Manu Raju

The White House has been fighting this very hard almost every step of the way, they are also threatening potentially to assert executive privilege in his testimony.

There is a bipartisan bill before this very committee to slap Saudi Arabia with sanctions, the chairman of that committee, Jim Risch, has put the brakes on that for now as he's tried to discuss other alternative ways of going forward. But nevertheless, pressure is building even as the administration continues to side with Saudi Arabia because of economic concerns.

The administration has provided briefings to this committee in the past several weeks. Democrats and Republicans came out not satisfied by it.

He's expressed concerns about the way the Russia investigation has been conducted, the way the Clinton email investigation was being conducted, so we'll see if he brings a counterbalance to the House Judiciary Committee, which next year is going to be very aggressive in investigating The President.