Sekulow admitted Sunday that his belief that Trump is not under investigation is based on the fact that he has received no notification that the president is.
"First of all, under the Justice Department's own rules, Mueller has a legal obligation to recuse himself from anything involving Comey", Gingrich said. He had suggested earlier that it was Mr. Comey's conduct in dealing with Hillary Clinton's emails that had triggered the Federal Bureau of Investigation director's removal. To make it even more hard, their client's public statements often threaten to undercut their work. I feel kind of bad, ' " Gingrich quoted Trump, who won the SC primary, as having said.
The Justice Department has said Muller's work at the firm does not disqualify him from leading the investigation.
When Tapper slammed the lawyer, inquiring if Trump firing former FBI Director James Comey even had the potential to raise the level of obstruction of justice, Sekulow said, "The president has the authority as the chief executive to make those kind of decisions".
A member of President Trump's legal team told NBC, Sunday that Trump is not under any form of investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Law enforcement sources have told CNN that the special counsel is gathering information and considering whether there is evidence to launch a full scale obstruction investigation. The source said investigators have sought information from Richard Ledgett, who recently retired as deputy NSA director and, the source said, had written a memo documenting an attempt from Trump urging Rogers to tamp down on the FBI's Russian Federation investigation. It bears repeating that there are multiple, ongoing investigations, in Congress, in the media, in law enforcement, and in intelligence circles, related to Russian interference in the 2016 election, and President Trump has taken no official action to impede any of them.
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Trump and his aides may well end up in the clear, but months of recriminations ahead will further polarize the capital and cast a shadow over his administration, which is already struggling for traction after a tumultuous first five months.
That lack of formal notification wouldn't be unusual in the early stages of an investigation. And in recent days, Kushner has met with at least one high-profile trial attorney, according to people familiar with the situation.
Kushner's trip to the Middle East also underlines the fact that ongoing expanding Russian Federation investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller has not affected Kushner's far-reaching policy portfolio. President Donald Trump, whose combative instincts are to lash out and not retreat, has given his legal team a clear direction: fight, fight, fight.
"No answer is probably the most troubling answer in criminal defense", Cohen said. "I think the important thing is to get started". To hear Sekulow tell it, if the president speaks to anyone who's passed a bar exam, that person should "respect the attorney-client privilege" and never divulge the contents of that conversation.
The President and his allies have declared open season on Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the probe. He says there should at least be tapes of any telephone conversations between the president and Comey.
Trump has also retained Sekulow, who has been the face of the legal team on TV - though he, too, has an untypical background, having largely specialized in religious liberty claims. He also represented Sen.
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