that trump tower was under surveillance by any element of the united states government. tallas top house democrat telling cnn he thinks co s jame comey will debunk trump s wire tam allegation in front of the house committee on monday. despite all of this, and two major republicans standing up and saying this didn t happen, the white house spokesperson, sean spicer, is unyielding. are you saying that the president still stands by his allegation that president obama ordered wiretapping or surveillance of trump tower despite the fact that the senate intelligence committee says they see no indication it happened? first of all, he stands by it, but you re mischaracterizing what happened today. spicer refused to say whether trump was relying on classified information to base his claims, instead pointed repeatedly to news reports. the new york times reported the following sean hannity