Hey, everyone, welcome to you from the kitchen table.

I am your host, Sean Duffy, along with my co-host for the podcast, but also my partner

in life, Rachel Campos Duffy.

Thank you, Sean. And you're right. We are partners for life. We've been together a long,

long time. But this podcast invites lots of people to join our kitchen table. And today,

we have two very special guests. So first up, we have the former chief of staff

to the acting US Secretary of Defense under Donald Trump.

He also was an aide to Devin Nunes and really one of the first people to uncover all the bad things that were happening with the Russia hoax.

So let's welcome Cash Patel to our kitchen

table. Welcome, Cash. It's great to be with you guys. I was dubbed the chief investigator for

the Russia Gate investigation. Yeah, that's what makes it so interesting. So we're going to jump

right into this because I have so many questions. So before we start, since you are sort of known for uncovering the deep state,

tell us what your definition of the deep state is.

Well, it's kind of one that you hope never comes true because, you know, I served in government

for 16 years and you guys are familiar with serving as Sean.

And you sort of sign up to serve the mission,

and unfortunately, you come across people who think the mission exists to serve them.

And that's sort of the shortest way I can answer of who is the deep state.

But your hope is that there's no one around that really is like that, because service is a

privilege.

It's not something that's a right given to everyone and you voluntarily commit to it.

So we unfortunately during the Russia Gate investigation uncovered a lot of people with egos the size of

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