said she would not. she said she would report it to the fbi. if i thought it was legitimate enough to have our law enforcement dedicate their time to it. additionally hicks said she was very surprised to learn there were over 100 contacts between the trump campaign and people connect ted to the russian government but hicks was repeatedly blocked from discussing the president s obstructive behavior. she also did not address michael flynn s resignation, jeff session s recusal, james comey s firing or the president s attempt to remove robert mueller as special counsel himself. i m joined by cynthia absolutely, mike memely, davide you. what is this thing, this word objection? this is loaded, all this wasted paper, a lot of this paper simply has the word objection on it. right. another half of it has the word absolute immunity, which is not a thing.
when the information finally comes out, that putin helped feed him that story. that s what they did and they ve gotten away with it. hicks also asked if she thought trump was joking in his abc news interview when he said he would accept dirt from a foreign power. hicks said i don t think that was a joke based on what i saw. what do you make of that, david? it sounds like she gave a whisper of truth there. sure. there was no joke. no, it wasn t. i think we should believe donald trump when he says he would accept interference. he did. the only reason he cleaned it up the next day was because of the fallout of it. i think, chris, though to some of your earlier question is if house democrats are hoping for a smoking gun by bringing anybody in to testify, they re not going to get it. these are going to be imperfect witnesses. what she said about wikileaks, we didn t coordinate ahead of time but we were ready to react. on lewandowski she was asked were you concerned that donald trump
progressive, ora conservative? i m kim olson and i m an american and i m from texas. when you get your voting record out there after a couple of weeks in congress, people are going to know what you are. you ll vote progressive or moderate or conservative. they re going to know it. they are. so it depends on what the issues are. and i vote to represent the constituents, i vote for what s in the best interest of our nation. and again, you re there to serve. this isn t about you. this is about serving those who put you in office. and oh, by the way, those of us that are elected officials ought to work harder than the people we re representing, and i m not sure that s actually happening these days. and that s why the video went viral. people are looking for leaders who can be reasonable and represent them. and actually speak truth to power. and stand up when things aren t right. and that s the kind of woman i ve done, and i ve done it in my entire career. and i ll do it when i get in
disto mueller. get somebody else. there are other trial lawyers perfectly capable of doing it. let s get them in. among the episodes that hicks did not address in her testimony yesterday was the misleading statement used to cover up the trump tower meeting with russians during the campaign, that infamous meeting on the plane. hicks was aboard air force one on that day that the news first broke in july of 2017 when he was president and she helped him craft the cover story on behalf of his son. according to the mueller report trump rejected an initial draft of the statement because he said it said too much about the offer of russian dirt on clinton. instead the president con cocked this. say this, only that trump jr., donald jr., took a brief meeting and it was about russian adoption. what was it about russian adoption? no, it wasn t about russian adoption. she was coming in with dirt that she was offering the campaign on hillary? that s right. the president had just met hours be
safety is important and they re taking it seriously and briefing members of congress. mike warner said i was curious about these press reports. anything that involves pilot safety is important to me so this is a very real thing happening on the film. that s the beat. hardball starts now. hope says nope. let s play hardball. good evening, i m chris matthews in washington with breaking news. the house judiciary committee has just released the official transcript from hope hicks closed door testimony yesterday. here it is. a lot of paper. not sure what s in there. the close campaign aide to president trump appeared before the committee for over seven hours yesterday, much of that time being blocked by white house lawyers from answering any questions. for example, hicks wouldn t even say whether she had been truthful in her testimony to