what he's looking at is from a transactional moment, corey good, corey helping me on tv right now, coreyg and defending me. the other guy, matt, whatever his name is. it's sort of bizarre. they're blocking and tackling for the president. they're good. other people that are telling truth to power to the american people, they're bad. >> i just want to play something -- >> but i like corey, and i respect corey, and i do think at some point people like corey will say, okay, no mas. i do predict that. >> at a rally in new mexico last night, the president singled out steve cortes, who appears on cnn. he also said this. >> he happens to be hispanic, but i've never quite figured it out, because he looks more like a wasp more than i do. nobody loves the hispanics more. who do you like more? the country or the hispanics? he says, the country. i don't know. i may have to go for the hispanics to be honest with you. we've got a lot of hispanics. we love our hispanics. get out and vote. >> what does that mean? >> well, he's trying to make a joke there. >> i got the steve cortes and the wasp thing >> h

>> look, i like corey, i get along with corey, he's a friend of mine.ole notion about the whole loyalty conflict, i get it. there's many, many people trapped in the trump loyalty matrix, where you want to be a good person, you want to be loyal to a guy that you work for, you love the country, but then you have to stop and you have to weigh everything, okay? what i would say to corey or other people is you've got to focus on people as opposed to policy or your own personal agenda. and just step back and look at it from a personal perspective, about the harm that is now taking place to the civilization and the harm that is now taking place to the country. >> but does corey lewandowski -- if you look at president trump's life, there's not a lot of people who had been in the -- in his life for a long period of time, who are really close to him, other than, i guess, his family members. loyalty is not something he is known for, despite what he said. >> i was originally asked to serve in the opl position. somebody i'm close to here in new york, he says, rememb

corey lewandowski in the witness chair.mocrats, he did confirm that mr. trump asked him to try to help limit robert mueller's investigation. this hour, i'll talk to house judiciary committee

how can you justify that. >> corey, i know what you do -- hey, corey. you need to let me get a question in. if you want to ask fe questions, you can become a journalist yourself since you seem -- >> are you a journal sniist? or you're a talking head. i'm happy to answer your questions if they're honest and truthful. >> you're listening with your mouth. and what i want you to listen to is, this is important. do you lie -- >> i've answered your question. >> what is the answer, yes or no. >> i've answered your question. >> i'm as honest as i can be, as often as i can be. >> what does that mean? >> which part of that don't you understand? >> when you lie, corey, when do you lie? are you lying now, for instance? >> i'm as honest as i can be with you. >> corey, that's not good enough. that's not good enough. you told congress under oath yesterday that you only feel obligated to tell the truth under oath. and the reason this is important -- >> do your contributors tell the truth under oath? >> the reason this is important -- >> don't hoild me to a differen sta

lewandowski thank you, corey corey, of course, corey lewandowski may be running for senate he's veryight with the president. how do you dea as to whether or not what he said to the mueller investigation, was correct to which he said i need to see the part where it says that. clearly it's a bit of a game how does one again around that >> you know, it is a game and this is the game he's play iing. even though he was never a white house employee, never worked in the white house, he's claiming that he is bound by the president's efforts to protect any conversations that they have as executive privilege so you hear him stating this line over and over again the white house has told me not to answer any questions beyond my testimony in the mueller report democrats need to break through that and either they need to go ahead and can him the point-blank question, this is what you said in the mueller report is it true or find some other way to short circuit this game he's playing wasting their time >> let's listen to what jerry nadler is saying >> motion is to since the chairman is is not follo

corey lewandowski was noncommittal and never acted on the request. it doesn't mention dunkin' donuts. why are you bringing that up? it makes it seem you do remember something specific. >> i have a very, very special privilege which is talking to the president on a fairly regular si i don't disclose those conversations, but i will tell you this. i don't ever remember the president ever asking me to get involved with jeff sessions or the department of justice in any way, shape, or form, ever. >> you say it didn't happen on the july 4th. the article doesn't mention dunk dunken donuts. >> corey lewandowski offering that very suspiciously specific denial was a tell, as we emphasized in our coverage, and he was lying. you don't remember the call, how did you know it happened on the way to dunkin' donuts? now some of this sounds almost absurd, but obviously, the underlying issues is potential of obstruction are important. now we try to hear all sides here. we confront people with facts. we do follow a fact checking. when the mueller report came out in april

this is one snapshot of corey, one moment for corey.e's got a lot of things out there and i'm sure people -- >> he has an early lead in the primary numbers. >> yeah, but there is potentially for him outside of a primary a little bit of a downside of being tethered so closely. >> are you working for him for any reason >> no. >> is this a -- do you think there's a fine line to walk here on how close you associate yourself with trump in a swing state? >> president trump's most narrow loss anywhere in the country was in new hampshire new hampshire is a fundamentally independent-minded state and i think the trick to which you are anti-washington, i think is always a good trait in new hampshire. it's sort of a fiery place the question is would corey be better off if he was seen as abandoning the president i think we know the answer to that so -- >> geoff bennett, man, good luck with the next 90 minutes let us know. >> reporter: thanks, brother, appreciate that. >> appreciate it carol, eugene, stephanie and brad, stick around. >>> coming up, i

corey lewandowski in the witness chair. when he wasn't clamming up or clashing with democrats, he did confirm that mr. trump asked him to try to help limit robert mueller's investigation. this hour, i'll talk to house judiciary committee democrat steve cohen who questioned lewandowski and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. let's go to our senior congressional correspondent on capitol hill. the house judiciary committee hearing was combative from the very start. >> reporter: no question about it. a partisan fight broke out moments after this hearing started as republicans objected to the democrats handling of this and democrats objected to the white house moving to limit corey lewandowski's testimony and blocked two other white house officials from testifying today. jerry nadler warned he may hold corey lewandowski in contempt something the republicans call a cherade. >> reporter: former campaign manager sparred with house democrats during an impeachment hearing and confirmed an element of the muleeller report

so that's corey lewandowski earlier this year, february of this year. that's two months before the special counsel's report comes out. so today in the hearing, the staff lawyer played that clip to corey lewandowski, played it so everybody else in the hearing room could hear it, and then the lawyer resumed his questioning >> that wasn't true, was it, sir? >> i heard that. >> and that was not true, was it >> i have no obligation to be honest with the media because they're just as dishonest as anybody else. >> so you're admitting, sir, you were not being truthful in that clip, correct? >> my interview with ari melber? >> yes. >> can be interpreted any way you'd like >> it is true in may 2019 you absolutely remembered when the president asked you to deliver a message to the attorney general of a speech for him to give related to the special counsel investigation, isn't that correct? >> i'd have to think about it. >> are you claiming, sir -- you had been interviewed by the special counsel about those very events which you discussed and said was accurately re

between democrats and corey lewandowski. lewandowski did seem to confirm under oath a key act of attempted obstruction by the president. so what happens now? joining us -- >> jeffrey toobin. >> there he is. take a bow, jeffrey. >> wow. that was impressive. also with us cnn political correspondent abby phillip. >> i don't get the big introduction, okay. >> you know what? you don't need it. jeffrey, we need to stroke his ego. >> pump it up for me. >> jeffrey, i know this was a mess. i know this was chaotic and out of control and i know that corey lewandowski stuck it to democrats on the house judiciary committee. however, there was a moment of substance, at least one there where lewandowski admitted to something that robert mueller and his team laid out as an obstruction of justice. it is when the president told corey lewandowski to get jeff sessions to unrecuse himself from the mueller investigation. watch this. >> that's what he wanted you to deliver to attorney general jeff sessions, correct? >> i believe that's an accurate

let's do a corey story so we did a separate story on corey.learest moments could be argued is obstruction because the president was directing lewandowski to go to jeff sessions and tell him to end an investigation and to publicly clear him and i'll also note lewandowski keeps citing executive privilege and bringing up the fact that the white house has asked him now to answer questions. i cannot find a lawyer, either friendly to the president or unfriendly to the president who says there is any ground for the white house to be making this executive privilege claim. executive privilege protects the executive branch once information leaves the executive branch, either the white house or the justice department, outside the executive branch, so to corey lewandowski who is not in the executive branch, then the executive privilege claim is gone it has now left the executive branch, so you can't bring it back in and cite executive privilege. there is no ground for that. so essentially he is not being truthful to congress that could be seen as obstruct

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corey lewandowski is an ally of the president.ahn, someone who in the mueller report described situations that would be -- that would be damaging to president trump, so he's going to sing from the hymnal today when he get offense that stand. >> the gospel of trump. >> the gospel of trump, and it's not going to be what democrats expect. in some ways, this is the danger of going down this pathway, and i think this is what republicans have been saying which is what more are democrats trying to find out than is in the mueller report? i think that's a real question to be answered today. there are a lot of lines of inquiry for democrats to press the trump administration on a lot of things that are going ton. i'm not sure that pressing corey lewandowski about what's already written in the text is going to be that helpful. >> we'll see how noisy of a song bird or quiet of a song bird he is today. >> song birds typically aren't quiet. that's why they're called song birds. >> he may be a reserved song bird. >>> israeli president benjamin ne

"such a beautiful opening statement by corey lewandowski, thank you, corey." so that audience was an important one. >> yes, in many respects corey lewandowski speaking to two audiences, the president who wants to see him be an effective adage on the hill, and shutdown obstruction of justice, but equally important, corey lewandowski with the republican primary audience testing the waters to run in the granite state and i would say that looking like a strong defender of the president is probably the most important qualification at least in his mind. >> dana: corey lewandowski had an answer to a question about election security, jessica. if we could play that, do we have that? i want you to react. here we go. >> no, congressman. i cannot be sure to the intentions of vladimir putin or them interfering with the election process, but i can be sued in only one thing donald trump was a private citizen at at that time. and he had no authority to secure the election cycle than i did. >> dana: he says that there was the responsibility of the obama administration. and i f

corey lewandowski. we were told 20 minutes ago he would be arriving in the next 1. a lot of activity at the far end of the hallway, if you panned down this way. i can't see whether lewandowski has finally arrived. in advance of the hearing, the white house has told the committee that they are invoking something called "constitutional immunity." they say this is designed to protect the office of the presidency, whether it's a republican or a democrat. in other words, that the conversation between the president and his closest aides remain confidential. on that basis, they have instructed two former white house aides, rob porter and rick dearborn, not to appear today. but corey lewandowski was never former to formally a part of the administration. he was part of the campaign. so he doesn't have that immunity. but he has been directed not to answer questions that go beyond what he told special counsel robert mueller. earlier today we heard from white house spokesman hogan guilty who laid out there argument

that was corey lewandowski for trump. minus the eroticism. >> i can hear everybody's headphones in the control room. >> was it not? >> quite a picture. >> it's true. listen, katherine, at several points he was straight up trolling democrats. questioning him. >> you should be here to be telling the truth. the truth will set you free. in the american people. i yield back. >> the time expired. witness may answer. >> i don't believe there was a question. >> very well. >> yes, there was. >> can you repeat the question. it was a rant. >> are you ashamed of the word you wrote down? >> i'm very happy of what i have written. you're welcome to read it. >> are you ashamed to read it out loud? >> i'm not ashamed of anything in life. are you? >> that's mr. president to you. there are responses about ruining the tooth fairy. it's so simple. you're ruining tooth fairy for my kids. if the kids are worried you should be more embarrassed. >> i respectfully disagree with frank. i don't think this was a great day for corey lewandowski. this

the fifth on that list involves corey lewandowski. as detailed in the mueller report, the president asked lewandowski to deliver a message to the then attorney general jeff sessions. asking lewandowski that he should publicly announce that mueller's probe was unfair to president trump. and to tell the public that he would meet with mueller and direct him to refocus the probe on future elections. not the 2016 election. lewandowski told mueller that he never delivered the message and stored the note in a safe in his home. the president met with lewandowski again in july of 2017 and asked for an update. according to the mueller report. at that meeting president trump said that if sessions would not meet with lewandowski, then lewandowski should tell sessions that he was fired. of course since these men lewandowski had no role in government, he could not do that, and he did not. instead he told robert mueller that a former sessions senate aide would deliver the message. he did not either. corey lewandowski never work for the white house a

thank you, corey." pointing to is how corey lewandowski confirmed that trump asked him to tell sessions to limit the investigation. but is that getting lost in the hours of all this stonewalling? >> absolutely. i think that what people are getting more distracted by is the audacity of the behavior, but we've seen this from the very beginning, long before he was sworn into office -- i'm talking about donald trump -- long before, you know, donald trump -- at the beginning of his campaign we saw this kind of behavior. so people keep going, oh, my gosh, i can't believe, i can't believe, i can't believe, and the reality is while we can't believe it, they are being the most egregious, unethical, criminal at this point administration that we've seen. and they're getting away with all the behavior because we're just so shocked. and at some point we have to release the shock and realize it is what it is, and it's time for them to go. >> all right. thank you all. i appreciate it. see you next time. >>> should dem

we all know corey lewandowski. they have predicted they would get the spectacle and he died for that tweet today from the president. >> he sure did. absolutely, erin. anybody who watched him when he was a campaign manager, when he was a tv analyst both paid and now non-paid and now that he is somebody who is seriously considering running for senate in new hampshire should know that this is his m.o. he doesn't care. it is an audience of one. we maybe overuse that term in the trump years, but corey lewandowski didn't need to be given the script because he could write the script and it flows through his veins how to talk in the trump language and how to speak trumpese and he went in there fully intending to do just that and not just pleasing the boss, but also about pleasing the boss' base in the state of new hampshire where he is seriously considering a run for the senate. >> yeah. >> and has to win a primary first. that say huge part of it, but even if he weren't considering it for his future it's what he would have

corey lewandowski was ready for a circus. when the republicans took their turn, they ignored the attempt to shut down the investigation as described by lewandowski's own testimony in the mueller report and his own notes that are reproduced in the mueller report the republican questioning deliberately did not make any sense. but the questions on the democratic side also mostly didn't make sense because of republican interference with that questioning and the simple fact that should obvious by now that most members of congress are not very good at this. they did not run for district attorney they ran for the house of representatives. and every once in a while they have to play district attorney in committee hearings, and generally for most of them, it doesn't go very well except for the people who have actually been prosecutors and so for hours on end, it was a chaotic hearing with corey lewandowski becoming increasingly emboldened with his refusal to answer any question for which the answer was not already contained in the mue

lewandowski never worked in the white house, on the eve of today's first impeachment hearing. >> corey lewandowski, we expect, we hope he doesn't lie under oath he simply has to say "yes" and "true" to the facts in the mueller report and that itself will be very damning. >>> and good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington where speaker nancy pelosi is demanding a briefing for all house members on the saudi attack and any military plans that may take place as congressional democrats warn the white house that it does not have constitutional authority to take action against iran on behalf of the saudis three people familiar with american intelligence are telling nbc news there are strong indications the attack originated from iran, sparked new fears of an escalating conflict and today the ayatollah khamenei shut the door on meetings between president rouhani and president trump in new york. moments ago at a heritage foundation event, vice president mike pence announced the secretary of state will be traveling to saudi arabia today. joining me now is nbc news white house correspo

the star witness today is corey lewandowski. and as you see, the committee is taking a quick recess. but everybody before the hen bes understand way, they invoked executive privilege over aides and they also limited to what lewandowski could say. despite the fact that lewandowski never held an official position in the when you say. he was never paid bythe government political tension throughout the hearing mired in procedure and bickering was incredibly high and the president was pleased with that. tweeting such a beautiful opening statement by corey lewandows lewandowski. thank you, corey >> i don't have a copy of the report in front of me. >> i simply ask you, is it correct that as reported in the mueller report on june 19 9, 2017, you met alone in the oval office with the president. >> could you read the exact plan of the report? i don't have it available. why i don't think that i need to do that. did you meet alone with the president on that date >> congressman, i'd like you to refresh my memory with a copy of the report >>

if corey is to run, corey would attest to this, having president trump there at the top, that is a hugeiver for success down the ballot in that state. >> harris: real quickly, the rust belt and that scenario where hillary clinton didn't visit enough. that was part of the criticism, even among those in her own party, as reasons she had for losing. the president, when you look at michigan and other areas, what is he hoping to do there that hasn't already been tried? >> he's hoping to replicate the 2016 map, which we will. pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan. but expand it. we're on of fence here. we're looking at minnesota. minnesota falls in the mold of pennsylvania. no republican president has won since 1972. president trump, with one exception, ronald reagan, came the closest to winning it by just a point and a half. we want to expand in the rust belt. we are on offense here, as democrats have a side show. we are putting the work in. we are going to win and win big in 2020. >> harris: the democrats have helped you. claire mchaskell and now you have a republican in that seat. you had walt

battle over accountability for what democrats say are trump's crimes in office there were fireworks as corey lewandowski seized on this star turn today to battle, filibuster and at times openly taunt house democrats at this hearing. they say lewandowski's brazen tactics make him look disrespectful, even guilty remember, this is also an adversary yal process and at times lewandowski was, make no mistake, effective at delaying the process and even ruffling his questioners. >> is it correct that as reported in the mueller report on june 19th, 2017, you met alone in the oval office with the president? >> is there a book and page number that you can reference me to i don't have a copy of the report. >> volume 2, page 90. >> can you read the exact report i don't have it available to me. >> i don't think i need to do that. >> i'd like you to refresh my memory by providing a copy of the report so i can follow along. >> you don't have a copy with you? >> i which hadon't have a copy. >> i request that the clock be stopped while this charade is sorted out. >> it was clear right there from that opening

dearborn and porter were also subpoenaed to testify tomorrow alongside corey lewandowski. we're starting to think that neither of them will show up. we have letters from their lawyers tonight indicating that their are not going to show up because of the president's assertion that anybody who has ever worked in the white house is absolutely immune from ever having to testify. that said, corey lewandowski is definitely expected to testify tomorrow even though he never worked in the white house. the thing about this is weird is that tonight, the white house is saying that dearborn and porter won't show up at all, but the white house is saying that even with corey lewandowski who didn't work in the white house at all, who has never been a government employee, the white house is nevertheless asserting tonight that they have advised mr. lewandowski to limit his testimony. and not talk about his conversations with the president. right? it is unclear on what authority the white house might be trying to limit lewandowski's testimony, again, he doesn't work for the white house, does

i think corey was very blunt.ight have been too forceful in his political rhetoric but at the same time these congressional hearings are all about the political theater and that is what he gave them and he used the platform not only to speak truth to the democrats and the american people watching but there was nothing he did -- heather: points he said i would like to have a copy of the report in front of me so i could read what you are referencing. that made sense. >> that goes into this idea of political theater. if they are really wanting to fact find, get at the truth, why would they play those games? why wouldn't they be helpful to him? why wouldn't they let him respond? this was just political theater at a circus for soundbites for democrats to try to continue their narrative. they are not really looking at impeachment, even if it gets through the house the senate will never actually hold the trial, there is no legal basis, this is purely partisan politics and that is all the democrats have, soundbites they a

corey lewandowski was empowered at this trolling. >> corey is about 50 or 60 years younger than mueller, that gives him a little bit of an advantage. kennedy: 60 years younger? >> as majority party, democrats, they get their talking points together. i saw several interviews with members of house judiciary committee after the hearing, they stuck to their talking points, but on the panel, they were unprepared, reason they were unprepared and fumbled, they were facing a witness who is not only smart but street smart, that is very dangerous if you are invite a witness to appear before your subcommittee, be careful who you ask. kennedy: i agree. and i don't think they did a good job of anticipating his answers and reaction. and you know corey lewandowski is not one to push away political theater, he did take the opportunity to tweet out his senate launch. during the recess. and there were some members like jeffries who were upset about, that i have to say if congress shines a spotlight on you, it is wise to tap dance. >> it is, there is an old expression, i could sure, hosted on your own --

when it comes to corey lewandowski in contempt.k during that hearing, and even the moments after, right? about possibly holding lewandowski in contempt. it is a much more involved process, i think, than many of us had realized and actually involves separate participation from corey lewandowski himself. can you walk us through what this would entail? >> yeah. i used to be counsel of that committee. so i'm very familiar with these procedures. and the house has never really set up a very streamlined system for contempt. either when somebody denies a subpoena, ignores a subpoena, doesn't produce evidence, or, indeed is disrespectful, as lewandowski was during his hearing. what happens is, they have to have a ruling of the committee first that the witness is in n contem contempt. then take that to the house of representatives and the full house votes on it. it either goes to a civil or criminal action's if they refer to a criminal action, because he works for the president, in this instance mr. trump. he's not going to do anything as al

. >> my interview with corey lewandowski likely candidate coming up. some calling it fake news and witch hunt and saying he did nothing wrong, the the press overreacting without all the facts? new york city times story of brett kavanaugh, the alleged victim of sexual assault doesn't member such type incident and donald trump is the leading critic. >> i call for the resignation of everyone at "the new york times", they have taken the old great lady and broken her down, destroyed her virtue and ruined her reputation. >> i could not believe "the new york times" would write this piece without that information contained in it. >> there was zero intent to mislead anybody about the details of the incident. >> as the times report blame editors the stories haven't stopped democrats the justice be impeached, i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ >> president trump has repeatedly unloaded on "the new york times" over its story alleging another long ago sexual assault incident drofling brett kavanaugh, as we reported when we came on the air last week, two-tim

have they not seen corey lewandowski on television? >> i respectfully disagree with frank in that i don't think this was a great day for corey lewandowski. this was a guy who went on tv, announced to the world apparently at the same time that he's also trying to fund raise for a senate campaign that he lies most of the time except when he's under oath -- >> even promoted it. >> yes, he promoted it during one of the recesses today. he announced he lies under oath, which is presumably most of the time including when he's talking to members of the media and talking to perspective voters one would imagine. this is guy who i thought he came off as really shurlish among other things but this was a hearing ostensibly about obstruction of justice. so, yeah, the democrats not seeming terribly prepared, but i didn't come off thinking that lewandowski himself be -- you know, did anything other than embarrass himself. >> i had congressman jamey ras kn on last hour and i said to me the american people got nothing out of it. he said one of his bigge

thank you, corey he was there as part of the impeachment investigation. the mueller report details how the president had asked lewandowsky to deliver a message to then-a.g. jeff sessions, asking him to curtail the russia investigation. lewandowsky never followed through. today he did confirm the president's request, but that was about all the democrats could get from their stonewalling and at times hostile witness. >> mr. lewandowsky, is it correct that as reported in the mueller report on june 19th, 2017, you met alone in the oval office with the president? >> congressman, i'd like you to refresh my memory by providing a copy of the report so i can follow along. >> mr. chairman, i request that the clock be stopped while this charade is sorted out. >> where on page 90 is it, sir >> mr. chairman, you have to start the clock. >> no, i don't have to start the clock. he's filibustering me. >> that's across the hall in the senate. >> the white house is directed i not disclose the substance of any discussions -- >> the answer is you're not answering the questio

corey lewandowski was intimately involved in one of these, which is when the president directed corey lewandowski to tell jeff sessions to stop the russian investigation into donald trump. we're going to explore that and bring the facts out to the american people. >> i want to play for you something the house minority leader said this morning specifically about the committee that you sit on suggesting that you are all wasting your time with impeachment i want to play for you what he said >> what should this committee be doing? the crisis at our border, immigration, the review of all these tech companies this is the committee that has jurisdiction over it and they're doing nothing. >> is he correct, congressman? would you like to see your committee focus more on some of these other issues or do you think you can walk and chew gum at the same time? >> actually, mccarthy hasn't been paying attention. we have held hearings on immigration and anti-trust issues, we've passed legislation on immigration and last week we passed, over the objection of the republicans, three gun safety measures

that's exactly what corey did. there is almost no one i can think of in trump's orbit who understands the man and what makes him tick and how he expects people to behave around him, particularly in public, corey lewandowski. boy did he show it yesterday? and it should surprise nobody. >> that's exactly right. remember when corey came back in, the campaign manager, the whom mantra was let trump be trump? he knows that better than anybody. i also just so find that candid admission of unless i'm under oath. >> it's depressing. >> there is no real obligation to tell the truth. not just depressing but forget the media, someone who is seriously considering running for public office, that's also problematic to the public. >>. >> reporter: well, it is, but also he understands the at least in the short term if he decides to run for the senate. >> right. >> the pool of people he's going to be appealing to. and those are people who have a total distrust of all institutions, especially the media. so the reason is, it is even m

testifying today is former trump campaign manager corey lewandowksi who at the direction of the white house is refusing to answer most questions. lewandowski never worked in the white house. which makes the white house claim of executive privilege quite questionable according to legal scholars. democrats want him to talk about meetings with the president described in the mueller report. including one in which the president told lewandowski to order the attorney general jeff sessions to say publicly that the special counsel investigation was not fair and to announce that sessions would be instructing mueller to refocus the investigation to look at future elections. lewandowski is doing everything he can to frustrate the democrats seeking his testimony. cnn's manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, what has lewandowski been able to see about the meetings he had with president trump? >> reporter: rl he's defending meeting and he said he didn't have any concerns with the president's private comments about limiting the scope of the mueller probe. now he did confirm the elements that were in th

corey lewandowski. welcome back. >> thanks.ennedy: so, this was -- was it just the trolling expedition for you? how much were you looking forward to your time in front of the house judiciary committee? >> i did look forward for opportunity to remind american people of something that i have known, and mueller report stated over, there was no collusion, and no obstruction. and mueller was never told he could not investigate anything. bob mueller testified on that. yesterday was once again, democrats attempt to go after a duly elected president, even though there was no crime committed. i welcome the opportunity to remind the american people of what a farce this whole circus is in washington. kennedy: other people, they shrink away from the shade of the limelight, they don't like congressional grillings. you took that opportunity to launch senate bid and jeffries swatted you down. did you want to appear, what you knew you had most eyeballs on you? >> well, the truth is, i had to appear, they subpoenaed me. through my legal council

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. >>> and then there is the house speaker nancy pelosi saying that she believes that corey lewandowski could have been held in contempt then and there for his testimony to congress yesterday. plus, justin trudeau apologizing tonight after a photo emerged of him wearing brownface during a school event in 2001. >>> but let's get straight to our big breaking news on that anonymous whistleblower who set off a showdown between the intelligence community and congress with a complaint that was deemed by the i.g. to be credible and urgent. that reportedly involves president trump's own communications with a foreign leader. so joining me now by phone "washington post" national security reporter ellen. i appreciate you joining us. this bombshell reporting you say that this interaction involved a promise to a foreign leader, white house records indicate that the president had conversations or interactions with at least five foreign leaders in the weeks before the complaint was filed on august 12th. who are those leaders? >> well, on july 31st, he had a phone call with russia president vladimir pu

corey lewandowski in front of the house judiciary committee, its investigation into whether the president should be impeached. lewandowski may as well have been cutting ads for what's largely believed to be an imminent run for senate and the president likely saw from lewandowski live tweeting his former aide's appearance lewandowski is a witness, though, to some of the most flagrant acts of obstruction of justice. detailed in the mueller report including trump's effort to enlist then-attorney general sessions and corrupting the investigation into russian interference mueller writes this in his report, "trump dictated a message for lewandowski to deliver to sessions. the message said that sessions should pub licly announce the investigation was, quote, very unfair to the president, that the president had done nothing wrong. and sessions planned to meet with the special counsel and let him move forward with investigating election meddling for future elections." lewandowski said he understood what the president wanted sessions to do that was all according to lewandowski's testimony to robert

corey lewandowski has been before the committee twice. correct me if i'm wrong, congressman matt gaetz. he's been before the mueller special counsel. at what point does this become harassment? at what point do people say, "i'm pleading the fifth." you are going to claim i'm lying and now be thrown up on perjury charges. >> well, it's well beyond harassment. that ship sailed along time ago. speaking of that metaphor, this was nadler's maiden voyage on impeachment. it sank before it even got out of the harbor. i mean, you have to be incredibly to call corey lewandowski, of all people as your very first witness. you are not going to get anything out of him. of course you are not. he's already testified multiple times. he spoke with the special counsel. he adhered strictly to the statements he gave and the documents he gave to the special counsel, and yet, you know i heard illegal commentators say, "oh, this is conclusive evidence now of obstruction of justice." in what legal world does not exist? you have to be ignoring the decision, not jus

corey lewandowski has testified on multiple multiple times already.e talked about talked to robert mueller already. there's nothing new that jerry nadler's going to find. it's a purely political exercise for democrats to be able to go home to their far left districts, jerry nadler is being challenged by someone for reelection, and he's using taxpayer resources to try and say that we are engaged in impeachment. which actually isn't real impeachment. so it's a fake impeachment that he is calling impeachment, and that the political stunt, and yet we are the ones who are paying for it. harris, maybe cory can bring the mueller report to life, unlike robert mueller did, because they didn't get what they wanted out of that. again, democrats are relitigating results they didn't like. mueller was supposed to be the end-all be-all. the report was supposed to see that happen, it did. they didn't get what they need it or what they wanted, and here we are now calling the same it is us who have already tested testified for hours at a time, under oath of perjury. >>

lewandowski is jamming this up, might that put it on the slow train. >> well, corey lewandowski, by the way, never even worked in the white house. if he can jam up the works, how will you deal with people who actually did work in the white house and are kept from testifying? i mean -- it's not a great look for the democrats, if they intend to go forward because they're not illiciting any information. >> all right. go back in. to the hearing. thanks, gloria. >>> -- ensuring would want to tar and feather the president, run him out of washington on a rail to deprive the american people of the president that they duly elected? didn't turn out to be the case. so then it was all about bringing the attorney general in. bill barr. he was certainly going to point out the inconsistencies and flaws in the analysis. well, that didn't happen. because the majority wanted to insist they're unelected staff asked questions of the attorney general of the united states, but, no. they said we'll go to court. we'll win. we'll force bill barr and don mcgahn to come testify. they're not winning in court.

corey booker does not wish to be president. he's out here for fame and moments.s alwaysmos been this person. he's a narcissist at its core. he's not meant to be taken seriously.question should stop m have these moments. i'm spartacus in congress. this is all about corey booker. for him to say race force is a part of his programming. he loves attention. he loves that we're discussing him. esd no one on the left or right should be taking cory booker personal seriously. >> laura: wanted to punch president trump in the face. >> is that because you met him you know what he wants? >> i'm saying -- >> the mental determination of what he wants? i've met him. i take him at his word. >> just called me racist five seconds ago. >> corey booker. that's where we are right now. >> listening to your logic. >> train of thought, corey booker was speaking about a real issue, white supremacy. all you have to do is 15 minutes from now go down my timeline and you'll understand the very big difference between someone who is candace, someone who is you and someone -- [indiscernible] s b

corey booker's plan to create a white supremacist task force. constipated? set yourself free with fleet. gentle constipation relief in minutes. little fleet. big relief. try it. feel it. feel that fleet feeling. >> laura: race was front and center on the race last night and permeated the media spin afterwards. candace owens, founder of the blexit movement and author of the book "blackout." 2020 candidates, they're often in my mind falsely accusing president trump of being racist. candidates like buttigeig are increasingly applying that label to all trump supporters. >> do you think that people could support president trump and his immigration policies are racist? >> anyone who supports this is supporting racism. [speaking span herb] >> laura: the media took it a step further suggesting hillary clinton was right to call trump supporters deplorabldeplorables >> if they're supporting what they're doing and what he's doing is racism, what do you say about the folks cheering him on. >> it's a great point or comment about basket of deplorables. it turns out she wa

said, corey lewandowski's hearing quickly dissolves into a mess. a minute later, literally a minute after that was filed, everything changed there was a half hour left in that hearing when everything changed, and corwin lewandowski cha changed. corwin lewandowski ran out of ways of avoiding questions when he faced a full half hour by a lawyer hired by the committee to question his impeachment investigation. they were determined to make a mockery of the committee process from the start we have never seen a more childish and abusive use of committee process and committee rules than what the republicans on the house judiciary committee did today. this was the low point in the history of house hearings procedurally the republicans made repeated motions to shut down the hearing, to just adjourn the hearing, close it down and when those motions were defeated instantly by a voice vote, the republicans then called for, as is their right, roll call votes that they knew would take time and they knew they were going to lose, and they were just trying to waste