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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Ex-Trump aide Hope Hicks gives damning testimony at Trump hush money trial

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The ReidOut, Joy Reid leads with Hope Hicks's revelation of a pivotal conversation to the January 6th committee, amplifying her potential to contribute to Trump's tarnished legacy, as she testifies in his ongoing criminal trial in New York. Additionally, we delve into the political repercussions stemming from the pro-Palestinian campus protests and emphasize the imperative to refocus attention on the dire situation unfolding in Gaza. Meanwhile, Kristi Noem's attempt to bury the past backfires as the truth emerges, exposing a web of deceit in her latest book. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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Tonight on the readout.

0:05.0

And I was becoming increasingly concerned that

0:10.0

we were damaging his legacy.

0:15.0

What did the president say in response to what you just described?

0:21.2

He said something along the lines of, you know, nobody will care about my legacy if I lose.

0:32.0

So, I lose so that won't matter.

0:35.0

Ho Pix revealing that conversation to the January 6th committee.

0:42.0

Now she has a chance to add to Trump's corrupt

0:44.3

legacy testifying today in his criminal trial in New York. Also tonight the

0:49.2

political fallout from the campus protest and why it's time to start focusing again on what's

0:54.8

actually happening in Gaza and Christy Nome would prefer to let sleeping dogs lie

0:59.7

but sadly she killed the dog and now a bunch of lies are being exposed in Nome's new book.

1:07.0

But we begin tonight with a blast from Donald Trump's past, Pope Hicks, the former

1:16.7

Greenwich Connecticut model turned White House advisor. Hicks, who has not seen Trump in nearly two years since she testified about the insurrection

1:25.4

her former boss incited, acknowledged that she was nervous and was visibly so.

1:31.3

And for good reason, it's the first time the outside world got a window

1:34.7

into her and Trump's intimate working relationship. She, as the campaign press

1:39.6

secretary, was a key player in the 2016 Trump campaign and eventual administration.

1:46.0

Unlike Rona Graf, Trump's personal secretary who testified last week,

1:51.0

Hope Hicks paid for her own lawyers, which might explain why she seemed free to detail at great length the inner workings of the 2016 campaign, who had access to Trump, what kind of micromanager Trump was, and what was happening in the final months that could possibly motivate the campaign to hide any salacious stories about Trump cheating on his third wife while she was pregnant.

2:16.2

And key there is the Access Hollywood tape.

2:20.4

Before prosecutors got to the infamous grab-them tape, Hicks explained what she did for Trump and how she and Mr. Trump spoke every day.

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