render it moot. and then mick mulvaney tried to jump in today. yes, mull va vaney wanted to piggyback on the complaint or motion, rather. and they opposed it. they said that mulvaney didn t belong with them. their argument was many fold. one argument they made was they were hitching much of their argument to the fact they were involved in national security conversations. and mulvaney doesn t have that behind him. he doesn t have that to draw on. and this national security factor is one that bolton wants the court to weigh carefully in deciding what their obligation to testify might be. that was part of it. they noted mulvaney may have breached anyway because he had that disastrous white house press conference where he announced there was a quid pro quo and the american people should get over it, that political influence was typical in foreign relations. they felt that, quite frankly,