PresidentTrump's lawyer stresses he is 'not under investigation' by FBI

He says that President Donald Trump, Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and Democratic lawmakers should not be presuming an outcome.

But the sense of chaos around the White House is deepening.

One of President Trump's lawyers insisted on Sunday that a tweet in which he wrote of "being investigated" did not confirm that he was, in fact, under investigation, as senators of both parties suggested the probe will run for many more months whether Trump is unhappy about it or not.

The political stakes rose significantly in recent days amid signs the probe on Russian election hacking could eventually expand to consider Trump's actions. "Witch Hunt." The message apparently referred to Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general whose role leading the federal investigation has become increasingly complicated.

Wallace: You just said that he's being investigated.

If Mueller decides there is a case to answer for either the President or his aides in the issue of alleged collusion with Russian Federation or over a potential cover-up, the political uproar will be incalculable. But by the time he issued his final report in 1998, he had not only shifted his focus to whether Bill Clinton had perjured himself in testifying about hanky-panky with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, he had also investigated everything from Vince Foster's suicide to the firing of White House travel office personnel, the improper handling of Federal Bureau of Investigation files, and a wide variety of the Clintons' business activities before Bill became president.

The Latest on the investigation into Russia's actions in the 2016 elections.

Back in the present, the President's mood is fueling the sense of crisis.

"So his legal team and the president responds", Sekulow said on NBC.

"They had the best M&Ms on the planet", Rubio said about his trip to Florida with Trump on Air Force One.

"He, from every pronouncement we have seen, feels very strongly that he did nothing wrong, and he wants people to say that, because he feels very strongly about it", Rubio said. "And he's expressing himself in that way". Even if the Democrats capture the House in 2018 and overcome the adverse math in the Senate to pick up seats, they would still need substantial Republican support in the Senate to remove Trump.

In a comment Friday on his Twitter account, Trump said, "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director!" "Trump has a compulsion to counterattack and is very pugnacious".

Mueller would be allowed, though not required, to answer that question, unless it involved material before a grand jury, the former White House lawyer said. But only one of them can be right about their central point - whether the special counsel investigation has expanded to the president.

"There's been no notification of any investigation", defense attorney Jay Sekulow told Fox News Sunday.

In his Sunday morning television appearances, Sekulow said Trump fired Comey over performance issues.

"It was 141 characters".

Barak Cohen, a former Justice Department lawyer and now a defence attorney specialising in white-collar crime and investigations, said there was no requirement that the special counsel notify Trump he was under investigation, so the lack of such notice meant nothing.

"That's undemocratic on its face and a blatant violation of the President's oath of office".

If he does that, the power would be placed in the hands of Rachel Lee Brand, the third-highest official in the Department of Justice, according to The Washington Post. So it was on Thursday, less than 24 hours after the horrific shooting at the GO budig P congressional baseball team practice in Alexandria - and a much-praised speech and appropriate evening hospital visit to sit with injured House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., - that Trump reverted to attacking the special counsel, railed at Hillary Clinton and, frankly, seemed once again unglued.