Adam Schiff questions FBI Director Kash Patel at a Senate hearing. Patel answers "I did" when asked about the Attorney General's claim that he cleaned house, and calls the Attorney General's statement that no agent who worked on the Mar-a-Lago investigation is still at the FBI truthful. Then he says the bulk of those agents left voluntarily, before he got there, and that they weren't fired because they worked on that investigation.
The receipt
- Who
- Adam Schiff
- Where
- hearing - Senate questioning of FBI Director Kash Patel
- Original footage
- Ethan Caldwell · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 47 seconds, unedited within the cut
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Read the transcript
So the Attorney General says you cleaned the house at the FBI. I did. Was he right? Was he truthful when he said there's not a single agent at the FBI who worked on the Mar -a -Lago investigation still employed by the FBI? The Attorney General is always truthful, so I believe his statement. OK, so they're all gone. Is your testimony today that most of those agents are no longer with the FBI because they decided suddenly to retire? Yeah. They weren't fired in whole or in part because they worked on that investigation. The bulk of individuals that worked on those investigations left shortly thereafter. And they left voluntarily in the prior administration. I'm talking about under your watch, Director Patel. They left before I got there. There's really nothing I can do. So it's your testimony that most of them voluntarily left the bureau they weren't fired.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.