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President. >> that's 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 president's inauguration crowd was bigger than obama's. sean spicer has had moments where he has damaged his credibility time and again. i can't imagine him going into the briefing room and saying, i haven't had a chance to talk to the president about whether he still believes climate change is a hoax. we asked sean spicer this question earlier...

Comey's 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 didn't 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 didn't believe they raised to the level of something that needed to be reported. all put together, and most notably concluding with the firing of james comey, that raises a question as to w...

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 don't see his ability to use executive privilege for this. remember, there is a grey zone. it's being hotly debated by lawyers surrounding the white house in washington. but i suspect if it was a clear and clean case, we would have already seen this kind of privilege invoked. >>...

>> 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 will invoke executive privilege to block james comey from testifying on capitol hill next week. spicer...

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 agreeing to go before the intelligence committee to testify. the question is, the content of can he block c...