Julie Kelly: “They will pay a price if anyone prevents the confirmation of Kash Patel”
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From the February 19, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Julie, good morning to you and a very lovely morning. We are one step closer to Kash Patel. Let's begin with that. A very squishy 48-45 vote to — for cloture and to bring an executive session forward. Do you have any reporting that says that we may need to do extra work or arm twisting in the Senate for Kash?
JULIE KELLY (GUEST): Not that I see, but, of course, something like that is always possible. You do have — look, this is the appointment, Benny, as you know that the deep state, the ruling class is most afraid of. So I'm sure they are twisting arms as heavily as they possibly can to get some, defectors, Republican defectors, but they will pay a price if anyone prevents the confirmation of Kash Patel.
Because as you noted, he himself has been a victim of the lawfare, political lawfare by the previous Department of Justice. He has had a front row seat to all of this dating back to his work on, Devin Nunes' intelligence committee. He is the one that really found the ties between the DNC, Hillary Clinton campaign, Fusion GPS, all tied to the Steele dossier. So he's got — but he's a professional, as you know, Benny. He's a very serious individual. He was a public defender and a prosecutor. So, he is going to exhume all the skeletons out of the FBI, hold people accountable, and clean up that agency to the extent that it's even possible.