President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE's personal attorney, Jay Sekulow Jay Alan SekulowNow, we need the election monitors Judge denies Trump's request for a stay on subpoena for tax records Judge throws out Trump effort to block subpoena for tax returns MORE, says there is still no reason to believe that Trump is under investigation despite the revelation that special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE has impaneled a grand jury as part of his probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

"The impaneling of a grand jury in situations like this, when you got an investigation, is typically how they move forward. It is really very much a standard operating procedure when you got a situation like this," Sekulow said on Fox News Thursday night.

"But with respect to the impaneling of the grand jury, we have no reason to believe that the president's under investigation here," he added.

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Mueller, a former FBI director who took over the Russia probe in May, reportedly began using a grand jury in a federal court in Washington several weeks ago. That development signals that Mueller's investigation is growing in intensity, rather than winding down.

In federal court, grand juries are typically used to compel witnesses to testify or to issue subpoenas for documents. They are not necessarily an indicator of a coming indictment.

Sekulow has insisted in the past that, while some in Trump's orbit have come under scrutiny by investigators, the president himself is not actually being probed.