JOSH: WELCOME BACK.
THE INAUGURATION OF DONALD TRUMP
CERTAINLY GENERATED PLENTY OF
EMOTION ACROSS THE SPECTRUM.
FOR ONE PERSON IN PARTICULAR,
WE ARE JOINED BY COREY
LEWANDOWSKI.
COREY: GOOD TO BE HOME.
JOSH: WHAT WAS IT LIKE, SEEING
KNOWING WHERE YOU STARTED?
COREY: REALLY HUMBLING.
YOU PUT TWO YEARS OF YOUR LIFE
INTO SOMETHING AND SEE A
COMBINATION OF NOT JUST CHANGING
THE COUNTRY BUT CHANGING THE
DIFFERENTLY.
WHEN WE STARTED THIS PROJECT IN
JANUARY OF 2015, NO ONE REALLY
WIN.
EVERY DAY, WE KNEW SOMETHING
SPECIAL WAS HAPPENING.
HIS SWEARING IN WAS REALLY
SPECIAL.
JOSH: WAS IT TOUGH TO WATCH,
BEFORE THE CONVENTION?
DID YOU FEEL LIKE --
COREY: I HAVE A GREAT
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRESIDENT.
THERE ARE FEW PEOPLE WHO CAN SAY
FRIEND.
HE IS A FRIEND OF MINE.
AFTER I LEFT THE CAMPAIGN, I
CAMPAIGN.
I HAD THE PRIVILEGE, WHICH VERY
SITTING ON THE PLATFORM WHEN HE
WAS SWORN IN.
PRETTY COOL.
REALLY COOL.
LOOKING AT THE CROWD, SAYING I
HAD A SMALL ROLE IN HELPING MAKE
THIS HAPPEN.
BEING IN WASHINGTON AND
PARTICIPATING IN THE BALLS AND
EVERYTHING, SO MANY PEOPLE CAME
TO ME AND SAID THANK YOU FOR
GETTING IT STARTED.
DONALD TRUMP IS A VEHICLE FOR
THE PEOPLE.
I THINK I WAS A VEHICLE TO HELP
HIM GET ON THE RIGHT PATH.
JOSH: WHEN YOU WALK INTO TRUMP
TOWER AND TALKED ABOUT BEING
POSSIBLE?
OR DID YOU THINK IT WAS A
MOVEMENT THAT WAS WORKING ON THE
BRAND OF DONALD TRUMP?
COREY: IF YOU LOOK BACK TO YEARS
AGO THIS VERY WEEKEND, WE WERE
AT THE IOWA SUMMIT FOR FREEDOM.
SPEECH.
NO ONE GAVE DONALD TRUMP ANY
CREDIT.
ON BOARD.
OPERATION.
EVERYWHERE WE WENT, KRAUSE GOT
MORE ENTHUSIASTIC.
ONE EVENT.
WE KNEW IT WAS REAL.
IF YOU ASK OUR OPPONENTS WHO
CAMPAIGNED AGAINST US IN THE
PRIMARY, THEY KNEW DONALD TRUMP
WOULD BE THE NOMINEE THE
NOVEMBER BEFORE THE ELECTION,
MOVE DONALD TRUMP AWAY FROM HIM.
JOSH CROWD SIZE -- A LOT OF
WHY DOES THIS MATTER?
SEAN SPICER SAYS THE MEDIA IS
MAKING THIS UP.
THINKING THIS GUY IS AN
POPULARITY.
COREY: THE MEDIA HAS BEEN SO
UNFAIR TO THIS CAMPAIGN AND NOW
TO THE PRESIDENCY.
I KNOW THE "TIMES" MAGAZINE
REPORTER WHO SAID THAT BUS
MOVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
THAT WAS NOT TRUE.
3000 MEDIA OUTLET SAID THAT WAS
TRUE BEFORE HE SAID MEA CULPA,
THERE WAS A MISTAKE.
THESE REPORTERS WANT TO BE THE
NEWS STORY.
THEY WANT TO BE THE NARRATIVE
EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT.
THAT IS NOT WHAT THE NEWS
BUSINESS IS SUPPOSED TO BE.
ACCURATELY REPORT THE NEWS.
CROWD SIZE.
ARE YOU TROUBLED BY THE FACT
EARLY ON?
COREY: I AM NOT.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS MAKING
PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT HE WILL
HE WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH A TWITTER
FOLLOWERS.
THE MEDIA.
SHAKE, A FAIR CHANCE.
LET'S GIVE HIM 100 DAYS.
THE COUNTRY IN THE RIGHT
DIRECTION.
WE SAW MORE MOVEMENT THAN ANYONE
THOUGHT POSSIBLE THE FIRST WEEK
IS A GUY WHO GETS THINGS DONE.
JOSH: WILL YOU BE ABLE TO STAY
BY THE CRITICISM?
THEY WILL KEEP COMING.
HE IS A CONTROVERSIAL PRESIDENT
MAKING CONTROVERSIAL MOVES.
OUR NEIGHBORS ALREADY.
WILL HE BE ABLE TO STAY FOCUSED
AND NOT BE TOO FAR OUTSIDE THE
MARGINS, WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THE
THAT DO NOT MATTER?
CORE HE IS COMPLETELY FOCUSED.
PROMISES IN THE FIRST WEEK.
POSSIBLE.
WALL.
REFORM.
HE HAS DONE A LOT OF THINGS HE
TALKED DIRECTLY ABOUT DURING THE
CAMPAIGN.
THIS IS WHAT THE MEDIA MISSED.
THEY WOULD HONE IN ON ONE SMALL
SENTENCE THE CANDIDATE, AT THE
TIME, MADE AND FORGET ABOUT ALL
DOING.
THAT IS WHAT THEY HAVE MISSED.
THEY ARE FOCUSING ON A SMALL
ASPECT AND MISSING ALL OF THE
EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND THE WORK HE
THOSE ARE THE BIG PICTURE
THINGS.
ONE SENTENCE HE MAY OR MAY NOT
HAVE SAID THAT IS NOT 100%
ACCURATE.
JOSH: DOES HE DO IT ON PURPOSE
TO DISTRACT FOR SOMETHING ELSE?
THIS IS A PRESIDENT WHO DID NOT
SHOW HIS TAX RETURNS.
MITT ROMNEY.
COREY: WHAT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN
DONE IS NOT A PRELUDE FOR WHAT
COMES IN THE FUTURE.
DOWN.
WHAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND IS
HE WORKS 20 HOURS A DAY.
HE CAN GET MORE DONE IN ONE DAY
THAN MOST PEOPLE DO IN A WEEK.
STAFF.
I WANT YOU TO IMPLEMENT THEM,
WASHINGTON IS NOT USED TO THIS.
HE WILL MAKE CONGRESS MOVE ON
HIS AGENDA, BECAUSE HE HAS A
MANDATE, COMING IN WITH 306 EL
TORO VOTES IN STATES REPUBLICANS
DO NOT USUALLY -- ELECTORAL
NOT USUALLY WIN.
JOSH: YOU CALL THEM UP, WHAT DO
YOU TELL HIM?
SUCCESSFUL.
IF YOU LOOK BACK TO LIST A CLEAR
AT WHAT HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO
ACHIEVE IN THE FIRST WEEK,
SITTING BEHIND THAT RESOLUTE ASK
PRESIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY.
JOSH: HE SIGNED EXECUTIVE
WHAT CAN YOU POINT TO AND SAY IS
A FIRST WEEK ACHIEVEMENT?
FROM THE BUREAUCRACY THAT
DESTROYED OUR COUNTRY.
THE MEDIA SAYS THEY HAVE 160
EXPERIENCE.
THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE
FOR AND GHAZI.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID TO
DEVOTE MUCH LIVING OVERSEAS?
HE SAYS NO MORE FREE PASSES.
EVERYONE'S RESIGNATION GETS
PEOPLE IN PLACE.
WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE TOP
FIVE LEVELS OF THE GOVERNMENT,
FROM TRUMP TO STEVE BANNON TO
GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE.
THAT IS WHAT HE WILL DO.
JOSH: THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE LIKE
WHAT ABOUT YOU.
WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS?
COMPANY.
COREY: WE PUT TOGETHER A SMALL
FIRM THAT HAS TO THEIR MAIN
GOALS.
ONE, WE WILL LOOK AT U.S. SENATE
IN WHAT ARE TRADITIONALLY BLUE
STATES THAT HAVE A DEMOCRATIC
INCUMBENT REPRESENTATIVE.
STATES LIKE OHIO.
I THINK WE WILL BE HELPFUL IN
RECRUITING THOSE CANDIDATES BY
TOGETHER.
REPUBLICANS HAVE GREAT
THEIR SENATE MAJORITY.
COMPANIES GROW.
IT FALLS IN LINE WITH THAT THE
TRUMP AGENDA IS FOR.
REPUBLICAN FIRM.
IF YOU ARE NOT ON THE TRAP
AGENDA, GROWING JOBS, WE WILL
NOT REPRESENT YOU.
CUSTOMERS.
I WANT PEOPLE WHO WILL GROW THE
ECONOMY, READ -- RID BUSINESSES
OF SOME OF THEIR OBSTACLES.
JOSH: BY CALLING YOUR FIRM A
TRUMP FIRM, ARE YOU AFRAID OF
YOU HAVE?
COREY: TWO YEARS AGO WHEN MY
BEST FRIEND SAID I COMMITTED
CAREER SUICIDE BY WORKING WITH
DONALD TRUMP, I DO NOTHING MY
"CLASHE
CASHES IN."
I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM A SMALL
COMPANY IN MASSACHUSETTS.
THEY SAY THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
IS KILLING US, CAN YOU GET US AN
ANSWER?
I SAID LET'S JUST GET YOU AN
ANSWER IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
THIS FIRM EMPLOYS MORE THAN 200
PEOPLE, WHO EMPLOYS PROBABLY MY
RELATIVES.
I CALLED THE IRS TO THEY SAID
THEY CANNOT ISSUE AND EMPLOYMENT
DAYS.
THEY SAID THEY ARE CLOSED FOR
IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS.
NOT ONE COMPANY WAS STARTED
THROUGH THE IRS FOR A 12 DAY
FOR BUSINESS.
I CALLED THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AND
SAID CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?
BUSINESS.
WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR
GOVERNMENT IS OPEN TO GROW SMALL
IT IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
MINDSET.
WITH ADS.
ABOUT A MINUTE TO GO.
YOU ARE EXCITED AND FIRED UP
ABOUT YOUR FIRM.
THE WEST WING?
COREY: THERE IS ALWAYS THAT
WAS INSIDE.
A COUPLE DAYS AGO WAS THE MAIDEN
VOYAGE ON AIR FORCE ONE.
THAT.
BUT WHAT I WANT TO DO IS HELP
OUTSIDE.
I THINK I CAN DO MORE FROM BEING
ON THE OUTSIDE TO GET THERE
ADMINISTRATION GET THEIR AGENDA
DONE BY HOLDING ELECTED
OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE.
YOU CANNOT DO THAT ON THE
THERE ARE STRICT RULES AND
ADMINISTRATION.
JOSH: AND NO BOOK COMING OUT
ANYTIME SOON?
COREY: NOT FOR ME.
WE WILL BE BACK TO SEE WHAT THE