Vice President Mike Pence isn't backing up the president's charge that he was wiretapped by the previous administration.

Pence demurred on Wednesday when an Ohio reporter asked him if he believes Donald Trump's claim that his phone lines at Trump Tower were tapped at the direction of Barack Obama.

With out a warrant, such activity would be illegal. The former president would have committed a felony, ABC News 5 Cleveland's John Kosich pointed out.

Vice President Mike Pence isn't backing up the president's charge that he was wiretapped by the previous administration. He demurred on Wednesday when an Ohio reporter asked if agrees with President Trump

Asked for a 'yes or no' answer as to whether he believes that the former president did what the current one has alleged, Pence dodged the question.

'Well, what I can say is that the president and our administration are very confident that the congressional committees in the House and Senate that are examining issues surrounding the last election, the run-up to the last election, will do that in a thorough and equitable way.

'They'll look at those issues, they'll look at other issues that have been raised. But rest assured our focus is right where the American people are focused and that's on bringing more jobs here to Ohio, creating a better healthcare system built on consumer choice.'

White House officials have provided no evidence that Obama ordered Trump's calls to be monitored. Pressed incessantly by reporters, officials have went mum, saying that the inflammatory allegation will be probed by congressional committees.

Until, then, they say they're refusing to provide additional comment on the source of their information after previously ascribing it to news articles that said no such thing.

A report in the conservative online publication Circa claimed yesterday that the FBI investigated a Trump Organization computer that it believed was contacting Russia, but nothing ever came of it.

The surveillance the article described is not the same, however, as a wiretap, which is what Trump alleged.

A source who spoke to Circa anonymously said misunderstandings about the different types of government surveillance has been adding to the confusion.

'We have people spouting off who don’t know the difference between FISA surveillance and a wiretap or a counterintelligence probe versus a special prosecutor, and it has hurts our ability to get to the truth and has wrongly created the impression that intelligence officials have a political agenda,' the source said.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday here is 'no reason' to believe President Trump is the target of 'any investigation whatsoever' - including a counterintelligence probe

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stated flatly that President Trump is not the 'target' of any investigation on Wednesday after earlier dancing around a question about whether he was the subject of a counterintelligence probe.

The unusual question came up at the White House daily press briefing, days after Trump blasted out a series of tweets saying President Obama had tapped his phones and demanded an investigation.

Although Trump offered no proof his communications were being monitored, his claims raised at least the possibility that there was a probe targeting Trump Tower, following earlier reports that the FBI was investigation contacts between Trump associates and the Russians.

Margaret Brennan of CBS News asked Spicer directly whether Trump was the target of a counterintelligence investigation – essentially a spy probe.

'I think that’s what we need to find out,' Spicer responded, before going into a long critique of the media and its Russia coverage.

Then, as he wrapped up the briefing, and after being handed notes by an aide on two occasions, Spicer went back to the issue, 'just to clarify.'

'I just want to be really clear on one point,' Spicer said.

'There is no reason that we have to think the president is the target of any investigation whatsoever,' Spicer said.

'There is no reason to believe that he is the target of any investigation. That’s a very important point to make,' he repeated.

The he said that the tweets 'dealt with wiretaps during the thing.'

'The other is an investigation. They are two separate issues. And there is no reason to believe that there is any type of investigation with respect to the Department of Justice.'

Spicer made his declarative statement after earlier saying 'I think that’s what we need to find out' when asked whether Trump was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation

Spicer returned to the subject at the end of the press briefing to say Trump was not the target of 'any' investigation

In his earlier answer, Spicer said, 'There was considerable concern last cycle when a reporter was the target of one. Part of the reason that we have asked the House and Senate to look into this is because of that.'

He complained: 'These stories that keep coming out about the president and his links to Russia. It has continuing to be the same old same old played over and over again.'

'The president has made clear that he has no interest in Russia,' Spicer said. 'And yet a lot of these stories that have come out with respect to that are frankly fake.'

'He doesn't know whether he is the target of a probe or not?' a reporter asked.

'That's one of the issues we have asked the Senate and the House to look into,' Spicer responded.

The Washington Post reported the day before Trump's inauguration that U.S. officials were going through intercepted communications and financial data as part of an investigation into ties between the Russian government and Trump associates.

In recent weeks it has been revealed that top Trump associates met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., including Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The former senator has since recused himself from any probes involving the presidential election.