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I'm honored to be the ninth director of the FBI.

I'm not going anywhere.

If you want to criticize my 16 years of service, please bring it on.

Senators did indeed bring it on in their questioning of FBI director Cash Patel.

It's Tuesday, September 16th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.

I'm Chris Bentley.

Today on the show, free speech and political persecution after the murder of Charlie Kirk.

It's shocking. It's a kind of top-down authoritarian snitch culture encouraged from the White House, from the vice president.

Also, we remember Robert Redford.

I mean, he changed so many lives and he changed movies both as a director and as the head of Sundance.

I mean, God, who else can say that?

But first, in a Senate hearing this morning, the FBI director defended his public posts and statements about the killing of

conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Democrats and some of his fellow conservatives have been

critical of Cash Patel. But on his way to England this morning, President Trump said he had

confidence in his FBI director. Take a look at what he did with respect to this horrible

person that he just

captured. He did it in two days. It took other similar cases, four days, five days, four years.

If you look at certain shooters, now I have confidence in everybody in the administration.

Former FBI agent Asha Rangappa has been watching the hearing.

She's a lecturer at Yale Law School.

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