Kash Patel

They're combining forces there, but Russia and the CCP are doing so much more adversarial intelligence collections against us, against our electric grids and other things.

But the biggest holistic CT threat is Iran.

I'm not the minerals expert, actually.

Lithium, correct?

Lithium and cobalt, I thought it was.

Yeah.

Why?

Because they want to give Elon Musk a lot of electric batteries.

Yeah, 100%.

Look, it's the modern-day blood diamond, lithium and cobalt.

Call it what it is.

You could celebrate it over here as some sort of green energy, amazing economic environmental phenomenon.

you know, home run.

But like you said, how are you getting out of Afghanistan?

You think these camps and mines these people run are above board?

The people in there working them are getting paid good wages?

What about the folks in CAR in Central African Republic and Congo doing the same thing?

How's their life?

It's the modern day blood diamond.

And the ironic thing of it all is if you ran a Ford pickup truck for 20 years,