or three hour televised hearing and catch the sound bites. the plan of the democrats has to be avoid the circus, avoid political gamesmanship. focus on the facts, especially on obstruction, because that s where the strongest arguments are in the context of impeachment. i want to ask you about hope hicks because she testified before the house judiciary committee last month and she told congress multiple times that she was never present for conversations with trump and michael cohen regarding any payments to stormy daniels. however, there s newly unsealed court documents indicating that hicks spoke with them about it on more than one occasion, so not just once. now the committee wants her back to clarify. she s standing by her testimony calling it truthful. do you think she s in trouble? she can be. here s where the interesting part was. if you look at the press statement that her lawyers put out, they seem to be hanging the hat on whether or not the subject matter was the hush payme
democratic house judiciary committee chair jerry nadler is chair, jerry nadler is asking hope hicks to come back to clarify her closed door testimony. given the apparent inconsistency between your testimonies, ill like to give you the opportunity to clarify your testimony on a voluntary bases. hicks s testimony is coming to question after the fbi released documents on thursday describing a skiers a series of calls and messages before the election of october of 2016 discussing hush payments to stormy daniels. hicks attorney issued a statement saying hicks was not aware of those payments until november a month after those
but, you know, there s no firm date yet. drew griffin with the latest from washington. drew, thank you. thanks to awful you for joining us this hour. inside politics with john king starts right now. thanks, erica. welcome to inside politics. i m john king. thank you for sharing your day. president trump s big kickoff rally makes clear four more years would be four familiar years. also, a long list of grievances and a long list of statements that flunk a fact check plus longtime trump comfortable darnts hope hicks behind close doored on capitol hill. they want to know about hush payments and lawyers assert most are protected by privilege and should reparations be paid to the descendants of slaves? the house committee holds a hearing that would study options
who voted for articles of impeachment for nixon as well as barbara boxer. did it strike you i saw john dean saying this. that moment i don t do coverups, there was a rush. absolutely. it s kind of i think it s very troubling. it s funny. it s like, i can t believe this is really happening. the president says, i don t do coverups. nixon said, i m not a crook. the seriousness is the president has done coverups. someone has done coverups for him. he is the unindicted co-conspiracy to cover up hush payments. hush payments to stormy daniels. it s very, very troubling.
hush payments to stormy daniels. it s very, very troubling. it s troubling that he is stonewalling congress. it s not surprising. nixon also didn t want to give material to congress. he didn t. ultimately, congress was able to get around that. senator boxer, one thing that s clear in these interactions, a lot of back and forth about where pelosi is at and some sort of moving forward about impeachment. she has a strategy for dealing with the president and it s effective at getting under his skin. i have always been a very big nancy pelosi fan. she s very smart. she s very strategic. she loves this country. when she says she s praying for the president and she s praying for the country, i think she is so stunned that this man is president and she was up close and personal, clearly he is