Corey Lewandowski's hearing quickly descended into chaos today. Watch the moment he refused to answer a basic question about a meeting he had with Trump (instead he requested to see a copy of the Mueller report first, leading to groans from the Dems)
President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski sent Democrats into a rage Tuesday as he swatted down dozens of questions about potential obstruction of justice by the president, while also using the hearing as a launchpad for a possible U.S. Senate campaign.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201909/96/1155968404_6087175946001_6087174069001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" The hearing’s tensest moment came at the outset, when Lewandowski repeatedly refused to answer basic questions from Nadler about his conversations with the president — regardless of whether they were cited in the Mueller report — and the hearing devolved into a shouting match between Republicans and Democrats on the panel.
In his analysis of the episode, Mueller found that Trump’s actions met all the criteria that would typically result in an obstruction of justice charge. But Mueller also indicated that this team had determined at the outset not to judge whether Trump had committed a crime, owing in large part to a longstanding Justice Department opinion that says a sitting president is immune from indictment.
Two other Mueller witnesses on the committee’s schedule — Dearborn and former White House staff secretary Rob Porter — both declined to appear under orders from the White House that were issued late Monday. The White House cited “absolute immunity” in ordering them not to testify. Lewandowski was also ordered to not discuss his conversations with the president, other than those detailed in the Mueller report.
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