President Trump is not under investigation by special counsel, attorney says

Trump's intemperate tweets have by now become commonplace, but few have been as revealing as last week's volley of statements expressing outrage in the government's probe of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Sekulow said Trump "thought it was in the best interest of the American people" to fire Comey.

Last week, Trump sent a tweet referring to being the victim of a "witch hunt".

Jay Sekulow, a member of President Trump's legal team, said Sunday (June 18) that "the president is not and has not been under investigation". Not being notified of an investigation is not the same thing as there not being one at all.

"There's been no notification of any investigation. In fact, to the contrary", he told CBS' Face the Nation, pointing to recent testimony by sacked FBI director James Comey who said the president had not been the target of an investigation. Mueller was later appointed as special counselor.

He returned to Washington Sunday amid new questions about the Russian Federation investigation. "I can not read the mind of the special prosecutor", he said.

Yet Trump's angry tweets on Friday underscored the near-impossible challenge his advisers and legal team have in trying to get him to avoid weighing in on an active probe. "And instead of attacking Trump, Rubio seemed nearly in awe of being around him".

Schiff told "This Week" on ABC News that Trump and his lawyers want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever the special counsel will come up with.

I think he's furious.

"The president is not a subject or target of an investigation", Sekulow said on CNN.

"But it's nearly like it's who he has been his whole life", Gingrich added. But America's laws today are a web in which even the most innocuous citizen can get tangled-a citizen who has business dealings with figures as corrupt as many Russian businessmen and officials tend to be is nearly certainly open to prosecution on one technicality or another, as is anyone who talks to federal investigators and tells even the smallest of lies. "The president can not be investigated, certainly can not be found liable, for engaging in an activity he clearly has powers to do under the Constitution".

This enormous bloc of voters wouldn't take kindly to Republicans who vote to remove their man. Painter needs to explain how Republican Senators plan to win reelection if they stab Trump in the back, as his supporters would see it.

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"His reputation is stellar", Rubio said.

"The president himself said he was going to fire the Federal Bureau of Investigation director regardless of whatever the deputy attorney general or the attorney general said".

"I'd say we're 20 percent into it, just to throw a number at it", King said on NBC's "Meet the Press". "I honestly, deeply, truly believe that". "Nearly everybody else does" other than Trump, he said.

"The message the president is sending through his tweets is that he believes the rule of law doesn't apply to him and that anyone who thinks otherwise will be fired".

Sekulow said he didn't read minds but he understood what Wallace was attempting to do. "The F.B.I.'s going to do their job, Mueller's going to do his job", Rubio said.

"We've received no notice of investigation".

That process still has a long way to run, said Sen.

Comey made the existence of this investigation public in a March hearing before the House intelligence committee.

"You've now said he is being investigated after saying [he isn't]", Wallace said.

They went a few more rounds before Tapper wondered, "is that not frustrating for you as an attorney to have a client that is sharing information with the world that's not accurate?" The President's response was as it related to the Washington Post report.

Todd also pressed Sekulow on what seemed to be a reference to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in Trump's tweet.