00:00Are you willing to take the test, it's called the audit test, that members of our active-duty military and
00:08others take to determine whether they have a drinking problem?
00:12I'll take any test you're willing to take.
00:13I will take it, Director Patel. I'll take it. You ready to take it?
00:17Let's go.
00:18Yes or no?
00:19Let's go. Side by side.
00:20Multiple reports, including reporting by The Atlantic, have alleged episodes of excessive drinking, unexplained absences, and behavior that concern current
00:30and former FBI and DOJ officials.
00:33You have publicly denied those allegations and filed a defamation lawsuit.
00:37So today, as you testify before Congress, is it your testimony that those allegations are categorically false?
00:45Unequivocally categorically false.
00:47So there have been no occasions during your tenure when FBI personnel were unable to promptly reach you?
00:52Absolutely not. You can ask my entire workforce. They hear from me at every single hour of the day, as
00:57do these great gentlemen here, as do the men and women of the interagency and state and local law enforcement
01:01in the White House.
01:02And so there have been no occasions when your security detail had difficulty waking or locating you. Is that right?
01:08Nope. It's a total farce. I don't even know where you get this stuff, but it doesn't make it credible
01:12because you say so.
01:13I'm not saying it, Director Patel. It's been written and documented.
01:18You are literally saying it.
01:19No, I'm saying that these are reports, Director Patel.
01:22Unlike your basis reports, the only person that was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a
01:29convicted gangbanging rapist was you.
01:31You know, the only person that ran up a $7,000 bar tab in Washington, D.C. at the lobby
01:36door was you.
01:37So the only individual in this room that has been drinking on taxpayer dime during the day is you.
01:43Are you polygraphing? Director Patel, come on.
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