Ben Rhodes

It's a wild development.

a job. I mean, it's not, you know, but yes. And because first of all, I mean, you made this comment in our text thread and also on PSA, but this is like a pretty rapid, I don't know what else an American slide to autocracy would look like other than what we've seen. And if you look across the board, Patel, Bongino, Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, you know, Tulsi Gabbard, like this is what it looks like.

a job. I mean, it's not, you know, but yes. And because first of all, I mean, you made this comment in our text thread and also on PSA, but this is like a pretty rapid, I don't know what else an American slide to autocracy would look like other than what we've seen. And if you look across the board, Patel, Bongino, Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, you know, Tulsi Gabbard, like this is what it looks like.

a job. I mean, it's not, you know, but yes. And because first of all, I mean, you made this comment in our text thread and also on PSA, but this is like a pretty rapid, I don't know what else an American slide to autocracy would look like other than what we've seen. And if you look across the board, Patel, Bongino, Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, you know, Tulsi Gabbard, like this is what it looks like.

This is a bunch of total loyalists, including, you know, some unhinged personalities in the most powerful positions in government. And just to get a little deeper into this deputy director of the FBI role, this person is basically in charge of managing, you know, not just kind of the vast enterprise of the FBI, incredibly sensitive investigations.

This is a bunch of total loyalists, including, you know, some unhinged personalities in the most powerful positions in government. And just to get a little deeper into this deputy director of the FBI role, this person is basically in charge of managing, you know, not just kind of the vast enterprise of the FBI, incredibly sensitive investigations.

This is a bunch of total loyalists, including, you know, some unhinged personalities in the most powerful positions in government. And just to get a little deeper into this deputy director of the FBI role, this person is basically in charge of managing, you know, not just kind of the vast enterprise of the FBI, incredibly sensitive investigations.

Yeah, like approving very sensitive... law enforcement decisions to go after certain targets or to not go after other targets. This person negotiates agreements. When I would interface with the deputy director of the FBI, I was often- Sean Joyce was the best.

Yeah, like approving very sensitive... law enforcement decisions to go after certain targets or to not go after other targets. This person negotiates agreements. When I would interface with the deputy director of the FBI, I was often- Sean Joyce was the best.

Yeah, like approving very sensitive... law enforcement decisions to go after certain targets or to not go after other targets. This person negotiates agreements. When I would interface with the deputy director of the FBI, I was often- Sean Joyce was the best.

Greatest Boston accent you've ever heard. And by the way, going out on a limb, Not a Democrat. I don't want to put words in his mouth, but like these are not.

Greatest Boston accent you've ever heard. And by the way, going out on a limb, Not a Democrat. I don't want to put words in his mouth, but like these are not.

Greatest Boston accent you've ever heard. And by the way, going out on a limb, Not a Democrat. I don't want to put words in his mouth, but like these are not.

Again, repeating the refrain, like the FBI, this idea that the libs love the FBI, that like wiretap Martin Luther King. This is crazy, right? And so he's going to be involved in negotiations with foreign governments. We talked on this program about like the deputies committee meeting. That's like the situation room meetings on sensitive matters.

Again, repeating the refrain, like the FBI, this idea that the libs love the FBI, that like wiretap Martin Luther King. This is crazy, right? And so he's going to be involved in negotiations with foreign governments. We talked on this program about like the deputies committee meeting. That's like the situation room meetings on sensitive matters.

Again, repeating the refrain, like the FBI, this idea that the libs love the FBI, that like wiretap Martin Luther King. This is crazy, right? And so he's going to be involved in negotiations with foreign governments. We talked on this program about like the deputies committee meeting. That's like the situation room meetings on sensitive matters.

The deputy FBI director would be there if it was a kind of counterterrorism issue, if it was anything with an international dimension. So this is not a job where, I don't know, he can like be a public figure.

The deputy FBI director would be there if it was a kind of counterterrorism issue, if it was anything with an international dimension. So this is not a job where, I don't know, he can like be a public figure.

The deputy FBI director would be there if it was a kind of counterterrorism issue, if it was anything with an international dimension. So this is not a job where, I don't know, he can like be a public figure.

This is a management job and management not just of like a bunch of thousands of FBI agents and it's sensitive investigations, it's foreign governments, it's the interagency process of the United States government. I don't even know what it looks like to have Dan Bongino in those rooms.