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I mean there is this question of whether the president was involved in drafting the statement, obviously "the washington post" said he did. jay seculo in the earlier interview said he didn't. if in fact he did draft the statement, and if he knew at the time that he drafted the statement, that it was false as the statement turned out to be, that definitely could turn out to be a legal problem for the president, because even though it's not a crime to issue a false statement to the news media, it could be evidence of a pattern of obstruction of justice, along with firing james comey, and that is...

Questions? >> reporter: it's sort of early days, you are right, this was brought up opleekly with scaramuci, he said he hasn't been briefed on it or had in-depth discussions he says with members of the white house staff, particularly the white house counsel. when you talk about the strategy related to russia, we have already seen a shift in strategy here, that is this, marc kasowitz reported first thing this morning, his day has come full circle is stepping away from leading the counsel's outside team. i am told kasowitz will be providing guidance to the president. at this point now the operat...

Team are looking at that. >> it seems like one of the people in the article says this is not in the context of i can't wait to pardon myself, according to a close adviser that you quote. >> yes. >> so as your understanding, it's -- the president has kind of just looked or raised questions about what are the parameters of pardoning? >> correct, which is a pretty interesting thing for a president to be asking at this stage in the game. and we thought it was newsworthy. >> jay seculo is also quoted in your article, concerned they were talking about palm beach real estate transactions several year...

>> if you want to see another example, over the weekend jay seculo, somebody matt lewis knows very well and he was on the sunday shows and asked directly whether or not the president would consider firing the special counsel, this is what he said. >> will the president promise not to interfere, not attempt at any time to order the deputy attorney general to fire robert mueller? >> the president of the united states it's a unitary executive. he'll seek the advice of his counsel and inside and outside. i'm not speculating what he will or will not do you. i can't imagine that issue will arise but...

Gay rights. and joining jay seculo is the pat robertson foundation of law and justice has worked through a outspoken outpost to keep gay rights a illegal post in zimbabwe and filed a brief to keep homosexuality a illegal act. and he had no comment to us but he did say that through dan savage i hope that we can show good respect for all sides on the gay and lesbian issue. but be clear, that jeb bush says that he is a stanch supporter, and we should be respectful of