from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, December 3rd.

On today's podcast, we'll mostly discuss President-elect Trump's nominee for FBI director

Cash Patel, who is instantly

controversial for how much he seems to want to help Trump lead a retribution campaign once

Trump is back in office.

Here's an example of what we might expect in Cash Patel's own words as a guest on a Steve

Bannon podcast.

We will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media.

Yes, we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens,

who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.

We're going to come after you.

Whether it's criminal or civilly, we'll figure that out.

We'll dig into the implications of Cash Patel for FBI director and a little bit about the

implications of Pam Bondi for Attorney General with a perfect guest for this, journalist David

Road, who knows firsthand about being imprisoned for reporting the truth. Some of you may remember

he was kidnapped by the Taliban when he was reporting

in Afghanistan for the New York Times. David Rode, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter,

is now the national security editor for NBC News and author of the book, where tyranny begins,

the Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy.

David, thanks very much for your time today.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me back.

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