CORRESPONDENT JOHN ROBERTS
REPORTING LIVE FROM THE NORTH
LAWN.
JOHN?
>> THERE WERE REPORTS LAST WEEK
THAT JOEL GABBY WOULD BE JOINING
THE PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM TO
HEAD UP THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY
WE HAVE LEARNED THAT TREY GOWDY
IS NOT GOING TO JOIN THE
PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM IN THE
IMMEDIATE FUTURE BUT STILL
HOLDING THAT OUT FOR POSSIBLY
SOME MONTHS DOWN THE ROAD.
FOX NEWS HAS BEEN TOLD ACCORDING
TO SOURCES THAT TEN DAYS AGO
GAUDI WAS INVITED TO JOIN
WHITE HOUSE STAFF TO BE THE
POINT PERSON ON IMPEACHMENT BUT
TURNED DOWN THAT OFFER FOR
FAMILY REASONS.
GAUDI HAD LUNCH WITH THE
PRESIDENT LAST TUESDAY IN THE
OFFER WAS THEN MADE FOR HIM TO
JOIN OUTSIDE COUNSEL WHICH HE
COULD HAVE DONE EXCEPT HIS JOB
WOULD HAVE BEEN TO INFLUENCE THE
DECISION-MAKING SESSION IN IN AD
CONGRESSIONAL RULES PROHIBITING
FORMER MEMBERS FROM TAKING ON
JOBS LIKE THAT FOR A YEAR AFTER
THEY LEAVE.
SO THE PRESIDENT TOLD -- OR
GAUDI TOLD THE PRESIDENT'S TEAM
THAT OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF
CAUTION HE COULD NOT TAKE THE
JOB UNTIL JANUARY THE FOURTH.
AT THE MOMENT HE IS STILL SLATED
TO JOIN THE PRESIDENT'S TEAM.
HOWEVER A LOT COULD HAPPEN TRACE
AS YOU KNOLL BETWEEN NOW AND
THEN.
>> AN ETERNITY IN POLITICS.
THERE'S BEEN SOME CRITICISM OVER
A PARODY VIDEO THIS WEEKEND.
>> IT WAS A VIDEO THAT WAS
DOCTORED.
IT TAKES A SCENE FROM THE MOVIE
CALLED "KING'S MEN," THE
SECRET SERVICE THAT STARS COLIN
FIRTH.
THERE IS A SCENE IN THE CHURCH
WHERE HE STARTS SHOOTING PEOPLE.
WHILE THE PEOPLE WHO DOCTORED
THE VIDEO SUPERIMPOSE THE
PRESIDENT'S FACE ON THE
CHARACTER OF COLIN FIRTH AND
OVER THE PEOPLE THEY SUPERIMPOSE
THE LOGOS OF MANY NEWS
ORGANIZATIONS AND ALSO THE FACES
OF MANY OF THE PRESIDENT'S
POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
THE VIDEO WAS SHOWN AT A
CONFERENCE HELD BY THE PRO-TRUMP
GROUP AMERICAN PRIORITY AT HIS
DORAL PROPERTY OVER THE WEEKEND.
IN A TWEET THE PRESS SECRETARY
STEPHANIE GRISHAM DENOUNCED THE
VIDEOS SAYING "THE VIDEO PLAYED
OVER THE WEEKEND OF THE
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS NOT
YET SEEN BUT WILL SEE IT
SHORTLY.
BASED ON EVERYTHING HE HAS HEARD
IT, HE STRONGLY CONDEMNS THIS
VIDEO.
THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS
ASSOCIATION ALSO CONDEMNS THE
VIDEO.
JONATHAN KARL SAYS, WE HAVE
PREVIOUSLY TOLD THE PRESIDENT
THAT HAS RHETORIC COULD INCITE
VIOLENCE.
AND THEY DENOUNCED THIS VIDEO
AND AFFIRM THAT VIOLENCE HAS NO
PLACE IN OUR SOCIETY.
THAT VIDEO WAS PRODUCED BY A
GROUP CALLED THE GEEKS TEAM, A
WEBSITE MEAN WORLD TO WHICH THE
WEBSITE CONTRIBUTES SAID THE
VIDEO IS CLEARLY SATIRICAL AND
NO REASONABLE PERSON WOULD
BELIEVE THAT THIS VIDEO WAS A
CALL TO ACTION OR AN ENDORSEMENT
OF VIOLENCE TOWARD THE MEDIA.
THE OWNER WAS BRIEFLY SUSPENDED
FROM TWITTER BUT IT'S NOW BACK
UP.
IN A STATEMENT OF PRIORITY, THE
VIDEO WAS NOT SANCTIONED BY THE
CONFERENCE IN THE FIRST TIME
THEY BECAME AWARE OF IT WAS WHEN
THEY WERE CONTACTED BY
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" WHICH FIRST
REPORTED ON THIS.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" WHICH THEY
POINT OUT WOULD NOT REPORT ON A
ANTIVIOLENCE PANEL THAT WAS HELD
AT THE CONFERENCE.
AMERICAN PRIORITY SAYING IN A
STATEMENT, WE FIND IT SHOCKING
THAT "THE NEW YORK TIMES" WOULD
NOT REPORT ON ANY OF THE
SANCTIONED EVENTS IN THE ARTICLE
INCLUDING OUR PANELED
CONVERSATION LITERALLY
CONDEMNING POLITICAL VIOLENCE
WHILE CLAIMING TO BE UPSET OVER
A MEME THAT WAS NOT SANCTIONED
OR SHOWN ON STAGE OR APPROVED.
THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THAT A
DOCTOR VIDEO HAS FEATURED THE
PRESIDENT, THAT WAS THE OTHER
ONE FROM A WORLD WRESTLING VIDEO