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Ted Cruz: “Given that these are federal funds that were effectively…”

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If they're not, then there's not really a mechanism to enforce Minnesota law, which means you would be left with federal law. And Given that these are federal funds that were effectively being stolen and funneled to Somalia, funneled to Somalian fraudsters being sent, among other places, to Al Shabaab. And we had before on this podcast that the single largest funder of Al Shabaaba, which is the radical Islamic terrorist group that is in Somalia, their number one funder was the taxpayers of Minnesota. (19:32–19:45)

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Asserts that federal funds were stolen and funneled to Somalia, including to Al Shabaab.

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