Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H1 - FBI Director Kash Patel

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and you go through the confirmation process with that new individual. I do wonder, Buck, whether now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, will there be a calmer Supreme Court justice process? I know Democrats are going to score their political points and they're going to lose their minds, but will it be calmer than it has been in past years because... We were all told if Roe v. Wade ever gets overturned, the seas will be boiling, right? Like, things will fall apart. And it's actually not happened at all. It's really not even a top 10 political issue in the country anymore for what determines, certainly national elections, because it's now up to the states, which is what it should have been, it really should have been all along. But nonetheless, Clay, and that was always the Scalia position on this. It's funny, you ask that question, and I'm like, yes, of course, in a rational actor environment, the Supreme Court temperature should be turned down post row. But no, I don't think so. They'll find some way to make this. You know, the other big issue that comes to mind is the birthright citizenship, and that's something Democrats are clearly deranged about. But I think trans rights is another thing that gets them about as. Not quite as animated as abortion, but the far-left fringe wants a Supreme Court that will create a special carve-out for trans rights. There's no question about that. And so they will fight tooth and nail on it for that, I think. So the answers, I think they will not be able to get the same mobilization, but there will be plenty of crazies who treat the Supreme Court like it's the end of the world if they don't get some communist maniac in robes. Yeah, and look, I also would point out, I mean, we're dealing with this with Eric Swalwell, which is brought back the echo of Brett Kavanaugh. They're going to, any guy that they find. We're kind of in this era now where it feels to me, Buck, unless you are, well, it doesn't even matter. I was going to say, unless you have only slept with one person in your entire life and only kissed one woman in your entire life, that you're almost going to get attacked and somebody's going to say, oh, so and so if you're a guy and you're getting, you're up for a big job. So and so is a sexual abuse or a rapist. He dated women who were too young. And I was thinking, well, maybe if you only married one woman, you were a virgin. They'll just make it up anyway, right? Like, we're kind of in the world. That was Brett Kavanaugh. Brett Kavanaugh hadn't led some playboy lifestyle at all. Yes. He was a Boy Scout. It was a Boy Scout of the first order. And I mean that, you know, in a good way as a Boy Scout. And yet they still tried to, they completely fabricated things about him. But Clay, who is your... I mean, we could do this right now. Now, look, we're getting a little ahead of this. There's still some rumors coming out. Obviously, Trump is being asked about it, so it is now in the news cycle. But I have heard from people who have heard from people who have heard from people that there is going to be a vacancy soon. And everyone is, I think, pretty confident it would be Samuel Alito. But who knows? Could be Thomas. If that happens, who is our pick?

Who is the move for Supreme Court? Look, there's a lot of judges that might be phenomenal that I don't have at my fingertips right now. I'd have to see what the Federalist Society puts forward. If you're asking me off the top of my head, though, Mike Lee would be really good. Mike Lee would be great. I'll give you one that I don't know if it's going to get any attention, but I think it would be a home run, Ron DeSantis. I don't know that 100% he would do it. I don't know. I don't know that Ron wants it. I think that's, I think Ron wants to run stuff. I don't think he wants to be a judge personally. That's just my sense. I think he might like being a judge. Really? And I say this in a favorable way for him. He is a law nerd. And I'll tell you a story. I don't know if I've told this story on the air before. But a few years ago, there was a Sunshine Summit that was put on by Florida. I spoke at the event. And I was sitting. at the table with James Uthmeier, who is now the very accomplished Attorney General of the state of Florida doing a really good job. He was the chief of staff for Ron DeSantis at the time. Marco Rubio is there, Byron Donalds's, a lot of the guys that are friends of ours and have been on the program a lot over the years. And I sat down, I said, where is Ron DeSantis? And Utmeyer told me he's in a back room reading all of the latest court opinions coming down in the state of Florida from cover to cover so that he is completely prepared for them. So everybody else is, this is 100% true. Everybody else is walking around. Hold on to your blouses, ladies. Yes. Everybody else is walking around like kissing babies, posing for photos. And Ron DeSantis, who was the keynote, as the governor of Florida, as you would anticipate, is in the back reading opinions. Again, I do think Ron DeSantis would make a very good senator. He's obviously been an excellent governor. He would make a great cabinet member. A part of me thinks that he might be open to the idea of being a Supreme Court justice. And so if you asked me someone who is in the political realm, who would be a great Supreme Court justice. You mentioned Mike Lee. I don't disagree with that. I think he likes being in the Senate. But I do think Ron DeSantis, remember, his term is up in November, so the timing of it could be pretty perfect, right? So you've got his term as governor coming to an end. And again, I'm not sure that Trump is going to go to a political figure. It's somewhat... of a rarity. And there will be a lot of, as you just mentioned, Buck, Federalist Society recommendations, guys and gals who have been former Samuel Alito clerks, that he would be very excited, I think, to have succeed him. But if you wanted me to go with a political name, I think Ron DeSantis would be an outstanding, outstanding Supreme Court justice. Remember, he's also only 46 or 47, so you would get him for 30 years.

I think he would be phenomenal, quite honestly. He's certainly, because this is where IQ, you know, is Ron the funniest guy? No, okay. And also our sense of comedians and comedy and politics now because of Trump is forever. The bar has been set very high on what makes a politician funny. No one since Reagan has had anything approaching Trump's timing and comedic ability. I'm just saying in terms of the charisma factor. You don't care about a Supreme Court justice having super high charisma. You want super high intellect, understanding, and honestly wisdom. And Ron hits all of those notes very well. I just think that he still thinks maybe one day he's going to run for the big job, which I don't think you can do if you're... Supreme Court. No, no, no, it's true. I would say this. It also would be an easy vetting. Like, whatever you think about Ron DeSantis, when you run for president, they go through your past with a fine-tooth comb. Like, what are you going to say about him? I mean, he's already, I just think it would be, he would be outstanding at it. You know, you'd have him for 30 years. He's run for president. He may be looking at it and saying, look, JD Vance is the guy in 28. It's going to be hard to be J.D. Marco Rubio is out there. He may look at that. Look, he's still relatively young, 46 or 47. I mean, we elect presidents over 70, so 25 years from now. I mean, he's still got a long career. But I think he's a legal nerd, and I think he would be a phenomenal pick for the next 30 years to serve on the Supreme Court. And look, the Supreme Court justice is the ultimate legacy that every president gets. But the president gets eight years. Again, I'm just saying. Ron DeSantis, somebody of his age could be on the Supreme Court for 30 or even. Remember, John Paul Stevens stayed, sorry, Souter, I think, stayed on until he was 90, right? So, I mean, he could be on for 45 years. So, again, if he's healthy, it's an appointment that is, I think, the most important thing in many ways that presidents do. We were just talking about how in a post-Roe world, the Supreme Court feels different. Democrats were saying forever that the world would end, didn't end, but unfortunately abortion didn't end either. It's still happening all across the country in states with very liberal abortion law. So babies are losing their lives at very similar levels to what was happening before Roe v. Wade was overturned. This is why I think it's so important to do what you can. to act on your pro-life principles and save tiny babies in the womb right now. Not next year, not the next Supreme Court term, whatever it may be. Save babies now. Pre-born clinics allow you to do that because if you support these pre-born clinics, you are helping moms who come into the clinics and just need compassion and truth. And what happens is they have this ultrasound process and the baby is shown to mom via ultrasound. And then there's a discussion about all the support that these pre-born clinics are going to give that mom for the tiny life growing inside her womb. Over 80% of the time, when pre-born has a mom see the baby on ultrasound, the choice is for life. And so many of these mothers, I've met them. So many of these mothers have been pushed to abortion elsewhere, told that's their only choice. Step in and save babies today. Preborn is attempting to welcome more than 10,000 women.

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Let's just talk about this violent crime crackdown nationwide, but give us some of the highlights of where this has had a particular work. And then, Director, I want to ask you about what does it mean for the federal and the local department? Like, I want you to take us into the mechanics of how this has worked a bit so we can understand it. But first, if you would, just where are we seeing huge results from federal law enforcement, FBI leading the charge, working to bring down violent crime rates? Here's the great news for America. Everywhere. Literally everywhere. Thanks to President Trump's resourcing and backing the blue in law enforcement and giving the American people the security blanket that they so well deserve, we have launched out on what you just announced, President Trump's task forces in Washington, D.C., and places like Memphis, where the violent crime rates have been dropping by 50 and 60 percentage points across the board. Memphis was a per capita homicide capital of America. We chopped that down by 40% thanks to President Trump's leadership and establishment of the task force. But you hit it right on its head. It's not just the FBI. The FBI is the lead law enforcement agency, but we're working with our state and local partners in every single jurisdiction that we have because President Trump has stressed interagency cooperation at the state and federal level. And when you let good cops be cops, when you remove the bureaucracy. And when you know that your law enforcement personnel in the field, and when they know that they have the support of their leadership structure and their government and their president, they're going to go out there and do the work. And that's why the homicide rate dropped 20 points across the entire country. That's why we have 20% less opiate overdose deaths in America in one year alone. Those two would be monumental achievements, but President Trump and this FBI have done so much more. Washington, D.C. is a great example. You just mentioned it. I just looked at the current data. The murder rates down 50% off last year, and last year was one of the lowest murder rates on record. I would imagine with America 250, that's a focus. If cities like Chicago actually got behind what we're seeing in Memphis and we're seeing in D.C., What do you think the crime, the murder rate, let's just focus on murder. How much murder, how many lives could be saved if you had real support from blue cities like we've seen in D.C. and Memphis. What kind of life-saving opportunity would be out there? Hundreds. And you know this as well as anybody. You cover it. Tragically, you see these gang shootings. And that's where the FBI's focus has been on, those localized street gangs. Yes, we're looking at the national security threats, the large foreign terrorist organizations, the narco traffickers, the MS-13s of the world. But a lot of these offshoots and these localized street gangs, we've done in places like Philadelphia, where we literally eliminated an entire street gang in Weimuth. And we would do the same thing in Chicago if they let us in. But you highlighted it. President Trump has offered to go in, and they have an elected leadership there that is in favor of politics over protecting its people. I mean, Clay and Buck, you guys know this better than anyone. You see kids five years of age, seven years of age, get caught up in gang shootings and murdered. And you would think that the people of those towns want their city secure. And I think the people do.

It's just their elected leadership is prioritizing politics over public safety. And to me, that's just a tragedy. We could save hundreds of lives in places like Chicago. Well, we totally agree, Director Kash Patel. It's remarkable and also, unfortunately, really frustrating to see how clear the results are. And yet the unwillingness to admit that this Trump initiative, which you are part of the tip of the spear on and the FBI and the men and women of the FBI, They won't admit that this is working and saving lives. They'd rather things continue to be a problem in some of these cities because you're not getting that same level of cooperation. I want to ask you about the fraud stuff come up in a second, so we definitely need to get to that. But first up, though... Can you just talk us through a little bit? What does it mean in Memphis now? What is different on the ground in terms of how law enforcement is working together? We invited the mayor of Memphis on, and he still has an open invite to come talk to us about this and just to congratulate him on how well things are going in the city with this federal partnership. But what does it mean? Do you have FBI guys who are riding along with state troopers? Are they just coordinating back at headquarters? How does it look? It's a variety of things, but you have to attack the gang network, as I was mentioning earlier, and that's what we did in Memphis. But you also have to get state and local prosecutors willing to bring those tough street crimes in state and local court. And we were able to do that in Memphis. What you also have to do is expand your federal prosecutions. And thanks to the DOJ presence there, the FBI is leading the prosecutions of violent gang offenders, murderers, rapists, and drug dealers, and putting them in federal court every single chance we get. So you have to have a jurisdiction. that's willing to let us in and not take over, but also have a jurisdiction that is a police force and a prosecution force willing to take that on. And that's what was... congregated in Memphis thanks to President Trump's leadership, you saw the direct result of how we reduced. People said, you can't save Memphis. The per capita rate for homicides is the highest in the country, and it's been like that for years. There's no way you can do that. We did it in six months. It shows you we could do it there. We could do it in Chicago. But more importantly, for the folks around America that are listening to this, we're doing it in every single country. I mean, when you seize enough fentanyl to kill 178 million Americans, a 31% increase, that's just the FBI seizures under President Trump's leadership. Think about how many lives we saved in towns across America. How many overdoses we presented for tragedies like kids in high schools that we used to see around the country are diminishing greatly. Less seriously here. USA hockey. That was so awesome. And I can only imagine how cool it was to be there representing the United States government and be able to celebrate with those guys. Were you even, I know we know that there are a lot of truly insane broken brain Democrats. Were even though you surprised by how much they came after you for celebrating a gold medal win? By the way, something that.

Jimmy Carter did, something that Walter Mondell did back when we beat when we won the gold medal the last time. I mean, that, me, kind of characterized how much they've lost their mind. I think, yeah, I guess it doesn't surprise me. What was important was we were there for the Milan Olympics. The FBI was leading the security for 250,000 Americans that went to Milan for the Winter Olympics. The FBI is responsible for the upcoming World Cup, where we have, what, 64 matches across the country and ultimately the 2020 Olympics. So we learned through every evolution, and thankfully, due to the FBI and President Trump and DHS, we haven't had any significant security. incidents at F1, at the Super Bowl, at the Club World Cup, and that's what we're doing. And I was fortunate enough to be there with the men's hockey team and my friends on the team and celebrating something that hadn't been done in, what, 50, my match terrible, 50-some years. So I was glad to be celebrating for America at a historic time, and I was glad that we were able to provide the security necessary to make sure our athletes and our American citizens that attended the Olympics. could go there safely and return safely. And that's our focus. And that's always going to be our focus. I'll always ignore the noise. We're speaking to FBI director, Kash Patel. And just for the record, Mr. Director, I too love patriotism, freedom, and Americans kicking ass at sports. But now I'm going to take us in another, you know, wampwom. I'm taking us in another direction here for a second if I could because we have a lot of people writing in and they're asking us this question. And we keep saying, well, this is. You know, we got to see how the investigations go. There's a process. But there is a really, and I'm sure it's high up on your radar, a sense that there is systematic and just massive fraud going on, defrauding the federal government, whether it's Medicare, Medicaid, all kinds of different payments under those systems, just lots of things in the fraud category at enormous scale, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars. Does the FBI, first of all, is that a priority right now? Do you have the resources to be able to deal with this and are full investigations underway of places like what happened in Minneapolis and people talking about that? Now California is up on people's radar. Even Gavin Newsom started to say, yeah, there's a lot of fraud. Talk to us about that. Yeah, fraud has always been a priority. These complex investigations are what the FBI does best. And thanks to the vice president, as leadership and DOJ on the task force, we're able to get after it with even more resources we've ever had. But we've been on it since we've gotten in the seat. Last summer alone, I was in Minneapolis before everything went down. And we took down a $250 million fraud for a program called Feeding Our Futures, where people defrauded a program in the state of Minneapolis that was used to feed poor children. We did that last summer. We connected it to the statewide fraud investigations that we have going there. And in places like California, we just had a massive takedown just last week with our U.S. Attorney's Office there, I think, on a $55 million fraud program. And so we're not stopping, but mapping out these networks under our NSPM 7 initiative, we're taking entire data sets from around the country and the world and says, who's funding these things? Then more importantly, who is taking the taxpayer dollar?

and enriching themselves unlawfully, and everyone that is doing that is a target and is going to continue to be a target under the Vice President's Task Force. So you are looking into this. There's a task force and people because right now, Mr. Director, there's a sense that people are just getting away with this all over the place, that there's so much fraud that it's like impossible to track it all down. Sounds like you're saying, no, the Bureau was on it. The resources are there because if we're a country where people can steal millions, billions, whatever it is when you count this up. There's a sense it's tax day today. And it's, you know, a lot of people say, okay, so I have to pay my federal income tax. I have to do this the right way. But a lot of people can get away with just cheating the system to the tune of huge sums of money. So that is not going to be allowed on President Trump's watch. It hasn't been allowed. And I'll tell you what happened. And you know this. When you let rampant fraud in the prior administration explode. We are the ones left cleaning it up, and we are doing that, just like we did with the violent crime initiatives across the country that dropped the murder rate and so many other ways in which we're protecting violent crimes, our violent crimes against children are up. We're doing the same thing on the fraud front. We're cleaning up the past failures of the prior administration, and we're not going to stop until we have every fraud investigation complete. I have hundreds of fraud investigations, large-scale fraud investigations, open around the country that we've been working for 14 straight months, and people are... I'm glad are paying attention to our publicized wins, and we got a lot more coming. Cash, I'm going to go back completely unsurious because you probably get asked all sorts of serious questions, but Buck and I were just talking off air. Pete Hegseth, you probably saw this, posted a video of him bench pressing 315 pounds. That is a ridiculous amount to be able to bench press. But I know that you are a pretty serious workout guy, too. What's your bench and has it gone up since you became FBI director? I'll just say I think Pete's got me on that one. But I did his push-up and pull-up challenge. You know, I think it's great. It's also inspiring to our workforces to prioritize fitness because, look, we are the premier law enforcement agency in the world. And I'm not asking you to be a Navy SEAL, but if I'm asking to take down bad guys in the streets and chase them down, then you've got to be able to do a couple of push-ups and pull-ups. And so our standards are going to meet the requirements of the dynamic threat landscape. And leaders like Pete and myself who are willing to go out there and maintain our fitness levels to what we can. We're just asking our workforce to do the same. And I think it's inspiring. And if folks out there want to make fun of us, what would you rather have, Pete, myself, and the other leaders doing what we're doing or 350-pound overweight people leaving the Department of War in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It's an example. We set leadership out front, and we're going to continue to do it. Will you be at the UFC fight, by the way? Are you looking forward to that? You know, I'm a big MMA guy, and, you know, Dana's a dear friend. And as you know, the FBI for the first time did its historic partnership with the UFC at Quantico. We had 10 world champions come in and train 350 agents for a weekend. So it's a big part of what we're doing here to provide the resources and training for our agents. And so I'm looking forward to that fight at the White House.

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