Vivek Ramaswamy’s Unique Plan To Fight Welfare Fraud

Chris Cuomo opens his show by digging into the state of play in America coming off the Memorial Day weekend and with polls closing in the Texas GOP Senate runoff between four-term incumbent John Cornyn and the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton. At the same time, the GOP is zeroing in on the general election candidate, James Talarico, with attacks on the Democrat’s masculinity. Dallas-based conservative talk show host Mark Davis debates the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, Kendall Scudder, about whether that line of attack will have an impact.

Former DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy is the GOP nominee for Ohio governor, with a different take on tackling welfare waste, fraud and abuse at the state level. Ramaswamy reveals the plan and makes his case for it as a solution.

The U.S. launched fresh strikes in Iran over the holiday weekend amid peace talks. Has it delayed a deal, and is there growing tension between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the country’s political leadership, including Iran’s president? The president and founder of Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer, weighs in.

Olga Jezler, 36, who had been living in New York since 2017 as a permanent resident, flew to Russia in 2022 to help her sister, who was battling breast cancer. She brought CBD capsules, which are legal in Russia, as she had done at least three other times, to help with her sister’s pain. This time, she was accused of carrying highly concentrated hash oil and was arrested. This is the same charge WNBA star Brittney Griner faced in Russia. Jezler was convicted of drug possession and trafficking and sentenced to 10 years in prison, a ruling many international observers have called “unjust.” Olga’s husband, Harold Jezler, who is fighting to get his wife back, and another American who was wrongfully detained in Russia, Ksenia Karelina, join “CUOMO” to discuss the case.

This episode was originally recorded on May 26, 2026.

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