most recently as a white house communications director. e house judiciary announcing she has agreed to testify next wednesday up here on capitol hill via closed door testimony, but they intend to release a transcript afterwards. and of course she'll be facing questions about her time in the trump campaign, transition and during her time in the white house. now, significant thing to watch is the white house last week, they told hicks not to provide any documents to the committee related to her time at the white house. so the thing to watch here is whether they assert executive privilege to prevent her from talking to the committee about her time at the white house. but of course a campaign time will be fair game. dave and christine? >>> some breaking news, oil prices spiking right now after a fire on a tanker ship in the gulf of oman. this follows media reports that two oil tankers have been attacked. the companies that managed the tankers, were evacuated with one minor injury. the manager of the courageous says it's in no danger of sinking

white house lawyer is a liar. fine out why coming up. >>> sanders is out. white house press secretary sarah sanders leaving the trump administration. former white house communications director anthony scaramucci helps us big in why she left and why we've gone 95 days without a white house press briefing. let's begin with that breaking news. we now know the matchup. who will face-off on each of the two nights of the democratic primary debates hosted by nbc news. here they are. the announcement comes less than 24 hours after finding out which 20 candidates made the cut for the debate stage. the two-hour event airs on june 26th and june 27th. live from miami right here on msnbc, on nbc news and telemundo. joining me now, national political correspondent, steve kornacki. arguably, this is one of the key moments in all of the campaign, right? it's going to be a long campaign. but for a lot of these 1%ers and 2%ers. my question for you is. let's start with night one. a lot of people saying this is a chance for elizabeth warren as the one top tier candidate to shine. i wonder if it doesn't provide an even bigger opening without, say, a biden or bernie for some of the peop

and then the white house press secretary, sean spicer and then chief of staff reince priebus, and continue white house communications director, anthony scaramucci, and then steve bannon who was the last manager of his campaign. and then the health secretary tom price had to resign. and then the white house staff secretary when we learned the dark reasons why he couldn't get a security clearance. he had to go. and then the chief economic adviser gary cohn and the secretary of state rex tillerson and another white house communications director hope hicks. and then national security adviser h.r. mcmaster and the v.a. secretary and the ridiculous nominee who was supposed to replace the v.a. secretary. and then the head of the epa has to renew in another corruption scandal. and then the attorney general and the interior secretary and another corruption scandal. and then another white house communications director, the guy from fox news has to go, and then the defense secretary james mattis resigns in protest and then the homeland security gets fired as well. check your watch. thereup there might be more just tonight. i k

so all of this comes as former white house communications director hope hicks will testify behind closed doors to the house judiciary committee. this is the first case where a member of the president's inner circle will appear as part of its investigation into possible obstruction of justice. sources say hicks will be asked about her time at the white house and in the campaign. it's still unclear whether the white house will assert executive privilege to prevent her from answering questions about her time at the white house. michael zelden is robert mueller's special assistant at the doj and gabby orr is a white house reporter for politico. good to see both of you. michael, let's begin with you. the president said he wanted to fire mueller and that article 2 of the constitution gave him the power to do so but ultimately he decided against it because, quote, it didn't work out well for nixon. so this contradicts what his former white house counsel, don mcgahn, told robert mueller that he refused the president's order to fire mueller. so could this discrepancy be at all a problem for the p

someone who was a former white house communications director. someone who multiple congressional committees have been eager to speak with in the aftermath of the mueller report. and now she has agreed to go behind closed doors and talk to the house judiciary committee next wednesday in the aftermath of the committee, issuing a subpoena demanding documents and testimony as part of its investigation into potential obstruction of justice at the white house. this is a rare deal that has been reached between either current or former white house aides, current or former administration officials and the democratic-led panel. we have seen resistance from a number of officials, including white house officials and efforts by the white house to prevent these people from coming before this committee. but in this regard, at least a deal has been cut for hicks to come behind closed doors and answer questions. now, i am told that this means that the committee will have this hearing and then the transcription of the interview will be released afterwards. and the

nbc news has just confirmed the white house has directed former white house communications director hope hicks not to turn over any documents related to her time in the trump administration to congress. nbc's kristen welker is at the white house with more. what do you have? >> reporter: hi, jeff. that's right. that is according to two sources familiar with the matter and our hill and white house teams have been working this. our sources do confirm that the white house is directing former communications director hope hicks and andy donaldson who is the former chief of staff to don mcgahn not to turn over documents related to their time at the white house. to put this into a broader context, this is the latest escalation, the latest front in this ongoing battle and back and forth between the trump administration and capitol hill. congress saying that they have the responsibility of oversight. they want these documents. they have subpoenaed hicks and andy donaldson. they want to hear from them. they want testimony from both of them. what are the implications about that? it would stand to re

former white house communications director anthony scaramucci joins me now to weigh in on that and moreay, white house communications director, who is it going to be. >> he's not going to take me back, but i would 100% go back. he needs some killers around him. i kill enough. i would also yell at him. i would yell at him. judge jeanine: you can't yell at the president. >> in a polite way. stop calling them the enemy of the people. you are the president of the united states. judge jeanine: but it works for him. >> he has such a great relationship 45-50 years with the press. and they secretly still love him. joe scarborough secretly loves him. he's just got to calm it down a little bit. i want him to win by 60% to 70%. >> i want him to win by whatever it takes to win. we know it will be a close one. >> he has got an unbelievable record to run on. i don't know the people, i'm two years removed from it now. >> we have hogan gidley. and who else is there. mercedes. steffey grisham is great. the president already decided, that's how much i know. >> you and i love him. you remember what ed koc

enforce those requests. >> because at the same time as you know the white house is now directing hope hicks, the former white house communications director and annie donaldson who was the chief of staff to the former white house counsel don mcgahn, not, repeat not to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents. if hicks and donaldson refuse to cooperate, what's going to happen? do you support holding them in contempt as well? >> look, wolf, we can ask about a lot of different people, but the fact of the matter is we have a constitutional responsibility to oversight. now we're also passing substantive legislation. we're going to pass the promise and dream act in just a few minutes. that's a very important piece of legislation, so we're doing both, but we're exercising our constitutional responsibility. that's not a question of hope hicks or something else or mcgahn, it is a question of this blanket refusal to respond to constitutionally authorized questions to the executive department and asking for witnesses and documents. a blanket refusal is a blanket refusal. it's a refusal to respond, and the constitution is put at ris

white house. >> president trump officially kicks off his campaign with a rally tomorrow night in orlando. >>> on wednesday, former white house communications director hope hicks will testify behind closed doors. lawmakers plan to ask her about her time at the white house and with the trump campaign. her testimony marks the first time president trump's inner circle will appear before the judiciary committee. hope hicks was subpoenaed last month. >>> designer and socialite gloria vanderbilt has died. the mother of 60 minutes contributor and cnn anchor anderson cooper was 95 years old. reporter marc liverman takes a look back at her life and legacy. >> reporter: gloria vanderbilt lived a life of wealth and opulence. born in 1924, her father reginald vanderbilt was air to the vanderbilt fortune. at the age of 10, she was dubbed a poor little rich girl because of a custody battle between gloria mercedes vanderbilt and her aunt. she became known for her work as an actress and designer, best known for designer jeans with a signature white swan label. at its peak in 1980, her famous jeans generated $200 million in sales. the mother of cbs contribu

white house. we were just talking about a new press secretary, new communications director.dent has a policy problem which could become a political problem at the border. how much of it is attributed to the fact that he turns over his department of homeland security. he says he wants to have a border czar. he has people at the white house, people at these agencies who are compete, each other about a very important issue to him, a defining issue to him. border enforcement at a time when if you pick up a newspaper or go online, whatever your views on immigration, there are children being held in detention centers that are a mess and unhealthy and unsafe and overcrowded. >> i'll tell try to add another way to connect can can the dots. everything that -- for president trump about how this government is run is filtered through the idea of personal loyalty to him. and when -- you know, you covered previous presidents. i did, too. there are established policy processes that separate the two things. there's loyalty and then there's how the government runs. and whether it is the way

hope hicks has been with the president since the campaign eventually becoming the white house communicationshat would be sean spicer and sarah huckabee sanders boss. she left the white house last year. hicks was there when the president wrote a statement to explain his campaign's meeting with russians only to have that statement contradicted by his own son. she was there when the president denied pay offs to women that turned out not to be true. she was there for the firing of jim comey as well. so there's a lot of questions to be asked. whether they'll be answered is unclear. the white house says the president has ordered hicks not to answer certain questions claiming she is, quote, immune but has not yet claimed executive privilege. this meeting is behind closed doors but we will quickly see a transcript. >> president trump launched his 2020 campaign in florida yesterday with a rally. here's the president. >> we're going to keep on fighting for every man and woman and child all across this land. with every ounce of heart and might and sweat and soul we're going to keep making america great

despite a subpoena, the white house has directed former aide hope hicks and ann donaldson not to hand over any information. hicks was the white house communications director and donaldson was don mcgahn's chief of staff. the full house will vote on whether to hold attornel genera william barr in contempt of congress. mcgahn defied a subpoena and may also be held in contemt. >>> 4:09.in this we're getting an idea of how the parents implicated in a college admissions scandal may defend themselves in court. defense attorneys he told a judge that the payments made were not bribes, rather terrible donations to the schools and athletic programs. 33 parentsre facing charges including actresses lori laugh lynn and felicity huffman.in lougand others are fighting the charges. >>> amtrak is upgradi the trains to speedup the trains. amtrak wants trains to be able to travel 125 miles per hour. right now only two of the three tracks meet standards that allow th speed. amtrak says this is all in preparation for the next generation of high speed accella express trains which are set to hit the flax 2021. there will be a new platform at the new carrollton station.

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. >>> former white house communications director hope hicks set to testify tomorrow in front of the housediciary committee where she's expected to take questions about president trump's conduct related to michael flynn, demands to ask former a.g. sessions to unrecuse himself from overseeing the mueller probe. actions of the firing of then fbi director james comey. efforts to dismiss robert mueller from overseeing the russia investigation and potential efforts to curtail the mueller probe. that's a lot. madeleine dean is a member of the judiciary committee and she joins me now. congresswoman, i appreciate it. thank you so much. >> thank you, don. >> in addition to the graphic that we just showed you, that list there, your colleagues also plan to ask about alleged hush money payments. paul manafort. the trump tower meeting. what are your big outstanding questions? >> well, if you think about it, hope hicks had a front row seat to an awful lot of what is the subject of the mueller report and the subject of our oversight. she worked not only on the campaign. she was part of the transition and

. >>> former white house communications director hope hicks spending some seven hours in closed door testimony but not answering any questions about her time in the west wing. white house lawyers claiming. >> we get more on her testimony and what she didn't say. >> reporter: good morning, christine and dave. hope hicks came before the committee to answer questions about potential obstruction of justice but democrats came away not satisfied because the white house counsels who were in the room made very clear that she would not be answering any questions about her time in the white house. what they cited was absolute immunity saying that she is not as a former white official -- high level white house official, she is not obligated to provide these kinds of answers to the committee. democrats are now threatening to take her to court. >> she answered some of our questions. we learned considerable information. the white house pleaded a nonexistent absolute immunity and that will not stand. >> reporter: she did answer questions about her time during the campaign season, including questions

even actually she became white house communications director. that would be sean spicer and sarah huckabee sanders boss. she left the white house last year. hicks was there when the president denied pay offs to women that turned out not to be true. she was there for the firing of jim comey as well so there's lots of questions to be asked. whether or not she will answer is unclear. she met with congress before testifying she told white lies for the president but this one is going to be behind closed doors. we will quickly see a transcript. the white house said they ordered hicks not to answer certain questions claiming she is immune but has not yet claimed executive privilege. president trump launched his 2020 campaign in florida yesterday with a rally. here's the president. >> we're going to keep fighting for everyone across this country. with every ounce we're going to keep making america great again and then again we will indeed keep america great. >> we're waiting to hear more about who will lead the defense department after patrick shanahan w

visit att.com/accessnow, to learn more. >>> democrats say former white house communications director,had little to say as she testified behind closed doors before the house judiciary committee today. hicks refused to answer questions about her time in the white house. is democrats look into possible obstruction of justice as well as hush money payments to two women. white house lawyers claim hicks has immunity due to executive privilege. democrats say they will fight the claim in court. >> is a building block in determining next steps, whether or not this administration engaged in misconduct . >> she's been to the hill twice before. she is reported in the mueller report. this was simply a redo which seems to be the sum of reruns of my committee. >> reporter: hicks left the white house in march 2018. she is now executive vice president and chief onstions of corporation, the parent company of ktvu. >>> hero pilot, sally sullenberger testified today about the two deadly boeing 737 max 8 crashes. . he was the one testifying under a house subcommittee investigating the two crashes that kil

than what sarah sanders did, she will have three jobs, she will be the white house press secretary, the white house communicationstor and she will retain her role as spokeswoman for the first lady. she will fill a void left by bill schein when he departed as white house communications director months ago. the role of press secretary has changed dramatically under sarah sanders, we have not seen a white house briefing in more than 100 days now. it's become a much more inward looking role as sara sanders became more of an adviser, she was much less visible in the later days of her tenure. grisham is someone who has been with the trumps since the days of the campaign. she will accompany the president to japan and south korea with, later in this week, that will be a big first test to the role of press secretary sarah sanders, will be leaving friday. grisham accompanied the president to camp david over the weekend. it's not clear when the official job offer was extended, brooke, but melania announcing that today. >>> a bizarre turn in the case of a missing mom from connecticut, could a manuscript similar to the plot o

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>>the first lady's spokeswoman will be the next white house press secretary and the communications director melania trump made that announcement on twitter today. stephanie grisham has banned the communications director for the first lady for 2 years now and she will be assuming the roles, a formerly held by bill shine he left his job as white house communications director in march and sarah sanders she says her last day will be this friday. around the bay area it's been a breezy beef might yet that's right 4 zone forecast for america check to fill us in. >>it definitely have been in fact a here we have a shot over sfo and you can see the little of bushehr kind of moving. >>we don't have any delays though asked for current wind conditions right now checking in again. >>still looking the windiest out in marine county gusts up to 30 miles per hour. so currently we're in the upper 60's. word 68 in berkeley 77 in napa 80's in fairfield and in petaluma currently 72 degrees. we have this high pressure that's going to continue move further east and this low pressure system here that is responsible

white house, there was one person that was constantly at his side, her name, hope hicks. the often seen, but rarely heard long time aide who went from the campaign trail to the white house communications director after trump's election. and today more than a year after she left that job, hicks has returned to washington, but she's not visiting her old boss, she's on capitol hill testifying before a democratic led committee for the first time. the white house claims hicks has immunity. democrats say no way. while republicans say the whole thing is a political stunt. >> there is no such thing as absolute immunity. this is an on going effort for the president of the united states to obstruct facts. >> i think this is a waste of our time and taxpayer time. there are so many more important issues we ought to be focused on. >> john dean was white house counsel for president nixon, mr. dean, a pleasure sir. let's begin with full transparency here, we won't know the full details of this hearing until a transcript is released. but just for now what sort of information do you think democrats are trying to get from her testimony today? >> well, she was obviously an important witness to the speci

. >>> former white house communications director hope hicks is set to testify in front of the house judiciaryre she is expected to take questions about president trump's conduct related to general flynn, and actions around the firing of the then director james comey, and efforts to dismiss robert mueller from overseeing the investigation and details of the mueller probe. and matlyn dean is a member of the judiciary committee, and she is joining us. congresswoman, thank you for joining us. >> yes, don. >> in addition to the list there, your colleagues plan to ask about the alleged hush money payment, and paul ma na fort, and the trump tower meetings, and what do you want to know? >> well, hope hicks had a front row seat to the mueller report and the oversight. she worked on the campaign and the transition and came inside through the white house. in a front row seat and a front desk frankly, and she would have seen the interaction with the campaign and russia. the volume one of the volume of the report as you know special counsel mueller says there was sweeping and systemic interference with th

. >>> former white house communications director hope hicks has agreed to testify. she is described as a key witness in the mueller investigation. the testimony will happen behind closed doors. a transcript will be released to the public. the white house instructed hicks to not appear before that committee. >>> on capitol hillonal in his second appearance before the panel. he said he's not concerned about perjury, and has nothing to change from his 2017 testimony. the subpoena was issued for him after the mueller report came out. >>> a house panel voted to hold attorney general william barr and wilbur ross in contempt over their failure to turn over documents related to adding a citizen question to the 2020 senses. democrat say that it will reduce participation with immigrant communities. >> we must protect the integrity of the senses and stand up for the authority of congress. >> they say the president will execute authority over that. >>> part of a broadening security and economic alliance. a single f 35 flew over the white house to celebrate the purchase of 30 2f

meanwhile, today was the deadline for former white house communications director hope hicks and former chief of staff to white house counsel don mcgahn to hand over documents to the judiciary committee in response to a subpoena from that committee. both hope hicks and annie donaldson were witnesses for mueller's inquiry. they both provided documents to mueller and his prosecutors. the judiciary committee wants to speak to both hope hicks and annie donaldson themselves. they want to see supporting materials as to what hicks and donaldson testified about. today the white house sent this letter to jerry nadler, chairman of the judiciary committee, telling him nope, they should not expect those documents or that testimony. the white house is now insisting as they are with other mueller witnesses that annie donaldson and hope hicks will not be allowed to testify, they will not be allowed to hand over documents. there had been some expectation that one or both of these witnesses might try to say that they wouldn't testify and they wouldn't hand over documents pertaining to their time working

she will remain in that position along with taking over duties as the white house press secretary and the white house communications director. grisham has been with the trump team since 2015. >> the administration is losing a top official as well. the acting commissioner of customs and border protection is stepping down. in a message to employees john sanders announce head would resign on july 5th. the agency has bee under intense scrutiny because of the questionable conditions at facilities at the u.s./mexico r. bor >>> while she is still very much a member of the trump administration, senior adviser kellyanne conway may be in trouble with congress. yesterday the white house announced she would not testify before lawmakers. today they will vote to subpoena her in an effort to force her to testify. she has been under scrutiny nm since a goverent wash dog group accused her of violating the hatch act. >>> just in time t foris week's heat wave, news 4 learned that theermanent fix to the pool station will be delayed. those are along the red line. metro tells us while trying to fix the pipes that supply cool air which a

white house official on the issue of the mueller investigation and russian interference in the election. they had their first witness today from the trump white house. former trump organization employee, former white house communications director hope hicks testified behind closed doors to the judiciary committee today. she was there for seven hours. one of the members who questioned her joins us live next. with new nicorette coated ice mint. layered with flavor... it's the first and only coated nicotine lozenge. for an amazing taste... ...that outlasts your craving. new nicorette ice mint. since my dvt blood clot i was thinking... could there be another around the corner? or could it turn out differently? i wanted to help protect myself. my doctor recommended eliquis. eliquis is proven to treat and help prevent another dvt or pe blood clot... almost 98 percent of patients on eliquis didn't experience another. ...and eliquis has significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. eliquis is fda approved and has both. don't stop eliquis unless your doctor tells you to. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. if

white house staff secretary when we learned the dark reasons why he couldn't get a security clearance. and then the chief economic adviser and secretary of state rex tillerson and another white house communications director hope hicks. and then h.r. mcmaster and the v.a. secretary and the ridiculous nominee who was supposed to replace the v.a. secretary. and then the head of the epa has to resign and another corruption scandal. and then the attorney general and the interior secretary and another corruption scandal. and then another white house communications director, the guy from fox news has to go, and then the defense secretary james mattis resigns in protest and then the homeland security gets fired as well. there might be more just tonight. i know i might have missed about 30 ones of those riffing those off the top of my head. we have seen this incredible roller coaster of scandal and disgrace and criminal trouble for all of these high-ranking federal appointees and nominees from president trump. but now as his reelection effort sort of needs to kick into gear and as democrats get ready to start their campaigns against him, now there's a problem in a specific corner of trump's cabinet that

white house press secretary. grisham will replace sarah sanders. she takes over nextmond, but will travel with president trump on a five-day trip to asia starting today. she'll also fill the vacant pcaf white house communications director. he said grisham has been with him from the very beginning. >> i had so many people. who do you like. a lot of people wanted the job. i asked them. and so many people said stephanie. >> during sanders' time as press secretary, she phased out news briefings. >>> the "washington post" reports senate majority leader mitch mcconnell told a group of first responders that the senate is working to renew the 9/11 victims compensation fund by august. yesterday he met with the first responders at the capitol. earlier this month during an emotional hearing comedian jon stewart pleaded with the counsel to renew the fund. alvarez is suffering from stage 4 cancer and is now in hospice. he was unable to attend yesterday's meeting with mcconnell. >> at that meeting we gave senate majority leader mitch mcconnell luiz alvarez's badge. we wanted him and others to remember luiz alvarez. >> two weeks ago they had a meeting. >>> and cbs boston says the head of the massachusetts division resigned.

it's been a challenge for her and everyone else in the white house communications team, obviously he'sss office and white house communication office has been caught flat—footed trying to either explain his change of views or something he said that they were not expecting at all. somewhat notably, there was a time early on when she was press secretary where she tried to say that james was press secretary where she tried to say thatjames cumming, was press secretary where she tried to say that james cumming, that former fbi director was fired because in part that members of the fbi losing faith in him, then when she was interviewed by the special counsel miller team, she admitted she essentially misspoke it wasn't an accurate characterisation so that's an example of where from the press podium, she said something that the facts later did not corroborate and there have been other instances where reported but she has been less than forthcoming with them. that could in fact explain the reason why she hasn't been getting as many press briefings. we know why going because the next election is

former white house communications director hope hicks is still inside a closed-door interview with the house judiciary committee. hicks is the first former senior administration official to testify since the mueller report became public. a report that she's mentioned in a casual 183 times. but it's unclear what, if any questions, she answered about mueller's investigation. according to an 11th hour letter from white house counsel pat cipollone to the judiciary committee last night, quote, miss hicks is absolutely immune from being compelled to testify before congress with respect to matters occurring during her service as a senior adviser to the president. if hicks responds or lack thereof to my questions earlier today is any indication, democrats on the committee are going to be disappointed. >> hope, did the president on strict justice? is the white house letting you answer any questions today? >> have you spoken to the president at all about this testimony? >> why is the white house limiting your testimony so much? >> do you feel as though you're complying with the terms of your sub

the former white house communications director, the long-time confidante, hope hicks.he told lawmakers she found president trump's order to cory lewandowski to have the attorney general jeff sessions unrecuse himself to be in her words odd. what's your analysis? >> i think ms. hicks has a gift for under statement. it certainly was odd. the question, the larger question is whether it's an act of obstruction of justice. but i think even hope hicks, who is obviously a great trump loyalist, acknowledging that trying to get the attorney general back into the mueller investigation was inappropriate. and even she acknowledges, i mean, odd is her word, but i think the fact that she acknowledges it was odd just underlines how bizarre and perhaps criminal the president's behavior was in this circumstance. >> it's interesting that hicks told the lawmakers that the trump campaign had no inside knowledge about wikileaks. she claims that officials were mostly speculating. what do you make of that claim? >> yeah. i think she chose her words very carefully when she said there was no i

. >> happening today, former white house communications rector hope hicks will go before lawmakers on capitol hill. they will interview hicks behind closed doors. this will be the first timee lawmak hear from someone linked to president trump's inner circle since house democrats launched investigations of special unsel robertmueller's report. the committee is expected to questio hicks about possible instances of presidential misconduct and otruction of justice as detailed in the mueller report. >>> also happening ttoday, bes selling author and hollywood actor will testify before au ref rations out for slavery. it coincides can juneteenth today. they will talk about a propral to ceate a group to look into how reparations could be done. after the hearing the aclu will host a forum to the continue discussion about ref rations on m street northwest at 1:00 p.m. and is opened to the public. >>> a program that is a big part of summer in the district will get a big boost today. the city is pushing $1.75 million to extend the mary and barry summer youth employment program. re yalbouzer will m

. >> hope hicks appeared before the house you dish yeash committee, the former white house communications director testified behind closed doors. she was named in the mueller report more than 180 times and democrats wanted to ask her about obstruction and efforts to fire robert mueller. hick who is once admitted her work required her to tell white lies said nothing about her time in the white house because the president's attorneys instructed her not to. that frustrated east bay congressman eric swalwell. >> it's important for american people to know what happened during the time when donald trump actually was president. >> president trump tweeted that the democratic congressional hearings are rigged. >> a new pride flag fight in the south bay. people say someone is stealing them in the willow glen neighborhood of san jose and replacing them with the christian flag. marianne joins us live and any idea who might be taking them? >> no, they don't. the christian flags are gone and the pride flag is back and just today, the transgender flag was added. many people are wondering whether these f

former white house communications director hope hicks testifying behind closed doors with the house judiciary she left the white house last year and is now executive vice president and chief communications officer for fox corporation. so she is now in our family. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been in our family and live in the hallway now on capitol hill. >> good morning. in the last few minutes i can report i've seen one of the staffers go into the room behind me and they've carried two sections of the special counsel investigation. one was more heavily redacted from the other. it suggests to me because i'm familiar with the report one had to do with russian election interference and the other with obstruction. house democrats want to press hope hicks on allegations of obstruction by the president and his team to either frustrate, block or terminate the special counsel investigation as well as payments to two women who alleged affairs with the president that he has denied. late yesterday the white house counsel issued this letter to the house judiciary committee's d

. >>> today the house judiciary committee is expected to interview former white house communications director hope hicks behind closed doors. it's the first time lawmakers will hear from a person linked to from president's inner circle since the release of special counsel robert mueller's report. it's unclear how much information she will provide. she already cooperated with mueller's probe. >>> and president trump's nominee to serve as ambassador to the u.n. will face the u.n. this morning. kelly craft is currently the u.n. ambassador to canada. she would replace nikki haley who resigned her post at the end of last year. >>> today investigators will continue to search a cargo ship in pennsylvania where authorities made one of the largest cocaine busts in u.s. history. yesterday they raided the ship at the port of philadelphia and they seized 33,000 pounds of cocaine, which has a street value of more than $1 billion. two people were arrested. investigators say more drugs could be onboard. before coming to philadelphia, the ship was in the bahamas, panama, peru, and colombia. >>> comi

white house. we'll get a transcript in the next 48 hours. video from this morning as she walked into the hearing. she started on the trump campaign and became white house communication director and so that would be schaub spicer sarah sanders boss. she was there when the president wrote statements to explain his campaign meeting with russians only to have that statement contradicted by his own son and she was there when the president denied payoffs to women that turned out to be not true and she was there for the firing of james comey as well. but she appeared to have follow president trump's order not to answer any questions. claiming she's immune from those questions. the president's orders not is going to protect her from contempt charges if that is what congress decides to do. and the president's claim of immunity is pretty shaky itself since hicks answered some of the same questions from the special counsel already. president trump launched his 2020 campaign in florida yesterday with a rally. here is the president. >> we're going to keep on and child all across this land. ca great. ounce of, we're >> reporter: we're defense depa patrick shanahan with drew his n

nbc news has learned the white house is now directed former white house communications hope hicks anddonaldson, former chief of staff to don mcgahn not to turn over documents to the house judiciary committee to their time related in the white house. the impeachment issue threatening to tear apart nancy pelosi's democratic committees will hold hearings. the administration is stopping key witnesses from testifying or turning over their notes. do you believe impeachment should proceed. can nancy pelosi hold the line? >> speaker pelosi has a good point about the difficulty of the politics here. my view is simple. this is our constitutional duty. there's another term for refusing to comply with subpoenas. it's called breaking the law. our job in congress is to hold this administration accountable because we live in a country where nobody, not have president of the united states, not anyone in the administration is above the law. >> at this stage then you would pursue contempt of congress against all these players, including don mcgahn and hope hicks? >> that's clearly what's going on. we h

the one time white house communications director.h president trump on this abc interview.what did he just say of course i would call the fbi.what did he give his detractors in these answers to the george stephanopoulos? >> is the precept, the first clause was about his son anything he was being defensive about don junior and trying to explain that you know, he didn't say he thought there was a lot of innocence related to don junior. he walked back and now the social media and everyone is on top of him and dissecting every single syllable. and every sentence and so forth. i get all of that but we have got, we're going to election season will be focusing more results that we were that sort of stuff. i think that's what caused him -- >> does he have any regrets about the way he handled it? >> and i think so. i don't think he has any results. at the end of the day he has a certain style, if you look at the approval ratings and you look at things like the cnn poll, 54 percent of the american people think he's going to win reelection. and

now former white house communications director hope hicks is headed to the hot seat. cks will testify privately before the house judiciary committee next week. >>> well, there is growing reaction to the first sentencing connected to that widespread scandal. nb reports it was not what a lot of people were expecting. >> do you want to apologize? my message to former athletes? they look up to you. >> reporter: prosecutors wanted john vandermore to spend at least 13 months in prison. but the former head coach of the stanford university sailing team was instead sentenced to one day already served, six ms arrest, two years $10,000 fine. vandermore apologizing outside federal court. >> i have taken responsibility for my actions and i am accepting the consequences of those actions. >> reporter: after pleading guilty to federal racketeering charges in march, he admitted to taking $610,000 in bribes to get students from wealthy families admitted into stanford as sailing recruits. but in federal court where he an lining his ownckets hyse use money to pay for sailing uniforms, boa

. >>> former white house communication director hope hicks was summoned to testify on capitol hill. owed up with a white house lawyer in tow but answered very few questions. the president told her she didn't have to. nancy cordes reports. >> reporter: hicks took questions for seven hours but would not talk about her time in the white house. >> it's as something as simple as where is your office located? objection. >> reporter: the white house lawyers with hicks said she didn't have to answer, because of something they called absolute immunity. >> there's no such thing as absolute immunity. the white house is making stuff up. >> reporter: hicks was one of the president's closest aides. her name appears in the mueller report 184 times. mueller says hicks witnessed most of the president's attempts to interfere with the investigation. why not answer the committee's questions, miss hicks? republicans argue there's nothing left to learn from hicks, who is a vice president at fox corporation. >> we're dogging about things that are already out there in public or getting the same answers over

the radical dems or even his own communications department at the white house. , inane stories with little purpose other than to embarrass the president. the white house communications department playing some sort of games, we'll explore here tonight what they are. we take all that up tonight with ed rollins, michael goodwin, tom

i'm joined by nicolle wallace, host of deadline white house, former white house communications directoror george bush 43. chris hayes is with us, host of "all in," and our claire mccaskill, former u.s. democratic senator from the great state of missouri, and eugene robinson, with "the washington post." also joining us throughout the evening, steve kornacki who has brought along some of the big board numbers. here is the lineup. from left to right, as you will see them appear on stage tonight, bill de blasio, city of the mayor of new york. ohio congressman tim ryan, former san antonio mayor, former hud secretary julian castro. new jersey senator, former newark mayor cory booker. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. former texas congressman beto o'rourke. minnesota senator amy klobuchar. ohio congresswoman tulsi gabb d gabbard. and jay inslee and john delaney. we want to start with our friend chris matthews, host of "hardball." he is situated in the spin room in miami, across the street from the debate. chris will have analysis, journalists with him, some of the candidates request him

washington today, where the big focus on capitol hill will be private testimony by former white house communications director hope hicks. she is expected to be asked by democrats whether she was ever asked to lie by president trump and pressed on questions of obstruction of justice by the way, a white house lawyer will be sitting with her in that testimony. back to you. >> all right tracie potts leading us off this morning. tracie, thank you. >>> pandemonium in the pentagon this morning after another shake-up at the defense department acting secretary patrick shanahan is on his way out, withdrawing his nomination to head up the pentagon after allegations of past domestic violence surfaced. secretary of the army mark esper will now take over as acting defense chief amid-escalating tensions with nbc's peter alexander has more >> reporter: president trump speaking out about the sudden departure of his acting defense secretary patrick shanahan >> it's a difficult time for pat. but he's going to take a little time off for family service and and for working things out >> reporter: the abrupt exit comes ju

former white house communications director hope hicks has agreed to a closed door interview with the house judiciary committee she worked for the 2016 presidential campaign and is a trusted aide of u.s. president donald trump her presence in the house committee is a breakthrough for democrats frustrated by trump's attacks on their investigations on u.s. diplomats have joined efforts to solve sudan's political crisis washington special envoy donald booth met protest leaders in khartoum along with senior u.s. diplomat to africa. the opposition says the military council must be held accountable for last week's violent crackdown on demonstrators they also stressed the importance of a peaceful transfer to civilian rule as soon as possible the suicide bomber has targeted a security checkpoint in northern afghanistan at least 7 people were killed in the explosion in jalalabad in one go home province no claim of responsibility has been for some. other stans new president has been sworn in but protests against his election continue. the 2nd president in cuz it stands soviet history during the

george stephanopoulos was a communications director to the clinton white house. and that's like sarah sanders or corey lewandowski becoming a news journalist and interviewing someone from the opposite party 20 years from now. it would never happen. we are too nice is the problem. other problem we stepped into is this notion of george stephanopoulos talking about the internal polls. the numbers george has have nothing to do with donald trump. they are all numbers about the polling data that doesn't make any sense. but george going after donald trump is a dishonest part of the interview. david: considering his back ground as one of the leaders of the clinton war room. why would you be surprised that it was an attack job. is the president's press team in need of revamping somehow? >> i think sarah huckabee sanders has done a wonderful job in the role she has. she has been a close confidant to the president. stephanie grisham who was on the campaign with us and worked for the president and now works for the first lady is a phenomenal choice. i think sara will be have

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the radical dems or even his own communications department at the white house. the media focusing in on, well, inane stories with little purpose other than to embarrass the president. the white house communications department playing some sort of games, we'll explore here tonight what they are. we take all that up tonight with ed rollins, michael goodwin, tom mittton, john solomon among -- fitton, john solomon among our guests. sending concern throughout silicon valley. we talk the up the late from wall street opportunity to with moody's chief economist, john lonski. and china and mexico desperate now to talk trade with the trump administration after the president has made it clear he will demand fair, reciprocal, responsible trading relationships with both countries. china trying to take shots at the president's america first agenda, yet saying they are willing to negotiate with the trump administration. now isn't that nice of them? mexican officials are already in washington to talk about the president's proposed tariffs on mexican goods so long as they don't f