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The president himself has talked about the conversations publicly on twitter and in a letter that he and james comey had. basically, as it stands, there's a lot of question whether he could or not. the white house is reviewing this issue. house democrats on the judiciary committee just released a letter saying two things primarily. first and foremost they don't believe on the merits should the president try and invoke executive privilege it would work. if he did, they point out the political ramifications. that it would look like he was trying to obstruct the testimony. these are two key consi...

Better off for the white house tomorrow, not wait, not review, not spend time on it, clear the deck, say we're going to allow him to testify. >> it's fascinating thursday. thanks. there's more breaking news. putin is speaking out about the election hacking and what he thinks about the entire controversy. how the president can drop american paprticipation at the paris accord. the question now is why doesn't the white house say what he thinks about it? [ dog whimpers ]

In his memo, comey said the president told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. a source told cnn, comey was concerned that the president was trying to stop the investigation. >> did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey in any way, shape or form to close or back down the investigation into michael flynn? also, as you -- >> no. no. next question. >> reporter: despite that, just days after firing comey in may, president trump dropped this bombshell. suggesting he let comey go because of the r...

Investigation of trump's contact with the russians. troop says the ambassador met with someone. what's the they do. he said secret deals are plain his tieria and quote how should we stop that? take a pim or something? brian todd, cnn, washington. >> brian todd at the u.s. embassy. claire, good to have you at this hour in moscow t. russian president is take a certainly more vocal approach, even suggesting as we we heard if brian's peace there, there may have been patriotic russians behind hacking but not the government. explain this change of tone. >> reporter: right. yes. it's fascinating. you...

Figure out what the restrictions are on what he is allowed to talk about. our expectation is he will talk about how he felt about the approaches that president trump made to him with relation to the russian investigation, with relation to michael flynn, the ousted national security adviser. he is going to be very careful to say within the parameters of what he is allowed to do without tripping up any legal question -- >> not talking about the actual fbi investigation? >> correct. in the same way we saw him in these congressional committees testifying -- he was very careful to say that it's som...