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0:10>> [music] >> Good evening, America. We coming to you live with a story out of Washington that's keeping us alive. Grab [music] your remote control and turn the volume up tonight because the FBI director is back under the spotlight. Breaking news is flooding in from coast to coast today about the man who runs the [music] bureau and the price he has to pay. Not for anything that happened in the middle of the night, but for stories from his college days that just came in the light. The year was 2001, a junior [music] at a school, University of Richmond, where he thought he was real cool. He was under 21 when [music] he
0:40showed up at the game, a basketball arena, and things were never quite the same. He had a couple drinks that night, [music] the records clearly show. He got a little loud and then security said, "Go." They escorted him right out for what they called excessive cheering and the officers [music] outside confirmed what we all hear. Public intoxication was the charge they wrote him up. He paid his fine and walked away. He put down that red cup. It was a misdemeanor, [music] nothing major on the scale, but now in 2026, that story's going viral.
1:06This just in, this just in from Washington, [music] D.C. FBI director has a history, you see. Old records from his younger years are surfacing today.
1:14[music] Everybody coast to coast has got a lot to say.
1:17This just in, this just in. The documents are real. They came up during vetting when he signed the plea deal. He disclosed them on the application fair and square, but now the Atlantic running stories putting them in the Fast forward to 2005, a law student [music] in New York. He's studying at Pace University preparing how to talk in courtrooms and in chambers where the legal eagles go.
1:36But one night with his fellow [music] students, things got touch and go. They went out to celebrate. They had a drink or two. They walked back from the bar at night the way that people do. And somewhere on that sidewalk under New York [music] City skies, a police cruiser rolled up slow before their very eyes. The charge was public urination written in the log. He paid another fine and went on studying the law. He [music] disclosed it to the bar when application time had come. And the Florida bar reviewed him underneath the morning [music] sun. Now in Atlantic magazine has published something new alleging
2:04that the drinking didn't stop at 22.
2:07They're claiming that [music] this current conduct drinking on the job and Pettel says that's fiction and he's calling out the mob. He filed defamation [music] lawsuit standing his own ground.
2:15He says the allegations in that article aren't sound. [music] The White House hasn't commented officially as yet and no one's confirmed firing him, at least not on the net. He was confirmed by the Senate [singing and music] back in early 2005. He's sitting as the FBI director still alive. His [music] career is not yet over. Pay Terry to the claims of commentary channels playing Washington, D.C. games. The old [music] arrests were minor, both disclosed and on the shelves. He never tried to hide them, he reported them himself. But in [music] a town like Washington where scrutiny runs deep, every document and record is a
2:44headline yours to keep. [music] So that's the full report tonight. We've laid the story bare. The past arrests are documented, it's [music] sitting in the air. The current allegations are still pending in the court in Cash Patel made the narrative. That's the full report. This has been your breaking news. We'll see you back at 10. We'll watch as Washington delivers us another story again. From the halls of power to the streets [music] of New York state, the news keeps coming, people, and it never seems to wait.
3:10Thomas Atten.
3:13Good night.
3:17>> [music] >> This just in, this just in from Washington, D.C. FBI director has a history, you see. Old records from his younger years are surfacing today.
3:27Everybody coast to coast has got a lot >> [music] >> to say.
3:30This just in, this just in. The documents are real. They came up during [music] vetting when he signed the plea deal. He disclosed them on the application fair and square, but now the Atlantic running [music] stories putting them in the >> [music]
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