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>> yes. >> give us some dates, well be happy to sit for an interview. >> thats right. >> what happened next? >> next, ab five weeks ago, the committee urb showed a subpoena for my appearance. >> youre willing to come voluntarily, just like you did with the intel house, just like you did for bob mueller, 20 hours. youre willing to do that. complied when they asked for certain documents. when they want you to come in for an interview, you say, sure, well do it, then hit you with a subpoena. >> yes...

Wrong. thats what he wanted you to deliver to attorney general jeff sessions, correct? >> i believe thats an accurate representation. >> and he wanted you to deliver it to jeff so that jeff could say it to the people, right? >> i believe so. >> and you felt kind of squeamish, like that fish that youre trying to be right now, being scaled. you felt squeamish about delivering that message, correct? >> no, sir. >> well, why didnt you -- why did it take you so long and you never even delivered it. >...

Last year. thats something in the jurisdiction of this committee, yet we do virtually nothing about it in this committee. balanced budget amendment, something i have introduced in this congress. we got a $22 trillion debt hanging over our head, yet we do nothing in this committee about attempting to actually pass something that would make us balance the budget every year like all our states have to do. so finally, i just want to thank you again, mr. lewandowski, for appearing at todays hearing. ...

Barred from participating, speaking out about the russian investigation. the public didnt know about the attempts to influence the election at the time. what everyone knew, mr. lewandowski, was that the presidents campaign was under investigation and they knew the attorney general couldnt touch it because he was a major part of the campaign. he advised on national security measures. back in march he had recused himself, he had recused himself from anything having to do with the investigation. yo...

If that message was inappropriate. he maintains there was nothing illegal about the request and the committee just hammering it over and over. superpartisan. youve got no one in the middle here. you have the republicans on the one side, democrats on the other, taking up a lot of time of this committee in order to do that. we are going to be joined by catherine herridge, our chief intelligence correspondent. shes not quite ready yet. the president was watching the opening statement of corey lewan...

Wanted jeff to say it, correct? >> i believe the mueller report accurately depicts that. >> and mr. lewandowski, weve projected on the screen the message that the president dictated to you that he wanted you to deliver to the attorney general. its on the screen. id like for you to read the first two sentences, if you would entertain that. >> as director mueller stated when asked to read from the report, and i quote, i would be happy to have you read it, congressman. >> would you prefer for me to...

So what they do is spend valuable committee time that we could be spending on other important things on this fake, faux impeachment. and its a shame, because this committee could be doing so much more on behalf of the american people. with that, i yield back. >> mr. chairman, point of parliamentary inquiry? >> gentle man will state his point of parliamentary. >> the witness answered a long line of questions from the gentle man from ohio about whether donald trump had colluded with the russians, ...

Not a house party. >> so if you ask me a question, give me the opportunity to answer your question. >> id like my time restored please of his interruption. so he was a witness to the special counsels investigation. for that reason, sessions said publicly that federal law prohibited his involvement in the special counsels investigation. heres a quote from the report fro volume 2 pages 49-50 which is on the screen. you can read that. yes or no, did the president tell you the attorney general was n...

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Could impeach donald trump, essentially convict them in their version of a trial in the house and not send it to the senate. hed be impeached and mitch mcconnell couldnt touch it. is that true? >> i think thats true and i trust lawrence tribes opinion more than mine. i think its worth, just to circle back, i think the most important mistake that nancy pelosi is making right now is this notion that were going to find some smoking gun evidence, right, that were going to get a gotcha. were going to...