Trump lawyer: No information that the president is under investigation

>> Woodruff: PRESIDENT TRUMP
CONTINUES TO BE NAGGED BY
POSSIBLE LINKS BETWEEN RUSSIA
AND HIS ASSOCIATES AND WHETHER
MR. TRUMP HAS TRIED TO SHUT DOWN
THAT INVESTIGATION.
LAST WEEK, THE RUSSIA STORY TOOK
ANOTHER TURN WHEN REPORTS
SURFACED THAT SPECIAL COUNSEL
ROBERT MUELLER IS INVESTIGATING
THE PRESIDT HIMSELF.
I SPOKE A SHORT WHILE AGO TO JAY
SEKULOW, A MEMBER OF PRESIDENT
TRUMP'S LEGAL TEAM AND CHIEF
COUNSEL FOR THE AMERICAN CENTER
FOR LAW AND JUSTICE.
NO, HE HAS NOT.
THERE IS BEEN NO INFORMATION
GIVE BIN THE SPECIAL COUNSEL
INFORMING THE PRESIDENT HE IS'
UNDER INVESTIGATION.
IT'S BEEN CONSISTENT.
AGAIN, WE'VE RECEIVED NOTHING
ABOUT AN INVESTIGATION OF THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
>> Woodruff: BUT AS YOU
ACKNOWLEDGED YESTERDAY, IT IS
POSSIBLE THAT THE PRESIDENT
COULD BE UNDER INVESTIGATION AND
JUST SIMPLY NOT HAVE BEEN
INFORMED BY IT -- AUT IT?
>> WELL, I MEAN, BUT HERE'S THE
REALITY.
THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S
HAPPENED IN A VACUUM.
THERE'S BEEN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT
THE RUSSIA PROBE AND COMMITTEES
OF THE CONGRESS LOOKING AT THIS
FOR NINE MONTHS PRODUCING NO
EVIDENCE ABOUT RUSSIAN
COLLUSION.
SO WHILE IT'S TRUE, I CAN'T READ
THE MIND OF A SPECIAL COUNSEL,
WE'VE RECEIVED NO NOTIFICATION
OF AN INVESTIGATION OR A PENDING
INVESTIGATION OR PRELIMINARY
INVESTIGATION OR ANYTHING ELSE.
SO WHAT I CANAY IS WHAT WE
KNOW IS THE PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW
IS NOT, HAS NOT AND IS NOT UNDER
INVESTIGATION.
>> Woodruff: ARE YOU SAYING
THE STORIES THAT HAVE BEEN
PRINTED IN THE "THE WASHINGTON
POST" AND OTHER NEWS
ORGANIZATIONS ARE FALSE?
>> WELL, "THE WASHINGTON POST"
STORY WAS BASED ON FIVE
ANONYMOUS SOURCES WHERE THEY
DIDN'T EVEN IDENTIFY THE AGENCY.
SO YOU HAVE THAT REPORT COMING
OUT FROM "THE WASHINGTON POST"
WHICH I BELIEVE IS FALSE.
THEN THE ABC REPORTED THEY HAD
RECEIVED FROM THEIR SOURCES
INFORMATION THAT IN FACT THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL HAD NOT OPENED
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE
PRESIDENT.
SO, AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW WHERE
THESE SOURCES ARE COMING FROM,
BUT WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY
INFORMATION FROM THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL OR ANYONE ELSE, FOR THAT
MATTER, THAT THE PRESIDENT IS
UNDER INVESTIGATION.
>> Woodruff: SO SETTING THAT
ASIDE, WHEN THE PRESIDENT TOLD
LESTER HOLT A FEW WEEKS AGO AT
THAT INTERVIEW THAT HE HAD WHAT
HE CALLED THE RUSSIA THING ON
HIS MIND WHEN HE FIRED THEN
F.B.I. DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY AND
WHEN HE SAID TO RUSSIAN
DIPLOMATS AROUND THE SAME TIME
THAT IT RELIEVED PRESSURE ON HIM
TO FIRE JAMES COMEY, WHAT WAS HE
REFERRING TO?
>> WELL, THE PRESI ENGAGED
IN A DELIBERATE PROCESS THAT
WENT ON FOR A NUMBER OF WEEKS
EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF
JAMES COMEY AS THE F.B.I.
DIRECTOR, AND THAT CULMINATED IN
A NUMBER OF DISCUSSIONS THAT
TOOK PLACE WITHIN THE WHITE
HOUSE.
ULTIMATELY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
RECOMMENDED TO THE PRESIDENT THE
REOVAL OF JAMES COMEY, AND
JAMES COMEY WAS REMOVED.
NOW THAT'S JUST FACT.
WHAT OTHER THOUGHTS THE
PRESIDENT HAD GOING INTO THAT,
HOW LONG HE'D BEEN CONSIDERING,
I WASN'T PRIVY TO THAT, BUT
NORMAL DELIBERATIVE PROCESS AND
THEY LOOK AT A VARIETY OF
ISSUES.
BUT REGARDING THE RUSSIA
SITUATION, I'M GOING TO SAY
SOMETHING, JUDY, HERE, LOOK,
THIS IS A BIT OF A WITCH HUNT.
IT REALLY IS A WITCH HUNT.
THIS INVESTIGATION FROM THE
CONGRESS HAS BEEN GOING ON NINE
MONTHS INTO THIS RUSSIA PROBE
AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE SAID NO
EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION.
WHEN INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS WERE
ASKED EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION?
NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION.
WE DIDN'T INCLUDE EVIDENCE
BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T SEEN
EVIDENCE.
SO THIS IS A SITUATION THAT'S
BASICALLY LIKE A FACTUAL
SCENARIO THAT'S ALMOST BEING
MADE UP AND THE PRESIDET IS
RESPONDING THE WAY PRESIDENTS
RESPOND IN THAT THIS IS NOT
CONSUMING HIS DAY, IT'S NOT
CONSUMING AN HOUR.
HE'S TRYING TO SUCCESSFULLY
GOVERNING AND I THINK WE HAVE TO
LOOK AT THERE IS NOW A SPECIAL
COUNSEL, THE SPECIAL COUNSEL
WILL EVALUATE WHATEVER THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL EVALUATES, BUT
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BEING
PENALIZED IN THIS WELL AND IT
CONTINUES TO DRAG ON.
>> Woodruff: LET ME JUST STEP
IN HERE.
THE PRESIDENT'S CALLED IT A
WITCH HUNT, YOU'VE SAID IT'S A
WITCH HUNT AND NOW YOU'VE SAID
IT SHOULD GO FORWARD.
IF THE PRESIDENT BELIEVES IT'S A
WITCH HUNT, DOES HE BELIEVE THE
WHOLE THING SHOULD STOP THAT THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER
SHOULD STEP ASIDE AND EITHER LET
SOMEBODY ELSE TAKE THIS OVER OR
JUST SAY I'M NOT GOING TO DO
THIS?
>> WELL, NOW, THE PRESIDENT
HASN'T SAID THAT THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL CAN'T DO HIS JOB.
WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID SON
ASSISTANTLY IS -- IN FACT, IN
THAT LESTER HOLT INTERVIEW, IF
YOU REMEMBER, IF YOU LOOK AT THE
FULL TRANSCRIPT, HE ACKNOWLEDGED
THAT BY FIRING JAMES COMEY AND
REMOVING HIM AS DIRECTOR OF THE
F.B.I. IT WOULD EXTEND THIS
INVESTIGATN.
HE SAID THAT.
HE KNEW THE CONSEQUENCE OF HIS
ACTION, HE TOOK THE ACTION
BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WAS IN THE
BEST INTEREST OF THE UNITED
STATES AS DID THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
AND OTHERS.
SO I THINK WHEN I SAY THE PHRASE
"WITCH HUNT, WHEN THE PRESIDENT
IS TALKING ABOUT WITCH HUNT,
THIS WHOLE FRENZY THAT DEVELOPED
AND, AGAIN, WITH EVERYBODY
COMING FORWARD, WHAT ALL THESE
COMMITTEES HAVE SAID SO, FAR
THEY'VE SEEN NOTHING AN AN
INVESTIGATION GOING ON NINE
MONTHS SOFT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL
HAS BEEN APPOINTED AND THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL WILL ULTIMATELY
DO THEIR JOB AND AT THE END OF
THAT SPECIAL COUNSEL'S JOB, WE
WILL SEE THERE IS NOTHING
AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AS I
SUSPECTED THE ENTIRE TIME AND
THE LEGAL TEAM WITHOUT QUESTION
IS CONFIDENT OF THAT.
BUT JUDY THE WISH HUNT ASPECT OF
THIS IS JUST THE NATURE OF
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH MULTIPLE
COMMITTEES SIMULTANEOUSLY AND
NOW A SPECIAL COUNSEL.
WHAT ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO ADD
TO THE MIX?
BY THE WAY, WHENUP WHEN YOU HAVE
A SPECIAL COUNSEL AND THE
COMMITTEES GOING SIMULTANEOUSLY,
IT RAISE AS WHOE HOST OF ISSUES
OF CONFLICTS THAT WILL HAVE TO
BE LOOKED AT.
>> Woodruff: TWO QUICK
QUESTIONS.
IF THE PRESIDENT BELIEVE THIS IS
A WITCH HUNT, IF YOU AND HIS
OTHER ATTORNEYS BELIEVE THAT,
YET, AT THE SAME TIME, YOU'RE
SAYING THE PROBE SHOULD GO
FORWARD, THERE IS A
CONTRADICTION THERE.
ARE YOU SAYING IT SHOULD GO
FORWARD UNFETTERED, THAT THERE
WILL BE COOPERATION FROM THE
PRESIDENT?
OR ARE YOU SAYING THERE IS GOING
TO BE RESISTANT BECAUSE YOU
THINK IT'S AN ILLEGITIMATE
INVESTIGATION?
>> WELL, LOOK, THE PRESIDENT HAS
SAID -- HAS GIVEN NO INDICATION
HE'S NOT GOING TO COOPERATE IF
THERE'S ANYTHING TO COOPERATE
ON.
LET ME BE CLEAR ON THAT BECAUSE
YOU RAISE A REALLIMPORTANT
POINT, AND THAT IS THERE IS
MULTIPLE ASPECTS TO THIS RUS
PROBE AS HAS BEEN DESCRIBED.
THE PRESIDENT IS NOT SAYING STOP
THE RUSSIAN PROBE.
THE WITCH HUNT ASPECT OF THIS IS
THIS MEDIA-CREATED FRENZY OF
UNNAMED SOURCES SAYING IT'S
TARGETING THE PRESIDENT AND
THEN, OF COURSE, YOU HAD THE
CONTRADICTORY SOURCE FROM ABC
SAYING IT WASN'T.
SO THIS IS THE WITCH HUNT ASPET
OF THIS LEAKING INFORMATION.
I MEAN, HOW DOES IT MAKE THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE FEEL THAT
SUPPOSED INVESTIGATORS INVOLVED
IN THIS RUSSIAN PROBE ARE
LEAKING INFORMATION ANONYMOUSLY
WITHOUT DEFINING WHAT AGENCY
THEY'RE FROM TO "THE WASHINGTON
POST."
THAT SHOULD NOT BE OKAY.
SHOULDN'T BE ANY MORE OKAY WITH
JAMES COMEY DOING THE SAME
THING.
>> Woodruff: YOU'VE
ACKNOWLEDGED THE FACT JAMES
COMEY FIRED JAMES COMEY, THE
F.B.I. DIRECTOR OVERSEEING THIS
INVESTIGATION AT THE TIME, THE
FACT COMMENTS WERE MADE BY THE
PRESIDENT TO LESTER HOLT AND THE
DIPLOMATS T RELIEVING
PRESSURE, THE CASE IS THAT THE
PRESIDENT WOULD DO ANYTHING TO
GET THIS OFF HIS BACK.
>> I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE CASE
AT ALL.
THE PRESIDENT REMOVED JAMES
COMEY FOR MANY REASONS.
MANY LEFT OF CENTER WERE CALLING
FOR HIS REMOVAL.
>> Woodruff: THE PRESIDENT
SAID, WHAT HE TOLD LESTER HOLT,
WAS THE RUSSIA THING WAS ON HIS
MIND WHEN HE FIRED JAMES COMEY.
>> WELL, BUT WHEN YOU SAY THE
RUSSIA THING WAS ON HIS MIND,
LOOK AT THE WAY THE PROBE WAS
HANDLED ON HILLARY CLINTON.
THIS WAS AN INDIVIDUAL, JAMES
COMEY, WHO DID NOT HANDLE AN
IMPORTANT INVESTIGATION PROPERLY
AND LEFT RIGHT AND CENTER
ACKNOWLEDGED IT, AND WHEN THE
PRESIDENT WAS TALKING ABOUT THE
RUSSIA PROBE, AS IT MOVES
FORWARD IT BE HANDLED PROPERLY
NOT THE WAY IT WAS UNDER JAMES
COMEY.
>> Woodruff: JAY SEKULOW
REPRESENTING PRESIDENT TRUMP.
THAN

Trump lawyer: No information that the president is under investigation

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