Lewandowski Testifies Before House Intel Committee.
COOPER: As we discussed before the break, former Trump campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was before the House Intelligence Committee today. Panel member Eric Swalwell mentioned this. The Committee's Ranking Democrat Adam Schiff is not happy. Congressman Schiff, as Lewandowski refused to talk about some topics and doesn't get to pick and choose which questions to answer. Back now with the panel, it does seem like just about everybody had goes before this committee does get to pick and choose what questions they want to answer.</s>BORGER: Right. Because, you know, the Democrats don't control the committee. It's fallen apart. They don't even know who the Ranking Republican is on the committee anymore who the chairman is. Is it Nunes or Conway? And they're just daring (ph) them. Lewandowski, in talking with the Special Counsel, would not be able to claim any kind of privilege.</s>COOPER: But none of these people --</s>BORGER: Lewandowski doesn't have any privilege. I mean, he was dismissed during the campaign. He's not serving in the White House. It's not like it was with Hope Hicks where they were literally on the phone or was it Bannon, they were on the phone to the White House trying to figure out what he could and he couldn't say. So this is Corey Lewandowski just, you know, thumbing his nose at these guys and saying, I don't have to answer your questions. There is no hell to pay for it.</s>FALLON: But even when White House officials, sitting White House officials have tried to dodge answering questions, they haven't formally invoked any kind of privilege. They've just sort of informally said, no, we're not going to answer that. You heard Jeff Sessions go before Congress and say, I'm not going to answer that because I want to hold open the possibility that the President may want to invoke executive privilege which is another inventive privilege that doesn't exist legally. You can do one of two things in these scenarios. You can either invoke privilege and have a legitimate claim and that can be tested or you can plead the fifth. In Corey Lewandowski's case if, he doesn't want to have the conversations he may have had where he -- that may implicate the President about that June Trump Tower meeting. And so we were -- during the break, we're talking. This only lasts for as long as Republicans control the gavel and can take no for an answer. But I guarantee Adam Schiff is not going to make this a voluntary interview. He's going to subpoena things and subpoena people. And he will hold people in contempt if he takes that gavel back.</s>PSAKI: And Eric Swalwell just alluded to that during that interview. He just said, like, this is somebody we could bring back essentially.</s>COOPER: But what does this mean? I mean, regardless of, you know, where you stand on the rest of the story and whether do you think this committee needs to be doing what it's doing, just for the future, I mean, is this just a -- are we just going to see more -- this is a line that's been crossed and we're going to see more and more and more of this kind of stuff or is this just a one off?</s>JENNINGS: You know, I have my thoughts about the way the Democrats have conducted themselves on this committee. But I think, generally speaking, the House Intelligence Committee has been more amateurish than the Senate Intelligence Committee. I think what I'll want to see on the intelligence committee is, look, a lot of these policy committees, they get partisan. We have debates over bills. These intelligence committees are doing important things.</s>COOPER: Right.</s>JENNINGS: Should be above partisan politics. The Senate Intelligence Committee is handled itself extremely professionally. I think most people would agree the House Committee has evolved a bit. We've got to get these intelligence committees back to where they are which is basically above the partisan, you know, atmosphere that has gripped this House Committee and frankly has them. You know, I think most Americans are looking at both sides going. I don't know if I trust any of these people.</s>BORGER: They're not going to get the answers. Mueller's going to get the answers. I mean, it isn't going to come from the Congress. It isn't going to come from the politicians. It's going to come from the Special Counsel. And as the story unfolds, I think that's where we're really going to really learn it. Because he does subpoena people. And he can indict people. And he has cut deals with people.</s>COOPER: We should -- I know there's obviously politics. But Marc should Republicans subpoena people who are not answering questions?</s>LOTTER: I think it's important to remember though that what we heard Congressman Schiff talk about is that Corey didn't answer questions about the drafting of the statement following about the June Trump meeting. Well, he wasn't in the administration, talking about discussions about firing of James Comey. He wasn't in the administration. Or possible discussions which have always been denied about potentially firing Bob Mueller. He's not in the administration. So, did he not answer questions about things he wasn't in the administration to know about? And, I mean, at the end of the day, it seems to me that Democrats are grabbing at more straws than stable hands.</s>PSAKI: Look, ultimately, I think what the staff needs to remember is President Nixon didn't go to jail and about a dozen of his staff did. So, this makes lie with these committees but it's not going fly with Mueller and it's not going to even fly with all the committees. And that's why they're going to come back.</s>FALLON: And you're seeing it this week. I mean, we had a former Trump adviser have a meltdown on television the other day claiming he was going to defy Bob Mueller and by all accounts he is submitting because all it takes is one conversation with a serious lawyer to tell you that if you don't comply, you're going to jail. And it could be for a long time.</s>JENNINGS: Yes. I think this is a side show ultimately. I mean, look, you know, people could show up and answer questions, not answer questions, we can talk about Mueller is the key to all of this.</s>COOPER: Right.</s>JENNINGS: You know, the partisan nature of this committee means Republicans are going to do what they do today. If Democrats win the House, they'll do what they do next year. But the only thing we ought to really care about here is getting this Mueller investigation conclude which is gone for a very long time and appears to be, you know, moving forward at a rapid pace. This is a side show compared to that. And if I'm the White House tonight, I'm looking at this going, you know, this is not in my -- I'm worried about Mueller, not this.</s>BORGER: You know, I think Congress' responsibility to at least to shine the light on the stories. And they did it in Iran-Contra when you had people publicly testify even though there was a special separate prosecution going on. And these committees have not really done that. I mean, there was Comey testifying, but we didn't see a lot of public testimony.</s>COOPER: Yes. We're going to take a break. Thanks everybody, appreciate it. Coming up, a new CNN Original Series uncovered rare details about America's most famous political family. I'm not talking about the Trumps. 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