Kash Patel

You got to get Congress's buy-in to budget this, to allow the agencies and department to go in and make this a priority, to allow companies come in and rebuild the infrastructure and fix it.

Same with our nuclear programs and our nuclear arsenal.

It's the same deal.

So we're fucked.

I think we have...

An ability, that's why I think this election is so important, not just for everything we've talked about to this point, but in terms of national security and defense, which is sort of my wheelhouse.

We have an opportunity to come in and reprioritize all the things that you and I have just been talking about.

so that the American people are safeguarded, because they've been neglected for too long, because these have not been priorities of the current administration and some of the previous administrations.

Something's going to happen, if not already.

Here's the other thing.

The intel community right now is playing catch up on half these attacks because, again, it wasn't a priority to preemptively detect them and thwart the attack.

And so...

Not only are you playing catch up, not only is it a deprioritization of intelligence collection enforcement, you also don't have a will in D.C.

to fix and upgrade any of this stuff.

So they're going to I've always said they're going to come at us in some fashion during this election cycle.

I don't know exactly what that's going to look like or if we're going to know right away.

opportune time for them to strike.

I think there's one other factor that we talked about at breakfast that

may alter that a little bit, which is there's so much bad stuff going on right now that our adversaries have collectively kicked off against us, whether it's the border, whether it's the never-ending war in Ukraine, whether it's the war in Israel, whether it's the CCP and what they're doing or going to do in Taiwan, whatever's going on in Africa, whether it's Afghanistan and its resurgence of al-Qaeda.

There's so many things going on, and I think an adversary that traditionally might have waited to that opportune day might come in in the interim and say, these guys have no idea how to defend what we can put out there right now.