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\n Top Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee projected confidence in FBI Director Kash Patel, who\u2019s appearing before the panel, and defended his handling of the Charlie Kirk shooting investigation.\n <\/p>\n
\n Here\u2019s what they\u2019re saying:\n <\/p>\n
\n Sen. John Cornyn: \u201cI\u2019ve seen no reason for the armchair quarterbacks to be criticizing his performance. I think it\u2019s been commendable.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI mean, it took roughly 33 hours to arrest the killer. And you know, there\u2019s always a certain fog that goes along with emergency situations like this. So I know initially they thought they had their man, but turned out not,\u201d he added.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI don\u2019t think we demand perfection, or we shouldn\u2019t, of public officials, because nobody can meet that standard, but I think he\u2019s done a good job.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Sen. Lindsey Graham: \u201cThe drama around the investigation, I\u2019m OK with what happened, and we have the man in custody. You know, he\u2019s presumed innocent, but the evidence seems to be pretty overwhelming.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Graham also said that he wants Patel to speak to lowering the temperature of political rhetoric in the US. \u201cI want people to be assured there will be justice, but I also want people to be assured there won\u2019t be vengeance. That\u2019s reserved for the lord,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n
\n GOP Sen. Josh Hawley: \u201cHe (Patel) serves at the pleasure of the President, the President has confidence in him. And you know that\u2019s, that\u2019s good enough for me.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe FBI was at the scene of the shooting last week I think within 16 minutes, that\u2019s pretty darn good. But we\u2019ll want to hear a full report on everything that they\u2019re doing, and also, what are they doing to prevent acts of violence like this going forward. I mean, this is really, the violence is out of control. I certainly going to ask him about that.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee projected confidence in FBI Director Kash Patel, who\u2019s appearing before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-26163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}