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Would not be in the impeachment predicament he is in now. The former chief of staff told an interviewer that when they were looking for his replacement last year he told the president this. Quote, i said, whatever you do, dont hire a yes man, someone who wont tell you the truth. Dont do that. Because if you do, i believe you will be impeached. President trump is flatly denying kelly ever said that. Cnns Sarah Westwood is at the white house. The president responded directly to cnn about this reporting. What is his reaction . Reporter thats right, ana the white house sending an aggressive response to our colleague in response to john kellys comments. Kelly essentially claimed if the president had heeded his advice about who to replace him as chief of staff he might not be getting impeached right now. I want to read the president s statement. He said, john kelly never said that. He never said anything like that. If he would have said that i would have thrown him out of the office. He just
The impeachment inquiry of president donald j. Trump. Right now a rare hearing happening in the house. You see philip reeker walking in one of u. S. Secretary of state mike pompeos deputies arriving just moments ago. He is testifying today in front of the house intelligence oversight and Foreign Affairs committees about details of an alleged quid pro quo between President Trump and ukraine after a bombshell federal judge ruling. The Justice Department must, according to the ruling, must now release redacted documents from Robert Muellers russia investigation. The move gives democrats more solid legal footing toward the impeachment process and it undercuts a key republican argument that the probe has been invalid. The judge says it is valid and legal. Meanwhile republicans are scrambling to defend the president despite calls for the white house to bring in advisers to handle the impeachment process. President trump says there is no need insisting his innocence and saying he is his own t
mogul after other people in the room seemed to welcome him being there. i kept thinking about the fact that we were in a room full of young artists, young women creating art and being vulnerable on the stage and this was the very community that weinstein was able to terrorize for so many years. the video shows weinstein listened to stuckless but didn t react. in a statement provided to cnn through his spokesperson weinstein said, quote, i am happy to address anyone s questions. we should all be offered the courtesy to voice opinions and be heard and to even get answers. i am glad we all still have these rights. stuckless wasn t alone in the protest. comedian kelly bachman who says she is a rape survivor, addressed the, quote, elephant in the room during her act calling weinstein freddy krueger. i didn t know we have to bring our own mace and rape whistles to actor s hour. reporter: some guests booed bachman and even told her to shut up. shut up.
reporter: she kept going. i ve been raped surprisingly by no one in this room but i never got to address those guys. just a general you. reporter: bachman walked out when stuckless was asked to leave. it is unclear whether weinstein was invited to the private event. the organizer told cnn i am deeply saddened his presence was not only a trigger point for some attendees but some women ultimately felt unsafe when a safe environment is what i set out to create for the acting community. our thanks for that report. with us now is kelly bachman the comedian you saw confronting weinstein from the stage. thanks so much for being here, kelly. thanks for having me. what is it like to watch that back? it s very surreal. it happened on wednesday night and there s been such an outpour of support since then that i