Longtime Trump loyalist Cash Patel confirmed by the Senate as FBI director.
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00:00Longtime Trump loyalist, Kash Patel, confirmed by the Senate as FBI director.
00:06Patel has long talked about drastically restructuring the Bureau, while echoing Trump's claims of
00:11weaponization of the Bureau's powers in its Capitol riot investigations.
00:16Patel was opposed by a pair of Republican Senators, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski and Maine's Susan Collins,
00:23but he won support from every other Republican, including Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky,
00:28who had opposed some of Trump's other nominees.
00:31The final vote was 51-49, with all Senate Democrats opposing Patel.