Electricity. Dont even say that, rick. Last word. Im just saying, right now china is canceling 107 of its coal plants because why . Solar and wind are cheaper than coal. Its not reliable, not consistent. Obviously, this is a very hot debate. No pun intended today. Thank you both for your perspective. Were following a lot of news, so lets get right to it. James comey now ready to tell his side of the story. Congressional invest day tors are examining whether Jeff Sessions had an additional private meeting with a Russian Ambassador. This is a very serious charge. The House Intelligence Committee issued seven subpoenas today. It looks like they were entirely driven by devin nunes. The president is expected to withdraw from the parties climate agreement. It will be an economic and environmental, a National Security risk and a model disaster. I thought it was a hidden message to the russians. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Good morning. It is june 1st, 8 00 in the east. A source telling us fired fbi director james comey will testify before the senate and as early as next week. The big part of the testimony, the bombshell accusations that President Trump pressured him to end the investigation into one of his top aids. The House Intel Committee also made a headline today issues the first subpoenas to Michael Flynn and to the president s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen as part of their russia probe. Meanwhile, devin nunes issued seven subpoenas related to whether obama officials unmasked the identities of Trump Associates captured on surveillance of foreign officials. What happened to nunes recusing himself . Lets begin with joe johns. What is the latest, joe . Well, people are talking about the possibility of james comey, in his own words, talking about conversations he had with the president of the United States, and the memos he wrote about those conversations also indications the white house could bring down saying it will now refer all questions about the russia investigation to the president s lawyer. No indication that the president , though, is going to stop tweeting about it. Fired fbi director james comey now ready to tell his side of the story. First getting a legal green light from special counsel Robert Mueller. His test for the senate Intelligence Committee could come as early as next week. Comey appears eager to discuss details about tense, private interactions he had with President Trump, which he documented in memos, including a dinner where he says the president asked him for a loyalty pledge and an Oval Office Meeting with comey says President Trump pressured him to drop the investigation into his former National Security advisor, Michael Flynn. Did the president engage in obstruction of justice. We are focussed on the president s agenda and Going Forward all questions on these matters will be referred to outside counsel. This latest bombshell coming as the russia investigations are ramping up. House investigators issues their first subpoenas to flynn and President Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen, seeking their testimony and business records. Congressional investigators are examining whether attorney general Jeff Sessions had another indisclosed meeting with Sergei Kislyak at a session they attended in april when then candidate trump delivered his first major Foreign Policy address in washington. Have you met with any other russian officials or folks connected to the russian government since you endorsed donald trump . I dont believe so. You know, we meet a lot of people so sessions failing to disclose meetings with the Russian Ambassador twice before under oath during his confirmation hearing. I did not have communications with the russians. And again amid mounting pressure back in march, sessions was forced to recuse himself from the russian probe. The just sis department defending sessions and denying any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton leveling a sharp accusation saying russia did not act alone in their election interference. The russians in my opinion and based on the intel and counter intel people i have talked to could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided. The president reviving his nickname. Although the white house offered a bizarre response to the president s bewilders covfefe typo. Is no one watching this . No. I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant. And in another tweet from the president , he said he will announce his decision on the Paris Climate Accord this afternoon in the rose garden. Sources have told us he is expected to withdraw the United States from that agreement. But as we all know, the president can change his mind. Alison . Yes, we do know that, so please keep us posted. Joe, thank you very much. Three of the seven subpoenas from the House Intel Committee deal with unmasking requests made by former Obama Administration officials. Sources tell cnn that they were issued by chairman nunes who removed himself from the russia investigation in early april. Live on capitol hill with more. It looks like devin nunes is back. He is back and this is a committee that cant agree on what they are investigating. This comes at a time when the House Intelligence Committee shared devin nunes back in the spotlight in the midst of this controversy raising questions about whether or not he has even truly sidelined himself from the russia investigation. The new dispute stems from seven new subpoenas issued by the House Intelligence Committee on wednesday. President trumps private attorney, Michael Cohen. They were approved by both parties for their russia meddling probe. But the three others were issued yun lat rattly without democratic approval. The wall street journal says those were issued to the fbi, cia and nsa for information about alleged unmasking by former Obama Administration officials seeking details about what led to the unveiling of the names of trump aids who were in contact with russian officials and were caught up in surveillance of foreign officials. Former National Security advisor susan rice, Samantha Power and former cia director john brennan all named in the subpoenas. A senior aid claims nunes was acting separately and he only recused himself. Can this investigation continue . Why would it not . In april nunes announced he was temporarily putting mike conway in charge of the russian probe. He faced a firestorm of criticism about how he handled classified materials when he obtained documents in a secret white house meeting. I have seen intelligence reports that clearly show that the president elect and his team were, i guess, at least monitored. I dont agree with the chairmans characterization. The house rules state the chairman can issue subpoenas if he consults with the democrats. It is clear that did not happen in some cases. Also this morning the president now weighing in on this debate over what this committee should be looking at. The president tweeting just within the last hour saying the big story is the unmasking and surveillance of people that took place during the Obama Administration. All right. Thank you very much. Thus guaranteeing another news cycle of appraising what the president just tweeted and whether or not the russia probe should really just be about the unmasking and the leeaks. Lets bring in our panel. Mr. Sanger, is the president correct, that that is really the story that matters, unmasking and surveillance. Nunes once again is doing the bidding of the white house . It is an interesting story, but it may be the secondary story. The core question here is what the russians did and whether there was any collusion and so forth. The unmasking was part of the effort by the Obama Administration to understand the intelligence reports were seeing. I can understand their confusion because even to this day, long after they left office, four months after they left office, were still trying to understand what the nature of the relationship, if any, was between the Trump Transition Team, the Trump Campaign before that and the russians. You cant get at that information if, in looking at the intelligence reports, the identities of those in the United States were fully masked, and thats why susan rice and others asked to unmask them. It is not an unusual procedure. It has happened across republican and democratic administrations. The way the president phrased his tweet, though, he walked back to looking at the question of surveillance of him. I think we pretty well established at that point by both democrats and republicans if there was surveillance underway oo of this transition, it was incidental. Nobody has alleged other than the president that it was directed right at him. But how about this devin nunes . He didnt step down. Hes clearly involved. Hes issuing subpoenas. Well, right. And i think that if congress was in session wed hear a lot more outcry about that. But, you know, as he said, it does seem like that, you know, nunes is putting his hands back in this and really trying to defend the white house and plow this other track. And in a way it is a diversion from the matter at hand, which is, you know what russian did to hack into the election torks try to influence the u. S. Election. And, you know, this president over and other again has tried to make this more about him than it has been about the country. And the House Intelligence Committee is more willing to acquiescine his request. One of the reasons that precipitated nunes stepping away or whatever you want to call it, especially in light of his not stepping away, was an ethics investigation. Do you believe charge wills be added in that ethics aspect of nunes for issuing subpoenas without apparently seeking the coordination of the ranking democrat on the committee or working with the committee at all . I dont know the answer to that. But wouldnt that trigger the ethics consideration . It certainly could. There is no doubt it certainly could. Well see what comes of that. But what nunes is making clear is, and i said this at the time that the that he stepped away. I think that the house i know they just issued subpoenas. I understand that there is some bipartisan work going on, but i think the House Committee is not where the country should be looking to get answers and results as to what russia did to impact the american election. That is not a i just dont think that the American People are going to have confidence of what theyre getting out of that committee mostly because of nunes behavior and because of the bipartisan sniping going on in that committee than we are seeing on the senate side and now with the special counsel removed from the political realm a little more with bob mueller. Now we know james comey has agreed to testify publically. We understand he will be doing that next week, unless something stops him and there is our sources that are sharing with cnn that he does plan to say that the president pressed him to back off the Michael Flynn investigation. We just had a senator on who said, well, i dont know i trust what comey is going to say because he told us that nobody tried to impede the investigation. And what hes hanging his hat on is this sentence where james comey said on may 3rd, im talking about we were told to stop something in an investigation. That would be a very big deal. In the context of a question about the doj. Correct. About the doj and attorney general sessions. But that is what he said. That would have been a good opening there if he had wanted to talk about President Trump trying to do something. So whats going to happen when comey testifies . Well, interesting questions. So my colleagues at the time revealed a few weeks ago that comey was asked by the president to go light or, you know, walk away from the investigation in the general Michael Flynn, shortly after flynn was dismissed as the National Security advisor, and that he kept copious notes that he made sometimes in the car right as he was leaving the white house. So obviously there is going to be great interest in how he describes those meetings and whats in those notes. Now, the president has an option here. He may have stepped on his own option, but he has one, which is to basically declare that these were privileged conversation, that they fall under executive privilege and that former director comey cant discuss them. I doubt that would hold up, given the degree that the president himself has discussed those meetings and tweeted about them. But, you know, it really gets at a critical issue. Im not sure they fully thought through the consequences of firing jim comey. Had comey still been in office, still involved in the investigation and was called in front of this committee, he could say two things, i cant talk about it while its under investigation and i specifically cant talk about my conversations with the president because those who work for the president dont discuss those conversations. But letting him out, by forcing him out, hes almost freed him up to do that. It strikes me as another selfinflicted wound here. The irony is the man they originally tried to hang the comey decision on, rosenstein, wound up appointing a special council, which is the one animal that the president yes, he could get rid of a special counsel. But now it is insulated from him in a way it wouldnt have been otherwise. Heres a question that remains to be answered. Going to have trouble when he testifies with the republicans. Theyre going to say if this was such a big deal, where were you . You should have come out. Forget about keeping it in your diary. You should have told us. You certainly havent been quiet in the past when there was something you wanted us to know and it raises this question of well, then what . If he says, yes, he told me to stop. He told me to leave him alone. We just had the congress on, democrat, from new york saying that would be obstruction of justice. Do you guys agree with that . Do you believe this is a slam dunk case for obstruction, that this is going to be a legality matter and not a political matter . Anybody think that. I dont think its slam dunk at all on the legality of obstruction of justice. As a political matter, i think it will indeed raise the stakes of that notion being part of this entire thing. And again this is so far down the road, chris, but like should the democrats win the house in 2018 and should they want to begin some sort of impeachment hearing, i would imagine then from a political matter, obstruction of justice as we saw with previous president s who were facing impeachment, that thats one of the charges thats in there. As a legal matter, i dont think it is slam dunk at all, but do i think whatever comey says is going to be fodder for that . Sure. Well, there is no doubt that bob mueller knows what he is going to say because he wouldnt be doing this without his blessing. They spoke . Yeah, absolutely. But the other thing i would encourage everyone to do is go back and watch comeys testimony during the Bush Administration about the meeting with ashcroft and that whole situation with gonzalez. He is used to testifying under pressure. He is used to telling a compelling narrative and hes used to taking tough questions. While he does need to answer a lot of the questions you said, chris, i have a hard time believing that he wont he wont have answers. Im not saying it is going to stump him go ahead, david. Last word to you. One more on this point, which is comey and mueller are close. It was mueller to whom comey went to for advice when he was dealing with those issues jackie it was discussing during the Bush Administration. So they are going to be of one mind, or at least a mind meld about what it is that comey can or cannot say without impeding the thing. So remember that whatever you hear they will have talked out at some length. Okay. Panel, thank you very much for all the insights. So the president is just hours away from revealing his decision on whether to stay with the Paris Climate Accord. So were going to talk about the implications with two lawmakers next. Theres nothing more than my vacation. Me so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. Booking. Com gets it. They offer free cancellation if my plans change. Visit booking. Com. Booking. Yeah. All right. One of the headlines this morning is that the House Intel Committee has issued their first subpoenas in the russia investigation and also, so four of them are about flynn and President Trumps legal counsel. But three of them are related to unmasking of Trump Associates. Sources say those subpoenas came from chairman devin nunes, who supposedly stepped aside from the investigation weeks ago i