FBI Director Kash Patel struck a combative tone in a Tuesday hearing that included multiple shouting matches with Democratic lawmakers and a prediction that President Trump "will cut you loose."

The appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was Patel’s first sitting with lawmakers since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the Justice Department's compliance with a House subpoena demanding the Epstein files.

While he faced some tough questions from the GOP side of the dais on the Epstein files, it was exchanges with Democrats that resulted in two heated outbursts.

In one notable exchange, Patel lit into Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a frequent target of the president, calling him “the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate” and “a political bu

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