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You can listen to that wherever you get your podcast. And she's with us now. Miranda Devine,

how you doing? Hi, Mark. I'm doing really well. Happy belated Thanksgiving to you. Yes, I missed our

Thanksgiving dinner, but I assume, let me guess. You had turkey? Yes, thank you. It was fabulous.

Look at that. I'm like an ESP. So, hey, your column today, quite a column about Cash Patel. I mean, he's a nice guy.

I like him, but he's obviously not Jack Welch when it comes to running a organization, is he?

Well, look, this is kind of that unfortunate medicine that sometimes has to be doled out to friends.

And this is from friends, really,

people who wanted Cash Patel to succeed.

These are seasoned FBI people, insiders, people serving,

and also retired high-level operational people who, you know, I've talked to previously,

they've done reports on the FBI and how it's going and it's been very unflattering

under Christopher Ray.

But they've just done one on the first six months of Cash Patel's directorship and it's

also unfuttering. And,orship, and it's also unflattering.

And, you know, there are various criticisms saying that it's rudderless and that it's just,

you know, Cash Patel is in over his head and ought to listen, I think, to these critics who are on his side.

I think he and Dan Bongino, his deputy, are very thin-skinned.

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