>> at the same time, susan the white house is now directing the former communications director at the white house, hope hicks and annie donaldson who worked in the counsel's office, she was chief of staff to the former white house special counsel don mcgahn not to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents. how do they justify that? >> well, the basic claim here is that documents related to the work that these two individuals did while they were in the white house are covered by executive privilege. now, that might be true for some of the documents, but again, this is a very broad assertion saying that they shouldn't turn over any documents whatsoever, now both hicks and donaldson have left government service, so if they were inclined to want to provide those documents to congress, the white house certainly couldn't do much to stop them. that said, like don mcgahn, they have both sort of signaled that they intend to comply with the white house request, at least for now. hope hicks has said that she is going to turn over documents remitted rem related to her work on the campaign. that's a period of time where donald trump wasn't president of the united states. but the really significant documents here are annie