Explicitly saying it intends to do that, but according to the New York Times its becoming highly unlikely. Two Senior Administration officials telling the paper will president will let comey speak. Lets talk more about what comey will testify about this thursday. First, kimberly dosher, and Business Reporter for the wall street journal, shelby holiday. So, shelby, comeys testimony is now compared to anita hill back in 1991 when she went on and testified about sexually being harassed by Clarence Thomas who was at the time being confirmed by the u. S. Supreme court. Is this so built up, that people will be let down . The hype is certainly there. Obviously were talking about different issues, different people. All eyes are on comey this week. People are curious whether or not he will be able to testify in the first place. The white house does seem at this point that it thinks its too politically risky to invoke executive privilege to prevent comey from going under testifying. We will see him up there, i believe. But there are so many questions. And theyre very nuanced tiny questions that would tell us a lot. For example, did President Trump invite comey to dinner or did comey invited President Trump to dinner . President trump said one thing, comey may say another thing. President trumps been very vocal about his relationship with comey. Hes spoken to lester holt about it, tweets about it. He puts it all out there. Whatever comey says that contradicts President Trump will raise even more questions about this russia probe. And create further investigation. Kimberly, all of this keeps going back to russia. Counterterrorism expert Richard Clark was on cnn earlier today. Clark served under president bush. He talked about this. Lets listen. If this isnt ignorance, and it doesnt look like just ignorance, why are they doing it . Why is there a russian under every rock . Why is there a russian involved in everything this administration has done and everything involved in the campaign . So it does seem that every move this administration makes either involves or benefits russia. Well, ill add another why. Why dont they explain some of these relationships and be more transparent about it. Because their refusal to explain, for instance, Jared Kushners refusal to explain what he was discussing before the press, not just through a statement, but tell the press, what were you discussing with a russian banker . That just fuels everyone who is suspicious of this administration, and those investigating, was there any collusion between members of the Trump Transition Team, or the Trump Campaign team, and russia. It could be a simple matter of, you know, the trump team was coming from behind. There werent many Major Political leaders willing to talk to them. They had preexisting relationships with russians. Russians want to be onboard in such an influential election. And defying his own expectations. Could it be as simple as loyalty stemming back from that, and wanting to thumb their nose at the Obama Administration by restarting relations with russia . Maybe. But theyre not explaining that. So shelby, the thing is, though, he cant talk about the investigation into the russia election meddling, because, again, hes not part of the fbi. And that part of the investigation is in the purview of robert mueller, the special counsel. Right. The fbi continues to investigate. We also have the Senate Committee investigations ongoing. But he can talk about these private meetings with President Trump. Do you think hell have the memos that we heard so much about . This is the first time well hear about comey as a private citizen. He could have those memos. Hes likely to be asked a number of questions about whether or not these meetings were uncomfortable, whether or not trump asked for a pledge of loyalty. I think we should also note that comey testifying just in and of itself will get under President Trumps skin. When he fired him, he said comey is a showboat, and comey has been running his mouth and speaking on the hill. That will be interesting to see how the president reacts. So far he hasnt tweeted much about the russia probe. Im not sure if that has to do with the special outside group thats being put together to handle inquiries into the russia investigation . Or a communications now this week, on a couple of locations during the press briefings, say all questions are going to be directed to the president s private lawyer, not the white house counsel. We are seeing indications that they are at least streamlining communications. When it comes to this investigation, you never know, trump may fire off a tweet. He tweeted all through comeys testimony in march when the campaign was under investigation for collusion, potentially. Kimberly, at the end of the day, though, even if the sanctions stay in place with russia, is putin still getting this democratic disruption he may have wanted . Well, absolutely, this has not only worked well, but possibly went a little too far if moscow was trying to undermine the Democratic Political system here, and stir up suspicion between the political parties. At its best, in terms of what moscow wanted, youve got republicans and democrats in such a heightened partisan state, that it is impossible to see them accomplishing much on capitol hill. Its frozen the u. S. Government in some terms because of all this controversy. But at worst, moscow is not getting the benefits that it might have gotten out of the Trump Administration in terms of seeing those sanctions lifted and seeing some sort of a warming of diplomatic relations and cooperation on things like the syrian war. Kimberly and shelby, thank you both. Be sure to watch our special coverage of former fbi director james comeys testimony. It will be live thursday at 9 00 a. M. Right here on cnn. You can also stream it online. Now, Vladimir Putin has been very vocal this week into russian meddling into the 2016 president ial election. The russian president said people who blame russia for the election hacks are like antisemits. Take a listen. Translator he found an approach to electorate who bought it for him. The other team decided not to meet their errors, their mistakes. They decided not to admit that they did not think all the way through. They decided to say its not our fault, its the russians fault. It smells like antisemitism, to blame jews of everything. Meanwhile, President Trumps top adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner is under fire for his private meeting with a russian banker during the trump transition. Matthew chance tracked down that banker and questioned sergei in st. Petersburg. Matthew . Reporter sergei has emerged as a key figure in the sprawling allegations surrounding the Trump Administration and its connections with the kremlin. He heads an institution of a Bank Sanctioned by the United States. He was appointed to that post by Vladimir Putin, and like the russian president , hes a former russian intelligence officer. Its with this man that Jared Kushner, President Trumps special adviser and son i law had a private if not secret meeting in trump tower last december in new york. The white house says the meeting was about diplomacy, that kushner attended in his capacity as a Trump Transition Team member. The bank, however, insists the talks were about business and that kushner represented his familys sprawling property empire. Sergei is a very hard man to track down. But i caught up with him after he had spoken to economic students here at the university here in the russian city of st. Petersburg. Quick question, what did you really speak to Jared Kushner about in new york when you met him in december . No comment. Did you talk about sanctions . No comments. What was discussed . The white house said it was a diplomatic meeting, that kushner met you as part of the transition team. Your bank said it was a business meeting. Thank you so much. Reporter clearly he was not at all happy about being confronted on the issue of his contact with the trump team. We did offer his office the opportunity to answer our questions more fully, given the controversy in the United States. But the response was a firm no. Matthew chance, cnn, st. Petersburg, in russia. 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You know, why shouldnt the american citizen be first in the eyes of the american government. Barack obama carried the state in 2012. Just four years later, donald trump won iowa by nearly ten points. Many voters here embraced his Campaign Promise that he would stand up to the rest of the world. Why should we want to at the very least treat ourselves fairly first. I think that was the message of Donald Trumps campaign. For Small Business owners, like theresa cadre setting up a market in west des moines, the local economy feels strong. She voted for donald trump. And believes he has her best interests in mind. I think he can do it. Im going to be fair about it. But i also think that hes trying, but the way he knows how. You know, i think hes just got a different way of going about it. A way that may sometimes make her feel uncomfortable. It might appear coming off strong or whatever, but this is what hes really trying to do, and it makes sense. Instead of taking everything he says literally. Which you should be careful on that. But to the Trump Supporters here, it is still a better way. I think every day that he wakes up and gets, you know, taken on by the Rachel Maddows of the world and Kathy Griffins of the world, he becomes more popular with that group. One of the main reasons donald trump sticks close to those issues and the main message that initially got him elected. And we will make America Great again. I want to bring in ryan. That was not the right sound we were initially thinking we were talking to. But ryan, we wanted to include well come to you next and your great piece there from iowa. Youve been speaking to all the folks there, reacting to what weve heard in the last few days. Give us your sense of how things are going for the administration in that state, where the president and the Vice President won by about ten points in the election. Reporter yeah, you know, ana, its not a big surprise that donald trump escapes washington from time to time. And his advisers said often he feeds off the momentum that he receives from these crowds in states like iowa and pennsylvania and michigan. States that were once in the hands of democrats, and then went for republicans the last time around. I have to tell you, ben and i went out for about 48 hours, we talked to a lot of voters, republicans and democrats, and theres no doubt that republicans are sticking close to this president. They like his approach. They feel that they feel like his attitude of putting America First is exactly what they wanted to hear. Thats the reason they voted for him. In boone, iowa, we heard from the Vice President and he really doubled down on that. He described the administration as being very successful up until this point. And this crowd fed off it. They cheered loud for many of those points, including every time Donald Trumps name was mentioned. We should point out, though, ana, one thing that never came up today was russia, and we didnt hear the name james comey, and we didnt hear anything about the controversies facing this white house which are real and substantive. But at this point here, on the ground in iowa, trump still retains a lot of that support from republicans. Thank you, ryan, reporting from iowa for us. Now, Climate Change alone hasnt really ever been a top issue on the ballot. Could sticking to his nationalist and pop list agenda be a political win for President Trump . We have a breakdown of the poll numbers at the magic wall. John . Visitors to the Oval Office Say the president gives them his version, a paper version of a map like this. When he makes big decisions, especially about economic issues, he looks at this map. Particularly the president looks at this. The former blue states he turned red in last years elections. The Climate Change decision he made actually is risky for the president politically. If you look at the data, its not what the American People want. 90 of democrats as you see think Climate Change is real. The majority of republicans think Climate Change is real. 54 there. What about the specifics . Should we stay or should we go when it comes to the paris Climate Change deal . Millennials, generation x, younger voters, they their support is higher. Why would the president get out . Analysts look at it from a more political perspective. 86 of democrats say stay in the paris accords. But 51 of republicans say stay in. Almost half of the president s voters, 47 of trump voters say stay in the paris Climate Change accord. The president was not doing this because his base was overwhelmingly demanding, hey, get out based on Climate Change. The president looks at this map, remembers the last election, and thinks, on eve