At a Senate hearing, Sen. Adam Schiff, citing Todd Blanche, presses FBI Director Kash Patel on whether agents who worked on the January 6 and Mar-a-Lago investigations of the president were pushed out. Patel answers that the FBI has "high standards," says "there was no purging," and that "many retired," before Schiff asks again whether any were fired in whole or in part for working those cases.
The receipt
- Who
- Sen. Adam Schiff
- Where
- hearing - Senate hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel
- Original footage
- Ethan Caldwell · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 58 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
My question is, were those agents, as Todd Blanche indicated, also purged from the FBI under your watch because they had worked on the January 6 investigation? The FBI has one specific and simple standard. If you don't meet our high standards, that's not my question. I'm getting there. If you don't meet those standards, you don't get to work at the FBI. Take a little less time to get there if you would were they purged because they worked on the January 6 investigation of the president There was no purging and there are individuals who worked on a whole host of investigation. Were any of those agents were any of those agents fired? Many retired Let me finish the question. Go ahead were any of the agents who worked on the Mar -a -Lago investigation or the January 6 investigation? investigation where any of those agents fired in whole or in part because they worked on those investigations.
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