DEMS/FBI/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director and long-time confidante of President Donald Trump, plans to turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into potential obstruction of justice. Rep. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent Hicks a detailed letter earlier this month, asking for documents on a wide-range of topics, including over former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s false statements to the FBI, the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey, Trump’s involvement in a hush-money scheme to silence stories about his alleged affairs and the drafting of a misleading 2017 statement to the media about Donald Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with Russians. The request included documents from “any personal or work diary, journal or other book containing notes, a record or a description of daily events” about Trump, the Trump campaign, the Trump Organization and the executive office of the President. Hicks and other current administration officials have agreed to provide documents to the committee, according to Nadler’s spokesman Daniel Schwarz. Hicks’ attorney declined to comment.”
–Manu Raju, Jeremy Herb and Kara Scannell, “Former Trump confidante Hope Hicks to cooperate with House Democratic probe into Trump,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 20, 2019 8:24 pm