00:00The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
00:06Please be seated.
00:07You may have your opening statement.
00:12We did not want to punish victims of bestiality, victims who were trafficked.
00:18We did not want to make it an automatic disqualification for the FBI to consider you
00:22if you are a victim of these awful, heinous acts.
00:25They still have to go to the same rigorous standards and application process.
00:28For us, it's workforce.
00:30After that terrible event 25 years ago.
00:33Same thing, because the regs wrote it up in a fashion before I arrived
00:38that addressed prostitution, bestiality, and trafficking.
00:41They were there before I got there.
00:42Tell me what it said before.
00:45It automatically disqualified any individual who participated on either side of it.
00:51Obviously, we are never going to hire the criminal.
00:53This side of what? The bestiality?
00:55Yes.
00:55So you disqualified the animal?
00:59Well, I don't think we...
01:01We have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them.
01:03I understand.
01:04I'm trying to understand...
01:05And what we're going through, and we're having a tough time attracting agents,
01:11good quality agents we all can trust,
01:14because so many people, fairly or unfairly, think that in order to be an FBI agent now,
01:22your political point of view matters.
01:25Why would you even get into bestiality?
01:30In a lot of these cases, when human traffickers, who are some of the worst individuals on planet Earth,
01:36they don't just traffic you for prostitution, they traffic you for degrading acts of all kind,
01:41and they force you into that type of conduct.
01:42And some of these individuals would go on to be law enforcement officers
01:45who qualified to be law enforcement officers and later applied to the FBI.
01:48I mean, this didn't...
01:51But you're not telling us today that if a human being had sex with an animal,
02:01that they can still be an FBI agent?
02:04No.
02:04Are you?
02:05No.
02:05They can't be, can they?
02:06They cannot.
02:07I'll make my concluding remark, and you can do whatever you want, sir.
02:10My concluding remark is, we don't have an FBI director.
02:13We have a lackey here.
02:14Who is using government, and frankly, he's not even a good lackey.
02:18He's an incompetent lackey.
02:19He's like an 18-year-old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member
02:24of,
02:24doing keg stands and chugging with friends.
02:27He's an embarrassment to the agency and wouldn't qualify even to be an FBI agent, sir.
02:32He won't answer questions for a committee.
02:34He insults Democrats here, and you don't step in.
02:38He has a little book by his side that he literally is using to try to intimidate people
02:42in the same way he intimidates reporters.
02:44He is a disgrace, sir.
02:46And the fact that we are not asking him, in fact, demanding him to answer the most best
02:51basic oversight questions is a further testimony to what is bad.
02:55It's not just that we have a rogue FBI agent intimidating reporters.
03:00What's bad is that we have Republicans in the Senate that are enabling him to go without
03:05any objective oversight or transparency or accountability.
03:09Why do you, why do you, why do you, why do you, why do you, why do you, why do
03:13you figure
03:13you're something special?
03:15Now we've had, I'm not special.
03:16My time has now just, my, sir, you are not being balanced in your way.
03:22Let's, uh.
03:23My time has just now reached what Mike Lee did, and we as a committee have done what
03:28you've done before, which is ask him to answer basic questions.
03:31He won't even do it in writing.
03:32This is a mockery and a sham.
03:35We have a rogue agent intimidating the press, violating people's First Amendment rights,
03:40and doing everything the president has.
03:43You don't show much respect for your chairman.
03:45You've gone on now.
03:46I have utter respect for you.
03:48In fact, I have love for you.
03:50And this is why I know this is not who you are.
03:53You are not holding this witness in an objective way to answer the questions that are given to
03:58him by Democratic senators, yet he insults them time and time again.
04:02What he did to Senator Walsh should make this whole committee stand up and walk out and
04:11sanction this man for speaking to one of my colleagues the way he spoke to them.
04:15Even Senator Whitehouse, who was then sitting in, tried to control this witness who makes
04:20everything personal.
04:22I have a right to ask questions about how he's spending money on his girlfriend, and yet
04:28he stonewalls me, but will run on Fox News and talk about any and all these issues.
04:33This is ridiculous.
04:34This is a sham.
04:36And what's bad is not the person sitting there who's a mockery to the office he holds.
04:41What is bad is the people that are enabling him to do so.
04:45You understand, mister?
04:47Now, you go ahead and say what you wanted to say.
04:50I don't have much to say.
04:51This guy called me a thug.
04:53It's kind of ironic.
04:54He's running for president of the United States.
04:55He just got his 20-second ad campaign.
04:57Next.
04:59Senator Graham.
05:00I'm going to hold this man accountable for as long as he's in his job until he gets fired,
05:03which he probably will, because he's incompetent at his job and continues to do things that
05:08merit his removal.
05:10Yes.
05:10Shame on you, sir.
05:11Director Patel, were you done?
05:13By the way, violent crime arrests by the FBI in New Jersey are up 75% on top of the
05:17historic results we've already delivered for the American people.
05:19Yeah, thanks to the state police and local police officers.
05:22Irrespective of the lies that he continues to tell.
05:24Sir, nothing I have said here is a lie.
05:25You said your time's up.
05:26Are you done or not?
05:27No, are you done or not, sir?
05:28You want to go run out to the media and talk to the microphone.
05:30If you want to answer my questions, go to the next person.
05:32This is ridiculous.
05:33What a mockery you are.
05:34You are the biggest mockery in the United States Senate, and you're sitting next to the ship.
05:38Yeah, well, 8 million people in New Jersey don't think so.
05:40At least I didn't get my job the way you got your job.
05:42Are you going to interfere with Senator Graham asking her questions, too?
05:46I certainly will not.
05:47Too, as well?
05:48I certainly will not.
05:49Are you done, though?
05:49Are you ready to shut up?
05:52I am done, sir.
05:54Senator Graham.
05:55Our police officers feel back by the federal government.
05:58It's whether the fentanyl coming across our southern borders end up in our small towns,
06:03and it's whether South Carolinians and Americans at large feel safe in our communities.
06:07So, Director, I want to spend the bulk of my time reiterating and laying out
06:12for the record, and for the people of South Carolina, what the data actually shows
06:16since President Trump was sworn in and since you took over the Bureau,
06:21and how it compares to the disaster of the four years before you got here.
06:26The Democrats have focused on negativity.
06:28I want to focus on the positives.
06:31Director, you have reported that since January 2025,
06:34thefest of the record as well.
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