NBC News reports that current White House official Rick Dearborn fully cooperated with House Intelligence Committee investigators during his closed door testimony on Wednesday, but former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski did not.
The panel’s top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, told reporters that it was “completely unacceptable” that Lewandowski refused to address questions both about events during the Trump campaign and his conversations with the president since, even whether he personally discussed his impending testimony with Trump in the last 24 hours.
Rather than cite the possibility that the president might assert executive privilege to block his testimony, Lewandowski said he was simply not prepared to provide those answers Wednesday, offering to return at a later date.
“Yesterday he said on Fox that he would answer every question that we had. Today, however, he refused,” Schiff said. “To me it’s inconceivable that you would come to an investigative hearing on these issues unprepared to answer questions.”
Lewandowski rebuffs House committee’s questions in Russia probe (NBC News)