we don't know if trump lied to hope pics hicks about the meeting or if hope hicks just lied to the americane be in his orbit whatsoever? >> well it's certainly peculiar. the president has changed his story and his team has changed its story about that meeting time and time again. the more we learn, the more concerning that meeting is. and to have hope hicks turn up on air force one like this without a clear reason -- she's no longer a part of the administration. she has kept her distance it seems, at least publicly from the administration since. and to have her show up like this does raise concerns. and i would think that the special counsel would want to know if it can find out what kinds of conversations she had. did she talk with the president during this flight or during the weekend? did she talk about this meeting? were any agreements made? it does raise questions. >> i want to talk to you about the truth n. politics, i know people don't always shoot straight. but this break neck piece of news, and the walkbacks and oh, i didn't have all the information at first, and the lies -- i mean

. >>> hope hicks is back in the news.ted in pr for ivanka trump's clothing line and within five years landed a job as president trump's white house communications director has re-emerged six months after resigning that post. on saturday, hicks was spotted getting onto air force one, just before it took off for the president's rally in ohio. and there she is, actually in the plane with the president. but president trump may want to get some legal advice before he swaps stories with hope. because about two months before she resigned, hope hicks met with robert mueller, reportedly more than once. hope hicks, you will remember, was also onboard air force once when president trump was putting together his public statement about the now infamous trump tower meeting. miss hicks was reportedly right by the president's side for that project, texting back and forth with his son, donald trump jr. now, today, a source close to the trump legal effort tells me that the president's conduct since the trump tower meeting, his involvement

matthew scully—hicks was sentenced to 18 years in prison. published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. there were missed opportunities to raise safeguarding concerns. for this, all agencies involved in elsie's care would like to sincerely apologise. the report also found that the adoption was viewed as very successful. opportunities to explore elsie's injuries were missed, and information was not shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully—hicks had already adopted one child, and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who hadn't always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly round injuries they can see during an adoption process? that positive lens meant they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so you're right. that's something they should have done, that's something

matthew scully—hicks was jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years for murder last year.was 18 months old when she was murdered by her adoptive father. matthew scully—hicks was sentenced to 18 years in prison after inflicting a catalogue of injuries on the child. today a report was published into whether lessons could be learnt from her death. there were missed opportunities to raise safeguarding concerns. for this all agencies involved in elsie's care would like to sincerely apologise. the report also found that the adoption was viewed as very successful. opportunities to explore elsie's injuries were missed and information was not shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully—hicks had already adopted one child and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers who hadn't always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity? because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly around injuries that they

for more than a0 years, tom hicks has been coming to this tennis club near wakefield.ow aged 99 he still plays three times a week all year round. for me it is the fresh air, the friendship and it is good for you. it is good for my figure, as you. it is good for my figure, as you call it. how hard is it on the body at 99? i never noticed, ijust kept going. the final of the men's singles. there are not many people left who remember this. tom was 15 when fred perry won his first wimbledon in 193a. ten years later during world war ii, he was part of the assault on an. it was only after returning home that he took up a sport that he has loved ever since. in those days it was all wooden rackets and the court was all rough and we had coloured balls instead of yellow and grey. playing three times a week at 99 is pretty impressive, but tom has still got some way to go if he is going to get into the record books. according to guinness world records the world's oldest tennis player was a mexican man who reached the tender age of 101. what a shock! if you are getting older, it isa

we know hope hicks is a witness in this investigation. we have her on air force one helping to draft the statement, which has caused so much unrest. i cannot imagine her lawyer would want her alone with the president. i cannot imagine the president's lawyer would want him alone with hope hicks. it could be completely innocent. maybe they are catching up on old friends or her job hunt or whatever it may be, but there is that concern that they are talking about the case. you know what that does? it gives bob mueller and his team a reason to talk to hope hicks again. to the extent they complain this taking too long, they ought to stop creating evidence. >> can the president invoke executive privilege is hope hicks is no longer an employee of the white house? >> that's exactly right. no. she is not an employee of the white house. it can't be executive privilege. moreover, it can't be attorney/client privilege because she is not his attorney. if no attorney was present , an even if there was an attorney present, that is not attorney/client pri

matthew scully—hicks was sentenced to 18 years in prison.roken ribs and a fractured leg. today a report was published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. there were missed opportunities to raise safeguarding concerns. for this, all agencies involved in elsie's care would like to sincerely apologise. the report also found that the adoption was viewed as very successful. opportunities to explore elsie's injuries were missed, and information was not shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully—hicks had already adopted one child, and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who hadn't always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly round injuries they can see during an adoption process? that positive lens meant they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so you're right. that's

matthew scully—hicks was sentenced to 18 years in prison. fractured skull, broken ribs and a fractured leg. today a report was published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. there were missed opportunities to raise safeguarding concerns. for this, all agencies involved in elsie's care would like to sincerely apologise. the report also found that the adoption was viewed as very successful. opportunities to explore elsie's injuries were missed, and information was not shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully—hicks had already adopted one child, and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who hadn't always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly round injuries they can see during an adoption process? that positive lens meant they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so yo

hope hicks coming back or hope hicks just visiting friends? >> well, too soon to say.u took a poll of the white house press corps and everyone said, what do you think, what feels right, the 2020, the re-elet campaign seems like the more likely role. after all, what is most important about hope hicks is her personal relationship with the president, sort of a calming or familial effect she has as an adviser. i think when she took a more formalized policy role at the white house, it wasn't her favorite time in the white house. it wasn't her best time at the white house. but one of the big questions everyone has had is, are she and the president still talking? what's the relationship like now that she's left? it became obvious to those of us on the trip this weekend, even for the brief exposure we had to her, that she was still quite comfortable in trump land. and he was quite comfortable with her. >> she was central to the air force one meeting, phone call between the president and son don junior that resulted in the initial statement that was misleading about the trump t

with hope hicks present. i don't understand this.icks had an interview with mueller, right? and all i know is i remember reading "fire and fury," that moment on two page 9. >> you got the page numbers here. >> steve bannon loses his mind. he says i am going to tell your dad on you. he says donald trump jr. will crack like an egg. she can still come back, but it still hovers over her head. >> you have the book memorized it sounds like. >> noah, kansas governor race, i am fascinated by the irony that kris kobach made his name, it is going to come down to a recount that his office has control of statewide. this is a big moment for the republican party in a way. what he represents potentially being nominated in kansas versus this establishment accountin a difference of votes. >> the president overruled some people around him and said i am going to endorse kris kobach, you don't normally do that. you don't do that for a reason. incumbents have built in base of support and obviously donald trump commands a lot of power and influence within

hope hicks shows up to fly on air force one to the president's rally in ohio over the weekend and weave to assume the special counsel is watching this, too. >>> meanwhile a star witness appeared today in the case against paul manafort. and gates confirms there is no honor among thieves apparently. "the 11th hour" on a monday night begins now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. as we begin a new week, day 564 of the trump administration and so much for the cover story that the meeting with the russians at trump tower was about russian adoptions somehow. we got this from the president famously just yesterday. fake news reporting a complete fabrication that i am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son donald had in trump tower. this was a meeting to get information on an opponent. totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. i did not know about it. the president was responding to a reporting from phil rucker, robert costa and ashley parker of "the washington post" who wrote, quote, trump has confided to friends and adv

if i want to invite hope hicks on air force one, i'm going to do it. she's with me.blem with this dichotomy of what you should do legally and for public perception is that he's going down the right path. he subjected himself to more questioning and he's putting hope hicks into a box where she is likely to be reenter viewed, perhaps for hours again, about what transpird on that plane. it is all a very bad idea. >> and we know about lies were told, if we could just adopt some of the language that politicians sometimes tea in scandals like this. there was one in the white house where i worked where scooter libby was ultimately charged with obstruction of justice and perjury. that's often what tripped up aides. it is possible somebody involved repeated that lie when they went in to meet with rob mueller. it is possible one of the people who was called in and questioned about that is already in legal jeopardy. >> no. and frank is right. if you're a defense attorney, the first thing you say is dome talk to anybody who might be a witness in this case. if you need on pass so

now, a review finds chances were missed to save 18—month—old elsie skully—hicks.rew and i've got a smart phone. i'm kirsten and i've got a smart phone. i'm jake and i've got a smart phone. and i'm alice and i'm too small. how digital devices have transformed all our lives. and almost throwing away millions — the couple that binned their lotto dream. interest rates are going up for only the second time since 2009. the bank of england's monetary policy committee voted unanimously for the rise, from 0.5 to 0.75%. the increase had been expected, despite concerns over household debt, and a slowing of the property market. it means more than three and a half million mortgages subject to variable or tracker rates, will become more expensive. but it's good news for some savers. here's our business editor simonjack. the road to rising interest rates has been a very slow one, like the tarmac on this road near lincoln, rates have been flattened for nearly ten years. that changed today for one main reason, wages are on the move. after years in the doldrums they are rising at 2

with all this in mind, we wondered what did hope hicks and the president talk about on the plane this weekend? joining us to discuss that and all the day's developments, some of our favorite friends and reporters. msnbc national security analyst figliuzzi, former assistant director for counter intelligence at the fbi. aaron blake, senior political reporter for the washington post and here at the table anita kumar white house correspondent for mcclatchy and nbc and msnbc news analyst john heilman. thank you for anchoring thursday and friday. >> it was my pleasure. you have the best audience in the business. they are so, great audience, great guests and great staff. the staff on the show, so top notch. >> i love all the love for you. i'm going to start, though, with you, frank figliuzzi. this source close to the trump legal team and still in contact with members of it past and current telling me that the president's conduct and the fact that he's thrusting this trump tower meeting the lies told about it, the actual genesis of it back into the spotlight suggests that he may have some inc

they said it was too offensive. >> the bill hicks incident on letterman became the thing of legend.y and dirty comedy, it was completely within the parameters of what is acceptable on network television. >> if that's who you're bringing onto your show, that's what you're going to get. if you're not wanting that, you're going to get, probably, a terrible version of that person. >> bill hicks felt violated. he never did the letterman show again, and it haunted dave. >> i want you folks to enjoy this, honestly. >> years later, after hicks had died, letterman had hicks' mom on the show and they played the set in its entirety. >> i think it's interesting to note how people act on religious beliefs, you know what i mean? like a lot of christians wear crosses around their necks. nice sentiment. do you think when jesus comes back he's really going to want to look at a cross? it was trail blazing, and bill hicks is amazing, but somebody has to be first and you usually get chopped down and the next guy comes through. that's what happened. >> i've not seen that videotape, or any part of it sin

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and we also have to remember hope hicks, hope hicks who left the white house the day after she sat down and spoke to members of the government, she was spotted with the president. and those who have spoken to hope hicks said listen, as much as she could miss the president, she knows she cannot go near him, she cannot speak to him. because she was the one who dictated what the president said from air force one about that june meeting and trump tower. >> she was an intermediary. she helped communicate the message. so let's start about hope hicks. she left back in february. one day, as you noted, after she sat down with members of the house intelligence committee. hicks, the president's former communications director, someone he views almost as a daughter, joining him this weekend for his trip to ohio. the raucous rally he held there. part of a series of campaign stops he's going to be hosting over the next several months. this meeting was significant for a variety of reasons. one is if the president met privately with hope hicks, that could be problematic. and the reason why the special c

hope hicks boarded air force one and flew to the president's rally in ohio and back. you may recall, hope hicks resigned from the white house one day before a congressional committee that she had told white lies on behalf of donald trump. she is now living here in manhattan and she too has come under scrutiny for crafting that incredible statement on the plane about the trump tower meeting. a lot to take in. let's bring in our leadoff panel. ashley parker, pulitzer prize winning reporter. philip rutger. they both won their pulitzers for the fallout on the white house. well, good evening and welcome to you all. ashley, a wise journalist, along-time enemy of the people once said a gaffe is what happens when a politician tells the truth. so by that standard, is the a gaffe? was this a self-inflicted wound? do you have enough distance to tell the damage from what the president said on twitter? >> well, i think it was a bit of a gaffe, a bit of a self-infli self-inflicted wound. we don't know the back story, but our understanding is this was not a tragic legal tweet. this

. >> so this really is -- is this on nbc and this is a -- >> dan hicks, johnny miller, whole crew will be there >> have you watched the open coverage has fox got -- are they going to get it together? i'm looking forward to our team. i am i'm looking forward to our -- >> wow i wouldn't take a shot at the european team like that. wow. >> i'm just saying -- >> this is cable >> i got you >> this is the real world. i got it >> i'm not used to those guys

matthew scully hicks had been described by a judge as a jekyll and hyde type character.ies on the child. today, a report was published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. it found that professionals did not consider or raise the possibility that elsie was being harmed by a parent. her injuries were either missed or not documented, meaning safeguarding concerns were not raised, and information was not effectively shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully hicks had already adopted one child and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who had not always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly around injuries that they can see, during an adoption process? that positive lens meant that they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so you are right. that is something they should have done, that is something

by the school's former theater director jefferey hicks.k/plaintiff's attorney - "when she tried to end the abuse, hicks told her he would kill himself and have her arsted"> the former student was 15 the former arrested">have her arrested"> the former student was 15 years-old when she says the abuse happened. she also claims former principal -- mary miller -- knew about the abuse... but failed to report it to authorities. the former student's attorney says hicks moved on to another school... and was convicted of molesting a student there. in a statement... presentation high called the allegations false and misleading. ( marty ) the son of the union city police chief makes his first appearance and flips off the cameras in the courtroom. 18-year-old tyron mcallister was arrested in manteca. he's charged with elder abuse, attempted robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. the attack on the 71-year-old sikh man was captured on surveillance video. police say that's mcallister in the black hoodie. now the sikh community is speaking out about the

while speaking to the press aboard air force one hicks said she would perhaps consider it if the time right. we will have more on this later when "vanity fair" reporter emily jane fox joins "morning joe" >>> and prosecutors called rick gates, manafort's one-time partner and deputy in the trump campaign. gates, avoiding eye contact with his boss, testified he was heavily involved in helping manafort hide millions of dollars overseas. he also told jurors manafort directed had him to make payments through wire transfers using income and accounts manafort asked him not to disclose. the former trump deputy campaign chair acknowledged crimes he committed on his own behalf, likeembezzeling money from manafort. the charges against him come with a ten-year sentence. >> supporting the state's acting governor, the president backed a congressional secretary of state chris kobach had, vice chair of his defunct voter fraud commission. trump made the endorsement in a tweet, of course, hours before voters are heading to the poles. according to "the new york times" a number of high-level party options

hicks is presumably a witness in the obstruction probe. does her presence on the campaign trail, congressman, with the target, potential target of that probe raise red flags? >> i think so. i mean, i think it's really inappropriate. look. she's clearly a witness to a very important event. not only did this meeting happen and then a real effort to conceal the true purpose of the meeting, a false statement that the president admitted not true to give an alternate example for the secret meeting. she's clearly an important witness to those events. you have to wonder what is she doing now on air force one. this week in particular. trying to shore up her story of events? what's the purpose? it creates additional challenges for this administration. i think it would have been much better had they kept her apart from the president and you have to wonder what she is doing there. >> congressman cicilline, thousand for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >>> up next, the breaking news. the president urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 meeting wi

matthew scully—hicks had been described by a judge as a jekyll and hyde type character. prison after inflicting a catalogue of injuries on the child. today, a report was published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. it found that professionals did not consider or raise the possibility that elsie was being harmed by a parent. her injuries were either missed or not documented, meaning safeguarding concerns were not raised, and information was not effectively shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully hicks had already adopted one child and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who had not always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly around injuries that they can see during an adoption process? that positive lens meant that they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so you are right. that is somethi

. >> michael, hope hicks, potential witness in the case. apparently was on air force one this weekend with the president. is that what a smart defense attorney would advice? >> no, i don't even get, you know, sometimes these folks operated in orbit where they're just totally in space by themselves. and disconnected from everything else that's going on around them. i don't know what animated or motivated hope hicks to reinsert herself into this particular narrative at this point in time as this trial is kicking off with manafort and as mueller is laying down, at least giving signs out there that there are folks in trump's space that are now much more in his cross hairs. i don't understand it. i would think, given that she's spoken before to special, you know, prosecutor that, you know, you would create some distance, not reinvolve her. but that's the sense that i think a lot of trump's people feel and maybe hope herself feels, that there's a newness to some degree from all of this other stuff that has nothing to do with what they did on beha

there. >> yes, i am talking about hope hicks. and people say interesting things about me, but hope hicks who had a relationship with a married man corey lewandowski and hope hicks continues to -- >> and she continues to deny that that. >> oh, okay. and she had a relationship with a man rob porter who is alleged to have beaten both of his wives and this is the person that he brought into the white house o e be a communicator for him, and it is interesting that people have not really examined the fact that he would rather have someone who has no political experience and no knowledge of politics at all, because she is pretty. and i am someone who served in two tours of indict, and this is my second time in the white house and he calls me a dog. >> did you feel like you were harassed in the white house as a woman, in a sexual way or harass anyone in a metoo moment? >> i saw in your book where he grabbed you and kissed you without welcoming it. he did that often with women any time he wanted. he is physical and grab women and kiss the

why is hope hicks there? >> i have a counter intuitive theory which is that omarosa is actually continuing to serve the president's purposes with this book because she -- i mean, there is only one person, maybe other than rudy giuliani, who has less credibility than the president. so, for someone with that little credibility then to attack the president somewhat enhances his standing. it creates the soap opera type of dramas, the play as you said, on which trump thrives. if she becomes a witness for mueller, she's a tainted witness. she's a dubious witness. so all of this in a sense serves in a kind of medicine served the president's purposes of creating a soap opera-like distraction from what really ought to be concerning us, which is the state of the country and america's relationship with the rest of the world. >> we know trump doesn't care about that. what i find so of intriguing about her recording with kelly isn't that she recorded it. people have been -- of course you don't take phones into the sit roo

. >> hope hicks was with him over the weekend.hy would a former white house employee go to visit him, a former employee who's also under scrutiny for taking the dictation of that statement. she's a witness. >> yes. >> would you advise somebody like hope hicks to get on a plane and go see the man that she might have to testify against? >> well, you certainly would counsel her to avoid the topic, but how do you avoid the topic with donald trump? he doesn't seem to observe any constraints at all in what he says. so do i think that's from a hope hicks' point of view the safest place for her to be? no. >> if you were bob mueller, would you call hope hicks back? >> he might. >> bob bauer, appreciate it. thank you for coming in. >>> ahead, what do we need to do now to protect the midterm elections from russia? we'll talk to former homeland security secretary jeh johnson. . so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪ go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way, with anoro." ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro

today her attorney said the lawsuit targets hicks for alleged abuse but the school and miller for the coverup. >> when someone hraerps about sex abuse and is a mandatory reporter and does not follow or go forward with it, they basically under the law ratify that action. >> reporter: linda described the campaign by school officials to scare the family about going public in court and said hicks used emotional blackmail and threats telling her daughter -- >> he was either going to take his life or he was going to make damn sure that she was molested. >> the case echoed similar complaints from 1990. the statute of limitation prevented a lawsuit. now a new law in 2003 allows possible victims to go forward because they may have suppressed memories of impact. >> i think she would like this case to stand for prevention and protection of children. >> now, in ate bayarea, presentation high says it has not seen the lawsuit so cannot comment. adding presentation is no place for abuse and is proud of itsest to educate and protect students. the school has 30 takes to file a response to the court. >

waiting for the next bill hicks is a fool's errand.her one. >> you don't understand. >> i ain't scared of you. >> bernie mack introduces himself to the world of comedy by saying, i ain't scared of you mother deny. >> i love sex, i love it, i'm blessed. >> it was not a game with bernie mack. he got discovered a little bit older so he'd been around. by the time he gets his shot, he becomes an instant legend. >> i can't believe the kids, everybody talking about kids, talking about how bad kids is, you know what's bad, you can't say kids bad. i want to -- a kid up. >> bernie welcomes you into his life to tell the story that my sister was a junkie, and i had to take her babies, and to make it funny, how amazing is that? >> that's cigar smoke there, i ain't here to talk about cigars. i'm here to tell you that -- i'm going to kill one of them kids. >> bernie mack was such an original voice too, and instantly likable on screen. >> we have a lot of wars coming. we're definitely going to war with north korea, that angry little psychomidget, anyb

matthew scully hicks had been described by a judge as a jekyll and hyde type character.gue of injuries on the child. today, a report was published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. it found that professionals did not consider or raise the possibility that elsie was being harmed by a parent. her injuries were either missed or not documented, meaning safeguarding concerns were not raised, and information was not effectively shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully hicks had already adopted one child and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who had not always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly around injuries that they can see, during an adoption process? that positive lens meant that they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so you are right. that is something they should have done, that i

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hicks, question for you. what advice does the election assistance commission from your and we can provide the state and local officials when evaluating vendors for cybersecurity? >> we operate under the voluntary system. if a vendor wants to submit a system for certification, then we would give them guidance on that. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i feel the back. >> -- yield back. >> gentlelady's time new york is recognized. >> thank you, ranking member and thank you, mr. chairman for calling the fully vital, important hearing. this past weekend i went on a date and politics pilgrimage, bipartisan led by congressman tom reed to upstate new york, the home of two of the vital human rights and social justice ancivil rights movements in our country, the right to abolish slavery, the fight to abolish slavery and the fight to grant women, half the population, the right to vote. we went to the grades of harriet tubman, frederick douglass, susan b. anthony, all people that dedicated their life to freedom and the right

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. >> reporter: sacrificing appearance from former director of communications hope hicks. she surprised the press by showing up not only in new jersey but then boarding air force one. apparently on her way to this rally in ohio. you recall hicks resigned one day after she testified to congress that she had told white lies for president trump. he she left the administration about a month later. perhaps not that surprising considering we know that president trump has contact with former campaign and administration officials, corey lewandowski. anthony scaramucci. roger stone to make a few. but surprising to see hope hicks relatively out of the blue ana. >> boris sanchez, you are on top of it. let's play a small part of the interview that president trump was responding to when he insulted the intelligence of both james and cnn anchor my colleague don lemon. the four-time nba most valuable player james making it clear how he feels about the president. watch. >> he has kind of used sport to kind of divide us. >> do you think he uses black thmts as a scapegoat. >> at times. at t

. >> i want to ask you guys with hope hicks. hope hicks left the administration. she resigned a day after she testified to the house intel committee, and i'm sure she was asked about that trump tower meeting, because remember, she was on air force one with the president when he misrepresented what that meeting don junior had with the russian lawyer. hope hicks now made her way back to bedminster supposedly for old time's sake she decided to go to the rally in ohio with the president. i would probably bring tennis shoes and a t-shirt. alas she was ready to join the president. could robert mueller or house intel ask to speak with her again? if she had one-on-one time with the president, given how serious things are about that meeting, how closely tied she is to it, and now she was with the president, did she just walk back into a hornet's nest? >> yeah. i think so. by the way, so the extent the president and his team complain about how long this investigation is taking, frankly, they're the ones creating more evidence. first thing that defense lawyer will tell his o

on saturday, former communications director hope hicks was spotted on the tarmac joining the president on his trip to ohio. according to jump junior's senate testimony, hicks was in the middle of the president dictating his son's misleading statements about adoptions to "the new york times" followed by explanations that quickly unraveled. >> politics is not the nicest business in the world but it's very standard where they have information and they take the information. in the case of don, he listened. they talked about -- as i see it they talked about adoption and some things. >> there's nothing as far as we know that would lead anyone to believe that there was anything except for adoption. >> the president didn't sign off from anything. the statement released saturday was released by donald trump jr. and i'm sure in consultation with his lawyer. the president didn't -- >> he didn't dictate. he weighed in, offered suggestion like any father would do. >> john heilemann, it's breathtaking, we're used to the lying, but on something this big, perhaps the most important part of this entire

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hope hicks was the middle person between the president and his son don junior. since she's left the white house, we have not seen her publicly. there have been a number of reports that the president wanted to talk to her. she's been told not to talk to him. there she is there. the president in the same weekend -- she's a central player here. we know the special counsel wants to talk to her, likely has talked to her. then this tweet comes. >> i think -- i believe it's public she's already talked to the independent counsel. so it's not as if she and the president could be sort of getting their story straight before she talked to them. they've already got from her what they are going to get. i think one of the interesting things, yes, the independent counsel wants to talk to the president in person and wants to question the president in person. but we also know over the last couple weeks that the independent counsel is scrutinizing the president's twitter feed in a way that i think we all assumed probably was the case, you know, even before the revelation, but the

victoria hicks reports.lihoods depend on this industrial estate in sutton bonington. the fire started at around 11 o'clock today in a factory unit full of scrapped cars. it quickly escalated. around 55 firefighters had to be called in from across the east midlands. the safety cordon has been widened because of explosions at the scene. the fire brigade has pulled out all its crews, so all the firefighters can do is watch the fire until it is safe for them to go back. we have pulled back the crews because it's dangerous. we have got some unknown dangers, we have put in place an evacuation plan. we've got a cordon in place, because it is scrap cars we cannot rule out the materials used in the scrap car industry. major disruption was caused to rail services, closing part of the main line between loughborough and east midlands parkway. a section of the line runs alongside the industrial estate. east midlands airport said no planes had been affected because there was no smoke blowing across the flight path. we wer

hope hicks said no contact with any russians was such a blatant denial and no way to be true. we knew it was happening. so when you look what happened at trump tower meeting and then people like george pop develop louse and carter page that communicated with the russian, there's a reason and now as the facts are revealed they have to keep changing their story. >> if there is nothing there but the lying, a possible theory,just admitted what happened a year ago, none of this is going on, why all the lying? you have been in this town for a long time. >> i was talking about what i think people think about how campaigns are run. >> oh yeah. >> but i do think that from well before the election, well before the inauguration i should say, when we got word that there were communications with the soviets about pulling back on the sanctions, when, you know, trump has consistently cozied up to vladimir putin, when everybody in his party including elected officials thought that was dangerous, i mean, there's this consistent ease of relationships with russia. that is ultimately why i think

so i don't know if hope hicks being back on the plane will somehow create a more level-headed donaldink it will but we're moving into dangerous times here. >> we have about 30 seconds l t left. we saw the president full my na -- fu in ohio. what is the outcome of that race going to tell you about the midterms? >> the outcome will tell us the base is with him no matter what. there's recent polling by cbs news indicating 90% of trump supporters believe what the president is telling them. 10% of trump supporters only believe what the media is telling them. that huge discrepancy in the numbers scares me because it tells me the base sticks with him no matter what. they don't care how reckless he is. they don't care donald trump doesn't exhibit care about facts getting in the way. inviting hope hicks on air force one on the way to ohio tells me he doesn't care if heaven which you ares into the territory of potential witness tampering. so this is a president that roars louder when he's scared. and i have to ask him, mr. president what are you scared of. i know your scared your kids are goin

hope hicks.k about the president's biological family, the role they are playing in the administration. he had a family of close confy daun daunt /* confidants. what do you make of her presence at the rally last night? >> first and foremost, thank you for the twitter plug. secondly, hope hicks also almost resembled a family member here for president trump over the last few years. she used to work for ivanka trump. she is very close with all of the president's children. she became, when that campaign first started in june 2015 with a staff of about five, she was one of them. she was the press secretary. she didn't ever go on camera and rarely publicly spoke to the press. she was more than that. she was sort of the trump's body person, if you will, and closest con confidant on the trail. a role she took in the white house for a number of positions she held. she is good for the president, people feel. she has a calming effected on him, according to people close to him. seeing her yesterday was a surp