The Federal Bureau of Investigation is planning to lower recruitment standards for agents, thanks to a push from agency Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino. The move has raised concerns within the agency,

FBI Director Kash Patel posted a cryptic message Friday morning amid reports that federal agents were conducting a raid at the home of John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser.

FBI Director Kash Patel commits to "rooting out" and "declassifying" everything involved in the "Russiagate" scandal and weaponization of federal law enforcement against President Trump. "I am committed to rooting it out.

MSNBC Justice And Intelligence Correspondent Ken Dilanian, former Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the FBI Michael Feinberg, writer and editor for Protect Democracy, Amanda Carpenter, and Former Top Official At the DOJ Andrew Weissmann join Alicia Menendez - in for Nicolle Wallace - to discuss the FBI’s raid of former Trump advisor John Bolton’s home and office.

Bolton was one of several national security advisors for Trump, but was eventually fired and became a critic of the current president.

FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement to Fox News Digital that the agency will continue combatting crime in Washington, D.C. until “every community is safe."

FBI agents reached Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Maryland at 7 am on August 22 in a probe ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, the New York Post reported, citing a Trump administration official. In a cryptic post shared on X after the raid started, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote, “NO ONE is above the law…FBI agents on mission.”

Jensen, a veteran agent who helped oversee the Jan. 6 investigation from his position as chief of the FBI's domestic terrorism section, was given a significant promotion by Patel to be the assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office, one of the largest outposts in the country.