Adam Schiff Reads Redacted Files Live — Kash Patel Loses Control

[0:00] unless it's true that you fired people people have been terminated at the fbi who failed to uphold [0:06] the standards that the fbi requires did you tell did you tell anyone at the fbi two days and we [0:12] released the entirety of that cabinet members i do not have that transcript in front of me [0:17] you're picking it piecemeal the american public can read the entirety of that on their own [0:23] without any consultation with blanche or anyone else that they were going to suddenly after this [0:29] interview completely unrelated to this interview completely unrelated to anything she said move [0:36] her to a prison not suitable you want the american people to believe that do you think they're stupid [0:43] no i think the american people believe the truth that i'm not in the weeds on the everyday movements [0:49] what i am doing is protecting this country providing historic reform and combating the weaponization of [0:56] intelligence by the likes of you and we have countlessly proven you to be a liar in russiagate [1:02] in january 6. you are the biggest fraud to ever sit in the united states senate you are a disgrace to [1:09] this institution and an utter coward i'm not surprised i'm not surprised that you continue to lie from your [1:17] perch and put on a show so you can go raise money for your charade you are a political buffoon at best [1:25] the fbi director of the united states lost control in a senate hearing room he called a sitting senator [1:32] the biggest fraud to ever hold that seat a disgrace an utter coward a political buffoon the chairman [1:38] banged his gavel and ordered both men to be quiet that moment went everywhere clips of it flooded the [1:43] internet within hours everyone saw the outburst everyone had a take on it but here is the question [1:48] nobody stopped to ask why that moment why that question cash patel sat in that room for hours he [1:54] fielded dozens of questions from multiple senators he deflected he redirected he gave non-answers wrapped [2:01] in talking points he did not explode not once until adam schiff asked something specific something about [2:07] a prison transfer something about a two-day interview something about cabinet members whose names were [2:12] never given and that is when it broke the outburst was not random it had a trigger and finding that [2:18] trigger means going back through everything that happened in the 40 minutes before grassley banged his gavel [2:24] before we get into it a quick note we covered this hearing before but new details have surfaced [2:29] and this story is back in the conversation for a reason there were things that deserved a closer [2:34] look then that we are picking up now if you are new here stick around adam schiff is a democratic [2:41] senator from california before the senate he spent years as a federal prosecutor and chaired the house [2:46] intelligence committee he led the first trump impeachment he and patel have history going back [2:52] years to when they sat on opposite sides of that same committee during the russia investigation [2:57] schiff was the democratic chairman patel was the republican staffer who wrote the memo attacking the [3:02] fbi's surveillance applications these two men are not strangers they have been circling each other for [3:07] years and when patel became fbi director schiff made clear he was going to hold him to every promise [3:13] he had made under oath that morning schiff walked in with four things patel's own confirmation promises [3:19] a federal lawsuit filed by three of patel's former colleagues the epstein files and the transfer of [3:25] ghislaine maxwell to a minimum security prison camp that did not meet bureau of prisons policy [3:30] requirements for her conviction he did not come to make speeches he came to ask questions that [3:35] required answers specific questions questions that had been building for months and he worked through [3:41] them in order one by one tightening the frame with each exchange until the last one landed and the last [3:46] one broke the room schiff opened with the confirmation promises you told senator coons there would be no [3:52] politicization no retributive actions you told senator blumenthal every fbi employee would be protected [3:58] against political retribution no one would be terminated for case assignments patel confirmed each [4:03] one then came the question did you ever terminate or discipline any fbi employee in whole or in part [4:10] as retribution for working on an investigation of donald trump or january 6th patel said no [4:16] shift pressed are you testifying today that you played no role in the firing of even a single fbi [4:22] agent for political retribution none for political retribution patel said and if any agent said you did [4:28] they would be lying patel said anyone can make their allegations not a denial a redirect then shift [4:35] stripped it to the core are you testifying that you never terminated anyone at the fbi in whole or in [4:41] part because of a prior case assignment and that is where the word appeared no one at the fbi is [4:47] terminated for case assignments alone alone shift caught it immediately you said alone does that mean [4:55] they were terminated in part because they were assigned to a january 6th case or the mar-a-lago case [5:01] you're being very precise mr patel that word means something patel said absolutely not but shift removed the [5:10] word and asked again did you terminate anyone in whole or in part because of their work on an [5:15] investigation of donald trump or january 6th yes or no patel would not answer he said schiff was [5:21] setting up a trap and he was not going to give it to him look a trap only works if the honest answer [5:27] causes a problem if the answer is simply no you say no it takes two seconds patel did not say no he [5:34] said it was a trap and the way that exchange played out it raised a question that did not go away [5:40] if the answer were simply no saying no would have ended it that did not happen schiff brought the [5:45] federal complaint directly into the exchange three senior fbi officials including former acting [5:50] director brian driscoll had filed a lawsuit that complaint alleged patel told driscoll his superiors [5:57] directed him to fire anyone identified as having worked on criminal investigations against president [6:02] trump it alleged patel said the fbi tried to put the president in jail and he has not forgotten it and it [6:09] alleged patel acknowledged the firings were likely improper but felt he had no choice these are not [6:14] anonymous claims these are specific allegations in a federal court filing signed by named senior fbi [6:20] officials who worked directly alongside patel schiff asked point blank did you ever tell anyone at the [6:26] fbi that employees identified as having worked on cases against the president would be removed from [6:31] their jobs patel said he would never say that schiff followed so driscoll and the others are liars [6:37] is that your testimony patel said anyone can say whatever they want are you saying mr driscoll and [6:42] others are liars patel said he was not going to address the complaint in ongoing litigation not a [6:48] denial a deflection there is a meaningful difference between saying the allegations are false and saying [6:55] you cannot discuss them patel only ever said the second thing and schiff left that on the record and [7:01] moved on because the non-answer was already enough schiff reminded the committee that patel had [7:07] described himself as the most transparent fbi director in history then he decided to test that [7:12] claim directly in 2024 before his confirmation patel sat down with glenn beck for an interview [7:19] beck asked who had epstein's black book patel's answer was specific the black book is under the direct [7:25] control of the fbi director that is what he said on the record to a national audience now patel is the [7:31] director so schiff asked the obvious question do you have the book patel said what is known as the [7:38] black book has been released schiff moved to something patel had said to senator kennedy earlier [7:43] in the same hearing kennedy asked who if anyone epstein had wronged alongside others besides himself [7:49] patel said there was no credible information that anyone else was involved if there were i would bring [7:55] the case yesterday kennedy followed up the answer is no one patel said for the information we have [8:01] schiff put it plainly so your testimony today is that in all the epstein files epstein acted alone [8:08] is that your testimony patel said that is not what he was saying but the record showed exactly [8:14] what he had said to kennedy minutes earlier and here is the part that matters there are people who [8:19] have given sworn testimony otherwise in detail you are telling the american people today that the [8:24] epstein list has a single name on it and it is jeffrey epstein patel said that is what you are [8:30] saying not me but he would not say who else the director who promised to release everything who [8:36] told glenn beck he had the black book under his personal control could not give a direct answer [8:41] about what the files actually show that is the test patel set for himself and that is where the [8:46] test stood then schiff laid out the maxwell sequence deputy attorney general todd blanche had [8:52] traveled to florida and spent two days interviewing maxwell blanche is not a random doj official he was [8:58] trump's personal criminal defense lawyer before joining the administration that context matters [9:03] when you understand what came next during that interview maxwell said something specific she [9:08] said some of the people in epstein's circle people she described as currently serving in the cabinet [9:13] would not have been with epstein for innocent reasons they came for a reason and blanche's next [9:19] question in the transcript rather than asking who those cabinet members were moved on to other [9:24] details of maxwell's account schiff asked patel who are those cabinet members maxwell is referring to [9:30] patel said he did not have the transcript in front of him schiff was holding the transcript he had [9:35] just read from it out loud patel was sitting across from him then schiff asked the final question [9:41] right after maxwell gives this testimony she is transferred to a minimum security prison camp [9:47] bureau of prisons policy requires at least a low security facility for someone with her conviction [9:53] the policy on her security level is not a gray area and the timing is what schiff was pressing on [9:59] days after a two-day interview with the deputy attorney general maxwell is moved to a facility [10:04] that does not meet the bureau of prisons own requirements for her offense who made that decision [10:09] and why patel said the bureau of prisons made it independently schiff pushed back based on the [10:15] transcript of the exchange schiff's position was straightforward the bureau of prisons decided on [10:19] their own right after this interview completely unrelated to anything she said to move her to [10:24] a facility that does not meet their own policy requirements for her conviction you want the [10:28] american people to believe that do you think they are stupid patel said he's not in the weeds on the [10:34] everyday movements of inmates that explanation as presented in the hearing did not appear to directly [10:39] address the timing not a single word about why it happened in those specific days following that [10:44] specific interview and that is when it happened patel stopped answering he started attacking he said [10:50] schiff had been proven a liar in russiagate and january 6th he called him the biggest fraud to ever [10:56] sit in the united states senate a disgrace an utter coward a political buffoon he said prior [11:02] administrations did nothing meaningful on epstein and that trump had brought new charges he said he was [11:07] the most transparent fbi director in history he was still talking when grassley banged his gavel both of [11:13] you be quiet that is where it ended now go back to the question the outburst did not come when schiff [11:18] asked about the word alone it did not come when schiff asked about the driscoll lawsuit it did not [11:24] come when schiff pressed on the epstein files or the black book it came when schiff was holding the [11:29] maxwell transcript and reading from it out loud when the question was about which cabinet members maxwell [11:35] had named when the question involved whether specific individuals could be identified on the record in [11:40] a senate hearing think about that for a moment of all the questions schiff asked that day that was [11:46] the one that broke the room not the confirmation promises not the lawsuit the cabinet names that is [11:52] not an accusation that is the sequence of events as they happened and sequences tell you things that [11:58] individual moments do not schiff left that room without answers to most of what he asked the cabinet [12:04] members maxwell mentioned were never named the basis for the firings was never confirmed or clearly [12:09] denied the maxwell transfer was attributed to the bureau of prisons with no explanation for the [12:14] timing the word alone is still in the transcript exactly where patel left it the lawsuit filed by [12:19] driscoll and the others is still proceeding those agents will be deposed patel will face these [12:24] questions again in a setting where a gavel cannot end the exchange and the deposition will have this [12:29] transcript after the hearing schiff said patel came not to do his job but to save his job that is [12:35] his characterization what the transcript shows is a director who slipped on one word refused to [12:41] explain it declined to address a federal lawsuit filed by his own former colleagues could not name [12:46] the cabinet members maxwell referenced and then exploded when the maxwell transcript was being read [12:51] out loud look that is not spin that is what the record shows and the record matters because the [12:57] outburst did not come at a random moment it came at a very specific one the question that triggered it [13:03] is still unanswered the cabinet names are still unspoken and the hearing record is now part of [13:08] the evidentiary foundation that driscoll's legal team will be building on do you think the outburst [13:13] was the reaction of a director who had been unfairly cornered or do you think it tells us something [13:18] about the answer he was not willing to give let us know what you think in the comments