Kash Patel SNAPS at Reporter on Live TV
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Sam Stein and Will Sommer break down a chaotic day involving Kash Patel. First, Patel snaps at a reporter when pressed about his own lawsuit, turning a simple question into a total meltdown. They also dig into the Justice Department’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, explaining the allegations and why the case is already raising serious questions. Finally, they examine a troubling development: the FBI questioning a New York Times reporter after a story about Patel’s girlfriend.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, to me, Sam Stein. |
| 0:01.2 | Man, you're getting at the Bullwork here with Will Summer, author of the False |
| 0:03.7 | Alleg newsletter, which you should be subscribing to as well as subscribing to this YouTube feed. We're going to be talking about Cash Patel crashing out at a press conference, some good video there, as well as why is Will not being investigated by the FBI? He's a little bit disappointed. What good? minus prompt an investigation, but it is sort of a clout thing, and he's feeling a little bit like he's being mocked. But before we get into that, we have two events that we need to plug coming up. They're both in California live shows, which are an effing blast. If you haven't been to one yet, they are so fun. We got San Diego coming up on Wednesday, May 20th. We got Los Angeles |
| 0:39.1 | on Thursday, May 21st. You should absolutely get tickets if you are in and around the area. |
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| 0:49.1 | Bullwork.com. The bullwork.com slash events for tickets to those shows. See you there. I will be at both of them. All right. Well, yesterday it was a big day for the DOJ. They had this big announcement. There was going to be a press conference in the afternoon. Todd Blanche, I think Attorney General is going to be there. Cash Patel, going to make an appearance at the press conference. |
| 1:12.3 | And we're sort of like, well, what is this about? Because there's all these rumors flying that he might be on the outs. |
| 1:16.1 | And he's got a lot of drama. Always surround Cash. And there's this whole Atlantic article about whether he's drinking on the job and things like that. Turns out they were there to announce that they have indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for bank |
| 1:29.3 | and rye or fraud. We'll get to that in a second. But as they're doing this press conference, |
| 1:34.9 | it seems like all the reporters just want to get cash to talk about that Atlantic article about |
| 1:40.3 | him being unable to log into the computer system and fearing he was fired and maybe drinking |
| 1:45.5 | a little bit too much on the job and so and so forth. |
| 1:47.4 | And it produced insane exchanges that you don't normally see at a DOJ press conference. |
| 1:53.3 | Let's play one in featuring my old colleague Ryan Riley now at NBC pressing cash on those revelations. |
| 2:01.6 | No, no. |
| 2:02.1 | Did you communicate with anyone that you thought you were fired after you were unable to log in? |
| 2:06.8 | The problem with you and your report, don't come me off, you asked a question. |
| 2:10.3 | The problem with you and your baseless reporting is that is an absolute lie. |
| 2:14.7 | It was never said. |
| 2:16.4 | It never happened, |
| 2:18.1 | and I will serve in this administration |
| 2:20.2 | as long as the president and the Attorney General |
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