corey lewandowski is here. she's a democratic political analyst serving a senior role in the campaigns of then senator john kerry and ted kennedy and she's a principal at the dewey square group. her specialty -- the happiest way to travel. mary anne marsh is here. let's do this. pick the comments appreciated. obstruction of justice accusations the central focus of today's hearings with james comey's claim that resident trumps that "i hope you can let this go" over the flynn investigation, leading to this exchange today. >> do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or, for that matter, any other criminal offense where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome? >> i don't know well enough to answer, and the reason i keep saying is, i took it as a direction. he is the president of the united states with me alone saying "i hope this." i took it as this is what he wants me to do. i didn't obey it, but that's what i took it as. >> he said i hope. >> those were her exact w

kennedy: corey lewandowski is going back in the game.s suiting up, what role will he have on the team? chris: i have a different lens on this. you can change the staff all want, bring in this person or take out this person. none of it matters until the president empowers someone to succeed. what it requires is to have around you a relatively small number of people. the civilian government is 2 million people. it's a lot. so you have got 2 million civilian people. you have got 50,000 people in the executive branch whose activities to varying degrees you can direct. then there are 4,000 people that are will at pleasure employees. then a dozen people inside the white house who are supposed to be your key advisors who give you have the sound policy. what this requires for the president to say at least for the chief of staff, i have got your back. you go out and do that and yierl have your back. kennedy: is the berks hemoth the moth himself? chris: her pitted against one another in fear the sword the president is damaging over their heads wil

all right, corey lewandowski.hing happen? pete: one guy communications director. abby: amazing stories bombshells and then they all of a sudden die. pete: where is the follow through. abby: headlines a serious one a fox news alert. three police officers are recovering this morning after a deadly shootout with a murder suspect. officers in laredo, texas have been search fog they're man rodriguez. opening fire after he reached for his gun. all three officers taken to the hospital one in critical condition. rodriguez was suspected of murdering his girlfriend at her apartment. and the terminator is back. blasting president trump for pulling out of the paris climate agreement. >> one man can't story about this. one man revolution. one man can't go back in time only i can do that. abby: arnold schwarzenegger -- he is telling him to choose the future. the former california governor reigniting feud with the president after quitting celebrity apprentice after the president accused him of tanking the show's ratings. clayton

corey lewandowski has issued a stark warning to republicans, aligned with the president or lose youreipts in 2018. is he right? that's next. ♪ >> meghan: more "outnumbered" just a minute, but first, jon scott with more of what's coming up on "happening now." >> jon: we are waiting that rose garden ceremony from president trump. he'll be announcing his final decision on the paris climate deal. we are also learning james comey will testify before the senate intelligence committee on thursday, june 8th. the house until committee issuing new subpoenas. we've got fox team coverage ahead on "happening now" ." >> meghan: thanks. >> trish: corey lewandowski is issuing a stark warning to republicans, get in line with the president or risk losing your seat in 2018. watch him here. >> president trump was elected to change the country and you can get on board that train or you can lose your next election because i can promise you this, the democrats have a different agenda. they have forgotten about the middle class, they forgot about infrastructure, they forgot about the people who voted for do

corey lewandowski pretty much doubled down accusing james comey of perjury. the president used the word lies this morning as well. this is now almost certainly in the office of the special counsel. he'll be asking the questions now and big question is who will he find more credible and do the president's actions add up to obstruction of justice? >> that was a heck of an interview but in the question of obstruction of justice, i think if you were to ask james comey, what do you think, he would say, that when i was directed to end part of the flynn investigation, i didn't think it was obstruction of justice at that point. even until the time i was fired, i didn't think it rose to that level. but i think if you were to ask james comey in a private moment what do you think now? i think he would say the fact that i was fired over the russia investigation in an effort, i think comey believes, to affect the russia investigation, that may then cross over into obstruction of justice according to james comey. i think that was clear from his testimony and it is clear fr

we are going to talk to corey lewandowski. i'm going to ask him that.s to why he was obsessed by the russia investigation, maybe because people like you were alleging that he committed treason against the united states. he thinks he didn't, and there is no evidence that he did. maybe that bothers him. >> i have never alleged that. what i have stated and the fbi has stated is that there is an investigation and the people on his team as to whether they had personal, financial, or political relationships with russia, as russia was attacking our democracy. we have not concluded that yet, and we want the president to get out of the way of the honest investigation that has to take place in the fbi and the house intelligence committee. >> tucker: that is not you tiwant. you want to paralyze the president and the government by insinuating that he is a russian agent. >> i want us to be able to do ourr work. he has paralyzed this town from doing that. >> tucker: you don't want anybody to do any work until trump leaves. let's stop being disingenuous. the legal que

this is corey lewandowski.ay come back to the white house as part of the russia investigation war room. this is corey lewandowski not working with republicans but essentially saying get in line or else. >> it's very simple. president trump was elected to change the country. you can get on board that train or you can lose your next election. because i can promise you this. the democrats have a different agenda. they have forgotten about the middle class and infrastructure and about the people who voted for donald trump for change f. you don't want to provide that change, in 18 months we're going to have another election. what that means is if the democrats take control of the house, the agenda that this president has outlined and continues to try to implement will be gone. >> so if you're ted cruz or rand paul or susan collins or lisa mer cow s and you are concerned about how you get a senate bill to the floor, when you see that, essentially hey, idiots, do what the president wants -- >> great audition. >> is it

that's how corey lewandowski played ball during the campaign. james comey is trying to, in his mind, trying to figure out what is the morally upright defendable mode of action and this is what he determined he felt. and again you have to go back to another piece of his testimony. he was motivated by trump's tweet about the tapes. and i think it's pretty clear from yesterday, from the kasowitz statement and what the president said that there are no tapes. if there were tapes that cont contradicted comey, we would have heard them from now. >> our anticipation is he's going to speak to committee staffers first, turn over some documents. he's going to face questions by senators. and he of course is being looked at as well as a part of this russia probe. the questions for him about his meetings with the russian banker, the russian ambassador and of course that back channel th was reported, the allegation that he tried to set up a back cnnel with russia. >> eli, clkristen, thank you. >>> all of the action today is right here at the white house. but on

all these guys so loyal to him, corey lewandowski, myself, if we're thrown under the bus? it's totally wrong. >> mike flynn -- >> hang on, anthony, let jen finish. >> mike flynn is the one person he seems willing to -- he's very worried about what mike flynn has to say and he to this day -- >> hang on, jen. go ahead, anthony. >> mike flynn is an american patriot, one of the best intelligence officers we have of his generation. mike flynn was also extremely helpful to the president during the process leading into the nomination and into the transition. would have made a great national security adviser. >> if he hadn't broken the law or been under criminal investigation. >> hold on a second. let that story unfold as well. this is a judge and a jury here i understand because it's television. >> didn't the president judge him by firing him? >> mike flynn is an innocent man until proven guilty. why don't we let this thing unfold then make that decision? >> why didn't the president let it unfold? >> what are you talking about? mike flynn admitted he misspoke to the vice presiden

i want to bring in corey lewandowski former campaign manager for donald trump. fy under oath. critics immediately pounced on that thing. does he know what he is getting himself in to. the argument is he can be imprecise in his language. under oath, you better be precise. what do you think about that? >> if that's the case and that should be the case, i think jim comey is in big trouble. under oath, in front of the committee, he said things which we know to be factually inaccurate not just in tis testimony this week but when he was the director of the fbi, he has had to come back and recant staples that he has made and make misstatements because jim comey is a liar. when you are under oath, you should be very, very careful about what you say and we learned that this week when jim comey once again was not telling the truth under oath or he couldn't remember. pete: corey whether it's this word or that word and clayton talked about precision. isn't the president wants the truth. if you believe truth is on your side, you are willing to say 100 percent i will testify u

corey lewandowski told me on friday on "gma" that it's possible he could be prosecuted for this. anything illegal in that leak to "the new york times"? >> yeah, so i'm not in the business of making legal pronouncements on what is legal, what's criminal anymore, but i will say, it sounds like more of a distraction. first of all, i think nothing that was in the memo or in the conversations he had with his friend at columbia law school was classified. second, i don't understand what the privilege argument is, you know, the president's team fully was aware that the memo was going to be discussed and the conversations were going to be discussed at the hearing and had the opportunity when many reporters asked if they would invoke executive privilege to try to prevent some of that from being talked about, they declined that opportunity. so i think the main point that people should be focusing on from what i can see is that you have uncontroverted evidence from someone who is under oath that on at least one occasion the president of the united states cleared a room of his vice president

i mean that speaks to what that network is lifted ok we're sure was cortland out ok so is corey lewandowsky excuse me ok fine fine why did he do that let me stick with you know i what did he do. with richard here i mean the impression is that you know a lot of people say it off the cuff the clinton news network you know c n n and you know watching the campaign it certainly looked that way i mean this is what's happened with the liberal media they've become the p.r. arm of the democratic party and a lot of people don't like that and they do turn off of course so what i see is we see this growing segregation in the united states and i think the media is driving that to the vibe every single night wall to wall coverage on this and a lot of people just getting really turned off by it even people at c.n.n. apparently go ahead richard. so you know this notion about the clinton news network if you added up the dollar value of the time that c.n.n. gave of wall to wall coverage wall to wall coverage of the trump rallies it was astronomical there was nothing there was nothing that they did about hill

this fits with something corey lewandowski said.t get behind donald trump, they will lose the 2018 midterm. >> kimberly: yeah, i think he ought to know. he was making sure he was as successful. a lot of people owe their seat to the president. and those districts, to be able to secure victory and prevail on the election. i don't think based on what's going on it would be a good idea to try to just ignore that and not pay attention to the the constituents. >> juan: there's a lot of dysfunction inside, the president needs to admit he's the root of the problem. is it his? >> jesse: i don't see that happening. they have to ride the guy's coat tails. they are in there for a reason. 12 years being out of power in the white house, then trump came along. it's a small window. it can change. two years now. it changes very quickly. we have to get everything done. if you don't get it done, then you will have the democrats have the house. and then what? impeachment. then they want to impeach your guy. >> kimberly: they are not going to really do

corey lewandowski said this yesterday. >> is very simple.cted to change the country. you can get on that train or lose the next election. >> greg: get on that train or who could forget this doozy? >> everyone will have to bow down to president trump. >> greg: anyway. we have two sides within the same party battling over who is going to be right when this is all over. we know the truth as always. another trump person is right on many of trump's flaws. a trump apostle is right on what he is doing better. fact is, sticking to one perception -- it keeps you from offering constructive criticism that my help a leader who actually could use it. never say never and stop saying always. history shows that lockstep is always a march to disaster. at least i can say today, the never trump's and pro trump's united under the lefty meltdown. >> dana: list to stop for christmas. like in world war i. no one likes a scold and the scolding is getting out of hand but they are also missing the real point. it's not a matter of intellectual style or getting on the

if he had someone like corey lewandowski, he would say you can't do that. what are you doing?eeds someone to say, you don't tweet out about wires being tapped unless you have cold proof of it. he creates so many of his own problems. i agree that this is the time to shake it up. now is the time where you have to go to reince priebus and the other guys around him. he should not have to go to steve bannon and all that drama. he should have a regular person around. like my wife says or my brother craig says. >> trish: we see this in business all the time. entrepreneurs are gifted in many, many ways and they generally have big personalities and defined ideas on things. there's a difference between being the entrepreneur and then being the ceo. you answer to shareholders, you answer to your board. you build consensus. the difference in what he has done and he's done it amazingly well. he's been the guy in charge the entire time. there is a shift in a learning curve and you are absolutely right. he needs a team around him. he needs a management team that can put all his ideas into pl

a recent meeting, corey lewandowski, donald trump's original campaign manager, at a recent meeting metn the oval office and he had someone waiting for him, that was jared kushner. they took a stroll together through the rose garden and mended fences. there had been tension between those two. i'm sure you remember, jared kushner was pushing for corey to be fired back in june of 2016, replaced with paul manafort. so there had been some tension between the two. so after this meeting, it sounds like the message was, listen, there is no longer an obstacle between you and me and this white house. we have shaken hands, and hugged each other and moved on with our friendship. >> and the white house now is refusing to answer any questions at all on russia. vladamir putin answered a question today from megyn kelly about russia and its interference in the campaign. this was his denial. >> translator: it's not our fault, it's the russians, they intervened, they interfered. it's like anti-semitism. the jews are to blame. it's the russians. would the russians, dealing with all that, trying to rush on

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corey lewandowski is not a political savant. jared kushner is not somebody who knew the ins and outs and the rules which is part of the reason why he is now under investigation as well. not under investigation part of the investigation, a person of interest. it's what allowed them to get elected but it's also now potentially getting them into trouble. >> thanks to you both. tomorrow night msnbc looks ae water gate schedule. all the president's men revisited on saturday night. up next the outrageous plan might be cooked up by the senate majority leader. that's ahead. my friend susie cracks me up.ut one lgh and hello sensitive bladder. ring a bell? then you have to try always discreet. i didn't think protection this thin could work. but the super absorbent core turns liquid to gel. for incredible protection... ...that's surprisingly thin. so it's out of sight... ...and out of mind. always discreet. for bladder leaks. also in liners. >>> this massive piece of legislation seeks to restructure our economy is being written behind clos

former campaign manager corey lewandowski joins howard kurtz on "media buzz" to talk about the coverage 11 a.m. eastern. and don't miss "fox news sunday," chris wallace has an exclusive interview with epa administrator scott pruitt about what happens next. he will also talk to former vice president al gore who called president trump's actions reckless, as you probably know. check your local listings for time and channel. >>> and tomorrow on this show spokesman for vice president mike pence will join us with more on the administration's take, that's at 1 p.m. eastern, of course. don't miss it. leland: we'll see you then. meantime, the president wants law enforcement agencies to hire veterans, can and he is putting our money where his mouth is. under the american law enforcement heroes act signed yesterday, priority for federal grants will be given to federal and state law enforcement agencies that hire and train veterans. >> every single day america's law enforcement officers, firefighters, first responders and their families make tremendous sacrifices for their communities and for their

rob: corey lewandowski there's no hidden agenda in firing james comey. >> what the president was asking for was loyalty to the country and make sure they have the justice system that they want. that's not unheard of and uncalled for. what the president called for was a president elect to develop aura poor with the fbi director. if you read the statement was in his entire tenure. he had two conversations with barack obama, one was to simply say good-bye and in the time that president trump taken office and the time he was president elect till the time jim comey was fired for not performing his job well, he had nine separate conversations with the president in multiple meetings, the difference this president wants to make sure to relieve a person from duties that no longer can direct fbi. conservative journalist calling many colleagues over reporting, take a look. >> on the panel it feels that reporters have come to a conclusion before -- >> i'm not condemning him but there's a lot of smoke. my face is clean, no egg. [laughter] >> the left desperately tries to make the case for impeachmen

our specialist, stephen broadway -- vehicle rob long is here -- >> mike huckabee is here -- >> corey lewandowskilly got in a car accident this morning but still managed to be here a fox news specialist. that's what we call dedication. >> can you put me on this in the second? >> we are going to be here to stay. "the specialists," we are the real deal now. >> don't quit. >> it is no longer just a normal thing. i mean, it is truly to me, eric, broaching a place of absolute hysteria. >> every day we are opening the show talking about a terror attack that happened a couple of days ago. >> it's got to the point where i see a list of what's happening in the past month, i would probably miss one. that is a horrific thing. >> i'm not trying to insinuate that we blow the north koreans to smithereens. i am saying that we accept their nuclear program back 10-20 years. >> i'm so tired of hearing it's our fault. it's not our fault that there is an element of islam that wants to kill us. >> muslims do is simply better in society. hold on a minute, eric. whenever i say that, people go bananas on me. >> terroris

former campaign manager corey lewandowski who trump is also considering bringing on board as a seniorwas reportedly in the room as well. yet trump told both men they would not come on board until priebus had a chance to clean up shop. one source, trump told priebus i'm giving you until july 4. they will come in as fresh blood. the white house denies any deadline has been set. it's worth noting the president has set deadlines for staff changes only to let them pass without taking any action. >>> moving overseas. macron's party on track to win majority in parliament results on the first round. indicate macron's party secured just over 32% of the vote for the national assembly. the french lower house of parliament depending on results from the second round of voting not needed in all raises. macron could end up with 400-440 members in his corner. the results have a shocking stretch. the 39-year-old president. formed own center leaning party just over a year ago. defeated the two parties in france, socialist and republican. >>> let's turn to business where uber is set to make major change

corey lewandowski is not a political savant.ushner is not somebody who knew the ins and outs and the rules which is part of the reason why he is now under investigation as well. not under investigation part of the investigation, a person of interest. it's what allowed them to get elected but it's also now potentially getting them into trouble. >> thanks to you both. tomorrow night msnbc looks ae water gate schedule. all the president's men revisited on saturday night. up next the outrageous plan might be cooked up by the senate majority leader. that's ahead. isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he's added a new routine. making depositing a check seem so effortless. easy to use chase technology, for whatever you're trying to master. isaac, are you ready? yeah. chase. so you can. and you're about in to hit 'send all' on some embarrassing gas. hey, you bought gas-x®! unlike antacids, gas-x ® relieves pressure and bloating fast. huh, crisis averted. >> this massive piece of

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. >> corey lewandowski? >> i do not recall any of those individuals having any meeting with russian officials. >> carter page? >> i don't know. >> i would finally ask this question because i always think we try to get -- you have innate knowledge -- >> there may have been some published accounts of mr. page talking with russians. i'm not sure. i don't recall. >> as a former senator you bring a unique perspective to this investigation because you've been on both sides. >> i have indeed. all in all, it's better on that side. >> if you were sitting on this side -- >> nobody gets to ask you about your private conversations with your staff. >> here we go. get your chance to give us some advice. if you were sitting on this side of the dais, what question would you be asking? >> i would be asking whether or not -- i would be asking questions related to whether or not there was an impact on this election. >> what part of the story do you think we're missing? >> by a foreign power, particularly the russians, since th

. >> corey lewandowski? >> i do not recall any of those individuals having any meeting with russian officials. >> carter page? >> i don't know. >> have you ever, in any of these fantastical situations, heard of a plot line so ridiculous that a sitting united states senator and an ambassador of a foreign government colluded at an open setting with hundreds of other people to pull off the greatest caper in the history? >> thank you for saying that, senator cotton. it's just like through the looking glass. i mean, what is this? stonewalling of any kind of unacceptable. and general sessions has acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this sto stonewalling. >> senator, i am not stonewalled. >> so i want to ask you just point blank, why did you sign the letter recommending the firing of director comey when it violated your recusal? >> it did not violate my recusal. it did not violate my recusal. that would be the answer to that, and the letter that i signed represented my views that had been formulated for s

"the wall street journal" reports some have pushed for hiring corey lewandowski to help with the scrutinyt asked for is loyalty to the country and loyalty to make sure that the american people have the justice system they want. if you read the statement that the fbi director made, what he said was in his entire tenure he had two considerations with barack obama when he was president of the united states, one was to simply say good-bye. in the time that president trump has taken office from the time he was president-elect to the time jim comey was fired for not performing his job well, he had nineepare conversations with the president. this presint is hands-on. >> joining us is reporter for axios, sarah fisher. take us inside the optics battle the president is trying to battle. we know what the fbi director is expected to say. >> it's interesting a lot of this communication sbing outsourced to the rnc. its important to remember a lot of people close to trump in the white house think about chief of staff reince priebus, secretary sean spicer come from the rnc. its not so surprising that gro

you saw corey lewandowski and david boss yi have been here. neither one of them are anywhere near to coming in. there is not much of a structure in place to have rapid response to comey. i think what you're going to see is an effort to deflect. you're sighing that in the president's response to the london terror attacks. they'll talk about infrastructure week this week. about reviving his plan for an infrastructure bill. there's discuss among the president's aides about possibly taking a trip to london at the end of the week to show solidarity with the people of london against terrorism. that's just in the infancy stage. there's discussion among the president's aides. memos. any talk of if there are the tapes the president suted he had? >> no indication that those tapes even exist, george. we know that comey's memos exist. we know that in real time, comey wrote those memos to talk about what the discussions were with the president. there's no indication, outside of the tweets from the president several weeks ago, that there are tapes. george,

corey lewandowski, that guy could have never gotten raised on any normal presidential race.rs the same thing. having said that, it was good political advice. somebody should have gone to donald trump much earlier and said, fire preet bharara. you do not want a liberal activist united states attorney especially in your jurisdiction. he should have done it right away, gotten rid of all of them, cleaned house. the problem is he did it too late. he mishandled the execution of it. the advice to fire him i think is solid political advice. >> sorry. in bharara's defense, he is known for going after top democrats in new york state. i don't see how you can describe him as a liberal activist. he put away the top democrat in the new york state house. he made his name doing that. >> what it shows to me is that everything with trump is transactional. one of the reasons he wanted to keep him on is because chuck schumer the senator from new york suggested that he should keep this guy on. he is doing a favor. he thinks he is going to get something out of the relationship in the senate. then

former campaign manager corey lewandowski's name has been grist for the rumor mill suggestions he may return to the white house. here's what he said yesterday. >> when you have a president who is so active, so articulate, so good at communicating with the media, sometimes you've got staff who have to keep up with him, and it's much easier, i think, if you have people who had a pre-existing relationship to understand how the president functions. >> still ahead, lebron james' home gets vandalized with a racial slur. now he's weighing in. >>> if we could get a small group of people to tell us the meaning of covfefe. >>> joe biden adds fuel to the 2020 speculation. those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. keep it here. got it. rumor confirmed. they're playing. -what? -we gotta go. -where? -san francisco. -when? -friday. we gotta go. [ tires screech ] any airline. any hotel. any time. go where you want, when you want with no blackout dates. [ muffled music coming from club. "blue monday" by new order. cheers. ] [ music and cheers get louder ] the travel rewards credit

now, the president's former campaign manager corey lewandowski earlier today says he feels comey is a part of the deep state which is an accusation by some that those within the government are trying to purposefully harm the president. here was lewandowski earlier today on "fox & friends." he's a leaker. he's a washington leaker. he's the deep state. he's everything that's wrong with washington. he's the person who was self-promoting, taking his memorandums that he's written, i was so stunned, tohocked, i didn't know who to call. >> reporter: trish, live look behind me here. that is the romanian president as you get him strolling into the west wing for the meeting with president trump. nancy pelosi, she was asked today about president trump now that he has tweeted out that he feels, quote, complete vindication. and she was asked whether or not the president should go under oath to testify just like comey did. here was her response. >> i'm not one to say the president should come here to testify, if that's your question. maybe it would come to that. he probably would like to come here.

i was on the "today" show with corey lewandowski, said this is the most open president ever then in thelled jim combny a leaker. we're going to get back to your piece on the other side of the break because some of this is the matter of the eye of the beholder. one man's open leader is another man's leaker. we're going to squeeze in a quick break. no one's going anywhere. we'll be right back with more questions about whether an obstruction of justice case can be pieced together based on this week's events against the president. over hereno!ver here! (dog barking) whoever threw it has to go get it. not me! somebody will get it... ♪ (dog barking) anyone can dream. making it a reality is the hard part. from the b-2 to the upcoming b-21, northrop grumman stealth bombers give america an advantage in a turbulent world. and we're looking for a few dreamers to join us. can lead to sleepless nights making you feel helpless. take control of your sleep with unisom® sleeptabs. you fall asleep 33% faster and wake up recharged with all the benefits of a good night's rest. take control of your sleep wi

but i trust james comey more than i trust corey lewandowski when it comes to truth telling.s talking point now about, wow, he wasn't under direct investigation. what does that mean? richard nixon was not under investigation originally. john mitchell was investigation. then it turned out, guess what? they looked at the documents. they put people under oath, and richard nixon ended up being under investigation. >> i guess i take the loretta lynch thing -- maybe it's because i'm a lawyer, but your credibility is everything. what he was saying today is he was saying basically that the fix was in with loretta lynch vis-a-vis hillary clinton, and that goes right to the heart of her credibility, i thought. >> sure. it's damning characterization of loretta lynch. lynch has given a different account. but i just think it's a secondary question when you're talking about there's some possible collaboration between the justice department and a losing presidential campaign that doesn't involve any other figures here. and the incumbent president and a campaign that might have been manipula

. >> reporter: try telling that to trump backers like corey lewandowski, who claim leaks are the realve seen from jim comey is his goal is to manipulate the media, manipulate the press. see part of the deep state. he is everything that is wrong in washington. >> reporter: on twitter, the president confirms he is watching, thanking fox's conservative-themed morn showing for its great reporting and blasting what he calls false statements and lies from comey. the two men can't agree on the facts. and in a polarized media world, neither can the country. >> all right, brian stelter joins us now. back with maria cardona and jeffrey lord. brian, it's remarkable. i was at an event last night. everyone wanted to talk about the comey hearing. everyone wanted to talk aboutette. everyone watched it. not a single mind was changed by it, though, of the people that i talked to there. they went in with one idea. and no matter what side they were on, they came out with the side idea. >> that tells the entire story. i was so struck by trump's son saying it's over. the clouds have parted. now my father

the president has reached out to some folks from the outside, including corey lewandowski, to come and try to help him plot out how to deal with these allegations against him. so it's going to be really fascinating actually to find out how they try to react to everything that could be coming at them from so many different sides and not just james comey. >> i want to play a clip here, something comey could be asked about thursday. nbc news and others have reported that jared kushner is now under scrutiny in the russia probe. joe scarborough suggested that leaks about kushner may have come from steve bannon. let's watch. >> steve bannon was running around from, according to my sources, bragging to journalists a month and a half ago that he didn't have to worry about kushner and he was going to sideline kushner because of russia. that he had information on the russian investigation and that he was going to sideline jared kushner. two days after i heard this, two days, front page "new york times" story about the links between kushner and russia. a coincidence? absolutely not. steve bannon

think he's fighting an internal war and we hear story after story about him reaching out to corey lewandowski feeling like twitter is the direct line to his voters. do you think we're going to see him swerve back and be even more resistant to any of the people like an hr mcmaster or jim mattis who would like to see him swerve the other way? >> i don't think he can help it. we hear lawyers advising him not to tweet anymore, his job is in jeopardy. at the end of the day, he goes with his gut his to his credit it got him to where he is today. he likes to talk to the people another the rallies, talking about what he can do to help their lives as opposed to what they're hearing from the quote/unquote fake media. when he says why can't we get along with russia when you hear vladimir putin say similar things, why can't we get along with the united states, why can't we make the world a safer place and that's much easier to digest than going through the convoluted hearings the every single day. the president is at his best when he's speaking his mind and speaking to his voters. >> in his mind, being t

your point there is that it's really only the most slavishly loyal surrogates and i would put corey lewandowski in that category who will go publicly and accuse james comey of perjury. a bigger problem for donald trump is high profiled republicans even when defending donald trump lending credence to comey's version of events an the excuse they're putting out, paul ryan and chris christie, donald trump isn't very experienced in government. so you have a credibility problem there. >> is that not an extraordinary offer from the president saying he's going to testify under oath. the last time we saw him do that he lied something like 32 times, matt. >> if he testifies under oath what he said at the press conference on friday he has a real chance of committing perjury. be clear about that. her son tweeted out that or spoke that -- >> on the definition of hope? >> yes. exactly, that trump did say to -- >> james comey. >> thank you. >> you're referencing donald trump, jr. went against basically what his father said in terms of when my father says i hope you make this go away he's not asking, he's tell

you hear the rhetoric from corey lewandowski or his son donald trump jr. this is the deep state.s leakers. this is deep state working in concert with the liberal media to bring him down. chris, i don't think that's what's happening here. but i do think that that narrative is potent on the right. and i think -- >> are we in the deep state? are you and i, michael? howard? ayesha? are we in the deep state? i haven't gotten my membership card yet. >> chris, we could do a whole show on this. some people would probably define us as part of the deep state. they say it's people in washington who stay regardless of -- you know, administrations couple and go and there are people in washington who stick around. i think more accurately it describes national, security, intelligence, and military professionals who exposure kind of nonovertly political power behind the scenes and have access to secrets, and, therefore, a huge amount of leverage over a political actors. >> it's an ultimate thing with a capital "t." it's invisible, and it's everywhere. and it is in the view of steve bannon, the p

vaunted war room we reported on, in which he wanted a staff with advisors like david bossie, corey lewandowskio rush investigations, may be falling apart. politico saying that the president decided that it makes more sense to have the operation run out of new york by marc kasowitz, his streetfighting attorney in new york, who benefits from being close to the president. they worry that his attorney gets the president a bit wound up. that leads us to what the president -- what will he be doing on thursday? sean spicer today said, look, the president has a busy schedule, he'll be speaking to religious leaders on thursday, making it like he won't be paying attention to comey's testimony. robert costa of "the washington post" says that he hears the president may be tweeting on thursday, reacting to comey in real time. we have never seen that before, martha. president live tweeting address congressional testimony. >> martha: you can't make it up. it seems it's a possibility, as you report, as well, that the president could be weighing in while we are watching this. two men who were in that room for

. >> i was on the "today" show with corey lewandowski on friday and he just flat-out said james comeys part of the deep state. do you think this war on the deep state -- no, seriously. you're a friend or colleague of the new cia director. is there fear and anxiety that all of these lifelong professionals are going to be maligned and that trump and his spokes people -- i mean mark corralo is a straight fighter. most people think he's a good guy to have in their corner. >> i try to avoid extremes. i think it's a problem to talk about any form of dissent simply as part of a deep state. we talk about deep states when we talk about autocratic regimes and ensconced totalitarian regimes. that's not what we're talking about here. we're talking about professionals, career prosecutors. i started as a prosecutor at the department of justice. i know jim comey. i learned from him when he was deputy attorney general. these are real professionals. and i think we run the risk if we besmirch and try to kill the credibility of these people, we really do begin to confuse matters and not only hurt their

corey lewandowski was one of those just two hours ago.c testimony that jim comey has given, democrats have agreed to, is that there has been absolutely no collusion with the russians in any way, shape or form of this campaign and, candidly, of the election outcome which means donald trump won fair and square. what is mueller supposed to be investigating? what we've seen, unfortunately, is the individuals he's bringing onboard for this investigation are main contributors to hillary clinton's election campaign, they're partisan hacks, they're part of the deep state, and they have a different agenda which is to destroy this president. the question is, why is this investigation continuing. abby: and the next question is what do you do? we've been talking about this all morning, you know, if the president fires mueller, that obviously looks terrible in terms of political optics. you're the lawyer here. what should you do if you were president trump? you obviously want a fair investigation, but most importantly, you want it to be over with as s

. >> even when he does do it, when he fired corey lewandowski, his first campaign manager, he had hisson actually say the words. that's why we have all the stories of is reince priebus getting fired. steve bannon going to get fired. is sean spicer going to get fired. he floats it. >> he is a spit-baller. >> the chances he'll do it are slim. >> nick, back to you. jeff sessions, his testimony today. give me your attorney's eye here. what words or phrases are you going to be listening for from jeff sessions to determine his truthfulness here in what he is saying? >> i would be focused on what he says about his involvement in the firing of comey. obviously, we know that this memo that rod rosenstein drafted initially was used as a justification for firing comey. we later learned by trump's own admission that this was just a pre-text, that he was ready to fire comey all along. so my question is, what did -- >> nick, i have to interrupt you. my apologies. paul ryan taking questions on bob mueller. >> do you think it's wise for the republican party to be having this discussion right now? >>