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I questioned Mr. Patel's fitness to be FBI director, given his association with individuals convicted of assaulting police officers and profiting from it. I asked him to look at the Capitol Police officers present and explain why he is proud of what he did.
I responded that I have never accepted violence against law enforcement. I have worked with law enforcement and never glorified violence against them. I never made a single dime out of violence against law enforcement.
I also questioned whether Mr. Patel had claimed that Donald Trump declassified all the documents at Mar-a-Lago and whether he considered the potential risks to sources before advocating for declassification.
I responded that President Trump issued a declassification order to a large number of documents. It was the responsible thing to do and no one died.
I support following the law and providing whatever information the law requires.
Speaker 0: You're being considered for director of the FBI, and and here you did no diligence to find out whether people you were associating with now the president of The United States in song were convicted of attacking police officers. Is that who we want running the FBI? I want you to turn around. There are Capitol Police officers behind you. They're guarding us.
Take a look at them right now. Turn around.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you. You're talking to
Speaker 0: me. No. No. Look at them. I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage to look them in the eye, mister Patel, and tell them you're proud of what you did.
Tell them you're proud that you raised money off of people that is that assaulted their colleagues, that pepper sprayed them, that beat them with poles. Tell them you're proud of what you did, mister Patel. They're right there. They're guarding you today. Tell them how proud you are.
Speaker 1: That's an abject line. You know it. I've never, never, ever accepted violence against law enforcement. Worked with these men and women as you know. Glorified it in song.
And I did not make a single dime out of it.
Speaker 0: And in song. Well, let me let me
Speaker 1: How about you ask them I have their backs? Let's see about that answer.
Speaker 0: This mister Patel. Let me ask you this. If an FBI director promoted a song of people who spray pepper spray in the face of an FBI agent, would you say they were fit to be director?
Speaker 1: Mister or
Speaker 0: no? Would they be fit to be director?
Speaker 1: I am fit to be the director of the FBI.
Speaker 0: If if you were the FBI director and you promoted a song to someone who beat an FBI agent with a poll, would you say you were fit to be FBI director?
Speaker 1: Mister Schiff, I am fit to be FBI director based on my sixteen years
Speaker 0: of coverage. All these things, mister Patel. You can say, oh, I support law enforcement. I I decry violence against law enforcement. You could say all that.
It's what you did, mister Patel, that matters. It's what you did that matters. Well, let me ask you about something else that you did, mister Patel. Did you claim that Donald Trump declassified all the documents at Mar Lago. Did you did you claim that?
Speaker 1: In what proceeding?
Speaker 0: To the public ever, did you tell anyone that Donald Trump declassified all the documents at Mar a Lago?
Speaker 1: From publicly available information, president Trump issued a declassification order in a variety of materials.
Speaker 0: Just ask you, did you tell the public? Did you tell anyone? Did you make the claim that Donald Trump had declassified those hundreds of classified documents that were Mar Lago? Did you make that claim publicly?
Speaker 1: Best of my recollection, I said president Trump issued a declassification order to a large number of documents.
Speaker 0: Yeah. And and were you present when he declassified all the Mar Lago documents?
Speaker 1: Senator, I'm not saying he declassified all the Mar a Lago documents. I said president Trump declassified a large number of documents, and I would hope this committee and the rest of congress would wanna get those documents
Speaker 0: to the American people. Mister Patel, before a president or or anyone declassified documents, wouldn't you wanna know whether making the public would would cause sources to be killed? Wouldn't you wanna know that before you just declare they're all declassified? Wouldn't that be the responsible thing for a president to do?
Speaker 1: It was the responsible thing for us to do. That's why we declassified the dean as
Speaker 0: we Did Donald Trump
Speaker 1: And no one died.
Speaker 0: And did Donald Trump ever ask any of the agencies who produce those documents whether declassifying them would put people's lives at risk. Did he ever do that to your knowledge, Kanch Patel?
Speaker 1: I don't know that he didn't. Do you?
Speaker 0: No. That's the problem, isn't it? That's the problem, isn't it? So let me just ask mister chairman if you would. Mister Patel has said he has no problem.
He would support the release of his grand jury testimony in that case. I would ask you mister chairman ranking member to join me in requesting with mister Patel's approval, the release of those grand jury transcripts, and I would also ask mister Patel whether you support the release of volume two as it pertains to you of the special counsel's report. Any reference to to you in the report, to your truthfulness, will you support the release to this committee of those sections of volume two of special counsel's report?
Speaker 1: I support following the law and providing whatever information the law requires.
Speaker 0: But you you said to the Wall Street Journal that you support transparency. Here's your chance, mister Patel. You support releasing that to this committee. Yes or no? So so, your time's up.
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