As GOP works the law enforcement refs for Trump, important policing issues go fallow
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Since it was founded in 1935, the FBI has had only eight Senate confirmed directors. |
| 0:07.0 | And those directors all have a few things in common. They are all white men. |
| 0:12.0 | They all favor a clean cut look and each and every one of them |
| 0:17.4 | every Senate confirmed director since the dawn of the FBI has been a |
| 0:22.3 | Republican. That includes current of the not get that impression given the way director Ray's fellow Republicans attacked |
| 0:34.3 | him and his agency during a hearing today on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:39.7 | When the court says the FBI misled, that's a nice way of saying they lied. |
| 0:46.0 | How many individuals were either FBI employees or people that the FBI had made contact with were in the January 6th |
| 0:56.7 | entry of the Capitol. I'm going to make the assumption that there was more than |
| 1:01.2 | one, more than five, more than ten. |
| 1:03.5 | I will say this notion that somehow the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some |
| 1:10.1 | operation orchestrated by FBI sources and agents is ludicrous. |
| 1:15.0 | Your job is to review what they do. |
| 1:17.0 | Your job is to protect the American people from a tyrannical FBI |
| 1:21.0 | storming the home of an American family. |
| 1:23.0 | I could not disagree more with your description of the FBI as tyrannical. |
| 1:27.0 | You preside over the FBI that has the lowest level of trust in the FBI's history. |
| 1:34.1 | People trusted the FBI more when J Edgar Hoover |
| 1:36.5 | was running the place than when you are. |
| 1:37.9 | Respectfully, Congressman, in your home state of Florida, |
| 1:41.1 | the number of people applying to come work for us and |
| 1:43.8 | devote their lives working for us is over up over a hundred percent. |
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