Republican Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty called out the “woefully inexperienced” officials under President Joe Biden’s administration on NBC News Sunday in response to criticism of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Kash Patel as FBI director.
Pushback from Democrats and other officials against Patel came after Trump announced Patel as his pick to lead the FBI on Saturday. On “Meet the Press,” NBC host Kristen Welker pressed the Republican senator on former Attorney General Bill Barr’s claim in his memoir that Patel lacked the experience to “qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency,” after the former president had floated the idea of promoting him to deputy FBI director at the end of his first term.
“Listen, I think you should have the Biden administration look at itself. What is the qualification of Tony…
