MSNBC's Morning Joe staff panicked after Donald Trump nominated Kash Patel to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

MSNBC’s Morning Joe crew on Monday reacted with horror to Donald Trump’s decision to pick Kash Patel to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The choice of Patel, a lawyer who served in several roles in the president-elect’s first administration,

Donald Trump's pick to run the FBI, Kash Patel, is getting slammed on social media for being an unqualified conspiracy theorist.

We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said in a 2023 podcast with Steve Bannon, who claimed he was “absolutely dead serious.”

President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday he would pick Kashyap "Kash" Patel, a 44-year-old loyalist with little management experience in federal law enforcement, to serve as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Donald Trump’s drive to upend the FBI was welcomed by Republican senators although it was not clear on Sunday how strongly members of the incoming majority party would embrace his move to install ally Kash Patel as the next director of the Justice Department’s top investigative arm.

Donald Trump announced his intention to cut short the term of FBI Director Christopher Wray and select Kash Patel to lead an agency the president-elect often criticized on the campaign trail. The pick would be another high-profile test for Senate Republicans,

Patel, a steadfast Trump ally with plans to shake up the bureau, is a study in contrasts from the current tight-lipped director, Christopher Wray.