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Out, members of congress do not have the time to prepare the way lawyers prepare. >> right. >> or the way staff can prepare. and that preparation is critically important. and i think the third point, which is also incredibly important, is dont bring a knife to a gun fight, and they didnt even bring the knife. so, this whole question of contempt. and when you have a witness like corey lewandowski saying, i have no legal argument that any court will recognize to say that i dont have to answer your...

Disclose the discussions with the president or his advisors -- >> reclaiming my time -- >> -- confidentiality. >> youre not going to stonewall me in my questioning. this witness continues to obstruct this committee by refusing to answer questions. i ask that you would judge him in contempt in these proceedings. >> corey lewandowski, the first witness in the democrats impeachment inquiry, struck a smug, combative tone at the house judiciary committee hearings on tuesday, and democrats, frankly, s...

Did this hearing convince you even more we need an impeachment inquiry? >> i think it was in front of the judiciary committee and therefore i think for me, the impeachment inquiry has begun and this is trying to get to the facts. this was one of the most arrogant days of hearing ive ever seen. its very disturbing and im someone who holds they will hold him in contempt of congress. >> and house speaker nancy pelosi said during a private meeting that she would have held lewandoski in contempt righ...

That this president has put around everything and every investigation that congress has undertaken -- >> but congressman, to that effect, what can congress do in this regard to hold the president accountable, that they havent already tried to do? >> well, i think theres one thing we should have done with that judiciary committee hearing, and speaker pelosi said it. that is to bang the gavel down and hold in contempt the president ooze fo presidents former campaign manager, and we do have the abi...

And that is to investigate and to hold in contempt, and literally hold in our congressional prison, and we have one, those who are in contempt. >> i do want to ask you about the escalating tensions with iran, because its certainly a hot-button topic here with the president having weighed in on his options to responding to an attack on that saudi oil facility a week ago. the u.s. has certainly blamed iran for this. lets take a listen. >> and again, kept working. and at the last second, his fastba...

Lewandowski in to interview him about discrepancies about what he said in the mueller report and publicly. he was a reluctant witness. you tried pressing him. he didnt always want to answer. speaker pelosi watched that entire hearing and said she would have held corey lewandowski in contempt there and then. why didnt you all do that? >> well, the judiciary committee is going to have a meeting later on today called by the chair jerry nadler and well see what the decision is made in terms of how t...

Trump campaign and limit it to future instances of interference. that is textbook obstruction of justice and try as he might, lewandowski did not run away from that troubling allegation. he confirmed that allegation. and that was the most important thing that came out of the hearing. >> okay. so today youre having a meeting about what to do. might you fine him? might you hold him in contempt? >> well, theres a rage of possibilities. but theres some interest in making sure we both send the right ...

They wanted to but theyre not serious. >> i agree with rick. right now the congress is not acting like a coequal branch of government. nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. theyve given their consent to be an interior branch. the republicans have given their consent because theyre scared to death. >> mitch mcconnell just looks the tv camera in the face and says im doing it my way, live with it. >> and the democrats, chris, i given their consent because theyre unwilling to use a...

>>i its always a sales pitch with him. >> okay. thank you for watching "inside politics." brianna keilar starts right now. have a good afternoon. im brianna keilar live from washingtons cnn headquarters. underway right now, president trump asks, quote, is anybody dumb enough to believe i would say something inappropriate tie foreign leader? as the intelligence communitys internal watchdog raises a red flag for something alarming trump said to a foreign leader. after cory lewandowski took a w...

Them. and i would tell you with very few exceptions staff is a very accurate reflection of that principle. so if youve got a president of the united states, if youve got a donald trump who has lied over 12,000 times in the time that he has been in office, yes, you need people who enable your lies, who justify your lies, who strengthen your lies, who repeat your lies, who are an echo chamber for your lies, who is make you believe your lies and who pretend to believe your lies and go out and spout...