Klobuchar: Kash Patel’s Nomination Is ‘the Reason We’re Going to Have Background Checks’

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KLOBUCHAR: "I think that Kash Patel's nomination is the reason that we‘re going to have background checks on these nominees. It‘s one of the reasons, when you look at some of the nominees, why we have to have an open hearing. I just don‘t think that should be the mission of the FBI. It shouldn‘t be a revenge mission. Of course you‘re going to put people in jobs that presidents trust. That‘s true around the board. But I just saw your CNN poll pop up on the screen that 75% of Americans value experience. And when I look at what the FBI does on a day in, day out basis, yes, the field offices are incredibly important, they‘re important in Minnesota. But as I just explained, the work that they do at headquarters when it comes to coordinating major manhunts or when it comes to coordinating what has to be done when it comes to cyber threats and terrorism threats, that is traditionally and now and in the future will be done by people who are dealing with these threats all over the nation and not just in a field offices across the country, as important as that work is as well."