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Good evening from the newsroom tonight, my exclusive interview with former acting FBI director

Brian Driscoll.

He had a front row seat to what happened inside the FBI when President Trump took office last

January, and long-serving FBI agents and prosecutors at the Department of Justice began to get

fired or forced into retirement.

He himself was fired a little more than six months after the inauguration after 21 years in public service, nearly 18 of them at the FBI.

Fired in August 2025 by FBI director Cash Patel, who appeared today before the Senate Appropriations Committee where Democrat Chris Van Hollen did not even wait for the questioning to cast doubt on Patel's fitness to serve.

Here are some of the Senator's opening remarks.

I cannot imagine ever having to worry about former FBI directors Ray or Mueller spending multiple weekends

drinking heavily at the poodle room in Las Vegas.

Now, I understand that you've denied these reports,

and you will have a chance today here to challenge them. But the problem with your leadership

does not end there. We're also witnessing a litany of other abuses, political firings of trusted

career agents whose only fault was following the facts and the law.

That includes the firing of agents and staff from a special counterintelligence unit that monitored threats from Iran.

Weaponizing the FBI to seek political revenge on former FBI director James Comey and others.

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