"The White House will keep all of its legal options open in regard to any subpoena served on a current or former administration official," a senior Trump administration official told CBS News on Wednesday.
The comment comes after the House Judiciary Committee sent a subpoena for testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn, who is mentioned more than 150 times in the Mueller report and who told investigators how President Donald Trump ordered him to fire special counsel Robert Mueller and then pressured him to deny that ever happened.
Congressional Democrats also are continuing to press to see Trump’s financial data contained in his tax returns as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defied a second demand to turn them over.
The remarks also come as Trump told The Washington Post that his staffers should not testify on Capitol Hill, explaining that the White House cooperated fully with Mueller and "there is no reason to go any further, especially in Congress where it's very partisan."
The White House is reportedly planning to exert executive privilege in connection with McGahn and has already ignored a subpoena from the House Oversight and Reform Committee regarding its investigation into the White House security clearance process, according to The Hill.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler insisted, however, that "the moment for the White House to assert some privilege to prevent this testimony from being heard has long since passed."
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