him to do that until he clears his name. what do you think? yeah, just reputation and also the fact that if he refuses to talk to the doj, it makes it look like he was making up information and i m sure if you re in christopher steele s position you don t want that information to be out there. let s keep in mind, what s important is not whether or not christopher steele had good or bad information. what s important is what the fbi did with that information. people give tips to the fbi all the time sometimes anonymously, sometimes from disreputable sources, sometimes from highly credible sources, and so a little bit i think some of the president s supporters are attempting to hope that if steele can t come up with answers sort of defending his information that that s going to sort of impeach the fbi generally. well, and wouldn t you rather if you were christopher steele and maybe this is for phil, wouldn t you rather talk to the inspector general s folks than you would to, say,
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