At a Senate hearing, a senator presses Kash Patel on the deployment of "so many hundreds of FBI agents to Georgia" over an election that "had two recounts, one by hand." Patel says a judge "found a sufficiency of probable cause" for the action but refuses to say whether any indictment exists, calling it an ongoing investigation.
The receipt
- Who
- Kash Patel
- Where
- hearing - Senate oversight hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel
- Original footage
- Victor Hernandez Crochet · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 57 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
Is that number accurate? As I've said, Senator, repeatedly public reporting is often wrong. And on terms of the investigation you're referring to, we presented a federal judge or a state court judge with a presentation of evidence and he found a sufficiency of probable cause to execute that. And have you issued, has there been a single indictment from this deployment of so many hundreds of FBI agents to Georgia to investigate an election that had two recounts one by hand, a single indictment. Once again that matter is ongoing so I'm not going to comment on it. No the question is not whether it's ongoing the question is whether as of this moment has there been a single indictment? If I comment on that that's commenting on an ongoing investigation and the FBI doesn't do that. Mr. Patel, there's been no indictment. That'd be public information, right? Not if it was sealed.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.