WASHINGTON _ On the eve of a public hearing in the House impeachment inquiry, at least one member of President Donald Trump's new two-person messaging team has met with senior House Republican communicators on Capitol Hill.
The team of Pam Bondi and Tony Sayegh, political allies of the president hired last week to coordinate Republican countermessaging on impeachment, has not yet started in their official capacity. Nevertheless, Sayegh was already attending meetings in Congress ahead of public hearings set to begin Wednesday morning.
Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, told McClatchy that the new team has not formally started, but confirmed that Sayegh began taking meetings Tuesday in an unofficial capacity.
