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- Patel Insists ‘I Go Where I Want to Go’ After Being Grilled on Beer-Chugging...
FBI Director Kash Patel boldly proclaimed, “I go where I want to go” after being grilled on his much-criticized personal travels as head of the agency. Appearing Tuesday during a lengthy hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patel snapped at Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) who questioned Patel’s now infamous visit to the US Olympic Men’s locker room after they defeated Canada to win the gold medal in Italy. The 46-year-old Patel has also been heavily criticized for using agency resources for personal travels, an issue that became infamous in February after he posted an image of himself on social media celebrating with the team. He’s also been slammed for a snorkeling trip near Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and for a trip to a luxury hunting resort called Boondoggle Ranch. As Welch wrapped up his questioning, he brought up Patel’s much-maligned personal travels. “Then you barged into the celebration of our winning Olympic team what were you doing that? Can’t you let the players enjoy the joy of their own victory?” Welch said. “What you’ll never understand is the players who are my friends invited me into the locker room,” Patel said. “What you’ll never understand is that during that trip where 300,000 Americans went to Italy to particpate in the games and watch them not a single security incident occurred,” he continued. “What you’ll never understand is throughout the World Cup not a single security incident occurred because we set a joint operation center up there. And the most important thing to come out of that trip beside the American men defeating the Canadians and celebrating the love of this country and inviting me in to do so is obtained the seizure and capture of China’s most prolific hacker and returned him to the United States.” “And how about your trip to the Boondoggle Ranch?” Welch asked. “How many days off did you take this year? Because I took four this year,” Patel responded. “How about your trip to the Boondoggle–” Welch began to respond. “I go where I want to go after delivering the most prolific crime reduction in U.S. history. You take 180 days off a year and you can put up all the posters you want and tell all the lies you want but everyone sees you for the complete and total fraud that you are,” Patel snapped back. Committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) then… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Chuck Grassley Brawls with Cory Booker at Kash Patel Senate Hearing: ‘Why Do Y...Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sparred with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Tuesday during a highly contentious hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel. Booker grilled Patel on a range of issues, including accusations that Patel’s FBI was pressuring and harassing journalists. Patel insisted his FBI “focuses on the leakers of classified information that endangered the lives of elected officials and American citizens. We are not targeting reporters at any point in time. We are trying to find out who in the government–” Booker cut in, “Mr. Chairman, this is still my time. He can answer at the end of my time, but this is my time.” “No, he’s not. Your time’s up,” Grassley replied. “No, sir. My time is not up,” Booker shot back, adding, “You allowed Mike Lee to go two and a half minutes over, but yet a Democratic senator, you’re going to cut off?” “At a previous meeting, I let you go three hearings over,” Grassley replied, as Booker insisted, “As you have other people.” “I have one more question, one more line of questioning to give,” Booker pressed as Grassley added, “No, no, he—” “So then I’ll make my concluding remark, and you can do whatever you want, sir,” Booker declared, adding: My concluding remark is: we don’t have an FBI director, we have a lackey here who’s using government—and frankly, he’s not even a good lackey, he’s an incompetent lackey. He’s like an 18-year-old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He’s an embarrassment to the agency and wouldn’t qualify even to be an FBI agent. He won’t answer questions for a committee. He insults Democrats here, and you don’t step in. He has a little book by his side that he literally is using to try to intimidate people, in the same way he intimidates reporters. “Your time is up,” Grassley said as Booker continued: He is a disgrace, sir, and the fact that we are not asking him—in fact, demanding him—to answer the most basic oversight questions is a further testimony to what is bad. What’s bad is not just that we have a rogue FBI agent intimidating reporters; what’s bad is that we have Republicans in the Senate who are enabling him to go without any objective oversight, transparency,… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- GOP Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Pete Hegseth f...
Mark Schiefelbein/AP Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Tuesday. Massie cited “high crimes and misdemeanors” as the reason. ,@RepThomasMassie (R-KY) introduces Articles of Impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. pic.twitter.com/cCMah1jQoD — CSPAN (@cspan) September 15, 2026 “Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2A1 of rule 9, I seek recognition to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the house. The form of the resolution is as follows. This is the case,” Massie began. He continued: Impeaching Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Resolved that Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, also referred to as Secretary of War by the administration, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate. Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America against Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. Axios Congress reporter Andrew Solender noted on X the vote will need to take place by Thursday “unless GOP leadership cancels the week early.” GOP Rep. Thomas Massie is on the House floor right now forcing a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth. Will have to happen by Thursday unless GOP leadership cancels the week early. Bill text: https://t.co/J7L39msoAf These are the articles: pic.twitter.com/59uq1ppnjt — Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) September 15, 2026 The articles of impeachment include ignoring laws that minimize civilian deaths, extrajudicial killings, suppressing free speech, kidnapping of a sovereign foreign leader, and unlawful war in Yemen. In part, Massie accused Hegseth of having replaced “maritime law enforcement with unauthorized lethal military targeting of suspected drug traffickers, resulting in at least 221 deaths” and of “directing Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE to seize Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores in Venezuela without constitutional or legal authority.” In May, Massie lost his bid for reelection to the President Donald Trump-endorsed former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein. The race went down as the most expensive primary House race on record. Massie previously spoke out against Trump for his relationship with convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein. During the primary battle, Hegseth traveled to Kentucky to endorse Gallrein and speak out… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - ’60 Minutes’ Gets Its First Report Cards — But Will Partisan Critics on Bo...
You are reading a special free preview of Mediaite’s daily newsletter — the Mediaite One Sheet: a fast, five-minute briefing that curates the best of the media newsletters. Subscribe today at a special new (lower) price to get the One Sheet delivered direct to your inbox five days a week! TOP STORY ’60 MINUTES’ GETS ITS FIRST REPORT CARDS The first episode of Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton’s 60 Minutes aired Sunday, and for a lot of people, despite the turnover the show’s experienced, the actual episode seemed to be more of the same — exactly what they expected. But for some of our authors, it’s just too soon to determine what the heck is actually going to unfold for the program this season. That’s partly because some members of the conservative-leaning media will be looking for any chance to call the reimagined show a success from the jump, and partly because their more liberal counterparts have already written it off. THREE TAKES Barrett Media’s Morning Edition, Garrett Searight — It’s too soon to claim Bari Weiss’ first stab at 60 Minutes was a success, Searight wrote today. Searight believes conservative media will call the race before it’s even really begun. “Conservative media figures across radio, television, podcasts, and social media will call it a win [if it gets a big rating],” Searight continued. “That’s poppycock. Mularkey. Balderdash. Pick your favorite synonym for ‘b*llshit’, because that’s what a one-episode victory lap amounts to.” The show may still end up a success, but “nobody watching a single Sunday broadcast can prove that’s what’s happening, and pretending otherwise does a disservice to how ratings actually work.” Newsbusters, Nicholas Spinnato — But counter to what Barrett’s Searight believes, one conservative outlet DID NOT jump to praise the new 60 Minutes. Despite plenty of concern from the Left that a Weiss-run 60 Minutes would offer little more than Trumpian propaganda, for Spinnato, Sunday’s episode “continued to showcase the program’s liberal bias.” Ahead of the season premiere, a Newsbusters study determined the “show had a nearly five-to-one bias of liberal stories compared to conservative ones over the past six seasons.” As Spinnato concluded, “In reality, the season premiere did not feel that much different compared to the previous seasons, as the show led with two familiar faces in correspondents Norah O’Donnell and Lesley Stahl, and the pair, especially Stahl, still showed their anti-Trump bias.” Status, Oliver Darcy — The episode relied on an exclusive from an American service member… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Blumenthal Grills Kash Patel on Report About Russian Oligarch Funding Donald Tru...Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) pressed FBI Director Kash Patel about a shocking report that an oligarch with ties to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin funded parties for Donald Trump Jr. during his Bahamas wedding weekend. Patel, facing lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, was asked by Blumenthal if he had begun an investigation into “potential intelligence compromises” regarding Umar Kremlev, the head of the International Boxing Association and Putin-linked oligarch. “I’m not sure what public reporting you are referring to,” Patel replied, adding that counterespionage arrests are up 50 percent, “including from Russia.” Blumenthal went on: Well, these reports were public yesterday. They’ve been widely publicized in the press. And it would seem to me that they should be a topic of investigation for the FBI. You have a counterintelligence mission. This individual has been involved, in fact, in the reeducation of Ukrainian children. In my trips to Ukraine — I have done it 11 times. I’ve talked to many of those children who have been abducted by Putin’s forces — this individual apparently is involved in those activities, but also is directly tied to Putin. And I think there’s a potential for compromise in intelligence and also the possibility of improper influence. Patel fired back: “As I stated, we are fulfilling our counterintelligence and espionage mission greater than any FBI has ever done so- Blumenthal then cut him off, saying, “I want to know what specific steps you’re doing to investigate this instance.” “First of all, you are referring to something that happened yesterday in public reporting. And public reporting is generally inaccurate. What the men and women of the FBI do in every case is look at whatever information comes our way and analyze it.” After Patel denied having tracked the ProPublica report, Blumenthal wrapped up on the topic with a demand that Patel investigate Kremlev “immediately,” insisting, “It’s appropriate that you do so.” The explosive ProPublica investigation, published on Monday, reported that Kremlev’s company paid $100,000 for a private island party on the weekend of Don Jr.’s wedding to Bettina Anderson, along with a $70,000 fireworks display. Trump Jr. and Anderson did not deny ProPublica’s reporting, releasing a lengthy statement via social media that read in part: “Our dear friend Umar very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding. It was an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend,… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- MPA and Unions Tout Jobs Gains From Federal Film Incentive: ‘The Story Is Unde...
A coalition of unions joined with the Motion Picture Association on Tuesday to unveil a report showing that a federal film incentive would reverse the decline of domestic production and create 143,500 jobs per year. The MPA held a Zoom press conference with actor Jon Voight and Reps. Laura Friedman and Brian Jack, the bill’s […] [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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