Trump Cabinet hearings live: Most controversial picks Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel and RFK Jr. face questioning

The nominee of Donald Trump for FBI director Kash Patel arrived on Thursday morning for his confirmation hearing.

Patel is one of the more controversial choices of Trump and will be an hour -long grilling of the Senate Senate Committee.

Senate-judicial chairman Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IIWA) shows Patel in his chair for his confirmation hearing about Capitol Hill on Thursday, January 30.

Okay. Update this morning. I am just on the phone with the Southcom commander and the chairman of the joint leaders who talk about our efforts in Guantanamo Bay. That's underway. We lean forward and support the president's guideline to ensure that we have a location for violent criminal illegal immigrants because they are deported from the country. Nobody is going to wait for the Ministry of Defense and we work in real time.

But I also wanted to give an update about the tragedy that happened here in Washington last night, DC and provide a little more information while we work actively to investigate and understand what happened and why. At about 8:48 Last night, a UH60, assigned to the US Army Aviation Brigade in the military district of Washington, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, bumped into a civil airport in a tragic.

The unit concerned the army unit involved in Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion in Fort Belvoir. It was an annual skill training flight. And when we look at the crew and we don't all. Not all relatives have been informed, so we are currently withholding ranks and names. We know on our side that was involved. It was a fairly experienced crew, and that was a required annual night evaluation. They did have night vision glasses.

From now on the 12th aviation battalion received an operational break of 48 hours of unforeseen missions such as what happened, is assessed and a senior level of aviation team, a research team of our Aviation Safety Center, was deployed last night and was already in Washington, DC to investigate what's going on. We expect that the investigation will be able to determine quickly whether the aircraft was at the right height at the time of the incident at the quarter.

Like I said, the nearby reinforced reports are underway. It is a tragedy, a terrible loss of life for those 64 souls on that civilian plane. And of course, the three soldiers in that black hawk. They are in our prayers, their families and their communities if people are informed. I can't imagine it and I know it's a rescue mission to a recovery mission. And we are with all the first respondents who are actively going. So at the Ministry of Defense. Our thoughts and prayers go out. We are actively investigating what happened and why. And if we get updates, you will have them. God bless.

By Katelyn Caralle, senior American political reporter

The chairman of the Senate Judge Committee, Chuck Grassley, hopes that Kash Patel will repeat his commitment to restore the public trust of the FBI.

During his opening statement during the confirmation of Patel on Thursday, Senator Grassley (R-IiWA) denounced claims that President Donald Trump's candidate has a 'enemy list' that he intends to practice 'revenge' as FBI Director.

'Mr. Patel, it will be your job to restore the trust of the public and bring the FBI back to the nuclear mission of fighting crime, “demanded Grassley.

He also said: 'In my time I have never so badly infected our institutions for law enforcement and intelligence community with political decision -making. They have broken the faith with people. '

'You have to be honest, consistent and aggressive. Your promotions must be based on accountability. '

By Katelyn Caralle, senior American political reporter

Tulsi Gabbard's opportunities to become Donald Trump's director of National Intelligence is in danger.

The controversial Democrat republican former congressman does not seem to have the votes to get it from the Senate Committee.

A senior assistant for the committee said that Fox News Digital and half of the Republicans of the Pael is not being sold to the nomination of Gabbard.

With a Republican majority, this means that even members of Trump's own party are against the nomination of Gabbard against one of the best national security and intelligence positions in the US

Until now, none of the nominees of Trump has not voted out of their respective committees to receive a full senate floor. = =

By Katelyn Caralle, senior American political reporter in Washington, DC

Kash Patel will tell the senators during his confirmation hearing on Thursday that he wants to improve the position of the Americans and the confidence of the FBI, according to his opening statement obtained by Dailymail.com.

He will try to put an end to 'abuse' of FBI powers such as the Ministry of Justice's law enforcement, but will also encourage his field agents to perform their duties.

“Let good agents be police officers,” Patel will say in his comments to the Senate Law Committee.

“I will concentrate on streamlining operations at the head office and at the same time strengthen the presence of field agents throughout the country.”

He will express his welcome from 'Congress overview' to ensure that the FBI “works with the openness needed to rebuild trust.”