Thread by @jentaub

🧵 Here we go! Tweeting the @HouseJudiciary impeachment inquiry hearing. Witness will be Corey Lewandowski, former Trump Campaign manager. Chairman Nadler gaveled in at 1:16 p.m.

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler: All elements of obstruction of justice were met, according to Mueller Report. Today examining the President enlisting Lewandowski to get Sessions to shut down Mueller investigation.

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@HouseJudiciary President knows that anyone else (but a sitting president) would be charged with a crime. White House blocked Porter and Dearborn from showing up today. Spurious legal doctrine. WH also used when committee called McGahn to testify. This "absolute immunity" is made up

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@HouseJudiciary This is an "absolute coverup" by the White House. They are challenging the absolute immunity theory in court in connection with McGahn.

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler continues. President dictated a speech for Lewandowski (who was not working for the President) to give to Sessions. Trump wanted Sessions to limit the special counsel Mueller investigation to future elections.

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler also said Lewandowski tried to meet with AG Sessions. When that failed, he met with Rick Dearborn to try to get him to speak with Sessions.

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler said White House does not want American people to hear the truth. Want to limit Lewandowski to what was covered in Mueller Report. Yet, Lewandowski was not working in White House, was a private citizen. No court has ever said executive privilege could extend to this

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler calls this "crony privilege." He adds, "This is a coverup plain and simple."

This is "part of a pattern of the White House blocking Congress." This go across all attempts for Congress to use its Constitutional powers including re "children in cages."

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@HouseJudiciary "We will not be daunted by the coverup. . .No one is above the law, including the President of the United States."

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@HouseJudiciary Now it's Republican Ranking Member Collin's turn for an opening statement. He is already shouting. His audience of one likes shouters.

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@HouseJudiciary Now Collins is saying "you don't have the votes" to impeach the President. He is filling up the air with emotional, shrill, shouting. He just accused the Democrats "If you're just howling at the wind, you're not doing anything."

Will him #HowlingCollins going forward today

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@HouseJudiciary Howling Collins is still howling at the wind.

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@HouseJudiciary The staffer in the pink dress behind Howling Collins is laughing as she texts. She's got a bit of a cringe she's trying to cover up by chewing gum and looking away

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@HouseJudiciary #HowlingCollins is wasting our time.

Calls this a "faux impeachment charade." Complaining that Lewandowski received a subpoena for 10 am but hearing starts at 1 pm.

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@HouseJudiciary Now #HowlingCollins is turning read and wrinkling up his forehead. Just yielded back after making a fool of himself for his Dear Leader.

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler is introducing and welcoming Corey Lewandowski. Swearing him in. Explaining how the lights work.

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@HouseJudiciary Corey L. begins by reading his five minute prepared opening statement. Mentions that he has testify three times in the past. Says he's spent over 20 hours total.

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@HouseJudiciary He says "it's very unfair" that the Dem majority made this an impeachment hearing.

Calls Trump victory part of the "greatest political movement in American history."

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@HouseJudiciary Corey L. said it was "an honor and privilege" to take part in Trump's campaign in June of 2015 to "ride down the golden escalator".

Describes his job as providing advice and spending money subject to a duty of care.

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@HouseJudiciary Corey L. is now praising Trump's victory. He's now saying the public is being fed a false narrative aimed at "undermining the legitimacy" of the 2016 election. Lot's of talking points to feed the Trump Troll

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@HouseJudiciary Corey says anyone who attempt to unlawfully impact the outcome of an election should spend a lifetime in jail.

Ummm. I'm wondering. Does that include Individual-1?

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@HouseJudiciary Corey L. says it's a "fake Russian collusion narrative." Said Trump haters wanted to take down a duly elected president of United States. Said there was no conspiracy or collusion.

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@HouseJudiciary Now Corey L. is giving the committee vague advice about doing something else other than what they have chosen to do today

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler said they are proceeding under 5 minute rule per committee member. Then there will be (under new rules) 1 full hour of staff questions by majority and minority.

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler begins his 5 minutes of questioning. Reminds us that Corey was not working for President when involved in obstruction. Asked Corey whether on June 19, 2017 he met alone in the oval office of the president

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@HouseJudiciary Corey did not bring a copy of the report to the hearing. This is ridiculous. He wants to limit his testimony to what the report says.

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler says, "you don't have an independent recollection"?

Corey is trying to run the clock by consulting and reading the report.

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@HouseJudiciary Oh, dear. Howling Collins wants the clock to run while Corey sit there reading the report.

#HowlingCollins

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@HouseJudiciary Now Nadler asks Corey whether Trump asked him to speak with the Attorney General Sessions

"I am trying to adhere to the White House request that I answer questions that appear in Mueller Report only."

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@HouseJudiciary Corey admits to Nadler that he was not working at the White House at the time.

Yet he is filibustering by reading aloud from the White House letter directing him not to answer questions

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@HouseJudiciary This is OUTRAGEOUS.

Corey Lewandowski admitted he was never employed by the executive branch.

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler: "Was it your idea not to answer questions."

Lewandowski: It was not my idea

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@HouseJudiciary Lewandowski "I recognize this was not my privilege, but I am respected the White House"

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@HouseJudiciary Wow!

Lewandowski will not answer the question as to whether the President ever discussed with him whether he was concerned about breaking the law

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@HouseJudiciary Here we go again. Howling Collins is engaging in tactics to delay the truth coming out. He's saying Nadler exceeding his five minutes and now wants a vote.

#HowlingCollins

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@HouseJudiciary Nadler: I am very troubled that the WH counsel are sitting behind you not allowing you to answer the question

Howling Collins made a motion to adjourn

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@HouseJudiciary Howling Collins is demanding a roll call on motion to adjourn.

Reader, this is some kind of nonsense

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@HouseJudiciary Will someone grow a pair of ovaries and hold Corey Lewandowski in contempt? Jeez Louise!

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@HouseJudiciary After voice vote and roll call the motion to adjourn failed. Now it's time for Howling Collins to complain and obstruct and make a mockery of the Congress

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@HouseJudiciary Instead of asking Lewandowski substantive questions about whether President OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE which is a federal crime, HowlingCollins is working hard to run the clock to avoid allowing the American people to hear the evidence for themselves. Trump can't handle the Truth

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@HouseJudiciary This is so pretextual. If Lewandowski REALLY was concerned that his testimony today would not align with previous hearings, then he'd want those transcripts in front of him. He would not just need Mueller Report

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@HouseJudiciary Next up for five minutes is Democrat Rep. Jackson Lee.

Lee wonders why President just directly call AG Sessions or ask a member of his staff to deliver the message. Did he go to Lewandowski because everyone said no. She reminds him President had called McGahn who said no

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@HouseJudiciary Lee: Did President tell you two days before your meeting that [McGahn] said no

Lewandowski refused to answer based on advice from White House counsel

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@HouseJudiciary Whoa!

Lewandowski raised his voice with Congresswoman Lee.

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@HouseJudiciary Again and again, Lewandowski is refusing to answer her questions

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@HouseJudiciary Someone needs to get him to read directly a description of his interactions with Trump from the report.

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@HouseJudiciary Rude comments from Lewandowski to Rep. Lee: "There wasn't a question. It was a rant"

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@HouseJudiciary Now Repub. Rep. Chabot is asking questions.

Says Russians were clearly trying to influence the outcome of the elections. Falsely claims that Dems want to ignore the interference. He is blaming President Obama for failint go protect us.

Lewandowski said: Yes

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@HouseJudiciary WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?

Corey Lewandowski is willing to answer all manner of questions when Republicans ask him. He does not demand a page number from the Mueller Report in order to do so.

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@HouseJudiciary Chabot is dragging out his time with his Whataboutism.

Henceforth he will be called Rep Chaboutimsm. He's throwing in border control and even (talk about chutzpah complaining about the lack of a balanced budget.)

Calling this a "fake impeachment."

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@HouseJudiciary Heck Yes! Now @RepRaskin is making a point of parliamentary inquiry. Can Lewandowski continue to refuse to go beyond four corners of the Mueller Report in his answers yet answer a long list of questions outside the report.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin In responde, Nadler said he'd take Lewandowski's claim of privilege under advisement

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Lewandowski told Rep. Cohen, "I didn't think the President asked me to doing anything illegal."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Rep. Cohen said Lewandowski was a "a body man, an enforcer."

Now he is reading from Lew's book, where he said he was a loyal soldier

Said he was fired from Americans for Prosperity for being accused of voter fraud.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Cohen says Trump went outside normal channels. Said President knew what he was doing was wrong.

Cohen said to Lewandowski, "You chickened out. You got cold feet."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Lewandowski: "I was not asked to do anything illegal, Congressman."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Time for some earbuds. Jim Jordan is up now. He's starting by buttering up the President. "You had a pretty good candidate." Praising Trump.

Jordan is turning red. Running the clock with empty conversation with Lewandowski.

At least Jordan is not shouting

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Now he's got that shouty voice. Red faced.
He is spending his time about rules, trying to hide any good questions from the public.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Rep. Johnson (Georgia Dem): "Mr. Lewandowski, you are about like a fish being cleaned with a spoon. It's very hard to get an answer out of you."

Nice

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Rep. Johnson is getting some answers out of Lewandowski.

Johnson asked Lew whether he took notes when he met with President Trump.

"I believe he asked me to deliver a message for Jeff to consider for delivering himself."

WOW. ANSWERS

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Lewandowski agrees when asked by Johnson that he wanted AG Sessions to tell the public

Did you feel kind of squeemish about deliver the message.

Lewandowski: No sir.

Johnson: You chickened out?

Lewndowski: I went on vacation

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Johnson: He did mention it on one occasion to you?

Lewandowski asked to be directed to page.

Now asked him to read from the dictated message. But he wouldn't.

Page 91, Vol. II

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Rep Johnson: You knew it would be against the law for Sessions to comment given that he had recused?

Lewandowski: I did not know that.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Repubican Rep. Buck begins with: "Thank you for putting up with the harassment that you are now"

Now he's talking about how Russia interfered with many elections. Now blaming President Obama accountable for Russian interference.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Rep. Buck: "Do you believe Vladamir Putin is sitting in his office right now laughing at what those on the other side of the aisle. . . and are 'useful idiot.'"

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Rep. Jackson Lee raises point of order to Buck calling then idiots.

Nadler overrules her point of order. Says doesn't go to motive.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Buck: "Was Vladamir Putin aided by useful idiots in America?"

Corey Lewandowski said it was up to Obama and Biden to secure election.

HOLY MOSES. This is a loud of mind-bucking. Trump was actively meeting with and encouraging Russian help. Mueller said that.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Next up is Rep. Ted Deutch (Dem Florida).

Deutch: President asked Lewandowski to take dictation and deliver a message to Sessions. Then he reads section of notes that he took. (This is a follow up on Rep. Johnson's questions)

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Deutch: In June 2017, you said you didn't know about the Attorney General being barred. . .But what everyone knew was that President's campaign was under investigation and . . he had recused himself.

Lewandowski: "I was aware of the Attorney General's recusal."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Deutch: Asks if there was any inconsistency

Lewandowski: "I am not an attorney, Congressman."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Deutch: When President asked you to go in there and deliver a speech. . .were you concerned in anyway?

Lewandowski: No, sir.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Deutch: Basically asks, looking at the future meant protecting him?

Lewandowski: Said it wasn't his interpretation

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Rep. Ratcliffe (R-Texas) is asking question now. Or rather, he is making a statement with a big smirk on his face.

He's calling the Dems "The Party of Impeachment."
Like his Republican colleagues he is avoiding asking questions

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin Hey, we have AN EYE WITNESS TO THE PRESIDENT'S CRIMES AND COVERUP. BUT THE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT ASKING HIM ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT.

@HouseDemocrats

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats WHAT THE HELL?

Hey @RepRaskin, here he goes again. He was willing to make a legal characterization here, but said he was a lawyer earlier when asked by @TedDeutch

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch I'd rather be the search party for impeachment than participate in the coverup of the president's criminal activity that was already spelled out clearly in the Mueller Report. But, I guess Republican Rep. Ratcliffe forgot his Constitutional oath

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Weird, he answers questions posed by male congressmen (including Dems), but so far each time the black women ask him, he insists on looking at the report again

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Rep. Bass is asking if he wanted to meet with Sessions in person

Lewandowski: "If that's what the report says."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Bass: You didn't want a public log of your visit?

Lewandowski: That's accurate . . [Now he claims he met with him outside a public building because] Jeff and I are friends and I wanted to have a meal with him

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Bass: You said that another eason for not meeting at the DOJ because you did not want to be on his turf

Lewandowski: Said he wanted to have a relaxed

Bass: Said if they were such good friends, why did he cancel meeting?

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Good. He is answering her questions now.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Short recess and Lewandowski's request.

Nadler gavels out for a five-minute recess.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch We are back. Gaveled in at 3:16.

Joy. It's Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch I'm going to try to say something nice about everyone.

Here goes. Matt Gaetz dresses very well. His hair is always nicely combed. Also, he projects his own voice and seems to have a healthy self-regard.

That said. He's grandstanding. Has no interest in Presidential crime

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Oh, please. Regarding the Dems, "I think they hate this president more than they love this country," says Lewandowski who is actively attempting to hide the fact that he was eye-witness to felonious obstruction of justice by the President.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch That crafty Lewandowski (see, saying something nice), is giving all sorts of advice on what the committee should investigate.

Now Gaetz is shouting again about how it's Comey's fault that the Russian's interfered in our election

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch It's Rep Jeffries (D-NY) turn to ask questions.

Jeffries: Since you're not a government employee. "Are you the hit man, the bag man, the look out or all of the above"

Lewandowski: "I think I'm the good-looking man"

womp womp. no one laughed.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Rep. Jeffries is talking about preserving the president's message. . . "Which you stored in a safe in your home."

Lewandowski: That's correct.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Jeffries: You never delivered the message to Jeff Sessions after that June 19th meeting. . . how long was your vacation

Lewandowski: I think it was lengthy. It was at least two weeks

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Jeffries notes that he also met with the President on July 19th, but still hadn't delivered the message . . .Wanted him to tell Sessions he'd be fired . . .President wanted you to intimidate AG Jeff sessions?

Lewandowski: You'd have to ask the President that

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch "Did you lie to Mueller or are you lying to us. You are not really here to tell the truth. The Russian government interfered in our election in sweeping and systematic fashion. . the American people deserve to know the truth."

(Note the embedded language from Mueller

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Now Rep Johnson (R-LA) is talking. What can I say that is nice about him? Okay. Here's this. He has the voice of a radio show host from the 1940s. There.

Johnson: Do you agree that there is no evidence that the president intended to obstruct justice

Lewandowski: Yes

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch So, this is absolutely ridiculous. He is making legal characterizations here, but refusing them earlier.

Now Lewandowski is calling this a witch hunt.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch What a second. Johnson said people may not want to join the government because of the "abuse" that he's getting. BUT, Lewandowski DID NOT WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT. Right?

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch What can I say that's nice about Jim Jordan. Okay. He has a very loud voice and even though he's a supplicant to the most corrupt, ill-informed, racist, sexist, and selfish president in our history, and looked the other way when a coach sexual abused his team members . . .oh

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Now Rep. Cicilline (D-RI) is asking questions. He's focused on when Lewandowski asked Dearborn to deliver the message.

Lewandowski got testy, started shouting over him

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Cicilline: Did you ever threaten the attorney general that if he didn't meet with you he would be fired?

Lewandowski: No

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Cicilline: On July 22nd, the President directed Preibus to obtained Sessions resignation. . . Did you know that?

Lewandowski: No

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Cicilline: Did you know when you asked Rick Dearborn that it created the same legal culpability

Lewandowski: The president never asked me to do anything illegal or to keep anything secret.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Rep. Biggs (R-AZ) goes through animal metaphors: gutted fish and chicken.

Looking for something nice to say about Biggs. Okay. Maybe this. He does waste too much of his salary on fancy jackets.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Lewandowski said he has not read the report. HELLO. How is this not a problem @HouseDemocrats? He said he will ONLY respond to things in the report, but hasn't read it.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch Now Biggs is calling out "a member" of congress for saying on Chris Matthews that the President was working on behalf of the Russians.

I hear @RepSwalwell chime in (off camera), "that was me" he added "I still think that." (I love you, man).

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell Okay. The Republicans have blamed Obama several times. Yet they have not once. Not once. Not once. Do you get that? Not once have they said that the Mueller Report went in great detail about the numerous contacts Trump and his team had with Russia to encourage their help

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell Oh, good. It's @RepSwalwell (D-CA).

"Why don't you want to read it?"
"Are you ashamed to read it aloud?"
"Do you still feel guilty today. . .I just wonder why you can't"

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell Lewandowski is saying he should have the same courtesy as Mueller.

Now Swalwell is asking about page 91, line 7 -8 about taking dictation.

Lewandowski said he had taken dictation before

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell Lewandowski "It's a big safe. There are a lot of guns in there."

Swalwell: "Is this the first time you put a message that the president asked you to deliver in a safe?"

Lewandowski: Not to the best of my recollection

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell Rep. Swalwell is asking for a parlimentary inquiry

Rep. Nadler instructed the witness to answer the questions and that he is violating the law by not answering them. And that the president is violating the law by instructing him not the answer the questions.

BOOM

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell Swalwell: Asking about a one-on-one meeting with president

Lewandowski is trying to read from the White House counsel letter

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell 🔥YES

Rep. @davidcicilline asked Nadler to hold the witness in contempt for not answering the questions

Chair @RepJerryNadler: I will take that under advisement

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler Swalwell: Asks about delivery a secret message is consistent with mob behavior

Lewandowski: Said he would not consider it a secret message

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler Now we have Rep. McClintock (R-CA). Searching for a kind word. He is really good at balancing his reading glasses on the end of his nose.

Back to substance, "Do you know where did this whole lie of Russian collusion started?"

Lewandowski: Something something. Deep state

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler These Republicans (including McClintock) are very lucky that the Constitution Speech and Debate Clause protects them from any legal consequences for the lies and conspiracy theories they are repeating now.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler Can we get to the part where the expert staff ask questions of Lewandowski?

Are we there yet? Almost?

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler Yay! @tedlieu is up now.

He begins with stating that no one should question their love for this country

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu Rep. Lieu reminds him that Mueller in Volume I found that the Russians had interfered in our election in sweeping and systematic fashion

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu Now, he is referencing the Mueller Report since Lewandowski admitted he hadn't read.

He basically says that Volume II found President tried to obstruct investigation

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu Lieu asked Lewandowski a question and he consulted counsel and said no.

I think he asked whether anyone told him not to speak with Sessions

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu Now Lieu is asking about the July 2017 meeting where President told him about how Sessions would be fired if he did not do what he wanted

Lewandowski: "I took that as a joke."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu Now it's Rep. Lesko. Trying to think of something nice. Okay. Nice purple jacket and matching silk-like shell. I would definitely wear that outfit.

But, she's falsely claiming the Steele Dossier was false.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu Rep. Lesko: "Do you think the Democrats will go to any length to undermine the President?"

Lewandowski: Something something. Free country. Something something. "We all believe that a free and fair election is the best way and the best method for ensuring" Democracy

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu Now, she yields to Jordan.

Jordan: Obama. Obama. Obama. Obama

(I'm taking a break for a minute while he yammers on)

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu I'm back. Rep. @RepRaskin is talking about how the Dems are actually trying to protect future elections. Notes that all House Dems vote for it. But all but one Republican voted against it. And Speaker Mcconnell has not taken it up in Senate

"So who are the useful idiots?"

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu Raskin: Is White House asserting executive privilege?

Lewandowski: Said it's not executive privilege and it's privilege to wave

Raskin: I don't think it's anyone's privilege to waive. The whole thing is imaginary, like the tooth fairy.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu Lots of good questions from Rep. @RepJayapal. Sorry didn't take notes on them. Was writing something else

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal Amazing! Corey "I'm not an attorney" Lewandowski has a very particular opinion about the presidential powers under Article II in response to Republican Rep. Steube's questions. Not surprisingly, it aligns exactly with the White House

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal Good. @RepValDemings informs him that he loves this country.

Demings: Asks about being a police officer. Do they have tough job?

Lewandowski: "I do."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings Demings: Do you believe that a person coordinating with Russia should not be held accountable?

Lewandowski: Repeated his "rest of their life in jail" comment

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings Lewandowski agreed that "Russia attempted to interfere" in our election

OOOh. He dodged her question. She asked about knowledge.

But Lewandowski only limited his response to not having contact with Russians

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings Did you talk to candidate Trump on a regular basis, is that correct?

Lewandowski: Correct . . and he said he knew nothing about the more than 100 campaign contacts with Russians

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings For some reason, Nadler is gone and the vice chair is presiding as chair.

Rep. Correa (D-CA) is asking questions now

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings Correa is asking Lewandowski about George Papadopolous who pleaded guilty and already served time for false statements

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings Boom!

Correa got him caught in some perjury!

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings Big. Lewandowski said he knew nothing. But he was on emails and responded to Papapolous!

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings So, how does what he is telling Correa now fit with what he just told @RepValDemings?

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings Hey y'all. Is it just me, or is this entirely inconsitent with his answer to @RepValDemings?

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings HOLD IT.

He's trying to narrow his response. He is qualifying Russian contact. LISTEN carefully. Someone needs to ask. He may have had tons of information and knowledge but saying he was aware it was trying to affect outcome of election

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings He's claiming to Rep Lofgren (D) that he was not aware of Manafort sharing internal Trump campaign polling data with the Russians.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings Lewandowski says to Lofgren doesn't know why Manafort would share that polling data.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings Lewandowski refuses to answer whether President offered him a pardon

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings That pardon question came from Rep. Scanlon (D-PA).

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings More details on that.

Scanlan: "Mueller Report identified you as a participant . . [in efforts] to shut down investigation. . .Has President ever offered you a pardon?

Lewandowski: He repeats his refusal based on White House request

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings Holy Shit. During the break, Lewandowski launched his Senate campaign with a tweet, said @RepMGS. "I've heard enough."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS I was behind on live video, so I just forwarded to where Rep. Neguse is asking Lewandowski questions about handing over notes to Mueller

Lewandowski won't answer the question, but simply said he complied.

Neguse is focused on this b/c Lew said he took more notes

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS Neguse: He enlisted you to . . tell chief law enforcement officer of the United States that if he wouldn't meet with a private citizen, you, he would be fired

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS It's @lucymcbath's turn. She mentions more than a dozen indictments, and many guilty pleas including conspiracy, false statements, and Russian nationals and entities.

Lewandowski: "I believe that's what that says, yes."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath McBath: Special Counsel uncovered serious crimes for conspiracy against the United States. Says Georgia has been actively targeted by Russians for election interference. Cobb and Fulton counties are in her district

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath McBath quotes Lewandowski's words about people going to jail for life. "Our democracy is too important to play with."

Now she's referring to how important Mueller's investigation was

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath We must protect our 2020 election, McBath notes. Now she yields her time to Rep. Stanton (D).

Cool, he's reading from the Cohen indictment about Individual-1. Says campaign official referenced is Lewandowski.

Lew: Maybe

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath Stanton said Cohen discussed Trump traveling to Russia during campaign. (In Mueller Report). Cohen also testified that Trump was individual-1. Is that true?

Lewandowski: That's what Mr. Cohen testified to

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath Stanton repeats that Lewandowski spend 1,000s of hours beside him during campaign. Asks whether he ever had convos with Trump as candidate about contacts with Russia

Lewandowski says no, not to his recollection

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath Says he doesn't recall ever having a convo with candidate Trump about traveling to Russia

But, he refuses to answer question about whether he ever discussed campaign interference with Russia

Lewandowski will only answer that during campaign.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath Or anything about Russia

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath Did you ever discuss with candidate Trump, these payments made to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal (potential crimes).

Lewandowski doesn't recall. And won't answer for after he was elected

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath Nadler tells Lewandowski that there is no possible privilege concerning conversations about illegal activities in light of Nixon decision

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath Rep. Stanton is very good. He indicates that Lewandowski's testimony today is inconsistent with emails and his contacts with Trump

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath Now Lewandowski is calling it executive privilege regarding this question

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath Now witness is asking for a five minute recess. Gaveled out

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath We are back from the break. It's @RepDean's turn to ask questions. Asking about Lewandorski trip to Mexico meet with Carlos Slim. Asked him if he pitched his brand-new consulting service

Lewandowski: "No that's fake news."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean Yet, Dean said candidate Trump met with Carlos Slim at mar-a-lago just days after Lewandowski met in Mexico with Slim. (She read from an article).

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean 🔥 Rep. Dean is killing it.

He keeps calling this "fake news."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean Dean plays a clip of Lewandowski on air saying Trump should fire the head of the Consumer Financial Protection bureau, just after he pitched to a potential client that he'd try to get him fired.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean Rep. Dean finishes with Constitution is "stronger than a President in search of corruption and a coverup."

Bravo @RepDean!

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean Now @RepDMP is asking questions.

Howling Collins interrupts her asking if she's accusing the president of committing a crime. She says she's not accusing anyone of anything.

"This is not a reality TV show," she tells him.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP 🧐When are the staff experts going to ask their full hour of questions? And why didn't they go first?

If I'm getting wary, so is everyone else, especially folks who cannot spend an entire afternoon and evening watching.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Now they are suspending for a moment to discuss whether the Congresswoman has to take back her comment about the President obstructing justice

160/

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP 🤬We are more than four hours into this and I really, really, really wish the members had yielded all of their time to a single person or persons who could conduct an actual cross-exam.

There. I said it. Again.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Nadler is speaking. The President will be held accountable.

Howling Collins asked whether Chair Nadler had those comments prepared in advance. He said no.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Howling Collins is talking faster than the disclaimer at the end of a used car lease television ad.

He makes point of order that private consultant can't ask questions. Says violation of rules because needs to be an employee.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Nadler says that the resolution passed last week allows for consultants to ask questions. Also comports with other proceeding questioning and previous impeachment investigation (such as Bill Clinton).

164/

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Howling Collins says "we are not in an impeachment inquiry." He's also waiving his hands. He is turning red.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Howling Collins keeps howling. . . . . . . .

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Now Jim Jordan is asking about this. Said because word "consultant" is not used in the rule changes last week.

Nadler is going to rule now on the point of order

167/

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP "Number one. We are in an impeachment investigation. But it's not relevant to this question. The committees retention of consultants is consistent. . "

Nadler overruled the point of order.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Now Howling Collins is appealing the rule of the Chair. They are doing a roll call.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP It's a little more procedurally complicating. They are actually voting on a motion to table the appeal by Howling Collins

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP The motion to table the appeal of Nadler's ruling to let the consultants ask questions passed

171/

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP A republican made a motion to adjourn. This is a delay tactic because the motion will fail. But here we go counting.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP My entire mood

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Oh, look, another obstacle. Another Republican is making a parliamentary inquiry

174/

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Lofgren makes clear that the word "staff and employee" are not equivalent terms

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP 🔥Now, it's Mr. Burke's time. . . .but legal counsel for Corey Lewandowski says he is making a formal protest. He claims "these are unauthorized questions."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Mr. Burke is asking questions.

Burke: Were you ever concerned that the President asked you to do something that put you in harms way or put you in trouble?

Lewandowski: Said no

Burke shows him a video of him saying, "you take the fifth when you're in trouble"

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Burke: Isn't it a fact that contrary to your testimony that you voluntarily appeared that you asserted your rights under the 5th amendment. . . Did you never receive immunity in order to testify

Lewandowski: He won't answer this

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP 🥑Holy Guacamole! Burke is AWESOME

179/

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Burke: Did you receive immunity, sir?

Lewandowski: "I am not going to answer that."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP 💯Burke is conducting a proper cross examination. This is a professional in action. Riveting!

181/

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Burke showed Lewandowski talking to Chuck Todd. Says Lewandowski was untruthful on cable news.

Burke: "Did you lie sir"
Lewandowski: "I don't believe so . . When under oath I have always told the truth."
Burke: That's not my question to you sir.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Lewandowski: Said ask Mueller because those are his methods

Burke: Did you ever misrepresent what you did on behalf of the President?

Lewandowski: I can't think of an instance when I ever did.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP 💥💥💥BAM!

Burke shows a clip from Ari Melber. Lewandowski this year in 2019 says he doesn't remember the president every asking him!

Lewandowski: I have no obligation to be honest with the media because they [are not honest]. My interview can be interpreted in any way

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP 👇
Lewandowski: "I have no obligation to have a candid conversation with the media . . .Perhaps I was inaccurate that time.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Burke: Why did you lie on national television other than protecting self and the president

Lewandowski: Said he doesn't want to take a guess

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Burke: You didn't want to have a public log because you wanted to have casual dinner with the Attorney General?

Lewandowski: He agreed

Burke: You didn't want a public log because you knew what you were doing was wrong

Lewandowski: No

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Now Lewandowski agreed that the special counsel wrote that he didn't want a record.

Burke: So I asked you sir, if you didn't think you were doing anything wrong, why wouldn't you want him to have an advantage over you?

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Burke: You wanted to assert leverage

Lewandowski: No Mr. Burke

189/

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Now Burke is showing a Fox Interview during which Lewandowski said he never asked Sessions to interfere with the Mueller investigation in April 2019, day after redacted report came out

Burke: You were asked to deliver that message
Lewandowski: I believe that's accurate

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Burke: You knew if you delivered that message it wouuld be illegal

Lewandowski: I did not have the privilege to go to Harvard Law

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Burke: Over a month after the President asked you to deliver the message, you did not deliver it

Lewandowski: I believe that's what the report said

Burke: Why didn't you deliver it . .

Lewandowski: Mr. Burke, it wasn't a priority. . .for me

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Sorry. His name is spelled Berke. It's Barry Berke. Please consider that corrected above

193/

@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: Asks why he went to Dearborn. Also asked if he tried to meet with Sessions

Lewandowski: Not to the best of my recollection

Berke: Asked if the reason he didn't do it because he thought it was wrong.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: Why did the president think you'd be prepared to deliver a message that no one in his administration was willing to deliver? Two weeks before you met with the Pres in June 2017, wasn't he in convo about having a senior role

Lewandowski: Said WH won't allow him

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: Asks Lewandowski why he won't talk now yet he was willing to disclose in his book these convos that took place in the White House

Lewandowski: Tries to plug his book. His lawyer has leaned in to advise him as Berke is talking

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: Puts up on the screen Lewandowski's written account of the role he would play in the White House. "Same level as Jared."

Lewandowski: "The book is accurate."

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: You wrote, "loyalty is the currency of the realm." So when he asked you to deliver this message a few weeks after the meeting when you were a non-gov't employee you knew you were being considered for a position at same level as Jared?

Lewandowski: No, sir.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: He was dangling the position. . .if you do his bidding to deliver a secret message

Lewandowski: No, sir

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: You were being considered to run the Russian investigation, according the book . . . Is that a true fact sir.

Lewandowski: Said that's what Preibus told him

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: When the President asked you to deliver to the attorney general that you were being asked to run the very investigation into Russian interference

Lewandowski: That was Mr. Preibus' idea, not the President's idea

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: Did the President raise with you joining administration before [the meeting with Sessions]

Lewandowski: I cannot divulge those conversations (with President)

Berke: He reads from the book. You already divulged this

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: Asked about the report

Lewandowski: Repeats he never read the report

Berke: Isn't it true that just last week you were signing autographs. . did you go to an event? Do you make light of it?

Lewandowski: "I am outraged"

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Berke: show you something in Mueller Report that you agreed to sign. [Pulls up slide from Page 97, Volume II]. President was telling Lewandowski to try to get AGto shift investigation to future elections.

Lewandowski: To best of my knowldege most info in report accurate

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP 👏🙌Berke was outstanding. His time is up.

Bravo!!

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP But, look at this. Howling Collins is trying to use the 1/2 hour himself to question Lewandowski.

One minute recess while Collins figures out who he is appointing

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP While we are in the recess, I think I will head home from my office.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Collins is refusing to designate a staff questioner, so Nadler is ready to gavel out.

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@HouseJudiciary @RepRaskin @HouseDemocrats @TedDeutch @RepSwalwell @davidcicilline @RepJerryNadler @tedlieu @RepJayapal @RepValDemings @RepMGS @lucymcbath @RepDean @RepDMP Gaveled out at 6:34 p.m.

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