the trump white house. the trup white house in the past has said they want the story to get out. they want the investigation to be concluded, they want to move on. they ve already walled off questions about russia from the briefing room, referring everything to the president s outside legal counsel in new york and they are trying to shut it down. but they do have one more tool at their disposal, the possibility of using executive privilege which has to meet certain requirements. it s unclear the comey situation could rise to that level. there could be a way the white house could try to take a step to block comey s testimony and at least in this setting keep him 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 on 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