Rich Lowry

I think the viral content we've seen from the City Journal and Nick Shirley, very helpful.

You don't blow Tim Walz out of the water without him.

But I do think they've created a misimpression that this this scandal just broke three weeks ago when actually it's an ongoing thing for years.

And the federal prosecutors have been heroes there and exposing this and nailing some of the malefactors to the wall.

So the most important thing, I think, get the more resources.

I think they had maybe five people in this office led by this guy named Joe Thompson, who's been a total hero.

Give him a couple more folks.

fantastic top-of-the-line prosecutors and some more investigators and let him keep going at this.

I think that's where the rubber really meets the road because the exposure is fantastic, but you need to nail every single one of these people to the wall.

Yeah, so you're absolutely right.

Journalists should be seeking to advance the story.

Instead, they focus very often on attacking the guy who advanced the story, right?

So the story was Nick Shirley.

The story wasn't the underlying scandal.

CNN sent someone to confront Nick Shirley.

Yes.

covered the story in that they were trying to debunk Nick Shirley and he got some things wrong.

But he also, it was so compelling because it's just so shocking to the conscience to show up, to see him show up at this place when the scandal has been going for years and they're still operating and getting millions of dollars from the state and there's no one there.

It's obviously a bogus story.

Go and do that yourself rather than attacking the guy, you know, the YouTuber who had the gumption to do it on his own with a local guide.