The non response given by two lawyers, one of them, a criminal defense attorney, tells you everything you need to know here.
John
REPORTER: Can you say definitively that you have not been intoxicated or absent during your tenure as FBI director?
PATEL: I can say unequivocally I never listen to the fake news mafia. This director has been on the job twice as many days as every one before me. I've taken half as many days off.