is seen as a key vote in the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. | Jose Luis Magana/AP Jan 2025 Kash Patel distances himself from Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons and ‘J6 choir’ “I do not agree with the commutation of any sentence ...
The Senate confirmed Kash Patel to serve as director of the FBI, approving a key ally of President Trump to lead the bureau.
Donald Trump's allies in Congress have lauded Patel's nomination, touting him as the change agent needed at the top of an embattled agency. January 30, 2025 Additional Live Streams Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live Tracking severe storms from Ohio River Valley to Mid-Atla...
But some people close to Trump, including those working on his transition, made the case in recent weeks that perhaps the controversy that would likely accompany Patel’s Senate confirmation process made him a better fit for deputy director of the FBI rather than director. However, those closes...
CBS13 political analyst Gary Dietrich discusses a heated exchange during the confirmation hearing to make Kash Patel the new FBI director, the latest on California's special "Trump-proofing" legislative session and the state's nation-
Patel’s nomination was itself a joke. His confirmation, however, is a national embarrassment, unbefitting a 21st-century global superpower. Serious countries just don’t do things like this. All of which brings us back to that NBC News report from the first week of Trump’s secon...
Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, was at the center of a contentious confirmation hearing Thursday, facing intense grilling from Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee about his past comments and allegiance to Trump. To Republi
President Donald Trump’s pick to run the FBI, Kash Patel, downplayed his past promotion of right-wing conspiracy theories and his pledges to pursue retribution against Trump’s opponents on Thursday at his combative Senate confirmation hearing.
Patel repeatedly declined to say what he testified about and incorrectly claimed that he could not divulge it because of grand jury secrecy.
Patel accused Schiff of telling an "abject lie" and said he never made money off of the song. "I am fit to be the director of the FBI," he said. By Melissa Quinn https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/kash-patel-confirmation-hearing-fbi-director/#post-update-ef337afc ...