Answering questions from reporters Wednesday morning, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) appeared to back President Trump amid reports he’d urged the FBI to stop the probe on former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

“There are some people out there who want to harm the president, but we have an obligation to carry out an oversight regardless of which party is in the White House,” Ryan said, reading a prepared statement as a response to a reporter’s questions. “And that means, before rushing to judgment, we get all the pertinent information.”

He also questioned why former FBI director James Comey didn’t come forward sooner with his notes on his February meeting with Trump and said recent reporting “requires close examination.”

“If this happened as he described, why didn’t he take action at the time?” Ryan said, echoing questions from other skeptical Republicans.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Trump had urged Comey to drop the investigation on Flynn in the wake of the former national security adviser’s resignation.

“I hope you can let this go,” Trump said, according to Comey’s notes, which were described to The Washington Post by the former director’s associates. The associates said Comey wrote a detailed, two-page account of the meeting, noting that Trump described Flynn as “a good guy.”

During the Wednesday news conference in which Ryan talked about tax reform, he emphasized the need to gather all the facts.

“The point it this: We can’t deal with speculation or innuendo, and there’s clearly a lot of politics being played,” Ryan said, adding that he does not want to “micromanage” ongoing congressional investigations.

The House and Senate intelligence committees and the FBI have been conducting investigations into possible Russian interference in the presidential election to help Trump win, and whether the president’s campaign had colluded with Russian agents.

Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) echoed Ryan in an earlier statement.

“The speaker reminded us, which I think was appropriate, that we have more information,” Walker said. “There’s no reason to talk about where we go from here until we have more information, simple as that.”

Ryan’s comments come as some lawmakers call for Comey to testify before Congress, while others say they want to see a physical copy of Comey’s notes.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight committee, has said he’s prepared to issue a subpoena to get a copy. He wrote a letter to the FBI Tuesday night requesting any and all communications between Comey and Trump.