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TRUMP TRUNP'S INCOMPETENT TEAM BTC interviews Senator Schiff about his sparring match with Kash Patel. PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxlz_dOAoJU Peter Burgess COMMENTARY I am pleased that Adam Schiff was able to graduate from the House to the Senate in the 2024 election cycle. He has been a force for good in the time I have seen him in action! Schiff is a big contrast to the modern Trump following Republicans who seem to be 'hell-bent' on wrecking their country! Sadly ... and dangerously ... most of these Republicans simply do not understand the huge damage they are doing much of which might well last for ever! Not smart ... these people are incredibly dumb! Peter Burgess
Trump team finally SHUT DOWN by Adam Schiff Brian Tyler Cohen Jan 30, 2025 3.62M subscribers ... 740,903 views Interviews with Brian Tyler Cohen INTERVIEW - Brian interviews Senator Schiff about his sparring match with Kash Patel. For more from Brian Tyler Cohen: Order my #1 NYT bestselling book: https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/s... YouTube (español): / @briantylercohenespanol Twitch: / briantylercohen Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/36UvEHs Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0066rKC... Twitter: / briantylercohen Instagram: / briantylercohen Facebook: / briantylercohen TikTok: / briantylercohen Newsletter: https://plus.briantylercohen.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/briantylerco... Threads: https://www.threads.net/@briantylercohen Transcript 0:00 I'm joined now by the US senator from my state the state of California Senator Adam Schiff Senator thanks so much for taking the time great to be with you so in the immediate aftermath of the cash Patel hearing I do want to turn your attention to a moment that was especially striking in terms of your exchange with cash Patel I want you to turn around there are capital police officers behind you they're guarding us take a look at them right now turn around I'm looking at you you're 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 Mr Patel and tell them you're proud of what you did tell them you're proud that you raised money off of people that that assaulted their colleagues that pepper sprayed them that beat them with polls tell them you're proud of what you did Mr Matel they're right there they're guarding you today tell them how proud you are that's an abject lie and you know it I've never never ever accepted violence against law enforcement I've worked with these men and women as you you glorified in 1:00 so what did you make of the fact that he wouldn't turn and face the people who were attacked by the very insurrectionist who he helped glorify with a January 6 Anthem the same Anthem by the way that he pretended to be completely unfamiliar with well he couldn't look them in the eye these officers who were protecting him even in that moment uh whose colleagues at the department were viciously attacked by people in a choir that he was promoting uh and earlier in the hearing he had tried to distance himself from by saying he didn't know anything he didn't have anything to do with this but of course he did and he had been very proud of it and he had gone on Bannon show to talk about how he and others had gone to the studio and made this recording and digitized it and it was going to hit number one on the Billboards and he was so proud of promoting this thing of people who pepper sprayed police on that day and beat them and uh uh threaten them with knives among other things he was proud of it but he wasn't so proud 2:02 in the committee room today and he wouldn't turn around to these officers he wouldn't tell them he was ashamed of what he did he wouldn't tell them he was proud of what he did he didn't have the courage to even look him in the eye there were numerous instances where cash Batel did appear to lie under oath Chief among them by pretending that he was unfamiliar with the January 6 insurrectionist who created that Anthem but also pretending not to know who a podcast host was who he appeared with eight times refusing to answer whether or not he said he wants to turn the FBI into a museum to the Deep state do your colleagues on the right have have so little regard for their own advice and consent role that they're willing to just be lied to all because this is a republican nominee well I guess time will tell uh whether a sufficient number of them will reject this plainly unqualified disqualified person you know I tried my best at the end of the hearing to appeal to my colleagues by saying how is it that we even got here 3:02 where we're considering someone so clearly unfit for this job when we've had other people like Chris Ray and others in the past uh who had great experience who had Integrity how has it come to this the cash Patel and the reason it's come to this is he rose uh with lightning speed through the first four years of trump because he was the guy who would say yes to Donald Trump when everyone El would say no no you can't do that that's that's unethical that's unlawful I won't participate in it I'll quit before I'll do that cash Patel is the guy who said yes yes yes what else can I do for you that's why he's risen so fast uh that's the ticket to progress in Trump World which is the bigger the sick of fancy the faster you rise and we'll find out soon because in addition to Patel there was tulsy Gabbert today and RFK Jr uh is the Senate going to say yes to these p ly 4:00 unfit candidates for high office if they do it will Bode very poorly for what the future is going to look like can you give us some insight into what's happening behind the scenes when you have someone like hash Patel someone like Tulsi gabard someone who is so aggressively anti-science like RFK Jr who are speeding their way through these confirmation hearings among your Senate Republican colleagues because I I I understand why they're not going to say anything publicly for the same reason that these people got nominated for their positions in the administration by cow Towing to Trump by proving um their falty to Trump these Republicans are in the same boat none of them want to be primary they all know that they have to kiss the ring and gravel at his feet but are at a bare minimum are you hearing anything behind closed doors from these people or or is are they just so bought into this bit that that they couldn't dare utter a word even in private um something that might go against the grain when it comes to Trump look how think privately some will acknowledge 5:02 their deep concern over these nominees but I think what they're watching is what happens to those who stand up to him and Trump has been very successful since he got into politics of punishing his enemies of jining up primary challenges to them and you know Steve Bannon and his ilk are out there riling up the magga base to go after anyone who doesn't approve everyone uh and so that's what they're dealing with but you know I think at the end of the day all of us in elective office have to ask ourselves why are we in this job if we're not willing to stand up and say hey your firing of these inspector generals violates the law if we're not willing to say your effort to amend the Constitution by executive order violates the law if we're not willing to say this guy you've nominated to run the FBI I I wouldn't trust him to walk my dog um then it's good luck for us with our 6:01 democracy uh I mentioned at the end of the hearing today that history is littered with countries that saw their democracy disappeared and didn't seem to be noticing it while it was happening and we should witness what's happening and we need to do something about it Senator you were mentioned in cash Patel's book where he spells out his enemies list the one the same enemy list that he pretended not to have written about not to have published do you a by his assurances that he won't weaponize the doj and B by his assurances that he won't weaponize it against you no I don't think any of us can take anything he says frankly for granted or accepted he contradicts himself all the time denies saying what he said before claims not to remember it uh no this is not the guy you want to trust to have an truly independent FBI and the reality is of all these positions FBI may be the most unreviewable as the director we're 7:00 not going to get to see what cases he declined that should have been investigated by the FBI but got declined because they were Pals of Donald Trump or family members of Donald Trump or friends of Donald Trump or maybe friends of Elon Musk or who knows we're not going to see you know those kind of decisions to protect Trump World uh we're going to see potentially actions taken against the president's enemies but we can count on one thing with cash Patel and that is he will tell the public whatever Donald Trump wants him to say about why someone was investigated so no we can't trust anything has to say that's why he has been chosen by Donald Trump to lead the FBI uh he wanted his own Roy con at the justice department or the bureau and if Republicans go along with in the Senate he will have that at the FBI you know taking a step back in the in the lead up to the election one of the issues that I focused on um especially was schedule F the the schedule F portion of project 8:01 2025 the reason being that if Trump can be successful at eliminating career civil servants and replacing them with political appointees then then you have the the whole government basically becomes an apparatus of of one man of Donald Trump so do you have any worry that with folks like cash Patel as FBI director with somebody like Russ vote as om director that Republicans will be able to rig the rules of government from the inside so as to prevent Democrats from even having a fair shot to ever succeed at winning again in the future I'm not talking about the damage that they can that they can um that they'll be able to rot against the government from the inside right now during during these four years I think that's somewhat of a foregone conclusion but just in the aftermath of that by by basically remaking the government in his mold that it won't leave us with the opportunity to have a fair shot moving forward if you know the entire federal government 9:00 apparatus the entire executive branch is just a political arm of Donald Trump that that is certainly the goal uh which is not even one party rule so much as onean rule uh he does want to do exactly as you're describing convert the whole Federal Workforce into his political arm into an arm of his agenda by pushing people out by purging people at the top levels of these agencies who are getting notices your services are no longer required or being outright fired because they were doing their jobs properly and that's not what Donald Trump is interested in this effort to get federal employees to quit is so that he can replace them with more sick offense uh it is all part of a you know broad strategy sadly I think that Trump and his minions learned from their failed experiment four years ago uh how to do it better this time and the question is will the Congress stop it will the 10:00 courts stop it uh is our democracy strong enough and we're about to find out we're about to find out now I happen to think that this week may be an illustration where this freeze on federal funds was so ill-considered so ham-handed that the opposition was immediate Ordinary People Know saw that it was going to affect their lives whether they could get their health care whether they can get their housing whether they could get their financial aid and they were forced to backpedal uh how how often they're going to overreach like that uh we'll find out um but we're going to have to pick our battles we're going to have to fight them hard we're going to win some of them we have to hold on for two years until we can take back the Congress of the United States and put a real check on this uh this Rogue Administration but that is exactly what he's trying to do is turn this into oneman rule let's finish off with this I I know that you you of all people are under no delusions about the extent to 11:02 which Republicans in the house and the Senate will offer no no bull workk to Trump's worst excesses um but do you think that there is a red line for these people and again these are people who are so graveling right now that they are even ushering through shepherding through aggressively unqualified people like RFK to oversee the health apparatus of of the entire country that that their kids have to grow up in too so so they're on this plane that they're trying to crash at at this moment in time so you know I'm wondering even for people like that people so overtly deferential to Trump is there a Red Line even for them realistically speaking where you think that they would actually have the spine to stand up to somebody like Trump I think so I hope so Matt Gates Was A Bridge Too Far uh for the Republicans in the Senate um I hope we see other indications that there's a willingness to say okay you've got to be 12:00 kidding there's no way we're going to go there yeah um but we will find out you know what we've seen and this is like the boiling frog phenomenon of the water and the pot going up and up and the Frog not noticing that he's boiling to death if you look at the beginning of trump the first year or years of his first Administration um there were some people of stature the secretary madis the Christopher rays and others who either held things together or they resign you had others frankly like Bill bar who auditioned for the job as attorney general by trashing the Mueller investigation this was his job application even bar who crossed so many ethical lines finally found one he couldn't cross right which is he he wasn't willing to lie about the election but that looks kind of quaint now if you watch the hearing today of cash Patel uh you know very few of the Republicans uh had any problem with Patel's inability to even say that Joe 13:00 Biden had won in 2020 correct um and so the bar has gten lower and lower and lower and lower is there a point at which my colleagues will say okay that's enough uh to protect myself and our kids and their kids and our country our planet I can't go along with this anymore is there a point where they'll they'll get to that that showing of Courage I hope so I hope so um and I would be more optimistic about it if experience hadn't been such a sad guide because we have seen the floor lower and lower and lower well from your lips to God's ears uh unfortunately I think we're we're going to we're going to be put in a position where where we're going to see where that thesis is kind of tested out so um with that said I appreciate I appreciate what you did in that hearing and your willingness to fight to go toe-to-toe to not roll over I think that's exactly the kind of energy that we need moving forward especially in the face of lawlessness that thrives in in the absence of that 14:01 kind of push back so with that said Senator thank you so much for taking the time today great to be with you thank you for everything you do [Music]

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