WATCH: Sen. Schiff Slams Latest Kash Patel Embarrassment, Highlights Uncertainty of Iran ‘Deal’

Schiff: "[Patel's] only real qualification is that he was willing to do anything Trump wanted, but that doesn't substitute for being competent at your job. So, we've had embarrassment after embarrassment after embarrassment."

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined MS NOW's The Briefing with Jen Psaki to react to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel's latest embarrassment and new reporting related to the Director operating a personal slush fund for allies at the Bureau.

Schiff also spoke on the Trump administration's still-secret deal with Iran, emphasizing why it does not appear to amount to more than a face-saving agreement that lacks substance and ability to achieve its objectives.

View the full interview here.

Key Excerpts:

On reports of Kash Patel's alleged payments to FBI loyalists:

This is what happens when you take someone who is completely incompetent and you put them in charge of what had been the premier law enforcement agency in the country. He was so unqualified for this position. His only real qualification is that he was willing to do anything Trump wanted, but that doesn't substitute for being competent at your job. So, we've had embarrassment after embarrassment after embarrassment. If these latest allegations are true, it goes beyond embarrassing to potential violations of the law. If he is misappropriating federal funds to pay off people in the bureau or elsewhere, that is a very serious matter. He could find himself under investigation.

[…] He's been an embarrassment on the Epstein files and created problems there, promising that the FBI Director had the black book on his desk, and then he becomes the FBI Director, and suddenly there's no black book. So, it is just a continual embarrassment to the country, to the president, but more important, our public safety is sacrificed by this, by his premature announcements in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and now the premature credit claiming, but investigation potentially compromising statements about this latest plot on the UFC fight.

On future oversight of Trump's corruption:

I don't think we can expect a whole lot from the administration, but we can subpoena the private sector, and they will need to comply. So, all of the crypto deals and meme coin dinners, the UFC fight, all the back channeling on the Paramount Skydance and Warner Brothers mergers, whether there were promises made of changing editorial content, all of that kind of corruption, potential corruption, we will be able to look into.

On the uncertainty over Trump's so-called 'deal' with Iran:

[…] We've seen the administration, the president's representations about how eager the Iranians are for this, or how much the Iranians want that. It's all turned out to be B.S. So, what can we really conclude from what we're about to see? This vague document, this political document? Well, it appears they're not willing to stand behind it. It doesn't say very much. It is basically an agreement to agree at some later point in time, and it shouldn't give really any confidence that there's any of the difficult diplomacy that's been done, or that is likely to be done in the next 60 days. Hard to see how this ends well. It sounds like it will either end in a face-saving non-agreement 60 days from now or a resumption of war.

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