At a Senate hearing, Adam Schiff reads back the promise that "no one will be terminated for case assignments" and asks Patel whether anyone was fired in whole or in part over prior cases. Twice, Patel answers that no one was terminated for case assignments "alone." Schiff asks whether that means agents were fired in part for working the January 6 or Mar-a-Lago cases.
The receipt
- Who
- Senator Schiff
- Where
- hearing - Senate Judiciary Committee
- Original footage
- Forbes Breaking News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 53 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
No one will be terminated for case assignments. Are you testifying today that you never terminated anyone at the FBI in whole or in part because of a prior case assignment? No one at the FBI is terminated for case assignments alone. Well I'm asking about you Mr. Patel. Did you in whole or in part terminate anyone at the FBI because they worked on the Trump investigation or because they worked on January 6th. No one at the FBI has been terminated for case assignments alone. Okay you're saying alone. Does that mean they were terminated in part because they were assigned to a January 6 case or assigned to the Mar -a -Lago case? You're being very precise here Mr. Patel. You're saying alone. That That means they were fired in part because they were assigned those cases.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.