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Mark Warner: “The FBI in recent months has assigned between 25 and 45% of…”

Featuring: Mark Warner, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Senator Raises the Alarm about Trump's Attacks on National Security

Published | Video Starts at 09:43

Thousands of FBI agents, all forced out not because they failed to do their job, but because they refused to bend the knee to partisan politics. And if these individuals were not enough, the truth is The FBI in recent months has assigned between 25 and 45% of its [agents] who handle counterterrorism, cyber espionage, child sexual abuse and other critical missions [to immigration]. What have they been reassigned to? Well, they've been reassigned to immigration or our office hears regularly that they want to get back to the cases they've been working on and instead are stuck on a detail where they do nothing. (09:43–09:50)

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Asserts that 25-45% of FBI agents were reassigned from critical missions to immigration.

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