Rachel Maddow

Headline, FBI Director Kash Patel, during what his spokesman said was an official trip to Milan for security meetings, was filmed guzzling from a beer bottle and celebrating in the locker room with U.S.

Olympic hockey players on Sunday.

Quote, eight former FBI and Justice Department officials sent MSNOW a copy of that video, which they said was drawing outrage as it rocketed around FBI and DOJ circles.

Quote, FBI spokesman Ben Williamson told MSNOW on Thursday that Kash Patel was going to Milan for a series of, quote,

business meetings.

And he said it was unfair to describe Patel's trip as having to do with hockey or pleasure of any kind.

Quote, your rag outlet wrote that he went to hang out at the Olympics on the taxpayer dime, Williamson posted Saturday on Twitter.

Then on Sunday, several videos emerged on social media, in fact, showing Patel in the locker room after the hockey game, with one in particular drawing outrage from current and former FBI agents.

It depicted Patel pouring what appeared to be beer down his throat, spraying some of it in the air, and screaming in celebration.

The FBI spokesman did not respond to a request for comment about the video.

NBC News is also reporting tonight that the Justice Department has just had to drop their humiliating total debacle of an effort to bring criminal charges against six Democratic senators and members of Congress.

That comes after the geniuses over at Pam Bondi's department reportedly couldn't get a single grand juror to agree to the indictment of those members of Congress.

Not a single grand juror.

Not that they couldn't get the grand jury to agree to the indictment.

They couldn't get a single grand juror, meaning they couldn't get one person.

At Pam Bondi's Justice Department, we've had Justice Department lawyers abjectly apologizing to judges in three different states, essentially begging not to be held in contempt.

At least one Justice Department lawyer has just been held in contempt in Minnesota.

Things are really seemingly breaking down there.

We're going to talk tonight about a novel effort to try to document and try to sort of wall off and preserve evidence of all the abuses and authoritarian misuses of the Justice Department under Donald Trump and Pam Bondi.

This is something I don't think you've necessarily heard about anywhere else.