Ben Rhodes

alleged corruption at the Department of Homeland Security, the soliciting and handling of contracts, quote, including the involvement of former Secretary Kristi Noem and her de facto chief of staff, Corey Lewandowski.

There was already an internal audit that had been sparked

in the department for some reason, but now on top of that, there's a new and apparently quite urgent, quite aggressive investigation, which apparently included investigators searching the offices of one Homeland Security official last week, an official who had been reportedly placed in her DHS job by Corey Lewandowski and Kristi Noem.

After NBC News recently reported that Corey Lewandowski reportedly sought multi-million dollar payments,

from companies that were contracting with Homeland Security, including specifically companies that operate immigration prisons.

He was seeking multimillion-dollar payments for himself from those companies.

as he was acting as the de facto chief of staff at that agency, including an unusual degree of oversight of contracts.

I mean, Mr. Lewandowski denies this, but Democratic members of Congress have now opened their own investigation into what may have been going on there.

So I'm just, you know, you put these things together, I'm just going to say, hey, you guys, anybody wondering why it is that they slapped an extra 60, 80, 100 million dollars on top of the price tag for these Trump prison camp warehouses they're buying in multiple states?

Through totally opaque processes that make no financial sense whatsoever on their face?

Yeah, you guys maybe want to slow that down a sec?

3,000 people in the Hagerstown, Maryland public square would like you to slow that down for sure.

Social Circle, Georgia town officials put a lock on the water meter at the warehouse the Trump administration is trying to turn into a prison there.

I think they'd like you to slow it down a little bit, take another look.

The city council in Salt Lake City, Utah

just voted to cap the amount of water they'd be allowed to use at the warehouse they want to be a huge prison there as well.

That's one where they appear to have overpaid $48 million for that warehouse for no explicable reason.

Yeah, maybe they'd like you to slow that down, take another look at that one as well.

Why'd they overpay for all these things in such a rush?

Why'd they overpay by tens of millions of dollars at one of these things after another?