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Bob mueller and by all accounts he is submitting because all it takes is one conversation with a serious lawyer to tell that you if you dont comply, youre going to jail. it could be for a long time. >> yeah. i think this is a side show ultimately. look, if people can show up and answer questions, not answer questions, we can talk about mueller is the key to all of this. you know, the partisan nature of this committee means republicans are going to do what they do today f democrats win the house,...

Mueller. and hes submitting because it takes one conversation with a serious lawyer that tells you, if you dont comply, youre going to jail and it could be for a long time. >> this is a side show. if people can show up and not answer questions. mueller is the key to all of this. the partisan nature of this committee means, if democrats win the house, theyll do what they do next year. but the only thing we ought to care about here is getting this mueller investigation concluded, which has gone on...

>> reporter: a seener administration telling cnn the president has been amused by the coverage. a trump associate telling jeff zeleny if he doesnt regret this he should. >> didnt dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation and a tape. my judgment was i needed to get that out into the public square. >> reporter: comey testifying that the presidents tweet prompted him to leak memos of their conversations which led to the appointment of special counsel robert muelle...

Know how to set our rates or we have to set them higher because we dont know if well have the cost sharing. >> uncertainty. >> the uncertainty of that. we have to address issues that relate to young people to attract more of them to it. there is any bill that is passed congress, civil rights act, medicare, medicaid, social security, all of it should be subjected to scrutiny as to how it can be done better. if its being sabotaged, thats at his doorstep. if the rates go up, thats at his doorstep b...

>> welcome. >> new this morning, former fbi director james comey will testify next week or will he? white house says theyre okay with it. or are they? just a short while ago one of the presidents top aides would not rule out the white house using executive privilege to try to keep comey from testifying. joe johns is live at the white house with more. what are we hearing? >> reporter: good morning, poppy. this is drama. the date is now set. next thursday, june 8th, for james comey to testify. the...

Including the president. so listen to presidential counselor kellyanne conway this morning on another network talking about the possibility of comey testifying next week. >> does he want former director comey to testify before congress? >> well be watching with the rest of the world when director comey testifies. last time he testified the fbi had to scurry to correct that testimony. he was off by hundreds of thousands in his count. his sworn testimony count of the number of e-mails that alleged...

The white house is going to refuse to turn basic information about ethics waivers over to the office of government ethics. if the bush white house had taken that position and said that i should not turn over to the office of government ethics, basic information like this, i would have quit. there is no way you can do that. the office of government i think has a statutory mandate to, to implement the ethic prose gram through out the executive branch. and there is no reason to withhold this inform...

Apeetdly. >> the big fact, did the president fire comey because of his investigation, and he was worried about what the investigation might conclude. that, if so, that borders on a very serious charge. so, we need to flesh that out, we need to see what the response is, and its got to come from director comey himself. >> what? >> juan, i think no matter what side of the aisle are you on, left or right, it will be must-see tv, with fbi director comey testifying. what do you -- do you anticipate ge...

Self-inflected. to jeffreys point, there are many critics of the president who say the conclusion is collusion with russia and im going to walk or run there no matter what are the actual facts. to me two things are coming together. its the convergence of the comey story and the russia story together in the person of the president and in his own personal conduct. and to me that is what has turned a page. i think youre right, maggie, that many people are tuning out this, a, because they think its ...

Pattern that russia goes. they go ahead and deny and its interesting the white house did not shoot down the reports yesterday where they basically admitted, yes, this was said and they stood but it. today again russia continues to deny and this is how theyve been throughout this entire investigation that the fbi has been conducting, the u.s. officials have been conducted. its just been their pattern to deny. >> we expect to hear from james comey himself very soon right, hes going to testify in f...