Screencap of YouTube video.

Jessica Tarlov, the liberal panelist on The Five on FOX News, had a predictably dumb take on Nick Shirley and his explosive video report on fraud at Somali daycare centers in Minnesota.

You all know she would have a bad take on this, didn’t you? If so, Tarlov does not disappoint.

She suggests that there is ‘no way’ that Shirley actually uncovered all the fraud that he claims in his report.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

JESSICA TARLOV: It’s going to get incredibly complicated for [Gov. Tim Walz] and I’m sure that he and his team are talking about whether he could mount another, you know, I don’t want to say challenge because Donald Trump won’t be running again, but obviously he’s been considering 2028.

I think that that will be more difficult when something like this has gone on in your state while you are in office, even if you’re not personally involved in it. The program that he was talking about that you reference Kellyanne’s school lunches, which I’ve seen no fraud about that, that kids go to school and they get lunch and they should. Yes, school lunch is a good thing.

Sometimes breakfast too, even. Nick Shirley’s reporting there’s no way that this kid walking around uncovered $100 million worth of fraud on his own. There have been tons of people working behind the scenes quietly, including independent local journalists that have been exposing this.

Here’s the video:

WTF?! Jessica Tarlov just LIED about Nick Shirley, saying he didn't uncover Somali fraud in Minnesota

"Nick Shirley…there's NO WAY this kid walking around uncovered $100M worth of fraud on his own!"

It's too big for the Left to even BELIEVE.

Yes, he DID, with the help of… pic.twitter.com/I5VVNM1a7u

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 29, 2025

She’s just awful, isn’t she?

Listening to Jessica Tarlov on the Five should be used as a form of torture. She just makes shit up as she gos along an says it all with such a condescending tone. Why is she still employed?

— Patti Fitz (@PattiFitzpatri2) December 29, 2025

It should surprise no one that this is the way Jessica decided to end the year.

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