series on the infrastructure crisis airing tomorrow right here in the situation room. thanks very much for watching. follow me on twitter ands instagram @wolf blitzer. tweet at cnn sit room. erin burnett starts outfront right now. outfront next, stone wall, hope hicks grilled by lawmakers but the white house blocking her from talking even objecting to a question about where she sat in the west wing, plus joe biden under fire talking about work with graciousist senators and president trump standing alone, defending saudi arabia even as a new u.n. report reveals shocking and deeply disturbing comments saudi agents said on tape during the murder of jamaul khashoggi. let's go outfront. and good evening, i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight a huge stone wall, the white house blocking a key member of president trump's inner circle from answering questions under oath. the president's former communications director hope hicks, behind closed doors in front of the house judiciary

committee today, but trump's lawyers made sure she said nothing about her time in the white house. >> were there any questions about her time in the white house that she did answer? >> no. >> not a single one. >> not a single one. >> not a single one. white house attorneys objecting to every question about hicks 'time in the white house. wouldn't even answer where her desk was in the west wing. hope hicks knows a lot about trump, one of his coastest confidantes during the campaign and in the white house at his side constantly. a close aide to the president telling me she was his emotional crutch. listen how the president talked about her. >> look at hope. hope hicks doing a fantastic job. she is a fantastic young woman. and i'm very proud of her. now hope hicks is a tremendously talented person. i love hope. she is great.

>> and today the president made sure hicks knew he was still supporting her. tweeting in part, quote, so sad that the democrats are putting wonderful hope hicks through hell. democrats say hicks was called to testify under oath because smefs a key witness in the mueller investigation. her name is one of the most frequently mentioned, appearing nearly 200 times in the mueller report. she was a key presence at major moments, including the firing of then fbi director james comeyy. trump's role in crafting a false statement about the trump tower meeting and trump's hush money payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. hicks allowed by white house lawyers to talk about one of the three topics under oath. the hush money payments. because part of that story happened before trump won the election. the committee chairman jerry nadler saying hicks gave us a lot of good information when she was allowed to talk. but the white house wouldn't let her talk about anything while the president was in office. the chairman nadler tonight says he will destroy white house

claims of immunity on those other crucial topics in court. pamela brown is outfront live outside the white house. and pamela, the president obviously protective of hope hicks. and tonight trying to send a clear message. you're wonderful, you're wonderful. stick to it. how is he reacting today? >> well, erin, president trump is clearly bothered by the fact that his once closest aide and confidante hope hicks is on capitol hill today. one source i spoke with says the president is sympathetic toward hope and feels she gets bad treatment. he tweeted as well calling it sad the democrats are putting her -- wonderful hope hicks through hell. but sources tell cnn erin that hope has distanced had herself from president trump since leefrpg the white house. because she wanted to start fresh after being tied in trump's orbit so long. she didn't return several of trump's calls. which led him to ask what happened to her. but they peppered her today ask

her time in the would you say. asking where her desk was whether war broke out in the middle east during trump's presidency. she didn't answer cite going relates to the time in the white house. democrats wanted to make a point how sweeping the immunity claim is. the lawyers said she does get immunity. democrats are pushing back saying it's ridiculous they need her cooperation in the obstruction probe. she talked about the time in the campaign, saying she didn't know about the hush money payment scheme during that time. but she wouldn't talk about whether she learned about it during her time at the white house. i'll tell you, erin, it seems as though her talking to democrats on capitol hill is only increasing the tension between democrats and the white house, because of the immunity claim. nadler as you pointed out is not happy about it. saying it will not stand and not afraid to take it to court. >> thank you, policeman. i want to go to a congressman on the committee questioning hope

hicks. david cicilini she didn't answer about where her desk was and the grant lart of the questions. but she answered about the campaign. did she say anything significant in that portion. >> yes, the confidentiality agreement we have does for the permit us to discuss what she said. but there will be a transcript presleyed in the next 48 hours. and we certainly heard some useful information, some important information about the campaign. but, what we were interested in hearing about what miss hicks knows about the president's efforts to fire the special counsel and then to ask don mcgahn to lie and create a false document. we wanted to know about the president's instructions to cory lewandowski to speak to the attorney general and direct him to tell the special counsel to curtail his investigation and only look at future presidential elections not the current one and the firing of director comey. she was in the white house in

the midst of all this. part of the president's inner circle. the white house lawyers on behalf of the president prevented her from answering any questions related to her service in the white house. making in very bogus claim about something called absolute immunity which doesn't exist. the courts have rejected that. we don't have a king. there is no such thing as absolute immunity. she didn't invoke privilege. they just used this madeup claim they don't have to answer questions which will be rejected by a court. >> i want to ask you more about what she said. to that point, first, obviously chairman nadler says he is destroying the white house claim. destroy his word for absolute immunity for hicks and don mcgahn who the white house is preventing from testifying under oath. but you say this is going to be easy. look, i know it hasn't been gone sided by the supreme court. the obama white house even argued a senior administration official in their case shouldn't have to testify. are you really confident you'll win this so easily. >> absolutely, yes.

there is certainly executive privileges for imt willed skukss between the executive in conversation was the president. the witness did not invoke the executive privilege. the president waived executive privilege. that's typically relied upon to try to keep the conversations confidential. this is a new claim. this is a claim you can't ask us any questions about any activities in the would you say because we have absolute immunity. there is no such thing in the law. it doesn't exist. the time it was raised previously it was rejected by the courts. we don't have a king. we have a president who is subjected to the laws of the country. and absolute immunity doesn't exist. i'm confident when it's litigated the witnesses will be compelled to mgts comply and answer questions. and this is part of the president's ongoing effort to cover up, conceal, keep from the american people the full truth and act as if he is somehow above the law. we can't allow that to happen. he needs to be held accountable. >> all right, you know, obviously you know it's the white house lawyers stopped her from answering questions. she did give useful information about the time in the campaign.

she testified in 2018 we know before the intelligence committee that she sometimes told white lies on behalf of the president. we understand that today she was asked about that. sources tell us that. and she said she never lied about anything, quote, substantial. do you take her at her word and her evaluation of what substantial means? >> well i think it's an porp question. there is public testimony from this witness that she told what is he zriebld as white lies, you know i'm not sure what those are. but certainly a person part of the president's inner circle and administration that has shown repeatedly itsleness to lie and cover up, the admission of a witness she has not been truthful even on insignificant things is important. i think you will see when the transcript is released that there was a significant inquiry into that question. >> significant. were you satisfied as to her answer. >> no, i wasn't satisfied with a number of answers because i think the witness was prevented

principally from answering the important questions at the direction of the white house. the court is going to compel the witness to answer. if there was ever a thing called absolute immunity congress would have no ability to conduct oversight because witnesses would be free from testifying. certainly that's not the law. >> so one thing that we know in terms of crucial topics she was involved with, which i laid out one she was able to answer some questions was the hush money payments. because a lot of that happened before. obviously some of what the president said about it and said it was untrue was after. but a lot of payments happened before he was in the actual white house. she has toll the "wall street journal" during the campaign that a story about payments to play boy placement karen mcdougal was untrue. that did happen. michael cohen admitted. trump knew about it as we know knew about it as well. because she issued a denial doesn't mean she new it was untrue at all, right. the question is who told her to issue that defile. did you get an answer to that

today. >> i think you will see when the transcript was released there was inquiry with respect to the payments appearen, again, we're not permitted to discuss her actual testimony. but that subject matter was covered in part during the examination today. >> all right. well i appreciate your time congressman, thank you, zblier thank you, my pleasure. >> and next breaking news joe biden facing new attacks tonight for comments he made about working with segregationist senators. >> not here to criticize other democrats or -- but it's never okay to celebrate segregationists. never. >> plus the only black republican snor coming to mitch mcconnell's defense after the majority leader claimed the united states in part paid for the sin of slifry by electing president obama. why? and president trump officially launching his 2020 campaign but sounding a lot like he did last time. >> 33,000 emails deleted.

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quote at least there was civility in the senate. the comments last night during the democratic fund raiser in new york and democratic rivals have been quick to respond. >> let's be very clear, that the- the senators that he is speaking of with such adooration are individuals if who built reputationen on gracious. the ku klux klan celebrated the election of one of them. so this is a very serious matter. >> i'm not here to criticize other democrats. but it's never okay to celebrate segregationists. never. >> and democratic senator cory booker saying, quote i'm disappointed he hasn't issued an immediate apology for for the pain his words dredge up. >> right now april ryan political editor "new york times" patrick healy and national affairs correspondent p

patrick you're here with me. let me start with you. the senators he talked about were james eastland of mississippi and hermann tal image of. >> he habs warned not to talk about these guys. don't refrps people like this. but he did it anyway. can you think of a reason why he ignores this advice. >> this is the reference points, the political reference points that joe biden still has threw a 50-year career, still remembering, you know, the 1970s when he came into the senate. you had all the wyatt men of privilege and power, different ideologies all working together as somehow, you know, yes, a more productive more bills are passed. >> beyond days. >> sort of like a president trump version of the god old days when things were done. and people of different ideology got along together. for joe biden, you know, he assumes people know where his

heart and head is. and that people understand what he is talking about. but the problem is is that these are reference points that have -- that are so far away from where today's democratic party is. and where particularly you know liberal voters activists what they want to hear from a democratic nominee. and these kind of remarks are sort of genuinely shocking to people. >> i mean, they are. there could have been other examples, april, than to say, oh, when segregation was the policy of these guys i could still work with them. >> yeah, well, you know, i get what cory booker and many of the other democratic presidential candidates are saying. but i also hear what joe biden is saying. what joe biden is trying to say is he had to work with these people to get things through. but, you know, at that time -- i remember people screaming about david duke being on the hill. i remember hearing names, jesse hamas. i remember strom thurmened and robert burke. we heard a lot of names that a

lot of the democrats had to work with. and some of them were democrats. and they had to work with them to get things passed. but for today -- for today we are a very divided nation. and it's one side or the other. and he was talking about a time when he had to work with these people. but the problem for joe biden is right now is that these young people, these young people who were obama young people, who helped obama become president of the united states, they look at this as joe biden basically giving add oration to these people when he is not. but we are in a different era. for him the question is how do you bridge the gap or apologize because it's a big capitalism he created. >> joan, let me ask you this a senior adviser to biden campaign saying bide didn't sprays the segregationist. he says sometimes you have to

work with down right racist folks to get things done. does that argument hold water? does that add up to you? >> no. i'm sorry. i love simone but it doesn't. the other thing that really really hurt a lot of people is that he made -- irgs it was a joke. i mean, we don't have tape. so we don't know how it was said. but we trust "the new york times" reporting. he made a joke that, well, eastland never called mimi boy. he only called me son. that's unacceptable. it's not funny. we know why he didn't call him bipolar. it was a word he used for black people. i almost feel like segregationist is -- a euphemism. these men were deeply racist. and i really appreciate that april is being so kind and so big-hearted and open minded about this. and i will try to follow her on this. but i also have to say a lot of people are hearing this more and

more as undermining barack obama, that joe biden's -- the most important thing about joe biden is his standing with black voters. and when he talks again and again as though he could work with segregationist and mitch mcconnell, and work with even the modern republican party, what he is saying is -- or he is raising a question about why barack obama couldn't. and i don't think he wants to be going arthro. >> april, here is my question about some of this, right? i mean it doesn't come in a vacuum. i mean there are by the way members of the black caucus defending biden's record on race recommendation pngs many exact sheila jackson lee among them. but there are many voters of different color who have concerns about biden because of his 1994 crime bill stance but also because of comments he made, which is why it's hard to put this in a vacuum, comments like these. >> in dwir, the largest growth

in population is indian americans moving from india. you can't go to a 7-eleven or dunkin' donuts unless you have a slight indian accent. i'm not joking. i mean you got the first sort of mainstream african-american who is articulate and bright and clean, and a nice looking guy. i mean, that's a story book, man. >> he is going to let the big bags once again write their own rules. unchain wall street. they're going to put you all back in chains. >> april, does that contextualize what he is saying now in a more disturbing light or not. >> well, you know, i remember when he made the comments about barack obama talking about how clean he was. but, you know, at that time barack obama had to come out and save joe biden. you know with the comments.

remember that? they're inartful, insensitive. he is from another time. you know, for some those could be archie bunker words. he is from another time. but at the same time he is trying to say look at his heart and who he is. but this is the problem that he has. you know, he is from an era -- a by gone era, a time we want to forget. and he is saying those things saying that he has this heart. you got to stop it. you got to stop it because we are now in the midst of a great divide, a great divide as america is going to be great again. he has to fix his speak. and that's one of the reasons why he didn't do a lot of interviews when he was in the white house, because they were afraid of his openness, his candor. joe boyden iden is very differe. he has to work on this.

he has to work on this. >> patrick all of in is happening -- we'll see over time. you have this, the change on the abortion -- the hyde amendment. >> trouble. >> the putting him back in a spotlight in a way he doesn't want to be. all different reasons but nonetheless a spotlight he doesn't wanton him. poll after poll shows him leading against democrats and trump. monmouth poll, a mcmahoning lead against democrats. fox news poll shows him beating trump nationally by 10 points. does all of this add up to anything? or is it much ado about nothing. >> adding up to quite a bit with the base of the democratic party that right now knows joe biden, doesn't know a lot of the other people, some part of that base is saying joe biden because of name id when they answer. >> you think things like this makes them look around. >> makes them look around, go into the debates next week, going into the summer seeing the positive news cycles that

elizabeth warren or pete buttigieg get. it opens minds and also raises questions about whether joe biden is what they want for the future of america, with one owe someone again who has rerns points and makes comments like this. the thing the boyden camp tells itself is they are going to raise far and away the most amount of money in the second quarter. far ahead of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. and they see this as a long ball. a lot of us remember in 2007 barack obama, hillary clinton, they were weaker rustier candidates early on. but the biden camp at least tells uts seven this is a long pahl. >> joan, as trump has shown. people have a tolerance for things they didn't have a tolerance for a few years ago. >> yeah, not the democratic base. you know, i just -- i think i'm not saying this is disqualifying or that he can't get past this. but we are not the republican party.

and donald trump actually lost the popular vote. so joe biden needs to listen to advisers. he needed to listen to them about the hyde amendment, he needed to listen to them about not talking about work with segregationist. can you is it talk about other ways to cross the aisle. don't go back there it's not ending well. >> next the debate raging over represent arations for slavery. >> the stain of slavery disadvantaged of course aen americans economically for generations. >> are we talking cash payments plus the rnc announcing president trump raise add record $25 million in 24 hours. can democrats compete?

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tonight, a non-starter. that's what senator tim scott, the only african-american republican in the senate says about repairations for slavery. saying there is no question that slavery a scourge on the history of america. the question is are repairations is a realistic path forward. the answer is no. and he doubled down moments ago. >> the subject of repairations is 100 years too old from my perspective. we should look for ways to grow our economy and give every single american a chance to compete. >> in is in defense of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who said this yesterday. >> yeah, i don't think repairations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea. we have, you know, tried to deal

with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil whereby passing landmark civil rights legislation, we've elected an african-american president. >> today senator cory booker and others testified in support of a bill that would study repairations proposals. outfront. cam i'll foster hosts a podcast. and alsina. you have a new last name. assist professor of african-american history at ford ham. wes let me start with you senator scott says repairations are not realistic. saying you can't figure out who to compensate and pay for if and it goes back to 1865. >> why is he wrong. >> he is wrong because the history says something different. the first mistake is using slavery as an even. it happened and stopped there. but slavery was inspired by the

ideology and that is white supremacy which we live with today. the other reason he is wrong is did you know that for example, in 1862 the u.s. actually pass add bill that paid slave holders in washington, d.c. repairations for having freed slaves. and each person was given -- worth the value of $300 which today when i looked it up is about $7,000 per person. that money came from the federal government and paid out to each slave holder. so we have seen moments where repairations were given except it always goes the other direction. >> cam he'll. >> we're talk about a kemp rather context that was 150 odd years ago if we go with mitch mcconnell that there might have been a conversation about repairations. but it's true that more than a century removed from that point

it's hard for us to actually compensate people who were directly impacted by some of the things that transpired. one can certainly look at the last couple of decades and look at the 1970s and '60s and ee polks when bad things happened to african-americans in the country. but the question is what do we do about the bad things? it isn't obvious there is an easy straightforward solution for parsing out some sort of compensation to people based on how much they've been injured on account of blackness. what do sasha and malia what are they entitled to being the descendants of slave holders and slaves? how do we figure it out? it's not straightforward and easy. i think one of the folks who testified told coleman hughes underscored this in comments that we know for a fact that there are very serious problems we could be addressing. we're not talking about how we address the problems. because we are talking about

repairations. >> wes what's your response. it seems academic but it's not because you get into the issue of what do you do with people of mixed race, people black but not arken american? what about people who were -- were abolitionists? what do you -- >> you know, the hinge i find interesting about the responses is they're more about deflecting the actual conversation rather than actually answering how we address. >> don't you have to address that. >> you will eventually have to address the problem. as a matter of fact we were just talking about how i got married you have to say my last night. my wife is mixed race black woman, a descendant of slaves. her grandmother had been the daughter of slaves. so what would we do about that? we can go through her mother's line and consider how that affected her situation. as a living citizen. >> but also we are -- we are also talking about crude and poorly thought out. >> okay great my friend brought up the issue of being

impractical is. there is nothing about this. >> and conditional. >> there is it nothing about this is impractical. i opened with a specific example having to do with repairations. i will give you other examples in the case of haiti, for instance, where they paid repairations to france rather than france repairations to them. great britain great brayton just paid. >> take your wife, take sasha and malia, then, so what do you do? do they receive or pay? >> great britain or get half? i mean it's a real question. >> great britain paid the last payment of repairations is slave holders in 2015. all right. so this issue of it's impractical, 1006 years ago appear we have to deal with the present that's precisely what the bill is trying to do. bring us to the table to have a conversation about how do we move forward. >> i think the fact. >> to get there. if you want to talk about mixed race people we can talk about the descendants. they have descendants people of

african descent. >> so anybody who is mixed race would be a recipient of money. >> are we talking about mixed race. >> mixed race african-americans. >> they -- they are all parties to this. >> what i think we all know, especially our. >> mixed race did not exempt them from being enslaved or racism. >> mixed raceness is similarly convoluted it's not a thing straightforward. it's not something we can parse out in any kind of concrete way. >> judge i us -- are we talking about repairations or the construction of race. >> we're talking. >> as a whole entire conversation. >> we are talking about both. because you talked about mixed race people and being a descendant of africans. here the point i think perhaps underappreciated it's the degree to which we talk about a policy that requires people who are not a party to particular crimes, particular harms being responsible for paying for those crimes. i, for example, under some schemes wouldn't be entitled to

repairations. i would be responsible for paying them as a first generation american whose family wasn't -- or ancestors were no not enslaved in the ups of america. >> again, erin. >> and see just? is it just to require paem to pay for things that they weren't responsible for. >> this is deflecting. >> there's not deflecting. >> you individualize it rather than talk about something that is collective. >> i understand the point about collective. i get it's important to to have have confidential. but ultimately if you can't individualize you can't pay people >> and if there are problems on the individual level -- >> if you want to talk about paychecks to aech individual, we yes you are going to have to decide who gets those paychecks. >> and who pays. >> you know, that is all also practical. and how do you do it? well there was a interview that emerged right after slavery and the civil war go through the documentations. you will find the families, right. go through the papers in terms

of this ample example i told but repairations. you will track the families. one thing that african-american families actually did after slavery was to travel around the country because for the first time they had mobility. to seek out their families. where they were, wherever they were. you can track this. and well into the 20th century under the administration of roosevelt you had reporters and you had academics who went occupant in the field and interviewed descendants of enslaved people. many of those were the last living enslaved americans. in idea that somehow you can't find the perpetrators or the people aircrafted is simply not true. >> well, you can find the descendens of the perpetrators which is the crucial adjective. >> you can find people of the descent. >> did you know that citi bank is well involved -- has roots in the slave trade. >>en at current shareholders.

>> ben keyes are has roots in the holocaust. >> the lehman brothers found some of their capitol out. >> and shareholders should be punished for that. >> the capital. >> we hit pause as i say love having you on thp. s in a conversation to be continued with you both. next president trump's message in 2020 sounds a lot like the message in 2016. >> we are building the wall. >> folks, we are building the wall. okay. >> eventually. maybe. maybe not. how do democrat run against what was obviously a winning message? plus a new report reveals the truly disturbing things that saudi apgts said on tape moments before the murder of "washington post" reporter jamaul chash fwi that has president trump now against the world.

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new tonight, trump with a massive fund raising call. rnc rona mcdaniel tweeting quote at real donald trump raise add record breaking $24.8 million in less than 24 hours across the country. the enthusiasm for this president is unlike anything we have seen. the tweet coming hours after he kicked off his 2020 bid.

could you tell outfront. the dorm dnc chairman, and cnn comment traitor. good to have new new york. >> good to be here. >> you're a former dnc chair. one of the most prolific fund raisers of all time. you know how hard it is. we don't know all the adults details backup but 24.8 mltsds in less than 24 hours for the president. what's your reaction. >> that's a good haul whatever you want to say. but no matter how much money he has, he is going to have a tough time winning re-election. if you look at the map of the country, rook at the polls today, i just saw polls yesterday, biden was beating trump in texas, north carolina, in florida, i think five or six democrats are beating trump today in florida. you can have all the money in the world. but he has a base of about 40%. you look at the rally last night, speaking to the same people. he has to grow. and he's got to reach out to independents. i think it's very hard for him. >> here is the thing though in

terms of money. i know money doesn't mean anything but it's a lot 37 his one--day haul is for times what biden raised. and more than biden raised in his entire campaign. and yet biden is the front runner. you can say a lot of people running and competition. but does that raise yellow flags. >> first of all he is the president of the united states of america for the re-elect having compared bill clinton's re-elect i can tell you getting back in as president you'll have the ability to raise a lot of pony. but our candidates are having all the money they need to be competitive against donald trump. but it's a lot of money but doesn't matter at the end of the day. a at some point you can only spend so much money. he has a hard time -- take michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, three states that we lost by a combined total of 77,000 votes. >> yes. >> and yet 92 million people stayed home in 2016. what happened people woke up the next day and said holy cow how did it happen?

they came out in record numbers in virginia. the biggest pick up of house delegates in 140 years. >> you think his turnout was enthusiastic and in love at the time appear and you think that's a cap and but on your side. >> 92 million people stayed home and shocked the next day. they are motivated. we won the congress picked up seven governors. he has a record -- it's a record that on health care trying to destroy the affordable care act. on education what they are doing to the department of education. he has hurt oh our reputation around the world. he has a record now. >> so he also -- what's interesting in the launch last night. >> yes. >> he is -- i don't know if this is what he does every time. it's consistent. but he went with some thengs we had heard before. not just heard before, governor. >> yes. >> identical to before. everyone look at your screen. you see him last night and you see him in 2016 or last time around. here he is. >> crooked hillary clinton. >> crooked hillary clinton.

>> 33,000 emails deleted. >> they acid wash those emails. never to be seen again. >> 33,000 emails deleted. bleached. acid washed. >> we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. >> we will have so much winning if i get elected. >> we are building the wall. >> folks, we are building the wall, okay. >> we will make america great again. thank you. >> we will make america great again. thank you. >> you laugh. but yet it worked. will it work again? >> it worked to that crowd. listen, you got to get 50.1% to win if interests two people running for president. he is speaking -- my point is he is speaking to the same folks, the same arguments about hillary as emails. you know. >> but he did win. he won. he won the electoral college he is president. >> he didn't win the popular

vote. be chlor. lost three state by 77,000. you had russia. jim comey. i can go through the list of things that we will have in there in 2020 that weren't there in 2016. he has a record. he has to stand by the things he has done. he has turned off more than he excited. same folks in orlando. good for them injury it's great. you want to tell me how he can put to get together a coalition of folks to get 50.1% of the vote or the electoral college. he can't. the maybe we'll screw it up the democrats have done it before. >> yes. >> we got to get through our primary process, be energized and come together but i'd rather be us than donald trump today. >> thank you very much governor mccullough and welcome to the network. >> thank you. >> a new report revealing damning information about what saudi operatives said on tape as they murdered the "washington post" reporter jamal khashoggi.

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finished. we will wrap each of them. "the washington post" journalist told he was being taken back to saudi arabia. minutes later khashoggi said there is a towel here, are you going to give me drugs? a struggle is heard. followed by voices saying did he sleep? he raises his head. keep pushing. push here. don't remove your hand. push it. despite overwhelming evidence that this was an execution that could only have been ordered at the highest levels of the saudi government, the trump administration has refused to back down in its support of the saudi kingdom. the trump saudi relationship runs deep. saudi arabia was the first foreign country the president visited. "the washington post" reported that the saudis have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at his washington hotel. and trump's son-in-law jared kushner and the crowned prince are close and communicate directly on what's app. >> i hate the crime. i hate what's done. i hate the coverup and i will tell you this, the crowned

prince hates it more than i do and they have denied it. >> the president ignored his own intelligence community that assessed this could have only happened with the blessing of the crowned prince. weapons sales, oil prices, the alliance against iran more important than the killing administration argued. everyone as foreign allies and democrats and republicans on capitol hill turned against s saudi arabia and the crowned prince. >> there is not a smoking gun, there is a smoking saw. you have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion this was orchestrated and organized by people under the command of nbs. >> there is a bipartisan effort in the senate to try to block the latest effort by the trump administration to sell billions of dollars worth of weapons to saudi arabia. erin, administration is going around congress after declaring an emergency with iran.

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. tonight the trump confidant and a few words. >> getting hope hicks to talk is hopeless. >> have you spoken to the president at all about this testimony? >> like the beautiful expressionest model she used to occasionally be, hope walked the runways of congress silently. >> the often seen but rarely heard. >> closed doors and tight lips. >> lips so tight that democrats couldn't get answers to the most basic questions about her time in the white house. >> where is your office located? objection. it's ridiculous. >> inside the hearing, outside the hearing. >> when is the last time you spoke to the president? but the guy to whom hope spoke the most didn't even ask a question. she suddenly made a beeline to one of the still photographers chasing her, asked if he was all right. moments earlier, well, she went that much we know and as far as testifying goes, she claimed immunity for many questions a rather legal doctrine to executive privilege made all the more dubious as this isn't a white house counsel orsen yo senior advisor. regardless, she wouldn't answer mast