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 be arriving in the next 1. a lot of activity at the far end of the hallway, if you panned down this way. i can t see whether lewandowski has finally arrived. in advance of the hearing, the white house has told the committee that they are invoking something called constitutional immunity. they say this is designed to protect the office of the presidency, whether it s a republican or a democrat. in other words, that the conversation between the president and his closest aides remain confidential. on that basis, they have instructed two former white house aides, rob porter and rick dearborn, not to appear today. but corey lewandowski was never former to formally a part of the administration. he was part of the campaign. so he doesn t have that immunity. but he has been directed not to answer questions that go beyond what he told special counsel robert mueller. earlier today we heard from white house spokesman hogan guilty who laid out there arguments this morning. it s our under