Kash Patel GRILLED On Charlie Kirk Assassination During Senate Hearing LIVE!
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Summary
In this episode, Director Jim Comey speaks to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Charlie Kirk case. He talks about the events leading up to the shooting, the investigation, and the arrest of Tyler Robinson, the suspect.
Transcript
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Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Durbin, and members of the committee.
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It's an honor to be here with you today as the ninth director of the FBI.
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I want to provide by providing a briefing into the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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It's important that this FBI is transparent as possible without jeopardizing investigation.
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Charlie Kirk was shot at 1223 a.m. on September 10th.
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Less than a day later, the FBI at my direction released the first set of images of the suspect
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that we captured based on our analysis on the ground.
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Later that evening, while conducting extensive interviews and cell phone analysis
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and also flying out evidence response teams and hostage rescue teams and evidence tacticians
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who were collecting evidence in live time and flying them back to Washington, D.C.
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in our laboratories for immediate analysis, we were able to extract video from the campus feed
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and at my direction at 8 p.m. in partnership and promise to working with the public to bring this fugitive to justice.
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We released the newly never-before-seen video of the suspect.
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We also released new enhanced photos of the suspect.
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A few hours later, that suspect was in custody pursuant to the interrogation of the suspect's own father who stated,
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when I saw that video that you released, I recognized it was my son, and I confronted him,
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and he was handed over to lawful law enforcement authorities.
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That is the FBI working with the public as a promise to being transparent and providing critical information along the way
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in the manhunt for the suspect and suspects involved in Charlie's assassination.
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All right, ninjas, we're live. Let's fucking do it. Fuck it.
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Fuck it, bro. Yo, before we start this stream, guys, I got no sleep, so excuse me if I'm fucking dead.
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But fuck it. Let's go. We're here, bro. We're here. Fuck it.
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...in Utah, the governor's office, DPS, and the sheriffs out there.
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State and local law enforcement partnership has been a cornerstone since I took over at the FBI,
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And our teams in Salt Lake City, our SACs out there across the country,
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our lab tacticians in Quantico, who raced to complete the evidence-
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They listed all the shit that Cash's been doing and fucking up,
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I'm sorry if I sound like I'm drunk. I promise I'm tired as fuck,
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and I took some fucking Z-Quotes to try to sleep,
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and I said, fuck it. We're going to work. Who cares?
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It's analysis, so the public reporting in the media,
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and that's why Tyler Robinson is in custody today, about to face charges.
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I'm going to try- Guys, it's this shit that the audio sucks.
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I'm going to try to find a better version of this.
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Before this committee was in January for my confirmation hearing.
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I would provide and do everything I can to provide a safe and secure America.
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I promise to provide the courageous men and women of the FBI
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the tools and resources they need to crush violent crime
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I pledge myself to commit to full transparency, oversight, and accountability.
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More than twice from the same time period last year.
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We've taken over 6,000 illegal firearms off the streets.
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We've identified and located more than 4,700 child victims.
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More than 4,700 child victims have been found by this FBI.
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That is a 35% increase from the same time period last year.
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That's a 5% increase from the same time last year.
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That's a 10% increase from the same time last year.
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Over 350 members of Trende Aragua, foreign terrorist organization, have been arrested.
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That is a 250% increase from the same time last year.
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Those are just some of the things the FBI is doing differently and better
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because we are leading the mission to crush violent crime and defend the homeland.
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We have also arrested four, captured four top 10 fugitives from the FBI's top 10 most wanted list.
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To put that in perspective, that's the same amount I've captured in seven months
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than my predecessor did during the entirety of the Biden administration.
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Those are real results and the credit is to the men and women at the FBI.
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We've been able to achieve these results because the FBI recognizes violent crime doesn't just happen in Washington, D.C.
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That's why one of my first decisions as a director was to get the people, the Bureau's professional staff, out to the field.
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And every single one of your districts and states has received a plus-up of FBI personnel agents and special operators
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We did that because crime had unexpectedly and unacceptably exploded across the country.
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In fact, one of the stats that the American people should thank the FBI the most for
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is we are on track to have the lowest murder rate in modern American history.
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The lowest murder rate by double-digit percentages.
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A major factor in the drop of this violent crime is the FBI's flagship Operation Summer Heat.
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We use this initiative at the direction of the President and the Attorney General surging resources
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to our major and mid-major cities across America, conducting intelligence-based operations
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to target the worst of the worst, to target the gangs, to target the transnational organizations,
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to target the TCOs, and to target the drug trafficking cartels.
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There's a lot of work left to be done, but we're off to a great start.
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Just ask the citizens of Seattle, Miami, Memphis, Charlotte, Chicago, and so many more places,
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specifically in New Orleans and Nashville alone.
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There has been an increase in the number of violent crime arrests by an average of 250%
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And there has been a drastic reduction in crime across the board in mid-major cities across this country,
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We've seized nearly 1,000 kilograms of meth and cocaine off the streets of America.
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We've taken over 1,600 kilograms of fentanyl off the streets.
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Maybe one of the greatest achievements we have this year, 1,600 kilograms of fentanyl.
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That's a 25% increase from the same time last year.
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To put things in perspective, that's enough fentanyl to kill a third of the American populace,
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We're also going after the companies that manufacture these precursors overseas in places like mainland China
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In fact, this month in Cincinnati, we announced groundbreaking charges aimed at the individuals
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and businesses responsible for flooding these opioids and their precursors and cutting agents
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And for the first time that I can remember, we are charging these businesses and enterprises,
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not just in America, but in mainland China, and seizing their operational necessity to have money
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We're also equally important to protecting the homeland.
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We're committed to keeping our nation safe from terrorism, cyber attacks, and foreign adversaries.
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Whether stopping threats inspired by foreign terrorist organizations or lone wolf factors,
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This year, we've already made nearly 60 counterintelligence arrests.
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60 counterintelligence arrests this year alone.
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A 30% increase from the same time period last year.
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Dude, counterintelligence cases, guys, are super hard to work.
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You know, like the biggest one they had was the one with the Russian spies like 10 years ago.
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So that's actually kind of impressive, not going to lie.
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I'm proud when we can share our successes such as when an espionage charge was brought against
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an active-duty U.S. Navy sailor caught spying for the People's Republic of China.
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But I want the American people to know the FBI is protecting the homeland from foreign adversaries
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And a lot of the good work that they do will never be able to discuss in this setting.
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We're attacking malware infrastructure, going after ransomware attackers, delivering a new
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Once we've got a few more thousand live viewers, guys, I'm going to give you a summary of like
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...private public sector engagements we've taken with the companies who are attacked by
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these foreign adversaries and nation-state actors and individual enterprise rings from around
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We are combating salt typhoon, vault typhoon, flax typhoon, and so many other ransomware and
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We're also arresting people such as Tajik National in Brooklyn, who is suspected of sending tens of
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We're going after the new form of what I refer to as modern-day terrorism in America, 764
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crimes that involve harming our children by going after them online, causing self-mutilation,
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suicide, sexual abuse, and steering them in the wrong direction.
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Currently, we have 3,500 international terrorism investigations.
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Specifically, we have in this country 1,700 domestic terrorism investigations, a large chunk
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of which are nihilistic violent extremism, NVE, those who engage in violent acts motivated by
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a deep hatred of society, whatever that justification they seem is.
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The FBI has seen a 300% increase in cases opened this year alone versus the same time last year.
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In the last couple of months, the FBI secured a guilty plea for a man in Tennessee who attacked
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We secured the indictment of a violent Sinaloa cartel faction leader in Chicago on narco-terrorism
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Our folks in San Francisco, excuse me, Sacramento, collaborated with domestic and international
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partners to secure a guilty plea for a leader of a transnational terrorist organization
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Mr. Chairman, you alluded to our work with Congress.
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To date, in the seven months that I've been FBI Director, we have produced 33,000 pages
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Just to put that in perspective, my predecessor in his seven-year term issued 13,000 pages to
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And his predecessor in his four-year term issued 3,000 pages to Congress.
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But I'll give flowers when they're deserved, but also say what the fuck when it's deserved.
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I've issued 33,000 pages in seven months, and we're going to keep going.
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He's definitely better than Merrick Garland, or sorry, not Merrick Garland, the director
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I'm dedicated to restoring the trust that the public has and needs in the integrity at
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the FBI, and it's being done every day by the men and women of the FBI.
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Now, I know that there's a lot of talk about Epstein, and I'm here to testify that the original
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sin in the Epstein case was the way it was initially brought.
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The original case involved a very limited search warrant or set of search warrants and
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didn't take as much investigatory material it should have seized.
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If I were the FBI director then, it wouldn't have happened.
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The search warrants were limited to small time periods to include 2002 to 2005 and 1997 to
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So Patel, only seven months in, has produced three times as much classified documents or
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unclassified documents than Chris Wray did his entire four years in, or for a couple years
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Mr. Acosta allowed Epstein to enter in 2008 to a plea and non-prosecution agreement, which
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I'm going to read your super chats once we kind of get through this part.
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...and protective orders legally prohibiting anyone from ever seeing that material ever
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The non-prosecution agreements also barred future prosecutions for those involved at
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Still, this administration at the direction of President Trump has done more to turn over
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Guys, once we break 2,000 live viewers on YouTube and Rumble, I'll explain what's going
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I just don't want to repeat myself a million times.
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But long story short, he's at a Senate hearing under oath answering questions because they
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...will to do so, and we will continue to work with Congress to achieve that end.
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Thank you for your support for our mission to working to jointly deliver transparency
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and congressional oversight to the United States.
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Lastly, I want to close with the president's initiative here in Washington, D.C., as an example
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21,000 arrests in D.C. with our federal partners.
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And they're doing this in all the worst major high-crime cities.
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Now they're trying to do it in Memphis and Chicago next.
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60% decrease in gun crimes in Washington, D.C. in the last month.
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Feds patrol on the streets, it was literally just a test run.
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They're going to do this on every major city from this point.
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Guys, did I not predict this, like, a month ago?
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Carjackings in Washington, D.C. in the last month.
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53% decrease in homicides in Washington, D.C. in the last month.
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People are freely walking around the states, and we're storing the nation's capital to its glory.
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That work is through the interagency process that the FBI is proud to be a part of,
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and the initiatives spearheaded by President Trump and the Attorney General.
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And perhaps most notably for investigations, in Washington itself,
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it was the intelligence that the FBI gathered through our source network here in D.C.
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that helped us identify the suspects in the horrific murder of the D.C. intern, Eric Tarpinian.
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We're proud to be a part of that investigation.
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We're proud to put the resources to bear of the FBI.
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And in closing, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee and Ranking Member Durbin,
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I'm honored to be the ninth director of the FBI.
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If you want to criticize my 16 years of service, please bring it on.
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I've observed when, whether it's Republican or Democrats, want a yes or no answer,
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that the witness and the senators talking over each other.
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So I thought what I'd do this time, rather than have that happen,
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if there's something you don't get a chance to answer
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because of the demeanor of a Republican or Democrat senator,
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before we, when we get done with that questioner,
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I'd give you a chance to fill in if there's something you didn't get a chance to say.
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Since 2019, I've sought greater transparency about Jeffrey Epstein and the government handling of the matter.
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I've continued to investigate during this Congress.
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Director Patel, was Jeffrey Epstein an intelligence asset for the United States government or the foreign government?
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Mr. Chairman, I can only speak to the FBI as the director of the FBI,
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Would you commit to providing my office with all classifieds?
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I'm legally permitted to do so under the court orders.
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It seems to me that I accept your answer to my...
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Send this guy to the fucking nursing home, bro.
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I'm half asleep right now, and I'm more fucking sharp than this dude.
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...this community ought to answer these questions as well.
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Regarding the initial FBI 1023 document that I made public last Congress,
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that document mentioned, one, text messages, two, audio recordings,
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and three, financial records that allegedly proved a bribery scheme
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Regarding those records, did the Ray FBI make any effort to determine whether they existed?
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Did the Ray FBI make any effort to obtain those records?
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Since this matter hasn't been fully investigated,
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the FBI has an obligation to the public to do exactly that
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Next question, I've done a lot of oversight relating to sexual misconduct by the FBI agents.
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In fact, I believe this is something I discussed with Ray.
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The FBI inspection division, it opened nearly 300 investigations based on sexual misconduct referrals
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According to whistleblowers of Biden-Rey, FBI totally dropped...
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Guys, the FBI has a lot of female agents, by the way.
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One credible accusation of sexual misconduct is too many, of course.
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Are you committed to reviewing the Bureau's policies to ensure responsible responses
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to credible allegations of misconduct, that there are swift and adequately protect victims?
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Relating to a similar subject, during child crimes and sexual misconduct-related investigations,
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are any private sector companies less than cooperative with you?
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What improvements in information sharing need to be made to catch those criminals?
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Mr. Chairman, we can always do better with our private sector companies.
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I've reached out to the leaders of most of them, asking them to provide more material
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so that we can be responsive and take legal action.
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There's been a lot of backlash, people calling for his resignation.
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Basically, what happened was it started off with members saying Cash Patel wasn't qualified,
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he's never been an agent, he lowered agent standards in the FBI Academy,
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made background checks less strict, he fumbled the Charlie Kirk murder,
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he wrote a book called Government Gangsters, how he talked about going after political pawns,
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So he spent like 30 minutes just roasting them, right?
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He responded saying, look, we've been making crazy arrests, seizing a million guns,
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thwarting terrorism, and we've been transparent.
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I've released triple the amount of declassified documents that Chris Ray did in seven months
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while Chris Ray had three years. So that's basically the summary of what's going on here,
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guys. Once again, for you guys that are coming in, I have not slept.
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That's why I sound fucking crazy right now, but fuck it. This thing's live.
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But that is the summary, guys, of what's going on right now.
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This country, I'm happy to discuss, you know, possible legislation that we can do
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This guy clearly is sending, giving cash softball questions.
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This FBI will not be weaponized anymore in either side of the aisle.
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In June of this year, I raised concerns about the FBI's use of recent, restricted access
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According to the FBI, quote, when search teams.
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I apologize, but I said, fuck it, let's go live.
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Teams that exist in a prohibited access status cases are searched in sentinel.
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The particular search will receive a false negative sentinel search response.
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It impacts congressional requests and court cases.
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And the Biden administration used it to thwart oversight.
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How are you ensuring that restricted access and prohibited access files are produced to
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And have you identified any Biden family records in restricted and prohibited status?
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As I've committed to you with my transparency initiative, whether it's restrictive or prohibited,
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every single thing we can legally provide to Congress, we will.
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We've also restructured how these restrictive and prohibited cases are labeled and provided access
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to more people in the chain of command so that more people have knowledge of what these
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restricted and prohibited cases are, including myself and the deputy.
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Do you commit to providing any records that are available?
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You publicly said that your team, quote, found a room that Comey and others hid from the world
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in the Hoover building full of documents and computer hard drives no one had ever seen
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I've received a whistleblower disclosure that the room contained some of the special counsel
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Mueller, former director James Comey, and other documents maintained outside of the...
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The records are clearly responsive to my as well as my colleagues' congressional...
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Bro, I'm over here with no fucking sleep listening to this old-ass nigga.
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Supposed to happen is leadership at the FBI is supposed to, pursuant to the Records Act,
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correctly store these records that are Information Management Division IMD.
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Guys, this isn't the only guy that's going to ask some questions.
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There's other ones that are going to ask questions, and they're going to grill him way harder.
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So we are continuously processing that information.
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So, A, we subscribe to the Records Act and commit that those records will be kept permanently at the FBI.
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A lot of those materials are related to ongoing investigations.
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And three, we are on a rolling basis providing Congress the documents that we can, and we will continue to do so.
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Director Patel, in addition to the extensive purge of nonpartisan career FBI...
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Official reports, reports indicate that dozens of remaining officials have been suggested, have been subjected to polygraph exams to test their loyalty.
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My understanding is that approximately 40 officials have been asked to sit for a polygraph during your administration, and several have been asked whether they have ever made negative comments.
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In the FBI, guys, you do a polygraph every five years.
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Sometimes every three years if you're SCI clearance.
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I don't know what reports you're referring to, ranking member, and I reject any reporting that has false information in it, so I'm not going to respond to that.
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As far as polygraphs go, generally they are always and always have been utilized at the FBI to track down those that leak sensitive information and have unauthorized disclosures to the media, and we will continue to use them.
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Every three years, SCI, five years for everybody else.
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Your senior executive team, the director's advisory team, or who serve in the positions on the seventh floor, receive disqualifying alerts on their polygraphs.
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Senator, I'm not going to get into the personnel discussions that were had on a polygraph.
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Those are private discussions, and many of them relate to ongoing investigations.
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Did you or Attorney General Bondi provide any individual with a waiver so they can remain employed after they receive disqualifying alerts on their polygraphs?
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My priority is protecting the American public, not getting into the weeds of polygraphs.
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And to have a decent memory when you come before a committee.
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I'm happy to talk about all the good work the men and women of the FBI are doing, including providing the lowest crime rate in American history.
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If you want to talk about how to protect the citizens, Chicago has seen a 30% reduction in its murder rate because of the men and women of the FBI.
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The interagency partners and the men and women of the Chicago PD have never been more powerful.
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Okay, guys, you're probably wondering, why the fuck is this guy asking about polygraphs?
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The reason why is because Cash Patel currently has a lawsuit right now from a bunch of different FBI agents that worked on all the criminal investigations that Trump was a part of.
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So what they're trying to say here is he put all those agents on polygraphs because they didn't like Trump, which obviously is a gross misuse.
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You're supposed to do polygraphs for background clearance reasons.
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The blowback she received, Attorney General Bondi also pushed the FBI to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records on an arbitrarily short deadline in March.
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And the FBI was directed to flag any documents that mentioned President Trump.
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Nothing came of that review until July when DOJ and FBI released an unsigned memorandum stating there is no incriminating client list.
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The memorandum had the insignia of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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And in our effort to secure transparency for the American people, because the three prior administrations had not done so,
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we conducted an exhaustive search of everything related to the Epstein cases.
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And we produced what was legally and permissibly able to be produced to Congress and the American public.
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We released everything that is legal to release.
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What he means by that is, we gave you guys everything that's not classified.
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But since most people don't know how law enforcement clearances, background checks, all this shit works, investigations,
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He leads the Department of Justice, and I lead the FBI.
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So the Attorney General is responsible for that?
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The Attorney General leads the Department of Justice.
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Director Patel, much like you, Deputy Director Don Bongino was a conspiracy theorist.
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He built a lucrative career making inflammatory and unsubstantiated statements about the FBI that would be disqualifying in any administration that cared about nonpartisan law enforcement.
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I told y'all, bro, they're working their way to come after him.
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Cash Patel is unfairly targeting all the FBI employees that worked on any Trump criminal investigation.
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Recall the placement of pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters on January 6th.
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They spent the first 45 minutes giving their grievances and then swearing cash in.
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I've literally been watching this the whole time.
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And whoever goes into the FBI, you better get an answer about why.
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Director Patel, you and Deputy Director Bongino are now leading the FBI.
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What is the evidence to suggest the pipe bombs placed outside of the DNC and RNC on January 6th were an inside job?
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I appreciate the opportunity to discuss Director Bongino's mind record.
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So many on this committee and the media jettison our 31 years of public service.
00:31:40.940
You're questioning the integrity of the Deputy Director of the FBI and mind.
00:31:46.600
The pipe bomb investigation is ongoing, and I'm not going to discuss the details of the pipe bomb investigation.
00:31:52.740
Mr. Bongino was a Secret Service agent for 15 years, a police officer for five.
00:31:56.740
I served this country in multiple administrations for 16 years.
00:32:00.280
We were also private citizens, and we are now back in government service.
00:32:03.360
Yeah, like, with all due respect, though, Secret Service doesn't do complex criminal investigations.
00:32:11.640
So none of them have really run a complex, long-term federal investigation, to be honest.
00:32:17.800
And what we have the ability to do is set aside our personal beliefs to deliver the mission of justice for this country.
00:32:25.080
And I find it disgusting that everyone and anyone would jettison our 31 years of combined experience that is now at the helm of the FBI, delivering historic results at historic speeds for the American people.
00:32:39.580
I got a lot of evidence, and I'll give it to you when I can.
00:32:49.480
And the reason why he's grilling him on this is Kash Patel and Bongino always question the pipe bomb shit.
00:32:55.380
So see how all these podcast interviews are coming back to haunt them?
00:32:59.020
Eric Times story this morning about Chris Meyer.
00:33:01.380
As I understand it, he was your personal pilot, at least for some period of time.
00:33:07.960
Flew over 350 hours as an Air Force pilot on three aircraft types in Afghanistan.
00:33:12.820
Mr. Jardina, another former FBI agent, a 1999 graduate of U.S. Naval Academy, commanded 100 Marines in combat during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, participated in several firefights, followed up with 2011 deployment as reservists to Afghanistan, where he interrogated senior Taliban officials.
00:33:34.840
It appears that you terminated these two agents.
00:33:38.600
I'm not going to get into personnel decisions that we made.
00:33:41.340
So you're not accountable for your decisions to take people who served our country so admirably and terminate them without any cause?
00:33:52.260
Anyone that has been terminated from the FBI, generally speaking, fail to meet the needs of the FBI and uphold their constitutional duties.
00:34:00.960
And you providing a one-sided story from your purge is absolutely disgraceful because the men and women of the FBI deserve better.
00:34:07.360
And your attack on the current leadership of the men and women of the FBI is equally disgraceful because now you're attacking the leaders that are our brave SACs in the field who are doing the job that this country needs.
00:34:22.120
It's disgraceful when Mr. Meyer and Mr. Jardina, who served our country so well, are terminated apparently because of the rants of a broadcaster.
00:34:42.840
Did you read the story about the termination of the project in Baltimore?
00:35:02.360
But apparently that this group, 764 group, a nihilistic, violent extremist group seeks to blackmail children to perform vile acts on a camera under investigation by Baltimore, which was terminated by you.
00:35:17.260
I'd like you to respond in writing, if you will, as to the circumstances of that termination.
00:35:23.980
Our operations against NVEs, as you're referring to, has been historically high.
00:35:29.800
And we've taken down multiple NVE rings, including 764 rings who are harming children and causing them to be mutilated.
00:35:37.060
Can you explain why you are eliminating the requirements for a college degree for your agents?
00:35:43.580
Oh, this is another thing that pissed them off.
00:35:46.620
Because it used to be you had to have a four-year degree to become an FBI agent.
00:35:52.820
You said in your opening statement, we are reducing the training requirements at Quantico.
00:35:58.180
You are referring to an 18-11 crossover program, because I believe the men and women of places like the DEA, the ATF, and the Marshal Service, and the Secret Service who want to work at the FBI should deserve that opportunity in a shortened Cambridge program, which we provided.
00:36:14.160
Guys, at this point, bro, I'm about to hit up my boy and apply to FBI, bro.
00:36:20.460
Guys, I got to take three months off and help these niggas, bro.
00:36:28.700
...BC as is traditionally being held at the FBI.
00:36:32.900
We are increasing those that we bring into the FBI.
00:36:35.300
Did you change any of the requirements on college degrees?
00:36:38.560
We are allowing police officers who have served for a number of years to come into the FBI who did not obtain the requisite college degree to apply to be federal agents because we feel they have the street-level experience we need.
00:36:52.660
A lot of agencies don't care about you having a bachelor's degree.
00:36:54.800
It's kind of a waste of time, but the FBI has always had that standard.
00:36:57.840
So when he took it away, it obviously caused a lot of commotion.
00:37:04.700
I have to respond to this business about you not treating employees properly because I served under the previous administration when...
00:37:17.660
All those folks out there making this happen, thank them for me.
00:37:23.320
As to how to be an FBI agent, you've made a decision that local law enforcement folks, people who have served in law enforcement without a college degree are able to apply now.
00:37:40.360
He's out in the field might be as valuable as a college degree, believe it or not.
00:37:51.500
We're blowing boats out of the water in the Caribbean because they're connected to international narco-terrorist groups.
00:38:01.600
Yes, that mission is being led by the Department of Defense, sir.
00:38:09.740
Sir, I would defer the questions on legal authority to the Attorney General and the Department.
00:38:14.400
Do you believe that Maduro runs a narco-terrorism state in Venezuela based on...
00:38:22.600
I believe based on the intelligence and prosecutions and investigations, we are currently running a large portion of the cocaine that exits out of South America.
00:38:31.580
Its origination point is in Venezuela, and using transshipment points through Haiti, they're using the navigable waterways in the Caribbean to the end-state delivery, which is the United States of America, and we will hunt down every single one of those narco-traffickers with the authority.
00:38:46.580
There's some actual indictments of Maduro as an individual.
00:38:49.620
Yeah, it's actually HSI Miami that indicted some of Maduro's people, guys.
00:38:56.420
Would it be fair to say that Venezuela is a good candidate to be labeled as a state sponsor of terrorism under U.S. law?
00:39:06.060
Senator, from my perch, we will provide the intelligence necessary for anyone who meets the threshold to be a state sponsor of terrorism in this administration.
00:39:13.640
I think they are, so we'll be going down that road.
00:39:16.740
And China, on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being nothing, 10 being great, how is China helping with the fentanyl problem here in the United States?
00:39:27.600
Under this administration, we have taken, as I highlighted the Cincinnati case, the precursors are the problem.
00:39:35.560
The fentanyl is the end-state that kills American citizens.
00:39:40.500
And so for the first time in a decade, I had a call with my counterpart in the MPS.
00:39:47.620
The precursor chemical companies and have those labels, have those chemicals labeled.
00:39:56.600
We've also cut off the transshipment points of those precursors.
00:40:01.740
Once we got on their track about their delivery routes to the Mexican drug cartels directly, they started going to India.
00:40:07.600
We call the Indian authorities, and they shut down those transshipment points.
00:40:11.220
So we're continuing to work with our partners overseas.
00:40:15.080
They are starting to help, and we are hoping, under this administration's leadership, we can get more of their help.
00:40:20.800
Let me know in the coming months if that continues.
00:40:26.460
As someone that's worked with China before, China does not—they're fucking useless, guys.
00:40:32.040
If you got a case that's based out of China, you're cooked.
00:40:36.660
I had a case on organized Chinese human smuggling, and any time I would contact the Beijing office, bro, it's like my liaison over there couldn't do shit.
00:40:48.900
One of the worst countries to have an attaché office, bro.
00:41:00.740
I'm giving you all the sauce on how these investigations really work.
00:41:04.160
There's no one else on fucking YouTube that can literally fact-check a lot of this shit for y'all in real time.
00:41:12.280
It is wildly out of control when it comes to radicalizing.
00:41:20.240
He says that social media is wildly out of control.
00:41:24.100
Now, free speech, we all agree with that, but you can't yell fire in the theater, right?
00:41:30.540
How much you guys want to pay is about to start talking about Israel?
00:41:34.480
How much y'all want to pay is about to come up?
00:41:36.760
It doesn't allow you to go online and groom a child for sexual—
00:41:42.420
Free speech doesn't allow you to go on the internet and basically incite somebody to kill another person, right?
00:41:50.100
So if it's illegal offline, it should be illegal online, agreed?
00:41:57.300
Just because you're online doesn't give you a get-out-of-jail-free card.
00:42:01.620
So if a parent is worried about a child being bullied on a website, what rights do they have under U.S. law?
00:42:08.780
We have to balance the rights, as you said, Senator, of free speech versus those that encroach—
00:42:13.500
Is there any law that can shut down one of these sites for bullying children or allowing sexual predators on the site?
00:42:21.000
We are able to attack certain sites on the dark web.
00:42:24.260
When it comes to the open internet infrastructure system, we have to reach a threshold to attack a company's position that only subscribes to violence.
00:42:38.940
No, I'm talking about the social media company that gives lives to this behavior.
00:42:42.760
Would you advocate a sun setting on Section 230 to bring more liability to the companies who send this stuff out?
00:42:53.520
These companies are taking content that makes you sick, that could get you killed, get you poisoned, and there's nothing we can do about it under our law.
00:43:02.520
A person can do about it because of Section 230.
00:43:04.080
So if your child is being sexually groomed online or bullied online and you go to the social media company and ask them to take it down, they refuse.
00:43:14.200
How many images of sexually exploited children are purveyed every year on social media sites?
00:43:20.780
And, Senator, if I can just add one step to that analysis, it's not just what's on social media that is quote-unquote real.
00:43:26.340
It's the introduction of artificial intelligence and generative AI that is creating even more child sexually abused material and even more sexually violent acts online and mimicking people.
00:43:34.520
Would you say that the way social media is structured today, really no accountability, 36 million images in 23 of sexually exploited children, that this is a public health hazard?
00:43:44.520
Would you say that it's a mental health problem, particularly for you?
00:43:46.860
Guys, as you can tell, Graham is a friend of cash.
00:43:48.960
That's why he's giving them these softball questions.
00:43:51.540
But there were some other guys on the committee that don't like cash.
00:43:54.460
To be addictive, unfortunately, the reality is some of these sites are designed to generate income.
00:43:59.720
And many people are generating income based on this illegal trade.
00:44:04.480
Do you think it's now time for America to deal with this problem?
00:44:13.320
Having the FBI director all in is great news for me.
00:44:18.260
And I hope the committee will respond and that we'll be all in trying to fix a problem that I think is doing a lot of damage to our country.
00:44:26.340
When it comes to John Bolton, was there new evidence involved in the raid on his home?
00:44:36.680
As you know, there was a raid of his house pursuant to a legal search warrant.
00:44:43.980
We're looking to have that search warrant unsealed.
00:44:47.580
Yeah, I think that would be good, quite frankly.
00:44:54.260
In December 2023, Director Wray said he sees blinking lights everywhere regarding to foreign terrorist threats against our homeland.
00:45:05.520
How would you characterize the state of threats to our homeland by foreign terrorist groups?
00:45:11.260
Foreign terrorist organizations have adapted and started utilizing online platforms, and so has the FBI.
00:45:18.080
And so while they are adapting, expanding how they harm our country, we have as well.
00:45:24.220
There has been a resurgence in places like West Africa and elsewhere, the foreign terrorist organizations,
00:45:28.600
and also the newly emboldened drug trafficking organizations in Mexico.
00:45:32.380
It's going to take a whole-of-government approach to get terror.
00:45:38.360
So Hezbollah is involved in not only terrorism, but narco.
00:45:41.820
Bro, Hezbollah has been designated as a terrorist organization since 1997, since October 1997.
00:45:54.440
So do you see, consider Hezbollah a threat to the United States?
00:45:58.460
All right, finally, do you have enough people to do all this?
00:46:09.440
You're involved in a lot of things, and the numbers speak for themselves.
00:46:37.460
You have FBI agents helping here in Washington, D.C.
00:46:56.140
You have FBI agents helping in illegal immigration.
00:47:03.240
You've got a chance here to tell us if you need more people.
00:47:06.420
It seems to me that threat level of this country is pretty high right now.
00:47:10.520
You've got thousands of domestic terrorism cases.
00:47:23.880
I would urge you to get with your people, and if you think you need more people, now is the time to do it.
00:47:30.960
It would be a shame to miss an opportunity to plus up the FBI if the threats justified it.
00:47:38.860
Okay, but are you comfortable you have enough people right now?
00:47:57.040
Again, that is an entirely inaccurate presupposition.
00:48:02.060
You can continue to characterize it as you wish.
00:48:05.700
The only actions we take, generally speaking, for personnel at the FBI are ones based on merit and qualification and your ability to uphold your constitutional duty.
00:48:19.140
You don't like it to be called an enemy's list, and it had about 60 names, and about 20 have had adverse actions.
00:48:27.240
Let me move on to Grand Jury testimony, which we also talked about when you were here.
00:48:41.940
He fired the FBI special agent in charge of a Pakistani woman.
00:48:45.520
Gus, afterwards, whatever they told the Grand Jury, and you then went on to suggest, saying, I can't.
00:49:08.080
It was granted by the D.C. District Chief Judge, and you want me to violate a court order.
00:49:16.960
In those remarks, you fairly plainly suggested that there was a court order of some kind that somehow restricted or limited your ability to discuss your own testimony to that Grand Jury.
00:49:28.300
Since then, that Chief Judge that you mentioned, Judge Bozberg, has written, and I'm quoting him here,
00:49:33.580
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6E allows witnesses like Patel to divulge the contents of their testimony,
00:49:39.880
meaning that nothing was preventing him from doing so before.
00:49:57.000
Committee, can we confirm here today that there is no court order of any kind that limits your ability as a witness before the Grand Jury
00:50:10.820
to discuss your own testimony to that Grand Jury?
00:50:14.640
We can confirm that pursuant to my action that that Grand Jury testimony has been released, the transcript.
00:50:27.000
Let's, um, in what forum was it released, may I ask?
00:50:40.980
In the case of, um, a U.S. attorney, Janine Pirro,
00:50:49.820
it has come to light that, in a civil proceeding,
00:50:54.820
um, that Fox News executives prior to her confirmation
00:51:01.040
called her, I'm quoting here, a reckless maniac
00:51:17.680
random conspiracy theories on weird internet sites.
00:51:21.460
My question to you is, did that turn up in her background investigation?
00:51:27.680
For any background investigation, Senator, we do not discuss those publicly.
00:51:31.960
And for every background investigation, when there's adjudication, it is not made by me.
00:51:35.800
It is made by the career professionals who run the inspection division and background check system.
00:51:46.560
One is that the FBI background investigation didn't find that stuff.
00:51:50.500
That's worth noting, because these investigations, full-field background investigations,
00:51:57.600
Possibility two is that the FBI did, in fact, find that information
00:52:00.820
and then did not report it to the administration or to the committee.
00:52:09.980
And the third is that you found it, you reported it to the administration,
00:52:15.900
and they went ahead with her nomination, knowing that she had been described as a reckless maniac
00:52:24.000
who made insane comments, who wasn't trusted by colleagues to be responsible,
00:52:29.500
and who had a penchant for random conspiracy theories on weird internet sites.
00:52:33.560
Are you saying that this committee does not have any authority or reason to look into which of those things is true?
00:52:40.020
This committee can look into anything it wishes.
00:52:43.120
I'm telling you that the background investigations that are done by the HRD division are done by career individuals.
00:52:51.200
They adjudicate those independently and individually.
00:52:57.080
What happened during the pause of FBI background investigations that was alleged in the complaint
00:53:04.900
against you and the FBI by the FBI agents who were terminated.
00:53:12.200
On February 12th, Emil Bovee directed the FBI, quote,
00:53:15.820
to pause any FBI background investigations of Trump nominees until Patel was confirmed,
00:53:21.840
which happened on February 20th, is the general description of what they alleged.
00:53:27.280
Why, do you know, were background investigations paused?
00:53:31.340
Was it so material like this could be scrubbed out of them?
00:53:36.980
And have they been resumed without that pause fully and normally after your arrival on February 20th?
00:53:46.560
I can speak to the time period since I got there.
00:53:48.780
Background investigations have been ongoing across the board at the FBI.
00:54:01.000
Oh, by the way, boss, they've had a multi, an eight-day pause on background investigations.
00:54:06.320
You think that would be something that would be explained to you at some point?
00:54:10.600
Again, I leave it to the men and women at the HRD division to run background investigations.
00:54:17.920
But what I don't get is whether you were told about that pause.
00:54:21.720
And why would you not be told about that pause?
00:54:29.640
So relates that part of the employee review of senior staff was whether or not they voted
00:54:53.580
Since when is who you voted for a proper question for agents to be asked?
00:55:02.940
I don't know what allegation you're referring to, Senator.
00:55:07.680
If it's from an ongoing matter of litigation, I can't discuss that.
00:55:11.700
But what I can discuss is I can only speak to the FBI's background investigations.
00:55:18.240
There are other background investigations conducted across the government.
00:55:23.520
Just to clarify, I'm not talking about the FBI full field background investigations.
00:55:28.700
I'm talking about internal employee reviews for promotion, for termination, for job actions
00:55:38.060
And my question to you is, is it now the policy of the FBI to ask agents who they voted for?
00:55:50.360
And since when is who agents voted for a proper question for the FBI?
00:56:02.860
There's something called the Hatch Act, right, where federal employees are not supposed to
00:56:07.660
openly talk about politics or endorse a certain political party.
00:56:15.840
Taking those in reverse order, it's not a proper question, and it's improper to allege that
00:56:21.400
And also, at the FBI specifically, under my leadership, we do not ask who you voted for.
00:56:26.260
And just one correction for the record, if I may, Senator, it's Security Division that
00:56:37.860
He's asking if the policy, if there was a question added to the paperwork in internal
00:56:42.660
reviews, is there a question about who you voted for?
00:56:48.840
If we meant that we cannot locate your grand jury transcript, just expect a question for
00:56:57.280
the record that will give you the chance to either provide that transcript again, if
00:57:00.940
it had been previously provided, or to make the statement that grand jury rule 6E allows
00:57:04.420
you, to the best of your recollection, truthfully, about what it is that you told that grand jury.
00:57:09.520
That's why I wanted to transfer police, and we'll get it to you, sir.
00:57:12.560
I think I want to take an opportunity, when we hear about your political weaponization,
00:57:17.180
to remind my Democratic colleagues that what's happened in the last decade, federal law enforcement
00:57:22.960
and intelligence community, even when Trump was president, has thrown everything at him.
00:57:26.560
They've even gone after his associates in Republican Party organizations, one investigation after
00:57:33.200
I use examples you've heard me already say today, Crossfire Hurricane and Arctic Frost.
00:57:37.540
These were all built on defective foundations of political bias.
00:57:41.040
And then we released the Clinton Index and the Durham Index.
00:57:46.660
I'll tell you guys this, as much as people say Cash isn't qualified, he's doing a fantastic
00:57:55.140
I've been writing a few of the questions you've been dodging.
00:57:59.020
Thank you for your willingness to serve in this very challenging position.
00:58:13.820
I've always wondered whether an organization that big and that diffused all across the nation
00:58:23.500
Have you experienced any surprises in terms of the, as the director, in terms of your management
00:58:37.520
Guys, I'm compiling all the stuff right now in my notes.
00:58:40.700
And after this is done, I'll read chats, and then I'll kind of explain some of the stuff
00:58:47.280
So we have empowered and we have changed the structural operation of the FBI to empower
00:58:51.200
SACs in the 56 field office, 55, 56, come on October, to lead the mission.
00:58:56.100
We've also empowered the respective assistant directors and operational directors to lead the
00:59:02.700
And that's been the transition, is the power structure is being pushed out to the field
00:59:06.760
Which sounds like a very practical way to approach it.
00:59:12.840
Morale, when I travel around the country, in my experience, has never been higher.
00:59:17.260
The FBI and the police officers that we work hand in glove with across this country are
00:59:23.800
And the stats that I'm citing are no achievement of mine.
00:59:27.020
The stats that I'm citing in the seven months that I've been there, such as a 42% increase
00:59:33.440
in cyber arrest alone this year, is because the men and women at the FBI have been empowered
00:59:39.620
They're getting the opportunity to do the work.
00:59:41.820
And with our great partners in the respective states like Texas, where we just returned a
00:59:48.400
top 10 most wanted fugitive in Cindy Singh, are getting the ability to make those prosecutions
00:59:54.480
By the way, Senator Durbin was asking about polygraphs.
00:59:57.760
Aren't polygraphs a standard part of the standard test given to people with security clearances
01:00:07.480
As a condition to maintaining your security clearance?
01:00:15.520
And then you also need it when you are going through the hiring process.
01:00:19.960
I've wondered about over time is, you know, the FBI is the number, is a premier law enforcement
01:00:27.480
But you also have other important responsibilities in counterintelligence.
01:00:32.580
And there's been different debates or people wondering whether, including me, whether that's
01:00:44.960
And I guess the most challenging part of that is if it's not at the FBI, where would it go?
01:00:50.280
Well, but can you, given your background, I know, is working on the HIPSI and your intelligence
01:00:59.420
Can you talk a little bit about how you what you think about the counterintelligence role
01:01:05.860
Guys, I'll ask one of my boys what the morale like is at the FBI right now.
01:01:10.780
I'll ask him for y'all and give y'all the real answer because he's actually out doing
01:01:16.100
For obvious reasons, I'm not going to tell you his name or anything like that.
01:01:21.140
Whether you think it's performing the way it should or whether there are other changes
01:01:26.900
or reforms need to be made in order to improve its its functioning, as you know, the threats
01:01:33.480
from our adversary nations are just proliferating every day.
01:01:39.560
The espionage activities of our adversaries have never been so high.
01:01:42.200
And I think the counterintelligence mission is properly housed within the FBI because we've
01:01:48.640
And if I can, sir, since January 20th of this year, the FBI has made 55 arrests on the
01:01:54.420
That's a 30 percent increase in CIRS from the same time year to date last year.
01:01:58.620
We've arrested 33, 33 percent increase in PRC counterintelligence arrest, an 83 percent
01:02:04.360
increase in Russia counterintelligence arrest from the same time last year, then a 60 percent
01:02:08.640
increase on Iran counterintelligence arrest from the same time period last year.
01:02:12.220
So we are already on total exceeding the entirety of the number of arrests from the previous
01:02:17.160
I will say this, guys, it's very hard to prosecute CI cases, counterintelligence.
01:02:25.540
Anyone that's done counterintelligence investigations knows that that's actually pretty impressive.
01:02:34.920
I'm roasting him when he says dumb shit, but I'm also giving praise if it's if it's good.
01:02:38.200
And that many arrests for CI is pretty fucking good.
01:02:41.780
In my opinion, the FBI is the only agency that can do it.
01:02:44.540
Now we work with the interagency to do it and we need them, but we have the mission set.
01:02:49.980
You know, sometimes I wonder whether we sort of repeat the way we do things because we've
01:02:59.280
And I'm getting up to building up to this issue of the narco trafficking and what President
01:03:05.060
Trump has ordered the Defense Department to do in terms of to take out some of these
01:03:08.460
transnational criminal organizations that are importing poison into the United States
01:03:13.240
and responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans, maybe hundreds of thousands of
01:03:18.700
Do you think a law enforcement model for dealing with these narco traffickers is adequate to
01:03:26.080
Or do you think we need to start thinking about this in maybe new and different ways?
01:03:31.020
Obviously, we're not engaged in a war per se, although it is a war metaphorically.
01:03:36.340
And the law enforcement model seems to be not working from the standpoint of dealing with
01:03:42.420
the volume of the threat and the magnitude of the threat.
01:03:46.680
Do you think we need to start thinking about how do we deal within constitutional legal parameters
01:03:51.100
to deal with this problem in a different way to be more effective in protecting the
01:03:56.540
And the way to analogize this and why I've advocated for the designation, and I'm thankful
01:03:59.500
that the Trump administration has designated these cartels and narco traffickers as foreign
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terrorist organizations, is because we must treat them like the foreign terrorist
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We must treat them like the Al-Qaeda's of the world because that's our...
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I told you they were going to do this so they could start attacking them with intel assets,
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It gives them way more power to go after these organizations if they designate them as terrorists.
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I called this back in January when Trump got sworn in.
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We're in the intelligence community to go after the threat like we did terrorists when
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And now we have that ability and we're seeing that in live time, whether it's on the strike on
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the boat or going down into Mexico and working with our Mexican authorities with these intelligence
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assets to say, we've located not just the person in charge, the cadre in charge, but
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the entire network, and we are now able to dismantle that entire network.
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The manhunt after 9-11 took some years, and this is going to be a years-long mission.
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Well, I'm glad you mentioned the counterterrorism mission because we've had a lot of experience,
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the U.S. government writ large, with dealing with terrorism in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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I'm here on NoSleep giving you all this sauce, man.
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I'm over here streaming for y'all niggas for free.
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Friends and allies, like Mexico, for example, are very sensitive about sovereignty and being
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able to control what happens on their territory.
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But yet, we're beginning to see more and more cooperation, as you point out, in that
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And so, in your opinion, has the counterterrorism model, have the lessons learned by the U.S.
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There are other things we need to do to make sure that those skills, those lessons learned
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This dude's just yapping, and he's fucking giving softball questions.
01:06:00.220
Guys, give me a one in the chat if you guys want me to give you a summary of what's going
01:06:04.140
For those of you that are just tuning in, obviously, we've got like, what, five or 6,000
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So give me a one in the chat if you guys want me to kind of summarize what's been going
01:06:12.500
on here for y'all real quick, or if you just want me to keep letting it play through.
01:06:15.440
Because I do recognize that our viewership's like doubled in the past 20 minutes.
01:06:19.420
So there's probably people coming in saying, what the fuck is going on?
01:06:22.220
So give me a one if you guys want me to, or give me a two if you want me to just keep
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Give me a one if you want a quick summary, or two if you want me to just keep playing
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Last week, when Charlie Kirk got assassinated, and the FBI got involved in the case, a lot
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of people criticized Kash Patel's, you know, leadership during that investigation.
01:06:54.220
He put out two tweets saying, we got the guy, when in reality, they didn't catch the
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Dude ended up, you know, turning himself in, but the FBI took credit.
01:07:00.580
They had this really stupid and awkward press conference.
01:07:03.100
He told Kirk, you know, I'll see you in Valhalla when it's like a fucking pagan thing, when Kirk
01:07:08.360
Just a lot of weird shit that looked bad optically.
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So basically, they brought him in to answer questions because people are, you know, kind
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of questioning his qualifications to be director of the FBI.
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So that's what these people are kind of asking him questions about.
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Not just the Kirk stuff, but they're going to ask him questions about, you know, the Government
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Gangsters book, the podcasting, the conspiracy theories, you know, firing people that oppose
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Trump during the Biden administration, or people that investigated Trump.
01:07:37.260
So they're grilling him on a multitude of different things.
01:07:39.580
And he's under oath right now, so he can't lie.
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So if you guys notice, he's deflecting a lot of the fucking questions given to him, saying
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Translation, I'm not giving you out nothing that's classified and unprotected.
01:07:53.320
They asked him if Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset of a foreign government.
01:08:08.220
They asked you if Epstein was a foreign intel asset, not if he was an FBI informant.
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But dude's fucking senile, didn't do a follow-up question and clarify.
01:08:20.660
So notice how the people that like Cash are giving softball, you know, questions.
01:08:23.920
And the people that don't like him are kind of putting his feet to the fire.
01:08:26.760
But Cash has been doing a really good job of deflecting questions.
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Give me a one to the chat if that don't make sense with the summary.
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If it doesn't make sense, give me a two and then tell me why.
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Funny, after the first or a hundredth time, but after a thousand times, come on, guys.
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We are applying all of them to our counter, the CT mission set to the CN mission set.
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And we're using the new authorities given to our intelligence community partners in the Department of War
01:09:06.380
to combine these collective efforts and in a new way, meeting together
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and creating an interagency process that gets after the threat dynamic.
01:09:13.080
And whether that's in a kill operation, a capture operation, a surrender operation, or a host nation takedown,
01:09:17.720
like we did with the counterterrorism mission sets in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Pakistan, and elsewhere,
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we are applying that to the drug traffickers in Mexico and Venezuela and Colombia.
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We have seen too much political violence in this country.
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Just last week, Director, your friend Charlie Kirk was gunned down.
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In Minnesota, only two months ago, a madman took the life of my friends, Melissa and Mark Hortman,
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shot Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Evita, combined 17 times.
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And evidence indicates that he would have killed a lot more if law enforcement hadn't intervened.
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And just last month in my state, we were again shook to the core when little kids were shot down
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through stained glass windows in an enunciation Catholic church in Minneapolis.
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And while the victims weren't politicians in this case, they were six-year-olds and eight-year-olds,
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the manifesto that the shooter left behind was political.
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But in the words of your own federal law enforcement, this person was an all-purpose hater.
01:10:10.960
Went after blacks, Hispanics, the president, Muslims, Jews.
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These tea people are fucking sick in the head, guys.
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And two children, eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel, ten-year-old.
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He loved fishing and cooking and his dad's words.
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Harper, the other child, we celebrated her life this Sunday.
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Her parents described her as bright, joyful, and a deeply loved ten-year-old
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Of the wheelchair, threw him under the pew, and laid on top of him.
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We do thank the local FBI director and the local U.S. Attorney's Office
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for their work in both of these cases, the Hortman case and this.
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But I did want to focus on one local law enforcement moment
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that I'm not sure has made with all the news going on in Minnesota.
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When the first 911 call, and you've heard about other places where this waited and waited,
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The first officer was on the scene just four minutes later, local Minneapolis police, at 8.31 a.m.
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The chief, Chief O'Hara, shared with me the actual numbers.
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Over 20 people were in ambulances, just 14 minutes, all of them, after the police got on the scene.
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And they got them all to Hennepin County Medical Center or Minneapolis Children's Hospital.
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And I think it is worth looking at what happened there because one of the dads whose daughter was severely injured,
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That's how I'm able to do streams like this and just pop up and give y'all value.
01:11:49.740
So if you fuck with the content you like and support me, I'm demonetized on YouTube.
01:11:54.920
Keeps the fucking fight going so I can keep doing shit like this for you guys.
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And I'm probably going to do a stream later tonight, too.
01:12:03.080
And we're almost at our goal, guys, of 5,000 strong.
01:12:05.200
You know, that way we can offset the fucking demonetization on YouTube.
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On this legislation that could prevent future attacks, but I'm not going to weigh into the creation of legislation.
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Could you also look at, and I favor just assault weapon ban, not getting these guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.
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Because from 18, even going from 18 to 21, which wouldn't have prevented the shooter in Annunciation Church from purchasing that gun.
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Over 100 rounds were fired from the assault weapon through the stained glass windows.
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So if you went up to 25, it would have stopped that immediate purchase and probably saved the lives of these kids.
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But if you go to 21, that is the same age that already applies to purchasing handguns from federally licensed dealers.
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So I prefer another approach, but I was hoping that our Republican colleagues would at least look at that, given Uvalde, Buffalo, and some of these other mass shootings, trying to be practical, but thinking that it could make a major difference.
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A lot of these school shooters get their guns from their parents, dude.
01:13:41.840
So, Senator, you're talking to my heart here on one of the core missions at the FBI, which is our CJIS facility in Winchester, Virginia, which is our hub for our NICS checks, our NCIC.
01:13:55.880
All right, CJIS, guys, is the criminal justice information system.
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All law enforcement in America has access to it, run fingerprints, run names, all this shit.
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Us, for these background checks, we're trying to make that processing as fast as we can so we can get them real-time information.
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I think we have a 93% clearance rate in 15 minutes as it relates to ghost guns, but we can do better.
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Well, just if you could get back to me on all those and talk to the White House.
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Threats against elected officials have increased exponentially.
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Members of Congress received more than 9,000 threats last year, up from 1,600 in 2016.
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There's been a lot of talk about the rhetoric and the like.
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And if we want to move forward on things like Section 230 or even look if we can do anything on guns, I do think we're going to have to be honest about this all-purpose hater issue.
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And it has bothered me, this thing, you know, we're going to go after this group.
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I just want to, for the record, show that the murder of Speaker Hortman and her husband, you know, he was Democratic lawmakers on his list.
01:15:11.880
He went to the ones whose addresses he had, by the way.
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Planned Parenthood was on the list, as were businesses and law firms.
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I already mentioned the ones with the Catholic Church shooting.
01:15:26.540
So it is not just as the radicals on the left, what's a quote from the president, are the problems or destructive movement of left-wing extremism that Vice President Vann said.
01:15:40.660
According to the Anti-Defamation League last year, all the murders were committed.
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And I'm not actually going to say this because I don't even want to go left-right with this, but you can imagine it wasn't from the left.
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Cato Institute, conservative think tank, published a study just last week that found terrorists from the right were responsible for six times more deaths than people from the left.
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I actually don't want to go tit-for-tat on this, but what I am asking for is that this rhetoric of blaming one side or the other, stop, if you could convey that to the president, and that we actually work on things that are solutions.
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So could you commit to me, Mr. Patel, Director Patel, that you will do that?
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All that, yeah, to just say, hey, can you please give the left a fair shot and not witch-hunt them for violence.
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Bruh, she took like five minutes to say that, dude.
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Asked about social media, and I will put some more questions on the record about that.
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I think we could make major movement on that record.
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Dude, that's why I hate these hearings sometimes, man.
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Yo, these fucking people want to hear themselves talk more than actually ask questions, dude.
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Ask him the questions that the American people want.
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Like, dude, no one wants your fucking 10-minute monologues.
01:17:34.040
Look, I don't want to sound like a misogynist, but I am a misogynist.
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and I want to start by talking to you about the tide of violence.
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We have seen ideological violence against people of faith, particularly Christians.
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Just in the last couple of years, we've seen shooting at the Covenant School,
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We've seen school shooting at the Annunciation School.
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We've seen acts of crime and violence, vandalism, arson against churches and parishes all across the country.
01:18:40.460
And then, of course, last week, Charlie Kirk, who said,
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I want to be remembered for my courage, for my faith, was shot on a college camp.
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Let me just start with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Is the FBI, and I appreciate the tremendous work the FBI has done in this investigation,
01:19:05.080
is the FBI investigating the Kirk assassination as part of this broader pattern of anti-religious, anti-Christian violence?
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We are investigating Charlie's assassination fully and completely
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and running out every lead related to any allegation of broader violence,
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and we're producing results on that that we'll disclose when appropriate.
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Let me just ask you a few questions about that, if I can.
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Him and fucking Hexeth went back and forth talking about how much they both love Israel, bro.
01:19:42.780
Reports have suggested that the FBI is investigating a broader network of groups
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that may have had some knowledge of the shooter's plans.
01:19:50.000
Can you give us any details on that, following up what you already said in public?
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How is the FBI working to find other potential accomplices,
01:19:58.520
folks who may have known about the shooter's plans,
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So in terms of what we do for an interrogation perspective,
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we go and reach out to the family and community immediately,
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and we've conducted those investigations and interrogations with local law enforcement,
01:20:14.560
and we're continuing to do that because those closest to the suspect are going to hopefully
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know the most about the suspect and his beliefs and his ideology.
01:20:21.920
On top of that, unfortunately, it has been leaked that there was a Discord chat,
01:20:25.720
and for those unfamiliar with it, it's a gaming chat room online that the suspect participated in.
01:20:30.800
So what we're doing, we've already done a sort of legal process, not just on Discord,
01:20:33.680
so that the information we gathered is sustained and held in an evidentiary posture
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that we could use in prosecution should it be decided to do so.
01:20:40.000
And we're also going to be investigating anyone and everyone involved in that Discord chat.
01:20:43.240
Okay, very good. I see the public reports that the Discord thread had as many as 20 additional
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users. It sounds like you're trying to run down all of that, see if that's accurate,
01:20:49.640
who else may have been on that thread, what they may have known. Is that fair to say?
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It's a lot more than that. We're running them all down.
01:20:56.380
Yeah, fantastic. Let me just turn to the broader question here of anti-religious,
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anti-Christian violence. Let me just give you a few stats that I'm sure that you're all too
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familiar with. Every person of faith in America certainly is.
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400 instances of hostility against churches in the United States in the year 2024. Those included arsons,
01:21:10.820
bomb threats, shootings, and firearm incidents. Another organizational report found that there
01:21:15.520
were 500 attacks on Catholic parishes alone. So that number 415, that's all Christian churches
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in 2024. Another organization found 500 separate attacks on just Catholic parishes since May of
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2020. Of course, we have the Covenant school shooting, the Annunciation school shooting in
01:21:28.180
Minnesota where two children were shot dead as they were praying in a pew. Here's my question.
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What is the FBI doing to take on this rising tide of violence that seems to be motivated by
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anti-religious hatred? Specifically, sir, we have 60 anti-Catholic hate crime incidences reported to
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us that are being investigated. Publicly, I can tell you we have five hate crime investigations with
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anti-Catholic bias ongoing currently in the states, excuse me, in the cities of Kansas City,
01:21:53.100
Louisville, Houston, Nashville, and Richmond. That's what I can say publicly. But any ideologically
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based attack against any faith, as a man of faith myself, will not be tolerated. And the full resource
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of the FBI are committed to all of it. Are you investigating any domestic cells that instigate
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or encourage or fund or in any way support attacks on churches or other houses of worship?
01:22:20.380
Senator, you raise an incredibly important point that most people don't look at. I've always said
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that we follow the money. And whether it's terrorism or attacks based on ideology or attacks on
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institutions of faith or people of faith, someone's paying for it. And we are reverse tracing those
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steps. Yeah. You know, I always say that too, when I was an agent, you got to always follow the money.
01:22:42.240
But as you guys could tell, this guy also is likes cash giving these softball questions,
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bring the appropriate steps against them with our partners at DOJ. Good. I'm glad to hear that.
01:22:51.160
We look forward to hearing reports on that progress. Yeah. Sorry about that.
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Let me just ask you this in the same vein, Director. Since the Dobbs decision, the FBI
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has advertised $25,000 rewards for information on attacks on abortion clinics. Will the FBI
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similarly offer rewards for information on attacks of houses of worship? Yes. When it is
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appropriate, the rewards are, any reward, whether it's an attack on a house of faith or on a homicide
01:23:30.660
or whatever, is determined by a group within the FBI. But we will work with them to make sure
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that rewards of monetary value are put out for all ideologically based attacks. Good. You just
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rattled off some statistics, which I was glad to hear about the number of investigations you have
01:23:47.340
opened, the incidents you're tracking against Christians, against houses of worship. Let me just
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ask you if you consider designating a senior official as a liaison to houses of worship, to
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Christian other religious organizations, to publish metrics on investigations and arrests related to
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church attacks, church threats, vandalism, arson, et cetera. Will you set up a system for liaising and
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then reporting so that the, everybody can see this committee and the public can see?
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Bro, ask the questions the American people want, man. What the fuck, bro? Look, I love my Christians,
01:24:23.460
man, but we literally are in the middle of a fucking huge case. Like, bro, ask Patel, who was the
01:24:29.480
country that provided foreign intelligence on this fucking guy? Why was the rifle found in the fucking
01:24:36.660
woods assembled, right? When it was presumably disassembled after the shooting? Like, come on, dude.
01:24:50.620
Just how many attacks we're talking about, just with the level of threat and violence is and what
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Senator, you're speaking my language, the private...
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Translation, you're asking me softball questions so I don't have to fucking answer the hard ones
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where I got to deflect one other people. Like, dude.
01:25:07.360
Public sector partnership on this specific issue, just like the other ones we've talked
01:25:12.000
Notice how much more open Cash is when he's talking to his buddies versus people that are
01:25:18.700
antagonists. Have you guys caught on to that? With his buddies, they ask softball questions,
01:25:23.200
answers it very professionally, direct. When the haters ask him questions, he deflects,
01:25:28.200
doesn't answer the question, obfuscates, stalls, I don't recall. You guys notice that?
01:25:33.480
This is equally transformative to finding those involved in these criminal...
01:25:37.720
And he's purposely asking questions that's going to elicit a populism response that makes
01:25:45.800
Cash look better. Hey, what are you doing to combat this terrorism on churches and Christian
01:25:51.060
people? This is what we're doing. Right? Makes them look good. Makes the asker look good.
01:25:59.860
...activities. And with your assistance, I would ask you if you're able to identify someone who's
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an expert in that area, we will work with them. We will take their information because as great as
01:26:07.940
the FBI is, we're only as good as the information we can get, and we don't have the reach that the
01:26:11.900
Very good. Happy to help on that. Let me ask you about something specific to the FBI because
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sadly, as you know, the FBI, when it comes to anti-religious animus, has been part of the problem
01:26:18.460
before you got to this agency. And I know that you remember the infamous memo generated by the FBI
01:26:23.040
that attempted to recruit informants in houses of worship, in particular in Catholic parishes.
01:26:26.900
Your predecessor testified when this information, I just want to reiterate, this memo became public
01:26:30.280
because of a whistleblower. It was not turned over to this committee. It was not disclosed to this
01:26:33.380
committee. In fact, we were told it didn't exist. And then a whistleblower published it, showing that
01:26:36.480
indeed the FBI had recruited informants, attempted to, into Catholic parishes. Your predecessor then
01:26:41.640
testified, sitting right where you are today, he testified that this, I'm going to quote, was a single
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product by a single field office, end quote. That was a lie.
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Yo, this idiot in the YouTube chat, Dart, Math, Maximus, Myron loving these Dems a bit too much today,
01:26:53.940
Ole. Bro, you're a fucking retard, dude. You're literally a fucking retard. Did you not just see
01:26:58.700
when I was making fun of that dumbass woman that was yapping for 10 minutes? What the fuck are you
01:27:02.420
talking about? I'm supporting the Dems. We want answers, bro. He's been avoiding the fucking
01:27:07.600
shooter. He's been avoiding fucking Epstein. Like, bruh.
01:27:12.820
Because we then had additional whistleblowers come forward and say, no,
01:27:14.760
fucking retard in the chat. Bro, some of you guys in YouTube are like, fit the IQ, man. God damn.
01:27:19.620
Actually, multiple field offices contributed to the drafting of the report. And indeed,
01:27:23.380
there was a second. And guys, the reason why I'm speeding it up is every time I pause,
01:27:26.680
I speed it up so we can get back to, this is live right now.
01:27:30.260
Anti-Catholic memo that the FBI generated. And indeed, those memos were distributed to over
01:27:34.100
1,000 FBI agents across the country. You know all of this. You and I talked about it when you were
01:27:37.880
here for your confirmation hearing back in January. I just want to follow up and see,
01:27:40.620
have you been able to determine how this memo got written and distributed? How is it that the Federal
01:27:45.220
Bureau of Investigation came to be recruiting informants in Christian churches in this country?
01:27:50.100
Senator, we did it again. And we are doing our investigation simultaneously.
01:27:52.440
Bro, they do that shit all the time. They go into mosques and recruit people.
01:27:55.960
Like, bro, religion, I hate to say it, terrorism a lot of times likes to hide behind religion.
01:28:03.460
It is what it is. It's an unfortunate reality. But go to mosques, find terrorists. Go to churches,
01:28:10.320
find, you know, far-right extremists. It is what it is. Right? Because that's typically where
01:28:15.660
you're going to find these radical, militia-type dudes. It's been going on forever.
01:28:24.080
Good. There need to be. Because if this is going to be standard at the FBI, nobody can trust the
01:28:28.880
FBI. You want to talk about violating the First Amendment? This has got First Amendment
01:28:31.060
violation written all over it. It's one of the most revolting chapters in the FBI's history.
01:28:34.960
And considering what we're seeing more broadly in terms of the acts of violence against people
01:28:37.560
of faith, this has absolutely got the end of the FBI has to lead the way. So I count on you to do
01:28:40.480
that, director. Let me just, in the minute or so that I have remaining, let me just shift gears and
01:28:43.440
ask you about something else you said earlier. You said that protecting our youth is maybe the
01:28:47.220
See, this is the problem with fucking politicians like this. Like, this guy has never done an
01:28:50.940
investigation in his life, doesn't know how to recruit informants, doesn't understand how
01:28:55.020
criminals work under the auspice of legitimate organizations like churches, mosques, et cetera.
01:29:00.000
Like, dude, this guy, dude, the best informants a lot of times, especially when it comes to
01:29:05.940
terrorism, typically come from places of worship.
01:29:10.480
So, it's not out of the ordinary to recruit informants from these religious institutions.
01:29:23.560
These companies are doing it. Their own guidelines allow it. What can we do about that?
01:29:28.320
You're referring to NVE, nihilistic violent extremism, and 764. It has been made a priority
01:29:33.040
to the FBI because they are targeting children. And these chat box and these generative AI are
01:29:38.020
getting coupled with actual humans who are using them and releasing them because they can do the
01:29:42.980
work faster and quicker than humans can and get into spaces like social media where humans have a
01:29:47.920
difficulty in engaging. And what we're doing is treating any extension of generative AI as the
01:29:53.960
criminal themselves. And we have, I think, I've got to get the number back to you, but over a thousand
01:29:59.280
investigations related to NVE. We've had numerous takedowns and arrests of 764 individuals,
01:30:04.100
and we are educating. This may be the most important part. I'm directly engaging with the social media
01:30:10.340
and media companies, the internet service providers, to find a way to shut down. There's nothing I can do
01:30:17.140
at the FBI to force them to shut it down, but work with you in Congress to find a way to work with our
01:30:26.060
Senator Coombs. Thank you, Chairman Grassley. Thank you, Chairman, for calling this hearing.
01:30:29.140
I'm grateful we're continuing this committee's long tradition of oversight, and in particularly today,
01:30:34.820
oversight of the FBI. Director Patel, thank you for being here. There's a number of issues I hope
01:30:40.420
that we can speak to. I want to start by reading something you said to me during your confirmation
01:30:45.940
hearing under oath. I have no interest, no desire, and will not, if confirmed, go backwards. There will be no
01:30:52.100
politicization at the FBI. Then you looked me in the eyes and said there will be no retribution
01:30:57.620
actions taken by the FBI should I be confirmed as director. I told you that in your office. I tell
01:31:02.660
you that again today. I'm concerned that that's not what's happened, that since you took over as
01:31:09.860
director, you've cleaned house or forced out senior leaders across the bureau, in particular,
01:31:16.340
targeting those that worked on investigations of President Trump. The former acting director has
01:31:21.940
just sued you for firing him for political reasons. So did a leader in the D.C. field office.
01:31:27.700
It's a couple of FBI agents, guys. They literally dropped this lawsuit a couple days ago.
01:31:32.580
And the well-respected leader of the Salt Lake City office was pushed out last month,
01:31:37.380
leaving that office shorthanded at a particularly difficult time. I'm worried that these actions
01:31:42.580
compromise the bureau's ability to keep Americans safe. Hundreds of agents have resigned. You are lowering
01:31:47.620
application standards to fill vacancies. You've reassigned large numbers of agents to work on
01:31:51.860
immigration and street crime, issues other law enforcement agencies can handle, perhaps more
01:31:55.940
effectively with the FBI. But I'm concerned that this compromises the bureau's ability to address
01:32:00.580
national security risks, uniquely its capability. In fact, you've shut down the Office of Integrity and
01:32:05.860
Compliance, which makes sure that agents act in a lawful and ethical way, and reassign staff away from
01:32:10.900
domestic terrorism investigations exactly at a moment. I think we are all concerned about it.
01:32:15.940
I also have to ask, you came before the Appropriations Committee in May and told us you wanted a half
01:32:20.740
a billion dollar budget cut for the FBI, literally an effort to defund the police. I am grateful for
01:32:26.580
the work of the men and women of the FBI. They've done great work this year in Delaware, partnering with
01:32:31.620
the Dover Police Department to support human trafficking victims, partnering with the Middletown Police Department
01:32:36.660
on armed robbery and carjacking. And it's urgent, I think, that we fix the direction and the
01:32:42.580
prioritization within the FBI. And I wish we could focus on those efforts today. But I'm seeing an FBI
01:32:50.580
leadership more focused on social media clout and on political revenge than on fighting crime.
01:32:57.380
Director, have you ever ordered that an FBI employee be terminated because he or she worked on an
01:33:03.860
investigation into President Trump? Oh, shit. Senator, thank you. One quick correction for
01:33:08.340
the record. There's 280 NB investigations. I gave the incorrect number to Senator Hawley. Thank you.
01:33:13.300
Understood. As far as a lot of your statement, I disagree with it. I'm happy to address it. But
01:33:19.620
the only way, generally speaking, an individual is terminated at the FBI is if they have violated
01:33:24.900
their oath of office, violated the law, or failed to uphold the standards that we need them to have at the FBI.
01:33:30.260
So those who... Notice how those three things are extremely broad. See how he didn't answer the
01:33:36.740
question, but gave a politically correct answer? You guys catch that? They've been fired because of
01:33:46.180
working on investigations into President Trump are lying or misrepresenting. Well, those matters are
01:33:52.020
alleged in litigation, which is ongoing, so I can't comment on those specifically. Could you comment on
01:33:56.900
why you've hired former acting FBI Director Driscoll? I can't because it's ongoing litigation.
01:34:02.260
Could you say now definitively under oath that the rank and file agents who were assigned to work
01:34:07.700
January 6 cases will not be terminated because that's what they were assigned to do? I've said it
01:34:13.220
before and I've said again, your case assignment, as I was given case assignments when I was a young
01:34:17.460
prosecutor, does not dictate your career or your termination. Thank you. Then let me go to the
01:34:23.380
appropriations question. In May, you testified before the subcommittee on which I serve defending
01:34:28.660
the president's request that we slash the FBI's budget by about $500 million. The day before you
01:34:34.180
testified the opposite in front of the House. Where are we in terms of the budget request? Senator
01:34:39.620
Graham earlier said, if you're requesting more funding for more agents, let us know we're nearing
01:34:44.260
the end of the fiscal year. In front of the committee on which I serve here in the Senate,
01:34:48.660
your request was for a reduction of hundreds of millions of dollars. Where are we? Where we are
01:34:55.060
on the budget cycle is we at the FBI are in support of the president's budget and we are in support of
01:35:00.740
eliminating waste fraud and abuse. We've already identified tens of millions of dollars of duplicative
01:35:05.300
contracts that the FBI was spending on software and private sector engagements. We've also identified
01:35:11.060
duplicative workloads. So we are transitioning those folks out of doing the same thing twice over and into
01:35:16.420
the field. And that's my focus right now. And the move of the FBI headquarters is also going to save
01:35:21.300
the FBI three and a half billion dollars in the American taxpayers. So we're focused on eliminating
01:35:26.180
waste fraud and abuse. And as I told Senator Graham, I'll go back and talk to my team and if we need
01:35:32.100
more, we'll let you know. Are you planning any additional reductions in force, Director? No. How many
01:35:39.140
vacancies are you currently trying to fill within the agency? In terms of the 1811 ranks, there's a few
01:35:45.620
hundred open vacancies that we have funded. And so we're filling all of those with our hybrid 1811
01:35:50.660
program and our new recruitment program. And I think a lesser amount of IAs and SOS. So if hundreds
01:35:56.980
of agents have retired or taken the fork in the road offer and you have vacancies, but you're requesting
01:36:04.420
500 million less, how does having fewer FBI agents help you tackle violent crime and address our national
01:36:11.140
security issues? Just to put it in perspective, Senator, sorry, I mean, I cut you off. If we had
01:36:15.700
this 500 million, we've done the math. It would take us 14 years to onboard every vacancy that's on the
01:36:21.220
books currently at the FBI because we can't hire these folks and train them overnight. It's a years
01:36:25.780
long process. So we are. Yeah, it's a very lengthy process in the positions. But the FBI has had
01:36:31.860
manpower issues for a few years now. We had this extra money, wouldn't be able to hire them overnight.
01:36:36.500
We're looking for where the need is greatest, where in the country we need to send them and how we can
01:36:41.700
change the training requirements, which is why I'm thrilled to have police officers. They might not
01:36:46.260
have a college degree, but they got the street smarts and the cop smarts to become FBI agents. And
01:36:50.500
that's what we want. Let me turn to Section 702. When you testified in front of the CJS subcommittee,
01:36:56.660
we talked about this issue. You told me you were in favor of reauthorizing FISA Section 702 when it
01:37:03.060
expires next year. So long as the reform... FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Act, which allows them
01:37:08.740
to basically spy on people from a national security perspective. It has its own court system.
01:37:17.380
...implemented last year, reforms like better training for agents and real consequences
01:37:22.100
for inappropriate searches of Americans' communications were maintained. You also said
01:37:27.940
that you had some ideas about how to make Section 702 better going forward. Can you give me an update
01:37:34.500
on the FBI's implementation of these reforms and the direction you think it should go? Absolutely.
01:37:39.780
I think you're referring to the query process, and if you're not, let me know. But any instance of abuse
01:37:46.020
or mistakes that were made in the query process have now been changed. It used to be you can make multiple
01:37:51.300
mistakes and continue to access the query database system. I've changed that. If you make a mistake,
01:37:57.060
you're immediately sidelined. A review is conducted. And if it was an actual mistake, i.e. there should
01:38:02.420
have been S on the end of that name and there wasn't, then we put you back in. But we have to review those matters.
01:38:07.380
So that's happening. And if there was an intentional mistake, you have no more access to the 702 query system
01:38:13.220
and its database. So we've also done an audit of the entire 702 system and the query databases. And now we are
01:38:20.180
nearly 100 percent of the audit. And I think we found one or two, I'll have to get back to you,
01:38:26.580
quote unquote mistakes within that system, which are currently being reviewed.
01:38:29.380
Thank you. You had told me in May that you'd send me updated statistics.
01:38:33.300
Guys, when they're talking about 702, they're talking about FISA or the Foreign Intelligence
01:38:38.820
...about the Section 702 searches of Americans' data. I haven't received it.
01:38:43.700
When will I get that? I'll work with my team to get that to you, Senator.
01:38:47.780
And frankly, in May, when you were testifying that you were implementing these reforms,
01:38:54.660
you were also closing down the Office of Internal Auditing at the FBI. Now, that was the office
01:39:00.260
created in the first Trump administration to improve the Bureau's compliance with Section 702.
01:39:06.340
How is that working out? How can you continue to advocate for robust civil liberty protections
01:39:13.140
but shut down the office that was created to enforce those safeguards? Help me understand this.
01:39:17.220
Absolutely, Senator. This is a great example of sort of duplicative work.
01:39:20.500
Both, there was two divisions in the FBI working on this.
01:39:24.180
And all we did was the Inspection Division, which is the leader in this query system and this audit.
01:39:29.380
Inspection Division is their internal affairs, guys.
01:39:32.180
That's the, that's what they call their internal affairs agents, the Inspection Division.
01:39:37.140
The audit system has now been given the single source mandate to conduct these.
01:39:41.700
So the OIA, its elimination is just taking folks who are working there and were experts
01:39:47.220
in it and folded in under the Inspection Division and then taking other folks that we didn't need
01:39:52.580
And guys, don't worry, I still see your chats here.
01:39:54.660
I'm going to read them when we get a chance during a break in this hearing.
01:39:59.940
I'm concerned about the rise in threats against members of our judiciary.
01:40:03.300
What are you doing with the U.S. Marshal Service to help protect our federal judges and with state and local
01:40:10.100
judicial systems to help provide some of the expertise of the FBI in protecting them as well?
01:40:15.940
We have 35 open investigations, 17 against federal judges and the remainder against state court judges
01:40:23.460
And as you know, federally, there's a specific statute which prohibits that.
01:40:27.380
So we are working up those cases and referring them to prosecution where we can meet the threshold for evidence.
01:40:34.100
In your written testimony, you referenced how counter UAS legislation expires and we need to resolve
01:40:47.860
I have heard from state and local law enforcement about it.
01:40:52.660
shit that the American public doesn't really care about.
01:40:55.860
Like, this isn't shit for y'all to really care about, right?
01:40:58.580
They're talking about little nuances and policy here, funding here.
01:41:04.340
Like, bro, these are not the questions the American public cares about right now, dude.
01:41:07.620
The folks responsible for major events, whether it's sports or concerts or public events.
01:41:13.060
Given the tragic increase in political violence, I'm very concerned about the misuse of drones
01:41:18.980
and the potential of there being a catastrophic event.
01:41:25.860
Well, obviously, reauthorizing the capabilities that we have under the counter 8 UAS program.
01:41:31.540
But just to highlight what the FBI is specifically doing, we've been given the mandate to work with
01:41:36.340
DHS to secure not just the Club World Cup that we had, by the way, which occurred in 32
01:41:42.180
matches across the country without any significant incident, which we're proud of.
01:41:48.340
And we're taking that model for the next World Cup and also the Olympics.
01:41:51.700
But the reason I bring that up is because we pushed out our counter 8 UAS programs to
01:41:58.900
And that's where our focus is on events like that.
01:42:03.860
I look forward to working on actually solving criminal problems and reducing the extent to
01:42:08.820
which what we're going back and forth about is...
01:42:11.300
All right, smash the like button for me on YouTube.
01:42:12.820
I think I'm going to cut YouTube soon, guys, and go to rumble and kick only so we can be uncensored.
01:42:19.540
More political and partisan point scoring and more actually solving crimes for the American
01:42:25.940
Mr. Director, you and the FBI working with state and local law enforcement officials in Utah
01:42:47.860
have caught the assassin of Mr. Charlie Kirk, is that right?
01:43:06.100
We've had other political assassinations back in...
01:43:12.100
An assassin, assassinated Representative Melissa Hoffman, Mr. Hoffman, Senator John Hoffman,
01:43:26.660
You and the FBI and Minnesota state and local law enforcement officials
01:43:34.900
caught the assassin within 48 hours, did you not?
01:43:59.700
As I've said since the beginning, Senator, it is very much an ongoing investigation.
01:44:05.620
And I can't speak to the state charges that's for the state to address on their own, but we are
01:44:10.660
providing them with the same investigatory findings reporting the department.
01:44:14.580
And as I noted to Senator, I believe it was Cornyn or Hawley, that there are a number of individuals that
01:44:20.660
are currently being investigated and interrogated and a number yet to be investigated in the
01:44:26.900
So we are very much in our ongoing posture of investigation.
01:44:41.700
Cash, you remember Mr. Peter Strzok and Mrs. Lisa Page?
01:44:57.460
They were both very aggressive anti-Trump political activists who allowed their political opinions
01:45:07.620
I believe their text messages and the testimony that was secured by the OIG and DOJ speak themselves.
01:45:11.940
In fact, Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page were having an extramarital affair.
01:45:16.660
And at one point, Ms. Page texted Mr. Strzok, quote,
01:45:38.260
They promptly sued the federal government and the FBI and Justice Department for releasing their emails,
01:45:45.380
The FBI settled that lawsuit for $1.2 million, gave Mr. Strzok $1.2 million cash, gave Ms. Page.
01:46:02.020
Who at the FBI made that decision to give them money?
01:46:05.300
That settlement was reached in the Biden administration when my predecessor was the director.
01:46:12.980
The only people that can decide that settlement are the attorney general in
01:46:16.420
conduction with the director and the administration.
01:46:18.900
So you're telling me that Attorney General Garland and Director Ray decided to give them the money.
01:46:26.340
Now, when you took over the FBI, did you find instances of where, under the Biden administration,
01:46:38.580
the FBI had weaponized the agency to push the political beliefs of President Biden?
01:46:46.740
When you took over the FBI, did you find instances of where the Biden administration had politicized
01:47:00.340
Having been a target of that weaponization, having been a staffer on the House Intelligence
01:47:03.860
Committee, having had the Justice Department weaponized against me for making the findings
01:47:07.780
and leading the investigation of Russiagate, I know what that feels like.
01:47:10.420
And that's why, as the FBI director, I'm committing to not ever have that ever happen again.
01:47:15.220
Guys, do me a favor, smash the like button if you're watching on YouTube, I'd appreciate it.
01:47:22.260
What was done, and that matter is still ongoing.
01:47:23.940
We got 2,700. Let's get to at least 4,000. I'm going to take a quick pass, guys.
01:47:30.100
I don't know how that can be true when the stats that I cited to include the 23,000 arrests,
01:47:37.380
6,000 weapons seized, 1,600 gang and criminal enterprise organizations, 4,700 children found
01:47:43.540
and rescued. More enough fentanyl seized to kill a third of America. The men and women of the FBI
01:47:49.140
are now in an apolitical mission, and this is why the numbers are historic.
01:47:52.980
Have you fired people because they voted for Vice President Harris?
01:47:57.540
I don't ask people who they vote for, and neither does the FBI.
01:48:00.420
Okay. But you've given people polygraphs, have you not?
01:48:11.620
All right. I want to ask you about the Epstein files. Have you seen the Epstein files?
01:48:20.260
I have not reviewed the entirety of it myself, but a good amount.
01:48:28.340
Would it be fair to say that Mr. Epstein trafficked
01:48:34.340
young women, including in some instances minors, for sex, to himself?
01:48:44.420
That was specifically the allegations in the 2018 indictment in the Southern District of New York.
01:48:54.820
In terms of what the investigation, again, going back to 2008, Mr. Acosta, who limited the investigation,
01:49:04.820
and limited the search warrants, and limited the parameters of the investigation,
01:49:08.900
the only thing we are able to speak to publicly, because he was given a non-prosecution agreement
01:49:13.300
by Mr. Acosta, is that first time period from, I believe, don't quote me on this, 97 to 2001-ish.
01:49:20.260
And then when the Trump administration courageously reopened it.
01:49:23.140
Ash, excuse me if I'm interrupting, but I'm going to run out of time.
01:49:26.900
You've seen most of the files. Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to, besides himself?
01:49:36.820
Himself. There is no credible information. None. If there were, I would bring the case yesterday
01:49:43.380
that he trafficked to other individuals. And the information we have, again, is limited.
01:49:54.820
Okay. Now, uh, President Trump has referred to the FBI and the Department of Justice.
01:50:01.380
Yeah, yeah. And I'm watching this porno right now to see if the plumber's gonna fix this leak.
01:50:19.860
We might as well just say retarded shit all day.
01:50:26.580
We're just here to see if he actually delivers his pizza.
01:50:30.340
Uh, with respect to the Epstein records, he says it is your call about releasing them.
01:50:37.540
And, and I understand that the department and the agency have decided to release them
01:50:43.620
in cooperation with the House committee. Is that correct?
01:50:48.580
Uh, so you're releasing them a little bit at a time. Is that correct?
01:50:53.380
We're releasing as much as we can, um, but we are limited by three different court orders,
01:51:00.500
and the department went back to each of those judges to waive those court orders or have them lifted,
01:51:08.020
Will you release all of them, or at least as many as you can?
01:51:11.380
We will release everything. We are legally permitted to do so. We are continuing.
01:51:15.620
And, and that's, here's what, what this means. Translation.
01:51:20.340
I am under no obligation to give you the classified stuff because I cannot legally do it.
01:51:26.340
Okay. The shit that we're looking for, guys, when it comes to Epstein is probably going to be high
01:51:29.700
side stuff, stuff that's classified, especially since there was good information that he was a foreign
01:51:35.060
asset. So that means automatically it's going to be classified. So notice the choice of words
01:51:41.140
that Kash Patel is doing. He's very smart. And he's doing this deliberately.
01:51:47.460
And to work with the house on the subpoena request, we have substantially required with it,
01:51:53.620
complied with it, but we will continue to release whatever we are legally permitted to do.
01:51:58.260
That is the key chat. When this is all said and done, if they come back and say,
01:52:03.860
you did not release the files, he's going to say, at the time, I could not release the files
01:52:11.140
because they were classified. Mark my words. There's a reason why he's purposely saying this
01:52:17.060
under oath. So, okay. We will release what we legally can release.
01:52:21.940
I encourage you to do that. Cash. I don't, this issue is not going to go away.
01:52:27.380
Um, and I think the essential question for the American people is this.
01:52:36.820
Dude, this is so fucking frustrating to watch, dude. I wish I was there. Dude,
01:52:43.620
this is what this fucking retard should be asking.
01:52:47.940
We are aware, and I'm sorry guys, this is so frustrating. We are aware that Jeffrey Epstein
01:52:55.060
was criminally charged by the FBI New York office in the Southern District of New York.
01:53:01.940
We're also aware of the fact that there were investigations in South Florida.
01:53:06.180
We're aware of what transpired with Acosta in the non-prosecution letter.
01:53:12.740
Ghislaine Maxwell went to trial. Number one question. Can you release everything from the
01:53:18.100
Ghislaine Maxwell trial so the people at least have everything for the criminal investigation?
01:53:23.460
That's number one. Number two. This is very fucking important, chat. Number two.
01:53:31.700
We are aware of Epstein's criminal investigation. I want, or I'll start with this. Are there
01:53:39.460
classified documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein that the FBI is our custodians over?
01:53:46.500
That's the question you must ask. Are there classified or high-side documents
01:53:54.660
pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein? Because I guarantee you there are. And then when he says, potentially,
01:54:04.420
okay, have you gotten with Tulsi Gabbard to look at this stuff? Because she is the director of national
01:54:11.620
intelligence. And if you have not, I need you guys to declassify that stuff immediately and put it
01:54:19.460
out. Because the only way we're going to find out if Jeffrey Epstein was in fact an Israeli asset is
01:54:26.980
we must put out all the classified documents with him. But I'll tell you why this might not happen,
01:54:31.300
or more than likely won't happen. People that Jeffrey Epstein conspired with are probably still alive
01:54:37.140
and powerful people, especially within the Israeli government. So the declassifying of these documents
01:54:42.660
would be crippling to what's going on with Israel now because Israel's reputation is down the
01:54:49.780
fucking toilet with their current campaign in the Gaza Strip. The last thing they could afford right
01:54:56.340
now is for a scandal to come out about Jeffrey Epstein while they're simultaneously conducting
01:55:02.980
a genocide. Do you guys see where I'm going with this now? But since all these Senate people are
01:55:07.940
fucking retards, like Hawley and this guy and never done investigations, don't understand, you know,
01:55:13.140
the high side versus the criminal side, you need to be very specific with a guy like Kash Patel.
01:55:17.060
Because he's been dancing around these motherfuckers, doing the Macarena and shit,
01:55:23.300
Matrix left and right, bobbing and weaving and shit for like over an hour. So you must be specific.
01:55:31.460
Are there classified documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein?
01:55:37.540
That's the question you got to ask. And if he says no, that's a fucking lie.
01:55:41.220
That is a fucking lie. If he says no, that's a trick question. There are classified documents on
01:55:46.340
Epstein because there were allegations that he was an Israeli asset. If the FBI mandated gets
01:55:53.380
information that a subject is involved in any type of counterintelligence or working for a foreign
01:55:58.980
intelligence service, it's damn near automatic that the FBI will open up a counterintelligence investigation.
01:56:07.700
Okay? And in that counterintelligence investigation, a lot of the stuff is going to be classified.
01:56:15.380
But notice, and this is where I'm going to get you here with the hook, okay?
01:56:21.060
And this is the smoking gun. Kash Patel admitted earlier during this hearing that they had increased
01:56:30.900
Now that you guys understand how the high side works, and now that you guys understand that
01:56:35.460
counterintelligence investigations almost always deal with classified information,
01:56:39.060
let's get to the second part. In order to use classified information
01:56:44.740
to do a criminal investigation, to prosecute, which is what Kash Patel's bragging about,
01:56:50.580
we arrested a bunch of people on counterintelligence cases. That means by definition,
01:56:54.980
you must declassify the documents so they can be used in a court of law.
01:56:59.780
So don't fucking sit here and tell me that number one, you don't have classified documents
01:57:03.620
on Epstein, and then number two, that you can't declassify. Because in this, your own hearing here,
01:57:08.420
you are admitting that you've been able to get more counterintelligence prosecutions,
01:57:12.980
which by definition means you had to declassify documents. Chad, does that make sense?
01:57:17.380
Very important, dude. Very important. And it's very frustrating to watch this shit because all
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these fucking people are retards, fucking idiots, that don't understand how the intelligence community
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and how the law enforcement community work. Idiots. Absolute fucking idiots. Give me 10 minutes on this
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fucking committee and I'll get you guys the answers that you need. This is in-fucking-credible how incompetent,
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inept, stupid, glazing, retards run our fucking country that can't even properly ask questions
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on a sensitive topic because they don't know what to ask.
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Holy shit, dude. Somebody clip that for me, bro. Somebody clip that for me. Incredible.
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Give me once in the chat if that all makes sense for you guys. Give me once if that all makes sense
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for you guys. I'm half asleep, bro. Literally half asleep. Took a fuck his equal like an hour ago.
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I'm dying. And I mean, I'm able to exercise more critical thinking than these retards on no sleep.
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They want to know who, if anyone else, he trafficked these young women to.
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And that's a very fair question. I want to know that answer.
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And I think you're going to have to do more to satisfy the American people's
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Mr. Chairman, may I just respond to that? I agree, Senator. And what we have done,
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and just to remind folks, the Epstein case files existed in the two prior administrations,
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in the Obama administration and the Biden administration, and they didn't release anything.
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And there was President Trump in the first administration that renewed
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charges against Mr. Epstein. And I know it's a little complicated to understand,
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but what exists in the Epstein case files was a direct result of the limited search warrants from
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2006 and 2007, which hamstrung future investigations because of the non-prosecution agreement,
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and multiple administrations had the opportunity to look at the entirety of that case file and
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recommend prosecutions against anyone that was trafficked under Mr. Epstein and anyone that
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participated in that trafficking. And the only person to bring charges was the prior
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administration against Mr. Epstein. Now, I am not saying that others were not trafficked and
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others were not involved. What I am telling you is that based on the information we have,
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and we have continuously and publicly asked for the public to come forward with more information.
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If there is, we'll look at it. But based on credible information, we've released all credible
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information, and the information that the Department of Justice and the FBI never releases is
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is information on investigations that are not credible. And we don't release the names of
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victims who weren't credible. But in the same time, we don't release the names of victims who were
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credible. And so the information, that's by law. And so the information we are releasing now is
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historic, and it is also to the maximum capacity that the law allows. And I know that's not going to
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The word, that the law satisfies you. Caught that, chat? Caught that? Caught that?
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That's why it's very important to watch these hearings with someone that understands how the
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government works. I got y'all, bro. I got y'all. He said that for a specific reason.
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But if they wanted it done right, then the investigation...
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It's illegal to put out classified documents without declassifying it first. Okay?
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From its origination should have been done right, and he should not have been given a get out of jail
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free card to do jail on the weekends for 12 hours a day. And he should have been investigated fully
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for the entirety of his crime in criminal enterprise, not just from 1997 to 2001.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Director Patel, thank you for being here today.
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You'll recall well in January at your confirmation hearing before this committee,
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I raised the prospect of politically motivated retaliation, and you...
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Notice how Cash stuck to the criminal side, like I told you guys.
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Notice how he stuck to the criminal side, and this dumb dude didn't ask him anything
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You promised me, as you did other members of this committee,
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quote, every FBI employee will be held to the absolute same standard,
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and no one will be terminated for case assignments.
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Guys, like the fucking video, bro. Holy, this shit's giving me a headache.
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Employees will be protected against political retribution, and you assured one of my colleagues
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that you would honor the internal review process of the FBI.
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In the short time that you've been FBI director,
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you've presided over a rash of retaliatory firing.
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They are FBI agents with 60 years between them of distinguished service,
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rescuing hostages, saving kids from predators, dismantling drug cartels.
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And their allegations, their civil allegations, are a searing indictment of your tenure as FBI director.
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But it's not just those three. The FBI agents association has said that your actions, quote,
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distract agents from their work, foster fear that their assignments could cost them their careers,
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either now or under the next administration, and increase the risk of criminal and national
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security threats by undermining unity and morale within the bureau, end quote.
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This association, as you know, is voluntary. It represents 14,000 members, 90% of all the active agents.
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These are your employees saying that your performance has been unqualified and unfit.
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And there is mounting evidence that these retaliatory firings were the result of direction from the
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White House. There have been instances in the past here, history of the bureau of political
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interference and political direction from the director's office, but not the kind of
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institutional interference that we're seeing from the White House right now. I'm going to ask you,
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has anyone from the White House contacted you about personnel decisions?
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I completely disagree with your entire premise that I've lied or misleading the FBI. If I were,
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the results that I announced today by the men and women of the FBI and the historic records we are
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doing to keep this country safe would not be possible. The men and women of the FBI are responding to our
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leadership and this administration's priorities. The only way people get terminated at the FBI is if
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they fail to meet the muster of the job and their duties. And that is where I will leave it. And you
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accusing me of lying is something I don't take lightly, but I'm not going to get into a tit for
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tat with you. Well, let me just ask you to answer my question. Has anyone from the White House
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contacted you about personnel decisions? Generally speaking, we always discuss with the White House
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OMB during the budget process how many personnel we need, who we need where. Answer is yes.
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For budgetary purposes. You've been directed to fire people, agents, because they participated in
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investigations of the president. I don't receive directions to do that. I make the decisions.
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Has anyone asked you to do it? The best information is, yes, you've taken suggestions
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and directions from the White House in firing qualified agents. Any termination at the FBI was
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a decision that I made based on the evidence that I have as director of the FBI, and it's my job,
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and I'm not going to shy away from it. And as you stated, those are allegations,
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and that is an ongoing litigation. So they'll have their day in court. So will we. The allegations are
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not just in that lawsuit, Director Patel. And I think your testimony confirms that, in fact,
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you've taken direction from the White House in those retaliatory firing. It literally does not.
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You've acknowledged that, in fact, they have been in contact with you about personnel decisions.
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The White House has been, do not put words in my mouth. We're on the record. The White House,
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like any administration, contacts its agencies on the budgeting process and where it needs personnel
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and where the mission priorities are. That always happens. If they didn't do that,
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they would be abdicating the responsibility to law enforcement. I will always work with my partners in
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the chain of command of the Department of Justice in the White House to ensure that this FBI is delivering.
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The results we are delivering to include the lowest murder rate in modern U.S. history,
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to include the most fentanyl seizures in modern U.S. history, to include the most lives saved,
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and the most children found in modern U.S. history. That is a working FBI. That is not a failing FBI.
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Let's move on to a related area. In White House discussions, have you been asked or directed
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by the White House or others to engage in a crackdown on political groups or organizations,
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non-profits, after the murder of Charlie Kirk? To direct political organizations? No. I've been
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asked by my chain of command to properly root out criminal activity wherever it is in whatever...
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Okay, guys, let's switch over to Rumble. Let's go. Rumble and kick. I dropped the links in the chat,
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guys. YouTube guys, let's go. We've been on for two hours. Let's start cooking over there. Let's
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uncensor ourselves. Come on over, guys. It's Rumble time. You know what time it is, man. It's Rumble time.
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I dropped the link in YouTube chat, guys. Come on over. If you don't have access to Rumble in your
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country, no problem. Use kick. But we're going to switch over so we've got to censor ourselves no
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more. It's time for free speech, niggas. Let's go. I'm going to end the YouTube stream now. All
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right? We got 6,000 plus of you guys in here watching. Come on over to Rumble. I'm going to
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end the stream now. We're going to talk more about this Kirk stuff, you know, Epstein and all the other
02:05:36.900
stuff. Let's go, guys. Let's go. Let's go. Y'all know what time it is. Y'all know what time it is.
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It's time to cook. Ending the YouTube stream now. My mods are spamming the links in the chat.
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Rumble and kick. I pinned that at the top. Let's go, guys. Time to get real, baby.
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All right? YouTube guys, come on over. Y'all are about to get the best breakdown of this shit ever.
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Ending stream now. Love you guys at YouTube. Come on over. Kick.com slash MyronGainesX.
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Rumble.com slash MyronGainesX. Let's go. All right. Cool. It's real nigga timing. Hope
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you guys are ready. Feels good to be on fucking YouTube.