Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said Monday on Newsmax that the Senate needs to push the confirmations of all of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees through, especially Kash Patel, who has been nominated to lead the FBI.

“It’s been a disaster for the last four years with the FBI, the CIA, our military, our intel agencies,” Tuberville told “Newsline.” “Something has to change. Seventy-seven million people voted for a change in this country and we need to very quickly confirm all the people that you just announced, Kash Patel being one of those. Our FBI right now is going down the wrong path. We’ve got too many woke agendas and too many different teams in the FBI. We need one leader, one person to go in and shake this up and get us going in the right direction.

“Look what happened in New Orleans last week,” he continued, referring to the New Year’s Day vehicle attack in the city’s famed French Quarter. “Right off the bat, FBI agent, for some reason, said, ‘Oh, this wasn’t a terrorist plot.’ Well, you know, the guy had an ISIS flag on his truck. I mean, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that.

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