

president, and I can't work for the federal government for more than eight years, which I think is a good thing, then none of those bureaucrats reporting to me should be able to either.

“Well, the problem is there are people who have worked there for decades,” Ramaswamy concluded. “Alright, it does sound like you’re just replacing the FBI with the FBI,” Todd pressed again. “Well with a new institution built from scratch to carry out for the law enforcement because the existing FBI, the people who work there, have worked there for so long that actually they’re going to be getting in their own way,” the conservative entrepreneur proclaimed. Interrupting his guest, the NBC host asked if this just meant that the candidate was merely “going to replace the FBI with a new FBI.” Ramaswamy, meanwhile, stuck to his talking points. “And I think that, yes, we need federal law enforcement, but that institution has, in a bipartisan way, become so, I think ossified in its own norms, in its own corruption, that we need to rebuild it from scratch and have something new take its place,” he added.
