Transcript: Even Fox News Now Admits Kash Patel Is a Fiasco for Trump

Sargent: Let me ask you this, Asha. Would that require Attorney General Bondi to suspend a bunch of internal guidelines? And is that the thing we should be watching for? In other words, if we see Pam Bondi suspend guidelines, then we’ll know, here it comes, correct? 

Rangappa: Well, even if she suspended the guidelines, I don’t see how we would know. It’s an interim thing. I don’t think they would announce it. We would get leaks, perhaps. Or you just have people who are violating them, and there’s no repercussions because, you know, they’re not being reprimanded or investigated internally. I think that would be a good question, actually, for the Senate Judiciary Committee to be asking Kash Patel during the hearing—on whether the attorney general guidelines are still enforced, whether they’re still in effect, and whether they’re still enforced. I mean, that could be a way to bring that out into the open. 

You know, it does seem to me that the guidelines have more or less gone out the window just from the kinds of cases that we’ve seen. And in addition to the guidelines—just based on, for example, assuming the executive orders that, for example, Trump put out about Chris Krebs or Miles Taylor. Those are completely unpredicated allegations, right? Those are allegations of treason or whatever. I mean, they’re not based in fact. If the Bureau is actually investigating those, that would be, I think, ipso facto or prima facie evidence that they’re not using the guidelines. And then I think we also see that other guardrails are not being followed either.