JOHN SOLOMON (HOST): You and I have been branded together in a story by Philip Bump at The Washington Post. And I want to tell you this. I want to tell this part of the story. I just sent a note to his bosses about this because it's so outrageous. He called me 20 minutes before the story was posted, and I worked at The Washington Post; there's an editing process. That means he already wrote the story and sent it to his editors before he even asked about my side of the story and -- or your side of the story. I don't know what he said to your request for comment, but he already had the story and his headline and everything made up, and I was an afterthought.
But you know, the insinuation of the story that somehow you and I are involved in the secreting of the documents, the withholding of the information, having access to the documents that there. I mean, that's what he basically insinuates.
I know why I'm on there. I'm not, as a journalist, trying to find the missing Russia-collusion documents. And as a result of the narrow access that the president gave me at my request as a journalist, we were able to solve what happened to the Russia-collusion documents that were declassified. But when you look at that, I just want to ask you, because he didn't give you a chance to obviously get comment before he wrote the story and send it to his editors, do you have anything to do with the documents at Mar-a-Lago? Were you involved in the raid? The insinuation is that somehow you've had access to these documents at Mar-a-Lago.
KASH PATEL: No, I have never had access to these documents at Mar-a-Lago. I didn't even know they were there. And, you know, this is what these people living in this gray world of insinuation, it's their massive disinformation campaign that they want the American public to read and be like “Yep, there's something going on here.” And then they want the left-wing media to make up for the radical headlines that are false. You know, “John Solomon and Kash Patel conspired to break into the National Archives and steal documentation and plant it in Mar-a-Lago, the biggest crime of the century.”
And then it all turns out to be, of course, as it is false. But they have their headline and they have their insinuation and that's why The Washington Post and their subscription is at the lowest levels in modern history, and it's still going down. And they haven't figured out the media angle of it, that this raid has made President Trump more popular than he's ever been since he left the White House
