The Debrief With MyronGainesX - Kash Patel GRILLED On Charlie Kirk Assassination During Senate Hearing LIVE!

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:03.780 Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Durbin, and members of the committee.

00:00:07.020 It's an honor to be here with you today as the ninth director of the FBI.

00:00:10.680 I want to provide by providing a briefing into the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk.

00:00:16.200 It's important that this FBI is transparent as possible without jeopardizing investigation.

00:00:22.480 Charlie Kirk was shot at 1223 a.m. on September 10th.

00:00:28.000 I think this timeline is critically important.

00:00:30.580 Less than a day later, the FBI at my direction released the first set of images of the suspect

00:00:34.780 that we captured based on our analysis on the ground.

00:00:38.640 Later that evening, while conducting extensive interviews and cell phone analysis

00:00:43.160 and also flying out evidence response teams and hostage rescue teams and evidence tacticians

00:00:48.360 who were collecting evidence in live time and flying them back to Washington, D.C.

00:00:52.580 in our laboratories for immediate analysis, we were able to extract video from the campus feed

00:00:59.360 and at my direction at 8 p.m. in partnership and promise to working with the public to bring this fugitive to justice.

00:01:06.400 We released the newly never-before-seen video of the suspect.

00:01:11.400 We also released new enhanced photos of the suspect.

00:01:16.180 A few hours later, that suspect was in custody pursuant to the interrogation of the suspect's own father who stated,

00:01:23.820 when I saw that video that you released, I recognized it was my son, and I confronted him,

00:01:30.820 and he was handed over to lawful law enforcement authorities.

00:01:33.400 That is the FBI working with the public as a promise to being transparent and providing critical information along the way

00:01:40.140 in the manhunt for the suspect and suspects involved in Charlie's assassination.

00:01:44.980 We received over 11,000 tips in the first 20-

00:01:47.900 All right, ninjas, we're live. Let's fucking do it. Fuck it. 0.99

00:01:51.640 We're live, ninjas. Fuck you, bro. 1.00

00:01:53.060 Fuck it, bro. Yo, before we start this stream, guys, I got no sleep, so excuse me if I'm fucking dead. 1.00

00:02:02.260 But fuck it. Let's go. We're here, bro. We're here. Fuck it. 1.00

00:02:06.660 ...in Utah, the governor's office, DPS, and the sheriffs out there. 1.00

00:02:10.700 State and local law enforcement partnership has been a cornerstone since I took over at the FBI,

00:02:15.500 and it was no different here.

00:02:17.200 And our teams in Salt Lake City, our SACs out there across the country,

00:02:21.620 our lab tacticians in Quantico, who raced to complete the evidence-

00:02:24.880 All right, quick little recap for you guys.

00:02:26.680 Started like 40 minutes ago. 0.99

00:02:28.440 They listed all the shit that Cash's been doing and fucking up, 0.99

00:02:31.380 and they just put him under oath. 0.98

00:02:33.020 So y'all came at the perfect time.

00:02:35.160 Let's go. Let's go, niggas. 1.00

00:02:37.160 Like the fucking video right now. 1.00

00:02:39.160 I literally went live for you guys. 1.00

00:02:43.120 Fuck it. I didn't sleep. We're here. 1.00

00:02:46.240 I'm sorry if I sound like I'm drunk. I promise I'm tired as fuck, 0.98

00:02:49.020 and I took some fucking Z-Quotes to try to sleep, 1.00

00:02:51.640 and I said, fuck it. We're going to work. Who cares? 1.00

00:02:54.400 It's analysis, so the public reporting in the media,

00:02:56.960 and that's why Tyler Robinson is in custody today, about to face charges.

00:03:01.940 The last time I appeared before- 0.99

00:03:03.360 I'm going to try- Guys, it's this shit that the audio sucks. 0.94

00:03:05.520 I'm going to try to find a better version of this. 0.98

00:03:08.160 Before this committee was in January for my confirmation hearing.

00:03:10.500 I told you then that if I were confirmed,

00:03:13.600 I would provide and do everything I can to provide a safe and secure America.

00:03:17.880 I promise to provide the courageous men and women of the FBI

00:03:20.600 the tools and resources they need to crush violent crime

00:03:23.140 and defend the homeland.

00:03:24.960 I pledge myself to commit to full transparency, oversight, and accountability.

00:03:28.320 That's more than twice.

00:03:28.960 I think that's a little better.

00:03:30.640 23,000.

00:03:31.160 A little better.

00:03:31.680 More than twice from the same time period last year.

00:03:33.960 We've taken over 6,000 illegal firearms off the streets.

00:03:38.800 That number is an exponential increase.

00:03:41.000 We've identified and located more than 4,700 child victims.

00:03:45.720 More than 4,700 child victims have been found by this FBI.

00:03:50.620 That is a 35% increase from the same time period last year.

00:03:56.100 1,500 child predators have been arrested.

00:03:59.520 That's a 5% increase from the same time last year.

00:04:02.160 300 human traffickers have been arrested.

00:04:06.000 That's a 10% increase from the same time last year.

00:04:10.180 Over 350 members of Trende Aragua, foreign terrorist organization, have been arrested.

00:04:16.140 And we have 42 ongoing cases.

00:04:18.420 That is a 250% increase from the same time last year.

00:04:23.300 Those are just some of the things the FBI is doing differently and better

00:04:27.140 because we are leading the mission to crush violent crime and defend the homeland.

00:04:30.500 We have also arrested four, captured four top 10 fugitives from the FBI's top 10 most wanted list.

00:04:39.880 To put that in perspective, that's the same amount I've captured in seven months

00:04:44.660 than my predecessor did during the entirety of the Biden administration.

00:04:48.820 Those are real results and the credit is to the men and women at the FBI.

00:04:51.840 We've been able to achieve these results because the FBI recognizes violent crime doesn't just happen in Washington, D.C.

00:04:58.560 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.

00:05:06.100 And we've done that with great speed.

00:05:08.120 And every single one of your districts and states has received a plus-up of FBI personnel agents and special operators

00:05:13.680 to the tune of almost 1,000.

00:05:16.680 We did that because crime had unexpectedly and unacceptably exploded across the country.

00:05:23.900 In fact, one of the stats that the American people should thank the FBI the most for

00:05:30.540 is we are on track to have the lowest murder rate in modern American history.

00:05:36.900 The lowest murder rate by double-digit percentages.

00:05:42.000 A major factor in the drop of this violent crime is the FBI's flagship Operation Summer Heat.

00:05:46.840 We use this initiative at the direction of the President and the Attorney General surging resources

00:05:54.140 to our major and mid-major cities across America, conducting intelligence-based operations

00:05:59.160 to target the worst of the worst, to target the gangs, to target the transnational organizations,

00:06:04.400 to target the TCOs, and to target the drug trafficking cartels.

00:06:08.820 And we have taken them out city by city.

00:06:11.580 There's a lot of work left to be done, but we're off to a great start.

00:06:14.120 Just ask the citizens of Seattle, Miami, Memphis, Charlotte, Chicago, and so many more places,

00:06:20.580 specifically in New Orleans and Nashville alone.

00:06:23.580 There has been an increase in the number of violent crime arrests by an average of 250%

00:06:28.680 for each of those cities.

00:06:30.400 And there has been a drastic reduction in crime across the board in mid-major cities across this country,

00:06:36.540 thanks to the men and women of the FBI.

00:06:38.260 How are we doing that?

00:06:40.100 We are attacking the drug epidemic.

00:06:42.120 We've seized nearly 1,000 kilograms of meth and cocaine off the streets of America.

00:06:48.100 We've taken over 1,600 kilograms of fentanyl off the streets.

00:06:53.980 Maybe one of the greatest achievements we have this year, 1,600 kilograms of fentanyl.

00:06:58.040 That's a 25% increase from the same time last year.

00:07:01.580 To put things in perspective, that's enough fentanyl to kill a third of the American populace,

00:07:06.260 115 million Americans.

00:07:07.860 We're also going after the companies that manufacture these precursors overseas in places like mainland China

00:07:15.660 and their cutting agents.

00:07:17.820 In fact, this month in Cincinnati, we announced groundbreaking charges aimed at the individuals

00:07:23.360 and businesses responsible for flooding these opioids and their precursors and cutting agents

00:07:27.640 into the streets of America.

00:07:28.820 And for the first time that I can remember, we are charging these businesses and enterprises,

00:07:34.100 not just in America, but in mainland China, and seizing their operational necessity to have money

00:07:39.780 by seizing their cryptocurrency wallets.

00:07:43.020 We're also equally important to protecting the homeland.

00:07:45.540 We know we have a no-fail mission.

00:07:46.860 We're committed to keeping our nation safe from terrorism, cyber attacks, and foreign adversaries.

00:07:53.540 Whether stopping threats inspired by foreign terrorist organizations or lone wolf factors,

00:07:58.060 we're sponsored by hostile nation states.

00:08:00.440 This year, we've already made nearly 60 counterintelligence arrests.

00:08:05.920 60 counterintelligence arrests this year alone. 0.83

00:08:08.620 That's actually pretty fucking impressive. 0.69

00:08:11.240 A 30% increase from the same time period last year. 0.79

00:08:14.860 Dude, counterintelligence cases, guys, are super hard to work.

00:08:17.980 They typically take forever.

00:08:19.620 You know, like the biggest one they had was the one with the Russian spies like 10 years ago.

00:08:23.300 So that's actually kind of impressive, not going to lie.

00:08:25.640 ...CI work at the FBI.

00:08:28.060 I'm proud when we can share our successes such as when an espionage charge was brought against

00:08:31.600 an active-duty U.S. Navy sailor caught spying for the People's Republic of China.

00:08:36.640 But I want the American people to know the FBI is protecting the homeland from foreign adversaries

00:08:40.380 in a way that will never make the news.

00:08:42.440 And a lot of the good work that they do will never be able to discuss in this setting.

00:08:46.980 We're working on cyber threats.

00:08:48.480 We're attacking malware infrastructure, going after ransomware attackers, delivering a new

00:08:53.280 partnership with the...

00:08:54.200 Once we've got a few more thousand live viewers, guys, I'm going to give you a summary of like

00:08:57.840 what's kind of going on here.

00:08:59.280 ...private public sector engagements we've taken with the companies who are attacked by

00:09:04.800 these foreign adversaries and nation-state actors and individual enterprise rings from around

00:09:09.420 the world.

00:09:10.420 We are combating salt typhoon, vault typhoon, flax typhoon, and so many other ransomware and

00:09:15.800 cyber threats this nation faces.

00:09:17.380 We're also arresting people such as Tajik National in Brooklyn, who is suspected of sending tens of

00:09:24.660 thousands of dollars to support ISIS.

00:09:25.960 We're going after the new form of what I refer to as modern-day terrorism in America, 764

00:09:33.500 crimes that involve harming our children by going after them online, causing self-mutilation,

00:09:41.720 suicide, sexual abuse, and steering them in the wrong direction.

00:09:45.500 Currently, we have 3,500 international terrorism investigations.

00:09:50.140 Specifically, we have in this country 1,700 domestic terrorism investigations, a large chunk

00:09:55.700 of which are nihilistic violent extremism, NVE, those who engage in violent acts motivated by

00:10:01.160 a deep hatred of society, whatever that justification they seem is.

00:10:05.720 The FBI has seen a 300% increase in cases opened this year alone versus the same time last year.

00:10:11.920 In the last couple of months, the FBI secured a guilty plea for a man in Tennessee who attacked

00:10:17.140 an energy facility with drones and explosives.

00:10:20.100 We secured the indictment of a violent Sinaloa cartel faction leader in Chicago on narco-terrorism

00:10:24.760 charges.

00:10:25.600 Our folks in San Francisco, excuse me, Sacramento, collaborated with domestic and international

00:10:30.040 partners to secure a guilty plea for a leader of a transnational terrorist organization

00:10:34.700 who solicited the murder of federal officials.

00:10:37.440 But the Bureau's job is not- 1.00

00:10:38.800 Wait, what the fuck? 0.99

00:10:39.660 What case are you talking about? 1.00

00:10:41.060 Done.

00:10:41.920 I'm committed to this transparency.

00:10:44.440 Mr. Chairman, you alluded to our work with Congress.

00:10:47.160 To date, in the seven months that I've been FBI Director, we have produced 33,000 pages

00:10:51.360 to the United States Congress.

00:10:53.380 33,000 pages.

00:10:55.280 Just to put that in perspective, my predecessor in his seven-year term issued 13,000 pages to

00:11:00.580 Congress.

00:11:01.420 And his predecessor in his four-year term issued 3,000 pages to Congress.

00:11:05.760 Yet again, this is pretty impressive, guys.

00:11:07.400 Not going to lie. 0.99

00:11:07.960 He's been fucking up. 1.00

00:11:08.740 But I'll give flowers when they're deserved, but also say what the fuck when it's deserved. 1.00

00:11:13.160 I've issued 33,000 pages in seven months, and we're going to keep going. 0.97

00:11:17.900 He's definitely better than Merrick Garland, or sorry, not Merrick Garland, the director

00:11:22.120 before him.

00:11:22.700 Merrick Garland was the Attorney General.

00:11:25.520 Sorry, guys.

00:11:26.120 I'm half asleep here, so I'll jog my memory.

00:11:28.760 I'm dedicated to restoring the trust that the public has and needs in the integrity at

00:11:34.140 the FBI, and it's being done every day by the men and women of the FBI.

00:11:38.300 Now, I know that there's a lot of talk about Epstein, and I'm here to testify that the original

00:11:44.080 sin in the Epstein case was the way it was initially brought.

00:11:47.660 Okay, here we go.

00:11:48.860 Now we're on Epstein.

00:11:49.880 Here we go.

00:11:52.020 All right, boys.

00:11:54.740 This is what we're here for, boys.

00:11:57.240 Y'all ready?

00:11:57.900 Mr. Acosta back in 2006.

00:12:02.040 The original case involved a very limited search warrant or set of search warrants and

00:12:05.480 didn't take as much investigatory material it should have seized.

00:12:09.100 If I were the FBI director then, it wouldn't have happened.

00:12:12.140 The search warrants were limited to small time periods to include 2002 to 2005 and 1997 to

00:12:17.620 2001.

00:12:18.640 Yes, Christopher Wray, guys.

00:12:19.740 Now I remember.

00:12:20.280 Yeah, Chris Wray was the last FBI director.

00:12:21.880 So Patel, only seven months in, has produced three times as much classified documents or

00:12:29.120 unclassified documents than Chris Wray did his entire four years in, or for a couple years

00:12:36.380 in, three years.

00:12:36.980 Mr. Acosta allowed Epstein to enter in 2008 to a plea and non-prosecution agreement, which

00:12:43.740 then the courts issued mandates...

00:12:45.620 Hey, guys, don't worry.

00:12:46.180 I'm going to read your super chats once we kind of get through this part.

00:12:48.800 ...and protective orders legally prohibiting anyone from ever seeing that material ever

00:12:52.800 again without the permission of the court.

00:12:54.920 The non-prosecution agreements also barred future prosecutions for those involved at

00:13:00.080 that time of those individuals.

00:13:03.100 Still, this administration at the direction of President Trump has done more to turn over

00:13:06.400 all the credible information we are legally...

00:13:08.500 Guys, once we break 2,000 live viewers on YouTube and Rumble, I'll explain what's going

00:13:11.840 on here.

00:13:12.160 I just don't want to repeat myself a million times.

00:13:14.540 But long story short, he's at a Senate hearing under oath answering questions because they

00:13:18.840 don't think he's qualified to be FBI director.

00:13:20.920 ...will to do so, and we will continue to work with Congress to achieve that end.

00:13:25.480 Under the direction of the president, we...

00:13:27.520 Excuse me.

00:13:27.940 Thank you for your support for our mission to working to jointly deliver transparency

00:13:34.400 and congressional oversight to the United States.

00:13:37.240 Lastly, I want to close with the president's initiative here in Washington, D.C., as an example

00:13:43.040 of what we're doing around the country.

00:13:45.080 And I think our next city is Memphis.

00:13:46.700 21,000 arrests in D.C. with our federal partners.

00:13:49.860 A huge decrease in violence...

00:13:51.220 They just made a Memphis task force, guys.

00:13:53.660 And they're doing this in all the worst major high-crime cities.

00:13:58.320 Crime.

00:13:59.120 They tried it with D.C.

00:13:59.960 It was successful.

00:14:00.580 Now they're trying to do it in Memphis and Chicago next.

00:14:03.680 60% decrease in gun crimes in Washington, D.C. in the last month.

00:14:08.220 74% decrease...

00:14:09.260 I told y'all, that whole Washington, D.C.

00:14:11.380 Feds patrol on the streets, it was literally just a test run.

00:14:14.440 They're going to do this on every major city from this point.

00:14:18.000 Just watch.

00:14:18.460 And I predicted this...

00:14:19.820 Guys, did I not predict this, like, a month ago?

00:14:23.160 Decreasing. 0.99

00:14:23.640 That this D.C. shit was a test run. 1.00

00:14:26.860 Carjackings in Washington, D.C. in the last month. 0.99

00:14:29.580 53% decrease in homicides in Washington, D.C. in the last month.

00:14:34.960 The drugs are disappearing.

00:14:36.360 People are freely walking around the states, and we're storing the nation's capital to its glory.

00:14:40.260 That work is through the interagency process that the FBI is proud to be a part of,

00:14:44.320 and the initiatives spearheaded by President Trump and the Attorney General.

00:14:48.720 And perhaps most notably for investigations, in Washington itself,

00:14:53.080 it was the intelligence that the FBI gathered through our source network here in D.C.

00:14:57.520 that helped us identify the suspects in the horrific murder of the D.C. intern, Eric Tarpinian.

00:15:03.340 We're proud to be a part of that investigation.

00:15:05.600 We're proud to put the resources to bear of the FBI.

00:15:07.700 And in closing, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee and Ranking Member Durbin,

00:15:12.120 I'm honored to be the ninth director of the FBI.

00:15:16.060 I'm not going anywhere.

00:15:17.780 If you want to criticize my 16 years of service, please bring it on.

00:15:21.540 Over to you.

00:15:23.300 All right.

00:15:24.400 Let the games begin, boys.

00:15:33.080 Oh.

00:15:34.300 Okay.

00:15:35.200 That's their audio shot.

00:15:36.280 I've observed when, whether it's Republican or Democrats, want a yes or no answer,

00:15:47.060 that the witness and the senators talking over each other.

00:15:52.640 So I thought what I'd do this time, rather than have that happen,

00:15:57.060 if there's something you don't get a chance to answer

00:16:00.320 because of the demeanor of a Republican or Democrat senator,

00:16:05.920 before we, when we get done with that questioner,

00:16:10.100 I'd give you a chance to fill in if there's something you didn't get a chance to say.

00:16:16.560 Since 2019, I've sought greater transparency about Jeffrey Epstein and the government handling of the matter.

00:16:29.340 I've continued to investigate during this Congress.

00:16:33.720 Director Patel, was Jeffrey Epstein an intelligence asset for the United States government or the foreign government?

00:16:41.540 And if so, which agencies or governments?

00:16:45.120 Oh, let's go! 0.59

00:16:47.980 Cash, you're under oath!

00:16:49.860 Cash, you're under oath!

00:16:51.640 Answer this question!

00:16:54.320 Mr. Chairman, I can only speak to the FBI as the director of the FBI,

00:16:57.440 and Mr. Epstein was not a source for the FBI.

00:17:00.460 That's not what he asked!

00:17:01.220 Would you commit to providing my office with all classifieds? 0.99

00:17:04.540 Nigga! 1.00

00:17:04.920 What? 1.00

00:17:06.000 He didn't ask if fucking Epstein was a source. 0.99

00:17:08.300 He asked if he was a foreign asset. 0.98

00:17:10.620 Non-classified records.

00:17:11.840 Bro!

00:17:12.560 ...relating the Epstein matter.

00:17:15.640 I will commit to providing all records.

00:17:18.080 I'm legally permitted to do so under the court orders.

00:17:22.240 Standard answer.

00:17:26.680 It seems to me that I accept your answer to my... 1.00

00:17:31.720 Bro, this nigga retarded, bro. 1.00

00:17:33.880 Send this guy to the fucking nursing home, bro. 1.00

00:17:37.200 Bro, ask a specific question. 1.00

00:17:38.600 Cash didn't answer it. 0.81

00:17:39.820 What the hell?

00:17:40.480 ...question, but the broader intelligence... 0.99

00:17:42.420 I'm half asleep right now, and I'm more fucking sharp than this dude. 0.81

00:17:45.420 Literally, my eyelids are closing. 0.78

00:17:48.240 ...this community ought to answer these questions as well.

00:17:53.320 Victims deserve an answer. 0.65

00:17:55.280 Man, get this... 0.99

00:17:56.080 Bro, get this old nigga out of here, man. 1.00

00:17:58.940 Bro! 0.99

00:17:59.300 Regarding the initial FBI 1023 document that I made public last Congress,

00:18:10.300 that document mentioned, one, text messages, two, audio recordings,

00:18:17.020 and three, financial records that allegedly proved a bribery scheme

00:18:21.460 with the Biden family and foreign interests.

00:18:25.460 Regarding those records, did the Ray FBI make any effort to determine whether they existed?

00:18:33.640 Did the Ray FBI make any effort to obtain those records?

00:18:38.860 Not to my knowledge, Mr. Chairman.

00:18:41.240 Since this matter hasn't been fully investigated,

00:18:44.400 the FBI has an obligation to the public to do exactly that

00:18:48.560 and figure out why it wasn't investigated.

00:18:51.760 Next question, I've done a lot of oversight relating to sexual misconduct by the FBI agents.

00:19:01.140 In fact, I believe this is something I discussed with Ray.

00:19:04.280 Hey, you guys know what FBI stands for?

00:19:06.520 Female body inspector.

00:19:08.260 One of his appearances before this committee.

00:19:11.580 According to the...

00:19:12.400 W-womanizing. 1.00

00:19:13.160 The FBI inspection division, it opened nearly 300 investigations based on sexual misconduct referrals

00:19:22.160 between 2017 and 2024.

00:19:26.200 According to whistleblowers of Biden-Rey, FBI totally dropped...

00:19:31.240 Guys, the FBI has a lot of female agents, by the way. 1.00

00:19:33.360 The ball on this question.

00:19:36.560 One credible accusation of sexual misconduct is too many, of course.

00:19:43.900 Are you committed to reviewing the Bureau's policies to ensure responsible responses

00:19:49.480 to credible allegations of misconduct, that there are swift and adequately protect victims?

00:19:57.260 Yes, Mr. Chairman.

00:19:57.960 Relating to a similar subject, during child crimes and sexual misconduct-related investigations,

00:20:07.240 are any private sector companies less than cooperative with you?

00:20:12.900 What improvements in information sharing need to be made to catch those criminals?

00:20:18.300 Mr. Chairman, we can always do better with our private sector companies.

00:20:21.580 I've reached out to the leaders of most of them, asking them to provide more material

00:20:26.120 so that we can be responsive and take legal action.

00:20:29.140 All right.

00:20:31.160 Let's recap, chat.

00:20:32.480 Okay, let's recap, okay?

00:20:34.540 Long story short, Cash Patel's under oath.

00:20:37.160 Senate's asking him questions.

00:20:38.740 There's been a lot of backlash, people calling for his resignation.

00:20:42.020 So he's here testifying, answering questions.

00:20:44.600 Basically, what happened was it started off with members saying Cash Patel wasn't qualified,

00:20:50.640 he's never been an agent, he lowered agent standards in the FBI Academy,

00:20:53.600 made background checks less strict, he fumbled the Charlie Kirk murder,

00:20:59.240 he wrote a book called Government Gangsters, how he talked about going after political pawns,

00:21:04.380 blah, blah, blah.

00:21:04.680 So he spent like 30 minutes just roasting them, right?

00:21:06.900 He responded saying, look, we've been making crazy arrests, seizing a million guns,

00:21:13.000 thwarting terrorism, and we've been transparent.

00:21:15.880 I've released triple the amount of declassified documents that Chris Ray did in seven months

00:21:21.760 while Chris Ray had three years. So that's basically the summary of what's going on here,

00:21:25.440 guys. Once again, for you guys that are coming in, I have not slept.

00:21:28.960 That's why I sound fucking crazy right now, but fuck it. This thing's live. 0.99

00:21:32.600 I said, you know what? Let's just do it.

00:21:34.920 But that is the summary, guys, of what's going on right now.

00:21:39.240 And protect the youth of this.

00:21:40.360 Give me ones if that all makes sense.

00:21:41.660 This country, I'm happy to discuss, you know, possible legislation that we can do

00:21:46.760 to allow for these companies to continue.

00:21:49.700 Yeah. Say maybe one inch up on the microphone. 0.74

00:21:53.920 Sorry.

00:21:54.660 Not, I think.

00:21:55.620 I'm going to fast forward to the live.

00:21:57.300 This guy clearly is sending, giving cash softball questions.

00:22:01.800 Conversations with you.

00:22:03.040 This FBI will not be weaponized anymore in either side of the aisle.

00:22:06.960 In June of this year, I raised concerns about the FBI's use of recent, restricted access

00:22:14.440 and prohibited access systems.

00:22:18.060 According to the FBI, quote, when search teams.

00:22:23.820 Yep, chat, no sleep.

00:22:25.460 So excuse me if I sound drunk. 1.00

00:22:27.700 I apologize, but I said, fuck it, let's go live. 1.00

00:22:30.920 When search. 0.99

00:22:31.840 This is very important.

00:22:32.740 Teams that exist in a prohibited access status cases are searched in sentinel.

00:22:43.540 The particular search will receive a false negative sentinel search response.

00:22:50.980 End of quote.

00:22:51.680 Clearly, this is not only affects FBI agents.

00:22:57.060 It impacts congressional requests and court cases.

00:22:59.840 And the Biden administration used it to thwart oversight.

00:23:04.300 How are you ensuring that restricted access and prohibited access files are produced to

00:23:10.140 Congress during court cases?

00:23:12.040 And have you identified any Biden family records in restricted and prohibited status?

00:23:19.600 As I've committed to you with my transparency initiative, whether it's restrictive or prohibited,

00:23:24.480 every single thing we can legally provide to Congress, we will.

00:23:27.520 We've also restructured how these restrictive and prohibited cases are labeled and provided access

00:23:33.280 to more people in the chain of command so that more people have knowledge of what these

00:23:37.480 restricted and prohibited cases are, including myself and the deputy.

00:23:41.660 Do you commit to providing any records that are available?

00:23:46.980 I do, sir.

00:23:47.480 You publicly said that your team, quote, found a room that Comey and others hid from the world

00:23:58.420 in the Hoover building full of documents and computer hard drives no one had ever seen

00:24:04.920 or heard of.

00:24:06.120 That's a quote from you.

00:24:08.100 I've received a whistleblower disclosure that the room contained some of the special counsel

00:24:13.980 Mueller, former director James Comey, and other documents maintained outside of the... 0.96

00:24:19.820 Bro, get this old nigga out of here, bro. 1.00

00:24:22.160 My mommy! 1.00

00:24:24.340 What? 1.00

00:24:27.040 Get this old nigga out of here, bro. 1.00

00:24:29.060 What the fuck, man? 1.00

00:24:30.200 The records are clearly responsive to my as well as my colleagues' congressional... 1.00

00:24:35.200 Bro, I'm over here with no fucking sleep listening to this old-ass nigga. 1.00

00:24:38.880 Yeah, bro. 1.00

00:24:40.140 Get the fuck out of here, man. 0.99

00:24:41.880 Produced to Congress. 1.00

00:24:43.260 That's what it has to be.

00:24:44.420 Turn it over to the haters.

00:24:46.100 Supposed to happen is leadership at the FBI is supposed to, pursuant to the Records Act,

00:24:50.640 correctly store these records that are Information Management Division IMD.

00:24:56.200 In this room, we...

00:24:57.340 Guys, this isn't the only guy that's going to ask some questions.

00:24:59.440 There's other ones that are going to ask questions, and they're going to grill him way harder.

00:25:03.580 ...that were not so recorded.

00:25:05.200 A voluminous amount of information.

00:25:07.000 So we are continuously processing that information.

00:25:10.120 So, A, we subscribe to the Records Act and commit that those records will be kept permanently at the FBI.

00:25:17.360 Two, we are reviewing those materials.

00:25:19.200 A lot of those materials are related to ongoing investigations.

00:25:22.860 And three, we are on a rolling basis providing Congress the documents that we can, and we will continue to do so.

00:25:29.720 Okay.

00:25:30.180 Thank you very much.

00:25:31.140 Senator Durbin.

00:25:31.840 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:25:33.300 Director Patel, in addition to the extensive purge of nonpartisan career FBI...

00:25:38.440 Okay, here we go.

00:25:39.600 This is one of the haters.

00:25:40.840 Y'all niggas ready? 1.00

00:25:41.380 Official reports, reports indicate that dozens of remaining officials have been suggested, have been subjected to polygraph exams to test their loyalty.

00:25:54.860 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.

00:26:05.460 Okay, so here's the thing.

00:26:07.600 Insider thing.

00:26:08.460 In the FBI, guys, you do a polygraph every five years.

00:26:12.040 Okay?

00:26:12.380 So it is kind of routine at the FBI.

00:26:15.480 Sometimes every three years if you're SCI clearance.

00:26:18.180 If they've made negative comments about you.

00:26:20.620 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.

00:26:30.840 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.

00:26:42.180 Every three years, SCI, five years for everybody else.

00:26:44.800 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.

00:26:55.880 Senator, I'm not going to get into the personnel discussions that were had on a polygraph.

00:27:00.260 Those are private discussions, and many of them relate to ongoing investigations.

00:27:04.700 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?

00:27:13.440 I'll have to get back to you.

00:27:15.660 You don't remember that?

00:27:17.200 No, sir.

00:27:17.900 My priority is protecting the American public, not getting into the weeds of polygraphs.

00:27:21.960 And to have a decent memory when you come before a committee.

00:27:24.760 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.

00:27:29.580 Here we go.

00:27:30.160 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.

00:27:35.760 Can you take credit for that?

00:27:36.540 I'll happily do that.

00:27:37.540 The interagency partners and the men and women of the Chicago PD have never been more powerful.

00:27:42.300 Oh, include local law enforcement, please.

00:27:44.000 Dude, he's deflecting so hard right now.

00:28:00.040 Report to us every day what's going on. 0.98

00:28:01.720 Okay, guys, you're probably wondering, why the fuck is this guy asking about polygraphs? 0.98

00:28:05.280 Let's rewind. 0.95

00:28:08.440 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.

00:28:16.700 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.

00:28:27.600 You're supposed to do polygraphs for background clearance reasons.

00:28:33.800 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.

00:28:44.640 And the FBI was directed to flag any documents that mentioned President Trump.

00:28:49.260 Nothing came of that review until July when DOJ and FBI released an unsigned memorandum stating there is no incriminating client list.

00:28:59.380 Why was this July 7th memorandum unsigned?

00:29:02.140 Would you prefer I've used AutoPen?

00:29:05.780 Did you?

00:29:06.660 Well, why was it on set?

00:29:07.400 The memorandum had the insignia of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

00:29:12.400 And in our effort to secure transparency for the American people, because the three prior administrations had not done so,

00:29:17.800 we conducted an exhaustive search of everything related to the Epstein cases.

00:29:21.880 And we produced what was legally and permissibly able to be produced to Congress and the American public.

00:29:26.300 So there's a Congress.

00:29:27.500 Okay, guys, this is very important.

00:29:29.520 Pay attention to what he said.

00:29:30.660 We released everything that is legal to release.

00:29:35.040 Okay?

00:29:36.040 As a former special agent, I can tell y'all.

00:29:38.560 What he means by that is, we gave you guys everything that's not classified.

00:29:45.160 Very important, guys.

00:29:46.360 Listen closely.

00:29:47.920 All right?

00:29:49.120 He's technically not lying. 0.93

00:29:51.480 But since most people don't know how law enforcement clearances, background checks, all this shit works, investigations, 0.81

00:29:58.140 he's kind of dancing around us. 0.88

00:30:01.100 He leads the Department of Justice, and I lead the FBI.

00:30:06.620 So the Attorney General is responsible for that?

00:30:09.760 The Attorney General leads the Department of Justice.

00:30:11.780 Director Patel, much like you, Deputy Director Don Bongino was a conspiracy theorist.

00:30:20.920 Oh, here we go.

00:30:21.560 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.

00:30:32.280 For instance, Mr. Bongino...

00:30:34.640 I told y'all, bro, they're working their way to come after him.

00:30:37.960 They're going to try to argue.

00:30:39.760 Cash Patel is unfairly targeting all the FBI employees that worked on any Trump criminal investigation.

00:30:47.040 Recall the placement of pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters on January 6th.

00:30:52.880 Quote, an inside job.

00:30:54.940 Dude, WWE's stare attack. 1.00

00:30:56.560 We didn't miss half of it, you fucking retard. 1.00

00:30:58.160 They spent the first 45 minutes giving their grievances and then swearing cash in. 1.00

00:31:03.080 Shut the fuck up, dude. 1.00

00:31:05.420 I've literally been watching this the whole time. 1.00

00:31:07.980 Bro, so many retards in the YouTube chat, bro. 1.00

00:31:10.640 This was a setup.

00:31:11.800 I have zero doubt.

00:31:13.020 And whoever goes into the FBI, you better get an answer about why.

00:31:16.740 Director Patel, you and Deputy Director Bongino are now leading the FBI.

00:31:21.140 What is the evidence to suggest the pipe bombs placed outside of the DNC and RNC on January 6th were an inside job?

00:31:29.040 I appreciate the opportunity to discuss Director Bongino's mind record.

00:31:34.220 So many on this committee and the media jettison our 31 years of public service.

00:31:38.020 Can you answer the question, sir?

00:31:39.360 I'm answering the question.

00:31:40.940 You're questioning the integrity of the Deputy Director of the FBI and mind.

00:31:44.100 I'm asking you if you found any evidence.

00:31:44.820 And I'm going to answer the question.

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.

00:32:09.300 And he's a former federal prosecutor.

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.

00:32:23.580 And we're doing it day in and day out.

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.

00:32:37.700 So you have no evidence?

00:32:39.580 I got a lot of evidence, and I'll give it to you when I can.

00:32:42.180 Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

00:32:44.560 He did it again, guys.

00:32:46.360 Oh, it's under investigation.

00:32:47.660 Can't show it to you.

00:32:48.220 Oh, it's classified.

00:32:48.920 Can't show it to you. 0.99

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. 0.97

00:32:55.380 So see how all these podcast interviews are coming back to haunt them? 0.99

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.

00:33:05.600 Mr. Meyer has quite a record himself.

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.

00:33:37.740 Why?

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?

00:33:50.640 That's a one-sided story.

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.

00:34:19.540 It's disgraceful.

00:34:20.100 And we will continue to do it.

00:34:21.560 Excuse me.

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.

00:34:29.960 That is your opinion.

00:34:31.640 It is not a fact.

00:34:32.580 Well, it's certainly my opinion.

00:34:34.740 I can back up with fact.

00:34:36.320 Let me ask you to explain the situation.

00:34:38.820 He didn't answer the pipe bomb question.

00:34:40.860 In Baltimore, if you will.

00:34:42.840 Did you read the story about the termination of the project in Baltimore?

00:34:48.120 Which story?

00:34:48.740 764 group.

00:34:50.180 Sorry.

00:34:50.860 Which story?

00:34:52.260 764 group.

00:34:53.340 The Baltimore agents were investigating.

00:34:56.640 Are you familiar with that?

00:34:57.780 No, sir.

00:34:58.120 Well, I'm not going to go into detail.

00:35:00.840 It would take too long to do it.

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.

00:35:23.500 Sure.

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.

00:35:36.120 Last question.

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.

00:35:49.200 They waived it.

00:35:50.180 I appreciate the opportunity to address that.

00:35:52.820 You said in your opening statement, we are reducing the training requirements at Quantico.

00:35:56.700 We are not.

00:35:57.340 We are expanding them.

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.

00:36:11.160 We are also keeping the 18-week BFT.

00:36:14.160 Guys, at this point, bro, I'm about to hit up my boy and apply to FBI, bro. 1.00

00:36:17.620 Fuck it. 1.00

00:36:18.400 This shit crazy, man. 1.00

00:36:20.460 Guys, I got to take three months off and help these niggas, bro. 1.00

00:36:23.260 I'm dead ass. 0.97

00:36:23.920 Might need to go back, guys. 0.99

00:36:28.700 ...BC as is traditionally being held at the FBI.

00:36:31.000 So we're not reducing any requirements.

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.

00:36:51.720 I'll be honest with you guys.

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.

00:37:00.660 To conduct this mission.

00:37:01.700 I yield, Mr. Chairman.

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.

00:37:22.840 Well, sir.

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.

00:37:35.560 Is that correct?

00:37:36.320 Yes, sir.

00:37:37.200 Makes sense to me.

00:37:38.360 He's Cassius' buddy, so...

00:37:40.360 He's out in the field might be as valuable as a college degree, believe it or not.

00:37:50.040 Venezuela.

00:37:51.500 We're blowing boats out of the water in the Caribbean because they're connected to international narco-terrorist groups.

00:38:00.960 Is that correct?

00:38:01.600 Yes, that mission is being led by the Department of Defense, sir.

00:38:05.680 Okay.

00:38:06.280 What legal authority do we have to do that?

00:38:09.740 Sir, I would defer the questions on legal authority to the Attorney General and the Department.

00:38:13.580 Fair enough.

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. 0.99

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.

00:38:52.780 Fun fact for y'all.

00:38:54.180 But Maduro is under indictment right now.

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.

00:39:38.040 Well, the precursors are made in China, right?

00:39:39.760 They're made in China.

00:39:40.500 And so for the first time in a decade, I had a call with my counterpart in the MPS.

00:39:45.260 He's giving softball questions on purpose.

00:39:47.620 The precursor chemical companies and have those labels, have those chemicals labeled.

00:39:51.620 Too early to rate the success.

00:39:54.120 We have indicted multiple businesses in China.

00:39:56.600 We've also cut off the transshipment points of those precursors.

00:40:00.600 They switched.

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.

00:40:13.420 So China's helping, would you say?

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.

00:40:24.740 All right, I'll keep it real with you guys. 1.00

00:40:26.460 As someone that's worked with China before, China does not—they're fucking useless, guys. 1.00

00:40:31.320 I ain't going to lie. 1.00

00:40:32.040 If you got a case that's based out of China, you're cooked. 1.00

00:40:34.740 The Chinese government is so unhelpful, bro. 1.00

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. 0.99

00:40:46.660 America and inciting— 0.99

00:40:48.900 One of the worst countries to have an attaché office, bro.

00:40:51.620 Literally.

00:40:52.680 Yeah, and the data shows that social media— 0.99

00:40:55.140 Yo, like the goddamn video, diggers. 0.99

00:40:59.060 Bro, I'm up here. 1.00

00:41:00.060 I haven't slept yet.

00:41:00.740 I'm giving you all the sauce on how these investigations really work. 0.99

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. 1.00

00:41:09.780 Like the goddamn video, man. 1.00

00:41:11.580 Join OSS. 1.00

00:41:12.280 It is wildly out of control when it comes to radicalizing.

00:41:16.380 You're dead right.

00:41:17.120 So what did he just say?

00:41:18.400 This guy's the FBI director.

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?

00:41:28.100 Yes, sir.

00:41:28.720 Free speech.

00:41:29.340 Here we go.

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—

00:41:40.940 No, it does not.

00:41:41.920 Okay.

00:41:42.420 Free speech doesn't allow you to go on the internet and basically incite somebody to kill another person, right?

00:41:49.400 Absolutely not.

00:41:50.100 So if it's illegal offline, it should be illegal online, agreed?

00:41:54.960 Whatever the law is.

00:41:56.880 Yes, sir.

00:41:57.300 Just because you're online doesn't give you a get-out-of-jail-free card.

00:42:01.120 No, sir.

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.

00:42:32.300 Can the parents sue that company?

00:42:34.460 They can.

00:42:35.260 They can?

00:42:35.580 They can sue—not the social media companies.

00:42:37.600 That's what I'm talking about.

00:42:38.180 They can sue the companies—

00:42:38.940 No, I'm talking about the social media company that gives lives to this behavior.

00:42:41.640 No, you're referring to Section 230, sir.

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?

00:42:49.620 I've advocated for that for years.

00:42:51.200 All right.

00:42:51.740 We need to do this, folks.

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.

00:43:12.240 You have, like, zero rights.

00:43:14.200 How many images of sexually exploited children are purveyed every year on social media sites?

00:43:19.280 The number is astronomical.

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?

00:43:43.780 It is.

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?

00:44:08.840 I'm all in.

00:44:09.620 I have been all in.

00:44:10.420 And I'm happy to work with Congress to do so.

00:44:12.260 Well, I'll tell you what.

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?

00:44:34.240 Sir, that investigation is very much ongoing.

00:44:36.680 As you know, there was a raid of his house pursuant to a legal search warrant.

00:44:39.800 Was there a warrant obtained to go in?

00:44:41.400 Absolutely, sir.

00:44:42.200 Okay.

00:44:43.100 All right.

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. 0.99

00:44:51.020 Bro, unseal that shit now, man. 0.99

00:44:53.020 Y'all can unseal it right now. 0.99

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.

00:45:22.840 They have not stopped.

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.

00:45:35.480 Does Hezbollah fall within that group?

00:45:37.520 Yes, sir.

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.

00:45:49.620 I think it was October 7th.

00:45:51.220 Let me double check.

00:45:52.740 Go terrorism?

00:45:53.600 Yes, sir.

00:45:54.440 So do you see, consider Hezbollah a threat to the United States?

00:45:58.120 Absolutely.

00:45:58.460 All right, finally, do you have enough people to do all this?

00:46:08.160 Do you need more people?

00:46:08.860 Let's go.

00:46:09.440 You're involved in a lot of things, and the numbers speak for themselves.

00:46:13.000 There you go.

00:46:14.240 October 8th, 1997.

00:46:15.880 You guys want to know who designated them?

00:46:18.000 And Hamas, same day. 0.86

00:46:19.920 Let's have some fun, chat.

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.

00:47:00.940 That's good.

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.

00:47:14.620 How many are being investigated?

00:47:17.180 I think 3,500 off the top of my head.

00:47:19.320 3,500, okay.

00:47:20.660 Anyway, it seems your plate's pretty full.

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.

00:47:36.800 Will you look?

00:47:38.200 I will look, sir.

00:47:38.860 Okay, but are you comfortable you have enough people right now?

00:47:40.880 Right now. 0.99

00:47:41.260 Bro, get this nigga out of here, bro. 1.00

00:47:42.580 Get this guy out of here, bro. 1.00

00:47:43.920 Get him out of here.

00:47:45.000 Boy, is my timing good.

00:47:52.160 Until you've hit all 60.

00:47:54.840 Can you explain that?

00:47:57.040 Again, that is an entirely inaccurate presupposition.

00:48:00.440 I do not have an enemy's list.

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.

00:48:15.180 You fall short.

00:48:16.100 You don't work there anymore.

00:48:17.840 Well, there was a list.

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.

00:48:25.320 So those are, I think, pretty clear.

00:48:26.620 Thank you, Franco.

00:48:27.240 Let me move on to Grand Jury testimony, which we also talked about when you were here.

00:48:38.560 I think you indicated.

00:48:40.280 No, guys, he didn't fire the FBI director.

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.

00:48:59.460 No, guys, I was not FBI.

00:49:01.060 I was Homeland Security Investigations, HSI.

00:49:03.220 Go into court order.

00:49:04.940 But I'm very familiar with how the FBI works.

00:49:06.820 One of my good friends, an FBI agent.

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. 0.94

00:49:43.420 Yo, are you fucking serious? 1.00

00:49:45.400 Bruh, this nigga brought a fucking sign? 1.00

00:49:49.460 Yo. 1.00

00:49:53.420 What the hell? 1.00

00:49:55.520 Bruh, this is a fucking movie. 1.00

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 1.00

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?

00:50:31.680 Publicly.

00:50:32.620 Okay.

00:50:33.400 We'll check on that.

00:50:35.900 Um, the FBI does background investigations.

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 0.99

00:51:05.320 who makes, quote, insane comments 0.92

00:51:10.080 and said, I don't trust her to be responsible

00:51:13.960 and noted her penchant for what they called

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? 0.70

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.

00:51:40.400 Do you know if that information was found?

00:51:43.020 You see, we're an oversight body here.

00:51:44.860 And there are really three possibilities here.

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,

00:51:54.260 are supposed to find that stuff.

00:51:56.400 That's possibility one.

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 0.51

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.

00:52:48.940 They do not report the details of those to me.

00:52:51.200 They adjudicate those independently and individually.

00:52:55.140 That's how it's always been done.

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.

00:53:54.820 Why was the pause, do you know?

00:53:57.780 I was not there.

00:53:59.580 Wasn't explained to you when you got there?

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.

00:54:14.700 I do not interfere with them.

00:54:16.040 I get that.

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?

00:54:24.100 I don't recall that, sir.

00:54:26.260 All right.

00:54:27.660 I don't recall is the magic phrase, guys.

00:54:29.640 So relates that part of the employee review of senior staff was whether or not they voted

00:54:46.540 for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

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.

00:55:22.260 I can only speak to mine.

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

00:55:37.160 of various kinds.

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?

00:55:57.120 Oh, wow.

00:55:59.040 So, guys, this is a very important question.

00:56:01.300 I'll tell you why he's asking this.

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.

00:56:11.960 That's why he's asking this question.

00:56:14.540 To ask.

00:56:15.840 Taking those in reverse order, it's not a proper question, and it's improper to allege that

00:56:20.760 I'm doing 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

00:56:28.840 runs background investigations, not HRD.

00:56:31.000 Okay.

00:56:31.840 I'll accept that correction.

00:56:34.080 And he just evaded the question again.

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?

00:56:45.380 And Cash, whoop, Matrix, dodge that one.

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.

00:57:08.600 Do you understand that?

00:57:09.520 That's why I wanted to transfer police, and we'll get it to you, sir.

00:57:11.160 Thank you very much.

00:57:11.880 Thank you, Chairman.

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

00:57:31.120 another, one prosecution after another.

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. 0.97

00:57:44.820 All right, this old nigga yapping. 1.00

00:57:46.660 I'll tell you guys this, as much as people say Cash isn't qualified, he's doing a fantastic 0.93

00:57:51.160 job of dodging these questions, though.

00:57:53.500 I don't know if you guys caught on.

00:57:55.140 I've been writing a few of the questions you've been dodging.

00:57:57.520 Patel, welcome.

00:57:59.020 Thank you for your willingness to serve in this very challenging position.

00:58:05.560 How many people work for the FBI today?

00:58:09.680 Approximately 36,500, give or take.

00:58:13.820 I've always wondered whether an organization that big and that diffused all across the nation

00:58:19.500 was actually capable of being managed.

00:58:23.500 Have you experienced any surprises in terms of the, as the director, in terms of your management

00:58:32.340 of the organization?

00:58:35.560 In my experience, Senator...

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

00:58:44.200 you dodged.

00:58:45.520 Leaders in the field are supposed to lead.

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

00:58:59.000 mission.

00:58:59.260 That is how you manage 36,500, 37,000 people.

00:59:01.820 No one or two people can do it.

00:59:02.700 And that's been the transition, is the power structure is being pushed out to the field

00:59:06.040 operations.

00:59:06.760 Which sounds like a very practical way to approach it.

00:59:09.320 And how is morale?

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

00:59:22.260 excited to do the work.

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

00:59:37.640 in the field.

00:59:38.580 They want to do the work.

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

00:59:53.680 a reality.

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

01:00:05.260 across the intelligence community?

01:00:07.080 They are.

01:00:07.480 As a condition to maintaining your security clearance?

01:00:11.460 I believe they are.

01:00:12.980 Yes, every five years.

01:00:14.400 Speaking of intelligence.

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

01:00:25.980 agency in the nation.

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

01:00:42.000 an appropriate role for the FBI to play.

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

01:00:58.540 background.

01:00:59.420 Can you talk a little bit about how you what you think about the counterintelligence role

01:01:04.780 of the FBI agents?

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 0.99

01:01:13.860 shit. 0.97

01:01:14.720 How how that's worked. 0.99

01:01:16.100 For obvious reasons, I'm not going to tell you his name or anything like that.

01:01:18.800 But I'll ask him on the side for you guys.

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.

01:01:37.780 So what do you what do you think?

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

01:01:45.720 invested with those authorities for Congress.

01:01:47.280 And I believe that mission set is working.

01:01:48.640 And if I can, sir, since January 20th of this year, the FBI has made 55 arrests on the

01:01:52.840 counterintelligence mission alone.

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

01:02:16.520 year on counterintelligence.

01:02:17.160 I will say this, guys, it's very hard to prosecute CI cases, counterintelligence.

01:02:21.580 So this is actually very impressive.

01:02:23.300 I'm not going to lie to you all.

01:02:24.740 Right.

01:02:25.540 Anyone that's done counterintelligence investigations knows that that's actually pretty impressive.

01:02:31.120 Intelligence matters across the board.

01:02:32.880 Look, I'm being unbiased here, guys. 1.00

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. 1.00

01:02:38.200 And that many arrests for CI is pretty fucking good. 1.00

01:02:41.780 In my opinion, the FBI is the only agency that can do it. 0.73

01:02:44.540 Now we work with the interagency to do it and we need them, but we have the mission set.

01:02:49.360 Thank you.

01:02:49.980 You know, sometimes I wonder whether we sort of repeat the way we do things because we've

01:02:58.320 always done it that way.

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 0.87

01:03:13.240 and responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans, maybe hundreds of thousands of

01:03:17.320 Americans over time.

01:03:18.700 Do you think a law enforcement model for dealing with these narco traffickers is adequate to 1.00

01:03:24.780 deal with a threat?

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

01:03:55.280 American people?

01:03:56.140 Absolutely.

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

01:04:02.860 terrorist organizations, is because we must treat them like the foreign terrorist 1.00

01:04:05.740 organizations post 9-11.

01:04:07.240 We must treat them like the Al-Qaeda's of the world because that's our... 1.00

01:04:09.600 What did I tell you guys?

01:04:10.660 I told you they were going to do this so they could start attacking them with intel assets, 0.98

01:04:16.060 foreign assistance, all this shit. 0.94

01:04:18.280 It gives them way more power to go after these organizations if they designate them as terrorists. 0.99

01:04:22.920 I called this back in January when Trump got sworn in.

01:04:25.580 We're in the intelligence community to go after the threat like we did terrorists when

01:04:29.120 we were manhunting them.

01:04:30.140 And now we have that ability and we're seeing that in live time, whether it's on the strike on

01:04:33.640 the boat or going down into Mexico and working with our Mexican authorities with these intelligence

01:04:37.040 assets to say, we've located not just the person in charge, the cadre in charge, but

01:04:41.040 the entire network, and we are now able to dismantle that entire network.

01:04:45.360 It's going to take time.

01:04:46.800 The manhunt after 9-11 took some years, and this is going to be a years-long mission.

01:04:50.940 Well, I'm glad you mentioned the counterterrorism mission because we've had a lot of experience,

01:04:56.620 the U.S. government writ large, with dealing with terrorism in the Middle East and elsewhere.

01:05:01.540 And obviously, some of our-

01:05:04.940 Guys, do me a favor.

01:05:05.560 Smash the like button, bro.

01:05:06.460 I'm here on NoSleep giving you all this sauce, man. 1.00

01:05:08.720 So like the fucking video, guys. 0.99

01:05:12.680 Least you guys can do on YouTube. 1.00

01:05:14.180 I'm over here streaming for y'all niggas for free. 1.00

01:05:15.640 So smash that like button. 0.97

01:05:18.340 I will read Super Chats here soon, guys.

01:05:21.480 CC OSS Chats.

01:05:22.900 Friends and allies, like Mexico, for example, are very sensitive about sovereignty and being

01:05:29.780 able to control what happens on their territory.

01:05:34.120 But yet, we're beginning to see more and more cooperation, as you point out, in that

01:05:39.160 regard.

01:05:40.360 And so, in your opinion, has the counterterrorism model, have the lessons learned by the U.S.

01:05:46.040 government writ large?

01:05:47.600 Thank you, Robin.

01:05:48.380 There are other things we need to do to make sure that those skills, those lessons learned

01:05:55.880 are applied.

01:05:56.580 Okay, guys. 0.98

01:05:57.180 This dude's just yapping, and he's fucking giving softball questions. 0.91

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 0.97

01:06:03.240 on right now.

01:06:04.140 For those of you that are just tuning in, obviously, we've got like, what, five or 6,000

01:06:08.260 people watching right now.

01:06:09.440 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. 0.95

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 0.99

01:06:25.700 playing it.

01:06:27.060 Give me a one if you want a quick summary, or two if you want me to just keep playing

01:06:29.380 it.

01:06:29.620 It's up to y'all. 1.00

01:06:31.960 Oh, shit. 1.00

01:06:32.900 Okay. 1.00

01:06:33.880 All right.

01:06:34.380 I didn't think it was going to be that much.

01:06:40.160 All right.

01:06:40.600 Okay.

01:06:40.820 Last week, when Charlie Kirk got assassinated, and the FBI got involved in the case, a lot

01:06:49.760 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

01:06:57.000 guy.

01:06:57.660 Dude ended up, you know, turning himself in, but the FBI took credit. 1.00

01:07:00.580 They had this really stupid and awkward press conference. 0.99

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 1.00

01:07:07.620 is a devout Christian. 0.99

01:07:08.360 Just a lot of weird shit that looked bad optically. 0.99

01:07:11.080 So basically, they brought him in to answer questions because people are, you know, kind 0.99

01:07:14.760 of questioning his qualifications to be director of the FBI.

01:07:17.900 So that's what these people are kind of asking him questions about.

01:07:22.420 Not just the Kirk stuff, but they're going to ask him questions about, you know, the Government

01:07:26.380 Gangsters book, the podcasting, the conspiracy theories, you know, firing people that oppose

01:07:33.080 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. 0.98

01:07:41.420 So if you guys notice, he's deflecting a lot of the fucking questions given to him, saying 0.99

01:07:45.340 shit like, oh, I don't recall. 0.99

01:07:47.020 I'll release whatever. 0.99

01:07:48.320 I'm allowed to release legally.

01:07:50.700 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. 0.98

01:08:01.340 He fucking deflected that. 0.96

01:08:02.680 He said, no, Epstein was not an FBI source. 0.99

01:08:06.520 Bruh, that's not what they asked you.

01:08:08.220 They asked you if Epstein was a foreign intel asset, not if he was an FBI informant. 0.98

01:08:14.400 But dude's fucking senile, didn't do a follow-up question and clarify. 0.97

01:08:19.120 So he just said, oh, okay, let me just go. 0.99

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.

01:08:31.020 Dude's a master at it.

01:08:31.940 But he is a lawyer.

01:08:33.160 You guys are wondering. 1.00

01:08:33.960 This is why he's doing this shit so well. 0.99

01:08:36.400 But anyway, let's keep cooking. 0.98

01:08:38.440 Give me a one to the chat if that don't make sense with the summary.

01:08:41.400 More broadly to the threat of-

01:08:43.260 If it doesn't make sense, give me a two and then tell me why. 0.85

01:08:45.980 And do not say two because I'm black. 0.92

01:08:47.240 All right.

01:08:49.560 Funny, after the first or a hundredth time, but after a thousand times, come on, guys.

01:08:53.240 Give me a one if it makes sense.

01:08:54.200 Give me a two. 0.98

01:08:55.240 If it doesn't make sense, then say why.

01:08:57.060 Trafficking.

01:08:57.780 I can only speak to the FBI.

01:08:58.900 We are applying all of them to our counter, the CT mission set to the CN mission set.

01:09:02.480 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

01:09:09.920 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,

01:09:21.960 we are applying that to the drug traffickers in Mexico and Venezuela and Colombia.

01:09:25.000 Thank you very much.

01:09:29.080 Thank you, Mr. Chair.

01:09:30.620 We have seen too much political violence in this country.

01:09:33.240 We all know that.

01:09:34.300 Just last week, Director, your friend Charlie Kirk was gunned down.

01:09:37.800 Oh, here we go.

01:09:38.700 On a college campus.

01:09:39.740 I'm sorry for your loss.

01:09:41.080 In Minnesota, only two months ago, a madman took the life of my friends, Melissa and Mark Hortman,

01:09:45.800 shot Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Evita, combined 17 times.

01:09:49.000 And evidence indicates that he would have killed a lot more if law enforcement hadn't intervened.

01:09:52.320 And just last month in my state, we were again shook to the core when little kids were shot down

01:09:56.220 through stained glass windows in an enunciation Catholic church in Minneapolis.

01:10:00.300 And while the victims weren't politicians in this case, they were six-year-olds and eight-year-olds,

01:10:03.440 the manifesto that the shooter left behind was political.

01:10:06.960 But in the words of your own federal law enforcement, this person was an all-purpose hater. 0.97

01:10:10.960 Went after blacks, Hispanics, the president, Muslims, Jews. 1.00

01:10:15.380 Yeah, bro was fucking retarded. 1.00

01:10:17.140 During the first mass of the year. 1.00

01:10:18.880 These tea people are fucking sick in the head, guys. 1.00

01:10:21.320 And two children, eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel, ten-year-old. 1.00

01:10:25.140 Political ideology all over the fucking place. 0.98

01:10:27.360 The kids, 18 kids, severely. 0.99

01:10:29.660 Fletcher was just starting third grade.

01:10:30.920 He loved his family, his friends.

01:10:31.800 He loved fishing and cooking and his dad's words.

01:10:33.500 Any sport he was allowed to play.

01:10:35.320 Harper, the other child, we celebrated her life this Sunday.

01:10:37.960 Thousands of people.

01:10:39.200 Her parents described her as bright, joyful, and a deeply loved ten-year-old

01:10:42.260 whose laughter, kindness, and spirit.

01:10:44.200 Bro, ask the question. 1.00

01:10:46.700 What the fuck? 1.00

01:10:49.060 Bro, ask him the question. 1.00

01:10:50.380 What the fuck? 1.00

01:10:51.320 Of the wheelchair, threw him under the pew, and laid on top of him. 1.00

01:10:55.300 We do thank the local FBI director and the local U.S. Attorney's Office

01:10:59.120 for their work in both of these cases, the Hortman case and this.

01:11:02.100 But I did want to focus on one local law enforcement moment

01:11:04.480 that I'm not sure has made with all the news going on in Minnesota.

01:11:07.180 When the first 911 call, and you've heard about other places where this waited and waited,

01:11:10.860 the first 911 call was made at 8.27 a.m.

01:11:13.060 The first officer was on the scene just four minutes later, local Minneapolis police, at 8.31 a.m.

01:11:18.980 The chief, Chief O'Hara, shared with me the actual numbers.

01:11:22.260 Listen to this.

01:11:23.180 Over 20 people were in ambulances, just 14 minutes, all of them, after the police got on the scene.

01:11:30.900 14 minutes after the first call.

01:11:32.440 Tourniquet, stretchers.

01:11:33.400 And they got them all to Hennepin County Medical Center or Minneapolis Children's Hospital.

01:11:36.400 And I think it is worth looking at what happened there because one of the dads whose daughter was severely injured,

01:11:40.280 still in the hospital, that I'm still yapping.

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01:11:49.740 So if you fuck with the content you like and support me, I'm demonetized on YouTube. 0.96

01:11:54.160 Really appreciate it. 1.00

01:11:54.920 Keeps the fucking fight going so I can keep doing shit like this for you guys. 0.98

01:11:58.080 And I'm probably going to do a stream later tonight, too. 0.99

01:12:01.020 So, yeah.

01:12:03.080 And we're almost at our goal, guys, of 5,000 strong. 0.98

01:12:05.200 You know, that way we can offset the fucking demonetization on YouTube. 0.85

01:12:09.280 So I appreciate all you guys. 0.94

01:12:11.320 Really do.

01:12:14.020 What do you think?

01:12:15.860 Senator, I think there are instances.

01:12:20.880 Link is pinned in the chat.

01:12:22.860 Join OSS.locals.com.

01:12:24.520 On this legislation that could prevent future attacks, but I'm not going to weigh into the creation of legislation.

01:12:34.500 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.

01:12:43.300 Could you look at the numbers on the ages?

01:12:46.700 Yes.

01:12:46.860 Because from 18, even going from 18 to 21, which wouldn't have prevented the shooter in Annunciation Church from purchasing that gun.

01:12:57.620 He purchased several the same day.

01:12:59.760 Over 100 rounds were fired from the assault weapon through the stained glass windows.

01:13:04.820 So if you went up to 25, it would have stopped that immediate purchase and probably saved the lives of these kids.

01:13:11.540 But if you go to 21, that is the same age that already applies to purchasing handguns from federally licensed dealers.

01:13:17.700 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.

01:13:34.000 It won't, man.

01:13:34.660 A lot of these school shooters get their guns from their parents, dude.

01:13:37.680 And that's kind of a big red pill.

01:13:39.640 You're just yapping, man.

01:13:40.980 What do you think of that?

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. 0.97

01:13:59.160 All law enforcement in America has access to it, run fingerprints, run names, all this shit.

01:14:02.940 That's basically what it is.

01:14:04.100 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.

01:14:10.560 I think we have a 93% clearance rate in 15 minutes as it relates to ghost guns, but we can do better.

01:14:17.300 All right.

01:14:18.040 Well, just if you could get back to me on all those and talk to the White House.

01:14:22.000 Threats against elected officials have increased exponentially.

01:14:26.080 Members of Congress received more than 9,000 threats last year, up from 1,600 in 2016.

01:14:34.520 There's been a lot of talk about the rhetoric and the like.

01:14:38.220 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.

01:14:53.200 And it has bothered me, this thing, you know, we're going to go after this group.

01:14:58.000 We're going to have to go after this group.

01:14:59.520 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.

01:15:15.920 Planned Parenthood was on the list, as were businesses and law firms.

01:15:21.120 Doctors.

01:15:21.640 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.

01:15:45.080 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.

01:15:52.680 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.

01:16:02.940 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.

01:16:19.380 So could you commit to me, Mr. Patel, Director Patel, that you will do that?

01:16:24.080 Absolutely, Senator.

01:16:25.220 Okay, thank you.

01:16:26.600 Last, you were-

01:16:28.500 All that, yeah, to just say, hey, can you please give the left a fair shot and not witch-hunt them for violence.

01:16:36.000 Bruh, she took like five minutes to say that, dude. 1.00

01:16:38.580 Asked about social media, and I will put some more questions on the record about that.

01:16:42.800 I think we could make major movement on that record.

01:16:47.780 AI, I'm glad you raised that.

01:16:50.240 I think we have- 1.00

01:16:51.420 Bro, shut the fuck, bro. 1.00

01:16:54.400 Dude, that's why I hate these hearings sometimes, man. 1.00

01:16:56.400 Yo, these fucking people want to hear themselves talk more than actually ask questions, dude. 1.00

01:17:02.620 It's a fucking stupid spectacle. 1.00

01:17:04.180 Like, shut the fuck up. 1.00

01:17:05.520 You got Kash Patel there, under oath. 1.00

01:17:08.020 Ask him the questions that the American people want. 1.00

01:17:10.300 You're a fucking Democrat. 1.00

01:17:11.840 You should be grilling him. 1.00

01:17:13.000 Like, dude, no one wants your fucking 10-minute monologues. 1.00

01:17:17.540 Like, just ask the fucking questions, dude. 1.00

01:17:20.320 Holy, bro. 1.00

01:17:21.900 And then, you know what's crazy?

01:17:22.820 Literally, a couple hours ago?

01:17:24.580 Oh, um, hate speech isn't free speech.

01:17:28.660 Yeah!

01:17:34.040 Look, I don't want to sound like a misogynist, but I am a misogynist. 1.00

01:17:39.180 These chicks are fucking retarded. 1.00

01:17:42.140 You know? 1.00

01:17:43.380 No, but all jokes aside, bro. 0.99

01:17:45.280 Like, what the fuck is going on here? 0.99

01:17:47.760 Dude, you got him there under oath. 1.00

01:17:49.220 Ask him the questions. 1.00

01:17:50.060 God damn. 1.00

01:17:53.320 Fuck. 1.00

01:17:55.100 For being here. 1.00

01:17:56.120 You're leading the FBI.

01:17:57.380 Thank God she's done.

01:17:58.480 A very critical time for that agency,

01:18:01.660 and also a critical time for our country,

01:18:03.560 and I want to start by talking to you about the tide of violence. 1.00

01:18:08.280 Oh, this fucking cuck. 1.00

01:18:09.500 Bro, this dude is an Israel D-sucker. 1.00

01:18:12.260 Holy. 1.00

01:18:13.580 Cotton?

01:18:14.160 Think his last name's Cotton?

01:18:15.620 Bruh.

01:18:15.940 We have seen ideological violence against people of faith, particularly Christians.

01:18:21.800 You just think here, take a rough catalog.

01:18:24.360 Just in the last couple of years, we've seen shooting at the Covenant School,

01:18:27.460 Christian School in Nashville.

01:18:28.720 We've seen school shooting at the Annunciation School.

01:18:30.780 We've seen church shootings multiply.

01:18:32.920 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,

01:18:43.220 I want to be remembered for my courage, for my faith, was shot on a college camp.

01:18:47.720 Yes, Josh Hawley.

01:18:48.480 I'm sorry, guys.

01:18:49.200 I have a slap, bro.

01:18:49.980 Thank you.

01:18:50.500 Thank you for correcting me in the chat, guys.

01:18:52.480 My bad. 0.96

01:18:53.320 I'm literally fucking heavy-ass eyelids, man. 0.99

01:18:56.320 Let me just start with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. 0.98

01:19:01.420 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?

01:19:12.480 We are investigating Charlie's assassination fully and completely

01:19:18.960 and running out every lead related to any allegation of broader violence,

01:19:22.740 and we're producing results on that that we'll disclose when appropriate.

01:19:27.380 Good.

01:19:27.760 I'm glad to hear that.

01:19:28.800 Let me just ask you a few questions about that, if I can. 0.99

01:19:30.920 Hawley is a fucking hardcore Zionist, guys. 0.99

01:19:33.700 Him and fucking Hexeth went back and forth talking about how much they both love Israel, bro. 1.00

01:19:38.200 It was fucking cringe as fuck. 1.00

01:19:41.820 Good. 0.99

01:19:42.780 Reports have suggested that the FBI is investigating a broader network of groups

01:19:46.300 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?

01:19:55.020 How is the FBI working to find other potential accomplices,

01:19:58.520 folks who may have known about the shooter's plans,

01:20:01.380 folks who may have encouraged him?

01:20:02.520 Any update on any of that?

01:20:03.720 So in terms of what we do for an interrogation perspective,

01:20:07.900 we go and reach out to the family and community immediately,

01:20:11.060 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

01:20:19.300 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

01:20:37.720 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

01:20:46.520 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?

01:20:52.160 It's a lot more than that. We're running them all down.

01:20:53.400 It's a lot more than 20?

01:20:54.260 Yes, sir.

01:20:54.920 And you're running all of that?

01:20:55.720 Every single one.

01:20:56.380 Yeah, fantastic. Let me just turn to the broader question here of anti-religious,

01:20:59.860 anti-Christian violence. Let me just give you a few stats that I'm sure that you're all too

01:21:02.220 familiar with. Every person of faith in America certainly is.

01:21:04.280 Here we go. More yap in coming.

01:21:06.440 400 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

01:21:20.360 in 2024. Another organization found 500 separate attacks on just Catholic parishes since May of

01:21:24.800 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.

01:21:31.640 What is the FBI doing to take on this rising tide of violence that seems to be motivated by

01:21:37.240 anti-religious hatred? Specifically, sir, we have 60 anti-Catholic hate crime incidences reported to

01:21:42.560 us that are being investigated. Publicly, I can tell you we have five hate crime investigations with

01:21:47.680 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

01:21:59.900 based attack against any faith, as a man of faith myself, will not be tolerated. And the full resource

01:22:06.860 of the FBI are committed to all of it. Are you investigating any domestic cells that instigate

01:22:13.320 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

01:22:25.760 that we follow the money. And whether it's terrorism or attacks based on ideology or attacks on

01:22:32.660 institutions of faith or people of faith, someone's paying for it. And we are reverse tracing those

01:22:37.980 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,

01:22:47.080 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.

01:23:02.160 Let me just ask you this in the same vein, Director. Since the Dobbs decision, the FBI

01:23:08.140 has advertised $25,000 rewards for information on attacks on abortion clinics. Will the FBI

01:23:16.140 similarly offer rewards for information on attacks of houses of worship? Yes. When it is

01:23:23.380 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

01:23:35.660 that rewards of monetary value are put out for all ideologically based attacks. Good. You just

01:23:43.220 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

01:23:51.420 ask you if you consider designating a senior official as a liaison to houses of worship, to

01:23:58.560 Christian other religious organizations, to publish metrics on investigations and arrests related to

01:24:04.360 church attacks, church threats, vandalism, arson, et cetera. Will you set up a system for liaising and

01:24:12.120 then reporting so that the, everybody can see this committee and the public can see?

01:24:16.460 Bro, ask the questions the American people want, man. What the fuck, bro? Look, I love my Christians, 1.00

01:24:23.460 man, but we literally are in the middle of a fucking huge case. Like, bro, ask Patel, who was the 0.99

01:24:29.480 country that provided foreign intelligence on this fucking guy? Why was the rifle found in the fucking 1.00

01:24:36.660 woods assembled, right? When it was presumably disassembled after the shooting? Like, come on, dude. 0.99

01:24:48.000 Give the people what they want.

01:24:50.620 Just how many attacks we're talking about, just with the level of threat and violence is and what

01:24:54.900 the FBI is doing to combat it.

01:24:56.420 Senator, you're speaking my language, the private... 0.98

01:24:58.400 Translation, you're asking me softball questions so I don't have to fucking answer the hard ones 0.97

01:25:03.480 where I got to deflect one other people. Like, dude. 0.97

01:25:07.360 Public sector partnership on this specific issue, just like the other ones we've talked

01:25:11.520 about, is...

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 1.00

01:25:51.060 people? This is what we're doing. Right? Makes them look good. Makes the asker look good.

01:25:58.880 Just a big circle jerk. 1.00

01:25:59.860 ...activities. And with your assistance, I would ask you if you're able to identify someone who's 0.97

01:26:04.540 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

01:26:10.760 private sector does in some of these areas.

01:26:11.900 Very good. Happy to help on that. Let me ask you about something specific to the FBI because

01:26:14.920 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

01:26:44.420 product by a single field office, end quote. That was a lie.

01:26:47.580 Yo, this idiot in the YouTube chat, Dart, Math, Maximus, Myron loving these Dems a bit too much today, 1.00

01:26:53.940 Ole. Bro, you're a fucking retard, dude. You're literally a fucking retard. Did you not just see 1.00

01:26:58.700 when I was making fun of that dumbass woman that was yapping for 10 minutes? What the fuck are you 1.00

01:27:02.420 talking about? I'm supporting the Dems. We want answers, bro. He's been avoiding the fucking 1.00

01:27:07.600 shooter. He's been avoiding fucking Epstein. Like, bruh. 1.00

01:27:12.820 Because we then had additional whistleblowers come forward and say, no, 1.00

01:27:14.760 fucking retard in the chat. Bro, some of you guys in YouTube are like, fit the IQ, man. God damn. 1.00

01:27:19.620 Actually, multiple field offices contributed to the drafting of the report. And indeed, 0.99

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. 1.00

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.

01:28:22.680 And resignations.

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

01:28:45.820 ex-vane. I'm sure you've seen it.

01:28:47.220 See, this is the problem with fucking politicians like this. Like, this guy has never done an 0.99

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

01:30:21.300 partners to get that shut down permanently.

01:30:23.060 Senator Coombs.

01:30:24.060 Senator Coombs.

01:30:25.060 Senator Coombs.

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.97

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

01:38:37.220 Service Surveillance Act.

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

01:39:51.300 because we had enough manpower.

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.

01:39:58.180 Pushing them elsewhere in the FBI.

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?

01:40:14.420 I share your concern, Senator.

01:40:15.940 We have 35 open investigations, 17 against federal judges and the remainder against state court judges

01:40:22.180 and threats that they have received.

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

01:40:42.900 the conflict in jurisdiction and authority.

01:40:45.700 I agree.

01:40:46.500 This is an urgent concern.

01:40:47.860 I have heard from state and local law enforcement about it.

01:40:50.340 All right, man.

01:40:51.140 They're getting really into the weeds about 0.99

01:40:52.660 shit that the American public doesn't really care about. 1.00

01:40:54.580 Like, this is shit for me, guys. 1.00

01:40:55.860 Like, this isn't shit for y'all to really care about, right? 0.99

01:40:58.580 They're talking about little nuances and policy here, funding here. 0.98

01:41:02.500 Hey, are we going to do this 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.

01:41:23.140 What could we do to address this challenge?

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

01:41:57.620 address the security needs.

01:41:58.900 And that's where our focus is on events like that.

01:42:01.460 Mr. Director, thank you for your testimony.

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.

01:42:16.980 So get ready.

01:42:17.620 We're going to probably switch here soon.

01:42:19.540 More political and partisan point scoring and more actually solving crimes for the American

01:42:24.660 people.

01:42:24.900 Yes, Senator Kennedy.

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?

01:42:53.940 We have a suspect, yes, sir.

01:42:57.380 And you did that within 48 hours, did you not?

01:43:00.180 33 hours.

01:43:01.300 33 hours.

01:43:03.300 Congratulations.

01:43:03.860 That is fast.

01:43:05.220 I ain't gonna lie.

01:43:06.100 We've had other political assassinations back in...

01:43:08.900 Assuming he's the real shooter.

01:43:12.100 An assassin, assassinated Representative Melissa Hoffman, Mr. Hoffman, Senator John Hoffman,

01:43:22.420 and Mrs. Hoffman in Minnesota.

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?

01:43:37.860 I believe that timeline's correct, Senator.

01:43:40.260 Congratulations.

01:43:43.860 Sometimes we miss the forest for the trees.

01:43:49.540 Good work.

01:43:55.860 Did Mr. Clark's assassin act alone?

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

01:44:24.740 discord chat, that chat room.

01:44:26.900 So we are very much in our ongoing posture of investigation.

01:44:31.620 So others could have been involved.

01:44:33.460 Yes, sir.

01:44:34.420 I asked you this last time you were here.

01:44:41.700 Cash, you remember Mr. Peter Strzok and Mrs. Lisa Page?

01:44:45.380 Yes, sir.

01:44:45.780 Bro, they do it.

01:44:47.300 Ask about the foreign intelligence, man.

01:44:49.060 Ask about why the rifle was assembled.

01:44:50.980 Come on, dude.

01:44:52.180 Mr. Strzok was an FBI agent.

01:44:55.300 Ms. Page was an FBI lawyer. 0.94

01:44:57.460 They were both very aggressive anti-Trump political activists who allowed their political opinions

01:45:04.740 to affect their work at the FBI.

01:45:06.740 Is that a fair statement?

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. 0.98

01:45:16.660 And at one point, Ms. Page texted Mr. Strzok, quote,

01:45:20.980 Trump's not ever going to be president, right?

01:45:23.460 Right.

01:45:24.740 Mr. Strzok replied, no, no, he won't.

01:45:28.980 We will stop it, end quote.

01:45:34.580 Ms. Page resigned from the FBI.

01:45:36.500 Mr. Strzok was fired.

01:45:38.260 They promptly sued the federal government and the FBI and Justice Department for releasing their emails,

01:45:44.260 which revealed all this.

01:45:45.380 The FBI settled that lawsuit for $1.2 million, gave Mr. Strzok $1.2 million cash, gave Ms. Page.

01:45:56.340 Bro, no one gives a fuck about it. 0.98

01:45:58.020 This was years ago. 0.98

01:45:58.980 Gave her $800,000.

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.

01:46:08.980 Who?

01:46:09.380 Are you saying that Chris Ray did?

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.

01:46:18.420 Okay.

01:46:18.900 So you're telling me that Attorney General Garland and Director Ray decided to give them the money.

01:46:23.860 Yes, sir.

01:46:24.340 Yes, sir.

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?

01:46:45.860 Sorry, the last part.

01:46:46.740 When you took over the FBI, did you find instances of where the Biden administration had politicized

01:46:53.700 the FBI to prosecute its political agenda?

01:46:57.860 Well, I won't speak for other people.

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.

01:47:13.620 But I'm also committed to fully invest.

01:47:15.220 Guys, do me a favor, smash the like button if you're watching on YouTube, I'd appreciate it.

01:47:19.940 Smash that like button.

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?

01:48:03.700 Many people in the FBI take polys.

01:48:05.700 The FBI does that all the time.

01:48:07.380 Yes, sir.

01:48:07.700 Is it not?

01:48:08.260 Yes, sir.

01:48:08.900 For a long time, is that correct?

01:48:11.140 Decades.

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.

01:48:52.420 Who else did he traffic these young women to? 0.78

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.

01:49:47.700 So the answer is no one?

01:49:49.220 For the information that we have.

01:49:52.020 In the files.

01:49:53.860 In the case file.

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.

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01:50:10.500 Bro. 0.99

01:50:11.620 Bro.

01:50:12.660 Dom DeMarco. 0.99

01:50:13.700 Are you fucking serious, bro? 1.00

01:50:16.260 This nigga, man. 1.00

01:50:18.900 Bro. 1.00

01:50:19.860 We might as well just say retarded shit all day. 1.00

01:50:22.340 Hey. 1.00

01:50:24.580 We watched this porno. 0.99

01:50:25.540 We didn't care about the sex scene. 0.93

01:50:26.580 We're just here to see if he actually delivers his pizza. 1.00

01:50:29.060 Get the fuck out of here, bro. 0.98

01:50:30.340 Uh, with respect to the Epstein records, he says it is your call about releasing them. 0.99

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?

01:50:47.860 Yes, sir.

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,

01:51:06.340 and each of those judges declined.

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 0.98

01:51:29.700 side stuff, stuff that's classified, especially since there was good information that he was a foreign 0.99

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.

01:51:46.260 Right. To cover his own ass. 1.00

01:51:47.460 And to work with the house on the subpoena request, we have substantially required with it, 0.99

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.

01:52:33.140 They know that Epstein trafficked. 0.92

01:52:36.820 Dude, this is so fucking frustrating to watch, dude. I wish I was there. Dude, 0.96

01:52:43.620 this is what this fucking retard should be asking. 0.99

01:52:47.940 We are aware, and I'm sorry guys, this is so frustrating. We are aware that Jeffrey Epstein 0.99

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.

01:53:10.980 Understandable.

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 0.96

01:54:49.780 fucking toilet with their current campaign in the Gaza Strip. The last thing they could afford right 0.97

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, 1.00

01:55:13.140 the high side versus the criminal side, you need to be very specific with a guy like Kash Patel. 1.00

01:55:17.060 Because he's been dancing around these motherfuckers, doing the Macarena and shit, 0.99

01:55:23.300 Matrix left and right, bobbing and weaving and shit for like over an hour. So you must be specific. 1.00

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. 0.99

01:55:41.220 That is a fucking lie. If he says no, that's a trick question. There are classified documents on 1.00

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?

01:56:18.500 Falcon punch! 0.86

01:56:21.060 And this is the smoking gun. Kash Patel admitted earlier during this hearing that they had increased

01:56:27.620 their counterintelligence arrests by 30%.

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. 0.93

01:56:59.780 So don't fucking sit here and tell me that number one, you don't have classified documents 0.87

01:57:03.620 on Epstein, and then number two, that you can't declassify. Because in this, your own hearing here, 0.99

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

01:57:26.020 these fucking people are retards, fucking idiots, that don't understand how the intelligence community 1.00

01:57:32.660 and how the law enforcement community work. Idiots. Absolute fucking idiots. Give me 10 minutes on this 1.00

01:57:40.900 fucking committee and I'll get you guys the answers that you need. This is in-fucking-credible how incompetent, 1.00

01:57:47.380 inept, stupid, glazing, retards run our fucking country that can't even properly ask questions 1.00

01:57:55.860 on a sensitive topic because they don't know what to ask. 1.00

01:58:01.540 Holy shit, dude. Somebody clip that for me, bro. Somebody clip that for me. Incredible. 0.99

01:58:08.820 Give me once in the chat if that all makes sense for you guys. Give me once if that all makes sense

01:58:13.540 for you guys. I'm half asleep, bro. Literally half asleep. Took a fuck his equal like an hour ago.

01:58:19.300 I'm dying. And I mean, I'm able to exercise more critical thinking than these retards on no sleep. 1.00

01:58:26.180 What the fuck, man? 1.00

01:58:28.980 Young women for sex to himself. 1.00

01:58:32.020 They want to know who, if anyone else, he trafficked these young women to. 0.95

01:58:40.340 And that's a very fair question. I want to know that answer.

01:58:44.500 And I think you're going to have to do more to satisfy the American people's

01:58:51.860 understandable curiosity in that regard.

01:58:55.140 Mr. Chairman, may I just respond to that? I agree, Senator. And what we have done,

01:58:59.860 and just to remind folks, the Epstein case files existed in the two prior administrations,

01:59:04.100 in the Obama administration and the Biden administration, and they didn't release anything.

01:59:07.220 And there was President Trump in the first administration that renewed

01:59:09.220 charges against Mr. Epstein. And I know it's a little complicated to understand,

01:59:13.540 but what exists in the Epstein case files was a direct result of the limited search warrants from

01:59:18.900 2006 and 2007, which hamstrung future investigations because of the non-prosecution agreement,

01:59:23.380 and multiple administrations had the opportunity to look at the entirety of that case file and

01:59:26.740 recommend prosecutions against anyone that was trafficked under Mr. Epstein and anyone that

01:59:30.980 participated in that trafficking. And the only person to bring charges was the prior

01:59:33.940 administration against Mr. Epstein. Now, I am not saying that others were not trafficked and

01:59:37.380 others were not involved. What I am telling you is that based on the information we have,

01:59:40.500 and we have continuously and publicly asked for the public to come forward with more information.

01:59:43.940 If there is, we'll look at it. But based on credible information, we've released all credible

01:59:47.140 information, and the information that the Department of Justice and the FBI never releases is

01:59:50.420 is information on investigations that are not credible. And we don't release the names of

01:59:53.620 victims who weren't credible. But in the same time, we don't release the names of victims who were

01:59:56.580 credible. And so the information, that's by law. And so the information we are releasing now is

02:00:00.260 historic, and it is also to the maximum capacity that the law allows. And I know that's not going to

02:00:03.620 satisfy many, many, many people.

02:00:05.140 The word, that the law satisfies you. Caught that, chat? Caught that? Caught that?

02:00:11.380 That's why it's very important to watch these hearings with someone that understands how the

02:00:14.820 government works. I got y'all, bro. I got y'all. He said that for a specific reason.

02:00:19.300 But if they wanted it done right, then the investigation...

02:00:22.260 It's illegal to put out classified documents without declassifying it first. Okay?

02:00:28.900 From its origination should have been done right, and he should not have been given a get out of jail

02:00:32.020 free card to do jail on the weekends for 12 hours a day. And he should have been investigated fully

02:00:35.940 for the entirety of his crime in criminal enterprise, not just from 1997 to 2001.

02:00:39.780 Senator Blumenthal.

02:00:41.540 Thank you, Mr. Patel.

02:00:42.740 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Director Patel, thank you for being here today.

02:00:45.620 You'll recall well in January at your confirmation hearing before this committee,

02:00:50.020 I raised the prospect of politically motivated retaliation, and you...

02:00:54.180 Notice how Cash stuck to the criminal side, like I told you guys. 0.98

02:00:57.860 Notice how he stuck to the criminal side, and this dumb dude didn't ask him anything 0.99

02:01:01.220 about the high side. 0.95

02:01:03.300 You promised me, as you did other members of this committee,

02:01:05.700 quote, every FBI employee will be held to the absolute same standard,

02:01:10.340 and no one will be terminated for case assignments.

02:01:12.500 You went on to tell me, quote, all FBI... 0.99

02:01:14.980 Guys, like the fucking video, bro. Holy, this shit's giving me a headache. 1.00

02:01:18.020 Employees will be protected against political retribution, and you assured one of my colleagues 0.99

02:01:22.820 that you would honor the internal review process of the FBI.

02:01:25.860 I'm not going to mince words. You lied to us.

02:01:27.700 In the short time that you've been FBI director,

02:01:29.940 you've presided over a rash of retaliatory firing.

02:01:33.140 Three FBI agents have recently sued you.

02:01:36.820 They are FBI agents with 60 years between them of distinguished service,

02:01:41.140 rescuing hostages, saving kids from predators, dismantling drug cartels.

02:01:46.500 And their allegations, their civil allegations, are a searing indictment of your tenure as FBI director.

02:01:54.020 But it's not just those three. The FBI agents association has said that your actions, quote,

02:02:00.900 distract agents from their work, foster fear that their assignments could cost them their careers,

02:02:05.060 either now or under the next administration, and increase the risk of criminal and national

02:02:09.700 security threats by undermining unity and morale within the bureau, end quote.

02:02:14.420 This association, as you know, is voluntary. It represents 14,000 members, 90% of all the active agents.

02:02:19.220 These are your employees saying that your performance has been unqualified and unfit.

02:02:26.420 And there is mounting evidence that these retaliatory firings were the result of direction from the

02:02:32.100 White House. There have been instances in the past here, history of the bureau of political

02:02:36.420 interference and political direction from the director's office, but not the kind of

02:02:43.860 institutional interference that we're seeing from the White House right now. I'm going to ask you,

02:02:48.100 has anyone from the White House contacted you about personnel decisions?

02:02:51.620 I completely disagree with your entire premise that I've lied or misleading the FBI. If I were,

02:02:58.420 the results that I announced today by the men and women of the FBI and the historic records we are

02:03:01.540 doing to keep this country safe would not be possible. The men and women of the FBI are responding to our

02:03:04.500 leadership and this administration's priorities. The only way people get terminated at the FBI is if

02:03:08.020 they fail to meet the muster of the job and their duties. And that is where I will leave it. And you

02:03:10.900 accusing me of lying is something I don't take lightly, but I'm not going to get into a tit for

02:03:13.780 tat with you. Well, let me just ask you to answer my question. Has anyone from the White House

02:03:17.140 contacted you about personnel decisions? Generally speaking, we always discuss with the White House

02:03:22.340 OMB during the budget process how many personnel we need, who we need where. Answer is yes.

02:03:25.860 For budgetary purposes. You've been directed to fire people, agents, because they participated in

02:03:31.700 investigations of the president. I don't receive directions to do that. I make the decisions.

02:03:35.700 Has anyone asked you to do it? The best information is, yes, you've taken suggestions

02:03:39.860 and directions from the White House in firing qualified agents. Any termination at the FBI was

02:03:44.980 a decision that I made based on the evidence that I have as director of the FBI, and it's my job,

02:03:48.660 and I'm not going to shy away from it. And as you stated, those are allegations,

02:03:51.380 and that is an ongoing litigation. So they'll have their day in court. So will we. The allegations are

02:03:54.660 not just in that lawsuit, Director Patel. And I think your testimony confirms that, in fact,

02:03:58.820 you've taken direction from the White House in those retaliatory firing. It literally does not.

02:04:02.420 You've acknowledged that, in fact, they have been in contact with you about personnel decisions.

02:04:05.540 The White House has been, do not put words in my mouth. We're on the record. The White House,

02:04:08.500 like any administration, contacts its agencies on the budgeting process and where it needs personnel

02:04:12.180 and where the mission priorities are. That always happens. If they didn't do that,

02:04:14.580 they would be abdicating the responsibility to law enforcement. I will always work with my partners in

02:04:17.620 the chain of command of the Department of Justice in the White House to ensure that this FBI is delivering.

02:04:20.740 The results we are delivering to include the lowest murder rate in modern U.S. history,

02:04:23.780 to include the most fentanyl seizures in modern U.S. history, to include the most lives saved,

02:04:27.060 and the most children found in modern U.S. history. That is a working FBI. That is not a failing FBI.

02:04:30.740 Let's move on to a related area. In White House discussions, have you been asked or directed

02:04:39.380 by the White House or others to engage in a crackdown on political groups or organizations,

02:04:46.980 non-profits, after the murder of Charlie Kirk? To direct political organizations? No. I've been

02:04:54.500 asked by my chain of command to properly root out criminal activity wherever it is in whatever...

02:04:59.940 Okay, guys, let's switch over to Rumble. Let's go. Rumble and kick. I dropped the links in the chat,

02:05:03.700 guys. YouTube guys, let's go. We've been on for two hours. Let's start cooking over there. Let's

02:05:07.940 uncensor ourselves. Come on over, guys. It's Rumble time. You know what time it is, man. It's Rumble time.

02:05:13.940 I dropped the link in YouTube chat, guys. Come on over. If you don't have access to Rumble in your

02:05:18.260 country, no problem. Use kick. But we're going to switch over so we've got to censor ourselves no

02:05:22.660 more. It's time for free speech, niggas. Let's go. I'm going to end the YouTube stream now. All 1.00

02:05:28.020 right? We got 6,000 plus of you guys in here watching. Come on over to Rumble. I'm going to

02:05:32.900 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.

02:05:41.380 It's time to cook. Ending the YouTube stream now. My mods are spamming the links in the chat.

02:05:48.420 Rumble and kick. I pinned that at the top. Let's go, guys. Time to get real, baby.

02:05:55.020 All right? YouTube guys, come on over. Y'all are about to get the best breakdown of this shit ever.

02:06:01.380 Ending stream now. Love you guys at YouTube. Come on over. Kick.com slash MyronGainesX. 0.98

02:06:05.900 Rumble.com slash MyronGainesX. Let's go. All right. Cool. It's real nigga timing. Hope 1.00

02:06:14.780 you guys are ready. Feels good to be on fucking YouTube. 0.99

The Debrief With MyronGainesX - September 16, 2025

Kash Patel GRILLED On Charlie Kirk Assassination During Senate Hearing LIVE!

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