Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testifies

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, critiqued Corey Lewandowski’s conduct during testimony, telling the former Trump campaign manager "you are not on the campaign trail yet."

Lewandowski is considering a Senate run in his home state of New Hampshire.

Here's what Jeffries said:

Rep. Karen Bass, a Democrat from California, asked Corey Lewandowski why he did not want to leave a “paper trail” of his visit with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Lewandowski responded: “Well Jeff and I are friends socially and I wanted to have the opportunity to have a meal with Jeff and relay the conversation which the President asked me to ask Jeff to consider giving.”

Some context: Lewandowski was heavily referenced in Robert Mueller's report on obstruction of justice.

In one instance, Mueller wrote that Trump's former campaign manager was directed by the President to ask Sessions to limit the Mueller investigation and not to investigate the Trump campaign. Lewandowski tried to set up an in-person meeting with Sessions, but did not do so, according to the special counsel.

A month after making the request to Lewandowski about Sessions, the President followed up with Lewandowski and told him that if Sessions did not meet with him, he would be fired. Lewandowski did not deliver the intended message to Sessions. Instead, he asked former White House aide Rick Dearborn to speak to Sessions.

Asked by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz about why the Judiciary committee is pursuing their investigation, Corey Lewandowski answered by questioning their patriotism. 

Here's what he said:

Gaetz: "So Mr. Lewandowski, do you have a thought why we continue to engage in a charade that is overwhelmingly opposed by the American people and fundamentally misunderstood by my Democrat colleagues?"

Lewandowski: "You know, congressman, I think they hate this president more than they love their country. 

In an exchange with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), Corey Lewandowski denied feeling “squeamish” about delivering President Trump’s message to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He said he instead took his children to the beach around the time he was being asked to deliver it.

Lewandowski also denied Johnson’s assertion Trump “hounded” him about getting the message to Sessions, but he seemed to slip up when he said Trump hadn’t asked him about it on “multiple occasions.” When Johnson inquired if Trump had asked him on “one occasion,” Lewandowski referred him back to the Mueller report.

Some background: Lewandowski was heavily referenced in former special counsel Robert Mueller's report, which described how Trump tried to stop the investigation into his campaign and re-focus the probe on preventing future meddling. The report says Trump repeatedly directed Lewandowski in 2017 to deliver this message to Sessions, but Lewandowski ignored Trump and didn't follow through.

Here's a portion of today's exchange:

Johnson: President Trump was hounding you about when are you going to deliver that message, correct?

Lewandowski: Completely inaccurate, congressman.

Johnson: Well, he asked you about it a few times, didn’t he?

Lewandowski: No, he did not.

Johnson: He never asked you whether or not you had delivered that message?

Lewandowski: Not on multiple occasions, no.

Johnson: One occasion…okay…he did mention it on one occasion to you?

Lewandowski: I don’t know if that’s in the report, sir, or not.

Johnson: And you told him that, yeah I’m going to get around to it, I’m gonna deliver it, correct?

Lewandowski: I’d have to see the reference to the Mueller report where that is, sir.

Johnson: It’s in the report…

Lewandowski: Can you direct me to the book and page so I can review that?

Johnson: I don’t need to waste any time with that….

Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, sarcastically asked Corey Lewandowski if he had any information that would support the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after he refused to answer questions about White House conversations.

Ratcliffe called the Democrats the "party of impeachment," and alluded to some Democrats' calls to impeach Kavanaugh after a new book provided unreported details of an incident of alleged sexual misconduct while he was a student at Yale.

Lewandowski responded: "He's a good man."

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Republican Rep. Jim Jordan attacked chairman Jerry Nadler during today's hearing, demanding that the committee hold hearings on the Justice Department's inspector general report on former FBI director James Comey's handling of his memos rather than questioning Lewandowski. 

About the report: The inspector general said in a report that Comey violated agency policies when he retained and leaked a set of memos he took documenting meetings with President Trump early in 2017.

Comey set a "dangerous example" for FBI employees in an attempt to "achieve a personally desired outcome," the report states.

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In a tense exchange with Corey Lewandowski, Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen accused the former campaign manager of being "some kind of a Forrest Gump" when it comes to corruption.

Special counsel Robert Mueller wrote in his report that Lewandowski was directed by President Trump to ask then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to limit the Mueller investigation and not to investigate the Trump campaign.

Lewandowski responded: "That would be a question for the President."

Here's more of Cohen's exchange with Lewandowski:

Cohen: Mr. Lewandowski, it's clear here you were not an employee, you admitted, of the White House. You had no W2, you had no card, you had nothing. You were not an employee. And you were a policeman at one time — so you know something about the law and about following the law. Didn't you think is was a little strange the President would sit down with you one on one and ask you to do something that you knew was against the law? Did that strike you as strange? 

Lewandowski: I disagree with the premise of your question, congressman. 

Cohen: You weren't a policeman? 

Lewandowski: I didn't think the President asked me to do anything illegal.

Cohen: You didn't think it's illegal for you to ask Mr. Sessions to drop the investigation and to just go on to future presidents and omit everything with this President and go "Ollie Ollie In Free" and start the next one colluding with Russia? You didn't that was illegal, to obstruct justice?

Lewandowski: Congressman, the President didn't ask me anything illegal.

Cohen: Obviously, you've never been a judge, and won't be one. All these people asked you, did he give you dictation? He dictated to you a message to give Sessions. Had you ever been a secretary for the President before and taken dictation or shorthand? 

Lewandowski: Many times. 

Cohen: Oh, then we got your qualifications now. You were a secretary.

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Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski got into a heated exchange with Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee after he refused to answer several questions, citing executive privilege.

The pair got into a back and forth several times during her time for questioning.

Here's one of their exchanges:

Rep. Jackson Lee: I'm going to continue.

Lewandowski: Then don't ask me a question if you don't want to hear my answer.

Rep. Jackson Lee: This is a House judiciary, not a house party.

Lewandowski: Give me the opportunity to answer your question.

Rep. Jackson Lee: The campaign special counsel's investigating, I'd like my time restored please of his interruption.

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Corey Lewandowski said it was not his idea to invoke executive privilege today, nor had he spoken to anyone in the White House counsel’s office about today’s testimony.

“It was not my idea to provide this letter,” said Lewandowski, referring to the letter from White House counsel Pat Cipollone claiming that executive privilege would restrict Lewandowski’s testimony before the committee. 

Here's the full exchange:

Nadler: Sir, did you ask the White House counsels to be here? 

Lewandowski: Congressman, as I just reiterated, I've never spoken to anyone in the White House counsel's office. 

Nadler: The answer is no. Was it your idea for you not to answer questions based on a claim of executive privilege? 

Lewandowski: I can reiterate, I did not ask — I have never had conversation with someone from the White House counsel’s office regarding this matter.

Nadler: So it was not your — so it was your idea not to answer the— 

Lewandowski: I have never had a conversation with someone from the White House counsel’s office about this matter—

Nadler: Was it your idea not to answer these questions on the basis of executive privilege, yes or no? 

Lewandowski: Congressman, I can only go by the letter that was provided. It was not my idea to provide this letter.