other intelligence officials about the renull of expires power that testimony will tee up comey appearance. jessica snyder has more. >> the whitehouse is whether to assert executive privilege to block comey's testimony on thursday. >> literally my understanding the date for the hearing was just set. i have not spoken to counsel yet. i don't know what that -- hour how they're going to respond. >> counselor to the president kellyanne conway indicates he she expects comey to talk but sent message. >> we'll be watching when he testifies. >> it's not invoking executive privilege. >> the president will make that you decision. >> comey no longer works for the white house. white house would have to take comey to court if they wanted to prevent him talking. some say tweets process comey and comments like that. we had a nice dinner and at that time he told me you were not under investigation i i knew.