At a Senate hearing, a senator presses FBI Director Kash Patel on conflicting accounts: that he told Mr. Blumenthal the FBI wasn't sending agents to election sites, and that, according to Mr. James, he said "the FBI is on the way." When asked to pledge not to interfere in November, Patel answers: "I pledge unequivocally that I will not participate in your charade of lies."
The receipt
- Who
- Sen. Schiff
- Where
- hearing - Senate oversight hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel
- Original footage
- Victor Hernandez Crochet · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 58 seconds, unedited within the cut
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Read the transcript
This is existential. You told Mr. Blumenthal you weren't sending FBI agents to election sites. You told, according to Mr. James, you said the FBI is on the way. And this is about whether the United States citizens, Republicans, Democrats, independents are the deciders of this election, or there's election interference led by the FBI in the Trump administration. That's what this is about. Do you pledge that you will not in any way interfere in the will of the American people when they go to the polls in November? I pledge unequivocally that I will not participate in your charade of lies. Then why are you being such a panderer to President Trump who's still claiming that he won the 2020 election and who has said the only way Democrats can win in 2026 as if they cheat. Do you believe that?
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.