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babble.com slash wire. Rules and restrictions may apply. Cash Patel is confirmed as FBI director,

Mitch McConnell won't seek re-election, and taxpayers may get a doge

dividend. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, February 20th,

and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. Cash Patel was confirmed as director of the FBI

today. The Senate voted mostly along party lines, 51 to 49, to confirm President Trump's pick to head the bureau. Only two GOP senators voted no, Maine's Susan Collins, and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski. Patel will serve a 10-year term replacing Christopher Ray. Morningwire spoke to Oklahoma Senator Mark

Wayne Mullen, who believes Patel is the perfect choice to reform the FBI. He's not there to

destroy the FBI. He's there to get them back on mission focus. He's there to support the field agents

to put them back on mission focus of protecting the American people, not

taking directive orders from a Democrat party that's wanting to investigate students for

showing up to school board meetings or classifying Catholics, and I'm not joking when I say this,

as a possible terrorist because they disagreed with the

Democrat agenda.

This morning, Hamas released the bodies of four hostages as part of the ceasefire agreement.

Daily Wire reporter Cassie Akiva has more on the exchange.

Israel received the bodies of four hostages held by Hamas today after the terror group paraded them on stage in front of cheering crowds and upbeat music.

The hostages included 83-year-old Odad Lifshitz, 31-year-old Cheribbas, and her two young children, four-year-old Ariel and Kaffir, who was only nine months old when he was kidnapped.

On stage was a picture of the four

fallen hostages with an image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as a vampire

and a missile with a sign stating they were killed by USA bombs. The coffins were received by

Red Cross representatives who transported them to the Israeli defense forces in Gaza, where they were checked for hidden explosives.

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