Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Friday he saw bottles of urine being smelled by DPS officers last week and ‘bags of feces’, although the Department of Public Safety reported finding one bottle of urine and “18 jars” of feces.

Dewhurst insisted he saw the items after being asked about the incident by Toby Marie Walker, a member of the Waco Tea Party, during a radio interview (begins near 27:00), as the Texas Observer reported.

“It did. It did. It did. I saw some of it,” he said. ”I walked over to the where (DPS officers) were screening and they were getting bottles out and smelling them – they were getting water bottles out and smelling and they had urine in it,” Dewhurst said. “They were bags they had set aside they were going to put in the trash and throw it out – of feces.”

Steve McCraw, director of DPS, responded Wednesday to a probing letter from state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, asking for details of the DPS’s report sent last Friday amid a heated abortion debate. The DPS statement cited “one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to contain feces” that were discarded by officers screening legislative spectators.

McCraw’s letter said activists intended to throw the items at lawmakers during the floor debate. Howard said McCraw’s response didn’t “pass the smell test.”

A call to a Dewhurst spokesperson was not immediately returned.