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Feb. 20, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

03:36:26

Kash Patel Confirmation Hearing LIVE! Jan. 6'er Kicked Out of CPAC? DOGE Wins in Court? & MORE!

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	And we need all law enforcement working together and focused on the real threats facing our country.
	I look forward to working with Mr. Patel to restore the integrity of the FBI and get it focused on its critical mission.
	Mr. President, one of the most significant accomplishments of the first Trump administration was the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
	This comprehensive bill reduced tax rates for every income bracket, doubled the child tax credit, Nearly doubled the standard deduction and enacted pro-growth policies for American businesses of all sizes.
	And what were the results?
	A growing economy.
	Higher paychecks for hardworking families.
	Millions of new jobs.
	Small business growth.
	Higher than expected federal revenues.
	That's right.
	Higher than expected.
	Government revenue since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act have exceeded projections by roughly half a trillion dollars.
	An end to corporate inversions, which is the practice of moving U.S. company operations overseas for tax purposes.
	Practically every aspect of the U.S. economy was strengthened by this pro-growth legislation.
	Contrary to what my friends across the aisle like to claim, it was middle-class families.
	Not wealthy Americans who receive the largest proportional benefit of the tax cuts.
	Now let me just repeat that, Mr. President.
	Okay, I just wanted to make sure we have the right one.
	It was middle class families, not wealthy Americans, who receive the largest proportional benefit of the tax cuts.
	Do we want to listen to this?
	Working families benefited from this legislation.
	Working families ended up with more money in their pockets.
	Working families had more breathing room because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
	Anyone who pretends that this wasn't the case is either ignorant of the law or I don't want to say cloture debate.
	I keep getting mixed up on the proceedings.
	The vote on Kash Patel, from what I understood, might be towards 1.45.
	And right now it's a...
	Is it the cloture vote that's going on now, people?
	In the chat, tell me what's going on.
	And I will welcome all of you to the show.
	Good morning, because it is morning, except for you freaks out in Europe.
	It's evening there.
	We're going to get back to that in a second.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	I get to the vote.
	Agreed. Look at this.
	That's beautiful.
	Good morning, everybody.
	How's it going?
	I was on the phone.
	I was running a little ragged this morning because I was on the phone with Kayla Pollack this morning.
	Kayla Pollack, you know, if you're not new to the channel, she's been on a number of times.
	We've been covering her story from the beginning, or at least from the beginning of her tragedy, which was when...
	She was rendered a quadriplegic after getting a Moderna booster after having gotten two COVID jibby jabs.
	And her situation took a turn for the worse very recently.
	Let me just pull up the tweet.
	In that she woke up one morning in addition to being a quadriplegic as a result of that.
	Now she's lost vision in one of her eyes.
	Just like that overnight.
	Either related to the transverse myelitis.
	Or type 1 diabetes.
	I'm not sure exactly.
	We're not sure exactly what the cause is yet.
	So just reading from Kayla Pollack at KCPollack, P-O-L-L-O-C-K.
	Woke up blind in one eye a few days ago.
	Emergency surgeon visit today.
	Three years ago, I woke up paralyzed from the neck down after a hike with my dog.
	Doctors confirmed it was caused by the Moderna shot, leaving me with lifelong paralysis from the chest down.
	I struggle alongside my 10-year-old son.
	I'm in palliative care.
	With hospice, yet I still do not have the help I need.
	Instead of treatment, I've been offered medical assistance in dying three times.
	I should add unsolicited when I had her on and we talked this over.
	This is just my story.
	It's a warning, a plea for accountability.
	It takes seconds to mention me in a post, to share, pass on my story, to help my son and I. Please repost, follow, and visit.
	And the website where she has here, it is OP Kayla.
	And I'll give this to everybody.
	It's utterly horrendous.
	I was on the phone with Kayla.
	I keep in touch with her.
	Everybody's lives move on.
	Or they just move.
	It's the rate of life, the rate of news, the news cycle.
	New tragedies not supersede, but push the old tragedies into the back third of the timeline.
	And yet the victims of those tragedies are still in their...
	In their world, it's their tragedy.
	And there's no escaping it from them.
	There's no moving on for it from them.
	So, Kayla Pollack needs help.
	I'm trying to see what I can do, who I know, what community members we can reach out to, if there's neurologists, if there's...
	She's up in Canada.
	Universal healthcare, which is equal shit for everybody.
	And instead of helping her along, they offer her literally unsolicited medical assistance in dying, not once, not twice, but thrice.
	And so that's her story.
	And I'm going to see what I can continue to do and continue to help doing, but don't forget about it.
	And I wanted to give everybody the link.
	It's Operation O-P-Kayla.
	And you can go forward slash donate if you can.
	Now, today, we are going to be following the Cash Patel hearings.
	The big wild card of the day is going to be whether or not Bitch McConnell.
	And that's right, I did say Bitch McConnell, people.
	Whether or not Mitch the Bitch McConnell.
	Is going to vote against Kash Patel.
	So if you're in the markets, and I'm not in the markets on this one, in the Kalshi markets, because Mitch McConnell has broken my heart now twice.
	That scumbag.
	The real bet Robert Barnes has predicted is going to be 52 to 48 confirmation.
	And that is going to hinge.
	Hinge? That's going to hinge on whether or not Mitch McConnell...
	Trump votes for Kash Patel.
	If he doesn't, it's 52-48.
	He's going to be the one Republican, quasi-Republican, McCainian Republican who betrays all three of Trump's choices.
	And if he does, it's going to be 53-47.
	Barnes is picking 52. The interesting thing is, if we're following these markets, as I do compulsively, let me see what it's saying here, because last I checked, Mitch McConnell was at...
	See, it's at 70% now for 52 because Mitch McConnell is the wild card.
	He's at 24% chance of voting for confirmation.
	Of course, Mitch McConnell's at 24% for voting for Tulsi Gabbard, too.
	Son of a gun.
	That's son of a beasting.
	So 5150 says LiveX.
	I think this is wrong.
	It's either going to be...
	I mean, I think.
	I'm so smart.
	I'm just picking Robert's bigger brain.
	I don't have the stomach to have Mitch McConnell destroy my wonderful predictions again.
	So 52-48 seems like the most likely, but if you are taking the odds, 53-47 is at 17%, and Mitch McConnell voting for Cash Patel is at 24%.
	All right.
	Now, what else was I trying to do here?
	That's right.
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	Okay, so what are we doing now?
	Let's just...
	Gillibrand. I can talk over this.
	Gillibrand. Where's Cash Patel?
	Mr. Graham.
	In D.C., I believe.
	Mr. Grassley.
	I'm rehydrating after my morning jog.
	Mr. Haggerty.
	Haggerty. Okay, is this for cloture?
	Chat, let me ask you something.
	I think this is not for the vote itself, but just let me know.
	I'm going to go to Grok.
	Is the cash vote now?
	Hickenlooper. I think this is for cloture.
	I'm going to wait for the chat.
	Mr. Hogan.
	The vote is scheduled for February.
	Okay, I think this is for cloture.
	Oh, is this roll call?
	This is Highsmith.
	Okay, so this is vote on cloture.
	Vote this afternoon.
	This is for cloture.
	Well, we're going to have to stay live until this afternoon.
	We can do it.
	What's amazing, I wish I could share two screens at once.
	Even in StreamYard, you can't do that.
	I'm going to pull up some fun tweets because I've been having a little bit of fun with people.
	So I don't really think we care to hear the roll call, but the cloture is going to be, what, 53-47 because Mitch, the bitch McConnell, is going to say, yeah, we can cloture so that I can vote no to Trump's picks because, you know...
	Okay, let me see here.
	I'm going to pull up...
	Mr. Kim.
	I want to pull up a tweet from...
	Mr. King.
	Mick Murphy.
	Chris Murphy.
	Mr. Lankford.
	Mr. Lee.
	Cloture, from what I understand, is when they close the debate to proceed to the final vote, but I thought there was going to be some votes so we could pick on some people being idiots.
	Alright, so, yeah, cloture is the vote to end the debate, and then they open it up for the full Senate vote, which is for the confirmation itself.
	Mr. McConnell.
	Is he there?
	I don't want to make fun of him for being in a wheelchair with a broken leg because he fell down again, but...
	I don't think term limits would have anything to do with that, but rather just competency limits.
	Mrs. Moody.
	My coffee uses well water from 400 feet underground.
	That's good, actually.
	Avoid adding fluoride into it.
	Mr. Mullen.
	All right, well, I'm going to put this on mute.
	We'll come back to this in a bit.
	Mr. Murkowski.
	They're doing a roll call.
	This is not the final vote.
	I'm going to keep coming back to it to see if they start debating.
	Let me see here in the private chat.
	Oh yeah, so Encryptus says this is for Cloture.
	Encryptus is...
	We've got to find a name for...
	We can't call him Jamie.
	But Encryptus, we might have to call him the Big Eye.
	Oh, the Big Eye.
	Eye for Encryptus.
	Encryptus is a member of our Locals community who's basically now going to help me with the streams and pulling up information.
	Bringing up screens, bringing down screens, and telling me if I'm missing something important because we're going to go to a tweet from...
	It's so amazing.
	I mean, the thing is this.
	Maybe other people don't live on the internet the way I live on the internet.
	I appreciate that.
	It's probably not even a healthy relationship that I have with the internet.
	But tough noogies, because I have it.
	Chris Murphy.
	One of the...
	He looks like...
	Let me see here.
	Chris Murphy?
	He looks like Daniel Goldman's brother.
	U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
	Chris Murphy put out one of his amazingly genius...
	Everything is life or death.
	Everything Trump does is going to be life or death.
	And we're going to get into how this works on the smooth-brained former punter idiots of the world.
	Chris Murphy puts out a tweet.
	He says, Kash Patel should never be allowed inside the FBI.
	Can you imagine a dipshit?
	This is like, when I said, even in battle, there's things that you can't say because they can't be unsaid.
	He is going to be inside the FBI.
	He's going to be the head of it, you jackass.
	And I would love for him to investigate you.
	But I guess this is sort of like his own separate insurance policy.
	By being such a vitriolic a-hole, if ever he gets investigated in the future, he's going to say, look, it's only because I went after cash so hard.
	There's certain things he can't say.
	He's going to get in, and he's going to effectively be the boss of the FBI.
	Not effectively, be the boss of the FBI.
	He can't be allowed in the FBI.
	He is perhaps the most dangerous of all the Trump nominees.
	He shamelessly wants to turn the agency into Trump's loyal police, which this tells you...
	Exactly what the FBI has been turned into under Biden.
	Exactly. Know them by their accusations of others.
	I'm going to the Senate floor at 4 p.m. to raise the alarm for my Republican colleagues.
	See, this was tweeted yesterday.
	We're not waiting until 4. Oh, 4 p.m.
	This was yesterday, so he was going to do this yesterday.
	The amazing thing is, I don't follow Chris Murphy.
	I just see him because he comes up on my timeline because Elon Musk likes to drive me crazy by putting stuff that doesn't trigger me, but that engages me.
	I know this idiot!
	He's used the word most dangerous a great many times.
	I went to the Senate floor today.
	Oh yeah, here we go.
	This is from January 15. I went to the Senate floor today to talk about the Republican plan to quickly pass another massive tax cut for the wealthy.
	A tax cut!
	It's the most dangerous plan!
	Paid by cutting the services for seniors on Medicaid and kids on Medicaid.
	Maybe the cruelest, most dangerous plan they've ever had.
	But wait, there's more.
	He loves the word most dangerous.
	It's the last day of the Republican National Convention.
	This is from July of this year.
	And I want to talk to you about the most dangerous, sorry, most urgent part of Trump's platform, his not-secret plan to convert our democracy into a Trump-family-run autocracy.
	I think there's a couple more here.
	Yeah, that's right.
	This is the most dangerous argument.
	This is from 2022.
	Because the whole point is that we are accountable to the most dangerous FBI.
	If the FBI can raid a U.S. president, imagine what they can do to you.
	This is the most dangerous argument because the whole point is that we are all accountable to the laws.
	The most powerful and...
	So what are you scared about the FBI for, biatch?
	Well, because it's not going to be the laws anymore.
	It's going to be Trump's personal FBI.
	Trump's withdrawal from the JCPOA.
	What is that?
	Oh, the Joint Committee on...
	I don't know.
	I'll have to look that up in a second, although I'm sure Encryptus is in the back already going to point out what JCPOA stands for.
	A decision opposed by his Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense will go down as one of the dumbest, most dangerous foreign policy decisions of the last 50 years.
	He's an idiot.
	And I made a joke.
	I was like, sorry, dumb mum.
	You've overplayed your UNO's most dangerous card one too many times.
	Yeah. I should have made sure.
	We are live on all cross-platforms.
	We got Bill Brown over in our locals community.
	He says, a joint committee, you say?
	And I'm not bringing the picture up because that'll get me in trouble on YouTube, but it's a picture of a joint.
	Bill Brown is in a place where marijuana is heavily legal, so to speak.
	Yeah, so everything...
	RFK Jr. is the most dangerous because of the vaccine lines.
	Tulsi Gabbard is the most dangerous because she's...
	A Syrian puppet.
	The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
	From Wikipedia describes it as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
	I actually kind of love this system now, Encryptus.
	This allows all of us to get wicked smart in real time.
	The Joint Comprehensive Plan.
	I thought it was like the Jewish Committee for People of Original Ascension.
	Let's see what it actually stands for.
	It's the Iran nuclear deal, Iran deal.
	Is an agreement to limit the Iranian nuclear program in return for sanctions, relief, and other provisions.
	Yeah. Pulling out of that is the most dangerous thing ever.
	Kelsey Gabbard, most dangerous woman ever.
	RFK Jr., most dangerous person ever.
	Everyone's dangerous.
	Everyone's dangerous except for these idiots.
	I'm trying to figure out...
	This is where encryptists in our locals community might have an AI software that can actually assess the claim as to whether or not there's actually been more aviation disasters.
	Even assume that because they occur under Trump, They can be attributed to Trump.
	I would argue that something happening on the first day of the presidency is not attributable to that president any more than something happening within the first month unless it's specifically related to a distinct, overt act.
	Probably attributable to things that have piled up over the last four years, not things that have occurred in the last month.
	You know, I ask Grok for a breakdown.
	It doesn't really seem that there's been prorated many more or even more.
	Aviation incidents under Trump and under Biden.
	But my goodness, the Democrats, they're weaponizing everything aviation incident related to Trump's alleged discussion about cutting the FAA in the same way that anything that happens with the environment, they weaponize to blame climate crisis.
	Anything that happens with a gun, they weaponize to go after Second Amendment rights.
	Anything that happens that ostensibly has a race person involved in it, they use to weaponize against the claims that white nationalism is the greatest threat to America.
	So, Chris Murphy, most dangerous.
	You gotta keep banging that home to the smooth-brained idiots, you know?
	Brainwashing doesn't happen overnight.
	But it works.
	I'll take a sip from my vitamin C water as we watch this clip.
	The brainwashing works because it's a time-tested and true technique to get people who are susceptible to brainwashing.
	To get brainwashed, to become the useful idiots that you need them to be to promote your ideology through violent, non-violent, and violent means if necessary.
	Here's former punter, what was his name?
	Ex-NFL punter Chris Cluey, who, oddly enough, has no cluey.
	Okay, I come across funny news and I said, this is one I have to go find the original video.
	I have to watch the original video, I have to clip the original video, and I've got to share the original video.
	Listen to Chris Cluey.
	All of his infinite wisdom.
	He's been listening to the likes of Chris Murphy.
	Hi, my name's Chris Cluey, a 15-year HB resident.
	I'm here to speak out against both the plaque and the current city council.
	Sorry, HB Huntington Beach.
	And they're speaking out against a plaque that was going to say...
	Outside the library, magnificent, adventurous, galvanizing, awesome, something along those lines, MAGA.
	M-A-G-A.
	And this man, it's going to make him turn into that lady, falling down on his hands and knees and screaming to the sky.
	There, I'll shut my mouth.
	Now that's the context.
	As the community made clear at the library commission meeting last Tuesday, everyone is in favor of a plaque to celebrate the library, but the vast, vast majority are against including a MAGA acrostic.
	Unfortunately, it's clear that this council does not listen, so instead I'm going to take my time to say what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks.
	MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence.
	MAGA stands for resegregation and racism.
	MAGA stands for censorship and book bans.
	MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing.
	MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal.
	MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide.
	MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children.
	MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement.
	Explicitly? They replaced a swastika with a red hat.
	That is what it is.
	I will now engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience.
	It's a little aggressive.
	It's a little aggressive.
	Get out.
	I didn't actually realize it, but that jackass basically got to all four propaganda points of Chris Murphy that I brought up earlier.
	Yeah, we're going to take a five-minute recess.
	Okay. I think I'm being told that...
	Let me see something here.
	We really need to work on that energy brand.
	Okay, let me bring this up.
	I think we got some voting stuff coming up here.
	Let's see.
	Go back to Kash Patel.
	Let's see what's going on here.
	My goodness.
	Government hasn't evolved with the speed of technology.
	That carpet.
	I mean, what's funny, actually, now that I say this, is that that looks a lot like, you know, my recollection of...
	Oh, that's Elizabeth Warren.
	She's wearing her blue jacket.
	Hello. Oh, my thumb is broken.
	That's the old native symbol of I vote no on this person.
	No. That carpet's disgusting.
	Is it me or does this even look like a synagogue or a church or like a religious thing where you got the people in the middle that the crowd is supposed to worship?
	Prince Patel is the most dangerous candidate that has ever been proposed and I vote no.
	Mr. Haggerty.
	Aye. So they go aye or yea and no or nay.
	Mr. Merkley.
	Mr. Merkley, no.
	Ms. Rosen, Ms. Rosen, no.
	A doge should come in here and say, hey guys, we could probably do this in five minutes.
	We could probably do this actually instantaneously because if you all vote at the same time and then we tabulate the votes and then instead of making a day's worth of...
	Imagine how much this costs.
	Just everybody here.
	Infrastructure. Rent.
	Electricity. No.
	I'm just kidding.
	And then I said to him, you didn't come with your money!
	And you expect me to vote for that?
	I don't even know what I'm talking about.
	I'm just making fun of...
	Oh, she's doing Pilates now.
	Ah, yes, yes, yes.
	I would love to know what they're talking about.
	And then I bow down to him.
	I say, this is our native tradition.
	Kind of.
	Kind of like that.
	Have a good day.
	See you later.
	Oh, hey, how you doing?
	What? Is that...
	Oh, this is funny.
	You don't think they pay...
	No, there's real estate.
	Do they pay property taxes?
	There's a cost to all of that.
	And if it's not a hard cost, it's an opportunity cost.
	Because it could be used for something else.
	Useful. Mr. Peters.
	Mr. Peters.
	No. I stand corrected.
	Let me see what's going on over here.
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	Let's go over to Rumble, see what's going on in the chat over here.
	These people each make $175,000 a year, plus benefits, plus expenses.
	Overmod says, I kind of love this Viva bad lip reading.
	Let's see if I can do some more here.
	The guy on the back.
	Okay, can we pick it?
	Can you see the cursor if I go over?
	If I circle these guys right here, can you see this?
	Yeah. This guy's saying, Sir, I believe I just saw two people having sex in the Senate Hall.
	I'm going to go get my camera.
	Do you have a camera?
	I don't have a camera.
	No, no, but who is it?
	It's the staffers for Chuck Schumer.
	Oh, gosh.
	This guy's coming.
	Excuse me.
	This is real exciting.
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	Plus exponential in terms of good investments that you can have.
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	I was just watching...
	Oh, no, it was an ad that came up about someone who designed an AI grabber to basically buy whatever stocks Nancy Pelosi buys.
	But the problem is, by the time you get that disclosure, you're already, like, late to the game.
	Mr. Johnson.
	Mr. Johnson.
	Aye. Aye, matey.
	Aye be voting.
	So let's go back here and see what's going on.
	I'm going to...
	Oh, no, this is still...
	This is still...
	No, this is still for...
	Is this culture or is this for the vote itself?
	So bloody confusing.
	It's so confusing actually that even Grok can't get to it.
	Let me see here.
	Okay, you know what?
	I'll bring some fun stuff up while we're waiting for things to actually get somewhere.
	I'm going to turn that off.
	And I'll hear this in the backdrop while we do it.
	Is it NWokeness or Libs of TikTok that pulled this one up?
	Share screen.
	Chris Murphy.
	Here, I think it's...
	Who got it?
	Libs of TikTok.
	Let's hear what Chris Murphy's crying about here.
	This is his logo.
	K dollar sign.
	Do you understand?
	He says all these things because he believes them, but also because it makes him a hero to the gullible conspiracy theorists inside MAGA.
	He uses them.
	He sells stuff to them.
	Sweatshirts, t-shirts, lapel pins.
	K $H.
	This is his logo.
	I think actually that Chris Murphy is so stupid.
	I think he doesn't even put the cash together.
	Holy sweet, merciful crap levels.
	Private chats.
	Let me see what's going on here.
	This is to end cloture.
	Good, says Encryptus.
	So they're going to end the cloture.
	Chuck Schumer's voting now.
	I hear it in my background.
	He doesn't want to end cloture.
	They want to keep debating this forever.
	Miss Slotkin also says...
	Votes no?
	No. Of course, they don't want to proceed to a vote.
	They just want to keep debating.
	So they make some good coin.
	Speaking of cash.
	Mr. Graham.
	Mr. Graham.
	Aye. Aye.
	Yarmiti. Can you imagine the amount of people currently being employed by this process?
	Let's count.
	One. Mr. Young.
	Two, three, four.
	Mr. Young.
	One. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Plus all of the senators who are going to vote on this.
	100. Down, down.
	Miss Collins.
	She can't even be bothered.
	Come up to the counter to do it.
	Thumbs down and let me get back to talking.
	What do you possibly think they're talking about?
	What's this guy doing?
	He's doing like a gangster back roll and now he's going to flip out his finger and it's up or down?
	Nope, he's just going to talk.
	Well, anyway, so this is going to go on for a while.
	They're going to get the cloture.
	Then they're going to...
	Then they're going to hold the vote.
	It'll be a little later.
	But I think there was...
	There's scheduled to be some form of last dying wheel of protest about how dangerous it's going to be if Kash Patel makes it in.
	But we'll get there in a second.
	Oh, here are the starved ones.
	I want to bring these up.
	You don't like the grammar school desks.
	No, it's so...
	I mean, then again, it's antiquated, but then if they went in and overhauled it, I'd be saying, why are they wasting money overhauling their already ridiculously opulent buildings?
	So I can appreciate that.
	It's a lose-lose to them because I hate this big government.
	Mr. Rish.
	I just exist to waste your money.
	Free men die free.
	I'm not going to say, well, so the self-harm, criminal defense lawyer, Swiss bank accounts are all trending.
	Mr. Warner.
	Oh, man.
	Mr. Warner.
	Give me 30 seconds.
	No. Mr.
	Marky. Mr. Marky.
	No. Alrighty.
	Anything good happen?
	Actually, let me send a link out and see if I can get Jake Lang to come in here and explain why they seem to have gotten kicked out.
	Some of the Jan Sixers got kicked out of CPAC, and I want to...
	See if we can get him in here.
	Mr. Whitehouse.
	Mr. Whitehouse.
	No. Mrs. Moody.
	Mrs. Moody.
	Aye. Mr. King.
	Mr. King.
	No. Okay.
	I'm going to take this off for a second.
	I'm going to watch a couple of other videos so we can get up with the news.
	Mr. Lankford.
	Aye. Aye.
	Mr. Heinrich.
	145 is the official confirmation vote.
	Alright, so I might leave this running for a bit, but we'll have fun between now and then.
	Mr. Cornyn.
	Aye. Mrs. Britt.
	Okay, I'm going to put this on mute.
	We're going to go watch some other stuff.
	Aye. Aye.
	Alright, so they're going to get closer, and then I think there's going to be some speeches to watch, so until that happens, let's talk about some other stuff.
	Alright, Kayla Pollack, if you can help her, help her.
	If you can't, please share her story.
	I mean, the thing is...
	Get somebody.
	I'm reasonably big platform, reasonably big bullhorn, reasonably big mouth, and reasonably obsessive.
	Oh, there she is right there.
	Look at this.
	I got Kayla in the back.
	Kayla, are you ready to come in?
	I can't hear you.
	Okay, thumbs up.
	This is Kayla Paula.
	She's in the vehicle.
	Hey. Kayla, how goes the battle?
	You know, we're two minutes late for our appointment, but that's not a big deal.
	They run late on us all the time.
	Well, you're two minutes late assuming they're going to be on time, which they will not be.
	No, I'm not assuming that at all.
	Not even close.
	So, hello to the world.
	I mean, we haven't seen you in a while and I gave the update as to what's going on.
	So, in addition to everything that's been going on, you wake up and it's darkness on which eye?
	Left. Which is usually my good side.
	And just like that?
	Well, at first, I thought I had, like, the first day, I thought I had, like, an eyelash stuck in my eye, and then, you know, you kind of link and try to figure it out, and, you know, nothing happened, and then,
	yeah, it's gone out, and, you know, I tried really not, I tried trying to find emergency eye appointments, and it's Canada, and, you know, I didn't really want to, I didn't tell anybody, friends, family, that it was happening.
	My son doesn't even know.
	Because I was in the process of trying to get an eye appointment, I did say that I needed to have my eyes checked if it's urgent.
	But I didn't give the full scope because I didn't want to scare people.
	But it's not good.
	I mean, you can't just fix that.
	And the situation in general, you've been trying to raise funds to get a vehicle.
	Were you able, ultimately, to get a wheelchair-friendly, compatible vehicle?
	No. The situation currently is that I've been trying to raise funds in order to...
	Basically, most of it is to get physiotherapy.
	And also just...
	Like, private personal support care.
	There's times where I have something like an urgent matter where, let's say my foot falls off my wheelchair and it's underneath the wheel.
	I can't move or go anywhere.
	And, you know, or, you know, you could have an accident with your catheter or something like that and you need somebody to come and help you or, you know, I can't get in and out of my own bed and all that.
	And there's times where there's just urgent situations.
	And it's like, it's $40 an hour.
	And, you know, you need to have somebody that's on staff for that.
	And you can do that, but you have to go through an agency.
	And we don't, like, to have them on, like, when you need them, you have to pay out of your pocket in Canada.
	Because we do not have that type of health care.
	Some people in the chat are relatively new to the channel.
	Don't know who you are.
	I'll give the one-minute breakdown.
	It was a breakdown at the beginning of the show.
	This is Kayla Pollack up in Ontario, rendered a quadriplegic after the Moderna booster after two Pfizer shots, which always struck me as wildly unscientific because even back in the day when they're like, go get your shots.
	Oh, you can mix and match because apparently we did the science to test on that.
	Rendered a quadriplegic.
	You have a now 12-year-old son?
	He's 10. When you first went to the hospital, there's a whole report on the Canadian Standard that did it, correct?
	The Canadian Independent, yeah.
	Canadian Independent.
	It's at www.opkayla.ca, which is my username, display name right there.
	And when you first went to the hospital, one doctor's telling you it's in your head, the other doctor whispers into your ear, I've seen this before and it's related to the jab.
	Yeah. And then that's it.
	It's transverse myelitis, which is basically your body attacks its own nerve...
	Immune system.
	Immune system.
	And then it caused a massive lesion in my spine that was five centimeters long by one centimeter wide.
	So it took up my entire spinal column, cut off all the vital places, and I woke up paralyzed from the neck down.
	After hiking on Family Day weekend, so February 22nd will be my three-year anniversary of this happening, coming up in a couple days.
	It's very dramatic, and it's not a good thing to have those anniversaries.
	Another year's gone by, and it hasn't gotten better.
	People are like, oh, it'll get out of your system, it'll get better.
	No. Ultimately, when it comes to certain types of nerve damage, it doesn't get better.
	No. Essentially, it's no different than if I had broken my spine.
	It's not any different.
	There's a window within which the nerves can heal.
	Yeah, it's not even just the nerves.
	It's the myelin sheath in the cell.
	So it's kind of a very medical thing for your audience to understand, probably.
	But at the same time...
	To break it down, what this means is now I have no movement at all below the chest.
	And that means, you know, bowel, bladder, like your bodily functions, my breathing, like my left lung doesn't work very well.
	So, you know, you're more likely to get bed sores, pneumonia.
	Unfortunately, I can feel everything.
	I can feel pain.
	I can feel, you know, when I can't move, when I want to move.
	You know, if I'm on my side too long, you know, if you're in the hospital, you're not going to be turned.
	Like, if you're on your side too long, you just move.
	People don't realize that they can just, you know, roll over, move.
	You do this in your sleep.
	It's subconscious.
	It's very painful.
	And then to, you know, to have an extra disability added to this on top of being type 1 diabetic, you know, and like I said, when I was in the hospital, doctors confirmed.
	That this was a vaccine injury.
	Transverse myelitis is what shut down the AstraZeneca trials for a while, or not trials, the actual vaccine had caused transverse myelitis in one of their patients, and then they still allowed it.
	You know, to do this.
	You know, I feel like an absolute idiot for listening.
	I would never do that now.
	I spend my time advocating about this all the time.
	I spend my time talking politics about why we need to be voting, you know, about our health care and how important this is, that it could be you, all that kind of stuff.
	But, you know, unfortunately, as much as I do my best, it is me.
	And, you know...
	I never imagined I'd be in this situation, and I thought we lived in a country with free healthcare.
	I now know that's not true.
	It's free in that it's, I mean, I just say, like, not cynically, it's equal shit for everybody.
	And then they offer you medical assistance in dying.
	They did.
	They offered me three times, which is euthanasia for people.
	Because what they were essentially doing is saying, like, we can't help you.
	There's nothing we can do.
	There's nothing we're willing to try.
	You know, you're better off dead.
	And I think, they didn't say you're better off dead, but that's the implication.
	No, they certainly say it's cheaper for them for you to be dead.
	It's absolutely cheaper, absolutely, 100%.
	And I definitely considered it, and I'd be lying if I said that, you know, things like this don't make me consider it more.
	I do have a son.
	He was seven years old at the time of this happening.
	I was a 35-year-old single mom.
	I had a house.
	I worked.
	I was at the York Region District School Board right beside my house.
	I had a dog.
	I lost my house.
	I lost my dog.
	I lost my health.
	I lost my son.
	His dad and I get along quite well, but he's living with his dad full-time.
	I have him on the weekends and on holidays.
	He's become a wonderful person because of this, but that's besides the point.
	I don't want my son to lose his mother.
	I don't want my son to lose his mother and there's no help for me.
	I don't know what to do.
	Have you spoken with Jimmy Dore?
	I just read a comment in the chat.
	I'll try to put you both in touch.
	I've done all sorts of natural treatments.
	I've spoke, I mean, as you know, I've been on many shows and live with Dr. Peter McCullough.
	I've done, you know, Dr. Trozi, Dr. Mackis, like all these doctors and scientists in the world.
	But unfortunately, they're not neurologists.
	And in Canada, three years later, I still don't have a neurologist.
	My neurologist, who said it was from the vaccine, he moved to Dubai.
	I don't blame him.
	You know, it's better.
	Better pay and everything.
	Who knows how much he may or may not have been blacklisted as a result of actually doing it.
	He wasn't blacklisted here, but he might have been ready for it.
	Or just overall environment.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And also for those who don't know, you're suing Moderna.
	You're suing Moderna.
	Dan Hartman, Sean Hartman's father, suing Pfizer.
	What are the updates in that case?
	We're in the disclosure phase so it's moving along quite fast.
	Dan filed two years earlier than me and we've gone further ahead with Moderna probably because they don't have as much to do.
	They don't make a bunch of drugs.
	They don't know what they're doing.
	As far as that goes, obviously, this is the first thing they've ever released.
	I guess they have more time to get back to me.
	Pfizer's got however many hundreds and thousands of drugs.
	So that's kind of the update.
	I do have to run to my appointment.
	Okay, go, go, go.
	But I will update you later as to what the eye surgeon says.
	opkayla.ca O-P Oscar Papa Kayla K-A-Y-L-A dot C-A Yep.
	Okay, Kayla, we'll keep in touch.
	All right, talk to you soon, David.
	All right, see you soon.
	So that's it.
	It's forward to the vote.
	I mean, I'm sorry, but we're doing two things at once here, but we don't need to watch the cloture vote.
	It's going to get there, but it's 45-41.
	That's Kayla.
	It is, mate.
	It's just...
	I don't need to pull up these things if you've been on the channel long enough.
	I mean, I don't know how many times I've referred back to that CBC article from 2017 where they said, Don't worry.
	You know, us promoting mercy killings exactly the way the Nazis did it.
	Start with, we will injure you through our medical care, in quotes.
	We won't be able to treat you as a result of our shitty care.
	And we're going to promote euthanasia massively.
	And don't worry, it's not going to cost you guys anymore, you taxpayers.
	It's going to actually save you some money.
	Because if we take out the useless eaters, the useless medical requirement.
	Members of our society.
	It'll save you money in what is already a dilapidated, broken down, wasted, overwhelmed, shitty healthcare system.
	And I don't care.
	The American system is not perfect by any means.
	The Canadian system is broken.
	Period. Anybody saying it's free healthcare?
	Oh, we love it.
	Go to Canada.
	There's a reason why people in Canada, those who can afford it, come to the States.
	Because the system is bloody broken in Canada, period.
	Did I ever tell you how many people?
	Let me hear it.
	Let's say deaths in ER Canada.
	What do they say?
	Something like 45,000?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Look at this.
	15,000 people.
	I'm going to bring this up here.
	Present. This is from the National Post.
	When is this?
	July 2024.
	I don't think I'll last how Canada's emergency room crisis could be killing thousands.
	As many as 15,000 Canadians may be dying unnecessarily every year because of hospital crowding, according to one estimate.
	You take it with a grain of salt, but it's shit, period.
	We couldn't get a family doctor in Canada.
	My GP retired.
	I couldn't get another one.
	I couldn't find another one.
	I'm reasonably healthy.
	It wasn't an emergency.
	They say the waiting list is like 12 to 18 months without a doctor.
	Go to the ER.
	They literally have online.
	Like, you know, it's like the border.
	The wait at the border.
	They got like the wait at the chair list.
	They've got wait times online for various hospitals across Canada.
	Look at this.
	Wait times ER Canada websites.
	Let me see.
	I want to get the right website here.
	Maybe it's going to go by province.
	Quebec, let's go.
	Wait time.
	Hey, look at this.
	It's stunning in the worst possible way.
	Let's just see here.
	We're going to go to Quebec here.
	115 facilities.
	We see this?
	We're looking at the same thing.
	This is in Quebec.
	Situation in emergency rooms in Quebec.
	Estimated. Let's go here.
	We're going to go to Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.
	That was near where I used to live.
	Estimated wait time for non-priority cases to see a doctor?
	7 hours and 20 minutes.
	Number of people waiting to see a doctor in the emergency room?
	31. Total number of people in the emergency room?
	138. Occupancy rates of stretchers?
	171%. Average wait time from the previous day?
	7 hours.
	Average wait time on a stretcher from the previous day?
	23 hours and 41 minutes.
	It's not 23 minutes and 41 seconds, people.
	Go to Centre Hospitalier de Université Laval.
	That's in Quebec City.
	So, smaller city.
	Four and a half hour wait time.
	St. Mary, where is that?
	Lacombe. That's up in the Laurentians, I think.
	Avenue Lacombe, Montréal?
	Maybe it's not.
	Three hours.
	Portage. Grand Portage.
	Where is that?
	St. Henry.
	Rivière-de-Loup.
	That's far away.
	That's not that far.
	Four hours and 20 minutes.
	Four hours, five hours, nine hours.
	Here, what's this one?
	Saint-Roy.
	I'd love to.
	This is Mauricie, Centre du Québec.
	Yeah, so it's great.
	It's working wonders, people.
	The envy of the free world.
	Okay, we've got Jake Lang coming on in a few minutes.
	Let's go back to the vote and see where we're at here.
	That sound, that hollow echo, it's like the sound of infinite space.
	Thank you.
	Do we have an update?
	Oh lordy.
	So share Kayla's story.
	I'll try to put her in touch.
	Mr. Hoven.
	Mr. Hoven.
	Aye. So Encryptus has given me the link to the Senate thingy thing.
	I'm on it, but I don't see where the real-time vote counter is.
	Plus plays it up here.
	Oh, there we go.
	This one's got the...
	Oh, well, hold on.
	Let's just bring this up here.
	We've got one from the actual government website, which has the...
	There we go.
	That's better.
	Yays and nays are 46. Nay to 48. Yay.
	Motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Kashyap Patel of Nevada to be director of the Federal...
	Mr. Hoven.
	Mr. Hoven.
	Aye. Aye.
	49. We are but one away.
	There you go.
	Do we clap or no clap?
	Or does it have to hit 51?
	51 is the goal.
	Yar. Over in our vivabarneslaw.locals.com community.
	What do we got here?
	Viva! It's free, which clearly makes it better than the U.S. system, says Sammy.
	Free caca that nobody...
	It's not it.
	People want it.
	Chase out the doctors.
	Chase out tax-paying citizens so there's no one to fund the system.
	Aye. I didn't realize I was hearing too...
	Two systems.
	So that was over on our VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com community.
	I thought the cloture vote happened on Tuesday.
	It's very confusing.
	I did too as well, Lizzer.
	I thought today, like they're doing the cloture this morning and then voting the full Senate in two hours.
	It doesn't make sense to me.
	Make... States, great again.
	Being from Nevada should mean more than it does currently.
	Mrs. Gillibrand.
	Mighty pisses.
	I have a meeting in 10 minutes.
	Well, you might get back for the actual vote in time, but in between them, we're going to cover some stories, and Jake Lang is coming in to tell us about what happened at CPAC yesterday, because there's a video which we'll watch in a few seconds.
	Where's Vance to preside and break a tie?
	I don't know where Vance is today, but it doesn't look like there's going to be the need for it.
	Thank you.
	Now, while we were talking, I was getting some pings about updates in another case, which was the Canadian ostrich case.
	Let me see what's going on with that.
	It's endless stories of government abuse.
	Good morning!
	Okay, I'll...
	Okay, I've got to add some links.
	Absolutely comma, we'll do ASAP, period.
	Live now, smiley face.
	Come on, one more.
	Let's do it.
	I don't understand why it's like this.
	Sit your asses down.
	Do your votes, yay or nay.
	You're done in 15 minutes.
	What are you, walking around, meandering like there's more important things to do?
	What the hell is this?
	Please explain cloture.
	As far as I understand, I'll Google it to make sure, it's to end the debate on the candidate and then to proceed to a final Senate vote.
	Let me see if that's right.
	Not that I'm preparing for a citizenship exam, but if I do, what is cloture in government?
	In the context of government, cloture, sometimes clôture, parce que ça vient du mot français, to close, is a parliamentary procedure used to end debate on a matter and bring it to a vote.
	Yes. Yeah, cloture...
	Mr. McConnell.
	Ah, there we got it.
	Yar, we get to the vote, yes.
	Clôture in French means fencing, literally, actually, to enclose something.
	J'aime bien la manière dont je parle français, je peux invoquer.
	Invoke, ça vient du mot français, invoquer, to invoke.
	Clôture. Nevada is not a word in the French.
	Okay, so we got it.
	That's it.
	They're going to go to the vote now.
	It's scheduled for 145, but I think what happens after this is...
	Another form of debate.
	We have 51 yays, 47 nays.
	They're going to have their final cries of a little baby.
	Clerk will report the nomination.
	Yes, sir.
	Do it.
	Who wasn't there?
	Someone wasn't there from Democrats, someone wasn't there from Republicans.
	...
	to be director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
	The female body investigator.
	Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom.
	That's from...
	Is that from the other guys?
	Senator from Kentucky.
	I never liked calling too much attention to today's date, February 20th.
	But I figured my birthday would be as good a day as any to share with our colleagues a decision I made last year.
	During my time in the Senate, I've only really answered to two constituencies.
	The Republican Conference, and the people of Kentucky.
	Over the years, the first group trusted me to coordinate campaigns, to count votes, to steer committees, to take the majority, and on nine occasions to lead.
	Our conference.
	Is he voting for or against?
	Yes, rather specific childhood dream.
	And just about a year ago, I thanked my colleagues for their confidence, which allowed me to fulfill it.
	To the distinguished members of this body, I've had the privilege To lead and I remain deeply, deeply grateful.
	Today, however, it's appropriate for me to speak about an even deeper allegiance and even longer standing gratitude.
	To China.
	Seven times my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate.
	That's too many.
	Every day in between, I've been humbled by the trust they've placed in me.
	To do their business right here.
	Representing our Commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime.
	Is he retiring?
	I will not seek this honor an eighth time.
	My current term in the Senate will be my last.
	I've been a student of history my entire life.
	I can't remember the last time I didn't have a stack of biographies or political memoirs on my nightstand.
	And I know well how tempting it can be to read history with a sense of determination, determinism.
	Assuming that somehow notorious failures Were inevitable.
	That crowning triumphs were predestined.
	And in either case, that lives and careers followed ordinary paths.
	This, of course, isn't how things were.
	And I've never had to look further in my own life to recognize it.
	I've never lost sight of the fact that without my mother's devoted care...
	What the hell is he talking about?
	...
	the childhood encounter with polio could have turned out a lot worse.
	And unless my father had taken a job in the bluegrass state, my interest in politics might have run a course somewhere else.
	But if it weren't for an 11th hour outside the box idea on the campaign trail, my Senate career would have been over before it began.
	Or that, if not for the people of Kentucky, time and again, agreeing that leadership delivers and elected me to send back here.
	It would have been someone else.
	I'm somewhere else, taking that seat at the table where I've had a chance to work, strategize, fight, and win.
	He's not seeking re-election.
	I think Father Time could have told us.
	I grew up reading about the greatness of Henry Clay.
	But there were times...
	When the prospect of etching my name into his desk in this chamber felt like more of a long shot than making it to the major leagues.
	I got a front-road seat to the greatness of Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky as a summer intern in his office.
	But at so many moments in my early career, The idea of following in his footsteps felt more distant than the moon.
	So the only appropriate thing to take away today, apart from a healthy dose of pride, is my immense gratitude for the opportunity to take part in the consequential business of the Senate.
	And the nation.
	Gratitude to the people I represent.
	Kentucky's families and farmers and miners and service members and small business owners.
	Did you represent their interests when you voted against Tulsi and JRFQ?
	Gratitude to loyal friends, dedicated volunteers, and talented staff who've helped me serve much better.
	Gratitude to this institution that has repaid my devotion so generously over the years, and to so many colleagues who have become great friends.
	Gratitude for my family's support.
	And in particular, my ultimate teammate and confidant of the last 32 years.
	His wife.
	Elaine's leadership and wise counsel, in their own right, have made her the most seasoned cabinet official in modern history.
	On top of all that, her devotion to me and to Kentucky is a lot more than I deserve.
	When I arrived at this chamber, I wasn't coming with a governor's statewide executive experience or a House member's appreciation for Washington Dynamics.
	I knew my hometown of Louisville, and I'd spent the previous few years working hard to learn what mattered to folks all across the rest of the Commonwealth.
	And yet, within weeks of swearing the oath, Sure enough, I was here on the floor talking with colleagues from other far-flung corners of the country discussing solutions to a farm income crisis and infrastructure challenge that affected different states in the same way.
	I learned quickly that delivering for Kentucky meant finding the ways the Commonwealth's challenges were actually tied to national...
	He's worth $34 million.
	See into it.
	In 2018.
	Agriculture legislation remembered Kentucky farmers and including, particularly included when they needed extraordinary assistance like the tobacco buyout.
	Making sure that nationwide steps on transportation infrastructure.
	Included resources for modernizing the Brent Spence Bridge, which supports billions of dollars in economic activity in Kentucky and the surrounding region.
	And with the trust of the local community, finishing the task first assigned by President Reagan, the safe destruction of America's legacy chemical weapons.
	At the Bluegrass Army Depot.
	So efforts like these have spanned the length of my Senate career.
	And I've been humbled each and every opportunity to help Kentucky punch above its weight.
	Of course, the Senate has to grapple with foundational questions that reach even more broadly across American life and either further We're trusted on behalf of the American people to participate in the appointment of the federal judiciary,
	to be the final chap on the assembly of power in the courts beyond the reach of representative politics.
	And to ensure that the men and women who preside over them profess authentic devotion to the rule of law above all else.
	Which way is he going, people?
	When members of this body ignore, discount, or pervert this fundamental duty, they do so not just at the peril of the Senate, but of the whole.
	The weight of our power to advise and consent has never been lost on me.
	And I've been honored to perform my role in confirming judges who understand their role.
	I can't tell if he's going no or yes here.
	There is no place to hide from the obligations of Article 1. The Senate's unique relationship with...
	Article 3, or our role in equipping the powers of Article 2. Here, every debate over agriculture or infrastructure or education or taxes is downstream of the obligations of national security.
	Every question of policy here at home is contingent on our duty To provide for the common defense.
	One of the first times I spoke at length on this floor as a freshman, I was compelled to join the debate over strengthening the deterrence of America's nuclear triad.
	Whether to expand the U.S. military's hard target nuclear capability was an interesting question to pose to someone whose most recent job had been running a county government.
	But there, of course, was the founders' brilliance at work.
	The hopes and dreams of every American are tied up in our ability to protect and defend the nation and its interests.
	Okay, can you get to that point?
	Every family traveling abroad and every worker and small business owner whose livelihood depends on foreign trade, they depend in turn...
	On the credibility of America's commitments to friends and the strength of her threats to enemies.
	In turn, the safety and success of the men and women who volunteer to serve this great nation in uniform depend on the work we do here to ensure that enemies think twice, twice, before challenging them.
	And those enemies never face a fair fight.
	The work of strengthening America's hard power was well underway when I arrived in the Senate.
	But since then, we've allowed that power to after me.
	And today, a dangerous world threatens to outpace the work of rebuilding it.
	So lest any of our colleagues still doubt my intentions for the remainder of my term.
	Go, go, go.
	Get to it.
	I have some unfinished business to attend to.
	In our work, most of us in this body develop an appreciation for the Senate itself.
	It's written rules.
	It's collegial norms.
	It's pace of play.
	And yet so often I've watched colleagues depart venting their frustration at the confines of the institution or mourning what they perceive to be decline of its norms.
	Regardless, regardless of the political storms that may wash over this chamber during the time I have remaining, I assure our colleagues that I will depart with great hope for the endurance of the Senate as an institution.
	There are any number of reasons for pessimism, but the strength of the Senate is not one of them.
	All right, Grandpa, get to the point.
	This chamber is still the haven where the political minority...
	Can require debate.
	Okay. It's still the crucible in which jurists are tested for their fidelity to upholding the Constitution and lies and laws as they were written.
	Okay. The Senate is still equipped for work of great consequence.
	Okay. Very good.
	And to the disappointment of my critics, I'm still here on the job.
	What the hell did you just say?
	You just wasted eight minutes.
	Senator North Carolina.
	Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the members and staff and spectators in the gallery be allowed to applaud for a period not to exceed 30 seconds.
	Oh. Is there an objection?
	Are they joking?
	No. Clapping seals.
	Holy cow.
	well uh that was wonderful By the way, we just witnessed someone waste 10 minutes of all of our lives.
	You multiply that by the 10,000 people that are watching.
	That's 10,000 minutes times 10. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Let me just do something.
	I'll keep this going in the background.
	In commemoration of Mitch McConnell's speech, I think we have to go straight to here.
	We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways.
	One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere.
	Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville, I needed a new heel for my shoe.
	So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they call Shelbyville in those days.
	So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.
	No! To take the ferry cost a nickel.
	And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them.
	Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.
	Now, where were we?
	Oh, yeah.
	The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt.
	I'm even bored, and I know this joke.
	All right, so that was Mitch McConnell.
	What's amazing is I'm watching the Calci respond to him while he's talking, and I don't think they know what to do with him.
	What happened with Lisa Murkowski?
	That her odds have now dropped to 61 cents.
	Encryptus, if you're watching, let me know if you...
	Well, we got another one coming up from Encryptus, which is equally applicable.
	But mine was funnier, but longer.
	And then this one is just the epitome of classic.
	What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.
	At no point...
	In your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought?
	Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
	I ward you no points.
	God have mercy on your soul.
	How did that happen?
	Oh, whatever.
	They cut the I ward you no points out of that one?
	Oh, whatever.
	Now I've got to go find that video and close it here.
	So, apparently, Collins voted no on cloture, but...
	Lisa Murkowski's stock just fell rapidly.
	She's now down to 55% as to whether she's going to vote yes on Kash Patel.
	I hear things in the backdrop, so I'll bring it back up when there's not just people walking around.
	Mitch McConnell.
	Oh yeah, I wanted to bring up Mitch McConnell's wealth.
	It had to do with him marrying...
	The fact that his wife is Chinese only has to do with whether or not he's a compromised asset.
	Oh no, this is Lisa Makowski.
	Why was she voting?
	I want to know why her odds dropped.
	If anybody knows that, let me know.
	Here we go.
	A cloture.
	Where was Mitch McConnell's...
	He's worth $35 million.
	It came from marrying his wife, Chow, who apparently is worth a lot of money.
	Oh, here we go.
	Here we go.
	I got it.
	Look at this.
	This is wild.
	Mitch McConnell.
	This one or this one?
	I think it's this one.
	Mitch McConnell, the long-serving U.S. senator from Kentucky, has an estimated net worth of around $35 million.
	As of recent years, his wealth stems from a combination of Senate salary, oh yeah, strategic investments, insider trading bitches, that's what it means, and most significantly, family inheritance tied to his wife, with which he can make some significant strategic investments, a.k.a.
	insider trading with inherited money.
	Mother effer, life is good for the rich.
	Elaine Chao, here's a breakdown.
	Senate salary makes $174,000, rising to $193,000.
	Over his 40-year career, the salary alone would have amounted to $7-8 million before taxes.
	While this is a substantial income, it doesn't account for his full wealth.
	As public service salaries are modest compared to private sector earnings.
	The most significant boost to McConnell's wealth came through his marriage to Elaine Chao in 1993.
	Who served as U.S. Secretary of Labor under war criminal George W. Bush and Secretary of Transportation under Donald Trump.
	Comes from wealthy family.
	Her father, James S.C. Chow, founded Foremost Group, a New York-based international shipping company with a fleet valued in the hundreds of millions.
	In 2008, following the death of Chow's mother, McConnell and Chow received a substantial financial gift.
	Ooh, something's coming up here in the backdrop.
	So, yeah, it's great.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what's this?
	Senator from Illinois.
	Here we go.
	Let's listen to some more.
	Mr. President, in about two hours, the Senate will vote on...
	Oh, this guy's going to be world-class.
	...
	to serve as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations for the next...
	Order. Order.
	Order. Order.
	Thank you.
	You will respect my...
	...
	to serve as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations for the next 10 years.
	10 years, Mr. President.
	If Senate Republicans confirm Mr. Patel, I believe they will come to regret this vote.
	Probably sooner rather than later.
	I, for one, am convinced that Mr. Patel has neither the experience, the judgment, nor the temperament to lead this amazing criminal investigative agency.
	It appears...
	It appears my Senate Republican colleagues are ignoring the many red flags in Mr. Patel's record.
	The choir.
	Get to the choir.
	Probably because they fear retribution.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes.
	He's going to be a personal henchman.
	Let me be clear.
	This is not a partisan issue.
	Bullshit. It's a partisan issue.
	During my time in the Senate, I have voted for four FBI director nominations before this one.
	Each one was clearly a Republican.
	And I voted for them nevertheless.
	Historically, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been apolitical.
	I oppose Mr. Patel because he is dangerously politically extreme.
	He has repeatedly expressed his attention to use our nation's most important law enforcement agency to retaliate against his political enemies.
	Even before President Trump took office, Mr. Patel announced that he would force The director is the only political appointment at the FBI.
	Congress took steps to ensure that this agency remains as apolitical as possible by providing for a single term of 10 years for a director and subjecting the appointment to the advice and consent of the Senate.
	Fifty years ago, we made this reform.
	We may see it all fall to ashes today.
	But as we have seen for weeks now, the Trump's administration purge of the FBI is a political exercise that has spread to service career officials.
	There's an association of FBI agents, and the two leaders of that association came to see me recently in my office to talk about this situation.
	Both of them are women.
	One is serving 17 years in the career job at the FBI and the other 22. They were quick to add that their fathers had been FBI agents before them.
	It was clearly in their blood.
	They came to tell me about the situation at the FBI today.
	People are scared.
	Because of the prospect of Kash Patel.
	They think they get to dictate their own boss?
	Get out, then.
	They've gone through many of them, gone through many presidential transitions, and have never seen anything like this.
	Tough shit, get out.
	The declaration that is required now of FBI agents as to whether they were participating in the investigation of the January 6 rioters who assaulted this United States Capitol building.
	Let's be honest about what's going on here.
	Let's be honest.
	There's an effort to have Soviet-style historical revision.
	The Trump administration and the people that they're pushing into leadership have to basically pass a loyalty oath in terms of the outcome of the previous presidential election and what happened on January 6th.
	They're somehow asked to ignore the obvious that we see and videotape over and over again.
	The rioters assaulted this Capitol.
	Some dangers that the Vice President of the United States sitting in your chair was physically removed by the Secret Service for fear that he was going to be hurt if he stayed in that position.
	Those of us who are on the floor of the Senate on January 6th were asked to evacuate this chamber as quickly as possible.
	This was not simply a question of tourists getting out of line.
	These people who assaulted this U.S. Capitol building were hell-bent on stopping the constitutional process of counting the elections in the 2020 election.
	They came with no weapons.
	Now, FBI and others are being asked to say the opposite, that this wasn't somehow a breach of law, a horrendous, terrible chapter in the history of this country, and that there was danger afoot.
	Because the president has given a sweeping pardon to the 1,600 who were prosecuted for trespass, suspiciously prosecuted, constitutional rights violated.
	We were supposed to somehow discount this as a significant moment in American history.
	It was.
	And for the FBI agents who participated in the investigation of that day, I say they were doing their job, and they did it well.
	And now to remove them from the FBI because of that has obviously hurt the morale of the FBI agency.
	This is incoherent.
	Stop and wonder what the future holds for them if another president comes in with another political agenda.
	Will they be the victims again?
	Can you imagine the president comes in with a political agenda?
	The Trump administration's purge of the FBI is a political exercise that has spread to senior career officials.
	In the FBI, long, long history.
	This has never happened before.
	This purge has dramatically weakened the FBI's ability to combat national security threats and make America less safe.
	Senior leaders with collectively hundreds of years of experience have been forced out, creating a leadership vacuum.
	Thousands of line agents fear losing their jobs simply because they were assigned to work on cases involving the January 6th attack by President Trump.
	I have heard directly from FBI agents who now fear for their safety and the safety of their families.
	To understand why, let me tell you about a January 6 rioter named Edward Kelly.
	Mr. Kelly was convicted of assaulting law enforcement during the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
	We saw it, didn't we?
	in terms of videotapes that show our law enforcement agents trying to stand their ground in this Capitol building, being beaten back and assaulted by these mobs.
	Mr. Kelly was convicted of assaulting law enforcement, and he was given a full and unconditional pardon by Donald Trump.
	But Mr.
	Kelly has also been convicted in his home state of Tennessee of conspiracy to murder the FBI agents What does that have to do with the charge for which he was pardoned?
	Now he is arguing that President Trump's blanket pardon of Mr. Kelly should cover his attempt to kill FBI agents.
	Attempt to kill?
	I thought it was conspiracy.
	When he asked about the possible firings of career FBI officials at his confirmation hearing, Mr. Patel, under oath, under oath, and I quote, said, I don't know what's going on right now at the FBI.
	Mr. President, that's not true.
	Thanks to multiple brave whistleblowers, we now know...
	Mr. Patel likely committed perjury in making that statement.
	Oh, really?
	Even before being confirmed as an FBI director, Mr.
	Patel is already directing the ongoing purge of honorary, pardon me, honorable career public servants.
	Despite his status as a private citizen, he has no right to be part of this awful project.
	Shut up.
	Shut up, Durbin.
	Before you vote on Mr. Patel's nomination.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	Mr. Patel's claim about an FBI purge were not his only misleading statements under oath.
	Oh, tell us more.
	The choir, the choir.
	At his hearing, Mr. Patel implausibly told me he could not recall Stu Peters, a man who's been identified as an anti-Semitic Holocaust denier.
	I asked him repeatedly, what about Stu Peters?
	Don't know the man.
	Don't recognize the name.
	This is simply not true.
	Considering that Mr. Patel appeared on Mr. Peters' podcast eight times, Mr. President.
	Eight times and he couldn't recall the man's name.
	And Mr. Peters has since revealed that he and Mr. Patel directly communicate via their personal cell phones, quote, constantly.
	Constantly was the word he used.
	As far as Patel was concerned, under oath.
	Never heard of the man.
	I love how they trust Stu Peters when he says something, but not when he says others.
	Why would Mr. Patel admit the obvious?
	Eight podcasts and constant communication with this man?
	An even larger question.
	What is he doing as a man who wants to direct the FBI in concert with anti-Semitic Holocaust denier Stu Peters?
	What is going on here?
	Is he showing good judgment?
	Is this the kind of person you want to put in charge of 38,000 criminal investigators?
	Mr. Patel also claimed, quote, he didn't have anything to do with the recording of the so-called January 6th prison choir, which included at least six rioters who violently assaulted police officers.
	Mr. Patel thinks there's something interesting, maybe even amusing, about the fact that he created a choir of these individuals who had been prosecuted for what they did on January 6th.
	This guy's a real piece of crap.
	Here's what Mr. Patel said.
	To Steve Bannon after he denied knowing anything about this recording before the Judiciary Committee recently.
	He said to Steve Bannon, We got this idea to record the January 6th prisoners who recite the national anthem every night from the D.C. prison.
	Then we took that to the studio.
	So we mastered and digitized that.
	So on Steve Bannon's show, he is the mastermind behind this recording of these prisoners.
	God forbid they should rehabilitate if they're genuine.
	The particular tape that he created of the January 6th choir was taken to Trump rallies, too, and played as some kind of interesting display.
	I think we're going to put this on pause for a second.
	You know what we're going to do?
	I'm putting this on pause.
	I'm putting it on pause because, A, it's going to give me diarrhea of the ears, and I'm going to bring on Jake Lang, who is one of the Jan Sixers, one of the...
	Violent January 6th.
	He's one of the violent January 6ers who got a full pardon because he's at CPAC.
	And I do wonder what relevance, if any, of this had in what happened to Jake yesterday.
	Jake, I'm going to bring you in.
	3, 2, 1, and we're going to come back to Dick Durbin talking afterwards.
	Share screen.
	No, hold on.
	I've got to invite you in like this.
	You might want to turn.
	Every time I turn the camera landscape and then reorient it, I don't like when it's like this.
	But anyway, I'm saving.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	Well, no, no.
	It's going to turn back.
	Watch. It's just like something's spazzing out over here.
	But anyway.
	You're in Australia, and you're upside down, and that's why.
	There's a lock feature for the auto turn, but why do you look so much...
	You look more tan than I do.
	I look very pale compared to you.
	Oh, God.
	It just did it.
	It does it, and it's unexplainable.
	Go back the other way.
	No. And then leave it vertical.
	I refuse.
	Okay, when you scroll down...
	When you scroll down, there should be like...
	Wait, now I'm like...
	There you go.
	It doesn't matter if it's vertical because I'm sharing the screen halfway.
	Okay, yeah, I see that.
	Okay, now we're good.
	Guys... I was unsacrimoniously kicked out of CPAC yesterday for being a J6 political prisoner.
	Everybody saw it.
	The world saw it live.
	They assaulted me and my fiancé.
	They literally physically pushed me out of the building when I asked the police to come to trespass me or for the decision maker to come and explain why I'm being kicked out.
	They sent like four jackboot thugs and just started bullying me and Rachel and just removed us from the venue without an explanation.
	In fact, this is my second year there as a vendor for my booth for the Federal Watchdog and the J6 organizations I orchestrate.
	And, you know, I bought 22 tickets this year and flown out.
	People are getting phone calls right now.
	People are at the airport.
	People are here.
	You know, we had dozens of people that we've flown out, that we got Airbnbs for that, you know, we're trying to orchestrate the J6.
	There's a reuniting moment like this is our first time where we can go back into society and we're supposed to be celebrated amongst you know MAGA Republicans and you know instead we're disrespected and you know dehumanized it was disgusting.
	Let me ask you two questions.
	Well, three questions, because there's a bunch of people saying, was it media credentials pulled?
	Was it your vendor's purchase revoked?
	Or was it your tickets just not honored?
	None of those things.
	It was my personal credentials revoked.
	All of the other 21 people that I bought tickets for were able to go to CPAC and to enjoy.
	My booth still remains there as we speak right now.
	There are people at the Federal Watchdog and the Blessed News booth.
	So it was just me personally that was revoked, including, we learned later on in the day, Enrique Tarrio, Stuart Rhodes, Richard Barnett.
	And those are the only ones so far.
	It seems to be that they wanted to...
	Basically squash the voice of the January Sixers for the most prominent members, which, you know...
	Potentially even worse than that.
	I'll get to it in a second.
	But having your credentials revoked, what does that mean?
	Credentials means access or...
	Access for media or just access to the event?
	No, I didn't have media credentials.
	I had a general admission ticket that came with my booth.
	And so, you know, when they revoke your credentials, basically they're saying you're not allowed on the property.
	You're not allowed to, you know, be in attendance.
	How much did your booth cost?
	Last year we spent $10,000 on a massive booth.
	This year we got a slightly smaller booth, so I think it was only $2,500.
	But then I spent like another $2,000 in tickets, plus another $1,000 for Wi-Fi and electricity hookup, plus thousands of dollars for the step and repeat, you know, stuff we had behind us and T-shirts and other, you know, vendor gear.
	And so, you know, we were in plus, you know...
	$5,000 on an Airbnb.
	I mean, we're into this thing, tens of thousands of dollars.
	And so, you know, but more than that, more than the money, more than not being able to be at an event and speak, you know, first of all, I'm a United States Senate candidate.
	And, you know, I just recently announced and I'm officially filed.
	And so, you know, this was my first public appearance as a candidate for, you know, the front runner.
	And so, me challenging Ashley Moody obviously contributed to them not wanting me around to talk to donors.
	Have my voice be heard.
	But more than any of those things, this was the moment where, as a human being, for the first time in four years and six days, I was going to be out in the public, in the public eye, wearing my suit, speaking out against the five guys that have been left behind for January 6th, speaking out, and just being able to be a human reunited with my whole community that I fought for.
	And they robbed that from me.
	They dehumanized me.
	They embarrassed me and humiliated me.
	This is our moment to be humans again, to hug and to feel and to speak to people.
	I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, despite people saying that that's stupid.
	You want to be fair and not jump to conclusions.
	I have a breaking news right now.
	Before I just got on this interview, I was on with Alex Stone, who is at CPAC, is Roger Stone's nephew.
	And he was doing an interview yesterday right next to Mercedes and Matt Schlapp.
	They were doing an interview.
	That interview ended.
	And when that interview ended, they started speaking freely because the cameras were off.
	And Matt was bragging within earshot of...
	Alex was bragging about getting the Jan Sixers kicked out, that it wasn't good for optics, that they should have never came.
	And so this was a decision that came directly from Matt Schlapp and Conservative Inc.
	They were bragging about getting kicked out.
	And now they're walking it back.
	As of right now, apparently Richard Barnett and Stuart Rhodes, their passes have been given back to them after being revoked yesterday.
	You know, the video that Alex and I just recorded, I'm going to be editing in 10 seconds from the moment I get off this interview and going to be posting it.
	And so, you know, he's been at CPAC many years.
	He's been doing his show for five years.
	Credible man.
	A great, great young man.
	A fighter.
	And so, you know, we now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that this was an actual orchestrated, you know, attempt to embarrass the Jan Sixers.
	I mean, these people, I've been talking to them, emailing back and forth for weeks, Viva, about a booth.
	And that's why, like, I want to give the benefit of the doubt, but also being very cynical on the one hand.
	So they reestablished or reinstated the creds of Enrique Tarrio and Rhodes and others, or no?
	I haven't heard from Enrique.
	I've seen video footage on Richard Barnett that he is back at CPAC.
	He has his pass around his neck.
	Basically yesterday, me live streaming on the Gateway Pundit for 100,000 plus people that were watching live.
	Me getting kicked out of CPAC completely overshadowed what they're trying to accomplish there.
	Everybody, tens of thousands of Americans were calling them out and calling to boycott CPAC.
	So obviously, this was a decision that they had to make.
	Because the political winds have shifted, obviously.
	It could even be more insidious than them just realizing, oh shit, Jake is here and we don't want the violent Jan Sixer here.
	Not to stroke your ego, but having Enrique there, having you there, big names, is a draw feature.
	It's going to bring people out there to potentially meet you.
	So they could use you as a selling point and say, you're out there promoting the event.
	People think you're going to be there.
	They show up there.
	To save political face because they don't want to fraternize with the violent Jan Sixers, they then revoke your access once you get there after they've already exploited all of the branding and advertising that you gave them.
	If one wants to be cynical, I just want to know, like, what's the steel man argument for why they did it?
	They didn't give you any explanation.
	No, they told Stuart Rhodes one word, legal.
	So the legal, you know, their legal representation there at CPAC had given a recommendation to the security team to not let us in.
	For whatever reason, I mean, listen, Stuart Rhodes doesn't have any violent charges and neither does Enrique Tarrio.
	Seditious conspiracy is among the most violent, Jake.
	They got 22 years.
	I didn't get convicted of anything.
	I did four years and six days without a trial, but I believe...
	Richard Barnett, Big O, has not been convicted of any violent charge, and he was not associated with any group, and so he only got like a three-and-a-half, four-year sentence, which is, I mean, abhorrent, but still, for them to revoke him, so if we just try, you know, you have to look at the people they revoked, and the one underlying thing that unites us all is that we have influence, that we're, you know, people that people know.
	You know, Richard was the one that had his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk.
	He's Big O. That's my brother.
	I love him.
	But apparently, Something to do with our influence, something to do with, you know, that is why we were not allowed in.
	I mean, you could assume if it was just me, maybe because of the violent charges I had.
	And then you add Enrique Stewart, and then it changes the dynamic even more.
	Okay, maybe it's something to do with militias.
	Now you add in Richard Barnett, and it's like, okay, all bets are off the table.
	It just seems like...
	What is this nonsense at CPAC about not including any...
	Anybody pardoned from Jan 6th, it would seem to me should be an invitee, not an excluded party.
	Who did you say the name was of the guy in charge of CPAC?
	I don't want to...
	So, Mercedes and Matt Schlapp own CPAC.
	Schlapp. Schlapp.
	C-H-C...
	S-C-H-L-A-P-P.
	Yes. Schlapp.
	The Schlappers.
	And the shellappers have taken a shellacking by the Jan 6th community.
	And, you know, this is not something that we didn't know going in.
	Of course, we didn't know our pastors were going to be revoked, but we knew who we're dealing with.
	These people are the Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan, old Republicans, country club, haters of Jan 6th.
	I mean, these are the same...
	Type of people that had stood up for years and called us, even on the Republican side, because we're not beloved over there either, for most part, except for the MAGA movement.
	You know, these are the people that, just like, you know, stood up at the Capitol and said, this was a violent insurrection.
	I mean, the Republicans, dozens of them, hate us.
	And so they have their donors behind them.
	They have their big money, you know, donors behind them who also hate us.
	And so those are the people that are funding CPAC.
	And so, you know, CPAC was trying to say...
	Save face with both the MAGA and by letting some Jan Sixers in but then revoking other ones and trying to also save face with their big money Rhino donors.
	It doesn't look good.
	You don't want to jump to conclusions.
	Maybe there was a glitch.
	No, we do want to jump to conclusions.
	We want to start naming random people that may have anything to do with this.
	That's been my take on this thing, is if after 900 days of solitary confinement, you want to embarrass me in front of my fiancée, put hands on her, put hands on me, ruin my weekend, ruin all that I've tried to build, and then expect me to just disappear silently in the dark.
	Anybody that's even remotely associated with CPAC.
	I was outside on a live stream for four hours outside CPAC yesterday with 100,000 people listening live.
	Steve Bannon was well aware I was outside.
	All of these people, they have my number.
	I've talked to them in the past.
	Julie Kelly.
	Nobody came outside.
	Nobody sent me a text message explaining what's going on.
	I've not been reached out to by anybody by CPAC.
	These people are cowards that allowed this to happen and sat by silently.
	And in fact, Julie Kelly went and tried to do damage control for CPAC last night and tweeting out that there were plans to disrupt.
	Allegedly. We were kicked out of CPAC.
	This is her crazy conspiracy theory.
	Because we had plans to disrupt what was going on and we were being unscrupulous.
	I was at a booth with 80-year-old grandmothers folding t-shirts that I paid thousands of dollars to be at that booth.
	I walked over to the check-in area.
	I said, hey, can I have my tickets?
	My 22 tickets I purchased so I can hand them out to my volunteers and stuff during the check-in time.
	And I said, my name's Jake Lang.
	They said, you are not allowed to be on CPAC property.
	So that's all that transpired.
	She's actually making up the same exact argument that the January 6th Select Committee and the Democrats say.
	They had plans to disrupt an ongoing proceeding.
	So she's allegedly claiming we had plans to disrupt CPAC, and that's why we were kicked out.
	Why was Big O kicked out?
	Why was Enrique and Stewart kicked out?
	She's a liar, and she's making up things and trying to save face for CPAC, calling you out.
	You're no longer the spokesperson for January 6th, Julie Kelly.
	We're out.
	We can speak for ourselves.
	We don't need you to make up lies about us and try to save face for your handlers.
	Full disclosure, I like Julie Kelly.
	She does great work.
	She's done some good work, but she's also been extremely divisive in the January 6th community.
	She has me blocked on Twitter.
	She has dozens of the men that I know blocked on Twitter.
	She has cursed me out to my face via the phone, told me I'm a nobody and that I don't represent January 6th.
	She has done this same rude conduct to dozens of people that I talk to that are staying at this house that know her.
	She is a grifter trying to enrich herself and build a brand off of January 6th.
	And she deserves to be discredited for the stance that she took last night backing CPAC.
	I mean, read the tweet that she tweeted last night.
	I see one is the only one I can see.
	Let me bring this up.
	Wrong. Wrong.
	Wrong. No one is entitled to attend CPAC with the intention of causing problems, misrepresenting Jan Sixers.
	None of that's true.
	I've spent 1,467 days behind bars.
	How could she claim that I'm misrepresenting Jan Sixers?
	She is a nobody talking head, a hack, that is claiming that I'm misrepresenting Jan Sixers.
	I suffered in the basement of a gulag for 900 days of solitary confinement.
	I and the people that got kicked out of Jan Sixers.
	Enrique Tarrio, Stuart Rhodes, and Richard Barnett truly represent January 6th.
	You're a nobody.
	She does not represent us.
	I'm not in your shoes, and I don't have the...
	I'll call it injury that you have to read it the way you might be reading it.
	I would never have read it that way.
	I appreciate it.
	It's a broad statement.
	No, she knows exactly.
	I got kicked out of CPAC yesterday, and then she goes and tries to save face for her handlers.
	It's ridiculous.
	She should be ashamed of herself.
	You should be ashamed of yourself, Julie Kelly.
	Stop grifting off our movement, okay?
	The people she's aligned herself with, Cynthia Hughes and the Patriot Freedom Project, are avid Nazis, okay?
	Tim Hale, who is the nephew of Cynthia Hughes, is an avid Nazi.
	He posts videos talking about how discussing their cesspool.
	He talks about Hasidic Jews are a cesspool and that everything that's wrong you can trace back to the Jews.
	This is the nephew of Cynthia Hughes.
	He helped start Page Your Freedom Project.
	I was in the pod.
	He selectively uses the money that they give in order to coerce January Sixers to create a cabal, an oppressive cabal, and a divisiveness inside the January Six movement.
	Julie Kelly, the money that she makes from her book, January...
	On the front cover of that book, she says a certain portion of those funds will go to Patriot Freedom Project.
	Patriot Freedom Project is Cynthia Hughes and Tim Hale's little organization.
	So the money that Julie Kelly uses by grifting off of January 6th, she then gives to avid Nazis.
	And these people, there's money exchanging hands there.
	And then she goes out and tries to destroy and crush my organization, which out-fundraises.
	The Patriot Freedom Project because they want the money so that they could take it and do as they please.
	And here's what they do with the money.
	$1.2 million was raised in 2022 for Patriot Freedom Project.
	Their tax returns show that.
	$400,000 of those dollars went to staffing costs.
	That's one-third of the dollars that were raised.
	The only problem with that, and there's massive problems with that, is that the only staff that she has, her three board members at that time, were her and her two children.
	That means Cynthia Hughes and her two children were taking $400,000, that's $128,000 or whatever, $130,000 each, to run the January, I mean, that's a real good income right there, to run their organization.
	These people are the people behind Conservative Inc.
	and to try to destroy January 6th, and in fact, Cynthia Hughes and Patriot Freedom Project, Jim Hale openly called for some Jan Sixers to be left behind the pardon process.
	Julie Kelly was silent about it to the last minute when she saw which way the political winds would fall, when we would all get pardoned.
	All these people are hacks, and they don't deserve to be a part of the January 6th or the MAGA movement any longer.
	They're backing up Mercedes and Match Slap, throwing Jan Sixers out of CPAC.
	They're making up lies, saying we're misrepresenting that we're there to cause trouble.
	I was there as a paying vendor.
	I appreciate it.
	First of all, I want to attempt to steelman both the arguments for and against.
	Latest update, this is January 20th.
	What time is this at?
	5 a.m.
	CPAC released a statement.
	Jancic's allowed back in.
	Stuart Rhodes responds.
	Let's see what the statement was.
	Okay, can I see it more within here?
	No, it will not show me.
	No, that statement, first of all, is a lie.
	I retweeted that on my account.
	They're lying.
	They're saying that they have not...
	We are...
	It's untrue that we're not allowing Jan Sixers to come in.
	That's untrue.
	It's false.
	They kicked me out.
	CPAC, you're liars.
	You should be ashamed of yourself.
	And maybe I'll show up today and actually get kicked out this time for actually disrupting.
	And maybe I'll go up on stage and do a Kanye West moment and say, CPAC kicked out the Jan Sixers and we're coming for political office.
	And, you know, these people should be ashamed.
	This is the rhino hack.
	It's pretty black and white.
	This is 941 this morning.
	That is 941 this morning, yeah.
	CPAC says, it is untrue that we are not allowing people to come to CPAC because of their involvement with Jan 6. Okay, good.
	In fact, CPAC has been a constant supporter of the persecuted community, and we support wholeheartedly pleasant transpartons of Jan 6. All right.
	The registration link is active, and tickets will soon be sold out.
	Now, scroll down.
	Scroll down.
	Scroll down from there.
	Look at my post.
	Scroll down.
	I was going to say, I hope also that they're not sold out where you can't get in.
	Jan 6. Jake Lang says, 10 minutes later, I was thrown into CPAC while trying to pick up 22 tickets I purchased.
	What a shameful lie you have posted.
	I spent over 900 days in solitary confinement just to emerge with a pardon from Trump and then be dehumanized at your event.
	Well, that was before.
	They are now saying you're back in.
	Why am I not able to get back into my...
	No, no, no.
	They claim that they never discriminated or kicked out January Sixers.
	That's what they claim.
	They said it is untrue that we're kicking January Sixers out.
	So they're saying that me getting live-streamed assaulted yesterday was untrue.
	And it...
	Enrique Tarrio being humiliated and kicked out, escorted off the property is untrue.
	They're liars and now they're trying to save face.
	They're saying it shouldn't have happened.
	You're all welcome.
	Oh, where does that?
	They didn't say that.
	Don't put words in CPAC's mouth.
	No, I'm just saying that.
	I'm on fire today, FIFA.
	I'm ready.
	Let me go back to the wording.
	It says it's untrue that we are not allowing because of their involvement.
	We've been a constant supporter.
	The registration link is active.
	Well, what it seems to suggest is...
	There was a problem.
	It's active now.
	Come back in.
	So you're welcome back in, Jake.
	And if they don't live up to their work, although the truth of the damage is done, maybe they didn't know.
	Maybe they'll apologize.
	Maybe they'll take you on stage willingly and you won't have to cause a disturbance.
	And they'll say, we apologize, Jake, for what we did to you yesterday.
	No, I wouldn't do that.
	I have more dignity than that.
	I almost have too much dignity even to show back up at that place.
	They don't deserve to be graced with the presence of January 6th Patriots, you know?
	They are the rhino uniparty wing of the Republican movement.
	I mean, everybody knows it.
	It's not, you know, it's not new information that we're giving here, but they just overstepped even their own hands showing that they're not even aligned with the MAGA movement whatsoever.
	What frauds?
	Darla, Darla, I'm going to present, I'm going to argue for the people who are not here because there is the expression in French, les absents ont toujours tort, which means those who are not there are always wrong.
	So someone has to.
	So don't, first of all, don't tell me what to do.
	And I think it's fair.
	Even though I'm the one, I retweeted it yesterday.
	Say this doesn't look good.
	You'd better have some explaining to do.
	And if the best they can do is say, sorry, come back.
	We didn't mean it.
	Go back and see what happens.
	Now Jake is, I want to know where Jake is right now.
	So, yeah, that's it.
	Viva is simping for CPAC because he has ties and doesn't want to burn.
	What ties do I have to CPAC?
	It's the Jewish conspiracy, me and Viva.
	First of all, I'm just going to say this.
	Any person who doesn't defend someone who's not there or at least present what argument they would present when they're not there is not having a fair argument.
	I appreciate you.
	You're doing your investigative work.
	First of all, I don't know who the schlaps are.
	I don't know that I've ever been to a CPAC event.
	I might have been to a CPAC event.
	But I have zero to do with CPAC and zero bridges that exist to even burn in the first place.
	So, thanks.
	No, no, no.
	This makes for a constructive conversation because people have to question everything.
	There were people saying that I staged that yesterday and then all of a sudden they had to eat their words when it happened to other Jan Sixers after me and stuff.
	So there's a lot of conspiracies going out.
	I mean, even, God forbid, one of my best friends, General Flynn, even tweeted out this morning kind of giving an out to CPAC saying, if the Jan Sixers were there to do a demonstration, it's the right thing.
	Right, if CPAC to kick them out.
	But if they weren't, they deserve an apology and they should be brought up on stage.
	So it was like...
	Where is anybody getting this demonstration thing from?
	They're out of their minds, and those are the people that are spreading that rumor, trying to justify CPAC's abhorrent dehumanization of Jan Sixers.
	I felt like after all this time I went to prison, and many times I was dehumanized like that by prison guards, kicked out, removed, can't be here, can't do that, can't sit here.
	And then to be brought into public and have that, they paraded me through.
	Because I had to go back to my booth to get my jacket and my laptop and all this stuff.
	So I'm like walking through CPAC with all these security guards pushing me and stuff.
	Just incredible dehumanization.
	No, no.
	Hey, guys.
	It seems to have happened.
	The video's there.
	So maybe apologize for what happened.
	And then once someone apologizes, if you don't accept the apology, then that's on the person.
	First of all, also, I say don't give people...
	Some people say, why do you even grace CPAC with your presence?
	Amen. I agree to that.
	But no, it's wild to kick out the people who got the presidential pardon.
	Trump made a specific decision to pardon, especially you, and especially Enrique.
	Enrique was, if I'm not mistaken, Enrique was by name pardoned.
	And so to have CPAC not allow in the people...
	It's because they're DeSantis.
	These are the people, these donors are the same donors that tried to hyperinflate DeSantis when he was running against Trump.
	They're not MAGA.
	They want their old country club Republican Party back, and they're trying to destroy MAGA.
	They're trying to keep out the new faces of the MAGA movement, the Jan Sixers.
	This is a cabal, and I know the people behind it.
	I know you all.
	We're naming names.
	We're dropping names on y'all.
	This is the kind of stuff that when we were incarcerated, I did not want to talk about because the January 6th community, we needed to have this united front so that the American people saw this brave group of people suffering together and fighting together.
	But now that we're out, the people that had openly been calling for me to be remaining in prison, that had blackballed me from many different conservative medias trying to lie about me and stuff, those are the people I've named today.
	Those are the people really behind what's happened.
	They talk with Matt and Mercedes and the Schlaps and CPAC and stuff like that.
	There's a reason why our credentials were revoked, specifically these people's, because we don't align with those individuals.
	We continually and consistently step aside and try to unify and try to bring together this movement while they are disrupting and trying to create discord in a beautiful community.
	These people should be ashamed of themselves.
	We all deserve public apologies from CPAC and from these other characters I've named that unscrupulously mischaracterize us and try to grift off our movement.
	Well, what's amazing is I'm just reading the chat and people say, no, you're not the face of MAGA.
	Jan Sixers are not the face of MAGA.
	Disagree with the politics and everybody, you know, people trying to define themselves.
	One thing that you cannot disagree with is the treatment of the Jan Sixers, even the violent ones, was unconstitutional, period.
	They all deserve the pardons.
	They got them.
	And you can't have President Trump issuing pardons and then local...
	Prisons or, you know, radical politicians not respecting them.
	And you can't have CPAC, which it stands for the Conservative Political Action Committee, correct?
	No. Is it a conference?
	No, that is the conference.
	Conservative Political Action Conference.
	But there...
	These people are uniparty.
	Birds of the feather flock together.
	We might as well have been kicked out of a Democrat convention.
	That would make sense.
	But it does not make sense that there can be this level of misunderstanding.
	It's a disrespect to the pardon.
	Period. That's it.
	Bottom line.
	Thank you.
	But now the question is this.
	You're going to go back and you're going to try to make good on the ticket that they said is still good.
	I'm not sure.
	I haven't made my decisions yet.
	I'm going to, you know...
	I said last night when I was, you know, joking around with my friends, I said, if Mercedes Schlapp comes to my Airbnb and cooks me breakfast, then I will go back to CPAC.
	So... Yeah, that set up...
	Schlapp, I just want to ask the obvious...
	I'm looking up, googling it.
	They're not Jewish?
	Schlapp? They're alleged Christians.
	Okay, because I'm just wondering in terms of the...
	Thing you said about having apparently supported Holocaust deniers, when I'm thinking Schlapp, I'm thinking a Jewish last name, not whatever.
	If it's a Jewish last name, why would they be supporting alleged?
	No, they're pro-Israel, which is beautiful.
	God bless them, but they're anti-J6.
	I never understood why so many people were anti-you when you were behind bars, accusing you of being a Fed behind bars.
	And some of them are still in the chat here.
	Lady Katie.
	You're J6.
	He's running for office, Lady Katie.
	So you're running.
	So you announced by the way.
	I've been not holding my tongue.
	I didn't want to spoil it.
	We've announced, you know, I've done many, many interviews talking about it.
	I haven't put out my viral video on my website and like, you know, the official kind of social media facing side of it.
	But yes, I am officially FEC.
	You know, I have FEC filing for my candidacy for United States Senate in the state of Florida.
	And, you know, the same firebrand attitude calling out the uniparty rhinos and stuff is exactly what we need in Senate.
	We need to officially end the era of like the weak-kneed feckless leadership in the Republican Party from Mitch McConnell.
	I mean, even Thune right now, who's the sitting Senate leader, he had been tweeting, this is insane.
	Thun, the man that is the Senate leader right now, if you go on his Twitter page and look up January 6th, he said, it was a horrible day in American history.
	He was all super liberal, woke about it.
	It was an insurrection.
	He hated us.
	And then when BLM happened, he said, we need to respect the protesters and we need to show fidelity, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	So this guy, I mean, he's like AOC, like an old white man.
	You know, fake Republican nonsense.
	This is the...
	We need anti-MAGA, Marxist, you know, kind of halfway Republican, halfway Democrat, uniparty garbage establishment that, you know, I'm running against.
	This is, you know, I represent political outsidership, 1776 patriotism, you know, and unyielding integrity.
	I will not compromise up on Capitol Hill, you know, so...
	I want to bring up one particularly annoying comment.
	Hold on.
	You're a thick skin, so you won't care.
	After this interview, I wouldn't let him in.
	Good! I'm not letting him in already!
	But I'm not sure why anybody who...
	And I'm not undermining this individual's not loyalty but support for Donald Trump.
	Why would anyone think that would make you look good?
	We're adopting the same exclusionary juvenile tactics of the left.
	Oh, okay.
	You don't like what someone has to say?
	We're not letting you into our event?
	Holy crap.
	I mean, it's the same type of DNC elitism that destroyed the party.
	So great.
	It's not a great strategy to adopt.
	Respectfully submitted.
	All right, man.
	Well, dude, thank you for coming.
	What do you have planned for today?
	I'm not sure.
	You know, I've got...
	A lot of interviews and, you know, things lined up to talk about what happened yesterday.
	So, you know, I'll just continue to tell the story.
	I think that CPAC should be boycotted.
	You know, even if I decide to show up one of these days today or whatever, it'll mainly be, you know, as a big thumb in the eye.
	And, you know, I don't know.
	I have a booth there.
	I'm trying to sell the t-shirt, trying to make my money back.
	Well, I'm wondering if on their ticket they have, you know, we can't let someone in who's going to interfere with our business operations.
	So that might be a cause for, I'd be curious.
	I don't know what terms and conditions are on the tickets that you accepted, but there was another one here.
	There was another comment that I actually want to bring over.
	It said, I wouldn't let this guy do it in my house.
	We had a barbecue two weeks ago.
	The funny thing is, I like Julie Kelly.
	I also like Jake Lang.
	And that's okay.
	I can still be friends with you.
	There's a lot of people in the movement that say...
	If you are associated with Jay Clang, I won't be your friend, I won't talk to you, this is sad, or if you're associated with this person, you know, they try to, like, create these, like, tribal lines and stuff.
	I just have personal experiences with some of these people who claim to be our advocates, who claim to be our supporters, who claim to speak for us, and they don't, they're not, and they're fake.
	So watch out, because, you know, these people try to build a name for themselves off of our movement, and, you know, when push comes to shove.
	Um, they advocate for our removal from public spaces, you know, um, and back up the, the people who are, you know, uh, dehumanizing us.
	And, you know, I mean, it was, I can't, you know, you know, these people, the people, they, they just judge a book by, by their actions.
	You know, these people are there.
	You shall know the fruits, but the tree by their fruits.
	I know it's in the Bible.
	Someone told it to me.
	Jesus Christ said, you shall know a tree by its fruits.
	I'm going to bring up another one, but not when you're here, because when someone says, this dude seems off balance, I'm trying to find the video of you doing the, what is it called?
	First of all, I did a backflip on our gymnast mat.
	I have great balance.
	He's got fantastic balance.
	And I would dare say, I still think you're in some form of PTSD, not denial, but coping of what you've been through for the last four years.
	And for anyone to say, yeah, a dude who just spent four years in jail, much of it in solitary, seems off balance.
	I don't know how you're coping the way you are, but I think it has to be some sort of...
	I don't know what the psychological word would be, but keeping yourself distracted from what you've been through for the last four years.
	May you keep doing it.
	I guess that's it.
	Have a good one.
	We'll see.
	I'm going to see who else has been...
	If I can get news from anybody else in CPAC.
	Jake? God bless you guys.
	Before you leave, one last thing.
	I don't know.
	One last thing to say?
	I'll just say this.
	I think that the world's been changed by great men who have sometimes been off balance, like General George Washington, who frequently lashed some of his insubordinate underlings when he was running the campaign to save our country.
	So sometimes you have to get a little animated.
	You have to show passion and do things that maybe are...
	Not, you know, for the best for public, you know, for public profile or whatnot, but as a man, you have to stand on something sometimes.
	And, you know, me getting kicked out of CPAC yesterday, I didn't just go silently into the night and disappear like they wanted me to.
	You know, I started to use that as a platform to speak out against Conservative Inc.
	and the Uniparty hacks that have been, you know, destroying this country for, you know, generations.
	So, you know, if you think that's unstable or off balance or whatever you said, you know, God bless you.
	But if you were in my shoes and had to go through what I...
	I went through for 900 days of solitary confinement.
	I doubt very highly that you'd be able to posture yourself and hold your ground.
	Probably would have taken a plea deal, quite honestly, whoever said that comment.
	I can almost guarantee it that that's a plea deal right there.
	But I didn't compromise.
	I never took a plea deal, never cooperated, never folded, never complained, never whined.
	And just trusted in my Lord and Savior Jesus to get me through that incredible mistreatment and then to be out in society.
	And to be mistreated again, to be regulated, to be, you know, dehumanized and segregated, you know, was an incredible injustice to me and to my family.
	And, you know, my mom watched it.
	She's very, very disheartened, thinking that I'm going to be received there as some form of hero or something.
	Not me, but all the Jan Sixers to be welcomed and to be embraced for what we went through, but instead to be rejected and thrown out into the 15-degree cold, freezing weather outside.
	Just horrible.
	So, indefensible conduct by CPAC and by the people who have stood by CPAC and not condemned it.
	You have ulterior motives, and we know who you are.
	Jake, keep on keeping on, and I understand why there's so much hate for you, because the DeSantis supporters, they don't take anybody criticizing DeSantis well on the internet, so that might explain it.
	Jake, go have fun, don't get into trouble.
	God bless.
	I can do one of those things.
	Do both.
	Have fun.
	Don't get into trouble.
	And he's gone.
	All right, everybody.
	Let's go back to see where we were with Dick Durbin talking about the Jan Sixers.
	And we'll have a lot of time to catch up on what's going on here.
	And while we do this, I'm going to go visit the bathroom.
	Choir boys.
	Julian Kater.
	K-H-A-T-E-R.
	He was convicted of assaulting Capitol Police officers with pepper spray.
	One of those officers was Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick.
	Brian Sicknick suffered multiple strokes and died the day after the attack.
	Mr. Cater was one of the people who assaulted him.
	Mr. Patel has called these violent January 6th rioters, and I quote, political prisoners.
	That includes Guy Reffitt.
	Guy Reffert was sentenced to 87 months in prison for his role in the January 6th assault.
	87 months.
	Mr. Reffert brought a gun to the Capitol on January 6th and recorded himself saying the following, which I'll paraphrase because I don't want to miss the following.
	Quote, we're all going to drag them out kicking and screaming.
	I just want to see Pelosi's head hit every effing stare on the way out.
	Oh, God, this guy's still...
	Mr. Reffitt's 19-year-old son, Jackson, turned him into law enforcement after the attack, despite Reffitt's threats to shoot Jackson and his sister.
	Here is what Reffitt said to his own children, quote, If you turn me in, you're a traitor.
	And you know what happens to traitors.
	Traitors get shot.
	Mr. Reffitt received a full and unconditional pardon from President Trump.
	Guess where he was on January 30th this year?
	Back at the Capitol complex at Mr. Patel's confirmation hearing.
	Here's what Mr. Reffitt posted on social media from the hearing room.
	Quote, They love it when family turns on family.
	As the leftist commies continue to spew lies, misinformation, and disinformation, my man is clean house cash.
	Quote, unquote.
	Stu Peters, constant communication, Holocaust denier.
	This gentleman, he's become a hero, too, for his appearance before the committee.
	And we're all commies for questioning Cash Patel's politics.
	You're a commie for celebrating family, turning family.
	These are Mr. Patel's allies.
	Stu Peters, Julian Cater, Guy Refit.
	On the other hand, consider who is warning us about Mr. Patel.
	Former Trump officials who know him.
	Like Attorney General Bill Barr, CIA Director Haspel, Defense Secretary Mark Gasper, and National Security Advisor John Bolton.
	Oh, John Bolton.
	All of these were Republican appointees who worked with Patel, who know him well, and warn us not to do this.
	Don't give this responsibility to this man.
	Thanks for the advice, John Bolton.
	All Republican appointees.
	Mr. Patel has left a long trail of grievances.
	Lashing out at anyone who is not completely aligned with him.
	He calls Democrats, quote, vindictive, evil, and vicious.
	And repeatedly attacks Republican senators who don't toe the MAGA line.
	I read Mr. Patel's book, Government Gangsters.
	It includes an enemies list at the end of the book.
	60 names.
	Can you remind me who they were, please?
	Of Kash Patel.
	Which includes distinguished public servants from both political parties.
	What do they all have in common, the 60 people on this hit list?
	From Attorney General Bill Barr and Merrick Garland to former FBI Directors Bob Mueller and Chris Wray, they've all had the misfortune of crossing paths with the vindictive Cash Patel.
	Mr. Patel claims he respects law enforcement, but his words and actions demonstrate his disdain for the FBI.
	He has said on day one, he plans to, quote, shut down the FBI headquarters.
	And he's falsely claimed that the FBI, quote, was planning the January 6th event for a year beforehand.
	There is no truth to that statement.
	Oh, I don't know.
	The more you say there's no truth.
	Casting aspersions on the FBI that are undeserved.
	This guy's talking about casting aspersions now.
	He's dangerous, inexperienced, and dishonest.
	He should not and cannot serve as an effective FBI director.
	Yes, he can and he will.
	Mr. Patel has been crystal clear that he plans on using the FBI's vast surveillance and investigative authority to, quote, come after, close quote, the president's enemies.
	Well, how are you close quoting and then adding words?
	My Republican colleagues are willing to support him, despite the serious threat he poses to our national security.
	Most dangerous.
	And I'm sorry to say I believe...
	They will quickly come to regret this phone.
	Thanks for the advice.
	I want to thank you for giving this man a 10-year tenure as director of the leading criminal investigative agency in the world.
	I cannot imagine a worse choice.
	Okay, good for you.
	You want the person that has that job and that power to destroy people simply by investigation to show some temperament and some judgment.
	Can you wind it up now, Dick?
	Good for you.
	Get the hell out.
	You've already said that three times.
	You didn't yield quite fast enough.
	All right, let's see.
	How far behind are we here?
	Can we go here?
	Is there a speed option on this?
	There is.
	I, too, rise today to oppose the nomination of Kash Patel to serve as a Democrat.
	Now, let me begin by saying to Americans watching at home who may not be completely up to speed as to what's going on, the importance of this specific nomination, or wondering who is Kash Patel.
	We might have been distracted these last few weeks by a rush of headlines coming out of the White House, maybe preoccupied with the cost of groceries that are rising by the week.
	Do we want to watch this?
	I think we do want to watch this, right?
	President Trump, the richest president in history, has given Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, unprecedented access to millions of Americans' sensitive private information.
	Yes, Elon Musk has access to your...
	We're going to skip to live.
	Oh, it's Schiff for brains!
	Sorry, we're going to go back.
	I want to see this from the beginning.
	Yeah, here we go.
	We're going to listen to Adam Schiff.
	We'll go to 1.5 until we hit to live.
	Okay, let's hear what Schiff for brains have.
	I'm only saying Schiff, by the way.
	Dirty piece of Schiff.
	Smells like Schiff.
	I'm thinking about it.
	Ash Patel, conspiracy theorist, January 6th denier, MAGA sycophant, and political provocateur will be FBI director.
	Yeah. The absurdity of it.
	Yeah, it's absurd.
	The consequences of it.
	It's worth asking today, how did we get here to such an extreme point?
	To this moment when someone so patently unqualified, really disqualified from any position of responsibility, was poised to become director of the nation's preeminent law enforcement agency.
	Earlier today, I stood with my colleagues out in front of the FBI headquarters.
	A building that Kash Patel promised to dismantle on his first day as FBI director and turn into a museum of the deep state.
	The home of a department that we all know he will convert into a political weapon.
	For the president, the president who is a serial lawbreaker and will use Patel as a tool for retribution against his enemies.
	But in a democracy, law enforcement does not serve the president, let alone someone who fashions himself as a king.
	Law enforcement serves the people.
	It is nonpartisan.
	It is not a vehicle, a political payback for a political party.
	And yet we are watching the FBI and DOJ haul it out, dismantled and turned into an investigative and prosecutorial extension of Donald Trump's White House.
	We are watching it live in real time.
	It is already happening in that building we visited this morning.
	In just the last month, Donald Trump's Department of Justice has engaged in a brazen, sweeping purge, a rolling Saturday night massacre, an unmistakable campaign to intimidate, to punish, and to drive out thousands of hardworking, nonpartisan FBI and career DOJ employees.
	This is happening as we speak.
	Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove fired roughly two dozen prosecutors involved in January 6 criminal cases.
	Not for cause.
	Not for corruption.
	Because they serve at the leisure of the president.
	For failing what is in effect a loyalty test.
	A loyalty test.
	A MAGA mob attacks the Capitol on January 6th to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
	They beat police officers, gouge them, bear spray them, out of the service of an even bigger crime, stopping the peaceful transfer of power after Donald Trump lost his re-election.
	And they get pardoned by Donald Trump.
	The lawbreakers get pardoned.
	And the brave FBI agents who track down these violent miscreants, these agents get punished.
	They get fired.
	They get purged.
	They do deserve to get purged.
	The one-man wrecking ball that is Donald Trump is turning the world upside down.
	The criminals are being pardoned and the cops are being punished.
	Now, Cash Patel sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee and under oath insisted he knew of no plans to punish FBI employees involved in investigations related to Donald Trump.
	He positively levitated at the suggestion that such a thing could even be true.
	Then, within days, top FBI agents were fired.
	Thousands of FBI employees, career professionals, were sent a detailed questionnaire demanding they disclose any involvement in investigations related.
	To the January 6th insurrection.
	A warning accompanied this.
	Additional personnel actions could follow.
	And yet Mr. Patel testified that, quote, there will be no politicization at the FBI.
	There'll be no retributive actions taken by any FBI should I be confirmed as FBI director.
	He sat in that committee room and told the Senate all FBI employees will be protected against political retribution.
	That was a Thursday.
	Three weeks ago, the very next day, the purges began.
	Before the ink had dried on the transcript of that hearing, Adam Schiff is very scared.
	Oh, he got pardoned.
	He got pardoned.
	--in advance denies knowing whether he discussed these dismissals with the White House, the DOJ, or the FBI.
	He wrote, I do not recall having conversations with the transition team about pursuing any particular investigations or targets.
	I asked him in writing about these actions, and his answer was, he doesn't remember.
	But in fact, whistleblowers have come forward to testify or to state that not only did Patel know about the upcoming purges, he was directing those dismissals.
	How could he not recall that?
	It wasn't years ago, or even months.
	It was days before.
	Days before his written answers to those questions, those written answers where he said he couldn't recall he was directing these purges, covertly, as a private citizen.
	But he doesn't recall.
	Purges of quality career professionals who dedicated their lives to the rule of law, who have been fired, laid off, or forced out because they dared investigate a violent insurrection on our Capitol.
	Or the President's retention of classified documents that contained our nuclear and other national security secrets.
	There was a time in our country when the FBI was weaponized, when it served as a sword for the president.
	The speed is at 1.5 until we catch up to real time.
	When Hoover authorized covert harassment campaigns against the perceived enemies of the president, we thought those days were over.
	And they were over until now.
	We must not put in place a Roy Cohn for the president, someone who will bend and break the law to serve the president's personal and political aims.
	For therein lies the path to corruption, to unlimited power, and to malfeasance of the highest order.
	We put up guardrails to prevent one man and his cadre of company men from turning the Bureau and Department into a partisan and lawless battering ram.
	We must not take them down.
	Because we know the road that lies ahead.
	And we know that Donald Trump cannot destroy the nonpartisan character of the FBI and the Department of Justice without his enablers.
	And Kash Patel?
	Kash Patel is Donald Trump's handpicked enabler and henchman.
	The guy who would say yes when everyone else would say no to any immoral and unlawful requests made by Donald Trump.
	The guy who publicized his deep state list, almost half of whom are Republicans.
	The guy who worked for and retains millions of dollars in stock in a company supported by the Chinese Communist Party.
	In any normal world, that would automatically disqualify someone from leading the nation's premier law enforcement and counterintelligence Why? Sounds very good.
	Yep. I'm in the opinion that the people of the FBI should be going on manhunts for are actual criminals, not the president's enemies of the day.
	The FBI shouldn't serve as Donald Trump's army.
	Alas, we will not soon forget the last time Donald Trump's army presented itself to us when they beat down the doors of this Capitol when they attacked law enforcement and sought to overturn an election.
	Mr. Patel is quite familiar with that mob.
	He celebrated them in song.
	Mr. Patel tried to deny his association with the...
	They're really pissed off about that choir.
	But earlier on Steve Bannon's podcast, he was all too proud to brag about it.
	Quote, so what we thought would be cool is if we captured that audio and then, of course, had the greatest president, President Donald J. Trump, recite the Pledge of Allegiance, then we went to a studio and recorded it, mastered it, digitized it, and put it out as a song now releasing exclusively on the war room.
	But when I asked him about this under oath, his response was, and you may never believe this, when he said we did this and we did that, we...
	Didn't include him.
	What just happened?
	I don't know what's worse.
	Taking credit for something he didn't do or doing something and then lying about it.
	But what I do know is this is not the character of someone who should be director of the FBI.
	Okay, I think we're to live now.
	Okay, we're live now.
	At the hearing, I also asked him to turn and face the Capitol Police Office.
	This is not the character of someone who should be director of the FBI.
	At the hearing, I also asked him...
	To turn and face the Capitol Police officers.
	These officers from the same department that suffered such grievous injuries on January 6th.
	He couldn't do so.
	He couldn't look them in the eye.
	And I don't blame him for being too ashamed.
	What a piece of shit.
	Celebrating their victimization in a song.
	He should be ashamed.
	I'm going to tell you about a dream I had about Schiff last night.
	It's actually very weird.
	And anyone voting to confirm him should be ashamed.
	And yet here we are, on a fast track to rubber stamp his confirmation.
	This is not on me, people.
	This is the government website.
	Let me hit refresh.
	Song. He should be ashamed.
	And anyone voting to confirm him should be ashamed.
	And yet here we are, on a fast track to rubber stamp his confirmation.
	asked to turn a blind eye as he takes control of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country.
	That is what my Republican colleagues seem poised to do and I will ask again how on earth did we We get here.
	He says that so often.
	And where are we going?
	By confirming a nominee who is so plainly unqualified, who is tied up in shady business dealings with the CCP and the Kremlin.
	Can you imagine their acu...
	Who made songs with violent cop beaters.
	Oh. Who made memes of himself sawing the heads off of members of Congress.
	How on earth...
	Did we get here?
	You said that already.
	Because we all know where this road ends.
	Where? Tell me, Schiff.
	A weaponized FBI.
	Investigations into anyone who stands up to Donald Trump.
	Elected officials, journalists, Democrats, and Republicans.
	Anyone. Now I know some of my colleagues seek solace in the belief that if they just tow the line for long enough, they'll be spared.
	But we all know what happens when someone falls out of favor with Donald Trump.
	When you're inevitably asked to vote for something or do something so egregious that you cannot possibly continue to say yes.
	And when you reach that moment, when you're forced to cross the president or abandon your final line in the sand, it will be these moments you remember, the concessions to a wannabe authoritarian that you were willing to entertain, the lines you allowed him to cross so you would be spared.
	His wrath.
	But you will not be spared.
	No one is.
	Not the veteran nonpartisan employees of the FBI.
	Not the maverick moderate members of this body.
	Not even the most extreme supporters left out in the cold the moment they are no longer valuable to this president.
	When, not if, when you fall out of favor with Donald Trump, Patel and others may be unleashed on you as well.
	My colleagues should remember there is more room under Donald Trump's bus than on it.
	Enabling his administration is a one-way street, and by continuing to go down it, you drive yourselves and the foundations of our democracy to the very precipice.
	My colleagues, we have a duty today.
	A duty to the Constitution and a duty to the American...
	These people, they talk with the Constitution like they believe in it.
	It's amazing.
	And their lives on the line every single day.
	Those who work in the building where we stood this morning in the freezing cold and in communities and cities across the country.
	Keeping us safe and secure.
	We must take that duty seriously.
	Because if we confirm Kash Patel, knowing what we are getting, knowing where we are going, we will only have ourselves to blame.
	Mr. President, I yield back.
	Good. You yield back too long.
	Do we get moments of silence?
	I think my kid wanted to show everybody something.
	The senator from Rhode Island is recognized.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	I'm here to join my distinguished colleague from California in opposition to the nomination of Cash Patel.
	Democrat, it's going to be garbage.
	To this body, what he is going to do in that job.
	Like, do they not hear that others have said the same crap?
	So when these things go wrong...
	When they go wrong...
	I want to be absolutely clear...
	Be clear.
	I'm full of shit.
	Our Republican friends were warned...
	Oh, okay, good.
	They will own the consequences...
	They will be happy...
	They will be happy to own it, White House.
	Let's start with the fact that unlike any FBI director before...
	He's got no experience.
	This guy is a vitriolic...
	He's a vitriolic partisan.
	And those are the stripes he shows when he is left to his own devices.
	He's a vitriolic partisan to justice.
	And those are the characteristics he will revert back to when he is running the FBI.
	We're going to put this on pause, people.
	We'll come back to it at one and a half until we get to the regular speed because my kid wants to show the world something.
	Slow down.
	I want to show one thing.
	I'm going to bring up a chat that I had here on the bottom.
	And the reason I brought this up is because look at that.
	It's actually M. Gerber.
	You said this is the guy that got Trump re-elected.
	And look at your avatar.
	Do you see the avatar?
	Look what my kid made.
	This is like home economics.
	He sewed this together from scratch.
	Science. Come here and you want to tell the world exactly what makes the giant squid so special.
	Okay, go for it.
	This is the microphone.
	Not to make you nervous.
	Let me just see.
	How many people do we have on Rumble?
	We've got 9,100 people on Rumble.
	And we've got, over on YouTube, 3,000 people.
	So tell the world what makes the squid so special.
	I don't know.
	The eyeball.
	Tell them about the eyeball.
	Yeah, what about the eyeball?
	It's two pins.
	The eyeball is two pins.
	What makes the eyeball of the squid so special?
	It's the size of a basketball.
	And it's delicious.
	How many legs does an octopus have?
	A squid.
	A squid.
	It has eight.
	This is a squid.
	It's a giant squid.
	Where does it live?
	Deep in the ocean.
	Okay, get out of here.
	High five.
	Now we've got to go back to listening to political verbal diarrhea.
	I'll take an iced coffee out of the freezer if you're getting one.
	All right, let's go back to the...
	Kids are much more talkative when they don't have permission to talk.
	All right, hold on.
	Let's go back to Dick Durbin and see what this guy's got to say.
	Just a few simple examples.
	This is from his book that contains, called Government Gangsters, and this is a page of his enemies list.
	Can we hear the names, please?
	Read them out loud.
	...
	to a law enforcement job with an enemies list.
	So then they had to pretend that this was not an enemies list.
	No, just let me hear the names.
	Of course it's an enemies list.
	I'm going to Google this right now.
	Here's what Kash Patel himself says about it.
	Names named.
	Roadmap unveiled.
	The manhunt starts tomorrow.
	If you're going to set up a manhunt against people, are they not your enemies by any logical definition of the term?
	He goes on to...
	Hold on.
	I'm going to pause.
	Yeah, we've seen this video.
	Let me pause this here.
	The person who's on the enemies list, let's just go hear the enemies list.
	I mean, it sounds like a very, very...
	Good enemies list.
	That seems like a pretty good list of enemies.
	If you're going to put together...
	People who have abused of their power to go after their political rivals.
	That's a damn good enemies list.
	It's a good start.
	I have to go read the rest of it.
	Chainsawing off the heads of the people on his enemies list, including the handsome junior senator from California and the daughter of former Vice President Cheney.
	It's a pretty gross image to be cutting the heads off of people with a...
	Saw. Well, I would.
	I agree that he should not have retweeted this from an optics perspective.
	But he retweeted it.
	He loved it so much that he put it up on his own media.
	Oh, gosh.
	That should land you in jail.
	Things like that are not appropriate for an FBI director.
	They're bizarre for just a normally weird person.
	But for an abnormally weird person to be the director of the FBI, things are going to go bad.
	B. Oh yeah, be warned.
	He is also a completely sycophantic suck-up when it comes to Donald Trump.
	He wrote children's books in which King Donald rules and his loyal little functionary Cash brings justice to him, pursuing the slugs of the FBI.
	Really? Yeah, he wrote a book like that.
	the FBI is asked to investigate corruption in Trump world.
	Do you think Kash Patel will rise to the occasion, or do you think he'll participate in a cover-up?
	All you have to do is look at his own conduct and his own history.
	This is not Democrats saying this.
	What we're doing is relating what he has said and what he has done.
	This is Kash Patel on Kash Patel.
	He spread the really abhorrent lie that federal law enforcement was behind January 6th.
	Now I know it's true.
	Podcasts and interview shows where he spewed so much disinformation and partisan vitriol.
	It's unbelievable that they write it off as a lie.
	It looks like you have a preponderance of evidence suggesting there may have been federal law enforcement involved in making January 6th happen.
	Patel's response, I'll get you to beyond a reasonable doubt.
	Beyond a reasonable doubt, he believed and said federal law enforcement agencies were behind January 6th.
	We know that it's preposterous.
	We know that it's false.
	We don't.
	We know that investigations have shown that none of that is even remotely true.
	That is completely false information.
	And yet, here he is spouting it, and that's what he's going to look like.
	As FBI director, too.
	The FBI is going to have to peer before judges and convince judges of the probity of the agency, of the legitimacy of the agency, of the propriety of the investigation, that the department has done a fair job of marshalling the evidence.
	Here's what he says about judges.
	We've got to start impeaching judges if they've ruled against Donald Trump.
	They were a political terrorist.
	In his view, any case that Donald Trump's been charged in, almost every judge is handling this thing as if they were not a judge, but a political terrorist.
	And of course, he meant the Trump judge down in Florida as the only one accepted.
	When you start talking about judges that way, you can't then expect judges not to pay attention when you come before them trying to do the work of the FBI.
	Then there's the question of What his former colleagues have said about him.
	These are things that he said himself.
	What have his former colleagues said about him?
	Every single one, a Trump appointee.
	John Bolton, National Security Advisor.
	I didn't think he was qualified.
	I was forced to hire him.
	Political pressure.
	What happened to Bolton?
	I don't want any part of this guy.
	I was forced to hire him.
	We're going to trust Bolton now.
	I love it.
	Attorney General Bill Barr.
	They wasted so much money on this.
	They tried to force him on Bill Barr's deputy director of the FBI.
	And he said, Patel has virtually no experience that would qualify him to lead the FBI.
	And said, over my dead body, does he get that job?
	These are the job recommendations of his own colleagues that show his unfitness.
	Over at the CIA, they tried to stuff him in someplace.
	And the director of the CIA, Gina Haspel, I'm no friend of Gina Haspel, but here's what she said about him.
	If he came over, she would resign before allowing Patel to assume a position as her deputy.
	This is a guy who has a record of engagement with Trump appointees that show that he is not qualified, not capable, and somebody that they would resign before they'd let work for them.
	And now we're supposed to let him work for the American people?
	It is ridiculous.
	He testified once in state court.
	On a Trump-related case.
	And his testimony was, to put it mildly, not convincing.
	Here's what the judge said.
	The court finds that Mr. Patel was not a credible witness.
	His testimony is not only illogical, but completely devoid of any evidence in the record.
	The court doesn't believe they're nonsense, and statements like this happen all the time in court.
	But here's where they don't happen.
	They don't happen with federal law enforcement agents.
	Because when I was the U.S. attorney in Rhode Island, if one of my FBI agents had gone over into the United States District Court in Rhode Island and testified in a criminal case in such a way that one of the United States District judges said about that witness, he was not a credible witness, his testimony was illogical, devoid of evidence in the record.
	We'd be looking into that.
	This comes darn close to being what is called Giglio material.
	Material that the government is forced to disclose to future defendants when it bears on the credibility of a government witness, an agent who is a government witness.
	People lose their careers over Giglio material.
	This, if he was an FBI agent, would have caused a response in headquarters to say, what the hell is going on?
	How did one of our people get involved in such flagrantly fake testimony I've got to put on pause.
	That decision was unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court.
	No, Colorado.
	That was unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court.
	And he's citing that weaponized partisan judge.
	His or her, who was the judge?
	Her assessment, his assessment of Cash's witness.
	I watched Cash's testimony.
	It was amazing.
	It said everything that we knew, that the National Guard was offered but not called in by Pelosi and Al, that Trump was ready to have it there, if they so asked.
	Oh, unanimously overturned, and we're going to go and trust their assessment of witnesses.
	Yeah. And this is the person that they want to put in charge of the organization, whose probity...
	And whose professionalism and whose integrity are essential to the successful working of the organization.
	And the guy was basically called out as a liar and a fraud in plain court.
	And that court decision was overturned unanimously.
	It's a hot mess.
	When you have a character like this that lies in court, runs chainsaw memes about your opponents, that every person he tried to work with who was senior in the Trump administration said, "Get this bum out of here.
	I don't want to be anywhere near him." And by the way...
	Always predicting the future.
	That his Trump servience as FBI director won't turn on you.
	Just because he's a vitriolic partisan who despises Democrats doesn't mean that when Trump's ire moves someplace else to Republican officeholders, he won't be there to deliver the FBI as an enforcer against you.
	So there's a lot to be concerned about.
	I'll close with this.
	Never before in the history of American law enforcement has somebody sought to attain a high position in American law enforcement who has pled the Fifth Amendment.
	Not only did he plead the Fifth Amendment, but he refused to tell the committee what it was all about.
	You can't plead the Fifth unless you have a reasonable expectation that could put you in jeopardy of a crime.
	What crime?
	How in jeopardy?
	Explain that.
	You're not just a normal person.
	You're trying to be the head of the FBI.
	In a civil case, pleading the fifth entitles the judge to instruct the jury to draw an adverse interest about your testimony that the jury can find against you because you took the fifth.
	Why we have not had a straight answer yet from our Republican colleagues about why the guy who wants to be the head of the FBI pled the fifth?
	It is an unprecedented, terrible situation.
	With that, I yield the floor.
	Well, that was painful.
	Can we go to live here?
	Oh, another Democrat scumbag.
	Let's see what Blumenthal has to say.
	If we weren't falling asleep beforehand, surely this will help.
	Let's put this on 1.5 until we get to normal speed.
	All right, guys.
	They can just do this all day.
	We've got, what, 13 minutes left until the vote?
	Mr. President.
	Senator from Connecticut is recognized.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	I want to begin where my wonderful friend and colleague, Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island, ended in opposing the nomination of Cash Patel to be director of the FBI.
	I served as United States Attorney as well, and I know firsthand what an investigation and a prosecution can do to an individual's light.
	Even without a conviction.
	I used to tell my staff, the most important thing we decide to do is to start an investigation or bring charges.
	Because that person will be under a magnifying glass.
	Appreciate what they did to Trump.
	Even if no charges are brought.
	And to defend himself, even if there's no conviction.
	And the charges themselves can do irreparable harm to a person's reputation, his finances, his family, his life.
	We entrust these positions, investigative and prosecutorial, to people who deserve the credibility and reliance that we give them.
	The hell is he talking about?
	The position of director of the FBI, or attorney general of the United States, or prosecutors and investigators.
	Even at one and a half, this is boring and putting me to sleep.
	Ordinary position.
	They're not?
	Oh, thanks.
	Potentially in certain situations, they are more powerful than a member of the United States cabinet.
	In the impact they can have on individual lives.
	For the ordinary nominee, any of the defects in character or experience or performance in past jobs would have been disqualifying.
	We live in a time that is not ordinary.
	And this nominee is not normal.
	I've never seen any nominee to a position of I hope all of these jackasses get investigated after this.
	But I think that one comment about him that strikes me whenever I read it is the full quote from former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
	Part of that quote has been cited by previous speakers.
	I wanna read the whole quote.
	Cash Patel's conduct in Mr.
	Trump's first term and thereafter indicates that as FBI director, He would operate according to secret police chief Lavrenti Beria's reported comment to Joseph Stalin, show me the man and I will show you the crime.
	Now, very few people remember secret police chief Beria and the terror he caused in carrying out Joseph Stalin's edicts to destroy people's lives, to execute them, to eliminate their families.
	But the mantra We're talking here about a nominee who has an enemies list.
	He calls it something different.
	He calls it government gangsters, and he's on a manhunt for them.
	Manhunt is his word.
	You can use different words, but the point here is he is on a mission.
	To use the powers of this office in Donald Trump's name for political retribution against his enemies, against Trump's enemies, against MAGA's opponents.
	To use these institutions for political retribution is the height of irresponsibility.
	Even to hint at it ought to be disqualifying.
	And he has made it explicit in his past writings and his statements and speeches, not just a couple of times.
	It is a theme that runs through.
	His public comments that eliminating enemies through the use of prosecution is not only acceptable, but it's desirable.
	The FBI is a very special agency, 38,000 civil servants, including 13,000 special agents who go after international domestic terrorism, cyber criminal syndicates, foreign espionage, organized criminal enterprises, including drug cartels, child sexual exploitation, and... Human trafficking and many other crimes that affect our lives and the lives of everyday Americans across the country.
	All different backgrounds, races, religions can be victims of crime that the FBI investigates.
	And the FBI agents put their lives on the line because pursuing these crimes often puts them at risk from bad guys who may not even know that they're shooting at an FBI agent.
	What the hell is he talking about?
	They may not know that an FBI agent is operating undercover and they may be killing him.
	And so the FBI's work is a dangerous business, but it is for our good and our safety.
	The American people deserve an FBI leader who is worthy of them.
	The American people deserve a director of the FBI who will keep them safe and who will make that safety a priority.
	But in recent weeks, the Trump administration has systematically weaponized.
	And politicized both the FBI and the Department of Justice.
	On her very first day of office, Attorney General Bondi created a, quote, weaponization working group.
	Let me repeat that.
	Weaponization working group.
	And specifically named targets to be investigated.
	Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Jack Smith.
	All of them have led legitimate prosecutions and lawsuits against President Trump.
	There have been reports that prosecutors and FBI agents have been reassigned from drug trafficking to Do immigration enforcement, from terrorism task forces to immigration enforcement.
	And the administration has issued allegedly unethical or illegal audits, causing many top prosecutors to bravely resign rather than betray their oath of office.
	We're talking about men and women who love their jobs in the Department of Justice and do them well.
	And they have sacrificed.
	It's got to catch up.
	Give it a second.
	I'm going to refresh this.
	To immigration enforcement.
	And the administration has issued allegedly unethical or illegal audit causing many top prosecutors to bravely resign rather than betray their oaths of office.
	We're talking about men and women who love their jobs in the Department of Justice and do them well.
	And they have sacrificed.
	Those jobs.
	Because they were ordered to take action that was unethical or illegal in their view.
	We need now more than ever an FBI director who is trustworthy and devoted to the ideals and values of the Department of Justice.
	The more time they waste, the more they think they've earned their salary.
	Anyone taking one of those jobs?
	Raises the right hand and swears an oath to the Constitution.
	Not to the President.
	I've never heard this said before.
	Not to the Attorney General.
	Not to any other official.
	It is to the Constitution.
	Cash Patel is not that person.
	Not the person who has that immense responsibility.
	Most especially at this moment.
	He lacks the judgment.
	He lacks the integrity.
	He lacks the character and competence to be FBI director.
	Kash Patel's contempt for those agents who put their lives on the line has been clear.
	He's called them, the FBI, one of the most cunning and powerful arms of the deep state.
	Does anyone deny that?
	And there are now highly credible whistleblower reports.
	That he may have directed the purging of senior leaders at the FBI as well as potentially a mass firing of career FBI officials.
	Those FBI officials who serve professionally, with distinction, put their lives on the line, purged as a result of Kash Patel.
	Involving himself, in fact, in those decisions, even as under oath in response to my question, he said, quote, all FBI employees will be protected against political retribution.
	All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution.
	Well, we stood in front of the FBI headquarters this morning.
	In that very building.
	There are individuals who will be fired because they took assignments.
	They didn't choose.
	They were assigned to criminal investigation that happened to involve Donald Trump.
	Political retribution at its very height.
	And if he directed the purging of those FBI...
	Contrary to the assurances he made to our committee at his nomination committee, Cash Patel was certainly less than truthful with us.
	I have not been without criticism of the FBI.
	None of us have been.
	No agency is perfect.
	But I am also betting that members of the FBI would say there's room for improvement in this agency.
	Cash Patel...
	He would slash and trash the FBI, not improve it.
	He would engage in political retribution, not constructive reform.
	He would weaponize the FBI with that enemies list.
	He may not say it's an enemies list.
	He may call them government gangsters.
	But that manhunt would involve political retribution.
	And he has conspiracy theories.
	He's trafficked in them.
	He said he agrees with a lot of what QAnon...
	He engages in election denialism, refusing to say that President Biden won the 2020 election.
	Shut it!
	Just get off the stage.
	Come on, man.
	He's even suggested that the FBI plan the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
	They certainly facilitated this.
	They were certainly pregnant.
	And he has glorified those rioters by calling them political prisoners and, in fact, aiding them in their defense, even the rioters who attack.
	at an assaulted police officer and did them grave injury and in some instances contributed That's a lie.
	Oh my gosh.
	recording. And he has refused to be honest when it really matters pleading the fifth amendment.
	This guy just accused Cash of lying, and he just lied about the death of the cops on January 6th.
	Oh, I believe he offered it to you, Blumenthal.
	It's not up to him to give it to you, dumb bum.
	litany of questionable comments, actions by this nominee is Shows he lacks the character and competence for this job.
	I've talked about roughly half a dozen various different facts in his background, statements, comments, actions that would be individually disqualifying.
	Altogether, they paint a picture of someone who has no proper role.
	Anywhere near a law enforcement agency, let alone director of the FBI.
	I'm appalled that my Republican colleagues voted for him in committee.
	Well, nobody gives a crap.
	Unanimously on their side.
	I'm appalled that...
	Nobody cares.
	So few may vote against him.
	The only one is a brain dead.
	And Collins.
	But I am absolutely sure...
	Of this one thing.
	This vote will haunt anyone who votes for him.
	It will move the day.
	They can't even identify what a woman is.
	Think about it.
	Think about it.
	About what you will tell your constituents, more important, your family, maybe your grandchildren, about why you picked and voted for this person who will so...
	Completely and utterly disgrace this office and do such grave damage to our nation's justice system.
	Mr. President, I yield the floor.
	President, I ask permission to speak up to 10 minutes.
	Without objection, Senator from Vermont is recognized.
	Thank you, Mr. President, and I thank my colleagues for joining me here today.
	I oppose Kash Patel and believe he is the dangerously wrong choice to serve as the director of FBI.
	We all have great admiration for the FBI.
	The men and women there serve our nation, do hard work every day, and for decades they've served as a non-political agency that protects us and defends the rule of law.
	I believe that Mr. Patel is on a mission to wreck the FBI.
	It's his own words.
	Yeah, I think we agree on that.
	That's why some people are voting for him.
	To the deep state.
	You know, I believe that this country in Congress is in the midst of a slow-moving but rapidly accelerating constitutional crisis.
	Bring out the word again.
	This is real, and we can ignore or see it.
	Constitutional crisis.
	It began most visibly, of course, in January 6, 2021.
	When two norms of this republic, the peaceful transfer of power and the renunciation of violence.
	They cannot get off January 6th.
	And certification were breached.
	And where many members of the House and Senate also voted against certifying the election of the person chosen by the people in their own states.
	The president continues to say that the election was stolen.
	It was.
	And he has coached.
	Mr. President, the first month of the Trump administration has shown a contempt for the Constitution, an acceptance of lawlessness that is dangerous to the future of our republic.
	President Trump's election denialism was only an early sign of his disregard for the norms and requirements of the Constitution.
	Now empowered in a second term by a Congress and a judiciary which refused to assert their independence.
	Mr. Trump has enacted executive order after executive order to dismantle our institutions.
	He doesn't have the authority to do what he's doing.
	The federal funding freeze, clearly unconstitutional, invasion of the Article I power of the purse, shutting down agencies created by Congress.
	Without authority.
	Revoking birthright citizenship, a constitutional provision that he asserts he can do by executive order.
	Removing leaders of independent agencies created by Congress.
	Clearly unlawful.
	Firing inspectors general in violation of notice requirements created by Congress.
	Unlawful. Firing government employees who have civil servants.
	Civil service protections.
	I'm sorry, they serve at the leisure of the president.
	A quid pro quo order at the Department of Justice to drop charges against the corrupt mayor in New York so he'll accede to whatever the wishes are of the Trump administration regarding local enforcement.
	This is the same verbal diarrhea over and over and over.
	We have reached a point where a federal judge has found that the White House defied his order to release billions of dollars in federal grants, marking the first time that a judge has expressly declared that the Trump administration is disobeying a judicial mandate.
	That is trouble.
	The country is headed into a situation where, in addition to acting Without authority, the President and his enablers are indicting he will defy rulings from the third branch of our government.
	Vice President Vance has made it very clear what his point of view is on judges.
	Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's, quote, legitimate powers.
	And if the courts don't like it, let them enforce it.
	Of course, under our Constitution, Since Marbury v.
	Madison, the court is the final arbiter of what is legitimate or what is not, and the executive branch must enforce the laws as interpreted by the co-equal branch of government.
	Mr. President, it is my view that this administration is showing maximum contempt for core constitutional values, including, most importantly, The separation of powers.
	This is not about what the president's agenda is.
	This is about his disregard about the limits that apply to each branch of government.
	And we have a dilemma.
	There are many in Congress that are fully in support of President Trump's policies.
	That's his right to pursue them, any member's right to support them.
	But it has to be.
	That we accept our unique responsibility, each of the 100 U.S. Senators that we have to guarantee that in pursuit of those policies, it is done within constitutional boundaries.
	That is the glue that has held this country together through thick and thin for nearly 250 years.
	You know, this is not just talk about civic aspiration.
	It's a recognition.
	That the separation of powers, that the system of checks and balances, we're custodians of that, each of us here.
	That the concept of the executive's ambition should be matched with the ambition of the legislature.
	That's what's held us together through the turmoil of our own history.
	We have fierce debates about important public policy matters.
	But what allows us to resolve them, despite intense disagreements, is staying within the guardrails of the Constitution.
	That process is being threatened directly and aggressively.
	The President's attack on our Constitution on January 6th has continued to this day.
	We've witnessed a renunciation of the decision that the It was stolen.
	It was stolen.
	It continues to challenge.
	The Constitutional Order.
	I'm voting against Mr. Patel, primarily, but not exclusively, because he's clearly an instrument in that effort to continue eroding the precepts of the Constitution on separation of powers.
	And I urge all my fellow senators, Republican and Democrats, To embrace the responsibility we have to assert our responsibility and authority as a co-equal branch.
	This is a difficult time, particularly for many of my esteemed colleagues on the Republican side.
	You may support, as I mentioned, the policies of the President, but we've got to take a look at how he is going about trying to implement them.
	That really matters.
	We are all custodians of the constitutional order.
	I'm regarding what President Trump has been doing in his first month in office as an illegal rampage.
	It's a rampage of illegality.
	He's showing a contempt for Congress and a contempt for the United States judiciary.
	Mr. Patel has signed on to that agenda.
	He isn't just someone who will be forced to participate in the president's campaign of retribution.
	He's an active participant.
	He's got his enemies list.
	We know this because his own words said, what was the FBI doing planning January 6th for a year?
	No basis for that other than the setup, the attack.
	On the good men and women of the FBI.
	Mr. Patel is the one who created a list of deep state individuals.
	This is like Russia kind of stuff, half of whom are Republicans in the so-called deep state.
	And he called it nothing more than a cabal of government gangsters and allies.
	This is the department he's going to be leading, really.
	And he's the one who said thank you to President Trump for helping put so many government gangsters in their place.
	Mr. President, Mr. Patel is not the person to lead the FBI.
	And my hope is that all of us should consider what Mr. Patel will do.
	He's going to use the power of the FBI to go after all those in government, those in the media.
	In those across the country, he doesn't agree with.
	He cannot serve as the next director of the FBI.
	Well, he will.
	He is going to, and he will.
	Good. Yield.
	Shut up.
	Get out.
	Vote. All post-closure time has expired.
	The question occurs on the nomination.
	Do it!
	Holy sh...
	Oh, my God.
	I'm going back and forth with encryptors behind me.
	Here's a sufficient second.
	And we thought they were going to all waste 10 minutes to do this.
	The clerk will call the roll.
	Go! Ms. Barasso Brooks, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Banks, Mr. Barasso.
	While they do this, I've got a headache from this rubbish.
	Holy hell.
	Okay. Encryptus and I were going back and forth in the private chat saying they had up to 40 plus Dems who could have talked for 10 minutes each.
	That's like 45 minutes.
	I'm joking.
	Oh my goodness, that was painful.
	I actually do have a bit of a headache.
	This is Blackburn.
	No. Mr. Blumenthal.
	Okay, now we're in vote time.
	So while this goes on, we can leave the audio up.
	And I'm going to go to a lot of the tip questions over in Locals.
	Rumble Rants over on Rumble, because there's a lot.
	And we can do this at the same time.
	Let me show these over here.
	Oh, I can't do that.
	I'll keep it up.
	I won't be able to share the screen because I can't share two screens at the same time.
	We're not going to miss the...
	We're not going to miss the climax of the day here.
	We've been waiting for this all afternoon.
	Michigan Winter Days, or Me Winter Days, says, a quick clip from Louis Black since we are watching politics.
	Louis Black is the guy who screams a lot, right?
	Mr. Bozeman.
	I'll play this afterwards.
	Mrs. Brett.
	Okay, that's from Michigan Winter Days.
	Mrs. Bud.
	Law.locals.com.
	Schnookum. Mrs. Cantwell.
	It's funny.
	They talk about...
	Mrs. Capito.
	...
	and purity of thought in the existing and historical FBI when they have been welded as a political weapon in January 2016, interviewed with Trump as part of Trump's transition team.
	Okay, the audio doesn't bother anybody, but I'll just lower it down a little bit here.
	Okay, do it like that.
	All right, we got...
	Mr. Mustache 007 says, there's a saying, walk in their shoes and tell me you wouldn't be pissed too.
	This is a big outing of their true colors.
	It's amazing.
	Jopper says, it is true that we are not allowing people to come to CPAC because of their involvement with Jan 6, then for what?
	If it's untrue that they're not allowing people to come to CPAC because of their involvement with Jan 6, then what was it for, says Jopper.
	It is untrue that we are not allowing people to come to CPAC, then for what?
	Says Jopper.
	How old is Jake?
	I think he's 33 years old.
	He's young.
	He's a young man.
	31. 31. Jake, despite all you've been through, be a bigger man and show them what it looks like to be a genuine and a patriot, says J. Ash 62. Trump's out here appointing women and people of color all over the place, yet he's still a racist misogynist.
	Yeah, that tracks, says Sammy.
	USM, United States Marine Corps Burroughs, says, so they have...
	So they vote to have a vote.
	Yes, and now they're voting on the vote that they voted to have the vote on.
	Here's some cash for cash, says Outlook.
	Okay, good.
	Miss Hirono.
	Miss Hirono is going to say no-no.
	Okay, so now do we have...
	This was where I thought we would have the total tally.
	Mr. Hustad.
	Unofficial tally.
	Where is it?
	This is Hyde Smith.
	Mr. Johnson.
	Cash got the votes.
	I'm going to go to Kalshi and see what's going on here.
	I think the 52 number vote took a big hit because of who defected?
	What's her face defected?
	Collins. So now it's at 52% for 50 votes.
	No, 52% for 51 votes and 48% for 50 votes.
	But it looks like Mitch McConnell.
	Lisa Murkowski.
	Oh, no, there's some big swings here.
	guess Lisa McCaskey voted no.
	Ms. Klobuchar.
	Mr. Lankford.
	Thank you.
	Mr. Lee.
	Wow. Lisa Murkowski looks like she voted no.
	Mr. Lujan.
	Ms. Lummis.
	Thank you.
	Okay, I'm going to read some tip questions.
	I'll do the rumble rants afterwards and the tip questions.
	Here, I can bring these up.
	Audio is just fine.
	Okay, good.
	Is it fine now or was it fine before?
	Okay, let's see here.
	Mitch McConnell's still at 23%, so we don't know which way he's voting.
	Yeah, Murkowski's down to 2%, so I guess she did vote no.
	I guess they can see that on the floor.
	Mr. Moran.
	Go to Twitter.
	Mr. Moreno.
	Aye. Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Mr. Mullen.
	Ms. Murkowski.
	Mr. Murphy.
	Mrs. Murray.
	Like, where are they all waiting if they're not on the floor?
	Do they just leave after they've done the...
	Mr. Ossoff.
	Ossoff. Oh, lordy.
	Let me bring up some...
	Some rumble rants, because I can bring those up here.
	Okay, we got...
	I still haven't been convinced that the FBI was not the instigator of the violence on January 6th.
	I remain convinced that they were there, and there were agents, CHSs, and agents provocateurs.
	Convinced. Call me wrong.
	Call me crazy.
	Super sticker from Stephen Zilich Music Studio.
	Thank you very much.
	What do we got?
	Elliot Ness has a list of gangsters.
	Enemies list?
	Speed him up.
	Says VFR.
	Okay, we got this.
	What do we got here?
	The confession through projection.
	This is all confession through projection.
	Steel Manning.
	Absolutely. Didn't Rich fake going to Vietnam?
	I don't know.
	That might be Blumenthal.
	I'm not sure about that.
	VFR. What is this butler slandering cash?
	What's up?
	You want to show it again?
	Oh, get over here.
	He put his name on the back of the squid now.
	Hold on.
	Look at this.
	Look at this.
	How beautiful is that?
	He sewed it on?
	Oh, it's glued.
	Okay, dude.
	So, did you do the buttons on the shorts that I have upstairs?
	No. What is it?
	How much did the poster boards cost taxpayers?
	Oh, and the environment.
	Those are corrugated plastic thingy things.
	Let's not forget that Schiff is guilty of trying to frame a President Trump with treason via the Russian collusion.
	Which itself...
	It's collusion.
	Absolutely. Schiff is the worst.
	I'm going to tell you about my dream because I legit, legit had a dream and I can have my wife come in and tell you to confirm that I had it this morning.
	It was not a nightmare and it was a weird, it's a weird thing.
	I'll tell you about it afterwards.
	Thanks for speeding up your comments, Viva.
	Notice how Democrats and DFI police when talking about January 6th but demonize them during the BLO.
	Absolutely. The FBI is a corrupt institution as it has been since its inception but it's the most respected agency ever until Trump decides to wage war on it.
	Then, no, hold on a second.
	But it becomes the most, you know, My experience can't be compared to Jake's, but as someone who was fired due to mandates, prosecution will change you and make you more expressive.
	God bless him, says White Lightning.
	People can't comprehend that just because Trump won, you didn't win Congress or the GOP.
	A lot of the old guard still exists and is quietly plotting.
	It says free men die free.
	Ron Paul Libertarians proved the GOP rigged it against Ron Paul and the courts told us, too bad, private property not subject to election law.
	CPAC equals them.
	We just heard something in the back.
	Yeah, is Charlie Kirk aware this is happening?
	I think he is.
	I'm going to keep that one pinned in the back so I can go and ask him afterwards.
	Trusting CPAC instead of Ron Paul Libertarians is your first mistake.
	Here's voting in the affirmative.
	Banks. Barrasso.
	She counted in the affirmative.
	Three. Britt.
	Four. Bud.
	Five. Cassidy.
	Cotton. Seven.
	Ernst. Eight.
	Grassley. Nine.
	Haggerty. Ten.
	Hawley. Eleven.
	Hyde-Smith. Twelve.
	Kennedy. Thirteen.
	Marino. Fourteen.
	Paul. Fifteen.
	Oh crap.
	Oh crap.
	Durban, King, Lujan, Murkowski, Murphy, Padilla, Peters, Sanders, Warner, and Welch.
	Dude, what the hell's going on?
	Ms. Lotkin, Ms. Lotkin, no.
	I guess they're doing like...
	I have no idea what the hell's going on anymore.
	Trusting CPAC instead of Ronald is your first mistake.
	Let's not forget the GOP is still one half of the establishment.
	Wagen Poetry.
	I have no idea what that is.
	Lying, dog-faced pony soldier.
	Then we got Mitch is from the camp era of politicians who gutted the U.S. with trade deals to bolster the CCP intentionally.
	As Klaus Schwab said, the CCP is their future model of government.
	They've been at this long.
	Mr. Sheehy.
	What is this about?
	The purpose of this speech?
	200-watt studio.
	That's an old one, but thank you.
	Viva! Have Murray Shops all make this fossil and...
	And mute this fossil, tell us jokes, anything.
	What a beautiful dog you have, Pineapple Girl.
	That's a Neapolitan Mastiff, if I'm not mistaken.
	Or the Cane Corso, the Italian Mastiff.
	Beautiful. Mitch Floral from Under a Rock says Mitch is making a new...
	Parfait. The filibuster.
	This is a filibuster.
	He announces retirement, votes no, and is the FU out the door, taking bets.
	Well, you can still make 25 cents on your dollar here.
	Correct, Viva, but cloture is actually a sleazy way for them to skirt the Constitution's two-thirds vote threshold for Senate passage.
	Mr. Crapo, Mr. Crapo, aye.
	There's Pineapple Girl again.
	Beautiful dog.
	Please explain.
	Cloture, got that.
	Suicide, I got all these.
	Okay, good.
	So now I can, um...
	Unflag all of these.
	Mr. Scott of South Carolina, I. Ms. Rosen, Ms. Rosen, no.
	Oh my goodness, I'm backwards.
	I gotta pee again.
	Get to the, just get to the, get to it!
	And I'm gonna get to all the tip questions afterwards.
	Mr. Coverbill, I. FreeSC01 says, David, if you're having dreams about Adam Schiff, you need serious help, lol.
	You might be right.
	3SC01 says, notice they are taking votes and the chambers are nearly empty.
	Yes, so I think they come in, they vote, they leave because, you know, they've got better things to do.
	They got to go make some trades.
	mr rish mr rish aye Mr. Kelly, Mr.
	Kelly, no.
	Mr. Ricketts.
	Mr. Ricketts.
	Somebody's named Ricketts.
	Aye. That's unfortunate.
	Mr. Blumenthal.
	Mr. Blumenthal.
	Nay. No.
	Mr. Danes.
	Mr. Danes.
	Aye. Oh, here we go.
	We got him on the bottom.
	So 29 to 16. Aye.
	30 to 16. Oh, I cannot wait for cash to come in.
	We'll get to the bottom of January 6th.
	Cantwell. Ms. Cantwell.
	No. Mr. Graham.
	Mr. Graham.
	Ms. Collins, Ms. Collins, no.
	Mr. Marshall, aye.
	Ms. Lummis, Ms. Lummis, aye.
	Mr. McCormick, Mr. McCormick, aye.
	Oh, McConnell paid.
	McConnell paid.
	McConnell voted yay.
	Okay. Okay.
	Thank you.
	Mr. Schumer?
	Mr. Schumer?
	No. Mrs. Gillibrand?
	Mrs. Gillibrand?
	No. Mr. Sullivan?
	Mr. Sullivan?
	Aye. Mr. McConnell?
	Aye. Mr. Wyden?
	Mr. Wyden, no.
	McConnell voted yes.
	It's funny how the market knew that before we heard it, but maybe there's a bit of a delay.
	Thank you.
	What is this going to do to the overall vote now?
	Mr. Kramer, aye.
	Ms. Blunt-Rodchester, no.
	Mr. Kim.
	Mr. Kim.
	No. Mr. Merkley.
	Mr. Merkley.
	No. Mr. Lankford.
	Mr. Lankford.
	Aye. Cal sheet right now is saying 98% for 51 votes.
	Mr. Keene.
	Mr. Keene.
	No. Mr. Warnock.
	Mr. Warnock.
	No. Ms. Hirono.
	Ms. Hirono.
	No. Mr. Booker.
	Mr. Booker.
	No. No.
	Mrs. Murray.
	Mrs. Murray.
	No. Mr. Heinrich.
	Mr. Heinrich.
	No. Ms. Cortez Masto.
	Ms. Cortez Masto.
	No. Mr. Rounds.
	Mr. Rounds.
	Aye. Trying to figure out what's going to happen in terms of the actual number here.
	We've got a countdown on the right.
	Mr. Moran, aye.
	Mr. Reed, aye.
	Mr. Reed, no.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	go Mr. Thune, Mr.
	Thune, aye.
	I don't know.
	It's not that intense because...
	Okay, so the I, yay, is in real time, it looks like.
	Ms. Warren, Ms. Warren, no.
	Ms. Hassan, Ms. Hassan, no.
	Mr. Ossoff, Mr. Ossoff, no.
	Okay, so we're getting a bunch of no's here.
	Mr. Fetterman?
	Mr. Fetterman?
	No. No.
	No.
	Mrs. Smith?
	No. Mr. Van Hollen?
	Mr. Van Hollen?
	No. Mr. Markey?
	Mr. Markey?
	No. Coons.
	Mr. Coons.
	No. Ms. Baldwin,
	Ms. Baldwin?
	No.
	Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr.
	Hickenlooper, no.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	So, where is...
	Hypothetically, if it's a tie, where is...
	JD Vance is at CPAC.
	Does he have to be present to break the tie?
	How does that work?
	Let me see if...
	Oh, I've not been paying attention.
	Sources are calling it 51 to 47. The only question is whether or not anybody who's betting on this is willing to take a bet of 50. Because that's at 50% right now.
	15%. So you can make...
	8-1.
	You can make a lot if you...
	Mrs. Shaheen.
	Mrs. Shaheen.
	No. They must think they're very happy now.
	They're in the lead.
	44-42.
	Nay to yay.
	Is it done?
	I'm going to go look on Twitter here and see what's going on.
	Oh, lordy.
	lordy lordy Let's see what the vote is.
	Okay, still 44-42.
	Unofficial tally.
	What does cash do on day one?
	Apparently, according to Encryptus, the Senate live streams are on a five-minute delay.
	So is it a done deal?
	Let me just go to...
	I don't know.
	We'll pick a news outlet here.
	Breaking? I don't see anything breaking yet.
	Let's go over to Twitter, see who breaks things on Twitter.
	Let's go to...
	Mr. Bozeman.
	Mr. Bozeman.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Butt hurts.
	I don't see anything on Cash.
	Let's see.
	What do I do?
	I want to go to breaking here.
	Cash Patel trending.
	What are people reporting on Twitter?
	Cash confirmed as FBI director.
	Tweets, Valor.
	Okay, well, that's one.
	Kash Patel confirmed, says Michael Garibaldi.
	Kash Patel is coming for you all.
	Americans are here for it.
	That's seven minutes ago.
	Mitch McConnell did just vote yes.
	People look like they're celebrating.
	One minute ago, Kash Patel is going to be confirmed.
	A's almost have it, but I think that person's probably on the same delay as us.
	Confirmed says...
	Oh, no, that says confirm.
	Cash Patel, new FBI director, says...
	See, I'm not seeing any...
	Mr. Schiff.
	Mr. Schiff.
	I'm going to go to...
	Who would be down there on site?
	Posobiec? Let me see here.
	Let's go to Poso's feed and see what's going on there.
	Jack Posobiec says...
	Breaking today is the day we cash in.
	Okay, but that's in a 16-minute-old tweet.
	We're live at CPAC, so he's not there.
	We need someone who's on the scene who's not subject to a five-minute delay.
	you.
	Well, while we do that, let me go see if we've got any more...
	Okay, we got nothing there.
	Let's go over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	FreeSC01 says 5147 cash is in.
	FreeSC01 says we are still going to primary Miss Lindsay.
	Here in South Carolina.
	David, if you are having dreams, I'm going to tell you about the dream afterwards, so stay tuned, people.
	Cash is in.
	Collins and Murkowski said no.
	44 to 46. It's so intense when we're watching it live, but apparently history has already been written and we're just catching up on it.
	10 to go, but we're on a delay here.
	We're going to go to Rumble afterwards and get all of the Rumble.
	Crumble France.
	Okay, 47. Oh, gosh!
	Mrs. Capito.
	Mrs. Capito, aye.
	Yes, okay.
	45, 47. Mr. Wicker.
	Mr. Wicker, aye.
	Yes, 46, 47. Come on.
	Come on.
	Bring them all in.
	Bannon's War Room says confirmed.
	Yeah, they are definitely down.
	Natalie Winters is probably...
	I don't know, but they might be.
	Everyone's at the CPAC.
	It's the place to be these days.
	Mrs. Fisher.
	Mrs. Fisher.
	I. Yeah, there we go.
	47. Tie.
	Let's do it.
	Let's get ready.
	Confirmed. Let the bodies hit the floor.
	Come on.
	Well, there's only four more, so it's got to be four I's.
	Unless there's a glitch in the matrix.
	Hope Blumenthal, they should have weighed their words.
	Knowing you're going to lose, weigh your words.
	Thank you.
	Or try to go the other tactic is be so damn offensive and adversarial that you then claim retribution if and when you get investigated for tax fraud, insider trading, you know, pedophilia.
	I don't know what else these guys are up to, but you know, they chose that tactic.
	Might have been the one I would choose to have done.
	Let the prosecutions begin.
	Benny Johnson reported cash is confirmed.
	Well, I prefer the...
	Thumbs up.
	I vote for this man.
	When has there ever been tighter confirmation votes than this presidential election?
	I don't ever recall being...
	I've never followed this with such...
	With such vigor.
	But when has there ever been this level of tightness in the nominees?
	Across the board.
	Not just a one-off where they squeak by or they get refused by one.
	All of them.
	Because this is partisan bullshit.
	it has nothing to do with the qualifications of the candidates.
	Yeah, see, it's funny also, the calcium markets, I don't know what's going on, like if there's like random bumps up and down or people are accidentally buying stuff that they don't want to buy, but it's still not at 99 to 1 yet for 51 votes, despite everyone calling it.
	But if we're going back to Twitter, home, something the Pope.
	I don't know what that is.
	Okay. Um.
	you.
	Live Cash Patel confirmation vote.
	Watch. They got Tim Young doing it.
	Tim runs his mouth.
	I'm going to be on with Tim runs his mouth next Thursday.
	This next Thursday, right?
	Hold on.
	Is it next Thursday or this Thursday?
	Next week.
	Okay. Next week, I'm going to be on with Tim runs his mouth at 8 o'clock on his channel.
	Man, so apparently it's been confirmed.
	I'm going to go back to Jack's Twitter feed.
	Okay, he's got nothing there.
	No news.
	I'm going to go to Benny.
	See what Benny has to say.
	Benny, 46 seconds ago, hop off the live stream, head over to the Senate floor to confirm Cash Patel.
	Mr. Mullen.
	Okay, I don't see...
	Breaking Mitch McConnell votes yes on Kash Patel.
	Mitch McConnell votes yes on Kash Patel.
	Okay, I don't see anything confirmed.
	Look, we're going to wait any.
	It's 49. Just get one more and two more.
	Mr. Lee.
	Mr. Lee.
	Aye. 50. But we need the 51. Or the tiebreaker.
	And there's one vote left.
	Even my kid is sitting there cheering.
	He doesn't know what the hell's going on.
	you.
	Just one more.
	That's all we need.
	Just tell us already so we can get on with the day.
	Mr. Gallego.
	Mr. Gallego.
	He's going to say no.
	No. Okay.
	50 48.
	okay Okay. Three votes left.
	Now there's two votes left.
	Let's just see what's going on on the Twitterverse.
	Let's see what's going on on VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com.
	Go to the aggregate chat.
	Lee makes 50. Benny was right.
	50 plus 1. Who else is not over yet?
	Boom 5149 says Mike Engelman over on Twitter.
	Let me see who this individual is.
	I'm just reading from our locals community.
	Mike Engelman?
	Engelman? Mike Engelman.
	Okay. He says, boom, 51-49 confirmed one minute ago.
	Kyle Becker is reporting he's been confirmed.
	But some people were saying 51-47.
	Now it looks like it's going to be...
	Holy cow, they really...
	...for......for...
	What the heck is taking so long right now?
	Even the woman right there, she's thinking, like, what the heck is taking so long?
	There you go.
	That's it.
	Now it's official.
	All of the people knew before.
	And then there's one more vote.
	So it's going to be 51-49.
	And I think there's going to be some people who were in the predictive markets that are going to be mighty pissed off with that.
	Because it was supposed to be 52. Who's the defector?
	Cash? How many senators?
	It's 99% now for 51, so I guess it's in.
	Who are the two?
	Because Mitch McConnell flipped.
	He was supposed to be voting no.
	He was supposed to still be 52-48.
	So who are the two that flipped?
	You got Collins and Murkowski?
	How did Murkowski vote on this?
	I forget now.
	Hold on.
	Let me go see the results here.
	But that's it.
	It's in.
	And now you've got...
	Holy shia, people.
	You got Cash, Tulsi, and RFK.
	Okay, so Murkowski and Collins, they flipped, so that's why it's 51 and not 5347.
	Hmm. That's weird.
	Well, that's it.
	It's over, people.
	Let's effing G is right.
	Hold on.
	Arrest everyone.
	Well, that would be counterintuitive.
	Let's effing...
	I want to get this one.
	It's what I'm trying to get.
	This one.
	Let's effing go.
	It's happening.
	What a time to be alive.
	Indeed, sir.
	What I'm going to do, by the way, at the end of this, everyone on Commitube, once this is confirmed, I mean, it's confirmed now.
	We're just going to take a little bit of a celebration.
	I'm going to give everybody the link to rumble.
	We're going to go over there and read a bunch of these chats.
	Mr. Whitehouse.
	No. Link to Rumble.
	Here, I'll give Link to Locals.
	And that's it, people.
	It's done.
	That's it.
	It's done.
	It's done.
	Locals. Now, what does he...
	What's the first thing that he does now?
	I want to go see what...
	The yays are 51. Eat it.
	The nays are 49. Eat it.
	Confirmation is confirmed.
	Blumenthal, quite have a ship.
	Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon a table.
	And the president will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions.
	Holy cows, people.
	Yeah, Ship, White House, Blumenthal, Durban, who's the other one there?
	They all asked for a serious amount of trouble, and their opposition and their protest to Kash Patel had very little to do, I say nothing to do, with Kash Patel's credentials, but only to do with their own actual culpability, and we will find out sooner than later.
	All right.
	Oh, so that's it.
	We can end the share screen now, people.
	What a time to be alive in DD.
	Let me...
	First of all, everybody's going crazy over on Rumble.
	Let's see it.
	Look at this.
	Clean up a few cells at Gitmo, says Pyle underscore G99.
	If we go over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com, we've got thank you, everyone, here for the updated vote totals.
	You guys rock, says Yanks.
	Cash better go after Russian ship.
	It says Maria36.
	There are a ton of crumble hrants.
	By the way, everybody, before you go and before I forget, because I'm terrible at doing it, make sure that you are subscribed and you have notifications turned on.
	Take 30 seconds now.
	30. Five seconds now to do it on whatever platform you're on.
	Oh, somebody's talking.
	Hold on.
	Hold on.
	Thank you, my colleagues.
	Here we go.
	You've never been in one.
	It's okay.
	But no, it's a chance to have a spirited discussion and debate about policy and about the budget resolution.
	So what's happened here is that the Budget Committee reported out Senate Concurrent Resolution 7 that will allow through the reconciliation process the spending of money and the reduction of spending based on different committees.
	This resolution allows for $175 billion of border and immigration policy enhancements, but it doesn't spend a penny.
	It allows the Judiciary Committee I don't think we need to listen to this people.
	... to come up with a up to $175 billion plan to secure our border and do immigration reform.
	And what will happen is that those two committees, Mr.
	President, We'll work with the Trump administration to meet their priorities.
	There's nothing in this resolution directing one dime of spending.
	I'm closing it.
	We don't need to hear that.
	What we need to do is two things.
	Make sure you liked, shared, subscribed.
	Well, you don't need to share.
	Subscribe, notifications turned on.
	What I want to bring up, because it's shameless plug, because I often forget to do it because I'm an idiot, is...
	The children's book, Louis the Lobster Returns to the Sea, that I've written.
	If you haven't known this, I'm a self-published author with the help of my wife, number one publication of all of the Booker-a-thon.
	Share screen.
	Go here.
	This is what I want to share.
	Bada bing, bada boom.
	Are we looking at it?
	Louis the Lobster Returns to the Sea.
	Five star reviews, people.
	Nine ratings.
	We can fix that.
	Get the book.
	Here's the link.
	You can all go and get the book.
	It's a children's book, and like I always say, no one has ever regretted buying a children's book.
	Let me go to the comments, go to the chat, link to Amazon.
	If you want to get it, go ahead.
	Christmas is coming up in, I don't know, nine months.
	Louis the Lobster Returns to the Sea, illustrated by Abigail Martin, the daughter of a member of our VivaBarnesLaw.Vocals.com community.
	The link is there.
	Okay, now let's get to the crumble France people.
	Which have been building up and accruing all day.
	Avengers Assemble says, Fickle Thinking.
	Fickle Thinking says, Unleash the Project 2025.
	Stindy Jessup says, This is so painful to watch.
	McConnell voted yes.
	Who would have thought he'd actually go out on the right side of history?
	I know a lot of people are going to have lost a bet on that.
	And I just, I couldn't, whatever.
	Democrats are evil, says Smushy.
	King of Biltons, Smushy.
	That's the name of the walrus that, although I think it was IE, that Bill Demers, Canadian hero, saved.
	Sorry, Smushy, that just brought back some memories.
	King of Biltong in the house says, increase your protein intake with some great tasting meat snacks.
	Biltong is packed with B12, creatine, iron, zinc, and much, much more.
	Get BiltongUSA.com.
	Code Viva for 10% off.
	I believe McConnell voted yes to allow Collins to vote no.
	Yeah, that's some weird jockeying there, like why Collins would vote no here but vote yes on the last two, which were arguably more controversial.
	MB of LAZ.
	These morons are the same idiots that voted to put Jackson on the Supreme Court.
	Let that sink in.
	Love your content, Viva, says Richie 17ier.
	Richie 17ier, which means something about Richie 17 yesterday in French.
	Fickle thinking says confession through projection a thousand percent.
	Pinboy Slick says, hold on, my chest started hurting there for a second.
	I would like to personally thank Ethan for interrupting those idiots.
	Please stay on stream as long as possible, kid.
	Tell us all about every invertebrate.
	The ones on screen are already fried.
	Crash Bandit says, so no jab, no job was not a loyalty test.
	Shifty McShift for brain shithead.
	Sorry, I didn't say shithead.
	I meant shithead.
	Wesley1924 says, can't tell if Shif's neck is holding his head up.
	Or keeping it from flying away?
	Keith O'Higgins says, Jake and other political prisoners don't need CPAC.
	However, CPAC needs Jake and others when elections come near.
	UP Truebreed says, Viva, please tell Jake his supporters are on here.
	Want him to go back.
	I'm sure he's watching and I'll tell him anyhow.
	Denise Ann 2 says, Anne VanderSteel posted this.
	CPAC should be ashamed.
	Let me grab that and bring it up afterwards.
	Ria Beth says, I am watching CPAC.
	There are J6ers there sharing stories with the audience.
	Good. Stoner with a boner says, we need to throw our own CPAC with blackjack and hookers.
	Remember, everybody, me reading a comment is not an endorsement of the content, message, or activities described therein.
	Keep your schmeckle in your pants and don't gamble more than you can afford losing.
	Sancho Relaxo says, Glitch Mitch, the outgoing Mike bitch.
	M-I-C. Oh, Glitch Mitch, the outgoing Mike.
	Mick Bitch, which is MIC Military Industrial Complex.
	Not bad.
	That's creative alliterations there.
	Squishy Hunter says the worst thing about Canada is that one half of the country speaks French and the other half less than that.
	First of all, I don't think it's one half of the country whatsoever.
	It's 85% of Quebec.
	I think it's about 50% of New Brunswick and New Brunswick?
	Maybe Nova Scotia, which is a very small province.
	And I think it's 15% of Ontario, if I'm not mistaken.
	So it's a lot, but I don't think it's 50%.
	Denise Antu says, Argentina President Malay might have been involved in a meme coin rug pool, or was he set up to take the fall?
	I hope he didn't knowingly have anything to do with this.
	I talked about that yesterday, or it was a subject yesterday on the unusual suspects, and that was one of my theories, is that they set him up to fail so that they could, on the one hand, discredit him because nobody liked Malay from a populist perspective.
	I should say, because he was a populist president-elect.
	The powers that be didn't like him.
	They don't like the autonomy that comes with crypto.
	And so this is a double takeout.
	Set him up to fail by having him endorse a meme coin rug pull or rug pull, whatever it's called.
	So that's one of my theories, one of my operating theories.
	Christy Dawn85 says, I have transverse myelitis as well.
	I feel her pain.
	Mine was caused from SLE lupus.
	They tried to give me the jab, but I refused for fear of more neurological damage.
	Sending much love.
	Sis, thank you very much.
	Okay, dudes.
	We've actually done it.
	Wow. What a freaking day, people.
	It's amazing.
	It's a new America and a time to be alive.
	Alright, we're going to do a short afterparty on Locals because we're going to catch up on some chat there.
	You can come over to Locals now.
	It will not be supporters only because I was using StreamYard today because of the nature of the guests popping in and out.
	Link to Locals.
	So come on over to Locals if you want to have some after party discussion.
	And then I can do this until my wife says, Viva, you got to pick up some kids, do some stuff.
	Cash and Merck, Cash and Collins said no.
	Cash is in, Collins and Merck said no.
	Yeah, we got this.
	All right, everybody.
	That was amazing.
	Thank you for being here.
	Tomorrow is Friday.
	I think I just got a request to see if I could do the unusuals tomorrow, but I'll see if I can or if I can not.
	Let me see.
	That is it.
	We've done good.
	Let's see what's going on on Commitube.
	Before you go, drop a thumbs up, which is beautiful.
	There's more thumbs up on Commitube than there are people watching at this point, which means people do it before they leave.
	On Hrumble, we are at...
	Let me see here.
	Let me see.
	Let me hit the thumbs up.
	I haven't done it yet myself.
	Oh, nearly 2,000 thumbs up.
	That's great.
	Subscribe, yada yada.
	Come on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	We're going to have a brief after party, but I'm going to have to go relieve myself before we carry that on.
	Thank you for being here.
	See you tomorrow.
	You know where to find me.
	You know where to find everything.
	Removing from Commitube now.
	Boom. Removing from the Twitterverse now.
	Bada bing, bada boom.
	And we are removing from, not from Locals, from Crumble.
	Now. Bada bing, bada boom.
	Thank you all for being here, Locals.

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