politics is that the democrats didn t have the energy or the time to find him in contempt, get the house vote, go to the district court, go to the circuit court, spend months to litigate this, but that shouldn t obscure the fact that the legal claim that the white house made was just outrageous and wrong. but finding corey in contempt for corey s basically going along with what he s been instructed by the president of the united states that he s i mean, i don t think corey is the person you go after here. i mean, the reality is that it s the president asserting this claim. but the president doesn t have any magical power over corey lewandowski, or he appears to because corey lewandowski, you know, is not an employee but he complied. he complied with it. you don t have to comply to a letter from the president of the united states. this is not a dictatorship. does anybody really believe that he didn t deliver the
he didn t talk about lying to the public, he basically said, you know, i didn t tell the truth to this guy who doesn t have a right to hear the truth from me, basically. and i don t think that s a good line for him, and i would hope that he would, you know, go out and say, i m going to tell the truth to the people of new hampshire all the time. but that doesn t seem to be jeff, am i wrong, that doesn t seem to be his philosophy? he thinks i mean, he thinks everybody s a sucker, that they can be lied to, it seems like. but i think he has a lot of company in that view, in the republican party, and in the white house. i mean, he was playing for an audience of one, i thought. you know, he was displaying enormous contempt, not in the legal sense, but just in the personal sense for the members of congress. you know, baiting them, taunting them. you know, calling eric swalwell president swalwell because swalwell had an unsuccessful campaign for president. he was performing for donald
pointed out the reporter s name. he didn t talk about lying to the public. he basically said, you know, i didn t tell the truth to this guy, who doesn t have a right to hear the truth from me basically. i don t think that s a good line for him, and i would hope that he would, you know, go out and say, i m going to telling the truth to the people of new hampshire all the time. right. but that doesn t seem to be i mean, jeff, am i wrong? that doesn t seem to be his philosophy. he thinks i mean he thinks everybody s a sucker, that they can be lied to, it seems like. well, but i think he has a lot of company in that view in the republican party and in the white house. i mean he was playing for an audience of one, i thought. you know, he was displaying enormous contempt, not in the legal sense, but just in the personal sense for the members of congress, you know, baiting them, taunting them, you know, calling eric swalwell president swalwell because swaul pelwell n unsuccessful camp
corey lewandowski today was doing was obstruction, i assume you mean that it s orchestrated by the president or at the direction of the white house. is there anything you can actually do about that? absolutely. first of all, we ll be reviewing the transcript and there s a question of whether or not mr. lewandowski will be held in contempt for obviously places on the record where he told an untruth. in the last series of questioning by council, he clearly, in fact, objected to his own words. objected to what was in the actual report that he obviously said to mr. mueller. and he also said in open television interviews that he had nothing to do or no one asked him to do anything with respect to talking to general sessions. all of that was untrue and he was under oath. what do you say, though, to those who watched today s
executive privilege as a justification for not answering questions from democratic committee members. it earned him a warning about being held in contempt, drew a string of frustrated responses from democrats and attacks by republicans on the proceedings themselves. the president tweeted praise for him. he tweeted back, thanks. in short, corey lewandowski was the central figure today in a messy, very messy political drama or circus or witch hunt depending on how you see it. here s a small sample, including a key moment with democratic committee member hank johnson, during which he confirmed that the president told him to order then attorney general jeff sessions to curtail the mueller investigation. the white house has directed i not disclose the substance of any discussions with the president or his advisers to protect executive branch confidentiality. i recognize this is not my privilege, but i am respecting the white house s decision. as for actual collusion or conspiracy, there w