“No, he doesn’t strike me as someone who would lie under oath,” Lee said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“Nonetheless, I’m not wild about the fact that he had these memos leaked, leaked specifically with the intent of prompting the appointment of a special counsel. That doesn’t seem to me to be the kind of thing we want out of an FBI director.”

When asked whether he believes Comey committed a crime, the Republican senator said it “appears to have been inappropriate” but said he doesn’t know whether it was a crime.