Who Kashpetel is?

I mean, most of our viewers know,

but we went back and looked at David Nacius' reporting

about how he ascended in the ways that he did.

And I want to read this,

and then I want to hear any run-ins or experiences

you had with him in your time in the Trump administration.

This is from the Washington Post.

In the Trump administration's four-year battle

with the intelligence community,

a recurring character was a brush lawyer named Kashpetel.

He appeared so frequently in so many incarnations.

He was almost a zealot figure

and president Trump's confrontation

against what he imagined as the deep state.

At the start of the Trump administration,

Patel was senior counsel for Devon Nunes

when the California Republican

chaired the House Intel Committee,

and emerged as a leading critic of the investigation

by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Patel's most prominent role was his final job,

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