Article snippet: President Trump’s legal team, said it’s an open question whether the president has the authority to pardon himself. Sekulow was responding to a question from ABC News Chief Anchor the Supreme Court. But Sekulow emphasized that the president's legal team is not looking into the question of pardons. "We're not researching the issue because the issue of pardons is not on the table. There's nothing to pardon from,” Sekulow said. “We’re not researching it; I haven’t researched it because it’s not an issue we're concerned with or dealing with.” Trump himself, however, brought up the issue of pardons in a tweet Saturday asserting that the president has "complete power to pardon." In a later interview on “This Week,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warned that if President Trump were to pardon himself or to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, “I think it would cause a cataclysm in Washington.” “I cannot imagine our Republican colleagues, including [House Speaker Paul] Ryan and [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, just standing by if he were to do either of those things,” the Senate minority leader said In the Sekulow interview, Stephanopoulos pressed the lawyer about another of Trump’s tweets Saturday that asked why Attorney General Sessions and Mueller aren’t looking into what the president called "crimes" by former FBI Director James Comey and Democrat Hillary Clinton. "[What] Comey crimes does the president believe the Justice Department or M... Link to the full article to read more