because there s not an investigation, and there s you don t know whether oh, boy, this is weird. you don t know whether there s an investigation. kind of went on from there. sekulow also said that the president s tweet was only responding to the washington post report that mueller is investigating the president, a report that it is worth noting has been confirmed by several other news organizations, including nbc news. and about the claim or question from the president that there could be tapes of his conversations with james comey, today sean spicer said he would probably have an answer on that by the end of this week. there are also new questions tonight surrounding mike flynn with house democrats trying to figure out if flynn misled officials on his security form, omitting two trips to the middle east, one trip reportedly involving a, quote, joint u.s./russian business venture to develop nuclearacilities in and financed by saudi arabia. a deal said to be worth
nick, we should point out that the hiring of a lawyer is not at all the admission of guilt. you lawyers would think it was just good, safe practice. of course. but there s a lot of that going on. i only represent innocent people, so i can speak to that. we ve got mr. mueller with a staff of 13 at that first rung, and he s hiring, reports are, the absolute, cream of the crop, quality lawyers in all of their fields. but then we have mr. kushner said to be re-evaluating his legal team. we ve got personal lawyers hired by the president, the vice president. we have a special counsel, by the way, day 151 of this presidency. what are we to take from that? well, i think we re to take is that there is a major investigation going on. you would expect people to actually hire lawyers. but if history is any lesson here, it s probably not going to make a big difference because with all the lawyers that they have, they still have to take a political position because they
i would like to thank president trump for the president of panama stepped in as our president, donald trump, chose not to answer whether he was under investigation by rert mueller in connection with the russia investigation. but leg team insists he is not under investigation. so why does a president who is not under investigation need three personal lawyers, and why if the president said he s under investigation should we listen to at least one of those lawyers? joining our conversation here tonight, former federal prosecutor and assistant watergate prosecutor back in the day, nick ackerman. and pulitzer prize winning columnist for the washington post, eugene robinson is back with us. counsellor, you get the first question because you re a counselor. how should we view this? again, we re consumers watching sunday shows on the weekend. we catch along the way this lawyer with glasses insisting, no, the president s not under