Kash Patel

Are you aware of any plans or discussions to punish in any way, including termination, FBI agents or personnel associated with Trump investigations? I'm not aware of that, Senator.

I have always rejected any violence against law enforcement. And I have, including in that group, specifically addressed any violence against law enforcement on January 6th. And I do not agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement.

We don't have a good surveillance system, unfortunately. We don't know? I don't think anybody can say that. If you show me science that says that.

Because we tend to say, oh, we can fix social media or we can fix the Internet by tweaking the algorithms or by banning TikTok or by breaking up Meta. I actually don't think that is going to work because I would argue that the system is not broken. The system is operating exactly as it is meant to operate.

I've seen on social media, on Truth Social, how good these researchers are. And I kind of wish I had some of them when I was doing Russiagate and some of these other things. You know, Devin and I talk regularly and then, you know, I talk with the president all the time as well.

And we're just blown away at the amount of acumen some of these people have and how quick they are to to grab it and suss through it and sort of thin it down and make it presentable.

Where we go one, where we go all is, as you said, from a great movie that I watched a long time ago and people took to it.

and so what you know it doesn't mean everyone's a conspiracy theorist and people keep asking me about all this q stuff i'm like what does it matter what i'm telling you is that there is truth in a lot of things that many people say and what i'm putting out there is the truth and how about we have some fun along the way there's so many people who subscribe to the where we go on we go one all mantra and it's a it's what's wrong with it

They will never trust the fake news media again. And for us, that's always been the championing cause to get our people and mainstream America listening to your show rather than CNN and reading the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Senator, this may be one of the scenarios that most uniquely qualifies me. to take command at the FBI. Having been the victim of government overreach and a weaponized system of justice and law enforcement, I know what it feels like to have the full weight of the United States government barreling down on you.

And as the Biden inspector general determined, those activities by the FBI and DOJ were wholly improper. and not predicated upon law and facts. I will ensure, if confirmed, that no American is subjected to that kind of torment, to that kind of cost, financially and personally. And most importantly, I will make sure that no American is subjected to death threats like I was.

and subjected to moving their residences like I was because of government overreach, because of leaks of information about my personal status. If confirmed as FBI director, Mr. Chairman, you have my commitment that no one in this country will feel that pain.

The problem is the things that we can't release have nothing to do with the questions you guys are asking. That's about as far as I can go on it. But like the answers you guys want, you pretty much have them. There is very minimal stuff that can't be seen for things that you wouldn't even think are related to that.

On Joe Pack's podcast, he asked you, the Capitol Police in that fake January 6 committee, they didn't tell the truth, did they? Patel, no, not just them, many others. And lying under oath is a federal offense and they should be investigated for it. Do you believe that about the police officers?

I'm not going to comment on that.

Because there's a process in place, there's an ongoing litigation, and the National Security Council is reviewing this matter. And I'm not going to discuss any open or closed investigation.

Just in the last three weeks, Trey, the FBI has arrested and brought to justice, thanks to the Department of Justice and Pam Bondi, three top 10 of the FBI's most wanted. Let me just say that again. Not one, not two, but three of the FBI's most wanted top 10 are now in custody because of our relationships with folks like Director Ratcliffe and Secretary Hexeth and Rubio, and the list goes on.

And in the last 12 months before I got into this seat, Trey, do you know how many top 10 FBI's most wanted were arrested by the FBI? Zero. That's the difference. Four weeks in, we got three and we're just warming up.

We must tackle violent crime. The priority of the FBI, if I'm confirmed, will be to ensure that our communities are protected. The second way we do this on equal track is aggressive constitutional oversight from Congress. The public trust can only be restored if there is full transparency, and I am committed to that full transparency.

That's an abject lie and you know it. I've never, never, ever accepted violence against law enforcement.

The best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations. The only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the FBI.

Because Bobbi thought she was fantastic. She's highly, she's a brilliant woman. Bobbi really thought she was great. I don't know her. I listened to the recommendation of Bobbi. I met her yesterday and once before. She's a very outstanding person. A great academic, actually.

That means we lose less money. When I see that, that means we lose less money. So when you say it slowed down, that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

I don't want him to have that.

gang cases, 3,000 cases against violent criminals.

We know that you... Well, you asked if I was weaponizing the FBI, and I am not. I'm giving you the hard, concrete examples of the men and women putting handcuffs on bad people, doing harm to our children and innocent Americans.

I have not placed anyone on leave who has not violated their ethical obligation or their oath to the Constitution.

Nope. I think the common theme here is you putting words in my mouth, and I'm not going to tolerate it, nor will the men and women of the FBI.

No, not if she broke the law or the ethical guidelines. I don't know which case you're talking about, but that's the standard. And we will hold ourselves inwardly accountable. And we will not be strayed from our mission because people think we are politicizing the Bureau. If you want to talk about someone who was attacked by a weaponized Bureau, you're looking at him.

And now he's the director of the FBI and he's cleaning it up.

For the first eight years after law school, I served as a public defender, first for Miami-Dade County and later for the Southern District of Florida. During that time, I represented some pretty awful human beings charged with some pretty heinous crimes. But what I learned there was the core value that has been enshrined in me since that due process must be provided without bias to all Americans.

And if we cannot provide due process to the worst, then there can be no due process for anyone. And our constitutional republic fails.

Senator, this may be one of the scenarios that most uniquely qualifies me to take command at the FBI. Having been the victim of government overreach and a weaponized system of justice and law enforcement, I know what it feels like to have the full weight of the United States government barreling down on you.

And as the Biden inspector general determined, those activities by the FBI and DOJ were wholly improper. and not predicated upon law and facts, I will ensure, if confirmed, that no American is subjected to that kind of torment, to that kind of cost, financially and personally. And most importantly, I will make sure that no American is subjected to death threats like I was.

and subjected to moving their residences like I was because of government overreach, because of leaks of information about my personal status. If confirmed as FBI director, Mr. Chairman, you have my commitment that no one in this country will feel that pain.

If confirmed and pursuant to your congressional request, absolutely, Senator.

If the best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the FBI. I stood with them. here in this country. In every theater of war we have, I was on the ground in service of this nation.

And any accusations leveled against me that I would somehow put political bias before the Constitution are grotesquely unfair. And I will have you reminded that I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI. Let's ask them.

The only thing that will matter if I'm confirmed as a director of the FBI is a de-weaponized, de-politicized system of law enforcement completely devoted to rigorous obedience of the Constitution and a singular standard of justice.

As we discussed in our private meeting, Senator, I have always rejected any violence against law enforcement, and I have, including in that group, specifically addressed any violence against law enforcement on January 6th, and I do not agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement.

Senator, I have not looked at all 1,600 individual cases. I have always advocated for imprisoning those that cause harm to our law enforcement and civilian communities.

Are you aware of any plans or discussions to punish in any way, including termination, FBI agents or personnel associated with Trump investigations? I'm not aware of that, Senator.

Are you aware of any plans or discussions to punish in any way, including termination, FBI agents or personnel associated with Trump investigations? I'm not aware of that, Senator. Thank you.

I did not have anything to do with the recording. I did not have anything to do with the recording. Do you stand by that testimony, Mr. Patel?

You said you didn't have anything to do with the recording, which is interesting because here's what you told Steve Bannon on his podcast. So what we thought would be cool is if we captured that audio and then, of course, had the greatest president, President Donald J. Trump, recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Then we went to a studio and recorded it, mastered it, digitized it, and put it out as a song now releasing exclusively on the War Room. We, we, we. If you had nothing to do with it, Mr. Patel, why did you tell Steve Bannon and all his listeners that you did?

Yeah, and you're part of the we, right? When you say we, that includes you, doesn't it, Mr. Patel? Not in every instance.

There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI should I be confirmed as the FBI director.

I have always rejected any violence against law enforcement. And I have, including in that group, specifically addressed any violence against law enforcement on January 6th. And I do not agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement.

My name is Kash Patel, and I have written the first ever Children's Russiagate book. It's called The Plot Against the King. It is a fantastical telling by me, the Russiagate chief investigator.

I don't know the in-depth of it, but I think that's what the Supreme Court has said, Senator.

I can say whatever the Constitution the Supreme Court ruled is the rule of the land.

Senator, I appreciate the time to visit with you.

Senator, every FBI employee will be held to the absolute same standard, and no one will be terminated for case assignments.

All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution.

By saying all FBI employees should be protected?

I'm looking at you. You're talking to me.

That's an abject lie, and you know it. I've never... Never, ever accepted violence against law enforcement. I've worked with these men and women, as you know.

He killed himself. Again, you want me to... I've seen the whole file. He killed himself.

Simply this. If the best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the FBI. I stood with them here in this country. In every theater of war we have, I was on the ground in service of this nation.

And any accusations leveled against me that I would somehow put political bias before the Constitution are grotesquely unfair. And I will have you reminded that I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI. Let's ask them.

Senator, I appreciate the time to visit with you.

Senator, every FBI employee will be held to the absolute same standard, and no one will be terminated for case assignments.

All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution.

By saying all FBI employees should be protected?

Thank you for bringing that up and allowing me to answer. It was to highlight the significantly greater point that I was actually making in that interview, which is well documented over and over again. 38,000 FBI employees. 7,500 FBI employees work in the Washington field office and Hoover building alone.

If you increase that aperture just slightly to encompass the national capital region, that is 11,000 FBI employees work in the national capital region. A third of the workforce... for the FBI works in Washington, D.C.

I am fully committed to having that workforce go out into the interior of the country where I live, west of the Mississippi, and work with sheriff's departments and local officers, and having one agent prevent one homicide, and having one agent in Washington prevent one rape.

And I will do that over and over and over again because the American people deserve the resources, not in Washington, D.C., but in the rest of the country.

And the biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of its Intel shops. I'd break that component out of it. I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the deep state. And I'd take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You're cops. Go be cops.

Go chase down murderers and drug dealers and violent offenders. What do you need 7,000 people there for? Same thing with DOJ. What are all these people doing here? looking for their next government promotion, looking for their next fancy government title, looking for their parachute out of government. So while you're bringing in the right people, you also have to shrink government. Ah, I love it.

I love it.

The biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of its intel shops. I'd break that component out of it. I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the deep state. And I'd take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You're cops. Go be cops.

Trump, Justice Cabinet's court. You can go forward. There are still avenues to hold Hunter Biden accountable. But my ultimate objective is to hold the deep state actors in the government accountable for all the cover-ups. Hunter Biden should have been in prison long before Joe Biden was ever elected president.

If his name hadn't been Biden, he would have been in prison for a multitude of financial crimes, not to mention his drug-related crimes, his gun-related crimes, and the sex trafficking and all the other crimes that were so apparent and obvious on the laptop. So I believe that the Kash Patel And Pam Bondi are serious about reforming what we all refer to as the deep state.

These these intelligence and justice cabinet federal bureaucrats that have a two tier system of justice that have weaponized their agencies against conservatives. And I believe that we can use our investigation of Hunter Biden as the blueprint for how to hold these bureaucrats.

Well, it's not my choir. It's simply a recording that was utilized to raise funds for families in need of nonviolent offenders.

Simply to raise funds to assist families of nonviolent offenders whose kids needed college education payments and whose rent needed being paid.

Thanks, Stu. Always love coming on your show.

Thanks, Stu. Appreciate it.

Thanks, Stu. Appreciate it. See you soon.

Thanks so much. Appreciate it, Stu.

Thanks so much, Stu. Appreciate it. You've got a great show.

Not off the top of my head.

My association, as you loosely define it, is by appearing in media over a thousand times to take on people who are putting on conspiratorial theories and to devalue them of their false impressions and to talk to them about the truth. That is something that I will always continue to fight for, Senator.

Senator, that's a partial quotation. But it's correct? In part.

I have no plans in going backwards.

Senator, every investigation will be subject to the same legal standard.

I have no intentions of going backwards.

Every intention of using the Constitution.

No one that did not break the law will be investigated.

Senator, what I said was I didn't do the recording.

Joe Biden was the president of the United States.

That's why it says we, as you highlighted.

Not unless you have a new definition for the word we.

Me personally, no.

Me personally, no.

No, I was using the proverbial we appropriately as you've identified.

It was due last week by law.

And your answer is you just understand you're not going to follow the law.

And you have no timeline?

They're deranged is all I can think of. I cannot believe I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law and they are not. And we're sending a very strong message today. If you are harboring a fugitive, we don't care who you are.

If you are helping hide one, if you are giving a TDA member guns, anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.

We are going to prosecute you and we are prosecuting you. I found out about this the day it happened. We could not believe actually that a judge really did that. We looked into the facts in great depth. That's her picture up on the screen. Hannah Dugan, who is now in custody. You cannot obstruct a criminal case and really shame on her. It was a domestic violence case of all cases.

And she's protecting a criminal defendant over victims of crime.

It's three years from now. And instead of a Republican president, it's a Democrat president. And this Democratic president says, you know, this journalist, Will Cain, man, he's really irritating me. And so I am going to lock him up. And I'm going to accuse him of sedition and libel. And you call your lawyer and you say, well, I want to get a hearing in front of a judge.

And the Democratic president says, nope, Will Kane is not legally a citizen because he committed crimes in the past that deprive him of due process. And you don't get a hearing.

What I'm telling you is that unless we ensure that everybody in this country gets to stand in front of a judge, everybody in this country cannot be confident that they will be able to stand in front of a judge when their political opponents get power.

I'm confident that you don't believe this president will just said this president. This president just said he wants to apply his extradition of immigrants to El Salvador next to American citizens. Do you understand where this leads, the slippery slope that it takes us to? Until somebody gets to stand in front of a judge, we don't know whether they're illegal.

We don't know what crimes they have been convicted of. The point is, is that politicians don't get to be judge, jury and executioner. They have to go through the courts of law.

Yeah, I think fear mongering is when the president tries to blame Canada for our problems. Right. I'm not fear mongering. I am defending the core principle of freedom, freedom from fear. And again, that means that individuals should be able to walk to a CVS and buy some shaving cream without having to ask the clerk to unlock it for them.

We absolutely need to address public safety and open air drug use and homelessness in our downtowns because people should be able to go around their daily life and have that freedom. but it also means that they are free from government intruding upon their personal liberty. That is a thousand-year-old tradition of the Anglo-Saxon legal code.

I understand.

My answer is that I am following the law and I'm working with my interagency partners to do this and get you the budget that you are required to have.

No.

It's being worked on, ma'am.

Not yet.

As soon as I can get it from my interagency partners and get it approved.

I don't know, ma'am.

Well, ma'am, I'm here. I'm doing the best I can. I can't make up answers. I'm going to commit to you to work on getting you the information you need.

I've given my response.

I have not placed anyone on leave who has not violated their ethical obligation or their oath to the Constitution.

Nope. I think the common theme here is you putting words in my mouth, and I'm not going to tolerate it, nor will the men and women of the FBI.

No, not if she broke the law or the ethical guidelines. I don't know which case you're talking about, but that's the standard. And we will hold ourselves inwardly accountable. And we will not be strayed from our mission because people think we are politicizing the bureau. If you want to talk about someone who was attacked by a weaponized bureau, you're looking at him.

And now he's the director of the FBI and he's cleaning it up.

Yes, I agree with the Fifth Amendment. I agree with the entire Constitution and the men and women at the FBI decide.

Again, Senator, it's not for me to call the balls and strikes on it. The men and women at the FBI who are trained to open investigations will make those calls.

I have influence over it, but you're asking me a constitutional question. I'm not a constitutional scholar.

Your position is that every one of those individuals is by constitutional right afforded due process. I don't know the answer to that. I'm telling you. You haven't read the constitution? It says all persons. I've got it right here. But what you're saying is that every single one of the illegals that was sent down to El Salvador is supposed to be given due process pursuant.

It doesn't say that.

Oh sure, it's possible. I mean, I don't. Ich glaube, er hat vermutlich Suizid gemacht. Er hat ein Leben mit wunderschönen Häusern und wunderschönem Alles. Und plötzlich ist er verletzt und tut nicht so gut. Ich würde sagen, dass er es gemacht hat. Aber es gibt diese Leute, es gibt viele Leute. Ich glaube, du bist einer davon, richtig? Aber viele Leute denken, dass er getötet wurde.

Er wusste viel über viele Leute. Er wurde getötet.

Wir werden gute Ratings in deinem Show bekommen.

I understand.

My answer is that I am following the law, and I'm working with my interagency partners to do this and get you the budget that you are required to have.

No.

It's being worked on, ma'am.

Not yet.

As soon as I can get it from my interagency partners and get it approved.

I don't know, ma'am.

Well, ma'am, I'm here. I'm doing the best I can. I can't make up answers. I'm going to commit to you to work on getting you the information you need.

Well, I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who's been in that prison system, who's been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that's what that was. He killed himself. Again, I've seen the whole fire.

Well, I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who's been in that prison system, who's been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing. What does that mean? You know a suicide when you see one.

I'm here at the White House. I just met with Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, And the president and the vice president of the United States, Donald Trump and JD Vance, today has been absolutely surreal. This is the power of new media.

So I already told you what we did when we briefed Trump on the originations and what he did, based on the intel we had at the time. Then enter Fauci and the media. No, no, no, the Chinese would never do this. It's not about, no, no, it didn't come from that. Then the wet bat thing came out and some other goofy whatever. Right. Okay, what did we just learn six weeks ago?

Gina Haspel, as director of the CIA, under Trump, authorized six case officers and intelligence analysts to be paid off so that they would change their assessment on COVID originations. Correct. That's not a Kash Patel thing.

That's a CIA institutional decision to spend taxpayer dollars to lie to the world where COVID came from because it fit the narrative that Fauci and the media wanted out there along with Gina Haspel because she didn't want Donald Trump to get the credit for reading the intel right and making the hard right decision.

What's the answer to that? The answer to that is the same as everything else. I'm not going to withhold information from the American public ever. But I'm also not going to rush to get it out there in a format in which they can't rely on it. So on the Epstein matter or any other matters, we are diligently working on that.

And it takes time to go through years of investigations, years of political maneuvering, and years of cover-up to get the American people what they deserve. And that's what I'm going to give them.

More importantly, people have had questions about January 6th and whether or not there were FBI sources, not agent sources, on the ground during January 6th. And I told you I would get you the definitive answer to that. And we have. And we are in the process, again, of working with our partners to divulge that information. And it is coming. And I will tell you this.

The answer to that question will surprise and shock people because of what past FBI leaders have said about it.

What you're learning from that? I can say that that is definitely a piece of the truth. Why it took... a ton of time and questioning in Congress for the director to get that point is what I'm trying to eliminate from the FBI.

That's James Comey. If he wants to come after me, no problem. I've been living rent-free in that guy's head for years, and that's just a bonus. Do you know how many copycats we've had to investigate as a result? of that beachside venture from the former director. Is that right?

Do you know how many agents I've had to take offline from chasing down child sex predators, fentanyl traffickers, terrorists? Because everywhere across this country, people are popping up on social media and think that a threat to the life of the president of the United States is a joke and they can do it because he did it.

Ma'am, you want to know who was targeted by a weaponized FBI? Me. You want to know how and why? You want to know what I'm doing to fix it?

Well, you should read the book because there's no enemies list on that book. There are people that violated their constitutional obligations and their duties to the American people. And they were rightly called out. And you should give that book to every one of your constituents so they can read about it.

That violated their constitutional obligations and their duties to the American people. And they were rightly called out. And you should give that book to every one of your constituents so they can read about it.

That's their loss.

We should worry more about your lack of candor. You're accusing me of committing perjury. Tell the American people how I broke the law and committed a felony. Have the audacity to actually put the facts forward instead of lying for political banter so you can have a 20-second donation hit.

I'll do what I've always done and represent the American people, defend this country, and make sure the Constitution is always upheld and the FBI is never weaponized. Maybe you should do the same. Amen.

If you want to just keep putting words in my mouth, the TV cameras are outside.

More so for you.

I really appreciate this. This shows what the men and women of the FBI can do when they have leadership who are in lockstep with the national security mission of safeguarding our citizens. Just in the last three weeks, Trey, the FBI has arrested and brought to justice, thanks to the Department of Justice and Pam Bondi, Three top 10 of the FBI's most wanted. Let me just say that again.

Not one, not two, but three of the FBI's most wanted top 10 are now in custody because of our relationships with folks like Director Ratcliffe and Secretary Hexeth and Rubio and the list goes on. But we've also returned to justice in just one short week's time one of the architects of the Abbey Gate explosion that killed 13 of our service members.

We did that in one week, flying through multiple countries and going into Pakistan and utilizing our liaison relationships and the leverage that we have, thanks to great guys like Johnny Ratcliffe, and getting a modicum of justice to the American people. And just to put that in perspective, those folks have been on the run for four years.

And in the last 12 months before I got into this seat, Trey, do you know how many top 10 FBI's most wanted were arrested by the FBI? Zero. That's the difference. Four weeks in, we got three and we're just warming up.

I want the American public to know, too, we've had problems at the FBI. We are going to hold ourselves internally accountable for those meeting out justice who have the privilege to serve and wear the gun and the badge or the uniform of the FBI out in the field. Where those missteps have been taken, we've already addressed that. by eliminating those people from the roles of the FBI.

And we will continue to vigorously uphold on a 24-7, 365 basis, as vigorously as we pursue violent crime, those that abuse or corrupt or violate their oath of office at the FBI. And I will not stand for it. I will have zero tolerance for those that we will utilize our badge to harm our country.

Well, I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who's been in that prison system, who's been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that's what that was.

2016.

What was the FBI doing? Well, we got answers coming. We just found a trove of information and it's on its way to Capitol Hill right now. And they've asked and they're getting them and you're getting answers on January 6th. You're getting answers on what sourcing was utilized, what money was utilized, how many assets were utilized, who made those decisions. You're getting it.

We can only control the FBI, but you're getting it from the FBI.

Like I said, that answer is coming and it's on its way to Congress.

the American public to realize what we did. That man was in a position where he literally fought back against the machine who was saying, we want to politicize this event. We wanna politicize this event. And at the end of the day, remember Maria, there's a chain of command here. So you can fight back your chain of command to a certain degree before they fire you.

And Steve Jensen and other folks were promoted because they embody what the American public demands of FBI agents.

Now is continue to put out the documents and the information that these people withheld from the American public. And I'm just telling you right now, as much as we know about Crossfire Hurricane, he and I just found out more last week. And we're continuing to work with Congress to put those documents out. That's how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was.

Not only did they bastardize the FISA process in light of the American public, they withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren't supposed to look. And it's a good thing we're here now to clean it up. And you're about to see a wave of transparency. What do you mean? Just give us about a week or two.

What you need to show is whether or not the FBI and government agents were using undercover operatives and informants on the day of January 6th. Because if you can show that, you know they've been out. Hang on. But the paperwork shows having run informants, that's a six-month buildup. Minimum. Minimum. It's not like they just dropped them into the Proud Boys and said, hey, don't disrupt, please.

Once you prove that, then you defeat the insurrection narrative with the FBI's own documentation. Forget what the videotape shows.

Understood. I mentioned that Kash Patel disclaims that he opposed.

Chris Wray was caught last year illegally using 702 collection methods against Americans 274,000 times. 274,000 times. It's not my number. It's in the report that they wrote. The FISA court wrote it. And then the FISA court, and there was this big fight about 702 reauthorization. I know it might not be appealing to your audience, but it was a big fight this year to say, we want FISA reform.

And FISA did need reform. We exposed it, and we gave you a bunch of reforms during Russiagate, and it never got implemented. So because the budget of FISA was up this cycle, we demanded Congress fix it. And do you know what the majority in the House, where the Republicans did? They bent the knee. They re-offed it. Why? Why? I don't know. Ask them.

And they said, oh, no, we're just doing it for another year. We're just going to kick the can down the road. I'm like, OK, so the other year you're doing it for is an election year. We showed you how they abused FISA once already.

And then now you know about Chris Wray and all these other FISA abuses, but you trust the director of the FBI, this guy, Chris Wray, who went before you and said, no, no, don't worry. We fixed everything. We're good. And they gave him more spy powers. I can't answer that one. And I couldn't, I couldn't get on board with that, that legislative fix.

In the National Capital Region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, D.C., there were 11,000 FBI employees. That's like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn't happen here. So we're taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out. Every state's getting a plus up.

And I think when we do things like that, we inspire folks in America to become intel analysts and agents and say, we want to go work at the FBI because we want to go fight violent crime, and we want to get sent out into the country to do it. And that's what we're doing. In the next three, six, nine months, we're going to do that hard,

And, you know, I didn't know that I was going to do this, but I'm going to announce it on your show anyway. This FBI is leaving the Hoover building because this building is unsafe for our workforce. And we just gave up a big nugget.

We want but we want the American men and women to know if you're going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, we're going to give you a building that's commensurate with that. And that's not this place.

Congressman Abrego Garcia. No, no, I'm just asking about this photo. It wasn't based off of tattoos. It was based off an entire case.

The same protocols that are applied to every law enforcement.

Sir, the protocols in the case built against- Can you answer the question? We're exactly the same. Madam Secretary, you're- I don't have any knowledge as to that photo you're pointing to. I love this. All right. That's enough.