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ter the show, immediately after this, Owen Gregorian will be hosting another Spaces event on the X platform. So look for Owen Gregorian. If you search for him, it'll pop right up and then it's audio only. But you can ask questions and you can participate and you'll love it. Anyway, President Trump has issued an order to temporarily terminate what's called temporary protected status for Somalis. S…

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it just yesterday or the day before yesterday? You can remind me. Remember when I was saying that whenever you see a news story that has any of these keywords, it means some Somalis have stolen your tax money. Like you don't want to see Minnesota, any kind of government program, anything about tax dollars. If you see any of those words in the news and they're together, some Somalis are running some kind of scam on you.

So there were so many of them, I think, that I started losing the ability to tell them apart. It seemed like there was one every day. It was just crazy.

Well, Christopher Rufo—you know him if you're on the political right and you follow social media—Christopher Rufo and I guess some people he works with, I don't know exactly the entity, they did the research and he says, quote, "We broke this Somali fraud story and called on President Trump to revoke the temporary protected status for all Somalis, and now the president has delivered."

How many times have we seen this happen? By far this is the coolest thing about the Trump administration. I've called this out just a number of times. Trump actually reads the room. You know, we talk about can people read the room, meaning know what people are thinking, but he actually reads—like literally reads the people in the room.

So Christopher Rufo and his posts on X, and I'm sure he's had direct communications with people in the administration, he does the work. He puts in the work based on what he and some other people have decided would be the important thing to work on, like what would be good for the country, what could we do that would make a difference, and then they go do that thing. I don't know that anybody asked him to do it. They just sort of recognized this gap in the way we run the country and he must have said, here—you know, I'm doing a little mind reading here because I can't know what they're thinking—but it seems to me that these were some patriots who said, "No, we're not going to put up with this. I'm going to call it out. I'm going to write it up. I'm going to go to the president. I'm going to ask him to stop it." And then that's what happened.

I mean, come on. Is that the coolest thing you've heard today? Just the fact—doesn't it make you feel good that somebody could identify a

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problem, put the work in, and then it gets solved? How often does that happen? Pretty cool. So good work, Christopher Rufo. Good work, President Trump. We're at least one step forward on that stuff. Well, you already know by now Marjorie Taylor Greene has resigned effective early January. So there's so much to say about that because everybody took sides, blah blah blah. But I'll say a bunch of t…

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