FBI Director Patel confirms agents to vacate Hoover building

In a clip from an interview set to air on Sunday Morning Futures, FBI Director Kash Patel told host Maria Bartiromo that the Federal Bureau of Investigation will move 1,500 agents out of its home at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., and relocate those personnel to other parts of the country. 

"This FBI is leaving the Hoover building because this building is unsafe for our workforce and we want… the American men and women to know, if you're going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, we're going to give you a building that's commensurate with that, and that's not this place," Patel said.

Many lawmakers have long criticized the agency for being out of touch and Patel highlighted the geographic distance between a large portion of the FBI and the rest of the country. 

"Look, the FBI is 38,000 when we're fully manned, which we're not. In the national capital region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, D.C., there were 11,000 FBI employees," he said. "That's like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn't happen here, so we're taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out."

The full interview between Bartiromo and Patel will air on Fox News May 18.