President mike pence will join joni ernst in the roast to ride in iowa. Plus, a live look at the white house. Trump supporters are getting ready to rally while steps away, protesters are gathering for a march for truth. They will be joined by protesters in new york. Live pictures there. Several other cities will lead the marches calling for a full investigation into the possible ties to russia. Were covering all this and a lot more with cnn producer dan merica and washington correspondent ryan nobles. Dan at the white house. Dan, the question if the president will assert executive privilege to prevent the former fbi director from testifying. What is the executive privilege and how can the president use it to stop the testimony . Reporter executive privilege is almost a nixon era rule that came about during the nixon watergate investigation to allow the president to keep his conversations private in the executive branch. There are some who say he waived executive privilege rights becaus
Anticipated hearing before congress in decades. His account could blow the entire russia investigation wide open. Of course, thats if President Trump decides doesnt try to comey first. Es heres what white house man is sean spicer today . Is the white house going to invoke executive privilege to prevent comey from testifying . That was just noticed and i think obviously its got to be reviewed. Clearly leaving their options open. Seems like it would be a very rare move. Only invoked one other time by richard nixon. This as more is learned about what comey may say. A source says comey was quote unquote disturbed by the meetings. Begin with our breaking News Coverage with michelle ka zen i can. Michelle, it would be a big deem. Right. And this is not the white house saying we welcome comeys testimony, have at it. Its them saying that executive privilege is something that will be looked at. Here we are days away from the world expecting to hear from the fired fbi director. What he plans to
Secretary mattis to join the australia ministerial confrontations. Secretary mattis will attend the sha shangri la dialogue in singapore where he will meet with counterparts to discuss security issues. With that ill be glad tieo taka few questions. Kevin. Thanks, sean. I want to ask about the push to the travel ban to the Supreme Court. Is it fair to say one of the reasons the president wants to keep this going is obviously we have a full court impanelled, and if you look back yesterday, it appeared his base was very pleased with what he decided to do. I would also like to ask about some followup on the xl pipeline. Can you give us some follow up in terms of jobs and development . I think what we said with respect to the executive order in question has been fairly consistent since its implementation and the first court action. Last night we asked the Supreme Court to hear this important case and are confident that the president s executive orders are well within the authority to keep t
Bluntly saying, cutting through it, actually, im running for president. Exploration whatever. She is running. And senator Kirsten Gillibrand is going to be here in just a moment. Ive never had her in studio before. Im really looking forward to having a chance to talk with her about her run. We do have a little bit of latebreaking legal news tonight. This time last night we had just gotten in this court filing from Robert Mueller from the special counsels Office Related to the criminal case against president Trumps Campaign chairman paul manafort. This obviously is a very long filing that was submitted to the court last night. It was very intimidating when it crossed the docket. In my mind, i planted several trees as penance when i printed it out so i could read it on paper. I was worried last night about having enough time to get through the substance of this gigantic filing, until i started actually going through it, and i realized a vast majority of whats in this filing looks like th
President obama is after all, an expresident with 65 in independents. This is democrats and republicans giving democrats advice, echoing president obama, who warned about this before the Campaign Even got going at a town hall in berlin earlier this year. One of the things i do worry about sometimes among progressives in the united states, maybe its true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ah, im sorry, this is how its going to be. And then we start sometimes creating whats called a circular firing squad. Where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues. Well, that sentiment is being echoed now. Cnn political commentator paul begala earlier today. This is my problem with the debate. I believe many of these candidates seeking to win the nomination are setting themselves up to lose the presidency to donald trump. Hes arguing in the effort to win the primaries, Democratic Candidates are moving so far left they wont be a