Former Attorney General Eric Holder weighed in on recently-released highly-redacted FISA warrant and dismissed the conclusions made by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.
Holder began by accusing the president cares more about “defending himself” than the national security implications there may be with the release of the FISA application to surveil Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. He told Colbert that he “signed a lot” of them while he was in office.
“Why do you think the Trump administration or certainly the president has said this exonerates him?” Stephen Colbert asked.
“I have no idea,” Holder responded. “I mean, I’m serious! If you look at it, it goes totally contrary to that which he says it’s going to contain. Devin Nunes is proved to be totally wrong. It is really one of these questions of who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? I mean, you just look at it and you can see that it paints a totally different picture than what the House Republicans have said and what this president has said.”
Colbert then compared interpreting the FISA warrant to “news tofu” that “takes on the flavor of whoever is the person talking about it.”
“But I think there’s a certain objective analysis one can do,” Holder said. “There’s these things called facts, and then there’s this other stuff.”
Holder refuted the claims that the FISA warrant was solely based on the Trump dossier, saying ” it is clear” that a “range of other things” contributed to the application.
Watch the clip above, via CBS.
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