‘Could He Just Answer The Question!?’ Amy Klobuchar Grills Kash Patel Over His Promise To Shut Down FBI HQ

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) got into a heated back and forth with FBI director nominee Kash Patel over his promise to shut down the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

In the past, Patel has vowed to shut down the FBI headquarters and fire top senior members of the agency over the criminal charges filed against President Donald Trump while he was a candidate. Klobuchar tried to ask Patel about his statement vowing to shut down the J. Edgar Hoover DC building and turn it into a museum, but her time to speak ran out.

When Patel asked Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) if he had enough time to answer the question Klobuchar demanded Patel “just answer the question.”

PATEL: Chairman, Are we allowed to go in extra time?

GRASSLEY: Let’s see. You get a second round. Before I call on Senator Lee-

KLOBUCHAR: Could he just answer the question?! If he said that the FBI headquarters where they investigate cybercrime and terrorism to be shut down and open as a museum. Did he say that the headquarters should be shut down? I deserve an answer to that question? He is asking to be head of the FBI. And he said that their headquarters should be shut down.

GRASSLEY: You got anything you want to say Mr. Patel before I go on to Senator Lee?

PATEL: Simply this If the best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the FBI. I stood with them here in this country in every theater of war we have, I was on the ground in service of this nation. And any accusations leveled against me that I would somehow put political bias before the Constitution are grotesquely unfair. And I will have you reminded that I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI? Let’s ask them.

Watch the clip above via CSPAN.