{"id":5521,"date":"2025-01-30T03:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-prep-for-patel-in-the-hot-seat-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T03:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:20:40","slug":"democrats-prep-for-patel-in-the-hot-seat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-prep-for-patel-in-the-hot-seat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats prep for Patel in the hot seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kash Patel, President Donald Trump&rsquo;s controversial pick for FBI director, will have his day before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday &mdash; and Senate Democrats have been battle-testing their message in hopes it might break through. It started a few weeks ago, when Democrats turned attorney general nominee Pam Bondi&rsquo;s confirmation hearing into a practice round for Patel&rsquo;s grilling&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/29\/congress\/kash-patel-fbi-confirmation-trump-00201410\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kash Patel, President Donald Trump&rsquo;s controversial pick for FBI director, will have his day before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday &mdash; and Senate Democrats have been battle-testing their message in hopes it might break through. It started a few weeks ago, when Democrats turned attorney general nominee Pam Bondi&rsquo;s confirmation hearing into a practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}