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House Intelligence Committee Chief Says He's Seen No Evidence Supporting Trump's Wiretap Claim

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Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said “we don't have any evidence that that took place” in regards to President Trump's claim that he was wiretapped during the election at Trump Tower.

Nunes is a California Republican and a staunch supporter of Trump. His comments came at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

“I don't think there was an actual tap of Trump Tower,” Nunes said.

Nunes added that if people choose to interpret the president's wire tapping tweets “literally,” then the president is wrong.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the same committee, said this about White House's position on Trump's wire tapping tweets: “They've been all over the map.”

Separately, during a press conference in Richmond, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he never gave Trump a a reason to believe he was wiretapped by the previous administration.

“Um, look, um, answer's no,” he said.

“I was active in the campaign, I held a role in the campaign,” Sessions told reporters. “There's a code of federal regulations, rules, statutes really, that says if you're a Department of Justice employee in the campaign, you cannot investigate your own campaign — even though you may have had nothing whatsoever to do with anything improper.”

Earlier this month, Sessions recused himself from any federal investigation into the 2016 US presidential election.

“I'm not talking to the president or the people who are investigating the case and am unable to comment on any of these details,” Sessions said Wednesday.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates and follow BuzzFeed News on Twitter.

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