Kash Patel Accuses Sheriff Of Bungling Nancy Guthrie Investigation
Amy & T.J.
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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FBI Director Kash Patel is accusing the Pima County Sheriff’s Department of mishandling the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Patel maintains the FBI was shut out of the first four days of the investigation despite the fact it sent hundreds of agents to the area, and offered to analyze DNA evidence at their labs in Quantico. Sheriff Chris Nanos disputed Patel’s claims in a statement, saying his department began working with the FBI without delay.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.3 | It is Wednesday, May the 6th. |
| 0:10.1 | And FBI director, Cash Patel, didn't use these exact words. |
| 0:15.7 | But for the most part, he said that Arizona authorities are a bunch of Keystone cops who essentially bungled the Nancy Guthrie investigation from the beginning. |
| 0:26.2 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, not his exact words, but he didn't leave a whole lot of room for interpretation in what he was saying. |
| 0:35.7 | And he was saying they screwed up from the jump. |
| 0:38.5 | A hundred percent. Cash Patel went on a podcast and blasted Sheriff Nanos, the entire Pima |
| 0:46.6 | County Sheriff's Department, and said that if the FBI had been let in earlier, that the |
| 0:52.7 | outcome could have been different. He was essentially saying |
| 0:54.9 | they could have found evidence sooner. They could have analyzed DNA better. And if those things had |
| 1:01.6 | happened, maybe we would know where Nancy Guthrie is. That was the implication for sure. |
| 1:05.9 | And again, we say implicated, Roeb, he was, this is not one, and we assure you, and we'll let you hear and we'll have his exact words. But Rob, this wasn't one of those things where you could leave open. Was he trying to say this or we was trying to say that? Look, he was asked about it. This was on Sean Hannity's podcast. He was asked directly about that investigation, and he answered, but Robes, he said from the beginning, this was the first |
| 1:28.2 | headlines I saw about it was he said, Sheriff Nanos out there kept the FBI out at the |
| 1:35.6 | beginning of the investigation. And Cash Patel followed up on that. That is absolutely correct. |
| 1:41.0 | One of the first things he said that the FBI was sidelined for four days. |
| 1:47.0 | They were kept out of the investigation. And then he said, and look, when we were finally let in, look what we did. |
| 1:52.1 | We went in and we got the ring doorbell. And then he went on to praise what the FBI was able to uncover because he personally, he says, called Google authorities to make sure that |
| 2:02.6 | they could get that image of that mass man. And that certainly was the biggest break in the case. |
| 2:08.0 | But he's saying it could have come even sooner, which could have made a much bigger, a much big, |
| 2:14.9 | sorry, I can't talk, a much better different, I can't talk. |
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