Cory Booker Nails Kash Patel For Not Protecting Kids

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) asked FBI Director Patel if he reassigned FBI agents from stopping predators to immigration. Director Patel's answer was to evade.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel was explosive, with tempers boiling over.

One of the key moments of the hearing came when Patel was being questioned by Sen. Cory Booker, who asked:

 You've shifted the agency's priorities primarily to pursuing Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda. According to ICE Data, the Cato Institute, which is a conservative think tank, found that 25% and 20% of all agents have been diverted from their work to assist ICE immigration enforcement. 20%. Part of this operation is the work of mass law enforcement who jump out of cars, snatch people off streets at churches, schools, and their jobs and hospitals.

Have there been any FBI agents who investigate crimes against children that have been assigned to immigration enforcement? Yes or no?

Patel answered, “The premise of what you say is entirely false.“

Booker asked…