tonight, no word from the white house about who replaces hope hicks as communications director. she resigned yesterday. one day after testifying before the house intelligence committee and admitting to lawmakers that sometimes she tells what amounts to white lies for president trump. let s discuss now, congressman eric swalwell a california exact, a member of the intelligence committee. hope hicks testified in front of your committee nine hours. telling lawmakers she occasionally tells white lies for the president but never lies about anything related to russia. first, do you believe her? well, i don t believe we got a straight answer from her. i asked her, don, a number of times if she had been asked by the president to lie for him. and if you have to take two time outs confer with lawyers and come back and give a a very tightly scripted answer, i think we already know what the answer is. and that s unfortunate because this trump team, the trump family, there have been so many
apparently some discussions with russian banks. jared kushner and his family owe money to a lot of people. a lot of people have been going into the white house, apparently trying to get various favors from the united states government. so this vancouver operation is just a piece of a much larger puzzle. they reek of conflicts of interest. that s because they wouldn t sell the businesses upon entering government as others do. the ethics lawyers advised them to sell the businesses. they didn t want to. they want to run the business and collect money all over the world while they re working for the government. and of course that s a rest pie for corruption. so somebody is going to be offering payments and it s nothing but scandal. and meanwhile jared curb in ner can t get a security clearance because of mueller hot on his
occasions where they have lied or not been forthcoming about contacts with russia that i think that s a fair and relevant question. you led the democratic questioning. she reportedly refused to answer whether the president and a litany of trump associates asked her to lie. talk to us about that. sure, don. actually we all worked on the questioning together. that was just my portion of the questioning. i asked her, you know, if donald trump or don junior or michael cohen or paul manafort a number of individuals who have lied about contacts with russia, if they asked her to lie for them. and she refused to answer. and again, i think this is fair because it goes to her credibility and it goes to action that is others may have asked her to take. and you know this is we just saw more bricks put in the wall that now stands higher between our investigation and what really happened with the trump team and russia.
someone with a similar situation. and he has never been a warm fuzzy or concerned about any of this stuff. and not to say he shouldn t be. clearly i think he goes way too far in that respect. simone. that s where this comes from. i want to you respond to this, because if you look at the the latest polling 70% to 80% of republicans are still behind the president, which means that they think he is 12% yet they support him simone am i off on that. you re absolutely right. this goes back to the election. a number of republicans can be conservative folks that don t view themselves as quote unquote trump republicans pulled the lever for donald trump and support him because he is the republican president. and they don t necessarily dpree with the things he is saying, even if they think he is a racist they think that he will still be a better president in terms of a republican agenda than anyone else. and you know, frankly i think that s a sad place for us to be. i don t disagree w
money to a lot of people. a lot of people have been going into the white house, apparently trying to get various favors from the united states government. so this vancouver operation is just a piece of a much larger puzzle. they reek of conflicts of interest. that s because they wouldn t sell the businesses upon entering government as others do. the ethics lawyers advised them to sell the businesses. they didn t want to. they want to run the business and collect money all over the world while they re working for the government. and of course that s a rest pie for corruption. so somebody is going to be offering payments and it s nothing but scandal. and meanwhile jared curb in ner can t get a security clearance because of mueller hot on his tail. it s not a good situation for them. they don t belong in the white house. and this news about ivanka comes on the heels about jared