"We're agreed, then", Wallace said. I mean, was this just mis-tweeted? He is now, according to the Washington Post, being investigated by the same department who told him to take that action.
Sekulow insisted that Todd was "reading more to the tweet than what's there".
"There has been no notification from the special counsel's office that the president is under investigation", Sekulow said.
The president also praised his own use of social media, tweeting about how he is able to bypass traditional news media. You just said - you just said he asked for this consultation, which by the way, let me also say here, Mr. Rosenstein, in his prepared statement, in his testimony to Congress last month, said 'My memorandum is not a statement of reasons to justify a for-cause termination.' So I'm confused by your rational here.
"Why is that Hillary Clintons family and Dems dealings with Russian Federation are not looked at, but my non-dealings are?" he asked.
Oddly enough, Boente was acting deputy attorney general when Sessions recused himself, and until Rosenstein was appointed.
"Knowing Rod, he's on the phone, he's going to consult established DOJ policy, and he's going to review prior opinion examining what his proper role is", Maloney said.
Mr Comey told a Senate panel last week he believed Mr Trump fired him to undermine the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Russian Federation probe.
Sekulow said Trump "is not and has not been under investigation". "So you can not view this, in my mind, Chuck, or in any reasonable person's mind, especially someone that's representing the president of the United States, these things in a vacuum".
Rosenstein told the Associated Press earlier this month that when he hired Mueller he discussed the possibility of having recuse himself "if anything that I did winds up being relevant to his investigation" and if recusal is necessary. "And that determination is protected by the constitution". The article even features a graph titled "A guide to the five major investigations of the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russian Federation".
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Two other crew members suffered cuts and bruises and were also flown out by helicopter. The destroyer is salvageable, but repairs probably will take months, he said .
He said, however, that Sekulow's comments could mean the White House was taking the position that no investigation exists until Mueller's team officially confirms it, disregarding media reports based on anonymous sourcing. It's being led by professionals, a guy like Robert Mueller who is not a political guy, you know he's not a partisan guy.
The order from the general counsel for the transition team casts a wide net on documents that could shed light on ties between Mr Trump's presidential campaign and representatives of Russia's government.
Mr Trump has told associates he has the legal authority to sack Mr Mueller.
Todd wasn't the only one who grilled Trump's personal attorney over his insistence that the Washington Post's report was inaccurate.
Sekulow stressed repeatedly that Trump is not under investigation.
"As far as the general theme of Russia's interference, look, the president has said he doesn't believe it".
Democrats note that after the Justice Department appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate break-in during the in the 1970s, then-President Richard Nixon ordered the department to fire the special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, prompting his attorney general and deputy attorney general both to resign in what became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre".
"It was 141 characters", Sekulow replied.
The US media reported earlier this week that the president also wants to fire Muller but was finding it hard to do so because he has the reputation of being an honest and impartial investigator.
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