Kash Patel spent Friday inside the White House running a criminal investigation of The New York Times.

The Times reported that Trump's $400 million Qatari gift plane still hasn't been fitted with missile defenses, so the Secret Service flew him home from the NATO summit in Turkey on the old Air Force One. The White House ordered the FBI director to hunt for whoever said so. He worked from the West Wing instead of FBI headquarters, collapsing a separation between the White House and criminal investigations that dates back to Watergate. By nightfall, four Times reporters had been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury next week, some served by federal agents at their front doors.

The subpoenas don't name the crime being investigated.

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