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Kash Patel: “The FBI is 38,000 [employees] when we're fully manned, which…”

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

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Kash Patel and Dan Bongino Discuss FBI Reforms and Investigations on Fox News

Published | Video Starts at 21:01

You have no idea what we can do. Are you seeing an increase in the number of potential agents wanting to come in and work with you? Look, The FBI is 38,000 [employees] when we're fully manned, which we're not. In the national capital region, in the 50 mile radius around Washington D.C. there were 11,000 FBI employees. That's like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn't happen here. (21:01–21:04)

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