Trump's FBI pick to bring 'deep state' paranoia to organization he holds in contempt

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Alex Wagner reports on Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, who espouses conspiracy theories about the "deep state" and describes the organization he is potentially about to lead as essentially corrupt. Plus, the shifting of voters within the groups that make up the Democratic Party coalition in the 2024 election are prompting a new consideration of how to understand voting blocs like Latino voters and Black voters and women voters and whether those groupings are as relevant as they once were, and as relevant as public policy would suggest. Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia Journalism School, discusses.

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0:00.0	Today, we got the gigantic news that FBI director Chris Ray plans to resign.
0:06.0	Now, to avoid the impact of partisan politics, FBI directors are appointed to 10-year terms.
0:11.6	Ray was appointed back in 2017 by President Trump, after Trump infamously fired the previous FBI
0:18.3	director, James Comey. Ray's decision today to step down rather than wait for Donald Trump to fire him is definitely
0:27.0	worth chewing over.
0:27.9	And we're going to discuss that with a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in just a
0:31.9	moment.
0:32.5	But now that Christopher Ray has made his decision, now that he has announced that he will vacate his office
0:38.7	on January 20th, the more pressing matter is who Donald Trump plans to nominate in Ray's place.
0:47.0	We look forward to a very smooth transition and I'll be ready to go on day. Are you going to be
0:50.7	seeking retribution against Donald Trump's political opponents, sir?
0:54.2	Sorry, what's your reaction to right?
0:56.7	We look forward to a very smooth transition at the FBI, and I'll be ready to go on day one.
1:01.4	That was Trump's pick for director of the FBI, Cash Patel, on the Hill today, speaking with senators and shoring up votes for his confirmation.
1:09.9	If you aren't particularly familiar with Mr.
1:11.6	Patel, you cannot be blamed. He was sort of a tertiary character in the first Trump administration.
1:17.6	But since the last Trump administration ended, Cash Patel has been loud and very proud about exactly
1:23.0	what he would do if he were put in charge of an agency like the FBI in a second Trump term.
1:30.4	Do you believe that you can deliver the goods on this in a pretty short order of the first
1:34.8	couple of months so we can get rolling on prosecutions?
1:37.9	Yes, we got the bench for it, Bannon, and you know those guys. We will go out and find
1:42.5	the conspirators not just in government, but in the
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