Quick Reference Guide To Kash Patel’s Full 4-Hour Judicary Hearing

The history of Dems using their time to silence, defame and monologue over people they bring forward for questioning gave rise to a change in approach, in which the witness can freely respond to what was said in the questions.

More than once, it was needed to set the record straight. In Schiff’s case (and some others) it was catastrophic for the narrative they were trying to build and the words they tried to put in his mouth.

I’ve listened to the four+ hours of testimony and given a roadmap about what was said by whom, marking different time stamps that may be of interest to the reader. The video is cued up to begin at the swearing in of Director Patel and after the opening statements by the chair and ranking members, but those are still there for anyone wanting to back up and listen to them.

11:00ish — Kash Patel’s opening statement which covers a lot of ground including the various success metrics his agency has seen over the first few months under his leadership. Knowing he’s going to be badgered about the Epstein thing yet again, he even explained what specific historical decision has handcuffed what the current administration has been able to do in advancing the case as loud voices on both sides have demanded. (That’s at about the 23:45 mark)

Grassley, not surprisingly was an example of using time to get meaningful answers to relevant questions.

Sen Grassley — 26:00 mark
Questions about Epstein and FBI.
Questions about pay for play scheme allegations and the Biden family (about 27:10)
Questions about vetting of Afghan refugees and evacuees
Recovering of children gone missing under Biden’s border crisis (32:30)
‘Arctic Frost‘ questions of wrongful use of investigation tools against the entire Republican party (about 33:00)
Agency misuse of Prohibited Access to files — including past abuses
Questions about the room of hidden documents and whether the remaining information will be made available to oversight — as quickly as we can get it to you

Durbin? Not so much. He was more interested in why a memorandum was ‘unsigned’ (Would you prefer I had used an autopen?)
Leading questions about Bongino’s keen interest in the unanswered J6 Pipe Bombs questions — (information will be forthcoming as it becomes available)
Gotcha question about college degrees for agents.

That set the tone for how these proceedings would play out pretty clearly.

Lindsey Graham (49:00 ish) was asking questions about Venezuela, China, narcoterrorism and social media/child harm. Asked whether Hezbollah is involved in narco-terrorism and is a threat to America. — Yes.

Sen Whitehouse (60:00 ish) wanted to know about ‘weird internet conspiracies’

Sen Cornyn (1 hour 10 min-ish) asked about counter-intel role of FBI and whether law-enforcement approach to Narco trafficers is enough, or whether they should be treated as terrorists

Sen Klobuchar (1:18) — questions about possible changes to firearms laws (ie: revisiting minumum age of purchase) asked for facts and data within a particular framework that might help answer those quesitons. (took those questions seriously and promised to get back to her)
She asked about the investigation of journalists and he answered that no journalist would be investigated unless having found to be sharing classified information

Sen Hawley (1:30 ish) Questions about anti-Christian violence (first question), advance knowledge of CK shooting in which Patel acknowledged more than 20 users under investigation with possible prior knowlege (1:32); Discussion about following the money re: attacks of ideology (1:34); Wray-era anti-religious animus within FBI questions (1:37); AI chatbots causing harm? — over 1000 investigations, with how they are prosecuting them (1:39)

Sen Coonz: (1:42) Questiona about budget cuts, more ‘allegations of retribution’ talk, questions about possible reforms, and a little bit about drones

Sen Kennedy (1:53) — Praised law enforcement catching 2 different assassins just days after the attacks; Strzok/Page question — who settled those lawsuits? Only Attorney General, Director, and Administration have power to such a settlement (1:56); Epstein limited by 3 different court orders (2:01); Current FBI limited in ability to both speak publicly and prosecute hamstrung by decades-old prosecution agreement (2:03)

Sen Blumenthal (2:05)
More allegations. Political retribution, White House direction of personnel decisions — ‘Do not put words in my mouth, we’re on the record; White House directing prosecution targets?; allegations of Polygraph tests; Questions about improper investigation of donors

Sen Schmit (2:16) Questions about CK assassination, political violence while bad no matter who is responsible, is NOT ‘equally distributed on both sides’

Sen Hirono (2:27) This one got spicy. The first part, where she tried to hit him with leading questions about staffing numbers were easily cut down to size. Then she tried to hit him with a gotcha question about the fitness tests being unfair to women.

That one was a brutal own-goal question that will haunt her for a LONG time…

🚨WATCH: Sen. Mazie Hirono says female FBI applicants struggle to do pull-ups because of “physiological differences.”

Kash Patel: “If you want to chase down a bad guy and put him in handcuffs you better be able to do a pull-up… Doing one pull-up is not harsh.” pic.twitter.com/kD571CRi36

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 16, 2025

Sen Katie Britt, in the very next question (2:42), thanked the Senator from Hawaii for such a powerful arugment in favor of the traditionalist’s of men in women’s sports:

I never thought I'd see the day. @MazieHirono made a great argument on the importance of preserving Title IX protections for female athletes. As she rightly pointed out, there are clear biological differences between men and women.

Let’s see how long this sentiment lasts! https://t.co/RAGgkrcSgx pic.twitter.com/17BkR8kqLw

— Senator Katie Boyd Britt (@SenKatieBritt) September 16, 2025

Other topics Britt covered included following the money for groups and agencies who may have encouraged the killer of Charlie Kirk, asking whether there is evidencde of international sources for groups of that sort (‘yes’), asking about progress in the prosecution of child sexual exploitation, and thanking him for the big wins in Crime in her state.

Sen Booker, still trying to recapture the energy of his ‘Spartacus’ moment is still doing his usual showboating (2:49) in which he tries to use tactics of innuendo and railroading that have worked in past sessions of Congress. He forgot that in the current rules, you don’t get the last word just because you are loud and obnoxious enough to talk over every answer the witness might give. The melodramatic emoting he vomited into the public record is hardly putting into print. But… then the new rules kicked in, and after the ridiculously sanctimonious berating of the witness, Patel had an opportunity to reply.

The ‘this is MY time beat-down that Kash Patel so casually gave him after putting up with Booker’s theatre-kid dramatics was VERY satisfying to those of us wishing someone would make Booker choke on his own words. (Begins at around 2:59:30)

Sen Ted Cruz, (3:03) after taking a swipe at Booker, raised the Human trafficking question that Booker tried to play ‘gotcha’ with and reframed it in the context of Biden’s open-borders lawlessness endangering children. Human trafficking, modern-day slavery 4700 kids have been recovered that had been lost under Biden; pivoted to CK assassination asking whether others has prior knowlege, and whether other organizations had prior knowlege.

New information — Cruz is introducing Stop Funders Act, which adds fomenting riots to predicate for a RICO investigation and wants to know if Patel supports such a move. He does. ‘Money doesn’t lie and we have been following the money.’

Sen Padilla (3:13) Firearms questions, alleges investigation the firebombing of Tesla is a ‘diversion of resources’ from domestic terrorism; complains about changes to foreign influence task force; rants against ICE deportation strategy and reliance on partnering with local law enforcement

Sen Blackburn (3:34:30) Praised success of Operation Viper in addressing crime in Memphis and the 100 gangs in Memphis which had the highest per-capita murder rate in USA, and addressing cargo theft which had spiked in the Biden years; asked about what Congress could do to advance his plan in restoring law and order to American communities

Sen Welch (3:35) Criticized Patel’s announcement about the first arrest made after the CK shooting where one guy claimed credit giving cover for the other guy to slip away; back to criticism of the guy who was fired; scrutinized Patel’s flight travel — reminded him that the flight travel he referenced is mandated by Congress, that he pays commercial rates out of pocket for such travel he takes for non-business reasons, he has made use of military airports to avoid big surcharges, and the best part, that flight to Los Vegas? He LIVES there. Am I not allowed to go home?

Grassley (3:46) entered some information into the record about flight travel of Wray that unravelled Welsh’s allegations, noting that Patel’s personal use by percentage is FAR less than that of that of prior directors.

Sen Ashley Moody (3:48) Mostly a Biden-broke-it-and-you-are-trying-to-fix-it line of questioning to address the various lines of Dem attack about reallocation of resources; added her support to following the money of groups that want to undermine rule of law; celebrating success for improving crime metrics

Then along comes Schiff. We’ve played the video of the smack-down that came at the end in a previous post. If you want to see the entire exchange in its context, it begins at about the (4:00) mark.

Sen Tillis wraps up the proceedings at (4:14) asking him to remind the press about his very impressive resume, Safer Community Act, Placement for people in mental health crisis; recruitment surge; mentioned evidence like the celebration of CK shooting and that of the health care CEO, together with ACAB shirts available on line as proof of leftist embrace of violent rhetoric.