Tonight on the readout.

We are living in unparalleled times of corruption in both our media and government.

It is our job to expose the truth no matter what the cost.

My name is Cash Patel, and I have written the first ever Children's Russiagate book.

It's called The Plot Against the King.

It is a fantastical telling by me,

the Russia Gate chief investigator under then-Chairman Nunes, of how we triumph to put truth over evil.

Cash Patel, who sees Trump as the king, is said King's pick for FBI director.

And there are shocking new revelations about his pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth,

including from his own mom.

Neither man is qualified for those powerful jobs, but they do share blind loyalty to Trump,

which is the only prerequisite.

Also tonight, the Hunter Biden pardon raises the question,

why hasn't President Biden pardoned far more people

to cure some of the many injustices in the system?

And we begin tonight with what might be the worst pick

in the worst cabinet in U.S. history.

Continuing his breakneck pace of unqualified yet theatrical cabinet nominations,

Donald Trump rolled out perhaps his most bonkers won this weekend.

Cash Patel, the conspiracy theorist who even William Barr, the cover-up general,

thought was too unhinged to name to a deputy job in the AG's office.

The middling lawyer, who, after graduating with a law degree from Pace University, was denied jobs at a series of law firms and wound up as a public defender in Miami instead, good, honorable work.

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