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trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. >> it would later be revealed that trump had demanded loyalty from comey, and repeatedly pressed him to end the investigation into trump's first national security adviser, michael flynn. after he refused to do so, trump fired comey in shocking fashion. in a remarkable oval office meeting the following day, the day after he fired him. trump told russian diplomats that by firing comey, the previous day, quote, i faced a great pressure, because of russia. that is...

we have an entirely different show planned for tonight, but the business -- the former fbi director, james comey and his former deputy, andrew mccabe. both of whom president trump saw as enemies. both of them faced rare, supposedly random, but highly intensive irs audits. you may remember back when then fbi director james comey oversaw the early stages of the investigation into ties between the trump campaign and russia. in the summer of 2016. with questions swirling about those ties, as trump took office, comey dropped a public bombshell in the early days of the trump presidency. >>...

>> all right. andy scholes, thank you very much. great to see you. thanks for joining us. i'm kasie e hunt. don't go a anywhere. "cnn this s morning" s starts r now. good morning, everyone. we're glad you're starting your day with us. here are five things to know. president biden and xi jinping easing tensions a bit after their high-stakes face to face summit. the leaders both greeting to reopening some military communications. and president biden signaling new hope for what could be an eminent hostage deal at a news conference last night. he's been deeply involved in the negotia...

Was, because to me she appeared very credible. >> one of the things she said about pat cipollone is that he had come to her and said don't let this happen, don't let them go to the capitol. we will be charged with every crime imaginable. does that statement if it holds to be true, does that take away the executive privilege or any kind of privilege that pat cipollone has? ? because obviously lawyers can't be engaged in the commission of crimes. the lawyer warns about the possible commission of a crime, is that possible information or can he testify against that? ? >> i say the conversation tha...

>> i say the conversation that he had with him is probably not privileged to begin with. i don't think you have to find an exception. to get communications a may have had with the president. so if he said mister president you should not go to the capitol because here the reasons are why would be illegal, i think that would be privileged. but him just saying to another staffer that he says it might violate every law imaginable, i don't think that that itself is privileged, so the executive privilege has some gray areas. but at its core is that senior staff should be able to give candidate advic...