welcome back. hope hicks attorney last hour taking issue with new suggestions she may have lied to congress. but the chairman of the house judiciary committee, jerry nadler, says the trump confidant and former white house communications director needs to clear up what she knew and when she knew it related to the hush money scheme related to silence stormy daniels. she said i wasn t aware of anything. i wasn t aware of a hush payment agreement. hicks also told the committee she was never, quote, present for discussions between cohen and trump when the two discussed daniels. but according to newly unsealed documents from the michael cohen case, hicks defense could hinge on the meaning of the word present. fbi investigators amassed telephone records, text messages and emails showing a flurry of communications between the president, hicks, cohen and the tabloid executives who helped bury the daniels story, all of
denying there s a request for documents into action. roger stone denying material and citing his own mueller prosecution as the reason he s invoking the fifth amendment, which you do when you have a criminal exposure. democrats also now considering a whole second wave of document requests, this is for people like rudy giuliani, rex tillerson, gary cohn, and michael cohen s former lawyer, according to the wall street journal. while trump confidant, hope hicks, we should note, is reportedly cooperating. that is a lot of other max in probes on the hill, seeing what congress is doing, while bob mueller is maybe occasional this morning seen, but rarely heard. in fact, the only way you usually hear him is in what they call those speaking indictments, where there are 37 people or organizations who have now been indicted. let s get right to it. nick ackerman is a former watergate special prosecutor. alonzo, former prosecutor, former d.a. of manhattan, where the manafort case has moved and th
today is that this was the first step in the democrats crazy impeachment plan. understand this, bret. last week, tom steyer, mega donor for the democrats, moving ahead with impeachment. two nights ago, tom steyer was in baltimore in chairman cummings district. urging his constituents to push chairman cummings to push ahead with impeachment. that s what this things about today, the crazy impeachment plan of the democrats. bret: you know, former new jersey governor chris christie watched the hearing today. former trump confidant. here s what he had to say about the republican questioning. i think the institute thing is that there has not been more republicans yet who have tried to defend the president on the substance for that something that should be concerning for the white house. why are no republicans standing up for defending the president on the substance? that s either a failure of those republicans on the hill or a
which had occurred in a speech given a couple of days before in warsaw. and she made the point that iran does a lot of bad things, but you have some means to influence them by staying in that agreement, so for him to simply say, leave the agreement, just fell completely flat. wendy sherman, john mclaughlin, thank you for joining us with these reports from munich, really appreciate it. and when we come back, with jeff sessions gone, donald trump has found a new punching bag in the cabinet according to a trump confidant. that is tonight s last word. to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it s best to make you everybody else. means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. does this sound dismal? it isn t. it s the most wonderful life on earth.
here for the vice president was that chancellor merkel had spoken before him, and i m sure she had no copy of his speech, but inadvertently, really gave the rebuttal of his speech before he gave it, so so many of his lines fell flat. for example, she talked about the fact that they were being instructed by the vice president or by the united states to leave the iran nuclear agreement, which had occurred in a speech given a couple of days before in warsaw. and she made the point that iran does a lot of bad things, but you have some means to influence them by staying in that agreement, so for him to simply say, leave the agreement, just fell completely flat. wendy sherman, john mclaughlin, thank you for joining us with these reports from munich, really appreciate it. and when we come back, with jeff sessions gone, donald trump has found a new punching bag in the cabinet according to a trump confidant. that is tonight s last word. trp confidant. that is toghnit s last word. toa world wh