communications strategy for that trump tower meeting from 2016. hope hicks was in the room, as they were talking about, wait, this wasn t about adoptions for russia, it was about dirt on hillary clinton. so that, i was thinking about that again today, hope hicks was present for every station of this situation, which is one of the reasons she spent eight hours yesterday, before the house intelligence committee. she spent two days before bob mueller s team at the end of last year, so all that builds up to is it why she resigned today? we don t know. she wanted to pursue other opportunities. but i can tell you, there was a ripple effect that was felt here. i was told that people were crying when she was saying she was leaving. she is a force here in the white house that will be leaving in the coming weeks, my question, how will the president deal without this aide next to him being caught this was a
moment. but first, sean spicer did address a tweet that president trump sent out this morning about how most politicians would have accepted a meeting like done junior did. and ali, he went a little bit further in that and science just moments ago here at the white house said that there s nothing out there to suggest that this meeting wasn t about adoptions. this meeting that done junior had. in some ways he s resuscitating, he s reviving the initial defense that this meeting was about adoptions and the magnitsky act, not about the pretext of the e-mails rft meeting which we saw when the e-mails was released and they were gigd into this meeting potentially by having a conversation about information on hillary clinton. so in some ways they re going back to the earlier defense. just other quick highlights from that briefing. the president according to spicer was very active all weekend from his place there in bed minister, making is calls on health care, defend sg the president s ratio