deliver a message to sessions. i m respecting the executive branch privilege of confidentiality and i will recognize at this time let me just say that you knew, you know the president was putting you at risk when he asked you to deliver a message to the attorney general. i want to be very clear. the president knew what he was doing was wrong because everyone else has said no he called his white house council to fire the special counsel, mcgahn said no. he called the attorney general to ask him to unrecuse himself from the special counsel s investigation. sessions said no his white house counsel said there should be no contact with session because of his recusal so what does the president do? calls you in to do what everyone else wouldn t do he called you in to do his dirty work in secret because he knew it was wrong well, we will expose the truth the president cannot hide behind you any longer and you should be here to be telling the truth time is expired the truth will set you
comey is set to go public thursday. about the russia investigation. but the white house is not ruling out a move that could block comey from testifying on capitol hill. by claiming an executive branch privilege that protects the privacy of a president s conversations with senior officials. in a new letter, democratic lawmakers warned the white house. any assertion of privilege by the president would be seen as an effort to obstruct the truth. that preemptive strike came after white house officials, including sean spicer said legal options are on the table. i think obviously it has to be reviewed. so that s not a no? i have not spoken to counsel yet. i don t know how they respond. reporter: getting answers proved difficult on another issue. thank you very much, everybody. this is slightly less controversial than yesterday. reporter: after trump broke
it s possible that the president could try to use what s known as executive authority, that is intended to keep some of the deliberations inside the white house protected. it s unclear right now you if the president will do that. it s a long shot. it s a challenge. but he does have a certain amount of power that could cope comey quiet. president trump and james comey, the fbi director he fired, could be headed for a new power struggle this week. comey is set to go public thursday, about the russia investigation. but the white house is not ruling out a move that could block comey from testifying on capitol hill. by claiming an executive branch privilege that protects the privacy of a president s conversations with senior officials. in a new letter, democratic lawmakers warn the white house any assertion of privilege by the president would be seen as an effort to obstruct the truth. that preemptive strike came after white house officials,
these, trick of new information that keeps coming say at the end of the day they don t believe there s going to be any accountability any way, so why waste the time? why waste the time is because when the law isn t being followed those of us on the judiciary committee have the responsibility to raise the issues that the law has been violated. we have oversight over the fbi. we expect the fbi to do their job. and if laws have been violated don t you expect prosecution? of course you do. that s an executive branch privilege but we would expect that to be carried out. and we would expect to set an example. so like things in the future don t happen. and it ought to be in fact the laws have been violated in the sense that private e-mail is being used for top secret information. and this is just a real threat to our national security and we in congress continue let that go
claiming an executive branch privilege that protects the privacy of a president s conversations with senior officials. in a new letter, democratic lawmakers warn the white house, any assertion of privilege by the president would be seen as an effort to obstruct the truth. that preemptive strike came after white house officials including press secretary sean spicer said legal options are on the table. i think obviously it s got to be reviewed. that s not a no? i have not spoken to counsel yet. i don t know what they re how they re going to respond. reporter: getting answers proved difficult on another issue. thank you very much, everybody. this is slightly less controversial than yesterday. reporter: after president trump broke with nation ars round the world over climate change. temperatures rose in the briefing room. epa administrator scott pruitt and the press secretary deflected all questions, and the president s own view on climate change after candidate trump