Rep. Jayapal on Hope Hicks’ Testimony: Who Objects on Questions About Telling the Truth?

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JAYAPAL: “I called the hearing or the interview a farce because she had White House counsel, her own personal counsel, about six different lawyers there telling her that she could not answer anything objecting to every single thing from, you know, answering a question where she sat relative to the Oval Office, later she was asked by the chairman did you tell the truth to Robert Mueller? And they immediately said objection, who objects to whether or not somebody is telling the truth to the special counsel. So this was clearly the White House trying to as you said in our opening comments, stymie the American people from getting information they deserve to have. We did not get a lot from Hope Hicks because of these executive, you know, the absolute immunity claim and one thing that was interesting, John, they did not claim executive privilege. They didn’t claim executive privilege because they can’t. They have already waived executive privilege so what they did is claimed this absolute immunity, which is absolutely it and they kept using that but what we were able to do importantly is show the American people which will be seen as the transcript is released that the White House is blocking even a witness that would like to come and compile and let’s give Hope Hicks the benefit of the fact. She was there. The reality is that we weren’t able to get a lot of information because the White House locked it. On going obstruction of justice.”