This week, the Trump administration dispatched federal officers to Minnesota amid renewed concerns over fraud.

The deployment comes after right-wing influencer Nick Shirley posted a video on YouTube last week,

claiming without proof that daycare centers operated by Somali residents in Minneapolis

had misappropriated more than $100 million.

In response, FBI director Cash Patel wrote on X, his agency was already investigating,

and that, quote, this is just the tip of a very large iceberg.

And Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem posted this video yesterday

of agents on the ground in Minneapolis.

But state and city officials question Shirley's

claims that come as the Somali community in Minneapolis was already facing the administration's

immigration crackdown. To break it all down, I'm joined by Jeff Mitrot of the Minnesota Star Tribune

who's been covering this story. Jeff Mitra, thanks very much.

Welcome to the NewsHour.

Federal prosecutors said earlier this month,

they're investigating some $9 billion worth of fraud

in more than a dozen Medicaid-funded programs in Minnesota.

That is much broader, much larger than anything they've announced previously.

So explain what's new here?

What's new here is that, you know, a fraud problem that started with a COVID-era, really,

relief program to help kids get meals when the schools were all shut down,

has just spiraled into this sort of giant monster that just keeps spreading from one program to another.

It seems like there's a playbook that's been passed around out there, and dozens, if not hundreds of criminals are figuring out to rip out the state for, it's certainly hundreds of millions of dollars.

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