“Hardball” Roundtable: Democrats Did A “Great Job” Grilling Lewandowski, Got Him To Admit He Lies To MSNBC

MSNBC host Chris Matthews, legal analyst Cynthia Alksne, and Rep. Steve Cohen agreed that the House Judiciary Committee’s Democratic counsel did a “great job” questioning former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and praised him for getting Lewandowski to admit he does not feel obligated to tell the truth to the media.

“In an explosive exchange on Capitol Hill, just minutes ago, President Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, admitted he was publicly dishonest whether the President asked him to intervene with Jeff Sessions to kill the investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice,” host Chris Matthews declared.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think we saw an example today, this will drive the members of Congress crazy but it’s true, this counsel did a hell of a good job.

CYNTHIA ALKSNE: He did a great job. I could be a groupie by the end of the day.

MATTHEWS: But he got to Lewandowski to admit on camera for the world, I don’t tell the truth, when interviewed on MSNBC.

ALKSNE: He — he got him to admit basically that he was a liar, that he was proud about it that he was a liar. He got him to admit he had a motive to deliver this message because he was trying to get a job at the White House. Lewandowski tried to use that shield of whatever the White House said and he pulled out Lewandowski’s book and read him sections of it so he had to admit that he had the motive to try to do Trump’s bidding so he could get the job. It was masterful. It was done with a — first with a sledgehammer and then a scalpel.

MATTHEWS: You know, Congressman Steve Cohen, thank you, because I think Americans tend to understand things from movies more than life sometimes and what it reminded me of sending Lewandowski over to the Attorney General’s Office to meet with him outside the building, it’s almost like sending Tom Hagen to the prison to talk to Johnny Five Angels and tell him, we got the goods on you, we got your brother in court. I’m telling you, it looked like a mob kind of operation. Why would the President of the United States use a henchman, Lewandowski, to go to the attorney general off-campus and tell him to drop the case against him or he was going to get fired himself? That seems like mob behavior and a hit man at work.