BREAKING_ Federal lawsuit alleges FBI Director Kash Patel knowingly broke the law with FBI firings

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00:00A new and explosive lawsuit against FBI Director Cash Patel, filed by former FBI executives,

00:08he filed.

00:08That lawsuit alleges Patel knowingly broke the law when he carried out the firings at

00:13the behest of the White House, and it quotes him as saying he knew he could get sued for

00:18firing agents without cause, but that his job depended on removing people who had worked

00:24on cases against President Trump.

00:26Because, quote, the FBI tried to put the president in jail and he hasn't forgotten it.

00:32Joining me now, the MSNBC correspondents who got the early information about this lawsuit,

00:36they've been poring over it, Justice and Intelligence correspondent Ken Delaney.

00:41Well, the most striking thing about this stunning lawsuit is that it recounts alleged behind-the-scenes

00:45conversations with some of the biggest players in the Trump Justice Department.

00:49We're talking about FBI Director Cash Patel, Deputy Director Dan Bongino, and then-senior

00:54DOJ official Emil Bovee.

00:56Look, our viewers have heard a lot about how the FBI has been politicized.

00:59Carol and I have been reporting on these issues for months, but here for the first time, we

01:03have an on-the-record version of events from people who were in the room, including Brian

01:09Driscoll, one of the plaintiffs who ran the FBI for months before Patel was confirmed and

01:13then stayed in the senior job for months afterwards.

01:16And if these accounts are to be believed, it's actually worse than we could have imagined.

01:20This is a 69-page complaint that reads like a great piece of narrative journalism, Chris.

01:25And it portrays an FBI that is totally beholden to the whims of the Trump White House and

01:30to outside political actors, including MAGA activists on social media.

01:34As you mentioned in the intro, it alleges that Patel fired senior FBI executives on orders

01:39from the White House for reasons that were totally political.

01:43That's against the law.

01:44And the lawsuit says Patel acknowledged knowing it was against the law.

01:47He allegedly said he knew he would be sued, but that his job depended on him carrying out

01:52the orders of the White House.

01:53And what's really shocking to me is that many of these decisions seem to be driven by a small

01:57number of MAGA activists on social media who pressured Patel, Bongino, and the White House,

02:02often leveling false allegations against decorated FBI leaders.

02:06And to give you one example, MAGA activists falsely claimed, according to the lawsuit, that

02:11an FBI agent named Christopher Meyer, a military veteran, had participated in the Mar-a-Lago search.

02:16Meyer happened to be one of four pilots at the FBI.

02:19So he was actually flying Kash Patel around in an FBI jet.

02:23MAGA activists, of course, were outraged about this.

02:26So Driscoll was ordered to fire Meyer based on these false allegations.

02:30He resisted, according to this lawsuit, and told Patel it would be illegal, especially because

02:35Meyer is a military veteran with special protections.

02:38But Patel is quoted in the lawsuit as saying, I can't save everyone.

02:41Driscoll was ultimately fired for refusing to terminate Meyer, and Meyer also was fired, Chris.