Kash Patel

For us, though, we can't divulge the substance of those conversations because the prosecutors and the Department of Justice are going to be the ones that adjudicate that information as to whether or not they need to use it in a court of law and present it for purposes of indictment and grand jury and further execution of search warrants.

So this is very much an ongoing investigation we're going to be continuing to conduct.

multiple search warrants.

We're going to continue to put multiple witnesses in grand juries because we want to make sure we've captured the totality of this individual's conduct.

He's speaking to us.

I can't get into that because it infringes on some of these constitutional rights.

And we at the FBI are going to uphold even this individual's constitutional rights due process.

I have not seen him, but maybe we will later.

Let's work backwards because executing a search warrant and subpoenas are a position FBI wants to get to.

But in order to get there, we have to have probable cause and targets and accounts that we need to examine.

So what the FBI did was we went through three million lines of evidence in this case.

And Deputy Director Bongino

spearheaded an effort to create a team here nationally of subject matter experts that came into the fbi and reviewed those three million lines of evidence that included information such as cell phone data tower dumps triangulation information so the fbi has some of the best cell phone analysis systems in the world we call it a cast system and basically we said hey let's look at every single phone number again that was in the area that's what i mean when we said we didn't receive any new information

We just reviewed the information that was already in our holdings, in our databases.

And when we went through that, we found leads that we then went with our great prosecutors at the Department of Justice and Attorney General Bondi and US Attorney Jeanine Pirro and said, hey, now we need some search warrants.

Now we need search warrants on these providers, social media accounts, email accounts, cell phone accounts.

And we need to ultimately execute search warrants of his residence and place of business because that's where this individual went most.

And so naturally, we had to develop enough probable cause to get there.

And that takes a little bit of time.

That piece of information will reveal in court because that's the appropriate place to reveal it in terms of any history or prior contacts with law enforcement.