The FBI will work to “zero out” the population of Americans detained or held hostage in foreign countries, Director Kash Patel said Thursday at a State Department ceremony honoring the hostage community and their families.

Bongino is a former US Secret Service agent turned MAGA diehard and successful partisan entertainer. Trump announced in a social media post on Feb. 24 that Bongino would be the bureau’s number two in charge, a job that includes managing roughly 38,000 personnel and overseeing the most sensitive FBI operations nationally and around the world.

James Dennehy, the head of the FBI's New York office, is out one month after he urged colleagues to “dig in” after the new administration requested the names of all agents who worked on Capitol riot cases.