Washington (CNN) House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday said there was "no evidence of collusion" between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, siding with the President on collusion one day after he broke with Trump about claims the FBI put spies in his campaign.

"In all of this, in any of this, there has been no evidence that there is any collusion between the Trump campaign and ... President Trump and Russia," Ryan said at his weekly news conference. "Let's just make that really clear. There is no evidence of collusion."

Ryan's comments align him with the House Intelligence Committee Republican report on the Russia investigation, in which the GOP lawmakers said they uncovered no evidence of collusion between Trump's team and Russia, just some bad judgment. Democrats argue that the Republicans weren't trying to find collusion, charging that they ignored numerous leads and failed to subpoena documents and witnesses key to getting to the bottom of the Russia investigation.

Ryan has been a frequent target of Democratic criticism for his role in aiding House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes' in his fight with the Justice Department for classified documents, including the latest dispute over documents related to an confidential source who spoke to Trump advisers as part of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation.

But Ryan on Wednesday broke with the President and his conservative allies who have claimed the FBI was spying on his campaign, when he said he agreed with South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy's assessment that the FBI's use of the confidential source was proper.

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