learning some actual history. 6 million jews were exterminated. ocasio-cortez firing back. since you re so eager to educate me, i m curious what do you call building mass camps without a trial. she is not comparing this as death camps but rather to internment camps but like the ones that held americans. the president s former communication director will face questions. they are insisting hicks cannot testify about her time in the white house. more now from manu raju from capitol hill. reporter: good morning, michelle and brian. hope hicks worked with him through the campaign into the
counsel that set the stage for this. we are getting a mixed picture that hicks is here, is participating and is answering some questions. but at the same time there are a number of areas where the committee would like to explore hicks knowledge because of her proximity to the president at so many key moments. and that is where white house counsel is listening and participating. it has been hectic, as you can imagine, in this hallway. let me make sure i m understanding this. she is answering some questions, not related to her time in the west wing. the areas that the white house has asserted executive privilege on. that s where the lawyers from the white house are stepping in? reporter: that is our understanding from the members coming in and out of the room. this is a deposition-style moment for hope hicks.
circle top adrian:s by his side for years who has heard and seen stuff almost nobody else has heard or seen is answering questions about her former boss. or maybe she s not. in just the last minute or so, that is what we are hearing from a top democrat. hicks is refusing to answer certain questions behind closed doors in front of the house judiciary committee. the hearing does continue. now the woman whose name appears more than 100 times in the special counsel report is in the hot seat. the first white house official, past or present to appear in front of congress since that report s release. the white house saying hicks cannot, cannot answer questions about her time in the west wing. but that is not stopping democrats from trying. we were in a mode of legislate, investigate, litigate.
our team is with this story and all the otherings we are bringing you. kelly o donnell and hans nichols. and cynthia oxney and chuck rosenberg. kelly, to you. this is news from congressman nadler confirming hicks is not answering questions. we think about her time in the west wing due this this assertion of executive privilege in the white house. . well, jerry nadler told us she is answering questions and that the interview goes on. he came out a short time ago. we spoke to him on camera. and other members we have spoken to have said provide a more mixed picture that she is answering some questions. and the other questions are white house counsel that are democratic members of the committee are raising their concerns about a presidential immunity, which is asserted in a letter to the white house