Over the past several weeks, the Committees tried several times to obtain voluntary compliance with our requests for documents, but the White House has refused to engage with—or even respond to—the Committees.120
On October 4, the Committees sent a letter to Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney transmitting a subpoena issued by Chairman Cummings compelling the White House to produce documents by October 18.121
As discussed above, on October 8, the White House Counsel sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi and the Committees stating that “President Trump cannot permit his Administration to participate in this partisan inquiry under these circumstances.”122 The White House Counsel also sent a letter on October 18, confirming that “the White House cannot comply with the October 4 subpoena to Acting Chief of Staff Mulvaney.”123
To date, the White House has not produced a single document in response to the subpoena.124 Instead, the White House has released to the public only two documents—call records from the President’s phone calls with President Zelensky on April 21 and July 25.125
Witnesses who testified before the Committees have identified multiple additional documents that the President is withholding that are directly relevant to the impeachment inquiry, including but not limited to:
- briefing materials for President Trump’s call with President Zelensky on July 25 prepared by Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, Director for Ukraine at the National Security Council;126
- notes relating to the July 25 call taken by Lt. Col. Vindman and Tim Morrison, the former Senior Director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council;127
- an August 15 “Presidential decision memo” prepared by Lt. Col. Vindman and approved by Mr. Morrison conveying “the consensus views from the entire deputies small group” that “the security assistance be released”;128
- National Security Council staff summaries of conclusions from meetings at the principal, deputy, or sub-deputy level relating to Ukraine, including military assistance;129
- call records between President Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland, United States Ambassador to the European Union;130
- National Security Council Legal Advisor John Eisenberg’s notes and correspondence relating to discussions with Lt. Col. Vindman regarding the July 10 meetings in which Ambassador Sondland requested investigations in exchange for a White House meeting;131
- the memorandum of conversation from President Trump’s meeting in New York with President Zelensky on September 25;132 and
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