Kash Patel May Face Pushback as FBI Pick: Analyst

Kevin Hogan
By Kevin Hogan
December 2, 2024NTD Good Morning
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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to the secretary of defense, to lead the FBI.

NTD speaks to Mike Leon, the policy and strategy director at the Free and Equal Elections Foundation and the host of the “Can We Please Talk?” podcast, who says that if Patel is confirmed, it could lead to a massive loss of personnel at the bureau. On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has said Patel is a “real reformer” who can clean out “the corrupted partisans” in senior positions there.