Fighting Fraud and Restoring Law and Order

0:00 Speaker 1 Well, calling in today is Senator Eric Schmidt from the great state of Missouri, and he was the Attorney General for many years before becoming the United States Senator. Well, Senator, you were always looking out for our listeners, our consumers, our taxpayers. There’s so much fraud going on. I’ve been scratching my head. I’m getting a bolt spot. Tell me,

0:30 give me an update, give all our listeners an update. What the heck is going on?

0:37 Speaker 2 Well, I think the good news, John Well, the bad news is there’s fraud happening all across this country that’s costing taxpayers trillions of dollars in taking money away and services away from people who need it the most. The good news is we have an administration now that is very focused on taking on fraud across this country. I

0:56 was at a round table with the vice president of Vice president of Vance earlier this week. We talked about sort of progress that’s being made. I met with the new attorney and the Justice Department that this is his focus, going around the country working with US attorneys, and I think that’s what you need. You need a Department of

1:12 Justice and administration that is held in on taking on this rampant fraud, and I think it came into full view for the American people at the beginning of this year when they saw, you know, this Somali enclave in Minneapolis that had all these fake daycare centers that were builking taxpayers millions and millions and millions of dollars, and

1:32 nobody was there, you know, and it was actually like an independent It was just this Nick Shirley guy going around with his own camera and covering this, you know. And and we’ve seen more of that in places like California, and I think that, like I said, the real challenge here is not only as an insult and costing trillions

1:50 of dollars to taxpayers. I think of the guy you know in Missouri that’s swinging the hammer, or the construction guy in New York that’s just working his ass off every day, working over time, seven days a week to make ends meet. It’s infuriating for that guy to know that there’s somebody, you know, like who just came over

2:08 here from Somalia created this scheme, got rich and off the taxpayers. I mean, that is infuriating. So I just think we have to have a laser like focus. We’re seeing that from this administration. I think this is a good result. You mentioned my time as Attorney General. We were very focused on taking on fraud, taking on violent crime.

2:26 That is what the focus of the Justice Department should be, not this weaponization we saw on the Biden administration where they were going after Catholics, and they were going after parents who show up the school board meetings under the Patriot Act. They were going after political enemies. They tried to put President Trump in jail for the rest of

2:41 this life. You saw it unfold there in New York. Even with Alvin Bragg. This law fair. That isn’t what the American people want. They want, you know, law and order. They want people put away who commit violent crimes. And they want these fraudsters to go to jail too.

2:57 Speaker 1 We want honesty and integrity. Now. We had doctor oz on the other day and and he talked about the amount of fraud going on, especially in the medicaid the field. Uh, but does any of them go to jail?

3:14 Speaker 2 You know, for a long time, John, there are people that if if the fraud was under a million dollars, were never at risk of going to jail. I think that’s crazy. I think we have to stiff in the penalties.

3:23 We got to enforced the laws we have. I’m working on legislation that would stiff in these penalties. People should go to jail for a long time if they’re doing this. I mean, this is just like I said, it’s it’s robbery from hard working folks. And and the other the other aspect of this is there are people who these

3:39 these programs are intended to help who are robbed of those services too, you know, people with disabilities, those those who who can’t help themselves that you know, the elderly or a homebound. That that’s what the intention of these of these of these programs were and they’re being you know, builked and robbed and shaken down by these fraudsters. And

3:56 I think that’s that’s frustrating to a lot of people. I think that we ought to have greater expectations from the states right now. A lot of those dollars, those medicaid dollars, John, they just they go the check goes out from the federal government to the states and they and they have no idea if these people are alive

4:13 or dead or fraud you know, defrauding that state. And so you know, we had you know, in the Working Family’s tax cut, the one big beautiful bill last year, some of the strongest anti fraud measures ever in this country.

4:26 And now those can be enforced, and so you need, you need better data, you need stiffer penalties, and you need the bandwidth of these prosecutors to go out and do their jobs.

4:35 Speaker 1 Now, some of the things I don’t understand, especially that state that’s near you, Michigan. I mean, how can you elect a guy that is so anti American and get it? How can a guy like that get so many votes?

4:54 Speaker 2 It’s wild? You know. I think for for a while people were just dismissed this as a thing that was happening in some of the blue cities. But when somebody like that is elected in a Democrat primary in a state like Michigan, that is a wake up call. And I think that, you know, for a lot of people,

5:14 you know, how is this possible? Well, you know, when you ship a lot of jobs overseas, and then people who are left behind, like where I grew up, looking for jobs and those wages are suppressed through illegal immigration or a broken legal immigration system. Quite quite frankly, people get frustrated, and that is what these socialists, these communists

5:34 are tapping into but they’re just talking about redistributing existing resources right and opening up government grocery stores, which we know won’t work. And really what we need is we need more jobs, we need more opportunity, we need more energy, we need more abundance. We need less scarcity, more abundance, and more prosperity for people. And that is what the

5:54 competing visions are. It is really about less versus more. But it is it is wild. I think as a Republican, you know, you may want to say, hey, this is good for a matchup so we can draw contrast. Maybe that’s true, But as an American, this is a this is a terrifying moment where you have these people who

6:13 don’t actually believe in America. They don’t actually believe in free enterprise. They actually believe in the control that the government provide. I mean, look at Mndomi. He’s talking about IDs in these government grocery stores, but doesn’t want to have people to prove who they are when they vote, you know, like they want to flood this country with

6:31 illegal immigrants, sign them up for benefits, get them dependent on the government, and vote for them because they have lost the case with the American people, the Americans out there that work hard, want a better life for the families.

6:43 They’ve lost those arguments. So now they just want to bring more people in and get them dependent on the government or I guess, you know, work on some of these scams we saw in Minneapolis and make them their voters.

6:53 And we have to we have to be vigilant in fighting against that. It’s always good to join you, John. I appreciate all you you and for all your listeners deny on your show a bunch over the years. I just want everybody, God bless everybody, and and uh, you know, we’ll talk soon.

7:09 Speaker 1 Thank you so much, senator, and thank you for everything you do for for America, and continue to speak out for everything, and we’ll catch up again. Thank you.