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Cash Patel seems poised to become FBI director, but there is a major effort by the left to try and stop him and thwart him.

Who is Cash Patel?

Let's talk to somebody who worked with him closely

in the first Trump administration. Robert O'Brien, former national security advisor, Donald Trump,

joins us. Robert, great to see you again. Thank you for the time. Robert, who is Cash Patel

and is Cash qualified to be FBI director? Well, it's great to you with you, Charlie. Thank you.

And thanks for all the work you did. I haven't stopped smiling since the election, and you were a big part of that. Saw you at all the rallies. And you just, your whole team just turned out millions of voters for the president. So thank you. And that led to Cash Patel being nominated as FBI director. And so, you know, I want to say there's a character of Cash Patel that the left has tried

to portray, which this isn't true.

And I can tell you, Cash worked for me as my senior director for counterterrorism at the

National Security Council for two years.

Did a great job.

Brought hostages home, helped us get out Baghdaddy, the mastermind of ISIS who killed Kayla Mueller and so many other Americans and James Schofoli and others.

He's a highly qualified, I don't want to say young man now, we're all getting older, but he's one of the most qualified people ever to be nominated as FBI director.

There's this myth out there that he's unqualified.

Cash Patel is a public defender.

He was on the criminal defense side of it.

You'd think Democrats would like that, that the president has nominated someone

who's got actual criminal defense experience.

He was a prosecutor.

He was at the NSC.

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