to prison in part for his confessed role in arranging those payments. he didn t invent that scheme on his own. will hope hicks be asked about it tomorrow? will they be able to stop her from talking about what she knows about it? we shall see. that does it for us tonight. hope hicks will be there coyote a.m. tomorrow. we ll see you again tomorrow night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. the they re asserting overtly she can t talk about anything in the white house. nadler s contesting that. they re trying to assert she can t talk about the tragedies when the president wasn t president yet so he can t have any sort of presidential executive privilege. if they re going to try to keep her from talking about things during the campaign, that s absurd you would try to assert some kind of presidential privilege over that. so, i mean, we know that the white house is going to try to clamor up as much as they can, but this
served as president trump s acting secretary of defense, patrick shanahan has worked to keep domestic violence incidents within his family private. his wife was arrested after punching him in the face and his son was arrested after a separate incident in which he hit his mother with a baseball bat. in november 2011, shanahan rushed to defend his then 17-year-old son in the days after the teenager brutally beat his mother. the attack had left patrick shanahan s ex-wife unconscious in a pool of blood, her skull fractured and with internal injuries that required surgery, according to court and police records. two weeks later, shanahan sent his ex-wife s brother a memo arguing that his son had acted in self-defense. quoting from the memo, use of a baseball bat in self-defense will likely be viewed as an imbalance of force, said shanahan, however, will s mother harassed him for nearly three hours before the incident. in an hour-long interview monday night at his apartment in virginia, sh
there that it can t be a privileged communication if in fact what that conversation was about was the commission of a crime. one other thing to keep an eye on with that hope hicks testimony tomorrow, democrats are also reportedly planning to those happened during the campaign before the election. so not when hope hicks was working in the white house. not when she was working in the transition. michael cohen has already gone to prison in part for his confessed role in arranging those payments. he didn t invent that scheme on his own. will hope hicks be asked about it tomorrow? will they be able to stop her from talking about what she knows about it? we shall see. that does it for us tonight. hope hicks will be there coyote a.m. tomorrow. we ll see you again tomorrow night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. they re asserting overtly she can t talk about anything in the white house. nadler s contesting that.
with this absolute immunity idea. any close adviser to the president has absolute immunity to subpoenas from congress, which i think is a legally untenable position. the one court that has ruled on this, even though it s not binding, has said that is a lawless position essentially. i do not think that would be upheld in the courts. will hope hicks come in voluntarily? maybe. i think at this point democrats should assume no one is coming voluntarily. it s all through subpoena and all litigated in the courts, where i think we saw for the first time a glimmer of hope yesterday. the courts will uphold a rule of law and much of the positions taken by administration, the department of justice now and olc are just not backed up by the law. as an investigative body, are they better served calling in witnesses like chris christie who witnessed the president on
this won t come out after lawsuits and requests. we will see what happens. we will. shimon, thank you very much. shimon prokupecz reporting. jamie raskin joining us. congressman, thanks for joining us. what are you hoping to learn from documents handed over by the former white house communications director hope hicks? let s see. i think you are one step ahead of me. i wasn t aware this was turned over. she agreed to hand over documents to the committee. they were 81 individuals and entities that you have been searching for information. she s willing to cooperate. well, look, what we expect is everybody to cooperate. these are all lawful requests. it s mandatory that everybody share whatever information they have got with congress. you know, we re looking for everything related to ongoing investigations related to the