'Mr. Lewandowski, you are here under subpoena, which means you are required to answer our questions.. completely and truthfully,' Nadler said to Trump's former campaign manager, commencing what top Dems are calling their first “impeachment hearing”
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski launched an all-out defense of his former boss during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday afternoon, adopting many of President Donald Trump’s criticisms of the myriad investigations that have ensnared him and his associates.
But whether lawmakers elicit new information is an open question. Lewandowski has a history of combativeness with House Democrats in previous congressional testimony. He refused to answer a slew of questions when he faced the House Intelligence Committee last year behind closed doors. In 1999, he was also charged with a misdemeanor for bringing a gun into the Longworth building while working as deputy chief of staff for Republican Bob Ney. At the time, an aide said Lewandowski accidentally left the gun in a laundry bag he brought through metal detectors.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler assailed the White House’s effort to block the three men’s testimony as another example of “obstruction” by the president and his administration. In 2017, Trump deputized Lewandowski to approach then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and order him to either restrict Mueller’s probe to future interference by Russia or be removed from his Cabinet post. Lewandowski, though, told Mueller he didn’t want to deliver that message to Sessions, so he asked Dearborn to pass it along instead. Dearborn never followed through, Mueller found.
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