It's Friday, February 21st, 2025, introducing the Friday five-pack, some housekeeping items,

and ask or tell me anything next on the AM update.

New FBI director, Cash Patel, was confirmed by the Senate yesterday in a 51-49 vote.

Patel said, in a statement afterwards, quote, my mission as director is clear,

let good cops be cops and rebuild trust in the FBI.

Please pray for Cash Patel.

Of all of the corrupt agencies in Washington, D.C., to ever corrupt, the FBI just might be

the most corrupt to ever corrupt, if that ever makes sense.

Pray for Cash Patel.

He's got a mountain of work in front of him, and he was confirmed yesterday by the Senate in a 51-49 vote.

Yesterday at CPAC, Vice President J.D. Vance maybe shared more gospel in about two minutes than Mike Pence ever did in four years.

First is, I believe, like, the fundamental

tenet of the Christian faith, it's not just a set of good moral principles, though it is

that. I think the fundamental tenet of our faith is that the son of God became man. He died,

and he raised himself from the dead. That is the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith,

and I think so much flows from that. Forget two minutes, try 20 seconds, more gospel and 20 seconds

from the vice president than Mike Pence. The evangelical of all evangelicals probably shared in about

two years, or I'm sorry, four years during his stint as

vice president over back in the Senate. Mitch McConnell made this announcement. He's not long for

this Senate. Our commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. I will not seek this honor

an eighth time.

My current term in the Senate will be my last.

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