Kash Patel Accuses Senator of "Slingin' Margaritas!" At Senate Hearing
Rogue Energy
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
FBI Director Kash Patel squared off with Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen today and it got ugly. Senator Van Hollen asked Patel about “The Atlantic” article alleging excessive drinking on the job and Patel fired back, accusing Van Hollen of “slingin’ margaritas” with a “gangbanger.” Patel was referring to a meeting the Senator had with a mistakenly deported man, where margaritas were placed on the table, but Van Hollen denied drinking them.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey, the folks, it is Tuesday, May 12th, and we'll be honest with you. |
| 0:11.5 | We just came back from a nice lunch in which we had a couple of great skinny margaritas. |
| 0:18.4 | And that goes perfectly in line with the Senate Appropriations Committee |
| 0:23.7 | hearing we just heard with Cash Patel. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:30.1 | Robes, you didn't know I was going to start with that admission, but let's start with that. |
| 0:33.7 | We get up at three in the morning. We work through early afternoon. We go have a lunch. |
| 0:39.1 | We grabbed a margarita at lunch. Yes. So, yes, our one o'clock is everyone else is five o'clock. |
| 0:44.2 | Yes. And we had a skinny margarita each. So to that point, we enjoyed ourselves, but we're |
| 0:49.4 | fully capable of doing this podcast. Just wanted to make that clear. But I'm lining it up with the theme that we had no |
| 0:55.9 | idea that we were kicking off a theme for the day because we did want to come back. Yes, |
| 1:00.8 | we're jumping on here because Cash Patel mixed it up in the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing. |
| 1:07.5 | Robs, yes, these things are supposed to be boring. |
| 1:13.0 | We're used to them not being. |
| 1:15.2 | They can be contentious, but lately, Robes, |
| 1:17.7 | they have turned into something that, quite frankly, |
| 1:19.1 | becomes embarrassing to watch. |
| 1:20.8 | Yes, it's beyond political theater. |
| 1:25.6 | It's, we were, when we set this up, if you haven't seen it, |
| 1:31.1 | we were wincing in anticipation. We were cringing, |
| 1:38.0 | knowing what was coming, and it even was worse than I thought it was going to be. And that says a lot. |
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