The things to look at here as well is that Cash Patel does have these relationships with a lot of these whistleblowers, as they describe themselves, these conservatives who have a lot of complaints about the FBI. Now they call themselves the suspendables. And I've been talking with a lot of folks about what their views on Cash Patel is. And he has pretty close relationships with them.

In fact, he actually supported a number of them financially through his group, the Cash Foundation,

when a lot of them were sort of pushed out of the Bureau. And a couple of them, the Inspector General

discovered that, in fact, the Justice Department had sort of been using the suspension of their clearances process as a way to sort of push them out of the Bureau.

So there was some legitimacy to some of the claims that they were making about the way that the internal process had been used.

But what you essentially have now is a lot of people who want, a lot of people in Cash Patel Circle who really do want to see a lot of, a huge change to the Bureau, a huge

change to the FBI.

And that is really, as David was highlighting there, is really worrying a lot of folks within

the Bureau and what the future is going to hold for them, Chris.

Andrew Westman, let's go back to today and the decision.

What's broken is that nobody has confidence that a full field background check will happen by the FBI,

which means a full investigation, and no one has any confidence that the Senate Republicans

will digest that information if he's viewed as a threat or unfit, act on it.

That's what's broken, and that's where we don't spend quite enough time pressing and

exposing the failures.

You bring palpitations to my heart, because that's exactly where I wanted to go with

all of this, because when you take it in the fullest context of what Director Ray said today in his

stepping down, and I solidly applaud the idea and his continual emphasis and use of the rule

of law and principle and standing in the principle.

Those are words. The problem we have had that nobody in Washington actually wants to do what the

words require you to do. Stand on principle. That means standing firm in the face of the onslaught from maga and trump that means

flipping them the bird for once and telling them to kiss your ass that's that means come at me baby

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