lisa mccallski and susan collins voted against his uh, confirmation. cash patel has not just been a long time, a government employee, a former assistant us attorney who then found himself working for the national security council under donald trump's 1st term in office. he is a surrogate for the president. he has loudly accused of the f. b, i the agency of which he is now going to be in charge of being corrupt. and he has promised to investigate who he believes to be the president's enemies, including many people fear a number of f b. i special agents who were involved in the investigations of donald trump during the, by the administration. the allegations against the president of trying to was changed the results of the 2020 presidential election, the mishandling of classified documents and other allegations of improprieties. this is perhaps something that are not just the democrats in the senate, but also the 2 republicans who voted with them say is spelling a new era of political corruption. and they say that this is going to open the floodgates into trying to politicize an agency tha