Kash Patel
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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 get on board with that legislative fix.