"Like a thug, you're using your agency to go after reporters in a chill to one of the most sacrosanct ideals of the United States of America." Senator Cory Booker D-N.J. rips FBI Director Kash Patel for allegedly using the agency's resources to target journalists.
OPINION: FBI Director Kash Patel was grilled during a Senate hearing about potentially sending FBI agents to polls, and about a new change in the bureau's policy around hiring people who engaged in bestiality. #KashPatel #FBI #Senate
When asked to pledge not to interfere in the November midterms, FBI Director Kash Patel told Sen. Peter Welch, D-VT, that he would “not participate in your charade of lies.” Joe pokes fun at the moment, asking: “What's that even mean?”
“Donald Trump has been lowering hiring standards all over the government, beginning with his Cabinet,” argues MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell as he examines FBI Director Kash Patel’s Senate testimony and why he says it is “sad and dangerous that we have an ignorant clown as an FBI director.”
For the second time in four months, FBI Director Kash Patel was grilled by Democratic senators about his leadership of the bureau. The hourslong, partisan hearing Tuesday was similar to Patel’s previous appearances on Capitol Hill. There were contentious moments as Democrats pressed him on the firings of agents involved in investigations of President Donald Trump and whether the FBI would interfere in the midterm elections. MS NOW legal analyst and former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade joins Way Too Early to break it all down.
The Weeknight hosts and MS NOW Legal Analyst Mary McCord react to FBI Director Kash Patel defending a newly revised FBI hiring practice involving bestiality during a Senate hearing earlier today.
“Donald Trump has been lowering hiring standards all over the government, beginning with his Cabinet,” argues MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell as he examines FBI Director Kash Patel’s Senate testimony and why he says it is “sad and dangerous that we have an ignorant clown as an FBI director.”
FBI Director Kash Patel went before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to answer questions about the agency, its hiring policies and more. Patel touted what he asserted was record-breaking success with reducing crime in the U.S. Meanwhile, some senators accused Patel of abusing FBI resources. More: https://tinyurl.com/3esm2ey3 #KashPatel #Senate #FBI
On Tuesday's "The Daily Take": NewsNation's Connell McShane and Geraldo Rivera discuss FBI Director Kash Patel's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, specifically when Patel said there would be an FBI presence at election polling sites. "The Kash Patel hearing reminded me also of the Hillary Clinton and Benghazi [hearing]. So insulting, so ad hominem," Rivera says. #KashPatel #Senatehearing #FBI Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Connell McShane. Weekdays starting at 3p/2C. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
After a protester was removed from a Senate Judiciary hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Patel had a heated exchange where Booker called Patel a "mockery."