FBI Director Gets In Shouting Match With Reporter, Denies Drinking On The Job
Amy & T.J.
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In Kash Patel’s first presser since “The Atlantic” published its story alleging the FBI Director has “bouts of excessive drinking” and several unexplained absences, things got heated pretty quickly. Patel got into a fiery exchange with an NBC reporter over allegations he panicked, believing he was fired when he couldn’t access his government computer. It was an intense back and forth that eventually led to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche interrupting the exchange to tell the reporter he was “extraordinarily rude.”
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| 0:34.9 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:36.1 | It is Wednesday, April 22nd, and we have gotten a bold, defiant denial from FBI |
| 0:44.5 | director Cash Patel. What is he denying? Being a lush at work. And with that, welcome to this |
| 0:50.5 | episode of Amy and TJ. Not usually a good sign if you have to come out and say, I was not drunk at work. |
| 0:56.9 | But that's kind of the position he's been put in with this new article. |
| 0:59.8 | Yes. |
| 1:00.2 | And it was an uncomfortable position that led to a fiery exchange at a press conference. |
| 1:06.0 | Look, I think we sometimes get desensitized to what we're seeing from the administration when it comes to reporters. |
| 1:13.2 | But you and I watch this press conference late Tuesday. |
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