David Axelrod dodged recent claims that he nearly came to blows with Attorney General Eric Holder during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning.
The Obama campaign adviser denied such accusations when pressed about them by host Candy Crowley.
Axelrod claimed that he almost never spoke with Holder while he served in the Obama White House.
“From time to time at the White House, I would see Holder at meetings and so on, but I rarely spoke to him, and I didn’t ever speak to him on issues of policy in the Justice Department,” Axelrod said. “I didn’t speak to him about personnel issues, other than at the beginning of the administration [when] I recommended a communications person to him.”
He called the attorney general his “friend” and asserted that he didn’t want to place any undue political pressure on Holder’s involvement with the Justice Department affairs such as the picking of U.S. attorneys.
But according to the Daily Caller, Holder disputed that claim during congressional testimony last week.
