Mark Fisher

So they went and got him immunity from the court.

And Patel appeared a second time, and this time he answered their questions.

So flash forward, and he's at his Senate confirmation hearing for becoming FBI director.

And the senators say, OK, tell us about this grand jury testimony where you talked about why and how the president made these documents OK to take to Mar-a-Lago.

And again, Kash Patel said, nope, can't do that.

Not allowed because it was against the law.

And as several senators noted, that is just false.

You own your own words and you are allowed to divulge that testimony, which he did not do.

It's really a thoroughgoing change that he's brought to the FBI.

The FBI has about 13,000 agents and about a quarter of them have been assigned to work on going out and catching undocumented immigrants.

This has not generally been a major focus for the FBI.

Hundreds more agents have been sent on these missions along with the National Guard to do basic sort of crime patrols in cities like Washington, D.C.

and Chicago.

This is part of this emphasis on combating violent crime that President Trump has.

began some months back.

So what's not being done?

Well, for example, Patel disbanded the public corruption unit in the Washington field office.

This is the group that investigates wrongdoing by public officials, including this is the office that investigated Trump and various other Republicans for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

I was given one example after another by various agents in the FBI of cases, for example, of someone working on Chinese counterterrorism efforts in the United States.

One such agent was pulled off a case to essentially do street patrol in the District of Columbia doing DWI arrests.