The plot thickens: Lewandowski pulled the same stunt today Bannon pulled yesterday—a false assertion of privilege for post-firing conversations—and House Intel Committee Republicans did nothing. Schiff noted the difference, and clearly found it suspicious. foxnews.com/politics/2018/…
2/ Couple this with MSNBC reporting indicating that House Republicans' inexplicable subpoena of Bannon in mid-testimony *threatened* his future usefulness to Mueller—which is why Mueller then subpoenaed him himself, apparently—and it seems *some* kind of game is going on here.
3/ So the White House and House Republicans treated Corey Lewandowski *completely* differently from Steve Bannon in an *identical* situation. What Schiff picked up on is this: Bannon is seen as a possible Trump enemy, while Lewandowski is seen as a Trump ally. So something is up.
4/ But it's also telling that, *without* (apparently) any direct instruction from the White House Counsel's office, Corey Lewandowski—who's still in touch with Trump and Trumpworld—*knew* that he was supposed to not answer *any* questions about post-June 2016 chats with Trump.
5/ The picture emerging here is of a Trump-Nunes nexus which—again—is snaking around behind the scenes trying to deep-six the Russia investigation. It would explain a *lot* about how strangely the last 48 hours of House Intelligence Committee testimony unfolded, that's for sure.
PS/ One correction: the NYT reports the Bannon subpoena came *last week*. So that means the GOP brought Bannon in, and tried to subpoena him mid-testimony, to *force* him to disclose to Trump's agents (notably Nunes) what he planned to tell Bob Mueller. So: mystery solved, then.
