Hope Hicks arrives for her closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee and does not respond to a question from MaryKBruce on whether she plans to answer questions about her time at the White House.
Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director and one of President Donald Trump's closest aides, arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning to be questioned behind closed doors before the House Judiciary committee as part of the committee's ongoing investigation into potential obstruction of justice by the president.
White House lawyers used the same argument to prevent former White House counsel Don McGahn from testifying on similar matters before the committee."Questions will be posed to her and we will address privilege and other objections on question by question basis," Nader said.
In a letter to the panel, Robert Trout, a lawyer representing Hicks, detailed some of the campaign-related materials provided to the committee. Trout noted that Hicks had previously turned over similar records March 22. Annie Donaldson, McGahn's former chief of staff, has also been subpoenaed to appear before the committee next Monday.
Hicks, who served as a Trump Organization employee and the press secretary for the 2016 Trump presidential campaign before assuming her roles in the White House, was one of Trump's closest confidantes on the campaign trail and in the early half of his presidency.
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