so it will be completely unprecedented. so why do you think the white house is not flatly saying of course the president s not going to exert executive privilege. they re leaving that hanging. you just heard kellyanne conway, sean spicer the other day. it s an open question they haven t flatly ruled that out. have you ever seen donald trump give something up for nothing? i think he wants to play this out as long as he can and then try to look magnanimous. there are other ways he can prevent him from testifying, namely to convince the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee to call off the hearing because the president doesn t want that testimony to come up. he certainly could, wolf. he could try to invoke executive privilege, make a big show of it. and then chairman burr could say i m shocked that james comey wants to discuss such private matters and then pull the hearing. knowing richard burr, i don t think that strategy is going to work. another strategy, h
person yet to be named, wolf. we ll wait for that third name to come up. just moments ago we heard from the mayor of london spooking out on this. listen. as the mayor of london, i want to send a clear message to the sick and evil extremists who commit these hideous crimes. we will defeat you. you will not win. [ applause ] sadiq khan of london. the mayor of london speaking out at a vigil that s under way in london. he has been severely criticized by president trump in a series of tweets. we ll have much more on that coming up as well. once again, we re oem moments away from a must see white house press briefing.
and he was under consideration to become the solicitor general over at the justice department. pretty surprising that he goes ahead and criticizes the president like that. the white house has asked the u.s. supreme court to rule on this revised second version of the travel ban. does the president s tweeting about it this morning jeopardize a white house case? well, litigating this case via twitter complicates the president s legal defense on two different fronts, wolf. first is from a substantive standpoint. lawyers at the justice department having working hard, bending over backwards to draw a distinction between trump statements preand post presidency because the pre-presidency statements talk about muslims and that was a problem in court. but these series of tweets arguably show that s a distinction without a difference because the president has no apologies for what he says before and he is essentially throwing his own lawyers under the bus for being, quote, too politically correct
the suspected leaker? wolf, we re talking about a classified report from the national security agency dated may 5th of this year. it details how a russian intelligence unit attempted to hack into the voting system. we should point out there is no evidence that any votes were actually affected by this attempted hack. but according to cnn sources, the classified reports that winner allegedly leaked is the same one the intercept described in the piece. it gives us details of how it is russians went after local election officials and a voting software supplier. here s the thing. prosecutors say they were able to catch reality winner almost instantly it appears because of the way that the intercept may have operated. the intercept said the document was provided anonymously. the d.o.j. says that the news outlet support a copy of the