White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus called a New York Time story about Trump campaign aides being in contact with Russian intelligence officials 'garbage' during a sit-down today with Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace.

'I can assure you and I have been approved to say this – that the top levels of the intelligence community have assured me that that story is not only inaccurate, but it's grossly overstated and it is wrong,' Priebus said on Fox News Sunday. 'And there's nothing to it.'

Priebus complained about the Times using unnamed sources in the piece, which came out Tuesday night and cited 'four current and former American officials.'

Wallace was quick to point out that Priebus wasn't naming his own source to counter the claims.

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White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus called a New York Times story pinpointing conversations between the Trump campaign and the Russians 'garbage'

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace (left) called out Reince Priebus (right) for not revealing who gave him information about the Times' reporting, as he had previously criticized the newspaper for not naming sources in its report

'Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Reince,' the veteran broadcaster said. 'You just complained about unnamed sources, you are using an unnamed source.'

The chief of staff replied saying he didn't get permission to use the individual's name.

'But I will tell you this, when I say top level people, I mean top level people, OK?' Priebus said.

The New York Times piece said that while American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted communications between the Trump team and the Russians, officials had seen no evidence of cooperation between the two in attempting to throw the election to now President Donald Trump.

Wallace asked Priebus about this again today.

'So, no collusion whatsoever between anybody involved with Trump and anybody involved with Russia in the 2016 campaign?' Wallace asked.

Priebus gave a quick 'no,' and then pointed to comments made by Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

'He was briefed by the FBI. And what did he do? He turned around and went on the record and said that this story is complete garbage, OK?' Priebus said.

Today on Face the Nation, Nunes said, 'As far as I know, our law enforcement agencies don't have that information,' referring to evidence that the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence officials had been in touch.

'I'd like for these people to bring this information to me so that we could investigate,' he said.

Priebus was trying to make a broader point about news coverage of the administration as Wallace took Trump to task for tweeting over the weekend that journalists were 'the enemy of the American people!'

'Here's the problem, Reince,' Wallace began.

'I don't have any problem with you complaining about an individual story – we sometimes get it wrong, you guys sometimes get it wrong ... but you went a lot further than that, or the president went a lot further then that,' Wallace said. 'He said the fake media, not certain stories, the fake media are an enemy to the country.'

'We don't have state-run media in the country,' Wallace pointed out. 'That's what they have in dictatorships.'

Defending his boss, Priebus said it wasn't just the New York Times story or a Wall Street Journal story, which also annoyed the chief of staff, as it said members of the intelligence community were purposefully cutting material from the president's daily briefings, over an issue of trust.

'Then, it's followed up by 24 hours a day, seven days a week of cable stations – not necessarily Fox,' Priebus said as an aside. 'That all day long, on every chyron, every seven minutes are talking about the Russian spies, talking about the intelligence community, talking about how me and Steve Bannon don't like each other, and what's Kellyanne doing?'

'All of this is just garbage, unsources stuff,' the chief of staff huffed.

Priebus said Wallace should be concerned about mainstream news outlets turning into 'Washington daily gossip magazines.'

'But to accuse an organization of being in constant contact with Russian spies is outrageous,' he said, trying to thread the needle. 'Every day, it's something different. It's some other source that is absolutely untrue.'