many as this committee really looks at this new approach as to how they will carry out this impeachment inquiry. next week is the question of emoluments at the president considers hosting the xwchlt g- year at his resort in florida. and ken, you were saying that the larger goal in addition to being an impeachment inquiry is to allow the public to hear through testimony some of the things that did come up in the mueller report, which were interesting reading. but that bill barr and the president had perhaps misled americans in to thinking was something else in so far as this was a narrative to get something out, today has been rocky yes, largely a failure and in part because democrats have been more interested in getting their moment on television of yelling at corey lewandowski and making the point and winning the argument rather than patiently
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 i request that the clock be stopped why this charade is sorted out the motion is not debatable as many are in favor of i have a comments so he gets recognized but i don t? as many are in favor of the motion to adjourn, say ayanbadejo
whether or not to introduce articles of impeachment to the full house and you can make the argument that the democrats should have been better prepared for the epic level of stone walling we saw from corey lewandowski in part because he tweeted about it in advance of this hearing and also because the last time he was here on the hill testifying before the house intelligence committee behind closed door, he used profane language to brush back some of the democrats apparently saying i m not going to answer your expletive questions. and so today what we saw is that same attitude, that same approach from him with less corrosive language i think as this hearing wore on and we expect to continue for a few more hours at least, i think that some of the democrats on this panel realized that their questions were as or in some cases more important than corey lewandowski s answers or nonanswers were. so you saw some really important exchanges. take a look at some of this with the congressman from
it was bad actors at the fbi and intelligence community or lies coming from meant of current house majority, that there was evidence of collusion, the american people continued to be sold a false narrative with the purpose of undermining the legitimacy of the 2016 election results. in your world of prosecution and the law, a witness like that would be a hostile witness yes, he is definitely a hostile witness. and the democrats are not prepared for about it. listen, i m a democrat, i d like to say they are doing a great job. but they are not this is painful to watch as a person who has done cross-examines and interested in getting the truth out of corey lewandowski. the cross-examine by nadler was terrible and he shouldn t have been responsible for doing it. they needed a professional person to do the cross-examine or congressman johnson or congressman jamie raskin or one of the people who have cross-examined witnesses before. and it set the tone of the hearing. and now the witness
basically has. i think that it is painful to watch quite frankly. the whole hearing because not well organized. not withstanding the organization and the questions and lewandowski may be acting in good or bad faith or the fact that he is giving donald trump a big hug, let s just talk about the legality of the whole situation about this immunity or this executive privilege that is over corey lewandowski when asked, the deputy press secretary said that mr. lewandowski will testify are regarding matters already made public in the mueller report any communications with the president or senior advisers not already disclosed remains confidential congress cannot compel disclosure and mr. lewandowski has been directed not to testify about them symptoms like me used to think that executive privilege applies to people by virtue of their position