handing over documents to the committee as this committee, led by chairman jerry nadler pursues multiple lines of inquiry about the trump administration and the transition and the campaign. and it s not just these document requests. next week, a week from today we re expecting some public testimony, televised testimony before the house intelligence committee from felix sater, who among other things worked on the trump tower moscow project during the campaign with michael cohen. we learned today that in addition to that partially open testimony next wednesday, felix sater will also testify to jerry nadler s judiciary committee behind closed doors the following day, a week from tomorrow, next thursday. the deputy chairman of president trump s campaign, rick gates, who also served as the number two official in the trump inaugural, his lawyers today told the judiciary committee that rick gates cannot at this point cooperate with their request for information, but only because federal prose
but apparently they mind this. and that might become important, not just on the question of whether the president is going to unilaterally make all cars way more expensive. it may really matter for everything. tonight the wall street journal reports that new requests for documents and information are being prepared by the judiciary committee in congress for a whole new bunch of people who have not yet been targeted by these congressional investigations, people like gary cohn, the president s economic adviser, also the president s sometime lawyer rudy giuliani. even trump s first secretary of state rex tillerson. they re going to finally start asking questions of rex tillerson. i have questions for rex tillerson too, like, sir, for example, how did you get that job in the first place anyway? i would love to know. now, even in this wall street journal report they re not suggesting that we have any information about what documents or what information are being requested from these fol
bit of cold water on the story tonight saying that her reporting indicates that any planned second wave of judiciary committee document requests isn t ready to go at this point, and the names reported by the wall street journal tonight should not be seen as definitive targets of this committee. we ve done some of our own reporting on this show that suggests that natasha bertrand s line here may be correct. but whether or not the second wave of document requests is going out, the first wave itself was pretty gigantic, right? 81 document requests from the judiciary committee alone. and i mean, everybody from the nra to former white house official steve bannon to the trump inaugural committee to the trump inaugural chairman tom barrack, to at least one of the russians who went to the trump tower meeting during the campaign. i mean all of these entities that have received these document requests from the judiciary committee, a lot of them have started handing over documents to the commit
cnn is reporting tonight that former white house communications director and long-time trump organization employee hope hicks also plans to cooperate with the judiciary committee in their inquiries. hope hicks and her attorney are not making any public comment, but the judiciary committee spokesman says tonight that hope hicks will be providing documents to their committee. ami, the parent company of the national enquirer that had a role in the hush money finance scandal, they re handing over documents to congress. mike flynn s company, the flynn intel group, they re also handing over documents to congress. a former employee from cambridge analytica, the trump data firm from the trump campaign, they ve got employee is also reportedly shipped documents in in response to the committee s request. so lots of people, lots of entities. so you might expect to put up a fight or maybe try to take the fifth or somehow try to make themselves scarce at this point.
quote, having received input from the various prosecution offices, i have concluded that for the time being, it is not in the interests of my client to provide testimony of documents to congressional investigators. rick gates, of course, is still awaiting sentencing on felony charges. prosecutors said as recently as last week that his cooperation with prosecutors is still ongoing and it s still relevant to multiple pending and open investigations. so it s not a huge surprise that with that open criminal case against gates and with his involvement in all those other ongoing cases, it s not that much of a surprise that prosecutors are telling gates that he shouldn t cooperate with congressional inquiries at this time while all those other matters are open. it s interesting, though. even so, even with that, his lawyer also told the judiciary committee that that may soon change. quote, our position in this regard may well be different in the coming months, after rick gates presumably comes