she worked for and became very close to ivanka trump. when people talk about her role in the white house now, you know, she s really here seen as an ally to the family, kind of an extension of the family itself. people talk about her being closer to donald trump then even ivanka trump is. her office is right outside the oval office. during the campaign of course she was by trump s side, you know, beginning in the winter of 2015, months before he announced he was even running for president. and she stuck by him, you know, through today. so she s been next to him. she s seen every important event. she s been part of important conversations or at least present for the conversations. i think anybody investigating this administration on the hill or the special counsel would be wise to assume she knows a lot and has a lot of insight into the president s thinking during the campaign, during the transition and in the white house. and olivia, a lot of people were stunned when we learned that
russians continued to reach out to her even after the election ended. pick up on where natasha left off. the reality is even if they crafted a statement to the press that wasn t 100% accurate, there s no crime in that. why would that be of interest to lawmakers today who are questioning hope hicks? why would they want to get to the bottom of that trump tower meeting? you re right, kristen, lying to the press is, in and of itself, not a crime. it s not something we should countenance as an american people. i think what the team is looking at is the intent. was there a corrupt intent on the part of president trump or any of his associates? was that really what they thought this meeting was all about, was going to be all about? it s the same thing with the firing of comey. did president trump fire comey, in fact, because he thought comey was too hard on hillary clinton, as the statements at the time said? or, again, was there corrupt intent? was this to stymie the russia
and on board were parts that could be used to build chemical weapons factories. north korean s technicians, we also know, according to those experts, delivered parts to syria in 2016. they were even spotted working at known chemical weapons facilities. now, we know there were links between syria and north korea in the 1970s. korean pilots even flew syrian warplanes. but this report highlights links after syria declared itself free of chemical weapons four yearsation. kristen, there appear to be cracked not only in the world s efforts to isolate these two countries but a lot of worrying signs that syria may still have a chemical weapons capability, possibly, according to this report, aided by north korea. all right, bill neely, thank you so much for that incredibly disturbing reporting. appreciate it. an arizona congressman resigned amid a sex scandal. now his handpicked successor finds himself in hot water for his own alleged inappropriate
what do you think we re going to see today? that s really the key question i think they want to get to the bottom of, is what did hope hicks know about why this misleading statement was crafted, why was it left out entirely that this meeting was taken on the press of obtaining dirt on hillary clinton, what were the conversations like among between donald trump jr. and the president, and why did she tell a parentally why did she say during a conference call that the e-mails that donald trump jr. had exchanged with robert gold stostone, this music publicist, would never get out? was that an active obstruction or did she simply think no one would be able to access them? these are all questions they re going to want to ask her. along with, you know, the fbi briefed her in january 2017 right before trump was inaugurated about the fact russians were reaching out to her and this were not who they appeared to be. the committee will likely ask her about that and why the
people dead, kristen, as you said in nine days. that s roughly one killed every 15 minutes. those are devastating figures, bill. let me just follow up with you quickly about this report in the new york times. that we awe sall saw this morni. saying north korea has been shipping supplies to the syrian government that could be used in the production of chemical weapons. another devastating piece of this picture. what are you learning about that reporting, bill? picking up from what we know is happening in ghouta, there have been recent attacks where civilians appear to be suffering from the effects of chlorine gas. we know ghouta was where an infamous attack using sarin gas killed more than 1,000 people five years ago. none of those u.n. experts who were focusing initially on north korea and how it s evading sanctions and making money, well, they ve discovered links to syria. ships to damascus were stopped