In one week from today, james comey will speak publicly for the very First Time Since the president fired him as fbi director last month. The Senate Intelligence committee announced today that comey is scheduled to testify on thursday, june 8th, beginning at 10 00 a. M. In both open and closed sessions after getting the goahead from special counsel robert mueller. Mueller, of course, was appointed to take over the russia investigation following comeys firing. The question now is whether the president may invoke executive privilege to try and block comey from even getting before the committee. The former fbi director is expected to discuss his conversations with the president in which he says the president demanded his loyalty and asked him to halt the investigation into Michael Flynn, the ousted National Security adviser. Courts have upheld a president s right to keep his communications private, but its not clear how that principle would apply to a president who frequently makes Public
To our lex con, texadus. I am chuck todd here in new york city. In britain it was parliament that said enough. In hong kong it was the people. And now were left wondering if those are omens for the Trump Presidency or not. 21 conservatives went rogue on their leader yesterday, Boris Johnson, over his attempts to sideline parliament on brexit. Today parliament defied him in a vote to delay brexit. These conservative leaders risked their careers to defy their leader and set in motion a process that could remove Boris Johnson from power. Thats quite the contrast of how the conservative members of congress here have been unwilling to buck mr. Trump. Many of them if they want to buck him, they retire. See the texadus story. But Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell wont even move on gun measures without things being blessed by trump first. Another gop retirement reminds us in many cases republicans would rather leave than fight this president. Thats seemingly how republicans revolt against
Do you think its possible the attorney general stops mueller from testifying . As long as mueller is an employee of the department of justice like he is now, he could have some say in that. But from all reports, at least the last reports is that mueller is on his way out and no employee, then he certainly has no influence of power over him then. He might try persuade him to not testify. Mueller but given the fact hes been trashed by the president and the attorney general, needs to stand up and explain what hes done and why hes done it for his own reputations sake. How do you feel about this . Because you feel like hes going to be gone soon. Its been a long time and who would have thought im not going to say how many years ago that we would both be sitting and analyzing another what people think is another water gate. I think that bob mueller is going to play it by the book. And i think he will resign soon. And i think he will still hell disappoint us if he testifies. Because prosecutor
Means committee his next move could include issuing a subpoena. Meanwhile, theyve set a vote wednesday on whether to hold william barr in contempt. Justice Department Officials are waiting tomorrow to see if they can reach deal. And the white house trying to back track from the president s weekend tweet that Robert Mueller should not testify before congress. The president was just expressing his opinion because the investigation is over and it is time to move on. Lots to discuss. Gentleman, good evening. So good to see all of you. President has been all over the place when it comes to mueller testifying. Is he worried his claim of can exoneration is going to go up in flames . I think he knows his claim of exoneration is going to go up in flames if mueller or when mueller testifies. Thats exactly whats going to happen. This effort to put out a boguses story and spin this is only going to last so long when mueller gets out there and i think his testimony is going to be pow oerful. You kn