and an oval office meeting where comey said president trump pressured him to drop the investigation into his former national security adviser michael flynn. >> did the president engaging obstruction of justice? >> we're focused on the president's agenda and going forward all will be addressed to outside counsel. >> reporter: the russian investigations are ramping up. house investigators issuing their first subpoenas to flynn and president trump's personal lawyer michael cohen seeking their testimony and business records. congressional investigators are examining whether attorney general jeff sessions had another undisclosed meeting with russian ambassador sergey kislyak, this time at a reception that session and kislyak attended in april when then candidate trump delivered his first major foreign policy address at the mayflower hotel in washington. >> have you met with any other russian officials since you endorsed donald trump? >> i don't believe so.

we meet a lot of people. >> reporter: sessions failing to discloese meetings with the russian ambassador twice before. and again when he applied for a security clearance amid mounting pressure back in march sessions of forced to recuse himself from the russia probe. the justice department defending sessions, denying any wrongdoing. hillary clinton leveling a sharp accusation suggesting russia did not act alone in their election interference. >> the russians in my opinion and based on the intel and counter intel people i've talked to could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided. >> reporter: the president reviving his favorite nickname for his favorite rival on twitter all this as the white house offered a bizarre response to the bewildering covfefe

twitter. this afternoon in the rose garden the president is expected to announce his decision on the paris climate agreement. sources have told cnn he's prepared to withdraw the u.s. from the deal but as we've learned before nothing is final until it comes out of the president's mouth. joe, thank you very much. three subpoenas issued by the house intel committee seek information about unmasking requests made by obama administration officials. those subpoenas came from chairman devon nunez who supposedly stepped aside from this russian investigation. suzanne malveaux is live on capitol hill with more. how does that work? >> reporter: that's the question, really, because the house intelligence chairman devon nunez at the center of yet another controversy and raising some serious questions about whether or not he has truly sidelined himself from this russian investigation.

the new dispute stems from seven new subpoenas issued by the house intelligence committee on wednesday. four seeking testimony and documents from former national security adviser michael flynn and president trump's private attorney michael cohen. they were approved by both parties for their russia meddling probe. but the three others were issued unilateral by chairman devon nunez without democratic approval. the "wall street journal" says those subpoenas were issued to the fbi, cia and nsa for information about alleged unmasking by former obama administration officials seeking details about exactly what led to the unveiling of the names of trump aides who were in contact with russian officials and were caught up in surveillance of foreign officials. former national security adviser susan rice, former u.n. ambassador samantha power and john brennan all named in the subpoenas. a senior aide claims nunez was

acting privately from the russia investigation and his aides stress nunez never entirely recused himself but only temporarily stepped aside. >> can this investigation continue as you as chairman. >> why would it not? >> reporter: in april nunez announced he was temporarily putting congressman mike conway in charge of the russia probe. nunez faced a firestorm of criticism about how he handled classified materials when he obtained documents during a secret white house meeting without telling democrats on his own committee. >> i have seen intelligence reports that clearly show that the president elect and his team were, i guess, at least monitored. >> i don't agree with the chairman's characterization. >> reporter: last month cnn learned nunez was still reviewing information related to the russian investigation. also in a private committee meeting there were republicans who were stressing that nunez

still had subpoena power. now the house rules state the chairman can issue subpoena, but only with consulting minority party. >> and this is the problem with a political inquiry is that politics will be played. thank you very much. let's bring in the panel. cnn political analysts and counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. maggie, the difference between recusal and stepping aside temporarily seems to be purely semantical despite what the nunez staffer says. bless you. although i do take that as an editorial comment. >> i meant that. >> so doing a little bit of digging. other than a little bit of illegal distinction which is where recusal is where someone is making the suggestion that you need to step away and what that process is where a judge or a juror steps away.

in this political context it's self-perpetuating and like sessions, sessions didn't go through a process to remove himself, he said i have to step away. said it publicly. put somebody else in there. how is nunez different? >> it's the same. to your point this is the problem with the political inquiry and why people are calling for an independent commission something that would be more outside of politics. you had a headline which was nunez steps aside or recuses. same thing about session. neither of them has been exactly true. so in the case of nunez this has been a pet issue, i would say for the trump administration for several weeks now this unmasking issue. the president put it forward in a meeting, in an interview with my colleague something about susan rice. i think you'll see a huge focus on her. there are legitimate questions about how intelligence is handled in this country and that pre-dates this administration,

pre-dates the obama administration. but when it is put forward in sort of this parallel track to the russian investigation, it's going to be hard for people not to see it as an effort to distract from russia. >> also, john, we know nunez and sessions did not step aside. they may have briefly but they are back. >> sessions enough so that his deputy was able to put miller in place. >> but involved with comey. >> if you really parse the sequence of events that came out after the trump meeting it's clear he's not totally hand off. nunez thing is particularly problematic and insulting for this reason. nunez kept, keeps on basically parroting white house talking points in his actions on this committee. there are two core points. surrogates in the white house constantly pushing. first it's deflection. not us. let's look at the obama administration. the leaks. the unmasking. if you have a member of congress who has been entrusted in that

role pursuing those talking points, that's a sign of a corrupt inquiry. >> let's put up phil mudd's face for a second. >> this is our graphic. >> you see phil mudd's face. that tells you everything about how he feels about these subpoenas for the unmasking. explain to people why you look the way you do, phil. >> to say that this is a political exercise is polite. this is a freak show. maggie nailed it. there are two issues here. one of primary concern to the american people that is what happened during an american presidential election and how were americans involved. how do we move forward and protect an election particularly a presidential election in 20. the message to moscow now intervene it's fine. not only is it fine we'll continue to work with you. there's stories today to give back those items back to russia tarp sanctioned by president obama months ago.

secondary issue how does u.s. intelligence community handle information. devon nunez decides instead of being a politician for america he's a two headed freak show. if you are a national security adviser several months ago in the waning months of the obama administration your responsibility is to execute policy on russia. you get a piece of intelligence that an american citizen is interfering by having secret conversations with the russians that discuss sanctions and you think it's worth investigating why the national security adviser wants to know which american citizen is doing that? that's a freak show not a political side show. >> the next step is james comey will testify in front of the senate. we have sources that have told cnn he plans to say publicly that, yes, president trump did pressure him to back off the in from flynn investigation.

where would that leave us? >> i think a couple of things. number one he would be making that statement under oath so it gives it a different patina as opposed to what people close to him say. that video of that testimony could be very striking number one. number two, it is almost guaranteed and i know we're not in the prediction business but i don't feel i'm going out on a limb. you'll see potentially a very active president trump twitter feed in response to that. it will be like waving a red flag in front of a bull. that's a night mayor scenario for the president's lawyers. >> look what we already saw. yesterday the president, you know, covfefe side -- the reason why i point to the carter page tweet what we learned today. he took carter page the president of the united states, a man who says he doesn't know took ownership of his entire story and says he can blow this case out of the water.

a man he says he doesn't know. and he in no small way suggests that comey and brennan were lying or misleading in their testimony and called this once again a witch-hunt. if comey gets up there and says exactly what we believe he's going to say now he's going to be in complete opposition with the president of the united states. not only does that become a high-profile nightmare for the president's lawyers it makes it much more difficult to argue executive privilege. clearly comey was working tightly but the leak with the meeting with the russians with the president ran down the former head of the fbi that comey put himself forward. there seems to be a pattern of obstruction of justice the president is removing legal arguments his team can use on his behalf. >> what if the president exercises executive privilege before comey shows up and comey

can't testify? >> utter cowardice. the president has maligned the fbi director and maligned this investigation. when he chooses to do that publicly, he'll use his power the guy is not allowed to speak. james comey will not speak about the investigation of individuals involved in colluding with the russians. he'll talk about what happened many months later. that's a conversation with the president that's not private. the second thing is don't tell me he's interfering with the investigation. i guarantee you he's not is going to discuss carter page, he's not going to discuss paul manafort, he'll discuss what the president did to impede that investigation months earlier. i don't know why the president would interfere unless he's a coward. >> legally, asking for privilege to keep things private, well recognized. a lot of law out there that

gives the president that power. two checks on that. one is disclosing the conversations yourself which goes to the twitter feed. if the president is talking about the substance and contents of these conversations how can he ask for a privilege. also mueller. the ability of the doj to supersede the rights of that up m -- immunity. now the question why are you so righteous about the unmasking when from the american perspective don't we have a right to know if these names that are supposed to be kept private are made public for political purposes and that's the apparent motivation for these subpoenas. >> i think that a conversation about how america collect intelligence on foreigners and when that involves an american citizen how does that information get revealed.

appropriate. there's two issues. number one, how much time and investigation that's more critical russian meddling in an election do we spend on the second issue. this should be separate and apart. when nunez steps in today my request is why is he doing it? the second issue is separating the issue of unmasking and issue of leaking. i don't think congress can investigate leaking because people will get up on the stand and say i didn't do anything. let's be clear about lanes in the road and muddying up a russian investigation. thank you, panel. we'll check back with all of you. in a matter of hours president trump will announce his decision on the paris climate accord. world leaders urging him to stay in the agreement. will he? we discuss that next. was going on in the world. there's a jacket that's reflective for visibility... ...a sleeping bag jacket, jackets that turn into tents.

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in just hours president trump will make a major announcement about whether the u.s. will stay in the paris climate accord. what is the accord? the pact was made with 195 countries. aims to reduce greenhouse emissions. it attempts to cap global warming at 2 degrees celsius. it is nonbinding and no penalties if goals are not met. let's bring back our panel.

so, maggie, the signs suggest that the president is going to pull out of the paris accord but, he's unpredictable. anything could happen. >> i'm so glad we spent two days on president trump's unpredictability on rolling out announcements and managed to get us to buy into will he or won't he? >> because you think that's a contest that's not true he'll pull out. >> i think he is. so i talked to one administration official last night who said yes he's planning on pulling out of this agreement and i said could it change and the person started laughing of course because this is how he approaches things. that said, i do think he's going to pull out. i don't know what the withdrawal will look like. a lot of this will be how he describes how he wants to do, how he defines the terms of leaving. one thing that is unlikely is a plan that the legislative affairs office has been talking about is kicking it over to the senate to have them ratify it

where it won't pass and it would be a poison pill they would hand over. for the president this is seen as fulfilling a campaign promise and this is where he has been for a very long time. he doesn't see the point. he think it's questionable science. we've seen that over and over again. this is a nonbinding agreement. i think what the implications are something that needs to be thought about. what it really means. symbolically it will send a strong message. >> this sas the second step after the kyoto agreement which was a real agreement this is different. obama did this, i think, by executive mandate. this wasn't something he had to go the senate about. pulling out is really easy. david drucker, whether global warming is a hoax, the scientific community has decided donald trump goes back and forth on it depending what he wants in that moment, but the money was a big part of his factor here also, right?

the united states was pledging about a billion dollars to help smaller economies deal with their own emission output and he didn't like that. >> right. i think, chris, this is always where a lot of republican voters have been, even republicans that aren't that high on donald trump might not have voted for him and don't like what they see from him is that they've always been skeptical of these recall international agreements where the u.s. would be carrying the lion's share of making up for what's going on in developing economies. they don't have the same regulations we do. so they've always been suspicious how it would hit us in the pocketbook. even for this upscale sbn republican we've been focusing on for what could it mean for the 2018 elections that believes manmade climate change needs to be dealt with, i don't think they will be upset if he pulls

out. any republican who might have been president other than donald trump probably would have done something similar. >> david, hold on there are a bunch of problems with what you just said. first of all, mitt romney who was the previous republican nominee tweeted yesterday if america pulls out of the paris accord it would be a loss of american leadership. there's consensus at a high republican level. example number two, a recent poll that the atlantic shows a majority of americans support staying in the paris accord including a majority of republicans. so let's not blow that aside. >> i've also seen polling a majority of people voted for donald trump would be happy to exit the paris accord. the polling is inconsistent because it hasn't polled the issue consistently. i didn't say they don't care. i said they are suspicious of international agreements, they are worried it could hit them in

the pocketbook. you have trump voters in places where energy development and exploration is a big deal throughout the south. they will be happy with this. then suburban upscale republicans who do believe in manmade climate change they think it's a problem. they are not convinced this will do anything about it and not convinced countries like china and other developing countries with huge pollution problems will do what's required and it will fall on us. so i say there are consequences to this, but it doesn't mean that the republican party is going to look at this and revolt. >> the polling shows that there is broad support for the paris accord. you can cherry pick different parts. but there's a historic resistance to international accords on the republican base. but the larger question is if his secretary of state who used to run exxonmobil is concerned about climate change, if his daughter and family are lobbying

and the pope talks to him on climate change who is he catering to? why is steve bannon winning this debate against so much counter vailing evidence as wells much popular opinion. >> to put some meat on the bones of what john is saying put up the graphic who within the administration that's close to the president. you have his daughter. take that for what it's worth. he listen to his kids. rex tillerson, secretary of state. remember he was the head of exxon. there are two different points of emphasis. rick perry, the energy secretary all saying you should stay in. mitt romney, china and you have russia ironically saying it's a problem if the u.s. leaves this accord. then leave is steve bannon and scott pruitt. this seems like a base play. >> what you're seeing a president who is embattled politically on a lot of different fronts and whenever that happens he's most receiptive with arguments that

will play with his core voters and this is one of them. this is not, by the way, his core voters is not republican base at large. it's a section of the republican base and that is to whom this is going to appeal and i think he has never been planning on making a huge change. to be very fair to the president after he was elected he came to our office and talked about fairs accord. he said he hadn't made up his mind. he was clear where his head was. this is not a substantial difference. >> another factor that should not be ignored. this is easy for the president to do. withdrawing from this is not like tpp. it doesn't put any new set of obligations on him. doesn't figure out for him how to spend money. >> with the executive orders he signed many people say he has de facto -- >> this is a real problem -- yes he's removing obama's legacies but part of obama relying so much on executive orders and

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this is the second time in less than a week a noose was discovered on smithsonian property. surely there are cameras in this museum somewhere. surely there are security cameras and hopefully the perpetrator will be caught quickly. >> there's no word they know who did it. >> i assume a new building has security cameras. it's reminder when you think you've moved on to something no, reason to talk about it any more, it's still very real. rears its ugly head. just when you thought or at least i was praying that covfefe or kerfuffle was dying down, along comes sean spicer to stir things up. you can say that people give spicer a hard time. fine. fair point maybe sometimes. not this time. we want you to listen to what he said when asked about this and

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all right. the white house press secretary sean spicer once again at it. a bizarre explanation for president trump's late night covfefe twitter typo.

you're about to hear audio, you won't see spicer because in this bizarro world we're living in, they decided in the white house not to do briefings on camera that often so there's only audio. >> that will make it better. >> that's the truth, by the way. this is what they want to do. so listen to what happened. >> do you think people should be concerned that the president posted somewhat of an incoherent tweet last night and then it stayed up for hours? >> no. >> why did it stay up so long? is no one watching? >> the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant. like -- >> what does it mean? >> all right. so let's bring back our panel. >> what does it mean? >> that's the voice of all of us.

so, let's put to the side, we don't have enough time it's only a three hour show absurdity of only doing audio and not on camera briefings. we thought it was a type judge. every indication it was type judge. the president played with it as a type judge. sean spicer, i guess, intimates that it wasn't a typo. we hear you kind of call out in your puzzled -- what did you make of that? >> it was crazy. and i hate to use that word but it really was. i'm not going to assume as a reporter what the word was. i was assuming that it meant coverage but if he says there's a small group of people who understood what it was, so what is it? what is covfefe. >> it doesn't exist. you can say it anyway you want. that's the beauty of it. >> it was real covfefe.

here's the deal. it was a ten minute or 11 minute off camera briefing that was backed into, right into presidential event. it was timed perfectly. sean came out. he looked like he was meat, raw meat in front of hungry i hhyen. everyone in unison in that room again the spin is out of control now. you wonder if it's spin or we're going to throw it at him and don't care. it doesn't make any sense. if you say small group of people know what that word means tell us what that word means. on top of that it makes you wonder about the checks and balances with the president and these archive tweets. he can delete it but still in the twitter sphere. this president, he's the president of the united states. he did this. i mean we all have thumbs, we all have auto correct problems.

but this was taken to another level and you just wonder about so many different things when you see something like this from the president of the united states of america. >> no kidding, april. but john, i don't want to gloss over the idea we got away from the standard on camera press briefing and now doing audio only. this is a major shift. >> this is a major shift. let's be honest for it. it's an attempt to contain the shame. people too often have to defend the indefensible. that's the context. >> it's not going to work. audio can be hard. >> audio is a matter of public record. if you try to defend the indefensible you'll find yourself in an absurd position. sean spicer is intimating covfefe has been an inside white house for a long time.

it's not. own it. if you can own it it reflects an environment better suited to junior high school than the leader of the free world and his support staff. >> so then the covfefe winds up getting momentum and not just among the media but becomes part of the dialogue between the president and his notorious nemesis hillary clinton. the president calling her once again crooked hillary. i don't know if we have the tweet to put up there. and then she responds. okay. so hillary comes out. she starts talking about some things the president doesn't like. she's blaming everybody. hillary responds this way. >> i don't think we can get into covfefe right now. >> i thought it was a hidden message to the russians. >> do you? [ laughter ] >> she then puts out a tweet of her own when he calls her crooked hillary, and she says people in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe. >> so what's your take on this

in terms of how good it is for the president. >> i'm just trying to figure out if this is a nick cage movie or tom hanks movie. to me i thought it was a big joke. the president had fun with it you guys go figure out what this means. sean with his bizarre comment. but i think in all seriousness the reason we pay attention this is because he is the president and has used twitter as a prime communications platform and so we can't just throw it under the rug as a mistake as you would anybody else and then, of course, fix it. we all had auto correct problems, especially in the morning it's the bain of my existence. >> the reason we care about it is not because of this silly tweet, it's a window into the problem with random thoughtless tweeting when you're president of the united states. because look at the carter page tweet right after it.

he now completely changed the white house narrative on page. everybody comes out, everybody who takes a phone call or place as phone call from that white house all of us will attest we don't know carter page, he doesn't have anything to do with us, we don't know who he is. the president changes that narrative completely owning carter page, owning his story and making him as credible as comey and brennan. >> correct. that's why we have tried to figure out what this meant or at least to make sure did this mean anything? we need to find out. but, again, this all gets back to the president. he's created this sort of environment where he does so much speaking on twitter. sometimes things that don't make sense but are actually related to policy or this on going investigation that we just can't ignore it and figure that it's something funny without asking the question. >> look, it's a snapshot into the mind of the leader of the free world. it's news and has the effect of

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and we got a long way to go, you know, for us as a society and for us as african-americans will we feel equal. >> and florida police releasing dash cam video of tiger woods arrest on suspicion of dui. officers say they found him asleep at the wheel on the side of the road early monday morning. tiger slurring his speech, stumbling in the video despite a breathalyzer test showing no alcohol in his system which says he had a bad reaction to prescription medications. tiger woods is due in court on july 5th. that dash cam video is just really striking to watch. thank you very much. james comey plans to testify in an open hearing so what do lawmakers want to get out of him? we'll talk to republican mike lee about it next. ♪

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james comey is expected to testify before the senate intelligence committee as soon as next week. as the house intel committee issued subpoenas related to the

russian investigation and sensitive information about president trump's associates was handled. joining us now is republican senator mike lee of utah. he's author of a new book "written out of history." we'll get you to the book momentarily. you have many premises in there. great to see you. if james comey was the in fact president trump pressured him or pressed him to back off the michael flynn investigation then what? >> i'm not sure but that would surprise me. i'm on the judiciary committee. a few weeks ago we had director comey testify. somebody asked him about political pressure. this is something i have not seen in my experience has not occurred. >> he wrote people zwros the contrary. >> haven't seen the memos personally. those memos would seem to contradict his testimony. that would be my first question how do you reconcile that memo if it does say that with the testimony you prostride the

committee in early may. >> cnn has sources that that's what he's going to testify, to he'll say he was prusessured by the president. if he says that then and you believe him does that mean obstruction of justice? >> i don't know. i would have a lot of questions after that. i want to know how he reconciles his statement with the earlier statement. i want to know why he didn't resign. a lawyer in this circumstance representing a client would make a withdrawal, would announce his decision to withdraw representation. i would think james comey would be expected to resign if he were told to do something like that. >> he has said and we know this through other sources he felt he could handle it, he wasn't going back off of the michael flynn investigation, he was going to disregard that request and that he felt that he could navigate through this. >> look, there's an infinite number of possibilities out there. i won't pre-judge the facts until i have them. i'll have follow up questions

for him. >> do you feel as a republican that all of this russia investigation is impeding your agenda? >> not really. look, there are a lot of things impeding us. i don't necessarily think that is stopping us. there's some inertia we need to break but we're proceeding with the work of the senate. there are ongoing discussions on a lot of legislative matters, things are not being defaulted by this. there's attention by the media that's going in different directions. >> but not a distraction for health care or tax reform. a distraction but not a disruption. >> in other words there's nothing you would change in terms of the president's navigating this better or focusing your attention. >> i rather not be dealing with this. i'm sure the white house and members of congress. these are the facts. what i'm saying there's no reason why we can't do our job. >> do you want the president to stay in the paris climate accord or not? >> no. this is a bad deal for the

united states. this is not something i support. this is not a great deal for the united states. >> mitt romney tweeted that he thinks the president should stay in. >> there aren't many members of congress in the republican party, if any, that i'm aware of. >> lindsey graham. >> i'm not one of them. the reason i think it's a bad deal it costs the united states a lot of money and costs the united states a lot in terms of making a commitment to something that even a democratic congress with a newly minted democratic president barack obama in 2009 couldn't achieve. the steady march towards restriction of the emission of greenhouse gases was something they couldn't achieve in 20 oat. something president obama could have submitted to the senate but he didn't because he knew the will was there to exist. >> if we pull out u.s. is following the lead of syria and nicaragua? >> no. we're in a different league from those countries.

>> we would be standing with those two countries and not standing with the 195 others that feel it's important to be in the accord. >> the fact 195 other countries want to do something that's not in the interest of the united states is not a good reason for us to go there. >> keeping company with syria and nicaragua is sometimes eyebrow raising. >> and so is keeping company with 195 countries that's not in the interest of the united states. >> who has been written out of history. >> one was an iroquoi indian chief who talked about powers of government should remain close to the public. this was the structure fold by nations of iroquois tribe. >> do you think aaron burr got a

bad rap >> i do. i think he's been treated unfairly. we remember he's the fool who shot alexander hamilton. avenues good man. a complicated man. did a lot of great things for the country. he pushed back against thomas jefferson who tried in this greedy fit of power accumulation to go after aaron burr to have him prosecuted for treason a capital offense. he pushed back and using language of the constitution won his freedom. >> do you think that narrative is on the wrong side of popular pop culture at the moment in terms of how hamilton has taken off? >> yes. that's what makes this a good read. it's a counter narrative and one that makes a good graduation present or a good gift for anyone who wants to supplement their child's education. >> it's called "written out of history." thank you for being here. thanks to our international viewers for watching. for you cnn newsroom is next.

for our u.s. viewers will president trump pull out of the paris climate accord. "new day" continues right now. >> james comey will testify before the senate. >> i think mr. comey will be direct and straightforward. >> you can't let trump and his allies be a diversion. they are a threat. >> all questions on these matters will be referred to outside counsel. >> seven new subpoenas were issued by chairman devon nunez. >> congressional investigators are examining whether attorney general jeff sessions had an additional meeting with russia's ambassador. >> i deny having communications with the russians. >> if it's true it's extremely disturbing. >> the president is poised to pull the u.s. out of the historic climate accord. >> if he does withdraw that's a definitive statement by the president that believes climate change is a hoax. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> welcome