Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett.

And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, at the end of Donald Trump's first month in office, Congress moves forward on his nominees and legislative priorities.

The bodies of four Israeli hostages are returned, including the youngest of those taken captive as the tenuous

ceasefire holds.

And conservative Michael Knowles on presidential power and democracy in Trump's second

term.

We have a system of checks and balances.

We do not have a system, or at least we should not have a system of judicial supremacy. Welcome to the News Hour. President Trump has been on the job one month, and the pace of his administration has been unrelenting.

A federal judge this afternoon ruled the administration can continue firing federal workers by the thousands.

And that's as a new Trump hire became official today.

The Senate confirmed one of the president's most polarizing nominees to lead the FBI.

Lisa Desjardin has the latest.

The confirmation is confirmed.

A matter-of-fact conclusion to a controversial nomination, as the Senate confirmed Cash Patel to run the FBI,

installing a staunch Trump loyalist to the top of the bureau.

Patel, a former federal public defender and counterterrorism prosecutor, has consistently

blasted the FBI and Department of Justice as the so-called deep state, weaponized, he says,

against President Trump and conservatives. Republicans call him a reformer.

I look forward to working with Mr. Patel to restore the integrity of the FBI

and get it focused on its critical mission.

But Democrats say Patel is dangerous.

The only qualification Cash Patel has to be FBI director

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