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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.

Comey, fired by Trump last month, is due to testify on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee in both an open session and behind closed doors. The hearings could add to problems facing the president over probes into alleged Russian meddling in last year's U.S. election and potential collusion by his campaign.

In an interview with ABC News, Conway appeared to indicate that the president would allow Comey to testify, saying, "We'll be watching with the rest of the world when Director Comey testifies."

But asked directly whether Trump would use executive privilege to prevent Comey from speaking with lawmakers, Conway added: "The president will make that decision."

Legal experts say Trump could invoke a doctrine called executive privilege to try to stop Comey from testifying. But such a maneuver would likely draw a backlash and could be challenged in court, they said.

Trump fired Comey on May 9, prompting a political firestorm and accusations by critics that he was improperly seeking to hinder an FBI probe into Russia's role in the election and potential collusion by Trump's campaign.

Comey is expected to be asked by the Senate panel about conversations in which the president is reported to have pressured him to drop a related FBI investigation into Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, whose ties to Russia are under scrutiny.

The Justice Department and several U.S. congressional committees are investigating the Russia matter.

The Russian government has denied U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that it sought to influence the election in Trump's favor, but Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that some Russian individuals may have acted on their own.

Trump, who has raised doubts about the U.S. agencies' findings, has denied any collusion.

YTown, you have a good point.

now can you actually comment on the topic at hand? why would he do this if he doesn't have anything to hide? cause this isn't fast & furious, this is potentially beyond worse.

In an interview with ABC News, Conway appeared to indicate that the president would allow Comey to testify, saying, "We'll be watching with the rest of the world when Director Comey testifies."

But asked directly whether Trump would use executive privilege to prevent Comey from speaking with lawmakers, Conway added: "The president will make that decision."

i feel you.

but we've seen "hey may have/do" articles before only for Trump to go ahead and go through with it.

like withdrawing from the paris accord, as the most recent example.

i think you of all people should understand why none of us can take anything Kellyanne Conway says as truth, at least not until it's verified.

she's notorious for giving inaccurate statements.

Sen. Graham fears Comey testimony may be 'hit job' on Trump

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5457553869001/?#sp=show-clips

-And Lindsey has no love for Trump.

Trump let Comey stay around a lot longer than Hillary would have. Trump gave him his chance to prove himself and he got fired for being a Primadonna in the end.

how am i wrong?

last i checked, Trump can't fire congress.

he can fire Comey though. you don't think he wouldn't fire the politicians investigating him if he could?

stop.

You stop. If 5 people are pointing guns at you, taking out one of them does not solve your problem.

Sen. Graham fears Comey testimony may be 'hit job' on Trump

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5457553869001/?#sp=show-clips

-And Lindsey has no love for Trump.

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Trump loses either way on this one. If he blocks Comey's testimony he will look extremely guilty, if he doesn't block Comey's testimony he will look extremely guilty.

I have lost track of how many times you, Rocket, mac, and others have said a similar thing about these so called Russian connections. Over and over again we read how Trump was bought by Putin, he's a traitor, the story is going to break any day now, blah blah blah.

Then next week rolls around, and nothing. And then nothing again. If we had a mainstream media that wasn't largely just a propaganda wing for the Democratic party, this story would have been dead months ago.

I'll tell you what though. Comey is going to testify soon and if I have to eat my words, so be it. But even you would agree that after a year of this, if the former FBI director does not verify your claims, it's time to give this whole thing up. Fair?

i like how you keep changing the terms of the deal. no wonder you like Trump, you act just like him.

Comey is no longer investigating Trump. Trump fired him, remember? cause of the "russia thing".

you originally said let's wait til the actual investigation is done, and now you want to change it to after Comey's hearing?

you're all over the place. and i see you're still lying your ass off, trying to claim it's just the Dems and the mean ole media doing this.

Unlike the GOP, I'll give it up when the investigations are done and we know the truth. I won't ask for 9 investigations like y'all did with Benghazi, but until then "Lock him up, lock him up!" lol

Trump fired Comey because he wouldn't pledge his loyalty to him. He was investigating him over the "Russia thing" and wouldn't drop the investigation into his boy Flynn.

And what's with this "worried" comment? What do I have to be worried about? How many times are you gonna assume what I'm thinking and be massively wrong? Stop talking to me as if I want this to happen, when I've made it perfectly clear I do not actively cheer for the POTUS to commit treason.

multiple news outlets have posted that.

and i trust CNN a whole lot more than any of the nonsense you post from.

what was that one website you cited the other day? conservative something something, that was hilarious.

but anyway, how bout you stick to the terms of the original deal. once the investigation is complete, then we will have at it.

unless of course you try and pull a Trump again.

also, that is treason.

Trump conspiring with a foreign government - and more important, our greatest adversary - in order to win an election is pretty much a textbook definition of treason. He (allegedly) betrayed our democracy, our people, our country in order to win an election.

so for the sake of everybody, that better not be true. because if it is, he deserves to be hanged.

If true, trying to get Comey to ease up on the Flynn investigation is interfering in a government investigation So if true, there's that also.

Trump simply had no clue as to some of the rules and as such, has probably sunk himself because of it. Rookie moves.

If in fact he tried to get Comey to ease up on the Flynn investigation, that's a little more than a rough moment. That's interfering in a government investigation.

For all of the claims that he's surrounded himself with such smart people, this certainly wasn't a smart move.

Former FBI Director James Comey is headed to Capitol Hill next week to share details of his conversations with President Donald Trump as part of the Senate’s Russia probe.

Comey will testify next Thursday, June 8, before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, including any coordination between Trump campaign associates and the Russian government.

The Senate’s main interest in Comey concerns the nature of his encounters with Trump and whether Comey took contemporaneous notes of their meetings.

One such memo reportedly written by Comey, leaked after his firing on May 9, detailed a conversation between him and the president in which Trump said, "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," referring to the FBI’s investigation into Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign as Trump’s national security adviser on Feb. 13 after misleading Vice President Mike Pence and others about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.

Trump said last month he was planning on firing Comey and was thinking of Russia when he made his decision.

“When I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story,’ Trump told NBC News in an interview.

He revealed to Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting that firing Comey, whom he referred to as a “nut job,” eased the pressure from the Russia investigation, according to The New York Times.

Trump has maintained that he’s not under investigation and that there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia during the election. He has dismissed the various Russia probes as a “hoax” and “witch hunt.”

Comey’s public hearing is scheduled to begin 10 a.m. ET on June 8, with a closed-door session in the afternoon.

As they say, the devil is in the details. When you talk about collusion, what exactly do you mean? Did somebody in the Trump administration hear from somebody, who knows somebody else, that there's going to be a damaging leak sometime in the future? That's one thing. Trump working directly with Putin is a whole 'nother animal.

Which is it? What exactly do you mean by collusion? That's one thing I've never been able to pin somebody down on; they never actually say what they mean, but the media told them there was collusion so many times so they know it is true and work backwards to find the evidence.

But anyway, we'll see what comes of it. I'm looking forward to hearing what Comey has to say.

is today Bold Face Lie Saturday?

how do we never say anything we actually mean?

everybody has defined what colluding with the Russians is. from creating a backdoor channel with russian diplomats and businessmen in order to give russia relief of sanctions, to getting on stage and actively encouraging foreign and third party agencies (wikileaks) to hack us, to hiring people with clear conflict of interest, to hiring people who conviently forgot to include their contacts with Russian agents during background checks and testimonies (flynn, sessions) to straight up nepotism (ivanka, kushner).

i don't even think i named everything.

and what's worse, the thing with Flynn is already proven. here's a guy who lied on his clearance about contacts with foreign agents, taking money from RT, a state sponsored russian media outlet, lobbying for a foreign government (Turkey) along with some other nonsense, so much so that he wants to plead the 5th, and ask for immunity in order to testify, after he HIMSELF said asking for immunity is a sign of guilt.

and then you got the nerve to be like "there's nothing to see here".

ok. posters on this board have already given you a clear definition of what trump colluding with the russians means. just because you don't like the answer doesn't mean much of anything at this point.

at best, Trump has been gullible enough to get played by people clearly working for russian interest. at worst, he's an active part of it.

it's a lose/lose situation for this country no matter what, but i much rather deal with a gullible president than one who actively took part in the scandal.

but him being gullible, obvlious, and flat out ignorant enough to allow this crap to happen in the first place is enough for impeachment, as he has already demonstrated with his blatant Nepotism and lack of understanding on how government works is a complete embarrassment to what is suppose to be the greatest country on this planet.

Yes. When you try to influence a federal investigation that is a crime. You're smart enough to know that.