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Nick Shirley investigates potential fraud at a California daycare, including empty buildings and children left unsupervised.
Nick Shirley’s California investigation raises questions about daycare and hospice fraud, while he faces online threats and defends his reporting and fundraising for security.
Summary
Asmongold TV’s recap centers on independent journalist Nick Shirley, who just weeks after Minnesota, heads to California to investigate suspected daycare fraud and the state’s hospice funding landscape. The clip highlights a scene where Shirley visits a daycare site with allegedly empty classrooms, suggesting a gap between subsidies and actual services. The segment also covers California’s growing hospice budget, which Schwarzenegger-like headlines say tops $200 billion in projections, with Shirley asserting some facilities show no tangible activity. The conversation includes reactions from Governor Gavin Newsom’s team and remarks from California’s Healthcare Services about fraud oversight. Shirley details the personal toll of on-the-ground investigations—documenting doxxing threats, fundraising for security costs, and the realities of filming in multiple cities. The interview with Shirley features reflections on his background, faith, and motivation, plus a controversial stance on how to confront perceived political fraud, including calls for stronger legal consequences against online aggressors and political opponents. The clip also touches on media freedom, political polarization, and the challenge of pursuing watchdog journalism amid hostile responses from some public figures and online communities. By the end, the discussion frames Shirley’s work as a contentious test case for accountability, safety, and the boundaries of investigative reporting in a highly charged political environment.
Key Takeaways
- California investigation highlights potential daycare subsidy misuse, with claims of empty facilities and lack of staff present at centers tied to government funding.
- Hospice funding in California reportedly exceeds $200 billion annually in projections, prompting scrutiny of where taxpayer dollars go.
- Nick Shirley reports pushback from officials (Gov. Newsom’s team) and ongoing efforts to secure funding for security costs due to threats tied to his reporting.
- Shirley notes real-world dangers in investigative reporting, detailing doxxing attempts and the need for security spending to continue fieldwork.
- John Federman’s defense of Shirley’s reporting is cited, contrasting with criticism from some Democratic circles and signaling a broader political debate about fraud investigations.
- Shirley discusses personal motivation, including his faith and a self-made path to fund his channel through prior work and community support.
Who Is This For?
Essential viewing for watchdog journalists, political content creators, and viewers curious about how fraud allegations against government programs are investigated and reported in a high-stakes environment.
Notable Quotes
"No one's coming. You look inside the window. Empty building."
—Shirley describes the daycare site as evidence of alleged neglect or fraud.
"The department remains firmly committed to protecting medical members, strengthening oversight, and ensuring that taxpayer dollars are used appropriately."
—Official statement quoted from California’s healthcare oversight agency.
"I would crack down massively on these people. Like I would go after them like the Old Testament."
—Shirley articulates a controversial, forceful approach to combating perceived online threats and fraud.
"If you gave me any control over this, it would be totally over for these people."
—Shirley articulates his vision for accountability and enforcement.
"Fraud is bad. Let's fix it."
—A succinct summary of the defender’s stance highlighted in the interview.
Questions This Video Answers
- How does Nick Shirley verify daycare fraud allegations in California?
- What is California's hospice funding and how is it allocated?
- What threats do investigative journalists face when reporting on fraud and how can security costs be funded?
- What did John Federman say in defense of Nick Shirley’s reporting on fraud?
- How can viewers support watchdog journalism while ensuring safety for reporters?
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Full Transcript
First, it was Minnesota. And now, independent journalist Nick Shirley is hitting the streets of California in a new video that was released this week, digging into potential daycare fraud in the Golden State. Can we enroll a child into the daycare? You don't know what's going on. Well, it says there's 14 children enrolled here on the state of California. H Well, then there's California's medical program, which covers hospice care in the state. Now, over the past 5 years, you'll see here, medical's annual budget has soared. It is now projected to be over $200 billion with a B.
But despite all that money spent, Nick says that some Surely none of it's being wasted. Some buildings were left totally empty. Let's see if grandma could check herself into this one. I'm just trying to be a good grandson. Empty. When we're knocking the door, no one's coming. You look inside the window. Empty building. Yep. We reached out to several entities that Nick investigated. Let me guess, none of them reached out back. Some just totally hung up. Others didn't answer at all. And we did hear back from California Governor Gavin Newsome's team who referred us to his post on the press offic's X page, which read like this.
Wow. Nick surely finds potential fraud in Donald Trump's federal Medicare system. Gavin Newsome imposed a moratorum on new hospice licenses beginning in 2021. Well, Newsome's own states. Why did you have to do that, [ __ ] Why did you have to do a moratorum on it? I wonder why. Department of Health, it's the Healthcare Services, I should say, is in charge of monitoring medical fraud. And just last night, that department reached out to us with a statement reading in part, quote, "California continues to take decisive action regarding hospice fraud. The department remains firmly committed to protecting medical members, strengthening oversight, and ensuring that taxpayer dollars are used appropriately.
Nope. Well, with that, independent journalist Nick Shirley joins me now. Nick, I watched the entire 40-minute video. I saw when you pulled up to a supposed daycare center. That's correct. And you found young children alone and you kept That's right, bro. They had them out there on the like and the thing is like whenever we were kids, we were doing that, too. But like that's not what you're supposed to do at a daycare, right? saying, "Where's the worker here with you? Where's the daycare leader?" Yeah. And there was no one there. Were these kids totally alone?
Did you ever find an adult there? Yes. At that daycare, those kids were completely alone. Uh-huh. How old were they? Completely alone. And it's like three three um I imagine they're between the ages of 5 to 8 years old. Oh. They were completely alone. And keep in mind, they're able to have these daycarees and like these apartment complexes in the neighborhoods. Look at this, bro. It's the daycare next to the landfill next to the crackheads. These aren't like the daycarees where you'd be sending your kids to. These are people who are taking money for government subsidies to collect to I'm going to I'm going to send my kid to that daycare.
It you know what this daycare is from? It's from The Walking Dead to fund their lifestyles. Yeah, that is that's unbelievable. And I felt like I was watching a rerun of Minnesota except no wait this was totally different state. It was California. Gavin Newsome has said, "You're hyping massive fraud and you came up empty." What do you say in response to that? So, the hospices Well, just go ahead and watch the video. I mean, these hospice owners are driving around 100, $200,000 cars. The people in the video even say that there is fraud happening. Yeah.
And then you go show then you go to a place where they've received over a million dollars in uh funding and there's no nothing to show. Yep. Yeah. Oh, you found a defender in Democratic Senator John Federman. I want to play that. Watch this. Why can't you celebrate any journalist or any, you know, activist doing that? And what he, you know, uh, Governor Nuome put out a disgusting video implying that he's, you know, a pedophile or he's that that like why, you know, like I mean, like that's like kind of a smear. Shouldn't we? Isn't it crazy that this guy just being reasonable makes him more unpopular than basically any candidate in history as a Democrat?
The moment that he's like, "Well, why can't we just go after fraud?" Agree. Like, you know, eliminate all the waste. Uh, racist. What do you make of that? John Federman defending your work there. He's awesome. I think John Federman, he's one of the Democrats that has common sense. He does. And uh Gavin Newsome, he had the opportunity to say, "Okay, thank you for exposing this fraud. Now, let's go down and crack down on it." Instead, he comes after the person for exposing the fraud. It's not too hard to say, "Fraud is bad. Let's fix it." And that's what Fedman is saying.
He said it's it's bad anyway. I go to any state in America, you'd be able to find fraud. It just so happens to be that a large portion of this fraud. reason why John Federman falls off on this side is because he advocates for Americans generally. I'm not saying the guy's perfect, but he tries to put American interests first. And so whenever he gets a lot of opposition from the Democratic party, it's because the Democratic Party has been taken over by foreigners that want to subvert America and inject their third world ideology into it. That's the reason why place in Democrat ran cities and states.
Yeah, we're seeing now there's a national fraud uh commission that's looking into this. You posted this after your video hit. You said after last night and the constant doxing attempts and threats from people who want to attack me largely due to politicians and leftist hatefilled rhetoric as I expose billion dollar fraud scheme stealing from taxpayers. I've decided it's time to raise money for security costs. What happened? Yeah. So, uh, people try to dox my location live, especially and a lot of times when I go to these cities now, it sucks because I'll go to a city, I'll go be out filming, someone will take a photo, some activists, some leftwing activists will then take a photo, put me in a Reddit group chat.
This happened to me in Baltimore. It just happened this last weekend in California. And they're say and they say, "Run Nick Shirley out." Or they'll say, "If you see Nick Shirley, it's on site." And so I don't know why those people don't just get arrested. Like in a civilized society, you'd just arrest those people and then the problem would go away. Like I have no problem with somebody saying, "Hey, this guy's here. I don't like him." That's I don't I don't think there's anything wrong with that really. But at the same time, whenever you're saying it's on site, like what are we doing here?
Like everybody knows what that means because Reddit protects them. No, it's not Reddit because Reddit banning them wouldn't matter. What needs to happen is they have to go to jail. You have to put the people that are making open calls to violence against people for political reasons, you have to put those people in jail and you have to keep them there. And that way it sets an example for everybody else that this is not acceptable, reasonable behavior that a first world western country tolerates. That's the reason why. There's no reason for us to have to put up with these animals.
There isn't. And and I I don't know why this isn't I don't know why this isn't just done. So this has happened in multiple cities. Uh had money for security after Minnesota. That money went down to pretty much nothing. So unfortunately I had to raise fund again to be able to have security to be out and go film these videos. To film one of these videos. Now, I used to be able to film these videos without security. Now, it cost anywhere from the last hospice video cost $15,000 to go film because I had security for 3 days to go film this video.
And so, it's extremely hard to go out and do that. So, I asked uh my fans and viewers if they could help me out with those security cost. Yeah. And they can find that information on your ex page. A lot of people wonder, you know, you're just in your 20s. How you do this? You're talking about Baltimore, California, Minnesota. I mean, Governor Walls said he's not running for office after reporting. He's disposing fraud. Well, that's the reason. And this is another form of terrorism really is that they're trying to terrorize this person to make them afraid from being able to speak out or say anything about this problem.
Like that's basically what they're doing is that this is the reason why a lot more people like Nick Shirley aren't out there is that most people don't have the resources, the mindset or any sort of mentality to go up against such a massive opposition of people that will just flagrantly and blatantly break the law to hurt you and then suffer zero consequences for it, which just further emboldens them to do it even more. That's what's going on. That's what's And I have a a sound bite I want to play. It's your background and what makes Nick Shirley Nick Shirley.
Let's play it. Okay. I started making videos more politically based after I had returned back from a two-year mission for my church and I had zero dollars. So I when I came home back from that uh trip I worked for an entire month. I powerwashed houses and my goal was to make $10,000 in cash. And so then I then took that $10,000 in cash and used that to funnel my YouTube channel for the first three months until I could actually make a profit. Even on my when I went on my mission trip, I was still making videos interviewing people about Jesus in Spanish.
So, your faith has motivated you, hasn't it? Yeah. And uh more so than anything, it's kept me on the straight and narrow and it's kept me on a good path to be go be be able to go do what I want to do. Well, love learning about your background. It's extraordinarily impressive. Um ridiculous in your young ridiculous. Well, President Yeah. No, I I What's this here? The rockets, the drone attacks. I I I don't know. Like, this is some person that wants to argue about the Iran war. I'm just going to perm ban you. I don't I don't want to hear about it.
We're not talking about that right now. So, what I think needs to happen is that these people that go out and they advocate for violence. They advocate for, you know, like hitting somebody or interrupting them or running them out of the city or anything like that. Like, these people need to get held accountable. Like if I was ever in charge of the government, the first thing that I would do is I would crack down massively on these people. Like I would go after them like the Old [ __ ] Testament. Like any of these advocators for violence and if the websites allowed it to happen, I'd go after the websites, too.
I'd go after the individuals that were allowing it and making decisions, I would try to hold them accountable. And again, maybe I wouldn't prosecute them. Maybe I wouldn't be able to prosecute them, but the process is the punishment. And so I would just drag them through the legal process over and over and over and make it as painful and unpleasant for them as possible. And the problem is that this is the big issue with what happens is that a lot of conservatives are unwilling to play dirty. And because they're not willing to play dirty, they lose because playing dirty has advantages.
And that's the reason why that's the reason why people do it. So, the problem is that conservatives don't actually activate the levers of control that I think that they should because they're afraid that Democrats will do it instead of that. If if I do it, then they'll do it. They'll do it anyway. They're already doing it. They're already advocating to kill people. They're already burning down cars. They're already destroying property. So, the more that you have to go after these people, the better you're going to be. What? That's how you become president? Yeah, I know.
And I was going to run for office, but then I got high. I guess so. Republicans won't play dirty. No, they they don't play dirty at all. They don't play dirty the way that I want them to. Like I I if you guys trust me, like if if you gave me any control over this, it would be it would be totally over for these people. It would be like I'd be talking about deporting them, denaturalizing them, seizing all their assets, throwing their families in jail for collaboration, uh sending back their kids, revoking their citizenship. Like, I'd be doing everything.
Oh, taking their businesses away, obviously, finding their collaborators, and then just cascading it off of that. Like, I would be doing this completely Old Testament. I'd do it with the military. I'd do it with the military and the National Guard. And that way it would just totally circumvent any state, you know, any state rules at all. Need help, no remorse. Well, the and again the the punishment and the severity of it would be the point. Like that that that would be the point. It would not be done as a like this is not necessary. I think in a lot of cases it wouldn't be necessary, but that's the reason why I would do it is because if you do something that's so brutal and so extreme that it scares everybody else, then the other people aren't going to want to do it.
And so all you need to do is set up four or five of these people and then you're going to have a lot of the rest of them roaching out immediately and they're going to be terrified to do it. And so you really apply it from that rule system. And I think that that's the way that you improve and make things better. And again, like I know some people view this as being bad, like I'm I'm a bad guy for doing this. I don't think so. I think this is the right thing to do. I think it's the fair thing to do because if you don't hold people accountable on that degree, what ends up happening is that they just get worse and worse and worse.
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