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Chris Rufo

Christopher F. Rufo is a conservative activist and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor of City Journal, and a trustee of New College of Florida known for leading the fight against critical race theory and DEI.

Sep 7, 2026

40:38
So what are the red flags that you were looking for?
40:42
So what we did is the federal government under the Trump administration released all Medicaid data for a certain number of years, and we used AI tools to find outliers.
40:51
So businesses that had irregular patterns, had the possibility of double billing, had huge ramp-ups in, in revenues.
40:59
So for example, in this case with the Kirkova business, uh, it's a business called HeroCare.
41:04
They went from something like $7,000 to $17 million, uh, in a very short timeframe.
41:10
And then after we had that initial hit, what we did is we hit the ground, and so we went to every named business.
41:16
We searched every possible record.

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46:28
And the reality is that when the government is this big and this intrusive and this rich, 'cause they have a bunch of taxpayer dollars in the coffers, or they're just bilking future taxpayers, of course it's gonna be corrupt.
79:38
He got rich white people, and he got students
79:42
I- that's true, but look, M- Mike Rogers is not gonna win, uh, is not gonna win the Black vote.
79:47
I mean, the Black vote is gonna go Democrat because of the long-standing voting patterns that we've seen over the years.
79:53
They're gonna work very hard to get out the vote.
79:55
He's gonna promise, uh, everything as a matter of patronage.
79:58
El-Sayed will.
79:59
Um, he's, he's locked in on the, the Arab American vote.
82:19
Yes
18:17
You know, they seem to care about affordability, but they don't seem to care about their money being, you know, um, their money being, you know... politicians lighting their money on fire.
18:26
fire.I think there's one kind of deep reason why that is the case, and California Democrats exploit it.
18:34
And the reason is this: voters are committed to all of the associated feelings, impressions, symbols, and attitudes around being a good progressive or a good liberal or a good Democrat, and they're willing to turn a blind eye to an extremely large sum of malfeasance because they really truly want to believe that they are a good liberal.
18:59
And if they were to actually question, uh, the ruling party of their state, uh, they would-- it would be like, you know, leaving your religion.
19:08
Well, why do people, you know, stick with their religion if something, you know, X, Y, and Z happens? Well, those bonds are actually really strong, and so they've clung to that identity.
19:17
Um, and Democratic politicians exploit it.
19:20
And so even in the case of this bridge story, Gavin Newsom's comms team was feeling some heat for it, other kind of state Democrats were feeling heat for it.
21:07
Why did they do that, and then what were these DEI initiatives?
11:03
What, what do you think is gonna be the outcome of all of this?
11:06
Well, the Trump administration is very concerned about this.
11:09
And just in the last few hours, I can tell you that I've had, uh, phone calls and signal messages from not only, uh, the NSA, but the CIA and the director of national intelligence staff.
11:20
And so they wanna get to the bottom of this.
11:22
I'm told that they're gonna be taking significant action.
11:26
And in my vi- view, the standard should be quite simple.
11:29
If you were at any private corporation, if you worked at Microsoft or you worked at Boeing or ExxonMobil, if you were doing this in the work chat, you would be packed up and gone within hours.
12:08
It's easy to go, "Well, he's bad apples who have gotten involved in various chats with their kinks and their anger at various conservatives." But there really is something else going on here, and that is that throughout our federal government When, when Joe Biden said that equity was going to dictate all policy throughout these federal agencies, he was not joking, and that is reflected in this kind of insanity at the staffing level.
28:26
Well, the babies are racist, and because the babies are racist, presumably the babies have to be hijacked into this beautiful educational or re-educational system as soon as humanly possible, taken out of the hands of their subtly racist parents to prevent white supremacy from taking over the nation or some such.
28:42
Yeah, and, and my favorite part is that, uh, the beginning it says, "According to research." Uh, but you tr- if you actually take a look at the research, you dig into the footnotes, uh, it is like the most shockingly, or maybe not shockingly, shoddy, uh, garbage imaginable.
28:56
And yet this idea that, you know, b- babies, uh, kind of come out of the womb with a Klan hood, uh, is just so farcical and, and ridiculous, and yet it's captured the minds of people with PhDs.
29:09
These people who run these programs are PhDs, mostly in education.
29:13
So I think that is the perfect example of someone completely suspending their common sense, suspending any experience of children.
29:22
Children are incredible at that age.
29:24
Uh, they're, they're, they're open to so many different people.
32:49
These are just symptomatic of something much deeper happening inside our educational systems, and it needs to be ripped out root and branch.

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