Jay Sekulow: Comey Illegally Leaked Conversation He Had with Trump

CHUCK TODD: The president once again has referred to this Russia story as a hoax. How do you refer to something as a hoax, when you have an email like this, with Donald Trump Jr. saying “I love it” when he finds out there’s information coming from the Russians? At this point, can’t reasonable people conclude that this meeting is enough to begin an investigation?
JAY SEKULOW: Well, here’s the problem with this. And I’ve said this before and I’d appreciate the opportunity to be very clear on this with you. How did this all start? And that’s important here. James Comey had a meeting with the president of the United States, where he took information about this private meeting with the president, put it on his government computer, went to his government office and decides, after he gets fired, to leak a conversation he had with the president of the United States to a friend of his to then leak it to a reporter. For what purpose? For the sole purpose of obtaining a special counsel which was appointed a few days later.
So the basis upon which this entire special counsel investigation is taking place is based on what? Illegally leaked information that was a conversation of the president of the United States with the, then-F.B.I. director. And that to me is problematic from the outset. And I think that raises very serious legal issues as to the scope and nature of what really can take place. And I go back to the other statement, Chuck, and that is, again, the meeting, in and of itself, of course, not an illegal act.