00:00What's going on with Medicaid in New York?
00:02The Post has learned the Department of Justice is planning to sue New York Governor Kathy Hochul's administration
00:07over what it believes to be a rigged revamping of the state's Medicaid program, a.k.a. fraud.
00:13The official filing could come at any time and is said to be aimed at the $11 billion program's overhaul,
00:18in particular, alleged bid rigging and noncompliance with Medicaid billing rules.
00:23Now, Hochul spearheaded the changes ironically because of fraud allegations surrounding home health aides.
00:28But the crux of the allegations here surround the company hired by the state to employ these aides,
00:35Public Partnerships LLC, and the bidding process that the state went through to grant them a $1 billion contract.
00:40Damning emails unearthed this week appear to show that officials in the New York Department of Health
00:44and in Hochul's office were hashing out details of this deal with the company
00:48two weeks before signing off on the bidding process.
00:52President Trump has publicly commented on the Iran war.
00:56And to say he's optimistic would be putting it mildly.
01:01Somebody said, on a scale of 10, where would you rate it?
01:03I said about a 15.
01:05And we're going to continue to do well.
01:07And I think if we didn't do it first, they would have done it to Israel.
01:11And give us a shot if that was possible.
01:15Earlier on Wednesday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
01:19General Dan Cain, laid out the accomplishments of the first 100 hours of Operation Epic Fury.
01:24They said the U.S. has successfully hit more than 2,000 targets inside Iran,
01:29including 86% of the country's ballistic missile launchers.
01:3320 Iranian naval vessels have been destroyed, one of which was caused by a U.S. submarine torpedo.
01:39And that hasn't happened since World War II.
01:41On the flip side, launches of Iranian attack drones are down 73%.
01:47Secretary Hegseth made the claim that within days, the U.S. will have, quote,
01:51complete control of Iranian skies.
01:53Now, both Hegseth and Cain stressed that despite all these victories,
01:57the mission has not yet been accomplished.
01:59So what does that look like?
02:02Here's The Post's Washington reporter, Caitlin Dornbos.
02:05The goals are to eliminate Iran's ballistic missile threat, destroy the Iranian navy,
02:10sever Iran's pathway to nuclear weapons,
02:12and prevent Iran's military from rebuilding itself too fast.
02:16Now, what that actually looks like in practice is expanding strikes deeper into the country
02:21with a focus on infrastructure and any remaining missile launchers.
02:26Hegseth said that that means the operation is accelerating, not drawing down.
02:31By comparison, he said that the U.S. has already doubled the air power
02:35compared to the 2003 shock and awe campaign in Iraq.
02:39He said it's seven times more explosive than last summer's 12-day war between Israel and Iran.
02:44It's also worth noting that while they expect operations to continue ramping up,
02:50the officials declined to comment on any boots on the ground,
02:53emphasizing that the current campaign is being waged from the air and sea.
02:58Hegseth summarized it all by saying that Iran is off balance
03:01and the U.S. is going to keep them that way.
03:04Another governor being called to the mat over fraud, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls.
03:08He was on Capitol Hill yesterday getting grilled by the House Oversight Committee,
03:12and things got testy, especially when Congressman Jim Jordan was up to bat.
03:17Let me set the stage here.
03:18Jordan was asking Walls about Feeding the Future,
03:21a group we now know was a charity scam that built $250 million in taxpayer money.
03:27The congressman says Walls falsely claimed that a court required him to restart payments to the charity
03:32even after they were frozen due to fraud suspicions.
03:36Somebody's lying, because you can't say the court ordered you to restart the payments,
03:40and then the court says we didn't order you to restart the payments.
03:43So either you're lying or the court's lying.
03:46And I'm just asking you, which one is it?
03:48I just simply know what the attorneys at the agency believed that it was a misinterpretation.
03:52And I would note that those payments...
03:54Couldn't it be you were trying to hide behind the court, Governor?
03:56From there, things pretty much went nowhere.
04:00Jordan continued to press the governor,
04:02who defaulted again to his attorney's misinterpretation defense.
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