CNN commentator Scott Jennings and the CNN panel discuss rampant fraud in Minnesota that is allegedly centered in the state’s Somali community.

SCOTT JENNINGS: You got to admit, though, the catering to the Somali community that goes on by the Democrats in Minnesota is a little weird, is it not? SIMMONS: I’ll tell you, I was in Minnesota two weeks ago. People in Minnesota — JENNINGS: They got the lieutenant governor up there dressed like the handmaid’s tail. SIMMONS: Listen — JENNINGS: I mean, why do they cater — why do they cater — why do they cater to them? PHILLIP: Scott, hold on a second. JENNINGS: It’s such a small portion of the population. Democrats put them at the center of — (CROSSTALK) PHILLIP: Just a second. Just a second. JENNINGS: Why? PHILLIP: I don’t think it would be acceptable for you to make a statement like that about Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. QUINN: Right. SIMMONS: Right. PHILLIP: Why on earth is it acceptable to make a statement like that about people — JENNINGS: It’s a white liberal woman dressing in — PHILLIP: I’m just saying — I’m just saying you are — JENNINGS: You’re saying Republicans are stealing the money. The Democrats are the ones that put them at the center — PHILLIP: — you’re denigrating the religious practices of a group for no reason other than the — JENNINGS: She’s not religious. PHILLIP: I don’t care about her. I’m talking — JENNINGS: She’s the one who did it. PHILLIP: You’re describing the type of dress as the handmaid’s tale and you’re doing that to denigrate the religion of people — JENNINGS: I’m just pointing out — PHILLIP: It wouldn’t be acceptable if you did it with another group. So, don’t — just don’t do it when it comes — JENNINGS: I’m just pointing out, it’s Democrats — QUINN: It’s not — JENNINGS: It’s Democrats who have put Somali diaspora in Minneapolis at the center of their party and their state’s politics. It’s a small portion of population. There is a bunch of fraud that goes on. And even Tim Walz has claimed that any investigation of this fraud is akin to white supremacy. PHILLIP: He has not said that. JENNINGS: He has said that. QUINN: He never said that. PHILLIP: He has not said that. Some — first of all, Tim Walz has encouraged investigations into this. But some of the groups that were responsible for the fraud made allegations against the Biden DOJ that they were being targeted for racial reasons. And that was false then and it’s false now. So — but I don’t think there’s any evidence that Tim Walz was a part of that kind of allegation. JENNINGS: I think it was the other way.

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