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They're working towards what is referred to as an accommodation, a way to agree on how he can potentially comply with this subpoena. this is the standard process often when you receive a subpoena like this. but it is not clear if they're going to be able to reach an agreement that is amenable to both sides. and the committee made it clear, they're going to move swiftly to potentially pursue criminal contempt against anyone who does not comply to their satisfaction. with patel, off the calendar today, the committee is able to focus on steve bannon. now he made it clear he does not intend to coo...

To get anything out of him because he mr. parnas according to his lawyer john dowd, assists rudy giuliani in connection with mr. giuliani's representation of president trump. so the president has a lawyer, his name is rudy giuliani. in rudy giuliani's capacity as the president's lawyer he employs this guy lev parnas as his assistant, as his little helper. which seemed crazy, not least because john dowd, that lawyer wrote his letter addressed to congress in the comic sans typeface which made it seem like it was a joke. but sure enough as mr. parnas got arraigned in new york, a different lawyer ...

Information. neither did the office of legal counsel. that opinion has been unclassified and disseminated. it was urgent concern. a legal definition. urgent concern met the certain criteria we've discussed several times. it did not. all that did was take away the seven days. now, as i said before just because it was not forwarded to this committee does not mean that it went unanswered. the icig and the justice department referred it to the federal bureau of investigation for investigation. so this -- that was working while i was endeavoring to get the executive privilege concerns addressed so ...

Things. the white house did not, did not, direct me to withhold the information. neither did the office of legal counsel. that opinion has been unclassified and has been disseminated. the question came down to, urgent concern, which is a legal definition. it doesn't mean is it important, is it timely, urgent concern met the certain criteria we've discussed several times here. it did not. all that did, sir, was just take away the seven days. as i said before, just because it was not forwarded to this committee does not mean that it went unanswered. the icig and the justice department referred i...

Disclosure. the icig evaluated the disclosure, preliminary review, and said it was credible. he said it was urgent. according to the law, the next step is that complaint has to be transmitted to the congressional intelligence committees where the dni put the process to a halt. >> did the dni commit a crime but not handing it over to congress? >> they certainly didn't follow the letter of the law. it says they shall submit it to the intelligence committees. it doesn't say he may. in good faith, i believe the dni did consult with the doj because there could have been executive privilege concerns...