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Channel GOP · Hearing · Thursday, November 12, 2026

Booker confronts FBI Director Kash Patel: FBI subpoenaed a New York Times reporter's mother's records

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Now playing on All Clips Booker confronts FBI Director Kash Patel: FBI subpoenaed a New York Times reporter's mother's records Sen. Cory Booker18K plays Watch on Instagram · Transcript & source

At a Senate hearing, Sen. Cory Booker says that after the New York Times reported on security problems with a Qatari plane given to the president, Patel spent much of a day at the White House directing subpoenas against the reporters. Booker says three reporters got grand jury subpoenas, armed FBI agents went to their homes, and their call records and one reporter's mother's records were subpoenaed.

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Who
Sen. Cory Booker
Where
hearing - Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing with FBI Director Kash Pa
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Length
49 seconds, unedited within the cut
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18,320 on Instagram
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In July, the New York Times reported on security problems with an airplane from Qatar given to the president. Within two days, you personally went to the White House and spent the better part of a day directing subpoenas against the reporters who wrote it. Not a leaker, you went after the reporters. reporters, grand jury subpoenas were served on three New York Times reporters, armed FBI agents went to their homes, you subpoenaed their phone company for their call records, you subpoenaed the records of one reporter's mother. You get upset when somebody writes a fair story about your girlfriend, but you're out there using the FBI to go after a reporter's mom.

Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.

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