Former White House communications director Hope Hicks leaves the hearing room during a break at a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee June 19, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.initial transcript of its closed-door interview with Hope HicksChairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said in a statement that lawyers for the Trump administration blocked Hicks from answering questions 155 times during the Wednesday hearing.
The President's creation of a false statement in response to press coverage of the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting . Ms. Hicks was unapologetic about the Trump Campaign's use of hacked materials released by Wikileaks, defending the campaign as using "publicly available information" . Ms. Hicks said that she was "very surprised" to learn that there were over 100 contacts between the Trump Campaign and individuals associated with the Russian government .
Kind of defeats the purpose of closed door.