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Mukasey: "There Was Surveillance" Of Trump Tower, Not Necessarily Related To Election

Former Bush administration Attorney General Michael Mukasey joins ABC's Martha Raddatz on 'This Week' to discuss the wiretapping accusations made by President Trump on Twitter on Saturday morning:

"This is the difference between being correct and being right," Mukasey said about Trump's accusation of Obama. "I think the president was not correct certainly in saying that President Obama ordered a tap on a server in Trump Tower. However, I think he is right in that there was surveillance, and that it was conducted at the behest of the... Justice Department through the FISA court."

President Obama's Justice Department made two requests in June and October of 2016 to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. Because the first was denied, the second was narrower and focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of transmitting links to Russian banks.