One of President Donald Trump's personal lawyers has insisted that the president is not under investigation for obstruction of justice, but when pressed on the assertion, admitted he couldn't be certain.
"The fact of the matter is the president has not been and is not under investigation," Jay Sekulow, a new member of Trump's legal team, said on CBS' Face the Nation in one of four interviews he gave on Sunday.
There have been multiple news reports and a tweet from Trump himself on Friday that began with: "I am being investigated."
Challenged on Fox News Sunday about the issue, Sekulow said he could not be certain Trump was not under investigation but that no one had notified the legal team if that was the case.
It is common for subjects of federal investigations not to know they are under scrutiny, especially in the initial phases.
Trump, who has denied any collusion between his campaign and Russia, has frequently lashed out about the allegations, which have overshadowed his administration's efforts to overhaul the healthcare system, cut taxes and boost jobs.
Sekulow said that Trump, in his tweet, was reacting to a story in the Washington Post, which was the first to report Robert Mueller was examining whether Trump had tried to obstruct the probe by firing FBI Director James Comey in May.
Sekulow acknowledged that he could not be certain that the report was false.
"I cannot read the mind of the special prosecutor," he said.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for the Mueller team, declined to comment.
