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White House / Hicks Resignation / Sessions / A Discussion #1121582

CNN Evening News for Wednesday, Feb 28, 2018
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(Studio: Anderson Cooper; White House: Jim Acosta) The resignation of White House communications director Hope Hicks after she told the "New York Times" on Nov. 10, 2016, about contacts with Russia & the interest in special counsel former FBI director Robert Mueller about what she knew, the background to her departure from the White House, the questionable scheduling of her leaving discussed.

(Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's Jen Psaki, David Chalian & Gloria Borger about Hicks & Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [BORGER, CHALIAN, PSAKI - offer views on Hicks as the "Trump whisperer" & his emotional support, Trump berating her about her "white lies" comments, her role in protecting staff from his mood swings but Trump is really the communications director, how Sessions keeps getting humiliated in public, the Sessions link to the Russia investigation & to the conservative agenda.]

Reporter(s):
Cooper, Anderson;
Acosta, Jim
Duration:
00:10:40

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