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The audience of Lewandowski continues. Lewandowski refuses to answer most of the questions asked by the Democrats and Republicans about the alleged incompetence of the administration of Barack Obama, it is difficult to release a decisive momentum.

Democratic representative Hank Johnson of Georgia told Lewandowski:

"You are like a fish that you clean with a spoon. It is very difficult to get an answer from you. "

Trump has published a list of names for possible replacements for former National Security Advisor John Bolton:

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan uses his time to praise the progress of the Lewandowski campaign and to salute the quality of the candidate. He then goes on to a statement of outrage over false accusations, he says, that Trump has collaborated with Russia.

Cohen accuses Lewandowski of "cold feet" and "deflating" when he refused to confront the sessions as ordered by Trump. "You were a loyal soldier … except you deflated at the last minute," Cohen said.

Lewandowski keeps his cool, does not seem very impressed.

"You are a kind of Forrest Gump linked to corruption," says Cohen. Then he asks Lewandowski if Trump hired him because he knew that Lewandowski would not be unduly coerced by law.

Ask the president, said Lewandowski.

Tennessee representative Steve Cohen sued the witness.

Lewandowski: "I did not think the president is asking me to do something illegal."

Cohen: "Did not you think it was illegal to obstruct justice?"

Lewandowski denies it.

"Obviously, you have never been a judge and you will not be," says Cohen. Burn.

Lewandowski again refuses to answer a question from Texas representative Sheila Jackson Lee, then Lewandowski shouts her. Then they argue over whether he can see the lines to which he refers on a screen. It becomes a bit personal?

"You are obviously here to block any investigation into the truth," said Jackson Lee.

Collins lashes out against Nadler who breaks the rules of the House until he is expected to run out of time.

And then, curiously, Nadler says that Collins can continue if he wishes.

"He does not want to," Nadler notes.

Nadler resumes. He said he was "very troubled" by the fact that the White House Council "sitting behind you" prevented Lewandowski from testifying.

Collins Tower. He accuses Nadler of a possible violation of ethics and rules of the House. The chronology is as follows:

1 / the witness plays stupid

2 / the president stops the stopwatch

3 / Republicans scream

4 / witness stands

5 / the president exceeds the time

6 / Republicans try to postpone the hearing and denounce a violation of the ethic

As he apparently does not face a legal sanction in this situation, Lewandowski has succeeded with the only audience that must count:

Collins moved adjournment, accusing the president of not following the rules of the House.

This motion fails. But Republicans ask for a roll call.

This time, the clerk is online.

Lewandowski, who has never worked for Donald Trump while he was president, invokes the general privilege of executive power to protect conversations with the president.

Monitoring! Republicans say Nadler's time is up. They require a recorded vote to declare the time elapsed, what they will lose as a minority, but why not. Nadler calls the clerk to call the vote. They can not find the clerk.

How totally miserable.

Nadler claims that Lewandowski is the subject of a "false claim of the privilege of the executive" presented by the White House.

He then asks if Lewandowski met alone with the president in the Oval Office in June 2016, as reported in the Mueller report.

Lewandowski says it's not related to him and that the following is a ubiquitous ridiculous parliamentary procedural argument and a fight between Republicans and Democrats within the committee to stop and start the timing by following how long Nadler has to ask questions like Lewandowski. stalls.

Lewandowski basically claims that he can not read, not know what Nadler is talking about, that he can not find the relevant passages in Mueller's report. It's somewhere between "the dog ate my homework" and "I lost my glasses" … and flipped the bird over the board.

"Anyone trying illegally to influence the outcome of an election should spend the rest of his life in jail." – Corey Lewandowski

He does not talk about the repeated false claims of electoral fraud fraud or Trump's Republican repressive efforts, or even the falsification of Russia in 2016, he's talking about the far-right plot theory that the FBI would have was mistreated while he was investigating Trump's campaign.

It's done. First questions to come.

Lewandowski reads his opening statement. By the way, he suspects Jeanne Shaheen, the current US Democratic Senator from New Hampshire, of taking his place.

Lewandowski complains of what he has already testified before the Congress. Then he tells the story of his glory days in the Trump campaign.

Doug Collins, a prominent member of Georgia, the most influential Republican on the committee, begins with a zany riff about how the majority is trying to turn the Mueller report into an audiobook by holding "ad nauseam" hearings.

Collins points out that 17 Democratic members are already in favor of impeachment "so why are we still investigating her?" Congress: Our work here is over.