The FBI is investigating a series of violent threats made against President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial cabinet nominees, including bomb threats and swatting. Meanwhile, Trump has met with Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum after he announced his plan to impose tariffs. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports for TODAY.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday he would pick Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to to the acting secretary of defense during the first Trump administration, to serve as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Echoing Trump’s “deep state” rhetoric Patel has echoed Trump’s rhetoric labeling journalists as traitors and calling for “cleaning out” allegedly disloyal federal bureaucrats. In an interview last year with longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon, Patel vowed to go after “conspirators” who he claimed had abused their positions in government. “The one thing we learned in the Trump administration the first go-around is that we have to put in all-American patriots top to bottom,” Patel told Bannon.
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