corwin lewandowski is a political consultant and commentator. he previously served as the first campaign manager for donald trump's 2016 presidential campaign. mr. lewandowski received a bachelor's degree in political science from the university of massachusetts and a master's degree in political science from american university. he also attended the naval war college. white house deputy chief staff rick dearborn and white house staff robert porter declined to appear here art direction of the house. we are considering all available options to enforce these subpoenas. we welcome mr. lewandowski and we thank him for pampg rticipat in today's hearing. if you please rise, i will begin by swearing you in. do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information and belief, so help you god? let the record show the witness has answered in the affirmative. thank you and please be seated. please note that your written statement will be entered into the record in

throughout the day corwin lewandowski refused to answer multiple questions about his conversations with anyone working in the white house barry burke showed that this was not exactly a sacred principle to corbin lewandowski. >> i can't speak to conversation i may or may not have with a senior staffperson to honor the privilege they invoked they told me not to discuss conversations with any of the president's advisers i am respecting the decision of the white house. >> didn't you publish a book in which you disclosed these very conversations you had with senior white house officials >> which book are you referring to i've written two in the last year, so can you tell me which one? >> i'm talking about the best-seller "let trump be trump. >>> he's one of the able questioners of the house judiciary committee because he is a former deputy district attorney himself also joining me, alice roka, an msnbc contributor. i want to talk about what you said to nadler, and you can tell us if this was coordinated with the chairman or not. you specifically said -- you asked them to hold corwin lewandow

but corwin lewandowski is different because he never served in the white house, even though the white house is trying to limit what he can say today. so democrats are hoping that lewandowski will reveal what the mueller report said, which showed they tried to limit jeff sessions' scope in the mueller probe and to focus on future campaigns. expect that to be a significant line of questioning for democrats today, but the questions are ultimately what will lewandowski say, how much new will he reveal and how feisty will this after the last time he appeared before democrats. we'll see how he approaches it today as he considers his own political future, including a senate race in new hampshire. john? >> i'm guessing confrontation will be the word of the day when we come back from this one. manu, an interesting day for you on the hill. appreciate the live report. i want to get back to, number one, what is this? i'm sorry, i'm a broken record on this one, but what is this? the democrats, so many democrats, want to use the impeachment word, then other democrats say we should gather facts. bef

jackie, the name corwin lewandowski came up there as andrew was describing this testimony.n lewandowski extremely combative, uncooperative with that committee when he recently appeared. the background of mcguire suggests he might handle this differently tomorrow. >> that's cannotly rigexactly r. i spent the day reaching out to mcguire's former coworkers, peers and friends and they said to expect the opposite from corwin lewandowski's hearing who was just trying to please the president. mcguire is the antithesis of that. he is a career intelligence official, served in the navy for 26 years, and, you know, as his friends say, they don't expect him to be auditioning for the president despite his acting director title and expect him to be straightforward and apolitical with the facts despite the criticism he has received for the way he's handled this whistleblower's complaint. as one source who formerly worked with mcguire said to me, at this point the way the whistleblower's complaint came to light, the way it surfaced is actually the side show, and at the end of the day, this

we saw this last week when corwin lewandowski came to testify. it turned into a circus.idn't think the hearing was great for them, either, but they looked at it and said, we're never going to get anything out of these guys. we see the calendar. if we want to move toward impeachment, we have to do it before the iowa caucuses in february. we need to make a decision now. then the ukraine thing started bubbling up and here we are right now. all of those, including pelosi, who was opposed was because public sentiment was the reason. those polls are still about 30% of people supporting impeachment, but they said, you know what? maybe we can bring the public with us if we make this case, but now is the time to do it. >> nancy pelosi has been talking about this since april, and she's one that's been surgie iin the polls among democrats. i think she either called her out by name or not by name, but it was very clear who she was talking about and said the part of the democratic party she is currently speaking for is getting louder and louder and increasing the pressure. >> this is

tell you democrats are growing ex as operated with the stonewau stonewalling this week with corwin lewandowski and they need to make a decision. >> you have an administration that says no. congress says, what day is it? the white house says no. i don't say it as a joke. this is a very serious matter, and some of these oversight issues are a very serious matter. the white house just says go away. then you have democrats in congress, not knowing what they're talking about, say impeach. just step back. they'll argue now over the semicolons in the law, and the whistleblower law. someone has filed what the i.g. determined to be an urgent, concerned complaint about the president of the united states. we are at a point where there is such distrust and lack of cooperation between the branches of government that the director of national intelligence just wouldn't go up to congress and say, i can't tell you everything, but let me at least give you a baseline, let me give you a threshold, we're investigating this, gone. the town is broken. >> that's definitely true, and part of what i'm curious about is

starting next week with corwin lewandowski, he calls it an impeachment investigation.n i had a chance to ask the chairman about the speaker's refusal to call it an impeachment inquiry, he didn't respond. >> what are the implications of the leadership not calling this an impeachment inquiry? are there concerns the speaker won't call an impeachment inquiry? >> reporter: so there's probably a reason for the different messages here, john, one being that a number of democrats, particularly freshmen from districts in which president trump carry, are not there yet. i just talked to a couple moderate democratic freshmen, neither of them support moving forward with an impeachment probe at this point. they don't support, certainly, articles of impeachment, but a lot of democrats, a majority of democrats, believe it is time to move forward with an impeachment investigation. that's why they say what they're doing is exactly that. in the ic because what the democrats on that committee are saying, look, if we decide to recommend articles of impeachment, that could be decided by the

thank you, lawrence >> thank you, rachel >>> well, there was definitely must-see tv in the corwin lewandowski. unfortunately, it was hours after people stopped watching the hearing. but we'll show you the best parts of what happened in that hearing room today in just a moment >>> also tonight the fallout from the new reporting on th

same in the trump white house, talk of bringing in for the first time into the white house corwin lewandowski who understands the dna of the president probably better than anybody else, as we witnessed when he was on capitol hill last week. it is not a done deal. he has not talked to the president, but there are signs that there are people in the white house who would welcome that, which would be a big shift. because he was never in the white house because that was not thought to be good. he also would quickly want to bring in david bosse who you remember from the '90s who was an early trump supporter because he helped to lead impeachment from the republican side of the house. >> would he make a run for the senate? >> how do you do that if you have lawyers in the white house who were complaining about the president and set up this separate file? so if the white house is doing its damage control, isn't the president, knowing donald trump, going to say, who are these people? >> the whistleblower complaint, read it. it's unproven allegation. but backed up credibly by the release of the memo of t