FBI Director Kash Patel faced Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean in a fiery congressional hearing and when she accused him of committing perjury he looked straight at her and said something that stopped the entire room cold —

telling her to have the audacity to actually put the facts forward instead of lying for political banter. Days earlier Patel had been pushing to release a decade-old investigative file involving Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell — a move that raised alarms inside the FBI itself and sent Democratic members of Congress into full panic mode. For years Democrats used the FBI as their personal weapon against political opponents. Kash Patel just walked into that same building and made very clear those days are over.