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Tonight our exclusive look into Doge. Elon Musk was nice enough to invite us into the Eisenhower building last night to sit in on his weekly 10 p.m Doge meeting. Yeah, they usually meet at 10 o'clock. I'm almost in bed by then. We met the whole crew and they showed us how Doge really gets done. Thank you so much for bringing us into the meeting here. I'm going to do something no anchor ever does. I'm not going to talk. What? For as long as possible. You're talking right now. I'm going to let you run your meeting and then I'll interrupt when I'm bored. So take it away. So like a board meeting? Like a board meeting. Exactly. All right. Well, I guess you normally go around the table. Say what? What do we get done this week? We checked. Is the Small Business Administration giving loans to dead people, people over the age of 120? The answer was yes. And it was around $330 million in total. So people with a birthday that could not possibly be real, meaning they're over 100, they're 115 years old or older. The oldest living American is 114. So the safe state, anybody is in the system as 115 years or older, that is fake. So just by sharing a database and looking at social security numbers that showed that at the time of the loan, they had listed at over 115 years old or actually under 11. We didn't even check it for under 18, under 11 years old. That's pretty crazy. Babies and dead people were getting loans. That was $660 million. And also people with birthdates in the future. What does that mean? Well, in one case, the birthdate, I think in one case was like... Fetuses were getting loans. No, not even. No, really sort of... You're talking about like your great-grandchildren. The birthdate, I think it was like 2165. So more than a century from now was the birthday. George Jetson was getting paid. Yes, because your birthday is in the future, like the far future, not like next year. And this is either fraudulent or we have your birthday wrong. It's either a typo or someone's stealing. Which is it? You should at least ask, which is it? What has been the biggest resistance? Is there one agency? Is there one department that when you guys walk in, they all start fighting you, start hiding things? I'm sorry. But I guess you can answer that question. Sure. I mean, yes, we've certainly had some battles. Battles? Yeah, yeah. I mean... Yeah, there's a small agency called the United States Institute of Peace. It's definitely the agency we had the most fight at. We actually went into the agency and found they had loaded guns inside of their headquarters. Institute for Peace. I mean, any given company, any given organizational name is going to be the opposite of the title. Right. Yeah. So it was by far the least peaceful agency that we've worked with, ironically. Of course. Additionally, we found that they were spending money on things like private jets, and they even had a $130,000 contract with a former member of the Taliban. This is real. We don't encounter that in most agencies. What was the money going to the Taliban for? So it was a contractor. They received $130,000 for generic services. And to Elon's point, there was not actually a clear description of what the contractor services were for. Was it for opium? Unclear. Or weapons. Or nothing. Or abroad. And you naturally have to ask the question, how did we get here? Like when the country was founded, there were only four agencies. Today, there are over 400. So there's been a 100x increase in the number of agencies since the founding of the nation. And thanks to President Trump, he's now signed two executive orders to start to reduce the number of agencies in the government. And the Institute of Peace was one of them, which is why our team went in to try and understand what was going on. And that's when we found all the craziness, like the weapons in their armory. We found the payments to the Taliban. So just a few hours after we got into their headquarters, we found that their chief accountant had actually deleted over a terabyte of accounting records from several years. So you'd have to ask the question, well, why would somebody do that? And the Doge team, fortunately, was able to recover that data. And I think the most troubling thing was they received $55 million a year from Congress. And any money that went unspent, instead of returning that to Congress, they would sweep it into a private bank account, which had no congressional oversight. And that's what they would use to fund things like events at their headquarters and the private jets. And so I think it's a great example because most Americans don't know what's going on at a lot of these smaller agencies. And this is, I think, the most extreme case of some of the wasteful spend that we're finding. So the agencies are hiding money from you. They're sending it to the Taliban. They have loaded weapons in the department buildings. At the Institute of Peace. At the Institute of Peace. That's right. So this is a cover-up when you guys roll in. This one, yes, a cover-up. It's a cover-up. Delete a vast amount of financial information. That's really a definition of a cover-up. Isn't that illegal to delete evidence? Yes. Shred documents? It is. It's certainly illegal to delete accounting records that Congress would certainly want to know where the congressionally appropriated funds are going from taxpayers. When you catch them going Hillary style on their computers, do you refer this to the Department of Justice? In this case, we did refer the evidence in the accounting example to the FBI and DOJ. We were proud to do that. So yes, we did. A lot of great work in the treasury this week. One of the crazy things with regards to the treasury is that when a payment is made and the computers of the treasury actually pay about $5 trillion per year, like crazy amounts, there was formerly not a budget code on there. So it's not a payment was made. You didn't know actually what it was for. It could have been for anything. There was a $4 billion COVID fund in the Department of Education and there was no receipts required. So people could just draw down on it. And when people looked into it, this wasn't justice before us, they found that money was being used to rent out Caesars Palace for parties, rent out stadiums, et cetera. And so the one change that DOJ made with our education is we had the simple requirement that if you draw down money, you must first upload a receipt. That was the only change that was made. You must upload your receipt. And upon doing so, nobody drew down any money anymore. Yes, but we didn't say that we'd check the receipt. You could send a fake receipt. You could send a picture of your dog, anything, anything, anything. And as soon as we asked for anything at all, suddenly the requests were like, oh, we don't need it anymore. That's interesting. They were renting Caesars Palace. Yes. They were like basically partying on the tax share of money. Stadiums. Yes. Leasing stadiums. Leasing stadiums. For what? For parties, basically. For parties. Yes. That's a big party. It's a big party. You'd think if were stealing, you'd start small. They do start small. But then what happens is over the years, so generally the fraud starts out small and they try to hide it. But then year after year, if nobody stops the fraud, it gets more and more brazen. And every year it gets bigger until they're literally renting out stadiums. What, like a million dollars to rent out a stadium? Fraud infragante delecto, okay? We're talking at scale. This is driving me crazy. When you find these things, do you guys get mad? You're like, yes, I got one. How does it, how does it make you feel? It's so common. It's so common. I mean, you just get numb to it. Unfortunately, by the 100th time you've heard it, you're starting to get a little numb. And by the 200th time, you're like, well, okay, it's just another day at the office. Do you guys feel you're getting justice and accountability? One of the extreme examples of non-accountability in some cases is I think the Inter-American Foundation, IAF, is one of the agencies we visited where, you know, they get $50 million a year congressional money to give grants, improving the marketability of keys in Guatemala. Really? So you might expect, you know, in the private sector, a nonprofit to give 80 to 90% of their money to grantees. In the case of IAF, that was 58%. So the other half goes management, travel. Exactly. I mean, to use an example is that even if you agreed with supporting alpaca farmers in Peru, well, actually most of the money never made it out of DC. It's going into the pockets of people in the neighborhood. What percentage? Right. So what percentage do you think doesn't even get to the destination it's supposed to? I believe it was on the order of only 10 to 15 cents and the dollar actually gets to the end recipient, whether you agree with that cause or not. So they're just stealing the money before it even gets anywhere. There's layers of stealing. So there's like, there's the first layer of stealing, second layer of stealing, third layer of stealing. Subcontractor, subcontractor. Yeah, exactly. Contractor, subcontractor, subcontractor. It's like peeling an onion. And then maybe, and sometimes it's zero. You get to the bottom of the onion, there's nothing there. So maybe no one got a sex change in Guatemala. It's possible that no one got a sex change in Guatemala. You take a look at these contracts, you take a look at these grants, and it's veiled in noble rhetoric. It's at the top level. It sounds good. Yeah, it sounds amazing. And then you actually just follow, what are the funds actually doing? Or send us a picture. Exactly. The send us a picture request is incredibly good. Like Pixar didn't happen. And it wouldn't be that hard to just, frankly, they could search for some fake pics on the internet or get AI to generate the pics, but they don't even bother doing that. You caught them cold billing fraud. I caught them. So that is being investigated right now. Yeah. I mean, generally, these programs, these grants are going to be along the lines of save the baby pandas. And it's like, well, of course, who wouldn't want to save the baby pandas? And in some cases, they've got a show panda, which they will try to have for special occasions. In a lot of cases, they don't even have a show panda. No panda. There's not even one panda. Because we asked for pictures, and we don't even get one panda. And it's like, well, that's a lot. What does a billion dollars get you? Does it not even get you one panda? You really want to see a baby panda. Yeah. Well, like the Ebola money. We're like, OK, well, we agree with we shouldn't have Ebola. Where is the money going? Oh, it's going to Deloitte in DC. What is an accounting firm doing with Ebola money? Is Doze just getting started? This is a long-term enterprise. It's a long-term enterprise, because if we take our eye off the ball, the waste and fraud will come roaring back. They can Doze when Democrats get back in power. Yeah. Well, I think some of the things that we're trying to have it be such that the funding is removed, so the grants are gone. So there's a lot of work required to restart the waste and fraud. And that will at least slow it down.