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Kash Patel: “That should not have been transmitted anywhere. We got on…”

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 1:39:09

No, sir. Okay. And you're 100% confident of that? Yes, sir. Okay. The information that the supervisors had from those agents, where did that go? That should not have been transmitted anywhere. We got on top of it fast enough, where I believe. Because you thought it was wrong? I thought the. Why did you prevent it? Because the operational mandate that we have at the Bureau, in my opinion, prohibited the public disclosure of that information across our media. (1:39:09–1:39:14)

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