trump administration lawyers blocked hicks from answering 155 different questions. hicks was accompanied by two private lawyers, three lawyers from the white house, and one from the justice department. she did not answer any questions about her time in the white house but did talk about her time with the trump campaign and also talked the about those hush money payments to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels as well as wikileaks and trump s comments about russia and hillary clinton s emails. so let s discussion now. sara murray is here, john dean, patrick healy as well. good evening to all of you. sara, you first. give me some big takeaways from this testimony. well, i mean, don, as you pointed out, of course, what s notable is all the stuff she didn t answer, and the white house s claim of absolute immunity, which the congress was pretty sure is not a real thing. some of the revelations she did share, she was asked a number of times about wikileaks and about how the campaign sort of w
pointed out, what s notable is all the stuff she didn t answer, and the white house s claim of absolute immunity, which the congress was pretty sure is not a real thing. some of the revelations she did share, she was asked a number of times about wikileaks and about how the campaign sort of was trying to deal with these revelations that were going to come out. she basically said we didn t have any inside information into wikileaks. we were just keeping track of what was going on publicly. there was no strategy other than to look for things that would be damaging to hillary clinton, their opponent, and then try to play those up and make life more difficult for hillary clinton. she also said that at the time of the trump tower meeting, you know, we ve talked a lot about this. it was happening in the summer of 2016, donald trump jr., other campaign officials met with a russian lawyer. she said she had no knowledge of that meeting at the time. she didn t find out about it until june of 201
the phrase silence is golden is taking on a new meaning when it comes to donald trump s investigation and his allies. the judiciary committee released a transcript of the interview with hope hicks, where it was revealed trump administration lawyers were stopped from answering questions 155 times. but that stonewalling will help deliver congress a crucial win in cord, according to the committee s chairman jerry nadler. quote, it very much played into our hands. it s one thing to tell a judge blanket immunity is not the right thing, and it s another thing where i judge can see what it means in actuality and how absurd it is. joining us now at the table and from msnbc the oath and if you re not listening to the podcast should be, chuck rosenberg. i was a white house director and read the questions she didn t answer. harry waxman was not the chair but are on the oversight. i turned over all of my emails
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