lots of people who you might not expect to be cooperating are cooperating, and they re sending in material. they re even meeting the deadline, or getting close to it. but the white house is not doing any of that, at all. the white house is thus far providing nothing to the judiciary committee in response to their requests. and more broadly than that, they re providing nothing in response to any congressional inquiries. not just about the russia scandal and the obstruction of justice stuff that derives from the russia scandal, but on anything. they re refusing to hand over a single document. oversight committee chairman elijah cummings has just ploeshed this at the washington post. i serve as chairman of the oversight and reform committee, the primary investigative body in the house of representatives. i have sent 12 letters to the white house on a half dozen topics, some routine and some relating to our core national security interests. in response, the white house has refused to han
for the time being, it is not in the interests of my client to provide testimony of documents to congressional investigators. rick gates, of course, is still awaiting sentencing on felony charges. prosecutors said as recently as last week that his cooperation with prosecutors is still ongoing and it s still relevant to multiple pending and open investigations. so it s not a huge surprise that with that open criminal case against gates and with his involvement in all those other ongoing cases, it s not that much of a surprise that prosecutors are telling gates that he shouldn t cooperate with congressional inquiries at this time while all those other matters are open. it s interesting, though. even so, even with that, his lawyer also told the judiciary committee that that may soon change. quote, our position in this regard may well be different in the coming months, after rick gates presumably comes out the other side of his own criminal case and out the side of his cooperation deal wit
not just on the question of whether the president is going to unilaterally make all cars way more expensive. it may really matter for everything. tonight the wall street journal reports that new requests for documents and information are being prepared oby the judiciary committee in congress for a whole bunch of people who have not yet been targeted by these congressional investigations, people like gary cohn, the president s economic adviser, also the president s some time lawyer rudy giuliani. even trump s first secretary of state rex tillerson. they re going to finally start asking questions of rex tillerson. i have questions for rex tillerson too, like, sir, for example, how did you get that job in the first place anyway? i would love to know. now even in this wall street journal report they re not suggesting that we have any information about what documents or what information are being requested from these folks. i should also mention there has been pushback against this stor
case and out the other side of his cooperation deal with the feds. cnn is reporting tonight that former white house communications director and long-time trump organization employee hope hicks also plans to cooperate with the judiciary committee in their inquiries. hope hicks and her attorney are not making any public comment, but the judiciary committee spokesman says tonight that hope hicks will be providing documents to their committee. ami, the parent company of the national enquirer that had a role in the hush money finance felony scandal, they re handing over documents to congress. mike flynn s company, the flynn intel group, they re also handing over documents to congress. a former employee from cambridge analytica, the trump data firm from the trump campaign, they ve that employee is also reportedly shipped documents in in response to the committee s request.
so lots of people, lots of entities. so you might expect to put up a fight or maybe try to take the fifth or somehow try to make themselves scarce at this point. lots of people who you might not expect to be cooperating are cooperating, and they re sending in material. they re even meeting the deadline, or getting close to it. but the white house is not doing any of that, at all. the white house is thus far providing nothing to the judiciary committee in response to their requests. and more broadly than that, they re providing nothing in response to any congressional inquiries. not just about the russia scandal and the obstruction of justice stuff that derives from the russia scandal, but on anything. they re refusing to hand over a single document. oversight committee chairman elijah cummings has just published this at the washington post. quote, i serve as chairman of the oversight and reform committee, the primary investigative body in the house of representatives. i have sent 12