Trump Faces WORLD CUP DISASTER as MAJOR CRISIS GROWS!!!

0:00 Donald Trump is facing the FIFA World Cup disaster he feared the most. The World Cup is just a few weeks away and each crisis is growing and growing and each crisis seems to be worse than the next. Donald Trump appointed Rudy Giuliani's kid Andrew Giuliani to lead the World Cup in the United States. I'm sure that's going to work out well. And each headline from the past week or so is worse than the next. Whether it is the foreign boycott of FIFA, which could cost the United States upwards of $30 billion that FIFA promised. FIFA said that all of these cities that host these World Cup games, we're going to get rich. We're going to get so rich. In fact, the cities are seeing economic

0:47 loss right now. And they are also launching investigations into FIFA's dynamic pricing, the so-called dynamic pricing that has resulted in fans being unable to afford the games. And it seems that there's massive price manipulation taking place. Whether it is ICE having a presence across the United States at FIFA matches and Mark Wayne Mullen, Donald Trump's new Department of Homeland Security Secretary bragging that ICE is going to be there and we're going to be looking into the behavior of foreign nationals coming into our country. We see people here in the United States boycotting ICE. And one of the reasons why we see so many people

1:34 internationally boycotting FIFA, at least in the United States, is because of this ICE presence. But here was Mark Wayne Mullen, Donald Trump's new Department of Homeland Security Secretary. While he's not torturing migrants and torturing Americans, he's out there making videos like this talking about ICE being in the World Cup. Can y'all just leave everybody alone? Why are you sending ICE to the World Cup? Here's what he had to say, though. Play this clip. Now, what a lot of people don't think about when they start talking about World Cup is what about the counterfeit products that come in or the human trafficking. When you have crowds this big, criminal activities follow. Well, ICE and HSI are going to be out there every day fighting

2:19 against the counterfeit tickets, human trafficking, drug smuggling, counterfeit products. They're going to be working handinand with CBP along the way. Now, I know there's a lot of acronyms there. So, on the bottom of the screen, we're going to tell you what each one each one of them meant. And as I mentioned, each crisis getting worse than the next. We also see that states are launching investigations into potential criminality by FIFA and fraud by FIFA in manipulating prices, creating artificial demand where there isn't demand because there's this boycott fabricating the demand to jack up the prices. You have New York Attorney General Leticia James, for example,

3:06 launching an investigation into FIFA. The New Jersey attorney general launching an investigation into FIFA, alleging that the International Football Association is faking the scarcity of the tickets to set impossibly high prices. In other words, there's no demand that the demand for these tickets isn't as high as FIFA's claiming it to be. And FIFA's claiming it to be so high so they can charge exorbitant prices. This is what New York Attorney General Leticia James had to say. Play this clip. >> So, exactly what information are you seeking from FIFA. >> So, first let me just tell you that this is the most expensive um game, World Cup game in the history

3:54 of World Cups and so many fans um are really excited um that the World Cup is coming to this region. Um but unfortunately FIFA has engaged in this ticketing scheme and these high-priced tickets and so we issued subpoena. I along with the attorney general of New Jersey um and we are seeking information with regards to the pricing, the ticketing and the marketing um um that they are engaging in because they are accountable obviously to consumers and I um have a responsibility and a duty to protect to protect consumers and we have been reviewing media accounts which indicate that from October 25th um to November mber 26, FIFA has raised the

4:41 price of tickets for 90 of its 104 um games their matches to almost 34% and the final game at Giant Stadium has increased um to the tune of where ticket prices are at $4,000. And I've heard from consumers and I've read media reports and and so it was um it's incumbent upon me um to uh look into this and to investigate and so we issued subpoenas to get some answers. And then there is the Ebola outbreak right now in Africa where you have a real dire situation taking place in Congo and FIFA is now saying that uh if

5:29 you're in Congo, you can't come to FIFA. So, and this is the first time the Leopards, the Congo uh football team is going to be in the World Cup since like 1974. and the Congalles fans were going to come to the United States. The Trump regime has now banned them from the United States and they're like, "Can we get a refund?" And FIFA's not like, "Sure, you can get a refund." FIFA's like, "We will determine it in due course." Seriously, that's what uh Giani Infantino said. We'll determine whether you get a refund in due course. So, as the Trump regime shut down all of its public health apparatus, shut down its CDC, shut down all of the detection of

6:15 Ebola, and shut down USAID. And now there is an outbreak of Ebola in Congo. We also see it in Uganda. And I think they're downplaying their numbers. There's over a thousand cases, getting close to 300 deaths. What else? You have the United States not allowing anybody from like the Congo who may have been in contact with Ebola or contracted from coming back to the United States. The Trump regime is now wanting to set up quarantine facilities in Kenya to send Americans to Kenya to be treated where we've apparently trained volunteers for 3 days. a three-day volunteer training

7:03 and these are the people who are going to go to Kenya to treat Americans who get Ebola or who have Ebola from Congo. You know, we had like doctors, we had a whole public health apparatus to actually deal with Ebola outbreaks. All of this stuff was known. All of this stuff was planned for in advance. The Trump regime ripped uh ripped apart, ripped to shreds America's public health. Oh, and by the way, in Kenya, there were lawsuits filed by Kenyans saying, "No, we don't want US quarantine facilities in Kenya. Why? Why? Why are you doing this in Kenya?" And so, US has been blocked for that. But now, they're not allowing the Congo fans to show up in the United States. And now you'll have even though there's a big boycott

7:50 of FIFA, a huge amount of people still internationally and from Africa and other places will be heading into the United States. So now it seems like this could be a mass spread event potentially. And Andrew Giuliani, Andrew Giuliani and the Trump regime are like, "Don't worry, it's going to be okay. You have nothing to worry about." Yeah, we've heard this story before. It seems that with all these people coming here in a breakdown of our public health system, I don't know, it maybe is something to uh be a bit worried about right now or we should at least focus on it and take it seriously and not ignore it. No, I want to bring in I'm going to bring in Nina Schwabi. Nina Schwabi, public health expert, professor over at Georgetown University, my alma's also running for Congress. Um I want to talk to her about this public health

8:35 situation because I want to also know how this is going to impact FIFA. How's this going to impact what's going down there? You don't want to miss this this conversation with Nita Schwabby. This is the kind of conversation that needs to be being had right now. Let's bring in my interview with Nina Schwabby. Nina Schwabby, public health expert. She's running for Congress as well in New York's 12th congressional district. Nina, good to see you. You devoted your life to public health policy. You're on the faculty at Georgetown, my alma mater, where I went to law school. Um, this public health crisis is not getting enough attention right now that we're experiencing as a result of the Trump regime's policies. Uh, with all of the distractions that Donald Trump, you know, puts out there every day and also the catastrophic harm he's causing that people feel on a day-to-day basis, sometimes public health is neglected.

9:23 But as we saw with COVID, as we see right now with uh the spreading of measles, as we see with spreading of a lot of other contagians that that previously we never even expect are our issues, these are issues that are are life-threatening. And now one of the things that we've been talking about is that uh with this Ebola outbreak taking place uh in the Congo, we don't have staff to deal with it. So now the CDC, which has been gutted, is saying, "Well, we need uh we need volunteers. Anybody want to volunteer at the airports?" And I've seen all these public health experts say, "For decades, we built a structure to deal exactly with this. We had people in the region to deal exactly

10:09 with this." So the fact that you're sending emails, hey, anybody wants to help, is deeply, deeply distressing. and that doesn't give it justice. But as a public health expert, as someone who's modeled these things and has planned for them, now we're seeing what happens when Doge destroys it. And by the way, no offense, Nina, people may think what you do or what you did was boring because you you wouldn't want to be glamorous about it. You wouldn't be, "Hey, everybody, look, it's public health policy." But when we need people like you, we need people like you. And now we're in one of these events where we're not getting accurate information. This Ebola is spreading rapidly there and we're getting these, you know, statements that again make no sense. It's like deja vu. Break it down, Nina,

10:56 for us. >> Yeah. So, you're absolutely right. I mean, the Trump administration completely destroyed our public health infrastructure. And that sounds like jargon, but what it means is we don't have people counting who's getting sick. We don't have staff. Our embassies aren't staffed to help countries on the ground uh deal with outbreaks when they happen. We're not sending uh the equipment that's needed to diagnose it. Uh you know those are tests that previously the US government had provided to people and we've just let it all fail. We just cut it like it was unnecessary like and you know the idea that we're asking for volunteers to do a basic function of government. It's like it's not a school picnic. Uh this is a real crisis. So there's a a a huge outbreak in DRC which has spread to its neighboring country Uganda. It's a complicated region. Uh there's a lot of

11:42 unrest there. It's a big mining region, so there's a lot of transient people who come in and out. And it's been going on for weeks. And why did it go undetected for weeks? Well, in part because not only did we destroy our own public health system, but we also pulled out of everybody else's. We pulled out of the WHO. Donald Trump pulled out of the WHO on day one. And they're the line of first defense because when somebody has an infectious disease, they pick up the phone and they call WHO. Well, there have to be people at WHO to answer the phone. and we haven't even paid our bills there. And then we come here, which is our CDC used to be in what was called the situation room. And that that's actually kind of like a movie where people sit in a room and they get real-time data and they decide what to do with it. And our CDC is MIA, nowhere to be found. I mean, it is incredible

12:29 how we let this all drop. And as you said as well, when public health is working, nobody really knows what you do. like at dinner at at Thanksgiving it's not a big topic of conversation but when it's broken let me tell you everybody knows what you're doing and right now we have no system in place I mean one of the first signs of that was as you mentioned the measles outbreak we have measles outbreaks in over 30 states that's crazy this is a disease that we eliminated years ago and now it's back with a vengeance and when you have measles it's kind of a flashing red warning sign that your systems are failing and now we're seeing those systems fail. It It's crazy. Also, don't know if you follow our Hunto virus uh expert. Uh did you follow that? >> Talk to us about it. >> Yeah. Our hunter virus expert at the uh

13:15 at the at Health and Human Services reporting to to to RFK Jr. Um the guy is an erectile dysfunction expert. Like that was his thing before he became our hunter virus expert. He worked on uh had a penile podcast. So, we're in we're in deep trouble. our systems are failing and these are the systems that keep us and our democracy safe. >> You raised a great issue there with the penile injection person because that to to people who are looking for something that's flashy or controversial or whatever, you know, you've got penile guy and he's out there talking about all of these, you know, new fangle things and selling you the products and this and that. And on the other side, you've

14:01 got people talking about systems and organization and we need to do a meeting and let's analyze the data and let's go through a graph and let's go through a spreadsheet. And I think what I fear although I think it's manifested so you know my fear is an irrelevant thing is that the work in slandering bureaucracy which by the way bureaucracy has its issues. Let's be clear. It's not like I should be hoisting up the bureau, but in in demeaning the idea that there's a group of experts put their heads down and do the work and hoisting up the Dr. Oz and the Dr. Phils and the penile expert and it seems like everyone they

14:46 want to be the next uh uh surgeon general is always someone who's out there doing the podcast and the this and the that. It's like I do a podcast. I shouldn't be the surgeon general. I shouldn't I'm not trying to be the attorney general. I'm gonna stick in this lane. This is my thing. But that's a broader issue though that I think that you you tap into. And it's it's a look, you know, it's a tough one for for for people like for people like you who are the experts to break into that world. >> Yeah. Not only am are we experts, but we've run big programs. And that's a big difference, I think, on why we need more people in government who've run big government programs because passing the law is just the first thing. But then you got to watch where the dollars flow and you got to make sure that those dollars are getting where they need to go and delivering results. So, uh, the

15:34 the the the a year and a half ago, they fired 200,000 of my peers and all of those people provide basic public services and and tens of millions of people here and around the world lost access to life-saving care and Congress was sitting around kind of watching and the writing was on the wall that we were in deep trouble. So, this should be no surprise to anyone. And we're in I'm in New York City and we have FIFA coming and that's a million people coming in and we're calling on volunteers to staff our airports. And there's also something which is totally unconscionable which you probably followed which is we're not letting American citizens who might be ill back into our country. This is a huge stretch to say that bec like we're we're we're using Trump

16:20 is using border control policy and he's mixing that with public health priorities. So people suspected they're trying to set up this treatment site in Kenya and send American citizens to that site instead of letting them to come home where they have family, where they have friends, where we have the best healthcare in the world that they've paid into. So Trump's using this as an excuse to deny people the right to come home. That also is getting precious little attention, >> right? But it's that uh treatment there which doesn't address the actual public health outcomes. But then it's like but we're just going to do but because the FIFA is so important and this is Donald Trump's big thing, we're going to just we we don't we now don't have the resources to deal with a million people

17:07 coming in more. That should be the thing that we go whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. How are we going to be dealing with this influx of people? Because even though Donald Trump likes to believe America first means we don't need to worry about the rest of the world except when he wants to intervene and invade everybody or whatever, but diseases. The reason why USID CDC public health is international is ultimately because that also is America first because these diseases that are there, they're going to get here. So if we want to protect ourselves here, we got to stop them there. And and it's just it's it's it's it's, you know, it's it's wild that that's not reflected right now. >> Yeah. And the lack of public health expertise in Congress isn't a gap. It's

17:52 a it's a crisis. And uh you know, I there no we need to fill that gap because this is a big spend. And this is about, as you just said, this is about American security. Diseases cross borders. They cross state borders. States can't do it alone either because diseases cross borders. We need a central command and control which is watching this and keeping us safe and protected. >> Nina, you're running for New York's 12th congressional district and you're running with your background on systems. And you're you know your campaign is I run and operate big systems. We need somebody who can get into the weeds and you know I'm I'm I'm here to solve problems. I'm the problems. I mean, that's been the the the general theme, I think, of of of your campaign. It's of

18:38 course a very kind of crowded primary. Uh, you know, we've interviewed some of the other candidates as well. And so, before we go, talk to us about that. I wanted to establish your bonafidees in systems because that's really, you know, that that's that's really the pitch. You know, I don't mean to simplify a complex campaign into that, but I think you're out there saying, I'm the systems person and I'm going to here's how we solve these things using a technical uh framework. >> Yeah. And systems means that it's not a whack-a-ole approach. So, you know, when you when you save a kid from one disease, you have to make sure they don't die of another. And that's basically a systems approach. If you provide people with housing, you have to make sure that they have healthcare, too. That's a systems approach. So, it means you're thinking bigger than the

19:23 widget and you're thinking also in advance and you're thinking about how to have a long-term impact that improve people's lives. I ran the Biden administration's $7 billion co9 global vaccine distribution program and we distributed over 500 million vaccines in in really a couple of months and you know a systems uh a systems thinker comes in and says like well when I came into that uh in the beginning and I was a special government employee uh which is like Mr. from us. So, it came in very quickly. My first day at work, I was like, "Okay, great. We got the vaccines, but we didn't have any syringes." And figuring out how to solve big problems like that, how do you get 500 million syringes is something that's the kind of thing we need to do in government. We have big programs that aren't delivering and sometimes they're pretty simple solutions to figure that out. So having

20:10 somebody new to this who asks questions, who's trained to ask questions, who's trained not to take no for an answer, but to dig down relentlessly to figure out what is the solution to the problem. That's what I bring. >> Where can people learn more, Nina, about the campaign website? Where where can they find out more? >> Yeah, at uh Nenina for uh Nina www. Ninafornyc. And we're also on Instagram uh NinaforNYC. And uh we're staffed by volunteers. We're I mean we have a huge field operation. We're knocking on tens of thousands of doors. Uh uh but we're we're not backed by a billionaire. We're not a legacy Democrat. I'm not a celebrity. Uh you probably haven't seen me before. Um but we're backed by real people. And so come to our campaign,

20:57 learn about us, donate to us, volunteer with us. We will really be the ones that answer your messages. If you get a text message, it's actually from me. >> Nina Schwabi, thanks for joining us. We appreciate the work that you're doing. And you know, I think it's very important. It's why I also wanted to have you on here. I'm a systems guy also. And at my core, it's showing graphs and charts and and you know, the expression is play the clip because I I want people I want people to capture the data. And I think so much in the debate, it's this person yelling at this like just read the data. I I come in with an opinion, sure, but it's driven by data and not by just just winging it. And I I appreciate you doing that, too.

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