The House Judiciary Committee has released a transcript of a closed-door interview with former Trump aide Hope Hicks, showing White House lawyers repeatedly blocking her from answering questions about her work in the administration.
Hicks interviewed privately with the panel for nearly eight hours on Wednesday as part of its sweeping investigation into President Trumpand his associates. She was compelled to testify under subpoena.
The transcript, which stretches 273 pages long, shows Trump administration lawyers repeatedly blocking Hicks from answering questions about her time in the White House by invoking the argument she is immune from compelled congressional testimony on the subject — a tactic that infuriated Democratic lawmakerson Wednesday.
View the complete June 20 article by Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.