adviser, that's sensitive and classified. listen to the ranking democrat. he said these things happen and he said it's possible he worked it out. but he got the impression this was going to be hard. >> the white house has refused to provide this committee with a single piece of paper in response to our bipartisan request and that's simply unacceptable. >> on the one hand, it sounds unfair to say we want trump transition records of the trump white house, trump campaign records of the trump white house. this letter back, though, doesn't say contact this person. that's not -- contact this person or contact that person. it says we don't have them, too bad. >> not entirely unusual for a white house to basically invoke a sort of executive privilege type of situation in a circumstance like this. but on the other hand, there are a lot of people around this white house who are really encouraging them to clear the air. put something out there so that it doesn't look suspicious or look like you're hiding things.