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I got to talk about, well, the Somali situation and the Chris Rufo reporting because there was a lot of dismissiveness about it.

If you will recall, before we went on vacation for Thanksgiving,

Chris Rufo did a big story in City Journal, part of Manhattan Institute, on how there is

a concerted effort by Somalis in Minneapolis, Minnesota to take advantage of the very generous welfare

benefits issued by the state of Minnesota. And some of them have remitted money to Somalia

to fund al-Shabaab, which is an al-Qaeda terrorist spinoff in Somalia.

I asked at the time why, for example, Barri Wise's CBS Network hadn't covered this,

that this is the perfect sort of story for them to cover, and then CBS News covered it and genuinely

dismissed the whole thing.

That's right.

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