Kash Patel’s nomination
Tangle
Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday, President-elect Trump announced the nomination of Kashyap "Kash" Patel as the new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Patel is a former federal prosecutor who served in the White House during Trump’s first term and is viewed as a strong ally of the president-elect. For Patel to take over the position, current FBI director Christopher Wray (who Trump also nominated) will either need to resign or be fired, as Wray is serving a 10-year appointment that began in 2017. Wray has not indicated whether he intends to resign.
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| 1:32.3 | episode, we are going to be talking about Cash Patel, the nominee to be the director of the FBI. |
| 1:39.5 | Pretty interesting story here, both because it's unusual for a president to replace the FBI director, |
| 1:47.1 | and because Cash Patel is not your typical potential FBI director. We're going to talk about |
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