sekulow: yes, she's wrong.all, she also called for an investigation of james comey and the red alert for that episode regarding her engagemen engagement, calling it a matter, not an investigation. in regards to this issue, there's nothing illegal or inappropriate about the tweet. it came on the heels of a "washington post" story that had five anonymous sources and didn't even identify the agency from which the sources came from and that's what he tweet in response to, it's that simple, period. >> chris: final question, the president just added a high-powered washington lawyer to his legal team, should we expect him to hire other criminal lawyers, and in a sense, is he preparing for potential legal battle here? >> mr. sekulow: outlook, john dowd is a legal legend, you know that in washington, d.c. the president is doing the appropriate thing by hiring lawyers necessary if there was to be an investigation, if there were to be an investigation, you have the lawyers in place. we got a great legal team led by mark h

we'll have the president's attorney on, jay sekulow.is the spokesperson for the president on this issue. in addition to being his counsel. how does he answer the questions? next. >>> all right. president trump and ies legal team are caught in a contradiction about whether he's under investigation. the president says he is, his team says he isn't. why does it matter? let's discuss that and what should matter with the president's lawyer, jay sekulow. why are you engaging in this line of whether or not he's under investigation, like it's some mystery? >> well, i didn't engage in the line of that. there was a tweet from the president of the united states in response to a ""washington post" story. there's been no notification to any of us that the president is under any investigation. james comey has said on three separate occasions that the president was not under investigation. here is where this was manufactured, if you want to call it manufactured. it was manufactured from "the washington post." all the president did was respond to "the

jay sekulow is right to say, hey, why don't you just tell us?> first of all, jay could pick up the phone and know as counsel for the president. the idea that it's a mystery or unless he's told, which is very unusual, by the investigators himself, he can't know. that's a specious premise. >> it's not. >> of course it is. kendall, let me bring you in on this discussion. the idea that, well, comey said he wasn't being investigated but there were leaks that he said he was. do you see that as something that sheds doubt on whether or not it is knowable that mueller would be looking at the firing of comey? does that mean anything to you? >> in an odd way, the comey era is almost old news. we have a new investigation now. mueller is looking at everything. there's no reason to believe that the president is excluded from this broad examination. >> the idea that it was leaked, does that matter to you, does that change your perception of whether or not mueller would be looking at the circumstances surrounding comey's firing, or do you theys think that's a m

jay sekulow said no, no, no. not under investigation. ainsley: that's president trump's personal lawyer. mr. comey himself has said he is not under investigation. what jay sekulow went on to say that's the president responding to a "the washington post" report that included five aupon must sources. steve: that'sources.steve right. >> that's the president through his significant social media platform, ainsley, telling everybody look at the irony here. steve: have you rod rosenstein saying in a memo released to the press essentially don't believe everything you read in the newspapers, considering they don't reveal the source or the agency or even the country. and then you have got an abc report yesterday, their senior judicial correspondent pierre thomas said that there has been no decision on whether or not to mount an investigation of president trump, which is exactly what jay sekulow said yesterday. >> that's right. he is the president's personal attorney. is he right into all of this. this is all conclusion in search of evidence, it se

sekulow didn't have the facts on his side. he is though -- sekulow is a very sort of familiar movement conservative face, and it's interesting to me that he is out there making the president's case. what do you make of that >> i think the fact that he is such a familiar part, long-term fixture in conservative circles is why he has this job. my understanding why he is the public face of trump's legal team is that he is good at talking on tv. sunday morning there was some doubt cast on that assertion. one of the things he said about the president not being under investigation is that he carefully couched that at different points throughout this investigation. he said to my knowledge, not that i'm aware of, we haven't been 2346d. that's because if he had said point blank without qualifications the president is not under investigation he would be saying something that he knew he couldn't know and that could have potentially triggered a legal ethics complaint. there's a lot of artful dodging with varying degrees of success. >> char

jay sekulow knows better. this word play over twitter is really ridiculous. i think he knows that, but he's trying to make an argument. others have to make arguments. again, let's look at what's going on. there is a legal process that's under way. we don't know the extent to what the mueller team is doing in terms of what they're looking at. we know how much is in the public domain now for them to investigate that would make sense, and we know about the reporting that's out there that's not really being continue dilkted given the president is verifying it himself. at the same time the president i think views this as a political process, a fight to be won in the court of public opinion to try to denigrate the reputation of bob mueller and suggests this is all part of an effort to get him, to use the media to get him. anonymous sources to conspire the get the president and undermine his presidency. i think he'll use that. >> carona, it's not just the tweet, but jay sekulow's own words of the sunday show. let me play for you how he seemed to be saying two diamet

according to the president's lawyer, however, jay sekulow, the president is not under investigation, and today he continued to push back against the reports from "the washington post," nbc news, and others that special counsel, robert mueller, is investigating whether president trump obstructed justice. according to sekulow, that's just a narrative being pushed by the media and james comey. >> the only reason we're talking about this is because of what? a leak from "the washington post" -- >> that is absolutely not true. that's not why i'm asking you -- >> you didn't let me finish my sentence! >> go ahead. >> and because james comey raised it up in his testimony. he said, i'm sure the special ko counsel is going to do it. i wouldn't exactly call james comey a credible witness on this matter. >> sekulow appeared on multiple sunday shows trying to push a simple narrative. let's watch. >> the president is not under investigation by the special counsel. the president, as james comey said in his testimony and as we know as of today, the president has not been and is not under investigatio

but who would dare contradict jay sekulow about this claim he says there should be no confusion. who i ask you? how about jay sekulow himself. >> now he's being investigated by the department of justice, so he's being investigated for taking the action that the attorney general, deputy attorney general recommended him to take by the agency, who recommended the termination. >> okay. so if you're keeping score, according to jay sekulow, the president both was not and was under investigation. that was just sunday. what about today? >> do you think that bob mueller is looking at the circumstances surrounding comey's firing? do you think that's part of the purview of his probe? >> i have no idea if he's looking at that or not. >> now, jay sekulow is a very influential attorney and advocate and a distinguished member of the supreme court bar and appeared on this broadcast many times over the years. perhaps he's not the guy to ask on this. in fact, it's almost as if we've all been warned against it, almost like we've been told again and again and again, what's that phrase? >> i think th

said he was being investigated for firing the fbi director a lawyer from his outside counsel jay sekulow flooded the air waves to say the opposite. >> i want to be very clear here and very direct. the president last not been and is not under investigation. >> the president has not been and is not under investigation. >> the president is not under investigation. >> and i've been crystal clear that the president is not and has not been under investigation. >> those statements raise a lot of questions, perhaps the biggest is how was he so sure? here's three more from those interviews. >> the president is not and has not been under investigation. >> how do you know? >> because we've receive nod notice of investigation. >> you don't know that he isn't under investigation now, do you? >> well, no one has notified he is so i can't read people's minds. >> and those answers raise another big question which sekulow addressed today. >> we've not been notied. no, the president is not under investigation. >> is there any duty for them to tell you? >> no duty to tell in the sense of an obligation to t

sekulow says he was referring to the "the washington post" story but he didn't say i'm referring to "hington post" story. he didn't say "the washington post" reports i am being investigated. he said i am being investigated by the fbi director. >> and jay s eshg ekulow could right but this is one of the many, many, many dangers of the president of the united states using twitter to communicate. there are a lot of pluses to it but also a lot of minuses and this is one. the fact of the matter is, the fact jay sekulow was out not just yesterday on the sunday talk shows but today on cnn and other networks just punching back donald trump style, it doesn't take a big leap knowing donald trump, we covered him for more than two years and the way he operates in the political arena. he wants the public to see and hear from the guy, from a guy who is representing him, this is not happening because we know from james comey's testimony, from his memos, this is what irked him more than anything else, the notion that the public thinks he's under investigation. >> i have no doubt the president himself

sekulow, went out yesterday and again today, i don't think he had information.i think he had instructions. i think he probably had instructions from the president of the united states to go out -- >> like the first spicer briefing? >> kexactly. to go out and fight and deny, and by the way, my crowd was bigg than any oth crowd in history, right? that's the sort of thing. and that's what you get when you go out and speak for donald trump. so nick is absolutely right. it's clear that the president is under investigation, and apparently it's not just the obstruction of justice prong of the investigation. there's also the basic question of possible or, you know, was there collusion between the russians and anybody in the trump campaign? and, you know, it's a wide-ranging investigation that will also look into financial dealings of trump campaign principals perhaps, trump organization, kushner companies. we don't know, but there are indications if you look at who robert mueller is hiring, it looks like he's looking into some financial dealings as well. >> he's not the

sekulow said that, well, there was a lot going on this past week. the president had that big address on cuba policy. there was also what he described as an assassination attempt against house majority whip steve scalise and other gop members of congress. so the way he put it on "face the nation" was the issue of tapes i think right now was not a priority issue this past week. he said he expects it could be addressed this week, but this is just one more example of these deadlines being set that are not met. we really don't know what we're going to get an answer on that issue. >> athena jones, thank you. >>> joining moo he n ing me now. also, michael zelden. and jewelette kayam. listen to another part of attorney jay sekulow. >> in this particular case you had a scenario where the president, receiving advice from a variety of government officials, was told by his attorney general and by his deputy attorney general that james comey should not be leading the fbi. it is ironic that based on the action that they recommended, that he took, in consultation

i want to pay another part of the interview with jay sekulow. jake tapper asked him whether a president can technically commit obstruction of justice. here is his answer. >> in this particular case you had a scenario where the president receiving advice from a variety of his government officials was told by his attorney general and by his deputy attorney general that james comey should not be leading the fbi. it is ironic that based on the action that they recommended, that he took in consultation with others, that he's now being investigated by the agencies that told him to take that very action, removing the fbi director. >>> so, alan, the president's lawyer initially said multiple times he's not under investigation, disregard the president's tweet, but then we just played this clip in which he says the president ironically is being investigated by the person who suggested he fire the fbi director. he doesn't seem to be driving a consistent message. >> well, think it depends on what is is and what investigation is. of course the president is b

liz: ginning me now, chief counsel, jay sekulow. what did you think of the attorney general's testimony? >> i thought jeff sessions did an incredible job. i thought it was clear, concise, he said he was not going to disclose confidential communications he had with the president of the united states which is longstanding department of justice protocol. you compare that to james comey who not only shared it but leaked it to the "new york times". the tale of two professionals. one playing by the rules and the other is not. james comey raised very serious issues legally. he kept saying this was his material. james comey made that line earlier in the week. here's the reality. this was not james comey's material. he did this on fbi computer in fbi vehicle and stored it in his fbi's desk. this is the government's property he converted. i think the differential between jeff sessions and james comey here is telling. liz: to your point, comey leaked to clear his name. he didn't leak to clear donald trump's name, noting that donald trump is no

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here is jay sekulow. >> he said that if -- in light of all of this, the removal of james comey, in fact, he knew it, was going to lengthen the amount of time this investigation would take, but he thought it was in the best interests of the american people. the president made the determination to remove the director of the fbi after consultation with others. that determination is protected by the constitution. >> reporter: so the point there, it's within the president's power to do it, and in and of itself should not be viewed as improper. that of course will be part of what robert mueller and his legal team will have to examine. it's all been taking quite a bit of time in terms of the earliest days of looking at russian interference into the election season with the hacking and so forth, and now, as -- sometimes, as you and i both know, alex, these washington investigations begin to sprawl as new witnesses bring information that might send investigators down different tributaries. it feels like there is an element of that with this as the white house is trying to separate itself as much

and when chris wallace called him on that, jay sekulow got indignant about chris wallace putting words in his mouth. >> chris, let me be clear. you asked me a question about what the president's tweet was regarding the deputy attorney general of the united states. that's what you asked me, and i responded to what that legal theory would be. so i do not appreciate you putting words in my mouth when i've been crystal clear that the president is not and has not been under investigation. >> do not appreciate putting words in my mouth. okay. so here are the words that chris wallace did not put in jay sekulow's mouth. >> and now he's being investigated. so he's being investigated. >> it was going to be very hard for jay sekulow to outdo donald trump's new york lawyer, marc kasowitz, who got basic facts wrong in his first public statement in defense of the president, when he claimed that james comey's testimony was total vindication of president trump. marc kasowitz defended donald trump on the losing side of the trump university fraud case in which donald trump was forced to pay $25 million

and so, sekulow says that the issue of the tapes was not the priority number one last week. he expects that could be addressed this week. but the bottom line is this is just one more example of deadlines that shift. we really don't know when we're going to get a clear answer on whether or not there are tapes or ana? >> athena jones, thank you. cnn political analyst and columnist for the "washington post," josh rogin. cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor who has worked closely with the special counsel, robert mueller, michael zeldin, and an attorney who helped prosecute watergate, philip allen lakuvara. is there any way to definitively know whether the president is being investigated? >> no. in a word, no. the work of the special counsel should be done privately and confidentially and that the leaks are leaks and that we can see where gho, but we don't kno now that the president is under investigation for obstruction of justice because mueller hasn't said it. and until mueller says it, we don't know it. >> and as athena pointed out, jay sekulow, the president's law

jay sekulow low will weigh in later tonight. also donald trump jr., laura ingraham, john solomon, sara carter, all join us but the truth and the biggest takeaways from today's congressional hearing. this is information you will not get anywhere else in the media. it's important and it is tonight's opening monologue. here is what we learned today from james comey's testimony. the president of the united states never obstructed justice and in fact, the president actually encouraged the fbi director to go forward with any and all investigations into campaign associates and involvement with russia. james comey confirmed several times that the president in the white house did not ask him to stop the russian investigation. comey said multiple times that president trump was not under investigation and why did he only save us today? why couldn't the fbi director come out sooner? we will answer that question tonight. we also learned that james comey selectively was leaking information to try to damage the president, so-called champion of

not just of jay sekulow but of what you call the entire dream team. why? >> well, usually if you're under criminal investigation, as the president is -- again, he may not have been notified of it, which is apparently what jay sekulow was saying. we can definitively say that he is under criminal investigation. if you're under that investigation, you want to hire a top criminal attorney and the president has hired marc kasowitz, an attorney with civil experience, suing people in new york. jay sekulow, an attorney who has never done criminal cases but has talked on conservative media over the years and he's hired another attorney that has never done criminal work in the past and is on his own now and doesn't bring the serious resources you need to this kind of case. it begs the question, we've heard he's having a hard time finding people that will work for him. but why hasn't he added a high-powered litigator to handle this case as jared kushner has done as you said in your intro? the president is treating it so unseriously. >> i want to go back to jared kush

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burns's lawyer from "the simpsons," jay sekulow. ( applause ) ( piano riff ) jay sekulow was on all theows -- cbs, cnn, nbc, fox news, "animal planet," and "the handmaid's tale." ( laughter ) so powerful. such a powerful portrayal. and had one clear message -- >> the fact of the matter is the president has not been and is not under investigation. the president is not under investigation. the president has not been and is not under investigation. >> stephen: okay, clear as a bell. the president absolutely, positively is not being investigated by the department of justice. i'm sorry, you wanted to add something. >> he's being investigated by the department of justice. >> stephen: sekuloooowwww!!! ( cheers and applause ) oh! you had one job!! you had one job!! say he's not under investigation. but you had to shoot your mouth off on tv. you're the president trump of trying to keep president trump president, and chris wallace noticed. >> first of all, you've now said that he is getting investigated after saying that you didn't. >> no. >> you-- you just said, sir, that he's being-- >> no, he'

sekulow concedes the president was under investigation. >> he's being investigated by the departmentstice, so he's being investigated for taking the action that the attorney general and the deputy attorney general recommended that he take by the agency who recommended the termination. >> reporter: on cnn's "new day," sekulow still doing clean-up today, telling chris cuomo that he sdint think he's under investigation. >> do you think bob mueller is looking at the firing? do you think that's a condition of his probe? >> i have no idea if he's looking at that or not. >> reporter: they did not allow the briefing to be televised as they try to answer questions about the russia investigation. the administration is to turn over tapes by the end of the week, if they exist, of conversations with comey. jared kushner, who normally stays behind the scenes, made a rare public appearance today. >> this is technology at the white house, and we're happy to be kicking it off with your engagement. >> reporter: kushner is also headed to the middle east this week to try to engage in palestinian peace t

eli, obviously a handful of folks, sean spicer, kellyanne conway and now jay sekulow have perfected the art of performing for the audience of one. >> i think that was this was. jay sekulow was brought in to be the public spokesperson for the legal team because the president wasn't happy with kasowitz's first public performance a couple of weeks ago. so you bring in sekulow and my reporting is that the president was fine with the interviews that he did yesterday. even though everybody else is looking at him getting twisted up in knots trying to say that they're not under investigation after saying he is under investigation. i mean, they don't have a great hand to play here, but the president loves it when people go out there and answer and defend him emphatically. you know, he loved what jeff sessions did -- even though he's not thrilled with jeff sessions right now. he loved the sort o -- >> the performance. >> the tone of the performance. he loved when kellyanne conway went out and told people to buy ivanka trump's shoes. and she got in trouble for it. >> is there any concern at the wh

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i spoke a short while ago to jay sekulow, a member of president trump's legal team and chief counselthe american center for law and justice. no, he has not. there is been no information give bin the special counsel informing the president he is' under investigation. it's been consistent. again, we've received nothing about an investigation of the president of the united states. >> woodruff: but as you acknowledged yesterday, it is possible that the president could be under investigation and just simply not have been informed by it -- about it? >> well, i mean, but here's the reality. this is not something that's happened in a vacuum. there's been discussions about the russia probe and committees of the congress looking at this for nine months producing no evidence about russian collusion. so while it's true, i can't read the mind of a special counsel, we've received no notification of an investigation or a pending investigation or preliminary investigation or anything else. so what i can say is what we know is the president right now is not, has not and is not under investigation. >>

sits on the intelligence committee, as well as vermont's bernie sanders, plus we will hear from jay sekulow a member of the president's legal team, we will have plenty of political analysis and finally a very different kind of tribute to the class of 27. >> 2017, it is all ahead on "face the nation". good morning and welcome to "face the nation". i am john dickerson. the trump family is off for their first weekend at camp david after an emotional week here in washington. there is good news this morning as congressman steve scalise's condition has been u upgraded fm critical to serious and she able to speak with his family. while the shooting dominated this week's headlines, it wasn't the only news. the president himself appeared to confirm his being investigated by the special counsel for possible obstruction of justice in a tweet. i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. witch-hunt. >> attorney general jeff sessions testified before the senate intelligence committee and pushed back against the suggestion of any wrongdoing. >> that

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let's talk about what's going on with jay sekulow. jeff, we saw the president's attorney basically saying a couple contradictory things this weekend. what did you make of that? >> i saw jay sekulow, who is a really smart and good lawyer, feeling sean spicer's pain because he was up there saying donald trump is not under investigation because donald trump does not want to be perceived as under investigation. >> despite having tweeted that he's under investigation. >> right. but he's -- of course he's under investigation. look at comey's testimony. look at the fact that mueller is now interviewing the head of the nsa rogers, the head of the dni coats. those are witnesses to possible obstruction of justice of donald trump. that's the only reason to interview them. it doesn't mean donald trump is guilty. it doesn't mean he's going to be charged with anything. but is he under investigation? of course he is. >> david, do you buy sekulow's explanation that the president's tweet was in response to a "washington post" article that cited unname

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jay sekulow is saying is that they haven't had any formal notice that they are being investigated. look, it's a giant mess, and i think that mr. trump has a legitimate complaint and saying that a lot of people are looking for collusion with russia during the election, didn't find it, and now they have moved on to obstruction. he's made a lot of his mistakes, tweeting things. just because you have the right to do something doesn't mean it's right to do. for the special prosecutor too, did he have to hire the attorneys that he hired with the trump connections and contributions so forth? >> jon: the people have donated. >> he was attacked by the new york observer for many years. jared kushner, he was the owner of the "new york observer." things have to be implicated in these things. >> jon: here are some examples of some conflicting stories as seen on fox news sunday with chris wallace in the presence attorney. listen. >> let me be crystal clear. you completely understand. we have not received or been aware of any investigation of the united states. >> just said two times that he's be

you saw the exchange between chris wallace and jay sekulow. you can see the interview, the full group of president jones legal team. chris wallace airs again at 2:00 p.m. eastern time on the fox news channel, a very heated exchange. leland: you don't want to miss that. chris has some great questions and jay has some interesting answers. moving onto this week, democrats need to flip 24 seats to win back the house in 2015. they are hoping that comeback starts on tuesday. georgia special election, the most expensive house race in u.s. history is set to finish as a nailbiter. polls show karen handel and 30 rolled john ossoff locked in a virtual tie heading into tuesday's final bow. within 140,000 ballots have already been cast early. the district is considered a tossup and safely conservative since 1979 thinning both news country newt gingrich and tom price to washington. results coming in on tuesday night. elizabeth: coming up, treacherous weather in the heartland. millions of americans or affect did. the very latest forecast from our fox weather

one of the president's attorneys jay sekulow is coming up next. he says there's no there there, no basis for obstruction. you are a former prosecutor. is there evidence there that -- to begin a case for obstruction? >> i think there's absolutely evidence there to begin a case. i think it's very important for all sort of armchair speculators in the law to be clear that no one knows right now whether there is a provable case of obstruction. it's also true i think based on what i see as a third party and out of government that there's no basis to say there's no obstruction and this point on whether or not the president has legal authority to fire or to direct an investigation, i don't really get it. it's a little silly to me. the fact you have authority to remove someone from office doesn't automatically immunize that act from criminal responsibility. and i'll give you an example of secretary of state from a different context. if it were to be true, this is all made up for the sake of argument, if it were to be true that michael flynn offered a milli

and we're also going to talk to a member of the president's legal team, a lot of questions for jay sekulow. one of the president's attorneys to ansr. >> real quick, you mentioned vindication but trump feels vindicated by comey's testimony as does his base. they are standing firmly by him. what's your take? >> so far. some of the polling shows -- breitbart and right wing media sites are all echoing the trump line right now. there has been some drop in -- drop in strong support for the president. one of the things you saw i think up in the senate at that intelligence committee hearing republican senators, a lot did try to put the best face on trump's actions. i think there's no question about that but you also saw them almost to a person vouch for james comey's credibility. >> sure. >> so i think one of the big questions you're going to see, does the president's story hold up under oath, if, indeed, he does as promise testify about this. >> so important to watch what happens with the trump base. george stephanopoulos, thank you very much. a reminder george as a big show and as he said he's g

judge jeanine: jay sekulow, thanks so much. up next, my one-on-one interview with donald trump, jr., and what he has to say about his father's tweeting. my all-star panel is on deck and ready to battle it out. now back to "justice with judge jeanine." ian * earlier i sat -- judge jeanine: earlier i sat down with the president's son donald trump, jr. how he feels about the left's endless attacks on his family and his dapsd tactics on fighting the war on terror. it's been an interesting couple of days. i have known you a long time. after the inauguration you said you were going to focus on the business, you weren't going to get involved in washington. now it seems things have changed. why? >> i don't think things have changed. i'm a politically minded guy. i was way before we got into politic. but when i see what's going on right now. when i see what went on for 10 months with the russia man sense and the smear. it's like give me a break. they spent 10 months chasing a rabbit down a hole with the sole purpose to take down my far