00:00We have 60 anti-Catholic hate crime incidents reported to us that are being investigated.
00:10On the day of the horrific shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University.
00:15Do you think a law enforcement model for dealing with these narco traffickers is adequate to deal with a threat?
00:23Do you think we need to start thinking about how do we deal within constitutional legal parameters to deal with this problem in a different way to be more effective in protecting the American people?
00:35Absolutely. And the way to analogize this and why I've advocated for the designation.
00:39And I'm thankful that the Trump administration has designated these cartels and narco traffickers as foreign terrorist organizations is because we must treat them like the foreign terrorist organizations post 9-11.
00:49We must treat them like the Al Qaeda's of the world because that's how we're operating.
00:52And just treating them with law enforcement capabilities alone was wholly insufficient to wipe out the targets in their entirety.
00:59They always had the next man up philosophy.
01:01If you take out the leader, they got 10 guys behind them.
01:03But in order to eliminate, and that's the key, eliminate the drug trade and eliminate the pouring into this country of narcotics,
01:10we have to use authorities at the Department of War and the intelligence community to go after the threat like we did terrorists when we were manhunting them.
01:17I don't think you're fitting in the bureau, but here's the thing, Mr. Patel.
01:21Now, I think you're not going to be around long.
01:24I think this might be your last oversight hearing because as much as you supplicate yourself to the will of Donald Trump and not the Constitution of the United States of America,
01:33Donald Trump has shown us in his first term and in this term, he is not loyal to people like you.
01:39He will cut you loose.
01:40This may be the last time I have a hearing with you because I don't think you're long for your job.
01:47But I'm going to tell you this.
01:48I pray for you.
01:50I pray for you that you can step up and defend your oath, defend the Constitution, and do a much better job of defending this country.
01:59And I'm here to testify that the original sin in the Epstein case was the way it was initially brought by Mr. Acosta back in 2006.
02:07The original case involved a very limited search warrant or set of search warrants and didn't take as much investigatory material it should have seized.
02:15If I were the FBI director then, it wouldn't have happened.
02:18The search warrants were limited to small time periods to include 2002 to 2005 and 1997 to 2001.
02:24Mr. Acosta allowed Epstein to enter in 2008 to a plea and non-prosecution agreement,
02:30which then the courts issued mandates and protective orders legally prohibiting anyone from ever seeing that material ever again without the permission of the court.
02:39The non-prosecution agreements also barred future prosecutions for those involved at that time of those individuals.
02:47Still, this administration at the direction of President Trump has done more to turn over all the credible information we are legally able to do so.
02:53And we will continue to work with Congress to achieve that end.
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