jay sekulow you have worked on this case, jay, from the very beginning, i know how hard you work.w hard the president has worked on this. this is great news tonight. >> no, this is a big win. when you did the introduction i feel like i'm representing everybody tonight. what a great day it is for the brunson family and for pastor brunson himself and the president and administration did a february nominal job moving this case forward. i have handled a lot of these. the fact is they are difficult. there are times when there is progress and there are times when they are not. this was even more complicated because it was a nato ally. the end ru89 of it positive aspect of this, is that the pastor has been released unconditionally and is enroute may have already landed in germany and come back to the united states as early as tomorrow. great win and huge thank you to the administration and the president and to members of congress as welling. the president really led the charge here to get this done and i really appreciate it. >> sean: there was no deal. and the charge for pastor brunson

jay sekulow you have worked on this case, jay, from the very beginning, i know how hard you work.w hard the president has worked on this. this is great news tonight. >> no, this is a big win. when you did the introduction i feel like i'm representing everybody tonight. what a great day it is for the brunson family and for pastor brunson himself and the president and administration did a february nominal job moving this case forward. i have handled a lot of these. the fact is they are difficult. there are times when there is progress and there are times when they are not. this was even more complicated because it was a nato ally. the end ru89 of it positive aspect of this, is that the pastor has been released unconditionally and is enroute may have already landed in germany and come back to the united states as early as tomorrow. great win and huge thank you to the administration and the president and to members of congress as welling. the president really led the charge here to get this done and i really appreciate it. >> sean: there was no deal. and the charge for pastor brunson

few things excite me more than jay sekulow saying no comment. i'm joking with you because i'm going to respectfully disagree, mya, and say there are ways this could have been interesting. and nelson outlines a case a lot of people are wondering about, which is if or when bob mueller tries to make president trump to testify. we rely on you for your insights into this. no one knows what is going on under seal. do you think this is donald trump being secretly hauled into court or not? >> well, i'm going to scare you, because it's halloween. >> okay. >> and quote easy e and say the suspense is making me sick. >> boom. >> so, who knows? i mean, i think the point is it's certainly a credible possibility because it's hard to imagine that robert mueller, obviously trying to get trump to agree to meet and be interviewed so that, in lieu of a subpoena. but if you're trying to write a report for congress on the allegations that he has, you certainly want to have the opportunity to ask those questions directly to trump and talk about what the answers are. b

again, that's jay sekulow, the president's attorney. this is the first round of what we expect of these questions, and we expect that there could be additional ones. >> anything additional, gloria, is that might prevent president trump and his team from refusing to answer these questions? in other words, could they refuse to answer them? >> they don't have to. they could face a subpoena. i think they would rather answer the questions and fact that they are allowed to answer them in writing is kind of a big moment for them because early on it was all about the president, we need to have him tefrks and as evan says, he m -- have him testify, and as evan said, they may want to know about intent and only the president can answer what was in his mind when he fired james comey. pre-gnawing ray, they are not protected by executive privilege so they know, i think, that they have to provide answers to these questions. if you were the president's lawyers, would you rather do it or would you rather have donald trump sit down and do it? >> gloria,

. >> well, i called white house counsel today, and spoke with jay sekulow he said that politico piecea former biden staffer was false. there has been no subpoena issued to president, there is no litigation by which this former biden person claimed there was. this is an outrageous piece of politico hackers, they should be embarrassed by publishing. this guy runs, runs, mclarty and associates a big lobbying firm, what this guy is doing writing about a constitutional issue involving the president of united states is unclear, but to create a false story just a few days in front ofs midterm election. what a disgraceful portfolio by mclarty associates and politico. lou: well, littl politico, theyt really a moderate organization with their news philosophy. it is great to have you with us, thank you for clearing record on that. president in his legal team also, said or been work working on written questions to mueller. >> my understanding they have been thinking about some written answers to some questions. there has been no decision made about whether or not to answer them. mr. mueller is on

administration.when he was first being considered in august, president trump's personal attorney jay sekulowut out a statement praising cipollone's abilities.quote - "pat cipollone is a brilliant attorney. i have had the privilege to work with him and can attest to his skill, integrity, and knowledge of the law."cipollone's hiring shows the white house is gearing up in the event take the house, which could lead to a number of new investigations of the trump administration and perhaps even an impeachment battle.jack quinn/ cnn legal analyst"i think the president has to feel some degree of confidence that you can utilize those legal abilities in what is a political environment; that you bring to the job some sense of political sensitivity - he's gonna have a lot on his plate at one time."as the head lawyer for the office of the presidency, the white house counsel advises the president and his staff on legal issues surrounding everything from policy to any investigations or subpoenas.a tough position once dramatized on "the west wing"(nats) "order the attorney general to appoint a special prose

ainsley: he was talking but at all of his rallies saying we have got to bring you home, jay sekulow,ging you home safely. god bless you both. anything else you want to leave us with today? >> i'm on the spot. i don't know. but we are certainly grateful for many people who prayed for us. we believe that god is using this situation and that he used the prayers of god's people. ainsley: what happens next to you. >> i have been preaching jesus christ my adult life. i hope to do that until the day i die. >> the question is where and when and how. >> but that is what we will be doing. ainsley: and god's will. god bless you. thank you so much. welcome home. >> thanks. ainsley: stuart varney live from the white house on the other side of this break. my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish but now, i take metamucil every day. it traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. state of the art technology, makes it brilliant. the visionary lexus nx. lease the 2019 nx 300 for $339 a month for 36 months. exper

for example, jay sekulow came on this network and said the president had absolutely nothing to do withtatement from don jr. about what that russian meeting was about. well, it turned out the president drafrtd thted that an sekulow was wrong. whether he was lying or whether his client had lied to him is still unclear. but what comes out of the president's legal team's mouth is not always necessarily true. so consider the source as we learn things about this agreement. >> will investigators feel that they need an in-person interview definitively? does that have to happen to get to the bottom of what happened? >> they'll want it. i mean, i think mueller knows that he has to make every opportunity. because first of all, you don't want to do something and write a report and have people say, well, the president didn't even have a chance to respond. so mueller needs to make every effort to get the president's response, just from an optics point of view. from a prosecutor's pave, he also needs to. whether or not the president knew about this neegt june which was deciding to get russithe an, he

the american center for law and justice led by jay sekulow, here's what he had to say earlier today.many of you have been praying for this day. i want to thank you. i know the pastor and his family want to thank you as well. of course, a huge thank you to the president and his team for securing the release of andrew brunson. >> nor the politics of this, relations between the united states and turkey have been rocky at best in recent years. the president slapped sanctions on turkey regarding this and other items as well. there was news yesterday that as part of the deal to release pastor brunson, the sanctions will be lifted. i'm told that that is not the case. we were told this morning by larry kudlow they're resuing the sanctions on steel and aluminum. they have not yet been lifted. turkey is looking for help on this khaishoggi investigation from the united states as well. so it appears that this was a point of commonality for the two countries to work together on to achieve a different goal, shep. >> shepard: some developments as well, john, on another front. that's regarding the p

he and his father jay sekulow are instrumental to bring attention to pastor brunson's case and getting him released. good evening. congratulations to you, the family. what a joyous occasion, no doubt. >> it is, ed. thank you for that. thanks to fox news for covering this throughout the two-year process. it's a long time to continue to cover what is not always a positive story. a lot of ups and downs. but tonight is a night for the brunson family to celebrate, for the american people to celebrate. we have to thank as the attorneys also for the brunson family and pastor andrew brunson the trump administration. they did a tremendous job. tenacious is a word we used in getting him released. they were unrelenting to the point of even threatening additional sanctions if necessary on turkey. >> relations with turkey as you say, has been tense. we just mentioned that the president said that he had been in tough shape. pastor brunson. what do you know about his condition and his health? then we will get to the family. what do you know about his health and how he was treated? >> when he was move

interesting when you go back and look at the discussion from donald trump, from his lawyer like jay sekulow way back in 2017 saying we're going to try to cabin the mueller investigation despite the fact that his memorandum gave him pretty broad scope to follow any trail that he found that would suggest crime arising from the investigation around the possibility of russian collusion. and you have to ask yourself why is it so important to cabin the independent investigation if there hasn't been any wrongdoing beyond this kind of scope specifically about russians in the 2016? so we've said my family's off limits. he's saying -- >> finances. >> finances are off limit. and as everyone knows if you're going to appropriately investigate, even the issue of whether there was a conspiracy with russia, you have to follow the money and the money is going to take you into circuitous roots, particularly if there's bank and wire fraud for example, one of the things we've seen from people close to him say paul manafort. and his former attorney. >> right. well, which is why the crow bar of prying that open

that my beard has ever said-- ( laughter ) it was such a disaster that dowd and the other lawyer, jay sekulownt to mueller's office in person and re-enacted the mock interview. "their goal: to argue that trump couldn't possibly testify because he was incapable of telling the truth." those are his lawyers, trying to help him not go to jail! "your honor, my client could easily take the stand and say he never killed anyone, but if we let him in here, he will kill everyone." ( laughter ) meanwhile-- again, they work for him. meanwhile, today? today, senate hearings began for supreme court nominee and man who is too white to wear after labor day, brett kavanaugh. ( laughter ) and the day was contentious from the start, because over the weekend, the white house withheld 100,000 pages of kavanaugh's records concerning his time as a lawyer in the george w. bush administration. of course, those are back in the aughts, so i assume they say: ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: it's a long note. it's a pretty long note. >> jon: yeah, he wrote a lot. >> stephen: the democrats have cried foul, so late last

of ability is going to be very appealing to president trump and probably also very appealing to jay sekulow and rudy giuliani who have emerged as, in part, last man standing but also very much the orchestrators and strategists behind the special counsel defense at this point. i think the fact that they also have worked with him have been advised by him and they like him a lot, i think that is a very important part of how he is going to play a good role on the team in their view. >> good point. now here is the thing, errol. if democrats take midterms what might that mean for cipollone, for the president, for the mueller probe? >> what it certainly means is that there is going to be an entirely new look and in some ways a fresh look and in some ways a fresh look what is going on in the white house by the democrats if they should control the gavel and have the ability to issues subpoenas and demand documents, and really do what the republican-led house never really did, which was to kind of look at what is going on and so ask for the documents that would be logical to piece together what, if a

>> well, it's significant because it's a big win for rudy giuliani, jay sekulow and of course the presidentecause when you submit -- written questions and answers, the answers are written by the lawyers in consultation with the client so they can take every bit of care that there is no legal jeopardy imposed on donald trump by what he says in answer to these questions. there's no spontaneity, no risk, and it is certaily much preferable for the defense team of the president than to -- than to expose him to -- to just a free-flowing questions and answers, even if the subjects were defined in advance. >> this is all -- it has been months and months in the works, and it's all happening apparently right now. how important is this? >> well, look, i think the president has been hinting at this over the past few weeks if you listen to what he said specifically with regards to collusion, the collusion issue, and that's what dana says this pertains, to the narrow scope of just addressing that we've heard rudy giuliani and all of his spokespeople come out and focus on the conclusion aspect of this inv

first is, they receive the questions and they, the lawyers, jane and marty raskin and perhaps jay sekulowcrafting answers based on the documentation that they have already sent to mueller to make sure that which they sent and the answers to the questions are consistent. once they have clear answers to the distinct questions, then i think they go to the president because these are his statements. so he's going to be bound by them. so they'll need to make sure that the president is comfortable with what's being said. once that's all said and done, they'll send them back to mueller and mueller will review them to determine whether or not there are follow-up questions that need to be asked, new topics that need to be asked, or whether or not he's good with this and moves on to the next area. >> i mean, that is actually, i think, an important question. after they send the answers back, what do you think then happens next? i don't know if there's a typical case, but is there a lot of back and forth or is this the one shot of getting the answers to these questions? >> we don't know what the term

trump's lawyer jay sekulow denounced the piece. the report in politico is completely false he said. there's been no subpoena issued and there is no litigation. joining us, msnbc legal analyst paul butler. i took this piece as a thought piece. this is -- help me explain it. this is a former federal prosecutor looking at a bunch of public data points in the filings in the u.s. district court saying somebody -- somebody had these interactions that he described there and it could have been, one of the possibilities is it was a subpoena for the president. >> yeah, so thought piece but also a hardy boys/nancy drew "who did it." part of it is we already know when you are a prosecutor during a serious investigation you always try to interview the subject. that's how we know that the fbi investigation of justice kavanaugh was rigged because they could have interviewed him, but they didn't. so, of course, mueller has to try to issue a subpoena if trump doesn't come along voluntarily. he'll win. it will go to court but the precedent, u.s. versus nixon, the president has to turn over documents

when he was first being considered in august, president trump's personal attorney jay sekulow put outment praising sipaloni saying he's a brilliant attorney. i've had the privilege to work with him and can attest to his skill and intelgy. >> that shows the white house is gearing up should the democrats take to the house which could lead it a number of new investigations and perhaps even an impeachment battle. >> i think the president has to feel some degree of confidence that you can utilize those legal abilities in what is a political environment, that you bring to the job some sense of political sensitivity. he's going to have a lot on his plate at one time. >> reporter: as the head lawyer for the office of the presidency, the white house counsel advises the president and his staff on legal issues surrounding everything from policy to any investigations or subpoenas. >> make a public announcement. >> reporter: a tough position once dramatized on "the west wing." >> want the attorney general to appoint a special counsel, not just any, the most blood-spitting republican hating person

a person who played a big role in all of this is jay sekulow, he released a statement a short time ago the words of pastor brunson who said we're grateful for the president's commitments and efforts in securing my release. my entire family thanks the president, administration and congress for their unwavering support. this is the day our family has been praying for. i am delighted to be on my way home to the united states. a very difficult time for our family. we want to express our appreciation forthe millions of people who faithfully prayed for this day and thankful for the representation of the aclj and sekulow and heil as well as many others who worked so hard to obtain my freedom and i look forward to returning home and being reunited with my family. president trump and his team have been tenacious in seeking the reless of pastor brunson. the fact that he is now on a plane to the united states can only be viewed as a significant victory for pastor brunson and his family. i'm told he will be on a plane to germany later on, if not now, because don't forget, turkey is eight hours ahe