President Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Monday said he does not expect former national security adviser Michael Flynn to turn on President Trump even though he has agreed to cooperate with the investigation into Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 election.
NBC “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie asked Lewandowski and deputy campaign manager David Bossie if Flynn may take Trump down in an attempt to get a better deal.
“I don’t think so and let me tell you why,” Lewandowski said. “Michael Flynn came to the campaign fairly late, actually Michael came after I left. … What we know as it relates to the national security component and specifically, when it related to the transition, that entire component was segregated out. And the president and the campaign side really had nothing to do with the national security thing whatsoever.”
“If Mike Flynn was not honest with the FBI … that’s a crime that Mike is responsible for and had nothing to do with the president,” he added.
In the same interview, deputy campaign manager David Bossie defended any relationship Flynn had tried to create with Russian or other foreign leaders during the transition period.
“If things had happened during the transition, that’s what the government is supposed to be doing. The incoming administration, and on Dec. 2nd, the State Department specifically said — and it’s on video tape — the State Department said that, ‘We understand the incoming Trump administration is dealing with national security, leaders in other countries,'” Bossie said.
Both men declined to say why Flynn would lie to the FBI about his correspondences with Russia’s former ambassador to the U.S.
“He and he alone are responsible,” Lewandowski said.
WATCH: Do you think the president should be worried that Michael Flynn is about to turn on him? @savannahguthrie asks @CLewandowski_ pic.twitter.com/SZzNv0akFN— TODAY (@TODAYshow) December 4, 2017