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