Article snippet: MORE's allies and legal experts faced new questions on Sunday about the legal ramifications of the revelation that the president dictated a letter about a 2016 meeting between his campaign aides and a Russian lawyer, even as his lawyers argue he can't obstruct justice in the special counsel's probe. "Jay Sekulow said time and time again directly into the faces of the American people on television — Sarah [Huckabee] Sanders did the same thing, and said in no uncertain terms ... they said the president had nothing to do with that statement by reported Saturday that Trump’s lawyers wrote to special counsel MORE in January arguing that the president cannot commit obstruction of justice in the special counsel’s probe because of his constitutional authority over the investigation. The letter also confirms that Trump dictated a statement to The New York Times about the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., other Trump campaign aides and a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on MORE. Sekulow, one of Trump's attorneys who wrote the letter to Mueller, previously denied that the president had any involvement with the statement. Sanders, the White House press secretary, said last August that Trump may have given suggestions on the statement "as any father would," but denied that he dictated it. The meeting, and any coordinated cover-up, has been one point of focus in Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. T... Link to the full article to read more