The Megyn Kelly Show
Somali Fraud Probe Widens, Infant Hep B Vax Guidance Changes, Netflix's WB Mega-Deal: AM Update 12/8
08 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelley. It's Monday, December 8th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
Our message to all is clear.
Either fix this in 60 days or start looking under your couch for spare change. Federal scrutiny of Minnesota public programs increasing amid reports of widespread fraud by the Somali community. It's a really sad day for science and vaccines and immunology. A federal panel votes to revise the hepatitis B newborn vaccine schedule, triggering a barrage of outcry from legacy media.
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Chapter 2: What recent fraud investigations are impacting Minnesota's public programs?
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, on Friday putting Minnesota on notice, finding 14 additional services within the state's Medicaid program show, quote, high-risk indicators of fraud following the discovery of more than $1 billion in fraud connected to several other welfare programs in the state.
The vast majority of these fraud schemes connected to Minnesota's large politically active Somali community. City Journal and the New York Times reporting on widespread fraud largely connected to a meals program, a housing program, and an autism therapy program.
Of the 86 people already charged in connection with these schemes, all but eight are members of Minnesota's Somali community, according to the Times. multiple federal agencies and a congressional committee now formally investigating Minnesota's social programs. Dr. Oz in a social media video expanding on early findings.
When CMS became aware of the housing program situation, Minnesota insisted it could clean up its own mess. A few months ago, it admitted it could not. So we stepped in to shut down the Fraud-Infested Housing Initiative. Today, we're taking action on more than a dozen other programs, which I've outlined in the post below. Our message to all is clear.
Either fix this in 60 days or start looking under your couch for spare change because we are done footing the bill for your incompetence.
Dr. Oz calling out the Somali community specifically and accusing Democrat Governor Tim Walz of being too afraid of potential political backlash to do anything to stop the alleged fraud, saying, quote, Minnesota politicians get elected with Somali votes and keep the money flowing. This isn't just fraud. It's political patronage at public expense.
Fox News reporting Friday that whistleblowers told lawmakers the total amount of fraud could be over $8 billion. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson overseeing a probe into whether any of the stolen money made its way to al-Shabaab, an Islamic terror organization based in Somalia.
This follows reporting from the Manhattan Institute's City Journal that, quote, Minnesota's Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of Hawalas, informal Klan-based money traders that have wound up in the coffers of al-Shabaab. Multiple sources telling the outlet that Somalis in the US send money back to their home country where the terror group takes a cut.
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