President was trying to block his former fbi director from speaking out. Now the leaders of Senate Intelligence committee are making a new attempt to get a hold of comeys secret memos where they question him three days from now. And diplomatic crisis. New concerns tonight for the u. S. Led coalition against isis as a rif in eastern nations takes a dramatic term. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Were following breaking news. A potential roadblock for comeys mustsee testimony after days of dangling the possibility of invoking executive prim ledge. The white house saying the president wont try to block his fired fbi directors appearance on thursday. Chairs of the Senate Intelligence committee are once again asking the fbi for comeys secret memos about his con ver sayings with the president. Also breaking, new warnings that president is undermining his administrations appeal to the u. S. Supreme court to enforce what he is flatly calling a travel ban. Mr. Trump tweeting that his Justice Department should not have submitted a new version of the ban, deciding it as watered down and politically correct. The husband of trumps Senior AdviserKellyanne Conway is calling the president s tweet sad because of the high impact on the potential court case. Claims that the president is trying to pick a fight with the mayor of london. Handling the weekend terror attack. The president now accusing a response to verbal swipes with a pathetic excuse. British Police Publicly named two of three dead takers in saturdays terror rampage. We learned multiple people who have been arrested in connection with the terror attack have now been released. This hour, ill speak with the ranki ranking democrat on the House Armed Service committee. Adam smith is standing by and our correspondent specialist they also are standing by. First, lets go to our White House Correspondent sarah murray. Sarah, the president keeps tweeting and it is causing him trouble. Thats right. Setting off a debate about whether or not we should Pay Attention to the president s tweets, some top aides say we are obsessing over them. But Sarah Huckabee sanders says this is how the president speaks directly to the american public. Either way a debate focused on his twitter at rather than insti infrastructure that was supposed to be a push. Tonight President Trump is trampling his own agenda. Today we are proposing to take american air travel into the future, finally. Finally. After the administration teased a week of infrastructure focused events. The president deveiled that strategy with a fiery tweet storm. Trump using the terror attack in london to slam his own Justice Department. Tweeting, the justice should have stayed with the original travel ban, not watered town politically correct version they submitted to Supreme Court. This as Trump Administration after lower courts rebuffed it for National Security reasons. And less there be any confusion, the president is making clear, the ban ban. Tweeting, the courts can call it whatever they want but im calling it what we need and what it is, travel ban. A Comment White House communication staff is standing by today. I dont think the president cares what you call it. Whether you call it a ban. Call it a restriction. He cares that we call it National Security and that we take steps to protect the people of this country. This after other Administration Officials insisted it wasnt a ban at all. This is not a muslim ban. It is an travel ban. It is a vetting system to keep america safe. The travel ban isnt the only tweet storm taking the president and the white house off message. The president took to twitter to criticize londons response to the terror attack and the city mayor directly. Saying, pathetic excuse by london mayor who had to think fast on his no reason to be alarmed statement. Mayor khan urged citizens in london not to be alarm bade visual increase in Police Activity on the streets. Today a white house spokeswoman defended those tweets to. I dont think the president is picking a fight. The point is, there is a reason to be alarmed. We have attacks going on. Not just there but across the globe. As trump bears his outrage on twitter, one of his top advisers insisted the media shouldnt be paying so much attention to the president s own statements. This obsession with covering everything he says on twitter and very little of what he does as president thats his preferred method of communication with the american people. Thats not true. His twitter outburs coat have real life complication, like the travel ban in court. A concern aired by none another than Kellyanne Conways own husband, George Conway. He seized on one of trumps tweets to say, these tweets may make some people feel better but they certainly wont help office of the solicitor general get five votes in scotus, which is what actually matters. Sad. And George Conway recently pulled his name out of consideration for a job at the department of justice. His misgivings appear to be shared by a number of americans, latest gallup tracking polls, show trumps Approval Ratings are mired in the mid 30s. Thank you. Now a green light for potentially damaging testimony of President Trump bit fired fbi director james comey. White house revealing that mr. Trump wont try to envoc executi executive privilege to muzzle comey. Lets get to cnns Diane Gallagher. Diane with three days to go. This is setting up as a huge, huge moment. Thats right. Just speaking today, even wolf with Senate Intelligence committee richard burr, says he talked to comey, expects him to talk in detail about his conversations with the president. But doesnt think the committee will actually see any of comeys memos before the testimony. Telling cnn they spoke with the acting fbi director today and he said that turning the memos over was a Justice Department determination. President trump will not assert the privilege regarding james comeys testimony. Tonight, first definitive word on the president s Decision Just three days ahead of fbi director james comeys testimony and senators are ready to grill him. Whats the big question that you have for the fbi director . Kwet is asked by west virginians is if you knew or thought there was obstruction of justice, why didnt you act on it . Looking for clarification written by comey, saying bi director that the account that trump urged him to go easy on Michael Flynn. As is susan collins. Thats why the tone, exact words spoken, and context are so important. And thats what we lack right now. And we can only get that by targeting to those directly involved. In the meantime, the white house isnt commenting on the russia investigation itself. Continuing to refer questions to outside counsel. But the trump team is raising questions about comey ahead of his testimony. People should look at the rod rosen stein memo again to see what problem was with jim comey. His team cleerly points out that integrity and morale were down and clearly points out that comey tried to usurp the power of the attorney general Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein will likely be asked about the man he recommended be fired when he appeared before the Senate IntelligenceCommittee Wednesday to discuss wiretapping authorities. Rosenstein told the Associated Press on friday that if he became the special of Robert Muellers investigation he would recuse himself. This is expansive and could include the firing of comey. Senator mark warner telling jake tapper that while comey may seem like the most important figure there are others to be questioned this week about other interactions with the president. A question we will have not only for director comey on thursday but on wednesday for director of National Intelligence coats, and admiral rogers, i will want to ask them because there are reports that president also talked to both of them in terms of asking them to down play the russian investigation. And again, burr saying that comey is expected to testify openly on thursday about his discussions with trump. So we will likely learn something but just how much, well that source says that comey is informed senators burr and warner, that he spoke with mueller and for most part is not going to be speaking largely about the federal russia investigation. So wolf, no lack of anticipation but we may not learn as much as many are hoping. We could be surprised. Lets watch and observe. Thanks so much for that, Diane Gallagher reporting. Tonight, Senate Intelligence can chairman is speaking about what comey may testify about on thursday. Manu raju is joining us from up on capitol hill. Manu, you had the chance to speak with senator burr. Yes. He has spoken with director comey several times over last few days and he has given the indication that director comey will be able to discuss openly about his conversations with President Trump. Saying that director bob mueller, former fbi director, now leading special counsel investigation, has not walled off comey in any way about this subjects that comey wants to talk about. And those seem to include his discussions with President Trump and allegations that President Trump tried to squash that investigation into Michael Flynn, former National Security adviser. Richard burr addressed those topics earlier today. Anything thats classified, i havent gotten any indication that there [ inaudible ] even if this conversation with President Trump to discuss those matters . I feel certain that he can. You talked to him on friday. How did that conversation go . We add very good conversation. It was actually saturday. I talked to him several times over last few weeks. He is looking forward to having the opportunity publicly share his thoughts and beliefs. And mueller, talking about the russian investigation, staying away from certain areas. Theyve talked and i understand that special counsel hasnt fenced him off on any way shape or form about items he intends to call on. Richard burr saying that Michael Flynn, intelligence committee, with some information related to two subpoenas the committee sent for Michael Flynns businesses. Did not say what was in those documents but news that Michael Flynn did submit some information to the Senate Intelligence committee and about those comey memos, wolf, that james comey wrote extensively about after conversationes with President Trump. Burr said that comey believes he will see those memos eventually maybe not thursday, but he said nothing stays locked up in washington forever. Good point. Thanks very much, manu raju up on capitol hill. Lets get more. All of this, congressman adam smith is joining us. Ranking democrat on House Armed Services committee. Thanks for joining us. Thanks, wolf. Appreciate the clans. You heard the white house saying the president wont try to invoke executive privilege. From your vantage point, were you surprised, i assume you think thats a positive development coming from the white house. Yeah. I think it is positive development. Im not terribly surprised. The white house would have looked really bad if they looked like they were trying to silence comey. The white house sun predictable as you know. We were all surprised when he fired jim comey in the first place. Good point. Lets get to other issues. The london mayor khan said londoners shouldnt be alarm whed they see a heavier Police Presence on the streets following the terror take over the weekend. In response the president tweeted, quote, pathetic excuse by london mayor khan who had to think fast on his quote no reason to be alarmed, closed quote, statement. Mainstream media is working hard to sell it. What do you think the president is saying about the london mayor two days after this terror attack in his city . What do you think is going on here . Very bad taste to attack the mayor of a city that was just attacked. There is i believe an underlying point to what President Trump is trying to say. But youre always in a difficult balance. You want to be vigilant, protect against the attacks but also dont want panic. And i think thats what the london mayor was trying to say. Panic never helps in the situation. He was trying to calm people down and be prepared for the attacks. President trump saw a political opportunity here. He wants to ramp this up constantly. He wants to constantly focus on the battle against what he calls radical islamic extremism and have it be the full focus. And he wants to attack other people for not doing enough. Right after an attack is in incredibly bad taste to go after the london may forthis whob by all accounts is handling the attack very effectively. All of europe, certainly england, is a challenge in confronting all of the terror attacks they have faced. They certainly do. What kind of message do you believe a tweet like this, tweet by the president , sends to other u. S. Allies . Its divisive. Thats the big difference of opinion i have with President Trump. We need partners. We need allies. People to work with. This is a global threat. I think President Trump said it well in saudi arabia when he said, this is good versus evil. To do that, you need to bring the good people together. Not be so devisive. Not always trying to divide those of us trying to fight against this evil that President Trump described. So i think, not reaffirming our commitment to nato allies when he gave his speech in brussels. Attacking the london mayor. Leak of intelligence after the bombing. All of this divides us from our allies. I think thats a key flaw in the trump foreign policy. He is like, well go it alone. That wont help us defeat the very real evil that describes. The president tweeted about the travel ban. Let me read it to you. The Justice Department should have stayed with the original travel ban, not watered down politically correct version they submitted to Supreme Court. He is calling it a travel ban even though the white house arlier saar earlier said it wasnt a travel ban. He is calling for a tougher version. Pegging these to the london attacks. Set one who signed this revised version of the travel order and his Justice Department it appealing it before the u. S. Supreme court. Have you ever seen a president criticize his own Justice Department like this on the eve after Supreme Court decision . No, i dont believe anybody has. This is part of another troubling pattern with the way President Trump approaches his job. He seems to want it blame everybody. Things that dont go well hb hes the president. He has this longrunning debate and argument that every time democrats criticize him, it is because of the outcome of the election. Obviously were not happy about the outcome of the election. But i acknowledge, President Trump won, he is the president. I hope at some point he starts acting like it. He made these decisions, be responsible for it. Take ownership. Thats a tough balancing act in terms of how far you want to two in your policy but he signed the order. He made the decision. When thing dont go well, he blames those below him. A lot of the stories we hear about the chaos, white house, camps, divisions, certainly the leaks that have come out of the white house show that that white house is divided. And divided for a very good reason. The guy in charge is setting the tone. It is not about being united. It is about blaming someone else and not taking responsibility. If harry truman had the buck stops here on his desk, donald trump has the buck stops with arrows pointing a thousand Different Directions other than him but he is the president and it is about time he started taking responsibility for the decisions that makes. Congressman, there is more we need to discuss but i got to take a quick break. Well resume all of our special coverage right after this. Whats the best way to get two servings of veggies . 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