message out there and have people hear directly from him what he thinks and other times i think what he s done hasn t been, you know, in his best interest. reporter: today the white house slugged aside concerns about trump s twitter-happy tendencies. the same people who are critiquing his use of it now, critique it had during the election and it turned out pretty well for him then. reporter: now as the president tries to move forward with his legislative agenda he ll be having dinner tonight with some members of congress. those members include senators tom cotton and marco rubio. senators who will be questioning james comey on thursday. back to you, wolf. sara, thanks very much. as the russia investigations pick up steam the fired fbi director james comby is getting ready for the senate testimony. let s go to our congressional correspondent phil mattingly. new information on what comey and comey won t say. this information comes from our colleague jake tapper who according to
invoke executive privilege? the hearing was just committed so it obviously has to be reviewed. reporter: we re standing by for that decision, but on the point of what the president believes about climate change, it s been remarkable to see white house officials repeatedly unable to answer what seems an important question. white house counsellor kellyanne conway even ended her exchange by telling the president he should ask the president directly what he thinks about climate change. the problem is that president trump hasn t had a solo press conference since february so there haven t been a lot of opportunities to pose any questions to him. jake? athena jones at the white house for us, thanks so much. how much might comey reveal when he testifies publicly on thursday? after all much of the investigate is classified. cnn s jessica schneider joins me now. jessica, do we have any sense what comby is likely to say about his interactions with president trump? we no from your our sour
and stop [applause] unbelievable. and stop all payments of the united states tax dollars to un global warming programs. report report president is known to weigh all the options and he is being lobbied by sides on both sides of issue. a lot of people go both ways. jon: russia investigation on capitol hill is picking up speed as we learn former fbi director comby will appear before the committee a week from today june eighth. reporter: the house panel is ramping up the russia investigation after getting off to a slow start. issuing now subpoenas and revealing partisan differences as the search for answers infence fies. jon: we have fox team coverage. james has the latest on the russia investigation. but we begin with kevin at the
gives discipline to the process. there is a lot of moving parts. that was not an easy trip to go on. it worked out quite well. there was discipline while they were out of the country. where the discipline is lacking is inside the white house when they got back to washington, d.c. i do think the leaks are a big problem. leaking to the press is happening because of a lack of discipline and respect inside the building. you don t want leaks out of the white house. it s the chief of staff s job to make sure it doesn t happen. that are voice that the president needs to close the door and say let me help set you straight. many people said that s why jared and ivanka were there. they were the moderators and had his ear. to the best of my knowledge, those two are the ones who knew he was firing james comby in such a fashion and james comey himself learned it watching it on television. jared is embroiled in this.
stone both cooperated with document requests. how significant is that? it means that the senate intelligence committee is moving forward and functioning and cooperating well on a bipartisan basis and issuing subpoenas and getting documents and testimony back in response to that s questions. to that question. it means that they have moved to the phase of reviewing documentary evidence to where they are going out and securing documentary evidence, and i think that s encouraging because it means they are making real progress. what are you thoepg hear from former fbi director james comby in his public testimony after memorial day? well, wolf, that s going to be really critical testimony. i m looking forward to hearing from the former fbi director why he believes he was fired and hearing his testimony directly about the meeting he allegedly had in the oval office with the president, where president trump tried to press him both to pledge personal loyalty and to abandon the on going