lou: tom fenton, your thoughts? >> yeah, the easiest answer is just say no. these are redundant requests. the documents are around elsewhere that congress can get, if they desperately need them. but this is just a remarkable development in terms of abuse of power. recall, this is all part of the piece. you had obama use the irs to target his opposition in 2012. then they used doj, fbi, cia, etc. to target president trump or then candidate trump. they continued targeting through and the abuse through the mueller operation and now the abuse is being continued. the coup is being continued through this abusive use of congressional power to harass the president and all of his people. a lot of these people can't afford lawyers even to say yes will cost them tens of thousands of dollars. to say no could break them. lou: break them how? >> financially. lou: the republican party should be making certain -- making certain that there will be -- this is nothing but a political persecution. it is not even an investigation. this is purely and straightforwardly an assault.