On Monday, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul responded to FBI Director James Comey’s denial of President Trump’s “wiretapping” claims, telling Neil Cavuto of Fox News that “somebody was spying on the Trump campaign” adding that Mike Flynn “lost his job” because of it.

“Everybody admits that somebody spied on Mike Flynn, and he was part of the Trump campaign,” Paul said.

“It sounds like what the president said has already been proven to be true.”

The senator then reminded Cavuto that whoever leaked this confidential information committed a serious crime. “Somebody listened to Mike Flynn’s conversations and revealed it to the press, which is a felony.”

“And you don’t do that unless somehow you eavesdropped on his phone conversation.”

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“The media’s been kinda confused on this, they think there has to be an old-fashioned bug placed on a wire,” Paul continued. “If you haven’t looked lately most of our cell phones don’t have wires, so wiretapping is a broad term for surveillance.”

“Somebody did surveil, somebody spied on Mike Flynn and then illegally released the conversation.”

The Fox host then interrupted Paul, asking “do you think that someone went to the extra level, including a former president, to rope in Donald Trump?”

“You know, I don’t think it’s really that important whether or not it was specifically Donald Trump versus his campaign,” Paul responded. “I think most of the accusations have been that they had surveillance on the Trump campaign at large.”

Rand Paul then pointed out that nobody from the left or the mainstream media have even denied the fact that General Flynn was spied on, noting “I think the fact that nobody is denying that they did release somebody from the campaign, Mike Flynn, they did release his conversations, that the spying actually occurred. So it’s funny that we’re arguing this point…”

Cavuto then interjected, adding that he agreed that Flynn was spied on, but not necessarily that Trump was also under surveillance. “Well, it’s a big point though right senator? You’re quite right to point out the Michael Flynn situation,” the host said. “But he was saying, Donald Trump was saying, that it was Barack Obama, who led that effort to tap his phone at the Trump Tower.”

“Right, I think there’s a lot of imprecision in the language when you look at a tweet,” Paul argued. “I think ‘wiretapping’ to Donald Trump probably meant spying, and I think ‘Donald Trump’ or the ‘campaign’ also probably meant Mike Flynn. So I think really we’re arguing circles around something that most people are admitting.”

“Somebody was spying on the Trump campaign and actually Mike Flynn lost his job because of an illegal felony in which somebody released the results of spying on the Trump campaign.”