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president-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI's former National Security official Kos
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Patel that's a what a strange man he is Patel is a trump loyalist who's vowed to
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come after Trump's enemies including people in the media a number of highlevel Senate Republicans have
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already indicated their willingness to get behind the choice but others not so much that it's a real it's a real mix
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bag on this guy by the way he has to fire Chris Ray Who was appointed by Trump on to a 10-year term so Chris Ray
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shouldn't be out of office until 2027 um it's alarming a lot of people um at the same time the Pete heg nomination
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is still raising big questions this New Yorker piece is a damning whistleblow report on his previous Behavior at
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running two organizations where he drank too much he Abused Women sexual harassment bunch of lying misspending
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mismanagement this story is quite has got it all by Jane Mayer um and it's it's based on well it's it's a it's a
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Dev stating very well reported piece about how bad a manager he was it may have been a bad period of his life but
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boy was it bad um The New York Times also had the 2018 email from hegs mother calling her son an abuser women that
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email was something else um she told the time she had written the messages in anger and had apologized for it but boy
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did it have a ring of Truth at the time I guess it was during the same time period um what do you think uh I thought
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the mother thing I was had mixed feelings on at the same the New Yorker P I do not it's really he's a bad bad bad
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manager and again he could be going through a difficult period but this as you recall John Tower the womanizing and
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the sexual and the drinking was a big issue and sort of scuttled his his um his nomination this guy's entirely
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unqualified for this job both of them are so what do you think about that I remember an era where you couldn't be on
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the Supreme Court if you'd been a Playboy bunny waitress at some point in your life yeah I mean you don't talk
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talk about how just a digression you know first off Patel he said that he wants to go after
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the former head of the CIA he says that he wants to prosecute and put in prison you know people who weren't supportive
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of trump he he's called and and at the same time he's found time to write kids books about
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Trump this is an odd this is an odd person and then director Ray is an outstanding individual this is a this is
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someone I I I I am so impressed by this guy every time he gets in front of Congress it's one of those rare moments
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where you can't tell if he's a Republican or he's a Democrat he's just trying to do his goddamn job and by the
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way in my opinion reflected well on Trump and everyone in those panels they actually have a productive session
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because they realize this guy is loyal to the flag first and foremost and the other thing that's so
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dangerous my no okay so I'll go to heg Seth as a mother and as the son of a single mother
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I read that letter and I found it deeply rattling one I was sad and I didn't know
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how comfortable I felt about it being made public a letter a communication an emotional letter between a mother and a
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son I do feel like it should be confidential but the fact that it's out and the fact that a mother felt
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compelled to write that to her son me too I Jesus Christ did it have a ring of Truth it absolutely did it was
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beautifully written it was also beautifully written by the way it wasn't emotional it actually was my son sucks
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right I can't imagine right me to say this right it rattled me beyond belief I thought I would write that letter if my
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son behaved like that but I would feel sick to my [ __ ] stomach for doing it but I would if my son behaved like this
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I can't imagine getting that letter from my mother I just I can't imagine like it
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would just it would devastate me so much that it would just I I I can't imagine writing it I can't imagine reading it
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and you know uh like Peter hagath by the way an outstanding Soldier deserves the
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bronze Stars he was given he should not be in the running for this position did you read the New Yorker piece it was
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disturbing onel the ending is really chilling and and the attempts to try to attack the PE there's like dozens of
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people making these these allegations not like and they're all conservative every one of them and you know this
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they're trying to like say this person had created fake rape allegations one this woman who accused him of raping her
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and then of course the reporter went to the to the to the police and they said no absolutely not she has not like they
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lie about the people they're so aggressive still it's disturbing that they're trying to shut down a dozen
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people who are who who by the way are not Democrats these are Republicans making these allegations very
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conservative Republicans he sounds like a drunk and should get some help by the way he sounds like a sexual harasser of
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women when he is drunk he's falling down drunk and all the rich people got him out of his jobs they fired him they
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fired this guy as as as good a career he had in the military they saw the need to
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fire him now he may have come back from Iraq with all kinds of troubles and he drowned them in alcohol he should get
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some help and he behaved incredibly badly and to to and he's incompetent at running he couldn't run a small
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organization he cannot run and make decisions about nuclear war for us I'm sorry and the mother thing at first when
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I read the two in combination it's devastating just devastating he's incompetent what's so disappointing is
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it appears to me that Trump and his advisers have decided we need to be adults and have a certain screen a
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pretty fine screen around people in senior appointments that impact the economy and yet they seem to have thrown
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in the towel on issues related to our military or defense or security apparatus I feel like the most
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frightening potential nominee right now is representative gabard yeah I I cannot
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believe that you are going to send a message there are agents there are CIA officers who have spent their entire
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lives and have put themselves in incredible danger every day and there's only two people to know their identities
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if they're deep and that is their case officer and potentially the head of the Central Intelligence Agency or per
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perhaps someone who's heading the entire security apparatus and do you really believe that representative gabard might
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not believe at some point to forward your names and your identity to these people because some sort of I I would be
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like out against her it is time for me it is time for you to bring me back and give me my retirement
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because I believe that one of the thing I believe this is true of of of um director Ray I believe this was true of
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George Bush when he was running the CIA I think these case officers uh quite frankly these spies
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and these assets and these FBI officers or um agents they have to believe that this person would die for
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me that this person would put himself or herself In Harm's Way before letting me
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be in harm and I think all of those people met that qualification they were deathly concerned about their safety
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they they put the safety of these people ahead of others and I don't believe that
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is true of Representative Gabbert in addition you want to talk about real harm to our national
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security no one nation can fight the rest of the world on its own and this level of arrogance that we have enjoyed
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because of our prosperity and this America first kind of Macho has given us the impression that we don't need the
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cooperation of our allies to prevent terrorism to present theft of our intellectual property and guess what the
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European economy is just as big as ours and the mosad MI6 guess what the french secret they are very good at what they
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do and on really sensitive issues on bioweapons around terrorism we cooperate we coordinate and we share information
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because guess what we have mutual shared interests in addition to that we trust each other do you think these folks are
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going to share information with these folks I think the all three of them I got to say cash Patel Pete heg and Tela
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gabard are and by the way one of the things I did when I was looking at them was find the other people that were in
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line every one of them was acceptable like they're not my favorites but they were certainly competent like the other
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names being bandied about they were fine I they're just Republicans and they're a
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little more conservative than I care to have you know a little more aggressive a
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little less little to America first for me a couple of them but you know nobody not not having allies anti- Ally okay I
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see it that's a point of view these people one is a absolutely incompetent and has a real problem with women in a
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creepy creepy way and has a drinking problem which he may or may not have taken in hand I have no idea this and
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can't run anything by the way it's just in good he's a good soldier otherwise no
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thank you the second one is insane cash Patel seems insane and the other one is feels like a Russian asset like it's
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like and the fact that he had good people and pick these guys and then also Matt Gates who they managed to get rid
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of is just such a ridiculous it's ridiculous it's really kind of like it's going to take up his whole he's going to
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have to fire Chris Ray just so you know and then that'll be chaos will he'll never get anything done because the
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chaos will ensue because they'll spend all their time doing Chaos versus doing anything he said nobody when they were
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voting for him to get the price of eggs down voted for this Luna this lunacy I'm
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sorry they didn't they didn't they didn't and that's it's an opportunity lost hagath is a terrible role model for
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young men he creates he cements or he's emboldening this notion that it's no longer a bug it's a feature to be a
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little bit rapy we can't normalize this we can't we can't normalize this what's even worse than being a poor role
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model and not being qualified a different level in my opinion of of threat is Patel who has called for using
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the power of the bureau and the justice department to prosecute journalists open
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quote we're going to come after you whether it's criminally or civil we'll figure that out he said during an
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appearance on Stephen bannon's podcast you C the fact that this guy is being considered is so the fact that as you
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described it perfectly I don't think well that I I I'll take that back it's not fair to call her a Russian asset
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she's a Russian sympath she provides comfort and Aid to the enemy and she will absolutely frighten the [ __ ] out of
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our own assets and our own allies so I don't understand why he's not bringing the same level of maturity
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to our security apparatus and our defense apparatus that he's brought to the economic appointments it just
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doesn't make any it doesn't make any sense to me I think he just gets something happens late at night with him
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maybe he's taking ketamine with Elon or something in any case we'll see what happens here but it's disturbing I would
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recommend reading the mother's letter is disturbing is along with the story from
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the New York for hgat that's for sure and I'm looking forward to the cash Patel story which is going to be just
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worse I think in a different way and the telsey gabri stories