Matt agreed to be here. Kennedy will be back tomorrow at noon eastern. Now, heres harris. Harris lets begin as we await the start of a muchanticipated House Judiciary Committee hearing. President trumps former Campaign Manager, Corey Lewandowski, is such testify at any moment as the democrats ramp up their impeachment investigations. You are watching outnumbered overtime. Im harris faulkner. Now we will hear the chairman and Ranking Member giving the opening statements. But there is already friction inside the room that you are looking at right now, after the white house moved to limit the scope of lewandowskis testimony and ordered two former aides not to appear before this committee panel. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is live outside that hearing room on capitol hill. Things starting to get really busy in there now. Thats right, harris. Im just looking over my shoulder because we are still waiting for Corey Lewandowski. We were told 20 minutes ago he
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we don t do anything about it. we like to talk about it. because we think it makes the president look bad. because that s the application we ve been giving for two years. unfortunately, we also don t really want information in this committee, either. if we did, we would work like the intel committee had done. we d had that issue before. they had to actually work with witnesses to get them to come in. mr. lewandowski, i believe he said he would come without a subpoena but we subpoenaed him anyway. because it looks as i was told earlier this year from the chairman s perspective, a subpoena is a start of a dialogue. not according to the dictionary, but who cares? we are just the judiciary committee. this is the problem you re having. this committee doesn t want to interview dom again behind closed doors. they want him in front of everybody. they want to do this out front. they don t try to actually get information. that s what real oversight is. the oversight is trying to get informatio
would be arriving in the next 1. a lot of activity at the far end of the hallway, if you panned down this way. i can t see whether lewandowski has finally arrived. in advance of the hearing, the white house has told the committee that they are invoking something called constitutional immunity. they say this is designed to protect the office of the presidency, whether it s a republican or a democrat. in other words, that the conversation between the president and his closest aides remain confidential. on that basis, they have instructed two former white house aides, rob porter and rick dearborn, not to appear today. but corey lewandowski was never former to formally a part of the administration. he was part of the campaign. so he doesn t have that immunity. but he has been directed not to answer questions that go beyond what he told special counsel robert mueller. earlier today we heard from white house spokesman hogan guilty who laid out there arguments this morning. it s our under
being outspent most of the way. the historic campaign helped mr. trump secure the republican nomination, and ultimately the presidency of the united states. however, since election day, whether it was bad actors at the fbi and the intelligence community or lies coming from members of the current house majority, there was evidence of collusion. the american people continue to be sold a false narrative with the purpose of undermining the legitimacy of the 2016 results. but no matter the size, campaigns are not always the most efficient organizations. while you run in single congressional districts, just imagine what it s like to lead a national campaign that spans all 50 states of the union. during my time as campaign manager, there were competing interests for the candidates time. and a sea of ideas. some laudable, some sound. a few, not so much. many of which were dismissed out of hand. otrs were passed on to staffers to be handled. i also received hundreds of thousands of emails, som
georgia for his questions. think you come mr. chairman. this past few minutes was totally avoidable and also very frustrating, and since it is also not raise from my perspective the privilege of the rules of the house, which can be discussed on the floor and probably will be. possibly just a blatant running-over of house rules. my concern is ethics violations, as well. this has got to be run in a different way. at this point, mr. lewandowski, you have testify before congress multiple times over the past couple years, correct? yes. correct me if i m wrong you ve already testified twice before the house intel committee, correct? yes. along where the sessions? i think the first session was about seven hours, and the second session was maybe four hours. we ve also testify before senate intel, correct? yes. about how long is that? about eight hours. you also testified before the special counsel s office, correct? yes. how many times? two separate occasions.