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Putin, up to and including that astounding helsinki summit, the subject of part of that washington post report where the president met privately with putin and basically came out on the stage with vladimir putin and complimented putin and questioned the american intelligence community. >> garret, do you know congress tried to question that interpreter? >> that's a very complicated answer. and there are some legitimate executive privilege concerns stemming from the idea that presidents need to be able to have some private conversations with foreign leaders and that's not necessarily a precedent...

Interpreter? >> well, i think that's not -- that's a very complicated answer, and there are some legitimate executive privilege concerns stemming from the idea that president's need to be able to have some private conversations with foreign leaders and that's not necessarily a precedent that we should want to set as a democracy and as a government. but you do have to look at the pattern of behavior here which is this is a president who knows that these questions are being raised about his behavior with russia vis-a-vis vladimir putin and is still going out of his way to have these incredibly o...

Question what john kelly, the white house chief of staff, said last night on fox news, he said there was -- the white house was not in communication with bannon and did not ask him to invoke executive privilege and not responding to these questions. now, caaccording to this letter from bannon's attorney, the white house had informed me that he is -- that bannon is not authorized to discuss his time during the transition or in the white house until the committee and the white house reach an accommodation on the appropriate scope of information that mr. bannon would be free to share without impl...

Telling their congressmen they want to hear more about the tangible things going on in the white house. seeing trump's tax returns are chief among them as well as more transparency as it comes to the russia investigation. >> ali vitali, thank you, and scott cohn as well in los angeles. with former fbi director james comey's senate testimony set for thursday, the big question in washington this weekend, will president trump try to muzzle comey through executive privilege. "the new york times" quotes senior administration officials who say the president won't try to stop comey. and whatever he...