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guests Two more of Donald Trump's top officials crashed under cross examination during congressional hearings today. First in the United States Senate. Donald Trump's FBI director, Cash Patel completely folded during cross examination, especially regarding some of the stories that been written about Cash Patel recently. He became unglued. He started yelling, ranting and raving like a lunatic. I'll show you what went down there. You're not going to want to miss this. Then separately in the House of Representatives, Donald Trump's Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Scott Turner demonstrated that he has no clue what his department even does. He didn't have a command or even any understanding of some basic facts about his department. And then he continued to look lie and it was just really uncomfortable to watch just how bad he did. So let me show you what went down. This is the Midas Touch network where we bring receipts. As a reminder, make sure you hit subscribe. Help us get to 7 million subscribers. So first I want to show you FBI Director Cash Patel blowing up as Senator Van Hollen asked him some very basic questions about the allegations that were reported in the Atlantic. And just look how Kash Patel looks. He looks unkempt. He's got the kind of button missing from the shirt. It's really ugly. Here, let's play this clip as do
Kash Patel
the men and women of the interagency and state and local law enforcement in the White House.
Senator Van Hollen
And so there have been no occasions when your security detail had difficulty waking or locating you, is that right?
Kash Patel
Nope. It's a total farce. I don't even know where you get this stuff. But it doesn't make it credible because you say so.
Senator Van Hollen
I'm not saying it, Director Patel. It's been written and documented.
Kash Patel
You are literally saying it.
Senator Van Hollen
No, I'm saying that these are reports,
Kash Patel
Director Patel, unlike, unlike baseless reports, the only person was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gang banging rapist was you. You know, the Only person that ran up a thousand dollar bar tab in Washington D.C. at the lobby was you.
Senator Van Hollen
This the only individual in this room.
Kash Patel
Allegations drinking on taxpayer dime during.
Senator Van Hollen
Are you polygraphing you, Director Patel? Come on. These are serious allegations that were made against you. They're allegations are false.
Kash Patel
Filed you drinking margaritas with a gang
Senator Van Hollen
just goes to show you running a
Kash Patel
$7,000 bar tab at bar has been filed by your own office. Goes to show during the day that's you. This is the ultimate example of hypocrisy.
Senator Van Hollen
Chairman.
Kash Patel
I will not be tarnished by baseless allegations, fraudulent statements from the media.
Senator Van Hollen
The fact that you mentioned that indicates you don't know what you are talking about. Now here direct.
Kash Patel
Only thing I know is you're the one drinking margaritas with fellas.
Senator Van Hollen
Actually that's a false statement. And I'm asking you about your statements. I've answered that and I'm asking you about a particular report and it's not a report. So let me ask you this. Are you willing to take the. The test that it's. It's called the audit test that members of our active duty military and others take to determine whether they have a drinking problem.
Kash Patel
I'll take any test you're willing to take.
Senator Van Hollen
I will take it.
Kash Patel
Doc.
Senator Van Hollen
Director Pateli. I'll take it. You ready to take it?
Kash Patel
Let's go.
Senator Van Hollen
Yes or no.
Kash Patel
Let's go side by side.
Senator Van Hollen
I'll take it. All right.
Narrator/Host
More from Senator Van Hollen Cross examining Cash Patel right here. And then Cash Patel starts to lie and attack Senator Van Hollen. You see how insecure, how defensive, how unqualified, frankly, how dumb Cash Patel looks. But you can judge for yourself. Here, play this clip.
Senator Van Hollen
Have you had a chance to listen to or read about Brian Driscoll's statements about what you said to him and the reasons for him firing?
Kash Patel
No, I have not, sir.
Senator Van Hollen
So let me. Let me just say this, Mr. Director. In your response to me earlier where you had a little bit of a blow up, you made a couple provably false statements.
Kash Patel
So did you.
Senator Van Hollen
No, I. Mr. Director, I was reading about and asking you and asking you to respond to allegations that are made. In fact, I was giving you an opportunity to do that and you took that opportunity. But in the process, you made these provably false statements that I know are sort of like urban legend in right wing media about margaritas in El Salvador, which is provably false. And so coming from the mouth of an FBI director to make provably false statements in a hearing like this is extremely troubling. And it. It leads me to ask whether or not the other things you've been saying are false statements. And so my. Because that was. That's a provably false statement. You made a couple others that are provably false. And this is from the mouth of the FBI director.
Kash Patel
The only one final statements is you.
Senator Van Hollen
My final question to you, Mr. Director, is do you know that it is a crime to lie to Congress? You know that. That's my last question.
Kash Patel
I have not lied to Congress.
Senator Van Hollen
I didn't ask you that.
Kash Patel
The Congress is you.
Ryan Reynolds
Do you.
Senator Van Hollen
I'm not testifying here, sir, and I don't lie.
Kash Patel
Maybe the next time you run up a $7,000 bar tab, we can talk about it.
Senator Van Hollen
Well, see, there you go line again. You suggest the FEC report. I'll post it.
Kash Patel
Right.
Senator Van Hollen
You suggested it was public. It wasn't public money. As you know. That was for a 50 member staff party.
Kash Patel
So it was a $7,000 bar tab.
Senator Van Hollen
Mr. Patel, I'm glad. Let me just say in closing, Mr. Chairman, two things. I'm glad that you have agreed to take the test regarding, you know, whether you have alcohol problems. I'm glad you agreed with me to do that. You still haven't answered my final question. Do you know, Mr. Director, that it is a crime to lie to Congress? Do you know that
Kash Patel
I do not lie to Congress.
Senator Van Hollen
I didn't ask you that.
Kash Patel
You're insinuating that I am.
Senator Van Hollen
I asked you want. Whether you know.
Kash Patel
You want to correct your time in this session where you got steamrolled by the facts so you can have a Twitter narrative, raise more money and spend more money on $7,000.
Senator Van Hollen
Just let the record. The director of the FBI apparently does not want to answer the question about whether or not it's a crime to lie to Congress. And I find that extremely troubling.
Kash Patel
I find it troubling. You lie to the American people every day.
Senator Van Hollen
You are a disgrace. Mr. Director. The fact that you can't answer that question.
Narrator/Host
More from Senator Van Hollen Cross examining Keshe Patel right here regarding allegations that Patel forces FBI officials to undergo polygraph test about whether their sources to media outlets like the Atlantic and others, because Patel is very paranoid about these stories about him. Let's play this clip.
Senator Van Hollen
You ordered polygraph tests of members of your team to determine how that story came about.
Kash Patel
The FBI conducts polygraph tests all the time.
Ryan Reynolds
No.
Senator Van Hollen
Have you ordered polygraph tests for members of your team to determine who was the source of the stories that I'M asking you about.
Kash Patel
I don't order any polygraph tests. There's an internal inspection review process for any and all leaks, especially of baseless information at the FBI that's been in place for the last 30 years. Those processes are followed by career intelligence and agents on the ground.
Senator Van Hollen
So I'll take that as a yes. Since you said that these were. These were unauthorized disclosures, I have another round of question regarding your firing people who were important to gathering intelligence with respect to Iran. But I'll wait for my second round then.
Narrator/Host
Cash Patel says that he was actually working when he was at the Olympics and we saw him. Or when he was at. Yeah, when he was at the Olympics and we saw him holding a beer and he looked like he was chugging it, which would seem to just destroy any defamation case he has. Just based on saying, I was working and I'm drinking in the locker room. But okay, good for you, Cash. So embarrassing for the FBI. Let's play it.
Kash Patel
I have to ask you one last question. You attended the Olympics in Milan. How much did your trip cost and to what extent did that help you carry out your mission as director of the FBI? I greatly appreciate the question, Senator. As you know, the FBI and DHS are responsible for the security of the Olympics, the World cup, the F1, the Super bowl, and everything else. We had 250,000Americans travel to Milan. We're proud that we stood up our jock there and had zero major security incidents of American citizens. And what we did was we purposely planned that trip around the Olympics because, as I mentioned in my opening, the top cyber criminal from the CCP was housed in Italian custody. While there, we were able to work an agreement, an arrangement, to have that individual expelled from Italy instead of going back to China, like has so often happened in places like Serbia. And so we accomplished that mission and we kept it quiet and that individual's return to America two weeks ago.
Narrator/Host
And then finally, more cross examination here from Senator Van Hollen of Kash Patel. Play this clip.
Senator Van Hollen
Director Patel, I've been listening carefully to your responses to some of my colleagues, and I want to start with a question that Senator Coons asked you that relates to this article where the headline is Cash Patel's latest firing Firings Ousted agents with Expertise in Iran. The article says that these individuals were fired for their role in the classified documents investigations of Donald Trump. First of all, is that true?
Kash Patel
The article, just like all the other articles you cited, is false. And there's ongoing litigation, so I can't address it.
Senator Van Hollen
Okay. Did you, you did answer, Senator Coons. And I understood your answer to be that the people that were fired, that none of them were part of the group that had Iran expertise. Is that, is that your answer?
Kash Patel
No. He asked if they were Iran experts. I said they were not.
Senator Van Hollen
Do you, did the, were the group fired? Did it include people who are Iran experts?
Congressmember Quigley
No.
Senator Van Hollen
Did it include people who were involved in counter espionage activities with respect to Iran?
Kash Patel
I don't have the list in front of me.
Senator Van Hollen
So you don't know whether or not you fired people with counter executive counter espionage experience with respect to Iran? You don't know the answer to that question.
Kash Patel
I terminated anyone and everyone that weaponized law enforcement.
Senator Van Hollen
I see. So it was related obviously to the classified documents case.
Kash Patel
So that's not what I said before
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Congressmember Quigley
Let me jump on. You said something else there. It's something like equal rights, not extra rights. Can I ask who. What group you're referring to for extra rights?
Scott Turner
Equal rights, not extra.
Congressmember Quigley
When you talk about getting extra rights.
Scott Turner
When you talk about the Fair Housing Act. It's our job at HUD to uphold and to enforce the fair housing respectfully.
Congressmember Quigley
Who's getting extra?
Scott Turner
So we want to go. We want to go after real discrimination and not phantom discrimination.
Congressmember Quigley
Who's getting fan? Who's being phantomly discriminated against?
Scott Turner
We want to go after real discrimination, sir, not phantom discrimination.
Congressmember Quigley
All right, then answer this question. Who's actually being discriminated against?
Scott Turner
We're going after real discrimination.
Congressmember Quigley
Who. Okay, does that.
Scott Turner
Equal rights.
Kash Patel
I guess according to the Fair Housing
Congressmember Quigley
act, this is why not extra Hopwa. Because you think seven classes.
Scott Turner
It's seven classes.
Congressmember Quigley
I'm claiming my time.
Narrator/Host
Yes, sir.
Congressmember Quigley
I'm going to take a wild guess that you think LGBTQ people are getting extra rights and privileges, which is why you cut Hopwa, despite the fact that NIH has said that many studies have shown that access to housing is associated with better outcomes. That's why Hopwa that you cut completely. 90 to 95% of the people in Hopwa supportive housing are meeting their HIV medication goals. It's well below half for people who are homeless. So you cut housing Hopwa grants. Is this because you think LGBTQ people are getting extra rights?
Scott Turner
Sir, I did not say LGBTQ or getting extra.
Congressmember Quigley
I'm asking you who you think is getting extra rights.
Scott Turner
Our job is inference.
Congressmember Quigley
Pretty good inference.
Scott Turner
Our job is to. Is to have a paradigm shift for all people that are homeless.
Congressmember Quigley
Why cut home?
Scott Turner
Our job is to make sure that we're treating people that are homeless to transform people.
Congressmember Quigley
All right, I got that answer. So it's not what cut so disproportionately cut in Hopwa. Why cut Hopwa?
Scott Turner
Sir, we're on a budget. This is a budget. Hopwa is part of the budget. All American people are part of the budget. We're not singling out Hopwa.
Congressmember Quigley
You single them out. You just cut them to zero. That's pretty much the definition of singling them out.
Scott Turner
We propose it to go to Emergency Solutions grant, sir.
Narrator/Host
And then you have some great cross examination by Congressmember Clyburn. Let's play it.
Scott Turner
So if you are mentally ill, in need of housing, then because you have not been treated by the appropriate agency, we're going to render you homeless. Sir, that's the natural conclusion to your step. It actually is not. My statement is saying we can't just house people. We have to continue to care for them to get them housing. And we are housing firm. We got to house them first, second and third. It doesn't just house them if you take all the money away. Housing first. Housing first is a failed model, sir. I know slogan there. So I'm not dealing with slogan there in here. I'm not even house people. When you take the money away.
Narrator/Host
Then you have Congresswoman Torres asking some very basic questions to Turner about housing grants for people in California whose homes got burned down in the fires from January 2025 and why those grants haven't been actually fulfilled yet while the people of California and Altadena and the Palisades are suffering. Let's play this clip.
Congresswoman Torres
And I both know how important CDBG Dr. Grants are for long term recovery. You've been to these sites, as I mentioned. These communities have already been told by the federal government that yes, it is a disaster and yes, they deserve the help. When is the administration going to submit a package, a disaster package for California?
Scott Turner
Well, thank you, ma', am. And thank you for your question. As you have alluded to, I have been there. We visited Altadena and we visited the Palisades and I had an opportunity to talk with the family members and pastors that lost churches, families that lost schools. And these families do want to rebuild, as you know.
Congresswoman Torres
Yes, but when, when is the administration going to submit that request?
Scott Turner
Yes, ma'.
Ryan Reynolds
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Scott Turner
Well, as you know, you know, you all are the appropriators of that.
Congresswoman Torres
I know. But my question is to you.
Scott Turner
I understand.
Congresswoman Torres
When is the White House going to do that?
Scott Turner
I understand.
Congresswoman Torres
If you're not able to answer that question.
Scott Turner
Well, that's okay. I do have just one thing to say is that you know a lot of large. In part the problem. Part of the problem, from what I understand and talking to the locals, is with local leadership.
Congressmember Quigley
Okay.
Scott Turner
And the stewardship. I would like to have an opportunity
Congresswoman Torres
to discuss with you and your staff at length since you were not able to give me an answer here today. There shouldn't be any mention of any supplemental like the Iran illegal Iran war without giving California what it needs. California pays $275 billion more in federal taxes than it receives in federal funding. Every single program, every agency in this government is subsidized by hardworking Californians that have been injured, no fault of their own. And they deserve a government that is responsive to them in their time of need.
Narrator/Host
Then you can see right here, Congresswoman DeLauro realizes HUD Secretary Scott Turner doesn't really know what he's doing even as he's reading from his notes. Let's play this clip.
Congresswoman DeLauro
Secretary, how many beds of permanent supportive housing are funded by this program?
Scott Turner
Well, thank you, Mr. DeLora.
Congresswoman DeLauro
I really appreciate the number because I'm
Scott Turner
going to run the housing first model, as you said, and as I said before, is indeed a failed model, with all due respect. And we need to change the way. We don't know the answer to the question.
Congresswoman DeLauro
The answer to the question is it's roughly 170. 70,000 beds of permanent supportive housing funded by the program. How many permanent supportive housing beds are proposed to be eliminated in the fiscal year 2027 budget request?
Scott Turner
Ma', am, I believe that we'll be able to serve more people. It's going to be 170,000 proposing to do COC.
Congresswoman DeLauro
Do you know how many formerly homeless people could lose their housing under this budget proposal?
Scott Turner
What are you saying?
Congresswoman DeLauro
I'm asking you. What do you. What can you tell us how many formerly homeless people could lose their housing under your budget proposal?
Scott Turner
What I can say is that we'll be able to serve more people.
Congresswoman DeLauro
Okay. It's estimated to be more than 217,000 people, including children, who currently rely on continuum of care funded housing. That would not be continued under this proposal. Mr. Secretary, do you know what is the fastest growing population among people experiencing homelessness is.
Scott Turner
Ma', am, what I do know is that we have record funding and we have records.
Congresswoman DeLauro
Tell me about the fastest growing population among people experiencing homeless. This is your job to know.
Scott Turner
I'm here to listen. My job is to make sure that we're actually serving the people that are homeless.
Congresswoman DeLauro
Let me just say the answer is 146,000 seniors were experiencing homelessness in the most recent data. As many as 40% of people assisted in permanent supportive housing funded by the Continuum of Care program. Older adults who are formerly homeless and now have achieved some stability. Do you know which communities would suffer the most permanent supportive housing losses if CoC continuum of care is eliminated?
Scott Turner
Well, ma', am, I think a lot of communities are suffering right now under the housing first model, to be honest.
Congresswoman DeLauro
Well, let me just answer the question. It is primarily rural and suburban communities where more than 50% of beds are paid for by federal dollars. Let me just tell you, my colleagues might be interested in this. In Oklahoma, 100% of permanent supportive housing beds are paid for by federal funds. 98% in Arizona 98% in Montana, 82% in Kentucky and Indiana. So people can understand the supportive services component of supportive housing. Can you provide some examples of supportive services?
Scott Turner
Well man, what I can provide is that when I came in the HUD, I learned that we had almost 800000 people that were homeless.
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Episode: Trump FBI Director Comes Unglued Under Cross Exam at Hearing
Date: May 13, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas (MeidasTouch Network)
In this episode, the Meiselas brothers dissect the chaotic congressional hearings featuring two top Trump officials: Trump-appointed FBI Director Kash Patel and HUD Secretary Scott Turner. The episode focuses on their controversial testimonies, highlighting moments where both officials appeared unprepared, defensive, or uninformed under cross-examination from congressional Democrats. The brothers use humor and sharp political commentary to underscore the threats to democratic norms presented by these officials, while celebrating tough questioning from Senators and Representatives holding these officials accountable.
Appearance and Demeanor:
The host notes Patel appeared "unkempt" and "really ugly," adding that the whole exchange was "embarrassing for the FBI." (00:42)
Accusations of Drunkenness and Hypocrisy:
Challenge to Take Alcohol Abuse Assessment:
Refusal to Answer on Lying to Congress:
Paranoia and Polygraph Tests:
Patel is pressed on whether he ordered polygraph tests at the FBI to find sources for negative stories about himself.
Olympics Trip Justification:
Patel defends an Olympics trip, claiming it was for official FBI business, despite public images showing him drinking beer.
Firing Iran Counterintelligence Agents:
Patel avoids directly answering if he fired Iran experts, denying, then obfuscating:
‘Extra Rights’ Talking Point:
Turner claims HUD should protect “equal rights, not extra rights,” but cannot specify which groups supposedly get “extra rights.”
Ducking Accountability for Grant Cuts:
Turner is pressed about zeroing out funding for HOPWA (Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS) grants.
Mental Health and ‘Housing First’:
California Disaster Grant Delays:
Turner fails to provide a timeline for disaster relief for Californians displaced by fires.
Basic Knowledge Test – Permanent Supportive Housing:
Turner does not know how many beds are funded by HUD or proposed to be cut, leaving Rep. DeLauro to supply the statistics:
Failure to Identify Fastest Growing Homeless Population:
Kash Patel:
Sen. Van Hollen:
Scott Turner:
Rep. DeLauro:
This episode is a case study in government dysfunction and evasion exposed through rigorous congressional oversight. The Meiselas brothers bring their signature blend of wit and righteous anger to highlight two Trump appointees in free fall under questioning—Patel for his erratic, combative stance, and Turner for his fundamental ignorance of his own agency’s operations. The brothers’ use of direct debate transcripts and well-placed commentary makes the episode both entertaining and illuminating for those concerned about democratic values, accountability, and competence in government.