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Next week the source says it's possible comey could come to a different conclusion the white house is weighing whether to assert executive privilege to block hess testimony. kellyanne conway says she believes he should talk. >> he will not invoke executive privilege? >> the president will make that decision. >> reporter: comey works for the government. they can't order him to stay silent. they say his tweets and declarations like these. >> we had a very nice dinner, at that time he told me you are not under investigation, which i knew anyway. >> reporter: waive the president's right. oughts ar...

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. >>...

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...

>> it could be the most explosive testimony on capitol hill in years. or it could not happen at all. james comey is expected to testify this thursday about the russia investigation. the "new york times" says that will go on. >> mr. trump may, though, to use his executive privilege. it allows him to keep his private conversations private. here's more now from jessica snyder. >> reporter: tonight, new insight into how james comey might recounts his conversations with the president a. source with knowledge of comey's thinking says that while comey was disturbed about his interactions with preside...

November, 2019 and the withdrawal would take place a year after that. so this will become a major campaign issue, a major issue for the next u.s. presidential election and it could possibly be reversed. in any case, donald trump is not focusing on the basic issue of climate science at all at this moment, which is very interesting given his campaign rhetoric. >> it will certainly be a topic of the mid-terms in the united states as well. >> that's right. >> another question that won't go away, russia the question whether the united states president could use executive privilege to permit james c...