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Details on FBI Director Kash Patel's lawsuit against The Atlantic

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FBI Director Kash Patel is suing the magazine The Atlantic and its reporter for defamation over a recent article that details allegations of what was described as Patel's "bouts of excessive drinking." CBS News legal reporter Katrina Kaufman has more.

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