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His story will eventually come out one way or the other. to get into this now and try to hide him, recognizing that one day the story is going to come out in full, i dont know what you are accomplishing. better off for the white house tomorrow, not wait, not review, not spend time on it, clear the deck, say were going to allow him to testify. >> its fascinating thursday. thanks. theres more breaking news. putin is speaking out about the election hacking and what he thinks about the entire cont...

Where he has damaged his credibility time and again. i cant imagine him going into the briefing room and saying, i havent had a chance to talk to the president about whether he believes climate change is a hoax. we asked him this question earlier this week. he said he would come back with a question. today when he was asked, did you go back and ask him that question, he said, he hasnt had the opportunity to do that. that just really doesnt sound like anything that adds up when you consider the f...

I will tell you this, its large donations from private people. $250,000, up to $1 million in some cases by individuals who are going to remain secret. we can also tell you that they do have this fund-raising dinner. according to "the washington post" in the past, yes, coal, energy, car companies like ford, also google and facebook have been involved. most of the fund-raising for this group comes from private people who are remaining private. >> drew griffin, thanks. given the president just we...

Like the idea of implementing policy to protect us from climate change, but seem to have a scorn for mainstream science, was and still is extremely disturbing. >> reporter: he calls much of the data questionable. the institute has been accused of misinterpreting scientific studies and has, according to scientists, created a fog of misinformation to confuse voters. who is paying for all this? thats a good question. >> does the energy industry support you? does the coal industry support you? >> if...

Administration seems undeniable, which scares environmentalists. >> the access that they have -- and others who not only dont like the idea of implementing policy to protect us from climate change, but seem to have a scorn for mainstream science, was and still is extremely disturbing. >> reporter: he calls much of the scientific data on global warming questionable. the institute has been accused of misinterpreting scientific studies and has, according to scientists, created a fog of misinformati...

President. >> thats right. i think the danger for sean spicer at this point is that he just loses all credibility in the briefing room. we saw that on the first full day of the administration when he lashed out at the news media for not saying that the presidents inauguration crowd was bigger than obamas. sean spicer has had moments where he has damaged his credibility time and again. i cant imagine him going into the briefing room and saying, i havent had a chance to talk to the president about...

Comeys thinking. he thought the actions in isolation, the idea of telling jim comey to back off the investigation into michael flynn, things of that nature, were kind of the actions of a ham handed individual that didnt understand the separation process between the law enforcement. comey viewed this as a training process. getting the president comfortable with how the relationship was supposed to work. he didnt believe they raised to the level of something that needed to be reported. all put tog...

Executive privilege to block any of that testimony. but with respect to the senate, even now, i think comey is going to have to be able to talk about any communicationings that he had directly with the president regarding whether or not the investigation of a former national security adviser flynn will go forward. so i dont see his ability to use executive privilege for this. remember, there is a grey zone. its being hotly debated by lawyers surrounding the white house in washington. but i suspe...

>> reporter: spicer and pruitt joined a growing list of administration officials dancing around the climate question. >> does president trump believe climate change is a hoax? >> president trump believes is he was elected to grow the u.s. economy and provide great job opportunities. >> does the president still believe global warming is a hoax? >> the president believes in a clean environment, clean air, clean water. >> reporter: there are other pressing questions such as whether the president wi...

That he has something to hide, which are very bad optics given the context of this particular investigation, which now has taken on the qui of why -- whether the president is seeking to obstruct justice in his firing of fbi director comey. now, with respect to executive privilege, there sa lot of disagreement and debate here about whether the president can actually use executive privilege to prevent testimony and my reading on this is he probably cannot prevent comey as a private citizen agreein...