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FBI director shouts at Democrat senators during oversight hearing
The FBI director has shouted at Democratic senators during a hearing, taking questions on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Jeffrey Epstein and the firing of agents.
Kash Patel was testifying before a Senate Judiciary Committee for the first oversight hearing of his tenure as director of the US federal law enforcement bureau. During the hearing on Tuesday, Mr Patel defended the FBI's handling of the investigation into the killing of Mr Kirk, as well as his social media post saying that a suspect had been arrested, before that person was ultimately released.
Follow the latest on Trump's state visit "Could I have been more careful in my verbiage and included 'a' subject instead of 'the' subject? Sure," he said of the post. Democratic senator Cory Booker opened his questioning by accusing Patel of lying about firing FBI agents out of retribution for political investigations.
Five FBI agents and top-level executives were known to have been summarily fired last month, according to the Associated Press. Mr Booker said that the director "pushed out senior FBI agents with decades of knowledge and experience.
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