Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) said he is not ready to make a "final conclusion" on President Donald Trump's claims that the Obama administration, despite FBI Director James Comey saying their was no evidence supporting it. | Getty Cornyn 'not ready to reach conclusion' on Trump wiretapping claim

Texas GOP Senator John Cornyn said Tuesday that he is not ready to conclude that President Donald Trump’s claim that former President Barack Obama’s administration surveilled Trump Tower before the election was false.

Despite FBI Director James Comey’s assertion Monday that no surveillance took place, Cornyn said during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," there was not enough evidence to reach a “final conclusion” on the matter.


“I’ve always believed you ought to wait until you know all the evidence before you reach a conclusion,” he said. “So I'm not ready to reach conclusions before the evidence is complete. That's all I'm saying.”

Comey said during a Monday hearing of the House Intelligence Committee that he had “no information that supports those tweets,” despite looking “carefully” within the FBI. The Justice Department has also looked for evidence to support the claim but was unable to find any, Comey said.

Cornyn said Obama did not personally wiretap Trump. However, he cited reports that suggest someone in the administration had gotten a FISA warrant on the Russian ambassador. Because Michael Flynn had spoken with the ambassador, he too was surveilled, Cornyn said.

“That is within the realm of possibility,” he said. “That may have been what the president was referring to.”

However, Trump’s tweets explicitly said it was a “fact” that “President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just before the election!”