Committee. What does the president believe on Climate Change. President trump hasnt made it clear where he stands on Climate Change. This is one of the most cynical and frankly most ignorant, dangerous selfdestructive steps ive seen in my entire lifetime. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to you and welcome to saturday. Were so grateful to have your company as always. Im christi paul. Im Victor Blackwell. The countdown to thursday is on. Former fbi director james comey set to testify publicly inarguably the most anticipated event since election night. Hes expected to reveal details of his conversations with President Trump which could be a game changer in the russian probe that is if the president doesnt prevent this testimony. Asserting executive privilege which gives him the right to withhold private white house deliberation and records from congress. Sean spicer says the president still has faith in his soninlaw dessfiet differing accounts on why Jared Kushner secretly met with a head of a russian stateowned bank. Russian president Vladimir Putin sending shockwaves with this claim, maybe patriotic Russian Hackers hit the u. S. Election. First, though, Phil Mattingly explains what executive privilege is and how President Trump could use it to stop james comey from testifying. Reporter theres no question about it the big event, maybe the biggest event anybody has seen in washington in a very long time happens on thursday. Fbi director koem testifying in front of the cincinnati Intelligence Committee. But will the white house invoke executive privilege, will the president block the former fbi director from testifying. Theres some issues here if you want to go through it. The question might not be whether hell do it but whether he could even if he wanted to. James comey is no longer a Government Employee which limits what the white house can do. On top of that the president mentioned in tweets and in a letter conversations he had with james comey, therefore seeming to limit the executive privilege that he may be able to invoke. The reality here is if the white house were going to move forward and do this they would need to go to a federal court and try to bar james comey from testifying. Whether thats actually possible, legal experts ive spoken to over the last couple of hours dont believe thats actually going to be possible and its interesting to note House Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on friday night sent a late letter to the white House Counsel noting all of these things and saying essentially on the legal arguments, on the merits itself this effort should it occur would fail. More importantly is the appearance of this, the political ramifications of this. It would look like the president was trying to obstruct this testimony. Democrats have no power over that panel. They cant do anything to stop anything the president wants to do. It was a warning. Where does the white house stand . They havent weighed in. They are reviewing their options. Theres a hearing in the same executive committee the day before the James Comey Hearing that may just be as interesting. Who is testifying, rod rosenstein, the acting fbi director, the director of national intelligence, the director of nsa. All of these individuals have had very direct roles in this russia investigation and in the white houses role in this investigation up to this point. Its a fair bet that none of these individuals are going to weigh in. They will aldo exactly what the Deputy Attorney general did behind closed doors on capitol hill a couple of weeks ago, defer everything to the special counsel, but these are the same senators questioning james comey 24 hours later. How they set themselves up, how they lay the ground work for that big main event hearing coming the next day will be a good effort to read the tea leaves where things are going. How koem will be received and what questions he might be asked. All of these things will be worth watching and everybody regardless of party, political affiliation or whatever you do for a living will probably be paying close attention to the cincinnati Intelligence Committee next week. Lets bring in erol lewis and sara westwood. The case for, the case against. Lets listen first to democratic senator. Dangerous precedent that the president s conversations, private conversations with be revealed. It will be a he said he said type of thing. Its one side of the story. I dont think that helps the process move forward. So in that case the president can, i think and would rightfully exert executive privilege. I dont think he will because simply more cover up and more obstruction and i dont think he has the strong Legal Foundation to succeed. This doesnt fall so neatly along party lines but whats the likelihood that well see this assertion of executive privilege . It could go either way. You can flip a coin on it. Legally speaking i dont think he has much of a chance of success. There are a couple of things i would add to what Phil Mattingly reported. Theres no executive privilege for illegal conduct or conversations in furtherance of illegal conduct. The executive privilege is not absolute. We also found from the 1974 case that if theres evidence thats needed for a pending criminal investigation, the executive privilege has to yield to that need and to the extent that bob mueller or anybody else is looking for information, you know, you dont get to just hide it just because you want to. Then finally look he went on National Television and talked about his conversations with james comey. So you throw away a lot of the privilege if you talk about it on National Television. If, however, the white house does attempt this, it would be, i imagine, purely a stalling tactic and certainly focus a lot of attention on the question of what exactly is it that they are trying to hide. The question of the role of backlash here, sara, there was backlash after the president initially fired james comey, there was backlash after the travel ban, theres been backlash before. To what degree is that really a dominant factor in this decision . Well, the white houses argument has been this is a witchhunt, this is politically motivated event. It has nothing to hide. If they were to exert executive privilege or this conversation with james comey sara, were having difficulty with your microphone. Hopefully we can get that fixed. Erol, let me come back to you and this issue of the tweets not just the tweets but the interview during which he discussed firing james comey and that he invoked the russia investigation. Without those elements would there be a clear case here . Well, it would be much clearer if the president had consistently said, if he said from the first time any questions about james comey came up i dont want to talk about it. I am the president. When i speak with my fbi director what i talk about is between us and nobody else. He didnt do any of this stuff. This is why lawyers tell their clients to be quiet and the expression is out there that you cant hook a fish until he opens his mouth. So there are some hooks that are out there dangling, some investigatory bodies. And the president has been unable to stop himself from talking about it. Sara, finish your point. You know, just would look very bad for this white house obviously to try to exert executive privilege over this comey testimony with these other edmonton, leaks, controversies that have popped up over the past month. The White House Communications team has been taken by surprise and they have been able to hide behind the fact that these were sprung on them. Now that they have more than a week to prepare for the comey testimony the communication shop should be able to line up the surrogates needed, the oped, the traditional lines of defense you would expect from a Communications Team at this level and they have more of a buffer between this controversy and the criticism that has been lodged at them in the past few weeks. They may not want to exert executive privilege over this controversy because they have so much time to prepare, it might not be as much of a disaster for them. Thats the question about the preparation that this administration has taken over the last several months and in several of these. I mentioned the travel ban, firing of james comey. Seems several different points that maybe they arent as prepared as they would have liked to have been. Sara westwood, erol lewis, thank you so much. Thank you. Watch our special coverage of former fbi director james comeys testimony live thursday, 9 00 a. M. Right near on cnn. Up next the chair of the House Intel Committee promised to stay out of the Russian Investigation after a secret trip to the white house landed him under scrutiny. Why is he sending out subpoenas. Former secretary of state john kerry blasting President Trump. Hear why he says the president doesnt know what hes doing. President trump said hes withdrawing the paris accord deal to help the coal mining industry. But there are some workers in that industry who dont agree with that decision. I wish he hadnt. 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New drama surrounding the chair of the house Intelligence Committee and investigation into russian meddling. Devon nunez recused himself when he came under scrutiny from the House Ethics Committee after a trip to the white house. But hes still in an active role and hasnt given up his subpoena power and this week he issued three sbs. Nancy pelosi said she met with paul ryan multiple times to complain about it. Heres what she said. If he recused himself on subjects russia he shouldnt have access to documents relating to subject russia and he shouldnt be issuing separate subpoenas attaching them to a bipartisan subpoenas that were issued this week. So now to those new comments from russian president Vladimir Putin. He denied his government had anything to do with the hacking of the u. S. Elections. But he said it was possible that russian patriots were behind it or even americans trying to smear russia. So we go to moscow. Claire, good morning. Putin spoke at length on this at a forum. Seemed like he was talking in circles. Help us understand what was going on. Reporter if you look closely at all of this, really he hasnt strayed from the line weve heard from the kremlin frankly russia had nothing to do with it. His comments about patriots was more of emphasizing the deniability factor, hackers are like artists they might wake up in a good mood and paint something. Some may act out of a patriotism. If hack can be traced back to russian soil that doesnt mean the government is behind it even if it looks to serve russias national interest. He went even further on friday and said again there was no proof in saying its possible that hackers in the u. S. Might have the skills to make it took like this. So those who lost the election in u. S. These accusations in the u. S. Are avoiding responsibility for the loss. He took that further on friday in some comments. They voted for him and they made a mistake and they dont want to recognize this mistake right now. They were not wise enough. Its easy to say its not our fault, its the russians, they intervened, they interfered. Like antisemitism, the jews are to blame. The jews are to blame. Reporter this is a real concern here in russia that anything russia says can be used to help trump. Thats why hes saying very little in the past few weeks or months. The president is being a more vocal and defensive approach at the moment. Thank you. The dow closed at a record high on friday after mays job report showed unemployment at its lowest rate but the news is not all good. Some economists call the report disappointing. They say the job market is losing steam. Christine romans breaks down the numbers. Reporter lets start with the headline. Unemployment rate 16 year low, 4. 3 . That is a level many economists consider full employment. It Means Companies are having a hard time finding the workers they need with so few people in the labor market out of work. That labor market shrank a little bit. What about job creation. 138,000 net new jobs in the month. This is why were calling this report mixed. 138,000 net new jobs is less than economists forecast and frankly it is a bit of a disappointment, slower job creation from february to may this year than we saw last year or the year before, downward revisions for march and april as well. Job creation over the past three months has slowed a little bit from prior years. Where is the action . You can see manufacturing lost a thousand jobs. In mining there were 7,000 jobs created. This includes the oil patch where we tease apart these numbers we see 400 coal mining jobs added and of course that is a focus of President Trumps job creation strategy. So watching the coal mining and the mining section in particular but really watching health care. 24,000 net new jobs created in health care. You cannot overstate how Important Health care has been as a driver of the job market over the past few years. 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