CNN host Chris Cuomo slammed Corey Lewandowski Corey R. LewandowskiTrump faces tricky choice on Supreme Court pick How Trump can win reelection: Focus on Democrats, not himself Trump Jr. distances from Bannon group, says he attended 'single' event MORE late Monday after President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE’s former campaign manager lamented the amount of taxpayer dollars spent on special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE's Russia investigation.

“If you look at the unemployment rate, you look at the economy, you look at African-American unemployment, Hispanic unemployment, women unemployment, young people unemployment — all at the lowest in recorded history,” Lewandowski said in listing the president’s achievements since taking office.

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“But this is something hanging over the administration,” Lewandowski added, referring to Mueller's investigation into possible ties between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia. “[It] should never have been launched, should come to a close, and look, we spent tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on an investigation and—”

“We’ve spent tens of millions of dollars watching him play golf every weekend,” Cuomo interjected. “The money’s not the issue, Corey.”

Earlier this year, the Justice Department reported that the special counsel's office had spent roughly $16.7 million on expenses in just over a year of investigation.

Washington Post and Politico analyses, meanwhile, have projected that Trump’s frequent trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida cost taxpayers roughly between $1 million and $3 million per trip.

Lewandowski also told Cuomo that the Mueller team has had the opportunity “to interview everybody and they’ve all gone back to the same conclusion."

“Except him, except the man in the middle,” Cuomo interjected.

“But the president didn’t do anything,” Lewandowski went on to say.

“I’m not saying he did,” Cuomo said, “but why won’t he talk to Mueller?”

“If you’ve got nothing to hide, you talk,” Cuomo said. “How many times has he said, ‘I wanna sit down with Mueller, I want to tell him'?”

“So do it,” Cuomo exclaimed. “Man up and do it.”

Trump on Monday indicated that he is not inclined to agree to an interview with Mueller and said that any statements he makes under oath could be used to bring perjury charges against him.

He said that he agreed with the assessment of Rudy Giuliani, his personal attorney, that such an encounter with Mueller could be a "perjury trap."