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Adam Schiff confronts Kash Patel with his own Steve Bannon podcast words at his FBI confirmation hearing

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At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Kash Patel's nomination for FBI Director, Senator Schiff reads back Patel's testimony that he "did not have anything to do with the recording." Schiff then plays what Patel told Steve Bannon's War Room: "we went to a studio and recorded it, mastered it, digitized it and put it out as a song" with Donald Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Schiff asks why Patel told Bannon's listeners he did it if he had nothing to do with it.

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Who
Senator Schiff
Where
hearing - Senate Judiciary Committee, Kash Patel FBI Director confirmation heari
Original footage
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Length
49 seconds, unedited within the cut
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I did not have anything to do with the recording. I did not have anything to do with the recording. Do you stand by that testimony, Mr. Patel? Senator, what I said was I didn't do the recording. You said you didn't have anything to do with the recording, which is interesting because here's what you told Steve Bannon on his podcast. So what we thought would be cool is if we captured that audio And then of course had the greatest president president Donald J. Trump recite the Pledge of Allegiance Then we went to a studio and recorded it Mastered it digitized it and put it out as a song now releasing exclusively on the war room we we We if you had nothing to do with it, mr. Patel, why did you tell Steve Bannon all his listeners that you did?

Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.

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