so it was obvious from the beginning that lewandowsky came prepared to stymie democrats on your committee at every turn. why weren t democrats better prepared for his combative tactics? well, i think we were ready to confront this completely concocted new executive confidentiality of advice privilege that they fabricated for this episode. it was amazing that he stuck with it in parrot-like fashion, repeating it maybe a dozen or 15 times. but after the third time, don t you, you know, rejigger and change your tactics, and if he doesn t answer, don t you say, listen, if you don t answer, we re going to hold you in contempt. if he continues not to answer, can t you say this is over and expect to be held in contempt when you leave here? so make a decision to either be in contempt or answer the questions. what s going on? why can t you guys do that? we invoked contempt a number of times and obviously that s
get your views on the hearing overall. and just on this executive privilege that is being i mean, if you had a somebody testifying before you, who was claiming an executive privilege, does corey lewandowski really have the right i mean, he doesn t work for the white house. does he really get to just not answer questions? yeah, first, i m not an expert on executive privilege. i wish i had the opportunity to be able to exercise executive privilege, but i never got that opportunity, so i m really not an expert. but it doesn t seem to me jeffrey would probably answer it more definitively. it doesn t seem to me like he would be covered by executive privilege, but that doesn t mean that the president can t assert it and have it litigated. and in the meantime, corey lewandowski doesn t answer questions before the congress. and so, in sum, i think it was a very bad day for the house democrats. it just looked desperate. it looked pathetic, frankly. i thought it was a very good day for c
senator santorum, i want to get your views on the hearing overall. and just on this executive privilege that is being i mean, if you had somebody testifying before you who was claiming an executive privilege, does corey lewandowski really have the right i mean he s not doesn t work for the white house. does he really get to just not answer questions? first, i m not an expert on executive privilege. i wish i had the opportunity to be able to exercise executive privilege, but i never got that opportunity, so i m really not an expert. but it doesn t seem to me jeffrey would probably answer it more definitively. it doesn t seem to me like he would be covered by executive privilege, but that doesn t mean that the president can t assert it and have it litigated. and in the meantime, corey lewandowski doesn t answer questions before the congress. and so, in sum, i think it was a very bad day for the house democrats. it just looked desperate. it looked pathetic, frankly. i thought it
appearance before congress. any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. mueller will appear before both committees back to back in a july 17th open session. there s a lot of questions that his 448 page report doesn t answer. for starters the report doesn t explain why those in trump s orbit, including then campaign chairman paul manafort were in contact with russia during the campaign. in one instance on august 2nd, 2016, manafort met with his long time business associate in new york s grand havana room and among the topics discussed was the campaign strategy for winning the election. quote, that briefing encompassed the campaign s messaging and internal polling data.
because he is, of all of them, he has more to risk by backing an impeachment process than others because of the way in the primary. and our colleague has asked him this question. doesn t answer it. and so yeah. he is, right? biden is actually doing what i say. what i m trying to say here. again, it goes through oxygen. there s only so much oxygen. and some of them will be asked how they will vote. and maybe eventually have to vote on it. yeah. it becomes something that at the