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DONKEY: FBI Lowers Hiring Standards To No Longer Disqualify Applicants Who Engaged In Acts Of Bestiality · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: It's time for donkey of the day. There's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of donkeys out here. It really caught me off guard.
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  Speaker 2: We live a life where we bite our tongue based
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  Speaker 2: off who we may offend. We never would say anything.
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  Speaker 2: You are a donkey.
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  Speaker 1: That is why Charlemagne is here.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you today for Wednesday, September 16th goes the FBI
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  Speaker 2: director cash Patel.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is a very.
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  Speaker 2: Teachable moment and I need everybody listening to me this
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  Speaker 2: morning to listen with the intent to understand and not
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  Speaker 2: just reply.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Exercise some patience because this story is exactly why you
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  Speaker 2: can't just read headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Sometimes the headline sounds so damn ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: That your supercomputer and your skull, your supercomputer and your
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  Speaker 2: skull stops Putin. OK, and I'm sure when you saw
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  Speaker 2: that the FBI changed its hiring policy so that bestiality
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  Speaker 2: is no longer necessarily an automatic disqualifier.
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  Speaker 1: You said, excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: OK, some of y'all are just hearing this for the
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  Speaker 2: first time. So let's go to ABC News for the report, please.
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  Speaker 3: A fiery hearing on Capitol Hill today featuring name calling,
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  Speaker 3: personal attacks and yes, talk. of prostitution, for starters, in
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  Speaker 3: front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. FBI Director Kash Patel
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  Speaker 3: defending a recent policy change in hiring to not automatically
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  Speaker 3: disqualify some job applicants at the bureau who participated in, yes,
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  Speaker 3: previous prostitution or even bestiality. A topic sparking plenty of
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  Speaker 3: curious questioning across party lines.
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  Speaker 4: We did not want to punish victims of bestiality, victims
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  Speaker 4: who were trafficked. We did not want to make it
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  Speaker 4: an automatic disqualification for the FBI to consider you.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what it said before.
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  Speaker 4: It automatically disqualified any individual who participated on either side
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  Speaker 4: of it. Obviously, we are never going to hire the criminal.
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  Speaker 1: The side of what? The bestiality?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So you disqualified the animal?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't think we have great canines, but we're
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  Speaker 4: not going to disqualify.
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  Speaker 5: I understand.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
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  Speaker 2: Look, there are certain things that I thought automatically eliminated
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  Speaker 2: you from certain jobs. And if you're applying to the
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  Speaker 2: FBI and somewhere in your background, somebody has to ask
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  Speaker 2: you about your sexual history, history with animals.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we can stop the interview.
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  Speaker 2: OK, but here's where this story gets more complicated and why,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, this wasn't a good faith Senate hearing. OK,
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  Speaker 2: Senator John Kennedy questioned Cash Patel about this. And Patel's
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  Speaker 2: explanation was that the FBI changed the policy because there
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  Speaker 2: could be people who were victims of human trafficking who
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  Speaker 2: were forced to participate in sexual acts involving animals. Cash's
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  Speaker 2: position was that someone shouldn't automatically lose the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: work for the FBI because of something horrific that was
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  Speaker 2: done to them or something they were forced to do.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what? I agree with that. OK, if somebody was trafficked,
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  Speaker 1: abused and.
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  Speaker 2: Forced into doing something, that person is a victim and
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  Speaker 2: you cannot punish somebody for the rest of their life
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  Speaker 2: for something another human being forced him to do. So
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  Speaker 2: Cash Patel isn't getting donkey of the day because he
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  Speaker 2: wants to protect victims. He's getting the biggest hee haw
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  Speaker 2: because why in the hell didn't you just write the
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  Speaker 2: policy that way? OK, that's why they're calling you incompetent cash.
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  Speaker 2: You're the FBI director. Words matter. OK, words matter with
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  Speaker 2: the FBI, period. Definitions matter. Distinctions matter. Being an FBI
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  Speaker 2: agent is all about understanding distinctions. You got to know
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  Speaker 2: the difference between a suspect and a witness, a victim
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  Speaker 2: and a perpetrator, legal or illegal. OK, evidence or allegation.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be clear, okay? If what you mean
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  Speaker 2: is a victim of trafficking or abuse will not be
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  Speaker 2: automatically disqualified for conduct they were forced to.
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  Speaker 1: Participate in, you gotta write that out, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Why are we creating language broad enough that the director
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  Speaker 2: of the FBI has to sit before the United States
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  Speaker 2: Senate explaining the circumstances under which somebody was doing the
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  Speaker 2: no pants dance with a puppy, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody that was doing the no.
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  Speaker 2: Pants dance with a puppy might not automatically prevent them
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  Speaker 2: from joining the FBI. Why is that a conversation? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's why people think America is an unserious place. Victims
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  Speaker 2: deserve context. Okay, if somebody was forced to do something,
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  Speaker 2: that's different from somebody choosing to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know why that's difficult to understand. Context
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  Speaker 1: will always matter.
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  Speaker 2: There are some behaviors society has every right to treat
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  Speaker 2: as extremely serious when somebody voluntarily chooses to engage in them.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why this policy needed to be written with
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  Speaker 2: surgical care.
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  Speaker 1: Precision.
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  Speaker 2: Because when people hear bestiality is no longer an automatic
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  Speaker 2: disqualifier for the FBI, they're not thinking about a trafficking victim.
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  Speaker 2: They're thinking somebody was clapping the cheeks of a cheetah. OK,
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  Speaker 2: that's what people hear. And that's not the public's fault,
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  Speaker 2: Kash Patel, because leadership isn't just having the right intention.
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  Speaker 2: If I got to spend 10 minutes, 10 minutes explaining
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  Speaker 2: why something that sounds completely insane actually makes sense under
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  Speaker 2: one extremely specific circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: That's your fault.
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  Speaker 2: OK, you had an exception designed to protect victims. But
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  Speaker 2: instead of making the exception unmistakably about victims, you created
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  Speaker 2: a national conversation about whether people who voluntarily do the
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  Speaker 2: hanky panky with pandas should be eligible to work for
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  Speaker 2: the FBI.
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  Speaker 1: How did we get here?
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  Speaker 2: OK, not automatically disqualified does not mean automatically qualified.
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  Speaker 1: Those are two completely different things.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're keeping score, the FBI can still investigate
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  Speaker 2: someone's background and evaluate their conduct and determine if that
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  Speaker 2: person shouldn't be anywhere near a federal badge. So why
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  Speaker 2: turn this into something it isn't? And that's why they
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  Speaker 2: was grilling you in that Senate hearing, Cash. OK, they
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  Speaker 2: could have set you up to explain the policy.
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  Speaker 1: All right. But that's not what they wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted to prove you weren't qualified for the position
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  Speaker 2: and you gave them all the fuel they needed. OK,
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  Speaker 2: the FBI had what Patel says was a legitimate concern.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a legitimate concern about protecting victims from
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  Speaker 2: being punished for acts they were forced to participate in.
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  Speaker 2: And somehow that legitimate concern got translated into a policy
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  Speaker 2: debate where United States senators are asking the FBI director
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  Speaker 2: about bestiality. Sometimes your intentions aren't the problem. Your execution is. OK,
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  Speaker 2: you can mean well and communicate terribly. Please give FBI
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  Speaker 2: Director Kash Patel the sweet sounds of the Hamiltons.
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