Weve got to look at for eight months e were doing this so i think following procedures is something you have to look at time is expired if he wishes. He doesnt wish. Good morning. The president who had no role in the white house asked you to deliver that message to Attorney General Sessions the president could have picked up the phone himself at any time and called the Attorney General. The president also had a full staff of executive employees right down the hall. So this made me wonder if the president thought what he was doing was legal why didnt he
just pick up the phone and call the 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 he went to you is because everyone said no so i want to ask you about that. Two days before meeting you, the president called white House Counsel mcgahn on a saturday to fire the Special Counsel saying and you can see that on the screen, mueller has to go. Call m
Him through this committee for eight months. So i think following proceed sure is something that you have to look at because your idea is not really point of order. The time has expired. If he wishes. He doesnt wish. Good morning, mr mr. Lewandowski. Im questioning you right now. Thank you. The president asked you who had no role at all in the white house to deliver that message to Attorney General sessions. The president could have just picked up the phone himself at any time and called the Attorney General. The president also had a full staff of executive employees right down the hall. So this made me wonder. The president thought what he was doing was legal, why didnt he just pick up the phone and
call 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. So i want to ask you about that. Two days before meeting you, the pre
nuggets of news in the course of this testimony. lewandowski has really stuck to the spirit and language in the special counsel investigation. but there s a key exchange with democratic congressman johnson where he asked him if he had chickened out, in terms of delivering that message to the attorney general. and lewandowski said he didn t chicken out. instead, he said he had gone on a family vacation, where there was some laughter in the hearing room in response to that. but for the most part, lewandowski has stuck to the language, almost painfully stuck to the language, of what s in the special counsel investigation, asking lawmakers to direct him to specific pages, as well as specific passages. i d just add from the republican point of view, they ve taken every opportunity to kind of set the table with lewandowski, to allow him to say that he never met with russian officials, didn t coordinate with russian officials, found no coordination between the trump campaign and russian offic
gentleman yields back. the gentleman from ohio. mr. lewandowski, you ran president trump s campaign between january 2015 and june 2016, is that right? yes. you were at the helm of the campaign when president trump secured the republican nomination. yes. pretty good campaign you ran. thank you. i mean, you beat 17, 18 different opponents, senators, governors. course, you had a pretty good candidate. the best. pretty good candidate who i think s done a great job as president of the united states. after you left the campaign, i think you left in june of 2016. after you left the head of the campaign, were you still involved with the campaign throughout the rest of the election all the way up until november 2016? yes. that entire time, so you were part of the campaign operation at some level or another from january 2015 to november 2016. during that entire time, you guys ever work with russia to impact the election? no.
barred from participating, speaking out about the russian investigation. the public didn t know about the attempts to influence the election at the time. what everyone knew, mr. lewandowski, was that the president s campaign was under investigation and they knew the attorney general couldn t touch it because he was a major part of the campaign. he advised on national security measures. back in march he had recused himself, he had recused himself from anything having to do with the investigation. you weren t aware of that at all, that what he did in march and the fact that he recused himself? i was aware of the attorney general s recusal. and so when the president asked you to deliver a speech that he wanted the attorney general, who could not participate in the investigation, couldn t talk about anything having to do with the investigation. he recused himself. when the president asked you to deliver that word for word speech for him, that there was