KA$H Patel FLIPS OUT After Kirk Assassination Foreign Ties Probed

Turning now to the Charlie Kirk investigation, some very strange developments happening at the very top of the U.S. intelligence community and the FBI. Let's go and put this up here on the screen. Officials' access to FBI files in Charlie K. Case draw pushback. That's a very New York Times way of putting some of the details here. So let me set the stage. So the person who is in front of you, if you're just watching, is Joe Kent. He is the National Counterterrorism Center director. He is a deputy to Tulsi Gabbard, the ODNI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Now, currently, there is a long brewing fight, apparently, in the administration

over the Charlie Kirk case because Joe Kent examined FBI files in the last several weeks to quote, investigate whether the man charged with assassinating Charlie Kirk had support from someone else, a foreign power, or another entity. The inquiry by Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, alarmed Kash Patel, the director of the FBI.

Mr. Patel and other senior officials believed Mr. Kent was overstepping, treading on FBI responsibilities, and potentially interfering with the investigation and the prosecution of the suspect, Tyler Robinson. But supporters of Mr. Kent say he was just doing his job, running down leads, making sure no foreign or domestic groups were linked to Mr. Kirk's death. Robinson was accused of killing Kirk last month.

Mr. Kent is the confirmed Senate Director of the Counterterrorism Center. Mr. Patel was troubled that Kent had gone through FBI material related to the case. Mr. Kent's efforts were a topic then at a White House meeting, a top meeting with Patel, Kent, Gabbard, J.D. Vance, and the White House Chief of Staff. The people interviewed by the Times were or granted anonymity, they say, FBI and the DOJ generally keep tight control over these evidence in criminal cases when they're preparing for

trial where the government documents may have to be turned over to the defense and could be used to poke holes in the prosecution's case. So what they say specifically is that while Robinson is currently only facing state charges, they were concerned that his effort could provide fodder to defense lawyers who could use the notion that there are more than one person was involved to raise reasonable doubt

in the minds of jurors about the case itself.

Well, Cash has raised plenty of reasonable doubt in his own operations of this.

First of all, look, I mean, I gotta tread lightly here. There's so much conspiracy stuff around all of this. I will say it's pretty weird that they're getting, first of all, it's a state case, okay? So this doesn't even have anything to do with the feds. Now, number two, like technically,

would they even have subpoena power over what the National Counterterrorism Director is doing?

Like, no, right?

I mean, technically it would be a secret inside this entire time. Two, again, I mean, I can see how if you look at this, you're like, wait, so Kash Patel freaked out at Joe Kent for saying, are there any foreign governments or powers involved in this? That's what he freaked out at him for? That's a legitimate question, right?

I mean, look, it could be a turf war and a pissing match over the FBI and the counter-terrorism director. But the very fact that this came out is a really bad look, I think, for Kash Patel. It also just, I mean, you know, considering the circumstances of the case, like, we have not learned anything new in weeks. And there's still a lot of people,

obviously Candace and others, who are like raising questions about the whole thing. I do think a lot of it goes pretty insane and far. You know, being like Israel killed Charlie Kirk or any of that. I don't think there's a lot of evidence to back that up. But you and I both know that when something like this is happening and the agencies are acting sketchy,

maybe, I'm not saying that happened, I'm saying maybe something sketchy is happening behind the scenes. We have no, genuinely no earthly idea. And I think the fact that it was leaked too, by the way, you can only leak something like this if the people directly involved are the ones who can confirm it, does tell us that people inside the building are trying to sound the alarm.

And that also makes me ask a lot of questions about the circumstances here.

This is another interesting section. By the way, this is the first mainstream outlet that I've seen publish any new journalism with regard to Charlie Kirk's assassination in weeks, if not months. So that to me has been frustrating as well, because you had Ken Klippenstein immediately after able to get in touch with people around Tyler, get some understanding of who was he, how did this happen, at least glean some sense of who this person is.

And no mainstream outlet has done that kind of legwork. In any case, listen to this section of the New York Times report. They say, in the hours after Mr. Kirk's killing, before Mr. Robinson was identified as the suspect, officials across American intelligence agencies were investigating whether any foreign government was involved in a plot to kill Mr. Kirk. Some officials inside the government raised questions about the assassin's abilities

and training after security footage was released of him jumping from a high ledge. Early in the investigation, evidence was collected that contained words often associated with anti-fascist writing, namely in the inscriptions on bullets found in the rifle that killed Mr. Kirk. So in any case, that's also a new piece of information that right after this happened, our own government was looking into whether there were any foreign governments that were

involved in this. Now you also have, you know, the use of Charlie Kirk's murder as a pretext by this administration to, you know, you've got NSPM7, and this creation of a mythology around Antifa being some nationwide terror network, et cetera. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if Joe Kent was also looking into,

oh, well, what, you know, left-wing groups might he have been associated with, et cetera. And as Sagar said, it could be just a turf war, and it could be that Kash Patel, for whatever reason, really wants to keep his hands wrapped around this and keep other people out.

The other thing that really comes out of this is, you know, Kent and Tulsi Gabbard are allies, apparently, in the administration. And just as she was sort of shunted to the side during the buildup to the Iran strikes, it appears that she is still very much on the ounce

in terms of her influence and sway within the administration as well, and has rubbed a number of people the wrong way and doesn't seem to have a lot of power on the inside.

Let's put C4 on the screen. That's what I'm saying. It doesn't necessarily have to be conspiracy. It really could be like a turf war. C4 shows this, the FBI now opposes a push for Gabbard to take the lead on counterintelligence. So the backstory here is that the FBI made this disclosure in a pointed letter over the concern that Tulsi Gabbard, who's the director of national intelligence, would take the lead

on all counterintelligence issues. I will say, I mean, here's the thing. If you look at where things are right now in the admin, this is technically not how it's supposed to work. And let me just explain a little bit. For years, the FBI did have the lead in counterintelligence.

Now the reason why, after 9-11, we established the office of the Director of National Intelligence was because the FBI, the CIA, the geospatial intelligence agencies, all these other agencies were not working together under a centralized figure. That's how 9-11 happened, because the FBI and the CIA were in a pissing contest,

literally like what you're seeing right now. So they said, we need to establish this office, like the ODNI, to oversee all of them that they report up to. This hasn't materialized in practice. The CIA remains vastly powerful. The FBI remains vastly powerful.

And the ODNI has been a bit of a joke over the last 20 years. Nonetheless, they have statutory authority technically to be the actual intelligence director for counterintelligence specifically also to make sure, again, that you just have the FBI

and all the NSA, everyone working under a unified directive, let's say for a counterintelligence measure. Now if you're the FBI, you don't want to give that up because spy investigations is like a long history of Hoover and of using his blackmail basically over the last 50, 60 years. I think what this comes back to is some of it is incompetence, a lot of it is turf war,

but in that there's a lot of room for screwery, right? In terms of when you have turf over this investigation, then you can control what's getting leaked and what's not, and you're getting upset about Tulsi getting involved in counterintelligence. Why would you be upset about that? Are you trying to cover something up?

Maybe not. It really may just be turf war, but in the interim, like maybe you are, right? And that's why just watching all of this, I think something weird is happening at the time. I think it's a turf war struggle, because look, Tulsi, I've criticized her a lot, obviously, over Iran, et cetera.

I will say, at the very least, her and Joe are much more in an anti-war, anti-Neo-Con stance, even inside this administration, that a lot of people may be able to appreciate. And I think that they are being punished for that.

Yeah. That's what I think. They've been sidelined. That's right. Very clearly. Yeah.

Let's put C2 up on the screen. And yeah, also, that's not to let Tulsi off. Yeah, I'm not letting her off. They can resign if they want to. and who does have the ear of the president, who does have the power, which is very clear from the reporting you've done on Venezuela, Sagar. So this is one avenue.

Lance, the trans lover, has gone missing. Where is he? Like, there's a lot of questions people have. That's weird, it's weird. And again, the New York Post, it actually makes sense that they

did this reporting. And they did some of, if memory serves, like in the early days, right, when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, you know, they had some of the initial leaks and were able to be out first with a variety of information. But you know, the lack of additional information on Lance, I think, is also when Lance's identity, the government is asserting as a key part of Tyler Robinson's radicalization to this

point, that is noteworthy as well. There's another track of this too that I just wanted to update everybody on. I don't know if you guys have been following this case. We could put C3 up on the screen. They actually in Tennessee arrested this dude for literally posting a Charlie Kirk meme, okay? And it was not even a really crazy thing.

Like it was, you know, it was a little edgy. It was like the president, it was a picture of Trump. And then I think it was after a school shooting, he said something like, "'They're gonna have to get over it. And he included that quote.

And that's literally just that is what he was arrested for. He was held on $2 million bond. He has been in prison for over 30 days, so over a month. This man who's former law enforcement, by the way, held in prison for over a month for posting a meme on Facebook, okay? And credit to some, you know, intercepted this report here,

but I watched yesterday, there was a local journalist who did an interview with the sheriff and showed him the meme and was like, where's the threat? Because the reason the bond was so high is they claimed that it was a threat against a school. Again, utterly preposterous, because the context of Trump's quote was about a school shooting.

So they construed this as a threat against a school. Okay, so the journalist is showing the sheriff, like, where's the threat in here? And of course, he has really no answer. He's like, oh, well, I think he knew what he was doing, etc., etc. So after, I think, public pressure and people I know have been calling into the sheriff's office, whatever, they finally, you know, the local prosecutors decide, okay, we're going to drop the charges and this guy has been set free. But crazy situation, held in prison for over

30 days for a Facebook meme. And I hear a lot from the right about whatever's going on in the UK, okay? And that's fine, you know, I think I prefer our speech laws to theirs. But where are you on this one? Because this is complete and total insanity that someone could be denied their liberty for over a month because of a slightly, not even really, like slightly edgy Facebook meme that they posted.

Yeah, we do have the report that he is free now, which I guess is good. I think what's actually crazier about this is that this was a local state case, which I still have no idea how you get a two million. I mean, I've literally seen reports about murderers and rapists who get less of a bond and who spend less time in prison or in jail awaiting release than this guy. How you even brought the case or the charges against him

is literally totally nuts.

So apparently Tennessee passed some law about these sorts of quote unquote threats that at the time people were raising concerns about. Like what do you mean?

What was the justification?

What was the justification? I don't know the origin of the law or why they did it. This is something that happened like, I don't know the origin of the law or why they did it. This is something that happened like, I don't know, maybe last year. And that was the law that they cited. So all of the concerns about the way this could be abused to quash speech basically

come to fruition in this case where they're arresting someone over a Facebook meme.

This is crazy. So yeah, I'm looking into the actual law itself. I don't know. Wow, this is wild. It is actually crazy.

Probably unconstitutional.

I'm sure, you know, he should sue.

He should be challenged.

He should sue. He should sue for damages. For sure. For emotional distress of being held in prison. I agree with you. I think it's totally absurd.

And yes, you're right. I mean, I don't know, at a certain point too, we've been covering this now for a long time. Like, we just yesterday did the Hamdi case where the guy was detained. And I mean, okay, like he said some not nice things about October 7th, whatever. It's about October 7th.

That's not about us. It's literally enforcement for a foreign country.

And he's still being held.

And he's being held in ICE detention. I'm like, okay, I mean, look, I'm not saying it's good. I don't think it's a great thing that he said. I definitely don't think it was artful in the way that he said it. But the equivalence that I come back to is like, I literally see posts of Israelis being like,

remember that guy in the Israeli podcast who said it makes him feel better to watch babies starving in Gaza. Remember that? He's like, it makes this happen.

I go. It makes me enjoy my food more. It makes me enjoy my life more when I see them.

Okay, and this guy's speaking perfect English. Presumably he's come to the US many times. Like, okay, well then deny that guy's visa then. If we're gonna be the police here, We gotta do that too, but we don't. And so it just falls apart to me. You know, all this like moral outrage about all of this. I don't know, I just find it really sick.

We'll get later in the show too, as Stephen Miller's wife threatening Cenk with deportation because she accused him of being anti-Semitic. So, lot going on there. So, lot going on there.

I mean, I'm laughing, but it's not fun.