Donald Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani — embroiled in a controversy of potential FBI leaks to benefit the Republican's presidential candidacy — claimed he had spoken with "no current FBI agents" before his foreshadowing of a "surprise or two" in the presidential campaign last week.
He called any information he had "hearsay" from "former FBI agents."
"I have spoken to no current FBI agents, gosh, in the last eight months, nine months, 10 months — certainly not about this," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday's "The Situation Room." "Conversations that I've had have been, basically, with friends of mine that I work with.
"An awful lot of former FBI agents are enormously upset about Comey's decision back in July. They disagreed with it. They thought it was a prosecutable case. So, I've had lots of conversations with them, and they told me a lot about the disagreement between the Justice Department on the one hand and the FBI on the other.
"But it all comes from former FBI agents, and it's all hearsay."
Giuliani then claimed his "surprise or two" comment was referencing upcoming Trump advertising campaigns, not the announcement of the James Comey letter to lawmakers which came days later.
"I wasn't referring to any possible information about emails or that sort of thing," he added to CNN.