GOP Sen. Susan Collins, a key potential swing vote, said, “I haven’t read about them, but it’s why we need FBI background check on nominees, so that we can sort out issues like that. The New Yorker reported Sunday that Hegseth was pushed out as the h ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s late-Saturday announcement he will replace the current FBI Director with agency outsider Kash Patel was mostly met with signals of support from leading Republicans, while those at odds with the former president voiced concern over the Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s top law enforcement and counterterrorism agency.

That sentiment was shared by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who said on NBC: “Patel’s only qualification is that he agrees with Donald Trump that the Department of Justice should punish, lockup and intimidate Donald Trump’s political opponents.”