Heather james comey is set to testify in the russia investigation and his claim of the president asked him to back off. Jon lets get the latest from john roberts who is live on the north line. Good morning to you. James comey is expected to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee as soon as next week. We are told that he has been running by his testimony with the special prosecutor to ensure there is no conflict between what comey might say and congress under oath before Senate Intelligence committee and the investigation that Robert Mueller is conducting. On the house side of things, things are starting to move quickly. The fbi, the cia, and the nsa requested documents on susan rice, the former National Security advisor and the obama white house, john brennan, and Samantha Power who was the ambassador to the United Nations under president obama. Power has never been mentioned until now in connection with the investigation, but intelligence chairman devon nunez believes she ha
Viewers here to United States and around the world. Thanks for joining us. This is cnn necnn newsroom. U. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions has offered to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee tuesday. Sessions is skipping a different hearing on the justice departments budget, he said that he offered to resign over tensions with the president , donald trump about his decision to recuse himself. Sessions appearance havent been worked out just yet. Hi, there, its going to be up to the Senate Intelligence committee to decide whether to allow to testify on tuesday and whether to have that session be open to the public or closed to the public, according to reporting by my colleague, this request by sessions to testify caught the committee by surprise. Thats why we havent gotten immediate definitive answers about their plan. We also know from the reporting that there are some on the committee who are concerned that sessions may be trying to avoid testifying publicly. Among those c