behalf of the russian government? no, sir. as a close friend and adviser of the president, you don t believe that the president is working on behalf of the russians, do you? absolutely not. and to your knowledge, there is no effort on the part of the president to intentionally obstruct justice, is there? no, sir. thank you. and yet again, coming here to tell this committee what we special counsel mueller and the american public already know, tra president trump did not collude with the russians or obstruct justice. not to say that the russians weren t trying to interfere and influence our 2016 presidential election. it s clear that they were. by sending fake texts and operating fake facebook pages, and holding fake rallies. all in an effort to try to influence the outcome of the
but asserting all of that privilege. he was, he s been difficult. can he get away with that? well, he is getting away with it. that s the irony here. i think one of the things, phrases you heard, say, listen, this privilege i know is not mine. kept saying the privilege is not mine. he s right about that, because executive privilege is not perspective. you actually have to assert it, have to say what it s pertaining to and under the umbrella for the purpose of getting candid from a cabinet member our otherwise. not because you might respectively in the future might want to do so. recognize that. i think representative brafken had the perfect idea saying hold on a second. now he s gone beyond the four corner what s he told us the reason he wouldn t speak about issues. gone beyond the issue simply what the mueller report said answering questions when he chose to do so for republican members. and in that respect, he essentially proved he was playing everyone like a fiddle in a way of say
attorney general sessions, or why not ask any member of his staff who worked right down the hall to deliver a message? it is clear to me that the reason he went to you, mr. lewandowski, is because everyone said, no. i want to ask you about that. two days before meeting you the president had called white house counsel mcgann at home on a saturday to fire the special counsel saying, and you can see that on the screen, mueller has to go. call me back when you do it. plain and simple. but mcgann refused. when the president asked you to deliver that message, did he, the president, tell you that two days before your meeting his white house counsel had refuses to fire the special counsel, volume 11 86 you ll find that language. volume 2. when the president asked you did you hear the question?
might be thinking that impeachment proceedings are supposed to be initiated after a vote by the full house of representatives. and they d be right. but you see, the democrats now the party of impeachment tried that three times. and failed miserably three times. twice before the mueller report and then once again after the mueller report. so last week the party of impeachment, which is in charge of this committee, changed our rules so that they could get to impeachment in a different way and mr. lewandowski you re lucky you re the first witness for the party of impeachment s new impeachment procedures. i feel very lucky. thank you. you should. now, i know that you ve testified before the house, before the senate and before the special counsel, but in fairness, mr. lewandowski, that s when my colleagues on the other side of the aisle promised the american people there was going to be impeachment by collusion or by conspiracy, of course, didn t exist and the special counsel said it di
congressman. well, he askeds you about it a few times. didn t he? no, he did not. he never asked you whether or not you had delivered that message? not on multiple occasions, no. one occasion, okay? he did mention it on one occasion to you? i don t know if that s in the report, sir. and you told him that, yeah. i m going to get around to it, deliver it. correct? i d have to see the reference to the mueller report with that. it s in the report. direct me to the book and page to review that. i don t need to waste time with that, but let me tell you something, the next three sentences after those first two, would you read those, please? you re welcome to, congressman. okay s he said, he shouldn t have a special prosecutor or counsel, because he hasn t done anything wrong. i was on the campaign with him for nine months. there were no russians involved with him. i know it for a fact because i was there. now, the president wanted