purpose. here's the quote that they think is key to us. this is from the "washington post." thompson added, i can assure you, if a criminal referral would be warranted, there would be no reluctance on the part of the committee to do that. so, trump attorneys read this. here is how they're utilizing that quote for their argument. they say, to the supreme court justices, the committee cannot make a mockery of congress's constitutional mandate that its requests in investigation be supported by a valid legislative purpose. it cannot embark on what is essentially a law enforcement investigation with the excuse that it might legislate based on information it turns up in the course of the exploration. alisyn, i think it's worth noting here that his attorneys have made a pretty similar argument up until this point. they have made something similar at the district court level as well as to the circuit court, and basically, what they've argued here is that the committee has not articulated a legislative purpose, and so this is all, in some way,