According to a new report in the New York Times, this seems more and more unlikely. Two senior officials telling the paper, President Trump plans to let the testimony go on. Meaning in less than a week, we could know all the details surrounding comeys dramatic firing. Cnn White House Correspondent athena jones is outside the white house this afternoon. Athena, what are the risks that the president chooses to use executive privilege . Reporter theres a political risk, of course, that if the president tries to invoke executive privilege to block comey from testifying, it might look bad. It sends a message that the white house had something to hide about these conversations. The other risk, of course, is that he could try to invoke executive privilege, and fail at it. Legal experts have been debating whether he be likely to be successful because the president himself has already talked about and tweeted about some of his conversations with the former fbi director. Remember, on twitter, he
maher used an offensive racial slur on-air. listen. i ve got to get to nebraska more. you re welcome. we d love to have you work in the fields with us. working the fields? senator, i m a it s a joke. transparency, cnn and hbo share the same company, time warner. i want to bring in new york times editor patrik healy, and bakari sellers. bakari, first i want to get your reaction as an african-american man hearing that exchange. well, it was a vial, despicable joke, shame on bill maher. shame on senator sass for laughing and cackling. and shame on the audience. listen, this is a lot more than a comedian going out of his way to try to be funny and falling flat on his face. the term house is one that brings up images of black bodies