Kash Patel, former FBI head, calls his tenure "wild," shifting 30% of D.C.-based agents to the field while exposing China’s CCP as the primary fentanyl precursor supplier, now routing through India and Canada. He reveals illegal surveillance under Comey, McCabe, and Strzok—backed by fabricated foreign intel—later rewarded despite lies to courts, and ties Catholic targeting to Russiagate fallout. Patel confirms FBI holds Fauci’s Trump-era devices for pandemic origins probes and details depoliticized gains: 15% fewer line-of-duty deaths, 20% lower murder rates. He warns of systemic failures like Emily Pike’s unsolved tribal-land murder and China’s agroterrorism threats, including pathogen smuggling and cyberattacks like Salt Typhoon, while slamming media for prioritizing DEI and climate narratives over terrorism—like downplayed Molotov attacks and D.C. shootings—undermining national security. [Automatically generated summary]
I thought that we were going to be able to come in with the movement that President Trump came in with, the administration, to fix the errors that the leadership of the FBI previously made, not like the 37,000 change people.
And we are.
We're doing a ton of work.
I didn't know we would be able to do this quickly.
Is my surprise.
And what that showed me was the people at the Bureau, literally, people who've been there, 30-year agents, they're coming up to me and be like, dude, we wanted to do that 15 years ago.
You know, when I said, hey, there are, these are the statistics from the USG, so you can take them or leave them, right?
I don't know where else to go because nobody else does these, right?
In the last calendar year, not this one, the year before last.
100,000 people were dying of drug overdoses a year.
That's one every seven minutes.
A child or kid was being raped every six and a half minutes in this country.
And there were two homicides an hour in this country.
And we have a 38,000-person workforce.
And I said, okay, where are the agents?
Where are intel analysts?
Where is everybody?
We got 55 field offices.
We got 300 what we call RAs, resident agencies.
So satellite offices, the field offices in major cities.
And they said, well, we've got 11,000 FBI employees in what we call the NCR, the National Capital Regions.
So if you take D.C. and you do a 50-mile, 60-mile radius around it, 11,000, almost a third of the workforce worked there.
And I said, what the hell are they doing there?
They said, well, they mandated if you want a promotion, if you want to move up, you've got to come back here and prioritize stuff here.
So I said, look, we're moving agents and intel analysts to the field.
And that's what I did.
1,500 people are going to the field because a third of the crime doesn't happen in Washington, D.C. and the 65 miles around it.
And everybody was like, we've been wanting to do this forever.
I mean, just think about it.
One agent out in Indian country, one agent out in Texas, Arkansas, Washington state, prevents a homicide, conducts a major drug bust, stops a ton of fentanyl or meth from coming into our country.
One agent can do that.
And the agents that I talk to now from around the country are just stoked.
And it's usually like a five-minute TV thing just to keep you abreast.
And we do a lot of stuff on social media.
But I've been looking forward to this for a long time.
Even when I was on the campaign, I was just this is like the best way to get information out.
So fentanyl, right?
Everybody's like, how do you attack fentanyl?
How do you stop this stuff?
Okay.
Yes, let's go after the gang, excuse me, the narco-terrorists down in Mexico.
100%.
You got to go after the cartels, the drug trafficking organizations.
You got to shore up the southern border.
The president has done an amazing job at both of those things.
Made it a priority.
So we have decreased the amount of fentanyl being moved around, let's say, right?
But not necessarily coming into the United States.
So where's the root of the problem?
The CCP.
So the fentanyl precursors, the stuff you need to make fentanyl, comes from mainland China.
That's it.
Now, I'm sure like 1% of it comes from somewhere else in the world.
But that's where it comes.
They've got hundreds of companies standing up in mainland China shipping this stuff out into the world.
Now, their cover is that fentanyl has and it does have a legitimate lawful purpose in terms of an anesthetic or medical use for anesthesiology-related stuff.
OK, so there's like a minimal use for it.
And what the CCP has done is they've come out and said this is like the biggest like talk about the devil pulling the wool over the world's eyes.
They're like, we don't make fentanyl.
They're right.
They don't.
They just give you all the ingredients for it and ship it to Mexico.
And then what they did was, to trick the world, they came out and said, hey, we're going to not sell Precursor X. They're like, so now we're out of the fentanyl trade entirely.
The problem is, there's 14 other precursors you can use to make fentanyl, and they're still shipping all of those.
So what we did when I got to the bureau is we stood up this massive enterprise to go after fentanyl precursor companies in mainland China.
And they're probably not going to like that.
And what they're doing now to get cute is they're shipping that stuff not straight to here.
They're going to places like India, and I'm also doing operations in India.
And they're having the Mexican cartels now make this fentanyl down in Mexico still.
But instead of going right up the southern border and into America, you know what they're doing?
They're flying it into Vancouver.
They're taking the precursors up to Canada, manufacturing it up there, and doing their global distribution routes from up there because we were being so effective down south.
Yeah, it's a huge lift.
But part of it is Americans just don't understand the depth and depravity of fentanyl.
But what's worse is fentanyl, you don't hear fentanyl deaths in China.
You don't hear fentanyl deaths in India.
You don't really hear fentanyl deaths in England, Australia, New Zealand, our Five Eyes partners in Canada.
The Chinese, in my opinion, the CCP, have used it as a directed approach because we are their adversary and they don't like us and we don't like what they're doing when it comes to fentanyl.
And their long-term game is this.
How do I, in my opinion, kneecap the United States of America, our largest adversary?
Well, why don't we go and take out generations of young men and women who might grow up to serve in the United States military or become a cop or become a teacher?
And that's what they're doing when you wipe out tens of thousands of Americans a year.
You could sell fentanyl precursors unless you jacked up the price to exorbitant amounts of money.
They're not making a ton of money.
And so it's an all-of-government approach.
So I'm working with guys like the Secretary of Treasury to do sanctions on some of these companies, right?
Then I'm working with our Five Eyes partners.
And our Five Eyes are the five English-speaking countries in the world, Canada, America, England, New Zealand, and Australia, right?
We share intelligence.
We share classified intelligence on this stuff.
So I'm asking them.
I said, hey, it's not just affecting us.
It will affect you and your population.
The CCP just hasn't directed it at you yet.
And they know that.
And I said, guys, I need your help.
I'm looking at intelligence reporting that shows fentanyl precursors are now in your country.
The fentanyl itself isn't being deployed into your country.
But it's there being manufactured.
And so I'm asking for their help to shut down those factories and production facilities.
And I'm asking the Mexican government's help to come and say, hey, your drug trafficking organizations are now exporting the manufacturing of fentanyl and getting creative in the ways in which they obtained fentanyl precursors.
So they'll say, oh, we didn't get it from China.
We got it from India.
We got it from wherever.
And it's too cute by a half.
It's not like there's been a reduction.
In the amount of fentanyl precursors that mainland China produces.
What there has been a reduction in is President Trump's administration's aggressive approach to just crush the fentanyl trafficking.
And unfortunately, our adversaries adapt.
We're so good down south on the border here.
And we're so good in Mexico that they're moving it elsewhere.
So the fentanyl, a lot of it is, it's not just fentanyl overdoses, right?
It's opiate overdoses overall.
Is a lot of it because people get hooked on pills and then they want more and then they can buy black market pills and those are the ones that have fentanyl in it?
Or is it molly and things like that that have been laced with fentanyl?
People can go use fentanyl and get killed on fentanyl.
Then what they do is they manufacture as part of this, they being the drug trafficking organizations, once they get the precursors from the CCP, they take their pill presses and they make fake oxycodone.
So like literally, I'm just giving an example.
Make tens of thousands of pills of fake oxycodone and we bust them for it.
And in that fake pill is fentanyl.
It's laced with fentanyl that kills people.
Then the drug trafficking organizations, to make it appealing for the youth, shape this illicit narcotic in the form of like candy and gummy bears.
So you hear about kids in New York who just happen to have like a trace amount touching it somewhere, also dying from it.
Absolutely no rules or boundaries whatsoever when it comes to how they deploy fentanyl to get into our population.
It could be through another drug.
It could be through a synthetic.
It could be through a fake drug.
Or it could be like, hey, and we've seized it.
Thousands of pounds of material that looks like candy.
Like so inner city youth, they're like, hey, put a pill down on the table.
Put a gummy bear down on the table.
You know, a younger person to be like, oh, that's cool.
Let me try that.
I mean, I can tell you stories from now until the entire show about high school kids on the verge of graduating.
And they went out and took a pill that they thought was, you know, an upper.
But it happened to be laced with fentanyl.
They died.
Their parents are calling.
They're destroyed.
And people are like, well, we got to go after the drug traffickers.
I'm like, we do and we are.
But what my job is to educate the American public on the root cause of the fentanyl that is destroying our society.
And it's the fentanyl precursors that I've asked.
I literally just got off the phone with the Indian government.
I said, I need your help.
This stuff's coming into your country.
And then they're moving it from your country because India is not consuming fentanyl.
They're not.
No one's dying over there from fentanyl.
But I need you and your help.
So my FBI is over there working with the heads of their government, law enforcement authorities, to say, we're going to find these companies that buy it and we're going to shut them down.
We're going to sanction them.
We're going to arrest them where we can.
We're going to indict them in America if we can.
We're going to indict them in India if we can.
Start indicted in places like Canada and the UK and England and Australia.
This is a global problem.
And the reason it's gotten so bad is because nobody did anything for four years.
You know, people are like, how do they stand this up?
Well, if you give the CCP, who has an endless amount of money to deploy in human capital, that's what happens.
And anything that kills 100,000 people a year is a national security crisis, right?
It's what we call a tier one threat.
And the last administration did not classify the drug trafficking enterprise as a Prime threat against the American people.
And so what happens is you reorient the system of intelligence collection operations.
I mean, I'm not making this up.
They said climate change is our biggest priority.
DEI is our biggest priority.
I mean, you guys have heard this and you've had guests on that say.
But these are the ramifications in real life.
I only have X amount of people that can target something, right?
Same with the CIA, same with the DOD.
But if the United States government and Uncle Sam and your commander-in-chief said, hey, I need your X amount of people looking here, I can't clone that army to look back at fentanyl.
So I was – in the end of the last Trump administration, I was chief of staff at the Department of Defense, one of the greatest jobs – at the time, I thought the greatest job I'd ever have.
And when we left, we said, hey, Iran is a huge threat.
We got to never let up on the counterterrorism mission.
We still have hostages out there we got to find and bring home.
And the narcotics mission is a big priority.
We handed off our playbook and we said, look, this is not a political issue.
This is protecting the American people and our allies.
So we hope you guys continue this effort.
So the DOD has this thing called CONOPS, Concept of Operations.
The Department of Defense has 3 million employees.
And a CONOP is how you move the machine of the Department of Defense.
Hey, we have a threat in Indopaycom.
How many carrier groups are we sending down there?
We got a threat with government X. What are we doing operationally, kinetically?
What are we doing intelligence collection?
That's a CONOP.
The first concept of operation that the Biden administration launched at the Department of Defense was on climate change.
I think it's – so that was something I tried to answer when I was out of government for the last four years before I took this job.
And the answer laid in the first Trump term.
We were doing things so effectively on national security that hadn't been done before in such speed and volume that the media hated us for it because the other party had tried to do it and failed.
It used to be counterterrorism was a big portfolio.
I ran it for the White House, the National Security Council, and the first Trump administration.
We brought home, people don't know this, President Trump in his first term brought home and rescued over 50 hostages and detainees from around the world.
That's more than every president before him combined.
Did you hear about the successes of reuniting families with lost loved ones from Africa and the Middle East or these operations that the president was courageous enough to greenlight to go into places like Afghanistan and do these hostage rescue ops and use SEAL Team 6 and Delta or take out guys like Baghdadi and Soleimani?
President Trump's directive was simple.
We are going to protect the homeland.
We're not going to endanger the lives of our armed forces and our intelligence community.
But their job is to protect the homeland.
And he said, go.
And we went.
And I think there was such a resounding success that the media had such a hatred for President Trump and his administration.
They just said, one, we're not going to give you the credit.
Two, we're going to put out a ton of disinformation, which we can get into.
And three, when it came time to transition governments from Trump to Biden, they just said, we're not going to do – and this is my opinion – we're not going to do any of the stuff that worked because then we'll have to attribute it to Trump's policies.
So we're going to go off on our end.
And I keep asking people to prove me wrong.
Like, tell me something you did in that administration that carried out the apolitical national security mission to a T. I mean, you had the Secretary of Defense in the Biden administration go down, go to a hospital, MIA, literally AWOL, and didn't tell the Commander-in-Chief.
And broke the National Command Authority.
There is a reason, and I was a guy responsible for that nuclear football for part of my time at the White House, that that thing, and there is an unbroken chain of command between the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Command Authority at all times, because shit happens.
And what if it had happened in that one or two weeks the guy was in the hospital, and maybe something did, and we don't even know, right?
But no one, including the President, Didn't know the Secretary of Defense was in the hospital.
I can't tell you how big of a cataclysmic failure for the national security mission that is.
And what I tell people when they're like, that's all right, it's not that big of a deal.
What if Hexeth took a week out and said, I'm going to the hospital, I'm not telling anyone.
What do you think the media would do to that guy and Trump if that were to happen now?
Could you imagine a time in the United States of America in the 21st century where a political party would go overseas and acquire fake foreign intelligence from a foreign intelligence officer funded by donations to that political party in the United States of America?
Then take that material, package it, walk it to the FBI, literally, and say, hey, we need you to surveil the opponent.
Of our political party who happens to be running for the president of the United States, then convince the FBI to go into a secret federal FISA court that I used to use to manhunt terrorists and say, hey, I need you to wiretap essentially all the comms in and around Trump camp because of the material we gave you and then have that FBI lie to the federal court and the judge in that warrant application, which is a felony.
Intentionally remove information of innocence from that application just to get it above the threshold so the judge would sign it.
That's Russiagate.
That's what they did.
And you remember the years and years of reporting surrounding Russia.
The FBI would never lie.
They would never do that.
The leadership there is above reproach.
James Comey, Andy McCabe, Peter Strzok.
The list goes on.
We caught him red-handed.
We caught him.
You've seen the text messages.
You've seen the documentation.
You've seen the reports.
But when I did that, when I exposed that initially as a staffer on the Hill, Adam Schiff comes out and has his cronies leaked to the world that I am acting as a genocidal dictator.
There was actually an article that called me- Genocidal dictator?
So the rule was, you can ding- elected representatives all you want in the media.
You don't touch staffers.
They didn't care because they knew what I had on earth was the biggest political criminal But hang on, that's the kicker.
So what people don't know about Russiagate that weren't paying attention was that warrant that initially kicked off the FISA surveillance on the Trump campaign writ large was substantiated by FBI leaks to the media.
Two of the articles cited in that warrant from, I think, Mother Jones and Yahoo News were leaks of information from the same leadership at the FBI, Peter Strzok, Andy McCabe, James Comey and company.
And then they, in the application, would be like, hey, it's not just us saying that Trump's a Russian asset, right?
Look at this article, Mr. Judge, on the federal FISA court.
And they included it in that application.
So this was a coordinated conspiracy to take down your political opponent by weaponizing government.
And now I say that now in 2025.
When I said that in 2017, whatever it was, people were like, you're out of your effing mind.
And I was like, look, man, I'm just showing you the facts.
I'm not making this up.
I'm showing you the application.
I'm showing you the documentation.
And that's when they came after me.
And it hasn't stopped ever since.
But the damage they did, they, the media, and the people that wanted to take out Trump, and I didn't care what you thought about.
And remember, back then, I hadn't met Trump, never spoken to him, didn't know him.
I took that job at Congress on one condition.
I said, whatever we find, we're putting out.
I'd been in for 16 years at that point, Democrats, Republicans.
I was a national security guy, intel guy.
That's what I wanted to do, chase terrorists, chase bad guys, bring hostages home and help protect the homeland.
And I said, I don't know if Trump did this.
I don't know if he was colluding with whoever.
I didn't know it turned out like this, that they would actually manufacture and make it up.
But half of America to this day still believes the narrative that the CNNs of the world pushed for five years.
And if you look on their shows now, Russiagate keeps coming back up because we keep exposing the documents that showed how bad these guys were.
And most Americans are like, no, no, they're already convinced.
So in order to fix that disease temple.
It is just that much harder of a lift for me to go back into the FBI.
We're going to get it done.
But it takes so much more communication and so much more energy to get after the American people and say, you were lied to.
Because that's the hardest thing I think people can ever admit to themselves.
You were lied to.
I went out for years and created a life cycle.
Out of this lie of Russiagate.
I went on TV.
I made money.
I wrote books.
I sold political advertisements based on it.
I educated my children based on it because I thought it was the truth.
And some of them have come back and said, yeah, we got it wrong.
But most haven't.
And that's the disinformation.
Seed, in my opinion, that started it all.
And then you could talk about things like January 6th or pick your poison, rescuing a hostage or what have you.
The media just never got on board.
They kneecapped Trump from the beginning by participating in the Russiagate collusion conspiracy with the FBI.
What if me as the FBI director in the Trump administration, right, during a presidential cycle went out there and said, hey, Republican National Committee, do you guys have dirt on whoever's running?
For the Democratic nomination to be president of the United States.
If you don't, can you go overseas and pay a foreign national who used to be an MI6 guy?
Get me some bogus intel.
Then I, as the FBI director, will authorize a warrant, a leak to the media while I'm doing it, take their articles, put it in that warrant, and then go surveil the opponent so he doesn't get elected.
I would be in prison, which I should be for doing anything like that.
And that's what you asked me at the beginning of the show.
You know, what's the hardest part?
I'm like, hey, I'm the guy that is exposing and giving you the accountability from 2017 onwards.
But I wasn't the guy in charge of putting people in prison and arresting them for this conduct.
And so the other education campaign I have to go on is there's this thing called the statute of limitations.
I can't prosecute people for their crimes in the past that the statute of limitations has run.
And I'll give you a great example that goes right back to Russiagate.
The systems I've created, maybe because of my time in Russiagate, is I'm committed to congressional oversight.
I'm committed to giving Congress the documents they need to do their work and give them to the American people.
Unredacted.
No classification BS.
You want it.
You get it.
So we – just think about this.
Me as the director of the FBI, the former Russiagate guy, when I first got to the bureau, found a room that Comey and
others – What's in there?
A lot of stuff.
I mean, that's the thing.
People are like, well, okay, go arrest him.
And I'm like, okay, well, how about you let me run a methodical investigation while I give over information?
One of the things we gave over before this, the room deal was, I don't know if you remember who Nellie Orr is.
It doesn't really matter.
Nellie Orr's husband.
Bruce Orr was like the number four at the Department of Justice, and he was the one who introduced the world to Christopher Steele, the guy that started Russiagate.
Well, the entire time her husband was doing that at DOJ, she, Nellie Orr, was working on an outside contract to dig up dirt on Donald Trump.
So she goes to the Hill and testifies as a result of our investigation right under oath.
She said, I never worked, and I'm paraphrasing, I never worked with my husband on any of that.
I would never do that.
What did Grassley put out just yesterday?
Two days ago?
The Nellie Orr documentation that the FBI hid to the world, that we gave them, where Nellie Orr is caught red-handed providing information to her husband, thumb drives related to Trump-Russia collusion, directly proving that Nellie Orr lied to Congress.
And in this age of transparency because of the internet and social media and independent news, everybody knows about it now.
If CNN and all these left-wing news sources, MSNBC, and it was only Fox on the right, and that was all we had, and we had no internet, all this would be completely secret.
No one would have known the Russiagate collusion that all that stuff would be people would really think it's a true story.
It would probably take decades before someone wrote a book where people started to really take it seriously and really realize that there was something fucked up about it.
But the reason I wrote it is, one, I never thought I was going back into government service.
And two, part of the job to completing the mission was exposing what people didn't ever think could happen in the United States of America.
And it was not just disinformation, misinformation, but your government and leaders in government weaponizing it for political purposes, not just FBI and DOJ, but others in the IC.
And what it shows you is the back end of that too, the rewards, right?
The guys that – wrapping it back up or reversing it back up.
The guys that were in charge of Russiagate at the FBI, Andy McCabe, right?
Remember what this guy did.
Andy McCabe.
Agreed to set in motion a plan with the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at the time to have him wear a wire into the Oval Office to record President Trump.
Those documents we found, we released them.
Put that aside.
While Andy McKay was in charge of the Trump-Russia gate collusion investigation, his wife was running for political office in the state of Virginia.
Do you know who's funding her campaign for political office to tune to $600,000?
Hillary Clinton World.
Who happened to be running against Donald Trump.
Do you know what Andy McCabe did?
He leaked information about the Clinton investigation to the media.
Unlawfully.
As the deputy director of the FBI.
Got caught by us.
Then lied about it to federal authorities.
And that's the reason Andy McCabe was dismissed.
Do you know what the Biden administration did?
They allowed him to retire out of the FBI with full benefits.
Peter Strzok, the head of the counterintelligence unit that had that affair with Lisa Page, who basically put out those text messages, who was running that investigation with Andy McCabe and said, Trump people smell in Walmart and we're never going to let him win.
I have an insurance policy.
That guy's on CNN.
So they get rewarded.
For putting on this disinformation campaign, for this illegal activity, because the media will never correct, or some portion of the media will never correct the record.
Remember, these guys got Pulitzers, New York Times, same thing.
These guys got the biggest award in journalism.
They were proven wrong, not by me, by the own evidence created by, you know how I caught these guys?
Because these guys were so arrogant, they would write everything down.
So generally the statute of limitations on crimes for process crimes that we call them, it's five years.
But if you can tie them to an overarching conspiracy, there is no statute of limitations.
So if there was more egregious conduct that no one knew about before that we are just finding and we are investigating, then we'll have to relook at it.
The one thing we will do is put out all that information to the American public once we actually get through it.
And we'll give it to Congress.
And if we can work with our partners at DOJ to come up with a prosecution, that will be their decision.
The disturbing thing about all this to me is how people on the left are willing to look the other way.
because this is just a dangerous precedent.
If the federal government is doing this, and they're doing this to someone you consider an enemy, what's to stop this from doing it against your candidate?
Like, this is unprecedented behavior that's tolerated and coordinated with the media.
It's dangerous for the country.
But people are so ideologically captured.
They're so locked into their party and by any means necessary, we got to get Trump out.
And they push that narrative so hard that they're willing to do a very un-American thing.
And I know there are people – and look, people keep calling me and saying, when are you going to arrest everybody?
When are you going to go out there and arrest everybody that did everything to Donald Trump?
I was like, first of all, you guys were barking at people who were in the seat before me to do that and they didn't.
They failed.
The difference between me and that guy is one, I'm the guy that exposed it.
Two, I didn't tell you this.
I was the guy they targeted.
So while I was doing the Russiagate investigation, do you know what Trump's own DOJ, Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Justice, Christopher Wray, then Director of the FBI, did to me and a dozen other staffers who were working Russiagate?
They subpoenaed all of our information while I was running the Russiagate investigation.
We wouldn't find out for five years.
You want to know why?
Because these guys were so vindictive.
They went to the federal court and not only got a search warrant.
They got a judge to say to all the telecom companies, Google, Facebook, everybody else, your banking companies, everybody, do not tell them for five years that we authorize this subpoena.
I used to spend a lot of time in jails and a lot of time in segregated housing units, shoes as we call them, right?
People that have committed suicide in these cells.
And I know how you get in, how you get out, who works the system.
And so the way, based on public information at the time, that he ended up putting the pictures and him hanging himself.
I was like, man, that guy killed himself.
There's just no way that you could have run an op and had people go into that cell and not have any video of it and not have any people come out and say, Hey, yeah, I saw that guy.
He shouldn't have been there, the guard or this guy.
There's just no access points into places like this in the detention center he was in, which I've been in.
Did you ever see, do you remember that HBO autopsy show?
Dr. Michael Badden?
He's a famous forensic scientist.
I don't think I've seen that.
He's a pathologist and he reviewed the case and it was his determination that it was a homicide because of the way his neck was broken.
What he said was it was indicative of a ligature strangulation.
And it was because of the positioning on the neck where the marks were, that it wasn't indicative of someone hanging by their weight, which had been higher on the chin.
And there's a specific break of the bones and the vertebrae that's consistent with someone who is just strangled to death.
So this guy, Dr. Michael Badden, he had a long career of catching murderers, you know, exhuming bodies, finding trace amounts of poisons, different kinds of things.
When did you get – here, Epstein's autopsy points to homicide.
Pathologist hired by Brother Claims.
New York City medical examiner strongly disputed the claim that the evidence from the autopsy suggests is triangulation.
By the way, this is the New York Times and they never lie.
The private pathologist Dr. Michael Badden said the morning TV show Fox and Friends, Mr. Epstein, experienced a number of injuries, among them a broken bone in his neck that are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.
I think the evidence points to homicide rather than suicide, to Dr. Badden, who observed the autopsy done by city officials.
Dr. Badden, a former New York City medical examinationer and a Fox News contributor, said, I have not seen in 50 years where that occurred in suicidal hanging case.
Findings by Dr. Batten were strongly disputed by the city's chief medical examiner, Dr. Barbara Sampson.
Dr. Sampson also dismissed Dr. Batten's contention that the circumstances around Mr. Epstein's death suggested other people may have been involved.
Their office had done a complete investigation, taken into consideration information gathered by law enforcement in making the determination.
But I'm telling you, I'm giving you the tape from the tape.
You know, there's just like I'm giving you the documents from the vault, just like I'm giving you information to Congress on COVID origins or what have you.
If he was murdered in segregated housing, in isolation, after being on suicide watch in a place in a detention center that I've physically been in myself, it would be fiction.
Wouldn't you think, though, that if someone was in a position where a guy could release information that could potentially damage the most wealthy people on earth, you would have a concerted effort that's unprecedented?
But, I mean, so many people have been implicated, right, already.
And some of that information, what they did to Prince Andrew and everybody else is already out there.
And so that's the conspiracy stuff that me and Bongino and the folks have to say, look, we will give you everything we can and then we will have done our job.
Also, if I had a shred, me, Kash Patel, had a shred of evidence.
The Russiagate guy, the Jan 6 guy, the COVID origins guy, had a shred of evidence that this guy was murdered.
I would be the first guy to bring this case hard and fast.
And I would do even doing press conferences every week on it.
The first guy.
That's what I'm asking people to play out to their logical conclusion.
Now, if you're working for – let's just – we don't have to name names.
We don't have to speculate.
If he's working for some agency, some group, some foreign group, and they decide to target his family because he – look, he's going to jail for the rest of his life anyway.
They decide to target his family if he testifies against them.
I could see where I, if I thought that it was, like, I'm going to be in jail for the rest of my life, or I tell and my family winds up being killed or destroyed or who knows.
Maybe you'd say, look, the honorable thing is to end it in prison.
So basically there was a write-up from the FBI relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is like the modern-day Fusion GPS.
And basically said Catholics should be targeted as domestic terrorists.
Yeah.
So then Chris Wray, the former FBI director, went to Capitol Hill and testified about it.
And the Congress was like, wait a second.
Is this real?
Is it predicated on actual facts?
And how wide is it?
Is it one office?
Is it all these people across the country?
Are Catholics being targeted as domestic terrorists?
What ended up happening was Ray said, oh, it's just one office, one memo, nothing to see here.
Well, what we just roll out again to Congress this week to Chuck Grassley, who put it out, was that, in fact, it was multiple offices, multiple memos that were weaponizing law enforcement to target a religious group during an election cycle.
I think when you use – it goes back to Russiagate.
If you're willing to use Mickey Mouse journalism, if you're willing to use the Fusion GPS and Christopher Steeles of the world like the leadership at the FBI then did, then it has a chance to replicate itself and that's what happened.
I don't know if you know anything about the Southern Poverty Law Center but it's – they literally are the ones that sent information to the FBI and the FBI said, oh, we'll write a memo.
That's the type of work that I think gives credibility back to the Bureau, us exposing it, us giving Congress the truth, Congress coming back in and saying, hey, you actually didn't give us the Heisman.
You gave us the documents.
We gave them to the American people.
And if there are criminal referrals to come out of that, then let's do that.
I mean, we just had a great breakthrough this week on Fauci.
So Senator Rand Paul, Senator Kennedy, and I hate naming names because I always forget people, are doing a great job with us on COVID origins.
We've got multiple investigations open on that.
But they had always been looking for Fauci's original phone, or not original, but phones and devices he used while he was Fauci back in Trump on during COVID.
Now look, your audience and everybody listening to it should jump to the conclusion.
Everything's in there.
We'll look at it.
We'll pull it.
We'll rip it as we say.
And maybe it's deleted.
Maybe it's not.
But at least we found it.
And at least now we can tell the American people we've been looking because it is of public importance to figure out did that guy lie?
Did he intentionally mislead the world and cause countless deaths?
We owe those answers to the American people and the best evidence.
Ever.
Is always the people's evidence who created it.
And so now we're going to go and exploit those hard drives.
But I think a victory for the American people that we broke with Congress is that we did find it.
We're not done.
We're still looking.
And we're on the case.
So whether it's Richmond Catholic memo, whether it's Fauci COVID origins, whatever becomes a great Russiagate crossfire hurricane, whatever becomes a great public importance, that's a big part of what we do at the FBI too.
And there's just things that I see that you would think I would have more uproar, even as much time I've been doing this, that don't.
And things that in my mind would be like, no one's going to pay attention.
And people are like, oh my god.
And so that's part of the learning curve for me too.
Trying to figure out what the balance is.
you know, should I be given this so much attention, so much resources?
But then when I have to call a parent because their kid's dead from fentanyl or when I have to call a cop's family and I call every single line of duty death that we have in this country, I call everyone's chief and I call their families.
And I'm glad that the numbers are going down in terms of how many have been killed this year versus last year.
We're already, and look, we got six more months to go, so we're not done yet for the year.
But we're already down 20% from last year and we broke it this week that right now the murder rate, if we, the FBI and our government partners achieve the mission, we'll give the American people the lowest murder rate in decades.
The terrorist that blew up 13 US soldiers in the Afghan withdrawal.
I did it with my interagency partners in a week.
In a week, we found that guy, went to Pakistan, brought him back here.
Now there's others responsible for it and we're chasing them down too.
But the question the American people should be asking is why didn't the prior administration putting aside the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, a plan that they completely politicized?
We handed off them a proper way to do it and methodical way to do it.
And they just said, F you, we're doing it this way.
And you saw the videos and you saw people plunging from our aircrafts.
And you saw Abbey Gate and 13 Americans dead.
Why didn't anyone go get justice for those families?
Well, that's the priority that the president said.
We're going to go find them.
And we let good cops be cops.
We let federal agents be agents.
We let our intel community focus intelligence collection on terrorists.
It's so hard to believe that it's really that simple, that it's just they weren't given the resources and they weren't given the support to let cops be cops and that they could have done this all along.
Well, you have to look at the landscape of the last, I don't know, 4, 8, 12 years, call it, right?
It was an intentional decision.
And this isn't politics.
It was just an intentional decision to say, we're going to let all these people into our country and let them stay.
The result of that is, you know, this is another part of the lift that we're doing at the Bureau.
We call them KSTs, known or suspected terrorists.
They get pinged at the border, the northern border and the southern border, and then the last administration said, you guys can come in.
And then one of the most terrifying things I heard was my predecessor, Christopher Wray, went to Congress a year or two ago and said, well, the last year's annual statistics for KSTs was a few dozen and we don't know where they are in America.
What do you mean you don't know where they are?
How is that not a national security crisis?
And so what we're doing while we're doing these raids and chasing down illegals is trying to target those with terrorist affiliations, those who are terrorists, those who are in our homeland because the last administration let them be here.
And that's – you can say I'm being political.
I don't really care.
But that's me being the FBI director and saying Americans come first and we're protecting our own.
And we're chasing them down and DHS is doing a great job and so is our intelligence community and so are the local police departments who are now working with us and not living in sanctuary cities and allowing police stations to be burnt to the ground, working with us and not having law enforcement attacked constantly for just doing the job of protecting the American people.
I think that's a tectonic shift in the mentality.
Of what this administration has brought in.
Now, people are still vilifying us for doing that.
How dare you separate families, they'll say.
And I'm like, how dare you separate a mom from a kid on a fentanyl overdose?
How dare you separate an American soldier's mom or dad from the guy that got blown up at Abbey Gate?
I have different priorities.
I have a different view of it.
And so that's the ethos I'm bringing to the Bureau.
I'm baffled to try to come up with any kind of an explanation why anybody would let known or suspected terrorists into the country and just let them loose.
I mean, I know you can't speculate, but when you take office and you realize all this is going on, what is going through your mind?
How are you processing this?
Is this pure incompetence?
Is this malice?
Is this a foolhardy adherence to ideology and just completely ignore the danger that they're putting the American people in by doing this?
The intentional decision was when you're going to let in – what is it?
Nine million people?
A lot of them are going to be criminals.
A lot of them are going to be TDA.
You saw what they did in Colorado.
A lot of them are going to be MS-13.
A lot of them are going to be narco-traffickers, which when you allow narco-traffickers in the country, you're automatically bringing sex traits trafficking, human trafficking, and drug trafficking automatically.
And the drug traffickers have partnered with the terrorist organizations and our adversaries.
We haven't even talked about Russia and the CCP and how they've combined forces over the last however many years to infiltrate America, not just with people, but our cyber capabilities and our infrastructure.
And so when I come into a job like this, patience is one of the hardest things you have to manage because you can't fix everything overnight.
You have to build up the workforce.
You have to get them the resources.
You have to fix the infrastructure that's broken.
I mean I'll just give you a quick example.
The building that the FBI calls headquarters, the Hoover Building, is like 70 years old.
I literally have netting, mesh netting, holding up.
The side of the building because pieces of concrete fall off of it.
So it doesn't hit people in the head.
I'm not kidding.
I'm dead serious.
So I said, how about we give the workforce a safe place to work?
So we're moving out of there.
And people think it's a political decision.
Taking the FBI out of the historic Hoover building.
Yeah, because I don't want people to die.
And I think they deserve a better workplace than something that's 70 years old that has pipes exploding literally every single week, every week.
And also, we're going to save the taxpayer money.
We're going to get out of a building that would cost billions to fix.
And we're going to move into a location that's already built instead of a 15-year government boondoggle an hour outside of D.C. And we're going to stay in D.C. We're going to stay near our partners in government.
And we're going to put out the workforce and spread them out across the country like I talked to you about earlier and put more agents on the streets and put more agents in Indian country and put more agents in your communities and intel analysts to figure out where the crime is.
The tribal—and I just met with almost all of the chiefs and the leaders of the tribal communities in America.
The crimes they have committed on what we call Indian country is just as horrific, if not worse, than the rest of America.
Look up the story about Emily Pike, whose family is still waiting for her arms.
This child was murdered on a reservation, and they found a piece of her body and not the murderer and not the rest of her body.
They are plagued.
By drugs.
And they have never been a priority in terms of law enforcement working together.
And now remember, you're talking about two different sets of legal structures, right?
They have their own and we have our own.
But what I've asked of them and what they've asked of me is pay more attention, give us more resources.
What I've asked of them is said, hey, all the leaders said, let my guys on.
Let my guys come to you.
And let's work together on solving some of these horrific, horrific crimes.
The trafficking, the murders and the violent crime on Indian reservations is skyrocketing.
And I'm not going to treat people who live in the United States of America differently because they have a different way of life.
We're going to help them.
And we put out Operation Not Forgotten where we deployed this month and this summer.
I can't remember how many agents and intel analysts, specifically to remote tribal locations to solve crimes that have not been solved for years, specifically the most violent.
And we're going to double down on that.
And as Bongino likes to say, this summer, we are unleashing a massive operation across the country.
As Dan calls it, it's a bad day to be a bad guy this summer because the FBI is putting out all these extra agents and personnel into the field, and we're going to come find you.
If you think you can nest in our communities and find safe haven, you're going to prison.
From my perspective, it's a national security decision.
And they failed on the national security mission.
But I think where the decision from that administration to do that was a political one.
That's what I'm trying to sort of separate.
I've always viewed it singularly, protecting the border, preventing drugs from coming in, preventing terrorists from coming in, preventing people from— But what political decision could be made that makes any sense at all to not do that?
Do you think it was just that Biden was just not there and everyone else that was really running things was completely incompetent, was focused on other things, was focused on maybe the optics of border protection, that somehow or another there was some negative connotation to it politically?
It's obviously ongoing since we just made the arrest, so I'm a little limited in what I can say, but backing up the truck a little bit.
Agroterrorism is a thing, right?
The CCP isn't just coming at us with fentanyl and coming at us in our cyber infrastructure and our capabilities in space and underwater.
They are literally exporting people to the United States of America, having them end up being senior researchers like this individual at the University of Michigan.
And the bureau picked up on this and said, wait a second, why are you bringing you and her husband is also indicted, but he's in mainland China, so he's not here.
But we retraced what he did.
And what's public now is that he also tried to come to this country to do the same thing.
So they are making the connections on that.
But what they did was literally bring in a mushroom that.
Technically alone exists in the US, but in an altered state, causes billions of dollars of damage to wheat, to corn, to maize, and to agricultural industry, and also could wipe out your livestock and causes reproductive damage to human beings.
And so this is the lethality in terms of the mindset of people that want to do harm to our country.
In this case, I didn't know, this is one of those things where I knew it would garner a lot of attention.
But like this thing went massive.
It's everywhere.
And I'm glad it's everywhere because for me it highlights the multiple levels of operation that our adversaries are looking to do harm on us.
Thank God we caught this one.
But what about the ones we've got to still catch that are still out there?
They're not going to stop because this lady is in jail now and being prosecuted by us.
I get that we're the United States of America, and we want to give everybody a chance, and you gave this kid a chance.
But that's different than literally inviting our adversaries into our country and saying, well, as long as you build X or dump enough money into your state, we can look the other way.
Again, it's a state – it's like every state has to take steps legislatively in my opinion to either kick them off, stop the contracts, prevent them from coming in, things like that.
What we can do at the federal level are things that you've seen the State Department under Marco Rubio do, revoking visas in certain places, in certain sectors of the economy.
And I think rightfully so, because if you stop the personnel from coming in, kick them out, then who cares who owns it?
The Post will write about it one way and it probably won't even make the headlines in a number of other outlets because they don't want to talk about that.
And that's the thing about your show that I agreed that I wanted to do it is because… Getting out to a population that has stopped listening to mainstream news and reaching out to them and challenging them with information and how we're doing things and saying, look, this is our priorities, this is what I'm doing, is so hugely important because the audience, the influence of that manpower on the electorate is huge, is huge.
And if we can reach through on some of these issues, then we're going to win collectively.
Like, I can only arrest so many bad guys.
And we will.
But if we arrest them and people don't know who we're arresting and why we're arresting them and what the threat is, then it almost becomes irrelevant.
We're still going to do it.
We're not going to stop.
But if we can get more and more people talking about these things and saying, look, the national security of our country is of what's most important to me, not who wins the next election, but also we need to work with our communities to say, who's in our communities?
How many registered sex offenders are there?
Near our schools?
Are they violating federal laws?
Why aren't we on these priorities?
And we need help.
We need American buy-in to really accomplish the mission.
And you raise the reason it's so politicized and the reason it's so sort of in many sectors of government is because of the answer to that question.
The leaks from inside of government and then the spin on that information by the media is what's causing the most harm in my opinion to the American public.
So we have these – we have a regular drumbeat at the FBI where everybody has – we have a morning meeting with the heads of our divisions, counterintel, counterespionage, CT, everything, criminal, cyber, so we can move the machine.
And I was like – and I did them for a week and I was like, why do we do these every morning?
And the whole place looked at me.
These are career agents in Intel folks, like 10, 20, 30 years in this seat.
They go, boss, we hate those.
They make us come offline of our work.
Focus on briefing you rather than staying on mission and we can come brief you on our own.
So I chopped it to two days a week.
And I cut the time in like less than half.
New York Times puts out the story.
Tash Patel upends, and I'm paraphrasing, the ethos at the FBI.
How dare he cut down the morning briefing cycle?
And this is a perfect example of these people are coming to me saying this is what they wanted to do for years.
And I'm working with them to say that's a good idea.
Why don't we do that?
But the Times comes in and kicks us in the face with this leak that's not even true because they go out and say anonymous source this and retired person that.
It's just one example.
It might sound small to you but now a reader is going to read that, a new kid who's like, oh, maybe I want to join the FBI and they're going to look at it and say, this place is a circus.
I don't want to go work there.
What do you mean they disrupted the morning meeting?
That guy should be getting briefed six hours a day.
It's just constantly pushing out information to sell T-shirts or subscriptions or whatever.
Listen to my show.
And then people are like, hey, FBI, why aren't you looking at this thing in Oklahoma?
And I'm like, because it's fake.
I don't have time for that.
And so to your point on like social media does have a great use in terms of me and – so the reason Dan and I don't do a lot of media is because we're the FBI.
Like let our work speak for itself.
But we have to find the right balance of going to do media and posting on social media the things we're doing and keeping people updated.
And so that's the delicate balance we're trying.
But what I'm learning is no matter what you do, it doesn't matter.
It's going to – Just completely not make everyone happy.
And there's no solve for that in terms of how the FBI operates.
But at the same time, the FBI won't be thwarted by it.
We're going to keep going.
Do you know – I mean I've already told you I've been called a genocidal dictator, which is ironic since I'm the son of a man who fled a genocidal dictatorship in East Africa and his parents lawfully immigrated to this country and had me and now their kid is the FBI director, first-generation Indian kid.
So you want to talk about the ultimate weaponization and total disinformation combining forces, right?
A week before the election when Biden and Trump were running against you, maybe a week or two weeks before that, right?
A guy who used to be in the intelligence community says, oh, we got to bring the Hunter Biden laptop thing into play, knowing it was bogus.
And they come out and they basically say the FBI, even though knew that Hunter Biden's laptop was a righteous piece of investigatory material and were examining it and at the time knew.
That they were going to work up criminal leads on it.
Sat silent.
Put that over here.
The intelligence community comes in and says, we got to get this information out because the guy who would end up becoming Biden's secretary of state was advising him and saying, hey, we got to squash this Hunter Biden laptop thing.
Let's do the Russiagate play.
Let's do the Crossfire Hurricane play.
So they go to the CIA and they go to then-director Gina Haspel, who, by the way, There's no coincidence in government, Gina Haspel was chief of station London when Russiagate was launched in London.
We can come back to that.
So now she's director of CIA and we're on the eve of an election.
And there's this thing called a pre-publication process.
So like when I had to put my book out as a government server, whatever you call it, it has to go in and everybody's got to read it and they got to chop it and whatever.
It takes forever, even if it's a two-page document.
The 51 Intel letter was written by these same people, some of who participated in Russiagate.
And the person that has to authorize that is the director of the CIA before it goes public.
Do you know how long she took to authorize the release of the letter?
Knowing the information in the letter was false.
Knowing that a laptop with Hunter Biden's information on it was true and accurate and being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for criminal purposes.
Eight hours.
Eight hours.
They released that barrage of disinformation for eight hours.
And what do we do?
We spent the last four years proving up – and we've got more information coming on that too – proving up how those former secretaries of defense, CIA, NSA, deputy directors of the intelligence community all came together to politicize intelligence once again because they got caught on Russia and don't care.
And they wanted President Biden to win so badly they were willing to lie to the American people.
In the years since, they've been like, hey, actually, do you remember the time where Hunter Biden got charged in two separate felony federal indictments?
Totally switching gears, but a similar disinformation tale, January 6th, right?
I was chief of staff at DOD on January 6th.
Days before January 6th, I was in the Oval Office with the president, the secretary of defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on a foreign matter.
And on that day, he goes, hey, how's it looking for January 6th?
Do you guys have everything you need?
And he goes, I'm going to authorize.
Up to 10,000 to 20,000 National Guardsmen and women if you guys need them anywhere in the country.
The reason that's important is because we can't uniformly deploy military in the United States.
That's what the National Guard's for.
But in order to do that, the president has to, one, authorize it, and two, the mayor or governor, so it's D.C., so it's the mayor and the Capitol Police and the Speaker of the House are in charge, have to request the deployment of troops.
We went to them days before January 6th.
We went to Bowser.
We went to Pelosi.
They said no in writing.
We were excoriated for it.
Your guys are lying.
You didn't offer this up.
If you had been there, this would have never happened.
Well, actually, President Trump preemptively authorized 10 to 20,000 National Guard.
And what happened?
I spent the next three years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees testifying before Congress.
Proving up just what I had said was the truth.
Then the documents came.
We finally got them out because I know what we had written.
And it showed Bowser in writing declining National Guard.
It showed Pelosi in writing saying no to the Capitol Police.
So what we just released to Congress was, I think we're still digging through it, is there was a couple of dozen sources that were involved with January 6th.
And so we're getting Congress those files and the American people are going to learn the extent of that.
We're doubling down on our investigation on the pipe bomber because we think it's of great public importance that someone almost blew up.
The headquarters for the RNC and DNC and, oh, by the way, the vice president of the United States happened to be in the vicinity of that pipe bomb.
Well, again, also I don't want to jump to conclusions because I've done this for a long enough time where even the most obvious suspect, you're like, well, shit, it wasn't him, it was her.
I was like dancing the line when I was using the bathroom that I wasn't supposed to use because I wanted to go to the East Wing and they had a nicer setup.
Does the pardon cover—like if you find that Fauci lied to Congress, like when Rand Paul was talking to him about gain-of-function research, clearly he was being deceptive.
Are they pardoned for that as well?
Because it was like this crazy blanket pardon from 2014 forward, which I didn't even know you could do.
I think I'm thrilled at how functional most of the FBI is.
I'm shocked at the levels of depravity, and even me, that few in leadership.
Would do to alter that and then go out to the public and lie about it.
You got James Comey running around and he can yell at me all he wants and Andy McCabe can too.
This is another perfect example, right?
These two guys used to run the Bureau.
And we had a guy in Denver without his shirt off running around throwing 16 Molotov cocktails on human beings shouting Free Palestine.
I got that information because I'm the director of the FBI and I put out a statement because the American people need to know.
We are investigating this matter as an act of terrorism.
CNN, New York Times come in and crush us.
These guys don't know what they're doing.
How dare they label it as such?
The investigation is still ongoing.
And I said, yes, I'm investigating the matter in which a man who was from overseas in Egypt threw Molotov cocktails at American citizens at a peaceful rally and screamed, free Palestine.
That's what you want your FBI doing.
What you don't want your FBI doing is having New Orleans and Super Bowl.
And having another known terrorist come in there and run people over and kill them and then have the FBI go to the podium and say this is not an act of terrorism.
That is the politicization of the FBI.
That's what we've changed.
And I think the American people are seeing it and I think our results are speaking to it.
But that doesn't even make sense that The New York Times would criticize that and criticize the description of it as an act of terrorism when it by definition is an act of terrorism.
But the action itself, you're throwing Molotov cocktails on human beings that are at a political, peaceful rally.
That's terrorism, isn't it?
I mean, what is terrorism if that's not terrorism?
And what I can say, remember, the charging is for the Department of Justice.
What I can say is what I'm investigating it as.
And that's what I'm investigating it as.
Because the facts to that point in time quickly relayed to me by our people in the field, the pros, said, hey, this is what we got.
This is what happened.
Everyone's talking about it.
Let's report out to the American people what we can responsibly.
And that was a responsible way of doing it.
But that's what I'm saying.
These people that used to run the FBI are coming in there and they would have made the same decisions.
It's just the fact that we're making them and they got fired because they got caught conspiring against the United States of America and weaponizing the FBI and CNN has given them a platform.
They keep crippling this country by putting out these stupid statements or not stupid, these intentionally False statements to attack us.
And again, you can hit me and Bongino all you want.
We don't care.
We're winning.
I believe we're winning this fight.
We're winning it because the American people are like, hey, that wasn't an act of terrorism.
I hope you get the bad guys.
And I don't know if you just saw, but we also remember the fertility clinic that was bombed in Southern California.
We just busted the co-conspirator in Poland and brought him back last night.
And now he's getting charged because publicly what we can say is he procured something like 45 pounds of ammonium nitrate.
So what we're doing is investigating acts of terrorism as acts of terrorism.
And we're utilizing our authorities overseas under that to give the American people justice.
The guy didn't act alone.
What about the shooter, the savage shooter in Washington, D.C., who comes in and murders?
Two people for the Israeli embassy in cold blood, like just literally, what is it, 21 – I don't know how many shots, right?
Yelling something, free Gaza, whatever.
We investigated that as an act of terrorism because that's what it is.
That's what the American people deserve to hear.
I'm not saying they don't have a presumption of innocence.
I'm not saying that they're going to be convicted at trial.
But I'm telling you as the director of the FBI what I'm doing as the number one cop in this country and who is in charge of investigations.
That's my call to make and I'll make it every time.
I mean, I know that people are super—everybody wants Ozempic today, right?
They just want it—you know, they want a quick fix.
And when you're dealing with four years of whatever the hell was going on and nine million people being released into this country and all the stuff that comes with it, it just would stand to reason.
It would take a long time to unravel all that or to fix all the problems that were created.
So the apparatus that was in place before that was so riddled with corruption, what do you think happened between Trump's, between when he was in for the first term and the four years?
Focusing on DEI and climate change is a political potshot to weaponize the Department of Defense and the intelligence community and the law enforcement community to say we're going to promote you based on your background and beliefs rather than your ability to get through the pipeline.
Another thing we're doing is we're changing the PFT, the physical fitness test at the Federal Bureau of Investigation for new agents and for current agents because it's wholly insufficient.
I'm not asking you to be a special forces operator, but I am asking you to be able to take down a dude running away from you in a 100-yard sprint who may be twice your size and detain him and safeguard the American public.
And so when you don't focus on those things for years, years.
And you focus on promoting people based on, I'm not here because of the color of my skin, but when you do that, this is what happens.
And then when the media celebrates these victories, people are like, oh yeah, I'm going to subscribe to that because I hate the other side so much.
I'm just going to go along.
I honestly don't believe what most of the people are putting out there in the media, that they actually believe it.
I think they go home at night and they're like, yep.
We know this is wrong, but we've made our bed, and we are going to sleep in it every single night, and we are not going to retract.
It's such an insane decision, and again, it diminishes the credibility of an already damaged organization.
I mean, now people know about Russiagate.
They know about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
They know about the Steele dossier.
They know about all this shit that happened.
Like, their faith in media, especially after the pandemic, their faith in media has been deteriorated so badly that I can't imagine they wouldn't just, for self-preservation reasons, shift course.
Right, and the problems we're facing, he does a good job of highlighting.
He's like, hey man, these pro-Hamas positions didn't happen overnight.
They happened because we let in all these people from all over the world, and they came in, and they started attending our universities, and they started getting together, and they started seeing in the media that that was a quote-unquote popular thing to do.
And then that ethos spread.
And now look what we have.
We have chaos on college campuses.
We've got lone wolf attackers.
We've got terrorists.
We've got openings for our narco-traffickers.
We haven't even touched upon what our adversaries are doing to our cyber infrastructure.
I mean Salt Typhoon is a massive telecommunications breach engineered by the CCP.
It's public.
It's not classified.
And they literally got into our United States of America's Telecommunications providers.
Broken.
And we are playing catch-up.
These are the priorities we're focused on.
We have solutions for them.
They take time.
They're not sexy.
No one wants to talk about upgrading the nuclear arsenal of the triad.
It's not the sexy thing to talk about, but that's what we need to do.
No one wants to talk about hardening our infrastructure and fixing our grid switch system across the country.
You take out one electrical grid infrastructure plant and you take out a large chunk of this country.
But when you don't prioritize those things for years in these last however many years, then our adversaries get hip to it and they say, hey, there's a vulnerability.
Let's double down.
And what our adversaries are doing, we haven't even talked about the war and Hamas and all that stuff.
We don't have to.
But they're teaming up.
They're saying, look, we really don't like each other, but we don't like America more.
So why don't we partner up?
Why don't we use you, the drug trafficking organizations in Mexico, for human smuggling?
Not just drugs.
Why don't we use – you, Russia, Iran, the CCP get together.
We'll sell ammunitions to you because you can't get them from anywhere else in the world.
You don't have access to banks.
The biggest threat we have from a counterterrorism standpoint is Iran and that's why the president is trying to achieve a peaceful resolution with them and end this war that Hamas started in October in Israel and Gaza.
Nothing would be a better solution than a peaceful one to that because we talked about hostages before.
And what did they just report out?
Two more American Israeli citizens' bodies were uncovered yesterday or the day before.
The cost of these wars, people don't see and feel right away.
And unless you give them in your face 24-7 coverage of it, their focus is going to be on what CNN is talking about.