FBI Director-designate Kash Patel flipped the script on Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., when pressed on President Donald Trump's Jan. 6 pardons, highlighting President Joe Biden's commutation of someone who shot FBI agents.

During Patel's confirmation hearing, Durbin pressed Patel on Trump's blanket pardons, including for individuals who admitted to violence against law enforcement and those who subsequently committed crimes. 

"I have not looked at all 1600 individual cases. I have always advocated for imprisoning those that cause harm to our law enforcement and civilian communities," Patel said. "I also believe America is not safer because President Biden's commutation of a man who murdered two FBI agents. Agent Kohler's and William's family deserve better than that. To have the man that point blank range fired a shotgun into their heads and murder them released from prison. So it goes both ways."

President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier as part of a blanket commutation while leaving office. Durbin then pressed Patel on whether he believed America was safer due to Trump's pardons, which he declined to answer directly.