congressman. ari melber has the first kwer f question for you. you talked about how we re getting to a point where the impeachment process is necessary. when you look at corey lewandowski s performance yesterday, does that actually undercut the argument that you need to hear from a lot more witnesses before moving towards potential articles of impeachment? a lot of viewers thought, well, he s not cooperating that much how many more new facts do you learn on a day like yesterday? sure, i think that obviously it was a combative hearing, but i think that i think the investigation needs to continue, especially with regard to other important fact witnesses don mcgahn, i think, is at the top of the list. obviously that s in litigation right now before he comes before capitol hill i think the investigation needs to proceed. congressman, donny deutsch nice to talk to you. what s the game plan going
also with us jim messina he served as white house deputy chief of staff to president obama and ran his 2012 re-election campaign great to have you all on board this hour. we have some very interesting 2020 poll numbers to get to in just a moment. but we will start with yesterday s hearing, which lasted for more than five hours. it was contentious as democrats struggled to get more information on a key part of the mueller report that claims in a june 2017 meeting in the oval office, the president told lewandowski to instruct then attorney general jeff sessions to announce publicly that the president had done nothing wrong and the special counsel investigation was unfair since we have ari here, let s play this key exchange between corey lewandowski and house judiciary counsel barry burke. my question to you, sir, is on national television did you lie about your relationship with
lewandowski in the hearings yesterday. what do you think was accomplished yesterday in those hearings well, i think it s one of those things where obviously mr. lewandowski came with a game plan to not answer any questions. i think that mr. nadler is considering citing him for contempt, but that being said, i think there are a lot more witnesses that have to be talked to and more everyday to be gathered. willie. congressman, let me ask you about a different topic. you have over the course of the summer, in fact, been at the leading edge of an investigation into youth e-cigarettes and the epidemic that s now taken hold in this country. where do we stand with that? do you support, for example, the new york state ban that went into effect yesterday of flavored e-cigarettes that clearly target and market toward young kids yes, i do your viewers may already know this, but there s a national epidemic of youth vaping underway 25% of high schoolers are vaping, and 5% of middle
forwar forward? how do you kind of put this mosaic together so it s a very single minded thing that we ll cut through for voters i think that there are various lines of investigation right now. as you know i m on the house intelligence committee, and there i think we are basicallyes other members of thengthat we learned is that mr. mueller did not really get into assessing the counter intelligence risks associated with those financial ties and really didn t get into those financial ties at all. that s potentially something that has to be surfaced and looked at very closely going forward. i think that would be very new information to decide whether or not to proceed with impeachment. so congressman, there are some critics who say that nothing was revealed by corey
know where you re going and you and it was about your reporting can at least present the picture and your documentary of competence and success. where are we it s possible democrats are it s a question we could have asked for 18 straight years. laying the foundation for future hearings in a way that will help what is the objective and what better make their case is the most likely outcome here but all it was yesterday is as we approach 20 years since really performance art by corey the beginning that have war? lewandowski and it made boy, you re asking me to predict the future of democrats look like they didn t afghanistan, a tough one i mean, our concern is that they really come up with that much. that impacts public opinion and the problem they re having with afghanistan doesn t become a host country to al qaeda again so they can attack us. impeachment is not neszcessaril that is our national concern it s not justified, you do not second to that, i think it s have enough political