it's going to devastate the economy if he pulls out. our state, our country not leading. these -- the number one job in america right now, the number one job, according to the bureau of labor is a technician. in ohio they are building turbines. scott walker in wisconsin just sent out an rfp. we should be building that stuff and sending it abroad. >> the american worker gets hurt when energy prices go up. germany pays twice what we do. we have a fracking revolution that is driving down costs. >> solar and wind are cheaper than coal. >> which is lowering emissions and creating jobs and natural

electricity. >> don't even say that, rick. >> last word. >> i'm just saying, right now china is canceling 107 of its coal plants because why? solar and wind are cheaper than coal. >> it's not reliable, not consistent. >> obviously, this is a very hot debate. no pun intended today. thank you both for your perspective. we're following a lot of news, so let's get right to it. >> james comey now ready to tell his side of the story. >> congressional invest day tors are examining whether jeff sessions had an additional private meeting with a russian ambassador. this is a very serious charge. >> the house intelligence committee issued seven subpoenas today. >> it looks like they were entirely driven by devin nunes. >> the president is expected to withdraw from the parties climate agreement. >> it will be an economic and environmental, a national

security risk and a model disaster. >> i thought it was a hidden message to the russians. >> this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. it is june 1st, 8:00 in the east. a source telling us fired fbi director james comey will testify before the senate and as early as next week. the big part of the testimony, the bombshell accusations that president trump pressured him to end the investigation into one of his top aids. the house intel committee also made a headline today issues the first subpoenas to michael flynn and to the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen as part of their russia probe. >> meanwhile, devin nunes issued seven subpoenas related to whether obama officials unmasked the identities of trump associates captured on surveillance of foreign officials. what happened to nunes recusing

himself? let's begin with joe johns. what is the latest, joe? >> well, people are talking about the possibility of james comey, in his own words, talking about conversations he had with the president of the united states, and the memos he wrote about those conversations also indications the white house could bring down saying it will now refer all questions about the russia investigation to the president's lawyer. no indication that the president, though, is going to stop tweeting about it. >> fired fbi director james comey now ready to tell his side of the story. first getting a legal green light from special counsel robert mueller. his test for the senate intelligence committee could come as early as next week. comey appears eager to discuss details about tense, private interactions he had with president trump, which he documented in memos, including a dinner where he says the

president asked him for a loyalty pledge and an oval office meeting with comey says president trump pressured him to drop the investigation into his former national security advisor, michael flynn. >> did the president engage in obstruction of justice. >> we are focussed on the president's agenda and going forward all questions on these matters will be referred to outside counsel. >> this latest bombshell coming as the russia investigations are ramping up. house investigators issues their first subpoenas to flynn and president trump personal lawyer michael cohen, seeking their testimony and business records. congressional investigators are examining whether attorney general jeff sessions had another indisclosed meeting with sergei kislyak at a session they attended in april when then candidate trump delivered his first major foreign policy address in washington. >> have you met with any other russian officials or folks connected to the russian government since you endorsed

donald trump? >> i don't believe so. you know, we meet a lot of people so -- >> sessions failing to disclose meetings with the russian ambassador twice before under oath during his confirmation hearing. >> i did not have communications with the russians. >> and again amid mounting pressure back in march, sessions was forced to recuse himself from the russian probe. the just sis department defending sessions and denying any wrongdoing. meanwhile, hillary clinton leveling a sharp accusation saying russia did not act alone in their election interference. >> the russians in my opinion and based on the intel and counter intel people i have talked to could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided. >> the president reviving his nickname. although the white house offered a bizarre response to the president's bewilders covfefe

typo. >> is no one watching this? >> no. i think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant. >> and in another tweet from the president, he said he will announce his decision on the paris climate accord this afternoon in the rose garden. sources have told us he is expected to withdraw the united states from that agreement. but as we all know, the president can change his mind. alison? >> yes, we do know that, so please keep us posted. joe, thank you very much. three of the seven subpoenas from the house intel committee deal with unmasking requests made by former obama administration officials. sources tell cnn that they were issued by chairman nunes who removed himself from the russia investigation in early april. live on capitol hill with more. it looks like devin nunes is back. >> he is back and this is a committee that can't agree on what they are investigating. this comes at a time when the house intelligence committee

shared devin nunes back in the spotlight in the midst of this controversy raising questions about whether or not he has even truly sidelined himself from the russia investigation. >> the new dispute stems from seven new subpoenas issued by the house intelligence committee on wednesday. president trump's private attorney, michael cohen. they were approved by both parties for their russia meddling probe. but the three others were issued yun lat rattly without democratic approval. the wall street journal says those were issued to the fbi, cia and nsa for information about alleged unmasking by former obama administration officials seeking details about what led to the unveiling of the names of trump aids who were in contact with russian officials and were caught up in surveillance of foreign officials. former national security advisor

susan rice, samantha power and former cia director john brennan all named in the subpoenas. a senior aid claims nunes was acting separately and he only recused himself. >> can this investigation continue? >> why would it not? >> in april nunes announced he was temporarily putting mike conway in charge of the russian probe. he faced a firestorm of criticism about how he handled classified materials when he obtained documents in a secret white house meeting. >> 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.

>> the house rules state the chairman can issue subpoenas if he consults with the democrats. it is clear that did not happen in some cases. also this morning the president now weighing in on this debate over what this committee should be looking at. the president tweeting just within the last hour saying the big story is the unmasking and surveillance of people that took place during the obama administration. >> all right. thank you very much. thus guaranteeing another news cycle of appraising what the president just tweeted and whether or not the russia probe should really just be about the unmasking and the leeaks. let's bring in our panel. mr. sanger, is the president correct, that that is really the story that matters, unmasking and surveillance. nunes once again is doing the bidding of the white house? >> it is an interesting story, but it may be the secondary

story. the core question here is what the russians did and whether there was any collusion and so forth. the unmasking was part of the effort by the obama administration to understand the intelligence reports we're seeing. i can understand their confusion because even to this day, long after they left office, four months after they left office, we're still trying to understand what the nature of the relationship, if any, was between the trump transition team, the trump campaign before that and the russians. you can't get at that information if, in looking at the intelligence reports, the identities of those in the united states were fully masked, and that's why susan rice and others asked to unmask them. it is not an unusual procedure. it has happened across republican and democratic administrations. the way the president phrased his tweet, though, he walked back to looking at the question of surveillance of him. i think we pretty well

established at that point by both democrats and republicans if there was surveillance underway oo of this transition, it was incidental. nobody has alleged other than the president that it was directed right at him. >> but how about this devin nunes? he didn't step down. he's clearly involved. he's issuing subpoenas. >> well, right. and i think that if congress was in session we'd hear a lot more outcry about that. but, you know, as he said, it does seem like that, you know, nunes is putting his hands back in this and really trying to defend the white house and plow this other track. and in a way it is a diversion from the matter at hand, which is, you know what russian did to

hack into the election torks try to influence the u.s. election. and, you know, this president over and other again has tried to make this more about him than it has been about the country. and the house intelligence committee is more willing to acquiescine his request. >> one of the reasons that precipitated nunes stepping away or whatever you want to call it, especially in light of his not stepping away, was an ethics investigation. do you believe charge wills be added in that ethics aspect of nunes for issuing subpoenas without apparently seeking the coordination of the ranking democrat on the committee or working with the committee at all? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> but wouldn't that trigger the ethics consideration? >> it certainly could. there is no doubt it certainly

could. we'll see what comes of that. but what nunes is making clear is, and i said this at the time that the -- that he stepped away. i think that the house -- i know they just issued subpoenas. i understand that there is some bipartisan work going on, but i think the house committee is not where the country should be looking to get answers and results as to what russia did to impact the american election. that is not a -- i just don't think that the american people are going to have confidence of what they're getting out of that committee mostly because of nunes behavior and because of the bipartisan sniping going on in that committee than we are seeing on the senate side and now with the special counsel removed from the political realm a little more with bob mueller. >> now we know james comey has agreed to testify publically. we understand he will be doing that next week, unless something stops him and there is our sources that are sharing with

cnn that he does plan to say that the president pressed him to back off the michael flynn investigation. we just had a senator on who said, well, i don't know i trust what comey is going to say because he told us that nobody tried to impede the investigation. and what he's hanging his hat on is this sentence where james comey said on may 3rd, i'm talking about we were told to stop something in an investigation. that would be a very big deal. >> in the context of a question about the doj. >> correct. about the doj and attorney general sessions. but that is what he said. that would have been a good opening there if he had wanted to talk about president trump trying to do something. so what's going to happen when comey testifies? >> well, interesting questions. so my colleagues at the time revealed a few weeks ago that comey was asked by the president

to go light or, you know, walk away from the investigation in the general michael flynn, shortly after flynn was dismissed as the national security advisor, and that he kept copious notes that he made sometimes in the car right as he was leaving the white house. so obviously there is going to be great interest in how he describes those meetings and what's in those notes. now, the president has an option here. he may have stepped on his own option, but he has one, which is to basically declare that these were privileged conversation, that they fall under executive privilege and that former director comey can't discuss them. i doubt that would hold up, given the degree that the president himself has discussed those meetings and tweeted about them. but, you know, it really gets at a critical issue. i'm not sure they fully thought through the consequences of

firing jim comey. had comey still been in office, still involved in the investigation and was called in front of this committee, he could say two things, i can't talk about it while its under investigation and i specifically can't talk about my conversations with the president because those who work for the president don't discuss those conversations. but letting him out, by forcing him out, he's almost freed him up to do that. it strikes me as another self-inflicted wound here. >> the irony is the man they originally tried to hang the comey decision on, rosenstein, wound up appointing a special council, which is the one animal that the president -- yes, he could get rid of a special counsel. but now it is insulated from him in a way it wouldn't have been otherwise. here's a question that remains to be answered. going to have trouble when he testifies with the republicans.

they're going to say if this was such a big deal, where were you? you should have come out. forget about keeping it in your diary. you should have told us. you certainly haven't been quiet in the past when there was something you wanted us to know and it raises this question of well, then what? if he says, yes, he told me to stop. he told me to leave him alone. we just had the congress on, democrat, from new york saying that would be obstruction of justice. do you guys agree with that? do you believe this is a slam dunk case for obstruction, that this is going to be a legality matter and not a political matter? anybody think that. >> i don't think it's slam dunk at all on the legality of obstruction of justice. as a political matter, i think it will indeed raise the stakes of that notion being part of this entire thing. and again this is so far down the road, chris, but like should the democrats win the house in 2018 and should they want to begin some sort of impeachment hearing, i would imagine then from a political matter,

obstruction of justice as we saw with previous presidents who were facing impeachment, that that's one of the charges that's in there. as a legal matter, i don't think it is slam dunk at all, but do i think whatever comey says is going to be fodder for that? sure. >> well, there is no doubt that bob mueller knows what he is going to say because he wouldn't be doing this without his blessing. >> they spoke? >> yeah, absolutely. but the other thing i would encourage everyone to do is go back and watch comey's testimony during the bush administration about the meeting with ashcroft and that whole situation with gonzalez. he is used to testifying under pressure. he is used to telling a compelling narrative and he's used to taking tough questions. while he does need to answer a lot of the questions you said, chris, i have a hard time believing that he won't -- he won't have answers. >> i'm not saying it is going to stump him -- go ahead, david. last word to you. >> one more on this point, which is comey and mueller are

close. it was mueller to whom comey went to for advice when he was dealing with those issues jackie it was discussing during the bush administration. so they are going to be of one mind, or at least a mind meld about what it is that comey can or cannot say without impeding the thing. so remember that whatever you hear they will have talked out at some length. >> okay. panel, thank you very much for all the insights. so the president is just hours away from revealing his decision on whether to stay with the paris climate accord. so we're going to talk about the implications with two lawmakers next.

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they offer free cancellation if my plans change. visit booking.com. booking.yeah. all right. one of the headlines this morning is that the house intel committee has issued their first subpoenas in the russia investigation and also, so four of them are about flynn and president trump's legal counsel. but three of them are related to unmasking of trump associates. sources say those subpoenas came from chairman devin nunes, who supposedly stepped aside from the investigation weeks ago in ethics charges, some of which went to whether or not he was dealing with the rest of his committee as he's supposed to. let's discuss. but first, congressman, thank you for being here. another headline is that jim comey, the former director of the fbi, will testify. what do you want to hear from

him if he does get in front of the senate committee next week. >> it's pretty easy. i just want to hear what happened. i want to hear the truth. you know, it seems like everybody nowadays, every new piece of information coming through a political spectrum. if you are on one end of the spectrum, you yell it's fake news and if you're on the other end of the spectrum you yell it's the end of the world. there are folks now kind of worn out. eventually they say we just want the truth. just tell us what happened and then legally we could come to our own decision so i hope that jim comey, and i think he will. he's an honorable man. whether testimony to the senate, just tell us what happened and we could make a determination from there what to make of that. >> do you believe there are legitimate questions to be asked about any potential interference, any potential

collusion and the extent of russian interference in the election? do you believe that those are real and legitimate questions? >> yeah, absolutely. they are legitimate questions. there are answers we need. i think the thing we need to keep in mind in all of us is our tendency in a hyper partisan era is to look at everything through the lens of what it means for republicans or democrats or, you know, trump or nancy pelosi. one of the great things about our democracy that's made us last for so long is our faith in the institution and the ability to hold leaders, whether they are republicans or democrats, accountable. so, look, i'm excited about a lot of the things president trump is doing, but there are legitimate questions about the campaign and russia and legitimate questions about his discussions with jim comey. we just need answers to that and that's it. it's real easy. >> one of the things the president was doing is calling this a witch hunt, saying that it is a hoax. that there are no legitimate questions and in fact just this morning he said the only real

story is the unmasking and the leaks. do you agree with the president? >> well, the unmasking and the leaks are a big deal. and i think to push those aside would be incorrect. those are an issue but so is the broader investigation. >> in which situation, why are they? >> i think it is an issue because first off the unmasking itself, the question of how do you reveal the names of united states citizens, that's very special. that's a big deal when we're dealing with nsa and how we gather intelligence that's important. >> i get that. >> yeah. look it's potentially. that's what we're trying to find out, too. here's the point. everything here is a question. everything we need to have answers too. and i think the idea that one hand if you are on the left you say we need answers to this, not that, the average american sitting around worn out saying we just need answers to what's going on, and that's part of keeping our government

accountable. there is certain areas not investigated people lose faith in the institution. >> certain things are more of a distraction than others. there has been no significant development that i'm aware of -- maybe you know something i don't -- of where this unmasking is seen as being done inappropriately or wrongly. we've had intel official after intel official tell us this is what you do when you are studying the russians and it seems that an american was having an inappropriate conversation. you find out who that american was. and that's what was done here. and i'm not saying there aren't legitimate issues there. but when the questions are used to distract from the russia probe and what collusion there may have been and what the interference is about, then that's not an equal assessment. that's why i'm asking. >> i don't disagree with you. but there is a question of how did michael flynn's name come up and things like that, which again we need the answers to. but as far as distraction, i agree. these are all issues we need answers to. is this a witch hunt, the answer

to that question for me is no. this is an attempt at government to get legitimate concerns that the american people have because i want to finish up on that with this because i don't care necessarily. i do as a partisan about what 2018 and 2020 looks like. but my broader concern as an american and somebody that's worn the uniform and continues to is the loss of faith in the institutions of this country on both sides of the political aisle. rebuilding the faith of the institutions is essential to the stability of this democracy. that's why i have to ask you about devin nunes because if you want people to have faith in the ability of its elected officials to conduct an investigation in anything that even resembles a nonpart son environment, how do you explain devin nunes who said he stepped away. now his staff is playing with what words were used and issues subpoenas, again reportedly without consulting the ranking party remember from the other side, the ranking democrat, which is exactly what they came

after him for with ethics charges the first time when he stepped away. how do you explain to the american people how that's okay? >> well, i can't. i don't know the details. this all broke last night. i know devin nunes and i happen to know him to be an honorable american, but this question i don't know the answer to. so i hope he reveals and comes out and discusses it. i thought he stepped away from the probe. congressman rooney and congressman conway are leading it. both very capable people. so the question in terms of this, i don't know. i have read reports that say it's legal for him to do it by advising the minority. i don't know the answer to that. again, i know him to be an honorable man, but this is a question that i think he probably has to address. >> thank you very much. appreciate having you on the show as always. >> you bet. any time. >> chris, coming up we get the other side, the democratic side. we have a senator here to tell us what he thinks about all of these issues.

the house intelligence committee issuing subpoenas in the russia investigation to michael flynn and president trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen. the chairman of that committee, devin nunes also issuing subpoenas about the unmasking of trump associates. here to discuss is democratic senator of massachusetts. good morning, senator. >> good morning. >> people we have spoken to on the hill seem to have a lot more confidence in the senate intel committee's work in terms of the russia ties than the house intel

committee's work. are you comfortable with that chairman devin nunes, who supposedly stepped aside from this investigation or at least being the chairman of the investigation in april is now issuing these subpoenas? >> look, devin nunes is too close to the trump white house. what he has done with the issuance of these new subpoenas is nothing more than a diversion. it is a red herring. the trump white house is going to need an aquarium to contain all the red herring they are trying to send out as they try to divert attention away from the central issue, which is that there is historic allegation that the russian government tried to compromise our elections and did so potentially in collusion with the trump campaign, the trump transition team and ultimately with the trump white house. that is the question which the

american people want to have the answer to. >> yeah. >> and devin nunes is just part of this attempt to divert people away from that central question. >> that is the central question. and of course you know that the trump supporters in the white house say no evidence, not a shred of it of collusion. >> exactly. so that's why we need the hearings in the senate. that's why we need the hearings in the house. that's why we need robert mueller to be able to conduct an unfettered, go anywhere, talk to anyone kind of an investigation so all the facts are out on the table so the american people can determine for themselves whether or not there was collusion between the trump campaign transition team and the russian government. >> okay. >> that is the -- that is what the american people want. everything else is a footnote. >> so former fbi director as you know james comey is set to testify in an open hearing to the senate, the senate intel

committee. what is the big question that you have for james comey? >> the question is whether or not the president asked mr. comey to go easy on flynn, what comey thought that the president was trying to accomplish with that kind of a request, whether or not he had told the president on three occasions that there was no investigation of president trump and his relationship with the russian government. all of that has to go out into the public domain. our elections are the most sacred thing that we have in our country. it is why we conducted the american revolution. it was so we could have free and unfettered elections. that is the question which mr. comey has to answer, is president trump and his campaign and his administration trying to cover up a collusion with the

russian government? >> we just had senator mike lee on who said that james comey had an opportunity to say that, to say that the president pressed him on may 3rd when he testified in front of the judiciary committee, but he didn't do that. he said it's not happened in my experience. he'll say he was referring to questions about the president of justice, but why didn't he say it before now? >> listen, mr. comey can speak for himself and mr. comey's testimony, of course, is the beginning of a new phase of this investigation where evidence that will be made more public because of the subpoenas which have been issued by the senate and now the house committees are going to be out there for public dissemination. but mr. comey is going to have to speak for himself. and i think that as long as he's given permission by mr. mueller to do so, we potentially could have bombshells that begin to

land next week. but right now none of us has any idea what he's going to say. >> paris climate accord, what happens if today president trump pulls out of that? >> if president trump announces he is going to unilaterally pull the united states out of climate accord that the rest of the world has signed on to, with the exception of syria and nicaragua, then it will be an economic, a national security, a public health and a moral failure for the united states of america. it is going to be a statement that we are withdrawing from global leadership, that we are not accepting our responsibility and that we're not going to take advantage of this huge economic opportunity in wind, in solar, in clean energy jobs generally, in all electric vehicles to drive the economy of the 21st century on the planet and to

brand the products that are made in america. instead, they are going to seed this economic terrain to the chinese, to the germans, to the indians and others who are going to move forward almost with thanks to the united states that the president is going to lower the standards for what the implications are for our country. president kennedy was born 100 years ago this week. he challenged america to put a man on the moon in eight years and return him safely to this planet. we got that done. donald trump is like j.f.k. in reverse. he is saying we can't do it. we can't have a clean energy revolution. we can't move to nonfossil fuel burning vehicles and the rest of the world is going to move in that direction and we are going to lose millions of jobs for hard-working americans because the president is going to honor a promise to the coal industry, rather than the promise that he

should be honoring to the rest of the world. >> okay. >> and to the future generations of americans. >> senator, thank you very much for your perspective. chris? >> all right. so video has come out of golf legend tiger woods in a world of trouble. his arrest for dui captured by dash cam video. what it tells us about how tiger was doing and what lays ahead for him next.

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enjoying the spotlights in these moments, we have seen him give compelling testimony in the past, if i were donald trump i would be extremely worried about how bad of a day that may be for him. >> you senator mike lee basically suggesting that james comey is sort of an unreliable narrator. he had his chance on may 3rd, the last time that he testified to mention this, that the president may have pressed him to back off an investigation, but he didn't. >> yeah. and he'll be pressed on any inconsistencies. he'll be pressed on those kinds of things to try to poke some holes in him, i'm sure from republicans. but i don't know. you have watched jim comey over the years. he seems to me to stand up to that kind of stuff pretty easily and can overcome that if he has a narrative to tell. >> and also the more you press him, the more you shaare going give him an opportunity to dig in. at the end of the day, this is going to be a political

situation, not a legal one. so guys like mike lee, republican, who say that, you know, whatever he says, i'm going to be all right, that's going to be very big in terms of what this actually means. all right. now we get to devin nunes, how big a deal is his saying he was stepping away, not stepping away, issuing subpoenas reportedly without conferring with the other ranking member of his committee, which is exactly what they brought him up on ethics charges for the last time. >> i think this adds to the circus atmosphere that is the house intel committee on this probe. it is totally different in tone and tenor than the senate intel committee. now remember we have the special counsel with mueller, which is an entirely sort of removed from the capitol hill antics investigation. so nunes now getting back in the game here and trying to play the president's part here on unmasking i think just adds more to the sideshow nature of what the house intel committee has been doing thus far. >> next topic, david, we all

know that one of the big things that president trump loves is a good reveal as we call it in the tv business where there is a surprise and you work up the anticipation for the surprise. and, so, there is going to be a reveal today about whether or not he stays in the paris accord. what do you think is going to happen? >> yeah. in the rose garden. but no rose ceremony at this reveal, i don't think. yes, obviously our reporting indicates that he is posed to withdraw from the agreement. politically, i find this such a fascinating moment that donald trump is in because clearly if indeed he does withdraw, it is part of his promise to do so, part of the dismantling of the obama agenda and legacy that his voters are eager to see and clearly a play to the base. what will be interesting to see is how does donald trump thread the needle that a majority of americans, a pretty big majority

of americans, want to see action on climate change. but how does he thread the needle that he is moving forward in combatting climate change, preparing for future generations while also getting out of the paris climate accord. >> good question. we'll see how he does that this afternoon. thank you, david. >> the good stuff is up next. your insurance company

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all right. here it is. friday adjacent, thursday. so we've got good good stuff for you. would you buy a plane ticket for a complete stranger? that's what josh did. he is a member of the u.s. army. he was trying to get back home to see his family, but wound up stuck at the airport for two days. just about lost hope until josh gave him a ticket. >> he walked away and then he came back and asked if he could hug me. and i think we both had to fight back the tears after that. >> for him to do that not even knowing who i am makes me so appreciative. >> usually, you know, the u.s. government allows them to fly back and forth. but there are restrictions and he got caught in one of those spaces where it wasn't going to

work out for him and this man who didn't know him decided let me reward his service and get him home. >> thank you very much. it is time now for cnn news room. good morning, guys. >> an inspiration to us all. thank you so much. a lot of news, let's get right to it. >> good morning, everyone. i'm john berman. >> and i'm poppy harlow. the president invokes a certain kind of executive privilege, the privilege to tweet whatever he wants whenever he wants even in the days before what could be the most significant congressional testimony since watergate. a source tells us james comey will likely testify publically for the first time. early in our next week he is expected to confirm that president trump pressured him to end the investigation of michael flynn. >> so the big question this morning sectors around the real kind of