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President trump? welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news. house democrats right now holding their first impeachment inquiry and it has gotten ugly fast. testifying today is former trump campaign manager corey lewandowksi who at the direction of the white house is refusing to answer most questions. lewandowski never worked in the white house. which makes the white house claim of executive privilege quite questionable according to legal scholars. democrats want him to talk about meetings with the president described in the mueller report. including one in which the ...

On. >> it is -- it is utter dysfunction. and the most surprising thing is corey lewandowksi would show up on the hill and chaos and dysfunction would reign. that is about what you could expect from him so i don't know what they thought they were going to get by having him come. basically stonewalling in the beginning and then finally trying to answer questions but in a pretty dishonest way. he didn't not deliver it because he went on vacation. that kind of fails the smell test. >> you think he didn't deliver because he thought it was illegal. >> i can't prove that. but i do -- it is a very unl...

Wondering, you're a person of faith, is jesus really invested in sean spicer winning "dancing with the stars"? >> jesus loves sean spicer. he loves everyone. >> he loves all of us. >> but he doesn't care about who wins "dancing with the stars." listen, i like "dancing with the stars" because i think we need light-hearted happy and fun television but they made a choice to bring sean spicer in the program and now it is blowing back on the show because he's making crude plays for votes by playing the jesus card on twitter. it is weird. >> what did you think of it all? >> we live in a majority chr...

It was a good decision but i can't. and frankly, i don't know why they didn't just stop it midway through. and obvious this is how it would play out. they now this is how lewandowski is. rather than let him sit there and be disrespectful and say president swalwell, i would have just stopped it and said if you are not going to take this seriously, then contempt of congress or whatever it is, but don't give him the air time to continue to make a mockery of this whole thing. >> what do you think? >> lewandowski didn't answer questions at the request. they say it is the order. but really just a re...

Saying? >> that is correct. that is where i stand on it. i certainly would not try to have suggested what mr. nadler should be doing. but if i were in his shoes, that is what i would be doing because it is clear what they want to do. they want to prevent us from doing a full investigation of impeachment and they will prevent people from coming to testify. we'll then go to court under a civil contempt proceedings where then that will wind its way through court over a long period of time, and we'll get that result two or three years down the road. this is a president that does not respect the ru...