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Broad. they've asked mccabe to hand over any of the memos comey kept. chairman burr said he does expect to get those before thursday's hearing. anderson. >> joining us now a democratic member of the house intelligence committee. so the fact president trump will not exercise his executive privilege to prevent comey from testifying, does that surprise you at all? because politically the optics would not have looked good. >> no, it doesn't surprise me. the people i know, lawyers who know the ins and outs of executive privilege, tell me it would be very strange to exert executive privilege. and as...

Comey from talking about the russia probe. the testimony woucould be broad. burr and warner have melt with andrew mccabe. they asked him to hand over memos comey kept. >> thanks. joining us is congressman jim himes. the fact president trump will not exercise his executive privilege to prevent comey from testifying, does that surprise you? politically, the optics would not have looked good. >> yeah. it doesn't surprise me. the people i know, lawyers who know the ins and outs of executive privilege tell me it would be strange to exert it against somebody who is a private citizen. u as you point ...

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...

Block it. i mean, this is absurd. that he could talk about director comey with a russian am bass tor -- ambassador, say all sorts of things to the russian ambassador, but somehow prevent mr. comey from testifying in front of the united states congress about what the president said to him, that's absolutely absurd. the president has been giving b. there's no executive privilege on any of this. furthermore, the fact mr. comey is a former employee is relev t relevant. he'll say what he wants to say. i don't think the president is going to be able to get a federal judge to prevent comey from testi...

Executive privilege to prevent comey from testifying before congress next week. asked earlier today if the president planned to intervene to try and silence comey, white house press secretary did not rule it out. >> that committee hearing was just noticed, and i think obviously it's got to be reviewed. >> so that is not a no? >> i'm just saying i don't -- literally my understanding is the date for that hearing was just set. i have not spoken to counsel yet. i don't know what that -- how they're going to respond. >> if the president were to pursue an executive privilege claim to stop comey from...