president trump s legal team, jay seculow. mr. seculow, welcome to meet the press and happy father s day. happy father s day, chuck. let me get some clarity here. the president tweeted this week, i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. witch hunt. when did the president become aware that he was officially under investigation by the special counsel? the president is not under investigation by the special counsel. the tweet from the president was in response to the five anonymous sources that were purportedly leaking information to the washington post about a potential investigation of the president. but the president, as james comey said in his testimony and as we know as of today, the president has not been and is not under investigation. well, i go back to the tweet. then why did he say he was?
let me be very clear here, as it has been since the beginning. the president is not and has not been under investigation for obstruction. the president sent out that tweet directly in response to the washington post story with the five anonymous, unnamed sources from unnamed agencies. when the president gave that full interview to lester holt, he said to lester holt from nbc news, your colleague, he said that in light of all of this, the removal of james comey in fact, he knew it would lengthen the time this investigation would take but he thought it was in the best interest of the american people. he was fully aware if, in fact, he took this action he could see a lengthening of the process. jay seculow there from the team about him being
the president of the united states, period. jay seculow, thank you for coming on. appreciate it. joining me now marco rubio of florida who of course is a member of the senate intelligence committee and many folks questioning these heari s hearings. welcome back to meet the press . thank you. the president tweeted i m being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. witch hunt. senator diane feinstein put out this press release on friday. the message the president is sending through his tweets is that he believes the rule of law doesn t apply to him and anyone who thinks otherwise will be fired. that s undemocratic on its face and a plblatant violation. pretty rough words from her. she doesn t normally use language like that. do you concur with her sentiment? i think everybody just needs
mind field and donald trump being donald trump steps over the legal mine field and blows them up but it s becoming an investigation by itself and i lived through white water and there is shady behavior that don t rise to the watergate level and i m afraid we re being swallowed up by politics of scandal when there is less and less evidence. it bothers me. i m absolutely with you. i thought the most striking part is when jay said that the president s very effective inniin i his use of social media and it s gotten him into the predicament he s in. you live by twitter and die by twitter and the reason we re having this discussion in the first place is the fact that he tweeted out the possibility that there are tapes of jim comey, right? the fact he went on television and said what he said to lester holt, the fact he tweeted the tweet you talked about today on the show. so that at the end of the day, it s what evidence is there, is not quite as going to be as relevant as what he s doing
turning now to sudan where two pastors are facing serious charges and possible death sentences for speaking out on the persecution of christians in that country. pastor michael and pastor peter have been in prison since december and january respectively. critics are calling their arrests a witch-hunt. here is jay seculow. jay, can you give us an update. well the situation right now is very serious for pastor michael and pastor peter. what we got right now, shannon, without any question the charges are going forward. so we ve been working with lawyers in sudan. what we re hoping is that the