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what the proponents thing happened in 2016. spending taxpayer money and to reinvestigate the opening of the russia investigation. there is nothing to reinvestigate. it is all out there. it is not a mystery, and it is a not a deep state conspiracy. it started with one of the closest allies of the united states, the australian intelligence service passing on seemingly incredible information and today we have the whistle-blower coming forward and we now have an attorney general who seems to be under the thumb of the president who immediately says there s no crime here and they should be investigating. meanwhile according to bloomberg house republicans felt blind sided by the decision to prevent ambassador sopdland from testifying today. quote, a handful of gop lawmakers went to the white house to discuss the issue with trump and senior advisers. white house officials agreed to approve communication of their impeachment strategy with allies who are on the front lines.
president trump? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with breaking news. house democrats right now holding their first impeachment inquiry and it has gotten ugly fast. testifying today is former trump campaign manager corey lewandowksi who at the direction of the white house is refusing to answer most questions. lewandowski never worked in the white house. which makes the white house claim of executive privilege quite questionable according to legal scholars. democrats want him to talk about meetings with the president described in the mueller report. including one in which the president told lewandowski to order the attorney general jeff sessions to say publicly that the special counsel investigation was not fair and to announce that sessions would be instructing mueller to refocus the investigation to look at future elections. lewandowski is doing everything he can to frustrate the democrats seeking his testimony. cnn s manu raju is on capitol hill.
the justice department s turf. lewandowski and our correspondents and analysts are that s right. i wanted to have a private standing by. let s go to our senior conversation in a more relaxed congressional correspondent on atmosphere. capitol hill. reporter: the mueller report said trump warned that sessions the house judiciary committee would be fired if he didn t meet hearing was combative from the very start. reporter: no question about it. a partisan fight broke out moments after this hearing with liewandowski. started as republicans objected you re some kind of a forest to the democrats handling of gump related to obstruction. this and democrats objected to the white house moving to limit did the president pick you, he thought you would play whatever corey lewandowski s testimony role he wanted because he thought it was illegal. and blocked two other white is that why he chose you to take house officials from testifying the message to sessions? today. jerry nadler warned he
he s been paying attention to this. especially to the john dean. testifying today. he responded. there would have been more coverage of this if it were not for the breaking news. how do you think trump will handle that? he s going to rage at this. there s also the impending deadline of 2020. they re stalling. they want to get to the election and have everyone think we re not going to pick on the president. especially hard. because he s in an election battle. nancy pelosi is playing the same game. how to get to 2020 in the best condition possible. the american public will be treated to a an extraordinary political spectacle. and maybe not the truth until after the election. okay. hold that thought. we have a lot more to talk about.