00:00You've shown yourself unfit to lead this important agency.
00:04We should worry more about your lack of candor.
00:06You're accusing me of committing projury,
00:08lying for political banter,
00:10so you can have a 20-second donation hit.
00:13Democracy does not lock up judges.
00:16I am gravely concerned about the utter lack of independence of the FBI
00:21and its weaponization under your leadership.
00:24I am concerned that the president is using this book,
00:27your book, as a blueprint, as he has said.
00:31It's a blueprint for revenge.
00:33And I am concerned that your eagerness,
00:36a childlike giddiness to carry out the president's revenge tour,
00:40you've shown yourself to be unserious in your statements
00:44before you were sworn in and some after.
00:47You've shown yourself unfit to lead this important agency.
00:51I was an impeachment manager for President Trump's second impeachment.
00:57It was a sad, solemn duty.
01:00And so I wanted to ask you about that.
01:02Mr. Patel, as you and the president continue to weaponize
01:07and investigate his perceived enemies,
01:10as you follow this blueprint,
01:12when can I, a former impeachment manager,
01:15expect the FBI at my door?
01:17Ma'am, you want to know who was targeted by a weaponized FBI?
01:21Me.
01:22You want to know how and why?
01:24You want to know what I'm doing to fix it?
01:25Well, you may need to write a book about that.
01:26Let me move along.
01:27Well, you should read the book,
01:28because there's no enemies list on that book.
01:29There are people that violated their constitutional obligations
01:32and their duties to the American people,
01:34and they were rightly called out.
01:36And you should give that book to every one of your constituents
01:39so they can read about it.
01:40I won't be doing that.
01:41That's their loss.
01:42During your Senate confirmation hearings,
01:45you repeatedly denied having any involvement as a private citizen
01:49in the firing of FBI officials who engaged in the prosecution
01:52against January 6th insurrectionists,
01:54the violent rioters who beat and killed Capitol police officers
01:59and whom you referred to as political prisoners.
02:02Since then, multiple whistleblowers have come forward,
02:05and we know that you likely committed perjury.
02:08At the same hearing, you claimed you were not familiar
02:11with Stu Peters, an anti-Semitic Holocaust denier,
02:16despite the fact that you appeared on Mr. Peters' podcast
02:19eight separate times.
02:21Eight times.
02:22And you claimed not to recall.
02:24Mr. Patel, my second question is,
02:26should we worry more about your memory or your veracity?
02:29We should worry more about your lack of candor.
02:31You're accusing me of committing perjury.
02:33Tell the American people how I broke the law and committed a felony.
02:37Have the audacity to actually put the facts forward
02:40instead of lying for political banter,
02:43so you can have a 20-second donation hit.
02:45The answer is both.
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