Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that he was not yet calling for an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, but he believes the actions the House has uncovered through its investigations “could rise” to an inquiry eventually.

But McCarthy pointedly didn't rule impeachment out in the future.

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On Fox News Monday night, McCarthy said that the information uncovered throughout the course of the investigations by the House Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means committees “is rising to the level of impeachment inquiry.”

But on Tuesday, he clarified, saying he was not yet calling for an impeachment inquiry and wanted to see where the facts of the investigations led.

“It wasn't an announcement,” McCarthy told reporters. “I simply said that the actions that I'm seeing by this administration, withholding the agencies from being able to work with us, that would rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry. We still have a number of investigations going forward.”

McCarthy said that the House’s position is “no different than it was yesterday” in regards to an impeachment inquiry, and they “continue to gather more information” on the president and his family's foreign business dealings.

He specifically referenced testimony by the two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers that alleged they were blocked by the Justice Department from interviewing Hunter Biden, and that the DOJ allowed the statute of limitations to run out on some of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes. He also referenced the unverified FBI-generated FD-1023 that alleges then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden were paid $5 million by the head of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden sat on the board, to pressure the Ukrainian government to fire Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor who was allegedly investigating Burisma.

He said that the DOJ not giving this document to the investigators on Hunter Biden’s criminal investigation, which the two IRS whistleblowers allege was the case, shows that there was interference in Hunter Biden’s investigation.

And as heads of the agencies who are a part of the investigation — the Justice Department, IRS, and U.S. Secret Service — continue to slow-walk the request from committees for their employees to sit for transcribed interviews, that could also rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry.

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“If the departments in government, just like Richard Nixon used, deny us the ability to get the information we're asking, that would rise to an impeachment inquiry, which would empower Republicans and Democrats in Congress to get the information for the American public and come to the bottoms of the truth,” McCarthy said.

But McCarthy told Punchbowl News that he does not plan on calling for or opening an impeachment inquiry this week.