Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday at 9:30 a.m. ET.... The gist of Sen. Alex Padilla’s (D-CA) line of questioning here, as Mark Esper wrote in his book,

Kash Patel, a one-time aide to President Donald Trump, will inch closer to leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when he sits for his US Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday. Patel, a former Department of Defence (DoD) chief of staff, is a fervent Trump supporter and a fellow critic of the US government's top law enforcement agency.

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI, portrayed himself Thursday as the right leader of a law enforcement agency he said had lost public trust and told senators he would commit himself to ''due process and transparency" if confirmed as director.