The White House said Thursday that President Trump stands by his claim that former President Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower, even though leaders of congressional intelligence committees say they’ve seen no evidence to support it.

"He stands by it," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said during the daily briefing, referring to the allegations that Trump first made in tweets early this month.

The spokesman argued that Trump was referring to any communications of his associates being swept up by surveillance, not necessarily actions targeted specifically at Trump.

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"There’s been a vast amount of reporting, which I just detailed, about activity that was going on during the 2016 election. There's no question there were surveillance techniques used throughout this," he said.

"The president has already been very clear that he didn't mean specifically wiretapping, he had it in quotes."

Spicer's remarks came just a few hours after the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate intelligence committee said that “we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016.”

The White House pushed back, saying the the Justice Department has yet to provide Congress with additional information to bolster Trump’s claim.

“They’re not findings,” Spicer said. “The statement clearly says that at this time they don’t believe that. They have yet to go through the information.”

A spokesman for Sen. Mark Warner Mark Robert WarnerIntelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings Overnight Defense: Trump hosts Israel, UAE, Bahrain for historic signing l Air Force reveals it secretly built and flew new fighter jet l Coronavirus creates delay in Pentagon research for alternative to 'forever chemicals' House approves bill to secure internet-connected federal devices against cyber threats MORE (Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, responded that “the bipartisan leaders of the intelligence committee would not have made the statement they made without having been fully briefed by the appropriate authorities.”