US President Donald Trump’s pick for director of the FBI Kash Patel might in fact abuse his power to go after opponents, former assistant director to the FBI Frank Figliuzzi says.
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00:00Okay, so Frank there's something I want to ask you about and that's Kash Patel.
00:05He's Donald Trump's pick for FBI director. You've previously said this
00:10appointment could spell trouble for the FBI. How concerned are you about Kash
00:17Patel and what's the problem? I'm deeply concerned not only for his lack of
00:22qualifications but for his public statements. We need only look to what he
00:26told us he intends to do to raise our concerns. He intends, he says, to go after
00:32the political, the perceived political enemies of Donald Trump. To go after the
00:37investigators, the prosecutors. And my concern there is that the FBI's resources
00:43and tremendous power could be unleashed on people without proper predication to
00:49even open an investigation. You've seen Joe Biden as early as this morning
00:53hardening people he thinks are going to be unlawfully persecuted by Donald
00:59Trump. So not that they've done anything wrong but that they're going to spend
01:02the next years defending themselves simply for doing their job. That's the
01:07concern that Kash Patel brings. That he could abuse the power. It wouldn't be the
01:11first time we've seen an FBI director do unlawful things. J. Edgar Hoover in the
01:1760s and very early 70s before he passed actually abused his power a lot