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Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) triggered FBI Director Kash Patel into a rage during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday when he pointed out that key agents working on important task forces involving terrorism and even child trafficking have been diverted to work instead on immigration matters.

Booker said that Patel has made the U.S. "less safe" — which sent Patel into a fury.

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) launched into a tirade Tuesday during a Senate hearing where he angrily floated debunked conspiracy theories, shouted an expletive, and blamed "the left” for most instances of political violence.

Specifically, Schmitt accused George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist who supports liberal political causes, of instigating violence, supported in part by a broad conspiracy between academia and media.

President Donald Trump directly threatened a reporter with prosecution when he asked about similar comments made Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The attorney general has promised to crack down on what she calls "hate speech" against conservatives following the assassination of right-wing influence Charlie Kirk, and the president reacted ominously when veteran ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl asked about Bondi's threats.

President Donald Trump attacked Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis on Tuesday as he was leaving the White House on his way to the U.K. for a state visit.

His comments came as Willis lost a final appeal in her attempt to prosecute Trump and his allies for an effort to overturn the 2020 election in the state by demanding Republican lawmakers "find" him the 11,780 votes necessary to win the state.

FBI Director Kash Patel will testify Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, his first congressional hearing since the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, the investigation of which has been plagued with false statements and missteps under his leadership.

Patel was scheduled to testify at the hearing prior to Kirk’s killing last week, where he initially was expected to face probing from lawmakers over purges at his agency against those deemed insufficiently loyal to President Donald Trump, ousted FBI agents allege. But in the wake of his agency’s fumbling of its investigation into Kirk’s killer, the “knives are out” for Patel, who is now expected to face intense scrutiny over his many conflicting statements.

A former high-ranking FBI official criticized President Donald Trump's choice to lead the bureau Monday — and slammed his handling of the Charlie Kirk killing.

The 22-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting was arrested after a family member turned him in, and FBI Director Kash Patel has been revealing evidence in the case on Fox News as he defends the investigation. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told "CNN This Morning" that his approach stands out as unusual.

Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, said on Monday that there is something "fundamentally wrong" with the way the Trump administration has responded to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was killed last week when a gunman shot him in the neck during a talk at Utah Valley University. A 22-year-old suspect has been arrested in the case, and is allegedly not cooperating with authorities, according to officials.

A Democratic political analyst expressed concern on Monday night that President Donald Trump's administration could move to outlaw the Democratic Party after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Jamal Simmons, a CNN political commentator, joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source" to discuss the aftermath of Kirk's assassination. Simmons noted that Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, called the Democratic Party an extremist organization during a podcast interview on Monday, and that Trump has recently said his administration is working to root out extremism.

Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) slammed the "callousness" that President Donald Trump exhibited during a press conference on Monday.

Trump claimed during the press conference that he didn't order flags to be lowered after Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered in June by a right-wing extremist because Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, didn't ask him to. CNN's Kaitlan Collins played footage of Trump saying he chose not to call Walz after Hortman's murder.

Mehdi Hasan, founder and CEO of news outlet Zeteo, erupted during an interview on Monday night after a former Trump advisor defended some of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's most incendiary statements.

Hasan and Ken Cuccinelli, the former Homeland Security acting deputy secretary during the first Trump administration, clashed on a new episode of "Cuomo" on NewsNation.

President Donald Trump was confronted by a reporter on why he hadn't bothered to order flags at half-staff for the murder of former Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, as he did after right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University last week.

But Trump initially appeared not to recognize the lawmaker's name.

President Donald Trump issued a new round of attacks against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) during a news conference on Monday, a move that was widely condemned online.

Trump talked with reporters in the Oval Office on Monday after signing a bill to send federal troops to Memphis, Tennessee. A reporter asked Trump to respond to Omar's criticism of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld raged at a colleague on Monday's episode of "The Five" after she mentioned an example of political violence committed by a right-wing extremist.

Gutfeld and left-leaning co-host Jessica Tarlov got into a debate about whether more information is needed to understand the motives of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's murderer. President Donald Trump blamed "radical left lunatics" for Kirk's killing, a line that the right-wing media have repeated incessantly.