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White House Press Secretary under president obama and msnbc political analyst. Adam pollock, and charles coleman, an msnbc legal analyst. Vaughn, i want to start with you. You have kind of lived all of this from the beginning to the end. As you watched what unfolded today, help us understand it, but also put all of that testimony by Hope Hicks Which was pretty dramatic in the context of what we knew at the time. Reporter exactly, its dramatic because hope hicks was somebody who testified today that she was intimately involved with donald trump in what was a very Small Campaign brass that included keith shiler and Corey Lewandowski and Michael Cohen, the outside personal lawyer voice who maintained a ....
Lawsuit to force don mcgahn to testify. congressman jerry nadler telling politico that effort got a major boost this week thanks to what happened during a closed door interview with hope hicks. the former white house communications director refused to answer 159 questions on wednesday. lawyers objected to questions about president trump s decision to fire james comey, questions about michael flynn, at one point hope hicks refused to say where in the white house she used to have an office. nadler says all of that will be a huge help to democrats. we knew this was going to happen. the point was to dramatize for the court what the implications of this are. he said they witnessed an incredib incredible show. chuck, help me understand chairman nadler s line of ....
Legal process, but this is the fundamental debate now, what this congress is able to investigate, how quickly they are able to investigate. part of it might be that hope hicks thought 150 questions was disproportionate to the one proportionality is the word of the day here. living as a human in the world, all of this feels so much like putting off the inevitable. at what point if does the inevitable happen? how do we have an entire administration of people shoveling so many cards when some portion of the truth will reveal itself. chuck, respond to that lastly. a large portion of the truth has been revealed. it s in this thing called the mueller report. heard of it. has anyone read that? i read it. it s fascinating. it s worth reading. lots of people won t do it. so democrats in the house are ....
In the iranian government might be able to engineer what objectives were. the other point i ll make is, it s not simply a matter of evaluating an unmanned drone, aerial surveillance versus the possibility that 150 people might be killed. the iranian government is threatening vital international commerce through the strait. i think you have to look at it through that larger context. hopefully he they will dial back their aggressive actions in the strait, in the gulf in light of having been brought to the edge of this and rethink their strategy. we ll have to see. mr. secretary, thank you very much. thank you. jeh johnson joining me here in new york on set go to msnbc.com where you can watch the entire south carolina democratic convention. how many times did lawyers stop hope hicks from answering ....
Something congress has not taken up eventually, and something democrats are hoping they can do. but this raises the question of whether or not trump even has certain authorizations to take action. we ll come back in a moment. my thank to barry mccaffrey. appreciate the time. you can see that interview with president trump tomorrow on meet the press with chuck todd. jerry nadler says hope hicks refusal to answer questions will help him and democrats. i will sit down with jeh johnson for an exclusive interview. we will talk about the i.c.e. raids the trump administration has planned for tomorrow. first the battle between former vice president joe biden and senator cooker. i thicory booker. i don t feel like i want an apology to me. this is something that he should speak to the public about. i think he has an opportunity ....