Van Hollen: FBI Director Patel Wasting Taxpayer Money on ‘Political Witch Hunts’

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) claimed FBI Director Kash Patel was wasting taxpayer money on “political witch hunts.”

Van Hollen said, “What we witnessed today was the latest in a long line of abuses by this FBI director. He’s fired people for purely political reasons, longtime professional FBI agents. He’s concocted this made up new assault against Comey, with respect to the case, the political prosecution. And now we have all these reports from multiple sources that he drinks so heavily that it interferes with his job. As I told him today, I don’t give a damn about his personal life until it interferes with his ability to protect the American people.”

He continued, “It’s very revealing when he gets in front of a hearing like that. I asked him a series of questions about this credible reporting about how his excessive drinking is making it impossible