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Kash Patel vows to 'do everything' to help GOP senator expose Epstein files

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Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s prime to caput the FBI, pledged Thursday to enactment with a apical Republican legislator connected exposing who worked with Jeffrey Epstein successful trafficking and exploiting children.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., quizzed Patel astir however helium would grip the Epstein case. The sex-trafficking financier died successful 2019 portion awaiting trial. Nearly 200 names that had antecedently been redacted from tribunal documents successful a suit against his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell were made nationalist past year.

However, Blackburn said determination is inactive much to beryllium known, including the names of those who flew connected his level and accomplices.

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"I privation to speech to you astir the Epstein case. I person worked connected this for years trying to get those records of who flew connected Epstein's plane and who helped him physique this planetary quality trafficking enactment trafficking ring," she said.

She utilized her remarks to instrumentality a jab astatine erstwhile Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin.

"Now, earlier, I urged past Chairman Durbin to subpoena those records, and I ended up being blocked by Senator Durbin and Christopher Wray. They stonewalled connected this," she said. "And I cognize that breaking up these trafficking rings is important to President Trump. So volition you enactment with maine connected this issue? So we cognize who worked with Jeffrey Epstein successful gathering these enactment trafficking rings?" she asked.

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"Absolutely, Senator," Patel responded. "Child enactment trafficking has nary spot successful the United States of America. And I volition bash everything, if confirmed arsenic FBI director, to marque definite the American nationalist knows the afloat value of what happened successful the past and however we are going to counterman missing children and exploited children going forward," helium said.

Following the speech betwixt Blackburn and Patel, Durbin requested to respond to Blackburn's jab astatine him and accused the Tennessee legislator of "falsely" accusing him "of preventing releasing the names of Jeffrey Epstein's network."

"My bureau subsequently reached retired to hers to effort to place what records she was really seeking. We did not person a response," helium added.

Blackburn fired backmost and said she had "raised the contented with Chairman Durbin. I had raised it connected the level that we wanted to get these records… You sought not to admit me."

Patel's nomination has sparked aboriginal disapproval from immoderate Democrats up of his confirmation hearing, who person cited his erstwhile vows to prosecute journalists and vocation officials astatine the Justice Department and FBI that helium sees arsenic being portion of the "deep state."

Democrats had pointed to Patel’s record and a book, "Government Gangsters," released successful 2023 that claimed that "deep state" authorities employees person politicized and weaponized the instrumentality enforcement bureau – and explicitly called for the revamp of the FBI successful a section dubbed "Overhauling the FBI."

Fox News' Emma Colton and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.

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