Video: With one hand on Bhagavad Gita, Kash Patel takes oath as FBI chief

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Indian-American Kash Patel took oath as the ninth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the chief US investigation agency, on Saturday, with his hand on the sacred Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita.

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00:00Please place your hand on the Gita and raise your right hand.

00:04I do solemnly swear

00:07I do solemnly swear

00:10that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States

00:14that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States

00:18against all enemies, foreign and domestic

00:21against all enemies, foreign and domestic

00:24that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same

00:29that I take this obligation freely

00:32that I take this obligation freely

00:35without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion

00:41and that I will well and faithfully

00:44and that I will well and faithfully

00:46discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter

00:51discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter

00:54so help me God

00:55so help me God

00:57Thank you very much.

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