campaign. then steve bannon followed suit. by instructing both bannon and hicks not to answer questions, at the same time, kory lewandowski came in same time as bannon, also refused to answer questions. made no claim of privilege because there was none to be made, merely said he was not prepared to answer. we asked that he be subpoenaed on the spot but he wasn t. we asked that he brought back in but hap hasn t been. let s bring in our panel on the significance of all of this, alexander smith and former chairman of the college republic national committee isaac wright from forward strategy group, welcome to both of you. isaac to you first, he said he
history. shelving bonuses with a $100,000 lottery prize after a stinging backlash from his workforce. the airline plans to pay the prize to one lucky employ at random. others can win vacations and cars, but the 90,000 workers would have lost out on their bonuses. former trump campaign manager kory lewandowski expected to return for closed session thursday morning as part of the panel s russia investigation. he has not been subpoenaed. in the initial interview in january, he refused to answer activities during the trump kam
hard to hide that he s having the white house truct people not to answer the question, and why for that matter is nunez not supporting the people? they have the power to force them to answer. they could have done it that day with bannon and with lewandowski, a couple of weeks ago with hicks. the majority of the community, nunez with his own ties to the transition team refuse to do so. worth pointing out that the guilty pleas have nothing to do with the presidential campaign. they have to do with rick gates and paul manafort as biznessmen. do you take a lot from the return to committee? he s entitled to prepare for
this doesn t happen again. so far our national security leaders raised the red flags that it can and will happen again. isaac, she says the republics are being transparent here. do you give them credit for that? absolutely not. they refused to answer questions on steve bannon, kory lewandowski a month ago said he refused to come band testify. the nunez committee failed to subpoena these people when they had the power to compel them to tell the truth, they refused to. they put out a memo that had to be debunked for truth and information out there. why smoke screen? why is there a coordinated effort to pull the wool over american s eyes in the threat
the hearings. there is a lot at stake when you testify before a committee like this. the fact that he wanted additional preparation isn t unusual in my opinion. the reason we are hear frg kory lewandowski or any of these people that testified before the committees is that the house republic led committees have allowed for it to happen alongside a special prosecutor working under the executive branch. you have a republic led white house and congress allowing the investigations to continue. it s important to figure out what happened in 2016 and to the extent russians or americans were involved in trying to spread misinformation and influence our elections. only americans should decide elections. looking ahead, we need to ensure