00:00Why didn't you just tell the truth about the Feeding Our Future program?
00:04This program, my understanding, received $3 million the first year.
00:08Within a couple years, it was getting $200 million of taxpayer money.
00:13Whistleblowers raised concerns, as the chairman said, auditors raised concerns, everybody raised
00:18concerns.
00:19March 30th, 2021, the payments are stopped, and a little over a month later, the payments
00:24are restarted.
00:25Why didn't you tell the truth about why you restarted the payments?
00:32Well, Chairman, we did tell you.
00:35And Feeding Our Future grew because of the pandemic.
00:38When I asked that question, I said, why didn't you tell the truth about why you restarted
00:43the payments?
00:43The agency believed that the court had required them to make those payments.
00:49And that was false, wasn't it?
00:50You repeated that.
00:51You said that, didn't you?
00:52I don't think...
00:53You said the reason you restarted is because the court ordered you to do so.
00:56Is that right?
00:57I don't believe that is settled yet, to the best of my knowledge.
01:02Well, I think it is, because the court did something that I just don't...
01:06I don't know if I've ever seen it.
01:07They issued a statement saying you were wrong in what you were saying.
01:12This is from the court.
01:13It says, Feeding Our Future v. Minnesota Department of Education correcting reports and statements
01:18by Governor Tim Walz concerning orders issued by the court.
01:22Governor Tim Walz told the media that the Minnesota Department of Education attempted in payments
01:27to FOF because of possible fraud, but that Judge Guthman ordered payments to continue in
01:32April 2021.
01:33Next sentence.
01:35That is false.
01:37else.
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