Trump Tweets He Is Under Investigation - His Lawyer Says He Isn't

Representatives for President Trump's son-in-law have reached out to these attorneys because Kushner's allies have been questioning the connection between Kushner's current lawyer and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the report said.

"I think the president is going to address that in the week ahead", Trump's attorney Jay Sekulow said yesterday on CBS' "Face the Nation".

The president has denied any illegal dealings with Russian Federation during the election or that he tried to block the investigation. But there is no hard-and-fast rule requiring a potential defendant to be advised of an investigation and his or her role in it.

But on the Sunday talk shows, his lawyer Jay Sekulow said that the president's Tweet was in response to a Washington Post story quoting unnamed sources and that the problem was Twitter's strict limit on characters.

The current secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, while speaking to Pete Hegseth on Fox News Radio's "Klimeade and Friends", on Friday, said that he believes that the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, to investigate the alleged collusion between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign, and the recent obstruction of justice allegations, should be given a fair chance and some time, before being overturned.

On 14 June 2017, The Washington Post reported that Trump had come under investigation for obstruction of justice after firing Comey, who did not comply with Trump's requests.

President Donald Trump recently announced over Twitter that he was being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of a widening probe into alleged Russian meddling in last year's USA presidential race and possible collusion by his campaign - an inquiry that has cast a shadow over his five months in office.

Read Charles Blow's column at the New York Times.

Gorelick is a partner at the WilmerHale law firm.

Even more troubling, however, is the fact that Mueller himself might have to answer questions in any obstruction investigation.

Separately, Rubio said on NBC that while Trump is "pretty fired up" about the investigation, he doesn't think the president "has a problem with additional sanctions on Russia" that the Senate approved last Thursday. The department said last month that under professional responsibility rules, Mueller may participate in matters involving his former firm's clients as long as he wasn't involved in representing them and has no confidential information about them. The President again called the Russian Federation probe a "witch hunt" over the weekend while a legal adviser tried to walk back Trump's admission Friday that he is under investigation.

The president has directed some of his frustration at Rosenstein and Mueller. Sen.

"To say, "Comey told him he's not under investigation, so he can't be" - that's illogical", Cuomo said.

According to the White House, Mueller interviewed with Trump to replace Comey after Trump fired him.

Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said failure to respond could result in subpoenas being issued.

Addressing the questions at a joint presser with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, reporters noted Trump was "hinting" the tapes exist.