f.b.i. intelligence world also the mafia it's considered a mentor to trump the eighty's. when a key fair characterised anyhow trump gets the access to locations that are essentially as we know traditionally moffitt connected casinos major real estate properties in atlantic city and places like this vegas i mean does this indicate his connection to the traditional organized crime or i think it does roy cohn was extremely important to trump and was a kind of a mentor and a connector and set up all kinds of things and of course with the client privilege relationship be able to sort of protected if you want to say sort of launder a lot of those relationships so cohn very very important and for those who don't know much about him cause he worked for senator joe mccarthy and so was very powerful in washington in the fifty's and had important ties as you point out to the f.b.i. and to other aspects of law enforcement and by the way. the whole trump story get becomes very very interesting when you start understanding the complexities of even sorting out who's investigating the cr

intelligence committee. that's tomorrow morning. today the president named a replacement for comey, and our chief white house correspondent major garrett tells us about christopher wray. >> reporter: the president told the world about his f.b.i. pick on twitter, calling chris wray a lawyer of "impeccable credentials." in cincinnati, mr. trump had few words about his choice. >> he's going to be great. >> reporter: wray, 50, led the justice department's criminal division for two years under president george w. bush. much of his time was focused on corporate fraud prosecutions, the biggest, jail time for top executives of bankrupt energy giant enron. after leaving the justice department, wray was a defense attorney, notably for new jersey governor chris christie in the so-called bridgegate scandal. wray lax extensive background in terrorism and national security prosecutions, but he's respected in the legal community. he is not well-known among rank-and-file f.b.i. agents. >> chris wray is unflappable, from my experience. >> reporter: kent alexander hired wray when he was u.s. attorney in georgia. t a little less politics, and he's a very non-partisan guy. i was a clinton appointee when i hired him. chris is a republican. >> re

f.b.i. director james comey in his testimony on thursday before the senate intelligence committee. jay sekulow explaining what he wants to hear when this happens on thursday. >> how in the world james comey then the f.b.i. director do a private memorandum, got it to his staff and allowed the staff to leak it to a newspaper? while he is testifying and discussing his testimony with the special counsel. what doesn't look right here? everything looks wrong. >> bill: tom despres assistant attorney general. welcome back here. what do you think has changed since we spoke two weeks ago that you're watching? >> a number of things. the first is, of course, as we all know the f.b.i. director, former f.b.i. director is going to have his day in the spotlight this week. we're all going to be awaiting with a lot of anticipation to hear what his story is. the other thing that's changed is the white house is now confirmed they aren't going to assert executive privilege as a way to block comey's testimony, which in my view is the right decision. >> bill: okay. was there any doubt about that or -- >> i think there was doubt in the sense that executive privilege is a robust doctrine, it is avail