Former FBI Director James Comey downplayed the role the Steele dossier played in the process his department used to obtain federal warrants used spy on four people associated with President Trump's 2016 campaign.

"Lots of other materials" were used as part of the application to the federal court Comey said on Fox News Sunday. "It was not a huge part."

Inspector General Michael Horowitz found more than a dozen examples of information top law enforcement officials failed to share or misrepresented with the court when seeking a warrant to investigate whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election. He also found, however, that there was no political bias against Trump that motivated that effort.

Horowitz additionally determined that an FBI lawyer in charge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court application process improperly altered a document during the third and final warrant application renewal targeting a Trump campaign adviser to cover up that the bureau had erred in the previous filings.

Comey has previously said the report "vindicated" him and other top FBI officials.

"There was no misconduct at the FBI," he said more than once during the interview on Fox News.

"It was part of a broader mosaic of facts that were laid before the FISA judge," Comey said previously.

"I don't think we're saying different things," Comey said.

