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FBI’s Patel and Sen. Booker shout over each other at oversight hearing

FBI Director Kash Patel and Sen. Cory Booker got in a shouting match during Patel’s appearance Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as the New Jersey Democrat accused him of being responsible for a “generational destruction of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency.” Patel retorted, telling Booker that he was an “embarrassment.” For several moments, the Republican chairman of the committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, pounded his gavel but struggled to gain control of the hearing.
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