President Donald Trump has picked a loyalist, Dan Bongino, to be second in command at the FBI,

one who grew a massive online following, spreading lies about election security,

including that the agency he'll now help oversee, tried to rig the 2016 and 2020 elections against Trump.

Lisa Desjard Dan is here with more.

So Lisa, there are some FBI officials who say that the deputy director position is in many

ways more important than the director role because the deputy oversees the day-to-day

operations of the agency.

What does it mean that Dan Bongino, someone who's never served as an FBI agent, will

occupy this role?

Bonginu is very well known in the

MAGO world. He has this massive reach, millions of followers, but he also has repeatedly pushed

misinformation on critical ideas. So when you talk about Bongino, you've got to talk about the

podcasting audience where he pushed this idea that the 2020 election falsely was stolen. And specifically,

he said, stolen by the FBI. He's often gone against the FBI, railed against it as being

an agency that is political. And at one point, he called to disband it. Separately, he also spread

misinformation about COVID. For that reason, YouTube actually took him off YouTube at one point.

Now, looking at his resume, Bongino does have law enforcement experience.

He worked as a Secret Service agent, as a New York police officer.

But he has, as you say, no FBI experience, which is unique for this situation.

He is a Trump appointee who worked at Fox News.

He will oversee that operation.

38,000 FBI agents right now.

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