cooperation. and they are clear they are going to do whatever they can to get cooperation out of these witnesses and that includes criminal contempt if it should come to that. the statement reads, quote, we will not allow any witness to defy a lawful subpoena or attempt to run out the clock and we will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of congress referral. and the running out the clock part is a very important part of this equation. because to evans point, there isn t a lot of legal precedent for the arguments in a court of law and it is to benefit of the former president donald trump and his associates to throw as many legal barriers in the way even if their ultimately going to be unsuccessful because the select committee doesn t have enough time to adjudicate all of these matters and come to a swift conclusion ahead of the midterm elections next year. so their time frame is short. so the trump team could run out the clock as long as possible.
true. the first step is damage control. the second step is doing something to protect us. do we have to ban the laments tomorrow or this week? we have to focus on in do not politicize this issue. that s the greatest risk we face now. testify steve hall you certainly know about classified information of that certainly know about russia the white house is saying president didn t share sources or methods poefz is reporting he shared classified information with specifics about a looming tleet that s not the same as sources or methods as the white house characterized but to evans point can you reverse engineer if you get some information and figure out what the sources and methods are that that might endanger who ever gathered that? well, anderson if anybody can reverse engineer something it s certainly the russians. my greater concern here is this is going to have a widespread chilling effect on all of the intelligence rice lake was allies the. the ripple effect are incredible regardle