Nobody wants to undermine Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia-U.S. election probe, but the media has been accusing President Donald Trump of committing acts that do not constitute obstruction of justice, one of his attorneys, Jay Sekulow said Monday.
Sekulow mentioned former FBI Director James Comey's testimony earlier this month before the Senate Intelligence Committee that he had told Trump on at least three occasions that the president was not personally a subject of the probe into Russian Federation election meddling and the Trump campaign.
The Post's story came soon after it reported that the FBI's Russian Federation investigation, spearheaded by special counsel Robert Mueller, had expanded to include a senior White House official as a "person of interest".
The future of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein seemed in doubt last Friday, when Trump appeared to attack him in the tweet about being investigated. So technically, Trump is correct: The man who wrote the memo endorsing Comey's removal has authorized an investigation that is reportedly probing whether that removal somehow constituted a felony. After all, despite Trump claiming that he was thinking about firing Comey for months, it was Rosenstein's memo recommending the move that he initially cited as a basis for his decision. Asked about the possibility that an investigation has developed and the president just doesn't know, Sekulow says, "I can't read people's minds". This weekend, it produced some of the more excruciating news coverage in recent memory as one of his lawyers, Jay Sekulow, was tendentiously grilled on the question of whether the president has conceded that he is under investigation.
"The man" the President was referring to is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein, who authored a scathing critique of the fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director's handling of the Clinton email case.
Trump also reportedly asked Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo to intercede with Comey on the Flynn case, then later asked Coats and National Security Agency chief Mike Rogers to state publicly that Trump was not personally under investigation.
Family frustrated by pace of NYPD chokehold investigation
Other cases have been solved that came after us and we are still waiting", Carr said. A Staten Island grand jury did not return an indictment.
In the heated interview on Fox News Sunday, he first asserted that Trump was not being investigated.
Whatever the reason, the Post report set off a wave of liberal celebrations over the imminent demise of the president.
"I would give him the chance to see if he could do that because if there's nothing there, he's not going to find anything anyway", Carson said. "The president is not and has not been under investigation for obstruction".
And Senate intelligence committee member Sen.
An attorney for Jared Kushner says she advised the president's son-in-law to review his legal team after her former law partner was appointed as special counsel. Angus King, an independent from ME, stressed that the probe will likely last for a long time.
"A lot of you have been asking to have a voice on this", he said.
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