White House counselor Kellyanne Conway admitted Monday she had ‘no evidence’ for her sensational suggestion in an interview that the Obama administration may have been spying on Trump Tower through people’s TV sets.

‘Of course I don’t have any evidence for those allegations and that answer had nothing to do with what the president said last week,’ Conway told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Monday morning when pressed repeatedly about her claims.

Conway told the Bergen Record 'you can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets — any number of ways' when asked in a interview about President Trump's unsubstantiated claim that President Obama spied on Trump Tower.

Pressed repeatedly on her claim by Stephanopoulos, Conway downplayed her original claim and said she wasn't referring to Trump Tower when she said, it just running through the news of the day.

‘Of course I don’t have any evidence for those allegations,' Conway told ABC's 'Good Morning America'

'All I said to the Bergen Record is – I was making a comment about the articles from this past week where it is revealed that one can be surveilled through any number of techniques, through microwaves, through the cameras, through televisions. I wasn’t talking about anything specifically,' she explained.

In another interview, with CNN, she tried to make light of her high-tech insinuation, telling host Chris Cuomo: 'Chris, I’m not Inspector Gadget. I don’t believe people are using their microwave to spy on the Trump Campaign. However, I am not in the job of having evidence. That’s what investigations are for.'

At another point in the ABC interview, she called the idea that there was a Trump campaign-Russia tie 'attenuated'

'The president’s just happy that this investigation now includes this aspect that the House Select Intelligence Committees and the houses are now going to have this as part of their very attenuated Russia campaign connection,' she said.

Conway got grilled repeatedly by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Monday about her claims about TV and microwave surveillance

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The congressional Intelligence panels have said they would include any eavesdropping activities in their ongoing inquiries of Russian election interference alleged Trump-Russia ties, but haven't said there was a basis for the claim.

Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Intelligence panel, and Adam Schiff, the ranking member, have demanded evidence from the Department of Justice that backs up Trump's claim.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer directed questions to DOJ on Monday afternoon about meeting the deadline but said, 'My understanding is that they will.'

DOJ had nothing new to offer in response to a DailyMail.com request.

Given one more chance on ABC that morning to provide evidence for her claims, Conway said: 'I have no evidence but that’s why there’s and investigation in Congress. That’s particularly what investigations are for, and I would not that Comey has asked the Department of Justice to make a comment that he hasn’t made a comment.'

Conway was referring to FBI Director James Comey's reported request that DOJ comment on President Trump's original charge that President Obama tapped his phones.

Various reports indicated that Comey asked Justice to comment on the charge because the FBI had carried out no such tapping.

Conway was mocked on Twitter after claiming that President Donald Trump might have been spied on through hidden cameras in his microwaves.

Her comments were part of a larger claim that alleged government surveillance of Trump has gone beyond the tapping of phones, and into other household appliances.

Conway first floated the idea about TVs and microwaves during an interview with the Bergen Record conducted in her home

Conway repeatedly dismissed inquiries into alleged connections between Trump associates and Russia during interviews Monday morning

Conway tied together Trump's tapping claims with a report about leaked alleged CIA spy methods

'I’m not Inspector Gadget. I don’t believe people are using their microwave to spy on the Trump Campaign,' Conway said, making light of reports about her claims of spying on Trump Tower

Conway repeatedly dismissed inquiries into alleged connections between Trump associates and Russia – days after informal Trump advisor Roger Stone admitted to be being in contact on Twitter with Guccifer 2.0, who posted hacked emails from Democrats and who the intelligence community said was a front for Russian intelligence.

'Every single day on this network and others, people are screaming about Russia and the campaign and to what avail? Where is the evidence?' Conway told Cuomo, who responded that the investigations 'haven't even started yet.'

'Okay but you’re fine with that investigation taking its time. But when it comes to the House and Senate intelligence committees listening to President Trump and including this as part of the overall investigation, somehow that has to be on a rocket docket that has to have evidentiary proof on Day One,' she said.

Conway was quickly ridiculed on Twitter, with social media users saying they'd be sure to check their appearance before turning on their microwaves.

She had told New Jersey's Bergen County Record that 'there are many ways to surveil each other'.

'You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets - any number of ways,' she said before adding: 'microwaves that turn into cameras.'

WATCH: "I have no evidence but that's why there's an investigation in Congress..." @KellyannePolls on Trump's wiretap claims. pic.twitter.com/W4kGlrK0Um — Good Morning America (@GMA) March 13, 2017

Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway says you can spy on someone through 'any number of ways', including household appliances

'We know this is a fact of modern life,' Conway told the newspaper without providing evidence to support her remarks.

Soon after her claims went to print, Twitter users joked online about being watched by their kitchen appliances.

A mock Trump Twitter account shared a stock photo of someone throwing out a microwave and wrote: 'Per my orders @KellyannePolls & @PressSec r throwing out all #WhiteHouse microwaves! Can't let Obama spy w/microwaves! Here's a pic of Sean!'

'Microwaves are the new spy cameras? At least something productive will be done in my kitchen,' a woman named Shelly wrote.

One Twitter user joked that the plot to record Trump through his microwave was called 'Operation Hot Pocket'.

Politics forecaster G Elliot Morris wrote: 'Better unplug your microwaves, kids; Kellyanne Conway says the gov can use them as spy cams. Oh, & your drier is a direct line to Langley!'

'I just pressed the Popcorn setting on my microwave and it showed me secret spy video of Kellyanne Conway eating lunch,' ESPN Insider analyst Aaron Schatz wrote.

Her comments follow Trump's claim earlier this month that former President Barack Obama had Trump's 'wires tapped' at Trump Tower before the election.

Trump hasn't provided evidence and Obama has denied the charge.

FBI director James Comey has privately urged the Justice Department to dispute Trump's claim but has not come forward to do so himself.