Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE (R-Ky.) said late Tuesday that any investigation into the allegations made against former national security adviser Susan Rice will be handled by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

"I have asked the Intelligence Committee — Sen. [Richard] Burr [R-N.C.], Sen. [Mark] Warner [D-Va.] — to conduct a bipartisan investigation of this whole episode," McConnell said during a Fox News interview when asked whether he thinks Rice should testify.

"They will conduct it. Hopefully at the end we will find out what happened, and they will issue a report, I hope, on a bipartisan basis."

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McConnell said anything related to Rice "or any of these other suggestions will be handled by the Intelligence Committee."

"We look forward to receiving their report about what happened," he added.

Rice on Tuesday rejected allegations that the Obama White House inappropriately spied on — and exposed — President Trump or members of his transition team following the collection of information gathered during surveillance of foreign entities.

She said requests for Americans' identities in raw intelligence reports were "not uncommon" and "absolutely not for any political purpose, to spy, expose, anything."