FBi's Patel, Is He Going Somewhere? Rubio Is After Your Passport Depending on What You say
Responding to suggestions that his job could be in jeopardy, Patel said, “I’m not going anywhere.”
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Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, opened a hearing with F.B.I. Director Kash Patel by criticizing the bureau’s actions under his leadership. Patel, he said, initially gave out false information on the manhunt for the suspect in the Charlie Kirk killing; has presided over the exodus of 5,000 employees, many of them experienced agents; and wasted bureau resources to scour records in the Epstein investigation — partly to “flag” mentions of President Trump in the files.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Tel Aviv today that the State Department had begun denying visas to foreign citizens who have posted messages online approving of assassinations, including the killing of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist. “I want everybody to think about this for a moment, OK? You’re out there celebrating the assassination in cold blood of someone,” he said. “Why would we want anybody like that in our country, as a tourist, as anything?”
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that President Trump would not change any plans for his state visit to Britain, after the British government announced on Thursday that it had fired its ambassador to Washington over his ties to the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and despite persistent questions over Trump’s own friendship with Epstein. “They want to recall him, that’s their choice to do that,” Rubio, who was in Tel Aviv and speaking to reporters, said of the ambassador, Peter Mandelson. “That won’t change the nature of the visit,” he said. The president is expected to depart for Britain this morning.
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