Heather james comey is set to testify in the russia investigation and his claim of the president asked him to back off. Jon lets get the latest from john roberts who is live on the north line. Good morning to you. James comey is expected to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee as soon as next week. We are told that he has been running by his testimony with the special prosecutor to ensure there is no conflict between what comey might say and congress under oath before Senate Intelligence committee and the investigation that Robert Mueller is conducting. On the house side of things, things are starting to move quickly. The fbi, the cia, and the nsa requested documents on susan rice, the former National Security advisor and the obama white house, john brennan, and Samantha Power who was the ambassador to the United Nations under president obama. Power has never been mentioned until now in connection with the investigation, but intelligence chairman devon nunez believes she had significant involvement in the unmasking. The ranking member, adam schiff is said to put out his own set of subpoenas. They include general Michael Flynn as well as michael cole hin. This afternoon we are going to find out what President Trump is going to do on the paris climate accord. 3 00 in the rose garden, he will announce his decision. There you see him speaking with members of the g7, Climate Change was a big topic of conversation in sicily italy last week. A lot would like to see the president stay in as well as get out. David bossie wants him to get out. Listen here. I hope President Trump will get out of this paris accord and decide to put american jobs, American Workers and the American Economy first and create new agreements with the world. In terms of the option the president has, he has a bunch. He could do it piecemeal, withdraw from something. We are told hes still deliberating on what exactly to do, but well find out and about 44 hours. Jon john roberts, it will be an interesting day. Thank you. We are watching for the testimony of fbi director james comey before the Senate Intelligence committee, that could happen next week. It would be mr. Comeys first Public Comments in his claim that he was asked to back off. One former cia director says that could be a big problem. Clearly, when the president urges the fbi director not to continue an investigation, there is no question that its obstruction. Jon lets bring in joe trippi, josh holmes. Thanks to both of you for being here. Joe, are you convinced that there is going to be solid evidence that this is some kind of obstruction of justice by the white house . I dont know if it will be solid evidence, but i think comeys testimony, if it is that he was asked, could you let it go, that testimony that we are hearing is potentially what hes going to say. If he says that, it says to me that youre going to see this investigation and the consequences hangover this white house probably for years. Its not going to go away if thats his testimony. Jon fh buckley has written a piece for foxnews. Com that i saw this morning and i wanted to redo part of it. He says the best evidence that trump wasnt pressuring comey is that he didnt resign. However else we might be divided, we can all agree that trump should not have fired comey on may 9th, he should have done so on january 20th. This was, after all, what the democrats had wanted. The piece goes on from there. Josh, what do you think about that . All of that is rearview mirror. He didnt fire him when he first got an office and he fired him when he did. The question is, what is the significance of the comey testimony next week . My take is not much. We know exactly what hes going to say. He licked it out or his allies licked it out on the front page of every newspaper in the englishspeaking world basically every day since hes been let g go. The question i ask is how consequential will this testimony be and my conclusion is not very much. Jon hillery would call it a nothing burger. So far democrats seem to be talking about recapturing congress in 2018 in part as a result of what comes out of this russia investigation. Do you see it being politically that consequential . There is absolutely been political consequences to this. Its not the president s agenda thats on the front pages, hes tweeting more about russia and its having an impact on his favorability ratings. They are so low that if there is an election today, it would be a very good time to be running as a democrat. Thats not just the case with this president , is the case with any president with these low ratings and there is no way to get around that the russia investigation is eroding his favorability ratings. Jon in the meantime, he is the president and he beat Hillary Clinton. She is speaking out rather publicly about her election loss and those whom she blames for it, including her own party apparatus. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party. It was bankrupt, it was on the verge of insolvency, its data was mediocrepoor, nonexistent, wrong. I had to inject money into it. Jon and Hillary Clinton, josh, youre laughing there, Hillary Clinton says was the dncs fault. Well get some other folks that she blames for her loss. Whats your take . Its hilarious to watch. Shes not worked her way all the way through to acceptance, but honestly, if i was running the rnc, i would try to pick up the tab on her speaking fees to keep her out there. Shes probably the biggest gift that the Republican Party has at this point. The more she can be on television and talk about her analysis and campaign and what she thinks happened, the better donald trump looks every day. Jon lets look at more of her speech and we have a verbatim of the list. My email account was turned into the biggest scandal since lord knows when. This is the biggest nothing burger ever. Ed was a mistake, ive said it was a mistake. But the way it was used was very damaging. Whatever resentment or point of anger that you may have, if he can get into it, whether its race or or xenophobia or antiislamic phobia. Jon during that address, Hillary Clinton blamed quite a number of people. We have a list. Well run them on the screen because it would take too long to read. The fbi, the new york times, james comey, it goes on and on down to misogynist, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party as well a suburban wingman. As a loyal democrat, what do you think of her blaming these organizations and people . She also said that she made mistakes in her campaign made mistakes. I think everybody will turn out to be right over time. When you lose the Electoral College by 77,000 votes, it turns out that just about any of the reasons she cited is realit reality. She lost michigan by something it could be russian trolls, it could be shouldnt go there enough. Shes got a right to express why she thinks she lost. She is doing that, this is what she believes. She did when the popular vote by 3 million, she lost the Electoral College by fewer than 100,000 and everybody who claims they know the reason is right. When you lose by that small margin, every single thing that happens matters for me tweet to reschedule. Jon her own abilities as a candidate are not on that list. No, its really striking. Its the second or third stage of grief. She is rationalizing why it is that she found herself in the situation. This is literally the reason that losing candidates go dark for a couple years because its an extremely emotional process. I guess the speaking fees are lowering or something because shes putting herself in a situation thats doing herself a disservice. Jon josh holmes and joe trippi, will continue to watch. Thank you. Heather macedonia operatives. Russian president leonard putin says that russia has never engaged in hacking, suggesting instead that evidence pointing towards moscow was rigged. But he did not rule out the possibility that individuals could have a cyber attack given the frosty relations. We wake up in the morning today if they are patriots, they start to contribute opinions and fight against those who speak against us. Theoretically, its possible. We dont engage in that on a state level. Heather amy joins us live from milan with more. The that wording does recall a recent kremlin statement that there wasnt any truth, but it couldnt prevent volunteers from going there on their own to fight against perceived injustices they are again, today putin denied that he managed in a hackers, but he also said that hackers, no matter how clever would not ultimately be able to influence the results of an election because the public would be too smart to be hoodwinked. He fielded questions about a number of other topics as well. Things hes been asked about before. Those who dont like multipolar realism will naturally rent lash out at russia. Russias western borders were also brought up, but raised a new issue. A very serious process is happening. Elements of antimissile systems should we not Pay Attention to it . Of course not. We are thinking about how to respond to those challenges. This is a challenge for us. Putin does think that Missile Defense is an act of aggression against russia. He thinks the u. S. Would continue to build u. S. Defense systems simply under another pretext. Heather thank you. Jon james comey is ready to clearly heir with congress on claims that the president pushed him to drop a probe of Michael Flynn. Gregg jarrett joins us next with a look ahead to comeys upcoming testimony. First, heres marie hart. We want people to be cooperative here, i also want the trump team to be cooperative approaching medicare eligibility . You may think you can put off checking out your Medicare Options until youre sixtyfive, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. Keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. The rest is up to you. Thats where aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plans insured by Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company come in. Like all standardized Medicare Supplement insurance plans, they could help pay some of what medicare doesnt, saving you in outofpocket medical costs. 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Call now, request your free decision guide and start gathering the information you need to help you keep rolling with confidence. Go long™. Heather welcome back. James comey set to testify again before a senate panel as early as next week. He is expected to tell lawmakers that the president asked him to back off the investigation into Michael Flynn and his ties to russia. The Trump Administration denies that claim and says that the real story is the unmasking of flynns name. Marie harve says there is much more to it. Heres what she had to say earlier on americas newsroom. It is true that consumers of intelligence sometimes do have a reason to have names unmasked. The congressman is absolutely right and that every five years or so, we have a debate about intelligence and particularly looking at american citizens and thats a debate he was part of in congress and im confident we will have again. Is not limited to the obama administration. We want people to be cooperative here, i also want the trump people to be cooperative here at the reports in the last few days at his lawyer wont cooperate with subpoenas, that mike flynn is not willing to cooperate, that is problematic and when the trump team says we want to get the facts here, there are people need to play a role in that too. Heather heres the thing. We are learning that flynn has agreed to turn over some documents related to the investigation after originally protecting himself against selfincrimination. Lets begin with the president s words to comey. And that february meeting, could they constitute obstruction of justice . It depends entirely on what the president said in the meeting. Comey wrote a memo memorializing the conversation. A couple of colleagues read it to a reporter and trump said i hope you can let this go. Hoping that someone will be cleared is not the same thing as directing and ordering them to and an investigation. Its an aspirational expression, hoping events will turn out well for Michael Flynn. Its kind of like i hope it doesnt rain tomorrow. Thats what comeys testimony ends, its probably not obstruction. Heather legally, what does the objection of justice statute require legally . It requires proof that somebody actually tried to influence, impede, or instruct justice. It also requires one more word, its called corruptly and that word has special meaning in the law. The Supreme Court has addressed it. They define it as, will put it on the screen, wrongful, immoral, depraved, or evil. Again, hoping that somebody can let it go is probably too ambiguous to constitute a corrupt intent. The Supreme Court said a very high bar. Its a very narrow and hard to prove. Heather heres a question a lot of people are asking. If comey thought the president was attempting to obstruct justice, did he have a duty to report it . Absolutely. In fact, under the law, comey is required to a meal he informed his superiors at the department of justice. Failure to do so is a crime in itself. He was asked if he notified anybody at doj, we dont know the answer but there is been reporting that he did do so. He suggests that the president s language may have been troubling, but i didnt rise to the level of absorption of justice. Heather gregg jarrett, thank you very much for breaking it down for us. Jon a gun club susan katie couric claiming her documentary used dishonest editing. You dont let anything keep you sidelined. Thats why you drink ensure. With 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. For the strength and energy to get back to doing. What you love. Ensure. Always be you. G new cars. Youre smart. You already knew that. But its also great for finding the perfect used car. Youll see what a fair price is, and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. Now youre even smarter. This is truecar. Heather some new information we are learning. A judge has thrown at a lawsuit against katie couric over a documentary about gun control. A gun club and virginia m you may remember suit couric for 12 million saying the editing of the documentary was misleading and defamed members feature in the clip. Let me ask another question. If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent terrorists from purchasing a gun . Heather the pause. The judge decided that the interview scene was not false and dismissed the lawsuit. Jon among the biggest issues facing President Trump in his administering, nor careers nuclear ambition. They continue test to develop a Nuclear Warhead. One former pentagon official says history may be repeating itself. This is a condition of severe stress and the north korean case in particular, we see ourselves creeping towards a cuban missile crisis in slowmotion. Jon that was graham allison. He joins me now. The progress that the north koreans have made in terms of building a Nuclear Warhead is pretty frightening to you and it should be to all americans. It absolutely is and it is to anybody who is focused on the issue. If you want a pretty good snapshot of it, general mattis presentation got right to the point. Basically, north korea has acquired Nuclear Weapons, they have acquired and built missiles can deliver those Nuclear Weapons against south korea and against japan and north korea is on a path in the months immediately ahead to launch missiles i can deliver Nuclear Warheads against San Francisco or los angeles. Thats an ugly fact. Jon based on the title of your book, one has to wonder if there were some kind of preventive strikes by the United States on the north, would china stay out of it . We should try to remember what happened the last time we saw this relief which was the first korean war and this could be the beginning of the second. I think most of the Intelligence Comm