would love to hear his side of the story but they have hesitated to send an invitation. does now seem like the right time to do just that? >> one suspects that there's a little behind-the-scenes dance going on because the former vice president's aides have testified. we've seen reporting from the committee that they were willing to share communications and talk about impressions, but they drew the line at talking about the former vice president's and perhaps their own actual communications with trump. and they gave a reason for that. they said that they did so at the request of the former president's lawyers, asserting executive privilege. so, it sounds like that subtext for saying that they will want to have a court determination on this executive privilege issue since the supreme court has already ruled that trump's documents themselves, his white house papers, aren't privileged. it seems like that sort of an