Rudy Giuliani, one of President Donald Trump's lawyers helping him navigate through the Russia investigation, said Thursday a leading Republican congressman's characterization of Trump campaign surveillance was misguided.
During an interview on CNN, Giuliani addressed comments made by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., this week in which he said the FBI acted appropriately when it spied on the Trump campaign via a confidential informant.
"He's drinking the Kool-Aid," Giuliani said of Gowdy, inferring Gowdy — who is not running for re-election this year — is buying the FBI's story.
Giuliani also took a shot at Gowdy's handling of the House Benghazi Committee, which he chaired as the panel investigated the 2012 terrorist attack that resulted in the loss of four American lives in Libya.
"I never understood what he did with Benghazi either," Giuliani said. "He really screwed that up. I don't know what he was doing."
The former New York City mayor insisted the Department of Justice allow him full access to the classified documents that discussed the informant on the Trump campaign that was feeding information to the FBI.
If he is not allowed to see the documents, Giuliani implied he would not allow Trump to sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe team.
"The only thing I can conclude is that the documents are going to show nothing connecting Donald Trump to the Russians," Giuliani said. "It's exculpatory, which is why they don't want to show us," he said.
Giuliani said Wednesday that Mueller would be "doing a Comey," a reference to former FBI director James Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, if Trump is not cleared of wrongdoing by September.
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