A Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee said Friday that former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski dodged key questions about his conversations with President Trump in an interview with the committee by saying the questions were “not pertinent” to the investigation.
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said there were three questions that Lewandowski’s attorney dismissed because “it wasn’t pertinent” when the committee interviewed him for a second time on Thursday as part of its probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
{mosads}The three questions sought information about his conversations with Trump regarding his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, any attempts to fire special counsel Robert Mueller and a controversial June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower between campaign advisers and a Russian attorney.
“Those are pretty pertinent,” Quigley said on CNN’s “New Day.”
The interview was Lewandowski’s second with the panel, after an initial appearance in January when he said he wasn’t prepared to answer questions about anything about anything that occurred from the campaign after he was fired in June 2016.
Quigley likened Lewandowski’s latest interview to that of former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who refused to answer 25 questions from the panel.
Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the top Democrat on the committee, is now calling for a subpoena to force Lewandowski to answer the questions.