Former United States Representative Trey Gowdy has revealed that his biggest regret during the Russian investigation was trusting the FBI.

According to The Daily Caller:

Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy admitted Monday that he made one big mistake at the outset of the Russia probe.

Gowdy told Fox News host and Daily Caller cofounder Tucker Carlson that his mistake was in taking the word of the FBI leadership rather than demanding to see the documents — a mistake he said he corrected within the first three weeks.

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“I went to the Department of Justice. I sat there for four hours. That is when I saw that Peter Strzok actually initiated and approved Crossfire Hurricane. That is when I saw the exculpatory information on George Papadopoulos. That is when I saw for the very first time that it was the Trump campaign mentioned in that predicate document,” Gowdy explained, noting that the FBI had repeatedly claimed that Trump was not a target.

“So yes, my mistake was relying on the word of the FBI and the DOJ and not insisting on the documents. Luckily it took me three weeks to correct that mistake,” Gowdy concluded.

The segment also featured a clip of Gowdy from 2018, after a briefing by the FBI, saying he was convinced the FBI did what we would have wanted them to do.