laborious. And I get the sense that there's whack-a-mole going on. And I get into this and some of the stories where somebody goes to jail for fraud, but pretty soon all of his associates are like popping up with similar assets. And it's like, they just move in money around. Is it really just a game of whack-a-mole to be trying to stop fraud when it's going to be really hard to prove? At the end of the day, they may not even be punished that severely and somebody else is just going to do it. So I'm interested to see whether they were seen to these waivers. I think the states are spending this money pretty freely because it's the federal money. It's other people's money. And it's a little unfair, I think, for certain states to have waivers, like Minnesota and Ohio, that let them bill federal taxpayers for services that people in other states don't get to do. And I think personal services is one that maybe there's a policy solution here rather than you get at the root of the fraud. And you just cut it off at the root and say no more personal services, no more butlers for Somalis. If you have an aging parent and they need help leaning their house once a week or cooking a dinner once a day, I think this is what people have done for all of human history. You chip in to your family because it's the right thing to do. And you don't insist on a government paycheck because it's just too easily abused. And even when it is abused, it's hard to prove fraud because this kind of thing happens behind closed doors in private resonances. And I think we can no longer afford to have programs where proving fraud to the standard that's required in court is so hard. If there's going to be blatant what seems like fraud, what seems super sketchy, I don't think if anybody was in those buildings that I was in Columbus, they'd be like, oh yeah, this is totally normal. Totally normal that this person got $10 million. It doesn't pass the sniff test. I don't think anybody you saw at any taxpayer would agree. We may have to look at a policy solution rather than just fraud enforcement and just eliminating some of these programs. Well, the investigation is a massive win. It's the reason why the daily wire exists because we don't just deliver stories. We deliver actual real investigations that actually change the way the United States is run. Lucrosiac, thanks for your amazing work here. Give Luc a follow again on exit Lucrosiac. He's one of the best investigative reporters in the country. Obviously, we're very glad that he's on our side. Luke's thanks for the time. Thanks so much, Ben. Already coming up, we'll be joined by Vivek Ramaswami, his primary for Ohio governor, is today what would he do to stop all of this fraud plus later on in the show? We're going to review the new trailer for Christopher Nolan's, the Odyssey, and we'll get to the latest in Iran. First, here's the thing. If you own a business, you probably have no idea how many brokers it actually takes to ensure that business. That is a major problem. You've got policies scattered everywhere. Applications that keep asking for the same information, no real picture of how it all fits together when something goes wrong. Our sponsor, SuperSure, is built to blow all of that up. It's one brokerage for your business coverage with a licensed super agent and account team that actually works your account year round, not just a renewal. 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Because obviously, there's been a large scale movement to suggest that you're not doing as well as you should. But the reality is that competitive primaries in Republican party areas in Ohio have been quite common for a very long time. So what are you expecting today? >> You look, I mean, the primaries are usually quite competitive. I would say we're cost-effective. optimistic that we will shatter recent norms for what those primary outcomes are. If you look at the 2024, 2022 governor and Senate primaries, yet competitive primaries were Bernie Moreno and JD Vance and Mike DeWine were elected. You're looking at 40 at most 50% of the vote that went for the Republican. Even if you go back to 2018 when Mike DeWine was first elected when someone else was elected the Senate, you see the same thing. It's been a ceiling of 40 to 50%. So we'll see what the results come in. I don't want to count the chickens before they hatched been, but take a look at it tomorrow and or even late tonight. And I'm cautiously optimistic that we're going to significantly significantly beat that ceiling. But let's see. So obviously we here at Daily Wire have been covering extensively the investigative reporting of Lucrosiaq and the rest of our investigative team about what appears to be alleged fraud in Ohio Medicaid fraud. Again, we've seen this at a wide variety of states that the extent of it in Ohio appears to be quite shocking again. What you're looking at is buildings that look largely empty with tons of registered businesses that are receiving Medicaid monies. What do you make of that and what would you do as governor of Ohio to crack down on that? So look, I think that the reality is all states, including Ohio, I think have turned a blind eye to this level of rampant fraud of the welfare system broadly, including Medicaid. And it starts been with enforcing the laws that are already on the books. So you can talk about passing new laws. I think that's a reasonable conversation to have. The that requires a legislature that takes time and furthermore, you get asked the question of what's the point of passing new laws if the ones that are already on the books aren't being sufficiently enforced. So one of my top priorities is to take the egregious cases here of fraud that, you know, frankly, your reporting was really intriguing. I wish I could say that it was a shock compared to what I hear on the ground. Unfortunately, it was not a shock, but I appreciate you putting a national spotlight on it in my own home state. And I think what that does is it forces those who are in power to be able to pay attention to an issue that may have been swept under the rug for too long before. When I am in power, hopefully for elected, we're not going to sweep it under the rug. We got to prosecute aggressively. And what's the purpose of prosecuting two purposes? First is when someone does something wrong. You have to actually punish the person who does the wrong thing. But the second purpose, of course, is deterrence. The idea that you're just going to get away with building the government. And it's not really been built in the government so much as building the taxpayer, the ordinary law-biting American, the ordinary law-biting Ohioan. That's not okay. And we have to send that deterrent signal. So in the end, then it's as often happens in these things. It's not as complicated as it sounds, right? This isn't fancy stuff. Okay. In a modern era of AI, you have a toolkit that allows you to spot a burnt abnormalities even more quickly and more reliably than at prior points in human history. We have laws on the books. In Ohio, we have a Republican state that controls all three branches of government. This is doable. But it does require a leader at the top who's willing to act with a spine decisively. And that's why I'm in this. I mean, you think about why I sometimes get the question of why am I doing this? Which politics can be frustrating at times after admit. Sometimes I've to remind myself why I'm doing this. And the reality is, I mean, it's not for favor fortune. There's better ways of acquiring those things and I've been blessed in my life. I'm doing this because I know we can get this done. This is not complex stuff. Fixing the waste fraud and abuse, particularly in the Medicaid system. And you think about the analogy to that to every other system that's over bureaucratized, which we're not talking about today with the public education system. How broken that is with the bureaucracy that suppresses the students and their achievement and their ability to report that to the public to in a different sense, keep legally building the public without standing for results. You look at the overgrowth of government in every sector from Medicaid to the welfare state to even public education, K through 12 higher education. It's a mess. And I think what we need now more than ever in Ohio and frankly in states like Ohio across the country are real entrepreneurs who aren't willing to tolerate nonsense, who are willing to cut through the nonsense when needed. And that's why I'm doing this job because I know I can get it done. So Vivek, obviously you were involved at the beginning with Doge. Our reporting was largely based on some of the revelations that came via Doge because a lot of the information that Doge uncovered served as sort of the basis for our investigation. Why do you think it is that so many members of government at the state and the federal level have brushed all of this under the rug because you would assume that good-hearted people in government who would like for these programs to work efficiently would be unhappy with the fraud. But it seems as though they have more of an incentive to pretend the fraud isn't happening, thus to claim that the programs are working better than they are or something. Yeah, so a couple of things there been and it's worth, I mean, I'm not going to just give you the standard talking points you can read about anywhere. I want to give you some specifics from where I said, I think there's an incentive failure in the way that states deal with the federal government as it relates to Medicaid. And this is important to understand. Okay. As you said, it's well intentioned people producing outcomes that are not well and they're not really doing well by the people who are supposed to serve why is the question. So this incentive failure is important. Where if a given state today cracks down on this waste fraud and abuse, okay, cracks down on Medicaid over expenditures and you could talk about uppercase F fraud and there's also lower case F fraud, which is just a maybe technically legal but doesn't comport with anyone's sense of who should be getting these dollars. The problem is the state that does that heavy lifting, okay, the equivalent of a doge at a state say if you did that you as a state don't really get to keep most of those dollars. What instead happens is you get fewer pass through payments from the federal government. So that is a broken incentive system. So for people are familiar how this works. It's like you get reimbursed for your expenses, almost all of them from the federal government. So if you cut those expenses, but you're losing the reimbursement, then you as a state, let's say you're a governor of the state say, okay, well, I got other competing priorities because I would rather look after some other priority in my state. This is going to make me less popular giving free government money away to people who could be voting for me. But in return, the federal government is still the backstop anyway, why bother? So I think that incentive failure needs to change. And one of the things that I intend to do when I'm governor, my first two years remember will be President Trump's last two years as president. I have great relationships with many members of the cabinet with President Trump, of course, and you know, Dr. Oz and I have had great conversations, including in potential visits we've talked about to Ohio. To think about how we're able to change that game, to be able to say I mean having having as long as the insights came to me from the two and a half months that I did go ahead, doge. We need to fix those incentive structures just like you wouldn't a business where somebody is running a given division of a business generates greater profitability. You want that person to be rewarded for it. I'd say the same thing with respect to the states that, you know, from the federal government, if you're saving the federal government the money, you also as a state should participate in a greater portion of those savings. So that'll be something that I'm definitely going to work on when I'm governor and I'm confident that with a friendly administration, we'll be able to deliver commonsense solutions. The other issue Ben is just human nature. I mean, at the end of the day, if someone's grown dependent on the federal welfare state, most politicians are afraid to touch that. And the reality is that goes for call and the spade of spade Republicans and Democrats alike Democrats have been worse in this respect, but a lot of Republicans prefer to talk about or change the subject to other issues. And at some point as a country, we're going to have to reckon with this. We've got a $37 trillion national debt in growing. Our children, our their generation are not going to be able to sustain the brunt of this level of federal spending. And you look at how the cro, the creep scope, the scope creep of these programs from welfare to snap to Medicaid, often now finding their way to individuals who were never intended to be the beneficiaries of those programs. That's not only bad for the federal budget, not only bad for state budgets. It's in the long run also bad for the very people who are supposedly the recipients of those dollars. That's what's driving epidemic of purposelessness of depression, anxiety, a loss of meaning. When you ultimately aren't working and are permanently dependent on Uncle Sam, that actually reduces your own sense of agency too. And this should be something that conservatives are concerned with. Conservatives are talking about. And I think it's really important that we restore a direction in the Republican Party and in the conservative movement that confronts these issues head on rather than change in the topic to, you know, to talk about how we're going to create a different kind of an estate. I don't want that. And so I'm hoping that this is a message that will not only help save Ohio from a lot of this waste fraud and abuse. But we use the waste fraud and abuse as a jumping off point to say that we're also going to focus on empowerment. How do we put that money back in your pocket in the form of lower property taxes, lower income taxes, lower capital gains taxes that attract higher paying jobs to our state that ensure more of our young people graduating from high schools and from university. Then can get those high paying jobs so they don't have to be dependent on snap or welfare or Medicaid. That's the way we should be building our country back. And I think we will be in Ohio. We're going to set an example and that is why I'm in this. I know we have a lot of money. can get this done, it does take somebody who understands how this stuff works, understands how incentives work, understand how to manage a bureaucracy. One of the things I learned while running a business, Ben, is oftentimes if the right person is not a good fit for the job, you got to make that decision and remove them from that job. And a lot of people who run these government bureaucracies are reluctant to do that. President Trump's pretty good at it. I like that about him. And it's the way I'm going to lead Ohio is if you have people who are running these massive bureaucracies underneath them who are not willing to take action. We're going to remove them from their jobs and put in place people who are willing to do the job that the public hires them to do. And the most basic step to the point of what we're talking about today starts with prosecuting the obvious waste fraud and abuse that belongs, the dollars that are being built belong in the pockets of actual law abiding Ohioans. And that's what I'm going to deliver. Well, that is Vivek Ramaswami. He of course is running for governor of Ohio. The primary is today May 5th to make sure that if you're voting in Ohio, you got in vote for him. He's running a very brave race, by the way, he's taking on a lot of these sort of grievance party politics that we've talked about a lot on the show. Vivek wanted to ask you about that. You know, the fact is that you have delved into areas that a lot of politicians have fears delved into. You have called out these sort of horseshoe right and the left for undercutting Americanism for undercutting American exceptionalism. That's a risky business. I mean, because the fact is that obviously you're running in a competitive primary. You're also running in a very competitive state. I mean, how governor's race is not a runaway race for Republicans in this election cycle. You know, what effect do you think that the sort of grievance party is going to have on our politics going forward if it isn't stopped? Well, look, I'd encourage you to take a look at the Ohio primary results tonight or tomorrow morning then and tell your audience about it when they're out. I'm actually really curious as well. Because if you look at the person who's running against me in this race, it's a guy who put up a YouTube video saying that he was worried that AI was not highlighting enough for the good qualities of Hitler. He claims that I can't be the governor of Ohio because I'm an Indian, not an American, despite the fact that I'm born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and I'm raising my kids in Ohio. It's an embodiment of what the Twitter lab creates in the real world. And it's frankly disappointing. A lot of the policies sound socialist just like my other opponent in the Democrat race is also a socialist opponent. I'm going to face. And so I opposed that form of grievance driven, identitarian socialism, whether it emerges on the left, again, for example, in the candidate who I'm running against in the general election or whether it emerges on the so-called right, and I can't even call it the right because it's not really conservative at all, but the so-called right, which is what my primary election has been defined by. So to your question about what impact is this going to have on the politics of the future, I think that's where my primary will be pretty telling to be able to say, okay, I told you historically the Republican front runner, the person who wins the primary gets between 35 and 50% of the vote in competitive Republican primaries in Ohio. You know, let's see how I do. And I think that that will be a leading indicator of where the future direction of the actual voter base is for the Republican Party, which may or may not be. I think it probably is going to be very different from the loudest voices you hear on some sick corner of the Internet. So we'll see. But for me, I think the reason I'm doing it is if I was entering politics as a career, right, this was my way of collecting a paycheck and securing a comfortable life for my family, I wouldn't be doing any of that. Of course, it's not exactly what a standard political playbook would tell you is the talking points you're supposed to bring to a campaign these days. If it were, you'd see other Republicans doing it and they're not. So that's the reality, but I'm not in this for that reason. I would rather, I really am committed to winning this election, but if I had to choose, I would rather speak the truth and convey my beliefs and lose an election rather than to win by saying some, you know, fake canned talking point. And I think we're going to win by actually speaking the truth, but that's what I'm committed to. My parents came to this country half a century ago with nothing to their name. My dad worked for a five figure salary at GE and even Deloho for almost his entire career. My mom took care of nursing home patients and worked at the VA and Cincinnati as a psychiatrist. They couldn't afford private schools. I went to public schools through eighth grade. They saved up. I was able to go to a Catholic private high school. Now I've found it multi-billion dollar companies. I mean, two different one is Reuven. It's a 20 plus billion dollar business listed on the NASDAQ. Reuven is a multi-billion dollar fast growing company, both of which I founded. One I led as a CEO, several others as well. My opponent, my democratic opponent daily accuses me of being a billionaire. It's probably one of the few true things that she says, but I wasn't born a billionaire. I wasn't born a millionaire. I wasn't born in anything error. I was born an heir to nothing, actually, literally. But what I love and what I'm so grateful to is a country that allowed me to achieve those things and God willing, being in a position to lead the state where I was born and raised. That story is only possible in the United States of America. And I am so grateful to this state and to this country for giving me those opportunities that I feel a moral duty to revive that American dream where we teach our kids that number one factor that determines what you achieve in life is you. That was the lesson of my upbringing. It's not the billionaires. It's not the white people. It's not the black people. It's not the patriarchy. It's not the Jews. It's not the foreigners. It's none of those things. It is you. That's what the American dream is built on. That's what I'm running this campaign on. It's a top message of times to deliver. It's not one that lands well on everyone's ears. But at a certain level, I don't care. That's the truth. And that's what I'm going to give you. And I'm going to give it to you because I'm grateful to this country. And I think that is what it's going to be required to save this country. And I think the red team, blue team stuff, it's fine. It's the way partisan politics works. But I think that there's a deeper project. We're going to have to undertake in this country to revive the spirit of that American dream from a culture of victimhood, from the popularity of socialism, in the many avatars in which it shows up today. That's hard work ahead. And I believe, biased, obviously, but I believe that my winning this election in Ohio will help us take a step forward as a country, as the former Rust Belt, as a state, in the direction of economic empowerment, in the direction of educational achievement, in the direction of dare I say reviving that American dream, the people like you and me have lived in this country. And if we do that in one little state in the heart of the country, happens to be the sixth or seventh largest state in our economy. I think it'll be a good step for our country and I'm working on it every day. You can go check out the Vakes campaign of the vake 4.0. Howdy. Vakes, Ramos, thank you so much for taking the time, really appreciate it. Good to see you, Matt. Anywhere worth going is worth going in great boots. Our sponsor, Ticovas, makes the best. Handcrafted in over 200 steps for instant comfort. Ticovas delivers quality, style, and a top notch in-store experience for lifelong Cowboys or first time buyers. Let's be honest. Most boots look great for about five minutes and then they wreck your feet. But it's not Ticovas. These things are comfortable right out of the box. No break in period, no blisters, just pure comfort, timeless style, plus with plenty of options, you can find something to go with everything and every occasion. So look at me. 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In the Ohio governor's race, it's basically 50/50. That is a toss-up seat for the Ohio governor's race. And so backing Vivek would be a strong move in favor of Republican governance, obviously, in a state that has gone red, but used to be a lot more purple. And meanwhile, the permission structures for violence that have been fomented by the governor left continue a pace, according to Politico, on Monday, an episode unfolded in the late afternoon when playing close officers determined that a person had a gun, apparently, nearly a year. the White House. The man exchanged fire with officers while trying to flee the area according to the deputy director of the Secret Service, a weapon was recovered from it. The man unclear what the intentions were. Apparently the vice presidents motorcared drove through the area not long before the shooting occurred. This is obviously scary stuff. We are seeing increasing threats to politicians. And again, the glorification of acts of violence is a huge part of the problem. Talk about permission structures for violence that have been created. Ideologies that suggest you must do violence in order to save the country from fascism. Well, now it turns out that those gigantic fires in Los Angeles, the catastrophic palisades fire were allegedly set by one person named Jonathan Rindernecht, who was apparently obsessed, according to the New York Post, with the accused healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, he had routinely searched, free Luigi, and let's take down all the billionaires online. See, the billions of dollars in damage destroyed people's lives all based on the idea that violence against people who are rich is somehow good. Apparently this person, the alleged arsonist, was an Uber driver and he ran into customers about Luigi Mangione's arrest. According to prosecutors, many of the defendant's Uber passengers on December 31, 2021 and January 1st, 2025, described the defendant as angry intends driving erratically and ranting about being pissed off at the world in Luigi Mangione, capitalism and vigilantism. Anti-capitalism, anti-institutionalism, these have consequences. And when you celebrate people who do violence, this is what you end up with. Incredibly enough, the left refuses to stop doing this, like legitimately refuses to stop doing this. So Minnesota, attorney general Keith Ellison, who's campaigning with Bernie Sanders, and he's out there once again claiming that they're fighting fascism. If you keep saying that your opponents are fascists without evidence, you are contributing to a permission structure for violence. That's what this is. Here is the Minnesota attorney general. Is anybody here to fight fascism? I'm here to fight fascism. I am here to fight me some fascism with you. All right? Because fascism, I ain't got no use for it at all. It's really, really getting on my nerves right up in here. I mean, obviously, the way that you fight fascism in a fascist country is that you have free speech to go and call it fascism. That's obviously what's going on. But again, this is part in parcel of a left-wing permission structure that says that political opposition is somehow an aspect of evil. And the beautiful thing about this is that once you decide that your generalized political opposition is, in fact, the font head of all evil, well, then that excuses pretty much anything. It excuses anything. So the Minnesota, the Michigan Senate candidate for the Democratic Party, the likely Senate candidate is a man named Abdul El Sayyad. We've talked about him before. He is a terror supporter. He's a person who said that he would not come out in favor of the killing of itella Chlamene because too many of his constituents liked itella Chlamene. Well, he's out there, of course, of course, he had campaigned with Hassan Piker. And he says that it's totally fine to campaign with Hassan Piker because his opponent support genocide, which is a total lie. And it's actually a double lie. First of all, Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza. The population of Gaza has increased since the beginning of the war, which is the most unsuccessful genocide in human history, if that is the case. And second of all, it is a lie that anyone has called for a genocide. But of course, it's all a permission structure to support people who are truly terrible like the Hassan Pekers of the world. If you are more frustrated by the idea that I would campaign with Hassan Piker, then you are frustrated by the idea that we have backstopped a genocide or that we continue to rob people of getting basic healthcare in their in their country, I think you don't understand morals. To me, morals are about big things. People should have healthcare. We shouldn't kill children. Those are to me, morals. And you need to be able to figure out how to do those things in the world, sometimes working with people who don't share your morals. And like, that's what makes politics hard, but it's not complicated. What again, anything can be justified through this matrix, anything. And of course, so can every conspiracy. So might as touch is a newly popular or left wing show. And one of the hosts is now suggesting that President Trump is constructing a ballroom in order to stage a military coup. What in the world? What in the what in the end? What? Huh? Okay. There is a fear that he ain't leaving. And that is something to be taken very seriously, because it almost sounds humorous that he wouldn't. But he will. And he's he said in a rally speech, I'll never forget it, that his greatest regret was leaving the White House in 2021. And he should have just, you know, hunkered down. He's building an additional 100,000 square feet to give him the opportunity to hunkered down this time with a military installation below this giant ballroom that will clearly never be used for balls. Do you worry as some of us do that there is a coup that is on its way? The ballroom will be Hitler's bunker is that that's the basic idea here. But but of course, then they decry all violence. You say that the president is a fascist. You say that you're willing to campaign with people who openly support terrorism because the Republicans are so terrible and all the rest of this. Truly amazing stuff. Amazing stuff from the left, which is of course another justificatory structure for how they can back people like Graham Platner, the main Senate candidate. So Platner, of course, is the guy with the Totten Cop tattoo, meaning like an SS tattoo on his chest, which doesn't happen by accident. You don't just wake up one morning with a death's head tattoo on your chest, a giant one. By the way, people generally know why they get the tattoos they got. Also, he has appeared on the podcast of neo-Nazis, like stupider and all the rest. So, you know, he's kind of a bad person, Graham Platner. But the entire Democratic party is now mobilizing behind him because obviously if you want to beat the evil, evil Republicans, you have to side with people like Graham Platner. John Favreau at the Podsave America crew. He put out a tweet saying Graham Platner isn't just our best and only chance to beat Susan Collins. He's a good decent man who struggled and grown and is always trying to do better. He has struggled. You might call all of this my struggle. You might you might in fact suggest that he's suffering through main comfort. But again, this is just insane. I'm sorry. The fact that the left is willing to side with legitimately anyone, anyone for any purpose to quote unquote stop the fascist right. This is how you end up where we are right now. And the temperature is really, really high. I mean, so high that even ridiculous things are now becoming significantly more serious. So let's talk about a ridiculous thing. The Met Gala is one of the most ridiculous things in America. It's truly ridiculous. The Met Gala is a charity event for the Metropolitan Museum, particularly they they have a costume museum. Jeff Bezos sponsored it this year dropped out $10 million so that he could be a co-host of the Met Gala. And it's always ridiculous and stupid. It is very, very wealthy people who dress up in absurd outfits, well-decrying their own wealth. So it really is incredibly, incredibly dumb. But now in the last few years we've had people keep trying to invade the Met Gala is that they're storming the best steel in 1789. As though if they tackle Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala or something, they're overthrowing the system. So we're now cosplaying the revolution on pretty much all sides. So one of the things that happened over at the Met Gala last night was a protestor attempting to enter the Met Gala. The cops had to tackle him. Here's what that looked like. There you get, you see somebody trying to get in at the cops charging the guy. Well, things are going well over in New York. Meanwhile, apparently some Met Gala protestors decided to place hundreds of bottles of pee inside the museum in order to protest Jeff Bezos. The good news is that the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they probably considered that a form of art. So you could just stack those bottles of pee and call it an art display, probably. And it would do fine. But the fact that they are very, very angry, Jeff Bezos for dropping $10 million to sponsor the thing is pretty astonishing. In a statement accompanying the latest stunned, the activist collective, it's called Everyone Hates Elon, an anti-billionaire group funded by roughly a thousand donors worldwide. They said, quote, "Amazon founder and oligarch Jeff Bezos just finished his Met Gala pre-party at his penthouse and is getting ready for the big night. We couldn't let him get away with using celebrity and fashion to hide his crimes. We're exposing them instead." What are Jeff Bezos' crimes other than being able to bring people products and services at an incredibly cheap price in extraordinarily mobile fashion? What are the crimes? Well, the crime is being rich. That is the crime. We're again, cosplaying the Marxist revolution in New York City. So, comedy messages were actually projected onto Bezos' New York City apartment. Here's what they look like. celebration. We deserve so much more than we're getting. There's power in numbers and there's more of us than there are of you. Remember, Joe, ordinary people like myself that help make you and billionaires. If we build it, we can tear it down. Think about that tonight, okay? After that Bible of champagne, when you go to bed, we're going to keep growing and we're going to keep building it and we're going to keep processing and we're going to keep marching and we're going to keep by this dystopian culture. We're not stopping. We're just getting cranked up. Enjoy your damn gala. Again, protesting the Matt Gala, which again is a bunch of very rich Democrats. That's really what it is. Like, Bezos may have voted Republican in the last election. I don't know. But I will say that disproportionately, Matt Gala is a bunch of Hollywood Democrats with a gigantic wad of cash. It is kind of amazing that you have everyone cost-blowing the revolution on all sides. My favorite outfit from the Matt Gala, by the way, there's an actress named Sarah Paulson, who's worth I believe $12 million and she showed up wearing this monstrosity. She was wearing a bizarre dress, but she was wearing dollar bills over her eyes because money is blinding her while wearing an expensive dress to the Matt Gala. Again, these are all Democrats. These are all Democrats who are pretending that they hate the system that they have benefited from. It really is incredible. Again, I do have to make fun of the cultural aspect of this because every year the outfits of the Matt Gala are increasingly bizarre and stupid. Sam Smith, who used to be just a gay man and has now decided that he is a non-binary fat gay man, I guess. He showed up dressed as fat gay Maleficent. That was exciting. Here, that's an outfit. Listen, I'll admit. I'll admit, the ostentatious display of obnoxious wealth from some of the world's most useless people here is enough to turn anybody into a communist. Not because communism is good, but because this stuff is ridiculous. It is ridiculous, but it is also not in aspect of capitalism per se. It's an aspect of decadence. That's a different thing. Meanwhile, a trans, Tony award-winning producer named Jordan Roth showed up wearing a creepy sculpture, wearing a creepy mannequin over his shoulder while he was dressed as a woman. I'm not even going to. Lena Dunham showed up as a character from Stranger Things, who is apparently flayed from the inside out by the mind flair. I don't know what happened to this dress. That's some scary stuff happening right there. Kind of gruesome. I think my favorite outfit, honestly, was Katy Perry. Katy Perry showed up wearing an outfit that was basically a peekaboo mask. When I say that, I mean, she is literally wearing a door on her face that opens and shuts. I just can imagine how excited Justin Trudeau is about that because any two-year-old would find that amusing. So Justin Trudeau probably, every time she closes that door, Justin Trudeau is like, where did she go? Where did she go? And then she opens it up. Oh my god, Katy Perry's back, which is really. That must be exciting for him. Or maybe when she gets annoying. He just closes the door on her face. Beyonce showed up wearing an outfit from the Day of the Dead celebration in Coco. That's an interesting outfit there from Beyonce. Yeah, that's a lot. Tiana Taylor showed up dressed as a common-door dog. I'm not sure what this was here. She looks as though she's straight from 101 Dalmatians. And a Cardi B, I think, had probably the worst outfit. She apparently has been plagued by massive tumors on her feet and on her shoulders, which is. That's what that dress looks like. Sad stuff happening. Bad bunny showed up dressed as Joe Biden. By which I mean, he aged himself like 40 years and showed up dressed as an old man. Yeah, again, ostentatious displays of wealth are not likely to make capitalism popular. But let's just remember, every single person who is doing this is preaching on behalf of the anti-capitalism. 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Okay. Meanwhile, in more serious news, obviously it appears that some sort of action may be imminent in Iran. President Trump announced yesterday that the United States will guide non-sanctioned ships through the straight-of-formos as an amazing move by the president. He says countries from all over the world, almost all of which are not involved in the Middle Eastern dispute going on so visibly and violently for all to see, have asked the United States if we could help free up their ships, which are locked up in the straight-of-formos on something, which they have absolutely nothing to do with. They're merely neutral and innocent bystanders. For the good of Iran, the Middle East and the United States, we've told these countries we'll guide their ships safely out of these restricted waterways so they can freely and ably get on with their business. So what does that mean? Well, Pete Hegsat, the Secretary of Defense. He announced today, this morning, that Iran cannot block international waterways indiscriminately. Here is what the Secretary of Defense had to say. American forces won't need to enter Iranian waters or airspace. It's not necessary. We're not looking for a fight, but Iran also cannot be allowed to block innocent countries and their goods from an international waterway. Iran is the clear aggressor, harassing civilian vessels, threatening mariners from every nation indiscriminately, and weaponizing a critical choke point for its own financial benefit at least trying to. Well, over the course of the last 24 hours, the United States did help guide a tanker through the strait, a very large mayor's tanker through the strait. They're also trying to change the incentive structures so that more tankers are willing to go get insurance and then ship through the strait. Hegsat announced that Iran had been embarrassed by the fact that we are now opening up some lanes. Basically, if you think of the strait of Hormuz as a freeway, there are certain lanes that are further from Iran. Those lanes are now open and the United States is making sure that they remain open. Two US commercial ships, along with American destroyers, have already safely translated the strait, showing the lane is clear. We know the Iranians are embarrassed by this fact. They said they control the strait. They do not. Well, this is a major problem for Iran. Their number one piece of leverage here was closing the strait of Hormuz. They basically have two pieces of leverage left. One is to try and blow up all the oil supplies in surrounding countries and the other is the strait of Hormuz. And if the strait of Hormuz is reopened and the only stuff that can't get in or out is Iranian, they have a massive, massive problem. They can't project power. They don't have a working economy. President Trump announced yesterday that Iran was taking shots at ships. It is a desperation play at this point that they are taking shots at ships. The president says Iran has taken some shots at unrelated nations with respect to ship movement, project freedom, including a South Korean cargo ship. Perhaps it's time for South Korea to come and join the mission. We've shot down seven small boats, or as they like to call them fastboats, it's all they have left. Other than the South Korean ship, there has been at this moment no damage going through the strait. He sent com Admiral Brad Cooper detailed the nature of the Iranian attacks in the strait of Hormuz. Here's what it sounded like. The cruise missiles were going after both US Navy ships, but mostly after commercial shipping. We defended both ourselves and consistent with our commitment. We defended all the commercial ships. We've had drone launches of again commercial ships, all of which were defended against consistent with our commitment. And then the small boats were all going against commercial ships. all were sunk by a patchies and see how helicopters. So again, this is a massive move. The United States reopening the straight and ensuring the shipping can move through at the same time that Iran cannot get its stuff out is disastrous for the economy of Iran. This is why Iran has now been attacking UAE. I mean, the ceasefire is not a ceasefire from the Iranian side. They've not ceased fire. According to the Wall Street Journal, the UAE's defense ministry said late on Monday, it intercepted 12 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles, and four drones launched from Iran. Again, sort of a warning shot. What Iran is mostly worried about at this point is that the United States permanently degrades its capacity for economic recovery. The easiest move for the United States to make right now would be to just blow up Hargai' Island. Hargai' Island, you could do an amphibious operation there. It's a lot riskier. Or it could just blow it up. And that means that Iran has no refinery capacity. And that means their economy is basically sunk for the foreseeable future, which means the regime has no money to pay its own people. Now it seems that the Trump administration would like to give Iran one final opportunity before that happens. That's what this chokehold is on Iranian resources moving in and out. President Trump says it's only a matter of time before their resources run dry before they have to turn off their wells. There's President Trump talking to Hugh Hewitt. They have a problem coming up because they have, it's a very explosive situation in a lot of different ways. You know, they're oil. When you turn off the oil underground and the mechanical too, but underground has a tendency in like almost 100% of the cases to literally explode and just destroy everything around it. And you can never get that oil again. In other words, you can get back 30 to 40 percent, but it could never be like it is right now. It does tremendous damage to the oil system in the country if that happens. Now, President, last time you were on. They've run out of areas for storage. They say that in two weeks, you know, when they talk about time, in two weeks they're going to have a natural explosion of their oil that's going to make it impossible for them to really recover from. Okay. The President is not wrong about any of this. And Ron knows the time is running short for them. And that is why they are getting increasingly aggressive. Now, again, United States has a lot of steps that we can take, where a lot of things that we can do. We can get a lot of hard island. We could hit other energy resources inside the country. We could take down another layer of the IRGC. We'll probably have to do at some point another kinetic action against missile facilities that have been uncovered over the course of the last few weeks. Ron has been digging out these missile launchers from underground, which actually is not very good for them. But anybody who believes at this point that Ron is winning this war is missing the boat. I mean, totally missing the boat. By the way, about three-quarters of Americans, according to a Harvard Harris poll, it just came out. I believe that Ron is losing the war. So despite all of the bad information coming out online, Americans are not stupid and they are not missing this story. Already folks, time for a thing that I like or maybe don't like. I haven't seen this yet. So my producers have brought out the new trailer for the Odyssey. As you all know, I'm a massive fanboy of Christopher Nolan. So let's watch this together and we'll see what I think. Tell me when you remember. A life, a son, and then what? We won the war. Help me go home. Okay, so Mars are dead? Missed a household waiting for Master. I want you to choose me. Yeah, the cast is great. I think his king is coming back. No, he's not. Okay, there's the Cyclops. What do you do if he came back here and find all these shooters in his house? They're pining me for a daddy. You didn't even know like some snuffling bastard. Who's looking after your wife and son? Okay, I got you. David Robert Pattinson. I guess people were pissed at that he said dad there, right? Bringing it all. Let's go! Yeah, so I know a lot of people are upset about the casting and Helen and Troy. I'm not upset about this. These are all mythical characters. I need everyone in this party, dad. Also, let's be clear, everybody would have looked very, very grief. Nobody would have looked like a Nordic person. Matt Damon is not a Greek extraction. I mean, I'm going to watch the Helen. I don't understand the problem. Use the word dad that's what we're supposed to pissed about. I mean, this looks great. I don't understand. Again, maybe, I will admit, Tenet is not a good movie. It's the only Christopher Nolan movie I will admit is not a good movie. All the other ones are ranged from great to some of us movies ever made. And so I'm watching this and I understand that there are some people, again, it's too colloquial. He said daddy and dad in the trailer. That's terror. Can I just be clear about this? Every single language has some sort of diminutive for father. Okay, every single one, what do you call your father? You call him father? Probably not. You probably call him dad. Okay, so I promise you that way back when people were using a diminutive when they were talking about their father's also, because that's normal. Okay, so yeah, that looks great. Everybody's whiny. Stop complaining. You have an original filmmaker making one of the greatest stories in human history with a huge budget. You should just be happy that it's going to hit your screens this year. I am already coming up. We're going to jump into the mailbag and take a sum of your questions. 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