His remarks came shortly after the Senate Intelligence Committee reported it had no evidence to back Trump’s claim that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower’s “wires tapped.”

Chalian also said this week that Trump must apologize to Obama if the White House can’t provide evidence that Trump Tower’s phones were tapped during the 2016 presidential campaign.

New reports “are now providing a path to the president where he can no longer justify not retracting those tweets and apologizing to Barack Obama of a crime without any evidence whatsoever,” Chalian said. “I just think the White House is just in such a pickle on this.”

Though Trump declined to cite evidence of his wiretapping claim during his interview on Fox News, he suggested information may come out in the near future showing he was correct.

For Chalian, this is unacceptable.

“Saying you’re going to see in next couple weeks — something’s going to come out — saying surveillance more broadly. They say no!” he added in reference to Trump’s Fox News interview.

Chalian joined CNN in 2013. He was fired from Yahoo News during the 2012 presidential election after he was caught on a hot microphone suggesting former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Republican leaders would be, “happy to have a party with black people drowning.”

Chalian’s hot mic remarks were made in reference to the fact Republicans were going ahead with their nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., despite the inclement weather.

CNN hired Chalian approximately one year after he was fired. He was soon promoted to a position overseeing the sprawling network’s political coverage.