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At one point during the hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel told Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii): “If you want to chase down a bad guy and put him in handcuffs, you better be able to do a pull-up.”
The comment was made after Hirono asked about pull-up requirements for FBI agents.
“One question I had is that you are now requiring applicants to be able to do a certain kind of pull-ups, which a lot of women cannot because of physiological differences,” Hirono said….