Already, a series of missteps by Kash Patel, the FBI director, in recent months have invited worries that he has eroded public confidence in the agency.

“It was amateur hour,” Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice Department, told HuffPost on Thursday. “He was doing a running commentary. Historically, the FBI keeps its mouth closed until it believes it’s the right time and the right message.”

Was the FBI the source for crisp, clear video a social media post distributed, saying it showed a person sought by the FBI in its investigation of the killing of political activist Charlie Kirk? No, that's not true: The

BBC Verify has been examining a video posted on social media, which people are claiming may show a "shooter" on the roof of a building at Utah Valley University (UVU) where Charlie Kirk was shot dead.

Authorities said they had tracked the attacker’s movements on Wednesday before and after the 31-year-old conservative commentator was shot and killed in Utah.