U.S. President Donald Trump will decide whether to invoke his presidential powers to block former FBI Director James Comey from giving congressional testimony next week, White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Friday.
If questioned again in Congress next week about whether the President tried to obstruct the investigation of Trump campaign operative Gen. Michael Flynn, it will be impossible for Comey to walk away from his previous and oft repeated refusals to comment on specific individuals under investigation without shattering what remains of his own reputation for integrity.
The New York Times first reported that, in his remarks to the Russians, Trump called Comey "crazy, a real nut job".
Senators will nearly certainly ask Comey whether Trump asked him to drop an Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into Flynn's contacts with Russian government officials.
Experts say that if Trump tries to invoke executive privilege with respect to his conversations with Comey, it likely won't hold any water.
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.Flynn was sacked after less than a month because of revelations that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his communications with Russia's ambassador to the United States.
Comey, who was leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe into alleged Russian meddling in last year's U.S. presidential election, was sacked by Trump last month, four years into his 10-year term.
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The House Democrats said Americans would view any White House decision to block Comey "as additional evidence of obstruction of justice".
Collins said testimony by former FBI Director James Comey, scheduled for Thursday, is crucial to her understanding of whether Trump was trying to quash the FBI investigation into these issues before Comey's firing last month. "I think loyalty to the country, loyalty to the USA, is important". "So basically, if Comey really wants to testify, realistically there's nothing the Trump administration can do to stop him", Ohlin said.
They also told McGahn that federal court decisions have established that only two types of executive privilege seeking to protect communications by the president could apply in Comey's case.
Trump asked Comey to drop the Flynn investigation, said a person who was given a copy of a memo Comey wrote about the conversation. The court ruled that President Richard Nixon's audio recordings of White House conversations should be turned over to prosecutors.
Collins said that the Senate investigation is taking up a lot of time.
Just as the Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris accord brought White House strategist Steve Bannon into direct confrontation with Jared and Ivanka, any Russian Federation spill will play into Bannon's hands. In the end, we can expect a cascade of colorful sparks and thick smoke but no real fire at the next edition of "Comey under oath".
Ahead of former FBI Director James Comey's much-anticipated testimony, Sen.
SC senator Lindsey Graham suggested Friday that a planned hearing next week with former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey could descend into a political "hit job" if the director focuses only on reported conversations between him and the president.
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