{"id":122899,"date":"2017-06-05T14:53:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=122899"},"modified":"2017-06-05T15:38:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T20:38:21","slug":"trump-will-not-assert-exec-privilege-comey-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=122899","title":{"rendered":"Trump will not assert exec privilege, Comey testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-121318\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-280x175.png 280w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The White House says President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to try to block testimony by fired FBI Director James Comey. Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders says the president\u2019s power to invoke privilege is \u201cwell-established.\u201d However, she says Trump will not take that step in order to ensure a \u201cswift and thorough examination of the facts\u201d related to Comey\u2019s firing and the multiple investigations into Russia\u2019s election meddling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The White House says President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to try to block testimony by fired FBI Director James Comey. Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders says the president\u2019s power to invoke privilege is \u201cwell-established.\u201d However, she says Trump will not take that step in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122907,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122899\/revisions\/122907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}