before congress on the mueller investigation. the white house is still trying to stop her, though, asserting today that hicks is absolutely immune from being compelled to testify about her time in the white house. this was the white house today basically telling the committee they re going to put a chaperone in the room with hope hicks tomorrow to try to keep her from answering questions about her time in the white house and to try to keep her from answering questions probably about the presidential transition as well. but here s a little breaking news for you. we just got this. the judiciary committee s chairman jerry nadler has just responded to the white house claim that hope hicks is immune from having to testify. he tells the white house tonight i reject that assertion. questions will be posed to her and we will address privilege and other objections on a question by question basis. chairman nadler goes on to say the committee plans to ask ms. hicks about instances she witnes
feel like getting robbed twice. so get allstate. and be better protected from mayhem. like me. former white house communications director hope hicks name checked in the mueller report more than 180 times. the vast majority of them in volume ii which is on obstruction of justice. tomorrow hope hicks will become the first fact witness from the trump administration to testify before congress on the mueller investigation. the white house is still trying to stop her, though, asserting today that hicks is absolutely immune from being compelled to testify about her time in the white house. this was the white house today basically telling the committee they re going to put a chaperone in the room with hope hicks tomorrow to try to keep her from answering questions about her time in the white house and to try to keep her from answering questions probably about the presidential transition as well. but here s a little breaking news for you. we just got this. the judiciary committee s
certainly we expect people, members of congress, the public, the media to file all sorts of legal challenges to this to try and obtain as much information as we can. there will be other investigations, even if the mueller investigation is over. the president s got to worry about other investigations that are ongoing. absolutely. you have that handy graphic that shows sort of the litany, everything from the trump foundation, the trump inaugural, southern district. they re all over it. and part of the issue here is that mueller recognized i think early on to have u.s. attorneys, federal prosecutors across the country to be on the cases. people even outside of the team to insulate it. and because he knows the investigation won t go on forever, so after he s done those cases will continue. cases here in d.c. being handled by the d.c. s u.s. attorney s office, for instance, roger stone, the president s longtime confidant. those will continue on. the mystery grand jury. we still don t kn
peninsula. now he s talking about having a second meeting. it s critically important that we get direct information, national intelligence as to where north korea is. so the president trying to say, look, he didn t like what mr. coats said because it didn t jive with what he was saying about kim jong-un, that s just too bad. the national intelligence assessment is critically important for this country and is critically important that congress get that information. senator cardin, thanks so much for joining us. thank you, wolf. there s more breaking news we re following right now. chicago police have just officially classified empire actor jussie smollett as a suspect in a criminal investigation in what they now believe was a false report of a hate crime. let s go to our national correspondent ryan young. he s working the story for us in chicago. what s the latest, ryan? what are you picking up? reporter: yeah, wolf, right now there s a grand jury going on upstairs. there ar
in a rambling four-plus pages, to goes through all the different reasons why he is firing the director of the fbi. i m not going to go through all of those with you, but i will tell you that one of them is he claims to want to fire the director of the fbi because of his failure to fire me. and obviously the issues that the president has had with mccabe and his wife, you know, a lot of that s been out there already, but, you know, this letter is something that mueller has certainly had and it s something that he s reviewed as well. and to be clear, what he s doing here is trying to set the groundwork to say i wasn t fired because the inspector general found that i misled investigators. i was fired for political reasons. so he s trying to show even way, way before that investigation, the president wanted him out. yeah. all right, guys. thanks very much. we re going to stay on top of this story. there s other important news we re following, involving the president and his reacti