--- title: Seth Meyers on Alleged Donald Trump Investigation VIDEO description: Seth Meyers examined the Trump camp's contradictory statements on the alleged investigation of Trump for possibly obstructing justice. canonical: https://time.com/4825079/seth-meyers-on-trump-investigation/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-20T17:06:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:41.149Z og:title: Seth Meyers Tries to Untangle Trump's 'Bizarre Spectacle' og:description: "Things have gotten so bad that Trump’s lawyers have their own lawyers" og:url: https://time.com/4825079/seth-meyers-on-trump-investigation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers Tries to Untangle Trump's 'Bizarre Spectacle' twitter:description: "Things have gotten so bad that Trump’s lawyers have their own lawyers" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers Tries to Untangle the 'Bizarre Spectacle' of Trump's Twitter and Legal Team > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 20, 2017 5:06 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 20, 2017 5:06 PM UTC After [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4824806/trump-panama-canal-internet-reactions/) seemed to [acknowledge in a tweet](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/875701471999864833?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref%5Furl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Ftrump-confirms-hes-under-investigation-blames-rosenstein) that he is under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller for possibly obstructing justice, [Jay Sekulow](http://time.com/4822961/donald-trump-lawyer-russia-investigation-obstruction-of-justice/) — a member of Trump’s legal team — largely denied that during a round of appearances on Sunday news programs. Seth Meyers then chimed in with his take on the conflicting accounts, attempting to clear up some of the confusion surrounding the reported investigation. During the “A Closer Look” segment of Monday’s episode of _Late Night_, the host examined the Trump camp’s contradictory statements on the matter. “If an official White House statement is milk at a grocery store, Donald Trump’s Twitter feed is the actual udder,” he said. “And yet a member of Trump’s legal team, Jay Sekulow, made the rounds on the Sunday shows and tried to act \[as\] if the President had not said what he said, resulting in the bizarre spectacle of news anchors trying to square Sekulow’s claim that the president is not under investigation with Trump’s own tweet that he is under investigation.” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4825079/seth-meyers-on-trump-investigation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4825079/seth-meyers-on-trump-investigation/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Tries to Untangle the 'Bizarre Spectacle' of Trump's Twitter and Legal Team","datePublished":"2017-06-20T17:06:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:41.149Z","description":"\"Things have gotten so bad that Trump’s lawyers have their own lawyers now\"","url":"https://time.com/4825079/seth-meyers-on-trump-investigation/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4825079/seth-meyers-on-trump-investigation/","name":"Seth Meyers Tries to Untangle the 'Bizarre Spectacle' of Trump's Twitter and Legal Team"}}]}] ```