Kash Patel, testifying at a Senate hearing, accuses the senator questioning him of joining a "smear campaign" and tells them, "You didn't do it in your 20 years in the Senate." When the senator presses, "Did the FBI investigate her?", Patel answers only that "the FBI investigates criminals" and "does not investigate personal matters," without saying yes or no in this clip.
The receipt
- Who
- Kash Patel
- Where
- hearing - Senate Judiciary Committee
- Original footage
- CBS6 Albany · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 43 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
No, because you're answering a question I didn't ask. I am allowed to participate in my own defense, especially when there's a smear campaign. One which you are participating in and continuing the falsehoods and lies that have been directed at me because of the historic. You cannot stand the fact that President Trump and this FBI have made America more secure than it has ever been. You didn't do it in your 20 years in the Senate. No other administration has done it. We've done it. Your time's up. Did you invest, did the FBI investigate her? Is the question I asked. The FBI investigates criminals. The FBI investigates criminals and the FBI does not investigate personal matters.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.