At a Senate hearing, Cory Booker lays out what he says the FBI has done to reporters: running one reporter's name through records after she wrote about Patel, and going to reporters' homes and subpoenaing their mothers after they wrote about the president. He then asks whether Patel's promised investigation into the claimed forgery in Epstein's birthday book has interviewed any witnesses or named any names.
The receipt
- Who
- Cory Booker
- Where
- hearing - FBI oversight hearing, Senate (chaired by Chuck Grassley)
- Original footage
- The Capitol Brief · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 55 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 241 on Instagram
Read the transcript
So let me put this together. A reporter wrote about you and your bureau ran her name through records and began an investigation. Reporters wrote about the president and your bureau went to their homes and subpoenaed their mothers. And the one investigation you promised Congress, the one that president said himself should happen is the one I want to talk about. You said that when the president claimed that there was a forgery in the Epstein files, that the card he sent, you promised this committee and others that you would investigate that forgery, that a forged document in a child's sex traffor's birthday book, you said you would investigate. Has there been any investigation, any witnesses interviewed, any names on what you promised as you would do when it comes to that birthday book.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.