bannon, i'm sorry to divert from hicks for a second. keep in mind all the inflammatory things he has said. he has said repeat lid the worst mistake donald trump was ever made was firing james comey. so question, steve bannon, adviser, in real time, did you say that to donald trump? did you say that to donald trump, that might be obstruction of justice, because that would change the calculus there. if the president was made aware such a move could be so damaging by one of his lieutenants, then that makes that -- attaches a serious price to that. but if they don't ask that question, that will show i think that they're not very serious about taking these republicans, including hope hicks, seriously. >> or maybe steve bannon threads the needle, tries to save president trump and goes after his adversary for months and months, jared kushner. i want to read from a quote from "washington post" last year. about the president's decision to write a statement about that trump town meeting back in 2016. quote, president trump wanted the statement to

here's the suspect in all this, john hicks. police believe on april 12th, 2016, he boarded a red line train bound for glenmont. as it stopped at the forest glen station authorities claim hicks went on to rape another passenger at knifepoint. they say when the train reached glenmont station, that was when the victim ran to metro police for help, but in court today the defense claims the victim accused the wrong man. they said there's no video to directly prove what happened inside the train car. they also said the lead detective did not ask enough questions about the suspect's appearance to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that hicks committed the crime. now the prosecution immediately defended the police work in rebuttal. they said there's dna evidence that links hicks to the crime. they also claim surveillance video shows hicks getting off at the same station as the victim around the same time she reported her rape to metro police. and that a smartrip card recorded him doing so. hicks could spend the rest of his life behind bar

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don junior said hope hicks to come up with response. and house investigators will clearly want to know what her role is and what the president was thinking inform late that response. >> so watching all of that developing on the house side. then on the senate side is the story we started our show with and kirstjen nielsen the department of homeland security secretary testifying in what is typically routine hearing, of course now taken on a sub text anything but routine giving the immigration meeting last week. chuck grassley is now kwegs her. we want to listen in. >> they have to go hand in hand. i cannot claim security if we can merely interject, but not remove. >> if congress provides amnesty for potentially millions of individuals without changes to existing legal authorities, what impact will that have on your agency's ability to secure the border? >> unfortunately we will be back here again. without closing the loop holes we'll encourage those who attempt to do the dangerous journey illegally we'll end back up here. not fair to thos

hicks was rested day of the attack he opted not to testify. and his defense lawyer says he's not the guy that did this and that there was a bad investigation and incorrect identification. >> when this happened april 2016 metro did not notify the public. we did not find out about this until more than a month later. it prompted anger and congress members and soon after met rechanged policies. you can see in this tweet the general manager instructing metro transit police to notify the public of violent crime the same day at least in cases where doing so would not hurt the investigation. hicks is charged with first degree rain, first degree assault and first degree sex offense keen spend the rest ever his life behind bars if convicted and because of the long weekend jury deliberations will resume on tuesday. in rockville, lindsey watts, "fox5 local news". >> next at 11 the flu hit almost every state in the u.s. and how it's affecting area. >>> and man gets swept away during mudslides in california and video goes viral. tonight he's talking about t

says, oh, i was communicating with hope hicks, there's very little hope hicks is doing in crafting a statement that is not at the direction of the president. i think that is going to be the key piece of information that investigators are going to want to unfold and look at, as sort of what were the actual directions, if any, from the president. maybe hope hicks can give light to that. >> it follows, rebecca, the testimony, the appearances by steve bannon and corey lewendowski this week, her appearance later in the week before the house intelligence committee. looks like the house intelligence committee is moving forward with a lot of special guests. >> right. and even after donald trump tweeted just a few days ago he wanted republicans on the hill to be stronger, to wrest back control of these investigations, clearly they are still taking these very seriously. the house intelligence committee, as you mentioned, wof wolf, has been criticized by both parties for not being bipartisan, as serious as the senate intelligence committee investigation. it is significant. it shows they're stil

delays testimony from hope hicks in the wake of the bannon stonewalling and the russia investigation plows on. new testimony emerged on possible money laundering. how strong of a campaign surrogate is donald trump? a trial balloon was seen floating near pittsburgh earlier today. "the 11th hour" gets under way on a thursday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. tonight at just after 11:00 p.m. eastern time, the government will shut down in less than 25 hours unless there is action to stop it on capitol hill. the house did its part, passing a measure to keep the government's lights on for another couple of weeks. the senate stands in adjournment. later in the broadcast, we will look at the chances of them going along with the house. there won't be anything on it tonight. with the deadline looming, 364 of the trump administration, russia remains the biggest thing looming over the trump white house. we have more tom to tell you about from glen simpson. he is the cofounder of the firm called fusion gps, a research and intelligence firm put togethe

hope hicks not yet 30 years old. starts life as a ralph lauren model, enters the trump circle by doing some web marketing for ivanka's website, and ends up part of this. she's now so close to the seat of power. it's a very different calculation having a hope hicks before your committee or your staff. >> well, you know, it really shouldn't be s, right? all three of these people should be going in and testifying under oath. there shouldn't be any kind of who's going to shade and who's going to be more capable of shading the truth. it shouldn't be that way. i think you're right. some people are more sophisticated than other people. hope hicks, while very bright and all of that is maybe a little less knowledgeable about how these things work. she hasn't been through this ringer before. she has a long future ahead of her. she certainly doesn't want to get herself into trouble. she doesn't want to lie under oath. so, you know, maybe they will be looking to her to give a more unvarnished tale than the rest of the witnesses.

sending hicks running from the room. that is textbook sexual harassment. according to new york state law. joining us now,er lena maxwell. director of progressive media at the hillary clinton campaign. this book is filled with details that no one's getting to because so many of them are so explosive. >> right. >> but just something like that, you know, you turn the pages of the book and watch now president trump as candidate trump break the law on sexual ma raszment with the staff. >> certainly we're seeing it in a new light because having a national reckoning around the issue of sexual harassment and understanding this in a more comprehensive way and a superior cannot comment on a subordinate's appearance or sexualize them in this particular way. it is a violation of state law but that goes to how donald trumps see women particularly when women don't challenge him in a political sense so, for example, with mika brz, he attacks her appearance. megyn kelly, immediately attacks appearance challenged at a debate and his m.o. and he also devalues women commenti

house intel, delays testimony from top trump aid hope hicks in the wake of the bannon stone walling but the russia investigation plows on and new testimony emerged on possible money laundering. and just how strong a campaign surrogate is donald trump? a trial balloon was seen floating near pittsburgh as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a thursday night. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york and just after 11:00 p.m. eastern time, the government will shut down in less than 24 hours unless there is action to stop it on capitol hill. the house did its part passing a measure to keep the government's lights on for another couple weeks. the senate tonight stands in adjournment. later in the broadcast, we'll look at the chances of them going along with the house. there won't be anything on it tonight. with this deadline looming on this day, 364 of the trump administration, russia remains the biggest thing looming over this trump white house. and tonight, we have more testimony to tell you about from glenn simpson. you recall he's the co-founder of that fir

nbc news report that hope hicks was scheduled to appear before your committee this week. we since reported that her appearance has been delayed. is it at all linked with steve bannon and potentially another bannon appearance and as another part of that question, what would you like to know from hope hicks? >> well, first of all, i can't confirm whether or not hope hicks was the person that was scheduled to be interviewed tomorrow, but in fact, that has been cancelled, and what we have seen this week is a gag order that started the week from the white house and then the end of the week actually postponing all together our opportunity to interview one of the persons that was within the close circle of the president. >> how do you play this? especially for democrats on the committee, though your committee is where people were joking this week that by some have frankly called the mueller investigation the priority in this case? >> there's no question that the mueller investigation is the priority. they're looking at criminal conduct. our job is to determine whether or not the

sending hicks running from the room. i mean, abby, again, these are just, this is michael wolff's account best piece of tail coming from the president, you got to be kidding me? >> brooke, as you mention a lot of anecdotes in the book. they are there. and i reached out to hope hicks last night to ask for comment and got none in response to that. you know, we don't know. the people involved in that anecdote are hope hicks and the president of the united states. so one of those people would need to sort of relay the truthfulness of this story. >> corroborate. >> but that being said, i think the broader point is this book has a lot of potentially damaging stuff in it. and that is one of the reasons why you've seen just total full-court press coming from this white house to try to shut it down. >> yes. thank you all so much foregoing through all this book. again, they moved it up to being out today. and essentially michael wolff telling savannah guthrie this morning thanks for the press. >>> coming up, when we have learned a

the hick january man's enjoyed a low fixed ren and this home cost more. family members offered to help, but making the numbers work took some work. and that's where the chronical season of sharing fund stepped in providing temporary assistance to people in need in the bay area and it paid the hickman's first month rent. >> our new rent payment is basically double what we were paying before. having one month taken care of, that's a pretty sizeable chunk. and that over the next year that makes this place this place much more affordable for us. >> as they build this new home they are grateful for the help that continues to come in. the bunk bed mangled by fire in the childrens old room has been replaced. >> the two kids had 0 to share a room before, now they have separate spaces. >> their 12-year-old daughter victoria has a pic carpet. >> her bed came from up in lake county. her dresser and the book shelf came from friends in concord. >> 6-year-old brother alex sleeps on a bed bought with gift cards. >> this is a bed. >> he plays at a table full of donated l

why was the house intelligence committee prevented from interviewing hope hicks? >>> and next hour, questions of morality about the president. i'm going to speak with trump supporter reverend franklin graham. mom, i have to tell you something. dad, one second i was driving and then the next... they just didn't stop and then... i'm really sorry. i wrecked the subaru. i wrecked it. you're ok. that's all that matters. (vo) a lifetime commitment to getting them home safely. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> a live picture now of capitol hill. that's where lawmakers are minutes away from reconvening since fail to go avoid a government shutdown last night. house members gathering in 10 minutes while the senate gets in a little later at noon eastern. we'll head back to our reporters on the hill the minute we see some action. >>> white house communications director hope hicks did not appear before the house intelligence committee yesterday. her interview was postponed with very short unless. joining me now natasha bertrand with the liatlantic magazine. congrat

hicks. she's somebody that we want to interview. there's still many people that we think need to be interviewed in order to fill out the pieces of this puzzle. you know, so i'm sure that we'll have a chance to talk to her at some point in the near future. >> john kelly said last night that the white house never told steve bannon to invoke executive privilege. bannon's own attorney said he was told by white house lawyers that he was not allowed to speak about the transition time or the time in the white house. so is general kelly trying to basically play semantics here, saying we didn't tell bannon, but it sounds from bannon's attorney who reportedly was even calling the white house during the testimony during breaks, it seems like the white house at least talked to bannon's attorney. >> it could be one of a few thgs. first, it could be, possibly, at they didn't give the order for him that they were going to exert executive privilege. and there was a misrepresentation, although i got to imagine that's very unlikely, with the professi

then this about communications director hope hicks. hicks was in fact thought of as trump's real daughter, while ivanka was thought of as his real wife. all of this prompting a scathing statement from the president in the last hour. let's get right to the white house. nbc's kristen welker is in the briefing room for us. i'm sure we haven't had enough time to get any reaction about this lawsuit. so let's start with the book, kristen. just what did the president have to say? >> reporter: well, i think you hit the nail on the head, chris. his response was scathing, to these allegations by steve bannon. i'll read you a part of the statement and then we can do analysis on the other side. he said steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind. steve was a staffer who worked for me after i had already won the nomination by defeating 17 candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the republican party. those are the sharpest words we've ever heard

and he writes, "most problematic of all, hicks -- that's hope hicks -- were now directly connected to russian in efforts to spin it, deflect it or indeed cover it up. miller and hicks had drafted or at least typed kushner's version of the first letter written at bedminster to fire comey. hicks had joined with kushner and his wife to draft on air force the trump directed press release about don jr. and kushner's meeting with the russians in trump tower. jeremy, i don't need to tell you, because your paper did a lot of this reporting, that story fell apart almost immediately. and bob mueller's investigators turned over two the white house a list of six names, some of them believed to be individuals who may have been tied these specific events. so i wonder what you're hearing today from folks close to bannon about whether he intended to throw staffers under the bus or whether he intended to suggest that maybe the president wasn't well served by his own aides? >> well, that's just the thing there is no overarching strategy here. and for somebody who has crafted an image of himself in the

let's start with hope hicks. we know she's already spoken to bob mueller's team. what do you make of this and how could this fit into the overall picture that both of these congressional committees and bob mueller are trying to piece together? >> if there's anyone who's been the proverbial fly on the wall in the white house, it's hope hicks. and so we're likely to see a claim of executive privilege with her. i'd be shocked if we don't for her testimony on the hill. let's remember what she's been privilegy to o, the drafting of the letter to fire james comey. there's reports that the response on the trump tower meeting by president trump and done junior's meetings with russians, she was a part of that. we know jared kushner gave her a heads up about don junior's meeting with russians. she understand what was going on, was present when it happened, and is a key witness. i think we're going to see her claim executive privilege. she hasn't been able to do that with bob mueller. >> john kelly was asked about bannon citing executive privilege, and here's what he said. >

hicks' attorney is not commenting. this as negotiations between the white house and the committee have been ongoing throughout the day. it's all in an effort to get former white house strategist steve bannon to talk. investigators are pushing for a second interview with mr. bannon today after they subpoenaed him tuesday. bannon refused to answer numerous white house-related questions in his marathon session. he wasn't the only one. former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski also rebuffed the committee, leaving senators in a bind. >> he has never been an administration official. obviously no privilege here. we as a committee cannot allow that to become the routine, to allow witnesses to decide when and where they're willing to answer questions. >> for more on this, nbc's national political reporter mike mimily joining me. also legal analyst danny cevallos. if steve bannon does not return for another interview, what's going to happen to him, if anything? >> well, craig, that's the big question that's been hovering o

hicks has been by the president's side since day one of the campaign. was in the room where it happened for so many critical meetings and private conversations. corwin lewandowski is also expected to testify. he talked about that on wbc radio here in new york. >> i'm not concerned because i have nothing to hide. no one has ever claimed that i've done anything wrong because i never did. i never worked with any russians. i have never spoke to any russians that i'm aware of. i have nothing to hide, and what i want to do is make sure that if anybody did collude or cooperate to try to impact the outcome of a u.s. election, those people spend the rest of their lives in jail. >> here to talk about this, jennifer rogers, former u.s. assistant attorney, now director of the law school for public integrity. and chris watts, former fbi special agent formerly with the joint terror task force, currently a security analyst, welcome both of you. clint, what does it mean for the investigation, that the house prong of this is getting potentially these three names in shor

. >> the hick mans say they feel lucky, lucky after searching for almost two months their cat finally made it it to a neighbor's house. >> december 1stthat morning i checked my facebook page and there it was from my neighbor posted a picture of a cat.

h hope hicks will not be appearing. amida swirl of confusing signals about whether or not she would invoke executive privilege. there's that. and tonight there's glen simpsons money laundering allegations that congressman schiff is talking about. here to sort through it all. cnn analyst. can these congressional committees force the witnesses talk short of holding them in contempt of congress? >> they can instlimt to be interviewed and they can also subpoena them. if they want. although it seems like the house intelligence committee which is republican led is mostly not interested in subpoenaing witnesses. although they did issue a subpoena for bannon. that didn't work out. because he wasn't responsive. it's -- the bigger point that we have seen is this house intelligence investigation just seems disorganized. they are inviting witnesses. witnesses come and don't know whether or not they'll invoke executive privilege. they don't know whether the witness will appear. and it just strikes me as disorganized, they're not com

sending hicks running from the room. but, michael, as we know, she keeps coming back into the room and she apparently is basically running donald trump's press separately an apparently from the press office. >> she was but she's taken a step up now and i would now argue that she is the central -- his central adviser in the white house. >> 29-year-old now? she is now 29? >> yeah. her experience before this as a fashion, you know, pr person. >> she is part of the -- she was brought in by ivanka trump. >> exactly. >> part of ivanka/jared factions. >> yes. >> there's a point where steve bannon is just screaming at her in the halls of the west wing and in the end calling her dumb as stone. and this is after he suspects her of having tried to leak information that he supported the comey firing. >> exactly. i mean, it was a brutal fight. it was a fight that kind of shook everybody. in a brutal, in a brutal white house. where there's fights every day. this was -- this was a legendary fight. as a matter of fact, in the jarvanka s

. >>> also tonight, will hope hicks, one of the president's closest advisers, testify before the house intelligence committee tomorrow? or has there been an 11th hour holdup? >>> the alleged serial killer under arrest tonight, accused of killing at least nine people in just three weeks. >>> dangerous driving. the death toll rising tonight. snow, ice and freezing rain and the tow truck operator jumping to safety. >>> and the deadly flu. and questions about this 12-year-old boy who was rushed to urgent care. how accurate is that rapid flu test? >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night. and we begin with those horrifying new details from that california home. 13 siblings allegedly held captive there by their parents. tonight here, our first look at those parents, david and louise turpin, in court, facing charges late today, pleai ining not gui. and prosecutors with a new drips in the gruesome conditions the siblings lived. investigators say allowed to bathe just once a year. tonight, the daughter who planned the escape, that plan in the works for two y

she says hicks attempted to rape her, then made her perform oral sex. she told police she believed he would kill her if she didn't comply. hicks was arrested on the same day of the attack. he opted not to testify. his defense lawyer says he's not the guy who did this, that there was a bad investigation and an incorrect identification. when this happened in april 2016, metro did not notify the public. we didn't find out about this until more than a month later. it prompted anger from congress members and soon after, metro policies. you can see in this tweet, the general manager instructing metro transit police to notify the public of violent crimes the same day, at least in cases where doing so wouln't hurt the investigation. hicks is charged with first degree rape, first degree assault and first degree sex offense. he could spend the rest of his life behind bars if he is convicted. because of the long weekend, jury deliberations will resume on tuesday. in rockville, lindsey watts fox5 local news. >> maryland has become the ninth state in the country req

and hicks is rj eded with first degree rain. first dedisagree assault and first degree sex offense he could face life behind bars. this ace went to the jury 7:30 tonight and they went home after a half hour 8:00 tonight and deliberations will resume on tuesday because of the long weekend. were life in rockville, lindsey watts, "fox5 local news". >> classes resume today central high school in capitol heights following a double stabbing. 19-year-old edwin martinez stabbed two students oaf app argument over a call. martinez is facing two counts of attempted murder and assault. >> this empty church is where kevin match well was supposed to be sit this morning. he was due to about the grade fixing scandal "fox5" has been documenting for months. a state audit revealed widespread fraud. there was an audit two years ago revealed the same issues can were never addressed publicly. and and that found hundreds of student despite having absent tee report and in many cases fixed and dr. maxwell visited central lis and the school where a navy

. >>> also tonight, will hope hicks, one of the president's closest advisers, testify before the house intelligence committee tomorrow? or has there been an 11th hour holdup? >>> the alleged serial killer under arrest tonight, accused of killing at least nine people in just three weeks. >>> dangerous driving. the death toll rising tonight. snow, ice and freezing rain and the tow truck operator jumping to safety. >>> and the deadly flu. and questions about this 12-year-old boy who was rushed to urgent care. how accurate is that rapid flu test? >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night. and we begin with those horrifying new details from that california home. 13 siblings allegedly held captive there by their parents. tonight here, our first look at those parents, david and louise turpin, in court, facing charges late today, pleading not guilty. and prosecutors with a new description of the gruesome conditions the siblings lived. allegedly starved, shackled, beaten and tortured, and investigators say allowed to bathe just once a year. and tonight, the d

the same questions are being raised about hope hicks. and the reason these are being raised right now is the white house, in fact, we believe is trying to get a better understanding of where they might be able to invoke executive privilege, where they might be able to say, these conversations are privileged because they occurred with the president right now. so, this is a significant piece of new information as house investigators try to come to better terms with what they can get out of some of these people closest to the president of the united states. >> eli, i can see your shot and i saw you staring at your phone. are you getting anything from your sources on this story? >> i haven't got anything new than what peter said. hope hicks is so close to the president and has been since the inception of his campaign. it's possible also that things are happening with the government shutdown looming on the horizon sometime tomorrow and given how tenuous that situation is. she is the white house communications director. granted, this is a pres

the hick january man's enjoyed a low fixed ren and this home cost more. family members offered to help, but making the numbers work took some work. and that's where the chronical season of sharing fund stepped in providing temporary assistance to people in need in the bay area and it paid the hickman's first month rent. >> our new rent payment is basically double what we were paying before. having one month taken care of, that's a pretty sizeable chunk. and that over the next year that makes this place this place much more affordable for us. >> as they build this new home they are grateful for the help that continues to come in. the bunk bed mangled by fire in the childrens old room has been replaced. >> the two kids had 0 to share a room before, now they have separate spaces. >> their 12-year-old daughter victoria has a pic carpet. >> her bed came from up in lake county. her dresser and the book shelf came from friends in concord. >> 6-year-old brother alex sleeps on a bed bought with gift cards. >> this is a bed. >> he plays at a table full of donated l

there is this passage about hope hicks. shortly after liewandowski zwaw fired. hicks sat in trump tower with trump and his sons, wondering allowed about how she might help him. trump who otherwise seemed to treat hicks in a protective and paternal way looked up and said, w why? you've already done enough for him. you're the best piece of -- he'll ever have. she ran from the room. she apparently is basically running donald trump's press separately and apart from the actual press office. >> she was, but she's taken a step up now, and i would now argue that she is the central -- his -- his central adviser in the white house. >> 29-year-old now? >> her experience before this was as a fashion pr person. >> and she is part of the -- she was brought in by ivanka trump. she's part of the jared/ivanka factions as this faction lines up. >> yes. >> there's a part in the book where steve bannon is screaming at her in the halls of the west wing, calling her dumb as stone. this is after having suspected her of having leaked information that he supported the comey firing. >> i

hope hicks has never spoken in public, doesn't say anything about any of this. has no previous statements she would have to correct. corey lewandowski's gone the other way. he talked about this and his strategy would be on fox news earlier today. take a listen. >> i'm going to answer every question. i'm going to make sure that they understand if somebody hasn't already told them, as the person who was the campaign manager to the presidential candidate for almost two years, that there was no collusion. >> strong words from corey lewandowski, pretty plain and simply spoken there. but he has a long list of comments that he has made about every other player in this drama that i suspect he will be asked about and compared and contrasted against when he takes his turn in that secure room a few floors down from where i'm standing right now. >> and it's important to remember that a lot of these folks that were in the campaign and also in the white house don't like each other. >> sure. >> so there's a lot of vendettas out there. steve bannon and corey lewandowski, they d

and our final discussant was to be professor michael hicks. he wasn't able to be here because of weather. the former epi president is going to read professor hick's prepared remarks. thanks, larry. >> thank you. michael was concerned that the expected snow would allow him to get here but not to leave. and i guess he doesn't like washington. okay. i'm going to read his remarks and as supplemented by an e-mail from them this morning. he starts out acknowledging the significant decline in factory employment that's been very disruptive. and he writes, at the same time both real gdp and real value added production in u.s. manufacturing likely peaked in 2017 and absent business cycle disruptions have grown steadily across the historical horizon of data. likewise, the united states has experienced negative net exports since nine fiend 80 and the balance of trade with china was roughly 350 billion in 2016. given these data, a significant body of research has attempted to explain the causes and consequences of these employment changes. dr. houseman's p

tell us why. >> yes, a surprised move for hope hicks. the testimony highly at lly antd for tomorrow. she had controversies with the firing of the fbi director james comey and how the trump -- the white house helped in crafting that statement after it was revealed that donald trump jr. met with the russians at trump tower. in addition to everything that happened during the campaign season, well, today, that appearance was delayed. after the committee pulled the plug amid questions about whether or not she would essentially do what steve bannon, the former chief strategist of the white house did earlier this week, not answering questions about the transition and time in the white house, what bannon did this week. questions why bannon did that, according to a letter that his attorney sent to the committee leaders, wolf, he says very explicitly, the attorney says that the white house did not authorize bannon to talk about his time after the campaign season because it could imp kate executive privilege concerns. well, last night, john kelly,

and our final discussant was to be professor michael hicks. he wasn't able to be here because of weather. the former epi president is going to read professor hick's prepared remarks. thanks, larry. >> thank you. michael was concerned that the expected snow would allow him to get here but not to leave. and i guess he doesn't like washington. okay. i'm going to read his remarks and as supplemented by an e-mail from them this morning. he starts out acknowledging the significant decline in factory employment that's been very disruptive. and he writes, at the same time both real gdp and real value added production in u.s. manufacturing likely peaked in 2017 and absent business cycle disruptions have grown steadily across the historical horizon of data. likewise, the united states has experienced negative net exports since nine fiend 80 and the balance of trade with china was roughly 350 billion in 2016. given these data, a significant body of research has attempted to explain the causes and consequences of these employment changes. dr. how'sman's p

hope hicks will testify to the house intelligence committee as soon as this week. that's in addition to steve bannon who testifies tomorrow and former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski who will talk later this week. what might come out of it? evan perez is outfront tonight. what do we expect from these interviews? >> all three witnesses are seen as having key knowledge about contacts between trump campaign associates and people suspected of being russian operatives. hope hicks is the big one. she's been with donald trump since the beginning of the campaign. we know she played a role in helping the president craft a misleading statement that was issued in the name of donald trump junior when the public learned about that infamous june 2016 trump tower meeting. steve bannon made those comments in that newly published michael wolf book calling the meeting tremendous s treasonous. corey lewandowski lewandowski ran t ran the campaign for some time. former trump campaign officials were dharjed with 12 counts of money laundering. they will be in court tomorrow morn

jared kushner, hope hicks and others as it pertains to the russia investigation. and what in michael wolf's book is precisely accurate, what is as described and what is not. it was pointed out to me to the degree any of it is relevant to the russia probe, bob mueller likely already knows the answer, or if he is first learning of any of these observations, he soon will. let me read you some of what's in here on the topic of russia. this is quote from bannon. in the book he says, quote, if he fires mueller it just brings the impeachment quicker. why not? let's do it. let's get it on. why not? what am i going to do? am i going to go in and save him? he's donald trump. ashley, any reaction from the white house today in that analysis? >> the white house as we saw privately and publicly in today's press briefing has participated it as patently false and untrue. i think that's an overly broad assessment of the book. it's certainly convenient for them. i will say i haven't read the entire book and i don't have first-hand reporting on every detail of the book. but my sense

kauffman threatened to hick live before. this intense body cam video shows him waving a gun and threatening to kill himself last year when investigators were executing a search warrant on his office in egg harbor township. >> let's talk. >> that ended peacefully and kauffman was taken into custody. first in atlantic county jail, until prosecutors say he had to be moved to hudson county due to credible threats on his life. the dramatic murder for hire happened in 2012 when prosecutors say kauffman and four other people, including members of the pagan's motorcycle gang, were involved in illegal pill mill running out of dr. kauffman's office. he hired a hit man to murder his wife after she threatened to expose him. they were going through a divorce. april kauffman a radio host found hot the shot inside their home. prosecutor's office says the investigation is on going and they have no further comment at this time. dawn? >> all right, shawnette, thank you. >>> bill cosby's lawyers have accused prosecutors of with holding evidenc

and so, i was sort of brought in to interview him, and i think it was hope hicks said, mr. trump, you have 45 minutes, and his face went back, his eyes went open, and he says, "you don't give michael wolff 45 minutes!" and then he said, why don't you come back to the house after i do the show and we'll sit around, which we did for like hours and eating, as he ate these pints of ice cream. [ laughter ] >> well, let's talk more about president trump and media, because i do think that we have our first -- we have a president who is a media creation. you're someone who, as you just said, writes about the media. and you write on page 215, "this is president trump's, even citizen trump's view, if you couldn't get press directly for yourself, you became a leaker. there was no happenstance news in trump's view. all news was manipulated and designed, planned, and planted. all news was to some extent fake. he understood that very well because he himself had faked it so many times in his career. this was why he has so naturally come to the fake news label, "i've made stuff up forever,

and i think it was hope hicks said mr. trump, you have 45 minutes. and his face went back. his eyes went open he said, you don't give michael wolf 45 minutes, and he said why don't you come back to the house after i do the show, and we'll sit around. which we did for if like an hour and eating as he ate these pints of ice cream. [laughter] well let's talk more about president trump. [laughter] and and media because i do think that -- we have our first -- we have a -- a president who is -- a media creation. and you're someone who as you just said writes about the media and you write, on page 215 this is president trump's even citizen trumps view if you couldn't get press directly for yourself, you bill a leaker. there was no happenstance news in trump's view. all news was manipulated and designed, planned and planted. all news was to some extent fake. he understood that very well because he himself had faked it so many times in his career. this was why he had so naturally fake news label, quote, i've made stuff up forever. and they always precincted he bragged. that is the -

the key is what you said in the initial part of the answer were you said you mentioned hope hicks who is the president's personal pr person. now, when you read fire and fury you find out that everybody in this book has his or her own a pr person. it ends up building up his own pr team. the president who has a press secretary and a communication shop of 40 people but he is conducting his own freelance operation. maybe one of the reasons why people took pity on you as you sat there and say humiliated in the west wing lobby they knew you were talking to bannon is it that they realized zero my gosh he's talking to bannon. that happened a little later on when they realized that he was monopolizing me. in the beginning everybody was talking and confused about confused about why they were talking. it has come on high that nobody actually knew from where it came it seemed but there was a general feeling that you were supposed to talk to me. did you feel like at their a therapist eventually did. what i saw there is a plot line in a transformation that took place and people in the beginning you

laura: also, hope hicks is due to give evidence on capitol hill. currently the communications director. she could be key. anthony: she could be, and she has already talked to robert mueller, not under subpoena, but in a sit-down interview with his team, the way that a lot of inner circle members of the white house have met with mueller, like sean spicer and reince preibus. she has been there from the very earliest days of donald trump's presidential campaign. she was one of the advanced people, communications person from the get-go. moved to the white house and had a lower level communications spot, has been elevated to communications director. she has had a front-row seat for pretty much the entire rise of donald trump as a politician. laura: big week there, but on a completely different topic, the president's doctor appeared in the white house briefing room and he said the president has an excellent bill of health, but he did say that the president has taken a cognitive test. what was the result? anthony: it was interesting, because he said donal

sources close to hicks say she intends to cooperate. >>> and "the wall street journal" is reporting that president trump's lawyer formed a private company just weeks before the november election to pay a former adult film star for her silence about her alleged affair with donald trump. according to "the wall street journal" stormy daniels whose real name is stephanie clifford received a check for $130,000. "the journal" reports that check came from a private company set up by trump lawyer michael cohen, and all uses fictitious all used fictitious names in the transaction. abc has not independently confirmed that. >>> the lives of the 13 california children allegedly tied up and deprived of food for years. their parents have now pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges including torture. a prosecutor calls the treatment of their children sadistic. abc's marci gonzalez has more. >> reporter: the parents accused of holding their 13 children captive for years now the ones in shackles. david and louise turpin facing a judge and a combined 75 counts of systemically torturing, abusing and impris

. >> hope hicks' testimony has been delayed. hope hicks is one of the people who michael wolff in his book describes will crack like an egg under this questioning. >> it's her, donald trump jr., steve bannon. these are players that have deep knowledge in the white house's inner workings. no matter what president trump likes to say about steve bannon's, he came out and said he had nothing to do with my presidency. if that's the case, why are they trying so hard to prevent him from testifying. why did they say to him after the letter was written on air force one -- why was bannon looped into that. and now the trump administration, as they do, they try to distance themselves from him when anything comes out. >> thank you both. >>> coming up, it's time to get a second opinion about donald trump's health and his mental health. in fact, we're going to get a bunch of second opinions. including one from a former air force physician, whose job it was to certify personnel to work in the nuclear weapon program. we will ask him if donald tr

hicks. you were going to hear from hope hicks, someone incredibly close to the president, an important adviser, his leading the communications effort. now she's not. you have no date for when she's going to come before your committee. you guys delayed it h. is after lewandowski and steve bannon didn't answer questions. is the white house sort of winning on this, the fact they've gotten it to a point where you say don't even come before us yet? >> the white house is certainly working with house republicans on this investigation hand in hand. i can't confirm ms. hicks. i can tell you we've had a senior administration official who was supposed to testify today who did not. but what's most interesting is steve bannon came in earlier in the week and had the white house assert executive privilege or a least tell him he could not answer. the very next day corey lewandowski said he talked to the president the day before and he wasn't going to tell us anything that he has done since he left the campa

sources close to hicks say she intends to cooperate. >>> "the wall street journal" is reporting that president trump's lawyer formed a private company just weeks before the november election to pay a former adult film star for her silence about her alleged affair with donald trump. according to "the wall street journal" stormy daniels whose real name is stephanie clifford received a check for $130,000. the "journal" reports it came from a private company set up by trump lawyer michael cohen and all used fictitious names in the trance abc news. abc has not donald trumply confirmed that. >>> the lives of the 13 california children allegedly tied up and deprived of food for years. their parents have now pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges including torture. a prosecutor calls the treatment of their children sadistic. abc's marci gonzalez has more. >> reporter: the parents accused of holding their 13 children captive for years now the ones in shackles. david and louise turpin facing a judge and a combined 75 counts of systemically torturing, abusing and imprisoning their children who