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\u201cLate Night\u201d host Seth Meyers<\/a> had some tough love for Kash Patel<\/a> on Wednesday, after the FBI<\/a> director claimed that members of the USA hockey team were his \u201cfriends.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI\u2019m like an everyday American who loves his country, loves the sport of hockey and champions my friends when they raise a gold medal and invite me in to celebrate,\u201d Patel said during a Justice Department press conference on Tuesday. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cOh sweetie, no, no sweetie,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cFriends? No, sweetie. I\u2019m gonna say to you what I said to John and Jim about Mr. and Mrs. Met, they\u2019re not your friends.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Patel was referring to an incident in February, when he was filmed chugging beer in the Team USA locker room after their gold-medal game victory at the Winter Olympics. Last week, Patel attempted to rebut criticisms of his taxpayer-funded trip to Italy by claiming<\/a><\/span> he was there for \u201csecurity\u201d purposes. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe (FBI) were there for the Milan Olympics. The FBI was leading the security for 250,000 Americans that went to Milan for the Winter Olympics,\u201d Patel said on \u201cThe Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201c…And I was fortunate enough to be there with the men\u2019s hockey team and my friends on the team and celebrating something that hadn\u2019t been done in what, 50 \u2015 my math is terrible \u2015 50 some years,\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Outside of the Olympics incident, Patel has been mired in scandal since the publication of an article in The Atlantic<\/a>, which detailed incidents of \u201cexcessive drinking\u201d and erratic behavior \u2013 all of which he has denied. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n