Rachel Poser

Patel is definitely doing everything he can to please his boss and keep his job.

Just this week, he promised that arrests related to the 2020 election would be happening soon.

And the White House has been issuing public statements of support.

But that said, there's been some reporting that

Trump called Patel to express his displeasure after he was seen celebrating with alcohol with the U.S.

men's hockey team at the Olympics.

So there have been mixed signals.

Dan Bongino, we should note, has left the bureau this year for unrelated reasons.

But as for Patel, we'll just have to wait and see.

I think many agents feel that the courts and the media are really the last open avenues for them to convey their sense of what is going wrong within the FBI.

So many people said to us, I've worked in government for 20, 30 years.

I've never spoken to the media before.

But they feel that the internal checks, the watchdogs...

Speaking to their supervisors, either those channels have been shut down or they're not functioning properly.

And so employees of this typically buttoned up, secretive agency were really willing to speak to us for this story because the mission that they had dedicated their lives to, keeping Americans safe, they worry is being severely compromised.