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KENNEDY: “You’re not telling us today that if a human being had sex with an animal, they can still be an FBI agent?”

PATEL: “No.”

KENNEDY: “They oughta be in jail, right?”

PATEL: “They all are.”

They were talking about FBI applicants who were coerced or participated in that behavior. Sen. Kennedy was trying to point out why the committee was wasting time talking about this.

FBI Director Kash Patel appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for an oversight hearing on the nation's lead law enforcement agency.

In May, he lashed out during a hearing when Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., asked about an article in The Atlantic that alleged Patel drinks excessively on the job and was sometimes unreachable to his staff. Patel responded that the allegations were "unequivocally, categorically false."

Patel sued The Atlantic for defamation and reportedly had the FBI investigate the journalist who wrote the article.

Last September, Patel defended his competency to lead the bureau in a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing seven months into his tenure. He faced questions about his handling of the investigation into the killing of Charlie Kirk, which garnered bipartisan criticism, and was urged by senators from both sides of the aisle to be more transparent about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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