Later in the interview, Cuomo asked Sekulow why Trump's legal team had not directly asked Mueller whether the president was under investigation, suggesting that it was purposefully remaining ignorant on the question.
The lawyer, Jay Sekulow, contended the tweet was not a confirmation of the investigation, but instead a response to a report in The Washington Post. Trump has apparently already been talked out of firing Mueller once, but if the president changes his mind and tries to remove the special counsel, he'll create an immediate and dire political crisis from which he'd be lucky to emerge. Couldn't you be under investigation and they've just not let you know yet?
As sitting president of the USA, the complete and all-encompassing constitutional authority to remove Comey at the time from his position as Federal Bureau of Investigation director were within the exclusive purview of the president, and the president's motivations for doing so were, and still are, wholly immaterial.
A source told Reuters that Mueller was also examining whether Trump or others tried to interfere with the investigation.
President Donald Trump may finally confirm by the end of the week whether tapes of conversations between him and former FBI Director James Comey exist, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Monday.
Mueller serves at the will and pleasure of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed him to head the inquiry. The White House initially pointed to that memo and another written by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to justify the firing, before Trump admitted in a network television interview that his decision actually was motivated by Comey's oversight of the "Russia thing". "That means there should exist on some server somewhere in the White House, a very thorough record of the kind of phone calls that nay investigator of the Trump campaign and the Trump White House's ties to Russian Federation any obstruction of justice regarding the investigation of those ties, should be able to access", Perlstein said.
"You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history - led by some very bad and conflicted people!"
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Sukelow subsequently did tell Wallace that Trump was being investigated by the Special Counsel when he was asked, in reference to Trump's tweet, if the President thought Rosenstein had done anything wrong.
But Sekulow on Sunday said that Trump did not mean what he appeared to saying the message.
"There's a limitation on Twitter, as we all know", Mr. Sekulow said on CNN. "There is no investigation", he added. "Mueller's going to do his job". "They're essentially engaging in a scorched-earth litigation strategy that is beginning with trying to discredit the prosecutor".
Mueller is investigating Kushner's finances and business dealings in relation to the Russian Federation probe, The Washington Post reported Friday. Russian officials have denied meddling in the US election.
"If the president thinks he can fire Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he's in for a rude awakening", Sen.
Rep. Jim Himes, a Democratic member of the House Intelligence committee, says "we are a ways yet from being able to conclude anything" when it comes to his committee's investigation into Russia's actions in the 2016 election.
Attorney Jay Sekulow is defending President Donald Trump's use of social media, even though Sekulow himself has denied d, even though Trump's recent tweets.
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