Who Is Kash Patel, Trump's Pick To Run The FBI?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:18.7 | Hello, this is David from Chicago. |
| 0:22.5 | I feel like in the timestamps that everyone's always doing impressive stuff like running a marathon |
| 0:24.7 | or getting their law degree. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm just hanging out in my apartment, doing nothing, |
| 0:29.2 | having a beer. |
| 0:30.5 | This podcast was recorded at. |
| 0:32.0 | 122 p.m. on Wednesday, December 11th. |
| 0:34.9 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
| 0:37.0 | but I'll still probably just be hanging out doing nothing. All right, enjoy 11th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still probably just be hanging out |
| 0:38.7 | doing nothing. All right, enjoy the show. |
| 0:44.5 | Hanging out doing nothing is one of my favorite things. |
| 0:46.6 | Sounds amazing. We don't get to do enough of that. I'm very impressed with David from Chicago. |
| 0:51.1 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. |
| 0:54.5 | I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department. And I'm Frank O'Donius. I cover the White House. |
| 0:58.4 | And today we're looking at Cash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the FBI. |
| 1:03.4 | If confirmed by the Senate for the job, Patel could have an outsized role in reshaping the nation's top law enforcement agency. Ryan, I think in our respective households, |
| 1:13.5 | Cash Patel is a household name, but I think for most of our listeners, he's been a man behind |
| 1:17.7 | the scenes and not someone people know a lot about. So tell us about him. Who is Cash Patel? |
| 1:21.2 | So he's a son of Indian immigrants who grew up in New York. He worked as a public defender in |
| 1:27.2 | Miami for many years, ended up working as a public defender in Miami for many |
| 1:28.6 | years and ended up working as a prosecutor in the National Security Division here at Maine |
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