Donald Trump's choice to be the new director of the FBI got off to a rough start on Thursday after he was confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate by only two votes.
According to MSNBC's Ken Dilanian, on Friday the controversial Kash Patel struck a "conciliatory" tone with employees of the FBI, which was a change from his first encounter.
Speaking with MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart, the justice and intelligence correspondent reported that, before Patel made his appearance on Thursday, the 7th floor at the FBI headquarters was ordered cleared.
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"Yesterday when he first arrived at the bureau headquarters, to some people, he was sending a bit of a different message because what I'm told by three people familiar with the matter, is that before he arrived all the support employees on the seventh floor where the director's office is –– I'm talking about executive assistants and people who move the paper around, the bureaucracy ––they were all told to pack their desks."
"They were being reassigned, and they were to be removed from the seventh floor and then when he arrived with his own team the director's suite was sealed off, I'm told, and no one else saw him essentially assuming command."
He then added, "So those people they're not fired, they're civil servants, and they're going to find other jobs within the organization. But it is sending a message to some people at the FBI, at least, that Mr. Patel doesn't necessarily trust the workforce that he has now been assigned to oversee."
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