The Adam Mockler Show - Kash MELTS DOWN After Hearing BACKFIRES BADLY

Episode Date: May 13, 2026

Adam Mockler breaks down a chaotic Senate hearing where FBI Director Kash Patel erupted at lawmakers questioning him about explosive allegations involving drinking, leadership concerns, and internal dysfunction at the bureau. As senators accuse Patel of lying, dodging questions, and acting unprofessionally, critics say the hearing exposed deeper instability inside Trump’s FBI leadership. Click below for premium Adam Mockler content 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@adammockler/join 👉 https://adammockler.com/subscribe JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamMockler/ Discord: https://discord.gg/y9yzMU3Gff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adammockler/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adammockler.com/ Twitter: https://x.com/adammocklerr/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adammockler Contact: [e-mail] Business inquiries: [e-mail] Adam Mockler - Mockler Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FBI director Cash Patel, does he get enough publicity? If you could get a little more publicity, it would be very... Trust me, after today, Donald Trump is going to wish that he didn't say that, and I've had to make a prediction. Cash Patel is going to be probably the next person out of this administration. We have seen Donald Trump go down the line as, you know, he's cognitively declining, he's losing his mind. He wants to go after his political opponents, and the people around him he feels can't get it done.

So, you know, Pam Bondi, gone. Christy Nome, gone. Who's next? Well, might be Cash Patel, especially after today. Saw this meme online. Cash Patel, Beers No, Biers 1, Epstein Arrest, Zero. Obviously, this is, you know, a picture that I feel like has now come back to haunt Cash Patel. Again, after his hearing today that we're going to get into.

First, I want to play this clip. This is former FBI director James Comey talking a little bit about the idea of being FBI director and that you can't be drunk on the job. And the testimony we saw today when Cash Patel is being directly asked about these allegations. He loses his damn mind. We're going to talk about it.

Before we get into all of it, my name is Chris Maui. I do a daily video here on the Atamakler channel. And meet a lot if you go right down below, make sure you hit like and subscribe on this video and check out my YouTube channel, Christy Maui, getting closer and closer to 250,000 subscribers.

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It helps us out when you go down, hit like, like and share the video. Excuse me, helps us in the algorithm. You guys are the best. All right, let's hop right into this. Take a listen to this from James Comey. There's, I assume the rules about not drinking on, on property, you know, are there, you know, for, for standards reasons at the FBI, but just as a broader part about responsibility.

Like, you need to be on your game if something comes up. Yes. 24 hours a day. It's the reason that the FBI director gets no vacation because the idea is you're on all the time. And so I could never be intoxicated. I remember I went to a wedding in Iowa of one of my wife's family members. And I went to the wedding reception and I'm sure I had a drink or two. But it was really important that I not be intoxicated. So I went back to my room early, left my wife to party with the relatives. She came home. And she may have had more glasses than I had. And then she, so she accidentally placed something on top of an emergency button that the security team had placed in the room. And so within 10 seconds, there was a pounding on the door. And she opened the door, and there were stacks of agents in their underwear.

And so she looked out in the hallway and down either side of the hall, what they call law enforcement a stack. So agents stacked one behind the other with their weapons out, demanding to see me. And she said, he's fine. I can see he's over in the bed sleeping. And they said, man, we need to come in and see the director. And she said, okay, she let one of the agents step in and see me sleeping.

I slept through the whole thing, believe it or not, and was not drunk, but slept through the whole thing. So to my mind, when I heard stories about it, whether true or not I don't know, of the agents being unable to reach the director, reminded me of that story. They found it on the door and what needed to see the director. And, of course, there I was, not intoxicated, but asleep. I mean, that is absolutely nuts, but give some really needed perspective about the story that we heard that, again, Cash Patel, we got this bombshell article that he, you know, drinks a lot. He's had to be helped because he's been heavily intoxicated. And he was so intoxicated he couldn't be reached.

And they had to use essentially, like, the SWAT uses this equipment to, you know, barge down doors. They had to use that equipment, pull out that team to get Cash Patel, like, to be able to make sure he was okay. And that's, you know, when you hear a story like this, wow, that's nuts. They had to go through that, those lengths. You know, because here within 10 seconds, in the middle of the night, they're banging on the door. His wife answers, we need to see the FBI director now really shows, you know, how intoxicated Cash Patel must have been. This will make sense in a second.

But again, this is kind of will give you an idea of how Cash Fettel's day went. FBI director, Cash Patel, fact check. Chris Van Hollen, they went back and forth. I'm about to show you the video. FBI Director Cashfell. Cashtraal accuses Chris Van Hollen of spending, you know, $7,000 and an open bar for, you know, because he drinks in the middle of the day. People quick to point out. Fact check. Catering for event. Nobody said it was your bar tab. You drunk. This person says you drunk a little quote, you drunk little midgett. Again, B lobby bar. Purpose of disbursement catering for event.

I guess Cash Patel feels like catering for if you spend $7,000 catering for a big event in a bar. That means you spend $7,000. on drinks. Let's take a listen. Here we are. Testimony of Kashyap Patel. Taken in the presence of a full quorum of the grand jury. Thursday, October 13th, 2022. Good, we're good to go. Oh, man, they were exhibits. And all the exhibits have been redacted.

Not much there. Oh, no info there. Everything redacted. Everything redacted. Redacted? Redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, until the court reporter says, okay, we're off the record. Except for one thing. This one line shows Tash Patel saying, so, upon the advice of counsel, I'll be invoking my Fifth Amendment privilege.

So this is when he asserted his privilege. Not what he testified. So the search must go on. So that was Cash Patel testifying in relation to Jeffrey Epstein. We really learned nothing. He asserted his Fifth Amendment rights, which I want to point out raises a lot, a lot, a lot of questions that not enough people are talking about.

Let's go to Cash Patel and Senator Van Hollen. got to watch this clip, and I'll show you some more of cashmettel melting down today. Take a listen. So there have been no occasions during your tenure when FBI personnel were unable to promptly reach you? Absolutely not. You can ask my entire workforce. They hear from me at every single hour of the day, as do these great gentlemen here, as do the men and women of the interagency and state and local law enforcement and the White House. And so there have been no occasions when your security detail had difficulty waking or locating you. Is that right? Nope, it's a total force. I don't even know where you get this stuff, but it doesn't make it credible. because you say so.

I'm not saying it, Director Patel. It's been written and documented. You are literally saying it. No, I'm saying that these are reports, Director Patel. Unlike your baseless reports, the only person that was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gang-banging rapist was you. You know, the fact that ran up a $7,000 bar tab in Washington, D.C. This suggests to me.

Was you. This suggests to me. Allegations are true. taxpayer dime during the day is you. Are you apolling? Director Patel, come on. These are serious allegations that were made against you. There are a lawsuit that you filed.

You drinking margaritas with a gang you're true and on video. You running a $7,000 bar tab at the lobby bar has been filed by your own office to drink during the day. That's you. Are you willing to take the test that it's called the audit test

that members of our active duty, military, and others take to determine whether they have a drinking problem. I'll take any test you're willing to take it. I will take it, Director Patelli, I'll take it. You ready to take it? Let's go. Yes or no? Let's go. Side by side. I'll take it.

All right. So Cash Patel says he'll take it, so I want to see that. But this two minute and 11 second clip, it's such an embarrassment for this country. It is so embarrassing. Cash Patel is acting like a child, and again, this whole thing started because cash patel said you're you're saying this you're making this accusation senator van hall is being very you know professional there and respectful just reading the whole you know

90% of the reason they're there to talk about this law this you know bombshell article that we got so he's saying i'm not making these claims i'm just asking you about this huge article we all know about cash patel losing his damn mind and then acting like a complete partisan child and it's so again it is so disgraceful we have the reporting that not only is the drinking absolutely true, but he is so paranoid to lose his job. And these people have no shame. Like this guy has literally no shame. He will defend Donald Trump at every single instance. And his only way out, the only way to do that is to act like a complete manchild like Donald Trump does and make claims like Senator Van Hollen ran up $7,000 at an open bar because he drinks during the day.

When this is literally just a FAC form three itemized disbursement, excuse me, When he catered an event, you know, as under, you know, his Senate campaign, Van Hollen for Senate, that's not very unusual. Costs a lot of money to have 100 people at a bar, you know, for a Senate event. It costs a lot of money to run for office. So to spend $7,000, quote, catering for event and then to frame that as Senator Van Hollen, $7,000 on an open bar is so incredibly, incredibly dishonest. Let's go to the next one. We need a serious budget. But we also need serious leadership.

And I will say this. There is one clear priority in Trump's overall budget, and it isn't law and order. It is war. Because while Trump is proposing cuts to programs that really do keep people safe, he wants to increase war spending by half a trillion dollars. And I don't need to tell anyone here we are not going to bomb our way to safer communities. So I intend to help rip that budget up and write bills that keep family safe.

but beyond that budget. We need serious leadership at the FBI that the American people can trust. And I am deeply concerned about the reports that your leadership has not been serious. We need somebody at this agency who's focused on solving criminal cases, not passing out branded bourbon

or jetting around the globe. Your job is to be reachable. And I know Senator Van Hollen asked you about this, but I got to say if you want to pass out liquor liquor or pop bottles in a locker room, stick to podcasting, leave law in order to people who really do care about justice and appearances. That is really critical. And it's what I am really deeply concerned about and so are many people. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Can I respond? This is what real leadership looks like at the FBI. Every one of you was given it. This is what's

happened under my tenure at the FBI and the Trump administration. 20-point drop in the homicides. side rate. Forty-five thousand violent offenders arrested last year twice as many as 2024. 2450 criminal gangs disrupted. That's a 32% increase from 2024. 6,900 trial victims have been located since I've been in the seat. That's 144% increase. 2,900 child predators and human traffickers arrested. That's a 70% increase. And we've arrested eight of the top 10 most wanted fugitives in the world in 14 months. That's twice as many in the four years combined. That is what the men women of the FBI are doing well-resourced. Everyone should take a look at this. If people want to continue the baseless, fraudulent false personal attacks at me, that's great. Keep the target on me,

as I've always said, but the mission has never been better. Mr. Chairman, if I could just respond to those. Senator Murray. I appreciate the work of our FBI agents. But leadership, serious leadership, is a concern. And we are seeing the pictures of passing out branded bourbon and what happened at the Olympics, jetting around the globe and all the rest of it. And that, I will say again, Mr. Chairman, is of deep concern to me. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Senator Fisher. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, exactly. And that was really, really well said in the beginning. And I appreciate Senator Murray, excuse me, his response, you know, saying, look, like, I appreciate the work of the FBI, but you're not addressing any of what I just said, the deep concerns about leadership, the, you know,

falling apart in hyper-politization of the FBI, just like the DOJ and the CDC and all the rest of the three-letter agencies that are being, you know, all the civil servants are being replaced with loyalists. But also, like, you know, a lot of cash-battle statistics, I would imagine are dishonest, knowing this administration, but I also know, like, some of the things he's saying just shouldn't be touted. The bar is in the ground. This is, you're the FBI director. You're like, look, I do my job. Amazing. Maybe you should be more reachable. One of those was, a 20% or 20 point, I think he said, a reduction in the homicide rates. Like, you know, violent crime and the homicide rate has been consistently declining in this country

for like 50 straight years, Republican Democrat, left, right, up down, it's always been going down. That trend has not changed under Donald J. Trump. It's going down. So it's like, look, violent crime rates drop. It's like, wow, they've been dropping every year for 50 years straight, obviously generally on a, you know, it's not a stray line. It's obviously a little bumpy, but continues, obviously, there's a clear trend downward. So it's like some of these things are just not particularly impressive to me. Again, this was the Cash Patel meltdown. And it's so insane to watch that

happen, especially with Senator Van Hollen being so respectful. Let's go to one last clip here. Take a listen. Have you had a chance to listen to or read about Brian Driscoll's statement? about what you said to him and the reasons for him firing? No, I have not, sir. So 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. So did you.

No, 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 trouble. And 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 of those that are provably false. And this is from the mouth of the FBI director. The only one final statements is you. 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. I have not lied to Congress. I didn't ask you that. I'm not testifying here, sir, and I don't lie. Maybe the next time you run up a $7,000 bar tab, we can talk about it.

Well, see, there you go. Lying again, you suggest. In the FPC report, I'll post it right now. You suggested it was public. It wasn't public money, as you know. That was for a 50-member staff. So it wasn't $7,000 bar tab. 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 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? I do not lie to Congress. I didn't ask you that. And you're insinuating that I am. I asked you whether you know... You want to correct your time in this session where you got steamrolled by the facts so you can have a Twitter narrative to raise more money.

and spend more money on $7,000 dollar tax. Just let the record show, Mr. Chairman. 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. I find it troubling that you lie to the American people every day. You were a disgrace, Mr. Director. The fact that you can't answer that question, I will, I will,

that concludes my question, Mr. Chairman, but I'm obviously very troubled. Man, huge shout-outs to Senator Van Hollen. Okay, Cash Patel is a little man-baby. And, like, again, it is so important in politics that you have people who know what they're doing and are not children. Senator Van Hollen, obviously, caring about what he does as opposed to this guy right here.

What a loser. Let me know what you think of all this in the comments down below. Make sure you hit like and subscribe on this video and check on my YouTube channel. My name is Chris Maurer. I do a daily video here on the Adam Ackler channel. I appreciate each and every one of you, and I will see you in the next one.