Trump's pick for FBI Director, Kash Patel, recently sat down for his Senate confirmation hearing. And like many of Trump's picks, he faced a hostile room. But Glenn reviews some of the highlights, including how Kash said that "having been the victim of government overreach and a weaponized system of justice and law enforcement" makes him uniquely qualified for the job. Glenn and Stu also address Kash's comments on Trump's January 6th pardons and Sen. Adam Schiff's painful lecture about the word "we." Plus, Glenn reveals the "point I coldn't get past with any" of the Democrats from the hearing: "I can't take it! The Democrats don't understand what just happened!"
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GLENN: I only have really one thing to say today.
And that's because I threw out everything else, because it took me about two hours, to just gather my thoughts and jot them down.
Because I wanted to be searingly accurate.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: So the rest of the show, we're just going to kind of wing. Because I wanted to make sure, when I give you my opinion on what's happening, it's actually very clear. What I believe.
So that's coming up in just a little while. The rest of this show. We have today -- yesterday, last night, for Blaze TV subscribers, one of my favorite podcasts, because this is something I've been interested in as a kid.
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So let's start with some -- hmm. Beautiful people in the Senate, shall we?
Let's start with Kash Patel first. Here's Kash Patel, testifying in front of Congress yesterday. Cut one.
VOICE: Senator, it may be one of the scenarios that most uniquely qualifies me to take command at the FBI.
Having been the victim of government overreach, and a weaponized system of justice. And law enforcement.
I know what it feels like to have the full weight of the United States government barreling down on you. And as the Biden inspector general determined, those activities at the FBI and DOJ are wholly improper, and not predicated on law and facts.
I will ensure if confirmed that no American subjected to that kind of torment, to that kind of cost, financially and personally. And most importantly, I will make sure that no American is subjected to death threats, like I was.
And subjected to moving their residents like I was.
Because of government overreach. Because of leaks of information about my personal status.
If confirmed as FBI director, Mr. Chairman, you have my commitment, that no one in this country will feel that pain.
GLENN: Wow!
Why is he on such a rant here? He's going to weaponize the government. Is this just all about payback? Oh, my gosh!
Did you hear what he just said he went through!
Yeah, it's not about payback. It's about justice.
Making sure that anyone that was involved in that kind of activity, with anyone, no longer works for the United States government.
And if they broke any laws, they go to jail. I don't know about you! I kind of -- I kind of like the idea of jail for some people.
You know what I mean?
Not everybody. But the guilty?
No matter if they're the poorest person in the world. Or it's George Soros.
I don't really care. You break the law. You go to jail. But he's on your side.
I don't care.
Go to jail.
That's what he's trying to restore. Now, let's go to cut two. He was called out on the January 6th pardons by Senator Durbin. Here it is.
VOICE: Was President Donald Trump wrong to give blanket clemency to the January 6th defendants?
VOICE: Thank you, Ranking Member. A couple of things on that. One, the power of the presidential pardon is just that. The president.
VOICE: Well, I can see he has the authority. I'm asking, was he wrong to do it for him?
VOICE: And as we discussed in our private meeting, Senator, I have always rejected any violence against any law enforcement. And I have including in that group, specifically addressed any violence against law enforcement on January 6th.
And I do not agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement.
VOICE: So do you think America is safer because these 1600 people have been give up an opportunity of coming out and serving their sentences and living in our communities again.
VOICE: Senator, I have not looked at all 1600 individual cases. I have always advocated for imprisoning those that cause harm to our law enforcement and civilian communities.
I also believe that America is not safer, because President Biden's commutation of a man who murdered two FBI agents, Agent Coler's and Williams' family deserve better than to have the man that at point-blank range, fired a shotgun into their heads and murdered them, released from prison. So it goes both ways.
GLENN: Okay. All right. I think you're pretty clear.
STU: I like that answer.
GLENN: I love that answer.
STU: So what do you take -- part of the -- trying to stir things up on the left.
Saying, he took a different position than Trump on that.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh.
You mean people are the different, they're not zombies.
STU: That's true. Though not common.
GLENN: The presidents. Presidential pardons are just that.
His pardons.
I'm not for releasing people who have ever, you know, harmed cops. I'm not for that. I don't think the president is for that.
STU: Well, he -- he did commute sentences of people who were the violent offenders in there.
GLENN: I would like to look at each individual case.
STU: But he did all of them.
So we don't to have look at each individual case.
GLENN: Well, here's my feeling on this.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: I've already expressed this over and over again.
You cannot say that the system was corrupt for some and then just allow that corrupt system to sentence and put people away that might have been guilty. You can't do that! We never do that. If there was a corrupt prosecution, and a corrupt judge, or whatever.
And it's found out.
It's not only that person that is parted. And you throw the case out. And you can't try it again.
Sorry, it was corrupt. Then you're supposed to go on and see, when did this happen?
Did this team see anything else?
And if you look and see this as a pattern, you have to throw it all out.
It's not the president's fault. It is the prosecution's fault. It is the DOJ's fault.
STU: I think that's a defensible point.
He hasn't explicitly said this. Donald Trump's point, why he did all 1600. That's not Kash Patel's point. Kash Patel is saying, I can't agree with any of those commutations.
GLENN: He didn't say that. He said, I don't agree with --
STU: Any commutation of anyone.
GLENN: But that's a blanking statement. I don't really care anyway.
STU: I'm just curious. Because I think they're too slightly different points.
I would say, they're kind of representative of our two points here.
My point is more consistent with Kash Patel, I think on this. And yours is maybe more consistent with Trump. I don't think it's a big deal if they disagree, as you point out.
GLENN: No.
STU: It's interesting what the left was trying to do with that though.
They're trying to get that little wedge of separation.
They're trying to say, hey, to know, this guy doesn't agree with you.
Look, he doesn't need. Because the whole -- it's funny, they want to separate them. And say, hey, they don't agree.
At some point of time, of trying to make the point, the only reason he has this job, that he's a loyalist that is an automatron robot. Which is like, you don't get both of those things.
They'll try. You can't have both of them.
GLENN: They'll try. Yeah. Touchdown, either direction. You know? Which I think you would be for with the Eagles, so please don't get on your high horse.
Okay. So the thing that drives me nuts is -- and this is the point I couldn't get past with anyone of them.
Excuse me, Durbin. Hang on just a second. Wait. Wait. Wait.
You're worried about the safety of the American people, because people who, in your words, not mine. Rioted and tried to burn the republic down, you're worried about them. But all of the riots from BLM. Burning Minneapolis almost to the ground.
You didn't have a problem with that one? I can't take it. I can't take it.
And I don't think the American people -- I just -- they don't get -- the Durbins of the world. And the Democrats. Don't understand what just happened. America changed on Election Day. This isn't just, you know what, we're going to -- we're going to switch and go with another party.
That's not what happened!
People didn't vote for the Republicans. They voted for Donald Trump's agenda.
They voted for massive change. And they're playing the same game.
And I'm sorry, but it's not going to work, dude. It's just not going to work. And it will come and bite them in the ass like nobody's business.
Look, whenever you try to con people, it's going to come out. It's going to come out.
All of their illegalities. Everything that they tried to do, is any of that really hidden anymore?
Do you really think that Donald Trump's going to let these secrets lay secret?
Let's go to cut three.
VOICE: Trump recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Then we went to a studio and recorded it. Mastered it. And digitized it. And put it out as a song released exclusively on the war room.
We, we, we.
If you had nothing to do with it, Mr. Patel. Why did you tell Mr. Bannon and all his listeners, that you did.
VOICE: That's why it says, we, when it's highlighted.
VOICE: Yeah. And you're part of the we. When you say we, that includes you, Mr. Patel.
VOICE: Not every instance.
VOICE: Well, that's new!
So when you said we.
GLENN: Stop. Stop. Is it? Is it?
Maybe I identify as we!
Really? You mean these words have meaning?
Good God Almighty!
This is Adam Schiff, talking to Kash Patel about January 6th! Like he has any credibility at all.
STU: None. Zero.
It's the royal we, is it not, Glenn? The royal we.
GLENN: Well, it's whatever Kash Patel decides it is, quite honestly.
STU: That's right! You're not allowed to ask.
GLENN: That's new.
So when you said we, you didn't really mean you, is that your testimony?
VOICE: Not unless you have a new definition for the word we.
VOICE: Oh, okay. I always thought we included the person that announced the word.
GLENN: Stop! I always thought them/them refers to a group. But it doesn't.
STU: So true. I cannot even read news stories anymore. They say they, and I'm like, who are they talking about?
And they're talking about one person who says they're they. Like, that is not --
GLENN: Right. I wish Kash would have -- I mean, he's too -- he's too cool to do this.
He's too smart to do this, but I would have unleashed on Schiff.
Really? Because I thought, I'm sorry. They told me. Who is they?
Well, that's how I refer to myself. And I was talking to myself. You have a problem with them/they, sir.
STU: So true.
GLENN: You have a problem with we? I call myself we. What's the problem with that?
Now, it's not a logical answer.
But it's certainly worth shoving right down his throat.
STU: We come up with words. As a society. To describe things.
Right?
GLENN: Yes! You've done everything you can, to destroy the meaning of almost every word!
That's what's so -- we always talk about. Oh, well, it's not scientific.
It's not reality.
All that is true. But you're destroying the way we communicate with each other.
GLENN: When you say we, what do you mean by we?
STU: I mean they. Thank you.
GLENN: All right.
STU: But it's true. You destroy that. And you have nothing. You have nothing.
How can you listen to a show? You can't listen to a show. Because you can't understand what people are saying.
When you go to a court of law. This is what they try to do in court cases all the time.
That's not what the founders meant there.
That's what they always do. They're manipulating the language. You said this 100 times. Control the language. Control the argument. If you do control the language, you control that argument.
And we're starting to stop that.
GLENN: Yes. Yes.
So sorry, Adam Schiff. We don't like it.
Me don't like it, either.