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[silence]. Now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter, if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to the ukraine in september with murphy. Johnson called the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said i am not ready to lift the aid. Senator johnson, he writes a 10 page letter. Very detailed. He gives some remarkable details. I would like to read it. Its on page 6. This is Senator Johnson speak. I asked him whether there was some kind of arrangement or ukraine would take action and be lifted. Without hesitation P...

Documents and correspondence. i don't need a history lesson. >> well, i will say again we do not control those officers. they make their own decisions. >> did you communicate with them? do you communicate with them and will you provide those communications? >> you make a request and we'll refer it to our office of legislative affairs and respond appropriately. >> you say there is conspiracy theory, when we say fine, give us the documents, give us the correspondence and then if it's a conspiracy theory it will be evident. when you say we'll take your request and then we'll sort of work it throu...

Between the department and alvin bragg's office and fani willis also office and letitia james the offices you're referring to are independent offices of state. >> i get that. i get that day. the question is, why not? you will provide all of your documents in correspondence. that's the question. it's i don't need a history lesson well i'm gonna say again, we do not control those offices. they make their the questions indicate with them not whether you control them. do you communicate with them and we provide this committee make a request. >> we will refer it to our office of legislative. here's...

Refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena. i just want to note for the record there are five republican representatives who rejected, ignored, refused to cooperate with subpoenas from the january 6th committee because they didn't like that committee. >> you have to go through an accommodation process and that's what the fbi has been doing. they have been talking with comer's staff. they're saying we're going to give you this information in some way. it may not mean we're printing off copies and handing them out to everyone on the hill. it may mean that a select number of people and staffers of...

Litigious, but they also argue they want to continue to defend these important questions about executive privilege. there's lots of reasons why they do this. also just some bad blood between the special counsel's office and the former president's attorneys. they don't speak. there's no accommodation process here. even publicly the former president's lawyers have attacked them even though their client is under investigation. some of this is just sport for them. they would argue, also, they're trying to protect these privileges. >> so, it's not just the presidential records act, that's one thing...