This is Jay Sekulow. He’s a lawyer for President Trump and a regular on TV news. “I’m not going to discuss what the president discussed with me about any event, in the context of attorney-client privilege.” His job? Supervising work on a raft of litigation facing the president and fervently defending him on TV. “And what you don’t have is a quid pro quo.” “And let me answer the question—” “Secondhand information—” “Hold it. Of course they were. Who are they trying to investigate? The president.” Sekulow has emerged as a strong asset to Trump, even though he has very little experience in white-collar criminal law or impeachment investigations, the type of allegations the president is facing. But Sekulow does bring Trump other key benefits: a telegenic TV presence and a bridge between two uneasy factions of the evangelical community. This is footage from an often-overlooked period of Sekulow’s trajectory: his years on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, run by televangelists Janice and Paul Crouch. Sekulow got his start on TV here, on a show called “Praise The Lord.” “And my feisty little mouthpiece is here tonight, Jay Sekulow. Hello, counselor.” Sekulow is a so-called “Jew for Jesus” and formerly served on the group’s general counsel. “So that was number one, reading the scriptures and then realizing that Jesus, Yeshua, came to the Jew first.” Sekulow not only appeared on the show, the Crouches also fundraised for him. On their TV show, the Crouches preached prosperity theology, or the belief that the stronger your faith in God, the richer you will be. “Don’t go to the Christian bookstore till you write me first, O.K, and send your telethon pledge in.” He would come on the show to give updates on various legal cases he was working on for the evangelical community. “Interestingly, on February 24 we’re going back to the U.S. Supreme Court on another case, again dealing with the censorship of religious expression.” These days, Sekulow doesn’t talk much about his time with the Crouches. Prosperity theology is generally rejected as heresy by mainstream evangelicals, an important constituency for Trump. Sekulow is also close to Pat Robertson, another prominent televangelist with strong ties to the Republican Party. Robertson hired Sekulow in 1990 as general counsel for his faith-based law firm, the nonprofit American Center for Law and Justice, which he founded as the conservative answer to the A.C.L.U. “Religious persecution is a situation where your life is literally put in jeopardy simply because of what you believe.” Sekulow also has become a regular on Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network. “First of all, there’s nothing in the Constitution, nothing in the Free Speech Clause, nothing in federal law that prohibits prayer.” “He’s being persecuted with facing the death penalty simply because he shared his faith.” “You said it exactly correct. We’re watching and witnessing an onslaught here.” Now he hosts his own shows on religion, law and politics. “Now I’m going to just talk to this as a constitutional matter, that is unconstitutional.” Sekulow’s time in the spotlight is only expected to grow as he leads Trump’s defense team, both in legal spaces and on the airwaves.