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Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., clashed with FBI manager nominee Kash Patel during his confirmation proceeding connected Thursday, peculiarly implicit a signaling of a opus released by Capitol Riot inmates.
Schiff began by asking Patel if helium stood by anterior grounds that helium had thing to bash with the signaling of the song, which the Democrat said featured President Donald Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
"[That] is absorbing due to the fact that here's what you told Steve Bannon connected his podcast: ‘So what we thought would beryllium chill is if we captured that audio and then, of course, had the top president, President Donald J. Trump, recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Then we went to a workplace and recorded it, mastered it, digitized it, and enactment it retired arsenic a song’."
Schiff asked Patel wherefore helium told Bannon that.
"That’s wherefore it says ‘we’ arsenic you highlighted," Patel incredulously changeable back.
"Yeah, and you’re portion of that ‘we’ – close – erstwhile you accidental ‘we’ that includes you, Mr. Patel," Schiff angrily replied.
"Not successful each instance." Patel said, adding helium did not personally partake successful the signaling oregon mastering of the single.
Schiff was undeterred: "Well, that's new. So erstwhile you said ‘we’. You didn't truly mean you. Is that your testimony?"
"Not unless you person a caller explanation for the connection ‘we’," Patel said.
Notably, successful August 1997, President Bill Clinton was pressed connected his intersexual relations with intern Monica Lewinsky, and responded with a akin tenor arsenic to which usage of the connection "is" was being invoked during expansive assemblage testimony.
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"It depends connected what the meaning of the connection 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and ne'er has been, that is not—that is 1 thing. If it means determination is none, that was a wholly existent statement," Clinton said.
In Thursday’s hearing, however, Patel said helium was utilizing the connection "we" appropriately, portion Schiff said helium "promoted the hellhole retired of it" – referencing the inmates’ single.
"I don't cognize what that means, but I promoted the heck retired of raising wealth for families successful need," Patel changeable back.
Schiff past asked Patel to crook astir and code the constabulary officers successful the room, claiming the inmates connected the signaling helium purportedly promoted had assaulted them oregon their colleagues connected January 6, 2021.
"I'm looking astatine you. You're talking to me," Patel sternly replied.
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When Schiff asked Patel to "tell them however arrogant you are" to spot Trump pardon each specified inmates, Patel said it was "an abject prevarication – and you cognize it."
"I've never, never, ever accepted unit against instrumentality enforcement. I've worked with these men and women, arsenic you know, you my full life."
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