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Comey today talking about the president wanting to "lift the cloud" as a result of that unsubstantiated slashs dose yay put together by a former british intelligence operative. this is what comey writings. he said he had nothing to do with russia, had not been swrovd hookers in russia and had always assumed he was being recorded when in russia. he asked what we could do to lift the cloud. i replied we were investigating as quickly as we could and there would be great benefit if we didn't find anything to our having done the work. he agreed but reemphasized the problems this was causing him. i ...

Many world leaders, major corporations urging him to stay. others in the west wing say keep your campaign promise and get out. more on that coming up shortly here on "america's newsroom." >> shannon: big news today the house intelligence committee issuing subpoenas in the russia probe. michael flynn and president trump's lawyer michael kohn being called to testify. three major intelligence agencies also being subpoenaed. they are seeking documents from john brennan, susan rice and samantha power. those subpoenas related to allegations the obama administration improperly unmasked names of ameri...

Request for information regarding samantha powers. she was the united nations ambassador and served as a foreign policy advisor to then senator barack obama in his senate office before joining the administration. it's pretty clear that the house intelligence committee or factions there believe she had much greater involvement than previously suggested in the unmasking investigation. and that she actually had a greater involvement than did either susan rice or john brennan. those subpoenas among seven that were issued by the intelligence chairman. two issued by the ranking member adam schiff. t...

Kohn said he he would work with the attorneys to follow the subpoena. >> shannon: so what do we expect to hear from the president on the paris climate deal this afternoon? we are waiting. >> that's open to debate and speculation. yesterday we were getting indications the president would announce the u.s. was pulling out of the climate deal completely. then we started to get indications because he hadn't made a final decision, that maybe he would do a piecemeal approach to it. withdraw from certain parts of u.n. conventions while staying in the overall framework of the agreement. yesterday when...

There is speculation about whether president trump will invoke executive privilege and try to prevent comey from testifying. i think it would be a terrible mistake. but there is the argument that would be in his power. i think it would give the impression he is trying to hide something and ultimately it's going to come out in the testimony in front of the fbi. but the critical thing here, and michael was certainly pointing in this direction, is that if there is ever going to be an impeachment effort, it may start with a question, was there obstruction? and this testimony is going to either bui...