Journalist who EXPOSED Minnesota daycare fraud says investigate THESE people NOW!

What this episode is about

A journalist discusses the significant backlash and threats he has faced after exposing widespread fraud in Minnesota daycare programs, highlighting the complexities of the issue that intertwine with race and politics. He emphasizes that despite the focus on financial misconduct, the narrative has shifted, framing him as a villain rather than addressing the underlying problem of money being stolen from taxpayers.

Key takeaways

• Exposing fraud can turn you from whistleblower to target; irony at its best.
• Mainstream media prefers villains over heroes when the money trail gets muddled.
• Fraud's audacity in daycare centers: millions paid, yet where are the children?
• Race isn't the issue; money stolen is the real crime—yet narratives twist the tale.
• When the FBI plays catch-up, you know the fraud game has hit critical mass.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Glenn Beck (Guest) · 9 min speaking
• Nick (Guest) · 6 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Father Nick, Tim Waltz, Chris Rufo, Elon Musk
2. 3:00 – 6:00: FBI, Clarence David, Patrick Bet David
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Tim Waltz, Elon Omar, UN, Elon Musk
4. 12:00 – 14:47: Father Nick

Notable quotes from "Journalist who EXPOSED Minnesota daycare fraud says investigate THESE people NOW!"

• Nick, welcome to the program. How are you sir?

  about Father Nick · at 0:00

• What did you do differently that made your story stand out where you know Chris Rufo and as I said Walder Kern they've been talking about this for a long time and it connected but it connected in the mind. What did you do.

  about Chris Rufo · at 1:15

• Well, you just saw Tim Waltz step down from re-election.

  about Tim Waltz · at 2:40

• About you in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle…

  about FBI · at 4:16

• I'm not sure I want to take this phone call right now. anyway, you said with Patrick Bet David, you found it surprising that they didn't have all this information already.

  about Patrick Bet David · at 5:28

• Okay. but this is all over the country and they just announced today the UN ambassador of Somalia is involved in all of this. He knows about this and is involved in some of this.

  about UN · at 6:27

• Anybody who had ties to cutting any of the checks or just knowing what was happening. Elon Omar, she's outside of the coffee shops and the daycarees where these daycarees were being found.

  about Elon Omar · at 7:52

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Father Nick — Person · Main guest · 2 mentions · first at 0:00
  Primary interview subject describing his on-the-ground investigation into alleged childcare/daycare fraud in Minnesota and the backlash (including death threats) after publishing a viral video.
• Tim Waltz — Person · Referenced public official (critic of Nick, per clip) · 2 mentions · first at 2:40
  Presented as a Minnesota political figure who publicly condemned 'right-wing YouTubers' and is discussed as stepping down from re-election amid the controversy.
• Elon Omar — Person · Referenced political figure (alleged connection, per guest) · 1 mention · first at 7:55
  Discussed as being photographed near locations tied to the alleged daycare fraud; the guest claims (with 'allegedly') that multiple local figures 'knew about' the fraud.
• Clarence David — Person · Referenced local source / data provider · 1 mention · first at 3:43
  Described as the person who had 'all the information' and 'data' that helped Nick identify daycare locations to visit for the investigation.
  And this man, David, he had all the information. He had all the data.
• Chris Rufo — Person · Referenced commentator/journalist (prior coverage) · 1 mention · first at 1:22
  Cited as someone who had been 'talking about this for a long time,' used to frame why Nick's approach (visual, on-site) broke through more widely.
• Patrick Bet David — Person · Referenced media host (prior appearance by Nick) · 1 mention · first at 5:34
  Mentioned as the platform where Nick discussed the issue previously; Nick says the FBI called him after that appearance.
• Elon Musk — Person · Referenced public figure (analogy/example) · 2 mentions · first at 1:45
  Used as a comparison point: the host/guest contrast hearing about fraud abstractly versus Nick showing it visually 'with your eyes.'
  Yeah, I think I did because you could you'd always heard about the fraud. Like when Elon was doing Doge, you heard about the fraud, but you could never physically see it with your eyes.

Companies & orgs

• FBI — Company · Investigative agency · 2 mentions · first at 4:13
  The FBI is mentioned as being involved in investigating large-scale fraud schemes in Minnesota, particularly in relation to daycare centers.
• UN — Company · International organization · 1 mention · first at 6:32
  The UN is mentioned in the context of the UN ambassador of Somalia being involved in the fraud schemes discussed in the podcast.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Nick, welcome to the program. How are you sir? Doing good. It's been a crazy past week or so.

0:07 I bet it has. I bet it has. Um, you are now getting death threats. How much has your life changed?

0:15 Yeah, it's changed drastically because you wouldn't think by exposing fraud you would really get a lot of people to come after you. You'd think like for instance, you'd think the mainstream media would be happy. You think other government officials would be happy, but then you see them all just turn it around and make it act like you're some sort of villain, which then enrages a bunch of crazies to want to kill you.

0:35 And why do you suppose that is? Why why are they reacting the way they are? Well, obviously people don't like when millions of dollars are going to be exposed, especially if they're receiving some of that money. And then two, now it's been painted as a race issue when it's really not a racial race issue. It's just about money being stolen. And so now you're being called anti- anti-migrant anti-Islam all this sort of stuff when you just did a video about fraud. You had nothing to do with the race or the religion. Just it just happens to be that 89% of the Somalian population is committing the fraud in Minnesota.

1:15 What did you do differently that made your story stand out where you know Chris Rufo and as I said Walder Kern they've been talking about this for a long time and it it connected but it connected in the mind. What what did you do different? Why were you a surprised that it connected the way it did and why do you think it did? Yeah, I think I did because you could you could you'd always heard about the fraud. Like when Elon was doing Doge, you heard about the fraud, but you could never physically see it with your eyes.

1:51 You could you heard about the contracts, but you never actually saw that the money was going there. You never saw the effects of it or whose hands it was going into and just how blatant the fraud was because this is happening all across the country. And here in Minnesota, the fraud's so obvious that you literally just go knock on the door of the daycare and one, no one answers. two, if they do answer, there's no kids. And three, if they answer, they can't even give you a brochure to enroll a child. Um, you know, I'm amazed at uh how this has happened and people don't see that the government, and quite honestly, I think the banks do, had to be involved. The banks at least knew about it. They just turned a blind eye. The government, especially in Minnesota, they were absolutely part of this, were they not?

2:40 Well, you just saw Tim Waltz step down from re-election. Yeah. Hold on just a second. Let me Let me just take a moment and just celebrate this here. This is what he said yesterday. Let's celebrate.

2:49 We've got conspiracy theorist, right-wing YouTubers breaking into our daycarees demanding access to our children. We've got the president of the United States demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that the motans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous.

3:10 Okay. So, he he said, "I'm not going to run anymore." Um I think he was talking about you, Nick. I'm pretty sure pretty pretty sure he was. Pretty sure he was. Uh conspiracy theory. First of all, you weren't breaking into the daycare center and asking to see our kids. You were asking, "Are there any children here?" Correct.

3:32 Correct. And how did you find these places? Yeah. Well, if you just drive around Minneapolis, there literally nearly every single block there's a daycare. And uh this man, David, he had all the information. He had all the the data. And uh we just started going to some of the daycarees that were around him and uh in the neighborhood. and they say 7 open 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. yet there's no children. The windows are all blocked out and they're receiving millions of dollars. In that video right there, you're seeing a a green building that has two daycarees inside the same address receiving upwards of $5 million.

4:10 You the Cash Patel came out and said the FBI is aware of recent social media reports. Again, I think they're talking about you in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs. They had, but they're they just announced, I think it was yesterday, they're going to send another 2,000 investigators uh and federal officials, which is fantastic. I've never seen anything like that. Have you been working? Are you in contact with the FBI at all?

4:45 No, I have not. I uh I me I put a thing out um when I was on Patrick McDavid and the FBI called me. The thing was I was in the Uber with the when they called me. I saw that they called me and so I was like well I'm not going to answer with the Uber guy in the car and so I just let it ring through and then by the time I got out of the Uber so many people had called me between then and the phone call and so many messages I couldn't figure out what phone it what phone number it was.

5:10 Oh jeez. I lost the contact of the FBI. Yeah, that's uh probably not the probably not the best thing. They'll get a hold of you if they need to talk to you. Believe me, they'll get a hold of you. There is nothing there is nothing freakier than when you look down at your phone and it's either the White House calling you or the FBI. You're kind of like, I'm not sure I want to take this phone call right now. Um anyway, um you said with Patrick Bet David, you found it surprising that they didn't have all this information already.

5:41 Yeah, because I mean it was so obvious and just like how come it was my video that surged even 2,000 more if millions quite literally billions of dollars is being given to these daycare centers? Uh how come we don't how come the government doesn't know that the money is being spent here? And so I thought what was great about this is the HHS then went and froze all daycare payments or all childcare payments until these businesses prove they're legit. And so far, no business has been able to send in information saying they're a legit business.

6:15 It's in uh I think I saw you in Ohio exposing this. More in Ohio or is that not you?

6:22 No, not yet. Not yet. Um but I did go back to Minnesota for part two. Okay. Um but this is all over the country and they just announced today the UN ambassador of Somalia is involved in all of this. He knows about this and is involved in some of this.

6:41 They're all in on it. Like everyone knows and and you talk to the Somalies and they're like, "Are we the only people who commit fraud?" They'll literally say, "Are we the only people who commit fraud?"

6:52 No. And I like to find, "Do you have tips on others?" You should ask them. Don't do you have tips on others because we'll go after them, too. Yeah.

6:58 Yeah. And and like I said, just it just so happens that the fraud being committed in Minnesota, 89% of the population committing the fraud is Somalian. So, it's really not a rac issue. It's just a fact that people are stealing millions and billions of dollars from Americans. Um, with Tim Walsh leaving, I think uh probably a lot of pressure on that one. he knew he was in trouble hoping that if he just goes away because what happens to these things they always turn political and so the they'll you know get the governor out or they'll get the senator out and then it just doesn't go anywhere. Um who besides the governor should our government be looking into?

7:44 I think just everyone involved over at the at the capital in Minnesota and the DHS who was cutting the checks and just anybody who had ties to cutting any of the checks or just knowing what was happening. Elon Elon Omar, she's outside of the coffee shops and the daycarees where these daycarees were being found. She has photos of her outside of Quality Laring Center with the owner of the restaurant who also is in a video with the mayor of Minneapolis going to her next daycare. They're all in on it

8:14 and there's no way they could not have known because as you say the Larrying Center didn't have any children in it

8:22 doing laying the Omar guy who was running for mayor he was also he had a a brother-in-law or some family member who was in charge of one of the daycarees that had also been receiving $2 million and they actually had so many violations they shut down the daycare then the next day they reopened and that guy is about to become error. And so all these people are in on the fraud. They all know it's happening. And I need to say use the word allegedly because I don't want to get sued. But allegedly, all these people know about the fraud.

8:54 Well, somebody clearly had to. You can't have that much money rolling around. A lot of people knew. Nick, you were you've been on you've you've How old are you, by the way? You've got to be 25 24

9:07 23 23. you have learned uh quickly uh what the mainstream media is really all about and how they behave and you can walk into a buzzsaw and you think you're doing the right thing and it's very obvious to the rest of the world then you walk into this buzzsaw of CNN you're like what just happened my arms are cut off um the they are saying now that well you just went on a day when the kids weren't there cuz we went back a couple of days later and their kids there can you talk about that at Yeah. So these people their their claims are so stupid because one originally they said, "Well, you went during winter break." Well, I actually didn't. I went on December 16th. School is still in session. And so then I go back and while they're still in winter break after I've exposed it, then they start funneling children in. So the originally came their original claim was, "Well, you went during winter break." Well, that's

10:02 not true. And now you're here during winter break and they're bringing in children.

10:09 This is so good. It's so funny. Oh my god. Uh their claims make absolutely no sense. And then well obviously there people are going to start bringing in children and either way whether it's uh these places are licensed for 90 to 40 children. And for instance, one of the daycarees called ABC. They're licensed for 40 children. They receive uh more than a million dollars. The news goes there. They tell them they're going and there's 12 kids in there. Well, it's licensed for 40. There's 12 kids. So either way, that place is receiving upwards of 90 $90,000 per kid. Meanwhile, parents are spending 30 to $70,000 a year on daycare. That's not right. That's still fraud.

10:51 Are you surprised at all at the reaction of the average American? I I I did a monologue on uh what was it? Is today only Tuesday? Uh yesterday I did a monologue on this and I tried to explain this is your money. This is your you work 3 months every year to pay your taxes and you're struggling every day and you want to help kids that don't have food etc. And they are taking this and enriching themselves or sending it over to a foreign country. And I don't understand why every American every American isn't like that's got to stop. That's just wrong. I don't care who's involved.

11:28 Left, right, middle. I don't care. So, they got to go to jail. You surprised? I mean, the average American, they're very supportive of what's going on. It's just the crazy leftists that are freaking out because there are frauds being exposed and they're making this a race issue and making it a political issue. And this is should be literally the most common sense issue ever that stealing is bad. And so most gener most Americans are all happy with me. Like people are [snorts] coming up to me and saying thank you. But then you also get the crazies are looking at you like they want to kill you inside the airport. And so it's actually insane to think that some people would be mad that fraud's being exposed.

12:09 Nick, um I I want to commend you. I saw you say something and this is what has saved me over and over again. You know, I ask people all the time, how is your soul? Um because if you lose touch with your soul, you're in trouble. Um especially fame and fortune and accolades, they're battery acid to the soul. And let me just give you some advice and then also just tell you how happy and proud I am of you of something. Um uh if you start to want it, get out. If you start thinking, you know what, I'm just the cat's me. Get the hell out because you'll lose your soul. Um, take people at their word. If they're threatening your life, take them at their word. Do not dismiss any of that. And if you ever need anything, you call me and we'll help you on security and help figure that out for you. Um, the the other thing is I have to tell you how proud I am.

13:11 you said uh somewhere may have just been a video you posted uh you know I I I don't drink I don't carouse uh you know I'm cleancut I don't do anything wrong uh so what are you going to get me on that please know that that is your superpower that will save you from everything the minute you have something to hide someone will find it. You if you make a mistake, admit it immediately and make it a big deal that you made a mistake and you're admitting it immediately. So, no one can ever wield anything over your head. If you stay clean and admit your mistakes, no one will be able to touch you. I mean, other than, you know, physically, but no one will be able to destroy you.

14:04 I'm I'm so proud of how you've lived your life and and your principles. Yeah, thank you. It means a lot. And yeah, I really do just try to live my life and just uh have like my morals and principles and just like I can still live a great life and I would say my life's even enhanced from the way I live and the opportunities I get presented are a lot in fact just because of the way I do live my life and so um it's something that I hold true to and I will do until till the end of time.

14:34 Nick, thank you so much. God bless you. Thank you for everything you've done. Appreciate it.

14:39 Thank you. You bet.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Journalist who EXPOSED Minnesota daycare fraud says investigate THESE people NOW!"?

Glenn Beck (Guest), Nick (Guest).

What is "Journalist who EXPOSED Minnesota daycare fraud says investigate THESE people NOW!" about?

A journalist discusses the significant backlash and threats he has faced after exposing widespread fraud in Minnesota daycare programs, highlighting the complexities of the issue that intertwine with race and politics. He emphasizes that despite the focus on financial misconduct, the narrative has shifted, framing him as a villain rather than addressing the underlying problem of money being…

What is mentioned in this Glenn Beck episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Father Nick, FBI, Tim Waltz, UN, Elon Omar, Clarence David. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Journalist who EXPOSED Minnesota daycare fraud says investigate THESE people NOW!"?

The episode runs 15 min; the transcript is about 2,695 words in 33 timestamped sections.

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