interactions with putin. today the white house counsel sent a letter to these democr democratic chairmen and said they would not give that information over to congress, specifically the president must be free to engage in discussion with foreign leaders without fear that those communications will be disclosed and used as fodder for partisan political purposes. and foreign leaders must be assured of this as well. it appears the white house may be gearing up to fight this if democrats are trying to issue subpoenas. he cites in the letter that he believes they're on firm ground. democrats have yet to respond to this but expect potential subpoenas in yet another ratcheting up of the fight between the white house and house democrats over their investigations here on capitol hill. >> not only continues, it intensifies. manu raju on capitol hill. thank you. as the white house brace for the mueller report to drop, the