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Kash Patel: “In the last three months, [in Atlanta] 255 violent criminal…”

Featuring: Kash Patel, Republican | Former Chief of Staff to the Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense | National

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Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel

Published | Video Starts at 1:47:37

We will open cases to investigate and we will refer matters to the Department of Justice. And when you see that methodology and ethos transcend the FBI, you see what you've seen in Atlanta In the last three months, [in Atlanta] 255 violent criminal offenders arrested, 72 kilograms of fentanyl taken off the street. That's five and a half million people dead. That's off the street. You've seen seizures of 11 kilograms of cocaine, 5,000 pounds of illicit narcotics, and that's enough lethal doses in total to wipe out half your state. (1:47:37–1:47:46)

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