A lawyer for Donald Trump is trying to distance the president's legal team from acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
Mulvaney acknowledged at a White House press briefing Thursday that Trump's decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine was linked to his demand that Kyiv investigate the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
Later, Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow issued a one-sentence statement that said, "The President's legal counsel was not involved in acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's press briefing."
Mulvaney's comments raised questions at the Justice Department and brought swift rebuke from Democrats, who cast his words as an admission of wrongdoing. Mulvaney said Trump did nothing improper because he was asking for help investigating a prior election.