jay sekulow said no, no, no. not under investigation. ainsley: that's president trump's personal lawyer. mr. comey himself has said he is not under investigation. what jay sekulow went on to say that's the president responding to a "the washington post" report that included five aupon must sources. steve: that'sources.steve right. >> that's the president through his significant social media platform, ainsley, telling everybody look at the irony here. steve: have you rod rosenstein saying in a memo released to the press essentially don't believe everything you read in the newspapers, considering they don't reveal the source or the agency or even the country. and then you have got an abc report yesterday, their senior judicial correspondent pierre thomas said that there has been no decision on whether or not to mount an investigation of president trump, which is exactly what jay sekulow said yesterday. >> that's right. he is the president's personal attorney. is he right into all of this. this is all conclusion in search of evidence, it se

jay sekulow is right to say, hey, why don't you just tell us? >> first of all, jay could pick up the phone and know as counsel for the president. the idea that it's a mystery or unless he's told, which is very unusual, by the investigators himself, he can't know. that's a specious premise. >> it's not. >> of course it is. kendall, let me bring you in on this discussion. the idea that, well, comey said he wasn't being investigated but there were leaks that he said he was. do you see that as something that sheds doubt on whether or not it is knowable that mueller would be looking at the firing of comey? does that mean anything to you? >> in an odd way, the comey era is almost old news. we have a new investigation now. mueller is looking at everything. there's no reason to believe that the president is excluded from this broad examination. >> the idea that it was leaked, does that matter to you, does that change your perception of whether or not mueller would be looking at the circumstances surrounding comey's firing, or do you theys think that's a

but who would dare contradict jay sekulow about this claim he says there should be no confusion. who i ask you? how about jay sekulow himself. >> now he's being investigated by the department of justice, so he's being investigated for taking the action that the attorney general, deputy attorney general recommended him to take by the agency, who recommended the termination. >> okay. so if you're keeping score, according to jay sekulow, the president both was not and was under investigation. that was just sunday. what about today? >> do you think that bob mueller is looking at the circumstances surrounding comey's firing? do you think that's part of the purview of his probe? >> i have no idea if he's looking at that or not. >> now, jay sekulow is a very influential attorney and advocate and a distinguished member of the supreme court bar and appeared on this broadcast many times over the years. perhaps he's not the guy to ask on this. in fact, it's almost as if we've all been warned against it, almost like we've been told again and again and again, what's that phrase? >> i think th

we'll have the president's attorney on, jay sekulow. he is the spokesperson for the president on this issue. in addition to being his counsel. how does he answer the questions? next. >>> all right. president trump and ies legal team are caught in a contradiction about whether he's under investigation. the president says he is, his team says he isn't. why does it matter? let's discuss that and what should matter with the president's lawyer, jay sekulow. why are you engaging in this line of whether or not he's under investigation, like it's some mystery? >> well, i didn't engage in the line of that. there was a tweet from the president of the united states in response to a ""washington post" story. there's been no notification to any of us that the president is under any investigation. james comey has said on three separate occasions that the president was not under investigation. here is where this was manufactured, if you want to call it manufactured. it was manufactured from "the washington post." all the president did was respond to "

jay sekulow knows better. this word play over twitter is really ridiculous. i think he knows that, but he's trying to make an argument. others have to make arguments. again, let's look at what's going on. there is a legal process that's under way. we don't know the extent to what the mueller team is doing in terms of what they're looking at. we know how much is in the public domain now for them to investigate that would make sense, and we know about the reporting that's out there that's not really being continue dilkted given the president is verifying it himself. at the same time the president i think views this as a political process, a fight to be won in the court of public opinion to try to denigrate the reputation of bob mueller and suggests this is all part of an effort to get him, to use the media to get him. anonymous sources to conspire the get the president and undermine his presidency. i think he'll use that. >> carona, it's not just the tweet, but jay sekulow's own words of the sunday show. let me play for you how he seemed to be saying two diamet

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jay sekulow low will weigh in later tonight. also donald trump jr., laura ingraham, john solomon, sara carter, all join us but the truth and the biggest takeaways from today's congressional hearing. this is information you will not get anywhere else in the media. it's important and it is tonight's opening monologue. here is what we learned today from james comey's testimony. the president of the united states never obstructed justice and in fact, the president actually encouraged the fbi director to go forward with any and all investigations into campaign associates and involvement with russia. james comey confirmed several times that the president in the white house did not ask him to stop the russian investigation. comey said multiple times that president trump was not under investigation and why did he only save us today? why couldn't the fbi director come out sooner? we will answer that question tonight. we also learned that james comey selectively was leaking information to try to damage the president, so-called champion of

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jay sekulow said last week that we would hear an answer next week, meaning this past week. that didn't happen. sekulow said that, well, there was a lot going on this past week. the president had that big address on cuba policy. there was also what he described as an assassination attempt against house majority whip steve scalise and other gop members of congress. so the way he put it on "face the nation" was the issue of tapes i think right now was not a priority issue this past week. he said he expects it could be addressed this week, but this is just one more example of these deadlines being set that are not met. we really don't know what we're going to get an answer on that issue. >> athena jones, thank you. >>> joining moo he n ing me now. also, michael zelden. and jewelette kayam. listen to another part of attorney jay sekulow. >> in this particular case you had a scenario where the president, receiving advice from a variety of government officials, was told by his attorney general and by his deputy attorney general that james comey should not be leading the fbi. it is

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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 -- about 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 can say is what we know is the president right now is not, has not and is not under investigatio

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and when chris wallace called him on that, jay sekulow got indignant about chris wallace putting words in his mouth. >> chris, let me be clear. you asked me a question about what the president's tweet was regarding the deputy attorney general of the united states. that's what you asked me, and i responded to what that legal theory would be. so i do not appreciate you putting words in my mouth when i've been crystal clear that the president is not and has not been under investigation. >> do not appreciate putting words in my mouth. okay. so here are the words that chris wallace did not put in jay sekulow's mouth. >> and now he's being investigated. so he's being investigated. >> it was going to be very hard for jay sekulow to outdo donald trump's new york lawyer, marc kasowitz, who got basic facts wrong in his first public statement in defense of the president, when he claimed that james comey's testimony was total vindication of president trump. marc kasowitz defended donald trump on the losing side of the trump university fraud case in which donald trump was forced to pay $25 million

here is jay sekulow. >> he said that if -- in light of all of this, the removal of james comey, in fact, he knew it, was going to lengthen the amount of time this investigation would take, but he thought it was in the best interests of the american people. the president made the determination to remove the director of the fbi after consultation with others. that determination is protected by the constitution. >> reporter: so the point there, it's within the president's power to do it, and in and of itself should not be viewed as improper. that of course will be part of what robert mueller and his legal team will have to examine. it's all been taking quite a bit of time in terms of the earliest days of looking at russian interference into the election season with the hacking and so forth, and now, as -- sometimes, as you and i both know, alex, these washington investigations begin to sprawl as new witnesses bring information that might send investigators down different tributaries. it feels like there is an element of that with this as the white house is trying to separate itself as much

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jay sekulow is saying is that they haven't had any formal notice that they are being investigated. look, it's a giant mess, and i think that mr. trump has a legitimate complaint and saying that a lot of people are looking for collusion with russia during the election, didn't find it, and now they have moved on to obstruction. he's made a lot of his mistakes, tweeting things. just because you have the right to do something doesn't mean it's right to do. for the special prosecutor too, did he have to hire the attorneys that he hired with the trump connections and contributions so forth? >> jon: the people have donated. >> he was attacked by the new york observer for many years. jared kushner, he was the owner of the "new york observer." things have to be implicated in these things. >> jon: here are some examples of some conflicting stories as seen on fox news sunday with chris wallace in the presence attorney. listen. >> let me be crystal clear. you completely understand. we have not received or been aware of any investigation of the united states. >> just said two times that he's be

one of the president's attorneys jay sekulow is coming up next. he says there's no there there, no basis for obstruction. you are a former prosecutor. is there evidence there that -- to begin a case for obstruction? >> i think there's absolutely evidence there to begin a case. i think it's very important for all sort of armchair speculators in the law to be clear that no one knows right now whether there is a provable case of obstruction. it's also true i think based on what i see as a third party and out of government that there's no basis to say there's no obstruction and this point on whether or not the president has legal authority to fire or to direct an investigation, i don't really get it. it's a little silly to me. the fact you have authority to remove someone from office doesn't automatically immunize that act from criminal responsibility. and i'll give you an example of secretary of state from a different context. if it were to be true, this is all made up for the sake of argument, if it were to be true that michael flynn offered a milli

the president's personal attorney, jay sekulow, made the rounds on tv yesterday as well as this morning, repeatedly insisting the president is not under investigation, despite the president's tweeting on friday that he is under investigation. listen to this exchange between jay sekulow and chris cuomo earlier this morning. >> do you know mueller's looking at this, why didn't you just pick up the phone and find out if it matters so much to the president whether or not he's being looked at, find out. >> you know there's a difference between investigations, inquiries. there's a whole series of matters you look at. >> the white house press secretary sean spicer certainly will be asked plenty of questions about this topic in an off-camera briefing that is about to begin at the white house. our reporters are there. unfortunately, the white house has decided that we can't broadcast that briefing from the white house press briefing room live. they won't even let us use the audio. we will discuss that and more. meantime, let me bring in our panel. our cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor

sekulow. one of the president's attorneys to ansr. >> real quick, you mentioned vindication but trump feels vindicated by comey's testimony as does his base. they are standing firmly by him. what's your take? >> so far. some of the polling shows -- breitbart and right wing media sites are all echoing the trump line right now. there has been some drop in -- drop in strong support for the president. one of the things you saw i think up in the senate at that intelligence committee hearing republican senators, a lot did try to put the best face on trump's actions. i think there's no question about that but you also saw them almost to a person vouch for james comey's credibility. >> sure. >> so i think one of the big questions you're going to see, does the president's story hold up under oath, if, indeed, he does as promise testify about this. >> so important to watch what happens with the trump base. george stephanopoulos, thank you very much. a reminder george as a big show and as he said he's go

eli, obviously a handful of folks, sean spicer, kellyanne conway and now jay sekulow have perfected the art of performing for the audience of one. >> i think that was this was. jay sekulow was brought in to be the public spokesperson for the legal team because the president wasn't happy with kasowitz's first public performance a couple of weeks ago. so you bring in sekulow and my reporting is that the president was fine with the interviews that he did yesterday. even though everybody else is looking at him getting twisted up in knots trying to say that they're not under investigation after saying he is under investigation. i mean, they don't have a great hand to play here, but the president loves it when people go out there and answer and defend him emphatically. you know, he loved what jeff sessions did -- even though he's not thrilled with jeff sessions right now. he loved the sort o -- >> the performance. >> the tone of the performance. he loved when kellyanne conway went out and told people to buy ivanka trump's shoes. and she got in trouble for it. >> is there any concern at the wh

judge jeanine: jay sekulow, thanks so much. up next, my one-on-one interview with donald trump, jr., and what he has to say about his father's tweeting. my all-star panel is on deck and ready to battle it out. now back to "justice with judge jeanine." ian * earlier i sat -- judge jeanine: earlier i sat down with the president's son donald trump, jr. how he feels about the left's endless attacks on his family and his dapsd tactics on fighting the war on terror. it's been an interesting couple of days. i have known you a long time. after the inauguration you said you were going to focus on the business, you weren't going to get involved in washington. now it seems things have changed. why? >> i don't think things have changed. i'm a politically minded guy. i was way before we got into politic. but when i see what's going on right now. when i see what went on for 10 months with the russia man sense and the smear. it's like give me a break. they spent 10 months chasing a rabbit down a hole with the sole purpose to take down my far

not just of jay sekulow but of what you call the entire dream team. why? >> well, usually if you're under criminal investigation, as the president is -- again, he may not have been notified of it, which is apparently what jay sekulow was saying. we can definitively say that he is under criminal investigation. if you're under that investigation, you want to hire a top criminal attorney and the president has hired marc kasowitz, an attorney with civil experience, suing people in new york. jay sekulow, an attorney who has never done criminal cases but has talked on conservative media over the years and he's hired another attorney that has never done criminal work in the past and is on his own now and doesn't bring the serious resources you need to this kind of case. it begs the question, we've heard he's having a hard time finding people that will work for him. but why hasn't he added a high-powered litigator to handle this case as jared kushner has done as you said in your intro? the president is treating it so unseriously. >> i want to go back to jared kush

jay sekulow, and michael bowe, who we don't have a picture of. here is mueller steam, a couple of missing faces. those are some of the individuals that he has assembled. who has the better team? >> bob mueller has the most experienced team with the justice department done with criminal prosecutors. i mean, very, very serious, high-end, white-collar criminal. >> martha: on the president's tm very fond of jay, we know him so well. john dowd is among the more senior people in the criminal defense bar in washington, d.c. he knows everybody, as well. i'm very fond of marc kasowitz but he's not a criminal defense guy. he's a team leader and a strategist. i think you will see a lot more faces on the screen the next time we do this. >> martha: george, thank you. good to see you as always. that's bringing david bossie, the president of citizens united, served as a deputy campaign manager for the trump campaign. and marie harf, former spokesperson for obama. both are fox news contributors. welcome to have you both here. david, you listen to these conversat

liz: ginning me now, chief counsel, jay sekulow. what did you think of the attorney general's testimony? >> i thought jeff sessions did an incredible job. i thought it was clear, concise, he said he was not going to disclose confidential communications he had with the president of the united states which is longstanding department of justice protocol. you compare that to james comey who not only shared it but leaked it to the "new york times". the tale of two professionals. one playing by the rules and the other is not. james comey raised very serious issues legally. he kept saying this was his material. james comey made that line earlier in the week. here's the reality. this was not james comey's material. he did this on fbi computer in fbi vehicle and stored it in his fbi's desk. this is the government's property he converted. i think the differential between jeff sessions and james comey here is telling. liz: to your point, comey leaked to clear his name. he didn't leak to clear donald trump's name, noting that donald trump is no

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and it's also important to note here that jay sekulow, the president's legal team wouldn't necessarily know whether he's under investigation or not because the fbi and the special counsel wouldn't necessarily notify his legal team. so, this is just more mixed messages. ana? >> all right. and athena, it is the same lawyer who just last weekend said president trump was going to address whether there are any tapes. still no answer. >> reporter: exactly, still no answer. and sekulow was asked with b that today, and he said, well, there was a lot going on last week, the president had that major address on cuba, announcing a change in cuba policy. there was also the shooting at the republican members of congress baseball practice. he talked about the assassination attempt of house majority whip steve scalise, who is still in the hospital. and so, sekulow says that the issue of the tapes was not the priority number one last week. he expects that could be addressed this week. but the bottom line is this is just one more example of deadlines that shift. we really don't know when we're going to

let's talk about what's going on with jay sekulow. jeff, we saw the president's attorney basically saying a couple contradictory things this weekend. what did you make of that? >> i saw jay sekulow, who is a really smart and good lawyer, feeling sean spicer's pain because he was up there saying donald trump is not under investigation because donald trump does not want to be perceived as under investigation. >> despite having tweeted that he's under investigation. >> right. but he's -- of course he's under investigation. look at comey's testimony. look at the fact that mueller is now interviewing the head of the nsa rogers, the head of the dni coats. those are witnesses to possible obstruction of justice of donald trump. that's the only reason to interview them. it doesn't mean donald trump is guilty. it doesn't mean he's going to be charged with anything. but is he under investigation? of course he is. >> david, do you buy sekulow's explanation that the president's tweet was in response to a "washington post" article that cited unname

sekulow to say on every single show he wasn't under investigation but jay sekulow ran into what every single person tried to go out and speak for the white house or for donald trump in particular, is donald trump is going to contradict you -- if he didn't want people to know he's under investigation why did he tweet it? some trump supporters have told me they knew what he meant. >> what de mean? >> i don't know -- that he didn't mean that. to vote for karen handel tomorrow. what did he mean. he gets confusing. these words mean things. >> two things in the tweet that were lies. i mean he said, you know, i'm under investigation from the man, rod rosenstein, who first recommended that i fire comey. well, first of all rosenstein is not conducting the investigation so that's untrue and didn't recommend that he fire comey because he decided to fire comey by his own admission. >> he may have recommended comey but donald trump's mind was already made up. >> so he didn't fire him at his behest and that was just a memo to kind of cover them. >> do you think he could be baiting mueller to come o

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i want to pay another part of the interview with jay sekulow. jake tapper asked him whether a president can technically commit obstruction of justice. here is his answer. >> in this particular case you had a scenario where the president receiving advice from a variety of his government officials was told by his attorney general and by his deputy attorney general that james comey should not be leading the fbi. it is ironic that based on the action that they recommended, that he took in consultation with others, that he's now being investigated by the agencies that told him to take that very action, removing the fbi director. >>> so, alan, the president's lawyer initially said multiple times he's not under investigation, disregard the president's tweet, but then we just played this clip in which he says the president ironically is being investigated by the person who suggested he fire the fbi director. he doesn't seem to be driving a consistent message. >> well, think it depends on what is is and what investigation is. of course the president is b

you saw the exchange between chris wallace and jay sekulow. you can see the interview, the full group of president jones legal team. chris wallace airs again at 2:00 p.m. eastern time on the fox news channel, a very heated exchange. leland: you don't want to miss that. chris has some great questions and jay has some interesting answers. moving onto this week, democrats need to flip 24 seats to win back the house in 2015. they are hoping that comeback starts on tuesday. georgia special election, the most expensive house race in u.s. history is set to finish as a nailbiter. polls show karen handel and 30 rolled john ossoff locked in a virtual tie heading into tuesday's final bow. within 140,000 ballots have already been cast early. the district is considered a tossup and safely conservative since 1979 thinning both news country newt gingrich and tom price to washington. results coming in on tuesday night. elizabeth: coming up, treacherous weather in the heartland. millions of americans or affect did. the very latest forecast from our fox weather

. >> sandra: just be clear, none of us have been notified of an investigation is what jay sekulow said. i will show you what the president's latest tweet is. >> border security. obamacare is dead. 100% increases in premiums. vote now for karen handler, of course the georgia house rep. >> you need a decluttering for that. he needs karen handler to win there, it will be very helpful for him, because a jon ossoff, the democrat windsor, then the democrats will say, we have momentum and then the republicans will see fundraising and recruitment will go down for republic's. just like life, politics need expectations for the whole deal. six month ago, democrats winning the seats, wow. what an amazing thing that would happen that could possibly end is long-standing republican seat that the democrats could pick it up. now 40 $40 million later, a jon ossoff doesn't win, and it is a moral defeat instead, we came pretty close, it's now, win or go home. >> sandra: speaking of expectations, here's a place and really clear how to experience the poll for georgia politics. jon ossoff 6.4 points ahead of

the president's outside lawyer jay sekulow took to the sunday shows vehemently refuting the claim stressing the president is not under investigation. saying no one has notified him that the president is being investigated. in n. seeking to clarify that question in exchange with chris wallace, things got very testy at times. >> here is what you are trying to do, chris. i appreciate. >> now you are reading minds again. >> no, chris, i deal with fact and law. >> don't tell me what i'm trying to do because you don't know what i'm trying to do. actually, what i'm trying to get is a straight answer out of you. >> this comes after the president tweeted on friday that he was under investigation for firing fbi director james comey. and he continued to vent frustrations over the weekend with the russia probe calling it, quote, a witch hunt multiple times. the most recent yesterday quote the make america great again agenda is doing very well, despite the distraction of the witch-hunt. meanwhile the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff is accusing the white house of leading a s

. >> reporter: so there you get the sense that the trump legal team and jay sekulow making the public case they will argue against james comey, his testimony and conduct based on what we all heard with that highly watched appearance before the senate. so the president in his tweets is creating issues for his lawyers. we've seen that the president's tweets have gotten in the way before. that's where we are right now. typically when a person is under investigation, there is a point in that investigation when they are notified, are they a witness, a subject or a target of the investigation, three very different classifications. so we can -- if we take them at their word there has been no such notification, it does not mean the special counsel is not pursuing it. it's just it hasn't reached a point where there would be a specific notification. alex, as you know, the whole russia thing is many different buckets of issues from interference with the election in 2016, hacking into computer accounts for members of the democratic party to questions about were there improper contacts between peo

we are joined now by jay sekulow, she a member of the president's legal team and chief counsel at the american center for law and justice. mr. second low, i want to start, second low i sekulow, i want to start with i am being investigated by the man who told me to fire the fbi director, witch-hunt, what is he talking about. >> he issued that tweet on social media because of the report in the "washington post" from five anonymous sources none of which of course anyone knows about, alleging that president was under investigation, this purported expanded probe. the fact of the matter is, the president has not been and is not under investigation. so this was his response via twitter by social twitter in response to the "washington post" piece with five anonymous sources, by the way five anonymous sources, they don't even identify the agencies upon which these individuals purportedly work so the response there is clear, i want to be very clear about this, the president is not and has not been under investigation. >> dickerson: how do you know? >> . >> because we have received no notice of

. >> reporter: jay sekulow, a member of president trump's legal team, said the president's tweet was not an admission, it was a reaction. >> this was his response via twitter, via social media, was in response to the "washington post" piece with five anonymous sources -- >> reporter: the "washington post's" white house bureau chief pushed back. >> the president is indeed under investigation, that it is an investigation into his potential obstruction of justice in addition to a number of other issues related to the russia matter. >> bob mueller's investigation is only getting started. >> reporter: adam schiff, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, fears the administration is undermining special counsel robert mueller. >> the president wants to take down bob mueller. his lawyer wants to take down bob mueller. and the question is why? and i think the answer is they want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever bob mueller comes up with. >> reporter: still, republicans like senate intelligence committee member marco rubio, support ongoing probes. >> i think it's in

one of the president's personal lawyers, jay sekulow, widely insisted the president is not under investigation. then he all but admitted i can't be sure. >> no one has been notified that he is. >> you don't know whether he's under investigation or not. >> reporter: a contradiction he repeated on cnn. >> why you don't pick up the phone and find out is a little odd. if i hired you, i would want you to make that phone call. >> you haven't hired us because we represent the president of the united states. >> reporter: in a white house briefing room, there was a camera where secretary sean spicer provided more non-answers. special counsel robert mueller, spicer said, i think the broader point here is that everyone who serves the president should serve the president. spiceer said, i will tell you i believe the president commented in the next couple of weeks. it's possible that we have an answer on that by the end of this week. >> he has been asked about those tapes, and if they exist they be produced. >> jared kushner is touting the administration's innovation of government services. >> by modernizin

is jay sekulow saying trump was just reacting to news coverage? if so, why is trump deriding fake news if he believes the news? more importantly, who should you believe? is it true that the president is yelling at tv sets in the white house? why is he still watching so much tv anyway, isn't he busy? and where are the tapes? wait, are there tapes? why hasn't he cleared that up? what is the president hiding? why are white house briefings getting shorter and more limited? why hasn't trump given any interviews for five weeks? why aren't his aides all over tv defending him? are you as confused as i am? the news cycle can be bewildering but i think it's useful sometimes to watch what the president is watching. we know he loves sean hannity's show on fox news. he even retweeted a promo of the show on friday. and hannity's message night after night is that the media, the american media is trying to overthrow the president. >> the media has become completely unhinged. they're suffering from trump derangement syndrome. the truth does not matter to people th

you heard jay sekulow the president's attorney say that when the president tweeted this, "i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director, witch hunt." he did not mean it literally, that he was literally being investigated. >> it sounded to me like what the president was doing, and this is the limitations of twitter, the context was he was sort of repeating what "the washington post" story was like. not oh i'm being investigated by -- in other words he's just taking a summary of "the post" article and repeated it as opposed to saying oh, i'm being investigated. now, i get it. that's a nuance, and you can roll your eyes back on it, but that's what jay sekulow was saying the president said. the problem with that is, it's twitter, and you don't have context and it very credibly could be seen as the president confirming that he's being investigated. that's the problem with the president tweeting. >> i think the president might be watching us today. as a democrat, just as an american, i want to give him some advice. and that advice is to

now one of the president's lawyers, jay sekulow, is saying he is not under investigation. the president was citing that "washington post" report when he sent out the tweet on friday. here's more of what he had to say about all of this on "state of the union." watch. >> should we take that tweet from the president as confirmation that the president is under investigation? >> let me be clear, the president's not under investigation. >> it president said -- the president said, "i am under investigation," even though he isn't under investigation? >> that response on social media was in response to the "washington post" piece. >> you're saying that the president when he said that was not accurate? >> no. it was 141 characters. there's a limitation on twitter. >> the president thinks -- >> there should be no confusion -- no confusion. the president is not under investigation. >> it is confusing. >> reporter: after months of white house officials telling us we should take the president's tweets at face value, consider them presidential statements, now his lawyer is arguing someth