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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would betray the foundation of our democracy. tucker: um-huh. are you confused yet? if so, we don t blame you. if you left town for the weekend you might be wondering what the hell is going on, exactly. impeachment? for years they told you trump was going to be colluding with russia, spying for putin. then it turned out he didn t do that the story evaporated into dust and seemed to blow away. then just a few days ago they were grumbling about impeachment again and they dragged corey lewandowski remember him brought up to capitol hill to make their case. that didn t go well at all. i simply ask you is it correct as reported in the mueller report on june 19th, 2017, you met alone in the oval office with the president? could you read the exact language of the report, sir. i don t have it available to me. i don t think i need to do that and i have limited time. did you meet alone with the president on that date. congressman, i would like you refresh my memory by providing the rep
point, yeah. abby, you predicted all of this. you did. you were on yesterday and you said he s not there s the victory lap right there. that s it. take a bow. he just said he wasn t going to play along. here s a moment where he would not read from the script that the democrats were hoping he read from. so watch this. i simply ask you is it correct that as reported in the mueller report on june 19th, 2017, you met alone in the oval office with the president? could you read the exact language of the report? i don t have it available to me. i don t think i need to do that and i have limited time. did you meet alone with the president on that date? congressman, i d like you the latest trump official to provide a copy of the report so be swept up in a cloud of i can follow along. ethical issues is transportation okay. there were other moments where they asked him to read the secretary elaine chao. mueller report and he also wouldn t play along. right. she has some ot
the committee s impeachment investigation, at least that s what the committee and not the speaker insists on calling it. the mueller report details how the president had asked lun d n lewandowski to ag. l lewandowski didn t follow through. there s about all the democrats could get from their stone walling and at times hostile witness. mr. lewandowski is it correct as reported in the mueller report on june 19th, 2017, you met alone in the oval office with the president. i would like you to refresh my memory by providing a copy of the report to follow along. i request that the clock be stopped while this is sorted out. mr. chairman, you have to stop the clock. no, i don t when he s filibustering. that s across the hall. the white house has directed
thank you, corey he was there as part of the impeachment investigation. the mueller report details how the president had asked lewandowsky to deliver a message to then-a.g. jeff sessions, asking him to curtail the russia investigation. lewandowsky never followed through. today he did confirm the president s request, but that was about all the democrats could get from their stonewalling and at times hostile witness. mr. lewandowsky, is it correct that as reported in the mueller report on june 19th, 2017, you met alone in the oval office with the president? congressman, i d like you to refresh my memory by providing a copy of the report so i can follow along. mr. chairman, i request that the clock be stopped while this charade is sorted out. where on page 90 is it, sir mr. chairman, you have to start the clock. no, i don t have to start the clock. he s filibustering me. that s across the hall in the