Cash Patel is right on the cusp of becoming the next director of the FBI, with the Senate

holding its confirmation vote for that controversial nominee. In fact, right now, Republicans have,

unsurprisingly, rallied around Patel's emphasis on fighting crime, with the Senate Judiciary

Chair, rather, calling him the right man at the right time. But Democrats have warned he is unfit for the position, raising concerns that he's going to use the agency to target the president's political enemies.

Well, I wouldn't say it's unusual, but she makes, I think, a very astute point.

If the idea is that you want to make the FBI apolitical, it's hard to pick a more political person to take the job,

someone who has, as you noted, been a diehard champion of Donald Trump for a long time.

And even going back before, you know, he was sort of aligned on the outside with Donald Trump.

Look, it's not surprising that Republican senators are not persuaded by this, though,

and I think it's for an important reason.

The things that Cash Patel has said, and I think truly believes, that there is a deep state

that was out to get Donald Trump, and January 6th was all about, you know, that was a political, you know,

the election was stolen from him and this was all politics. Those are all standard, fair things

that Republican senators are forced to say now when they go back to their states and they're

talking to their constituents. Now, they'll say it with a bit of a wink and a nod and yeah, yeah, yeah, the deep state,

Cash Patel truly believes it.

But the point is, you can't be against Cash Patel for believing in a deep state.

If you also have been talking about the fact that there's a deep state in the federal government.

So none of the things that he has said publicly that I think get a lot of people upset are all that different

than what most Republican senators basically say anytime they're back home in their in their

states. And you mentioned the deep state and I have a quote. This is something that he said on a podcast.

He said, on day one, I would shut down the FBI Hoover building and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state.

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