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Is the FBI Director Even Doing His Job?

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller gives his take on Kash Patel using Katie Miller’s podcast to push back on criticism about spending time with his girlfriend, and why the interview felt more like reputation management than leadership at a critical moment for the FBI.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, Timur from the bulwark here.

0:02.2

The Timu Oprah has dropped her latest interview with Cash Patel, the director of the FBI,

0:10.4

and his girlfriend, country music sensation, Alexis Wilkins.

0:16.8

They sat down on the white couch with Katie Miller herself.

0:21.4

She has, as mentioned, a couple of podcasts or today, a knack for bringing in Trump cabinet officials right at the moment that they are under scrutiny for a little bit of a soft touch.

0:36.1

Stephen Miller knows something about that.

0:39.8

I'm sorry.

0:41.7

I'm sorry that I had to do that to you.

0:43.4

I'm taping this late at night.

0:44.5

And I just had to watch Katie Miller interview,

0:46.8

Cash Patel, and Alexis.

0:48.4

So just let me have that one.

0:50.6

I want to run through some of the clips.

0:53.0

I got to tell you, the main

0:55.0

takeaways here that I've got are, this is extremely awkward. And it's a very awkward and

1:00.3

cringe situation, just like the Bureau Director for federal law enforcement. Top cop, sitting down in the soft focus with his much younger girlfriend,

1:18.8

just kind of talking about their long distance relationship.

1:24.3

Like, why?

1:26.0

You know, it's just not something that you'd see generally from

1:30.8

FBI heads and uh the fact that cash is like whipped enough to have to do this is pretty rough

1:39.0

it's a pretty rough look he doesn't I wouldn't say he comes off alpha comes off very awkward

1:43.7

it doesn't seem like a guy who's fully locked in on his job of going after bad guys.

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