White House Press Secretary under president obama and msnbc political analyst. Adam pollock, and charles coleman, an msnbc legal analyst. Vaughn, i want to start with you. You have kind of lived all of this from the beginning to the end. As you watched what unfolded today, help us understand it, but also put all of that testimony by Hope Hicks Which was pretty dramatic in the context of what we knew at the time. Reporter exactly, its dramatic because hope hicks was somebody who testified today that she was intimately involved with donald trump in what was a very Small Campaign brass that included keith shiler and Corey Lewandowski and Michael Cohen, the outside personal lawyer voice who maintained a quasi role with the campaign, representing donald trump. In this, for hope hicks and for the jury here, is a key, crucial witness that knows donald trump so well, but also was a trusted adviser and aide, somebody whose words were never really highly scrutinized, somebody who donald trump ha
democratic party is publicly anybody but bernie. despite her recent success elizabeth warren s campaign plays down the polls telling cnn we don t pay much attention to the polls. they will go up and down. this is not a recipe for long term success. former white house communications director hope hicks spending seven hours in closed door testimony before the house judiciary committee but not answering any questions about her time in the west wing. white house lawyers claiming absolute immunity for hope hicks which has house democrats fighting mad. we get more now from cnn s manu raju on capitol hill. reporter: good morning, christine and dave. hope hicks came and answer erred questions about the committee s potential obstruction of justice. democrats came away not satisfied because the white house counsels who were in the room made very clear that she would not be answering any questions about her time in the white house. what they cited was absolute
her time in the west wing. white house lawyers claiming absolute immunity for hope hicks which has house democrats fighting mad. more on her testimony from manu raju on capitol hill. reporter: good morning, christine and dave. hope hicks came before the house judiciary committee but democrats came away not satisfied because the white house counsels who were in the room made very clear that she would not be answering any questions about her time in the white house. what they cited was absolute immunity saying that she is not, as a former high level white house official, she is not obligated to provide these kind of answers to the committee. democrats now are threatening to take her to court. she answered some of our questions. we learned considerable information. the white house pleaded a nonexistent absolute immunity
tells cnn, quote, we don t pay much attention to polls. they will go up and down throughout the race and focusing on the daily headline tweet or cable news chatter is not a recipe for success. hope hicks said spending seven hours before a closed door committee hearing but not answering any questions. white house lawyers claiming, quote, absolute immunity, absolute immunity for hope hicks which has house democrats fighting mad. we get more from manu raju on capitol hill. reporter: good morning, christine and dave. hope hicks came before the house judiciary committee. democrats came away not satisfied because the white house counsels who were in the room made very clear that she would not be answering any question about her time in the white house. what they cited was absolute
false. then maybe don junior is somehow trying to protect his father by saying i only talked to hope hicks which may be technically true but hope was then talking to donald trump, sr. and relaying back the information to jump, jr., who i think, john, was with his lawyer at the time, which maybe is how they tried to concoct this crazy attorney-client privilege. donald trump sent his lawyer on meet the press july 16. his lawyer said donald trump had nothing to do with the drafting of the statement that was what was at discussion here and which was untrue. so maybe don junior is trying to somehow figure a way to protect his father from that false statement made by his lawyer on meet the press . i can t divine the true