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Things got very heated Wednesday evening in a taped interview between former Trump campaign chairman Cory Lewandowski and MTP Daily Moderator Chuck Todd when the MSNBC host refused to hear the facts behind the Clinton-DNC connection to the Russians. “If you're going to speak in facts, at least speak in facts,” Todd shouted, but he just didn’t want to hear them.
In their interview, which was taped on Tuesday, Todd wanted to know if Lewandowski believed Russia tried to influence the U.S. election. Of course, Lewandowski answered in the affirmative and made the case that they were trying to cause havoc in the election through avenues like the infamous dossier funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
“I know you're trying to twist this around there and you focus there, but I'm talking about everything we've learned,” Todd shot back. “Do you acknowledge that the Russians were trying everything they could to defeat Hillary Clinton?”
Lewandowski argued that if the Russians were working solely to sink Clinton’s campaign, then why did the campaign spend tons of money on a firm which hired a British spy that was working with Russian agents? “There never has been a payment from the Trump campaign or the RNC to anybody attempting to coordinate with Russia to get information. That's only come from the Democrats,” he explained.
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