John Kennedy FLIPS OUT After Witness Shuts Down His 'Gotcha' Moment

[0:00] Mr. Beer, you seem to be a very smart guy, and you seem to be a nice enough guy. [0:09] Thank you, Senator. You seem smart as well, Jack. [0:14] Don't, don't. [0:17] That was the chairman, not me. [0:19] Don't you think your hyperbolic statements undermine your credibility? [0:27] What hyperbolic statement did I make? [0:29] On February the 11th, 2026, you posted on Blueski, quote, my words, or your words, not mine. [0:48] The Democrats' video telling service members to ignore illegal orders didn't go far enough. [0:57] They should have also urged them to refuse unethical orders, whether illegal or not. [1:03] There are many things deemed legal that are still obviously unethical, and everyone should hold themselves to this higher law, end quote. [1:15] Did I read that correctly? [1:17] I believe you did. Do you disagree with it? [1:19] You think people should do unethical things in their capacity? [1:23] On December the 31st of 2025, you posted to, in front of, in front of, in front of, let me finish my question. [1:34] I'm sorry. [1:35] Sir, in front of God and country, you said, quote, they, referring to Republicans, think they can troll their way into us accepting ethnic cleansing, end quote. [1:52] Your, your words, not mine. [1:53] Did I read that correctly? [1:55] That was in regard to a Department of Homeland Security post about advocating 100 million deportations. [2:01] That is what DHS has tweeted from their own account. [2:05] 100 million deportations would be ethnic cleansing. [2:09] You would be removing one third of the country. [2:13] So, yes, there are people within the Department of Homeland Security. [2:17] And you don't think this is hyperbolic? [2:18] Give me 30 more seconds. [2:20] I think advocating 100 million deportations is ethnic cleansing. [2:25] On February 5th, you, you, you quoted the, you said the following on Blue Ski. [2:31] Your, your time's up. [2:32] These are all good, but there's no enforcement mechanism. [2:37] I'm sorry. [2:37] Let me try a better one. [2:39] On March 2nd, you said, quote, if you rule against Trump's population purge agenda, no hyperbolic there. [2:49] The nativists will name you, threaten you, and come after you. [2:54] These judges are much braver than the ICE agents who hide behind masks while violating the Constitution. [3:02] They are much braver. [3:03] They put their names on their rulings and they stand behind their, their constitutional rulings. [3:08] When I talk about population purge, I'm talking about the fact that they're trying to deport U.S. born citizens, people born here. [3:14] They are trying to deport them as well. [3:17] So it's not a mass deportation agenda. [3:20] It is also an agenda intended to reduce the population of the United States, including U.S. born people. [3:27] So these are not hyperbolic statements. [3:29] I appreciate you reading my, my account. [3:31] I appreciate your research. [3:31] Here's the good news. [3:32] What planet did you just, wait a minute, Mr. Chairman, what planet did you just parachuting from? [3:38] No, no, no. [3:38] Hey, guys. [3:39] You, you, you, you trigger my gag reflex, Mr. Bayer. [3:43] So we got a process here and it's good to know you don't have an agenda, Senator King. [3:51] With respect is, I want to give my Senator, my colleague, Senator Schatz more time as he, he objected and left the chamber. [4:02] Would he, is he coming back? [4:11] What, just once, just once, I mean, is he, is he, is he, is he, is he ill? [4:16] What should I do, Mr. President? [4:24] Should I give him more time or? [4:28] Point, point, point, Mr. President, point, point of order. [4:30] Is it appropriate for someone not to be recognized to just say I object and run out? [4:34] Does, the Senator's not been recognized. [4:36] The Senator had the floor, the Senator from Louisiana, who's made a proposal. [4:40] And then I heard some noise in the background and that was it. [4:44] But I never heard a Senator being recognized. [4:46] So it sounds to me that no one has been recognized to object. [4:52] What, could we get a ruling, Mr. President? [4:55] And I don't want to be unfair to anybody. [4:58] My Democratic colleagues, I told them ahead of time. [5:01] An objection was raised and an objection was heard. [5:05] So should we give Senator Schatz more time to come back or should we give him more time to come back and explain? [5:21] Wait, I see the parliamentarian giving us some guidance. [5:29] Don't even trust me, I know what I'm doing. [5:31] The chair cannot answer that. [5:34] Okay. May I inquire why not, sir? [5:38] I'd opine on why a Senator is in the chamber or not in the chamber. [5:57] Can you opine on why my colleague objected and then immediately left and whether he's coming back? [6:06] Not an appropriate parliamentary inquiry. [6:09] Mr. President, my parliamentary inquiry is a bit different than that. [6:12] I never heard a Senator recognized from the chair by the President of the Senate. [6:20] The President of the Senate, you had the floor. [6:22] The Senator from Louisiana had the floor. [6:25] The presiding officer said, is there objection, at which time routinely someone seeks recognition on the floor? [6:36] And the objection was heard. [6:38] The Senator does not need the floor to object. [6:42] So I can, I just want to be sure, Mr. President, I'm not trying to put you on the spot, but I see our parliamentarians here and they can give you able advice. [6:54] Does that mean I can object to anything at any time without being recognized? [7:01] That's correct. [7:02] I don't even have to get the floor. [7:04] The Senator does not need the floor to object. [7:08] So I can walk in in the middle of a debate without the floor, right back here in front of God and country and say I object and it shuts things down? [7:23] I don't understand that. [7:26] If there is a unanimous consent request pending, any Senator in the chamber can object, including the chair. [7:37] Without having the floor? [7:39] That's correct. [7:40] And again, with respect, Mr. President, is your ruling that Senator Schatz, who is my friend, I talked to him before I was coming down, that he did not have the floor, but he can still object? [7:56] The objection was raised and the objection was heard. [8:00] But did he have the floor? [8:01] The objection was properly lodged. [8:04] The objection was heard. [8:05] Yes, sir. [8:06] Not to put too fine a point on it, but did he have the floor? [8:09] The senator did not need the floor. [8:13] He raised an objection and the objection was heard and sustained. [8:18] Do you believe in the tooth fairy? [8:22] I do not. [8:23] How about the Easter bunny? [8:27] I no longer believe in the Easter bunny. [8:29] Do you think Jimmy Hoffa died of natural causes? [8:32] I do not. [8:36] Now, you sought the phone records of a bunch of U.S. senators, right? [8:44] We sought the toll records, non-content records. [8:50] Any Democrats or just Republicans? [8:55] If President Trump had reached out to Democrats to further his- [8:59] Yeah, but I'm just trying to get the facts. [9:00] Were there any Democrats he sought their phone records? [9:03] Just Republicans, right? [9:04] The toll records that we sought were relevant to the investigation and they were Republicans. [9:11] I'm asking you. [9:12] You're stalking me again, Counselor. [9:14] You know that. [9:16] You sought just the records of the Republicans. [9:18] And you knew that violated the speech and debate laws, didn't you? [9:25] That is incorrect. [9:26] We sought to comply with- [9:28] Did you take con law? [9:31] I'm sorry, Senator. [9:32] Were you in the quad playing frisbee during con law at Harvard Law School? [9:40] I did take constitutional law, yes. [9:42] Well, then you had to know it violated the speech and debate laws. [9:45] In fact, when you went to Judge Boasberg, you didn't even tell him you were seeking the phone records of members of Congress, did you? [9:56] Because you knew he wouldn't agree. [9:59] He would say, hey, Counselor, anybody who knows a law book from a J.Crew catalog knows that this violates the Constitution. [10:08] But you didn't tell him, did you? [10:09] Uh, we sought nondisclosure orders from- [10:14] You didn't tell him, did you? [10:17] In seeking nondisclosure orders, we did not disclose- [10:19] You didn't tell him, but you're unbiased. [10:23] You-you-you have no personal feelings. [10:29] You make me want to throw up in my mouth. [10:32] Mr. Chairman. [10:34] Mr. Chairman. [10:36] His time's up. [10:37] I'd like to say a word. [10:39] This hearing is of constitutional and historic importance. [10:44] This witness should be allowed to answer the questions, complete a sentence. [10:48] We have given that courtesy to witnesses from both political parties, and it should be extended to Mr. Smith. [10:55] Okay, your time's up, Senator Kennedy. [10:56] Well, we-I'd also like-with respect, Dick, for the-for the chairman to instruct the witness. [11:04] He's not Bambi's baby brother, okay? [11:07] He's been around, everybody knows him, and he-he was famous or infamous even before he was hired to prosecute President Trump. [11:15] And I'd like you to instruct him not to-not-not to filibusters. [11:18] We have-and I'm really trying to understand, because I listened to the-to the exchange between you and-and Senator Durbin, and I-and I've read a few news accounts, and I'm confused. [11:36] The FBI has qualifications to-to be an FBI agent. [11:42] Is that correct? [11:43] Yes, we've increased those qualifications and standards. [11:46] Pull that mic closer to you. [11:47] We've increased the standards and qualifications. [11:49] Okay, but you have qualifications. [11:51] Yes, sir. [11:51] Now, you recently changed them. [11:55] Is that right? [11:56] Some of them. [11:57] Some of them. [11:58] Mm-hmm. [11:58] And why did you do that? [12:00] We changed the bureaucracy, because when you first applied to the FBI, this is a more important example I can give. [12:06] Any position, special agent, intel analyst, support staff, you had to wait 100 days because of bureaucratic waste before the FBI contacted you again. [12:14] And what that meant was people who wanted to be employed by the FBI were finding jobs with other law enforcement agencies because they couldn't afford to wait around anymore. [12:22] Okay. So you're going to do it quicker? [12:24] Yep. [12:24] Okay. [12:25] But what about the actual substantive qualifications that have been reported? [12:32] What changes did you make there? [12:35] We require you to do a pull-up if you want to be an FBI agent. [12:38] I understand. [12:39] But you know what I'm getting at. [12:41] Okay, I'm trying to understand this cash. [12:43] Before the FBI made these changes, there were certain things that disqualified you from being an FBI agent. [12:57] And you, not you, but the agency said, we're no longer going to allow these things, this behavior, to disqualify you. [13:08] What were the things you changed? [13:10] Simply that if you were a victim of some of these vicious crimes, and you wanted to serve this country, the FBI is now, for the first time ever, considering your application and not disqualifying you. [13:21] Victim of what? [13:22] Give me the example. [13:23] Prostitution, bestiality, crimes like that, traffickers. [13:27] So if you were, it's not if you frequented a prostitute, it's if you were a prostitute? [13:40] If you were, yes, the victim, forced into it. [13:42] Okay. [13:43] What about the bestiality? [13:53] Same thing, because the regs wrote it up in a fashion before I arrived that addressed prostitution, bestiality, and trafficking. [14:00] They were there before I got there. [14:02] Tell me what it said before. [14:04] It automatically disqualified any individual who participated on either side of it. [14:10] Obviously, we are never going to hire the criminal. [14:12] This side of what? [14:13] The bestiality? [14:14] Yes. [14:15] So you disqualified the animal? [14:16] Well, I don't think we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify. [14:22] I understand. [14:23] I'm trying to understand why you did this. [14:26] Have you—this is not directed at you, Mr. Director. [14:30] And I understand the game. [14:33] People try to make you look bad. [14:36] We do the same thing when the other party's in office. [14:40] And all of this stuff has really hurt the FBI. [14:44] It's really hurt the FBI. [14:49] So I'm trying to get to the bottom of this. [14:53] Why would you—why would you, in light of the context and what we're going through, [15:02] when we're having a tough time attracting agents, good quality agents we all can trust, [15:10] because so many people, fairly or unfairly, think that in order to be an FBI agent now, [15:18] your political point of view matters? [15:20] Why would you even get into bestiality? [15:23] We are not into bestiality, but a lot of these individuals— [15:28] I know you're not, but you changed— [15:30] But I'm trying to explain it. [15:32] Hang on. [15:32] You changed the qualifications and mentioned bestiality. [15:36] If Joe participated in bestiality, not as the animal, but as the human, [15:45] don't you think he ought to be qualified, disqualified? [15:48] If he voluntarily did it, sure, but if he was trafficked into it— [15:51] Okay, how do you involuntarily do it? [15:53] In a lot of these cases, when human traffickers, [15:57] who are some of the worst individuals on planet Earth, [15:59] they don't just traffic you for prostitution, [16:01] they traffic you for degrading acts of all kind, [16:04] and they force you into that type of conduct. [16:06] And some of these individuals would go on to be law enforcement officers [16:08] who qualified to be law enforcement officers and later applied to the FBI. [16:12] I mean, this didn't—these changes didn't start with you, did they? [16:17] Somebody came to you and recommended? [16:19] Yeah. [16:19] Yeah. [16:20] And when you saw bestiality— [16:22] I say this with respect, the person who recommended it, [16:30] why didn't you just say, what planet did you parachute in from? [16:35] Why do—why do I want to leave— [16:36] Well, that was my initial response. [16:37] Why do I want to leave with my chin and get into bestiality? [16:41] That was my initial response, Senator. [16:43] But they then explained to me and showed me cases in which people were forced into it [16:47] and had applied to the FBI, and so I thought they should be considered. [16:51] It's not an automatic disqualification. [16:53] That's all. [16:54] Okay. [16:55] All right. [16:55] I think I understand. [16:56] But you're not telling us today that if a human being had sex with an animal, [17:05] that they can still be an FBI agent? [17:09] No. [17:09] Are you? [17:10] No. [17:10] They can't be, can they? [17:12] They cannot. [17:12] In fact, they ought to be in jail, right? [17:15] They all are. [17:16] Yeah. [17:16] Well, okay. [17:17] Okay.