國會資深議員說：沒有奧巴馬下令竊聽川普的證據

The White House is continuing to stand by President Donald Trump's insistence that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower in New York.

Spokesman Sean Spicer faced off Thursday against a roomful of reporters who wanted to know why Trump keeps insisting it is true even after top lawmakers on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees say it never happened. He accused the journalists of "mischaracterizing" what happened in the Senate committee.

He also accused reporters of "cherry picking" what they choose to cover, and of ignoring House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes who said it was "very possible" there was surveillance of Trump. But Nunes said he does not believe Trump's phones were tapped.

Spicer said Trump put the word "wiretap" in quotes in his original Twitter accusation. Spicer said that means there was widespread surveillance if not actual phone taps.

But the two top senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Mark Warner, said Thursday: “Based on the information available to us, 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.”

Their statement followed one from House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, who also dismissed the president's explosive claim March 4 that Obama ordered the eavesdropping. "We've cleared that up, that we see no evidence of that," Ryan said.

Trump, however, told Fox News late Wednesday that he "very soon" will produce evidence of Obama's actions. Top leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that Trump's allegation is unfounded, but the president said his administration "will be submitting things" to the panel and that he perhaps will be speaking about his claim next week.

"You're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks," Trump said.

Obama dismissed the allegation as "simply false," and Trump since then has not substantiated his claim until the Fox interview.

One key U.S. senator, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said, "I'm going to get to the bottom of this. Congress is going to flex its muscle."

He vowed, if need be, to subpoena the FBI to determine whether any U.S. judge issued a secret wiretapping edict that the FBI carried out.白宮繼續堅持川普總統的說法，就是前總統奧巴馬曾下令竊聽他在紐約川普大廈的電話。

白宮發言人斯派塞週四面對的滿屋記者們想知道爲什麼在參衆兩院情報委員會的重要議員表示沒有跡象顯示川普大廈受到監視時，川普仍堅持竊聽一說。斯派塞指責記者們對參議院委員會的情況作出“錯誤解釋”。

他還指責記者們“只挑選”他們想要報道的東西，而忽視了衆議院情報委員會主席努涅斯所說的“很可能”發生了對川普的監視。不過努涅斯說，他不認爲川普的電話被竊聽。

斯派塞說，川普最初在他的推文中把單詞“竊聽”加上引號，這意味着有廣泛監視的意思，如果不是實際上的電話監聽。

但參議院情報委員會的兩位資深議員，共和黨人理查德·伯爾和民主黨人馬克·沃納週四表示：“根據我們可以得到的信息，我們沒有看到在2016年的選舉日之前或之後川普大廈是美國政府任何部門的監視對象。”

在他們發表聲明之前，衆議院議長保羅·瑞恩也迴應川普總統在3月4號推出的有關奧巴馬下令竊聽的爆炸性指稱說，“我們已經清楚的是，我們沒有看到有關證據。”

但是川普總統週三晚些時候告訴福克斯新聞，他“很快”會提出奧巴馬這一動作的證據。衆議院情報委員重要議員星期三表示，川普的指控沒有根據，但是川普說，他的政府將向衆議院情報委員會“提交東西”，而且他可能在下週談論有關問題。

川普說，“今後兩週裏你們會看到一些非常有趣的情況浮上臺面。”

奧巴馬駁斥這一指控是“純屬捏造”。川普自發推後一直沒有重提他的說法，直到這次在福克斯的採訪中。

美國參議院一名關鍵的議員、南卡羅來納州的林賽·格雷厄姆說：“我要把這事查個底朝天，國會將大展拳腳。”

他誓言如有必要，將傳訊聯邦調查局，確定他們是否執行了任何法官下達的祕密竊聽令。