White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president's power to invoke executive privilege is "well-established." White House officials had weighed trying to block Comey by arguing that his discussions with the president pertained to national security and that there was an expectation of privacy. Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the announcement about Trump's decision on Comey's testimony at the daily White House press briefing on Monday. "You don't do that I think by invoking executive privilege on a conversation you had apparently with nobody else in the room." The White House has denied the president made that request.

Source: CBC News June 05, 2017 20:23 UTC