Corey Lewandowski said he congratulated Trump, calling it "a big night for him and his family." | AP Photo What Donald Trump told Corey Lewandowski last night

Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski fielded a call from his former boss on the same night Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination.

"You know, Mr. Trump called to actually say thank you for the hard work that I put in for the campaign and I obviously said thank you back," said Lewandowski, who was fired from the campaign last month amid internal power struggles, on CNN's "New Day" Friday morning.


Lewandowski said he congratulated Trump, calling it "a big night for him and his family."

"They deserved to be the center of attention," said Lewandowski, who then took a swing at his current employer, CNN.

"They did a great job, 14 months of hard work, that they put in when many, many pundits, including many people at this network said he would not be a serious candidate, he would never beat the greatest field ever assembled," he said. "Donald Trump has proved every pundit wrong, shy of a very few who said he would be where he is today. And he will continue to prove the pundits wrong who say he can't beat Hillary Clinton come November."