White House Responds after House Judiciary Subpoenas Corey Lewandowski.
KEILAR: Breaking news. The House Judiciary Committee just subpoenaed former Trump campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, as well as a former White House official. CNN's senior congressional correspondent, Manu Raju, has the story live for us from Capitol Hill. Manu, this subpoenaed is coming about a week after the chairman of this committee, Jerry Nadler, said this is formal impeachment proceedings. What is going on here?</s>MANU RAJU, CNN SENOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: They're ramping up their investigation as they consider whether or not to move forward with articles of impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee. The Democratic-led committee issuing these subpoenas today to Corey Lewandowski, the former campaign manager, as well as Rick Dearborn, a former White House official, demanding their appearance in a public hearing on September 17th. Now, both Dearborn and Lewandowski were cited in the Mueller report about the allegations of obstruction of justice, namely, the president's apparent efforts to undermine the Mueller investigation. In the report, it discusses how the president reached out to Corey Lewandowski to try to urge Lewandowski to set up a meeting with then- attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who the president wanted to limit the scope of the Mueller probe to not include the campaign. Instead, to focus on future election meddling. Lewandowski tried to set up that meeting. It did not happen. The president followed up with him, asked him to move forward, and then Lewandowski though it would be better to reach out to Rick Dearborn. Dearborn was formerly chief of staff to Jeff Sessions. Was given a typed note that was delivering the president's message to try to set up that meeting that never took place. Those are the questions Democrats have for these officials. That they will come in before the committee, still an open question. And of course, coming on the same day as Corey Lewandowski was expected to appear with the president, someone who's considering a run for the New Hampshire Senate race. We'll see if he answers questions the Democrats have in this hearing -- Brianna?</s>KEILAR: Let's bring in our colleague, White House correspondent, Kaitlan Collins, on this story. Kaitlan, you're there in Bedminster. How is the White House, how is the Trump administration expected to respond to this?</s>KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, the question in the past has been, how are they going to respond. And what we're seen before, is the White House, with aids like Don McGahn, Hope Hicks, Annie Donaldson, who was Don McGahn's deputy, they've tried to invoke some sort of executive privilege to either prevent of limit them from complying with these subpoenas. But now we're learning about a tactic they may try to pursue when it comes to Corey Lewandowski, someone who has not worked in the White House ever since Trump has been in office and hasn't worked for the president since the 2016 campaign. We're now being told by three sources that inside the White House there are preliminary discussions about trying to invoke executive privilege to stop or limit Corey Lewandowski from complying with the subpoena. Now, invoking privilege before has worked, because they make this argument that the president should be able to have conversations with people that are at the highest levels of his own government without those officials having to go and testify or divulge what the president spoke about. What we have not seen before, is the White House try to do this with someone who's never worked in the administration like a Corey Lewandowski. Now, the discussions are preliminary. Essentially, the White House knew these subpoenas were coming. They had already been authorized. They knew they were going to be issued or at least they expected them to. So they've been having these discussions. They were waiting until they had been issued for them to take any kind of action, to reach out to the Office of Legal Counsel to see whether this is an argument they can make. But we shout note that even some officials and allies of the president are skeptical that they're going to be able to make this argument that typically they've only applied to people who have worked in the White House and tried to apply it to someone who is only informally advised the president. But that certainly is an option that they are pursuing and still considering even as of today -- Brianna?</s>KEILAR: Kaitlan, Manu, thank you so much. Still ahead, we have much more on our breaking news. Israel saying it will bar two Democratic Congresswomen from visiting the country after President Trump tweets they should not be allowed in. And just in, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar responding.