Rep. Ted Deutch: ‘Absurd’ Hope Hicks Was Not Allowed To Answer If She Told the Truth to the Mueller Team

‘In each instance the White House lawyer jumped in and said, no, you can’t answer that’

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DEUTCH: “Sure. I can give you two examples. And it will help explain the range of issues. On the subject of the obstruction of justice, laid out by Mueller, that is the President asked the — his personal lawyer to fire the Special Counsel, then when that was reported, the President asked him to lie about it, then he asked him to create a false record. Well, Hope Hicks knows about all of that, given the role that she played in the White House. And I asked her about each of those. And we have a right to hear from her to fill in what was missing from the Mueller report, and in each instance the White House lawyer jumped in and said, no, you can’t answer that. Those were really troubling. But to show you how absurd it is, she couldn’t even answer a question about whether she told the truth to the Mueller team, whether she might have perjured herself to the Mueller team.”

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