her time in the would you say. asking where her desk was whether war broke out in the middle east during trump s presidency. she didn t answer cite going relates to the time in the white house. democrats wanted to make a point how sweeping the immunity claim is. the lawyers said she does get immunity. democrats are pushing back saying it s ridiculous they need her cooperation in the obstruction probe. she talked about the time in the campaign, saying she didn t know about the hush money payment scheme during that time. but she wouldn t talk about whether she learned about it during her time at the white house. i ll tell you, erin, it seems as though her talking to democrats on capitol hill is only increasing the tension between democrats and the white house, because of the immunity claim. nadler as you pointed out is not happy about it. saying it will not stand and not afraid to take it to court. thank you, policeman. i want to go to a congressman on the committee questioning hope
she s a little shy, but that s okay, because she is really, really talented. hope, say a couple of words. hi. merry christmas, everyone. and thank you, donald trump! you can t argue with holiday greetings. that was one of the rare times that donald trump s long-time aide hope hicks spoke in public. tomorrow she ll speak in a whole different way, and democrats have a lot of questions. she is the first trump staffer when you actually think about it to actually testify to the house judiciary committee in this obstruction probe. democrats want to ask about five specific incidents in the mueller report, plus those payments that trump made to stormy daniels that ultimately were a confessed crime by michael cohen. democrats say they will require
court to try to force witnesses to comply with subpoenas. earlier today, house judiciary reached an agreement with justice department after weeks of back and forth to give members access to some of the underlying evidence used in the special counsel s obstruction probe. in the meantime, the committee is forging ahead with a series of hearings on the mueller report. now, most americans, as you heard, have not read the entire 448-page report and some of their representatives in congress haven t read it either. have you rea the mueller report? i have not. why not? the i said when we started this conversation that i trusted mr. mueller. took a lot of slings and arrows throughout this process. every u.s. attorney i knew said this is a man of great integrity. yeah. so why not read the report. well, i have a concern when you put the entire power of the united states justice department behind anything. you can achieve an agenda. all right. blocked from interviewing fact witness
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towards democrats, but also former white house counsel john dean, calling him a loser for many years. as we ve been talking about, wolf, dean has been testifying today on capitol hill about president trump and how findings in mueller s obstruction probe has parallels with president nixon and watergate. the last time i appeared before your committee was july 11, 1974. tonight, former white house counsel to president nixon testifying before the house judiciary committee. saying trump s former white house counsel, don mcgahn, should testify too. mr. mcgahn represents not donald trump, but the office of the president. his client is the office of the president. and i think he owes that office his testimony before this committee. reporter: john dean, a cnn contributor, whose testimony in the watergate investigation helped topple richard nixon s presidency, telling congress there are many similarities between trump and nixon. in many ways, the mueller