saying that he s concerned about this request from your committee. not a subpoena, but a request to speak with sean hannity, an infringement on his first amendment rights. what s your response? what information do you want from mr. hannity? well, we re not asking about his broadcasts or anything to do with his press activity. he is a fact witness. we are having have in our possession dozens of texts that he sent to mark meadows and others in his role as a parapolitical operative. indications of his communications with the president and others on strategy. and it s that that we would like to talk to him about. i want to make sure that everyone knows this isn t a subpoena. we ve asked him to cooperate with us as a fact witness out of his sense of patriotism, and we hope that he will respond because we have so many of these texts and pieces of evidence indicating that he was outside