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The Investigation

"They're Just Looking For The Gotcha Moment"

The Investigation

ABC News

News, Politics

3.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Investigation," President Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow talks with senior editorial producer John Santucci and White House and Capitol Hill reporter Katherine Faulders about congressional investigations: "we're not ramping up an impeachment." Sekulow also discusses the ongoing legal battles for the President's tax returns: "This legislative purpose issue overrides everything they do. That's a constitutional requirement for the Supreme Court." When asked by "The Investigation" about Robert Mueller's upcoming testimony on the Hill: "They're just looking for the gotcha moment. I don't see it."

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Investigation. I'm John Santucci, senior editorial producer here at ABC.

0:11.9

Chris Velasto is off, but joining me today is Catherine Faldors, our White House and Capitol Hill reporter.

0:17.6

And we wanted to zoom out and just sort of see where the road ahead looks for

0:22.6

President Trump and his legal team. We know Robert Mueller is heading up to the Hill in the next

0:27.5

couple of weeks, but we've got congressional investigations, investigations in New York,

0:32.3

Southern District probes, and the New York State Attorney General. So who better to break down

0:37.1

where the road ahead leads for the president, but his lead

0:39.9

attorney.

0:40.4

Joining us right now, President Trump's counsel, Jay Seculo.

0:43.7

Jay, thanks for joining us.

0:45.3

Thanks for having me, John.

0:46.3

So, Jay, you know, we were thinking about it this morning as we were getting ready to speak

0:50.2

with you.

0:51.0

If you think about President Trump's legal team and all the iterations that

0:55.0

it's gone through over the last two and a half years, you're the last man standing, Jay,

0:59.3

from the originals. Well, you know, I have a theory on that, and I'm a drummer by 40 years

1:05.8

of playing drums and 45 years of playing drums. So I've got a tempo, and I think part of the

1:09.2

successor is having the right tempo. So I think I stayed in the group, so to speak. Well, I think you're leaving

1:16.1

the band right now. You know, you've got to recruit new band members, but you've got to stay in the

1:19.5

pocket, as they say, it's going to say. So we're more of that. You know you would. But listen, you know, where this is all moving forward now, right?

1:29.7

So Robert Mueller's investigation's done.

1:31.8

He's going to be testifying in the next week.

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