Funny Kash clash in Senate: 'I need a number','Will get you the number','You don't know the number?'

In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel and Senator Mazie Hirono had a humorous argument over FBI numbers, agent fitness standards, and agency priorities. Hirono pressed Patel about whether requiring applicants to do pull-ups was unfair to women and questioned his statistics on staff reassignments and firings. Patel shot back with quips, insisting that “everyone needs to meet the same standards” and joking about signing memos himself rather than using an autopen.