Trump Refuses To Answer Question About Campaign Manager on Face The Nation

April 3, 2016
CBS News


Donald Trump was on Face The Nation this morning; and host John Dickerson kept trying to get him to answer a question about Corey Lewandowski, Trump's Campaign Manager.who has been arrested and charged with battery of former Breitbart reporter Mechelle Fields.

DICKERSON: "But here is what happened. Your campaign manager said she (Fields) was delusional when the report came out...He said it didn't happen...When the report first came out, did you talk to him?"

TRUMP: "Well, I could see maybe not even knowing that it happened because...."

DICKERSON: "But did you talk to him about this event?"

TRUMP: "I looked - I did speak to him. But here's the thing.."

DICKERSON: "And what did he say?"

TRUMP: "It was such a minor incident that he might not have even known what was going on...I'm not sure that he knew her....I think he said he really didn't know her."

DICKERSON : "What did he say when you talked to him about it?"

TRUMP: "I don't think he knew too much about it...I talked to him very briefly, to be honest with you...I never thought this was going to be turn into be - into a thing.
Actually, when I really got engaged was after i saw this tape, because if you look at the tape, nothing really happens...And when you look at her early statement, before she knew we had a tape, if you - because I supplied it - if you look at her early statement, John, it was like she was really, really accosted....And I will tell you this..If what happened on her statement, if that happened, I would have fired him."

DICKERSON: "I would like to talk about his statement, since he works for you..You want to be..."

TRUMP: "I will...Nobody wants to talk about her statement."

DICKERSON: "She doesn't work for you, though..He works for you....And you're the boss."

TRUMP: "Excuse me...Excuse me.....Her statement was like this horrible thing happened.
Then you look at the tape, and people are still trying to say, like, what happened?"

DICKERSON; "But, Mr. Trump, he said he didn't touch her..He said she was delusional.
You said she was making it up....The videotape shows she wasn't making it up."

TRUMP: "Well, you know, if you look at the videotape, you don't even see a grab...You see her almost being blocked out."

DICKERSON: "So, you..."
(CROSSTALK)
TRUMP: "And, by the way, by the way, she grabbed me, just so you understand...
And you can see me going like that...She was not supposed to be asking any questions.
The news conference was over...She bolted in from nowhere...She went in between Secret Service...She grabbed my arm, which everybody sees....I went like that, like, who is this person?..And she started asking questions...She wasn't supposed to do it."

DICKERSON: "Did Corey Lewandowski tell the truth when he said he didn't touch her?"

TRUMP: "I don't know, because I can't tell you in what context...The event.."

DICKERSON: "You don't know that he touched her or not?"

TRUMP: "The event to me, to me - what do I know?..The event to me..."

DICKERSON: "Well, it's on the tape."

TRUMP: "...seemed so minor...well, that's why I look at it....The only thing I have to go by is the tape...The event to me seems..."

DICKERSON: "And when you see it, does it look like he touched her?"

TRUMP: "Well, he blocked her out...I don't see her grabbing..I see her being blocked out because she wasn't supposed to be there."


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